skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No you did not, you responded with an unrelated fact that "right news" (which is widely over categorized in these research papers BTW) is the most shared link

Yes, on Twitter, which according to you was "Extreme left authoritarian" until recently. Odd that leftist authoritarians allow right wing content to dominate their platform.

> twitter employee based censorship was largely in one direction

Any evidence for this claim?

> the fact that twitter policies were written and enforced in one ideological direction

Evidence? Twitter's own data says that this is not the case in the links I provided.

> No your link proves and supports nothing

My links (there were two) prove and support my point - you haven't read them though.
Yes, I mostly worked on Java and C# projects at the time, so it's understandable:)
I use this extensively in bash scripts where I need to scrape HTML reliably and consistently. Cannot recommend it highly enough.

In fact, all of the source data for a project of mine, Baytyab[1] (couplet-finder) was scraped using bash + pup.

[1]: https://baytyab.com
The reason this gets accepted is that we see no reason to think it's false. It's quite consistent with previous Chinese behavior.
Too much cyncism in any person or organization will lead to gridlock and/or burnout as new ideas are immediately scrapped and morale tanks. Just ask anyone who has worked for 10+ years in government. However, for a private company that kind of critical thinking is often important to make sure that all the lemmings don't run off the cliff.

It is interesting to me that cynicism is stifled at a cultural level at Meta. It is some kind of low-level cult like behavior, to stifle internal criticism. It must also breed a kind of in-group/out-group mentality, as I don't know a single person IRL who has a positive view of the company, its products, or the metaverse.
Well, not that I'm in favor of the idea, but probably if you're used to wearing VR goggles since childhood (the same way we are with regular screens) spending 12 hours a day with them on may be just fine.
You're not a weirdo. That host is a weirdo.
I was going to suggest that nobody stole anything, and they were just reporting on Apple's hardware margins.
The law establishing public libraries doesn‘t just say "let there be public libraries". It designates a source for funding, making it a reason that taxpayers are less free. It forces publishers to sell/give books to the libraries.

If it could just exist without restricting someone‘s freedom in the wider sense, we wouldn‘t need a law.
Spotify is mostly more of the same to me now. I get stuck in these ruts where I just listen to the same music because the interface makes that most convenient.

I’ve been on a good streak lately though with some new artists that make me go “why have I never heard these before”. But on the other hand I’m still mostly stuck in mono-genre land.

Also Spotify keeps pushing these “highlights” on me as if I don’t remember what I listened to this year.
Well, for one it forces the school to scknowledge thst'd it's happening, which is at least half the battle.

And of course both sides must agree, you can't be forced in to it.
(story submitter here) This is true and should be acknowledged. To be honest, I submitted it because like many others I learned something from the author's blog, and followed it over the years

I also submitted it under a title involving "probabilistic programming languages", thinking "it's cool that you can get paid to work on such a thing"

Though it's also true that I don't use Facebook and would probably not want it to be optimized any more than it is :-/

I also worked in Big tech and there is a lot of genuinely useful knowledge and practice "locked up" there -- i.e. knowledge that is not in open source code. They have assembled a lot of expertise

The P programming language (for concurrency / state machines) is another example of that -- it's used inside Microsoft Windows and AWS, and is beyond the state of the art elsewhere.

I don't know what to do about that, but it should be acknowledged. We should also acknowledge that some big tech products are great and world changing in a largely positive way (even though in my personal opinion Facebook is the least of those, I can also see it argued the other way).
I have a HTC vive original and I actually had a lot of fun with it, but I don’t use it anymore because it takes up a lot of space and the experience is still kind of clunky/low res.

For many people there is a physical discomfort side. From either the heavy device or motion sickness. I didn’t have much issue with this other than playing one time for most of the day and the weight on my face was a bit much.
>I would consider the ability to download as many songs for offline use as my phone's actual storage allows to be the feature,

Last I knew you are hard limited to 3,333 songs on device, for licensing reasons.
Our response to a recent security incident
I also liked this JWZ blog post: (https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/08/like-regular-money-but-more...)

HN link: https://kilobytely.com/sh6vk9ync1qf4tzod2rg5uj8xmb0ti7wlazod...
The people in the United States who can afford to buy and consume vitamins are almost certainly not people with a deficiency.
The whole point of taking funding is that it lets a company grow headcount ahead of achieving the sales to sustain it. So they'll estimate that X headcount will be needed Y months in the future. When growth doesn't materialize then X comes down and when funding is less available then Y comes down. Then they have layoffs.

X and Y became unusually high in 2021. If we have an actual recession I'd expect more layoffs from the same companies.
Musk has talked about adding 'creator' features as part of his larger plans to make twitter solvent. I imagine in the near future we will see long form blog posts supported with a premium model akin to Medium, with twitter taking a cut from subscriptions. Same for video and possibly live streaming but that seems like it would be further out if it ever arrives.
For me personally, my eyes got very tired very fast, after an hour long session left me feeling as though I had been staring at a screen for 10 hours straight
I read the whole piece. My key observation, is the author's assumption that HR was 'there for the employees'. HR doesn't exist for you, HR exists for the corporation, for the protection of the corporation.

It astounds me, in this day and age, that employees think HR is there to protect them. I understand the misconception from young people at their first job, but the author is 60 (+/-) over the time of this story.

In my 38 years of working at medium to large corporations, I have had exactly one time when HR was useful to me, and that was on my way out the door in my prior job.
We found critical vulnerabilities in Hive Social
I've wanted to be able to program on my ReMarkable since I pre-ordered the RM1 way back when. If I had the money this is exactly the kind of work I'd be doing. Impressive stuff, @inkandswitch!
I would say akin to smoking a cigarette. One time won't hurt you in a measurable way but if your job is refilling toners or dealing with broken laser printers you need some protection.
Apple's "child sexual abuse image" monitoring proposal would do the same thing. Easy enough to implement at the device level--the authorities provide a list of forbidden hashes, any matching file goes away.
Isn't effective altruism just max_a E[benefit to society | a]?

I don't see how that can be discredited as a personal moral philosophy, even if you don't personally disagree with it.

SBF and FTX fraud doesn't discredit that it's more cost effective to educate people in certain areas than others.
Don't just say hello in chat
Hate that navigating Spotify feels like loading websites. And it has felt that way ever since they moved their app to whatever pseudo-webapp framework it is that they’re using.
I gave up on Spotify a long time ago. Pandora more recently. I find myself just listening to a handful of channels on SiriusXM since the desktop streaming app came with my truck subscription.

Anything that I find myself liking a lot I head out to one of the very few record stores out here and buy it on vinyl. But then, I'm old and like having things in my hands and not just streamed. I buy paper books too.
Private schools are an instance of opportunity hoarding, and "opportunity" should be understood in a number of ways. The opportunity to buy a certain level of freedom from bullying in favour of a "selective" crowd, for instance. Though I doubt there is less bullying in private schools, more that it manifests in different ways; if I had to hypothesize, I might suppose the bullying is of a different intensity though.
https://archive.ph/cx1y3
LastPass: Notice of Recent Security Incident
Eh, I just left Youtube Music considering to go back to Spotify. Youtube Music has a terrible UI, lacks features, and feels like an afterthought to entice people to get Youtube Premium.

Honestly, if you're paying for Youtube Premium, you might as well use YT Music, but it's all around worse than Spotify.

I'm currently giving Deezer a try.
> Many employers pay all employees more than the prevailing wage for the metropolitan region.

That's not how statistics work. You can't just have everyone paying above the normal wage. We'd call it the normal wage.
If you think Samsung is bad, HP is much worse. Stay away from HP printers including laser
I've found that Walmart is perfectly acceptable (and cheap) for printing normal photographs (pickup in an hour!) and if I want to go larger they offer that too.

Of course you can order things printed online and shipped, but a black-and-white laser covers most of my needs there.
My grandmother became a widow this year, after almost 70 years of marriage.

She talked daily about how she finds it hard to eat, or make food, for one. Our solution now is that she visits other family members for dinner instead, and that helps at least for dinner time.
iPhone was / is a 'status symbol' and 'fashion accessory', which happened to be way better than the clunky, expensive, and poor UI mobile phones which came before, (aside from Blackberry, which was a corp status symbol, work / gov focused, not average consumer.)
Goto (LastPass parent company) suffers yet another security incident
"rebrand his electric cars as alt-right"? Seriously? I can see why there is such a division in society. I don't know anyone I'd consider alt-right, or alt-left for that matter. But you are able to channel his intentions. And you just branded pickup drivers as alt-right and characterized them as people who would buy electric cars for virtue signaling. I do know many pickup owners. Most do hard work, requiring pickups to transport tools, crews, equipment. Of those, the ones disparaging Priuses typically do so because they get stuck doing 10mph below the speed limit in the left lane while they are trying to get to a jobsite.
Already published here before:
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33783158
> We haven't been doing science for very long.

Again, this comes back to your definition. Many would disagree in that science has existed for, at least, as long as recorded human history because an actual tenable definition of science is something along the lines of "the endeavor to build knowledge by experimenting and observing the results". The rigor of the experiment is part of the quality of the science, not whether it's science itself.

No one is arguing that rigor isn't important to good science. It is important because rigor lends to reliable and valid results. What we ultimately want is results that are reproducible and can be used to predict. If you observe bad results, it's because you did a bad experiment, thus bad science, not that you didn't do science at all.

As an analogy: if I took notes during a meeting that no one can understand or use, that doesn't mean I didn't take notes. It just means that I took bad notes.
If they're done right, they are exactly as rigorous as we'd expect from science, since they are literally the same as randomized control trials. You can do even better with A/B testing because you have much tighter control over inclusion criteria, treatment compliance, and outcome analysis.
Hard to fall on your face when you have ARMIES of normal people all jockeying to put the pillow under you for free
Agreed. My point is I am not going to see a marketer as aiming for the same goal “as an experimental physicist.”

To borrow the Lindy effect; whether someone likes the jacket in color A or B is of such short lived value it’s a huge waste of the resources that went into the pipeline needed to come to the conclusion.

Here’s an A/B test; rethink logistics to increase customization of outputs or continue to create design jobs who define what’s trendy and acceptable?
Well it is good thing for you all major platforms have the ablity to block, mute, or otherwise curate your experience, including sharing "block lists" and other innovations so your personal experience is what you make it to be

I support giving people the power to create their own echo chambers and safe spaces, feel free to do so..

No one should be forced to communicate with anyone they do not want to, however you also should not be able to prevent me from communicating with others that I desire to

>>What a ridiculous thing to say

Not really, it is sad parents have stopped teaching "Sticks and Stones my break my bones but words will never harm me"

We really have lost the cultural axiom "I may hate what you say, but I will defend your right to say it" haven't we.
Have you ever been laid off?

Me neither until about a month ago. Let me tell you - it's awful. I've watched myself and many coworkers go through the process of emotionally accepting it.

Some people want to know what algorithm or decision-making picked them for the chopping block. Some out of a desire to know that it wasn't performance-related, others to know the mechanics because maybe it feels like you'll be able to avoid it next time, or at least see it coming.

Some are just mad. Mad that their hard work went unappreciated, mad that their lives have been upended at the whims of a handful of rich people (who take full responsibility of course), mad that they have to change life plans and go through our industry's stupid interviewing process.

Some are very sad - it's deflating and depressing to be plugged into the fast-paced, high pressure environments these places cultivate and then just be told the next day you'll be doing... nothing. (Not here, anyway!) And pulling yourself out of the rut means going over the bed of nails that is job-seeking.

I was personally mostly in the first group. I think I'm mostly accepted it now. Except for while I'm in the shower - then I'm just mad at it all.

Anyway, my point is, everyone deserves the space to emotionally process this stuff, and I don't think you should look down on his own version of the process.
Hey Anon
It's harder, but you still leak bits of informations.
If the random function is known, statical analysis can still leak out a bit of information.
FWIW - we run secret detection in our trunk check precommit action - so we make sure that secrets are never committed into local or remote branches.
Do you propose they carry desktops back and forth from their office and to conference rooms?
Well, it’s sorta helpful to better understand your mindset. Of course you don’t see any connection between the Enlightenment and trans rights.

It would suck to realize one’s ideological underpinnings are the same as those that have been on the losing side for centuries and are almost universally recognized as the “bad guys” now.

It is really cute to believe your beliefs will win out in the next decades. Again another great attempt at humor, bravo!
I said YOU are burying your head in the sand, I made no comment about others.

Stand on your own two feet.
Despite Android allowing Facebook to create its own store, you can use Facebook on Android and not give them all your data. Even better, you can install apps that aren't allowed in the Play Store or the App Store (like ReVanced, Instander, and Blokada) that change the behavior of the Facebook app to collect less data.
Enron was a much more complex, longer, more wide ranging fraud though. This was just straight up "CEO moves client money to his other company" theft. It's almost staggeringly simple and mundane...
I use Ocullus quest 2 to play (and LOVE it!). Weight, head and neck strain / tightness are the first issue. Nausea is the follow up. Eye strain is the final. I never use it for more than 30min at the time.

I cannot imagine spending ANY work time in VR at this point in technology cycle, once you add resolution, accuracy, etc. I do not understand what problem it's solving - if you want to visually interact remotely, turn on your camera. If you don't, just talk and screenshare. I do not understand what virtual reality will add to my interactions and productivity.
It only makes sense if you can make it up in volume.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KodqIPMbyUg&t=53s
Disney Research: Production-Ready Face Re-Aging for Visual Effects
A custom AI video avatar of myself
Table of basic reversible integer operations
> To play devils advocate - sometimes the system itself is not just broken, it’s completely wrong! Where I’m from(Sweden) I can’t imagine going to the DMV even for just a second. So asking for better staffing at the service counters at the DMV sounds silly to me

Do you not have driving tests in Sweden? Does Sweden allow residents to submit any random picture of their choice for their drivers license?

As an American, the only times I have to go to the DMV are when I have renew my license (every 4-5 year), and that seems mainly to take a (simple) vision test and get my photo taken. They also give tests to new drivers and people moving in from out of state.
I have patched it to be harder to mis-read.
How big VC's are ruining software
People should ever lose their job at Series A because a startup doesn't have product market fit
If a surgery were developed that reversed the effects of alcoholism and dramatically reduced a person's desire to consume alcohol, wouldn't we still consider that a medical breakthrough?
You do realize writing "False" doesn't make it an axiom?
I can see that being how it would go down with a bunch of peers from similar strata. Sadly the public school milieu in the USA/UK is a bully-archy....that more closely parallels a LOTF scenario - absent supervision.
The advertiser exodus (already well underway) is a far bigger threat to Twitter than a user exodus. The subscription model is dead on arrival.

There's plenty of options if you want a forum without "corporate ESG posing" - 4chan et al. They just don't make money, or interest the majority of people.
I don't think people care if left wing or right wing people are banned. People want consistency, safety and the rules applied equally.

Right wing people seemed to act like shitheads more often so they are banned more often.

I'd continue arguing however, conservative law, jurisprudence and overall culture seems to always boil down to that there are in groups who the law protects BUT does not bind, and out groups who the law binds but does not protect.

You can pretty much view all of twitter's new moderation capability through that lens and then it starts to make perfect sense.
Tidal is a relevant half measure for those looking to leave Spotify for a more album centric service with better profit sharing for artists. I used the FreeYourMusic app to migrate playlists, favorited songs, and albums.
The enigma of Richard Schultes, Amazonian hallucinogens, and ethnobotany (2020)
That's possible and understandable for high volume printers. But for personal/desk printers they should have an option like. Cartridges are running low on toner, would you like to enable degraded printing? Rather than having labyrinthine steps to overcome out of toner error (which are not in the manual mind you). My experience is that full color printouts do not suffer. When they do run out, it's noticeable and comes nearly at once --rather than slowly degrading.
As someone who has pretty heavily used a Rift 2 for 5+ years now, primarily its ergonomics and comfort.

More physical activities can result in the foam around the eye piece absorbing a goodly quantity of sweat (addressable e.g. with the plastic cover that comes with the Quest 2 or aftermarket alternatives) which just feels gross and can lead to more humidity being trapped within the headset, fogging the lenses, and so on.

The weight is a bit awkward, and different straps can help distribute it better and stay comfortable for longer. The ear phones can be uncomfortable after a time as well, pressing down on the ears as they do. If they were a cupping style like high end headphones, that would help a lot.

I do find that the tethered units like the Rift are more comfortable for longer than the self contained units like the Quest, since they offload processing, power, etc and the attendant weight, to the desktop machine.

Eye strain does add up eventually, and newer headsets have better screens but I wonder if this is just a truly insurmountable problem of mounting screens mere inches from your eyes.
yeah it strikes me as a complete waste of time. nobody needed this 70 years ago, they learned reading writing and arithmetic fine and no weird "tools" required. why is msft wasting time on this? using senior designer time on whether some character should have thumbs and eyebrows? what???
There's a little bit of heaviness if they headset isn't balanced well, but that's easily fixed.

The more concerning thing is the motion sickness. Most people, at first, get nauseated after a short while, and if they don't stop using them for hours at that point, it gets worse and worse each time they use them.

However, if they stop and recover (at least a few hours, a day is better) when they first start to feel it, they'll gradually get more and more used to it.

There's also the inability to properly see things around you, like your coffee or your mouse. AR is a good fix for that, though, and Meta's new Pro glasses specifically don't have full wrap-around so that you can still see around you somewhat. It ruins immersion in games, but they aren't meant for games.

I'm a pretty big fan of VR from way back, and I've owned multiple different headsets now. I do think the "metaverse" is an eventuality, but it's not about meetings, it's about agency. Meta's current attempt at "the metaverse" is just a crappy attempt at doing better than Second Life, but without even the things that made Second Life as good as it was.

The agency to create things yourself and sell to others, and the ability to buy licensed in-universe items is pretty much essential to a functional metaverse, IMO. Meta may intend to get there eventually, but trying to sell it as "the metaverse" before that point is pointless and harmful to their goals. It's going to take a long time to get there, and I'm still hoping that a grassroots movement makes it happen first instead of a big corporation. Ready Player One was all about that scenario and what it would mean. You have to look past the cloying nostalgia to see it, of course. ;)
Already published here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33783158
When I switched from Google music to Spotify (not entirely by choice), one of the things I really liked about Spotify was the folders. I like the idea of being able to make playlists in a folder and either listen to a specific list, or all at once. Unfortunately it seems like I can't listen to playlist folders in the mobile client, so that benefit quickly evaporated.
Sampling and pipelining method speeds up deep learning on large graphs
They used to be good, then Youtube has just stopped trying with me. It has shown me the same music recommendations for the past 2 years, and I'm not even joking.

The only thing that's always new and recommended is the latest hiphop song that's popular right now (i.e. video posted 12 hours ago, 3M views), and it should know I don't listen to hip hop, at all.