skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd rather live in a world where raising certain questions is seen as "bad faith", than a world where the experts have decided that certain topics are "too important" to be discussed.

Also - if your point of view is threatened by people just asking questions, then you really should think some more.
Because the president was one of these randos with strange ideas about epidemics and public health, hundreds of thousands more died than otherwise would have.

By comparison, making sure that none of "America's Frontline 'Doctors'" ever practice medicine if they.ever were qualified to do so seems pretty mild.
It was clear overreach. I believe anyone reasonable saw it as overreach at the time.

Using Covid as an excuse for emergency executive powers was a failing of state and local governments across the US.

While las Angeles was cutting power to houses, my kids were in private school in person building life skills. So many of their peers are socially stunted. It’s sad.
From the same first quote - none of our policies have changed, just policy enforcement has changed.

Isn't policy enforcement a part of a separate policy? The policy for policy enforcement? They really wanted to be able to say "the policy hasn't changed." This is a bigger stretch than a taffy pull.
It's the way the cookie crumbles.
Why care about my parents or family? They are just people, I don't even like them as much as others. Why can't anyone be part of my family and why can't I jump to another one?

Society is a sacred part of what makes human beings human, it is why we are such a successful species. It requires cultural indoctrination and nationalism and things that definitely have an ugly side, but are also important to our function.

Your viewpoint basically assumes people have no loyalty, nationalism or responsibility to their society so they can be freely swapped with anybody.
Tektronix did a range of printers that used wax. They used rolls of wax sheet. They produced fantastic output, but the rolls of wax were really expensive. And if you put a coffee mug down on a printout, they got stuck together.

I think they were meant for one-off proofs of image-heavy marketing material. The colours were intense and vibrant, in a way that no colour laser or ink-jet ever is. Also, the wax stood a bit proud of the paper, giving an embossed look. But they weren't very permanent - if you folded the printout you'd damage the image; you could even scratch the wax off with a fingernail.

These were expensive printers.
Sounds like you're talking about ink printers, TFA is about laser printers.

Laser printers are far more cost-effective than ink printers, and there are even color laser printers with very decent color quality for everything except photos. (Ink printers are better for photos but even I think those look terrible compared to professionally-developed photos.)
Right on. I do sometimes notice when people dine out alone, but I don't see it as strange or lesser than. I really just see them as a strong person, and wonder about their story.
It's so true. The only people sad about Twitter's current state, are the journalists who (I assume) felt powerful and knowledgable thanks to constant scrolling.
Cutting costs is always a marginal thing, because businesses tend to value growth. Oversimplification: If you have a 50% margin business, the value of one more dollar of revenue is $.50. If you cut costs and change the margin to 55%, then you've added only $.05 of revenue to that additional dollar.

Now, a sane person will look at the improvements to margin across the whole business and still want to make those improvements because in aggregate, they add up, BUT, you cannot improve margin forever as a strategy. Eventually, hard limits come up and the incremental gains shrink and shrink. At that point, growth dominates.

Most mature businesses need revenue growth much more than they need marginal internal gains, especially because as businesses get bigger, marginal gains tend to apply to more limited segments of the business. E.g. improving one product is marginal and applies to only the sales associated with that product.

I think the claim that data science is about moving the bottom line is right, but I think the other way of thinking about this is that Project/Consulting is probably a more relevant way for companies to buy these skills than Salary. Many companies can see the value in an incremental move in the bottom line, but most companies don't have a sufficiently large problem space to worry about paying a continuous cost to focus on this.

I've seen a lot of big companies say that they need these skills, but also believe they can't attract talent because they wouldn't be able to keep a data scientist busy.
> This specific phrasing jumped out to me because being against both censorship and cancellation should be a contradiction. Cancellation is an example of the exercising of free speech.

It isn't a contradiction. Think of it this way: government censorship is just when the government cancels you.

The issue with "cancellation" is that it's often a cudgel to suppress and punish expression some minority disagrees with, often to enforce some kind of orthodoxy. It might be someone expressing their narrow "free speech" rights, but in a way that's opposed to "free expression" or a "free exchange of ideas."
Librem 5 and Pinephone are already like this.
How much do you think your predilection for algebra affected your interests? Most folks who do CT as a hobby that I know are much weaker in analytical concepts than any working mathematicians that I knew.
“Can a man be a soldier and father?”

Mel Gibson: “I would think so. I hope being good at one makes me better at the other.” (And vice versa).

- from movie “We were soldiers … and young”
That’s not at all an argument for dropping AB testing, it’s an argument for being more rigorous, especially since in principle the circumstances under which services with a large active user base can test are downright luxurious.

Sociologists will frequently not have as good access to such a large participant pool under near ideal experimental conditions with such good ways to observe behavior. And the stuff you have to keep in mind when running experiments is not terribly complex. A bit of statistics, a few things you absolutely have to get right, that’s it.

Obviously there are reasons why AB tests are often not run rigorously (statistical illiteracy and pressure to get things done quick as well as to produce tangible results as often as possible – all three of which might lead you to run underpowered experiments with too few participants and to stop testing early which will lead to too many false positives). However, stopping to do experiments (and instead just releasing new stuff and observing the reaction) isn’t really an improvement that leads to better outcomes compared to that.
I'm an aging elder millenial, I've spent my entire career in tech, and these stories scare me. Lately, I have started to think about starting my own business so that I do not suddenly find myself unemployed and unemployable in five to ten years.
> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. Edit out swipes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Because global CO2 levels have been rising exactly as predicted based on emissions.

Really the past history of earth is irrelevant here, it’s like arguing we need to understand what the history of a forest is to understand if we can set it on fire. All that forests history is irrelevant in the face of someone with a few gallons of gas and a match.
I've been told I look scary walking around the office. I realize I walk quickly and determined on my way between meetings. Apparently it made me look aggressive and scary.
Advertisers and marketers use the equations but measure contemporary trends.

Science is more “what’s true if humans didn’t exist.”

Marketing is more “what widget generates more revenue?”
On the "generate storyboards" dimension, the images generated for these generated scripts aren't really storyboards, they're visual cues for people who don't read.

Amazon launched the first AI "storyboarding" tool about 10 years ago[0]. It read through your script, saw there was a scene where a guy goes to the hospital, and put a picture of a guy in front of a hospital in the storyboards. That was clever, but not useful and served no purpose.

The storyboard doesn't exist to pander to people who won't read the script. It's there to help the director, producer, and crew work out how to tell the story. Don't show me a picture of the outside of the hospital because I didn't read the script, show me how the scenes go together so I know whether we need a shot of the outside of the hospital. If we do, where are the actors in frame? Is it a closeup of the actor or a wide establishing shot of the location. In animation, how many backgrounds/locations do we need to tell this story, each of which will need to be designed and drawn or modeled? How many characters are visible in each shot (which translates into how many animators and animator hours will be required).

If these images being generated are really actual functioning storyboards intended to show how to translate the story from script to screen for optimum storytelling power and production cost, that's super cool and definitely counts as storyboards, but I suspect that's not the case.

[0]https://venturebeat.com/media/amazon-launches-storyteller-to...
If only the final scene involved a bunch of software engineers watching Joaquin, popping champagne, and cheering how another victim fell for their language model.
There's no way to run a platform supported by ads that upholds anything resembling free speech.

The advertising model is Twitter's fatal flaw. It puts the fate of the platform in the hands of a tiny corporate mob that are themselves subject to larger mobs.

If "the mission" was truly driving Twitter, they'd drop all advertising and build enough value that some decent percentage of users would pay for it. In a few years, with a lot of work, I believe they could build a $10+ billion/yr business using paid accounts and features. With zero advertising. Twitter is an incredible "channel" for information, marketing, customer support, etc.

But unless they kick their addiction to ads, it doesn't matter if they do or don't believe in free speech, because their advertisers (customers) most definitely don't and they're in ultimate control.
Their customers are hypocrites too.
Treating literacy as a continuum rather than a binary capability is good, but I don't know if citing Einhardt's biography of Charlemagne is the most solid way to do that: the blandishments are so deep it registers as a tall tale. If I recall, the claim Einhardt was making was maybe greater -- that Charlemagne understood and could read Latin perfectly well. I'm uncertain what the situation for written vernacular language was at that time.

I also have to mention that it was the Carolingian renaissance that introduced orthographic reforms like spaces between words, readable fonts, and punctuation. It was also after these reforms that silent reading became normalized (I think these things are possibly related).
Even though I've done much reading on the subject, and watched many of his lectures, my brain still jumps to music and Joan Baez.
RMS foresaw all of this crap happening. This is why his message is probably going to outlive us.

I just wish someone would wade through all the crap he wrote and collect all the actually relevant stuff. All the other weird stuff just takes away from the core message of FOSS
But that would lead to accountability...
It's been pretty slow for me for the last few weeks. In fairness, he didn't say from _when_ it was reduced by 400ms... If it got a lot worse, then slightly better, that could qualify, at a pinch.
Yeah when I read all of this "category theory expands your mind" thinking, it makes me think that folks were looking for mathematical maturity more than category theory. Work through any good book on algebra and analysis and you'll learn and prove a bunch of stuff about objects and relations.
You can have a custom home built. In general they are 10-20% more expensive. Because any savings in economies of scale a developer might see get converted to profit, not savings. Architects are a thing and do take on SFH projects when asked.
Clicking through a self-link in the article https://blog.trunk.io/git-commit-messages-are-useless-c2f3c4... we read:

> This isn’t grade school, you don’t have to show your work
As you become an efficient engineer, the path you took to get to the final state of a pull request becomes far less important — and is academically interesting at best. You shouldn’t have to show your work like you did in school. Land the feature or bug and move on to the next one. The code speaks for itself (alongside some judiciously placed comments).

> Having granular annotations of all your work is unnecessary, ...

This premise underlies the particular workflow that the posted article assumes, and all the described command+option incantations are directed to it.

But there is another, very different git workflow used by a project we've all heard of, and that is the Linux kernel core code. The trunk.io workflow is unsuitable for Linux due to different requirements. Some of which being:

1. Commitment to support for indefinite future.

2. Large, complex feature PRs.

3. Human review of PRs, by maintainers fully empowered to reject.

4. A low-level programming language, in which subtle bugs are easily introduced.

Also different luxuries:

1. Willingness to put off merge of a "hot" new feature indefinitely.

So, kernel PRs are structured as a linear series of numbered patches meeting the requirement that each step along the way compile cleanly. This is primarily to ease the task of the maintainer responsible for the subsystem involved, and who will have deal with the fallout of bugs introduced by the PR. Example:

https://lore.kernel.org/rcu/

Credential: I have written code for the Linux kernel core, and it was merged, and it was buggy.
How about we just stop tracking users and hoovering up private data?
The "2. Contrarian 3. Double down contrarian" part tracks with conspiracy theorists' need to feel like they have special knowledge the rest of us don't see.
I'm starting to question how much he has ever. Has something changed with him? Or has he always been like this? If it's always been this rash, hasty and questionable then i can only imagine the real heroes are the people around him who managed to refine what he says and wants into tangible, achievable and coherent goals.

Regardless of whether or not you agree with his actions these days, it does at least seem a significant departure from how the public perceived his actions in the past. Over the past few years his actions have steadily grown more.. loud, at the very least.

.. It's.. interesting.
Fingerprinting using WebRTC is far more effective. IPs are useless.
It is kind of expected they would follow the rules and regulations of a country they are selling in. I would expect Tim Cook to be fired by the board if Apple was banned from the largest consumer market in the world.
Since Apple did not in fact “block AirDrop in China” this whole thing just feels like flame bait.
When finland is mentioned on the internet then people post "torilla tavataan" - "lets meet at the market!!". So we estonians started saying "hiiele!" - lets meet.. at the sacred forest on the same occasion.
Twitter ban me few years ago for not providing a phone number for SMS verification and that account is still ban. Literally only used that account to access another website, which I was not ban from and still use via direct login. Later, Twitter was discovered to be illegally using SMS numbers to profile users even though they explicitly stated they were not; they were fined for it. — Yet they have unban accounts for users that literally broke rules and were actual threats to safety of others.

This linked blog post is full of half-truths, if not out right lies — and company is literally run by Elon, who has lied so many times about his plans for Twitter than it’s beyond me why anyone is still using it.
How we enabled Postgres 15 on Azure just 1 week from PG15's release
Cancellation is the consequences of speech. Period.

It is most certainly not censorship when you consider the context - something these debates regularly leave out. Some views are widely considered to be abhorrent or dangerous. People are free to believe vaccine misinformation or glorify extremism. Society does not have an obligation to listen.
Our Trust & Safety team continues its diligent work to keep the platform safe from hateful conduct, abusive behavior, and any violation of Twitter's rules

Should have prefixed that with "What is left of our trust & safety team..."
Yeah I've no idea how Twitter works or what kind of fires they have to put out on a day-to-day basis, or what other things grow - so I wouldn't dare to make any rash predictions like that. My thinking is that even if Twitter had double the headcount they needed, it'd be really tough to axe that many people without firing or turn away the people needed to put out those fires.

And yeah if you weren't a Twitter user before, you're probably not signing up at this moment in time :)
This is exactly why I learned about it.
AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33778302 - Nov 2022 (692 comments)
Probably a very high overlap between those two audiences.
Why would that require consent?
That doesn't work when you're preventing competition. Look at when movie studios used to set a ton of rules for their movies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Anti-trust_Case_of_1...
There needs to be a version of this website today for all the craziness going on today in crypto. Some of these incestuous relationships between FTX and other failing crypto companies are mind boggling. They were all investing in each other and loaning money to each other in a modern version of check kiting.

For millennials and Gen Z readers here's an explanation of check kiting which was all the rage among criminals in the 1950-1985 period.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_kiting
Netdata 1.37.0: Infinite scalability, database tiering, and much more
I guess milk tea is mostly water with just a bit of milk.
Yeah probably - I just wasn't aware of anything too high-profile or calamitous
There are numerous other open source embedding models that are just as powerful (if not more powerful) while 90%+ cheaper.
Dissecting Tech Manifestos
what is not scientific about it? maybe its not good science, but it is science. really almost anything is science...

Science is just observation and experimentation.

Science doesn't dictate how you do the above. Now, someone would find it impossible to reproduce your findings, but - that would just suggest bad science
I haven't dived into the details but I assume there's a legitimate debate about why they did whatever they did.

From a moderation point of view, the issues are simply that (1) the Airdrop story is off topic in this thread, and (2) it already had a massive thread on HN.
Does keto diet work for you? Based on your description I guess it would. Some restaurants offer some dishes which work for keto diet, but its still not widespread.
This question comes up in every thread about most large tech companies.

I'm genuinely curious, is it impossible to figure out what all those people are doing? Have you worked in a large company before? If not, do you think most are doing nothing?
I'm quite sure, that at least the one with the glass dome on top was in the game, because I remember trying to land on top of the glass dome.
Correct. There are still physical offices where people can go to do their stuff, with clerks sitting behind desks, etc. Nobody is left out, doing stuff online is just an option 99% people use.
Honestly I'm pretty weak in both, but they seem to reflect my intuitions, if that makes sense? I'm nowhere near a working mathematician, and proofs usually bore me. I prefer writing code.
That's not how apple works - they always pick one option(or a very small set of options) and basically tell the users these are the best options, if you don't like it you're welcome to leave.
I saw, of course. I use Haskell professionally for 15 years now.

These feature flags are not "architecture space odyssey," though. Usually they reduce boilerplate, often significantly.

They are also artifact of Haskell being "research language," as mentioned in video above.
Identical story here. The toner the printer came with lasted a few months. I refilled it in a local shop (the guy explained me that they had to replace the chip that counts the pages so refilling was expensive, but in fact it was a fraction of a new one). Still printing with that same toner after (I think) 6 years.
A holographic wormhole traversed in a quantum computer
Well, it is like saying that in order to live in SF you can just buy a house in Oakland for less than $1m.
The OP is a "privacy-first web analytics" company; this is totally something they should be asking their lawyers.

Note that their list the GDPR on their "Privacy law compliance" page (https://docs.withcabin.com/privacy.html) but not ePrivacy...
One of my greatest joys as a developer was taking a web RTS from 100% DOM to everything but the HUD being canvas. I had a crappy "workstation" with very old, barely supported video card that even modern phones outperformed with easy due to better GPU acceleration. It felt almost like working on a real game, especially once I got the buildings and units going.

Went from 5-15 to 45-60 FPS during battles with hundreds of units. I even enjoyed the little fine tuning/cheating here and there that reminded me of the real games I've been playing my entire life. I was moderately happy at this ungrateful, low paying job.
There is an "Official 30th Anniversary Celebration" of Star Control 2 with the game's creators, today at 4pm EST at https://twitch.tv/x33n
>you seem to be defining free speech

GP didn't mention free speach anywhere. Yet you still take the liberty of defining words they didn't use for them.

>Comments like yours seems to reveal a lack of a consistent principle underlying your argument

cancellation is a societal issue, free speech is a legal issue. GP didn't say "we should make cancellation illegal" they said cancellation, which "a significant proportion of our society has become totally OK with" combined with surveilance, will cause even more cancelation. That is bad. (And I agree, btw.)

You can have fair laws and still have an unfair population obsessed with censorship and cancellation. That's bad, but doesn't mean we should make it illegal. Complaining about societal failaings does not have to mean advocating for those people's views to be made illegal. That seems to be something that censorship and cancellation advocates can't seem to understand.

>Should I not have the freedom to organize a protest of my local theater for hosting a controversial figure that I think is worthy of cancellation?

You have complete freedom to do that, but it doesn't mean you should or shouldn't. That's what GP is saying. And cancellation can be over extremely petty or unfounded things. Obviously there is a line but people have taken a "cancel first, ask questions later" approach, and over increasingly petty reasons. One can advocate against that without being against free speech, which means that the government cannot make speech illegal.
>going out to eat by myself, getting a table for one, just feels pathetic

I do this all the time, movies as well. Never had a spouse, I don't see anything wrong with it. I think you should try it, even if it makes you feel pathetic. You need to learn to live by yourself for a while maybe
Conserving the American Tropics: Exploring the Cropscape of the Maya (2021)
Most scientists likely wish they could get the rigor of a company like Twitter's a/b testing suite.