skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 100% sincere in that praise of my colleagues.

Many people, myself included, had a lot of concerns about the products the company was building and their effects on the world. When you work on a team whose mission is to help other teams make better decisions at lower cost, the aim is to look at the whole system and improve the whole thing.

Let me give you an example. Most "this content doesn't belong on FB" decisions are made by ML, but a great many go to human review. Imagine what that job is like. It's emotionally exhausting, it's poorly compensated, burnout is high.

My team had a model in production where we would use Bayesian reasoning to automatically detect when a particular human was likely to have made the correct decision about content classification, and therefore, if two humans disagreed, how to resolve that impasse without getting a third involved. (And in addition we get a lot more information out of the model including bounds on true prevalence of bad content, and so on.)

Does that save the company money? Sure. Millions of dollars a month. (And for the amateur bean counters elsewhere on this page: the data scientist who developed this model is NOT PAID MILLIONS OF DOLLARS A MONTH.) But it also (1) helps keep bad content off of the platform, so users aren't exposed to it, (2) lowers the number of human reviewers who come into contact with it, which is improves their jobs, and (3) frees up budget for whatever improvements need to be made to this whole workflow.

That's just one example; everything that we did was with an eye towards not merely saving the company money, but improving the ability to make good decisions about the products.
Oh well. I stopped using Google entirely around 2006-2008-ish and I never looked back. I do not know the exact time I stopped, but it was way before the company was called "Alphabet" and before smartphones really took off. Back then Google was a Search Engine with an advertising company, but I was getting annoyed by what I thought was mixed interest (ads/information) as reflected by the increase in their analytics tag being put on lots of web sites and I thought I'd do the experiment of blocking them out and see how that panned out (some thoughts about privacy mattered as well). So, I stopped using Google, and not only that: I blocked Google.

Now I use all kinds of other Search Engines and I always find an answer to whatever problem I'm searching a solution for.

(edit: elaborated slightly)
Like most growth-phase startups from SV, Doordash are not profitable at the moment and have no profit to speak of with an EPS of _negative_ $2.41. Please correct your "$700m in gross profit a quarter" to "$1.7b in revenue a quarter" or "$296m in net loss a quarter" [1].

[1] https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=1792789&owner=exclude
Yes there is. Plenty.

For PACs where most of the money was spent:
Left: 44.8
Right: 23.2

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/recipients?id=D000073694&cy...
There's more to it being a defense:

> Delinquents and criminals average IQ scores 8 to 10 points lower than noncriminals, which is about one-half a standard deviation. IQ and criminal behavior are negatively correlated at about r = -. 20 (Hirschi and Hindelang; Wilson and Herrnstein).
Not sure if this will be shareable/readable, but I thought this piece was interesting: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/elon-musk-and-the-narci...
VINs are generally visible from outside the car (on the dashboard). That means until this was fixed you could walk up to a car, read its VIN, and remotely unlock & start it.
100%

The phrase used to be “nobody got fired for buying IBM”

These days IBM sell so much snake oil, I think heads should roll whenever someone purchases whatever fad-hype-junk IBM is touting and it turns out to be nonsense
Yeah and the funniest is all these anti system idiots are now whining "but I read the New York Times", when in fact all they read is Coindesk and youtube videos by commercial actors calling them their "community".

I mean fine the NYT is weird, but it's the millions of cryptards on Youtube that syphon and funnel the money...
BlackRock's Fink says crypto technology still relevant despite FTX
> You are missing the fact that no-one was getting banned merely for having an option or for their actions outside of the Twitter platform. They were banned for continuously violating the terms of service e.g. inciting violence, racist or xenophobic content, doxxing etc.

Where's the evidence for this claim? Twitter did not publish rationales for bans and there was no clarity or consistent enforcement of what did or didn't constitute a ToS violation.
Wow, I will get more than 2x the trade-in value of my 2017 MBP from this settlement. Apple shows the trade-in value as $170, and I had to take it in several times for keyboard and other issues so I'll get $395.

I would say that this roughly makes up for the loss in residual value of this computer, though there was still the time spent taking it in, having it shipped off, etc.
I can't build:

a) hardware devices with Spotify capabilities without their approval.

b) third party clients since I don't have access to full streams, record-label level of information on artists, songs etc.
OK so because, say, degens from r/wallstreetbet going all-in on GME make fortunes and kept repeating "have fun staying poor" to those not going all-in on GME, Madoff should be allowed to pull his Enron on those people?

Seriously what is wrong with you people.
Biclustering
> The effort to paint over such blatant fraud and negligence and pretend it was all a mistake from a well-meaning kiddo is disgusting

Let's not forget that the folks using FTX were only doing so in an attempt to steal money from others. If the key innovation of crypto is that it's supposed to reduce the risk of lending by bringing realtime transparency to the assets and liabilities of borrowers, then why was FTX paying vastly higher interest rates than traditional banks? It's hard to feel sorry for those who lost their money because they thought they were in on the con or whatever.

You can hear the folks who lost money saying this themselves, e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cATvKsZA0A

And to those who think I'm being uncharitable, I've been saying the same thing on HN since long before the FTX collapse, e.g.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28457273
There are a lot of different translations with varied ease of reading, modernity of prose, and fidelity to the original source.

The one by Gregory Hays is one of the newest and is my preferred translation.
Like most growth-phase startups from SV, Doordash are not profitable at the moment and have no profit to speak of with an EPS of _negative_ $2.41. Please correct your "$700m in gross profit a quarter" to "$1.7b in revenue a quarter" or "$296m in net loss a quarter" [1].

[1] https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=1
> Extensive dependency chain of brittle logic that needs tons of planning and preparation to update and manage is not unreasonable description for microservices architecture from an ops perspective.

I've seen monoliths that fit that description.

Once you've automated the deployment and configuration of load balancers, firewalls, caches, proxies, and have a DB with automatic failover, that is also sharded for performance, spreading the code out across a few machines is not the hard part.
All rechargeable batteries lose capacity over time, with every cycle. If you think you're sitting a scoop that you can prove then you should let the world know.
They were probably more constrained in their ability to grease palms before Citizens United, but they definitely greased palms:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1011226990470237760
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Fraud requires intent.
And he absolutely will... People are ridiculously acting like he got away with something because he's not in Federal prison yet. It hasn't even been a month since it all blew up.
Not if those features don't provide value. Just having a feature isn't necessarily a benefit if that feature doesn't work, or doesn't work well, or leaves the user frustrated.
My Apple headphones weigh nothing. Very comfortable.

I don't like having to take them out, or put them in, when I change tasks to where I don't need or want them in my ears.

VR is for immersive experiences. There is a place for that. It will not be in mainstream constant use, unless "mainstream" means to plug in and be fed a false reality for somebody's profit.
I've always thought this software would have attained much greater usage if they changed the name to something less ridiculous.
> Calling them antifascists seems a misnomer too, they seem to me to be actually anti-capitalist rabble-rousers and professional rioters. Educating, equipping, funding and inciting violent riots seems a clear TOS violation to me.

So I take it you think everyone involved in the January 6 riot including Donald Trump should be banned from Twitter then?.
To be fair, he has said some things about risk and finance that are completely idiotic - like always valuing EV over utility regardless of stakes. It's the kind of detached-from-reality crap that a teenager whose brain hasn't developed yet would say. So he might be a scammer and a complete idiot regardless of where he went to school and where he worked.
It will still implement that with a loop over the array where there is a (bounds) check for the integer when it's being incremented (the i < len in int i; for(i = 0; i < len; i++)). That's no different from a loop over a slice, both of which eliminate the bounds check in the body of the loop (the one in list[i]). Arrays do have an advantage however, compilers can see their size so if you have an array (or array reference) and index it with a constant, then that bounds check will be eliminated. Also, array references are cheaper than slices because slices always contain the length.
SBF himself said he donated the same to Republicans but did it secretly through dark money thanks to Citizens United because he thought Reporters would like him better

in other words thanks to Citizens United we have no idea who is funding US political campaigns, and that is by design. So people looking at the open records are only seeing the tip of the iceberg
I was hoping this is about symbolic math. I am desperately looking for a way to conveniently scribe mathematical equations on a PC.
Criticism != hate
What does it tell about people who wants to paint black mark on antifascist label in thread about unbanning far right?
I find myself using GIMP all the time. Thanks for keeping it going!
LastPass is a terrible company with gross spamming and security practices and buggy, user-hostile apps and extensions. I moved my entire family's password storage to a self-hosted Vaultwarden instance on DigitalOcean and never looked back.

Seriously, you almost certainly don't need LastPass, especially if you are tech-savvy.
Not the first time I've made that joke, but it's none the worse for having been used before.
GPU shipments last quarter were the lowest they've been in over 10 years
I'll concede physics, and settle for the C grade for my Etymonics. But
unless you're arguing for the possibility of rigorous economics (I
hope not) the spirit of my point is the fault-line between praxis and
what is broadly universalisable.

Is "political science" real? (I personally think there's a case), but
why did that have to arise besides politics? I studied electronics and
am happy to report, compared to its foundation in physics, it's an
ever changing craft of black magic and tricks you can do with silicon
and electrons. Need proof? Where is the craft of thermionics today?

As for economics, I don't really know. Some days I have hope in its
use. Other days I think its very conceit is the root cause of much it
sets out to solve.
The strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must. Also, suffering can be a crucible for greatness. Hence, the story of the ascendant nerd.
well if thats all he wanted to do than sure he could do it with his pile of money but that (would) makes twitter a failed business as far as the rest of us are concerned. thats clearly not what his claim was on before & after the purchase. not to mention its highly disingenuous to claim that you just want free speech and then try to boot the speech you dont agree with.

Also, I'd argue there are better/efficient ways to influence western thought. you just have to look at some other billionaires like Koch brothers to see how its done, if you have any doubts read the book titled 'dark money' by Jane Meyer.
Do you feel different? There is a theory that vitamin D is merely correlated with a healthy body. Sunlight may be required.
this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ik497cvvcE
Yep! No real difference to US citizens or the company but a huge thing for visa holders over Christmas :)
Badass response, I thought exactly the same thing
the proof would be to find how many people he fired and blackballed because they disagreed with him or told him he was wrong.
What you see is anecdotal, not data.
Only if you trust the judgement of the previous team.
No, this isn't just bad culture. This is FTX saying "trade on our exchange, and your funds will be held only in the coins they are recorded in. We will not make investments with your funds." This is the promise and expectation of every brokerage account. It was a lie, and the investment of their customer's funds into their own investment fund is simply theft.
w/e, `sed 's/banks/Bob and Charlie/'`.

Do you not get what he was getting at with the extra $40?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_multiplier
>He needs to face the same charges regardless of whether he was malicious or stupid.

We're not gonna invalidate a huge amount of legal precedent spanning centuries for one dude. Intent matters.

(That said I think he's lying and knew what was going on the whole time)
You can't argue for a particular feature then when someone offers you a device that has that feature argue that they are acting in bad faith.
Elon Musk Meets with Apple CEO Tim Cook Amid Claims of Twitter App Store Dispute
I’m basing this off of 7+ year old memories so please excuse errors / misinformation…

- It had label support. For example, if you wanted to find all releases by Deutsche Grammophon, you could

- It’s handling of classical music seemed much better than anything I can recall using

- It’s recommendations seemed to be better…like they went above and beyond basic genre recommendations

- For ‘radio stations’ you could dislike a song or artist and it only affected that station. So if you love Bowie but don’t want him on your funk station, you could dislike the artist but still have all the Bowie you wanted on other stations…same for songs

- The social aspect seemed to bade recommendations on people who had similar taste as you…kind of like Dig that would mention but it was built in to the service

Again, this is all based off of memory but I’m confident I discovered more artists and music on that single service vs the plethora of varied services I use today.

As to Dig, I have tried it but it’s such a manual thing I haven’t kept up. I tend to listen to local jazz / classical radio nowadays for the majority of my time and periodically use various services for discovery. I’ll have to give it another go.

Side note, similar to OP, I have found BandCamp (specifically their weekly show) to be also good for discovery.
Easily mitigated by what? Doing less things with your partner seems to be your suggestion?

I am active with close friends that I have maintained for even longer! I am lucky enough to continue having close friends of 25 years I still do things with (including skiing).

The idea that my friends and activities mitigates this problem is absurd and I think shows how little you understand.
Did they adjust for dumber criminals being more likely to be caught?
Oh I must have missed it, thanks very much!
It should be pretty simple. If it relates to cyrptocurrencies, its a scam. The public keeps learning this lesson over and over again but their greed gets to them and they get stuck in the next scam.
It’s easy for bad leaders to redefine legitimate criticism as cynicism. When I worked for a company with a similar culture I saw this happen all the time.
There is a difference between an monopoly and a moat. I think the previous statement is saying that if you want to own your phone you can choose a different path and apple probably isn't the phone you should choose.
Yes, it's intentionally set up like that to facilitate crime.
^This^

Looking to buy a home soon. Our checklist on location wipes out most of the market. IE not in floodzone, near enough to work, train station, reasonable schooling, shops.

Get a solar sensible(not passive, not perfect, just vaguely right) house with those requirements? "Tell him he's dreamin'!"

I haven't even got to caring about the floorplan being open or not...
Of course it was an accident.

They never intended the fraud to be found out, just like any fraudster and Ponzi scheme operator in history.
I have the feeling that it was a failed attempt at poisoning Binance, it was indeed a crime, an organized crime with the help of government funded institutions, that's pretty obvious at this point, based on the massive echo from the press

Alternatively, the random death of crypto billionaires is barely mentioned and talked about

Randomly generated personas on a dedicated mission to ruin some people, or rather to prepare us for something, but what? digital EURODOLLAR, because digital YUAN is soon?
Ridiculous, I have no idea why people do this.
It seems to know that song lyrics have rhyme.

> Please compose some song lyrics about loving someone else's dog.

Verse 1:
I never thought I'd fall in love again
But then I met your furry friend
With a wag of his tail and a bark of his voice
He captured my heart and made me rejoice

Chorus:
I love your dog, I love your dog
He's the best thing that's happened to me in a while
I love your dog, I love your dog
He's the one thing that makes me smile

Verse 2:
I never knew a dog could be so sweet
But every time we meet, he's a treat
With his soft fur and his big brown eyes
He's my best buddy and I'm glad he's mine

Chorus:
I love your dog, I love your dog
He's the best thing that's happened to me in a while
I love your dog, I love your dog
He's the one thing that makes me smile

Bridge:
I know he's not mine, he's yours to keep
But whenever I'm with him, I feel so complete
I'll love him like my own, and take care of him too
Because to me, he's as precious as gold

Chorus:
I love your dog, I love your dog
He's the best thing that's happened to me in a while
I love your dog, I love your dog
He's the one thing that makes me smile

Outro:
I love your dog, oh yes I do
He's the one thing that makes my heart true
I love your dog, and I'll always be
Fore
> for ~$188/month.

Note that this is still the on-demand price.

Although it's still not Apple to Apple, no one (sane) would useRDS 24x7 without RI. That probably brings you down another 50 bucks or so.
Like others have said, Spotify is my favorite platform that I pay for. Their generated weekly playlists are fantastic for discovering new music and their yearly "Wrapped" playlists are fun
I do post-it notes and a couple of master passwords for things I don't care about, so I don't disagree. I need to make 2 points though. 1, enough 'non-sensitive' data can eventually become sensitive when taken as a whole, and 2 post-it notes are less secure if they are at a place of employment, think teachers.

Maybe the best option is one of those physical access password managers like KeePass
To be fair to Apple, there is an awful lot of truly horrible shit on lbry. Anywhere from anti-vax and covid deniers, to straight up nazis to actual snuff vids. If you were a corporation like Apple, you probably don't want an app on your store that allows any user to stumble onto an uncensored video of people getting decapitated.

That's a big part of why I quit using it. Lbry is the next best thing to YouTube, but I just don't want that kind of shit popping into my search results every day.

There's also the whole bit where it's also a cryptocurrency. For some goddamn reason.
Modern operating systems are missing a monumental opportunity for turning computers into transformative educational tools. Not only have we not progressed since the visions of Engelbart and Alan Kay, we've regressed in many ways. Mobile OSs are walled gardens mainly suited for content consumption and mining user data to sell to advertisers. This is now even spreading to desktop OSs, where most of the time it feels like the computer is using you, rather than the other way around.

Despite of how much computers have revolutionized every aspect of our lives, they're awfully primitive at being educational. Think about it: our best online knowledge resource is the equivalent of a classic encyclopedia, with static text, and some multimedia features. There are plenty of free lectures available, but they're limited to video recordings and text. Content is rarely interactive, or presented in a way to guide learning via experimentation. There are some worthwhile resources that do this right, but they're either not very accessible or mainstream.

Imagine where we could be as a civilization if operating systems were built with education in mind. I'm not smart enough to design such systems, but having seen what some of the brightest minds in our industry have come up with decades ago, I can't help but feel underwhelmed, to say the least, by what we have today.
There's a difference between working on a job that you know is repeated every day (this is retail) and working on something that's supposed to be "one and done" - this is more like a retail manager working for three years to get a new location up and running and then having it shut down.
How? Because everything operates around the level of delinquent 12-year olds following the latest trends.

Centralized "crypto" exchanges are antithetical to cryptocurrency. It means NOT using cryptocurrency and giving it to a bank/speculators and then day trading off-chain. The only good reason to keep them around is for the fiat exchange capability. Which could better be served in other ways.

The amazing thing is that most people still don't know what cryptocurrency actually IS, and think this FTX scam and other similar nonsense means that "crypto isn't trustworthy". When in reality it is all a perfect example of why the capabilities of actual cryptocurrency (such as public ledgers and smart contracts) are such important advances.
I wouldn’t recommend betting against Musk. The track record of people who have done that is pretty poor.
> You don't have to go through a bank to see this in action: Alice loans Bob $20 and then Bob goes and loans $20 to Charlie. The world now has $40 "more" in it, and remains that way until the loan is settled.

The world now has $40 debt in it, it still only has $20 of spending power. Suppose both Alice and Bob sell their debt to Donna, sight unseen (ie only the amount is known). Bob still owes $20, but now to Donna, effectively canceling out the $20 he received for Charlie's note.
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I second this.
It’s mind boggling how bad DER SPEGEL does basic research.
I did not find it surprising at all, that the Relotius-scandal^1 happened at DER SPIEGEL.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claas_Relotius#Fabrication_of_...
> very much against the advice of his lawyers

According to Sam Bankman-Fried. Not the most reliable source.
That is not a realistic concern with most major vendors. Apple, for example, has clear guidelines on what security researchers are allowed to do. Anyone who follows those guidelines won't be sued.

https://security.apple.com/terms-and-conditions/
Yes it's a crime.

My point about bad culture is that bad culture causes crimes. There's no such thing as "just bad culture"
A feature that doesn't work well can still provide value.