skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not expert here but I think most of that risk is mitigated these days since BEAM introduced Dirty Schedulers/Dirty NIFs for any NIFs that take over 1ms to execute… I think this isolates (or can isolate) their issues to only effecting other work on the same Dirty scheduler, aka other Dirty NIFs…

Few quick links:

https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/scheduler.html

https://medium.com/@jlouis666/erlang-dirty-scheduler-overhea...

https://bgmarx.com/2018/08/15/using-dirty-schedulers-with-ru...
I think the main difference here is that your dog/cat don't have markets that they can be traded in relatively easily. There aren't pools of liquidity for which they can be exchanged. Also, your dog and your friend's cat aren't like anything else. The example you constructed is superficially more similar to the NFT market anyway.

If dogs and cats were fungible, and there was a market for fractions of both that could be exchanged in and out of, and contained hundreds of thousands of USD in standing liquidity, and the value of your dog was $1 million, and the cat was also $1 million, then sure. Swapping the dog for the cat is approximated by $2 million to the same accuracy that many assets (houses, stocks, etc) are described in notional value.
> Nobody has to hawk their goods on iOS

But this ignores their market position on mobile phones and the barriers to creating an open competing mobile phone.

It's like if there were two car companies and you could buy tires from them, but if you wanted to buy tires from a third party you had to pay Ford or Chevy 30% tax because you were putting them on their cars.

And you want to tell the tire companies too bad, you don't have to sell tires.
They have a GDP per capita of a bit over $3000 dollars. I doubt they can afford a lot of experts in anything.
Calendly is a good product. But I don't believe it has moat or a unique offering.

Identical competitors is popping up easily by offering the exact same service. It is a simple concept and the fact is that the only innovation they can add is adding very simple bells and whistles. The barier to this industry is virtually non existing.

Nothing is stopping Google or Microsoft to build their own integrated calendly like app. Considering platform risks, I don't believe any SAAS whose core offering relies on external API to have a sustainable revenue model.
He'll end with the exact same practices, but with a different set of enemies.
Don't take for granted how many ad supported sites and services you use :)

I have a website with several writers that serves almost half a million monthly pageviews and we are entirely ad supported. The only reason my writers have jobs and we are able to provide the recipes and information that we provide is because of ads.
More context: It's a successor to Vanced, a patched Android YouTube client that, among other things, disabled ads. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_Vanced?wprov=sfla1 ReVanced apparently had patches for more apps, which seems to have contributed to the takedown.

See also https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/app-discussion-revanced-t..., and previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30801912.

Why are these mod projects bothering to distribute on GitHub but then try to obfuscate what they do into Discords and online subculture hangouts?
Unethical? Not if you disclose it. Programmers, now, copy and paste code regularly. How ethical is that?

I see a situation where a programmer is familiar with the programming language and is able to modify code but the starting code is written by ChatGPT. The programer can then go thru the debugging and implementation process.

Artist and want-to-be artist using Dalle2 are having a similar argument. Artist have a point but that won't stop people from using it.
> It's such a weird disconnect seeing people that can't go outside of the mindset that everything is a web application.

I don’t think thats what’s happening here. Providing online documentation thats easy to read, easy to navigate has become quite standard of all kinda of projects and systems. My main programming environment is a mac so Im certainly not gonna have the locally installed docs anyway.

Not only does a good online documentation make it easier to understand for an individual, but it makes it easy to share links etc to others to help them understand too. And the easier it is to comprehend, the better.
Yeah I was looking for this comment. +1 for mamba
Not to mention the commenters here as well:

"There's no evidence people and tweets are being suppressed"

<Shows Evidence with receipts>

"This is old news, nothing new here."

Is there a mailing list where these things are coordinated? I remember there was JournoList in the late 2000s, so is there a new one for internet commenters of a certain political persuasion? How do they get the talking points memo?
It's surprising when you see it happen to your own content. Check out the reactions from people whose content has been secretly moderated that I quote here [1]

These aren't far right or left, it's everyone. Likely all of us have been secretly moderated at some point without our knowledge.

When I discovered this happening on the platform I used, I built a tool to let me know when it happened, and I published that tool for others to use. Now it sees 500k users per month. Similar tools could be built for all other sites that do this.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33916519
Arabia spent $1b to buy ESL & Faceit (the major tourney organizers).
Sponsors not really needed imho.
I think the point is that not all the suburban sprawl will get converted to 5+1 so some of it's going to decay/devolve.
It’s really straightforward. Platform owners make investments in supporting development on their platform. Xcode? Metal? Would there even be any apps, developers, or users on iOS if they didn’t make this investment?

Tolls and taxes bother me but I don’t pretend to not understand them.
Yeah I’m all for those distros, but as I work in security industry i kind of feel like a ‘nobody ever got fired for buying an ibm approach’ is good.

If I’m hacked it’s not a good look at all, if im hacked and use an esoteric distro like gentoo, it would certainly look much, much worse. My key pain point is trust within repos, Ubuntu audit their repos as best they can (sast/sanity check) so at least there’s some security there.

Im otherwise very supportive of mint/arch/gentoo and similar systems.
I think there might be a reason two sides aren't talking.

Conservatives:
Rope, tree, journalist: some assembly required

Fuck Joe Biden

Fuck your feelings

These are all t-shirt slogans you can buy at conservative political events, and they're quite widespread rather than exceptional.

Also conservatives:
Why am I being shadow banned, this is viewpoint discrimination!

To be clear, there are obnoxious people and outright assholes all over the political spectrum. But conservatives have made outrage and offensiveness their brand, in recent years. I remember being astonished and disgusted by the gleeful antagonism of Rush Limbaugh back int eh 1990s when conservative talk radio first became A Thing following the Reagan administration's abolition of the 'Fairness doctrine.'
> Oh man, can I sign onto this rant.

Please, be my guest hahaha.

I think my issue with so many of these tools is that they’re fundamentally meant to be used interactively. R (renv/etc) doesn’t have a package manager separate from the runtime, so you can’t just “yarn/pip/cargo/etc install” and have your dependencies setup prior to your script running, you have to invoke manual R commands and hope everything goes off ok, it doesn’t spontaneously pick a different directory to install your stuff in, or have a tantrum about permissions because it wants to install in some root dir.
We’ve not forgotten it - we’ve just chosen to optimize for a different point in the (longevity, cost, time, material) space.
I like a lot of Scott 's writings, but this is a bad habit of his. If there's a point that contradicts his own, he'll pretend to address it while actually just skipping over it/downplay it's relevance.
If the protesters weren't directly threatening the people in the car, I agree.

It's becoming more and more obvious that laws are ineffective without a shared culture.
I don't know about living there, but I've followed Formula 1 for almost 50 years and the Monaco F1 Grand Prix circuit is one of the last of the true classic circuits left.
Is this an answer to GP's question? If so, I'm having trouble figuring out what it is.
I guess sysadmins are safe - someone still has to turn the wheels.
I think it's funny that the outrage tourists also managed to be angry that libs of tiktok was also put on a "no action" whitelist. They're not even reading the disclosures; they're just screaming.

https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1601018810495995904
Try complying when you live in a corrupt country and the legal speed drops from 60 to 50 just on that specific 10 meters conveniently by a speed camera
Do understand that if/when you get banned from here it will because you're being rude and disrespectful.

Not because we are all trying to push some left wing agenda.
To me the evidence seems to point to the opposite, like the screenshot of LibsOfTikTok: that account was being shielded from moderation action by a warning note saying not to act without speaking to a superior first. Sounds like the account was at benefit, not detriment.
Why is anyone surprised that the major/globally operating social media companies have extensive internal systems for controlling the content that appears via their platforms?

Irrespective of whether or not you agree with individual decisions, the fact that such systems exist should not be a surprise. These companies operate within legal frameworks across multiple jurisdictions that have endless variations of restrictions on speech and content.

What surprises me is that there are people that whine about this without proposing or creating an alternative.
It’s antisocial for someone driving across town to use a road that’s sized for local traffic only. If you’re doing a journey shared by thousands of others you should use the 10^3 capacity road, not the 10^1 capacity road.

The place where I work has a fridge full of beers. Every so often I see someone stick a couple in their bag, on their way home. Oh no! An employee taking beers intended for employees to consume!, right?

I blame the parents.
I was the IT manager for an all-Apple school, had just joined in 2014. First time overseeing that many users. New macOS and iOS versions came out. Hey guys, everyone can update! New versions out! Cool beans!

For half a year, it was WiFi and AirDrop hell. Update after update, it didn't matter, the issues were not being fixed. Finally, whichever update it was, fixed it 6 months later. I referred to it as the WiFi Apocalypse of 2014. After that, I always emailed everyone at the beginning of the school year to not install new versions of macOS and iOS when they came out. I would say that if they went against my recommendations and installed anyway, no guarantee that we'd be able to fix any problems they had, and this was their warning, so no complaining.

I would usually send an email about half a year later saying that people can update now if they like. I didn't care whether or not it looked fine within the first month or so. Never again. The WiFi Apocalypse of 2014 was hell. It's weird that this situation seems to be repeating itself.
In terms of abstracting coding jobs, this is much less revolutionary than Wordpress in my opinion.

There's going to be a lot of social and economics changes by this new tech but I don't think code will be the most affected area (for now of course)
The point was more general, about peoples need to eliminating uncertainty in favor of belief, but we can talk about religion too.

I agree theism vs atheism might make a big difference, but I don't see a meaningful difference between agnosticism and atheism in how I would approach life.

Even when it comes to ruling out theism and Gods, it only really matters if you rule out vengeful gods that might punish you for not worshiping them.

If I were 90% certain that a god did not exist, What would I stand to gain by committing to atheism and holding it to be, absolute truth.

I think a more mundane topics are a better example, e.g. the political or social topic of the day.
I think it needs more work - its very good at information retrieval but it is also returning quite a lot of noise (specifically in the coding space).
I have found it invaluable for helping me out with the poorly documented and sometimes esoteric Terraform modules I work with - but it rarely produces something that doesn't have an inherent flaw in. When questioned on it - it often says "yes you are correct - that is an error" and then produces an entirely different set of code.

Its hugely impressive but I think it still has a way to go before I would pay something meaningful for it, maybe the next release will solve a lot of things once the models are retrained now the public has had time to stress test it?
This will sound trite, but I wonder whether there's a lesson here to be learned about human education. We put a great deal of effort into educating our children in language and math, to the extent that those form the major branches of our standardized testing for college admissions tests (where they are still used). We treat them as separate subjects, perhaps for good reason, as we also do science and geography and art and music. Can ChatGPT's successes and shortcomings give us insight into how we should or should not educate our own progeny?
Yet another great writeup by a security researcher who realized they could exploit a system by modifying a request in-flight.
Aren't things getting to the point where drones are a global commodity and indigenous manufacturing capability is mostly moot?
this is why i avoid common lisp now. for years i hated programming until i finally decided CL was dead to me. Now i happily write Python for a living and don't care it sucks relative to CL.
While it's true that a good number of RHEL users don't use EPEL due to the lack of vendor escalation, there are many that do use it. In fact, they tell Red Hat that specific EPEL packages being available in the next version of EPEL block them from migrating to the next major version of RHEL. The feedback finally got loud enough that Red Hat decided to provide headcount to the Community Platform Engineering (CPE) group to create an EPEL team focused on improving EPEL (this is my team at work).

https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/cpe-to-staff-epel-wo...

That said, the "vendor escalate-able only" group is large enough that RHEL is significantly underrepresented in EPEL stats. My guess is that somewhere around 40-60% of RHEL customers use EPEL. For RHEL rebuilds, I would guess that it's probably in the high 90% range, so their numbers in EPEL countme stats are probably fairly accurate. CentOS Stream on the other hand is also underrepresented, as we have countme data for both EPEL 9 and CentOS Stream 9, which shows there are over twice as many instances without EPEL as instances with EPEL.

Keep in mind that the countme data only includes systems connecting directly to Fedora's MirrorManager. Sites that run their own local mirrors are not included. We will never have a complete picture of popularity between these distros. For example, Facebook runs "millions" (a direct quote from their engineers' conference talks, they don't publish exact numbers) of CentOS Stream instances, which is more than everything else in the EPEL countme metrics combined.
Why is this a warning??
Which is kind of funny since it’s been known these things exist since at least 2010:

https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/justin-...
The linkage with ovarian cancer is very suspect and makes little sense given the actual mechanism of how asbestos damages tissue.
We need more good bars like this.
Generative Problem Solving with Large Language Models
> Twitter is working on a software update that will show your true account status, so you know clearly if you’ve been shadowbanned, the reason why and how to appeal

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601042125130371072
Ask HN: I’m thinking about starting AI company determines paternity with photos
Are there any existing ai services using photos to determine paternity? Are there any legal gray areas?
Not quite:

https://twitter.com/spdustin/status/1601053327567249409
Oh whew, that's just some layer 7 concerns. I'd be interested in seeing where that's (that it must actually write those blocks) actually defined by in the spec and what language they use. I was worried my Pico was sending invalid blocks that didn't properly parse and was relying on undefined behavior to implement flashing.
I have been responsible a bit of content moderation myself, and interacted with mods on various forums. It's possible that this is responsible for some of my views, summarized here.

- The "secret" aspect of all this can be largely ignored. Twitter is under no obligation to tell its users exactly how their Tweets are moderated. I am sure most moderation tools are secret, including whatever Twitter (or for that matter, HN) uses today.

- There are aspects of user privacy that are important (e.g. how user data is gathered, where is it stored, whether it complies with various data governance regulations) which would be interesting, but have been largely ignored by these Tweets so far.

- I don't think Weiss understands what "shadow ban" means. It means that you post Tweets, but no one ever sees them. None of the practices she describes amount to what is usually described as a shadow ban or a hellban. Preventing a post from showing up in trends or searches is not a shadow ban. Google SafeSearch does not "shadow ban" explicit images or links.

- All companies have hierarchies of escalation. It is not surprising to me that there is a "top people" level of escalation in the form of SIP-PES that Weiss mentions. In fact, I'm reasonably sure something similar probably exists at Twitter today, consisting of Musk and some close advisors. They might even be using the exact same group!

- A lot of the discussion Weiss quotes as if it's top-secret information seems to show...individuals behaving reasonably while struggling with the extremely hard problem of content moderation at scale? Roth and others seem to be essentially saying, "We don't want to kick these users off the platform. Maybe if we limit their reach a bit, we won't get them inciting howling mobs that target and disturb other users?" Post-Musk Twitter seems to be struggling with the same thing, as the Kanye West debacle shows.

Overall, I don't really see too much that would cause me to gasp with horror. All I can really see is a company that never grew to Facebook scale trying to grapple with its content moderation problem without having the resources or perhaps temperament to hire hundreds of cheap content moderators like Facebook does.
Twitter is working on a software update that will show your true account status
There was data to suggest that. The data that suggested that was linked in the article you posted:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7013e3.htm?s_cid=mm...
does this work with yubikeys?
Also newsworthy because it's used to hold certain accounts down and to hijack ideas and talking points from less popular accounts on a regular basis as well.
These features regularly can be used to keep certain accounts popular and profitable while others get blacklisted unfairly and with no awareness.

There is nothing to stop large platforms from using shadowban features to fuel corrupt activity for profit and influence if they continue to operate in non-transparent ways like this.
I ask for a truth table for AND or OR. You won't believe how many programmers can't answer this question.
That article points to a study that supports her claim, testing healthcare workers to demonstrate that they weren't infected, not merely asymptomatic.

No Googling necessary. It's right there in the article you linked to.
I recently read Construction Physics' post on concrete use:

https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/so-you-want-to-us...

and I consider it to be required reading for people outside of the field on the topic of concrete emissions. Globally, concrete production emits like crazy but this is largely a product of scale; other building materials emit far more GhGs by mass and volume but are used in much smaller quantities than concrete.

I'm all for a broad package of carbon taxes to both reduce growth and force the development of political and financial solutions for a low-growth, steady-state or degrowth economy but don't be misled into thinking the end result is a smaller share of concrete as a building material. More likely, carbon taxes will reduce the proportions of plastics, steel, aluminum and glass in construction in favour of more concrete.
Do you mean B-1 or B-2? I thought the B-21 was intended as a successor to the B-2, only cheaper. Also, they look the same to me.
I have had young children, but have also been one.

Besides the pterosaurs, I recently learned that proper dinosaurs appear to have evolved flight in at least four separate lineages, independently. The feathers came first. Doubt anybody will ever know why only Aves survived. I have seen a claim that the only birds that survived were flightless, and had to evolve flight all over again. (I might have misunderstood something.)

Sauropods are to me the most mystifying of the proper dinosaurs, for purely mechanical reasons. So many unanswered questions.

svpow.com
> could also mean that a lot of small to medium companies would be able to immensely pump their productivity, more with less and all, and perhaps more growth and openings.

This is where my mind has been as well - I feel we're heading towards a future that will benefit small business - but I don't want to be overly optimistic.
this is good advice. its a trap. you live in a world where lisp isn't going to be accepted, for better or worse, lisp isn't going to happen.
If this is true, why not have coolers built into the CPU? Like a block of metal attached? Is it a small improvement gained? Or manufacturing nightmare?
Good to see this. Apple's WWDC video on Passkeys [1] has a good explanation of how passkeys work, including the nifty feature where you can use your phone to log in on a laptop without the laptop getting your credentials.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10092/
> How is this any different than Elon's stated goals from 3 weeks ago?

It is different because Elon's goals are at the level of tweets, and the screenshots here depict action at the level of users.
Gasoline is cheaper now than a year ago – and could fall below $3
> without proposing or creating an alternative

They have an alternative in mind. It's called unfettered free speech.

Problem for Twitter is that advertisers aren't interested in a fancier 4chan.
Also keep in mind the Swiss effectively abandoned their 200 year old policy of neutrality over the Ukraine - Russian conflict.

Millionaires and billionaires take note of this sort of thing, and while it may not be an overnight exodus, it certainly does change things. Like most finance text books begin with: "money goes where it is treated best".
And the others have tacked an end on something that literally means "without end". Fun stuff!
I hope Firefox gets this soon.
> I'd also highlight that many professions, e.g. those that have shift work, are nowhere near as lax.

We have two groups of people - tech workers who have a generally great working environment, and shift workers who do not. The idea that in our advanced society we should base our expectations on those who are currently doing worse is frankly absurd. Our aim should be for _everyone_ to have the work-life balance that tech workers have now.