skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why do you want to distract readers with BS like access controls imposed on the journalists?

the head of twitter security testified to Congress how twitter had poor security controls and audibility across the company. If that button does allow ability to read DM, Twitter employees have surely abused that for ages without repercussions.

Let’s stay focused on the important details rather than worrying about established journalists exposing the power the former twitter employees wielded to sway public opinion
FYI. Don't call them "alt-right" that term was invented by Neo-Nazi Richard Spencer to normalize Nazi ideology in civilized discourse

Call them what they are, fucking fascists
Taboola/Outbrain are the only major players that don’t run through Ad Manager (DFP) because they build their own stack from scratch outside of the standardized IAB formats. All others must kiss the ring and pay the toll to Google. Facebook bought and killed Atlas, it’s only credible competition.

For a full decade Google has own the display ad server wholly, Ad selling and buying tools for automated and manual transactions, the lions share of web analytics traffic, most of the display, video, mobile, and search inventory on the entire web, and first and last bid option on all auctions against their competitors. Don’t forget the myriad of ways they collect exclusive purchase, behavior, demographic, and location data with meaningless consent. All of that data is used to multiply the value of ad sales, and is otherwise unobtainable.

If you look at their business models abstractly, you’ll see what it looks like to have Horizontal and Vertical integration, regulatory capture, price control, and centralized censorship powers. The amount of influence and operational responsibility that Google has for various aspects of US government+military would shock most cynics.

If there is justice in this world, most of what they have been doing will soon be illegal and should have been the whole time. It’s a dangerous duopoly with all non FAANG publishers and tech fighting over the remaining 10% and still getting fabulously wealthy from it.

All of froth from the quarter trillion it makes each year has flowed into AI for at least a decade. It has all of the ingredients to have an exclusively owned AGI, and may have had one for several years already. I’m now well into the realm of speculation, but I submit that the AGI has or will have access to the worlds largest corpus of human knowledge along with intimate accounts of individual human behaviors. All to sell fucking ads.
Google actually has three classes of shares. Class A common stock with normal voting rights, listed as GOOGL, Class B common stock which has 10x voting rights and over 90% of which is owned by Larry Page Sergey Brin or Eric Schmidt, and Class C capital stock with no voting rights traded under GOOG.
>>Would there even be any apps, developers, or users on iOS if they didn’t make this investment?

Pricing power comes from market power.

Apple has market power because they were first in the new generation of touchscreen phones.

Some app developers have hugely benefited.

Some app developers already have an audience and just want their software to be available on all platforms and Apple is using it's market position to extract a toll. I think it's abusive given it's market power.

Epic doesn't care about metal or xcode and if there was an open phone that had market position (like Windows PC) Epic would be fine to port it's software to that system.

Apple's toll comes from it's market position, not it's investment. The investment created the position -- but For how long does the consumer need to pay Apple's toll for being first 15 years ago? Forever? Apple recouped it's investment many many many times over.
Outside of removing things like CSAM wouldn't it be illegal for the government to tell social media how it must moderate?

I'm from the US though so not an expert or it's laws.
> Now, there is this WebAssembly binary, which is not source code, but is in fact a build artifact. Some people, rightly, take these things very seriously [...].

Regarding this concern, well, you have to commit that build artifact because you're moving fast, but eventually you could do what the OpenJDK does: to build OpenJDK version N you need OpenJDK versions N-1 or N, and you can get OpenJDK version N-1 from your distro or from any number of places (like AdoptOpenJDK). You're essentially doing that now, but with unnamed versions -- you have to know which commits are like JDK version boundaries, and the clue is that the commit updates that one build artifact.

TFA is a very good read.
“The people I disagree with politically can have free speech in the mediums that have the least reach while my political tribe will freely exercise our speech on the mediums with the most reach” is a bad faith argument I keep hearing from fake leftists who are really hardline authoritarians.
There is a branch of the 3.9 release that removed the GIL created by Sam Gross that you can read about here: https://gavincyi.github.io/2022-10-03-does-sam-gross-nogil-c...

There is some work to bring it up to 3.12 and some resistance to merge it into 3.X because of the impact on extension modules (they all have to be recompiled and in some cases changed a bit).

If you are interested in it, reach out to Sam. He has done a pretty impressive piece of engineering work.
The Great Barrington Declaration was signed by almost a million doctors

You're off by an order of magnitude and then some. Also, none of the numbers they do claim are verifiable. https://gbdeclaration.org/view-signatures/

You know, when you make a specific claim like that it's really worth the 30 seconds it takes to check it again to verify your memory is correct.
Any updates on passkey support in Firefox? Firefox seems to (still) only support hardware keys. (FF 107 / MacOS)

https://webauthn.io/
I’ve seen FTX being retroactively removed from review articles (Top exchange lists) and similarly for stuff like Luna. Crypto isn’t a space where you can afford to assume good faith.
The main issue here is not that shadowban exist but fact that twtter officials explicitly denied its existence.
I think so, I'm not using Ultimate tho, and the team is <10.

I mean, it "just works" and has all these critical pieces tightly integrated. I'm hyped on it.
So how does it do as good as it did on this task? It ended up getting some of the words.
I was a bit of a hacker in high school and when I was in college I got enlisted by a friend to "steal" somebody else's CS 101 homework.

It was no problem finding an unprotected home directory with a solution in it, but we found the program didn't work. In the end we had to not only modify the program enough to not get caught, but we had fix the bugs in it.

Little did I know what good preparation this would be for my career in software development!

Devastated by the impact of a $100 million project failure I took an underpaid job for a small but proud web development shop based at a Superfund site were I completed roughly 20 projects that other programmers had started in about 9 months. It was the most acute example of something I'd experienced a lot in my career, both before and after, where somebody, anybody from a complete fresher to a certified genius to somebody getting a masters in A.I. because they really needed the intelligence, built something they couldn't finish and left behind a product that looked promising but needed serious rework to get it in front of customers. (... Then we ran out of projects, I cracked, and two days later got a job at the other web development shop that was landing all the new contracts that we were failing to get.)

I see GPT-3 as that fresher programmer who can make things that look promising to management but in the end turn out to need a huge amount of rework to put in front of customers. For a time I was greatly resentful that somebody would seem to do the "20% of the work that gets 80%" of the results and it seemed I'd do the "80% of the work that gets 20% of the results" and have people complain I took to long to do things, even during my annus mirabalus at Spider Graphics or many other times I'd saved a project that had been circling the drain for years.

GPT-3 has a hypnotic ability to get away with making mistakes which I think is a product of it being trained to produce the token with the highest probability. Like Andy Warhol, it is actively anti-creative.

Fixing the hard-to-find mistakes that it makes will be a maddening job and people will always be looking for ways to push the bubble out from under the rug and not realize the machine they are trying to build is impossible for fundamental logical reasons. I think of the dialogs of Achilles and the Tortoise from

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach

where they are trying to build impossible machines and repeatedly failing because they have no idea that what they're trying to do is impossible. I've had people say GEB is a critique of the old symbolic AI but neural networks don't repeal the fundamental results of mathematical logic and computer science.

Sure, you can escape Gödel's theorem by building a system that doesn't get the right answer but then you have a system that doesn't get the right answer.
The OP twitter thread doesn’t seem to be describing shadow banning.
That’s plenty in aggregate and, cynically, should keep skilled trades from dissipating into overly specialized work or information work.
> The updated algorithm will result

These screenshots are about actions taken by Twitter employees, not an updated algorithm.
Not really, but that depends on your definition of “scale”. To make one that scales well, you’ll need to solve a few difficult computer science problems that conventional database architectures don’t need to consider and therefore don’t address. These are problems like graph cutting, multi-attribute search without secondary indexes, cache-less I/O schedulers, and a couple others. Scalable solutions to all of these problems exist independently but I’ve never seen any graph database implementations that even attempt to address most of these, never mind all of them, and you kind of need to remove these bottlenecks.

As long as most graph databases are just a layer of graph syntactic sugar sprinkled on top of a conventional database architecture, they won’t scale.
I’m very glad to see passkeys coming especially for the contribution they make to improving user experience.

Concerned for the “Big tech” vendor lock-in this will likely facilitate.

Anyone played with this in Chrome yet?

How hard will it be to migrate away from Chrome with this in place?
The American philosopher John Rawls had this interesting concept "Veil of Ignorance"[1]. It basically says that only when you don't know who you are will you think clearly about the social justice. That is, pick whichever principles you think the society should stick to, but do so only when you don't know in which position you'll end up being. So, you can think that the justice is killing the damn riches so you can live in one of those water-sideproperties, but what if you turn out to be one of the riches? You may think that it's only fair to let poor people survive by themselves, but then you will be surprised if you are born in a struggling family. Or hypothetically, you may think it's totally fair to ban the hell of this damn Dr. Jay Bhattacharya because apparently he's spreading misinformation, until one one day you find that you are shadow banned on Twitter for warning people of climate change simply because the employees there didn't believe in climate change. So, yeah, unless we believe that all dominant companies will always be run by Californian-like lefties or our life will never be impacted by right-wing organizations or policies, this Twitter file things should concern us.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_position
Am I missing something? Does the FTC have any authority over Sony, a Japanese company? Isn’t comparing these two companies in terms of US government regulation kind of pointless?
I am curious: was your company using the free version or the commercial product?

I have enjoyed using the free version of Neo4J on my laptop but never at scale.
I mean with all the data on the internet it's hard to differentiate between what's right and wrong. Perhaps your question can also be refined to:

"How do I mix two colors in vanilla JavaScript?"
This doesn't confuse rgb string and it still asks the same question.
> The "secret" aspect of all this can be largely ignored.

I bet you would not like for your comment here to be secretly removed. In fact, many users are shocked to discover when this happens, as I share here [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33916519
If you're waiting for the comments here, just go read the article. It's that good.

> A sign on the front desk warns against tapping on the snakes’ enclosures: IF YOU KNEW THAT THE ONLY THING STANDING BETWEEN YOU AND DEATH WAS A PANE OF GLASS, WOULD YOU RISK BREAKING IT? This is not P.T. Barnum-style hyperbole. One day I was taking flash photos of an apparently pissed-off cobra (she was waving menacingly about, hood flared), my face as close as my camera lens would allow, when she finally had enough and struck at me, hitting the glass. I had the delayed jolt you get right after a fender-bender—did that really just happen?
> so you know clearly if you’ve been shadowbanned

A shadowban that the user clearly knows about sounds like an oxymoron.
That’s very unusual, I would cancel and resubmit or ask for an expedite. You can Google how to expedite AppStore reviews. If you have a good reason they’ll be reasonable. This is barring your app not doing something that might be in the grey area for the AppStore of course.
Depriving features of their core purpose seems to be the Musk M.O. to date, starting with paid checkmarks that then forced creation of Official tags. Making shadowbans not shadowbans means there's no real reason to have them at all. So just get rid of them?
Yeah and I love windows for that. I've tried thrice to get old software to run on Linux and mac, mac turned out impossible, the Linux bit I ran the Windows build in wine.
Hmm...isn't it close to a quote from Back to the Future? Is there any connection between the movies?
I also think passkeys are great and the future...but the issue of who controls the keys is really important to resolve.

If chrome holds them and never lets you export...then those accounts are not yours. They are Google's. No thanks.
By a wide margin, of all the COVID deaths total, most of them were unvaccinated. COVID deaths in August were slightly more among the vaccinated, but there were relatively few total deaths in August, and most of the population is vaccinated. It remains true that if you are unvaccinated, you have a higher chance of dying of a COVID infection.
I don't understand why they are blowing air over the chip - why not use a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pipe ? They can be made extremely thin and work much better than air.

Maybe even combine the piezoelectric idea with a heat pipe to increase thermal flow.
Steam Deck is a premium handheld - with Sony no longer in that market there was actually almost no competition as the Switch doesn't really serve it.

Steam failed to get any traction with SteamOS as a desktop systems before Steam Deck, so I think it reinforces my point.
That's insane! Particularly compared to all those other failed attempts elsewhere in the thread.

Makes me wonder, is anyone keeping a unit test suite for all this stuff? Between inherent[0] randomness in the model, and OpenAI team constantly tweaking it[1] to close gaps people use to make it produce undesirable content, techniques like the one you discovered will break sooner or later - it would be great to know when that happens, and perhaps over time, figure out some robust ones.

(OTOH, there's a limit to what one can learn from this - eventually, they'll drop another model, with its own prompt idiosyncrasies. I'm still bewildered people talk about "prompt engineering" as if it was a serious discipline or occupation, given that it's all just tuning your phrasing to transient patterns in the model that disappear just as fast as they're discovered.)

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[0] - From the user interface side; the model underneath is probably deterministic.

[1] - If one is to believe the anecdotes here and on Reddit, it would seem many such "prompt hacks" have a shelf life of few hours to a day, before they stop working, presumably through OpenAI intervention.
I was very young, probably as a teenager back in the 90s, when I discovered the existence of Peltier elements for the first time, and that one had been part of one of my former CPU coolers for all the time.

After an upgrade, I had this now unused CPU fan on my desk, and took it apart for whatever reason (because it and the screwdriver were there, I guess). And there I noticed that as part of the assembly there had been... another thin plate sandwiched between cooler and fan, separate and just held in place with the screws, and I now saw that it also had two wires for power that were spliced into the fan's power cable? Optically, this was clearly just a thin, static slate of something, maybe ceramic. Definitely no moving parts, why in the world does that need power.

I curiously applied some voltage, and was amazed that it turned cold! I played around with it a bit, and unwittingly touched the other side of it. Hot, surprisingly hot! It wasn't touching anything, that was just from the air around it!

I was mesmerized, good times.
Reddit and HN are...not Twitter? Guess which one of the three is regularly used by Taylor Swift.

The big difference is that Twitter links are routinely used by journalists and such who will notice and specifically call out Tweets as being deleted. A shadow ban / hellban on Twitter would be much more easily noticed by the media.

On the other hand, no one in the media to a rounding error cares about shadow bans on Reddit or HN.
I assumed shadow banning was invented for forums to hide low quality users without giving them a signal to create a new account.
When I bought my first (used)car and was driving it back it told me to go some farmer's backyard...
Yes.

Random thought; This would likley make for a fun board game concept.

Players are tasked with design societal rules.. and then woops, spin the dice and are now confronted by the rules they set for themselves.
1. No, why? OpenJDK version N requires an OpenJDK version N or N-1 to build, and you can download and install that if you need it. What's the difference between "you can download and install stage N-1" vs "stage N-1 is committed"? If the build artifact that is committed is small, then I would argue that there is not much real difference between those two.

2. To add a language feature, you edit the Zig-coded compiler. Then you build it, test it, and you're done. If you now want to change the Zig-coded compiler to use the new feature then you have to update the committed compiled-to-wasm Zig compiler.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3359252

You could have just use the menu to find it, it only took a few seconds. There's a preprint available there if you need it.
https://shagunjhaver.com/research/
> What trade laws prior to the 1990s were created due to "moral responsibility"?

Almost all federal revenue prior to the 20th century came from tariffs. The US still managed to industrialize just fine during that period. After which, and with the institution of the income tax, things get way more complicated.

It’s probably obvious to me but those trade laws did protect domestic industrialization, which is, again, obviously a good thing. You’re probably reading too much into my use of the word “moral”, and that’s my bad, because I should’ve used some word that denotes ensuring self sufficiency in your country. That’s all I’m really talking about. Don’t screw over your working and middle class so some nerds on Wall Street who can’t bench press 100lbs can make a couple basis points.
> you're being rude and disrespectful.

I don't see any of that in the above comment. Did they edit it to make it less so?
Keystone pipeline shut after 14,000-barrel oil spill in Kansas
This. There is constant maintenance work needed to keep things online even in a steady product state.
Great way to paraphrase it. I’ve found all jobs to be plumbing. The actual task of writing the code to do xyz was always straightforward or 5 minutes of googling. What no Googling is going to solve for you though is how to fit A B and C of your company’s process together into a manageable solution. Manageable being another keyword here. It’s easy to write a lot of code. It’s hard to keep all the pieces of it organized and flexible to future use cases/needs.
I think it’s because they said repeatedly they were doing no such thing.
It sounds desirable but we shouldn't have to rely on whoever's in charge. Elon could say he's no longer shadow moderating and simply swap out who gets moderated. Or, if he really does get rid of it, the next guy could quietly bring it all back.

We should be building external systems that can check the visibility of our own content. It can be done with an extension, for example.
I’m a nomad and have spent the last two+ years traveling the us. Google maps routing has degraded significantly in that time. I was really happy with it at first but it’s gotten worse over time. Now I dread using it and know it is going to fail to inform me correctly about which lane to be in, will pick odd routes (especially when not on the highway), and most annoying of all is they have added all sorts of phantom merges which often obscure the real next turn/exit until the last second because there is a nonexistent merge on the map.
I was leaning towards Neo4j as it had support for graph algorithms such as WCC, louvain etc

What would be a good alternative for it?
I personally don't like the Monaco GP due to how big the cars have become making it (nearly) impossible to pass. Still you are correct it definitely is a classic race.

Monaco, Spa, Suzuka, and Monza are some of the best and most iconic tracks in the world.
Also an incredibly boring track if we’re being honest. In todays cars, the race is effectively decided by the qualifiers
> I can't find any information on fatalities due to aircraft-drone collisions, topic of this article notwithstanding.

That's because there have not been any: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unmanned_aerial_vehicl...
Musk will now speed run the reasons shadow banning became a popular practice.
In Silicon Valley back in 2014, when the seeds of ML/DS started to get traction, all the people with Data Science titles knew how to write Java webapps or Hadoop MR jobs to ingest, clean, transform, model/analyze, and serve results that went into production.

The specialization def. has narrowed scope in the last ~10ish years, but the original roots were that: Java + stats + database knowhow.

So yes, learn some production level skills. Having far too specialized people also runs the risk of lost-in-translation models that only work in the original implementation, until edge cases show up and model is out of date.
> but fact that twtter officials explicitly denied its existence

I haven't seen anything here that indicates that it ever did exist.

Limiting reach is different from people not seeing your content at all.
Yes, it does, both indirectly, as fair use is an example of using copyrighted material and this is another one, and directly, because categorizing a use as fair use
involves the commercial impact of the use.
People giving serious credence to 'the flat earth movement' is always a bit of a tell for me. There is no genuine 'flat earth movement'. There are a collection of people who enjoy pretending to believe in a flat earth, with some of them seeing how far they can 'rationally' take their denial that the world is round. It's an exercise in defending a non-defensible belief for fun and winding (earnestly literal) people up.
Autonomous vehicles from Waymo and Cruise are causing all kinds of trouble
It’s not the fact that these systems exist, it’s that Twitter denied that they did for years, despite all the evidence to the contrary.