skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, many don't even notice full account shadowbans [1] [2].

But account-level shadowbans are sort of known to exist. What's being reported here is harder to detect. That is, the secretive removal of individual pieces of content, or reducing the reach of an account's content.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/comments/351buo/tifu_by_postin...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8z3sd4/i_have_used_red...
Looks neat, but couldn't do this basic request:
"write a flask endpoint to calculate pi"
It must be embrassing when you read outloud "S-S-SWone thousand dollars".
The web is built on the pattern of servers sending files, or dynamically generated files, around to clients. Those files or programs that generate them always, 100% of the time, reside on servers. It may not be your server or there may be code-less or no-code abstractions but ultimately it’s coming from a server.

Can you elaborate on what you envision decentralization is? I can’t imagine decentralized anything on the web without servers. Blockchain is a distributed database much like tor, right? But those run on servers and one could argue a distributed DB is still centralized just spread out. That sounds dumb when I read it but a distributed DB is treated as a centralized entity, just replicating data. Not trying to be thick or snarky, I just don’t get what decentralized is supposed to look like.
You are correct, I just misread it.

edit: It should be fixed now.
I think it's a kind of tone adjustment. Looked at charitably, it's a way to "soften the blow" of disagreement by phrasing one's contradiction in a less less absolute or certain way. Looked at less charitably, it's a way to disagree and still leave room to walk away (accusing one's interlocutor of unjustified hostility) if backing up that disagreement becomes too inconvenient. Either way it's a bit of a hedge, kind of like "it seems to me" or "some might say" in slightly fancier clothes. Personally I find it a bit smug and tiresome.
Might I recommend Firefox Focus for Safari ad blocking?
That's just an opinion. It's almost like a chatgpt 3 response for "write short blog with hot take on trendy Web thing". Was expecting some data on how this backfired when implemented or something.

I like chat when I need it, no digging through a dark pattern looking for support contacts. It also tells me that customer service is at least somewhat of a priority for this company. Otherwise I just ignore.
You are ignoring the concept of debt. Everything doesn't immediately implode. Especially for a temporary outage.
> Most of most jobs is a bunch of mundane stuff.

That’s why we call it “work.”
Exactly. Although this is likely one of the biggest days of the year for display and video advertising, so it'll be likely more than 1/6 of $25m/hr.
It's always weird when something like part of Google goes down. I just don't expect it because of how massive Google is and how much money they put into their site running reliably. I guess it's interesting to be reminded that Google can go down just like any other website, it's just a really big one.
I thought RTS died due to the ever diminishing market share of PC games vs. mobile and, to an extent, console.
I may have missed it, but I don't see anywhere in that linked article that mentions bullet proof windscreens... and Wikipedia for the aircraft also makes no mention. Plus, we're not just talking about this particular aircraft in this incident, but generally all aircraft.

But, I would not be surprised it was tried, particularly with WWII era machines. There's very little actual benefit to having one on any aircraft, even CAS aircraft. A modernly restored version meant for airshows and racing probably would have replaced it for something more modern and lighter weight.
If they don't; its going to be hell when people can't call 112/911
Plot twist: they replaced the sky with a different starry background.
Oh that’s awesome
Hopefully, but I doubt it'll do so any time soon. Even if it does, JS will still have momentum because of the lack of tooling and setup needed to use it. It's still gonna be in every "intro to web dev" tutorial ever for many more years to come
Far from accurate. This is NOT the consensus
Ads are an enabler of bad products. If things required a subscription, half the shit on the Internet would be gone and for good reason. Also, often you get ads anyway regardless of the subscription. This is a false dichotomy.
I think people often memetically comment that because they've found they like it or found it to be a cheap way they can buy into hypothetically socializing. I like coffee shops and would happily meet there with a friend, but for someone with a scarcity of organic interests that would naturally take them there, they need to explore why that is and why it seems troublesome first. You can't or shouldn't try to just hack your way into a good social life by adopting arbitrary social activities; though many of them might be fun to explore among a long list of potential other things to explore.

Many people move to cities from the suburbs of their hometown where everyone they knew just happened because they were already around them for the specific reason that they had to be around them day in and day out, like an office job in a way.

My biggest recommendations would be to explore the area and be open to trying new things, and then also to meet your coworkers and their friends eventually, if you can.

So many people I know back home have only ever made "friends" with their coworkers, and if that job went away, so would their "friends", because they are linked in only that way. If you meet your coworkers friends somehow though, the only reason that relationship would flourish to the point of friendship is that you each felt that it should, because you discovered common ground or realized you both had chemistry.

Likewise, another thing I recommend to people who feel isolated, is to try and find something you like doing for 2-3 hours a day, once or twice a week, somewhat around other people. Could be the gym, could be hanging at a coffee shop, could be many other things, you just need some common faces regularly so you have the opportunity to discover if you vibe with them. It's important that you'd do it regardless of anyone else being there too. You need to be down for it, and anything else that happens should be considered a lucky side-effect.

So yes, it's not that simple, and you're absolutely right.
What is or isn't cloud is different at every company on top line but especially bottom line. For example how far down the stack are engineers still considered cloud when they are supporting both cloud and internal products? Investors are fine losing money on growing cloud and also love to see ad margins up? Then everyone is cloud.
ChatGPT is a natural language model, meaning it has been trained on vast amounts of text and thus is good at processing and outputting text back. To it, numbers follow the rules of language, and not math, unlike for example a dedicated calculator app.

Only thanks to seeing numbers in vast amount of text it was trained on, it is able to do common math relatively well, and anything uncommon very poorly.
I wonder if the water infrastructure crisis is roughly the same, better, or worse in other southwestern states, such as New Mexico and Arizona.

“There’s going to have to be some amount of tolerance for taking time to fix these issues,” Jenson said. “The immediate response stuff can only go so far to buy time, but eventually we’ll have to put in infrastructure that resolves these issues, and that could take 10 to 20 years. Those are really the keys to actually resolving the problem as opposed to band-aiding it.”
Same. When I help relatives with their tech woes, loading
a website on a vanilla browser after all these years without ads
is shocking.

All these flashing and moving gizmos and pop up videos. It's so jarring, like having a flashlight flickered in your face constantly.

I have honestly no idea how people manage to work the web without adblock
nowadays.
GCP revenue losses from being down are approximately lower bounded by (downtime in seconds * revenue per second). Their costs don't decrease from being down.
There is also `pip install ziglang`
The wrong choice in my opinion
> What's the point you're trying to make? Just because we don't yet have a confirmed kill from a DJI Phantom means it's impossible?

Anything is possible, there is a guy that was killed by his beard, shot by a dog and every year several people die from being tangled on bedsheets. Lets keep things in proportion.

I, for one, am unclear why we immediately jumped to regulating drones, but when Tespa autopilot kills people, nobody seems to care?

The real point is that people in this thread are too quick to blame drones, when geese outnumbet them 1000 to one. I live near an airport and a huge flock of geese is constantly here. When I see people with real drones, they tend to know whay they are doing.

The only people I see fooling around are people who buy a tiny drone for $50 on Amazon and the worst those drones can do is get aruck in your hair while filming nudes.
> How can tech self-regulate itself

Would it be a stretch to suggest 'the government'?
The person in the picture is speculating it's a bullet proof windshield, and he's mistaken (particularly from the P-39 aircraft mentioned in the link). If you look at both a P-63 and P-39 you will not find any windshield or window that is even remotely shaped like what is held in the image.

Regardless, modernly speaking, very few (if any) aircraft have bullet proof windshields. They are impractical for a number of reasons, including weight, size, thickness (distortion of picture), and efficacy. If a pilot is within small-arms distance they generally are already in trouble...
Yeah, the mRNA vaccines have a bunch of less shit in it, so I trust it a lot more because it should be substantially safer.

It is basically just the viral mRNA for the spike protein wrapped into a tiny lipid particle that looks exactly like one of your cell walls.

All vaccines that have come before it have considerably more stuff in them and much more to go wrong.
Burn it before it lays more eggs.
The point about all these languages that came after C that have exhaustive pattern matching on a Result type is that there are better ways of doing things. Why have the user have to handle cases like this by remembering to put in an `if err != nil` when the computer can literally compute where it's not being used and yell at you or even add it for you?

Even in C it was not "just fine," it caused all sorts of bugs. But the bigger issue is that PL theory has improved since then, why be constrained to the same patterns as before?
so if it’s a 1% prevention is sufficient to get into a semantic debate and call things misinformation? That’s unrealistic and is why your other post is being downvoted
We're in the process of migrating off Neo4j/OngDB to Postgres. Happy with how it's going so far.
I don't think salaries are the driving factor behind GCP's balance sheet, but that's just my opinion. I obviously can't wave a magic wand and find out for sure either, but my own back of the napkin math can't see that reasonably working out. They brought in billions of additional revenue, but their losses also increased.
Google results are personalized, particularly for different locations. I’ve never heard this usage in the US.

When I google “kitchen robot” I get some expensive frozen meal cooker doodad. https://www.suvie.com/kitchen-robot/
A few weeks ago, no one would have predicted a major Google service going down before Twitter.
Those problems don't seem insurmountable, especially if it is 10-100x better than Google.
I've used R's ggplot for ages and its API is simply wonderful and intuitive. Matplotlib's API is always unpleasant in comparison. Plotly's API is better but ggplot still wins. Obviously matplotlib's depth and breadth are tremendous, but that API isn't fun or memorable or particurlarly orthogonal.

Plotnine is quite close to ggplot so my learning curve was negligible. I get the impression plotnine's adoption hasn't been huge and I'm wondering why. Is there a lack of beginner material, targeted to python/pandas users? There's lots of introductory ggplot material but it's all R and assumes dplyr/tidy knowledge, which would all be foreign to python/pandas people.
Haha go search and view a recipe. There’s no ads! It’s glorious
It would have been fine were it not for The Sink Man’s aggressive insistence that it be called something it objectively is not and his assertions that his pipe dream would work imminently.

He sold “Full Self Driving” when he had nothing close. Abstractly speaking he sold a thing he didn’t have, one which every expert agreed he wouldn’t be able to deliver (some say ever, more optimistic people say not soon) and which he proved to be unable to make.

That’s Theranos level fraud. It’s not that blood testing is impossible, it’s that they sold a thing that’s not possible and swore up and down that you had, and people paid for it under false pretenses.

Refunding everyone who bought FSD and accurately labeling it (Dangerously incomplete driver assist perhaps?) should be the very least they are required to do.
Requiring the sink man to stop lying about it and putting some real teeth behind the requirement is probably reasonable too (we found that multi million dollar fines just make him laugh, but a billion dollar penalty makes him sit up. Just putting that out there)
This page is blocked by archive.org, so we cannot record the url there. I think this would be an interesting page to allow archives of.
First Leader of High-Risk Medical Research Agency Discusses Startup
Relevant Onion article: https://www.theonion.com/the-economist-to-halt-production-fo...
Many years ago I worked for a professor who allowed me into weekly meetings which were mostly of touring faculty, presenters, or academics on the job market.

The audience was always a pretty stable group of multidisciplinary, world-class faculty. Most of them were cordial but there were a few aggressive ones too. I remember a statistician who drove real hard. I didn't know any of the words he said, but the room felt electrified every time he started.

It was like intellectual UFC, but hero vs mob. I felt for the speakers, but as a fly on the wall, it was amazing. I haven't experienced anything like it since.
Fortran is cool, what do you work on?
I bought a weighted blanket just to test if there were any possible benefits for myself. I do prefer it, but do not need it. The same goes for a bidet.
My advice? Keep testing things...
It’s a tokenization problem. ChatGPT understands that twenty two is two + twenty. It does not understand that 22 = 20+2.

If can do math by hand using rules it knows until it spits out a numeral form - then it errors.
Thank you for the summary. It's very helpful for people like me whose only experience with compilers is a class in college.

I'm slightly confused by these two statements together: This is a method of ensuring that future builds do not depend on the existence of a Zig compiler and Presume the existence of a compiler that can compile Zig. Does that mean that future builds do not depend on having a Zig compiler at hand, rather than the existence of it?

I'm having trouble not visualizing this as basically a subcategory of the second solution explored in the solution space section, "Use a prior build of the compiler". Isn't that, effectively, what this ends up being? except with an added VM abstraction encapsulating the platform-specific portions of the compiler. I don't quite get why the same thing can't abstracted in a library; if there's no existing compiler for riscv64 (like in the example), you'd write another implementation of that library, or you'd update your wasm2c / WASI interpreter to support riscv64.

is there value in additional stages where the output zig3 compiler is used to compile the written-in-Zig Zig compiler to WASM again (since previously it was obtained in binary form from the repo), and follow the steps again? Presumably you'd end up with a zig binary that is equivalent bit-for-bit with zig3, correct? But does it help strengthen the chain of trust in the commited wasm binary?
That stereotypical insecure sportscar owner is certainly real. But not every one of them is insecure. Some just feel like they’ve won and deserve the spoils. And of course there are far more variables than I listed. I was just making some sweeping generalizations. I’ve met both. Old money, true to stereotype, tend to drive inconspicuous cars. I’m not old money, but I do the same.
Well, I don't disagree on any of these points.

But these points don't mean it's any less fatal to hit a drone in a small plane than a goose.

Hitting things in aircraft isn't a recipe for a good time... ever.
I see this a lot and it really rubs me the wrong way, but it makes a lot of sense from a usability standpoint.

I started pointing directly at the full commit SHA of the version I want to use when pointing dependencies at Github repos, as I have some naïve belief that it'll offer me a reasonable level of protection from the malicious takeover of a repo.
Compensation? No.

That wasn't my main argument however. Please read it below in my original response.
Cache has an upper limit and will not go past that unless you fiddle around in a browsers config. It can become out of sync but if so the browser will flush that data and reload from the web. All of this is automated so the user doesn't need to do anything.

There are some rare occasions where the browser can't seem to sync the cache with the online data and manually clearing it is required. Normally this will presented as a broken website.

The cache exists to make loading faster due to the difference in access time between the web server and the local memory store (disk).

So no do not clear your cache manually every month. The advice makes no sense.
> I have a friend who is allergic to many vaccines. A bad reaction as a kid led to him needing years of rehab. He's also high risk for Covid. He's pro-vaccine in general I guess I should add, but his doctor told him to not get the covid shots because the risk was too high

Has your friend asked another doctor for a second opinion?

It is unlikely that anyone who is allergic to prior vaccines would be allergic to the mRNA vaccines. There is no such thing as a broad spectrum vaccine allergy, there's just allergies to the individual components. If they were allergic to eggs and the flu vaccine they can safely get an mRNA vaccine.
Is this a party?
That's actually even more argument why it's important to reduce your risk of passing on the virus, then: because it can kill even vaccinated people.

Anyway, from the article you linked, here's the punchline:

> Unvaccinated people over the age of 5 had about 8 times the risk of dying from a coronavirus infection than those who received a booster shot.

Yeah, so more deaths among vaccinated people is merely a product of the fact that more people are vaccinated
Attention spans got a boost.
How big was the data?
It's currently designed to work well only when there are good underlying results. "Unleashing" it to be more creative when no good underlying web results exist is in the works.
Billionaire Winklevoss Twins’ $900M Disaster Is No Shock
But the LED bulb will almost certainly last more than 25x as long as the $1 incandescent
> We do have confirmed strikes with fatalities from birds.

Yup.

> There is not much difference between a bird and a drone when an aircraft strikes it at speed...

Open to debate.

Even if true: There's a whole lot more birds near airports than illegally operating drones. So even if there's some tiny, absolute risk, the relative risk appears low.
would you not serve me ads if I did?

All newspapers/magazines, VHS/DVDs, cable TVs etc. were are 'subscription' in the sense you had to pay for them. Ads were still there. If paying a subscription for websites was normalized then soon enough they would as well be filled with ads.
Exhibit A: Elon musk. The fool has neither wealth nor class.
If you pick a technology to deploy within a company, you need to own the outcomes of that choice.

“I didn’t know” isn’t an acceptable excuse. When faced with unknowns, it’s your job to anticipate, mitigate, uncover problems, etc.

No one can know everything. That’s a fact. But these issues with Neo4j aren’t exactly hard to find. There are loads of folks who have talked about their negative experiences with it. Setting up a proof of concept would confirm them.
Ukraine is assembling an Army of Drones
Ouch. You got me. I’d have bet hard against this.
I live in one of top 20 densest municipalities in the US (Somerville MA) with 18k people per square mile, and none of those things are an issue here. You can have density without noise.
I feel like these are not as common/popular as they were back in the day. Now it's all water cooling with those all-in-one setups. I always thought the Peltier coolers were cool (pun not originally intended, but now it is).
Yes. But I wouldn't subscribe to "content" that is used as a minimum skeleton to hand ads on, and I include the google search engine in that definition. I'm happy to pay for something I value. Most web content I value at $0 and may browse opportunistically but I would never pay for it, including by looking at an ad or providing my email
Interesting, can you share more details? Is your data graph-like or more like tabular but you chose Neo4j anyway? What kind of functions from Postgres are you using to emulate Neo4j features?
Yup. And it can be mitigated somewhat by isolating workloads that might crash BEAM, while using dist erl so nodes can still communicate with each other.

Rust is an exciting option for NIF, but those backends are not written in it.
Waze: 4 out of 5 scary Uber drivers who drive aggressively, abruptly turn on to obscure side streets at the first sight of another vehicle, and blare the navigation voice as loud as possible on their smartphone speakers choose Waze.

Seriously, Google Maps being a all-caps TERRIBLE app? Come on. It's basically the gold standard.
He's not arguing for a regular 9-5 Mon-Fri, he's arguing against weekends and personal days. He expected "personal sacrifice" on the part of employees and was frustrated that Google didn't. That's not a generational mindset, it's a modern startup mindset that was out of place in an established company like Google.

Here's the full quote:

> Having trouble scheduling meetings because “it's the new Yoga instructor lesson I cannot miss” or “I’m taking a personal day” drove me crazy. The worst thing is that this was inline with the policies and norms - I was the weirdo who wanted to push things fast and expected some level of personal sacrifice when needed. I don't believe long hours are a badge of honor but I also believe that we have to do whatever it takes to win, even if its on a weekend.
Lol. Mr Stoic, okay.
I’m not trying to call you guys out. Just curious for more information. I would say I have enough knowledge about signal processing to be dangerous, as it’s quite adjacent to my job. But this isn’t clicking with me. Assuming we’re not including cameras outside the visible light spectrum, are there cameras that actually have enough dynamic range to capture a recoverable amount of information about stars against a bright sky? Beyond that, the original commenter takes about oversampling, but oversampling of what exactly? Intuition says that even with a high resolution sensor (like a modern iPhone) the visual size of a star would still be less than a single pixel. If my intuition there is correct, aren’t we spatially under sampling? The shutter is open for some period of time, so I guess you could say we’re temporally oversampling, but then we’re applying the same gain both to the stars and the sky, so that doesn’t seem to helpful. I feel like taking a high pass filter of a daylight sky would leave you with next to nothing save some of the sensor’s inherent noise. Are you discussing exquisite sensors or optics here? Genuinely curious.
I tried some basic google searches on the matter of recovering stats in daytime images but didn’t get much back.