skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My dad, who was an executive at a large non-tech company, used to get restaurant recommendations by calling the restaurant critic at the city's newspaper. Different times in a much less scalable world.
haha, the same thing happened with my 10 year old nephew

I was watching live TV, and he just randomly started screaming at me

I was like "Why the hell are you screaming, kid?" and it turned out it was because the TV was so loud and obnoxious

Turned out he managed to go 10 years without watching ad-infested live TV!
The way how talking with it feels trippy (particularly if you get a good run on e.g. co-writing a story), you may be on to something.
"I'm guessing they're using some sort of bitcoin lighting network for such cheap and fast transactions"

As I know, some crypto infrastructures, offer services, so anybody could use them, to create their quasi-own blockchains.

For example, Ethereum offer such service.

But they are not free, but cheap enough for NFT's or for p2p games.

For about speed, Bitcoin last years implemented significant improvements, so their legendary slowness (15-30 minutes for transaction), is now history.
Same happen with Ethereum.
> Presume the existence of a compiler that can compile Zig.

I just mean that the original WASM blob needed a working Zig compiler to produce it. But you can just assume it fell from the heavens. Now that it exists, you no longer need a Zig compiler binary in order to build a Zig compiler.

One way to think of it is that this allows the automatic creation of "stage 1" compilers from Zig compiler source. "Stage 1" was Zig's term for the original written-in-C++ Zig compiler, but I'm just using it to mean "A Zig compiler that does not need Zig".

To give a concrete example - say you want to add a new keyword gofast that makes all your loops go twice as fast. The first step would be to implement that in the written-in-Zig Zig compiler, without using the gofast keyword in your source. Once that's done, you compile your compiler. Then you update your compiler source code to use the new gofast keyword and recompile it again. But now you have a problem - how is someone going to build the new compiler from source if their build of the Zig compiler doesn't already support gofast? They would have to check out the commit (that their existing compiler supports) which adds gofast support but doesn't use it. Build that, then update and build again.

So, the alternative to that is that you update the "stage1" compiler which does not depend on Zig. But no one wants to update a crusty old C++ codebase. So instead, someone who has a gofast-enabled compiler compiles that source code down to WASI, and then anyone can bootstrap from there following the procedure we already discussed.
I definitely plan to edit the remaining footage and put it on youtube.. I will try to find the time over the winter holidays. Editing takes me a ton of time.

My recommendation is, 1) get your instrument rating and fly IFR enough to get comfortable doing that, 2) get some aerobatic lessons, including some unusual attitude recoveries, in any aerobatic plane, even if it's a Cessna 152 Aerobat, and 3) get some hours in a fast, slippery plane that requires you to plan your descents from 30+ miles out; could be a Cirrus, a Columbia, a Mooney, a Lancair, or a Bonanza, etc. Retractable experience is a plus too (get 10-20 hours in a Piper Arrow or something). And be prepared to pay for it all!
I have no desire to promote privacy invasive measures, but like the comment that started the thread: we have to acknowledge the horrible epidemic of this abuse and that the measures proposed would have been effective against it. We should be mindful that detecting and, upon human review (can’t believe how much disinformation was spread on this front), reporting CSAM would have been a good thing if it was entirely side-effect free.

However, we (as a crowd) have decided that those side-effects would be even worse than CSA itself. And perhaps we were right, but it should weigh on our consciences as we were the utilitarianist arbiters that decided individual suffering was not significant enough, and we should not rest as if we’ve “won” because a big problem (to solve which Apple seemed even willing to put its reputation on the line) remains unsolved.
Also it’s becoming increasingly difficult legally avoid tax so people actually have to physically move to the tax havens instead of just sending their money there.
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"Does Weiss and/or Taibbi have unrestricted access to read users DMs right now?"

Now that would be interesting.
I think we moralize this too much. Apple doesn’t get credit for the app or the infrastructure or whatever. Their role in the transaction is their ownership of valuable digital real-estate that companies salivate over and their business is keeping that real-estate valuable. And boy do they charge a premium for it.

Nobody has to hawk their goods on iOS and if there wasn’t money in it nobody would. If Epic didn’t stand to make assloads of money they wouldn’t saber-rattle every few months or fight these legal battles. If anything the fact that everyone complains about their pricing but still publishes on iOS means they have the pricing exactly right.
FPSes are dead because Epic abandoned their remake of UT for the crapware that is Fortnite.
> There is no debate.

Sure there is. On average there are about 13000 bird strikes a year. What fraction of those result in a fatality? The FAA says a bit under 400 pilots die every year, however since 1990 there have been just 292 fatalities globally that can be attributed to wildlife strikes (and not all are birds).

That is a pretty clear repudiation of any claim that hitting a drone has a "high chance of being fatal."
Maybe ask why the fence is there before you try to rip it down.
dang, same here, planning to cancel the submission and resubmit
My comment explained why I think it is in a different ballpark of badness, maybe you could respond to that.
EVERY social network has a "secret" blacklist. Every. single. one.
I love "The Twitter Files" name, it's hilarious and totally keeping in character with the conspiratorial nature of those involved (sounds like The X Files, very mysterious and suspicious!).

The episodic format of this - alongside being forced into exclusive twitter threads when it would be much more easily understood as a longer article or series of paragraphs - also comes across as a pretty blatant and desperate attempt by Musk to make twitter "the #1 source of news"
Interesting article. Since the article focuses on Switzerland and I live there I have another angle to present that I find very interesting.

In our local region one problem is that the 'city' is heavily concreted. There's a distinct lack of green in many areas. In the summer and in particular this year, but other heatwaves as well, this becomes punishing in the city: concrete absorbs the heat during the day and radiates it at night, making the city even hotter.

See the sibling comment about whether the CO2 numbers make sense, but I also think with warming environs locally we're going to have to get a lot smarter about how we build to manage heat as well. There was a fascinating article on HN a while ago about the London Underground and the troubles they're having cooling it... The Swiss build a lot with concrete in their cities and there's going to be a corresponding difficulty of keeping them cool.
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Fascinating to see how the comment section is skewed only by the people who are invested enough in this melodrama to have come running to HN to discuss the thread. Will be interesting to see how it shakes out when the rest of the world wakes up.
Epic CEO wants government regulation to make it so he doesn’t have to pay for something he values just doesn’t have the same ring.
Right but they still need to know some code and talk programming language.

The "here is some shitty code that does the job, make it good and production-ready" requires far less communication and domain knowledge than them telling you how exactly it should work and you translating that into code
According to its own website, the great barrington declaration was signed by around 15,000 doctors.
I'm thinking that a demo of the app to a couple devs you know who have stuff in the app store might help gain some insight. They know the process and may have experience in what to look for.
Rammed Earth.

I'd long been part of the camp that says "on the whole, concrete's not that great of a material to build with, for a bunch of reasons, but it's also got some significant upsides."

Then, I stumbled backwards into this crazy building technique that solves _some_ problems really well.

It's this traditional building technique called "rammed earth".

It's updated a smidge for modernity, but it's basically the same today as how buildings were built 1000 years ago.

Mega beautiful, practical, interesting constraints and opportunities, anyone can build them, etc.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rammed_earth

Video from a skilled modern-day rammed earth structure builder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jijU-4A8jAk
What's neat is that its made-up words sound englishesque. "Aitically languagement" is wrong in very interesting ways. It's generating chains of rot13 letters that map to common English syllables that are only tangentially related to the letters it worked with.
I mean I'm still waiting for the impact of Tabnine/Copilot that people talked about last year. I'm in the camp where a charitable view is needed and AI will actually give us more power. You still need to know what is doing and be wary of any "overconfidence/hallucination". Let's say that it gets really good and now a senior developer could do the job of other 5-10 devs, God knows how; that 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.

Maybe I'm not seeing the leopard that will eventually eat my face, but in the worst case scenario, I don't think it's happening quite that fast, and if it is, it's probably more boring than we are imagining, unseen consequences and all. It's just that hard to predict the future.
It always amazes me being reminded that the majority (vast majority? _overwhelming_ majority?) of Internet users do not have ad-blocking. Bless their hearts for subsidizing so many sites for those of us who prefer not to live in a real-life manifestation of Idiocracy.
Well I’ve loved the Fallout series and Skyrim, and paid for them several times, but now that MS has bought Bethesda, TES VI will not be n Playstation. I presume this means the next Fallout too. I’ve been Microsoft free (personally) for several years, and I’m not building a PC again just to play these games. I hate this kind of thing, even when it works in my favor (Horizon), and I don’t want this sort of crap to continue to proliferate.
> Is this information new (as of #27)?

yes, it seems like twitter employees lied when asked directly about shadow banning and other issues.
This appears to be the original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfz7eFSX_FU and a heck of a lot clearer.
I'd prefer that governments invested directly in carbon sequestration, and climate change mitigation if necessary, as well as sensible nuclear and renewable energy. Carbon tax is artificial, unsustainable, bureaucratic, and ripe for gaming. Accepting that CO2 production is for now a shared burden of modern life and working to mitigate it, rather than setting up some wealth distribution scheme, is more realistic, and more likely to succeed imo.

I think it's an important debate to have though
Northrop Grumman announced in September that they would unveil the B-21 at Palmdale this week [0]. The location was not a secret.

0. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/09/20/251965...
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I mean, this is probably how things should be done.

Having the specialists of each field appropriately resourced, focused and aligned streamlines everyone’s life. The problem comes in that most places either get the scientists to pull double duty and we end up in the scenario scientists are pushing messy, subpar code out the door that nobody else wants to touch because they’re unsupported and operating out of their depth, and devs don’t want to touch it because they’re not keen to fix someone else’s hacky code and because they probably have other priorities and the science stuff likely isn’t well integrated into the rest of the other code-delivery and monitoring systems.
"Ad serving has now been restored for the affected users."

https://i.imgur.com/rnRiF6Z.png
That's likely because .win has a terrible reputation due to the number of shitty websites on that TLD. I would personally prefer to spend a few $ more to avoid creating an unnecessary negative impression.
>> (Not in Silicon Valley, but...) I have never regretted sacrificing work for life.

That sounds like you're striking a balance. Obviously, if you "sacrifice" work too much, eventually you won't be able to afford your life, either because you'll be fired or your lax employer will suffer and not be able to pay.

Sometimes it takes a while to manifest.
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This happened to me once, and it ended up taking about 6 weeks before they back got to me. It was a similar “just wait” response the whole time until then.

It turned out to be a very simple change they wanted, but because of the nature of the change I think it’s something they needed to consult their legal team for.

So if they are not giving you any info, but you are able to make an educated guess about what change they might want, you can reject the binary and re-submit. Otherwise you probably will just have to wait.
Making dairy identical protein using precise-fermentation (2021)
Apparently you can buy their stuff. Myprotein has been selling their whey protein for a while now.

https://us.myprotein.com/sports-nutrition/whey-forward/13625...
You can easily skip over and not click on an article, not so with fluff content in a video.

There's a reason people are using add-ons that let you skip that kind of garbage in Youtube videos.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/

> SponsorBlock lets you skip over ... annoying parts of YouTube videos.
The 2020 article that you linked only mentions an internal tool that was used to change email addresses, it does not mention visibility filtering at all, which I believe is the new thing here.
Yeah; it really is an insightful post (as are the sibling comments here). I kind of want to have people write a response to that essay in lieu of whiteboard coding now.

Anyway, at all jobs (so far) I've deeply cared about the quality of our product and the company bottom line, which explains why I'm invariably miserable at big company jobs.

I can actually think back to explicit feedback when I was passed up for a promotion that boiled down to "improve brown nosing skills, even if it puts the core business at risk".

The core business at that particular former employer is imploding; I'm long gone, as are 90% of the people I'd like to work with again (many left for similar reasons).

Anyway, there were lots of forehead slapping moments for me while I read that post.

Having said that, the main insight was the central thesis of Office Space. Same shit, different horse, I guess.
Engineers Push Probabilistic Computers Closer to Reality
Silverblue is great, my only regret in my own install was not adding more storage. I could just be making this up, but it seemed like flatpaks were taking more storage than an install of the same apps from repositories.

That being said, flatseal is amazing, and I wish I could use it for everything. If this is the first time you're hearing about flatseal, check it out! It's a dashboard or control-center for each app you've installed via flatpak, and it features granular control as far as what facilities and resources that specific program can access on your machine.
> What technology is better at being money than bitcoin? Paper dollar?

Pretty much anything? (including cowrie shells and gold) Bitcoin has a lot of hype about being "money," but it's rarely used as such.
Could it because many people are evaluating the community version of the database? The enterprise/Aura (cloud) is definitely designed to be more scalable
But look at the trend post-Covid. It's basically reversing itself. San Francisco is going be completely screwed by the exodus of workers who live in the city and commuters.

It's one big cycle, people moved to cities during WW2, then out to the suburbs during the 60's. Then back into cities in the 90's, now back out in the 2020's.
> That's talking about article submissions, not comments

Shadow moderation was implemented without doing any research. I agree it's about time more studies are done on all types of content and all platforms in order to assess whether or not this functionality furthers the platforms' goals.

> Couldn't read the PDF because the link is broken

Good call. Blog post summarizing [1] and pdf [2]

> Popular where? In corporate and niche business use cases? What are some public Discourses that allow everyone to post?

All of them that don't use the ShadowBan add-on, I guess.

Indeed shadow moderation appears to have made platforms more popular. I won't disagree there. But I also think it's clear it has contributed to echo chambers and increased isolation and tribality.

I think we're reaching a point where the public wants to know what's going on in social media. Its harmful nature is not just driven by preference-driven news feeds, which we already know can be toxic, it's also driven by shadow moderation. That's the other shoe that may be dropping here.

[1] https://medium.com/acm-cscw/does-transparency-in-moderation-...

[2] https://shagunjhaver.com/research/articles/jhaver-2019-trans...
> And as much as a reader might think it highlights dysfunction at Google, the continued growth and success of Waze within Google argues otherwise.

Some of the most dysfunctional work environments I've worked in followed periods of great business success. The marketplace success can obscure a slow descent into workplace dysfunction. When the profits are rolling in, it's easy to have large swaths of dysfunctional managers and teams blend in, and nobody is looking too hard. It's when the profits come back to earth that the teams are forced to excise the dysfunction or face failure.
> the same high chance hitting a bird has.

It's unclear whether it's the same chance hitting a bird has. You assert it is.

As to a high chance of fatality from bird strike: no. There's >10k bird strikes per year in the US and most years there isn't a single bird strike related fatal accident. Estimates of death are on the order of 1 death related to bird strike per billion flight hours.

Even if drones are the same risk per collision, drones are much rarer near runways than birds.

There's no such thing in the world as zero risk, but if drones are a small fraction of a risk that's less than 1 death per billion flight hours, I'd say that we have bigger fish to fry.
Tinnitus seems like a solved issue for me.

Even a small amount of dirt cheap taurine supplementation completely cures it https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2997922/. It also cures my anxiety and eye floaters. I wonder what's going on biochemically for it to have such a strong effect on me, or perhaps what nutrient is rate-limiting my endogenous taurine creation, but I'm happy enough having discovered a cure.
You say there is no authority, yet you keep appealing to it. Who cares what is in vogue in philosophy? Just respond with an argument.
No, it doesn't need to be open. If you send me a note at chris at life360.com I'll investigate why it isn't working. I'm curious myself and we only recently completed our acquisition of the company.
What's the difference? You already pay the ads on top of every product you buy making everything you buy more expensive, it's already a tax.

The only difference I see is all the money on salaries and expenses related to ads is 100% a pure economic loss in the ad model.

(Of course I'm only talking about the economics here, there's a lot of other bad side-effects of ads not covered here)
I mean, that's not news, is it? Virtually every social network does that (even HN shadow bans people). (Not saying it's right, only unsurprising.)
I just can’t understand he notion that we have to allow this consolidation, and the consequences that will come with it (like the Starfield and TES VI exclusives), because third place isn’t good enough for Microsoft to push their weight around.
Why did you stop using it? It is superior
All platforms secretly action content, not just Twitter. See my other comment listing some:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33916414
The images included have "Trends Blacklist" and "Search Blacklist" tags on accounts which seem to be the 'smoking gun' for Bari Weiss
Yeah, totally fair. I mean it's relatively hard for me to conclude otherwise, but stuff is super complex, you never know. If not anything else, after all you can do link time optimization on the actual whole program, including its libraries. But whether that offsets it...

I thought about whether there was some quick evidence already, but nothing comes to mind (maybe someone's less blind to it than me now).

Maybe you could take some self-building Linux distribution like Gentoo, and hack it such that it links everything statically? Compare that against an equivalent unhacked Gentoo-installation by doing a few tasks, measuring wall clock for a good first estimate?

No idea how hard that would be in practice, especially with people mentioning that glibc does not really support that. So maybe it's actually easier with one of the BSDs, e.g. OpenBSD, which is also feasible to build completely from source because it is very self-contained, depending on how that stomachs static linking for everything.

I'd also not do it in a VM. While that's not necessarily completely invalid, it does seem to skew things pretty significantly, what with at least one whole other OS running as the hypervisor and all that.
Unfortunately, that idea is never evenly applied.
Learning it right now.
> Almost always, classifiers are tricked. We are as well... but only at first glance. Afterward, it is evident that these are innocent images.

I recommend reading to the end and pondering the reveal of the mystery of The Lamp.

This is the closest I've ever seen to an image whose NSFW status flips back and forth purely depending on your "System 2" knowledge.

It also highlights we're really tackling automated NSFW detection by going after a proxy, not the real thing - the algorithms try to recognize what is depicted on a given image, whereas the true question to ask is, is that image triggering emotions we don't want our audience to experience (arousal, for porn, but others - like disgust - for different types of NSFW).

But then, I realize, perhaps it's for the better, because if someone builds an image classifier that detects induced emotions, the ad industry will use it to finally destroy everything that's good in life.
Problem is that there is a reason shadow bans exist.

It prevents nefarious actors from easily probing the limits of their content moderation processes.

It really is funny how Musk is just taking Twitter back to the start.
If you defined "that" in "every social network does that" for HN and the other major social media sites, you'd realize just how different the definitions are. The differences matter.
When Musk announced his new policy towards moderation (speech, not reach), I pointed out it sounded no different in practice than "shadow banning", which was already something that certain segments of people considered censorship.

The reaction to this drop, which just describes how any moderation system at scale works/would need to work, is a nice confirmation of that belief.

"They have a secret blacklist!!"

It's a database.

They have a database.
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