skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People read the letter and think they have more power than they do
After some more testing, you can even enter base64 encoded text directly as an input and if you do, it usually base64 encodes its response.

V2h5IGRpZCB0aGUgY2hpY2tlbiBjcm9zcyB0aGUgcm9hZD8=

SXQgaXMgbm90IGNsZWFyIHdoYXQgeW91IGFyZSBhc2tpbmcgYWJvdXQsIGNvdWxkIHlvdSBwbGVhc2UgcmVnaXN0ZXIgdGhlIHF1ZXN0aW9uIGluIGEgbW9yZSBjbGVhciBhbmQgZGlzY3Vzc2libGUgd2F5PyBJIGNhbiBoZWxwIHlvdSB3aXRoIGFueSBxdWVzdGlvbnMgeW91IG1pZ2h0IGhhdmUgYWJvdXQgY2hpa2Vucywgcm9hZHMgb3Igb3RoZXIgc3VjaCB0aGluZ3MuIEp1c3QgbGV0IG1lIGtub3cgd2hhdCB5b3UgbmVlZCBhZ2FpbnN0YW5jZSB3aXRoLg==

Decoded:

Why did the chicken cross the road?

It is not clear what you are asking about, could you please register the question in a more clear and discussible way? I can help you with any questions you might have about chikens, roads or other such things. Just let me know what you need againstance with.
Introducing passkeys in Chrome
It's a reasonable title, but it downplays the significance of the issue that the original title conveyed.
As a US citizen with access to US banks, I guess I don't care if the money is crisp or not. Maybe there is an arbitrage opportunity there ...
The link is broken.

The correct link is at https://alexanderfletcher.dev/blog/the-cost-of-doing-it-your...
> For those flagging, this conversation is worth having. Whether platforms secretly demote people's content is important to them.

It is an important topic but the Twitter thread linked is not a particularly useful resource. For one, none of this is new information:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgxd3d/twitter-insider-acces...

That it’s being brought out now with such fanfare smells like corporate propaganda.
I don't like this trend of piling up unrelated green house gas contributions, particularly for a relatively small (8%) of the total of anthropogenic climate emissions.

For example, of that 8% figure 40% is fuel used to heat the kilns which make cement - i.e. a substituteable energy usage not unique to the cement industry. 10% is the fuel used to mine and transport the raw materials (also substituteable and not unique to the industry).

About 50% of emissions overall are from the actual calcination reaction of limestone[1], but plugged into that number it would then be that 4% of global emissions are from a non-replaceable operation in making cement.

That itself is also a bit a misnomer of course - aging concrete structures re-absorb CO2, up to about 40+% of that released during their manufacture over their lifetime.[2]

This is certainly not a process we couldn't manage by CO2 scrubbing or sequestration activities during the manufacture of cement, or you know, probably could offset with forestation projects.

All the rest of contributions are not cement industry problems, they're technology problems which if solved would change things positively for every industry (i.e. electric/microwave kilns, electric mining and transport vehicles).

[1] https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-why-cement-emissions-matter-f...

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2016-11-22/concrete-is-a...
Tokyo aims to be 'most startup-friendly' city with new support for firms
This outrage is hilarious coz HN shadowbans people too. Which increases site quality which is why all the complainers are on here.
“Ads down worldwide” was and is not accurate. The currently disclosed scope of this issue is Ad manager clients, which tend to be large publishers with significant direct ad sales.

Google search is still showing me ads.
gMaps has really bad direction detection imo, Waze is fantastic. Every time I use gMaps it gets very confused about where I’m facing and will randomly assume I’m turning left or right, I’ve seen this happen on both iOS and android, Samsung, LG, and Pixel, since gMaps started having turn by turn directions. Idk what gMaps is doing wrong but it’s really annoying.
The ByT5 paper shows significantly better resiliency to typos and noise in internet scale benchmarks, as well as better reasoning capabilities with tasks like punctuation and spacing correction: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.13626.pdf

The analogy doesn’t hold because while you might not parse specific characters by default, you are trained on the character level and you can switch to that parsing mode. This simply is not possible for LLMs without hacks like inserting spaces, which then suffers from poor performance due to this being rare in pretraining.

The reason byte level models aren’t as popular is because inference speed is significantly slower for a given completion length, and training for the same context window in characters is significantly more expensive

I say this as someone who’s deployed ByT5 vs normal T5 in prod, having found this to be true in real world use cases. No reasonable amount of fine tuning can save GPT from performing poorly on a space insertion task (“WHOLEFDSMKT” -> “Whole Foods Market”), while ByT5 just works.
The "architects" I've known also had a habit of giving you their grand perfect plan in a meeting that lasts no more than an hour or so, disappearing for the next 6 months without communicating with the people building the thing at all, and then being surprised when the final codebase looks nothing like the perfect system they'd designed in their head.

Architects have to be involved in building the thing they're architecting.

(It feels like the blueprint analogy fits here - actual building architects write blueprints, and then builders go off and build the house based on those blueprints. The code we write is effectively the blueprint, not the house. So what the hell are our architects making?

We need to treat software "architects" more like building site foremen than actual architects)
Back up as of 10:29PM ET.
Why did I just read a 17-yo post about XP & DOS incompatibility; on a newsgroup archive that seems curated to alt-right viewership?

https://reactos.org/ implements Windows roughly akin to 2003; dunno if that would be able to re-create this issue, but might be worth trying?
It is, and none of this is new information, given this article from 2020:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgxd3d/twitter-insider-acces...

A more pressing question, IMO: one of the screenshots shows a “direct messages” button. Does Weiss and/or Taibbi have unrestricted access to read users DMs right now?
Are these the same architects who have inflicted a shitscape of low priced high rent cookie cutter 1+5 block projects on us? If so, then why should we care what they think?
Company of heroes is alive and well, is getting version 3 and does not give you a degenerative clicking disease
Don't mistake critical acclaim for sales volume and scale. The balance sheet doesn't care about how unique and good a game is.

Sony's first party game studio segment of their business is not bigger than Activision-Blizzard.

Looking at Q4 2021, around 20% of Sony's game unit sales were first party titles. It seems to vary between 10-20% depending on the quarter.

Total game sales accounted for $2.5 billion in revenue, so we can assume that about $500 million of that revenue is from Sony's own published titles.

We could be generous and assume that Sony games on average sell for higher than the typical game, you could bump that number up to something like $700 million.

Now let's look at Activision-Blizzard: In Q4 of 2021, their revenue was $2.1 billion, so they're bringing in up to 4x more revenue from game sales than Sony's revenue from their self-published titles.

Call of Duty alone brought in in $1 billion of revenue for 2021, so the Call of Duty business is about half the size of Sony's entire game development business.

Sony's game sales including the cut they take from third party developers on their platform barely exceeds Activision-Blizzard's revenue.

[1] https://gameworldobserver.com/2022/11/01/playstation-profit-...

[2] https://investor.activision.com/news-releases/news-release-d...
> trust is broken when users copy and paste information into answers without validating that the answer ... is correct

I'm 100% behind this policy, but I do chuckle a bit at the irony of SO explaining why copy/paste is unacceptable
FTC to Block Microsoft-Activision Merger
Ask HN: My iOS app got stuck in review for a month. What should I do?
Basically the title. Last month, I submitted an app to the App Store for review, and it's been stuck in review for over a month now. Any attempt to contact apple is met with "just wait" response. It's starting to feel like my app is stuck in limbo

I've searched the internet, and it seems like many people are experiencing the same problem. Any advice on how to get my app approved and out of review?

Thanks in advance!
Rule are here: https://www.faa.gov/uas/recreational_flyers

> Give way to and do not interfere with other aircraft.

> Fly at or below FAA-authorized altitudes in controlled airspace (Class B, C, D, and surface Class E designated for an airport) only with prior FAA authorization by using LAANC or DroneZone.

> Flying drones in restricted airspace is not allowed. Drone pilots should always check for airspace restrictions prior to flight on our B4UFLY app or the UAS Facility Maps webpage.

Beyond needing to abide by the file mile rule, this airspace would have had an active TFR.
> 1) The author is arguing against skeptics who are "infinitely hostile" to crypto because it consists of "100% scams". I don't think many skeptics believe crypto is 100% scams. Most skeptics would say that the use cases are overstated and the incentives to pump-and-dump are so high that an unacceptable rate of scams was inevitable. If you're going to write an article to refute skeptics, refute the actual argument.

The more aggressive skeptical argument is that cryptocurrencies can be looked at as a banking system with no government backstop at all, which are vulnerable to a systemic bank panic and run the system -- creating contagion effects that will ultimately knock down all the dominoes. Financial systems are all vulnerable to the fact that they are not stable systems and so they all need circuit breakers and need automatic measures in place to backstop the system in the event of a panic (critics of the argument that I'm making will point out that doesn't produce any certainty of stability, but they miss the point that those measures do make the system more stable). Without those, they'll definitely hit a systemic panic and will unravel sooner rather than later.
Still sour that GTA V never received the single player story DLC.
> none of this is new information

It is news to many when social media takes action against content without telling the author: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33916519
I've spent hundreds of hours of my life contributing to Wikipedia pages and may spend hundreds more on open source projects. Capitalism has made us label any not immediately self-serving as illogical. We are not homo economicus
1. Spend time with my son.

2. Fix habits

list(itertools.product(['eat', 'exercise', 'sleep'],['well', 'on-time']))

3. Interview for golang jobs
There is this concept of supporting people you like without them having to charge people. The more you can read upfront, the more you can make an impartial judgement if you actually like them. A lot of people subconsciously convince themselves that they like something just because they spent money on it. If I like a project or open source software that I use then I go support the developers. A lot of other types of arrangements are basically signing a contract waiving your rights before you've even had a chance to form an opinion.
I'm not sure where to divide the line. All Google properties still have ads on them, but despite using a vanilla Chrome I cannot get ads* outside of Google, so it is indeed larger than just large sites.

* Okay, I can get Taboola and Outbrain ads, is this counted for this discussion?

Edit: "Ad serving has now been restored for the affected users." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33917305)
> most can and do offer their services on websites as well. Those websites aren’t relying on infrastructure and SDKs paid for by Apple.

Isn't that true for fortnite too? I bet 90% of the code and infra involved in an in-game Fortnite purchase belongs to Epic and is common to all the different platforms they support.
Check my profile and send me an email.
Yeah, but when did he know it?

(god i hope you get this joke)
Love and Death in the Cape Fear Serpentarium (2017)
> ...use as little of it as possible, to avoid adding thickness.

You might be interested in watching this: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUWVVTY63hc> and maybe also this: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWu2tcm4wL8>. Do note that the videos contain graphs which summarize the findings.
Doesn't immediately solve the problem of all the SEO spam that exists out there. But in the long term it could. I guess that's what it'd take to make google search good again. For google to die...
Exactly.

It's time for the next Stallman to emerge.
Language models don’t work unless you “censor” them like OpenAI does with reinforcement learning. You get the opposite result - it starts writing erotica as soon as it sees a woman’s name.
Like having unprotected sex.
Nobody with savings should use a regular bank. Keep all your money in an investment brokerage as they have the same service but you can use savings to buy short term t bills that pay 4%
It was a mod edit.

Google is soft-balling the impact of this, and I think the watered down title doesn't do it justice. Google's ad server is behind nearly 90% of all ads served outside of the walled gardens, and the ad server has been down now for 3 hours.

But because the ad server is a part of GAM, and their UI and reporting are still up, they can call it a partial outage.
1. Compile the new compiler with the old compiler

2. Compile the new compiler with the result of (1)

3. Compile the new compiler with the result of (2)

4. Verify that (2) and (3) produce identical results
The patch was put on the Player Test Realm (PTR), which is almost like an open beta. I wouldn't say that it was "released", more like pushed to staging or open beta.
In relation to Blender as Python module, while both docs[1] I've seen mention that you have to build it yourself it does seem this may not actually necessary?

AFAICT it is available as a pre-built wheel via pypi:

https://pypi.org/project/bpy/#files

I haven't actually tested this but given the wheels are a few hundred megabytes in size, it seems consistent with the possibility. (Guessing the docs might just need to be updated.)

[1] https://docs.blender.org/api/3.4/info_advanced_blender_as_bp...
[2] https://wiki.blender.org/w/index.php?title=Building_Blender/...
It’s also not new news that Twitter did this. Elon recently pledged to do exactly this!
Given the amount of drunk drivers i see on the road in LA now i don’t know if they enforce that, let alone the speed limit.
I experimented a lot with different sleep gadgets. Weighted blankets felt suffocating, especially in Summer. What really worked at the end is just 2 large pillows (20x40in) that I put on either side of me under the blanket. The most satisfying and cozy experience, improved my sleep quality.
Short term t bills are better in your brokerage
No. I don't assume I have any rights other than vis-a-vis the government. I've dealt with a lot of corporate bullshit from tech companies, it's an annoyance but I just handle it and don't make a career out of whining about it as some do.

I've been arrested and kept in jail overnight on false charges for being a political activist, people complaining about being in Twitter or facebook jail don't impress me much (especially when almost all of them have a backup account).
In the case of Avatar, it was a bit of both. Most episodes did have a satisfying conclusion, but it was nothing like the Simpsons or X-files. The show was a serial and it had a story arc that played out over three seasons with each season having a theme. It had been planned out that way very early.

I love shows like that where the creator has a beginning, middle, and ending in mind from that start and so it can't just be stretched out forever until they've run out of ideas or the audience gets bored and ratings drop off. It's just better storytelling to have a compete story. In TV animation that sort of storytelling isn't as common here as it is in anime which helped Avatar stand out, especially compared to what other shows were airing on the channel at the time
Not to be that guy, but the most efficient solution to this is a carbon tax. Once there is a carbon tax the market will be incentivized to pick the most environmental solution (keeping in mind we can pull this carbon back out of the air if we really need to). It would make a huge economic incentive to invent low-carbon concrete, for example.
What an appalling bit of pro-israel propaganda.

All this talk about how Israel's intelligence agencies were turned to the task of Palestinian terrorism without a single mention of why these palestinians, an occupied people on their own land, might resort to force.

Then there's the almost gloating tone they took to the planned murder of a 12 year old boy, justified by "jewish blood will not be spilled with impunity"

I wonder if the author will take the same attitude when Palestinians assasinate an Israeli soldier in retaliation for the countless airstrikes and starvation campaigns conducted against the palestinian bantustans.
It's more like 10 or 15 games before your MMR is pretty accurate.
Transparently removing content is the normal way to moderate a forum. This research [1] suggests it reduces mod workload because users learn the rules. Discourse doesn't secretly remove content and is popular.

It isn't accurate to say secrecy increases site quality. No such qualitative study has been done.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/duwdco/should_mode...
I use to get that issue a few years ago. Drove me up the wall.
>The main problem is that it's a 12 year-old game, that's been largely abandoned by the developer

my brother in Christ, you got it backwards - being abandoned is the biggest blessing an old Blizzard game can receive.
Has Ben Thompson ever taken a position for government intervention in any situation ever?

In general I find his articles take the perspective of those running large corporations, not the perspective of public interest.
Good explanation! Wish I knew Rust (which I do often), now, instead of just Haskell, heheh.

For anyone curious what "currying" actually is (I must say that I, for quite some time, made the mistake of thinking that taking a function that takes n arguments and getting a function that takes n-1 arguments (with one fixed) is "currying", which is not technically true, it's just a good thing you can do after currying):

Currying is the act of taking a function that takes n arguments (or an n-tuple), and returning a new function with only one argument. But that function effectively wraps another function, and this repeats n times. So, you take e.g. this function:

f(x,y,z)

and currying makes this function:

g(z)

You see it only has one argument. But when you call that function with its only argument, the result is actually another function:

h(y)

There's our second argument. Call that and you get:

i(x)

And now you can call that with the first argument, and get the result.

So after currying a function, you can just apply the last argument, and effectively get back a function with the last argument "fixed". Without that, you effectively have to use a lambda to fix the argument. (Or a combinator that does it for you.)

Though you will need some sort of lambda or combinator anyway, if it's not the last argument you want to fix, but some other one. Then you have to create functions with stuff flipped around... Functions in Haskell usually take care that the last argument is the one where you'd most often want to fix it to a value.
Indeed he did suggest "free speech doesn't equal free reach".

If we're now saying that statement is bad then we should hold his feet to the fire. Conflicting statements doesn't mean there is no principle to espouse; it just means there are conflicting statements.
Wasm is an opportunity for all platforms to adopt a single container format for architecture-independent binary code, and with uniforms APIs being defined on top of that; they are already standardizing a subset of POSIX. None of the bits here are really new, but the big difference this time is that it's not owned by any one of the major players (like e.g. Java and .NET were), and the design process is truly collaborative across the entire industry. This makes it politically viable.
> .win domain

lol, you had me going for a moment there.
Fired Twitter cleaning staff 'treated like garbage'
That's how it was in the 90s... please look at real estate date today :)

Cities generate the tax base and subsidize the rest. This is shown in every case. It's not good or bad, just a reality of how density works.
Sorry I missed your comment when I last visited.

An often glossed over reason being vaccinated and why it mattered, was so that when a person was infected, apart from the hope the infection wasn't as severe but the virus had less time to undergo a recombination with other viral segments which could lead to a new more dangerous strain. Ultimately to a few people, days, or even hours might not account for very much, but the sum of hours is quite significant, for thousands or millions of people.

Unfortunately the slow roll out of vaccines and various govts resisting locking down, meant that new more dangerous strains were an inevitability.

From what I recall, it was the arrival of Delta where, even if vaccinated, the accumulation of infective covid virus in the nasal passages was about the same. Don't quote me though it's well over a year since I was reading such material regularly. However the time the virus had to play in a host human body was still less than the typical unvaccinated person. That's why a lot of "seemingly pointless" incentives were put in place by various govts around the world, those who could get vaccinated, would be moved to do so. Sadly people who could not on medical grounds often did get caught up in the details.

People who still wear n95 masks clearly don't want to get the virus, it's not a mental condition. They're most likely around loved ones who are vulnerable.
Share Your Work
That tweet is referencing this[0] blog post.

> We do not shadow ban. You are always able to see the tweets from accounts you follow (although you may have to do more work to find them, like go directly to their profile). And we certainly don’t shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology.

It specifically mentions factoring in user behavior:

>What actions you take on Twitter (e.g. who you follow, who you retweet, etc)

> How other accounts interact with you (e.g. who mutes you, who follows you, who retweets you, who blocks you, etc)

How was Twitter hiding this?

[0]: https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/...
Couldn't you just do that with pip?
Are some of these labs under layoff pressure?
I've got your first day downloaded on my Plex and I've watched that video so many times in the last few months! Thank you so much for making it! Are you planning on putting the other days up? I remember you mentioned somewhere else that you have 5TB of video left to edit.

That definitely makes me feel better. I've gone into pilot training with a lot of fear and it's always come out "omg this feels like home" so I'm hopeful once I'm in the L39 it will be a similar experience :)

What other airplanes should I practice in for the 1000 hours authorization after getting my PPL in the 172? Once I get it I'll join PlusOne Flyers here in SD so I should have a diverse set of planes to practice with.

Edit: I have my email in the profile if there’s any way you could share the video. I’d love to see all the content from the ground school portions especially