skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Advocating for better safety is spam, mmmkay. <takes notes>
They still are good products. If you stick your fingers in you ears and forget about the bad bits. It's like living in a garden shed which has been painted nicely inside. You can live a happy existence with a bit of ignorance.

So I'm miserable.
Automated planning for robotics and AI with Julia
> So yes, the affordances are asymmetric, because the relationship between these groups and the institution is not the same. One is a paying customer, the other is an employee.

I find this explanation unconvincing. If we take you at your word, then your institution would follow the preferences of the students even if they went in the other direction. Suppose the next cohort of students was against this pronoun protocol: not only do they eschew pronouns, they prefer for nobody else to specify them either, and they vote accordingly with their feet. Are you saying that you and your department would be prepared to reverse course on this issue and ask any faculty (including trans faculty, if there were any) not to specify their pronouns anywhere? Or even to reject faculty applicants who specify their pronouns during the interview process, for being too "political"? I doubt that the morals of the faculty are truly this flexible, nor should they be.

Market forces are real and I have no doubt that a loud contingent of students demand the practices you are describing. It is undoubtedly a difficult position to be in, and it is one I do not envy. But there must be a limit to how far customer focus can or should go. What if all of the students demand to get As? What if they demand that a math professor teach 2+2=5 or that a biology professor teach that biological sex is not a concept that has any basis in reality? At some point the faculty need to stand up for what is right and what is true.

And if the faculty and staff are not willing to do this, then other market forces will come into play like the article that we are commenting on. Public universities take public funds and are therefore accountable to the public, while private universities depend on alumni and donors. All of these people are entitled to have an opinion about whether they want to support this kind of behavior. You see the press turning this into "political football" that is causing you grief, I see it as a much needed check on institutions who have abdicated their responsibility to resist illiberal trends within their walls.
Facebook, Instagram, Shopify, Fox have incidents right now.

Interesting how many here took early conclusions, especially many writing that it’s the fault of Elon.
The lightning network what? You can't just repeat something and magically expect it to work. It has been 8 years, what problem is it solving? Transactions still have to make it on the chain to count.

No other cryptocurrency has this problem. Why would be people try to go through convoluted nonsense to work around a problem that doesn't exist anywhere else?
C# has it as part of the language itself, with keyword for the type and a special literal syntax for it:

decimal n = 123.456m;
It's one of the mission of the CIA, spread propaganda, use influence to manipulate the press and journalists all over the world etc, back during the cold war

Using social media to achieve this mission is the natural evolution, as peoples usage to get information changes over time

It's very well documented, so seeing them at key roles isn't a surprise, and shouldn't be a surprise to anyone

They can't do it with TikTok, the app of choice of the youth and people all over the world

https://wikileaks.org/wiki/John_R._Stockwell

https://twitter.com/MichaelNo2War/status/1589793529823645696
What is 'TJ'?
I wish there could be black, white, yellow, red people. I wish skin color wasn't a slur.

The word is not the problem, the will to be offensive is. "Colored people" and "Fair skin" do sound problematic for me.
I don't use Phone, nor Maps, nor Youtube, nor Kubernetes, all the things you listed.

They're helpful to you, not me.
add "at scale" (= IoT edge devices)?
I use latest gen iPhone pro and haven’t considered an actual camera to record video.

I’m filming family events, do you find using an actual camera changes the dynamic of collecting memories? (For example the amount of additional attention the size of the device draws?)

Also, I shoot RAW photos on iPhone pro and am very happy with the results and editing capability.

The hardest time I have is making the time to properly edit the originals to something ready to share.

It seems like dealing with another transport method from a camera would add to the friction of a workflow. Do you find that to be the case? For example, does taking on an x-systems workflow mean a greater commitment to the process of producing a finished product?
>In addition, the effectiveness of Proton for running Windows games is baffling, and something I never could have expected when I first switched to Linux back in 2015.

Is it true that Windows games run better on Proton than on Windows?
The fact that this story has been allowed to live on HN's front page for so long has really knocked my confidence in the forum and its moderators. I thought HN had taken an enlightened stance on avoiding juicy topics like this since they clearly lead to lots of useless speculation and uncritical thinking. They are a net drain on community health. This story does not belong on HN. I think I can say that even if it turned out to be entirely true. It's been shown over and over again that civilized discussion about high stakes political topics is impossible. For every hard fact that deserves attention, a thousand hypotheticals are thrown up with misplaced confidence. The instinct to want to believe what you wish were true is just too high. And being witness to it makes you stupider, whether or not you participate. None of the behaviors I've seen on display in this thread indicate that this story is any different.
Ask HN: What are your favorite mobile games?
Yeah, I'm not sure why there's an issue. It's just a reminder that F-Droid still has to make subjective decisions.

There doesn't seem to be anything in the repository that would make me think the Terms of Service in the notice are attached to the license on the Source Code. Anyone who doesn't want it or wants to provide it to other people who don't want it could fork it and make a build without the notice, or with their own notice.
Does anything have core dumps enabled by default any more? I thought about that but it’s been years (decades?) since I encountered it unintentionally.
ChatGPT Jailbreak
CPedia was an attempted pivot by doomed search startup Cuil that would more or less build a Wikipedia-like page out of random text on the Web about whatever you searched for. This article describes it a bit. https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2010/06/09/cpedia-a-spam-blo...
Also "What do I hope the reader will get from what I post?"

But you have to then be honest about the answer to that. Especially if religious or political conversion is what you hope they get.
Try reading it instead of skimming
You mean "fast bullshit ads" ? I mean "meaningful search results". They're different.
Purposefully didn't focus on "whose fault it is". A long chain of bad decisions led to this situation. Twitter's board shares a fair amount of the blame too, for example. So does Jack Dorsey for not giving twitter much attention during his reign as CEO.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/26/technology/musk-twitter-d...

> The Delaware Chancery Court judge has given Mr. Musk until Friday to close his long-promised, $44 billion deal to acquire Twitter. If he doesn’t, Chancellor McCormick will preside over a trial in November that could end with Mr. Musk being forced to make good on the deal he made with Twitter in April.

Close enough.
Android: 2003
Chromebook: 2011

I feel like there have to be better examples.
Ask HN: Why isn't Java/Kotlin seen as a contender for cross-platform apps?
I don't code in any of these platforms, so I'm asking genuinely.

When this community talks about cross-platform desktop applications, they typically mean Electron, Tauri, or other similar web-based desktop apps. All of which are less than ideal for various reasons.

Java apps have been cross-platform since well before it was cool. I've heard a lot of positive things about Kotlin. It's also kinda-sorta native, I think? So why does it seem Java-based cross-platform apps are rarely mentioned in these discussions?

I know the negative aspects of the web-based desktop apps (bundle size, speed, etc). What are the negative aspects of a Java-based app?
Given how many people they've fired, the people with the most insight here are random people.
Google stopped being innovative the second their "20% Time" got gutted:

> Employees were encouraged to spend up to twenty-percent of their paid work time pursuing personal projects. The objective of the program was to inspire innovation in participating employees and ultimately increase company potential. For Google's part, Gmail and AdSense both arose out of side projects. In 2013, Google discontinued 20 percent time.

What has Google released since 2013[0]? Stadia?

Then you tack on that Google Search as of today is basically unusable/broken with people needing to append site:, double-quoting everything, or enabling verbatim search to get high quality results. Heck, on top of that, I also have a uBlock configuration that removes 280 domains from Google Results because they're all auto-generated spam of Stackoverflow answers.

There is something deeply wrong with the culture inside Google.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google#2012_onward
Yes. I fundamentally don't care how "good" Go telemetrics would be, because I don't want the FOSS ecosystem as a whole to take any more steps down that slippery slope. There will not be a way back from this.
Actually Youtube is not so bad.

Youtube Music is really .. strange.

It looks wrong/outdated everywhere.

Generated playlists (recomendations) are always (for days/weeks) the same. Not a bit randomization. It feels like they were approved by party commitete for years.

I don't understand why they decided social network in music service.

Ah hell. CUE-lists are still too novice technology for them.

I still think that last.fm 15 years ago was the best music service.
Something I find interesting are the parallels from current day billionaires to dictators and depots throughout history. I was recently listening to Behind the Bastard, where they spoke of Nicolae Ceaușescu [1]. Among the terrible things he did, he also constructed the largest civilian government building in the world, the Parliamentary Palace. It's sits at 30% capacity today; because it was built not to be used, but to fan his ego.

I remembered always being told growing up that capitalism was superior to communism because it intelligently allocated resources based on the market. But by giving a few people billions of dollars, we're seeing them do the same things communist dictatorships did; throwing money blindly into vanity projects. Like The Line [2], or Telosa [3]. I have to wonder if the modern billionaires are creating a similar instability in society, even if it is lessened by their not being the head of government.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Ceau%C8%99escu
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Line,_Saudi_Arabia
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telosa
> ‘Latinx’ has failed to gain buy-in from the people it’s supposed to empower.

The hubris... We have assigned a new name to some other group, whether they want it or not, in order to empower them. Why don't they feel empowered by us imposing a name on them?
Ad (a): because tech relies on energy and related delivery networks?
As someone who use Adobe profesionally, I cannot leave Windows.

It frustrate me.
Just a Rant: Moral Hazard for Good (TCP Tuning as an Example)
MORAL HAZARD FOR GOOD: I say this and people think I'm summoning flying monkeys with horns.

The simplified formula for the successful delivery rate of a SYN/ACK depending on the loss rate (assuming the loss is the same for send and receive) is:

n_syns * n_synacks * (loss^2)

With a loss rate of 0.5 (and delivery rate of 0.5) 2 SYNs are sent and 1 SYN is received and 2 SYN/ACKs are attempted and 1 gets through:

2 * 2 *0.25 == 1

The default on this Linux box is 5 SYNACK attempts for every SYN received:

# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_synack_retries

5

That's 5x amplification during a SYN reflection attack!

Like I've said elsewhere, I've set it as low as 2 in prod, and I would consider 1. (People looked at me like the flying monkeys were gonna arrive at any moment, but with a little whistling we got past the graveyard.) The attacker has a geometric advantage. Emotionally thinking that you're gonna increase your SYNACKs for good is a fool's errand that only hurts you and some anonymous victim: you have to /geometrically/ increase it to offset the attacker. Thinking this way is the usual outcome of moral hazard.

Moral hazard for good is embracing hostility and reducing SYNACK retries to something like 2... if not 1... and assuming that somebody who really wants to connect will selfishly up their initial SYN attempts correspondingly. So the sender is prepared to send up to 4 SYNs losing 2 to attrition (and if they send them all at once without backing off or waiting for responses then they're jackasses and should be dealt with accordingly), and the SYNACK sender sends 2 losing 1 to attrition and the result is the same. So sad for that client having to send 4 SYNs instead of 2, my heart is breaking at the cruelty of teh netz!

It's that simple: moral hazard can be a force for good and you owe teh netz nothing. There's no mathematical reason to spread the risk around; all it does in practice in the face of an adversary is to cause more damage and spread that around.

If there is a question lurking here, it's whether tcp_synack_retries is for each SYN successfully received or whether it's for the connection. If I find some free time maybe I'll set up a VM and use Scapy to fire some SYNs at it.
At the extreme end, being the only one that knows how some machine works, or how some code works. Or this guy: https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/nrnf...

At the less extreme end it's having a bunch of internal knowledge that isn't documented and is important to keeping things going. Or having business skills that whoever is in charge of hiring doesn't know how to hire for. Or knowing a programming language or framework that's fussy to learn and only 2% of your normal hiring pool knows.

Very different from just being fast.
Of course they are picky, because they have SLAs that say outages cost them money. This speaks to the need for independent monitoring/auditing to ensure that companies are being honest about the metrics that they provide. Right now, no one can hold them accountable for lying on their status pages, because every customer must make their own case that there even was an outage. Worse, there’s no truly independent party to make them accept such evidence, so you are ultimately dependent on them deciding to come clean.
The husband-and-wife forgers who fooled the art market – and made millions
That's just plainly false. Their private life was not affected by what JK Rowling has said. Rather, their political opinion differs and a choice to be offended was made. As political protest, the mod decides the best course of action was to violate subreddit rules and spoil a game for people (instead of, you know, offering a counter position to Rowling's views).
So you're thinking it could have been an inside job at the top? If that turns out to be what happened, I'll remember this comment as you calling it.
We know some power-users are paid to promote things by advertising agencies and other special interest groups. We know some PACs are active in trying to shape public opinion on Reddit. I wouldn't be surprised at all if some of the moderators, especially the "powermods", are earning a living based on payments by some of these groups.
Nope, he’s indicated in past Tweets that he’s at Google.
FWIW, that doesn't really even make sense. If you had direct knowledge only of the planning, then what's the source for the execution? I don't think anyone would be surprised that there was a plan for doing this. The US plans lots of stuff. Why did "planning" even appear in that sentence? Why not "a source with direct knowledge of the operation"?

Again, there's a huge weasel word right there in the only sourcing for the whole article. That just... yikes. Maybe it's a typo. Maybe it's something an editor could have cleaned up. But maybe it's also the sort of thing Hersh's editors simply threw out as unpublishable, which is why it's an uneditted substack blog.
Huh?

F# has Microsoft Research building it and its libraries and optimizing compilers, no?
How many resources does that use, however? I’m not sure anything but an embedded device would even notice any of these possibilities. The closest I could come is Ubuntu’s old crash reporter but I thought they hardened that a while back.
It wasn't just Twitter having problems https://downdetector.com/
This might be semantic quibbling, but although it never came to decision, everybody with any legal knowledge whatsoever knew that the decision would be in Twitter's favor, and I assume eventually Elon's lawyers got it across to him that he had no chance of winning the case. IMO it's likely that, rather than discovery, prompted the surrender - if I could avoid paying $44 billion for Twitter with a couple embarrassing text leaks, I'd take that deal. So in that sense I don't think it's inaccurate to say he was forced by the judge, albeit indirectly.
I blame it on the lack of downvote buttons. (*for most users)
Sunlight-activated “loofah hydrogel” excels at purifying water
And as any divorce lawyer can tell you the less the stakes are the more petty, vindictive, spiteful and hateful everyone involved gets.
Tell HN: Twitter DMs are not working
Email chathn@ycombinator.com to report DanGPT is having a trip.
In US, the push for it is not constrained to text comms, though. After all, if gendering is offensive in writing, why wouldn't the same be offensive in speech?

And if, say, we have something named "Latinx Community Center" or some such, at some point someone will have to figure out how to pronounce it, if only to ask people for directions.
"Nothing is true until it has officially been denied."
Text completion is what the underlying mechanism is called. This is from the "Get Started" docs for GPT-3, which is the underlying model for what is used to build ChatGPT (technically they've been calling the model GPT "3.5"): https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/completion/introduct...
I have to disagree. The very first line in https://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp is "verify information before releasing it." Disclosing that there is only one source is a first step, but an insufficient one. And the tone of the article, from the headline onward, reports not only that "a source said X" but presents "X" as factual. That's simply not a credible practice.
Only if you deploy a teleport node, no? AFAIK it's optional
How to Use Matrix
Why not be more explicit?

Turks call India "Hindi-stan".
Which in Turkish is "Turkey-the-bird-stan".
Including the Persian etymology would literally make it "Land of the Turkeys."
If Modi wanted to pick a fight with Turkey it would have made for an entertaining UN session.
In the private sector, I'd agree. But in the world of government services, where there's a legally-enforced monopoly, it's a very different story.
Looks like proprietary extrusion similar to 80/20 t-slot extrusion in function. You can get it in generics now (amazon / ali express) or from the likes of McMaster.

Going with McMaster prices for quad slot and by the inch puts the frame with hardware at around $500 by my estimate.

Probably another $100 for the top if your having to get material and do the laminate yourself.
> You don’t rise to the level of your talents/motivation/discipline, you fall to the level of your habits.

"The enemy's gate is /down/!" (downward) [1]

That is, orientate yourself such that where you want to go is as easy/automatic as falling.

[1] Ender's Game, and the Ender's Shadow sequence. Though, I wish the catchphrase had used "downward" rather than "down", as the latter is confusingly similar to "has fallen / is breached".

[Edit: s/r'r Shadow/r's Shadow]
First class. I would wager that most new .NET projects are primarily targetting Linux for deployment.
Yup, there are a lot of motives for many countries but there is no smoking gun or obvious candidate. Too many people potentially benefited from this.
> Do you agree that the burden of proof should be applied equally to all authors regardless of reputation?

No.

Especially in stories involving classified information it's very rare to get unequivocal proof at first. For better or worse leaks are how stories break, and the leakers are careful about how they do it so to avoid criminal charges.

Given this, all you have is the reputation of the person doing the reporting. Historically have they shown good judgement in discarding the crackpots and do many of their breaking stories from unnamed stories subsequently turn out to be true?

In this case I think Hersh's reputation isn't what it used to be. This century only one of his major claimed stories (the Abu Ghraib prison story - which I don't think he broke anyway?) has turned out to be true, while most (all?) of his other major claims have turned out to be either false or completely unverified after many years.
Not calculators, but I did some tests a few years ago, and I'm pretty sure the BCD instructions on modern processors are no longer implemented in hardware. They were no different than using an equivalent string of other opcodes.
> Then I use Bing and I remember just how good Google is.

I use a lot Ecosia (which gets results from Bing) due to them allegedly planting trees and being much more heavily into privacy.

My experience with Ecosia, thus Bing, is that for the overwhelming majority of searches (90% plus) the quality is comparable.

When you get into more niche searches Bing offers better results 1 out of 5 times and worse results 4 out of 5, with a worrying amount of those 4 being almost complete misses.

I still need to get onto Google occasionally when I don't find what I was looking for on Ecosia.
Does Wordle count? It’s simple but it had a ton of users so it might be the most popular.
It's also how we ended up ousting Nixon and his cronies.

That being said, Woodward and Bernstein didn't publish verbatim what Mark Felt (aka Deep Throat) told them; they used his tips as starting points to look for corroborating evidence, which they published to great accolade.

The WaPo and other mainstream media were also institutions of far more integrity at that time: their mission was to publish truth regardless of the implications, and they weren't under the kind of pressure the press is under today. Also, society
(and media outlet owners) trusted truth itself to result in societal good far more than they do today.
My direct messages have been down since noon eastern time. Then a couple of hours ago found I couldn't tweet.
This is a bug, CNBC reporters. There's no equivocating on that.

Once again, the valuable source of information turns out to be the FediVerse. People are reporting in the #TwitterDown hashtag that they are hitting a rate limit even having posted zero posts today. Some are even reporting the WWW site is out of service, in addition to the official Twitter app. That's clearly not intended.

Last week I observed that Japan was apparently being used as a testbed for future Twitter, when Japanese users reported losing free-of-charge Twitter API access immediately. It turned out to be a closer future than people thought when Movetodon lost its API access the next day.

I said then, about the API, "Don't worry. It will just abruptly stop working on you, on the 9th.". At pretty much 07:00 on 2023-02-09, Tokyo time, going by when the FediVerse reports started being posted, indeed Twitter did just abruptly stop working on people.

* https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/109831427555343871