skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't looked into the history personally, but heard once that the original term used (by outsiders, of course) was "Latin". But because it doesn't fit well into the gendered Spanish language, it was disliked by native speakers, who went on to organically derive Latino/Latina as replacements.

If true, that makes the English-speaking movement to replace Latino/Latina with Latinx doubly ridiculous.
Amusing you should say that given that the author is literally a 9/11 truther (truther light maybe, but still)[0]. Hersh has clearly become a gullible mark the past decade or so who lets otherwise justified skepticism of US policy curdle into useful idiocy.

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/seymour-hersh-...
Democracies have always survived by making their subjects invested and empowered in the future of their country. There's a limit to how far disinformation can go, and, frankly, the only thing people are trying to achieve with censorship is moving that line the wrong way.

The spread of wrong information has always been overwhelming. This is nothing new, nor is it (imho) more irritating now than is was 20 years ago. And if the history books are accurate on how bad it was 100 years ago ... This is not what's destroying democracies.
I am not here to defend twitter block however considering topic filled with political comments i want to fix some misunderstanding.
Twitter is used as alternative channel yet critical for organization of volunteers . They say their operation hit by 70%. However people first ask help from official channel than seek alternatives arriving twitter as first option.
Saying that people asking help under rubble from twitter is straight out political comment. Block happened like 65+ hours after earthquake. 95%+ of rescue operation runs over official channel.
At this point is not that important anymore but I have never seen single tweet that points out you should shut down your phone in area so people under rubble have better change of reception. Which is insane.
Volunteers going there complaining phone/internet not working properly not aware they are potentially blocking people under rubble from access to phone yet complaining about twitter ban.
I am not defending block nor underestimating damage to volunteer organization (about distribution of help) just attempting to balance against political comments.
By the way twitter block is lifted again.
I just randomly picked France, and it looks like their age of first smartphone is around 11-12[1] (as of 2018 study, so maybe even lower now). In the US it's 11.6 years[2]. So seems about the same. I don't feel like checking every other country but hopefully this disputes the claim that the US is somehow completely abnormal.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1076293/age-obtaining-fi...

[2] https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2022/11/children-mobi...
It's incredibly frustrating. They're often completely wrong.
Sounds like things are working as they should then? The agreement is in place to prevent people being fired without cause and in the improper way, so if management is trying to fire someone with cause but in the improper way, they get stopped.
Agreed. I wouldn't use ChatGPT for this because Google is faster and more reliable. I just thought the example was a bit odd since ChatGPT gets it right, and it's a type of question it generally gets right.
Since you're an expert, I'm sure you won't mind these corrections:

> IEEE 64 bit floats

That should be IEEE 64-bit floating-point. The name `float` is a 32-bit floating-point.

> are accurate to just past 15 decimal digits.

FOR SOME RANGE. They're called floating-point because they can modify how much scaling is devoted to either side of the decimal point. The more scale it has to devote to representing whole portion, the lower its precision in the fractional portion. At some point, a 64-bit floating-point value cannot represent any decimal digits. Past around 2^53, a `double` 64-bit floating-point value cannot even represent every whole number, because at that point the available precision is 2 or more.
Keybase Chat → Matrix

I'll miss coin flipping [0] dearly, though.

[0]: https://keybase.io/blog/cryptographic-coin-flipping
And there's a big difference between pseudonymous and an email address. The first permits anonymity which promotes free expression, while the second tends to inhibit, even if the email is not visible to other users. Enforced verification via email provides a heavy trackable target for those with access to these things. Real journalists know this well.

You can always start your own message board and control all users and comments yourself. That's the only way to try to ensure that you won't be annoyed, but even then some old friend can come along and mess up your day.
.NET 5+ (fka .NET Core) is cross-platform.

We've been developing on Windows and have been deploying exclusively to Linux since 2017, everything runs flawlessly. Only time where the deployed version was different was when the locale wasn't set in a Docker container.

Developing on macOS has an issue with running HTTPS/2 and gRPC endpoints which should be resolved in .NET 8 [1].

The notable part where .NET Core is lacking vs legacy Windows .NET Framework is graphics, i.e. System.Drawing and all Desktop GUIs, otherwise it's a first class cross-platform runtime.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/27727
You want to try and grant a lifetime tax break only to child-bearing women? Outlook not so good.
Get out of the FAANG bubble, at small company/startup level in EU I have not heard of any layoffs.
Well if you're using Adobe, then you don't care about telemetry or spyware, so it's not a problem.
+1 on this as well, been looking for something since VSCO Film sunsetted. Also open to any recommendations from other film simulation for photography too!
Presumably they have bolted on something that cites sources. This doesn't mean that the things ChatGPT says are true, just that you can check some sources that are plausibly relevant.
Same. Microsoft SAM was fun in high school.

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Even an ancient Mini-DV camera looks... better somehow despite the potato resolution. I think it's the optics, but I'm not sure.
Well it seems like a typical message for anti-DDoS rate-limiting, probably something incorrectly started attributing the clock or counter for ratelimiting.
2400 tweets

it has always been this way, afik. That is a lot of tweets. Who is going to tweet that often in a day?
20% being discontinued is not really accurate.
Too many bonuses and SLA contracts depend on the “status” for it to be a reliably self reported metric.

When I was in one of these positions, I negotiated bonuses to allow for some failures specifically to avoid this type of conflict of interest. I think it’s also mentioned in the seminal SRE book published by Google.
As far as I'm aware/recall, European privacy laws consider any connection back to a telemetry server to count as "collecting" IP addresses, since the telemetry server learns it (even if they pinky swear not to write it down.)
I'm not an arts & crafts guy, but in my businesses, I've noticed a few relevant things.

Pricing is particularly hard for people to do, especially people who aren't really into business. So here's my big learning about that: people judge by the pricetag. If you're charging a lot, they'll view your product as being more desirable (and if you charge very little, they'll view your product as being cheap and less desirable).

I had a business partner who demonstrated this many times before it sunk in -- any time he was asking for money (from customers, investors, whoever), he would take what he considered a realistic price and ask for four times more than that. He explained that it made it more likely to close the deal, because your asking price is telling people how much they should value you and your product. He never once had someone say "that's too much" and walk away, but sometimes he would negotiate a "discount".

Another thing I learned is that there is a market for literally anything. You can nail two sticks together and find people willing to buy it. That's what "marketing" really is (or should be) about: finding those people. If you're very niche, the internet is a godsend -- it's easier to find a few thousand fans from the pool of the entire Earth's population -- and a few thousand fans means that you're going to be profitable.
We should put more effort into learning how to farm them, as they are so highly prized.

A hundred years ago, there was enormous production of truffles (fungi with underground fruiting bodies) in Europe, but all of that production was lost when they fell out of favor. They are not the most nutritious use of the land, but lost none the less.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truffle
Musk is trying to kill his users?
I remember being a teenager. I was stressed all the time because EVERY decision I made had a consequence and I wouldn't feel that consequence sometimes for a very long time and had no scope or scale of how much any mistake would fuck me over.

Be with the right friends, get good enough grades, express myself my personality in the right way, every single thing I did affected my "future life". Every single adult was telling me this every moment of my life.

Get the grade or become a ditch digger. Pursue the right interests or be poor all of your life.

There is NO CHILL. College is, for most people, a ONE TIME opportunity - the default track is you go to college after high school, and there are ways to do it after but most people don't end up doing it. Degree programs mostly assume you're coming out of high school. Getting a degree while paying for living expenses is practically impossible without going into massive debt, which you may or may not be tolerant of the risk to take on. You can't work min wage and make rent in most places, let alone go to a community college. Young people's economics already is horrific.

I say this as someone who didn't have the opportunity to get a degree and who managed to scrape my way into a software engineering career - something that I don't recommend anyone do as its nearly impossible without connections and mentorship. Structurally we are making kids make decisions that will effect their entire lives and giving almost no recourse to anyone who can't make it happen right at 18. If you have a shitty home life, you're fucked. If you have health problems, you're fucked. There's very few second chances for college in this society.
Maybe they were rare because forests didn't use to burn that often.
Yea I'm guessing there's not a ton of fresh WPF or forms desktop apps being created. We've mostly moved to ASP.Net backends with React frontends wherever possible.
It's similar to how studies report that food X is bad and increases your risk of <rare disease> by 30%. Which in absolute terms is 0.01% -> 0.013%.
It's still a fine strategy. One "formal" name for it I've heard is "null garbage collector". It may feel dirty, but it's pragmatic: if the program runs in cycles with well-defined starts and ends, restarting it reclaims all memory and brings the program to a well-known state.
I know. What innovation has twitter done in the 5 years prior? Not too much
I know “checks and balances” aren’t exactly written in stone by the Athenians, but they seem like an objectively good idea - I’d argue that any attempt to remove them is anti-democratic in a pragmatic sense. See: the situation in Israel as Netanyahu attempts to consolidate power away from the judiciary to protect himself from corruption charges. Also see: “ turkey accounts for 1/3 of the world’s imprisoned journalists”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Turkey
You know that feeling you get when you send an important email and you suspect something is wrong even though you checked it thrice? And you probably had that feeling amplified when that email goes to a large email group.

So regardless of whether there is a cause and effect here (though I've never seen such fluke with $GOOGL), the main problem here might not be the technology, but the overly confident top management who publish such an ad without double checking every detail themselves, or have someone do it. Hell, have three someones, you can afford it.

It's not an elusive bug that can be hard to catch, it's not even a live demo, it's the equivalent of a false statement made in an advertisement.

It's not the trust in the AI that this ad brakes (it was never established to begin with) but investors trust in top management that act clumsily and with enough overconfidence to click the send button.
I wish Twitter was publicly traded right now. I need some excitement in my life.
Conversely, as long as you're not someone who regularly finds yourself being a jerk, it's okay to just experience social interactions. Most of my internet posting could accurately be described as "shooting the shit", and I feel okay about that.
We have been running .NET Core C# on Linux servers for quite a while now. Works great.
I've found that setting my phone display to grayscale has reduced my phone time by around 15% - 20%, with most of that reduction being in the YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter apps.

I still research topics for fun, but I actively have to Google for information and read wiki articles. It feels much more substantive, and I retain the information better.
I'd like to preface everything that Ive written thus far with the following.

Yes, I'm former military.

The United States does shady things and has a long history of doing so.
The United States is a capitalist imperialist hell-scape for a lot of people.
Counties/states do not have friends, they have interests.

That being said, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

What was written in that piece does not mesh at all with what my mental model of how the US military work, How pipelines work, etc.
Better, because most independent projects aren't the world's biggest advertising company whose business model entirely revolves around invading people's privacy as much as possible.

But that doesn't mean it would be good. The fundamental misunderstanding of Go's place as infrastructure rather than a product remains. And even though I acknowledge that spying on your users provides useful insight into their behavior, that doesn't mean spying on users is good.
This is a wonderful video. Thanks for posting your notes too!
Do these companies really believe that they were carrying dead weight as charity but didn't mind, until the “challenging economic environment.”?

Or did they believe that those workers were building something valuable, but interest rates or whatever made their work no longer forecast as profitable, even after sunk cost?
IMO alternative architectures such as ARM64 are not suitable (yet) for use on general purpose workstations, which is what I assume the OP wants.

Not because these architectures are necessarily deficient in some way, but simply that there is far too many applications that only target X86_64. Last time I tinkered with an ARM based desktop about 90% of what I wanted was there and worked well, but there were too many edge cases for me to feel comfortable recommending it.

It's a network effect thing, and it's slowly changing, but we're not quite there yet.
It excels at conversational style pedagogy when exploring new topics.
Sometimes it takes tough love, sometimes it takes nurturing and understanding, sometimes it takes a blend of the two, sometimes it takes an entirely different track.
It seems like the only consistent aspect of Seymour Hirsch's reporting is that it supports whatever narrative the Kremlin is pushing, whether that's the Kremlin of 1970 or the Kremlin of 2023.

The dude could have been a Cold War asset from day one!
Chromecast, Android Auto, Wear OS

I'd personally give Google Colab an honorable mention since it seems like the go to notebook for sharing ML research/projects.
Exposure latitude is pretty darn good actually, at least if you are using Kodak Vision film. It's just that it's the exact opposite of digital.

The rule of thumb on digital is, "don't overexpose". On film, it is "don't underexpose".
Have you ever been to Disneyland?
You REALLY don't want to go down the road with Epson. Historically Canon has been the best in terms of reliable "inkjet". I still shiver at the nightmare of the Epson printers in the 00s and early 10s. They used this really agressive ink that while produced beautiful print, easily clogged up the expensive printheads embedded in the printers. The school district I worked for lost easily 100+ units to this issue. And the tactics they used to prevent refills. God what a nightmare. All the printer companies suck (yes even brother) they just suck in different ways and at different times.
He is a nutcase, and cites another well known crank - Postol.

Its amazing fanfic.
dang specifically disabled flagging on the article, so it can't go away via the normal "downvote" mechanism.
What things about maps and YouTube’s UI annoy you?

I find YouTube quite easy to use, esp the shortcut keys.

Recommendation system is another story.
15 years ago it wasn't clear whether Facebook or Twitter was going to be the winner (or if they'd both just be another MySpace).

Jack is responsible for Twitter losing.

It always felt like Twitter co didn't actually understand what Twitter was and almost all of the product innovation came from the community rather than twitter itself.
Just another glitch by the new, terrible management while implementing a new, terrible feature. Nothing to see here.
It seems like only around 10% of suicides are not associated with mental illness. So I agree it seems implausible that this 10% would account for the entire increase, but it could be some of it.
On an Intel Mac Mini I've got 4.0 Beta 2 installed the Check Updates doesn't detect anything and on the website there is only an Apple-based Mac option listed. Did they drop Intel support or is that coming later? Or does it matter and it is really a universal package with a poor name choice (and failed update check)?
you're suggesting that the ethics code requires you to state how many sources you verified with, and the number Hersh reported is too small a number. (you're going to deny you suggested that, but just keep reading, there's a point here)

I suggest that the ethics code says don't report facts as facts that you haven't verified as facts, but if you say "I could not verified this and I heard it from one source" you are within the code. "Sources in the Administration" often report things to reporters, and most of what they say can't be verified, it can only be echoed by more than one person. And if a reporter has a relationship with one leaker who has been reliable, you're claiming they can't use that, and I'm claiming they can and do. Sure, verify what you can, but being an honest reporter is what is required, not certain fact patterns.

Yes, in a deep dive publication like the New Yorker, they will often kill certain facts or an entire story if it cannot be corroborated, but that doesn't define journalism.
Hands-on with the new Bing: Microsoft’s step beyond ChatGPT
Related: Open source the server components of Keybase (GitHub issue, 147 comments)

https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/24105
> RIM was a hardware company, not a software company. Hence a phone is a phone, and should not be a camera (1 of the CEOs said it?)

So was Apple. Other than their brief attempt at licensing MacOS, they were and still are a hardware company at heart.

> I don't have any specific insight into the Wifi stack but most BBs up to that point have in-house designed cellular modems.

They were maintaining their own modem implementations? That's quite a feat.

> As for talent wise, shrug. You can't blame people for preferring Cupertino over Waterloo-Kitchener. Although I would say that over 1/5 of the employees at RIM's campus were co-op students.

Was compensation even remotely comparable? Having 20% of the company be interns is... rather unusual.
Maybe, but I’m not sure of your point beyond the fact that we can’t predict if or when or how culture will change.

NPR already says “latin-ex”. Maybe that will catch on. Maybe it already has in the circles where it matters. But note that incredulity nor derision are evidence against cultural changes happening right before our eyes.

At one point it was silly to pronounce “lol” or “pwn” and then five minutes later everyone was pronouncing them. There wasn’t some internet meeting to deliberate it, it just happened. I think that’s just how culture changes in general.
And yet, XP was a bloated pile of bugs when it was launched. It required a massive 64 MB of RAM and used much more CPU than Windows 2000.
VB.NET should never have happened. It has only superficial similarity with VB6. It was sold as upgrade path from VB6 but that never worked.
Apparently the founders are involved with a commercial entity to solve the console issue
Most of the information people are looking for isn't really the sort of thing an LLM is set up to cover though. If I want information on anything since 2021, or to look into stuff near me, or access a price, a download, or information in visual form, or anything that's too niche for its corpus, ChatGPT is not good. When ChatGPT can offer an answer it's fast, but about as reliable as a search engine's spammiest result

And answers as text wrapped around a factual knowledge base just sounds like the sort of queries Google Home already handles in natural language form. That can certainly be improved upon, but it isn't obvious that the LLM engineers will beat the search engineers to it...
Great story related to a great show, thanks for sharing!
The 15+ bucket has the largest increase in this study, so they could have certainly been having issues for at least 5 years.
The constant politicization of things was not wise for Dems. Twitter was comfortably status quo, now Elon is pushing tweet suggestions to the right of the political spectrum. It's interesting, though, to see a major social media platform that goes in a different direction.
I don’t believe that’s true. For a couple hundred people maybe.

Let’s be honest, Hate is a team sport now.
Related, with further discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34709078
Imagine this level of obsession with a celebrity. Musk is not your bully at work.
> added an auto mod post to the top of each post related to Harry Potter spoiling the game story

I think this is a pretty funny and apt, given the history of Harry Potter spoilers.
That is not a given, at all. Sets push more and more shit downstream to editing, it's not even funny. Because they can. This will cost, a lot.
What's the reason for these giant teams of presumable well-paid experts and geniuses to not define "a clone of SO with some of the answers juggled around between questions" as spam?

> The notion that more click bait improves Google's bottom line is absurd

If you don't find what you're looking for on the first try, you'll need to try again, and see more ads. What else are you going to do, go elsewhere, visit a library, ask the town elders or give up on looking for things you want to know? You don't have a choice, you know it, they know it.

I find it equally plausible that Youtube's search sucks badly because they don't care what you're looking for, they want you to watch videos that they predict will lead to the maximum time spent on the site, again so you watch more ads. What other explanation is there that the world's leading search engine has the search of one of their flagship products run at 1999 quality? Presumably they have giant teams of people working on that too?
As a FAANG engineer, that's considerably less than half of my pre-tax income, so abso-fucking-lutely. And for once I'm using the word fucking correctly...

Of course the wife is past child-bearing age, so she might have some issues with the whole idea :)
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