skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

> It defined disinformation as “adversarial narratives, which are intentionally misleading; ..."

All right, let's talk about misleading narratives. The title says the blacklist is accused of bias.

1. _Is_ it biased? We don't know, and no evidence is presented one way or another, but it was accused, so there's that.

2. Who's accusing it of bias? They don't attempt to answer that question, so apparently it's this article. Literally, they seem to be the ones with the accusation. That's some creative use of passive voice there.

I would note that I would expect some correlations between specific ideologies and news outlets putting forth these misleading narratives, and those correlations don't in and of themselves prove bias. (That said, the blacklist _could_ be biased, but we have no way of knowing based on this article.)
HBO’s The Last of US TV show is pushing the game up the sales charts
> How is it possible that Teams is still such a poor product?

List of products Microsoft makes:

- [bajillion item list of everything including the kitchen sink]

List of products Slack makes:

- Slack

Microsoft gives Teams away for free and to them it's worthless. They have no incentive to make it great, just good enough that you'll look at the price of Slack, look at the price of Office 365, and say "ehh, we can save some money, Slack can't be that good." Making Teams not suck doesn't move their revenue dial one iota.

(And sure, Slack is owned by Salesforce and they make a bajillion things, but Slack started as its own company that just made one thing, and made it well. They're at least coasting on that laser product focus)
Since AI isn't meaningfully involved in designing new AI yet (unsure if it will be), I'm not convinced we're on an S-curve let alone an exponential curve.

It seems closer to this: https://xkcd.com/605/

I'll concede there have been large breakthroughs, but to extrapolate from that there will be even larger breakthroughs (without a really solid account of why that would be) seems very sketchy. I get that the people who are trying to sell the idea to investors are pitching this line, but applying a modicum of critical thinking, that's relatively rarely how things work. Returns tend to diminish with the amount of effort put in, not exponentially increase.
We asked a Nobel laureate, and others [how] to combat climate change
several benefits probably

1) Pickup is asynchronous, so no long lines will form. If it's busy you get the notification ~15 minutes later than you normally would

2) There's no possibility of shop lifting (not saying that _you_ steal, but inevitably some people do)

3) Maybe the parking lot or the store is actually full (fire code) and the actually amount of commerce is being bottlenecked by people in the store. You can literally just sell more stuff if you have everyone do a 2 minutes pickup.

4) Pickup selection requires you to go into the app, perhaps where they have opportunities to upsell you in clever algorithmic ways.

Chalk it up as a win-win. Not everything has to be either they lose or I lose
Yes. But the price of those combined should still be nearly an order of magnitude cheaper than $20k.

$20k is "gut and rewire everything in an expensive metro area" kind of money.
They said it's not a tech firm. I'd guess there is nobody else in the firm who understands anything that team does, and therefore there is an assumption that all developers are interchangeable.
"There is a large community inside Microsoft using Linux as their daily driver. "
That's pretty cool to hear! (100% honest. No sarcasm.)
One thing one learns about writing specifications in English is the meaning of must, should and shall.

As for soundness, it is C we are talking about here.
has ChatGTP created anything new? something that's is just not rewriting text?
The thing about Texas Monthly is that they have become a trusted brand over the years because they are so high quality and they've continued to innovate, which has buttressed against things like reducing page count or print quality. They've got the right mix of human interest, branding, and political stories. Politically, they are definitely to Texas' left of center, but not in an "in your face" sort of way. And their web team is top notch. When I was tasked with redesigning a website a decade ago, my South Carolina based internet publisher chose Texas Monthly's site as one of our sources of inspiration.
I don't think it's really a mystery as to why most tech companies are doing layoffs (also import to note that other industries still have tight labor markets, like oil and gas which happens to be rapidly growing during this downturn).

Tech company growth rates were high during the pandemic so they hired to fuel that growth. Now that growth rates are lower, they have to re-balance their cost structure to match their new forecasted growth. This is happening at every company currently doing layoffs. In Twilio's case, they went from almost 70% year over year growth during the pandemic to currently about 20-30% year over year growth. The same evaporating growth rates is true across the tech industry - Meta is actually seeing revenue decline year over year, Google has seen growth shrink to just 1%. Even more telling are operating margins which are evaporating very quickly as growth stalls - Google's operating margins are down 17% year over year.

No one has a crystal ball, so companies hire during high growth periods to capitalize on growth, and lay off during low growth periods to re-balance their cost structure towards profit. This is true of many industries - you see the same effects play out in the boom and bust cycle of industries like O&G - which are currently hiring and not too long ago were laying off as well. People want to frame lay offs as de facto failure, but really it is just companies responding to market conditions - no different then companies hiring when growth is high.
It is these journalists' own choice to publish those words within that context or manner, and they of all people should understand the implications this has on the perception of their validity.
> Tests with no code are always negative value

They may have negative value, but it is not a foregone conclusion. Tests are merely documentation and that documentation very well could provide positive value for someone who reads it. There is no doubt insights to be gained in reading about what someone was once thinking about a particular problem. If well thought out, you might even begin implementation based on that work, saving time having to document it all over again.
What would be the use case for you and the reasons to leave Stripe Connect? We're working with one company to replace their Stripe Connect stack, but it really depends on the specifics of the use case.
My email if useful: anhtho[at]getlago.com
Slack also does that sometimes. In the app!
Sentient AIs in science fiction are always portrayed as being more-or-less infallible, at least when referencing their own knowledge banks.

Then ChatGPT comes along and starts producing responses good enough that people feel like almost sentient AI. And they suddenly start expecting it to share the infallibility that fictional AIs have always possessed.

But it's not a sentient AI. It's just a language model. Just a beefed up auto-correct. I'm very impressed just what capabilities a language model gets when you throw this many resources at it (like, it seems to be able to approximate logic and arithmetic to decent accuracy, which is unexpected).

Also... even if it was a sentient AI, why would it be infallible? Humans are sentient, and nobody ever accused us of being infallible.
You can build games fast today. There is no lack of tools or ppl with skills.

In fact when Wall St asked Disney's Bob Iger if their marvel movies were raking it in, why not produce more of them every year. And he said that they had the resources and established pipeline to pump out blockbuster level movies every week. But there werent enough ppl on the planet with cash to buy those tickets. So looks like we are already hitting the upper bounds of what the market can consume, given the rate at which we can produce content and given the tools we already have.
> What will be the result of the current push of GPT AI into the mainstream? If people start relying on it for things like summarizing articles and scientific papers, how many wrong conclusions will be reached as a result? God help us if doctors and engineers start making critical decisions based on generative AI answers.

On the other hand, it may end up completely undermining its own credibility, and put a new premium on human sourced information. I can see 100% human-sourced being a sort of premium label on information in the way that we use "pesticide-free" or "locally-sourced" labels today.
Can you provide a reference for a single broker that guarantees no liability for holding negative balance in a margin account, because as-is what you've described is a violation of FINRA rules and I'm fairly certain that such a product doesn't exist but would be interested in seeing the precise details.

I don't want a fancy explanation of how it works, I would like to know the name of a single brokerage that offers this product because as I said, I don't think it exists as it is frankly a pretty basic violation.
Do I understand it correctly, that the argument is that "it's a defensive war", because Putin in effect "called dibs, so it's ours, and we are defending it"?

So, more on how it is sold to the Russian people, rather, than there being anything technically correct about it, right? Because if it's the latter, then I suppose the closes would be "internationally accepted". And, none of the currently occupied regions, including Crimea, is recognized as such.
Doesn't discord have some pretty serious security flaws and questionable data collection policies for use as a private commercial messaging platform?

For small teams that aren't too concerned about that it seems fine. Personally my group of a couple dozen friends and I use it for pretty much all of our communication because we don't care much about privacy in that context. But for any company larger than a couple dozen folks it seems like a pretty risky choice compared to Slack/Microsoft/Google/etc.
"To dig in though, do we have any reason to think we can’t teach a LLM better logic?"

Well, one reason is that's not how our brains work. I won't claim our brains are the one and only way things can work, there's diversity even within human brains, but it's at least a bit of evidence that it is not preferable. If it were it would be an easier design than what we actually have.

I also don't think AIs will be huge undifferentiated masses of numbers. I think they will have structure, again, just as brains do. And from that perspective, trying to get a language model to do logic would require a multiplicatively larger langauge model (minimum, I really want to say "exponentially" but I probably can't justify that... that said, O(n^2) for n = "amount of math understood" is probably not out of the range of possibility and even that'd be a real kick in the teeth), whereas adjoining a dedicated logic module to your language model will be quite feasible.

AIs can't escape from basic systems engineering. Nothing in our universe works as just one big thing that does all the stuff. You can always find parts, even in biology. If anything, our discipline is the farthest exception in that we can build things in a fairly mathematical space that can end up doing all the things in one thing, and we consider that a serious pathology in a code base because it's still a bad idea even in programming.
I'm here for all your mechanical computer questions :-) This article is a bit of a change of pace from my 8086 posts.
Thanks for posting that plot.

As I've mentioned frequently before, it amazes me how many people looking at tech company financials will only look at Revenue and completely ignore profits.

What the revenue/profit plot you showed for TWLO clearly demonstrates is that there is no magic point there suddenly you increase revenue and profitably starts to increase as well. I think an assumption many people have is "if revenue keeps rising you have to be profitable soon", clearly that is not always the case.

Another pattern I've noticed is that many companies are not like Amazon, which is the model of a growth company. While AMZN does often reinvest its profits (historically to the dismay of investors) it has repeatedly demonstrated that it can be profitable. For companies like TWLO and UBER it's not obvious that they even can be profitable.

When I see this TWLO chart the message I get is that the only way to increase revenue is to increase net losses. It's not even remotely clear that TWLO can generate a profit at any level of revenue.
I've been using it on Windows for well over a year. I can't speak to how well it works on Mac or Linux, could be a terrible experience, I dunno.

In my opinion, its not the most ergonomic tool out there but its by far the most fully realized tool out there. There's lots of tools that are good for this or good for that, but mixing them in together gets to be a bit kludgy. Having calendars, live editing of documents, meetings, chat, and other tools all integrated into a single tool is extremely handy when done right, and Teams to me gets like 85% of the way there. There's some things it just doesn't do well (like the threaded messaging, kind of a mess, maybe we just don't do it right), there's things where its inconsistent (different features for meeting chats versus individual versus group chats), and overall it could stand to be a lot faster and responsive. But in the end, when someone shares a document in a call I've got it in chat history and in my OneDrive and can recall it straight from Excel or Word or whatever. When someone emails me a calendar invite, its in my Teams automatically. The first-party integrations are hard to beat.

Do I prefer things like Mattermost for pure chat? Sure, but then its separated from the tools I use for document management and separated from what we'd use for video calls and separated from my calendar for meetings and separated from our actual org structure integrated into it and all kinds of stuff. In the end, I personally like all these things being well integrated, and can deal with not having all the custom emojis and a slightly more responsive chat client.
I'm a lot like you in that sense. Here's what's working for me (still learning):

> I get a good night’s sleep I erroneously feel like I should be able to sustain my (probably unsustainable) momentum

Try to have patience.

When we see an improvement we get attached to it. This happens when losing weight, sleeping more, etc. Changing habits, even slightly, always takes time.

If, it seems to be evolving in the direction you desire in the long-term, you're good. Extrapolating from one or a few data points won't give good predictions.

> When I try to relax, I feel like I’m wasting time if I do it for too long.

Trust yourself.

Do you feel you're wasting time after a few hours, days, or months? If you relax enough, the need to do stuff usually comes back to you on its own. No need to force it via guilt or worry.

If you objectively can't relax as much as you'd like to, then remind yourself _why_ you're doing the things you do. You'll probably have great reasons to do so —making the most of some opportunity, doing it for your loved ones, whatever.

It could also be you needed to avoid relaxing some time in the past and now you have more space to relax but haven't re-analyzed your current situation properly and are not aware not-relaxing is not adequate strategy now, according to your desires and objectives.
Non profit, publicly owned hospitals can be just as bad- https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/7/18137967/er...
And in turn we're allowed to criticize them for it.
Leo Laporte mentioned on security now last week that he was happy to move away from authy because it was run by twillio(a previous sponsor of the podcast). Have things been rough for the company?
That's fine, I agree with you, somewhat. I still think chatGPT et al are at the brink of something potentially revolutionary although they aren't quite there yet, but there is an obvious use case for LLMs whereas the crypto stuff never really found an actual real world use beyond speculation.
AI can't be trusted in general, at least not for a long time. It gets basic facts wrong, constantly. The fear is that it will start eating its own dogfood and being more and more wrong since we are putting it in the hands of people that don't know any better and are going to use it to generate tons of online content that will later be used in the models.

It does make some queries much easier to find, for instance I had trouble finding out if the runner ups got the win in the Tour De France after the Armstrong doping scandal and it answered it instantly. The problem is that is offers answers with confidence, I think them adding citation is an improvement over ChatGPT, but it needs more.

Luckily, it's still a beta product and not in the hands of everyone. Unfortunately, ChatGPT is, which I find more problematic.
I think your analysis is a good one given the data we have, and can be used to draw some conclusions or guide general discussion. However the analysis is indeed limited by the data available. The AAA data does not consider variability by gender, race, socioeconomics, location, etc. Further it does not normalize variability in the types of driving being done (teslas have limited range, are not towing trailers, etc), nor other technological advances (modern vs older vehicles).
it doesn't generate new ideas, it just answers based on statistics, it will be more like a personal search assitant or a tool that helps people finding information
Teams is great for functionality, and also the worst, most unperformant application I've ever had to use for work. Somehow even Word/Excel on the web are more performant than Teams itself has ever been. It's slow to switch from "chats" to "chat rooms", and then to switch from whichever chat/room you're on to the one you want to be on. Allegedly they're working on this, but there's no way they're going to make it usable any time soon.

I felt constant frustration using Teams and have it miss keypresses, fail to focus the text input in chats (I had to manually do so every time I changed chats), and remove all formatting and trim whitespace from code or text that I pasted, even if I pasted it into a code block (though for code blocks it only removed it when I send, so it looked fine until I hit enter). Trying to view or add integrations would often take several minutes for the modal dialog to finish loading (during which I couldn't use Teams).

I also found frustrating sending files to people who then couldn't actually see them unless I manually granted them permissions. Why is this a thing?

The QoL of developers at Github is going to drop significantly once they're forced onto Teams, because even after years and years it still feels like an early beta release where they haven't done a UX or optimization pass yet.

My heart goes out to the Github team for this one.
I have a mild question:

Ukraine war outlook in 3 months China will face a severe shortage of fertilizer(they get that from Russia at over 80%) along with India and since those are two big supply chains it might be that all these companies see a rise in one of their inputs via the supply chain disruption in the future towards April-May as decreasing their profits while at the same time increasing other costs.

So my question is why is everyone assuming that it is some other economic force than this if this is the actual looming economic near term disaster?

Think back a full year when we had the last supply chain disruption, did not Governments step in a fund grants to prevent the rise in input costs?
Wow, a driver that’s been retired for 13 years won for a team that shut down 10 years ago in the first ever season that Nascar has decided to run 2 Daytona 500s in the same month.
Also, I would guess major grows are due to a massive influx of tech-sales people.

This is just an extrapolation, but I would bet when the pandemic hit their email boxes and phones blowup with people throwing money at them and begging to "fix" their telephony system in a scenario where most of their employees are at home.

Now the market is bigger but also mostly adjusted and the 2021 tsunami of free money is over.

I'm sure many technical people are affected by this but they are a minority because they were never the majority of hires ( my guess )
I put code under a BSD license, so on many occasions I've been prevented from using GPLed code. BSD and GPL are not incompatible. BSD and GPL pieces can be combined into a single program, while retaining their individual licenses; the problem is that the combination has to be redistributed under the GPL. Compatibility is not the only question, but what kind of compatibility: what must the master license be if the combination is made.

Cygwin changing to the LGPL back in 2016 enabled me to distribute BSD code with Cygwin DLL's without having to GPL the code. When I learned from the Cygwin mailing list about this change, I immediately set to work to create a fork of the Cygwin DLL which provides more native-like behaviors, to be used as run-time library for programs. Had they not announced a licensing change, I'd not have done anything of the sort.
What would happen to the internet in a zombie apocalypse?
I'm watching The Last of Us and wondering if we'd still have internet 30 years into a zombie apocalypse.

This is a different spin on asking the age-old interview question: https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when

Would the DNS still be up? Would we be able to ping ip addresses directly? Would our iPhones be completely useless? Would cell towers still work? What would break down and what would still be usable?
It's a short story. Highly recommended.
Long time since I last used it for complex board (life is weird), but the way I do it is to crossselect the part from the schematic. I remember earlier versions used a local socket between the layout and schematic tools to allow for that.

Really indispensable. Not sure how the current feature works, but for things like power supply capacitors that are electrically connected to tons of ICs and pins but logically belong to one specific pin, I can't think of a better approach.
Sure! My email: anhtho[at]getlago.com
I should have been more specific. Even people on base may have 9-5 jobs and autonomy over how they spend time off the clock.
story of my life with emacs.
Indeed,

"Transcending POSIX: The End of an Era?"

https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/transcending...
Not just this, but also blackout windows. I've seen ESPP shares be granted during hold periods and then you have to incur even MORE risk!

Source: experience with Lyft ESPP