skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is more easily answered in the negative. What would happen if an executive acted in a way that NEGATIVELY impacted shareholder value? For example, they decided to not issue dividends and gave everyone above a certain level a huge bonus instead.
Depends on how you feel about criminal justice. Is the purpose of the criminal justice system in society mainly for retribution? Or rehabilitation?

Are criminals bad people? Or are there no bad people, just bad acts?

Can someone ever pay their debt to society? Should they get to start over once they've paid?
Hey, cofounder of Laudspeaker here. At a high level, there are two main problems to solve for when it comes to scaling this type of system. One is the ability of your infrastructure to handle resource intensive customer requests (sending 10 million emails) that are instantiated at arbitrary unpredictable times—this sort of work is usually best handled using job queues and job processing threads that are horizontally scalable. The second is the channel specific failure modes that are common at higher message sending volumes, for example IP blacklisting by spam filters for email, or sending the same notifications repeatedly when dealing with mobile push. We’ve set up our architecture to tackle the first problem and are currently performing stress testing to find and fix any bottlenecks there; with respect to the second type of problem, we are actively experimenting with ways to mitigate these failure modes as our product matures.
Why is this in dollars?!
> But somehow the English-speaking world ignores their existence. And it's not like they're exotic varieties you have to hunt down in rural areas or something.

Maybe because these banana breeds don't take lightly to the multi-week shipments required for bananas to be eaten in Europe?
We definitely want them available to everyone! strongtowns.org/ were at the forefront of this and they're not even "anti-car" really, just "anti-forced-car". It shouldn't be illegal to open a restaurant without a bunch of parking around it, etc.
I smoke one a day, and the good it does for me is carve out 5 minutes of reflection on the day.
Hum... It didn't age any well before it got a chance to age well.

It's coherent with modernity because we have are in a time where that mindset is popular, and since there are only a few alternatives, we are prone into cycling between them at random and revisit each one from time to time.

Eventually, it will pass, and it will become old and unfit again.
Uniffle is a unified remote shuffle service for distributed compute engines. It provides the ability to aggregate and store shuffle data on remote servers, thus improving the performance and reliability of large jobs. Currently it supports Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop MapReduce.
Well Facebook failed because almost no one i knew using it in 2017 still is. It’s like the normal reaction to an addictive thing is to get captured by it for a while, realize the downsides, and drop it after a time. Some people are bad at this and stay addicted but most people escape and go on with their lives. Optimizing for short term addiction sabotages your product.

My facebook feed is a ghost town. Almost zero people i know posting, a couple of straggling groups that remained relevant, and just bs ad driven nonsense.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/indian-authorities...
Recommendation engines aren't all bad. I think one of the keys to making it good for users is to derive recommendations from stated preferences rather than supposed revealed preferences.

That is to say a good recommendation engine would not use viewing, replying to, or otherwise interacting with content other than using a button that says "show me more like this" as an indication the person wants to see more like that. This is, of course not compatible with short-term profits for a site that monetizes time-on-site, but could work with such a profit model over the long term.
She is likely addicted. That's how it is designed
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Is there a source to that claim? Seems to me that much rather they started dilluting their feeds with ads to the point where they lost all appeal.

Facebook and Youtube on mobile are so packed with unappealing scams that I stop scrolling after 5min
Implement ticket sales, events, fundraising? Get a donation from Gates? Buy the land or move somewhere cheaper. Invest in some solar panels and skylights?
Pretty click-baity title. This article is a good "ELI5" summary for non-ML people of some of the techniques & infra described in the arxiv paper, but it has nothing to do with TikTok "secret sauce".
I used to see the 'Right to be Forgotten' notifications from Google for a UK national newspaper.

Almost every one was for a story where someone had been convicted of a crime, or professional misconduct and so wanted the story removed from Google's index to make it harder to find their misdeeds
By "were honest" I mostly mean "honest with themselves". There are a lot of costs that are easy to forget or ignore. The cost of parking in the city. The occasional repair. Having to tow your car, because it broke. Deprecation of a valuable asset. Very few people take stock of what they actually spend on their car, because it's hard and it's constantly shifting. Some costs are annually and (mostly) independent of your annual mileage - insurance and tax, for example. Others are constant and directly associated with your mileage - fuel. Yet, others again are directly associated but come in lumps - maintenance, tires, ... Deprecation is fuzzy and partially outside of any factor you can control, etc.
Everyone is so addicted to their phones. It’s just like a poker machine now.
I wonder how many people were fired because someone was too stupid or inflexible to consider this, and rather than relying on evidence they relied on what some idiot in charge told them must be true.
No, it's not a no brainer: it's US divers either way, according to Hersh. See? None of this makes sense.
Bread and circuses[0] keep the population fed and entertained, and people will put up with a lot of bullshit from their government when those basic needs are met.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
My question is why teenagers gravitate to horrendous content en masse.

Young girls have feeds full of eating-disorder content, and young boys have feeds mixed with misogyny like Tate.
Not all teenagers watch either, but these recommendations are a disease plaguing the platform.
Generally true, but not entirely accurate...

"TikTok’s Secret ‘Heating’ Button Can Make Anyone Go Viral"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2023/01/20/tik...

They also don't just optimize for consumption, but also for new users. Don't have concrete proof, but it seems they help new users get more views to give them that taste of "15 minutes of fame" as early as possible.
Agreed there isn't a single answer to be reached in a vacuum, and obviously this is the mechanism by which majority shareholder intention may be communicated. The statement stands.
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ROCm is the reason why if you want to even bother with AI, you just need to buy an nvidia GPU.

Amd's crappy support and absolutely ridiculous support list makes it absolutely useless.
The more time you spend debugging this and the worse job you do at it, the more money they make.
CI has been such a productivity killer. You don’t need it. Stick with CD only and you can ship.
Maybe it's because CI service providers don't want to be responsible for a lot cache storage.

Given how lacking this feature is, maybe a CI vendor could offer it as a premium paid feature.
Those people can still ride mobility scooters, e-bikes, small electric vehicles (like golf carts) but often can't drive. Car centric world means exclusion for those groups.
Probably because open access to an entire community’s / nation’s social graph is a huge security risk. I mean if the NSA having access to all your phone call metadata isn’t already bad enough, why would you want any and all malicious state actors, criminal organizations, terrorists, or run of the mill scammers to have access to that type of information too?
Funny you mention that, that was a topic this week at my firm.

The number of single women in the U.S. is expected to increase 1.2% every year from 2018 to 2030, compared to a 0.8% increase for the overall population. This is likely going to result in 45% of women between the ages of 25 and 44 who will be single and childless by 2030.

If anything I expect the discord to get worse in the future.

Also if anyone knows what these single women might want from the market, I'm dying to know!
I briefly had TikTok.. so much crappy videos about ADHD
To avoid seeing the same thing over and over, the most direct form of feedback that works for me is when that content comes up, quickly swipe past it. If you keep swiping, it'll start throwing more random stuff at you to see what sticks. I'm also always tweaking the list of people I follow so that if FYP gets stale, I can just look at their content for a bit.
Large cities are probably economically unsustainable anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if mega-cities turn out to be wholly transient, with places like London and Tokyo effectively becoming museums of themselves.
COVID vaccines do a fabulous job of stopping vaccine spread for the 3 months after a booster.
Does Ira Glass have a follow-up to this about people with good taste and dream projects? What to do when you have a project you don't/can't do twice yet you know your under skilled to produce it?
So much this. I saw this go viral and all the comments were about the "rich Carmel suburb." The fact of the matter is that they are spending WAY less per student (including infrastructure funding.)

Part of this is scale for sure - it is a huge school - but also just good management. Wish we had more of it.
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Oh installing dependencies and things? Have prebaked images that already contain those things.
CI is a prerequisite for CD.
This concept is called "outliner", see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecco_Pro or https://github.com/rochus-keller/crossline/.
I suspect this won't happen. They cut deals with even smaller browsers. Its about proportional revenue though, so dropping market share may net Mozilla less on the next contract negotiation.

I also don't think its in Google's best interest to let Mozilla fall out, if anything, it gives them some lever against anti trust.
I'm with you, and I'm of the opinion that the current TikTok craze has more to do with its brand than its algo. Facebook is old and lame to kids. Even Insta and Snap don't have as much brand cache as TikTok right now because TikTok is the newest major player with the most buzz. However, it's the nature of all hype cycles for high-flying, shiny new things to eventually fall back to Earth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
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Yes, just like having people run Tampermonkey instead of Violentmonkey. Mozilla is making things less secure with this whole extension policy.
Do you have the stats for that? I recall reading something earlier this year than Insta is still king for teens/young people. I can't find the source though.
> It's just meant to help them accomplish a task they were already doing

That is influencing the world.
They don't gravitate towards it. The algorithm inches them towards that. It starts with exercise videos and healthy eating, which is fine, but eventually goes towards eating-disorder content. Similar for boys.
Another analysis I'd really like to see is how Amazon does their forecasting. A friend that works there told me it's crazy.
That could explain performance, but not necessarily facilities. I think it has more to do with corruption and accountability. If you're dumping money into a school, why can't you have something nice (physically)? Unless you're spending all that money on counselors or other things wealthy districts don't have to worry about as much.

It may be old fashioned but broken window principle applies. If things are nice and maintained, they're more likely to stay that way.
Thanks, that's very kind.
> You have to decelerate the jug with exactly the right timing to form a straight line, not accelerate it.

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Edit: The quote above, and my original comment below, are wrong. The article is correct. Accelerating the jug at g will create a straight line.

Corrected acceleration model: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/805927382/

Thank you hannasanarion for the correction.

Indeed, this can be thought of intuitively (though it is slightly counter-intuitive): as the article says, if the jug is moving at a constant speed, the drops will actually make a vertical line under the jug. This is because each drop will be move with the same horizontal speed as the jug.

A decelerating jug, as proposed above, would actually create a backwards line or curve. The drops at the bottom works actually be ahead of the jug.

An accelerating jug is the only way you can get the bottom drops behind the jug.

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My previous comment:

Indeed.

I was pretty sure this was correct, but wanted to model it to confirm. On a Chromebook right now, so Scratch was the easiest way to model and share:

Accelerating jug (cat): https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/805898350/

Decelerating jug: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/805899100/
My feed is full of mostly educational content, lawyers and other professionals telling stories, language lessons, old computers and tech, and old commercials.

Most of the videos seem to be 1.5 minutes long.
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Funny to see CHS here. My aunt lives in Carmel and taught choir there for her whole career, and both my cousins went to high school there (and swam for the swim team in that natatorium). I remember visiting and always being shocked that a high school could have 4000+ students (I didn't realize it was nearly 5500 now!). I grew up in a small city (~75k) with two high schools and thought mine was pretty big at 1400 students, so seeing such lavish facilities was mind-blowing. CHS is far superior to many small colleges -- it's incredible how efficient it all is, too (in terms of $/pupil).
Agreed, but I don't want to excuse anybody. I think every one of those engineers signed up to do it in exchange for money. They used their talents, they weren't forced into it.
You're implying the risks are equal by using the same words for both. Each "very low" statement is true in isolation but together they're not.
It’s literally not.
On the other hand, the free movement union might have taken significantly longer to establish if it started with "all citizenship and immigration laws are repealed and from now on all citizenship and immigration decisions are going to be made in the European Immigration Agency in Brussels". The EU started loose and aims for closer links over time.
Where do you keep your bare metal machines if I my ask? I wanted to do a similar setup a while ago (building/testing on Hetzner bare metal, deployments and the rest on AWS) but due to Amazon's pricing policy the cost of traffic would be enormous.
I wouldn't say it's stable or dead. Starlette and FastAPI are great async frameworks that seem to have replaced Tornado. Django is only recently getting some async support.

JS frontend seems to have been going through churn for over a decade now. It's a messy language, and because we've been forced to use it as the sole frontend language for a while people have been trying to figure out how best develop with it. Hopefully, with more language support in Wasm, JS will finally be replaced.
Yep, I'm talking about the time before my first command runs.
Perhaps. One issue I foresee is the way CRTS glow. The phosphor doesn't light/dim immediately the way an LED does. So there's some amount of fade in/out that happens on a CRT as the beam moves across the screen. I imagine this could be difficult or impossible to reproduce with a traditional OLED screen. Some old games rely on this technique along with the slow refresh rates to to create a sort of dithering/aliasing effect.
In kerala, India too we have so many varities of bananas Robusta, Palayankodan, Poovan, Njalipoovan, Kadali, Chenkadali, Karpooravally, Poomkalli, Koompillakannan, Chinali, Virupakshi, Plantain to name few.

And in Europe i see everywhere only cavendishes or plantains unfortunately
Oh, we know. This seems to be the first time a major news organization quietly reported this.

Even to volunteer at the local cat shelter, they ask me to get vaccinated AND boosted. I'd sooner photoshop a doc for them than take the risk.
Seems business as usual.

Senators wouldn't even return our phone calls. So we had to resort to hiring a lobbyist who they would answer the phone for.

Anytime we'd have a call with the senators assistant, we'd have a call with the lobbyist first. He'd coach us on how to behave, dress, and what to say. We'd then call the assistant and perform our rehearsed parts just like any other theater production.

Access to our representative is gate-kept financially.
There's a difference between "the next time this car stops it won't move again" and "remotely engage the brakes no matter what the car is doing".

It'd be nice to see e-bikes that just go into full generator mode when they're reported stolen; a bike that you can't petal is useless.
I've done smaller projects before where "CI" only consists of merging to trunk/main/master, while testing, linting, etc. is covered by code review and the honor system. I wouldn't advocate this for something business critical that a lot of developers collaborate on, but you can do CD with only trivial CI.
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Well, think of the math. Let's say each tree costs $2 to plant. That includes:

- cost of tree

- transport of tree

- labor (usually at least 10 min/sapling)

- overhead of managing the program

That's $336M. Unless this is one of the most successful search companies of all time, that's an unfathomable number to add to all of their other costs.

Tree-planting programs are all green washing in my experience anyway.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7v75a/tree-planting-schemes...
> Economics everyone is taught of a supply & demand curve like it's some law of nature. It's literally based on greed! (which, ok yes you can easily say IS our nature.. but should it be?)

That's the distinction of descriptivism vs prescriptivism.

Both types of theories are important, but miscommunication about which one a theory is representing is a source of many unnecessary arguments.

Agreed on the rest... Mainstream economic theory does not include externalities (including environmental) into the the price... Most likely because society still sucks at enforcing externalities into prices.

More concretely: systematically gouging people who can't afford it is likely to create social issues, while at the same time generating profit for someone else in the exploitative chain. In an ideal world, that profit would be reduced to directly pay for social issues it causes. Of course, that's easier said than done in practice. There's no free lunch, so the bill goes to society to pay for somehow, either through increased taxes or lower standard of living for all of us.

An example: say someone needs to go into debt to get basic education for their kids. The parent works more, spends less time with the kids. Kids are less likely to live up to their potential, and more likely to be involved later in life with criminality, drug use, homelessness. Meanwhile, a small group of people higher up in the chain that systematically gouges thousands like this family, enjoy a nice year end bonus, not for working extra hard or being particularly clever, but just because they've inserted themselves in this exploitative mechanism. Meanwhile, we all pay a little more tax to pay for remedial social programs and policing, to deal with those that were already vulnerable and further nudged into bad outcomes.
I always liked the way G.K. Chesterton put it: "If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
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Building more housing just to satisfy speculative demand never ends well. You get ghost cities/districts and lots of pink elephants; and when the bust comes, its a huge mess to clean up, and a lot of those units will never be used before being torn down.
The problem is not just with the addiction, and it doesn't affect only teenagers.

These systems show paid content mixed with user-generated content, promoting harmful advertisements, political propaganda, or any other ideology anyone with enough resources and desire to influence large segments of society is able to take advantage of.

Let's not forget the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and not doubt that there are _many_ more such companies operating without public knowledge. This is all done legally, and within the terms of service.

This is even without mentioning the rampant data siphoning and shady multi-billion dollar data markets that exist in the background, that generate most of their revenue. After all, all this technology and optimization is serving this end goal.

These platforms are not just harmful to individuals, but to society as a whole. I hope one day governments catch up to the harms they're doing, and regulate them just as they did for Big Tobacco and many other truly evil industries.
It might be required in that it's impossible to deliver continuously if changes are not integrated continuously, for some definition of "integrated".
Yeah maybe for Europe, but I'd think it wouldn't be too hard to plant them in Mexico and ship them to the US by truck.

Brazil's a big country too and it's not like all the bananas are grown an hour outside the cities or anything. These sit around in supermarkets, they're not delicacies you have to find at a farmer's market that go bad in a day or something.

I really wonder if the issue really is just lack of awareness. I can't count the number of articles I've read that basically lead you to think Cavendish is the only banana being grown at large scale anymore, when that's just not true.
They're testing features to let you "reset" your algorithm to improve content diversity. But even without that kids spend over 80 minutes a day on TikTok.
Educational outcomes may suck, but the school (facilities) will not.

The problem is really what is happening with the dollars spent ?

Its entirely OK for kids with more dollars to show worse outcomes than a school like Carmel, for exactly the reasons you cite.

HOWEVER, a school with difficult families and students that is well funded, should be outperforming similar other schools with less funds. But that's not the case.

And there is the whole philosophical discussion on whether burning cash for no outcomes, is worth it. Maybe that money should be going to other things that could have better bank for the buck (i.e. assistance for single mothers working)
I think the concerns about profit maximisation include externalities. For example, if somebody not party to a transaction is harmed by unsafe behaviour, that might not inhibit that behaviour from maximising profit for those who are party to the transaction.