skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the time I was dual booting to windows, and had just gotten my first ssd. I was a bit obsessed with boot time.
CEO of San Francisco-based Strava stepping down after layoffs, app bungles
I believe their secret sauce is mainly that they don't manipulate the feed for other factors than if it fits.

The Facebook feed used to work like that before 2013 something. You could clearly see the difference when they started optimizing for ads or what ever metrics they used. Posts could not go "viral" anymore in the way it used to. Zuckerberg capped the vitality so that companies had to pay I guess.
Portland auditor opens investigation into ShotSpotter for lobbying violations
I think debate on the causes of being gay or being trans sets off alarm bells for a lot of people because it feels like medicalization of it. Sure, it might be interesting to know why in a pure intellectual curiosity way, but more often than not veers into people talking about wanting to "treat" it: many gay and trans people are proud in their identity and just want to be accepted for it.
We should buy the assets put them in a social wealth fund (like Norway's). https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/projects/social-wealth-...

It's a very good way to get out of this feedback loop, and I don't ever see anyone mention this very obvious solution.* The linked paper shows all of the different mechanisms that it could be accomplished. But when people go bust, it's even more straight forward.

* Obviously, the reason it isn't talked about in main stream circles is that it would work really well (as it does in Norway and Alaska) and dispossess the ultra wealthy (and the ultra wealthy own those outlets). But thought I'd share the idea here if case people haven't been exposed to it.
I'm holding out hope for a grassroots educational campaign to tell young people that if they want families they need to have them early. Oddly enough it isn't that the last few generations have wanted kids any less, that percentage of people has stayed relatively constant. What happened is a lot of people decided to delay having a family in favour of a career or just enjoying their 20s and then found out the hard way what no one bothered to tell them; how difficult it is to conceive after 30. That means a good percentage of people that wanted to have children simply can't.

Even if we successfully turn the trend around there'll still be a generational gap that will cause a series of smaller generations going forward.
It depends exactly what you mean by understanding. It has a map of connections between word tokens that allow it to generate an output of word tokens that are useful to us, and which has now just recently been specifically trained for this particular problem domain. So now for these sorts of questions it no longer produces gibberish. None of that works in a way at all analogous to how the human brain processes language, reasons about concepts, or connects ideas beyond just words. It’s not meaning in the sense that we generally understand meaning.

If you take a step outside its trained response envelope, it will still fail hilariously generating meaningless drivel. It’s grasp of concepts just isn’t there, it has no concrete foundation. All it knows is word frequency weightings. Don’t get me wrong it’s amazing engineering, it’s probably going to be incredibly useful.
i just read "java is slow" as "java is slow to startup" and that helps.

Java is slow(er) to to startup, but once it's going, it's pretty good.
How to reduce the telemetry ingest costs of AWS IoT infrastructure by 84%?
Cloud infrastructure cost estimation is a tricky topic and I decided to write an article about it.

Using a simplified example I presented how to estimate the AWS IoT costs and reduce the telemetry ingest bill by 84%.

I hope it will be interesting for you!
No, I don't know that since I never got to experience it through web nor app. Maybe I need to own an iphone? Googling for it turned a ton of questions about poor audio quality and some hacks as potential solutions, not to mention often blaming user's hardware setup for it. YT Music is no shenanigans just works, and works great, solution.
Yeah, if you only try to publish the 'best' things (as the author puts it here), you'll never get anything done. You'll keep striving for perfection long past the point anyone else would consider it good enough, then maybe scrap the whole thing because you're your own worst critic.

Plus, that route is a great way to get stuck in the mires of feature and scope creep too. It's all too easy to just add 'one more tiny feature' or 'implement this idea you've had just now that'll be so awesome to see in a tool like this', and get stuck doing the same thing over and over again until your project has been stuck in development hell for a decade. See for instance, Duke Nukem Forever. In the 14 years that game spent in development, we could have had 3-4 Duke Nukem games instead, and it's probable at least one of those would have been better than what we eventually got.
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That's not an example of why this is false, it's an example of a conflict of interests.

The CEO, for example, needs to push for a compensation package that shareholders see as fair. If not, they can file a derivative lawsuit as a remedy.
No, this is bad people helping bad people.
You are just being apologetic to terrible behavior. Thus enabling terrible behavior.
Especially since it's the same people that usually are behind "taking down" individuals with false claims.
Most of us are not psychopaths, and we shouldn't normalize malignant psychopathy
I should have been more nuanced I suppose. There is a time and place for these kinds of image "enhancements", they just don't belong in ESRI's scientific GIS platform. Folks don't view these images for pleasure (or at least very few do), they are typically used to analyze the satellite data or georeference other imagery.

Deep learning image enhancement is totally appropriate in your smartphone, as there the goal is not accuracy but perceived quality. Doing this to satellite imagery where the primary consumer cares about accuracy is what I call "reckless"
There's no new information here. There is, however, some misinformation. The author makes the claim that the 'vaccines' don't stop infection and transmission due to mutations in the virus population.

In fact, in the case of Pfizer, they never even tested the product to prevent transmission. Naturally, they didn't admit this at first, which allowed public officials to make unfounded claims that legitimized their coercive polices.
Another interpretation is that Twitter made up a wholly new breed of crime to silence a political candidate they didn't like (while allowing other world leaders to openly call for genocide), bent over backwards to protect one they did like (despite the news stories being factual), accepted false accusations of Russian interference as justifications to do so despite internally knowing this was false, censored critics at the direct request of the federal government, and accepted monetary renumeration for same.
The linked answers actively counteract this. Fiduciary duty is to the corporation, not the shareholders. The shareholders have certain limited rights but you don't have any duty to maximize their returns.
By passing a new law, termed a "chapter amendment". These are agreed upon by the governor and the legislature in advance of the governor's signature and passed and signed rapidly thereafter.
There's photos of Starlink receivers on drones.

Recent incarnations of Starlink software work just fine while moving. It's a software problem not a hardware one.
If I could rely an external system to "empty" my mind, then clean out the cobwebs and build some mental shelves... and then reintroduce those contents... I'd pay for that.
I get where you're coming from, but I have on occasion wanted a fairly simple one-trick-pony sort of SPA. Think a GNU userland tool, not Word.

Thinking outside the node-vue-kitchen sink sort of development box is a good idea. Maybe you don't have a grand idea, maybe you just have a kinda neat idea. Punch that thing out fast and light. You can always grow it bigger, but maybe you don't need to.
An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions
FOSDEM talk about Fedora CoreOS, Ubuntu Core, openSUSE MicroOS, and Bottlerocket OS and how they all tackle the single purpose problem in their own way.
Yep.

I wonder if it serves any psychological purpose. I think not but I honestly don't know. Maybe it would scare a few would-be-stalkers from doing it... but I doubt it.
> regardless of how dissatisfying they are.

Why would people spend time watching dissatisfying videos?

> content that connects deeply

I'd say "parasocially".

But how does the app measure that? It makes decisions based on a few seconds of watch time.
It could optimize for "show videos that trigger donations", but that's kind of trivial.
I just can’t fathom how these AI work. It seems like impossible to me
I think emotional intelligence starts with empathy for others. That’s why I would encourage you to refrain from divisive statements like “lots of developers are dumb and stupid”.
I've founded my own startup and even then I wish I had spent more time on good code. I wasn't alone in it, and definitely got pushed away from that by cofounders. But the startup lasted a long time and it would've been worth it.
Large cities don’t usually have one unlimited monthly plan, you pay for your specific route or zone(s).
The Princeton study actually showed that when it comes to advancing policies, it was pretty much a wash.

Their difference came in when looking at getting policies blocked. If a policy was unpopular with economic elites, they were effective at getting it shut down.

It’s an important distinction, because there’s a clear way to see what causes this behavior. There are a myriad of ways that our systems make it easy to block things rather than get things done. And if people realized that, there’s a pretty clear path for reform.
>>what stops companies from ruthlessly exploiting workers, selling products that damage society, polluting the environment, et cetera ...?

When the companies engage in the ordinary big-business practice of regulatory capture, absolutely nothing.

It is just treated as a game to be hacked. And hack it, they do.

Because according to your standards, companies don't need to treat everyone fairly (as a good citizen), but the govt must treat them fairly.

That's how earlier this week we saw headlines that Tesla employees in Buffalo NY were organizing a union drive. Then the very next day, we see headlines that Tesla has fired 10 workers, the ones organizing it.

It is illegal as hell, but they did it anyway. Why? Because Tesla knows that it'll take years for all the hearings to work their way through the courts, and the result will be a fine, which they can appeal, and delay further. Meanwhile, they figure the end cost will be less than having to deal with giving workers a fair deal. So, despite all the "excess govt regulation", the workers get exploited and screwed.

It is also how Norfolk rail donated to both Trump and the Ohio gov and had regulations eased, e.g., requiring fewer workers on trains and not needing to update their technology with "extra" brakes. And now we have an environmental disaster as a result. And those costs will be 'socialized' to the taxpayers and victims in the town, while the company keeps most of it's profits (it will not pay even a small fraction of the costs and it will be years from now).

So yeah, the govt structurally CAN NOT be as nimble as the companies, so the companies exploit that weakness. Great for them. Sucks for society.

I'm not saying they're all bad or evil, but this over-simplistic "shareholder value only" concept /structure is not good for a sustainable society or even for sustainable corporations.
Indeed. The real solution is:

- Delete Twitter

- Delete Facebook

- Try not to be a dick in general

And regular people will be fine.

As to the level of surprise we should feel for bad people paying for reputation management, and the reputation management company using shady tactics, the answer is none.
Nicely said. Alan Kay talks a lot about this.
The Spiffing Brit did a video on YT Premium revenue [0]. My understanding is all the money from all the premium subscribers is thrown into a big pool, of which YouTube takes 45% (or whatever their share is) right off the bat. Then, they take each Premium subscribers’ total watch time across all the channels they watched videos on, and split the remaining money based off of total premium subscriber watch time to each channel.

For example, imagine there are only three YouTube channels out there, The Spiffing Brit, Pewdiepie, and MrBeast. There’s $1,000,000 USD remaining in the pot for the month (or pay period, I’m not sure how regular the payouts are) after YouTube takes their cut. In sum total, YT Premium subscribers watched 100,000 minutes of content: 50,000 minutes to MrBeast, 40,000 minutes to Pewdiepie, and 10,000 minutes to The Spiffing Brit. The payouts would be calculated using:

revenue_share_ratio = sum_channel_premium_watch_time / sum_global_premium_watch_time

channel_premium_payout = global_premium_payout * revenue_share_ratio

So:

MrBeast:
revenue_share_ratio = 0.50 = 50,000 / 100,000
channel_premium_payout = 500,000 = 0.50 * 1,000,000

Pewdiepie:
revenue_share_ratio = 0.40 = 40,000 / 100,000
channel_premium_payout = 400,000 = 0.40 * 1,000,000

The spiffing brit:
revenue_share_ratio = 0.10 = 10,000 / 100,000
channel_premium_payout = 100,000 = 0.10 * 1,000,000

A bit of a contrived and simplified explanation I’m sure, but as far as I am aware the formulae they use to divvy up the money between creators is as straight forward as it gets. Money out per creator = global money in total * (creator minutes total / global minutes total)

[0]: https://youtu.be/NLO5-IyS5pE
Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Launches New Murabba Development Co.,Downtown Riyadh
But he’s talking about Abnb
Being barely over 50% doesn't account for the amount of bias that ChatGPT shows.
Have you tried LSD or psilocybin for your migraines? I believe there is a pretty decent body of evidence that they are effective, even at small doses that don’t make you trip.
Tour of large American high school goes viral
We can blame HN for providing social engineering tools to make this status permanent, even in a society in decline?
hey qq which side is actively stripping books from school libraries?

how many times in the last two years has a "woke" activist done a mass shooting targeting a specific group?

Like there is simply no excuse for what you are endorsing here. You can blame le wokisme all you want but people are literally being killed over this culture war bullshit you're pushing and you know that by now.
> Why is TikTok's feed so addicting?

What's addicting about it? Admittedly it kept me entertained the first day or two that I used it, but from that point forward it never wavered from the content that entertained me that first day and soon it became really boring to see the same type of thing over and over, leaving no remaining appeal.

Because everyone talks about how great the recommendation engine is, and me wanting to find great content, I went back to it after a while to see if they fixed the problem. But no, still the same content that bored me away from the app the first time.
They don't want an ostensibly civilian system being reclassified as a military system and thus be subject to export restriction under things like ITAR which restricts export of any military hardware. That would prevent them from say selling to many countries.
All that brilliance and knowledge, used to get vulnerable, suggestible teenagers addicted to mind-numbing, anxiety-inducing media. The shame of software engineers is that we have been used to create 1000s of these inhuman products.
Asking people to run nightly (essentially modern alpha/aurora) or beta is asking people to use an insecure browser with bugs.

Firefox not allowing people to control their own browser and install add-ons, enable features, etc without their permission was the end of Firefox for me (back in version 37). This move to trade freedom for "security" for the technologically ignorant ended up providing neither. Especially considering the security theater that is the automated signing portal. The only benefit to all this is the ability to revoke after the damage is done widescale enough to be known.

There are the un-branded builds of Firefox that are not buggy and do not restrict your software freedoms for no purpose. Unfortunately Mozilla has disabled auto-updates in the unbranded builds so you have to manually install the a new full browser for every little update. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#Unbranded...
> It was my impression lobbyists usually write the bills themselves

Here's a fairly recent example:

> When the legislation that became known as "Obamacare" was first drafted, the key legislator was the Democratic Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, whose committee took the lead in drafting the legislation. As Baucus himself repeatedly boasted, the architect of that legislation was Elizabeth Folwer, his chief health policy counsel; indeed, as Marcy Wheeler discovered, it was Fowler who actually drafted it.

What was most amazing about all of that was that, before joining Baucus' office as the point person for the health care bill, Fowler was the Vice President for Public Policy and External Affairs (i.e. informal lobbying) at WellPoint, the nation's largest health insurance provider

...as Wheeler wrote at the time: "to the extent that Liz Fowler is the author of this document, we might as well consider WellPoint its author as well."

To add insult to injury, the same lobbyist was later put in charge of drawing up the rules to implement the law.

>More amazingly still, when the Obama White House needed someone to oversee implementation of Obamacare after the bill passed, it chose . . . Liz Fowler.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/05/obamac...

Once the implementation rules were set, she returned to lobbying for the health care industry, this time at Johnson and Johnson.

Liberal icon Bill Moyers did a segment on this for his PBS show and it was as close to being openly pissed off on air as I'd ever seen him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ5tj4cN9Jk
A conservative history would emphasize more the contingency of the scientific process and the fact that it wasn’t inevitable that we’d get where we got.

Extending this: the Whig story on contemporary science (sp. as it affects policy) is that this is the best science because scientists have been improving it forever, while the conservative story is that maybe the scientists are wrong now, they’ve so often been wrong in the past.
That's a lot of words to say "commercial vendors are seeking a magic bullet to lower the employee cost of offering Linux support packages", it's essentially like recipe spam seen on cooking sites.
Well, that's one shoe. How long before the get the other one?
Even in the suburbs here in the Northeast, things are physically close enough to each other that you could get to quite a lot without a car. We often don't build in such a way that it's comfortable to do so though.

I've just moved to a suburb of Philadelphia. I'm on a quiet residential street, but there's a train station to Philly about an 8 minute bike ride away (with trains every 7ish minutes at rush hour), and the route is reasonably comfortable. Likewise there's a main street about a 5 minute ride away with several restaurants and shops, and the neighboring towns are similar. (Riding on the main street itself is less comfortable, but there's at least a documented plan to add bike infrastructure.)

There's also a big-box shopping center that would be a 12 minute ride away, but there's currently no safe route there without a car. That's a policy choice though, there's nothing about the distances involved that would make it infeasible.

Despite all this, I would guess that my neighborhood doesn't fundamentally look much different than those you're familiar with. It's maybe slightly more compact, but unless you're really far out there my guess is it's just better-connected.

Not showing my actual house for obvious reasons but this is representative: https://maps.app.goo.gl/MidgjesXcKjgTFnt9
Previously:

"ShotSpotter requests to be held in contempt rather than disclose its methodology" discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32258854

"ShotSpotter defamation lawsuit against Vice has been dismissed" discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31958201

"Lobbying and lawsuits: How ShotSpotter convinced Portland to spend big on gunshot detection", OPB: https://www.opb.org/article/2022/11/07/shotspotter-convinced...,

"How ShotSpotter fights criticism and leverages federal cash to win police contracts", NBC: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/shotspotter-police-guns...

"Deployment of Controversial Urban Sensor System Aided by Aggressive Lobbying", The Intercept: https://theintercept.com/2015/03/26/rapid-deployment-shotspo...
Fair point. My car has served me a lot longer than my laundry machines, and it indeed has many more memories connected to it. Now I'm wondering if that's unique to my car or any old object that been close to me for 15 years. I guess I have a simple backpack like that too.
UIs above a certain level of complexity are highly dynamic and have a rich graph relationship between parts. Garbage collection in Java and .NET are workable answers for that kind of application, Rust's borrowing model is not because there are objects in a GUI that are not "owned" by any other object but really exist to serve multiple objects and doing that in Rust is like expecting a checkers playing program to play chess.
Surely we can come up with a better term than "anti-car" laws. In virtually all the cases I've seen they're basically attempts to reverse over-dedication to car-specific infrastructure of precious urban space - i.e. to use that space for something that improves the urban environment for everyone - and yes, often including those who realistically have no choice but to drive (delivery vans etc.). Cars are great for many things, but most of reasons they're not are because so many of us are given few realistic alternative choices due to the nature of how our cities have been built (which we had very little collective say in), hence we all end up using them for almost every journey, with predictable consequences. It doesn't make sense to consider attempts to fix that as "anti-" anything.
I wonder how many of these websites are presently being used as citations to lock whitewashed claims made about clients on their Wikipedia pages.
Doesn’t really help the person who was murdered after being stalked, but congrats to Tile on the new revenue stream I guess...