skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This works in theory, if people abide by it.

However, in practice this sort of approach would likely mean people who don't have anything invested (especially new users) would create multiple accounts to be able to post multiple times.

Rate limiting only works well if there's a stickiness that makes changing accounts more difficult than waiting out the rate limit.

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While Stack Overflow was set up to handle moderation, the culture evolved to one that disdained any appearance of gate keeping, preservation of any attempt to answer, and that moderation and curation actions on a post were personal attacks on the individual who wrote it.

As tooling was taken away from community moderation and curation it became harder and harder to maintain quality. Additionally, the rule of 90-9-1 (aka The Rule of Participation Inequality - https://www.grazitti.com/blog/the-90-9-1-rule-is-over-its-ti... ) applied to people who are doing moderation and curating means that once it scales above a certain point it becomes impractical if not impossible to curate all of the incoming material.

A little more tweaking may have been possible a decade ago. However, both the culture of people asking questions and the corporate "engagement first" approach have made being a person trying to curate the material fighting against the tide.

There are 3.3k questions that have had a close vote cast that need more people to review them. There have been only 313 reviews today as I write this ( https://stackoverflow.com/review/close/stats ). And that's ignoring the countless thousands of reviews that have timed out.

year close tasks
2016 581,204 https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/340815
2017 .......
2018 440,336 https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/378415
2019 318,431 https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/392550
2020 225,745 https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/404558
2021 213,104 https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/415250
2022 96,495 https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/422885

A trend with community moderation is clearly visible and likely too far to be corrected with tweaking.
So it sounds like IPOs are basically preventing employees from dumping and it also sounds like other non-employees or registered shares can sell. Directly listing sounds a lot more fair than IPOs.
> I don't see how this is materially different from Axios' analysis?

Because Axios is saying:

> This raises major questions about the future viability of direct listings, which some companies believe are a more efficient alternative to IPOs. / In practice, SCOTUS told investors in direct listings that they should not rely upon information contained within stock registration statements. Given that giant warning sign, it's unclear why anyone would buy into a direct listing, and thus why any company would attempt one.

But this is ignoring the fact that you can still sue under section 10 (regular securities fraud) as opposed to section 11 (IPO fraud), which the Money Stuff article explains.

People will be no less willing to purchase shares in a direct listing than they are to purchase shares in any public company any day of the week.

Axios is claiming this will be a death knell for direct listings (their editorial opinion), while the Money Stuff article comes to no such conclusion. That's the material difference.
Licensing implies a choice. At a minimum, social media companies should be able to decide if they want to allow links to news companies and negotiate the rate.
I certainly agree that how you spend money could just encourage people to become homeless, I’d hoped to convey that idea by talking about percentage increases in the homeless population, since not every new homeless is going to be a transplant. I wish there were better guides as to what spending actually helps. I suspect soup kitchens are a general positive good, but they may only make it easier to be homeless by allieviating some of the pain. I personally think access to housing should be a basic constitutional right, but I’m also weary of things like projects and tenements which may purpetuate more problems than they help.

But I think we agree that this is not an easy issue.

Unrelated, I thought I was using affect correctly, but seeing sic in your quote and spending a few minutes googling, I still don’t know if effect was more correct than affect :/
It's impossible to know the author's intent of course, but I think the problem/confusion is the choice of the word 'impacted' - GP is saying essentially 'everyone is impacted, even if only a few are aware/care'.

Your reading I assume is impacted in the sense of thinking and worrying about it; affected (strictly speaking) by it.
This month I shall begin to identify as prepackaged cultured meat with a fully-functional neural net.

(It's OK, I'm an expert at Pong.)
Thank you!

Wish the ISPs would subscribe to this and blocked traffic from the abusive IPs in their networks

Clicked on a random IP on the front page, it said it’s from Palo Alto Networks in Santa Clara, that it was first reported in 2022 and the last report was 5min ago. So that IP has been doing shady stuff for months and it seems their ISP (Palo Alto Networks) doesn’t really care
A small note, to those who like Podcasts: Gilbert Strang has been on Lex's Podcast in 2019 (damn, time flies nowadays):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lEZPfmGCEk0
> Of course, capitalist critics online will never mention that capitalism drives down labor demand by incentivizing technological innovation.

I’d be delighted to concede that if it were true. To the extent capitalism does relieve demand for labor, it perpetually creates more demand however artificially, often explicitly on the arbitrary basis of labor itself as duty. To the extent it has yielded to a constant or increased demand for labor, it’s been a result of resistance to capitalism.
my mac doesn't have a touchpad, so the gestures are a little difficult.
Self-sufficiency is not a real metric when it comes to commodities. Wheat sells at the market rate to whoever buys it.
Okay. I'm talking about people particularly spending money on face to face interaction because they can clearly see everything else is subpar.

If your argument is that there won't be anyone to spend money, so even the jobs that AI can't replace won't be safe, then okay.
> Isn't the solution to simply duplicate the code and compare it before execution? Do it 3 times and use the majority

Yes, voting is a common way to deal with radiation or critical software. There are of course also complications about the voting software itself needing to also be redundant. Some can be done with hardware, or you can just radiation harden parts of the system (reducing overall cost).

This is definitely one of those problems where at a quick glance it seems like there's a few simple solutions that can resolve 90% of issues but when you dig into the weeds you find out that 20% dictates most of the outcomes and there's at most a 10% overlap with your quick/obvious solutions.
Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction

Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) - Second-Strike Capability : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction#Sec...

>Perfect detection

No false positives (errors) in the equipment and/or procedures that must identify a launch by the other side.

The implication of this is that an accident could lead to a full nuclear exchange.

During the Cold War there were several instances of false positives, as in the case of Stanislav Petrov[2].

[2] Stanislav Petrov : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

[2] 1983 Soviet Nuclear False Alarm Incident : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alar...
Properly they complained about who had control and would get the benefits of the new tech.

In earlier times, the ownership came out differently
> Caveat there is that the numbers are based on what US can observe through SWIFT trade, but Russia does most of its trade now in local currencies. So these numbers claiming revenue is down 43% aren't actually showing the whole picture. However, as the article admits, even that is still pretty significant.

No it's not, the budget deficit information comes from Russia itself.
Chomsky has proven to be a rather biased observer in the "yeahbutwhatabout" game. Which is saying something, considering his ethnic heritage and the fact that we're talking about Nazis.

If he and Kissinger were on fire and I only had one glass of water, I'd drink it.
markets are a construct of peacetime. self-sufficiency is not
Sorry, but this is not the way. It's like saying, "but I am escaping my inputs on sql with my function"... instead of doing the right thing.

The equivalent code is really not that hard:

const span = document.createElement('span')
span.setAttribute('class', 'fi fi'+msg.cc)
span.setAttribute('title', msg.cc)

col1.appendChild(span)
col1.appendChild(document.createTextNode(msg.src))

col2.textContent = msg.proto

let code = document.createElement('code')

code.textContent = msg.u
col3.appendChild(code)

code = code.cloneNode(true)
code.textContent = msg.p
col4.appendChild(code)

or something in these lines.. you get the idea
They claim the current wheat yield is 3.3 tons/hectare while the new variety has yield 10 tons/hectare, about a 3x difference.

What impact does this have on the micronutrient profile of the harvested crop? And does this result in faster depletion of those micronutrients from the soil, i.e. is it sustainable to harvest this crop?
I've had a few of these :)
Way back in the day, late 1980’s, I had access to a tank of helium. I would purchase packs of large ‘party’ balloons, inflate them, tie several of them together and then attach a strip of aluminum foil several feet long. I would then launch the balloons and watch the foil glisten in the sunlight as it ascended.

It was all fun and games until I launched one group that was slightly too heavy and it wrapped around a power line. I had some explaining to do.

I always wondered if the Air Force base that was relatively nearby could get a primary return on the foil.
I find it hard to drive through the Tenderloin without thinking “there is no fix for this”. Once someone has been homeless and into drugs for long enough, it’s going to be incredibly difficult to get them to fix their lives (if possible at all) for a good portion of them.

Beyond some massive investment in housing and recovery, it’s just going to continue not working. Prevention is the solution, we have to prevent it at all costs and do our best to ease the suffering of those who are stuck there now.

Unfortunately I think we’ll continue with half measures and the problem will remain unsolved.
Thinker vs empty humanoid (your typical actor/actress)
I have a strong suspicion a new Amazon Fire phone is coming. Last Prime day Amazon gave away $10 to any member who downloaded the Amazon Photos app. One has to ask what reason there is for that other than creating a smooth transition to a new mobile phone.
I believe conventionally they're called the Rust Evangelism Strike Force.

And it's true that the rotten wood was better than nothing. Nobody is suggesting that NT or Linux should somehow have been developed in Rust in the 1990s. But likewise we shouldn't resist renewal in newer, better materials.

That applies to compiler internals too. Plenty of trouble down there for C++, it's just that C++ programmers can more often be sent away by assuring them that what they did was UB and so LLVM is entitled to miscompile it whereas the Rust people keep arriving with the receipts, in the form of LLVM IR that is lowered to machine code which makes no sense

e.g. https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/45725
I used to play a mobile puzzle game with similar rules. I loved to make busy beaver solutions on the simpler levels.
Fair us what a contract says is fair. (not serious here, just making a point)
Ah. Thanks. Didn't read it all, seemed too clickbaity.
Anyone familiar with the governmental policies of Brazil? They mentioned deforestation twice to say that it's not a problem because this will be done on existing farmland. But, how long that will hold when there's money to be made?
That's not exactly a new thing. More people walked past the news stands and looked at the headlines than actually paid for a newspaper.

Traditionally though, news companies have paid for that attention. The kid on the corner yelling about the day's headlines, or TV ads "Tonight, on the 10:00 news:...".
I’m sorry but how is this not Cloudflare? I think I’m misunderstanding the question.
Anyone who used Windows Mobile or PocketPCs knew this was never going to happen.
> We only need teachers because they generate STEM grads.

Only? No professions would exist without teachers. Education is fundamental to our society, and has been for millenia. There's nothing more transformative than a good education.

> No science would mean 90% of the value in education is gone.

Again, I'm not saying that science is not important. It plays a critical role in driving other fields forward. But I'd argue that an average teacher and health care worker are more valuable to society than an average IT professional, while the discrepancy in pay between them is abysmal. We only care about health care workers in times of crisis, but then quickly forget about them when it's not trendy to call them "heroes" anymore.

> Until recently, the medical profession was literally leeching people until STEM stepped in with germ theory etc.

I'm not talking about scientific breakthroughs that push other fields forward. Those obviously deserve the merit and recognition they have received. I'm talking about the value of the average working class professional in these fields, and their relative salaries.

> The US pays salespeople, leaders, entrepreneurs, and engineers a ton of money. And it shows in the results.

What results? How is a software "engineer" working for an adtech or social media giant to build spyware valuable to society exactly? Or yet another startup peddling their bullshit product designed to lure in investors and make their shareholders rich? Or the sleazy sales people making all those deals happen? You're telling me that this is somehow more valuable than health workers literally saving people's lives, or teachers building future professionals?

One group lives in luxury, while the other can barely make ends meet working a much more stressful and laborious job. This shows in the results, alright.

Thinking that somehow our profession is more important is indicative of the tech bubble we're in. But I'm not surprised to see such mentality on this forum.
I think most of us get it via email as you can avoid a Bloomberg subscription that way.

But yes, I think that's the one.
Yes.

It’s like the old saying:

“Plans are nothing. Planning is everything”.

The work of estimating the effort for a project is worthwhile, even though the resulting estimate is worthless.
It reminds me of the gmail timing attack.

I can't find the link anymore and I don't remember it precisely but it was something like loading the auth page for a specific address in the background and depending on the load time you'd know if the person was already logged in with that address.

It assumed there was a specific list of people you were targeting whose address you already knew and you could show different content to a specific target.
70% of San Francisco’s homeless population self reports as struggling with drug abuse or mental illness in the Point in Time count. It’s not a conflation; it’s reality. That’s also why the tent camps cost $5k a month to staff security, medical workers, etc.
Ok so why has the average work day been dropping since the industrial revolution began.

If you respond with: well unions fought for it:

I'd say, that's partially true, but it wouldve only been possible if production efficiency grew, which it has been continuously over the past 300 years... because capitalism is the strongest driver of technological innovation.

Secondly, this whole thing about artificial demand is bunk because you aren't forced to consume it in the first place. You are free to live the life of a 19th century man, and you really don't have to work very hard for it, because producing 19th century level goods is very very cheap.
The Adam (optimizer) Roller Coaster (2018)
This is really only effective for password based logins, but most logins these days are key based
Agreed, but no one ever asserted that it is a quine no matter what. It is a quine that just so happens to still run after decay
Homeless in the Midwest freeze to death in winter. Sending them to Kansas is sending them to the electric chair.
Intel ME, as its own CPU, promiscuously listen for a certain Ethertype or UDP/TCP port.

it is optional to run an additional OS code from the main Intel CPU to gain access to Intel ME.

Intel ME's basic function is to display your monitor over network, monitor some hardware temp sensors, and reset the motherboard while your main Intel CPU is running or suspended (or even powered down).

since we cannot verify that Intel ME is only doing just that specific listening of network packet, because we do not have access to their source code (much less rebuild our own copy of Intel ME binaries); we cannot assume any modicum of correctness of Intel ME CPU operation (which has full unfettered access to all of your CPU memory) nor determine the level of maliciousness ... of your Intel ME.

it is "caveat emptor" from a computer security POV.
> Nah. AMD was already profitable in 2018. This is just big mismanagement.

Hindsight bias much?

How easily we forget in today's speculative AI bubble that AMD rolled into 2018[1] with 6.1x levered D/E and substantial business uncertainty while the Fed was actively ratcheting interest rates up, and ended the fiscal year still 3.3x levered despite turning operationally profitable[2].

> Had they done it well, just from the current AI hype the stock would probably be worth 50 bucks more.

It strikes me as pretty audacious and quite unconscionable to assert "big mismanagement" while simultaneously crying about speculative short-term profit taking opportunities.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2488/000000248818000...

[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2488/000000248819000...
In a previous job, the owner of the company would do all the fun parts of the engineering -- the brainstorming, the rough specs, the prototypes -- and leave the details and grunt work to everyone else. He was having a ball.
To be more accurate, the newspapers had a psuedo-monopoly, as they controlled what content got delivered to people's doorsteps. They made people pay huge amounts for classified ads and the like.

Now someone else controls the delivery mechanism, and they're passed.

They're still mad at Craigslist, but they don't make enough to be a worthwhile target.
correct. Then whoever can use whatever reader to format the stream however and whenever. All for free as far as your extra efforts go, we can put the time into writing better commit messages and we all win.
sophisticated is not a scientific word. they are complex and complicated, and the voltage dynamics across their elaborate membrane takes a lot of computers to simulate. But we don't really know what it is doing or if it is particularly sophisticated. Nature has found a lot of complex solutions to simple problems because it does not know better. We don't know how well it did with intelligence
Not to mention all the major powers had committed similar atrocities in their own pasts, and they all were racing to collect Nazi/Japanese scientists.
Is it not working for you? I see over 350 active users at the moment.

I did get one report that it was blocked by a corporate network because the domain was newly registered.
"... or $4750/mo. At those rates, we could be renting people market rate 1BD apartments"

A common misconception - but money is not housing. There are no extra 1BD units available. We could use this money to outbid other people to put the current homeless in those places, displacing others and somewhat increasing overall rent prices (and/or waiting lists). But I don't think that's what you intend.

In the end, if we want more people to have housing, then we have to allow more housing to be built. It's not (just) a money problem.
I speak Spanish, my real name is in my profile, I talked to a few of them pretty often. I’ll try not to baselessly insult you back.

More likely you don’t want it to be true.
I am skeptical of podcasts which reach a conclusion that is always within the overton window of the era. "This incredibly complex question has a solution that perfectly fits within the moral-mores of this decade." It is the John Oliver phenomenon, that starts with a pre-determined conclusion and then exclusively looks at evidence supporting the pre-determined conclusion.

In SF you're either a local or a transplant. A person who gets evicted, is by definition financially insecure. A local when evicted, can always move back in with family/friend unless their community disowns them. A transplant in a low-income job, has no reason to continue living in SF if they moved here for work. They can always move back.

SF's homeless crisis (last 20 years) is entirely due to a rise in homeless people with mental illness & substance abuse. [1] The key issue is drugs. 100%. Housing is the 2nd most important issue, no doubt. But, any blindly adopted housing first policy from a place without the same drug issues will fail, and will fail miserably.

[1] https://dynomight.net/img/homeless-crisis/coc/CA-San%20Franc...
Eichmann was not prosecuted until 1961. This prosecution was in Israel.
The number of crashes will go up because of this "safety" feature. And then we'll be stuck with this "safety" feature for decades till the govt gets their act together to undo what they did.

I'll keep my 30yo car with no computers as long as I can thank you very much.
There are only an extremely tiny number of SaaS products I have any interest in at all, because the megacorps already have everything, often for free/youretheproductware.

If there was an app I wanted, and I had the money, I would absolutely pay for it rather than self host. Most likely self hosting isn't a thing I'd even consider, or suggest to anyone, it just seems totally insane to DIY something that may well wind up costing more even if your time value is minimum wage like me.
i had the same question. I would guess no otherwise those devices would be flying off shelves like crazy.
> The drug use is a symptom that also exacerbates the problem.

Drug use may be a symptom in some cases, but very often is the cause. Either way, it isn't good.
When I was homeless, I was placed on a waiting list and sent to "my" freight elevator/park bench to count the days.

My number came up and I was called into an office. I was verbally introduced to a program that would take control of my finances and then send me wherever they had something available. Some of the cities mentioned might as well have been Kansas.

I said no thanks, I'll stay on the streets. I waited for a longer time and another program opened up. They didn't take control of my finances and they allowed me to choose exactly where I wanted to apply for a lease.

That was 20 years ago, and I have lived happily ever after.
Auto-sufficiency in 5 years and back to dependency in 25 years, after global warming decimates their agriculture.