skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn’t seem right. Come on YouTube!

Edit: it’s to prevent another Jan6… hmm

“The division of Alphabet Inc.’s Google said the new policy will take effect on Friday.
“In the current environment, we find that while removing this content does curb some misinformation, it could also have the unintended effect of curtailing political speech without meaningfully reducing the risk of violence or other real-world harm,” the company said in a blog post. “With that in mind, and with 2024 campaigns well underway, we will stop removing content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US presidential elections.”
YouTube and other social media companies have been under pressure since the 2016 US presidential election to ensure their platforms are not manipulated to spread political misinformation. YouTube said in December that it had taken down more than 10,000 videos related to the US midterm elections for violating its policies on election integrity and other guidelines. Some of those videos were removed for promoting the falsehood that the 2020 US presidential election was stolen.
YouTube said Friday it would continue to ban content that misleads people about how to vote, advances false information that could dissuade people from voting, and promotes interference with elections. Axios earlier reported the company’s policy shift.“
The chips were probably from a previous session.
Protestant work ethic, innit. Both Capitalism and Communism are economic systems born of Northern Europe.
at least one study found that COVID outcomes weren't any different in people who had donated blood who had HCoV antibodies vs. those without.
In retrospect doesn't the experience of places like Florida back this claim?
I didn't say that fyi, your statement here does not reflect my feelings.

The headline doesn't either, because Earth has been very hot in the past.
I've built a hybrid task queue/process supervisor on top of SQL. Classical task queues like Celery didn't exactly fit our use case: a single process could run for hours or days, but in case of a node failing, it must be resurrected elsewhere as soon as possible (within seconds). I didn't have the time to re-architect everything for Kubernetes, or rewrite half the product in Erlang; so I built that weird thing. It's been super stable, running mission critical code, and making us money - for several years now.
Even writing fiction need some grip on reality. Supplying all pertinent facts is usually too tedious for users.
Yes! I failed on subjects consistently in school. College I went to would be laughable with my peer group. I attribute any and all professional or other success I have had in my life to my curiosity. I work at the biggest of bigtech in the valley and feel proud to have made it here on my own and my luck. Although the imposter syndrome is something I carry every minute of my work life. Anywhere you go here you have people that are academically superior to me. But I seem to go toe to toe with some and that has helped me a little bit in dealing with the syndrome.

I learned very late in life that there is “smart” and there is academically strong. You can have the former without the latter. For years I believed both to be the same and until I grew up and met academically strong people who extremely clueless in most aspects of their lives.

I am not saying I am Good Will Hunting here. Far far from it. All I am trying to say there is hope. Don’t let other people and/or societal and cultural norms define you. Let your skills and your knowledge define you. Education and grades more about winning the signaling game and I fully admit that it does give one a little bit of a leg up. But that’s not the only way. Good luck!
I don't get the subject of the suit. Is it that people can't cross private property to get to public land? Can someone explain?
What is your actual contribution to society? I'm going to assume you work at some useless startup (like most of us) that will be gone in a few years, having left nothing useful to society.

Is your work really helping society?
The author actually used "soda pop." I've heard plenty of people say "soda" or "pop." But I usually associate "soda pop" with the way people talked in the 1920's - 1940's.

Wikipedia has an entire article on Names for Soft Drinks in the United States [1], but it only says "soda pop" is first attested in 1863, and "is used by some speakers, especially in the Mountain West" without a source for that specific claim.

A Merriam-Webster search [2] says Steve Forbes used it in his magazine in 2021, but his biography says he grew up in New Jersey and has mostly lived on the East Coast.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_soft_drinks_in_the_U...

[2] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soda%20pop
More about the soc here: https://riscv.org/blog/2022/06/xuantie-c906-tops-mlperf-tiny...
Any price is too much. 99% of the time 99% of people in university are not learning anything cutting edge, they're learning old things to prepare them to learn new things. There are plenty of works out of copyright (or that never were in copyright) that can be used themselves, or that could be stitched together to create complete courses.

This seems like a basic thing that governments should be doing, but governments never do anything that would "crowd out" rent-seekers, because they're the servants of rent-seekers.

Maybe, if you're a multi-billionaire, use one of those billions to put together enough unencumbered material to fill a wide-ranging university program? Or if you're a university, while you're committing to open-access, make a commitment to your students that all of the materials that they'll need will be available freely, on the net, if at all possible? So many billions sloshing around, so many people claiming the problem is so complicated, when it looks very simple. It's as manufactured a problem as the idea that taxes are so complicated that the IRS can't figure them out.

edit: and succinctly,

> I think that high textbook prices is one of the many little signals we sent young people, for the last 3-5 decades, that we are not interested in creating a better world for them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36186362
This is comedic level of corruption.

Reminds me of the post communists Eastern European country I grew up in -- you piss off someone, a call is made, you get demoted or reassigned to a dead end post.

Separately, the minority bias angle seems a bit forced to me: is the percentage of white card holders large enough to explain a significant percentage of observed ticketing racial bias? I very much doubt it.
Obligatory HN details:

- No CSS on the page

- No JS on the page

- Gif for image

- Static site hosted using Nginx and plain old /www folder

- For some reason, reasonably responsive on mobile

Did I miss anything ? Oh yea, superfast page load.
I wonder if a clever enough driver+firmware could make that hot-adjustable (or truly unified, rather) with nothing but a software patch. It sounds like the pieces are all there.
Completely correct? GBD advocated letting SARS-CoV-2 rip through the general pop BEFORE vaccines while "targeting" protection of the elderly, which of course no country managed to do, particularly their poster-child Sweden. Now GBD fans pretend Sweden was a success story when any observation of the COVID impact on Sweden vs their neighbors through the vaccine rollout shows a completely different story. (Sweden had ~10x death rate of bordering Norway for first year of pandemic.)

Also GBD pretends mortality is the only worthy metric. There's such a thing as morbidity as the millions of people with Long COVID would like to discuss.

But Bhattacharya and friends with strong connection to Hoover Inst have a particularly nice revisionist view of their early work:

* Go on Fox and other media to downplay SARS-CoV-2 before we even know what's going on.

* Write seroprevalence papers with suspect specificity (changed between v1 and v2 of pre-print due to outrage from stat experts) that don't describe how the visual tests were interpreted, why they differ from the CZI BioHub paper's measurement of the Premiere test, or why a pathologist running ELISA tests to verify wanted off the paper.

* Stand by while friends like Scott Atlas make a media tour saying the seroprevalence paper suggests as many as 10,000 dead from COVID. Thus a fair portion of our population decides COVID is just the flu, and some of the GBD supporters still think it's "just a cold" despite the incredible evidence we have that it's much much worse (for example, see Iwasaki's work) and there's the little matter of over 1 million Americans dead.

* Then write the GBD before we have the vaccine or have any real public effort to try to protect the elderly.

On the bright side, Bhattacharya has been a proponent of the vax and many people (including me) agreed that targeted protection of elderly was very important. It's just that the revisionist commentary from his supporters is they were the only ones saying it. Completely false.
The problem is the phrase "the solution is". Most political problems with solutions so simply stated are nothing more than wishful thinking, and fails to fully understand the problems entirely.
I'm not sure lecturers profit off textbooks. What you are witnessing is more likely indifference and hubris from the academics than a deliberate strategy to extract more money out of students. This doesn't make it less unethical, but unless it's a textbook they themselves authored, it's probably not a conflict of interest.
This is definitely a step in the wrong direction. No amount of "investing in making your docs better" solves the very human issues of fatigue and burnout even from your best writers/engineers/etc. Docs tend to be an afterthought unless your project is extremely funded or you have someone on the team that understands the exponential value writing the docs has long term.

The whole point of OSS docs is that you empower the community who reads your docs to self-correct them while your skeleton product crew holds the ship down. Now even with ChatGPT, this becomes an even more powerful tool for the average AWS reader to open a quick PR making a doc better.

A huge shame, especially to now overburden your teams directly with low-impact low-quality feedback tickets that could be picked up by the person filing it themselves and completed in minutes.
the mods also use third party tools that use the api to make modding their subreddits easier. All of those tools will die, given the api costs, making the mods do more work if they want to continue.
I think it’s a fair assessment that NY Times opinion articles have a far left bias and their news articles have a left of center bias.

I think it’s a fairly accurate chart in my experience overall.
I've been following this since it erupted and am currently developing something that I hope will either enable the Reddit community to transition to a new home or force Reddit to abandon its paid API plans.

The first step in my plan is to implement a read-only API proxy which does not use Reddit.com's API but instead scrapes the necessary data. This should cover 80% of the API traffic, if it works then third-party apps will be able to transition their apps to this new API. So if Reddit does put their API behind a paywall there will be a way for developers to avoid at least some of the ludicrous costs.

I already have next steps in mind, but they really depend on what Reddit does. I sincerely hope they reassess what they are doing with their API.
Washington Examiner was just the first link I found. Many other outlets have reported this story. Perhaps the Examiner's reporting of the recount is tendentious, but the fraud (that was proven in court) didn't happen during the recount, it happened when over a thousand felons voted illegally, and their votes were counted and included in the final tally. If your really doubt all the news reporting on these, I'm sure you can find the records of the court cases, or the Minnesota Majority report.

> The WaPo and NYT both regularly issue corrections to their news reporting.

You may want to do a web search for "NYT stealth edit".

On the subject of media bias more broadly, I recommend this blog post (author is a liberal): https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-media-very-rarely-...
Consider a chessboard. A white space at the centre surrounded by eight squares, four white on the corners, four black on the edges. I own the black squares. The white squares are public lands. How can one cross from the outside white squares to the inside one without passing through my land or its air rights?
> If you work more than 40 hours per week, you can request overtime pay

Or you can request TOIL - Time Off In Lieu. That is a system designed to allow flexibility. Some jobs can't simply clock off when doing certain tasks. Provided it is agreed upon at contract negotiation time (ie the hiring process) then TOIL/overtime rates can work well for everyone.

Our (UK for me/EU) Employment Tribunals have a lot of power and a lot of law that generally favours the employee but also strives towards equitability. For the last 20+ years I hire but I still recall what being hired is like. I have found time and time again that being fair and open pays back in absolute spades. A pissed off employee is simply a burden and a cost. You can't please everyone all of the time but if you are known for fairness, that goes a long way.

I won't give you a shitload of money until you earn it for me 8) I too buy my own lunch and all other meals as required to live. I sometimes (always) need to be forced (cough reminded) to claim when we are contracting on a job that has allowances built in.

Some top tips for employees (EU/UK - perhaps others too): Do make sure you get things ironed out at the hiring stage. At the very least some things defined, written down and signed: Get place of work defined eg town/city - in the event of TUPE you may be required to move but if you have a defined place of work then you have all the aces! Get rates defined and a formal process for review. Hours of work. Responsibilities. Industry specifics. Read up on HR and how it works: you will be sat across the table with an expert in the law and how to err get the best out of you for the company which may not match up with your ideas. Do read up on all your govt provided advice - the GOV.UK stuff is pretty decent.

Basically: you have a duty to yourself to do your own due diligence, so please do it! You can expect to be treated reasonably fairly but you may not like the outcome so get the pack stacked fairly or at least not against you.
Care to add any counterarguments?
I think it's only available when creating a VM, you cannot change after the VM has been created.
Only a--reasonably and relatively; no society is perfect--just and civil society provides (over a sufficiently long time horizon) the kind of stability and structure that allows the rich to stay rich. Which doesn't mean that you can't get rich in other societies, of course. But, broadly and historically speaking, having to expend those riches directly on men who will harm and kill for you has something of an expiration date, usually around when they realize they can just take more than you'd be paying them.

That's to say that functional courts and a state that acts as the only legitimate applicator of force tends to be a lot better for the rich, and those too fall (or themselves turn on the rich, too) when they stray too far from the line.
Can you expand on this at all? Is it consciously better, or was the presence of work devices subconsciously affecting you? Did you notice particular improvements, or ...
Cards in the same bracket offered the same amount of VRAM 8 years ago to be fair.
Blink 1.0
With all respect, fuck this. We can build platforms that won't be enshittified, we just choose not to, and throwing our hands up and saying "oh well! guess it's human nature to make everything bad in the name of shareholder value!" is a cop-out.
I would love to discuss these topics in detail in person with someone like you. I am completely unconcerned about climate change or AI yet very concerned about how my child will interact with your child when their concerns are vastly different.
Java 21: No more public static void main
One interesting thing about the South Pole is that its elevation above sea level is roughly 3000m / 9000':

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole

So things like cooking can be challenging because the boiling point of water is much lower than 100C. Also I've heard of issues with computer/electronics equipment working differently (because of less/thinner air moving through fans).
Becoming strange in the Long Singularity
Didn't openai / chatgpt explicitly say they WILL train on your prompts? I think that may have changed recently but I don't think it's conspiracy theory thing, I think it was in EULA
America is just as corrupt as any other country on the planet.
Which parts of it ignore economics and human nature?
> It costs about $7000 in Europe (the price seems to be similar in different country even though there is no EU wide collective negotiation).

That seems like a monthly price? The treatment regimen in this study is daily for 3 years.

It's hard to find out what drug prices really cost as there are a lot of discounts and negotiations behind the scenes but the best source in this instance would be a cost-effectiveness study which uses local data and happens to be a hot-topic in every national cancer society so is widely available.

EU and US pricing isn't too far off with both being ~130k USD a year give or take.

> it seems to cost ~1500 in India for instance.

There were generics, and there probably still are in parts of the world but they're technically "illegal". AstraZeneca shut down a few and there are pending countersuits against them.

https://www.fiercepharma.com/pharma/astrazeneca-staves-last-...
A part of me really wants to see this kind of thing revived by projects like IPFS, but somehow it just isn't happening. If IPFS had been a thing in the early 2000's, the first thing to be uploaded would have been porn, followed closely by music, movies, video games and textbooks.
Tax payers end up fronting the bill for all this bad behavior :-/.
On the sysadmin side, I don't have much experience. There might be opportunities out there for side "jobs". I would try posting on subreddits that allow it, and the monthly HN thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35773705. You might find someone who needs something fixed up as a 20 hour gig over a few weekends or something.

If you learn about SOC2 or something like that, then a "SOC2 fixer for linux boxes" is definitely something companies would outsource on a contract basis. SOC2 creates a tonne of temporary work (so they won't want to hire more people for it) that is specialist and distracting from the main development goals. The work might include things like creating evidence that a linux box meets various controls needed by an auditor. I think it would become a 90% knowing what tool/approach kind of job, and not deep thinking.

On the more speculative side, I think something that sysadmins have that most of us don't (most of us clicking around in the cloud) is a deeper knowledge of Linux, and knowledge of older tools that are better than the modern cloud equivalents - either cheaper, simpler, more reliable or less lock in. So if you are a knowledgeable "old man yells at cloud" type you could make some books/resources and sell them. This is a lot of work before money comes in because you need to write a book (no small feat ... but can be less than a published book - 40 pages is OK) and then market it. But simple Show HN, posing to reddits can get you going. Then write a blog where you have free tips, and share them occasionally as you post on forums when it is appropriate.
> the vast, the vast majority of the population

The plan specifically is to (somehow) isolate vulnerable people and only "let er rip" for the rest of us. I'm skeptical on how this could have actually worked (or how well it actually did work in Florida), but that's the actual proposal.
It's timewasting to try to keep going with this, but it is nonetheless fascinating, the level of cognitive dischord in the rhetoric. A ransom is paid to someone who has taken something that belongs to you; implying that Facebook somehow inherently has the right to do whatever they like, wherever they like, and if our appointed public representatives decide they have something to say about that, the brigands are the ones who legitimately have the right to set policy for how business is done in our country.

It's not quite a gish gallop, but the time investment to engage directly is far too high.
That being said, there's also a difference between progress and meeting goals. Employees can put in 100% for a full 8 hours and still miss a deadline (poor scheduling, issues/roadblocks that arise, or maybe they're not good at the job). I think a lot of the tension between management and workers is because much modern work isn't assembly-line-deterministic x widgets-per-hour.
Almost twice the bandwidth of the rx580, from April 2017. About the same msrp.

It'll be interesting to see how this holds up versus Intel, whose been doing pretty ok at this price point. Intel's initial launch was pretty rocky but the drivers have gotten much much faster already.
I don't know about how IPFS is implemented, but you could use content-addressed blocks underneath every file too. This way flipping a bit means that only one underlying block changes, and that the new file would share N-1 blocks with the previous one, making redistribution only require sharing a single block.
That's not quite the whole story.
The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Way_of_Death
The fractal brokenness of the Thunderbolt ecosystem in Windows is... something. I was hoping that USB4 would at least make it a little nicer by confining failure modes to PCIe not working while the USB tree worked as normal since the USB tree was native, but my Asus motherboard with built-in USB4 not infrequently manages to get itself into a state where DisplayPort and downstream PCIe devices work while USB devices plugged into a USB4 hub don't.

(also an older Asus with its TB3 expansion card only worked at all in Windows if you disabled the "enable Windows support" option in the BIOS, which is an interesting choice)
Live dashboard of carbon dioxide removal purchases
Hypervisor.framework provides only the bare necessities: the ability to manage vCPUs, stage 2 page tables, and handle hypervisor exits. It does not do any sort of virtualization except for the CPU itself (which, on ARMv8, is very little due to hardware providing good primitives already). Virtualization.framework is full operating system virtualization suitable for running modern Linux and macOS guests.
We don't have teleportation devices or antigravity shoes because making those things is not possible, and you can't make impossible things possible by throwing money at them.

And of course this becomes worse if you're using other people's money. If you're throwing your own money at an impossible task, you'll run out (or your investors will run out). If you're collecting the money as taxes and then throwing it at the impossible task, you can waste as much of it as you want. If you're telling people "do this impossible task or I shoot you", you end up doing a lot of shooting and not much teleporting.
> A good reddit alternative needs to offer something fun. It can't just be a link dump/political soapbox, because reddit is already a link dump/political soapbox.

Huh? If reddit is a political soapbox for you, you're not subscribed to the right subreddits. They already offer something fun by default: the homepage consists of nearly only funny posts when I open it in a private tab right now. And that formula clearly worked
And that’s why I love pipelines. McIlroy’s solution and explanation are succinct and clear, and the solution itself easily and readily expandable and repurposable. Bravo.