skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is also a lot of garbage of the "yeah, duh, of-fucking-course" variety. studies like "negative interactions with community reduce feelings of belonging" ... uh yeah, no shit sherlock.

The importance of these studies are often not the expected results, but the average magnitude of the effect, and the parsing out of confounders.

Do chronic minor negative interactions have more of an effect on feelings of belonging than a single major negative interaction? This has policy implications.

What are the effects of negative interactions on highly social versus highly non-social individuals? What sorts of coping mechanisms do these two very disparate groups use to deal with negative community interactions?

I can think of a bunch more questions answerable by this type of research that don't have obvious answers. The importance of these questions depend on the magnitude and confounders of the original question.

> I think we just need to stop calling sociology papers "scientific". Fundamentally, they are not

They are, or are capable of being, as scientific as Darwin's crude observations of finch phenotypes.
I dont touch type in a proper way most of the time I'm typing with little more than three fingers plus a thumb (two fingers plus a thumb on my dominant hand, and one finger on my non-dominant), but I still manage about 80 WPM on a QWERTY keyboard without looking at the keyboard. When I switch to a full size Model M type, I do use more digits, but not alot more.
I learned to use the Dvorak keyboard and was quickly as fast, and then faster than Querty. That's not what interesting. I felt like my brain was unencumbered with the additional motor control required of the Querty layout, resulting in improved memory and cognitive ability while I was typing. I would love to see this effect experimentally tested.
This is working as intended. At least in the United States.

Early in the history of the country, we experimented with evicting the entire government when party changed hands, all the way to individual post offices. It turned out to be ridiculously inefficient. It turns out institutional knowledge is extremely important, and institutions are generally terrible at writing everything down that the next person will need. Imagine trying to conduct a business with 95% turnover every 2 years.

As a result, we intentionally established standards for employment and safeguards against arbitrary firing of unelected bureaucratic officials. The elected officials have control over setting policy and, in the long-term, deciding the criteria by which the unelected officials retain their jobs.

None of this implies that the unelected officials are unaccountable. They are held accountable by our elected officials. But that process does require the elected officials to do their homework and, to some extent, understand the Chesterton's fences that exist in the system. A failure mode I observe is that we seem to keep trying to solve the problem by electing conspiracy nuts who are then basically ignored because they try to approach the problem of reining in unelected bureaucracy from the "Why don't you show us the secret UFO tapes?" direction instead of the "The president needs a full accounting of how many terabytes of data have been stored for terrorism fighting purposes" direction.
There's lot of accepted sorting algorithms [1]. I'm sure we can come up with novel new algorithms, even if they're not optimal. Like Wikipedia mentions, they all fall within some small number of higher level categories (eg. Partitioning, Merging, Selection, Insertion). I'm still not convinced that the optimizations presented in the article amount to the discovery of NEW sorting algorithms but merely optimizations of existing ones.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm
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+1 for Telegraf (with Prometheus and Grafana), rolled out a monitoring stack for our internal network in something like 2 days when a colleague had been manually checking `top` for years each morning. Huge benefit.
I use VIM on Dvorak, having [shift], [:;], [q] next to each other is awesome.

Having [a], [i], [y], [p], [x] all on the left hand is also awesome. It's a bummer that [d] is on the other hand, though I could reach it in a pinch with my left hand if I need to.

I don't need the fake QWERTY arrow keys, the real arrow keys work.
Here is some feedback. I tried Spanish, but I don't speak it at all. The AI teacher starts speaking Spanish to me and I have no idea what is being said.

Not sure how I can learn anything from this.
Fiction can tell you about what and how people were thinking.

The concept of primary source is orthogonal to fact/fiction.
Ok great!
I don't see how, given that reddit gives wast preference to their own client in a marketplace.
We're talking about a Reddit replacement. It's realistic to think a half decent one would get a 1 million or so users straight away within weeks. That's 7 billion requests.

BlueSky had to be invite only to stop getting too much traffic straight away. 1.5 million joined Mastodon when Twitter got bought. The numbers for a feasible replacement are still skyhigh at the start.
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We can use AI to help us design and build a functional fusion plant, which we can then use to power more datacenters running ever bigger LLMs to help us design more efficient datacenters to run bigger LLMs to help us build ... yeah this is going to be one hell of a century.
Collective bargaining will always have more negotiating strength than individuals changing employers.

The owning class right now is collectively moving to worsen work conditions by colluding in getting people back into the office. Workers should answer collectively as well or it will not go anywhere. Sure, you can change employers, but more and more employers are cracking down in the same way.
same here!

If I could go back, I would've learned colemak for the keyboard shortcut reasons people have outlined in other comments, but I don't have it in me to learn another layout at this point.
> He is a Russian citizen now, swore allegiance to the country and everything.

And what would you do? You can't just keep applying residency permits forever, and desperately hoping that you'll get another 3 years. If you don't get approved for another 3 years (during that nerve-racking waiting period), you're screwed. Becoming a citizen is the best guarantee of stability after his actions, and it's not like the US or their allies are going to welcome him with open arms anytime soon.

He also is married and has two children. You aren't going to raise children on a residency permit.
email/sms verification is foremost for data harvesting, prevents some spam too.

likewise the fence around my property is to remind others of a legal/personal border; it can and will not stop determined folks, but surely dogs and the likes.
> Ironically, many modern SPAs are significantly slower than the traditional apps they replaced.

All software becoming slower is a already a meme. This isn't exactly a SPA issue.

> Sometimes it's regrettable that the webdev truck has no rear-view mirror.

The "software is getting slower" meme was the Hallmark of Java in the server when it was released in the 90s. This is nothing new, or specific to web dev.

Also, I feel you're grossly misrepresenting the problem. Reddit's mobile page is considerably slower than the old reddit page, but it's perceived performance is quite good. All posts are cached and instead of full page reloads it just switches content virtually instantly.

It might be fancy to shit on everyone else's work, but this only happens if you lack objectiveness and sincerity.
I would suggest dropping the "you can use == or = interchangeably" since I doubt that adds as much value as "future syntax risk" it incurs
> The "don't hit stuff" bar has, quite frankly, already been crossed. Tesla's don't hit stuff either. If you give them LIDAR, they.... still won't hit stuff. But all the work, even for LIDAR vehicles, is on the camera side.

You don't spend much time on the Tesla subreddits. The only reason there aren't more crashes is because most people seem to be reasonably good at keeping their hands on the wheel to take over. Every day people post videos of the wacky choices FSD makes. The most interesting part is that frequently the graphics on the screen suggest it can actually detect the correct lane markings and such, and still chooses to cut the corners and cross into other lanes.

Anybody who's being honest and has watched FSD from the beginning is under no illusions that real self-driving Teslas are happening anytime soon, or with the current hardware. It's not even close.
Yuuuuuuuuuuuuup.

I haven't run the numbers, but anecdotally a lot of these deals seem to be with companies that were having trouble anyway, or in the middle of a deeper structural / debt foozle.

It's a time honored tactic to pressure out headcount in lean times with workload, bathroom closures, and other joyous things.
Typically the gods did not look favorably on inferior product being placed on the alter. Even King Kong demands the hottest young babe in the tribe, does he not? Did anyone ever “sacrifice” hoary old men or women to gods? (Only in passage of kingship did humans ritually kille the elder males.)

So “religious” thinking would tend to demand something dear. This is inline with an inherent bug in human psyche — a false thought - that God wants something from us and is prone to making unreasonable demands from humanity.
I'm surprised and confused somebody would use a public-facing website like Instagram to do something so illegal and taboo. Wouldn't they use Tor or at least a private Telegram chat? What, do they just paypal the money?

Seems like a recipe for getting arrested.

EDIT: The article says a lot of the accounts are supposed to be run by kids themselves so maybe that has something to do with it?
What are you using for the speech-to-text? One thing that I really liked about Whisper was that I could mix english and Spanish and it would just work.. like "what does "una palabra española" mean?" and it would just work. Doesn't seem to work with this though.
>You are lucky. I’ve personally had a lot of failures.

Or perhaps you're unlucky. LEDs on the whole have longer lives than incandescent bulbs do.
To save the news, repeal the app tax
“Okay”
Ok, but how do you square this with the troves of research that shows multi-tasking is really just task switching and tends to erode performance across specific types of work? (I'm not talking about walking and chewing gum, but tasks that typically have a larger mental overhead).

At some point, I think you have to acknowledge that multitasking worsens performance. It's really up to the employer to determine if that is still a net benefit to keeping someone on.
I have definitely been greeted with "what's up, brother?" several times. And I took it exactly the same as when other people have greeted me with "what's up, bro?" -- the former came from someone a bit older than me, and the latter came from someone my age. Intent was 100% identical as far as I could tell.
Seems a bit inflated to describe that it can only be understood when taking psychedelics. It takes nothing more than a long exposure mode(1) on your camera to see the image live.

(1) such as:

- Night mode

- Fireworks mode

- "Live photo -> Long exposure"

- Countless other modes that do an equivalent frame layering function
These ideas just keep getting worse as things go on. What we're seeing is a push for centralized control by a few greedy people.
> Social changes take longer than technical changes, and social changes to how people collaborate with strangers and invest their livelihoods take much longer than changes to how they spend their leisure time. If you try out a website and don't like it, you've invested a couple minutes of your time and can back out without any major consequences. If you invest years of your life in a venture and then lose all the rewards of that because you forgot your seed phrase, well, you'll be a little more reticent to adopt that technology.

Yet the web exploded in use and changed almost every aspect of society inside of a decade - connecting strangers around the world with no inherent trust mechanism. Look at my "grandma on eBay" for example. I remember the days of "Well, I'm going to send this person a money order. I hope I get my stuff". Or "ok, I'm putting my credit card number in this random webpage, let's see what happens..."

Lack of trust is not a new thing and for successful platforms and changes it hasn't slowed down adoption much.

I understand the rest of your position even less. In the event of the complete collapse of society your bitcoin (on the internet that no longer functions, depending on electricity that doesn't exist) is even less useful than paper money with a dead president on it. At least you can burn that for warmth, cooking, etc... When faced with using scare electricity for survival or mining to run the bitcoin network I assure you no one is going to waste extremely precious watts on that.

Speaking of situations no one wants to think about, in this scenario the only thing that will win and ensure survival is force - weapons. This is an area where the "preppers" hoarding ammunition are somehow more rational and logical than the crypto community - and that's really saying something.

If you are even entertaining such a scenario a couple of thousands of dollars for guns and ammunition is an infinitely better investment than crypto.
Given the choice between ‘a guy is lying/mistaken and so are a few others’ and ‘a worldwide conspiracy has existed for 80 years to cover up the existence of alien visits to Earth’, I’m going to apply Occam’s Razor and go with lying.
Agreed. See Wells Fargo for a real life example although in that case the higher ups made them do crime and then just fired them to scape goat.

Nice thing is that once you are in the club like the banks the worst that happens is a small fine. Crypto hasn't donated to enough politicians yet so they are actually targeted for real punishment at the behest of the enforcement arm of the big banks, the SEC
Religious. These were child sacrifices
> This future sucks. I hate my own devices.

Installing GrapheneOS on my Pixel was the closest I'm come to feeling like having an actual PDA I could trust and living in a cool future. But of course it's still on Google hardware, so it's not trustworthy. And it still requires apps, some of which are not trustworthy. And, worst of all, I still have to communicate with other people on their phones, which voids most privacy efforts. I don't even give new friends my real phone number because I can't trust their contacts list not to be shared with everybody who wants to buy it.
It’s not the edits that I mind. It’s that they’re made by the rightsholder, who has exclusive control over non‐physical copies, and likely will apply the change to future physical releases.

Say what you will about the sensibilities of the Bowlders, but they didn’t have control over anyone’s access to the original unedited Shakespeare. Ditto for VidAngel, and so on.
Having to provide a polyfill is the opposite of "stop caring about what petty squabbles browser vendors have around which image formats they choose to support."
Yea, probably because he knew how he would be treated if he did.
In this example, do you think the speaker of the quote was using it in a negative connotation? I think it's pretty clear that that is not the case.
It also implies that because no one owns the rights, the original versions can be distributed without legal hazard. Under the status quo, IP owners can simply remove cuts they no longer want from the market entirely (as George Lucas wanted to do with the OT.) Copyright also makes archiving media legally nearly impossible - forcing companies like the Internet Archive to respect takedown orders and robots.txt requests to remove media from public access, and putting them in constant legal peril. There are numerous examples of lost media that are only lost because of copyright laws.

It's no different than with free software. Yes, anyone can fork the original, but it's still up to the public to decide whether than fork succeeds or fails. Meanwhile George Lucas can just force "Greedo shot first" on us whether we like it or not.
> I keep such a file in the root directory of my projects.

I think you are describing Makefiles?
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/
Almost all ML is basically searching through a (latent) space of possible answers and indexing the results. So it outperform most known methods. Like when AlphaGo using MCTS beat Rybka, etc.

I would be interested to know if ML can be used to reverse hashes, such as to more quickly solve the numbers that satisfy the Bitcoin Hash challenge. Maybe it can even get P and NP closer together!

Are there theoretical results on SHA-256 or something that preclude finding an ML algorithm that, with a billion parameters, can speed up the search for a Bitcoin Hash input?
People often decide they don't want to leave competition to chance. Regulatory capture is frequently used to reinforce entrenched power. Most recently, Sam Altman of OpenAI fearmongering for AI regulation, since OpenAI is currently in the lead. If he agreed to shut down OpenAI for the greater good, he'd be a bit more credible.
That's not true because Thorup's algorithm is O(n log log n)
how long did the failure go unnoticed?
Frying = heat above the Maillard reaction range. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maillard_reaction#:~:text=The%....

I think microwaves work fine for boilable food(Broccoli, rice potatoes etc) and a pressure cooker would also work. A pressure fryer (heats above Maillard thermal transition) fries very well at KFC's and Popeye's etc all over and can have both thermal input as well as microwave input (heats food all the way through fasts - versus thermal gradient = fried food in 3 minutes)
These should all work in space in constrained spaces.
Which is creating a bunch of headaches for full ISO C++20 semantics, and most likely needs to be fixed by when ISO C++23 gets fully supported.

One example where this shows up is [[no_unique_address]].
Related: "we're experiencing longer than normal hold times" on phone calls with businesses. They say that so often that hmmmm, I wonder whether hold times are normally longer than normal.
he has been espousing the exact same principles for 20 years, so it is probably because you weigh party allegiance more heavily
From the linked article, "Dahl’s publishers decided that 'to those growing up in a racially mixed society, the Oompa-Loompas were no longer acceptable as originally written.'" (emphasis added).
> I personally find online content recommendations systems to be deeply problematic

I'm right there with you, and have wished for these needless centralizers to crash and burn for decades now. But if we imagine that Instagram/Twitter/etc were out of the picture and these kids were selling their wares on decentralized P2P platforms - it would seem that the main thing that would change would be a lack of possibility to centrally study and police the behavior. In other words point #2 and thus the whole focus of the article would vanish, yet the overall behavior would still exist. Looking at it in those terms, it feels a bit ridiculous to be pinning blame on centralized platforms for having not fully controlled their users, when a fully efficient market just wouldn't have those centralized choke points in the first place.
It also, no doubt, relies on a Google-signed blob to enforce Secure Boot that is signed by Google. Where do you think that "This device has secure boot disabled" or "This device is running a custom image..." (can't remember exact terminology) warning comes from... So, in theory, Google could make a signed blob that unlocked secure boot if the government really wanted it anyway.
This seems like basic marketing. You need to know who is interested in buying the product, why, and what kind of language they use. Microwave ovens are a great example of this. They existed for quite a while, but people rejected them because of the cost and mismatched features. When makers got serious about polling people and demonstrating examples sales of honed products took off faster than any other product before then.
Funny how they want to retain the value of the building while externalizing all the downsides to workers and the environment at large.
I think Google's biggest net positives in the world at this point are Waymo and DeepMind. Way better than spending money on new chat apps.

Google's history has been having a very lucrative bottom line that allows for very beneficial research with absolutely no hardships on anyone. Supremely better than lining shareholder pockets; shareholders can't think enough quarters ahead for long-term human benefit. Salaries are just the way to attract and retain quality folks.
This is incorrect. I was a photographer and trained very little looking at other pictures. There are a few guidelines about framing I got from both written rules and a few examples, but those examples were never of things I took pictures of.

I took pictures of a much wider variety of things than I looked at pictures of. Instagram and other sources of millions of pictures did not exist and I was perfectly capable of taking a picture without that “training”.
It's not a rumor exactly. The hardware is physically present in new Model S/X cars. But it's not used by the software AFAIK (yet?).
I have switched to Dvorak only one year ago, after many decades of using QWERTY.

I consider this as one of my best decisions and my only regret is that I have not tried to do this many years earlier, because I had wrongly feared that typing Dvorak on a keyboard with QWERTY inscriptions might be a hindrance.

As many other posters have already said, the advantage of Dvorak is seldom a greater speed (and I needed a couple of months to recover the previous typing speed). The big advantage of Dvorak is a much greater comfort while typing. I will never go back to QWERTY.
Exactly the level of quality we expect when the product idea starts out with "AI" and "scalable". And completely forgets (or doesn't bother think about) what beginning students actually need.
I wonder if a box-fan would work.
>This is an incorrect reading of our report.

Really?(!), how's that? It's a direct, verbatim quote from the (your?) blog post.

But thanks for dropping by, could you clarify a few things?

>[...] since Musk's takeover, that Twitter's CSAM scanning failed and was not noticed by Twitter.

What you're saying is that:

1. It was working before Musk was there.

2. It stopped working after Musk took over.

Please answer this in a non-subjective way.

>They fixed it several weeks after we notified them

And, in your opinion, is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Child and human sacrifices were surprisingly common across the world. Many countries had to pass special laws to ban these practices - but it hasn't yet been rooted out.
We use Microsoft's PhotoDNA scanning service on all images we intake for research, which has access to hash banks collected by NCMEC, a government-sponsored clearinghouse on child exploitation, and the Tech Coalition, the private group coordinating child safety work between major platforms.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/PhotoDNA/Default

https://www.technologycoalition.org/
Indeed, and this has been the case for quite a while now. You can always improve on some general algorithm by taking advantage of knowledge of the data but that never generalizes and usually leads to either worse performance on other data and/or new pathological cases that result in results that are unusable.

It's an instance of overfitting.
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Not only they build those houses. They don't get to own them. Hard to imagine an undocumented immigrant having spare 250k cash for a downpayment. OP comment is a joke.
>If the decision was intentional: did they state a reason why?

Yes It was intentional.

They stated AVIF is as good if not better than JPEG XL.
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