skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Harvard can legally choose anything as a criteria as long as it isn't a protected characteristic. They could decide that only people who swear their favorite color is Blue will get in, but still not discriminate based on race.
NZ government was using Facebook almost exclusively to do that during Covid. If you didn't have a Facebook account you were basically stuck with TV news or radio. Online news sources would only link to the Facebook post.
It's worth noting that many government institutions nowadays have (often several) social media communications "officers" officers, whose only job it is to disaminate information via social media (twitter, Facebook...). Now you'd think that if they hire a person for these sort of things (btw keeping track of multiple social media account and monitoring relevant keywords is definitely not typical nontechnical user territory) they could train the person to update a cms as well.
> the death of Apollo also goes the metaphorical death of all the best parts (IMO) of the internet: open-source, creativity, entrepreneurial spirit.

It died years ago for me. I don't want go get too nostalgic, but it depresses how amazing the early internet was compared to what it is today. The early years of web 2.0 (2002 - 2007ish) were the golden age imo.

Then Facebook and the smart phone came along... From that point on the internet was no longer a place for geeks on their desktop computers to chat on forums and build cool stuff for other geeks. It became mainstream. Boomers got online. Children got online. Then the corporations monetised everything.

Everything happening to Reddit today is a result of boomers, children and corporations going online. Edgey content gets banned or boomers complain. Everything gets age-gated or censored because, "think of the kids". And all you're left with is sterile advertiser friendly content served next to half a dozen ads.
Well, that would explain all the time he's spending in DC.
The only cops I meet these days are in the jiu jitsu gym, and they are usually very nice people. It’s interesting to just be playing a sport with someone but also realizing they are actually seriously training for the danger of getting into a life or death struggle with a 260lb guy who has some grappling skills. I can’t imagine having a job like that. My biggest threat in life is a complicated Jira ticket.
> Anything posted on the CIA website will be thoroughly analyzed by state agencies that are well funded and well equipped to find shenanigans.

Comedy gold.
OP this just links to your home timeline on Twitter. Don't submit tweets (unless the tweet is the only source of information and tweeter has a reputation in their field), submit the link contained in the tweet you got excited by. Delete this and try again.
Sorry, but the people who started this in no way were prioritizing anyone's salary. They had a vision of freedom, and THAT VISION -- more than "someone trying to do a company" -- is what got the best parts of this software going. One company that can't make the numbers work ain't my problem.
Commercial entity is undefined in that law though it is generally defined as any person or company that buys, sells, or provides goods or services for a profit.

If a social media site distributes "material harmful to a minor" to a minor (this says nothing about who uploads it - and uploading it is fine, as is displaying it to an adult in Virginia) they are open to being sued by a private citizen.
Tons of people I share news with don't have Twitter - now I just wont bother, and I'm assuming it's the same for many others who used Twitter as some sort of middle man for that.
I'm confused.

In OCaml, the type system is strong and statically typed, ergo the type of a value is known at compile-time.

So...why would it need to do this to check if the type is an integer?
How does this help to fix the essentially non-technical problem that on long enough time horizons, and by long enough maybe 5 years at most these days, content that is optimized to provoke reaction ("engagement") outcompetes content that is optimized to promote contemplation, on any network, whether syndicated or not.
I disagree completely with your last point. Flooding the internet with automated bullshit and people locking down their data because they're worried they'll get scraped is going to be a hugely negative consequence, to say nothing of what this will do to people like artists and writers because of the perception of this technology that the people paying them are going to have.
When it comes to anti-consumer actions taken by companies, many times one can take a blind eye to it as long as they can still play the game.
The problem is that’s it’s like a frog in boiling water. At some point you realize that you need to give your email, phone number, credit card info, money, advertising attention, and more just so you have the privilege of downloading their special launcher that is the only one that can run their game, which of course also requires you to install a root kit in your system for “anti-cheat”.
Only for you to open the game, which requires you to have internet, just to be able to play a single-player game mode.

The game’s fun though. And it only takes 5 seconds to actually load it up once you’ve downloaded everything and installed it. So it’s fine, right?

Consider it just like other software like Microsoft Windows. “It’s supposed to make your life easier, so if it doesn’t, why not just stop using it?” Because it still does make it easier, even with all of the crap that Microsoft does that we can rightfully complain about.

Perhaps also consider it like Twitter. Why stay if it’s so toxic? Because everyone is on there, and if you aren’t, then you’ll never talk to your friends, since it’s not like they’d move platforms just for your sake.
I'm not sure it's as simple as a "greedy corporation" thing, because they've been "greedy" for a while. In a sense, they're even legally obligated to be "greedy". And the more we skirt the details of what (who) exactly causes these issues, the more we'll fail to understand such issues.
How would it be terrible for you?
I am moving out of a small rural city of 50k people to another small rural city. Housing shortages exist in both cities. Right now, people don’t want to sell unless they’re absolutely forced to. Most people would be doubling their mortgage payment due to an increase in interest rates. People moving are desperate.

I generally dislike the law-skirting nature of airbnbs, but I don’t think they’re the current driver of shortages. It’s just too lucrative to not sell a house that you bought at 2% interest.
So if I can't read, but I watch YouTube videos, am I agreeing to a contract?

Contracts are only valid if signed.
Yep,us too. We saw it with the naked eye. There was a rather odd looking non-shining orange ball in the sky with a dot in the center viewed from Wisconsin Dells.
Microsoft has always been an apex predator, like a lion or maybe a hippo. It can end you in a single bite, but at least you know what you’re dealing with.

Google is more like a malaria carrying species of mosquito. Little bites that you barely notice, but in aggregate are actually much more dangerous.

I know the metaphor is a bit stretched but even in the late 90’d it was clear what Microsoft did. Google has gone from “don’t be evil” to “this is the definition of open source” to …
How about: I'd like to know what's happening during an active shooter event at my son's school. Is there a loudspeaker for that?

This actually happened to me, and guess where all of the official police updates were posted.
> That's an odd take. What would a college degree bring to the table for a regular beat cop/patrolman?

Cops are expected to be able to descalate situations, identify suspicious situations, in theory behave in accordancd with the rule of law and limitations on police force, and much more. These all seem like things that could be in a degree program.
We Muslims cannot draw or make statues of any prophet or messenger as well, and anything with a soul as well.
This seems less like BMW offering the customer flexibility in pricing and more like BMW trying to find a way to extract cash from the used car market.
But an AI drone with a gun can do exactly what your worst nightmares conceive of. Like, today. Now.

The doomsayers aren't concerned about your autonomous kitchen example.
Big fan of vitest, I like typescript and esm support out of the box and without adding dependencies like types/jest or ts-jest. I've filed bugs and pull requests and the maintainers have been responsive
Ironically, my initial reaction was “Oh crap. Public saftey orgs use this to broadcast alerts.”

My second reaction was “I wonder how hard it would be to take a list of twitter handles and scrape their feeds into an S3 bucket that’s fronted with a CDN.”
I mean, i wouldn't want them to go in rambo style before assesing the situation either. That is how hostages end up dead.
You don’t think that China and Russia are thoroughly analyzing everything posted on the CIA site?
Do you see this as a dumbing down/erosion of society, preferences changing between generations, or just everyone throwing poo at the wall to see what sticks?

The rise of reality and outrage shows in the last couple decades really dimmed my view on the public at large.
even though we've had less than 100 transactions this year

This doesn't help your case and may actually be hurting it:

* a lot of the risk calculations are about percentages, so low volume is a dangerous place because even ONE janky transaction can trigger alerts

* processors make money on a percentage of transactions, so low volume means you're not a valuable customer - especially if you're triggering risk alerts

it's like they don't even want to find a solution

Very possible that they've decided that the projected revenue from your account isn't worth the risk, or even the customer-service effort required to double-check the risk.

The only plausible move seems to take legal action to at least get some answers?

IANAL, but I'd guess that the "answer" is between 6.2h and 6.2i in the services agreement: https://stripe.com/legal/ssa#suspension
If its not too private, do you mind sharing the last new thing you bought that you hitherto had no knowledge off?
+1 your concern is valid.

A potential saving grace: I bet within a year or so it will be easy to self-host LLMs that are easy to fine tune and run. Then there will be a few open source tools that you can use yourself, privately, to capture your level of interest while reading, and periodically make a reader/summarize/filter agent.

This is not scary if people can fairly easily run it all themselves, keeping their data private. It would help wade through crap, and there is some irony in using LLMs to have personal filtering and summarization.

Compared to future versions of ChatGPT, Bard, etc. the models that individuals can self host will be much weaker, but I think that they will be strong enough for personal agents and eventually be cheap to run, and affordable to fine tune.
Maybe you're right, but I wouldn't assume that everyone, from every IP, who requests a file hosted on the CIA's webserver would necessarily always be served the same content either

I'm not saying you shouldn't check it out for yourself though. While you're at it, maybe the NSA has interesting looking .swf .vbs or MS office documents sitting around at their domain.
Many videos feature music that is not free-to-use. Music rightsholders demand their pound of flesh on those regardless of what the creator says. "let's play" videos (where people upload and comment themselves playing) is a gray zone, if only because of the music rights, which can cause ads to show as well.
I might be the only developer with basically no JS experience. I could not believe this was true. I had to look up. It was real.
> confusing for users to both 1) subscribe to Reddit Premium and 2) also pay via 2nd subscription to use each 3rd party app

Except that's already how it works, so no change. And users are not confused.
I mean, efficient allocation of capital is the overarching goal. HFT is either a facilitator of that or a perverse byproduct, depending on who you ask.
Calibre is amazing. It's the software that feels closest to physical tools for me. I've been using it for over a decade at this point and I've never had serious issues. There was definitely some user error and a learning curve in the early years, but it's earned a figurative place in my garage alongside the hammer and chisels.
According to Red Hat the source of RHEL is publicly available on CentOS Stream Gitlab, without a EULA.
The internet has sucked for a long time, it’s just leveling up again.
You have to first define what makes a game “fun”.

The theory outlined in Glued to Games (Ryan & Rigby, 2011) suggests that games we perceive as “fun” are actually satisfying our basic needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness.

If you satisfy your need for competency by playing video games and don’t get that need met anywhere else, then you’ll keep coming back, despite the developers trying to squeeze money out of you every time you log on.
npm took up most of yarn's significant changes to the point where I switched back years ago.

I think the Jest situation is a little different as it was the incumbent not the challenger.

React is similar in the it's become an incumbent, though probably with less marketshare. Ironically I believe the lack of a virtual DOM is a big selling point for Svelte (sp?) which my frontend developers are really excited about.
Taking flak for ads is part of the service they provide. It'd be pretty stupid of them to throw their content partners under the bus in this way.
Literally feel waves of nostalgia looking at that layout. It's perfect!
For garbage collection, which operates at runtime. Integers are unboxed; every other type requires additional data.
> "use it to inform you of important things"

I think phones are better for that. Everyone is carrying one and I think there are already message protocols where some government alerts are sent to everyone? Like missile warnings or some emergency situation?
Readwise is absolutely high end power user software, and not just a "read it later" service. If you need it's features, it's worth it. I really like all of my highlights syncing to my obsidian notes, the ability to use a single source for rss/epubs/webpages/pdf/etc and having an AI assistant to throw at tasks.

If you want a free, more direct pocket clone, check out wallabag: https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag
Thats the same for any website though?
Unfortunately, we are living in a world where using private company's social media is the most effective way to communicate public announcement as lots of people are using it daily. I am not sure if people are going to install government social media app just to receive information pertaining to public matters.
The life aquatic
E-con Systems' advanced multi-camera solutions for Qualcomm Robotics RB5 Dev Kit
e-con Systems, a leading OEM camera manufacturer, recently launched an extensive multi-camera solution for Qualcomm Robotics RB5 Development Kit.
Imagine calling yourself a compiler engineer because you use a compiler.
Well this right here is the penultimate act in the death of Twitter. They've taken the principle place Twitter can monetize it's usage - users who don't have Twitter accounts but are linked to Twitter content - and removed the ability to show ads to them in favor of trying to get account sign ups.

The final act will be when they kill Twitter embeds on the basis of too many people are now viewing Tweets but not signing up for Twitter.

Literally doing the latter thing - killing embeds - would've been a more sensible decision.
A good critique can also double as a playbook. Consider Augustine's "The City of God". One of its more famous passages[0] can set a man on a virtuous path, or serve as the basis for political control in the form of, say, sexual liberation.

[0] "The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but, what is worse, the slave of as many masters as he has vices. "
I always hoped this meme would make an appearance in an episode of Black Mirror
Housing is an is an inelastic commodity. Small shifts in supply/demand have a large effect on prices.

Also WFH has decoupled housing prices from local incomes.

Small town workers in desirable locations now have extra competition from AirBnB and WFH.
I doubt it. The data they collect alone is worth more than the storage and server costs.
My understanding is that it's anything but a winner-takes-all race. If anything, the lack of capacity at the top means that all of the major fabs are likely to be booked solid ahead of time by the big silicon design corps like Apple, NVIDIA, and AMD.

Think about how insane the demand is about to be for whatever NVIDIA calls their 2nm generation AI accelerators!
The issue in CA is that everywhere is the suburbs. My grandma’s house is in a single family neighborhood 10 minutes away from a huge office building with Illumina on the outside. The fact that this company, which has revolutionized biological research is in an area without enough housing and requires its workers to drive 1-2 h through traffic is insane from a society development perspective.

Suburbs can still exist but you need to have density around transit and provide an alternative to sitting in traffic.
I can't imagine any situation where it would be acceptable. I have personally wasted hundreds of hours over the course of my career due to incorrect documentation. There are millions of programmers in the world. Incorrect documentation has surely caused hundreds of millions of hours of wasted labor, or tens of billions of dollars of economic damage. That's just the damage of wasted development time, not the harm buggy software causes users.
I don't claim to be super-knowledgeable on this topic but IMO the current government is marginally competent and so far I'd say they seem about as corrupt as the Liberals normally are, which is to say: unacceptably. I'm not sure they're any worse than previous iterations, but history will decide. The emergency measures act stuff seems like it was mishandled to me. I find the leadership to be heavy-handed with the virtue signalling, but they're playing to the crowd in the same way that the Conservatives play to the anti-woke crowd - I despise it on both sides. They're doing a whole pile of nothing about healthcare and the housing situation, and I think it'll cost them the next election.

In a world with better options I'd never vote Liberal, but since the Conservatives can't seem to come up with a coherent environmental plan to save their lives (and have abandoned what was originally their carbon tax plan because "The Liberals like it so it must be bad"), and the best leader they can come up with was encouraging people to buy crypto right before it crashed, they still seem like the better option. And I say this with a sour taste in my mouth.

What's your take?
And don’t forget net neutrality. ISPs haven’t!

The clock is ticking until you’ll need to decide which internet package you prefer, based on content providers and limited by region.

At least Yahoo will probably come free with the base package.
Implications of no-free-lunch theorems
Ya I remember this period. A lot of people got caught up in these types of questions. “What if you want to put an unescaped greater than symbol in your post title??” People spent years on this sort of pedantry.

Meanwhile Dave added enclosures and popularized podcasting making RSS even more important. He knew where to focus and what mattered.
No comment on why?

It is very clear that it is due to them not wanting to comply with bill C-18.

Reported on by every major news outlet that I’ve seen
Saturn’s rings steal the show in new image from Webb telescope
wasn't RSS meant to be an answer to this issue?
On Gentoo xgqt pretty much has everything working as a portage overlay.

https://gitlab.com/gentoo-racket/gentoo-racket-overlay
I just don’t get how the risk/reward works out in their favor.

The uproar if their malfeasance is detected is far more than the value of any information they would gain.

Wouldn’t it be far simpler and more direct for them to go to Google or Facebook and ask them to hand over everything they have on you, at which point those companies almost certainly comply?
Chomsky named the book after a Niebuhr quote,

https://noam-chomsky.tumblr.com/post/17941530897/walter-lipp...
Narwhal too
I support a C codebase that, over the years, has been supported on 4 different processor architectures (Alpha, SPARC, x86, Itanium).

It's rather simple to maintain structures with the exact same size and alignment on all of the platforms. Use dummy variables, group all structure members by type, and put character fields last.

Put a comment to the right of every member that contains the expected byte offset of that member. At the end of the structure, #define the total expected structure size in bytes, because as part of your test suite you have test cases that assert structure sizes (and member alignments). It's a little extra work at the start, but once you have that habit it's really simple and quick.

typedef struct example {
int mbr1; // 0
int dummy; // 4 - dummy variable, unused
double mbr2; // 8
double mbr3; // 16
} example;
#define S_EXAMPLE_BYTES 24
I like that ospec does away with the `it(...)` convention in favor of “bullets”

“It” always caused weird grammatical problems with test descriptions. You can’t always describe tests that way. Some authors would try and some would ignore “it”.
If you're going to have non-free licenses, why not also have at least one that doesn't allow re-sale? Commercial use is fine, but no Red Hat shit?
They're building slapdash, code by night bullshit apps that barely fucking work and calling it engineering. When I see those "AI landscape" images with logos from 200 different companies, I know we're in a bubble. A lot of these guys are going to take VC money then crash and burn when someone else builds a marginally better version of their GPT api wrapper. The real winners will be companies like Nvidia cashing in on this hype cycle.
It's from this raid: https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/index.html
> It will require sites with adult content to require users to submit copies of government issued IDs in order to access pornographic content.

Ah yes, because children never steal IDs out of wallets.
How does one make it known that they have a data center available to tender for these processes? Is there like a Craigslist for data Center space?
I just delete pretty much everything every couple years, with the exception of photos, which don't need to be organized as they're already sorted by date and geotagged and can be searched with computer vision nowadays...

No point in hanging on to anything you don't use at least once a year.
The official Reddit app is quite bad compared to say Sync (this is on Android).

Like.. doesn't even seem to have a rich text editor?
That was true yesterday. It doesn't seem true today.
I'm no rockstar, but I've worked with people who were 1/100th as productive as me for sure. There are some real morons out there with software engineering jobs.