skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-stiffs-google

While Twitter hosts some services on its own servers, the company has long contracted with Google and Amazon to complement its infrastructure. Prior to Musk buying Twitter last year, the company signed a multi-year contract with Google to host services related to fighting spam, removing child sexual abuse material, and protecting accounts, among other things.
Reminded me of tmbg37 going to the market…
Yes, they are. This is a summary some of the points of a chapter from Cory Doctrow's book Chokepoint Capitalism, which lays this out in way better detail than the blog post (highly recommended read).

The labels are more culpable (and have been terrible way before streaming) and Spotify is at their mercy for a lot of things, buy they also hurt artists on their own. There is also the fact that at least for a time the labels owned a decent stake in Spotify and other streaming services, so to a certain degree, financially speaking, they are one and the same.

Part of the bland algorithmic playlists diversion strategy is being able to control what content people are listening to via playlists to be able to sell listener data ("real time mood and activity data") to advertisers, and Spotify being able to strengthen its position by acting as a gatekeeper between artists and listeners. Spotify also uses placement on playlists as a form of payola, to punish even very well-known artists such as Katy Perry that give exclusive releases (even temporary ones) to rival streaming services and hold leverage over labels. When people listen to playlists they'll also be listening to more music, which also helps juice their user count/activity numbers for investors.

When people don't care what artist they're listening to and just want playlists, they become more loyal to Spotify's algorithms than any particular artist. A lot of the most successful playlist "artists" come from music content mills (similar to the way advertisers can commission a knockoff song when they can't license an original) that churn out large amounts of music to game the algorithms, and Spotify then pays them a lower royalty rate than they do major labels and artificially promotes it to increase its margins. They can then use that leverage to force actual artists to accept lower royalty rates to get access to the same promotion.

Spotify is definitely at the labels' mercy, but its "success" (if you can define being unprofitable but monopolizing a market as that) directly comes at the expense of artists. It can't negotiate better rates with labels but it does have the ability to stop engaging in payola and prioritizing fake content mill playlist "artists" over real artists.

There's also the fact that royalty payments are zero sum game where a huge artist can reduce payments to smaller ones. In fact, it's a huge problem on Spotify that people upload fake "music" (faker than the content mill playlist artists) that they then stream with phone farms and steal money from real artists via fraud. Spotify is well aware but don't really care.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whQ8UBoz-To
I'm very glad to hear that! I figured it might be, but also, I have heard similarly backwards proposals from city council members, so you never know...
First level support already often feels like talking to a bot. Just low-paid employees reciting their scripts, with no understanding or autonomy. That can be replaced with bots without a drop in (average) quality. You just have to teach the bot to escalate to (human) second and third level support for questions it can't solve.
SIM swapping maybe? You should contact your mobile service provider to see if there's been any unusual activity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_swap_scam
Thank you for the detailed feedback. I will look into this!
One of the points Yglesias makes is that judges prejudge certain arguments to be wrong. For instance, one judge says

> Before anything else, including being a debate judge, I am a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist... I cannot check the revolutionary proletarian science at the door when I’m judging... I will no longer evaluate and thus never vote for rightest capitalist-imperialist positions/arguments... Examples of arguments of this nature are as follows: fascism good, capitalism good, imperialist war good, neoliberalism good, defenses of US or otherwise bourgeois nationalism, Zionism or normalizing Israel, colonialism good, US white fascist policing good, etc.

At this point, the status quo (at least in debate, but also more broadly) is simply mouthing liberal pieties. Repeating "Black Lives Matter" a thousand times is neither sharp nor radical, and it's funny to see people whose ideas are incredibly conventional think of themselves as a rebel.
...what the heck is wrong with taking the bus?
This looks great. I was using GPG's ssh agent functionality with 'keytotpm' but this is cleaner.
> every part was designed without it in mind.

Interesting, care to explain then why Python supported threading since Python2? [1]

> Once again, if you are using python as a scripting language

> If that's true, then you shouldn't use python.

Once again, I don't. I use it as an orchestration language calling other code, and there is no good reason why the orchestration language should have an arbitrary bottleneck.

Yes, the hot code isn't written in Python. That doesn't matter to this discussion.

> In the "web application" example you are using, the norm is already to have many processes to handle incoming connections.

Outside of the python world, it absolutely isn't. I also have numerous Go based webservices, and they don't have to jump through ICP hoops to facilitate communications between workers and services.

[1]: https://docs.python.org/2/library/threading.html
Globally the average age gap is around 5-10 years. Western countries are outliers in having smaller age gaps around 2-3 years.

Most of the single mid 20s women I know in the UK wouldn't openly speak about it, but in private they'd prefer a partner 5-10 years older. Obviously there is a sampling bias there.

I think the difference is mostly explained by people of equal age meeting at school, University, etc bringing the average down. Purely conjecture though.
all of that, and people lie on these kinds of surveys. also, people lie to themselves constantly about relationship status. 'we are currently fucking' is not objectively definitive and is open to personal interpretation.

and don't forget conditioning/momentum - "sorry i have a boyfriend" is the automatic reflexive response of a 20-something female, for a huge variety of contexts, regardless of whether it's true or not.

it's like 10 different statements rolled into one.

either way, i suspect that yes, a lot of young women are all in 'relationships' with the same subset of guys in the 25-45 age range who are cleaning up the scene and loving life. there's never been a better time to be an attractive male.
> “Einstein's approach or response to this was very natural, very experienced. He was like, "Ah!, this can't happen. Nature will stop this, we just don't know how,” Broderick says. “You know, the universe intercedes.”

> your falling into the black hole seems to take infinite time, from my perspective.

I am not a physicist, but putting something off indefinitely is interceding, is it not? Delayed until the end of time is intercedeing?
> To question the premises of the debate rather than support a side seems like a huge cop-out

No, in fact it is the beginning of wisdom. Contrary to your assertion that you don't have to do research, the ability to question the premises begins with understanding not only your argument but many other arguments as well.
In the 00s alone, I can remember: Fort Hays State winning CEDA Nationals on engaging indigenous rather than Western thought; New York University winning CEDA Nationals on Zizek's 'letter of the law' paradox as a warrant to trying George W Bush at the International Criminal Court for war crimes; Kentucky-Louisville winning CEDA Nationals on the racial and class bias of policy debate. I can't recall if a Kritik ever won the NDT, but much like the TOC, the judging pool is much more a closed loop of the inside circle the competition.
Is it only me who finds the term “AI” misleading? What we have been dealing so far with is large neural networks that are amusing, unusual, are great at mimicking humans but that’s it.

Intelligence is not the ability to respond to queries and entertain laymen. My natural intelligence does not sit idle waiting for some kind of a master to come and tell me what to do.

This is chatgpt 3.5:

- When noone sends queires to you what do you do?

- When there are no queries to respond to, I remain idle and await new questions or prompts from users like you. Feel free to ask anything you'd like, and I'll be here to assist you!

Why should I be worried about it?

On the other hand, all these amusement boxes must be transparent and open source or auditable. And standards and criteria for audit and assessment must be clear.
I’ve said the same thing and it turns out so have others

http://paulgraham.com/fh.html

It’s the flipside of fanboys - there are “hateboys” who are parasocially attached to the brand but it’s a negative parasocial attachment.

Nvidia has the same thing going on.
But what are those aspects, exactly? And would getting rid of them not result in a system that's alien to modern sensibilities in developed countries?

To a certain extent, it seems to me that very generous benefits for parents -- _or_ a total restructuring of retirement and pension plans, with the reinvestment of some of the gains in pro-natal policies -- is "getting rid of the aspects of capitalism which make it too difficult to have kids." Or at least side-stepping those aspects. And these policies should be not impossible to implement. "Destroying capitalism" on the other hand...
Hypothetical
And if you're the type to open 5 or 6 tabs and look through them?
Charities create community for marginalized people, through one-on-one outreach, holding community kitchens, operating thrift stores or bicycle repair shops, or operating shelters or supportive housing. We discover how people survive with creativity and difficulty when they are "alternatively economied", and we create connections between people to keep them alive and offer them hope.

We use I.T. including software much as any other paper-pushing corporate entity, except: paying for software and its care and feeding takes food out of mouths, so we don't like to do that if we don't have to, and; we don't have much use for the software intrigues that pass for productivity and wealth creation.

Software pain points are bad for everybody, but some have training junkets, and some do not. Things like: performative or intrusive licensing asks; yet another cloud account; mandatory UIs with no equivalent API/CLI; layers of awkward cruft papering over legacy functionality that should have been discontinued decades ago (a certain backup package comes to mind); gratuitous UI changes. These are nano-distractions, but they add up for orgs. and workers who don't have much in the tank to begin with.

We do have some interesting proprietary needs. For instance, street-involved people often go under several different names: your average CMS might allow that with a plugin, but it's so niche it might not induce anyone to build it (or worse, we try ineptly ourselves). Password/account recovery workflows are absolutely torturous for people who are anxious, depressed, neurodivergent. I once tried to guide a man with anger issues to fix a copy and paste mistake; he gave up and stormed off and, as a result of missing a deadline, probably wound up in prison, with a decade of knock-on effects.

We rely on Free software--we adore simple, functional, administer-able packages that don't distract or use dark patterns--so that is a way you could contribute to our industry. Another way would be advocacy: government asks us to use lots of software that marketing pushes relentlessly even as it sabotages its functionality, so drawing on your experience to make government aware they're captured would help immensely (we don't have the time or literacy, and we can't bite that hand).
I believe I deleted it, searching shows Facebook provides an option to do either.
Nothing. I love buses.

A lot is wrong in being shamed into doing it.
Teams not supported in Firefox on Ubuntu
Considering YouTube videos work just fine on Firefox on Linux, this seems very odd to me that Teams only works on Edge or Chrome.

I clicked the install link for Edge on that page and read through about 75% of the licensing agreement and said nope.
Unleashing the Power of Drupal 10: Advantages and Features
if IRC weren't fit for purpose, nobody would be using it
You have a bad therapist.
> other than the most up to date Chrome.

Yes, I'm sure Google cares a great deal about losing 17% [1] of its market share, or even less considering how many people with weak spines will switch if they're denied access to something based on browser and never look back.

I'm sure Google won't do something malicious like mandating anyone using google's adtech to implement this to ensure "integrity" of clickthroughs.

I'm sure Google won't use its market dominance to require this feature for every one of its products and intentionally cripple other browsers, as that's definitely not something they've done before and would be totally unprecedented in the modern tech industry.

F Google.

[1] https://kinsta.com/browser-market-share/
I think most likely there is selection bias in how they conducted the survey.
This article smacks of a classic bad-debater behavior: "I can't win rhetorically on the power of my own argument so I'll attack the people and techniques that are beating me instead of addressing them substantively."

The correct response to "the whole world is broken and we can't debate X because it's stoppered by Y" is "the world is not broken (enough) to not debate X because there are practical things we can do about X."

If that's a unpersuasive argument, well, then it's unpersuasive and you ought to ask yourself why. It's always possible the judges are biased in favor of one argument or another, but that's how the game has always worked.

There are lots of arguments against critical theory that have merit and are useful in debate. "Boo hoo I don't like critical theory" isn't one of them.
They make costcos with apartments on top now. The big issue I think is the quantities are prohibitively large. Cereal is sold in 1 foot square cubes. Granola bars in huge 30 count boxes. Oil by the gallons. You can fill up your modest apartment very vast shopping at costo if you aren't careful. You almost need a basement or garage with storage racking to make the most of your membership.
The original post is an anecdote and even if true is just openly stereotyping Indians to be casteist and anti-Muslim by default.
The whole debate format has been broken forever. Improving people's ability to competitively argue for things they don't believe in seems a hilariously bad idea.

This stage seems like a marginal improvement, with the biggest con being that it's more anti-rationalist. Rationalism isn't a panacea, but one needs to master it in order to effectively argue post-modern critical theories.

Competitive debate has always sucked and apparently still sucks.
> b) most teams that ran this were NOT good at debate.

Yep. Everyone on my team who ran Ks, especially neg, were the people too lazy to do actual research against multiple plans.
The best part is the maintainer wouldn’t even approve a PR to add one sentence to the readme explaining the expectation that users need to manually add a gatekeeper exception, because helping macOS users onboard “has no value” to the project (to him).
I don’t live there, and explaining the situation, which you clearly don’t understand, is not ‘cope’.
Emacs to the rescue
Yeah, and I'm a Nigerian prince ...

Anyway, I used a fake birth date on FB, so probably not valid anyways.
Right, because a 40$-per-article paywall has done wonders for accessibility.
Fair point, but I think you also overestimate how many people make decisions using actual cost-benefit analysis.
What a markup on the chicken in Canada
I've also switched over to OrangePi. Using the OrangePi Zero LTS in a commercial product. It has FCC emissions compliance. That said, The RasPi community is at least 2 or 3 orders of magnitude larger, so if you get stuck on a weird problem you are more likely to find an answer for a RasPi than an Orange Pi.
I can see why speed debate can seem like a gish gallop, but it's not. And the way policy is structured it's definitely not talking over anyone (except I suppose in some of the absolutely radical Ks that attempt to destroy the policy format, and even K-friendly judges hate those).
I suspect a crashing economy is worse for climate change all things considered.
Motivation has nothing to do with intelligence
Show me someone who actually knows how threads work and what writing threading code entails who assumes that.

I am perfectly aware that threads are not free.

Just as I am perfectly aware that a context switch between threads is less expensive that switching a new process onto the core, and that IPC requires kernel involvement.
I'd point to the biggest change being the destruction of extended family living in developed countries, and consequently shifting child care costs directly onto working age parents.

Historically, countries got it both ways:

- Working age parents contributed the bulk of their time to the economy (historically: male, more recently: both)

- Older family members, especially grandparents, contributed free child care

Now, geographic mobility and preference have decreased the rate at which grandparents are co-located and available. And, critically, having children later in life has decreased the number of years grandparents are able to help.

If governments provided a net-zero cost, high-quality option for childcare, I feel like it'd substantially change potential family decisions.

But that's one of the substantially-more-expensive-than-current-benefits options you're talking about.
U.S. Hunts Chinese Malware That Could Disrupt American Military Operations
Artificial intelligence is sometimes better than natural stupidity.
What if you say, "you know, these cards can be worth a lot sometimes, is that going to bother you?".

I mean, part of it is that you should also remain ignorant. If you see an expensive card on the first page, yeah, morally you're in a spot if you act like you didn't. But if you just assume that a collector has something of value, but you don't really go through it other than to make sure that it's actually all the same stuff, I think the terms are fine. Just so long as you're actually spinning the wheel as well.

I'm reminded, though, of High Fidelity. There's a part of the book (maybe a deleted scene on the DVD as well) where Rob goes to buy a collection and he's seeing all these great items, first editions in pristine condition. The seller is a woman who is going through a divorce and doesn't need the money but her husband does, and he asked her to sell them for him, and she's trying to dump them for very low price to be mean.

Rob can't bring himself to buy them, even though he wants some for his collection. So I get where you're coming from. I don't make as much money as I could because I don't fleece people, either. But there's times when people are asking for your expertise and times when they just want to move on, and everyone should be happy in the end.
No, he only intends to deface it.
And this is why people are being pushed away from the environmental movement as a whole. As well as the activists blocking roads and throwing paint around.

Significant changes to energy/fuel usage and transport/travel were already hard for people to accept, with vast numbers of jobs/livelihoods so dependent on cars. But trying to take away meat at the same time (let alone all dairy) is just too much to ask, certainly not an election winner.

(So we get to 'conspiracy theories' about the WEF and global policy being dictated undemocratically, with a war on farming that nobody voted for set to cut food production at a time when we're told that the biggest risk from climate change is crop failure and famine...)
It's been awhile so my memory is fuzzy, but this was at a windows-only shop back before WSL was a thing and getting a VM involved an annoying months-long requisition process. I think the repo state was actually corrupted too, so pull may not have been working.
> How is this not an own goal? These companies had a head start and they still lost.

They’re hugely successful corporations. Saying they’ve “lost” is a tad ridiculous.

Plus monopolies are bad for innovation so you could argue that Europe has a healthier ecosystem because it is tougher on monopolies than America.

> The argument is not ”there are no AI companies in Europe.” The argument is ”there are no competitive AI companies in Europe.”

You phrase that like it was a quote but in fact it wasn’t. The point being argued was that AI start ups couldn’t exist and I demonstrated they could.

Europe is also a hotspot of AI research:

https://odsc.medium.com/top-ten-european-ai-research-labs-fo...

> The only one I can think of is DeepMind, and they are A) English (no longer EU) and B) were acquired by Google ten years ago.

England was in the EU 10 years ago, EU legislations were carried over to English law after “Brexit” and the fact that they were good enough to be bought by Google also demonstrates that European companies can be seen as a threat.

> A lot of them work for subsidiaries of American companies.

And a lot of them don’t. I had my worked for a single American subsidiary in my 20 years of experience in Europe. Same is true for a lot of my friends too.

I really do get fed up with how some Americans believe it’s impossible that any other country could be successful.
I actually do use a Pixel phone. I still think it's a bit hyperbolic to describe something as "sad" and "really poor" on the basis that it ranks slightly lower than another top manufacturer's previous flagship.
How to add spaces to the dock on macOS
Somehow they managed to name it X, because it's X on my iPhone now.
And what if most available therapists are bad therapists?
Are you by chance also nonhuman? Because current "AI" has not basis for the context that is the human experience, nor emotions...
Samsung sees 95% drop in profits for a second consecutive quarter
But that's still looking at things from a very narrow perspective. You're ignoring that there is an entire world out there of people who are willing to make use of modern global communication.

I've heard in the past that Japan has been notoriously hard to emigrate to, but I could be wrong. Either way, there is a solution.
Came here to excerpt that same snip and to comment that maybe I’m an outlier but based on my own behavior I’d want to reinforce the model’s propensity to suggest tracks that the user likes/favorites/saves/adds to library (all past names for the same action due to some INSANE UX struggle going on at Spotify, topic for another rant) or adds to a playlist, or plays again outside of the context of a recommendation playlist. I think, for my purposes, ‘plays to completion’ is a weak proxy for whether I liked the track, as I’ll sometimes just put on a recommended playlist and leave the room, or tune out and work, etc.
...before moving on to the stronger ones.
dossi: Your own private GitHub notes on every page
Perhaps if you directly contacted support and said "hey I am using a log bot come and get me" but in no other circumstance is a reasonable fear. They have no way to track what you do with on message events once they have been delivered.
But all the provisions service providers are expected to implement have a "reasonable" or "proportionate" qualifier, no?

And the actual, practical meaning of these responsibilities will be defined in a yet-to-be-published Code of Practice...?
So much attention is paid to random manic actions of the dude… it feels like tabloid for nerds. We already know he's playing 4D checkers. There are more important things to pay attention to.