skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's great to see a deep analysis like this.

Recently Community Notes has been opened up to a significant enough % of the Twitter populous that you're starting to see a very large quantity of "spurious" notes (argumentative / sarcastic responses that aren't addressing facts - more appropriate as actual replies), with even one or two examples of such notes being approved, in many cases I'd guess because approvers found them entertaining rather than useful. That's lead to criticisms of CN as something "in decline".

I hope that's not the case - spurious notes don't actually do any harm (and are often very entertaining), but dismissal of CN as a system would: loss of reputation would mean a dilution of the impact of fact checks & context provision on rebutting misinformation.

Another possible concern is, while it seems obvious to most that CN isn't a feature that would have been conceived under Musk, and it's interesting to see it continue to thrive now, one wonders how long it will be tolerated (the example from the first screenshot in this article is telling). In possibly related news, Musk has recently shown an interest in influencing elections[0] in Ireland (Twitter EU HQ) in direct response to talks of EU "misinformation regulation".

[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1695545217133490453 (Gript Media is a far-right publication based in Ireland)
The article repeatedly makes effort to assure the reader that the left/right dichotomy wasn't hardcoded but instead "emergently" appeared, then never goes into any detail about how that happened exactly...

It's weird to me that the left right divide happened to appear, rather than a faith based/non faith based, or an authoritarian/liberal, etc dichotomy. Is there no public data on this we can use to prove it's true, just trusting the org at it's word?
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Does it still use TCC (TinyCC) under the hood?
Apollo 8 / Saturn V Flight Manual (1968)
In the last 15 minutes I’ve read a few blog posts and reddit threads and am saddened. It does seem there are many false or misleading claims, though there does appear to be steady progress, or at least the appearance of it.

I hope the language or another like it eventually can fill this niche. I’ve been dreaming of a similar language myself..
> If you're a top-rate software engineer, you're not going to choose a career path that will trap you in some deprecated technology.

Which is kinda good, to be honest. Long-term Fortran projects and the like don't deal with the usual FAANG-type career-oriented churn that well, that mirrors the same problems you have in academia-oriented libraries where you get maintenance gaps when graduate students leave.
I would've thought measure theory is a prerequisite for rigorous probability theory.
>Ada95 introduced controlled types, which is basically Ada's version of RAII, no need to call Unchecked_Deallocation outside implementation details. Hardly any different from Rust code that uses unsafe underneath.

This is basically like C++ destructors, but the problem is there are no move semantics in Ada, so you can't implement something like unique_ptr.

It's hardly comparable with Rust.
3 is not some magic constant that comes from physics or something

It was just author's number.

It may vary by industry, specialization, etc. But the goal is the same
Or as they call it, a simple "Hello World" Javascript project
Community Notes was introduced in Jan 2021 as “Birdwatch”, so it precedes the Musk acquisition.
> I have no backups, and yet

There is nothing what stops you from, at least, dd'ing to some other server, even if at Linode, too.

> I logged in the other day to discover that SSH didn't initially work as ssh+RSA has been superseded and needed new ssh config just to keep connecting.

Yeah, I have a 2T PKI, originally from 2012R2. I needed to re-issue one certificate and I needed an older OpenSSL binary to split it to pem+key pair.
One thing to remember is that every superstar used to be a mid-tier coder. This is not an YA novel where talent is decided at an arbitrary time and that's the lane you'll hold until you retire. =)

When you hire people straight off school or "mid tier" people, you can help them grow to be better and reap the benefits.

If everyone will just hire the "top tier talent", their prices will inflate and the pool of top tier people will never grow.
Ok, more clear now on in what aspects you are more right-wing oriented and others in which you are more left-wing oriented.

Regarding your stance on immigration, I don’t know why we should try to keep replacement levels of population. Time will tell, but I suspect in the long run a country like Japan will do fine.

Keeping population always growing seems like a kind-of pyramid scheme to me. Especially if one wants the working populace to provide for the elderly (pensions).
And contains a grammatical error even before the introduction. ;)
Are you using GPT to author or edit your responses?
> Years is an exaggeration

Not necessarily when it's not your job, but it depends on what level of comfort / ease we are talking about.

A relative who is a physicist and who started with Fortran recently switched to Python. They told me it took them around 3 years to be as comfortable as before.

Now, I suspect they were very comfortable with Fortran to begin with, and if they programmed a significant amount of time every day, they would have been up to speed way faster.

(They also said they would not go back to Fortran)
> Tokyo's trains are paid by user fares, not taxes.

No, they are not: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-05-18/the-secre... - the user fees are barely a third (as usual for transit).

> The taxes don't come from the drivers. Try putting tolls on all the highways and see what happens.

The funds for road maintenance here absolutely come from drivers, in the form of fuel taxes, car tab fees, and toll lanes/bridges. See the explanation in the article.

> This is stupid. They've tried carpooling for decades in the US and it hasn't gone anywhere. Turns out that it's just too inconvenient when everyone is so spread out.

About 9% of people carpool. And this requires coordination, with driverless taxis you don't need any. Just request a "shared ride" from the app.

> You've never lived in a well-designed city.

I lived in Houston for a while. I couldn't stand the weather, but the city itself is amazingly well-designed. Nothing like miserable European cities.

You, quite clearly, have not yet dared to walk out of your assigned "15-minute neighborhood".
I was having weird perf issues on openwrt with tailscaled being in the network path.

With netbird + direct mode, netbird is only there during connection [re-]establishment. I get much better throughput/latency with netbird on both embedded openwrt and desktop platforms.

But yeah, this netbird thing is seriously buggy. For any sort of multi-user setups, I always recommend tailscale, it's much more robust.
10 is IMHO too much because seniority most of the times stems from soft skills which can develop or be offset in the first place even independent from coding. Also, growth is happening non linearly.

But to be clear: I also think that roles like senior engineer are handed out far too easy.
> However the number of people who claim to be with less than 5 is astounding!

Senior engineer since when I had less than 5 YOE - I'm not claiming anything, I'm just using the title used by my employer. Nothing good will happen if I remove the "senior" from my title - in some cases it won't make any difference, in others it will actively harm me and make it more difficult to get the attention of certain recruiters and hiring managers. I'm not sure what you expect someone in my situation to do.
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The Great Depression was almost certainly a contributing factor to WW2.
I just finished writing a “dumb stuff with containers” internal blog which included:

C:\> type somefile.txt | docker run --rm -i ubuntu awk ‘something’ > output.txt
Fair enough, that's a thing I actually knew so I should have not used that example. But a runaway would have much the same effect.
We already know the political slant of "experts". Making "experts" write the community notes would lead to them being as untrustworthy as "fact checkers".
Hacking actually means modifying something or repurposing it to do something else that wasn’t its main purpose. It is not necessarily a security breach, but I blame Hollywood on this.
Can someone please explain to me why this comment has been downvoted? Because to my eyes it is 100% relevant to the post, well-written, does not insult anyone, is elaborate, and potentially helpful for others.

The only answer I can buy right now is some allergy to the word "faith", especially if it comes with a capital F. Which is quite a pity: if we dare to be honest enough about it, even the hardest-core atheist/rationalists are driven by faith.
A more recent and true (or had a good 'shopped photos):

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/03/epic-...

And the forum thread as it looked when it was posted, with proofs:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130401030556/http://arstechnic...
The researchers supposedly used similar but not quite the same approach as Tesla, and claimed it worked worse for people of color. That makes sense since optical recognition is harder for dark skinned people.

However, the article leads with a picture of a Cruise car, which use lidar technology. Those should afaik recognize people with the same accuracy regardless of skin color.
Do you think that someone should receive a harsher punishment the more times they've watched/read/heard a copy illegally of a work? Or receive less of a punishment if they make a copy (or a hundred copies) illegally but never watch it?

Whether or not it makes sense to you, under current copyright law, it is the act of making copies which is restricted and regulated.

If you make a copy illegally, that's what you'll be punished for.

If you receive a copy of a work, do you know if the copy was made by someone authorised to do so? If you reasonably believe that the copy was made legitimately, you will very likely not be held accountable for owning and using that copy. No matter the legality of its provenance. It is the person who made the copy who will be (or should be) accountable.
Yeah I'm aware of Rector, there's a funny story here, I actually created https://github.com/phabelio/phabel which does the same thing as Rector, but @ installation time (fully integrated with Composer!): I created because I simply did not know about its existence, or else I would've just used it, instead :)

Rector is a very nice project, but I still haven't gotten around to integrating it into our codebase at work, because it uses phpstan instead of Psalm, and apart from being slower than Psalm, phpstan kept having various issues and crashes while scanning our codebase, unlike Psalm which mostly worked out of the box (I even became maintainer of Psalm, due to the large amount of additional performance improvements I added due to our needs @ work).

At work, we're currently using Psalm with a few extensions that make some autofixes as needed, a bit like Rector.
> Server: the Node.js

... aaand g'bye :)

I'm sure this is the kind of thing that would get me on the black list.
Terraform, unless invoked as tf-yolo (aka terraform -auto-approve), will present you with a cheerful "Hello, I would like to delete everything. Continue: y/n". This makes it fairly easy to panic before deleting everything. Otoh, if you run <terraform destroy> and don't read the plan carefully... eh.

We're planning to streamline our run approvals a bit, because approving every DNS record addition results in some approval fatigue, but resource deletion will most likely always require human approval.
You said

* HTF provide liquidity.

* HTF beeing invited into markets formerly excluding them.

* Regulation attempts on HFT hit retail traiders too.

* You disagree, that HTF is rent seeking?

Imho, all those statements are weak. Providing liquidity in markets is essential but markets worked long before HFT was a thing.

FTH is just another way of going "meta" (for VC?) simply beeing faster. Until they are the market. The big question, as you too said is.

> It is still possible that changing market structure or regulation [...] could be somehow beneficial for markets or society as a whole, but this is far from obvious.

To me, it is rent seeking. What would you reply to the scenario ofa strong FTH monopoly, which the tech sector is in hot pursuit of.
Very interesting, thanks so much for elaborating! I was aware of the infamous instability of AdS, but that was about it.

If you don't mind me asking, what is your field of research? (If you like, feel free to share your website or papers or something!) I've read so many interesting comments from you over the past year or two that I've been getting the feeling your interests are quite eclectic. :)
Please note the following ;)

"This manual is for information only and not a control document. If a conflict should be discovered between the manual and a control document the control document will rule." (excerpt from the foreword).

Fly safe!
Thank you for clearing this up. My use of the phrase 'designed by committee' was more of a reference to a common criticism of Ada, than to any actual historical fact. Not that I was actually any the wiser, I admit. I'm a big fan of your work. Thanks for taking the time to reply.
And that somehow makes his invalid comparisons valid?

Someone else said it better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37292374
No. Testosterone in men has drastically declined. It used to be ~50% higher than today.

https://testosteronedecline.com/testosterone-levels-100-year...

> As you can see, average testosterone in the USA was something like 625 ng/dl in the 70’s, until the early 80’s. This is reasonably high testosterone. But since then it has been falling steadily.

> For the average American man in the period of 2013 – 2016, testosterone was 420 ng/dl. (source)
C2x (or any gnu dialect):

typeof(const float *const restrict) foo, bar, baz;

But yes FORTRAN got the defaults correct for it's applications.
Are you giving them money?

It seems to be a mostly volunteer driven project.

Proprietary SoC vendors use an fork of a very old version of the software so they're not invested.

Why not try engaging and see if you can help them automate advisories based on their issue tracker / got activity?

Because your attitude comes off as entitlement.
Both faith based/non-faith based and authoritarian/liberal views will often, if not exclusively, be interpreted as falling along the left/right axis by many people. It's simply a matter of interpretation and bias.
They did expand it so it applies to ads, which is inexplicable when you're trying to get more ads.
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>This is due to bias in open-source AI, on which self-driving cars rely, researchers say.

Or they are simply less visible.
He was the team lead shrug

This is one of several reasons I worked there for a week only.
I much prefer https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies (far more reliable in my experience)
Apparently it is.

There's two ways to go on this. They could have done the clean GNU style information-only webpage or the hip hyphy pitch.

The second is probably the right move to respond to the complaint "fortran? Isn't that from like the cold war?"

There's usually a small snippet of example code that does something useless on the splash, often with some typing animation. I'm surprised that's not here. Also where's a cute logo? A purple F is insufficient.

I vote for a sea fan. It's resilient, robust, doesn't seem to die, rhymes with fortran, is basically the same color, you can shape it like an F and the double entendre of "C Fan" harkening back to the classic roots, is there as well
Community Notes seems to be increasing in usage as X becomes more toxic and full of conspiracy theorists. I personally think there is a causation here. The frequency at which damaging content appeared on my timeline (just a few days ago I de-activated my account) has ballooned within the last few months. It got to the point where it was constantly serving me videos of fights or even quite often animal torture. There is also an uptick in hate, e.g. overt racism, accounts that have a lot of followers and openly ask for ethnic cleansing against non-whites, etc. Elon has turned X into "anything" (though, I know more left wing people who are still getting suspended, esp. if they criticise Musk), and Community Notes has become a "release valve" allowing the old liberal twitter to regulate posts on X and prevent the entire platform from becoming the next 8chan.

If Community Notes are maintained at their current pace, there is the potential for X to continue on a kind of life support for the majority of "normal" people. If Elon starts to limit Community Notes, e.g. if they start being used on his posts too much, then I think that X will surely die. X already smelled bad before Elon bought it, and its stench is intensifying. What was once a nice information platform with subcultures of toxicity and hate, is now perceived as a place where one cannot escape the worst parts of modern internet culture. Community Notes is the only thing stopping it from collapsing into fanatic esotericism.
Really? Do I need a license to cross out words, and write in some of my own, in books that I've bought?
> Even setting aside passenger weights and carry on, are you saying any time I pay for an overweight piece they literally rebalance everything and add more fuel?

Very much so, yes. After the check-in is closed, the pilots will calculate the required amount of fuel for the flight based on the number of passengers they have, and the weighted hold luggage. And although the checked-in luggage will not be placed in the hold piece by piece to rebalance the plane correctly, they are roughly distributed to not unbalance the plane too much. (Different story for smaller aircrafts, as they have much stricter weight-placement requirements).
> probably shouldn't have been in git at all

Something being autogenerated, or binary, doesn't mean it shouldn't be in version control. If step one of your instructions to build something from version control involve downloading a specific version of something else, then your VCS isn't doing it's job, and you're likely skirting around it to avoid limitations in the tool itself. People still use tools like P4 because they want versioned binary content that belongs in version control, or because they want to handle half a million files, and git chokes.

In my last org, we vendored our entire toolchain, including SDKs. The project setup instructions were:

- Install p4
- Sync, get coffee
- Run build, get more coffee.

A disruptive thing like a compiler upgrade just works out of the box in this scenario.

It's a shame that the mantra of "do one thing well" devolves into "only support a few hundred text files on linux" with git.
It's the difference between what should be happening and what does happen e.g.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/faa-investigates-southwest-o...
Great stuff.

Is it possible to output to markup from these programs ?

It would be cool if python wsgi programs in this could work somehow.
I suspect that the decline in birth rates in developed nations have to do with raised expectations. The amount of resources and time that parents are expected to devote to each child are quite high.
I think it's the oldest joke in cs: "I don't know what we will be programming in the year 3000, but I know it will be called FORTRAN"

My own renaissance came via Jetson Nano where CUDA FORTRAN has some nice examples for image processing via convolution kernals. It's blazingly fast: both design time and run time!

This short film from 1982 shows the love scientists feel for "the infantile disorder":

The Beginnings of FORTRAN (Complete)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KohboWwrsXg
I think that is a bit too harsh.

IMO the author made good points for his "this is a good example of applied crypto-values" viewpoint, and also stated quite clearly what he ment by that (i.e. "algorithmic" moderation, transparent and retraceable results).

It was absolutely worth reading-- this was a genuinely interesting blog post, not some cryptobro pushing the latest scam-- don't be discouraged from reading this!
What's "less visible" to the human eye shouldn't be used to lower our expectations of what can be visible to a machine.
It's utilised far more now than it was back then
I personally prefer unigram. It has some spots needing polish like the emoji/gif menu being hyper sensitive and closing and some graphical glitches on message emotes but it's overall a more fluid experience than the official app, in my opinion.
There's some truth to this, but the appearance of quality is far more important in the latter scenario than actual quality. The average buyer isn't a housing inspector. They may have googled some stuff beforehand, but that's not saying much. It's another incarnation of the "informed consumer" farce.
> I find hiring extremely time consuming because I need to wade through so many candidates to find a true senior.

Filter on years of experience - if you're right that 10 YOE is a useful threshold, it will make your candidate search much easier. I think it would be a really bad approach to hiring though because there are many incompetent people with 10 YOE and many great people with less experience. At the end of the day what you want is a good candidate, not a "true senior".
The first thing that comes to mind is this classic Jonathan Haidt TED talk:

https://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_the_moral_roots_of_...
How does a "monorepo" differ from, say, using a master project containing many git submodules[1], perhaps recursively? You would probably need a bit of tooling. But the gain is that git commands in the submodules are speedy, and there is only O(logN) commit multiplication to commit the updated commit SHAs up the chain. Think Merkle tree, not single head commit SHA.

Eventually, you may get a monstrosity like Android Repo [2] though. And an Android checkout and build is pushing 1TB these days.

But there, perhaps, the submodule idea wins again. Replace most of the submodules with prebuilt variants, and have full source + building only for the module of interest.

[1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Submodules

[2] https://source.android.com/docs/setup/download#repo
I'm struggling to understand your highly educated response --- but what I think you're trying to say is that a generic, transparent proxy with TLS termination is simply not technically possible in your opinion?

Something like the below simply can not be used to implement a MITM?

https://www.charlesproxy.com/

Because if it can, the entire concept of using TLS to protect against MITM is pure BS --- in my uneducated opinion.
Not sure about proof, but the left/right dichotomy also “emerged” in the real world in most countries. It’s not the only axis of variation that we see, but it’s a dominant one. Since Twitter is part of the real world, the users may have arrived with a pre-existing propensity to group themselves into left/right tribes, and then the mechanics of social media bubble formation accelerated the polarization process.
This is true, I've worked on a actively maintained Ada codebase in aerospace industry and we had to use a proprietary Ada Xd compiler that was being sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars per installation by company not interested in doing any updates, that came with a phonebook-size paper errata of known bugs.
Not every PHP dev is a junior.
Last I looked, it already was.
Great exhibition of terminal trust decline. “Expert” is a label, it means what people decide it means.

Ultimate societies have inability to foster trust will be terminal and unlike why the crypto bros think, technology will not safe us.
> This is due to bias in open-source AI, on which self-driving cars rely, researchers say.

The second line in the article
Yeah but the important metric is whether a human could gestate and birth a mouse or a mouse could do the same for a human - they couldn’t.