skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For right-leaning users, video recommendations are more likely to come from channels that share political extremism, conspiracy theories and otherwise problematic content. Recommendations for left-leaning users on YouTube were markedly fewer, researchers said.

This depends on the researcher's definitions of 'extremism' and 'conspiracy theories'.

- Recently we've seen many left wing people state that disassembling people in front of their families - surely an 'extreme' act - is a 'beautiful act of resistance', and that calls for genocide against Jewish people (surely also 'extreme') may not constitute hate speech in some contexts.

- For the last 7 years we've had many people believe in the Russiagate conspiracy theory.

- I'm not sure "problematic" has any real meaning.
It must be election season. Like clockwork, the pro-censorship hit pieces start rolling out
What's not clear at all is what kind of "human hand" counts.

What if I prompt it dozens of times, iteratively, to refine its output?

What if I use Photoshop generative AI as part of my workflow?

What about my sketch-influenced drawing of a Pelican in a fancy hat here? https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/111489351875265358
Such a product must be called "Babelfish."

And should only come in yellow.
I do a fair bit of investing and advising (both for startups and venture funds). If you are the founding CEO and you are looking to leave, the most likely outcome for a company that's early, and without any sort of product market fit, is the company will die.

If you don't tell investors you want out, raise money, and leave shortly thereafter, you will burn all of those relationships and damage your reputation - it's a small world. It's also very disingenuous. Investors are betting on a committed team, that will go through hell and high-water to try to make this venture work - you already know you aren't that committed. And no one can be more committed than the CEO.

If you can't get behind the pivot, the only other thing you can do is work with existing investors (at the seed stage this isn't really an option) or find a founder with previous exit, an EIR looking to step into a company, our an early employee / non CEO cofounder who exited and wants to do it again - and see if they'd be interested in the CEO role - It's a find your own replacement scenario.

As far as your equity goes - you'll get diluted a bunch, but that's okay. It's going to be hard to hear, but no real investors will allow a non-participating, former founder, of a company that doesn't have a product or any traction (in your case your starting over with a pivot) to keep 10%. That's just too much of the cap table for not enough of a business / individual contribution. It's sucks, but if you stuck around and made it to a priced round, all of your equity would get clawed back and be subject to vesting again anyway (most likely). It's just the way it goes. You deserve something for your troubles and work, but it's not going to be 10%, not going to be anywhere close.

Good luck.
That was my first intuition as well, seeing the brigthness limited to 0x1f. With any luck, the power supply might have a fuse, and it's just the fuse that blew up.

Anyway, if you can't salvage it, standard WS281x LED strings can be hooked up to a Raspberry Pi and you could use my open source addressable LED controller :) https://github.com/mbevand/ledthemfight It comes with built-in effects. I made it very modular so for the DIY crowd, in 2 lines of Python, you can create simple custom LED effect modules. See a demo here: https://youtu.be/qpd2rILsnM4
While left leaning users are only presented with a healthy selection of diverse and well argumented videos expressing a panel of perfectly reasonable view points.
My passphrase is "the best place to fire a mortar launcher at the white house would be from the roof of the rockefeller hewitt building because of minimal security and you'd have a clear line of sight to the president's bedroom".
I think this is malicious compliance by someone. Someone who wanted to go out and show just how things would work if policies are eased...
Because it's a fantastic idea to commit additional felonies to feel like a hackerman. Following the law is for suckers.
"Unskilled" just means that those type of jobs don't require any prior experience or qualifications. No need to interpret every word literally..
European Arrest Warrant ... I wonder if Putin can then ask Viktor Orbán
to request that someone Putin dislikes is extradited to Hungary,

where Putin can then kidnap them or put something in their food
You might have an argument if there was no authentication/error-detection on the ciphertext, such that many keys would give valid decodings, and more so if it was a simple xor, such that any plain text could be a valid decoding given the appropriate key. But that's not a remotely practical cryptosystem for several reasons.
Biggest solar flare in years temporarily disrupts radio signals on Earth
It is not a moral argument. It's a colloquialism that differentiates between different types of work. In part, those jobs are "unskilled" when they take less training to perform. It's not meant to demean the work or the worker.

A plumber or electrician is equally "skilled" work as a software developer, largely due to the extensive apprenticeship requirements.
It's fundamentally how SirixDB approaches this (basically also storing checksums) as also written in another reply :-)

Every commit directly syncs the binary data to the durable storage (currently a file) and incrementally adds data. Furthermore, it stores optionally the changes (type of change/ctx node/updatePosition... in JSON files). For instance, lately I've implemented a simple copy mechanism based on this. Copy a given revision and optionally apply all changes with intermediate commits to also copy the full history up to the most recent revision). However, the main idea is to use the change tracking also for diff visualizations... maybe even stream these via web sockets.

A production ready system BTW may be Datomic.

And it also reminds me of this paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/3275366.3284969
That would be murder to type on a phone.
How do I get my YouTube feed to do this? All I get is a stream of mentally leftist incoherent nonsense.
Hmm it definitely linked me to a temp account with a green username. Unfortunately I don’t quite remember what the post was :(
> (In fact, they will generate a lot of first-job opportunities for young adults

and increase housing prices.
Sure!

I wrote my first fuzz test with a go1.18 prerelease just to get a feel for the new framework. It found a crash instantly: https://github.com/jrockway/json-logs/commit/77c87854914d756.... This commit contains the fuzz test and the fix. (3 cases could be nil; I only ever thought about 2 of them. The fuzzer found the 3rd almost immediately.)

For my project at work, we have an (g)RPC server with a ton of methods. The protos have evolved since 2015 while trying to be backwards compatible with older clients. As a result, many request parameters are optional but not expressed as oneof, so it's hard to figure out what a valid message actually is, and different parts of the code do it differently. (As an aside, oneof is totally backwards compatible... but the protos evolved without knowing that.) I wrote a fuzz test that generates random protos and calls every single RPC with them: https://github.com/pachyderm/pachyderm/blob/master/src/serve...

This test is imperfect in many ways; it knows nothing about protos, and just generates random bytes and sends it to every method. Most of the time, our protoc-gen-validate validators reject the message as being nonsense, but that's totally fine. The test found about 50 crashes pretty immediately (almost null messages, basically a non-null message where the first tag is null), and one really interesting one after about 16 hours of runtime on my 32 core Threadripper workstation. Writing this and fixing the code took about a day of work. I just randomly did it one day after writing the call-GRPC-methods-with-introspection code for a generic CLI interface.

I did this concurrent with a professional security review as part of our company's acquisition and... they didn't find any of these crashes. So, I think I added some value.

It's worth mentioning that most people wrap gRPC calls with a defer func() { ... recover() } block so that bad RPCs don't crash the server. We didn't at the time, but I implemented the fuzz tests with such a wrapper. (So the test doesn't crash when it finds a panic, I just return a special response code when there is a panic, and the test is marked as failing. Then the next test can proceed immediately in the presence of --keep-fuzzing or whatever.) Either way, I prefer an error message like "field foo in message BarRequest is required" to "Aborted: invalid memory reference or nil pointer dereference." and now we have that for all the cases the fuzzer noticed. The user is sad either way, but at least they can maybe self-help in the first case.

All in all, I haven't spent a ton of time writing fuzz tests, but each one has caught some bugs, so I'm happy. A good tool to have in your toolkit.
> The targeting is pretty explicit.

"Targeting" isn't the right word, "statistics" is. These are statistics based, data driven, mechanisms that do their best to find things that give the best chance of you positive interacting with them, with positive meaning money going towards the people behind the algorithm.
Bricklink has been acquired by Lego 4 years ago, I don't think that's a secret at all !
No, that'd be Firefox + UBlock Origin.
I believe that the DNS based blocking that pihole does would be similar to the blocklist type blocking that Chrome with manifest v3 offers. I belive the advantages of pihole are most for blocking ads on devices without an adblocker installed, like your TV or w/e.
Ｉ actually toyed with the idea with the Technic "bricks" that give much much more flexibility.

I can vouch for the versatility, it kinda works for a headphone hanger, or a cup holder, small foldable desk racks etc. But then these components are too light and don't have enough strength to keep shape for months. Many of the parts bent over time, some broke under abuse.

Also for these kind of use pieces are big and finding a compact build is really a chalenge. I ended up using a ton of custom built third party pieces.

I'd definitely try with a 3d printing next, it will allow for smaller parts at least, and probably cost way less in materials (Lego are overpriced for that)
Redshift Research Project: Late-Binding Views [pdf]
There are in Redshift two types of view, normal and late-binding. When the leader node creates a normal view, it checks at the time of creation `pg_class` for the tables and views being used by the view, and will not create the view if it refers to non-existent tables or views.

Accordingly, external tables cannot be used with normal views because external tables are not present in `pg_class` and so are perceived as being non-existent. To work around this, late-binding views were created, which perform no dependency checking - they do not inspect `pg_class`.

This approach has two major and three minor issues;.

1. The lack of dependency checking means blunders when creating or modifying views lead to faults which can become apparent only at a very different time and in a very different place to a very different person who has no idea what caused the fault

2. There are as the number and complexity of late-binding views increase critical performance problems when enumerating the columns in late-binding views such that it is possible for it to become impossible to enumerate late-binding view columns.

3. A system table function is used to enumerates late-binding view columns and access privileges for this function are incorrectly implemented such that `syslog unrestricted` and `access system table` do not work.

4. The lack of dependency information means no records in `pg_depend` so it is impossible to perform data lineage or inspect dependencies.

5. Late-binding views pollute `pg_class` as they look like normal views (except for a single undocumented difference).

Late-binding views should due to their flaws be used for and only for their one essential purpose, when an external table must be in a view.

https://www.redshiftresearchproject.org/white_papers/index.html

https://www.redshiftresearchproject.org/white_papers/downloads/late_binding_views.pdf

https://www.redshiftresearchproject.org/white_papers/downloads/late_binding_views.html
> But, we wouldn't have expected the manufacturer to do anything except officially discourage the use of the aftermarket tools.

I think the issue here is that McDonalds was discouraging the use of the tool, not Taylor (the manufacturer).
I imagine so but it sounds like you're still at the mercy of a provider to peer with you (which has a cost to the provider, even if low)

I think that's where the "build your own network using nntp" comes in
There are niche databases like that.

Check out https://evitadb.io/ for a very different use case. It has a rich query language supporting various e-commerce aggregations (as in faceting). They claim it benchmarks 100x faster than Postgres for this specific use case.

Although it looks very cool, if I'm not building an e-shop, I'm not using it. There will be some unfavorable tradeoffs for my case.
Interesting. Privacy Pass could be a promising way to mitigate that problem.
If you need a state of the art CLI tool for signing PDFs that supports the latest standards (think ones from 2023), I can recommend pyHanko (https://github.com/MatthiasValvekens/pyHanko/).
A border crossing is an entirely different realm where these rules do not apply.
Apparently I am using hardware far worse than an M1 mac. Even Chrome gets 1-2 fps.
How did the NHS decide to allocate that extra £350m a week? It must have made a tremendous difference!
MariaDB Spins Off SkySQL
Neat site and thanks for making me aware Netflix released this data. It's fun to see things like The Witcher S1 outperforming S3 given the timeframe of the data.

Some suggestions on the site:

- The dropdowns seem to have a formatting issue where the text in them shows all white except for the dropdown selection you are currently hovering over

- Given the Excel file is 680 KB you could probably just convert it to JSON and pre-Brotli/gzip the file to just serve the entire thing up to the client in < half a MB. This avoids the need for queries to run server side and also lets them be instant on the client side (+also removes any reason to paginate results as part of the query).

I really like the overall simplicity of the page. It has that old-web feel with a modern look.
Books, no
I'd love to know what the "left wing" equivalents to the above are. Looooots of comments in here claiming the "same thing" happens with left-wing content, but I'm not aware of extremely popular left wing outlets that lie about literally everything they report on the way Alex Jones, PragerU, and the like do.
> In this study, the research team defined problematic channels as those that shared videos promoting extremist ideas, such as white nationalism, the alt-right, QAnon and other conspiracy theories. More than 36% of all sock puppet users in the experiment received video recommendations from problematic channels. For centrist and left-leaning users, that number was 32%. For the most right-leaning accounts, that number was 40%.

They defined problematic channels as anything specifically espousing far-right wing ideas, and found that ring-wing users were only-slightly more likely to be recommended content from them.

It's kind of disappointing they couldn't find something problematic or conspiratorial from the left, even just for the sake of comparison.
Posted this a few days ago but no one commented. I heard about it on the new Netflix series on ww2. Impressive stuff

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowding_system
Seems like free market is operating correctly. People on right get right wing content and people on left get left wing content.

As I am absolutely sure it also leads to extreme left wing content.
1. Mega

2. Copy / Paste

3. Close your eyes and believe that they do it.

Jokes aside, I've moved from Dropbox to Mega; I don't store private information on cloud services, however, some particular stuff was overwritten some times and deleted the history before closing the account.

Before that, I was suspicious too of Dropbox opening files, so I've planted a canary and never was triggered, so, there's that, unless you're some VIP, I highly doubt they check your files.
New plans for self-hosted Zulip customers
Why would anyone want to play it with a gamepad? That’s absolutely the Wrong way to play any flight sim.

You need joystick, throttles, rudder pedals, and ideally a VR headset. IR head tracking appears to work, but I have no idea how, given that you’d have to point your head away from the screen to look over your shoulder.
What is unreasonable about a warrant? Where did this adversarial attitude to law enforcement come from? The whole reason we have a rich and functioning society is thanks to law.
I am curious in what situation you think murdering a cop would result in a less bad outcome.
The actual paper, for people who don’t want to read hearsay science journalism:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06810-1
I agree, but in the context of this conversation I think we're just talking about databases/state. So "is M a distributed system on its own?"
I remember being blown away by GTA V when it came out. Not really a fan of this kind of game, by my jaw just dropped when I saw GTA V for the first time. It's like the ultimate tech demo to me -- pushed the limits of what I thought was possible from an immersion standpoint.

The detail in the world, the visual fidelity, the lack of any popup, seamlessness when traversing the world. The sheer size of the world, with all that crazy detail. Really amazing stuff.

Can't wait to see how they've improved the tech over the last 10 years.
I’ve never watched tentacle porn (I don’t watch much of any porn for that matter) but I’m sure like anything else I could acquire an affection for it! I suspect it’s probably not so healthy to recoil in horror at anything outside your comfort zone, or the flimsy canopy of social norms. It might prevent you from experiencing lots of great new things, including — potentially - tentacle porn!

Here’s my attitude: wow lots of people love this stuff, apparently, since it’s everywhere. It can’t possibly be that everyone who enjoys tentacle porn is a criminal monster. I wonder what it’s doing for them? It’s driven by curiosity and empathy. You’re not free if you can’t at least explore in your mind without going 100% hardcore psycho aversion what it might be like or for or whatever.
Isaac Asimov's Guide to the Bible
I remember this keenly and am just as salty about it as the author. It is accurate. This was the observed behavior as people's accounts were gradually migrated to Hangouts from Google Talk.

I remember testing this myself - the Google Talk desktop app would still show conversations from XMPP contacts (and still worked for a time after you were migrated to Hangouts in Gmail), but the Hangouts pane in Gmail would not. Nonetheless, the Hangouts users would still appear online (I believe in "away" status) to the XMPP users.
The uk government has decided to import millions of people and hope that it creates good outcomes. So far it’s difficult to find a measure that has improved.
I have mostly built the modular sets (and designed my own), but missed a couple in the 2010's. also a big train fan (have built many of my own train cars), or have built more fun things like the ghostbusters fire station and car. I never got into the architecture sets though.

I plan on taking some time one of these weekends to build a large outdoor track layout to run on, but am waiting on some more after-market track to arrive.
The enduring wartime spirit that powers classic Christmas songs
Breasts, penises, ambiguously thigh obfuscated vaginas, and butt holes including childlike characters and furries. All drawn.
Daily Wire isn't particularly 'extreme' or 'conspiracy theorist'. I am less familiar with Tucker Carlson but while I find his takes on Russia distasteful, I haven't seen any extremism.
I think it has more to do with desiring control. Black boxes feel like out of control.

I can reason about how transport vehicles work for example but if there was a quantum teleport machine that only wants my destination and I get magically zapped there, it would be amazing but plenty of people including me would have a hard time trusting it fully because we can't have an intuitive understanding of how it works (cars,trains = wheels go round and round lol).
What kind of optimizations does RocksDB do? I know they have some stuff around range deletions but not sure I’ve read anything about point deletions.
No, neither for english, spanish, romanian, or latin. Nor does my wife, their parents, my parents, my sister and anyone I know speaking english as their 2nd language.

Growing up in a first language is a different thing, and there are hints that the first language influences thinking, concepts and lots of other stuff. But the connection to "feel like a different person" is not just weak, but non-existent, both from personal experience and from anything I read.

Lots of animated gifs in the linked article don't help, even if they include happy bunnies.
yes! I've been using the nightly for a few weeks now and this is as close to the perfect terminal as I've found. I love the integration with containers, I do next to nothing on the host itself, instead using Distrobox and Incus. Prompt makes that delightful.
It's Been 2 Months. Why Can't NASA Open the Asteroid Sample Container?
I disagree with the latter notion. If you hold the rights to something, it should be you who gets to make the shots on how - or whether or not at all - you would like to monetize said thing.

Perhaps you plan on taking a break for a couple of years and then sell the item again?

Just because someone else really wants your item, does not automatically give them the right to access it or make it available to others, if you as the rights holder disagree with that.
What about the less convoluted scheme of "I forgot it?"

The "I do not recall" answer in high profile trials is so common that it's essentially become a meme. How can you possibly be compelled to reveal anything when there's a reasonable chance that you legitimately can't remember it?
> I'm not seeing that space.

Really? You don't see anything between "we're certain to fail" and "were going to accomplish this thing (even though we haven't got the slightest clue how) in X months"? Would you feel differently about it if Musk said they'll do it in 3 weeks? Because I don't, besides "6 months" being slightly easier to believe.
Yeah I don't know how you eliminate in-band signalling from an LLM app.
Neither of those things should be coming up for kids who search for “art”
Hmm. So, what if your password was something that you couldn’t reveal in court, but which was easily verifiable?

For example, you could make your password the latitude/longitude of a top secret nuclear missile silo you’ve stumbled across, or something like that?
You wouldn’t classify storage as an odd behaving interconnect?
It seems that the news hasn't spread far yet but due to sponsorships by various big PDF related companies the ISO standard for PDF 2.0 is freely available, see https://www.pdfa-inc.org/product/iso-32000-2-pdf-2-0-bundle-...

While the PDF 1.7 spec from Adobe was always available, once it was turned into an ISO spec (ISO 32000-1:2008) it became paywalled. Due to an agreement with Adobe, the ISO version of the PDF 1.7 spec was made available free of charge. However, the further development of the PDF standard was done according to ISO rules and that meant paying for the standard... until the PDF association and a few companies stepped up and made the spec free again (also see https://www.pdfa.org/sponsored-standards/).