skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why do you say the correction is arbitrary?

Because it follows a method picked and chosen by the corrector.

> Are there papers arguing for corrections in the other direction?

It doesn't really matter if these corrections sway one way or the other. What matters is that someone decided that the original values weren't good, and proceeded to pick a way to come up with other values by changing the original ones.
You're now making a different argument: it's unethical for an ad blocker to have their own ads?

Why is that? I don't like ads on websites because they track me, slow down loading times, use my data, etc... So I'd like to block them because they're forced on me in the modern web. This ad blocker gives me control of whether I want to see any ads, how often I want to see them, and takes measures to prevent tracking. That seems like freedom and user-friendly behavior.

The fact that the ad blocker doesn't keep all ad revenue is another bonus and I can choose whether I alone earn money from seeing ads that run on my machine, or if I share some of that with creators I appreciate seems like another level of freedom.

I'm not seeing a downside. I can opt out of the ads altogether if I choose. I can even choose to not block ads that aren't trying to exploit me.
Java has things like Jabel that let you use modern Java syntax and compile down to Java 8 for compatibility reasons.

https://github.com/bsideup/jabel

This is useful commercially, but also nice when building Minecraft mods for older versions of Minecraft.
I generally agree, but presumably features are added to it, integrations with all sorts of banks, markets, payment processors, crypto(lol), etc, etc. People probably also want mobile apps, which is an ever-moving target as mobile OSs change SDKs every other release.

If you wanted basic accounting functionality, could just use a spreadsheet. Plenty of free spreadsheet software out there. Why spend $60?
Can confirm it is just one rep
There's somewhat of a lack of a tautological understanding of null-hypothesis experiments, in that what is really being tested is confined by the scope of the experiment.

What I mean is that the results of the experiment are only true for the sample population. The extrapolation of the sample population to the whole seems problematic and at the root of the ongoing replication crisis.

I realize that this interpretation throws a wrench into the empirical approaches taken by the soft sciences and that rejects an important notion that a sample can indeed be considered representative of the whole.

But I can't ignore the impact of the experimenters on these kinds of studies, be it bias or just poorly implemented methods, as well as the impact of the subjects chosen for the experiment. There's a lack of a control that is otherwise accounted for in the hard sciences.
>we see a nonprofit organization who makes no bones about their moderation policy

The problem is that the rules will be made by humans and will be enforced by humans. This will never be even close to perfect, especially with bad actors which are inevitable when a platform gets popular enough.
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I'm on a basic M1 Macbook Air and don't feel limited at all, and am not tempted at all by anything new. I'm doing pretty heavy development on it on several projects, play around with producing music with Bitwig, battery is great, I love this machine.
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A specification for those who want content searchable on search engines, but not used for machine learning.

Publishers need improved ways to indicate how they want content to be used in search and machine learning. Using robots.txt does not cover all use cases, and so a complementary approach is needed as proposed here. It is one which can be applied to individual webpages as desired, and can be preserved as such in datasets of web content.
What's the safety angle? Presumably her potential stalkers are unlikely to have access to surface-to-air missiles.
The article covers this. Special machine-readable output modes like `--json`.
Yeah, really the only difference is whether you are tracking individual servers or TYPES of servers
Netscape created the first highly usable web browser, which introduced most people to the web. They also created SSL (TLS), JavaScript, the first high performance web server, and much more that that made the web go.
"Your Future Self and Everyone With Access to the futureme.org Database"

At least that's why I've never used this service and never will, even though I think it would be worthwhile.
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> The point was that the corrections aren’t arbitrary.

But they are, aren't they? It matters nothing if you apply a precise rule to change values. What matters is that you picked a rule.
FWIW, the proprietary nvidia linux drivers for the 2070 in my desktop PC are absolute trash. Last year they failed so bad that I couldn't even get it to boot and ended up just reinstalling ubuntu to fix the problem.

On the other hand, my AMD Framework 13 hasn't had any issues with the iGPU with Linux. (It bluescreened and rebooted twice in two months with Windows, and I suspect both of those were graphics-related, but no issues in the month or so I've had ubuntu on it.)
They are more reliable because Toyota sells a large fraction of the hybrids. Non-Toyota hybrids are less reliable than both gasoline cars and EV's. Maybe that's circular because a large fraction of the non-Toyota hybrids are Stellantis...
Interesting that they changed back their business model. I used the service a few times but stopped when they started forcing users into a monthly/yearly subscription to write more than one letter per year or so.
> As much as I dislike Facebook, Twitter, Pintrest, etc, they all are doing fine.

Hah, Twitter isn't exactly doing fine
At least real life stores do not check, where you live or which stuff you already have before denying you access to buy something they sell.

Online dev world is so wonderful, cannot wait when money would be fully digital. So many opportunities
you should provide numbers for that for a claim that big
While I love MySQL for a variety of reasons (and think it's legitimately better for certain features – tangential to your point, being able to ORDER BY in a DELETE is great), its lax GROUP BY option isn't really a great idea in terms of correctness.

You can emulate it in Postgres with DISTINCT ON if desired, and as long as you also ORDER BY something that makes sense for your query, it should work similarly.
She should travel by submarine
How is that different from saying "My team will be migrating everyone to the new system this quarter"
Seems they took a small step back from their previous "don't bother with man pages" stance. Now it's "Consider providing man pages."

I still find it a rather shocking order of priority, honestly.

https://clig.dev/#documentation
Depends on your needs, right? I prefer an underpowered car with excellent fuel economy, so that's a benefit.

99% of my daily local trips are under 40 miles, so short range isn't a factor.

I mean, that's just me, but for me it's a near-perfect fit.

Until batteries and chargers get better, anyway.
Hybrids are very reliable, especially plug-ins like the Volt that essentially have redundancy and will operate with one of the engines completely disabled. Generally speaking it’s far less wear and tear to drive an electric motor with a generator than it is to have a crankshaft / belts / pulleys / transmission / air driven throttle / complex cooling loops / etc, even with the additional parts.
> While I certainly would not support the abuses in the article, being required to work 5 days a week whether you want to or not is rehabilitative for many people who cannot hold down a job because they lack discipline and patience to appreciate that this is how productive citizens afford the basics of life.

That’s odd, because the countries with the lowest rate of recidivism don’t have forced labor. “Lack of discipline” isn’t the reason most of them are in prison, it’s lack of skills and opportunity. Nothing about the prison industrial complex is fixing either of those problems.

It is subjecting them to a dog-eat-dog culture of violence though. Not exactly surprising people generally come out even less able to productively participate in society than when they go in.
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Yep, came here to say the same.
turned out it's the same API as VISA/MasterCard/every other credit card already provides

see also (somewhat of a jump, but the same monetary system) FedNow
No need to specify years.
1. Anything that can emulate Windows 95

2. HotDog, Dreamweaver, and/or Frontpage for HTML editing. They each have their strengths & weaknesses and work relatively well together. Normally I'd lay out pages in Dreamweaver or Frontpage and then clean up the HTML with HotDog. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotDog. Upload them with BulletproofFTP (http://www.bpftp.com/), an ancient predecessor of Filezilla.

3. Not sure if any of the old hosts are still around. Maybe Neocities.org comes close to the Geocities of old, or else you can get barebones and very cheap but reliable web hosting from https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

Get AOL dialup: https://getonline.aol.com/dialup and a 56k modem off eBay, no cheating with megabit connections.

You can emulate old browsers online: https://oldweb.today/

People generally weren't self-hosting their websites back then because phone lines weren't very reliable, and the dialup modems of the day (like today's cable modems) generally had faster download than upload speeds. After the BBS era, commercial internet hosts started becoming pretty common, but they usually used expensive ISDN or T1 lines.

Apache was still in its infancy then, and Microsoft IIS was common.

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Overall, I don't think the network stack is really THAT far removed from what we have today. The basics of HTTP were pretty fleshed out already (it was more the HTTPS and DNS security extensions that really evolved), along with better compression and parallelization protocols in HTTP2/3. And of there's been a huge amount of backend server optimizations, caching, reverse proxies, etc. But the old network stack would still work today and you can still run a basic barebones http daemon and firewall the same way you could back then, open up port 80, and watch your box get pwned by the bots. Hell, there are probably still zombie bots leftover from that era running on someone's basement PC, just casually scanning the internet day in and day out, waiting for its chance...

What's changed a lot more (IMO) is more the language of the web itself. HTML was very basic then, as was JS and CSS. Making websites without modern CSS, in particular, is very painful... requiring a lot of nested tables, frames (remember those? they're different from iframes!), etc. A lot of the pain was abstracted away to backend scripting languages (Perl, ASP, Coldfusion) or frontend extensions (Java, Shockwave, ActiveX, Flash) and people didn't really work in vanilla HTML/JS very often (because they were so weak by then). Plain HTML is for your basic Astro Marmalade site with a bunch of animated gifs and whatever, but probably real ecommerce sites (such as it were) wouldn't be written in plain HTML :)
1. Most people do not live in New York. I live in Seattle and driving is not a problem except for an hour at the end of the day.

2. Public transportation comes with its own set of risks. It is up to the individual to determine what they wish. Neither option is “progress” it is a trade off.
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This was fixed in one of the recent iOS versions. Works consistently for me without any text replacements.
There's an official app on the play store. I don't know if it has been mirrored to any other app stores/repositories, but perhaps knowing the app ID will help find it elsewhere. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xyz.blueskyweb...
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Eh kind of. One of the recent themes at our all hands was “data collection for user benefit” which I’m sure is what every company says.
Niche communities around some topic work well if people that are interested come and go.

But if the niche is artificially created by fact that community is gated, then such community is not sustainable. Cabin fever and general fatigue of users.
What do you mean? They found no cooling, they found warming.
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From the sound of Toyota's profits, I'll bet Chevy isn't sure, either. :)
+. And then you have to figure everything one more time when you decide to move to (or to add support for) Azure/GCP.
Could you share more details about this? The tools / flow?
In Finland the tender was between Cerner and Epic. Because our largest hospital district wanted to buy American eletronic medical record system. I guess the biggest influencer was Kaiser Permanante (=they are world class and are using Epic, so it has to be best system in the world)
A secrets management service would be most convenient. Documentation makes them easy to set up without having to build anything extra yourself. A secrets manager like Doppler (https://Doppler.com) or AWS Secrets Manager (https://aws.amazon.com/secrets-manager/) has the advantage of protecting your secrets in a secure place and the advantage of minimizing exposure of those secrets - even to your own developers. That way, you don't end up with a data breach that could have easily been avoided. These types of leaks can cost companies everything and are becoming way more common.
The "being in a rush" theory sounds very interesting and very plausible combined with adapting a pseudonym to avoid lawsuits.

However, if these were the two reasons behind keeping his identity secret, wouldn't Hal Finney be also the kind of person who leaves some kind of digital trace that confirms his identity as creator even after he is dead? Like automating the execution of a transaction on the genesis block or something?

Apart from wanting to take credit and glory of being creator, he must have had very interesting "war stories" to share concerning the creation of bitcoin, his feelings as he saw it grow... this would have been a very interesting memoir to share with the world.

I am wondering if he left such a document somewhere that will suddenly decrypt itself to the world along with irrefutable evidence of his invention of bitcoin.
I'm always contrasting this with Matrix in my head. E.g reading https://matrix.org/blog/2023/12/25/the-matrix-holiday-update...

A lot of sort of economics/approach stuff contrasts to mull over in the background.
My interest in Framework is the DIY repairability. Not interested in modular upgrades but hot swappable ports on the side and should something need replacing, can be done in a relatively shorter and more predictable timespan than with ThinkPads and EliteBooks these days. Have had terrible experience with those in the last few years.
> finding my first job in tech as near hopeless for someone like me, who has weak network/hustling skills

This. I came in thinking as long as I become as great as possible at engineering, creating useful things and even grinding out algorithm problems it would be enough eventually. Even contributed to a few popular open source repositories. But guess what, in an interview despite acing all the technical questions and programming problems; I ended up being told that despite showing great ability that I "wasn't engaged enough in the interview and were concerned by my motivation".

I literally got told this after my 6th and final interview. At that point I understood, it is not just your ability that matters but how much the interviewer likes you as a person and they can discriminate you for anything without you helping it. I would even bet that even if I were to get the job I would be dealing with office politics seen as it has people like this in there. This was a big tech company.
I was under the impression Twitter was doing well. What makes you say this?
A couple more threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39268387 -- flagged (why?)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39272301 -- no traction

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39272405 -- no traction
The primary performance benefits with Enterprise are access to the G1 garbage collector and profile-guided optimization
Income, engagement, image?
What if money gets sent to websites that host hate speech?
This is really ridiculous
Nostr solves the account portability, albeit poorly. (Your identity is your public key, so if the key gets compromised your identity is as well)

I am more excited about Takahe, which decouples the servers running the federation from the domains holding the actor ids. This means that a hosting provider like mine won't need to allocate one whole instance for each user that wants to have their own domain.

There is also a FEP from the developer of Mitra which aims to flip the ownership of the account keys, which would prevent cases of servers going under and stopping users from recovering their identity.
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Your experience with databases was probably clouded by having to use Oracle.
Because death is the enemy, and the Jean Le Flambeur series by Hannu Rajiemi touches on this in pretty good ways. Won't spoil the plot, though.

It does put into perspective though, how distracted and selfish our species can be; oh, let's fight each other because of skin colour, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, fighting wars over resources, etc. Meanwhile people are getting cancer, have disabilities like blindness and paraplegia and generally just...dying, especially when it comes early, after a hard life. It's just so sad and disappointing that we have the resources to give everyone a pretty decent life while we work on solving these bigger problems...but we just don't.
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The worst part about terminal programs is that they can’t be deprecated. Or I don’t know of a way to do it. Because once you release something someone might immediately put it into a script somewhere instead of running it interactively. Now what do you do? Display a “hint” about the deprecation? Well no one’s gonna read that because it’s a script which is run non-interactively.

So you just have to design the UI perfectly on the first try. That’s possible for small tools but what about larger ones? Past a certain point it becomes a truism that do-it-once perfectly without iteration is impossible.
Account connection services are insanely expensive and you don't want to create all that yourself. That would be even more expensive to maintain. That's why there's services like Plaid. For every user it costs at least 1$ a month per user per connected account. That alone creates a huge amount of ongoing expenses.

That's why we don't offer the ability to connect accounts within our app. Users don't understand or don't want to understand that such a feature alone would easily double the subscription price. Without VC you cannot give users the ability to connect their accounts for free without losing lots of money.
What does this even mean? How does Mozilla know what benefits me, the user?
The Republican Party is fine with regulatory capture increasing moats around businesses. They'll scream about it sometimes to try to score political points with voters, but they'll never actually do anything about it, because they know where their campaign funds really come from. And since the Democrats also know where their campaign funds really come from, that explains how we wind up in the situation.
Not so in all cases.

- insert/then retrieve ID can easily result in duplicate records in some edge cases, and won’t necessarily be able to be easily fixed either. the inserted record doesn’t have a global ID until it’s inserted.

Can this generally be fixed using good transactions semantics? Yes usually. But it’s expensive. And in many cases you’ll have to default to failing writes instead of eventually consistent behavior.

- CRDT type behavior works better when things have a known valid unique ID from the get go. insert/update/ignore can happen quickly and easily without two way communication and in bulk, and edge cases have more easily modelable ‘eventual consistency’.

- generating unique IDs in the database forces serialization of certain processes in the database, which can cause scaling issues and high latency.

For instance, using the DB to create unique request IDs for web or API requests? Asking for problems.

Generating UUIDs for them at request time, and then putting those IDs where needed when later correlation/tracking is desirable? Much better.

Same can apply for other object ID creation, when there aren’t other natural keys that need to be checked first.
In my personal feed and algorithm, it was showing content from Gaza initially. I started following some of the victims and journalists. Then it stopped, not a single content from Gaza anymore.
LOL true! My internal survivorship bias was showing. You do hear an awful lot from the dealers who have been around for 40+ years but not-so-surprisingly less so from the ones who didn't make it.
What if someone made a website listing all of everyone's travels, live - where everyone is at all times. It would be dystopian.

I think the free speech issue - it's public data - trumps all. And the risk that powerful people will have different laws and protections, where rights are supposed to protect the vulnerable, would be a very dangerous precedent.

At the same time, I don't think this data should be public for anyone.

> You have no expectation of privacy using public airspace.

Perhaps legally, but as we have seen elsewhere, with computing capabilities, that antiquated (IMHO) notion yields dystopian totalitarianism. Walking down the street in 1789 was anonymous unless someone happened to see you, and then the spread of their knowledge was limited to custom-manufactured physical objects moving at the speed of a horse.

We do have an expectation of privacy generally, and that is nullified if we reduce it to an EM-shielded, soundproofed basement with the windows boarded up.
Total eclipses are far more common than this event.
They were a startup, but now they are a medium sized business with website that burns cash.
Twitter feels like the exception there. They still have a lot of users, but they aren't exactly making money.

Anecdotally, it's reputation is also far worse than other social media companies. It's hard to go into the office, family gatherings, etc, without hearing people joke about how awful Twitter has become, whereas with other sites I usually only hear that sentiment from other long-time users deeper inside my own bubble.
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