skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, there aren’t “scores” of “deplatforming events” noted to any degree of verifiable specificity, there’s, at first blush, maybe a single score. Secondly, I’m also not sure we should embrace a phrase very loosely defined by those whose entire goal is to confirm the thing they’ve defined is growing in prevalence, as their definition seems to include any time a speaker was interrupted more than once for a self-reported “significant” amount of time. That alone would easily allow them to enumerate every standing ovation given to Adolf, or any time Goebbels interjected to praise his Fuhrer, as a “deplatforming event”… these people who are essentially writing an opinion piece about finding data that confirms their confirmation bias isn’t obviously a good source of truth.

All that said, my reason for jumping to that example is precisely to address your question… the answer to “what is their mindset” depends entirely on the speech being shouted down. People don’t shout down speech they don’t believe is offensive enough to be worth shouting down, and this “sensationalist” example proves them entirely correct when the speech is, objectively, offensive. So you’re not honestly asking what their mindset is, you’re asking what right they have to be so offended by speech you, personally, would not find offensive.

Personally I really do believe in freedom of speech… which implies freedom to shout down those you disagree with. If you have the right to say something that invites reproach then they have the right to reproach you, and if that means you losing your platform because you a) didn’t earn it or b) don’t own it and those whom you have offended do a better job of employing their speech, then so be it, either examine and evolve your beliefs or find a more receptive venue.
What do you get with GitHub Copilot for Enterprises?
I'd definitely look at their code contributions on any code platform they'd provide on their CV. In addtion to this, sr.ht would hint me "you're actually interested in your craft way beyond what's in your school curriculum".

gitlab would hint me "you absolutely don't care about an UI which is slow as mollasses but you maybe have stronger moral principles."
I'm kind of surprised, what with all the retro computing emulation software and skills I see getting posted here, that we don't have a Voyager emulator scene and a group of people standing by to run scenarios and propose fixes.
Typically this happens during take-off when rotating. This particular failure mode doesn't make much sense for an airliner in cruise.
> so the company can say they have a process that is objective.

I think it makes sense to spend some money on this kind of charlatan "rigor" from a legal CYA perspective. But I think the amount of energy and time and resources spent on it far exceeds what is reasonable for CYA, and that money would only be spent the way it is if either/and/or 1) the people making the decisions to do all this extra analysis benefit from it personally in some way, or 2) the people making the decisions truly believe that the data/analysis will yield productive results, or 3) that the people making the decision believe that this much charlatan-rigor is actually necessary for legal "CYA" purposes. I just feel that #2 and #3 reflect such a broad lack of understanding that I'm surprised there are no major corporate leaders bucking the trend.

For hiring, specifically, I believe it's proven in mathematical theory that the best thing you can do is to have a two-stage hiring process:

1) only eliminate/select candidates based on provably strong signals. This will result in a massively large pool of candidates who "pass" the screening for each position.

2) use a random number generator to pick someone from that pool.

A lot of people would propose using the algorithm from the secretary problem[0], but that algorithm assumes that you can "grade" on a candidate's quality on a continuous scale. I don't believe we have the ability to judge a candidate that is "60% likely to be amazing" vs. "80% likely to be amazing", so that algorithm won't work.

We can, however, measure in a binary way whether we were happy or unhappy with a hiring decision, and determine which pre-hiring signals had any actual strong correlation to being happy with the hiring decision. Filter candidates based on that, then pick a candidate at random. Any additional filtering will result in systemically picking worse candidates at scale.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
Dude, you are very angry and I'd suggest you readjust.

My father watches fox news 24/7. I used to be angry like you anytime we touched close to politics. Now, I just don't talk about it, it's not worth it and doesn't add any value to the relationship, and never did before.

Hopefully you'll see this as you get older. Fox news didn't damage your relationship, sorry.
If only it was merely nightmares and not my day job.
Each of those connections needs its own TCP and TLS handshake making a total of 6 trips. Also, although this didn't take off, h2 had push promise which could have been a big help.
Just Ask Craig Wright.
I fundamentally don't understand why this project is seemingly so poorly documented? I've read articles describing the current teams having to still reverse engineer things by scrutinizing random documents and sketches as if it's still this very unknown system.
How does beeper work? Do I have to give beeper full access to all the different accounts I use for messaging?
> A command from Earth takes 22.5 hours to reach the probe

Voyager 1 is closing in on being the first human-made object to travel 1 light day.

V1 has traveled ~22.5 light hours in ~46.5 years [0], and assuming that average rate of 2.07 years/light hour [1] it will reach 1 light day in around 3.1 years. Does anyone know its potential to have sufficent power to measuring anything and transmit at that point?

[0] https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/

[1] Notes on Voyager's average rate:

Remember that V1 did not travel in a straight line or at a constant rate from Earth through its planetary explorations, so the average rate now is probably higher than that simple calculation.

Also, if we are looking at distance and speed relative to Earth, and Earth's orbit around the Sun would cause some variation throughout the year. Could Earth's relative orbital positions at V1's launch decades ago and when V1 approaches 1 light day in three years significantly affect V1's distance from Earth? Earth's orbital diameter is roughly 300 million km; V1 travels at ~61,000 km/hr relative to the Sun [0], so the worst case would add ~4,900 hours or ~205 days. (Those are some quick calculations and I have to run to a meeting, so I hope there are no glaring errors!)

Also, I assume the Sun's movement relative to Voyager 1 has been constant since its launch.
SpaceVim GitHub
But it would have been if they executed the burn in at a slightly different angle.
Ghostty: A New Terminal Emulator Written in Zig [video]
Are you saying only fans couldn't take down a video of a rape without being instructed by police? On what basis do you believe that to be true? Do you really think that OnlyFan's TOS and agreements with the producers on the platform do not allow OF to remove content it deems inappropriate? That'd be facially absurd.
How Figma's databases team lived to tell the scale
AI should automate tedious and un-creative work, and data entry tasks definitely fit this description. Rule-based RPA will likely be replaced by fine-tuned AI agents for things like form filling and similar.

Can you share some data on costs and scalability?

At Kadoa, we're working on fully automating unstructured data ETL from websites, PDFs, etc. We quickly realized that doing this for a few data sources with low complexity is one thing, doing it for thousands of sources daily in a reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient way is a whole different beast.

Using LLMs for every data extraction would be way too expensive and very slow. Instead, we use LLMs to generate the scraper and data transformation code and subsequently adapt it to website changes, which is highly efficient.
It's absolutely bizarre that TikTok is not only mentioned in the headline but mentioned first. According to the actual Amazon complaint, REKK operates via Telegram, Reddit, Nulled, Discord and recruits via Reddit and LinkedIn. Nowhere is TikTok even mentioned in the 44-page complaint!

Amazon complaint (https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24204198/govuscourtsw...)

> REKK targets Amazon's online stores in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Among other places, the REKK Operator Defendants use the Telegram accounts "@refundingelub," "@rekks," "@rekksupport," and "@rekkvouches' to advertise their services and interact with people seeking to obtain fraudulent refunds from Amazon. The REKK Operator Defendants also advertise their services and interact with people seeking fraudulent refunds on Nulled (under username "rekk"), Reddit (under username "rekksalt" and subreddit "/REKKRefundService"), and Discord (under usemame "rekk#5319").

...

> REKK identifies and recruits Amazon employees to join ts scheme. REKK recruits these insiders on Reddit, LinkedIn, or directly on its Telegram channel...

...

> Amazon respectfully prays for the following relief: That the Court issue an order permanently enjoining all Defendants [from] Using or interacting with any Telegram, Nulled, Reddit, Discord, or other 18 private channel media platforms, accounts, servers, or channels affiliated 19 with the fraudulent refund scheme;

NYT coverage (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/business/amazon-refund-fr...):

> The 44-page complaint said that REKK marketed itself through social media channels like Reddit and the encrypted messaging app Telegram as a paid service that allowed users to buy products from online retailers and pretend to return them, keeping both the product and the refund.
Very fair I don't do the best job going and clarifying my comments some times. They come out a bit stream of consciousness. I did see your comment in time to make the change at least.
Why would the majority of web traffic turn into extremely
expensive to operate agents?
> Skyvern understands how to solve CAPTCHAs to complete complicated workflows

this seems like this could be used for abuse. the CAPTCHAs are specifically designed to stop botting on 3rd party websites.

or this will just be another cat and mouse game where the next level of CAPTCHAs get more annoying and invasive to verify we are human
This is a great call-out. It's something currently in our roadmap

Re: cost for execution. This really depends on the page, but currently it costs between 5 cents and 20 cents per page to execute (today).

We have an improvement planned to help it "remember" or "cache" actions it's done in the past so it can just replay them and bring the cost down to near zero.

Re: LLMs it's capable of working with, currently it's only GPT-4V. I'll get this updated soon!
And it would be correct
I've heard of people randomly signing up their coworkers to create plausible deniability.
My first thought was "This sounds vaguely like the music on the radio in Portal. Does a future SpaceX become Aperture Science? Is Elon Musk the progeny of Cave Johnson?"
That’s why we can’t have nice things. Are we at the end of Eternal September? Will all the signs of human life be restricted to paid or otherwise closed groups? If all free users are bots, who will even run ads that feed the Web 2.0 internet?

I still have fear that the real internet has already split from what I see and I was left behind.
Wow, great point! Thanks for the reply; I did not even think of hardware at the time of posting.

I will look into form pointer chasing. Any good reads that you would recommend for software devs who are interested in electrical engineering or rather understanding how to build hardware?
> Our next best window for sending out another group of probes is 2152

Planet alignment?
Nicely done, but I suspect the 'wall of code' the kids see when first opening the page is intimidating. Maybe start with a smaller example?
Could you elaborate more? What is the new trend? How it fell out of grace? Who were the members that voiced the view?
Sounds like a11y without the apps having to explicitly implement it.

"accessibility tree" is generally the interface trough which apps provide a11y information to the OS.
It is very popular in Austrian, in particular the TV series from the 70s with Fritz Muliar as the main actor 1972: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Abenteuer_des_braven_Solda.... The theatre plays are also quite popular. I even read the novel as a kid because my father had it in his library :)

Why do you think Hasek did you a disservice?
We've moved the comments to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39704914 since that post is currently on the front page and does add additional background.
How does this compare to OpenAdapt?

I have a feeling that this tech will become a commodity and will probably be built-in into the OS or Browser.

Props for open-sourcing though!
Court docs reveal Epic CEO's anger at Steam's 30% fees
In any case the point made was that centralized systems always corrupt. Challenge it and dare finding one example that didn't get corrupted.

Also it is unjust to name crypto/Blockchain as an example of decentralized system that gets corrupted. All corruption story in fact are centralized , but labelled as crypto, or touch the field of crypto but nonetheless are very centralized. E.g mtgox, bitconnect, Celsius, FTX.

If not centralized, flawed in design. Unintentionally E.g Ethereum before the split that led to ETC. Euler more recently. Many others. And Many are intentionally flawed, e.g terra/Luna.
I’m still filing the regulator complaint.
He left court on a Friday, did the email forgery in the article over the weekend, and was back in court on Monday. Forging evidence is always bad, but doing it during the trial in response to something he was cross-examined on? That has to be particularly bad.
I assume that is the case for almost all public universities in the US, or at least it was back when i was in college a decade ago.

Also, those student emails listed in the directory aren’t personal ones, they are school-assigned ones, so I don’t think it is a major issue tbh. The only times I’ve ever got any emails sent to mine from people that obviously discovered it through the directory were from the recruiters (and those were definitely very welcome at the time).
there are already some existing solutions for e2e testing. I would say playwright with codegen works well enough but there are ones that make it even easier by wrapping around openapi but seems overkill
The image halfway through the article says the forces are "twisting shear forces," which "twist one way [or] the other"—only two ways to twist!

Maybe by "twisting" the author means that the field is one of torques rather than of linear forces. I guess you can make a continuous field of torques tangent to the surface of a sphere (as long as you're speaking of the "wheel" of the torque, not its pseudovector axis, being tangent to the sphere).

In addition, you can only speak of two "ways" any particular torque in such a field can go: clockwise or counterclockwise, as viewed from, say, a point inside the sphere. That would explain the one-way-or-the-other language.
Just curious why the marketplace of ideas won't solve this? If people don't want to be influenced or want to avoid it, won't they? Or if a competitor wants to deliver a more engaging product, shouldn't consumer choice result in the best possible outcome?

This has a feeling of paternalism that rubs me the wrong way. I'd be happy to hear of a case where large scale paternalism worked out, but so far it seems like paternalism is a failed ideology whose proponents continue to not realize that, "just one more try; it will work."

What I'm hearing is an argument for cultural-Sakokuism and I have to remind the reader that it never works.
this thread really should sink to the bottom, as had also happened.

criticizing is great! but it would be fantastic with enlightening discussion.
How does this compare to hsnwlib - is it faster? https://github.com/nmslib/hnswlib
So as a non-certified repairer, you have to offer a city tour around the block, at a ridiculously high price, and then repair the device at no additional cost. All a matter of perspective.
Very few managers would do this themselves. It is far more likely to be done by HR or an HR-adjacent group and a report sent to a manager.
I know what the word "literally" means, there's a great Sorkin bit on it [1] that's eerily prescient given that show is like, 15 years old. Via your own citation it's apparently Lisa Su who doesn't know what "literally" means, as she asserts that they are "second cousins", which is literally false according if your second citation says "first cousins, once-removed", which Quora [2] says means they're closely blood-related.

I don't know how their family works, but in mine and most people from my neighborhood, a first-cousin once-removed is fucking family, they're blood. Not being a securities lawyer myself I'm not sure which definition, statue, or regulation would apply here, [3] seems close (and has a creepy rush-job feel about it that smells vaguely like Kushner shit of one kind or another, Feb 2020 on an accelerated basis?).

But whether this squeaks above the line of regulations and laws and whatnot getting midnight "lgtm" stamps in an election year is, I'd argue, substantially missing the point.

When I recently said:

"Now did Lisa Su decide to "concentrate on the supercomputing market with the MI300XYZ" and Jensen decided to "concentrate on AI with Hopper" independently to a degree where the market is perfectly partitioned? Who knows, I certainly don't have proof one way or the other. But if someone made a call being like "I'm thinking of focusing on X but don't really see our differentiation in Y. How's Cathy?", it wouldn't be the fucking first time." [4]

I thought at the time I was kinda pushing it with how flip that sounded, but lo and behold, I was insufficiently cynical.

So when I say that I literally don't understand why anyone is defending this trivially dubious cartel behavior complete with a 55.58% Net Profit Margin in an ostensibly competitive market both directly and indirectly subsidized by the taxpayer (TSMC isn't going to fight off the PLA with their next process node) [5], I think Leona Lansing knows that the public will burn the building down with this shit in it before they let this shit get much ickier.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1kETLlGn-8

[2] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-a-secon...

[3] https://www.winston.com/en/blogs-and-podcasts/capital-market...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39362196

[5] https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-ai-chip-semiconductor...
To be added to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HaeB/Timeline_of_distribu...?

Edit: added at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HaeB/Timeline_of_distribu...
I've been on the wait-list for at least a year I think? "Open beta test" plus a wait-list is quite weird.
> I don't think the point is to isolate all state

We may have been using it incorrectly in my team, but our pattern is moving out all of the state out of the component, essentially separating the logic from the view.
I'd argue not developing them simultaneously is like trying to create a robot using anatomical designs from mammalian, avian, and insect domains without modifying the initial organ systems.

Either way it is a challenging problem, but we can't simply re-use existing system integration motifs to develop on-device continuous learning, in my opinion.
Yes absolutely. You can prompt it to "terminate" if some state isn't met (ie XYZ text isn't displayed on the screen), and treat terminated results as failures

For example, you could instruct it to go to hackernews and terminate if you don't see a comment from giamma by passing in this payload:

{
"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com",
"navigation_goal": "goal is met if you see a post from giamma. Terminate if you don't"
}
This reminds me of a paper[0] whose thesis is "We enumerate the requirements that a censorship-resistant system must satisfy to successfully mimic another protocol and conclude that “unobservability by imitation” is a fundamentally flawed approach." It relates to censorship-resistant communication systems such as SkypeMorph, StegoTorus, and CensorSpoofer which aim to evade censors’ observations by imitating common protocols like Skype and HTTP.

This is essentially "digital forgery" at the protocol level. I wonder if the thesis could be shown to be generalizable to most digital forgery, or even forgery in general.

0: https://people.cs.umass.edu/~amir/papers/parrot.pdf
Come on now... Devin is make believe vaporware. It's too bad they didn't use Devin to have a working website;)

But, yes AI will probably get to that level. But, someone has got to oversee and prompt these AI agents.
For most purposes, mailing something to yourself for the postmark and keeping the envelope sealed would probably be adequate. It's possible to forge, but tricky enough.
The expectation is that the price of AI bots will go down and get below the human-driven click farms we have now and thus make fighting bots too expensive because identifying humans gets harder every day.
If this is how they're going to play it, RIP Glassdoor. Seems like a MAJOR breach of trust to allow users to submit content and participate anonymously THEN start revealing their names!

"If you are not willing to allow your name on your profile, you will again need to complete Data erasure once you are able to. However, we cannot remove this for you or make the changes you wish to see for your name."

I guess we know the appropriate action to take here. This is an absolutely BONE HEADED decision with regards to the operation of Glassdoor but I wonder what was the impetus for this? It looks like they're trying to convert their anonymous, Reddit-like, users to First Class Named Users for the purpose trying to compete with Linkedin to me.

I find the rationale here questionable and the execution plain nutty personally.
(sorry that was from an old lens... I was pointing out my perception of LEVELS not sales. (thus I said "vital to all business")
Learning From DNA: a grand challenge in biology
AI is coming for radiology
I know a developer in his 70's who maintains code he wrote in his 20's
Ex-Ald. Ed Burke keeps law license after most Il. Supreme Court justices recuse
There's a startup called Octomind (https://octomind.dev) doing exactly that and ZeroStep (https://zerostep.com), but on a lower level
Take out a personal ad in a newspaper.
Congrats on the launch. This looks awesome.

I'm actually working with a number of companies who are exploring this space. Many of them are in the current YC batch. We're helping to provide the core business data, then we're exploring how we can leverage our scraping infrastructure in other ways to bring costs down.

I'm open to chat if you're interested: michael (a t) bigpicture.io
Though, if the tankers are expendable they won't have to reserve fuel for the landing, and the number needed to refuel would probably be at the lower end of that estimate - maybe even 6-10?
If I understand their diagram correctly I would guess that it is somewhat nuanced. Those shear forces are probably related to the internal angular momentum of the proton. But in quantum mechanics you cannot precisely measure the axis of a particle's angular momentum. You can only measure the total magnitude and the component along one axis. Because of this there wouldn't be any regions you can point to that are "poles" where there is no angular momentum.
I mean, I guess that could work at a company with horrible security practices that you could verify through their email.
You submitted the right one, but our software follows redirects and canonicals and eventually hit https://kviklet.dev/landing-page/blog/parsing-the-postgres-p....

I've fixed it above now.
It's funny given the context of this case that this would be one of the rare times when using a blockchain would have actually been useful