skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Instagram campaign deliberately targeted a group of users labelled as “unknown” in its advertising system, which Google knew skewed towards under-18s, these people said. Meanwhile, documents seen by the FT suggest steps were taken to ensure the true intent of the campaign was disguised.
The project disregarded Google’s rules that prohibit personalising and targeting ads to under-18s, including serving ads based on demographics. It also has policies against the circumvention of its own guidelines, or “proxy targeting”.
…However, Google did not deny using the “unknown” loophole, adding: “We’ll also be taking additional action to reinforce with sales representatives that they must not help advertisers or agencies run campaigns attempting to work around our policies.”

Yup, those crafty sales reps orchestrated a multimillion dollar agreement between a chief competitor. While also adapting the code to find the gaps and target the desired under 18s.
I think the most down to earth example is the AST or data protocol examples. Take Jason for example. Instead of having a JsonValue class to hold the data you would have a Union type that is either string, bool, number, array of your union type or map type which uses a string as key and the same union type as value.
It would also allow to implement result types like rust has them. So you could define an API that returns a value or an error. I didn’t see in the proposal if they talked about generics though.
In functional programming world this is mainly known as algebraic data types. I can say that if you get used to model types like this you really start to miss it in languages that don’t support it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_data_type
Like B-17 crew could refuse orders. That is not how draft works! It was slavery!
Preloading jemalloc binary can help here. Of course it wont be as efficient as using numpy 2.x especially for dealing with larger datasets.

jemalloc also gave good results with NodeJS and Ruby projects i did.
Interesting, are there any open source alternatives to tinybird?

https://www.tinybird.co/
This is not true.

First of all, our cosmological models are constantly being updated. There are a ton of unknowns here and we cannot be certain in the heat death outcome.

Second, even if the canonical heat death model is right, the minimum required energy usage to sustain thought / simulation will go down as the CMB redshifts to zero temperature. It is unclear at this time which factor decays faster: available energy or cost per compute. Effective lifetime may be unbounded.
> You're never going to have any language with the kind of dynamism that Python/Ruby/JS have while also having performant number crunching simply because Python has to do more significantly more work for the same line of code.

Wrong. With strong types you do have ability to tell the compiler that most of the dynamic checks and hooks can be omitted, and values can stay unboxed. Python, ruby, perl choose to ignore types so far. And Javascript, PHP did at least dynamic optimizations with their type hints.
"up to six" is definitely an improvement, but still a long way from "ephemeral test environments on demand".
People have stayed much longer on the ISS.
This isn't what that says. This is saying that when a neurodiverse person breaks decorum (read: is a giant asshole), the correct behavior is to let that person know they are having an impact and give them grace to grow their skills.

Saying, "they are allowed to be assholes because they are neurodiverse" does nothing to help the neurodiverse person, and creates a stigma.

I'm autistic. I constantly tell myself, "being autistic is not an excuse for being an asshhole. I have to work harder to not be an asshole, but I can learn it ".
You think those numbers are enough to keep the population from ballooning to entirely unmanageable numbers? Consider the global population is increasing now and we're talking about removing a big chunk of all-cause mortality from the field. So unless there's a plan to replace natural causes with artificial causes (which moots functional immortality entirely) some form of population control is an absolute requirement.
Not many, no. Not enough to matter. Natural disasters just don't kill that many people [1].

But now that you mention it I do think that anyone living in a world without death will be constantly looking over their shoulder and sleeping with one eye open.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters_by_d...
We are selling price/distribution data about the products we scrape. We do run some ads and have an affiliate deals.

The insight i can share is that the main (tech) goal is to make the product more user friendly and more aligned with the customer need as it has many pain points and we have gain some insights on the preferred customer journey.
> Meanwhile, documents seen by the FT suggest steps were taken to ensure the true intent of the campaign was disguised.

I read the article, but it didn’t go into the content of those documents. Would be interesting to know.
> "I don't like your tone, please rephrase this as a polite request and I'll consider it"

Phrased like that, I feel like things would only escalate.
But in specific situations like the ones I mentioned, I would go for something like "As you know from your own experiences, software development takes time and effort and this is a volunteer project. I do take suggestions and issues seriously and am happy to discuss them in a constructive way. This discussion at the moment does not feel like such a constructive discussion. I'd be happy to continue the discussion from a more constructive place" and leave it at that. It is a bit more explicit than just "tone" and also makes it more clear as to why they might want to take their behavior more into consideration.

Overall, yeah I think maintainers and the setup of the project do influence a lot of how people interact with them. I actually left a comment about that somewhere else in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41188425
Most Americans do actually want action on climate change, but what action? More fission power plants? Subsidies for electric cars? A carbon tax? A cap and trade system? There's not much agreement on the specific actions, hence the legislative gridlock.
This would not be a good bluff from Ukraine, even if it considered nuclear terrorism an option. The prevailing winds blow from the east, as we know all too well since Chornobyl. Blowing up the plant just east of the border would mostly terrorize Ukraine itself.
Seems like it was many many threads, and the mods looked at them in aggregate. Though they did call out one thread in particular, it doesn't seem like that one thread was the primary motivator here.

This reads like mods, doing modding, which is always a judgement call and never black and white.
> So what you really want is two third parties. One to write. The other to review. Which, we have, in that the President is entitled to veto

I think what you would want are non-bribed congressmen writing laws for the good of the people and not to increase the wealth and power of a select few at the people's expense, while those laws are being informed/reviewed by experts who don't have a conflict of interest (which should include not accepting money/favors from people who do) and then having a President (who should also not be accepting bribes) able to veto laws.

Having corporations and lobbyists hired by industry write laws that favor them to the detriment of everyone else, then getting those same laws passed thanks to a series of dark money bribes and promises, then having a similarly bribed president rubber stamp those laws is what brought us to where we are right now.

If our current system is working as intended, then the system has failed by design and needs adjusting. If it isn't working as intended and private corporations were never supposed to be able to have this level of influence over government or have the ability to cause harm to the degree that they have, then the system still needs adjusting to correct the situation.
Even if Boeing thinks that the chance of a catastrophic failure is infinitesimally small, they probably still can't ignore what a failure would mean for their already bad reputation. So returning the capsule without a crew is probably the safer option overall: if it's ok, it can still be certified; in the unlikely chance of a failure, NASA and Boeing can at least say that they were cautious and didn't succumb to the same wishful thinking that led to the Columbia disaster - and the damage for Boeing in the public opinion would be far smaller than if human lives were lost.
They tried to enter that market a couple of times with MacOS and AIX, but ultimately abandoned it. They are happy making their hardware pluggable into corporate networks. It's your choice, if you want it.
It may be non-optimal but it certainly beats the shit out of most of the alternatives.
You live in society, not alone on far side of the moon. In any society including worst communism terror Earth has seen, the worst and most potent humans bubble up to the top, always, without exception.

No mechamism to wipe this clean means absolute dictatorship with no end in sight, you always see it even in democracies, strong persons tend to bend rules as they like and the only stopping power is re-election force, or you end up eith some form of forever putin.

Death brings correction, even if individually of course it sucks pretty badly. Even for just avoiding endless dictatures its necessary.
> The Japanese somehow had intel on a secret new weapon

Yes. They did. The Mexico branch of the Japanese espionage service knew about the Trinity test in advance and sent agents to collect fallout to analyze. They already knew before Hiroshima that we had a working atomic bomb. They underestimated our isotope separation production capacity because their own U-235 isotope separation plant was behind schedule. There have been books written about the Japanese atomic bomb project. The day after Hiroshima, the Japanese government announced "We also have atomic bombs and we will use them against the invasion forces." They were expecting the war to last another year. The head of the Japanese atomic bomb project said that his military boss expected the war to last another year.
Nit picking, but what "makes it money" is the fact you can redeem it; that is, some entity views your money as a liability.

It's totally fungible though.
I've programmed damn-near everything at some point, with a long period of x86 assembler plus C++. Really unpopular opinion: VB.NET was the most enjoyable, most readable language I ever programmed in.

I've only begrudgingly moved to C# over the last few years as my primary since MS has pretty much killed VB.
I was just thinking of the back end ALUs but you make a good point: it might also make sense to unify scalar and vector instructions. If the right encoding is used it might allow scalar code to retain its efficiencies.
Email me (address in profile). I’ve already made this step. I am presently launching a molecular nanotechnology startup, under the not unreasonable assumption that better tools are required to fully solve the problem.

Edit: not saying we should join forces or that you should work on nanotechnology, but we are clearly value aligned and should connect.
I found this video quite useful in showing the new proposal in action.

https://youtu.be/aksjZkCbIWA
> why not pitch it that way and just avoid the controversy that "ending death" attracts as a concept?

There are both drawbacks and benefits to the controversy of "ending death".

You have mentioned the drawbacks, but the benefits are that it attracts the interest of the individuals that care about the most important problem in the world, which is specifically this problem of ending death.
Name one social issue our species has comprehensively solved in the last century.
There are companies whose business model is to offer professional services around the software they produce. In this case, this clause means that they can't use that license to prevent such competition.
Using the Moon as an Echo [video]
I think the part of "even if I never benefit from it" is a key point in living a meaningful life and transcending the fear of death, though hopefully you have carefully considered your decision from a financial perspective since material aspects are obviously also a part of being able to carry out your plans in this life.

I don't think there is anything wrong in seeking the longest healthiest possible life, but suspect that in many cases that the motivation for it comes more from fear of personal death than the love of what life is. It's great to be an agent in this incredible adventure but my take on it is that when the means (a specific localized self consciousness) become the end ("being me is the most important thing and it should be great forever") then that is where you get stuck in a local maximum and some sort of suffering is bound to follow.

Another aspect is that of how much more time do you think will be enough? 1000 years? 10,000 years? As someone has already stated, you will not be able to avoid death forever and even in the most optimistic case (at least from this myopic view of immortality) you won't win against entropy. No matter how long of a good life you are granted, it will never seem enough because from the subjective point of view it will seem to be over soon at which point personal death will again become very real and very alarming.

It seems the only way out of this is to be able to transcend the personal sense of self and see that your real immortality lies in realizing that in a very real sense you are also something much greater than just a localized version of it.

I'm not some Zen master and am probably afraid of my own personal mortality as much as the next person, but after a long time of thinking deeply about it, this seems to be the most probable conclusion.
It depends, they cried much harder for the DMA in the EU and still aren't really fully compliant. In China, they were quite okay to throw citizens under the bus without much complaints though.
As someone who runs nginx locally for web development, this is scary. One mitigation I can think of is to use this config for you Mac's local nginx:

server {
listen 80 default_server;
server_name _; # some invalid name that won't match anything
return 444;
}

And do the same thing for server_name localhost. For actual apps you are building, use a server_name like myapp.local rather than localhost. (edit: formatting)
The article doesn't really explain anything to an extend that would all us to conclude anything regarding the age of those systems.

The comment "because it runs on those providers' systems" is also a bit weird. Do they run on AS/400? Or is it simply because IBM would let Microsoft employees touch any IBM owned and operated infrastructure, probably the later. In my experience dealing getting access to infrastructure run by IBM (formerly SoftLayer), then yes, things might be ancient. We required VM with Windows XP to even run their VPN solution and that barely worked anyway.
So weird when I mention something at home then few hours later see the exact thing here. The other day I broke a glass then yesterday my dad broke a glass then today my son broke a glass. We are not usually like this but just one of those fluke weeks where we all did it. I was telling my mom that there used to be a glass that was almost unbreakable and could take much more of a hit but that I didn't think they made them any more. I would love to get a set of these glasses and yes I would pay a bit more for them.
That was secondary to startups using Linux, because they could not afford Microsoft and because at the time IIS was as tight as a sieve. Demand for people with knowledge of Linux drove Linux adoption at universities.
> Death brings correction, even if individually of course it sucks pretty badly.

There is no real correction though.

Because for every person who you think that you helped, you should know that those people are going to eventually die anyway, meaning that it was all for naught.
Jesus. Give this man a freebie! Any user that tried that hard is worth money to the devs & QA teams.
Nice. I suppose it paid his jet bills.
We are storing the result of the parsed scrape as parquet. I would advice to store the raw data as well in a different s3. The database should only have the data it needs and not act as a storage.
That seems to be an abandoned project
Hence “worry”, and not an adamant objection to the idea of prolonging life.
"Ancient" would be fine. At this point, we're pretty much back to a 3270 displaying data from a mainframe anyway. Use DOS and an 8514/A graphics card to access the "cloud" and we'll be better, faster and more secure than anything Javascript based.

What is NOT fine is the lack of a disaster recovery plan. Your disaster recovery plan should be able to cold start yourself within 24 to 48 hours. It's clear that Delta simply didn't have anything resembling a disaster recovery plan.
I think he was comparing the experience by the astronauts,not the state of the countries.
> given that optometrists tend to slightly overprescribe anyhow

I've been wearing glasses for myopia since I was ~10 years old and this is exactly opposite of my experience. Optometrists almost always prescribe the number slightly lower than they determine using tests.

When my number was constantly increasing, I remember ordering the next available increment just because the prescribed number was slightly annoying when looking at far away objects.

Now my number has been stable for a decade and I still sometimes get annoyed when using glasses at the prescribed power.
Yeah, especially if you don't take the strings and pickups/electronics as they are.
Discussed at the time (of the article):

Ontario's Computer: The Burroughs ICON - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30894348 - April 2022 (34 comments)
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Even better... ask why, after all these years, they still have to use a UNL, despite it being a significant point of centralization.

https://xrpl.org/docs/concepts/consensus-protocol/unl

"trust us, our validators are good too!"
Harry Daghlian dropped a neutron deflector in the first incident, Slotin allowed two halves to come together AFAIK.
My takeaway: The suspended user seems exhausting, and the Python community has skin thinner than Intel's latest node.
If GPT emulations of social experiments are not correct, policy decisions based on them will make them so.

“GPT said people would hate buses, so we halved their number and slashed transportation budget… Wow, do our people actually hate buses with passion!”

“A year ago GPT said people would not be worried about climate change, so we stopped giving it coverage and removed related social adverts and initiatives. People really don’t give a flying duck about climate change it turns out, GPT was so right!”

This is an oversimplification, of course; to say it with more nuance, anything socio- and psycho- is a minefield of self-fulfilling prophecies that ML seems to be nicely positioned to wreak havoc in. (But the small “this is not a replacement for human experiment” notice is going to be heeded by all, right?)

As someone wrote once, all you need for machine dictatorship is an LLM and a critical number of human accomplices. No need for superintelligence or robots.
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When statement will be exhaustive thanks to the sealed class, so compiler catches this, one of the great things about Kotlin.
Interesting tidbit:
Talking about the upcoming Crew Dragon flight being moved around: "We will let SpaceX use our first stage booster, they'll go fly a starlink flight, ahead of our flight to get a little shakedown of that booster. It had some moisture intrusion and we want to go ahead and get that booster flown. And so there's a win win there - flying our booster on a starlink flight before our crew flight."

The complete 180 here is great to see. For the crewed demo flight of Crew Dragon, they used a brand new booster. It seems NASA didn't like the idea of flying on reused boosters, thinking they had an increased risk. Now they're liking the idea of a booster being flown an extra time.
Tim Peters, author of timsort and longtime Python contributer, is a graybeard spaz like Stallman:

https://discuss.python.org/t/for-your-consideration-proposed...

I know this type, they definitely know how to belabor a point, and their language can be "colorful". I read through a bunch of comments, and on a scale from 0 to Terry Davis, Tim seems like a 1 or 2, annoying and crotchety but well-meaning and mild-mannered (Linus would be an 8 on this scale). Suspension is a drastic move, and it's hard both to suspend[0] and to be suspended, so I hope the PSF engaged with him offline first.

[0] https://fosstodon.org/@Yhg1s@social.coop/112922140875432669
... or when that system gets hacked, like Mobile Guardian, where the hackers remote-wiped thousands of systems [1].

[1] https://www.heise.de/news/Mobile-Device-Management-Einbreche...
This is a false dilemma

Accountability and deterrence doesn’t have to come from the SEC

The SEC contains people passionate about this, but that doesn't mean they are the specific authority eligible

The FTC exists too, they are aware of their capabilities in the crypto space. They have circulars since 2017 as well.

There is also Congress. Agency deference is dead anyway.
Looks interesting! Even without voice, it would feel great. Btw, I couldn't do any other actions like scroll or click on other links, it would be nice if there is a way to get back to the demo when needed.
I also wonder the same. Playwright is so good. I simply don't have flaky tests even when dealing with features that are playwrights' fault.

I used to have so many issues with Selenium and so only used it in must have situations defaulting to capybara to run out specs.
Maybe because they are less obviously bad but they were nonetheless the biggest issues. I've found this before with problematic individuals on forums.

They rarely break "obviously bad" rules because they know they'll get the ban hammer and everyone will agree they they deserved it.

Instead they cause just as much havoc and disruption by doing things that don't seem that bad when they are accused of them.

Eventually they cross the line and get banned anyway, but the moderators have to struggle to explain why and if it leaks into another forum you'll get a ton of people defending the problematic person and saying the mods overreacted. When in reality everyone's probably been struggling to deal with this person's disruptions for months or even years.
I don't understand, would you rather die earlier than have cancer?
Not obsessed quite enough to buy this, but really cool all the same. Maybe, if I can find a physical copy. Thanks for sharing this!
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