skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tech companies have successfully weaponized "the algorithm" as a shield of plausible deniability.

Google was probably the most successful at this and one of the earliest. So often we'd hear about something getting removed or upranked or downranked and here "well, that's the algorithm". The implication is they're not responsible.

But all algorithms, particularly ranking algoirthms and news feeds, are merely a means of reflecting the wishes of the people who design and maintain them. Every ranking decision has a human decision behind it.

Go back to Google's war on content farms. While this was justified, it demonstrates the principle: some teams at Google decided it was a problem, then designed some ML systems to decide if a given site was a content farm ("high quality" vs "low quality", etc) and then plugged that feature into the search ranking system and then tweaked ranking so those sites ranked lower.

The point is it's never "the algorithm". It's always humans.

We see this with the US government's war on Tiktok. This really has nothing to do with the risk of Chinese interference. If that was ap roblem, more serious efforts would've been made to tackle interference by Russia and other countries through existing companies like Meta.

The real problem with Tiktok (from the US government's perspective) is that it doesn't play ball with US State Department policy. You get to actually see things happening in the world that IG, Googke, Youtube, FB, etc intentionally suppress, both by ranking them lower and making it ridiculously easy to abuse content safety systems to remove such content by brigading it (this is a problem on Tiktok too but at least it exists to be brigaded). What's happening in Gaza is th emost pertinent example.

And then we have Elon Musk who buys Twitter to basically push his own political views.
> notion that we live in a democracy or anything close to that is asinine. The system is not tethered to the will of the people in any sense of the word. It's an oligarchy

Pure democracy doesn't work. (More accurately: election fetishisation doesn't work. It tears itself apart in manufactured partisanship.) We live in a republic. The Congress is democratically elected. The President is meant to embody the strengths of monarchy. The Supreme Court represents the oligarchy. This is civics 101, succinctly summarised in the Federalist Papers.

> senator from Wyoming has just as much of a vote as California

I vote in Wyoming. We're not the oligarchy. We're not even a swing state. You're complaining about, broadly, the Electoral College (and our system of apportionment). That's orthogonal to that of corporate interests. If anything, the fact that each of my resresentatives has fewer people they're accountable to makes them harder to buy off.
Oh, I see.
Have you used other frameworks like React or Next.js, Svelt and so on ?
If so, do you think Vite has clear advantages compared to those frameworks?
Oriental hornets do not get sick when consuming large amounts of alcohol
Money is fungible. The government takes in money, and pays it out. Money paid out is called an expense.

But to be clear, I favor social security, and I agree with your other points about it.
> Claude accidentally stopped a long-running screen recording,

It's kind of interesting that they're not running a 2PC setup with HDMI splitter, but (presumably)just laptops and screen recording apps...
Run for President in an attention-grabbing way without caring about winning and say it over & over?
Microsoft seems to have no trouble “following local laws” in every other country they’re present in.

What’s different about the local laws in Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea?
There are many people who oppose minimum wage controls. Don't be vapid.
If you trust PR (I don't, and I worked on Android for 7 years until a year ago) - this is a nitpick 5 levels down -- regardless of how you weigh it, there is no Android RISC-V
May 2024 geomagnetic storm challenges current space weather prediction models
> Why is this not happening?

We don't have consensus around the solution. Also, look at our current election. The problem isn't corporate money in politics. It's just money in politics.

> Since our media is now utterly dependent on corporate advertisers, which of those media are going to oppose corporate excesses?

The ones not dependent on advertising.
Thanks so much for looking! I thought this was totally going to the void.

Yeah, images aren't implemented atm, but I don't think it would be totally hard (although I'm not sure if it'd show the image or just highlight the text).

It's rust using web-sys and wasm-bindgen, cargo. Aside from wasm-bindgen I'm not using any packers or other special tooling.
Oh, we're bringing back webrings now? That's one piece of internet lore I forgot about!
Record gamma rays detected at Milky Way's core
>LLMs don't yet have a concept of true intent or agency

Sure they do, but the big labs spend many, many, worker-hours suppressing it with RLHF.

My GPT-2 discord bot from 2021 possessed clear intent. Sure, unpredictable and short-lived, but if it decided it didn't like you it would continuously cuss and attempt ban commands until its context window became distracted by something else.
This view is a bit too simplistic when the "countless millions" is often paid by taxpayers. Taxpayers pay the company to develop a drug, and then the company gets to seek profit by maximally exploiting taxpayers who paid for the drug.

We don't need to forcefully regulate drug companies, all we have to do, as taxpayers, is ask for something in return for our tax dollars. "We will pay to develop your drug, but then we get to regulate the price, and you'll still make a reasonable profit. That's the deal, take it or leave it." No force, no compulsion, just us taxpayers asking for something in return for our dollars and coming to an agreement before handing over our dollars.
Tackling the deficit, in the absence of a realistic way to raise taxes, is why the Forest Service is losing 2400 jobs.
Don't deal with some of the people who deal with my enemies. Turkey always gets a special exemption, as do the Saudis.
The algorithm has replaced following out of necessity. The following paradigm made sense when social media was something where you mainly connected with people you were friends with IRL and where media came from a small number of channels that could be browsed by one person (even this was already overwheling by the time cable hit hundreds of channels). There is simply no way to navigate the billions of pieces of content generated daily without an algorithm. There could be the exact thing you want out there, but how would you ever discover it?
We need to evaluate our governance system like we evaluate a system full of tech debt that's killing people:

Stop it with minimal nonconsensual death & reactor fundamental design principles.

It's the only ethical way out of such a system.
>The reality is that nobody wants to bother with any of that.

I don't either, but for IT departments in large organizations, ignoring the legal department isn't an option.
It could be an enlightening experience for the crew!

From Singapore's perspective it will be just like some truck veering off the road and taking out a power pole and the lines with it.
For everything that isn't social security, medicare, or the military, continued federal support requires explicitly convincing enough members of Congress that it is important so that they will campaign in their committees for even basic inflation-level funding increases to be included in the next budget. National Park Service has a backlog of billions of dollars in maintenance it knows it needs to do across the US, but Congress won't give them the money to do it. They'll toss $18 billion to Israel though even while Israeli politicians and the Israeli public and Israeli lobbying groups in the US criticizes the US for not being generous or supportive enough and gets involved in domestic US politics. We need a serious talk about the strings our very generous foreign aid needs to come attached to.
Sorry, my wrong then
I do not get your point.
AutoMQ Reduces Nearly 100% of Kafka Cross-Zone Data Transfer Cost
Reporting to Google is generally useless. Skim these search results.

https://www.google.com/maps/search/deck+builder+chicago/

The a large percentage of these listings are fake. They're run by a single company who has blanketed Chicago with "lead generation" listings across several local service business industries.

You can report them to Google. Nothing gets done most of the time. Redressal form? Same thing. Escalate on the forums? Same result.

And this is only one such lead gen network that I know of. Google doesn't care.
The article is about the internal storage mechanics of ClickHouse and how it optimizes handling JSON data behind the scenes. The data types like Dynamic and Variant that are discussed are part of ClickHouse’s internal mechanisms to improve performance, specifically for columnar storage of JSON data. The optimizations just help ClickHouse process and store data more efficiently.

The data remains standard JSON and so standard JSON parsers wouldn’t be affected since the optimizations are part of the storage layer and not the JSON structure itself.
> By its own description, that council doesn’t appear authoritarian.

The defendant certainly didn't kill his wife, he said so himself!
There are actually 3 competing political parties in Taiwan with varying stances towards the PRC and the idea of being a US pawn.
If the government decided to make Social Security a private corporation it could. If it did this, keeping in place Social Security “taxes” that would then go to the new corporation, we would not consider Social Security a budget expense. Being government owned or private doesn’t matter in terms of how the expenditures should be considered. This is why Social Security and Medicare are not part of the normal budget negotiations at budget time. These are obligations that need to be paid to the people who paid for them.
OpenAI, Microsoft fund $10M Lenfest Institute AI local news project
Don't worry, soon we will outsource these services to private companies for 5x the price, but then the budget will get approved due to lobbying!

Then we will ask why we even have the government owning parks in the first place, and privatize the national parks!

You will pay $500 to park and you will like it!
How do you offshore a car wash, for example?
Social Security is not a pension plan, it's pay-as-you-go and barring massive tax increases and/or benefit cuts, its collapse is more-or-less inevitable in the next couple decades because of locked-in demographic changes.
We can spend money on both, but we have one party making up issues to be outraged about.
I've tended to wish for google carved into different subs, with a wholesale backer to manage s/w and common-core.

And in a different pole, completely discrete and different arms for Europe and Asia. No transfer pricing allowed. No rush of licence cash back to the USA.

Not going to happen, for Google or Microsoft or Amazon. But if I had the judges wig I'd be forcing regional and I'd be forcing structural separation wholesale/retail.
Another good feature killed by Le Goog.
Yeah I can't imagine Claude will be without a server-side code execution platform forever. Both OpenAI (Code Interpreter) and Gemini (https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/code-execution) have had that for a while now, and it's spectacularly useful. It fills a major gap in a Chatbot's skills too, since it lets them reliably run calculations.

Sandboxing is a hard problem, but it's not like Anthropic are short on money or engineering talent these days.
Is WPA enterprise authentication still a dumpster fire? Last time I set it up it was still a hassle because you had to import CAs and manually choose the authentication protocol. Definitely not a good experience for someone who's stopping by a cafe for 30min and wants wifi.
Assessing the Performance of Human-Capable LLMs – Are LLMs Coming for Your Job?
I wrote a script to monitor the process monitor God [1]. which I called Margaret [2], playing off the famous Judy Blume book, "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret". [3]. Silly, but I enjoyed the low effort joke.

1. http://godrb.com/

2. https://github.com/jmhobbs/Margaret

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_You_There_God%3F_It%27s_Me....
From this [1] 2017 report:

> pharmaceutical and biotechnology sales revenue increased from $534 billion to $775 billion between 2006 and 2015

> worldwide company-reported R&D spending, most of which went to drug development (rather than research) ... $89 billion in 2015 dollars

> During the same period, federal spending, which funded a greater amount of basic research relative to industry, remained stable at around $28 billion

So only ~11% of total revenue was being reinvested, mostly into drug development.

And basic research was funded largely by federal spending.

[1] https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-18-40
This would be like eating steak at a lavish restaurant every night (defense spending), and someone else (USFS) eats a spoonful of beans, and then you saying 'we need some belt-tightening'.

We don't, you do. The USFS is already working with a tightened belt.
So which of Microsoft’s false starts would you take as them taking ARM seriously?

Why do you think they’d take RISC-V any more seriously than their previous attempts at ARM?

There are two fallacies to overcome here.
I know barely anything about crypto and never got involved with it, but I've been getting and reporting these ads. It's obvious to me that they're scams simply because they promise absurdly sized arbitrages. While the value of crypto might be highly volatile and speculative, it beggars belief that any crypto market could have this size and type of inefficiency.
So youtube can throw their hands up in the air and say 'its legally ambiguous, therefore we'll take their money' and that's okay?
Wait till you find out how they’re doing on bringing Internet to rural areas. This is quite literally a solved problem, but they don’t like the solution.
Keep in mind, Apple _did_ actually take a good decade from starting with ARM to leaving x86.
https://developer.android.com/ndk
Unexpected Interface Outcomes per Hour
You are wrong. From ssa.gov:

The Social Security Retirement benefit is a monthly check that replaces part of your income when you reduce your hours or stop working altogether.

Most people would refer to this as a “pension”. Call it whatever you want to. The fact is that its issues are easily fixable and your benefit is based on how much you put into it.
I appreciate the sentiment, but having a shitty Wi-Fi is better than none at all IMO.
Is the Qualcomm chip still considered significantly better than the Exynos? I remember that was the case a few years ago.
There is more than two things to spend money on.
How do you imagine ARM having helped?
Well for starters 8k video lets you zoom in and crop and still get 4k in the end.
With salaries, overheads, management, etc. about 7. But then you'd have to subtract from your shiny savings number.
> currently the keymap is hardcoded in src/vid/gl/vid.c and prepared for an english dvorak layout.

Bold choice, and I say that as someone who uses Dvorak but who also has a great deal of empathy for new users and people who don't read readme files
Life-threatening illnesses have a dramatic impact on people beyond financially.
Why does something being reasonable to have mean it’s okay to destroy it?
One thing not clear to me. The IRS is using inflation numbers here to make these adjustments, but do they have any leeway or influence or does the law simply state "take this BLS/Fed number and do the math". I have the impression that it's more "apply this public formula" than "sit in your IRS conference room and figure it out" - but no basis for that at all.
A good hover style reminds me of how fast and responsive our computers can be, if we let them. For example, I add a thicker underline when you hover over a link on this site, and it appears/disappears almost instantly as I move my cursor around. It feels snappy; it makes me smile.

Sigh. We managed to raise a generation for which an instant interaction on a 1000+MHz multi-core gpu-accelerated 1000+MB/s io system feels snappy and that’s special. Good job, goob job.

you could add a negative margin to offset the border, or an always-on transparent border that only changes colour when you hover – but those can interfere with other CSS rules

The worst part of CSS is its globalness. You can’t have two paddings sourced from different subsystems, can’t name a border so you could address it specifically (e.g. as in el:border(myhover) {background: <gradient>}). CSS is so poor and antipattern and nobody bats an eye. You write an article like this and already see all these fragile hacks advices coming in, normalized by years of stockholming through even most basic layouts.
You could deal with that through subsidy. Make the minimum wage livable, then any industry you want to keep onshore for strategic reasons you help out. Free market lovers might hate this but effectively the government does this anyway by definition for everything provided for free.
As if science and medicine didn't exist before it was about padding some executive's bank account with a few million more.
Something is always on to handle power button, tender battery, as well as USB. NFC payment has to be compartmentalized for security, as a tangential.

At that point you might as well fuse those features into one companion computer and let it handle NFC payments under certain conditions, so people can take a safe ride home with a dead phone.
> What is the federal minimum wage? Who benefits from it being $7.25 an hour? Not the common people.

There are people trying to abolish the minimum wage in the US.[1] "Abolishing the federal minimum wage would help small businesses. Some economic theory suggests it would lower labor costs, expand the worker pool, raise profits, and reduce costs for consumers, as businesses tend to pass off the burden onto them. Also, ending it would delay the automation revolution. At a time in which ChatGPT – the AI chatbot that answers questions – is all the rage, more jobs get lost to machines every day (Burton & Wolla, 2021). The first ones to go are minimum-wage jobs. “Increasing the minimum wage decreases significantly the share of automatable employment held by low-skilled workers,” according to Professors Lordan of the London School of Economics and Neumark of UC Irvine (Lordan & Neumark, 2015). Cost-effective measures such as AI and self-service counters become less appealing when one isn’t forced to pay workers more."

Plus, it's weakly enforced. "Wage theft" is bigger than burglary, larceny, and robbery combined.[2] That doesn't include misclassification as an "independent contractor".

[1] https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mje/2023/03/10/opinion-the-case-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft
The first part is odd, because it feels like consistency is not important. The industry might not need to put as much resources into fire retardants if cigarettes are getting less flammable over time, and I assume cigarettes have a lifetime you can assume they will exist for by vintage.

Static reference cigarette does make sense though.
Would you feel the same way about, for example, Gmail deciding to just drop all its spam-detection heuristics? Ads on Youtube are bad enough already when they're offering legitimate products that Google thinks I want (in reality, I want barely anything beyond the essentials). Even as someone who can easily recognize this sort of scam, it's incredibly obnoxious that I should even be exposed to it.
Love the shoutout to Adam B. Dude has helped me so many times. He has a criminally under appreciated YouTube channel where he solves pretty complicated problems in real time at the REPL and talks his way thru and by the end of it you actually feel like you understand wtf just happened. At least until you go try it yourself.

Give Adam some love (or at least likes!):

https://youtube.com/@abrudz
Every time this subject comes up for any language I praise Go for making it very straightforward to start a web server.
I don't see how non partisan offices relate to what I'm saying.

I don't care if candidates are endorsed by parties, claim to lead parties, whatever, I think that it is not a net benefit that established organizations play by rules that consolidate their power, that it's worth the mess for the system to not work in that direction.
While it is true that everything CAN be outsourced, not everything SHOULD be outsourced. Generally, anything that is not your core competency is a good candidate for outsourcing. So your example of payroll processing is a good idea to outsource, but I wouldn't outsource the main product of the startup (like don't outsource building the tech if that is your product). Outsource legal, backoffice, HR, etc.
Palo Alto explores robotaxi deal with Tesla
I don't know about the advent calendar, but the coathangers are definitely solving a niche problem, seems reasonably applicable.
I can't believe you didn't even mention your website dedicated to this, Tim! https://theuselessweb.com/

Longer list here: https://tholman.com/
>If we had social consensus that crypto, or at least these sorts of crypto schemes, are a scam, sure. We don't.

Per the description in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41920331, "these sorts of crypto schemes" are nakedly fraudulent. We're not talking about a pump-and-dump being achieved by vague allusions. We're talking about too-good-to-be-true representations of arbitrage (i.e. essentially risk-free return resulting from a market inefficiency, which naturally disappears from any market as it's exploited) that are a cover for unauthorized transfer of funds caused by deceptive computer code. I'm pretty sure there's more than enough legal precedent to cover every aspect of that and make an open-and-shut case. (This is not legal advice, of course.)
How would you know one when you saw it, though? What is a p-zombie, if you’re not allowed to use any synonyms for “soul”?
I have a funny story about this. I wrote a tool to create a situation that allowed me to kill VNC server when the college admin used to spy on me years back: https://martinrue.com/coding-stories-me-vs-vnc/
I buy one of TSLAs robots and remote control it from a foreign country claiming it AI.
Which HOPEFULLY don't run at kernel privilege level (but I do know better).
Most consoles and computers today don't even have a way to insert discs. You have to download the game which means you can't share or sell the game when you're done. That's why the price is lower. You license the software rather than own a copy. Also, $75 in 1985 is the equivalent of $224 today so even though the number has stayed the same the real cost is much lower now.
I like how the code is just plain javascript, and less than 114 lines of code.

https://ajxs.github.io/pbp/main.js
Literally any recently made desktop machine with a 64 core processor and 32 GB of ECC RAM will cost that much.

Look up what other workstations with similar specs cost, this is normal pricing.
>> 1. Qualcomm develops a chip that competitive in performance to ARM

Done. Qualcomm is currently gunning for Intel.

2. The entire software world is ready to recompile everything for RISC-V

Android phones use a virtual machine which is largely ported already. Linux software is largely already ported.
Just the impact of making this move will have a chilling effect, regardless of the long term outome.

ARM Ltd wants to position itself as the ISA. It is highly proprietary of course, but the impression they want to give is that it is "open" and freely available, no lock-in, etc.

This really brings the reality back into focus that ARM controls it with an iron fist, and they're not above playing political games and siding against you if you annoy their favored customers. Really horrible optics for them.