skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is this defined and why does everything suddenly qualify.

Don't get me wrong I don't like singular influence like this either, but what's the legality and how do we draw the like between this and any other attempts to sway public opinion by tuning content?
Effect of a giant meteorite impact on Paleoarchean environment and life
> But, now you've got me wondering what kind of VR/holographic microwaves kids are buying.

Our microwave has a fully graphic, monochrome LCD. And Wi-Fi. Of course. https://kalleboo.com/microblog/posts/109720164680381672.html
Just came here to say this. Once they pasted in the merchant info from their statement I thought - this has nothing to do with the publicly traded company and everything to do with fraud.
Anywhere in the galaxy within the super narrow beam that the Arecibo antenna happened to cover at the time, at least.
My understanding of US election law is that all of this is legal (in case this really did take place). If it's moral is a different question.
"STH may say “home” in the title which confuses some. Home is actually a reference to a users /home/ directory in Linux. We scale from those looking to have in home or office servers all the way up to some of the largest hosting organizations in the world. This site is dedicated to helping professionals and enthusiasts stay atop of the latest server, storage and networking trends."

https://www.servethehome.com/about/
If the lottery will not have repercussions, or if it would have had repercussions if the other side won, I don't see how the checks and balances can be said to be functional.
They could have done a dry run. They could have spun up a million virtual machines somewhere, and tested their video delivery for 30 minutes. Even my small team spins up 10,000 EC2 instances on the regular. Netflix has the money to do much more. I'm sure there are a dozen ways they could have stress-tested this beforehand. It's not like someone sprang this on them last week and they had to scramble to put together a system to do it.
I wonder if it’s because llm doesn’t have access to state of the art Verilog?

I mean I assume the best is heavily guarded.
The evidence shows an abrupt change in engagement, but that doesn't necessarily mean the algorithm was changed. The title is misleading as the study didn't directly conclude algorithm changes were the cause.
Yeah, I got suspended once or twice for fighting back. Somehow it's my fault I can fight better than the trashbags that pushed me around. Eff around and find out, idiots. My school experience involved at least one experience of unwarranted punishment per year, almost like clockwork. By high school my resentment for the school system was just maximum-tier and my apathy was too. Failed 5/8 classes in grade 11.
Eight Escaped Monkeys Remain at Large, Now Joined by Two Fugitive Emus
They're not going to ignore the railroad regulators.

(Also, Congress is going to flip in two years. The only constant in US politics is that voters get bored of whoever's in power and vote against them in the midterms.)
By coincidence I made a new temporarily account on Twitter ( new phone and picked the wrong email, didn't knew what combo it was with username and email).

The amount of bullshit that cropped up my feed immediately was nuts ( calling it right wing might be fitting).

I logged onto my old account afterwards and everything was normal again.

Just my personal experience with it
Sure, but the amount of photons as a percentage of the background radiation drops as a function of the distance. It's not all that far away in cosmic distances when any signal from Earth is millions of times less powerful than the noise level.
An overdesigned, overengineered personal website
All your comment demonstrates is that media is broadcasting a lot of anti natalist messaging, and that many people are taking it to heart. I guess media is filling the void of centuries of religion telling people to be fruitful and multiply.
Surprised not to see Bento on the consideration list. Maybe not (yet) well known, but gives Customer.io a run for its money and pricing is great.
Well yes, of course coronaviruses mutate a lot, that's why the insistence the only goal of vaccines is full sterilization against all variants and they promised us nobody would get it any more is pushed by the antivax movement, not public health officials.

I see your argument has mutated too

Couldn't have been the Baric Lab, it was too busy making the frogs gay. There's a lot that remains unknown, and now the Onion is covering it all up!
It got delayed like three years because the tiny billionaire suburb Atherton filed a fake environmental protection lawsuit against it.
Technically popcorn is just warming up liquids as well. I'd say that's all it's good at, which happens to have a handful of usecases(some frozen meals, popcorn, melting cheese, heating leftovers).
Correct. Nothing about Musk a person indicates that he cares about truth or justice or anything except his own personal wealth and power.
We know that spacetime is einsteinian, not euclidean, yes. But that's not what's being discussed here. The issue is whether the force of gravity deviates from the expected 1/r^2 value. Experiments, measurements and observations within the solar system have not revealed any deviation. The precession of mercury is not due to a deviation from 1/r^2; it is due to space near the sun being bent instead of flat. Ditto GPS; we have to adjust for time dilation and curved space, but not for any deviation from 1/r^2. MOND theories predict that MOND gravity is indistinguishable from normal at short ranges less than several light years; the MOND effects only show up at distances of many light years.
Musk has said many times that the algorithm is open source. This guy is suggesting an algorithm change but not actually showing one.
Related "Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42159713
Does waymo use v5e TPU?
> Musk made his endorsement of Trump on July 13, 2024. The analysis suggests that Musk did more than merely give verbal support for Trump, but also changed X's algorithm on the same date to systematically promote his own and other prominent pro-Republican acounts

July 13 was the day of the assassination attempt...

"Science"
I guess my question is: why? "Cable boxes" are uniformly awful to use in my experience. The UI is clunky, they take up space and it's another remote and another tangle of wires to try to hide. What advantage do they offer in 2024?
What? I'm not a big regulation person, but rarely do I think you can go too far with food and drugs. This certainly just makes me trust the FDA more. (What bothers me is the annoying toothless orgs that make a big deal but can't do anything)
Insulin today is produced cheaply in genetically modified microbes, this is the technology that Chargaff is alluding to, which was first succesful 2 years after his letter, in 1978.
A perfectly parallel source wouldn't fall off with inverse square, but all real sources are not — and cannot be — perfectly parallel.

What you get from lasers is very high gain in the direction it is pointed in, but it's still subject to the inverse square law.

It's capable of being enough gain to be interesting, to be seen from a great distance.

If you engineer it so the gain is enough to outshine the rest of the parent galaxy in the direction it is pointed, then that's effectively good enough because the galaxy is also following inverse-square and you'll continue to outshine the parent galaxy even as you and it both get weaker, but it's still falling off inverse-square.
> The NFL seems to be quite particular (in a good way) about the quality of the delivery of their content

Alas, my experience with the NFL in the UK does not reflect that. DAZN have the rights to stream NFL games here, and there are aspects of their service that are very poor. My major, long-standing issue has been the editing of their full game “ad-free” replays - it is common for chunks of play to be cut out, including touchdowns and field goals. Repeated complaints to DAZN haven’t resulted in any improvements. I can’t help but think that if the NFL was serious about the quality of their offering, they’d be knocking heads together at DAZN to fix this.
Just today I thought about a shoe with four feet on it that you stand on, and kinda have to push yourself forward with. Not even as a fashion statement but as a bit of functional silliness.

As it turns out, "shoe with four feet under it" is impossible to explain to search engines.
There are examples from the book done in PyMC:

https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc-resources/tree/main/Rethin...

or, for first edition

https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc-resources/tree/main/Rethin...
What are you talking about? The signal coming from a live event is the full package. The output of “the truck” has multiple outs including the full mix of all grafix, some only have the mix minus any branding, etc. While the isos get recorded in the truck, they are not pushed out to the broadcast center.

All of the “mixing” as you call it is done in the truck. If you’ve never seen it, it is quite impressive. In one part of the truck is the director and the technical director. The director is the one calling things like “ready camera 1”, “take 1”, etc. the TD is the one on the switcher pushing the actual buttons on the console to make it happen. Next to them is the graphics team prepping all of the stats made available to the TD to key in. In another area is the team of slomo/replay that are taking the feeds from all of the cameras to recorders that allow the operators to pull out the selects and make available for the director/TD to cut to. Typically in the back of the truck is the audio mixer that mixes all of the mics around the event in real time. All of that creates the signal you see on your screen. It leaves the back of the truck and heads out to wherever the broadcaster has better control
What’s amazing is that they have had several streaming flips before and are unable to fix it
There was a guy who bullied people at my high school (including me) who ended up later being murdered amongst a handful of other people in a drug/gang-related shooting. I felt some sympathy for their family but it 's like, "live by the sword, die by the sword", you chose that path and paid for it.

Now I'm extra curious about some of the other people who actively harmed others. Not going to waste my time thinking more than this momentary passing thought about them, though :P
There is no evidence that anything exists...
wow, "view count findings suggest possible recommendation algorithm bias", much science
Just to clarify... The article says "Bluesky claims one million users joined the platform in one day this week." I'm not sure it was today. (There might've been a spike earlier this week that has since started slowing down.)

But what's more important is how the article also mentions Mastodon (plus Threads, Discord, and other alternatives.) I really think what this all points to is a growing need for fediverse-enabled social sites...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
A few years ago we added `GOAMD64=v3` [1] to how we build our go binary into docker images, as all our production servers have support to that and that can give us some free performance boost.

Then it turned out Rosetta does not support that, so those docker images can no longer run on developers' mac laptops, so we have to revert it back. This is why we can't have nice things (we don't use any arm server so we never bothered to build multi-platform docker image).

[1]: https://go.dev/wiki/MinimumRequirements#amd64
There have been leaks from people claiming to be part of retrieval teams. Of course anonymously and without any proof. Their stories are fun though.
I’d be curious if there’s a single brand that has no electronic door latches at this point. Every brand I can think of has them on at least one vehicle. They have been in mainstream brands (like Chevy) for like 20+ years now.
I am going to look at the data, not at the subjective reinterpretation or subjective rating.
In my experience, when schools are graded on bullying incidents, administrators avoid reporting at all costs. This program isn’t enough if there are disincentives to reporting at higher levels.
This is interesting, but let's not have a takeaway that the problem is isolated to bad actors purchasing social networking sites. Even on supposedly neutral platforms like YouTube or Facebook you'll see bad actors successfully manipulate the algorithmic process to help shape opinion.

I find it interesting to reflect on the fact that -- despite being raised on a diet of science fiction scenarios about dystopias -- my generation built these machines. In hindsight, it's blindingly obvious that algorithms would be manipulated by the wealthy and powerful to service their agendas. Of _course_ they would, every incentive was plainly there from the start. But we figured it wouldn't be a problem because it was us who built them, and we weren't the baddies.

I say this not to point the finger at other people. I worked on a major social media system -- and I was one of those who defended the system as it was being created. And we all should have known better.
I was a nerd well before I was bullied. I remember some of the earliest bullying I experienced - this older kid called me "Macintosh" because we had a Mac computer at home (no DOS/Win) and this kid thought that was worthy of harassing me about. It was weird because that kid wasn't much of a computer-savvy person but just found something "different" to call out. /shrug
The Shelly Uni is the correct device to use for these applications:

https://shelly.digital/product/shelly-uni/

It can be powered by 12-24V DC or AC, so you can power it off the accessory wiring of the device. It has two relays to control two different actions (my gate has a secondary partial open mode, to walk through it without opening all the way), and has two digital inputs to monitor state of the device (my gate exposes an "is open" and "is closed" state).

The setup in the app is a bit confusing though. Well the app seems like it was designed by a Unix neckbeard, but it is very powerful - I haven't needed to switch to MQTT/Home Assistant to do the automations I want.

My devices can be triggered by a momentary switch: press and release to open, press and release again to close. The app has a "Momentary" switch type, but that did not work for me. I had to use "Toggle Switch" then set a auto off timer for 0.1 seconds.
Quake is still so much fun. Been playing for years with a group and it doesn't get old.
I think the thing that I’m most amazed by - and this setup is truly amazing - is the fact that you’ve got a group of friends to enjoy this with. Good for you; this looks like a blast, and I can only imagine how fun that’d be, compared to years of purely solo gaming.
Pentagon fails 7th audit in a row but says progress made
Meanwhile BlueSky is under heavy onslaught of reporting compared to previous year.

3,000 reports per hour now, contrast that to 340,000 for entire previois year (or 38 report/hr).

https://x.com/Libsofbluesky/status/1857587662711882126
Netflix’s snobbery of engineering is so exhausting. Then seeing them be unable to fix this problem after several previous streaming failures is a bit rich.

To me it speaks to how most of the top tech companies of the 2010s have degraded as of late. I see it all the time with Google hiring some of the lower performing engineers on my teams because they crushed Leetcode.
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm - Last commit: July 13th, 2023

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm-ml - Last commit: April 6th, 2023

Either the algorithm hasn't been updated for over a year (unlikely) or the public version is abandoned.
Maybe "Bullies to Buddies"? https://www.izzykalman.com/
""We will never win the war against bullying by trying to convince people to stop being bullies. We need to teach people how not to be victims!
(Izzy Kalman, Nationally Certified School Psychologist)"

Also from there: "What does the research show? The most highly revered and intensive anti-bullying programs rarely produce more than a minor reduction in bullying and often lead to an increase. A large-scale study conducted by the University of Texas at Arlington found that kids who attend schools with anti-bullying programs are more likely to be bullied than kids who attend schools without such programs. Why? And how can schools determine what is more likely to be effective? ..."

And: "Bullies to Buddies teaches how to understand the Golden Rule as a scientific, psychological formula and how to apply it in real life. It provides materials and training to students, school staff, mental health professionals, and parents. Because the lessons are simple yet counterintuitive and taught largely via entertaining role-plays, they enable people to quickly understand their mistakes and how to rectify them. Rather than teaching students that they need to rely on others to protect them from each other, Bullies to Buddies teaches them how to solve their social problems on their own.

What students learn:

* The “optical illusion” that causes bullying

* How to use the Golden Rule to stop being bullied without anyone’s help, including dealing with:

* Verbal attacks

* Rumors

* Physical aggression and threats

* Social exclusion

* Cyberbullying

As a result, kids grow in happiness, resilience, independence, and emotional maturity. These techniques will unleash their sense of humor and make them more popular with their peers. And they will get along better with their parents, teachers, and siblings."

To be clear, Izzy Kalman also outlines situations where the approach works (e.g. teasing, name calling, rumors, shoving) and where it doesn't (e.g. serious physical violence). And he also points out that while the approach may greatly reduce issues it may not resolve all issues. There is a certain low-level of social negativity people have to learn to live with (as contrasted with "zero tolerance" policies where people can learn to game the system to use it to bully others).

There is a videos section on the site with a a couple dozen of videos. Example showing in general the distinction between most programs (modify the entire social environment) and what Izzy Kalman suggests (train the person suffering in skills of resilience and social interaction):
"The Golden Rule System - Simple Solution to Bullying"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVVAx_kGM7w

Example showing to learn to deal with (mild) physical aggression:
"Magic Response for Physical Aggression" - Bullying Prevention for Educators"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRPusaSSqqE

Example of Izzy Kalman applying ideas to recent violent events:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/resilience-to-bull...
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I doubt anyone is alleging Elon Musk has control over Google's search. Google Trends suggests the same kind of interest change at exactly the same point in mid-July: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2024-01-01%202...
Who gets to decide when the camera gets turned off in the restroom?
I think the easiest way to read these types of comments is not that they're actually election interference or even really accusing the behavior of being election interference but making a joke about all the nonsense that was called election interference in 2020 and pointing out the hypocrisy of not caring about the same behavior now that they're engaging in it.
> people were getting yelled at by leadership

this is where you get up and leave
How exactly is "election interference" defined? Because it seems to extend to any action that effects the outcome of an election. Is campaigning election interference? What about voting?
I think you misspelled spam.
I’ve made this same observation which might explain why there is such a divergent world view between people living in different parts of the country.

A neighbor of mine recently moved (back to) Texas. Where we live is 1/4 of a mile from a massive state park, right on the ocean full of mountainous trails. Dude admitted he had only visited it once in 5+ years, but complained about taxes and the price of gas constantly. It’s no wonder he wanted to go back.
So yes, some people working at Microsoft, Apple and Google wrote those frameworks. But that's like a drop in the bucket.
>Women are realizing that stay-at-home wife/motherhood is a really bad job.

I've heard a lot of the opposite, women realizing that work sucks and that being stay at home is a realistic out for them.

>you may find yourself with nothing or worse, a pile of debt.

I also see women generally winning when it comes to divorce. I have close acquaintances that married rich and divorced rich.

>That's just not something that is going to happen anymore and only men are having a problem with it.

I see women with "buyers remorse" a lot. They lived their independent life and now realize they want kids after all but are getting too old to start a family.
I enjoy reading the review of $10,000 switches the same way I enjoy reading the reviews of a McLaren or a Ferrari in my favourite car magazine. Sure I'll never be able to afford one, but it's good to know what technology exists out there that in 10-20 years time might make it to more affordable units. And when the magazine does a review of the Honda Civic Type-R and the writer says they had nearly as much fun driving this as they had last month driving the Ferrari, I have an extra large grin on my face next time I'm getting into my Civic Type-R

And STH does plenty of reviews of stuff that's very affordable. I recently needed a 2.5 GbE switch with some level of management (vlan tagging) and PoE for my homelab, and their "The Ultimate Cheap Fanless 2.5GbE Switch Buyers Guide" was an invaluable resource

https://www.servethehome.com/the-ultimate-cheap-2-5gbe-switc...
It will never stop being funny to me how you can take an argument in American politics, directly apply it to the opposite side, and it will still be mostly true.
> a structural break for Musk's metrics around July 13, 2024" following which his view counts increased by 138.27% and retweets increased by 237.94%, with a similarly large increase for favourites

I can't judge how legitimate this particular report is. From personal experience with an account I haven't used in double digit years and deleted recently, my feed was exclusively Musk tweets without it being my choice. So anecdotally I have every reason to believe that Musk inflates his own... everything, probably.

Using your company to artificially inflate your own importance somehow strikes me as extremely pathetic. It's like getting an employee to stuff your crotch to make things look (but not be!) bigger.
Sure it's open source but that doesn't mean the public repo is in any way up to date. Especially given that the repos only have a handful of commits from the few months after the repos were published and they haven't been updated in well over a year.

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm-ml
It probably was interference, however note that removing left bias has exactly the same result as adding right bias.

I guess what I am trying to say is measuring bias sounds like a long and profitable academic career in itself. That is, hard to define, vague methodology, and uncertain results.
Yeah? But that's an argument against seeing any aliens up close (if you believe in that kind of thing), because presumably they're extremely unlikely too.

They're not there, or they're far away in time and space, with a remaining tiny chance that something incredibly unlikely happened.
+Meta ;)
An ERP and a blog engine with the first post being about it
Absolutely not in the field, so if you are please completely disregard. But from conversations with physicists (not cosmologists) I always thought people thought a lot of evidence for ΛCDM was dubious at best.