skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting observation. From my experience, any abrupt shift in a metric is normally due to external factors rather than internal ones. Something that academics seem to miss entirely.
He must have been terrified that people would follow. That’s one of the things about the workplace - the second you’re out the door you don’t matter. He even had the temerity to show everyone around you how they’d be treated if they left. Culture of authority and fear. It’ll come to every company eventually (and spreads like wildfire whenever people hire from Amazon)
The open-sourcing of the X's feed algorithm is a typical Musk's smokescreen.

First, while the code was open sourced, the configs and data that determines its behavior wasn't. Any researcher that has some knowledge of the matter will tell you this.

Second, that code was last updated in July 2023 [1]. News feed algorithms are updated regularly, especially around the time of US elections [2].

[1] https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm

[2] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt2983
> amount of photons as a percentage of the background

That's what "density" means. (i.e. the amount of something per unit volume)

> noise level

A photon will travel thru space forever without losing energy, unless it hits something. What noise are you talking about?
Personally, I think it would be better that way. Science works in pursuit of truth, not towards the obfuscation of it for personal and selfish financial gain. That should hopefully explain the outage that scientists have towards articles like this one. In place of relying on articles like this, you might try searching scholarly articles or subscribing to them.
True but I'd be more convinced by an argument based on tech and engineering constraints than extrapolating a progress line.
Praying he doesn't take this the wrong way, but perhaps /u/dang would be so kind as to weigh in? I don't equate what he does on a daily basis to censoring, but I'm certain it constitutes a part of the job (after all, this is the Internet, and I'm sure there's all manner of trash making an appearance on occasion). Furthermore, I would posit that there's a bit of overlap between censorship and moderation -- even excellent moderation -- although I welcome any nuance I'm missing on this topic.

Moreover, while I hope he is compensated well enough, I imagine this was initially, if not any longer, a job that demanded effort disproportionate to the monetary reward. What would keep someone interested in such a job and naturally driven to perform it well?

Coming from a place of curiosity, meaning no offense, and happy to let this comment slip quietly away to a back room to sit alone if that's what it merits.
Spoofing a descriptor I get, the most confounding part to me is how the charges continued after rotating the amex account number - isn't the whole point of getting a new card that charges against the old account are refused? Did OP update their Microsoft account with the new number? Any other way for it to be leaked ?
I really hope these techniques continue to percolate through scientific communities and bring forward a new era of statistical reasoning and epistemology
For the unaware or the forgetful, July 13, 2024 was the day someone tried to assassinate Trump.[1]

I am not surprised that Trump and Republicans immediately garnered more attention as a consequence, rightfully or otherwise.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Don...
Yeah like an assassination attempt.
Are you kidding they check credit ratings and will decide not to hire you if you have a GED at Taco Bell or many other min wage jobs. They absolutely will pull your history, just probably not check references.
This makes me further appreciate how golang's features tend to work entirely at compile time, which is also fast.

One of the other things that makes me worry about Rust is how similar it's depends look to npm projects, where there's a kitchen sink of third party (not the language's included library of code, and not the project's code) libraries pulled in for seemingly small utilities.
> (quoting YC) We know there is a clear engineering trade-off: it is possible to optimize especially specialized algorithms or calculations such as cryptocurrency mining, data compression, or special-purpose encryption tasks such that the same computation would happen faster (5x to 100x), and using less energy (10x to 100x).

> If Gary Tan and YC believe that LLMs will be able to design chips 100x better than humans currently can, they’re significantly underestimating the difficulty of chip design, and the expertise of chip designers.

I may be confused, but isn’t the author fundamentally misunderstanding YC’s point? I read YC as simply pointing out the benefit of specialized compute, like GPUs, not making any point about the magnitude of improvement LLMs could achieve over humans.
What makes you think, for instance, Go concurrency is harder to teach than async/await?
I agree with this. However memorizing the borrow checker rules has led me to architect code “more correctly” upfront and consider things like ownership that I was otherwise pretty lax about ahead of time before. I think this has made me more thoughtful even in other languages which I think has been a win for me.

That said, the tedious refactors are a real pain. I think we all hoped that rustc would be smarter by now. It has gotten better but it isn’t there yet.
The difference is now that mass surveillance is complete, they want the crazies to craze, so they can be barred from positions of importance.
Samsartor seems to think that the inverse square law does not hold at short distances (e.g. between the sun and mercury). Meindnoch agrees with mainstream physics that the inverse square law does indeed hold at short distances. You're confusing newtonian physics (busted) with the inverse square strength of gravity (still strongly supported); those are two different things. GR says gravity should be strictly 1/r^2, and this is what we observe in the solar system.
There was a script I once saw for Twitter where it blocked all users within some follower/followee radius of a set group of people.

For public discourse, I wonder what the right level of agreeable "echo-chambering" is.
Is there really no way for the bank to know whether the charge originates from a particular source, ie, Stripe vs Microsoft? The 2nd to last paragraph about blocking charges from Microsoft is a bit confusing.
This could be the result of the news feed change at X and Musk's endorsement of Trump...
This just isn’t correct.

Right now there is instant, 24 hour access between kids, tools for altering video and photos and an audience large as you can imagine.

I am very glad I grew up before social media.
This is the most polite "whoosh" I've ever had levied against me. Thanks!
sfp+ is clearly cheaper, and less heat/power, but I've got cat5e in the walls and between my house and detached garage, so I've got to use 10g-baseT to get between the garage and the house, and up to my office from the basement. At my two network closet areas, I use sfp+ for servers.

I think my muni fiber install happening this week might have a 10G-baseT handoff, and I've got a port for that open on my switch in the garage. If that works out, that will be neat, but I'll need to upgrade some more stuff to make full use of that.
Sure, there's a reason I said "Extremely difficult" not "Impossible". Defying Rice without losing generality is mathematically impossible.

This is on that continuum where it's definitely neither impossible nor easy enough that we can just let some bored grad student knock out the answer, and so now somebody who wants this must do lots of hard work.

I think a specification which says e.g. here's the semantic requirement, here's a rule for scoped borrows which works, you must do at least that, but you can do more however you must not allow anything which violates the semantic requirement - would be great, but if you had that rule in your standard then people can write conforming Rust programs which don't compile - they need a yet-to-be-written smarter compiler to figure out why they're legal, which is kinda annoying as a language feature.
Which would imply conservatives are big censorship advocates? Maybe rethink that.
It shares the same problem that Twitter had years ago back when it supported API blocklists.

Everybody you're blocking is at the whims of the blocklist owner, and it didn't take long for those people to go insane and use their lists as a tool for their own personal unrelated crusades.

Bluesky is already starting to experience this from a few I saw going around
what a miss.

i’d consider myself a day-to-day c++ engineer. well, because i am. i like lots of things from rust. there’s a few things i don’t. c++ has a lot to learn from rust, if it is to continue to exist.

but really.. isn’t this the point of the language? you need to
understand the borrow checker because.. that’s why it’s here?

maybe i’m missing something.
Pepper spray is ineffective at ending the suffering of being eaten alive.
Agreed - moderation at scale is a tough and expensive problem to get right.

That said, I wonder how much these days it would take to get it working well enough using existing LLMs. I'm not sure how much you would need to do that wasn't a bit off the shelf if you were mostly trying to keep your safe harbor protections / avoid regulator scorn.
I miss how the VM are managed, UTM or something else ?
The problem is that it takes a level of personal growth to have the wherewithall to understand the truth of such matters of truth and morality.

Put simply, it takes a morally dilligent, selfless, compassionate person to clearly judge moral situations. Dunning-Kruger is as applicable to personal morality as it is to technical excellence.
I had a few OFX plugins and maybe had the browser running which may have impacted RAM. Depending on how much RAM you can keep free and the amount of grading on that 8K video you may be OK with the 24GB of the M4 Pro base model but yeah - more is always better though with Apple it's painful to add more of anything .. on a budget.
I don't understand why Lisp throws you off. I only read SICP after I became proficient in Haskell and it is just fine.
Rust was a pain in the ass until I stopped trying to write C code in it and started writing idiomatic Rust. I don’t know the author of this blog, but he mentions extensive C++ experience which makes me wonder if he’s trying to write C++ in Rust.

Maybe not! Maybe it’s truly just Rust being stubborn and difficult. However, it’s such an easy trap to fall into that I’ve gotta think it’s at least possible.
I suppose it was all just as bad before printers too?

You just did a lot of oil paintings. And prior to that you did some cave drawings?
Twitter algorithm changes can presumably play some role in driving what people Google for.
> The only animal that really does it properly is the salamander

Vertebrates are animals, but not all animals are vertebrates.

A lot of invertebrates can regrow lost organs or even heads. Insects lose it for the luxury of having wings, but other arthropods can regrow lost limbs if they live for enough moults. Planarians can regenerate everything.
> It's not guaranteed, but much fewer points of failure.

Can you explain where this is relevant to buffering issues?

Also, you are very wrong regarding failure modes. The larger the service, the more failure modes it has. Moreover, in monoliths if a failure mode can take down/degrade the whole service, all other features are taken down/degraded. Is having a single failure mode that brings down the whole service what you call fewer points of failure?
Go’s features work only at compile time, but are far more limited. I experience more crashes in Go than in any other compiled language because of how limited it is as a language.
Rust’s checks are also evaluated and enforced at compile time.
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If only relativity were so simple :)

If I understand right, objects further than a redshift of z ~= 1.8 can't be reached by any signal we emit, and the second galaxy is at a redshift of z = 1.885. But I don't know how precisely (standard deviations rather than decimal places) the distance to the outbound cosmological horizon is being approximated, so it might be reachable by a signal sent by us:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Home_in_...

Not sure what the practical analogy would be. You can't use an exploding telescope?
Same for me. I think I write better code in other languages now.
Indeed. As others have noted, that would be when the attempted assassination of Trump was, shortly followed by Elon endorsing him and then forming his PAC [1]. I'd expect such activities to raise interest in his activities and statements, so this entire thing seems to be a staggering miss at asking very basic questions before leaping to conclusions.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_PAC
I don't know, this is just stuff I heard, but I think some of it is Valve just being _annoyed_. Like Apple made this choice despite reaching a point where the highest end graphics card they ship is equivalent to a high-end... laptop graphics card! You shouldn't be in charge of a thing if you're not going to cover a wide spectrum.

At least with USB-C Apple "donated" their designs.
Are there examples one can learn from about idiomatic rust? I would appreciate either books or projects to learn from.
This site doesn’t have followers but if you see somebody POSTING in the VOICE of a guy wearing a sandwich board that says CHRIST WAS A LIZARD it only takes two clicks to see the other stuff they voluntarily posted publicly here (username -> comments)
Still reading about this. Something strange is that ygg addresses are made to fit in ipv6 using the hash of a pubkey. How does vanity mining lead to any security benefit?

Why not just make a new TLD like .onion or .i2p and use base32?
I am so glad I didn’t buy a TSLA during the 2020-2021 hype. These vehicles are god awful, and are now glorified status icons. Safety is clearly a third or fourth priority.
Flagging this because a toot isn't news and the discussion isn't discussing the paper, everybodys just going off vibes in here.
Dependencies are optional, and having a huge standard library also has its tradeoffs. If the standard library has a less than ideal API, it's stuck with that until a major version bump and you either:

1. End up with a third party package filling in the gaps, or

2. Another standard library API that users slowly migrate to
Have you looked at it? It's an abomination. The point of SICP isn't Scheme or the syntax of Scheme, but what it represents. Whoever made the Javascript rewrite didn't understand that. You can't write a metacircular interpreter in Javascript, because Javascript is not homoiconic.
It shows early galaxies forming way faster and bigger than expected, which kind of shakes up the whole dark matter idea. Seems like it supports the MOND theory—that gravity might not work the way we think. Pretty wild, but it’s still up for debate.
Recurring charges often use some arrangement with the payment processor that doesn't actually use the literal card number after the first authorization. There's a bunch of contributing reasons but the obvious ones are security (no storing card numbers) and to make things easier for both companies and individuals when replacing cards, since most outright fraud is one-off charges.
What changes after years of playing? I assume everyone has every inch of the maps memorized?
Do you have any documentation of this endeavor? Or some bulleted tips? I'd like to do something similar.
When I was working on the exercises, I found the Rocker project (https://rocker-project.org/) + DevContainers in VSCode to be a winning combination.

Combined with OrbStack (for Docker on MacOS) and Quarto (which is a nice Markdown-based alternative to Jupyter) I would go so far as to call the experience pleasant.

I don't remember running into version-related problems. Maybe I didn't make it as far in the book as you.
That would be a fun surprise to me as a lay person who doesn’t actually understand these things, because I see a lot of disparagement towards the MOND theory.
There's a bunch of strictly regulated ad formats. Each party gets one "metal billboard" poster and I think one TV spot and that's it.

The most common form of political advertising by volume is probably unauthorized propaganda posters on public infrastructure, yeah. Those are annoying. Also stickers on traffic light poles and similar places.
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It is interesting that the borrow checker doesn't run until after typechecking succeeds. As far as I'm aware, rust-analyzer has its own builtin logic for doing typechecking, but it delegates to rustc for borrow checking. I wonder whether this is just a temporary situation due to lack of engineering resources to implement borrow checking in rust-analyzer; personally I doubt that, especially since gccrs is incorporating components of rustc wholesale and so I'd be a bit surprised if rust-analyzer moves in the opposite direction. In theory it seems possible to support borrow checking in the IDE for ill-typed programs, but having borrow checking as a separate analysis pass depending on successful typechecking is just such a nice abstraction boundary to have for maintaining the toolchain.
GR says spacetime is curved by mass, right. So what's the basis for explaining the curvature of space (which can be measured, e.g., LIGO) in MOND?
Surprising how this seemingly intelligent person repeats dozens of time how "Microsoft" is stealing their money when it's obvious to almost everyone that's just a scammer that got a hold of their credit card.
I've taken the course and love the book. The key takeaways for me were to shun cleverness in favour of building demonstrably sensible models out of simple parts and clear causal assumptions. There's a lot of using models as random generators as a way to validate assumptions that demonstrates that your model makes sense before you start with inferencing which is a fantastic habit to stick with.
Useless but cool-looking diagrams are the lifeblood of governent slide decks, so I'm absolutely not surprised.
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Only guaranteed to last for four or five months, so probably would be a very short interstellar travel
Why is live a lot harder?

Aside from latency (which isn't much of a problem unless you are competing with TV or some other distribution system), it seems easier than on-demand, since you send the same data to everyone and don't need to handle having a potentially huge library in all datacenters (you have to distribute the data, but that's just like having an extra few users per server).

My guess is that the problem was simply that the number of people viewing Netflix at once in the US was much larger than usual and higher than what they could scale too, or alternatively a software bug was triggered.
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Wait, the CD drive is mounted vertically and opens on the front of the case? That is insanely cool, I have never seen a design like that o_O
borrow checking relies on types to be able to check; types are what carry borrows after all.
It's also a lot easier to release a new version of a package to fix a bug than do a bugfix release for the entire language toolchain, which is what would be needed in order to update the standard library. With Rust releasing a new minor version every six weeks, I think minimizing the chances of additional releases needed in between them is probably a good thing.
MCMC and Bayesian models.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_programming
> Furthermore, I would posit that there's a bit of overlap between censorship and moderation -- even excellent moderation -- although I welcome any nuance I'm missing on this topic.

You aren't missing anything. Many people have oppositional defiance disorder and have never used an unmoderated forum; they are completely unusable because they're full of spam.
We use glucose to generate energy that we burn metabolically to keep themselves warm all the time. I assume that the frogs can do it also partially.
You're doing the exercises in Elixir and not Scheme then?
Yes, and people should stop using Rust for projects that do not require a systems programming language.

Know what tool to pick.
What I find implausible about MOND is the constant a0 (~1.2). Why stick with a measurement based constant instead of exploring a parameter that varies with distance?
An often overlooked solution to this problem is to avoid using Rust, or to only use it for performance critical code. Writing a large application in Rust sounds hellish, it seems like it would be much nicer to only use it in sections of the hotpath where it is absolutely necessary.
Multilayer feedforward networks are universal approximators [pdf]
Meta: I think the title would be better here if it came out and said query optimizers.

That gives a less subtle clue that it's about databases than looking at the domain.
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.

It takes light, the fastest thing that can be, 100,000 years to cross the Milky Way.

The Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy is currently in the process of being consumed by the Milky Way and is expected to pass through it within the next 100 million years.

So, unless you're even more optimistic about life extension technology than I am, not in our lifetimes, no.
> But sites where the data is many-to-many and there's a firehose of writes, of which Twitter is a prime example, are a nightmare to scale while remaining performant and reliable. Every single user gets an updated live feed of tweets drawn from every other user -- handling millions of users simultaneously is not easy.

It is definitely not easy. But the core problem of this has been discussed since the release of Facebook. There are very obvious architectures which you can follow and then fix the bottlenecks with money. The cost is still the most relevant problem, which I wanted to say. The current cloud enables much higher optimization threshold and error margin.
How is feature parity not an advantage? If it were to be removed, the lack of it would be a disadvantage.
My opinion so far is that people want to write Java using Rust, or they want to write C++ using Rust, and they have a hard time. You can’t really just go write a program architected the way you do in those other languages. It’s not “C++ with a borrow checker”.

So I’d say it’s “worse” than “you have to memorize the borrow checker”. Its “you have to learn how to write programs in Rust”.