skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand it, these are the major pieces of evidence:

- Karotype testing of Khelif (and the other disqualified boxer, Lin) showing XY chromosomes, reported by sports journalist Alan Abrahamson who's seen the lab reports and covering letter that was received by the IOC from the IBA: https://www.3wiresports.com/articles/2024/8/5/fa9lt6ypbwx5su...

- A member of Khelif's training team, Georges Cazorla, revealing in interview that Khelif has problems with chromosomes and hormones, and has been under testosterone suppression to bring levels into the female range: https://www.lepoint.fr/monde/2024-olympics-imane-khelif-was-...

- Extracts from a medical report leaked to French journalist Djaffer Ait Aoudia, which state that Khelif has a disorder of sex development, 5-alpha reductase deficiency, which exists only in males: https://lecorrespondant.net/imane-khelif-ni-ovaires-ni-uteru...

There are other oddities as well, like Khelif choosing not to pursue a case at the Court of Arbitration for Sport after being deemed ineligible to compete in IBA events. And the head of the Spanish national team, Rafael Lozano, saying that when the Algerian team visited to train, they ended up matching Khelif with a male boxer to spar, as the upper body strength and punching power was too much for the female boxers.

Worth noting also that all this is consistent with Khelif competing at the Olympics in the women's boxing category, as they only ask for identity documentation and do not verify sex, unlike weight classes which are strictly controlled.
> encourage them into it!

They will not encourage them into it. That's not the idea.
Hype cycles come and go, AI will be no different. The core technology may remain and advance, but the fever will break once reality sets in/and or prices continue to climb.
I'm pretty disappointed with the rise of reddit. In my opinion, it has a very serious confirmation bias problem.
then how does Reddit and Twitter work without such an obnoxious captcha? I find it hard to believe those sites get less spam. Or any other community.
No. This just shows that I know how rhetoric like this evolves.

This is why I kept lamenting how important learning history, especially the history of bigotry is.
I love camelcamelcamel. How is it gamed? I trust it when I see a long and varied price history of an item.
I don't believe Twitter does this even now. Their for you algorithm is actually open source (supposedly) so you could check.

But algorithmic reach existing in the first place was only a Facebook thing for a long time; other people started doing it because of TikTok. eg there's no way to limit an account's reach on Tumblr, it's just nobody would ever reblog a corporate Tumblr post.
Nice callback to Moot banning an entire Australian region (Queensland or Victoria, if memory serves) because Aussies did an outsized share of shitposting, and of Aussies those particular ones were the worst.
The state is quite controlling in some areas like law and order and banning drugs but pretty laissez faire on economic policy.
You need accounts with unique emails to post everywhere else, and those sites are massive with hundreds/thousands of devs, some of whom work exclusively on anti-spam. If you make a site immune to advertising revenue and any other source of profit, you’re going to struggle to pay for “internet-scale” efforts.
User (social) org structure and Developer (social) org structure are unavoidable requirements which constrain code implementation, as much as processor speed and memory capacity.
Reddit and Twitter both have huge bot problems. On Reddit it's a bit less obvious due to the upvote/downvote system, and on Twitter it's a bit less obvious because you usually only follow people you want to see. Make a post on Twitter that mentions something like cryptocurrency, and you'll get a dozen bot replies immediately.
NASA: Evolving Telemetry Storage with Search and Time-Series [pdf]
They don't surface every post to everyone unlike 4chan so spam is much less visible though they still exist.
That's not effective against a group raid. As far as I know mass blocking tools don't work since they took the API away.
When in the context of geopolitics, "China" refers to the geopolitical entity, not the people that make up the geopolitical entity, nor a different geopolitical entity that existed thousands of years ago (that also, from what I understand, had little to do with the invention of gunpowder).
I tried to buy something online from CDW. 5 days after the purchase I got a call from CDW trying to confirm I ordered the items.

I said I had and the response was ok I just need to ask you 32 questions. The first question was my order number. I didn’t know the answer to the first question which was my order number. I could have dropped everything and focused on these questions. I felt that the burden on my time was too much and they said I couldn’t continue without it.
The experience was very weird considering how convenient online ordering can be
> If esperanto were used widely for many years, it would also develop special cases over time.

You've never dealt with Esperantists, I can tell.
Born right on the border between Millennial and Gen Z. I considered myself financially successful at 100k salary, and I am now paid more than that.

Does this make me a Boomer?
From what little I know, their use of schizophrenia is different from how we use it now, and when they refer to the schizophrenic they mean someone who doesn’t systematize and abstract things in order to make sense of the world like most people, so they want to try and use something like this state of mind to observe things as they are rather than reducing them into constituent parts and abstracting their function like we tend to do when analyzing, hence schizoanalysis. I think that’s a neat idea, lmk if I’m misreading.
I don’t think that making your book’s cover look indistinguishable from a significant number of other books in the same category is good marketing advice.
Once we get superintelligence — some time next year I’d say — then we will have a tool to make all those dreams come true.
Insurance may want you to report fraud/theft to the police (even if they know it does nothing).

AFAIK the FBI can handle fraud over $5,000 but they won't do anything unless it's much bigger.
Coda EV

Rav 4 EV

Nissan Leaf

Fiat 500e

Smart Fortwo electric drive

...

There's probably a dozen or so first-generation (well for this century) electric vehicles that are just regular cars that happen to have an electric power plant.

The upside is that you can buy them used, for a couple grand. The downside is that they were manufactured with a 100 mile range, and your lucky if you can find one that still retains half that.

If aftermarket batteries become common, they'd be perfect around-town vehicles.
Maybe it's just me but I see a fundamental reductionist outcome here: if all accounts belong to Musk and are used under licence, its not a free speech channel and his defences against slander and hate speech evaporate. He has asserted control. That brings consequent responsibility for acts and things said.

I left Twitter 5 years ago. I don't see any reason to be on socials.
The web in general sucks for quickly finding information. from the essays that proceed a recipe or a news site which autoplays an irrelevant video on every story. It not only wastes time it waste your phone data. The ChatGPT search feature has eliminated the junk and gives me the info I’m looking for.
Just don't post "cisgender", where Elon's plane is, or the real name of a creator of a neo-nazi comic.
Yes because it was a survey of by a British regulatory body, the Office of Communications aka Ofcom.
I'm sceptical of that definition of truth funnily enough for the reason that James (and you) endorse it:

"Pragmatism had another benefit. It allowed for God.[...]If religion increased happiness, encouraged ethical behavior, and offered eternal life, why not gamble?"

To me that's an almost canonical example of what's wrong with this notion of truth. I can accept that people have faith in God, even for unexplainable reasons on intuition, or don't, but the truth about God can't depend on whether that belief has value to me. If that's the case, God might very well cease to exist based on my mood. And that is so solipsistic it's arguably the exact opposite of a truthful worldview. If there's one thing in the world that can't be contingent on my expectation, it's by definition God.

And that's arguably what's wrong with pragmatic truth on all issues, it's just less obvious.
Show HN: Flash words from a book near your mouse to draw while you read
Mute/Block works fine for me on X. I happen to like variety, not an echo chamber. I block the ignorant tails on either side.
Doxxing is a crime, which is not protected by free speech.

No, just because the data is public does not justify aggregating it and presenting it to the public. Pretty much everyone's address is public information.

(or at least, it should be a crime. Its exact legislative status is murky and much weaker than it should be in the US, but it is almost universally banned by online services, for good reason.)
> is there any better way to do
> it with a single developer for
> a website that serves millions
> of people a day?

No, the other reason they're using this is to make it so annoying that you'll spend $20/yr to buy a 4chan pass to bypass it.

If you're not making your free website annoying to drive revenue there's obvious ways to make it less annoying.

E.g. keep the annoying captcha, but don't show one again for the lifetime of a cookie, validate users who can make a money transfer of $0.01 etc.
Versus a country where many places even in big cities still expect to check a signature for payment. Lack of adoption of chip-and-pin is baffling.
I wish they'd kept conductors on buses but that ship left 3 decades ago. Some of my fondest memories are the conductors on Melbourne's ageing W class wooden trams.

Trains feel like something where drivers and conductors and platform staff are a social good. We're beyond cost at this point, it's about public utility.
This. I never heard of him so I looked him up on Wikipedia. My assumption was that many of you hadn't either.
The underbelly of electric cars: Where all those EV batteries come from
Something that just dawned on me is the downstream effects of United States’ policy regarding science during WWII and the Cold War. The Manhattan Project, NASA, the NSA and all of its contributions to mathematics and cryptography, ARPA, DARPA, and many other agencies and programs not only directly contributed to science, but they also helped form a scientific culture that affected not only government-ran and government-funded labs, but also private-sector labs, as people and ideas were exchanged throughout the years. It is a well-documented fact that Xerox PARC’s 1970’s culture was heavily influenced by ARPA’s 1960’s culture.

One of the things that has changed since the 1990s is the ending of the Cold War. The federal government still has national laboratories, DARPA, NASA, the NSF, etc. However, the general culture has changed. It’s not that technology isn’t revered; far from it. It’s just that “stopping Hitler,” “beating the Soviets,” and grand visions for society have been replaced with visions of creating lucrative businesses. I don’t hear about the Oppenheimers and von Neumanns of today’s world, but I hear plenty about Elon Musk and Sam Altman, not to disrespect what they have done (especially with the adoption of EVs and generative AI, respectively), but the latter names are successful businessmen, while the former names are successful scientists.

I don’t know what government labs are like, but I know that academia these days have high publication and fundraising pressures that inhibit curiosity-driven research, and I also know that industry these days is beholden to short-term results and pleasing shareholders, sometimes at the expense of the long-term and of society at large.
Only because it's small and still burning VC money. The algorithm will come once they need to pay the bills.
Because it's not a truck that you can just dump things on, it's a series of tubes.
I tried it but I got tired of political fights like twitter is for nazis here we can save the world. I just want to read about tech, nature and science not politics im tired of that shit. In the end i just uninstalled and went to play super mario world
Looking forward to paying for software I enjoy!

I’m very optimistic Bluesky is going to be the counter example to the enshitification story.
They are all fake, but Bluesky hasn't figured out how to control them yet.
I see no speech there, there are no ideas being censored. It's just stalking.
> Telling somebody that they're fucking up and that they need to improve is one thing,

In my experience it's management telling the employee they're fucking up when in reality it was management fucking up the whole time. Unrealistic schedules, untenable goals, poor/no feedback or guidance, or just actively burning the employee out. Management then uses the PIP to fire the employee without a lawsuit.

There's never a good faith position of management with PIPs. They're for their benefit and never the employee's benefit.
That's what they want. International institutions actually go out of their way to recruit people from different backgrounds, specifically so those people will warn them whenever they're about to embarrass themselves in front of other cultures. For example, the word "byte" might rub French people the wrong way, because it sounds like a slang word they use for male genitalia. The word "poke" is another one to avoid, since it resembles Indonesian and Malaysian slang for female genitalia. Never name your variables foo and bar if you plan to share your code with Nordic countries, because it can be confused with slang for excrement. There's a very long list of words and phrases like this. However most people needn't worry about this, since they're not actively engaging with other cultures.
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Runner Uses Strava to Create Viral Animated TikTok Video
Its true that the current honeymoon period will not be forever. But what comes afterwards will be even better.

People have been conditioned to think that the social media experience cannot but be enshittifed. (Its even the word of the year 2024 in Australia). But this is no law of nature, this the result of very specific business models.

While everything in the bluesky/atproto niche is now rather centralized and offers little more than a twitter UX, the possibilities are endless if people build an actual ecosystem around it. One can have alternative "views", different user functionalities that completely transform what users experience. Once you start thinking of users as people and not product, an untapped universe of possibilities is opening up.

The concept of diverse interoperating platforms swimming in a pool of message passing is more advanced in the activitypub space. From wordpress plugins, to goodreads and reddit alternatives and an entire zoo of specialized platforms. The severe underfunding keeps all those things away from prime time but they are proving something important:

The old social media order is dead. Mastodon and the fediverse proved that first but it was too niche for most people to notice. Now bluesky does it more forcefully and in the mainstream. The news can no longer be suppressed.
For those that don't know, the JKCS extension has been doing this for years already:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/jkcs/

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/joshi-koukousei-cap...

Userscript version: https://github.com/drunohazarb/4chan-captcha-solver
What ever they're doing with decentralization isn't really legible to me. As much as I'll say nice things about Bsky, I'm not really rooting for it. As you saw: I left Twitter after Musk bought it and landed in the Fediverse, which I actually quite liked, not out of any religious interest in architecture so much as for the promise I thought (still sort of think) it held for restoring a blogosphere-type organization to the Internet (a world where most people would just sign up for whatever the Blogger.com of Mastodon was).

Not enough people stayed in the Fediverse, and I found early Bsky culture, hm, difficult to mainline day-in day-out, so I went back to Twitter, and I'd be fine, regardless of ownership, if it would just be a good product that everyone wanted to use.

So to me, Bsky just felt like Twitter with different owners; it still sort of does. Which: if you're looking for a less-shitty Twitter, to me, that's Bsky's offering today.
https://archive.ph/eihpb
> Wave 6 of the Online Experiences Tracker was conducted among a nationally representative sample of 7,280 UK internet users aged between 13 and 84. Fieldwork was conducted over a ten-day period between 23rd May and 8th June 2024. The data has been weighted to be representative of the UK internet user population on age within gender, and overall, to regional and SEG profiles.
Yes, that's what I'm saying. That "engagement" on Twitter isn't coming back, unless ownership changes the product to allow it. Bsky isn't going to grow out of this. Engagement is going where it's rewarded, and that's all there is to it.
This is only to repeat what has been said by many, numerous times, but —

1. The point of search was no longer to provide requested data, but to generate clicks for Google's ad service.

2. Generating clicks for Google's ad service required that exact text search, boolean searches, & everything else useful had to be excised because giving what was asked for reduced engagement.

3. Ads had to be stuck on the top half of the results page, & the second half of the search results, for more clicks to be earned, had to be filled with garbage sites that did not provide what was sought. This encouraged the proliferation of scrapers & bot-generated text sites. Hand-in-hand with this was the elimination of long-tail results, as digging into results might give useful results.

4. It appears that a decision was made at some point to curate & direct answers toward particular results. While much has been made about certain political leanings being almost disappeared by this move, it appears to be much more likely that this was a result of returning results which generated more ad revenue & clicks (which may say more about the sorts of sites Google runs ads on than anything else).

5. In parallel with the dominance of ad-revenue mining, data mining became a major purpose of receiving search requests. Thus the requests for location information on every search, tied in with the drive to personalize results not for the purpose of giving good results, but to give identified users results they were more likely to interact with to both interact with Google ads & give Google more data to suck down & use.

If we could get them to revert back to the 2006-era search engine, where more than just major sites & bot farms are indexed, we would have something useful. But that's not going to happen.
The addition of the post countdown has had a pretty noticeable effect on posts/day across multiple boards: https://4stats.io/

When an earlier version was trialled on /biz/ (mandatory email verification - https://warosu.org/biz/thread/58388587), it nuked the board and it hasn't recovered.
Losing the US colony was a minor inconvenience. We were busy with France.

I get that it's important to you, but US independence barely features in our history lessons.
I work at a place with LTE GPS trackers on fleet vehicles. Tracking boxes get moved from old -> new vehicles when possible. Otherwise the cell and tracking services are deactivated ASAP to avoid paying a monthly fee on an unused tracker.

I'd personally be equal parts creeped out and curious about the hardware if that showed up on a car I bought. If it's a former fleet vehicle, its probably deactivated.

The particular sound described makes me think of older pre-lte stuff, which in my part of the world was abandoned and became useless a couple years ago.
Oooh! I wonder if I can find one of those. I'd love a way to see all of the Amiga screenmodes on a single display :)
Would love the equivalent of this but before applying practical problem solving. For instance in go you learn to leverage goroutines and channels. In another language it would be threads. Common design patterns etc. Gotcha’s of the language. In Python you use exception handling very commonly, in golang you’re using a special return value of an error type. JavaScript you’re using a ton of anonymous function closures. Async vs await.

I keep wanting to build this mega doc site to teach more than just “what are scalar types in this language” and more of how to apply it in idiomatic ways.
I was thinking that maybe Apple had useful guidelines for how developers can prioritize their work. :)
I am seriously surprised at the naivety of people who can't see that Bluesky is also destined for enshittification.
Truth social being an example of a Mastodon server that doesn’t market itself as being .

Doesn’t federate either, and they’ve violated the license, but core concept is there to be copied.
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This violates the freedom to contract (I should be free to use a hospital that doesn't have these security features) and is totally outside of the federal government's constitutionally enumerated powers.
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Honestly, posting something definitionally false like that example serves only to start flame wars. There are fewer stronger signals for what sort of user should get banned than those who troll to start flame wars.
Agreed, charging for accounts is the only halfway viable solution I have seen any service use that gives a sizable downtick in the sheer number of bots/spam.

Of course it's not perfect, and it will still happen, but I have yet to hear any better solutions. Please prove me wrong though!