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Nah, you just cheat a little and the error is small enough to handwave: https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2017/bridges2017-237.pdf

There's a great history of this, The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zac Bissonnette. It's a quick read, almost entirely original reporting. Aside from the colorful characters, it's really compelling to see the way some individuals' and limited information combined with mass media fell together to create the bubble. It seems like it couldn't have happened at any other time because it needed cheap independent publishing (both print and web) before ubiquity eroded the perceived legitimacy.

If anyone from the GitHub social media team is reading this, you have a bug on this and other ReadME pages that causes high-frequency strobing in some browsers. It's likely to trigger photo-sensitive epilepsy. Please contact me at the email in my profile for more details, I've been trying to reach you for weeks.

The new system won't permit a + in email addresses, so perhaps they didn't bother emailing existing accounts that use it. I checked; they did not go to my spam folder.

I don't know if it's traffic from this announcement or general bad design but it's currently impossible to migrate. I mention bad design because they didn't even bother emailing about any of four accounts I set up for myself and young family members, and there's a ridiculous number of clunky steps to re-enter info they already have. And then on top of that it doesn't work. Only on one of five tries did I get an email verification code, and that sat at a page with a js spinner indefinitely. It's disappointing that they needlessly force this chore, and it's awful that they can't deliver a functioning chore.

Can you find any contemporary reviews or commentary mentioning it?

I think this criticism undoes itself. The thesis is that CGI visual effects are not convincing, not "weighty", implausible, unconvincing. But there's no mention of CGI being pervasively used outside of blockbusters! I'm not enough of a film buff to say for certain, but I'd guess it's a majority of non-indie releases. It goes unnoticed because it's seamless and convincing. It's enormously helpful to avoid an expensive location shoot or reshoot, fix an error, add setting, integrate actors and stunt doubles, all kinds of things. This article doesn't even know to complain about it because it's so dang good.

For an example off the top of my head, I know Wolf of Wall Street had a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP2sJqoZD7g You can search youtube for the title of any movie and "cgi" or "visual effects" to turn up tons of examples. David Fincher's movies have some great examples.

And to hop on my bar stool and opine, I think CGI is going to lead to a revolution in filmmaking over the next decade or two as it continues to get better and cheaper. There's ubiquitous criticisms that movies the last couple decades have been so expensive that studios only put money into blockbusters, or meddle in the creators' vision, or only fund simple action movies that are easily translated, etc. When low-budget indie films get access to this stuff they're going to to have the ability to make all kinds of movies rather than just contemporary character studies with limited sets and props. (Digital distribution will help, too.) CGI will be a landmark revitalizing force for movies, much bigger and stranger and better than the New Hollywood movement in the 70s.

I had something similar happen to me at IBM in the late 90s. I came to my cubicle one morning to find the PC case slightly ajar. I set the monitor aside and opened it. The sole 8 MB RAM stick was gone. I reported it to my boss who explained that someone would've taken it because getting an upgrade was an impossible bureaucratic feat, but getting a fix was trivial. Probably I was picked because I was obviously the youngest person in the office, so I must not have any power. I did indeed have a repaired PC the next day, though.

Connections are pretty flaky, unfortunately. Every couple years Facebook bans my spouse's account for, I can only guess, having the last name spelled more phonetically as "Bot" instead of transliterated as "Bhat". (It helps Americans get a little closer to correct pronunciation). A friend who's worked there about ten years puts in a good word and it's unbanned. Unfortunately not this time, it's been two months now.

I moderate https://lobste.rs; people mistake it as a site about a self-help guru. (both fans and anti-fans)

We added a note about it: https://lobste.rs/about#michaelbolton People still make the assumption but at least they now usually get that link as a rebuttal.

Here's the correction: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/media-washing...

This article doesn't seem to add any context or new reporting, might be an improvement to just swap in the link to what it's lightly rewriting.

> That way the company’s Saudi owners could raise investment capital from subsequent “investors” (AKA “suckers”) all the way up to the IPO, cash out, and walk away, whistling innocently.

The rest of the article is debatable but reasonably well-supported with links, but not the thesis. It should be straightforward to link to the SEC Form 4s and other public records showing the pre-IPO investors sold off their significant stakes. Even granting all of the facts below, if this didn't happen, it implies the investors were incompetent rather than malicious.

(I don't mean to imply they did or didn't sell off; I don't know much about Uber's financials. It's just weird to me that an essential point of this argument didn't get easy research.)

iOS also isn't as good at home screen layout; moving an icon causes others to jump around. Despite visually being a grid, the icons are internally modeled as single line that wraps like text. If you add or remove an icon from a higher row, every icon below it moves, including jumping between rows. I can understand how this mistake was made before the app store, but it's bizarre that it hasn't been corrected.

A non-obvious convenience is that triggering this (with or without auto-call), it disables Face ID. It's an easy and subtle gesture if you're in a situation where someone might activate Face ID without your permission, like a theft.

One small externality of Amazon's approach to business optimization: Amazon so closely tracks its drivers that they're strongly incentivized to shave seconds off of every delivery. When they come to smaller apartments with push-button buzzers, they'll push every button immediately, not just the buzzer matching their package. It disturbs every occupant, but there's the chance that they get buzzed in a few seconds sooner because a different tenant is hoping for their own package, is expecting a guest, or accepts that this is how Amazon works.

This is a rewrite of a story already on the front page and adds no new info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27842648

Does anyone have an upgrade guide for playbook maintainers?

A privacy precaution would be to `ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=password -o PubkeyAuthentication=no jobs.hackclub.com`. By default ssh will send all its public keys to a server unless given an identify file to use as an arg or in ~/.ssh/config.

Thanks for sharing this. We filter some of these from submissions to Lobsters (https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/blob/f25fc62d7603c1bf70...) and I'd be glad to expand it.

In your second list, are those the names of query params? I'm puzzled by the inclusion of @ in many of them, maybe you're saying that '_encoding' is a tracking param on any amazon domain, 'sk' is a tracking param on bing.com? What does the $ in the first entry indicate?

CS researchers at the University of Chicago did a similar experiment on me and other maintainers a couple years ago: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/issues/517

And similarly to U Minn, their IRB covered for them: https://lobste.rs/s/3qgyzp/they_introduce_kernel_bugs_on_pur...

My experience felt really shitty, and I'm sorry to see I'm not alone. If anyone is organizing a broad response to redress previous abuses or prevent future abuse, I'd appreciate hearing about it, my email's on my profile.

They're called neo-nazis because they're neo-nazis: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/proud-boy-6mwe/

Morale probable relates to how well employees' politics line up with recent events. To get an idea of where the business's are, look at what they promote: https://twitter.com/FacebooksTop10 (Context on the promotion algorithm: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/technology/facebook-elect... ; context on execs: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/02/20/faceboo...)

Or in context, they estimate NYC lost a net 0.8% of its residents and the average income of the incoming and outgoing cohorts differ by -$8,055/y. It multiplies to a big dollar figure because NYC is big and rich.

The original content marketing: https://global-uploads.webflow.com/5dc3e2af6a906d9cc232e1bc/...

It explains that they're extrapolating from three NYC neighborhoods (Astoria, Tribeca, and Williamsburg). I'm not an NYC expert and I'm not going to research these claims further, but I think those are quite well-off neighborhoods and not likely representative of NYC in terms of income or pandemic mobility.

This article feels like Reuters lightly rewrote an ad for Unacast.

This is a blogspam rewrite of a blogspam rewrite of this article: https://www.asiaone.com/asia/obsessed-fan-finds-japanese-ido...

I can't speak to Denver, but reposting from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25000078 - no, Chicago voters did not do this:

Hi, Chicago voter here. The question wasn't about public utility, it was "Should the City of Chicago act to ensure that all the City's community areas have access to broadband Internet?" which can imply a number of contradictory policies, from Chicago setting up municipal broadband to Chicago giving tax incentives to the existing national broadband providers.

Illinois limits ballots to three referendum questions, and questions chosen by higher-up political entities have precedence over smaller, more local ones. The three questions on the ballot for Chicago are chosen by the Cook County Board of Commissioners. (For these purposes, Cook County is equivalent to the city of Chicago plus a couple neighboring suburbs.)

Background established and into personal opinion: The question is in fact deliberately vague. The Board's goal is not to ask three divisive questions getting at the heart of urgent political matters. It is to fill the ballot with three questions to preclude local, less connected authorities from putting inconvenient, compelling questions on the ballot. Here's a 2018 court case reaffirming that (Calumet City is in Cook County): https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/opini...

These questions are deliberately worthless and it's a waste of time to analyze them for policy guidance.

If you're curious, the other two questions this cycle were: * In creating its City-wide plan for continued growth and sustainability, should the City of Chicago place equal focus on the goals of resiliency, equity, and diversity? * Should the State of Illinois restrict the sale or possession of firearms that have been defined as assault weapons or of magazines that can hold more than a certain number of rounds of ammunition?

Hi, Chicago voter here. The question wasn't about public utility, it was "Should the City of Chicago act to ensure that all the City's community areas have access to broadband Internet?" which can imply a number of contradictory policies, from Chicago setting up municipal broadband to Chicago giving tax incentives to the existing national broadband providers.

Illinois limits ballots to three referendum questions, and questions chosen by higher-up political entities have precedence over smaller, more local ones. The three questions on the ballot for Chicago are chosen by the Cook County Board of Commissioners. (For these purposes, Cook County is equivalent to the city of Chicago plus a couple neighboring suburbs.)

Background established and into personal opinion: The question is in fact deliberately vague. The Board's goal is not to ask three divisive questions getting at the heart of urgent political matters. It is to fill the ballot with three questions to preclude local, less connected authorities from putting inconvenient, compelling questions on the ballot. Here's a 2018 court case reaffirming that (Calumet City is in Cook County): https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/opini...

These questions are deliberately worthless and it's a waste of time to analyze them for policy guidance.

If you're curious, the other two questions this cycle were: * In creating its City-wide plan for continued growth and sustainability, should the City of Chicago place equal focus on the goals of resiliency, equity, and diversity? * Should the State of Illinois restrict the sale or possession of firearms that have been defined as assault weapons or of magazines that can hold more than a certain number of rounds of ammunition?

Here's some logs + a writeup of when they spammed Lobsters on behalf of LoadMill: https://lobste.rs/s/utbyws/mitigating_content_marketing

My first name @push.cx if you want to share notes on these or other abusive users.

These are the same people who made dedicated effort to trick Lobsters users into giving them invites so they could spam our site back around the start of 2020: https://lobste.rs/s/utbyws/mitigating_content_marketing

If they're still spamming for LoadMill eight months later, that strongly implies to me that the clients know what they're getting and are OK with the tactics.

The author is a spammer.

I banned this guy from Lobste.rs for endlessly posting terrible, thin retreads of Ruby docs and idiotically vague motivation porn. He had zero interaction with any other post and nothing mattered to him except that posting a link got him a few clicks: https://lobste.rs/threads/mehdi-farsi#c_attzu3 When asked to participate normally he posted some comments randomly like "very interesting topic." (no longer visible on this page)

Indeed, the site admits it: https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/commit/d14ae625edd685f7...