skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like I have seen mostly negative reviews and impressions come out of them. I'm sure there are some good ones, but I remember specific claims against some of them being that they inflate their own job placement numbers by just employing previous graduates as TAs and instructors to keep the machine going.

I think a much more practical option in the long-term will be something like what Shopify is doing with their Dev Degree program - https://devdegree.ca.
I see the risk being less about spyware, and more about giving CCP the ability to push its agenda at the flick of an algorithm tweak.

A lot of people in comments are talking about how great the feed algorithm is out weeding out teenage dance videos and showing interesting content.

You can easily imagine a scenario where CCP tweaks its algorithms to favor content relating to one party or candidate vs. the other.

The scary part is that I think it wouldn't be obvious to know whether China is exploiting TikTok's American audience via algorithms driving a certain agenda since it can be done very subtly in non-obvious ways.
It doesn't use Intel SGX, nor would SGX work with such a service.

Intel is working on a competing technology -- Total Memory Encryption -- but AMD beat them to market by quite a bit.
I wouldn't worry about that, we have clear conditions that need to be met before we release a username [1]. It's meant to prevent name-squatting, not take usernames away from actual users. Although I do want to point out that GitHub also has this [2], it's just worded differently and doesn't outline what they consider "inactive".

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/support/#dormant-namespace-requests

[2] https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-usernam...
We already does millions of people in America at least with Adderall which is an amphetamines not molecularly very different from Methamphetamine. It turns out to be mostly safe for most people, whether it good for you or me to use is a different question.

Also linking amphetamines to Nazis in order to demonize users is just ridiculous.
It's less about threat model than willingness to use it.

If the US government were using Facebook to censor and disseminate propaganda, we'd likely eventually hear about it.

In contrast, the Chinese government is certainly using TikTok to censor and quite likely to disseminate propaganda. Critics of that policy will be imprisoned.
Another good, and dynamic, introduction to accounting, with examples of entries for all documents:
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I Started API Evangelist 10 Years Ago
Having to register a new company to try to enroll seems a tad excessive, and certainly shouldn't be necessary.
Slight tangent, but writing custom assembler code to make this go faster on the ARM chip makes me wonder how much optimization the Apple team has put into the Swift compiler for the A-series, work that has been going on for years for iOS. I suspect the answer is "a lot more than we realize" and it would be interesting to see this Golang comparison re-run on macOS/ARM (when available) and then compared to the same program written in Swift.
I'd imagine getting a robot to do laundry from start to finish in the way my housekeeper does effectively impossible. I'm not au fait with how the complexity of automated tasks is estimated ala algorithmic complexity, but I imagine is pretty much beyond impossible. Especially given living space constraints in most homes
Ask HN: What were your naiveté's in your twenties?
> There is probably just fedora supporting this.

How do you mean? I've used podman on Void Linux, openSUSE, GitLab CI, and I think some others that I'm forgetting (I distro hop a lot) and it's worked great.
There absolutely are weekend helicopter pilots. I have my PPL and at my airfield there are quite a few hobbyists and interesting jobs that don’t demand many oncall or flight hours.
What's silly, precisely? Seat belts are cool, so no, you're wrong.

Homemade masks (as opposed to N95) and handkerchiefs are only marginally effective against reducing transmission. Having a strong immune system is a scientifically proven way to reduce your health risk significantly.

What is silly is all the people who are content to do the absolute bare minimum, easiest possible thing to attempt to protect people's health: merely putting a piece of cloth on their face; while at the same time neglecting to put in the work to improve their overall health, and thus their risk to others of spreading the virus.
The current Facebook situation is a bit of a different beast. Most of those advertisers were already cutting their marketing spend because Covid, and are using the current cause to still get attention while reducing direct spend (though I'm sure they'd like Facebook to be a bit heavier on the censorship all the same).

Facebook is likely doing the math now on what makes sense in terms of keeping advertisers happy while resisting temporary market pressure. The answer will probably be a discount on ads, not actually changing content policies, which is what the advertisers are likely gunning for anyways.
Interesting that only India's decision to ban TikTok made that possible in the US. Shows how polarized the US is. If one side suggested banning TikTok, the other side would immidiately defend it, but India banning it can bring it into the conversation in a way that doesn't force everyone to adopt a view on it reflexively.
I haven't noticed it in British English. My default reaction would be blame it on Americans screwing up the language again.
I think influence is 100 times better than individual action. But I also think the same logic applies: if it hasn't worked for 50 years, and things have gotten much much worse, why will it suddenly succeed in the next 10?
There's a difference between Facebook lobbying and Facebook using its products to disseminate propaganda.
> so it'd be putting out that heat all the time

What's the problem? My old school pentiums kept my dorm room nice and toasty. Could keep my window cracked in the winter for fresh air while gentoo compiled...
No, but then again I’m equally opposed to much of contemporary US politics and the long history of US meddling in foreign countries affairs to obtain anti-democratic results that happen to favour US goals (broadly, Latin American 20th century history), so again, this “TikTok’s data gathering is an existential threat to freedom but please pay Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google et al no mind” framing is... unconvincing to say the least.
There are practical difficulties in having some students in the classroom and some students online: it's hard for a single instructor to split attention that way, unless they have some help (e.g., a student assistant) in the classroom. It would be more effective if universities had more dedicated online versions of courses. This had already been happening before the pandemic and would probably be accelerated post-pandemic for a variety of reasons.

Edit: fix grammar + clarify.
I wonder if this may have to do with the "second brain" that scientists claim exists in the gut: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gut-second-brain/
Here in India, TikTok was massively popular in smaller towns and villages. The content was so different than Instagram.

I really thought it was invaluable (TikTok is banned now). For us city dwelling upper middle class people, it gave a rare glimpse into the lives of people less privileged. And it wasn't maudlin or patronizing as a lot of narratives about the poor tend to be. Rather it was fun and authentic.

I remember when the lockdown happened and a lot of migrant workers were left stranded, the news channels were filled with horror stories and heartbreaking videos of poor families walking hundreds of kilometres to their homes. But on TikTok, there were plenty of videos shot by the same migrant workers where they shared their woes, but would sometimes break into a dance or make fun of their situation.
Something I've wanted to asked ask for a while: who is programming in Basic today?

The language has evolved substantially from its early days and there are many dialects. But it's rare to hear someone admit they program in Basic (at least on this forum). Programmers can be quite judgemental about choice of programming language.

Does anyone want to share their reason for using Basic? It is by choice or by necessity (e.g. maintaining a legacy codebase)?

Are there modern incarnations of the language that you feel are overlooked? (For example, I recently came across Pure Basic, a cross-platform compiler that lets you build self-contained binaries for Windows, Mac and Linux).
I appreciate you putting up the first chapter!
Vine wasn't destroyed, it was bought by Twitter long before it released.
I get mostly cooking, gardening, life hacks, and occasionally political humor. I'm also on gay TikTok so there's some 'fun' content there.

I've learned lots of cool stuff on TikTok - my favorite tip recently has been a trick for partially juicing lemons while leaving them intact; last week I broke my soda habit as a result of easily accessible homemade la croix.
Attending an event as a guest is very, very different than attending an event as a server...
You can't use the ecosystem of services if you use SEV. Think about it: if your encrypted web server VM stores data in a Google-provided SQL database, your data is no longer encrypted. Or if you're using Google-provided SSL termination, or Google provided key hosting, or Google managed operating systems, or Google-provided AI, or Google-provided log analytics.

If you need to protect your data, all of those services are no longer usable.
That's why the question...2 Times? 3 Times more? I mean its not Peace and War or Dr Schiwago ;)
The Bible, Homer's Iliad, and Shakespeare's works are some of the most important ones in Western culture. I wouldn't say they're unapproachable at all. They may be more difficult to read than a modern teen fiction novel, but they contain archetypes and language patterns that were foundational for works that came afterward.

Thinking about it now, Beowulf should be added to this list. That's another great way to teach students about the evolution of the English language.
Thank, I'm also invested in this area. I am trying to arm myself with knowledge to possibly correct course and be as realistic as possible in the next 5 - 10+ years out.
Why assume FB would kill an acquisition? They didn’t kill WA, IG or Beluga. They made them into massive billion+ DAU services.
This conversation will become quickly fruitless because everyone is different levels of risk averse.

For me, I can say plainly: "this piece of equipment has these access controls, both physical and virtual and we have various radio frequency dampening systems" etc;

For you, you can think about outsourcing that responsibility.

There's no "right" answer, some cloud providers may indeed have much stricter access controls than I could ever have (for instance, budgets may require my servers to exist in a physically shared space, albeit in my own racks; those racks being porous to allow airflow). But ultimately you will never have more control than if you have complete ownership and audit capability of all systems.

I'm sure many people have lived in the same regulatory hell that I have; and I wouldn't argue that the regulatory hell is easier in the cloud or otherwise; I would instead argue that if I was the CIO; I would sleep better knowing I had done my job and not attempted to outsource the responsibility and wash my hands of it, which is what you're effectively doing, even if you trust the cloud provider, even if they've shown good faith- it's no longer your eminent domain to oversee.
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This is, I believe, the closest thing to what you are describing: https://www.mutinyhq.com/
Where the hell have you been for the last 4 years? That's been the only conversation about Facebook.

EDIT: Mark Zuckerberg had to appear before Congress in 2018 specifically to address Facebook disseminating propaganda!
I experienced something very similar when presented with glasses to slightly correct my vision as a child. I found the world too sharp and distinct. When I looked at a tree each leaf stood out, while my experience had been that there should be no individual leaf, it should be blended.

I decided not to use the glasses and since my vision wasn't that bad I stumbled through. I realize as an adult now if I had just waited I likely would have acclimated to the situation.
That's a great way to put it. I couldn't quite put my finger on it but that's totally what is happening on IG. A lot of DTC brands have basically saturated my feed. I'm not sure how much longer this can continue without losing engagement. Anecdotally my own interest in IG has been waning the past year almost to the point of deletion.
> I have to say in my time of browsing HN I’ve never seen a male engineer complain about being completely ignored in their job in the way the commenter describes

To be frank, that's because in most environments a male engineer would be told it's their own fault for not trying harder to get recognized / pushing their "personal brand" more (i.e. they'd be social punished for pointing out this problem, rather than getting social justice.)

Men internalize this early in life, and so don't bother to complain about such things no matter how often it happens to them.
Hey - I got 3 points for my last comment ...
Something about Tiktok, whether the algorithm or the sheer volume of content, seems to discourage the sort of look-at-me envy-bait narcissistic posturing that is so common on Instagram. To be popular on Tiktok you actually have to do stuff (even it's fairly banal like dancing or telling stories), not just be (or pretend to be) someone.

I found it funny that the author of this post is trying to defend liberal values like the free flow of information on the internet by...making Apple and Google remove Tiktok from people's phones. He's correct that the primary political risk of Tiktok is the recommendation algorithm being manipulated. However, American tech companies manipulate their recommendation algorithms for political reasons (in the loose sense of the word political) all the time and I'm sure not everyone in the world likes that either.

This would have been a good chance to really defend free flow of information on the internet, open and swappable recommendation algorithms, personal data ownership, and so on, but the conclusion is basically "it's bad because a China-affiliated company does it". Generally, everything that Tiktok does that is wrong is also wrong when Facebook does it. The reality is that Tiktok is (for now) a superior product in many ways to anything from American tech companies. Why is this?
Ah yes, because the US is well known for its Muslim concentration camps, social credit scores and surveillance panopticon.

> Hand wringing about TikTok seems more rooted in sinophobia than genuine privacy concerns, from where I’m sitting.

This is a strawman. People dislike the CCP not the Chinese.
> I consider it quite different, because I know I'm more opposed to the ideology of the CCP than I am of the US.

I don’t know that I’m particularly enthused about either country’s ideology, hence my more skeptical view of the idea that any of the major US social media networks are “better”.
It reminds me of Coders at Work: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coders_at_work
I am not a TikTok user but when I first tried TikTok a couple years ago it struck me as extremely well made app geared for creativity.

The traditional social media dominated by US companies is about sharing what you eat what you do where you are who do you sleep with and what you are angry about. People are essentially misbehaving when they post funny videos.

TikTok on the other hand is playful and the encouraged behaviour is to be creative.

When someone misbehaves on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook they would post videos that someone else made and A lot of that content is made on TikTok. The only creative space is in YouTube but it's not because YouTube encourages it but because there are people capable if using it like that.

I am not convinced that the issue with TikTok is a security issue, It's just that SV lost it's edge on culture and technology, and the crusade against TikTok or Huawei is mostly protectionism and this protectionism will eventually lead to Israel, EU, Japan, Korea, UK, Australia to spit domestic and global success stories like China does these days.

If the concerns were about security, there would have been regulations to ensure security(like requiring storing US users data on US soil and so on). USA is not doing that, USA is in war mode.

What even worse? People don't even want to hear it.

I am not the biggest fan of Peter Theil but I think he has a point on the monoculture, group thinking, high rents.
Did you have AppleCare tho?
Not explicitly internet or complete history, but The Best of 2600 is a good historical tech book.
This comment chain is one of the funniest I've seen in a while. Literally laughing so hard at your comment thank you.
If you're going to go to those lengths, you need to not have that domain, or any other domain, host any scripts for your site or service...

Thats pretty difficult with nearly all web service companies saying 'just put our script in <head>'
I like it and don't think it's ugly. If you don't like it then disable custom fonts in your browser so you don't have to see other people's "ugly" preferences.
Let's build a list of things it can do:

Record all conversations in your house

Record all movement in your house

Record every time you enter or leave your house

Record how long you spend doing tasks (watching TV, shitting, cooking breakfast)

Recommend products for you to purchase based on actions within your house

Recommend products to replace the previously recommended product you purchased

Send all of your recorded speech and movements to law enforcement
Fair point.

I guess I strayed away from my original point, that this reads more like an advertisement for the game than a revolutionary teaching tool.

But I digress.
https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1281092706677243904

"${RELIGIOUS GROUP}: A man who has an uncomfortable feeling that somebody, somewhere is enjoying themselves."

for a different ${RELIGIOUS GROUP}'s opinions on dancing, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23591306
The parent commenter asked if anyone could describe what is positive about the app. Since they apparently have no first-hand experience with it, and do not understand the allure from what they've heard or seen so far.

You're responding to him or her with "You don't need to understand the allure". And somehow seem offended that he or she doesn't understand what people are laughing about.

Come on.
Is the problem VCs or much deeper just the nature of acquisitions.

The ideal acquisitions would least to synergy between the acquirer and acquiree. This would lead to a combination of reduced cost, improved products and the companies and consumers all win.

Unfortunately, it seems to me like this might describe a minority of real acquisitions, at least in tech. It seems like many acquisitions get fumbled and the original company and their products are now bad and literally nobody won from this but the owner of the original company having a nice excited. In many cases tough the goal of the acquisition even seems to be to eliminate competition which is terrible for the consumer and hurts the market. In that scenario I'd rather see companies "fight to the death" or find their respective niches.

I'm uncertain what impact it had on the market and industry that some companies now get started with the goal bring a acquisition by FAANG. I have no data or even anecdata, but intuitively it seems like something that would be interesting for an economist to do a study on.
I can certainly second the sentiment that having to read such titles results in hating reading.

When in grades 3-5 I read about 100 (Admittedly easy) books per year on average. After that we had to read books for school and it almost instantly caused me to drop my yearly amount of books to 10 AT MOST. Now that I am out of school I read a lot more again.

BTW: Shakespeare wrote plays, not books. So why force children to read it instead of watching it?
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I currently use a spreadsheet to track my expenses, and have looked into moving to something like plaintextaccounting in the past, but I struggle to figure out how to migrate over all of my existing data. Any suggestions?
Labeling myself as nihilist.
Durational-residence requirements still exists. E.g., paying in state vs. out of state tuition at a state university, which commonly requires a year of residency. [0, 1] State-provided healthcare could be provided in a similar fashion through state-administrated health insurance that has different rates for in state and out of state. There could be a durational-residence requirements for in state pricing.

[0] https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol104/iss3/5/
[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-14/...
It seems you're talking more about running costs, and not about any of the security aspects I was talking about?

I'll happily accept that you can pay less money for the same amount of power, but security isn't free. You don't only outsource a considerable amount performance and reliability engineering to $MAJOR_CLOUD_PROVIDER, but also a lot of security engineering. Doing a lot less of that is cheaper for sure, but is that worth the cost? I'd argue that for most (not all: most), it isn't.

At ever growing scales the equation will eventually tip in your favor, but you have to either be working at a very substantial scale for that, or you simply must not care for an important portion of the tasks that the major cloud provider picks up for you. That is fine by the way, but you have to be sure that that is actually a concious decision and you're not simply forgetting to actually do that work or doing it poorly.
All commercial activities are at the core protected by contractural protections and good faith. Cloud is not as different as you may think.

Any other expectation of protection from the state are a limited based on probability, seriousness of the matter, and your potential culpability. Your employees, service providers and others can be required to provide information without informing you. In extreme cases, agents will pose as utility, security or building management.
It will only get worse as they roll out more and more shopping features...but in fairness they are smart and either anticipating the changing social media market (meaning there may be a critical mass of influencers realizing they treat IG like a job except without compensation) or it’s simply a way to test going after Amazon.
$250 million is pocket change to a nation state.

I own a /24 myself (it's routed), and would never sell it.
I just might.

Seriously.

Social media for techies - what will that look like in ten years? Like HN? Or more like TikTok ...
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Google is very clever! They write AI software to play both sides of the customer-service interaction. The company side is this Verizon story of parsing human voices. The customer side is this story: https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/8/17332070/google-assistant-...

I would hope the Google Cloud speech recognition (used by Verizon) of the fake voice from Google Assistant (used by the phone customer) would have a 100% accuracy rate.
The primary mechanism for "meth mouth" and similar oral health issues are dry mouth and teeth clenching which can be caused by a number of stimulants including caffeine(at moderate to high doses of ~6 cups of coffee). The remedy for which seems to be drinking a lot of water.

That said, it's obviously bad to give children diet drugs but that has no real bearing on how we treat recreational drug users who are adults.