skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This anti-AML post is silly - and aren't there suddenly a lot of them here?

> If 100% of flows go through banks and banks stop 99.99% of money laundering, that 0.01% is still billions.

Maths: that would make 10,000 billion = 10 trillion of cash laundered per year.
To not speak of to cloth them. Functional clothing was very expensive.
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Okay thanks for the explanation!
> You can do the same thing with comments that he claims TT does with video (dwell time threshold feature)

>I don't work at Twitter, but I doubt that matters very much.

>Also regarding "negative sentiment" feedback from users. TikTok does not have a UI tool to say "I don't like this", but other apps do. For example, you can ask Instagram to "show me fewer posts like this".

There's a big difference in the usefulness of implicit and explicit feedback for recommenders, and there's a long history of research trying to address the shortcomings of each, or combine them to avoid their weaknesses (e.g. research into presentation biases, augmented matrix factorization, MF with implicit data, ensembles)

Implicit feedback (dwell times etc) are particularly prone to noise and biases. On the other hand, the amount of explicit data (likes, downvotes) companies can get is so small compared to implicit data, that many companies don't even bother with their explicit data. E.g. even YouTube claim not to use likes/dislikes, in order to better recommend to the long tail of items/users. So it very much does matter, being able to get good implicit data.

The interesting thing implied by OP is that TikTok seems to have completely sidestepped the pitfalls of each form of data. They in essence seem to have made implicit data be a gold standard judgment of relevance, which is really cool I think.

> I don't want to sound overly dismissive, but it's pretty clear reading this that the author has not worked on recommendation or personalization systems recently.

This is something that hasn't been done in any other large company's recommender system as far as I'm aware. It seems like a paradigm shift to me, albeit, is only possible because of the addictive nature of the app. So at least for similar UIs, this concept makes a lot of recsys research irrelevant and is highly novel. As such, I don't think you're giving OP or TikTok enough credit.
What do you expect from Vice nowadays
Wow, there we have it, a person who has already implemented this idea a long time back. So what made you shutdown the service? Would you be willing to share your experience?
I didn't know this. Could you clarify?
For those who can't read Chinese ('Kanji'), some of the portraits cover Vietnam, Yunnan, China, India, Korea, Thailand, Mongolia and the Philippines as well as Japan. Possibly also some other areas in northeast Asia, I am unclear on the period terminology. As they are dated 1820s but seem to use Chinese terms from earlier periods, I guess this was an adaptation of an earlier set of Chinese descriptive texts or (heresy to suggest!) images that had been carried to Japan. But that's just supposition.
Crypto AG scandal leads to diplomatic discordancy between Sweden and Switzerland
> Contactless payments up to £1000 mean I can pay for basically everything without touching anything.

This feels like a good opportunity to reflect on the Apple Watch, and security around contactless payments.

Try taking off your apple watch, but keeping your fingers pressed against the back of the watch as you do. If you time it right (it's really not difficult to time it right), you can take off someone's watch and place it on your own wrist, without triggering the lock.

If you have a debit or credit card associated with your watch, you're now at risk of a supposedly authenticated card payment occurring.

(I removed all my cards from my Apple Watch S3 when I realised this vulnerability)
It was both. Apple would never have succeeded without great engineers. I think he's downplaying the role that technology plays here to emphasise his point. What Apple/Steve did really well was to understand their market really well and channel technical efforts towards that and carefully curate the results. Another aspect that's often not noticed is how costs were managed on the other side. For instance to this day Apple doesn't support blue ray because it would deliver limited value but add to their bottom line. Similarly how they aggressively eliminated optical disks when they got the chance.
A lot of problems with modern programming can be traced to the "pipe compiler" like model, where your development environment is nothing more than a file editor with a shortcut to run the compiler. It doesn't understand the code, and it can't really help you, and the compiler only really outputs errors.
The nanny state can be as oppressive as the one just plundering you at gunpoint.
Have you considered that your favored interventions are, in addition to being extremely harmful to society in every measurable way, probably also completely ineffective in altering the outcomes? Sweden didn't do a thing and is basically done with this nonsense, presumably for all time from the looks of the plots; Massachusetts is still mostly locked down and has 4x the death rate. Lockdown fetishists should be greeted with "citations needed."
Simon Ostrovsky's documentation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine was great too.
Palm thorns are letal. I don't have any problem with macaques being trained to do such dangerous job instead having humans doing it. They are much more fit for the job and have the right tools. I couldn't care less about what Petaheads, trying to collect money with sad histories, think about that.

On the other hand, to say that caste system in India is an European thing, is the same as claiming that British introduced Hinduism in India. This is a very naive point of view IMAO.
It went downhill when they were captured by woke college graduates in the late 2010s (similar to many left leaning news organizations)
> What's shocking is that this caste system is being continued in the US.

There are no overseas communities of majority Indian subcontinental origin that maintain rigid caste distinctions. Not even Mauritius which is majority ethnic Indian or Fiji or Guyana where they’re about half the population. Caste will not be maintained in America for the same reason no ethnic group maintains itself without religious endogamy or continuing immigration; People socialize and mate with those they spend time with unless there are powerful reasons not to. All will be assimilated in time.
The evil pattern of Redux that reduces boilerplate
There's a massive modding community built around the new ones, which only really has any worth because people love replaying it, which the author must know of.

I think he's slightly guilty of simply listing his own preference there, rather than reporting reality.

To be honest, I can't even remember why the aliens invaded. I can remember the research progression, and the excitement of starting the game from scratch again and going up against the aliens with automatic weapons instead of late game plasma blasters.

So the author and I had very different experiences.
> wait untill more people use Apple Pay, they will be taking their infamous 30% fees. Either from you or the merchant.

We have regulations in the EU that will prevent that from occurring. I can't speak for other places, but payments is heavily regulated EU-wide, with caps on the fees that card processors can charge.
ahh yes be more "serious"

I wrote a collection of posts about a political event a few years ago. They were aimed a politically naive posh young professionals.

The posts were sweary, crude, but crucially written in my _own_ style.

The actual subject was very serious.

when they were widely shared on facebook (~37k impressions of 2 minutes or longer) I was amused by the "Oh I do wish they wouldn't swear" or "why are they making dick/vag jokes"

They couldn't seem to grasp that if I'd have written in in a dry, clean style, not only would they have not read it, but they wouldn't have understood my point.

Humour, irreverence and swearing are all tools to convey a meaning, point or story. Used well (I am fully willing to admit that I have not been masterful in my use) they can create a mental image far stronger than any other metaphor.

So I commend your post, you dick. <3
That sounds like it would be incredibly hard to do without the user noticing. Either way, if you're concerned about this could you not just use a strap that is harder to remove?
Yes, I think so. But I'm talking about how his actions and decisions as Emperor have echoed through history, as opposed to how others (f.e. Nero's) are remembered.
"I originally created my blog because I thought it would help my career."

I did too and it worked very well.
It says they did a cable replacement. I suspect that took some time and they thought it would resolve the problem. They were probably quite surprised when it didn't.
If you think that this kind of healthy education is decadent, there may well be more wrong with you than with the Danes. Worth reflecting on.
The biggest issue in proto3 is the missing "has_<field>" functions (e.g no distinction between a field's default value, and a special <missing> state).

There are suggested workarounds for this, but I'd just stick with proto2 for the time being as proto3 is still WIP.
They fail to mention any details of the offending set.
Should it be the consumers responsibility to ensure their "old" devices don't elude professional installers detection?
But 18 months, just incredible.
And it was a pretty good show, too. Seriously, Assange is not a bad interviewer, and he managed to get some pretty difficult-to-book (to put it lightly) people on the show.
You and your friends are a vanishingly small minority, given the size of Facebook and Google's ad teams.
As an ex-fashion photographer, I can tell you that people using your photos, without permission, is almost standard. The only way to get people to respect the copyright is to threaten legal action.
NB: I am not condoning the actions of this guy, who it seems was offered, I feel, a fair price ($1000) but wanted more, but it is a real issue for small guys who are not lawyers.
What the TikTok deal means for user data and geopolitics
My dad recently told me how during the 1980s they had two Indians working together on a project. Turns out one of them was upper-caste, and the other lower-caste, and the upper-caste basically refused. Was impossible to work with, because he was offended that he had to work with a lower-caste person.

If this attitude discrimination of Dalits by upper-castes is really so common in non-Indian companies, it sounds like it would be irresponsible to put upper-caste Indians in a position of authority over Dalits. Maybe they need additional training to help them overcome their prejudices, but this sort of discrimination and bullying should really not be acceptable. Of course if you blindly assume all upper-caste Indians are like that, it would ironically lead to discrimination of those upper castes. Education is probably the better option.
The same behaviour with YouTube caused widespread concern (Elsagate).

The only difference being TikTok uses a lot more human moderation compared with YouTube.

I don't find their recommendation system any special as opposed to their specific operational model.
^ https://foodprint.org/issues/the-problem-of-food-waste/
Apakah benar WhatsApp bagi-bagi hadiah? Begini cara ceknya
There are multiple ways you can do this. Yes, a lot of if statements are messy.

What we did and worked very well for use is to develop whole modules, until all the features was ready, and only at the and we "wired in" the module, which meant a "application.register(new_module)" call or something like that. This need a very well organized and modular code base.
IDEs can help to learn programming and can facilitate exploration. Step-by-step debugging and refactoring are a crapshoot in less advanced editors, but both are powerful learning aids if they are easy to access - which they are in IDEs. Both IntelliJ and Eclipse are very easy to explore - just point-and-click, no need to set anything up if your language is well supported. Experienced devs also benefit, since IDEs are made to manage and navigate complexity that will inevitably show up in any mature codebase.

Your runtime and tooling will always be a dependency, and you will always have to learn enough to troubleshoot it regardless of the language. PHP, JavaScript, Ruby and Python are no different to Java - the SDK must also be installed and kept upgraded, you still have to fix your application to work with a newer runtime when the language changes or when fixes are backwards-incompatible, and your SDK version might still clash.

Performance is not an issue in practice. I only ever noticed IntelliJ being slow on a machine that was too slow to run a web browser, and I don't think that such machines would be very common because people would just get rid of them. Resource use has ballooned over the past few years due to the rise of Electron, so your machine already needs to be powerful enough to run Discord, Slack, Postman, or whatever other applications you wish to run in parallel. Adding a JVM alongside that is not much of an ask, given that IntelliJ consumes around 500 MB with two fairly sizable projects open.
Burning out from on-call comes from not being able to fix the underlying causes.

I'm happy to hold the pager if I've also got the right to block/rollback deploys until the system is stable - my current job has had two out-of-hours pages in the past year, and we're in the alexa top 10k so it's not like there's no traffic.
Not a bad idea, especially if it's something like --experimental-vulkan. Unlikely to get blamed if it goes wrong, that way.
I don't get why is everyone who is saying this a result of the reservation system is getting downvoted.

I am an Indian and clearly reservation system is a spectacular failure. The reservation system actively creates a divide among castes. I will not be surprised if some these upper caste people who are fed up of reservation in India discriminate when they go to USA. These upper caste people are not discriminating due to fact that they believe that one caste is superior to another, they are doing it because they are able to sympathise with the plight of other unreserved Indians in India.

How it is to be unreserved in India:
Any unreserved Indian who wants to stay in India is basically agreeing to working two to three times as hard as a reserved Indian to get into any government jobs/colleges while at the same time their tax money is being used to fund these. Also complaining about caste system or reservation can land you in jail (for offending minorities) and the politicians use reserved people as their vote-banks providing them even more privileges for votes. This system is only going to get worse for upper castes. So even your future generations have to work two - three times as hard because of their caste. Sounds like a good deal?

Also reservation benefits only rich reserved people not the poor ones who actually need help because everyone of the caste regardless of their economic circumstances can take advantage of reservation. My grandparents were literally rag pickers at one point in their life and now they are in the middle class I'm not sure how this is due to their caste and not their hard-work. The system is utterly disrespectful to anyone in the upper class. Thus, the higher amount of immigration is of the upper class anyways.

P.S. - By upper caste I mean the "General" unreserved people and "SC ST OBC" etc are the reserved quotas.
If the focus is getting some ideas written down and sharing them, doing something dead simple sounds great. Go for it.

If in some hypothetical future you've got a sprawling collection of related blog posts and are spending 80% of your time manually gardening links between posts in vim and only 20% of your time thinking about ideas and writing new posts, that could be a prompt to do a second pass and rethink how the blog is organised.
Too much nudity.

Not enough guns.

This is disgusting!
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This happened in SF. Sonic ran fiber out in Sunset. Suddenly, and by coincidence I'm sure, AT&T found the money to start upgrading to fiber in the exact same neighborhoods.

If you live in SF definitely check if Sonic's own fiber is available to you. Most of Sunset and Richmond have it. Some parts of Castro, Mission, and SOMA (I think) last I checked. $60/month for gigabit symmetric.
Yeah the dismissal from the apple fanboys in the comments are really something. It's a really good thing he shared his experience, few do. Also his website seems to have no tracking (Ublock Origin has blocked zero on the page). Also see user sneak's comment below about iCloud backups.
But you do have to spend hours learning the tools! Some things are far from trivial in Hugo.
Your being naive Caste discrimination does exit in communities overseas in the UK for example.
Strange new magnetoelectric effect discovered in symmetrical crystal
"this is what normal bodies look"

> shows full body tatoo, piercings, implanted horns, colored hair, obesity

There's more disgusting details about this "show" on the net, but mentioning it is potentially illegal for me. May these people suffer a long and painful death.
frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24551808
Start simple! No problem with your approach. A lot of interesting blogs look like they are made this way. You could also use some shell magic to cat a header and footer to each page.
>Unusual magnetoelectric effect in paramagnetic rare-earth langasite

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41535-020-00263-9
OMG Terror From the Deep, it was so freaking great.
Physicists Discover New Magnetoelectric Effect
> ... where algorithms are culture dependent and where not. Low level algorithms like quicksort definitely are not ...

Aside on this. In a 1st year CS class I was surprised to learn that half the class had one method to count the number of days in a month (30 days hath September) and the other half had another (using their knuckles). The method
a person knew depended on where they grew up, and neither group had heard of the other method. So at least some search algorithms are culturally dependent :)
Well, that almost looks a classic conflict of interests of a society versus interests of an individual, but only at the first glance. Because when you dig in, you realise that it's the most successful and capable individuals that are most interested in building something for their children and next generations of their family — and that's the most marginalised and useless ones that have to get the most by redistribution. And the more you enact redistribution policies in one country or another, the more those types of individuals self-select. The ones who're most able to build and create something will always be able to leave. Ones who complain about disadvantages, on the other hand — those you're stuck with, I'm afraid.
And there are some amazing full conversion mods for OpenXcom. Like X-Piratez. (I cannot open the site now, so google it for a link)
There are some good alternatives out there like https://encl.io/ , pretty much a faster Firefox Send alternative for sending 1GB files for 7 days
Or just your family knows how to teach you how move in the upper culture. I always come back to how much of life is a confidence game. You can often get pretty far if all you have is knowing how to play the game.

I often think people that grow up in disadvantaged circumstances have a major problem a) Learning the wrong game. Sometimes one that ultimately gets you in trouble. b) not knowing how to play the other game. The one that unlocks all the opportunities.
I think there's only one way to solve this — which I've been unsuccessfully advocating for at my current company — and that is paid voluntary on call schedules.

It creates an actual market for on call work where engineers can simply say no to the extra cash if they don't like work taking up their nights and weekends. If the company is having trouble with no engineers wanting to be on call the pay is simply too low and needs to be increased. It's a job like any other and should be compensated as such.

In the end I honestly believe it will be beneficial for the company not having engineers burn out so quickly. Compensation also clearly sets the expectations — if you're being paid to do it you'll take it more seriously.

Just my 2 cents
You can live with endangering the banking infrastructure? The place where all your hard earned money is stored at? This will end with a bank bailout because nobody wants to lose their money because some idiot decided to implement deferment of loan payments.
Yes, "Nero - Burning ROM" is one of the best product names ever (on par with "Cillit Bang"). I would love to see a video from the brainstorming session when they came up with that name.
If the engineers aren’t oncall, who is? Is it okay to exploit non-engineers? If anything, it is less exploitative to have those who are empowered to improve their situation oncall.
now that you mention it, into the breach is like the essence of x-com tactical phase squeezed out and prepared in a three-michelin-star restaurant.
This is definitely a problem, but not just the mobility is the problem.

If the economy is organized so that a small minority is rich, and the vast majority is poor, then even if the fraction of people of different castes, races, genders, whatever at each echelon of wealth is similar. And even if you have a good chance = uniform-distribution draw - of ending up as "one of the rich" - that chance can never be anything but lousy for the vast majority of people.

(Also, social inequality skews the focus of production and consumption so that things masses of people need and want just aren't available.)
These numbers are probably very much inflated, they are taken from JetBrains' own survey. One could put a similar survey on eclipse.org and claim that 72% percent of Java developers use Eclipse.
Does it matter? The 737 wasn't cancelled back then after 2 crashes. Point is that they solved the problem and the plane went on to fly successfully and the public forgot about it. They didn't second question the entire aircraft design over one fault like we are doing today.
No, this is about the common good, where personal choices might have a disproportionate impact unto others.

I don't care if you don't care about getting infected or not, I do care if you get infected and spread that to others that don't hold your values.

Society and populations don't work well with personal responsibility when their actions' impacts are too far removed from their personal sphere, if you kill someone 3rd hand because you infected someone who worked in a care facility: how are you going to know and act accordingly?

This bullshit about personal freedoms and responsibility in the middle of a pandemic tells me more about the people who don't have a holistic view of society but this ideologue monologue about personal freedom, this is your value, this isn't how society work yet.
The JVM is the KVM :D
This is very likely based on the size of the moderation teams working for TikTok/Bytedance.

It's also the reason why TikTok is going to be hard to scale profitably in advanced economies. Chinese staff, especially for work like moderation, is a lot cheaper.

Worth nothing that TikTok operations globally is mainly supported by Bytedance staff in China. Very skeptical on how they can achieve splitting the company and launching an IPO without moving most of those jobs moving overseas.

If they split off some staff into their own Chinese company owned by TikTok Global based in the US, it doesn't change anything.

License from Bytedance to allow TikTok the use the codebase and code also won't fly in an IPO.

The only way this makes sense is that TikTok will never IPO, this is merely a delaying tactic until the election year closes.