skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like that idea. In the past I was thinking that multiple separate cursors and keyboard inputs on a shared screen would be neat, but the problem with the way I was imagining things was in how do you make it so that both people can work together unhindered at all times.

For example, in the way I was originally imagining it, you and me would sit down at a computer and I’d open the editor and we’d make concurrent edits. But then when I want to scroll, the suddenly you would not be able to scroll. And another example, if you were pointing and clicking at something, say for example that you were drawing a painting in Photoshop, and I try to move another window from one side of the screen to the other and suddenly I am occluding your window, and on top of that you might click in my window.

This was a few years ago so I was imagining a situation where both people were sharing the same computer and sitting together physically in front of it.

But I like what you said a lot. A split screen view with separate working areas that we both see, like in a video game, that would probably be nice. Both for local and remote collaboration.
Can you point out in the article or describe what you feel is the actual, explicit issue? I read the article, and I didn’t catch any concrete description of why TikTok is dangerous aside from the typically general descriptions, or at a minimum, how TikTok is any different from Facebook or YouTube or Twitter Instagram or whatever else, all of which have essentially black box recommendation algorithms.

The article never hones in on anything specific to TikTok or makes a claim. From what I can tell, the two potential issues are concern of data collection with what that feeds and then a concept of influence.

The former feeds a learning algorithm that shows what people find entertaining, funny, interesting. Could this be weaponized? Potentially. My best guess how is that it simply shows what people in various regions like and dislike, providing food for propaganda and policies. So the app is just a vacuum that feeds some external process that may or may not feedback through the app. No doubt this very thing with Facebook’s data was weaponized in the 2016 U.S. election by Cambridge Analytica and other entities.

The latter possibility is one of influence. However, I do not see how TikTok is unique in this. In a different timeline, Facebook or Twitter or a multitude of other sites could have easily been used to hijack the rally, so that example is weak. If anything, the example is damning since there is a large possibility that Trump’s war on TikTok is one of personal vendetta that has been hypernormalized in the context of actual concerns between the U.S. and China and general concerns of the influence of social media. Further, there is factual evidence of Facebook being weaponized by organized groups to start protests and riots and people being influenced by foreign efforts.

From my stance, the question is why is just TikTok a concern? If it is a legitimate concern, which it probably is at least in theory, then these same concerns apply to other social networks. The other question is where does this all stop?
We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Ages
if it's a clear threat, the government should have no problem explaining what exactly the threat is. It seems plausible to me that there is a national security threat, but i'm bothered by the government being able to invoke national security as a set of magic words that excuse them from explaining anything further.
> I can barely remember any focus on China before Trump.

Maybe not in the mass media, but the new cold war preceded Trump as an issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_foreign_policy_of_t...
I don't understand who's bright idea it was to use water as the primary coolant for a nuclear reactor. IIRC almost every single major nuclear incident has been caused or dramatically exacerbated by having it boil away or cause a steam explosion or mix with the ground water or chemically react with the fuel rods to produce additional heat and hydrogen gas which also explodes.

Like just go through this list and count the number of times water was a good chunk of the problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accident...

There are multiple options that don't have this issue. For instance, if you use liquid lead the thing can sit around indefinitely with no active cooling. In fact you have the opposite problem, you need to keep heating the lead to prevent the whole reactor pool from freezing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead-cooled_fast_reactor
Uh, no? Just parsing the language is undecidable, there's problems with "vexing parses" and strange overloads, there's like twenty seven ways to initialize things, there's new syntax every release to do something that has already existed in the language…
I've heard of hybrid digital/analog systems in the US, I think a few smaller companies introduced them as an upgrade path - IBM/Simplex/Standard pretty much dropped support for these clock systems totally but lots of institutions already had them installed, so a cottage industry popped up of companies that made compatible equipment to keep them working and upgrade them over time. As far as I know virtually everything in the US was 24vdc but I'm sure there's some odd exceptions out there.

I've always had a weird interest in these systems since they tend to pop in large old buildings and are one of the many odd building systems you have to figure out sometimes - along with vacuum controlled HVAC and old phone systems. A small side project of mine right now is trying to get a working dental office communicator light system.
Software complexity is often an entropic outcome of bloated teams and improper layering, working in an environment without strong stewardship that's explicitly guiding the the effort with simplicity as a fundamental tenet. Adding funding, prioritising short term feature delivery and having misaligned incentives often create and catalyse bloated teams to drive complexity up.
the original creator of Elite made a new version of the game, called Elite: Dangerous. It's the same essential game, but online and with modern, realistic graphics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoUJVRCbTxI

The really cool thing about it is that it's set in a 1:1 scale model of the Milky Way. Most known stars are in there, approximating to a large extent their true astronomical properties. Whatever isn't known is procedurally generated in a way that's motivated by real science. They even put in the TRAPPIST exoplanets, which you can go visit.

If you liked any of the old Elites or are a space nerd, you really ought to consider playing it.
Meanwhile the Swiss people voted to have two weeks of paternity leave instead of one day. The icing on the cake is that the actual initiative asked for four weeks but the parliament made a counter-proposal of two weeks after which the intiative committee withdrew their proposal of four. 60% of the voters were in favor.

Two weeks in one of the highest gdp per capita countries of the world. Two. Measly. Weeks. It was just one single day up until now. Let that sink in.
Or we could look at history and accepr that the US changes the rules whenever it is eclipsed or finds itself outdone at its own game.

See Japan 1980s

Nah, the ideology is manufactured - we were just fine doing business with them and we keep being just fine doing business with the Saudis or any number of ideologically 'opposed countries.
Usually I come to whine about gui features I miss. Signal has done a KISS model which at the limit of "trust" in this context, I do trust: the thing does what it says, and tells me when it drops apparent security modes (fallback to SMS)

I don't always love signal, but I do like it better than most of the alternatives. I like that its not become bound to a social media site (which is what I hate about whatsapp).

I like that its core architecture seems to be stable. I've only had one moment of astonishment in recent times (the re-auth your PIN thing)

I wish it had better options to recruit alternate devices. Its fine for a Mac, you can bind your mac into your SMS enabled device just fine. I have a non-SIM android tablet, I'd like it to be enabled too.

Re-syncing e2e keys with people can be fiddly. Its the PGP problem. Some problems are easy to "get" and just hard to fix.
Use the time and resources to make an impact. Do you have any issues you care about in society that really hit home with you? You could help guide others less fortunate than you on the right track financially, emotionally, whatever you have to offer. There's people starving out there that could use a meal. There's kids out there with no one to look up to or to ask for guidance. There's a lot of injustice and organizations that don't have enough resources/manpower to reach their goals and some injustices go unnoticed. If you're not fighting everyday to survive, maybe you could come up with some ways to help other people survive. I imagine with all that spare time the hardest part of life would be feeling fulfilled. Helping people is one way to quench that.

I encourage you to do your best to live a satisfying and fulfilling life. However you want to do that is up to you. If it were me, I'd use the time to leave some sort of legacy behind for after I kick the bucket.
The problem then is where do you get the carbon to make the methane. Ammonia might be a possibility, if it can be kept from escaping (toxic) or dissolving in underground water.

Yet another possibility is underground storage of high temperature heat, artificial geothermal, if you will. But it would have to be extractable with cheap equipment. Perhaps it could be used to superheat hydrogen for injection into those combustion turbines.
It would become a problem for the courts, yes. But it doesn't because firms are happy to pay for clerkship experience. It is largely a filter and signaling device (both to the firm and to potential clients — clerkships are listed on the bios of even very senior lawyers). But in the case of appellate clerkships, there may be some networking/insight value as well.
Good points.

1. initially I was going to have an upvote mechanism but backtracked because I thought having two rankings (votes and subscriptions) might make things confusing. But yeah the upvote icon is confusing.

2. Ah you caught a blind spot. I didn't think users would be signing up for subscribing but of course they can. I should be able to add an auto fill.
Just to be clear, what's the primary difference between the featured app and Boop (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/boop/id1518425043?mt=12)?
No, Congress cannot just create a shadow Supreme Court within our Constitutional framework. And if you're talking about disregarding the Constitution, then your point is meaningless.
https://freeross.org/real-untold-story/
As helpful a static type system can be, most of them do cause increased cognitive load UNTIL the FIRST RUNNABLE VERSION. Having your code running for the first time is rewarding for devs, especially those who are handling many simple codebases rather than few complex ones.

There are great type system that provide enough ramp for for first runnable version. Rust, for example, has type inference and an unusually helpful compiler.

But most languages, especially the old ones, don't have that. Because of that, coders need full-blown IDEs like Intellij/VS to write comfortably in those languages. Without full-blown IDEs or editors packed with plugins, it is quite a chore to navigate types. There's no hyperclicking, type annotation, docs preview. While dynamic-typed languages usually is runnable since the first character without having to wait for the compilation, so even notepad is acceptable to write with (though that would be really painful).

Having been in both sides, I love types in certain languages (and disdain them in others e.g. PHP). I would still pay the price of compilation and use TypeScript for scripts that lives long rather than using JavaScript. But I think both sides need to understand where the cognitive load arguments came from.
I’m on paternity leave right now with my first kid. I worked a little bit before taking the leave and that was all the time I needed to determine that having a separate “office” is a must. We’re moving away from the Bay Area to be closer to family, and I’m seriously thinking about purchasing a cheap ($40-$60k) hut/cottage with a pretty view about ten minutes away from wherever home ends up being. I’ll set up a desk, couch, espresso machine, and treat that as “work”.
To be honest I’m not sure. I bought this medical grade manuka honey. That seems to be a thing, and it is sterilized for wound use.

Mind you I have no way of knowing if this is actual medical grade stuff that use in hospitals. But it seemed to work. On multiple mrsa outbreaks too: I had a few instances where it got outside the nose and this got rid of them.

What exactly are you doing with it? I wasn’t quite clear on how you’re going to get it deeper into the nose. I had had the mrsa in the lower nostril so I just used a q tip, but I didn’t get it into the nasal passages. (Nor do I know if it’s meant for such use). I also have congestion at night so I;m interested.

I will say that a jar like this lasts for many uses. If you’re eating honey it’s a small amount, but you don’t need much for topical use.

https://www.amazon.ca/Manukaguard-Medical-Grade-Manuka-Honey...
I've been keeping my eye out on the subreddit for a long time for something like your 50% - except with a function row. Really wish it were more popular
>I kind of feel like a microservice that takes JIRA tickets as input and outputs code

Dream job in my opinion. I personally hate interacting with coworkers and meetings.
Let’s not pretend this is anything other than just plain old geopolitics with TikTok caught in the middle.

Going by “national security” reasons most countries should ban Facebook and google, not to mention amazon, Microsoft, oracle, Cisco etc. since the us government has already shown willingness and ability to spy on anything they can get their hands on, including foreign heads of state. Allowing US controlled social media and other tech companies is a huge risk.

Of course power doesn’t balance that way so they don’t.
Pornhub is a foreign company, perhaps Trump should ban that too. It could be a national security threat for a foreign company to know the porn habits of government officials, they could use that to blackmail military generals and the like.

/sarcasm
You're just making that up.

"Rule of law" means you need to have a specific rule to govern government's action. The use of the catch-all "national security" justification here is in itself proof that nothing better exists in US law, or they would cite that.

Among the free countries, I'm most familiar with the EU's laws: there are some provisions limiting, for example, acquisitions of land, mergers, and military technology to countries like China. But there's no "we don't like them" power. Those powers belong to a king, not a president.

EU companies have explicit guarantees against discrimination in other EU countries, and most every trade agreement contains similar provision. I believe even WTO rules, which both China and the US are theoretically bound by, would exclude arbitrary bans.
This documentary sums it up pretty well. Definitely worth the time.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GpMP6Nh3FvU
National Security™ was invoked to justify the tariffs imposed a few years ago on Canadian aluminum imports into the United States. [1]

Since the sole arbiter of what constitutes a national security matter is the executive branch, whether or not it represents a material threat to national security is very much up for debate, proclamations aside.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/proclamation...
> Some ugly unit economics.

Cash coming from the CCP is pretty much infinite, especially given the massive US trade deficit.
Are you serious? Maybe this person is using evidence gathered from before WHF? Would you also argue that you can't talk about open floor plans at night because technically all the engineers would presumably be at home sleeping?
Dunno, I've notice it being a pretty minimal step up in price. Over a few generations the E3-1230 (quad core/8 threads) was cheaper then the similar I7. The clock speed is slightly less (100-200 Mhz), but I figure that's reasonable if you are going for a nice, cool, and reliable CPU.

So I save $50 on the CPU and that just about covers the ram/motherboard premium.
great, then California could take Oregon and Washington as well, since they're "anarchist states" and all. New York would likely follow suit. Colorado would probably join with the west coast, leaving Texas to carry most of what was left of the country. Don't mess with Texas, which is to say that they don't want to be the ones paying for everything.

Now we have 3 countries that can feed themselves, pay for what they need, with coastal access, and we have what's left of the United States. Not a great scenario if you follow it to its conclusion.
Nice way of justifying slow conversion of the US to USSR/China/Watever
Could it be possible to “prerender” the audio on the GPU when it’s not being worked on (say, a track not being edited)? Then just play that track if it’s not edited before the user hits play?
The likelihood of a single car vendor sweeping all of the chinese market is low. Its huge, its sufficiently large that there is enough pie for lots of people, and Tesla can do well and competitors can do well.

Oftentimes, people forget what a billion people means. If your market expectations is defined in percentages, in a billion people economy, you will get things a bit out of whack when you initially scaled production for a low-hundred-million people economy.
I wouldn't worry about it. Maybe they thought they were upvoting in Linux.
This a good Thing, the Planet cant afford more people.
> the quality of their graduates is no different from most other law schools

I’ll call BS on this. Yarvard grads are going to be better than a typical law school grad, simply because a large percentage of their graduates were the top applicants to law schools across the nation. Saying otherwise would indicate other schools give a better education than these 2 schools, which would be farcical.

You got any sources for any of your claims? They come off as bitterness on your end.
Cause of defamation laws? If you're against this isn't the root of it defamation laws?
A decision to block something like this should be made in a court of law with evidence given.

If it needs to be expedited, then it the POTUS should expedite the case, but we can't have arbitrary decisions being made like this without evidence, or we're like the CCP?
My problem was that it also broke properly configured domains. We have machines in xxx.dev.example.com (for example) that I used to rely on the resolver searching for, so I could just type "xxx.dev" and it would then know to try it with example.com banged onto the end. Then everything in .dev started resolving so my abbreviations started resolving to other hosts.

I mean, I THINK this is "properly configured", but it also isn't a huge deal to avoid. Just was annoying when it started happening. Didn't FEEL like I was misconfigured. :-)
Most dry wells are around oil fields. We have fairly good understanding about the overall geology of oil fields, but you can have a dry well 50m from an active well. What we don’t have is most expected oil fields without oil.
I am in the same boat with old code bases. I find younger developers that haven't maintained code for 10+ years seem to not appreciate simple code.

Colleague of mine once said it nicely:

I started writing simple code, then I gained experience and started writing sexy complex code, then I gained more experience and now I write simple code again.
And this justifies compromising on our freedoms? Some populist utters the words “national security” and we decide to destroy the first amendment.

That mindset is an affront to what it means to be American and it is much more of a threat to our country and the rights of our citizens than TikTok could ever be.

See: the PATRIOT Act.
I'm in China and I did stop using facebook because it felt like a stupid data sinkhole from an hostile power...

I agree it's a bit paranoid to block Tik Tok, but maybe if these company found a business model that didn't require my name, age, graph of all my acquaitance and pictures of all of this, maybe that would be better for the worlds ? Maybe we SHOULD ban social media on the principle that the risk of abuse outweighs any advantage ?
Apple silicon runs iOS apps as iOS apps, AFAIK.
(It turned out to be a productive comment despite the aggressive wording, so upvotes!)
Meanwhile in Germany people get 14months paid leave. Where neither parent can take more than 12.
Engineer turned B2B founder here. I've sold to a lot of large $100M+/year businesses at this point, so feel decently qualified to answer this question. The top three things that helped me:

1. Listen to yourself pitch. Ask people you talk to if it's OK to record the pitch and then listen to it repeatedly and take notes. It will be painful, and you'll notice so many things you hate, but you will get better. This is the number one thing that helped me get better.

2. Understand your customer. Really understand them. What are their hopes with buying your product? What are their fears if they make the wrong choice, or no choice at all? The stuff that's really at the core of these questions-- it's deep, personal, often embarrassing stuff people won't just tell you. Getting at this sort of thing is a skill. If you do it well, you'll not only sell better, you'll have a better sales process, and probably a better product.

3. Read Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28815.Influence) by Robert Cialdini. If you're a former engineer, you'll especially love this book. It helps you understand how people tick, including yourself, and some of the techniques your competition are probably using.

Finally, don't be an asshole. It's so easy when you get good at sales to view the sale itself as the goal. It shouldn't be. The goal should be solving the customer's problem. Getting the sale is the first step, but make sure you only get it if you can genuinely help the customer-- if the customer will be thrilled they bought from you a month from now. The world has too many assholes willing to sell people the wrong thing for them. Don't be another one.
If you follow the case, you'll see that the Commerce Department does invoke national security in the case. However, the ban violates the First Amendment of the Constitution because it is not narrowly tailored to address the national security concerns.
Here's the description for this PDF from the author's website: https://momjian.us/main/presentations/administration.html

Mastering PostgreSQL Administration

This talk is designed for PostgreSQL administrators. It covers all aspects of PostgreSQL administration, including installation, security, file structure, configuration, reporting, backup, daily maintenance, monitoring activity, disk space computations, and disaster recovery. It shows how to control host connectivity, configure the server, find the query being run by each session, and find the disk space used by each database.
This is my sentiment, is it's TikTok, it will be rebranded as DikDok next, then what? We block one app at a time?
Title should be "ELK Demonstrators", the current title seems to be a strange out of context clip of the description. This link is a website with editable examples of the application of [ELK layout algorithms](http://www.eclipse.org/elk/).

As a newcomer to ELK, they look really nice. I'd be curious about the differences between these and Graphviz's algorithms.
What exactly is the risk of a single channel of information controlled by one of the worst governments on Earth, massively used by younger people who are in the age of voting?

Are you sure you need an explanation?
Yeah until TPUs can directly communicate with the sound card, it sounds slow.