skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not the form factor. It's the OS. A fully-open OS, versus a locked-down OS.

Raspberry Pi 400 is what ChromeOS/Chromebooks could have been if Google cared about making computing empower people, rather than seeing it as a tool to manipulate them through adverts.
I have to kind of agree with the parent comment. I lived in Madurai for 3 years, where the people take great pride in the language. Your anecdote of little kids being able to comprehend the Thirukural was oft repeated, though I failed to see it in action. There were couplets from the Thirukural painted inside the city bus, and not once could one of my Tamil classmates actually grok the text. As a non-Tamil who learnt the script, I could read the words about as well as they could, transcribed as it is in the modern Tamil script. They clearly understood more than I did (which was close to none), but not enough to comprehend the text in any meaningful way. They could understand a word or two of the couplet, and kind of guess the meaning of the text. This was a far cry from the trope of 3 year olds reciting the Thirukural. For context, these were Masters students, for whom Tamil was the primary language. In my class of 15 people, there were perhaps two or three who could comprehend these texts with any level of competency.
The construction labor rate difference between the US and Europe is surprising, especially given the stronger unionization rules in Europe.

"Although the material and equipment costs are similar (within 10%) for projects in the United States and in Europe, labor costs are substantially higher in the United States as outlined above. For example, in California the average billing labor rates for qualified tunnel workers is about $70/hr and the average New York labor rate of qualified tunnel workers is at over $100/hr, whereas in Germany (one of the high labor rates countries in Europe) the comparable labor rate is about $30/hr."
Why using Google VPN is a terrible idea
"unimpacted" isnt the case - it makes clear that some traffic is more critical-path than others and thus the prioritization.

"Clearly nobody cares about" - what? The whole point here is "people care most about video streaming" and less about the metadata etc that they lower in priority.
No, it's literally just the decompiled TikTok APK.
This is a basic disassembly done with JD, full of obfuscated variable names, not any kind of leaked source.
Oh man that's annoying! The funny part is that it annoys especially those who are careful about their data. So it is basically an incentive for being loose with privacy. Long ago I used set this setting in my parent's browser but they simply could not stand it.
While this also happened, there was definitely some level of panic buying that happened in the initial stages, at least in the US. The toilet paper/paper towel shortage was pretty much driven by pure panic buying, and you had reports of crazy lines outside of big bulk supercenters like Costco.
Have you heard anyone with agricultural training saying that because every person in the industry I've listened to thinks vertical farming is a silly silicon valley hipster fad.
I personally like learning by digging into things.

However, some people do like having a walkthrough. I've done both when onboarding someone.
I'm pretty sure there's bedrock in the rest of the world that gets tunneled through. It's not unique to Manhattan.
> just another winter respiratory disease

Yeah, but this one can cause lasting cardiovascular and nervous system damage in a significant number of people, in addition to permanent lung damage. It's not just another respiratory disease.
But we’re not just talking about the US. Tensions in the Asian region are at the highest since WWII as well: North Korea and South Korea. China and Taiwan. China and Hong Kong. Then there’s China and their increasingly imperial motives in Africa and the Asian sea. Plus increasing conflict with the US.

Then there’s Russia and Ukraine. Turkey and Armenia. The Middle East conflict with Israel, Europe, and the US.

So no, it’s not just American history. Globally, things are the least stable since WWII.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming

> Functional programming is sometimes treated as synonymous with purely functional programming, a subset of functional programming which treats all functions as deterministic mathematical functions, or pure functions. When a pure function is called with some given arguments, it will always return the same result, and cannot be affected by any mutable state or other side effects.

It is a closely associated idea, but it is not necessarily "core" to what FP is.
I think timing it between two points will give you average speed between them. But this record is about top speed.
Edit: Yes, it's decompiled bytecode, not the original source.

Here's an example: https://github.com/augustgl/tiktok_source/blob/master/df_min...
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it's blatant hypocrisy. Tiktok is not exceptional when it comes to social media networks, it's just that they are headquartered in China
This seems to be an alternative for https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/consent-o-matic/md...?
Something to consider is that we already had video when photoshop arrived, which is able to merit at least more authenticity than images do. Are there other mediums that's able to take this baton of authenticity now? I don't think so.
You're assuming that it was Google's system that changed, and not their primary ad buyers.
US spying on people does not automatically make China spying on people good.
> The government is a very bad guardian. Everyone from the former East Block can attest (me including).

So, you had a bad government, therefore all governments are bad?

> This will make people a lot less entrepreneurial

Do you think Jeff Bezos would have given up if he was able to become only a multi-millionaire, instead of a billionaire?
> Your storage service isn't used for your primary identity/access management to your house, bank account, or utilities, and this is where your argument breaks down.

If anything that strengthens my argument.

> The vast majority of users out in the world use these free services because they don't know anything else, and nor would I expect them to. As pioneers we the technical community herded them at these push button solutions decades ago, and now it's up to us to realize we've somehow failed them at this point by locking them into monopolistic companies that don't have their best interests at heart.

To me this just sounds like the worst sort of techno-elitism. You're describing a world of Morlocks and Eloi and campaigning for veganism.

> 1. We educate them and start promoting services which won't pull the carpet out from under them on a whim

Yes. I agree.

> 2. We start advocating for regulation on the existing services and force them to comply.

No. I disagree. I have come to believe that it's just simple hubris to think that we (the technical community) have any clue what's going on in re: normals using computers. Did you predict Twitter? I sure didn't.

I predicted a lot, like coin vending machines for raccoons, and mesh networking. But no one cares about those things. Half the world thinks Facebook IS the Internet.

Google-- FAANG and the other corps, are already AIs that merely farm human beings. The sick (IMO) thing is that most people are hunky-dorey with it. Amazon is one of the most trusted entities according to polls.

Sovereignty is jealous: either these mechanical gods with humans for cells will become the new de facto governments of the world, or we nationalize them, which I don't even know what that would mean...

Er, um, I got a little ranty there at the end, eh? Sorry. What I'm saying is, if they are private corporations then grabbing their services by legal theft is bad pool. If you really want to wrest control, go whole hog and nationalize the suckers.
Sorry, I do, but it is geofenced to the local community. You're welcome to email, in my profile. We're working on something world facing, but there are massive benefits to having a local cloud. For one, all of our communications never leave town. Fuck PRISM.
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Temperature conversion for the lazy and simple minded
That's literally decompiled bytecode. Each method says "Byte Code" lol
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How do you change people's mindsets from 'free is good' to 'free is bad' though? They're not planning on being customers of Google.

>This victim-blaming needs to stop before the tech industry backlash hits. This is exactly why we need regulation.

Google will simply dilute the language of the regulation, to the point where they will simply add a "your account can be deleted at any time for any reason, proceed at your own risk" popup during sign-up, and people will happily hit continue/next.

Systemic reform can't exclusively happen top-down or bottom-up. There needs to be some of both. We need to stop giving Google free good-will on HN. Stop up-voting Google product launches, stop promoting Chrome, etc, etc.
I see that example as supporting the idea of supply and demand determining price.

Employers colluded to reduce number of buyers, hence reducing demand, causing sellers to have fewer alternatives to sell their services to, causing them to sell at a lower price than they otherwise would.

There may be more effects due to lack of information or ability to move or issues of social signaling compared to a simple example of widgets, but in the grand scheme of thing, it still follows the same principle.
I don't get what this comment is aimed at?

The idea that US spying doesn't matter to anyone in the US is very out of touch, within the technical community and even outside of it.

The way surveillance manifests in the US and China is also quite different, enough that it warrants comparing and contrasting those differences.
It was panic shopping when people were hoarding flour and yeast though, for instance
Is $70/hr fair market value, or are the contracts negotiated via corruption and cronyism?
OP might be referencing how the linked repository’s README says TikTok is spyware
The disadvantages are more like "it's not affordable"

```
Monorepos could slow down developers because of slow build times, poor tooling, and merge conflicts.

Most developers still in 2020 struggle to cleanly merge code.
Git is slow for projects with large numbers of files and history.
There is cognitive overhead involved as developers have to get comfortable with a much larger code base than they would have with multirepo setup.

To do monorepo well require investment in tooling that most organization non-tech leadership will fail to understand
```

Monorepo is clearly more desirable than distributed repo. But it's not a cheap solution.
Interesting analysis! I’ve seen the 2x multiplier myself, when I looked at the spectrogram of an AC induced whine in a speaker IIRC
But that needs "socialism".
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> Then they moved the repository replication to the paid plan (20$/month/user).

It looks like "pull" replication is available on the $4/mo. plan, per their documentation.
NSA already had this in place
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Your comment is correct, but not really related to the article. Author not talking about money wasted on underutilized resources, but money wasted on expensive VPS providers like AWS versus budget options like OVH. Honestly it's a pretty misleading title.
Fastmail is good, Mailbox.org is reputable and a bit cheaper.
Those guys have socialized health care and government sponsored pensions.
i dunno, seems pretty significant to me. used to be that we only had to be skeptical of blurry newspapers photos, then detailed photos, then videos without people as giveaway, now highly detailed videos and audio aren't trustable. You don't think it seems significant that it's getting to a point where only "seeing with your eyes" is believing? All our systems of spreading information beyond our senses start to fail when we can't trust anything outside our perceived experience (or things brought to us by our trusted friends)
The more surprising point was the disparity in staffing levels which multiplies the cost differences:

“For example, in New York, the number of workers at the face of the tunnel can be up to four times the number of workers required in Germany or Austria for similar projects.”
Java's type safety in general is less than Haskell's. That's a separate topic from ease of parallelization in Java and Haskell.
Obviously the latter
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> The government is a very bad guardian. Everyone from the former East Block can attest

“I had an abusive parent” does not imply “In general, parents are bad guardians”.

The same thing for governments.

I'm not saying that there isn't a valid critique of government-as-guardian generally, but any such valid critique is going to be more involved than “governments of the Soviet Bloc were bad, so government is bad”.
Maybe in the court of public opinion, but I doubt it would matter much in actual court. Chain of custody for video evidence has always mattered there.
Interesting that the more expensive ones are all in Common Law countries. I wonder if that plays any role.

I understand that was also a commonality in the countries that spent the most preparing for y2k.
I was able to change this default in the settings.
Lots of good data (and a map!) on this subject can be found at https://transitcosts.com, much of it compiled by https://twitter.com/alon_levy

Also, here in NYC, it isn't just tunneling that's expensive [0], we pay dearly for most of our infrastructure. As this article points out, the elephant in the room is labor costs.

[0] https://twitter.com/marketurbanism/status/118704548054032384...
why would $70 per hour not be fair for working underground boring a tunnel? What does a software developer make in California?

on edit: added in California.
Lmao:

- Streamline the environmental and approval processes.

- Establish an equitable risk sharing mechanism between the owner and contractor and properly implement it.

- Revisit labor laws, rates, and union regulations and establish equitable Project Labor Agreements.

These are just typical pro-corporate power talking points weeping about costs to the public so they can wreck the environment, externalize risk, and pay people that actually do work less.
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Totalitarian rule. Lack of democracy. Lack of freedom of speech. Constant surveillance. Integration of politics into every aspect of life. Economic exploitation by Russia. Intentional undermining of historical cultural identity.

I could on.
Are there some links to elaborate on this topic you could/would share?

Vertical farming certainly seems like an awesome idea with obvious benefits, but there are clearly plausible obstacles and drawbacks that I don't know enough about agriculture to deem valid or not.
This is true. There is Java code in there
Would you say the same thing about CEO salaries? Why or why not?
Just post under your own account; why create a new one for this comment?
Yeah this should be obvious. I think video calls are a waste of time the majority of the time but one legitimate use case is where there's an issue which doesn't seem to be easily resolved using written media. In this case it's useful to have a video call where you can gauge someone's reaction to specific things you say. That way you might be able to get to the gist of where the miscommunication is happening. A dildo in the background doesn't add to this (although a bunch of empty vodka bottles might gives some clues), while seeing a person's reactions to statements/questions might.
That's literally the point... now people from all castes are doing it, so it changes something.

The comment I replied to implies "why didn't the lower castes just always change their surnames", I pointed out why.
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So that leaves us with two possible reasons the car couldn't have achieved the speed they're claiming. One, it wasn't actually geared to go that fast. Or two, the driver lifted because the car was unstable or he was afraid the tires were gonna explode or something.

It seems unlikely that people capable of building a car like this would have released a claimed speed that their car was incapable of reaching due to gearing. Then again, I've seen a lot of stupid things in my time racing.
Well, they say "Our English masks this", which suggests they're talking about contemporary English and offering the lack of past division as an explanation for a lack of current division. I don't buy it. In fact, prior to broadcasting, the differences were greater I reckon.
Interesting.
Would be really helpful to see a more detailed expert audit on the reverse-engineered source code, and point out to the actual privacy offenses, and analyze how dangerous they really are compared to other social media apps (Twitter, Facebook, ...)
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And before that the predictions were for a mini ice age.

Frankly I have very little faith in these 'projections', whether it is for global warming, or presidential races. I think these are better thought of management techniques in the here and now, intended to achieve a present-day objective, eg increase fear, get consent to take more taxes, stuff like that.
>They can't afford to let 20% of that go to spam without a backlash.

They will launch a 'secured sender' program where you pay Google a monthly fee so your company's email doesn't fall into spam.
I guess I phrased that wrong. Explicitly, DevOps costs are tiny in a startup, even if you do it all yourself with a bare metal server, and moving 0.5% from pot A to pot B makes no difference.
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Speaking without evidence from the frozen wastelands of Canada, it seems that US trade unions are every bit as powerful - if not more so - in specific areas of the economy. But, oddly, worker pay and protections are weaker on average.

Could this strange state of affairs be the result of a political system that is highly polarized and less fundamentally democratic than the Canadian and European system?
Optimized tail calls are effectively the same as computed goto, but are a Standard feature. Or, rather, don't require non-standard syntax. A program that relies on the optimization built by a compiler that failed to implement it--which is allowed--would not be expected to run well.

https://github.com/ncm/computed-goto

The "more powerful language" part is to get language-level tools to compose parser combinators, ultimately resolving down to tail calls.