skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We cannot trust Google to behave in the public interest (information about human rights abuses qualifies in my mind) when it conflicts with their own interests. Hence people's dismay over the amount of control they wield over the distribution of information.

Assuming that people do want some level of censorship, profit motive actually ends up being the most fair. If enough people are angry about this, Google will change their policy. Social media treat the control they have on information as more of a burden than an asset, as it should be. They would love to have an authoritative doctrine or committee that they can point their fingers to when someone disagrees with their decision of whether or not to censor something. In fact, Facebook spent $130 million dollars establishing a content "supreme court" in an attempt to do that. However, people are naturally even more skeptical of anyone who wants the responsibility of moderating billions of hours of content.

> Do you think a news org that wiped coverage of Uighur repression from its site to protect its business in China wouldn't face similar outrage?

I don't think this is a fair comparison. This describes removing a dozen videos that showed IDs and asked them to blur out. News organizations also have very strict rules on what journalists can publish, which many would consider to be arbitrary. Pulling a pro-Uighur article for not following those rules does not deserve outrage either.
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A similar thing happened on a previous team: One of the engineer's was experimenting with Ansible, and apparently setup some command that Terminated all instances in a VPC... he ran it for production. Suddenly I start getting alerts of unavailable instances and whatnot. Fortunately, most of the important servers had "termination protection".

Another time, one of the Engineers was doing some analysis in the MongoDB production Database, and found it easier to setup a tunnel to 27017 in his computer to connect to the DB directly. While multitasking, he decided to run the test suite of some changes he was doing to one of the programs.... but that test had as a first step to delete all tables from your local Mongo database. Next morning when I come back Ops people tell me that "the system is empty". My first thought was "What do they mean the system is empty? maybe one of the dashboards failed to update or something". My surprise when I login and see what really happened...oh boy. We spent like 5 or 6 hours getting everything back. Fortunately a combination of Backups and MongoDB replication logs allowed us to recover everything.
Please don't make bad faith arguments like this.
Mimicking a device is becoming almost impossible
After reading the closing thoughts, it seems to me that the author equates addictiveness with "world-class" product that people "love". That type of thinking scares me - hey HN crowd, how prevalent would you estimate it is between creators?

And more broadly - how many of them even think about morality of what they are trying to build? How many still believe they are creating better world while intentionally trying to build addictiveness into their products, and how many just rationalize it by something like if I don't do it, someone else will, so I might as well do it (attitude I have noticed here surprisingly often)?
A lot of agricultural land is wasted growing crops to feed to animals. If we were to lower meat consumption, agriculture land could be freed for other uses without taking away poor people’s food supply.
This is really sad. Google wants in on China, so these kinds of things build "good will"(??) for Google with China government.

However, it is most unfortunate for the video authors as most alternatives are practically useless(for intent):

- filled with spam, fake news, fluff[1]

- no audience[2]

- no moderation[3]

[1] is due to [3] as moderation is tough. The important videos need [2] to have maximum outreach, but due to [1], they get mixed up and dismissed as other conspiracy theories posted on most alternatives that YT kicked out. Building a proper audience for alternatives is tough, as there is no momentum.

We live in a dystopia already, to average joe, internet is FB, Google, TikTok(?), Instagram, Twitter, Whatsapp, Skype, Chrome and those few government websites they need to fill forms now and then. The monopoly capital has been built, people are now stuck. We have plenty great alternatives, but first mover's momentum is of epic proportions.

[Edit: Found contents on Odysee]
> Why not send a bicyclist to deliver pizza then?

...are you asking why autonomous robots exist? Like, at all?
how is invoking “the algorithm,” a defense? we want algorithmic censors, now?
And it means you often have to discover this the hard way, which can lead to some brutal surprises.
I suspect that your mental model doesn't line up with what's happening in an assignment. (I suspect that a similar thing was going on with me and algebra...)
It definitely was a thing.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/forced...
For one, Walgreens has shuttered a portion of their SF fleet due to increased theft and lack of enforcement. I would trust their inventory theft statistics much more than the police department’s, and so do they.

On the other hand, what evidence there that this effect is not more pronounced than it was in the past?
A first step should be renaming "social media" to "personal feed".

I think the very name "social media" is catching people off guard. It implies something social, which for most people is good and aspirational.
i witnessed the hiring of CCP sympathizers at Twitch. it’s certainly happening at youtube
A new world is beaconing upon us. Much like computers in 70s. We are in the real early phases of this technology and this would most probably make the world completely different from what it is now.

Mind you, this is just the beginning. First we would have all kinds of diseases being cured using this,
1. It would change the whole medical diagnostics industry to correctly diagnose the pathogen,
2. Then destroy the pathogen using DNA cutting
3. It would cure cancers of many kind by enabling the T-cells to fight the cancer cells effectively

Then we would start with reprogramming cells to do what we want. For instance, we can cure baldness, completely regenerate cardiac cells after heart attack.

However, it would not stop at this. We would have bio-machines which can capture carbon dioxide, generate medicines, make clothes/cotton and food. We would have bio solar cells. We would bio light bulbs which ingest light during the day and glow at night. We would have artificial meat produced using this technology. We would have carbohydrates produced using this. Plastic and sewage eating bacteria would be a reality soon.

Next 30-40 years is going to be biotechnology as last 30-40 were computing.
The chip won't fit in any existing socket, so you need the custom motherboard with it.
In the same city on the same bike ride I and a friend have been accosted by police for both riding on the sidewalk and in the street. Different cops, blocks apart.

The law is subjective and when you’re rolling around in spandex on a multi thousand dollar road bike and a paramilitary USA “peace officer” stops you, the law doesn’t really matter. You just “yes sir” and hope to be allowed to move on
> If you want to use the bike lane, build a pizza delivery robot that can ride a bike.

How do you feel about bikes with sidecars?
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Would you know what type of approaches and machinery is needed for relatively loose tolerance / low load helical gears? If going the CNC route, do I need full 5 axis and specialized end mills?

Even with regular involute straight gears, there's a bunch of ways one could manufacture one, and I'm out of my depth here.
Reddit has been removing posts critical of the CCP for a while now, in their case, Tencent did do a massive investment in them in 2019: https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/reddit-300-million/ ("Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China's Tencent at $3B Value")
One thing to note when it comes to resin casting and cnc is the 3d printing evolution since 2015. The amount of detail you can get from an inexpensive 3d printer these days is astonishing and it seems like less far less messy than a cnc. Not that long ago I got a resin-based 3d printer and I was blown away by the prescision. That said, for me at least, there is a big problem in that entire field - the third point - "Mastering CAD and CAM". To put it lightly I really suck at it. I am using Blender(100% linux user) and having to switch between layout modeling and sculpting(etc.) often puts me in a Hulk mode rage. I can't find a pattern in the menus or modes and everything I try to do ends up being 2 hours of googling and youtube tutorials. Which I reckon is me being too used to cli-tools and hardly ever going outside the cli world(if it weren't for browsers and the modern web which cannot work without js, I'd have probably removed my desktop environment altogether).
I expected p2p share bikes to be treated better than how they have been treated. I can't imagine delivery droids faring much better.
Sufficiently skilled: understands the topic in their chosen language.

Enough time: however long it takes them to learn the syntax of the second language + the time it took to complete the project in the first language.

Unfortunately I can't give decimal precision hour estimates.
I've seen papers that evaluate the behavior of cyclists and see that when they do break the law (e.g. not stopping at a stop sign) they actually do so to increase their safety. Less time in an intersection means less chance to get hit.
Please don't misunderstand me. Cycling on a sidewalk is dangerous to the cyclist, particularly around driveways and intersections, where they are less visible to motorists.
If it's just a reminder, why not use any of the other reminder tools? (Because it's not)
I'm somewhat torn here, because this could theoretically reduce cars, and I'm more anti-car than I am pro-bike.
On youtube, I just sucked 2 hours of my life on Adam Neely videos that I wanted to be working on my side project.
I only know of one proper bike lane in Seoul that is on a road, and that runs from Sinchon down to the Han. People ride bikes on the sidewalks in Seoul because they're terrified of the taxi's.
Most of this is subjective, unsubstantiated conjecture, or blatantly ignoring the fact that cars cause congestion, injury and death much more than bicycles.

Aside from that, riding on sidewalks is legal in Austin. You clearly aren't familiar with the situation.
I find a flaw in your logic, but don't have a pithy name for it. Population densities and EF4/EF5 tornado probabilities are not uniformly distributed throughout a state, and probably are negatively correlated.

Looking at this image (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Improved_Average_Annual_T...) from the wikipedia article you linked shows this, with New Orleans, Atlanta and Miami being outside their state's main tornado zone and Houston and Chicago right at the border of high-tornados and medium-tornados.
>IMO food delivery services are pretty low on the totem pole of things to automate

Are they? Food delivery has become incredibly popular but both consumers feel they are paying far too much and delivery people are getting paid almost criminally low pay and given extreme time pressure causing them to run red lights to make minimum wage.

It seems like the prime target for automation to me.
TikTok is to YouTube what Twitter is to blog posts.
Taking this comment way too seriously here, but one of the strongest predictors of how addictive a drug is, is the amount of time it lasts. The shorter lasting, the more addictive. So in this example TikTok would be more like crack cocaine since it gives the user short, intense bursts of dopamine rather than something longer lasting like heroin.
I had exactly the same experience. Tiktok is one of the most addictive products/substances I've experienced and I found it genuinely frightening. I spent about 2 hours on the app without realizing it one day, and deleted the app basically as soon as I snapped out of my reverie.
> Some manufacturer (model? batch?)-specific private key programmed at the factory that lets it authenticate itself as a genuine TPM?

Yes, AFAIK every TPM comes comes with a unique "endorsement key", signed by the TPM manufacturer, which can be used to prove that it's a real TPM from that manufacturer. A quick web search found https://tpm2-software.github.io/tpm2-tss/getting-started/201... which explains how it's used.
Care to elaborate any more on the Twitch situation? This is certainly an alarming inditement, as I was not aware of Twitch being big or eyeing the China market.
Having worked in a very large, bureaucratic company I can say that I strongly suspect that just ignoring systemic failures as learning opportunities is also not a sustainable. Too many times I’ve had to yield on something and say “I guess they’ll learn when this fails” only to see them easily move on or get promoted before the failure occurs. They don’t learn their lessons.

I suspect the solution is to find a way to make sure the consequences of the decision are fed back properly into the system directed at the right person. How to do that, I have no idea.
People would use miners to heat homes only if that were cheaper than using other means of heating, such as heat pumps.
Not OP, but had the same experience

For me I think it's two factors:

1) Quick out if you don't like it. Load the next thing is really quick and easy to do. Just flick up and boom it's the next thing. Right now there are no ads or interruptions. It's really easy to move on from something you don't like.

2) The algorithm is really good. I don't know enough about it, but it consistently shows me stuff I want to see. I can't explain it more than that.

I also don't feel like it boxes me in the same way Youtube does. Youtube shows me nearly the same thing I have already seen and liked. Tiktok pulls up a good variety (sometimes from creators with single digit followers) that I am interested in.
So you created a system for providing lamps with electricity.

Why not battery power those low power items as well?
They can follow the road rules perfectly and every time one gets destroyed the driver gets sent the bill for reckless driving and potentially has their license status reviewed. Seems like a pretty good system.
I’ve reached that critical period in middle age where I don’t sign up for new social media platforms because I don’t “get” them. My limited understanding is that TikTok is for short videos and there’s a lot of dancing, for some reason. Is it the platform itself that’s addictive, or the content is just that good?
> I'm sure that most users will prefer to take the short walk to their doorstep instead of paying a premium for hiring a human to deliver food.

I think there is an assumption here that the corporations will not simply pocket the profits from automation. It's not like you pay less when you use the self checkout at the grocery store.
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Northern India has always been this hot. I remember in 90s and early 2000s and god it was so freaking hot in May and June. There is this thing called loo in India (not the toilet) but this is warm westerly winds which start in the afternoons. It sucks your soul (and hydration and sodium out) and leaves you fully dehydrated. Many people die of that heat stroke caused by this loo.

But then monsoon comes in July and it is hot and sweaty! People don't die anymore of heat stroke but it is uncomfortable like anything. Once we reach september, we are back to normal and it is festival time! This continues till Novemeber when more festivals come like diwali, christmas etc along with wedding season (yes we have those).

Then with a zip in the air, Cold season starts and soon it is freaking cold in Dec and Jan. Like really chilly winds but no snow. We have our rajai (quilts) which save us. Poor people on streets die again but rich ones have their rajai, sweaters, tea and warm bonfires and heaters. Then comes feb and it is really beautiful again. Flower bloom. And it is festival time again. April comes which tells us that we are in for a May & June again. :)
15mph is not close to top speed on a bike.
Little did we know how realistic that would end up being.
I got bad news, lawyers and automation engineers will make software development even more boring in the next years. More responsibilities to comply, less of those simple tasks that let you breath between hard problems. I work in automation for one of the big SW/HW players.
Why is it acceptable to market an OS in 2021 where throwing out your current machine is “plan A”? Why is no one challenging microsoft to come up with an e-waste strategy?
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Just checked and I've been using my CPU for 6 years, and have no immediate need to upgrade
I am curious about your rationale of throwing scooters in the river. Are you not aware that the batteries will leak and pollute the river?
> The political position of the grayzone is anti-imperialist

No it's not. They have no problem with the imperialism of China or Russia or Iran. They call themselves "anti-imperialist" the way Trump would call someone else a liar, to get out in front of the accusation before someone (rightfully) labels them as such.

> And huge thanks to Russia for funding some media critical of the US.

Propaganda. The word you are looking for is propaganda. Do pick up a history book and read the difference between, say Radio Free Europe (which is US funded) and the current attacks on anyone willing to expose Russian war crimes in Syria for example, funded of course by the Russian government.

Don't allow yourself to be used by a foreign state, just because your politics match up.
It looks like you are trying to trick your person about when you sent your message. Because of an introverted personality concern? Seems like a weird use of a timer to me.
It is tedious for me to have to remember friends and family's birthdays. I care about them, but I don't want to have the mental hassle of actually remembering that today is someone's birthday. So I have a calendar remind me of that.

Am I a bad friend because I do that? If not, why is it so different than texting someone because you haven't interacted with them for a while? Would it be better if instead of automatically texting them, it would "remind you" to text them and give you a text suggestion?
Are you defending the Chinese government because you are ethnically Chinese? Just a wild guess.
Honest question: is everyone a bitch of the CCP these days?
“A statement from Austin’s Transportation Department says it had provided a list of groups Refraction AI should reach out to ahead of launching service here. The list of groups included the Bicycle Advisory Council. The company provided no briefing to the BAC ahead of the launch, although it was planning to speak to some members Wednesday.”

great. let’s dump a bunch of experimental AI tech on already scare bike lanes without consultation, which, if successful, will decimate both the only easy to enter low skill job pool AND clog up bike lanes. just look at the massive PITA rent scooters have caused in city centers around the world, this has the potential to cause even more disruption.
Recommend a book by him besides Jurassic park (which I read already)?
Until we have more renewable generation capacity than we need, any Watthour of renewable energy consumed at Google's datacenter is a Watthour of coal consumed somewhere else. All they do is very slightly subsidizing the buildout of more renewable generation capacity.
Hmmm. I can't help but wonder if maybe the database engine should have caught the queue overflow (even if the event occurred over the network) and failed the transaction.
I hear you and I agree.

What's the alternative?

I volunteered for Audubon's Wetlands Conservation Network effort for a decade. Trying to save the wild salmon, maybe even restore some.

I learned from them in the early 90s that it was already game over. (Confirmed at the time by my physicist cousin who pivoted his career to work on climate crisis.) I asked the biologists (my bosses) how they managed to persevere, knowing what they know. They answered that they just focus on the work, and try to enjoy life outside of work.

So I came to think of it as Pascal's Wager for the survival of civilization, humanity itself, and very probably most of life.

We probably won't survive. But why not try?

Not telling you anything you don't know.

Policy change happens very slowly, then all at once. So who knows? Maybe we'll out run the bear.

If and when we pull our thumbs out, assuming I'm still here, I intend to help however I can. At the very least, working on something important would be nice.

I've been reading your posts for a while now. I'm sure you'll help too.

Peace.
The argument against sharing bike lanes with robots is absurd to me. Of course, if bikes lanes become thoroughly congested with such robots, then it's a problem. But until then, all bike lane users-- cyclists, scooter riders and skaters-- benefit from motorists gaining familiarity with driving next to an occupied bike lane.
Should know that the company that started hacker news was also run by evil jewwws. Those scumbags are also a problem in America sadly...especially in media propaganda. The fact that much of the public in Western countries has turned against evil israel (despite that propaganda) shows how horribly blatant mostly non-semitic evil jewish israel’s attempted GENOCIDE against ACTUALLY semitic Palestinians has been!!!

Sadly many non-jews on hacker news are too spineless to speak the truth about how the ONLY nazis are evil non-semitic inbred ashkenazi jews committing genocide against semitic Palestinians.
> Can we have a moment for the folks who managed to turn numerical purity into integers being O(n)?

It’s not an unreasonable approach given the application was automatic theorem proving: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_axioms

Both Boyer and Moore are quite sharp so I wouldn’t jump to the conclusion that they didn’t know what they were doing.
Can any biologist reading this confirm or deny this statement?
It is gaining popularity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_price
Never meant to say nobody actually think. I was saying it's ratio is very low. My English might not be precise.
I think TikTok’s videos are just long enough to provide a quick dopamine hit over and over again, but too short to deliver any real substance.

You become like the lab rat hitting the lever over and over again to get a pleasure spike from the electrode wired to its brain.

I’ve found that my attention span and willpower have been decimated in the last few years. I can barely make it through a few pages of a book without reaching for my phone. I’m not sure if the (over)stimulation caused by apps like TikTok are the cause, but it seems plausible.
That's incorrect. Extroverts can also be shy and be affected by social anxiety. Having those conflicting traits together is often more frustrating than for introverts.
It's more about providing shots of dopamine without requiring the ability to pay attention for longer than 30 seconds, combined with a decent ranking algorithm. If you are not used to consuming entertainment in bite-sized pieces then you wont enjoy it, regardless of how old you are. It's just that the proportion of people who expect entertainment to consist of half minute segments is much higher among the young than the old, and if you do fall into that group, you will really struggle being able to handle even a 15 minute youtube video, let alone a 40 minute broadcast show or a 3 hour play. In that case, you don't have many good video consumption options besides TikTok, so you will spend a lot of time there, even though I don't think it's addictive.

What I really wonder about is the future of sports -- what will they do to make, say, baseball appealing to people with those types of attention spans. I wouldn't be surprised if there are some big upheavals in the sports world over the next two decades.