skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was very resistant to signing up for TikTok because I didn't think I'd enjoy using the app in public with my sound muted. However, while home one evening a few days ago I decided to give it a shot and was completely astounded at just how fast the For You Page was able to adjust to videos I found entertaining and enjoyable. I think it boils down to a few factors, but the main one is simply that it's able to get a ton of interaction data in a very short amount of time. It's basically all the same data points as from YouTube, but nearly thirty times faster. While a YouTube video is typically eight or so minutes, a TikTok video might only be about 15 seconds. And since your entire screen is dedicated to a single video, TikTok is able to make very specific inferences that something like Twitter isn't able to. So after just a few minutes of swiping through videos, liking a few to indicate I wanted to see similar content, and following a few creators, I was able to get a FYP that felt specifically catered to my interests. Over the past few days, it's even changed dramatically, while still feeling personalized to me, whereas I find YouTube takes days, if not weeks of watching to accommodate to a new interest or topic.

All that being said, it's certainly not without its frustrations. For example, there's certain topics I'm interested in that I can't seem to get it to show me videos from (mainly technology topics). I even went as far as searching specific hashtags in the hopes that was enough of a signal, but the FYP still didn't seem to suggest any videos from those topics. It may just be that tech-related videos don't do very well on the platform, and thus the algorithm is unable to collect and process enough data to make useful recommendations.

Finally, I absolutely despise the fact that the Following page isn't chronological. I follow a few creators, and I want to see their new content, so you'd think Following would be the place to do that. Well as of right now, the first video on my Following page is from July 11, despite the fact that specific creator has posted six newer videos since then.
Turkey has unveiled a stealth carrier-based unmanned aircraft program
One thing he who can not be named did right was calling this dude by his correct surname
Fellow beta player here, I never cared about the overall story (although I like jokes and good scenes / subplots when they happen), but the design, timegating, and a large chunk of the art in SL killed the game for me. So it's really a disaster in all areas.
Blizzard once made games for $60.

Then inflation happened, and they had to pay their employees more.

But gamers are stuck in a "back in my day candy bars were a nickel" mindset, and refuse to pay more than $60.

So they had to hide the true cost of the games inside dark patterns and upsells. The end.
I've often thought the other half or the Agile thing would be to try and build systems with really tight depreciation schedules so you are forced to retire a system and either rebuild or rethink the business context. So much of my work is trying to coax people to understand the operating environment has changed and we don't need a new thing, we instead need to do new things.
Sky News Australia has been suspended from YouTube after a review of old videos
Exactly. The rare occasion I really need to print something I do it in the library or in even rarer cases at work. (My previous employer was stricty paperless and the printer was only accessible for legal and marketing documents.)
Along with some worms or starfish.
Voter registration is not linked to how one votes.
The west has a productivity stagnation because it’s concentrating on services instead of industry. The productivity of services grows much slower that that of industry.
I downloaded it, noticed that the initial content I was shown was some kids and their dog dancing to a pop song. Recorded myself drumming a fancy beat with some stick twirling, edited it to a short loop. (Not sure how these folks do anything musically related, the apps loop point setting was coarse and it took me ages to make it loop properly) I opened the app a few more times, saw more videos of people dancing to pop songs. Saw that I still had zero views two days later. I never managed to find any content that didn’t look like a line dance or a wanna be mc-hammer video. More kids dancing to pop music with their dogs. Never managed to find the addictive content.

YouTube has me fairly pegged, however, I can usually safely skip the channel welcome and plea for likes and subscribe and hit meaty content showing me some woodworking or culinary tricks, etc.

The takeaway for me is that a superficial ADHD format results in or best features superficial ADHD content. It’s not like I couldn’t see the restless nature of it and how it could thrive in our short attention span contemporary society, it’s that I felt it to be one more rung down a ladder shortcutting our race to be bottom.

But I’m atypical, admittedly. I have never owned a tv in my life. Don’t Netflix or HBO or whatever is on these days, and YouTube tutorials are about as “vegging out” as I get. I want less screen time in life, not more.

But yay for the tiktok devs, good job on the successful app
"He quit high school,[8][verification needed] received his Ontario Academic Credit (high school diploma) from the SEED School in Toronto,[citation needed] and attended four universities without obtaining a degree"

Shouldn't we collectively listen to experts,PhDs etc instead of famous bloggers for very technical stuff? Much like in medicine I would say.
In addition to the Character Map and other tips, you could also try just pressing the circumflex character[1] and then 'e' (or some other letter). Works for me without running any special utilities like mentioned in a sibling comment, but Idunno if that's down to something similar built into the non-English keyboard driver or something. You can but try.

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[1]: On my Nordic keyboard it's somewhere to the right of P or L, but on an English one it should be Shift-6 (or AltGr-6?) in the top row, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout
Company introduces bonus based on service error rate.

Problem: This include client side errors as well which the service owner has no control over.

Solution: Don't track client side errors.

Problem: Now all service owners are changing the error codes for most errors to be 4xx.
You can register as a Democrat and participate in the primaries for the Democratic candidate but (thanks to the secret ballot) vote for Republicans in the final election. Or vice-versa. And nobody other than you will ever know how you (as an individual) actually voted.

Or you can register as an independent if you prefer. The rules vary by state, but the worst that happens is you can't participate in the primaries (but can absolutely vote in the final election). Who you, as an individual, voted for is still not traceable back to you.

In other words, it's your right, thanks to the secret ballot, to vote completely differently from the party you registered under or even differently from how everyone in your life perceives you, and nobody will ever know.

There are people who changed their mind years ago about what party they support and have been voting that way ever since, but just haven't gotten around to (or don't care enough to) update the party they listed on their voter registration.
No need to gatekeep education.

Well, there's a need if one actually wants to learn something. A novice generally isn't in a position to know whom they can trust to teach them.

The internet could use, specifically when it comes to education, a lot more gate-keeping.
> They have a "monopoly" with their key franchises, most notably CoD and WoW.

I don't follow, even in the air quotes monopoly context. Could you elaborate? I thought anyone can make a game, even that specific type of game and reach a paying audience quickly if it is good. Aren't the game engines for CoD and WoW actually owned by different companies? Eg: Unreal Engine is owned by Epic/Tencent.
It would be interesting to know if there are some GDPR ramifications here. Do Blizzard leak private data if I grab a screenshot and share it publicly?
Issue 1 - A karyotype that is as accurate as the age-old glance at the newborn's genitals would require lab work. Mandating such a change at scale would see push-back from almost all of the parties involved, from new mothers to insurance providers.

Issue 2 - You are suggesting an objective and emotionally (fairly) neutral fix for a hot-button culture war issue. While admirable, this is much like hoping that pacifists will win a shooting war.
I think this becomes even more valuable when having a family means that one's free time becomes an extremely scarce resource. One usually already has some experience to be able to ask the right questions to clarify generic concepts in given context. IMHO given both sides of the dialogue are on the same "wave" nothing can beat Socratic method.
The US and most countries' prison system seeks to punish and extract cheap labor out of prisoners, not rehabilitate them for reintroduction to society. It's big business[1].

That’s just simply untrue. The value of labor of prisoners is so low that it wouldn’t cover the cost of imprisoning them, even if all of the prisoners actually worked full time (and the actual figures are well short of that).

Now, to be sure, a lot of people make money on prisons, mostly government employees (as great majority prisons are government run), but also some private businesses too. However, the causation goes the opposite way to what you seem to argue: majority of people in prisons are there, because they committed a serious crime, usually violent, not because the prison industrial complex has somehow snatched them from the street for cheap labor. Even the private prisons make most of their money on contracting with government, not on products of prisoner labor (which, again to reiterate, is worth very little).
That's a matter between you and your doctor. A birth certificate could be narrowly focused on declaring that a person was born.
Most countries as including all countries on earth, maybe. Most countries as in developed democracies, well most definitely not.
It does not reveal who you vote for. A traceable ballot that has been cast can reveal this info.
I don't know why they would discard a transaction. The point is that they can discard transactions, which appears to invalidate the claim that bitcoin payments are "uncensorable" and "trustless".
It’s illegal to publish information identifying the accusers it’s not illegal to figure out who the accusers were. There is no double standard. Again, reading from the judgement, the other journalists follow a code of conduct that even Murray acknowledged he had no intention of following. Meanwhile the attempt to go out and try and find people who figured out the identity through other means is entirely immaterial to the case. It’s just not relevant because that’s not what the law is about.

It has never been a defence in law that “oh well other people did it too”
Sounds like a case of Goodhart's law,
"Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes."
How would they do it? Have a unique id for each envelope and enter citizen ID and ballot ID in a database as they hand you the envelope?

The process should be well known since all it takes to find out is go sit in an election committee.
Finnish has only 3 words, all loanwords that didn't drop the h: thai (+ thai food, thai boxing etc), theeta (name of the Greek letter) and thorax (medical term, common word is rintakehä).

https://www.kielitoimistonsanakirja.fi/#/th?searchMode=all
Love the intro etymology lesson. In my exp, such roles don't seem to be super well-defined.
A large enough company, which can have thousands of systems running in prod, needs someone to be the gardener pulling out the weeds (systems which duplicate each other's functionality, systems which try to introduce obscure technology for no benefit etc.) and also design the company's systems landscape (start initiatives, kill existing ones, move data and functionalities between systems etc.) so that it fits company's goals. Typically, you have to come up with some strategic vision and then convince all the high-level managers affected to commit to it - and then steer the execution across all teams, so that all the pieces come together. It's basically big picture job, and very difficult to do well, since it doesn't come with any managerial power or budget - EAs are the Cardinal Richelieus of corporate world.
TikTok actually gives people what they want. For people in my generation (20+-5), no one reads, cares about, or trusts mainstream media. We get our news from reddit, YouTube, and tiktok.

Yet, search YouTube for anything newsworthy and you only see mainstream media these days. I don't want establishment bs, give me something different.
Nah, last good Blizzard product was The Lost Vikings.
I basically agree, I have. My account of my limited experience is above. I never managed to get recommendations beyond kids dancing to pop songs with their dog
Definitely common to call any protection placed an anchor particularly in reference to building a belay position at least in British climbing.
That doesn’t mean your physical ballot can be traced back to you, however. Your vote is secret, the fact that you’ve registered isn’t.
Easy peasy. They can determine that during the strip search.

A piece of paper strikes me as a less accurate method at this point in time.
> We need to make it easier to use old software. This pressure to constantly upgrade all software is also leaving many good software behind. Old software that worked great in their particular milieu.

Yep, agreed. I think the steps for consumer-operable, secure personal devices and software are relatively straightforward.

- Code should be open source and available from widely-mirrored common publishers

- Builds should be reproducible (partially addressing your concerns)

- Auto-updates should be turned on by default, but can always be disabled (also addressing your concerns)

Proprietary software and auto-updates run the risk that user-harmful changes may be introduced with close to zero ability for the developer community to inspect, reason about, report and fix them.

Most of those harmful changes are small errors and accidental mistakes, but they go easily unnoticed in a world where developed code is unlikely to be seen, and where the customer has little ability to see (at install-time or retrospectively) the contents of updates.

If you have a safety-critical and/or widely-used system, then before applying a change, you'd ideally like to know exactly what the contents of that change are, be able to read and figure out what impact it will have, and then choose if and when to update.

If that works well for service infrastructure -- and I think it does -- there's little reason to expect it should be any different for personal devices and software.

This kind of visibility can be opt-in for everyday consumers, but the transparency should exist so that developers (a large and growing community, with incentives to assist) can help to make the ecosystem safe and healthy.

Most of the challenges introducing this are social rather than technical I think. Some developers aren't used to (and may legitimately feel uncomfortable with) writing code and making mistakes in public, app stores have ossified and are cash cows, and channeling worldwide code review and feedback to developers can be a challenge (albeit a fairly well-understood one at this point).
Instead of commenting the generic title (inaccurate, Mongols did it. Hazras are genetic descendant of Mongols) lets comment the content.

It's good analysis. Afghanistan is unnatural country. Just like in Africa, arbitrary colonial borders create perceptual conflict. No Afghan government nor Pashtuns have recognized the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. It's dividing the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan roughly at the middle.

Explains also why "Afghan government" cant defend itself. Nobody in Afghan government thinks in the terms of Afghanistan. They belong Pashto tribe, Hazra, Tajik, ....

And of course. Afghanistan is not worth to conquer if there is even little resistance. Any great river delta with significant population like in Pakistan or India was conquered by Brits because it had agricultural resources.
This stuff is bad and it's sad that kids are still messing with it, but it's interesting that translucent spiders and hat men are still being reported ~15 years after my own adolescent flirtation with Benadryl. I wonder how much of it is culturally transmitted.
> It means they choose not to.

They do it with their three letter agencies. When you get hacked, does it make a difference?
That's like asking how Google's algorithm works.

I can say that TikTok's recommendations feel actually under my control. Facebook and Google's recommendations seem to be about what THEY want to show me.

I know in all cases, it's the platforms controlling these recommendations, but no means no. Meanwhile, on my YouTube home feed I keep getting Murdoch/News Corp propaganda under the 'breaking news' section no matter how many times I say "not interested". No, I never click on them.

It feels like the hubris of product managers thinking they know best for me. Well, guess what, we have choices now.
>Pretty sure all men would rather be placed in the women's jail. More safety and more sex..

I think I've seen that movie.
Thank you!

Gitea was quite easy to set up, I just had to run the executable from my local server and I was up and running! I've recently become more concerned with hosting my data off-premises, so I use this local Gitea instance when something doesn't need to be public-facing.

I was pleasantly surprised with an unforeseen advantage - speed! I have a few Unity projects that can be on the larger side, but pushing/pulling to them is quick in comparison to GitHub.
I have basically lived in those countries for the past 25 years...

Internet cafes get their internet from local ISP, which get their licenses from the government (usually the cafe also needs a license from the government/local authorities).

If you want a Starlink dish and decoder, it needs to be available and distributed in your country, which also falls under government import rules.

Say managed to get your hands on an illegally imported dish, and assume that Starlink enables your location. And how long will your access last once someone notices they can access stuff that's otherwise censored in the country? Do you really think cafe owners will jeopardise their business or their freedom for that?

Starlink can subsidise some costs, but the reality of their infrastructure is that it's always going to be very costly: they need to replace all their 1000s of satellites every 4-5 years, and build regional stations (although they claim they will have satellite to satellite comms once density is enough, but it's not operational now). That also means sending these satellites to space. Even if the price of that comes down (it won't much, a rocket is a rocket and most of it is not reusable and will still cost millions to launch).
Each satellite also has a bandwidth limit.

You end-up with a fairly costly system to run, and if you really want poor countries to be able to afford it, you need to subsidise it, which cost you even more and need to rely on a limited number of high-paying customers to cover all costs and make a profit.

I personally don't think Starlink is viable in the long run. It's not a technical issue, we can clearly make stuff like this work, but the running cost is too high for what people are ready to pay, and you end up hitting hard limits.

It will probably be rescaled down and targetted to government contracts for the military, emergency services, etc, and they will limit the number of users to make it workable to those who are ready to pay a lot for it.
> During the botched robbery attempt, a woman suffered a nonfatal gunshot wound.

Strategic use of passive voice is a classic tool of narrative making. Instead of assuming people have agency in their actions, it is suggested that a gun he just happened to have in their hand just happened to discharge a projectile in the direction of the person who just happened to be robbed around the same time. It is all just something that happens to people.
I feel like vaporwave was dead as soon as people started taking it seriously. Seeing the genre at its inception - a critique on how corporations will use substanceless nostalgia to bolster sales - turned into that very thing with this faux-80s-revival music, that for one reason or another sounds nothing like what was actually popular in the 80s, has left quite the sour taste in my mouth.

Like, the very idea was to take old “nostalgic” stuff and mangle and distort into something only vaguely resembling that. The idea was to provoke those feelings in you while also detaching from what might actually make one nostalgic. After all, most of the audience can’t remember the 80s or 90s having been a child or not born yet. The idea is to poke fun at how corporations manufacture nostalgia by doing exactly that, except in a ridiculous and obvious way so that people would be in on the joke and so that it would be a transformative work of sorts. But people fell for the trick anyway and now we have kids who weren’t alive in the 80s yearning for the 80s listening to music that doesn’t resemble 80s music. It’s weird.

In short: I agree with the author. There are burgeoning genres and music cultures that may resemble vaporwave if you don’t know what it’s origin and intentions were, but the actual message behind vaporwave is lost to history in lieu of its aesthetic. The irony was, in fact, lost.
I don't hate TikTok, but for some reason (almost?) every time I open the app it wants me to authenticate. In 90% of cases I can't be bothered so I just close the app and open reddit.
Not if we mount a jet engine to their backs.
That makes me wonder: wouldn't there be a market for a printer that clearly doesn't leak any information? Say one with open firmware that parses PCL5 or Postscript or whatever the modern analog is.

"Keep your secrets safe with Printer X".

Or would the state come down hard on any such manufacturer?
Definitely. I feel like I force myself to ask the more fundamental questions relevant I am writing (i.e. why is it this way, alternatives, etc.) than if I were to cut-and-paste. Saw significant differences in learning new languages by forcing myself to do this.

And, my mentality in going through examples has changed. Larger blocks of code shouldn't seen as more of a pain to write, but larger sources of information (usually) for learning.
I recently got a HP LaserJet Pro M15W Printer and I didn't need to install an app... But I don't use it's wifi capabilities and plug it in with a USB cable.