skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I uninstalled TikTok a week ago because it was showing me too much of the same stuff, but I may eventually return after I’ve had a break from using it for a while. Not yet but maybe later. Anyway, I agree a lot especially about getting a lot of views. Though in my case not in the millions and not even in the hundreds of thousands. But one of the first videos I posted to TikTok was seen 50k+ times. And it wasn’t even a good video, just a little bit of nonsense fun. Other videos I’ve posted since then, on a different account, have only gotten a few hundred views each but to me that is a lot still compared for example to YouTube where my experience has been that the videos I’ve posted to YouTube get a handful of views.

And the most interesting part is that the videos I’ve posted to TikTok don’t get a lot of likes. And to me this says that if I am able to make better content (not an easy thing to do btw), then TikTok is very much ripe for getting a lot of views.

And this is encouraging to me, because I’ve always liked the Reddit and HN way of using upvotes and downvotes, and I feel like TikTok does the same for video that Reddit and HN do for text and links, except that with the video format they have they can also use number of loops a video is watched by each person seeing it, in addition to hearts and comments. And the most encouraging thing is seeing the videos getting those hundreds of views because it shows that TikTok really is using this mechanism and that they are showing your video to people to determine if it’s worth watching.

This is interesting both from a software development point of view, and also from a video creator point of view.

Even before TikTok I was thinking about how Reddit/HN style ranking of content could be applied to video. TikTok has the additional strength you mentioned of discovering your preferences. I think the preference discovery is difficult to replicate without a bigger team of people and probably some knowledge about Machine Learning. But I think there might be room for more video services that use the HN/Reddit ranking method like TikTok also does, while being targeted at a specific audience, like individual subreddits are and like HN is. I worked a while on this with some other people, but limited budget made it very difficult to get anywhere and I have had to pursue other paths instead for a while. But we may continue down that line again at a later point.
Newsletter 101 – July 2021 news – ReactOS
(Sorry for the delay, UncleMeat)

While debatability is normal, that in this context of liberty the point of discrimination is "how and how much one's action affects others" - akin to the dialectic between "freedom to vs freedom from" - should be a trivial point, and at the same time is evidently something not clear in many.

Categorizing "speedracing under an influence" is not a hard exercise.

Edit: I am also seeing - and in the past 18 months the evidence has boomed -, a widespread inability towards the judgement of "why this policy", both in the affected public and the issuing power, including monstrous faults deviating from straight reasoning and display of shallow arguing (not even any more explainable by electorate positioning). I have seen a boost in lack of judgement. This is very ghastly - it is a return to the famed quality/quantity of discrimination in times of witch-hunting.
Its not nessasrly skimping. To much cheese makes other things soggy.
Why do people buy printers that aren't from Brother?
UK has a list of my orders dating back to 2002, not as easy data though, just different pages I'd have to scrape
Oh it reminds me of one who used to be a sales consultant for an useless "modeling" tool (only by name) that nobody in the company wanted beside the CIO as it was on "required" on a Gartner checklist and ended up as the enterprise architect. The guy has never wrote a single line of code in his life, nor has seen a source code. It was madly frustrating, the rest of the IT leadership and developers were as bad
I suspect that the company would get a visit from the secret service
Well it certainly has propelled my life, bank account and career forward. I don't expect work to be (edit: purely) fun. I expect the rewards to be, and they certainly have been.
There's a series videos on YJS and whitepapers etc. Check out the YJS web site and search Youtube for details.
Two or three years ago it was just another snake cult, now... they're everywhere.
You might want to check out Scala Native. It’s conceptually similar to Rust without borrow checking. The only issue is that it’s way less mature and community is much smaller.
I still don't get it. How is it possible that he managed to go through the system.
For the people in the back: intramuscular vaccines do not necessarily reduce viral load in your nasal passage but do make it much harder for the virus to reproduce in worse places. Nasal vaccines would do this which is why we need them for covid.
He did fix the deficiency. It just took longer than most.
IMHO it should be the same in sports. This would also make it easier conceptually to prevent trans women from competing with other women iff they have an unfair advantage, as the other category woul not be marked as men only.
Given go's nature of being more network oriented, I think these questions are a bit disingenuous.

Go comes with a lot of facilities for testing the things it's good at.

If testing GLSL shaders, or gui applications is difficult, I'd consider putting at least some pressure on the tooling providers to provide better testing facilities.

I'm more familiar with how opengl & shaders work than I am with text rendering - so I'll keep my commentary towards the shader question. At least on the surface it seems de-composable into two distinct problems: Is the shader emitting the correct colors after gamma correction is applied, and is that rendering appearing on the screen.

The former could be tested by rendering to a buffer and capturing the output, and asserting against an expected color value.

The latter is where I'd say that better tooling is indeed required.
Although I agree with the statement for other reasons, do you know that Brother does not do anything similar to what is reported in the article?
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/why-all-printers-suc...
Just for me, Firefox feels like that.

It seems Mozilla tries to break free, yet has trouble. Wondering how to help them.

If a non-tech friend asks me about a browser recommendation, I will always point them to Firefox.

It's the browser that I trust most.
Do you have an alternative?

I trust Brave, Opera etc. way less. Not talking about Safari and Edge ...

As I mention, I love to use nyxt and qutebrowser currently. Yet, they are really for a niche market (keyboard first browsers).
Vaporwave is dead. It's integral to the genre. They were saying at the beginning and five years ago also. Vaporwave cannot exist alive.

The thing to understand is that to exist or live in the music industry is incompatible with vapowave, mostly.

It's actually genius. To stay alive underground you have to kill it off before it can be adopted by the mainstream.

A software analogy could be a license which prohibits use in any professional serious setting. Or maybe the WTF license which many corps hate. Or maybe code which is itself mainly a copy of others. Stuff that can be enjoyed at home but would never be hosted by Microsoft and never be found in a company.

The other death metaphor is that it's about what has gone before, the music is about what is dead, musically and culturally.
GitHub Copilot for Scala – Does it work?
You still have to cut the fries. It is only reasonable to freeze them if you fry small amounts at a time. I don't see much extra labor in cutting them on demand. Sure, you get to make slightly more if there is a lot of demand. Should we sacrifice quality for that?
That’s not the full explanation; the antiproton is stable (or, is as stable as the proton).

It’s that the net baryon number is 0 and that the flavor ‘quantum numbers’ aren’t conserved by the weak force. If you could turn off the weak force, this cc ubar dbar tetraquark would be absolutely stable.
I agree with you, but do those places actually make a lot of profit?

In a lot of cases, they don't make as much as people think they do. Take supermarkets for instance. Many of them are hiring cashiers and shelf stockers right now, and they can't hire anybody because they can't pay enough to make the job attractive. Supermarkets and grocery stories have some of the thinnest profit margins in any business.
I can't read the full article but it says the man is selling a building for 2,000,000.

It seems logical that this type of profit being taxed heavily.
Academic survey: Skills required to perform a code review
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Who said it absolves them? I think the point is just that there is no alternative which can match them without resorting to the same abuses.
> As for the SynthWave (2.0 because the original SynthWave happened in very early 80s and I do not know why it is called that way since it is unrelated and I prfere to call it RetroWave) it is still produced.

The original was just called synth-pop. The name synth-wave is now retroactively applied to some 80's bands.

I myself got into synth-wave only 2-3 years ago and even started making my own songs this year.
Permission to access location on Android is needed to scan for wireless networks (because such a scan allows to find your location from the networks in range).

It doesn't necessarily mean that the app accessed your GPS location.

Depending on your device, actual access might be shown, I recently installed an Epson printer and while the app needed location permission, it did not access might coordinates, it only scanned for wifi networks.
Don't even need a special mark, the sensor's physical uniqueness is enough: https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/13/16771854/researchers-stu...
I remember the advice to buy a brother circa 2015-2017. Apparently it has changed? Personally unsure, I just bought one, as I worked backwards from "which printer has the cheapest toner" and it is still brother.

There is no way to force the business models to keep printing on a full cartridge that has met its page limit(per reviews on Amazon), and the salesman at a store told me brothers have replaceable parts in them now besides the toner carts that they force you to replace.
The default assumption should always be that everything is backdoored, _especially_ these "privacy-first" products
Well, I guess that's what you get for constantly airing misinformation.
Chess is special case. Women are allowed to play in men torunaments. Not reverse.
There are even special rules (since 1976) which specifically says that women cannot be prevented from participating based on gender (it wasn't clear to Indians at this time).
Some (Judit Polgár,Vera Menchik) almost never played in woman ones.
Chess rating system didn't take take gender into account but in 1986 active woman chess players excpt Susan Polgár got small bonus to rating.

There is research from 2007 ( https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejsp.440 ) which shows that if is via Internet and women thinks their opponent are men - they show worse results. If gender is not known to both sides - results are mostly same.

It's not currently clear if M2F transgenders should be allowed to play in women competitions.
Install WSL with a single command now available in Windows 10 and 11
Right! It is all about software, and that in turn is all about culture.

That should have been clear long ago but we keep looking for a more rigid mechanistic source of human exceptionalism. This review clears the air. Lovely!

You can also read my 1988 review: The Control of Neuron Number that is cited in Suzana Herculano—Houzel’s Frontiers paper. The older Annual Review is open access here:

http://www.nervenet.org/papers/NUMBER_REV_1988.html

And brain microevolution is definitely mosaic as shown by in a 2012 Nature Communications paper;
https://pubmed.ncbi.nih.gov/23011133

My only tweak to this review would be to note that variation WITHIN species is actually close to 2-fold when sample size includes many individuals—100 or more. This is the case in quantitative studies of mice, and this is likely true for humans too.
> They don't allow anonymous whistleblowing though

Their website [0] says: "Complaints can be anonymous", "You can provide information anonymously"

> and all Tor traffic is blocked too

They also accept complaints by email, snail mail, and fax. One could use an anonymous emailer to contact them (Mixmaster, Mixminion, etc) over email.

> It's all pretty much in line with "We say we're fighting corruption, but in reality Hell No... we have things in place to ensure it can't be stopped".

I think it is more likely that the blocking Tor is most likely caused by the thoughtless cookie-cutter implementation of government cybersecurity "best practices", combined with a generous helping of technological cluelessness, as opposed to any nefarious motive. Hanlon's razor is apposite.

[0] https://www.ibac.vic.gov.au/reporting-corruption/report
Simplisticly they do the same as you when you think about the building blocks or components of an app. They just do it at that dreaded "higher level".

Higher level can be a bit ambiguous. Typically it's systems (ALL the apps in your org, their purpose, interrelationships, security, and so on).

The good ones are able to identify, analyse and optimise processes, old and new tech, finance, and regulations the Co. is bound by (know your customer, HIPAA, GDPR and so on). They talk to C-level boss types and make a case for whatever they're making a case for.

They do stuff like tracking and magaging risk and stakeholders, but at a higher level than dev.

They (the good ones) also sleep less than you do, and know EVERYTHING about coffee.

I've been doing this for some time and wrote down some of the things I learnt - https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Work/Consulting.aspx
Can you elaborate how you fake the heart attack when you are in different situations? Your idea seems really interesting as a life hack. There must be specific ways to clutch your heart?
Vapor-wave is definitely on the meme side. Synth-wave is probably the most "serious" and retro-wave is usually just synonym for the former.
I was pro-lockdown when we didn't have the vaccine, but don't know if all the measures the UK took were necessary to contain the virus, or if, on balance, certain policies didn't cause more harm than good.

For example, public exercise with other people was banned, even though open air transmissibility is low, and exercise improves mental health and coronavirus outcomes.

What also happened, in addition to the above, is that people also avoided hospital treatment, and other illnesses, such as cancer, were deprioritised.

These included young people, who would have not have been statistically at risk of coronavirus, but died unintentionally due to conditions caused by lockdown policies.

In this case, quality of life adjusted years becomes relevant, and you have to justify measures taken primarily to protect the old, over being able to treat the young.

Of course when I say "lockdown" it will have has different meanings, depending on which country one lives in.

I think certainly some lockdown policies have done more harm than good, even though given another pandemic, I would support other lockdown policies, like banning large indoor gatherings.
For what purpose? It's not a medical document anyway.
No, just entering the 5th wave.
Right but I think a point could be made that would say that a claim that a clonal species has lived a long time, also claims that _everything_ alive now is basically the same individual. It's merely "cloned" itself from the very first cell 2 billion years ago.

Clearly that's not what we think.
They had it coming.
We know from multiple accounts from multiple Firefox engineers that Google engineers repeatedly expressed good faith in working together with the Firefox team to get performance parity on major sites like YouTube. We also know that they repeatedly violated this good faith agreement and when confronted could only exclaim, "Oops! Our bad." [1]

This isn't new territory for Google. They did the same thing to Windows Phone, simply excluding any of their products from working on Windows Phone, even when other developers tried to step in and fill the gap. [2]

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has...

[2] https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2013/01/02/micro...
My impression is that TikTok is the most shameless exploiter of curating content to maximize attention. You resign all the control and hope to petition "the algorithm" to change what you get to see -- like some kind of a god that ultimatly controls you, no matter what you sacrifice. They are in a position to spread propaganda and prevent imformation from spreading -- or you from being heard. Even more so, this can be individualized (especially with the rise of virtual influencers). I wonder, if it might eventually be able to change someone's mind by slowly nudging them in the right direction, breaking down pre-existing beliefs and positions. And as youtube, twitter, etc. have shown, one of the main ways to increase addiction is to spread controversy. Have people screem and cry at one another, who wants mediation? Society is being reduced to a means of entertainment.
PlayCanvas is MIT-licensed. https://github.com/playcanvas/engine
Only having 400k after paying mortgage sounds like some equity has been drawn in the past too. Mortgage should be near zero on this.
Depends on the country you're in. Doubt you'd have much luck returning it for this reason in Indonesia.
Companies can't just pay infinity wages. They sell a product for a price, often times the economics start to break down for them. Prices are going to rise and we will probably see a reallocation of workers.
It does sound like he was dyslexic ("for me it was like opening a Chinese newspaper "). But the speed at which he eventually acquired reading and writing doesn't seem consistent with dyslexia; I figure there was some other problem interfering with hiis literacy.
I don’t think quite as many “working/middle class job(s)” were available to single mothers in the 1960s as you seem to be claiming.
I've never seen fizzbuzz defined in such a way that zero or negative numbers are part of the problem.

Typically it is a counting game, starting at 1 and going up to some arbitrary value.
I lnow you're saying that when it comes to GUIs you have to do it manually, but as someone working on the back-end this begs the question: is there no unit tests framework or anything for GUIs ?
I'm always amazed that these kind of devices don't just make the crack in the cliff wider and fail...

A climber falling, even on an elasticated rope, might briefly put 800kg into the cam. The cam itself is effectively a 10:1 lever, so exerts 8000kg in each direction on the rock.

I'm just surprised that something that is already a crack (ie. Has already moved in the past) doesn't sometimes move when 8000kg is applied to it... And if it moves, the climber likely dies.
If you can't go to sleep, the car is not fully self-driving
“She is publishing under her real name”

You are responding to her yet you use the 3rd person. You meant to write:

“You are publishing under your real name”

This is a complicated use of first person and third person:

“She sounds as if she genuinely believes somebody will send her anthrax through the post - do you really believe that is a real possibility or do you think her battle with sexism in the workplace has gone slightly off the rails?”

You meant to write:

“You sound as if you genuinely believe somebody will send you anthrax through the post - do you really believe that is a real possibility or do you think your battle with sexism in the workplace has gone slightly off the rails?”

Since she wrote it, she probably does believe it.
I suspect also that most in your cohort could not afford to pay for some of the pricier information sources (and that actually goes for a lot more people). So sidestepping cheap "establishment bs" might actually be the rational strategy.
Once you've lost the ability to innovate or be original, all you can do is cut costs or raise prices.
Majority of people who work on games are artists and such. Not CS graduates.
Great new conspiracy theory, that the media is purposely trying to make the virus seem worse so people will stay inside looking at ads.

Or further “evidence” that the virus was created by the global elite for wealth and control

Fortunately not many conspiracy theorists likely subscribe to the economist
Big tech’s big week raises fears of ‘Blade Runner future’ of mega-company rule
In case anyone doesn't know, Sky News Australia is their Fox News (same owner).
Non-serious for a topic that very much is, but this "fuck you, low on cyan" meme makes a lot of sense now: https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/d2bwot/printers/
Depends if we are talking about native or web based GUIs, and then the best you can get is automating the user clicking buttons and if the UI changes in some limited ways.

There is no way to properly test UI/UX experiences, even if the test is correct for a button being displayed with the right label, doesn't mean it looks correctly from user experience point of view, yet the test is green.
Just to add to what killtimeatwork said above:

I'm watching what happens when enterprise architecture is done badly, right now. I'm currently assisting a huge agency that is a mish-mash of smaller agencies. Multiple clouds, several data centres, hundreds (if not thousands!) of "apps" and servers. Every combination of bare metal, VMs, and cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. Much of it overlapping or redundant functionality.

It's an unmitigated clusterfuck: A nightmare tangle of interdependencies, band-aids, duplicated systems, inconsistent DR, non-existent DR, partial HA, and on and on.

If you've ever seen a "spaghetti base" in Factorio, it's like that, but as if a hundred players had been building one for a decade. Not just spaghetti, but multiple interwoven styles of spaghetti.

It's hard to explain to someone who hasn't seen it. Recently, someone upgraded a Layer 7 load balancer in a legacy data centre and broke an application in an unrelated Public Cloud because someone hard coded a HOSTS entry for the internal certificate CRL distribution point. Why was a cloud service using legacy internal PKI? Reasons. Why did it need a HOSTS entry? More stupid reasons.

The technical details don't matter, of course. The moral of the story is that because they don't have a good EA at the helm, they're still adding to the spaghetti.

I'm watching this unfold in slow motion. Layers of new stuff just draped over the existing garbage. No uplift. No clean-up. Nothing ever turned off. Just buried under new strata, slowly fossilising.

It's fantastic yet horrifying to watch, like a slow motion shipwreck.
TikTok issued a press release explaining exactly how their recommendation algorithm works.

https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/how-tiktok-recommends-vide...
Ghana’s MPs approve new special prosecutor for corruption
There isnt, just dont expect it to solve the worlds problems or keep things fantastic or great forever.
Ah the typical answer when TDD advocates get challenged at conferences regarding UI testing.

Advocacy works great when only data structures get tested.