skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I first discovered the app when it was Musically but I was scared away by peer pressure, even then had a bad reputation. Then I noticed that the icon changed(or read an article about it becoming something else, not sure), gave it another shot secretly. I still don't have friends who use TikTok, at least that's what they say but they laugh to videos stolen from TikTok all day. They are late of course.

According to iPhone's screen time I use TikTok 29 minutes a day on average. For contrast, it says 2 hours 15 minutes for Twitter.[0]

I need to cut Twitter down, I mostly doomscroll on Twitter whenever I get bored. TikTok is great before sleep, I don't get the urge to check it all the time, I don't feel FOMO.

[0]: Here is my usage data: https://ibb.co/Ytb6Hbt
There is about 80 billion being used in defi right now and growing, I'd say that they are "doing finance" pretty well. The scams are outliers, comparable to the number of scams pulled over the internet in general. Calling them kids is just rude, save your ad hominem attacks for another site.
Same here but could it be that we have very old GV accounts that are not updated in some kind of number portability database?
> "Rich" countries should not be allowed to externalize their environmental concerns.

Morally sound, but how would you enforce that?

> What makes a country "poor" but the value placed on the lives of the people in it?

The value of the goods, services, business, and real estate that those people collectively control.

> The resource-rich countries of Africa and South America are considered "poor" because the US and Europe see their people and institutions as expendable and replaceable.

Assuming this is true, how did China shift from being poor to being not poor? Did they make their institutions unexpendable and irreplaceable, or did they do something else?
A better service with better tech than taxis can make money. The market for the necessary backend services ends up looking like some hybrid of the market for web hosting and the market for geospatial data and services hosting:

Mostly open source software.

Competition is largely on price.

Plenty of small entrants into the market, fewer big providers, lots of resellers.

Many of the 'apps' are white-label skins on the necessary backend services, others are self-hosting the infra. Some local governments operate these services as utilities.

So, the software opportunity looks a lot like Automattic (the makers of Wordpress software and operators of the wordpress.com hosting service), which is a privately held company and valued at $3B.
In the dialogs I have seen so far, the "legitimate interest" page was always a perfect carbon-copy of the "consent" page - with the only difference that the "consent" options were off by default while the "legimate interest" options were on by default.

I understand that, legally, the buttons represent different actions (not giving consent vs objecting a legitimate interest claim) but practically, the only purpose the "legitimate interest" page seems to serve is as a way to have on-by-default options that are still borderline legal.

I can't imagine this is in the spirit of the law.
While that is true, I think most queries would involve parameters of some sort, so those would need to be fiddled with at the very least after pasting to your code, plus you'd also want to format them so they don't look that out of place. And at that point you've likely got a single maybe-weirdly indented query that appears as a plain string, which is fine if you have just a couple but can get a little tricky if you have a larger application.

I'm not super religious about this - a colleague and I were discussing Hangfire.io's SQL Server code which has inline SQL[0] and we ended up agreeing that it's fine - but if I'm writing an application with a SQL backend I'm definitely leaning towards using something like EF in .NET

[0] = https://github.com/HangfireIO/Hangfire/blob/master/src/Hangf...
Those taxi medallion returns were a con from small groups of insiders.[0]

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/19/nyregion/nyc-taxis-medall...
And I can count on one hand the number of programs I use that are over 1MB
Sure it will. I had to take a regular taxi today. I couldn't convince the driver to give me a flat rate or quote to my destination but I needed to be home and taking the train would have been over an hour.

So, I got in the taxi thinking it would be around 60EUR (what an Uber usually costs). The taxi cost me over 100EUR to get home in 30 mins vs. 1 hour. I should have gotten an Uber but I was too exhausted to think of it and figured a regular taxi would be in the ballpark of an Uber.

Uber can give me a price before I even request a car. No taxi can do that atm and I don't think demand would go down because prices are increased.

If I knew it would have cost me 100EUR+ to be home in 30 minutes after spending all day in airports and planes, would I still have paid that much? I probably would've hesitated, but I think I'd still have pushed the button.
My car will literally hit the brakes for me if I am about to crash into something. A router marketed to a non-professional should do the same.
Definitely agree! I would recommend the YouTube channel "Not Just Bikes" which has a series about the book Strong Towns and in general focuses on better city planning: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0intLFzLaudFG-xAvUEO-A

The terrible layouts of US cities and neighbourhoods are what keep me in Europe. There is nothing you can do in the US without a car because it's so car dependent and it wastes so much time compared to walking or biking places. The beautifully walkable cities you find in Europe are so much more enjoyable to live in.
> "Why aren't more communities built this way?"

I chose to buy a house in Ballard Seattle just so I could be near things and not have to drive (along with a bunch of streets shutdown for bike/pedistrian traffic + the Burke Gilman bike trail). It costs a lot more, and we don't have a huge yard, but you can get those things without going for a planned community if you don't mind some urban living.

When I lived in SLC I got most of the same thing (living near U of U in an old Victorian). Well, the biking was a bit harder, no trails, but it was easy enough (maybe I was just younger then, however).
It's more of a polyarchy. The U.S. system is unique (originally but unremarkable today) in two respects: written constitution, and not a monarchy. Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. Madison

The argument against the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation, is that the federal government had essentially no power. The argument against the second, it it's effectively created a presidential democracy, or unitary executive. It's a model our diplomats expressly avoided when helping other countries write a constitution. It's fragile, and while it's so far been stable in the U.S. it's possible we've just been lucky so far.

But a polyarchy doesn't guarantee democracy, even representative democracy. It certainly wasn't pluralistic at its founding: white, male, land owners. It took a long time to unwind that and here we are with most states in one form or another trying to make it harder for people to vote. Can a democracy democratically undemocratize itself? Sure.

If it wants to weaken or even obsolete democracy, by any combination of action or inaction, that's what will happen. One of the classic examples is the principate period of the Roman Empire. It had the veneer of a democracy, including having a senate, but there was an emperor who had all the real authority. That period lasted over 200 years, so it's not like we'd necessarily see the end to elections, laws, casting aside the constitution, or any of the other institutions we think display proof of "democracy".
Per the latest earnings release on https://investor.fb.com on July 28:

* Facebook daily active users (DAUs) – DAUs were 1.91 billion on average for June 2021, an increase of
7% year-over-year.

* Facebook monthly active users (MAUs) – MAUs were 2.90 billion as of June 30, 2021, an increase of
7% year-over-year.

* Family daily active people (DAP) – DAP was 2.76 billion on average for June 2021, an increase of 12%
year-over-year.

* Family monthly active people (MAP) – MAP was 3.51 billion as of June 30, 2021, an increase of 12%
year-over-year.

It's hard to show large growth rates when you already count most of the +16, non-Chinese internet population as your users, but it doesn't look like an apex.
This waste is very toxic and very expensive to dispose of properly. Hence, Polish gangs make a ton of money by charging western industrial clients for properly disposing of their toxic waste, and then just dumping this waste wherever in Poland. There were probably hundreds of cases of discovered illegal toxic waste dumps across Poland in the past years (and who knows how many were not discovered yet). Just in one recent case, the city of Sosnowiec will have to pay around 20 million euros (a non-negligible part of the city budget) to dispose of waste left in one lot by some gang.

Fortunately, Polish authorities are slowly catching up to this and are creating special police units dedicated to fight this kind of crime.
Step 1: Get copies of pictures of targets kid in bath from phone/SNS

Step 2: Manipulate pictures so that hash collides with CSAM

Step 3: Get pictures back on targets phone so they get scanned.

I don't have the skills or understanding of how the hashes are created but would this be possible?

>At first, you would need a real hash to even try (which are hidden).

How are the hashes hidden? It looks like they are shared:
https://www.thorn.org/reporting-child-sexual-abuse-content-s...
You act as if the typescript compiler and source-maps suddenly stopped working once they're out of the core.

I think you're hugely underselling the value that deno provides as a tool and attribute too much virtue to TS.

Maybe the advertisement for deno had it backwards. If people knew how much better it is than node, it'd gain significantly more traction.
Instead they just think it's "that typescript" thing and ignore it. If deno dies it's probably because of that typescript shadow, not despite of it.
"Did you go to High School with the rampant bullying"

Do adults have judgement of pre-pubernecent 14 year olds? I mean, maybe some do, but...
Do you stretch it on a countertop, or do you spin it?
I find Facebook fascinating. I started using it later than most, maybe 2 years ago. What stopped me from using it was, everyone I knew that was on it never said anything positive about it. They got upset over deleting "their friends" who they never met. They talked about how annoying the cat videos were. In sum, I sensed they received nothing positive from it. I could never understand how people could get so attached to something they downright hate.

Instagram became a uh... a bunch of advertisers advertising to each other. I think 9 out of 10 photos are promotional material. Nothing personal, nothing funny, nothing enlightening. Most all of my friends stopped using it about 1 year ago. I won't get into reasons why, but I think you can add 2 and 2 together.

TikTok just feels more genuine. If someone is dancing, what are they trying to sell? Nothing at all. It's amazing how much talent is on that app. It's only a matter of time before the marketers figure it out and destroy that app too.
Allegedly there is a problem with thieves burning these piles to get the steel belts inside the tires which hold some value.
E-bikes are game changers, agree there. I'll take a 15 mile bike ride on my e-bike and it's a breeze with pedal assist.
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Yeah, but trading volume is not liquid cash. It's not the exchange's money. They make money on fees / commissions, but they can't just dip into the customer funds and use them to pay the government.
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In effect though, this is location pay discrimination which only makes sense if you believe the remote people have viable onsite alternatives where they are that drives their market salary.

If they are only going to work remotely (i.e. in a remote market), I don't see how this works steady-state. If there's no benefit to having an employee in SF vs. Austin, I'll just start paying a premium to non-SF residents and pull away non-SF talent from Google. Eventually, this should all equalize to remote workers being paid equally.
That is why they talk about having a manual review process. So that when someone wealthy or politically connected triggers the system there is a review.
Honestly, I think they nailed their target demographic for the lie they are trying to sell.
>Take a look at the video demo. It takes natural text in a box and generates code. Copilot was super-autocomplete, so the interface was writing code in an IDE that it filled out for you.

No it wasn't, you can literally describe, in natural text, what you want in a comment and CoPilot will do its best to generate a complete method based on that comment. It seemed like it was so auto-compltely because that focussed on the "helping the developer" part.

I'm fairly sure CoPilot could have shown something similar if they had a demo where you could make something visual easily, like HTML + Javascript/Typescript/whatever scripting language. They're using exactly the same model (Codex) after all.
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Sure it's vapid and I'm glad I've aged out of feeling I need to participate in any of these things.

But it's great to see competition with SV, competition FAANG, competition with the US even. It's not a solution, but it's a breath of fleetingly fresh error for everyone sick of endless monopoly, acquisitions, and "tech nationalism for me, free trade and dependency for thee".
Not exactly. I seek out entertainment all the time and yet I’m not surprised that I couldn’t look away.

With this app, responses mostly revolve around the novelty of being tricked into binge watching. Not necessarily the enjoyment of said entertainment.
Or you could just not waste your time with social media or the news in general.

If you didn't check social media or have any input from a new sources in the past 2 weeks what would you have missed?

The NASDAQ went down then back up?

Real news could be done with a single web page that updates weekly. Even if monthly you wouldn't really miss out on much of anything important.
I'm intrigued, could you elaborate on how you ran it? Was it a one-day event, or something people did in their 10% time, or something else?
The issue is likely the general purpose potentially network attached computer should not be trusted for the safety critical portion of the system such as power control and monitoring. That should be a fully isolated computer with a light weight communications protocol with the host over SPI/I2C etc. The isolated processor can run an RTOS with some deadline guarantees as well then. If the host is compromised, the physical hardware cannot be controlled past trivial (audited) requests issued to the isolated processor.

Also on top of that, not joking but the Pi hardware, even the compute model, is not very good quality compared to typical industrial computers assigned to or designed for these tasks.

The only reason people do this with the pi is to trade safety for cost savings which is a stupid idea when you’re playing with hundreds of amps.
Sadly we don't yet have top tier compile time tests like rust does (https://perf.rust-lang.org/). We have a history of CI durations over time, but this is a rough metric given that we both optimize our CI constantly and testing on github vms isn't the cleanest environment.

I run `cloc` on our repo every so often, but this also isn't a "metric" we drive down.

We can (and should) build up testing infrastructure for all of this.
> Life is made to be lived, not for working.

> Where people can have a decent life without being forced to work if it is not a choice.

Who will choose to work rather than get something for free?

I'll tell you: the same people who would pay taxes if it were not mandated by the threat of jail - that is, people who contribute to charity.

That is typically less than 1% of earnings.

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

I believe very few people will choose to work, and therefore "decent lives" for the masses can not be maintained with this little work.
Thanks for the feedback. Our observation has been that people primarily seek out mentorship to help them make decisions and offer guidance on topics that affect them on a personal level. We have kept the categories where we see users coming back frequently and dating seems to do that because the advice tends to be personal by nature. I hear you that it is very different that career type of advice, though. Appreciate the input.
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I don't see why anyone would call this a "neighborhood". As far as I can tell, it's just a single apartment complex that doesn't have parking, right?
It is, but it shouldn't have to in the first place.
I just borrow the kids' used softdrink PET bottles for a while. No need to wash them out or anything, just rinse out the few leftover drops of Coke or 7-Up first time you fill it up, and switch to a fresh one after a while, let them recycle the old one.
>Luxury towncar services however did the trick. This was before Uber/Lyft of course.

That's what I use exclusively. Would never trust a taxi where I live and certainly not Uber/Lyft to have sufficient network to pick me up. But my company is usually paying.
900 Bitcoin are mined each day. If we make two assumptions we can get an estimate of how much fiat enters the markets each day:

* Bitcoin mining is an efficient market and there are no profits

* Bitcoin miners sell all of the bitcoin they mine

These assumptions aren't exactly realistic but over the long run they should actually be close enough to the truth. Given those assumptions, at current market rates then an extra $41,121,180 has to enter the markets each day to keep prices stable, assuming buy/sell demand is otherwise equal.

More than that wanting to enter, prices go up, less, prices go down. Leaving aside price manipulation by Tether, Binance etc (THIS is a big assumption, but the exercise is still valuable I think).

So, the fine is only 2.5x the daily excess needed to keep prices stable. Shouldn't have a giant effect.

(You may wonder, if no profits, what are the miners doing? Essential the bitcoin network is an organized effort to take capital, acquire coal, and burn it. Contrary to "store of value" claims, literally all money invested into bitcoin either gets burned up, or goes to pay someone who entered bitcoin previously. It's an entirely negative sum game, with guaranteed capital losses in aggregate. However, this added $100 million is not a meaningful amount in view of the actual scale of energy burnt each year to run the network. It might be a meaningful amount of Bitmex's capital, but likely this won't wreck them on its own.)
If there is ever a proper market crash, I feel that most of these startups built on endless VC-supplied liquidity and unfavorable unit economics will just wither away.
You are both correct, but the comment you were replying to was definitely written in a way that feels misleading about "increased enrollment in higher level math classes in high school".

TL;DR from someone who read the full article: that change caused an increase in Precalculus enrollment and a decrease in AP Calculus enrollment.

Which I don't really feel good about. The quote closer to the end made me feel even worse:

>“For so long, people have held up this idea that AP Calculus is the gold standard (for college admission),” Lizzy Hull Barnes said, a district math supervisor

And those kids haven't entered college at the time of writing, and the article points out that they indeed don't know how this change will affect college admission prospects of those students. Time will tell, and hopefully my bad feeling about this change was misplaced. But given that this was written over 2 years ago (so most of those high school students have graduated by now), and we haven't had a follow-up "this change brought us some great benefits" article, I am afraid the results might have not shown any benefits of this approach.
What a dystopian world we live in when people/companies can just plainly and publicly say that they don’t agree and won’t comply with a binding law with supervision mechanisms and penalties, and still have the general public believe that there’s nothing we can do about it...

And mind you: we’re not (just) talking about the top-5 tech companies and 0.01% here. This attitude is shares by almost every other company out there, and I have a feeling (based on anecdata) that the issue is even worse in smaller companies who think they don’t have to comply because they’re small or because they’re a startup or because they just need to “move fast and break things”… and we seem to accept that…
> many small businesses rely on precise targeting today.

And many businesses relied on CFCs as coolants before they got forbidden. they found a solution.

Regulation can also be a source of innovation if it forces businesses to think of alternative, less harmful ways to solve a problem.
Microsoft's Game Pass xcloud service for iOS leverages Rainway, a competitor to Parsec. As a user of both I can say that Parsec outperforms Rainway although Rainway works in the browser.

Seems like Unity is looking to build a similar stack with Parsec at the helm, but I guess we'll see...
We can make those inferences with the additional information too, more informed inferences even
> Google and MS are certainly no better so Linux alternatives seem the only option now

Yes, if privacy is your concern, you're at best delaying the problem by choosing a commercial OS.
You'd think but look at Mt. Gox.
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Shhhh....you'll ruin the illusion. It's marketing aimed at a narrowly defined demographic that is highly attuned for this kind of imagery (Heaven on Earth, for some). As a ruse, it's rather well-done.
Images are easier to manipulate and show less context so it’s definitely less shallow in that sense. TikTok also has a more personal and comedic culture in my experience.
I turned off all the notifications I had to practice language. They happened at whatever time they happen, which is always when I'm in the middle of something else. What I do instead is, I have a certain time of day that I do my intensive study, because that takes a chunk of concentration time and was never going to happen unless I actually made time for it. And I get through my flashcards in little spurts; I just do 5 or ten of the whenever I have to wait a minute on a recompile or integration tests or wait on the microwave oven or whatever.

A good, effective habit is one that is internalized like that. I really don't think you can effectively replace it with an external interruption.

I especially see gamification as problematic for learning things. It seems to me to be a 21st century version of teaching to the test. You end up learning what's easy to gamify instead of what you should be learning. If that's literally the only way you can motivate yourself, I suppose you've got to do what you've got to do. But, if you will take for the sake of argument that learning a language is a means to an end, and not an end in and of itself, my experience with Duolingo is that I got really good at using the language to earn achievements on Duolingo. My real goal, though, is using the language to read books and have conversations. So I've had much better results with (non-gamified) language learning methods where the reward for my work is getting to do the thing I actually want to do: reading books and having conversations.