skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
50k is really amateur numbers. 50k people have probably already read you comment. Charli Damelio's last post was her eating a bag of Takis for 20 seconds and it got 15 MILLION views. We're just not seeing those numbers in marginalized communities on tiktok but we do see queer creators with top-tier numbers on youtube, facebook, insta, etc. Where's the trans Charli or the obese Charli or the anti-capitalist Charli?

Secondly, you're cherry picking examples. First you can't see how much more exposure these people would have had. Secondly, you're probably not in a country where these people would be invisible to you.

Cherry-picking model minorities isn't helping your case at all. I'm not seeing anything too upsetting to the status quo here or to anything that might threaten tiktok economically. Those voices certainly aren't going to be heard as much. This is like cherry picking popular books, movies, and posters in China and saying, "So where's all the censorship then?" Survivorship bias is at work here, you're only really seeing the survivors.

Its incredible that tiktok literally has admitted to this:

https://www.dazeddigital.com/science-tech/article/50444/1/ti...

Yet somehow the popular HN response is alt-right denial and dismissal of anything that remotely sounds "SJW" to them. Literally after The Intercept and Netzpolitik broke these stories to the public. Its not even in the realm of "wow are they doing this?" As much as it is in the realm of "How much of this are they doing and how much do we not know?"

“TikTok users posting videos with these hashtags are given the impression their posts are just as searchable as posts by other users, but in fact they aren’t,” the report said. “In practice, most of these hashtags are categorised in TikTok’s code in the same way that terrorist groups, illicit substances, and swear words are treated on the platform.”

Its incredible to me that the oppression could not be more obvious, yet bigoted attitudes guarantee that some people will refuse to believe even what tiktok says. The fact that this company is grouping terrorists with queer and disabled people is completely and utterly inexcusable.

Also encouraging vaccinations isn't "propaganda" but sane and safe health policy.
I guess you need to decide what indicator are you trying to optimize: user experience vs cost effectiveness. Evernote's CEO decided for the latter and I believe he's right betting the company on the Electron based clients. This is also understandably infuriating existing users as they lose the biggest feature that was the native feeling of EN. Other features are being slowly added along with some new ones that are arguably useful, but snappiness will not come back.
> [the climate/city layout] makes a car a priority for most people, and cities (including Tempe and neighboring Mesa) design around that

This gets the cause and effect totally backwards. Phoenix and the surrounding cities are all designed for cars at the expense of bikability, transit and walkability, and people need cars because of that. There are lots of walkable cities in places with more uncomfortable climates than Phoenix (ever been to Bangkok?). Walking in Phoenix would be a lot more tolerable if the city wasn’t so spread out and had better public transit.
Quite a lot of the tests in the D compiler suite are compile time only. It makes for running the test suite much faster.

To test ImportC, which inherits D's ability to execute functions at compile time, I've been using a lot of _Static_assert() constructs.

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/a5b16bd8e72a447d509cca862e...
> I don't think these caches are entirely /not worth discussing/

Hmmm... NVidia's is clearly aiming at just punching through the memory-bandwidth problem with GDDR6x (2-bits per clock tick since its got 4-level encoding).

That's the thing, NVidia isn't really pushing memory bandwidth or size limits on the L2 or even L1 cache IMO. Even the 128kB L1$ per SM is only roughly the size of the SM's register space. Their most interesting move really is GDDR6x, which is the brute-force way to solve that problem.

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AMD's "Infinity Cache" on RDNA2 is 128MB of L3$, but AMD is using only standard GDDR6 (1-bit per clock tick transferred). AMD's RDNA2 is very strange: L0, L1, L2, and L3 caches, when AMD GCN was just L1 and L2 layers of cache.

That "infinity cache" is worth talking about I guess... its large enough to be relevant in a number of gaming situations.

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I guess AMD and NVidia are both using HBM at the high end for 1TBps to 2TBps bandwidths. But those chips aren't in the consumer realm anymore. The ultimate brute force solution: spend more money.

You're right in that the L1 and L2 caches (and L0 and L3 caches of AMD) probably do affect performance in real ways.
> So... out of the possible millions of routers TP-Link has sold in this model line, less than 21 are on the public internet

Make that 47,000 of them on Shodan: https://www.shodan.io/search?query=hash%3A-904286784

> 1) These routers all have secured passwords that are non-default.

You have a very interesting definition of "secured" if you think they are all actually secured.

> 2) These routers were deliberately placed on the internet by people that knew enough about them to do so.

Just because they knew enough to click a checkbox doesn't mean they knew enough to do so. If they knew enough, they wouldn't have done so.

You seem to be under the mistaken impression that embedded devices (like consumer routers) don't usually have glaring security holes. But they do.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/859926579836354604/87...
> Open APIs, that's what you need.

Well I agree in principle, but I also agree with you that the big guys aren't going to offer APIs. And even if they were, I think if you rely on some API you are going to be shut down in the long term (remember all those Twitter clients that were using the now defunct Twitter API?).

So, I think the way to go is to base everything on embeds. They are never going to get rid of the ability to embed posts/videos/tweets because it brings more traffic to their sites.

You still need a bit of scraping, in case the service in question doesn't have RSS (Youtube does for example). And yes, with scraping they will try and make your life impossible (dynamic class names etc. to make scraping hard), but you would only need it for discovering the URL of new posts/tweets/videos, and nothing else.
1. Well said, but I would press it further and say that there is at least a pathway for us (human beings) to determine what the actual meaning of the utterance is by considering the context, the speaker, by asking for clarification, and so forth. The problem for the probabilistic/empirical language model is that it can't ever recognize "one right answer", even in theory. That's a problem, because there really is one discoverable meaning to every intentional utterance, even if it's not always successfully understood in practice.

2. How would you go about assigning latent attributes to words?
Not everyone appreciates satire the way I do
Advertising targets1 trust Google. There is no reason for them not to trust this company. Google has the privacy of its advertising targets as its highest priority.

Mozilla gets 90+% of it operating budget via a deal with Google, but Firefox developement is not influenced at all by Chrome. Totally independent.

Big Tech exists for users, not advertisers. Privacy must come first and money must come second. Thats why we have more privacy than ever and Google does not make much money. Government regulation is totally unnecessary. All incentives are aligned toward greater privacy.

Google will "build a more private web" for its advertising targets. Sorry advertisers. :(

1. Also known as "users".
??? Maybe if your userbase is tiny. As soon as it reaches even a 100-200 people someone will compile the source and distribute it for free or copy and resell it cheaper. they sure as heck aren’t orthogonal concepts in practice.
1 is a quintessential first world problem. If the value prop of the neighborhood is good people won't care how it looks.

2 is doing to doom it long term though IMO
Radio free Europe doesn’t have a good record of credibility, certainly much less than even the New York Times or Washington Post.

This reads a lot like clickbait.
https://www.storj.io uses minio underneath, but they treat minio with respect, as a partner and pay their cut
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. It seems perfectly reasonable for the EU's website to adhere to its own rules.
This has gone meta now and the search link just links back to this HN article.
Sure, but the standard doesn't say anything about it, leaving implementers rather a lot of freedom.

LispWorks even claims to have a real-time GC![1]

[1] http://www.lispworks.com/products/myths_and_legends.html
Non-priests view the archives frequently and there is a slow process of digitizing them now. It just so happens that the Vatican has some of the oldest documents still in existence and don't want them damaged by people or light.
Hackers have stolen $600m from Poly Network
> and a gold medal winner (in the Soviet Union, the top graduates from each high school were awarded a gold medal - goes to show how they valued academics I suppose).

I'm not sure where in Canada you moved to, but there are Governor General awards [1] to the top graduating students. It's bronze for top high school graduate, silver for bachelor's, and gold for higher degrees.

[1] https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/governor-generals-awards/govern...
TikTok's algorithm is just pre 2017 YT and FB cranked up by 100X. For some reason the media hasn't gone after TikTok yet for pushing people into "echo chambers" but they basically just feed the most engaging content with no breaks on the train.

I read an article about the parent company and they have one of the most popular news app in India as well despite none of the engineers being able to read what content is being pushed to the top, they just let their machine learning push the most "engaging" content, which is basically stuff that is controversial, creates anger, etc.
What is the thing you think needs to be "resolved"? If it's dispute over the names of languages, I'm not sure that was the nature of any dispute in these 19th century examples, or if it did, if it was ever "resolved" by anything except power to impose it.
That’s a dept of agriculture checkpoint, not a customs checkpoint.
>The value of the goods, services, business, and real estate that those people collectively control.

You're asserting that the people collectively control the capital wealth (goods, services, businesses, real estate) of the country. This has been tried by more than a few countries but the folks that do try to do this are often labeled "communists" and toppled by US and European interests.

>how did China shift from being poor to being not poor?

China shifted from being poor to not being poor by asserting that control over its capital wealth, and thus far has been able to avoid having its institutions undermined by the west. Not that it hasn't[1] been[2] tried[3].

1. https://www.politico.com/newsletters/weekly-trade/2021/07/19...

2. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

3. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-49317695
Could you reference a bug url? I tried to find it via tracker.ceph.com but failed to do so (I don't claim that the problem doesn't exist). That said referencing a bug url would be nice if you want to increase credibility of your claim.
We're all remote so behind home NATs etc. Didn't expect the outage to last as long as it did.
Why do you hate animal cognition ?
I don't really get TikTok. I guess I'm just an old fart.
I agree, but I would say the situation is not so good elsewhere. See my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28135648
> $100M is a huge amount in these shallow markets.

Is it? What are your sources?
>Does this mean employee agreements are up for renegotiating?

Yes, absolutely, 100%, every single job offer I ever laid eyes on has this sort of language:

"You agree you are an employee at will"

"Nothing about this offer should be constitute a guarantee of future employment"

"Either you or {company} may terminate this agreement at any time for any reason or no reason at all"

And even once "this job offer is not an employment contract."

Stuff like that. You only avoid it if you have a union that negotiated an actual contract for you.

Google has decided to end that original agreement and offer you a different one. You can take it or leave it.

>I'd imagine a few employee lawsuits on breach of contract that will test that.

Lol, no, its extremely common for employers to change compensation or benefits unilaterally without notice, at the very least it usually happens every couple years when insurance rates are renegotiated and new benefits packages are put together.

I once worked somewhere where on a random Friday an email went out saying "we will no longer have any 401k match." Bam, I just lost thousands of dollars in compensation with no warning or fanfare. A few weeks later it was another email - "here's the new PTO accrual." A week vacation taken away from me, just like that.
>the short and fast phased nature of the TikTok content

Ahh, so it's Twitter for video... is this good? It's my impression that there's a growing consensus that Twitter's content length restriction optimizes for shallow hot takes and angry mobs.
Woah! Never thought this would be crawled by the google bot. Thanks for sharing
I have no idea what you’re getting at. How are movies a counterpoint? Movies and streaming services are paid products. And no one is forcing you to make software that spies on people as an indie dev? In fact if you are able to make a living through selling software you have less incentive to collect user data and sell it as a revenue stream. Most products that are free are those where the your data is being sold for is exactly that reason.
Because it does not give a shit about your privacy, equality, inclusion, misinformation.
I watched a crack head at the park look for something on the ground for an hour once. Clearly there is an upper bound for human intelligence as well /s
Congrats to the Parsec team, I'm a big fan of the service. Perhaps I'm out of touch, but it seems like $320M is a bit low, although I know it was still somewhat niche. Twitch turned out to be a huge bargain at $1B. These server-intensive video streaming services seem to require a lot of engineering and opex, although maybe Parsec was mostly on the client. It looks like they raised 2 rounds last year A at $7M in May and B at $25M in Dec- but I couldn't find a valuation. I guess that's nice cashflow for those investors, but I would think they would rather swing for the fences, no?
Ah yes, nothing like building a "sustainable" community in the dessert.

Yes, there's sarcasm in there.

But part of long term human sustainability is well, figuring out the areas we should not fight the environment ( more than reasonable ) to be able to sustain a human population.
> If you want away from it bad enough

This vastly understates the nature of addicting technologies and the psychological tricks used to ensnare users and keep their attention. Willpower is the oft-cited by never sufficient commodity used to deflect blame to the individual. No neuroscientist in her right mind would tell you that all it takes is willpower. If that were true, then addiction, to gambling, tobacco, and drugs, and physical inactivity wouldn't exist.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9311924/
NYC is exceptional. Manhattan is dense enough you can hail a cab on demand. The same can not be said for the rest of the country. Uber may never be competitive in Manhattan but they don't need to.

In much of the country, a ten minute drive would take over an hour on public transit if you take infrequent headways into account. And that is when it is possible to take public transit.
> many of which are dead

They could all be receiving hugs of death from the HN traffic.
I’m asking this from a genuine place of curiosity, because last time I checked a few years ago the answer was “terrible”. Has the “save a file locally and load it again later” story for SPAs improved any?
Lately, Shodan’s results are not as good as in the past. I think they are scanning less aggressively.

I always recommend to watch at least both Censys and Shodan.

https://censys.io/
I made this e-commerce site a while back for fun - personally I thought the idea of mocking cocaine with similarities among one of the most commonly consumed drugs would be funny and presumably somewhat obvious. Funny enough it ended up with me getting banned from Tinder - which is surprisingly hard to come back from.

I think I took it too far when I put my job as Dealer @ miamiyayo.com - but then again there was no confirmation of this oneway or the other.
I think NYC is not a great example, as it's one of the few places in the US with a decently-good public transit system, and the density to support a large-enough number of taxis.

In SF, Uber (and Lyft), despite the higher prices, is still much better than the alternatives for most trips. I suspect the same is true for many other places, especially for trips in/out/adjacent to a dense city.

I'm thinking of things like when I visit my sister in Maryland. I fly into Dulles, get an Uber/Lyft, and I'm there in 25-30 minutes at a cost of around $35-40. I could take the new silver metro line into DC (pre-pandemic it wasn't finished, so you'd have to take a bus from Dulles to the nearest completed station), and then the red line back out, but then the trip is around 90 minutes (plus getting my sister to drive me 8 minutes from the nearest metro station). Much cheaper, certainly, but orders of magnitude less convenient.
Interesting, no one seems to be talking about SnapChat any more.
The Azolla Event
An exploited WASM module can affect all the things it has access to, just like an exploited OS process can affect all the things it has access to. Agreed.

Where we disagree is when you refuse to acknowledge that these two isolation systems can have vastly different access. The key thing to observe is that WASM's access is configurable; yes that means it could be up to the same level of access as a process if you're an idiot and give it that, but it could also be much more locked down than a process ever could be and in fact that's the point of using WASM. A process can attack the entire kernel via all syscalls, the entire filesystem, anything accessible over the network, any devices attached to the computer, etc, etc.

If you write a game plugin architecture based on WASM and only give it access to affect entities in your game (and you're careful to treat its output as if it came from a potentially malicious remote server), there's nothing that the WASM plugin can do to break out, it can't attack arbitrary resources on your computer. Configured properly, at best you could compare WASM to a locked down SELinux process, but WASM is so much more portable that it's basically a new category of thing.
'nakedsecurity' is definitely the wrong hostname for this post -- or the absolutely right one :)
When you include omitted results, you’ll get the entire set of ~7000. The each result is nearly identical, so Google will initially filter them out.
Does this mean that our beloved search engine is narcissist. Overqualifying its capabilities. Or thinks that it found everything useful already.
Raising prices. Even with higher prices they will still be relevant in much of the country where there is no credible alternative than to drive.
And how would that be packed into a landing shell?
Uber's Rides business has been EBITDA positive since the IPO.
Facebook has a problem with misinformation - it's just that their problem isn't the same as what people assume their problem is.

"Misinformation" tends to be spectacularly engaging content - which is quite profitable.

People upset about misinformation on Facebook tend to use Facebook less, which is less profitable.

The ideal solution for Facebook is that they can show misinformation to people they know will outrage-scroll as a result, while not showing misinformation to people who might be upset about Facebook not really having done much about it.

"Transparency" extensions and such violate this, badly. You might find out what sort of ads Facebook shows your aunt out one side of their site while talking about how they're combatting misinformation on the other.

They've solved the problem.
Thanks! SeaweedFS has a linearly scalable architecture and performs much better.

It is also very easy to run. Just run this: "docker run -p 8333:8333 chrislusf/seaweedfs server -s3"
There’s validity to both sides. I used to spend so, so much time reading Wikipedia, watching documentaries, memorizing trivia for school tests. just trying to absorb sheer amounts of knowledge in a variety of subjects.

In hindsight, I would have been better off spending that time experiencing real life and learning real, tangible, applicable skills.

There’s definitely a balance to it :)
This is a great question.

My point of view is if you can't deliver new features you become the incumbent and new player will replicate those features with lower cost or better execution. Also, the ball is moving: newer apps are heavy on features like backlinking that could not be delivered with the glacial release cycles of the "good old Evernote".

I understand that EN is still the best on being the ultimate digital repository, but as a "digital brain" the market has slightly moved towards the PKM space (see Obsidian, Notion, and so on).
Coinlib says USD trading volume today was $193M vs $5.2B in 3%-backed ersatz dollars (USDT). So that's 60% of a day's entire trading volume globally.

[1] https://coinlib.io/coin/BTC/Bitcoin
Well… most towns/subdivisions with zealous planning suck. The best cities in the world appear to be very organically grown. Maybe this is an illusion?
Just because it's a desktop client doesn't mean it's not using webrtc. WebRTC is a much broader standard than "in-browser videoconferencing".

The main thing is that it's an open(ish) standard built around peer-to-peer low latency connections, with a lot of software already built up around using it.

[edit] Ah I guess I'm wrong they use a proprietary thing outside the browser after all that they call BUD. https://blog.parsec.app/game-streaming-tech-in-the-browser-w...

Still I suspect that there's some cross-pollination there.
I think I could say similar arguments, but for supporting privacy, instead of transparency. The imbalance of power absolutely arises from the information asymmetry, but we can't really design a system where everyone is equally watched, because some will have ways to hide some of their information, and therefore increase their power, and by that power hide even more information. Until you deny humans every form of autonomy, they'll have ways to achieve this, and will strive for this, and so transparency not just doesn't work, but in fact makes the power imbalance even worse.

Also, I don't think you can embrace transparency, no matter how much you'd like to, because of how humans work.
How they work is of course not objectively described (yet), but the importance of privacy is recognized in places like the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, which describes individual privacy not less than a basic human right. Or, looking at the opposite, constant exposure can lead to things like the Chilling Effect, which, in layman terms, means always-on self-censoring due to constantly being watched, and therefore exposed to consequences. Which would indicate of the failure of the people embracing transparency.
> Bitmex is absolutely legit and it is disturbing that charges against their founders continue

When you say "absolutely legit" what exactly do you mean? That they clearly have anti-money laundering programs in place?

Or do you mean they are "absolutely legit" in the sense that they created a foreign entity that shouldn't be held to U.S. anti-money laundering laws?