skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what impact the chemicals in the smoke have on the water treatment plant that is visible nearby
What makes it good other than being addictive?
If social media is defined by "sharing ideas with other people" is TikTok even social media? Or is it more like Netflix?
I'm just getting tired of seeing SHOCKED faces everywhere. Clearly, exaggerated faces lead to video views but I'm growing so averse to seeing it.
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Because they don’t add value. Uber has a thousand engineers. Joe’s Taxi has zero.

The people who are focused on the app crap use Uber and avoid the cab that is 10 feet away.

The restaurant crap is even more ridiculous. It literally takes the customer 5x more time to order a pizza on an app. I’ll call and say “Hi, I’m Spooky23, two cheese pizza and garlic knots” and I’m done.
> The hack that everyone is discussing here was on Poly Network, which a layer 2 solution for Ethereum [7]

It's not. Polygon != Poly Network. See this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28132755
I'm a huge fan of TikTok because after years of content stagnation and dullness, the internet is fun again. Especially places like Twitter and Instagram are outrage and depression inducers for me, consumed together it feels like the society is collapsing but everyone is living a perfect life at the same time.

The China thing is touchy but I want the west to beat them by being better, not by being dismissive and protectionist.

I guess by now everyone has heard of their legendary discovery algorithm so I'm not going there but recently I noticed that some of my favourite creators from the Youtube etc. are on TikTok and their material is much nicer to consume there. Why? I think this is because of the short and fast phased nature of the TikTok content. Instead of publishing 10 to 30 min videos(AFAIK Youtube encourages that, it is also good for the revenue), they put together a short video that shows the gist of the subject. They will also be much more responsive, quickly replying with short videos to the comments. It's a very dynamic place.

One exception for me is Nile Red, I love watching his 40 min chemistry videos. Actually, there are a few more YouTubers who's content works best on YouTube but I'm watching far less and I have more spare time now.

Maybe the medium is the message still holds? Maybe people are now ready to hear the message of the TikTok?
Depends how leveraged you are - personally with that level I'd be able to pass that on to my kids if needed. One of us is printing free money at least.
Why ever the fuck anyone would want autoplay, especially of unsolicited random content, must simply be... They actually don't! Which begs the inquiry of why it is so ruthlessly, relentlessly foisted on us. The answers are, to me, obvious, but apparently not to be uttered above one's breath. I'll do it anyway:

Browser (noun) - advertisement/surveillance platforms, some of which can be modified (by some) to exhibit secondary browsing capabilities.
I figured I would be dragged kicking and screaming into using TikTok. At first it was my youngest friends, then my same-age friends, and now my older family members. Really Uncle Steve? It's fine, I like to be in the know, but I will continue to draw my line at SnapChat.
WHO was largely denying the possibility of airborne transmission as late as July 2020.

https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/71/9/2311/5867798
Curiosly, I just checked and I have:

* media.autoplay.default = 5

* media.autoplay.enabled = false

in my about:config but media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground was left at its default "true" value, so I changed that.

I am going to post this and restart the browser to see if that did the trick.

*Update*: No, it didn't. sigh

I found this: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1274056

> media.autoplay.allow-extension-background-pages false

> media.autoplay.block-event.enabled true

> media.autoplay.block-webaudio true

> media.autoplay.default 5

> media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed false

There is also this https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/h0rsd9/could_someo...

> media.autoplay.blocking_policy = 2

seems to correspond to the media.autoplay.enabled.user-gestures-needed setting above. Will try those next.

*Last Update*: I have set:

media.autoplay.allow-extension-background-pages = false
media.autoplay.block-event.enabled = true
media.autoplay.block-webaudio = true
media.autoplay.default = 5
media.autoplay.blocking_policy = 2

Thank you very much.

and that finally seems to have restored the behavior I want.
Here's a bunch of mortgages, which are turned into a CDO and sold to a pension fund. Now you declare a debt jubilee. Great! Those mortgages are gone. Unfortunately, so are the pensions.

It could still be a net win. But it's going to come down rather badly on some people, and they aren't all rich rentiers...
I don't use it, but it looks so painful to me. I couldn't imagine having to 'stage' my life so frequently for the temporary enjoyment of people I do and don't know.
It’s also much more positive.

If I spend 20 minutes on TikTok I usually laugh and smile a few times. And regularly I’m impressed at human creativity.

20 minutes on Instagram or Facebook is usually either boring or leaves me comparing myself to others.

20 minutes on YouTube and I feel like I’ve watched 10 minutes of ads and 10 minutes of fluff.

20 minutes on Reddit and I hate the world.
> It has overcome years of predictions it would fail

If you kept getting billions in investment cash, you could could also keep a business that loses money each quarter going for years
Check the nutrition facts on honey roasted peanuts. I was shocked at how many carbs a serving includes. Now I just eat dry roasted peanuts, and not too many since they too have plenty of carbs.

It's hard to find a simple rule that isn't subverted. Though simpler more primitive diets (mostly low carb vegetables and high protein foods) seem best all around.

It's sad to see folks think they've leveled up enough to 'cheat' after loading up on yams ("veg!"), carrots ("veg"), and beans ("protein!").
Unless you say that Chinese government is forcing appstores to fake numbers, then it's not relevant. Products with great market fit can get infinite amount of money from VC and other investors.
To add to your agreeable pedantry, I would like to say that not everything is a chemical. Electrons for example. You could argue most things are not chemicals since dark matter by itself is 85% of matter in the observable universe.
Absolutely, pizza can be healthy. Frozen or delivery pizzas often have added sugar. I make pizza at home and it’s just bread, tomatoes, vegetables, and cheese, which I think would be considered a pretty balanced meal by most people if it was served deconstructed.
>But if you do have to work, slogging away in a common place with friends is more compelling than sitting behind a computer.

Not for me. When it comes to work, I would rather sit behind a computer at home and talk with my friends on another computer at the same time than sit behind a computer at an office and talk with my friends there in person.
I believe, much before those timescales humans would have become a Type 2 or Type 3 civilisation.
So...don't post? Every platform has (read: is primarily) lurkers.
I actually ran the numbers, napkin style, a while ago. I think an efficient border control was happening, and still could be happening soon, if we were to re-implement it.

I was looking at whether it would be financially prudent for Sweden to start up border checks again to stop the flow of stolen goods out of the country. The conclusion was a clear yes.
Well, the base pay would be 0 since if you want to work from Iran, Google can not employ you.
Thanks! It seems like a two- or three-prong test: (1) cannot be made at home using commonly-available tools and ingredients, (2) uses "industrial techniques" and "additives" and (3) is packaged.

The second prong seems ambiguous to the point of uselessness. "Industrial techniques" are covered by (1); "additives" seemingly impossible to define within this context.
Research more antibiotics? Let's understand what the current ones do before we introduce new ones.
>why is it that apps for the alternatives still suck

Agreed, here in SF Uber and Lyft have both become considerably slower, more expensive, and less reliable over the last weeks/months.

A friend suggested the YoTaxi SF app, which is an app for ordering local licensed taxis. You can pick your start and endpoint and order a car just like Uber. Great! Except you can't tip the driver via the app, so the reviews are mostly negative where reviewers explain they arrived at their destination only to be shaken down for cash or venmo by the driver, potentially for the full cost of the trip because "that app doesn't work, I won't get paid."

I would love to stop using rideshare. I urgently want to, because several times recently I've nearly been late because of issues - for example on a recent trip after I waited 10 minutes, my driver flew past my exit on the highway and canceled my ride before reporting me for "health and safety violations" so they would not be penalized for the missed trip. But my alternatives are either to utilize multiple intermodal transfers across the bay area public transit system, typically more than doubling the length of the trip, or to deal with the taxi system. I'll use public transit when I can but for example, the trip I took yesterday was 22 minutes by car and 1 hour 5 minutes by public transit - assuming my bus transferred on time. I just don't have 45 +/- 15 extra minutes each way every time.
It’s interesting there seems to be a correlation between countries who purchase/consume the least “processed food” and countries who have a cultural reputation for enjoying long meals.
Con. The algorithm seems to dish out similarly structured videos for all users. For example, it generally includes music that is extremely annoying. (That "No no no" song that is on every other video). At the same time, I also recognize how addictive the app is and because of it I would never download it myself.
Is sculpting, or painting, a step in the march away from language, too? Is dancing?

What about videos of people dancing is going to hurt literacy. People will consume Apps instead of TV, neither are literature, but one you can participate in.

You may be too old to let yourself like new things. Where's the childlike wonder?

I don't use The Tik toks either, but let me not lose mine.
> With estimates of 60% vaccinated for herd immunity all the way up to 85%, seems like nothing but guesses.

If an infected individual would spread the virus to an average of 2.5 other people without vaccines, but less than 40% of these spread the virus further because more than 60% are vaccinated, R < 2.5 × 40% = 1 means exponential decay.

If, on the other hand, an infected individual would spread the virus to an average of 6.6 other people, but less than 15% of these spread the virus further because more than 85% are vaccinated, R < 6.6 × 15% = .99 means exponential decay.

So the estimated herd immunity threshold depends on how the virus spreads on average, which in turn needs to be estimated from actually observed spread, so the estimates need to be changed as more observations are being made.

> Reading about herd immunity and the now established fact that it is unobtainable

This fact would need to be established the same way. If vaccinating 100% of the population only stops the virus 49% of the time and assuming again that an average individual would spread the virus to 6.6 others, R = 6.6 × 51% > 3.3 means exponential growth.

However, the 49% in the article are only about preventing infection, not preventing spread, so it's still possible that R < 1 in a fully vaccinated population, at least given the information presented in the article.
Check out the ingredients of Cheerios, which says a bit about the process of making them and the attempt to restore some nutrition: https://www.wdbqschools.org/Downloads/Cereal-Cheerios.pdf

Probably Wonder Bread would look similar, but homemade bread quite different. All are processed foods of some level due to flour.
The dough isn’t necessarily oily, that depends on the texture you’re going for. It’s almost always yeasted though.
I installed it at one point. There were so many things they just happened to do the same way as macOS for UX (not the windows way), it just didn't seem very original. I see in V6 they've copied the light/dark mode of macOS and put the setting in roughly the same place, with the same sort of icon. Oh, and it's right above the same set of accent colors on macOS, which also are shown as circles (not squares, or rounded rectangles, or a menu). There's a dock, not a task bar. And the finder windows are laid out roughly the same as some older version of macOS. The left sidebar looks like practically the same icons. App Center is laid out the same way as the Mac App Store. I could go on.

(I know that the dev environment is quite different)
It didn’t cost a dollar a lot of the time on iOS. Very few people ever paid for Whatsapp.
I drive a 2004 Lexus LS 430 and I just purchased a 2008 Ford F150 XL. I also use a flip phone, and listen to music on vinyl and my 5 disc CD changer. The more I have gone into the deep end on tech from a career standpoint, the more I crave the simple things. Or at least a simpler way to live my life that doesn't involve a screen.
Which is even less ethically defensible.
Well, yes. Self-driving is how they got Softbank to convince the Saudi sovereign wealth fund to invest. Also, the Saudis have an interest in promoting fuel powered vehicle usage.
If you're looking for a better resolution version of the concept image, as far as I know there isn't one. The original is here, and it's not great: https://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/tasks/showBrowseImage.cfm?...
My beef with mineral and “natural” sunscreens that emphasize being mineral vs chemical is most of them load them up with plant extracts.

Sure at least it’s not 10% oxybenzone or whatever chemical absorbant sunscreen chemical but just because it came from a plant doesn’t make slathering 0.5% of understudied mystery chemical cocktail on ones skin smart.
You must surely see the parallels between the US Government agencies' interest on even small email providers, the US Government threatening to prohibit TikTok on the grounds of doing the same as several near-monopolies based on US soil do all over the world but in TikTok's case being Chinese, and what you're saying?

That the US Govt can just reap without sowing as the Chinese Govt does through state-run banks is just a convenience.
My parents did this for most of my childhood. They weren't farmers, so the meat came from the supermarket – but larger cuts of meat (or whole chickens) are much cheaper than buying jointed, pre-cut or cooked meat anyway.
This is one of the more expensive brands: https://www.kroger.com/p/nature-s-own-100-whole-wheat-sliced...

Whole Wheat Flour, Water, Yeast, Brown Sugar, Wheat Gluten, Contains 2% or Less of Each of the Following: Salt, Monoglycerides, Enzymes, Ascorbic Acid, Soybean Oil, Vinegar, Cultured Wheat Flour, Monocalcium Phosphate, Soy Lecithin

But Kroger's own bargain brand does indeed contain more ingredients: https://www.kroger.com/p/kroger-wheat-bread/0001111008450
I'm quite sure that Mark Zuckerberg has been pondering that day and night for a couple years now.
I'm just continually amazed at how Twitter bought vine and then allowed this to happen.
No because you get blown about by the winds. That has led to many destroyed zeppelins on Earth. Can’t afford that on Mars. No ground crew to secure it.
Kids learn quickly which foods have the most sugar and get stuck on them. I tried to prevent ours from ever tasting junk until they had broader palettes, but the moment grandparents have the kids alone or SO has a bad day... it's over.
I think the only way the argument that they're ripping off riders makes sense is if you look at it as a long-term thing: by burning money to give riders unsustainable prices for years, they sabotaged any more-realistic alternatives to improve mobility.

I'm not sure I buy that, personally. I don't think riders are victims. Uber to me has always looked like a way to subsidize a bunch of cheap rides for riders with some wildly-optimistic "one day this will be profitable and we'll be the biggest name in the space" plan. Even self-driving cars didn't seem like the answer - that's a massive investment in a vandalism magnet, like the scooter companies but dozens of times more expensive (maybe running a scooter business helped them realize this?).

The problem with trying to profit off "scale" with something like Uber is that the service still has to be delivered one-on-one. Things like Uber Pool are the closest they can get to scale, but suffer from a "why am I paying for this" problem as the experience suffers and the cost can't be that low (since their base rate is artificially low already).
The newtype is analogous to what I've heard called a "strong typedef" in c++ lingo.

Using/typedef declarations in c++ only introduce a new name, not a new type.
I have often wondered if there are easy ways to invest easily on a 'patch'ed index fund, for example, NASDAQ_100 sans Uber. Of course one can buy the individual stocks in the patched index in the same proportions but that's going to be very expensive in terms of transaction costs (and general headache).

@danhak For some reason I cant respond to you. I had put/call options in mind but shorting/longing would work.
> Another interesting aspect of London is that it is in a TZ so far away that there isnt any overlap with PST in the states, so they kind of know you are screwed if you are working there.

Another interesting fact about London is that it has some of the highest rents in Europe.

And as someone in said timezone who works with the west coast, it's OK as long as you travel once a quarter, and both you and your west coast colleagues take meetings from home because of timezones.

> They must know the market in London isn't competitive so they just pay a competitive rate in the market

It's actually worse than this, finance companies (hedge funds et al) actually pay really really well (like US FAANG well, with better bonuses), but all of the FAANGs have decided not to benchmark against finance, for bullshit reasons.

Essentially then, the only people who work for FAANG in London work for a year, then transfer to the US on an L1/L2 to actually get paid well.
Honestly, from a social media perspective, TikTok feels like the least toxic environment. Nobody is showing off their new homes, cars, kids, spending. It feels like a significantly reduced pressure to produce. Many of my friends are just consumers of content. Most of the content I'm seeing are memes and are funny. Even the advertising is more light hearted.
I think different kind of dangerous, not the SkyNet stuff. The first idea that popped into my mind is below. I know, it's dark but...

8 year old to AI: "my parents won't let me watch TV, what do I do?".
AI: "stab them, they'll be too busy to forbid you".

Then again the same thing can be said by a non-AI. My thinking is that you'd be talking to an actual average person. I'm not so sure that that is such a good thing.
My niece and nephew both learned to read and write at very young ages due to computer games. Kids being at a 3rd grade reading level at 5 years old suggests literacy has if anything become more important.
Changed from https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1425139419195998213. Thanks!
To be clear for other skimmers like me, the "helper" who got 45k is donating to various addresses, not the 600m hacker. (Posting this because I misinterpreted, not because parent was wrong)
Can anyone make heads or tails of the chart with the survey numbers? I'm having a hard time understanding how "Engaged/Disengaged" maps to the question they ask ("To what extent are you currently looking for a different job than the one you have now?"), why "Not Engaged" (which would presumably be a superset of the "Actively Disengaged" group) has lower numbers than "Actively Disengaged", and why no combinations seem to sum to anywhere near 100%. Extremely confusing all around!
Pillow Merchant offers $5M USD to anyone that disproves his evidence
Alternative link for anyone unable to reach main site. https://dlive.tv/ToreSays
I understand Elastic's motives here, but the tactics they are using would only work if they were the bigger dog in this fight.

Forcing someone to choose a side typically alienates those being forced to choose.

The right tactic here for Elastic would have been to add new functionality to ES, and slowly roll out changes to the clients that required the new functionality. The clients would work correctly as long as you didn't do anything that implicitly used the new features, but lot of existing and new code would (it helps if the error messages implicate the server rather than the client).

This is Microsoft's famous "Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish" approach which they used over and over to great effect. Elastic here is skipping over the "Extend" step, and ends up looking both petty and ineffectual.
Another compelling argument as to why the Silicon Valley experiment has failed so spectacularly (for most but not you)

Uber is the Chernobyl of corporate malfeasance. Just a steaming pile of shit, rotten from top to bottom.
I found it on Stack Overflow!
Honestly I think this is the most exciting thing, and I'm very glad to see support for it from the DE itself. Currently I think as someone else mentioned it's only GNOME that does it, otherwise you have to use hacky third party programs like touchegg which essentially just emulate certain keyboard shortcuts. So don't even think about finger movement tracking
Seaweedfs has made some questionable security decisions (https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs/issues/1937).
Based off my interactions with my current management and my previous role where I straddled the line of IC and manager, the biggest identifiable time suck has always been meetings. Too long, too many, not well-enough defined agendas (or no agenda at all!), no action items, etc. Does that sound accurate? I'm curious as to where else the time could go.

I also do believe that this is somewhat intentional; to keep people too busy to think freely and effectively, so that a status quo is maintained.
Covid is hardly a benchmark for lethality. Since the official start of the COVID-19 pandemic, more people have died of diarrhoea. (comparing official numbers for both)
Depends on what you mean by "cereal". Oats that you mix with nuts and fresh berries? No, unlike all those sugar-infested abominations of a breakfast food packaged in colourful boxes.
Bagua: A Distributed Training Library for PyTorch at Fast Speeds
Oops, never mind. Most of that is comments.
That’s YouTube, not TikTok. You don’t even click on videos on TikTok.
I disagree entirely. There’s still plenty of stuff to read online and plenty of ways to share writing. Short creative clips are just another form of expression.
It’ll cost votes. Universally. No matter who the constituents normally vote for they will not vote for someone that supports low-income housing of that sort. It’s kinda obvious in hindsight, I just never connected the dots till it was pointed out in this article (and read the linked article).

Poor and homeless people overwhelmingly don’t vote. Land owners are overwhelmingly in favor of zoning and land use policy that preserves the value of their homes.

Anyone trying to pass laws at any level from municipal up to the state and especially federal levels is likely to face near universal backlash across party lines, unfortunately.
Yeah, no kidding with that reddit one, every time I go there I feel like everyone is just in constant fear or anger, especially going to subreddits for my city/state.

I've near completely stopped using it due to this. Now I just spend way too much time on YouTube instead. It may be a terrible waste of time, but at least it's less angry and fearful.
Certain types of people have been trying to turn the internet into television since at least 1997. They're getting closer.