skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> dance moves, or other stuff I don't find very interesting

There are lots of different corners of TikTok, and for good or bad it's generally pretty good at forming some fairly niche communities. I have a couple of primarily dance-oriented creators I follow—none of them teenagers, fwiw—but the most interesting are the ones who use their platform to educate, whether it be about science-y stuff or music or history or whatever; I've learned a lot from following a substantial group of Black creators who've taken the time to talk about their lived experiences. These communities with somewhat deeper content really took off when the platform opened up 60 second videos (I gather that was late in 2020?) and they've mostly gotten even better now that creators (at least some of us?) can make 3-minute videos.

It's all based on what you like and follow, though. Very early on, it's worthwhile to go out-of-band to track down names of a few creators that you can seed your for-you-page with, otherwise you'll get the lowest common denominator stuff. Sometimes someone will "duet" or "stitch" another video and then you're introduced to another creator and can follow them directly; other times the FYP itself will serve up someone you've never seen or heard of but that has content (and presumably like-and-follow patterns) similar to the ones you do follow. And then you can like and/or follow the new person.

I mean, there's thirst traps too. If those were the only videos you liked, then that's what it would show you.
This whole post hinges on the assumption that whatever universe is simulating our own follows the same set of rules as we do.

Musing about concepts like simulation complexity or energy requirement is essentially worthless if you don't know the rules on the outside.
Ask HN: Self represented litigants, what software do you use to write lawsuit?
Would you mind sharing what software you use to write lawsuit? I have tested Google Docs so far and while it's pretty decent, I am having problems with the numbered lists formatting and spacing as well as the citations in the footer.

Also how was your self represented litigation experience?
I think you meant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_rail_(politics)

But anyway, isn't that supposed to just affect politicians?
why not use ublock origin, rather than buy youtube premium? UO will remove every single ad in browser. It's obviously 100% fine to buy premium; I am just curious about the reasons, if any.
I can’t read the article but the headline is making claims about the safety of sex workers on OnlyFans. Someone with an ideological axe to grind has an incentive to distort or selectively highlight the facts around such claims. It’s worth noting they are trying to persuade you to their viewpoint and not attempting to offer an objective account.
They’re entirely separate governments ruling over different countries.

There’s no reason for people outside of politics to pretend otherwise. It always comes off as childish, really.
> These population centers are some of the most diverse regions of the world.

South Asia and SE Asia, maybe. But East Asia (NE China, Korea, Japan) has actually one of the most ethnically "pure" populations in the world.
> it has not resulted in any meaningful economic consequences for the CCP

I would strongly disagree there.

- china law blog https://harrisbricken.com/chinalawblog/chinas-cultural-revol... has mentioned that now their audience is in agreement of opinion that CCP is becoming increasingly authoritarian and less tolerant of foreigners and foreign businesses. as a result, a lot of their business clients are saying "they will never go to China ever again"

- global equity funds exposure to china and kong kong has collapsed https://www.ft.com/content/daa7a70c-23fb-467a-b245-f57bd47f6... from 0.5% in 2011 to -1.0% in 2021

- Lehman moments with rescuing hourong, and evergrande about to collapse

- CCP obfuscates any official economy numbers, so you cannot judge their economy based on official numbers. You have to see what actions the CCP is taking. And right now they are making crazy moves.
Jamie Riley: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/hypocrisy-right-w...

University of California President Clark Kerr: https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-fbis-vendetta-against-...

Nikole Hannah-Jones: https://www.wral.com/faculty-say-hannah-jones-tenure-saga-ta...

James Whitfield: https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/02/us/texas-principal-paid-leave...

Strong arguments for: Dan Rather, Sarah Jeong (attempted), Quinn Norton (succeeded), Al Franken, Emily Wilder, Noah Adams, Bob Edwards, Daniel Schorr.

(So many in the press. Interesting.)

Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens.

The Hollywood Blacklist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist

Note that business itself tends to be dominated by conservatives, with some exceptions.
The author of the piece has an agenda, selectively using anecdotal evidence to gain attention. Think the headline “Florida doctor dies after receiving Pfizer vaccine” that was published not long ago. Nobody reads the follow up piece where it’s ruled unrelated.
I've been trying to avoid controversy lately, but hey, here's one to downvote.

Have we considered AI and ML as a general brain replacement is a failed idea? That we humans feel we are so smart we can recreate or exceed millions of year evolution of a human brain?

I'd never call AI a waste, it's not. But getting it to do human things just may be.

Even a child can tell the difference between a human of any color and an ape. How many billions have been spent trying, and failing, to exceed the bar of the thoughts of a human child?
>> There’s no reason for people outside of politics to pretend otherwise

Then I guess John Cena can retract his apology...
I think I know what I meant. But thanks.
The comment is not getting downvoted. The anti-China derangement on this "SV forum" is truly stunning.

The average HNer knows as much about China as they learned in their US Government-sanctioned high school history class (they couldn't point to Beijing on a map), yet comment as if they are experts. Remarkable.
I'm curious how they are crawling and indexing.
Once you start charging enterprise prices you can't stop, but public clouds can't pay enterprise prices. It would have appeared to be financial suicide for VMware to move downmarket into public cloud.
Just to be clear, I didn't say he was evil -- and in my opinion, evil is a pointless concept. People are people, and they do people things. This guy presumably said what he said and thinks what he thinks for a variety of reasons, and I think at a fundamental level the only way to change those reasons is to acknowledge and engage them. But I'm not here to do that with him.

I don't believe that "voting with my wallet" is impractical. Taken to extremes, it does indeed cause polarization but I also think that it can cause real change in the world -- because it's capitalism, you know? Certainly the cost to me depends on how far I take it, but as I said in this case the hardship is minimal.

As a general rule, I don't make my personal views known at work or on social media. This comment thread is maybe the only time I have ever blurred that line. If someone were to find it and disagree so vehemently, then I suppose they are entitled to take the (legal) course of action they deem fit. I stand behind my words.
The author of this blogpost is, however, not anonymous, so de-anonymizing is fairly easy, no?
The implication is that a black person would be more likely to recognize the inherent flaw in automatically interpreting "X" as "10", and in all honestly that's probably true. It isn't a matter of testing, it's a matter of having people with a diverse set of cultural perspectives in the room when decisions like that are made to begin with.
I could see that for Google Maps v1.0. I think we're past that point now. There's no reason they should still be using libraries suited to parsing the names of forgotten European monarchs.
Totally agree. I'm reluctant to join the Telegram thing because A) Telegram and B) I can't imagine a discussion going over any one of the Sacred Programming Opinion Landmines.

"I once used an ORM to get some work done and stuff, and it wasn't entirely awful" is probably worthy of excommunication or burning at the stake for heresy. More likely, just insults that I'm not a real professional or something. I get enough of that in my own head from time to time.
I would like to see more of the "invisible web" showing up on the front page. As primarily tech people we should be more familiar with the older and wiser corners of the web and not just a slew of attention grabbing headlines.

I have found some of the most fascinating and thought provoking gems on HN over the years which would have otherwise been lost to antiquity. That is something unique that HN brings to the table as opposed to the multitudes of curated headline feeds out there.

As other commenters state here, the paywalled MSM stuff should take a backseat.

Old timers should be encouraged to submit some of their time-tested and well-worn articles to foster a more stable grounding in the tech industry for the newcomers.
The cleanliness of Tokyo, the diversity of New York and the social services of Stockholm... in the fucking desert of the US and with an American demographic.

Well. Good luck. Should be able to nail at least one out of those three.

Not that building this project virtually anywhere else might've made it easier.
The nice thing about tiktok is I haven't seen an ad I can't immediately skip. And since I don't follow influencer accounts I also don't see "product placement" or promotional videos.

Truly, I can't remember watching a single advertisement on tiktok because it's so easy to skip them. The moment they force ad watching ala youtube I'm out.
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Ah, fair.

I don't think I ever saw a TikTok feed I really liked, maybe that one guy singing the sea shanties? But yeah that's about it
Did Kaepernick taking a knee lose (insert team here) a measurable amount of money? Was Kaepernick the head of the organization? I think those are the critical metrics. If whatever team he was on started hurting financially, then let him go. If he was the boss and therefore, even acting independently, his words were associated with the organization because of the potential influence his personal ethics could have AND it was a divisive issue AND he was in the minority then... yeah. Dump him.
The digital advertising fear complex
Seems like it. So, in this case in a legal sense, I believe there to be basically no difference to signing with an alias vs signing with real name, particularly since they blogged about doing this.
> it embarrassing or an expected mistake to be learned from.

I would say it's both. It's embarrassing for Facebook because it looks racist even though it really isn't. The system might be emotionless but the people who interact with it aren't, and we don't expect them to be.
more of the desert is unscarred by existing development and is in a more natural state than the endless farmland east of the rockies.
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On you go then.

Or did you just mean other people?
Portland to vote to ban Texas travel and trade
Perhaps CEOs should be smart enough to not make their ethics public on divisive issues where they find themselves in the minority. Seems like bad business.
Maybe I'm not aware of what you're referring to, but I don't think so. I think, like this incident, companies apologize for stuff like this because they lack the courage to say the truth, which is that it's an unfortunate labeling error but not a big deal. Instead, they judge it to be more political to beg forgiveness. Of course, the people who get offended by labeling errors are only encouraged by apologies and use them as evidence of wrongdoing.
It's been used on hobby quadcopters for years by using a lens and IR leds for the lighting but it's only reliable at a certain height. DJI uses the same technique using a camera but GPS is more reliable and have a higher resolution once you reach a certain height.
"Human supremacist" attitudes are incredibly common. Look at any discussion of animal intelligence and you'll see the most vehement denials of any possibility that our cognition and emotions aren't unique in the world.
Enterprise costs are negotiable. I can easily imagine Google paying VMware several billion per year for a product they want. I can’t imagine Google using ESX — they want a product they fully control.
Perhaps it would hurt sales, like Orson Scott Card's anti-gay-marriage stance hurt Shadow Complex sales. But even so, I think it's possible to chew gum and walk at the same time, and I can enjoy Ender's Game while thinking Card is a backwards fool. Or enjoy Lethal Weapon while thinking Mel Gibson is a bigoted fool. Or admire George Washington, even though he owned slaves.

We can't keep throwing the baby out with the bathwater! Even racists, misogynists and bigots have valuable things to contribute to society. Heck, approx 99% of humans living are bigoted and have "wrong views"; if you take human history, it's 100%.

The people who are against gay marriage, and abortion, aren't taking those positions to be horrible people. They have heartfelt, if ignorant, reasons for it. I don't think we're doing anyone any good by taking people's livelihood away for sharing their personal political or religious beliefs.

Probably gonna get downvoted. But that's okay. It's not my livelihood.
Some other differences. Ponzis promise high rates of return on investment; Social Security promises vastly below-market returns for most workers. Investors can theoretically redeem from Ponzi investments at any time; SS is completely locked up until you're ~62. Ponzis are voluntary; SS isn't. SS is a mandatory government spending program; ponzis aren't.
I like age. I use it with wormhole for quick transfer jobs. Thanks for all the work on this!
Do you think that there aren’t large asian populations in the midwest? Do you think the entirety of the midwest consists of rural white populations? Most of the country by landmass consists of rural white communities, not only the midwest. Sounds like you may have some innate bias that you need to sort out yourself
> The most anticipated match of the July 2021 tournament pitted Yokozuna Hakuhō Shō against Ozeki (second rank) Terunofuji, who is also Mongolian. Having two foreigners competing in the oldest and most revered Japanese sport is similar to the final game of the baseball World Series being played between Mexico and Canada, while the Americans sit back and watch.

Nothing that uncommon to speak off. England is no longer a soccer giant, and the national composition of it's national team is well known.

South Asia completely steamrolls UK in cricket — a exquisitely British sport, so it was like a thunder out of the sky when Britishers finally got a cup in 2019 after many decades.

South America completely dominates Polo in a similar manner.
Thanks for sharing, I'm very interested in how his ideas might help us understand open source as well! Actually just posted a few chats recently on Illich, the last one speaking on this and related essays. https://hopeinsource.com/illich, https://hopeinsource.com/silence

> "a commons is a space which is established by custom. It can not be regulated by law. The law would never be able to give sufficient details to regulate a commons."
The community in Ask HN is far too pessimistic and sociopathic. I think there's a lot of very ambitious and intelligent people here who have become cynical and narrow focused.

There are certain topics that have to be avoided. Ironically the attitude is very anti-startup and against newer, unproven technology.

I'd actually love to see a community where we could discuss startups and new tech. Subbreddits tend to swing too young - opinions are strong but unfounded, and there's a strong bias against the tried and true. Something like Indie Hackers attract the idealists who have big dreams but do not act on them.
There are three categories, with slightly different capabilities and interfaces for each, capped at 15s, 60s, and 3m. The short ones were originally the only ones, 60s became available about a year ago (?), and 3m only just over the summer (and I'm not sure they're even available to all creators yet; they had a slow rollout).
Is it sometimes a challenge to navigate in areas where streets like e.g. "Louis XXII" and "Louis XXIII" are near each other?
No it isn't a failed idea at all. The products out today are remarkably useful even if not perfect. I have tested out the google lens thing on google photos and it is astounding.

I took a photo of the water pump from a car windscreen wiper and google was able to correctly identify what it was. I took a photo of a generic PCB which showed the back of a driver board for an LCD and google was able to bring up the exact type of board it was with the names of the ICs on it.

In these examples, google photos ai has far exceeded what the average human can achieve. We just have to keep in mind that these systems are not perfect and only a best guess which should be verified by a person later.

The problem here is not that the mistake was very costly or disruptive to the function of the feature, but that the mistake was highly offensive which is something very hard to avoid.
Polkadot is a pretty interesting cryptocurrency. Like Ethereum smart chain, Binance smart chain, and Kucoin Smart chain, other cryptocurrencies can be built upon it’s network. A list of existing coins can be reviewed here although many of these cryptocurrencies/tokens are on multiple networks:
https://coinmarketcap.com/view/polkadot-ecosystem/
I think Reef started out as Polkadot only, IIRC.

When auditing smartchain coins, I find it best to answer the following two questions: 1) are the applications or coins people are developing on it good? And 2) Is my own smart contract development on it likely to be a good experience?

If you own Polkadot, you can and should be staking it somewhere for 12-16% annual interest.
YouTube is going to blow it with the extremely hamfisted and enraging TikTok clone built into the YouTube app. Being unable to exit a video the same way one would exit a normal YT video is a nightmare, esp since you often won’t know it’s a “short” until it’s too late. There are other dealbreaker bugs in the shorts player. Hope they figure out another way and change course.
The appropriation of the grassland by the lords was challenged, but the more fundamental transformation of grassland (or of roads) from commons to resource has happened, until recently, without being subjected to criticism.

A key chapter in Karl Marx' Das Kapital describes the process of enclose as the first step in the creation of the capitalist system. Essentially, Marx did describe this process of both labor and nature become mere resources to exploit and a significant amount of Illich's analysis essentially comes from Marx here - for good or ill. He's taking it in a different direction, certainly. But the "no one else thought of this" tone seems a bit disingenuous.
They already get hired, when they meet the hiring bar.
> I can’t read the article

https://archive.is/GlzDG
LOL the sea shanties were one of the ones that brought me in—I spent about two weeks in February totally obsessed with The Wellerman ;)
> If the only tool you know how to use is abuse, then when you need more all you can do is abuse more and more

"If", yes.

Is your argument that because he put abuse into emails, that he must not know any of those other tools? I don't think you've justified that argument.

He could use the same tools anyone else could, in those situations.

And you're still saying that he might "need more" in certain situations, and I don't think he does. He doesn't need to instantly catch your attention via acting unusual. Much like Mr. Rogers would do just fine at telling you about something serious if he used his normal voice / normal presenting voice.
I didn't make the original decision but if I were starting something and I had no idea whether or not it'd be successful, I'd do whatever was the absolute fastest way to get to MVP. That'd probably be a cloud database, honestly -- but a modern MongoDB would be technically fine too (licensing stuff notwithstanding.)

Most startups fail not because they picked a suboptimal database for their usage but because they didn't build something that was good or it didn't achieve product market fit. I wouldn't worry about your database over-much in the beginning (unless it's critical to what you're doing and in that case, worry like hell, but you will probably know if that's the case.)

Many of Discord's issues with Mongo were exacerbated that we were using TokuMX which was abandoned shortly after we started using it. A few years into Discord we found ourselves with a rapidly scaling dataset and userbase that was built on top of an abandoned and not super popular third party version of MongoDB. (Funny story: at one point towards the end we realized that all of the packages had been pulled from every mirror we could find and literally the only place we could find the package files was off of some gov.uk mirror... that was a bad day. Thankfully we had the hashes and were able to validate the packages...)

FWIW, we did honestly debate moving our core user model (which was what was left in TokuMX by the end there) into a modern version of MongoDB -- some of the things we did (reverse indexes, secondary indexes, locking, etc) are much more complicated in a database like Scylla. It was tempting to just migrate the data from one "Mongo" to another and call it a day.

We didn't for a variety reasons, not least of which is keeping things simple by reducing the number of technologies you have in production (like when we chose to embrace Rust we went back and migrated nearly all of our Go systems).

Anyway, I'm pretty happy with not running MongoDB anymore, but not because MongoDB is inherently bad. It's popular for a reason!
The cross-race effect is an instance of the ingroup advantage. However, that can't be extended to say that people will classify blacks as primates.
Use of the NSA's private key for the Dual_EC's backdoor would have been NOBUS (unless it were stolen).

Changing the Dual_EC backdoor's public key in shipping products would NOT have been NOBUS.
I am a regular guy with a regular dream.

Imagine small villages with self-sustained planning, energy efficiency and agriculture.

Imagine living as a human being close to nature but with all benefits of civilization.
We will have hyper-connectivity available soon.

This pandemic situation has given me something valuable after all. I can live away from the big city and be happy, productive and healthy.
This grandiose futuristic dream is not exiting anymore for me.
Behind all the beautiful picture I can fell dystopian reality.
But hey, I am a regular guy with a regular dream:)
"Hire more black people" - isn't that what FAANG desperately been trying to do for some time now?

I guess first step might be to "hire more black QA people".
There’s a Louis XIV Street in New Orleans (and I imagine elsewhere).
I think people know Ice Lake is going to be a flop; they are more excited about Sapphire Rapids
Well, my point is that they do still make their ethics public on divisive issues where they find themselves in the minority... if those positions are typically held by the left.
Misspelling “gall” for “gal” in that sentence is very confusing. Especially knowing Dan Bilzerian’s background!
That's a great quote. I tried and failed to find the source, but if it comes to mind some time between now and before you've forgotten you ever mentioned it, please consider adding it to the thread.
Diversity doesnt guarantee you automatically catch or account for edge cases. As a minority I am disturbed by some of the odd takes people have about diversity. Theres thousands upon thousands of roads. Unless you have a QA team test directions to every road in the country you wont ever catch the issue with a road named Malcom X. You don’t even have to be ‘diverse’ to know who that is.