skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Environment variables in the constructor are an anti-pattern
> Isn't this a chicken and egg problem? Without voter ID we don't know whether fraud has taken place or not.

No, they keep a track of who has turned up to vote, if you are putting extra votes in or voting in someone else's name then either the number of votes and number of voters wont tally or you'll start seeing a significant number of people who have voted twice, once from the genuine voter and once the person who was fraudulently voting in someone else's name.
I think it’s undeniable that iPhone uses less materials than all the objects it replaces combined, even if it consumes more materials and pollutes more than a 1970s programmable calculator (and I’m not too sure about that), it certainly requires less resources than a calculator plus a mobile phone plus a stereo plus blablabla
This is such a cool story. It reminds me of my senior project in university. I had to fit 4k assembly on this tiny microcontroller for a robot that used sonar and infrared sensors for obstacle avoidance.
It makes me want to go out and build a new toy.
Don't they serve very different demographics and/or interests?

I've been assuming TikTok is the equivalent of "what is trending today", where "what" is something related to dance moves, or other stuff I don't find very interesting. (Or, it's not that I find dance moves uninteresting, it's just that it's not something I'd want to spend time consuming). Are my assumptions wrong, and there is genuinely interesting, and more in depth content on TikTok?

Also, the whole thought of a video platform devoted to teenagers filming themselves dance ... is... well, to be honest, a bit creepy. But I suppose this is a concern for just a part of the content if my assumptions are wrong.

Ps: Just to clear, I'm not saying there isn't creative things or something to learn or expand some kind of understanding through TikTok. Just that, surely, there isn't much overlap between YouTube and a platform limited to 15 second video clips? Especially one, that for someone who has never used it, seems mostly limited to teenagers filming themselves dance?
Psychedelics play around with absolutist thinking.

You can hold absolutist thinking of any political persuasion.
Wow, last I checked this was $2 billion a year but now it is up to $3 billion. That is a very large injustice.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17632668 266 comments
Their recommendation algorithm is reportedly the envy of many other platforms. I heard that was pretty much what was being bid for at the time offers started floating around.
The relativistic effects are negligible.
True, some trips can get more deeply philosophiocal than you are comfortable with, but typically no matter what corner of philosophy you think yourself into, greater minds have been there and done that. For me for example it sparked some interest in reading Nietzsche.
Because you’re only ok with sharing with your partners, not with a cloud provider.
Safe as Open Office is probably a better analogy. MySQL is still very widely deployed. But, yes, your point is very apt!
Thanks for the background, and I can certainly relate to trying your best but still being outed as foreigner in no time at all.

What I found is that there seems to be huge difference in cultures about how offended one can be from language (verbal/non-verbal).

Obviously, perceived threat is a different thing altogether!
It would be nice to see YouTube beaten by a more open platform like PeerTube. TikTok is just another proprietary app run by a for-profit company.
I feel like I'm going crazy. Hasn't TikTok been proven malicious in it's excessive user tracking and data theft? Why does everyone I know still use it? Outside of privacy concerns, doesn't the blackbox algorithm make anyone worry? We're building automated echochambers for an entire population. We're giving a Chinese company the ability to control the content consumption, and therefore beliefs and knowledge, of entire countries. The ever growing popularity of tiktok is, to me, extremely concerning.
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More than that, they should have their degree revoked too.

The spam in these journals puts Buzzfeed to shame.
One wonders where the line is drawn with processed foods as well.

Take sausages. These have been around for ages but are, technically, processed. Are these now bad? They seem to pass the lindy test.
Yeah, Solzhenitsyn has that too. Here's a famous excerpt.

https://mbird.com/literature/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-on-the-l...

Except the way he came to that reealization was through spending a good while in the gulag instead of tripping balls. Pick your poison.
Neither article says what he was arrested for or charged with

The source article shows it was mostly Monero that was transferred
But the IRS are the ones receiving cash here? I guess having the cash to pay for the bitcoins can be seen as evidence of having undeclared income, but they couldn't have known his declared income before the slip-up with the phone number.
kids use it
Cash's maintainer here. IMO it could be worth for some use cases to use a replacement for jQuery, for the record Cash is ~75% (~20kb minified and gzipped less) smaller than jQuery Slim, that isn't/shouldn't be a rounding error for many use cases.
Seems like 7 years could be pretty brittle. Could there be a floor of user requests for update per month or something?
Neither article says what he was charged with

But the source article has way more details

Still shit reporting, but the source is just forbes blogging masquarading as news
It's not a great metric by itself. There are two ways that "average watch time" can increase: users becoming more engaged, and less-engaged users dropping out of the app. It's a concern if it means that TikTok is becoming a youth-only app, for example.
There was a man who tried to force TikTok out of the US or out of Chinese control…
Who is the man arrested? Does anybody know? Full name?
Wow, can’t believe that this is the top comment on HN. Rhetoric like that is poison. Journalists are not “an enemy of the people”, never were, never will be. Journalists are a very diverse group of people, some of whom care more about unbiased reporting, some less. However, aggression against journalism is the primary reason we are were we are right now. A very dangerous place.
All intel MacBooks I’ve used allowed controlling the fans manually, at least.

It’s not relevant for the M1 Air since it has no fans, of course.
How is that different than Facebook? We have known for Facebook shady data policies for 10 years, and that has never prevented people from using it, why do you think suddenly people would care more when it comes to TikTok?
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TikTok seems emblematic of China's overall approach compared to the West - shows up late to the party, but studies all those hard-won lessons to copy and later surpass the most successful Western products. The free market is great at finding the superior product, but it's also messy and wasteful with all those failed attempts - why not just sit it out until a winner starts to emerge, then copy them? China seems to have perfected the art of the fast follower.
Once we all own nothing and are happy though, perhaps it will be in the phone company's interest to make their phones last longer so they can get more rental income off one asset.
Attempting to accurately estimate one's lean angle on a bicycle or motorcycle is another demonstration of this sort of thing. Generally speaking, you feel far more leaned over than you actually are, and you will not know how much more lean angle you've got in reserve until you see photographic proof.

Thankfully, you'll lowside before you enter into a spiral and get totally disoriented.
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Exactly what malware do people install to get on "App Annie" panel? Is it the "Phone Guardian VPN: Safe Wifi" garbage I see in the Play Store? People really will install anything. Perhaps the conclusion should be changed to "Clueless dupes who install spyware also more likely to prefer TikTok".
> Hasn't TikTok been proven malicious in it's excessive user tracking and data theft?

Even if you use the website?
I think they're just different markets. YT is doing fine, revenue is up 30% YOY and all their viewer and channel growth numbers are very healthy.
This might lead into a direction we don't want to go. E.g. camera manufacturers can add DRM so you can't copy photos and movies, fingerprinting for CSAM, etc.

Just give me the raw image sensor.
I have never installed TikTok or watched any content on it. I assume it is a spiritual successor to Vine.
Presumably there is a config file somewhere that is causing issues. Resetting the user might be a way of saying rm -rf /home/someuser. That said, I've never used podman and this is the first that I've heard of it.
Block chain can at best give you chain-of-custody, but it can't help with the real problem - the original source. Trusting the original source requires, well, trust, so a block chain really adds very little to the solution.
> We're giving a Chinese company the ability to control the content consumption, and therefore beliefs and knowledge, of entire countries.

Note that non american feel the same way about google, netflix, amazon &co
If you are serious about the tunnel between the houses can you provide any info or a link for my bubble folder? I’d love to read about that. Googling was not fruitful.
Ask HN: How do you control your inflating AWS bill?
Hey HN,

I'll cut straight to the chase here, our AWS bill is creeping up faster than we can actually control our resources and I need some help. I work for compute intensive AI SaaS company and that had a pretty big spike in traffic last month so now our AWS costs are at least 3x. Currently we don't really have that manpower to manage the bill so I would appreciate any advice that you'll throw at me. (People to follow, tools, blogs, or just any sort of general tips)

What we considered:
-Spot instances, but that very short shutdown notice doesn't sound attractive to our workloads
-AWS savings plans, though we aren't keen on that long term commitment
-I've seen many people mention calling AWS support, so do we just bargain there to get better prices?
who cares about china, isn't this not the same for US companies? why the constant obsession with china?

this just complete fear mongering, let the kids play on it.
The fourth amendment gives you that right (despite it having been badly mutilated by all sorts of supposedly valid or forced exceptions (ie: border areas). You're supposed to be secure in your possessions and property. The legal breakdown is here, https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-re... and definitely doesn't allow cops to arbitrarily rifle through your car looking for evidence of suspicious things. They are supposed to have prior and clear cause for probable illegal activity (note that being suspected of having cash is not an illegal actiity), though probable cause can be stretched to include a lot of things by a sympathetic judge and corrupt cops.
You're going to lose a lot more than 5% in the motor. You will also lose more to rolling resistance, various hystereses, etc...

Even assuming 100% inverter efficiency you will lose at least 20% in the regen part of the cycle alone.
My mom trained me the same way, but to wake up. She would make a pspspsp sound (like you'd generally make for a cat) when entering my room.

I was (and still am) a really heavy sleeper, but it would wake me up instantly.
An estimated $68.8 billion over 20 years approximately, between state and federal authorities. The Institute for Justice has published a couple of their Policing for Profit profiles (that attempts to keep track of and update on civil asset forfeiture figures and progress/regression), with the most recent in 2020.

California is averaging $25m per year the past 17 years; Illinois is averaging $33m per year; Texas is averaging $18m per year; Florida is averaging $49m per year. Some of the best states are Idaho, Montana, Wisconsin, New Mexico, Maine, New Hampshire, Virginia, Colorado, West Virginia, Iowa, Wyoming, Hawaii, Oregon, Connecticut and Missouri.

Here's an infographic by the Institute for Justice for 2018, sizing the states by their civil asset forfeiture thefts (note, the color of the box doesn't coordinate to the scale of theft, that coordinates to state law grades):

https://i.imgur.com/sqg4FiC.jpg

It's too bad these scumbags aren't targeting Michael Dell ($50b), Jim Walton ($65b) or MacKenzie Scott ($61b) with civil asset forfeiture. Sorry MacKenzie, that Amazon stock no longer belongs to you, it has been 'impounded' by the Washington State Police. It's being held as, uhm, evidence that you may have had a role in the operation of a massive counterfeit goods ring. Congress or the Supreme Court might finally get around to stopping the practice (or maybe they'd just place a ceiling on how much you can steal from one person).
Software updates should be indefinite, like Linux distros, which can still run on 15 year old hardware just fine.

The future ought to be something like PinePhone (but with better hardware) that can be customized to run a variety of OS with consumables such as batteries easily user replaceable.
Sadly, only HN users care about this kind of stuff
Sure I did, and that is fine when talking about the last fad in web programming.

But we don't need such nitpicking for articles on more stable arguments.
The datacolada post makes the very reasonable request that all data should be released, and scientists should make that a standard thing to do by doing it themselves and requesting others do it.

It feels like this could be applied retroactively too.

In this case the 2012 authors still had the data that they released in 2020 which is how the analysis got done that showed evidence of fraud. Might be worth just asking a whole bunch of people to release data they previously hadn't and collectively putting some time and effort into that.
A couple of years ago, I noticed the youtube recommendations that would get were a lot less interesting, though still relevant to me somehow. At some point I started seeing a lot more "mainstream" content, especially after media companies figured out that they needed to have a youtube presence in order to stay relevant.

So I wonder if the algorithm the switched to had something to do with them potentially losing attention from users.

I can't speak to tik tok, never used it, never will.
It would be nice but unless some massive VC backs it to market it and help it scale, or content creators become aware about it and jump ship, it won’t make a big dent.
US government is simply more civilized and predictable.
This must be automated.
Wouldn't filming a good quality screen with a higher refresh rate than the camera FPS defeat this method entirely? Especially so if the desired result is not itself high-def.
A lot of large problems tend to stem from picking short term strategies. A relentless focus on quarterly profits likely causes more issues than prioritizing investors though the two are related.
> Since the middle of the 20th century, we've lost about 75% of biomass

This is clearly an absurd claim. Did you mean to qualify this somehow, like “non-livestock mammalian biomass”? That would still be incorrect, but at least might not be off by orders of magnitude.

> Water is beginning to get critically scarce

Not really. Even desalination is cheap enough at this point (on the order of 1kL/$, last I checked) that we’d be fine with modest cost increases.

> But now the damage has become so big that even nature's resilience cannot cope with it anymore

What exactly are you predicting here? This sounds very apocalyptic but doesn’t match any plausible model I’m aware of for ecological failure modes.
Well, who would have thought it would only take a short period of time until tt overtakes yt.
iSolation
This is a hit for US cultural dominance and influence.

Americans and Brits, at least in average watch time, are now consuming media ultimately controlled by the Chinese government.

And the previous election was influenced by a foreign government using American social media networks to influence, not to mention influencing the president-elect directly.

Either America's own social networks are used against them or social networks controlled by other countries are gaining dominance.

It seems nothing other than a decline in American influence in the world. And it comes from other countries outperforming the Americans.

Whether America reacts to this or ignores it through the arrogance of the current greatest will define American power in the world for generations.
To be fair, Youtube VS TikTok is mostly the wrong comparison.

Tiktok is mostly competing with the Insta/Facebook I need distraction so I'll let myself be numbed with external impulses as fast as I can get. Most similar was the story feature in Instagram, often also videos, although nobody every compared viewing them with Youtube.

Although Youtube also has it's scroll/impulsive it's not a direct competition. Although you could argue any form of time consumption (online) is competition.
Don't forget the also excellent "Black Book".
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Processed foods are chemically altered for longer shelf-life.
Heavily processed foods have a very homogeneous substance, which means they have fewer nutrients that the body needs.
To top it off, the substances they _do_ contain are unhealthy, and are processed faster, because the body has to do less work to separate the nutrients (because the nutrients are already... processed). Because the body does less work, we also burn less energy digesting the food.
=> Calorie intake is higher & calorie consumption is lower

https://www.lhsfna.org/index.cfm/lifelines/may-2019/the-many...
15 seconds is the attention span teachers are going to have to compete with and try to teach. YouTube wasn’t mindless and short enough.
Because China is an authoritarian regime?
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If you insist, you can try telling your server to deploy exploded artifacts and just change the file then. Haven't tried that myself.
Every time I read somebody describing their experience with something I wonder if the reduced drug usage is one of the lead causes of the lack of warmongering we got since the late 20th century.
It’s the new drug
I feel the same. Recommendations are as simple on youtube as “get top 10 videos in your country”
99% agreed.

Reserving 1% because I'd strike "lesser technical" from your final sentence. The misleading quote is simply not correct. It is misleading because it's not true. It says Confluence hosted in the cloud is not vulnerable. False statement that can mislead anyone regardless of how technical they are.
The obvious answer is that most people just want to watch funny and entertaining videos, and don't care about some externalities which don't even seem real to them.
Not joking -- I think it may be all of those. See e.g. the work of Ivor Cummins, books like "Eat Rich, Live Long".
I have no contempt for web devs beyond those that implement invasive tracking against their users.

I could setup a service that masks any clients IP address towards my service with no problem. If a client connects through TOR or similar network I would not be the wiser either. So apart from just not logging connection attempts, there are other tricks.

Of course that doesn't work if law enforcement is knocking on your door and forcing you to do that. But there are still mechanisms that would allow IPs to be hidden. The state cannot know the intricacies of the mechanisms your service employs. protonmail.com could point to a server in Timbuktu that makes any request in delegation for a client to hide IPs.

This privacy arms race is pure idiocy though and the problem is legislation and lacking control and supervision of police forces within European countries that decided they should be so afraid to call one emergency legislation after another for more than two decades.
I think the claim here is that Atlassian's post-sales account representatives ("customer success"?) would have proactively reached out to the technical contacts of large companies with a personal email - and known exactly what person to talk to, because they stay in touch - because Atlassian is an organization like Amazon, Microsoft, or Salesforce.

I think you're reading it as saying that the helpdesk people ("customer support"?) at a large organization like Amazon, Microsoft, or Salesforce would be trained to recognize a mis-directed email from a vendor and send it to the right place, but I don't think that's the claim being made.
Thanks, I got you. But you didn’t really address the point of the person you responded to, then, which was that part of why this space hasn’t been disrupted to a larger degree is that Atlassian products are entrenched in many companies, and that a lot of people do want that complexity (disagree with that as you or I might).
YT has some knock-off of Stories but I have never used it. But unfortunately a lot of creators I watch (even some guys who explain very involved technical stuff) make videos for it now and label it #shorts which is annoying since I usually watch YouTube on my laptop or iPad.
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> Hasn't TikTok been proven malicious in it's excessive user tracking and data theft?

Unless you've read some new news I haven't, not any more than Google (YouTube) or Facebook have. Why is TikTok different?
Recently changed jobs in tech, high demand skillset.

I sent out exactly one copy of my resume to a company that I thought might be interesting to work for. Otherwise I just responded to LinkedIn recruiter requests.

In the time it took that one company to get back to me at all, I had landed a job and was on week 2 of 3 weeks notice.

Move fast matters.
There aren’t good integrated replacements. Any system that lacks a wysisyg interface for text is not a viable option. If copy and paste from Word doesn’t keep some of the formatting, forget it.

Our support board has customized forms. These forms create tickets that can seamlessly be moved to our scrum board once they are vetted. We use JQL to manage a lot of the boards we use. We have custom workflows for different ticket types. We use the comprehensive access controls to grant partial access to users based on custom roles.

None of this rigidly enforces our workflows (aside form access control). Instead, it streamlines sharing information across departments.

When it comes to a company wiki system, Confluence is extremely hard to beat. (I’ve use so many wiki systems. Dokuwiki is my goto.)

All of these systems use a single user account. We use single sign-on, but we don’t have a large IT department to manage the dozens of services we access every day.
Note that this is watch time *per active user* lest anyone interprets the title as TikTok having more total active user-time.
> They will do as much as NASA astronauts do on dragon spacecraft.

Yes, the ISS crew are mere passengers on SpaceX capsules. Just because I buy a ticket on a 737 doesn't make me an "aeronaut".

You can call it mean-spirited if you want, but the point is that some titles should only be earned, not purchased.
The article spells it out rather nicely: 18% of republicans trust the news. While 43% of Democrats don’t.

Most of this mistrust is coming from the right, despite what many ppl like to claim, NPR isn’t objective or impartial they’re fairly solidly left. All the “institutions” that many like to think are giants in the media are really pretty much just mouth pieces for one side’s politics, the right has Fox News and the left has NPR, NYT, etc. They’re both distrusted by opposing sides for the same reason: they don’t report the news.