skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In about 5-10 minutes of use, the TikTok algo will nail your preferences and you won't see those videos anymore. It's the most well-tailored social media platform I've seen. Eventually you will only see what gives you positive vibes (or whatever vibes it is you want to chase.)
Dune Foresaw – and Influenced – Half a Century of Global Conflict
> I wish that companies who do such kind of "beta testing" on public roads would put indicators on cars that the car is running FSD Beta. That way, I know that I should also be extra cautious as the Tesla car is capable of doing some weird moves

I agree, this is the very least they should be doing if they're determined to unleash a beta product that can kill people onto the non-consenting public. My solution in the meantime is to treat every Tesla driver I encounter on the road as if they're drunk.

Whenever there's a problem with FSD, Tesla is quick to point out that "it's only a beta" as if it's only the car owner's concern and responsibility for choosing to opt-in to a beta test. As someone who has to share the road with beta testers and beta products, I never got to opt in or out to being tested on like a guinea pig.

Truthfully, it should be illegal for companies to externalize their own beta testing on to the public when it comes to products that can kill and maim. It blows my mind because driving itself is highly regulated as it is, yet this is given a pass by regulators.
the word we usually use around here is not "amateur" but "hacker"
I hate when companies hide pricing
Growing up I lived near a Russian couple that had emigrated post revolution around the time of WWI. They had a good amount of property that they covered with various vegetables in the summer. Very industrious people.

The husband despised the squirrels for ruining both his garden as well as his bird feeders. Being handy, he put one bird feeder on a metal articulating arm out the kitchen window. And then he wired it to the outside light switch.

He got much joy out of flipping that switch and shocking the tree rats!
My favourite was when I needed to enter the second and fifth caracter of my password, and seventh and ninth digit from the login number. These are surely hashed in the database! (Metro Bank UK) not banking with them anymore.
> One such document is said to refer to children between the ages of 10 and 12 (“tweens”) as a “valuable but untapped audience.” Another suggests “leveraging playdates” as means to drive Facebook’s “growth.”

Oh come on, really? I really hope this is false and a smear piece. Otherwise, I have no idea how to respond to this reasonably.
Every year i think these people found now the greatest level of stuipid, then they create a new level in the next one... i am wondering with trepidation what they are deciding next. Always it start in the university then filter out to other places, makes me very scared for the next some years when this comes to real life.
Rabbithole
FWIW, David Wade is the current ACC command chief.
There is far more to TikTok than a lot of the garbage you hear about online. It’s kinda like the Reddit in that regard - the default content sucks, but there’s some decent deep stuff.
The lack of features is a feature in itself, for some.
I'm from Australia and love watching squirrels when abroad. Our closest equivalents might be rats and possums which are mostly hidden away until night and are nowhere near as entertaining. Meanwhile, squirrels muck around constantly in broad daylight where anyone can spectate - they're always up to something.
Nor the Falkland Islands, which is probably a more likely (although still unlikely) trouble spot.
My office internet drops out on my computer every afternoon at about 3pm....doesnt affect any other computer, just mine. I am getting Father Merrin in next week to give the place a proper going over.
In this case, satelite Don't even know it been used as a nav one. It's same as gps satellites
Phenological event known as "masting": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mast_(botany)
Yeah, I am not sure why cameras are even allowed in this area. It doesn't make any sense. It is common in companies with sensitive information to ban the use of snapchat glasses and google glass in their offices.
Tesla launches a $10k lottery to encourage workers to get Covid-19 vaccines
I didn't. Just trudging on.
People seem to think that once they are hired that their employer owes them something more than the agreed upon compensation for the work they agreed to do for them.

If your work capabilities continually suffer, short of legally protected events, at some point your company will make moves to end the employment if you are no longer able to provide value for your compensation. Doesn’t matter if Amazon or a mom and pop shop. At some point there is an end to patience in every organization. In a company with 1.3M employees…it will be unlikely that his situation was all that unique among the employees. With that many employees there could easily be a thousand or more employees dealing with a similar family illness issue, and with similar inabilities to take unpaid LOAs. So a consistency of the policies governing this type of thing will always trump special single considerations in a corporation.

As long as Amazon consistently applied it’s policies it’s simply not at fault, and I would argue handled this situation as morally as a corporation could. Amazon is not at fault for the illness, nor at fault for the employee’s inability to take an unpaid leave. If they provided the opportunity for the employee to take an unpaid LOA and preserve his $300k job…that is a helluva benefit to that employee in my mind.
As a fairly recent grad I can share some anecdata.

How much this applies to you pretty much relies on two things. 1. Where you went to school and 2. What your major was.

I went to an engineering focused school and in my major classes most if not all of the profs had a neutral POV on these kinds of issues, and the class content was pretty much only CS stuff.

Some non-major classes, particularly in the humanities like COM had this kind of focus where the prof/grad student had a liking to modern progressive topic and would bring them into the class one way or another. (Think sex vs gender, toxic masculinity etc in a COM class.) Generally speaking these would be filler classes taught by grad students/younger profs.

Outside in extra curricular like clubs and fraternities DNI stuff mostly comes up in the context of some activity the university wants you to do to show you're not racist or will engage in sexual assault. I got the vibe that it was more of a BS metric for insurance or marketing an not actually meant to do anything.

(There's a whole cottage industry of speakers who get paid way too much money for giving these trainings I should write a blog post about one day. ;)

I had friends who went to a small liberal arts college where this was much more common, both in class and culturally. The students there were less HR DNI type stuff and more the "woke" side of things. Most if not all people there are true believers.

Overall for students + faculty it's a cultural thing, where you go to school more or less determines the level and type of politics that come into your classes. For University admins it's an HR checkbox, similar to corporate diversity training. In more left leaning disciplines it's usually populated by true believers.
TikTok was singled out because this is an article about a video that was posted to TikTok. Weird thing to get confused about.
The big objection some of us have to those who idolize Trump is that he's only really successful at one thing - conning people.

He has people for decades, extracting opportunities (which are losses for the bankers, investors, and "students").

Or perhaps the other enormous objection is to hypocracy. He has promoted himself as a successful businessman, but he has a long trail of bankruptcies and settled lawsuits which prove otherwise. Maybe if one's view of success is winning at any cost, bottom line only, then perhaps he is successful.

There are calculating, successful, evil madmen. And then there are adult children who start with a million dollar loan (and still fail).

To top it all off, he has promoted or accepted strongly anti-immigrant policies, while his grandfather was an immigrant. If his grandfather had not been allowed into the US, he might well have not existed.

Follow a successful tyrant, or follow a successful hero. But do not follow a charlatan.
Thanks for your comment - really glad to have you over the years!

I will say that lots of what you’re describing doesn’t exist in a form you’re used to in the new version, so you might not want to switch just yet. The good news is it’s a manual process to upgrade, so if you don’t want to switch you don’t have to do anything and things will stay the same for you.
Uhh... is this NOT propaganda for the US Air Force? I'm always a little surprised when I see vaguely technical articles for US military equipment on the front page.

If you look up the publisher, Air Force Association, this is from their about page:

>Our mission is to promote dominant U.S. Air and Space Forces as the foundation of a strong National Defense; to honor and support our Airmen, Guardians, and their Families; and to remember and respect our enduring Heritage.

That statement alone doesn't pass the smell test for me. Am I being paranoid?
It's not clear why TikTok is singled out here…

Completely unbased in facts, I know nothing factual, but… as a hypothesis…

The government whose laws govern a media sharing service could certainly say "All content generated in this list of geofenced areas must be flagged to the legal observing authority XYZ, even if geotags are not a part of the ultimately published content."

Country A would probably care a bit less about services governed by their own laws. Even if such a secret law existed it wouldn't be used against them.

Whereas Country A might care more about services in adversarial Country B where it can be used to turn an intractable search problem into a targeted search.
> I'm arguing about the feasibility of it in light of naive statements.

I have directly addressed your question with the fact that already a third of Americans are in a single payer system, and most of the world has a single payer or hybrid system.[1] It's naive to think we don't know how to do it, and that we can't learn something from other nations when we expand it.

If you don't think we're capable of achieving the same results as a bloc of nations that has twice our population and many more cultural differences between them, why? Low confidence in America as a whole? Math and science fundamentally change in different time zones? Nobody in America knows how to read German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Belgian, or English?

> If the answer was "Just expand Medicare", it probably would have been implemented already but the fact that it's not should tell you something: maybe it's not that easy.

There's an even simpler explanation: S.1129 was not passed.[2]

> So my question is not whether or not you think it's a good idea, my question is how do you get from the current state to your goal of a single payer system?

No, your question is, "How can I keep the conversation going pretending that I'll accept an answer?" So let's nip that, and you can answer the following question: what evidence would convince you it is feasible?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_univers...

[2] https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/112...
It's wild to me that so many technical people, including the author, consider arbitrarily inserting \ns at a certain character length a desirable feature. Adding semantically insignificant line breaks results in a loss of information - if you break lines at 80 characters, you can't distinguish between a semantically significant line break at character 80 vs. just running out of space in the line. It also imposes the writer's preferred character width on the reader: What if I want 132 characters? What if I have poor vision and/or a small monitor and can only fit 60 in my desired font size in the desired portion of my screen? And it necessitates weird rules and/or stricter line-length restrictions to deal with stuff like quoting, e.g. as described in https://useplaintext.email. So it sounds to me like Gemini got this one right, and if your text editor isn't smart enough to wrap lines when the input doesn't contain a literal \n you should probably find a better text editor.

/rant

In terms of the other limitations the author mentioned...yeah, those do seem kind of silly. I guess I don't see the advantage of a custom and even more limited format over, say, Markdown. But of course everyone has their own preferred subset of "important" features and if you just take the union of them all you'd wind up back at something close to the current feature set of the Web.
Sydney's unvaccinated warned of social isolation when Covid-19 lockdown ends
I hate to post because it’s more fun reading what others say. But I feel obligated to say something because I remember what we were taught about the Holocaust. Alarm bells are going off.

Do something now before it’s too late and you’re all enslaved. Read through my comment history if you need more evidence of Australia running headfirst into fascism. This is not about health. It is about power and control. They are trying to scapegoat the “unvaxxed” because the regime just wants to justify enormous increases in control. Do not fall for it.

Here are some examples shared for simplicity.

They're going to force people who quarantine at home (rather than a government-mandated quarantine "hotel" with guards) to install and use an app. Facial recognition, GPS tracking in your own home. And it will randomly ping you, and if you don't respond within 15 minutes it'll send the police to your house to conduct an in-person quarantine check. Source:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/pandemic-a...

They're arresting people for making Facebook posts against lockdowns. Source:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54007824

Australia presumes to say how many people can visit your home. Source:

https://theconversation.com/vaccine-passports-are-coming-to-...

“NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian yesterday announced freedoms for fully vaccinated people once 70% of the state’s eligible population are double dosed. These include being able to go to hospitality venues, hairdressers and gyms, and have five people to your home.”

They can arbitrarily lock you in your apartment building for up to weeks, no one allowed to leave. Source:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-53316097
The NYC subway has the concept of local and express trains. They use the same right of way with much of it four-track. So you can provide a slow train that makes every stop and the express which only stops at major stations.
I never liked the GUI or desktop behavior. I just install containerd, point dockerd at it, and download everything manually. This is pretty much my install, sans systemd units:

curl -LO https://download.docker.com/linux/static/stable/x86_64/docker-20.10.8.tgz
tar -xvzf docker-20.10.8.tgz
mv docker/dockerd /usr/bin/dockerd
mv docker/docker-init /usr/bin/docker-init
mv docker/docker-proxy /usr/bin/docker-proxy
mv docker/docker /usr/bin/docker
rm -rf docker
rm docker-20.10.8.tgz
Actual words written in a report a highly paid Facebook researcher: "Is there a way to leverage playdates to drive word of hand/growth among kids?" (I'm going to guess this researcher is not themselves a parent..)

Incredibly gross. At some point, those of you working at Facebook have to ask yourself what it is you're doing here. This is what you're putting your talents towards? There's a lot of ways to make money in this world than selling tobacco, sorry social media, to kids.
What I don’t understand is who sees spam that looks like an old school ransom note and thinks ‘seems legit’, and then actually buys something?
Agree! OOM errors also leave a lot of things in weird states where they're functionally dead, but the process is still running. So depending on your monitoring everything looks 'normal'
22 cats. Go with cats.
You're right, there's no squirrels in New Zealand! Must be because only birds could fly here, it's too isolated.

This also means that birds are responsible for more incidents here on the cybersecurity parody site CyberSquirrel, which tracks when wildlife brings down computer systems.

https://cybersquirrel1.com/
I enjoy a lot of aspects of permaculture, but a lot of it is cargo-culting pseudoscience. There's very little understanding of _why_ the techniques that they espouse work except for vague principles. I really wish more engineers took the time to do permaculture and documented their designs, instead of hippie experimenters.
This entire comment reads worse than if he were actually patronising someone.

You are reverse-patronising someone for supposedly patronising you. Ironic.

Both comments have merit and are both problems that exist based off the original problem of not wanting to finish the day/fun thing/event that is better than the next.

You need to grow up and stop playing a victim. People are allowed to realise what something is, even if it isn't the same realisation you came up with.... and yes. "I have this problem" and I know this problem very well, in case you want to cry out that I do not.
Is there an equivalent command for doing things like 147 days from today or days since 21 jun 2021 or 88 days after 15 Aug 2021? This is the one thing I really wish was in Spotlight (I use spotlight for unit conversion and calculations which is really handy).
Yes, and know your legal employment rights in the state where you work. For God's sake, do not rely on your managers or companies compassion or to make 'rational' decisions. Worst thing is to stay on and continually underperform. The lawyer simply 'sending a letter' is no good. They should be there to advise on - is the company acting legally here. Assuming they are, disability for these mental issues seems very appropriate in this situation. Heartbreaking story.
That's very good advice, but another data point, I had a medical issue, and I had a very hard time qualifying for short term disability. My illness made me sick about 50% of the time, intermittently. The disability company told me that they'd cover me if I was sick for 15 days straight but not, say, 15 days out of a 30 day period.
I personally like ibm tts slightly more than Google although it is more expensive. I think Google, but definitely other startups also allow you to train the model to be closer to your voice. Since you might have many recordings of yourself before this, could be cool. Comment if you can't find it and I can look

It's none of my business how long term it is, but if it is long term look into stenography, especially open source opensteno and plover. Old talk but https://youtu.be/Wpv-Qb-dB6g

It's what court reporters use to transcribe at the speed of text but for you it could mean giving text into a tts software at the speed of normal talking. I've only tried it briefly but if you take the time to learn it, you can comfortably get to normal speech speeds with no hang fatigue. It's one of the reasons opensteno is so nice bc it also has cheap steno keyboards which are normally thousands and locked behind industry. Comment if you want more links! I can add when I'm by my computer
I have yet to see a library that fails gracefully when malloc fails. Many claim to be able to do so, but usually keel over when actually presented with a failure.
Maybe you should get an account, then you'd see things tailored to your taste. TikTok is like blogs, Twitter, Reddit, Discord, YouTube etc. in the sense that what and who you follow makes a huge difference. Curation is the name of the game. And it hands down has the best recommender among all these services.
Astro: WHAT IS MY PURPOSE?

Rick: You're a surveillance device collecting marketing data for a global conglomerate. And on a good day, you fetch beer.

Astro: OH GOD * rolls toward staircase *
A mouse broke into my garage one winter and decided to use my not often used car as a nest for babies. I happened to use the car one day shortly after they were born (I assume) and let’s just say the shop was grossed out cleaning it all out. There was a stench for a few weeks still after replacing all the air filters and having the vents cleaned.
Was his first name Nate?
Anyone else feel there is a disconnect between what he is saying and his graphs?

Sort of "I have opinions, here are pictures, trust me".
This is “Cheney on the M.T.A.”, no?

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.54...
because that drives 'engagement', so it is what naturally rises to the top of the heap. meatier content is less controversial. I'm not a user of TikTok either, but I'm under the impression people make some really impressive/funny/charming little videos to share.
> Hi Hacker News folks. Thanks for visiting. Unfortunately all the simultanious connectons downloading large PDFs is putting a bit of strain on my server which is also serving some other important stuff.I've had to apply a rate limit to the site to make sure everyting still works reasonably

If only there was a tool to offload this static content to a network of peers so bandwidth usage was not an issue. We could call it Flood to emphasize the large amount of traffic.

Joke aside, I refrained from looking around because if the server is struggling, my nostalgia can wait a few days.
That's something that has always amazed me. Even visiting an embassy you are not allowed to have any kind of electronics, and in secret/confidential operations you can take your personal phone?
> if companies can get away with selling heroin to children, they will do so.

Companies quite literally marketed and sold opium for children[1] in the US before the FDA was created.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/15/long-o...
> Who would ever imagine that their car won't start because a rabbit tested the edibility of some wiring.

This is a widespread problem in Germany, not with rabbits, but with martens. It is especially dangerous when they get a taste for the brake hoses.
No, no relevant in this case.
Having worked in academia as part of one of the bloated administrative staffs, they probably do little to nothing. Maybe spend 6 weeks making Powerpoints that <15 people will see, then lots of pointless meetings. Everything takes 5x longer than estimated since you have to solicit and incorporate immaterial feedback from dozens of people for the sake of inclusion. Need a 5 page WP site spun up? 4 months. Implement some simple analytics tags? Best case of 2 weeks. Custom dashboards? 2 months is the benchmark. College tuition just keeps getting more and more outlandish to feed the beast-- yet when you look at associate/non-tenured professor (those creating actual value) pay at most colleges, it is laughable relative to the admin overhead and fat salaries for senior leadership.
They’re not only smart but also extremely persistent. Good qualities in any human.
Ask HN: If asked for years of experience, how do you include part-time work?
Suppose you have some number of years of full-time experience in software development, and some other number of years where you were writing code part-time. Maybe you had a job that involved some dev work but some unrelated work as well. Or maybe you had an unrelated day job but did freelance dev work as a side hustle.

If you had to quantify that into a single number that represented your years of dev experience (e.g. on a job application), how would you come up with that number?
Do you also put a bumper-sticker on your car to warn other drivers when you didn't get a good night's sleep, when you're on the phone, when you've had a stressful day?