skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> International competition is good because it's the fiercest market there is and TikTok is a genuinely good platform for content creators. the same is going to happen when Huawei is excluded from 5G contracts, watch and see how cost reduction is going to stagnate.

The problem is that these two tech might be used for propaganda and espionage.

There's also a question of intellectual property violations. Pretty sure taking a closer look at current Huawei products might reveal some interesting reverse engineering. It sure did back in the days where dumped firmware still had Cisco copyrights...
It’s fantastic that they’re bypassing the NIMBYs and building high density, but it’s terrible that they’re building the 10,000th attempt at modern architecture’s worst idea, “towers in the park”, which fails every time it is tried.
> 10: ETH has overtaken BTC, accounts for most of the market cap in crypto. Like IE 5.5.

Possibly. It may not be ETH (It's very likely), but BTC will be overtaken by market cap.

All I will say is that in 10 years time, this industry will slowly but surely be regulated, and tons of useless shitcoins, memecoins, etc will wither away.
The Asymmetry of Breakups
And I say Scott Adams is a fascist, a bigot, and a peddler of misinformation.
Which Intel sells as NUC.
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make, but you may be under some misapprehension about how the prizes are awarded.

The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, which is appointed by the Norwegian Parliament. They decided Obama was worthy.

The Nobel Prize in Economics (or, as everyone is fond of pointing out: "the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Science in Honor of Alfred Nobel") is awarded by the central bank of Sweden.
Right, so the tribe (band?) leadership will take advantage to enrich themselves. There is zero chance this will actually benefit the "rank and file" - like all handouts, it will just be stolen by the leadership and friends
I'm not sure we can blame any particular generation. I see it just as much in people over 40 as I do people under 30, and all ages in between.
Unfortunately the first commercial application of this is likely to be helping loitering munitions stay aloft longer, to lethally target humans.

https://www.brookings.edu/techstream/loitering-munitions-pre...
Because a written summary is nice for people who want to read and might not be in a place where they can watch a video / listen to a talk?
Would you rather live in China, than the USA?

Not attacking, I am genuinely curious about what you think. From the outside looking in, it seems like people are overworked, overcrowded and rather unequal. Also they have a lot of pollution in many areas.
And they put back up many coal power plants which creates an insane amount of air pollution.
Not just Taiwanese talent -- China has also been recruiting South Korean semiconductor talent.
Users flagged your comment, correctly. "Why are you lying" is obviously against the site rules and you posted it numerous times.

I'm referring to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25695491.
They're straight up ripping the image background from https://discord.com/login.

Really inappropriate for FOSS.
> If you think that your citizens are so fundamentally gullible and illiterate that they're going to be brainwashed by a platform like tiktok

This ship has sailed everywhere: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. echo chambers... You only need to look at a country like China where they have the political power to force control and think why they care SO much about it. It matters.

Algorithms are getting increasingly better. Media is becoming more immersive.
Regarding giant international companies such as TikTok, Facebook and others as "Some State's" is a slightly inaccurate view in the modern globalization world IMHO. It would make a lot more sense to use interest group (basically stating "who and who is in real control of such company") instead of states.
I've talked to some folks from Tesla whose stories absolutely reinforced the parent's point. Some of the silly things Musk has dictated turned into massive wastes of resources for the engineering team.
There’s a line somewhere between understanding technical issues (and being able to make decisions on it) and being too interested in the details.
There are companies that simply bite the bullet, raise their wages and expand their market shares. Others whine they can't find anyone and eventually that the business down the road is taking all their customers away.
China has been pushed towards being a monoculture for the past 70 years or so. I don't think Asian immigration would be an easy option at all.
There is no shortage of labor. There is just a shortage of labor at the price workers are willing to accept.

The market has spoken. If your business can't survive at market labor rates, it doesn't deserve to.
I think what the parent post meant isn't necessarily security in the transport, but security in the code.

The wireguard has around 4k LOC [0] and you can read and understand it in a weekend (or faster depending on your skill).
Also you not only don't have to configure the ciphers, but you actually can't. If any of the chosen defaults isn't considered secure anymore they will be replaced [citation needed]. So even thought the code resides in the linux kernel you could still reasonably well argue that it is indeed on several levels more secure than OpenVPN. Here [1] is the whitepaper for anyone who is interested.

[0] https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-linux/tree/drivers/net/wireg...

[1] https://www.wireguard.com/papers/wireguard.pdf
Racers use very thin, light, and stiff sails made from mylar or similar materials. They are typically very expensive and want to be changed as often as possible, at least once every racing season. Modern small pleasure yacht cruising sails "canvas" is laminated polyester, aka dacron, which is far thicker, more durable, springier, and more common than mylar.

It's an interesting question, where does the wear come from. But sails are a very active part of the boat; every tack is going to drag the sail across the deck of the boat, rub against fittings. When a sail luffs, head-to-wind it's whipping around with the weight of the sheets (control lines), and then when you're taking the sail down it's getting folded (best case) or stuffed into a bag (worst case) [EDIT: some sail materials like being shoved in a bag!]. And of course even when a sail is just sitting there powering the boat it's under a tremendous amount of force, which stretches it over time.

Sails do fail, and yes often by ripping in half. I've personally never heard of a sail failing at the control points (e.g. the tack of a jib), probably because those areas are heavily reinforced.

https://www.northsails.com/sailing/en/sails/materials

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sail
I don't expect that the people buying the 3000sqft McMansions with a two bay garage and an eighth acre in the back are the same wanting to live in a 1000sqft loft with shared greenspace.
Of course. Unless you work for a startup or a small company, there is going to be monitoring of employees to different degrees. Some of it could be considered harmless, but it's guaranteed because of the way companies quantify and manage employees.

People are assigned performance metrics, rewarded with job titles, and have some way of determining your salary raise and bonus. All of this would certainly require some kind of metrics based on your primary tool you use everyday.
The greatest survival advantage of humans may be specialized division of labour, which coordination of course seems to require language.

Chomsky, being so argumentative that he's even antichomskian, has this idea that the primary purpose of language is not communication, but internal "linkage between interfaces", or thought (whatever that means).

Feral children of course are isolated from exchange; but their isolation also prevents acquisition of language.

While it takes a community to spontaneously invent language (https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_Sign_Language), the primary benefit may yet be individual thought.

> how much of the functioning of the brain can only be understood in the context of social groups and connectivity between individuals.

Could be absence of language.
The comment before it was edited was clearly breaking the site guidelines. That's the issue.
The Synthesis of Algorithmic Systems (1966) [pdf]
Oh yes, believe me, I have enormous respect for our current system. It works really well. It has amazing emergent behavior.

In a way, I want to improve the current system; it's just sometimes an issue of branding, mental models, and compatibility, that it can be useful to think of it as something new. Like a new software that's inspired by legacy systems.

For example, by now it's clear that Open Source technology is almost a miracle. The potential for civilization for a large scale conversion to open source technologies is hard to grasp. Imagine every product sharing design files, and new manufacturers/designers being able to build upon all every other design with zero friction.

We have the problem of how to compensate the developers. Currently we're going with a bland of donations, support systems, and a few other apparently meager funding sources. I don't think our legal system is prepared to tackle this (i.e. you can't fix it completely with a well designed license), and neither our economic system can. So that already begs a certain kind of redesign... what if we had some kind of distributed/decentralized entity supervising the flow of technology/information and rewarding them according to societal impact?

We tend to think of a simple government/industry division, but government tends to be too centralized and imperfectly aligned to effectively fulfill this kind of role (industry due to its economic design tends to perform better).

One of the idea (please, give it a try as well!) is to have a decentralized network of adversarially cooperative evaluators for this (in a system that cross-validates itself and economically aligns estimation accuracy).

This seems naive or small-scale.

But almost every major issue from society stems from this imbalance: the improper/imperfect reward mechanism for doing what's good for us; imperfect coordination. Examples: Predatory advertisement, Pollution, Climate change, Open Source funding, Cultural funding, Addiction-driven design, ... I could go on.

I'm not thinking of completely replacing what we have, but having a third element working alongside government/industry.

This is literally the most important problem in the history of humanity and... there's no much on it, except for ideologically-driven discussion.

Remember: Ideology is a mind killer! [1]

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9weLK2AJ9JEt2Tt8f/politics-i...
> Whatever you come up by yourself has zero chances of coming to fruition outside your apartment. Working on your local community to improve lives of real people or joining a political party and influencing the direction of debate is way more actionable.

Just because someone isn't spending their time in the way you deem most effective doesn't mean it's not beneficial for themselves or others.

Iterative change is useful and helpful, but it's also how you get stuck in local maxima. They way out of local maxima is to step back and look at the problem fresh without some of the built in constraints of the current system, and is very useful as well even if they end up going back to us, and isn't something we should discourage people from doing.

If nothing else, they'll likely come away with a good understanding of the constraints of the system and why choices are made, and more importantly a "why" that's far more involved and justified than "well, that's how it is and we can't feasibly change it now."

This is the same reason why it's good to have people attempting to make a new HTTP server, or a new database system, or a new ORM. Those people often end up really understanding those systems extremely well even if they usually go back to using the status quo, and once in a blue moon they come up with something new and novel or at least beneficial under a slightly different set of constraints which better serves a certain audience.
Alternatively you could include the offer to distribute
The preponderance of factors kicked off by the pandemic is really interesting and I imagine it will be studied for quite some time. You have people retiring, people finding better paying jobs after being laid off en masse, service-workers tired of being harassed by stressed and belligerent customers, people simply tired of making terrible minimum-wages... it goes on and on.
French also reprocess. In fact, other countries pay them to reprocess their fuel.

The US doesn't do this ostensibly due to proliferation risk [1] however, I am of the opinion that was due purely due to pressure from the coal lobby.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing#History
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The plural of Lego may well be Legos, but Lego is the system not the brick, so unless you've got a plurality of systems, it's gratingly wrong to call Lego bricks Legos.
Reg reader uses his severed finger to unlock Samsung Galaxy phone
But not to Musk, who writes the check. Not always about engineering team resources.
Ask HN: Managers, how are you taking care of your mental health?
As I have grown in the career taking over more responsibility and managing team, it’s clear to me that middle managers get punched most from all directions. Employees have their manager to complain to and senior management have EMs to blame for decisions gone wrong. This is not at my company, rather a repeated pattern I have seen.

How do you take care of mental health and stay positive day after day?
This is a pretty low effort click-driving blog post though IMO - 'someone did a thing' - I linked 'someone's' ('Sick Codes'') original post on the 'thing' below.
This is what I thought of when I saw the headline: https://singularityhub.com/2012/03/29/speech-jamming-gun-fro...
The more complicated these setups get the more dangerous it is to stray from the basic default path. Nothing else is tested.
21st century 'identity marxism' for anyone paying attention.
3 years ago I installed Project Streisand [0] on one of my Digitaocean droplets which configured automatically different VPN protocols and my favorite one has been Wireguard. To this day I still use it on all my devices and it's only last month that I was made aware that the project has been discontinued (Why??). But my Wireguard VPN is still kicking. Works like a charm. On all devices. I can use restricted apps in Africa where my bank app and Disney plus/HBO do not works...

[0]: https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand
> It seems that LineageOS has GApps installed

It doesn't come with GApps installed, you need to flash those packages manually. That said, LOS also comes without an app store whereas /e/ has a custom F-Droid-compatible store pre-installed.

Combining LineageOS and MicroG is kind of hard (relatively), because LineageOS enforces signature validation, which MicroG needs disabled to properly fake the proper Google APIs. There are non-enforcing builds and build instructions available, but that's not the default. /e/ seems to have the necessary patches enabled by default, which makes using popular apps without flashing GApps a lot easier.
I'm renting a couple of VPSes from Vultr that I run FreeBSD on. Very low cost, and decent for my current use which include self-hosting email, hosting a couple of websites that receive little traffic, as well as to host the mentioned VPN, and for testing of some backend services that I am developing.

I hope to afford racks of beefy bare-metal servers one day that can sit in colocation data centers and that I can host backend services for others on. But for the time being I do not have the funds for that so a couple of small VPSes for my own use it is :)
No, we are not complacent. If we leave our home detention to protest anything we are arrested.
Where the fuck can I claim asylum?
> A private company (Apple) successfully did something in a few months that the regulation couldn't in years

My point was that Apple started that effort only due to GDPR. And given that such work takes a while (the UI might be simple, but the decisions on what to model in the first place and how to represent it, and how to do that so that the same model can ideally be reused when other regions enact their own, slight different regulations, OMG...) the timeline might add up to this happening in direct response to GDPR.

> offloaded to laypeople

... offloaded to people with the specialized knowledge. DPAs are filled to the brim with lawyers and similar folks that I wouldn't want to let near a web scraper (or have them do app traffic analysis)

> Why is doing nothing considered better then?

"nothing" is not what happens.
This is a wild mix of technology, legal considerations, politics and PR.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/german-privacy-tsar-tells... cites the German federal DPA in a single paragraph: "there is no time to waste" and "I strongly recommend[0] you switch it off by the end of the year."

"no time to waste" vs. "half a year" (plus at least 1-2 years in which they already discussed with Facebook how to make their product compliant) is how schedules work in governance, and it's not out of laziness: It's simple to turn a tiny ship but that doesn't say much about the flexibility of a supertanker.

The fun thing about the German DPA is that he's actually a computer scientist by training, so yeah, I guess he could run a web scraper.
He's using this role (and the authority it offers) somewhat different: His office's social media presence is on a self-run Mastodon install. According to what he wrote (on his personal account he had before already) it took them several months of auditing, writing legalese etc to ensure that they could do that, and that Mastodon can be configured in a fully compliant way. So now there's a show case that a few more offices joined (social.bund.de is open to German federal offices and for state Parliaments), and I seem to remember that they mentioned that the legalese and audit work is available to their clients in case they want to set up their own.

"Anybody" can run a web scraper (not necessarily doing a good job, but script kiddies do it all the time), but it takes a DPA to do _that_. I'd rather have his (modestly sized) team work on things that I simply cannot do.

[0] It's not a demand but a "strong recommendation", but not because there won't be consequences. I fully expect Kelber to start investigations into this first thing in 2022 but I guess this leaves the recipients of that recommendation the option to find a different way to come into compliance. Unlikely, but not entirely impossible.
By post-social-democracy, I am referring to the period after which social democracy was instituted, meaning the social democracy era.

See the rapid transition to social democracy:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-spending-oecd-long...

And you're right, the results have been terrible.

>>Are we conflating cutting red tape and enabling tax evasion?

I'm making the point that private returns are generally associated with increases in economic efficiency, as evidenced by the correlation between laws permitting private enterprise, and more rapid economic growth. Your earlier comment suggested making money in the market is not associated with productivity increases.
No it's certainly not a spectrum. False narrative continually repeated doesn't make it true.

Agreed, very difficult to enforce...since, how do you define the insanity to the sane?
Please relax. Even the company said they don't care. They're supposed to be fun, we don't need the syntax police. Now, please hand me that bendy-twoey.
> One company that is left off the list is 2Is Inc. They use Common Lisp for everything and actively do so.

Anything recent you can point at to authoritatively show they still use Common Lisp?

I do see their site says:

> programming using Lisp and object database technology.

https://2is-inc.com/common-positions.html

But they also don't have this position open at the moment. And saying "Lisp" is a little vague.

I see Franz Inc news about 2Is Inc from as recent as 2015 but no more recent than that that clearly shows 2Is Inc still uses Common Lisp.
Lisp seems like it’s incredibly powerful in the hand of a wizard but once the company gets past a certain size they’ve hired every lisp programmer in the world and move to a more mainstream language.
Reminds me of the famous gag by Gizmodo, who took a TV-B-Gone to the Consumer Electronics Show to cause mayhem.

https://gizmodo.com/confessions-the-meanest-thing-gizmodo-di...
Unpopular opinion - I use speakers on my bicycle. I used to have a lot of problems with pedestrians not noticing me and even other bikers that were fixed by using my phone's speakers at the 80% settings and playing music on them.

Think of it as my own version of the noise emitting devices on EVs. On the one hand I kind of feel like a dick but on the other hand I still make much less noise than a car and there's no other way of people knowing I'm there when they don't have LOS.
I’m curious how the workers can afford not to work. I’ve been hearing my whole life that some high percentage of Americans have almost no savings and are one missed paycheck from problems. Maybe a lot of better jobs are now available? Unemployment is all done so probably not that
As someone suggested above - just use low power FM? We have the technology!
Meanwhile they’ll raise prices, which will cause inflation, and the cycle continues.
The money not being taxed, due to tax havens, would not be being spent more efficiently if it had been taxed. All the inefficiencies you refer to would be manifested as a result of the income that taxation would provide to the public sector.
In a rocky Israeli crater, scientists simulate life on Mars
I've banned this account for trolling. Doing this on HN will get your main account banned as well, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I mean you are right. Instagram in India (maybe many more places?) has an upscale, fashionable image to it and thronged by celebrities and wannabes. TikTok was platform for subaltern voices so to speak.

So all in all one does not have to be slick fuck to be on TikTok and thats reason of popularity.
Swoop is hiring Senior Full Stack Engineers to solve $74B transportation industry complexities.
Right. This is a capital strike moreso than a worker shortage.
I'm one of those HN readers who has no idea. All I knew about "pro rata" was from tire warranties!

http://continentaltire.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/...

robotresearcher linked to an investment-related definition in another comment:

https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/fi...
There's a shortage of Rolls-Royces in my garage.
Hello, FugueSQL also supports SQL being the dominant language when describing computation. Current SQL interfaces are normally invoked between predominantly Python code. FugueSQL was created to support the other way around with SQL invoking Python code.

For example, with a python function

```python

# schema: , c:int

def add_new_col(df:pd.DataFrame) -> pd.DataFrame:

df['c'] = 1

return df

query = """SELECT FROM df TRANSFORM USING add_new_col"""

fsql(query).run()

# to run on Spark

fsql(query).run(SparkExecutionEngine)

```
https://archive.is/XSqM1