skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Given a simple problem A, when adding more options, at some point, choosing among the options requires more effort than solving the simple problem

Only if you require that every option must be assessed. You can always choose a random subset, or the first X entries, as use those as the solution space. Additional solutions provide for additional strategies in choosing a solution, but at any time you can ignore additional solutions and treat them as if they don't exist.

> And in practice, GP is right: with humans, too many options eventually only distract from the problem.

The whole point of government is to provide a structure such that decisions like this can be made be reducing the set of people that needs to reach consensus to a manageable about. Those people can choose to accept or ignore any solution presented, and call on whatever expertise they need to make that decision.

The whole idea of there being too many solutions only makes sense when you you apply it towards the general public and people whose job isn't to make such a decision or be domain experts. Since those people aren't the ones actually making the decision, providing too many solutions to the problem to them is a non-issue, and for the actual decision makers and domain experts they have on call, additional solutions are beneficial.

Whether you or I are getting overwhelmed with the possible solutions is irrelevant. We aren't ultimately the ones that will decide what action to take (at least directly), and we aren't the domain experts advising those that will decide the plans (or present the ultimately small set of options that are valid). At least I don't think so, unless you're a domain expert, but even then, your role would just be to provide advice (or if you're a politician in charge of making this decision, but that's even less likely).
>A interesting question would be, if the degrading google search is responsible that it is harder nowdays to find them

I was going to comment on this. Forums are probably cropping up at a faster pace than ever (its never been easier to host a forum, and we have modern forum software like discourse readily available), its just near impossible to discover them through modern search. Forums, for example, often have long running threads that may span over multiple years with rich sources of useful information, but modern search heavily downranks old (read: less than 1 week) pages unless its a niche query and hosted on $TOP_10K_SITES.
Trench Effect
US FCC commissioner asks Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores
You are correct, I was only thinking of diagnostics.
I believe that was implied by the title, otherwise it would have said "tells", "orders", or "instructs"
Why does everyone want these at L1?

The first time I saw the plans for the Starlink fleet I started wondering if you could use a fleet of satellites to manage incoming solar radiation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18474244

Maybe more an idea for a science fiction novel than a serious plan, but I like the sound of it.
Nope. Doesn't follow. Instead, we get to bury our dead, and they quickly decompose and can be forgotten about. In strong contrast, on the moon or Mars, burial would be wildly expensive, and the bodies would remain frozen and last for thousands of years. Shipping the bodies back to earth for burial or sending them to the sun, very expensive. In practice, we would just let the bodies pile up. That would be a massive embarrassment.

Look, we're not in line to create societies with nice neighborhoods with couples, families, kids, etc. on the moon or Mars, in bubbles, tunnels, or anything. We're not in line to colonize them. Instead, our interests that are at all feasible will be science or military. For the science, we don't really want or need humans and their eyes, hands, or brains -- instead we need instruments, e.g., like we already have doing well on Mars. For what we can use from human eyes, hands, and brains, with some development, we can get that from robots. For the military, as we are now moving quickly just here on earth, even more so on the moon or Mars, we will want robots operating the rockets, weapons, etc. Besides, humans in the necessary bulky space suits are just not very effective at anything, not even just staying alive.
Housing is not getting built here.
Cool, next time you're hiring, remember this and hire someone with no experience, no technical interviewing, just by "divine inspiration" (a.k.a. your emotions) and/or chance.
Don't the security permissions of TickTick give it full access to the device storage? Doesn't it have access to device location?

Seems to me it's able to copy almost anything it wants out of the phone.
This is a good point.

I would much rather we codify data protections, and then ban TikTok (and domestic) apps that do not comply.
>but the fact that China bans so much US internet like Facebook

This seems like a poor reason to ban an application/website/whatever. Reminds me of elementary school drama. Find a legitimate and/or legal reason (e.g. the mass harvesting of biometric data, unbeknownst to the users, being fed into some opaque government-ran database) or it should not be banned.
Lunar regolith seems to be about 20% silicon (by mass).

We could try to lift that much silicon from earth's gravity well, or try to build a refinery and launch system on the moon, with ~1/6th the gravity of earth.
Gotcha, that makes sense. Thanks for replying.
They could produce some very high-quality facial recognition data, thats biometric as well
Maybe just delete this and resubmit it, if the link isn't right? Although it does seem a little difficult to link to, because it looks like it's only available in full as a PDF
It might probably be more productive to cover the Sahara desert in mirrors
Lol what a loaded statement. There are plenty of government programs that have produced better lives for people after being implemented. Imagine being this religious and blind about state-market interactions.
Curious what this app does that other apps don't. In other words, applying the same criteria to other apps what other apps should be removed from the store because they do the same things?

You post video in it so the app gets camera and mic access, assuming you give it permission. Can you use it without giving permission? IIRC Apple requires apps to work without permissions?

I tried installing it and it requires an account so uninstalled. Not really into TikTok but was able to view in a browser without an account.
Quite. I suppose I'm ignoring the fact that London was developed in bygone years in similary large tranches that have eventually found their form.
> My understanding is that Chinese bans on US technology have reasons clearly codified in law and would not be banned if they followed the regulations.

My understanding is that Chinese law is usually pretty vague and unclear, especially in areas like this, and in any case doesn't actually bind the government.
> unlike pumping something into the atmosphere, is that it can be reversed quickly

Isn't that a fundamental claim made by those who support pumping sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere, however? That if you stop pumping, it quickly degrades and the atmosphere returns to baseline?
The good news would have been that without encirclement, siege warfare would have been delightfully similar to peacetime. The bad news that this war would still be going on. Which would be good news again, because of all those other wars that could not have happened in the meantime.
What does "ratio (bpb)" mean? I'd guess bytes-per-byte or something, like how many bytes of original you get for each byte of compression, but it doesn't work out: the original size is 1e9 bytes, compressed (rounded) 3.2e8, so that's a ratio of 3.1 (1e9/3.2e8=3.09989). The program size amounts to a rounding error on that figure. The bpb value given is 2.58, nowhere near 3.1.

Edit: the paper defines it as "bits per input byte". What kinda measure is that, it's like "how well did it compress as compared to a factor 8", why 8?!
Yeah, I've inherited a mess of software written by one of those before.

I used to have some imposter syndrome because I wasn't that hyper productive, but not after having to clean that code up.

For example, I found a supposedly queue-less parallel map / threadpool with 2 or 3 queues inside of it, which had weird deadlock bugs that would result in strange occasional timeouts. I replaced it with a parallel map with no queues built on top of a thin and standardized threading library. The deadlocks went away. The resulting code was pretty boring in readable. I never bothered to dig into why the old code deadlocked, but throwing it all away fixed all the problems.

It is a lot easier to greenfield where you can put off the edge conditions till later and focus entirely on the first 80%, it is also really easy to greenfield when you focus on just typing as fast as you can and spray sloppy code everywhere (actually sloppy code like that crazy parallel map implementation I threw away). I suspect the latter is what a lot of "10x developers" actually are.
So is the takeaway that data in the RAM of some server connected by fast network is sometimes "closer" in retrieval time than that same data on a local SSD?
Carr is against net-neutrality. [1] He's a Trump appointee.

It's clear that this is not a principles-based ask to remove a data-hungry application. Carr isn't saying that applications shouldn't harvest this data. He's saying a Chinese company shouldn't be playing the same game that American companies do.

Thus, the logical conclusion to "why is Carr making this statement?" isn't necessarily "it's because TikTok does something abnormally bad," but rather political: it's anti-China propaganda.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Carr_(lawyer)
This is one where if you have the time and effort to dedicate to it, can be simple. You memorize your deck, so when they tell you the card, you thumb to it and flip it so when you fan it, the card they picked is upside down.
When you make the request the server the server will have to look up the image from its own "cache" before having to send it back to you. The client's cache would have to be not only slower than it's ping, but slower than it's ping + the server's "cache."
I've wanted to build something pretty distantly adjacent to this for real-world spaced repetition cards. Have a deck of 3x5 cards, with qr codes at one corner. Dump the deck into your scanner (like a money counter) and it splits the deck, giving you a pile of the cards you should review today. Then you switch the scanner into "trying to remember" mode, and you put the cards you successfully recalled into one slot, and the ones you failed into another. The scanner reads their QR codes, notes that you succeeded/failed, so it can updated spacing windows for the next run.
From zucks own form 990 IRS filing. CTCL awarded all larger grants – on both an absolute and per capita basis to deeply Democratic urban areas.

E.g.

https://capitalresearch.org/article/shining-a-light-on-zuck-...
It's true you wouldn't want to dump bikes at the literal terminus of the bridge, but a surface-level bike path could take you a little past the Maze to the vicinity of the Frontage Road & Powell St or Mandela Parkway / Horton St, both very comfortably bikeable. I used those streets for years cycling from Berkeley to West Oakland BART and the Jack London Square ferry terminal.
Look up Nate the Lawyer on youtube for a non-partisan breakdown:
https://youtu.be/rPsIaYmh-bo
I've repeatedly seen the argument that diesels are cleaner than gasoline engines. The problem is, their pollutants are just different. In Texas, diesel trucks don't even go through smog testing.

Soot and NOx are toxic. NOx are greenhouse gases and contribute to pollution and climate change.

You may not be trying to choke people, but you're doing it anyway by defeating emissions controls. You can justify it all you want, just make sure you understand the consequences. Those "micro-regulations" as you call them exist for a reason.
Almost all of science fiction is "what if aliens/robots did to us what we do to other animals".
How is Google deeply connected to China? I know they have an office there, but aren't most of its service blocked there?
That is not obvious at all.
https://archive.ph/HGICH
Somewhat related on the geoengineering front, see https://www.meer.org/global (via https://jembendell.com/2022/03/31/where-wisdom-and-geoengine... )
Tesla Rescinds Job Offers to People Who'd Already Accepted Them
>A crib will protect a baby from a cat or dog

A cat can easily get into a crib, not only can they climb, they can jump pretty high too. My cats regularly scale a 6" wood fence in the back yard to see what the neighbors are up to. The first 5" is pure jump, followed by a fairly ugly pull-up.

>Consequently, the most disturbing examples involve ferrets attacking immobile newborns in cribs.

My college roommate had a ferret. I don't remember him every climbing anything and he could hardly jump. He was adept at pooping all over the corners of our dorm room though.

Always keep in mind that now a days, just about anything you read in a publication or on the internet is over-hyped or dramatized, or sensationalized for effect.

"Ferrets can get into a crib and there have been instances where a ferret has attacked a child, but the same holds true for cats and most household pets," just doesn't sell the drama as well.
> Google and Apple are both deeply connected to China, so I'm guessing the answer will be, in an indirect way:

Apple is utterly dependent on China, but what about Google? It famously pulled out of that market years ago.
Whether or not crossing planetary boundaries is a problem is a matter of debate, not a settled fact. If we can treat the side-effects of human disruption on the planet, then why is that not sufficient?
that's fair, I denied the app permission to access my camera since I just watch videos on it

it would be really helpful for the FCC to explain to content creators why and how their biometric information can be used against them, tiktok is just one of the companies scanning their faces in that regard
I learned about relaxing when it's hopeless from this passage long ago:

Zaphod tried to run in several equally decisive directions
simultaneously. "Right!" he said. "Er ... we've got to get manual
control of this ship."

"Can you fly her?" asked Ford pleasantly.

"No, can you?"

"No."

"Trillian, can you?"

"No."

"Fine," said Zaphod, relaxing. "We'll do it together."
> ... from the hundreds of years they raped, pillaged, slaughtered and enslaved indigenous Americans

Every time I see this, it kind of makes me chuckle.

Many of the colonisers never make it back to Spain. Round trips were absolutely not the norm, thus it is more than likely that most current inhabitants of the Americas are, in fact, their descendants.
Is air conditioning a real problem? It probably emits a good bit less CO2 to cool a home 20 degrees than it does to heat it 40 degrees in the winter.
I already ceded the managerialism, hyper-individualism, and metric chasing of our neoliberal society is partially to blame. The bad apples should be separated out of the common classroom. It’s ok for some people to fail.

But it doesn’t seem right to discount the effect of resources on educational outcomes (not talking about football stadiums either - looking at you Sunbelt).

I largely benefited from attending well funded schools. My parents moved to the districts with good public schools, so I was able to take AP classes and such. However, a whole world was revealed to me going to college. The kids who went to Georgetown Prep or Andover had probably read millions more (assigned) words than me and had taken Linear algebra and Diffeq already. Their HS tests weren’t multiple choice - they were essays. And their HS class sizes had been small and taught by Ivy League grads.

Conversely, I know people whose schools offered exactly zero AP classes and were way behind going into college especially for technical tracks.

There are all kinds of anecdotes about irredeemable neighborhoods or conversely about stereotypical bootstrap stories. But at that end of the day the correlations are clear. Ruch parents are not going to send their kids to a school that intentionally or unintentionally deprives students of resources. They understand, as we all should, that education is an investment in human capital where you put dollars in hoping for future returns.
If threads have to contend for db with retry loops, does concurrency actually buy you anything?
Maybe a key distinction here is that TCB itself is not trustless - it requires KYC, etc. But where data is stored and redeemed is on the trustless, decentralized Hedera network. It functions as an automated, secure ledger.

You could replace Hedera with a private blockchain or another ledger - likely not a public one due to unpredictable transaction fees or high time to consensus - the value is the same.
TikTok has access to your camera and microphone, and facial recognition and voiceprinting are considered biometric information.

You can block the permission in settings, but as explained in the FCC letter, TikTok has a documented pattern of bypassing system permissions and accessing data that they shouldn't actually be able to access (which is malware-like behavior).
haha, i cant count the times i fucked up and i just copied my files out, rm -rf repo; git clone; copy in :)
Actions like this, (or sprinkling iron fillings in the ocean to breed carbon-fixing cyanobacteria or aluminium dust in the atmosphere to reflect back sunlight) are all valid geo-engineering and all can look like aggressive military / eco-system attacks even if you are only mildly paranoid.

The issue is not having MIT do it, but the Russians and chinese and indians and Jakarta and Alberta and ...

The UN would be a good place to put a geo-engineering shared facility where all these ideas are experimentally tested, with scientists from dozens of countries so they can go home with accurate models and say "yeah nah, that's not an attack".

And while we are at it we can set up panels on reducing car use, better routing of airplanes to avoid contrails (see recent podcast from freakonomics).

We have the answers - but there is no single solution - just intelligent long term society wide changes that are not sexy or populist and won't pay off for decades. We might struggle to find politicians
I think the only thing this app really does is upload all the data to Chinese owned company instead of an US owned one.

And that can be enough to trigger national interest concerns from US.
Ask HN: Where can I follow JWS telescope news?
Interested in following daily/weekly type news on the James Webb Space telescope. Usually I do a search on YouTube but lately I've noticed an uptick in spam accounts making this painful.

- YouTube channels?
- Websites?
Unlike dogs that sniff and bark, and cats that watch, meow and rub everything, ferrets interact with the world by biting and tasting.

If they love you, they will show it pulling gently the hair in your arms with its mouth while you are watching TV. This can last for a lot of time.

If they are startled, in pain or feel threatened they will sink the fangs in your flesh and bite. Strong. Every single owner of a ferret show small red spots in their arms. And they are perfectly capable to chew off a finger, even if that behavior is extremely rare in a domesticated animal.

I don't have any problem with people having them as pets in Europe. They love to be cuddled, are affectionated, playful and curious, but they also smell, are oily, lose the hairs when in heat, and sometimes yes, they bite.
Personally I think this is a useless tool. Writing ability isn’t so easily trained like muscle memory and this website does not handle tone, style, or describe how to use grammar as a tool as opposed to it acting as a governance over your writing.

The people you’re talking about do not actually need to write well. The assumption is that the reader is capable of handling better writing and thus if the writing is better, the reading will be also. That’s not the case, not merely because improving writing often doesn’t improve the experience of reading, but also because most people don’t have extensive reading capabilities.

We test students entering college on their reading comprehension, and in general we only require them to understand approximately 60-70% of what they read. This means that 30-40% of what most people write is pointless crap that can go in the trash.
Some idiots who aren’t considered confident in their intellectual abilities might scoff at this assessment, but unless I am reading and writing for an audience that also is capable of understanding the expression, then it is pointless to attempt expressing more.

That’s why I believe you noticed that most people don’t do well in reading/writing… it’s simply not a skill most have and it also is not overly meaningful that is the case. Why paint for the blind?
I cannot delete it anymore (too many comments I guess)
I also use it regularly and have no shame about sharing them around. Nobody seems afraid to require I get a multi-hundred dollar software package when they send me docx/xslx/pptx, so seems fair to ask they download a free and Free OpenDocument implementation if they can't open it yet.
Not really. The issue is with throttling.
No widely deployed compressors are PAQ-like. The speed-up anticipated by the OP never materialized.
The issue has nothing to do with disk speed. If you had read the article you'd see a very nice chart that shows the vast majority of cache hits returning in under 2 or 3ms.
25% of UK adults had internet access in 1999. Low compared to today (93%), but still pretty high.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/275999/household-interne...
Facebook published a paper on using ML to generate PGO data statically.
It’s not like it killed a million people in the US or anything.
The newest content moderation minefield for tech platforms: abortion posts
Basically, we've just privatized socialism, not only because we've outsourced health insurance into an employer-provider benefit, but also in the sense that large corporate structures are overseen by bureaucracies that lead to huge amounts of opacity and waste, akin to stereotypical Soviet era governments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30928403

And gains are redistributed similarly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30724348
irchiver seems incredible. I hope there's a comparable product for other OSes one day.
Probably an attempt to keep homeless people from sleeping on the pathway and getting run over by the night cyclists.
The issue has nothing to do with the cache itself. It's about the throttling behavior.