skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too have a passion for complex magic tricks. And while what you say may be true for tricks which rely on gimmicks, with sleight of hand, the opposite is often true. I was a stage illusionist in a 'former life', and started practicing sleight of hand at age 6. The thing that kept me interested is that the methods of producing the effect were almost always far more interesting than the effect they produce.

In my own art, I focused on vintage effects that were complex. I recreated dozens of effects from Dunninger's book, and relied on technological principles from that era - lots of clockwork and curious mechanisms. I could have produced the same effect in much easier ways, but what would be the fun in that?

Many methods require inconceivable practice to master. One example is an obscure method of the "front to back palm" with a coin, which thereafter goes back to front - the most complex sleight of hand I worked on, which produces a completely mundane effect (showing the hands empty). In my experience, if you see someone doing sleight of hand - making cards, balls, coins, cigarettes appear and disappear - watching how they do it is much more interesting than watching the effect!
That's kind of the value add. TikTok's recommendation system is miles ahead, I mean incomparably better than any social media competitors. This is largely responsible for its market growth and staying power, but ultimately it relies on extraordinarily in-depth understanding of user behavior.
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Ignoring suffering is much easier than relieving it.

Caring about others isn't fun.
I would say that their recommendation algorithm and speed of delivering content is so good that it's almost dangerously addicting. I can't trust myself to have the app installed on my phone because I'll scroll it endlessly. I wouldn't be surprised if you could measurably impact the behavior of American teenagers with some clever content weighting... though one might be able to say the same of Facebook with the middle-aged.

The psychological profiling that can be done with the data is likely somewhat scary, and the feds are going to be doubly terrified considering Beijing is ingesting all that data. The latter is probably the primary motivator of a ban.
if it could act like shutters and open and close it would be very useful to controlling the climate for humans
Terrestrial efforts are just as drastic if not more. What makes this hubris but not those?
> it's just impossible to be consistent with tab indents, because you'll inevitably have to align with a space.

That's definitely application specific. I've seen other applications (not IDEs) use variable width tabs so that tabular data (Tables) would line up very well with only a single tab.
I think the atmospheric attenuation problems for a horizontal path are much worse than vertical, not to mention the horizon which would mean many relay stations along a surface path to bend the beam along the curved surface.

However, a bigger problem or question to me is what wavelengths can carry useful amounts of energy and be kept in a narrow beam to have high transmission and conversion efficiency from source to collector. Everything from microwaves up to visible light is going to be quite susceptible to atmospheric moisture. Even microwave and infrared communication links can suffer with rain, clouds, or fog.

If you can get down to radio frequencies, I don't know whether a narrow beam is really possible. I've seen some hints at the development of rasers (coherent, stimluated emission like lasers and masers but down into "radio" frequencies). But I am not a physicist and do not really understand how such an emission would behave. Could a useful amount of energy be targeted on a "small" receiving antenna without leaking out to other accidental recipients...?

Also, for power levels useful to the utility grid, any beam alignment or scattering errors would mean extremely lethal and destructive energy going off-target. Straight down from space, you might delineate a concentric safety exclusion zone around and above a ground station. If beaming horizontally, wouldn't you have to exclude a large wedge of ground and a huge conical section of airspace both before and after the ground site?
and Just for fun, sometimes it can be as big as 66, meet Cthulhu merge [1]

1. https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/1/21/361
Sounds interesting, but it's paywalled halfway through.
Wooow! A rare case of FCC actually doing something to benefit people.
This is false choice. Why did you present it?
Ever since learning of the Mouse Utopia (where did "mouse 'heaven'" come from?) experiment, I found it interesting that its results spoke more directly of LOCALIZED overpopulation. In a human context: cities. Many of the pathologies observed in the experiment are very starkly displayed in human cities. I've always found it odd that those most interested with overpopulation concerns also advocate for cities as part of a way to solve the issue, when they really only exacerbate the problem.
Trust busting would open up a larger ecosystem of stores and/or phone companies, which may even be in other countries and outside of the FCC's reach

Though, fair, that's a glorious and highly theoretical future :P
Tabstops are still 9, 17, and every 8 thereafter... the standard on the VT-52 and VT-100 is still used when you 'cat' a file, and if you write files with tabs otherwise, you will have trouble with the console and the printer. Which is to say, I'm still fine with a tabs substituted for spaces wherever you like.
They probably overpaid for bunch of ppl to join
>I don't think different political ideologies imply adversarial intentions

Your source could be human conflict for all of recorded history.

It's not primarily ideological, it's geopolitical realism. They are a growing economic and military power in a different geographic sphere, competing over global influence and power. The history of civilization is conflict over scarce resources, space, and power. China is a cohesive ethnic and political collective and nation that exists separate from the US, it's government and citizens.

Of course there is and will always be room for co-operation in many areas; economic trade is a big one. But conflict over competing interests is a fact of life and where that comes into conflict global adversaries and enemies are created.

"Morality" is not a good metric to guide geopolitics, where material national interests and power dictate more than anything.
I find the secrets more interesting than the tricks in most instances. I see it as a form of social hacking.
>let an adversary control the information flow to a huge portion of the population

It is mind-numbing that we made it this far without very serious consideration of this point. I've frankly just never understood it, especially given what we know about the power of algorithms to define reality at scale.
When I first loaded this article your comment was on top and had no comments. It's still on top and the comments are talking about M1/M2. You applied the Streisand Effect to yourself.
There is no "quick fix".

Attempting any sort of "quick fix" guarantees quicker failure.

Civilization collapsing would anyway slow CO2 rise, but at substantial... cost. Probably mass extinction would happen either way.
For the sake of clarity, shouldn't the title really be "One FCC commissioner requests Google, Apple remove TikTok

As written, the title makes in look like the whole commission is asking for this, and "ask" isn't always a request, sometimes it can be a command (for example a police officer asking for your license and registration when they pull you over).
US kills and tortures its own citizens if they are labeled 'criminals' or 'terrorists', or just lets cops murder activists without being charged.

US has heavy surveillance infrastructure, and a kafkaesque 'private' credit system that I have no doubt the TLAs can manipulate with their banking partners.

US politicians are currently working to ban the histories of racism and genocide from public schools when they make the country look bad. US media frequently participates in disinformation campaigns coordinated with state intelligence.

US has done more successful election manipulation/coups than any other country on the planet.

As a US citizen, I am vastly more afraid of of the US government than I am the CCP.
I'll try and track this series. I am not willing to invest almost any time in understanding GIT better because with time I just learned what's dangerous and how to avoid it. Worked perfectly for me for more than 10 years with 2 exceptions (and each took half the day to fix; ouch).

I might very well be negatively biased but I'll admit that the whole "GIT's data model is beautiful" makes me roll my eyes every time. I've read through several guides and they have not helped me at all; they even confused me more.

GIT is a tool for managing versions of files. It must be blindingly and painfully simple and all the special cases should be named much better than they are right now.

The fact that they are not is just making me impatiently wait for when GIT's mind-share stealer will come around. Or I dunno, I might just start using Mercurial CLI on top of it and just give up.
> Let's be real here... The reason why most people voted was because they didn't want the influx of (EU)-immigrants that they couldn't decide over.

Yeah no, that's 100% inaccurate, which a study you can read at : http://csi.nuff.ox.ac.uk/?p=1153 will show...

Quote:...

What reasons do people give to justify their vote choice for Leave or Remain? And, what are the reasons they think the other side voted as they did? New briefing note CSI Brexit 4: People’s Stated Reasons for Voting Leave or Remain. Summary of the findings:

Several different surveys and opinion polls have asked Britons why they voted the way they did in the EU referendum. The two main reasons people voted Leave were ‘immigration’ and ‘sovereignty’, whereas the main reason people voted Remain was ‘the economy’.

Analysis of data from the Centre for Social Investigation’s longitudinal survey on attitudes to Brexit bolsters these conclusions.

Among four possible reasons for voting Leave, ‘to teach British politicians a lesson’ is ranked last by an overwhelming majority of Leave voters, contrary to the claim that Brexit was a ‘protest vote’.

Among four possible reasons for voting Remain, ‘a strong attachment to Europe’ is ranked last by a sizable majority of Remain voters, consistent with the claim that Britons have a relatively weak sense of European identity.

When asked to rank the reasons why their counterparts voted the way they did, Leave voters characterise Remain voters more accurately than Remain voters characterise Leave voters. In particular, Remain voters underestimate the importance that Leave voters attach to the EU having no role in UK law-making.

---end quote.

As for losing negotiation power, since Brexit the UK has negotiated multiple Billions of GBP worth of trade deals around the world. The OECD and the IMF are forecasting that the UK economy will be above the Eurozone economy. (https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn02...)

How's that for a tiny island.
If you really want a deep understanding of git, it's not actually that hard to reimplement a few very basic operations in your language of choice. I'm not saying _everyone_ should do this, but it's a way to level-up your understanding. Write the porcelain for stuff like `cat-file`, `commit-tree`, `read-tree`, `write-tree`. Adding command options aren't really needed, you're not trying to actually reimplement git, you're just trying to write enough so that all of the concepts fit together in your head.
We actually have limited Cloudformation support in the Infracost CLI at this very moment in time. That being said we haven't been actively expanding support for it. We're a small team, and our core focus is on Terraform users and making their experience top-notch. However, we have a very lively community and always welcome contributions. Community members are building the Pulumi integration at the moment.
In thinking about it, it's actually an opportunity for Google to battle with Apple.

Apple has been applying huge pressure to Google on the "privacy" front.

Google could ban TikTok and portray itself as caring about your privacy whilst Apple doesn't.
The funny thing is, there are still plenty of beautiful modernist buildings from the 1940s and beyond (look at some of Mies' 1960s office towers, for instance), and yet the idea that a power plant could or should have that level of care and quality put into it somehow fell (far) out of favor.

Imagine a modern power plant control room with a look somewhere between an Apple store and the Parks' home in Parasite. This is what they took from you!
> This presumes that options are of equal value, or at the least that there are more than N actual viable solutions, where N is sufficient to ensure whatever sample size you’re using includes one of the viable ones.

That that presumes we're looking through ideas sequentially and thus are actually limited with the number of choices we're generally presented with, when really it's more akin to mapreduce when assessed at the level of leadership and domain experts. Between billions of people and thousands of domain experts, I don' think we're actually reaching any real limits, given the logarithmic nature of filtering good ideas in this way. What that means is that in effect there's a pool of solutions already filtered for viability and usefulness to choose from.

All we're doing by entertaining the idea that we should stop looking for and presenting solutions is giving people an excuse to prevent ideas they don't agree with from being spread to others. The whole idea of one person thinking that because they think an idea doesn't have merit that others shouldn't see it is itself harmful.

> while indeed it is the job of government to structure these decisions, recent history suggests that the opinions of the broader public still play a role in those decisions, that decisions are rarely made based purely off their technical merits, and that snake-oil salesmen can still do measurable harm to decision-making in representative governments.

There are many possible reasons why we don't see progress from our leaders on certain issues. I'm not convinced that there being 1000 possible solutions is any worse than there being 10. I suspect that the same forces that prevent progress work the same in both cases, and if we're talking about less than 10 possible solutions, then I think we haven't examined the problem well enough. In any case, I don't think the problem of there being too many solutions and too much information is as obviously the problem as others are presenting it, and would want to see a real argument presented and defended before I would accept it at face value. That's not because I'm trying to be overly argumentative, just that as I noted, I just don't think it's as obvious a conclusion as others seem to.
Some practical advice for making a difference in the new abortion fight
> First you write unit tests for the existing code, so you understand the problem domain. Then you can start changing things and you'll know if you broke something because your unit tests will fail.

In many projects this is a fantasy. I've yet to work on a C++ project where one could add (useful) unit tests to existing code without rearchitecting. If you don't design your code to use unit tests to begin with it won't be easy to add them later.

Python, sure. C++: no way
> "The commission now says that it is unable to find such messages, but it previously argued that this type of 'short-lived and ephemeral' communications do not fall under the scope of EU transparency rules on access to documents."

I set up a unlogged jabber chat server at an institution subject to FOIA because you can get people to fall for this. Why not declare email ephemeral and delete them every night?
Kinda like LeetCode but instead you're given some code and asked to refactor it, then the system checks whether the code continues perform the same function?
But is Apple ever going to allow their CPUs to be used for anything other than their own products? If it isn't even an option then it is mostly irrelevant. I can't get a Windows laptop with an Apple M2 so it isn't worth checking how efficient of a CPU it is compared to Intel and AMD.
It's done by telcos and data brokers. Every US citizen has a detailed profile compiled about their personal lives that the US government can access at will. Google and Meta are the new kids at the table of a long running game.
Generating custom dynamic metatag images using Rust
Yep, crazy how transparent and democratic the whole affair and the EU is. I'm glad the EU and its subject governments are reminding me daily how they protect democratic values, how corrupted Russia (and sometimes China) is with all its oligarchs, and how they're protecting and extending my rights.
> All magic tricks are cheating. It's just sometimes the cheat is just something you didn't think of and not a lot more.

I think we're using different terminology here. I think there's a pretty big distinction between, for instance, the widely known variants of the sawing a woman in half trick where there are two people in the two halves of the box, and watching a video broadcast of a magic show where it turns out they just used visual effects to accomplish the effect. Perhaps the lines are blurry and different spectators might disagree in some cases, but I think there's a set of explanations that would be considered "cheating" in the negative sense.
It's going to be paid out of either taxes or increased government debt, isn't it? If you've got another approach, I'd love to see the plan...
I do believe it is because of e.g. Twitters TPP program and other programs that allow the US govt to exert control over "our" social networks.
There are also benefits to cleaning up silicon. Eg: less transistors per core can mean more cores or less power or both.
It isn't though, because powered mechanical compression and decompression is what allows a heat pump to outperform the inherent thermodynamic limit of evaporative cooling.
It won't matter, because civilization will collapse when ocean ecosystem does, before then.

Collapsing civilization is bad for property values. And for the concept of property as such.
And bitfinex backs blockstream and the rest follow because they don't want to add to the confusion and tether prints billions into existence to signal fake assent to fundamentally idiotic changes like permanently limiting chain throughput to a fax machine or so whilst censoring any venue which dares point out the abject stupidity, insanity and corruption implicit in all of the above.

But yeah, sure, whatever. Definitely don't throw Brer rabbit in that there briar patch. Stick it to the man, use the obviously captured and sabotaged trojan horse.

What could possibly go wrong? Laser eye me up.

I cannot believe how far bitcoin has fallen. Utter clown world madness.
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> a dysfunctional company like this would go bankrupt in Europe

Is that because of higher government overhead (taxes, regulations) or is it because of some other reason? I doubt it's because of competition, because US companies compete in Europe just fine.

> consider how many of your awesome HFT ventures actually produce anything of value instead of being parasitic and you’ll come to some good conclusions on why even some third world countries have a dramatically higher living and work standard

Two things here: first, I could have mentioned any number of startups which are having real impacts on the world - not the Ubers and WeWorks but the Commonwealth Fusion and the Databricks types. It doesn't need to be HFT - my experience just comes from HFT (also, your European paradise also has HFTs - check out job postings in Amsterdam). Second, maybe by your definition of work standard (lower hours, lots of PTO), other countries have better work standards, but the US has by far the highest salaries for skilled workers. Healthcare costs are not even a consideration when your work pays for excellent insurance. And I would hazard a guess that US companies are closer to the leading edge of tech and therefore more fulfilling to work at. You certainly won't find the breadth of opportunities in Silicon Valley or NYC in any European city, not even London.

Obviously if you are an unskilled worker, Europe is better, but if all the high paid skilled workers start leaving Europe (as they have been for the past 20 years) then you won't have a tax base to pay for the benefits of the unskilled workers.

> but I would strongly disagree that their software is in any way exceptionally better than other software - unless we’re not talking about the same software that powers autopilot killing people left and right

We are not talking about Autopilot but the rest of the car. Take a look at this WSJ article about VW's software development failures [1]. That's from 2021 by the way, very recent. Europeans treat software engineers like factory workers while Silicon Valley treats them like impact makers. That extends to pay, work routines, and everything else. You'd never see a picture like the one in the article where an executive in a suit is presenting to a bunch of other executives in a room.

> Give it a few years and Tesla will be overtaken by a mile by even Ford and then another mile by VW and Hyundai.

Ford, perhaps in trucks. VW and Hyundai, doubtful. If Toyota or Honda had competent EV programs then the conversation would be different.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-volkswagens-50-billion-plan...
Plot Twist: Elon Musk Pulls a John Galt Move
Musk hasn’t been tweeting for a week. In my imaginary novel pitching reality, he would be going Galt a la Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.

50 is a nice round number to pull a Galt move.
We should start with banning TikTok, and then move on to banning all forms of algorithmic content feeds and behavior tracking for advertising.

The reason we know that manipulation via algorithmic content feeds is effective and harmful is that numerous bad actors exploiting the Facebook algorithm have used it to cause real harm worldwide.

For the sake of argument, let’s take Facebook at their word that they are merely optimizing for engagement, and the well-documented radicalization spirals that manifest on its platform are the result of clever exploitation.

Now imagine that the bad actor wanting to manipulate large numbers of people also had control of the algorithm and all the data.

The risk here is blindingly obvious, and we should do something about it before it becomes an even bigger problem.
Then your editor renders the 8 space code as 4 spaces without missing a beat. Why wouldn't it? Detecting the indentation level used is trivial. (Provided, of course, that the author had the foresight to use spaces, not tabs.)
Civilization collapsing might be considered an effect.
Ternary Computer Emulator
Funny thing, this is the only reason I'm aware of this building, as a non-UK reader.
This is exactly the point the author plans to address under "Branches are fictitious", in the outline at the top.
I believe I will never figure out when I have to use "remove" "delete" "-d". These naming inconsistencies make it a lot harder than necessary
I once came up with a game genie code for a game in 15 minutes. My then-girlfriend (high school) called me up on the phone and wanted help because there weren't any game genie codes that did what she wanted.

The answer these days is emulation & memory search. Memory search gets used for hacking native PC games these days too although it's a lot harder when anti-cheat is involved.

You give it a query like "show me values that decreased since we started observing" and you repeat the process to winnow it down to a memory location or set of locations. You then try fixing the memory location to a value and see what the game does.

Incidentally, in Link to the Past, the heart containers are denominated in units of 4, which can throw you off. Going from 4 hearts to 3 means the value goes from 16 to 12. If you went down to 3.5 hearts it'd be 14.