skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found this list of companies affiliated with the Moonies (many defunct).

https://culteducation.com/unif121.html

Here is an interesting quote by someone who ran two of these businesses in the SF bay area.

"'With no labor costs and people willing to work 14 to 15 hours a day, you can undercut anybody' he said.
Scales said that when he ran the Aladdin restaurants, employees signed over their pay-checks to the personal slush fund of West Coast church leader"

The article was from 1977 - and the Moonies tried to reform themselves later, but at that time they were slave labor businesses. Moon was able to shield his practices using his tax exempt status as a religious organisation.
I could imagine if you arrest one person and some people walk towards you they don't know if the just film or want to attack. I as police would need one who watch if someone come close and another one who arrest the person.
Uber is only “better” because it is unprofitable.

The minute it starts turning the screws to be profitable, the service quality will go back to what it replaced.

Here in India, its already less reliable and often more expensive than old school taxis.
Calling it vaultless when the recommended mode of operation is to use a seed file (effectively becoming your "vault") seems a bit misleading. While it can operate in a vaultless mode and derive passwords from your master password and site, even they don't recommend that because it's weak.
"There's an interesting history of rights prior to the Constitution. But now that we have a constitution, there's a defined process for amending it."

Yet the courts and legislature have added restrictions without following that process.

"But if you allow politicians and judges to wildly change the constitution on a whim, you might as well not have one."

I generally agree. However, it's not a radical change to include killers names under the "fighting words" standard since it is "inherently likely to produce a violent response" as evidenced in research and through anecdote/commonsense.

"And if such an amendment were proposed, I think it would get very little support."

Why is that? The right should support it since it's a solution that doesn't involve further firearm restrictions. The left should support it since they want to take action on the issue and make meaningful changes, which this is. And there doesn't appear to be any issue with restricting the killer's name as it doesn't interfere with the message or ideas the journalist would be reporting.
Everyone's so anti-police until we need them to defend against white supremacists. And most of these libertarian "1st amendment audit" and "copblock" types are covert white supremacists.

I 100% support this law. Police should not live in fear of being recorded out of context when they're doing their duty to protect the citizenry.
> During this era ... government raids occurred with such frequency that the company distributed a Dawn Raid Manual to employees on how to respond

Doesn't sound like they broke the law. This seems like the corp equivalent of refusing to answer a police officers questions without counsel present.
No, I have a $300 random android phone, and an $800-ish laptop.

Also a $700 desktop/server.
> In the long run, that will undermine political support for public education entirely.

Yeah, that kind of seems like the actual plan, doesn't it?
How is 'kagi' related to CEO Kee Nethery ?
Authoritarianism is not measured by invasion count.
I'd blame this on consultants and other bureaucrats adding a heavy goop of SAFe/RUP etc on top and then calling the process failed
There is lot of good content creators on TikTok apart from (dancing/singing) ones, the TechTok community is huge , It really depends on what interest the end users have, It's all individual attention driven algorithm that caters to the end user needs based on their likes/dislikes. It's faster to learn if you don't like something it does a good job in not recommending those type of content again. Which I believe Instagram/youtube isn't that great at.
Hmm, Interesting.
Doesnt ISO27001 have like a really tough barrier or something - I did some googling and I guess one needs to have some certifications or something under their belt.

Still tho, I think this seems like a niche enough thing to pursue.
(2002)

Previous discussions:

June 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31697757 (22 comments)

January 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30120457 (19 comments)
I didn’t say they were equally authoritarian. But if you’re more concerned about TikTok’s corrosive effect on American democracy than Donald Trump’s and Ted Cruz’s, I’m not sure what to say.
Because we let ourselves down.

We knew about fossil ressource depletion in the 70s and about the effect on Co2 on temperature in the 19th century (the earliest article i've found is from 1912, but the science was available earlier).

We could have invested in better infrastructure and better housing since at least the 90s, and pushed the research towards material science and fission/fusion after the 80s. Pushed to create more public researcher jobs would've been nice too (most innovation is built on top of public research, and forming researchers is nice for the industry too)

Instead we built more stuff for cheaper (by outsourcing the production and crippling the productive apparel of small third-world countries).
I literally left Uber and moved to Japan. Mostly because I could not stand inequality I saw in SF and US. Did feel like Uber wasn’t great for full time drivers as well and it bothered me a lot and always on my mind.

So I did that.

You ever actually do something like that or are you just giving theoretical advice based on stuff you’ve never done?

Easy to say stuff like this. Tell me when you’ve actually done something similar yourself.
Authoritarianism and military aggression are not the same thing.
This was already a right, this law just gives police an ability to harass people filming them if they so desire.
> So what does that realistic optimism look like?

I think it looks radical, literally: we have to expect, in a world that has well and truly tackled climate change, things like car travel becoming a thing of the past, replaced by bikes, cargo bikes, trains, and airships.

(As an aside, "climate change" is just the beginning, we have entered the so-called Anthropocene Age, and that comes with vast responsibilities. E.g. what to do about "non-native invasive" species? Shall we garden the whole Earth?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene )

Expanding on the no-more-cars thing: EVs are a stop-gap, it doesn't make sense to put batteries in cars. But even if the whole fleet of ICE vehicles were to be converted to battery-powered EVs we still have to deal with the tire pollution! We can't have all that vulcanized rubber grinding against all those millions of kilometers of asphalt. It's one of the single largest sources of particulate pollution. Go check. It's fucked up.

We're going to have to seriously re-imagine and reconfigure our economic systems over the whole globe. We might could have a resurgence in sail-powered cargo shipping: https://postcarbonlogistics.org/ https://www.sailcargo.inc/
(As opposed to the current very cheap but very polluting system.)

I believe we can live in harmony with nature (that is, increasing life rather than destroying it by applying ecological science), and that we can do it and maintain our populations (no genocide or mass starvation or any of that) and maintain a decent standard of living for the everybody. We just have to apply the technology and resources we already have efficiently. We will still be subject to the human condition, but at least we would have time to work out all our other problems, eh?
he said he is WATCHING movies, not listening
Does this work? https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/ America only
Remember when the police rioted in 2020, shooting or beating lawyers and press in the streets? First amendment doesn't mean shit to cops.
Everything Uber has done is pretty standard for a lot of big companies, people just love to bash Uber for some reason, probably people with ties to the utterly corrupt Taxi industry.
This is not tiktok specific. This is pretty much all user generated short form social media content.

Tiktok has just been better at surfacing the content. Also tiktok is more for consumption and less for socializing with friends or acquaintences.
Do it!! Ignore any other opinions here and start using Kotlin. The language is fantastic and I've rarely used a technology that I've had so few complaints about
The law doesn't say that. If you're involved with the police, you can film from whatever distance. Unrelated parties need to be at least 8 feet away.

This sounds super-reasonable to me. 8 feet is close enough to capture what's going on, but far enough to not interfere or escalate in a situation.

In a tense situation, it's not always easy to tell who might or might not be a danger to the police officer. This seems to set a reasonable bound which avoids accidents or incidents. Arrests are tense situations.

Imagine you're a police officer arresting a dangerous criminal, and their friend comes within 3 feet. They're filming you. You don't know if they're an accomplice or not. What do you do?

Now, it's easy. 8 feet away is okay.
Red Team Rules
That said, I have hope we can solve this problem outside the academic incentive system. Here's a relevant prototype developed by my research lab: https://braid.news/about
https://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/research/twitter-bots-boost-tesl...

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-04-12/musk-is-of...

I couldn't find if the research paper has been published yet or not.
I don't see how it's slavery to work for uber.
If uber wasn't there, the drivers would be either unemployed, working another minimum wage job, or taking 30 years loans to get Taxi licenses(which most of them wouldn't be able to get).

It's just the same as any other precarious job
I hope that the US doesn’t ban TikTok. That would be a very bad outcome for the concept of an open internet.

I do think more regulation are likely in order. There are some very good arguments for not letting children under a certain age to be allowed on the social media platforms. However, the enforcement of those laws is spotty and is left to parental controls.

What we need is an outbreak of social media literacy among the youngest members of society. Like, this needs to be taught at school in first grade or something.
Imo tiktok is a bit of a mirror. Its a thirst trap for you. For the short time i used it, it quickly started centering around cute/funny pets and science explainer videos. I also doubt it would show thirst traps to the typical straight female user too too.
Give up expecting an answer to this question and it will be answered:)
Capitalism baby, it's not worth it to build a fab in the US, unless they get government money of course, so they can close the doors years later with ton of extra cash to invest somewhere else with cheaper labor, it's an endless loop!
"Invaded" language and situational nuance aside, that has everything to do with superpower status and nothing to do with being authoritarian...
From the article itself it is not clear whether the law applies to absolutely all filming or only filming by third parties.

Edit: yes, I meant bystanders.
in your reality, we're a type 1 civilization with unlimited resources, so obscenely rich that providing the rest of the world with free clean energy is a matter of political will

in my reality, we're 95% dependent on fossil fuels, dams and nuclear power stations cost tens of billions and take decades to build, there are no viable energy storage technologies, and even the few somewhat viable renewable energy technologies we possess still rely on a limited supply of expensive things like lithium. also, in my reality, double digit percentage of our population lives in poverty, and about half lives paycheck to paycheck, and our richest country is 30T in debt
No one here said that TikTok is more corrosive than Trump or Cruz, and you're the only one who brought up democracy. Speaking of the latter, even a purely democratic society can be authoritarian.
I don’t know what’s worse. This, or VW writing software to identify an emissions test was being done and entering a low emissions mode that car never used when under normal operation
How the Metaverse Started with Habitat
> All laws are inherently restrictive.

While the maxim "Everything which is not forbidden is allowed" generally holds true for individuals (but not organisations), it is not true that all laws are restrictive. See for example the first amendement of the US constitution which is restrictive towards the legislature and sanctifies rights for individuals or from a more international point of view the first article of the Declaration of Human Rights which states that all men are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
As close as I want to be, if it's a public space.
In Anthony Grafton's The Footnote: A Curious History, he claims that citations practices in the field of history have the tendency to use "cf." -- which normally means something like "compare with this reference" -- to mean "compare with this reference (which is actually wrong and stupid)".

So you have to watch out for the possibility of ironic or sarcastic references, which may vary from field to field.
>Are cults in Japan tolerated a bit too much

This one is still around, albeit at the fringes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aum_Shinrikyo

" Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult, was hanged after being sentenced to death in 2004"

For real cult tolerance look no further than S.Korea. Any innocent social gathering has >50% chance of being cult recruitment gathering.
> now that they have stable market dominance

Do they? I'm trying to find some data on how much market share Uber has vs Lyft vs taxis.
I disagree.

I have dealt with bugs that were thought to be fixed a long time ago, only for them to mysteriously pop up again later. Ticket is created and the old ticket is linked.

It's really helpful to see what was done 2 years ago, including the attempted fix that is now still live in the code base but apparently doesn't work properly.

That said, as always, it's not black or white. There are definitely cases where it doesn't make sense, but I don't think you should call it 'totally worthless'.
The idiomatic way to write this would be:

let response = reqwest::blocking::get(url)?;

In the way written there's no additional copy.
Carpe datum
Yea I want to avoid taking a photo of board after every move. Essentially I want one of those boards they use in tournaments like the recent candidates.
Brompton Meets Raspberry Pi
Yes. See how your garden or solar panel does in shade vs sunshine
End does not justify means.

Disruption can (and does) happen without resorting to breaking the law.
> This is likely to strengthen the ability for people to document policing.

God I hope this is the stupidest thing I read today.
Everyone is certainly free to decide what they consider reasonable cleanliness. With a family though one must either compromise together or demand/comply. And with young kids it's unrealistic to maintain a house so clean it appears unlived in. Unless one can afford servants or someone in the household is willing to take on that work.

Aesthetically some of us also prefer a home filled with trinkets and projects, and even with ornate embellishments in the house itself.
Paxos Visualisation
Arizona already pays some of the lowest per student in the US. I have seen conflicting numbers (perhaps it is due to different amounts in different districts?) but it looks like Arizona pays less than $6000 currently in some areas and upwards of $7500 in other areas. If those numbers are accurate $6500 might be sufficient.

I would also note that some Christian schools are top notch. There are also some terrible ones as well, but you probably shouldn't paint them all with such a wide brush.
There is a new university called UATX that is trying https://www.uaustin.org/

But they seem to be going down the route of trying to get accredited. IMO no one cares about any of that except other academics, businesses only care about talent and intelligence.
Yes this is my read. When dealing with police and regulating them in some of these really bad departments (Lovelace, CO, I'm looking at you, but LA, NY, any major city), you have to assume they will think of anything to get around the regulations, do whatever they want, and cover their ass. Right now it's so blatant, they know they're being recorded and still violate civil rights, and still only get a paid vacation as punishment most of the time, if that. We need to start holding the mayors accountable for police misdeeds as much as the police themselves.
Noting that this is the sponsor, Rep. John Kavanagh of Arizona, not Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh, whose name is frequently misspelled in that fashion.
this is dangerously close to saying you don't need privacy if you have nothing to hide.

the public doesn't know the full situation, they don't have police training, the video might be cut or not capture everything the police saw/heard.

police should be held accountable for sure, but we need to let them do their jobs without villainizing everything they do.
The water pipe - electrical circuit analogy is not necessarily horrible for DC circuits, but I think it becomes an impediment to learning pretty quickly. There's no water model that works for things like p-n silicon junctions for example.

There's also the fact that transmission of energy by fluid in a pipe (sound wave speed I think) isn't anywhere near as fast as transmission of energy in a wire by electric fields, even though the electrons themselves aren't really moving that fast at all in bulk (*drift velocity is low). There's a 'pipe full of marbles' analogy for that effect, but the actual energy is carried by the electric field, not by a flow of electrons as with a flow of water through a water turbine. There's also the Drude model which treats the electrons as something like an ideal gas with electrons scattering off the positive metal ions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drude_model

However if you get into band theory of solids as a means of explaining conductors, insulators and semiconductors, anything related to a water pipe analogy falls apart:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_band_structure
And that's the issue, no different than hydrogen: we can do that, but in sooooo limited quantity that's practically useless.
So here’s my tinfoil hat theory. When I watch Tik Tok (and I am fully aware my feed is different from others), I become genuinely happy. I see people singing, creating music together via duets, showing homesteading skills, teaching things they know, telling funny jokes, etc. I never see dangerous challenges, though I am not a teen. Here’s the tinfoil hat theory: Tik Tok is what social media was meant to be, but unlike American social media giants that made their deal with the devil and drive growth via separating and polarizing people, Tik Tok makes people feel like the world isn’t a scary awful place with “them vs us” mentality, and so it poses a threat to our political culture which feeds off division.

All I know is that when I go on Facebook I just see angry boomers being quasi political, when I go on Instagram I am filled with envy, when I go on twitter I feel overwhelmed by the sheer flood of information and vileness, and when I go on Tik Tok I feel happy and a new ambition to pick up the guitar again.
China passed a law a couple of years ago requiring all Chinese companies to give the government live access to their databases. Is TikTok exempt? If not, statements that the government hasn't requested any data are misleading. They don't need to.
Why?

There are numerous restrictions already on freedom of speech for this very reason.
This law only serves to tell police how close they need to move towards people filming in order to get them to stop so their abuses can be done without being recorded.
Yeah, I wonder what provoked both Stripe and PayPal to start doing this after not doing it for like 10 years. They both did it pretty close to each other from what I remember.
It already exists: https://drivers.coop/
Per capita we are (edit: #33) in the world and are an absolute leader among developed countries [0]

[0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/police-ki...
I don't think it's the privacy issues that will defeat TikTok, I think it's the deception of a success economy being possible on the platform.

In the past few weeks I've been observing a lot of marginal content trending on the platform which indicates to me that a lot of the more quality posters aren't posting new content.

The minute quality creators leave a platform is the minute it dies. TikTok has not really been rewarding creators fairly, and pushes the idea that organic growth is possible, and that people have become really successful, but many creators realize after months of working for little to no reward that it's a false narrative.

There are billions of accounts on these platforms yes, but the main question is are they actively posting, engaged, and satisfied? The answer is most likely no, and that's why Twitter didn't sell fast too.

I wrote about this issue just earlier today -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32046338
Yea, it's tricky.

The conception of an idea and the sharing of that idea could be completely different skills in some cases. I'm reminded of the classic Jobs/Wozniak duo that we often see repeated in the tech industry. There's definitely something there.
Yes, let's focus on the business and forget all about the product, which just so happens to be ubiquitous today, used in most developed countries and 10,000 cities, and people use "Uber" as a verb the same way "Google" is used for searching the web. /s
What have Vision Transformers been up to?
Naroditsky has the most accessible teaching videos on YouTube as far as I’m concerned. He’s also writing a regular chess column for NYT.
I’m working on a triangle-grid board game, probably for playdate (wip builds: https://jiaaro.itch.io/3nclosure)

I was surprised to find play testers had a hard time internalizing the grid - e.g. making mistakes that result in losing the game in the opponents next turn.

Also, I used simple x, y coordinates for each cell with even-numbered indexes being the upward-pointing triangles and odds being the downward-pointing ones. Similarly odd-indexed rows were offset right by half a triangle to make them align properly

[edits]: added details
> However, this is how all "unicorn" startups operate.

No it absolutely isn't.

Uber is uniquely corrupt. Their toxic tech-bro culture has been baked in from the start.
thanks for reply!
is it schema free? or i need to define scheme via migrations?
Watch collectors, especially if they are Ferrari owners, will probably want this. It's clear some people don't like the tininess of the actual watch face, but this is a side effect of having everything laid out so flatly. It is a technical marvel, and surely will have competitors in the future.

The winding and setting mechanism is a really unique solution.
"burn it down and save on taxes" doesn't sound like a state fulfilling its civic obligations to itself or its citizens, to me...
I don't train particularly hard and mostly just do cardio stuff, like lots of pushups daily.

Based on what I have experienced I think it's fine provided you're still maintaining an overall balance in the long-term. As in, on the non-fasting days you're eating enough of (if not more than) everything your body needs for your training regimen.
Thanks, I updated the title to reflect publication in (2021).
Uber and others should really have been punished harshly for dumping. Banned from operating without extra taxes to bring them in line with other operators and fined for billions.