skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, absolutely. In fact I was just emailing some childhood friends these videos earlier today.

What TikTok does _really_ well is surface hyper specific content to you. I grew up the children of indian immigrants and there's a, let's say shared trauma, to growing up like that. It's a ton of little things that I just swallowed as a kid and now I realize: that's kinda messed up. Things like aunties always asking me what school I got into, am I dating, am I getting married, etc. They seem like innocent questions right now but as the eldest teen in the group, I wanted appreciation and felt like I was getting orders from these questions.

Yes it's a constrained format (though I think you can up to 90 seconds now) but you have to realize, it is near impossible to find this kind of content elsewhere. There's a whole generation of people who find communicating through short video clips more natural than how you and I are talking right now. And they're not afraid to challenge social norms that I had to accept; I can only salute that.

Does this represent all the type of content I engage with? No - the slot machine effect is very real here. For every impactful video I watch, there's maybe 10 dopamine hit videos I consume. I choose to make that trade off (with guard rails - I install TikTok every friday and delete it every Sunday).

Sample impactful video: https://www.tiktok.com/@anncytwinklee/video/7130719838778953...
The original recordings don't exist.
Caffeine is not the reason Coca-Cola is bad.
https://archive.ph/JmC9w
Right, my startup work on compliance tech for the construction industry. Pretty gritty work trying to simplify and automate regulations that are constantly changing.

Can't imagine anyone doing this open source.
I like Lenovo, their worldwide maintenance deal appears good, but I suspect the fundamental problem you have is in some ways, your economy, unless you can convince me the repair story doesn't happen with other vendors. And, if thats the case, the other vendors are looking pretty solid as a choice.

Dell is good, in cycles. I only every bought in the bad years. If I wasn't on an Apple Mac I'd be on a thinkpad, or a chrome book at this point: run in VMs in the cloud, minimise dependency on the desktop.
That's not the only way ballot measures and propositions have been passed. Previous governors have advocated for measures, got them on the ballot, and encouraged people to vote for them. The current governor could do the same.
Just because facebook (a soulless ghoul amalgamation trapped in the vortex of a billionaire p-zombie) took shots at tiktok (also a shit company), doesn't absolve tiktok of real, actual harm.

This is whataboutism, although I always do appreciate light being shown on Fb/meta.
It is so expensive that airlines will often not repaint planes even after a rebrand (and sometimes after an acquire) until such time as it becomes necessary.
system76 dot com
Original paper abstract: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-022-00989-0 and PDF: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-022-00989-0.epdf .
> I often point gay animal skeptics to Biological Exuberance by Bruce Bagemihl—a 1999 book detailing more than 300 different animal species that engage in a diverse array of behaviors that fall under the umbrella of homosexuality. Everything from same-sex sex, affection, pair bonds, and parenting.

It is strange to me that things like same-sex affection, pair bonds, and parenting are considered a form of homosexuality.
I'm with the rest of the commenters here in being puzzled about why TikTok is being singled out here with respect to the other social media apps. It's like comparing whiskey, vodka, and tequila in terms of health risks. You can't single out one as particularly pernicious when they do about the same thing.
How does this punish people who managed to escape? It's not like the neighbourhood snitches and apparatchiks were the real victims, surely? This isn't even about regional partisanship. The article itself says these jokes provided comfort and enabled the participants in what was the most objectively evil system since Robespierre's terror and Leopold of Belgium's African colonialism. They're funny, but they normalize the oppression by demoralizing people. The one thing you're not supposed to tolerate or offer any quarter or sympathy to is this specific urge, which arguably is managing to surface again. And if one isn't actively against it, what could one be for, really?
If we reckon we can terraform a whole planet to produce a human-livable environment, it should be absolute chicken-feed to reduce the Earth's CO2 levels by about 100 parts per million. The fact that we are unable to do this minor job with all our resources on hand demonstrates that we are not capable of doing larger jobs, such as the Mars job, without resources.
Police robot told woman go away after she tried to report crime then sang a song (2019)
Does it make it any less true? I think this author understates the harm other platforms cause, since the focus was TikTok, but she does explicitly say that many of the addictive engineering tricks are employed by the other platforms as well.
I found the following article to be very helpful when troubleshooting and bypassing that practice:

https://help.dnsfilter.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500008110182-transparent-proxying

It's also good to know that many newer browsers aren't affected since they've started to enable DoH out of the box (at least that's what firefox has done).

Anyway, other programs on your system may be affected too so addressing the issue at the system level is also important.
Show HN: I built a quizlet clone in 2 hours
Quizlet, a popular tool among high schoolers and college students used to study for tests recently made it's core functionality paid. In an era where Autodesk, Adobe, and Microsoft hold their proprietary software to their chests, it's exciting to see opensource alternatives come to compete with them. I'm 15, and I'm excited to do my part to keep education free for everyone.

https://openlearn.vercel.app
I’d rather they didn’t exist and I feel public transit shouldn’t be dependent on the whims of advertisers.
When you sign up for Namecheap, you are acknowledging that they can change their TOS at any time and can effectively revoke ownership of any domain you own at-will. This is the same for pretty much everyone, unless you're buying straight from ICANN.
edit: also proactively take L-Lysine before sun or stress and Valacyclovir if it is too late
Literally nobody is suggesting to put all eggs in the SpaceX basket. But nice straw-men.

In fact, in the current situation we have exactly this issue. SLS/Orion is so absurdly expensive that there literally is no money for dual sourcing of moon landers. NASA was forced to select on Starship as the moon lander BECAUSE there isn't enough money.

If you actually read what smart pro-SpaceX analysts and journalist write, you will see that you can dual source literally every part of the architecture.

We already have (or soon will) have 2 ways to go from earth to LEO. If you build on top of that, and you are not forced to spend money on SLS/Orion you have easily enough money for 2 way to get form LEO to the moon.

Starhip is one of those ways, but other ways of doing the same thing could be designed if there was money for it in the budget, but that money isn't there because NASA was forced by uninformed politicians to use this architecture. Why so many people defend an architecture that is the direct result of clueless politicians I will never understand.

There is a reason every other modern NASA program is dual sourced, COTS, CommercialCrew, CLIPS, Lunar resupply, suits, but somehow Artemis isn't. Why might that be ...
Depends on what you are working on, but don’t dismiss buying a cheap chromebook with a decent screen and using a cloud instance. A lot of IDE plugins make it an even better experience. Just make sure you are near the data centre and it’ll be better then you think.
All of those things can be quite shallow. It's really easy to confuse engaging content with deep content which is why you can watch five hundred minutes of e.g. Youtube content and remember very little of it while having an inflated sense of knowledge. I imagine the same thing applies to Tiktok, although I avoid that because I worry that it has basically solved exactly for engagement.
https://archive.ph/veKmo
(https://openlearn.vercel.app)
Starlink will provide dead-zone coverage for T-Mobile
Indeed: https://blog.coreyh.com/2005/06/29/coke-zero-and-diarrhea/

One comment:

> I first noticed that half a coke zero results in a "colon cleansing" complete with cramps and loose bowels. Over the last 2 days, four other friends/family have experimented and come up with the same results. What is the ingredient that causes this?
Spamming HN with a link you’ve previously posted isn’t good for the community. I left a comment on your previous post but it seems the post was flagged.
TikTok already limits minimum user age to 13, along the same lines as every other major social media platform which are all shamelessly stealing the same idea for short format videos provided via tailored algorithms. Picking on TikTok while ignoring every other platform doing the same thing simply screams ulterior motivation.

Every generation needs its ultimately inconsequential moral panic after all. TikTok merely got picked out because its background allows easy fingerpointing thanks to a few shifting political trends in the late 2010's.
Three-Phase Electric Power (3φ) : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-phase_electric_power
The author asks an interesting question which I didn’t see the answer to in his reply: what DO you call this note in the A minor blues scale?

He says you’re only supposed to use each letter once, so am I supposed to call this an E flat and then refer to the following note as an F flat?

I struggle a bit with considering the ‘blue note’ a variation of the fifth - it feels more to me like a variation of the fourth, so is it in fact a D sharp? But then the fourth would be C double-sharp, and the (flat) third would be B sharp… right?

All of that just sounds mad.
lol… free speech for those who don’t rock the boat. Go ask someone in the US who criticizes Israel in any serious way how their employment prospects are going.
I have to protest; I have bought two of these and they have been lackluster. They feel very cheaply made.

I am also having issues with my current System76 suddenly deciding not to detect my second monitor. Just a bad experience overall, though on this particular point, the flaw is easily Ubuntu's and not System76's.
I have used that one a lot. At previous companies we have hit slack from github actions to notify on deployment and such
When speaking generally, that suggestion may be acceptable. The previous comment, however, specifically mentioned long covid. Biomarkers for long covid are known. Both patient experience and biological research confirm that long covid isn't psychological.

"Blood abnormalities found in people with Long Covid - Study implicates lack of key hormone, battle-weary immune cells, and reawakened viruses," https://www.science.org/content/article/blood-abnormalities-...

"Fewer microclots = less severe acute symptoms," https://twitter.com/resiapretorius/status/156015016679088128...
Sorry.. this makes no sense. The economic and demographic puts in doubt the WISDOM of the policy. It doesn't put the ACTUALITY of the policy in doubt at all. The Han chinese majority controlling party structures are scared of racial and religious minorities.

I would say that in the longterm, yes: Wahabism like all religious extremism responds best to education and jobs. Confronting fire with fire doesn't seem to work.

Political opposition to Iran and Shia power in the middle east has caused a long slow political forest fire to wreak havoc. I really despair at this ending before the drop in water supply in the region causes more fundamental problems to explode from Turkey ownwards.
It is way past time for parents and educators to take a stand. You have the power to shut off the sewage pipe bursting in the middle of your living room. NO internet access under 18. Whitelist every single page your kids has access to.

Playing whackamole is physically impossible. This social media vs that social media. This hyperaddictive videogame vs. that hyperaddictive videogame, and 1000 more waiting in the wings. Various shades of (soft) porn, including some very mainstream: hello ad industry. Sales funnels for harmful chemicals, including some very mainstream: hello Ritalin. Instant validation for any quackery under the sun, and then some. Etc, etc, etc.

Some will say: Wait, but there is clean, useful, value-dense content on the Internet. Aren't we throwing the baby with the bathwater? For an entire childhood, you can buy all of it for a few thousand $$$, in book or DVD format. Better, creators of value-dense content now have a way to sustain their lives. Not worth taking chances with "free" Internet.
> "The use of automations for booking (robots) require additional hosting efforts and for such activities, Wizz Air applies a system surcharge fee", Wizz Air explained to Skift on the issue.

We know that is only superficially true. Yes, automation requires additional hosting resources in regards to the website, but automation also lowers the costs incurred by the PoS (Point of Sale). It costs more to pay a person to sell tickets, and their queue of simultaneous sales is far shorter.
And today I learned that a game boy color could connect to the internet.
>>Can I settle in on Tik Tok and spend an hour gaining a deep understanding of the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict?

Unironically, yes, I'd bet dollars to donuts there's some niche creator doing exactly this. As an example, one of the people I follow (@maklelan) is a PhD in theology & religion, and has ~1000 videos on biblical scholarship, the history of various religious texts, different translations/interpretations of scripture, etc.

It's interesting and very niche content. There are probably 1000x more views being had by attractive young women dancing, but TikTok is big enough that it has everything.
It you are trying to stay revenue neutral as a company, and want to charge people to avoid ads, you can't just charge them the exact same amount that you make per customer from your ad provider.

People who can afford to pay to avoid seeing advertisements are more valuable to advertisers because they have more money.
Air ticket pricing is already extremely opaque, the most surprising part of this is that it is listed as a seperate surcharge rather than being silently factored into the ticket price.
2nd LEO should be something else.
tuquoque screams Facebook's massive publicity arm while it gobbles up what's left of humanities neurons into the metaverse(tm)
I said this about Neal Stephenson on Slashdot about 20 years ago, but… I don’t think it was particularly original thought at the time, my guess is you probably weren’t inspired by me :)
> The worst thing is that these apps addict one to unrealistic expectations and instant gratifications.

I mean, there's also racism, sexism, white nationalism, etc. that TikTok occasionally dumps into your feed to test your engagement with it in order to improve the psychographic profile it uses to decide what to throw at you next. (To be clear, this is not hypothetical, this is my personal experience with it.)
Maybe we shouldn't place any limits on social media, but instead charge them a nominal tax for dealing with the negative externalities? Perhaps at a rate set by reported hours of human engagement, which will also serve as a balance against robots.

Use such taxes to pay for PSAs about the harms and let people decide for themselves if or how to change their use.
There's no need to single out TikTok, the same regulation that will make them spy on people less will also work with Meta, Twitter, Google. TikTok does nothing extra compared to them.
Falcon Heavy is not rated for carrying humans. That's only because SpaceX chose not to bother because 1) low demand and 2) starship will do it anyway.
I will break protocol and say that it means something to me to have you say that !
I think this is the next move for TikTok - a search + map offering. I've started searching for restaurant reviews on TikTok and it mostly works. Couple things I liked about that experience:

* The medium of video. It's just a next level experience compared to reading text and looking at photos of dishes.

* I thought I wanted an aggregate vote on a restaurant. I actually like one detailed TikTok review over a ton of shallow, generally extreme Yelp reviews.
If you can't through to the youngsters with op-eds, I don't know what will.
Wouldn't it become very undecidable very fast going down that route? Programming by defining algebras is interesting idea with many practical applications, even in down-to-earth CRUD apps, but how much magic can you really add before it becomes impossible (or even just very hard) to compile?

The closest example in mainstream languages is Haskell, but even there the compiler basically trusts you. Is it possible to add something else while remaining decidable/efficient? I genuinely don't know.
Ah yes. Just as every website comsiders me to be born January first, about seven scrolls down the years.
The very act of selling over the web in an automated fashion makes the sale cheaper for Wizz compared to selling via a ticket agent. And, no bit of code costs Wizz £10 per sale.

Ad revenue isn't needed to recoup sale-costs, because those exist for people who do not purchase. Those costs are zeroed out for the people who do purchase.
It's unflagged now?
I agree that parents should have much more responsibility on these matters, but not in exchange for state influence, at least in the US. 40M+ adults lack basic literacy to inform themselves well enough to pass on to their kids. Another 65M only have enough literacy to make low-level inferences and compare/contrast [0].

I’d rather govt (which has many channels for advocacy even if flawed) influence choices than corporations completely control the panopticon of choices (where small time spenders have very little consumer power).

But we’re not far apart. As you mention schools (of the state) are a good place to start.
I am, actually. I absolutely love what the Clean City law did to Sao Paulo
> SLS will almost certainty be canceled before they reach anywhere close to 800m a launch.

Thats, speculation, one covered in the source article, that notes, because of the spread of the project - virtually every state makes something for it, its proven itself more or less immune to budget cuts because of this.

Beyond that, there is a dearth of heavy lift rockets out there, the idea of a single source from SpaceX is.. one, contrary to normal federal procurement rules, and two, not a sane idea - if for no there reason than it doesnt match the mission profile for a lunar mission.

I'll note, that even a Block I SLS launches 30t more into LEO than Falcon Heavy does, the numbers go up even higher for later blocks, presumably this advantage is even high for lunar missions.
Yeah this makes sense. I still think it might make more sense to be transparent, and also capable of having those conversations with the team about why people are being hired instead of bonuses being juiced. Maybe you're right that it would be bad for morale, but I feel like owners / executives should be able to tell that story compellingly.
For the parents of teenagers here - how do you regulate TikTok usage amongst your kids, if it all?
> 0.27%

Imagine if we could take that number back in time.
If you'll allow me to shift the goalposts, then it was men deciding to have kids. Has there ever been a society where men thought the world was too terrible to puts kids into? Assuming men and women have similar interest in the quality of life of their children, it should be the same feeling among women.

Of course women have all sorts of other reasons for not having kids, which they'll be using to actually have fewer kids, but imagining that they'll suffer from the bad world doesn't sound like a real reason and more of a political statement to make it look like they're very concerned about the popular worries about the world.
Probably pay the same price such that water doesn’t deteriorate past a point though right? It does need to be affordable for families. If you don’t also put some usage level maintenance then it’ll get depleted to the point that it remains too expensive for all but the wealthiest users (personal or corporate or government.
That is law in the UK, and I'm surprised if:

> those same kids could buy a coffee/iced coffee with just as much sugar and often even more caffeine in it just fine.

is accurate? Weak energy drinks, or supremely sugary caffeine-rich coffee down there?
> Caffeine is bad, too.

Is it? I was under the impression (after some reading of studies, not just dreaming about the topic) that it was not just GRAS (generally regarded as safe), but several studies showed benefits to regular coffee consumption.
What's the cost of water salination? California has a coast.
My first Stephenson book was Seveneves and I feel like its discussion of social media feedback loops in the 2nd act was eerily prescient
It ain't just Stephenson who can't write endings. This seems to be a general failure mode of science fiction and fantasy writers from the last 4 or 5 decades.

The reason I forgive Stephenson is because he can write a genuinely smart character. One the most infuriating things is reading a story where the "smart" character is clearly what a not-so-smart writer thinks a "smart" character is. Fantasy and alternate history is more prone to this than sci-fi, thankfully.
Maybe parents should actually be responsible and do this? I'm getting more and more convinced that smartphones should probably not be in the hands of minors. A dumb phone with call and text capability is probably good for 12+ but social media is a scourge.
As somebody who has no idea what Quizlet is, I have no idea what you expect me to enter in the textare you're showing after clicking Get started. I've entered some text and clicked Learn, only to be presented with an error stating not enough terms. Terms of what?
Any suggestions on software to use for home site whitelisting?
E-Paper price tags used to create large wireless grid display
I think human beings in general avoid activities with possible serious or fatal consequences.

Programmers don’t exist as a distinct species with a special mindset. And few programming bugs have anything close to serious consequences, compared to installing a child’s car seat, for example.
You have a great deal more faith in the competence, rigor, and patience of the average user than I do. (Let alone the 10th percentile user, which is who would be more likely hit.)
I suspect you’re ascribing an unrealistic amount of intentionality and rationality to the prioritizations of a giant bureaucracy.
Online services can only do so much due diligence. Do you want mandatory photo ID & facial verficiation instead? That would be infinitely more harmful to user privacy.
It really depends on which company offers the best support in your country in this case, yeah? People can recommend whatever, but it’s most likely going to be someone living in the US.
Should hear what they said about books...

Up! Up! my friend, and quit your books!

Or surely you'll grow double.

Up! Up! my friend and close your books

Why all this toil and trouble?

===

There is no doubt, but that study is an occasion of exciting lust, and of giving rise to many obscene actions... Hence, as I suppose it is, that we find, in Euripides and Juvenal, that the learned women of antiquity were accused of immodesty.

===

... he so buried himself in his books that he spent the nights reading from twilight till daybreak and the days from dawn till dark; and so from little sleep and much reading, his brain dried up and he lost his wits.

And that doesn't even count the multitude of ills brought upon society by the television. Perhaps we should take a brief step back and consider before we continue our clamor over TikTok.