skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> reading through the endless ‘blind leading the blind’ user forums (Ubuntu comes to mind)

The first party Ubuntu tutorials are especially bad... It seems like for things like SAMBA and NFS they are at least 10 years out of date. Arch Linux and RHEL docs are a lot more reliable, even if you have to figure out the the Debian/Ubuntu ways to do things when they've diverged
With respect to the lunar lander, yes, it was at least odd single-sourcing to SpaceX. At one point there was talk of revisiting that but I'm not sure where that stands.

Still, my point was primarily that there is a general heavy slant towards SpaceX on this site which, whatever successes, should be tempered.
>The first part was too long and the second too short

....and no one ever mentions the third part because it was so long and poor that the book would be better without it.

Seveneves wasn't bad, but part 3 dropped it well down my list of favorites, maybe below Zodiac.

For context, an informal off-the-cuff ranking of his books for me:

Anathem (epic world building, I love the philosophy and the theory)

Cryptonomicon (I've always been interested in WWII, Cryptography, and Computers)

Baroque Cycle (taught me a lot of history I didn't know and somehow made finance interesting)

Diamond Age

Snow Crash

Reamde (not the most technical, but one of his best paced and a good thriller)

Zodiac (also a nicely paced thriller)

Fall (I don't hate this like some people do, but would love to see the real world from the beginning developed further)

Seveneves (I love the science and hate the pacing and all of the third act)

Rise and Fall of DODO (this felt like a slog to me and by the end I was forcing myself to read just to get through it).

The Big U (I don't think this is as bad as Stephenson himself does but it's nothing amazing)

Mongoliad (not my thing)

I pre-ordered a signed copy of Termination Shock, read the first few chapters, got distracted, and have never cared enough to go back. I suppose I should finish it but it didn't grab me fast like some of them have.
Why is space even an issue these days. Everything is digital anyway.
Commandos no match for the Mid-West locals.
> There's no need to single out TikTok…

There absolutely is. TikTok is Max Headroom blipverts come to life, and the effect is hypnotic. They're relentlessly slicing and dicing you as you watch to a far greater degree than anything that's come before it.
Yeah. It always all about economy.

Not long after slavery was abolish; loitering became a crime. See "Vagrancy Act 1824".
Correct. This is a bug.

In the low-cost airline business, your competitive advantage is being the cheapest. Everyone is racing to the bottom. Stripping out features in order to offer a few dollars more off your tickets than your other low cost competitors. The competitors are usually scraping each others' sites to see what the lowest prices are so they can beat it by being cheaper on particular flight routes or dates.

So I think what was actually happening here is that Whizz was trying to control that by raising their price $10 for the scraper bots. The competitors would now scrape Whizz and see a higher price than Whizz actually had and would lower their price to that and stop. Customers who compare all the low cost airlines (most low cost flyers will do that already) will see Whizz is always a little cheaper and purchase from them. Whizz also ends up creating an artificially higher floor (which means more profits instead of racing prices lower).

The problem, is that in the process of Whizz's website trying to determine scraper bots from normal users, a bug in that detection method lead real users with ad blockers from being treated like scraper bots and seeing the higher fee.

This is a bug not a feature.
In all the statistics I've seen, excess deaths have been driven by Covid variant waves. I'm sure this is no different. Of course, the crazies will go berserk over any temporal coincidence with the vaccination rollout programs.

I'd prefer not to see this kind of nonsense given time of day on HN, as a supposed science/technology based forum.
From that link, it makes TikTok sound more like a replacement for Yelp than Google:

> Google senior vice president Prabhakar Raghavan told the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference that according to Google's internal studies, "something like almost 40% of young people when they're looking for a place for lunch, they don't go to Google Maps or Search, they go to TikTok or Instagram."

I'd go as far to say that is a clickbait headline.
What are the deficiencies of Haskell in this area, to your mind?
Guessing gender? Good

Guessing almost anything else (hair colour, age, skin tone) Mixed to bad.
Austrian checking in, the problem with the "high income" logic is that most stuff offered over here is just pretty crappy.

The libraries of streaming services are tiny compared to international offerings and some don't even offer anything in Austria at all because it's a small market.

Pirating is still alive and well, not necessarily because people can't/don't want to afford the alternatives, but because they just aren't as convenient.
Twitter is hounding a young actress right now because she posted pictures of her conservative family.

Tiktok creators are giving Twitter creators shit for it.
Discussed a few weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32315074
Fun with Math: Calculating Multiplicative Persistence
Yeah I came home in Italy today from Netherlands it was a 2:40 hrs flight on Transavia, and I had a realisation that I don’t have the age anymore for these kind of airlines and I think I will try to find a better , larger, quieter airline and class from next holiday, it was really hard today, I had a guy next to me that would have needed 2 seats and I couldn’t find a way to seat comfortably to give him space, had to have half body outside in the middle lane , and try to fit back when someone had to pass to go to bathroom, these airlines are shrinking planes like hell and it’s becoming painful
I find this argument unintelligible, if not intentionally deceptive. We don't ban tobacco because it is bad, we ban it because it is addictive and causes COPD and cancer. We don't ban bad grammar.

The argument that TikTok is no worse than other social media is not a counterpoint, and has absolutely no relation to any rational argument about whether TikTok should be banned. It's a statement intended to raise a simple, obvious question: Why only ban TikTok when we can ban all social media for children? Is other social media better?

Watch me answer that question about caffeine and bad grammar: It makes sense not to ban caffeine and bad grammar along with cigarettes because we ban cigarettes for being dangerous, and caffeine and bad grammar are somewhere between far less dangerous and not dangerous at all.

Didn't have to twist myself into a single knot.
TikTok is a completely different experience than any form of social media that's come before. It's like comparing weed with heroin.
Same here. What I'm drawn to is Nell and Harv's relationship. As short as it is, it has an earnest, bittersweet authenticity. I appreciate Stephenson circling back to it. Starting off the reader with it and closing the loop is one of my favorite, sentimental moments.
All social media apps have the same goal: soak up as much of your attention as possible to get you to look at ads. But it's a difference of degrees, TikTok is simply so much more successful at soaking up peoples attention than competing platforms.

TikTok is seriously affecting peoples quality of life en-masse in a way that social media has never achieved before. Any social media person will tell you how insane the numbers are on TikTok compared to their competitors.
Even if I have been extremely critical of covid vaccine mandates when the mandate is irrespective of age and health condition, I sincerely hope vaccines aren't the cause of this, because the consequences would be terrible in term of public trust. You would end up next time like Russia, with a reasonably efficient vaccine declined by a population who lost any trust in its own government.
So? That's just encouraging people to assist the police when they can, which is what responsible people should be doing anyway. If you don't like criminals going to jail, that's a separate issue entirely.
Yeah, SanDisk seem fine. It's the $19.99 for 1TB or $39.99 for 2TB ones that aren't. I originally got alerted to this when I was boasting about how cheap flash disks had gotten and some person here pointed out I was linking to something totally scammy, which I had no idea about.
> They said the strange part is people applauding Twitter's content moderation for certain topics, while justifying their inaction on others.

There's nothing strange about that either - Twitter only acts to moderate when it has context and/or gets bad press. It's no surprise that American hot-button issues are the most moderated[1] by Twitter, and less sor for heinous, explicit threats to life in a language spoken by < 1 million speakers halfway around the world, or election misinformation in Kenya. That sort of thing never gets on Twitter's radar, and shouldn't come as a surprise.

1. This is a result of resource constraints, and Twitter's own sense of self-preservation. There is only one jurisdiction that can dissolve Twitter, and is also likely its largest revenue source; naturally, that gets an outsized fraction of Twitter's limited engineer-hours and moderator-hours.
Nothing extra? You haven't read the article clearly
1. TikTok appears to be the optimum in social media platform evolution for the foreseeable future. The other platforms don't even come close. TikTok presents a perfect stream of user interests - no "friends" that bare little interest graph similarity. It's all delivered in a video funnel (great for ads) and A/B tests are so natural they're part of the platform itself. Highly optimized dopamine-triggering doom scrolling perfectly tailored to the viewer.

2. Some people are worried about the CCP exerting control to learn about sensitive leaders and their families [1] or to persuade populations at scale [2]. The app has been shown to capture all keyboard input [3], clipboard contents [4], and record much more than it needs to function. Furthermore, all US-based social media is blocked in China, and there's an argument for reciprocity. The topic of Facebook being used to gather international intelligence for the US is not typically mentioned in the same conversations.

[1] opinion; https://www.wsj.com/articles/on-tiktok-its-all-fun-and-games...

[2] https://www.economist.com/interactive/briefing/2022/07/09/th...

[3] https://www.notebookcheck.net/TikTok-is-monitoring-all-keybo...

[4] https://threatpost.com/tiktok-to-stop-clipboard-snooping-aft...
As an Alabamian, I am grateful for California. Alabama wouldn’t be able to survive without the financial support we receive from California.
It certainly can have separate scroll directions between (in my case) trackball and touchpad. You have to download a free menubar widget to get it, but so what.

This is in contrast to focus follows mouse, which you really can't do, and I wish it weren't so. In general though? The OS provides a lot of affordances for automation and customization, it exposes some of that through preferences and leaves the rest for developers.

A good example is what you can do to the keyboard from System Preferences (which is quite a bit) vs. what you can do using Karabiner.
> But they are nowhere near as prevalent as otherwise reputable publications claim.

So the CDC is just junk science?

Nearly One in Five American Adults Who Have Had COVID-19 Still Have “Long COVID”

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/...
DIE KRUPPS - "Nazis Auf Speed" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fRB27kFOG0
1. You're not supposed to be actively proud of what people were doing during communist rule. Just take a note of facts and move along.

2. However, you seem to be in position of so much privilege that your opinion is worthless and is a disgrace.

A whole country cannot "escape". A whole country also does not consist solely from "neighbourhood snitches and apparatchiks". A country and its general population is the victim.

You make it sound like it's so easy to fix a dysfunctional society. Go fix zoning laws and housing affordability. Or the fact that incarcerated people are charged for the privilege of being behind bars. This assuming you're from the USA.
My Samsung G7 monitor has this issue where DDC commands will occasionally lock it up to a black screen. I don't use Lunar as I'm on Windows (I use NirSoft's ControlMyMonitor).

On this monitor I can just unplug and plug the monitor back in and it immediately works again, but its an annoying enough issue and it happens frequently enough that I just stopped using DDC control for it altogether.
Sorry PDP 8/s
If fly's can fly, why you need more?
Good find. No experience, but adding my list to try.
I have a 15 year old Acer laptop that came with Windows 7 Home and runs Ubuntu just fine. I upgraded it to 8g RAM and 2T SSD hard drive.
Estimates of 'active' adblockers are anywhere from 10 to 30% depending on where you look, I stand by the 'many orders of magnitude' claim.

100's of millions of devices use adblockers, and not those built into Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Ad revenue is down far enough that websites (such as those linked in TFA) respond in a malicious way. That certainly would not happen if it was a very small fraction of a percent that did this.

Just Adblock on Chrome alone claims 60 million DAU. With about 5B internet users that works out to 1% just for Adblock on Chrome.

The claim was: "0.001% of people use an adblocker or even know what one is." which is clearly nonsense.
Not that I support Facebook, but it's impossible to be moral absolutist in today's world. You either support western democracy with all it's imperfections or you are supporting authoritarian / totalitarian states. Everyone who pretend to be "politically neutral" will always be helping later.

UPD: Yeah I meant "later" and not "former". Corrected.
Facebook, IG, Snapchat and other old social apps already had their fair share of dirt thrown at them. TikTok didn’t, and lots of people think that they are just a cool app for teenagers to record their dancing.

So it’s more about telling people who already know that alcohol is bad, that White Claw is also bad.
Uch that argument again. I can't read the whole article but I know the basic idea.

First of all Virgin Galactic is a trash company that mostly been use to scam investors, they have shown nothing but incompetence using them as a reference point is just a terrible idea.

But there are many other issues with the concept of just not doing human space flight at all.

If you want to do real systematic science and exploration have humans is actually cheaper. Human on mars supported by serious equipment and local labs is simply more powerful. The best results you get when you have real human scientists directly on location.

And the cheap price for science missions is also partially a myth, despite being a second flight of the same architecture Perseverance cost over 2+ billion. We can't spend 2 billion every time we want to get a few rocket samples and then spend many more billions to pick them up. The complete cost of designing a lunar lander for NASA (that is capable of delivering 100x that weight of Perseverance) cost 2.9 billion.

If you want to do really serious science on a large scale on mars, you will have a human station with lab facilities resupply by reusable rockets and space craft, going on expeditions themselves or sending out robots that can bring back samples and be repaired.

In addition, the human component is quite simply politically incredibly relevant. Human rocket launches draw far larger audience, astronauts are the best ambassadors for space. In addition, the technology developed for human in space of has application for humans on earth as well so much of the technology to provide, air, radiation protection and so on is relevant.
TikTok is made by China, considered an all-encompassing adversary by proponents of nationalism, conflict, and hatred. Therefore it makes TikTok an "adversary" despite the only unique thing it did was eating into Meta's marketshares.

It's very telling when it comes to topics marginally related to general idea of China (the place, the people, the culture, etc.), these so-called free thinker intellectuals seamlessly transition into Goebbel-like devices as if a switch has been flipped on.
If it's jingoism to support Western enlightenment values, liberal democracy, and basic human rights, then yeah I guess I'm a jingo.
Facebook was equally as effective when it launched. People were spending all day on Facebook, then spending all day on Farmville, then spending all day on Instagram. People got tired of it. People move on to new things.
List of most useful Terraform open-source tools
My list of most useful Terraform open-source tools:

"Reverse"/creating from existing cloud resources:

Terraformer: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer

Aztfy (Azure only): https://github.com/Azure/aztfy

Basic GitOps:

Atlantis - https://www.runatlantis.io/

DRY wrapper:
Terragrunt: https://github.com/gruntwork-io/terragrunt

Policy as code:
OPA: https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa

Static code analysis:
checkov: https://github.com/bridgecrewio/checkov

tfsec: https://github.com/aquasecurity/tfsec

terrascan: https://github.com/tenable/terrascan

kics: https://github.com/Checkmarx/kics

Cost:

Infracost (estimation): https://github.com/infracost/infracost

Terratag (tagging): https://github.com/env0/terratag (disclaimer, I am CEO at env0)

Documentation:

terraform-docs: https://github.com/terraform-docs/terraform-docs

Do you have other Terraform-related open-source tools that you recommend? Please go ahead and add in the comments!
More like 60s weed vs 2020s weed
> Haven't classes -- as things which house methods and fields together -- gone out of fashion?

There's your issue right there, "fashion". If we put aside fashion for a moment, we'll notice that all of the most heavily used languages are multi-paradigm. Trying to be purely-OOP or purely-functional, is intellectually and academically appealing, but not very pragmatic for a general-purpose language. In the end fashion comes and goes, but engineering remains.
I think I'm far less likely to be impacted by China having access to the intimate detail of my life, than my own countries government or companies based in my country.

I can't see the Chinese government selling my medical information to health insurers, but could certainly see a local company doing this.
That’s 20 million people if everyone gets it
I stand by my disappointment going from Snow Crash to Cryptonomicon.

If by "disappointment" you mean Cryptonomicon stretched the turgidity of
Snow Crash to its theoretical page limit, you may have a point.
Go ask the buried corpses of those in China who criticize the CCP anything.
No it's because TikTok is owned by the CCP and used as a tool to sow discord and subvert liberal democratic values so that it may destabilize the west and pave the way for CCP supremacy.
There's no correct answer. I have tried both strategies. When push comes to shove employees and founders are not co-aligned. You can treat people really well and they will leave. You can treat people badly and they will stay. You can explain things until the cows come home but employees are not founders, they can't always be expected to see things in the same light, timeframes, or think at multiple levels of the business simultaneously. High-touch management doesn't scale. Eventually you will part ways. Protect the business, be transparent enough to engender trust, admit your mistakes, and always be fair to others.
Half measures still do _something_

They did reduce plastic pollution, as you admit.

Was it the most effective regulation to pass to reduce plastic pollution by the greatest possible amount? Not at all
I hoped to see a more solid answer because I caused a (I think) similar thing to happen on a friend's MacBook a couple years ago.

I think I was using some utility to force the resolution down from retina levels for some emulated game we wanted to play. Something went wrong and the top ~1/5 of the screen started flickering insanely quickly.

We restarted the laptop and the flickering continued. Then I think we turned it off, left it off for a while, then turned it back on. Still flickering.

In the end we left the laptop on for a couple hours and it slowly became less flickery until it was eventually entirely back to normal.

Super weird. I was so confused and my friend was so nice about it all that I didn't even think to take a video or document any exact stuff we tried aha.
https://lewisroadcreamery.co.nz/products/fresh-coffee-milk

285mg of caffeine in a 300ml bottle. Energy drinks are already regulated to max out at 320mg per litre (so that would be 96 mg max in a 300ml bottle, I guess "weak energy drinks" would be the answer to your question).

Although that does have less sugar - 6.5g per 100ml compared to the 11g per 100ml in Red Bull.

Now I'm curious about what qualifies as an energy drink, I guess it must be based on marketing?
Science is the system of questioning things through a repeatable methodology.

Is that not exactly what is happening here?

Science is always in a state of flux, as it should be until we know everything. Don’t get religious about it.
Everything I thought I knew about water in California is wrong (2015)
A better analogy. It's like comparing alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana. Historically, we socially glorified alcohol and tobacco while heavily criminalizing marijuana in order to be sneakily racist.

The problem is not what TikTok is doing to people. The problem is that we don't control it and China does.

This is a sneaky thing those who manufacture consent do. They are very thorough in calling out the bad of the thing that exists outside their control and profit structure, but then accuse you of whataboutism when you try to compare and contrast with the status quo they are implicitly supporting in their criticism.
Not since Shazam have I had a Neo "whoa" moment like this. Some of these generations are incredible.
> I'd prefer not to see this kind of nonsense given time of day on HN, as a science/technology based forum.

Then why did you make a comment that's mostly about it?
Fair enough. I thought I'd test it. I opened Tik Tok for pretty much the first time. I've installed it but not yet used it. It showed me a bunch of girls dancing, as expected. I thought I could swipe up / down to tell them what I like, but I can only swipe up, so I'm not sure how I train it.

I searched "Israel Palestine". I got an Irish guy named Freddy Quinne telling me it's like "coming home from work one day, only to find that someone else is now in your house". It appears to be mostly just guys talking / ranting. This hasn't really changed my mind that the medium shapes the content.
certainly sounds like some of the complaints that were raised about television back in the day... but somehow society adapts and gets on with living.

Indeed any media that gives a aspirational view of the world tends to attract the attention of those who want to preserve the status quo.
Here's how to perform CRUD operations by building a simple employee payroll application powered by React & ButterCMS.
If YouTube and Facebook are like vodka then TikTok is crack. LinkedIn is like a used bottle everyone wants to piss in but nobody wants to drink from.
The beautiful applications of calculus in real life
This article is click bait. The topic is being discussed at great length throughout the industry, but this adds nothing to the conversation, and the writing style is quite childish.