skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote about this topic in a book (link in bio).

I found myself addicted to consuming and creating tiktoks for about a year and a half after amassing 25k followers in a few months.

There’s many repercussions to being on any social platform for countless hours a day, but for me it was a hard addiction to break.

Not only do you get the feeling of a slot machine when the platform allows you to win to keep you incentivized to keep creating, but you get stuck in a niche of content you probably would never do otherwise. You become a one trick pony or see yourself following trends out of desperation to keep your views.

I find TikTok to be one of the best platforms for manipulating your emotions. It can give you power just as fast as it can take it away. Once you get used to a certain amount of engagement and views, you hardly can settle for less emotionally.

It was a whirlwind for me.

https://www.tiktok.com/@jondouglas
Scratch lotteries are rigged in that, while it's pure random luck for a single person to win big, the odds are firmly against the punters and firmly for the house.

Depending on the algorithm used, the house can take as little as 1% of the punters' wagers, or as much as 100% of the punter's wagers. Usually, to sucker people in, the house only takes about 5-10%.

So, in a sense and counter-intuitively, the more often you gamble the more likely it is that you will end up losing all of your money. If you only gamble now and then, you will be more likely to come out on top.
Those two researchers have never published a paper in epidemiology. Why should I trust these yahoos anti-vax propaganda?
Quizlet is flashcards where you match a term with its definition to help memorize them. Amusingly, a Basic version of this was the first software I ever wrote (back in 1992)

This site would benefit a lot by having some example data prepopulated on the site itself. For now, copy/paste the below text and set the top-left to use commas:

California,Sacramento

Wisconsin,Madison

Georgia,Atlanta

North Dakota,Bismark

South Dakota,Pierre

Massachusetts,Boston
Look for a small business laptop with on-site support (Lenovo or Dell) in your country. Not their consumer lines but their business ones. You have to pay extra for that support and but it's worth it. If it's available in your country
I like video2x[1] for this, a nice simple CLI with lots of different options for different cases, (especially the anime upscalers) used it quite a bit, also played with realcugan-ncnn-vulkan[2] which has given me pretty great results.

[1]: https://github.com/k4yt3x/video2x
[2]: https://github.com/nihui/realcugan-ncnn-vulkan
I've been falling asleep to a podcast called "Sleep With Me"[0] for the last two years or so. For most of my life, I've had a lot of trouble falling asleep thanks to a fun combination of anxiety and an overactive mind. Thanks to the podcast, I fall asleep within ~20 minutes of lying down almost every day.

In each episode, the affable host tells a story (or reads a catalog, or recaps a Star Trek episode, etc) in the most meandering, boring way possible. It sounds weird, but it's just interesting enough for me to stop thinking about other things - but not interesting enough that I want to stay awake. I highly recommend it to anyone that has similar problems.

Sorry if it sounds like I'm writing ad copy for the show, but it literally changed my life for the better.

[0] https://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com/
I'm the CEO of an early stage startup, about ~10 in size. I share everything.

Cash in bank, runway, burn. How our products are doing. What's coming next.

Maybe things change as you grow, I'm not sure. But for now, my teammates are early believers in what we're trying to do and the least I can owe them for taking that risk is transparency.
To be fair...under the same conditions windows and even Linux a la Nvidia gracefully handles monitor assignment for matching serials so I think it's a bit disingenuous to say this is all on the monitor manufacturer...though I agree ultimately they are the primary party at fault.

Source: have this exact scenario and on windows/Linux Nvidia drivers it works and on Mac it flips everytime I come back from sleep. Same brand batch and serial, cables, ports, etc.

And I have an m1 pro with a simple HDMI to usbc and an HDMI direct so no hub/bus assignment funny stuff either it's directly plugged into dedicated ports.
RIP. The guy is considered notable enough to have a Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_the_Hole

Also, bypasses if you hit the paywall:

* https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2F...

* https://archive.ph/JEhQu

* https://web.archive.org/web/20220828192030/https://www.thegu...
Crypto scam victim detected. Eth.link was lying about being decentralized.
It felt like Stephenson had a committee of editors, and they told him certain things would make the book sell better, and they promised to fund his VR sword game.

One of the men sacrificing his life is described in a way to tick off a diversity checkbox, for example.

I stuck around because the cosmological ramblings reminded me of Anathem, and while the ending became Animorphs, I couldn't follow him into REAMDE.

I just keep Anathem and Diamond Age in mind when folks discuss Stephenson. Those have my favorite moments. Someday, I may venture into his past works.
Not really. The Youtube rabbit hole is just as addictive and damaging as TikTok. Possible more so.
No, that's silly.

The overwhelming majority of people probably know just as much as you and I do about the uses to which TikTok puts the data they gather. Which is why conversations about TikTok immediately move into attacks on the Chinese government and Chinese people rather than discussing a single material effect that their data gathering or use has or could have on anyone's life.

The difficulty with discussing material objections to TikTok is that people would immediately enter areas that they personally have a hand in working on and/or investing in, and would lobby to preserve. They want American data to go to American oligarchs.
“Cryptonomicon is in no danger of appearing on any list of favorite Science Fiction books”

That’s an odd claim. It was a Hugo nominee and won the Locus award the year it came out. But it also shows up on lists of the best books of the 1990s, not just ‘sci fi’ lists.

You don’t have to have liked it, but trying to argue that the ‘rambling asides’ which are the signature of what many people love about Stephenson’s work somehow make it objectively worse sci fi than Snow Crash is a bizarre way to approach literature.
Its not crazy if we just talk data and statistics. I find the intersection with vax mandates and the overwhelming datasets coming from Germany and Israel and the UK quite interesting. So lets just stick with facts and debate those.
This was flagged and dead but somehow revived. Jeesh.
Also a good analogy. My guess is that most of the people commenting that it's "no different than Facebook" must not have used either extensively. They are completely different experiences.
If this is intentional to throw off price scraper bots, why is the price only raised £10 on the final screen of checkout when the card details form is shown, after entering personal details, creating an account, entering address, going through seat selection, insurance, car rental, etc. Not to mention a CAPTCHA is filled out during checkout anyway, so they know the user is likely to not be a bot.

The price stays at e.g £100 from the point of searching for flights, all the way through checkout until scrolling down to the card details form, at which point it is discretely raised to £110.
Thank you for the book recommendation.

Many early-stage startups fail because they fail to find a good product-market fit, or because they fail in marketing and sales, which are much harder to get right. I very much doubt that poor information sharing by the founders about the state of the business with rank and file (which is what is implied in the question here) causes disasters.

Later-stage startups often fail because managing growth is a supremely difficult skill, and if everyone is not rowing in the same direction or if there are strategic missteps, the growth engine sputters. Absence of growth is death in our industry. Sharing too much information at this stage may be counterproductive if the company is still trying to make unit economics work, improving sales efficiency, or burning cash to fight an external competitor while scrambling to secure more. Many of these will just drive away many employees, who show up for the paychecks.
No, it's easy... just teach it Asimov's 3 laws :-)
If the court orders to "block whatever IP this domain resolves into" then you can have much fun by pointing domain to government and bank websites.

Some people played this kind of game with Internet censorship in Russia.
I disagree, there is a heavy slant towards SpaceX because SpaceX earned it. And taking maximum advantage of that makes a huge amount of sense. And it makes sense to talk about them more then anybody else.

But even fans of SpaceX agree that dual sourcing is important, it just so happens that the secondary bids are mostly not as good or inspiring. So they are talked about less.

Of the two rockets that resulted from the original COTS program, Falcon 9 and Antares, I think its pretty clear why when talking about those there is a heavy slant towards Falcon 9.

Had NASA not given SpaceX a chance for HR (as Bolten and others in the Obama administration wanted) the US would be reliant on Russia for ISS and that would be a literal disaster right now.

Success in the space industry is slanted towards SpaceX, and that why its the same on this sight.
I would think the same for some products but AFAIK those Ecoflow batteries are quite fancy.

I printed a document using one and generally printers hate running off generator power.
Almost certainly cannot read your iMessages. It can theoretically look in your photos if you grant that permission, but most likely it only looks at your photos when you select videos to upload.
A few observations here. The first: this product is an optional thing. There are many mice manufactured, they all work with Macs. I, personally, have a Kensington. The last Apple mouse I had possessed a tail, and was only okay, not, for instance, good.

The next one: the charge lasts a month to six weeks with normal use.

Next one after that: it's your unlucky day and you didn't idly think "oh, hey, I'll plug this in over lunch" on week three like a normal person. What you do is plug it in, and take a ten minute break. Everyone has ten minutes worth of things they can do. This gets you to a real break, and now you're good for another six months. Yes, I said months, just plug the damn thing in sometimes. Set yourself a reminder. Don't be a vegetable.

The amount of time you've dedicated to being irritated online about a product you don't use, is longer than the irritation a typical user of that product will experience the entire time they own it.

Congratuations, I guess.
You might want to do some research before proffering an ill-informed opinion. In particular, I would look up "Harm Reduction" which is a relatively new strategy. Heroin is already illegal, so it can't be made any more illegal. What we can do is provide a place for addicts to safely use the drug while they interface with members of the community trying to help them. We are learning the dangers of nitrous oxide, so the first logical step is to limit sales of it.

Friends of Hsieh claim that he was using up to 50 cartridges of Nitrous Oxide each day and often in public or during meetings. Witnesses described his home and bedroom being littered with hundreds of used cartridges

https://www.addictioncenter.com/news/2021/11/zappos-ceo-tony...
Maybe because "rubber" is a term for condom? If so, yikes.
The authors have never published a paper in epidemiology, and trust me, there are plenty of pitfalls even very smart people can fall into when they don't understand the ins and out of a field.
Ugh, I hate this convention. I will grudgingly admit, after spending the last year in a C++ codebase, that it makes reading code somewhat easier to have a clear indicator of whether we're looking a class variable or not, but something about that unnecessary character bugs me.
In the lua realm, there is teal. It is very much like a typescript for lua

https://github.com/teal-language/tl
Startup Boeing
> But everyone now drives entirely clued to their phone - it’s scary to observe but I guess we’ve evolved to have a third eye or something in addition to collision avoidance tech in modern cars!

Uhh wut? I'm surprised to hear that. In the Netherlands it's the total opposite. In the late 90s I used to call and text like crazy. I could even blind type SMS. I also had a 2-way radio for chitchat during driving. It was normal. And legal.

Now nobody does it anymore because the penalties are so high. I don't live there anymore but the last time I drove, in Ireland, the fine was €1500 + a third of a licence worth of penalty points.

I'm pretty sure must of Europe has this kind of law and it's pretty effective. Traffic has become a lot busier too so it's kinda necessary. Navigating with the phone in a holder is still allowed.
I haven't actually installed it and tried, but I can't think of any reason it wouldn't.
Interesting post. I'm curious about adopting Swift UI myself and this is good to know.

btw, please add an RSS feed to your site. If you have one it's not discoverable via in-page links, link tags, or educated guessing.
Reamde does still have rape as character development which is... it's one of those tropes that once you notice an author keeps doing it you wince when it comes up again. This is of course in The Big U, and in Snow Crash, and in Diamond Age, and here it is again in Reamde.

I really like Diamond Age, it's probably one of my favourite books, and if that was his only novel which did it I'd say well, fair enough it sort of makes sense in context - but it happens over and over, so that's not great. It's in the same category as Fridging in comics. Twice is coincidence, three times is lazy writing.
It's also not capable right now (macOS 12/iOS 15/Xcode 13) for some parts. For example, there is no simple way to declare initial focus for a text field in a view. One has to resort to "onAppear" hacks, such as:

.onAppear {
// 0.05 is a guess. anything lower seems to run too early
// and does not have the desired effect.
DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 0.05) {
focusTextField = true
}
}

Similarly, dismissing text field focus & on-screen keyboard upon scrolling/tapping away is a source of programming pain. It seemingly was bad in the old APIs. It is worse in SwiftUI in my limited experience. Same for scrolling a view such that an active text field isn't covered by the on-screen keyboard.
Not really. TikTok has had tons of bad press from day one, even if it was just the sense of ick that it's just for kids and skeevy people watching young people dancing. And there's been criticism for years that it's a covert tool China is using to manipulate our youths. We need to think of the children!
The US civil war was primarily over different modes of production, not slavery directly.

The British working class was forced to pay the former slavers until a few years ago, while the former slaves got nothing. That was in no way just or good or useful.
Etcd has come a long way and generally doesn't behave strangely or cause big issues these days.

The cloud providers generally aren't actually doing any significant amount of work on your behalf on the etcd front.
Anybody who isn't trying to ban it as they try to ban TikTok, unless they see a material difference in the behavior of the applications other than hypernationalism.

Ban both for kids. Double ban Instagram. If nobody has planted a flag in your moral center, you'll rarely find a reason to mention TikTok by name when talking about the manipulation and surveillance that social media decided it wants to be.
Back to when? This was first published October 2020. And it was based on pre-Delta/Omicron wave numbers so the amount of time this was valid was pretty low.

But that's also a huge number. That's 1 in 400 people.
State Machines. Objects are supposed to model state machines, each mutating method is a transition event that takes the current state and any number of arguments and transition the state machine to a new state.

In very simple words, each object in an OOP program is a virtual computer, its class define the instruction set.

"Objects are a recursion on the notion of computer itself"

--Alan Kay
I use a Dell Precision 5550 running Manjaro and it is an excellent machine, no complaints
Do you mind explaining why this research paper being on the HN front page would suggest that HN is a joke?
No way he’d be as successful and be able to do things like this without it sadly. He definitely plays into it as well which I find funny. The community at first was a hit harsh on him for it but they know that’s how they’re able to afford everything.

Those thumbnails and clickbait titles definitely work.
That thing looks fancy! Perhaps make sure there isn't a "light sleep" or similar option in its OSD that allows it to blank the screen without fully sleeping.

On my monitor (~5ish year old Dell) I have the "Deep Sleep" option disabled and it suits me very well like this.
> So the CDC is just junk science?

This particular study certainly is. The Pulse Survey cited was not a rigorous longitudinal case/control study, but rather a voluntary online poll with a dismal response rate of only 4-6% [0]. This could easily result in selection bias: people suffering from (or who just believe they’re suffering from) long COVID are much more likely to respond than healthy people.

Indeed, the CDC admits that it only attempted to adjust for nonresponse bias based on geographical area [1], and not anything related to actually having (long) COVID. The results of this study are totally meaningless at best, and disinformation at worst.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/pulse/long-covid.htm

[1] https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/demo/technical-docu...
> TikTok is seriously affecting peoples quality of life en-masse in a way that social media has never achieved before.

What evidence do you have that its effect is worse than other platforms? Perhaps its scale is worse, but is the actual effect on the individual that much worse than it is with Instagram?
The CCP is objectively, unironically evil
Israel had a huge balance of trade problem, and color television was an expensive import. So they sold the trade restriction through moral arguments!
It attributes the excess Covid deaths to the vaccine, not the virus.

The "principle of Abduction" made the front page a while back. Someone made a nice explanation of it, which was essentially that any thinking person needs to have some arguments they investigate and some they dismiss out of hand. This argument is reasonable to dismiss out of hand. What's next flat-earth-ism - but a "serious academic paper"?
> We really haven’t progressed that much.

Have related fields like, say, Mathematics changed a great deal since then?
I agree but nobody is holding a gun to anyone's head telling them to watch cats smelling stuff and people making songs in response to hot takes.

You want to stop them? Make a better platform that respects their privacy while still trying to make a living.

Good luck, you'll need it.
I first learned about Kimo Williams from a recent Hacker news post by Derek Silvers.
I'm looking forward to reading this.

Kimo seams like an inspiring guy to be around.

https://sive.rs/kimo
It's because space ventures were complete ripoffs until spacex came along. SpaceX reinvigorated excitement for space in a lot of ways.
Laser printers don't like them. It's because the fuser is high amperage. Nothing to do with power quality.
You don’t have to buy a new laptop or phone to install a software update and start developing for the latest version of iOS / Mac OS.
I disagree, having an open and honest debate on the topic is actually useful. We should be able to disagree yet continue the dialog.
I guess if this is true then it's more than "it's too tempting". Meta is a huuuuge business today and it wouldn't have been without being profitable. I don't think they really provided much value besides facebook (I think instagram and whatsapp are great apps, but they're replaceable), but now they definitely are with their entry in VR/AR. The Quest 2 is really something, and I can't wait to see what they'll build in the AR space.
Did they collect DNA samples?
You're getting downvoted because HN filters emoji, and because people who aren't on Apple devices won't see the icon you expect, because the codepoint is in the Private Use Area, so they'll see tofu.

Just an FYI.
> Or "serial numbers," as it were.

Or in this case, a constant number…

I’ve seen similar problems with inexpensive Chinese wifi modules all shipping with an identical MAC address. Mostly you can Google up the method required to reflash them (or worst case, I’ve been out a dollar or two because it usually the ultra cheap things this happens on).
My own favorite trick was to put a 1st gen cellphone near the device and call it, or to fire a piezo based gas lighter with the shroud removed against device ground. This was for devices that stood a very good chance of being deployed in a hostile environment so being able to withstand that kind of interference wasn't a luxury.
I don't think I've ever really seen such a rule. Except in college but there everyone was carrying beer from the Friday bar to the computers (it was computer science so yeah) and nobody ever said anything. This was in the early 90s when they still were expensive and nobody had laptops.
That sounds about right!

I recently began developing with Flutter for a project. And whilst I dont love Flutter/Dart that much, I must admit that Google have done an amazing job of proving resources and documentation for the frameworks!

The whole Flutter community and available resources feels very rich, welcoming and embracing!

Tech like Flutter is fresh and exciting to a lot of people, and Apple is right to be worried!

So say what you will about Flutter/Dart, love it or hate it, the docs and community are excellent!
I would have guessed a much higher number
https://github.com/shuaibiyy/awesome-terraform
That's a conspiracy theory with, so far, no confirmation.
So is Call of Duty and CounterStrike. Just on a different scale and lacking political motivation.
E. Bryant Crutchfield, 85, Dies; Gave the World the Trapper Keeper
https://archive.ph/sA1zv
who is 'you'? white people in the 10% of so of nato;anzac countries? maybe

the rest of he world is not interested on keep perpetuating the status quo
You mean like a clean room? I thought they prohibit food and drink anyway.
perhaps this story is somewhat relevant in a meta sense regarding the ethics and viability of robotics, but more generally, I'm so, so sick of British news outlets - from the Daily Mail to the BBC - running out of local news and deciding that American news is equally relevant, and further than that, titling the articles as if they were local news

why should I have to know every time there's a mildly notable political event, or murder, or celebrity occurrence, thousands of miles away in a completely different country?
Your first stop when evaluating a massive and heterdox claim like this should be to double-check their fundamental data against other sources [1].

What you'll find is that other sources do not contain the same data at all. It's not just slightly different, it's _wildly_ different. There is no large jump in mortality in April 2021. There _is_ a large jump in morality 2020.

I don't have time to thoroughly examine their research, because it doesn't come close to passing a sniff test.

On a separate note, it's really discouraging how this stuff gets voted up on HN. Flagged.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
Full title adds "in Dublin". The truncated HN title is unfortunately quite misleading.
I am selling this story to Boulder Weekly. I used to work with @dotMudge.