skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TikTok is the best app of its type, and for the first time USA being beaten by a foreign country to develop an international successfully app. Also one of the first times China developers catered for an outside audience. Obviously this has huge implications and the USA is quite offended

When China said Gmail/Facebook/Instagram... was a security threat, USA called it censorship, so now they're in a pickle

And it is obviously a security threat, but USA does not care as long they're the ones spying the world, and their own population

Also USA is much more prone to foreign interference, like their drones using cellular data in foreign countries to kill people, elections, blackmail, etc...

So as an European I would say.. fight fight fight!

No one wants to become China but USA/UK/EU/AUS... are slowly becoming more authoritarian anyway. Maybe some competition will make them wake up and remember what they used to stand for
I think we will see more of these amazing Minecraft technical creations as people who played Minecraft as children are now finishing up their higher educations.
I actively looked for a lighter framework for microservices that could start up much faster than a Spring/Boot app.

Tried SparkJava and later decided that Javalin is a better choice which is now what I reach for. Also using JDBI to go along with it.
You’re not going to get the same prices or priorities from Foxconn or TSMC with a less than 10 million device run rate that Apple gets by selling 300 million + devices. Besides Apple invest billions in TSMC and Foxconn and their other suppliers.

Do you remember that Apple became dominant in the iPod era by buying up all of the worlds supply of 2.5 inch hard drives and later flash chips?

Anyone else is going to struggle to get the prices or manufacturing time from suppliers to produce at scale.

Heck Sony is struggling to make even 21 million PS5 in a year. If Sony can’t manufacture at scale, which electronic manufacturer can?

It’s not just priced for design, it’s processor design, supply chain management, software, software/hardware integration etc.
I think the person you are replying to is pointing out that the content of the older games, for the most part, aged very well and is more relevant than ever. And this wasn't a coincidence, because if you were paying attention 20+ years ago, you saw the future we were building. Rockstar's writers were paying attention. I expect the content of gta6 to be more prescient than ever.
Aha, it looks like we have similar objectives.

I'd like to understand General Relativity, and do not care about Quantum Physics. I have found this post to be helpful. Hopefully it can help you to some degree, too.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/14074/what-are-t...
Magnus Carlsen resigns after 1 move
I like writing web scrapers and this is an interesting project idea. If I understand right you are looking for volunteers to write scrapers that would take a police department, scrape the PD website, and download any PDFs or documents that gather data about the police department. Is that right? If so, I feel that's not super clearly communicated - I had to look at a couple example scrapers before arriving at this guess.

I do have a few questions too:

1. Will this scale? One problem with scrapers is that they break when people update their website. I'm imagining this problem multiplied by 18,000 and compounded by each scraper potentially being written by a different volunteer.

2. Where are the scrapers getting run?

3. How do the documents that the scrapers collect get transformed into usable data?

4. It seems to me like a scalable solution would be a standard to report data, a law to compel police departments to follow that standard, and then a system to collect that data and make it available. Do you work with police departments at all on data reporting?
Improving upon the design of a calculator app is incredibly difficult. And before people complain that it's not improved, yes it is. For most people, this is way better. Congrats to him, he's living the dream. Building software that does a job, and then getting paid for that software. I just hope he doesn't suffer too many copycat apps.
They didn't load the real Minecraft on it, but they implemented their own version. But that version still has true 3D graphics, several block types, an inventory, mining, crafting, etc.
Funny to think that the issue here is just a relative of the 'no-preserve-root' feature rm (now) has: it's easy to let the user use the same actions equally on the branches of a hierarchy as you could the leaves, but should they?

Pretty recently corporate changed something on my work laptop that resulted in a bunch of temporary files generated during the build getting redirected to OneDrive. I went in and nuked the temp files and shortly thereafter got a message from OD saying 'hey noticed you trashed a ton of files, did you mean to do that?'

The developer side of me thought 'of course I did, duh' but I can imagine that's useful information for most users that made an innocent yet potentially costly mistake.
I work on DMCA exemption issues every few years due to my involvement with iOS jailbreaking and pushing back on companies like Apple, and the App Association would always be there seemingly trying to throw their all into preventing any DMCA exemptions or painting jailbreaking in a negative light... only, to me, the really interesting is always that their arguments are so low quality.

In one case they argued people primarily jailbreak over-the-top set top video streaming boxes so they can watch pirated content... but the website and software being linked to explicitly said that you didn't have to jailbreak your device to either install or use their app, as you could just sideload it on a normally set up device (as clearly any normal app can play video ;P). It is as if they are just hoping no one bothers to check their references.

(Another time--and I honestly am not 100% sure this one was the App Association, as I am just remembering this one as opposed to having it in my notes on this, but I am pretty sure I remember it being the same guy--showed up to the hearing with a giant stack of evidence against me/Cydia trying to show I was actively involved in piracy, and it essentially lost them their credibility as I was able to quickly show every single reference in the stack was to scammers using my trademarks for fake software and that I had even had a lawyer going around trying to shut them down. They either couldn't tell what was real and what wasn't, or hoped they could pull a fast one on the panel as maybe I wouldn't be there to set it all straight.)

In another case they (definitely the App Association) tried to argue that jailbreaking devices for purposes of repair (where the device is left back in a locked state for the user but the jailbreak let you replace some part or update some software or something) should not be allowed because repair manuals are copywritten, but that argument was essentially a non-sequitur as I don't think Kyle was using original manuals (much less stealing them ;P); and, even if he had somehow gotten a copy, the protection mechanism certainly wasn't protecting the manual.

Honestly, I am pretty sure I could make a better argument against me for them, and it felt like whomever all was funding them must be wasting their money without realizing it; for a while I had thought about doing a big "exposé" of them with the goal of convincing people who were funding them "y'all's money is going to waste on this" in the hope that maybe the companies who were members didn't even realize what the App Association was spending their time on... but I hadn't ever realized it was (according to Bloomberg here) mostly Apple anyway (lol).

FWIW, as far as I could ever tell, the App Association was essentially (in terms of who actually puts together and argued these opinions) just the one person: Morgan Reed (who is the President and is quoted in that article). I highly recommend looking around at the myriad areas of random politics and regulation that he is trying to manipulate, as they make sure to get involved--no matter how low effort--whenever there is an opportunity for public comment.
I think the answer is not that difficult really. All Hans Niemann's moves, all his games, are public information.

People can analyze them and form their own opinions about whether he has been cheating or not. The question "how" need not even be considered.

Carlsen has of course already looked at the games, with the experience of having preiviously looked at millions of games between humans, and millions of analyses from computer engines. And he must have realised that Niemann has achieved something unique, he has conducted many absolute masterpieces, sometimes one after the other in the same tournament, while being rated 2400-2500. Performances so perfect, that no other human has ever accomplished.
Sorry for not wording correctly. I guess unique or fascinating might be the correct word?
Sure, but 1) you'd have to pay for a sequel anyway and 2) there's still the possibility of free DLC/patches.

My main question is does anyone know if 2077 is just so technically broken, systematically, that it's impossible to patch in all of that. Was it just improperly designed from the ground up to support its ambitions. Because if not, then I view throwing away all of the work done for the existing game, in order to start a new one, seems like a waste and another potential boondoggle.
https://archive.ph/qFnls
Something like Ladybird? https://github.com/SerenityOS/ladybird

I think it wants to implement all of JS eventually though.
I’m a longtime user and former employee and I can’t begin to summon any words to excuse this shitty look. Apple under Stelv Jobs may sometimes warrant a side-eyed glance. Apple under Tim Cook keeps coming up slimey af. I used to admire the man. I now think he’s slowly killing a company that I used to love.
Car accidents are still killing hundreds a day, even as society moves on...
Incredible. Next do Minecraft in Minecraft in Minecraft.
You can just say property. No judgement here. Property rights form the basis of society.
[Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Twitter] is a national security threat.
Most people (me included) like funny cat videos and send funny cat videos. Shall we include some to Unicode?

I mean, this ship has long sailed, but that was a mistake nevertheless. Not everything has to be a unicode character.
Can you elaborate on this? A few more details would be useful.

If we remove the salary from the equation for any job or for any type of worker, does that make them a slave or a volunteer? I'd say the latter, if only because unlike slaves volunteers can get up and leave whenever they want.

To be honest, though, I find the slavery comparison to be more than a bit offensive.
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The one on windows is terrible and getting worse with each iteration. It's obvious no one with any authority cares and doesn't understand why they should.

Can you drag and drop a number into the calculator? No. I rest my case.
Yes and Google hired an Oracle executive to handle enterprise relationships and GCP. What could possibly go wrong?

Google isn’t exactly known for great customer support or anything else that requires high touch.
To be honest, I think this type of thinking is everything that is wrong with public discourse today.

Gtex555 made a very specific claim: "In truth the whites were stealing minerals and precious metals from the country on the cheap and laundering that money as farming proceeds giving the impression of this bread basket cause it was all funded by illicit funds. When they were kicked out they continued to steal these minerals through bribing the top officials but the only difference was there was no-longer an incentive to send the money back into Zimbabwe and hence the farming was no-longer supported by illicit funds and it collapsed."

It should not be particularly difficult to find at least some evidence for that claim. There are voluminous reports and investigations of government corruption all over the world.

And yet, your response is basically "I'm not really concerned with the details, I'm just going to believe what I choose to believe because that fits more closely with the narrative that I identify with".

Some of us still believe that evidence matters.
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Serial is still one of the best true crime podcasts, because the case has so much more underneath the surface.

One example is this podcast going over a cleared suspects apparently falsified alibi records (his mom who was a manager at his store chain and may have doctored his work record to prevent police going after him): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l6dApX2rIY

The main summary points are here, taken from this reddit page (which links to the primary sources) https://www.reddit.com/r/serialpodcast/comments/xea7pu/here_...:

1. Two new suspects that were not properly ruled out.

2. One of the suspects had a) threatened to kill the victim and b) provided motives for the threat.

3. The victim's car was located directly behind one of those suspects relative's house.

4. One of the suspects attacked a woman in her vehicle, engaged in serial rape and assault, engaged in violence against women he knew, and was improperly ruled out.

5. Incoming call data was determined to be completely unreliable, as the network sends the signal through multiple towers and the billing records can show the last tower a phone connected to instead of the one it is currently on.

6. Kristina Vinson said she would not have missed a class at the same time she said Jay and Adnan were at her house, which showed that her recollection of what day Jay and Adnan had visited was wrong.

7. Because Jay had told numerous lies and versions of events to detectives, his testimony was only relied upon because the cell records and Vinson's testimony corroborated it. Without those, his testimony does not stand on its own. Thus, they could not have secured a conviction.

8. One of the lead detectives on the case engaged in egregious misconduct in another case, resulting in a wrongful conviction and 17 years of incarceration.
Brings me back to when I first worked on an ALU in Minecraft. At least at the time, it had really annoying bugs with repeaters though, where it would occasionally mess up a signal, which frustrated me enough to give up on it.
I'm not a Crumb fan but I highly recommend the "Crumb" documentary that you mention. It was very interesting hearing that he and his brothers were creating their own comic books, and there are some other useful insights to the creative process.
Hollywood spreads whatever culture they are being paid to spread. I think they are pretty indifferent to whether that is promoting violence, drugs, etc.
Maybe the annoyance comes from releasing software with no license.md or a license that says "DO WHATEVER THE F--- YOU WANT WITH THIS S---" then getting a bunch of corporates saying it's not properly licensed while a bunch of "free as in freedom" people are complaining that the license isn't free as in freedom enough.
I'm not sure how you could "cancel" someone like Crumb. He is self-employed making independent comic books.

But with his oeuvre it is unlikely Disney will hire him any time soon.
On Linux and OpenBSD you can use futex(FUTEX_WAKE, 1) to wake precisely any one of the threads or processes waiting on futex(FUTEX_WAIT). Are you telling me that's broken? I understand that sophisticated synchronization primitives usually maintain a list of waiters, but I wasn't under the impression they do that because kernels are broken, but rather because userspace libraries want to be in control of which waiter gets selected. The reason why things are racey as you describe probably has more to do with userspace libraries wanting to avoid issuing a system call, than it does with the kernel's design. Things would probably be easier if you always used a system call, such as the case with most WIN32 locks, but it's slow so people try not to do it and sometimes fail. Also yes, I understand it's hard. That's why Google tasked the guy who built their fiercest rival (Altavista) with building their locking primitives (Chubby and *NSYNC).
I might be way off here, but here's what I always assumed. Anyone correct me if I'm wrong, this is just what I've always guessed, but haven't really thought too hard about it....

I think Tilt Shift photography doesn't make the subject look like a miniature, but rather makes the photo look like a photo of a miniature. When photographing a miniature, the subject is so close that you have a much narrower depth of field and you end up with thin slices of the miniature subject being in focus. I think that this was probably more common in the days of film than digital photography. In other words: the photos of miniatures look like that because of limitations in the photography process, whereas tilt-shift is emulating those limitations at a macro scale.
Even "great outcome for him" seems like a stretch. That podcast was six years ago. He has been in jail for 22 years, more than half of his life. It's hard to imagine where he goes with his life from here; I wish him the best of luck.

That's the "great" outcome of a one-in-a-million burst of publicity. Everybody else has it much, much worse.
Google have been doing this for 10+ years and people are only now starting to see it, it seems.

the Microsoft antitrust trial original verdict was reached in 1999 by the way (appeals kept it alive a bit longer, though, into 2001). you are probably referring to the 1990s Microsoft, I imagine.
No-one? Really? What do you do with your computer?
50x ARR which is technically different from 50x revenue
Arguably that is a quota system for the selection of those involved that make up the hiring team.
that doesn't fix the problem, though.
Practically speaking, I'm going to assert that there is no team of developers, let alone single developers, who are capable of taking on both the burden of their own software and the software that they import. I simply can not imagine even a whole fortune 500 company supporting their own business logic written on top of Spring, which includes log4j and a whole host of other open source dependencies.

And what's the commercial alternative? I'm personally not aware of one.

Also, the liability thing is a grey area - it works for the US (mostly, Tornado cash is currently testing these waters) - since there are open issues with developers of "questionable" software traveling to some countries. Heck, even the US has pulled some OSS developers aside at customs because of their work on OSS projects.
It'd depend on where you are, for one - would be helpful to know.

e.g, the Tokyo meetup is still a thing, met back in July: https://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/events/138928
> and can just ignore PRs

This complaint is in my opinion rather specific to GitHub (and could thus likely be solved by switching to a more repository provider, or hosting the repository oneself), but not being able to disable PRs at your own repositories is like having a blog hosted by a provider that does not offer the option to disable blog comments.
You're absolutely right about everything you said, but for me the crux of it comes down to:

> If I had to choose between more money and a less livable environment, or less money and a more livable environment I'd choose the later one.

Some people might choose differently, and moreover, the less taxation there is, the more people are able to choose between the two at all. After all, you can freely give to charity what isn't taxed from you, should you choose to trade your money to better outcomes of those around you.

I have never been to your fair city (though I always have wanted to!), but a 34% foreign-born rate is comparable to many large cities in the US, some in states with more egalitarian policies (California, New Jersey) and some in states with less egalitarian policies (Florida, Texas); so clearly that is not a big driver, at least in the US, of where immigrants choose to go.

San Francisco, famously egalitarian in its local politics, is right in line with Hamburg at 34.1% foreign-born; yet it is full of people using hard drugs in public, leaving syringes and human waste behind.
Apple doesn't compete with TikTok at all.

Google sort of does compete via YouTube, but YouTube is still the top dog and serving a different niche. I don't see TikTok's rise stealing market share from YouTube nearly as much as it is stealing from Instagram and Facebook.

I guess my point is that neither app store owners have any real incentive to ban TikTok. It would hurt both companies by way of pissing off users far more than it would benefit them by nudging users to their own services.
The low education of many Americans is the reason Trump was/is effective, not because he has a capacity to communicate...
> Virtual Friend: become a friend to a random person online. Chat with them, play games, etc. will be more and more common as the loneliness epidemic grows exponentially over the next few decades.

Reminds me of those services in Japan where you can hire people to act as relatives or simply be there to talk to.

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

I suspect online versions either exist already, or will exist soon enough.
How on earth did the anal bead cheating theory ever take hold? The idea you can slander someone with such a ridiculous notion is incredible. How would the accomplice be able to see the board so quickly and be able to input what the opponent has, and then be able to send a signal through Bluetooth (presumably) fast and reliably enough for him to defeat Magnus? How could you encode that with vibrations (presumably) that would be easily detectable enough to discern? Don't these games have time limits?
> [Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Twitter] is a national security threat.

That's a lazy thing to say. It's obvious that TikTok is qualitatively different from the perspective of the US and its allies.

It's like this: a gun in my hand could be a threat to me because I could accidentally shoot myself in the foot; but that's very different threat than a gun in the hand of a mugger who's pointing it at my head.
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As long as the DOD employs military recruiters they are engaging in psychological operations.
I confess I would really like to see EmuTOS and/or FreeMiNT running directly on the Raspberry Pi, though I suspect it would be a huge amount of work. Right now, if you want Atari compatible hardware, you can either pay $$$$ for a vintage machine (and replace all the capacitors), or you can get something like a Vampire V4SA and put in a lot of effort to make it work run anything.

Raspberry Pi is a really nice (and relatively simple) hardware platform that would be great for running something like this and I have thought about it myself. Something like adding ARM [32|64] support to the kernel and then using an emulator of some sort to run 68k usermode programs. But I don't think FreeMiNT has ever been ported to any other architecture and imagine it would be a _huge_ effort.
A lot of commenters either haven't researched the topic or lack imagination.

What can China do with the data and attention of 80 million Americans? How about practically anything they want. They haven't used it yet.
Briefly put: The code shown was used to make the redstone (i.e. Minecraft logic circuit) behavior run at 10000x speed on the server. It's still the same game logic, but recording the video only took 9 hours instead of a decade.
They wrote a clone, yes.
I believe they used to perform major surgery on babies using the same non-evidence-based reasoning. I think the real reason is the combination of 1) tortured babies can't file lawsuits but 2) Parents whose babies die from anesthesia can file lawsuits. So, follow the money as with everything in medicine.