skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wow. This entire thread seems to be written by Chinese agents, looking to, on the surface, minimize the threat against the West by China.

Please omit this sort of low-quality, evidenceless* insinuation from your posts to HN. The site guidelines specifically ask: "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you or anyone want to know why we have this rule, many years of explanation can be found via
https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

* An opposing view does not count as evidence. This community is large and has a ton of people who come by their opposing views perfectly honestly, as I'm sure do you. Insinuating otherwise is hands-down the laziest internet trope there is, and by far the one that most corrupts discussion quality. You can make your substantive points without that, so please do.

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Edit: actually, since you stooped to outright slurs elsewhere in the thread, I've banned the account. More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32904793.
This is the Postman HTTP method selection dropdown that you can see on the screenshots on this page (“GET”): https://learning.postman.com/docs/sending-requests/requests/...

Postman doesn’t know that sending a single DELETE request to that URL will delete 17 million records.

Arguably, REST interfaces shouldn’t allow deleting an entire collection with a single parameterless DELETE request.
IIRC Firefox does the same thing and maintain its own root certificate store.
> I don't really understand why not doing it to US citizens makes it ok. I can imagine one would find it permissible to use such techniques against your enemies, but this is very clearly also about your allies.

Because of conflict of interest.

When you're persuading people outside of the US of something you're presumably doing it in (at least nominally) the US' best interest because as a citizen of the US your personal interests are also aligned with those of the nation (at least at the scale these operations work at).

Turned internally there's all sorts of messy conflicts like political parties using the tools to gain power, agencies using the tools to gain funding, etc.
Not sure what you mean by woke ...? The name was changed because it conflicted with the general concept of immediate mode GUI.
TikTok has a rootkit now? What did I miss?
I'm somewhat of a slow learner, and one of the main reasons I would rarely ask for help was because people are not as helpful as they think they are. Most of the time it's a lazy attempt to answer questions at the surface level only, and attempting to follow up with further question ends in frustration quickly. People think they're helpful but in fact have small amounts of patience generally speaking. This was obvious when I was student of really good teachers who made sure to answer literally any question without judgement.

Unless you're asking someone who has great confidence in their knowledge, asking a question can lead to an unpleasant situation. I've always scratched my head at this, since to me it's no problem to admit ignorance, but I've come to learn this isn't the case for most people, especially in front of others (i.e. a meeting).

IMHO, getting others to ask more questions starts by allowing others to ask you anything without thinking it has multiple layers of meaning and/or intention.
This looks great! I've been looking for a Python library to use with Phantasmagoria[1] for ages, but everyone is doing web UIs. You even packaged it up in a Docker container, very nice, thank you!

[1]: https://phantasmagoria.stavros.io
Using Python and NetworkManager to control the network
I miss the good old days when character sets didn't feel the need for annual updates.
The thief could just ask you for your iCloud password and unlock the phone (with a gun/knife for motivation).

https://xkcd.com/538/
Worth mentioning, ByteDance now also has an office productivity suite: https://www.larksuite.com/

I'd be interested to know what kind of reception this has had in the US, given the reputation of tiktok, regardless of however it actually is for privacy and security
Those few toggles would defeat the security protections. Most people want a security. Indeed most people never even repair a phone.
I would love to hear from an actual neutral legal party if that's actually the case. Adnan had a motive and a strong testimony against him from an accomplice who's story had checked out. Is it actually a big miss to not rule out every possible suspect?

But on your broader point, I largely agree that anyone freed from unnecessarily long and potentially unjust prison sentences is a good thing.
Earworm [0], released by JCO and Neuro at the Evoke 2011 demoparty is a game that puts this kind of sound mechanic at its core. The music gets more frantic and changes style as you increase in "level", and as you approach danger the drumbeat gets more insistent, sounding ominous and inducing anxiety.

I still play it to this day, quite a unique experience and a fun game to boot!

[0] https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=57518
You say so, but others too have looked into it.

This guy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG9XeSPflrU&t=2s) isn't an IM, only an FM, but I don't think the skill matters, it's a matter of statistical analysis, which I don't think has been performed fully systematically, but from what I've seen I am fully convinced that Niemann cheated and I am convinced that the matter will become very clear once a careful analysis is finally performed.
Nikola founder’s $34B house of cards
Yeah, all of the new comments from the account are dead. I think creating a new account, posting an article, and posting a handful of comments looks a lot like spam to HN. I've vouched for the comments, but would definitely recommend emailing the admins.

Josh, I can't reply to you directly, but yeah... you can see the comments, but most people can't, unless they have enabled "showdead" in their preferences.
Just a heads up that your comments are getting marked as dead (shadow banned). You seem to have fallen afoul of some HN spam trap for new accounts.
Its immediately intuitive without having to think about it. Its two calculators. Its magnificent.
I have the flash drive pictured in the first image of Part 1, and I'd say it, almost self-destructs on its own purely from overheating. If you plug it in or read it, it gets hot, and if you write to it it gets rapidly hotter. I've never tried writing gigabytes, but some people online say it gets so hot the drive slows down and eventually starts throwing errors instead of writing data, until it gets a chance to cool down.
https://docs.pdap.io/activities/data-sources/explore-data-so... It's in the docs.
And yet the difference remains. Imagine if the NSA didn't have to hide their likely illegal activities and they were instead their explicit, public and legal goal. The CCCP is proudly the worst case scenario for the NSA.
Do you think that the tech companies that give deep access to US intelligence services are going to advertise it?
There are quite a few such characters in Unicode because academic articles about things like cuneiform need to be digitized too. And because the historical record is so sparse, we often have vanishingly few, or only one example of a character, and perhaps no way to know if it was a misprint or a real character.

Actually this character seems like a scribe's joke, no different from the illustrated characters at the beginning of medieval paragraphs (all of which are represented in Unicode as A, B or whatever). But the point still holds.

It even holds for modern languages -- consider the ghost characters needed for round trip compatibility: https://weekly-geekly.imtqy.com/articles/418717/index.html

(actually cuneiform is a poor example; perhaps Linear A would have been a better example)
Whatever API they release is going to be way more restrictive than what people can do with Stable Diffusion. I doubt we’ll see anywhere near the same amount of integrations unless OpenAI just lets you download the weights and run Dalle locally.
This is extremely cool! I think the title does it a disservice. If you had called the post "Stable Diffusion CLI/library with upscaling etc", I would have been much more likely to click on it.
cool! I'm more curious about seeing what other people are using but i switched it to a 'show' to prevent people from getting upset
Yeah, wrote that accidentally, I erased that real fast, like 1 minute later, but for some reason, people can still see it, I guess.
Until you hit a trigger rate (depending on the mortgage specifics) at which point you have to start increasing your payments.
There’s also https://numi.app/
but this surely is not possible since leetcode guarantees that you will hire the best engineers? hmmmm
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This is the basis of transactive memory. You maintain a transactive memory with a collection of tools some call the "external brain" like text pads, calendars, search engines and more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactive_memory
Well, this "backwards" country is mostly made of people like this girl. You think she's among the minority?

https://gamaan.org/2020/08/25/iranians-attitudes-toward-reli...
I completely understand having divested myself of facebook, twitter and google and the like. I think if more nation states engaged, they would have more power than individuals or groups. Look what happened to parler, gab, and truth.
Yeah, my bad. But I can't delete the comment for some reason, not sure why I can't even if it is flagged. You think it'd be ok to delete a comment that doesn't follow the rules.

Oh well, I tried.
I think you'd be surprised at how effective Chinese people are at discussing the things they aren't allowed to without getting spotted by the censors.

Lots of slang terms get used, and the discussion continues.
I switch it to a show, but i kinda just want to see what other people are using
There was ResidualVM for Escape from MI which has been merge with ScummVM. I haven't tried in a while but it was playable from what I remember (even if controls were still a pain)
The reason parents in the US tend to have children with "achievement mindset" is because the culture itself rewards and favors achievements instead of growth.

The reason parents in the US don't invest time with their toddlers is because they feel they don't have time. They don't have time because it is typically about career success (achievement), wealth, status, and so forth. Or in other social classes, it's just overwhelming to just be able to barely survive. Culturally, American has one of the highest overworked population (it is cultural because that is the generally accepted norm), scores among the highest for individualism (instead of collectivism). Those all play into how people parent.

And don't get me started on the idea of free range parenting. In this day and age, in America, letting the kids out to play in the streets can get you, as the parent, arrested for neglect and censured by the neighbors. Those are all part of the cultural norms. To do what you suggest at the psychological level requires pushing back against those cultural norms, some with legal consequences.

You are welcomed to define all of this as psychology, but I think if you talked with sociologists and other people, they would tell you these are cultural rather than psychological factors.

It's not stopping my wife and I from parenting my kid in the way we think is best for them. But I'm not blind to the fact that I am going against the grain of cultural norms and generally accepted behavior, beliefs, and practices of the mainstream US culture.
It doesn't for me :/ I think it's possible that I've gone through this flow before and accepted a slightly cheaper offer to keep me as a customer. I wonder if that permanently removes such offers from appearing again?
Um, if 70% to 80% of people have "low self-esteem", isn't that just "normal" self-esteem?

Please don't take my comment as snark, I'm asking this in all seriousness. When most people possess some psychological trait, perhaps we should ask ourselves if this is just the way people are? And perhaps the cure is worse than the disease?

Is it possible that encouraging typical people to have "higher self esteem" will result in increased narcissism, entitlement or overconfidence? And maybe that overconfidence, when it hits the reality that they are not, in fact, better (along some arbitrary axis) at something vs most other people, their ego shatters? I don't know, but...

To be clear, I'm not trying to assert a position here. I'm open to being very wrong about the thesis behind the above questions.
I wasn’t aware of the 2^16 limitation. Thank you for the notes!
> there’s absolutely no support for that at all.

Look at the money supply changes layered over inflation.
> Can anyone point to something that TikTok is doing that FB/Google/Twitter aren't already doing, that we should be concerned about?

> ...I don't like megacorps slurping my info up, but these conversations seem to have huge blinders around what has become standard practice for American web companies - especially when handling the data of foreign users.

That's the wrong question for the context. This is a question about "nation-X national security," not personal tech privacy that's generically concerned with data collection and ads.
I don’t disagree. I guess it’s kind of like an additional psychological bias that one plays into when he’s already been convicted and in prison.
The author sadly just doesn’t know what he’s doing.
Again, the real issue I have isn't "fairness". It's the simple notation that just because a major doesn't make as much money as another makes it "worthless" and not innovative. It's the notion that we're more innovative because we can work with CSS divs. It's the notion that if you can't do math or STEM, you should just become a business major because everything else you do is veritably worthless. That is what I'm pushing back against.
Fascinating creatures.

I've experienced a noticeable increase in internet eel content lately. I can't help but wonder if it isn't in part because of TikTok's "eel pit guy" [1]. I'm not sure when I started following him, but it was a great content story. He built an eel pit (exactly what it sounds like) beneath his house taking much care to create an ideal environment for eels. I was ecstatic when it finally came time for the eels to explore their new home.

Also eel-related: if you came to this comment section out of interest in electric eels (not actually eels technically), I highly recommend "The Shocking History of Electric Fishes" [2]. It's a fun read (for a history book).

[1] https://www.tiktok.com/@cowturtle?lang=en
[2] https://academic.oup.com/book/26948
This is your argument? You could have gone with TikTok Tourette’s and instead you went with dance videos?

https://nypost.com/2021/10/20/tiktok-is-giving-teen-girls-to...
I'm sorry this is ridiculous. While I am very concerned about things such as learning the Biden administration colludes with fact checkers at facebook and dictates which accounts to ban at youtube and such... comparing that with the overarching censorship of the CCP is a false equivocation.
Any German person I spoke to has a deep feeling of responsibility for WW2. Even today, even younger generations. Believe it or not it makes the society stronger. Russia is far away from that.

Being liked is a privilege you have to earn. Thinking you are owed nuanced, friendly treatment is a bit naive after what russia has done.
I didn't just eat, therefore there's a teapot orbiting around Mars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot
What’s being delivered is useful. I agree that you still need a human in the loop, but that’s true of any creative tool -- having Adobe Illustrator doesn’t make me an artist. The current generation of tools has made certain design tasks easier, the main thing missing still is not ML advances as much as nice UIs that put it in the hands of creative professionals.
I haven't, I'll check them out, thanks!
Correct, I wrote that accidentally, I erased that real fast, like 1 minute later, but for some reason, people can still see it, I guess.

It was not a Ninja edit, just a mistake that I corrected a minute later but I don't know, maybe there's some kind of automatic feed that sends the post out to everyone?
It's by gorhill. Essentially all Chrome extensions are hosted on the chrome.google.com domain, so I guess it is technically distributed by Google.
Titkok is a threat because it threatens US internet monopoly which is 100% true.

How it would be dealt with is a different story. I see different Admin would take different approaches, the wait won't be too long.
I agree it's a huge security threat but framing it as data privacy issue is a distraction from the real concern which is top-down censorship. People think of TikTok as pure algorithm but that's wrong, the algorithm is manipulated directly by the CCP. They've censored BlackLivesMatter[1], blocked a teenager discussing China’s genocide in Xinjiang[2], blocked a video of Tank Man[3], Hong Kong protests and Houston Rockets basketball team[4]. TikTok guidelines censor Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, and the Falun Gong[5].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/02/tiktok-blacklivesmatter-cens...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/28/tiktok-sa...

[3] https://qz.com/1788836/targeting-tiktoks-privacy-alone-misse...

[4] https://stratechery.com/2019/the-china-cultural-clash/

[5] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-...
I have a degree in Mathematics and I can never remember what C and CE buttons on a calculcator are supposed to do. If you only use them occasionally and in a hurry most calculator apps are frustratingly unfriendly.
> For example, how to get the length of an iterable in a given language. I may not remember the function name (or if it's a top-level function vs a method) but I know I can search "string length in $LANGUAGE" and find it.

This is actually a really good example of something I've started using GPT-3 or GitHub Copilot for.

If I'm in a Rust program and I don't know Rust, I can type

# set a to the length of the items array

And Copilot or the GPT-3 Playground (if I don't have Copilot handy) will write the next line of code for me, without me having to go and look up how to do length-of-array.
People have every right to complain and criticize and they can do that as much they like. There's no penalty from the companies for doing that - at least not yet /s. Nowhere is written that we should mindlessly praise every form of entertainment they are serving us.

There are people who actually do love pointing out all sorts of details, technical issue, the quality of material or lack of it, the every single bit of "what's wrong with this thing". That's more entertaining for them than regular watching.

Besides, the critical opinions - even the strongly voiced ones also work for film/show/whatever advertising and popularity.
> 80 million Americans now spend 20% of their free time scrolling through an algorithmic content experience owned by the Chinese Government.

As opposed to a billion people spending 20% of their free time scrolling through a Facebook feed (back when Facebook was a thing).

Honestly, the more these issues get raised, the more it's clear that there's really no difference between a government and a corporation except one spends money and the other makes money.

We have been slowly moving into a post-Democratic version of globalism for decades. Consumerism is not a bulwark against oppression, and we've mostly only had the illusion of choice or control in our political process, with oligarchs deciding everything rather than the "δῆμος". Totalitarian empires have been the dominant model of human civilization for the past couple thousand years; there's no reason to believe it wouldn't continue. China will be leading the new global status quo, which will combine heightened entertainment with heightened totalitarianism. Orwell was a prophet, a century early.
Also posted here a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32901249
> Why should I, a US citizen who has no business need to travel to China currently, worry about the CCP's authoritarianism more than the US govts?

It's the long cultural game that is probably being played that might or should have you worried. It's been happening for 10-15 years to US social media companies by outside and inside forces and it seems to have become a detriment to society in certain ways. Now think of a Facebook or Instagram that's directed by a (more) authoritative government against a culture that it's in opposition to. What does that look like in 20 years?
gatekeeping. Get it? Ahahaha.....
The specific failure modes we keep seeing are 1) having a country run by an autocrat who does not listen to advice, and ruthlessly stifles all dissent; and 2) using measures as targets.
Works for me straight away (AMD gpu with amdgpu/radv)
Bitcoin doesn't have a defined mechanism for honoring the rule of law when society determines that something bad has happened. That's a pretty fundamental and potentially fatal flaw for some (unless, perhaps, you're a libertarian). For those of us that live in a society where the rule of law provides tangible benefits to our daily lives, that's a problem.

Personally, I'm perfectly happy with the banking system the way it is. I can send modest sums of money to others via an Interac e-Transfer via an email or SMS in a matter of seconds. I can transfer funds using EFT/ACH within 24 hours with no fees thanks to the credit union I use. Bitcoin isn't really an improvement on this situation for me.

You need to understand and accept that there are a non-trivial number of people in society which feel similarly and hold the same belief. Adopting something new just because it's tech is never going to win everyone over, especially when worries about personal wealth are involved. This isn't a simple technical problem that can be easily fixed with a bit more code.

I don't believe it's shitting over the value proposition: to me, adherence to rule of law is a requirement for the financial systems that I use. If someone compromises my credit card or bank account, the bank can reverse the fraudulent transactions. If someone compromises my Bitcoin wallet and transfers the contents out, the funds are gone and I have nobody to turn to for help, and the odds of recovery are negligible. This is a feature of the banking system. To me this is a bug in Bitcoin (not a feature). I'm not "shitting" over the value proposition -- I'm telling you that it doesn't meet my requirements.
Now make Minecraft in that Minecraft.
China is an authoritarian government currently engaging in genocide. The US government isn't authoritarian and is not currently engaging in genocide.

Do you really not see the difference?
Karl Pilkington was eating a knob at night a decade prior.
I'm torn on this, honestly.

We want an internet with less ads, but good writers deserve to get paid. They can get paid via Medium (though how much, I don't know) through subscriptions. Is that the worse than ads or newspapers?
Ah very good! This sounds like it would be a perfect application of https://datasette.io/
Don't actually leave. That's just supposed to be an exercise to foster gratitude and get rid of resentments. Don't leave. Talk to old guys who 'toughed it out' or guys like me who failed their families if you even think of doing it.