skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your definition of "quite negative" and mine are very different. When it comes to situations like this (regarding a young man, his criminal misbehavior, and insitutional response to that behavior e.g., mass shooters), I generally go back to the New York Times' infamous characterization of Michael Brown - a black teenager shot dead in the street and in broad daylight, over a box of cigarillos, by a police officer with a checkered professional history - as "no angel" (among other declarations). If you can't muster something perhaps at least as critical for an older young man who has nuked a measure of wealth equivalent to about half the GDP of the country where his company was based (or, the total wealth of ~50,000 Americans at the median net worth; or, a few hundred million boxes of cigarillos), well... Maybe you're going easy on him.

It's naive to think that affinity is not influencing, if not driving, the way that journalists regard and write about their subjects.
NSA Privacy Policy: 404 Not Found
Yes, the BMW i8 makes motor-like noises inside the cabin and has an external speaker that makes it sound like it has a jet engine. For real.
He was the #2 donor behind Soros to Democratic candidates. It's not every day that the number two gets indicted for a multi-billion dollar fraud. It is good to see questions around influence arise.
This isn't following china but responding symmetrically to a hostile economic action. The government regulates commerce so just like they can ban Google from operating they can ban bytedance. If the apps you use only affected you, I wouldn't care bur China is using this information as a strategic intelligence source to influence and harm american economic and political entities.
My take: This isn't about China, not really. They're not trying to ban all apps from China, or all social media apps controlled by foreign governments. Chinese spyware apps masquerading as video games are apparently fine, if they don't have users generating and sharing content. And hypothetical manipulative social media owned/controlled by a foreign government isn't banned, unless that government happens to be on the naughty list (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuelan.) If the government of Pakistan makes a popular social media app to manipulate and spy on the American public, that's A-Okay with this bill because Pakistan isn't on that list.

This is really about TikTok specifically. The real reason? TikTok and their userbase pioneered depths of cringe so extreme, revulsion to it cuts across all political boundaries.
No. No to every line of this.

You cannot simply re-interpret existing terms as you wish.

You do not get to saty "well clearly bigger can really mean smaller, and more complex can sometimes mean less complex, and therefore this smaller thing is therefore an example of how things get bigger over time."

The statement is ridiculous and your attemps to defend it are just getting increasingly absurd the more you flail around angrily trying to make your meaning fit.

When Lewis Carroll put these words in his character's mouth, he was mocking what you are doing:

“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/12608-when-i-use-a-word-hum...
The opposite of fear, uncertainty and doubt would be something like optimism, certitude and faith.

I'd rather apply a lens of FUD to hard problems than the latter.
By default the metadata profile is 'DUP' (i.e. 2 copies on one device), the same can be done for data but this reduces the usable capacity. On normal HDD or SSD this should not be needed but having both data and metadata DUP/DUP has been useful on raspberry pi with the micro SD card storage. It's not perfect but increases the chances to get the data back if the card is partially damaged due to power spikes.
Good points! I know my smartphone works for two days on a small battery because smart engineers did smart efficient stuff to make it a reality. So I agree that smartphones as we know them are not a good fit. Let's now try to imagine a pocket computer that can do the job!
Can you use a different Wi-Fi network at the same time for internet access or does Wi-Fi Direct block any other Wi-Fi access?
I would postulate the single most important thing a company can do is make money. Hiring is also important though.
reduces the knowledge advantage of a company

Defaulting to an adversarial relationship with its own staff is not the sign of a good company.
This seems like a major bug with crypto. I don't have physical possession of my bed when I get up from it and go to work, but I've yet to come home and discover a grifter, or conman sleeping in it.

Likewise, if I lose my car keys, society still manages to acknowledge that I am still the owner of my car.
"Bit tricks" are worth a factor `log n`. Let me explain: If you have an array of `n` integers in {0,1}, and you want to count the number of 1s, you need `n` time. But if you have an array of `n` bits, with bit level operations you can do `n/W` time, where `W` is your word size. We often have W=32, 64 or 256 on some architectures, but you may still argue it's just a constant.

The thing is that we usually saw you have random access to all of your input data in constant time. But if your input size is `n`, your pointer size must be `log n`. So for standard algorithm analysis to work, you need to allow a word size of at least `log n`.
Interestingly, the bill gives a definition of a "social media company", that's fairly specific [1, pages 7-8] and fun to ponder on its own [2].

The flimsiest bullet point in the definition might be that the company "sells digital advertising space". If TikTok started gating access to paid accounts only, I wonder if they would no longer qualify be a "social media company"! And therefore not be a "threat". (:

[1]: pdf warning https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/1ebac814-15...

[2]: There's also an interesting exception for websites that have the "primary purpose" of posting/viewing "reviews" of business, travel, or products.
My niece was asking about "the T-word" when I was visiting family for Thanksgiving. Her mom was in favor of letting the matter go undiscussed, but I'm never one to back down from being a bad influence or the fun uncle (a lot of overlap there, actually). Plus, I might get to learn a new swear word.

My niece asked about "tewkin'". (long 'u' sound, like Duke Nukem)

I informed her that that was a new one for me.

Mom, now intrigued, asked "Could the person you heard use it be referring to a bird called a toucan?"

"I don't think so"

"Well, what did they say?"

"Aww, I forgot my tewkin mittens!"

At which point, I informed my niece that she had likely encountered a Canadian who was underdressed for the weather and was lamenting that they had forgotten their toque and mittens, and we were all disappointed that she hadn't taught us all a new swear. Except mom.

Tying this back to TFA, I find it interesting that my niece seems to have (at the age of 8) intuited the relation of hard-sounding consonants to swearing. Tewkin' meets the criteria of having a 't' and a 'k' and seems pretty plausible.
off-topic, but related. Ulam's "Adventures of a Mathematician" is an excellent and very inspiring book.
The question on my mind is: where do I sign up to join this effort?!

Edit: I'm Canadian, the question is rhetorical.
The guy in charge of this for FTX is the same guy in charge of handling getting money back from the Enron collapse. He's currently testifying to congress about the state of things. It doesn't look good.
Ask HN: Why does HN get more hateful everyday?
I know the internet is toxic. Yet, I remember the good old days when HN was a better place.

big tech is bad, startups shouldn't do promotions unless it's open-source or free. dont make me pay you, VCs are evil but pay your employees and offer them work life balance.

why can't people just move on when they don't like something - unless it's harmful, then it's a different story.
Hiding behind the names of institutions that got smart enough to not give the peons fame or recognition.
I've heard people advocate for removing the taboo about swearing, and making it socially acceptable in most (or all) circumstances.

What they don't realize is if we did that, the swear would lose all power. "Golly" was at one point a really bad swear.

People who want to swear need conservative people who are against swearing, in order for the swears to retain their meaning/shock value.
The purpose of NIF, and it’s not hidden, is to maintain the existing US nuclear stockpile since we can no longer rely on using underground nuclear weapon testing to ensure they still work. There’s a very big supercomputing capability funded under the same effort. Instead of testing the weapons by exploding them underground, we use computer modeling with the modeling validated (ie backed up) by experiment (at NIF) to make sure the stockpile works and can maintain its strategic deterrent. The euphemistic name for this is “stockpile stewardship.”
Summarized feedback from our users on the various no-code automations tools that exist. Let me know if there's anything you'd like more details on, I'm dominic@fillout.com
How can either side get an accurate assessment of the other in such a short time? I was hired by my current employer in less than 2 weeks from initial conversation and it was a bit of a smell that they weren't more thorough. Now I'm a hiring manager and am a little concerned with what I feel are "loose" practices that let too many marginal candidates through because otherwise "it's too hard to source talent".

For me a clear understanding of the process steps and how long it will take start to finish is more important than absolute speed. Example: "These are the N phases, we aim to be completed in X days/weeks and you will always know what's next and when it will occur." My last employeer was really good at communicating promptly with those that were not progressing, which is also very important.

I think we should all agree that limbo/ghosting is totally unacceptable and these companies (or people) should be called out by name.
'So effectively, Binance is refusing to honor its commitment to depositors to give them their money on demand. That's called a "default."'

Not in $CURRENT_YEAR it's not. In $CURRENT_YEAR it's not a default until the holder in question publicly and willingly admits it's a default. Otherwise, it's just a technical maintenance period, or a temporary suspension of withdrawal rights, or a customer-value preserving intervention, or a response to current market conditions, or just another step on our amazing journey to world-class reliability and customer satisfaction, or whatever, and only crazy conspiracy theorists who are probably going to be happy staying poor would say that a default is as simple as "you ask for something that is yours and you don't get it", regardless of the reasons why you don't get it.

That is sooo $CURRENT_YEAR-1 of you to think something so simplistic and unsophisticated. Clearly there are just a ton of reasons why you might ask for something that is yours, and not get it, that aren't anything as ugly as a default. Please. So plebian. And I can hardly believe that some knuckle-dragging cretins think a default should be treated by everyone as a default rather than just sort of glossed over with a vaguely stern look on your face before proceeding on as if nothing has happened.

(For a bit of context, it's not just the cryptocurrency space that has forgotten the fundamentals lately & I have to admit I'm getting a bit crabby about it. There is a time and a place for nuance, and there is a time and place for stubborn insistence on basic facts of reality and waving away any attempt at "nuance" as obfuscatory lies. The definition of default is one of them. Either you return my stuff on demand or you don't. Explaining why you failed your obligations does not mean that you met your obligations.)
Yep! You're describing trade-offs.

There are consequences for making decisions in any direction, and the oligarchy that dominates a particular geographic area gets to decide which values to prioritize.

It's anarchy on an international scale and it's glorious.
EtherWeasel: A man-in-the-middle attack on an Ethernet network
Another good time to remind everyone that the inventor of the maser (which led to the laser), Charles Townes, was discouraged by his department chair (allegedly): "Look, you should stop the work you are doing. It isn't going to work. You know it's not going to work, we know it's not going to work. You're wasting money, Just stop!" A few months later, it worked. [1]

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2015/01/29/charles_townes_nobel_...
Ask HN: What was your scariest reboot ever?
Recently, in the thread "What's your proudest hack?", a few people posted about navigating harrowing experiences that had to do with ahem unscheduled backup tests, partition table recovery, dd or rm commands, etc. I wonder if there might be other good stories about your scariest reboot ever?
Funny that in the cryptoworld transaction is block because : "The banks are not open for another few hours"
Sometimes a standard _is_ a technology. e.g. the shape and electrical characteristics of a plug, and what it enables when this is widespread.

e.g. is Open Banking (1) a technology or a European Parliament directive? It's a bit of both.

To paraphrase you: The US government couldn't yet regulate its banks into (the social advantages of adopting a uniform technology of) fast transfers.

It's coming but the US is hardly at the forefront of this (2) Nigeria has one already (3)

1 ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_banking

2) https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/about....

3) https://nibss-plc.com.ng/about
I think the best illustration of this is Instacart: they basically re-invented what many supermarkets in Europe and Asia had been doing for 10+ years already, only with huge markups and gig workers exploitation.
It will get there, but it won't be from NIF or via any technology developed for this experiment. What they are doing is not viable for a rector, won't ever be viable for a reactor, and won't even be considered a starting point for any future rector.

It's a fusion plasma research experiment. It's not a program that is being run with the goal of creating a usable fusion energy power plant.
The sensor hardware is probably the least interesting part of the iPhone image capture pipeline.
Datalog seems to be getting some use these days, HN mentions: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Inertial_Fusion_Energy#M...
Certainly Europe would be better off if they took this approach and banned all American apps. American techies have no respect for European privacy laws and will never faithfully follow the spirit of such laws, or even the letter.
Asking for clarity is always great feedback
Has anyone had experience merging two video files with this tool?
yeah. But some are apparently working at Livermore Nat. Lab still. Also, I feel like there is a bunch at SpaceX, Tesla, NASA, DeepMind and OpenAI
I knew about this person from "the psychology of money" book.
Towards Automatic Detection of Road Features with Deep Learning
Agreed, the USGOV needs to expand this and just like with tariffs respond symmetrically to China's hostile laws against american companies there. Any restrictions they place on american companies should translate to similar restrictions against their companies in the US (actually more restrictions since their companies are CCP controlled to the most part).
As for AI: https://www.statista.com/statistics/939627/ai-publications-w...

Hmmm. Also looks like we're doing fine.
So "digital fentanyl" is acceptable as long as appropriate privacy legislation has been enacted? It's not an "addiction" problem but rather a "privacy problem"?
Turns out having a monetary union but not a fiscal one is really destabilizing when things go wrong!
This must be funny when you have motor trouble.
>The Q needs to be something like 500 to 1000

Why wouldn't a final Q of 50 be economically viable? Interest on capital costs? Other?
But then youd be disrupting the school-to-prison pipeline![1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/School-to-prison_pipeline
Stiglitz, Regmi: The Causes of and Responses to Today's Inflation [pdf]
"Our analysis concludes that today’s inflation is largely driven by supply shocks and sectoral
demand shifts, not by excess aggregate demand. Monetary policy, then, is too blunt an
instrument because it will greatly reduce inflation only at the cost of unnecessarily high
unemployment, with severe adverse distributive consequences. "
> How much will my electric bill be reduced?

Your bill will be the same, or higher. But you'll be doing so much more with electricity. Push a button, and your clothes are clean in seconds. Push a button, and your beard is shaved in seconds. Push a button, and four of your five senses are entertained for hours.
I don't know yet, I never built one. How would you do it? Come up with new protocols, innovative techniques to work around it, solve it? Maybe just take some downtime for granted? I'm sure somebody can come up with a workable solution. HN is full of smart people!
I think what I'm alluding to is, how much can the cost go down. In the case of fossil fuels there value is strongly based on their physical scarcity and cost of extraction/delivery etc.

How much do these things ring true in this case and what are ideas of improvement?
I wonder whether those views here are always a bit too software-biased. At least for germany, we do not have a competitive advantage in software (which I have to accept) but in other things. I can't fail to notice that quite a few important innovations for renewable energy have happened here (talking about both europe and germany now). The leaders for renewable energy production are (mostly) NOT sitting in silicon valley and as much as I love software it's not everything. From solar panels to wind turbines, those things do not come from a silicon valley startup.

I wonder how those "Innovation analysis" posts would look like if they would focus on everything but software.
> But maybe I'm missing something important about the economics?

I think you've understood it.

Imo fusion is never going to be able to compete with renewables+storage with the energy being captured from neutrons. Maybe reactions that release energy in charged particles or photons could, but they're even harder to do.
Wow - jumping to a lot of conclusions! My only point is that an old guy attacking the most popular platform used by millions of users as their primary entertainment and self-expression will have some repercussions. $THE_OTHER_GUY will build a whole campaign around a hamfisted approach and not just for GenZ.
Managing a distribution system, such as a sales and marketing organization is itself a feat. Plenty of tech companies no longer really innovate and just buy startups ... yet they still provide value (to their investors at least) by cross-selling the products to their clients, at a scale the startup might not have been able to reach organically (within the time window of their product remaining sufficiently innovative before it in turn in disrupted).
Donald Trump did exactly the opposite of your advice at every turn, yet remains free and unindicted. SBF’s main mistake seems to have been not cultivating political clout before committing fraud, not anything related to what he said or did.
> it's a covert foreign state attack—ideological subversion—by the CCP

Have you actually used TikTok? I've heard this claim several times but I'm just not seeing it in my feed.
It's a significant milestone because demonstrating you can get net energy from the reaction removes a lot of uncertainty of whether it's possible in the real world. It starts to turn inertial fusion into an engineering problem of how you increase the efficiency of each stage.
I thought all 152s were Aerobat rated? Might be mistaken though! I've only flown the 172
As someone who bought AAPL at $17/share before the ipod was released. This is correct.
Or it just took some time to put the indictment together... I wonder which one is a simpler explanation...
I think you're making the mistake that the point of a Twitch account is to stream. Accounts are useful for viewers with no intent to ever stream as well
It’s absurdly addictive. And as I understand it smoking as we know it has more to do with marketing and the intentional suppression of research indicating serious harm than anything else. Hell, I might liken it to generational trauma.

I’m not sure of the specifics. Does the law prevent you from growing and curing your own tobacco? There might be something important there - I don’t think folks would make their own cigarettes, but they would make their own alcohol. Feels like there is a difference.
Yep - and I never put two and two together on "Retry" and called it "Reh-tree."
This is a terrible low effort post. Anyone holding a large amount of crypto should have the majority of it in a cold wallet. It should take a significant amount of time to make that transfer because it should involve significant controls like multiple people travelling to a secure site.

An honest crypto exchange might see a "bit of a bank run" without raising any significant alarm.
In finance, they call it "irrational exuberance" or "irrational pessimism".

In politics, they call it "misinformation" or "fake news".

In slashdotting neckbeard techery, we say "fud".

The term exists in all fields, but signals your tribal affiliation in your choice of symbol.
Elon Musk ::ducks::
Different companies clearly have different legal teams giving differing advice. I found this one fascinating:

“If you are a Colorado or New York City resident and this role is a remote role, you can receive additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role, which we will provide upon request. Requests can be submitted here.“

link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScOlYgPtpG56uqO0O9j...

When I submitted my information I did not hear back, which does feel like a blatant violation of the law(s)
The "age of combustion" is very quickly coming to a close. The middle east will see a very different economic landscape and, is in fact, already seeing it with constant shrinking of the enterprise value of fossil fuel producers.

Will the middle east be able to turn their current mountains of cash in to a functioning economy without oil? My guess is no, primarily because their current cultures are not well adapted to thriving in a complex economy with many human resources that can't just be pumped out of the ground.

It will take extraordinary leadership for any of the gulf states be successful post combustion. Oman though, is a model that might make it and lead others. But it's not the way to bet.
> imo the most dystopian thing about TikTok is the fact that China intentionally exports a highly addictive product that they don't allow their own people to use

This comment made me think that TikTok (and Facebook before it) are somewhat like an attempt at hacker attack on the simulation we live in, where the analogue to the "simulation" is the system where freedom of speech is an absolute law, but the system is running on susceptible components: people, and is therefore vulnerable.
Not so obvious. How to implement it without passing request id to all the functions, when they are unrelated to request/http ? Especially in languages without thread-locals such as javascript?