skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was wondering this myself. Tiktok surely needs location data permitted to track, no? I'm sure there are some heuristics it can use, perhaps pinging servers or image matching pictures but surely this could all be solved by putting TikTok in a container with specifically limited permissions.
https://donmelton.com/2012/12/19/when-i-first-heard-the-name...
There are android apps specifically for this that can fetch from a git repo and you can input your GPG password, with autofill and all
Because the statutory (not to mention constitutional) implications are staggering: what about our government's structure do you think gives it the authority to outright ban social media companies? Do you want it to have that power, or do you just want to government to casuistically ban the things you think should be banned?

Note: this is entirely independent from whether TikTok is bad, which I'm more confident than not it is. But contorting our already contorted national security laws around it is not a tenable solution.
The view that “cultural groups have largely coalesced around race in this country, but that's the reality” is precisely the question. Is that the best and most effective proxy for population segmentation and policy-making? Many would argue that it isn’t. Regardless, what we can say with certainty is that it isn’t evaluated.

I’m not arguing against diversity nor skin-color prejudice in America, I’m raising the question of how we best define diversity and associated ramifications.
Healthspan is super important, will be really cool to have a youngish person living to 130/140/150, but yes a healthy centenarian is really cool, too.
Except email for news is a waste of resources, it is a push which fills bandwidth and inboxes regardless of if the bytes are read.

RSS is pull, it only fetches the data if it’s needed.

And rarely do I see people using an inbox correctly, they’ll have 1000+ unread messages and have missed something important.
If China decided to ban a US company for using its app to locate Chinese citizens, I'd say that is totally fair.
That’s exactly my point. Apple moving some production to India (or so I read) is a good first step. Western production moved to China due to Chinese strategic efforts to locate our industrial production there. We should have our own strategic effort of our own to reverse that.
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SQL actually isn't all that transferable, because in practice you almost always use an ORM or a query builder instead of writing queries directly into your codebase. So when switching languages you still need to learn the new language's ORM; your knowledge of the underlying SQL will only go so far.

Of course queries should be human-readable, but there's no need for it to be a complete language with its own grammar and templating via prepared statements. The queries could be encoded in JSON or some similar (probably custom) human-readable language that can easily be generated programmatically. MongoDB does this IIRC; it's probably the only thing I like about Mongo, but it's a good idea.
It could also just be that the population of Web developers is more prone to fads and churning framework after framework passing each off as serious technological innovation when they are typically just re-arrangements based on shifting opinions. So while, in this space, perhaps, “technology is changing all the time” but really it us just feverishly dog-paddling in place.
> Most folks who have money I know always tend to go private rather than dealing with a 6 month wait for a routine check up.

I don't get this - if it's a routine check up you'll have one per year, so your GP will be booking it in for you, and they are paid money to do so.

If you're talking about a routine check-up for the worried well who don't have any health problems but who just want a doctor to tell them that they don't have any health problems, well, those checks cause harm and do not prolong life so you'd want to delay them as much as possible.
It seems we're sliding into a new cold war, but the US is still contemplating its strategy. Banning a vastly successful social media outright needs to be aligned with that strategy, and not to mention how unpopular taking away an addictive app would be with the voters.
Whatever complaints people have about how deep the tendrils of the US government have infiltrated into US companies, there is at least some separation and the rule of law. Yes, the government can get warrants for pen registers, issue NSLs and the like but there's still a process for that.

This simply isn't true for the Chinese government and Chinese companies.

But the other issue, which is both more palatable and more general, is one of reciprocity. China deliberately restricts Western companies from their market. A key component of trade is reciprocal market access.
She was sold a carrot peeler. She didn't receive a carrot peeler.

It's not relevant what the price was: that's a decision for the shop. If they can't sell carrot peelers at a price that makes sense for them, the answer is to not sell carrot peelers, not to sell things that are described as carrot peelers but which cannot peel a carrot.
So it seems from comments that this is a thing others do, but I have a question for you OP:

What’s to stop you from just reconnecting internet? If you went through different tools to accomplish this already, and you bypassed them all, why will this be the successful tool?

Not to be too much of a downer, but I think you will fail if you try it. You already said that you see notices that you recognize aren’t helpful and you don’t ignore them today. Not to be critical, but what you need is self control, or a recognition that maybe you should find different hobbies. I know it’d not an answer you want and this is tech where there’s a solution to all human problems.

I have ADHD and that makes it extremely hard to focus. On work or on play. By the time work is over I’m tired and more easily distracted. I used to beat myself up trying to focus on “productive” hobbies. What can I build. What can I make. Etc. except I too was quickly distracted by notifications on my computer and phone and things going on in my house… at some point I just realized that my desire to accomplish something with these hobbies wasn’t serving me.

Idk if this actually applies to you, only you can know. It’s really hard to accept that maybe a productive hobby isn’t for you - it was for me - but it could set you free. HN is full of stories of people who turned a hobby product into a lucrative business or a famous open source project. The internet is full of YouTubers who make crazy contraptions in the weekend. It’s so easy to get FOMO and feel that you’re just as capable.. if only you can focus on the evenings and not be distracted. But some people (like myself) will be distracted. I know if I just turned the internet off, I’d just get up after a while and find a distraction that isn’t a broken Plug-in.

If you’re easily distracted, you need to manage yourself, not your environment, because there will always be a source of distractions. I hope you find happiness with your hobbies and yourself.
The blogspam post you linked has zero examples of QUEL. Looking at Wikipedia [0], it seems much uglier and less readable than SQL.

I am not a database theory person. I'm a developer who does not care about Codd's relational calculus. As for ORMs, they are great at solving simpler problems and CRUD data access, and they make the developer’s life easier by giving them nice objects to work with as opposed to raw database rows. However, any advanced analytics/reporting/summary queries tend to look awful with an ORM.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages
> Do you believe that choosing to feed your kids, or choosing to not kill someone are simply created constructs like the computer or the airplane?

The actions exist obviously.

My point is that in the absence of consciousness there is no positive or negative value ascribed to them.

Let's take the example of feeding your children, but use the opposite extreme. What you see plenty of in nature is a mother eating her children. Sometimes for no reason at all (Octopus, Guppies, rodents).

Are there certain species that are fundamentally immoral? Maybe so, from our perspective. But without our perspective no value is assigned. It is just another thing animals do without any moral weight.
So like a market place for self publishing? Like an Etsy but for AI generated "stuff".
If you set up an email filter, then it just becomes a push style RSS subscription.
> "the misconduct of a few individuals"

Always is. Bad apples. Rogue actors. Acting alone. Examples
made. Lessons learned. Public assured. Throw the low rank scapegoats
under a bus. And keep praying we're as stupid as you make yourself
look.
There are multiple data points that can be used and/or correlated to determine location, including IP address, if permissions are enabled, nearby Bluetooth devices, nearby WiFi MAC addresses, connected cell tower, and of course GPS. Also they don't even need to be installed on the journalist's device, but their child/spouse/coworker/close friends would also do.
I would say that "trust science!" tee-shirts aren't really about Feyerabend's epistemological anarchy. You could frame it that way, but that would be philosophy-washing (to coin a term).

Against Method points out that there's no rigorous method for pursuing the difference between truth and non-truth, but at least accepts that there is something like "truth" out there and that it's better than falsehoods.

When people put on "trust science!" shirts, they're not arguing about whether we should continue working on homeopathy. They're saying that people are promoting deliberate falsehoods, things that they know or should know are wrong, because they are indifferent to the difference between truth and lies.

Homeopaths at least want to be right. There are surely some charlatans, but at least some of the kooky nutbags selling homeopathic remedies believe in it. Against Method makes it impossible to argue that they cannot possibly ever succeed, if they keep revising their hypothesis, even though we "know" that they won't.

The opponents of those who "trust science", by contrast, just don't care if they're right. They care only that they've won some kind of victory in a culture war. They don't apply epistemic anarchy to all sciences, only ones that they view as ideological opponents.

That isn't the only threat to science, to be sure. Science and scientists make genuine mistakes. But again, that's not really important to those who are rejecting science for cultural reasons, not philosophical ones. That challenge makes dealing with the others even harder.
Journaling without any goal besides understanding myself better, particularly my beliefs, had a similarly transformative effect on me. I stopped feeling angry and entitled to things I didn't have, and I became extremely positive in my social interactions and in my head.

For a long time I credited knowledge graph technology for the change, but now I think it was more likely just the practice of committed, written introspection. (The graphs definitely helped me navigate my notes faster and with less redundancy, though, which mattered because there were a lot of them.)
We’ve done the same thing with our Chrome extension. Someone can access our 2 week free trial without so much as entering an email address. We do this partly so it can be easily tried out by young students, partly because it makes things nicer for all users, and partly because it reduces customer support and refund requests.

The downside is that we can’t put folks in an e-mail drip campaign, which would help us educate our users and increase our conversion rate. But we hate spam, so we don’t view not-spamming as much of a downside.
It's 1 billion model with Fp16 precision so 4-6 GB max.
I am confused. You say yourself, that in November they needed to import 8GW. Which was necessary because the nuclear power plants didn't produce enough electricity. It was even worse in summer, where they were not only dealing with reactors down for repairs but also reactors with reduced power/shut down due to lack of cooling water.

So yes, France has a huge nuclear peak capacity, as they built a lot of reactors up to the 80ies. But basically none still then which means that they are increasingly fighting with keeping the old reactors running. Perhaps I was a bit short in my first post here, but they don't really have a strategy to deal with the situation. They would need to replace at least 50 power plants over the next 20 years to have a really good perspective, but no such plans in sight.
Bail is not intended to be punitive, so it is not intended to be a slap on the wrist.
I may not be the greatest fan of flat design, but how dare you besmirch the good name of Helvetica. It’s a good proper font.

The fact that every company feels the need to commission their own vanity font, which will inevitably be a generic soft humanist sans serif that is indistinguishable from any other company's generic soft humanist sans serif vanity font, now that is the true scourge.

:-)
That just means he did the parallelization incorrectly, there should be a fixed maximum number of concurrent requests.
It's your keys. The master password is yours only. Plaintext passwords don't exist in remote services; basically they're a specialized version of a storage system (Dropbox?Google Drive? S3?) optimized for password entry sharing between devices, versioning, etc.
I'm sure we had very different majors and I definitely didn't go to a top 25 school, but I don't think I experienced this once getting my bachelor's. I had a couple crappy professors, but it was never due to them not caring about undergrads. They just sucked at teaching, mostly. Every one of my professors once I got to the more focused courses were passionate about educating new minds in their area of expertise.

The career-building part after getting my BS was an exercise in futility, but if I could go back in time and go straight into my trade at my current workplace, I wouldn't. Thankfully I had a scholarship that covered tuition, so loans weren't an issue.
FYI, the first link is broken because the exclamation mark is not considered part of it by the HN software. The broken link points to a different piece of media. The correct link is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Enough%21
“Do you want it to have that power”

What an odd question. The government bans things all the time - can you go and buy unpasteurized milk right now? Or walk into a weapons store and buy brass knuckles? But heaven forbid, we’re abandoning our principles if we ban a data collection platform owned and operated by a genocidal undemocratic government.
Do you really think the rich kid stereotype comes from lack of working? Or is it lack of exposure to the things that make life hard for other people, leading to lack of empathy?
We’re not in the world of what ifs and ethical debates.

We are in a world where our strategic enemy has a foothold on our digital lives and will likely use it against us. This is evidence. We should treat our enemies as enemies. China doesn’t consider itself to be in a friendly competition for dominance. Neither should we.
At least we can punish American companies if they do something shady.
It absolutely is a new incident. LastPass is in PR damage control mode and trying to make it seem like accessing those backups was inevitable after their source code theft, but it's not the fucking case.

This is yet another failure on LastPass' end. The only thing in common is the attacker, that's it.
How is this different from Uber's god view?
Fine great let’s just agree Trump got it right and end this.
It’s the second time the last couple of years a 4k+ page spending monstrosity moves forward without giving enough time to anyone to even read it once. They included provisions for making monuments to themself: naming a federal building after Pelosi, FBI training facility after Richard Shelby, a trail after Michelle Obama. But the weirdest is that Patrick Leahy will get a school lunch program named after him. A school lunch program. This is some f*cked up level of narcissism.
I tend to abandon prospective purchases if I'm forced to make an account.

If it's something I really need and can't get anywhere else (and if I don't intend to have a protracted business relationship with the seller) I usually sign up with snarky addresses (that I still receive) like: SellerDomain-I-hate-that-you-make-me-register@mydomain.com

Not only can I easily squelch all future email from the seller but there's at least a remote chance somebody will recognize my ire and think about their process.
How much does one have to pay to get a $250 million bond? In CA it is %10 or $25 million for his bond. Somehow I don't think Sam is broke and living in his mom's basement as the article states.
Do they use MMM for billions and MMMM for trillions?

k, M, B, T, Q seem like easier to read suffixes as opposed to having to count the number of “M”s.
I think perhaps you didn't take the "one of worst nuclear accidents in history" part as much of an acknowledgement as intended. Disasters are not the norm, so focusing on the disaster intrinsically misses the global cost/benefit trade-off, which I think seems more important to people trying to have broad policy discussions.

To your point, the primary impact was the large scale evacuation. Horrible for anyone living immediately nearby. On the scale of terrible power-plants, maybe worse than living next to an active coal plant, but better than living downstream of a collapsed hydro-dam.
Cannot +1 this enough. I learned so much more when I took lessons from an improvisational jazz bass teacher who focused on

(1) Learning as many songs and standards as is reasonable each week

(2) Focusing on improvising along to my teacher playing the melody on piano. He wouldn't stop unless I asked, so I needed to keep time with him. If I made a mistake, and lost my place, he would keep playing and I'd listen to where he was and jump back in when I found it again
His parents used their house as collateral.
Which US companies are tracking journalist locations for the Chinese government? Tesla?
Sounds like Victoria 3.
Typo in the second sentence of your intro.
> It's almost like we have no clue what we are doing with NN and are just tweaking knobs and hoping it works out in the end.

No, we understand very well how NNs work. Look at PartiallyTyped's comment in this thread. It's a great explanation of the basic concepts behind modern machine learning.

You're quite correct that modern neural networks have nothing to do with how the brain learns or with any kind of superintelligence. And people know this. But these technologies have valuable practical applications. They're good at what they were made to do.
I run Payload. We are a media company that covers the space industry. We only cover the business and policy of the space industry.

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US has laws, independent courts and elections.

You might want to debate it’s level of efficiency and fairness, but on the other side you have a dictatorship.
Trying to decide if you're being ironic.

I find that even saying "I'm a programmer" in social settings triggers my counterparty to frantically start scanning the room for anybody else to talk to.

In social situations when that comes up I usually say something like "I work for <employer>" and then immediately try to change the subject.
OIDC is a layer that simplifies the horrors of OAuth2.

I am so fking looking forward to the death of this of fking grbage forum. I at some low point signed up to this forum. And I learned mostly nothing. And I am stilled annoyed cause it have a major impact at companies.

ChatGPT beats 99.9% of HN users at everything when it comes to known facts, ChatGPT can easily tell, explain, and debunk this kind of fraud/ad content. The post is mainly incorrect.

sry for hijacking yr comment
What I would really like is something I saw someone talking about here; I'd like the editor to brighten text it finds "unexpected" which could immediately alert to bugs, or to the fact that the code I'm writing looks weird in some way and might either be restructured or accompanied by a comment.
See also "The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months":

* https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-...

* https://www.google.com/search?q=real+life+lord+of+the+flies
You can still get it in America from a company called icedteapitcher. It’s the made-in-France true PYREX and is metric.
And isn’t it a good thing that that manager helped you realize not to waste your time with that company?
Nvidia’s business model makes it inherently more expensive to run on the cloud.
I second this as a classic example of advocatus diaboli[0] in order to find a hole/weakness/wrongness in one own's initial argument/assumptions.

Taking the Nietzsche quote[1] into the context of his work: "Jenseits von Gut und Böse (Viertes Hauptstück; Sprüche und Zwischenspiele, 146)" [Beyond Good and Evil; Fourth main part; Proverbs and interludes; 146]] your interpretation seems more in line with the book.

The inevitability of birthing/becoming a Monster oneself by fighting a Monster for too long is akin to staring into the abyss long enough until the abyss is staring into you. Melting away of cause and effect, the blurring, the reversing and finally the interchangeability/permeability - in this case - of the line between the object and observer (objectivism).

Nihilism (dissolution of all values, meaningless-ism) as a standpoint devours its subject who in the beginning is looking at the outside world all around - from the inside out in the end.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_advocate

[1]http://www.zeno.org/Philosophie/M/Nietzsche,+Friedrich/Jense...

146
Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, daß er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.
Do you know anyone who made the leap and regretted it? I'm not thinking of any, but my memory isn't great. Also I think people don't typically share their self-doubts, even ones that happened years ago, very frankly.
What's the over under on the number of days before he's Epsteined?
The KGB has not existed for decades. If you’re going to make inflammatory statements, you should make sure you’re talking about the correct things.
Pruning and Sparsification of Neural Networks
I think there is the other side to why hotels are unable to raise wages and therefore are unable to raise prices.

With the introduction of services like Airbnb, the increase in supply of accomodation means that it is very much a consumers market where accomodation is almost indistinguishable is competing purely on price.

This is combined with the fact that the opportunity cost of owning a property for the purpose of short term let is very high. Each night your property is vacant you are unable to resell that night in the future (unless you are doc from back to the future).

I think this all leads to a situation were there is very little a hotel can do to raise wages: raise wages and raise prices then consumers will pick the cheapest practically identical accomodation near by.