skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I've seen anything other than yellow scare adjacent innuendo that TikTok actually has any nefarious meddling in their algorithm to push different types of content to American vs Chinese users. Youtube and Facebook have both shown that basic heuristics like showing the user things more likely to keep them on the site and interacting is more than enough to form "radicalization pipelines".

As for the current consensus reality split in the US and other parts of the world I think that issue has been present and rotting at the center of mass media long before TikTok came around. There's also a big observational bias in our current issues where everything is easily documented and distributed we're able to know about all our neighbor's crazy beliefs and the same for people around the world, so maybe our consensus has always been a lot looser than we imagined we just see the crazies more these days (and the crazies see more of each other of course letting them build a wonderful little alt-reality bubble).

I will agree it's definitely much easier for kooks and grifters willing to indulge them to make a buck to find each other these days which has hypercharged the issue.
The unreal engine demo still had that uncanny valley around the mouth when talking. If it didn't have that it would be amazing.
I've been waiting forever to buy a .ing domain from Google as my last name ends in those letters. I literally want to give them my money and they won't let me. I did end up purchasing a .ng domain for my personal website, but I'm not super keen on having it tied to the country of Nigeria.

How often does Google release these new domains? I know that .ing was delegated to them in 2014... why are they allowed to control these domains if they never release them?
Do you also remember COVID is a hoax, the vaccine is killing people for population control, 5G causes COVID, ivermectin is the real cure etc? The sheer volume is what is exhausting.
That would make it look broken when it's part of what it is. Why should it pretend to be something else? It's not an algorithm that produces a specific result.

Edit: I got a message saying there were too many requests. So much for not appearing broken. And I'm not using a VPN or anything so I'd appear as ordinary traffic.
SEO, growth hacking, Bangladeshi click farms, social media clones, the "idea guy" archetype, "Silicon [insert distressed region]" boosterism. Tech's economic success has always attracted desperate, pathetic wannabes. Feeding technical due diligence to the competition, diluting a cofounder into irrelevance, patent trolling. It also attracts sharks.

Android flashlight apps, Facebook personality quizzes, Amazon affiliate spam, drop shipping, pay-to-win games. The shining, prestigious "platforms" are necessarily in symbiosis with their ecosystems of (mostly) slimy, bottom-feeding tenants.

Rails discourse, NodeJS discourse, MongoDB discourse, AWS discourse, Docker discourse, Agile discourse, TDD discourse, etc. Tech has always had cycles of hype, counter-hype, disillusionment, and eventually sorting tools and approaches into their proper niches in view of tradeoffs.
Binance is not the financial industry.
Compress it since it's just a regular file, doesn't matter that it exists elsewhere

Or add an config option

Why is that hard?
True, I should have specified the T series and even then the most recent models don't have perfect driver support
There was no invasion of India by Alexander. He barely crossed modern day Pakistan and parts of Punjab before heading back. Magadha was still untouched and so where all southern kingdoms. India is not Delhi and adjacent areas of Delhi which speak Hindi.

As for rest of your comment, I don’t know enough to comment on it. On cursory reading it seems you are right and thank you for this information.
Ask HN: Most Interesting Startup Stories?
Love reading these types of stories and would love to know more!

BuiltWith -> 1 person $14M ARR (reportedly?)
Instagram -> 13 engineers to $1 billion
Evernote -> 500k check that saved the business
YouTube -> originally was a dating site

What other stories are similar?
This. For humans too :-)
This is a common hack with business travel where prices of flights including a Saturday stay are much cheaper (aimed at holidaymakers) than weekday flights (business travel). If you know you will need to travel to XYZ every second week M-F for two months then you buy one two month return SFO-XYZ-SFO and then buy the rest of the flights as 11 day flights back from XYZ Friday to the Monday of the following week (XYZ-SFO-XYZ)

All the tickets include "weekend stays" but you never spend a weekend in XYZ.

The OP may have used a one way ticket or something for the original trip since airlines don't book more than a year out.
{g,}TLDs domains are administered for-profit in a cancer of exclusivity, like Putin and his oligarchs replaced by ICANN and megacorps.
I remember reading many books on how when electricity was invented for decades there were tons of scams which essentially were vaporware hypestorms. Look at Victorian England and the myriad medical scams around electricity.

Same with many chemical discoveries in the 1800s, and with nuclear discoveries in the 1950s.

The snake oil salesmen will always race to some new tech to try and make a quick buck. Partially because the new tech actually does do some interesting things and partially because it's new enough no one can call them on it quite yet.

Even now there are tons of new science and tech in other fields that the general public are more convinced than ever work for health, etc. And at best are hopeful thinking and at worst are massive scams which are straight out hurting millions.
> They have been regularly desecrating his father's grave, who committed suicide due to Amish abuse.

What do you mean by "they?" Amish people in general? Or some specific people or group (that you have not identified)?

Consider how you'd feel about saying "they" to refer to some individual transgression by other groups.
> It's not impossible. They could start directing humans to do these thing.

People are already doing this.

Lookup HustleGPT. People are making ChatGPT the CEO/decision maker of their companies/businesses.

There’s an e-commerce that launched 10 days ago, has generated millions of views, over $10k in sales, and the CEO is ChatGPT (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/joao-ferrao-dos-santos_10k-ec...)
I think it's a natural effect of the larger trend toward profitability over growth.

Product and design hiring often coincide with a focus on growth. New features, new products, new product lines to grow the entire pie. Focusing on profitability can shift toward making existing products more efficient and streamlined, or just not changing them so much and finding ways to save on costs.
Any tech that has the chance to truly disrupt is guaranteed to be swamped with gold rush speculators hoping to hit it big.

It is really difficult to suss out the winners and losers are going to be. VCs take the approach of spreading across as many bets as possible - hoping to get lucky. Companies will try to add the next big thing to their existing products to stay relevant (purely defensive maneuvers). Employees looking for jobs in the gold rush must either _really_ believe in the product/company they're working on or have the ability to move quickly off a sinking ship.

Tl;Dr it's always like this. Also it's not purely a bad thing - try to find ways to be positive.
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Meh... it was always the same, but you forgot (or are too young to remember) the past things.

Just look at the huge number of failed game controllers that will "revolutionize" gaming,... or try watching an old computer show (eg. computer chronicles) where they are trying to hype and sell some "new, revolutionary" tech, that "everyone will use in a few years"...
I remember "free" dir size was one of the supposed benefits. Has that materialized, are there file managers/tools that can show the size of any dir immediately just like you can have in Everything on NTFS+Windows
So the banks had bonds in their balance sheets that went down in price because of the rising interest rates. If they are in need for money, they sell them quickly but don’t get 100%. So basically not all checking account money can be satisfied. In my understanding, this brought down SVB.

The Fed took over these bonds for 100% as a measure of stabilization. There is no issue here because bonds will be repaid for 100% most probably. Basically the Fed is taking over temporary losses of the banks. When the bonds are repaid the negative equity will vanish.
I've been in this field for 20 years and I'd say no. Compared to back then, the market for software seems incredibly saturated, there's more people making (or trying to make) money from these kind of hypes now than in the past, and it seems increasingly desperately so.

That said, humans do have a tendency to romanticise the past - forgetting the bad and the weird.
Is there a possibility of linking/embedding actual furniture and decor for sale in the reimagined output? Is there a way to estimate the room measurements from the photo with any accuracy, so I can size up what will fit there?
I predict Valve gets sued by Nintendo real quick
A lot of companies will give you at least a month, even if it isn’t mandated by law. We have a family leave pay roll tax in WA, though I’m not sure how hard it is to use for paternity leave.

Japan does much better than the USA on child care so the parents can go back to work.
> but to pursue anything that is in any way even risky.

Specific kinds of risk, namely

> sabotage or subversion of . . . information and communications technology products and services in the United States; catastrophic effects on the security or resilience of the critical infrastructure; interfering in, or altering the result or reported result of a Federal election; coercive or criminal activities by a foreign adversary; an undue or unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States or the safety of United States persons.

You might think it's overbroad (and I do actually), but it's not 'whatever the Secretary wants'.

> As for how this all goes down? "In carrying out the responsibilities under this Act, the Secretary may establish such rules, regulations, and procedures as the Secretary considers appropriate." So the Secretary can literally make new rules, regulations & procedures on the fly to do anything they want. Hello again 5th Branch.

This is a legal conception in administrative rule making, not carte blanche. This sort of language exists in lots of bills, and courts can and have struck down rules they believe go beyond the scope of a bill (see: WV v. EPA). The general scope of administrative rulemaking is also heavily restricted by the nondelegation doctrine (see DoT vs. AAR as a recent example).

> with again "otherwise mitigate the risk" standing in as a "whatever the fuck we say" carte-blanche statement, as this Restrict act so continuously unlimitedly keeps handing out to everyone, with no checks in sight.

This 'mitigation' passage is premised on a failure to compel divestment, which makes it pretty clear what is being referred to - efforts to limit access to something that has no US entity to go after. Again, not carte blanch, and courts can and have considered the intent behind legal provisions far less obvious than it is here.

> But the Secretary is sole deteminer of who is acting in any way in concordance with a Foreign Adversary or potentially aiding their cause.

I will just quote a law dictionary here

> in consultation means with the concurrence of the person with whom a delegating authority must consult before exercising a delegated or sub-delegated power

Consultation here does not mean what it means in colloquial conversation; the agreement of the relevant agency executives and the DNI are required.

Again, I actually think this is an impulsive and unnecessary law, but sensationalizing it and misinterpreting terms like 'mitigation' or 'consultation' doesn't help the case against it.
I again agree completely, especially when learning, but even today I will occasionally prototype stuff in ghci.

There is irust which seems to work well. I haven't used it enough find the limitation (eg. can you define new types at the prompt? I haven't tried).
Same. I vaguely remember a tool that would ask you what you were doing periodically. I never got it to run, so I don’t know if itd be useful or a distraction.
right

the thing is that a tool that's good for 10k servers isn't really good for 10 servers
Yay! And thanks for the screenshot :D
I got to speak to a couple different Apple file system engineers many years ago over the course of many WWDCs. I think it was around the Leopard or Snow Leopard time frame (2007-2009), where we casually discussed some of the challenges Apple was having with their ZFS effort.

(We didn't talk about iPhone, so either it had not been announced yet, or development was still so closed down, that it never came up as a topic of consideration.)

My recollection was with their ZFS work, while it was clear to everybody that Time Machine should be a big benefactor of ZFS, they were still unhappy with the high RAM requirements (and also not thrilled about the high CPU requirements). Since laptops were then the bulk of their sales, and these machines shipped with much more constrained specs, there was a lot of uncertainty about when/if they were going to make ZFS the default file system.

(Looking it up, the base 2006 Macbook had 512 MB of RAM, and shared RAM with the Intel GMA 950 GPU.)

I recall there always was a secondary backdrop of concerns with the ZFS license and also the fate of Sun, but the engineers I spoke with weren't involved in those parts of the decision making process.
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> Adult content, adult industries, and dating apps, including:

> Content meant to arouse sexual excitement, such as the description of sexual activity, or that promotes sexual services (excluding sex education and wellness)

> Erotic chat

> Pornography

Bloody puritans.
The poster lives in SFO and wants to visit XYZ for a week once a year. Rather than buy SFO->XYZ->SFO tickets (which are packages that consist of “a flight from SFO to XYZ on the 1st of April” and “a flight from XYZ to SFO on the 8th of April”), the poster instead buys XYZ->SFO->XYZ tickets (which are packages that consist of “a flight from XYZ to SFO on the 8th of April” and “a flight from SFO to XYZ on the 1st of April next year”).

Because the poster is repeating this purchase every year, it results in the same long-term flight pattern. However, because they have shifted the airline’s window into those travel patterns by a half step, all of the flights look cheaper to the airline’s pricing algorithm.
If you've read BoE paper then I guess you are already at the 90th percentile.

Here are some interesting rabbit holes I've found to be useful.

1. Central Banking 101 [1]. A terrific no non-sense book. The author is an ex-central banker.

2. Same author's blog[2] and twitter[3] handle is full of good insights and details.

3. Lyn Alden[4] writes well but know that she is biased towards Bitcoin which sort of clouds her writings once in a while.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56863052-central-banking...

[2] https://fedguy.com

[3] https://twitter.com/FedGuy12

[4] https://www.lynalden.com
The irony with all of this is that if you live in a country allied with the US, you are safer on Tiktok than any US-bases social media platform. If you live in a western country, the US has way more power to fuck over your life than China does. It only takes one email from a three letter agency and your life is completely ruined. China on the other hand has no power over you if you are a westerner without family living in china. The only power china has is in Asia, you can be as rude as you want toward them if you don't have close family living there. They know better than to start fire bombing Europe or the US over whatever you have in you chat history.

Using social engineering to fuck with your life is also much harder and more expensive when their hardcore supporters don't even speak the same language you do and they don't have support from the authorities to force you to do anything. They can't threaten to arrest you the same way an agent working for the US could.

The US on the other hand will get to you regardless of where you are in the world. They will go as far as killing state leaders and journalists overseas. Even as a US citizen living in the US, they literally passed laws under Obama that allows the US government to drone strike US citizens for national security reasons without a trial.
Yes, except...

> returning "home" to XYZ for a little bit before booking another

More likely, "booking another" actually happens before landing in XYZ, closer to 6 months out (seeking the best price), but otherwise you've got it.
Ask HN: Does your Windows Precision Touchpad work the same way?
I wrote a simple little script[0] that lets me use Three-Finger Drag on Windows for my Surface Pro, by reading the touchpad's raw HID report via the RawInput WinAPI, then use the SendInput API to synthesize mouse movement and button clicks.

I haven't quite figured out how to work with the HidP_*[1] APIs, so instead I simply reverse-engineered how to interpret the HID report's raw bytes using my RawinputViewer[2] to physically stare at how the hex values change based on how many fingers and where I put them on the touchpad.

So this means that the script works for my Surface Pro which is good enough for my personal use, but I'm curious about whether this HID report format is common to all Windows Precision Touchpads or if it is just for my specific Surface Pro, and how general I can make it work without resorting to using the HiDP_* calls.

If you are on Windows, what do you observe when you examine the raw hex values using RawinputViewer?
You'll need to tick the "Other Human-Interface Devices" checkbox and untick Mouse and Keyboard, so that you don't get the driver-synthesized SendInput mouse reports flooding the output box.

[0] https://github.com/EsportToys/PrecisionThreeFingerDrag

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/hid/introduction-to-hid-concepts

[2] https://github.com/EsportToys/RawinputViewer
This comment needs to be recast to the tune of We Didn't Start the Fire.
What lack of religion? It's just a different god.

Take the DEI deans' refusal to participate in the debate on DEI at MIT.

> There is a sense that this is an issue that is kind of above being debated

That is basically the definition of 'sacred.'

https://www.thecollegefix.com/a-debate-on-dei-will-be-held-a...
I think any extremist and isolating culture will bring with it extremist behavior and thinking. People want to believe they have the right answer. Often this leads them to becoming very self-righteous and prideful and also very shame focused. I don't think this is something one would just limit to just this culture or belief system. And as that guy states, that is this just his own personal experience. I too dealt with someone ruining my father's funeral and would probably their grave if he had one and let me tell you, they weren't amish but they were self righteous and crazy. That said, I think the Amish can have quality work, are useful in preserving history but I personally would not want that life. I remember reading Running Out of Time as a child and always somehow associated it with life like the Amish. I know things are different of course but that's what I think of first. A bad association.
the good new is, for the 95% of projects that can tolerate it, aws the good parts are actually both simple and easy[1].

it’s hard to find things you can’t build on s3, dynamo, lambda, and ec2.

if either compliance or a 5% project demand it, complicated solutions should be explored.

1. https://github.com/nathants/libaws
I actually replaced my programming fonts with serif fonts in all languages after a few years in Smalltalk. It’s not quite as good in a brace language like Java, but for Python it works really well, I find.
I guess he's still really, really mad about how all his own polls went.
If you actually want a github alternative, use gitlab. Can't speak to the web experience, but self hosted is miles better than any of the alternatives. I found gitea to be fairly lacking.
> That story came from the German press and was correct:

So one specific case where the lists are sent to the city government and shown in public now means "children can't write to Santa?" Way to blown out of proportion. (And they could, if their parents consented to it)

Thanks for showing how easy it is to be manipulated by anti-EU propaganda.

Yes, the Welt article is not lying, the propagandists are, as usual
Pretty much all of them.

The US doesn't have a great record on use of diplomatic soft power, it appears from afar that military hardware lobbyists achieve their goal of getting at least a factor of 10x more spent on war toys than on diplomatic programs that would circumvent the need to use said toys.

( I suspect the overspend factor on hardware Vs HR approaches is way more than 10 )
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> > 3. The GUI is buried in System Settings. Heaven forbid you need search it's only a simple 37 clicks away!

On iOS you can ask Siri "show my passwords". Doesn't seem to work on MacOS though.
I do the same traveling between US and Europe. I know I will go back every summer and xmas so my trip originates out of Europe with return trip 6 months later, always cheaper than same flights with origin in USA.
Is there any chance for these dropping to go away and be replaced by a proper database of whatever Finder info is in there?
Did some experimenting with Emotiv as well, training patterns is pretty time consuming and not always triggering what you’re thinking.

Applicability is also a concern due to limited exposure but still curious on potential benefits.
There's a few things at play here.

LLMs - OpenAI, Google Brain, Meta FAIR, HuggingFace and others are now routinely training models with the entire corpus of the internet in a few months. The models are getting larger and more efficient.

Diffusion models - MidJourney, StableDiffusion, Dall-E and it's control net cousins - Trained on terabytes of images, almost entire corpus of internet.

Same with voice and other multimodal models.

The transformer algorithm is magical but we're just getting started.

There are now multiple competing players who can drop millions of dollars on compute and have access to internet sized datasets.

The compute, the datasets, the algorithms, the human reinforcement loops, all are getting better week over week. Millions of users are interacting with these systems daily. A large subset even paying for it.

There is the gold rush.
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> We've been through multiple financial crisis and not been in the situation.

It's not as if any of those previous financial crises are comparable to what we're going through now though. These are very different times where we're coming out of unprecedented events. Maybe the Fed really is doing poorly, but I can't exactly remember a time in my life when everybody loved the Fed and what they were doing either. Is there some kind of golden age when everything was being handled correctly and we didn't have problems that we should be trying to go back to?