skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why the west expect china to be under US jurisdiction

That's precisely why they formed the BRICS after all

"The US has abused its financial hegemony and technological clout and engaged in economic coercion in the name of protecting national security. The US has enacted some domestic laws, such as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act and the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, and issued a series of executive orders to target and sanction specific countries, entities or individuals. The ambiguous rules contained in these acts and executive orders, such as the “minimum contacts principle” and “doctrine of effects”, are a willful expansion of the jurisdiction of US domestic laws. The US also abuses its domestic channels of prosecution to exercise long-arm jurisdiction over entities and individuals in other countries."

https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/wjbxw/202206/t20220619_10706059.h...
It sure beats having to bootstrap one, would be my hunch.

Even just having a few people automatically followed can make a difference, even if most people diverge quickly after joining.
You can poll people about things that they want, but (like it happened with many great inventions) people don't actually know what they need. Do they want less car-centric environment? Most will answer "no" because they've never lived in a society that wasn't as car-centric. Most people are not urbanists and most are content with their lives. You can poll them and do inquiries to death, or you can allow experts to implement all of the things that are unambiguously good from any perspective, let people grumble for a bit, adjust and after that reap benefits.

A part of being a democratic society is accepting that an opinion of an average person is worthless.
The cameras: once you take a 10x zoom on a trip, it's hard to imagine not having.
Outside looking in:

- In the rest of the world University applications are (mostly) decided on academic scores. This adds academic pressure but it means outside school work the time is yours (probably not so true in Asia though). In the US I get the impression that kids (and parents) need to create some sort of 110% intensity overachiever halo in all their out of school activities (as early as possible) to be able to pad their applications in order to impress an Admissions Officer.

- Your infrastructure is (beyond insanity) car hostage and the SUV arms race adds to even more pedestrian lack of safety. That pretty much makes a lot of kids confined to a few blocks around the house until they are 16. If you were to say to anyway in Europe that a town with more than 50k people has multilane streets but with no sidewalks they would probably protest.

- Having said that I still feel that at least for teenagers smartphone/social media usage is a major cause of mental health decline across the globe (so not US exclusive). It's the whole problem of comparing other people's filtered best with your internal self-perceived worst.
What I've read and seems to be backed up by how fast utility batteries are being installed is the drop in price of batteries means that suddenly the payback period for batteries is a couple of years.

Batteries exist in a different economic regime than rate payers. Where the price per megawatt varies by 2X or more. Which makes it easier for batteries to make money be arbitrage. As in buy power at 10am for $40/MWH, sell it at 7pm the same day for $80/MWH.
it's a law that was pushed by the industry to prevent eliminating jobs under the guise of safety issues.

new jersey is the only other state with such a law (and it's even more restrictive than the oregon law was)
Everything that people were complaining about on Twitter is also true of Threads, other than that Musk doesn't own Threads. The solution to DMs being limited or filtered on Twitter can't be to move to a platform without DMs at all. Various trolls are already partying on Threads, and targeting people that used to get them banned on Twitter. Commercial people and celebrities are seeing no engagement.

Also, the idea that Threads will be better than Twitter is simply a promise based on nothing. The concept I heard is that they were going to mod out politics, but that's a) impossible at scale, ask China, and b) Facebook couldn't care less about politics; the reason they censored anything other than nipples was by government demand, and Facebook has promised to cooperate with the House Judiciary Committee that it was hiding documents from until a few days ago under pain of contempt of Congress, personally, against Zuckerberg.

I don't think he's hero enough to go to prison for the sake of this administration, especially since he started censoring for the last administration. He doesn't care about the politics at all, so who would he be going to prison on behalf of? Movement Democrats will certainly make him a hero, like Cheney, Comey, etc., but what will that get him if the Democrats go down in the next general? All this is to say is that he's motivated to govern Threads with a light touch.
The company's size isn't a problem; the problem is that the employees whom you manage all outside the U.S. You also need to show that you managed multiple employees for at least one year abroad before transferring to the U.S.
I wouldn't style that an outage. I'm not sure what regular users that affected, but it could not have been very many.
On GPT 3.5

Q: "What is the seventy fourth element of the periodic table?"

A: "The seventy-fourth element of the periodic table is Rhenium..."

But this is really shooting fish in a barrel. Given the way LLMs work why would you expect them to provide factually correct text completion?
Ughh..this is not an exaggeration. I remember recently when Amazon delivered a package to my house meant for a neighbor down the street. I had time so I walked over and knocked on the door. After about a minute I saw a young lady barely pulling the window blinds apart to peek out. When she saw there was still someone there (an out of shape nerd who looks like a Best Buy worker—the opposite of intimidating) just holding a package, she let out a shriek from the depths of damnation, and basically stood there screaming until I set the package down and walked away. You could hear it from the sidewalk. People have gone la la.
Would you like to share something specific that helped you get better at effective note-taking?
Seattle actually gets less rainfall per year than any major city east of the Mississippi. It's just overcast and misty/drizzly a lot in the winter. Summers are bone dry.
As a Texan, my preference for electrical generation is “all of the above (except coal).” There is so much generation potential here - wind is probably going to be mostly tapped out pretty soon, but lots of the state is pretty, pretty good for solar. Natural gas is still being flared from some oil fields, so that’s fuel that could be added to the energy mix if it could be reliably gathered and transported. It also seems to me like this would be a good spot for nuclear between geologic stability and abundant water (in some parts of the state), but I have no confidence we could build that more economically than anywhere else in the West, so alas, probably no more nuclear.

I used to be neutral-to-positive about having our own grid, but after the outages we’ve had the last few years, I don’t see any reason we shouldn’t be more interconnected with the other grids. Especially if renewable generation continues to increase at the same pace.
That the moderators are so unnoticeable is a testament to their skill.

We have to do heavy content moderation at work and the people requiring that moderation would test the patience of a literal saint.
I think parents of US citizen children cannot be deported for that exact reason: it would leave the child without a parent. That's why they are called "anchor babies".

But of course if they leave the US willingly (e.g. traveling to their home country) they will be banned from ever coming back.
Fedora Workstation 38.

I switched from Arch (which I like a lot) to Fedora to become less vulnerable to attackers and might move to ChromeOS or Qubes to become even less vulnerable.

"Vulnerable" is my amateur estimation of the security landscape.

The key quality I want in my OS is as much security ("attack resistance"?) as practical while retaining sufficient customizability to accommodate my disabilities. I've mostly given up on MacOS because unless I turn off its System Identity Protection, MacOS cannot be customized in ways beneficial to me that most of the other choices (including Windows) can be.
noooo i'm sure it's the opposite here. January in June. (very accurate in 2023)
The X Window System allows applications to present bitmap images on a display, and receive mouse and keyboard input. The main implementation is X.Org, shepherded by the X.Org Foundation: https://x.org/. Originally for Unix-like systems, it is now available on many other architectures, such as Microsoft Windows: I find ssh's X forwarding feature especially useful there.
> except as punishment

So if making a profit is the purpose it is illegal?
Has JWST shown the Universe is TWICE as old as we think? [video]
I mean, of course? Concurrency != parallelism, so that makes sense.

Where multiprocessing shines is when you have an algorithm that can be fully parallelized and represented in a baby map-reduce framework, where the data being sent to each process isn't too big. The idiom I often reuse is literally the first example in the python docs:

from multiprocessing import Pool

def f(x):
return x\*x

if __name__ == '__main__':
with Pool(5) as p:
print(p.map(f, [1, 2, 3]))

# to give more of a map reduce flavor:
print(sum(p.map(f, [1, 2, 3])))

This can be modified to fit a pretty big range of tasks in my use cases and chop hours off my workflows. It's so much faster in DS workflows to just have extra cores and use them than to spin up a cluster for distributed compute.
Hi, what would a reasonable path and timeline look like for a Venezuelan national (that holds a BSc in Engineering) hired by an U.S. software company to emigrate to the U.S. legally? Is the correct visa an H1B, or could something like an EB work better in that scenario?
And people wonder why we aren't taken seriously like other engineering fields.

Imagine a civil engineer telling someone they don't have time to read the documentation on the bolts their using to hold up a bridge.
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Ads blocking on Safari browser is complete since iOS 15 when Apple allowed custom extensions to be added to the browser.

Nowadays, ads blocker use a mix of Content blockers rules (1) and an Safari extension (2) to block ads.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/cre...

[2] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/saf...
DANOS [0] supports all of those I believe. It's essentially AT&Ts continued development of Vyatta (a subset of it at least) with a DPDK dataplane + multiple other enhancements.

[0]: https://www.danosproject.org/
> One of the weird things about America is that we all know Asian kids are better at math than other kids on average. Its pretty obvious to anyone that's been in a class with Asians or taught Asians. I've done both.

> But nobody can actually say this.

“Asian kids in the US are, on average, better at math and, furthermore, this effect is stronger the fewer generations removed from immigration they are, and is in large part due to well-established general familial impacts on performance and the selective filter of immigration.”
Fair enough, noted in edit above.

As Facebook did with Instagram and Whatsapp.

And with the facebook.com domain name, Parakey, ConnectU, FriendFeed, Octazen, Divvyshot, Friendster patents, ShareGrove, Zenbe, Nextstop, Chai Labs, Hot Potato, Drop.io, FB.com domain name, Rel8tion, Beluga, Snaptu, RecRec, DayTum, Sofa, MailRank, Push Pop Press, Friend.ly, Strobe, Gowalla, Caffeinatedmind, Instagram, Tagtile, Glancee, Lightbox.com, Karma, Face.com, Spool, Acrylic Software, Threadsy, Atlas Solutions, osmeta, Storylane (Mixtent), Hot Studio, Spaceport, Parse, Monoidics, Jibbigo, Onavo, SportStream, Little Eye Labs, Branch, WhatsApp, Oculus VR, Ascenta, Salorix, ProtoGeo Oy, PrivateCore, LiveRail, WaveGroup Sound, Wit.ai, Quickfire Networks, TheFind, Inc., Surreal Vision, Endaga, Pebbles, MSQRD (Masquerade), Two Big Ears, Nascent Objects, Infiniled, CrowdTangle, Faciometrics, Zurich Eye, Ozlo, Fayteq AG, tbh, Confirm, Bloomsbury AI, Redkix, Vidpresso, Dreambit, Chainspace, GrokStyle, Servicefriend, CTRL-labs, Packagd, Beat Games, PlayGiga, Sanzaru Games, Scape Technologies, Giphy, Mapillary, Ready at Dawn, Lemnis Technologies, Kustomer, Downpour Interactive, Unit 2 Games, BigBox VR, AI.Reverie, Within, Twisted Pixel Games, Presize, Lofelt, Armature Studio, and Camouflaj.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...>

Neither Google nor Facebook are distinctive within the tech sector in aequiring large numbers of other firms.
If I may ask the question you're answering: throwing a knife is almost never an effective attack. distraction, yes; but it seems a silly thing to do in actual training.

As you say, however, knife throwing is very useful as training for throwing anything else. With knives you've got to have so much so close to perfect for it to work at all. When you throw a rock the number of important variables is much lower; but what you've learned with the knives still serves you well.
Is there any confirmation on the former USSR not losing any at all? I'd assume there's at least a couple, and a few more from years prior that didn't get reported.

I know there were hundreds of nuclear batteries abandoned which became orphan sources.
It's an old law from back in the 50s. It kinda stuck around because no politician wanted to be the one suggesting a legislative change that would instantly cause a bunch of gas station attendants to lose their job. I guess. Trust me, everyone else in the United States thought it was odd as well!

Funny story, though: the first time I drove down to Portland and stopped for gas just before the state border, there was a woman at the pump next to me with a very concerned look on her face. As I was getting gas for my own car, she turns to me and (slightly embarrassed) asks if I can show her how the pumps work. Of course, I did, but it definitely threw me for a loop until I remembered that law existed.
Set her up a fidelity account with the help of her parents, and throw $100 on their S&P index :) I think that'd be a fabulous gift.
> deceptively simple and potentially dangerous

Also, there's not a lot of people keeping the whole thing running. iirc there's only like 13 or 14 root DNS servers on earth.
It could easily be more than 9 hours. How many people spend longer than that interviewing for a technical position across five rounds? And this is for one of the few experts Samsung will put up to defend a $xxx million suit.

Plus, he works for MIT. He probably needs to clear his consulting work, which could be quick or not. MIT might have wanted a percentage. And if he wanted to use a grad student to assist him in prep work, negotiating that can add up too.

There are other ways to add to the precontract numbers, but that should be enough.
You've now re-invented the mall killer.
Certainly not every Apple user cares about the status of it, but certainly far more users that care about the status of their devices are Apple users.
My assumption is that, when you work with this stuff every day, you become desensitized to it and underestimate the risk.

When I was a freshman in electrical engineering, I was very careful about disconnecting power. By the time I graduated, me and others in the program would modify live circuits with wonton disregard. The voltages were too low for anything very bad to happen but I do know of at least one laptop that was sent into an emergency power shutdown mode and required some TLC to get it to boot again.

You’d like to believe people would be more careful with plutonium cores, but people are lazy and careless.
Well yeah. The honeymoon is over and we've seen how morally bankrupt these companies are. Twitter has someone who posted child abuse images (as a warning or something) but doesn't ban them because they create engagement. Meta bought a VPN company and paid people (I think in some cases kids/teens) to use it so they can slurp up their entire internet browsing. Amazon has people pissing into water bottles so the founder can ride a giant dick into space.

These are awful companies (not all awful employees) with awful leadership.
> Perhaps a better definition of "the same" is that all SQL queries (using "textbook" SQL features) return the same result over the tables, if you just replace t1 with t2 in the query. Wait, but how do you know if the results are the same... :)

It's actually still a useful definition! (Assuming we're talking about all deterministic SQL queries and can define precisely what we mean by that!)

It's a useful definition because it includes all possible aggregations as well, including very onerous ones like ridiculous STRING_AGG stuff. Those almost certainly be candidates for reasonable queries to solve your original problem, but they are useful in benchmarking whether a proposed solution is accurate.
"It [chlormequat] is classified as an extremely hazardous substance in the United States as defined in Section 302 of the U.S. Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (42 U.S.C. 11002), and is subject to strict reporting requirements by facilities which produce, store, or use it in significant quantities."

This doesn't feel like environmental protection. Who thinks this is a good idea? What am I missing?
> Our country's founders didn't want that system taking hold of American economics, so invented protections against such things occurring here.

They had zero IP and were building a country on stolen IP, of course they wanted to play fast and loose.

Now that the US has IP and others dont, they are doing what they do best, The World Police.
Great article. Thank you!

I used to develop and maintain one of the World largest DNS services and summarised my experience with DNS protocol in this blog post: https://pavel.network/please-stop-using-dns-protocol-for-you...
Android malware steals user credentials using optical character recognition
One of the things I'm grateful for is that my father has numerous books, especially encyclopedias. Even if they were old, I learned so much stuff that I would have not been exposed to or would have the time today to learn. The only real restriction in the house was porn and violence in graphic form.
Nice username :)

I'm on the other side. IMO; CP is used more and more as an excuse to pass more anti-privacy agenda, because it is difficult to argue against "We want to protect children". That perspective moves discussion to a different place where it is difficult to discuss. Why can't we have both? Is only way to prevent CP eliminating privacy?
Hopefully they won't get hooked on opiates like so many adults in the free-ranging generation before them.
Kids should be inside coding and studying math. That's what 90% of successful YC founders did I bet.
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Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best
Yeah, this has been the struggle with Sandstorm and self-hosting too. Ten years on, I'm still confident it's the best way to self-host, but to convince someone of that I have to sit them down and figure out how to get them to understand capability-based security, and most people lose interest about... immediately. :P

I suspect a lot of things will eventually look more like Cap'n Proto and Sandstorm, but it will take a lot of time for everyone else to get there.
What’s wrong with generators?
"I wondered if their work might show that tech really does need humanism—that better online communities can be built one relationship at a time. Then my eyes moved down the thread, where a third user had left a new comment. It read: “King Canute was supposed to stop the tide, you couch alluder.”

Great article, very well researched. Ms Weiner has clearly put some major effort in there ... or spends an inordinate amount of time here anyway! Is HN on speed dial in her browser.

The article is pre-pandemic and a lot of other recent events. I'd love to diff the older article with one written nowadays, ideally with minimal knowledge of the original.
Odd interpretation, I think. To me it sounds more as if those who wrote the text, meant "Don't keep people in prison for too long, transfer them elsewhere to some place better for rehab as soon as reasonable." But not "rehab is forbidden and prisoners should get bullied by sadists"
> We (Americans at large) send criminals to prison for punishment, not rehab.

Mostly, we send them to prison so they are out of the streets and aren't committing more crimes. Their fate doesn't matter to us beyond that; out of sight, out of mind.
Good observation… I haven’t lived in Paris since a while but it’s often the same place that serve kebab doing tacos. And most of them put a accent on the meat rather than the fresh stuff around it ( unlike the far superior German kebab )
The transformer model, explained clearly
I felt like current resources were overcomplicated / long winded, so I wrote something up.
No mate, people value themselves and get the best thing they can have. Smartphones are so essential now and used 24/7, don't cheap out on it. You don't cheap out on food either. Nothing to do with status. Not all about Apple either, there are nice premium Android phones as well. What are you doing, saving for a golden tombstone?
Forums, like music, love and friendship, die when the participants become meta about them, I think. Criticism is what we have when we aren't giving or participating, and while it opens conversations to people who don't have a stake in them, it also invites self centeredness and abuses for other agendas. Everything is better when we stop being meta.
Chie is currently licensed under the GPLv3, it will be relicensed to the MIT license on March 20th, 2028 (5 years after the first commit). I take this approach to discourage closed-source software from taking advantage of my work before it gets enough impacts.

Due to the future relicense, contributors will be asked to sign an agreement.

https://github.com/chieapp/chie#license
Regarding the charts, you would have to use low-level chart libraries, such as VisX or D3
I winner if PG ever regrets his advocacy for Sam Altman.
I used to think parents who overscheduled their kids were reacting to incentives put in place by college admissions offices and secondary selective admissions schools, and ultimately employers who demand elite credentials.

But as I've studied this issue and experienced life, it seems to be the case that credentials are in reality overrated compared to competence and experience. The vast majority of colleges will admit anyone, and the vast majority of employers requiring a degree just ask that you have a degree of any kind.

So now I think parents should just chill, not because it's the altruistic strategy in game theory, but because that's how the actual labor market works. Parents are killing themselves and their kids for no reason.
Good advice. Always get tax and corporate advice. There's no legal issue with going from a TN to a green card but because of the current green card backlogs - because the green card process takes so long - you could be in the difficult position of needing to renew your TN or travel internationally during the process and you wouldn't be able to. So an intervening H-1B is helpful, just not required.