skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Banning non business critical apps from corp/org devices is just good security hygiene. Would probably not even be PR if the MDM policy was pushed and when people asked, IT said "no non business apps."
He was 19 years old.
I enjoyed it more than I probably should have.
He specifically says “those who torment us for our own good”. The Nazis believed what they were doing was good for their people, but I don’t think they had any illusions that “destroying everyone…in the way” was good for the people being destroyed.
> what behaviors/patterns Tik Tok employs which set them apart from their US-based competitors

Isn't it based on concerns that TikTok could be spying for China?
My only gripe was the VCs declaring superconductivity without any evidence. They’re so quick to follow the heard and jump on trends that they do zero diligence in just waiting to see if something is legitimate or not. People being hopefully and discussing possible solutions is not a problem. But VCs declaring that it’s the future and you’re falling behind if you’re not working on it is the problem.
That's some of the most interesting matter.
`if err != nil` is the easiest example.

Sum types allow you to express type-level OR. Structs/tuples etc are AND (product types). I like to be able to use both OR and AND at both the expression and type level.
Ah, I see. Having used a space cadet keyboard for years, everything else is, ironically, easier. The SC had nice big easy to hit targets for bucky keys and other important ones like return but ironically the space they took up required more stretching. On my MBA meta/control/command are close and reachable without stetching.

Which is a long winded way of saying no one way is perfect for all. Some people even apparently will willingly use a mouse!

Thanks for the explo for your perspective on scrolling. Because i'm an emacs user I use search a lot more than actually scrolling.
Well-known game developer Jonathan Blow has a lot to say about software and technology more generally being in decline due to skills being lost when older generations retire [1]. In my own experience, writing code with pointers in it used to be a skill expected of entry level programmers, and getting the hang of it was something of a rite of passage. Around the time Java started being used as a teaching language, it became best practice to rely on the language's standard libraries instead of rolling one's own linked list or whatever, and I instructed university students accordingly. As things have developed, the design effort put into Rust seems to imply that pointers are now regarded as a grand challenge problem. These days I don't tie my own neck ties any more but wear the clip-on kind because the knots have been developed and tested by experts.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk
ok, so should they do your taxes too?

not exactly the same as founding an ethics foundation in their own field

> who realize that the domain of "health" is broad and encompasses things that aren't germs.

what things? mental health? still medical, and still deferred to specialists.

Coupon hunting? Resume writing? not medicine.
I really wish less people would give pseudo-anon accounts this much credence. Literally no good science has (ever?) been done on Twitter/X, it's mostly just stupid equivocating. Much thanks goes out to the actual scientists out there working in labs and publishing their findings.

The academic/publishing process is far from perfect already (conflicts of interest, funding, political pressure, institutional pressure, personal pride), now imagine throwing a "Catgirl Girlfriend" (that trolls on an anonymous social media account) into the mix.

Free speech is fine, it's the listeners I have a problem with.
Depends on the grade they got in that 3000 course, though I tend to agree with you
That's your simpler explanation?
There are some ways around the heavy user issues that aren't ideal but will work for BI-oriented heavy users.
The author should really learn how to use commas.
I still remember the flailing I got around here when I dared to mention South Korean labs have a long history of making bold claims.
> The solution would be to have physical stores

Now I think that's the bad idea and the solution is shopping online.
I think I've used Windows since the beginning and I don't think it's anything to be ashamed of - there is no status update on the user interface (at least on my Windows 10 Task Manager) to indicate that pressing CTRL has any effect - it's like a precursor to all those hidden multiple finger/movement gestures on modern phones except with possibly less discoverability.
Throughout my late teens and early 20’s I suffered from chronic fatigue. Tested positive for mononucleosis three times until later finding these were false positives to Epstein Barr.

Later learning my body was having an autoimmune inflammatory response to viral activity causing debilitating fatigue.

Took variety of treatments including steroids, anti depressants, supplements … and so on.

When I was 22 I met person on the campus of mizzou who simply showed me some meditative stretches and breathing exercises. The idea was to just slow down and focus on improving your bodies own health where it’s at.

This is a oversimplification but the key for me was to stop thinking this was a virus or disorder or in general things were happening to me .. in which I was a passive unfortunate recipient looking for professionals to help.

Instead I decided from now on I would just try and be a healthier person in mind body and spirit where I was at that moment.

The change of mindset to where it is my responsibility to improve my own well being has paid massive dividends. As a middle man I have no real health issues, no chronic fatigue or reoccuranr high white blood cell accounts indicating and over reactive immune system.

My case will lot insipidity apply to all but if I could impart any wisdom would be just take things into your own hands and be an active person working on improving your own condition whatever it may be.

Change the mindset of shoots this sucks and no treatments work … why is this happening to me… to what are things I can do to improve my existence. Am I a nice person. Am I healthy (weight / exercise).. do I like my job and find it is meaningful…

Sorry if sounds dumb and corny but made a world of difference for me.
Very cool project! I'm mainly drawn to this because it seems easier to set up for self-hosting than Helicone[0], which is doing the exact same thing.

[0]: https://github.com/Helicone/helicone

EDIT: I take it back :) The self-hosted instructions don't really work: they assume you have node, yarn, and I guess prisma already installed?
> This could be because of increased migration into the US and a billion other reasons that have nothing to do with nationalism.

As voting numbers go, migration only comes into play if you interpret "fewer white working class liberals" proportionally, but I meant it in an absolute sense: that blue collar white Americans have shifted Conservative independently.

There is pretty good evidence of the nexus of race and occupational class in recent voting patterns [1][2]. This coupled with the fact that this population overwhelmingly supported economically liberal candidates in the past indicates a major shift, balanced partly in the other direction by the shift of the white professional class toward liberal voting tendencies.

If the argument is that migration into the US (which is mostly non-white [3]) is encouraging the white working class less liberal, then that is pretty well describing nationalism.

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-28/how-occup...

2. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2018/08/09/an-examinati...

3. https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/20/facts-on-u-s...
Honestly, it wouldn't be a terrible move to ban all social media apps (or other apps that track movement or activity) from government phones.

I'm surprised government-owned devices are allowed any non-essential apps at all.

E.g. the story about government / military facilities being exposed via army using Strava to track running routes (effectively creating a map of the facility)
It's like you say, Spring Boot can get you from nothing to a production ready application in no time, it is reliable and the community support and documentation is great. It is also pretty flexible, up to a certain limit.

If your product happens to be something serving a zillion requests per second, using some exotic protocol, or doing some wildly complex calculations, then Spring might not be be the best choice. And it just so happens that the HN community's primary interest goes out to these rare exceptions and not to the 99% other projects in the real world.
Optimism isn’t gullibility!

It is just an attitude that values positive possibilities over fretting about negative possibilities.

Especially in cases where there is a small chance of a huge upside, relative to virtually no downside. We didn’t lose any superconductors. :)

I don’t recall anyone on HN erroneously declaring the material was definitely a new superconductor before subsequent evidence arrived at a consistent conclusion.

There is nothing wrong with optimism.
It was an essential part of 90's PC configuration hell.

IRQ is short for "Interrupt Request" and each peripheral or device that needs to interrupt the CPU for time-sensitive processing needed to be assigned one. There were only 16 of them with several hard coded for certain things like RTC. Since each serial port, parallel port, floppy controller, HDD controller, video card, sound card, etc needed an IRQ assignment it was not unusual to run out of free ones and resort to overloading one or more. This was less than ideal as now multiple drivers are waking up unnecessarily for the same IRQ.

Originally these were set with physical jumpers on the motherboard and expansion cards. Most things switched to being configured with software/BIOS when the industry moved to PCI bus.
Continued Fractions in Python
Meanwhile, US data brokers still collect and sell all their data, and happily to state actors such as the CCP if they open their huge wallet.

The only reasonable solution is to ban all user tracking now.
Yeah, I agree that for the vast majority of things most people don't try. Or at least publicly demonstrate that they tried (key phrasing). But it is also silly to think that 3-5 people sitting at a desk reading a summary of work can validate said work. Really they can only invalidate or specify that it is indeterminate, but neither of these are validation. Which that's a key difference from the general public understanding of "peer review" (meaning journal publication).

But it might also be worth noting that often reproduction happens behind the scene. People point to big works like that which comes out of CERN, LIGO, or other massive projects and state that such works cannot be replicated. But actually those have high rates of replication, which is why there are hundreds of authors on the work.

For LK-99, people got to see a lot of what is typically done by grad students who never tell the public what they did (or even their community). That the communication between scientists is happening through preprints, email, twitter, and other methods that are not journal publications. Because science happens faster than the journal cycle. Most scientists are reading preprints, and letting the work dictate the signal of validity long before a journal can.

But what I was alluding to, which you might have picked up on, is that the reward system we have in place ("publish or perish", h-index, journals, etc) are misaligned as they do not reward this cornerstone of science -- replication -- (typically discourages is) unless there are credible claims of breakthroughs of the highest kind. Maybe we should rethink this system, and I hope that the timing of this along with the other discussions of academic fraud can help people to question the system and metrics that we use to evaluate, and ask if they are actually aligned with the original goals.
NYC Bans TikTok on City-Owned Devices
DEF Con AI Hacking Challenge Explored Cutting Edge of Security Vulnerabilities
By that logic we might as well say that wood is a superconductor

Nobody has tested it at 0.0000000000000K after all
It's just opinions, to each their own. I used an iPhone for a year to prevent ewaste of my wife so I know what I'm talking about when I say it's the worst phone I ever owned, I'm not talking randomly, I used it.

Now it's stuck in a software error loop where you can't install or update apps and that was the final nail in the coffin, I was too lazy to reformat it.
Yeah, this seems completely reasonable IMO.
The article doesn’t talk about a fix—scary. I know OpenBSD uses a similar SSL-based method for time keeping on startup, but I’ve never experienced an issue like this.
I'm sorry, but this man got critical UI/UX paradigms right twice (iPod, iPhone) and used that position of strength to inflict his controlling views upon the entire computing industry.

I want to be in the universe where this didn't happen. Where there are six major types of smartphone. Where Google Android isn't the most open things can be. Where your smartphone provider isn't your email provider, isn't your photo bucket, isn't your banking, isn't your movie film entertainment provider. Where you can install what you want and easily switch devices. Where no company is too big.

Smartphones aren't computers in the Jobs universe. They're branded platforms wholly and totally owned by the company that makes them.

The 1990 - 2010 era was the best time we had in computing. The web was so open and everyone used it for everything. After Jobs showed what level of top-down control was legally possible, everyone has been chasing the "App Store" model and the "Platform" model and the "Walled Garden" model.

Zoomers don't know how awesome RSS and bittorrent were. How you could use any program to consume content and ingest it, schedule it, remix it. There were programs where you could create your own TV channels. Your own news streams. You could run it on all of your devices.

Now everything is super locked down, product manager-ed to a single customer experience, and rented to you. Meanwhile, Google is trying to DRM what's left of the web. Things are looking incredibly bleak.

Jobs put us on this path of not having devices and data streams open. But now you can choose one of three premium experiences.
Negative money is still money I guess
Based on what? The practices of all these social media companies seems the same and is dictated by the capabilities of devices and by the market.
Less glibly, I feel like the comment OP made is looking at first-order consequences of new generative technologies, but that it misses a deeper truth about art and creation. The creation of the camera didn't "solve" painting. By and large the art we find exceptional and noteworthy is that where an artist takes a collection of tools and invests a large amount of time in combining them in a new, rare, and/or exceedingly detailed and refined way. nobody is going to create enduring, culturally significant art off of 60 seconds of effort entering one prompt into Midjourney. There will be artists who do amazing things using, among other tools, generative AI, but it will be because they put lots of time into understanding the new creative possibilities they unlock and refining their composition into something aesthetically significant and uncommon, even given the new generative status quo.
I liked original Spring idea of being actually non-invasive framework as well and I never had any issues with Spring XML config. It worked for me and Idea has decent autocomplete for it.

There was time when Spring was considered lightweight. Oh, well.

Spring Boot is when it all went downhill.
That is a good point, though personally I do think there is a pretty significant escalation between reading number plates on the outside of the car, and pointing a camera inside the car to judge what is happening inside. I also think speed cameras are problematic, because they seem to be more effective at revenue generation than improving safety. We know how to design roads to make them safer implicitly, including ways to reduce the speed, without just pointing a camera at the cars and mailing out tickets a couple weeks later.
Yeah, uh, I wouldn't.

There was a B- or C-list physics blogger a few years back whose graduate homework I used to grade. (I still remember this one, so that should tell you something.) He got very angry that I gave him zero credit for one particular question. But he:

- did not use the standard/expected approach to this problem

- did not explain what he was doing well enough for me to find him any partial credit (this is not easy!)

- had a pile of impenetrable unnecessary very complex alien math that I wasn't going to try to cut through given that

- his final answer was very, very wrong

- in fact, it was wrong by 26 orders of magnitude

- and he didn't have the skill to notice something was wrong (and, yes, I was lenient with students who noticed final answers were weird even if they couldn't/didn't fix it up)

- also, he was a major asshole (no surprise given that he's complaining about this "indignity") who was

- somehow still causing #MeToo problems in the 21st century despite being under 30 (seriously??)

So if that's who gets held up as "authorities", even minor ones, forgive me if I don't listen too much. I'll choose who I trust.
Lack of standards for self-describing hardware and negotiating bus resources meant that when setting up old-school PCs you had[1] to manually point drivers to their devices’ I/O ports and interrupt lines (interrupt requests, or IRQs) [2] and occasionally resolve conflicts by reconfiguring jumpers on the devices themselves (the most familliar such jumper is probably the master/slave one on IDE drives, obsoleted by those twists in the ribbon cables).

All of this still needs to be solved in a modern system, but for the most part the hardware, firmware, and OS will sort things out by themselves—even if some of the details of that process are liable to give you nightmares[3,4]. The iMac, for its part, solved this by not having any expandability at all (ISA or PCI), so the settings could be burned into the firmware.

[1] See e.g. https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO.html

[2] I don’t think this was ever a problem for address ranges for memory-mapped I/O, UMA issues excepted,—perhaps because MMIO didn’t really become popular until PCI won and ACPI appeared?

[3] https://wiki.osdev.org/I/O_APIC#IO_APIC_Inputs

[4] https://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=29558
I think those are the boilerplate concerns. The real concerns are that TikTok is a dopamine manipulation system that’s better than anything Meta et al could even hope to dream up, and this system can be/is used to influence public opinion and general societal preferences.
It's possible that candidates are getting shuffled around, as some of the Meta recruiters themselves have been laid off. I know multiple people that were/are in the Meta process that this happened to. Takes a few weeks for the new recruiter to go through their double/triple work load of candidates and schedule.
I remember way, way back in the day the "used" PC parts you'd order on ebay would wind up getting bid so high they'd be sold for more than a brand new "latest and greatest" model.
Dude was 19 at the time. People change, I know I have.
Government devices should be boring, so I hope they also ban facebook.
But "color" doesn't apply to just text. Changing the color of an element affects the currentColor and applies to default border colors. The property name "color" makes more sense than "text-color" imho.
So you want to be a hacker? It's a state of mind!
> Case in point: Why doesn't literally any CPU engineer at Intel, or airline engineer at Boeing, or hardware engineer at Apple, start their own company? Sure, sometimes it happens, but it only happens once or twice a decade for tens, if not hundreds of thousands of really, really smart people. And none of those companies so far have become industry titans that challenged their original company.

The CPU industry is rife with engineers leaving and starting their own successful company. Intel itself was started when Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce (an engineer and a physicist) left Fairchild Semiconductor as part of the "Traitorous Eight". Federico Faggin and Ralph Ungermann (both engineers) left Intel to form Zilog. Chuck Peddle left Motorola and formed MOS Technology and create the 6502. CPU design in fact is one of those fields that almost requires real world experience somewhere before you can really innovate in the field. There's just too many tradeoffs to be balanced.

Why haven't we seen that recently? I think it's the leftovers of the 80s, with financiers being unwilling to commit capital to engineer heavy executive teams in capital intensive fields like CPU production anymore. Talking with financiers, there's almost this infantilizing group think that engineers can't be trusted with money and MBAs are required to hold the purse strings. The same thought process that decided that hospitals shouldn't be run by doctors anymore and that universities shouldn't be run by professors anymore, leading to the rise of the administration class and incredible amounts of unfortunate externalities from those decisions.

I think that's why we're starting to see a renaissance in CPU design. The tail end of Moore's law is democratizing access to high end CPU design, allowing individuals (albeit with relatively high net worth from previous CPU design) like Jim Keller to put their money where their mouth is and work with a small team of very good engineers to create companies without involving much in the way of traditional VC.
Agreed:

> going viral on TikTok isn't the new peer review

Not so sure:

> science is still best done the old fashioned way

It's not surprising that social networks designed to serve ads aren't outperforming scientific journals at deriving scientific consensus. But it would be interesting to see how the journals stack up to a social network that was designed for deriving scientific consensus.
The UI is an API to the user. UI changes are almost always breaking changes and should be considered new major versions of the software.
It limits your upside but of all the stock-trading advice floating around this isn't very high on the "terrible" list IMO
> hype clearly worked and duped many here

What was the benefit to those doing the hype? What was the harm to those being "duped"?

I certainly went through periods of waxing and waning belief, but now that the dust is settled I don't think I am any worse for the wear.

It's not like this was a garden variety pump-and-dump or anything like that.
I think it was Pangea, but yes, it's delightful!

Speaking of Ambrosia, it looks like EV Nova is on GOG. Maybe I should give it another spin one of these days.
> > The world is only nine missed meals away from revolution.

> If true, why didn't civilization collapse into Mad Max during the great depression?

I mean, that's when the international (and not entirely nonviolent) revolution in which the modern mixed economy generally replaced classic capitalism in the developed world happened, but WWII and, even more, the subsequent Cold War in which state capitalist “Communists” squared off against mixed economy “Capitalists” really made recongition of that both difficult and politically inconvenient.
It seems the website has been modified to require choosing from a set of pre-selected ingredients.
> The most impactful technology company in the history of humanity.

This statement ignores a lot of history. Apple has certainly done great work but it's hard to compare it to General Electric, or even AT&T.

Without General Electric or AT&T, the last 130 years would be very different.
Thanks for the feedback! Added link to the Github readme..
Well, he alludes to simply not wanting to be a "cunt who wants to indulge bigots". In my experience, passively espousing this attitude tends to be enough to enrage the Fox News crowd without even actively trying.