skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to be on the idealist side myself - after all, Germany has been the driving force behind the idea "change (towards democracy) by trade" - but as we've seen with Russia and China, all that did was make us completely dependent on them, and in the case of China the resulting loss of domestic production jobs led to massive issues with "left behind" areas and a loss of trust in democracy itself.

In Africa, it's a similar situation - we poured in boatloads of money and aid, in exchange for the demand of a bare minimum of human rights, and now a lot of the countries there are falling to the lure of Russia and China. My personal position is, drop them. Let Russia and China deal with the mess, fail at it, and keep an open invitation once they realize that Chinese imperialism is just as bad as historic Western imperialism.
That's how you'd build a subreddit-like experience on Bluesky, yep. Something we're looking at right now is bundling all these lego pieces to make that a bit more convenient to do.
The N95 guarantees a minimum of 95% filtration at the worst possible particle size, which airborne virus particles are not.

The 3M 9210s I’ve been wearing since 2021 have been independelty tested as having >99.5% filtration efficiency at the relevant particle size, and that’s with physical testing so stuff like ability of the make to seal is also being tested.

Zero COVID infections here.
> bill explicitly allows the President to designate a "website" as a threat

No, it has to be controlled by a foreign adversary country [1].

The broadest power is in 3(a)(ii) on page 10, which lets the President designate an app or website as a foreign adversary controlled application if it is a significant national security threat following public notice and reporting requirements. But even then, it’s a divestiture order subject to judicial review, not the power to ban.

[1] https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites...
Of course, your machine can be a peer also. You can create peers to your organization with `flyctl wireguard create`.
> recalled one manager saying at an all-hands meeting that Boeing didn’t need senior engineers because its products were mature.

Shame.
Industrial companies, if you decide as pincher, you will be doomed in your little world... as it always has been :)
I typed all of this out, and I'm still stuck in Vi. Please send help. /s
Because society does not accept the answer "we really don't know" in cases of public health.
It's not necessarily that one is better than another; it can be complementary. I tend to think that Nix makes many of the reasons to use a container superfluous, but there still remain other reasons to use containers.

For example, a talk about using both Docker and Nix (yep, that's me ;) ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l17oRkhgqHE
I love that vi lost this part of the propaganda battle versus Emacs, when Emacs has the unintuitive ^C^X exit sequence. Maybe it also had a file menu?
You seem to attribute more value to an activity just because it's done in a group but I'm not sure that holds.
Figuring out what wont work is how you figure out what do work. All his points are good, they are things you would have to work around in some way.

> Then we'll make new kinds of games where the unpredictability of the NPCs is a core mechanic.

This is impossible, you need the NPC to be predictable on some level to make a fun game. Even unpredictable NPC needs to have a predictable personality on some level, total randomness isn't fun. Like, imagine a terrain generator that just randomizes terrain on each tile, that wont be fun at all, that is what a basic random personality would be like.

Think of a human opponent, they are very predictable, just looking at a human player and what he does and I can predict what he will do in the future. Not perfectly, but players aren't that random. To make an AI that feels good it has to be very predictable.

The main problem with "smart" bots is that they have so far always been way less predictable than humans, they get a strange edge cases and bugs where they start to act very dumb and strangely, that feels like a bug to the player and isn't fun. Or their smartness makes them do the same thing every time making them even more predictable than basic scripting, either way they are worse than basic scripting.

Getting over these issues is a really hard problem, LLMs hasn't helped solve that so far.
You're using adjectives that are relative between humans.

The dumbest human is still far more intelligent than any other animal on earth, by construction of our own definition of intelligence.
Now that you mention it, I, uh, also add umms when my speech pathways experience high latency.
So, I read about a similar-ish tool to this recently, `devenv` - it sounds like both tools are based around Nix.

The other article (talking about `devenv`) was discussing a migration away from running Vagrant.

I had questions then that I still have now with this tool: assuming this, like `devenv` doesn't directly run a VM, how exactly do you solve actual platform differences - e.g. it's quite common to have developers using macOS or Windows, and production servers running a Linux distro.

Sure, some things work the same or close-enough to the same, but even with scripting languages (no aot compiling) that have pretty good cross platform support, there are differences either in features, extensions, or in system level dependencies (i.e. a database server, cache server, etc).

Vagrant is one solution to this problem, as is "Docker in a VM", albeit a little less flexible IMO - essentially you run a "close to production" environment inside a VM, with zero worries about what the host environment is, because the software is still running in basically the same environment as prod. The rise of Arm workstations has made this interesting, but Debian 12 on Amd64 is still a heck of a lot closer to Debian 12 on Arm64 than it is to macOS or Windows on anything.

So what is the Nix solution to this problem?

It sounds like the best you'd hope for would be to run Nix inside a VM, potentially managed by something like Vagrant (thus giving you a reproducible VM running a reproducible environment), but a number of comments I've seen about using `devenv` or nix made a point of "no VM required".. so that just makes me wonder, am I missing some vital piece of information about Nix, or are these people just running much simpler dev environments than I'm used to?
Vision Pro is an over-engineered "devkit"
> Rich people never understand that most of their success came from luck.

Is it really important if they understand it? Isn't enough for everybody else to know that?
Usually, I just restart my computer. So far, it's worked every time.
How about both EFF
No, I literally made my own hand-soldered Pi Port -> PCIe adapter. That's to plug a 2x25Gbps programmable NIC, so no bandwidth needed because the NIC does all the work. All I needed was something to power up the nic :D

As for bandwidth, well, it's one lane of PCIe gen 2. This won't win any races but can be useful to access exotic hardware not available in usb or if you don't care about bandwidth. (e.g. HBA with many drives for mass storage without speed requirement).
For once I disagree with the EFF. This is a national sovereignty issue masquerading as a freedom issue.
Cross-cloud access to AWS using cert-manager and SPIFFE
Is that 150GB/s between elements that expect to run tightly coupled processes together? Maybe the bandwidth between chips is less important.

I mean, in a cluster you might have a bunch of nodes with 8x GPUs hanging off each, if this thing replaces a whole node rather than a single GPU, which I assume is the case, it is not really a useful comparison, right?
An EV that charges 30% faster? Volvo and Breathe think their tech can do it
That’s a federated IDP which can be used to access your identity instead of using your social security number. It doesn’t replace the fact that your social security number is still your username and password in the canonical identity system, which is the problem GP is talking about.

Edit: or if you prefer, your SSN is both your user record locator and user secret.
Well, I'm convinced! Dictatorship it is then.
It should just respond with a Who quote, “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
Go, Typescript, Zig, Python.
If we model the game as someone flicking switches, strategy is ability to know which switches to flick when whereas technical skill is the ability to quickly and precisely flick the chosen switches.

In more complex games, there are more switches and the current set of best switches changes faster. With more switches, it's harder to know which are the best switches because the future is less predictable. And even if we figure out the best ones, they might change before we flick them. And even if we get around to it in time, we might fat finger it and accidentally flick an adjacent switch. And our opponent never gets tired or injured.

This is why I suspect AIs have a much higher ceiling even if we limit them to half the APM pros have. Better strategy matters less, but I admit it's our only chance lol.

FWIW, I've never played Dota but I've played a lot of AoE2 and from what I know they're similar enough (but maybe someone can correct me).
Although the Apple Insider article notes that you have to provide an email, the full article [1] actually has quite a bit of additional info.

Some pretty interesting, and rather sobering. Gaming is such dice throw (appropriately). It has the fastest subscriber growth, yet tops out worse than almost every other category, and has horrible 14 day, 60 day, and yearly average money. Only travel, productivity, and shopping (?) are worse. Shopping must not be tracking monetization correctly. Wow, gaming is so bad in almost every category. Offer usage, trial conversions, using any long subscription... If your game fails at launch, you might as well dump it immediately, or re-release some other way.

Looking at this kind of data, its no surprise so many parts of the web have turned into one-off demo sites with signups. If it doesn't get immediate traction, move onto the next project.

The biggest surprise personally, was how much better health care was than every category at 14 and 60 day earnings. Looking at those charts, why would you make anything other than a health and fitness app in North America with Apple Search Ads. Education in South Korea seems kind of nice, until you see the refund rate of double the next worst.

On the submission title topic, even the low end is kind of bad. Not just you won't be a superstar. Most apps never make more than $50/month. Even in the upper 75% you're looking at ~$200/month.

So if I spend a month each year making an app (hopefully none ever get feature creep, the last took 3 months), and get some kind of average result, each of my median apps will generate ~$50/month, and I will spend 12 months earning $600/month, or $7000/year, with only 30% yearly retention and dropping retention rates. Plus, all the maintenance and community support for 12 (likely only 4 or less) different apps. While Google and Apple probably publish "official" products for anything really juicy to harvest my users.

If I get lucky, and one of my apps makes it into the top 5% category, then I might make $10,000+/yr. About 1.5% seem to make it into the $25,000/yr category. Social & Lifestyle (huh?) is 2.5% to make it to $25,000/yr, even though shows up as nothing in almost every other stat.

If I'm really lucky, maybe I get a 1% app, get bought by a big company for the organs, and immediately ditch the app for my payout and no further support requirements.

That's a really bad looking casino.

[1] https://www.revenuecat.com/state-of-subscription-apps-2024/
You can add an icon to your home screen as a bookmark to the page. Most of the apps I have feel like web pages anyway.
I have a print of these commands stuck on a pinboard near me. For the 1 or 0 times per year I need to edit some config file on a machine where vi is the only sensible option.
> I think the primary argument for banning TikTok should be based on reciprocity rather than moral and/or security concerns.

The argument that CCP people make is that Facebook et al aren't banned, they just need to follow the law to be allowed. The law, of course, includes unacceptable things like complying with every communist request).

A better way to ban TikTok is to require social media companies to be based in countries which follow basic human rights and democracy.
Edit: Meant to say a model 3 is heavier than the Corolla by 30%.
> If this ban goes through, the political blowback is going to be extreme.

Its not a ban. Whats going to happen is that tiktok will divest.

Kids will continue to have their social media.
touché. the real power is the ability to blame the computer, isn't it?
> In practice, though, it would probably makes things more secure.

Given the third-party doctrine, a third party commercial entity provides no additional checks or balances under current legal frameworks or theoretical future ones.
A rite of passage in the pre-Google time: your computer suddenly enters this unfamiliar editor and you have no idea what to do.

(People who love getting hazed and being in cults are then converted into vim users, I guess.)
Ever wonder why there are so many .info spam websites?
Reearchers Found Security Flaws in ChatGPT Ecosystem – A New Attack Vector
Transformer Lab: Experiment with Large Language Models
NASA has been incredibly wasteful for a long time. You give it more money then suddenly the timelines become longer. Private companies like SpaceX will save us
Hungarian Competition Authority opened a competition investigation against Temu
It’s a good thing western social media owned companies operate without any barriers in China /s our openness weaponized against us
How can you fix the incentives so locals actually want densification?

I always liked the idea of more local taxes rather than federal. Then the larger tax base would improve services or do a direct transfer.
Howard Hughes was also fucking nuts.

I knew a Microsoft millionaire who retired at 30. By 35 he was involuntarily committed, and nearly broke.

I knew him because he threw great parties, and we got invited to one and my gf and he became friends. These were not rich people parties, they were upper middle class parties with zany themes, like alcoholic waffles. He was always doing something that surprised you. It made a certain kind of sense but it was things you would never think of.

Over time, the surprises got less humorous and more troubling. Toward the end he had a manipulative girlfriend turned unrequited love who was sponging off of him, and his grip on reality was slipping. At one point he said he was trying to make himself insane, and I guess he succeeded. His mother got power of attorney when he was down to his condo and $85k in today’s dollars.

Thinking about that after, and my own family’s experience with decline after retirement, I thought that the regulating effect of going to work every day was probably doing him a lot of good. I feel like the same thing happened with Hughes as well. He just holed up in his mansion and unraveled.
Importance of Intentionality in Digital Consumption
This is an essay where I try to combine my thoughts on mindfulness, intentionality, and focus with respect to devices we use regularly.

I would also like to hear other peoples thoughts on this matter. What actions do you take to protect your mind and reduce distractions?
Vancouver's new mega-development is big, ambitious and undeniably Indigenous
Did this used to be real? It’s just :q, or escape first if you aren’t in normal mode.
Is this going over my head?
Errr, are you sure China hasn't done anything against Apple / iPhone?

https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinas-ban-apples-iphone-...

https://www.investopedia.com/china-nationalism-response-to-i...

https://fortune.com/2024/03/05/apples-iphone-sales-plummet-c...
I can recommend these: Lex Friedman podcast, More or less: behind the stats, Planet Money, Big Technology, Hard Fork.
>Rie Kudan won an award on a novel she used GPT to verbatim ghostwrite (no edits essentially) 5% of. Her words, not mine. Who knows how much more of the novel is edited GPT.

That a professional human novelist was able to leverage GPT for their book isn't disproving the grandparent's post. They knew what good looks like, and if it wasn't good they wouldn't have kept it in the book.
Regulator can add a sign at the entrance of affected area that reads something like

> WARNING: This area contains chemicals known to the State of California to possibly cause cancer
The word "reciprocity" cannot hide the fact that two wrongs doesn't make a right. We think it is wrong of China to censor Facebook and Twitter because that is what authoritarian regimes that don't give a shit about free speech do. For exactly the same reason it is wrong of the US to ban TikTok. And this bill has nothing to do with balancing international trade. It's stated purpose is to restrict China's ability to influence American youth.
Sure, I’m squarely in the “private killer robots are bad” camp, but my point is that a lot of people will disagree there.

My state passed a law last week saying 18-year-old children can open carry a gun without a license. It’s very possible that the 2A people get energized and the Supreme Court is sufficiently out of touch to get this right.
Many different users want many different things. In your case, Apple's incentives align with yours. In my case, I want to be able to install what I want on my +1000$ device.

Apple could make all of its users happy, and it decides not to.
> It should be illegal because it's against the law?

Don't be condescending. These laws are on the books for a reason. Multiple reasons actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_species . Also, whenever a foreign pathogen decimates livestock in the US, remember the 'It should be illegal because it's against the law' statement.
He almost certainly knew that it was closer to 400x, but could not believe it, or did not think others would believe it. Given the size of the Earth (which he knew), that would have made the distance to and the size of the Sun something hard to stomach.
There are plenty of smaller ones. There's a 5-story one in downtown Oakland, for example.
All true, but the initial agglomeration was 100% private
you should set up semantic token highlighting together with highlight on cursor hold for your language of use, former is usually a feature of language server, latter should be out of box behavior in modern ides

not quite what you desire, but certainly better than plain syntax highlight
> Though the M3 MacBook Air does certainly overheat and hits an incredibly high temperature, it's not clear if that's a significant issue. The MacBook Air has never been a high-performance device, even with a fan, so it sees a performance drop throughout an intensive workload, which is unsurprising. Additionally, its lifespan should be acceptable if a processor isn't constantly running at a high temperature.

Lifespan is what I was wondering about (versus temp at 'human contact points' on chassis). ICE (typical with water jacket) is around 105C max [0]. I get there's a difference between an M3 core and an ICE, but still...

[0] https://www.cars.com/articles/should-i-worry-about-how-hot-m... (prob better references out there)
Synthetic Data for Finetuning
And not what we're talking about. Not even relevant.

You want an actual relevant link? Here you go!

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/nyregion/terrorism-nypd-i...

>Other law enforcement and intelligence agencies, particularly the F.B.I. and C.I.A., have opposed the department’s overseas deployment. Mr. Kelly was criticized for sharing information about terror attacks in London in 2005 and Mumbai in 2008. Federal officials have also complained about the police “freelancing” their own terrorism investigations.

What are these "terrorism" investigations? Jewelry store robberies.

>But Chief Galati said the mission of the program had shifted over time, and these days his officers were investigating other crimes. “As it evolved from terrorism, we started to see more and more criminal cases coming up,” Chief Galati said. He cited an instance where some of the $800,000 worth of watches taken in a December 2017 gunpoint robbery from the A. Lange & Söhne boutique on Madison Avenue were tracked down to a pawnshop in Amman, Jordan. “The world is a small place,” Chief Galati said.
Ask HN: Looking for ASCII art tool that sets the text art is written in
What I'm looking for is a typical Art 2 Ascii tool but one which you can give a text that will be used as the text the output ascii art is written in.

if the text is the word hello then of course the image will just be written with hello over and over again. If you give it a longer text it will be written with that longer text 'drawing' the image.

If not I was thinking to implement it in https://github.com/khrome/ascii-art but maybe somebody has already made one?
DO ban TikTok (and by “ban” we evidently mean “force a change in ownership of”). China imposes ownership restrictions when our companies do business there. We should do the same.

ALSO please do outlaw private dragnet spying no matter which company is doing it, yes.
The Israel-Palestine conflict is playing a part in this. Israel has had a hard time controlling the narrative on Tiktok as organic support has stemmed from videos from Gaza. Especially amoung teens.

Israel has even gone to lengths to purchase advertisement slots on major platforms showing high budget propaganada. Once it's under US ownership they wll no longer have this issue.
Yes, perhaps the demonstration can be "demystified," but I can't resist but be astounded by the robot. A few years ago this was unimaginable and only seen in science fiction movies.

Truly flabbergasted.
And I did not speak out, for I was a nano user.
They have more to fear from apps under the Chinese government's control. How does that dismiss the parent's claim?
Not if there's a player for whom defecting is always better than cooperating, no matter what the other players do. And not if there's another player for whom cooperating is always better than defecting, no matter what the first player does. Then the first player should always defect and the second always cooperate.
Can we stop this kind of misinformation? Training a model to map a token to individual letters are no harder than training a model to be fluent at English. Arithmetics with small number of digits are achievable as well. You can just try a small 7B model yourself. If you don't know where to start, try the mistral instruct v0.2, and this is how it goes,

> 
 Spell out the following word letter by letter: margorczynski 
 m - a - r - g - o - r - c - z - y - n - s - k - i

> So, the word "margorczynski" spelled out letter by letter is: m-a-r-g-o-r-c-z-y-n-s-k-i.

The text between `
` and `
` is the input. The text after `
` is the output.
Having travelled across Asia, TikTok has definetly played a major role in helping build Chinese soft power.

Vietnam for example is fairly anti-China due to memories of the Sino-Vietnamese War, the PRC's support of the Khmer Rouge (edit: spelling), and the South China Sea dispute, but in my experience views among the younger generation have started to trend towards a Chinese view of the world because of TikTok.

South Korea and Japan still have massive soft power in the region, yet products like TikTok are definetly undermining it.
I'm glad that's a viable path (at least in your experience)! I really hope it'll be in mine. Management seems awful. :p

"Hey, you already make great money doing what you love and are good at. The next step is to make more money while having a much higher workload full of stuff you hate and are bad at."

...Like, what?

It makes sense if you're a janitor or a paper pusher or something. Now you manage janitors without getting dirty; it's mostly upsides. But with our bizarre, quasi-"artist" attachment to the work, it's an almost tragic trajectory.
TikTok, capitalism, and whose side are you on?
Here’s a direct PDF link: https://www.revenuecat.com/pdf/state-of-subscription-apps-20...