skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why the US government pushing a national security angle to this is idiotic. They should have made a simple trade reciprocity argument: essentially every non-Chinese social network or communication app is blocked in China, and until that changes TikTok wouldn't be allowed to operate in the US. Simple, impossible to argue with, and doesn't blow back on any US companies.
I've seen a lot of takes from the swamp that tiktok is the reason why young people in America aren't supporting Israel.
I think it's less about aesthetics and more about cognitive load.

Nonstandard UIs aren't end of the world, but if possible I don't want the extra cognitive load of interacting with 5, 6, 7, whatever slightly different GUI paradigms.

Like most developers I'm using multiple applications at once. Typically I'm using a terminal, text editor, browser, Slack, email, and maybe a database GUI.

A developer's cognition and cognitive load are limiting factors. Increase my cognitive load by X% and there is going to be a Y% increase in how long it takes me to do something and/or a Z% decrease in the quality of the work. Even if X% is small, it adds up pretty quickly. After all if we are employed full time that is 2,000+ hours per year of work.

Again, not just aesthetics. It's little things like, "does this software support the standard keyboard shortcuts for my system?" If CMD+W closes a window in every app except one that's kind of a pain. Etc.
hMod was made and developed by hey0, who dropped the project after a while and a new group took over, mostly comprised of hMod plugin developers. That group gave up on hMod pretty quickly and went on to make Bukkit/CraftBukkit instead as it didn’t fit the needs of the community
A nation state doesn't need precedent to ban Instagram, they could just do it. Problem is they would lose the next election because people will think it's stupid.
>> Marcel spent our entire first meeting proselytizing his innocence to me.

Pedant's corner: proselytizing doesn't mean preaching. It means someone is trying to convert you to their religion. This:

"Marcel spent our entire first meeting trying to convert me to his religion his innocence to me."

Doesn't parse.
I think also Google as a whole has pretty good diversity. But Cloud customers demanded regions in big population centers and smaller countries where Google traditionally avoided due to cost reasons. This lead to less redundant sites that were often owned and/or operated by third parties. So in the US and Europe you can probably trust GCP zones quite literally. But other regions (I have heard lots of rumours in the APAC) they may not be quite as diverse as they appear.
If you are generating more power than your batteries can store, or you can use, then this is excess gain.

If you're selling it back to the power company then this might not be a problem unless you also have resell limits.
I'm as against obscene payouts to executives as anyone, but something about the reporting language bothers me.

"as profits tumble"..."second highest [ever] reported".

Oh no! They TUMBLED to almost the highest they've ever been!

I don't know what to do with this juxtaposition. Does it mean they're anticipating further decline? Does it mean absolutely nothing at all and is just there to fill space?
Bedrock still lacks in capability for the offhand slot due to having to support tablet UI, only a select few items can be used in it.

Bedrock also has a different combat model that lacks the indicators java has.

A comprehensive list is here: https://minecraft.wiki/w/Minecraft_Wiki:Parity_issue_list
People at California hospital possibly exposed to measles by child
> I found the old phrase "buyers are liars" exists for a reason - people don't want to tell you their real budget

There's a flip side: you share your budget with someone, one which is a true budget (i.e. where options that exceed the limit will be ipso facto dismissed and those that fall under the limit will considered), and you later get mystifying utterances from the other participant in that past discussion that could only make sense if the discussion had not occurred.

It's like, "When I said my budget was $X, what did you think that meant?"

(It would be one thing for them to decide you're lying and to state that belief as some sort of preface to an option/recommendation/whatever that clearly doesn't fall within the agreed limits. It's another to decide that you're lying and then just proceed as if everyone is working from a shared understanding/agreement by all involved about what's in the person's head and there are no conflicts. Imagine if I told you that I don't like chocolate ice cream, and then you show up to the party with chocolate ice cream and an expectation that I will eat it, not because you forgot about my distaste for it, but because you just, like, decided that actually I do like chocolate ice cream.)
tailscale's taildrop is an good alternative and maybe more secure(?)
After watching the best, most world class programmers in the world, who already worked on things for Blizzard, Microsoft, Meta, etc. get laid off, it’s pretty clear it’s a lie and not about “incompetence” or “competition” - record profits and layoffs of world class people? Clearly it’s a lie to boost the earnings of wealthy people.
Even worse, it mistakes the possibility of partial ordering to imply an actual total ordering.
I don't believe any such time lock encryption can take on any entropy after the user messages are encrypted - since by definition, any entropy in that randomness is useless for decryption if it wasn't involved in the encryption.
refrigeration technology isn't limited to the household fridge; it also encompasses air conditioning (which lee kuan yew thinks was the single most important technology enabling singapore to go from being one of the world's poorest countries to one of the richest within living memory, calling it 'the greatest invention of the 20th century': https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/09/asia/air-conditioning-sin...) and cryocoolers, which are necessary for all practical superconductors so far (including nmr medical imaging machines and the josephson junctions used to define the volt) and for all ultra-high vacuum applications, including the euv lithography used for current chips (a dependency which goes both ways, since high-performance cryostats demand ultra-high vacuum)

the entire fresh food supply chain, including military logistics, is structured around refrigeration, and human diets have changed dramatically as a result. before refrigeration, if you wanted to eat pumpkin in the spring or peas in the fall, your options were canned pumpkin or pickled pumpkin. when refrigerated shipping became available (about 60 years before asimov's story, not 7), within about fifteen years, argentina went from being a poor rural country fighting off raids, and shipping small amounts of unpalatable salt beef overseas, to being one of the world's richest countries from selling fresh beef; nowadays, of course, it's unthinkable to ship meat from the slaughterhouse to the butcher shop without refrigeration

refrigeration is also fundamental to the current medical system; many vaccines won't keep without refrigeration, and of course tissue samples and organ transplants rely heavily on refrigeration to preserve them

the entire technological and scientific world is built on precise metrology, and aside from the josephson junctions i mentioned before, air conditioning is important to precise metrology; virtually every phenomenon used to maintain a metrological standard over time varies with temperature, so metrological labs are invariably maintained at a precisely controlled temperature, usually to within half a degree and sometimes to within a hundredth of a degree. moreover, that temperature is usually 20°, because for historical reasons that's the temperature most of those standards are designed for; but you can't maintain a 20° temperature year-round without air conditioning in most of the human-inhabited world

refrigeration technology in the form of air conditioning consumes a quite significant share of human world marketed energy consumption, so improvements in its efficiency are economically very important and currently avidly pursued by many avenues. and, as the cnn article above mentions, refrigerant leaks from vapor-compression refrigerative air conditioners are a significant contributor to global warming, though far from the majority

there are numerous sbir grants available in the usa for improvements in various kinds of refrigeration technology, including things like cryostats and dilution coolers

so every facet of your life is profoundly shaped by refrigeration technology, even if you aren't aware of it
It's a tragedy for sharing human knowledge. Say what you want about China, but there's a huge amount of amazing stuff there that the Western world just doesn't know about. Art, architecture, science, technology, etc.

Think about how much human knowledge in Discord servers is hidden from search engines --- in China there's orders of magnitude more knowledge hidden in Wechat, Xiaohongshu, Douyin, etc.
Doesn't this depend heavily on where you are located?
I wasn’t making an analogy. I was asking how read-only filesystem works given the parent commenters description of what makes something a filesystem.
>TikTok is not any more harmful than US-based social media

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/business/tiktok-phone-cal...

>When many users opened the popular app on Thursday, the company greeted them with a message to oppose the legislation, prompting a flood of phone calls to several Capitol Hill offices.

“Stop a TikTok shutdown,” the message on the app read. It included a button for people to call their representatives, saying: “Let Congress know what TikTok means to you and tell them to vote NO.”

>Some users said on X that they were unable to use the app before placing the call.

It is essentially malware with the capability to directly affect electoral politics. It is a necessity that it is banned as soon as possible.
I graded a lot of humanities papers in a previous career. One of the weirder genres of bad paper would come from very smart computer science/math/physics majors who didn’t have time to do any of the assigned reading and just kind of tried to answer the prompt from first principles without citing any primary sources or other scholarship.

This feels like that paper, except the author isn’t a stressed-out college sophomore but a 59 year old “thought leader” with a large audience who gets Sam Altman to read his drafts. No attempt to engage with the history of the genre at all, or with the many other writers who have considered the form, and no examples cited except a famous scientific article by Darwin.
I'm not sure what all is out there these days, but have long found DBeaver a more convenient tool for day to day stuff than pgAdmin though it's certainly not beautiful. What's making it get voted up today?
April's eclipse could strain electrical grids
It is not enough to ask novel questions. Trick is to ask questions that do not offend the delicate sensibilities of the overlords of public discourse.
This has been a challenge since time immemorial. Darwin was not exactly feted then.
OK thanks, I glossed over that part. But really what I look for is (1) explicit claims about durability, and (2) a third party (e.g. Aphyr) actually tested the claims.

If there's no claim, then it's impossible to test :)

In particular, there are no numbers in the description you quoted.

Litestream gives a relatively weak claim, but it could be tested, which actually gives me more confidence in it.

If you look at what aphyr writes, a lot of it is claims from vendors that turned out to be false - https://aphyr.com/tags/jepsen
A poor mathematician had a very dodgy gas stove. Indeed, it caused a small fire. So he quickly filled a pot with water and put the fire out.

A few days later, it happened again. This time, there happened to be a pot filled with water, waiting to be used.

So he emptied the pot, thus reducing the problem to one he already had solved.
Global Population Crash Isn't Sci-Fi Anymore
I think California banned the loud ones entirely, but people haven't caught up yet.
coca-cola is one of a very few companies in the usa licensed to handle coca leaves and to extract the cocaine from them, and coca-cola branches overseas have often been used for cia non-official cover. it's not all that private
Is there an equivalent of this with an http front end, so the client doesn't need to install anything?

I have used such apps before, but it seems they have gone unmaintained and don't work anymore.
There's an interesting bit about being unable to recover the timelocked secret if the parties that keep the network going disband before the release date:

*if the League of Entropy shuts down, members will delete their keys*

The world is unpredictable (just like drand randomness... heh), and it's possible that the League of Entropy will all hang up their coats at some point in the future. Should that happen, members would have two choices with their private keys: release them to the world or delete them entirely. The former would mean that ciphertexts created for some time after the cessation of the network would be decryptable to everybody. The latter would mean that ciphertexts created for some time after the cessation of the network would be unencryptable forever (/until quantum computers can break them). In the interests of privacy, we felt the latter option was preferable. That said, if you encrypt the private key to your [insert cryptocurrency name] fortune to stop yourself from spending it now and the network stops... you're going to have a bad time.
The hidden caves buried under Auckland back yards
> It is essentially malware with the capability to directly affect electoral politics. It is a necessity that it is banned as soon as possible.

Read my first point above. You are misguided on this issue.
Biden isn't setting an international precedent here. He isn't even setting a US precedent.

* The US shut down Napster, and a large number of other web services over time.

* The new Utah age verification laws has essentially forced many websites to stop severing traffic to them.

* China has banned twitter, facebook, google, etc.

* India has banned tiktok

* Iran has banned Twitter and Facebook.

* North Korea operates on a whitelist of websites, and western social media isn't on the list.
I seem to recall several instances where US-based social media platforms tried to motivate users to rally against legislation they found problematic.
Whenever I encounter a template language with expressions reaching into some view model or worse, I come back to an old idea of mine: what if you strictly wrote template first? The templates come up with names, types for the data identified by the names and nesting/optionally/repetition relationships, and the build process generates an interface for the programming language side to implement. Interface as in java interface, and curiously also as in typescript interface, despite the huge difference. A template-first viewmodel, including composability where a type is a reference to some other template.

Does this exist somewhere? My impression is that the tedious use of half-baked expression language to pull content from the (typed or not) programming language world into the template has always remained not quite enough of a pain point to drive this reversal and the rise of approaches that don't use separate templates at all (react et al) has made interface-from-template even less likely to happen.
If anyone else want's to play around with it (I did) I made a shadertoy version https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XXfXWl
I don't think it's a good alternative.

Via https://tailscale.com/kb/1106/taildrop:

- "Since Taildrop is an alpha feature, you’ll need to opt your network in to the test to use it."

- "Taildrop is only available on Synology with Tailscale v1.18.2".

- "Currently that means you need to manually install Tailscale on your Synology NAS."

Taking Occam's Razor to it:

- Buy Enterprise™ hardware to use alpha software.

- "more secure" has a prefix of "maybe" and a suffix of "(?)" in the comment recommending it

I'm ruling it out altogether.
>Lacan, Zizek, Foucault, and Derrida are The 4 horsemen of the epistemological apocalypse.

We should probably just go back to Rhene Thom and Morphogenesis, except that even that theory has lost face. A hundred years of denying the importance of Hegel's Logic has led to a significant loss in the progress of human civilization.
Bad title. I was really confused by it. It is not banning the company. It is banning the foreign ownership of the incorporated entity.

>Legislation passed through the US House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously on Thursday calling on China's ByteDance to divest its ownership of TikTok or effectively face a US ban.

This is slightly less confusing but I'm still unsure. Such a law sounds unconstitutional.
Yeah, that could explain the media's latest round on promoting a ban. Or at least their excuse for it; I'm sure they don't even have proof of that.
It's straighforward - it doesn't have the Eclipse Marketplace installed so you have to use direct installation, which just means you have to find the plugin site yourself, which is usually on the web site or github page for the plugin.

So you go to Help => Install New Software and then put eg: the Vrapper update site in:

http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/update-site/stable

And just go from there.
Git Commits Visualizer
Command line tool written in Go. It allows developers to scan their local Git repositories and generate a visual contributions graph.
A mathematican, biologist and engineer were so stoned that they struggled with the claim "All odd numbers are prime."

The mathematician reasoned "3 is prime. 5 is prime. 7 is prime. 9 is ... not prime. The claim is false."

The biologist reasoned "3 is prime. 5 is prime. 7 is prime. 9 is ... not prime. 11 is prime. 13 is prime. The claim looks true, within reasonable experimental error."

The engineer reasoned "3 is prime. 5 is prime. 7 is prime. 9 is prime. 11 is prime. ..."
+1

I also love “clear and simple as truth” by thomas and turner.
The genius of ebpf is allowing for pluggable policy in a world where the kernel API is very slow to change and can’t meet everyone’s needs. Whether it’s how the kernel handles packets off the wire, how it controls traffic, scheduling entities, or instrumentation, ebpf lets you provide logic rather than turn a bunch of knobs or use a bespoke syscall that only handles one case. It also moves the processing logic to the data in the kernel rather than having the kernel have to do expensive copies to and from userspace.

ebpf isn’t really novel beyond the interfaces it provides. They are just kernel modules that have been vetted and are sandboxed. Inserting executable code has been part of the kernel since forever in module form and kprobes.
Hey, but if the New York Times says otherwise...
What you're describing as a "super-genuis" is just someone that thinks they know it all after reading some introductionary material. They don't know what they don't know so they think they're "done".
> Instead of doing small thing with bipartisan agreement do a large sweeping thing that will take an eternity to agree upon and enact.

We can do both you know.
How easy is the Indian TikTok ban to circumvent?
What about devs that don’t use vscode remote dev extensions? Are they now stuck in an ssh loop?
As Matt Levine says, everything is securities fraud. Boeing defrauded its shareholders (and its public company customers) by saying that it was building safe planes. Even beyond that, the law guarantees protection for whistleblowers within these companies.* These hypothetical engineers would have absolutely been protected.

* If you work for a public company, you've almost certainly had a training about its ethics hotline with information about your protection from retaliation.
To be completely honest I was on the fence about the conflict and even leaned towards Israel's side (I grew up Muslim and Jerusalem is like the third or second holiest site in Islam, whereas in Judaism it is the holiest, so it seemed pretty straightforward) but the way things have be going recently, I just cannot rationalize the deaths that have been taking place in any shape or form. The lives on 200 Israeli hostages are not in any shape or form worth more than the lives of 200 Palestinians. So I feel like the natural reaction should be to not support Israel and TikTok should not be held responsible for that.
I agree with your point, except insofar as TikTok is not more harmful than other social media. That is demonstrably false.
I guess you haven’t been to China before.
Fair use is an admission of copyright violation. If this is your starting point, you should probably look for new lawyers.

In any case, exact reproduction of the full novels as part of a dataset is of course not covered by fair use and proving that through discovery will be trivial.
There’s far more work inside IR35 than outside.

If you’re going to work inside, just use an umbrella. The margin they take is minimal and they make life so much easier.

If you’re going to run a limited company, you have to actually run a limited company. There are horror stories on the contractor forums where HMRC have taken a dim view of contractors whose companies are essentially run by their accountants. I can’t remember what the term associated with it is but definitely an area to be careful with.
In my experience, this is more of a fictional trope than a reality.

There aren't any Tony Starks who become experts in thermonuclear astrophysics overnight.

Richard Feynman was as close to this trope as you can get in reality, but insisted that his reputation for being able to solve difficult problems was due to having a "different box of tools" than others. And he obtained that by studying rather obsessively, well beyond assigned texts.

I have been lucky enough to know a few people who also might qualify as geniuses able to produce miraculous results. One of them decorated his laptop with the logos of defunct computer companies of the 1950s-1980s. He drew a lot of inspiration from papers and books that few others have read in thirty years.
Claude 3 Opus is Much Better at Arithmetic than GPT-4
Claude 3 Opus is much better at arithmetic than GPT-4. It seems like a combination of tokenizer and well-curated data, the chain of thought formatting closely follows human style.
Startup by MIT Students YC Accepted Video W24
- each version breaks previous format and renders it unusable
And you're going to prove it to us, right? With a link to the New York Times?
I don't think machine code is the problem? Running a native binary doesn't give it access to anything inherently; the OS gives access through syscalls, and can impose restrictions - and indeed, does; it's not like running a binary on Linux automatically gives it access to anything under /dev.

Also, it's not that the whole software world thinks blob-only software is normal; I'm typing this on a nice comfy GNU/Linux box where the only blobs are some firmware. (Edit: And to be quite clear, a good chunk of this community would really like to get rid of those blobs too, it's just that we don't have a fix at this point.)
A process randomly dying is a faulty state. Making malloc fail and having programs respond appropriately is far preferable to just randomly trashing processes.
That's not how Dunning-Kruger works. There's never a point where incorrect people were more confident than correct people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effec...
They do need precedent. Any other country if they did just ban US social media like that would probably find itself in a trade war.

Not even China or Russia just went ahead and banned US tech companies, at most they asked for equal oversight to domestic companies.
This card isn't competing on price - it's a dev kit.
Wirecard was €1.9 billion. The cum-ex trading scandal siphoned up to €55 billion. My lawyer went to school with one of the major guys involved.

https://theconversation.com/the-robbery-of-the-century-the-c...