skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
how much will boeing's recent setbacks impact the consumer's behavior? eg, creating a preference for airlines / routes that utilize airbus products? has this impacted anyone's decision making process when booking a flight?
My wife, me on the other hand? I don't use it
Pass a privacy law, stop arbitrarily banning. What exactly would be the justification for forcing the sale rather than passing a law solving the actual problem?
Why shouldn’t Europeans do the same with US social networks then?
Grifter content creator in fear for their revenue stream.
So much trash and they ban this trash because China controls it. I honestly can't think of one thing China has done to harm me. The people who control the US media, however...
The people who work there are probably not happy about this.
We can acknowledge that there are problems with the porn industry, and I agree there very much are, without stigmatizing the entire industry and the people that consume it.

Not being excited about "vanilla sex" really isn't a problem, sex should be fun and regardless of the reason you should be able to explore it. Even if that is the only sex you enjoy, that's fine. If that is the case, porn is just the thing that helped you find out you enjoyed a certain kink but you could have found that out another way. We should not be putting rules (or expectations) on what type of sex people should be having.

Porn can be a healthy part of someone's sexuality.

As far as forcibly removing stigma, obviously no. But we can analyze there that stigma comes from and push against it when it doesn't make sense.
> 29.11.2.3 File system race behavior [fs.race.behavior]

> 1 A file system race is the condition that occurs when multiple threads, processes, or computers interleave access and modification of the same object within a file system. Behavior is undefined if calls to functions provided by subclause [fs.race.behavior] introduce a file system race.

> 2 If the possibility of a file system race would make it unreliable for a program to test for a precondition before calling a function described herein, Preconditions: is not specified for the function. [ Note: As a design practice, preconditions are not specified when it is unreasonable for a program to detect them prior to calling the function. — end note ]

There you go. "Behavior is undefined" is essentially "fuck you, you won't get any error you'll just get garbage at runtime". It does thankfully allow the implementations to make it an error at runtime (as they did), but does not require it, so the standard still has the bug.
Organisms are mechanistic, there's nothing "not mechanistic" about the mind.

Its insane to suppose that somatosensory representation building, which requires organic neruoplasticity to be connected to the organically adaptive neuromotor system, etc. etc. etc. can just be instantiated in a bit of sand.

This is deeply mystical, pseudoscience.

You're credulously throwing away any kind of empirical analysis of the world in terms of it's properties and their mechanisms for the deeply mystical view that, unique in amongst all properties of the world, consciousness needs no empirical analysis of the properties of the systems which have it.

Of gold we ask: what makes it shine; of fire: what makes it hot.. and so on for everything empirical in the world.

But with the mind we must stop! No! No! do not do any science! please that might mean we can't be scammed by a VC out of our investment money; i cannot babble endlessly about scifi star treck episodes! no no! please do not rob me of my scifi religion! please please, do not ruin commander data for me!

Well there is no commander data. And the properties of gold are not those of sand, nor those of animals. And just as no bit of silicon will be trasumted into gold by the running of an NN on its electric field; likewise, no bit of silicon will desire or wish or conceive of anything.

We are biological organisms; we do not have souls, even if in your religion, the soul is "a pattern". Your consciousness will not be uploaded; commander data will never visit; and your local VC shyster is on a stock manipulation grift to bamboozle you out of money.
Animal Themed Affirmations App, Using AI for Content
Trees are limited in the amount of shelter needed in human hospitality.
Hi! I made an affirmations web app, using AI generated photos of animals (playground), and mostly chatGPT for the affirmations themselves.

For those curios, the backend is Go+Echo+Templ, frontend is Materialize+jQuery.
Russia's new guided bomb inflicts devastation and heavy casualties
Because I see a lot of confusion and wrong information in the comments: It is 15 ml (for our US friends: about 3 teaspoons) of Apple Cider Vinegar diluted in 250 ml (8.45 fluid oz) of water. That's a tiny amount of vinegar! You drink that every morning on an empty stomach.

Some people seem to think they are supposed to drink a glass of vinegar every day …
Airbus is adding capacity, but the queue will remain long. Aircraft have really long life cycles. A model can remain in production for decades, and individual aircraft can also have life spans measured in 20-30+ years.

The current backlog is around 8500 aircraft, and their current production rate is around 700-800 aircraft per year. Last year they build 570 A320's - so around 48 per month. Airbus' goal is to get to 75 per month by 2026.

Aircraft factories are obviously very expensive, and super expanding to burn down the queue right now would probably harm Airbus in the long term, especially since the airliner market is uh... really cyclical. I understand that the current backlog is something of a result of the pandemic.
As a bonus, filing your taxes via USPS (postal mail) is free and available in all fifty states.
> If they operate in the US, they certainly are.

Theoretically, yes. But the US isn't a police state where their activities would be constantly monitored in great detail for compliance. There's a lot they could do under the radar, and a lot of groundwork they could lay for some future inappropriate action.
Союз Советских Социалистических Республик?
The government is putting citizens at risk by allowing a bad solution (ID.me) and wasting time supporting it that could be spent working on login.gov.
It says it is not compatible with neither my phone (Android 12) nor tablet (Android 11).

What Android API version did you target?
The UB is actually much broader, the standard just says it's UB if there is other software which touches files while you're also touching them, it's basically just always potential UB to run C++ application software with the filesystem API on a multitasking system.

"A file system race is the condition that occurs when multiple threads, processes, or computers interleave access and modification of the same object within a file system.
Behavior is undefined if calls to functions provided [...] introduce a file system race."
Does anyone have an idea of the likelihood of the owners divesting vs a ban being enforced? I kind of want to see the owners refuse to divest
Non-IRS authorities (e.g. FINCEN) can also track the flow so in the US money laundering is more to thwart them, though lower taxes is a bonus.
I used i3 for several years and liked it a lot. I've recently switched to XMonad and I think I like it more. I find the configuration to be far more flexible, and the defaults aligned more with my natural preferences. My i3 config was pretty sizeable, but my XMonad config is (for now) quite small. Additionally, I found cycling tiling layouts in XMonad was a very useful feature that I never got from i3. Also I like Haskell, so that was a +1 for XMonad.
Premature legislation misses the target. Gdpr targeted personal data collection, a relatively anodyne adverse effect of social media, but missed addiction which is the real damaging externality. I wonder what they miss this time
Wow, according to Airbus [0], by Feb 2024:

A321neo: 1282 delivered (since 2017!), 6169 orders, so 4887 in the queue (or about 25 yrs worth [1]).

A320neo: 1929 delivered (since 2014!), 4124 orders, so 2195 in the queue (or about 11 yrs worth).

Across all aircraft, 15,276 delivered, and 23,828 ordered, so their outstanding orders are more than half of all Airbus ever delivered (and more than 60% of all Airbus in operation).

Must be nice to work for their sales department...

[0] https://www.airbus.com/en/products-services/commercial-aircr...

[1] with the assumption that the production rate remains the same as since introduction (obviously unrealistic, just to get a rough picture).
Aren't you just itching to see if you can do it against the hottest competition on the planet? Ie, and I mean this with respect - financial markets are the major leagues of prediction - it feels a little bit like you are playing in the minor leagues. And it's not just a chest beating exercise - you guys appear genuine and to want to push forward the science/art of prediction. But if you can't beat the current best, you aren't state of the art, let alone able to push things forward. You might be pushing things backwards.

fwiw, it appears you'd have a decent chance. You guys seem to have an extreme level of objectivity and rationality. There is a lot of domain knowledge required to bet on say, healthcare stocks or whatever, but maybe too much domain knowledge harms rather than hurts.
Cosmos by Carl Sagan covers similar stories including the history of astronomy and the mathematics invented to explain it - it is like a whistle stop tour of these subjects and more + ties them together conceptually.
Yeah, that is actually super nice, the potential DuckDB offers to operate with data in such an easy way. With a bit of tuning on the auth side it's that easy indeed.

I think it is a pain point for some people, and it's great to see other teams working on similar products and being based on the same tech.
I've been reading endless headlines about how hard it is to do business in China because the Chinese courts subpoenaed business records from Bain's China offices etc., wonder if I'm going to see endless articles about how hard it is to do business in the US.

And as others have said - no privacy protection laws for Americans passed - only if the company is Chinese.
Kayak already lets you filter by plane type, so conceivably yes.
So you want to abolish time zones (2015)
I'm going to ask an intentionally stupid question. TikTok is largely just kids dancing and other innocuous videos, even if Bytedance is sucking up all that data and sending it back to the CCP, how does that constitute a national security threat?
This is, obviously, garbage.

As with all "offensiveness" laws.
One positive in all this is when Twitter got blocked in China, over night basically everyone under the age of 24 learned how to use VPNs, and learned how to subvert various official software update mechanisms.

I'm thinking that this, or something like it, could be what is finally going to break the stranglehold that Apple and Google have on the US app store market, even if it's just an unintentional side effect.
Why not just use Notes instead of paying $20/year? (Not a dig at Drafts, trying to understand the value.)
> Was always trying to avoid the JavaScript revolution

I studied compilers during this time. Dynamic typing + production systems are a waste of life. :)

> Fast forward to today and I sling TypeScript / Angular / Java as a Senior Software Engineer

Yeah, TS is good enough for me now. I swapped Angular for Svelte in there, but otherwise the same. Enjoying learning the frontend now that it is somewhat sane.

> [They're] still expected to support every app they have ever worked on and do 8+ hours of meetings a day. The pay is more but so is the stress. I have a great family and just want to enjoy my life.

> I see the burnout above me

Yeah. Leadership imposes a large emotional cost. And I prefer my job stay in a box for the most part because I have lots of other things in my life.

Thanks for the response.
Nate Silver did a nice write up on the probability and implications of all this here: https://open.substack.com/pub/natesilver/p/why-the-political...

When Biden passes this bill (which he said he would), I can only assume Dems will lose a large part of the younger voting demographic. If jot now, then 4 years from now. Because no chance in hell is China selling this thing, and Trump is already talking about how much he loves TikTok now.
There's no reason to complain about stock buy backs. Most profitable public companies should be returning a portion of those profits to shareholders through stock buy backs.
First, I did write "I'm not saying that it's black and white". My main point is that one person's subjective anecdote isn't enough to discuss policy.

Second, the article absolutely points out ill effects of pornography on young people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_pornography_on_youn...

> Problematic pornography use (PPU) or pornography addiction, is understood as a pattern of pornography viewing which causes significant distress to the individual personally, relationally, socially, educationally, or occupationally. The prevalence of PPU by adolescents, lies at under 5%. Frequent users of pornography are more likely to show symptoms of PPU. Higher levels of depressive symptomatology in adolescent boys, and sexual interest, predicted increase in compulsive use of pornographic material over time. Baseline levels and subsequent growth in pornography use subsequently predicted higher levels of PPU, independent of religiosity, negative emotions, and impulsivity. Higher frequency of pornography use is associated with higher probability of suffering from CSB. LGBTQ-Adolescents aren’t more likely to develop PPU.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_pornography_on_youn...

> Adolescent pornography consumption predicted greater sexual engagement, greater sexual insecurity, and greater sexual dissatisfaction, and is linked to sexual intercourse (anal sex, oral sex, sexual encounters, sexual desire, earlier sexual initiation, sex with prostitutes/partners/friends),[3] more experience with casual sex, and a higher likelihood of exercise or experiencing especially among female adolescents. However, there isn't any evidence connecting frequent pornography consumption to a wider range of sexual practices. Meaningful evidence linking pornography and sexual risk behaviors is lacking.[14]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_pornography_on_youn...

> A 2021 review which compiled evidence from other empirical sources such as surveys found that representations of women in pornography may lead adolescent boys to view women as sexual objects, with disregard and disrespect for gender equality.[15] The review, however, does not claim anywhere proving a causal relationship of consuming pornography and changing views of sexual objectification or gender inequality.[15]

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Yes, there are caveats, and yes, the article also has a section called "Positive effects" (that has all the same oratory precautions and caveats as the sections I quoted). My point isn't "porn is bad". My point is, again, that one's person anecdote doesn't mean that we can just deregulate the whole thing without further thought.
Family Dollar to close almost 1,000 stores
Is this iPhone only and new in 17 or Europe only? I don't get this on my iPad with has 17.3.1, and my iPhone has 16.something. I'm in the US.
Precisely. Not sure it gets passed but let's say it does. Today is March 13th plus a week for senate and President. Takes effect in 6 months. Right in the middle of the campaign. Someone will say we did it. Someone else will say not enough. But we get the freedom to not use it :)
Can the US government "acquire" a company? Contract that company to handle it, sure, but actually BUY the company?
Why AI Is Outpacing Society's Ability to Adapt
CCP - "Chinese Communist Party"

CCCP - "United [Soyuz] Soviet Socialist Republic"
Yeah, the amount of tunnel vision from AI/ML users thinking that Nvidia exists solely for their use is funny to watch. Try writing anything other than ML in pytorch. You can't? You can in CUDA. There's a much bigger world than ML out there.
Europe is concerned about the influence and data-collection of American tech companies, and would be fully justified in doing something similar.
> I'm genuinely baffled by this, why are the tax filing options in the US so fragmented?

Federalism:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism

> Here in the UK […]

Not federated:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_state
My understanding is that this is a much broader bill than just TikTok.

It would give the president the authority to ban any app or website both foreign and domestic based on the wording of the text of the bill.

Can anyone verify if this is true in the text of what was passed?
They should, and viewed in a certain light that is what the GPDR and DMA are trying to achieve— make room for native companies.
I think aspiring to a baseline level of truth seeking is harder than initially thought. Watchdogs like allsides.com consider slate a pretty left-leaning publication[1], especially in 2012[2] when this article was published. At least they were aware of it though.

What has changed in the republican party's stance on taxes in the last 22 years? Maybe nothing, but the point is that it actually is hard to assume that it's an explicit part of the Republican platform to make taxes difficult to file by referencing an old article from a left-leaning magazine that actually doesn't mention the word "republican" once.

[1] https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart
[2] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/05/is-slate-magazin...
1) wouldn't blame them if they did
2) we are in this military alliance called NATO; if you are depending on each other for military help, you're not thinking about social media based threats
> "the age-verification requirement is rationally related to the government's legitimate interest in preventing minors' access to pornography. Therefore, the age-verification requirement does not violate the First Amendment."

The idea that the government takes an interest in whether a minor views pornography doesn't make sense to me. I can see why their parents would take an interest, but it's harder for me to justify why the government ought to weigh in on it. I get that the government gets to say what they have a legitimate interest in and what they don't, but if you follow that logic you just wind up back where you started. It seems pointless and overreaching. This is a completely different matter than child exploitation or sex trafficking, or any matters tangential to porn.
You don’t need any of that to distribute a web app and thus make money.
They're welcome to if they think it's worthwhile.
Nurses.
Presumably because he was a kid and remembers what it was like.
I didn’t know that Rupert Murdoch had to become a U.S. citizen to own a U.S. newspaper. So precedents for old school media but of course the problem is new media not needing physical distribution that can be readily monitored.
California bill would require draft registration for driver's licenses
Nation State realpolitik is security.
Dependent care credit forms, interest/dividend income forms, independent contractor forms, student loan/home mortgage interest deduction forms, medical expense deduction forms.

And that is excluding state tax return, which most have to do too. A sizable group of American tax filers, maybe even most, cannot do their taxes in a few minutes.
> Why shouldn’t Europeans do the same with US social networks then?

We’re not your foreign adversary? (If we are, we shouldn’t have an obligation to defend you.)

This bill permits TikTok’s sale to a European owner. It just bans its ownership by a foreign adversary country.
Why can't ByteDance just dodge this with a US IPO of a local operating company with dual-class structure?
or more likely learn extremely quickly that their citizens prefer their iPhones to their politicians, there would be protests within the hour if they ever blocked iPhones.

Weird to me how common it has become in the last 5 years for people to gleefully cheer for tyranny and control.
EU approves landmark AI law, leapfrogging US to regulate worrying new technology
If this goes all the way to the White House and is signed by Biden, I think it could completely derail his chances of getting re-elected. Trump has come out against this bill (for insane and corrupt reasons) but would definately seize the moment and capitalize on it. They are giving the Trump campaign a huge amount of ammunition here.
jwie has the argument slightly wrong. Taxes are a side benefit of money laundering, which makes it unnecessary to report drug income directly for taxes. Money laundering's purpose is to fabricate proof of legal income, to divert suspicion from the observable existence of wealth that has no legal explanation.
This is the case for only the NAG Fortran compiler (nagfor).

All the other major Fortran compilers on the market are easily available in the "modern" way: gfortran, Intel ifort/ifx, NVIDIA nvfortran, Classic flang, AOCC flang, and Arm flang. All of them are available on Ubuntu with .deb packages. For the last two, you need to download the .deb files manually, but the others can be installed via apt. In addition, they are all free of charge, although this is less important point.
> Excel's capabilities are all about the inteface

And so are its limitations (though not inherently so, just through decades of neglect), that's where the power is handicapped despite the existence of "first class lambdas" and the like, which explains the field
What are the chances that TikTok really gets comprehensively banned in the US? This seems like the kind of thing that would get stuck in a Bermuda triangle of litigation while nothing ever happens.
There is also ghostwriter which is quite good
Oracle flexing their lobbying muscle to pick up a good asset on the cheap.
A better middle ground at this stage could have been requiring TikTok to daily display to users (and require they confirm/accept) a message stating the indirect CPC ownership, the risk to their personal info, and the serious risk of seeing state directed disinformation campaigns. Most would still use TikTok but perhaps it might get drilled into their heads to actually question some things they see on it.

Personally think the data protection issue are overblown. The ability to influence through disinformation campaings, whether for CPC, Russia or whomever is their friend, is a way bigger thing for me.
To do the second thing, you'd need some kind of statement of what the problem was.
I'm under the impression they already do. There are lots of data collection rules that US companies have to follow. This I see as an alternative to outright banning. I'm sure Facebook, et. al. are audited by EU agencies to make sure they are in compliance.

I think the reason for the outright ban is more due to it being a Chinese product. China isn't known to be very transparent.
The fact that Facebook and Twitter were US-owned companies did nothing to stop Cambridge Analytica.
> your idea of reliability is different from what is typically referred to

How does it differ, in your view? I think my view is standard among professionals.

> a reused rocket has already proven that it can do the job

It's the same with any used equipment, but as described, used equipment isn't generally considered more reliable.

> it'd be hard to call something genuinely reusable if it got less reliable after the first use.

All durable technology is reusable - cars, phones, etc. But almost none (that I can think of) are considered more reliable after they are used. Reliability is just one component of cost, and the overall cost of reuse is much less than buying new - buying a new car for each trip wouldn't be worth the cost.

There is some uncertainty about reliability in brand new things, but that is easily reduced through testing.

SpaceX fans seem to live, like so many today, in an alternate reality where they repeat their 'team' propaganda without the filter of skepticism. Just think about it for a moment - is a used car necessarily more reliable?
I like using Contexts on the Mac as replacement: https://contexts.co
Looks like i3 does something similar?