skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> High rents are being caused by investors, which is why plenty of stock is sitting vacant.

Vacancies are a contributing factor, but why think it's the primary one, compared to a lack of housing? Rents are going up everywhere in the West, even in places where vacancy rates are decreasing such as Ireland. How can vacancy rates decrease while rents skyrocket?
> The whole point of a democracy is that the people are the priority

This is not the point of democracy. The point of democracy is that the priorities of the people are the priority.

For instance, it is entirely possible to have a democracy that agrees that we should perform human sacrifice once a month, so long as the majority of its constituents agree that that's their priority.

Democracy provides a vehicle for a populace to enshrine their values into law. It does not define those values (such as valuing human flourishing or freedom of choice), that's up to us to build on top of it.
> penStreetMap is at least information dense, and seems to have somewhat improved, but still doesn't look good to my eyes.

I want to make sure people are aware that there's many different map designs on OpenStreetMap.org, and all of them (for better or worse) are quite aesthetically different from each other. Check out https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/42.3580/-71.0725 and click the "Layers" button on the right to see a list (with previews) of each alternative design.
If the author reads this, please remember to capitalize every instance of the first person pronoun “I”, including when it does not appear at the beginning of a sentence. English is weird like that.
That's not controversial, losing the (domestic) narrative is exactly what it means to be combating Chinese propaganda
This weird comparison with the behavior of old-school cable TV customers had me scratching my head. For sure, people stuck with the same cable TV provider: they had no choice. Most markets had only the one provider.

"The data suggests a sharp shift in consumer behavior — far from the cable era, when viewers largely stuck with a single provider..."
Won't the holes expand into rips since there's a pressure gradient trying to force the gas out of the holes?
Needs knurling.
> environmentally conscious

Yet doing everything to spread FUD about the car company that did and is doing the most for the environment., because Musk... bad. Bollocks. I agree Musk isn't great since Covid, but I was not going to burn the environment over it like all the liberal media and liberal folks like you.

If people who supposedly care about the environment don't care two shits about the most popular EV that can make many people get into EVs, I don't care about spending my hard earned money to pay extra for an EV, since it won't matter anyway and it's a group effort which is failing.
Property Hooks will be a reality in PHP 8.4
> There is plenty of evidence that long shifts affect cognitive functioning[1]

That study attributes much of the deficit to interrupting circadian rhythms, which is the thing that isn't required with 12 hour shifts, because the other 12 hours a day can contain a consistent 8 hour block for sleeping at night. Whereas the alternative where you bring on a second shift with different workers does exactly that, because now the second shift is e.g 5PM-1AM and by the time those workers go home, eat a meal and get ready for bed, they're sleeping in the daylight. Or if the business is one that operates 24 hours, using 8 hours shifts causes there to be two night shifts instead of one.

> Secondly, even if someone was to show that some workers are still able to function well, make good decisions and not make manufacturing errors that would likely impact safety after 12 hours it might still be reasonable to not have such long shifts because the length for some workers would tend to compell all workers (including some for whom that shift length would be too much) to work the long shift if they want to keep their job.

This is a fully generic argument. Maybe some workers have heart disease and shouldn't do a job that involves lifting. Does that mean no one should be able to do it? People over 65 disproportionately suffer from various forms of dementia. Should they be prohibited from working if they want to, even the ones who are healthy?

Most jobs don't use 12 hour shifts because they don't want to pay overtime, so it's hard to see how anyone who prefers a job with 8 hour shifts could be forced to take one of those instead of the majority of other jobs that use 8 hour shifts.

> There is lots of research associating long shifts with chronic health problems[2] and poor wellbeing for example[3] .

We need to be extremely careful with correlational studies. There is evidence that all kinds of negative outcomes are associated with poverty, and the people working long hours are typically doing it because they don't have enough money. What happens when you say they can't work that much and make them even poorer?
To confirm the other chap and add a little more detail, such messages can be in one of three important states: unread, read, and replied to. The phones report this. If it's unread, you don't know whether they've seen it or not; if it's read, you know they have, but they haven't yet chosen to reply. Pointedly, perhaps. Rather significant difference, choice of word very intentional. Unfortunately this is genuinely a case of dad being out of touch, not a stylistic disagreement :)
Bluesky feed of gift links for major paywalled news sites
The mismanagement at Dish and DirecTV is staggering. The pendulum has now swung so far in the fragmentation direction that there is real value in bundling disparate content in a restricted fashion, and charging people for it - like cable/satellite bundles. Except now, the business models available are much more diverse because the telemetry of streaming is so much better. Where did the masters of media bundling go?

As a consumer, I really dislike that the media industry has made it my problem to figure out who owns the rights to something. Just take my money and let me see the content. Having to google “<movie> streaming” to see a list of options in different streaming providers who have varying levels of service at different tiers of their paid subscriptions is inane.

Whoever figures out the bundling problem will own a lot of eyeballs, and probably be able to monetize on ads too.
Ah yes Nepal and Somalia, the USA is in good company.
No, more like the things I just mentioned.
> If food is served every day without the need to earn it there is no need to use your brain.

1) there is still danger that the brain needs to be attuned to.

2) I often let the chickens out of the fenced in area when the grasshopper population gets unruly in the warm summer months, and if you watch the chickens hunt them, I think you’d find that even in the presence of being fed for ~10 months of the year, their brains are highly alert and they are quite good at killing fast moving, unpredictable things.
Which would be?
Now if only I could buy just the one show I want to watch, and not pay for the entire month.
And even if you have to reboot, how long does it take? A minute?
How much does that minute downtime cost?
It can cost a lot and for that case you have HA.
Not rocket science tbh
Excellent suggestions though I think we should then ban the whole internet and just read and watch TV
why is it called propaganda when narrative is pushed by China, Russia, but called out democracy and free speech when same type of propaganda pushed by the US?
Yes - and this is mostly because the jq parser tool is so useful. yq is similarly great.
Actually USSR president didn't recognized Transnistria as an independent state. Even more he "declared the Transnistria proclamation to be devoid of a legal basis and annulled it by presidential decree on 22 December 1990" as Wikipedia says. And still today Russia didn't do that also. So what were the acts of the aggression made by Russians against Moldova? You wrote Moldova first in the row like something obvious and I'm really interested in the basis of this statement.
You added the word "reasonable" because you knew it was a bad argument and you wanted to find a way to make it subjective. You prefer to argue about what you think is reasonable.
API >=30 is ~60% of Android devices, it's a significant number of users and adds significantly to e-waste
Cost.

Some airports already have "stop bar" lights (green to enter runway, red to stop), or "follow-me" lights (follow the trail of green dots to your destination). But these aren't exactly cheap (nothing in aviation is), and installing them requires shutting down runways.

They'll probably become more common at larger airports over the next decade or so.
It's not necessarily an old mindset.

Newer mindsets in tech and media business are also flush with vapid baggery.
Reminds me of when I jailbroke an old iPhone and the only thing I really actually used the jailbreak for was making a long press on the volume buttons a previous / next song button. I actually really miss it.
I'd think the first application would be along the lines of Github Copilot, perhaps locally hosted - quantitative traders will write a lot of (proprietary) code, too
At 16. I'd just learnt the Newton-Raphson method and wrote a cubic equation solver. It only gave one real root closest to the initial guess.
True, but I don’t think it will matter. China is likely to take an ideological stance, just like the US is. It’s going to hurt the US more than China, especially with how close to the elections the ban will occur.
That's not correct. Bytedance is headquartered in Beijing.[1] TikTok Ltd. has two HQs in Singapore and Los Angeles, but Bytedance is still the parent company. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok
Still using docker so you can upgrade most of it on every deployment. As far as the host, modern Linux distros handle security updates automatically and unattended. I do recommend having a backup replica server in standby. If you need to upgrade the kernel on the host you just change the DNS to point to your backup, wait for some time for connections to finish on your primary then restart the primary, ensure it is stable, change DNS back. It’s standard A/B deployment. Nothing special about it.
network American (tm)
> How does it answer why consciousness or laws of nature exist?

That's a longer story than will fit in an HN comment. But the TL;DR is that once you have atoms, that leads to chemistry, which leads to biology, which leads to brains, which leads to consciousness and all the other interesting things that brains do. But these are all emergent phenomena. There's nothing brains do that cannot be explained in terms of atoms.

> whether there need be any ultimate, necessary explanation to things and what kind of explanation that would be, or whether explanations bottom out at brute, contingent facts

You're flirting with teleology here. There's nothing wrong with that. I'm making an observation here, not a value judgement.

It is an open question whether there is an "ultimate, necessary explanation to things". But science can shed some light on that by demonstrating that if there is an "ultimate, necessary explanation to things" it almost certainly has nothing to do with us humans. We're just the result of rolling countless trillions of cosmic dice in one tiny corner of the multiverse. That's not the answer that most people who ask the question of "ultimate, necessary explanation to things" want to hear, but all the evidence points to that being the truth. And so the best explanation of people asking this question hoping for a different answer is that they are engaging in the same kind of wishful thinking as, say, erstwhile inventors of perpetual motion machines. Science can't prove that it's impossible to do an end-run around the laws of thermodynamics, but there is still a reason that perpetual motion is the canonical example of crackpottery.
The thing is most of those changes are minimal and it is completely unrealistic for any non-megacorp to maintain their own implementation of it. The example here would be Google and Android.

Another great example is Redis - where the main competing product is now not a fork of the original but a new thing by none other than MS, as they have the cash and resources like Google to pull something like this off.
> The IAU happened 18 years ago but the vast public hasn’t cottened on to the whole new “cleared orbital debris” concept

The vast public doesn't generally cotton to anything. People don't routinely specify that they're talking about non-avian dinosaurs, or non-tetrapod fishes.

Which doesn't matter, because nobody expects the general public to actually be precise, so nobody gives a shit.

> a word that already has widespread use and understanding.

An enumeration is not an understanding. There is no understanding where Pluto is a planet and Eris is not.

> without attempts at universal redefinition by a minority of people who use the word for highly specialized reasons.

You mean the people who actually use the words as if they meant something?

> What are regular people supposed to say now when they want to say what planet meant which includes Mercury and Pluto? “Planetary like things?”???

That scenario occurs about as often as regular people wanting to say planet excluding pluto before the vote: they're never precise enough that it matters, and in the zero cases where it happens, they can just specify "incuding pluto" or "excluding pluto".
It finds application for atheists making arguments against religion as well. It finds application in defenses of free will. Scientists seem to subscribe to a Popperian falsifiability. Logic, part of philosophy, has found widespread use, as I'm sure you know.
JSON is not immediately usable by and is cumbersome to parse correctly in a shell.

A simple line-based shell variable name=value format works unreasonably well. For example:

# ls --shell-var ./thefile
dir="/home/user" file="thefile" size=1234 ...
# eval $(ls --shell-var ./thefile); echo $size
1234

If this had been in shells and cmdline tools since the beginning it would have saved so much work, and the security problems could have been dealt with by an eval that only set variables, adding a prefix/scope to variables, and so on.

Unfortunately it's too late for this and today you'll be using a pipeline to make the json output shell friendly or use some substring hacks that probably work most of the time.
Mexico has about half as many TikTok users as the US. I would think that ByteDance would continue that operation, as well as other major user populations in Indonesia, Brazil, etc.
I saw the following programs whil skimming the code:

awk, grep, curl, getent, sudo, mkdir, mv, ln, cat, rm, openssl, touch

Most of these have around 10 dependencies on libs.

Don't misunderstand me. I have nothing against the script. I just don't like the argument that bash is better because it has no dependencies.
The thing is this type of argument often ignores opportunity costs of resources. There are a lot of other things that you can learn.
Lets put a face to a name - Russia, somehow yet not officially recognized as a terrorist state.
> Absolutely no, because if you are making first steps, you need generalize approach and not selectively target companies

This is an engineering mindset. I’m not aware of any other social media platform that is currently in TikTok’s position wrt affiliation with a geopolitical adversary. I’m not arguing that there shouldn’t also be a comprehensive solution, but right now, it seems clear that TikTok stands alone in terms of why it’s being targeted.

> What's wrong with this exactly? You have rights to call your congress representatives when you need them, it is normal and expected in functioning democracy, why this is an exception?

This isn’t about our rights to call our congresspeople. Of course everyone calling has that right.

At issue is the source of that influence. Outside of the TikTok conversation, such influence is “foreign interference”, “election meddling”, etc. The concern boils down to: are we comfortable with a major foreign government holding the keys to one of the biggest megaphones in existence?

It’s a brilliant play, really. “Direct” interference in the form of targeted advertising and misinformation is something most users find themselves hostile towards. But a social media app that everyone loves is the perfect Trojan horse and in a hypothetical situation where influence was applied in an effort to achieved darker goals, the CCP’s biggest defenders will be their targets. Hypothetically.
Whatever else, it is to YC’s credit that they don’t censor criticism of themselves on their own platform.
I don't really mind that per se.

What I do mind is the government letting domestic companies run roughshod over the population with surveillance/influence for the past few decades, and then when a significant enough foreign company finally does it, focusing on that foreign company while continuing to ignore the longstanding deeper problem.

Rather than focusing on TikTok, how about a general solution of a US GDPR plus anti-trust enforcement (or even additional regulation) to stop this widespread bundling of client apps with publishing services? Then people would have the right to inspect/delete records TikTok keeps about them, independent clients for TikTok would have a toggle of whether to show recommendations provided by the TikTok service, and the US government would have a much stronger case to go after TikTok if they didn't comply with either general legal requirement.
I think all the streaming providers know adding fees like that is going to lock customers into streaming services, and not necessarily their streaming services. People would be way less likely to subscribe to watch one show if they had to pay fees for either activating or cancelling the subscription.
And you don't have that problem on public cloud VMs?
And they ("old executives with old mindsets") brought it on themselves by fracturing the market into 50+ different streaming services, and then playing "round-robin" games with shows (a given show bounces around among each service for a short time before it moves on to the next).

If they ("old executives with old mindsets") want the warm cozy feeling of the old cable bundle (customers paid for the monthly subscription regularly each month), they need to provide one single streaming service that people can sign up for, that streams /everything/ for a reasonable monthly fee (and cable bundle pricing levels is not "reasonable").

They always forget that their true competitor is the piracy scene, and the only benefit they can offer to overcome "free of charge" is an "easy and convenient one to find what a subscriber wants, when they want it". And 50+ different streaming services with shows always shuffling around from one to the next is very far from "easy and convenient".
> (And note that "something" and "nothing" in that sentence are terms of art with more precise meanings than the colloquial ones.)

Bingo. You are using a much more specific definition than I was. As the other person commenting said - I was rather hoping you would grasp the spirit of my point rather than zoning on the rather hastily chosen examples. But let's stick with that for a moment.

I picked "Why is there something rather than nothing" because it's often used as the poster-child of unanswerable yet important questions. You have to understand it in that spirit and interpret "everything" and "nothing" in the broadest possible terms.

I wasn't claiming anything about the cosmology or quantum fields - I'm saying that "when you take into account everything science will ever be able to touch - there will be something that remains unknowable. (you'll find that at least since Kant, this is a fairly uncontroversial viewpoint within Epistemology and the Philosophy of Science)

I think maybe the reason you struggle to appreciate the value of philosophy is because you use the irreducible wiggle room that is always present in language to frame discussions in such a way so that philosophy is always at a disadvantage. You're straw-manning rather than strong-manning my points and you seem very keen to frame me as some anti-science merchant of woo. (A characterisation which anyone that knows me would have highly amusing)

I am a huge believer in the scientific method and it's primacy. But I don't believe anyone with any degree of reflection can maintain the view that every fact about reality will one day fall to science.
No one is arguing that the "whole internet" is a propaganda machine
> Someone needs to look in the mirror.

Your entire comment is a weak attempt to justify an emotional response on non-existent grounds and making shit up (wow, people have to update their understanding of classifications, such hard, so never happens), and you waste more time on a subject you complain is a waste of time.

You really should talk to your therapist about your unhealthy relationship with pluto.
The 'AIA's also have a scaling limit, and the coordination overhead increases exponentially too.

e.g. A million chickens could have a thousand times more muscle mass than two strong oxen, but I doubt anyone could plow a field even 2x faster with a million chickens.

So it's only a net benefit when the work can be split up into tiny parallel chunks and then recombined with near perfect efficiently.
I forget the number of ads that are on YouTube until I leave my network bubble.
Disclaimer: I worked for, and helped start, a company that contracted with Tsinghua University. The list of demands they had was....well, enormous. We couldn't even say that we were our own company, whenever we faced a client within Tsinghua, we had to tell them that we were an operation owned and run by Tsinghua. Why? Because we weren't Chinese.

>* Can you blame them for not wanting it?*

No, I don't blame them at all. I applaud it, considering the fact that I find modern social media to be cancerous and dumb.

>you can play WoW in China because unlike Facebook it's not involved in censorship, severe privacy violations etc. and Blizzard actually worked with China (NetEase)

You're omitting details. Blizzard didn't "work with" NetEase, they basically gave them the IP and ability to sell the game in China as well as ownership of all servers that host Chinese players. Microsoft did the same thing with their Office suite and Azure cloud services....because they aren't allowed to independently operate in China.

BTW as much as you think it's a private company, NetEase is an arm of the Chinese government.

>The West just wants to counter-block Chinese apps like TikTok in retaliation for them upholding their own rule of law.

Not quite. China is extremely protectionist of their own homegrown companies. They don't allow foreign competition. This creates an uneven playing field. The west simply wants to play by those rules, too.
Maybe that type of content is illegal in China but not it the US?
> Looks like the media cares about facts

You made me spit out my coffee. The media literally made up fake news about the Tesla strike in Sweden. This is coming from someone who argued for year up until covid that fake news was exclusive to the right wing. It sad to see liberals and liberal media slip so much
How does it compare to e.g. fusion-lang? Does anyone actually use any of the "universal languages" in production?
Surely it could just include jq.

https://jqlang.github.io/jq/
Electoral ballots have often listed the candidates in alphabetic order, but some studies have suggested that it gives a small benefit, to the first person listed. [1] Many election authorities, in Canada at least, have shifted to randomizing the order in some way [2]. Some people have even played with alphabetic sort for novelty purposes; a man in Ontario changed his legal name to "Above Znoneofthe" so he would appear last on the ballot as "Znoneofthe, Above".

[1] https://electionlab.mit.edu/research/ballot-order-effects

[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-do...