skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seriously the people who say "there is money to be made by lying about climate change" and then pointing to the few millions of dollars available in public research into climate and NOT the trillions of dollars from multiple countries in selling energy in the form of carbon bonds are just goofy.

These are the kind of people that had to cheat off you to pass biology yet insist that "the immune system works like this"
A video essay about the social impact of American Idiot and similar records from that period: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehbgAGlrVKE

Been a while but I thought it was pretty interesting when I watched it, coming from a black metal and punk background that was too underground when that pop cultural thing happened to notice.
QAnon was massive on TikTok in 2019/2020, to the point that TikTok took measures to address it, blocking hashtags and banning accounts.

There seems to still be a large conspiratorial rabbit hole on TikTok that still leads to QAnon influencers (using more generalized hashtags and catch all conspiracies).
First of all, I predict that approximately zero people will change their behaviors because of this study. So saying "people need studies to tell them" is a bit much.

> We've known for all of history that...

I don't want to go too far into the epistemological weeds here, but we've also known that the earth was the center of the solar system and that many health problems are caused by an imbalance of the humors.
I'm curious about your experience with older men not playing video games? I'm in my mid-thirties and I would say that the overwhelming majority of my male friends and co-workers play video games recreationally. Video games are more popular and accessible than ever, so I guess I'm confused about why someone would age-out of the hobby?
Ah, sorry for the misunderstanding. I thought your bio's New Yorker mention was in regard to HN New Yorker piece. I have thought that for years now.

As far as your flag, fair enough.
>I haven't seen anything from TikTok that wouldn't fly on discord or reddit, for example.

You only need to compare TikTok to it's US rival Reels. A majority of the pro-palestine is suppressed on Reels. The loss of TikTok is the destruction of Americans to access content that isn't filtered through US hegemony.

[1] https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/...
It's genuinely remarkable to witness the Democratic Party spurn their base of young people for no discernible gain. Who exactly is the constituency for this legislation other than China hawks?
On earth, not much. In interstellar space, could be useful.
It's so weird to me. My Facebook feed is dead, no one posts anymore. The last weeks they spam me with notifications about nothing to get me back in and creating fake engagement. "Peter you added as a friend in high school but have never spoken to since or ever interacted with on the platform commented on a meme page, check it out".
If I were a tech company who's service was about to be made illegal, I would certainly tell my users about it before I was shutdown. It would be pretty rude to suddenly cease function on them without letting them know why, and I think most users would like to know in advance of the service shutting down.

This could be interpreted as CCP manipulation, but what else did you expect them to do?
The Mandelbrot Nature of Modularization
Airlines, as well. COBOL is still running business and flight critical services.
Yet tsla is up 12%.

Someone make it make sense
Agreed.

And, fwiw, I know several people who work on the services side and it seems like a never ending deluge of tight deadlines and one-off work that doesn't add up to deep expertise like an engineering role would. It's like sprinting a slightly different race month after month: you work hard but never learn the course or how to run it better next time.

Would be interested to hear if any solutions engineers have a different perspective.
> Facebook was just banned in China from the start.

It was not. It was only banned in 2009 after it was allegedly used to organise protests that escalated into deadly race riots in Xinjiang.
Can you elaborate or provide a link to the KATUSA stuff?
Okay I clicked on an ad. It gave me a discount code, but that's not the first puzzle solution.
The US social media seems to be encouraging nationalism and conservatism. Which Im also not to happy about. It seems to be creating more unrest in the west rather than strength progress and unity.

China might not even need to influence the west through tiktok, meta and friends seem to be doing plenty of it themselves. None of it seem to be making us progress forward tbh
He clearly made it up during the interview.

I admit I spent more time right clicking -> 'search the web' for some of the words he used. Incredible vocabulary.. I have to use 'intellection' soon, I've needed to use a word like that before but couldn't find it.
> “IBM is purely IT. In fact, it’s hard to find a company that is as IT as IBM is,"

IBM is actually a group of lawyers disguised as a technology firm.
I expected this when the terraform license changed. Not IBM specifically but it was obvious they weren't interested/ able to continue with their founding vision.
My last LAN party (20 years ago):

* A few gallons of Code Red = $40

* Having a drive full of the latest cracked games = awesome

* Owning your friends face to face = better than awesome

* Given every game in existence, still playing a 4 hour Risk game because computer dice are bullshit = priceless
Pandora has introduced different tunings that help a bit with this. Not a continuous slider but provides some presets to indicate how wide a net to cast in different dimensions. Normal, Crowd Favorites, Deep Cuts, Discovery, Newly Release.
13% of the world population have an IQ higher than 117. That means that there is a billion non jew that has an IQ higher than the average Ashkenazi. Thus your arguments makes no sense. Even if every single jewish person had a high IQ, they will be less than 1% of the pool.
I hope this will show the severity of threats countries face from social media
and that things are no longer business as usual.

Every European country /and/or EU/ECC as a block, as well as every other nation or block, should follow this up as soon as permitted to have all social media apps operated by a foreign country be subject to the same legislation.

TikTok will have to sel to the US, Netherlands, France, Germany, Turkey, Gabon, Vietnam, Thailand, Mexico, Egypt etc etc etc.

That will of course also go for all other social networks as well.
The threats this bill highlights are universal to all social media operated
outside the control and ownership,

Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, WhatsApp, will either
have to stop operating outside of the Unites States or they will need to
be sold to every country they wish to operate in.

Certainly, a small state has the same rights and the same cause to protect
their citizens from the surveillance and manipulation from foreign owned social networks.

From a geek perspective this would be great.
We would get smaller entities that would need to interact with each other
in so far as that would be possible or attainable.
Padgett coins the word in the interview:

[m]ade-[u]p [p]eople [d]oing [m]ade-[u]p [t]hings. Let’s call that MUPDMUT. With some liberty, Mupdeemut
I swear this guy is the pinnacle of cheap wisdom. There are VC’s who are worse, but Seth never fails to disappoint.
I don't think this situation is the same thing as celebrating the success of others!

Of course in my neck of the woods (Silicon Valley) it's expected that all 50 year olds are multi millionaires, as all you need for that is have owned a house for a few decades.
Yeah that's a fair point. The purpose of the application isn't to provide fine-grained control over plugins etc yet.. However, I do intend to add settings configuration for some plugins. Which plugins I'll do this for depends on their popularity and whether they have WP-CLI compatibility built in.

In the meantime I may see if I can also embed the WP admin page so the user has quick access if they want to change anything.

Thanks for your feedback!
You are right, it is about the HN New Yorker piece. I'm in there for the big conclusion as a shit-talking forum schmoe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20527986

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/1154160128381181952/15...
> I don't think we have the correct word for what LLMs do but lie and hallucinations are not really correct.

I believe 'bullshit' is accurate, as in "The chatbot didn't know the answer, so it started bullshitting".
Anti Virus is a net good, although the entire OS industry understands that it is an outdated way of thinking about endpoint protection. You could say what you said about lots of software, including almost anything with a built in updating feature.

That in mind, there's no reason to use anything but Windows defender on Windows (unless youre a high value target)
I find this very interesting, as my path is nearly identical, with the added note (like some other replies) that I just can not stand 60s-70s rock any longer... but I find my musical interests are much wider, and I am listening to more new music than ever before (trance, IDM, experimental, jazz, classical).

I do know people who turn on some streaming service and basically listen to the same genre all day long. I am not sure how they do it. Maybe we are in some small demographic that goes nuts if we do not discover new music?
I held Quake LAN-party this weekend and it was so damn fun.

We played Deathmatch Dimension[1] which is a very recent map pack that's better than anything I played back in the day.

We use the Quakespasm Spiked source port.

[1] https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/dmd.html
The way you're describing it sounds to me like you are adding failure handling to handle cases where the programmer is intentionally misusing the thing. I would argue that in this type of situation, the error handling is not necessary because it would hide the fact that the thing is being misused.

Or perhaps I'm misunderstanding your comment. When you do `as OrgId` or `as UserId`, where do you envision those casts in ways that would require handling failures?
Placing a bet is one thing, but Facebook is spending enough money to fund a moderately sized country. I don't mind that they are doing it though, even though I think it's a terrible business decision. Facebook spends plenty of money on things that are worse for the world and maybe we'll eventually get some interesting tech out of it.
When my brother was getting married ~6 years ago, we ended his Bachelor Party with a LAN party.

Sure, we played games we would have normally played at our respective homes (Mostly League of Legends back then), but there's something different about having everyone in one place.

Now, we go to a semi-annual LAN event called PDXLAN [0]. It's an 800+ seat event in Ridgefield, WA (Just outside Portland, OR...it used to be held in Portland, but we out-grew the venue), sponsored by NVIDIA, Intel, MSI, and over a dozen other PC gaming hardware manufacturers. I've been going since 2016 and it's an absolute blast. There are gaming tournaments, but they really try to appeal to casual gamers as much as hardcore competitors. They've been running a Golf With Your Friends tournament at every event for a couple years now, and it's their most participated tournament.

[0] https://www.pdxlan.net/
Ask HN: Has ADHD Become Overdiagnosed?
In psychiatry, we have a problem: we cannot simply take a blood test or perform an MRI to determine a diagnosis.

Typically, psychiatrists make judgments based on what patients say, how they complete questionnaires, and so on.

In fact, if someone wants to get stimulants (or tranquilizers, in the case of GAD), it might be enough to describe symptoms that align with the diagnosis.

Many people argue, 'No, a competent psychiatrist will definitely know if you have ADHD, GAD, or any other condition.'

However, it seems to me that if you say "the right things", you can receive the diagnosis you desire and thus obtain a prescription for stimulants, for example.

Recently, my feed has become full of content about ADHD. I'm not claiming it doesn't exist or that it's not a problem, but it has started to feel "mainstream".

Just a couple of days ago, I saw a tweet where a girl on a beach was holding amphetamines and joking that she takes them to focus on relaxing.
Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act
Yeah this is what I plan to do, although it's not implemented yet.
Show HN: Desktop app that automates submission of SaaS to startup directories
Backlinks are super important when working to get your website/app to the top spot in search engines. Linklasso will automatically submit your SAAS to startup directories so you can get backlinks.
That doesn’t seem like what’s happening from first appearances. Looks like it’ll remain separate for now which means no RH influence to fix the licensing boondoggle.
Files are allowed to not have extensions. Wouldn't just * been enough?
QAnon related topics were banned in July/Aug 2020 and became community guidelines violations. Facebook did nothing about QAnon until post-January 6th.

Given the demographics of those most heavily influenced by QAnon, it's ridiculous to imply that Tiktok had even a 10th of the influence of Facebook wrt to QAnon.
Yeah that's spot on. I can shake off the unpleasant interactions. The death by a thousand low level demands wears on me more.
The Bill of Rights does not inherently apply to non-citizens. There's nothing stopping the people from running TikTok without government oversight. The only problem is that a foreign adversary controls it. This really is not comparable to China's restrictions.
I used to pay a lot of attention to the comments of certain HN users who made well reasoned but (with the clarity of hindsight) mostly doomer predictions about various topics. I wish I hadn't listened to them.
Fair points but with all due respect completely misses the point and context. My comment was a reply to a new user interested in esphome on a post about esphome.

You're talking about CircuitPython, 35KB web replies, PSRAM, UF2 bootloader, etc. These are comparatively very advanced topics and you didn't mention esphome once.

The comfort and familiarity of Amazon for what is already a new, intimidating, and challenging subject is of immeasurable value for a novice. They can click those links, fill a cart, and have stuff show up tomorrow with all of the usual ease, friendliness, and reliability of Amazon. If they get frustrated or it doesn't work out they can shove it in the box and get a full refund Amazon-style.

You're suggesting wandering all over the internet, ordering stuff from China (or Amazon for roughly 3x the cost of what I suggested), multiple vendors, etc while describing a bunch of things that frankly just won't matter to them. I say this as someone who has been an esphome and home assistant user since day one. The approach I described has never failed or remotely bothered me and over the past ~decade I've seen it suggested to new users successfully time and time again.

In terms of PSRAM to my knowledge the only thing it is utilized for in the esphome ecosystem is higher resolution displays and more advanced voice assistant scenarios that almost always require -S3 anyway and are a very advanced, challenging use cases. I'm very familiar with displays, voice, the S3, and PSRAM but more on that in a second...

> live with one less LX7 core and no Bluetooth

I'm the founder of Willow[0] and when comparing Willow to esphome the most frequent request we get is supporting bluetooth functionality i.e. esphome bluetooth proxy[1]. This is an extremely popular use case in the esphome/home assistant community. Not having bluetooth while losing a core and paying more is a bigger issue than pin spacing.

It's also a pretty obscure board and while not a big deal to you and I if you look around at docs, guides, etc, etc you'll see the cheap-o boards from Amazon are by far the most popular and common (unsurprisingly). Another plus for a new user.

Speaking of Willow (and back to PSRAM again) even the voice assistant satellite functionality of Home Assistant doesn't fundamentally require it - the most popular device doesn't have it either[2].

Very valuable comment with a lot of interesting information, just doesn't apply to context.

[0] - https://heywillow.io/

[1] - https://esphome.io/components/bluetooth_proxy.html

[2] - https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/thirteen-usd-voi...
The paper you linked to mentions "self correction", which seems to be something else. Chain of thought is a form of self reflection. It enables the LLM to "think" through each step and evaluate each step in relation to the entire context window. That is evaluation of each thought in relation to its previous thoughts. Thinking about its thoughts.
There wasn't anything anyone could do to prevent this.

Maybe they are not talking about you personally. There seems to be strong evidence for time outside being a contributing factor, as one example. That doesn't automatically discount your personal experience, but at the same time any HN reader is well aware the label placed on data from one's personal experience.

--

A guy who also has probably been near-sighted since birth
I worked for IBM in early 2010s and Universities were also one of their customers for business analytics.
I interpreted it differently. That Biden was putting national interests ahead of reelection interests. That said, I should caveat that I tend not to read US based news cause it’s a cesspool of outrage based clickbait.
The way I’ve been thinking about this is that you shouldn’t jump on every idea you have.

You can acknowledge the ideas, but if you jump on every one that comes to mind, your life ends up being extremely chaotic.

However, if you find yourself thinking about a certain idea a lot of times, it might be worth considering it, because your subconscious might be trying to tell you something.
Launching soon, the playground :
1. Collaborative playground with history
2. Prompt management and deployment controls
3. Backtest changes and confidently update models
4. Capture feedback and run quantitative experiments

Feedbacks and comments are most welcome
De-facto international antitrust, I like it.
The idea is primarily an aspirational vision and call-to-action to attract open source collaborators, rather than representing an active chip development effort.
Feel free to contribute and lets build this together
Show HN: Dummy DB Data Generator for Load Testing
This CLI tool allows you to efficiently generate a large amount of dummy data in a database.

It supports both PostgreSQL and MySQL and provides a flexible configuration file to specify which tables and columns to populate.
4k context. With a sliding window in the works. Is this for chats only?
You're right, it's "US ownership or get banned".

Not just tiktok either, this will wind up applying to many companies.
You're focusing too much on the what and not the why. Banning all foreign business in certain market segments to protect your domestic industry is fine (because it's all countries) Banning Chinese businesses because we're imposing trade restrictions with China is fine (because it affects everyone). Hell banning specific companies because they don't comply with local laws is fine too (because it's the same rules for everyone).

Fuck this one particular subsidiary majority owned by a Chinese company rubs me the wrong way because China doesn't do this to us. As a general rule US companies can operate in China and US companies are allowed to own stake in Chinese companies.

To me this is an escalation of the fair-weather, "I don't like you, you don't like me but we can still be professionals when it comes to mutually beneficial trade" attitude we've had.
When it comes to handwritten numbers, Brits frequently mistake German ones for sevens, and Germans British sevens for ones.
VyOS is a great piece of software. I wish more people knew about it!
What do you expect? A finished repo falling from the sky :-) Hard work is needed so join the movement
Sports Schedules for Your Calendar
Build a custom calendar feed of your favorite sports teams and view that custom feed on your own calendar. Season ticket holders and everyday fans alike, it's great to know the game schedules at a glance on your own calendar.

The site also has support for "playoffs," which includes all games currently for the NBA / NHL post-season.
And if you'd like to try it out: https://www.geo-fs.com/
Up next: directed EMP guns for self-defense against "ideas" like this
Right, but there are times when structural typing is not the right choice. And runtime checking is ... suboptimal. I mean, saying runtime checking is the right choice is like saying a type system isn't necessary, because you have automated tests. They're great, and they're a tool that provides value... but so too are types.
That's how I've often seen it implemented as well. There's absolutely no point to OKRs when used that way, I assume its a sign that someone pushed through a big change in the name of efficiency and got a nice promotion out of it without anyone checking to see if it actually helped.
Lots of discussion around this today - figured I'd post the raw text of the bill that was actually signed into law, H.R.815 - "Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes."

The bill itself does single out ByteDance presumably to ensure that they have no way of skirting around the whole Foreign Adversary Controlled thing, but separately from that, the bill is pretty specific around how it's determining whether an app is owned or beneficially controlled by a country that's an adversary of the United States.

Specifically:

> (4) FOREIGN ADVERSARY COUNTRY.—The term “foreign adversary country” means a country specified in section 4872(d)(2) of title 10, United States Code.

The related section: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/4872
We have published some insights here.
https://medium.com/snowflake/snowflake-arctic-cookbook-serie...
All of our global companies do what China wants to operate there, and what they ask is a lot more onerous than to spin out a separate entity for local operation.

At least the US is trying to protect the privacy of its citizens in this case. The CCP meanwhile required Apple to prevent Airdrop from functioning properly in China in order to stop the spread of information between protest groups.
> I always thought that the point was to not be like authoritarian countries.

No, the point is to not give authoritarian countries a free pass.

This is like saying we shouldn't put people in jail for murder because it's effectively kidnapping and that would make us like them.
1 million MAU is nothing. Throw up AdSense on something that gets 1m MAU and that pays for a single developer. Also, I don't like the President getting this kind of power over businesses. It's bad enough when they can make angry Twitter threats... now they can give them a corporate death penalty.
Everything starts with an idea and builds on it. Step by step and stone for stone.
Today's VR is good, but not $100B market good. The SV managerial class has read too much into all the NYT bestsellers about "disruptive innovation" and now every goddamn product category must be "disruptive". Nothing can "just exist" anymore...