skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started attending a monthly Halo 3 LAN party last year. It's all flatscreens and current-gen consoles running MCC, and we all have to juggle the schedule around our adult responsibilities now, but it's still such a blast to get together with ~30 people and yell at each other from throughout the house.
I would just like to take this opportunity to complain about Windows file paths and especially parsing them in cross-platform software like a web server that joins request paths that always use / to Windows filepath roots that may or may not use \. I also hate that Windows paths are limited to 260 characters !?

Seriously, in Caddy, I have some of the most bizarre special code paths for Windows. For example: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/blob/c6eb186064091c79f4...

Can someone who understands and appreciates the way Windows does files please help me appreciate it too?

This article did not help me have gratitude for Windows: https://www.fileside.app/blog/2023-03-17_windows-file-paths/

> we realise that we can construct an almost unlimited number of different path strings that all refer to the same directory.

:o
I don't think i've even once encountered a link to threads, not here, not on reddit, and not on any website i visit.

So perhaps anecdotal, but i'm highly suspicious of this report.
Micro – A Go service development platform
> Inflation would mean that the nominal revenues of EU companies would also increase to the same extent.

Only if their customers are not from EU (aka their customers pay in USD instead of EUR) or if the company increases pricing to match the inflation on a regular basis (while managing to not lose any customers).

With the first scenario being a very specific edge case, and the second scenario being borderline impossible, I don’t see the inflation being a nothingburger here. Otherwise, the Nigerian companies wouldn’t care about the inflation either.
How is this news, people at raves knew about MDMA's effect on 5-HT receptors back in the 1990s. Lots of people would take 5-HTP after a party to fend off Tuesday morning blues.

MDMA’s psychotherapeutic value may lie in its ability to strengthen the patient-therapist relationship, thereby facilitating talk therapy sessions

That sounds like a recipe for transference (patients projecting feelings onto therapists, including romantic attractions). The mouse study seems well designed and all, just don't think this Skinner box approach to psychotherapy is the right approach.
i think i sold my apple stock at $10/share. I also had my finger on the buy button for AIG at around $1/share in the depths of the financial crisis but didn't do it. Now I just stick to code, my 401k, and company RSUs heh.
Shouldn't Teams, Zoom, Slack interoperate securely for the Feds? Wyden is asking
It’s always a good sign when an architecture diagram has Nginx + Lua in it. The Lua memory leak bug is a good example of why it saves SO MUCH time to use managed services like Browserless to do things at scale. When you DIY, you end up debugging a ton of these little things when there is much higher ROI code you could be writing.
IBM has ~280,000 employees. There's no sensible way for a company like IBM to be acquired by a startup.
I also found dndkit and built a very complex/robust drag and drop form builder with it. It gave me nice abstractions for custom collision detection without worrying about the browser implementation. Highly recommended.
How would that be enforced??
Most of these leverage the native drag and drop primitive APIs, which are going to be slightly slower on any touch device.

There's a series of events that could be fired, depending on what the user is trying to do, and initiating a drag is lower than waiting to see if they are making a gesture or clicking / tapping something.
Infiniband is a network too…

But even if we set that aside you’ll get access to your data over a network connection because these are expensive nodes running batch jobs with finite disk space, not personal workstations.
> It has gone from "not a ban" because they just have to sell, to "not a ban" because because the website is still available

These are both true, though. Again, if you want to see a ban, look at how Facebook is treated by China.

But fair enough, people are using the term "ban" inconsistently. I wouldn't say anyone's moving the goalposts as much as we're using an ambiguous term interchangeably.

> If France said they were going to ban NVDA unless NVDA sells to a French national we would call it a ban

This is tautology. You literally said if Sally were to do X to Andy unless {}, then X = X.

> Nobody sits around pontificating that it technically wasn't a ban because all Google needed to do what follow Chinese law on censorship

You can't go to Google.com in China. You will be able to go to TikTok.com and access its content freely after it's been, per your definition, banned. From a free-speech perspective, that seems material.

I get your point from a free-trade perspective. This is obviously not a free-trade bill. Maybe that's where the discussion is losing traction...
The construction of the mafioso social capital and the Sack of Palermo (2023)
Do you feel it’s possible to get information that isn’t filtered or influenced by the US government?

Aka how confident are you that the information you are getting today is honest, accurate and not influenced in any way? That you get the full picture, the good and the bad?

While I do feel like my personal views are more aligned with the US / west. I’m not convinced im getting balanced information. Its a little naive to suggest that only our enemies are doing propaganda.
>Co-ops are of course worse for investors.

What investors?
This is... terrible advice, on a number of different points.

1000 ft in an airplane is not the height of a 45 story building, its about double that, and it feels very different from looking out of a building. The rest of the advice about altitude is just confusing.

The famous saying is "in an emergency: aviate, navigate, communicate". What that means is that step two should not be communicate, it should be your last priority, even in this situation. You should get the plane flying straight and level before you try to figure out radios. Don't firewall the throttle before pulling it back an arbitrary amount, make radio calls, then fly the plane, then figure out where to go.

Simply put, this is confusing advice from the perspective of a pilot. I can't imagine how confusing it would be to someone completely freaked out with no experience staring death in the face.
Do you consider Google banned in China? The CCP had stipulations for Google's continued business in China. It was unable/unwilling to follow them, so Google left (voluntarily, infact).

I've never seen anyone argue that Google isn't technically banned in China. It's clearly a ban when China does it.
I wonder if they couldn't sell to a more "friendly" to China country somewhere in Europe and then backdoor info out of there? Away from NSA/SS/FBI scanning and FISA courts. That would seem to be the best of all worlds for ByteDance if they could make it hard to audit the potential company and if the court challenge fails to have the whole thing dismissed as unconstitutional.
This has nothing to do with class warfare. We're talking about individuals who make several orders of magnitude more money than regular employees, despite the impossibility of demonstrating that they add an equivalent amount of value to the organization. The idea isn't "everyone should make the same amount", the idea is that pay should be proportional to one's value add.
or its shiny because vacuum hardware is routinely electropolished?
I wonder... that was about the age when I found out:

"twinkle twinkle little star" = "abc song"
I never said the content would be impossible to access given the use of a VPN. The comment I responded to implied that they thought TikTok would be available simply by using a Chinese domain name. Granted, Douyin does have a Chinese domain name, but it does not have the content on TikTok.
"golden handcuffs" they call them.
Totally agree and that's why X and TikTok are so precious when the US gov's propaganda is omnipresent on all other social networks (not even talking about traditional media...)
I was always in favor of banning it for this reason, but I'm concerned that Biden is now banning it for a different reason. The timing is interesting. Certain lobby groups have been urging Congress on this due to TikTok videos about the war in Gaza. Then again, Trump was also trying to ban it for his own reasons.
Don’t be too sure about your assessment of American politics. We have one major political party who is at least half in the bag for Russia during a war of aggression.
It is finally time for the Year of Linux on Mobile? Probably not lol but maybe this will push people to learn how to sideload or "tiktok install services" might crop up to do so. Maybe this might force Apple to open up iOS also if enough users go to sideloaded Android to get their tiktok fix.

Correct me if I am wrong but Didn't Epic also get removed from the Android and Apple stores? They are still going somehow though.
Since LLMs are loosely based on NM models, it seems research on newer sampling methods like Mirostat might help here.
Nah, most people only have consolidated radio stations, they play national playlists of soup.

If you still have independent stations which pay actual radio DJs empowered to craft their sets, cherish them.
Speak for yourselves... I'm flying to Seattle to LAN next month! :P
That’s natively supported with the HTML5 drag and drop API using dataTransfer. React-beautiful-dnd didn’t support that because they were basically reimplementing the whole thing from scratch and bypassing the browser’s dnd stuff.
The US would not block the sale.
Rules could never work for translation unless the incoming text was formatted in a specific way. Eg, you just couldn't translate a conversation transcript in a pro-drop language like Japanese into English sentence-by-sentence, because the original text just wouldn't have sentences in it. So you need some "intelligence" to know who is saying what.
Hashi code, such as Terraform, was (is) an amazing example of a good reference Go codebase. It was very hard for me to get into Go because, outside of the language trivia and hype, it was hard to learn about the patterns and best practices needed for building even a mid-sized application.
There is another possibility. TikTok exits the us market.
> And noticing your lack of argument in support of a company you confuse with a sport club is not an insult, by the way.

I have no idea why you think I think OpenAI is a sports club. That's so weird I have to assume it's an auto-corrupt and not even what you intended to write.

I have no idea why you think a bunch of counter-examples isn't an argument, or why they are shallow — they demonstrate that you are just plain wrong. The only other people I've met who think that counter-examples weren't arguments, were… as I recall, two biblical literalist-fundamentalists and one politician. Oh, and someone who refused to accept that encryption was a good idea and government backdoors a bad idea, but otherwise I can't categorise them because they were a random Twitter account and it was a decade ago. And, now I think about it, someone who got themselves banned from HN for repeatedly insulting anyone who preferred electric/PV over hydrogen/nuclear.

And given that it is your previous comment which is in the grey as I write this, I think you need to look in a mirror before calling my words "clumsy".
IBM will gut everything to the bone and send most of the jobs to India.

There will be nothing worth of using pretty soon as we will all move to the next big foss thing.
They could work on a "good enough" algorithm that is basically already in public/open source domain when they sell it. 80% of its value is captive audience and "cool factor" with younger users.
> The loss of TikTok is the destruction of Americans to access content that isn't filtered through US hegemony.

Meta's arcane moderation decisions apply to other platforms than their own? Go to reddit, to youtube, or to twitter, and you can find the most vile, unfiltered opinions on Israel and Palestine known to man.

Americans aren't missing out on any content at all. The only thing that will be destroyed is China's fast lane to American eyes.
Whether we optimize for widgets per hour or dollars per hour, we end up at the same place: a ravenous, soul-crushing machine consuming blood and sweat to produce a bigger number. This is the result the industrial revolution has wrought.
Congress to Mr. Rogers: I think you just earned $20M (1969)
Who hasn't lied to Congress at this point? Facebook did it, Amazon did it, the oil industry did it, Betsy DeVos did it, the director of the CIA did it, EPA Chief Scott Pruitt did it, Big Tobacco did it. How many of them faced any real consequences?
Hmm not sure I agree. It can be helpful to have access to social media that contains perspectives outside of the control of the country you live in. Sure will it be slanted or even outright propaganda ? Yes but this is still okay as we can teach people to critically think and make their own decisions. The idea that our “government” will curate content and sanctify what is true is simply dystopian.

Citizen these social media sites and these news sources are safe. We have curated this list for your safety and that of the community at large.

Geez things have gotten bad in a hurry :(
For those interested in finding new music, let me strongly recommend some good radio station youtube channels. KEXP and KCRW both come time mind. In that vein, sometimes you can find good new music through labels. For example, 4AD. I'm not sure why, but YouTube often suggests good stuff seemingly at random, especially in the electronica genre. Radio stations have music only streams on their websites, too. I've often found artists I like going to local shows and paying attention to who they like. YMMV

It also helps to pay attention to the bands you like and where they end up. For example, the band Marriages split up and Emma Ruth Rundle went solo and the guitarist started Drab Majesty.
> wonder if they couldn't sell to a more "friendly" to China country somewhere in Europe and then backdoor info out of there?

It only counts if "the President determines, through an interagency process, would result in the relevant foreign adversary controlled application no longer being controlled by a foreign adversary" [1].

So presumably if a pair of Hungarian millionaires show up and place a bid, there would be additional questions.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521... 2(g)(6)*
Keep in mind the politicians who pushed this stuff are so old they still think in terms of physical assets and not digital. By banning something they think its like blocking a ship entering port. We will have to see how things play out but if ByteDance moves faster to circumvent rules than the government can update the rules they might be able to establish a consistent loyal foothold no matter whatever the government will do.
Is reality labs where they're hiding all the infra spend for meta AI?
The bigger issue is why should we be forced to subject our biology to the pathogens in the office. Why should I have to sacrifice my health?
good, not only is it malware/spyware, the chinese government can shape the beliefs and behaviors of > 100,000,000 americans at the flip of a switch. albeit users are idiots for giving their attention in the first place. and because capitalism = god, will probably end up selling to the saudis.
emergency autolanding

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland
All sane virus designers test their creations against all the leading anti virus software.

AV software will only detect known viruses for which a signature exists, or poorly coded/tested ones that are caught by AV heuristics.
This is unnecessarily dismissive.

While Hashicorp hasn’t been exciting for a while, I fail to see how an acquisition from IBM will invigorate excitement, much less even a neutral reaction from many developers.

Hashicorp had a huge hand in defining and popularizing the modern DevOps procedures we now declare as best practices. That’s a torch to hold that would be very difficult for a business like IBM.

Perhaps I missed some things but the core of Ansible feels like it’s continuing it’s path to be much less of a priority over the paid value-adds. I can’t help but to think the core of Hashicorp’s products will go down this path, hence my pessimism.