skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never worked there, but I worked at a security company that hired a bunch of ex-IBM X-Force security guys, and they hated IBM with a passion.

Self selection, to be sure, but their beefs were mostly about the crushing bureaucracy that was imposed on what was supposed to be a nimble type domain; (network) security is, after all, mostly leapfrog with the black hats.
I'm very late to this - how do you ban something on the internet? Can't they just keep operating and people will learn how to sideload the app or use a VPN to get it or whatever they need to do? Presumably it will mean some friction but couldn't the company just call the bluff?
I would caution against the bring your own example. I’ve found myself nodding off and getting distracted because while it may seem interesting and important to you, and you may have done something legitimately cool, it may not be interesting to me, you may be bad at presenting it, you don’t have sufficient time to go into sufficient detail, or I may not have the requisite background to understand in the limited amount of time we’d have together. I think it tests things that aren’t a good signal.
I don't see vouchers mentioned in the article and the official post is pretty clear that refunds must be in the original form of payment. And automatic.

https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/biden-harris-ad...
Windows kind of does have that. They call it the global catalog or Win32 Device Namespaces.

somehow C: is easier to type than \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolume2\ or \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\Harddisk0\Partition2\ or even \\?\Volume{1ab2d2f9-230f-4c63-bc25-163c085334df}\ though.
I'm not entirely sure what you're saying is different here.

I picked the first MSFT page on argv, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-language/parsing-c-c... and compiled and ran that program with various command lines, and it does exactly what I expected (argv array members are tokenized according to my quoting).

Could you be clearer, perhaps by posting a simple C example and a few command lines demonstrating what you mean?
Has anyone ever studied how the War On Darkness (the elimination of dark nighttime) might be affecting our eyesight (or other facets of our health)?
No, I'm not concerned. When an AI is trained on a largely raw, uncurated set of low-quality data (eg most of the public internet), it's going to miss subtle distinctions some humans might prefer that it make. I'm confident that pretty quickly the majority of the general public using such AIs will begin to intuitively understand this. Just as they have developed a practical, working understanding of other complex technology's limitations (such as auto-complete algorithms). No matter how good AI gets, there will always be some frontier boundary where it gets something wrong. My evidence is simply that even smart humans trying their best occasionally get such subtle distinctions wrong. However, this innate limitation doesn't mean that an AI can't still be useful.

What I am concerned about is that AI providers will keep wasting time and resources trying to implement band-aid "patches" to address what is actually an innate limitation. For example, exception processing at the output stage fails in ways we've already seen, such as AI photos containing female popes or an AI lying to deny that HP Lovecraft had a childhood pet (due to said pet having a name that was crudely rude 100 years ago but racist today). The alternative of limiting the training data to include only curated content fails by yielding a much less useful AI.

My, probably unpopular, opinion is that when AI inevitably screws up some edge case, we get more comfortable saying, basically, "Hey, sometimes stupid AI is gonna be stupid." The honest approach is to tell users upfront: when quality or correctness or fitness for any given purpose is important, you need to check every AI output because sometimes it's gonna fail. Just like auto-pilots, auto-correct and auto- everything else. As impressive as AI can sometimes be, personally, I think it's still lingering just below the threshold of "broadly useful" and, lately, the rate of fundamental improvement is slowing. We can't really afford to be squandering limited development resources or otherwise nerfing AI's capabilities to pursue ultimately unattainable standards. That's a losing game because there's a growing cottage industry of concern trolls figuring out how to get an AI to generate "problematic" output to garner those sweet "tsk tsk" clicks. As long as we keep reflexively reacting, those goalposts will never stop moving. Instead, we need to get off that treadmill and lower user expectations based on the reality of the current technology and data sets.
The easiest way to understand this issue is to ask yourself why American social media companies can’t operate in China with the same level of operational freedom that Tik Tok can in the United States. Once you have those answers you will understand why it needs to be banned from the perspective of the United States.
The compliance with this law is anecdotally very poor. Swiss Airlines owes me thousands of Euros for missed connections but they contend that the situations were outside their control (some mechanical issue) and thus they refuse to compensate. I have a 200 long thread email chain spanning years with no progress. You can use services like Airhelp to get a refund but they take a huge commission and I am too stubborn to give in that way. Luckily the statute of limitations on these claims is 6 years so I have enough time to figure out how to make a complaint to the Swiss aviation authority.

Scanning a forum like flyertalk shows that most airlines basically refuse to voluntarily honor this law without being forced to in court (not even the threat of a lawsuit will get them to pay, you actually have to file it).
They only offer to rebook you on a flight in their own fleet though. E.g. i have been canceled on united due to “bad weather” halfway through a segment and was made to wait 4 days until the next united flight (there was a huge backlog). Instead, since i was stranded and absolutely needed to get to my destination, i had to buy a delta flight leaving that same night for $700 more than market value. United refused to compensate me for this. It’s bullshit.

Edit: oh by the way, i didn’t get refunded for the segment that flew me across the nation just to stand me in denver. The refund was prorated And only counted for the second segment.

Anyone who doesn’t think airlines need more regulations on cancellations and refunds clearly hasn’t flown regularly.
Aviate means to get the aircraft under control, straight and level as you say. Maintaining or correcting the position and direction of the aircraft, navigation, is of lower priority than keeping it under control. The idea behind the saying is to encourage the pilot to not prioritize maintaining altitude, heading, flight path, rules and regulations (or even following air traffic control instructions) over focusing on keeping the plane in the air. Communicating your situation, intent, and deviations to ATC and surrounding traffic is again a lower priority.
Wait. Am I missing something? Isn't that ~90m of car time assuming mild traffic?
> A US company would never be allowed to own any kind of social media company in China.

And it's even more implausible to think China would allow this as a result of a US law aimed at limiting China's power.

"Ban" is completely appropriate shorthand for "ban (unless something highly improbable occurs)."

We can say that Google and Facebook are "banned" or "censored" in China even though China would surely be happy to unban them if they sold their operations in China to a Chinese business. So it is consistent and fair to say that this bill "bans" or "censors" TikTok.
It wouldn't be 0 dollars, though; the majority of their users are apparently outside the US. So the question is: how does the amount you could get by selling a US-inclusive Tiktok compare the potential future earnings of a US-free Tiktok? If the market prices it accurately, you'd sort of expect the former to be higher (a US-inclusive version seems obviously more valuable), but maybe they think the market undervalues them, or maybe prospective buyers would smell blood in the water because of the deadline and try to low-ball, etc.
Wow, I read that thread with great interest at the time, and reading it now knowing about the acquisition is quite the mind blowing experience.
What? What's their strike price? If they are above the sale price their return is 0.
Remove the addiction algorithm?

You mean like Facebook, YouTube, and Starbucks?

Riiiggghhhttt…
I believe this will legally mandate that Google and Apple remove the app from their app stores. It will still be available online.
It also creates the bar of "can this person actually code" that fizzbuzz used to cover. I would take an unpaid assignment 10 times out of 10 instead of a stupid leetcode session.
And lets not forget the enormous number of English (and other) words imported into Japanese that look crazy to a non-Japanese speaker, but once you spell out the katakana you realize it is just English (e.g. ホテル / hoteru = hotel, シングルルーム / shingururūmu = single room)
But why is that a bad thing, China has the same regulations on companies not Chinese? Its not "better" algorithms its "weaponized" algorithms designed for specific populations including its own population which I imagine are not as damaging then the ones applied to others. My point is, of course this will be banned if the US gov cannot benefit from it and considered a threat to certain people.
I don't think anybody else here is talking about CreateProcess. We're talking about the shell.
Side note: Wow, ABC News is still on go.com. I worked at Disney from 2006-2015 and most people were baffled about what the heck go.com even was, and why things like ESPN, ABC, and a bunch of other big Disney properties were subdomains of it. It has a history going back to 22 years ago[1] when Disney tried running a portal with a search engine and email hosting. ESPN got off it in 2016, but I'm honestly shocked that ABC news isn't able to. Apparently it boils down to SEO?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go.com
Are we arguing different things? I.e. removing support for \ altogether from anywhere in the OS vs. not showing it in UIs?

I personally like the latter but it's a matter of taste I guess :-). It gives me warm and fuzzies to see C:\ D:\ etc. live on.
FWIW, I have never wanted to put a \ in a filename, but I have often wanted to put a / in a (pretty) filename, as / is used in standard English all the time; I then find myself using "-" instead and that makes me unhappy. I'd much rather have seen ^ as the escape character and \ as the path separator.
Intel has been thinking in detail about a streamlined x86 architecture that would ditch all of the cruft: 64-bit only, no memory segmentation, no real mode.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...
I admit that I didn't like Zuck before. But I have to say, I am becoming a big fan of him, primarily due to his strategy in ML/AI for Meta, and his willingness to burn cash to solve the problems of VR. Zuck is many things good and bad, but certainly one of those things is that he's a nerd who loves technology and wants to move it forward, and I can't help but respect that massively especially given his results.
I stopped reading at "I have asked GPT4". Write your own words.
Yeah I know that, just saying.
> The solution is more sunlight during childhood and early adult years.

Kids can go out front and stand there. And that's what they can do.

In FL they can do that in ~100° + ~100% humidity. School is out all summer to allow that. During not-summer months, kids have schools to keep them safely away from any not-awful weather. Because crops or something.
Ok, but if you agree it’s a problem and “why aren’t we also banning or more carefully regulating other social platforms”, I don’t disagree with you. Let’s. There’s broadly enough accepted truism that they do probably do pose a threat (not just to democracy, but in terms of harms).

But a foreign one that’s directly controlled by an adversary is certainly one we can tackle immediately and it’s easier to muster the political will. They don’t need to be connected. Of course it’s hard to trust the government when they have a history of lying, but there’s every reason to believe the threat they’ve been communicating out as real in the wake of the attacks the Russians launched on us in 2016 and given it’s an election year. It’s like all those people who didn’t trust when Biden said Putin was gearing to attack Ukraine imminently.

On the other hand, there is reason to be skeptical of that claim since the tiktok ban won’t happen until well after the 2020 election. So maybe it is the US trying to kill a major tech adversary that’s managed to dethrone our own oligopoly in the space. But that’s the starting point of the argument - is it really going to be used by the Chinese governments for election meddling or is it protectionism to hide the rot within the US regulatory framework that’s simply entrenched interests.
Generating code is a nice gimmick but you are better off following tutorials and googling how to build an app, for now.

It takes longer to debug chatgpt hallucinations than writing the code from docs.

You could try RAG, maybe to help you search for information in documentation
It opened instantly and worked smoothly in Firefox on my 8 year old android.
I don't know, it seems everyone has different idea of what meditation is and if it doesn't work for me I will be told I am doing it wrong in some way. At least CBT seems to have a clear enough definition and instructions.
I don't think they were flying SFO to SJC, rather they considered rebooking to SJC to avoid the delays at SFO
Yes, you are missing something. Because you're seeing tiktok as a product, not as a community of millions of people. There are tens of thousands of small family-owned businesses that are only able to survive because of Tiktok. For a lot of the younger crowd, Tiktok is part of social culture. Cutting out a part of someone's life like that is not a decision that should be taken lightly at all.

Peace.
You can put slashes in filenames in MacOS's Finder app. If you use ls to view the filename, you'll see colons where Finder shows slashes.
Having known a McKinsey consultant in the past, my general heuristic is that everything negative reported in the media about it is completely true, along with a heap of insider trading and conflict of interest that doesn’t get reported in the media.
Because each airlines knows their competitors will lose margin if fares don't go up. The new rules are more expensive. So someone will raise the fares, and the competition won't significantly undercut the pricing change.
Not OP but I would assume that because they where still somewhat isolated groups in terms of directly lived culture, this would have influenced their works differently.

Like how the Blues didn't come out of a comfortable lifestyle.
> unless the passenger chooses another form of compensation

This is the bit. How much you wanna bet they’ll find ways to use this to screw people?
How does China ban Facebook?

Rhetoric aside, it will be done through blocking commercial activity on US soil. The US government can seize tiktok.com for example.
Companies that are export controlled have military tech. The idea that a social media app would have a poison pill for export control is ridiculous and shows how owned these supposedly independent companies really are.
Messenger, whatsapp, instagram.

Also, there's a lot more people using FB than you think. Most people over the age of 50 are on FB, not IG/reddit/Tiktok
I feel like we can be more evolved than this. This mentality is not a sustainable strategy.
> So it's basically a pipe growing on its merry way then slams on the brake and by some means grows a disk 90° to the direction it was growing before it stopped

It’s always growing up, even as it creates a node. The way it works is the hormones shoot down the stem from the tippy top (where the growth is happening) and tell a lower part of the plant to create a node there (even as the top continues to grow up)
Yes, but then there would be runtime overhead for the wrapper (presuming a class or object is returned) or the type of accountId would be the underlying type (if AccountId isn't returning a branded type).
I admit I'm uncomfortable explaining it by skin color, but I've never found anybody who has been able to explain to me what the difference is, and I will admit lacking the musical knowledge to explain it. I fell into that style from dancing Lindy Hop; I was loving the music I was hearing when I was out dancing, so I went and bought an album from the only name I knew at the time - Glenn Miller. It was some of the most boring and trite music I'd ever heard in my life, and did not inspire me to dance.

For me (and I don't judge people for thinking differently) there's a certain joie de vivre in the music that is just lacking from what white musicians released commercially. I know they were capable of it (I once found a recording of Glenn Miller swinging it just as hard as anything Basie put out) but they were playing to their audience at the time. As I've learned more about the history of Swing and Lindy Hop, this was a specific choice made to "civilize" (as the white people of the time would have said) Jazz's savage rhythms. There's actually posters from the Arthur Murray school in the 1940s saying this exact thing.

(Aside, I had a friend who played a radio show in the 2000s playing old Jazz music. She told me once that if she put anything from a black musician on the show, she'd get hate mail from the listeners. Go figure.)
Don't think you're representative of the rest of the world.
Volkswagen rethinks EVs in China with bold ID Code concept
Well it's certainly at the whims of a network-effect, that's part of the reason alcohol prohibition was so insanely ineffective. There was more people who wanted alcohol than the ban could possibly handle.

I'd posit that indoor smoking bans wouldn't have been effective whatsoever if they were implemented in the 1970's rather than the 2000s, just for the simple fact that 40% of the population were smokers compared to around 20% when those bans came into effect. Additionally, the impact to smokers was that you needed to go outside to smoke, which is a pretty reasonable behavioral modification.

There's probably some really solid sociology based studies around where this prohibition effectiveness essentially falls apart.
If people agree they use the upvote button, because there isn’t much to talk about. It’s when people have differing opinions that they can use the comments to express them and talk it out. Discourse like that is good, as long as both sides approach it in good faith.

If everyone had the same opinions and thoughts there would be little value to the comments.
Oops, you’re right, I misremembered.
NIH seems to say it doesn't work:

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/low-dose-atrop...
Could you share a link to your game? I'd love to check it out.
Don't you remember when the FBI seized pirating sites?
Green Day got a lot of air time in the 90's but the playola effect (the not payola wink-wink that still went on) died out in the early-mid 00's as rock and alt rock stations folded with demographic changes and mp3 trading took off. Also overplayed on the radio: Sublime, Rush, Van Halen, RHCP, and Metallica.

As far as cultural impact over a larger timespan: Iron Butterfly, The Dead, Frank Zappa, Quiet Riot, Ozzy, MJ, Nirvana, Cake, AiC, NIN, Marilyn Manson, Soundgarden, TOOL, Beastie Boys, RATM, Kool Keith (and other aliases), Jay-Z (and Danger Mouse mixes), RZA (and family relations).
It actually shows half of the post followed by …, making you think that by clicking it you’ll see the rest. But then you get taken to the App Store to download Threads.
I have used for Python, Go and TypeScript.

For old things and extremely popular works very well.

For the rest is pure shit, same experience with copilot.
Haha I had this exact experience, we showed up for a Halo lan party (the original) and we were 15 and 16 thinking that we'd be driving out to the burbs to play some games with some people our age, we met on a local LAN forum board.

We rang the doorbell and an "older" man answered the door, and we were confused and said "uh we're here to see ____" and he was like "That's me."

For context all of our lan parties up to this point were us schlepping tube tvs around to various basements of our friends houses, occasionally getting to mooch some pizza off of someone.

Instead, we walk into the huge suburban house and there's four rooms with gigantic flat screen televisions setup for 16 player madness and the entire place is filled with adult couples, the men came to game and the women to socialize and cook and have fun.

They had an entire table of snacks and drinks and everything you could ever want as a wee gamer.

We were so blown away but they were super nice and didn't make us feel too awkward. When the game started they asked us how good we were, "uhh, we beat legendary" - they laughed and put us on the same team for the first round.

The second round we were not allowed to play on the same team, turns out the kids can game :)

We made long term friends and ended up scrimming and hanging out with people 20 and 30 years our senior, a total blast and yeah, I don't see me hanging out with 16 years today.
Unethical business idea:

1. Make a VERY lucrative well paid dev job posting (completely fake)
2. Make them do home assignment that is actual work that needs to be done. Make sure the candidate understand how important this assignment is for their chance to get hired.
3. Tell the candidate you are not moving forward with further interviews since their work was shite
4. Profit!!!
RSUs are regular shares, folks with options would have a different story.
> in the natural habitat, where does the typical canopy start

Doesn’t have to be driven by “natural habitat”, just the current environment. You are right though, the stalk wants to grow tall quickly (but not any taller than necessary, hence the successively increasing node distance in its “search”) until there is sufficient light, then it begins to disfavor further height growth in favor of increased density of leaves (nodes, where the leaves come from)
Your video codec should never create a 480p version at all. Downsampling is incredibly lossy. Instead stream the internal state of your network directly, effectively using the network to decompress your video. Train a new network to generate this state, acting as a compressor. This is the principle of neural compression.

This has two major benefits:

1. You cut out the low resolution half your network entirely. (Go check out the architecture diagram of the original post.)

2. Your encoder network now has access to the original HD video, so it can choose to encode the high-frequency details directly instead of generating them afterwards.
At VMware while looking for systems level engineers our team would give out a take home programming assignment and it was the most accurate measure of how good someone was. We’d give everyone the same test so it was easy to compare and it was quite niche so you couldn’t google an answer or ask someone else to do it. Not everyone has time to do it, but enough were that we found great candidates and didn’t hire any duds.

There was never a question (by us) about it being ethical. There was an initial engineering phone screen before we asked people to do this so there was serious intent to move to the next stage before the ask. We were also so specialized that we’d only get a couple of candidates per month get to that stage.

From an employers perspective I wouldn’t hesitate to do it again, but now you have to find things chatgpt can’t easily do, which is getting harder to find. someone who knows how to use chatgpt/claude well could be a good find if they know the fundamentals underpinning it.
This type of study seems perfectly designed to get moderate voters to take climate change less seriously.