skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This ends up being self-fulfilling."

Perhaps. But once the expertise is lost, you can't get it back by throwing more money at the problem. You have incompetent people hiring people who check all the right boxes but still can't do it, and then you have a huge sunk cost that you don't want to cancel so it drags on forever, eroding trust even further.

Private companies have some advantages here. If they don't think the project will succeed, they will stop, because they know there's no payday. If it's due to bad laws, they will lobby (a bad word, I know) to change them. They'll fire people who don't perform. They'll look in all kinds of creative ways to find people who can get the job done. They'll stop and think about who might actually ride it, because they need the ticket revenue, so they will build the lines in the right places with the right stops.

Maybe all of that could be true for some governments. But there's a long way to go before the US or the California government is able to do any of those things.
How did you get your money back? I didn’t get a refund from delta at all…
There is a book called Sub Prime Attention Crisis which claims all these metrics are bogus. Written by an Ex Googler.

Total available attention is finite. Yet content keeps exploding. There is only one conclusion.
in practicality it doesnt matter because you can easily circumvent it with a VPN and nearly every single person does
So...what? We know they've disabled it and they know we know. We can just call it a ban.
The crux of TikTok's success is that you don't have to "game the algorithm" like in other apps, and it's quite resilient even if you try. It seems to know what's an organic signal and what's an artificial signal.

Most other short-form content recommendation algorithms overfit like crazy (ahem Instagram ahem), and many users trying to bend it a certain way mess it up.
Bike use used to exceed car use in China too. Maybe it still does?
I agree with both of you, this would be a next step. Hopefully enough to salvage this a bit.
I purposely went from an apartment complex with ~30% Airbnbs, ~40% alcoholic rager kidult residents, and ~10% people who let their dogs relieve themselves in the hallways and in the pool to the end of the hall on the top floor with concrete floors of a new building. Apparently, that was insufficient.

Perhaps leased apartments in the style of invite-only co-op NYC buildings where the security guards actually lift a finger now and then would be an improvement.

At least it won't be my problem anymore in about 2 months because I'm out of this popcorn stand.
> Someone should figure out the climate impact of decades of wasted processing of CR characters... that might motivate people to fix this as well.

LF vs CRLF is a single molecule of water compared to the seven seas of waste created by Electron apps or even just JavaScript itself. Todays developers are lazy as FUCK and there is no pressure for them to stop being lazy.

See: https://tonsky.me/blog/js-bloat/

> CR is a waste for computing... it literally does nothing beneficial.

When “LF” means “line feed and carriage return” both, as it does thanks to UNIX, yes. On teletype machines “line feed” meant “line feed” and “carriage return” meant “carriage return”. You need both.

Today we use an LF which means both “CR” and “LF” and we act like CR is the problem, when it was us choosing a single byte to mean two separate things joined together.

Even as a kid in school in typing class, I used a typewriter with a parallel port (probably serial, really, because you could use the keyboard without putting text on paper), and it could be used to print text sent to it. CR and LF had very different meanings on that typewriter. I wish I remembered what make and model it was…
Hopefully this will get Californians outraged enough that they raise speed limits to match the speed of traffic.

Speed limits, especially on highways, were generally set when car technology was a lot less safe at speed.
If it's sold to a US company then it will be our intelligence agencies pumping the propaganda, not theirs. Which is an outcome I'm more amenable to, considering that our intelligence agencies generally have more of an interest in the stability of American society than the intelligence agencies of China.
Well, a solar sail is propellant-less and has constant acceleration under technically a constant amount of power. The power source is external.

Also magsails, electric charge sails, gravity assists (which could be seen as a gravity well sail) can have constant acceleration for a period of time. There are these more exotic methods where a drive interacts with its surrounding medium and the system is open, not self-contained.

I don’t know if it’s the case that some method of this kind has been discovered. But in theory, you can push yourself off of anything that repels, pull yourself towards anything that attracts, or receive momentum from anything that has it in an open system.

Every electric and magnetic charge you come across in space, you could use in theory, if you were yourself appropriately charged in that moment. This could use a lot of power and therefore a lot of work over time, and may not even be efficient. But it would still meet the propellantless criterium. It’s a bit sci-fi, of course. But probably not physically impossible.

We humans propel ourselves without a propellant every day when we walk because we operate in an open system where there is a surrounding medium to grasp and pull or push against.

Em drive and some other similar stuff were suggesting that they can make a force in a closed system, not through an interaction with a surrounding medium within which the truster exists, nor through expelling own propellant. It suggested a reactionless drive, which is not considered possible. But propellentless is very possible.
What I don't understand is how X hasn't pulled out the hammer like other western sites have. It seems weird to me that a Japanese site who is barely in the public eye would capitulate before X who has been under a lens since musk got on board.

In the recent happenings I saw plenty of illustrators get bounced back to X by moderators of fledgling platforms.
You can buy LocalStack on the AWS market place if you want to hide it in your infra bill ;-)
Maybe I'm easy to impress, but I always stop and play around with the nested tree example when I come across Sortable. It works so flawlessly, and feels very tuned to mobile dnd. It even works to arrange (and reflow) inline spans in a paragraph! I have yet to come across this functionality in a text editor..

[0]: https://observablehq.com/@dleeftink/sortable-playground
That's not as strong an argument as you think it is.

It is common for industries to have settle on points / equilibria based on what other players are doing, and companies typically don't unilaterally rock the boat too much.

However external factors act as forcing functions (I call them nucleation sites as a crystallization analogy) around which new equilibria can develop. Regulatory changes are one such example.

For example, during COVID many hotels shifted to not doing daily housekeeping. At that point they cited social distancing or workforce shortage reasons.

But it's been 2 years since the pandemic was completely over and many hotels now still don't do daily housekeeping. The prices of course haven't reduced.

Back in 2014 when California had a drought, my car dealership stopped offering free washes as part of the maintenance package citing bullshit "let's do our part in saving water" reasons.

The drought is long over but the free car washes have not come back.
Sometimes hard choices need to be made. What's your alternative proposal?
Thank you for pointing this out. Everytime I bring up the "phone free" thing, everyone keeps jumping on and saying "well i don't like people filming". The situation that you mentioned is exactly how I do that and what I've seen.

The exception to this is extremely mainstream performances that attract people, where it may be the one big thing they do in the year or the next.
Let’s hang out please.

Prague or Seattle, or, villages hours away from each.

(Email in bio if you ever want to have a tea, or beer)
This just sounds like the AI is just not good enough yet. I mean it's pretty clear now that there is nothing stopping AI from producing close to or sometimes even exceeding human artists. A big problem here is good training material
For better or worse, if it was easy and everyone agreed, it wouldn't be an achievement.

There isn't always a path forward that leaves everyone happy.
Coffeebourne addiction algorithms?
I doubt that any LLM replacement for google is going to be free. There might be a free tier but it will enshittify to uselessness much faster than google did because the operation will be much more expensive.
That’s actually pretty smart if your goal is to weed out people who used ChatGPT without caring to understand the output, while also weeding out fake candidates who outsourced the project to someone else.

(The latter issue with fake candidates is a real problem - our company gets literally hundreds of human beings that apply who will get on a call with you, claiming to be in the US, but are actually in something of a call center where you can actually hear other people doing interviews in the same room if the candidates noise cancellation isn’t turned on)

But agree it’s shitty that they didn’t at least acknowledge your work.
If this were true, TikTok wouldn't have ended up in a ban.
Perhaps the GFOC must officially support an app via allowlisting, so that it's banned unless it's allowed by inaction, which is effectively the same thing.

Most/all apps aren't banned outright, but they require VPNs to access.

I wonder: Are there any Western apps which Chinese citizens would lose social credit or are officially prohibited from using?
this will be the subject line of my next resignation email!
ultimately, china operates on an entirely separate internet that the NSA can't get access to without having to be explicit about it in some very public way. when reddit removed their warrant canary, it was seen as just a cost of doing business an american social media platform. the US can't do full take even with a company based in singapore. the mask comes off when all the senate testimony yesterday focused on 'national security' and it comes wrapped in defense spending for ukraine and taiwan.
It's not a social network - it's a public square. Social networks must have P2P messaging.
What would you rather us use? AMEX?
The bill gives the US President, currently Biden, the ability to designate social media apps as sufficiently popular and its owning nation as adversarial, mandating a forced sale. Biden approved the law and chose to use it on TikTok. So you could say it's to be sold or else banned (and China has already said they won't sell), but anyway it's in Biden's hands.
> "Linear reference counting is an elusive concept, where we can completely eliminate the counter integer, and do all of the reference counting at compile time."

Right. I've occasionally thought about that for Rust, as a way to do back references. You can have an Rc owning an object, which can own another object, which can have a weak RC reference back to the original. This allows you to find an object's owner when needed, so you can do inheritance-like things when you need to. The single-ownership and dangling-pointer checks are made at run time and will panic if they fail.

Now, the question is, can you statically check access behavior and determine that those panics will never occur? If you can, you can eliminate the reference counts and checks.
That looks 1) possible, and 2) a PhD thesis sized problem.
If the security angle is the real issue here, how would "divestment" improve security here at all? Tiktok engineering in the US is like 90% chinese H1B holders, they speak mandarin at work broadly across the company including in work meetings to the extent that many people say you can't work there without mandarin knowledge. The codebase is massive. I don't think it is possible for any amount of auditing or reviewing to create sufficient separation between US/tiktok and China/Bytedance. Bad actors and CCP plants can and will put in backdoors, and bytedance will have access to all of the encryption keys for the important services and databases. It just seems completely unworkable to me. I'm support the full ban, I don't think divestment makes any sense.
I find the author almost unlikeable!

He acts like an actual author - under-acknowledged, cloyingly clever, desperate for attention

instead of an author fantasy - cool, knowledgeable, enmeshed in the subject to the point of unselfconsciousness
I've used it fairly extensively to create shell scripts and found it moderately useful. It'll generate a base line that I can then take and run with, adding what I need.

It can be frustrating trying to reprompt it if it goes off on a tangent, and sometimes I just can't get it to go down the path I know I want, but over all I'm fairly confident it's saved me time - particularly when dealing with things I'm not familiar with such as jq or the aws cli
Well, they still multipost on Twitter, but AFAICT it's getting unpopular these days. Tough I agree that Pixiv is not as popular as its old days too.

By "anti-Americanism", I'm insisting that a good number of Japanese anime artists see the ban as a beneficial feature, not a disadvantage. They would see this as an automated "Sorry, Japanese Only" filter.
Does that that would apply to any foreign country owned website ?
“The government also adopted cost-cutting measures while inflation rates increased, allowing nearly 300 per cent annual inflation to erode real public spending on wages and pensions.”

That’s one way to do it.
For those unfamiliar Argentina was, at the start of the 20th century, among the richest countries on Earth.

After many decades of mismanagement, it has a GDP per capita roughly equal to the likes of Mauritius (which 30 years ago was a far poorer place).
Interesting, but then, how can it fool advertisers?
Google and Meta already have plenty of TikTok-style videos with addictive algorithms, so I don't think we will be much better off if TikTok leaves the market. Kids will just migrate to other competitors.
It's bloody stupid is what it is. Knee-jerking like that is really terrible.
>When you say "move on" it seems like you don't think it's wonderful. When you say "deviant nature" it also sounds like you don't think it's wonderful.

This post was full of comments deriding the people appreciating the apartment, that's who I was speaking to with the "move on".
Deviancy is how we have everything, every evolution came from deviancy, being different is ok.

>justice is bullshit, it's nobody's fault anyway but that doesn't mean I'm going to try to push back: I'm powerless and it would be futile but we need these things to prevent total chaos is that right?

Yes!

>But a definition of narcissism is: selfishness, involving a sense of entitlement, a lack of empathy, and a need for admiration, as characterizing a personality type -- you think that's good???

Yes!!! Collectivist "empathy" or slave morality has a lot of caveats that I don't like (revenge, envy, resentment). Like kindness, selfishness is also beautiful and defiant. Empathy is only supported as long as the social contract implies reciprocity, it is also selfish behaviour, let people be free of it as much as possible.

>The picture I get from your comments is: you're being raw, expressing directly out of a deep well of your being and experience in an unfiltered way, you've been really hurt and betrayed and have found your peace about it, in part by acceptance with thinking 'nobody has responsibility' anyway, and you don't feel you can do anything about it so you just have to accept it.

I don't think my comment expressed that. The justice/free-will was an example of how you can know truth (there is no free will) while also appreciating punishments. I can see art as a narcissistic expression while also appreciating narcissistic expressions.

Art is like religion, to those who believe in it it's everything, to those who don't it's just a pile of BS.

I don't like the ressignification people do of words to frame their beliefs in a flattering light in order to win people over.

"I am pro abortion, yes it is murder, I am pro murder."
Send an invoice to the company for 500$ per hour.
"These reforms include currency devaluation..."

How does that reduce inflation and cause a surge in bond prices?
I got stuck with apple music on a road trip. It was really bad IMO.
This is unfortunately a common tactic of the Chinese government (see their recent dealings with Lithuania). I do not believe a trade barrier not being explicitly stated is a barrier to bringing a WTO case though.
I've cycled to airports a few times and generally surprised how good the ride can be.

I've either disassembled the bike there, for an overseas cycle tour, or locked it, for a day trip. Once when I did that, the lock was destroyed by parking management...
> I understand were you are coming from but I actually like the explicit error handling in Golang. Things being explicit reduces complexity for me a lot and I find it easier to spot and resolve potential issues. It's definitely something that I can understand not working for everyone.

This sound a lot of like Apple user arguments about iPhone 1 missing copy & paste over a decade ago.

I am very pedantic about checking responses for errors, but from my experience when working with a team and existing project I see that people notoriously forget to check the result. TBH it is a pain to essentially repeating the boilerplate `if err !=nil ...`.

What's worse is that even documentation skips checks. For example `Close()` method. It's almost always returning error, but I almost never seen anyone check it.

The reason for it, is if you want to use `defer` (which most people do) you would end up with very ugly code.

The other alternative would be to then making sure you place (and properly handle error) close in multiple places (but then you risk of missing a place).

And other solution would be using `goto` in similar way as it is used in Linux Kernel, but there are people who have big problem with it. I had a boss who religiously was against goto (who did not seem to understand Dijkstra's argument), and asked me to remove it even though it made the code more readable.
That’s why I migrated my gaming machine to Pop_OS!
Improving the economics would help too. Raising a kid when both parents probably have to work presents challenges that just don't exist if most careers could support a family on a single income.
Interesting!

Semi-related problem I dealt with recently: Google Cloud seems to choose a different magic number of 1460 for their VPCs default MTU, which is annoying if you don't know because its different than the default of everything else (such as docker) will cause random packet drops if you do a standard install of those tools.

Took me a few hours to figure this out.
At least you think you are way better informed.

I don't use TikTok, but I use Facebook and Google's short video versions. I find just as many anti-CCP as pro-CCP content on it, and...I guess these are mostly TikTok videos because many of them still have TikTok watermarks.
I think there's another side to this. There's weather, and there's "It's winter".

I don't think it's reasonable for airlines to expect to maintain the same number of departures that worked in the nice summer months through the winter. Runways will need to be cleared, planes will need to be de-iced.

They could keep extra planes and staff around ready to replace an incoming flight if it's delayed (clearly easier for carriers with fewer types of aircraft). Heck just staff seem like they would be handy as the flight crew hit their service limits.

But there's no financial incentive to do that if "weather" (despite happening every winter) is a get-out-of-jail-free card.
I find it works well but you still need to know what you're doing and steer it in the right direction. For example I just asked it to whip up some code for a Lambda function to copy DynamoDB documents from one table to another, just mundane stuff I don't want to think about. But I noticed it provided coded that iterated and wrote each document one at a time which doesn't make sense when batchWrite is available. So I suggest it reproduce the code using batchWrite and of course it's all 'yes this makes sense that would be so much faster' (paraphrasing obviously!).
Good luck using Teams or Meet on a non-chrome browser.
Good Ideas in Computer Science ・ Daniel Hooper
Yes he did. Funny enough, he now criticizes this.
"now"? It was adware, along with Windows 10, the moment they were released.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27337382

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28449607

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37321002
JetBlue accepted the reservation for my 14 year old (the minimum age for JetBlue to take a minor as an adult). They were code sharing that flight with American, who requires a minor to be 15.

So, JetBlue took the money for a service they knew they could not provide (but I didn’t, having read the various airline rules and settled on JetBlue as a result). When it came time to fly, American wouldn’t carry them (now 700 miles away from the family) and JetBlue wanted to keep the money, offering a JB credit expiring in 1 year.

All I did was get a JetBlue customer care agent to confirm they would not issue a refund and took that screenshot to my credit card company who approved the chargeback.

We ended up having to pay the unaccompanied minor fees and aggravation on both ends to get them home on Delta, who is at least in the linked business of selling tickets and actually transporting passengers on those tickets, while JetBlue is better at the former than the latter.
It becomes such a no brainier if you have a safe option for bicycle commuting.

It's a 2 for 1 of needed exercise and commuting so it's actually a time saver in net compared to driving. If you have a dedicated bicycle path that minimises interactions with cars it's also a zero stress option too. I've never experienced any serious bicycle rage.

I hate days where I have to drive for some reason.
Mainly if you use Tailwind already, and need help making designs or components. As to why use Tailwind... well that is a big topic. But my favourite thing is easy tweaking of a specific component or page without affecting things globally, making those tweaks in the same place as the definitions of the tags for a component, and being able to copy ideas from elsewhere and have them appear as-is without getting "styled" by other things in the CSS bundle (or browser defaults).
Depends on how you use it. If you use the project as a motivation to start a technical conversation it's ok. You had access to the documentation before, so at least you have an idea of the project. If the documentation isn't enough for you to prepare for the interview, that already tells you something about the candidate.
Spotify's song radio / artist radio does this. There's like/dislike buttons and it just plays you different related songs.
Given a Branded / Nominal interface, they look about the same usage wise but the branded type disappears at runtime (whether that is a benefit or a detriment depends on your use case):

type Email = Branded<string, 'email'>

function Email(maybeEmail: string): Email {
assertIsEmail(maybeEmail);
return maybeEmail;
}

function assertIsEmail(value: string): asserts value is Email {
if(!isEmail(value)) throw TypeError("Not an email");
return value;
}

function isEmail(value: string): value is Email {
return value.contains("@");
}

Versus:

class Email {
#email: string;
public constructor(maybeEmail: string) {
if(!isEmail(maybeEmail)) throw TypeError("Not an email");
this.#email = maybeEmail;
}
valueOf() {
return this.#email;
}
}