skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not only correct British english, it would be considered formal and academic.

I understand that American english has diverged somewhat, but I would not have expected this word to give so much anguish. I wasn’t even personally aware that americans used it for a particular terminology.

in the meanwhile, us brits will continue using a literal swear word as our most popular version control system and not complain about it. :)
No Erlang/Elixir?? The author would be surprised.
I'm Romanian, and to add some more context here's what TikTok sent Romanian authorities about the situation:

> The company that it found no evidence of a covert influence operation on the TikTok platform in recent weeks related to the Romanian presidential election and no evidence of external influence.

> "Although it has been alleged that there were 5,000 fake accounts involved in election interference, our investigations have found no evidence to support these allegations," the company said in its letter, which notes that it is "still investigating."

> From September through the beginning of this week, the company has removed more than 66,000 fake accounts, 7 million fake likes and 10 million fake followers from the platform, TikTok says in its letter. The figures refer to posts and activity in English. Note that it does not specify whether they were electoral or in favor of a specific candidate.

> TikTok also says it has prevented 40 million likes and blocked more than 216,000 "spam accounts" before they went online.

Translated with DeepL from https://www.paginademedia.ro/stiri-media/tiktok-scrisoare-au...

It's a bit of "we've investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong".

There's been a huge uproar about this candidate which was polling below 5% reaching the 1st spot in the 1st round of the presidential election in Romania. The candidates need to report spending to a state organization overseeing elections and this guy reported that he spent nothing on his election campaign, which is a bit impossible as there have also been flyers with his name on them, so there's definitely something fishy going on.

There are also a lot of TikTok influencers that have come forward claiming to have received payments through a third party company to present the candidate in a positive light, and the issue is that these videos should have been tagged correctly as "electoral ads" according to Romanian law, which did not happen.

Purely from an observation perspective there has been a huge amount of spam activity on Romanian tiktok, with accounts spamming random videos with copy paste messages similar to "We're massively voting for Calin Georgescu" which led a lot of people to believing there was a massive bot campaign promoting this guy.

A criminal investigation has been requested by The Supreme Council of National Defence, which is the autonomous administrative authority in Romania invested by the Constitution with the task of organising and coordinating, by unanimous decisions, the activities related to the country's defence and national security.
I believe you are describing the plot of Idiocracy.
Following observation of the comments:

1. Those in favor of identity based control over using electronic devices, attaching a real world identity to your computing use. (Including up to signed software only allowed to run on devices).

2. Those in favor of the restriction of access of the internet by a government entity (Including up to regulated speech).

This is similar to the break up Google arguments. Instead you just have to out-code it. (For the counterarguments, this applies to code-based companies, instead of infrastructure based)...
If a social media is harmful, then parents can put those restrictions already on devices. But letting the government do this gives much more freedoms away than initially thought. Not just this, but if there happens to ever be a social media that is 10 times better than all existing ones, where even more real speech discussion and conversation happens, or whatever form it is, it will still be regulated and controlled using the same methods.

I usually don't comment often, but I would usually expect someone here to bring up these concerns... which is unusual to not find them. And I mean the specific two points are the argument. Those must be flipped to allow this law to be just, which is to say, most likely not.

And a third point, even in a perfect implementation, (imagine a perfect world), you end up with the first two points still being an issue. The technological ability to restrict devices by signed software, and speech to a central authority, allows the attack surface for anyone to have the ability to control the entirety of the devices on that system, in ways that would be hard to discern. Extend this technology to other devices, like VR, and see the domino...
MacBook Air 13", 2018 edition

Used to have an MBA 2013. Great device, which ran well despite its age.

The MBA 2018 is awful. The keyboard is awful (have the double-keystroke issue), the performance is awful and the device would get hot and throttle with even the least demanding of tasks. And no magsafe! At least the USB-C connectors were a welcome addition. And an additional regret (totally my fault) is that I got the ISO-keyboard version.

I now also have an MBA M3 for work, which is a great device. The keyboard feels better, it runs smooth as butter and hey, the magsafe's back!
So, NO, you need a clear business case, otherwise you wont get funding for global scale!

You should add this as a premium-feature for 9,99 USD monthly subscription :)
I'm okay with a wealth tax if it stops the runaway growth of wealth inequality.
Billingsgate old fish market is an art gallery now. They moved the actual market to canary wharf ages ago.
Aren't Tesla batteries made by Panasonic (inside Tesla factories)?
This is nice, though Google's NotebookLM (and similar products from ElevenLabs and Meta) offer much the same thing for free.
any law I agree with is justice though, almost by definition.
It's a travesty that western countries have moved from trying to gain their people's support by improving their living conditions to trying to gain their people's support by lying to them, such that unrestricted discussion of the facts is such a threat to the governments in power.
I thought this meant JavaScript promises and was worried Promise.all() was turning into some meta database for badly architected applications :)
Another example is this fish market in Tokyo: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/tokyo-tsukiji-fish-ma...
You make the assumption that social media is the main source of truth for voters.

But people are waking up and vote because of what they see with their own eyes.
Thanks for providing that last part info, but I think you misunderstand how the world works. The privacy is removed in erosion, not in one action.

First create a law, then require providing a button, then require debit card number, then require ID.

I am aware of slippery slope fallacy, but I think that is where this all is going to go.

Therefore it does not matter if "it is just a button" right now. Every change in that direction is not good. I worry about the trajectory more.

Let's also look at it from a different point of view. Does the button "I am over 18" protect the children? Really? Sorry, but this is not the final step in that road.
I wish I still had the screenshot of goomaps circa 2011 when it sent me on a ~ 20 mile 2-highway interchange circuit tour of western MA, USA. I finally zoomed out and thrn could clearly see this big blue circlular path with no destination. No one should be subject to this in Western MA, it's on the same level as driving off a cliff.
I was deliberately being quite broad brush otherwise you have to go down too many rabbit holes. But I agree absolutely with what you are saying. Some of these costs are examples form actual touring budgets and others are slightly hand-wavy.

Quite likely an artist of this scale would not even break even touring and would hope (ha!) to make up the difference on merch. But of course merchandise is not pure profit, you have to lug it around on the road, and it’s a sunk cost that requires upfront investment.

But my main point was to counter the fallacy that artists make loads of money from touring. People with no experience of the music industry don’t understand the promoter/artist split or the agent and magnet commissions. They realise that probably the artist isn’t getting 100% of the ticket sales but they don’t realise that their share - before their costs - might only be 35-40%.
Quite the opposite, they just proved it.
> but by educating ourselves about the risks and gains of using addictive technology

Teenagers are educated by these platforms instead, as people around have limited free time, while algorithms have all of it.
This is pretty good! An LLM is actually the right tool to generate this kind of copy that demands a given style but is ultimately soulless.
I'll just reply to this bit in the interest of wrapping up the discussion, but I really appreciate all the replies and discussion :)

> git bisect visualize

This is the first time I'm hearing about this, it sounds useful! I've never seen anyone use it before, so it must've slipped past me if I've ever even encountered it in the manual. Thanks for sharing it!
I’ve built my career on cleaning up should-have-used-a-ledger messes. it’s hard but there’s always another company that needs it, and I get bored staying in one place.

recently I discovered that in a medical billing context the system is way, way weirder than I had seen before. I shipped the three tables, but getting everything into it seems like it might be an endless battle
I think the more important point here is that the popular artists supported by big labels become black holes, sucking in all the money. It doesn't matter that you, and all your friends, and all your friends' friends, all listen to the same 3 niche artists day in, day out - approximately all of yours and theirs money will go to some pop artists none of you ever listen to, simply because that's what a much larger general population listens to.

So, it's like 99:1 ratio, but 99 side is Lady Gaga and friends, and 1 is all the indies and niche artist around the world together.
related reflection on high-quality content as a vital resource for big tech, on LinkedIn by Rob Johnson (Research Consulting): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robjohnsonresearchconsulting_...
There are loads of chargers all over Europe. And of course the most important one is close to where you live which you use for charging most of the time.

My parents actually have an EV and rely on neighborhood chargers because their apartment block doesn't have a charger yet. It's fine. A bit of chore to park the car 500m from where they live once a week or so and then unplug it and drive it back to its regular parking spot. They are still saving loads of cash on fuel using only public chargers. Beats having to spend 60-70 euros on petrol. And it's not like they sit around waiting for the thing to charge.

Also, you can charge most cars of a regular wall socket. It will be slow. But it works. Or you can use one of the hundreds of thousands of slow chargers in Europe. There are around 0.5M currently. Projected to double to 1M next year and grow to 3M by 2030. Lots of fast chargers too. You can drive all over Europe with an EV.

It's petrol car owners that need to start worrying. Who is still supplying petrol? How far to the next working petrol station? The market for petrol and diesel is shrinking as rapidly as the EV market is growing. More, probably, because early adopters tend to be the ones that drive the most. You can't get petrol at home. And if your local petrol station closes, you'll need to drive a bit further.

With commercial fleets, lease cars, delivery vans, etc. all going electric in a hurry, there are simply going to be less petrol stations. It's like finding hay or water for your horse when cars became a thing. Not going to be a thing on every street corner.
Just as a note. Peter is premier of South Australia. Same political party as national and NSW though
That would be nice, but my guess is that changing legacy applications would be too hard, and what we'll see is AI apps using vision models to interact with most other applications, like what Claude's computer use does. This would help accessibility, but indirectly.
>On a site like HN, I would have expected there to be much more people who also had the same experience as younger me with the internet and social media.

The majority of people who actively engage in discussions here are from generations older than ours (I assume we are similar in age) and hence are mostly unable to relate to our experiences.
OK, please stealman the argument for Georgescu's platform.
Time goes down the skibidi toilet my rizzler, no cap
We have a lot of experience of, and fear of, propaganda in this continent. More so than fear of the lack of knowledge about government failures.

"Freedom from, not freedom to", to paraphrase a recent video I've seen by US migrants to France.
> Forced voting is proof of it.

Forced voting is a net benefit, the biggest being that it forces parties to the center rather than having to say/promise stupid stuff to appeal to the fringes that have firm political positions (see: USA). Mandatory voting + preferential voting, alongside a well-run independent election commission has resulted in very high trust in our democratic process.
Jitsi Meet?
Oh man that website gives me a double nostalgia vibe. First, it reminds me a lot of the old iOS skeuomorphism iBooks app. Second, it reminds me of my first website I ever created using Adobe Dreamweaver's 'slicing' functionality, where you take an image and draw boxes on the image to make that box clickable as a link to a new page
Does your particular school of woo allow the greats to project their avatar at any location? I remember my old pet scientific creationist used to believe that before he had a major mental breakdown.
We don't need the raw material extraction and that's why I didn't mention it in my comment. Raw material extraction doesn't happen in Shenzhen and for some materials it doesn't even happen in China. You can get a shipload of cheap sodium sent wherever you are. All you need is a few companies to store a bit so it's readily available.

None of the things I listed have to have a large environmental impact. We have huge warehouses and same-day logistics in the US, they're just for consumer goods. Making PCBs or coating electrodes or working metal can all be very low-impact processes. Shenzhen isn't Bhutan but it certainly isn't a chemical waste pit. Most Chinese pollution comes from coal or resource extraction, not manufacturing.
if you can't see the grifters, you're the mark
You get your name + address marked off the roll when you go to vote. If you get your name marked off multiple times it would indicate fraud.
If only it were facts being discussed, but social media is plagued with alternative facts(aka lies) and no mechanism of getting rid of it, as reporting doesn't do anything since social media companies just fake compliance but take no serious action against disinformation.

This is all from my personal experience reporting egregious fake information (the kind you can check with the first google result) on social media sites and the content still exists.
It's the sudden shutdown that gets you.

Like how people don't get married because divorce is such a big risk. Or people don't drive too fast because it's not speed that kills but the sudden stop.
The problem is Australians are fine with it. They might be the population with the most people saying "if you've done nothing wrong you have nothing to worry about" in the world, by a large margin.
A bit of context: the presidential candidate in question was predicted below 1% on all polls days before the election. He declared a campaign budget of absolute zero. He had no posters, no tents, no apparitions on TV, absolutely nothing. After a massive presence on TikTok in the last couple of weeks he won 23% of the votes, placing him first and wining a spot in the final elections where just the first two placed candidates run.

Currently the elections in Romania are in an total chaos. The Romanian Constitutional Court ordered an unprecedented recount of the votes, even though the count was sanctioned by all the parties through their observers. Also the country's Defense Council declared they have proof of cybernetic attacks which influenced the elections.
You can cast any regulation as a "nanny state act". Life is more complicated than that.

The ability of individuals to be aware and take conscious action against harmful behaviors is clear and should be used when possible. But that ability gets exhausted very fast in a hyperspecialized and complicated world. Most parents are digitally illiterate, can't protect even themselves online, let alone their kids.

Delegating to collective institutions that can pool the required expertise and weigh-in the pros and cons is the means to empower individuals to better handle these hard to evaluate risks.

If our institutions really dont produce good regulation the obvious thing to do is check and fix that, taking into account that the complaints about over-regulation, bad regulation etc. might be by the offenders or aspiring abusers that have something to lose.
Unfair...? That's some kindergarten level logic to international trade

If you're aware of David Ricardo and the concept of "comparative advantage" then you'd know banning foreign companies only hurts the country in question
such a cute idea!
But in this social media age, does anyone actually visit a website?
The EP never had a left wing majority, especially not in the last decade. What are you talking about?
Rust is one of the easiest languages for code refactoring, in my experience: the compiler amd clippy tell me everything i forgot to do. Just literally doing what clippy suggests often gets it compiled.
> It doesn’t (have to) cost billions to bring a (successful) drug to market

> you’d be ignoring the costs of the 90% of drugs that fail in phase 1

It depends on what you call "bringing a drug to market".

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* Phase I costs little, around $1M during the trial, and involves only a small group of participants (one or two dozen people), so it's not multi-center and it is manageable by a few people at a biotech. The problem is that most phase I trials fail, but this is not an issue of cost, it's an issue of the way it is decided as explained by ramraj07, another commenter.

Too often it is started on a hunch without solid pre-clinical data, sometimes it is because the drug was tested and failed in another disease and the managers "pivoted" to a new disease because then it costs little to try again, sometimes it's just a "weird IP/financial trick" where you combine an existing drug and an unrelated drug. Then you know you have a relatively efficacious drug, no need for toxicity studies and you can patent it.

On the contrary, many trials could be done on drugs with good pre-clinical data, but that does not happen because it would be hard to patent.

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* A phase III costs around $25M for one or two hundred participants during the trial [0]. It lasts 6 months at most.

Some publications cite much higher numbers (~$1G), but this does not make sense as drugs are often developed by biotechs (startups, in other words) with only a few million in their pockets.

Another cost inflationary cause is subcontracting to CROs, as most biotechs do not have the manpower, knowledge and business connections to conduct the trial.

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* Once a drug receives commercialization authorization, a major company usually buys the rights and then starts the marketing phase. This starts with teaching doctors on how to prescribe and administer the drug. It means publishing articles in the mainstream medical press, inviting doctors to conferences and workshops, and paying medical sales representatives.

It is costly, this is probably where are spend the ~$500M but for me, this is not drug development costs, it's just marketing costs.

[0] http://idei.fr/sites/default/files/medias/doc/conf/pha/conf_...
Ah that makes sense, still one of the more critical components clipped, I was getting a bit too excited :)
As I already posted to the growing thread of discontent at https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Chan... this is Spotify's usual deprecation strategy and they've done this before to their APIs. I think it's usually due to incompetence but this time that feels like only half the story. Sadly, despite their frequent self-sabotage, they still have the best API by a million miles.

Anyway, anyone with a private project that doesn't mind a manual step, can grab an access token from https://open.spotify.com/get_access_token using their browser. There's also projects like librespot (and various ports) which can provide access programmatically[0] using Spotify's client ID. Oauth is useless at preventing this kind of access.

[0] https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot/wiki/Options#acce...).
This is amazing! I self host Plausible but don't like depending on Clickhouse and Postgres because they're annoying to upgrade.

What kind of database is this using though? I don't know enough Go to figure it out from the source.
I am sure someone else would point the origins of 'nanny-state' comes from. Yet, it has been used initially in the UK to support advertising of smoking, later for support of not using seat belts, and so on.

It's a rather ironic twist in this case... and a very favorable read.
Like giving them a tons of money then be told to get lost?
> But people are waking up and vote because of what they see with their own eyes.

Which part of this guy's platform do you think people voted for? In a staunchly pro-EU and pro-NATO country that has centuries of bad blood with Russia, with a walking and talking unstable living proof of it (Moldova), a pro-Russian Eurosceptic sounds like a weird choice
I’m still baffled that some people are bold enough to voluntarily posts those kind of most-of-the-time useless “benchmark” that will inevitably be riddled with errors.
I don’t know what pushes them. In the end you look like a clown more often than not.
How so? A candidate who nobody knew about built his following on a platform known for CCP control, short attention span, and repetition.

What is the substance?
How would you do incremental parsing in a recursive descent parser, especially if you don't control the language? All this research is fine, but most parsers actually being used are handwritten whether GCC, Clang or (I believe) MSVC.
Let's see... nuclear power is super expensive, relies on finite uranium resources and there is no safe solution to store the waste. Do we really want to rely on this?
> Qwen models have ideological backdoors already. They rewrite history, deny crimes from the regime, and push the CCP narratives.

I can't comment on the particular one, but I feel like this will unfortunately apply to most works out of authoritarian regimes. As a researcher/organization living under strict rule that can be oppressive, do you really risk releasing something that would get you into trouble? A model that would critique the government or acknowledge events they'd rather pretend don't exist? Actually, if not for the financial possibilities, working with LLMs in general could open one up to some pretty big risks, if the powers that be don't care about the inherent randomness of the technology.
In this specific case of the first round of Romanian presidential election the traditional candidates from the bigger parties (PNL/PSD which have a government coalition at the moment) have both admitted to understanding why they lost and that the people's vote was against their policies. Both of these leaders have quit their leadership positions in their respective parties.

There is still a very serious discussion going on about potential foreign powers (China) getting involved in our electoral process with platforms like TikTok, see my other comment in this thread about this.