skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure you’re going to find a lot of sympathy for SoMe platforms in many European countries. Maybe you would have before Twitter was bought and a lot of the “media elite” used it. Today I think you’d mostly find a lot of happy parents applauding you if you were the first politician to manage to ban something like Tik-Tok, Facebook or similar. Not that I’m trying to justify it. I both think the way that it’s being done is wrong and that a lot of people will miss the open web more than they think.

Not holding big tech companies responsible for the content which is housed on their platforms was always a one way street into heavy regulation here in the EU. As with everything EU it takes decades, but I fully expect us to eventually ban many social media products. Or get left by them because it will not be possible for them to make money if they actually have to be custodians of their content.
That's why content-blockers exist.
This is overblown.

The police are responsible for deciding how to classify a report. Their decisions need to be audited to avoid corruption.

Ergo they have to maintain a record of reports they decided were not hate crimes.
(Joke) Yes, usually the path is reverse.
Threads like this is why I come to HN and why I contribute to it. We are a wonderful community.
I was hoping to find a part 2, but since part 1 was written over 2 years ago I guess there's not much chance of that...
> psychological harm amounting to at least serious distress

Has shown itself to be vague enough to be a perfect stand in for "harmful" in everything the parent comment says.
the spirit of lk-99 lives on
Meh - I remember full Firefox running on Gnome 2 on FreeBSD taking 64 MB in 2008. Not quite sure where we've gone so radically wrong since then.
> To add, lot of us assembled our own PC.

That is still true today. PC components are very popular, as are YouTube channel with reviews, ruminations about component choices, build experience and how-to guides .

> A side effect was that computer getting bricked was a normal affair

If you overclocked or messed with the volatges maybe, but otherwise - in my experience (start assembling systems around 1993 or so), bricking was quite rare.
An important point here is that the integral of the likelihood function over different parameter values is not constrained to be 1. This is why a likelihood is not a probability or a probability density, but its own thing. The confusing bit is that the likelihood formula is exactly the same as the formula of the original probability density function...
This is what motivated me to bring back PLATO to the discussion. More people should know it.
Don't get me started on the idea that you can cool a closed room by running a fan or opening a fridge.

Oh man I had this discussion with my wife yesterday, we have a small electric heater in a room where a pipe burst and I still need to fix that (no heating means instant fungus problems). It keeps its fan rotating always, that way it determines the input temp for its thermostat more accurately. But wife insists it is sometimes blowing cold air and thus very very bad... I explain what a thermostat is (bimetals and all) and that she experiences "coldness" because a layer of warm air is blown from her skin, it's not blowing cold air... she doesn't follow... I even measure the energy usage and the thing only uses 20 W or so when just blowing, not heating. Even when just blowing it's moving cold moist air from the walls so overall good. It's difficult dealing with her like this.

I'll pay someone to tell me how to deal with someone like this and maintain a positive atmosphere. The thing is, I also do it for things that really are probably not worth discussing... I should pick my battles better, is there ever a good time for some mansplaining? Or should I say... Nerdsplaining?
I've heard they are good for prototyping things where you need to change APIs and spin up new stuff easily. It might be better than using a service where you're basically required to have devops.

That said, you can also just spin up a VPS and use systemd to manage a service at small scale. There are also other PaaS solutions in addition to "serverless/lambda".

I've heard some horror stories about "lambda" pricing as well, so I'd make sure to read into that before becoming too dependent.
We should also ask ourselves why we haven’t developed better tools or advocated more effectively for open APIs to mitigate the negative effects of social media. Platforms like Twitter/X often foster toxicity and binary thinking around complex topics. Imagine if X (or any other social platform) provided the "right" APIs, enabling third-party tools to introduce features like a "hate counterbalance" or a curated presentation of opposing viewpoints, or clarity on contentious topics. Such tools could help users break out of echo chambers and avoid the spiraling effect of focused "black hole" of hate.
Those are a pretty bad idea as well, and you see some distros like Fedora move away from them by introducing a reboot/update/reboot cycle.

Yes, on Linux you can replace binaries and libraries in use, but then you're not actually running the new code until you restart the program and are still vulnerable to any security issue that it fixed.

And with things like runtime loading of plugins that now may be incompatible, and programs not expecting stuff changing underneath, online updates can be troublesome.

The online model works well enough for a command line usage where applications are transient, or a server usage where you remember to restart a service or two. But for a desktop user with long lived, huge apps like a browser it's not that good of an idea anymore.
> all things considered within a democratic framework

The UK has a very funny (literally ha-ha funny) notion of "democracy" -- with people just voting against the status quo most of the time and with "first past the post" resulting in leadership that doesn't have, and cannot even credibly claim, genuine popular support. It's a totally broken system.
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Because modafinil has a particularly nasty set of side effects for some people, and doesnt wear off when you need it to so you can actually rest
ya'll downvoting me without getting the context lol

https://x.com/rauchg/status/1862178370957844671

https://x.com/thdxr/status/1862178980972929457
Yeah, not really a complete story is it.
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By overshooting, obviously. He's demonstrably comfortable with breaking good things in the service of eliminating bad ones.
I no longer know anything about Kubernetes, but share your surprise! From first principles it seems the metadata should be small.
In what world does blocking the most popular social media app directly lead to more usage of social media?
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I think lambdas work really well for doing things as a reaction.

So for example, uploading an image to s3 could trigger a job, or having them run in parallel on a job queue since they theoretically scale way better then spinning up lots of 'job processors' to deal with influx.

One of the most fringe but interesting usecases I'm aware of is it being suggested as part of co2 (and cost) reduction. The main idea is that since lambdas only run the exact amount of time needed, we don't continue running/reserving costly machine time. This is still something where research is being done and does mostly pass the responsibility to the infrastructure / PaaS solution though
> if the problem is that the population is absolutely okay with how the country is running.

That there is what we calls democracy.
There is a bonus level 8. Couldn't get the first letter out of him (it).
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I looked at all three website sites but no docs, it's a rough start with no headline app, or docs to create an app.
Not everyone uses the same package manager that you use.
> even the creators with purest of hearts will be forced to include stuff that puts their videos on SponsorBlock lists

I don't agree with this at all. No one is forced into making video cration their only job. Yes, making videos on weekends means less "output" and as a result a smaller following. But so what? It's still a choice. And IMO almost always a bad one if you care about quality - pretty much no person can keep up creative quality for long when working on a schedule and that's before you even get to intentionally degrading the quality for the sake of monetization.

Every person at the very least has the choice of just creating and sharing things rather than trying to build a business. Of course calling them "creators" already shifts the discussion into the worldview that shapes the current internet.

If "Youtuber" isn't a profitable job without engaging in slimy practices then maybe it shouldn't be a job at all. In fact, trying to make any human activity into a profitable business is one of the big if not the main driving forces behind the enshittification of the internet as well as many things outside it. And it's always this same justification - that engaging in shitty behavior is required to compete.

Personally I don't mind you mentioning your Patreon [0] but "like and subscribe" guarantees a dislike from me and I sure as hell am not going to subscribe [1]. Sponsored sections will get me to immediately close the video and make a mental note to ignore videos from that person in the future. Yes, I could use SponsorBlock but if someone is willing to sell themselves in that way I don't trust them or their videos to not be also compromised in other less obvious ways. It's important to remember that Youtube and similar media is completely optional entertainment and you don't need to engage in any of it.

[0] Please consider alternatives though, Patreon itself is a pretty shit website what I only use begrudgingly.

[1] I don't use youtube subscriptions at all, only RSS subscriptions for the very few channels I want to follow - most things are not important enough to get regular releases from and I'm fine with only seeing videos that are good enough for others to share them with me.
You are absolutely right, and you have indavertebtly hit the nail on the head. This legilsation is supported by parents who would like their children to be able to use the internet, all of it, without any effort on their part to police their children's online habits. There are many parents who give their kids smartphones at 10 years old, or younger, and create Google and Facebook/Insta accounts with fake ages for their kids to use, and let them at it. No supervision, no discussion, no parental controls. This renders any action on the part of the tech companies moot, as parents are proving that their pre-teen kids are adults by providing false information. Kids then go online, go into Snapchat or whatever, cue torrent of DPs and grooming. Quelle surprise!

Schools in the UK spend an inordinate amount of time dealing with this, and in almost every case it turns out parents have no idea what their kids are sending/seeing online.

So the result is that bad parents demand bad legislation so that they can, in their minds, transfer responsibility for parenting their kids to the state. The state, well meaning rather than malicious, massively overreaches in its attempt to provide an answer. As a result everyone else suffers. And the 'majority of the public' think parents should parent, rather than making it the government's problem, and butt out of their internet.
Agree with you. I’m not sure why people believe that only the physical world and not the virtual one should have some amount of regulation. I think a good portion of HN has drunk the kool aid of their employers/industry and is almost religiously unwilling to consider an alternative viewpoint without resorting to shouting ‘fascist’ and ‘1984’. Maybe someone needs to write a book called 2024 about the hellscape we currently live in and folks could circle jerk around this new shibboleth.
>waste police time.

I dont know if you intended it but "wasting police time" is a pretty good book on the subject of administrative detections.
Could you share the product and some details about it? I'm curious.
Not for the kids who grew up with this.

Kids would film themselves bullying others even before you could get internet points for sharing it.
It ended up much better than it might have? Some of the -stans were violent, but in areas without preexisting violence (pace Romania) the dissolution of the Union was remarkably peaceful.
This is Dropbox comment all over again. Lots of things are doable with more manual effort.
Don't get why your previous comment got flagged
We can use the privatisation of water in the UK as a case study.

The water companies in regions across the UK were privatised.

Lots of big international companies borrowed lots of money to buy these companies.

The water companies then borrowed large amounts of money, secured against their ability to extract rent from their customers, and the owners used that money to pay of the debt they had incurred in buying the water company, and also paid it as dividends.

So basically the debt burden moved from the buyers to the company they had brought. Neat!

Now a couple of decades later you have these water companies with silly amounts of debt, the technical debt of not maintaining and investing in the infrastructure (they keep blaming the Victorians, but that is just blame spin) and an owner who would be happy to cut ties and let the water company flounder to be rescued by the taxpayer...
I tell my kids to not share any personal information online, never use their real name or birth date, and don't trust random people on the internet. And they wouln't even think about posting images of themselves.
There's some comments here suggesting that the incoming and outgoing air pass each other in a heat exchanger. But this is a different model that passes he two streams in turn through a heat sink:

> Recuperative types are what most people think of, consisting of a thin layer of material that separates two gas streams. Regenerative heat exchangers are different. They briefly store the energy while air flows in one direction, then release it when the air flow reverses.

I have to admit I am slightly more dubious about this type as they are new to me, though I did see a YouTube video about a commercial one recently and they seem to be a hot new thing.

Possibly this is something sensible that only becomes practical with software and wireless communication? Rather than running ducts to a central location.

Though then fitting two side by side in a window seems odd. Why not use the traditional type in that case?
Donald Trump in a recent interview with NBC said he would do what he can to help TikTok since it had played a part in getting him elected. He takes office on Jan 20th.
No, it's not. Files are available under the CC BY-NC-SA licence which, because it does not allow commercial usage, is not open source.
All options are shit, but western world governments have done next to nothing on social media before this.
Miniscule probability of high damage. Everyone, every power,has to decide on their own if one is willing to take this risk.

CO2 isn't a problem of renewables.

In Germany, the problem with renewables is massively scaling green gas production. Storage exists plenty fairly cheap, even for hydrogen (Underground).
I can tell you something about Chinese propaganda:

1. How it works

a) Chinese propaganda within borders, is mostly about: "We serve the people, and we're doing it good", "We are on the road to greatness", with content cencorship and State medias, it's not quite efficient, since everyone are aware about it
for example, if you question the CPC's leadership, you'll be censored

This part is handled by Publicity Department and Cyberspace Administration.

b) Chinese propaganda in the US, is by 'sponsored' influencers and some official accounts, you can identify them easily.
and, these influencers are not sponsored with cashes directly, it's like if you have influence, and you show kindness to China, certain people may come to you, to award you with some titles, to invite you to attend some meetings and write articles in newspaper whichi nobody reads

This part is handled mostly by 'united front work department', MOFA, and Publicity Department, you can see how chaos it is by its organization

2. What it does

a) see 1.a

b) Chinese propaganda abroad is mostly defensive, it has a guideline, "Tell the Chinese story well", it's quite descriptively, for example, there're some topics with most efforts: 'Taiwan', 'Xinjiang', 'South China Sea', 'China threats', 'commodity dumping', and, 'election interference'
The US/West set the agenda, CPC dispute it
One topic is the exception, '89/64', there's some disciplines about it so that they never mention it, so if you saw someone defend CPC about this, it's 100% not an official behavior

c) It never describes the US as an enemy, both at home and abroad, and it never exaggerates threats from the US, on the contrary, it downplays these threats. - which may come as a surprise to some people.

For everyone who think CPC is good at propagandizing, or CPC has some super power of propaganda, you overestimate it, it's just positive about propaganda

I don't know how the US propaganda works, I think that's the most impressive part
99% Chinese know CPC blocks Google is about censorship, but many Americans will say the Tiktok ban is different, it's about national security and children protection, it's justice of the procedure, it's part of democracy, blah blah
At least in the US, legislation for age verification already exists and it actually far predates social media: COPPA[1].

It is, however, seldom actually enforced due largely to the impracticality and inconvenience of the matter. The law also doesn't regulate the presentation of content to children, rather the collection of information from children.

I think the most recent enforcement of COPPA that had actual tangible effect was when Youtube was ordered to stop collecting information (eg: comments) from videos marked as for kids.

[1]: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/privacy-security/child...
Do you think having a normalization layer between serverless and server-based approaches could actually help with the issue of becoming too dependent?

I find that the tight integration with providers like Azure, AWS, or CloudFront can make switching between them a very costly upfront decision.

Another disadvantage of serverless is that it’s quite challenging to produce an on-premises or enterprise-ready codebase if the need suddenly arises.
It is also not socially acceptable today, to film another person today and upload it against their will. Kids (and grown up kids) do it anyway.
They are so popular because the decisions are made by managament in many companies and they have a good sales team.

Using popularity as justification of anything is the definition of slippery slope.
1. A TikTok investor was a major campaign donor

2. Your party gets to be the party that helped the youth with their little toy. Courting the next generation is important. Especially for the party that is associated with older people.

3. He wanted fame and credit for the deal before, and he won’t get it now. He even suggested that he be paid a fee in exchange. He gets nothing for this.

4. Four years later nothing bad happened thanks to TikTok. It was certainly a concern that the liberal youth would use it to organize or whatever. But his party is back in power so it clearly wasn’t a political threat.
I'm pretty sure this will change. The rise of the far right populists in Germany is an early indication.
They somhow forgot thaat their grandparents FORCED it to be good. That struggle is no different than any other movie now though, just something that happened. They things can be good without making them good. Some kind of just world fallacy on a cultural scale.

I'm with you. I came fro the US. Trust is earned.
Polars is a life saver. We used it in a fairly complex project and it worked very well.
Yes. I have done all that. Coffee, coffee plus l theanine, plus Mg supplement, plus vit supplements, lifting (at 155 lbs, I had dl 375, squat 265, front squat 225, bench 185, ohp 135, clean and jerk 135, snatch 115), 23 min 5k (untrained, I got my running from daily Barry’s class), rhr 39 bpm, HIIT every morning, sleep 10 pm to 6 pm. Many variants. All these are outclassed by even modafinil. And that is a candle to the sun that is amphetamine.

Only reason I don’t use the drugs is I want to avoid habit formation. Afterburners on, man. You don’t know the fire till you’ve seen it.

Now I am like a family man, but you can pour gasoline on youthful bonfire. Probabilistic failure possible but if you’re lucky, emerge unscathed.
Great project. Hrv and erv should be a lot more common. Is there a diagram of the airflow in that unit? It looks like the intakes and exhaust on both sides might be very close to each other.
True that education should be neutral. For the topic of democracy it more or less resolves toward the question if you would like to be ruled by consent or be ruled by force. Maybe further analyze if there can be a justification for others to decide for them or not in abstract.

You more rarely get a mobs of educated people so in that education is an important factor for a functioning democratic society.

Otherwise it is a question of force and then you just need to protect your desire to rule against others. In my opinion that would be difficult in an educated society. On the other hand there are more often mobs that try to declare legitimacy of a ruler instead of promoting democracy. So the equation of democracy with mob rules is plainly wrong. Most mobs end in autocracies, and mob rule is more prevalent here as well. It is the result of a very short sighted analysis. A common one, a mob one in my opinion. That should of course be part of the curriculum.
> Teenagers sitting together and not giving each other proper attention because of constant interrupts from Snapchat.

Why are phones allowed in the classroom? When I was in school, if you were caught looking at your phone in class, or if the phone made a noise from your pocket/bag, it would instantly be confiscated - no second chances.

If phones are causing problems in school, maybe the school could try establishing some basic standards of behaviour and discipline? How is this difficult?
I doubt battery storage will be the solution, it's very resource intensive large scale.

I bet on gas or liquids.
Can you provide examples in UK law?
SICM?
Well thankfully that ship has sailed. Tiktok has nothing to do with it either, America's youth by in large cast off the zionist evangelical brand of Christianity the babyboomers love so much. This has been going on for decades, tiktok isn't responsible for it.

Anyway, I don't think this is the reason for the tiktok ban. The zionists have lost control of the narrative on American platforms too, they know it, and they have no actionable plan for getting it back. I think the tiktok ban is instead motivated by concerns for what a PRC controlled tiktok could do to military recruitment. Military recruitment hinges on appealing to teenagers, making tiktok a particular threat to the American government. Sending teenagers videos of drones dropping grenades on helpless wounded soldiers can't be canceled out by flying cool military jets over sportsball games.