skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>, or do web dev on Windows.

Personally, I find any development on Windows to be a pain!
Such a trend can only be stopped by reciprocity: if the "harmfuls" were mis-judged, who is responsible to pay for the damage? Tax-payers?
Yet, EDF is deep in debt (and I am not even sure they pay all of the cost of nuclear power themselves) and probably would not exist anymore if it was on its own.

Now imagine infinite uranium and everyone using nuclear power. Where would they export now?
> “I get paid in all kinds of tokens, and it's nice to see some coins rise after I get paid, which makes freelancer work feel a tiiiiiny bit more like being an employee with stock.”

This is the very definition of a security in US law. These tokens are unregulated penny stocks. (Of course you and your employers may be in another country and this doesn’t apply.)

It certainly doesn’t seem like a big crime. And maybe your employers are the good guys. But everyone knows there are also tons of bad actors in crypto who sell junk tokens to retail investors who lose their savings.

This happens all over the world: millions of Nigerians have invested in crypto, but it’s almost exclusively into tokens created by local influencers that end up being worthless in a few years. That’s the overwhelming global reality of crypto, not the stories of noble dissidents receiving Bitcoin.
Nice, crashing nations usually go along with revolution. So what's ours this time?
But how will that prove that it's more than a stochastic parrot, honestly curious?

Isn't it just like any kind of conversion or translation? Ie. a relationship mapping between diffrent domains and just as much parroting "known" paths between parts of different domains?

If "sun" is associated with "round", "up high", "yellow","heat" in english that will map to those things in SVG or in whatever bizarre format you throw at with relatively isomorphic paths existing there just knitted together as a different metamorphosis or cluster of nodes.

On a tangent it's interesting what constitutes the heaviest nodes in the data, how shared is "yellow" or "up high" between different domains, and what is above and below them hierarchically weight-wise. Is there a heaviest "thing in the entire dataset"?

If you dump a heatmap of a description of the sun and an SVG of a sun - of the neuron / axon like cloud of data in some model - would it look similar in some way?
Here, let me help you: things should not have problems. There. Solved it :)
Overall the atomic bombs weren't such outliers in the destruction caused by bombing raids. Everyone should know / read about this thing: https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-jap...

"The destruction caused by conventional attacks was huge. Night after night, all summer long, cities would go up in smoke. In the midst of this cascade of destruction, it would not be surprising if this or that individual attack failed to make much of an impression—even if it was carried out with a remarkable new type of weapon."

"A typical raid consisted of 500 bombers. This means that the typical conventional raid was dropping 4 to 5 kilotons of bombs on each city. (A kiloton is a thousand tons and is the standard measure of the explosive power of a nuclear weapon. The Hiroshima bomb measured 16.5 kilotons, the Nagasaki bomb 20 kilotons.)

The first of the conventional raids, a night attack on Tokyo on March 9-10, 1945, remains the single most destructive attack on a city in the history of war. Something like 16 square miles of the city were burned out. An estimated 120,000 Japanese lost their lives—the single highest death toll of any bombing attack on a city."
> I think the claim being attempted is that crypto is mostly used for crime. Yet is that true?

I mean... whether it's true or not, it sure _looks true from the outside_.

What it looks like from the outside has little bearing on the underlying reality, but it's extremely relevant to questions like "will I be viewed with suspicion for having worked with this" or "is my company likely to end up subject to restrictive regulation".

Assuming (I genuinely do not know) that the crypto industry has got legitimate uses which are not dwarfed by illegitimate ones, it has got a _massive_ image problem - because "everyone knows" it's for crime.
We also have cryptography that uses elliptic curves rather than large primes.
> In the US

Wrong thread, you should be posting in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42427132 "US lawmakers tell Apple, Google to be ready to remove TikTok from app stores Jan. 19"
> If the US government were suppressing particular views or discussion of some topics (as the Chinese government does to their own citizens), then I would be alarmed.

As someone mentioned above, several officials openly admittted the "ban" is related to palestine-related matirials on TikTok's platform, as opposed to some other platforms.
> hard to come by

They are $200-300 online. Not Toto quality, but plenty good enough.
ASIO?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-27/asio-blueprints-stole...
What? I love seeing this. I want to see how to get it quickly via package manager.
Maybe create as web, then convert to Swift? Or try React Native, since its closer to web? Also, I think most successful uses are function by function or screen by screen... I have not been able to use one of those systems for a complete thing yet.
> HFSP

I'm rich enough thanks. The world would be a better more humane place if it were full of people who appreciate what they have and don't forever chase more power and riches.

The nicest, most genuine and caring people I've met in my life are those with less money. The most deranged, out of touch, psycho people have been the super wealthy

So, have fun being rich
The fact that people like you vote is one of the things that make me incredibly pessimistic about our future.
Storage technology is catching up quickly in terms of economics. It's long been uneconomical to run, but similarly to wind and sola, the prices are plummeting and quickly making the alternatives obsolete.

Remember how solar and wind were considered too expensive for a long time, and all of a sudden they were the cheapest thing available with their construction booming? We're on the verge of that happening with storage as well.
Saying it's targeted at beginners because it supports MacOS shows a lot of disconnection with what many DevOps people use these days. The year of the linux desktop has yet to arrive, and Mac is king for people in IT (at least in the US)
No idea how far off I may be on my back-of-the-enveloping here, but:

475 works * 1 yr/work * $300k/yr ~= USD 140 million

assuming 1 year for a scribe to copy a work and that scribal work was high end knowledge work (thus USD 150k salary, 300k fully burdened) would have a current-day Isidore as tackling a project that first required USD ~140 million worth of inputs? (his latter day critics may be jealous that their support is missing one or two of those zeros?)

Blessed St Isidore, protect us from hallucinations and deliver us from recursively chewing our cud... —the LLMs' prayer
>...Once you see how both OpenJDK and Mono need to be boostrapped under Guix...

Where is GUIX covered on this site? I am interested reading about it. I dont see how guix needs OpenJDK or Mono as it is written in GNU GUILE -- but maybe there is something I am not aware of.
> how many of us on this site were able to learn and grow because they got online as teenagers and learned things

A huge majority, but it's not necessary as demonstrated by the ones like me that learned things as a teenager without "online" being a thing yet. Well, there were BBSes for the ones that had access to them, but they were pretty niche. We had books and monthly magazines. It was enough to bootstrap the 90s and people before us had even less and nevertheless they bootstrapped us.

The real concern is the differential between the have and the have nots. Probably lacking TikTok will have an almost zero effect because what's there will be replaced by the same things on a different platform. If a country should ever go offline and revert to books, which are out of date at the date of printing and more so every day after then, that would be a problem.
I think it all depends on the size of the team.

Very small team and too many design docs, not good.

Huge team, multiple timezones, multiple squads, and few design docs, not good either.

And then you balance with all the values in between depending on your team size & culture.

Even within the same company, your approach will/should change as it grows. There's a critical point where move fast and break things approach will eventually end up with too many outages, production bugs, unpolished/confusing product, and last but not least, FTC eye watering fines.
Ah. I’ve not heard of Cypher before.

I’d disagree and say that Kubernetes is much more relational that graph based, and SQL is pretty good for querying graphs anyway, especially with some custom extensions.

This does make more sense though.
I have been assuming that the ownership is in the Cayman company and it is analogous to the situation with VIEs.

The ownership would have no votes on controlling the company but only ownership for hypothetical dividends on profit from the cayman shell. If anybody knows otherwise please elucidate us.

Oddly enough Snapchat IPOd with stocks with zero control as well.
Let me ask you a question:

Why do people do desperate things such as robbing other people?
> If you're talking to architects and they're talking about Autocad, and lines...they may be of the old guard. [...] any engineering drafting in 2024 using autocad is ridiculous.

At least in my country, there are a lot of small-project architects.

You're converting a loft into a bedroom? Building an extension to your house? You'll need to do the calculations to make sure the beam holding up the roof is strong enough, and some paperwork so the inspector can see the calculations have been performed, and enough plans that the builders know what to build. Basic requirements that AutoCAD can take care of just fine.

And of course these small-project architects are the only architects 99% of people will ever work with - far fewer people will ever work with an architect on a 100+ person building.
The past few days wind has been pretty bad. In the long term I think it will be good as battery storages are rising, but the next few years are still going to be tough.
I'm sick of this being repeated over and over until it becomes true.

We have had multiple studies at this point and not a single one concluded that there's any kind of particular manipulation on Tik Tok. Not one. They all conclude that the bias is not different from other platforms.

HBO run a segment on the ban and goes a bit more in depth:

https://youtu.be/5CZNlaeZAtw?si=-4f7Pyww-nazCrSM
Nice diversion from the history of Great Firewall and very specific question about what happened on its first day—what was banned specifically, and what the stated basis for the ban was.
> Coincidence: in portuguese tolo means fool

The swipe in your response was totally unnecessary.
If you have unknowns, then your planning process starts with, "let's figure out how to use this new technology." And that process can involve a bunch of prototyping.

Having to make a choice between "make a design document" or "do prototyping" is a false dichotomy. They're complimentary approaches.
This is not a politician whose opinion anyone needs to take seriously. She's a constant source of extremely bad takes, the latest of which being dismissing expert criticism of her governments extremely poor plan to subsidize new nuclear construction.

Fwiw, nuclear phase-out was a bad call in both Germany and Sweden. New nuclear construction is an equally or worse choice at this moment, with where renewables and storage are today and the trend they are on - prices are already beating nuclear by a large margin and are plummeting, while nuclear keeps getting more expensive each year.
People say as a pithy answer and it is very frustrating. Unfortunately it is utterly unrealistic that voting will solve this situation.

1) The majority of the UK's populace are onboard with the vast majority of these laws. Even if all the people that opposed this voted for another party, due to how the constituencies work, your vote will be effectively made moot.

2) Both major UK parties essentially agree that these laws should be implemented. The only solution to any problem that UK government can envisage is banning something. You can look into the Lotus Carlton ram raids of 40RR, they were singing the same tune back in the late 80s/early 90s.

3) There is no realistic pro-liberty / anti-censorship movement at all in the UK

This has been going for longer than I have been alive in the UK (I am now in my early 40s). I am not an anarchist, but I've heard the phrase repeated by anarchists of "You cannot vote yourself free". The only way to resist such laws is to subvert them via technology.
I say, kudos to the parent for being restrictive about phone use. At least they are aware of the problem and doing something -- debating the exact technical limits imposed is just nitpicking. But not doing anything is irresponsible.

Do you yourself have or teach teenage kids these days? It's a bit like all kids are brought up on heroine -- everyone addicted to doomscrolling/TikTok, teachers spend all their time trying to get attention. Phones and social media have quite drastically altered the reality the kids grow up in in a quite unhealthy way. It's dystopic IMO.

Most of us on HN can be grateful for having been able to fully develop our faculties in an age where instant dopamine shots weren't available 24/7.
The UK has a thing called non-crime hate incidents (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/non-crime-hate-in...) where the police records alleged complaints about discrimination, even if they are not a crime (otherwise they would be hate crimes).

This could be used to direct policing resources sensibly ("lots of incidents recorded at such-and-such a place, maybe we should patrol there a bit more") or to build a dystopian database, or to waste police time. There's certainly a push by some of the media to stop the police spending time on this and focus on solving crimes instead.

Similarly, this regulation could be used to prosecute child abusers, or it could be used to suppress free speech, or it could mean that people start using properly secure messaging apps.
I did switch to syncthing-fork at the same time I got my Pixel. The notification is visible until it closes by itself.

For some reason I can swipe it away too, while from what I remember, persisting apps like this used to prevent you from doing so
Have you considered that it might be because computer-based education doesn't really work?

There's a long history of technology which promised to revolutionize education - records, radio, film reels, TV broadcasts, VCR, microcomputer software, the constructionist faith in "One Laptop Per Child", MOOCs, and more.

Add this to the pile.

There are always some students who can learn on their own, and who will, for example, learn Latin from a book at the age of 6.

Most kids are not thing way.

I think most kids need someone to be there for the long-term emotional connection. Ideally (in my view), someone who respects them, and encourages them to learn, which the student can reciprocate by success in class and personal growth.

Technology cannot make that connection.
"Unless tech includes having a television in the living room."

I mean, technology as such wasn't born together with the internet.
Yeah pretty sure I had a windowing Linux desktop on 256MB of RAM back in the day, which even seemed excessive.
This legislation was created by the Conservative party, but wasn't opposed by any major political party in the UK.
We love our regulation, especially if the government can't easily tax it.

Yet, we still have gambling adverts on UK TV and on football shirts.

At the same time we've also banned adverts for "certain types" of porridge. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgrwzx8er9o
xmonad started in 2007.
It may not have been but it seems that any dystopian piece of literature will be used as one.
So Tiktok becomes a webapp right?
the difference is that in a corporate environment, an older person will generally have a mortgage and be less willing to stand up to management, while a young one can't afford a house yet and will have more freedom to move around if needed.

an older person who can't afford a mortgage, has no friends or family, and not much to live for other than work/food/shelter is one who is a lot harder to coerce.
> Merkel & friends implemented it

Do you mean they are puppets of the Greens and as opposition to red-green government could not reverse policies they have considered harmful?

> directly one of the sources of the current german problem

From 2005 to 2021 it was Merkel & Co in the government making most of the energy-related decisions, yet you single out Greens as the primary culprits. Why? Did they sign Nord Stream agreements?

> It's also the greens today trying to exclude any nuclear project from benefiting from grants at the European level.

How not starting any nuclear project now is relevant to the current situation? It’s a strange claim given the time and costs needed to build a single nuclear power plant. It’s would not solve anything in the next 10 years at least, will be the most expensive energy on the market and add a dependency on a external supplier outside of EU (you cannot seriously suggest that we should get our uranium from Africa or Kazakhstan, so it‘s going to be an American one, same terms as LNG?)
> Your argument is predicated on the idea that banning TikTok is censorship. It's not.

My take is that the elite was shocked the American youth is vaning in their Israel support and that they want algorithmic feeds that are sionist. Simple as that.
The myth of Bitcoin liquidity – Grey Enlightenment
Faster continuous integration builds at Canva
Electricity free market actions use a strange pricing scheme. Net puts out request for X amount of electricity. Providers bid. Then everybody in gets paid same price as the highest bid that made it in.

Cables connecting zones (or countries) are limited and move only part of the cheap electricity bids to the next zone. Thus more expensive bids make it raising the price. And there's a cascading effect how cheap energy gradually gets more expensive.

There's a live europe-wide electricity price map showing network events as well. It's very interesting to see how prices grade. And how big difference shows on one side if some connection between regions is down.

Local example here in Lithuania. We have quite fragile connection to Poland which seem to require a lot of maintenance for some reason. If Germany's renewables are doing good and link goes down, our energy prices go up. But if renewables are off and Scandinavian hydros are doing great, then same link going down means very cheap energy here...
that’s a huge stretch for parroting
I’d like to see all social media sites require proper age verification, much like any gambling sites in the UK have to. No under 18 needs social media. Feel, especially for children, they are a net negative.
Indeed - Revit is overkill for smaller projects :)
Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 along with Faulkner, Hemingway
> ... "We demand the maximum penalty of using their carbon to make batteries." ...

we demand that they be relegated to configuring the lp-daemon from just the *man* pages, no internet :o)
Why are you optimist? Does facebook and google doing the exact same thing harm you any less?
Putain!!! So many memories. I started with an Australian clone of a TR80 with 16kb of memory (15772 bytes) and a tape reader to record my programs. I even implemented some basic routines for the Z80 processor that I would translate into bytes in a data section in my Basic program... For those who remember poke and peek were fun... 44 years this Christmas exactly...
If my memory is correct the Z80 was cadenced at 3Hz... And now our computers speak to us, and very soon will boss us around...
What are you expecting them to do? Take responsibility for everything that happens near one of their buildings? Their visitor centre appears to be on a public street.

If you have travel insurance, that _may_ cover this; definitely worth checking.
I made no specific claim about "crypto" one way or the other. My point is that to decide if some activity is legal, or moral, etc., you have to look at what is actually done.

It's not enough to look at whether the day-to-day work "feels like a normal job", or "looks like a normal job" from the outside. You can have a highly respectable job while interacting with people who all look like stereotypical movie mobsters (e.g. prison social worker). You can also sit in a respectable office all day wearing a nice suit while committing genocide.
The problem for you is that the majority of the public support this.

Because there is plenty of scientific evidence that social media is bad for children with many parents having first hand experiences with grooming, deep fakes, bullying etc.

And I think almost everyone can agree that companies like Meta, TikTok, X have major problems with their algorithms pushing people into ideological extremes, allowing rogue actors to manipulate at scale and not taking privacy or security seriously enough.

So finding people who want to defend them will be hard.
> while public servants can only do what’s explicitly permitted.

I think that is determined by structure of legal system, many systems the public servants can do whatever they want in pursuit of policy goals that has not been expressly forbidden, but of course should be able to make the case that it was in support of those goals.
I honestly thought the US already forced TikTok to store all data on a US company's servers.
I learnt english on IRC.

Sure most of the girls I met there weren't real girls. But I did meet one of my gfs on IRC (and she was a real girl).
I think the video linked in the post does this, except for the 2-dimensional case.
Living longer, being stronger and being happier all make it worth it, though.
I'd kill for an EV 914.

Although I also loved the sound of that little engine.
But it had some features that modern phones lack sorely. E.g. incremental reboot-free (or reboot-only-on-kernel-updates) updates ala Debian, such that patching wasn't a big deal or a 1GB download twice a week.

And it had a Keyboard! With really real keys!
Databricks is on track to raise a record $9.5B round at $60B valuation
More like sustainability only seems to be possible with this crony-capitalism that is going on in european energy markets nowadays. It wouldn't survive nor pure capitalist market, nor as a state service.
Sorry, I'm not up to date, but can you run GPTs locally or only vanilla LLMs?
Not really. It was not socially acceptable to record in all scenarios. The negative effect for the recording person was larger than the internet fame on average.
Hah - I watched that Veritasium video the other day.
Risk is minuscule, and modern reactors actually shut down gracefully. Nuclear waste is an issue, but frankly - vastly smaller one than other kinds of pollution(CO2 comes to mind - and sulfides) used in generating or storing - which is the biggest current problem of renewables - power, and that can be stored in relatively smaller space.

This kind of misguided thinking has stopped us from utilizing nuclear power properly. It is a greatest stopgap we have before we find a way to store energy properly and can pivot to renewables.