skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're completely missing the point.

If you live around a million other people, you're going to have to deal with loud noise in the middle of the night at some point. Scale this up or down depending on how many people you're living near.

For the entire time that I lived in Manhattan, loud noise at 2am was unavoidable. You get thick windows, leave them closed, buy curtains and run your AC.

I'm so sorry that you were inconvenienced.
>Please someone tell me I'm not crazy

No, it's probably just autism.
Why do we tolerate centralized censorship platforms when we know their catastrophic failure modes?

This is just a mistaken corporate interest. What about when the state wants very much to hide something?
Because it was
Author is most likely farming credibility with blog spam.
This is a pretty fair comment. I wonder how structural editing figures out things like formatting/searching/diffing and copy/paste across different editors.
I don't think what I said is irrelevant. A calculator is a reliable tool. When used properly it can be helpful. The same would apply to more sophisticated tools that are available now with computers to help with math, such as tools that can quickly graph equations, or show the results of complex numerical simulations. There is certainly an argument for not allowing the use of such tools in certain learning environments, but if the tools are reliable, there will come a point where their usefulness outweighs their disadvantages.

An LLM is not a reliable tool, and that is a huge difference. It's not just that the students are asking "someone else" to do their homework for them. It's that they're being lied to by the proponents of LLMs, who are telling them the answers the LLM gives them are reliable, when they're not. Nobody made claims about what calculators can do that weren't justified by their actual design.
If the internet existed at the time the power to censor it would have belonged to the British crown, much as they had the power to read/censor mail (one of the original motivations for the first amendment).
It is. It's just taking something obvious and recontextualizing in language that sounds like a Mysterious Conspiracy when it's really just a banal truth we all take for granted because all the other options make less sense. Like using tau over pi in geometry.
Do big portions and share with others: I can feed 10 people for 17€ with curry and rice, I can’t do this for a single person using 1.70€
That historic moment has been dramatized at least once.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u70CgBr-OI
> This is especially apparent when you're trying to calculate "how much time until my next meeting?", and your next meeting is at noon. If it's 11:55, you would usually mentally subtract and conclude: the meeting is in 5 minutes. That's how I always do it myself anyway! But the most probable estimate given the available information is actually 4'30"!

Ok. But what does it mean for a meeting to start at 12:00 when people don't have clocks that will accurately show 12:00? They'll only know when the time is 11:59:30 or 12:00:30, anything between is just going to be a guess. So it seems to me that the start times would just align to the half-minute offsets instead, and we'd be back exactly where we started but with more complexity.
> The ADA was championed by Bush - a Republican candidate.

No it fucking wasn't. What are you smoking?

>n 1986, the National Council on Disability had recommended the enactment of an Americans with Disabilities Act and drafted the first version of the bill which was introduced in the House and Senate in 1988.
>It’s another thing altogether for a foreign adversary to potentially be able to control a massive communications platform with 170 million American users, nearly all of whom will be completely oblivious to whether the Chinese government is collecting their data or manipulating which content they see.

This seems very weak. Can anyone believe that "nearly all" TikTok users are "completely oblivious" to the well-publicized data collection and feed algorithm issues associated with social media use? I believe that a simple warning label should be more than enough.
> It would be weird if we rounded for years, months and days, that's for sure. I think most people think of those scales as intervals. In other words, July is a period of time, with a start and an end. So are years, centuries, seasons. We are inside of it or outside.

I feel like my sense of time is different from the author's. While it can be useful to round the current hour/minute on some occasions, the information about which exact segment of the day/hour you're in can also be very useful. I can certainly tell that I ask the question of "when exactly is it going to be 12:00?" far more often than "how many seconds have statistically likely elapsed in the current minute?"

The biggest issue for me is that the precise moment of when one minute/hour transitions into the next is important for people. Like, when coordinating an event or meeting, would you prefer it if your clock indicated the precise moment when 12:59:59 becomes 13:00:00 and told you to start the meeting, or would it be better if the clock instead told you that it was "13ish" and you'd have to wait out ~30 seconds by counting in your head?

This also causes a jarring discontinuity - now clocks with a ticking hour hand appear to run 30 seconds late than clocks without, turning on the digital clock setting to show seconds offsets it, and so on. Some people celebrate New Year's or occasions that happen at a specific time 30 seconds early because they no longer have a strong reference point.
> "It's half past two" is interpreted to mean: "it's at least half past two"

I think most people would have no issue calling 14:28 "half past two". There's no "at least" to it, just an approximation.
This game has the same old bug of "Left click + Enter key" to get money faster.
Definitely looking into TanStack Start/Router, Tanner seems to be a level-headed guy. Still hard to take a left turn where the momentum is in the Next.js direction.
I agree this is an interesting take and fun to think about. But if clocks rounded to the nearest minute instead of truncating, the average error would be still be greater than 0 I think, and not 0, as the author claims. Assuming a sufficiently large number of measurements taken at random times, I think the average error would be 15 seconds.
With AI exponentially accelerating effects of Dead Internet, I think any social or content-sharing platforms will require some form of Digital ID that can't be easily created/mass-generated (e.g. maybe tie bank account to it?).

That would put real consequences on users misusing platforms. Even a small fee for misbehavior would likely curtail vast swathes of bad actors. It would also make companies be less trigger-happy with their bots if such are allowed to operate in that ID framework (i.e. an identifiable bot being punished would be a fee subtracted from the company that uses it).

I pretty much expect that kind of system in the future, otherwise we will just return back to private networks and private communities.
Apple has a history of releasing early proofs of product concept or basic table stakes products built with a high enough quality they feel like they’re “done,” but then proceed to methodically iterate on them for years to decades until they fade into the background. It’s hard to imagine the iPhone essentially started as a click wheel iPod - comparing the two is night and day in terms of capabilities, function, and form. They take weird side ways jaunts - but generally shift back into a path that is sensible. I was interested to see what they did with Apple intelligence, but assumed it would be establishing of a basic set of capabilities, the effective proposals for APIs, and the seeding of product discussions with their customers over a long time. People seem to think a few years into the current cycle of AI technology we are seeing the final fruits rather than seeing the infancy - for those who develop these sorts of tools it feels very much like iPhone gaming felt in 2009. At some point over the decade we will hit the nadir, then descend into total enshitification (and yes those who think AI has already reached peak enshitification you are totally wrong). Along the way though we will see a lot more truly stunning advances towards the final arrival at pervasive exploitation.
We could use another Erlang Day. https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11
The wild fall and last-minute revival of Bench, the accounting startup
The Future of Htmx
Agreed. There will be less error, just not zero. I thought it was a silly error that detracted from the point, rather than defeated the point.
While most analog clocks' minute hands sweep from minute to minute, jumping minute clocks have the issue the article brings up.

Depending on when / where you went to school, you may have had analog jumping minute clocks. The ones we had at one school would "give away" when the minute would change because the minute hand would move slightly counterclockwise before changing to the next minute.[0]

Per reddit, some Swiss Railway clocks had jumping minutes, but I have not seen one in person. [1]

Another school I attended had sweep second and minute hands, but would hold the clock at 59 seconds until it matched the master clock. Depending on the particular clock and how well it was maintained, these could be 5 - 10 seconds off. Seems like nothing as an adult, but as a kid wanting to go home, it seemed like an eternity, especially on the last day of class for the semester.

[0] This video shows how clocks worked at my school: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpU_lG_TPP4

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/clocks/comments/10714a1/hard_time_f...
Tiktok's ban has bipartisan support(352 for, 65 against). Any judges looking to end their career will side with tiktok.

In this age of political polarization, the issues that which are agreed upon by both sides are the story.

There's nothing tiktok does that facebook does not.

But chicken or the egg? Is chinese social media causing the polarization?

What if the 'community guidelines' must be fully compliant with all cultures? Which essentially means free speech?
Just 'buy' his and also don't pay. And the resell the one he has.
DMCA’s perjury provision is completely toothless; it might as well not be there. It doesn’t even require you affirm a copyright violation, just that you act on behalf of the rightsholder.

This is a perfect example of how ineffective it is.
Drivers licenses would be more accurate if they showed place of birth. Maybe the kid grows up to move to an eastern timezone and is accused of drinking a few hours early!
All escapement driven clocks are discrete.
Sustain pedal. Not sure how it’s implemented in midi, but that’s one way to have more than ten notes playing at once. (There’s also four-hand duets and the rare but not non-existent play two adjacent white keys with one finger technique.)
And Twitter is laden with pro-Trump propaganda. It also censors and at least promotes what its CEO and owner wants to be seen and demotes what it doesn’t want to be seen.

It’s CEO is going to have a lot more influence on policy and be a large part of the Trump administration and have an appointed position without divesting his ownership of Twitter.

You should be much more concerned about Twitter than TikTok. I wouldn’t even care about Twitter if Musk wasn’t going to become an official member of government post 1/20.
Analog Clock movements with second hands! The seconds hand is rarely smooth, we want the tick, but the minute hand and hour hands are smooth.
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There is a buymeacoffee link. I'm pretty stingy with donations, but thought this was worth 3 coffees.
Weird, when I saw it, it was equating poverty with low access to education and corresponding outcomes.
Hä?! A clock shows the period of time we are currently in. A clock only showing hours would for example indicate that we are in the 14th hour of the day, for the entire duration of that hour. That is not an error. Similarly, a hh:mm clock will show the hour and minute we are currently in for the duration of that minute.

No clock can display the exact current moment of time. That would require infinite digits, and even then those will be late, since lightspeed will ensure you recieve the femtoseconds and below really late.
buy couple of dvds and resize your tab to be a single pixel wide - infinite points glitch
I mean, they should probably prepare people with knowledge of taxes and investing then.

The competition is very obvious in societies with a lot of wealth disparity. In Europe there tends to be less disparity and less competition.

US, China, India, UK, etc, much more disparity so it’s much more important for kids to be ‘top of the field’.
TikTok is not being banned or blocked. You will still have the right and ability to access it. What it does is block American companies from doing business with TikTok; the main effect is to cut of revenue to TikTok.
Not sure the American government is really a problem compared to American megacorporations, but I suppose at this point that's kind of splitting hairs since the government's been at the beck and call of said megacorps more and more so since like 1980
Not all analogue clocks smoothly move the minute hand to show progress in the current minute. Many of them tick over, truncating the information to the minute like what digital clocks do.
Meta's Reels is much less engaging than TikTok (as measured by user numbers and anecdotal user experience), and if competition from TikTok is removed they'll have even less reason to improve it.
And yet if you go there at commuter times and spend 5 minutes just observing, I'm sure you'll feel the same way.

The funniest thing about the responses here to me is that not a single person has disputed the characterization I presented -- what I'm describing seems to be clear enough to everyone.
Don't blame me.

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I get it. But also HN's comment guidelines are so good that they encourage some of the most interesting comments I find on any given news article. So while I agree that anytime Musk tweets something it's not particularly relevant to tech - on the other hand I found some of the discussion about Trudeau's resignation very enlightening and one of the more civil threads anywhere on the internet.

Proposal for HN: have a tab for discussion of major world news, and instead of allowing retread posts for the same news again and again every time there's a new source, limit it to something canonical like the Current Events portal on Wikipedia.
> Americans surely do love to make things illegal.

That's certainly not the issue here - where the secret was to avoid informing or giving time to think by skipping the fine print.
The requirements have not changed.
> Did ChainPatrol have to file an actual DMCA takedown notice to take down 3Blue1Brown's video?

Probably not. Youtube has their own system which is not DMCA claim based.
I'd still go for the .com. There's just too much stuff biased towards the holy trinity (.com/.net/.org). If you're ok with a country .tld then they're an acceptable second tier to me. There's an entirely undeserved reputation boost to .com domains over pretty much every other TLD that non–technical people believe in (the same people who genuinely think the US Postal Service is telling them to go to www.usps-delivery-confirmation-change-app.xyz to pick up a lost package).

I think if necessary I'd build the thing under a throwaway name (much like how many movies are made by some variant on "Working Title Productions" and not "Batman vs Thor: The Ultimate Crossover"), keep an eye on the parked .com and try to suss out if it's actually acquirable or if the hoarder is delusional.

If you have a name you want use something like SnapNames to try to grab it if it expires (this only works if the domain isn't listed for sale on SnapNames or its affiliates). It can take some time.

Another technique is to look for stale domains (nothing resolves, not even MX records) and see if the registrant records point back to the domain (not as easy with widespread privacy masking) or point to some other dead domain. Assuming they expire before the end of time, when they expire the notices will bounce and the domain will expire.
I do not claim this is a general, or perfect solution. I don't think there is one. I'm doing what I can, which is a good enough move, given the details of the situation.
In the US? I recall an event in Panama. Quickly googling shows the person was a dual US citizen? Maybe that is what you are thinking of?
It was well before 2000. Most of my gear is 1990s vintage and while some has limited polyphony, most has unlimited polyphony and doesn‘t do note stealing.
Most analog (really, with a geared mechanism) clocks do not "snap" on exact minutes but slowly drive toward them (because that's simpler and thus cheaper).
There are many places out there where individual contributors are agency-less executors.

I don't think it ever worked. (Remember when Japan destroyed the world's car industry just by changing that single thing? And that's industry work, highly repetitive and formalized.) But that never stopped managers from doing something.
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Mac’s being able to export PDF’s for free was a huge deal back in the acrobat days :-P

I’m hoping with what they’ve built in infrastructure and custom chips is a step towards making personal LLM also highly available to non-technical people. I think this is where Apple has always shined - making things not just better, but accessible and grokable for normal people.
Another perfect example of wasted disk space and bandwidth on the internet 8-/

Not to mention a waste of the one truely nonrenewable resource, our time...
Can you explain what these illegal orders were, within the purview of Sloly's role as police chief? Also, who is the second Ottawa police chief you're talking about? For that matter, who is the third one? Furthermore, on what grounds are you claiming that Sloly resigned over illegal orders, when most sources agree it was over failure to perform?
It didn't go so well because the US and the rest of Europe resisted the invasion of Ukraine.

Who will help Canada? They'll be blockaded on day one by both land and sea. They won't have any food.
He absolutely got into trouble for breaking past the downtime pin. Although, not in that much trouble because I was honestly a little impressed.

Punishment and technological locks are both tools in the toolkit.

Ultimately you want your children to find the right balance with technology and that's difficult because most parents struggle with that balance. The world has moved very quickly and it is very hard to keep up. My kids are 12 years apart in age and they couldn't have had more different childhoods -- that's how quickly things have changed. Less than a generation.
It was export restricted for ages. If you were an American company as late as the late 2000's (at least) you had to get permission to export strong encryption.

The right to communicate math ended at the US border. It's entirely feasible given the laws for that kind of walling off of content to be legal.

There's also the chilling effect of the government doing it anyways, even if they will eventually lose that legal battle in court.
That stopped after the judge gave an injunction. That judge also said the protest could otherwise continue as was a Charter right.
I have been watching a little of daytime TV cop stuff while spending time with my older family. In one particular 44 minute episode the 4 plot lines are: solving a hate-crime by deceiving a suspect during interrogation into confessing; an object lesson that you shouldn't film cops lest you make them too nervous to arrest people, with tragic consequences; a 3 layered defense against the idea of an old boys club, in which even the would-be racist cop is bait-N-switched into being color-blind; and a Medicare fraud investigation. I felt like I was having an out-of-body experience it was so surreal in its overtness.
I'd be very surprised if a smartphone, syncing itself to a reference, is ignoring seconds. Why would it?

To me, if a clock that doesn't display seconds is displaying 09:30, then I assume the time could be anywhere between 09:30:00 and 09:30:59.

Presumably when setting the time on a device that doesn't display seconds, the seconds are being reset to 0 (i.e. setting time to 09:30 is setting it to 09:30:00), so if someone really cares about sub-minute accuracy they can take this into account.
I know; my comment saves time (at least on devices where the link is truncated).
Ever use one? Looks cool, but the price tag is too steep to "test drive," IMO.
There are other ways to donate to nonpolitician social media owners who then donate to politicians or support through their algorithm Like allow an individual who owns a big media platform to have the first fully foreign owned auto factory in China. In Musk's case it was before the Twitter purchase so not saying that's what happened there, just that that kind of thing is an avenue.
If you search YouTube for "fail army" there is clearly a whole ad supported business model for revenue from something that is about the same as "ow, my balls!"
its crazy that those funds arent held in escrow until the video publisher gets to respond/the dispute is resolved
My take is reciprocally. Since China bans many US Owned Social Media Companies, the US should do the same. Once the US Companies get the same access in China the US allows TikTok to have, TikTok should be banned.
I hate to say this, but you'd be surprised how relationships change when one party in the relationship gets FU money. It is not pretty.
Is it illegal to purposefully cut it that way?
I had some of my best times in Quebec (City). I felt super welcome despite only speaking English.

I do understand where you're getting at though, and trust me, if you go to Berlin and you only speak English, you'll get far worse than you would from the Québécois for doing the same.

It's almost like those Americans who give people shit for not speaking English, except we have even less entitlement to that.
The bill mentions ByteDance and TikTok specifically -- doesn't that make this a bill of attainder, and thus de facto unconstitutional?

The terms of the ban are incredibly broad too -- if you can post reviews on AliExpress that other users can see it seems like that too would be a covered application.
Show HN: Open-Source Game Analytics Miner for Steam, YouTube, Twitch, and TikTok
I'm an indie gamedev and I got tired of searching through a bunch of different sites like SteamDB, TwitchTracker, VG Insights, etc. to do market research on games. So I started working on Perch to aggregate all this data in one place. Kind of like Ahrefs for games!

Thought it was important to open-source the backend, because a lot of useful game data like game sales can only be roughly approximated so it's helpful to understand how the numbers are calculated.
They have the option to sell it and the product can continue existing as is