skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was surprised most by the general publics ignorance regarding possible work arounds. Nobody I spoke to on large Tik Tok lives believed it was even possible to download and install apps from somewhere other than the Play Store. Apple users believed their ability to install apps was identical to Android users

In the future I think the government can force the public to do things simply because the public is unaware of the options they have.

The good news is Rednote seems to be a potential replacement, which is also Chinese owned.
I don't really buy this. I don't think the tech is quite there, although at this point it might be a matter of clever prompting more than a fundamental limitation depending on the type of game you have in mind. A strong enough DM AI could take a prompt like "I want to play a game with a similar loop to Satisfactory, set in Mordor at the beginning of the second age." And the AI could figure out from there, including devising appropriate constraints.
There are levels to this stuff too.

I got picked on all the time as a kid in school. I did not like it, but it did develop several traits that I learned to appreciate later in life. First and foremost, I am not the slightest bit bothered by anyone mocking me anymore. I don’t get easily embarrassed at all.

At the same time, I also learned to fit in a lot better. Getting picked on for things I said or did create some social conditioning about what was and wasn’t acceptable.

This type of bullying was helpful in hindsight.

Physical bullying is different ballgame and I don’t understand anyone that thinks it’s acceptable.

Cyberbullying is on a whole other level of publicly humiliating a developing child in front of everybody they know, often by anonymous people who will take steps to make sure it never goes away if they want to.

The latter 2 are totally unacceptable and dangerous.

The first getting lumped in with bullying creates bullying apologists I think, because there can be beneficial side effects of helping kids learn social norms.
Open Source Games List (OSGL)
Yes.

And many made it work in the face of adversity.

Many others did not make it work just due to bad luck or timing.

But districts like ours completely failed at it because the entire leadership is incompetent and teachers never got the support they needed from the administration to make it work (including monitoring teachers to ensure they were actually working).
> Still, justices questioned whether that might put the cost of protecting kids from obscene content online on phone makers like Apple or Google rather than the sites being regulated.

Is that even bad? The people who want to impose and use filtering software ought to be be the ones paying the costs (financial and privacy) of building and running it. They can choose to buy devices which advertise the features.

When little Abdul's parents are aghast the he can find filth like ladies' bare ankles online, why should Bob's Shoe Fashion Forum have to, er, foot the bill, and why should all their neighbors be forced to give up their privacy too?

The simpler, cheaper, vastly less-dystopian approach is that sites are merely required to signal some kind of rating or content information (e.g. via HTTP headers.) Then whoever wants to sell/buy child-lock-mode devices and create individualized "no porn or ankles or evolution" filtering can do so on their own. It also moves the most crucial security check into the real world where non-technical parents have a chance of observing and enforcing it: Which device is your child holding?
how would you describe musk's control of twitter, or Zuckerberg's over facebook and instagram?

there's no democracy involved in the running of social media websites. the rules are what the boss says. sometimes the autocrat is benevolent, sometimes not. the CCP has been more better social media autocrat than musk has, and there is at least more people involved in decision making
Thanks for the mental image. Many technologies are created for military goals and slowly find their way to civilian applications. Maybe in some years we will see a scene like that – it would be much better than the CGI-laden films of nowadays...
Vec<Vec<T>>?
Huh? I don’t think anyone should get 100% of anything. In fact that’s largely the point I’m hoping is self apparent through my line of questioning (that productivity gains should result in bounty for everyone — for the leaders who had the good sense to buy augers, sure, but also the workers using the new tool, and of course the share holders who provided the capital).

The whole point of this article we’re all commenting on is that it shows workers have been the ones left out in the cold since 1971 and that the high-wealth class in this country has been soaking up essentially the entirety of the resulting bounty from productivity increase.
For anyone who's interested - Ben Lynn also has a series of articles that explain the creation of that compiler and add further enhancements:

https://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/compiler/
>The forced divestment is for national security reasons.

Would you like to buy a bridge?
This "straining the network" is the "unlimited pto" of b2b saas. It's all bullshit. Nebulous and you don't really know what you're getting into until you're too locked in and they squeeze you. Don't do business with companies like this if you can avoid it. It's the Datadog model of we'll charge you whatever and make it extremely complicated for you to understand why you're being billed $x this month.
You’re told he is wrong but I strongly suspect what you’re told he believes or says about those very important things is not what he actually does.
Poland had a quarter of Germany's per capita GDP in 2010. You're basically saying that German acted like a developing nation in term of it's energy strategy. That's not a positive argument. When you don't have money then you do whatever you can to survive. When you do have money then you need to think about the future. Poland's GDP is now half of Germanys so it's doing just that since it now has the money to do so.
I know of many instances in which Meta suppressed specific opinions, but I don't know any of TikTok doing the same thing. Examples are welcome, if you have any.

Or is this just about Tiktok not being owned by a billionaire who will use censorship to keep the USA government happy?
> I'd like to think I minimize the bleedover of corporate/profession-related speech into my daily life, but "orthogonal" and "non-trivial" were just not a standard part of my vocabulary before college. Over a decade later, I find myself saying them a lot.

As a mathematician, both of those terms are common in my technical and, therefore, everyday speech. If it helps, feel free to think of yourself, not as using corporate speech, but as using technical mathematical terms.
Well, Cloudflare seems pretty cagey about what their prices are, given they don't reveal them to clients until they are completely tied in.
I think the OP is saying that both nations are banning software because of the risks of the software/data collection posing risks to the political stability of each nation. You can obviously say "our reason is better because X", but the outcomes being the same means that there is justification.

Both sides say it's worth banning "Tiktok/Google for granting the CCP/USA the ability to algorithmically influence the views of Chinese/Americans".
>I can’t speak universally about my experience, (even within all of Britain), because it’s my experience which is in one small area of the country.
>However, school, for me, was by far the single worst mandatory system I have been exposed to in my life.

Hey this is more or less the universal experience world over. Be suspicious of anyone who says otherwise.
China is classified as a foreign adversary, so this goes beyond trade policy. Foreign adversaries show a pattern of conduct that threaten national security. People are not comfortable with foreign adversaries having a direct line to our youth's attention and having their finger on the dial.
That sounds more like maths jargon that has bled into office speak (to my delight, but I'm a mathematician).
> shrill

I suspect you may have meant to say shill instead.
Ways to say:
1. "that's not what we're talking about" and
2. "this is fucking important you idiot"

are always valuable :D
I’m a us citizen and I do want this. Speak for yourself. China bans us social media. Us should ban Chinese social media.
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a computer without a web browser? definitely another apple idea to keep you in some garden.
Are you implying there are no differences between masculine and feminine? If there are differences and you value diversity, you should want masculine to be represented.

Unless you mean masculine == bad, which would be a very bigoted take.
built in rust btw
I can't imagine that much ... nothing out there.
> People do illegal stuff all the time without even knowing it...

If using and carrying cash was illegal, I wouldn't be able to go to -say- Wal*Mart and hand them cash in exchange for goods and services.

I agree that cops in many jurisdictions are permitted to engage in consequence-free-for-the-perpetrators highway robbery whenever they encounter someone carrying cash. The thing that's illegal in that scenario is the robbery.
> Should the Congress also make play-by-play battle calls in war?

No thats obviously the executive?

> Again, Argentina. Electeds always want rates lower and spending higher. (Rich people who can store their wealth offshore, even moreso.)

Yes this is how democracy works, if people are dumb, then things go bad. The point of democracy is that you have to take a leap of faith and hope people make good decisions. If you don't like this, we can just revert to totalitarianism. You might think I'm saying this tongue in cheek but I'm not, there's a real argument that modernity is too complex for democracy.
It's probably outside their scope, and they are not as large and wealthy as Valve that they can afford to invest the necessary resources. But you can use 3rd party launchers like "Heroic" that support GOG and basically give you the same experience as Steam does.
That would be subsequent to presenting a clearer ROI case across foreseeable quarters
Adjacent News Radio Marriage Proposal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-yGUSRdNG4
The idea that the government can invoke civil law outside of contract disputes or similar matters is inherently problematic due to the lower burden of proof.

It’s only appropriate when any private citizen could do the same thing. IE: The Army suing a supplier for supplying them with a defective bullets is they same thing anyone who buys large quantities of bullets could do, but people would need to voluntarily enter into such relationships before this applies.
it probably isnt, and is just a random name, but it feels like the name is a joke about the red scare
Arizona and California have outdated water management laws that basically mean that big agriculture gets free water.

Until recently Saudi Arabia was using these laws to grow alfalfa in the desert.

In California, water intensive crops like almond trees get free water.

https://youtu.be/XusyNT_k-1c

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/climate/arizona-saudi-ara...
> Would you be eager to relocate for a job this year? Where and why?

I'm in the process of trying to land a job in NYC, coming from SF. I've been in team match with Meta for several months. They have next to zero openings in NYC. I've applied for a multitude of other jobs in NYC. Obviously, I'm good enough at interviewing to pass FAANG interviews. Very few callbacks and mostly from companies that pay peanuts. But, it's hard. Most companies that want to hire me are still SF based.

I'm not seeing anything from outside the US that would be appealing. The compensation is much lower outside of maybe getting hired at a couple companies in Switzerland.

> 8. Europe leads as the top destination for tech talent

Not convinced. Maybe a leading second destination. It looks like everyone still wants to go to the bay area. A lot of single people I know who have been in the bay area are looking to leave though because of the gender ratio. Thus, NYC is flooded with SF applicants. Almost impossible to get an engineering job at the big tech companies in NYC due to the amount of internal transfers competing for every position.
We live in western central NJ so the options are pretty limited. There were only a handful to pick from, and there were roughly two price tiers: tier “A” was around $15,000 a year per student, tier “b” elite schools were $50,000 and up per student per year. Our choices were down to only three schools, one was out because it was all-boys, and we chose out of the other two based on meeting teachers and staff.
> it’s never about protecting the privacy of private citizens—that’s just the justification

...but it wasn't. It was clearly and explicitly about national security.
In fact the RoC government is already in exile in Taiwan, though it seems unlikely that they would find another piece of real estate if they lost that.
In terms of brand, Cloudflare reminds me of Google during the idealist “don’t be evil” phase. Giving away lots of free and benefiting from massive mindshare. I feel similar about Cloudflare now as Google then: very positive and wouldn’t begrudge them any work contracts.

I feel like Google started on an extraction ratchet and hasn’t stopped. I used to put everything there and now barely anything. The change in brand for me has been massive.
> better and cheaper

Well they are definitely cheaper
UID changes coming to Godot 4.4
> Social networking platforms are among the most effective tools for mass influence, second only to religion.

There is no evidence for this belief. Really for either religion or for "social networking platforms".

You could maybe make the claim that this is true in terms of reach, but the implication here is that "these mediums can be used deliberately to influence people in a chosen direction", and this is just kind of silly. It's fun to imagine that some nefarious powers (or benificent powers) have some magical insight into how to make people believe things but this just isn't true and I think intuitively we all understand that.

To make the case that this is true you would have to do an examination of all attempts to spread messages, not just look at successful cases where messages catch on. Nobody has the power to do this on demand through some principled approach, or else they would be emperor of the world.
That's good when you explain something technical to a layman, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about explaining non-technical issue to a technical person using jargon for analogy.

For example you can use P2P to explain how some gossip spread or you can say that your relationship with SO is like UDP recently.
Yes, anecdotally many of my friends (and I) had a backup phone. Second hand Android phones are so cheap that why not? By the time the app has to be reinstalled it may make sense, if sideloading on Android takes off.
Your questioning a point raised by yourself?

I just don’t see anyone else claiming it or even mentioning it prior to that comment.
Facebook/Meta Transparency Reports
Cash flow positive. Margins look healthy. Spend lots of R&D which i would attribute to having $1.6B(2023) of capital on hand and being cash flow positive.
he'll be revered forever the same way geroge washington is. theyre both warlords who founded a country, casting away the prior government and foreign invaders

washington is still liked even though he was a notable slave owner
The type of power China has is very different than Zuck's. You aren't going to get taken to a black site for talking about Tianamen Square on Facebook. (or something like the Tusla Race Massacre may be a better example, since that is embarrassing to the US similarly to Tianamen Square in China)
I think this is a brilliant idea, congrats on building it! Will try it out as well. I think some passive exposure to dutch is exactly what I need.
Train faster static embedding models with sentence transformers
How can I get more than 5k queries?
I'm sorry - you're following all the comments about public schools being like a prison and you're suggesting people get expelled faster or disciplined more to improve schools?
That's surprising, given that Iridium flares were a regular occurrence until ~5 years ago.

(They were arguably also one of the most interesting and inspiring phenomena on the sky, too. I miss them.)
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There aren't commercial airplanes out there. This was at Catalina Island which is ~25 miles off the California coast. There is very little light pollution. I think it's more the fear that the sky will be filled with those. I don't know how long after launch this was but it had been a repeat occurrence for multiple nights at that point.
And this is sort of the case that I was gesturing towards. A good school system is not one that just pounds on you to sit in class until you can regurgitate some fact. Its one that lets students figure out what they're good at before they have to be on their own.

Montessori, vocational programs, self-directed learning on and on and on.

Nobody should have to pick between "follow this specific concept of schooling" or "be institutionalized". That's not good schooling.
> like the devs who insist that private/internal methods should not have unit tests

Because unit tests for private/internal methods aren't required. They are tested via the testing of the public methods. If a test coverage analysis reveals that your private/internal methods weren't fully tested, then that tells you one of two things:

1. Your public methods weren't fully tested. Your test coverage analysis should reveal if that is the case.

2. Your private/internal methods were overengineered. They include functionality that isn't being used.

Both of these are problems, but problems of a different kind. You shouldn't ignore (1), but (2) can be addressed in a myriad of different ways - including not addressing it. (2) is indicative of a development process issue more so than a defect in a development artifact.
Or https://mynixos.com/ which is hierarchically navigable. I usually search for a package or setting name and browse around.
It's a good thing for anyone. Which is why the EU should find the way to restrain, or completely ban if necessary, American social media.
https://transparencyreport.google.com/ discussed before:

Google Transparency Report - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20608535 - Aug 2019 (11 comments)
What's the relevance? Would you have been more satisfied if Google were forced to sell to Jack Ma instead?
It is based on data from internal benchmarks. Zfs is fine for database workloads but scales worse than Xfs based on my personal experience. It is unpublished benchmarks and I do not have access to any farm to win a discussion on the internet.
Until 2027 - when the packaging facilities are complete in Peoria.

Rome wasn't built in a day.
This is an extremely over-simplified take. It depends on entirely on what the farms are producing, their water efficiency, etc. Nobody would seriously suggest that people go hungry so that we can have more chips, so responding as if that's the actual suggestion is unwarranted.
Biden has been as empathetic towards Palestine as it's possible to be without opposing Israel. That's how we ended up with things like the crazy floating aid pier. Trump's position is much less empathetic, complete with overt threats of "all hell to pay" if they don't release the hostages soon, and if the current ceasefire holds then it's hard to avoid concluding it's better for the Palestinian people overall.
I saw them a couple of nights ago and was able to get them in a photo. You can see about 12 of them in a row.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/u978rksgjrtvusfmpt36k/IMG_896...
I noticed 'low hanging fruit' here is used differently than I'm used to. Where I've worked it always meant 'a task that is easy to get done'
Architecture maps responsibilities to capabilities.
Analysis maps a problem space to a model.
Design transforms a model into a better model. (This is implicitly iterative.)
Implementation maps the designed model to buildables/deployables/runnables.
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Surprised they're going to apple rather than say military purposes
For most of history, homeschooling was the norm for those who could afford private tutors. We know how our current mass-production type education appeared, but what needs to be explained is how it surviving into the 21st century.
>And with the xz example the backdoor had to be rushed out when it was deployed because the dynamic dependencey was being removed before the backdoor was completely in place. Doing a open source supply chain attack is not easy, fast or reliable for long.

If the xz backdoor had not been found due to dumb luck, it could have persisted for a long time. Backdoors have persisted for years before, maybe even decades. It's also a package with a lot of eyes on it compared to obscure packages. So I don't think you're right even a little bit, especially in huge projects or projects with LOTS of dependencies.
Didn't know about this data structure. What are some use cases other than text editors? The article on wikipedia [1] doesn't expand much on this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure)
What a truly insane take. Do you honestly think the Chinese government looks out more for your interests as an American citizen? The fact that you couldn't make the reverse claim in China without being censored speaks volumes.
Btw, two addendums:

1. I fixed some things in that repo, now it should work out of the box. Apologies if the initial version had some bugs, was taking it out of another project, and the first effort at cleaning it up was too hasty. Note it is still however just meant as an example.

2. You actually can run more than one container per window - see here https://code.visualstudio.com/remote/advancedcontainers/conn.... However, I opted for the double window method because I found that cleaner than toggling between in one window. In my template I assume the two windows method because it will load up the proper subfolder (django or react) of the workspace/monorepo depending on which dev container you connect to.
It's the double-edged sword of both free plans and "transparent pricing". If you just click "buy" and enter your CC info you're subject to their somewhat arbitrary terms of service. Service is cheap and reliable so you don't ask questions. But they can just boot you and there's very little recourse. It's why most big companies want a signed contract that's binding and comes with some kind of mandatory dispute resolution or penalties for non-compliance.
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Imagine if the same logic was used for a criminal defense: "Your honor, I didn't kill $VICTIM, it was the $WEAPON that killed $VICTIM".
The use of "orthogonal" is now common in SCOTUS oral arguments, both from the practitioners and the justices. Not infrequent in the intermediate appellate courts either. I do an imaginary eye roll whenever I hear it in those contexts.
It is logically and practically impossible to prove things to be untrue. We can only prove things that are true.

The thing we could prove is “no detectable increase versus control, in our test data”. There is no way to prove “x does not cause cancer” any more than there is a way to prove “x does not cause meteors” or “x does not cause spontaneous human resurrections” or “x does not cause humans to turn into unicorns”.
It demonstrates Western weakness. Remember, during the Cold war the "iron curtain" was meant to prevent Soviets from seeing Western culture, political points of views.

The United States does not feel confident in its ability to persuade Americans that it's model, culture and political ideals are superior to global alternatives. Hence a Western Iron Curtain.
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I find in this situation that new member onboarding can unfortunately take years