skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel the same.

I think there are two things in play.

First, folks on this site don't know what real propaganda looks like. Based on growing up in Texas, as far as I can tell you'd have to publish and mandate textbooks to make a meaningful impact on peoples' belief systems. I have seen it happen, and I've had the experience of often leaning that things I had thought were true (or some underlying assumption) was in fact false, and then been able to trace that to my early education. So propaganda feels likely, but it also doesn't seem like some easy magic that can happen at the behest of some autocrat somewhere.

Unfortunately the folks here don't really have much perspective to judge the ways in which their own assumptions about the world are shaped by the rhetoric of the systems that raised them.

Second, many people likely generally haven't had many positive and genuine experiences on social media, or at least not on contemporary short-form video social media. Having been on the net since usenet days, I believe that it's possible to learn how to have those kinds of experiences, just as it's possible to engage with trolls and have a bad day or whatever. I don't consider HN to be fundamentally different than other social media sites, but I also understand that is a marginal view.

However, since folks here have generally never used something like Tiktok in a way that has had a positive impact in their life, the folks using it look like they are addicted doom scrollers instead of people highly engaged in conversations with their community.

I've personally gotten a lot out of Tiktok- the quality of the discussions there is much higher and more diverse than HN. I've also interacted with a lot of folks there in ways that make me fairly certain that I am dealing with actual humans and not, like, a PRC Botnet or something.

It's tough for me to disregard my own experience:

TT doesn't feel any more propaganda-laden than any other media stream, and certainly not in ways that are driven more by the PRC than by the content creators themselves

Further, I feel a little fury at folks who are happy engaging in whatever crappy media they like: mass sports, bad sitcoms, poorly written TV news, etc and feeling like the hour they might spend with that is somehow better than the half hour I might spend listening to some lakota guy talk about some nuance of tribal politics, and then have the gall to tell me that I'm addicted.

However, at the same time those folks apparently have a lot of power- they can happily elect folks who will hake it harder for me to hear some conversations that I found useful. So I suppose it's important to understand that these sociopaths view me as just another addicted, over-propagandized NPC.
> tiktok goes out of its way to abide by US laws and still were banned

I'm guessing they decided there was no effective legislation Tiktok couldn't weasel around via loopholes, deception, or some combination of the two.
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AI slop channel that pivoted from voyeur filming of women in public to Modern MBA ripoff video essays. Disregard.
Ah, OK, my bad.
I suspect that the strategy I've described in my the post (forwarding a signed email with some modified headers) isn't actually new, and that it's just the first time I've looked closely enough to become interested in how it works.

The whole "put a misleading string in the PayPal name field" thing may be new.

> How would they even validate their new attack vector? I would like to think that there’s scam A/B testing or something similar…

I'm curious about that as well. My guess is that there's nothing as sophisticated as A/B tests with measured results going on, but I'd love to learn more.
Business are not willing to pay for Google and Microsoft artificial intelligence so they ramp up the price to everyone and everyone get it 'for free'.

Untill they eventually get hooked on that and then google and Microsoft will once again put that behind a paywall, except now everyone pays more. At least that's the plan.

Now even if employee don't see the benefit of the new deep integrated a.i. and business refuse to pay more for a.i., they aren't going to leave anyway because Microsoft is doing just the same as google.

That's either a win for Google and Microsoft, or at least a neutral outcome.
Well FB is American. Even though I and many people agree FB is also a problem, I think it’s pretty clear why those in Washington are more okay with an American company that they have some power over and also should ostensibly care for America versus a company that is ostensibly beholden to an adversary. (To be clear, I don’t think FB cares about America.)

I don’t really see why it’s hard to see the reasoning behind the ban even if one disagrees with it.

Take it to an extreme, imagine there were zero American social media companies in our modern world where most people get there news from social media. That obviously would be a huge security risk, having one’s population’s news being controlled exclusively by foreign states.
The difference being that the new manpower has zero experience, is mostly kids and has no leadership. They reverted from a terrorist army, to an unorganized guerilla
Excellent clarifications. Thank you!
You want this to be complicated so badly, but it's not.

Hidden limits are an anti-pattern.

There is no counter-argument.

If they have a hard limit they can cut people off well ahead of 1.2PB of bandwidth with less ambiguity: it's a strictly better situation.
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it's a chain of broken windows. Their employers should care about making sure the primary interface with business cares. But they don't. So it goes down the chain until we simply say "7/11 is a sad place to be"
Considering how many of our sites they ban, this seems pretty reasonable.
There are an infinite number of things to care about (which is to say, to spend resources on, because that's what caring about something actually means), a finite amount of resources allocated to everyone except about 6 people who have a practically infinite amount of resources, and a social organization system that revolves around getting as much of those resources as possible and nothing else. What you're looking at is the real end product of "there is no such thing as society, only the individual and the family" neoliberalism. It's not just that no one cares, it's not even that no one has answered the question "Why should I care?". It's that the majority of people simply cannot care.
That would occur if a naked singularity could exist. If black holes have a singularity then you could remove the event horizon. In general relativity, the mathematical condition for the existence of a black hole with an event horizon is simple. It is given by the following inequality: M^2 > (J/M)^2 + Q^2, where M is the mass of the black hole, J is its angular momentum and Q is its charge.

Getting rid of the event horizon is simply a question of increasing the angular momentum and/or charge of this object until the inequality is reversed. When that happens the event horizon disappears and the exotic object beneath emerges.
This is great for the 100+ domains that I've registered but never had time yet to fully develop. Going to build landing pages for those domains.
So do I, which is why I put this explanation here. It is especially odd given that Sam Harris is in most respects such a serious person who you'd think would be resistant to this but it might actually be the case that it is his seriousness which made him more susceptible.

Of course I understand that this is not what you meant but I'd suggest giving it a thought nonetheless.
Pitty - short sellers are essential for a healthy market
Speaking of school, I find it disturbing that many schools switch to pure digital, i-ready and that some similar shit. The problem with pure digital is that the kids won't learn how to communicate math, like writing down step-by-step solutions to word problems in elementary schools, rigorous geometry proofs in grade 7, and algebraic derivations and proofs after grade 7. Those kind of work was natural to my generation when we grew up - it's just what our teachers trained us to do. And now it's a uphill battle to help my kids even understand the importance of doing proper maths.

A general theme, though, is that I don't get why it's so hard for Americans to stick to the traditional but good practices, like getting rigorous training in STEM, like not solely relying on multiple choices, like hiring good teachers and firing bad ones, etc and etc.
I used to have a trike in college till it got stolen. I was always skittish of taking it on the road given most 'bike lanes' are painted gutters about as wide as that trike was.
Yes: cloudflare is not a charity.
This one grinds my gears in particular because there's a common word specifically for that - lessons.
To summarize: localize defect contamination to a very small unit size, by making the cores tiny and redundant.

Analogous to a conglomerate wrapping each business vertical in a limited liability veil so that lawsuits and bankruptcy do not bring down the whole company. The smaller the subsidiaries, the less defect contamination but also the less scope for frictionless resource and information sharing.
It is a queer woman meaning to "correct" history.

If it feels "like a sermon," you're likely not of the flock.
Ads/monetization isn't necessarily the problem, but it enables Facebook to exist at the scale it does. If we're trying to reduce their scale or limit the size of the social network, it seems silly to fracture the entire market by breaking them up. You can simply cut off their revenues.

And no, I don't think HN addiction is anything like FB addiction. This site is heavily moderated in comparison and the content is higher quality. It's a 'news' site with some respectable commentary that is so rare people like us keep coming back. There's a level of decency that's expected and required here. I could go on, lack of photos, videos, etc. The content is community driven via ranking versus an algorithm optimized for financial outcomes.... I also don't actually know any of you people so how is that a social network, it's a community forum at best. The almost absence of political stuff on HN helps a fair amount.

Addiction itself isn't super bad. Addiction to harmful things is what's bad. I don't even know if I'm addicted to HN, sometimes I go weeks without coming here - but have mostly been here daily for many years. I enjoy it, it enriches my life, I feel it's a positive habit. Just because you take your dog for a walk every day, are you addicted to it? You could just let him out in the back yard? You do it because it's a healthy habit, for them and you.
I suggest he open a patreon and say "I need this much money to survive for one year because of this this and that reason" and send the mail to .. everyone

I can assure you he'll have his finances covered in less than a month lol.
Then you are very lucky. I definitely have met those sorts. I’m even aware of teams that collectively push to the main brain under the promise that they’ll probably look at each other’s code later, maybe.

I saw no proof of the later review for all pushes.
If that's your attitude, you can't be surprised when your side continues to lose. Meta "fought and lost" their first attempt to ban TikTok.
The cost driver for fabbing out wafers is the number of layers and the number of usable devices per wafer. Higher layer count increases cost and tends to decrease yield, and more robust designs with higher yields increase usable devices per wafer. If circles or other shapes could help with either of those, they would likely be used. Generally the end goal is to have the most usable devices per wafer, so they'll be packed as tightly as possible on the wafer so as to have the highest potential output.
Ready for whatever the pentagon wants.
Docs are also the last place to be updated (if they were even technically correct in the first place)
What, they should just shut up and sell? They're getting extorted.
"I haven't been trained" is the refrain of the incompetent
> refuse to abide by chinese laws

Honest question: what laws?
Maybe we need an AI to filter out the bland bullshit content created by AI.

I swear every single post LinkedIn highlights to me is the same AI template.
as an electrical engineer I think any other form of coupling as a capacitance, i.e. electric field and rarely as inductive coupling (magbetic field). funny world.
Also: canola oil is a rapeseed oil. You can imagine why a lot of people are more comfortable calling it "canola" than "rapeseed" (and hence why it's written that way on US packaging).
Gatorade cool blue used to be blue raspberry
But they can [organically] suggest a great replacement to purchase!
Nope, I still have it, I know it wasn't abolished for existing users. You're right that they initially planned to get rid of it, but they backtracked. They set a deadline by which existing users had to confirm that they were using it for personal use if they wanted to keep it. Anyone who didn't click the confirmation button was indeed converted to a paid plan like you are saying, but those of us who did continue to have the legacy free edition.
"The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them."

- Julius Nyerere
Last I checked solar without batteries is roughly the same price per Kw as nuclear. There’s a huge difference in capability though because nuclear is 24/7 peak availability which solar can’t do and if you start building batteries the price increases substantially.

I agree on regulatory experience but that comes more from panic over nuclear proliferation rather than any economic reason. Whether or not you view that as a legitimate concern is open to debate.
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There's also no reason they couldn't pattern that area with some other suitable commodity chips. Like how sawmills and butchers put all cuts to use.
This is great :) Also if anyone else is hitting New Yorker paywalls and can't read this, just disable JavaScript and reload.
So the better internet is for everyone, is that so bad?

I’d rather have them help everyone than make arbitrary decisions about who gets served. That’s what we have the legal system for.
What existing state was Israel founded on top of?
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> and no, I'm not part of the KKK

I can't say I ever said or thought that you were.

I did assume you thought it amusing to stick KKK in your name and stick with it though.
> a question of marginal cost/benefit, not total value.

Uh... yes it is? Are "benefit" and "value" not synonyms here? I think you're confusing "value" with "profit" maybe? They may not be equal, but the denominator in "cost/benefit" is exactly what I'm talking about.
Autocad 10-12 back in college. Cost thousands of dollars in 80s/90s dollars, Not officially allowed to copy, but in reality effortless to copy and run at home for free.

There were other products aiming to be just as good at the same time that were actually protected with dongles and such.

The one that everyone could run at home is the one that took over the world.
Yes, but my understanding is that the wafer is exposed in multiple steps, so there would still be less exposure steps? Probably insignificant compared to all the rest though. (Etching, moving the wafer, etc.)

EDIT: to clarify - I mean the exposure of one single pattern/layer is done in multiple steps. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photolithography#Projection)
> I've released some kinda janky features to 100,000s of users before not totally knowing how it's going to preform with all of them at that scale, I don't think that is very controversial in product development.

Oh, that's because modern-day product development of "ship fast, break things" is its own problem. The whole tech industry is built on principles that are antithetical to the profession of engineering. It's not controversial in product development, because the people doing the development all decided to loosen their morals and think its Fine to release broken things and fix later.

That my bar is high and OpenAI is so low is its own issue. But then again, I haven't released a product where it could randomly tell people to poison themselves by combining noxious chemicals or whatever other dangerous hallucination ChatGPT spews. If I had engineered something like that, with the opportunity to harm people and being unable to guarantee it wouldn't, if I had engineered that misinformation was a possibility to be created at scale, if I had engineered this, I would have trouble sleeping...
> Would you have been more satisfied if the US government forced a backdoor to TikTok? That's why Google pulled out of China.

What a dope. Imagine being dumb enough to believe google pulled out to protect chinese people's privacy.

Google pulled out because the chinese government wanted to monitor it to make sure google wasn't acting as a state actor pushing propaganda to destabilize nations. Turns out the chinese were right and google was indeed a state actor. Their dirty little fingers were all over the color revolutions.

> One country (China) was trying to force foreign companies to spy / psyop.

But that's google's business model. Do you have two brain cells to rub together? Why would the chinese force google to do what it already was doing in china and everywhere in the world? And still does today?

> One country (US) is making sure a foreign adversary doesn't use it to spy / psyop.

That's what china was doing. Dummy. Literally, china created laws to stop google/facebook/etc from running psyops in china and that's why they chose to leave china.

You must be one of the morons that actually swallowed google's motto "Don't be evil" hook line and sinker.

How stupid do you have to be to think google left china because the chinese government forced them to spy on the chinese. When spying is google's bread and butter.
"You can't be mad at them for killing a lot of Palestinians when they've shown incredible restraint in not killing all of them" is a hell of an argument, I'll give you that. Still genocide though. There's no victim-count aspect to this definition, they are attacking Palestinians, living in Palestine, because they are Palestinian, and they want to settle those areas with Israeli's. We don't need to wait for them to kill a certain percentage of the population to then be able to declare it a genocide.

And, like even if I take this:

> I read a report about how they asked a Palestinian to alert his neighbors via a phone call and waited for him to tell everyone to get out.

at 100% face value, that some militants were in some building and the IDF was about to reduce it to ashes... so they called the guy next door, and asked him to evacuate the building? Which is presumably... full of militants? Cuz that's like the whole thing, that's the whole fuckin point?

You talk a lot about how nothing I say makes sense but that's just nonsensical on it's face, like... if these attacks are genuinely needed, why in the world would you warn people beforehand? Doesn't that completely defeat the purpose?

> the Palestinians (and the other neighboring Arab nations) want to kill all the Israelis and destroy Israel.

I mean they can want that as hard as they want, but Israel has the military and political backing of the West. They're untouchable, as has been demonstrated by them being surrounded by enemies essentially since the state was partitioned off from the others during it's founding, and it's still there.
>What was Oct 7th retaliation to, exactly?

I would say 75+ years of Zionist terrorism[1][2][3], ethnic-cleansing, apartheid, being locked up in a concentration camp. I mean you could have looked those up yourself but something tells me you just didn't care to look it up.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20231029055310/ojp.gov/ncjrs/vir...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_extremist_terrorism
Nonsense. Europe has more rules around the sharing of personal information, but that's because literally everyone in Europe demands your personal information. I've never been asked for more personal information than when living in Europe.

"You want to ride a train? Sure, what's your mandatory national identification number? You want to register for our little video streaming website? Sure, please enter the home address you've registered with the Ministry of the Interior. Failing to report your official registered address correctly on our sign up form is a crime. Failing to register your new address with the Ministry upon moving is a crime."
It's 2025, we're ready for more Open Source
Yeah, I really don't understand people who run a really popular thing, run into financial difficulties, and then shut the thing down instead of, you know, asking for money. Just mystifying.
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To be fair, there was no existing state, except the Ottoman empire which was defeated and dismantled in WWI. There was however an existing population who never got any say in what happened with their own land.
Ahh I remember this. I used this to successfully bypass the registration of a small web scraper back in the day.
Activist short seller Hindenburg Research says it is shutting down
CPUs may be very digital inside, but DRAM and flash memory are highly analog, especially MLC flash. DDR4 even has a dedicated training mode [1], during which DRAM and the memory controller learn the quirks of particular data lines and adjust to them, in order to communicate reliably.

[1]: https://www.systemverilog.io/design/ddr4-initialization-and-...
Somehow it’s considered monstrous to brutally slaughter 1000 Israelis by hand, but OK to murder and starve an order of magnitude (or two) more Gazan civilians using industrialized warfare.

I guess if you’re a drone operator with no strong feelings about the murder you’re committing, then it’s totally ethical to do whatever you want as long as some Hamas get hit. What a fantastic cheat code!
Seems that yields about ~$323/month already: https://bsky.app/profile/distraction.engineer/post/3lfsfyp4v...

Their Patreon is here, in case you'd wanna help change that: https://www.patreon.com/mikekasprzak
Yes it is a good argument here. Yes they do have state level organizations and intelligence agencies being used to push propaganda and silence criticism across all forms of media.

Yes scale matters, the scale of resources used to push Israeli, US, and western propaganda dwarves that of China, Russia, or Iran. It’s laughable you use total population numbers here, as if every Muslim person is a dedicated jihadist working to bring down the west.

Anyway, not going any further down this pointless hole of arguing whether I hate Jews or not cause I don’t support the mass murder of children.
Those are a lot of very wrong assumptions. Salaries aren't US level but more than liveable because even most non-tokyo housing is perfectly reasonable. The economny is stagnant (and now recessionary) but they have a decent amount of safety nets. They don't need to worry about walking to work one day to be locked out or being in debt if they collapse (yes, there are some very dark work patterns to "lay off", but you won't suddenly have zero salary next month).

>I'd much rather have a family than have store clerks obsses about serving me.

Okay, the US has neither. So...

>If you have tons of money in Seattle area and live in an exurb, and only go to Seattle for the orchestra and a baseball game in a box, you probably think everyone in America cares too

These are small micro-behaviors, not a larger mindset. Even a rich tourist would notice the difference between someone taking your ticket for an orcheastra and going to a corner store in Japan.
Because (IMO) it probably glows brighter than the sun.
Wolfram really loves to talk about computational irreducibility.[1]

But I think his articles about Machine Learning are excellent. [2]

[1]https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=%22comp...

[2]https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/category/artificial-inte...