skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand why they do it, and it makes sense. Still, it's amazing how quickly that open world has closed down.
Lemon8 is taking over?
Experts Argue It's Time for Obesity to Be Defined Beyond BMI
If we wanted to model the universe as a set of equations or a cellular automaton, how complex would that program be?

Could a competent software engineer, even without knowing the fundamental origins of things like particle masses or the fine-structure constant, capture all known fundamental interactions in code?

I guess I'm trying to figure out the complexity of the task of universe creation, assuming the necessary computational power exists. For example, could it be a computer science high school project for the folks in the parent universe (simulation hypothesis). I know that's a tough question :)
> If people on the US were really liberal (in the original "capitalism of the free" sense), racism wouldn't even be an issue.

These labels dont matter when your jobs are going away though.
Maintaining and sustaining soil health
If you haven’t checked out the Pimsleur[0] app, you might find it useful for learning a language.

It’s the only language learning system that has ever worked for me. It focuses on speaking and every day language rather than reading, writing, and memorizing vocabulary, conjugations, etc.

It isn’t cheap, but it’s designed for you to learn enough to not need it anymore.

It probably doesn’t work for everyone, but it did feel like a different approach than many of the other language apps I tried in the past.

[0]: https://www.pimsleur.com/
> I want to live in a community where everyone cares.

This summarizes the whole thing quite well.
You still mostly can't freely converse with Chinese people because of the language barrier.
Shorts has a way worse algorithm, I don’t use TikTok because it’s too addictive but I get bored of YouTube shorts after like 5-10mins most times, which actually for me is a Feature but for YouTube itself is a drawback.
If X ne Twitter knew what they were doing, now would have been the obvious moment to relaunch Vine.
Nice job! Does this only work with Python? In your docs under API reference, I only see 1 endpoint '/find-element'. If I wanted to use this via REST API without python, is that possible? Also, what kind of pricing can be expected?
On how to assemble your config. Every config I open does things a little bit different, from the get-go, when using flakes. Add package sets as overlays to nixpkgs or pass inputs downstream? How to parametrize "system"? What's stuff like flake-parts and flake-utils for? Should I use them? All these came to my mind on the first day.
> RIP to future top-enders that would normally have started out on the bottom to middle end.

This stance always reminds me of the Profession, a 1957 novella by Isaac Asimov that depicts pretty much the future where there are only top performers and the ignorant crowd.
> This process can take a few seconds and up to a few minutes, depending on connectivity

A pen that records everything you write and uploads it to some compute cloud sounds less interesting than the title made it sound :/
I think Replit is a nice no-code platform that can help non-technical people build their own applications
Same with Instagram Reels. Occasionally I'd be scrolling going "man my Tiktok feed is bad today", and then I realise it's IG.
At least in my neighborhood these aren't dedicated turning lanes. Most people do pull into the bike lane to make the turn. Instead, the traffic shifts between straight (which leaves open an opportunity to cross) and right turns (which occupy the entire intersection).
I enjoy looking at illuminated manuscripts. Podcasts are bullshit and can die in a ditch.
You are wrong. The examples which you describe there are illegal. Laying off people is not.
I think they mean the global CO2 uptake from plants is 30% higher overall not that a single plant is able to uptake 30% more than the estimated before.

Even though more CO2 pressure in the atmosphere increases also the potential uptake in a plant.
Given that (as the article mentions) the ban essentially only directs Google/Apple to remove the app from their US stores, what's the rationale on ByteDance's part to immediately revoke existing US users' access? My naive assumption was they'd want to keep it going and support the current dead version of the app for as long as possible to continue squeezing US revenue for at least a few more months until that becomes untenable. Are they instead hoping to rally the user base into mass protests and pressure lawmakers into reversing the ban?
This guy gets it. They don't care about anyone's privacy, save their own. This is yet more coddling of American industry, bought and paid for by generous political donations to keep the scaaaary Chinese apps from stealing honest, hard working red-blooded American's data... so that American apps can steal honest, hard working, red-blooded American's data.
noahpinion has a great post [1] on this today and he points out the interesting observations we can make: 1. because it's "Beijing" who is tasked with deciding whether or not TikTok can be sold makes it extremely clear Bytedance is not an independent private company the way it would be the case in the US. They are legally required to obey CCP directives [2] 2. Beijing had every opportunity to sell the application off, and in fact they did just that with another app called Grindr some years back [3] without any fanfare. 3. That Beijing would rather close TikTok entirely, rather than sell it, shows how deeply important it is to Beijing that TikTok does not come under the control of another nation, including the US. it's well established that the government censors speech on TikTok including the speech of US citizens [4]

noah bangs on the "the government of China is really trying to weaken or destroy the economic capacity of the US" drum pretty hard and it's hard to disagree with the many books and arguments he cites. The current rush to Rednote has a lot of TikTokers making the argument that "See? Chinese people are great!" which is where they are confusing sentiment about the citizens of China with that of the Chinese government itself. It actually is great if there's a big cultural interplay between young US and Chinese citizens (not sure w/ Rednote though), so that we would be able to counteract a key propaganda point from Beijing which is that the TikTok forced sale is some kind of strike against the Chinese people. It's important that the point be made that this is about the hostility of the Chinese government itself, which is pretty clearly a hostile adversary to the US.

[1] https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/tiktok-is-just-the-beginning

[2] https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/experts-agree-byte-da...

[3] https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/6/21168079/grindr-sold-chine...

[4] https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/A-Tik-Tok-ing...
They are simply different translations, period. The book you mentioned is usually referred to as "红宝书" (Red Precious Book). Don't know where the translation on Wikipedia comes from.
Here's a video of an adult learning to ride this way (no petals) - https://youtube.com/watch?v=ELW3CgR-DW4
Show HN: PennyPixel – A public graffiti board for charity
I’ve been working on a fun little side project called Penny Pixel. It’s a real-time collaborative pixel art platform where you can team up with others to create artwork, and the funds raised go to charity.

The basics:
* Everyone starts with 100 free pixels to place on a shared canvas.
* After that, each pixel costs $0.01.
* At the end of each month, the community votes on which charity receives the funds, and the final artwork is gifted to them.

I built this as a way to combine art, tech, and giving back.

I’d love for you to check it out and let me know what you think! What’s missing? What would make it better?

Appreciate any feedback or ideas for improvement!
Response Classifier Between OpenAI and Google Gemini
So bitcoins are safe, i assume. And, as a bonus, a dog can't smell it:)
Proof that literally nothing is more important than profits. Zuckerberg and his ilk have willingly sold their souls.
It's explained elsewhere in the book:

> Fame has a dark side. When Times New Roman appears in a book, document, or advertisement, it connotes apathy. It says, “I submitted to the font of least resistance.” Times New Roman is not a font choice so much as the absence of a font choice, like the blackness of deep space is not a color. To look at Times New Roman is to gaze into the void.

https://practicaltypography.com/times-new-roman-alternatives...
Yeah, let us not blame AI. Audible damaged the quality of audiobooks than AI.
Definitely biased. The older things we read tend to be great works by smart people so we attribute that style to intelligence. But it was just written style, among a certain class, once upon a time.

English styles changed. For example, Hemingway was brutally brief.

I believe (but don't know) that the further from the Anglosphere one goes today the longer and more ornate the written language tends. Anyone know how to confirm or deny? I have only anecdata from those who were high-school educated in Farsi or Russian before moving to the US.
If that is the first thing Americans do that makes you worry.... well, I'm sure you have some interesting takes.
He was a clear thinker.
Hahaha

Guess what

1. As you mentioned, Xiaohongshu, is the same name of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

2. The CEO of Xiaohongshu has the surname Mao

3. The headquarters of Xiaohongshu is located near the site of the First National Congress of CPC

obviously, this is part of CPC's conspiracy
There's also the signaling and red meat factor for politicians. Easy headline to be "tough on china", requires less explanation than pacific trade deals.
But when you fly people who clearly have an owner (themself) to another country and they don't have a passport, the country holds the airline accountable.

Why not hold the captain of the ship responsible for loading illegal cargo? Isn't this the whole point of a ship's manifest, to record what's on the ship? Like extend it slightly more to also record the legality.
It's nonsense. The fact that the particle is massive is a direct cause of the fact that the interactions are short ranged.

The nuance is this: Naturally, in a field theory the word "particle" is ill-defined, thus the only true statement one can make is that: the propagator/green function of the field contains poles at +-m, which sort of hints at what he means by stiffness.

As a result of this pole, any perturbations of the field have an exponential decaying effect. But the pole is the mass, by definition.

The real interesting question is why Z and W bosons are massive, which have to do with the higgs mechanism. I.e., prior to symmetry breaking the fields are massless, but by interacting with the Higgs, the vacuum expectation value of the two point function of the field changes, thus granting it a mass.

In sum, whoever wrote this is a bit confused and just doesn't have a lot of exposure to QFT
The trade model in RT2 is broken in ways that make it fun, but also kind of predictable. You get paid a whole lot more for long hauls than for short ones, and you’re less likely to satiate demand that way. In most maps it makes more sense to deliver coal to a steel mill from 500 miles away than it does to haul it from the mine next door. This pushes you to build massive, sprawling rail networks rather than tight, efficient local ones. Which is clearly tuned for fun over realism. RT3 turns the knob toward realism in a way that sucks a lot of the fun out.
I wonder if it could keep giving us useful data without the precision rotation? Intuitively it seems like we should be able to figure out where it's pointing by star-matching plus dead reckoning based on the last frame.
I agree but the opposite can be true too. Sometimes the narrator seems to target some general audience that doesn’t fit me at all, in a way that makes me cringe when I listen, until I stop listening altogether. In these cases I’d rather listen to a relatively flat narration from a tool like this.
I came here for the bad takes, and I have not been disappointed. Dynamo slays when you know your access patterns and need consistent performance and no operations requirements. Turns out, that's the case most of the time. Think about it as application state instead of a db. It's not key-value like Redis. GSIs with compound keys allow access to data across multiple dimensions on virtually unlimited data with consistent performance. Its weakness is querying data across dimensions you didn't plan on. If you need that regularly, it sucks. If you need that once in awhile, write a migration.
Not all, there is some CC-BY and CC-BY-SA in there. I think you can search by license type, at least you used to be able to. Not aware of any bulk download.
> "Average" people are the norm, the reality that "not average" people will have to deal with for the rest of their lives.

What are you talking about?!

I'm a highly educated, "high class" (professional career) person, and I've been socially segregated from "average" people since high school (so, since I was 15). Literally primary school was the last time I ever interacted with "average" people in a meaningful way (beyond "hi, thanks" to the supermarket cashier/bank teller).

Society truly does segregate you by social class, and unless you truly seek different classes (which I don't really, I'm a geek so my interests are quite niche) you don't "normally" interact.

No wonder that "elitist" politicians are so removed from the "average" people (hint: Brexit, Trunmp). Thank god for Twitter, allowing to break social bubbles at least a little bit!
It doesn't need to be better than TikTok though, just better than xiaohongshu
Absent any of these conversations is, in my experience, any notion of what exactly China aims to achieve with TikTok that is so sinister? I'm not even arguing, I wouldn't doubt China has plans or another that involve America, specifically that wouldn't be too great for America, I'm just struggling to connect TikTok to any of them, and any discussion seems to take it as granted that the shifty Chinese government is up to something with it.
I say this as someone who was in high school as the first wave of social media sites (early Facebook, MySpace, Xanga, etc.) came up:

Just get rid of all of them. They're battery acid poured on the human psyche.

Or, at least, get rid of the centralized massive ones. If you have to combine your online interactions with people with the interactions you have with them in real life, you're better off, and that doesn't happen when social networks span the globe.
There's a Better Way to Predict a Technology's Future: Follow the Rate of Change
Antibiotic resistance

Existence of vestigial structures in organism. Why do humans get goosebumps when we don't have enough hair to insulate us? Because it's an evolutionary leftover from our hairy ancestors when the reflex would actually cause hair to trap more air for better insulation.

Understanding evolution is crucial for crop management. The development of pesticide resistance in insects follows the same principles as antibiotic resistance. Farmers who don't understand evolutionary principles might not recognize the importance of rotating pesticides or implementing refuge areas to prevent resistance from developing.

Medical research often relies on animal models because of shared evolutionary history. Our biological similarities with other mammals exist because of common ancestry. Without this framework, it becomes harder to understand why medicines tested on mice or primates might work in humans, or why certain diseases affect multiple species similarly.

Human susceptibility to back and knee pain is a consequence of how recent bipedalism is in our evolution. Same for why humans are so prone to chocking, our larynx evolved to enable speech at the cost of making it easier for food to enter it.
there are so many low quality shorts, really makes it feel like a waste of time. never had that feeling on tiktok
...

'In 2019, venture capitalist Vinod Khosla invested $50 million in OpenAI, twice the biggest initial investment he had ever made. It was a year before OpenAI released GPT-3, the generative AI model that provided the foundation for the conversational ChatGPT app in 2022. And Khosla had begun the investment process in 2018, at a time when he judged that the performance of AI-based products like virtual assistants could be poor, even laughable, relative to humans.

Yet he invested in OpenAI anyway. I wondered how he knew.

“It was the rate of change,” Khosla told me when I asked.

He didn’t mean rapid revenue growth, the kind of change that startups often use to impress investors. Earliest-stage investors by definition must act before revenue ramps up.

Predicting technology’s trajectory

No, Khosla had been struck in 2018 by the magnitude of talent going into AI, for one thing, and by its overall progress. He was particularly impressed by developments at Google parent Alphabet, which had spun out its Waymo autonomous vehicle unit in 2016, and by Alphabet’s DeepMind, which had developed AlphaFold 1, a breakthrough in predicting protein structure. China’s Baidu was also displaying progress in its AI efforts, like its autonomous driving system Apollo.

As a venture capitalist, however, he couldn’t invest in large public companies, and he wasn’t investing in China. OpenAI struck him as the best option in the field, given its technological trajectory and its ability to attract top-notch engineers.

He didn’t focus simply on how OpenAI’s models performed at that moment. Instead, he looked at the rates of advance within OpenAI as well as those in the broader world of AI.

“You can predict the direction of technology and what is scalable, with 60% to 70% accuracy,” says Khosla, who is also a co-founder of Sun Microsystems.'
Let's call this what this is, it is "below terrible" instead of "anything close to optimal". It's an interesting tidbit from a game theory perspective, but telling your child who is getting beaten up to not worry and play the long game is 1) horrible, 2) only works if everyone else in the game is rational. I don't remember bullies getting into trouble and stopping.
why? you don't have to use them. should HN be banned?
Idk Xanga was peak non toxic social media. Pretty much just blogging. I miss it.
They don't know. The average american is super uneducated and can barely read a graph. Most of the ones that heard about it probaly did thanks to the netlix adaptation to the 3 body problem, but certainly not school.
Yes, but then we also need to realise that pretty much the whole world outside of China is 'controlled' by American tech companies (both hardware and software/apps)

So if the US think it is not OK to have something like Tiktok owned by a Chinese company the rest of the world might wonder if it is OK for them to have everything owned by American companies...
Another example would be the fine principle of democracy, and the loopholes of gerrymandering and selective voter suppression.

It makes more sense when you ask "Who bears the burden of these loopholes?" and the answer is always "They disadvantage people of colour".
As an article posted on HN, I expected this to be about how to cope with losing a self-hosted Linux filesystem. As a resource to deal with "home loss", this is excellent.

Also, I'd like to take a moment to appreciate how close this comes to implementing most of a website within a google spreadsheet. I know that much of this is intended to be duplicated and filled out, but the first few tabs would be right at home as HTML somewhere. You can't beat the hosting cost of doing it this way, and now I wonder how many folks are abusing Google Docs like that.
I hope this doesn’t sound overly cynical or conspiratorial. My sense is that there’s panic about unfettered access to what’s happening in Gaza on TikTok, which is shaping Gen Z’s perceptions in a way that isn’t deemed acceptable by the political establishment. US-based companies seem to have processes in place - direct or indirect - to suppress the reach of such content.
The 1990s-2010s Internet was a golden age in the sense that even though the Internet was a child of the US military-industrial-research complex, political powers didn't yet perceive it as a potential threat vector or even comprehend it at all ("the internet is a series of tunes"). Many of its users also came from academic or technical backgrounds, which helped to maintain shared cultural values (although this was constantly eroding over time - see "Eternal September").

Social media and "Web 2.0" were probably the death knell for this era - while they were wonderful for democratization of the Internet's benefits, the merger of Internet culture and non-Internet culture meant that all the ills of the latter were inflicted on the former.
Looks like that app may have a backdoor https://x.com/d0tslash/status/1878959715033694492
I don't use TikTok, but my understanding is that they are just a lot better than anyone else with the algorithm. Somehow where Meta built a social graph, TikTok built a graph of videos (no need to know who you are, they can just suggest videos based on other videos you watch). And it's apparently difficult to catch up (presumably because they have more users so more data to make better predictions).

That would, IMO, explain why people use TikTok and not something else.

As to where they go after TikTok is banned... I feel like there is also a factor of "Oh you want to ban chinese apps? Let me show you". Not sure whether it will last, though.
Thanks!

Why you think that an UI would make sense?

An UI like what? Something to drive the user toward what it wants to do?
Well the short answer is: I defined the workflow/process for our team, everyone bought in, and new people don't really have a choice but to follow along.

The longer answer is, earlier in my career I ended up spending a not-insignificant amount of time helping people debug things, and about 70% of the time the issue was their local build environment. Everyone did it differently and it was very messy.

I only made a few "rules" to follow. 1.) Your local folder structure must mirror exactly the structure in our central repo. 2.) Must use relative paths, which works when you follow rule 1. 3.) No ad-hoc "new shiny things" without team buy-in. If it can be used locally only and won't affect the team obviously I don't care.
Why is this relevant when presenting scientific research? Or is the point of your comment to say, they are incentivized to "brand" their research in a way which is attractive to a VC audience?
Snap - my son loved his balance bike and would even ride it around the house. We got him a 'good' bicycle (about £140) and he learnt to ride it in about 10 minutes, and same as your child - he rode home and from that moment on he loved his bike.

My daughter never enjoyed or wanted a balance bike, and only gave up her three wheeled scooter about age 7. We tried getting her to cycle a few times, but she couldn't get her head around it. Then last summer she grabbed a 2 wheeled scooter and picked them up quite fast, and the evolution from that to the bicycle seemed pretty easy. We just had to wait until she was ready and interested - I'd tried to encourage her before, but my style for everything now it just to riff off their interests and let them find their place.

Same for swimming, I went swimming with a friend who tried to teach their child 'drills' - which obviously bored them (both). I just let my kids jump in and dive for sinkies - in time (swimming twice a week) they have developed further and further - but they are always up for the pool as they know I'll let them do what they want and focus on having fun.
Maybe people developed a fetish for Chinese.
That was a helpful list, in your second comment downthread. What are your top 3 metrics that perform the best on the greatest number of those features that make cosine distance perform poorly?
I suppose it means per speaker. And it is based on a simplified style tts 2 which from my small dive into the subject seems one of the smaller models achieving great quality.