skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What gets tracked gets improved. I think we need to update the ingredient requirements for food (wtf is seasoning) but also update the fields on Nutritional Facts.

Having a drink like Oreo Coca-Cola read 0’s down the board is illustrative of my point. There’s lots of crap in our food but it’s been selected specifically for its ability to not be captured in the dozen or so categories deemed important back when legislation passed on food transparency.
My wife works for the federal government of Canada. Her and her coworkers are some of the most sincerely interested and concerned people I've met, at least as far as their work goes. I work with chronic job-hoppers and shiny-thing-chasers. She works with people who care deeply about their teams, the quality of their work, the health and purpose of their union, the sustainability of their organization, the safety of their work, etc. They pour so much into it.

I had a thought years ago that the startup I was working for would find them laughably inefficient. Yet that startup is dead and gone, in part because they put none of the same care, intention, and thought into creating something functional and sustainable. We often think highly of how we work from first principles, move fast and break things, or whatever, but I think many of us have lost sight of what having a regular job that gradually, yet more certainly, improves the world around us looks like.

I do think they should strive to innovate more. I often write scripts to automate my wife's work, and it blows my mind how little they've invested in exploring what's possible. Yet they're one of the best hydrographic offices in the world.
Why not just assume the simplest thing, the positions companies take under Democrats are fake and so are the positions under Republicans.

To imagine that, "the mask is off" is absurd.

None of those bullets points are crises.
Maybe it is already considered an achievement if someone manages to write a program in Rust.
Also an expert on drug safety and how to get drugs approved because he would need to go through the FDA to get it approved for chemotherapy.
> The way people are talking about the name of the app feels very stupid to me, in a way I can't put my finger on. I guess it smacks of more Red Scare paranoia.

Is it paranoia if Mao Zedong is still revered? If the government is the communist party? I realize the CCP is not perfectly communist in many ways but they are unapologetic about communism and their roots.

It is a coincidence that the original work did not mean little red book. But thats how it was translated, and the translation of the app is correct. So obviously now when you have the same name coming from a country that doesn't denounce communism I think it's fair to be concerned about communist influence.
You're being pedantic. Average in common usage means "middle" as much as "arithmetic mean", and it doesn't really matter to the point whether the mean is above or below the median because all that is necessary to the point is for the 50th percentile to be below the 90th.
The tiktok ban law forbids chinese ownership of 20% and chinese control of 100%. That is how it is a chinese company, either by 20% ownership or 100% contro.
It's kind of the same reason Google does it. There's a saying about this that I do not recall how it is phrased but it's something to the effect of, if you're not paying for it you're the product.

You're the guinea pig to help them make the product better for paying clients and to help them market the product usefulness to those that pay.
You do know the US bans more food colors then the EU, right? You can't just say LGTM and go with what the EU does.
SEC report on GME since you want to talk about that. Page 25: Some institutional accounts had significant short interest in GME prior to January 2021.61
GME short interest (as a percent of float) in January 2021 reached 122.97%
https://www.sec.gov/files/staff-report-equity-options-market...

No biggy, (naked) shorting to the tune of more than every share every issued by the company?

What is the point you're trying to make? That FTD's don't exist?

Or that not delivering stock that investors have purchased (not at all or not on time) is super obviously not a big deal in any market?

That margin requirements cannot be waved?
You can also print flyers, pamphlets, books, posters, and all such things without submitting them to a human censor (c.f. https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/literature/p... for this usage).
I agree with this (as the bloggers seems to too). Yeah, dealing with all the different personalities you see at school is an important skill, as is dealing with difficult situations. Yeah, would like to think I was in general a nice kid, but had some share of being bullied, and unfortunately have also bullied another kid (neither were common in my life, but you had to learn how to handle these situations, and also make mistakes to learn from them). Yeah, this understanding of people is super useful, and for me at least, the corporate world can be just as ruthless as a school playground. Need to know how to navigate all those egos.
You're right: this precision is hundreds of times below the diffraction limit of even the James Webb telescope. It can't possibly measure the width of an object that finely; rather, only the relative displacement of its centroid position between two points in time. (And it's a seriously confusing physics miracle that that much is possible).
Luma Labs Ray2 Video Generation Model
Why would you have to "ignore" those facts?

It was a concerted effort to channel quiescently conservative voters into national electoral politics.

Neither of those challenged the super-structure.
I'm imagining a Bollywoods credit scene with both boy dogs and girl dogs showing phenomenal feats of dancing. Incredibly sleek hair and stunning mustaches. The actual video was much more bleak.
Lowering the seat also helps a bit because the lower your center of gravity is the easier it is to balance.
Its not ok to over-moderate against jokes, especially when you can't even point to the guideline that was broken here (though, I'm sure you could take any comment from anyone and find at least one guideline that was broken. Every comment in this thread could be banned for "political or ideological battle") (emphasis again on the word "guide" in "guideline"; are these bannable rules, or are they guidelines?)

The voting system exists and works more than well enough to bury bad comments. That's why my comment up there is at -4; it was bad. Problem is solved.
> so whether you are hiring after their fraud is your own business.

Fraud is fraud whether it's caught or not, whether you agree it's fraud or not. And fraud is everyone's business.
this likely helps:

> Congress created a $52.7 billion semiconductor manufacturing and research subsidy program in 2022. Commerce convinced all five leading edge semiconductor firms to locate fabs in the United States as part of the program.

> The TSMC award from Commerce also includes up to $5 billion in low-cost government loans.

This is a big deal for the US Gov because chip manufacturing is ground zero for "staying competitive" against global competition, e.g. China, who is eating the US' lunch in most areas
I think America retreating behind the ramparts is going to adversely affect other countries in the short term, but will create valuable self sufficiency in them in the long term.
And TempleOS?
> The people who are on to bigger and better things are in fact vanishingly rare.

Dropouts are rare full stop, and those that do drop out overwhelmingly have life issues that causes them to drop out. The well rounded people who do okay in school aren't the ones dropping out, it is those with things like mental disabilities. It is not the act of dropping out that is impactful, it is the problems that lead to dropping out that continue after dropping out. It is a misconception that continuing in school would have cured what ailed them.

> A really healthy society, with really good schools, would provide a path for those who can't hack it.

You severely underestimate just how challenging life is for some people. If dyslexia was the biggest challenge to overcome, we'd have nothing to speak of. Some of these kids are, to be blunt, effectively vegetables. They are accepted into school for the sake of relieving the parents/primary caregivers, offering what is a babysitting service, but there is no academic value in them being there. They will not continue in school for prolonged periods of their life and there is no reason for them to.

I guess in your imagined "really healthy" society, all people are perfectly equal. That's impossible. But if we did somehow live in your made up world then we can say that we already have "really good schools". Nobody in our schools we have drops out without a good reason.
> By simply suppressing topics, or elevating trends they might find helpful in swaying the populous.

Isn't that exactly what US media does as well? Every media has an owner with his own interests, the information they'll provide you will be carefully crafted to not harm those interests.
The ones that use the app don't want this. The ones that don't use it ... don't care.

Naturally either you don't want it. or you don't care.
How many other industries do you know of that people do side projects related to their jobs in addition to working? Do doctors perform surgeries on the side? Lawyers work outside of work for free? Bankers? Teachers?

Every other profession thinks it’s good enough to go to work, come home and live life.
The political profile of a faux-altruist doesn't matter if faux-altruism is practiced by almost everyone. "No ethical consumption in capitalism" is bandied by every champagne socialist who wants to justify their own participation, even flourishing, in an economic system they claim is bad for everyone else. Many of the politicians who claim to fight for all, regardless of party affiliation, kowtow to specific interest groups in order to ensure their hold on power, whether its last century's Tammany Hall or this century's fuzzily-delineated affinity groups. Hypocrisy cuts in a multitude of ways.
FWIW, I work on homomorphic encryption at Google, and Google has all kinds of other (non-FHE) privacy enhancing tech, such as differential privacy, federated learning, and https://github.com/google/private-join-and-compute which are deployed at scale.

Perhaps it's not as visible because Google hasn't defaulted to opt-in for most of these? Or because a lot of it is B2B and Google-internal (e.g., a differential-privacy layer on top of SQL for internal metrics)

[edit]: this link was a very vague press release that doesn't say exactly how Google uses it: https://security.googleblog.com/2019/06/helping-organization...
I think that Trump doesn't care one way or another about food coloring or Americans getting cancer, and as such his administration will likely leave such things alone and untouched for the most part unless the food lobby asks him to cancel or defund the FDA for campaign contributions or similar.
have a read through peter Gray's articles on the Psychology Today website. They cite quite a lot of research.
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I really don't see tobacco products surviving much longer. Most young people that do smoke are smoking electronic cigarettes and those are mostly non-tobacco. I've even heard that U.S gas stations are thinking of changing their approach to focus more on convenience food and products similar to how they do in asian countries, which would be cool.
This is not dissimilar to how I was able to successfully learn to play guitar: learn ukulele first. I spent 20 years off and on attempting to learn guitar (mostly on steel string acoustics), and then I broke my left wrist quite badly in 2016, which really put a damper on things. (I've been playing piano and wind instruments since grade school, so it's wasn't a lack of musical ability or dexterity.)

I picked up my kid's ukulele in 2022, and it was so much easier and more approachable. Only 4 strings (one per finger), lower string tension, less finger pain. Ukulele was able to get me over the initial difficulty hump and now I know how to play ukulele, guitar, bass, mandolin, and even a little banjo.
To be fair, you could see how a vehicle designed rigidly for extreme cold, extreme vacuum, zero gravity, etc. might fail catastrophically when introduced to modest temperatures, a modest atmosphere, and a modest gravity.[1]

It wouldn't say much for the foresight of the alien designers, mind.

[1] "100 KILOpascals? KILO? I thought you said milli, you blithering nixflorp!"
Yeah, clearly tech people never get their Youtube hacked: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/24/23654996/linus-tech-tips-...
Maybe a radical perspective here, but I'd suggest that even dumbasses have a right to live with dignity and not get scammed of their belongings.

Even the biggest dumbass on the planet, in fact, deserves this.
> I don't know what "military power projection over China's coastline" even means

That's the problem. There's massive lack of historical education on this topic. The Taiwan issue greatly predates TSMC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_chain_strategy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_island_chain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Taiwan_Strait_Crisis
I'm pretty sure everybody just copied from Perl.

Go did something nice, and it would be good if more people copied. But it was also fairly recent.
I don't have anything to like or not to like. I'm not a user of ZFS filesystem. I'm just dismissing your invalid argumentation. Percona's data is nothing about the scale for reasons I already mentioned.
that is 99% of all politicians though. Her policies were generally much better aligned with the health and well being of the average American vs the average billionaire.
Your comment was posted in January 2025, after 2024 was the "hottest year on record" with numerous climate-related disasters (hurricanes, droughts) hitting with unseen regularity.

https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/wmo-confirms-2024-warmest-...
> Focussing on 1971 makes it clear that they think only one of those is significant.

Yeah it's clear the authors are talking about the War on Drugs.
Yes, I'll be sure to review the implied acts of Congress instead of believing an incident report from someone at an organization that did the PERM process matches the government website's summary and detailed documentation of it might be based on correct legal advice.
I feel like I've accidentally stumbled into /r/VXJunkies with some of the terminology being thrown around in here.
https://opportunityatlas.org
Synthetic data got a bad reputation last year, but it is now an important component for all modern LLMs! In fact, we had also trained one model for -- ironically -- detecting hallucinations, and it was also trained on synthetic data.

Say if you have some PDFs, and want to generate questions and answers to test your RAG pipeline, that's synthetic data! Distillation is mostly synthetic data and works great as well!

Our hope is that this becomes steroids rather than LSD for LLMs :)
https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/QFA63/history/202501...

This is one of the more remote flights humanity operates. What even are the diversion points on this route, McMurdo airfield?

I'm not an Elon shrill but this seems as an ideal place for SpaceX to be re-entering things as they can choose with minimal damage to ecosystems.
Hmm. It's similar to, but not fully, a `BufRead`? Maybe a `BufRead + Seek`. The slicing ability isn't really covered by those traits, though, but I think you could wrap a BufRead+Seek in something that effectively slices it.

A `BufRead + Seek` need not be backed by memory, though, except in the midst of being read. (A buffered normal file implements `BufRead + Seek`, for example.)

I feel like either Iterator or in some rare case of requiring generic indexing, Index, are more important than "it is composed of some number of linked memory allocations"?

A ReadOnlySequence seems to imply a linked-list of memory sections though; I'm not sure a good rope is going to be able to non-trivially interface with that, since the rope is a tree; walking the nodes in sequence is possible, but it's a tree walk, and something like ReadOnlySequenceSegment::Next() is then a bit tricky. (You could gather the set of nodes into an array ahead of time, but now merely turning it into that is O(nodes) which is sad.)

(And while it might be tempting to say "have the leaf nodes be a LL", I don't think you want to, as it means that inserts need to adjust those links, and I think you would rather have mutations produce a cheaply made but entirely new tree, which I don't think permits a LL of the leafs. You want this to make undo/redo cheap: it's just "go back to the last rope", and then all the ropes share the underlying character data that's not changing rope to rope. The rope in the OP seems to support this: "Cloning ropes is extremely cheap. Rope clones share data,")
Any time you go through motions to fulfill regulatory requirements that you have no intention of ACTUALLY abiding by is fraud. "difficult to get elsewhere" is not a sufficient reason to commit fraud. In fact, the regulations are explicitly there to make sure you can't just bring cheap people all around the world and lower wages elsewhere. If it's difficult to drag workers around, that's the entire point.
I've been told that it's easier to learn to ski without poles by an experienced instructor. Apparently his pupils would all spend their time trying to figure out these new "pole" things and very little time actually learning how to balance if he started there. I also think it's probably better to hike without trekking poles even on difficult terrain until you master balance. They're more for supporting your upper body if you have a 75+ liter pack full of gear than for keeping you from eating shit if you step on an unsupported rock.
What is the shape of these dependency trees? Is it really hundreds of single-type + single-function crates? Could there ever be a path to scrub out the smaller dependencies and integrate them into larger crates with more concrete functionality?

What's the status of potential distributed code review systems like cargo-crev?
Yeah, AI has never produced anything of value and nobody in the crypto world has ever scammed anybody.
I run a $3m/yr startup on a free tier Cloudflare account. To this day I have no idea why Cloudflare is not charging us for anything. I would have happily paid them for their service
A rope is only concerned with manipulating a string with very low cpu overhead while maintaining the illusion of a sequence of characters or bytes. It doesn't really care or maintain any other text decoration you might be maintaining. That is the concern of the consumer of the rope and I'm not sure there is a good common interface for that.
No, it's not, nor did I state that it is. It is, though, making it more difficult for something I find detrimental to the development of kids to proliferate.

You, as an adult receiving that video, have the (hopefully) developed sense of what is accurate information or not, as well as the time to gestate on the content of that video and apply critical thinking. You can delete the video and move on with your life.

Tik Tok sends 15 seconds worth of such information, good or bad, and doubles down on detected interest, leaving little to no time to process before moving on to the next clip which is likely tailored towards the first clip's subject. Couple that with the suggestibility and naivete of children, and you end up with reinforcement of thin, poorly informed opinions based on information that may or may not even be remotely accurate.

The idea of banning all dubious information is a strawman.
Congress already manages the budget, another bomb, but year after year, they get over themselves and raise the debt ceiling, so yes I think they can handle approving changes to the amount of credit in America.
I'm very curious about this case, actually. My top questions

- difference between actually broadcast and potentially broadcast. Can the government suspend someone for potentially doing something?

- More on the right to hear speech -- you're saying that I cannot receive speech from foreign adversaries if I choose to do so myself? IMO this is well within my rights

- Do platform effects (e.g. recommendation) count as speech? For example, I may choose to post on TikTok bc it circulates in 24h to a specific audience - if TT got changed, does this mean that my speech got curtailed? (right to assemble, etc)
Isn't that pretty much the modern stack? Open source language, framework, and libraries, and proprietary end product?
I might not carry that much every day, or ever, but somebody somewhere in the country (probably dozens or hundreds) will have a legal reason to do so on any given day. IMO this is similar to the laws that allow prosecutors to charge (and win!) drug offenders for "distribution" for just having a large amount of a drug. There's a presumption that if you have a brick of weed, you're a drug dealer. Well, maybe, but shouldn't that have to be proven in court?
Better LLM seems to be about who has the most compute and data for training.

xAI has (by far) the most compute and data now.
> I saw this yesterday and it's hilarious but this is the feeling right now. TikTok has such a culture of authenticity and realness

Exhibit A for banning tiktok right here
> is easily automated.

At scale, in the backyard not so much. I'm open to being wrong though... got any sources of low scale automation?
State affiliates acting at the behest of a national union is a functional union, and have been effective in collectively bargaining for members since the 1970s.
That is not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that if I have a tiktok channel, and the only way for people to see it is through a hack, then obviously my channel won't do that well.

The bored teenager will learn ways to get tiktok. But the bored tiktokker won't learn ways to get the audience on tiktok
But wouldn't you say that there is some irony there, still?

I see multiple comments saying "shut up, we're not China!", but that's not what I meant :-). I just meant that there is some irony here.

And that next time we criticize China's protectionism, we may take a step back and think that we do it too, sometimes.
Banning individual apps in this manner is wrong, IMO. In a country where concepts like freedom of speech and restrictions on government censorship are not insignificant considerations (in theory, at a minimum) a decision like this is unfortunate. China bans apps... tons of apps... in order to maintain strict control over the content and identity of users. This strategy is not something the US should be mimicking.

The claim that it's a "national security" risk and the ban is needed to mitigate that is silly. If it is really that then ban it from government facilities and devices. The actual risk from TikTok is no greater than the risk from Facebook, Instagram or any of a myriad of apps.

The correct thing to do would be to strengthen laws that address the core concerns so that we are protected from ANY app that represents a threat to privacy or security. Just banning a single app (and then another, and another...) is ridiculous and goes against a number of things this country is supposed to stand for.
The Chinese auto industry was built upon IP theft from the Americans and Germans. F them.
No libertarians feel that people will likely get sick or die from bad products, and will sue the company/quit buying the product; aka let the market and survival of the fittest decide what people put in their bodies.
Supposedly he actually talked about both "masculine energy" and "feminine energy" being valuable as opposed to the modern corporate environment being "neutral" or "neutered," so take that for whatever.
What a blindly judgemental farce. Maybe don't project your own prejudice onto others?