skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On what order would you show things? Upvotes/downvotes?
Could work but "social" media implies we all have different social circles, so my social circle of friends is very different from yours. I can probably see posts from my friends which you won't (since you're not friends with them)
Maybe I follow certain pages that you don't.
How do we still have the same feed then?
Japanese Love Hotels
US tech companies sell themselves to European tech companies all the time, Meta would definitely sell.
Youtube ain’t a social network and you can watch all of it without an account.
> It is extremely well established that propaganda has great value, and so allowing a foreign adversary the capacity to potentially control the information your citizens receive in a clandestine way is insanely dangerous.

I would say that allowing a ~foreign adversary~ anyone the capacity to potentially control the information your citizens receive in a clandestine way is insanely dangerous. Why do we let domestic ones do it? We're seeing what they're doing to our societies.
I know a large number of teachers who have been campaigning for years to eliminate all forms of teacher evaluations, with the claim that “you can’t measure what we do!”.

Which is utter horse shit, but it’s where we are today.

The result is that many schools don’t really track teacher performance, and as you indicate you can get wild inconsistencies.

The best parents can do (other than leaving) is to aggressively direct kids into the better teachers’ classrooms. We see that all the time - one class has kids who’s parents are “in the know” and gets the good teacher, the other class is where the kids get dumped who’s parents don’t complain. The district knows who is bad and who is not, but is afraid to anger the union, so anything short of actual violence by a teacher against a student won’t have any consequences.

Our school district local enrollment as a result has declined from around 900 kids to just 650 in just a few years as a result. The kids left are those too poor to go private or home school, those not lucky or connected enough to go to a “choice” school, and a small number of die hard loyalists reliving their glory days through their kids at the same school they went to.
I'm tearing my hair out... how is the solution here not just better data privacy laws? Doesn't that solve all the issues, both domestic and international?
You don't see being friendly to the new US administration being pragmatic ?
It's also still the dominant windows install base. So it's a bit aggressive to drop support.
(Yet again)

The Qbot disinfection raised a few eyebrows. I guess we now know their powergrab was permanent.
Along with realizing the buggiest software and cloud products, Microsoft's naming and branding sucks big time.
This trick is also the way to teach adults, if you're teaching or learning to ride!

For children, there are companies that sell progressive balance bikes[1][2], that start off as balance bikes but can be converted to pedal bikes later. In the US, I've seen tons of cheap Strider bikes on Craigslist, and then you can get the pedal conversion kit separately (you have to get the 14", not the 12").

[1] https://striderbikes.co.uk/collections/14x-balance-pedal-bik...

[2] https://www.littlebigbikes.com/shop/convertible-balance-bike...
lamda, bard, palm (v1 and v2) don't necessarily agree with you there
Related:

WTF Happened in 1971? (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37482646 - Sept 2023 (105 comments)

WTF Happened in 1971? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31471602 - May 2022 (102 comments)

WTF Happened in 1971? (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25188457 - Nov 2020 (454 comments)

WTF Happened in 1971? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24135845 - Aug 2020 (5 comments)

WTF Happened in 1971? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20811004 - Aug 2019 (44 comments)

and:

The Bad Economics of Wtfhappenedin1971 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39144867 - Jan 2024 (42 comments)

The Bad Economics of WTFHappenedin1971 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37507749 - Sept 2023 (2 comments)
> gold standard disincentivizes consumption, and incentivizes savings. Plain and simple

Read Walter Bagehot's Lombard Street, published in 1873 [1]. It's the treatise by arguably the world's first modern central banker. What makes it neat is it's entirely on the gold standard.

Britain, on the gold standard, still faced each of inflation, bank runs and credit crises. It was an imperial military power almost constantly at war. And yes, its contemporaries lamented its industrial consumerism and rising inequality. (And that's Victorian Britain, mind you!)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard_Street:_A_Description_...
Why is software the place where a company can get away with this shit?

“Your car will no longer run on standard 87 octane gasoline after October 14 due to a software update”
I don't think "addictiveness" is really the problem. I've been "addicted" to Wikipedia for 20+ years too.
Fenwick Trees Are Awesome
China is happy to offer an alternative. It has pretty high costs, and I don't think it's worth it, but it exists.
Bash Script to Stream line downloading Stuff
I also copied over the 'old' windows photo viewer. The delay in loading simple screenshots was such an annoyance that I couldn't stand it. Folks on forums suggested turning off any analysis plugins, such as those meant to identify faces in photographs to speed things up. It barely made a difference.
More lies. He didn't eat roadkill. You need to stop.

https://apnews.com/article/rfk-new-york-ballot-access-lawsui...

Speaking to reporters in a hallway after court ended Wednesday, Kennedy was asked whether he picked up other roadkill.

“I’ve been picking up roadkill my whole life. I have a freezer full of it,” he said, eliciting laughter.

Kennedy campaign spokesperson Stefanie Spear later said by text that he wasn’t joking. She said that’s how Kennedy — a falconer who trains ravens — feeds his birds. She added that he no longer has the 21 cubic foot (0.59 cubic meter) refrigerator, which had been in New York’s Westchester County suburbs.
No, but if the auger doesn't require any kind of specialized training to use (is mostly just point and click), I'd imagine it would be easier to find someone to do the work for you, versus finding someone to dig an equivalent amount of holes with a shovel.
It's not a technicality, it's the law.
lots of crates by different authors: you need to trust each one not to be compromised

lots of crates by a cohesive group of authors: you "only" need to trust the group reviews each others work properly and they're not all compromised together (less likely).
Four Defendants Plead Guilty to Bid-Rigging and Bribery in US Gov't IT Purchases
Schools shouldn't teach neither evolution, nor creationism, nor any other origin story. Because it is something that doesn't matter at all – knowledge without value.

Worse is that the majority pupils around the world will be taught both the Abrahamic creation story, the origin of man according to evolution, and usually a third or even fourth creation story from local pre-Abrahamic mythology. In the same school and from the same teacher. Talk about confusion of the highest order!
Meh. Windows 10 launched in July 2015, and Windows 11 in October 2021. Not really a surprise that they aren't going to keep testing their apps against a decade old version.

Apple for example supports an OS release for just 3 years after launch.
Meta question: is there a name the the psychological impact of putting an arrow on a random line where it really does make it look like that's an inflection point? Does this generalise beyond charts, e.g. to a narrative techique?
Another take I've had is that we were wrong in the past. Pedaling isn't the tricky part of riding a bike. Balancing is. Training wheels let you learn to pedal.
First wave? You must have missed yahoo groups.

And of course someone will reply to this and mention usenet.
Wait I love this, I just played with it for like 20 minutes and realized I need to really study history more!
Is there any term in software engineering more ambiguous than "software design"?
You can vote with your wallet and get a Pine Phone or something similar, I guess.
I've never saw Luigi or Aaron Bushnell suggested to me by YouTube, unless I search them

I think that's why, just saying
> the amount of effort it takes to audit dependencies scales roughly linearly

With the lines of code, not the number of dependencies. 10 dependencies of 100 lines of code are arguably easier, but certainly not harder than a single dependency of 1000 lines of code.
"Eternal September" was a more serious problem than we knew.
Not OP, but it sucks in the moment, but brings fond memories later in life. I have a lot of these "sucked at the time/fond now" memories with regard to living in the woods and serving in the military.

If you reach one of these forks in the road, pick the route that sucks. Bonus: it makes you more resilient.
I disagree. While I think there are definitely biases on Reddit, there is a difference between users, individual moderators, or even established sub policies having a political leaning versus an algorithmically masked propaganda machine like TikTok.

Call me old fashion, but I put more faith in a profit seeking US company (recently public) with light government oversight than a foreign owned black box.
Any idea where you'll move? I have a nonprofit I want to migrate away.
water is a non-issue. The main issue in deciding where a factory should go is which state will give you the most to do it.
Scientists uncover how the brain washes itself during sleep - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42644204 - Jan 2025 (273 comments)
Yeah.. the longer I haven't boot up my Windows installation the more afraid I am do so because of the notifications.

When I have to do something on Windows I use someone elses Win computer if possible.
The government isn't a for-profit enterprise so I'm not sure it's exactly equivalent (if the hotels were using the extra money for charity it might be more similar). But I guess I don't have a problem with student discounts at pizza places so I don't have a huge problem with price discrimination in general (other than that it might be applied unfairly).
The first two don't apply because they don't share the hyper personalized nature of social media. No two people see the same thing so it's impossible to react to foreign propaganda. Books and movies don't work that way.

Third example is irrelevant because it's impossible to achieve the efficiency (reach) that social media has.
The value that the work produces is not necessarily a property of the worker.
The current coordinate system is based on extremely distant radio sources. Ground based scopes found some bright galactic sources which GAIA aligned to, and is measuring everything relative to those. And now GAIA is the defining source of the ICRS for optical observations.
What are the odds that it gets renamed to Microsoft One?
It never left. I've been consistently on IRC since the 90s.
I agree. In my opinion, hiding the risk was the sin, not releasing the drug. Many, many people with chronic pain conditions would gladly accept the risk.

It's kind of the same with any treatment: chemotherapy may make you incredibly sick before it saves you. Willow tree bark may fix your headache but cause you to bleed profusely. Homeopathy may make you die of whatever you were sick with before it cures your dehydration. Everything has its tradeoffs.
> Does it? Does a human need to examine everything posted? You can certainly send letters without them going through a human moderator.

Because those are two orthogonal things. You aren’t sending a letter to be displayed by everyone and their dog on this planet to see.
It's called "shadowing". Search for [shadowing language learning] to get to discussions of this method, variants, pros and cons etc.
The guy did not have any data to justify his claims of not scaling. Percona’s data says otherwise. If you don’t like how they got their data, then I advise you to do your own benchmarks.
I'm surprised that more sibling comments aren't covering the lack of a unified theory here. Currently, our best understanding of gravity (general relativity) and our best understanding of everything else (electromagnetism, quantum mechanics, strong/weak force via the standard model) aren't consistent. They have assumptions and conclusions that contradict each other. It is very difficult to investigate these contradictions closely because the interesting parts of GR show up only in very massive objects (stars, black holes) and the interesting parts of everything else show up in the tiniest things (subatomic particles, photons).

So we don't have a set of equations that we could expect to model the whole universe in any meaningful way.
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I think that would become unwieldy very fast. I think it's alright for a lightweight site like this one with very little content.

If you don't want to use a static site generator I think you're better off with just html files for each page/blog entry, or you could use something like htmx and load stuff in that way.
This is exactly my problem. Instagram thinks they can just apply your demographics to an algorithm and find what you like. Tiktok figures out your demographic based on what you like. Tiktok listens, ineffectually tries to sell you things, and gives you what you enjoy; Instagram tries to fit you to a mold, and then sell things to that mold, then give you slop popular within that mold.
>I am pretty sure that it is a political goal not an economic one, this is obvious considering US black literacy levels took until 1979 to be comparable to whites.

I don't follow. 1979 would have been a high point in closing the black/white economic gap in America (partly because of the falling economic prospects of white Americans at the time).
if this is referring to Gaza, many Holocaust experts are willing to call what's happening there a genocide
> "Cars today aren't just steel on wheels – they're computers,"

Okay, but are we putting such import restrictions on computers?

I'm actually pretty okay with certain bans based on national security grounds, but they should do a better job distinguishing between the types of hardware and software that could be potentially problematic and actually do an industry-wide ban. Otherwise this is rightfully going to be picked apart on protectionist grounds.
TikTok practically saved my life by exposing me to alternate worldviews and the spiritual nature of existence, so the US government singling it out feels like a personal attack to me. To think of all of the people earning independent side incomes on TikTok - one of the few places outside of eBay/Craigslist/Uber/etc where that's even still possible - who will lose that lifeline, well, words like travesty barely convey the loss.

I also don't buy the national security argument. Considering how much of our personal data is leaked through all of the other social media apps, as well as international ad markets, that argument is nonsense. This is about the US government and corporations going to any length to control the narrative as the US falls to authoritarian dystopia and fascism.

I'm disappointed in the Democratic Party for not standing up for free speech and the rights of its constituency. It's forgotten where it came from, and what its goals are. This move means that there effectively is no Democratic Party - we just have two Republican Parties, both beholden to their corporate overlords (Meta and X/Twitter), as well as the billionaires behind them (Zuckerberg and Musk).

It's also tragic beyond words that Donald Trump may be viewed as TikTok's savior if he lifts the ban after he takes office. After he has undermined so many aspects of American tradition and our institutions. It reeks.

And most of all, I'm at least as mad at all of you as I am at myself for not organizing to stop this ban. 170 million TikTok users and we can't come together in solidarity to have real leverage on our elected officials? As in, withholding our participation in keeping the web running? Talk about ineffectual.

The more time goes by, the more I'm giving up on the tech scene. We've lost our values on such a fundamental level that we are now the clear and present danger threatening the American democratic experiment. Shame on all of us.

If we keep losing the way we are, and with the rise of AI and unprecedented wealth inequality, we have maybe 5-10 years left before revolution. We've entered a Cold Civil War, divided along ideological lines. I dearly hope I'm wrong and it doesn't come to violence, but after watching America's decline as a beacon of freedom post-9/11, the safest bet is continued cynicism.
He pretended he was sick and his money was frozen because of his divorce and needed a lot of money for expensive operations which failed one after another.
Because it was a project negotiated by a German Chancellor in the waning days of his office as a way to bypass countries the gas would have otherwise transited through. That chancellor immediately took a job on that project's firm, then later became an executive in those same Russian energy companies. It was extraordinary conflict of interest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der#Views_an...
No you don't get it, its totally cool to let the government unilaterally expand and contract the money supply by trillions of dollars with a single lever.
super interesting thanks! for having config combined
> but common sleep medications may harm it

Anecdata (size = 1): I was going through a phase of terrible sleep, and one day decided to take some CBD. I woke up feeling terrible in the head. I had slept like a log, but it felt in my brain as if I hadn't slept at all!
This guide is a bit over two years old. Can someone comment on whether it still holds up and the tools recommended are still being recommended today?
I suppose you could say that the audit burden scales linearly with the number of module publishers, with a small additional amount on every release point to confirm that the publisher is still who they purport to be and hasn't been compromised.

This is assuming that the audit consists of validating dependency authorship, and not the more labor-intensive approach of reviewing dependency code.
>The first test of a class of tests is the hardest, but it's almost always worth adding.

Agreed, this has been my experience too.
>I find it hard to think of school as anything more than forced internment for children while their parents go to work, with exercises designed to keep you busy more than to give a functional understanding.

Institutional childcare in general is mostly this; a necessity driven by an economic imperative. Both parents must work. School is a continuation of that logic, although as the kids get older and more independent this becomes less important.
Is it actually Instagram Reels that is inauthentic, or is it the content that people post there? The Instagram Reels service is just that - a service people can use to post videos, same as TikTok. It's the people who choose to use the service that cause it to seem inauthentic, not the service itself. If everyone migrated from TikTok to Reels overnight, then wouldn't Reels become more "authentic"?
> these issues need to be debated by Americans

Yo can we drop the whole “our government executes on the will of the people charade”. If you think your average American has any say in their governments foreign policy I have a bridge to sell you.
Did they steal it or did they buy it? Which is it?

If they bought it, why was it more attractive to sell to the US?
I used to think gaming would always keep me pinned to Microsoft but with Valve and Playstation out competing them (while spending a fraction of the money) I think I'll never be in their gaming ecosystem again.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42700712
Not knowing something isn't what makes them idiots. Spouting off about it as though they do is what ruins their credibility. At the very least it demonstrates that they're bad at vetting their sources.
In the US it's pretty much limited to a few university campuses I believe. I think a couple cities in Canada have it, too.
You might be missing the fact that there is a significant amount of bots on Reddit pushing certain agendas giving the impression they're foreign sponsored.
It's obviously not, or you wouldn't find so many people (successfully!) arguing against your interpretation.

That's one of the problems with a codified constitution that's as ossified as the one in the US: the language used gets interpreted, and so the meaning of the language depends on the interpretations favoured by whoever's currently holding the reins.
> ... , but no one would question mockery of a married man who started chatting with a fake Angelina Jolie ...

I would hope that noone would mock this person. Anyone doing this clearly has some issues and should not be mocked but encouraged to seek help.

When did so many people become assholes?
It would have been farcically easy to legislate that any large social media company have to expose their algorithm to a regulator, with a capacity for spot checks and immense sanctions if they fail to comply.

If your argument is "we can't allow any foreign owned social media to operate in the US", then how can you possible argue that the rest of the world should allow American applications?
> its totally cool to let the government unilaterally expand and contract the money supply by trillions of dollars with a single lever

Governments were doing that before 1971. Hell, the reason we had to give up the gold standard in '71 was we'd printed too many dollars compared to the gold.

We've been trying to solve inflation for millenia. As frustrating as it sounds, we haven't found the solution. In the 19th century, British central bankers firmly on the gold standard were trying to find ways to deal with inflation, bank runs and credit crises, all amidst a burgeoning military-industrial complex and rising income inequality [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombard_Street:_A_Description_...
> but it looks at times like the company is less an organism and more a writhing mass of creatures in a thin, shared skin trying to make it appear as one.

This is pretty accurate. A bunch of disjointed orgs who get sometimes seemingly random direction from the overlord. The random direction isn't really random, it's whatever move the overlord believes investors will respond to.

Copilot is a great example - shoved ungracefully into every product with the effect of making basic tasks more difficult. But hey - early movement on LLMs makes the stock go up.
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