skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was bullied in high school because I was so different.

I was also a new kid so it was hard to join an existing clique in a small town.

Online groups saved me. It not only let me stay in contact with my old friends, but also let me meet new people with similar interest so I didn't feel so alone.
all true; there is though a useful point to be made that more WFH-ing office folks does free up transport for those who need to travel, be it rail/bus or just car commutes
I'm sure an LLM wouldn't say anything as inane as that :P
Any video platform is engaged in a constant war against being the OnlyFans sales funnel. Mind you, this also has a false positives ban problem.
The target audience of this article isn't workers in general though, its white collar workers who have white collar jobs that 100% allow workers to work from home.

I don't think its a crime of omission to focus on the target audience by any means. The Register is a tech focused news outlet and an overwhelming amount of tech jobs are white collar jobs.
Shorts is garbage.

There are so many UI elements on top of video that end up blocking what you're trying to see. There is no way to hide them.

YouTube also destroyed its search.
Microsoft Tries, Again, to Get People Using ChatGPT-Style Chatbot
welcome to hackernews, where every article posted has something made up about it and the points don't matter
It's opt-in by default so you can't "bypass" it unless you are aware that you can turn it off. If you don't turn it off, it will continue to scan your photos, and upload the data to Apple, whether you use the Photos app or not. (And, by the way, if the option to "learn from this app" is enabled (which is again, by default opt-in) iPadOS / ios also will be intrusively data collecting how you use that alternative camera app too ...
You can also use a scarf that goes under their arms and run along with them ready to catch them with the scarf when they are going to fall. This way you apply 0 force and they get all the feedback. It did help that they stared on a balance bike with no pedals before making the transition to the bike with pedals.
... genocide denial is fun?
oh, I agree "Länderhoheit", state level control of curricula, was one of the weaker ideas in German education. East Germany got that that much better. Finland had sent envoys to East Germany and copied their system (not the curricula, mind you), to create their Pisa winning system in the 1980s...
Let's see if the ActivityPub Loops in time (made by the creator of Pixelfed): https://loops.video/
1 untrained parent teaching <4 kids is better than an expert with 25 kids to teach.

Public schools have terrible curricula, procedures, and accountability. Go look at any school in Detroit and see how effective schooling is. They have all the things you mention, and they are ABYSMAL. Truly a terrible option, every one of them. They are also VERY well funded.

Homeschooling doesnt have a guarantee of success. Public school does come with a guarantee of failure.
This margin-oriented mindset is arguably one of the driving factors that makes the US lose its industrial base.
I've put Tik Tok on my phone three different times now and used it each time over a few days and it seemed like I was scrolling endlessly and finding nothing.

YouTube's recommendations are terrible, but I usually open YouTube when I'm looking for something specific and it's amazing in that regard.

Instagram is somewhere in the middle. I mostly follow people I actually know so the videos are interesting because of that.
I loathe YouTube Shorts entirely.
Hi. The blog looks good. A few things to make it better:

1) You can use watchexec https://watchexec.github.io/ to live reload during development.
2) Also, please add a clickable image preview (you can use this lib for example https://github.com/francoischalifour/medium-zoom)
3) No commenting feature, luckily I found your post here on HN. But it would be better to have comment blocks, like from https://giscus.app/ or just a link where readers can comment.
4) No RSS feed. I'd like to subscribe to your updates, but there is no such option right now. RSS is one of the points why site generators are used for static blogs (e.g. Hugo, Zola, Astro, etc.)
It's not in one Chapter, but Chapters are called "Section" (and so ignored!). It should be simple to have a dictionary of the different units that are used (I would assume "Part" would fail too, as would the hilarious "Catpter" of some cat-themed kid book, but that's more complicated I guess?).

It did finish and result is basically as good as the provided example, so I'd say quite good! I'll plan to process some book before going to bed next time!

Chapter 1 read in 6033.30 seconds (33 characters per second)
Sometimes I visit forums where people share video snippets, I've never seen sexy stuff snagged from Shorts, but a lot from TikTok.

I think both Alphabet and Meta suck at seductive material.
Too much work for not enough reward.
Kier Starmer, if you ask Elon
> what is there to gain from it?

Humility.
Nope, on desktop on multiple computers or mobile iOS videos just seem to pause randomly with no inputs
I do it the old way: I write down the commands as a shell script, and reuse later.

But really what ffmpeg is missing is an expressive language to describe its operation. Something well-structured, like what jq does for JSON.
Кнопки (k-nope-key) is Russian for "buttons". Maybe related.
They do just buy it. The opinion mentions that. It turns out they want even more data and also do things like hacking to steal it.

> The PRC’s methods for collecting data include using “its
relationships with Chinese companies,” making “strategic
investments in foreign companies,” and “purchasing large data
sets.” For example [...]

In fact it treats the Chinese investment into TikTok as basically a form of "just buying it" with regards to the information gathering justification for banning it.
When installing Nextcloud I basically have the following 4 options:
- Do everything by hand and read through the docs on every update. Does not sound like fun.
- Use someones Ansible playbook and hope that they update it on time. meh, also customizing it is not a walk in the park and requires some effort on my side.
- Use the upstream Docker container which has the same customization problem as Ansible
- Use the NixOS module. Updates are fast. Configuration changes are being handled by NixOS and I can easily inject a nginx location block in my declarative config. I also can easily describe extra bits like pre-compressed assets which then are served by nginx in my normal workflow without having to think about them at all on updates.

overlays and the module system are THE killer features. Almost no one else has something comparable to offer and if those powerful features are well understood, they can save you soo much hassle.
I wonder if its simply just a pattern over the last N years with Google where they maximize everything for ad revenue. I honestly don't know how TikToks ad revenue looks like but from a consumer point of view it appears for whatever reason they have mostly corporate ads where YouTube has the lowest value garbage (perhaps highest paying) ads on MLM and getting rich through real estate.

Edit: As a weak comparison I think about Prime Streaming vs YouTube or Hulu. Ignoring that ads suck. Prime gives you a handful of various ads of real products/companies and have done in my opinion a smart job of minimizing the consumers negativity toward it. YouTube throws whatever highest paying garbage at you as much as possible. I tried Hulu once with ads, painful, every like 7mins you are getting an ad and often the same ad over and over.
I'd like to offer an alternative perspective: TikTok's main revenue comes from China. Succumbing to the US gov would challenge the domestic nationalism, thereby causing more losses.
Honestly, if China wants to just go take that Eastern half of Russia they are welcome. Nobody would stop them and much of the world would cheer.

I've wondered if China encouraged Russia to invade Ukraine to weaken them so they can become a Chinese vassal state to supply raw materials.
The quality is great (amazing even), but I can't listen to AI generated voices for more than 1 minute.
I don't know why, I just don't like it.
I immediately skip the video on youtube if the voice is AI generated.

Might be because our brains try to 'feel' the speaker, the emotion, the pauses, the invisible smile, etc.

No doubt models will improve and will be harder to identify as AI generated, but for now, as with diffusion images, I still notice it and react by just moving on..
It does have a name, it's called "coupling." A spring (to physicists all linkages are springs :-) ) couples a pair of train cars, and a coupling constant attaches massive fields to the higgs field.
hehe, yes I absolutely agree partitioning schooling is a bad idea. It's much smarter to have shared learning and make a difference inside a class "Binnendifferenzierung" and it's also much smarter to create GATE gifted and talented programs (Hochbegabtenförderung) as enrichment and maybe after grade 8 or 9 as dedicated boarding schools.
This is a major reason (but far from the only reason) that we homeschool. Knowing what I know about the school system, about my own experience thereof, and about my kids' personalities, it would be grossly immoral for me to put them through it. The risk of long-term trauma would be too high.

There is some risk of their being isolated (but very low, since they are with other kids three days a week), and a slightly higher risk of missing chunks of learning (which we aim to mitigate in the obvious ways). But ultimately I'd rather my kids have a few gaps in their knowledge than be traumatized by the school system.
If you are using more than 2 channels than flakes are the natural progression.
> 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 don't think so.

In classical physics, "all" you have to do is tot up the forces on every particle and you get a differential equation that is pretty easy to numerically work with. Scale is a challenge all of its own, and of course you'd ideally need to learn about all the numerical issues you can run into. But the math behind Runge-Kutta methods isn't that advanced (really, you just need some calculus to even explain what you're doing in the first place), so that's pretty approachable to a smart high schooler.

But when you get to quantum mechanics, it's different. The forces aren't described in a way that's amenable to tot-up-all-the-forces-on-every-particle, which is why you get stuff like https://xkcd.com/1489/ (where the explainer is unable to really explain anything about the strong or weak force). As an arguably competent software engineer, my own attempts to do something like this have always resulted in my just bouncing off the math entirely. And my understanding of the math--as limited as it is--is that some things like gravity just don't work at all with the methods we have at hand to us, despite us working at it for 50 years.

By way of comparison, my understanding is that our best computational models of fundamental forces struggle to model something as complicated as an atom.
> It's been flawless, more battery and memory efficient than Chrome

Is that actually true?
> to have the rising generation's worldview shaped by raw capitalism

.. by the guy sitting next to the President? It's not yet clear what this "DOGE" thing that Musk has been given by Trump actually is, but it sounds like part of the government to me and has "government" in the name?
Counter-steering is how bicycles steer, whether you're doing it consciously or not.
> The US legal system (unlike some other countries) is built on the presumption of innocence.

In theory yes, but in practice, I had to plead guilty to get out of jail after spending 6 months in jail, otherwise I would have had to spend another 6 months in jail just waiting for my trial.

So you are presumed innocent but they don't mind keeping you in jail anyways.
Yeah I was wrong my mistake
Nope. On desktop the video player is simply broken for me and will randomly loop halfway through the video or just stop.
> What are they afraid of?

Definitely not the consumption of foreign products.

The PRC remains a totalitarian government which built itself on an environment where they exert total control over public communication. There are long lists of topics that you simply cannot cover, analyze, talk about or even discuss privately via internet media in China. There's no way to do that if those discussions happen on Snapchat via a data center in Oregon.

Does the CCP need to do that? It's a reasonable question with answers more complicated than I'll be able to offer. But for sure they want (desperately) to do it. Thus, no foreign media in China.
> Would we have let the USSR acquire a major television network?

They don't have to, Fox News does it for free /zing. But for real I wouldn't see a problem with it. Less now that the world is more globalized than ever, I can get news from every corner of the globe both from our allies and enemies.

Could they be subtly pushing a narrative of communism or something, sure but this kind of "news is biased towards its owners" is beyond commonplace at this point. Jon Stewart just did a whole bit about why he couldn't criticize Apple or China.
Life is far to short to take it seriously all the time.
That’s kind of like telling parents that they should tell their kids to eat their vegetables when sitting next to McDonalds.
Thank you so much for your kindness. I really appreciate it.
Apple has become a true disgrace
HR/HR software should be doing the first pass to filter that stack of 100 down and only giving you relevant candidates.
Then it’s a boring thought experiment. It hardly deserves the name “experiment”.
You have the true spirit of philosophy in you -- attack the writer without engaging the content at all.
I think it's better to say it the other way round: Facebook and to a much greater extent X has a substantial amount of influence over the US government.
Outsourcing, Re-Shoring, Changing Cultures and Digital Literacy (2014)
Funny, I've just been asked to provide a basic implementation in DynamoDB for large amount of real time transactions for fraud detection. Let's see how that goes.
Yeah I didn't mean all of them. A couple of examples that I am aware of are Ozark High School and Waynesville High School.
Even Harvard M.B.A.s Are Struggling to Land Jobs
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/harvard-mba-employment...
> Learning how to co-exist with people who aren't like you is a universally valuable experience, especially for people who would fashion themselves as "not average."

Yet it's not worth the cost of a slowed curriculum.
My kid has a really hard time learning from me. It's resistance and stress for both of us. After all my role is to be a parent so naturally I'm a friend and a foe. Much more than a teacher. But I also don't have a big problem with that.

Obviously he also has his challenges in school. It's a public school but in Austria, so it ain't that bad. But there is also the saying that you aren't learning for school, you are learning for life.

So you aren't just learning for your subject, you are also learning to get along with people, how to avoid conflicts, how to manipulate a bit and how to trick some of the systems. All of that is not so much possible in homeschooling.

People do know that around here and it's more of a distrust into the system that might parents want to get their kids not taught in school in recent years, while their thinking behind the distrust does make them very bad teachers overall.
Just happened to notice how the author contradicts himself by stating "I love to distro hop" but later in the article "I don't just like to distro hop".

A good article nonetheless.
I forgot about the lack of personal property.

You couldn’t really own anything and had to prepare for anything nice to be stolen, or anything they looked dear to you (even if not nice) to be destroyed.

I heard of kids having their shoes stolen, but I never had that.

I’m sorry that happened to you, I hope you are doing better now. :(
it's fun. How does the MX, Choc, and Alps switches compare? Do you have personal preferences?
Thats exactly it. My best example of why I dislike it is you may be watching videos of live salsa music, the next two videos will be salsa and then all of a sudden the third video to play will be The Wiggles (an aussie kids singing group). I have a kid, we definitely will dance to The Wiggles but if we are watching Salsa I don't want to be recommended it.
Well in that context TSMC N4P tells you no more information than 4-nm does.
To be clear, Russia pays those right wing trolls a fat chunk of change
yah, Prof. TikTok (and Dr. FB before that), personally targeting political views, that's magic. can't blame schooling for that. it's rather _despite_ schooling. and it happens worldwide (thus my wild guess about TikTok and similar media products)
Those revolutions were ultimately positive. The alternative would be the continued rule by monarchs and a single powerful religion
> one person in a group of players maintains the role of a master storyteller, but the AI is ready to fill in details or suggest ways to get the players back on track

As a player and very occasional DM myself, filling in details and trying to get players back on track is where is the fun and challenge. AI could definitely be useful to handle all the paperwork (fight resolution and so on) though
In English, it seems to be called rednote. But I doubt that it will be a real successor. At the moment it's a funny meme, and for some people satisfied cultural curiosity. But we already see the problems appearing, from the poorly localized interface, to people getting banned for reasons outside their understanding.

My guess is, at the end we will see maybe some million users from the USA and some more millions from around the world moving to this app, and maybe bringing a new interaction between the countries, but the majority will end up somewhere else.
In actual implementation they are very much like very wide SIMD on a CPU core.
Each HW thread is a different warp as each warp can execute different instructions.

This mapping is so close that translation from GPU to CPU relatively easy and performant.
Funnily enough, the lawyer who quit Meta has resorted to doomposting on .. Linkedin. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/meta-lawyer-lemley-quit...
> Twenty-three percent of job-seeking Harvard M.B.A.s who graduated last spring were still looking for work three months after leaving campus. That share is up from 20% the prior year, during a cooling white-collar labor market; the figure was 10% in 2022, according to the school.

> “We’re not immune to the difficulties of the job market,” said Kristen Fitzpatrick, who oversees career development and alumni relations for HBS. “Going to Harvard is not going to be a differentiator. You have to have the skills.”
Pretty sure Google was allowed but decided to pull out (maybe due to censorship demands from China) not sure about facebook.
That's easy: When you think it's ok to call for the murder of a US President.

You'd better be very sure about that. The Secret Service doesn't find that kind of thing funny.
I've been attracted to this - along with 2D cellular automata - a bit like a moth to a flame for some time. I find the little machine visualisations mesmerising, the heavily parenthesized Greek representation charming (they look like standing orders written in an alien language, looking for all the world like space invaders) and the tiny code sizes magical.

But I can't quite wrap my mind around the core concepts and internalize them into a mental model. It's too different from the simple world of imperative C or scripting languages I guess I call home. So I'm left watching das blinkenlights from the outside, as my attention span chokes on the layers of computer science incorporated into typical explanations. *shrug*

I'd be very interested if anyone knows of an ELI5-style alternate path I could walk to break each of the concepts down one at a time. (I ask because I think this is (currently) the kind of thing I think ChatGPT would struggle to present as effectively as a human.)
It for certain is and like I said before, the arrangement is beneficial for both parties in most cases but I think its good to highlight because they are taking advantage of imported labor (which most countries do in some form).
yeah it's totally f'd up.

This is the NEW children "fables" that are teaching the next-gen modern "morality". My 11yr old made me aware of it, and I've seen like 20 of them now.. about 22% are OK in terms of messaging/values. But the danger lies in that the 9-13yr old kids watching this stuff will take most of it literally as 'this is how the real-world works'.

Sadly no one else if filling this niche better and he seems to have found the algo.
This is spot on. I live in the Netherlands, both my kids could ride a bike at 2. Shortly after learning how to walk, many kids here get a "loopfiets" (walking bike) which is exactly this, a bike with no pedals (nor a chain etc) [0]. I never saw a kid that can't ride this instantly.

Now, the funny thing is that most parents, when their kids are ready for a real bike, they put them on one with side-wheels (support wheels?) [1, 2]... My wife and I were looking at kids doing this and were thinking the same thing: "Wait, this is unlearning the whole thing they learned about balance and steering on 2 wheels! Let's go straight to no-support-wheels!" And voila, there they were, within a couple of attempts (we ran along) they were riding around! While many kids struggle when their support wheels come off.

Since then we joke that we are part of the anti-support-wheel-club when we see kids steering uncomfortably on such a bike. Which is really awkward since the bike has to stay upright, the kids have to hang to one side for balance when steering. And yet, it remains the most (or at least, a very) popular way.

[0] https://www.babyhomepage.nl/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Loopf...

[1] https://media.s-bol.com/qQv4Y69p8j33/1155x1200.jpg

[2] https://bike.nl/loekie-booster-kinderfiets-12-inch-jongens-g...
I have some concerns about TikTok, as well as with a shutdown, but if I can imagine a silver lining of a TikTok shutdown, it would be if huge numbers of teens are inspired to learn the tools and awarenesses to not be total b-words of Big Tech.

In this fantasy, initially it would just be to get onto a particular Big Tech (but Chinese) thing that "grownups" don't want them doing. But then they'd start to realize they're also being exploited there, and also by many of the people who are pitching circumventions. And eventually they'd figure out and create genuine empowerment. And rediscover better conventions for society, where everyone isn't either exploiting or being dumb. And it would just be the grownups who are hopelessly b-words of Big Tech, and the teens just have to roll their eyes and be patient with them. Then those teens become grownups and have kids, and raise them to not be airhead b-words. And those kids teach their kids, etc.

Of course, within several generations, the lessons would be diluted and then forgotten, and people would get dumb and shitty again. But society would have improved enough that at least there's room for people to backslide, and fritter away what their great-grandparents achieved. :)
> You can get really far with a RDMS before event sourcing etc is needed

You can manage up to 0 partners easily. Once you go above that threshold, you're into "2-Generals" territory. At that point you're either inconsistent, eventually-consistent, or you're just bypassing your own database and using theirs directly.

> dev and user experience are going to be much simpler and easier.

I have objects, not relations. I'm not going to do the work of un-nesting a fat json transaction to store it in a single relation (or worse, normalise it into rows across multiple tables).