skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> the standard explanation is that because they aren't accusing a person (the owner of the money), but only accusing an inanimate object (the money itself), constitutional protections don't apply

That's easy to refute. By the time they take the cash, hand it to the feds, get a percentage back to locals, then a person wins in court and gets their money back... I don't think they give back the exact same physical cash that was taken as "evidence". So when they say it's evidence they are lying - it's not locked up with other evidence, it's taken to a bank and deposited.
Without Cloudflare there would be many poor malware coders and phishers. Cloudflare are saints!
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Sounds like they are preparing to shut down in the US.

I don't think there's any reason they can't continue as a web app. I think American companies are barred from doing business with them.

https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-will-reportedly-shut-down-its-app...
Rust is extremely unreadable if you're not used to it, but becomes one of the most readable languages once you are. My subjective experience, at least.
Because in a classical theory, where there are no particles, there is still the same short range potential.
training/support wheels address the wrong part of what's "hard" about riding a bike. They also encourage the kid to sit down and look at their feet, limit where you can ride, make pedaling harder, provide false security (if you've ever seen a kid tip), and steal all the fun from riding a bike. Bikes are awesome because your body inputs have such an impact on what happens; training wheels make a bike like driving a car.
Right. All of the people trying to say "yes, of course supporting trans people are woke" are proving my point: the rational, classical-liberal case Graham claims to be making against "wokeness" is such a thin layer over culture war politics that even Graham can't keep it from leaking. I don't know if Graham himself has anything against trans people -- he might be one of the people under the misapprehension that Bud Light was slapping Mulvaney on all their cans and that the boycott was an organic movement of turned-off consumers. But the people he's allying with certainly do.
Wouldn't seem very un-american to prohibit a radio station with a pro soviet leaning stance during the cold war
Well if you look at the most recent open source supply chain attack on openssh, that used social engineering to add a backdoor to a project that openssh did not have a dependency on anywhere in it's SBOM. And with the xz example the backdoor had to be rushed out when it was deployed because the dynamic dependencey was being removed before the backdoor was completely in place. Doing a open source supply chain attack is not easy, fast or reliable for long.

It is not as simple as you say. Sometime it is better to know all of you dependencies are static linked at build time and specified when you are releasing your code. And the more sane you build system is the harder it is to add shellcode to your dependency's tarball and build scripts without turning peoples heads with random unsafe code.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42712807
Anyone who receives garbage content on TikTok has likely gotten themselves into a bad set of recommendations. I watched someone yesterday cycling through their feed and it was 100% brainrot.

My feed is very enjoyable: mostly neat cinematography tutorials, AI news, and just a little bit of OIIA.
Failure where everyone does not have nuclear weapons looks very different from failure where everyone does. A scenario where everyone has nuclear weapons can only ever fail one time, because after that humanity will not survive to try anything else to "see if it prevents more wars".

It depends on how you define success I guess. The very fact that we're alive to have the option of giving everyone nukes just to see what happens means we've already found a measure of success. If everyone has nukes and they use them it means no more humans, which means no more wars, which I guess can also be seen as a success. World peace at last.
It's very common mistake in SWE to generalize and extrapolate from own situation.

The way things to do things is very dependent on the project. They way one maintain, debug, test e.g. a math library vs embedded sw vs a video game vs a database vs a enterprise app vs a service in a distributed system are all just different.

Almost all advice should be qualified by "in this domain, one this type of project ...".
"Don't make people uncomfortable" and your takeaway is you shouldn't talk to them at all. I don't think the problem there lies with the sexual harassment narrative.
As someone who also works in cybersecurity, we use Rust extensively and are sunsetting all of our C code. We use third-party dependencies judiciously and never deploy anything without auditing it. It's great that Rust facilitates this convenient ecosystem, and it's to Rust's benefit, not Rust's detriment, that the ecosystem exists.
Why would Qantas have the implicit right to the airspace first? Space travel and air travel are both value-added human activities. I can't see why we would always prioritize air travel (particularly in very remote locations like this) over space travel.

Most flights will never be impacted this way.
We all know it's just a way for Musk and others to get a really popular social media for cheap. This ban has nothing to do with anything else than that.
Start with the 'Wedding' epic in Jira. Add a few spikes to figure out the details and bring those into the current sprint.
Inevitably the rear end slides out, the bike tips over or the support wheel/brace fails.
TikTok is not being banned. TikTok is being required to sell to a non-Chinese stakeholder in order to mitigate the national security threat of it being indirectly controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.

These are not the same thing, and it's depressing how vulnerable people seem to be to propaganda anymore. No one can even read a legal brief or a law.
And they've made sure to add "Elon Musk's SpaceX" either for extra SEO, or who-knows-what.
Get a slack channel you two
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Weird take. MS has some of the best backwards compatibility in the biz.
This comment should be pinned at the beginning of the thread
> USA eliminated fractional reserve banking many years ago. Bank lending is limited by risk analysis and capitalization, not deposits

It's still fractional-reserve banking. We just use better metrics than multiply reserves by number to get notional loan value.
They will be tightening them as the starship program continues. It's just still in a testing stage right now.

I also want to point out SpaceX still does a better job than some competitors (ahem, ariane, which gets a pass because it's the eurocrat's baby therefore must be good)
>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?

Are they not free to ban it if they wish? But they won't because contrary to what some people would like to push, the CCP in fact is alot more sinister than the US Government, and foreigners do recognize that in genuine security analysis.
Wrong signal. The problem is demographic. Not being mean, just a fact that a lot of people are illiterate live in the US, but were not born and raised here.
Shockingly, given how often congress shirks its duty these days, they did write such a law:

https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/hr7520/BILLS-118hr7520eh....
Thanks! More to come, and hopefully see you back in the office after you graduate
Okay, fair, my bad!
...Explicit CCP control?
The "walking bikes" you mention are extremely common in the US as well, and are referred to as "balance bikes" here.
The ACLU is staffed with extremely competent First Amendment attorneys and yet they seem to be intentionally muddying the water about this. As a 1A scholar (and ACLU supporter) myself, I find it extremely frustrating.
Another bad take by the nazi defenders over at the ACLU. If the same people behind tiktok tried to buy the Washington Post or CNN they would be blocked by existing laws prohibiting foreign adversaries from controlling American media companies, but somehow its fine if its social media? For better or worse social media is where a huge amount of people get their news these days, and unless we want Putin to run the NYT we need laws in place to stop foreign billionaires from filling the discourse with Russian/Chinese/Saudi propaganda (more than they already do).
If I had children aged 7-17 and felt China was intentionally nudging them via algorithmic suggestions away from STEM and toward vapidness, and if I was unable to control their access to it, I guess I might appreciate that my government had banned it. But, as others have mentioned, it sets a dangerous precedent. If nothing else, this attempted ban has raised national awareness about the negative impacts of TikTok. What could the US Federal Government do instead, assuming it is important to consider such platforms as per their effects on the population?

If China sold candies that contained poison and marketed them to Us children, it would be easy, since the FDA prohibits this. If the FDA didn't exist, perhaps poisoned candy sales would prompt the creation of such a regulatory body.

So I guess I oppose the ban while recognizing the danger, and suggest we consider regulating digital goods in the same manner as consumable foods; if provable harmful effects are evident then that is grounds for a ban of a product on the basis of health protection.
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Hi,

I created a website that generates a list of random animals as a playful way to educate children. Hope you enjoy it!
> Marbury vs. Madison based the principle of judicial review on English common law inherited at the founding.

I wasn't aware that the Constitution, the document, was English common law. Again, judicial review as a power of the court is not defined within the body of the Constitution. If it is, quote it please, I'll be happy to acquiesce.

Oh wait.. https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-re....

> Just because you say something with enough conviction does not make it true.

Indeed.
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Not everyone is aware of this fact. I include myself in the list of those who didn't know that. Most likely because I didn't bother to inform myself because my expectation of the JavaScript ecosystem is that you first need to install npm via node, and then have it pull a huge amount of files just to then have a tool with which you can bundle stuff without then understanding where you need to "install" it. It's a chaotic ecosystem, much worse than Python, and I know and love Python.

```
Major features:

- Extreme speed without needing a cache
- JavaScript, CSS, TypeScript, and JSX built-in
- A straightforward API for CLI, JS, and Go
- Bundles ESM and CommonJS modules
- Bundles CSS including CSS modules
- Tree shaking, minification, and source maps
- Local server, watch mode, and plugins
```

No word of it being a single executable, on the landing page, in the "major features"-list.

`npm install --save-exact --save-dev esbuild`. We have different expectations on how to download a binary.

Edit: I found an instruction on how to get the binary [0], why is this so hidden?

[0] https://esbuild.github.io/getting-started/#download-a-build
I used to make my APIs with Starlette/FastAPI, didn't know it was the same author!

Nowadays I just use PostgREST for all my new APIs. It's a phenomenal piece of software, save me so much time.
Can you give a recent (last 20 years) example of a Supreme Court political not legal decision?

FWIW, I think the Supreme Court will not uphold the ban. But TBH I don't know the details of the 'ban'.
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I thought you were kidding.

> Qantas says it has been forced to delay several of its flights to South Africa at the last minute due to warnings of falling debris from Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets re-entering Earth.

Leading paragraph.
This is a growing pattern in hosting like Netlify and headless CMSs like Sanity. Their free model is "generous" and then if you go production and start to have overages you get billed exorbitantly for bandwidth and API requests. It is essentially a trap. Once you hit those limits you have very little negotiating power when you hit the "call us for pricing" level and you get outrageous quotes. It costs them very little to run these services so if they can net some minnows that become whales, that is almost pure profit.
Just break the addiction to both apps. It's not good for you anyway
> "That said, perhaps we should view these "rules" as laying a foundation for people who know nothing."

Well, I am one of those people. I have never earned a dime as a graphic designer. Never even completed a MOOC or a regular course in this subject.

But I do take presentation seriously, and meddle in fonts, colors, design, etc., and have designed friends' wedding invitations, greetings cards, and so on. I also took typography seriously when turning in college assignments, my Master’s thesis, etc.

Even to a sub-rookie like myself, I simply don't agree with that point. And when two of ten minutes go to a point that I simply find wrong, I think it should be pointed out loud and clear, and it reduces the value of the list significantly.
> Kids really need to be around other kids

they do not have to do that in school. My (home educated) kids did lots of classes and activities where they met other kids. A lot of schools tell kids "you are not here to socialise!" and have strict rules about what you do when which also limits interaction (at least here in the UK)>
I don't even know what argument you're trying to make here.

We don't need to spread the story because it'd do it by human telephone? We do, and it needs mockery? The stories are fake and the mob is mocking a fake story?

How about: Don't be a bully to people on the Internet?
Having studied undergraduate physics, I think this viewpoint is inverted from the realities of the matter. It is less that the math is complicated and more so these are the relevant tools invented for us to model the experimental results we obtain post discovery/formalization of SR/GR/Quantum experiences. There are computers that can run these simulations but they are infeasible to model large scale processes. That is the reason people are looking for more than numerical solutions to problems, but laws and tools that can simplify modeling large scale emergent behavior that it would be infeasible or unnecessarily complicated to do with numerical simulation. These tools are the more straightforward approach
> most math teachers haven't studied algebra

Pretty sure all teachers I had even in elementary school studied at least high school level algebra. In middle school and above they all had masters or better in mathematics.

> the distinction is not relevant

> I highly doubt that the teacher was making that distinction, or even aware it exists

> the teacher was making a distinction that does not exist

The distinction both exists and does not exist. Incredible.

> it would be highly inappropriate to go into that level of detail

The detail of a thing that does not exist, right?

> it's beyond the level of knowledge expected of a schoolteacher.

Right, the teacher is wrong because you wouldn't expect the schoolteacher to be smart enough to be right about it.
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Where does the LinkedIn post fit in?
youtube is utterly convinced i want to see videos of people using vintage synthesizers to recreate modern songs. i have been telling it i'm not interested in this for months, like actively trying to correct whatever is happening there. they always come back.
Is it even possible to write any text editor without some form of rope data structure?
We are getting Lemonade 8 app for US TikTok users to continue.
The patriot act was supported by everyone when it became law. In fact, one senator had the unmitigated gall to ask the rest of congress, “but what about Constitutional freedoms?”. So the rest of us promptly removed him from office and replaced him with a more law and order type guy. That was pretty much the only resistance to that law at the time.

All that to say, you get what you vote for. And we’ve been voting very poorly for well over thirty years. In any organization, you hire that poorly for that long and you will naturally have some deleterious consequences.
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I do think that there's some work that can be done to improve reporting on our side: cargo should be able to report not just "how many crates are in the dep tree" but rather "how many owners am I depending on" and "how many repositories am I depending on". For example, I just noticed that there's no way to see in crates.io other crates that live in the same repository, like it does per owner, even though it has that information available.
How did you choose the private school? There are so many choices around us but it seems hard to figure out their quality without actually sending a child there, or having close connections. Wish there was a review forum of some sort.
Is this a serious question? China has its best interests in mind, the US government has its best interests in mind. Which one of those two adversaries are more likely to align with your interests?
That's pointless misdirection.

"I'll burn down your house unless you sell it to me for $1"

See, that's not arson, because you always had a way out.
Good explanation. I’ll stick with cat.
The law technically doesn't limit itself to TikTok. It seems to cover any application or foreign company that meets certain criteria, which include (1) the President identifying it and writing some reports, and (2) some restrictions on the nature of the app, which would cover other social media. It is obviously written to cover TikTok initially (the name even appears in the bill) but the powers it grants are broader. Not sure if this is better or worse.
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Is there a resource for what to do before an event like this?
There needs to be critical mass for protest and disruption. Palpable anger out on the streets. Unfortunately, we don’t have that right now.
This is the list: https://practicaltypography.com/font-recommendations.html
It's funny how I rarely think to look at someone's username.
Speaking anecdotally, this doesn't really ring true for me. I see lots of pro-Palestinian content on Facebook and Instagram, ranging from the sincere to clear disinformation/propaganda. I have friends who post frequently in support of Palestine with zero repercussions.

Attempting to reconcile that with HRW's article: on the one hand I think HRW might be unrealistic about what FB should be expected to tolerate (for instance, they criticize FB for taking down posts praising designated terrorist organizations); on the other, Meta's approach to content moderation - which combines automated systems with overworked and underpaid humans exposed non-stop to awful content - is notoriously fickle and subject to abuse (including, perhaps, by state actors).

Beyond Israel/Palestine, I regularly encounter content on Facebook that the Powers That Be would censor if "the pro-Western censorship regime on FB [were] extremely strong". I think I subscribe to only one political (left-leaning) group (along with a bunch of local and meme pages), but nevertheless my feed is full of tankies demanding we bring back the guillotine and install full communism.
A very naive and hopeful part of me would wish for Facebook, Twitter, and other vapidness-enhancing platforms be regulated too. But the untrusting, freedom loving red-blooded American in me is also wary of government controls and power consolidation bordering on censorship. No easy answers I suppose; we'll just have to find a way to thrive in spite of platforms that profit from our wasted time.
There are obviously tradeoffs involved (weight/size & high speed stability), but a trike/e-trike might work out well too if you're looking for other options.

Especially as a cargo carrying bike they're pretty cool.
> Is it? Congress has the authority to regulate international trade.

Not as a pretext for speech regulation. And the right to free speech in the US is understood to include the right to listen.

> If TikTok was shipping books into the USA no one would be arguing whether it would be constitutional to ban them or not.

I'd like to think nobody would be arguing, because that would be clearly unconstitutional. But in fact people probably would try to claim it was somehow acceptable. They'd be wrong.

They might get away with a ban on all books from a given country, if they could show it was really, truly intended to affect only the physical process of printing and the market for that service. The instant it's even peripherally intended to affect the content, it's unconstitutional. And the TikTok thing is about content and who controls content.

You could buy obvious Russian propaganda in the US in the middle of the Cold War.

> The constitution hasn't been updated for the internet and smartphones but they absolutely can be governed the same way, as courts have ruled over and over again.

Great. Since banning book imports would be blatantly unconstitutional, so is this bullshit.
I've studied over 200 kids (mother of Twitter CEO)
1) Channels are hard to maintain (that's why overlays were introduced...)

2) Overlays only solve issue of adding your own packages to an existing channel

3) System channels and user channels are two different things.

4) Many times I've updated my home-manager profile and forgot to update system profile and it borked due to channels being out of sync (user error, but flakes remove that foot gun)

5) Very easy to have portable dev-env. If a system has nix installed, just typing `nix develop` in my repo would put you in the exactly same dev environment as me. In most cases it would byte for byte identical. I'm not going to tell you to install 100 of dependencies, not going to bother you with what application is written in, all you have to do to build it locally is to type `nix build .#`. I'm not even going to bother you how to run test because `nix check` will run them.

6) Flakes provide some schema, you know here nixos or home-manager modules would be.

7) Flakes are easy to compose together

8) I can have identical env on CI, production and my local machine without any extra overhead - flake.lock takes care of this.

All of this is extremely predictable: I got a new laptop, using nix-anywhere I've installed nixos on it, that had pretty much identical look and feel of my desktop. It all boils down to - channels suck and hard to use.
As a quick summary:

- Press space during boot, and a boot menu appears with options for any attached boot media with a valid OS (NVMe, USB, microSD, eMMC, network)
- Press shift during boot, and Raspberry Pi Imager will download over the network and allow you to install an OS onto any valid boot media.
- raspi-config has an option to always show the boot selection menu on startup
Huawei and several other companies have faced this. Several American companies face this in China. Its not unprecedented.
Are you suggesting its unconstitutional because freedom of expression is being curbed? Thats not true, those creators have other platforms to post their content.