skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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This move shouts “you win China, your products are superior than ours”. We hate losing at our own game don’t we?
"FJB" and "MAGA" are within the bounds of allowed political discourse and were encouraged.

"Throw the bums out" without any additional coherent political project is precisely what the elites allow and what allows them to maintain power.
> "nixos-rebuild switch" requires a working network, so a broken config leaves the system unable to fix itself – a catch-22

I just ran into this on an airplane! I'm relatively new to nixos (~4 weeks in) and I had configured my laptop to use DNS over TLS and DNSSEC, which is normally not a problem. But to get through those login gateways for the wifi, you need to disable all of that so they can MitM your DNS requests. "Thats no problem, everything is already in my nix store so I should be able to comment out those lines and run a nixos-rebuild" I thought to myself, but alas I was wrong. I'm sure I could have worked through it with enough persistence but it was a short enough flight that I decided to just wait until I landed to continue my otherwise wonderful journey into the nix.
> Sabine Hossenfelder

Why would a physicist's opinion on mental health carry any weight?
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the end of bretton woods and the gold standard. Instead of Gold the the US could pay other countries with self printed paper.
That'd only make sense if your pedestrian network is completely independent from the road network, so pedestrians only need to cross roads, but otherwise never interact with them.

However the usual case is that pedestrians have to walk along the road because there's no separate independent pedestrian network, and in that case not providing crosswalks at intersections forces detours on everybody wanting to walk straight on ahead.
I actually think that they do — tourists to the US have free speech protections. There are many foreign-owned press outlets operating in the US (Forbes, Al Jazeera, RT, CGTN etc.) that are also protected by the first amendment.
> one of the most destructive advocacy organizations in the US was found to be heavily influenced by Russian spies

Your links do not back up this claim. Both indicate that Butina was likely a Russian spy and desired to influence the National Rifle Association (NRA). However, neither article gives any example of successful influence, however minor.
I was commenting more on the code quality and app performance. It’s very well written.

The content is good too though. It’s nice to see so much amazing Chinese cooking.
> food in the US is overly colored for no other reason than it looks cool

My understanding is that a lot of food is colored to look "natural" for uniformity. A good example of this is applesauce.
You're assuming Merkel had a plan - I for one, having lived through her 16-year "reign" of stagnation, have doubts about that.
Germany is still a complex economy. They will likely be like Japan over the last 30 years.
This is neat! I will take a look.
And how do those people enter their information? Where is it stored?
Having done Blazor with C#. I just want Django to have its own version of Blazor. You never have to touch JavaScript, and / or if you do, its very sparingly. Your front-end either runs AJAX style, or fully in WASM depending on your needs.

I have built some wonderful UIs with Blazor in drastically less time than I would have spent building a JavaScript UI.

HTMX and might be the closest thing to what I'm describing that is actually available for Django today, though minus the WASM capabilities.
Is humanity alone in the Universe? What scientists think
Offense industry.
> and kids spending 5+ hours a day doomscrolling

Let's stop pretending adults do not do it too.
It's definitely not for everyone, and to be honest I'd recommend a trying a traditional university first if that's an option.

The reason I liked it is because I have always just been better at teaching myself stuff than being taught. I like working at my own (usually faster) pace and I really hate waiting to make progress. WGU is a perfect system for someone with that mentality, particularly since it's inexpensive.

I think the quality of the education is "ok". I think you'll leave with a good enough education in computer science to be "useful", but I will acknowledge that the fast-pace does make it easier to get away with skipping the boring stuff than it would be with a traditional school.

If you already have a lot of experience with software, WGU can work as a "legitimizer" if nothing else, though. I had a bit of a complex about dropping out and not having a bachelors. That pretty much went away once I got my bachelors from WGU.
> I haven't found much compelling value in these use cases in my day-to-day work.

If my experience with Microsoft Office Copilot is any indication, these features produce very confusing, low-quality content if they are not completely wrong and useless. Used it once and never touched them again. (My company is still paying for this and rolling this out widely despite many reports of how unhelpful they are.) I doubt Google Workspace can do any better.
The issue is about preventing users from watching if they block ads. Talking about logins is being intentionally misleading.
With an open model, you could probably reverse engineer the token probabilities and get that probability estimate.

Something like: "Is {sentence_a} a plausible answer to {sentence_b}? Respond only with a single yes/no token" and then look at the probabilities of those.
It takes more effort to homeschool than farming it out to public schools, so you're naturally selecting for involved parents. To the detriment of public schools, it should be noted.

It also skews the perspectives of homeschool parents into thinking "this is the best system, why doesn't everybody do it?" The answer is, of course, to take the good aspects of each system and make the public school system more viable again, but there are too many entrenched interests on both sides for this to be easy.
> Your suggestion that the educational system, any meaningful part of it, is welcoming of constructive criticism of any kind is not compelling.

Then you, as a conscientious citizen, need to put pressure back on the US government. Instead, you are trying to save yourself at the expense of others, who cannot save themselves. You are like a grown-up man, who's trying to escape a sinking ship by pushing women and children off the deck to make way to the lifeboat.

I don't think your attitude warrants any kind of niceties. You should be treated like any other narcissistic egotist. It's not important to convince you, it's more important to either isolate you, or to prevent you from acting in the way you want by other means. Same way how it's not important to convince criminals to do good: it would've been nice if it was possible, but humans don't live long enough, and often lack capacity to reform, while the rest of the society usually lacks the resources to reform the offenders.
For those who are not happy with the current state of social systems:

“We cannot continue to send our children to Caesar for their education and be surprised when they come home as Romans.”

- Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
(possibly among others)

One of the tenants of collectivism seems to be to replace the parent-child relationship with a society-child relationship "for the good of society"
The Germany would have to get nuclear weapons. The U.S. knows that perfectly well, that is why it stays and hypocritically complains that the EU isn't doing enough.

Also, the U.S. MIC wants to sell to its NATO "allies".
I'm not sure how you're going to get students to use the app and I'm not sure how you could hope to make money off it (if you care about that).

High schoolers are already a very connected population. They know who has a car and who doesn't, so I'm not sure they really need a new app to build car pools. Furthermore, there's little incentive for a high schooler with a car to offer up their services to students they aren't already friends with.

I'm not sure how you can incentivize the drivers. Paying them -- making Uber for high schoolers -- sounds like a bad idea, and the rider students aren't exactly flush with cash to pay anyways.

You might find more success trying to make an app that connects parents of students for car pooling? Parents are incentivized by getting someone else to drive their kids to school and can work out non-monetary agreements like 1 family drives Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and the other family drives Tues, Thurs, and to games/events. But again, apart from running ads, it's not clear to me how you would monetize this.
Not sure on food dyes but my understanding is the FDA is leagues behind the EU on regulation when it comes to food.

My experience in Italy with foods that normally cause some issues (dairy/cheese) really opened my eyes to that. My sister who doesn’t eat cheese/dairy at all here in the US was able to eat it there without issue because of how they process dairy over there or something.
I'm not even able to hold a candle to Wolfram intellectually- the guy is a universe away from me in that regard. But: Given a cursory look at his wiki page and Cosma Shalizi's review of his 2002 book on cellular automata [1], I feel fairly comfortable saying that it seems like he fell in the logician's trap of assuming that everything is computable [2]:

>There’s a whole way of thinking about the world using the idea of computation. And it’s very powerful, and fundamental. Maybe even more fundamental than physics can ever be.

>Yes, there is undecidability in mathematics, as we’ve known since Gödel’s theorem. But the mathematics that mathematicians usually work on is basically set up not to run into it. But just being “plucked from the computational universe”, my cellular automata don’t get to avoid it.

I definitely wouldn't call him a crackpot, but he does seem to be spinning in a philosophical rut.

I like his way of thinking (and I would, because I write code for a living), but I can't shake the feeling that his physics hypotheses are flawed and are destined to bear no fruit.

But I guess we'll see, won't we?

[1] http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/
[2] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/how-we-got-here-...
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It's also possible that the US market just isn't as valuable or profitable to TikTok/ByteDance as we assume.
Astronomers baffled by 'zombie star' that shouldn't exist
This is great, I can just fill it out, and save a copy somewhere in google drive.
Also I'd keep a printed hard copy of it and then save it in (fireproof) safe or a bug-out bag for escaping from disaster.
> If it were really 'any' in the philosophical sense, cash would be outlawed.

The state doesn't have unlimited power, so no. What you expect to see where cash is being banned outright is a slow erosion of less common uses, larger amounts, and an addition of inconveniences and risks in order to drive people off it so that an eventual ban is less unpopular or is even popular. ("screw those bank distrusting weirdos!")

To ban outright risks backlash and failure.
Good point! In truth, that was the first starting point for me as well. Then browser. Then everything else :)
> East China unification war

Are you from China? I find this phraseology very odd
Most other countries, maybe, now compared to the EU...
Bans add a lot of overhead to both the agencies responsible for enforcing them and industry. Those agencies are only so large and are spread thin, sometimes there are 'bigger fish' they need to focus on.

I can understand waiting until there's sufficient evidence before starting that process.
Admittedly to a fault, I tend to be quick to trust institutions and don't tend to be quick to believe conspiracies (not claiming that this is). With most of the additives to products that people seem to be worried about, I default to thinking it's not the most important thing I need to be concerned with in my daily life.

But the FDA making this ruling is validating for my friends who seem to go way out of their way to find product ingredients to be afraid of. I know people have been claiming for years that Red3 being allowed in the US is crazy.

I'm genuinely here to listen: how would someone who believes that the US allows far too many dangerous ingredients in consumer goods and believes the consumer needs to actively screen and research what is in their products convince me that I need to be more serious about screening the products I use for dangerous ingredients?
> No, the law doesn't give a users threshold

It does have a threshold:

> (ii) has more than 1,000,000 monthly active users with respect to at least 2 of the 3 months preceding the date on which a relevant determination of the President is made pursuant to paragraph (3)(B);

So if it stays unpopular, it's protected from this law.

> but RedNote is owned by a different company that would have to be targeted separately under this law.

I think that's a foregone conclusion if it actually gets popular with Americans.
Ask HN: Have you been on jury duty? What was your experience like?
Have seen jury only in movies. So just curious.
Yes, you can do an IP block and you can also detect VPN clients and block those.

If the companies is barred from doing business with US users then they will be required to take reasonable steps to block those users.
Yes, let me just go pop my personal contents and insurance details on wikipedia as myself and my family track, update and modify the structure of the page.
Gaia has a 1.0 × 0.5 m focal plane array on which light from both telescopes is projected. This in turn consists of 106 CCDs of 4500 × 1966 pixels each, for a total of 937.8 megapixels.

Neat.
Second-Hand Bookshops in Britain: 2024 Report
Are you categorizing the article as a brain drain advertisement?

I think the objective truth is that the United States is currently the very best place to run a tech company from almost every angle (maybe excl. cost of living, but that's mostly driven by high salaries in tech, so...).

So if you want to give your company the best odds of venture-scale success, you should at least have some presence in the U.S.
> dedicated solely to the 4 years of the US Civil War.

And don't even start on how little is dedicated to explain slavery and the social and economic ramifications until the late 20th century. Or how the native people were actively suppressed during the expansion to the West, and how all that lead to some of the current social and economic structures around predominantly Native American groups.
I looked into it, and from what I can tell the only link to cancer they've found so far is in male rats exposed to high levels of it, but they haven't found evidence that it causes cancer in humans or other animals.

What's odd to me is that it's still fine to sell food like bacon, where the link to cancer in humans appears to be much, much stronger.
> I didn't expect this to be serious and am surprised on that the tutorial actually delivers.

Same here. I believed that SGML was like Lisp of markup languages, except that it went completely extinct. Good to see it's still usable, I feel like I want to try it out now (instead of making a third generation of my static site generator from scratch).
Of the 20% of US adults who don't have a level of literacy necessary to be considered "literate", 40+% are from other countries with low levels of literacy.
Balance bikes are super cheap, very light, and the kid uses it for like a year or more until you are ready to buy the proper bike
They’re considerably more expensive and their kids prefer the others?

Look, there are plenty of things in our diets that won’t cause harm in small amounts just because a large amount causes harm to a rat. Some people (somewhat rationally) extended that to food dyes and additives.

If you or I want to choose differently that’s great, but denigrating people who don’t make the same choices you do is condescending and unhelpful.
I think so but then again so is a bank card. The card itself your property. And the money it gives access to are with the bank which means the concept of civil forfeiture no longer works (the police can't just frisk the bank and take the money).
You simultaneously claim that it's "clearly hyperbole", implying confidence, while in the next clause of the same sentence you claim "the only person who knows [...] is Mark himself", implying no confidence at all.

I'd sarcastically ask "which one is it?", but actually neither of those is true. Nazis tend to let you know who they are eventually, if you hang around long enough. It's very likely that if Mark does harbor neo-Nazi tendencies, his close associates would be well aware. So it's just a question of how much we trust this lawyer's judgment.
> Why doesn’t China simply open up for domestic competition?

China does allow competition. It's just that google, facebook, etc chose not to follow chinese laws.

> they have so much to lose by growing anti-sino sentiments abroad all because they didn’t want US tech monopolies to compete in their home turf

Funny how microsoft, apple, tesla, etc are competing in china?

You are just parroting stale propaganda.
Part of it may be translation, too. English translations of French academic writing always seem to come out especially convoluted.
Some people wear helmets, but generally it is considered to be such a nuisance (where to leave it, uncomfortable, unnecessary, messes with hear, can't wear a cap) that it may even impede bike usage and make bike less desirable over time. It's certainly not illegal here. There was some research [0], but it's becoming a thing more and more I have to admit [1]. But generally our infra is probably much safer than you can imagine if you've never been here [2]. Also we go quite slow on on our normal bikes (many don't even have gears), we de wear helmets on racing bikes and while mountain biking.

Also, ebikes are making it more unsafe by easily going twice the normal speed, and we need to have a public discussion about that. Many ebike riders do wear helmets, especially the elderly.

[0] https://swov.nl/en/fact/bicycle-helmets-4-why-do-cyclists-ch...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/bikecommuting/comments/dwca9c/why_d...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m1M33B353c
A quick search shows RFK is in favor of replacing seed oils with beef tallow? Is that supposed to be a good thing? What am I missing?
This was my reaction upon seeing the question in the post title, too.

I've chosen not to have kids (my childhood experience of other kids being one contributing factor) but if I did I would not want them to be anywhere near a UK state school.
>Speaking of foreign propaganda, does anyone remember when one of the most destructive advocacy organizations in the US was found to be heavily influenced by Russian spies?

"heavily influenced by Russian spies" seems like a stretch. The BBC article you linked basically says she attended some NRA conventions/events, and got some NRA officials to travel to Russia. There's no indication those activities actually changed anything.
I have been using it in production for more than a year. There were some early hiccups associated with my use-case that were resolved on upgrade and with a bit of tuning. Otherwise it has been very stable. I'll say that I wish the official language bindings were tested more like rqlited itself. They've been more problematic than the database.
No it does not (I opened the x86 version of the terminal with rosetta and run the commands and get the same error).
Facebook is not "online groups", and it is known to statistically lead teenagers into higher rates of suicide.
I do think it's totally fair to put pressure on the school to reduce mainstreaming of kids with major behavior issues. But it's really not about "tolerating" or "not tolerating"- you're witness a system failure and responding by making the problems worse for everyone but the wealthy in a society where governance is premised on the population at large being well educated.

* Tossing around hot potato kids doesn't resolve things in a good for society way.

* Concentrating the proportion of kids interfering with normal income families by removing all the high-income kids from the school doesn't resolve things in a good for society way.

* Letting people choose to send their kids to charters while all the kids of low-involvement parents are still stuck in a situation with a concentrated proportion of problems doesn't either.

Unfortunately there are a several things at play:

* Increased availability of specialized, non-mainstream resources for moderate+ (moderate is pretty severe most of the time IMO) kiddos, gen pop behavior interventions, etc.

* Better general welfare for parents (often unstable/low income ones).

* More push back from districts when parents w/ lawyers demand stuff that's bad for the rest of the classroom.

* Teachers quality needs improving. (Many reasons.)

IMO institutional quality is purposefully damaged by people who hate paying taxes or supporting the general welfare - public schools are basically being purposefully doomed in much the same way that Republicans say "government always bad" and then set out to make it fail on purpose to prove their point, only with a wider variety of motives at play. "I'm sending my kids to private school, why should I pay taxes for public schools?" is not an uncommon strain of thought.

It's a doom loop leading to societal regression into a stratified society unable to properly self-govern IMO.
I was excited to see this as just last night I was using FFmpeg to combine digital (legally owned) movies with multiple parts into a single MKV file. It worked great, the one thing (and this is undoubtedly just a knowledge problem on my part), is I could not get it to copy/include subtitles from both parts. I have a feeling I might need to extract the subtitle files and combine them and then re-include the combined version, but was hoping there would be a solution in this site for doing something like that. Unfortunately, I didn't even see the combine as one of the examples.

For reference:

One-liner:

> ffmpeg -loglevel info -f concat -safe 0 -i <(for f in *.mkv; do echo "file '$(pwd)/$f"; done) -c copy output.mkv

Or the method I ended up using, create a files.txt file with each file listed[0]

> ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i files.txt -c copy output.mkv

files.txt

> file 'file 1.mkv'
> file 'file 2.mkv'
> # list any additional files

0: https://ma.ttias.be/use-ffmpeg-combine-multiple-videos/
I still gotta wrap my head around concurrency, I'm not sure if using threads count for concurrency
>The Standard Model is a single Lagrangian with a couple of dozen constants.

I hear it's a bit more complex than that!

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-is-what-the-standard-model...