skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds really nice at 3x-4x speed, which I can't say for high quality TTS options last year. I'm wondering if there's metrics out there for audio speed vs clarity.
Users will continue to be beaten with the AI cudgel until morale improves.
> An UI like what? Something to drive the user toward what it wants to do?

People don't have the goal "run ffmpeg", they have a goal like "transcode and host videos". See eg. mux.com on here recently.

> cost-plus

This is an extremely non-startup pricing model.
More than you're letting on.

Entire finance departments can work from home, my company is 100% remote, its a fintech company that handles and processes sensitive stuff all day.

Never impeded by regulation or data safety concerns, in fact, I think this company has better security practices than others I've worked for in the past to be quite honest.

There is an illusion that security requires an office. Most of it comes down to 'can you trust X person' vs any locality stuff.
So it's several things. Bear with me because finding news reports that I remember is difficult now because search results are flooded with stuff about the ban so I can't find what I'm looking for.

One concern is a general one that the Chinese government is directing the recommendation algorithms to act as propaganda. So subtly shifting user's opinions in favor of things that suit it and away from things that don't.

https://archive.is/tCVmR

Another is that it is using TikTok to surveil journalists, emigres, and other persons of interest who are using TikTok. My understanding is there are credible reports of journalists being targeted by the Chinese government, where they used TikTok to find their personal details, location, etc.

There's also been increasing reports of the Chinese government operating detention centers in the US and other countries, where they bring kidnapped Chinese nationals. Basically arresting nationals on foreign soil. In some of these cases at least TikTok has been implicated as the method of locating them etc.

https://theweek.com/speedreads/764194/intelligence-officials...

Discussion of this has all been out there over the years, but the way it's been covered has admittedly been weird. Maybe this is yet another sign of a fractured media landscape, but I think some of it has to do with the US not doing a great job of publicizing some things, possibly because it involves intelligence services.

I'm generally very in favor of unfettered freedom of speech, but have mixed feelings about this case. I guess I still side on that, and am skeptical about a ban, but this is getting into different territory and also don't feel strongly about it. I think the effects of foreign (and domestic) propaganda in social networks are very real, and although I generally think censorship is a very bad idea, I'm not sure I can blame a country for wanting an app banned if there's solid information that another country is using it in this way; it seems to be in this gray area of espionage versus free speech which is kind of an unusual territory to be in. Also, I'm fully aware that the US probably does similar things, but two wrongs don't really make a right to me, and if China produced solid evidence of the US doing something similar I wouldn't blame them for banning something either on similar grounds.

To me this all just maybe speaks to the need for a shift to open decentralized social network platforms. I realize that's easier said than done, but there's so many examples in the last few years of problems with control of centralized platforms (by private, government, or private-government combinations) leading to huge problems, either in reality or in appearance (which can sometimes be almost as equally concerning).
Alternatively pick a light-weight template engine from your favorite language and use it to generate the html. More flexible than plain html files and very low learning commitment.

I've been doing that for years and really happy with the result.
Companies in every country have this mindset.

Even Taiwan has largely offshored packaging to ASEAN, China, and India. And Taiwan got packaging because the Japanese manufacturers offshored to there.
> some supposed connection between the Constitution and some Indian tribe

Do you mean the Great Law of the Haudenosaunee [1]? I.e., the constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy? The place where the founding fathers of the US got the idea of separation of powers? The form of government of one of the major regional powers at the time the US was formed? Don't know why your daughter's teachers would bother teaching her about that. Sure, it's awful if they were neglecting all those other things, but seriously, anyone learning American colonial-era history needs to learn about the Iroquois Confederacy.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Law_of_Peace
I work in a bike shop and still fuck this up periodically. It's especially confusing because some pedals only remove from the "back side" with an 8mm Allen wrench.

The easiest way to get it right is if you have a ratchet and a 15mm crow's foot socket. Set it for lefty-loosey before you attack the left side of the bike and you probably can't go too far wrong. Of course, if you have a breaker bar out, this doesn't work.

The other left-threaded bit on a bike is the drive-side of the bottom bracket. Spoke nipples appear to be left threaded, but that's because in the usual case, you're looking at them from the wrong side in a truing stand.
Why is it false? Valid is not true or false necessarily it “just is”.
I think this ignores just how poor and inconsistent companies and managers are with regard to accurately judging talent and competence. If I were put into a more competitive system, it would not necessarily matter that I was above the bell curve with regard to talent. This is still a problem in the current system, except I only need to get my foot in the door once. Having to constantly sell myself to an arbitrary and incompetent crowd would probably bias towards skillsets I don’t have, even if I could complete the work just fine.
If there's anything to be learned from this, it's that when you're a hot commodity you need to get the things you want in writing as part of your employment agreement.
It was with the 2020 version of the algorithm till they changed things see https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
Homologia Fantastica
I have mixed feelings about it.

Do I think I got more done in the office? Undoubtably.

Do I cherish the fact that I have been able to be home with my young children? More than anything.

I did not have children pre-pandemic, and was anxious to return to office. When our office did reopen I was there most days. But then my wife and I had children and I have not willingly worked from the office since.
I'm with you that Biden has been doing worse than nothing, and has been stringing us along with this ceasefire that will never come, while at the same time using UN to block any sort of resolution.

But don't kid yourself that Trump is better. He supports the settlement of the West Bank and has recognized Jerusalem as exclusively Israeli.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/trump-cabinet-is...

The Republicans are just as on board with the genocide as the Democrats are, if not more.
This is what happened to me, I suspect.

The one time I got attacked, one of the top three popular guys in the class went berserk on my attacker. This happened in grade school and the next aborted attempt at bullying wasn't until the end of middle school by someone who had transferred in later on.
How much time is appropriate?
Who decides?
What _should_ they doing instead?
Who decides?
Where does the kids agency during their discretionary time end?
Nah, bad.
This is mainly an effort to get people to quit without providing severance.

However, if RTO actually meant returning to an actual office with walls and a productive work environment instead of a free-floating table in the middle of a huge open space of people using video conferencing apps and chatting about sports and entertainment, more workers would accept the huge negative of commute time.
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There’s a ton of information that pilots need to use while learning the techniques for flying, the FAA regulations, etc. I built PilotBuddy to help student pilots and instructors to get quick, accurate answers to their questions, with citations from the source.
but most are losers = unsymmetrical = it should be fully deductible as it is made with the object of making money
I live in the US. I mean, if I give my data to China, what are they going to do, arrest me? Oh wait no, that's if I give my data to Google or Meta.
Shorts is almost there. IMHO all it needed to do was be a separate app and not try to get you to sign up for YouTube Premium every 2 seconds.

Reels needs to be more disconnected from Facebook for it do anything similar.

Why do you say the Shorts UI is better? It seems exactly the same to me.
Interestingly, the new mainstream media - podcasts - are washing many of these tech founders! The hook is that these poor billionaire souls have been oppressed all along, and they had to bend to the "deep state" and their "masters", meaning George Soros, big corporations, etc and their interests.

This was the whole conspiratorial narrative: everyone was being controlled by private interests through the deep state.

But what they seem to be avoiding in those conversations is that the tech billionaires, literally the richest bunch in the world, are now mingling with the upcoming government - somehow... this is ok :) as long as they are Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Zuckerberg, M. Andreessen, Bezos, etc

So now the non-conspiratorial narrative that is welcomed by the new-mainstream media: everyone is being controlled by private interests of tech founders through the deep state, and that's cool!

Why?

George Soros is an old creep... greedy and manipulative..

Elon Musk is a gamer just like us! He was the top-ranked player in Diablo and Path of Exile 2! He's just like you and me, cool nerds very relatable! Also he's so edgy with memes :P

Zukerberg does Jujitso! He's just like one of the bros, look at his new hairstyle and necklace! He wakes up just like us, gets to grinding, and does cold plunges and sht.

Bezos is doing TRT just like Joe Rogan and the gang, and he's jacked! I guess he's cool!

Somehow this aesthetic is sticking with a big group of people, not realizing these are the richest people in the world, whose wealth only grew while everyone else got squeezed... like mass layoffs don't ring bells...

These guys now have direct access and a say in US Governance. Common folks believe this reality is good and in the best interest of everyone, not the private interests of multibillionaires. It's so non-sensical it's hard to understand.

Edit: For clarification in case anyone missed it - Elon Musk was caught being boosted on Path of Exile 2. If he lies about this stuff for an aesthetic, imagine what else he lies about.
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sure, but it's a fact that millions have downloaded rednote in the past week. I think millions is "many"
yea I don't think people are grasping how different places like Myspace or forums or online games are compared to modern social media.
TikTok is basically the same as Facebook/Instagram/Y.T.Shorts but with a different owner
I think there's an important distinction between "keeping public opinions [pro Israel]," as you claim, and discouraging the dissemination of content that radicalizes (for lack of a better word) viewers enough to justify and support the murder of innocent civilians by a terrorist organization, as the Senator claims.
There was a post on HN where someone implemented a new language compiler purely from Assembly, and shows you from nothing to the very end where it looked mostly like a LISP assembly language. It was really neat. Sadly I dont have the buzzwords for Google to find it anymore, used to be able to find the powerpoint slides for it.

I forgot about HLA (High Level Assembly) though I have not used it personally, there were also a few others like C-- as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Level_Assembly
I'm not an expert in homomorphic encryption by any stretch (and I'm arguably the target audience for this blog post — a curious novice), but there's one thing I don't quite get from this post.

In the "appeal to cryptographers" section (which I really look forward to being fulfilled by someone, hopefully soon!), HE is equated to post-quantum cryptography. As far as I know, most current post-quantum encryption focuses on the elimination of Diffie-Hellman schemes (both over finite fields and over elliptic curves) since those are vulnerable to Shor's algorithm.

However, it's clear from the code samples later in the post (and not explained in the text, afaict) that a public key gets used to re-encrypt the resultant value of a homomorphic add or multiply.

Is this a case of false equivalence (in the sense that HE != post-quantum), or is it more the case that there's some new asymmetric cryptography scheme that's not vulnerable to Shor's?
I understand but I'm just curious to learn under what conditions.
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Looks like Xceed has decided to relicense away from Apache2 to their own, more restrictive license.

(I'm fairly sure that they did not get permission from all past contributors to do this)
Why should you be entitled to WFH and a cashier not? How would you create a mold for like someone above?

If automation was to be implemented then there would be no job at all for the cashier.

Or is it "my job is bigger and important" argument?
it's not the same data or data quality. the concern isn't just data collection but manipulation of the american public (psyops). What russia is doing through their trollfarms, china is doing through tiktok.
Not sure about the vulns but I am actively discussing things with the devs on their Matrix
Perhaps a more apt diagnosis for most patients would be autogynophilia though.
> What in the law, exactly, would prevent the things you discussed from being spoken about on another online platform?

Let me expand this: what in the law prevents someone from going to TikTok.com and seeing the same content?

The ban is on (a) apps in the app stores and (b) hosting by American companies. It’s not sanctioning TikTok à la Huawei.
It is indeed privilege, and that's worth noting, but acting like having privilege makes you a bad person really misses the point.
>Americans don’t really want to be free or have free speech.

Americans love free speech. American oligarchs hate it.
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I'm in your boat. I tried out TikTok out a few times, including making a new account, but it never showed me good content. I had maybe one or two longer sessions, but never felt the need to go back, like I (unfortunately) do with Reddit or Youtube. I could never understand why it was so popular, but maybe I'm just a curmudgeon.
The entire point of enumerating rights in a founding document is that it will be at odds with future interests.

Of course someone in power is going to try and twist the meaning to their own gain.

That inevitable desire is literally why the rights needed to be included in the first place.
> Because the US used to have tons of good paying jobs for normal people who didn't need to get a 4 year degree. Everything used to be made here and we had a booming economy which had opportunities for people from all walks of life, including people who can't or don't want to get a 4 year degree.

That time is gone for good. Automation and outsourcing is coming eventually for the Chinese manufacturing sector as well. Being a planned economy, the government is slowing it down however they can.

Manufacturing might come back to the US but it will not be restoring that big pile of good paying jobs for people with no degree.
> If anything, the Dutch government has been telling people to have cash available in case of emergencies after "geopolitical tension" (read: the Russian invasion into Ukraine). Not that anyone seems to listen, but they encourage having cash reserves. They're still working out an exact amount to recommend, but a couple hundred euros seems to be most likely.

In that scenario, it seems like that would be an insufficient amount to really do anything except handle very basic needs for a week or two.
I think you're in the wrong comment section.
Free Speech != freedom to do literally anything.

We don't even have free speech, btw.

You can't yell FIRE in crowded rooms with impunity, you can't say untrue things about people that harm their businesses or put their lives in danger with impunity, etc.

The idea that our politicians should not be allowed to ban something being owned by a foreign company (especially when our companies aren't allowed to operate in said country, especially when we don't exactly have friendly relations with said country) - is, IMO, absurd.
The problem(s) with RTO were manifested even before the mandates: open office plans.

Office rents show up on expense reports. So do employee salaries. What doesn't? Employee productivity.

There are many studies[1][2][3] showing the open office plans are worse for productivity. But lots of companies built them anyway. If the companies want to make an argument for RTO is better for productivity, but they also have open office plans, then it is inconsistent and non-sensical.

If you want complete RTO (more than 'hydrid' 2-3 days per week), then you should at least give cubicles, and ideally offices (even if it's 'only' 2-4 person per office).

[1] https://hbr.org/2019/11/the-truth-about-open-offices

[2] https://business.adobe.com/blog/perspectives/what-science-sa...

[3] https://www.rivier.edu/academics/blog-posts/the-price-of-col...
What exactly is your point?

There are billions of humans who live in countries that don't have a functioning democracy, but we still find it to be valuable to fight to keep and advance democracy in those countries that have it. There are billions of humans who are poorer than the poor in rich countries, but we still find it to be valuable to fight for better living conditions for the poor in our own countries.

Are you proposing that no one should fight for WFH because not everyone can? Or that there should be one of those "privilege disclaimers" at the top of all of these articles that apologizes for bothering to write a piece that fights for improved conditions for a group that is already perceived as privileged?
Over time I've increasingly been impressed with mature implementations of threads (Java) and less impressed with async.

For a while I built small to medium applications w/ async python and had a lot of luck, but when the scope changed just a bit I found I was a lot better off with gunicorn, I'd probably be even better off with Java if the system didn't have a foot in the world of scikit-learn, huggingface and all that. (Mainly in batch jobs but what if I want to do a little inference when I do a web request?)

My understanding about Rust is that the borrowing mechanism works just fine with threads. since objects are naturally scoped to a sequence of operations that are written out into code (you go into a code block, that code block calls a function, that function calls a function, and things can be released as you unwind out)

In async now you usually wind up with something like the continuation passing style, function A gets called by the event loop and creates an object, many other functions get run by the event loop, some of which might use that object, then finally function X gets run and tears the object down. "The event loop owns the object" is an answer but not very satisfying, a general answer gives the event loop the responsibilities of the garbage collector.

I think people don't really get how revolutionary the garbage collector is. You can smack together two arbitrary Java libraries and not worry about memory management because the runtime handles memory management.
In a car?
Americans need to stop measuring things in feet :)
You probably don't live in EU... Here it's illegal to not have the papers or to let them be taken away from the office.
I have no set of rules when prompting LLMs for CSS, it does seem to work more or less for me though.

What are your current issues or what limitations have you ran into?
It doesn't work on modern Apple Silicon macs with M1-4 chips (although Rosetta [1] might be able to handle it somehow), but it works fine on my older x86 based iMac.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)
I really wish they would have identified Gaia as some kind of satellite. Gaia is also a name for Earth itself.
I feel like the actual big difference between social media when we were in high school (hello age cohort pal) and social media now is the algorithmic feed. There was a time when you'd have a couple dozen friends on Facebook, who were people you actually know in real life, and you'd check Facebook, read you feed in chronological order, and then reach the end. Like with email.

The algorithmic feed, in addition to time spent on social media, has also intensified online discourse in a way that I believe to be harmful to society. What people see now is not the most recent things their friends were posting, no matter how banal, but whatever it is that the algorithm judges most engaging. Truth doesn't matter. Now the conspiracy theories and weird new age shit that your one hippy friend posted constantly have an audience. That kind of thing is engaging, so it floats to the top.

I'd be perfectly fine with just banning social media altogether. Never before in history has the value of a barrier to entry to publishing something been more apparent. But as a compromise, I would accept banning the algorithmic feed.
I'm speaking more broadly, not this specific instance.

In either case, justifying unwillingness to learn is a race to the bottom. I don't want every app to be made targeted at the lowest common denominator -- nor do I think it is healthy for society -- in terms of digital literacy. That's a race to the bottom to every app being like Tiktok.

Remember, that Gen Z doesn't understand what a directory or a file is because they grew up on spoon-feeding mobile apps, and this is causing problems for them when they enter the workplace.

This type of thought process of making everything as streamlined as possible is why that happens.
Renting involves risk. Risk that you pass up a higher paying tenant in the future, risk that your property is damaged, and is just extra work in general. Based on the amount of empty parcels and storefronts we see for years and years, many landlords clearly don’t care about smaller amounts of profit today.

> And how are they getting something for nothing?

Because they didn’t do anything. They didn’t do the labor of developing a structure, renovating it, operating a business, or even managing a tenant if they left it empty. Yet they will get protection from the police and courts and military for their property, and a higher price when they do sell.

> Would you say the same about all ownership? Like when someone owns stock in a company or owns pension rights?

Depends how the company earns money. Is the company doing something now, or taking advantage of excessive protections granted by the government. For example 100+ year long copyright terms, or recurring charges for structural monopolies without improving infrastructure (Comcast, etc).

On a societal level, one can see the elderly population who cannot provide for themselves depends on rent seeking as a whole (whether via sophisticated financial agreements or simply traditions that oblige children to take care of older generations).

Which isn’t a problem in and of itself, but excessive amounts of it is, because it will sap the younger generations’ rewards too much such that they won’t be incentivized. And this leads to the problems experienced by societies with flattening population histograms around the world.
So where does he keep his client's documents?