skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily. You can keep the scope limited and then it's possible. I built my own blog engine in Go with pure Go templates, Markdown input and a mysql db. It can build to static files or just host directly on a VPS. I now run my own blog on it. It was a bit tricky at the beginning to get my requirements right but once I had them, I don't need to add features to it. I am tempted for sure at times though.
Thank you! It seems this works for not just parens but square brackets and curly braces too! Only special requirement is indentation is consistent (duh though).

I've not been doing Python day-to-day so I'm starting to lose my touch on all the nice little tricks.
Once again, digital drug addicts getting their supply cut off and running to the next hit.

Neither this TikTok "ban" or the new app "Rednote" are going to last in the long term. They will run back to TikTok again.

Would have been better to fine TikTok in the billions just like we already have done for Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and all the other social networks.

But this is all temporary.
Any app can do this really, just can’t update the entitlements and a few other things. I would think it unlawful for Apple’s own apps to have access to functionality/apis that others don’t…
I mean, I've seen plenty of dissenting material against the powers-that-be on Meta platforms over the years, but okay.

Police brutality (both viewpoints), COVID conspiracies, election conspiracies, etc. are not particularly hard to find on there.
It is endlessly fascinating to me that people ascribe emotions that individuals experience to organizations, companies, nation-states, etc.

As the article says ByteDance is a massive company with thousands of employees in the US alone. It’s ridiculous to think a corporation of that size operates as if it was a singular (and extremely petty) individual, especially to the detriment of its own self interests.

There’s a dozen potential motivations for pursuing this strategy and none of them boil down to being “pissed”.
You missed the point: if you don't like how school work today, you need to improve the schools. If you are saving yourself, especially before helping others (because you have the means that others probably don't), you are the bad person in this situation, and you should reflect on your ethical position some time, preferably soon.
> or even uninstall it

Unfortunately google's camera app will only open google photos if you click the image preview after taking one. Just doesn't respect the default gallery app setting at all.
"For example, its metacircular evaluator is 232 bits. If we use the 8-bit version of the interpreter (the capital Blc one) which uses a true binary wire format, then we can get a sense of just how small the programs targeting this virtual machine can be."

From TFA. I think it's a very good article.
For tech books, most old books have been superseded by modern versions. The original may be interesting for a history of science point of view, to understand how each idea got slowly refined to get to the current state, but the modern books have a destilled version of the old results.

IIRC the original Einsten paper about relativity doens't use Minkowski spaces, but all modern explanaions use it because it makes everything more clear.

About books it's more difficult. It's interesting to read the discussion by Hofstadter about the translation of "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" The book is full of subtle details that can be overlocked or broken in the translation.

I guess translating Borges from Spanish is very difficult too. IIRC someone bought the rights and made horrible translation to ¿German? and they are waiting to make new translations.
Chiropractic: A Critical Evaluation (2008)
> They have more than enough social contacts when they go to school.

If you ever found yourself being the "weird kid" in a small town high school, you might see it different.
It's speed and load capacity vs self-driving.

If we could imagine wiring a pony to control a car, its brain, while good at navigation, would likely be inadequate at the speed that a car attains.
I have picked up on some social ..animosity towards those who WFH. You make a very good point, there are many, many more people who can never WFH, and I think there is growing negativity towards those who complain about having to go into an office. Working from home is very logical, cheaper, and better for a lot of office workers but the campaign against RTO could backfire if we are seen as privileged.
Yep, it feels somewhat clunky when you are used to NixOS modules :P
Cranberry juice consumption lowers markers of cardiometabolic risk (2015)
arguments from article -
>Pro-homeschooling: At school, you’re in danger of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse.

>Anti-homeschooling: Statistically, you’re in greater danger of all those things at home.

Sure, but the parents choosing to homeschool are either the ones abusing or not (obviously they could have an abusive uncle but the parents tend not to think of this) if Not, then its not a counter-argument because they know it's not and they do not know about the school. If abusing the know it and they might prefer to homeschool for that reason.

>Pro-homeschooling: Kids learn faster one-on-one; Bloom’s 2-sigma problem is undefeated.

>Anti-homeschooling: Kids with learning disabilities and neurodivergence can fall through the cracks without professional involvement.

many kids with learning disabilities and neurodivergence need more 1 on 1, and will also be more likely to get all the other negative school interactions that are arguments against schools.

>Here’s what I think is really going on.

I heard Elon Musk homeschooled his kids, anyway if you have the money, it's a status symbol.

Also about lousy school environment anecdotes going around here - I went to high school in Utah, where I heard a teacher tell the class that A.D meant After Noah, and B.C meant Before Christ. I WIN! Oh wait...
It is an "ACL vulnerability ".

ACL as in access control list.

Bell-LaPalda and multi-level access control systems both required a trusted controller and, And, AND a trusted arbiter of a state machine.

It is the state machine that magically got expanded into a couple more states, with the introduction of an imposter admin actor.

So yeah, the trusted arbiter and owner of that state machine (Google) did an oops.

This is something that Keberos (KRB5) was designed to protect against.
But the parent comment is still correct. X have been launching much more features quicker than before.

They have the capital and resources to re-launch Vine if they wanted to. In fact this is the perfect time for them to launch it.
> most of us have been educated in a very competitive environment where individuals come first

This is definitely intertwined with rampant individualism, but I don't think it's just our education or lack thereof that's to blame. It's also the environment we're born into and therefore never really question where it leads us and why. Century of the Self [0] makes an excellent case for where/how things went wrong, and we never deviated from this path because capitalism and its consumption-first economies would never permit such a thing.

For those comparing post-WWII to now, the only real difference seems to be capitalism becoming ever more desperate to squeeze all remaining profits. Capital concentrates [1] and profits continue to trend toward zero as Marx warned they would. It's a fundamental contradiction built into capitalism that has yet to be addressed except for by those few who are already disproportionately benefiting from the arrangement at everyone else's expense.

Consider how the average baby boomer was treated by their company of employment compared to the average worker in the 21st century. Employers now make it painfully obvious that everybody is disposable, and the only thing that matters are the metrics tied to their own compensation, no matter how disconnected that is from producing results that are actually good for society. The workers are all incentivized to become back-stabbing careerist wolves fighting and hoarding secrets instead of cooperating to build actual Good Things. The best way to get a raise is to jump ship to another company. Etc.

Given all of the above, it'd be very strange if we didn't end up in the hellscape that we are currently in.

[0] https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-century-of-the-self/

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/03/how-asset-managers-h...
You buy it so you can live in it, I am also not speculating when I buy a cabinet that I also hope to keep for decades.
Your point is valid, but that's not really what we were talking about.

You said that using data centre heat is an alternative to reversible computing. This is not the case. Neglecting efficiency improvements and instead moving the data centre to a place where the heat can be used is worse than making it more efficient and using heat pumps with the saved energy at a much higher efficiency. It is even worse if the heat is dumped into the air, as istjohn said.

Also using the heat to heat homes would be even better. The two concepts aren't mutually exclusive.
Funny you mention Raw Capitalism:

It shows a point I like to bring up often that Capitalism and The Free Market are directly opposed. What capital (a fancy word for shareholders) want is an infinite money machine and that is easiest with a monopoly. Hence, banning a competitor that's doing too well in the free market.

To the other part, I consider your 3 and my 2 the same, the US doesn't want us getting Chinese info and has their own perfered sources instead.
So if theoretically you ban addictive social media platforms and prevent the formation of any platform with more than a million users, then yes, teenagers will go where their peers go, but that will not necessarily be where teenagers on the other side of the country go. It will also not necessarily be a destructive algorithm-oriented social network designed to maximize time spent viewing ads.

My friend group had a phpBB forum back in the day. I spent hours on there because I liked hanging out with that group of friends, not because it was profitable for some megacorp.
I wonder if this is how Karen logic works, black and white thinking with no sense of proportion.
> not just that the end users have fed TikTok a ton more data points about their personal likes and dislikes

Well, and what about the actual content? If all you have is a bunch of garbage it doesn't matter how good your algorithm is if all it can do is find the best garbage to push at the user.
Empirical, but I have noscript and ublock enabled on Mozilla and whenever I go to youtube, it reloads three times in a laggy manner before it will let me type into the search. I check to see that I am not logged into gmail before using youtube.

I am happy to do all that, because I like my videos uninterrupted and my web experience lean.
When I tried TikTok for the first time in 2020, it had my preferences dialed in within about 15 minutes.

I tried reels when it first released, and gave up after an hour of constantly being shown videos of scantily clad women.
Not disagreeing with you as TikTok obviously works for a lot of people, but its recommendation algorithm never came anywhere near working for me after several attempts at it over fairly long periods of time.

I can't say I like YouTube shorts a lot, but there's often some I find interesting in a long enough window of time — the problem there is more the signal to noise ratio than the volume of the signal. TikTok just feels like my personal signal is just nonexistent.

Sometimes I wish I knew what was going on under the hood. There's such a huge difference between how much people like TikTok and how I feel about the content, and I don't understand why TikTok would have such a hard time with me in particular.

In general I'm kind of souring on algorithmic-driven social media, or at least short format (video or text). I don't have anything against it in principle, I just find I enjoy longer format posts and articles more in experience.
It says it's "opt in" but as someone who hasn't opted in, I still get the notifications and I can see a split second preview of all the stuff they're not supposed to have computed before it asks me to opt in. So there's DEFINITELY shenanigans ocurring.
> To what extent can a backdoor escape Android/iOS sandboxing?

Chances of that happening are close to 0.
These ad-hoc efforts are wonderful and extremely effective and are the utopia we all strive for.

Ultimately, I think, the distinction between "products" and ad-hoc effort is that one is tolerant of abuse and bad actors (the "enterprise" or bureaucratic system) and the other simply isn't.

I think I read it somewhere here, that any large project eventually turns into a moderation system.

I'm not sure what actions to take as a result of this observation... except perhaps to be a little bit sad.
They're strictly not equivalent—yours believes the US has a substantial amount of control over Facebook, mine does not. I can't change your belief, but I can draw a distinction between our beliefs.
So they're not the most qualified person to teach children, contrary to the claim.
Structured decoding in LLMs, a guide for the impatient
I used to have somewhere an audio file of Andy Richter (from Late Night with Conan O’Brien—and other projects, but this was during the Late Night era) saying, “Well, you’ve got mail, but it’s probably crap” that I used as my alert sound for mail. I kind of miss that.
And who's worse than kim?
According to Saint Frederick Von Hayek as popularized by J. Howard Pew and his crew. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V_AZRZfu9I
> PRC banned exporting Bytedance algo. By that logic, no US companies are independent private companies due to US export controls. And TBH both points are true.

Chinese state control over private companies is far more pervasive, and less bound by rule-of-law, than that of the U.S. Export controls are not even the H2O molecule at the tip of the iceberg.

> Even PRC has never forced a US company from divesting US ownership

Bytedance is not being forced to divest; they can leave the market, just like Google and many others had to leave China.
Runtime Diagnostics: Catching Bugs as They Happen
Amusingly this is true of an older discovery that now seems very commonplace: vibration, around the time that scientists understood the simple harmonic oscillator, and the fact that the same mathematics applies to lots of things from sounds to pendulums. So to make their nonsense sound sciencey, spiritualists started talking about vibrations as well.

Not sure if there are any older examples.
Well it's more... Xiaohongshu is for cosmo PRC cool kids (read: lean wealthy), and also a large ecommerce portal that targets that demographic. Not sure if the userbase is interested in... western and RoW "riff raff" shitting up the content for too long. I say this more as an insult to Xiaohongshu, I like TikTok (or Douyin) because I like seeing entrepenurs sell neon signs and industrial glycerine between my swipes.
I learned using a balance bike, which is essentially the same exact idea.
For me the normal video recommendations are awesome on Youtube, I regularly find very obscure super interesting stuff in my recommendations.

For shorts it is abysmal, I only get horrible recommendations there - no idea why it is so different.
Kids are an experiment that you run without a control group. You do the best you can with the information you have, from a place of love. That's it.

Social media is crappy and dangerous, and you keep them away from it until you are able to explain to them why it's crappy and dangerous. It's also everywhere. YouTube comments, HackerNews, Reddit, Roblox. All are various flavors of social media, many of which are hard to justify complete blockage.
well, the German constitutional court thinks it does follow, indeed,
and they are much smarter than I am in their argument:

https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/entscheidungen/rk200...

In a nutshell, only schooling forces you to confront other beliefs in a way preparing you for life in a pluralistic society and thus schooling as such is a cornerstone in education.

private schools German flavor are okay because their curriculum has to comply and their final exams are state controlled.

So for example even if you went to some evangelical creationist belief system school, you'd have to understand and know evolution. And every student gets sex ed no matter if the parents think that's a bad idea, including contraceptives, abortion rights and all.

And likewise every student is confronted with the Hollerith machine planned systematic mass deportation and mass murder of 6 Mio Humans for having a "wrong" birth certificate, using scheduled, planned trains and scheduled, planned mass murder factories. And every student learns how that came to be and how a weak democracy was overturned into a mind control oppression state.

And that makes a _lot_ of sense.
ive never seen this, is it because you're scrolling? they stop when you scroll away
Learning is the last thing they want to do in a situation like “I want to update a document about losing homes”, and among the end of the to do list in general. One can argue as much as they want how it’s people’s fault, but the next catastrophe will create more google sheets and whatsapp groups and zero wikis and forum threads.

I believe that developers could bridge this gap easily, if they weren’t in the denial about their own UI/UX issues themselves.
Indeed they do. As I said, devil's advocate...
Looking forward to Europe banning Meta and X considering how their CEOs are meeting weekly with their government overlord, quite clear those social networks are in the pocket of the new US government.
Not sure whether they use FHE or not (the literature I’m looking at simply says “homomorphic”), but we use ElectionGuard at our company to help verify elections for our customers. So there are definitely some practical uses.
They made computers behave like annoying salesmen
The fact that you don't personally meet with "average" people isn't the point. The point is that they exist, and they affect your existence, and they will not and cannot be made to disappear. The "average" people have to share resources with you, and in a way the resources cannot be segregated... unless we start building colonies in space, and send "non-average" people there or some similar dystopian project.
This is overly conspiratorial, because the timeline doesn't line up. Gaza has only been in the news since October 7th 2023.

The government first started talking about banning TikTok in 2018 (under Trump). Ordered them to divest of US interests and prohibited transactions with them in 2020 (under Trump). The latter of which was overturned by the courts.

The current administration took over in 2021, and in 2021 labelled the PRC as a foreign adversary. Discussed the threat to the US through the PRCs control of software applications and teh vasts swaths of information available from their users, directed agencies to find risk mitigation measures, and started a long process of negotiating with TikTok over how exactly it continued to operate.

The act ordering divestment is the inevitable consequence of those talks failing... those talks failed sometime late 2022 or early 2023 (the last proposal under them was in August 2022).
Why doesn’t China simply open up for domestic competition? What are they afraid of? It’s a serious question. Are they that much afraid of their consumers switching to Western products? I frankly think it’s overblown. Chinese people will simply stick with homegrown products at this point. It’s way too entrenched for anyone to enter their market and succeed. I think they have made enough progress to open up their markets and 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. Maybe 10 years ago it made sense but Chinese tech companies can compete on merits at this point. They have the ecosystem to compete without govt protection.
Every rsync operation (even locally) involves an rsync client and a separate rsync server process.
'When you lock things up you don't sell as many of them'
There definitely seems to be a modern trend of over complication in physics along with the voodoo-like worship of math. Humbly enough, people have only come to understand the equations for an apple falling out of a tree within the last 500 years, and that necessitated the invention of Calculus.

What's more distressing than the insular knowledge cults of modern physics is the bizarre fixation on unfalsifiable philosophical interpretation.

That just makes it incomprehensible to outsiders when they quibble over the metaphors used to explain the equations that are used to guess what may happen experimentally. (Rather than admitting that any definition is an abstraction and any analogies or metaphors are merely pedagogical tools.)

My kneejerk reaction: Give me the equations. If they are too complicated give me a computer simulation that runs the equations. Now tell me what your experiment is and show me how to plug the numbers so that I may validate the theory.

If I wanted to have people wage war over my mind concerning what I should believe without evidence, I would turn back to religion rather than science.

Anyway, I hope this situation improves in the future. Maybe some virtual particle will appear that better mediates this field (physics).
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I'm with you there friend! To continue the Star Trek analogies, I think a lot of modern day engineers (mind you not all) are at least partially just business folks, but instead of being Ferengi we have a more Vulcan like mindset and fill a different niche within the business in understanding the technical side of things in a way that few have an aptitude/interest for.

I work a lot with electricity markets though and find it to be very interesting and challenging as the field is surprisingly vast and incredibly dynamic. It requires knowledge of power fundamentals as well as economics, operations research, and honestly history. It isn't at all what I thought I would do back when I was in highschool, but a pleasant surprise all the same. I do sometimes get the itch to be like the guy that invented the lotus office software who lived in a cabin in the woods somewhere and implemented his own product, but the software market is already saturated in this space. Also, I have a family now which prevents my hermit dream and that is yet another wonderful surprise and has been very fulfilling as well as maddening at times :)
I went to a school with over 1,200 students and still had no friends. Kids can be extremely cruel to their neurodivergent peers. I wasn’t able to learn social skills until university .

Things would have been a lot different if I had access to the internet.
No 2x speed playback doesn't help
Workspace was $12/month, now it will be $14 with AI included. AI was $20/month.

Looks like AI as an add-on wasn't selling too well.
I mean, I'm not on TikTok at all and Israel is committing a genocide. China didn't tell me that, the Israeli's killing Palestinians en masse told me that. Because that's what the word "genocide" means.

It seems to be if the US Government wants not to be associated with a genocide-committing country they should just... do that. TikTok might have the largest share of the pro-Palestine mood as it were, but like... it's on all the platforms. Because again... they're committing a genocide, and filming it.