skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elite Dangerous already has more known star systems (160k) in the Milky Way than you can realistically visit - and the rest (400 billion) filled in with plausibly simulated systems: https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Galaxy#Milky_Way - it even kind-of predicted a star system that was only discovered after the game was released: https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Trappist-1#Impact_of...
Here's a study showing TikTok tilts toward positive views on CCP and away from negative ones, unlike trends on other socials.

https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/Peer-Reviewed...
Look into AuDHD, PDA, and monotropism. See if any of it resonates. Definitely feels like our current diagnosis paradigm is in dire need of changes.
How do you explain the children/teenager loneliness spike since ~2008-2010 if these things are the pinnacle of connection ?
Ah, I misunderstood your point. And while the PDP-11 was byte addressable, the doco often talked about memory size in words. Carry on.
Practice, with guidance is superior to practice without guidance. Homeschooling doesn't mean isolation in the average case. You get a lot of practice as a homeschooler. The primary difference is that your practice is both with other adults and children while supervised and also modeled directly to you in homeschooling by other adults while public school is primarily unsupervised and lacking in a modeled behavior to observe.

The number one thing people would comment to my parents about me was that I was so comfortable socially in adult conversations and environments. I wasn't even in high school yet. I had adult level social skills by age 12. I didn't learn how to interact with people from other kids who had no idea how to either. I learned it from my parents and practiced what I learned with both other children and also adults. I'm only anecdotal evidence but a number of studies have backed up my own experience. A few links I had on hand can be found here.

* Medlin, R. G. (2013). Homeschooling and the question of socialization revisited. Peabody Journal of Education, 88(3), 284–297. https://www.stetson.edu/artsci/psychology/media/medlin-socia...

* Shyers, L. E. (1992). A comparison of social adjustment between home and traditionally schooled students. Home School Researcher https://archive.org/details/comparisonofsoci00shye

* Taylor, J. W. (1986). Self-concept in home-schooling children. (Doctoral Dissertation). Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Dissertation Services. https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/dissertations/726/
Rednote and TikTok has 'novelty' content type that originally cultivated in mainland China. The memes, reactions pic, etc don't really exist on reels/shorts.
My experience has been it's not a lack of knowledge it's a combination of inertia, cargo culting, and give-a-shit

There are so many great tools that solve so many problems but life is filled with trade-offs and many people don't value the same trade-offs that I do, so they just bash their head against Terraform (or $other_legacy_tool) because "it's what we use"

I was really hoping that Earthly or Dagger were going to catch on due to the enormous number of folks that complain about not being able to run GitHub Actions (or GLCI) locally, on top of bitching about yaml alllllllllll the fucking time. But, same problem, IMHO: inertia is so strong
oh there is an X on the top right corner of the shorts block on the website. but don't you believe clicking it will remove the block for more than a couple days.
and you're right, the mobile website/app doesn't even have that
tiktok easily lets you reset your algo, not sure if reels does the same
>> unsigned char ascii2dec( unsigned char data) // expecting a hexedecimal num 0..F anything else returns 0
{
if(data=='0') return 0;
if(data=='1') return 1;
if(data=='2') return 2;
if(data=='3') return 3;
if(data=='4') return 4;
if(data=='5') return 5;
if(data=='6') return 6;
if(data=='7') return 7;
if(data=='8') return 8;
if(data=='9') return 9;
if(data=='A') return 10;
if(data=='B') return 11;
if(data=='C') return 12;
if(data=='D') return 13;
if(data=='E') return 14;
if(data=='F') return 15;
if(data=='a') return 10;
if(data=='b') return 11;
if(data=='c') return 12;
if(data=='d') return 13;
if(data=='e') return 14;
if(data=='f') return 15;
return 0; // default/error

}

I could probably think about a little bit shorter function for that ;)
So one shot transactions can check if every timestamp in every write and item inside the transaction packet depends on data that is before the timestamp of that particular monotonic transaction timestamp?

And the pattern of including "check" transaction item is how we manually maintain data integrity (characteristic of Atomic in DBMS)

And we know which transactions are writing because they told us they wanted to write in the prepare phase (the part that the transaction manager handles separate from the one shot transaction information perspective from the client with its own communication between the transaction manager and storage nodes)

I implemented a toy dynamodb that is a trie in front of a hash map, it handles the "begins with" query style.
I would argue the downside was that this perspective got secularized and morphed into the particularly American paranoid distrust of institutions that has caused at least as many problems as it has solved. In fact, I think the American obsession with homeschooling has those same Puritan roots.
I think youtube is deliberately not showing good recommendations to boost ad revenue
> US spectrum export controls have been every bit as pervasive as PRC ones, pretending muh "rule of law" is a distinction without difference at this point. It's functionally the same.

As I said, export controls are such a minor part of the problem as to hardly be worth mentioning. The pervasive control I'm speaking of is things like the fact that ByteDance (like all large Chinese companies) would have an internal CCP committee with influence over personnel and strategic decisions.

> having US nationalize a PRC company is obviously a nonstarter except for the terminally stupid like noahopinion

This is wrong on many levels. No one is talking about nationalizing TikTok (which is not a PRC company) and certainly not ByteDance.
They might not be causing literally mental health issues, but they're certainly radicalizing a lot of young folks into some really toxic behaviors and beliefs.
Main reason besides the algorithm is in my opinion that TikTok has wide but hard boundaries when it comes to content. This leads to diverse but relatively safe content.

It is not 4chan where you think twice before clicking a link to avoid emotional damage. It is also not Reddit or Youtube where you do not bother to go because you permanently encounter stuff that is inconsequentially blocked and you are still not safe from trauma. I think most platforms other than TikTok try to be too strict, fail to enforce their unrealistic rules in any comprehensible form and therefore suck for most intellectually curious users.
> Aside: I was so worried it was going to be an AI voice generator based on his voice. I sadly think it's inevitable but I can hope he didn't make enough recordings to be able to reliably synthesize his voice.

I have bad news about the state of voice cloning...
Most of the disagreements are fundamentally metaphysical (would God make fossils?), so debates about evidence, expertise, and scientific consensus are beside the point.
"For the subtleties of different meanings of “mass”, see chapters 5-8 of my book.]"

Isn't this called "equivocation" in logic?
Treat algorithmic feeds as "publications" by machines. Treat these social media companies as publishers and allow them to be sued for libel, with damage amounts based on reach.

If there's no algorithmic feed and the company is truly just a self publishing utility then keep the section 230 protections
Are you arguing that religious people are scientifically ignorant?

Such religious people like Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galileo, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, Blaise Pascal, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, René Descartes, Gregor Mendel, Georges Lemaître?
> TikTok has such a culture of authenticity and realness and Instagram is so phony and overly perfect

I feel like this is what so many people (including myself) are missing about TikTok.I'll be honest I saw TikTok largely as an "extension" of Reels and vice-versa where folks with a following on one will post to the other because they are so similar and that would increase their reach.
The Art of Diplomacy: Letting Others Have Your Way [video]
Historical Share of US households using specific technologies
Chart showing the adoption of electricity, flush toilets, color TV, etc. since 1860.
I'm sorry you had a bad time at school.

> give an appreciable reason

You might not have succeeded at that. You did a very good job at denigrating school though :)

Let me try to tell you my view: both homeschooling and schools have risks. A child can suffer mistreatment both at school and at home.

School however offers something that homeschooling can't: options. If you have a bad teacher, you will have another 4 which are average, and 1 or 2 which are actually decent. There will be bullies, yes, but you also have opportunities to make friends.

At home, all you have is a single adult. If that adult happens to be a psycho, there's no escape.

I say this as someone who suffered at school. My ADHD got completely unnoticed, being of the inattentive kind. I didn't know how to relate with others, I had no friends. I would pick up a book and read in a corner during recess. I got bullied. For me school was something I "endured", not something I enjoyed.

I also happen to be the elder of 4 children. My younger brothers and sister went to the same school I went to. They had different teachers, different co-students. All of them were happy at school, and they turned up just alright.

Now, my parents. My mum is ok (for someone who has raised 4 people) but my dad is a self-absorbed narcissist. My brothers and sister stopped talking to him 20 years ago. He doesn't know his own grandchildren. I still talk with him, but out of pity. There's no love left.

So yeah. I suffered at school. It happens. My siblings didn't. I think homeschooling with my mum would have been ok, she's decent. But homeschooling with my dad? I would be way worse than I am now.

So, there. Options.
Human genome-wide study finds 697 variants&308 new genes associated w depression
Many (most, if not all) hand-made copies contained errors, which printed books did not. They were much closer to 1:1 copies.
> just tell people they need a better phone for that feature if it’s too slow. Or do it on their Mac if they own one while that is plugged in.

The issue isn't slowness. Uploading photo library data/metadata is likely always slower than on-device processing. Apparently the issue in this case is that the world locations database is too large to be stored locally.
Xanga allowed kids to connect and be social that otherwise weren’t able to in high school. But do we want to raise a society of Xanga kids, or do we want to solve the root problems why they couldn’t be social in the first place?

(Or am I asking the same exact question two different ways, a distinction without a difference?)
Actually getting kids tested for them.
Catholics aren't generally young-Earth creationists, and overall the Church argues the age of the earth is a scientific not a religious question.

I totally agree there are many religious schools which are extremely high quality. Despite a few strange views at the school I went to, the general quality of education was quite high. However, I refuse to ignore the many other examples of schools which are not high quality. They should be called out, and there's no way I want my tax dollars going to teach their nonsense.
No need to hide behind euphemism. Just say what you mean.
> I find it hard to think of school as anything more than forced internment for children while their parents go to work, with exercises designed to keep you busy more than to give a functional understanding. I would not be surprised if this feeling is shared among many of my generation and social class, the endless chasing of metrics has made even the tiniest amount of joy that could exist in school- Non-existent.

The problem is, when you allow homeschooling, a non-insignificant number of children will have to endure the same, just the wardens and torturers will be their own parents. There have been more than enough cults who actually promote that parents keep their children from "outside influence", and on top of that come the pedophiles, again especially in religious circles. Even private schools suffer from such issues, again mostly religious ones, but there also have been a fair share of scandals surrounding "ordinary" esoteric schools.

I would rather fight for government-run schools to have proper budgets for a high quality learning experience, adequate staff, modern curricula and teaching methods and actually sensible policies against bullying of all kinds than to allow systems to thrive that are even worse than what you went through.
BIP-39 mnemonic in Go with CLI for learning and experimentation
The modular design of the wallet CLI commands and the underlying Go library allows for easy composition of cryptographic primitives and standard-defined HD wallet operations to be combined in flexible ways, which is invaluable for learning and experimentation. The implementation of all HD wallet and other cryptographic operations has comprehensive documentation and associated test cases for those who want to learn and understand the mechanics and internal working of a HD wallet.
> The outcome of the shutdown would be different from that mandated by the law. The law would mandate a ban only on new TikTok downloads on Apple or Google app stores, while existing users could continue using it for some time.

Does anyone have thoughts on why TikTok would choose to stop for existing users? I.e. why would they choose to do more than the minimum required by the law? It's nice that they want to point people to a way to download their data, but they could also keep showing videos after notifying people of that option. What's the rationale here?
A young member of the chattering class tells us that everything is better and cites Matthew Iglesias.

The article is adorned with a picture of the 1950s. We are not talking about the 1950s, not even culturally. The 1950s were a boring period, which is universally acknowledged.

If you talk about culture, especially in Europe, look at 1850-1930.

If you talk economics, look at the 1990s. The chattering classes look at stock market indices, we look at employment, manufacturing, house prices
and purchasing power.

So please, do not lecture me about "my brain" and have a look at your own.
Your younger self doesn’t have to be a future state of your present self, you just have to induce it, eg, being your own father or grandfather. Your younger self doesn’t have to be in your future if you allow some overlap (father) or short gap (grandfather) on the circle.
I laid out in another comment how this works, but the gist of it is that the CCP can use the populace as dumb actors to achieve their goals.

China has secret agents they need to move through an area. Why not have an asian hate awareness rally in that area at the same time?

Nobody attending that rally would have any idea they are acting as decoy agents. None would report seeing CCP propaganda on tiktok.
Evidence that they are using the app to influence US users in a direction that would benefit the ccp and hurt the USA.
"Echo chamber" is a tautology by this point. What's bad about a narrower focus? It's good to cross pollinate on occasion but you're not going to ever get to deep discussions when you have the same arguments over and over with people who share little common ground. I don't come to HN to read what flat earthers think about that gorgeous photo of the Earth's curve taken by an astronaut, and I can have productive disagreements with other technologists.
I'm honestly getting a bit sick of subscription pricing, especially for things like "productivity apps." and G-Suite (although sadly the MS alternative isn't any better).

At the end of the day, we just do the same ol' simple word processing we've done for the last 20 years.

Are there good corporate email alternatives that just do email/calendars and do them well with business-type SLAs? Zoho? FastMail?
both shorts and reels give me so much more brain dead content than tiktok and it’s really hard to get out of that rut
Can I pay $20 to keep the version without AI?
The personnel that swaps part dispenser blades in the USA costs more. What's there to understand?
Automated assembly still has setup costs that take real humans walking around physically.

It's more likely that the Chinese companies are offering prototyping at a loss, because they know people won't switch to a different board house, once the prototyping phase is over.
I agree 100%. Virtual threads have drawn a lot of skepticism but even Rust once had a version with them. They enable the strong structuted concurrency patterns. Async/await works nicely as long as your use case is "do this work on another thread, free this one up, resume here when the async task is done", but I've found that to be most common in UI work, and still not all that common (like if you want to track its progress, you still got some async state management coding to do). And even then you end up with a function coloring problem. People can try to downplay that, bit it is a giant wart resulting from that approach. I'll take Java's virtual threads combined with their structured concurrency efforts over async/await almost every time.
Shid. I made the mistake of getting my entire family onto my google apps 15+ years ago. Now I am paying for about 8 people every month and this will just make it worse.
What are the chances that he'll double down and also financially profit on this vector instead of accepting critique for the gaping holes in his reasoning? I'm taking bets, any takers?
Are children actually experiencing mental health disorders at a higher rate, or are we just classifying pre-existing variations in personality as behavior as mental health disorders at a higher rate?
The article is crap but there is a known major hurdle scaling from 1-2 people with 1-2m in revenue to 10+ where it have to bring in administrative support people that aren’t being fully utilized that causes large profitability problems. I think the next major hurdle is scaling post about 60 people and then again past 350.

The military has this figured out and they organize accordingly.
No, but she doesn't have to be in this context. She's a very capable critical thinker who knows how to do very thorough research, which is all someone has to be to determine that there is, in fact, no data to support the claims.
I’m sorry that you feel alone and that no one understands. I’m assuming that it’s important for you to find people that do understand, but people don’t always understand especially when someone has unorthodox methods that are likely correct but go against the normal path. This particular issue has frustrated me many times.

I’m speaking for myself of course, but maybe it’s not about accepting the failure itself, but accepting that failure or disappointment is a learning opportunity providing feedback. Failure is a strong term while in reality results are somewhere between success and failure, and recognizing it is not a binary. Usually there are successes and failures in a project with the key observation being what you as an individual can do to improve the environment (e.g. avoiding sociopathic, coworkers, Machiavellian corporate practices, poor work environments, etc). Anyway, I apologize if my attempt to understand is off the mark and wish you luck navigating to an endeavor where you can find more satisfaction.
Yes and no. Embeddings can be used in both directions - if you can find images closest to some entries in a search text, you can also identify tokens or phrases closest in space to any image or cluster of images, and output that. It's a problem long solved in many different ways, including but not limited to e.g.:

https://github.com/pythongosssss/ComfyUI-WD14-Tagger

which uses specific models to generate proper booru tags out of any image you pass to it.

More importantly, I know for sure they have this capability in practice, because if you tap the right way in the right app, when the Moon is in just the right phase, both Samsung Gallery and OneDrive Photos does (or in case of OneDrive, used to):

- Provide occasional completions and suggestions for predefined categories, like "sunset" or "outwear" or "people", etc.;

- Auto-tag photos with some subset of those (OneDrive, which also sometimes records it in metadata), or if you use "edit tag" options, suggest best fitting tags (Samsung);

- Have a semi-random list of "Things" to choose from to categorize your photos, such as "Sunsets", "City", "Outdoors", "Room", etc. Google Photos does that one too.

This shows they do maintain a list of correct and recommended classifications. They just choose to keep it hidden.

With regards to face recognition, it's even worse. There's zero controls and zero information other than occasionally matched (and often mismatched) face under photo properties, that you can sometimes delete.
I have been looking for something credible that can voice over written emails (long form ones), documents and powerpoints locally ...this might be just the thing!
The downloading your data thing is actually part of what is required by law.
this is how chick-fil-a does it
Thanks for sharing the opinion, as many folks I know and here fantasize for public transportation like London instead of driving.

(I'm with you after dealing with San Francisco transit, I actually prefer driving and having my own space and control)
Right, but correlation does not equal causation. Kids are also increasingly aware that they live in a neoliberal hellworld, and their chances of maintaining the lifestyles their parents and grandparents had are slim to none.
I took the pedals off for one of my kids (the others did the training wheels), and it worked quite well.

The only downside was that he figured out that if he got wobbly, he could stick his legs down and a bit out and it would help him stabilize by lowering the center of gravity. That seemed great at the time, but when the pedals were put back on, he would still use this trick when he got wobbly, which isn't a great instinct. Took a bit of time to train that out of him.

But in the end, it was faster than the training wheels, and it's cheaper than buying a specialized balance bike.
Reels is just as bad as you remember, both in content and in presentation (the app is a dumpster fire).