skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So like, if a couple has less than 3 kids, they’re awful people and shouldn’t be around?

Wow, what a strawman. No, that's not what he said.

What I will say, though, is if a "couple" has no kids (and does not plan to), they aren't contributing to continuing society and should not receive tax or other marriage benefits.

That's not a punishment, it's treating them the same as everyone else because they have the same burdens as anyone else (and can already take advantage of pooling resources for their earthly pleasure without society bankrolling it). Tax and other financial structure benefits for married couples were meant to encourage and support the raising of families (continuing society), and between several different (and individually well-meaning) social movements, we've lost the plot over the last half-century. Marriage has turned into "best friends with benefits +," which, again, is fine for people to choose if they want to see it that way, but does not deserve any subsidies.
I hesitate to dive into this because I'm really not interested in arguing the nuances of RFK with people on the internet (not you, others). RFK Jr. has a long history of controversial statements regarding COVID, COVID vaccines and being anti-vaccine, or vaccine-skeptical as his supporters like to frame him.

For me, one of his most controversial statements in recent memory had to be during a press conference he gave in 2023 when he stated that COVID might have been "ethnically targeted" to "attack Caucasians and Black people" and that "the people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese."

He tried to defend the statement by citing scientific studies, which is a habit of his that his supporters admire about him. However, actual experts in the field pointed out that his interpretation of the studies was flawed and there was no credible evidence to support the idea that COVID was engineered or had evolved to target or spare certain groups.

Sources:

1. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robert-f-kennedy-jr-false-claim...

2. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/jul/19/robert-f-k...

3. https://nypost.com/2024/11/15/media/jake-tapper-rips-rfk-jr-...
Unless you sell that crap.

Things like Veggie Libel Laws are very much against the public interest but farm owners have managed to somehow be both rich and adored by the populace so here we are
Weren't there a bunch of discussions about what happened in other years, or is it all 1971's fault?
By killing all the humans? Or by setting up nice enclaves for the owners and keeping the rest of in squalor with a swarm of murderbots?
If you liked Blazor (and it's interesting to hear perspective of someone "outside" the .NET bubble), is there a reason to prefer Python and Django?
I have sold plenty things on there and none of them were stolen. I buy broken vintage electronics (60s, 70s, 80s) for cheap and resale them after I fix them. It's not a lot of money but it's a way to pass the time on a boring evening.
We certainly _do_ want this. I think the fact that we let a foreign company own a social media platform in the first place is preposterous. As others have said, we would never let the CCP own a TV broadcast, why should we let china own a major social media platform? That's just absurd.
> There are few reasons spaceX will not reach moon

They literally launched two private moon landers last week.
Kommersant is a way better source than the Russian government anyway.
It applies to only to rsync and to not the (Open)BSD rewrite openrsync. openrsync intentionally doesn't reimplement all features so it's not always a drop in replacement.
We can handle multiple changes in the same PR thanks to our graph, a digital twin of your infra. We will query each changes separately, so it can support Terraform files. But you're right on one point : if multiple PR are open, we don't have a chronological way to treat them (to take into account the first PR and its impact and based on that do the analysis on the second PR etc..).
You should report that to them. Their CTO multiple times said this in HN.
Little red book means something different in 1970s China. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotations_from_Chairman_Mao_T...

People are trying to do away with that association, but it still boggles my mind why the app is called LRB in the first place.
Leaving out stock compensation in a non-gaap perspective would show they are close. Granted compensation is a real cost to value of shares, It's not as wide a delta as many other companies.

I would suspect they're going the other way and will continue to double down into new areas of services to expand their product line.
As an aside, is there conclusive evidence to say that no aether exists, or are we just saying it doesn't exist because a handful of tests were conducted to match what we thought this aether would behave like and the tests came back negative?
One knob you could change that should radically alter that is zfs_txg_timeout which is how many seconds ZFS will accumulate writes before flushing them out to disk. The default is 5 seconds, but I usually increase mine to 20. When writing a lot of data, it'll get flushed to disk more often, so this timer is only for when you're writing small amounts of data like the test you just described.

> like might happen for some programs that are writing logs fairly continuously

On Linux, I think journald would be aggregating your logs from multiple services so at least you wouldn't be incurring that cost on a per-program basis. On FreeBSD with syslog we're doomed to separate log files.

> over a 10 year span that same program running continuously would result in about 100 TB of writes being done to the drive which is about a quarter of what my SSD is rated for

I sure hope I've upgraded SSDs by the year 2065.
> I really chuckled about how the blog post opens with how great Rusts open-source ecosystem is, and ends with an "anyway, we made our software private and proprietary"

I mean that's been the prevalent attitude for the entire history of open source. Its easy to laugh until someone replaces you.
Well it had happened in the past when they phased out lead from gasoline. Older would run poorly because they were tuned for that particular gasoline type
Even just having a PC hooked up to your TV in the first place is rare. People have locked-down smart TVs or STBs.
Some schools have moved to this model, but it definitely is not a standard. It is also not always popular with the families or students.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2024/12/28/a-north...
there's 2 kinds of bugs related to security: accidental bugs, and maliciously injected bugs. xz was the second time (which you could have avoided if you vendored starting at a reviewed / trusted point in time...)

from empirical studies, we know the first kind occurs at roughly the same rate everywhere, so it's just do you have capacity to fix it. also, reusable dependencies typically are more configurable which leads to more code and more bugs, many of which might not have affected you if you didn't need all the flexibility.

dependency count is an indirect measure of the second kind, except rust pushes crates as the primary metric, so it will always look bad compared to if it pushed something more reasonable like the number of trust domains.
What about people running extended versions of windows 10?

Either way, 80% of the people don't even need 365 desktop apps, unless they're heavy into word/excel. Most would survive with those and/or libreoffice, the only issue is that sometimes things get buggy or icons look different and because of user training, we still recommend 365 premium.
With that said, I have been working for 3rd year like that on linux with very few issues. Now that Outlook users will be forced into the crappier web version, very few use access and it is just about word, excel and powerpoint, it makes even less sense to pay for the desktop apps.
Apple does photo recognition on your device.

Google, on the other hand, uploads photos to their server and does the analysis there.

There is the infamous case of the parents who Google tried to have arrested after they used their Android device to seek medical assistance for their child during lockdown. Their doctor asked them to send images of the problem, and Google called the police and reported the parents for kiddie porn.

> “I knew that these companies were watching and that privacy is not what we would hope it to be,” Mark said. “But I haven’t done anything wrong.”

The police agreed. Google did not.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil...

Google refused to return access to his account even after the police cleared him of wrongdoing.
Here is my simplified take on it which will likely get me flamed.

Trust has many meanings but for this discussion we’ll consider privacy and security. As in, I trust my phone to not do something malicious as a result of outside influence, and I trust it to not leak data that I don’t want other people to know.

Open source software is not inherently more secure nor more private. However it can sometimes be more secure (because more people are helping find bugs, because that specific project prioritizes security, etc.) and is usually more private. Why? Because it (usually) isn’t controlled by a single central entity, which means there is (usually) no incentive to collect user data.

In reality it’s all kind of a mess and means nothing. There’s tons of bugs in open source software, and projects like Audacity prove they sometimes violate user privacy. HN-type people consider open source software more secure and private because you can view the source code yourself, but I guarantee you they have not personally reviewed the source of all the software they use.

If you want to use an open-source Android distro I think you would learn a lot. You don’t need to have a CS degree. However unless you made massive lifestyle changes in addition to changing your phone, I’m not confident it would meaningfully make you more secure or private.
Start of the unix epoch obviously.

I also like the ISO standardization of shipping containers explanation.
To add my "whatever" voice...

My work can afford to do things the Windows way. If I need an expensive tool like Visio, I tell them I need it and it (and the licence for it) appears. Some of our refresh laptops are on Windows 11, I'm still on Windows 10. Some annoyances creep through, e.g. every time you open an Edge window you're presented with a screen full of distracting stuff, even in the work installation.

For home, free tools on Linux are more than adequate. Google Docs, or LibreOffice. For creating things, no problem. No need to perfectly parse two decades' worth of slightly malformed Microsoft Office documents. In fact, the token Windows machine has only been booted up for the following tasks in the past 12 months: Update the maps on an "LM" version Garmin car GPS, and do income taxes.

The stuff Microsoft is doing to their desktop environment looks like a lot like a private equity outfit trying to milk the last bit of "brand value" out of a company that it's pillaging by cutting engineering, switching to cheaper manufacturing but still enjoying "premium brand" cachet for a while.
No, but rebellion definitely has to do with why there is a shift towards Xiaohongshu, which is obviously even more Chinese than TikTok ever was.
But why?
The only hardware limitation that prevents organizations from migrating to Windows 11 is TPM.
Taking concrete professional action in line with and motivated by your personal values is virtue signaling? Is there a correct way you want people to model and yes, signal, the prosocial values that they want to reproduce in the world?
>This comment makes it seem like all this company does is take, which feels unfair to me

Profit isn't far removed from theft, so maybe this shouldn't feel so unfair.
Gotcha, so to borrow a page from your blowing other peoples' arguments out of proportion elsewhere in the thread... your solution to society crumbling is to be an alcoholic by going to the bar and drinking alone. You're right, it's "really fine" after all!
I don't really see your point. Tiktok is a video library. With the exception of private videos, anything hosted on the app can be viewed by anyone. Whether or not the app provides a personalized algorithmic selection of videos does not have any bearing on the more fundamental question of whether American's have the right to access foreign media.
We need to the full information in order to make our own choices. Right now pharma companies hide a lot of the information, including from clinical trials from drugs. All the data should be released and not hidden so that people can make their own choices on what medications they take and if they want to risk taking it, that's fine because they have all the information and they can make their own risk/reward judgement.

Looks like you, me and RFK Jr. are perfectly aligned.
We just launched our cloud solution to deploy any ComfyUI workflow on scalable infrastructure. It works with any node and model.

When you upload your workflow, our system detects all the custom nodes and will install them automatically. It will also download all the models that it recognises. If it can't find a model, because you are using a custom LoRA for example, it will ask for a download link and add it to the deployment.

We have 7 different GPUs available to cover all use cases:
- T4 (16GB VRAM)
- L4 (24GB VRAM)
- A10G (24GB VRAM)
- A100 (40GB VRAM)
- A100-80GB (40GB VRAM)
- L40S (48GB VRAM)
- H100 (80GB VRAM)

We’ve optimised this solution to work with our open-source app builder for Comfy workflows: https://github.com/ViewComfy/ViewComfy. This means that you can turn a workflow into a web app running in the cloud in just a few minutes.

The deployments can also be accessed via APIs that can easily be integrated into existing apps.
Not a chance. Russia has no way to deliver oil in large quantities to China. New pipelines, if they could even build them, would take many, many years.

If renewables was adequate they would not be importing vast amounts of oil.
They have rocks. They have arable land. What exactly does "no natural resources" mean in your view?
very cool release !
Genetics/childhood aspirations/family work to shape status/career/health
Flex Attention – How to Scale Attention Models to a Billion Users?
The title is a clickbait. I don’t actually know how to scale attention to serve billion users, but I feel Flex Attention is a great step in this direction.
This is the camp I'm in. I've given AI the "college try", I've tried using in my workflows, and I've found that there are some cases where it genuinely has helped. But there is far too much drivel and hype.

I want to hear more from the people who've embraced it for a year, found it's pitfalls and perks, and reflect on it. I'm tired of the treadmill of content from someone who signed up for OpenAI on a Monday, used it for a JIRA ticket on Tuesday, then rushed to belt out a blogpost about how their career is forever changed on Wednesday.
Working the backhoe requires more skill than shoveling and can command a higher wage. You want to more carefully vet and care for the person driving your expensive equipment. Also you had an engineer to design the backhoe and factory workers to assemble it who are getting paid during this process. It's possible that the net wage per hole dug goes up as a result.
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> 99% of the imported products from China are not getting blocked

because it's impossible.

the US offloaded low-added-value manufacturing to China, exchanging paper dollars for cheap industrial goods. When China tries to upgrade to high-added-value industries, like chips, guess what? National security risks!

just enjoy cheap goods and nature resources from 3rd world...
Given the more permissive license openrsync would be in a pickle if they stole the vulnerable GPL code and claimed to redistribute it under BSD license instead of reimplementing the protocol.
Because public school system sucks, invites abuse from both other children and the teachers and is designed for the lowest common denominator.

It's not rocket science that parents who have means to give their kids something better do so.

It's like asking why rich people eat better food, do sports, go to better schools and are healthier: it's because they can afford a better services.
Loss leaders are like that.
> losers who see life as a dead end

Sorry to have to break it to you but dead is the end.
Having used HTMX and Unpoly with Django, for over 2 years now, I prefer using Unpoly more these days.

Unpoly feels just like Django, it is a more of a framework than a thin layer, but that means it comes with a lot of productive features built-in, albeit opinionated.

It covers 95% of the use-cases of a typical web app, with its layers and forms concepts. E.g. I love creating "subinteractions" with unpoly, where a complex process can be divided into smaller modal forms for creating the "related" objects of a model, which then updates the main form of the model itself. Unpoly makes these simple, and its documentation caters for exactly these scenarios.
hey one of the creators of the library here! would love to hear your feedback on our library :)
At some point our understanding of fundamental reality will be limited not by how much the physicists have uncovered but by how many years of university it would take to explain it. In the end each of us only has one lifetime.
I don't understand the second sentence. As someone developing web apps for over 20 years, components ARE the better code organization.
Never could get this to work sadly, it was always overloaded.
Must be why the U.S. has been closing so many of them.
I'm fairly excited about this.

I took the FAA training courses and only fly a < 250g DJI drone but the current geofencing restrictions end up being far stricter than the FAA rules and greatly restrict or almost eliminate being able to fly anywhere near where I live.

I also had extremely bad luck with going through the unlock process in a lot of areas where DJI required an unlock but the FAA did not. If the unlock process fails you are not flying even in an area where the FAA is fine with you flying.

In my case there are a lot of use cases I like that would have me flying at no higher than 50-75 feet and I create basically no risk to aviation but right now I'm completely locked out. E.x flying at 25 feet to take a picture of a car or someone on a skateboard ramp or riding a mountain bike.

I've looked at the US manufactured alternatives.. they have none of the DJI restrictions.. but they accomplish making sure users are responsible by charging 10x more for the drone and not even offering small drones. There is no way I'm buying a $5,000-10,000 drone for hobby use.
The straw that broke the camel's back for me was with Outlook. They replaced the regular desktop Outlook app with "New Outlook", which is just a wrapper around Outlook.com, which is horrible and slow and buggy and even shows ads to the user. I guess they think it's a waste of money to develop a proper mail client app.
Ah, but it does, if you just understand a single thing about economic indicators. Context matters. We could rehash every minor news story into a longform essay or we could use what we already know to interpret what's being presented here.
The bar seems to be much lower than getting a peer reviewed paper published at a reputable outlet

This particular paper is not peer reviewed or published beyond a preprint on arxiv
I guess you are answering to the "you also get friends" part of my comment.

What you suffered was horrifying, I hope you have recovered. There's degrees in bullying. Mine was not that bad in comparison to yours. The kid who was a bane of my existence would not attack me every single day, at every single hour. I was not important enough or "fun enough to mess with", I suppose. It was more like a "once per week" kind of thing.

I was not very successful at making friends. But I did make a couple. The first one was the other guy who was also regularly bullied. He had clear developmental issues, I don't think teachers could turn a blind eye on them like they could on mine. We talked about videogames, almost exclusively. It helped, somewhat. Then he (I think) became romantically interested in me and I had to cut it off.

Then there was another kid who regularly came to my house. We played with legos, which I had many. Then he stopped liking Legos. (Children...)

My school did give me many more opportunities to make friends. Retrospectively, I know I could have made more. I just didn't know how to. In my case it would be "the same deficits that cause you to get bullied also cause you to not get friends". I only managed to make real friends in highschool (and even then it was just 2 or 3). And that was after I decided to make a conscious effort to understand the social rules that seemed to come naturally to others.

I think my problem was more a "me" issue. The bullying didn't help but I suspect I would have made very few friends independently of it.

> Just being in a safe environment is a basic human right.

I do agree. Unfortunately many children's homes are not safe environments. Homeschooling for them is worse than bullying can ever be at school. Imagine 24-7 with your bully, who is way bigger than you and from whom you also depend for food, water and shelter.
A lot of adults have the same experience. They are perpetually persecuted.
I think that there's a reasonably good chance that if school were like that by default, I probably would have done better. It's hard to juggle six classes at a time like you're expected to in American high schools.

If I had a magic wand and could make the education system however I'd like, I'd make it so every student spends the exact same amount of time on the subject, but I'd make it so you only ever manage a single class at once, instead of trying to interleave everything.

This isn't even that weird of a concept, even in the US; American summer schools will often do exactly this. Instead of doing an hour per day over the course of 180 days, you do roughly thirty six-hour days. That's how I took gym in high school, and how I retook calculus (even though I passed the AP exam first-try).
> it's entirely unreasonable to fear the Chinese government more than the US government

Sure, individually. If you think about more than yourself, you should recognise a collective threat that requires a modicum of sacrifice to protect against.
My kids in HS and their friends all downloaded “Red Note” this week. I said “what about Reels?” — “That’s for you and mom”.
Didn't something similar happen with Grindr? It was Chinese owned and sold without nearly as much excitement. Given the inevitable bidding war from multiple interested parties I would be surprised if they couldn't get a fair price for TikTok
Ah, that's nice! I guess I don't keep up with their news.
Wtf, their pricing model is almost as bad as the planned obsolescence. $15 a month just to connect your hardware? Ridiculous.
oddly similar to murdle https://murdle.com/
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42678754
If your implication is that the red arrow is just random, are we not looking at the same graphs? I'll grant that it looks to be cherry picking on maybe a couple of the graphs, but clearly appears that something significant and non-random happened in the 1970-1972 period.
We should start a Fundme campaign to help poor Brad!
I wonder how many Android users would actually sideload it. Same happened with Fortnite for a few years, and idk how many people did that.
You're being facetious. The name Xiaohongshu is clearly a reference to Mao's book. And it's incorrectly translated as "Red Note" specifically to avoid the reference, not because it's a "mouthful".

If there was a German app called "My Strawberry" and you found out that the original German name translates to "My Struggle" you'd be very curious as to why the English name is so different and what they're trying to hide.