skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the same thing, one is just the out of box locked down Sony app-store controlled version, and this is the somewhat liberated side loading & build chain. It's some kind of Android layer running atop the base camera.

> It is possible to develop custom Android apps for supported cameras. Keep in mind that they should be compatible with Android 2.3.7.

https://github.com/ma1co/Sony-PMCA-RE?tab=readme-ov-file#wha...

I wish Samsung had had better success with their Android native powered cameras (as opposed to the thin shell Sony grafted atop), had decided to stay around. Cellphones have amazing & fantastic photo apps available, where-as the professional systems baked into cameras emphasizes post-production tools for computational photography. Being able to have app devs everywhere making your digital camera better & more usable should be such an obvious priority.

And the earlier Alpha cameras with their Android based shim they could run kind of got this. Sony did announce a new SDK 3 years ago for some of their highest end cameras, but it's a simpler remote-control only SDK. https://alphauniverse.com/stories/sony-announces-new-camera-...
part D. "The record before us adequately supports the conclusion that Congress would have passed the challenged provisions based on the data collection justification alone"
Do you dispute the persecution of Uyghurs in China? The UN, US Dept. of State, House of Commons in the UK and Canada, Dutch Parliament, French National Assembly, New Zealand, Belgium, and the Czech Republic?

This is not a government to be friends with. It's time we go our separate ways from the CCP.
Cheatsheet for jj's builtin diff editor
It is! I've fully migrated my repos over to `main` at this point so it's rare I have to think about the difference. You could also make an alias to `jj n` or something to make it even easier.
Also, fake news?
The issue is not that people believe that insurance companies are not pricing risk correctly. It's that because there is so little competition in the market, people are aware that insurance companies can charge higher premiums because they operate as an oligopoly.
Most Reddit is just Twitter screenshots. There are few from BlueSky now but that is pretty recent.

But there is also lot of OC rage-bait.
The DOJ isn’t involved in that so no
> it'll kill their dreams.

They can dream new dreams. I didn't become an astronaut—and realized I didn't actually want to become one, either.
We built https://tini.bio a few months ago as an alternative if anyone is interested.
I often hear people bring up the point that wood buildings are a risk for wildfires and brick/concrete would be safer. When I did some research on this topic years ago I concluded that brick/concrete is much less stable in an Earthquake, which is also a concern for LA. Is it possible to build earthquake resistant concrete structures?
Ikr, they’re testing 1 vehicle a month people, I’ve seen software projects tested slower
That doesn't seem like a good idea as a lot of people would try to reduce salt intake due to blood pressure concerns, where the alcohol in this wouldn't be a concern for that as it would likely be cooked off
That's the first time I've seen this story. As harrowing as it is, it describes the sexual abuse of one woman, not rape.
What are these called / do you have a source for that? I never heard of that and a quick Google didn't turn up anything except for changes planned for 2028.
It is not German, but Alemannic.
>Not even in Europe we have such crackdown on freedom

Telegram?
Like I said, the halfway covenant was less than 2 generations after landing, and the character of Puritanism in America was totally different after that point.
Because it has the option for selling

If the option wasnt there, it would have stricter first amendment scrutiny

They could have still banned it other ways though

and the first amendment aspect is also torn apart in other ways in the court ruling
Hopefully the US tech industry is not so schlerotic that they're unable to clone it and offer a competitive alternative. Given TikTok has demonstrated there's a huge amount of money to be made in that space. Although given how awful Google Shorts and Reels' recommendation algorithms are in comparison, maybe there really will be no replacement.
Why is the answer not Japan's approach. My understanding is that because of high incidents of natural disaster they see/build homes as transient and utilitarian rather than as long-lasting investments.
Reminds me of movfuscator [1]. This can compile programs to movs and only movs.

[1] https://github.com/Battelle/movfuscator
Wait is it actually controlled by the CCP? Did they present evidence for policies implemented by TikTok directed by the CCP?

Does divest in this context mean sell it to a non Chinese owner?
This is definitely a gap in current Mermaid functionality. This is a gap we're aiming to close in 2025. Significant Whiteboard improvements and expanded diagram support is on the way! If you have a specific use case or diagram type you'd like us to keep in mind then let me know! dominic@mermaidchart.com

Thanks for your comment:)
Wasn't the idea Trump's in the first place?
YouTube Shorts is terrible. YouTube clearly wanted to have some answer to short-form video but without putting much effort into it.

Instagram Reels is a bit better but it feels very "sanitized" and fake.
> Compiler explorer confirms that, with optimizations enabled, this function is branchless.

Only if you don't consider conditional move instructions branching/cheating :)
Dropbear is the solution for this.
The TikTok CEO will also be sitting in the same row as Zuck, Musk, and Bezos.
Disclaimer: I'm a non-Muslim.

I've been involved in a similar project before that fell through, the issue being if you say something's halal when it's not (what if the certification has expired, falsified or whatever else) then the burden falls on the person who claims that it's halal - even if well intentioned. The issue of checking status is non-trivial.
Thank you so much for this! I think this is informative and relevant.
What is your definition of persecution? Or of Christian, for that matter?

Seven young men who are Jehovah’s Witnesses are imprisoned in Singapore for their conscientious objection to military service. Four of them are serving a second sentence because they refused to change their stance after serving their first prison term. These young men have no legal recourse in Singapore, as the government enforces compulsory military service and does not recognize the right of conscientious objection.

See also: https://www.jw.org/en/news/region/singapore/jehovahs-witness...
One ingredient, oats. https://www.quakeroats.com/products/hot-cereals/old-fashione...

I don’t know for sure but it looks like in the image the oh so simple is a different product line. Seemingly similar to all of Lays chips which come in normal and the healthier line.
NATO is not fighting that war. You're delusional. They are supporting Ukraine without crossing the threshold of actually fighting the war, as bullshit as it sounds.
Can you link it here would be super grateful

It's super interesting to see the custom code in TikTok not in Reels that can enable this not into politics but the algo would be cool to look at
Sometimes yes, but if there's a hardware issue, I may not be able to.

Ex: the first server I had failed and they ended up replacing it with a different server with similar specs, but the drives werem't moved. In this case, the failure was gradual (resetting by itself) and as part of debugging it, I wiped the drives and installed a new OS, but towards the end, the amount of time between resets was very short, and I wouldn't have had a chance to wipe it if I had started later.

Yes, this isn't great service, but it's personal hosting and it's cheap and I get a whole (very old) machine.
South Korea seems to have done fine.
Quite true!
> "project management" as you put it

That is like saying “doctor” as you put it. It’s super cliche for people in software to title themselves as principal or expert or famed ninja grand wizard and yet simultaneously not know how the real world works. Project management is actually a real thing, seriously. It’s not just some imaginary invocation like lawyer or teacher. People actually do that for a job and get paid real money. Unlike software where developers pretend to be qualified against their own imagined baseline there is actually a license/cert from a universally recognized governance body.

This kind of nonsense is why so many developers that don’t have imposter syndrome want out.

If you want to see what real project managers do then peer into construction where they manage billions of dollars in assets with critical timelines that have multimillion liabilities.
What, we expect cashiers to be slow and bad so that's how they act? That's ridiculous. I expect them to scan my groceries at a reasonable pace, put the eggs and bread on top, and read me the total when they're done. I expect their managers to give them heck if they're clearing lines at half the speed as the next cashier over. That's about it.

It's not a shameful or embarrassing job. My sister-in-law made a career out of it. She's happy there, so I'm happy for her. She gets good benefits and decent pay. Just do your job and everyone's happy.
We aren't other state insurance systems, though.

Instead, we have a divided and fractured jigsaw and heavy lobbying to keep it that way.
TikTok cannot be sold because the algorithm cannot be sold under the export control laws enacted by China.
Hello folks, I recently got back into leetcode & have made a leetcode extension to hide problem difficulty. It'd mean the world to me if you could check it out and leave any feedback.
That's a real human super-power. Congrats!
I'm sorry if this sounds offensive or derogatory. But as a Swiss person, I've never heard anyone call it "Alemannic". Whether it be foreigners, Swiss-French speakers or Swiss-German speakers, everyone called it "German".
Possibly one of the most inane phrases ever uttered about modern governments is Oliver Wendell Holmes’s oft-quoted phrase stating that “taxes are what we pay for civilized society.” This reflected the naïve view, often pushed in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, of the so-called “social contract.”

According to this idea, we pay taxes, and in return the state provides order, protection, and all the blessings of civilization.

Presumably included among all those taxpayer-funded civilizational “services” provided by governments one can find “fire suppression.”

But, you wouldn’t know it from watching tens of thousands of residents flee their homes in southern California and Los Angeles County as fires rage. As of Wednesday at midday, five different fires in southern California are still zero-percent contained. Nor is this some hard-to-reach rural area with few roads and little infrastructure. These fires are right in the middle of suburban cities and towns. Yet, it is all apparently too much for lavishly-funded government agencies to handle.

Indeed, government authorities in Los Angeles County and California had neglected infrastructure to the point that it became useless in many areas in terms of battling the blazes.
Japan has seismic activity, tsunamis, typhoons, landslides and flooding. Instead of building bunker houses they see homes as transient and utilitarian rather than as long-lasting investments. Perhaps homes in these high risks areas should be treated similarly.
Here is what Chairman McCaul said: “I was proud to join 352 of my Republican and Democrat colleagues and pass H.R. 7521 today. CCP-controlled TikTok is an enormous threat to U.S. national security and young Americans’ mental health. This past week demonstrated the Chinese Communist Party is capable of mobilizing the platform’s users to a range of dangerous, destabilizing actions. The Senate must pass this bill and send it to the president’s desk immediately.”[1]

The U.S. national security angle identified is "mobilizing the platform’s users to a range of dangerous, destabilizing actions". And give me a break that they actually care about "young Americans’ mental health". This bill was about pro-Palestine content ... "being mobilized by CCP" that was harming "young people's health".

The fact that none of this was put forward by the lawyers makes me think the tiktok lawyers were incompetent. I went through the testimonies given and it was DAMMMMMNNNN weak. Three issues were identified by me: The Bill suddenly declares "non-aligned countries" to be "foreign adversaries" but there is no declared war so how can they be adversaries already; The Bill declares anyone facilitating the company including through the transfer of communication is in violation of the bill but that is a freedom of speech issue which they did not bring up but instead brought the ban as a FoS issue; The Bill labels TikTok and ByteDance as companies to be sold [to an aligned state] or banned entirely but that is the only company being single-handedly called out and I don't know how to say this but that sounds like some form of discrimination and unsubstantiated claim of threat. They could have done a better job at the SCOTUS.

[1] https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/press-release/chairman-mcca...
Marketing people have demanded this on many websites sites I've been involved with. Don't ask me why.
It's always been filled with smug self-important techbro shitlibertarians (edit: with egos more fragile than literal snowflakes). Luckily, what's they've sent around is starting to come back and they reeeeally don't like consequences.
This is awesome stuff, I'm going to look into getting this running my Pis this weekend. How hard would it be to add in custom services? I like to play with decentralized algorithms such as Size Estimation and Clock Synchronization (https://jasonfantl.com/) and have always wanted to get them running on real hardware.
I'm not supporting Hamas or what they did on October 7th. I'm against genocide and the utterly, utterly horrifying actions of the IDF, and against Israeli propaganda that has been used to manufacture consent for a modern day holocaust.

BTW, Israel has killed at least the equivalent of one Palestinian child every 30 minutes since October 7th. That is just mind-boggling evil at an industrial scale.
> Google was eating the lunch of everything in China and the CCP, in response, made it essentially impossible for them to operate.

Google was operating in China until 2010 when they got banned because they stopped censoring search results. Other Western search engines like Bing continue operate in China.
Ahhh fascinating! :) Thank you for the pointer.
We have plenty of national insurance programs, including for both of those... but they're not both free and universal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Flood_Insurance_Progr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_(United_States)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicaid
This is really impressive! Excalidraw does some great work. Did you try Mermaid's integration with Obsidian? What was lacking and what ultimately hooked you on Excalidraw?
Sweden Goes Back to Books and Handwriting
There's no compelling argument or evidence of data collection with TikTok, to my knowledge. Theres more evidence of data collection and aggregation with American platforms than TikTok. Additionally, TikTok is operated independently within the USA and hosted on American servers. I think if there's any opportunity to regulate data collection, TikTok seems to have positioned itself defensively and seems to be distant from being used as an example. The only thing that seems to matter with this ban is that TikTok is mostly owned by a Chinese company.

I'd love to be corrected, but I haven't been provided any evidence or information that suggests this ban was justified at all.
The Palisades Were Waiting to Burn
> And 12 spawning pools is obviously not useful.

I vaguely remember a Husky video where he actually did a "9 pool" with building 9 spawning pools.
That worked, thanks, though I find the speech quality in both options absolutely painful to listen to. The above WASM solution sounds about 100x better...
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42721915
My initial thought about this was that it's using fuel to make electricity, right? Rather than using sunlight/hydro/etc -- kinda like a generator, but without the mechanical aspect?
You can also very trivially do (codepoint | 1).leading_zeros(), then you can also shave one byte off the LEN table. (This doesn't affect the result because LEN[32] == LEN[33] == 1).
Postgres Is Now Top Ten Fastest on Clickbench
I transitioned to being a software engineer after 8 years in investment banking. Some people mention capitalizing on existing skillset and trying to find opportunities on your skills intersection. While this is certainly an attractive strategy, imo this only works if you still love at least some parts of your existing career.

In my case, I absolutely hated investment banking and this career and my Finance degree were wrong choices that I just didn’t want to admit to myself.

I started thinking what I used to enjoy doing before university and I realized that I always loved computers and even programmed a good amount of Visual Basic and Pascal back in days.

As for the transitioning process, I took the radical approach. I first combined learning to code (again) with my job but it was very difficult. So I saved 6 month living expenses, quit my job and locked myself in my apartment for studying. Ran out of funds before getting enough knowledge to land an actual job. Took side hustles from my previous career for about 2 years to continue learning. Eventually managed to land a job paying 25% of my past salary. But once I got into the industry, I grew rather quickly because of how motivated I was compared to my previous career.

The moral of the story is, if you feel like there’s something that is much better suited to your personality, it’s okay to start from scratch. It will be painful for sure, but the pain is temporary compared to a lifelong feeling of being miserable on a wrong path.
The three wides of the Bangladesh Premier League
Ah ok, thanks, that makes sense.

Btw the ChatGPT Web App (haven’t tested with the Desktop App) can find info from local/private sites with the search tool, i assume they browse with a client side function.
I think this is likely, but easily validated -- you'd probably see a couple of clusters or some latent variables, but the raw data would still likely be useful for getting average response characteristics.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42731230
China has blocked US social media for years (decades perhaps?). I don't know if they've explicitly said all the reasons, but "social stability" is a big one.

As an aside, TikTok itself is banned in China.
I tried to find a "Censorship by Youtube" wiki but couldn't find one. Only one documenting the censorship OF youtube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_YouTube.

I don't see a section on their main wiki either, even though YT is pretty notorious for deleting stuff, even political stuff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/press-release/chairman-mcca...

"enormous threat to U.S. national security and young Americans’ mental health ... capable of mobilizing the platform’s users to a range of dangerous, destabilizing actions. The Senate must pass this bill and send it to the president’s desk immediately.”
Cross the US government and see how fast that turns into shadow bans, your loved ones getting tortured, someone else working with your SSN, dummy up and fish, imprisoned algorithmically etc you won't even have to cross them just be guilty by association

No horse in this race as both horses hate and will trample me but just saying lol
So things were far, far worse than I ever imagined. Astonishing!
Multiply those numbers by x1000 times and that's more like it.

It's actually the other way around, the accessible web site can be easily automated by AI.
They are owned and operated by unfriendly actors with no allegiance to the government - they just need to be profitable. If there was a publicly owned and operated alternative I would feel better about that, but for example Facebook has been shown to experiment with their algorithm and increase depression rates in the past. If the argument is that the US should own/operate it then I'm not opposed to that because we could remove the profit incentive, but then meta/snapchat would have to become parts of the government instead of independent companies, and with them already being global I don't see how that would actually be implemented. Right now the proposal is to continue letting them do all the harm and data collection, so the reasoning for the change doesn't match up with the actions being taken.
Thanks @maho! We're hoping to keep the improvements flowing. I'm non-technical but from my perspective I thought Mermaid sequence diagram functionality really shines! Would love to fill the gap in my knowledge. What is better about https://sequencediagram.org/ than Mermaid sequence diagrams?
> RNA has two main functions based on its information-storage property: the replication of RNA using a template of RNA (which was the single form of nucleic acid replication before the existence of DNA) and the synthesis of proteins using RNA as a template.

This heavily simplifies what RNA is capable of doing. When we talk about the ribosome templating rna to make protein, that is true, but the ribosome itself is made out of structural rRNA and some rna bound protein. RNAs have been found to have enzyme activity alone. When people talk about the RNA world hypothesis they mean that RNA is sufficient to be the information and catalytic unit of early life, as a sort of occams razor what is the most simple step with the fewest parts involved before taking more complicated steps with more separate pieces sort of way.

“ the majority of known ribozymes carry out mostly phosphoryl transfer reactions”

Now that sure seems like a potential smoking gun for an early phosphorylation based energy cycle.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10583251/
A lot of artists are still using Twitter as their primary platform, especially in the Japanese community. Pixiv is an alternative, but the form of engagement and exploration is completely different.

What's really needed is better social media tools that allow you to follow specific creators regardless of what platforms they use. There's some ongoing work being done for that with video creators, but I'd love a generalized version for other media.

I also follow artists on alternative sites when they make an account available, but it's clear that for many creators the primary platform where they make big announcements is on Twitter.
https://archive.is/96h2t
"Too addictive" is such a nonsensical way of saying "accurate".

Nicotine being legal but TikTok is not tells you everything you need to know about government wanting to control the "addictiveness" of social media.
Easy to count leading zeroes in a branch-free manner without a hardware instruction using a conditional move and a de Bruijn sequence; see https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/flang/include... .
Someone wrote, "Because it's punk rock" and I think that sums it up. It's an act of rebellion.
And then what? They will be faced with a login prompt. Reading from disks is useless. My login password is strong.
You mean make it a violation to boycott israel
> That neither is a solution to the actual problem is glossed over, because as a society, we've become accustomed to the idea that there is a political solution to all problems.

THIS. I have started thinking a lot about this recently, and this isn't a lot less obvious that it sounds at first. We tend to think that, if we find _some_ consensus to fix a problem, this will be fixed. But many problems emerge now that no consensus, no matter how global, will not fix.

And even that very idea that we are a reasonable species and we will converge to some consensus-based solution isn't actually true.