skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
X, such a curious game, the only way to win is not to play
There's a surprising number of extensions like this (see https://github.com/thomasj02/AiFilter, https://unbaited.danielpetho.com/) although it seems most are Chrome-exclusive
Seconds or milliseconds (e.g. if the setting must be integer) would've been fine as they are widely used. Deciseconds, centiseconds - wtf?
I think there is also a lot to say that your speech is hardly free if you are drowning in tons of bot created content regardless of who is generating that content. I feel there is not to many good compromises that can be made it :*(
Not really, the vast majority of extensions just relax unnecessary restrictions. And these days it's easy to just enable GHC2021 or GHC2024 and be happy.
"TikTok CEO attending Trump inauguration" - https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5089151-tiktok-ceo-don...
But is it the Will of the People?
Americans wanted cheaper groceries, gas, … one candidate lied about the ease at which those changes could be made, just like he lies about everything else, and a shocking number of people bought it, again. They were conned by an expert conman with a lifetime’s experience conning.
The flagged thread down below makes me feel very sad about my fellows on this site. Be better people. That’s all I can say.
> Has there been any other behavior like this in the past where a company "shut themselves down" to make a big political statement and then almost immediately undid the shut down?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_Un...
Richard D. Wolff is an American economist and professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is known for his critiques of economic inequality and his advocacy for worker cooperatives as a way to empower individuals and address systemic issues within the economy. Through his books, lectures, and public appearances, Wolff explores topics such as economic democracy and alternative economic models.
> My favourite part of TIFF is what they do about y-ordering.

Windows BMP (DIB) also has the convention that y=0 is at the bottom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP_file_format
In my (strongly held) opinion, the experience is better on BlueSky. Discovery on Mastodon was tedious work for me.
Are lies ideas? In a competition of "ideas", if one side lies, is it still a fair competition, or are they cheating? Should it be a fair competition?
It's understandable in the context of Apple Pay I think.
There are many successful Haskellers without a math background.
I believe there's a fair amount of content on Japanese Mastodon servers that would land me, as an admin in the UK, in extremely hot water[0] if I was letting it be stored on my servers (whether I looked at it or not.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_pornography_laws_in_the_...
I just use ImageMagick. I put the following function in my ~/.bash_aliases:

scat () {
if [ "" != "$1" ]
then
COLS=`tput cols`
if [ "$COLS" -gt "96" ] ; then COLS=96 ; fi
convert "$1" -resize $(( $COLS * 9))x^200 -background white -flatten sixel:-
fi
}
It’s literally pay to play with the new administration which is why it doesn’t feel coherent. He’s being courted by Meta to ban and TikTok to not ban.

The elite have always known the value of media and propaganda. TikTok could easily sway electorate decision making in the same way as Meta, X, and YouTube. The US oligarchs have no control over a sizable social media platform. The data security and privacy concerns are theater. The very same logic we use for TikTok applies to our own apps and social media. The only distinction is the false premise they have our interests in mind.

Are congressmen this incompetent? Yes. Are they bought by adversaries? Yes. Are they just humans who are as equally manipulated as you? Yes.

Did Trump get more money? Yes. Plan success.
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I don’t believe X or Meta or any other large platforms should have free rein to enable foreign influence with falsehoods and misleading attribution like they do. A ban may not be appropriate, but it’s outrageous that X and Facebook are effectively used by foreign powers to pinpoint target propaganda to individuals to sway elections. This is unprecedented and must be responded to.
Ok, maybe it works now just by CC. Glad that's sorted.

AMD is tone deaf unfortunately, but I liked your reply on X.
Exactly. We could have had a discussion about whether a executive order can override house of representatives had such order be issued by Trump post inauguration yet overriding it prior to that should be the bigger deal here.
If you have the people to build something like this, could well be. If you're a smaller shop without any real experts, the structure enforced by ROS will prevent a lot of chaos and debugging.
Go post your useless unsubstantive comments on Reddit. HN is not the place for you.
If that doesn't respond, https://archive.is/alzTA
Philosophy eats AI because we're in the exploration phase of the s-curve and there's a whole bunch of VC money pumping into the space. When we switch to an extraction regime, we can expect a lot of these conversations to evaporate and replaced with, "what makes us the most money" regardless of philosophic implication.
I actually went back to it after the gitea pivot and was surprised that it actually performed way better on my rpi.

But ymmv, I'm sure it's mostly because of how resource constrained it is.

It does what I want is completely FOSS and low maintenance. Perfect for my home setup, but different people will have different preferences
We do have laws around elections like the equal time rule. Should we remove that too?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule
Not sure, but I do personally know two high profile Ruby developers who regularly race in the LMP2 (Le Mans Prototype 2) class - DHH and my fellow GitHub cofounder PJ Hyett, who is now a professional driver, owning and racing for AO (https://aoracing.com/).

I mostly say this because I find it somewhat fun that they have raced _each other_ at Le Mans last year, but also because I've personally seen both of them type Git commands, so I know it's true.
Love seeing the Xiamen City Metro card! Would recognize the scenery from anywhere
I sometimes have this realization as I'm pressing enter and reflexively press ctrl+c. As someone whose typing speeds range from 100 to 160 WPM, this makes sense. Pressing keys is much different from Formula One pit stops.
It reads like the intention was that turning the parameter (0/1) command into an integer parameter, where the previous value enabled = 1 should behave reasonably close to the old behaviour. 1 deciseconds is arguably close enough to instant. If the parameter were measured in seconds, the command would always have to wait a whole second before executing, with no room for smaller delays.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
I think it's the 'bought shares', then voted to ban a competitor that may be the issue.
No, they set up a framework where any other such case can be easily included in the ban. The executive order doesn't even name TikTok, except when referring to now-revoked previous things it revoked.

> (d) The Secretary of Commerce shall evaluate on a continuing basis trans-
actions involving connected software applications that may pose an undue
risk of sabotage or subversion of the design, integrity, manufacturing, produc-
tion, distribution, installation, operation, or maintenance of information and
communications technology or services in the United States; pose an undue
risk of catastrophic effects on the security or resiliency of the critical infra-
structure or digital economy of the United States; or otherwise pose an
unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States or the security
and safety of United States persons. Based on the evaluation, the Secretary
of Commerce shall take appropriate action in accordance with Executive
Order 13873 and its implementing regulations.
Mostly it’s way too full of itself. “Here’s how to think to be less wrong” (to borrow the name of one of the main sites) gives way to “since we know how to think, we’re smarter than everyone else.” Techniques like Bayesian inference get used to put a mathematical veneer on total guesswork or rationalize what the person wants to do anyway.

Take longtermism, for example. This is a segment of the rationalist community that focuses on doing the most good for humanity in the very long term. The basic idea goes: if humanity is able to get off this planet and go colonize the galaxy, there are untold quintillions of additional lives that would be lived. But that future is uncertain. Something that increases the chances of it happening by 0.1% would have an expected value of saving quadrillions of lives. If you can increase these chances by one in a trillion, that’s worth orders of magnitude more than saving a child’s life right now.

This is sound thinking so far. A fun little thought experiment. The problem is that you can’t rigorously apply it practically. Predicting the future of humanity is hard and probabilities assigned to various events aren’t rigorous. In practice, this mindset either leads to fairly obvious conclusions like that it’s important to fight climate change, or it’s off the wall stuff like being obsessed with AI safety. And the veneer of math produces an attitude that anyone who disagrees is not only wrong, but provably wrong in a mathematical fashion, which doesn’t tend to endear.
> Yes, if a govt has a “we must only spend money on pure open source products” policy then they won’t buy Synapse Pro.

I imagine anything else would be quite irresponsible in a geopolitical climate where sanctions could pull the rug out on critical communications infrastructure.

eg: https://element.io/blog/senators-implore-department-of-defen...

If Matrix is just "yet another service (SaaS)" competing with Slack, MS Teams and the like it becomes a much less compelling argument for public infrastructure. You better have a product that is so much superior in functionality that it is worth the switching cost for customers.
You and I have a math part of our brain that appreciate the elegance from the algebraic structure.

I’m saying that thing you did where you start representing concepts by letters which can be populated by concrete objects is not a skill most people have.
If it doesn't have a trackpoint, it's not a Thinkpad, imho.
And there is always a Hasbara drone who lies, deflects, and conflates Israel with Jewry so they can insinuate that any criticism of Israel == antisemitism.
Allowed or encouraged?

This is the problem.

We can't be certain that a foreign actor couldn't destabilize our faith in our government by pushing pro-palestinian content.

A small push on a platform can snowball since creators take the stances that don't get them cancelled or want to mimic the popular opinion
when the state if the nation is so bad that you have homeless everywhere, healthcare, housing and education are something you have to fight for, prisons are a business, suddenly another perspective seems more alluring, a modern Nordic socialism? putting a brake to unhinged late stage capitalism? or on the darker side, a promise of better conditions in 'some ways'...this is no national security risk, people are getting simply fed up with appalling state of the nation.
This applies to TikTok. We can’t be tolerant of any social media that disallows specific words or groups.
They literally won't even send us a t-shirt.
I would argue HN is not the place for you.

> And the fact that there is actual debate and discussion around this issue on HN is just such a shocker.

Thats what makes HN special, the community questions, discusses and debates. It doesnt just jump to an emotional response as it seems like you have done. If you cant engage in a debate or discussion around something you dont agree with, the HN is not the place to be.
Heck. I've been wondering what to do with the WorkSlate in my closet.
This is a common trope, and given that they don't speak about these things publicly people will take whatever negative opinion they think up and consider them completely valid.

I'm aware of this myself, because I work in games, and sometimes we literally can't comment on things; which leads to the speculation being very often the absolute most negative possible interpretation of what is happening, and completely invalid.

To take another more obvious example; imagine OpenBSD was, well, not open. Yet they didn't support Bluetooth. (they don't).

From and outside perspective, is this: because they don't consider it open source? Because they're not capable? Because they hate bluetooth headphones or interfacing with audio devices? Is it due to security- maybe related to file sharing or something... it could be privacy.

And if we thought they were just pure-through-and-through bastards, we'd think up more.

There's another perspective, ironically that covers your point as well as OpenBSD's lack of bluetooth support:

What if; it's actually much harder than we realise to make it easy to use and secure?

It's totally possible that a standardised format has only hacky, rushed and dangerous implementations. It's not uncommon at all, actually.
The TikTok ban is worse for national security. It's trading in an imagined threat for a real threat. Though Xiaohongshu is having a cute little cultural exchange between Chinese people and Americans, there's so much more Chinese propaganda on that platform. I got recommended a few videos talking about Chinese/American wargames and how Americans were done for due to ultrasonic missiles and naval capabilities. You never see anything like that on TikTok. And the only reason Americans are exploring that platform is because of the TikTok ban.
Yes. I also realize that a democratic system allows for making decisions that do not align with such a system, and can in fact destroy such a system from within.

Is this not what we have all been saying about Trump? Or are you saying that is OK because his moves have been made within the framework of a democratic system?
We had this debate internally at GitButler. Deci versus deca (and now deka, which appears to also be a legit spelling). My assumption was that 1 full second may have felt too long, but who really knows.
Are the students who failed the pointer class the same ones in the fmap class?

I didn’t say “using map” I said understanding the type signature. For example, after introducing map can you write its type signature? That’s abstract reasoning.

Pointers are a problem in Haskell too. They exist in any random access memory system.
> Oracle influenced / bought academia into teaching Java for a generation

I think you probably mean Sun? Or maybe that Oracle continued what Sun started.
If I were the CCP this is perhaps the cleverest talking point I could have possibly come up with, propping up TikTok while simultaneously condemning democracy.

But to substantively respond: NO. This is exceptionally naive. Democracy assumes shared fates and aligned incentives among (both voting and communicating) participants. A foreign adversary mainlining their interests into half the population of the US absolutely violates this assumption.
Hopefully the cassette drive still works. That would be a rare bird - the three I have, even one minimally used one with the film still on the LCD, the tape drive is already dead. It seems to be a mechanical problem, not (just?) caps.
Isn't Le Mans more of a "endurance" race though, especially compared to F1? It would be interesting to see the difference in reaction ability between racers from the two, I could see it being different.
Did he not start this entire process during his own presidency? It’s spectacle for the masses and real tv scripts being played out in the White House.
> Which they can do anyway if they have root access to the CA.

Until you turn it off. If they exfiltrate the keys, it's more complicated.

This goes back to your comment:

> Creates a two-tier PKI... on the same device. This completely defeats the purpose so you can't revoke anything in case of key compromise

But the root key is just created; it doesn't stay on the device and can't be used to sign anything.

> What actual problem does this solve or realistic threat does this prevent?

The problem is exfiltrating the key without physical access. Whether or not that's "realistic" enough to matter isn't a question that can be answered generally.

> Hard to say if those extra 9's need an external RNG for extra entropy.

IMO it's not. In the author's words: Optional, but fire
You'd normally be right. But the US did just have the richest man in the world setup a lottery to buy votes, and walked it back to "oh it was rigged anyway" when called out on it. Any lawsuits is pennies compared to the results.

It was subtle before with stuff like Gerrymandering that the layman would never notice. But it's so blatant now that the democratic process is compromised.
Qhat you doesn't make much sense, starting with your claim Plato was sentenced to death by Athenian democracy, which there is no evidence of that I know of.
My personal opinion? It's not significantly different. Or maybe it is, but, at least, I don't see a need (and a meaningful way) to develop a scale of maliciousness.

Malicious agents have no nationality, race or some single origin. All they share is the mindset and some values, willing to abuse the system for personal gains or flawed misbeliefs (for a lack of better word - beliefs that are known to contradict our collective scientific understanding of the world).
Trump-backed memecoin value tops $13B
This sounds like an emotional appeal rather than anything based on science and fact.
I miss Phabricator. Whilst it was certainly overkill for personal use, the additional applications meant I could do so much in one place and have everything integrated. Funny how what we have now, including GitHub feels a step back.
I'm confused on the premise that AI is eating software. What does that even mean and what does it look like? AI is software, no?
Wait till the H1B come to drive your wage down.
The previous commented made an on-target point about how polls can often be manipulated to produce contrived results. I've seen plenty of cases that corroborate this: differently constructed polls showing wildly different breakdowns of opinion on the same issues among the same population, surveys full of obviously leading and loaded questions, etc.

So given all of that, I think the burden of proof is properly the other way around. Why do you think this particular poll is reliable?
Their method relies only on Strontium, not on old documents. The omission is deliberate.
If it was solely data collection the CCP (and anyone else for that matter) would simply buy data from random data brokers. It is much easier, cheaper and legal too.
This makes me write better code. I use it daily.
I remember around that time saying "ahh, i get it. Twitter is RSS for normal people. The size limits mean it is unsuitable for discussion, but it's perfect for a headline plus link. Combine that with enough size to be a status update a la old style Facebook."

Obviously I was very wrong, but I wish i wasn't.
TikTok users posting cat videos do not threaten UK national security, minister
That angle would work if there wasn't so much disagreement about what constitutes lies. After the last few years, I am definitely not interested in having government actors decide for me what amounts to the truth. Personally, I suppose I much prefer a competition of ideas -- and the ability to decide for myself.
Start by not asking dumb questions.
> ...when the Athenian Democracy voted to condemn Plato to death.

That was Socrates, not Plato.

Socrates was allowed to choose his own punishment too, so he wasn't exactly condemned to death right away. He also had the opportunity to escape prison. He chose not to.
They still don't sell a proprietary version of their software.

CentOS started as a fork, and new forks exist now.
I agree that 'prompt' should be the value to set if you want git autocorrect to work for you. I'd however want that the Y is the default rather than the N, so that a user can just press enter once they've confirmed it.

In any case it is not a good idea to have a CLI command happen without your approval, even if the intention was really obvious.
I'm hearing social media limits described like a prisoner's dilemma: it only is good parenting if both defect. If your parents don't give you tiktok because it's healthier but most of the class does, you'll have a much harder time being part of the group. I got to be part of many things in different schools by being on MSN (~2012), Facebook groups (~2014, even met my life partner there due to being in the same interest group), and WhatsApp (2018). I don't use formerly-known-as-Facebook products anymore today and MSN doesn't even exist now, but in a social group you don't have a fully individual choice of platform

I agree that current evidence points towards the best parenting being where nobody lets their 12-year-old on Tiktok, but there's more to it than simply not letting them no matter the circumstances
Exactly. When’s the last time you’ve seen normal petunias being invasive.

Firefly petunias need a lot of light. The entire plant (roots too) are literally burning precious energy 24/7 for the glowing. There seems to be a direct correlation between the light they receive and how long the internodes are from what I’ve seen putting them under grow lights. More light, shorter internodes.

Here in the Pacific Northwest various worm (caterpillar) larvae also love shredding them and eating through seed pods, and they are susceptible to downy mildew complexes which seem to become persistent within the plant.

They also are finicky about warmth, water and fertilizer.

They are a princess of a plant, not the next kochia or pigweed.

Honestly it would be more viable to take invasive weeds and hamper them by introducing glow genes.
Haskell is superb at handling persistent mutable state. The only problem is that you may have analysis paralysis from choosing between all the choices (many of them excellent).
I think that’s a bad metaphor, though I don’t particularly know what you’re trying to say.
I'm curious if the startup time, plus the overhead of Git trying to figure out what you might have meant is significant enough to give you enough time to realize and hit ctrl+c. In testing it quickly, it looks like typing the wrong command and having it spit out the possible matches without running it takes 0.01-0.03s, so I would venture to guess that it's still not enough time between hitting enter and then immediately hitting ctrl-c, but maybe you're very very fast?
>Also, the law that tramples free speech

I'm not sure how so many people misunderstand the difference between "free speech" and "app controlled by hostile foreign government".

The people speaking on TikTok have not lost their right to free speech, they still are free to use a multitude of other channels that amplify their speech. No speech was blocked, only the app controlled by a hostile foreign government was blocked, and there are no provisions in a any legal framework that says we can't stop a hostile foreign government from controlling what people in this country see.
> Democrats decided they did not like the results of the “anyone can talk to anyone” social media revolution.

Wasn't it Republicans that initiated what would eventually lead to the ban of TikTok? Maybe I remember incorrectly.

> How can we make everyone better off

Wasn't it a really long time ago that was the goal in the US? It seems capitalism leads to a very different goal than "redistribute so everyone is better off"
The one condemned to death was Socrates. Kind of weird for that to be the detail you get wrong…
I just don’t get how free speech translates as accessibility to post on a commercial platform.
"a mob subject to manipulation by propaganda"

Yes, that is correct.
That makes no sense in this context. What's the situation you're imagining where they wanted to use C but something else prevented them so they made up an excuse to call C bad?

You know sometimes people just dislike things, right?