skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me it's more like a newsstand selling only aliens magazines, bigfoot books and sexy (but not yet porn) magazines.

Every magazin with a title "bigfoot found!" reveals another "mermaids discovered" magazine, and below that a "tony blair is a reptilian, proof inside", and if people want to stay there and consume all the magazines, why not? In the end, there's more quality content there, than on discovery channels (ancient aliens, mermaids, etc.)

not even joking:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11274284/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1643266/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1816585/

...
My question was whether they are allowed to go viral.

Sounds like there's evidence in another thread that they are actively manipulating what goes viral on key current political topics... which seems pretty damning.
I don't know of one. However, Python's socket API is mostly a thin wrapper around the C socket API. Assuming you know Python, it should be easy enough to learn from a tutorial like this one without a Python-specific guide. Note the matching function and constant names:

https://docs.python.org/dev/library/socket.html#socket.socke...
Ask HN: Legal to create a better version of past employer app?
I want to publish an open-source version of an app that I worked on as a side project for the past six years. One of those years, I worked at a small public company that offers a feature of my app as their flagship product.

I'd like to create a wayyyy better implementation of that feature and it is a must for my open-source app.

My feature is implemented in a completely different language, method, and UI. Would I get into any trouble for releasing an open-source version of that feature alonside the main app that I developed?
2600 only has 2 significant digits. It's not an exact number.
Nobody was demanding that it be sold to the US. There are almost 200 countries in the world, and all but 4 of them would have been fine.
That’s their concern? What was the in-game micro transaction revenue during this stint? Fools play games, wise men shill games.
It doesn't matter if it's anonymous. What's important is buying $TRUMP is a tax-free method with plausible deniability to increase Donald Trump's net worth.

Anyone is free to make an "investment," there is no disclosure requirement, and an accusation of bribery (even if one could be made legally against a sitting president, which SCOTUS tells us it cannot) would require a provable quid-pro-quo.
Hacking the Yamaha DX9 to Turn It into a DX7 (2023)
Yes, they too would like to show how totalitarian the "democrats" are. Jokes aside, the buck stops with the guy who signs the bill into law. Too bad the guy signing the bill didn't even understand what he was signing this time due to his profound dementia.
> Do we have precedent in the world of leaders with such large business interests?

Russia?
Corporate customers do pay the bills i suppose.
This is simply more of the same fearmongering we’ve heard before. Not an answer to their question.
Isn't Nature like algorithms at work?
How do you figure? The explicit domain of enforcement is the executive branch, so if the new guy coming in says something akin to "They've made their decision, let them enforce it" that's somewhat by design even if you may not agree with it.

The system was designed with these checks and balances in mind explicitly.
Looks like this is unnecessary. Cygwin in fact uses GetCommandLineW and does its own parsing.

See reply by Corinna Vinschen:

https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2025-January/257074.html
> Takes a lot of good faith to not think the above implies they’re searching twitter while sitting in traffic in a car they’re driving.

Anyone that know's anything about the 401 in Ontario knows that you are not driving on it, but are stopped in a parking lot. :)
Maybe, but my point is that democracy is not even the rule of a mindless mob, more like mob rule theater. Ruling implies receiving information and performing complex actions and giving many and nontrivial orders. From a purely information-theoretical perspective, it requires a lot of entropy flowing from the decision maker to subordinates. On the other hand, national elections collect a tiny pool of entropy from the supposed root source of power and legitimacy, the people. This is not enough to rule a country, by many orders of magnitude. The country is instead ruled by ambitious individuals, who seize power in various ways - connections, backroom deals, backstabbing. Some participate in the election theater.
The Biden administration signed the thing into law. Of course they need to comply. And people are acting as if somehow TikTok decided to self-ban and have now un-banned. No, it's only those with the app already installed that are able to continue to use it. It's still blocked on the app stores, and will presumably stay that way until tomorrow.
What Nintendo's late president Satoru Iwata told me, a long time ago
That indirectness is exactly why it's not. The first amendment ensures you can express what you want, but you're not owed a platform.
There was no deadline, the app stores didn’t need to remove it.

The Biden administration said it would be left to the Trump administration to review, they had no reason to shut it down. It’s purely to force Trumps hand a bit.
Yeah, I can't believe all these people are talking "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press" so literally.

Haven't these people heard of Wickard v. Filburn?
Be it seconds or milliseconds, eventually your program evolves to need tenths or less of that unit and you can either support decimal points, create a new field and deprecate the old one, or do a breaking change that makes the poor SOB that needs to validate a breaking change-bearing upgrade in production before turning it on get a migraine if they have to toggle back and forth more than a couple times. Code isn’t always arranged so that a config change and a build/runtime change can be tucked into a single commit that can be applied or rolled back atomically.

All because someone thought surely nobody would ever want something to happen on a quarter of a second delay/interval, or a 250 microsecond one.
Since planet.kde.org is mentioned, it's super easy to create something similar with a bit of python and a static site generator like Hugo :)

https://invent.kde.org/websites/planet-kde-org/-/blob/master...
Could you potentially see an issue with both countries disconnecting their economies and communication networks? As we do this, I worry a war gets easier to start.
“Design” to me intimates an intentional broad-context plan. This is no design, but an organic offshoot
The slapping device would need to build inertia for you to feel the slap. Is 10ms enough for that?
I'd call it "the way things actually were from 1994 until 2022": https://www.carscoops.com/2021/12/china-will-no-longer-requi...
Well it is named after its author after all.
Are you familiar with Malcolm X's speech about the fox and the wolf?

Given the past four years have seen things like shutting down labor strikes, support foreign wars, expanding arctic drilling at record pace, increased police budgets, erosion of women's rights, erosion of lgbtq rights, and a steady increase in corporate power... I think the difference we'll see is in degree, not in direction.
Kyua graduates: The story behind the FreeBSD and NetBSD testing frameworks
Trump has clearly neutered both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court. Welcome to a unitary government, with one god-emperor and no checks nor balances. It's going to be a wild two (few?) years.
Jeff Yass?
DNS urls are extremely not forever. Ask the likes of wikileaks, pirate bay, libgen, etc. Their domains have been routinely seized and they move to other ones.
Hear, hear.

> this community should know better about how dangerous propaganda is

Bear in mind that a large part of this community is employed by the same companies that built the tools used to spread propaganda and disinformation. It wouldn't be in their interest to disclose that they're part of the problem, so it's easier to ignore that the problem even exists.
The theory is already out there, it’s called Counter-Positioning. Hamilton Helmer in 7 Powers.

It’s a bit more nuanced as Kodak isn’t such a case due to digital photo being commodity.
I'm on the Feedly train boat too since the sinking of Google Reader. Besides the ai bs it doesn't really let you search something in your feeds without a subscription, so once I tried Feedbin.

But I went back because third world issues (and not a fan of microtransactions either) I could not find a way (if any) to change the layout on desktop. I really like the minimal list view at Feedly (and even on mobile too).
I will try to reiterate my initial point since people keep losing track: banning TikTok is a slippery slope that moves us in the direction of China’s GFW, and we can longer claim a moral highground once we do.

As far as this ban goes, there is in fact a less emphasized angle that explains the strong bipartisan support for this ban (related to Gaza): https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2024/05/06/senato...
That reflexivity felt a bit weird the first time I thought about it. I type the incorrect character, but reflexively notice and backspace it without even becoming aware of it until a moment later. I thought it'd be related to seeing an unexpected character appearing on the display, but I do it just as quickly and reflexively with my eyes closed.

That being said, there are obviously cases where you mistype (usually a fat-finger or something, where you don't physically recognise that you've pressed multiple keys) and don't appreciate it until you visually notice it or the application doesn't do what you expected. 100ms to react to an unexpected stimulus like that is obviously not useful.
It’s amazing, really. No matter what, the Dems are always wrong.

Trump is a criminal? The Dems are wrong.
Trump brings up trans issues during elections? The Dems are wrong.
Trump lies constantly? Somehow, the Dems are still wrong.

Let’s be fair: we can only blame the Dems. Because how do you blame a force of nature like Trump? Bring up any substantiative discussion, and you get identity politics and gotchas.

Facts don't matter, because "everyone has their own facts.", even when they dont.

People arent really discussing reality. They're fighting for their teams. But the least thing we can agree, is that the Dems had to have made some mistakes, since they didnt stop it. They didn't win. So the Dems are wrong.

Trump won. So Trump is right. Even if he isnt.

Because we can agree, the dems are wrong.
I was actually thinking of the same exact analogy- of having a monastic order and lay people with varying levels of commitment, but didn't put it in my reply because I couldn't think of a clear way to not overuse the analogy.

Nobody would say the Catholics are a group of lay religious people that also happen for some reason to overlap in membership with another unrelated group that enjoys monastic lifestyles. The monastic lifestyle is a central key part of the religion, even if it isn't what every Catholic chooses to do. It doesn't describe the entirety of the religion either. Both the core group that follow the full lifestyle together in person, and more distant or less involved participants are all together the same movement- with both the Catholics and Rationalists.

Importantly- when one criticizes the actions of Catholic monastics, it is considered relevant as criticism of the entire organization and religion, unlike the bowling example you gave. People do rightfully blame the Catholics for things like the Spanish Inquisition, and for protecting child abusers and rapists in their monastic communities, even if the average lay person had no involvement in these beyond supporting the religion financially and socially.

One could be a Mormon and fundamentally disapprove of bowling, even if a lot of other Mormons do it, but you probably aren't going to make it as a Catholic if you think monastic lifestyles are immoral or harmful. You probably won't make it as a rationalist either if you think things like utilitarian ethics, and nonmonogamy are immoral or harmful.
> Their preference to shut down instead of receiving tens of billions of dollars would be a clear violation of a company’s fiduciary duty to shareholders for any normal company

This is only true if you assume the US is the only market that matters. But TikTok is very much an international phenomenon, and selling would likely harm the company far more than a couple billion. Firstly it would give another company everything they need to run a global competitor to TikTok, including software, infrastructure and userbase. Secondly it might encourage other countries to also force TikTok to sell.

Giving in here would be the beginning of the end of TikTok and could well be argued to be a violation of the company's fiduciary duty to shareholders. It would be the ultimate version of chasing short-term gains by selling the long-term future.
Was a bit dissapointed this wasn't a free model for generating Bob Dylan songs, honestly
> IMHO, the best thing Rust could do right now is more clearly communicate those core limitations, and help build tools that help mitigate those problems.

rust-analyzer is the tool that does this. Having it flag errors in my editor as I write code keeps me from getting too far down the wrong road. The moment I do something Rust thinks is goofy, I get a red underline and I can pause to consider my options at that moment.
https://forms.gle/TxutQuTvafvdW3qi9 I'm doing a closed beta soon. You should sign up. I'll make sure you're added asap! Thanks!
Ask the same question when the person that owns it finally buys the government.
So human society has been collapsing since Roman times?
To release Animal Crossing in the West, Nintendo "had to change everything"
> … offers a useful economics lesson …

> With talk cheap, the only way to find a traitor is to study who is murdered and banished. One way of solving such a game is known as the “perfect Bayesian equilibrium”.

Great, more propaganda to push pseudoscientific neoclassical economics and neoliberalism policies.

What a load of horse shit. It’s a game. Nothing more. Nothing less. No economic lesson here.

Economist is nothing more than a neoclassical, “trickle down economics” propaganda machine.
Even modest makeup can thwart facial recognition
trading crypto isnt tax free if it isnt in tax deferred or tax exempt entity

and when transferred in a way that would otherwise require a disclosure to a politician or campaign, the crypto asset and transaction would also require a disclosure

if there are other benefits that the crypto world is superior at, then thanks for describing a use case and value proposition relevant on a geopolitical scale to the largest nations on the planet. a lot of people here cant imagine any because they arent the target audience
Yeah, worse, the CCP runs a neoauthoritarian state built in the exact same vein of Project 2025, only with "chinese characteristics".
I think the criticism is that China can buy a seat at our table through flattery, and likely other favours , but we can’t? So we’re potentially corrupted / compromised, and they aren’t.
Are you just realizing just now you are a Republican after all? Are you like : oh shit Zuckerberg too, maybe I’m the one who’s wrong?

Joke aside, yes engineers are condescending a-hole. I think the most effective way to avoid that is to meet people who are really a lot smarter than you are.

For me it was easy, cause my brother is one of them. I think I am smart but he’s a whole other level. Sometimes I come up with an idea and work on it for 6 months, and when I talk to my brother about it, it’s like he’s 3 sentences ahead of me all the time. And it’s not rare that I make sense of what he tells me 6 hours after talking to him. So weird. No wonder he skipped 2 years when he was 6, and then proceeded to get into the best schools in the world with super high grades all the time.

I met a few other people like that in my career. This was truly humbling, and I don’t mean the fake “humbling” term startup people throw around, I mean humbling like you feel really close to the ground. Like “oh ok, I’ll just shut up now”
Berlusconi (Italy) and Thaksin (Thailand) are the most prominent examples. A few other billionaires have served as heads of government, but at least some of them tried to avoid conflicts of interest.
Good for calling them out, in this economy there's absolutely no way you're taking people from zero technology to 200k job offers in 3 months. Even during 2020 that would have been a very rare exceptional case.

Knowing how income share agreements work, it wouldn't surprise me if you had a 200k salary on paper, but 45% of it was taken to repay lambda School
> law has a provision permitting the President to grant 90 day exceptions

“A 1-time extension of not more than 90 days,” § 2(A)(3) [1].

[1] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-17758/pdf/COMPS-17...
Really enjoyable read
> Secondly it might encourage other countries to also force TikTok to sell.

Wouldn't that be a no-op if they already did so?
Tiktok definitely isn't press and algorithm-powered social media feeds can hardly be considered free speech. It's not even speech - it's broadcast! We've regulated broadcast since its' inception.
Word is Musk is offering to buy a controlling stake as well. The whole thing is a racket though: ByteDance is already 60% owned by global institutional investors, including firms such as Blackrock, Susquehanna International Group, Carlyle Group, and General Atlantic. Another 20% are owned by employees, and another 20% by co-founders. Given this, I'm not sure how ByteDance could "sell TikTok" to an US investor - they don't own 50% of it themselves.
It's worth remembering that Orwell was a socialist, a leftist, and was anti authoritarian not anti communist. (Which isn't opposed to your comment, the Soviet Union was authoritarian.)

It just gets brought up so often that because he was anti Soviet, he must be anti communist, which wasn't the case.
How about this? https://realpython.com/python-sockets/

Seems to cover all the basics...

Typically,

1) you just understand the workflow of your socket server and client

2) you then decide between TCP and UDP - and even if you want to work at higher layers like http or rpc - for the application you want to code

3) start coding with the boiler plate code for something like echo server and client.
Celebrity jeopardy has an everyman protagonist beset by affectation from all sides. Bowen tries to be the protagonist and above it at the same time (in a nice way, but he still tries).
> if the new guy coming in says something akin to "They've made their decision, let them enforce it" that's somewhat by design even if you may not agree with it

It’s absolutely not. Which is why non-enforcement doesn’t release liability; if you break a law that the President declines to enforce, people can sue the government to force enforcement today and the next President can enforce tomorrow.
Automatic Server Reloading in Rust on Change: What Is Listenfd/Systemfd?
It's not about the algorithmic feed, it's about allowing your #1 adversarial state to have control over that algorithms parameters. They don't let Twitter, Google, or Meta operate in China.
If you used to assemble at a public park, and the city closes the park entirely to turn it into something else, does that violate your right to assemble too?
Why is it a huge difference? If you want absolute free speech places like 4chan will offer far more freedom than even TikTok ever would.
Of course you are allowed to criticize it, but at least criticize it for what it's trying to do, not based on some criteria that you just made up? Do you criticize water for not being dry?
Yes. I know WGET and CURL are a thing. I should have mentioned I was talking about requesting and rendering (mostly) HTML+CSS via a web browser, not the command line. And even when I use the command line, I more often use `lynx -dump` than `w3c`.
The author questions whether anyone is using the modern web formats. As I see it, nobody should be using these formats, they should just be served by content delivery networks when JPG and PNG images are requested. The idea being that graphic artists and programmers work in JPG and PNG and the browser request these image formats to actually get webp, AVIF or whatever is the latest thing.

Now, if you do right click, save image, it should then make another request with a different header that says webp, AVIF or whatever is not accepted, for the original JPG in high resolution with minimal compression to be downloaded.
I used to believe this vehemently. It has become clear that that’s a notion from a bygone age.

The internet has created a global town square where the loudest voices are the ones that catch people’s attention, regardless of the veracity of their claims. There is no truth any more, only the cult of personality.

Tomorrow the US installs a racist, rapist, treasonous kleptocrat as president because the majority of people are unable to think objectively and swallow his promises at face value, despite every indication that life will be immeasurably worse if you’re not a billionaire oligarch.
That's a particularly uncharitable take.

If we assume good intent, what OP was getting at is that we had that form of governance, it failed, we then slowly marched towards democracy, and now it looks like a backslide.
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Finally, I can claim the dog ate my merge request, when being asked what's taking so long?
Jacob Barber worked 30 years for USINT. Quite the specimen I must say.
This way you don't need to trust them with access to your phone.
Thank you, some time in the near future I will convert Taim to be also 100% offline for individual users (Account info is currently on the cloud).
I wish I'd have had either of those. C++ was the fad when I was going through, so freshmen learning how to write linked lists got a fast introduction to (and a hatred of) the STL.
Yeah, I saw that ad too. It reminded me of Unbounded Solutions/BrighterBrain/EnhanceIT. They would fly you out to Atlanta, train you in a "free" intensive course for a few weeks, then make you sign a 2-year contract of indentured servitude, or be charged tuition for your "free" training (which they assess at $20,000 or more). You also are given a fake CV which you have to promote as your own per contractual obligation, and someone in India will take interview calls posing as you.

I didn't even scroll to the bottom, I was like okay, what's the catch here? Good find. It's clear that they're doing the same shenanigans as Unbounded to escape their own shitty reputation.
Yep! Thanks for finding the source. I was on my phone, couldn't get the actual text.
To ponder whether there's any value in doing anything beyond maximizing steel fabrication output.

if it's absurd to you to think that a steel fabrication company should care about anything other than fabricating more steel, well that's your philosophy.

there are other philosophies.
> FWIW, I can't recall seeing Elon except as retweets.

I had to block his account to not see one of his posts at the top of my screen every time I logged in. I was a casual user and didn't follow anyone (only started logging in when it was impossible to see anything otherwise), so I had what could be called the "default" experience.
I'll bounce in with another iteration of my argument for avoiding language primitive types and always using domain-appropriate value types.
A Duration is not a number type, neither float or integer.
It may be implemented using whatever primitive the language provides,
but for timeouts and sleep,
what is 1 Duration?
The software always encodes some definition of 1 unit in the time domain,
make it clear to the user or programmer.