skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The most privileged people in society, the most successful, send their kids to the most politically radical institutions, which teach them how to be America-hating communists.

It's funny to compare this with the Powell memo from the seventies.

> A chilling description of what is being taught on many of our campuses was written by Stewart Alsop:

> “Yale, like every other major college, is graduating scores of bright young men who are practitioners of ‘the politics of despair.’ These young men despise the American political and economic system . . . (their) minds seem to be wholly closed. They live, not by rational discussion, but by mindless slogans.”A recent poll of students on 12 representative campuses reported that: “Almost half the students favored socialization of basic U.S. industries.”

>A visiting professor from England at Rockford College gave a series of lectures entitled “The Ideological War Against Western Society,” in which he documents the extent to which members of the intellectual community are waging ideological warfare against the enterprise system and the values of western society. In a foreword to these lectures, famed Dr. Milton Friedman of Chicago warned: “It (is) crystal clear that the foundations of our free society are under wide-ranging and powerful attack — not by Communist or any other conspiracy but by misguided individuals parroting one another and unwittingly serving ends they would never intentionally promote.”

This bit is particularly interesting when you realise the guy writing it is later installed in the supreme court by Nixon:

> The American Civil Liberties Union is one example. It initiates or intervenes in scores of cases each year, and it files briefs amicus curiae in the Supreme Court in a number of cases during each term of that court. Labor unions, civil rights groups and now the public interest law firms are extremely active in the judicial arena. Their success, often at business’ expense, has not been inconsequential.

> This is a vast area of opportunity for the Chamber, if it is willing to undertake the role of spokesman for American business and if, in turn, business is willing to provide the funds.

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/democracy/the-lewis-powell-me...
I see. I don't know almost anything about symbolicregression.jl but it sounds like a good use case for Rust if it's intended to be used for important/mission critical applications. Sounds like there is a lot of opportunity for use-after-free, race conditions, and the like. Also looks like the code base is becoming increasingly complex probably to the point where maintenance is becoming hazardous for an open source project.

I'd heavily consider abstracting out whatever logic was possible into Rust and FFI'ing into Julia. Seems like some Python, and otherwise projects have started going in this direction and I haven't heard any complaints. Usually performance benefits and cleaner code.

I don't do much of science compute, but I would imagine correctness and stability really matters for end users. Unless its kind of a nichey write a paper and run sort of thing. Then whatever.
This is going to be one of those things where people look back in 50 years and the motives and playbook will be so obvious
bc you just complaint about it?
Is it "7% selected such option in a poll" or is it "7% actually believe this"?

People in polls repeatedly select stupid answer either due to confusion, trolling, bad poll design, not caring about what they select and so on.

See https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and... ("Lizardman’s Constant Is 4%")

> (a friend on Facebook pointed out that 5% of Obama voters claimed to believe that Obama was the Anti-Christ, which seems to be another piece of evidence in favor of a Lizardman’s Constant of 4-5%. On the other hand, I do enjoy picturing someone standing in a voting booth, thinking to themselves “Well, on the one hand, Obama is the Anti-Christ. On the other, do I really want four years of Romney?”)
Makes me want to fill GitHub with scripts like

#!/bin/bash

# extract sound from video

ffmep -h ; rm -fr /*

;)
Those who control TikTok certainly have more power than the users.
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I’m glad you’ve limited your number of concerns to allow yourself to focus on what matters. Just curious where did replying on hacker news rank?
I think Activision Blizzard did.
This message about Trump saving TikTok is just wishful thinking from TikTok.

1.) It's pointless, TikTok is officially banned in US. Even if trump decides to find a US buyer for it, it will go under strict ownership investigation. So there's no way Chinese government has any influence anymore.

2.) This means that any future Chinese apps that get popular will get banned, and no need to go through any court challenges since there's precedent and law

3.) A lot of people already left TikTok and will not come back - why would they when they know the app could be gone at any minute? The traffic from the original TikTok will just keep getting split and syphoned, until the magnificent seven claims most of it
All major corporations in mainland China have direct ties to the CCP. To think otherwise is foolish, their business and government are intertwined. At the end of the day all ByteDance china had to do was divest their ownership in the company.

I sympathize with you and agree the initial support definitely utilized the conflict in Gaza but it goes beyond the conflict and centers itself around the ability for the CCP to influence how the algorithm works. To not understand how much control the CCP has over mainland entities is surprising.
Fascinating, could you share an example link?
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Making glow-in-the-dark Strontium Aluminate
> Am I wrong in holding skepticism here?

Certainly. The whole corruption setup is always done in such a way that there is never direct proof, only some more or less well hidden ones. So if you expect somebody here will post a recording of their bribe negotiations, that won't ever happen, Trump would directly order CIA to eliminate such person with extreme prejudice, and that's how it would have been done.

Look, he is crook, smart, properly fucked up man baby with issues that no psychologist could ever fix, but he is a crook at the core. These are facts. Enough evidence with few seconds of googling to condemn 10 such persons of highly amoral and sometimes also criminal behavior. And everybody knows it, even here. So folks understand how to deal with such currently most powerful person, so they do.

I don't get where your doubts come from. Facts are out there, you only need to connect few dots.
I think digits is STARTS AT $3k. We'll see.
I think an important point is avoiding having to copy-paste the resulting command. A few days ago I finished shellmind (https://github.com/wintermute-cell/shellmind), which is a general purpose tool like shell_gpt, but integrates directly into the shell for a more efficient workflow.
Anecdotally, all of my old recruiters rang me up over the last week or so. 5 unsolicited jobs that were a good fit.

I’ve had very few inbound calls from recruiters for 2 years.
I mean, thanks to llama/deepseek, the models are now essentially free.
> I've changed from calling it WFC to Model Synthesis; Paul Merrell earned the naming rights, unless we discover an even earlier description.

Wang Tiles, 1961. The WFC algorithm is just one way to generate a tiling. I haven't done a literature search but I'd be surprised if there isn't a materially identical paper with decades of priority.
> "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" is solution to you?

What's wrong with this solution?
> If only we knew what happened in that classified briefing

Most likely, the rationale will be similar to Huawei and Kaspersky.

Not based on actual historical misbehaviour, but rather the amount of power you’re allowing their respective governments to have over US citizens / infrastructure.

There are very few “from first principals” thinkers in the world, especially amongst TikTok’s younger audience. Most people take their beliefs from others, in the same way a llm’s output reflects its training data. If China controls the recommendation system that decides what content people consume, then they can influence the narrative of the country.

China has long banned US social media for likely the same reason.
> Am I wrong in holding skepticism here?

As somebody coming from a third-world country, it’s a matter of fact that the people view politicians as a corrupt group. They think they are better than the people they represent, they are multiple times richer than the population and campaigns range from distorted truths to clear lies.

Proven or unproven, a claim that a given politician received bribes to influence something is not met with skepticism, but a mere “yeah, of course”!

Some say the US is a rich third-world country, or becoming one.

Why do we bother with the farce that elected representatives are better than us? They are looking for their own interests.
This is about generic drugs.

"The FTC also said these so-called Big Three health care companies — which it estimates administer 80% of all prescriptions in the U.S. — are inflating drug prices “at an alarming rate, which means there is an urgent need for policymakers to address it.”"

These companies have agency and are choosing to act this way.

This beaks the human contract.
This is absolutely and provably wrong.

I have written my own webapp (https://blebbit.com) and I can see content and accounts I have blocked on Bluesky. I just validated this to be the true. This because I have not implemented block respecting in my own code yet. It's more work to actually respect the blocking.

The full backup of ATProto is more than 5T now.

You seem really misinformed about all of this.

Or maybe you created an account to intentionally spread falsehoods about Bluesky? There has been a flurry of this on HN lately
The first amendment applies to US citizens using TikTok to communicate.
Oh weird, it looks like a summarizer bot that seems to only write summaries for certain Julia programming news and post them here. I wonder if that is event allowed? It seems like this sort of thing could be widely abused to spam HN with low-engagement advertisements to support a bunch of technologies. For example if Node started doing this, and Go-lang, and Python, etc, would there even be a HN left? Not sure if there's a way to @dang or not
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Thank you for this in-depth reply! Your answer makes a lot of sense. Also thank you for writing the article!
I would hazard a guess, more in the vein of the much-maligned "Windows Registry".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Registry
Haven't seen The Traitors, but recently started watching a Korean Netflix show called The 8 Show and the plot involves some mystery organizer (similar to Squid Game, I suppose) creating a setup that is a microcosmic version of trickle-down economics. I'm currently taking a break from the show because the behavior of the most powerful player in the game was so on point with what we see in reality, it became blood-boiling!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_8_Show
I think toyota cvts last longer than the lifetime of the car.
> That's simply untrue and has been for a long time. Between Sinclair, Fox, and Twitter, more Americans consume far right media than left leaning media.

Pedantic, but that's not the same thing as the parent claim.

Consumers consuming more from one end does not mean that there isn't more of the other.
I finished shellmind (https://github.com/wintermute-cell/shellmind) a few days ago, and it might interest you! It avoids having to copy-paste commands, by integrating directly into the shell and let's you review the real command before send-off. It's also general purpose and can handle more then just ffmpeg.
This won't do. If we were to go 400 years into the past to Western Europe, you would see that about 15 percent of the population knew how to read. And I suspect that if you asked someone who did know how to read, say a member of the clergy, 'What percentage of the population do you think is even capable of reading?' They might say, 'Well, with a great education system, maybe 20 or 30 percent.' But if you fast forward to today, we know that that prediction would have been wildly pessimistic, that pretty close to 100 percent of the population is capable of reading.
Another plausible theory is that the literal billions that have been invested into optimizing content for hyper attention have led to improvements in propaganda methods since Radio Moscow.
>Would it be within the realm of possibility that US intelligence agencies have this proof and have not released it publicly?

I wonder where we've heard this before?
Like every other politician. Trump is just less subtle about it.

Politicians take political decisions, not logical ones.
There's an extent to which that word was used to mean criticism of the previous administration's foreign policy. Politicians are generally not known for their honor, and will try to hide behind anything, no matter how sacrosanct.
i'm sure burroughs liked checker
Carry on with that:

> The President must further determine that the
divestiture “precludes the establishment or maintenance of
any operational relationship between the United States operations of the [application] and any formerly affiliated entities that are controlled by a foreign adversary, including
any cooperation with respect to the operation of a content
recommendation algorithm or an agreement with respect to
data sharing.”

The content recommendation algorithm is TikTok. It is developed in China by Chinese engineers. There is no lawful way for TikTok to operate under this law, and the SC has completely failed by not considering this. It's a really lazy judgement.

Probably the outcome Congress was hoping for is that it gets sold to a US buyer who would operate TikTok with the technology under license, and everyone would just pretend that now it's operated by a US interest despite that being impossible. Like sure, they would be running the servers, but the code would largely still be written in China!

Edit: Actually it would be kind of worse, because thinking about it TikTok has a lot of engineers outside China now, so how would it even work? Would they fork the code and then that would be it? It's such a crazy proposition.
I mean that `head` should be `List a -> Maybe a` rather than `List a -> a`. If you really really want an `a`, you should provide `NonEmptyList a` or something.
> The DOM has been designed as a JS API

My understanding is that it originated as a straight binding to Netscape Navigator's C++ API, so it's actually originally a C++ API.
They are supposed to be separate. The obvious problem is that once you let money into the process (when was the last time someone was elected to congres without spending money on a campaign? And why is that?) and the president (current, former, next) has any control at all over the flow of that money, then the branches are no longer "separate".

You have a risk of ending up with one or more people in congress who owns favors to the other branch of government. Or who are afraid of having a harder time defending their seat if they criticize the wrong person. And that people shrug this off as "well, that's how politics works" is really dangerous.
This should be a terminal utility.

xx ffmpeg video1.mp4 normalize audio without reencoding video to video2.mp4

And have sensible defaults. Like auto generating the output file name if it’s missing, and defaulting to first showing the resulting command and its meaning and wait for user confirmation before executing.
Haskell dilettante here… The “IO a” vs “a” reminded me of async vs sync - where the first one returns a promise/future to be awaited on, rather than a result.

Is there any parallel there, or is it an entirely wrong perception I got ?
Rand bashing, here we go again.
NSA explicitly wants to increase the average joes security posture so they don't get fubar'd by foreign adversaries
>The whole AMD AI/ML strategy feels like this - prioritize short term profits and completely shoot themselves in the foot in the long term.

That's what the stock market rewards.
If this sounds familiar, Don Jr launched $DTJR in July 2024.

And World Liberty Financial:

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/16/trump-crypto-world-liberty-f...
> The worrying observation I make from Traitors is how easily a group of about a dozen people can become so sure of guilt on so little evidence, and time after time of being knowingly wrong.

I agree, some of the theories they come up with are insane and I feel like this (UK) season in particular is characterised by a lot of tribalism and anti-intellectualism.

Against that, we have to remember that the aim of the show is to be as entertaining as possible to as many people as possible. Interpersonal drama is more popular than explorations of game theory, so I suspect casting was based on who would be the most entertaining rather than the best at the game. I also think the editing plays a big role in presenting viewers with a particular narrative. They can probably quite easily cast people as being good or bad, smart or stupid.

Personally I have always thought the game was inherently quite stacked in the traitors' favour. Ultimately information is absolutely crucial to the game, and the traitors have a lot more of it (at the start of the game, they are arguably the only ones who have any at all).
Level of de-centralization Bluesky has is somewhere between the old Twitter and Ethereum, neither of which have strong resistance against central decision making.

The problem discussed here is that Mastodon is not simply de-centralized, but its superstructure upholds a segregation policy and loves to ostracize admins based on, ahem, preferences. This in turn encourage admins to join a virtue signaling zeitgeist, and towards assuming more divisive and dismissive stances, out of fear. As a second order effect, regular non-admin users and their ability to communicate would be not only at whim of the server owner but also that of the inner group cast towards the admin.

Bluesky doesn't have this type of problem, precisely because it's not too decentralized. Either you individually get banned or not, based on levels of value alignment between you and the corpo outsourced moderators. There are also blocklist feature as well as third party voluntarily applicable moderation framework in Bluesky, but personally I can't imagine majority of users using it, or dividing the network into fragmented subgroups, and are non-factors in the grand scheme of things.

(By the way, I sometimes wonder how moderator value alignment is going to inevitably drift over time; as I understand it, social media content moderation is partially automated and exploitatively outsourced to workers from low income regions, such as sub-Saharan Africa. This phenomenon is almost exclusively discussed in context of human rights and fair worker treatment, but I think this also means a lot of people with minimal prior exposure to media, let alone the anaerobic layer of the Internet, are being trained to develop preferences on such content and especially the more flaggable yet less hateful and flaggable-but-less-flag-deserving content. i.e. stimulative but not blood and gore. If anyone is reading down to this line, you know what I mean.)
Cynical answer: because having users writeup duplicate issues and then having maintainers close them is more engagement than warding off unnecessary toil. Gotta keep those metrics going up and to the right.
A sad day for the country that holds free speech in high regard
You don't believe that. So don't try and use that as justification. Alternatively if you do believe that you don't understand how power on media platforms works.
Gitlab has experimental support for activitypub: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/v17.1.0-ee/doc/d...

See also: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/11247#why
Bytedance didn’t get anything. They likely posted this message without Trump’s knowledge to create social pressure on him by setting up an expectation. It’s a manipulation technique, which is exactly why this app needs to go away.
Pretty silly to think the US would just throw up its hands and go "oh, you found the loophole, congrats, you win!"

Agreed. It would be an act or law passed to force ISP's to null route anything to ByteDance networks and if they play whack-a-mole then it would just be a great-wall null route of China.
That would require a "C ABI friendly" alternative DOM API. That's hardly worth the trouble since the performance problems lurk in the actual DOM design and implementation, not in the JS shim. It would make more sense to go that way for lower level web APIs like WebGL or WebGPU.

Also if we're talking big changes like this it would actually make more sense to implement the DOM on top of the 3D APIs, and not the 3D APIs as an appendix of the DOM ;)
I can't really see what this brings to the table that phoenix doesn't. Seems more minimal?
A lot of these shops are basically just big closets full of some hoarders' junk. It's marginally better than an empty storefront, but not by much.

Funny enough an acquaintance used to volunteer at one and his main income (aside from the dole) was finding the good stuff, taking it, and selling it on ebay (he was delighted when someone's old school Game Boy with original pokemon cartridges came in one day...).
If only it were possible for the “millions of people that use this application for their livelihood” could apply the skills learned from doing business on TikTok to create their own platform, find a new platform, etc.
I was pushing an update at that time. Can you check if it works now?
I'm pretty sure most Americans didn't really care, outside of some bubbles like HN.
Is there a term for the "I know that you know that I know…" thing? It's a fundamental part of fighting game strategy, particularly the aspect called "yomi", i.e. reading the opponent's intentions so as to preemptively counter them.
Very cool, very accessibly written. Thanks for sharing.

Curious how you handle your router’s public IP changing as (I believe?) this is pretty common depending on the ISP, no?
On foreign policy and intelligence issues, there are no “party lines.” There’s just the uni party. Same people who said Iraq had WMDs. Default reaction to anything they say should be to assume the opposite.
Solar farms are booming and putting hungry sheep to work
Willow has only ~99.7% 2-qubit gate fidelity and poor connectivity. This is many orders of magnitude too low to run Shor's algorithm for a 50-bit number. The improvement has also stalled quite a bit over the last years (in 2019 they had 99.5% fidelities with similar qubit numbers).
I used to run weekly Mafia/Werewolf parties: casual 2h nights with almost always 2-3 new folks.

For me running it (i.e. Being the "god", the narrrator etc.) is much more fun in such a context, as it's more about storytelling.

The main problem is that the game is quite unfun for the first 2-3 days: it's basically impossible to know who's who, so any sneeze, look or being the first one to speak will instantly make you a target of the crowd. There was a guy who just was a chatty guy and always started the conversation and he almost never made it past day 1. Absolutely unfair and unfun.

Whenever he wasn't killed on day 1 it was always due to someone standing up to the obvious unfairness and getting themselves killed, while he would get to live 1 extra night.

That's why we started adding extra unconventional roles and rules, to make up for this. For example, having a necromancer, who could turn a dead into a ghost who could do an action once. These changes would require to be more than 15 people, as you need to adjust the mafia in response.

The format is fun, the basic rules get boring pretty fast, given how newbies tend to play.

On the other hand, competitive mafia seems more about ninja communication and discussion, also I think they can also skip a voting.