skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(2023)

Some discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37960928

Been a number of more recent stories on this topic:

Surgeon General says loneliness is driving US into anxiety and pessimism https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42330341

Loneliness in Midlife: A Growing Gap Between US and Europe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39752487

The myth of the loneliness epidemic

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42238160
This isn't about politics, just noting the facts and the hypocrisy...

The Trump administration (back in 2020) were the ones that set this in motion.

"Executive Order on Addressing the Threat Posed by TikTok"

August 6, 2020

https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential-actions/ex...
I think you lack a complete perspective and are only stating the obvious things. Yeah, some people may invite this upon themselves.

But a lot of others find it incredibly difficult to develop friendships, let alone intimate relationships, in this world, especially in western countries - I could list out the reasons why but this comment will become awfully long.

We should remind ourselves that we don't know everything, we don't see everything, and we should be open to viewing the world from other people's perspective. We'll learn a lot about ourselves and our place in the world that way.
I usually put in postmaster@<yourdomain> (e.g. postmaster@heatpumped.org). Eat your own spam, idiot.
Great tip indeed.

However, please don't use anybody else's email. (No @example.com) Preferably use the domain of the website itself, or of a SEO spam website.
Ah I guess it’s just the regular prius? Bummer
Nothing drives me more nuts than them showing commercials during the changeover, coming back at 30-0 and then showing the replay of the drama from what went down during the changeover.

When I watch a match commercial free, with changeovers, I find myself much more engaged. Changeovers can tell you a lot about the match and player and espn just ignores it and then has the audacity to replay any drama during the real points. It’s a travesty.
> unless it's a self-insert?

In the case of LLMs, there is zero reason to believe the LLM is capable of doing that--and a bunch of reasons against it.

However the concept spreads because some humans are deliberately fostering the illusion.
> That’s because it’s censored in the legacy media.

Factually untrue.

Sky and Fox News (both Murdoch outlets) actively promote climate disinfomation.

Old fossils banging on in after dark talking head shows is the epitome of "legacy media" and they're mainlining the climate change is nonsense message.
Is there an Onion Coin?
Yep.

But that's why it isn't a direct democracy. Sometimes government needs to do things that are not popular.

But of course this is always going to be an opportunity for a populist to take advantage of the disconnect. Sometimes, as in this case, that is damaging. But of course it's well within the rights of politicians to play that game.
Bring on the Sea Peoples (maybe)
Don’t take legal advice from random people on the Internet. Get a consult with a lawyer.
Yes the default certificate duration is so small as to be useless as a default. It's a pain to set the expiration in hours, but it does still allow you to set months or years of duration. You just have to calculate out how many hours those months or years are.
Wait what. Quality of life in rural UK is worse than rat race of London?
Eavesdrop, but not initiate a transaction. I definitely wouldn't want to be in the same room as an active ISO 14443 antenna capable of powering up even low-powered tags/cards from 10 meters. That would be a lot of power!

That said, Apple devices use an active amplifier even in card emulation mode (which is why Apple Pay works considerably more reliably at awkward angles than Google Pay does on most Android phones).
AI Replacing Salespeople Perfectly Defines the AI Redundancy Problem
The entire point of the article is about underprovisioned infrastructure.
Good rant. The answer is decentralization technologies as much as it is anything else. Open protocols that create holistic but freely evolving systems without a central gatekeeper. That's how you compete with the technopolies.

Maybe legislation and culture or something can help also, but it will be most effective if part of that is adopting and spreading the right technology to facilitate those changes.
Totally agreed, with that said, anything at a company using company resources isn't exactly personal computing
Best Way to Protect and Grow OSS (Open-Source Software)
I know this topic has been debated often (especially on HN) and has been controversial in terms of what's the best solution.

With the advent of AI, I believe this topic is getting more important and we need a solution to foster the growth of OSS ecosystem. Here is what we are thinking.

Challenges in the OSS (Open-Source Software) Market

- Contributions to OSS are primarily driven by goodwill, making it difficult for contributors to receive monetary rewards for their efforts. This often leads to the departure of key maintainers or a lack of contributors.

- As a result, even OSS projects with significant user bases and high utility face challenges in maintenance and sustainability, including security measures, dependency management, and collaboration with other projects.

- From the perspective of organizations and developers leveraging OSS, these issues present risks and reduce the efficiency of using OSS.

A Potential Solution: Voluntary Monetary Rewards from OSS Users

OSS users, as beneficiaries of the OSS ecosystem, can voluntarily provide small-scale monetary rewards (bounties, tips) to OSS maintainers and contributors in a convenient manner directly within GitHub.

- For OSS users: By attaching monetary rewards (bounties) of their desired amount to urgent or high-priority issues in the OSS they use, users can expect faster and more effective resolutions to these issues.

- For OSS projects with large user bases and high utility: 1) Maintainers can focus more on improving software quality without worrying about monetization. 2) Contributors are encouraged to actively participate, motivated by the potential for direct rewards.

- For the OSS ecosystem: Unlike the current donation or sponsorship-driven models, this approach enables a direct flow of funds from users (demand) to contributors (supply). This can have a positive impact on the entire OSS ecosystem by enhancing project sustainability and overall efficiency.

How it works

1. Every GitHub account is automatically assigned a Crypto Wallet (EVM address), eliminating the need to create an account on a separate service.

2. Any GitHub user can utilize their cryptocurrency to create a bounty for a specific GitHub issue or send a tip to a particular developer’s account. examples:
- Bounty Creation: /bounty 10 $USDC, /bounty 0.1 $ETH verify
- Tip Payment: /tip @xxx 3 $USDT

3. Bounties are deposited into an escrow account at the time of creation and are directly transferred to the contributor’s GitHub account once the payment conditions set by the creator are met. Tips, on the other hand, are sent immediately.

4. Contributors who receive bounties or tips have full ownership and control over their Crypto Wallet, allowing them to freely utilize the cryptocurrency at any time.

We would really appreciate any feedback or comments on our approach. Even better, would be helpful if you can partake in the survey as well (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/10TxDVcZhxbqPJPJ-VRzRNamePEO...)

Thanks!
Hi there. Author of this post. The content gate is on by default for all of my newsletter content, but I figured out a way to turn it off. You should be able to read the full article now without putting in an email.
I'm not saying the ban is about that, but it does accomplish something in that direction, and we need more bans that are explicitly about that.

Ultimately though I don't think regulations about privacy and data handling are sufficient. To go just one level deeper, a large proportion of the data in question should not even be collected, regardless of how it's handled or who it's shared with. But many of the problems are even deeper, and have to do with things like how big companies are allowed to get and how much venture capital is allowed to destroy things that work by funding things that don't.
Oh there's plenty of Chinese seduction propaganda on TikTok. Literally every single tiktok users knows about the mountainous city Chongqing.

Just before the ban product price tiktoks were huge: 2 usd corn in China VS 6 usd in the US where comments pointing out that Americans have 5x on avg higher wages were clearly down ranked.
The only thing that's been opening up so far is Apple's cash register. From the article:

> those official solutions require manual approval, incur additional (in some cases absolutely cuckoo $$$) fees

In the EU, there is HCE, under less restrictive terms but geographically isolated.

Imagine a world in which Apple would let people just... use the expensive devices they already paid good money for! (Yeah, I can't either.)
I think that is something that arose from happenstance, not thoughtful intent - this is true because of how confusing the end result is.
Suggesting that a shuttering of TikTok represents any impediment to your First Amendment rights — even if no comparable alternative existed — is to misunderstand what was promised by the Constitution.

Of course, plenty of comparable alternatives do exist.
Also, around ~2000 or so, most of the "big" movies ran their own websites. There's the infamous Space Jam site [1], but there was even websites made for relatively obscure movies like Pretty Persuasion (whose URL I cannot seem to find but I remember looking at it when it was relevant).

I remember when MySpace came along, I started to see movie studios started creating dedicated MySpace pages for their films instead of dedicated sites.

It makes sense; MySpace was free and had built-in marketing via their "friends" system. You're not messing with hosting, or domain names, or even programmers, and unlike other free hosting systems, it wasn't considered lame to have `Check Us Out On MySpace` (whereas it would have been considered lame to have `geocities.com/myMovie`).

Apply this to most other industries, and you have what we have now.

[1] https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
> the president can offer a pardon allowing anyone to ignore federal law for as long as they remain in office.

no, the president can pardon individuals convicted of a criminal law, which is not at all what you describe here
> I've bought a ton of old stuff off eBay

> I can likely toss a grenade into my living room and most of my stuff will survive

Especially if it is a used grenade bought off eBay :-p
XMPP has existed since 1999, but has only seen mainstream adoption inside walled garden apps that never supported federation or shut it off early on. It was possible to use Facebook and Google chat from a generic XMPP client for a long time.
windows originated very little: plenty of type-on-page metaphor predated it.

original was light mode: printer terminals. yes, green-on-black became normal in the mid seventies, and some amber-on-black. but even early lisp machines, the Alto, Smalltalk, W/X/Andrew interfaces, Next, etc - type-on-page, not serial-terminal-ish dark mode.
Biden signs ambitious order to bolster energy resources for AI data centers
> but § 2(G)(3)(B)(ii) indicates that it is within the president's discretion to not enforce

Wrong.

That § lets the President designate other entities. That’s why we wrote “any of” at the top—Bytedance, TikTok or any of the things the President may designate.
I think d-matrix might succeed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistor_ladder

this isn't quite a gotcha, really, 1 bit DAC are innately simple!
You forgot ament.
It's frustrating to read the average person has (1-2) intimate friends and 15 people they stay in touch with contacting them at least once a month. I'm at 0 intimate friends right now and maybe 3 people I contact once a month where "contact" equals sending 1 or 2 sentences in a text message and getting 1 or 2 sentences back once or twice a month.

I don't consider myself an incel since I know several people who would be with me if I asked but I also know "we" aren't a match so I don't go there.

I also don't really know what to do it fix this issue. I look at meetup.com and I don't really see anything I want to participate in. A large portion of the activities there are limited to younger people, or specific demographics of which I'm not one. The few that are left don't seem inviting or interesting.

What are other good sources of activities?

It doesn't help that I moved 4 years ago away from friends and back semi-near family at their request. The truth is I'm just not that close to them, we've all been apart for 30+ years. At the same time, my friends back where I moved from, while still there, I'm not sure are enough to get me to move back. There's more to it. I'm old and it's another country. Getting a visa to move back would be hard. Getting a job even harder. And, even if I moved back, while it would arguably be better than my current situation, it wouldn't rise to the average listed in the article.

WFH has also made things worse. These last 5 years (including one at home during COVID) have been the worst years of my life in terms of people. I've gone many months seeing around 1 person a month.

There's this post from SLC: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/31/radicalizing-the-roman...

Which I found interesting in that if loneliness is a health issue, then why doesn't may insurance cover it? Why doesn't my doctor suggest solutions? I suppose this used to be where churches come in but that's no longer a thing for most people.
Really?

Iterator methods are the only part of Rust/C# that feel like normal decent function composition. Except Haskell is backwards.
Haha, if only. Read the wiki article on BMP sometime. There's RLE, huffman coding, all kinds of bitdepths and channel masks. Configurable halftoning algorithms. Embedded JPEGs and PNGs? 64-bit BMPs in some kind of fixed point format? And that's on top of the usual Microsoft DWORD BITMAPV2INFOHEADER; struct-dump gunk.

The real kicker is it's not even useful. Just say "unsupported" to everything that isn't a dumb RGB dump and no one will ever notice!
Lots of people do care about the propaganda thing. Like, most normie voters I know definitely don't give a crap about the data privacy stuff, but they haven't forgotten about the cold war and are not bought into this "maybe it's fine if the Chinese government can control what all the kids are seeing" narrative.

But it's a big problem that the framing has often been about the data privacy thing.
no, if you think trad-norm is dark mode, it just identifies when you started using computers.
This is called dumping and yes it was and maybe still is illegal with things like commodities and manufactured goods.

It was never enforced with software or services. If it had the entire standard VC startup playbook would be different.

It’s also never been enforced internationally. China has arguably been subsidizing its industries and effectively dumping cheap manufactured goods for years to become the workshop of the world, and it works.
They shut down long enough to get attention but not long enough for people to find another platform
> no actual way for the court to compel him to do anything

PAFACA was written (I didn’t name it) to command the operators of app stores and hosting companies. They’re the ones accruing liability. The President can ignore the law, but Apple and Google will accrue liabilities until the statute of limitations starts voiding them.
The problem here is the mixing of administrative powers (collapsing of subthread) and expression of private opinions.

One is ideally an unbiased, mechanical action subject to a rigid set of publicized conditions to which the comment(s) concerned are applied. So-and-so comment(s) are moderated so-and-so because they violate so-and-so in the guidelines, for example.

The other is (by your own admission) a biased, emotional, personal action subject and liable only to yourself.

The two are mutually incompatible when performed together.
why didnt you just join a tour, even a day tour will introduce you to people to go have drinks with.

I always travel alone and usually make lifelong friends on biking day tours

traveling soli is one of my greatest pleasures
GPT-4b micro: An AI model for longevity
This is about the "magic tricks" by someone who clearly doesn't suffer fools. Looks interesting.
Engineer who uses TikTok here, I'll let you know once I become a communist.
Well, declaratively, not functionally. But point mostly stands
Elon Musk has three citizenships, American, Canadian, and South African. Your assertion that he somehow would be more trustworthy because he is an American is ludicrous.

Ever since the Code of Hammurabi justice has been based on the principle of equal treatment. That is, if you commit a crime the punishment should be metered out based on the crime and not your identity. The TikTok ban violates this principle because it discriminates based on identity. It makes no sense that it would be a greater crime for a Chinese businessman to own a social media network than it is for an American businessman.

In fact, if we look at the evidence, Musk has leveraged his control over Twitter to bolster neo-Nazi propaganda, silence his critics, and promote European right-wing parties. No such evidence exist for TikTok. If you are willing to overlook this evidence because "China man bad" then that indeed does make you a racist.
Yes, and for someone with astigmatic halation, dark mode is very hard to read. Web sites should support both, and respect `:prefers-color-scheme`.
> We do not have a mechanism for dealing with a president or administration that is willing to just lie

Of course we do. We’ll just fine Apple, Google and Oracle tens of billions of dollars if they don’t cut ties with Bytedance. The law can be patient.

I advocated for this bill. My personal guess is the tech companies bend at the knee and then pay for a new train system in New York or whatever.
> What if; it's actually much harder than we realise to make it easy to use and secure?

No, it's really just Apple being paranoid/greedy about their platform. Android has had HCE for over a decade now.

That said, in my view Apple has every right to, on top of HCE, offer access to their secure element at restrictive terms: Even though Java Card has a "firewall" between installed applications, these things aren't really battle-tested to run completely untrusted and potentially hostile applications side by side with e.g. payment card applications.

But HCE and SE implementations can coexist! Android has, again, been doing it for over a decade!

And Apple even has implemented both HCE and SE – but HCE is EU only (if you're quiet, you can still hear Apple stomping their feet in the distance), whereas SE is "some non-EU countries" only, and requires paying (at least according to TFA) exorbitant fees.
It is the legal system that hasn't caught up with how tech scales seemingly small damage.

What were small conflicts of interest before (a little trash here or there, a little use of personal information for corporate instead of customer benefit here or there, ...) now scales to billions of people. And dozens of transactions, impressions, actions, points of contact, etc., a day for many of us.

That not only makes it more pervasive, but massively profitable, which has kicked in a feedback loop for sketchy behavior, surveillance, coercion, gatekeeping, etc., driven by hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue and trillions in potential market caps.

Things that were only slightly unethical before, now create vast and growing damage to our physical and mental environments.

It should simply be illegal to use customer information in a way not inherent to the transaction in question. Or to gather data on customers from other sources. Or share any of that data.

It should be illegal, to force third party suppliers to pay a tax to hardware makers, for any transaction that doesn't require their participation. And participation cannot be made mandatory.

Etc.

One commonality here, is that there is often a third party involved. Third party gatekeeper. Third party advertisers. Third parties introduce conflicts. (This is different from non-personalized ads on a site they have relevance for, which are effectively two independent, 2-party transactions.)

Another commonality, is the degree to which many third party actors, those we know, and many we never hear of, who "collude" with respect to dossiers, reaching us, and milking us by many coordinated means.
Unless the employees have recovered their property or found a perpetrator, they (and we) can only speculate as to the intent behind their disappearance.
Arguably the largest usage of JPEG 2000 is as the format movies are distributed to theaters (Digital Cinema Package), and there's been recent work to make decoding faster with HTJ2K.
You can safely insert something like dnkejdjd@vwvsjs.co

Great idea with spamming sites hehe
How does the ruling affect the 1st amendment rights of US citizens? It entirely affects foreign business owners.
I believe Tiktok shut down the app in India in the same way without being "obligated to" either before the order came into effect, albeit without the dramatic messaging.

(The latter part is probably because Tiktok's banning was not particulaly divisive within the population as it is in the US.)
But even before that we had Livejournal, we had Geocities, we had forums. There were lots of places for non-techies to post.
Dark mode was normal in the early days of CRTs, when most CRTs refreshed at 60Hz or lower. The dark background made the flicker less obvious. Once higher refresh rate CRTs became common (1990s), the flicker became less of a problem and light mode became the default.
Non sequitur, the point is irrelevant. Flag all content, comments, posts, etc. from pedophiles and move on.
Honestly, at least one military that is very interested in speeding "kill chain" with AI explicitly tells you that a critical requirement is that ultimate decision (and responsibility) has to fall on a human. Partially because a human can take responsibility, as in the old IBM "computer can't take management decision" slide.

Same discussion included a suggestion that the articles from last year about AI targeting might have been explicitly nudged by said AI's creators to judge attitudes for fully automated killing. While specifying that, at least currently, the specific military and most of its allies keeps the stance of human-in-the-loop.
Nothing prevents Apple from running HCE (which is what Android offers all app developers) in parallel with SE-based cards (which are generally more offline-capable). In fact, Android has supported just that for years.
thats your story. Its not everyone’s. we are individuals.
> Not a peep about the incompetence of the Democratic party and their allies that allowed this to occur. Nor a word about the fed up voters whose needs have been ignored by them.

They weren't ignored. I'm not a big fan of the Democratic party, but I honestly don't get this lazy line of criticism. What do you expect them to have done? Did they not pass a massive infrastructure bill, is not most of their platform friendlier to the common person than the Republican one, are they not the party that has at least attempted to get more Americans healthcare? etc. etc.

Voting for Trump is an immoral nonsense course of action, and if someone who isn't rich believes he'll do anything to improve their life, then they're stupid on top of it.