skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This statement is not entirely accurate. It is possible for a US social media company to operate in mainland China, provided it complies with local regulations, including hosting its servers in China and adhering to censorship requirements.

Read about Google's search engine project in China aka Project Dragonfly[0]; it was a totalitarian dystopian nightmare where CCP wanted to know everything about people who use Google, like their queries and mobile phone numbers and plus they demanded from Google that millions of websites/webpages must be censored (removed from Google's China index).

Project Dragonfly was like Stalin's manifestation of perfect surveillance and propaganda tool.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(search_engine)
Why Aren't You Idempotent?
Certainly this is not the first time that's happened. Trump has been President before. What he got up to is indeed the first time in history that happened, but not because he was directly bribed by a foreign actor: that's most likely already happened. The case of Trump is entirely stranger.
> However, when an entire program consists of a single chain of dependent instructions, which may happen e.g. when computing certain kinds of hash functions over a file, you are doomed. There is no way to increase the performance of that program.

Even in that case, you would probably benefit from having many cores because the user is probably running other things on the same machine, or the program is running on a runtime with eg garbage collector threads etc. I’d venture it’s quite rare that the entire machine is waiting on a single sequential task!
At scale (large population) doing any job to 100% is hard, even in Japan.
Well, you could implement (in Haskell) a separate heap for (all or some of the) imperative code.
I've used RSS since Google Reader, then Feedly, then Flipboard. I eventually got more concerned about privacy and moved to self-hosting. I tried a few tools, built some, and ended up with NextCloud's News app, but when I built my own alternative to NextCloud [1], I made sure to build a "better version" of what I wanted from an RSS reader. If the feed has a short summary, it fetches the whole article and strips out all HTML, and if I want to read more, I can jump to the website/article, otherwise it's usually good enough for me.

I also try to never follow more than 10 feeds (right now I'm at 12 because a couple only publish 2-3x year). I only have a few really interesting things to read every day. FOMO was real when I started doing this years ago with NextCloud, but I learned to deal with that. I love this setup.

[1] https://bewcloud.com
It's not about routing money or funding a foundation/hobby.

If they're not paying you then they're not your customer and you don't owe them anything.

Professionals build products. Don't waste time/money building anything but the best possible product. The best product creates the most value for users and customers pay for that value. This functions like a corporate tax on profit.

Software has zero marginal cost which let's people who aren't generating much if any economic value benefit. It's nice but it's not a business.

Everyone benefits from a healthy ecosystem where developers are paid and build products that end enriching the public domain sooner or later. Align your incentives with your paying customers and you will prosper.
The state of Python packaging in 2021
Which part is incorrect? You won't say. This is just an assertion. Why is it a platitude when I make an argument, but when you do it, it's accepted uncritically? State censorship is bad no matter what state is doing it.
> sysadmins insist to login via bare metal terminal and cannot use a key...

In 2024 how is this an employed person.
Where's the line? Does hn count?
Is it possible that all of these are true at the same time?

- Tiktok has great content and a great algorithm to help you find it

- Tiktok advances Chinese interests

- Tiktok spies and collects data, such as scraping your clipboard, network

- Tiktok collects face recognition data on citizens worldwide

- Tiktok is addictive, and designed to be

- Tiktok is cultural expression, and contributes to people's feeling of identity

- Tiktok provides a platform for critical thinking and debate

- Trump wants to control it for his own profit motive, not because it's what's best for the US

- Tiktok contributed to Brexit, and similar political crises in the EU

- Tiktok is part of the Chinese 100 year marathon strategy

and so on...
I needed something like this 16 years ago at work to manage shared code, tickets, and code review of private code across a team of engineers. Code review for formal quality assurance was the most important need. I started with trac, then Phabricator, then GitHub enterprise. I just checked out git appraise to see how my nuclear and mechanical engineer friends would like it, and from what I see, I'm guessing they would not. We were using eclipse back then so maybe if that eclipse UI plugin still works it could work.
Fringe but incredibly similar to Typescript. I don't think there exist any other language that is not a direct dialect of Javascript that's as similar. I didn't find there to be any language barrier, especially now with LLMs who are perfect for answering one-off questions about the few diffefences. The tooling is better as well, which means even less of a barrier.
I did something similar in 2016 https://www.e-tinkers.com/2016/11/hosting-wordpress-on-raspb.... Instead of having Apache, I use Nginx. Instead of serving webpage from SD card, I setup a 512MB hard disk except booting still done via the SD card. The site is still running on a Raspberry Pi 3 till this day from my living room.
> Workers help them bathe, eat, walk and take their medication.

> But this isn’t a nursing home – it’s Japan’s largest women’s prison.

Japanese prison system is quite hard on man. Compulsory work, no socialization, solitary confinement as punishment... Nobody is going to "bath you".

Of anything this just proves how privileged some groups are!
What is the narrative that is feared? What thought crime are we preventing?
UK is millions of times better than Qatar but BBC is not too great. Somethings are great with BBC not everything. Fox news? Qatar doesn't micromanage everything.
The Terrifying Realization That an Unresponsive Patient Is Still in There
Sports is a multi billion industry. You want to watch your favourite football team you pay up. It seems to be pretty sustainable.
https://archive.ph/pvh45
Why would anyone buy a new AMD card if the expectation is that the new one won't work either after support runs out? I use AMD at home and Nvidia A100s at work. There is no need to upgrade an old GPU to a new GPU if all it does is act as a fancy iGPU.
There's plenty of evidence, it's just circumstantial - but that doesn't make it any less obvious that there is something going on between TikTok and DT.
The largest ever constituency in the USA, has now
been banned and eliminated.
There has been no disclosure of factual evidence for doing this.
The reason given for doing this is vague and goes in the face of almost? all? legal precident regarding property and free speach.
Every single person under the age of 40, was on TicTok, and in there own way, every single one of them is going to put on a tight little smile and say "ok, then"
I wonder if they are going to crash the app stores?
It always rub me the wrong way that YouTube puts a "this is a state actor" disclaimer on a video uploaded by the well-known public media corporation of a western democracy, but put zero disclaimer whatsoever on a random video uploaded by an anonymous account created 2 minutes ago.
Famously, again in Australia, the ABC lost the rights to broadcast football final games to a commercial station, so two ABC comedians (Roy and HG) did a radio show where they watched the game on tv live and added their own humorous commentary. Viewers would watch the commercial TV channel with the sound down and the ABC radio station sound instead.
Actually, I'm not sure if this is the preface the OP was talking about, in fact it's not clear to me who the author of it is. There's another preface[0], from the Uranian edition of Animal Farm, that they might have been referring to.

While it does contain some criticism of the the UK, quite expected as Orwell was a socialist, it also doesn't claim that Animal Farm was really about UK, European, or US governments.

EDIT: I found the primary source[1] of the unpublished preface, it does list Orwell as its author.

0: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...

1: https://archive.org/details/TheTimesLiterarySupplement1972UK...
I've used Phabricator and GitHub to design nuclear power plant design code... seems pretty serious. Can you tell us more about what's missing in your opinion from making the reviews usable? Curious what I've been missing out on!
I've used Haskell several times for implementing isolated 'maths business logic units in commercial backend applications.

In one such system I built had the main (REST API exposing) backend implemented in Kotlin with a separate application in Haskell doing a complex set of maths driven business rules against GIS data to calculate area specific prices.

The amount of IO on the Haskell side was fairly minimum and abstracted away quite nicely.

Haskell allowed expressing all complexity in a way that was easy to audit and translate from business/data analyst requirements.

Would do again :-) But only with the correct amount isolation so you can lean into Haskell's strong sides.
> it's a pretty serious allegation

Is it, now? He’s a corrupt convicted felon who brags about lying, which despite that was elected president. Do you think he gives a shit about anyone’s allegations? He’d sell your mother for a pack of peanuts. And why not? From his point of view he can do anything he wants and there will be no serious consequences.

I recently learned, thanks to another HN comment, that more than half of the USA population has a literacy level below the 6th grade. Suddenly it answered so many questions.

https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-s...
Well damn. I had a vague feeling that something like that was possible, but this is eye opening, thank you.
I disagree. If I put hook a library into a framework (e.g. laminar into rails) that doesn’t make me an organizer
Ah yes, that's the deal with Among us! This one passed me too, but I remember the description sounding somewhat similar.

Well, maybe should give the type of game another try. Tastes change and at the age at which my friends played "Werwolf", I was pretty much hating myself and everything around me so maybe I'd enjoy it today :)
> That thing isn't going to last 3 winters let alone a volcanic eruption.

He can have a hot tub that could survive a volcanic eruption, he just has to to pay for it. Is your friend willing to allocate the resources, or is he happy with 'good enough'?
I heard the next year there will be 100 launches and they all will be self driving too.

And you will be able to buy one and rent it out for 100x return on investment.
It's a money grab that unfortunately will come at the expense of already poor investors.
In my experience, most of the times a service fails, it fails on startup (misconfiguration, missing resources). So the status is OK. Also, you can always request more lines, if you think that's helpful.

This wouldn't be my problem with systemd. Not by a long shot.
I don't understand your comment. Beijing controls TikTok and understands how it can be used, yet bans it in Hong Kong to prevent it from being used to fuel the independence movement. Aren't those statements contradictory?
Nice work, thanks for sharing! Do you plan to implement an RSS feed?
Longer paths, especially ones like these that require keyboard input, are especially painful from an accessibility perspective, where for most cases such typed fields make things take exponentially longer than if it can be achieved by just clicks/tabs/arrows.
Well in theory one of those countries is "free" - it's why you could buy Pravda at news stands in NYC but could not buy the New York Times in Moscow.
Thank you for using the correct acronym (CPC, Communist Party of China) rather than the incorrect acronym-of-the-colloquial-variant CCP, which seems to be achieving ascendancy in the discourse.

Acronyms are like variable names, we would do better to use the right one and then stick to it.
Because Democrats continue to play by 'the rules', which only works if everyone else does. And Republicans don't.

Quite frankly, this is starting to remind me of the lead-up to the civil war.
You’re correct that Mercury uses Haskell for its backend: https://serokell.io/blog/haskell-in-production-mercury
If your democracy is so rotten that a few teens dancing can bring it down I have bad news.
We juste released F3D 3.0.0, which now support armature rendering!
Censoring is different to banning though. Banning in this case is the correct word to use, censoring isn’t. You can censor things on a platform, you can’t censor a platform entirely - that is a ban.
Why are you assuming that your use case is the most common?
The new gold rush: why the precious metal has lost none of its allure
Yeah leave it here. You are probably tired after moving the goalposts so many times.
Wait. Trump coin could be a scam?! Shocked I am, shocked!
Sourcegraph.
In the Netherlands we have moved on from using tax payer money for live sports.
Public broadcasting shouldn't piss away millions on TV rights when the free market can do it.
Clue, Chess, D&D, etc are tabletop games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabletop_game
Informally, Asian cultures lean on family a lot more for generational support than Anglo cultures, but when you have less/no children it's pretty harsh.
If bot farms are effective, we probably have them. I doubt that bot farms are good enough to prefer over the "feed a story to friendly media" approach which has been working very well so far.
Pensions in Japan are divided in two systems: public and private.
Which one you have depend of your job type.

Public pensions are extremely low (~5600$/year). They are more a "survival minimal amount" for the elderly than a real retirement pension.

There is also a phenomenon of pride among the elderlies in Japan: It is almost unthinkable for them to ask money to their children (At the opposite, doing so is pretty common in China or Korea).

Considering this context and life conditions, it is no surprise that some elderly with the lowest pensions choose to turn into crime to try to overcome their situation.

Their is a lesson the west should take here: Western countries birthrate follows the direction of Japan ones. Considering our pension schemes will become also at risk, we might encounter exactly the same situation in some decades.
ByteDance is flexing as well. It knows it’s not going anywhere.
The point is they shouldn't have done it in the first place. It was obvious right from the start it's a bad idea, except maybe for temporarily boosting short term profits.

The whole AMD AI/ML strategy feels like this - prioritize short term profits and completely shoot themselves in the foot in the long term.
WhatsApp :)

(Kidding aside, your point is very valid)
> decision for the markets

You take so much for granted.

If these markets produce their version of 2008, building renewables and no storage, and then we have blackouts - will you stand by those words if the power grid collapses and people freeze to death?

With the ‘markets’ not ask for government intervention and bailouts at my expense?
Your article provides a compelling critique and highlights many important correlations. However, I find it somewhat incomplete when it comes to defining “success” This is a key point in Taleb’s arguments. Factors like inheritance and geographic location often play a much larger role in determining success in business or financial terms. Clearly not in scientific research.

The reference in the study on Danish people is intriguing, but it may skew the concept of normality since Denmark is a statistical outlier, being at the positive extreme in many metrics. This raises questions about the generalizability of the findings. I think testing on Danish people is great to debunk the wrong idea about that measurement of intelligence is pseudocientific but doesn't help with the "success" concept in other societies.

Both articles offer a good foundation for further discussion on IQ, but I believe they fall short by not addressing key concepts like crystallized and fluid intelligence, as well as memory. These are crucial components of intelligence that go beyond traditional IQ measurement techniques and deserve more attention. Those concepts clearly shows that the concept of IQ is no a pseudocientific thing.
Because this is awful? The way most other tools work is <command> <subcomand> <sub-subcommand> --option=argument argument.

There are so many ways to recall the command you typed from history... I don't understand your complains at all.
It might be worth trying the moderation tools that prevent interactions from accounts less than 24 hours old. Docs here https://docs.github.com/en/communities/moderating-comments-a...

I share your frustration with this, and in my experience a lot of noise comes from these types of accounts.
It is the President’s call for any _additional_ applications. It is not his call for TikTok or any other ByteDance applications.
In that context Mattel is the kind of selling molded plastic.
No it's not.

The Enabling Act removed the power of the legislature. This is the exact opposite - the legislature still has power.
Just use an alias. I don't understand why a problem with such a simple solution should cause such issues.
seems like among us without tasks
$Trump Meme Coin
This is an odd statement. GOP was in power from 2016-2020. People confuse entertainment and social media with news sources. Nearly anyone can pay to advertise with traditional or social media.

I think you're trying to describe Twitter and the other "conservative" media sources? These are for entertainment, but traditionally would advertise whoever paid them. Now the companies have been purchased or created to spread misinformation.
I have no idea. I hope it’s enough. Obviously we want to keep as much implementation work as FOSS as possible.
The law gives a new power. Doesn't say it has to be used. President can also nuke shit. Doesn't have to be used.
If I understood the algorithm correctly, it is using the standard WFC algorithm to generate blocks that match a constraint.

Then it creates a tiling of those blocks, and substitutes parts of the tiling with new blocks generated using WFC.

So it's a higher level algorithm, using WFC as its building block.
Seriously? When I've posted similar items [1] of similar provenance, they've been flagged in an HN minute.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/aolYez5
I know. That's why I wrote "value of TikTok". Not market cap of ByteDance.

And to get a controlling share of the merged entity, you'd need to be bring hundreds of billions of value to the merger, not a clownshoes AI startup.
The most-recent Minecraft version would continue to exist, and by the looks of Starlight and such would continue to be improved.
https://www.cursor.com/
Gives you access to all three plus Calude as well.
> This is where I doubt you – did the people who originally coined the term "CSAM" intend to exclude AI-generated images from the term's scope? You are assuming they did, but I'm not convinced you are right. I suspect you may be projecting your own views about how the term should be defined on to the people who originated it.

Knowing, as I do, the purpose (or at least the stated purpose) of coining the term—which, as I have very clearly stated, was to differentiate between situations where an actual real-life child is involved, vs those where none is: Yes, I am very confident that their intent would exclude AI-generated images. I can't see how any other conclusion could be drawn from what I've already said.
"Software forge" has a certain explanatory ring to it, but approximately nobody has any clue what SourceForge is, or even less, what it represented back in its heyday. The kids know github, many don't even know the difference between github and git, or slighly less concerning, assume git is a tool from github.
TikTok is much more than “a few teens dancing”, for a huge swath of population it’s how they get their news and how they find stuff.
I actually managed to buy it back after I insulted them and let them understand that I wasn't interested (so they let it lapse as well). And I've set it on auto-renew ever since.

But it's not like it didn't happen to Google too, so don't patronize me. It's a legitimate vulnerability if you use a domain name as a source of identity.
We used to set the desktop wallpaper to David Hasselhoff.
You raise a good point. Let me step back and say that previously it's mostly authoritarian countries doing it and this type of censorship is generally unacceptable in Western societies, that the US is fundamentally different from China in the freedoms they allow.

Today we are shown that the US government can't tolerate a single non-American service becoming mainstream after all. I fear this will become the norm and in a couple years' time, all countries will block all foreign internet services by default, only homegrown apps will exist. Think Canada, France, the UK each having their own versions of Google, Instagram, Reddit, everything.
How? The bill gives the president a power. SCOTUS has said the law is legal. Nothing compels the president to use the power. See Biden passing it along.
You are absolutely wrong.
> Even just "organizing" the code requires great amounts of knowledge and intuition from prior experiences.

> I personally enjoy coding so I can always keep doing it for entertainment, even if I am vastly surpassed by the machine eventually.

I agree with both these takes, and I think they’re far more important than wondering if hand written code is valuable.

I do some DIY around the house. I can make a moderately straight cut (within tolerances for joinery use cases). A jig or circular saw makes that skill moot, but knowing I need a straight clean cut is a transferable skill. There’s also two separate skills - being able to break down and understand the problem and being able to implement the details of the problem. In trade skills we don’t expect any one person to design, analyze, estimate, build, install and decorate anything larger than a small piece of furniture and I think the same can be said of programming.

It’s similar to using libraries/framesorks - there will always be people who will write shitty apps with shitty unmaintainable code - we’ve been complaining about that since I’ve been programming. Those people are going to move on from not understanding their wix websites to not understanding their AI generated code. But it’s another tool in the belt of a professional programmer
Capitalism has finally come full circle :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_each_according_to_his_abi...
That you idly watched learning nothing retaining nothing because after all, it was what the platform picked for you, not what you sought out?
The creator of Dialog, Linus Åkesson, went ahead and used it to create the winning entry for the IF Comp 2019. Does not look as if the source code was published, but I think winning that contest is the best indicator that a language for I-F is good enough to use in practice that I can imagine.

https://www.linusakesson.net/games/the-impossible-bottle/ind...
https://ifcomp.org/comp/2020?compact=0