skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I have spent the past few months teaching/mentoring another resident in a different facility in Maine who I was put in contact with. I had heard he matched my level of discipline by putting in 14 hour days learning every single day. That has been the most rewarding thing I’ve done, because he put in a tremendous amount of work and we are now hiring him this week and I am fortunate enough to see and have directly contributed to the same life altering changes that have happened to me over the past few years.

Getting out of the lifestyle of a dealing addict is, in fact, one of the toughest things to persevere trough. And in my opinion, pretty much impossible without outside help. Glad to read this guy got that help by being transferred to the Maine prison system and everything that happened from that point onward.

This was discussed last year, see the link by wonger_ just below.
You might be confusing language (a natural human skill which we evolved) and writing (a technology invented by humans, within the last 5-10 thousand years - very roughly).

As far as I’m aware, there no evidence that modern humans ever existed without language. And other recent hominid species that until recently co-existed with our ancestors probably had language too.

So probably there was never a human without language. Any non-lingual ancestor of ours was not human and probably pre-dates humans.

As for writing, to be reductionist, it is essentially arbitrary.
Another forum that I frequent is bogleheads.org (about investing and personal finance), and one of the rules is that discussing politics and proposed legislation is off-limits. But obviously when a new law (e.g. on taxes) is actually passed then discussion of how we're personally affected becomes appropriate and necessary.

That might be a good model for generally striking an appropriate balance: be informed about new major legislation (or executive orders, court decisions, etc.) when they happen, but skip all the day-to-day drama about who said what on the House or Senate floor, or in an interview, or on X in between such things. I've seen it suggested many times that the Wikipedia current events portal is all that one should look at, and it would probably accomplish this.
Author here: Thank you so much for posting the article! I'm happy to answer any questions about the project.

If you find this interesting, I wrote an overview of how I approach these projects: https://ajxs.me/blog/Introduction_to_Reverse-Engineering_Vin...

I'm currently messing around inside the Casio CZ101, another cool 80s digital synth.
I remember spell checking my essays for high school on the commodore 64, using Paperclip 64, in 1984, Before there was ANY Microsoft windows. Spell check took a few minutes, because it read the dictionary from disk as it checked, and after that you could go thru all the words that it couldn't match.
I think reducing the amount of news one consumes at least slightly improves things. Unfortunately, my wife and many of my loved ones are targets of Trump and his minions, so I can't totally tune things out, but consuming less news media at least makes for less internalization.
The language surrounding this which basically heaps praise on Trump makes it seem like it was a condition he gave, that he must be given clear unambiguous credit, so he can go around saying he saved it, even though he was the one who signed an executive order in 2020 to ban it[0]. Anything to manipulate the American people’s perception of him. It feels like we’re living in Russia or North Korea with the stuff that goes on these days. Truly scary watching an oligarchy take shape realtime.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2020/08/06/900019185/trump-signs-executi...
everything… the world does not revolve solely around USA. the EU should ban all US social media companies too unless they are sold to one of EU countries, that makes sense, right?
Because seems insane to think that only because U.S says that Bytedance need to be divest or be banned, that any company will prefer to divest... And if the company doesn't do it, it's because of "hidden reasons"

We are talking about a single country.
I loathe ROS as much as the next guy but is there any serious free alternative with much community?
> the hotels were functioning that way through the entire administration last time

Sure, but it's a matter of scale. It's difficult to rent a billion dollars worth of hotel rooms.

> and the $DJT stock is already doing this as well

Yep, that's another scam.

> What you’re pointing out is just not a unique aspect of crypto

Yes and no. Crypto offers a uniquely unregulated and perhaps unregulatable means for malfeasance. NASDAQ tickers are tame in comparison.

Fwiw, the moral of the story is not "all crypto is evil" but rather "crypto should be regulated like any other instrument in order to prevent fraud" and perhaps as a corollary "sitting presidents shouldn't be issuing their own meme coin."
Especially when individual liberty is in contention with collective liberty. This is the "hard problem" for organizing a free society.

Eliminating traffic laws would make individuals more free in a literal sense, but those rules also make it so people can get from place to place quickly and safely. The liberty interpretation is that what people actually want is to travel, not to drive however they like. So you trade a freedom most people don't miss to enable another.

Vaccine mandates are a great example of this contention where under normal circumstances nobody cares about having to get vaccinated but they do care about not getting polio. Covid was strange in that the number of people opposed was significantly larger than I think anyone expected.
Trump's Cryptocurrency Surges to Become One of the Most Valuable
> FWIW, this specific feature - what they are now calling sub-issues - is actually better described as a framework for modeling proper parent-child relationships in their system, which is something quite hard to get right

That's a wrong framework to use. Parent/child relationship is a special case of dependencies between tasks, which can be more generally modeled as start/finish relationships, i.e. one of: Start-to-Start, Start-to-Finish, Finish-to-Start and Finish-to-Finish; parent-child relationship is Finish-to-Finish here. This distinction starts to matter if you want to plan out more work items than you can quickly eyeball on a Kanban board, and it's all well-trodden ground with nearly century worth of prior art, to which our entire industry is entirely oblivious.

Useful search terms: PERT, Gantt charts, critical path, PMBOK.

Popular software occasionally spotted in use in our industry (usually by PMs, in secret) that supports it: MS Project, maybe Jira, ... is there anything else?
Julia Dynamic and Static Dispatch
Julia package that provides macros for dynamic and static dispatch of function calls based on the types of the input arguments.
> large multinational corporations financially supporting politicians

You do realize that Rupert Murdoch was forced to become a US citizen because of the same laws that are in question about US media ownership.

Social media is 100% the media. Social media has freedom of speech. Businesses don't have freedom of ownership, including media business. Kinda fucky, but this is very long standing law.
It's entertaining in the US too.
Or they found Instagram is censoring things, and boosting others, as demanded by the US government

Which we know to be true for Covid or Palestine/Israel
Realism shared. I work with journalists, exactly the type of normies who would most benefit from this technology. Years of evangelism has had no effect whatsoever. Nobody they know is using it, they don't see the logo anywhere, or a big friendly "Get started" button. It's all so unfamiliar and technical-sounding. Even the name itself was a disaster, IMO: a hopelessly geeky and opaque acronym. It should have been called Webfeeds! It's all such a wasted opportunity.
Communism is whatever someone says it to be, so it isn't a very meaningful label. The term socialism is used a lot more than communism these days, although the party hasn't changed their name.

If you read Marx, communism isn't possible to achieve until after capitalism has run its course, so the way things are in China ATM are perfectly at harmony with that.
> That removed any hope for many elderlies to capitalize on their properties for their retirement.

Canada is absolutely not the model to follow. The absurd housing market means that actual, productive economic activity isn't happening. In the last decade we've fallen behind many of our peers in standard of living and average income.
And Mac copied it from Xerox. But it was indeed the introduction of GUIs and WYSIWYG "what you see is what you get": the screen had to mimic paper.
I'm glad you like them!
> How did you manage to reach this conclusion?

I think it's fairly obvious, no? The originally presented case was that Trump had received payment for assuring TikTok's survival. I've noted a few times in this thread that this is a really poor framing, and that it's more likely his actions were motivated by politics, not fiduciary gain.
> The national security risk is the US military apparently not being able to convince its own soldiers to be thoughtful about cybersecurity.

That's not really a new problem. The problem is as old as time, even before the internet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loose_lips_sink_ships

When I was deployed in 2011 we didn't carry cell phones because:

1. Jammers will render your antenna unusable or potentially damage your device.

2. The country that controls the infrastructure now has the inside scoop on who you are, what you're doing, and where you are. Even if they country is an ally, it only takes a few individuals to start mass exfiltration.

TikTok was turning into infrastructure for social dialogue except that it had a new capability compared to the cell phones of 2011: it could be manipulated at scale, and quickly with the combination of algorithms and outrage culture.
Is this not exactly what one would expect from "If you need info on anyone at Harvard just ask, they 'trust me', dumb fucks"
Republicans probably love to see Trump ignoring Congress even if it's a law they passed. Now you've essentially got a large chunk of the population (youth especially) cheering that Trump saved the day by acting like a dictator. Gives him opportunity to do more of the same.
You're missing the point. On Bluesky, if you block me, it's not just that you don't see my replies. It's that other people don't either.
Hush money payments are not illegal, even for candidates. Congress has an $18 million slush fund for settling claims of sexual harassment: https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20240613/117426/HHRG.... Those all have NDAs.

The judge summarized the case for the jury as follows:

> The allegations reflect in substance, that Donald Trump falsified business records to conceal an agreement with others to unlawfully influence the 2016 presidential election. Specifically, it is alleged that Donald Trump made or caused false business records to hide the true nature of payments made to Michael Cohen, by characterizing them as payment for legal services rendered pursuant to a retainer agreement. The People allege that in fact, the payments were intended to reimburse Michael Cohen for money he paid to Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels, in the weeks before the presidential election to prevent her from publicly revealing details about a past sexual encounter with Donald Trump.

That summary implies that paying off Stormy Daniels "to prevent her from publicly revealing details" about the affair was the unlawful act. But under what law? And why wasn't he just charged with that law directly?
Thank you for finding this.

Could this please be made the link for the item ?
It's possible to ban at finer granularity, specifically CIDR blocks, using the Routeviews project reverse-DNS lookup:

<https://www.routeviews.org/routeviews/>

That also provides the associated AS, enabling blocking at that level as well, if warranted.
Yeah, I should do that instead. I'm just so tired of people uncritically and emphatically spreading falsehoods, especially in cases like these, when it's not a function of philosophy or viewpoint, and can be found to be objectively wrong, despite initial insistence. But yeah, downvote, move on.
What if my own needs for security hygiene don’t line up with our governments?
Lol where do you even get something so easily disproven like this? I care for neither Israel nor Palestine, but I see more or less equal coverage of both sides (not so much my side, funnily enough) on every platform.

Reddit is both anti-Israel and anti-Palestine depending on the sub. News channels will be one or the other depending on the slant and there's plenty on both sides. Most of instagram is people from both sides shouting at each other about how the other gets more representation/are more evil. Same with facebook. I don't use Twitter or any Twitter clones, but I assume Mastodon has a Palestinian slant while Twitter probably has a slight Israeli slant (shitposting aside). Even on HackerNews you'll see both stances often. I guess 4chan would have my stance, since they hate Israel because antisemitism but also hate Arabs.

Do people just make shit up like this for a laugh? I really don't get it, yet see it so often espoused.
In the US, lobbyists representing foreign interests must register as such. Failure to register is a crime: that's what Michael Flynn was convicted of, before Trump pardoned him.

In contrast, any foreign party can purchase $TRUMP.
Okay, fine, let's play this game.

What did Trump do to get TikTok back online?
Melania Trump joins her husband in the meme coin billions business
Could still have been random

https://xkcd.com/221/

https://web.archive.org/web/20011027002011/http://dilbert.co...
If China had America by the balls half as bad as Israel does, we'd be watching Biden and Trump take turns kissing Xi Jinping's feet on live television right now. It's besides the point and doesn't contribute to better foreign policy choices, just gives justification to the wrong ones.
"Shut down in the US" not shut down everywhere, if I'm not mistaken. It also doesn't seem like an obvious violation of their fiduciary duty. The eventual growth in all other jurisdictions could easily be claimed to be worth more than the sale price, and it could also be argued that selling to US holders would harm the platform internationally.
The executive order will just be baldly illegal, and what happens in the litigation on it is the next battle.

TikTok is, as we speak, breaking US law.
It will be interesting to see Tesla's sales figures across this year in Europe. It looks like they're headed for a decline. Musk has done too much brand damage.
Unless very extreme circumstances apply and a judge orders a jury not to talk, people on juries are generally allowed to talk about what happened after the fact. However, there are often very strict rules on soliciting jury members to talk to you and courts give jury members quite a bit of anonymity protection so that they can exercise their right not to speak about high-profile cases.

Generally, Jurors who want to talk about it in public are few and far between because there is no upside and a lot of downside.
It seems much easier for terminal and IDE apps to choose background colors to apply to sections of code when your app background is light; with a dark app background it seems harder to find pairs of text bg and fg colors that are clearly distinguishable and also distinguishable from the app background. That said, I'm the author of an app with this challenge so would love help/suggestions on this front. (Is there any theoretical reason for it to be true?)
By all means say what you mean John, we're all adults here and no one's impressed by tiptoeing.
Does this apply for malware? Trojans? Websites that host child pornography?

Or does it just apply to the brainrotting addiction machine that shoves 800 videos a minute at teenagers?
I am not talking about replies and retweets. Those are literally posts from people I dont follow and are not reposts. 4 day old post is followed by posts posted only hours ago.
Maybe he should get in touch with the Foreign Affairs minister and ask about Romania's latest presidential elections.

Or, closer to home, maybe he can check the FYP of all those people that were recently jailed for race rioting.

Turns out, it's not all cat videos. Turns out, sometimes is foreign-backed propaganda.
People voted.
It depends on what happens after the litigation over it. It will be a revolutionary departure if the law continues to not be enforced, after the courts demand it be, if they do.
You talk about censorship but if things are happening it will be a lot more subtle than that; more about what you show than what you hide. Peoples opinions are already shifted a lot by what reels they watch. By controlling what people see you control what people think; at least many enough.

Censorship is outdated. With the amount of data and reach TikTok has they have something more akin to mind control.

Principle being the same as traditional politisized media, but the effectiveness of TikTok is just on another level. You see "people like you" sharing what they honestly believe for good reasons. Only thing TikTok did was decide to show that clip, and not the other clip of a person like you saying the opposite thing, also hearthfeltly and for good reasons...
Well Dem and Biden already sealed their fate as the party that ban Bytedance universe (TikTok + Capcut), while Dear Leader Trump restored the services :).

Let's see what the zoomers and millenials will say for next elections
Managing Reliability of a Complex Data Processing Pipeline with Composite SLOs
There isn’t enough time for the current President to enforce this. A convincing pledge from the incoming guy that he’ll allow them to continue operating is all it would take. How you get a convincing pledge out of this guy, I have no idea, but apparently they believe it.
If you want a Professional White Background™ then that's what Reader Mode is for.
Cant trust anyone, ever.
Which is why we have ancillary and capacity markets?

We have identified a few key areas where pricing energy is not enough and therefore price available of physical properties.
America IS a foreign nation doing it.
An advanced RSS reader/browser could bring back the magic of the web.
And ethical use of AI demands a solid moral intuition, which one can logically and convincingly convert into explainable actions in a variety of practical settings. A hard-core philosophical analysis will be all but useless here as well.
Accidents, not Russian sabotage, behind undersea cable damage
Indeed. That's just my pretty terrible skills for naming striking again. "systemfd" is supposed to be a pun on "systemd" since the socket activation protocol is basically the same, and "listenfd" is supposed to mean "listen from an fd passed".
You're saying that this Chinese app has a US government mandated back door that the Chinese could use?
Traditional normal is not an absolute statement. Sure DOS / Unix back in the early days of PC displayed black backgrounds due the display's at the time working better this way.

Before that, people shared information in white paper; and the beginning of the internet brought it back with black text over white background.

Therefore there is no canonical traditional normal, it all depends when one joined.
If someone wishing to get in Trump's good graces purchased $10M in $TRUMP coins directly from his holding company, it would not be obvious bribery since he would be selling those assets at "fair market value".

Since such transactions would be off-exchange, they would not impact the traded price much, and some of the money could be recycled to support the publicly traded price high.

It's going to be a crazy four years.
I like the proposal to have gray background at least. Glaring white is too much. I like reading HN because background is not glaring. For my taste it could be even a bit darker but it is good enough.
I mean this does exist and is already integrated: Reader mode.

OP could just use that if they want to get rid of styling and get a consistent look.
What does the absolute number of shares tell you?
A more secure card doesn't make surveillance any harder. If anything, it's the opposite. An easily copyable UID makes bad data more plausible. Bad data makes surveillance harder.
I remember that - in the early 2000s CRT era. Then LCDs got popular and it was forgotten.
One thing that always sticks out to me watching The Traitors, and which this article finally clarified for me, is that many players treat it as an iterated game, and it's not.

It's so common to hear things like "I'll take one for the team", but that's only ever a good move to make in an iterated game, assuming you're not entirely altruistic. There are "sub games" within this and it can apply there certainly, but that's not the only context where you hear players saying things like this (or often, encouraging others to take one for the team).

I think it's that these concepts are memes, embedded in our language and behaviour, but that many people don't think through their application to the situation they're actually in. I see this a lot in life, people doing things or advocating for things that "come next in the sequence", without thinking about their context and whether it makes sense in the moment.
Because the people 250 years ago could not have imagined the problems that we'd have invented for ourselves in these days. It was always meant to be a living document with a process of adding and changing amendments. And in between that time the the way people interact has grown more complex. If you took those same intelligent men and dropped them into today, the Amendments would look different.
Heard their next domestic aircraft are being designed and build by the same folks who build the Lada.
The problem with time based feeds is this.

You can read x articles a day; your system ingests y articles a day.

x=y is perfect but requires close-to-perfect balance (if x=0.9y to 1.1y maybe you can adjust your reading habit to your your feed)

if x>y then your system isn't showing you enough, if y<x you are going to miss things you subscribe to based on some arbitrary or random characteristic.

With an algorithmic feed of some kind you choose to read x items a day, your system shows you the best x items a day out of y based on some set of criteria and constraints.

These things are common sense but seemingly nonsensical to a lot of people. For instance our impoverished rights-based discourse (see [1]) about "free speech" presupposes that 100% of people can read 100% of what everybody else posts, realistically platforms can only show people some fraction of what gets posted so one thing is going to get more visibility and other things get less and that's a choice -- it could be random but it's still a choice. (As Rush would put it, "if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice")

I think the discussion is so impoverished that we never hear that an algorithm could choose to do anything other than maximize profits for a platform, when in fact that is just one thing an algorithm could do out of countless options.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Rights-Talk-Impoverishment-Political-...
> It does little or nothing really well, but it does everything kind of okay.

Yes. ROS is basically mediocre interprocess middleware with a standard interface used by much academic software. So you can hack stuff together without too much trouble. It won't be efficient or reliable, but it's useful.

Think of it as the PHP level of robotics.
What makes email so resilient? Decentralization and federation. Like Mastodon and activity pub