skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> His net worth was estimated at $294 million, up from $74 million the previous year. In 2004, the same publication estimated his net worth at $12 million. His wealth increase was due to large monetary transfers from his wife's family.

You do realize these people have friends and family.

> Who cares?

Insider trading deprives _all other_ legitimate participants of the market. That the trade is small relative to this individual net worth is meaningless. That is value that should have been captured by someone else taking a genuine risk. It's a thumb on the scale of the market and it is morally repugnant.
> Telling me where I can publish a video?

This is like arguing graffiti laws are censorship.
The difference between protocols and these social media giants is like the difference between C and Excel.
There has definitely been a rightward shift in SV management and ownership. Maybe a lesser shift in individual workers, but it's really hard to tell. And frankly, that hardly merits a footnote when compared to the sums that the wealthiest can spend on elections now.
The Trump and Dump is back boys!
This operation seems a bargain for buying Tiktok, nothing more. The main contradiction is preventing competition and being a monopoly. The government is trying to prevent more competition and create more confort zones for monopolies. They don't care about free speech. Finally, they are part of this business.
I guess we know now why TikTok voluntarily went dark.

Wonder which companies will be assured by TikTok's assurances there will be no consequences for helping them break the law.

I just hope this causes congress to dig their heels in again. Almost can't believe what I'm seeing.
Privacy and Decentralization with Multicast (2020)
I'm skeptical that Bernstein vs DOJ would apply, to a [foreign-controlled] company that is not publishing their algorithm, on the idea that allowing their [trade-secret] code to control how hundreds of millions of people interact with each other is somehow free speech on ByteDance's part.

The foreign-controlled part in particular implicates Congress's obvious and explicit power to regulate international trade, and it seems obvious to me that there would be something less than strict scrutiny applied to alleged violations of the 1A when that Congressional power is in play.
Douyin is the Chinese TikTok equivalent. China isn't opposed to the concept of short form video, they just want to segregate Chinese users into their own app
Yes, there is very little public sourcing for what hostile powers plan to do in a geopolitical struggle. That's how it goes.

It is perfectly reasonable to infer what might happen based on past actions by the specific powers, and on world history. Attempting to gain geopolitical influence through propaganda is nothing new.
Yeah I mean idk what to tell you, your comment is 100% vibes and wavey metaphors. The reality is that China gets to control which videos get put in the FYP and there are plenty of good videos with "controversial political stance A" vs "B" to pick between based on their agenda.
0.1 seconds is a long time in drag racing where the timing tree is very different to F1. With F1 there are the five red lights that have to go out, and the time this takes is random.

With your git commands it is fairly predictable what happens next, it is not as if the computer is randomly taunting you with five lights.

I suggest a further patch where you can put git in either 'F1 mode', or, for our American cousins, 'Drag Strip mode'. This puts it in to a confirmation mode for everything, where the whole timing sequence is shown in simplified ASCII art.

As a European, I would choose 'F1 mode' to have the give lights come on in sequence, wait a random delay and then go out, for 'git push' to happen.

I see no reason to also have other settings such as 'Ski Sunday mode', where it does the 'beep beep beep BEEEP' of the skiing competition. 'NASA mode' could be cool too.

Does anyone have any other timing sequences that they would like to see in the next 'patch'?
This whole charade has had me laughing since yesterday.

The Caesars of Rome often played these public games to make themselves look magnanimous, while at the same time consolidating power and control.

Julius Caesar's rise to power is one example.
The justices on the Supreme Court analyzed the constitutionality of this law under a free speech basis. The Per Curiam opinion of the court suggested the correct standard was intermediate scrutiny as an abridgment of free speech. Justice Sotomayor suggested in her concurrence that strict scrutiny (the highest standard) was appropriate.

They concluded that these regulations were okay at those levels of scrutiny, but it is not absurd or ridiculous to analyze these as forms of speech, and indeed, our courts do so.

That said, just because there is a conflict with freedom of speech doesn’t prevent all government regulation, it just means the laws involved must pass an elevated level of scrutiny. That applies here, for multiple reasons, and with multiple parties.
I'm new to embedded systems programming and looked into ROS recently, without using it, while figuring out a minimal software stack for a UAV project (px4 over ArduPilot for the flight controller, but what to run on a "companion" computer is open ended). [my XP is in cloud infra, RESTful microservices, web apps, videogames]

Researchers, hobbyists, and some industry professionals (for prototyping?) seem to love ROS for its big community, logging/debugging/visualisation tools (rosbag, rviz), the pub/sub architecture (easy integration and loose coupling with third party modules), existing support for many sensors/peripherals/hardware components; plus off-the-shelf libs for SLAM, navigation, inverse kinematics, etc.

But ROS is hated by others for its custom build system (on top of CMake), the custom language-agnostic IDL for message types (like Protobuf but worse, esp. for versioning and backwards compatibility), non-determinism and untestability of the pub/sub model (esp. for safety-critical stuff), overengineering and layers of indirection / learning curve, poor performance, and high platform lock-in.

Looking at ROS as a robotics noob, it seems like useful 'muddleware' for toy projects, but where every sub-problem that it abstracts away from you can be solved better by other existing tools. I'm looking more into: Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit [1], Yet Another Robot Platform [2], genom3 [3], and Open Robot Control Software [4] (all C++). Or the Rust ones like RoboPLC [5], Dora-rs [6], Copper-rs [7], and Basis [8] (which supports Protobuf!).

If you're not using ROS for a "serious" project, do you use other middleware offerings or just pick 'n' mix lower-level libs tailored for your use cases?

[1] https://mrpt.org

[2] https://www.yarp.it

[3] https://git.openrobots.org/projects/genom3

[4] https://orocos.org/

[5] https://github.com/roboplc/roboplc

[6] https://github.com/dora-rs/dora

[7] https://github.com/copper-project/copper-rs

[8] https://github.com/basis-robotics
Most manufatures that used TrackPoint's in the past positioned them wrong... Too low or high within the keyboard or the buttons were in uncomfortable positions.

I would say mainly IBM and Lenovo have the positioning correct as well as on some models TrackPoint buttons.

So if you had tried most of dell's attempts and tought it was useless, that's because it was even though its a simular implimentation :)

I would certainly buy a Thinkpad T14 with the classic keyboard layout << T420 >> in a heart beat... << even if it had to be thinker >> standard price not x2 mess that was the Thinkpad 25.

(( I currently have 6 working thinkpads ))
> China's using Tik Tok to subvert "democracy"

And has there ever been an example for that or is it just a hypothetical scenario?
I would like to know what he thinks of RISC-V.

But programming in assembly is not viable for large scale.
Where are you finding 60 Senators for that?
In a sane world Congress would be furious at the executive overreach.
> The word populist has ended up with a confused set of meanings (intentionally). What we have now is a war between different groups of elites

Of course. The masses never exercise political power directly. As you point out, it's disaffected factions of the elite that claim and wield the moral authority of the masses to defeat other elites. It's been this way since the Optimates and Populares persecuted each other in a centuries-long spiral of escalating stupidity culminating in political upheavel.

Nevertheless, disaffected elites can't swing the club of popular opinion against other elites with any effect unless there is some non-zero dot-product alignment between their governance and popular opinion. In exchange for at least partially enacting popular policy, upstart elites get a tool for deposing other elites. The people win in the end.

Fantastic book: https://www.amazon.com/Political-Order-Decay-Industrial-Glob...

(Yes, Fukuyama was wrong about the end of history. He's atoned for it and more.)
Money helps but it can't reliably buy elections. The losing side in the 2024 Presidential election actually raised more campaign funding.

https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race
Def how I consume HN. It’s even nice to see flagged and dead which I wouldn’t see easily if I came via the HN homepage.
Thousands of people do it, so millions of people can? You somehow distilled 100+ steps into 2 sentences like they are fundamentally understood by the masses who struggle with the idea of file system. You have fallen victim to the exact hacker mentality OP stated.
He's not just any private citizen, he's the president elect who will be inaugurated in a day. I'm sure his word carries way more weight than mine.

I'm not privy to the specific words that were exchanged, so it's hard to be precise. But I imagine it was some form of Trump saying "by tomorrow, I will give you a 90-day extension. I have a gentleman's agreement with the current government that if you do not stop your services in the 24 hours between now and my inauguration, you won't face any issues, so please carry on and we will clean this mess up later".

If you want a private citizen analogy, it's similar to someone saying they won't press charges despite a third-party being in flagrant illegal behavior. In this case, it's the US government saying they won't press charges. Both Biden and Trump have said as much, if my understanding of the case is correct, and one can assume they have discussed this with the appropriate branches of government.
I think of GitHub as a sad story. There are probably going to be at least 3 public companies that should have "just" been GitHub features: GitLab (GitHub Enterprise), Sourcegraph (search), and Linear (GitHub Issues). There are dozens of upstarts "unbundling" features of GitHub that are genuinely useful, but which are under-loved and under-invested in, and surely some of those will become successful too. It feels like GitHub continuously invents the future, and then waits for someone else to make it truly great.

It is so painful to watch because I love GitHub so much. I graduated college in 2013, which means I started programming right when they got started. I read their dev blog every single day, eagerly waiting for new features (which were released every couple days). I watched their team page grow, I looked carefully at what they did to deserve a spot at such a cool company. I scoured the projects they contributed back to for hints about what good code looked like (my favorite was Vicent Martí's contributions to libgit2). I eagerly taught my friends how to use git because university taught subversion. I wrote my own Rails tutorials as a way to learn the magic.

But it's been years now, and it's not an easy love. It's work! It's so painful to watch it get continuously lapped by upstarts. I always just thought the core offerings (Pull Requests and Issues) would get better eventually. And now, 14 years later, they finally are. But very slowly. I really want to believe, but after 16 years, it is starting to sink in that GitHub might just be a place to store files.

The magic is still in there. I think there are lots of people like me, who want to believe. But it will take real agency to do it, and that's really hard to muster at this stage in a company's life.
Except the charges related to business records dated February 14-December 5, 2017.
Relative.

For example, the page:

https://website/blog/1-post

contains:

href="2-post"

Browsers and other bots like Google Bot correctly interpret this as a link to

https://website/blog/2-post

While OpenAI crawler goes to:

https://website/blog/1-post/2-post

I wonder is there some way to report this bug to them?
Next thing you know they just reimplement JIRA and everyone starts writing posts how much they hate it.
Was waiting for rustaceans to come and base c/cpp.. didn’t take long
> As far as “squeezing” creators goes… no, more centralized means higher demand which means higher pay and more control in creators hands.

Not at all. You forget that platform owners can suspend or ban someone without much recourse. "That's a nice channel you got there.. be a shame if something happened to it" and all that.
This is one of the reasons why I'm building my app in Flutter and not Swift/Android, which is not mentioned a lot in cross-platform vs. native discussions. Neither of the native frameworks compile to JS/we assembly, making it useless if the app gets randomly deleted from stores.
> Democrats decided they did not like the results of the “anyone can talk to anyone” social media revolution

The ban was and remains deeply bipartisan.
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> Git can already do that with colours, so it can also use more verbose for basic commands.

You already answered your own question. There's plenty of terminals that don't support colors. Plenty that don't support 16 bit colors. Do a grep into a curl and you'll find some fun shenanigans.

> This has nothing to do with understanding the model or model itself.

You're right. This has to do with you thinking your usecase is the best or most common.

As stated before, there is no average user[0]. So the intent is that you have the command that can be built upon. Is everyone unhappy with the base command? Probably. But is is always easier to build up than to tear down.

[0] Again, linux servers and linux embedded devices significantly out number users. Each of them do. So even if there were an average user, guess what, it wouldn't be you.
> aren't we really saying voters are not individual agents but rather a mob subject to manipulation by propaganda?

I invite you to consider the possibility that this is true. That at the population level, propaganda actually works. This would support the fact that it's been a key tool used by regimes (including ours) since before the printing press was invented.

I don't really know for certain whether this is accurate, but it's hard for me to look around the world at global politics and determine that it isn't.
Did you read the opinion? It did its analysis as requiring some level of scrutiny because of the free speech implications under intermediate (and in Sofomayor’s concurrence strict) scrutiny. It held the national security concern outweighed the free speech concern but it absolutely did not say it was relevant in the analysis.
I like how Musk seems to be single-handedly shattering the fragile unity of the internet far-right. Feuding with Bannon, now with the neo-Gamergate tendency… His breakup with Donald will be a sight to behold.
It does. You can’t describe one party as the when the adjective fits both.

“Republicans are the party with mostly white male congresspeople” implies that the other party isn’t.
AT proto is a cleartext protocol, hiding content is a matter of clients respecting a flag, a false sense of privacy. If you want to restrict the audience of a post, you should post it encrypted and send keys to intended recipients
Nobody is far enough, not with that actual power. Everything is connected and ripple effects travel far.

Plus our european politicians are weak and largely clueless, we will fold in front of China and let them roll over our automotive industry. There is war at our doorstep and enemy who repeatedly claimed he will wipe out half of our population, yet our reaction is next to 0, both immediate and long term.
Is there any way to replace the dedicated RNG with the YubiKey RNG? The OpenPGP applet allows you to query its internal RNG [0].

[0] - https://developers.yubico.com/PGP/YubiKey_5.2.3_Enhancements...
Thanks for running these checks. I’m learning from this too!
Certainly, you express what used to be (and probably still is?) conventional wisdom. But, some of us have changed our opinions on this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
I think that time handling is the most hard thing in the world of programming.

Explanation: you can learn heap sort or FFT or whatever algorithm there is and implement it. But writing your own calendar from scratch, that will do for example chron job on 3 am in the day of DST transition, that works in every TZ, is a work for many people and many months if not years...
I disagree, almost all products are intentionally bad and only continue to get worse. Ironically, it's due to the free market.

There's too much competition in virtually all product spaces and so these products have to compete on price. The idealized free market philosophy is that consumers will buy higher quality products, but they don't, they almost always buy cheaper products. Any "quality" improvement is therefore used to make the product cheaper, not better. For example, if you design a new material that's 20% stronger then your product does not become 20% stronger, rather you use 20% less material.

But even that is just a break even approach, which doesn't actually work for very long. Your competitors are actively cutting quality, so if you're just breaking even then you're on your way out. So why don't customers buy from you?

Because of the limitations of humans. Humans can't perceive small differences and humans are forgetful. It's safe to cut quality by, say, 1% every year forever. Nobody notices from point A to B, and then by the time they're comparing Z to A they don't really remember A.

There exists a short period of time, perhaps a couple decades maximum, where a product category is getting better and higher quality. From then on until the absolute end of that product, they can only get worse in quality. The exception is products that are exempt from the free market for one reason or another.
Graffiti laws are also evaluated under heightened scrutiny due to free speech implications. A law having an impact on free speech does not mean it never holds, but it must be analyzed in that context. Here’s an example: https://southerncalifornialawreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2...
I’m not surprised they don’t do that well in the PNW. It’s nothing like their home range.

Florida might be another story. I can’t imagine we have much research on the benefits of glowing plants in the wild, either.
Because they haven't done anything terribly interesting anyways, so unless I prefer AGPL there's no point. I'm pretty sure I will wind up diverging very quickly if I actually commit to this.
The prompts I have come up with all result in Python being it's preferred programming language.
I'm not sure if this is the best approach but I've found just talking less combined with a heavy dose of humility helps a lot.
And what is their political alignment in this case (and in general)? Considering that banning tiktok got voted with bipartisan support.
I love how the US government had exempted US government accounts from the ban.. Lmaooo
Does everyone think critically and rationally? If not how many don't (especially during key election periods) and can this group cast an oversized influence on election results or public opinion?

Having the choice of two options at the ballot box, and social media meaning many people now form political opinions from anonymous accounts online does not fill me with confidence.
Service operators are responsible for following the law in locales they are operating in. Other than existing, what law is TikTok violating?

I’m all for controlling propaganda. Where are the rules?
Also HN absolutely has an Overton window. It has an entire system to enforce it (the voting and points system).
I'm not sure it is- even if you think the electorate are educated and competent, it still makes sense to delegate the specific decisions to a smaller set of individuals who are given the time and resources to get into the detail. It just scales better.
Sounds like a great PR success.

People love being on the in circle of something "naughty".
Real wages but not buying power. And that ignores all the unemployment rate rising (U-3 and U-6). If you had a job and kept it in 2024, you're only slightly better off than 2023 and probably slightly worse than 2022.

If you don't been devastating. Now watch it go down in 2025 and unemployment get worse for Americans as well.
That's one of the things. Even in human-written fiction, the depths of any character you read about is pure smoke and mirrors. People regularly perceive fictional characters as if they are real people (and it's fun to do so), but it would be impossible for an author to simulate a complete human being in their head.

It seems that LLMs operate a lot like I would in improv. In a scene, I might add, "This is the fifth time you've driven your car into a ditch this year." I don't know what the earlier four times were like. No one there had any idea I was even going to say that. I just say it as a method of increasing stakes and creating the illusion of history in order to serve a narrative purpose. I'll often include real facts to serve the verisimilitude of a scene, but I don't have time to do real fact checking. I need to keep the momentum going and will gladly make up facts as a suits the narrative and my character.
> should have highest performance priority so that internally it stays on p cores

Everything will decide that it wants P cores; it's not punished for battery or energy impact, and wants to win over other applications for users to have a better experience with it.

And even if not made in bad faith, it doesn't know what else is running on the system.

Also these decisions tend to be unduly influenced by microbenchmarks and then don't apply to the real system.

> which threads are sharing a lot of memory

But if they're not super active, should the scheduler really change what it's doing? And doesn't the size of that L2 matter? It doesn't matter if e.g. the stuff is going to get churned out before there's a benefit from that sharing.

In the end, if you don't know pretty specific details of the environment you'll run on: what the hardware is like, what loading is like, what data set size is like, and what else will be running on the machine -- it is probably better to leave this decision to the scheduler.

If you do know all those things, and it's worth tuning this stuff in depth-- odds are you're HPC and you know what the machine is like.
"Darren Jones defends decision to allow app to continue running in UK as it stops working in US ahead of national ban"

Crazy how this half-a-day ban in the US triggers chatter about bans in European countries.
Yeah, I think need to get over thinking it's bad to self-promote and just go for it. I'll check out your blog!