skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://archive.is/7RmKh
I have a very hard time relating to everyone else complaining about ~~lack of units~~ being unable to read/remember API docs. But using `chunk_time_ms` where ms is MICROseconds?! That's unforgivable, and I hope for all our sakes, you don't have to use that lib anymore! :D
We Sent Pekora to Space
> "Our economy isn’t one that produces things to be used, but things that increase usage."

...the quote, *AS A SOUNDBITE*, only sounds good on a surface level, but collapses under the slightest test. All products in some form or another increase the usage of resources in order to reach a certain goal.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-anti-economy/

The article, where the quote originates from, contextualizes the quote marking (a) the difference between products in service of an actual goal, (b) products that are only meant to look good on a balance sheet, and (c) how companies have morphed towards (b) in order to attract investor funds and increase share prices / company market values.

The quote, BY ITSELF AND WITHOUT CONTEXT, is a twisted Neo-luddist version of its original self.
Direct link: https://nypost.com/2025/01/17/business/staffers-say-amazon-b...
On the phones of Trump and Vance, according to Wikipedia. Let's compose a Trump tweet on the issue:

"I was told that China had Salt Typhoon on my phone. I have always loved Salt Typhoon, it's a good thing. I talked to Elon, he'll fix it by merging TikTok with X paid in X shares. Let's focus now on making America great again."
This specific law draws the line at social media. That seems reasonable!

As a rough heuristic, compare advertising on social media vs on traditional tv. Note: we've actually (intentionally) reduced the effectiveness of online advertising (you can no longer target as narrowly)

Imagine being able to make sure that a very specific person receives a very specific type of propaganda. These are power tools. It is not in the United States' interest to allow foreign adversaries (countries that specifically view the relationship as adversarial) to wield them

You can be cynical. You should say the power tools shouldn't exist. But given that they do exist and given that we have a very limited amount of agreement in the US, is it better to ban TikTok? Or not? We do not get to say "don't do it because there are better approaches." This is the approach we have. It's the first time in four years the political will had almost enabled something that was genuinely better for America.

It seems that [the executive branches of] both parties are happy throwing that away though
What's a middle manager to do if s/he can't Lumbergh around the office?
> Whether this is because the government is actively leaning on them or just because being run by Americans colors them with those values, I don’t know

Look up Mitt Romney’s comments where he plainly says they need to ban TikTok because they can’t control the narrative on Israel-Palestine. Narrative being his word.
> people read the same intel reports and knew how far the Chinese spies

People do, and after Snowden revelation, they wonder why they should care.

The population was forced to accept the fact that they are constantly spied on 10 years ago.

Decisions have consequences.
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Discussion on source:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42763231
The US government lies according to plays out of the KGB playbook? How would that benefit it?
On the other hand, the UK has all these cheap engineers. Is it just that they're not actually cheap, on the international market?
As a left-ish person, TikTok is genuinely the only place I feel safe from braindead hate. EVERY OTHER platform I've interacted with has a fuckton of hate.

I'm sure it exists in TikTok too, but at least the algorithm keeps those freaks far away from me.

Can you establish somehow how a TikTok ban would help this situation?
If there’s a genuine interest I’m happy to explain. Reels and shorts are severely different, even from a purely technical and feature-focused standpoint. They lack lack the ability to pause (I think YouTube allows it but reels no) or save to device, and (reels) lacks the wide music catalog that TikTok has. Neither product has a comprehensive video editing platform like TikTok does. Both lack the ability to push timely content and maintain freshness. Reels is fundamentally based on the social graph for recommendations, with some additional signals for things like hashtags. TikTok learns from content itself and recommends based on content. TikTok has a good mix of discovery content as well (I think it’s approximately 10% discovery? Meaning, pushing you things it has no signal on to see if you like it or not, rather than only showing you things you like). Sharing and interacting are incredibly smooth and easy. The ability to stitch videos and do face to face replies, or easily do a video reply to a comment, encourage more face to face two-way conversation.

Aside from the technical features and algorithmic superiority, the community on TikTok is completely different. Have you seen the comment sections on the apps you mention? TikTok has created a beautiful community, and it’s a community that cannot be reached on the other two apps, regardless of their feature set.
That depends; there's a huge difference between "I quit [popular app] but my friends all still use it" and "I quit [popular app] and my friends all did too".

These are not remotely the same outcome. And especially for very social teenagers, the compulsion to reinstall an app may come from the feeling of missing out on the trends that your friends are plugged into. You don't want to use the app, but you don't want to isolate yourself either.

Sure we can ditch our friends and find a self-selected community of app-ditching new friends, but this group will be small, not all go to the same school, and not share various other common interests beyond "quitting popular app". If you connected with your old friends over fashion and volleyball, you might not be able to get the same connections in this group.

"The network effect" is such a powerful moat for social networks for this reason!

It's kind of like saying "why elect a government that feeds the poor, when you can just feed them yourself". Collective action is a different bargain.
Evidently, the answer is that the DX7 was already cheap to produce. Engineering new stuff and spinning up a new assembly line would probably cost more than they would save. Remember, market segmentation is often about price discrimination. It's wrong to assume that consumer goods are priced at cost-plus-margin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
You could reasonably argue that, but only for now. The precedent set here opens a can of worms that we should aim to close sooner rather than later.

But the mechanism we are using is one and the same - this is essentially the launch of a “Great Firewall of America”, just enforced a bit differently.
Building a Food Recall Tracking App with Python, FastAPI, and MongoDB Part 0
Full title: The PC Is Dead: It's Time to Make Computing Personal Again
Ironically, other countries (former British colonies) have more access to US "specialty occupation" working visas than the UK does -- none of these are H1-B.

Canadians and Mexicans have TN, Australians have E3, Singapore and Chile have H-1B1 (a subcategory of H1-B but with its own quotas).

https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary...

Most foreign engineers in the US (outside of H-1Bs) are actually Canadians.

But there are no easy visas for the UK.
My takeaways

(1) Companies will probably increasingly invest in building their own evals for their use cases because its becoming clear public/allegedly private benchmarks have misaligned incentives with labs sponsoring/cheating
(2) Those evals will prob be proprietary "IP" - guarded as closely as the code or research itself
(3) Conversely, public benchmarks are exhausted and SOMEONE has to invest in funding more frontier benchmarks. So this is prob going to continue.
> Twitter was just HTTP over TCP/IP. It was never a protocol. It was a website.

I think it was also a text service in the very beginning.
Hubble tension controversy "now turns into a crisis"
It was always going to be a trap, but it’s been so long in the making that those who started the UK on that path have long since retired wealthy.
It's so cool, I could talk about it forever. It's practical enough for the devs to use it as a daily driver (though with linux in VirtualBox or Seoul for some things like running their builds) and theres a few businesses built on it.

But nowhere near as practical as Linux at the moment of course
In the absence of "fact checkers", I ask my conspiracy theorist friends for input, since recently they have been more right than wrong.
I didn't know that was a thing you could do! I appreciate the comment and I have added creating a permanent address for the local network in the post and given you credit. I give your HackerNews username credit please let me know if you want your actual name listed.

Also I can tell this post was a good post because people are using he/him pronouns for me in the comments lol. What a world we live in :)
Photographs and videos seems allright to me, maybe I'm just used to it. I like that the dark regions are visible (esp. when IPS LCDs have not that great blacks due to the backlight).

I always hated it on CRTs where photographs were too dark, had to use a really big gamma correction on them (2.5), I guess I've got used to it from these times because it was a necessity to be compatible with LCDs.

The photos and videos are more dull when compared to a reality, but consistent with other stuff on the screen. I have no problem doing color stuff for things like textures, website design etc. The relative comparison to other material is enough for me. I've been working with graphics designers with calibrated monitors and didn't get any complaints.

But I don't do anything that requires working with calibrated monitors, like printing. Though it's hard to tell if it would be an issue. You need to do test prints anyway. You have to use specific named colors (Pantone). Based on that you can just imagine how it would look, no need to have it precisely shown all the time.
We replaced it with an open source pub/sub framework and implemented our own autonomy on top.

Works well.
Zero and thirty what?
You're not wrong but the only real recourse for an executive that fails to uphold the laws created by Congress is an impeachment in the House and conviction in the Senate.
Do what now? An entirely black OLED screen is certainly going to reflect less of the room’s light than a sheet of white paper. An OLED screen displaying white at 10% of its maximum brightness is also likely going to be less bright than a sheet of white paper in most rooms.
I love a Lisp-themed article, but this is such a yawn in 2025.

It seems pretty clear that a threading macro which allows the user to place the "hole" being filled wherever they want is the answer.

Example: cl-arrows

https://github.com/nightfly19/cl-arrows?tab=readme-ov-file
Can’t all of these things be said about light mode too? I find dark mode considerably better and would rather all sites offered a choice, especially the author’s!
40 or so years later, the book Peopleware by DeMarco and Lister remains the best quantitative study on environmental impacts on developer productivity.

The world has changed significantly since it was written, so you have to translate their measurements to modern contexts, but it's easier to translate real data on human behavior than to guess based on guesses.
That’s actually the exact opposite of what has happened.
Rent, taxes and industrial regulation plays a big part. As does power costs. Then there is political costs, it’s hard to rely on UK politicians not doing foolish things and tanking your company on a whim.
> Employees at Amazon’s Toronto office said their personal belongings have repeatedly been stolen from their desks.

This is the stupidest thing to do, presuming the Toronto offices are similar to SLU. There are cameras everywhere and if someone is stealing, all it should take is 15 minutes of footage review and a notification to HR to terminate them.
It is an iterated game, though. It's socially beneficial for you to be seen behaving altruistically on national television. I think in most cases this is more valuable than whatever prize the TV show offers.
The SOPA and PIPA protests were basically that
The Phoenician alphabet started as the Proto-Sinaitic script. For context, if you're trying to write things down in the Sinai, you're logging the wares carried by caravans going back and forth from Egypt to the Phoenician heartland and back. You don't need the full range of hieroglyphs, so you don't need the training of an Egyptian priest. So you start with a reduced list of symbols.

Someone in this position started using those symbols to register the sounds of the Semitic languages, and the rest is literally history.
In no particular order:
- I learned a new language and moved to a new country, as a direct result of what I saw and learned from TikTok.
- I learned about countless new cultures from all over the world.
- I learned new perspectives about domestic and international politics.
- I met a variety of real, online friends and 3 real life friends who I actually spend time with in person.
- I was able to learn how to express my emotions in better and more constructive ways.
- I learned a ton of random things about every subject matter I can think of—from AI and programming, to psychology, to cooking, to mechanical and electrical engineering, history, medicine, science, etc. As a generalist it’s very important to me, as I’m able to connect information well across diverse subject areas.
- I discovered the majority of the music I listen to these days.
- I started traveling the world, learning how to do it safely and finding new destinations I didn’t previously know anything about.

The list really goes on and on, but these are some of the quick highlights that come to mind. Thanks for asking!
Did they shut down at the last moment necessary or did they shut down during what is likely a peak browsing time in the U.S.? Did they need to include messaging about political figures to notify the user of the reason of the ban?

I understand that there was this law. It's a political statement because of the political message being sent out to the user base. The act of shutting down on its own is not a political statement.
Both of these I suspect are handled sorta explicitly by giving the state the power to do whatever it wants if it is important and essential enough.

The courts have various categories for how important something needs to be to allow certain levels of unconstitutionality, eg suppose I have "legally" built the nuclear device featured in a recent kurgesatz video with enough kiloton to start by itself a nuclear winter kill every person on the planet... I seriously suspect SCOTUS will be ok with the state taking the ignition keys away from me
I have failed to express myself clearly and for that I apologize.

What I was trying to convey is that no matter what tooling is employed for this specific problem, a human will have to review the result to ensure accuracy. Since the problem is defined as reading cursive handwriting, people who can do so intrinsically obviate the need for tooling.

Whether or not automation can produce reasonable results is moot when the requirement is to have as accurate as possible a one-time transcription of cursive handwriting documents.
> After lunch, he decided to watch TV again. He's been around other people today, like at the grocery store. But he hasn't done anything with other people.

Now there's something to make you feel even _more_ alone -- being around people.

Just waiting for life to expire at this point.
Do people not buy understand how to buy and operate cars because the spec sheet has a bunch of technical info on it? The fact remains that they are one-click setup solutions.

Look at products like EasyWP on Namecheap.

https://www.namecheap.com/wordpress/

https://www.godaddy.com/hosting/wordpress-hosting

https://www.bluehost.com/wordpress

I think a lot of bloggers know that they want/need SSL, DDoS protection, and a CDN. I wouldn't confuse bloggers with the lowest common denominator general public.

Let's not put on our rose colored glasses and mistake the classic world wide web for something that didn't need a decent amount of knowledge to setup even in the plain HTML days.

A number of WYSIWYG blogging providers in that day (Xanga, LiveJournal) were not interoperable and basically shut down and erased your dat.

If you were using a website host like Geocities or something of that sort you needed to have some level of HTML coding knowledge or were using some very limited site builder tools.

And I would also say that the WYSIWYG blogging tools that are still out there are far more flexible than your typical closed wall social media platform. Services like Blogger and Medium have full export functionality as a part of their platforms.
Look, my point is that the first amendment is in play here and it’s not ridiculous to suggest a free speech analysis is required to hold the law as constitutional or not, which is what the court did and what reasonable people can agree or disagree around to what extent that speech should or shouldn’t be protected. (I personally think, as I stated that the free speech harm is a stronger case from the users who have now been restrained in their ability to use the platform and software distributors who are now restrained from distributing specific software than it is as applied to TikTok where the legislation is content neutral and so the free speech analysis is less relevant.) I’m not even claiming that this law should be found unconstitutional, just that there are free speech issues to adjudicate and the less obvious ones are probably more relevant than the one people are citing where the restraint is content neutral.

Your comment however draws a weird parallel later on though but first let’s take a moment here:

> Your 1st amendment rights are not being infringed by being denied access to TikTok

That is what the court found but it opens some interesting questions that really do have impacts.

I would bet that you would find a law that says op-eds can only be published in an approved list of venues to be clearly wrong, yet it is equally just determining venue and not content.

As would a law which banned foreign ownership of venues while also introducing a regulatory scheme for domestic ownership stakes of sensitive industries and defined news and commentary as a nationally security sensitive industry. (Which this law essentially does for certain types of apps.)

So at some point a law can be “content neutral” and about access to venue not content but I bet almost any reasonable person would agree it’s an unreasonable restraint.

Now for a situation you draw the above as a parallel with but is very different:

> just as the far right isn’t having their 1st amendment rights being infringed by being denied to use BlueSky as their platform.

Bluesky can do whatever they want but if the government were to get involved in defining regulations around which users could use BlueSky… yes absolutely I would expect it to be thrown out on first amendment grounds and expect it’s a significantly stronger case than any of the examples above.

It’s a much weaker and almost irrelevant case when directed at a non-governmental organization in which some folks are using “free speech” as an argument over what entities which are not enjoined from almost any actions may do with their own venues. But yeah, if it was the government telling BlueSky who to ban? You bet that’s got first amendment implications and I’d expect a court to review it under strict scrutiny. (And I wouldn’t expect it to survive.)
It’s not middle management pushing for this. It’s clueless upper management.
> Some arbitrary process has to reduce the 1,000,000,000 pieces of content produced today to maybe 10 or 100 you can handle.

In my case, I'm the process that does the reduction by subscribing to specific feeds. (Not sure if that's "arbitrary", but I could see it argued either way.)

I admit I miss some content that I would probably like to see. :) But that's just life how it's always been.

As my wife put it, "You don't have enough years in your life to read all the good books, so stop wasting time with bad ones." That's how I think of it. A handful of high-quality, low-volume feeds is great. (But I also follow HN and my curated Lemmy feed, so I get some of the firehose.)

The only "news" I have in my feed is local news. Any interesting national news hits HN or Lemmy.

Again, that's just me. I respect your different usage pattern.
You've made a good argument here -- I'll have to consider it further.

I suppose I'm trying to separate the "rationalist" ideas, interpreted as a methodology of reasoning, from the normative positions that some communities advancing those methods have converged upon, even where the application of that reasoning methodology might have been involved in forming those other positions.

I do think that devotion to AI eschatology, nonmonogamy, and utilitarianism do not necessarily proceed merely from rational inquiry, and require additional normative or empirical precepts as inputs, many of which may have circulated in those communities in parallel to the discourse on reasoning. So that's sort of what the Mormon/bowling analogy was getting at.
Interesting, I didn't know anyone had tried to make seL4 on a desktop.

I think it'd be very cool to have a fully verified kernel...
Why are they not able to not enforce the law? The right for law enforcing entities and persons to not enforce the law due to personal discretion has been upheld many times in the past. Cops don't have to do it, prosecutors don't have to do it, not even judges have to do it although they almost always do because otherwise it creates friction between prosecution and the judge and the judge is likely to get booted for it eventually because successful prosecutions is how law enforcement and courts earn most of their money and unsuccessful arrests and prosecutions is how they lose money. I don't see how or why the executive branch is under any obligations to enforce any laws, feds don't often enforce marijuana laws in legal states despite being federally illegal still is an easy example.

The only real check against the president/executive branch is the legislative branch having the power to impeach the president and get them replaced, or by legislatively dismantling or changing the internal rules of a department. They lose their jobs, but aren't liable for anything or breaking any laws I know of. Just the same as states can boot out judges or prosecutors if they don't like how they operate, and police departments can fire officers if they don't like how they operate. At no point did cops or prosecutors or judges break the law by not enforcing the law, they merely piss off the state that is funding them and now losing additional money due to lack of enforcement and prosecution, and I don't know how the president or executive branch is any different.
Related:

BambuLab new firmware to cut access to third-party API and tools
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42760491
Web server config which is a blob of text is a pet peeve of mine. This makes every config update risky and simultaneous updates by multiple users is difficult to coordinate.

This presents an alternate approach for handling web server config, providing app-level isolation.
The continued knock-on affects of technology going back as far as 1939 "within this claim of general faithful duplication, "flesh" always comes to mean Caucasian skin tones." as documented in "Whole Technology of Dyeing: A Note on Ideology and the Apparatus of the
Chromatic Moving Image" https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20025012.pdf
If this law is a trampling of human rights, then so would basically any anti-trust enforcement on media corporations