skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> TikTok (and other foreign-run social media) normally aren’t as susceptible to domestic pressure

TikTok has been uniquely subject to political pressure over the last half decade. They didn’t buddy up with Larry Ellison because Oracle has the best servers.
The government can fine American companies for carrying certain content but it's not a 1st Amendment issue? Why are people buying this lame argument?
In the sense of an adherent to Nazism, yes, neo-Nazis are Nazis.

In the context of "literal Nazis" the ACLU had argued for the rights of - like the German American Bund, which contained actual members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, not exactly.
No, smaller delays <1s are also a misdesign here. Have we all forgotten we're reacting to typos? It's an error condition. It's ok that the user feels it and is inconvenienced. They did something wrong.

Do some think that 900ms, or 800, or some other sub-second value is really what we need for this error condition? Instead of, you know, not creating errors?
> Regardless of the specifics of this issue, it is objectively a huge power grab for a president to vow to not enforce a law that had bipartisan approval of both the legislative and judiciary branches.

Isn't that the road we've been walking down for a while now with the proliferation of executive orders?

I'm not a fan of this outcome either, but it doesn't strike me as a revolutionary departure from current norms.
Since you worked on the bill, can you clarify if the driving force behind it was national security concerns which have not been revealed to the public?
It got installed on a recent OS update and I don't see any use for it. I'd much rather have the calculator do scientific notation properly than any of this frippery.
The startup costs are probably astronomically higher for a startup doing custom chips. Even if you're fabless.

There is probably also a lot fewer customers.

There is no shortage of businesses and private people who need a CRUD app to track something. We probably won't run out anytime soon :)

And even then, there is probably also a long list of factories that would like to automate something using robots and software.

How many use cases for custom SOCs are there really?
It's a lot cheaper to customize the software, than it is to customize the hardware. Which is kind of the point.
Hunter S. Thompson copied The great Gatsby on his typewriter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24696790
It is built into the CSS standard

/* Dark mode */
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
...
}

The issue with both dark and light modes is so many designers seem to have jumped onto the idea that colour schemes have to be either bright white or darkest black.

I'd much rather see colours that are 'slightly darker' at night and 'slightly lighter' in the daytime. For one thing there are still so many websites with no colour schemes setup at all so if you avoid going to extremes it minimises the contrast difference.
Having a foreign and hostile both economic and military adversary fully controlling an app that is installed on 18 million smartphones in UK is a national security issue. Not cat videos. Too bad this concept has become too difficult to understand for most European "leaders" (and journalists...).
Show him the work being done by Hadrian for inspiration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cbayQAuvvw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye7m8VjKcrE That “S3” channel has a lot of great content about physical tech startups.

3Blue1Brown and Khan Academy are great places to learn math of all sorts.
Well, the law as agreed upon by Congress designates it as a personal power.
> 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).

I don't agree, and I cannot understand what train of thought would lead to conclude that each individual feature that's a crucial part of any developer's workflow should be broken down to external companies without any good reason at all.

Any developer's workflow consists of a) ticketing, b) revision control, c) auditing code and change history, d) CICD. Obviously a) b) and c) are tightly coupled and you cannot have one without the other, whereas d) invariably leads to a) b) and c) in any incident response scenario. There is no argument that justifies any alternative to a unified developer experience.
I'm still pretty skeptical of this claim. If you type 60 wpm, which is faster than an average human, but regular for people who type as professionals, you spend on average 200ms on a keystroke. 60 standard words per minute means 300 chars per minute [0], so 5 chars per second which is 200ms per char. Many people type faster than this, yes, but it's all still very much pushing it just to even meet the 100ms limit, and that's without any reaction or anything on top.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute
I'm convinced that most of the victims found are part of the working/slave class. So I can't help but fantasize that they had gone through their already evacuated owner's possessions thinking the world was ending, they died clutching whatever they could grab.
“Intentionally trying to destabilize the country and trying to sell you things are literally identical issues.”
> The executive branch hasn’t enforced immigration laws for decades

Then who is deporting all the people listed in this table [1]?

[1] https://ohss.dhs.gov/topics/immigration/yearbook/2019/table3...
Just accept that we all are part nature and part nurture. I suspect your good friends accept you as you are; some probably really like you as you are. It is also kind of relative; Hang out with the some people and you will always feel stupid or smart. I think you should focus on doing things that you and others find very interesting. There is a famous line from Dune that basically says "fear is the mind-killer"; generalize that to "thinking too negatively about yourself can lead to poor outcomes".
It's obviously fine to be this cynical, but I think the particular shape your cynicism takes is incorrect^ and I also tend to think people who are overly cynical willingly reduce their ability to affect change

^ the description of campaign promises feels very 90s to me. We tend to have a lot of information about how our elected officials act. I think most of them believe more of what they're saying or advocating for (although the reasons why they believe those things are fairly widely varied)

Some people think Elizabeth Warren is pure evil incarnate, and I think she considers herself as a policy wonk who loves nuance and is trying to protect citizens from ruthless capitalist entities.

The same is more or less true on the other side (I'm not sure who the analog is exactly, but a republican Elizabeth Warren would imagine she is protecting companies and citizens from government overreach)
Don't underestimate what programmers with too much free time can achieve.
I see a lot of comments about werewolf. The best strategy I found as a civilian is to ignore all rhetoric and simply analyze voting behavior. That is, assuming no one is paying too close attention you analyze voting behavior.

I've seen some crazy stuff. I remember one person playing like a complete werewolf but my intuition said he was just a very ignorant civilian. It turns out that I was right. After asking him why he played how he played, he genuinely thought he was making the best moves. It taught me that some people can seem malevolent but ultimately mean really well.

It taught me that there are many matches where it's 100% known that someone is the seer, gives the winning piece of information, gets killed off by the werewolfs and the village somehow manages to completely not act (or worse forget) on what the seer said, allowing the werewolfs to win the game.

Werewolf has taught me a lot about group dynamics, which is also why I find certain political realities in multiple countries right now not that weird. I've seen weirder behavior with werewolf, albeit on a smaller scale in a fantasy setting with solely highly educated people.
We use ros1 today. We have a very slow moving effort to migrate things to ros2 that I'm not really involved with.

A previous job used ros2. IMO, it's worse in most ways compared to ros1. The launch system of ros2 alone is enough reason not to use it.
You can turn off retweets and replies. If you're going to use software with only the default options, at least don't spread misinformation about what you failed to try to learn.
Deciseconds (100ms) are not a bad unit when dealing with UI because it is about the fastest reaction time. We can't really feel the difference between 50 ms and 150 ms (both feel instant), but we can definitely feel the difference between 500 ms and 1500 ms. Centiseconds are too precise, seconds are not enough.
Also, it is also possible that the computer is not precise enough for centiseconds or less, making extra precision a lie.

Deciseconds are just uncommon. But the problem here is that the user didn't expect the "1" to be a unit of time but instead a boolean value. He never wanted a timer in the first place.

By the way, not making the unit of time clear is a pet peeve of mine. The unit is never obvious, seconds and milliseconds are the most common, but you don't know which one unless you read the docs, and it can be something else.

My preferred way is to specify the unit during the definition (ex: "timeout=1s") with a specific type for durations, second is to have it in the name (ex: "timeoutMs=1000"), documentation comes third (that's the case of git). If not documented in any way, you usually have to resort to trial and error or look deep into the code, as these values tend to be passed around quite a bit before reaching a function that finally makes the unit of time explicit.
This is such a textbook strawman that it's not even funny.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(software)

https://web.archive.org/web/20051029095046/http://www.planet...

https://intertwingly.net/code/venus/docs/index.html

https://github.com/kgaughan/mercury
Feed aggregators: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(software)
Yeah their actual point is about contrast ratio, which makes the headline a bit disingenuous.

Ironically they end by saying they'll use an invert filter as a workaround, while for those who prefer dark mode if doing the same on the author's own stark white bg/black text site (such as Vivaldi's 'Invert Mode') will produce the very contrast ratio in dark they're complaining about :p
The actual bad precedent set here is that the US executive branch has the authority to censor the media.
He was always socialist, but ended up as anti-communist after the Spanish civil war, during which while fighting for the Marxist POUM he had to flee a Stalinist purge.

(Americans love to flatten all left parties into "communist", ignoring the rich history of ideological differences and occasionally violent purges)

Huge fan of Orwell myself.
I've never used twitter or any of the alternatives but I'm glad not many people are going to mastodon

The number of dead links I've had where the shard is down or overloaded is way too high

The design simply doesn't work imo
They are just feed aggregators composed of multiple feeds. Based on this software:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(software)
> * only situation dark mode is better than light mode is when you're sitting in a dark room with your screen as your only light source,*

Also maybe if you set your screen brightness inappropriately high.
> Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses

“panem et circenses“, Juvenal 100AD
Nah some of us need dark mode 24x7 and actually benefit from it even in broad daylight. Not fair to make this assertion and assume everyone is like you.
Who else would pay for retirees, if not the non-retirees?

Most of their assets are paper value, because they are located in stocks, their only home (and they have to live somewhere), etc… that if sold en masse would simply get pennies on the dollar or require expenditures elsewhere.
so not “ban”? :)
Most of the "structural" events of the story are true, most of the scenes are made up or pastiche. If you're interested in the facts, I suggest taking a look at the sources at the bottom, especially the Mark Ferrari interviews: https://youtu.be/ri4_3P2Oh14?feature=shared
The enjirafication of github continues.
The classic SV tech crowd wasn't worth following anyway. It was an endless stream of self-promotion and people pretending to have great wisdom because they exited one company once (or, worse, got a job as a VC).
> trading crypto isnt tax free if it isnt in tax deferred or tax exempt entity

Sure, good luck enforcing that. Although crypto isn't anonymous, it is pseudonymous. In any case, you aren't subject to the same taxes as a traditional gift about $20000 and you aren't subject to the same regulation as campaign contributions.

> and when transferred in a way that would otherwise require a disclosure to a politician or campaign, the crypto asset and transaction would also require a disclosure

That's the beauty of the grift. "Investing in $TRUMP" isn't a transfer to a politician or a campaign: it's a purchase of a memecoin on a public blockchain. It's a way to give money to Trump without meeting the legal definition of "giving money to Trump."

> if there are other benefits that the crypto world is superior at, then thanks for describing a use case and value proposition relevant on a geopolitical scale to the largest nations on the planet. a lot of people here cant imagine any because they arent the target audience

I don't know what you're trying to say here. I think I just explained a pretty use case for crypto as a means to buy political favor. Other benefits of crypto include: (a) purchasing illegal goods, (b) defrauding naive consumers.
Humans just aren't very good at understanding their own motivations. Marketers know this implicitly. Almost nobody believes "I drink Coca-Cola because billions of dollars of advertising have conditioned me to associate Coke with positive feelings on a subconscious level", even if they would recognise that as a completely plausible explanation for why other people like Coca-Cola.
Numerous pieces of anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ legislation have passed at a state level under the Biden presidency. You might argue that that's outside of the purview of the federal government, but that certainly wasn't the case in the 50s and 60s where federal military force was used to enforce civil rights legislation. The federal government failing to use its sovereign power is 100% erosion of rights.
The CCP has a propaganda and spying tool in the hands of 170M Americans. Yet the new Administration is more interested in playing politics than taking necessary steps to secure us against our primary adversary.

It's not just Trump though. Neither the Republicans nor Democrats are taking the China threat seriously enough. The CCP must be destroyed.
I'm a 17-Year-Old TikTok Junkie. I Need This Ban
Hi! How does it perform under heavy load and with thousands of workflows trying to run concurrently since it relies on Postgres for a lot of things (including using a transaction)? In the end it seems that if I have an application with lots of distributed workers trying to run workflows, I'll still be limited by the CPU/memory of the DB.
> 2) A vastly overengineered distributed software system with a strong ideological commitment to federated design.

I got the impression from the Dorsey interview that this was his commitment, and that he left because they weren't interested in that. They're just trying to be a twitter clone that picks up angry twitter users who hate Musk.

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> That was the second moment I thought, uh, nope. This is literally repeating all the mistakes we made as a company. This is not a protocol that's truly decentralized. It’s another app. It's another app that's just kind of following in Twitter's footsteps, but for a different part of the population.

> Everything we wanted around decentralization, everything we wanted in terms of an open source protocol, suddenly became a company with VCs and a board. That's not what I wanted, that's not what I intended to help create.

https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mik...

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The problem for Bluesky is that those people aren't actually leaving twitter, they're still using twitter more than they use Bluesky.

https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats
On my system, the dark reader plugin also has an option to force a light theme.

Actually, the browser has the ability to set a default background and foreground anyway, so this extension would be unnecessary if websites would behave properly and respect these defaults unless they really need to. We live in an unfortunate world where a “actually respect my preferences” extension is necessary, but since it is necessary, it should be noted that it covers both options. Overall the situation is pretty stupid but hey at least we’ve got workarounds, right?
If I read feeds daily I might spend 5 bucks per month, but I don't.

It'll just be a subscription I forget that I have. I don't need more of those :)
yes and no. ones encoded by the previous generation, and biological life is an open or partially open system
dark reader can already in fact lighten up dark pages
> if the driving force behind it was national security concerns which have not been revealed to the public?

No. It was national security risks that have been amply disclosed. The Cuban Missile Crisis was still a crisis even if the Soviets didn’t launch.
Yes, that was my intention.
It's really about how the US gov is concerned that an app installed on half of all US cell phones is controlled by a company that is not 100 percent beholden to the US gov and stock market regulation, by a company that doesn't have to instantly respond to pressure from the Executive branch, could possibly refuse to instantly comply from pressure from US intelligence agencies, could refuse to comply with search requests from US law enforcement, and extensive lobbying from Facebook to cripple a competitor that Facebook ignored until it was too late.

It's not a free speech issue.

Given that the infra for serving US tiktok customers is in the United States(inside of Oracle Cloud), I am curious if Tiktok/bytedance responds to US law enforcement requests.
...what is wrong with this person's eyes
The fear is justified though. We fix security holes because they are security holes, not because they have been exploited before.
So you're saying then that because TikTok could refuse lawful orders from the United States government, the US had to ban it?
https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/microdot

The impossibly small web framework for Python and MicroPython.
I agree. In a short, finite game with limited number of observations -- observation and logic is of little help. Rationally, when presented with unfair/unwinnable rules, the logical thing is to "cheat" or break the rules.

I am interested in what ways players have tried to cheat the game. For example, if I am a faithful, I would mandate that will be no private conversations to minimize the ability of the traitors to communicate and plan. I would enforce a rule that everyone must stay within eyesight of everyone else as much as possible. When people sneak out to have conversations, I would use that as data on who the possible terrorists are.
> Which was what the setting value was changed to in the patch that was eventually accepted. This means that setting help.autocorrect to 1 logically means "wait 100ms (1 decisecond) before continuing".

The mistake was here. Instead of retargeting the existing setting for a different meaning, they should have added a new setting.

help.autocorrect - enable or disable
help.autocorrect.milliseconds - how long to wait

There are similar mistakes in other systems, e.g., MySQL has

innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit

which can be 0 if disabled, 1 if enabled, and 2 was added as something special.
Darkreader has an option to force light mode.
Sorry to disappoint you, but that isn't my style- I won't be doing either. I'm particularly interested in having Americans become generally aware of narcissism and emotional manipulation- so they can spot it and have some 'cultural antibodies' against it, and stop being duped by people like this from all political persuasions. We've never had a better opportunity to finally do this, now having a president that is an almost exaggerated cartoonist caricature of a narcissist, that switches stories and philosophies from hour to hour depending on who is listening at the moment.
> the Aborigines of Australia didn't have it, nor did many pre-Columbian civilisations.

No need to go that far, the Slavs didn't write down their languages until ~800s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glagolitic_script
They literally said

> I have no issue with American companies trying to change American policies.

For me that's a naive stance that ignores the problem of corporate influence on politics.

Apart from that, how is US corporate influence necessarily better than foreign corporate influence? Neither care about the US general public. Some US companies knowingly harm their own citizens (Philip Morris, Exxon, Purdue, etc.)

One can argue the problem with TikTook is that it's controlled by the government of an adversary nation (from the viewpoint of the US), but it's not just the fact that the company resides in a foreign country.
> at best half researched context-free clips about how awful western society is.

Is reddit next? Although in their case, it's less clips and more pictures and text.
Giga Shanghai opened in 2019 while that was still in effect, so no, not "ban".
You're arguing Biden should have used the military, and because he didn't do that he's clearly sympathetic to anti-LGBTQ sentiment and that makes it the Dems fault? Well, that's certainly a take. It feels like it ignores the current government dynamics.
> 1. Install the AliPay app

> 2. Register inside the AliPay app

How about no.
The dark reader extension can force a light theme as well. It would be more properly named the “respect my theme preferences for real” extension. It is a bit annoying that it is necessary.
by dishonorably discharging :)
After being a non-stop news and politics junkie the last 15+ years, I've gone beyond cold turkey.

I stopped reading all political, U.S., and even world news the day after the election. Zero. Dropped reddit politics. I don't know who are Trump's cabinet picks. I assume Hulk Hogan and Kid Rock will be on the cabinet, but I don't know and don't care.

On Nov 7 when I saw that not only did Trump win, but he won decisively, and I saw this is what the country wants, I decided that since I can't get rid of Trump's bullshit, I actually have full power to keep that bullshit from entering my personal reality. Whatever daily outrage and anger I would have felt since Nov 7, I don't have. My mind is relatively clear, and --surprise, surprise-- my life is unaffected.

I plan to keep this up for 4 years. I assume at some point, I'll go to get a flu shot and be told vaccines are illegal. And if I notice suddenly a bunch of ads for iodine pills, I'll withdraw as much cash I can and get canned food and water and gasoline. I'll deal with it then.

And in 2 years and 4 years I will go to the voting booth. But I'm powerless until then, except for what I allow into my life.
Interesting. It would be huge if this can help room temperature superconductivity. It seems like nobody knows what to do with it yet though.
Try Rss-Bridge [1] when the website does not have any feed, it might have an integration already. It also supports custom CSS-selectors to create feeds, or even use SEO-Sitemaps for your advantage to generate a feed from it.

[1] https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge