skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there is any rule of law in the country, this should be against the constitution.

If the US does this, they'll be losing a lot of goodwill founders from other countries have about the US.

The US is uniquely thought of as a part of every country for business. If you're from third world country but you'd like to do a tech business in the US, you're free to do so without much hurdles by the government. Open competition. No other country is like that.

This is what separated the US from the rest of countries like China. You'd dream that in case your startup got big, you'd move to the US, and hire quality engineers/researchers there. You'd like American protection on free speech to protect your company. Your company would not be banned for 'hurting' people. Rule of law. This is increasingly no longer the case.

Now the US is starting to feel like China and the EU more and more. Even if China's economy was bigger than the US, the US would still be in a good position because of their appearance and rule of law. When it's going to be similar to China, why not just do business with China first altogether since they're going to be the bigger economy? China is slowly becoming more liberal to founders from 3rd world countries now. While America seems to not notice this right now, China is slowly becoming more open to competition from poorer countries. The difference is stark even compared to 5 years ago.

Maybe China might not be so much fair right now to American companies because of a power imbalance where the US is too far ahead on certain things that they feel like after their companies catch up, they want to allow open competition. And they seem to progressing to this trajectory.
they could just block the servers, no?
In the ML GPU they are a monopoly but man they do a great job providing support for TF or Pytorch where AMD hasn't invested. So in Cloud Nvidia is the only way to go
John E. Savage, Models of Computation [pdf]
non-amp link: https://www.news18.com/news/tech/china-forces-apple-to-take-...
Fortunately, Apple breaks it down for us:

Services net sales in 2019 was $46.2B, and the cost of those sales was $16.8B (source 2019 10-K). They dont specifically break out App store vs other services, but as a whole the services section of their business is very, very profitable, according to their accounting. It remains so even if you throw in the entirety of R&D ($16.2B).
> What's he going to do when ByteDance uploads the .apk somewhere?

This is a social network which gains from network effects / usage. A social network only accessible to Android users is a ghetto. The vast majority of young people in America use iPhones.

The last time the majority of internet users managed to disobey the government was the heyday of torrenting and Megaupload. That's not going to happen with today's users and today's walled gardens.
Show HN: Glitterly – Create and share videos of your app
Hi HN,

I’m a big fan of following feature updates for my favourite apps, and I’ve always wondered how they make videos that have all these nice transitions and zooms.

And so I wanted to create a product that a non-professional video editor / solo developer / bootstrapping tech founder can use to edit a screen recording of your app.

Features:
- Add padding and set a frame from Unsplash
- Gifs
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Use cases: feature demos, presentations, social media posts, “how to” videos.

Putting my MVP out here, and keen to hear your feedback.
There's an excellent essay by the evolutionary biologist Steven Jay Gould about sexual dimorphism [0], mostly in the context of anglerfish, but which also mentions a parasitic mollusk, of which the male embeds itself in the female body and looses most all organs except the testes.

That same essay leaves us with this gem of a quote: "In some ultimate Freudian sense, what male could resist the fantasy of a life as a penis with a heart, deeply and permanently embedded within a caring and providing female?"

[0] https://books.google.com/books?id=o6g2tvN0nJoC&lpg=PT15&ots=...
Looking at the responses I see a lot of possibilities. But one thing I remember reading elsewhere is something they wouldn’t admit - they have no good places to put that money, and inflation is low so hoarding it is not a bad option right now.
This [1] article mentions that Trump signed executive order 13873 [2] in May 2019 which could be used to force Apple and Google to remove it from their app stores.

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/24/trump-cant-ban-tiktok-f...

[2] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or...
If my data leaks to a US server, the checks and balances you mentioned don't apply, because I'm not American. The US authorities are then free to misuse my data however they please, in ways that would be highly illegal if done to Americans.
To take your question literally: a trusting mindset. Many people default to assuming that people they meet mean them no harm
The more I read about Snap, the more its user-hostile behaviour bothers me.

I've read again and again (on here, of all places) that snap packages are _great_ for server administration, but I feel like production machines are a place where you wouldn't want a random assortment of packages updating. I can hear the sysadmins scream already, from here.

With the fact that Snap (and Flatpak) package releases are often delayed due to whatever vetting needs to take place (plus packaging or rollout delays?), combined with the fact that it can and will auto-update without your approval, even if you've told it otherwise, it sounds like the worst of both worlds.

For what its worth, Pop!_OS also doesn't use snap... and of all things, the reason why I switched from Ubuntu 20.04 to Pop!_OS was because the calculator took five seconds to load (of course, being a snap package) on Ubuntu, and milliseconds, on Pop, as it should.
This is a rare instance where violations can be monitored and punished automatically, and the punishment has very personal consequences, like losing your internet access. I hope our government fumbles this, as it has fumbled anything actually important.
A lot of Chinese people do use twitter and youtube, the reason you don't see them is because its all in Chinese characters so unless you deliberately type it in the search bar you would very rarely see recommendations from say the youtube algorithm that will lead you there.

I follow some pretty popular vlogs of village life in China with shit ton of subscribers. I can only assume VPN usage in China is a lot more common than most people think.
What are the predictions for which U.S. tech company would be banned by China as retaliation?

My top pick is -

LinkedIn (Most other U.S. social networks are already banned in mainland China anyways, then again LinkedIn is being used extensively by Chinese to do Business with outside world; So I wonder whether China would dare to pull the plug).

Or it may just ban Instagram, Snapchat in HongKong as there is no ban for such U.S. apps in HongKong currently and that technical governance differences with mainland is fast evaporating. But, I wonder whether banning apps in HK would amount to appropriate retaliation in terms of market size.
That cannot justify/authorize possible arbitrary measures by the US executive. US presidents powers are certainly not absolute.

Also this while apple and Google play stores have not found problems with the TikTok to kick it off their app stores.
What’s to stop the US from blacklisting the PWA too?
> I don't think the federal government or at least the executive should have that kind of authority like asking/forcing Microsoft to do a specific thing.

No you misunderstand - Read the article, TikTok would sell off to keep operating in the US (just like Amazon had to sell off data centers to operate them in the EU). The US government wouldn’t be forcing Microsoft, just saying if you want to operate with American data you have to be on American soil.

> Anyways such straight reciprocal actions are often the naivest, and most simplistic of possible responses anyway

But you haven’t offered an alternative. They should respond, I don’t think this is an unreasonable way to do it.
The difference between the opoid crisis and (still ongoing) drug war approaches cannot be overstated.
I don’t think this will just be the app itself. It will be network traffic based.
Why it's not a semver? The minor is present and still increasing.
So if businesses like you cannot hyper target, you’ll spend more money right? Won’t this actually increase Facebook’s revenues then?
The trash from trash cans can be buried safely in landfills without much difficulty. The big problems arise when we cut corners or have plastic trash that is not in trash cans.
Buy startups and competitors.
No Blueprint for Utopia
I'm not even sure POTUS can ban a site just by an executive order... unless I'm REALLY weak on US law...

but a PWA wouldn't stop this. Most of the mobile APIs aren't available on PWA and if the site is blocked via route it won't help
I think this is a good measure to even the playing field. Thousands of companies are blocked in China. So why not do the same?
> How many Tiktok videos will the average consumer watch in their life?

This number is not unbounded. It will converge to some asymptotic limit.

> How much profit will Tiktok make on each of those views?

Around a tenth of a cent per view.

These huge valuations are purely because people don't do the math and don't know how the market works.
Ah...calling cards, purchased a lot 15 years ago, and I had to use them ASAP, or their value depreciated quickly.
Innovation in Education
>CMR revealed cardiac involvement in 78 patients (78%) and ongoing myocardial inflammation in 60 patients (60%), independent of preexisting conditions, severity and overall course of the acute illness, and time from the original diagnosis.

If damage to people’s hearts proves long term or if even mild COVID cases predispose people to heart problems later on, the knock on effects for countries that chose to let the pandemic run rampant are going to be horrendous.
The state already blacklists certain programs. Pretty much anything that illegally contains copyrighted content or some other form of illegal numbers.
I don't think it's being banned due to CCP censorship, it's more a fear the CCP may be using it to spy.
This aged well.
I'm curious what they know about TikTok that isn't public. This seems too drastic for just trade posturing.
I find it funny that people keep quoting Steve Jobs as saying Apple didn’t want to make money from the App Store. That may be what he said in public, but emails like this are evidence that he was not much different than the current crop of big tech CEOs.
Just get a cheap joystick.
Zoom should be next.
If Bandcamp has better quality, that should be the selling point (IMO)
> What point are you trying to make here? That the US Government does not have the sovereign authority to determine what companies operate within its borders?

My point is that the US president does not have the authority to tell a US company (Google/Apple) to "stop distributing this code (speech)," because that is the only way a ban like this could be implemented.

Well, there are other ways, but all of them involve legislation by congress and things like Great Firewalls that we don't really want to see happen here. At least, I don't. That is why that any travel down this path I see as an erosion of western democracy, and especially when that travel comes from the executive branch swerving way out of its lane.

If congress were convinced to make a Ban TikTok law, I would still object but it would not be because I think they lack authority, it would be on 1st Amendment grounds.

And to be clear, I despise the app and am a little sketched out by it. But I don't think either of those are good reasons to corrode our liberties.
First amendment rights don’t apply to foreign companies.

I see this as the same thing as banning Huawei.
They decided what encryption software we were allowed to have for the longest time. Up until recently, it was illegal to carry a copy of Schneier's Applied Cryptography on an international flight.
How so? Aren't you still trapped on Xorg with their proprietary drivers?

I switched to Wayland a few years back as vsync is quite nice to have, but whenever I go back to Xorg for AnyDesk or TeamViewer on AMD or Intel there is a fair bit of tearing.

Nvidia could have a competitive open source driver tomorrow if they released redistributable firmware that allowed reclocking the GPU.
Server side rendering and testing pages through fetch-as-google to make sure they’re being picked up by bots. It’s not as big of a problem as people make it out to be. There are plenty of fixes but this combination is simple and effective.
To lower the asking price further, I think. If you can lower it by a few billions by threatening to use an executive order, someone is going to use that power.

Or maybe they just want to ban TikTok and the above conspiracy theory is BS.
I think it's fine. I just think since I make 80% of what an equivalent Googler makes, I'm probably valued at 80% or less as a human.

Realistically I don't think many people care deeply, but the folks I'm being surrounded by definitely didn't go to Ivies. I think they're just fine and I don't mind working where I work, but it's clear to me that I'm not regarded highly (or as intelligent) as a person by society. The worst part is I feel stuck and trapped by my own inherent ability as a person.
I don’t think there is infrastructure in place in the US to prevent access to an IP space.
TBH, I wonder why there wasn't a product like that sold to the K-12 market at least.

When I took driver's ed in 1998 or so, the class had 20 kiosks with steering wheels, LED-bar speedometers, and panels of lights for out-of-range behaviour. We were supposed to follow along with the same canned video being played for everyone. Nobody took it seriously-- people tried to just christmas-tree the warning lights.

I'd expect putting each student on an individual screen would be much more educational-- you can see dangerous situations as they develop and compensate earlier in their lifecycle, rather than just discovering you were fully out of lane when a light goes on. That seems like the skills they'd want to teach, and I'm sure they could have done something with Wolf3D level graphics running on a 386-class PC and got it to an affordable price point by then.
US Can’t Ban TikTok, but It Can Hurt It
> the checks and balances you mentioned don't apply

That is not true - you aren’t guaranteed anything by the US constitution but the agreements in place by these partner countries specifically govern how this data is handled. Again though... they are highly integrated systems addressable by agencies both here in the EU and in the US.
It’s one of the things my college professors pointed out to me, my mixing of tenses. I don’t (didn’t) know enough to remedy it.

Any resources?
It's ridiculous that you even talk about retaliation in a post where you acknowledge that anything that would be a worthy retaliation is already banned!
I wrote out my thoughts on my answers to the two questions, and they wound up being long and a little tangential to the bulk of your comment, so I figured I'd throw in a thanks for the thought-provoking reply. I am enjoying this conversation.

What is real?

Consciousness self-asserts: (1a) 'I think, therefore I am' (or else, 'thought is occurring, so thought must exist'). If you accept the reasoning there, you can also grapple in (1b) 'I see blue, therefore blue exists', etc.

In that sense, our consciousness is a rare example of something that definitively exists. A statement like 'there is a rock in space called Earth' would be false if we lived in a computer simulation. The correct statement becomes 'there are a bunch of numbers representing a rock in space called Earth, in this computer'. Consciousness doesn't answer to the abstraction in the same way. 'I see a rock in space that I think of as Earth' is true regardless of whether you're inside of the simulation.

We can also assert that reality exists, as far as (2) 'there is a thing that my experience interacts with which I do not consciously control and which exhibits complex behavior', and also, (3) 'I exist (per 1a), therefore I am somewhere. I can perform computations, therefore the place I am in must allow for computations to occur. I have experience (per 1b) therefore there I am somewhere in which experience can exist. Reality exists (per 2) therefore there must be something sophisticated enough to produce it.'

But that's strictly an informational definition, again equally true whether or not you're in your own dream- it only addresses the complexity of the mind producing the dream.

So to conclude: information is quintessentially real. Our consciousness and reality are real at least to the extents that they are information, which are 'very much so' and 'a lot, maybe more', respectively. Physical reality as we know it might be real, Occam's Razor says 'probably', Simulation Hypothesis says 'probably not'. Anyone's game. I think that a physical reality of some form must exist in order to perform computations and produce information, but I'm open to a rebuttal.

And then why the hell am I conscious? This seems to be the crux of the matter. It is my opinion that the answer is of the form 'consciousness solves problem X efficiently along dimensions Y and Z' where X is some fundamental component of intelligence, and Y and Z are environmental constraints. I think it's unlikely that the answer is related to the fundamental makeup of the universe. Evolution follows the path of least resistance, and entangling our minds with some innate property of quanta, from the scale of proteins seems more challenging than other conceivable non-conscious solutions to general intelligence.
+ origin, blizzard
Also, mostly thanks to foreign actors manipulating technology. Hope we are all seeing the pattern here.
One option would be to pass a blanket law that doesn't just impact TikTok but US players too and then ban ALL offending apps.

This is only about hurting China and TikTok and NOT improving safety of US users.

If the US cared it would just change legislation to require rights be protected for social media companies - but that would impact Facebook so that's not going to happen.
Can this analysis be re-run for profile pictures that have your kid(s) in them?
...this isn’t normal? All the fiction I read has always been present tense.
> I don't know about China, but US executive and legislative have limits to their authority and I doubt such arbitrary bans are within that.

There are not such limits on the authority of the Chinese government.
Reality check?

https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP
https://github.com/ROCmSoftwarePlatform/hipDNN

CUDA just works.
Your last sentence shows you are not objective.

This is the same thing as Huawei being banned.
When Trump said he was gonna build a wall, I didn't know it was gonna be a great fire wall.
Dems are in a rough spot on this one, it will be hard to attack an action against an app with documented CCP/PLA involvement when they went so hard against FB for their inaction on use of the platform by foreign powers.
Honestly, Microsoft could purchase TikTok in its entirety and I still wouldn’t believe that it’s anything more than a front for the Chinese government. MS has a reputation for being exceedingly cozy with governments.

No matter how they try to spin off or rebrand this product or abandon ties to the old parent company, I’d never trust it as much as something entirely new.

If the NSA tried putting out a social media network, nobody would trust it. If they sold it off completely and had zero official NSA employees, nobody would trust it. And rightfully so. TikTok feels the same to me.
> lived in Israel since 1880

There was no "Israel" in 1880.

> and a holy war.

No it's not.
Wouldn’t it depend upon where the VPN is hosted?
OK is this legitimately happening? Or is it something Trump randomly spouted out to a reporter?
Perhaps Huawei might be willing to provide it.
Shopify with PayPal and Braintree. Shopify is usually quite good at flagging transactions. The problem if there are some false positives and just cancelling every flagged order would cost too much business.
I picked up the style after seeing Suzanne Collins use it so wonderfully in the Hunger Games.

Now I write this way almost exclusively for all my books.
Apple is parting with Intel over quality control issues. That is the same reason why Apple parted with IBM and Motorola that and Intel chips were faster.

You will find ARM Macs are cheaper than Intel Macs, even if not as fast but consume less power due to mobile technology.

Microsoft had the Surface tablet with ARM chips and an ARM version of Windows which didn't sell as well, but then they are not Apple who won't make the same mistakes as Microsoft.
Because we live in a relatively free country where the government doesn't choose what software we buy or use.
No, the state doesn't blacklist programs. Code is speech. Bernstein v. Department of Justice established that [1] in the 1990s. Sure, if you have an app, and you distribute copyrighted material as part of that app, yes, you can be prosecuted under copyright law and be forced (via injunction) to stop distributing that app. But the word "law" is essential: there is a specific rule, set out in advance, which applies to everyone, and for which there are clear penalties. I have seen nobody explain what law TikTok is supposedly breaking.

If TikTok is doing something bad, fine. Make a rule against the bad thing, then ban TikTok on the basis of breaking that rule. You can't just bypass the whole "make a rule" and "show that $X broke the rule" thing and go straight to "punish X". That's called passing a "bill of attainder", and it's such a terrible idea that the practice is specifically banned in the constitution. Now, maybe this situation isn't technically a bill of attainder, but it's the same damned principle at work, and it's still a bad idea.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-estab...
The color of plants and the statistics of light is fascinating.

Tangentially related, I was developing a CV app for farmers in an early stage weed startup right before legalization in California so they could monitor analytics on the health of their sprouts as well as identify strains. The camera conditions were all over the place and data preprocessing stage was an absolute nightmare. We tried everything from filters to background removal, augmentation techniques through transformations, noise induction for generalization - nothing really improved the baseline models because the photos honestly sucked. Farmers ignored our guidelines on lighting and framing and format and kept sending in inconsistent garbage.

I had a eureka moment. What if we sent each of the farmers a little piece of square cardboard painted magenta? The idea was that the increase in contrast would allow us to process the leaf contour a little bit better. The fact that the card was square meant some farmers even took the time to take the plant indoors so they could frame it better within the edges. Data quality improved dramatically. It worked.

Unfortunately legalization did not work out as we planned, farmers disappeared and the market was monopolized by corporations, there wasn't any interest in helping develop strains locally.
I ran it on a 386/25MHz, 8MB of RAM. It was much faster than Windows on the same machine.

Enlightenment was fast on that machine. The desktop switcher in the panel had old-school desk lamps pointing at the active desktop.

I miss that theme, and I can’t find any screenshots.
Compared to the number of pixels * the number of video frames displayed by Tikki…
> advanced persistent threat to US democracy

I don't see what this has to do with our electoral system.

That seems like a rather narrow and emotionally charged stance to take on this issue in my opinion.
It's very common in YA, but was extremely rare a decade ago.
Uh, article lacking some background.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Benjamin