skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
City Car Driving [1] is a simulator that I have seen used in a driving school.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/493490/City_Car_Driving/
If anything I'm amazed at this level of technical incompetence (or is ignorance a better word) from a group of people that hacked twitter...
In think it was Mafia 2. Great game.
I'd be 100% against it if this were any app besides one created in China. With all the spyware and protectionist policies there I don't mind so much the ban of Tiktok.
But Intel has already threaten MS with a lawsuit if it tries to emulate x86 for its ARM products. Meanwhile when Apple switched from PowerPC to x86 part of the agreement was a share of patents which gave Intel access to the multimedia extensions of the PowerPC (AltiVec?). If this "share" went both ways then Apple might be able to provide x86 translation on their SOC. NOTE: there is no evidence of this anywhere other than what MS was blocked when working on Windows 10 for ARM and the Apple-Intel agreements.

If this does happen I think Intel will not sweat it because it will be only Apple. Apple has no interest in selling CPUs. They want to be able to make severe changes (cut the fat) between revisions and not have people crying about having to update their architecture to support it.
Suckless is neat, but it stuck in the past, in a way. Using modern programming languages and native frameworks is the way to go. But the philosophy is exactly what required.
> Trump’s comments come as it was reported Friday that Microsoft has held talks to buy the TikTok video-sharing mobile app from Chinese owner ByteDance.

He's ensuring msft can get them at a good price. Trump is very aware of the power of signaling whether it pans out or not.
Australia, India have already banned it. UK is probably next too.

How exactly is this against the constitution?

Was banning Huawei unconstitutional too?
What Is Randonautica About?
Pardon my phrasing, but that's some bullshit buck-passing.

If 100 russians or whomever can subvert our democracy, we never really had it together to begin with, did we?

Maybe, and this sounds crazy, but maybe it's domestic people trying to whip up a fallacious outside threat for insider political reasons. A totally unheard of phenomenon.
Is it really? Have you followed any of this administration’s drama these last 3.5 years?
Oh I get there are different economics now. To be clear, my point isn't that there isn't demand for things like Starlink. My point is merely that even with that demand, we'll end up building more capacity than we need and some won't survive, just like 20 years ago.

I like the simplicity of the Starlink design, in that it's simply ground-to-satellite-to-ground. There are no satellite relays. I wonder if this will limit access in more remote places (eg Alaska, on the ocean, Antarctica). I guess SpaceX has decided this limitation is worth the cost-savings.

I'm curious to know what the effective range is from subscriber to access point (via satellite). And also what if you can talk to multiple Starlink satellites but only some of them are within range of an access point? I'm sure they've thought about this. I'm just curious on the technical details.
Summary of which seems to be that in general there is not absolute authority available for banning TikTok, but there are some novel/emergency measures possible to put some restrictions on ByteDance, but which are all rather new and untested, some of whose adminstrative rules/regulation are yet only being formulated(they many not be ready for implementation for many months if not weeks), mostly all of which will expose the federal action to be scrutinized by courts if ByteDance decides to goto court.
The only reason that we look at the Boston Tea Party as a "good" thing that happened is because that side ended up winning a war. If the British had won that conflict it would be a footnote in history, noting that some hooligans destroyed some property.
The Windows 10 calculator even has a loading screen. The UI is hideously large. It's like a joke of what "modern" software has become, except that it's actually serious.
The ban will most likely be network based, not just App Store. So apk will probably be useless.
Trump Banninng TikTok
If you think modern music is bad you should listen to more music.

There are artists that can publish work now, thanks to the internet, that publishers wouldn't even dream of going near let alone giving them deals. I really like microtonal electronic music for example, not exactly radio friendly.
It definitely mirrors the kinds of restrictions China puts on US companies with joint ventures, censorship of sensitive topics, and keeping data on Chinese servers.

However, I think why this feels unsettling even if it just mirrors what China's done is because up to now there was a sense that the US has a stronger economy, society, and culture than China, and these restrictions China put on US companies reflected their weakness and insecurity. But now the US is doing what China's done for decades. It shatters that aura of American superiority, implies that China's been right all along on matters of national security, and foreshadows a future where previously sacred assumptions of American democracy become obsoleted by new technology. I'm reminded of hand weavers smashing machine looms during the dawn of the industrial revolution.
The recent camera and clipboard things aren't private APIs, so the review process isn't looking for them being used in sneaky ways. I do appreciate iOS 14 adding a user-facing indication so we can tell when it's being abused though.
Should definitely read I don't want to talk about it by Terrance Real which dives into this.
Interesting, I have nearly the exact same situation except replace Nvidia with AMD. "Radeongate".

Also have miraculously saved the machine with a booting ritual/hack that bypasses the discrete gpu

Also 2011 MacBook.
> It's Jews vs Arabs

No it's not. It's Zionist occupiers vs. the natives.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/hs69hs/jewi...
10 million confounds is a lot to eliminate. Randomization only works because it decreases the probability of a spurious association existing. At some point the number of confounds eliminated would probably be more worthwhile. I'd definitely pay more attention to a study that eliminated 10 million confounds than most randomized controlled trials.

I agree a randomized controlled trial would be nice now. But even that is potentially fraught. For example, someone else mentioned the possibility that glucosamine reduces joint pain, which increases mobility, which increases longevity. Randomizing wouldn't really control for that sort of scenario. And that's not even getting into preregistration, meta-analysis etc.
Plenty of Toyota Isis' driving around my country.
> Trump’s comments come as it was reported Friday that Microsoft has held talks to buy the TikTok video-sharing mobile app from Chinese owner ByteDance.

It's to make sure MSFT gets it and at a good price. Trump is very aware of the power of signaling whether it pans out or not.
TikTok is basically a tool of [SOME NATION]'s military intelligence. Not going to say which nation, but this is well known in the security community
This has been the case since the launch of the App Store. It’s not new. When uploading an app to Apple App Store, you have to do disclosures about cryptography exports.
> Their sales are at an all-time high. Their latest quarterly report was stellar.

Past performance. In spite of their earnings their stock plummeted on the 7nm news. It’s not just HN that is bearish.
Considering spies and espionage literally turned the tide of two world wars, you might be selling the effectiveness of it short when conducted at a nation-state level.

Again to your reply, I don't think you understand how pervasive and wide reaching it has become. We are talking about entire groups of protesters and counter-protesters being organized and subsequently funded through donation platforms solely by foreign social accounts.
This seals Trump's fate at elections. Young voters will dump him on a blink of an eye
> As soon as you have an `await` anywhere in the code, you've got to assume that your code will be re-entered.

At least the re-entry points are explicitly marked with `await`. IMO that's the main benefit of async-await (stackless coroutines) over stackful coroutines or threads, which allow your code to be suspended and re-entered almost anywhere.

Of course the drawback of async-await is the "function color" issue [0], in which it's difficult for functions that don't suspend to call those which do.

[0] http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-y...
For who?

The big credit card banks make a lot of money.
The executive branch taking wild swings to impose rules that even congress would struggle to pass through constitutional review, is a threat to the democratic principles on which the US is based.
I find it odd that you think a gun protects you in public. Its always seemed to me like you are more likely to be shot if you're carrying a gun, because an armed criminal now has to shoot you first if they want to ensure that they are not shot themselves. If you are unarmed they can simply threaten to shoot you and need not actually shoot.

I guess in the US thee are so many guns that perhaps criminals will just assume that you're armed anyway. But IMO that only makes the case for gun control stronger. Because the most effective way to change that attitude would be to dramtically decrease the number of guns in circulation.
This isn't cracking enigma, this is shit-posting on social media.

I'm fine with the fun and games and industrial espionage, let the best man win. It's not a threat to our democracy unless our democracy is critically weak. Where's the accountability?
Least common multiple of the first n positive integers
Can you elaborate on the Knuth thing?
Why would they want to defend it? Addictive social media app based in China being forced to go is beneficial for everyone. It's even better if you're not the one removing rights so the blame goes to your political opponent.
Can you elaborate on how this makes things more secure (assuming HTTPS)

Surely if the server accepts a client side hash of a password, then the hash has become the password
The creators of Vine actually launched a Tiktok competitor few months ago. I think it is called Byte:

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/byte-app/id1441800002
FYI, still doesn't support font ligatures, if you're into that sort of thing: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/50
Just consider this: You have FB and other stuffs and can influence the world with it. They are very valuable propaganda channels and political tools and you can push whatever message on them to influence hundreds of millions of people.

Now someone else banned those channels so that you lose the edge. Not only that, the other guy also creates something similarly popular and wait -- it is not under your control!

What would you do?
Not even getting into the CCP ties, it's always struck me as unfair that Western social media companies are banned in China, while Chinese ones have been able to compete Worldwide.

In a way this gives Chinese apps an immediate advantage (as some are indirectly calling out in this comment section). If you want to reach out to someone in China, you have to use a Chinese company's app. Since social media is mostly a winner take all (or at least has a major snowball affect), this helps the Chinese social media company's grow even bigger. Now you already have one social media app for contacting people in China installed, why not use that app for contacting others?
I don’t read any YA. It’s mostly classic sci-fi, and some detective stories and occasional political thriller here and there. Maybe I just wasn’t paying attention, but the only time I recall past tense stories is when a character is describing something that happened off-scene. Narration is always present tense.

I can think of a handful of exceptions where the whole story itself is narrated from the perspective of someone telling a story, but those are notable exceptions for having a weird narrative gimmick (e.g. the excellent but dated Icehenge is written in the past tense because it consists of personal diary entries).
What music jobs, other than teaching, require a degree? The world's major orchestras have blind auditions. Most performance work is based on word of mouth reputation.
Just because Apple doesn't have a monopoly in smartphone hardware doesn't mean they don't have a monopoly in iPhone software distribution.
> The only reason that we look at the Boston Tea Party as a "good" thing that happened is because that side ended up winning a war.

No, it's because they ended up winning a war and became us. If it has been a group that went on to win war of national liberation against us, we probably wouldn't too kindly on it.
Out of interest how much work does ARM put into the Linux kernel, OSS compilers, OSS libraries.
It comes with a cost. If not money then environmental footprint. Bitcoin is a good example. Or a toxic deadlands of computer and mobile scrap. Just because companies think it's cheap and blind developers think it's acceptable to bloat.
> "You’re assuming a baseline at or above those intro courses. I’ve had engineers who don’t know how paragraphs work, or whose vocabulary and reading comprehension seems to have stunted at middle school."

If they're that poorly educated, then they'll be floundering in college humanities courses too so I'm not sure how that's a counterargument. Spending credit-hours on remedial English courses is even worse value for money.
Shouldn’t this be a very basic thing to do network wise?
Welcome to US politics for the past 3 and a half years. It’s a hell of a thing not knowing how serious anything he says means on any given day, imagine being on the other side of his fence when it comes to human rights.
It's not steep, this is one of the many cruelties and abhorrent failures of the US justice system. They do this to force you to enter a plea bargain deal even if you are innocent.
You're going to need a source for Australia banning it.
You just need to be creative with the release cycle, there is nothing stopping capturing ah moment in time and then releasing a serial, indeed it may allow for a more iterative process wrt to mix and mastering
> Here, the money is withdrawn from your bank account on the same day (most of the time), and you cannot go into debt.

Where do debit cards not work like this?
No, it signifies your acceptance of the card terms. Nobody is qualified to make an accurate comparison.
Why should I trust you with this claim and that

> this is well known in the security community

? It's a tall order to trust such a serious claim from a pseudonymous person. Please furnish some reasons why I should do so.
Enlightened Self Interest
TikTok does the same thing VINE did. Only VINE went out of business as people stole VINE videos and posted them on YouTube.
When it comes to national security, similar to Huawei, this can all be done.
Browser exploitation using a phishing link. For a publicized example look at the coinbase attack last year or so.
> Setting five police cars on fire is an act of domestic terrorism

No, it's not.

> That's not in any way a normal protest action.

Well, yeah, that’s why it's prosecutable as a crime at all rather than protected first amendment speech.
> humans, for the most part, only tend to self regulate if they understand that the consequences of their actions are negative enough.

I agree with this. But I don't think it necessarily needs to be consequences to themselves that they understand. Coming to understand the consequences their actions have had on others can also effectively chnage behaviour, and can often turn past offenders into very effective advocates against the crime they committed.

That isn't necessarily to say that I don't think there should be consequences for the perpetrator. Just that I don't think it's the only way to prevent crime.
First person present tense is on the rise, but third person present tense? One solid example I know of is the Nobel prize winner Olga Tokarczuk's "Books of Jacob". And even there it is justified from the very prologue as everything there is POV of a person who dies or falls into a comatose trance, be it real or magical, I don't want to spoil you.
Been using Alacritty on my Linux desktop for the better part of the year and it's been simply a joy. It convinced me to install it on my mac and windows machines too.

I know it's just a terminal and very mundane to be excited by, but the performance shows if you're a heavy command line user. tail logs look smoother, typing never lags, really well done.
Because if I wanted to live in China I would move there? It’s a social platform and I KNOW why other country’s try to control social networks but I wasn’t expecting us to stoop that low for control. They want to talk about fake news but limit us from speaking to each other with something they can’t control. A lot of protestors use it and it was directly used to troll trump by Americans , it’s a conflict of interest. It’s ok for Facebook to sell our data to another country or allow fake ads to manipulate the elderly with conspiracy theories but tiktok is where they draw the line? Redic.
Back in the '70s I worked on machines with head-per-track disks. SSDs begin to bring that responsiveness back.
> Wouldn't the logical equivalency be for China to strong-arm the NBA to sell ownership to a Chinese company if they want the NBA to continue to be watched by Chinese audience?

Indeed. The real equivalent would be when China prohibited AWS from operating datacenters in China, forcing them to instead operate out of Chinese-owned datacenters.
None of those things can even remotely compare to the importance of the database design for most software businesses, especially ones just starting out. Most of them can also be addressed later in the company's life unlike a bad database design.
Renegade... renegade. I enjoy TikTok, but until China allows free access of US apps and websites into their marketplace, I consider this a trade war which the president can conduct.
How would a network ban be enforced? TikTok doesn't even communicate directly with Chinese servers - I block connections to China on my home network, and my kids can still use TikTok on the wifi, so I'm confident there are US servers.

I even more doubt that we have the infrastructure in place to do a network-level ban (whatever that would mean) for a single app. It is much easier for me to believe Google/Apple could be strong-armed or sweet-toothed into delisting the app, if it really came down to it.
You just ask ISPs to not resolve the domain names. That would make it inaccessible to the vast majority of people, which is more than enough to kill a social network.
The companies that ended up consolidating most of the rights to the most popular Vines ended up printing millions of dollars per month for quite a while, I’m sure they still do well.
After reading many books on China I learned China values social stability over everything. In its 4,000 year history they have seen the dangers of social instability. We are a very young country and haven't seen what real chaos can look like.

(These ideas are from Henry Kissinger's on China, Destined for War by Graham T. Allison and The China Dream by Liu Mingfu)
> The jobs require you to build things which hurt people for people who only care about money.

Can you please elaborate on this bit more? How is FANAG hurting people?
I'm more worried about the effect this will have on the overall public perception of the TikTok issue than anything else.

During a time of such intense civil unrest, when people are letting strong emotions and groupthink guide them in lieu of reason, I have a feeling this that many will be quick to jump on a bandwagon that's unduly sympathetic to TikTok.

I think I have a pretty good idea of how the media (both social and mainstream) is going to portray this. They'll suddenly forget about the long list of legitimate reasons why TikTok is majorly problematic, and present it as being something where poor little TikTok is being unfairly targeted by big evil xenophobic Trump.

You could make a legitimate argument for why it's unconstitutional or sets a bad precedent for Trump to do this, but that unfortunately doesn't change the one-dimensional way most people are gonna see this.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/dianne-feinstein-lauds-c...
> Shows how far the balance of power has shifted in the last 20 years back when the Chinese government was banning western products to prevent "spiritual pollution" and "western influence".

Yes, now it's the US doing desperate acts of authoritarianism out of weakness.
There’s ongoing joke about USA becoming large Turkey because all the stuff that we used to say that would never happen in a proper democracy is happening one by one.

I know you don’t want to hear it, I know you think that you are exceptional and you are not like the others who ban apps and websıtes but I am going to say it anyway as a record for the future.

When Turkey banned YouTube or Twitter of course it was banned to “protect the rights of the citizens”.

Theses things always happen for noble reasons.

Welcome to the world where the government decides what app or service you can use.

I am sure that it’s necessary to keep you safe from these evil foreigners. Could have regulated user data safety but ban is the way to go.

The only downside is, we can no longer argue that in a proper democracies governments don’t ban stuff. USA was the example used to demand rights when people were protesting against totalitarian governments and it’s gone. Now the governments would ban Twitter Facebook and everything else when they feel like doing so and will say that it is for national security reason, look even the USA is doing it!

BTW, Turkey is preparing to ban Twitter again. Of course it is to preserve the rights of its citizens, it always is. China, Cuba, Iran, Russia, Turkey - the usual suspects that ban access, they also ban for the greater good. It is always for national security or to preserver the rights of its citizens.
And to understand Reliance, you need to understand Caste system in India;

TL;DR

Casteism is an Organized mafia in India since 700 BC https://archive.is/PdiUF

BC/SC/ST people, 80% in India, were denied education/employment and basic human rights for 2700+ years as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigveda in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Indian_history

In 1932 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._R._Ambedkar, Architect of the Constitution of India demanded a separate country (not Reservations/Affirmative Action) for them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_Award

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi opposed it, bullied and bribed them with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poona_Pact
https://hckrnews.com shows dead discussions.

unfortunately it looks like http://hnrankings.info does not.

i don't think there's a way to find out exactly what happened without emailing the mods: hn@ycombinator.com. i also doubt they go into the details that much.
I’m the opposite. I can’t recall a single example of a novel I have read in the present tense.
I think overseas Chinese have bigger problems to worry about than Wechat getting banned. Based on the trajectory the world is heading in, we might be seeing Pacific War 2.0 and internment camps in a few decades.
Most of Tiktok users aren’t of voting age.
While I still vehemently believe the crypto export laws are a stinking pile of 1st Amendment violation, we're talking about code import here, and I don't think there's legislative precedent (and certainly not executive) to enact something like this.
At Microcenter you can buy a house brand SSD hard drive with 128G on it for $58 and boot from that and store all your other files on a D:\ regular hard drive. That is how I set up my son's Windows 10 gaming rig.