skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An incident in 2020 where TikTok users apparently tanked some Trump campaign rally probably is a bit more practical preview what controlling recommendations and likes could let CCP do (eventually... if they were not involved this time around) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/style/tiktok-trump-rally-...
Nationalistic flamebait and personal attacks (like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24564806) will get you banned here. Please stop posting like this. The container here is a fragile ecosystem. I'm sure you wouldn't litter in a city park or a mountain lake, or drop lit matches in a dry forest, so can you please not do the equivalent on HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I reckon it was probably just this: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/style/tiktok-trump-rally-...
> There is also no one canonical linux stack. Different distros do things differently (sometimes drastically so).

Does this fragmentation help or hurt the ecosystem over the long-term? I personally think it's the #1 reason Linux never stole any sizable market share from Mac OS X/Windows. Hardware support just isn't there. Polish just isn't there. Instead I can name multiple init systems, multiple shells, multiple package managers all fighting for space in our "brains" to be remembered and used. :P
None really, the next Chinese successful "social media" platform will face the same treatment
Okay the default was way to close to my actual numbers and I sincerely wondered if it was pulling logged-in data from some site.

Also, the default table only goes up to 90?
My first instinct is to hate it. My second is to respect it and doubt my first instinct.
That seems like a decent enough idea when you're 14 or so, but you need to understand how these things pan out IRL.

When Fill-In-Political-Party-You-Don't-Like takes charge, lobbies to expand the definition of dickery, adds criticism of corporal punishment policies to the list, and rules that you are a dick... now it's just about the worst idea.
Politics aside, it's crazy Facebook / Instagram / Youtube haven't successfully cloned TikTok yet. No doubt network affect plays a role, but from what I've read, western clones have been very lacking. Maybe US is just not competitive when it comes to quickly copying and iterating designs like China is. It's a skill. Google Meet apart from great transcription feature still feels miles behind Zoom. Wonder how Indian developers are doing after the ban. JioMeet is pretty much a 1:1 Zoom clone, anyone comment on what replaced TikTok?
...being controlled by the CCP is what makes it different. All of these sites/apps have the ability to shove propaganda in the faces of millions of people, only one of them is run by a government.
National security is generally best when it is proactive, not reactive.

If you think the CCP having this data could be a problem, you can't wait until they collect it all and use it in order to stop them.

There is a reason laws like GDPR prevent even the mere collection of data, and don't wait until Google does something wrong with the data in order to stop them.
Revenge of the Money Launderers
Free and Easy Ways You Can Grow Your Business with a LinkedIn Page
curious how coinbase would rebut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_secession_movements#Othe...
He says, that one of the domains he already sold, was "corp.com". A few comments above we can read, that it was up for auction, starting at 1.7million and Microsoft bought it in the last few weeks.
I know VS Code has a way to do it depending on window color scheme. Not sure if it is supported in Linux, but it is in Windows and MacOS. If your overall OS theme auto-changes based on time of day (or if you manually switch between light and dark mode whenever), VS Code will adjust as well.

In the settings turn on `window.autoDetectColorScheme: true` then select a theme for each: `workbench.preferredLightColorTheme` &
`workbench.preferredDarkColorTheme`
Norms are by mutual consent.

So literally nothing like the prisoner's dilemma, iterated or otherwise.
To be clear - I'm not stating that there aren't legacy preferences or that the increased admit rate is solely or even majority due to the high test scores - it's not.

A legacy with a 1600 has a substantially higher chance, due to their parents alma mater, than a non-legacy with a 1600.
Why do you need that property?
It's true that there's always risk involved. As we know, that is true for nuclear as much as any other energy technology.

My view on this is that we are not particularly far away from this being viable even with 2020 technology. And that this is especially true if we are creative in how we apply technology, for example by decentralising the grid and installing storage capacity in people's homes, and by being aggressive with load shifting to reduce the storage capacity required. And there are dozens of promising new energy storage technologies. It seems unlikely that none of them pan out. I thus consider the risk of going all-in on renewables fairly low.
Targeted advertising on the internet as a general practice did not start until the mid to late aughts, long after the internet was a success. Targeted advertising is not a reason for the Internet's success.
> shutting down a company

It's not a company. It's a division of a foreign government. That was the point being made. If it was an independent company, none of this would be happening.
Devils advocate - there is no evidence that it isn’t already occurring in subtle ways. Russia’s strategy is sowing discord, which would be fairly easy if one government controls the algorithm deciding what media the other country’s citizens sees.
Nice one.

More useful to me would be something similar that operates on tensors on the GPU.

Doing image annotations on host/CPU often becomes a bottleneck.
Would you feel different if Russia or North Korea controlled TikTok?
the price of protecting many small nuclear reactors against say aeroplanes will rise per watt.

I certainly agree with death per TWh calculations being naive, but for a different reason: ethics trumps metrics.

If I agree to climb a roof and maintain some solar panels in exchange for money, I am risking my own life and limb. A child 100 years from now will not fall off in my place.

If you agree to work in a nuclear reactor today, in theory a child in the future could get cancer from a mishap today.

Put differently: even if eating 20 grams of human babies cured AIDS, and hence many lives could be saved in exchange for one, does not justify the trade. We expect informed consent of all parties involved.
I don't think I'm emphatically stating it, but I can see how you would read it that way. I added a clarifying reply, but it is too late for the comment to be edited.
I've run out of funnies to find in the codebase I work on. This looks like a fresh supply of much much more. Much appreciated.
There’s two books that cover the case:

https://www.amazon.com/American-Kingpin-Criminal-Mastermind-...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23502744-silk-road

Still waiting for the movie to be made with Ross’ doppelgänger Robert Patterson playing him.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19492091

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20895776
Thanks for the constructive comment! I'll try and see if it is at all possible to implement it in Pillow and maybe re-implement it in a major release, unless it is terribly convoluted.
>I have a friend who is a high level Google VP that is very active in advocacy for people less represented at Google

The same Google that was planning on launching in a country with slave camps for Uyghurs Muslims?

To put it bluntly, hiring a few black people does not make up for Project Dragonfly. I guess the VP you're talking about has decided who's where on the diversity chart, according to his approval of Google's behavior.
In the 12 years since the App Store, we've seen a plethora of languages become available for iOS. Swift has existed for half that time, and even in the past 6 years, we've seen more languages, more frameworks, and a LOT more non-Cocoa apps.

Meanwhile, the majority of the system remains based on C, C++, and Objective-C (accessible via C) APIs, the same that many of the other languages and frameworks tap into to access Apple's higher level frameworks.

Why the sudden fear and trepidation?
Covid19
Covid19 has put the world in standstill
Financial cryptography predates the global financial crisis by about twenty years, and was born out of a desire for private, secure, and censorship-resistant transactions (in which government is not the only attacker).

https://www.chaum.com/publications/Security_Wthout_Identific...

https://www.coindesk.com/the-rise-of-the-cypherpunks
You can have a policy of reciprocation with 1 offending country, without changing free and open business culture with others.
Reels on Instagram launched a couple weeks ago and it appears to be pretty active. I haven’t seen usage numbers yet
thanks for the downvotes
These are a bit out of date, but they give you some flavor of the library, in an interactive form:

http://www.ujamjar.com/hardcaml/
Devils advocate - there is no evidence that it isn’t already occurring in subtle ways.

This isn’t playing the “devil’s advocate” (which-the devil here does not need any advocacy) this is a request to prove a potential negative.

Can we please retire the tactic of giving the devil representation in such a blatant and cavalier fashion?
I think they are just angry that TikTok users trolled the Trump Tulsa Rally.
An asking offer without a bid is just that - an offer. I can ask $1M for that red apple sitting on my desk. It's completely irrelevant.

PS. This behavior is quite prominent in real estate prices, they're so slow to fall down. For example the US real estate market bottomed only in 2011. You have to be very patient if you want to buy the dip in such "I will only sell for the right price!!" markets.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/201... says:

During times of calm space weather, travelers on flights from say, Chicago to Beijing, over the north pole get the equivalent radiation dose of a chest X‐ray (~0.1 mSv) [e.g., Meier et al., 2009; Bennett et al., 2012, 2013; Joyce et al., 2016; Tobiska et al., 2016].
God please save your children
The HN title is the article's HTML doc title, which is a legitimate variant to use here.
Absolute Minimum Every Engineer Must Know About Authentication and Encryption
I hear to many engineers scared of the topic on a day to day basis. I am not math or crypto expert I've just built things with the tools. Want to share this with others in case they've been avoiding the topic.
so is just saying the words "national security" enough for you to believe that this is justified? should the US government be allowed to block any private company from doing business just by saying those magic words, with no further justification? or just any foreign-owned company? or just any chinese company - if it's china, what makes china special?

there's got to be some limitation on where you draw the line on the government exercising this absolute and arbitrary power, i'm curious where exactly it is. could they shut down twitter for national security reasons? what about shopify - they're canadian, and the government is already levying tariffs against canadian imports for national security reasons, so the national security threat is already justified. should they be able to ban shopify with no concrete justification beyond claiming it's a vague threat to national security?
Through the elaboration of organic life, culminating in the evolution of humans. That is all we, in our position, can speculate about.
In a country without any constraints on government behavior or rule of law beyond whatever the CCP decrees, Chinese entities have to be treated as organs of the Chinese Communist Party.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/05/huawei-would-have-to-give-da...
You may be right (and the publicity alone would be sufficcient for this thin-skinned lunatic), but... doesn't that story rest on somewhat tenuous logic?

I. e. they claim to have reserved far more tickets than capacity would allow to attend. But that seems to demonstrate that tickets weren't limited by capacity. So how did their action prevent other people from getting tickets?
> So the guest seems to have broken the rules and then lied about it, which in Thailand is a serious crime.

The article says the hotel wanted a fee for bringing in alcohol. Where are you getting that not paying a fee to bring alcohol to a hotel and lying about it would be a serious crime in thailand?
under the new paradigm what control remains independent of biological and evolutionary history?
I wonder how the properties that Jeff Hawkings derived from neocortex (and partially hippocampus) in his work "On Intelligence" hold against the structure in question.
I'm leaving Portland
> The worst reforms in my opinion have been the ones that obfuscate memory and introduce nondeterminism, like aslr. It makes C programs impossible to debug.

This is why personality(2)'s ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE exists, and both GDB and LLDB use it. And, like, if you have are attaching to an executable that was already launched both debuggers are more than competent enough at reading /proc/pid/maps and rebasing debug symbols to match.

> On the other hand, stuff like ASAN is great. I don't hear many people talking about it, sadly enough, outside Chrome team.

Every major browser engine tests with address sanitizer, as does the Linux kernel and many other projects that are concerned about security–it catches real bugs! But it could always see wider adoption, of course.

> Operating systems should enable that systemically.

But it's not really a security feature, nor is it something that an operating system implements (it's a dynamic library and an instrumented binary). However, memory tagging may bring something similar at the hardware level, and we may actually see real usage of this in the coming years rather than the perpetual soon™.
Nobody forced the guy to come and work in Thailand. He isn’t a tourist though. If he works here he should know about the laws. Ignorance is not protection against the laws.

We see the same with many foreign tourists who come and assume they can ride motorcycles without valid driving license and experience. Lots of them injured and asking for money in gofundme pages to pay hospital bills since insurance won’t cover illegal behavior.

If I were to take your way of thinking then USA should be also on travel warning list. A (Canadian) foreigner living there was killed when she called police to report someone breaking into her house. However she was killed by police. I think that’s a bit more drastic than being arrested for (allegedly) not showing up in person to the police station as per report.

The law is sometimes abused by people but it’s not draconian.

Defendants are usually called and asked to appear at police station to make their own statement. Very civilized way of handling.

Then you have most likely two times there to negotiate with the person who filed report.

If nothing comes out of it, and only then, criminal charges are filed and investigated.

A judge has to write an arrest warrant and does it if the defendant didn’t answer to calls by police to appear.

Then and only then they can arrest him. He would have been brought to the station, went to jail for not following proceeding and he got out on bail.

So far this seems like a very appropriate handling.

Also I’m sure that before the case starts the judge usually ask both parties if this can be negotiated first. They have more critical cases than to deal with stupid posts on social media.

If no agreement can be reached then there is a trial and it’s not guaranteed that defendant would get 2y in prison unless is unreasonable. He has a lot of influence there. His reaction will determine the proceedings and he will get a fair trial.

You’re inventing things and twisting reality. People are less likely to get in trouble with the law in Thailand than to get shot by police in the US.

So please let me know how reasonable it is for foreigners in USA to get killed by police when calling 911 and reporting a break in.
It's not gonna happen, audio is much less throughput intensive but a lot more latency sensitive.
Language adapts to common use, common use doesn’t adapt to linguistic rules. But I see your point.
I’ve worked with some exceptional code off of GitHub. But at work? Never
Not if you want your work to be discovered.
Wouldn’t this be better handled by a more sophisticated solution like some kind of law or governance organization? Banning specific apps is like whack a mole. There will also be other countries with opposing ideological beliefs - we probably shouldn’t want to play whack a mole country by country either.
And here's the latest in SNI and ESNI censorship bypass: https://geneva.cs.umd.edu/posts/china-censors-esni/esni/

https://getintra.org/ which is a DoH client for Android bypasses Indian censorship, btw. Ref: https://twitter.com/vinifortuna/status/1304189371688660992
Interesting idea! I'll have to do some studying as to how to make that happen, so I doubt I'll be adding that option anytime soon but I'll be adding it to the icebox.

Thank you for the comment!
I am fine with "any reason why you don't" questions. Being asked one assumes that I am aware of the options, have gone through the pros and cons, and have made a decision on the matter. Clearly, I must have some reason for the decision, and so the person wants to know what reason that may be. Mutual respect and all that.

Layout out alternate approaches assumes that I haven't done any research into the matter at all. It may be that the reason I don't use something is that I have never heard of it, in which case having the alternate approaches laid out is useful. Otherwise, it is a waste of the person's time to lay out what may already be known.
it can save data to localStorage now :)
I went to an Obama rally when he was running and just showed up.. no tickets. Got all the way to the front of the crowd. Another option is to charge a nominal fee for a ticket.

Trump's problem was that he wanted to hand out free tickets over the internet. Just don't do that.. problem solved.

If that's the limit of TikTok's power.. then I think we're going to be ok.
How can NYT say America was actually founded in 1619?

To his base, elite east coast “Fake News” media has no credibility whatsoever, because of blatant culture-war pandering like 1619.
Thanks! I've always had a job for a long time and had some serious advantages in life. A non-profit could be interesting or consulting for start-ups sounds intriguing.
Living here, they usually do single out Chinese tour groups. It’s not a cheap vacation for Americans to just go to Thailand. The raucous Americans that just want to get stupidly drunk on a hot beach while harrassing local women usually go to Mexico, Central America, or the Carribean. In Thailand you can usually pick out the Americans for being eager to eat spicy food on the streets in an attempt to ‘live like a local’ instead of at the stereotypical Western pubs. There’s a selection bias on the accessiblity and cultural interest that causes generally better-than-average, non-stereotypical Americans to find themselves in Thailand specifically.
Think it involves TV adverts too.
This guy will get a foot in but still have to do a gotcha interview loop
> Does Google keep track of your address with the "preferred location of the dots"?

Yup! Both the account switcher and the "From" address on emails I send include the dots.

> Can you sign in with the dot removed?

Hadn't tried it before, but yes I can. (In fact, you can try this at home: it also works if you add dots.) Signing in this way doesn't change what Google thinks my "canonical" email address is -- after logging in, the account switcher etc. still shows the dots in the places they were when I first registered.
Why would TikTok agree to a preliminary American takeover and transfer of all assets to American entities if they are taking directives from the CCP? If this were true I would expect them to fight tooth and nail against a deal with the likes of Oracle and Wal-Mart rather than champion it as they have been doing.
I don’t really know where I stand on the issue, but it is fairly clear how this is a potentially serious threat to national security.

Maybe a better solution is allowing the us government unfettered access to source code, algorithms, data collection, etc.

Edit - it seems reasonable that if a private company is able to massively influence the countries politics they should be scrutinized more closely. IMO it’s like have 1 national newspaper, but it’s a social platform rather than newspaper.
Sounds like an incredible experience. While I don't have kids of my own, I definitely think family would be a big part of my FI reduced lifestyle. We've talked about adoption, maybe it's time to consider it more seriously.
Foreign controlled seems like a very clear dividing line that greatly limits abuse. It helps that unlike China, the United States has judicial review.
That’s probably fine for a growth product. They’ll increase monetization once the network effect is well-established.
Through the evolution of organic life on earth, culminating in human development.
> probably

Please. Perhaps you didn't realise that they already launched an investigation before the Tulsa rally and also against FaceApp for the same reason: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-50639443

EDIT: Downvoters: So the concerns, investigation requests of both TikTok and FaceApp didn't occur in 2019 and for the former, the investigations didn't happen before the Tulsa rally? Are you sure? [0] [1]

[0] https://www.cotton.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=1239

[1] https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-tiktok-cfius-exclusive/exc...
Should the line-height on the landing page be 1.0 or 1.2
Uh, welcome to international politics?

Every country on Earth gives its executive some discretion when dealing with foreign powers. The idea that TikTok should have the same due process rights as American corporations is naive (putting it mildly).
Sure, but if Nvidia/OpenAI/Google/Facebook have shown anything, it's that there's always more kernels to invent and train bigger nets with.
They are usually pretty agreeable and say yes at the end of a pitch.
> my recollection is that PHP tries to pull a strings-are-integer tricks a few times

Yeah, the implicit casting in PHP is bonkers, especially when it comes to comparisons. The comparison table looks like the scribblings of a madman: https://www.php.net/manual/en/types.comparisons.php

(though granted, Javascript acts very similarly.)
I'm not sure what that means ("my birthday is a couple of weeks in the future"). If you could take a screenshot and paste just the sample data, that'll be great! Thanks.
Was definitely not saying everyone's, just anyone that an elected official, or has control public policy and/or spending of tax money.
Did you design it yourself or come across the design somewhere? I follow mechanical keyboards on and off but never seen this design before. I guess it's missing multiply/divide but generally it makes a lot of sense, especially for how compact it is.
I assume you are getting downvoted for tone, but the idea itself seems reasonable.
All national security issues are inherently privacy issues.

It's about how much you're willing to (or forced to) give up in the name of national security.
I'm sure that they would, but wouldn't understand until it was too late.

when you cripple education systems, fewer people can think critically about issues and the ramifications of decisions are much more abstract.
I've heard credible claims that GPUs these days (esp. TPUs) have lower latency for big models than CPUs. I haven't really investigated, but I could see it happening if you give the TPU a huge L1 cache or something.
Minecraft on Kubernetes
It is highly unlikely anyone with any DarkNet experience would think they could use it for murder for hire. It's the sort of thing you can claim without any evidence and your average citizen would believe at face value.