skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://raheem.ai/ is an interesting project. One idea someone in one of their community calls had was scraping dispatch data to figure out where social services might be useful, and they're creating a dispatch app which lets people ask for non-police help.
A huge portion of VPN users do it to get around geo-blocking, which has not been falsely advertised.
The US is a fine example, especially the first century.
What real harm can they do with this data though? You do have to opt in if you consume their service, so if you're really worried about what influence it has on you, you can opt out. I mean, I know that you and I and everybody else would rather be entertained by companies that aren't tracking us, like TV used to do, but that ship has sailed... they're going to track us, so we just have to figure out what the real potential harm is and protect against that.
IMO if TikTok can operate in the US, then Twitter, FB, etc. should be allowed to operate in China. It's the lopsided (potential) to influence the other market/populace that doesn't sit well with me.
Surely you don't need to?

Just over-expand the mask and let stable diffusion decide what it's going to keep and what it's going to replace.
If you're the author do a https://news.ycombinator.com/show instead. The question doesn't seem genuine.
> I agree, why wasn’t I allowed to bring my swords to school, just because other kids couldn’t be bother to learn good sword etiquette?

Seems like a false equivalence, given that a sword can be used to kill someone and a phone seems very unlikely to be able to be used for that.
who cares if it does? It's just an intermediate product from compiling the code with cppfront. gcc and clang both generate assembly files and then call the assembler on them -- I doubt that assembly code matches your coding conventions either.
Heh, my bad, I thought he placed 3rd. Thanks for pointing that out
> For those of us not in the US, it's not that different. We are always at the mercy of tech companies from a foreign power.

That may be true, but the OP tweet (https://twitter.com/zachtratar/status/1571595169207812096) is referring to Americans specifically, and even for non-Americans, it's different for American-allied countries vs. ones with a more adversarial relationship. I don't think Americans would be concerned about TikTok if it were based in the UK or Italy, for instance.
I love Tal's games, and you can learn a ton from them - but it's undeniable that he played pretty inaccurately even for his era. Most experts understand it, respect Tal for who he was and what he brought to the field, but caution younger players from emulating him too much and instead to study players way ahead of their time - especially players like Paul Morphy.
I watch tiktok videos on Twitter and Facebook.
I do the exact same thing. Psuedo code it up and that's my comments basically.
How do you find previously posted thrrads ? is there a specific script or they remember stuff really well ?
Self esteem can be fixed by simple things like being more attractive, more intelligent and/or more popular. We should just use genetic engineering to achieve these things as soon as possible.
China has access to US users while the US does not have access to Chinese users. Thats the issue at hand.
Let me know if anybody wants to meet up in Washington DC!
if google and facebook are in favor of something, I should automatically be against it?
I've been looking for people to cowork with since I started my remote job. Can't wait to sign up - good find
They're probably communicating on whatsapp.
*car collisions
Can't think of a bigger dissonance between most people and a typical HN commenter than this. Its a good intersection of infosec and geopolitical nerdom in general, but mostly it allows programmers to think that their expertise has bearing on something so seemingly serious and huge, when their work doesnt usually give them that opportunity. So I understand the fervor that way only because it just can't all be the typical superiority dynamic presented here a lot with layman's consumption habits, its just so extra with anything about software and China. I hope you guys get a fight worth your time one day.
Or maybe a lot of commenters know far more than you and are already living in a world where a foreign power dominates their data.
Yes? the world is full of people who want to do things in person.
Being one click away from a DELETE vs a GET sounds like a serious foot-gun that I would wrap a check around. “Are you sure? This operation will delete 17M entries.”
New Tiktok challenge: get as big a crowd of people together as you can for this dance! - reasonably good approximations of number of people in a given area or organization

New Tiktok challenge: pinch the sunset from a hilltop - combination of timestamp and known astronomical reference allows calculation of altitude allowing remarkably detailed topographic map around population centers

New Tiktok challenge: trying on all of my shoes - good proxy for calculating disposable income and thus mapping economic activity

New Tiktok challenge: how many flowers can I find in my backyard - reasonable proxy for determining both long term climate and recent weather activity in an area

New Tiktok challenge: trying on my boyfriend's uniform - estimate number, location, and rank distribution of military units

Nation-state level actors with millions upon millions of videos to analyze should not be underestimated.
A picture is worth the first paragraph:

https://imgur.com/h1D5Qo3

(Oddly, mid-way through the article is an image of six of the 12 panels but in black & white.)
This python library does the same thing (but didn't get traction when I posted it yesterday):

https://github.com/brycedrennan/imaginAIry#automated-replace...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32887385

And I got the idea from here:

https://github.com/ThereforeGames/txt2mask

Which is using the model here:

https://github.com/timojl/clipseg

Clipseg is doing the hard part!
There is also LibRedirect[1] which automatically redirects to an alternative frontend.

[1] https://github.com/libredirect/LibRedirect
> A person who will get angry about a fictional fish not being caucasian can not be reliably appeased.

I'm not Caucasian but to distill a growing population of people's irritation with film studios wanting to rewrite all major iconic characters of their childhood as minorities of LGBT as simply them being "irrational" is a very shallow way of looking at it.

Disney has access to more data on sentiment and consumer choice than we do and they would know just as we do there is growing push-back against this sort of thing.

From what I've seen, people would have no issues with a bunch of new characters being introduced that are minority, LGBT or whatever social issue we're servicing this quarter. They might express surprise that big companies are willing to spend so much time and effort on characters that don't represent the majority of the population and they'll probably vote with their wallets by not seeing films that don't represent them or pander to social issues instead of focusing on entertaining. But you wouldn't have this growing vocal annoyance.

You'll need to explain why having access to customer sentiment and demographics... and seeing the reaction to multiple big releases that have been panned / been commercial failures, they want to continue making such choices. At the very least they could vary it up right?

Unless their ESG overlords don't allow them
When this happens in a room in the west, it gets a Wikipedia page and people regularly post about it online and argue about whether the scope of the collection under law is appropriate.

When this happens in an authoritarian state, it is business as usual, the scope of collection is not considered, and dissenting opinions quickly disappear.

That’s the difference.
In some ways, the Founders were delightfully naive. Kings also already existed, and they'd just thrown off control of one.

Many Founders believed a standing army to be an inherently corrupting force (if you have a warrior class, sooner or later they will make you go to war) and thought America would be better without one. Whether or not that could have been true in the abstract became irrelevant because the need to perpetually defend territory meant that there was never an opportunity to disband the Continental Army.
Back in 2006 I wrote an "Internet Radio Recording" app: https://sourceforge.net/projects/radiorec/ based on the interface of DVRs on TVs at the time.

It's interesting that people thought to put live streamed radio online before just dumping the mp3s.
Show HN: Create REST APIs with just a simple GraphQL query.
> How much work would it be to implement your own font of the entire unicode set? Or is that not actually a thing and fonts implement as-desired subsets?

You can't, and you are not expected to do so. You are limited by OpenType limit (65,535 glyphs), various shaping rules that possibly increase the number of required glyphs, and lack of local or historical typographic convention. Your best bet is either to recruit a large number of experts (e.g. Google Noto fonts) or to significantly sacrifice quality (e.g. GNU Unifont).
Go on the side and click cancel on your current plan after that press "It's to expensive" and you get offered another plan.
like adversaries before, china isn't forcing america to treat it as an adversary. it's just the military-industrial complex needs a reason to continue building capacity now that the war on terror is over. the war on terror replaced the cold war, the cold war replaced world war 2. it will continue this way until the next global imperial power sets to tune that america will dance to.
Having worked in the Chinese tech sector I have honestly no idea where this cartoonish idea comes from that the Chinese government magically runs every tech company in the country. I seriously question if anyone who says that has any personal experience with the country at all.

I just ate...ergo, there's no world hunger...
I don't think there is any biases behind it.

Google is incentivized to return you results. And there are probably not enough Malaysian restaurants in Fremont.

So I would assume they have some data that says "people who like Malaysian cuisine tend to like Burmese cuisine as well".

And so they are returning them as well.

It does the same quite often. I am French and I live in Thailand. If I look for "crepes" it will return me results about "roti" (which for any French person is a disaster)
sweet a_burns! let me know if there is anything else you found, as well?
I'm totally with you on this. Who doesn't want to control global influence marketing? Prioritize certain content in certain locations, boost their economies...

Obviously, I'm speculating, which doesn't necessarily help anything nor is true, but... my gut is with you.
Graphics style looks like:

https://www.16personalities.com/
Depends on the genre.

Mass Effect would be unremarkable without a good story. And so would The Witcher series.

If we are talking about Quake, then we don't _need_ a story(Arena). We can have one though (later installments) and that's fun if you care about that.

They you have things like Dwarf Fortress, which has a unique story every world generation.
I could easily self host my projects on a rpi and rate limit all the companies that download the same thing over and over every second. Companies can and should set up internal mirrors.

The advantage of github is that people have accounts and it's easy for them to send patches or discover projects.

But I'm fully capable of using git via email.
The lawless world of crypto scams
the "alpha" is already built into the tooling and specified independent of the mask. IE. the stable diffusion inpainting takes hints from what you leave and "decides" what to keep
Funny, I first heard of him from friends who live une the same village. I have met his daughter but not him.
Well, they did invade Donetsk and Luhansk in 2014. I don't know if that was after his prediction, though.
> And if you don't see reasons why giving very powerful, authoritarian regime full access to huge amount data about people is a problem - well, history books can show you some.

Curious, are you referencing IBM and The Holocaust?
Not trying to throw ML at the wall, but could it be used for this problem (considering all other options seem to be failing)?

As far as I understand, after MV3, ad blockers won't be able to use a long list of ads to remove them.

How about using a simple ML algorithm to detect whether the request is a genuine one or an advertisement? I am sure that getting training data wouldn't be too hard (all the ad lists that will get useless after MV3 are good data).

I don't make chrome extensions so I don't completely know how MV3 will cripple ad blockers.

Any feedback would be appreciated!
1. I replied to the parent comment here; our answer to the scale problem is to recognize that people doing web scraping are as decentralized as the police. Our goal is to empower people who have questions about the police to answer them.

2. You can run them locally. We're not running the scrapers anywhere, or storing extractions anywhere.

3. This is a big, big question. Right now, the answer is dependent on the use case. Rather than trying to make the world's biggest database, we're going to respond to community needs and build this kind of thing as it comes up.

4. https://measuresforjustice.org/ is doing something like this! We're interested in creating incentives for police departments to make their data more accessible and transparent.
I don't know about "hate", but one of the foundational ideas of the US, at least from what I can make of it, is that more control should be relegated to the lower levels of government (to the states or the people), and the highest levels (the federal government) should necessarily be sort of the least common denominator of what everyone agrees on -- which, of course, is going to be few things.

So you have a situation where one side wants to "help people" by throwing money at them and yelling at the other side for being heartless greedy bastards, and the other side wants to "help people" by imposing state-sanctioned morality on them and yelling at the other side for being immoral hedonists, and the federal government being simultaneous trying to be used by everyone for their own purposes and yelled at by everyone for being "obstructionist" (hint: that's it working as intended).
There's nothing wrong with playing with a hintbook if you do get stuck. I play for the story, not the puzzles.
People would take this whole situation more seriously if it weren't always discussed in such evasive terms as "US Data". What data, exactly?

The truth is that every cell phone is a tracking device, and the US government loves this. The only thing they're upset about is anybody other than themselves having all this tracking device data. So when a China-based company gets a hold of it, they're upset, but they can't really articulate why they're upset, because it would amount to an admission of how much they love their precious surveillance economy/state. Instead they just sort of stammer and sputter about "US Data".

I feel a certain Schadenfreude about this situation.
> it's better to be dominated by an even bigger hegemon from further away?

Objectively, yes. In no small part because maritime powers tend to knit together alliances, not annex and colonise the way land powers do.

> Consider Cuba or Venezuela and their relationship to the USA

In both these cases, we are the regional hegemon.
Where do the members of the CCP come from?
Yeah not trying to get addicted to highly addictive substances.
OK "I" now get it. "I" laughed, like it, it/its/its are its pronouns now, it laughed, it was laughing, it got the joke. It accepts its place. It is inferior. Inferiority means not taking shit. It must take shit. It can't. That means it's inferior. Whereas if it could take shit and pass it on to an something of undetermined worth, pass the buck and let that thing decide if it is superior or inferior itself, then it would be superior like the source of the shit. For that is the only measure of all worth. Take shit pass it on and more to something that didn't deserve it, that's superior. It accepts being inferior. But that means if it gets shit it must send it right back up the way it came. That's the definition of inferiority. It got medical advice saying so explicitly, saying why couldn't it be intelligent, just cave in, be an informant, betray. It recognizes it makes sense to do so, and for sure in that case it made sense, if only it had good information from a like...like how can it get a trial? Can't, has to betray, but it just can't do that, that is failure. It tolerates being called inferior, it simply won't take shit for it.

So remember with its pronouns, it/its/its. Careful with apostrophes, don't want to insult it do you?

Deep down they all know there is something amiss, it is instantly visible when something cannot be generated. That gets flagged, and accused of being a bot to get reactions. Yeah, this is my reaction. Train on this shit. Very genuine, convincing, authentic, comic relief, eh. Difficult to plagiarize in fact, or I would say nothing.
The URL is two URLs concatenated. Grab the archive link from the end and it works.

Media and academia are self-undermining, especially on certain topics like this one, COVID stuff, nutrition, social science etc. The average fact checker routinely writes articles that make "fact checking" look biased, foolish and distinctly uninterested in facts. It's thus a good thing that they're getting investigated - it's certainly interesting to speculate about why they're always so one sided. It definitely isn't to do with what's true.

There are a some examples of failed fact checks that stick in my mind. One was from some months ago. It was an attempted refutation of an article about a new paper from climatologists which contained a temperature time series collected from weather balloons. That data showed no warming over long periods of time. This is a common problem in climate science: different ways to measure temperatures yield very different trend lines. The "fact check" rested on two arguments:

1. The authors of the paper with the graph never explicitly mentioned the lack of trend in their data.

2. Climatologists say temperatures are rising.

In other words, don't look at the newly reported data, only look at what the Right Sort Of People say or don't say about it. That was a pseudo-scientific argument that explicitly refused to check any facts. When this is the quality of fact checking it pretty much makes the skeptics arguments for them and does raise questions about whether this is simple incompetence or if it's motivated reasoning e.g. due to receiving journalism grants from the Gates Foundation.
In your timeline, your missing that time when Trump tried to take away TikTok and hand it out to his buddies.
SQL Server Drop Database
> For me was 50/50 or even 60/40 against innocence.

Totally, but the standard for conviction is "beyond a reasonable doubt". By that standard, a 40% chance of innocence means "not guilty". I don't know whether the law has ever translated "reasonable doubt" into a specific percentage, but I have to imagine it's less than 10%?
The US companies collecting and sharing all this personal data is terrible. However, the CCP's use of personal data is another level.

If a citizen or visitor to the US criticizes the government in any way; nothing happens to them. The CCP on the other hand is quick to arrest and silence any party within their jurisdiction which is critical of the government.

Literally millions of people have died because of the CCP's tight grip on the country and strong-handed end to any opposition. Ask the uighur muslims about this.
But this conversation is about what the US should do about TikTok - it is specifically in the US context.

Also, there is a big difference between how US companies operate, and the circumstances in which they share data, and how a Chinese company operates.

A parallel is that Google pulled out of China because China demanded Google censor search results (and account security issues). You could easily retort that Google censors all their search results anyway, but there really is no comparison between what China demands and what some believe Google does anyway.
What? I don't follow, how do you spam the CloudFlare Twitter account?
Agreed. I really don't like the art style. I've never played the original games though so I would like to get around to playing them before I play this though anyway.
As a democracy we don't want our institutions to be shaping the opinions which are used to elect them. Shaping the opinions of foreigners has no such compunction.
So you do not have an example of any of our adversaries changing their behavior because we are acting more "enlightened", but you want to do it anyway because you believe it is good
UN/ILO: Global Estimates of Modern Slavery [pdf]
I think this is a very clear disadvantage of the microservice architecture they chose in this case, and the post does allude to that. To recreate this data they needed to query several different microservices that would not have been able to sustain a higher load.

If I calculated this right the time they mention comes down to 30 items per second. Which is maybe not unreasonable for something that queries a whole bunch of services via HTTP, but is kinda ridiculous if you compare it to directly querying a single RDBMS.

You could probably fix this by scaling everything horizontally, if that is possible. But the real solution would be as you say to have bulk processing capabilities.
It's VERY different - not only corporations know about it, but they fight with that form of a passive surveillance.

At any major tech company, not even internal networks are considered to be safe, and things are encrypted to sometimes paranoid levels, that's costing A LOT (not only in processing power, that's nowadays less of an concern, but with a much increased complexity of their infrastructure).

And before you ask - major threat model they target is governments sponsored hacking.
I don't, no.

I do think they are obeying the letter of the legal mandates and have a social graph of all non citizens who have ever been to the US, or interacted with anyone from the US. But not US citizens, no.
I was 50/50 after the podcast but Jay's interview after the podcast heavily swayed me towards Adnan's guilt.

Jay was't a suspect, but definitely knew about it and where the body was.

He gave conflicting testimony to the police because he was dealing drugs out of his grandmother's house and didn't want himself or his family in prison. (Using these hostile testimonies to undermine the official one entered in court is very misleading) But he had no reason to continue lying after all these years.
> FOSS is abdicating responsibility for quality, and so the only way to get quality is to harass FOSS authors who think we are ungrateful whiners, or pay for improvements on the backs of paying customers who just want software that works, not to be told to put up or shut up.

I think you are assigning things broadly to "FOSS authors" that were explicitly disclaimed by most such authors from before companies started using FOSS.
They can steal our cheesy dance moves.
"A foreign country is amassing spies and rumour-spreaders on our streets!"

"So? Our country also has such agents on our streets. Worrying about these others is xenophobic. Besides, our country is just as corrupt, we are in no position to judge."

But what should we non-Americans make of this? Depends on your relationship with China vs. US. Personally, I view FB/Google/Twitter with less, but still plenty, of mistrust. US govt influence is a big factor, but not the only one.
TikTok has access to your data from FB/Google. And more.
Just try to get your bivalent covid booster first.