skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has been a MOT (major ongoing topic) for a while (I don't mean Tiktok in general, just the regulation/bannage aspect). Below are the threads I was able to find.

With MOTs, we generally wait for SNI (significant new information) before having yet another thread. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

Proposed bills tend not to count as SNI since they usually don't go anywhere. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... I suppose in this case the appearance of the bill itself may be a significant notch in the story?

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South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33836666 - Dec 2022 (291 comments)

The FBI alleges TikTok poses national security concerns - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33653894 - Nov 2022 (418 comments)

U.S. FBI director says TikTok poses national security concerns - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33617301 - Nov 2022 (68 comments)

TikTok is “unacceptable security risk” and should be removed from app stores - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33447285 - Nov 2022 (64 comments)

FCC commissioner says government should ban TikTok - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33423895 - Nov 2022 (112 comments)

TikTok accused of covert plot to track specific US citizens' every move - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33302591 - Oct 2022 (106 comments)

ByteDance planned to use TikTok to surveil specific American citizens - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33280176 - Oct 2022 (208 comments)

FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32148218 - July 2022 (848 comments)

As TikTok grows, so does suspicion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32045339 - July 2022 (617 comments)

FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores over spying concerns - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31923483 - June 2022 (505 comments)
Huh. Makes it even stranger, then.

Did we lose the ability to change buttons sizes and icons and padding and placement and such when they started cutting out XUL some years back? All those themes just look like background images, and it seems the demo images they use for them don't even display real buttons or other UI elements (which makes sense if you can't change them anyway, and don't want to have to regenerate those images every time FF modifies those).
Would that really dissuade a Musk/Bezos/Gates from investing in it? Our society is flush with billionaires and a procedure that restored youth would be worth 1000X a money making investment to them.
I have been drinking too much mate for such a long time that I can only relate it to withdrawal symptoms at this point :)
Do you have tiktok? You can clearly tell that it promotes inflammatory content if you use it for a few days/weeks. This is legislation against the CCP, not against the people of China.
Actually current modeling has supernovae as being only a small contributor to the measured abundance of heavy nucleii. These guys tend to come from a more exotic source still: material thrown off as a neutron star is tidally disrupted during a merger event with another neutron star or black hole.

The wikipedia page is pretty good, as always: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleosynthesis

Almost everything with mass of 90 or above comes predominantly from neutron star mergers, basically.
They also had a strong ideological element too.
I would love to see a serious take on a variable width coding font. I have a friend who made some edits to Avenir for me, making the minus as wide as the plus and making spaces that come at the beginning of a line wider to make space-indentation more obvious. I've never had any problems with brackets and carrots but of course these font choices are some of the most personal of coding decisions.
Probably the warfare that involved invading and occupying 2 states thousands of miles away for 20 years with complete air dominance and suffering under 10,000 KIA. Russia has suffered 20,000 deaths in under a year on its boarder.
Just some feedback, that's not what I expected from the title and I would agree with the previous poster that the title is a little (quite minor though) clickbaity.
Yeah, now the charges are "too soon" or something.

I noticed the behavior living in oil country concerning gas prices. When gas prices go up, that's bad because it makes everything costs more. When gas prices go down, that's bad because it makes the oil and gas industry fire everyone and then no one has jobs.

Apparently there's a Platonic ideal price for gas, just no one can tell me what that is.

Also with various shootings. Right after, it's too soon to talk about current gun laws. Too long after, it's pointless to talk about because there hasn't been an incident in so long. We missed the window yet again. But no one will tell us when that window opens.

Same thing here, apparently there's a perfect amount of time for charges. The Goldilocks zone, the golden hour, when the planets align and you can charge criminals for crimes and you'll magically have enough evidence and not too much time has passed. But try to pin down anyone on a concrete time frame and you'll get almost as much deflection as SBF tried to give the world.
I remember vine from my undergrad and cannot see how tiktok is different, yet… I know a bunch of tiktok users and vine went the way of the Harlem shake, side parted hair and tribal print on everything.
The advantage would be that you wouldn't need tightly controlled and hard to make materials like U-235 or Pu to make one.

I'm not in any way saying that using lasers would be a plausible route to such a weapon, since the NIF facility is huge, but if it turns out that the research needs to focus on how to get more output per shot, which I think it inevitably would since a typical conventional or nuclear power plant generates on the order of 1 GW thermal power (To match that with a 1 Hz repetition rate, likely a stretch for a MJ class laser, you would need to generate 1 GJ per shot, comparable to the energy in a ton of TNT.), it would probably be touching on areas that are highly classified.
Yes.

In nuclear fusion, "ignition" means that you get more energy out than the lasers impart. This is the first time anyone has pulled that off in decades of trying, which is a big deal.

But practical nuclear fusion would of course require that you get out more energy _from the entire system_ than you put in, and getting there will require even more problems to be solved. But now at least one obstacle has been overcome!
Interestingly enough, prices don't even need to become cheaper month to month for there to be an incentive to delay spending. Having access to a positive (real) interest bearing account does the same thing: why spend $1000 today when you can spend $1000 a year from now and keep the $30 in interest (assuming a 3% real interest rate).
I tried to switch to emacs but couldn't find an introductory tutorial that was written for mere mortals.

Currently use vim, or things like gedit and kate that come w/ a DE. I would really like to learn to use emacs, but the last so called "beginner" tutorial I tried started with _learn a new lisp dialect so you can write emacs extensions_. Seriously.

Does anyone know where to find a tutorial that teaches you how to do things like open a file, type some stuff, and save the file?

Maybe show whitespace change highlighting modes and a few hotkeys if I want to get fancy... but like otherwise normal beginner stuff?
Nicotine self medicates for a bunch of reasons. It may even be beneficial for certain neurodegenerative conditions. While the answer is, let people use "real" medicines, or safer forms, remember people themselves know all the reasons why something like a cigarette is the best choice for them personally, much better than some overall one-size-fits-all prohibition for everyone. I'm pretty sick of some people trying to control others. If you don't like smoking don't smoke. If you fear the health consequences, don't smoke, even warn others. But who are you to control what others do with their bodies? (enter public healthcare - which is why socialised anything is incompatible with individual liberty)
Because they are researching inertial confinement fusion, not trying to build a working power plant. The efficiency of the lasers doesn't matter, since it doesn't affect their research.
This is like saying thread count is always the bottle neck in computation. More money allows more parallelism as you can pay for more people and more equipment for more research. As in computing, there are diminishing marginal returns and surely a version of Amdahl's Law for human endeavors.
While I don't agree with you, I agree with you.

Elon is performing anti-wokeness to get the trumpers back, which is all that this stuff is really about anyway.
I get your point, though it's also worth pointing out that it doesn't force anything. Admittedly, syntax highlighting will generally help but it's always possible that a skim simply misses the keyword.

Practically speaking, that's not how I know Ruby to be written. The convention I follow is to use `unless` when there is no `else` case and only when there is no negation in the expression.
Yes, but I stopped about two years ago once I realized what it was/who was creating it (I though it was U.S. based at first). It was very clearly a vehicle for demoralization.
But not losslessly
Is that actually true? I'm not convinced IBM and other PC manufacturers made such a mistake, but I'm happy to be proven wrong. It sounds a lot like it could be some sort of "common wisdom", because some ports presumably were dangerous to hotplug, so laypeople were just told to generally be cautious.

FWIW, I never followed that advice for anything as far as I can remember (save for really obvious stuff like ISA or PCI cards, or in professional settings where I was following some procedure), and nothing ever blew up. Could have been lucky.

(Super-IO was very late, by the way, it was 8042s and derivative microcontrollers originally.)
Yeah, I think we have a lot of sleeper geniuses out there

I'm a pretty smart dude. I'm no big deal on HackerNews or in Silicon Valley, but I look easily 10x as smart as most of the normal people I come across in the real world. And I regularly come across people so much smarter than me, they have to explain things to me the same way I talk to a toddler

I'll bet a lot of geniuses are congregating in cool orgs like those where they can make a real difference in the world.
> None of this research is necessary for bombs.

And yet that's exactly why the NIF was actually built. They do plenty of weapons research: https://wci.llnl.gov/facilities/nif I'm told the building was even built to switch over between civilian and classified use unusually quickly, but I'm having trouble turning up a citation for that right now with just my phone and 2022-Google.

> All of the difficult problems fusion power generation faces with long-term plasma confinement go away when you're just trying to squeeze as hard as you can and are willing to use fission bombs to do it in an otherwise uncontrolled manner.

Not if you want them to fit in a submarine warhead. This sort of work is not easy to do well.
But a real life neurosurgeon did do that stupid thing.

Being educated enough to be accredited in some field does not automatically prove either intelligence or wisdom, let alone character or integrity, even IN that field, and so is merely a data point to consider and not the end of all conversation when they voice an opinion, even in their claimed wheelhouse.

One can be very smart and very informed on a topic, and also be an asshole whose opinions on that topic and most others should be disregarded because their motivations are shit.

But one way you can judge some of those things is by the difference between the two types of statements in my first comment.
When artists stop caring about market share, they stop being artists.
Have you ever worked in a high-stress physical labor job?
I've seen this use of constants inside big O notation in leetcode and 'informal' discussions. Is it pedantic to say that O(NM) == O(N) if M is a constant (in this case since it's bound by 26)? Or is this the current and expected usage?
This is sad. I don't have a tiktok account or interact with it in anyway, but are we trying to beat china by becoming them? This seems like the wrong approach
Yeah the flame graphs show ~9% of the time being spent in golang.org/x/crypto/chacha20poly1305 so you're probably right, but flame graphs and throughput aren't always a one-to-one mapping. Flame graphs just tell you where time was spent per unit packet, but depending on the workload, there are some things in the life of a packet that you can parallelise and some things you can't.

Just thought it'd be interesting to see the actual throughput along with the rest for the benchmarked environment.
I don't think US social media companies are per se banned in China. They just have to obey the same Chinese rules for data storage and content moderation and record keeping that Chinese social media companies have to obey.

It's not all that different from US companies that want to operate in Europe having to obey Europe's stricter regulations in areas such as food safety and consumer protection or have to obey GDPR.
Also if that happens, success rate is way lower. You actually have to break into several markets with different languages, customer behaviors etc.

US likes to pretend it's states are equal to different EU countries, but "osmosis" of people in different states is way higher. Also, in contrast to US, in EU mostly lower and highest class of people migrates - the middle class usually stays in home country.
I don’t see what you’re talking about. A bunch claim to be performance improvements - there are some additional features for language plugins that are similar to those that have already exist for other languages such as better completion (a language plugin completion/refactoring features shouldn’t be eating much CPU if that’s not the active file one is working with). A few more Java inspections, some Spring and Kotlin niceties, etc. All incremental. Most of these should not be terribly CPU eating with the existing infrastructure.
Search Everywhere and Find Usages at their core have been there far longer than a decade.

Seriously what is this major new infrastructural component in the past 10 years? One could argue these AI code things, but they’re mostly cloud.
Elixir has the same "unless" statement but I hardly see it used in practice, and frankly I've never missed it, probably due to the reasons cited
If TikTok was to actually get banned I could see IG Reels scooping up most of that userbase. Though they can replicate the functionality, replicating the algorithm is going to be difficult. One of the things that's made TikTok such a phenomenon is that their algorithm is crazy good at figuring out what you like and boosting small content creators.
Yes — I'd especially want people to point to their own past warnings about projects before they failed. The kind of stuff coming out about FTX means basically anyone who worked there could have blown the whistle but did not, and I'd be shocked if other people in the field didn't have some idea that things were not as solid as advertised.
Many languages have linters and formatters.

That is what you should use. You can't run Intellij IDEs on CI to validate the pull request.

That said, I do appreciate the powerful code analysis provided by Jetbrains IDEs.
> I'm surprised it's impossible to losslessly re-encode a video

It is possible, it will just be a ridiculously large video.

> Mentally, I think of P frames as containing "changes" in the frame. The changes would be the same regardless of whether or not the previous frame was an I or P frame.

P-frames in modern codecs use multiple previously decoded frames, not just the previous frame. And I'm not getting into the complexity of frame ordering (decoded frames and presented frames can be ordered differently).
Does that work equally well whether the changes are primarily row-based or primarily column-based?
The simplest really is to chunk row-wise so adding columns will unfortunately rewrite all the chunks. If you have a parquet file, adding columns will be cheap.
It's a crutch around your ancient banking systems. My country never had cobol on mainframes, so bank infra isn't build around daily batches. Also healthcare and insurance aren't total shit, just a normal level of shit.
And lose all the "european benefits"? I could work b2b from anywhere in the world at that point.
> One thing I love about Vyvanse is that it really does have an all-day effect. I'm wired, active, and focused from the moment I take it in the morning, until 11pm or so at night. Unfortunately this also means that it takes a lot of self-discipline to keep a good sleep schedule, which isn't something us ADHDers are very good at, especially as the medication wears off. On just Vyvanse alone, I have a hard time falling asleep and sleeping well.

Interestingly, adderall not having an all day effect is something I like about it. I take an XR in the morning and have a smaller IR in the afternoon. It gives me the flexibility to not take one or the other if I'm not feeling up for it.

> Melatonin is ridiculously safe. It basically has no detrimental effects in large doses. As a result, nutrition companies are in a war to make ever bigger over-the-counter doses because those sell better. But unfortunately while 5mg isn't toxic, it also makes me sleep 10 hrs and wake up groggy. As a result it's hard to find over the counter melatonin that is in the real dosage I want, 0.3 - 0.5 mg.

My sleep doc has advised ~0.5mg a couple hours before going to sleep. As I've come to understand it, taking it too soon before sleep is what causes the grogginess.

> However I found that Costco sells kids melatonin gummies with a 1 mg dosage, which is the smallest you can find on the market without paying extra. I just cut/bite the gummies in half to take approx 0.5mg a night. It's perfect, and I'm sorry it didn't work for you :(

I found some 1mg flavored chewable tablets that're easy to split in half. I've found the same brand at my grocery store and on amazon
I recently started smoking again because of I've been under a lot of stress, and I can tell you, I'm already feeling like the Marlboro cowboy again.
> Maybe you are privileged enough to never have this kind of issues, but some of us do.

Correct.

The eternal hate for crypto is by a screaming minority who are too privileged to even bother realising the majority of people are worse off in countries like Argentina, Nigeria, and Turkey which their currencies have lost over 80% of their value and is quite frankly worthless.

Using USDC as a cheap, fast, global way of sending money is a good alternative for those that don't have a choice in those countries. For those that keep shouting the existing solutions: Wise is neither same day or cheap to send money globally, . Same is true with SWIFT. FedNoW only works in the US and is not global and UPI is also not global.

Crypto and stablecoins tick all the boxes as a 24/7 cheap and very fast way of sending money globally.
The idea that any armed conflict between the two is guaranteed to escalate to nuclear weapons is widespread, but certainly not proven. A US invasion of Russia seems likely to result in nuclear war, but an engagement between conventional forces over a third-party nation like Ukraine seems quite unlikely to. Neither side is suicidal at the leadership level.

US and Russian aviators directly engaged in Vietnam without nuclear holocaust.
Tangent here, and possibly not helpful, but just in case: I use handwriting (Gboard includes this) with a cheap touch pen on my mobile b/c I hate typing on these screens. Works like a charm (in comparison).
Exactly! And this is only describing UK. Paying from let's say the Netherlands to Greece or Sweden or Portugal, with my regular internet banking app from my real bank, I can transfer money within one business day without additional costs.
It’s a bad argument when China has blocked most foreign companies from entering its domestic market. Why can’t we block their companies from operating in our market?
Many countries in the world (like AUS and India) also prohibit tobacco growing. It's hard to do in the U.S. because it is a native species--literally, like cannabis, a weed.
Language like this exaggerates individual-user harms of TikTok by comparison to lethal street drug, conflating them with public, national-interest harms.

This is disingenous, as reported by common-sense. For example, my city does not have sidewalks lined with tents full of TikTok users, but the same cannot be said of the comparand.

This has either or both of the following knock-on effects:

- Undermine trust in the speaker for people who feel the 'seam' in the analogy. American institutions are really good at undermining themselves in this way. Remember DARE? It took me years to trust any authority again after hearing their nonsense about cannabis, back in the nineties. They used to call it things like "herbal heroin", etc.

- Promote stigmatization of TikTok users, and social-media users more generally. It's like taking the Smudge Tool in photoshop and moving some of the stigma from fentanyl to TikTok. This will have the unintended effect of further isolating people who depend on social media because they are disabled and/or shut-in; socially isolated; physically isolated; LGBTQ; autistic; etc. You aren't accessing community now, you're ~high on fentanyl~. Like.

American politicians love lines like this because they feel good in the short term but contribute to the ruin of polity in the longer run. Which is why these quips are the proper analog of fentanyl.
Arresting ~20% of the Maori population (the number that smoke according to other comments in this thread) might not be received well.
I think that claim is probably not true; they met in college many years before business in China was realistically on Zuckerberg's radar. However it is certainly true that Zuckerberg has sucked up to the CCP, going so far ask to ask Xi Jinping to name his unborn child. Nauseating servility on a personal level.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/china-s-president-...
If you ever observe a litter of puppies, they fight eachother constantly. The purpose of this is building fighting skills. The same thing happens with children.
Isn't that a bit like saying that every innovation depends upon milk? I guess, technically, every innovation does begin with a baby drinking milk, but it seems like a stretch to attribute the innovation to the milk, rather than to the mind of the individual who may or may not have been fueled by milk?
AI says AI could disrupt the market for creative work, suggests state help
(fully aware of the irony / potential futility of posting a comment like this on a ycombinator website but... here goes)

This article conflates innovation with entrepreneurship. The two are not even correlated in reality, certainly there's no causal relationship unless we're discussing market innovation (usually in the form of net-negative-outcome disruption).

The points made in the article seem largely sound if you substitute the word "innovation" throughout, but the misapplication of that term does detract significantly.

A sibling commenter uses the term "Silicon Valley style innovation", which I guess is reasonably apt.

Personally I'm pretty thankful we Europeans seem to have a (slightly) smaller % of high-profile "innovators" like Bankman-Fried, Neumann, Holmes, Kalanick, et al.
On a scale of 1 to invention of fire/wheel/smelting/electricity/computers, how relevant is this? I have trouble comprehending the historical impact.
Coinbase debtholders sweat as bonds trade near 50 cents on the dollar
Without the cool bit trick, would it be worth publishing the article at all? I found it a novel approach to explore.
I wonder if there's somewhere that people can propose a name for things and people can tell them why they might want to use something else - 'Pony' is fairly common slang for 'crap' in London / Southern England.