skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's right, and there's a little-known point here that might interest people. The Launch HN format works better if a company is not at the super earliest stage—the startup needs to have ripened a little. This is an exception to the normal YC advice of launching as soon as possible. That advice is valid, including for other kinds of HN post (like Show HN, if you have some kind of tech for people to try), but it's not quite so applicable to the Launch HN format.

We learned this by watching how the community reacts to Launch HN posts. If it feels like the company isn't "ready", the reactions tend to be skeptical and disinterested. "Ready" for a Launch HN can still be early-stage, but the company needs to feel real, there has to be a real product, more than a bare-bones website, should show pricing, something more than "Book a demo" for trying out the product, and so on.

By the time a company has developed enough to check all those boxes, it's natural that it would already have a bunch of users, as Circleback does in this case. In fact, that's the ideal case—the startup should be making something people want, and have users to back that up, before doing a Launch HN. (There are always exceptions, like if you're developing an electric airplane, a cancer therapy, or something else that takes years before users can try it.)

After puzzling over this, I came to the conclusion that the bar is higher for Launch HNs because they have the official stamp of (1) being YC-funded and (2) getting placed on HN's front page. (For background on the latter, see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html). That raises community expectations, and rightly so!
I wonder if FPGA developers are as likely to spend as much on tools? They're kind of used to having most of their tools from the FPGA vendors be free or if not free fairly inexpensive.
This attack doesn't require MitM, though.
If it's not tiktok it'll be reels or shorts or perhaps a new app that will do basically the same.

That from a "tiktok is bad for you" perspective. From a security and economic perspective there's a big difference between the company behind it being Meta or bytedance.

Then again, if tiktok people flock to reels we'd sort of have a big concentration of the social media market in the hands of Meta. Concerning, looking into this, etc.

Ultimately I do believe the issue here is more of a "we don't want Americans using a Chinese app" than anything else. And from there they seek reasons to justify the ban.
In that same logic, if we invent AGI and then it solves a problem for us then it counts for humanity? (and of course it does but here we're talking about something that humans wouldn't solve without AGI)
Would be interested to see what is in there. Luckily noone has posted the magnet link on Twitter.
The Age of Impoliteness: Galateo's Treatise on Delicacy of Manners (1774)
deck (https://github.com/ajstarks/deck), with its DSL decksh (https://github.com/ajstarks/decksh)
It's a version of yellow scare which is a tiresome repetition of what happened in the past internments during WWII, in the 80s-90s w/ Japan, and today with China.

Either tiktok the app is doing something wrong and needs controlled - but that should come in a form of regulation to apply to all social media apps.

Or foreign investment ownership needs limits, but same thing, there should be a standard that applies to all foreign control concerns that should be expressed more generally than a singular app.
If "nm" is just marketing with no relationship to any feature sizes, what is a "race" to 2mm? Isn't it just the "race" to who decides to use the moniker first?
Definitely one of my favorites. It helped me level up when I was learning Javascript but also helped me understand how to be a better programmer.
"Even something like product placement."

Only if you let it, if you control the AI at your viewing end then you have ultimate control. AI will be able to say change a product placement Coca-Cola can for a no-names brand of a different color.

You need never know it was Coca-Cola as AI could change this randomly so you'd be hard pushed to even guess the original brand.

Seems to me that unless they're unusually dumb (which I doubt) I reckon ad industry executives must be already worrying about such developments.
This resonates with me quite a bit. I took an unstable role in my twenties, had the motivation to upgrade to something much better, then settled down and started a family.

Eight years later and I've developed a deep skepticism about private industry and how companies are run, and know I'm working for an employer that's conducive to my mental health. Eventually you gain the recognition of how important that is, and how easily it can be lost once you have it.
I just called my representative (Wyoming). I was the first call they received in favour of the bill. Your hypothesis is particularly trendy among educated tech people. I wonder if that’s contributing to their interests being sidelined from the political process.
Russian language was never banned in Ukraine, no matter how much frothing at the mouth Russian propaganda does.
While some draw parallels between the current AI hype and the internet bubble, likening Nvidia to Cisco during that era, I think we might be witnessing the beginnings of a technological revolution akin to the Industrial Revolution itself. A key distinction from the internet boom is the existential angst surrounding potential job displacement that pervades the discourse today.

During the dot-com frenzy, fears of widespread unemployment due to technological disruption were relatively muted. The internet undoubtedly transformed many industries, but its impact was largely confined to optimizing existing processes and business models. In contrast, artificial intelligence has the potential to fundamentally augment or even replace human cognitive capabilities across various knowledge-intensive professions.
> Or foreign investment ownership needs limits, but same thing

It’s a general foreign ownership of social media bill. We already have foreign ownership restrictions on traditional media.
Again, that’s not an explanation. An explanation would explain why aliens don’t exist despite apparently ample opportunities for them to.
Don't use P2P.

That includes PeerTube and other decentralized video platforms, at least not without turning off WebRTC swarming.

The reason why this scam works is:

- The defamatory nature of the content in question (which can't be fixed by law). In other words, a lot of people don't want it people thinking they watch gay porn

- The up-to-$150k-per-infringement statutory damages authorized by the Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999, which just barely makes copyright litigation a profitable enterprise

- Inherent privacy vulnerabilities caused by P2P communications in a public swarm - i.e. the ability for anyone to obtain evidentiary proof that you downloaded the copyrighted fake gay porn

All of these factors are integral to the scam and it would fall apart if any one of them were removed. Take away the stigma regarding gay porn and nobody would settle. Take away the statutory damages and downloaders are only liable for the cost of a copy, if that, making copyright litigation against curious individuals completely unprofitable. And if the scammers hosted the content themselves (to get IP addresses), anyone could easily use historical DNS archival records to prove that the scammers hosted the content. If a copyright owner deliberately uploads their own content, the downloaders have an implied license to download it.

Or at least you could argue that as a credible legal defense. Remember that these scammers are only barely profitable because they encourage people to settle quickly. A lot of them would drop the case immediately if you even bothered to file a motion to dismiss. For this reason, the scammers would lie under penalty of perjury about the uploads being unauthorized, and once they got discovered they wound up going to jail for lying their ass off.
Real, and quasi-real national security projects require more stringent background checks than the ones unnecessarily used in most "average web dev" [sic] recruitment processes, and some come with citizenship requirements. I know, because that's one of the reasons I don't work on such projects.

ofc, like in any security-related field, many are LARPing instead of practicing, and that's a different issue.
The US government plausibly has the opportunity for stronger influence over domestic corporations, and I think there is some non-trivial amounts of evidence to support this theory.

Personally, I much prefer that China hosts this substantial propaganda platform, I believe it to offer a nice counterbalance to the domestic propaganda we are subjected to.
> CF doesn't sell it or use it for marketing

Any source for this? Do you work there? I checked their docs and they say they don't "mine user data", so I wouldn't trust anything they say, at least outside legal documents.
> I take wisdom where I can find it, and leave the rest.

Good philosophy.
Thank you! In fact we'll be helping our first customer with FPGA development. I don't know if we put a lot of thought into FPGAs vs semiconductors in terms of marketing but you raise good points, we'll discuss it.
There's too much cheap money around
Now we just need another one named worththewirth about the merits of bloated software?
I Also Am Formed Out of the Clay: Animated Putty (1911)
By 2030 we will have progressed to a few atoms per transistor in bulk CMOS, to wafer scale integration [3] and probably replaced most metal wires with free space optics [2]. We will see the first mass-manufactured SFQ [1] and RSFQ [4] superconducting Josephson junctions. Maybe we will see the first carbon nanotubes and superconducting circuits [5].

[1] https://youtu.be/LUFp6sjKbkE?t=21701

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hWWyuesmhs

[3] https://vimeo.com/731037615

[4] Rapid single flux quantum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_single_flux_quantum

[5] https://phys.org/news/2008-03-future-carbon-nanotubes-superc...
I don't think a healthy government should be deciding what software we install. I think a healthy government should be enforcing monopoly laws and data portability laws that would have fostered the growth of a TikTok-like in the USA.

If we had a healthy ecosystem of interconnected platforms and laws that worked to counter the extreme network effects of social media platforms we wouldn't have to worry about a major content stream getting piped through our largest geopolitical rival.
A 100GiB bandwidth credit today is like Apple offering 8gb of RAM on the Mac Book Pro base model.
I have to imagine a lot of it evaporated because it wasn't being captured, and then others became runoff that may have gone out to sea if it had been raining too hard.
We used to have a feature on the blog that would hide articles until their publication date even if we submitted them a bit early, but it was kind of buggy so we got rid of it. You guys weren't supposed to find the article until tomorrow, we never know what you're going to decide to send to the front page.
> this is pure addict behavior

It's one part entertainment, one part news, one part streaming platform, and one part peer-to-peer communication. It makes sense people can spend a lot of time there if it replaces many different apps/TV shows/etc.
That isn't seamless - windows has many different was to handle HiDPI, and for a few of them, the window will violently change size as it moves across and will look completely wrong on the "unmatched" monitor, to the point of being completely useless on that monitor (way too big to see anything or way too small to read anything).

What Wayland is doing is making it so the window looks the same size on all screens, with the source matching the primary or highest dpi monitor, and the composite scaling the content to match other monitors. This makes it equally useful on all monitors, at the cost of non-primary monitors having lower clarity.

macOS handles it well by cheating: a window can only be shown on one monitor at any given time. Only while moving a window will it temporarily be allowed to be seen on two monitors at once.
Definitely open to the idea, that couldn’t be the whole argument. I mean, my brain can output some quotes, but I’m not a compressed storage algorithm. Or at least I hope I’m not.
I don't understand this.

It seems that they:

- Fail to properly position glyphs horizontally (they must obviously be aligned to pixels horizontally and not just vertically)

- Fail to use TrueType bytecode instead of the autohinter

- Fail to support subpixel antialiasing

These are standard features that have been there for 20 years and are critical and essential in any non-toy software that renders text.

How come GTK+ is so terrible?

EDIT: they do vertical-only rather than horizonal-only. Same problem, needs to do both.
There's a hell of a lot of matrix multiplications going on in AI/ML. Shaving off a few milliseconds for ultra large matrices could save power and money for the big players like Google, Microsoft/OpenAI and Meta.
Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium (1705)
"A set of elaborate engravings of insects and their floral environs which the naturalist encountered on her travels to the Dutch colony of Surinam, forming one of the first natural histories of the region."
Same here. I was so excited by it, I still like it. Great product but it is not enabling anything you couldn't do with an ESP32 and some peripherals. It is a shame it is getting so much regulatory zeal as if it is enabling attacks that would otherwise not be possible.
Before war in Georgia, Putin had a pretty good image in the West. Back then Putin was nowhere near bad as in the recent years. Power corrupts, long time rulers get crazier with time...
You are breathing in plastic just as much as you are eating it.

Your washer and dryer - ensure your dryer is able to capture the lint it creates and your dryer ventilation is ducted somewhere you aren't breathing, not just venting into your household. Get a high quality air purifier with a high CADR rate and a decent filter, make sure when you clean the prefilter you aren't just breathing all the dust you create doing so. Use natural fibers rather than synthetic in clothing, bedding, bags, etc and when you do use synthetic be mindful of differences in various textiles and how easily and how much they shed.

Use a water filter in your water bottle like a Sawyer filter, Katadyn filter, or Epic water filter.

Stay away from any places that automobiles drive. The tires are partially plastic and wear away onto the road and into the air.

Perhaps consider starting a grassroots campaign a la the French Revolution targeted at the worst polluters, make sure you follow the French Revolution's playbook closely and don't miss any of the important aspects.
Getting hooked on smooth blood sugar changes sounds like a possible counterweight to what our brains are designed to get hooked on... Oreos.
>the governor can’t deploy NYPD on her own

If this is the case, why wouldn't she just put pressure on Mayor Adams to deploy more police?
If the commander in chief says that Russia can do 'whatever the hell they want' with NATO countries, it doesn't really matter if the US is still officially in NATO.
It's ambiguous (or I haven't seen it written) under what conditions NATO would retaliate with NATO-controlled nuclear weapons to an attack on a NATO member.

But it's definitely shy of 'never'

I know during the 80s there were detailed plans to tactically nuke the larg(er) Soviet armored formations in eastern Germany et al. in the event of hostilities. I believe even before Soviet nuclear escalation.
Interesting. The about page starts with a quote from Dada Manifesto 1918. The quote is changed, as explained in a footnote: "Updated to use modern pronouns."

Here is the original quote:

I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices his art in his own way, if be knows the joy that rises like arrows to the astral layers, or that other joy that goes down into the mines of corpse-flowers and fertile spasms.

changed to :

I speak only of myself since I do not wish to convince, I have no right to drag others into my river, I oblige no one to follow me and everybody practices their art their own way.

dada-lang about: https://dada-lang.org/docs/about/
Tzara, Dada Manifesto 1918: https://writing.upenn.edu/library/Tzara_Dada-Manifesto_1918....
There's no significant correlation between average citizen preferences and policy. If you want to reject the null hypothesis, you'll need evidence more than the statement "(many) politicians still care about these things." The world isn't fair.
1 - cos^2(x), obviously
> Here's the URL to the thing: https://example.com/a/url?secret=hunter2

This is indexable by search engines.

> Here's the URL to the thing: https://example.com/a/url and the password is "hunter2".

This is indexable by search engines.

Yes, the latter is marginally harder, but you're still leaning on security through obscurity, here.

The number of times I have had "we need to securely transmit this data!" end with exactly or something equivalent to emailing an encrypted ZIP with the password in the body of the email (or sometimes, some other insecure channel…) …
I had read they come from car tyres?

Now, I do hang out with a lot of anti-car people so I'm not sure how credible it is as I've not verified the claim myself.
As a New Yorker, let me just say that the idea that there has been an increase in crime on the subways is overblown. There have been some "high profile" incidents, but by the raw numbers the crime on the subway has been down year over year. WAY fewer people use the subway/transit daily than did 5 years ago. Even percentage-wise the numbers are down.
Do not take LSD if you have anxiety. It can result in an awful experience.

Just sit down, relax and breathe, that's better than drugs.
Ukraine had the weapons but no means to use them. Russia had the keys.
I have many Serbian friends going for holidays in Croatia. Unthinkable 30 years ago.

So maybe, in 50 years from now, Russia will join NATO, too?
If this goes anywhere, in all likelihood the app will be forced to sell to an American owner. I highly doubt that it will be banned entirely.
Turn your text notes into a website
> If Trump withdraws the US from NATO going back to the old ways is not an option, at least EU doesn't want to lose its Eastern half to Russia.

The tricky thing with politics is that there are always way more hungry stomachs than seats at the table. And people learned a long time ago to frame their pet issue as critical.

And the trouble with military spending is that it's never critical. Until it is. But at that point, it's way too late.

I just don't think that the Ukraine war is a big enough deal to act as a catalyst for permanent change. People have remarkably short memories when it comes to things like that - most European countries were on their way to completely normalized relations with Russia around 2020/2021; not that long after the annexation of Crimea.

I don't expect the exact same thing to happen - trade with Russia will probably be severely restricted for a very long time. But it's really easy to chip away at the military budget in favor of social programs. Especially since the benefit of the latter is obvious and immediate. And those programs will always be strained.
> From a security and economic perspective there's a big difference between the company behind it being Meta or bytedance.

Only for Americans. Not much different for the remaining 96% of the world.
Sure, nothing much has happened except the last 9 years are the hottest on record, and weather events are becoming more extreme around the globe
hard to imagine a downstream effect that's worse than becoming part of the sahara
That makes sense and I was wondering if it might be related to the device temp. I should have tried putting a hot pack on the sensor to validate.
If you widen the number of people who can bike, you are more likely to include slower cyclists.

A typical urban cyclist in the Netherlands ("not particularly hilly") averages about 15 km/hour. https://holland-cycling.com/blog/260-amsterdam-has-slowest-c... .
It also contains an archive of opensubtitles, which is also not very open source.
I wonder if fission will come first though.
Thank you! Yes, we're very excited for the new chips that will be developed in the coming years, and we'd love to help them be born.
1. But the reason US labour costs are higher is because the US has a legislated minimum wage that is much higher than any equivalent the Chinese have. The US has a massive population of poor people that could otherwise have been employed at the same rate as the Chinese.

One of the explicit points of minimum wage laws is that they prevent Chinese-style sweatshops. People bring that up less these days though since those sweatshops ended up bringing wealth to China.

2. If you pick one of the studies linked in that article, you'll see that Xu & Wiener conclude "the US written rules were more stringent for risks of toxic chemicals and most air pollutants, whereas China's written rules were more stringent for risks in agriculture" [0]. I think that supports my theory that US particulate air pollution is lower because of environmental regulation.

3.

> That seems like a leap when China is installing a lot of nuclear and solar energy. Yes they’re also still building coal plants but that’s intended to be as a backstop for solar until they build enough nuclear capacity.

The US has effectively banned nuclear power, so we're still talking ideology for that one. The vast, vast majority of China's energy comes from fossil fuels [1].

4.

> I’ve noticed Tucker Carlson does the same thing...

I don't know why you're criticising style but leaping straight to someone who is highly successful in his field as a comparison, but sure. If only millions of people would take my opinions seriously!

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/risa.13797

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/energy/country/china
Light rail is the worst of all worlds! Rail should run on its own right-of-way, ideally grade-separated. It shouldn't be sitting in traffic.
Depends. They’ll look up the voting record of callers.

If their phones are ringing off the hook from people who mostly don’t have a history of voting you might be right.

If their phones are ringing non-stop from people with a record of voting consistently, it’s much more likely to change their behavior.
Yeah, I remember that a few years ago there was talk of forcing a sale to Oracle. Not sure why that fell through, but that action seems like its the most likely outcome.
>So far Europeans died in USA conflicts around the world , how many conflicts did Europe start and USA had to get involved so far ?

Setting aside for a moment the rather large conflict that ended in 1945 - if you're in your late 20s or older, both Libya and Kosovo happened within your lifetime and meet your criteria.
The test of whether they're in compliance should be whether it's feasible to sell an app to an iOS user without paying anything to Apple.

Apple can charge for whatever they want, but they can't put up a troll bridge between other businesses and their customers. Then you can choose whether to use their service or not. If they want to charge for payment processing, you can use Stripe or Paypal. If they want to charge for XCode, you can use VSCode or emacs. If they want to charge for app distribution, you can use the Epic Games Store -- or Google Play -- or host it yourself on AWS or your own servers. Whatever they want to charge for, they have to open up to competition.

If their services are good and well-priced then people will choose them even when they have an alternative. If they're not, they won't.
Oh wow... I used to play this when I was a kid!

Thanks for sharing!
The linked story[0] is just as good if not better.

0: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-accidentally-saved-half-a-...