skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What evidence has Congress presented that Tiktok is a National Security threat?

Didn't Congress try to shut down Tiktok before but it failed?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/31/us-tiktok...
From the article:
"But none of these bills ever made it to a vote, and many have stalled entirely as lawmakers turned their attention to the boom in artificial intelligence.

...In a preliminary injunction blocking the ban [Referring to state of Montan's ban on Tiktok], US district judge Donald Molloy said the law “oversteps state power and infringes on the constitutional rights of users”."

But things started to change after the Gaza War happened and the body count of Palestinians began to rise; young people who watch videos on Tiktok began to call for a cease-fire etc, etc. Congress members became re-enthused about the ban.
Academia exists to fund research that doesn’t have a high enough expected financial reward to be taken on by normal market actors.

So WAI?
Fascinating if true. I don't use Tik Tok or 抖音 so I have no idea. Any links?
The traffic in a medium sized NA city like Atlanta or Dallas can be a lot better than it is now, and it's definitely not comparable to Shanghai, London or Tokyo.
While I agree with you, places that used to be 'burbs - are now under an obsolete civil engineering design... you think SF is going to be able remain SF over the next 50 years?

So all the outlying neighrborhoods/cities/areas -- MANY of which were built out in 40s to support the war effort as we were building liberty ships in the bay at an alarming rate - and all those women workers needed housing (rosie the riveter)...

So all these tiny packed neighborhoods needed for the 1940s workforce resulted.

Now we have a 2040 workforce need in the exact same way for building Liberty LLMS! (Expect of poisoning the dirt with war chemicals - we will find another similar metaphor digitally)

(most of saily city, alameda, treasure island, hunters point, candle stick, dog patch, etc - were all heavy industry for these ships and the naval base - and they were massive amounts of toxics buried in the dirt.

This is why hunters point was always ghetto - because they knew it was a Super Site - and so many people have gotten sick from it. Which is also why it was a very slow process to build stuff out new because new laws require environmental impacts which include soil sampling which reveals Super Site chemicals...

The very tip of Alameda Naval base was also a dumping pit now Super Site -- they decided that its cheaper to pound giant metal posts as a barrier to prevent the chemicals leeching into the bay - rather than spend 10 times as much to clean up the site properly.

and this just happened in the last 20ish years.. its been leaking into the bay since WWII
Nothing kills the vibe of apartment living like trash neighbors. Same with houses, but it's just so much more pronounced in a multi-unit house.

Construction plays a large part. Apartment buildings in the US are flimsy (usually). In other cities, they're often built like vaults.
It's interesting how the bill can have such a heavily bipartisan approval yet there are so many opposing the decision in HN. That goes also with the general US anti-China consensus that has virtually no political lashback from domestic voters. So I would naturally assume from that then the plurality of the american voterbase would support this. So is this opposition really coming from the voterbase or elsewhere?
US spends more research per GDP or per capita than almost everywhere in the world. Just because you hate capitalism doesn't mean all things wrong stems from it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_re...
Wouldn't introducing actual privacy laws be better than censoring part of the internet? I doubt that American social media corporations hoard less data about it's users than Chinese. I am not defending TikTok here, because I believe it's a danger, but this new bill is equivalent to treating the symptoms instead of the cause.
I can't find the memory bandwidth to that external memory. Did they publish this?
This seems to be the new fad in tech.

It seems like SWEs are a dime a dozen now, and they will “come to you” - but I’m seeing more and more internships and roles seeking PhD grads/undergrads for roles that traditionally you may have seen just this as a nice to have or a plus.

I’m convinced these secret founders Signal group chats are all just CEOs saying how scientists and academia persons are really who they want working for them. My hunch is that they will most likely be less enthralled by the usual tech bubble that these companies tend to hire in, less problematic, and “less company focused” (focus on the task at hand, don’t lean into company culture or ask questions, follow the straight line).
What wrong with worse researchers and worse teachers?
We are already trying to ban Google Analytics in EU.
And for release builds, running the tests across a cohort of gaming profiles so you could get detailed results for various personas instead of just a guess and check in production. It'd be great for indie and hobby projects as well - getting playtest feedback cheaply and quickly would be awesome. Hope this turn this into a service.
Very true, I was thinking mainly about the home feed. I don't use Twitter or Bluesky personally, I would have assumed reply chains are less of an issue since the person already drilled into the thread, maybe that's jot a good assumption!
So the suburbs are net recipients of infrastructure taxes, which is a bad thing. Got it. Shall we also apply this to other government services? It would be kind of shameless to complain about suburbanites being the net-beneficiaries of one service, while expecting them to be net-contributors to literally every other government service in existence, right?
That it's built on FoundationDB is a good sign I think.

Even though the article says it may be replaced at a later date, it's reasonable to expect that it's featureset/performance won't be reduced if they do make that change.
that's a strong statement to make across hundreds of thousands of different tax/cost situations in localities spread over all 50 states.
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They don't cover them to the tune of many tens of percentage points where I live. It's to the degree that the state basically has to redistribute wealth from the cities to the counties where the roads are built.

If the communities served by a road had to pay the full price of the road you'd see a lot of little 8-10 house hamlets with 10 million dollar bridges pack up and leave.
Meanwhile at my ABET acredited, 2nd rate state school, my Computer Science college professors were talented people who had been doing this shit for decades and clearly understood what they were talking about.

I had ONE class that was about Software engineering.

Meanwhile I had an entire years worth of curriculum that was just "Go take various unrelated science and math classes so you have a strong understanding of the fundamentals in both science and math"

People so often generalize their very specific college experience to the entire world. Meanwhile you'd be lucky to find a consistent college experience just from crossing state lines.
I like the LINE FEED character to be interpreted as a line feed, not displayed as “␊”.
Misses the point of academia. Neural nets and back prop came from a very small niche at the intersection of computer science, psychology, and neuroscience. Working with limited resources is a feature, not a bug, of innovation.
https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/
It seems the vimeo video has been removed now too.
What rights is it taking away? TikTok will still exist, you will still be able to get to it on the internet. All this bill does is force a sale OR prevent American companies from platforming technology from adversarial nations (something every government does all the time... see the US and Huawei or limiting Nvidia exports to china etc).

You'll still be able to download the app from the internet (just not an App Store) or browse it on your phone on the internet. We aren't putting up a 'great firewall' or anything
> Our Constitution says

That's a great start, but it's only as valid as an activist judicial branch says it is. If congress passes a law that goes against the reading of that old parchment, someone brings a case that works its way to SCOTUS, then they vote based on the vacation they are provided, then the law is declared valid. If they decide it is not, then it is not. It doesn't matter what some armchair critic of the law thinks. They can tweet and tweet, they can blog and blog, they can vent on forums, but unless they become POTUS in a term where you get to sit 1/3 of the bench, you've got no real shot at changing it. Doesn't matter if you lean left or right, a single POTUS sitting 3 judges is rare enough to not consider it a real possibility. So an activist bench can cause disruption for decades/generations.
Well, when you are not in doubt you don't want unnecessary bounds checks.
Uninhabited land is empty of people for a reason:
- it’s protected
- it’s undesirable (too hot/ dry/wet/far/steep/close to a pollution source)
- it’s agricultural land

If it’s not any of these it’s owned and thus controlled by someone.
How is this not a bill of attainder?

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S9-C3-1/...
It's not always the money. Many academics labs are toxic work environments compare to industry labs.
I suspect the issue is much more petty than some grand ideological drive. Very recently Biden made a TikTok account and his team tried their best to create some sort of platform appropriate undoubtedly focus tested messaging. It went about as well as anybody would expect. [1] Now a few weeks later, the platform's getting banned.

We sure do always come up with great and grand sounding reasons for everything though, at least to an American ear. It's only once your cynicism hits ridiculous levels that everything starts to suddenly make so much more sense.

[1] - https://www.wired.com/story/joe-biden-tiktok-campaign-commen...
assuming his numbers are correct, that shows that in one town in one state, the local taxes don't seem to cover the cost of infrastructure. But what about state taxes? Do they reimburse the locality? Federal funds?
I've tested so many Markdown editors with WYSIWYG or instant preview, but this is the first one with only 4MB download size! Is using Tauri the secret sauce to this magic?

Too bad it doesn't have built-in math editor.
Yes, the power consumption comes from the resistance of the circuit. In case of CMOS circuits there would ideally be no current flow when no signal changes but transistors are not perfect and have leakage currents. When signals change, primarily triggered by the clock rising or falling, there is a short time in which the supply rail and ground rail are essentially shorted out.

Each gate has logically two transistors of which exactly one is always conducting, either connecting the output to the supply rail making the output a one, or connecting the output to the ground rail making the output a zero. When the output of the gate changes, both transistors have to switch in order to connect the output to the other rail than before. While this happens both transistors are conducting at the same time allowing current to flow from the supply rail to the ground rail.

In addition to that the input capacitances of subsequent gates get charged from the supply rail when the output goes high and discharged into the ground rail when input goes low. So every signal change pumps some charge from the supply rail through the input capacitances to the ground rail.
both games and voip have used STUN for the past decade or so
How does this theory hold up when your trade partner doesn’t give you equal access to their markets and has the potential to use this media platform to spread disinformation? I don’t think this is an innovation issue as much as a political one.
> TikTok, at the end of the day, is just a kind of printing press.

Printing presses can't spy on the readers of the paper that goes through them[1]. I think there's a first amendment argument to be made here, but this is way too far out on the absolutist end of the spectrum, not least because this bill doesn't actually regulate TikTok's speech, only who's allowed to own it.

Commercial speech is regulated in thousands of ways already in ways much more effective than this bill. If you really believe in free speech absolutism[2] the fights to be had are elsewhere.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/17/us/politics/tik-tok-spyin...

[2] And no one does. Everyone starts censoring the second they get their hands on a lever.
Distributed Tracing: A Whistle Stop Tour
The deployment experience is awesome, but for me[0] the killer feature of Fly.io is their Anycast network and features such as FLY_REPLAY and LiteFS that make clusering a breeze[1].

It's wild to me how little support VPS providers have for reducing latency of backend services for users. None of them support Anycast, and there are very few GeoDNS options (it adds more complexity besides).

I just wish Fly.io had cheaper data transfer, since I'm currently having to re-implement (poorly) a lot of their features for an ngrok-like service I'm working on.

[0]: using them for https://lastlogin.io

[1]: Here's all the fly-specific code necessary to run LastLogin in a globally distributed way: https://github.com/lastlogin-io/obligator/blob/37f75cc861f1b...
Housing prices that restrict the ability of an economy to function will strangle that economy.

That's the main issue. Nobody cares about some "cut" that a college administrator would get (how? how much?).

Any economy that prices out its labor is doomed.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORDIC
I'll bite. First, each human is kind of a separate universe, another 80 billion neurons to converse with, each with our own histories and vastly different knowledge and experience. In a conversation, we learn a lot from each other, and better understand how we can be different in skills, and even in basic things like emotion, motivation, etc.., better understanding what it means to be a human, and better understanding what it means to be in general. Also, it's very important for us to maintain some kind of social contact (I think written counts as well), because our brains language ability will degrade and we will lose critical skills including reading social cues.

Speaking of social cues, interacting with others specially in a complex environment where there can be severe competition as well as cooperation and difficult coordination, is something that also is worth practicing.

I have nothing against solo games, but this kind of thing is not practiced in a solo game.

Finally, I think other kinds of games (e.g. in competitive games) tend to have very simple interactions and objectives, compared to an MMO: there's a clear objective to win that's shared by everyone. Some MMOs have much more interesting interactions, where each person is interested in a different thing, and I think this contributes to a very rich atmosphere that isn't just 'Go win, try to win match, go out', i.e. more life-analogue (without other limitations of life, like you can't actually die, and being poor isn't as terrible as it often is IRL :( ).
This is – fairly obviously – the US working to maintain it's primacy in the control over technology (broadly) and social media (specifically).

It's certainly convenient that various security and privacy concerns align, but as many comments here point out, they don't stand up to much scrutiny, and they certainly don't warrant this level of policy response.
During/post covid there has been a massive migration out of urban centers into rural places. Thus far the effect has been that affordable places are less affordable, while expensive places stayed expensive.
It actually isn’t, or rather it wasn’t. A lot of the big open source projects came out of people that spent undefined amounts of time in or around universities.

It was possible because students didn’t need to worry about meeting commercial needs because they could a comfortable life doing what they like without pressure, and because grants were not beholden to commercial interests.

Not only have Bologna accords creeped in a slow Americanization of European education but open source has also been hijacked.

A lot of this is on Europe’s own self destructive policies though. When they try to mimic the US all that comes out of it, is a crappier version of the US, with more bureaucracy, where they cannot compete on dollars spent.
https://archive.ph/2024.03.11-102743/https://www.washingtonp...
My comment will not address the hypocrisy and backstabbing inherent in Sino-Australian relations but a quick thought for the Chinese (grape) wine consumer. Relief!
I love nix and have contributed quite a few packages to the nix repository, and I will vouch that it’s anything but easy. I have a background in Haskell which makes it more familiar, but even the syntax is counterintuitive to newcomers.
"Where the jobs are, yes."
"Check the vacancy rate in major cities."

What are the vacancy rates in the smaller cities and rural areas? What are we doing to utilize the vacant units by bringing jobs to those areas? Is it really more effiecnt to build new housing rather than take advantage of the existing housing? Should we just concentrate everything in a few major cities and leave everyone else behind?

Sure, reducing zoning will mean less rules and people can do more things, like build. The interesting thing is that building mfh was only a small part of the change - a change that CA also made state-wide but isnt seeing much benefit from. The change that made the real difference was increasing density for apartments and reducing parking requirements. The rents for apartments dropped, but sfh values have continued to climb as population declines. Bringing me back to the preferences and distribution part of my original comment -affordability is mostly driven by preferences and distribution.
You’re misreading me. I replied to the idea that suburbs are subsidized. The view was that people should be taxed to off set their supposed subsidies. I don’t think the suburbs are really subsidized.
There’s a little thing called the profit motive. Universities aren’t perfect but few other institutions have deliberate spaces for non-commercial work.
This isn’t a good analogy. This is about trade and not freedom or rights. The CCP, the owner of TikTok, is neither an individual nor a US citizen.
It never has an "internal subjective experience" -- AlphaGO wasnt reasoning.

Reasoning is a cognitive process in which propositions, which model the world, are considered in turn and subject to ecological rationality (concerns of utilty, effort, interest, preference, etc.).

At no point in the flight of an aeroplane does it ever lay eggs.

You are using smoke to establish fire, these ways of measuring internal mental states of animals only work on animals.

If you can produce a robot with no prior conceptual scheme of, say, a novel apartment it is thrown into; a robot which can then determine what is in that apartment, how roughly it works (eg., light switch -> lights turn on), of an account of that apartment; explain why it has explored it; show that its behaviour is moderated and caused by these stated goals; ask it for opinions about the apartment etc. -- then we are actually playing the intelligence game, at least. Rather than stupid magic laterns.

Now, does this robot have a subjective experience?

Well I think we need to keep going with our tests: does it have an aversion to toxic stimulous? Is this aversion moderating its goals and behaviour? Are its memories contextualised by these aversions (eg., does its process of remembering display a variety when remembering negative vs. positive experiences)? And so on.

If I can ask, "Did you find my apartment fun?" and it can answer because it did, or did not -- then we're very close.

That is if we can show the reason it says, "yes" or "no" had to do with a history of taste, judgement, preference, curiosity, etc. all built up by itself -- not under "supervision with the right answers" but with no problem-specific answers ever given... and so on.

Questions of these kind arent even revenant to anything in AI. Any sincere AI engineer will say that they have nothing to do with the goals of the system theyre building. All AI that we can actually access, 100% has no interest, methods or ambitions to deliver any of the above.

AI isnt even in the category of intelligence; it isnt even trying to produce it.
The first two don't say much. The third one about JFNA's letter to Congress is key. Didn't cite the primary source for some reason, but it matches: https://cdn.fedweb.org/fed-1/1/Jewish%2520Federation%2520Let...

"A vote for HR 7521 is a vote against antisemitism."
Do you have any examples in mind of 6-10M cities with stress-free comfortable commuting and affordable housing for all? Off the top of my head, but without a lot of first- or second-hand experience, Rome seems like the commute is probably a lot better than the larger cities, but my perception is that the affordability is pretty poor? Otherwise most of my experience is in larger or much smaller places.

Something that I think often makes this discussion tough is that there are a LOT of well-known historical European cities that are at under-2M population that I don't think Americans typically realize are THAT much smaller than, say, an Atlanta. I think the challenges of serving a growing city of 5M+ are much harder than a well-established old city of 2M.
Valheim provides a server that you can run yourself. It would be cool to populate the massive world with AI's.
Interviewee response to CEO, "Come back to me when you have 10k H100 GPUs"
there is an investigation pending.

that, as of right now, means nothing. there will be a few weeks of haranguing and a few cycles in the media, then it'll die down.

a few months from now this will be forgotten, and HN + every other platform will be upset about something else, be it the election, or AI, or some other corpo shannigans.

then there will be a report about findings -- and we'll see what that "something" actually is. but unless they're willing to pierce the corporate veil or put people in jail, it will ultimately amount to nothing.
The point being asked was how do you do the gc using flex, as the aim is to not have to go inti nix
Stop Saying AI
Expat 2.6.2 released, includes security fixes
> putting a political prisoner in jail also doesn't limit his free speech: he is still able to write letters

Free speech is a big topic. I would argue that yes, that person’s speech has been curtailed, but depending on what they were jailed for (saying something offensive versus stabbery) it could be reasonable.

Unless they were jailed for their speech, what you describe would not amount to censorship.
Why birds are smart: Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Can you clarify what it is that the US social media companies are doing to Europe?

For example are you saying that they are showing content to European youth to sow discord or something like that, or are you only talking about the data collection/mining?
If you want to live in a mansion and can afford it I say "All the power to you!" But all the rest of us will be happy to live in an affordable place where we can get a slice of pizza and a cold beer without driving 20 minutes. Also, I know I want to see that homeless person begging for food living in an affordable community that has plenty of extra economic power to provide all the Panda Express he can eat!

You are not a bad person for wanting to live in a mansion or even just a bungalow far away from the city center. That's honestly pretty great! In fact, it's my hope that building walkable, affordable communities will make it even easier for you to afford and live in such a place.
Yeah, we should only tolerate domestic propaganda outlets.
How is this a win at all though? Especially now. Every kid I know says Reels is a perfectly good alternative now (it wasn't two years ago). It's making a statement about something, but it's not helping any of the problems you noted.