skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People aren't fools. They know that TikTok is being put into this position by the US government. You can go on any social media platform right now and see how outraged TikTok users are. This is going to have incredible political blowback from the younger generations and there won't be any "lawyering" around that. Even if the ban doesn't go through, a lot of damage has already been done.
Yeah, this issue continues to cause a lot of strife across the Fediverse. Misskey.io and mstdn.jp are both extremely popular (presumably only second to Mastodon.social) and obviously these Japanese sites follow Japanese law and norms with regards to obscenity.

I certainly am not saying that server operators should feel obliged to content they do not like, especially if they believe it is illegal or immoral. After all, a huge draw of the Fediverse is the fact that you get to choose, right? Sure, personally I think all obscenity law is weapons-grade bullshit regardless of how despicable the subject matter may be, but also, server operators shouldn't feel pressure to compromise their ideals, attract a crowd of people they simply don't like, or (of course) run the risk of breaking the law in their jurisdiction, so what happens on the Fediverse seems like it is the right way for things to go, even if it is harmful to the federation in the short term.

But that's kind of the double-edged sword. You either have centralization where someone decrees "the ultimate line" or you don't. With Bluesky, there's a possibility that it will wind up being decentralized properly, but it could wind up being defacto centralized even if they uphold their promises and I think that strongly devalues the benefits of decentralization where they count most. Today, there is in fact one company that holds the line, and it's unclear if that's going to meaningfully change.

There are some aspects of AT proto and Bluesky that I think are extremely cool: an example is identity, identity in AT proto is MUCH better than it is in ActivityPub right now. However I'm not surprised they are not going to acknowledge this problem. Just know that they are 100% aware of it, and my opinion is that they really do want to find an answer that won't piss everyone off, but they also probably want to avoid the perception that Bluesky is a haven for degenerates, especially early on when there are less network effects and they desperately need to appear "better" than what is already out there. Unfortunately, I can only conclude that their strategy is most likely the best one for the future of their network, but it still rubs me the wrong way.
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If you think I'm a front-end developer, you are mistaken. I just empathize with them.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler
'Gremlin systems' will help Pentagon analyze UFO sightings
How can the article say no harmful effects then go on to say this?

> Among around 170 rescue workers who were exposed to very high levels of radiation, two to three additional cancer cases were expected. The report said that other factors such as stress, heart problems and other illnesses came about as a result of the evacuation.

We expect 2-3 of you to get cancer, but overall there's no harmful effects.

Edit again: I should've read the fine print, it's "No harmful effects for Fukushima residents", so yeah, a shitty title.
True. Mod power is abused a lot. But that’s a different problem, not necessarily mutually exclusive with scaling.
On the other hand, a citizen should be more scared of his own govt rather than foreign govt because foreign govt won't arrest him. So for an American TikTok is probably less threat than Facebook or Twitter.
Supporting rollback and history means disks can fill up. With Nix, this is usually due to a bunch of GC roots pointing to profiles and packages that then cannot be cleaned up. Our environments are not just symlinks, but have a declarative format (under the hood, flakes) so one can remove them, but also reproduce them as needed. So GC'ing them is less destructive than with using `nix-env`/`nix profile`. This allows us to be more aggressive in cleaning up old generations.

So the strategy is to ensure there is always a declarative+reproducible way to recover the things you clean up, then we can apply various heuristics to avoid disks from filling up; free space, age, least-recently-used, least-frequently-used - are all being considered.
KeenWrite is not a WYSIWYG editor like Marker, is it?
Talking to people is a proxy measure of their subjective experience, it isn't a direct measure. Since you can talk to a tape recorder and, so long as it plays back responses, you and the tape recorder likewise are engaging as-if conversing.

Since computer science isnt a science, but a form of (applied, discrete) mathematics it encourages people to think in terms of functions with purely mathematical semantics, as if 2 + 2 = 4 were the same thing whether it modelled the divison of cells or the printing of a book.

What causes people to speak is our intentions, desires, theory of mind, representational ability, imagination... etc. We speak because we are in a shared world of social intentions, and we desire to communicate something about ourselves or this world to others.. we translate, clumsily, these features of our experience into text tokens; and hope that the agency we are speaking to can recover our mind from those tokens.

Over a million years we have specialised a culture of communication to enable this illusion to take place: the illusion that meaning is in the patterns of the symbols we use.

You can, of course, build a system to perfectly immitate these patterns; just as a video game, if you hold the viewer fixed, my appear to contain a world with a table and a glass. But if you reach for that glass of water, it isnt there: it's an illusion.

This is all statistical AI is: a trick. It's a replaying back of our own conversations to each other, as if it was a real conversation with us.

We can determine, as certain as you like, that there are no goals, intensions, desires, imagination, counterfactual reasoning -- no body, no observation. The machine is not in the world with us, and it not responsive to the world -- the machine generates text, it does not speak.

You inclination to analogise the machine to a person is just on the grounds that you are strapped into you chair, and observing the video game, believe you can grab the glass of water inside.

I am not strapped into a chair, nor do you have to be. You can do science: you can build real experimental explanations of how we form representations, intentions, goals, desires etc. And it is trivial to explain AI, there is no mystery to "compress reddit and query over its space of text tokens". There is only the illusion that the user is subject to -- the belief that the agency lies in this querying process, and not in the redditors who had cause to speak to each other about their experiences of hte world .
>I really like these old "explaining" films. The pedagogical level is far higher than what seems common today. And the they take their time to convey the message.

I wonder what happened? I have been blown away by some of the older explainer videos from the 40s and 50s, esp. some of the military training videos for vehicle repair, electrical engineering, etc. Very concise and very clear explanations, always with visual examples. Today, we have things like 3brown1blue that are kind of like that, but in general you don't see information transfer like this either online or in school (at least not in my experience).
Wow, I guess lots of people saw this coming a mile away
I think reasonable people can disagree and debate about what is happening in Israel. It's not a topic I want a banner splashed across the top when I'm considering a new language or SaaS product.
There's definitely areas of advertising that are banned/controlled so that comparison seems more damning than beneficial (e.g. alcohol to minors, medication in any country other than the US
> You can e.g. criticize the US gvmt in a US-based app with no consequences

Oh really? Try that with your police department and see how it works out for you.

https://hellgatenyc.com/nypd-warrantless-subpoena-copwatcher...
expecting to see what happens
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It doesn't remove even a single bit of entropy.

For an offline attack, where you have to attack Facebook's bespoke "password onion"[1], you would still have to compute both hashes. There is approximately zero impact on cracking strategy.

There may be an argument to be made that Facebook would have otherwise used a larger work factor had they not had to do double the work for wrong passwords, but the common case is the password being correct, so I doubt this was a significant consideration in the parameter selection.

Even for the online case, I really don't think it affects security in a nontrivial way.

1. https://bristolcrypto.blogspot.com/2015/01/password-hashing-...
Most research university revenue, be it tuition-, donation- or grant-based, isn't really involved in the education of undergraduates anyway. All that extra money Stanford brings in that CSU Chico does not goes to building labs and hiring graduate students. Freshman Computer Science costs the same no matter where you are.
Yes, but (and I may be saying something different than Huang here) demanding things is different than expecting them. The difference is in your response if the outcome is "no". Anger or serenity?
Honestly, I don't think that assumption is necessary, and I don't think either video suggests it in the slightest.
I think this is not a binary issues. We can both ban TikTok and protect privacy in general at the same time.
Just try imagining how, if you were the Chinese government, you might use Tik-Tok to influence and undermine American support for militarily defending Taiwan. This isn't hard it's obviously a powerful tool. Just how powerful remains to be seen.
... Is a "serious threat" to whom? To the dozen or so American billionaires - Zuckerberg, Musk, Murdoch, Bloomberg, Bezos, Iger, etc. - who control a large fraction of the world's media or to the American people?
How much power is the Pi port capable of delivering, or are you sending additional power to the PCIe adapter from somewhere else?

What SmartNIC are you using? Most SmartNICs that I'm aware of suck a decent amount of power, many more require significant external airflow. Are you using the Mikrotik active cooled one? https://mikrotik.com/product/ccr2004_1g_2xs_pcie
Sure if they want to. And then they have trade issues with the US, which is what that becomes: an economic conflict (which can easily become a military conflict).

The US economy is drastically larger than the EU economy at this point (soon to be double the size), we control the global reserve currency, and provide a very large military shield across the EU (currently keeping Russia from attacking numerous smaller European nations). The US can do a lot more damage to Europe than the other way around, if it's conflict that Europe seeks with the US (whether economic or military). The same is true with US allies in Asia (particularly Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia).

All the US has to do is look the other way and Russia and China will get to work destroying the status quo, which includes ripping apart Europe and Asia. The US can feed Asia to China anytime it wants to, that includes Australia + New Zealand; it obviously doesn't want to do that. I think US allies want to keep the US an ally for all the right reasons, both economically and militarily.
I agree. It's government policy at this point to bring in as many people as possible for some reason. My guess is to drive down wages, some others have guessed that it's due to a belief that global conflict is rising and the native population is unwilling to fight.
I think born with a condition such as that is always (mentally) easier than losing some capability, especially if you are grown.

If you are born without sight, it only exists as an abstract concept for you.
It isn't even recurring events. If event is happening at 8am local time, it should happen at that time even if they change time zone. Which may happen if get rid or keep DST.

There is a distinction between timestamps, for exact moments, and event times, for future local times. The former should be stored in UTC, and the latter in local times.
Is this a paid article? This looks like advertising
I usually agree with the eff but not on this.

The whole point here is not about the data, regardless of spurious justifications.
>I've avoided getting it...

So far, is the missing clarifier.
I still use nano! The nice part about it is that it shows the command keys at the bottom. I forget what it is to exit, but I don’t need to remember!
I dont know if you can do this on the home edition, but on the pro edition you can basically set the login to the local computer instead of logging in with microsoft account, and it disables pretty much most of the stuff.
Sure, but I think we're just talking about two slightly different things here: I was trying to describe the "sociological" reasons why math notation might end up in a state that you don't like rather than trying to list the particular things you might not like about it.

I do agree with you that calculus textbooks often go overboard with notations for the derivative, and in fact I remember being taught some (like a capital D with a subscript x) that I then never saw again for the rest of my life.

But as to the question of why "mathematicians" would do this, I don't think the answer is all that mysterious: "mathematicians" is a category that includes a lot of different people in different places and there's no central committee that enforces notation standards! It's like that one XKCD comic everyone posts about inventing new standards.
> Well but aren’t you giving a great example of how that wealth is illusory?

It is mostly, since your purchasing power doesn't increase because all house prices rise.

But: people don't live forever, and when your home-owning parents die, you now have two homes instead of one, and you'll get much more than if housing price was half the price. Same when your in-laws die too.

Obviously this is entirely unsustainable and is a huge driver for the political despair that is spreading in Western countries.
> Selecting one of a set of pre-trained actions by voice is cool but not exactly ground-breaking.

Yes. Compare "Put That There" (1979).[1]

> The way that guy is standing perfectly still makes me think that it would fail if everything wasn't set up just so. I'd like to see demos with more variation.

Yes. Unstructured manipulation is hard. Structured robotic manipulation is pretty standard.
Picking isolated objects is a solved problem.
Here's a robot recycling sorting system, "Max-AI".[2] That's been in use for years.
San Francisco recycling uses those robots. So do many other cities.

(That's from "Bulk Handling Systems", a company which does exactly what their name says. Recycling and trash come in bulk, and their machines handle it. Shakers, magnets, screens, and vision-based air sorters do 95% of the sorting. The robots only handle the hard cases. This is the no-bullshit end of AI.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyBEUyEtxQo

[2] https://max-ai.com/
Show HN: Built simple prod to AI generate charts in 0.37 secs and analyze data
Private companies will never save us. They exist only to extract wealth. SpaceX is no exception, surviving off of taxpayer funds.
Some millionaire rock-star buying it for their home theatre, eventually ending up in a skip when the villa changes hands.

They should make it so that you can sit and pose in the chair if you pay $250 to some suitable charity. You get a $50 discount if you show up in the correct uniform to properly engage with the set.

> While the whereabouts of the chair had been unknown for three decades, […]

Three decades? That's silly, this show isn't tha… Aw. Now I feel old.
The law has a variety of "know your customer" rules, but in addition has a bunch of laws the constrain your behavior if you can reasonably know that you are handling criminal proceeds.

Anyone operating a crypto mixer knows that people will endeavor to use it to illegally launder funds, and to as I understand it if you know that, you have to implement _effective_ methods to prevent that illegal mixing. It does not matter that there are legal transfers, you have a legal duty to not carry the illegal ones, and if you are not actively trying to prevent those illegal transfers you are liable.

A more day-to-day analogy would be that it is illegal to knowingly buy, sell, or accept stolen property. If you do buy stolen property but there's no reason for you to have thought it is stolen you haven't done anything wrong (though the purchase or sale is invalid, so you've lost the money). If however police can show that you knew or could reasonably know the property was stolen it they could chose to charge you with a crime, and your defense would presumably be some variation of why it was reasonable for you to believe the property was not stolen.

The problem is specifically that everyone running a mixer knows that people attempt to launder their funds through mixers, and so therefore should have mechanisms in place to ensure that they are not accepting transfers that can reasonably related to criminal enterprises, just as you would have to when buying/selling property in the real world. Given that most crypto is trivially auditable there are very few arguments that would support not having at minimum automated rejection of transactions involving any known wallet, and moreover constantly updating the list of known bad addresses.

Certainly if I were on a jury, and the person running the mixer could not show their reasonable actions to prevent laundering, that the system was constantly tracking, updating, and expanding the disallowed wallets precisely because that can be done almost entirely automatically, that would count against their claims to not be intentionally supporting laundering.

Again, the issue here is not running the mixer, it's not that occasional illegal transactions go through - that's unavoidable - it's the failure to take reasonable steps to stop plausibly illegal transfers. The way banks handle this is they block suspicious transactions pending receipt of the actual sender and recipient, and documentation of the origins of the funds. Which is what a mixer would need to do.
The real question is why would anyone want to leave Vim.

If, by any chance, you've entered it accidentally, acknowledge the fortuitous twist of fate you've just witnessed and enjoy the enlightenment that is soon to follow.
So China sells its point so well that all the numerous tools and huge amounts of money that the United States also has to propagate its point of view and guarantee its own soft power has difficulty competing with a single Chinese tool, and this within its own territory? Or perhaps the problem is that they don't want a Chinese social network to have access and control over people's data, but neither they want to pass laws to protect people privacy like what EFF proposes because the American government also do not want to forfeit the access and control over people's data?
Yes I am sure some kids will cry on the internet.

The bill is overwhelmingly bipartisan though. There isn't anyone for some kids to go after, if it's almost a unanimous bi partisan effort.

Those kids lost. It's over.

And if people are this upset, then that is all the more reason to pull the trigger now, instead of giving our foreign adversaries more time to retaliate.

Anyway, tiktok almost divested the last time this happened. Unless they are OK will losing 10s of billions of dollars for nothing, well chances are they'll just divest, despite the current posturing they are doing.
What do the CEO and CTO say when you ask them about these initiatives?
I think there is an asymmetry here. The CCP has much greater control over TikTok than The US Federal govt. has over Google, Facebook, and Reddit. American tech giants regularly fight against the US govt. and sometimes win. AFAIK, this happens less in CCP controlled China.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple–FBI_encryption_dispute

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._United_Stat...
Did somebody in Washington finally get around to reading Unrestricted Warfare?[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrestricted_Warfare
Are you saying that data should not be protected? Separate issue might be the content manipulation and censorship on TikTok, but "privacy issue" is the biggest argument so far publicly. If you are going to the privacy and data leak argument, then you should apply that for every application out there.
> Traumatic early childhood experiences

While it sounds like this would describe Huang's experience, I don't think that's what he intended to convey.

As others have said, it seems to be about resiliency. You don't develop that unless you have a reason to do so - "pain and suffering", to me, sounds like a synonym for "struggle".

My childhood was pretty much uniformly excellent. I saw my parents struggle a bit, but I was too young for it to really mean much to me at the time, and it didn't directly impact me. My personal struggle didn't really begin until after high school; I ran head-first into undiagnosed ADHD and chronic depression.

Recognizing those issues and overcoming them was the process that defined who I am as an adult. I fully believe it has made me a better and more resilient person. It wasn't until then that I was able to look back and really understand what my parents went through.

It has also informed the way I parent my children. I make it a point to be transparent about what I'm thinking, the struggles I'm facing now, and the ways I'm dealing with them. That's tempered by constantly reinforcing that those things are my stresses, not my kids'... because my kids aren't my therapist :P.

My hope is that by being transparent, my kids don't enter the adult world expecting everything to go according to plan. I'm trying to model not only "correct" behaviors, but how to emotionally deal with and overcome hardship.
Small nitpick: Khmer Rouge*
Is TikTok available in China uncensored?

Maybe they’re smarter?
I have to use both at the same time.

I have a Docker with an old version of centos which for some reason is the one provided to us.

I then create an "overlay" over it using nix, so I can actually use software with newer glibc etc... easily.

Regardless of that, nix is way better than docker, in the sense that docker doesn't ensure reproducibility, you can build a Dockerfile in two different days, and get different versions of packages installed, this is simply not possible with nix, you have complete control over your tools.

And if you decide to port your application to a "nix package", you have complete control over all the dependencies of you application, a reproducible way to build it, and an easy way to deploy it.
I mean, if you use any popular software from big companies, you really don't have privacy either. Microsoft is no different. Its not as big of a deal as people make it out to be.
I don't know whether the first amendment is meant to stop this kind of regulation, but I suppose that's one the courts have either settled already, or will get a chance to settle. I would guess that a foreign company's right to either operate a business in the U.S., or service U.S. citizens from a foreign country, is treated differently when it comes to first amendment protections compared to say a domestic business or a private citizen shouting on a street corner.