skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was plenty of criticism of that form, by AOC for example, but part of the democratic process is making progress where and when compromise can be found. Later efforts to restrict American companies can use this as precedent and a litmus test.
There was a thread yesterday which was on /r/getmotivated, the typical word spew from a teenager who had started a newsletter.

Advising people that all they had to do is outlast everyone and that was easy because everyone else quit.

They didn't seem to understand the difference between simple and easy, when I mentioned that was the hard part and the reason everyone else was quitting was because it was hard, there response was that 'they just needed discipline, which is easy'.

So glad we have genius level thinking out there that has solved all of life's issues.
You forgot Iraq?
Mondragon was founded by a Catholic priest and IMHO is more accurately described as Distributist than classically Socialist:

https://distributistreview.com/archive/mondragon-revisited?f...
:( "Our model encounters challenges when processing >200 frame videos"

:) "Our model is proven production-ready using real-world footage from Taken 3"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCKhktcbfQM
Former Boeing Manager Says Workers Mishandled Parts to Meet Deadlines
And yet, at least anecdotally, it is very widely used, along with virtually every other resource that that Chinese state regards as banned.
Congress and the president can pass whatever law they want. Anyone can also challenge it in the courts, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the USA.
From the world where the USA was the bastion of free speech which was condemning countries like Turkey for blocking social media to a world where the USA blocks social media. I guess when the reasons are about money(i.e. Chinese block American companies) its all good because it can't be about national security since the countries who used to block American social media were condemned for doing it in the name of national security. Or is it?

Anyway, this bothers me so much. It wouldn't take that much time before every country adopts the China/North Korea model once the USA leads the way, because you know, other countries also have national security concerns. Maybe the Spanish or Irish will want to protect their citizens being indexed by the US for their support for Palestine? Who know, banning apps is a thing now. Maybe soon all country-to-country communications will need to go through monitored cables with keys provided for inspection(maybe businesses can get an exception with acquiring a license?).

We are progressively sliding in a segregated world and it is a scary world because the tech to control all the communications is in place.

I wish the USA took the EU model where its free but regulated.

The desire for control over communications and the support by the people disgusts me. You will end up finding out that the Chinese/North Korean way of doing things is not going to provide you with security or prosperity.

Very sad day.
https://berthub.eu/articles/spice.jpg
Not letting foreign governments control media in your country is definitely a thing that governments do, and I imagine the intelligence agencies know more than we do about what involvement the CCP has with TikTok. Any public hearings or debate are just for show.
Thats not an EV?
Why would they import posts or comments with negative feedback?
> I can almost hear the Meta execs cackling in their bathtubs of cash.

Arguments or statements like this only serve to piss people off. It probably does benefit Meta but that has no bearing whatsoever on whether or not the bill should be passed.
Intel over the Moon as Lunar Lake's NPU Performance Tops Meteor Lake
I'd consider windows 7 for an offline gaming PC, but I thought later versions of directX wouldn't install on windows 7.
Also maybe move whatever other goalposts you can find until the Marxist theory begins to make sense.
This got submitted first and got a discussion going already,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40145963
I can't wait for the next explosion in "bigfoot" videos: wildlife on the moon, people hiding in shadows, plants, animals, and structures completely out of place.

The difference will be that this time the images will be crystal clear, just hallucinated by a neural network.
> as close to stock Debian as possible

Is there an OS or another Linux distribution that matches Debian's performance in this respect, without the complexity of an entire Linux system? Could Debian be stripped down (and then how are updates applied)?
https://archive.ph/4thq9
I doubt instagram will replace it. Just like Youtube Shorts, they will fail to grab its audience. People who are using instagram/youtube are there because they like the format, and if they wanted tiktok, they 'd go to tiktok
Wow, 128 experts in a single model. That's a lot more than everyone else. The Snowflake team has a blog post explaining why they did that:

https://www.snowflake.com/blog/arctic-open-efficient-foundat...

But the most interesting aspect about this, for me, is that every tech company seems to be coming out with a free open model claiming to be better than the others at this thing or that thing. The number of choices is overwhelming. As of right now, Huggingface is hosting over 600,000 different pretrained open models.

Lots of money has been forever burned training or finetuning all those open models. Even more money has been forever burned training or finetuning all the models that have not been publicly released. It's like a giant bonfire, with Nvidia supplying most of the (very expensive) chopped wood.

Who's going to recoup all that investment? When? How? What's the rationale for releasing all these models to the public? Do all these tech companies know something we don't? Why are they doing this?

---

EDIT: Changed "0.6 million" to "600,000," which seems clearer. Added "or finetuning".
I have a simple test for evaluating these kinds of news items. If their claims are correct, it will be Front Page News worldwide within a short time frame. If not,it'll quickly go the way of cold fusion.
> but it's not a Chinese company

Correct. US company data on citizens is most likely made available to the US government via fiber splicing and backdoor agreements. Separately, China is in a position to exercise way too much manipulative control over wide swaths of the US populace. That's generally agreed upon as "not a good thing".

Will Meta benefit with their massive network of boomers who can't tell generative AI from real life? I dunno, I doubt it. I think we'll see something else entirely replace Tiktok.
I dare say that Americans not being able to afford housing has very little to do with Walmart or Amazon, since it was neither that decided to turn housing into a very safe and investable financial asset, but rather the government.

The definition of capital owner being someone who doesn't need a paycheck to survive is weird. Your average startup founder needs a paycheck and he is clearly not a simple worker. As soon as you own shares in a company(or a bond) you are a capital owner. The question is then how much that capital is worth and what you can do to make this capital worth more.
Zoho is very well positioned to be useful, especially to people on HN. Their pricing is great, customer service is good, and they cover a lot of ground with their products. If you need email for your custom domain, they are a great choice.

I've been using them for a small charity, and they've been really great. Super powerful/flexible including setting up complex sets of groups and multiple domains that forward to specific places.

There was a card snafu last year and our bill didn't get paid, and Zoho degraded nicely into the "free" tier without hassling us or threatening us. Once I discovered it, it was simple to upgrade again.
I am shipping faster.
From a cursory glance, the Lisp dialect that BeeBase is using is closest to Common Lisp, is that correct? Sorry, I'm not an expert on CL, but it would be great to see a quick comparison of BeeBase Lisp with other popular Lisp dialects, like this: https://clojure.org/reference/lisps
No, there's a specificity to "name" and "group" that makes them similar, which is one part of why I settled on this example. The other is that I expected the recipient to have experience with regex and find the example dumb, confirming my position that one can very well demand a basic knowledge of the tool that isn't immediately communicated by it.

Like knowledge of the regex language, or having spent ten minutes skimming through the tutorial part of a PDF manual.

In my experience, how to use a manual is a technique more widely understood than regex. Maybe this impression is wrong, I'd welcome something tangible pointing in another direction if it is.
For everyone here having the vapours over this, note that the US government also prohibits more than 20/25% foreign ownership of radio/tv stations and airlines, and has for almost 100 years. It’s going to be ok.
Good. Tiktok is a threat to humanity’s survival, or at least an extremely potent gateway drug to it.
I think "that" = "the idea that rich assholes would like to keep the education level of the general population below a threatening threshold is not conspiracy thinking to me, it's just obvious."

("the idea" is what you claimed is obvious)
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This is Idiocracy
The work "ban" is in scare quotes for a reason. The law doesn't ban TikTok. Rather, it bans TikTok from having Chinese owners. If the law stands, the end result will likely be that TikTok will be sold to US owners, rather than TikTok going away.

It's surprising to me that this this pretty significant distinction has been glossed over both in media reporting and in general comments here on HN.

To be clear, I'm not supporting the law with this comment, just clarifying what the actual content of the law is.
This definitely does seem a weakness - I have no idea why it doesn't already use this "mental model" when it likely has already seen it
>app stores in the US would have to drop the app, and Internet hosting services would be prohibited from providing services that enable distribution of TikTok in the US

So just install it like a normal application instead of using an "app store". But does this mean if I host the .apk or whatever on my personal website I would be breaking the law?
Hopefully it'll be sold to someone who will ruin it and we'll have one less addictionware monstrosity ensnaring millions of people into mindlessly scrolling through schlock.

Unfortunately that leaves Instagram, which is in many ways worse. Maybe Elon Musk can buy that one and destroy it next. He already did us a solid by ruining Twitter.
> often people think problems are easy to solve from the outside because they just don't understand the problem

May I suggest the book "The Innovators Dilemma". Sometimes people who don't understand the problem manage to solve it in a much better way.

https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Technologies-Manag...
ArcaneDoor: New espionage-focused campaign targeting perimeter network devices
Nvidia is the actual N in FAANG. Netflix is not a technological powerhouse compared to Nvidia
I think in both cases some amount of interpretation was required:

- for Perl, OCR to a character set

- for Piet, manual “convert[ion] into a clean image file using close colours from the Piet palette”
I won't stop using it.
The easy way would be to just have Google and Apple remove the app for new downloads for US users. With normal device replacement cycles, the friction of acquiring apps from non-App Store sources, and the friction of using an Apple/Google account that isn't from your primary country, this would bring usage to effectively zero within a few years.

No need to bother with actual technical "blocking" measures.
This is the sparsest model thats been put out in a while (maybe ever, kinda forget the shapes of googles old sparse models). This probably wont be a great tradeoff for chat servers, but could be good for local stuff if you have 512GB of ram with your cpu.
It makes sense from the perspective if they are buying with equity. Their stock being at such heights its like getting a huge discount on your purchases and it barely goes on the balance sheet. The question always remains if the purchase was worth it - always tbd.
Can’t you switch out the signatures inflight, too?
Let’s stop using terms like open source falsely. The model isn’t open source, it is open weights. It’s good that the license for the weights is Apache, but for this model to be “truly open” they must release training data and source code under an OSI approved license. Otherwise it’s just misleading marketing. So far it seems like Snowflake will release some blog posts and “cookbooks”, whatever that means, but not actual training source code. Only the inference code is open source here, which is uninteresting.
> Who's going to recoup all that investment? When? How? What's the long-term strategy AI of all these tech companies? Do they know something we don't?

The first droid armies will rapidly recoup the cost when the final wars for world domination begin…
TikTok will continue to function as normal. This is only a ban if bytedance does not divest, which they will.
I think they meant the US domain tiktok.com is banned. TikTok itself is not banned in CN, and its web presence there is likely available at the respective CN domain. I’m guessing it’s tiktok.cn, but I’m not checking so I take no responsibility if it’s a phishing domain.
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I created an app to help you track and share travel expenses among friends. Here's the story:

I was on a trip to Spain with my senior pastor and church accountant.

We had a tiring first day. Only I spoke a little of the language but that didn't stop of from getting lost. In the midst of this, we had to buy multiple bus and train tickets and it was easier for one person to pay. We finally made it to our hotel and went out for dinner and my senior pastor paid. There was all these scattered expenses and my curious brain was looking for an easy way to solve this.

We could never fight because of money but I had seen many wonderful relationships split because of money and chose to solve the problem. I spent a few hours in the morning pushing out some code and then over the last 2 weeks, I put in some work after my 9-5 and between church and school. Now I have a very buggy product.

That's how Splitpool was born.
Emacs Tidbit: rectangle-number-lines
TikTok substantiated it almost immediately with their little stunt that resulted in thousands of 10-13 year olds calling their congressmen.
Wow, the results are amazing. Maintaining temporal consistency was just the beginning part. Very cool.
Avast actually had a trojan horse product whose main purpose was collecting browsing history for sale to data brokers ... that you paid a subscription fee for.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/02/...
When Appropriation Becomes a Tool...
And the whole ban originated from TikTok, hence the name
the single most explanatory fact about america's political behavior, generally over the last 20 years and most acutely today, is this graph:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fszq_PSWIAUwaWw?format=jpg&name=...

the average age of a congress person (house and senate) has gone up by one year, per year, for roughly 20 years.

that tells you that the "normal" organic churn of the past simply stopped dead in its tracks. we have been ruled over by nearly the exact same set of 50 somethings as they have slowly turned into 70 somethings. one very narrow cohort has held onto power so long they personally turned us into a gerontocracy.

this is why the tiktok ban is such a priority despite the fact that it has no constituency at all in the electorate. they don't really represent today's electorate, they represent 20 years ago's electorate that's finally had enough of this internet bullshit.

congress is supposed to be a lagging indicator of popular will by design, its just that for the last 20 years we've been increasing the incremental amount of lag by roughly one year per year, so we've been effectively in stasis.
US companies are not allowed to fairly compete in China. I think that reason alone is justification.
You complain about the USA regulating TikTok and then you wish it followed the EU model, which is more regulated?

The EU is inching closer to effectively banning US social media companies with their prohibitions on ads anyway. We may see region-specific social media at some point.
I thought LeCun once said he was not the head of the research and he didn't manage people. Nonetheless, I'm sure he has enormous influence in Meta.
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While I get the point... if the EU said Facebook could not be available in the Country unless the company divested from US interest, would we not call it a ban?
It's not so much that it would be impratical (video streaming, like HLS or MPEG-Dash, requires to chunk videos in pieces of roughly this size) but you'd lose the inter-frame consistency at segments boundaries, and I suspect the resulting video would be flickering at the transition.

It could work for TV or movies if done properly at the scene transition time though.
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Seems quite expensive for 500GB of storage. Dropbox offers 3TB for around the same price. An extra 1TB is 59 Euro a year.
I've seen some pretty sad friendships splits over money.

This is just my way of protecting myself and people I love from fighting over money I guess.

Anyone else faced something like this?
Email the mods so they can dupe it? Footer contact link.
It's glossed over because it creates a more emotional response framing it like that rather than giving the technical details that reveal the actual situation is perhaps less sensational?
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I guess I implicitly assumed that TikTok was the poster child for a more general / sweeping legislative push. Consider tech companies, startups, etc, operating under Chinese funding either directly or indirectly.
Crazy, all the spying we do and we can't provide any definitive proof of anything yet we're jumping to banning a company. Looks like all that red scare stuff isn't a thing of the past, eh? And we all get to suffer for it. From losing a platform, to facing shadow bans with no recourse, to laws being passed that continue to stamp out our civil liberties to the point that we forget they were even there, what's it all for?
I suppose more and smaller experts would also help reduce over-fitting?
My comment was in response to someone who was an order of magnitude off on price and time. Wasn't really meant as a review of the experience.

Regarding your bad experience on the train... it seems to me that a lot of quality went downhill during the pandemic, and I'm wondering if you went before or after the pandemic started.

On your comments about lateness and how hard it is for light sleepers. Your comments there are very true, and people who would be concerned with either of those should think twice before riding.

I love riding long-distance trains. But I don't kid myself: it is way longer and more expensive than flying. There is a reputation on Amtrak for severe lateness. And the pandemic has made some things onboard worse. People should definitely read negative reviews and look for common issues; if the common problems would be a problem for them, that should be a deal-breaker.
...but is that among the likely outcomes of this?

If she is so zombified by TikTok, won't she just continue to use it? Why would she comply with the ban?

Moreover, even if she does, there are many other nearly identical sources of zombification. Won't she use fall prey to those instead?
Thank you for the detailed instructions, this is extremely helpful! I’ll throw a multimeter across the contacts on the septic tank alarm to make sure they aren’t putting out 24v.
Abnormally large. I don't see the cost/performance numbers going well for this one.
Why 0.6 million and not +600k ?
Wild that they didn't attempt to age gate that push to call congress to 17+.
Website acts as my portfolio - I'm a game developer, so that is why I use Unreal material graph. Shadertoy allows me to demonstrate ideas on live example that is animated and anybody can play with its code.
For the most part HLSL(Unreal) can be translated to GLSL(Shadertoy), but that wasn't the case here. In Unreal I use my own custom flow textures, in Shadertoy it is not possible - everything has to be stored in code.
Even though the basic idea behind Unreal and Shadertoy shaders was the same, the implementations were quite different. It was easier to just do everything twice, that to convert it. And yes - it took a lot of work :).
About damn time. We should reciprocate any bans China has on US companies.
The US site:

0-60 mph in 2.9
510 hp / 741 Nm

The EU site:

0-100 kmh in 3.1
460 hp

So it looks like there are two versions.
Even before that, elections are coming end of the year, chat bots are great for telling whom to vote for.

2020's elections costed 15B USD in total, so we can't afford to lose (we are the good guys, right ?)
I believe Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International is balanced on both sides https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
This is pretty much a ban. Why would the company convert their main product into a competitor? Majority of congress isn't stupid and knows what they want to happen.
> It’s an ugly, toxic cycle that bottoms out at everyone constantly having their knowledge and competence questioned over things they know and can do, by people who don’t and can’t.

That rings so true in my head. Being too open and transparent got me quite a lot of misery already. More than once, I got the work of months discarded, because some other (shiny or new) approach was deemed to provide a better solution -- only to the effect that it was later discovered that it was the worse approach.

Apparently it is very easy to miss in the pursuit for the best solution, in unfortunate favor of one's preconceived notions.
Shouldn't the US prove it's better than China by its self-consistent actions with its espoused virtues of freedom of the press?
I don't actively use it, unfortunately. The main inspiration was to faster sort inputs into the https://github.com/BurntSushi/fst crate, which I in turn used to try to build a search library.
This is a specification, it does not declare how implementations work.

At the moment only typescript implementation exists and here is PEG grammars from it: https://github.com/podlite/podlite/blob/main/packages/podlit...

At the moment it supports Mermaid diagrams:

https://pod6.in/#p=%3Dbegin+Mermaid++%3Acaption%28%27Caption...
Why do people believe that TikTok will stop functioning? That is not the intent, and is not the likely outcome. TikTok will just not be owned by a Chinese company.
Isn't China THE foreign adversary though? I think there's a difference between a media company housed in the UK or France versus China or Russia.
> over 0.6 million

What a peculiar way to say: 600,000
He lived in Palo Alto and Pleasanton for several years and still has a ranch/mansion in Tassajara.
You are right. It would be interesting to compare evolution from a computer scientific and biological point of view. To find out if they are similar…

I believe that natural evolution makes it easier to let the bad branches die out.