skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I were Bytedance I would cut off the US. I certainly would not sell to a competitor. And I’d probably do a licensing deal for the content with a new entity without US based shareholders.
if you've been to China, you'll know that they ban all western products: facebook, google, etc etc and replaced them with their own variants. If they want to run around free-range without any restriction with their own products then they should respond by loosening restrictions in their own country.

This is an absolute no-brainer. If you want Tik Tok in the US, lower your middle finger. Am I missing something?
yeah and the only reason we don't see more of it was prohibitively expensive for all but basically Disney.

the compute budgets for basic run of the mill small screen 3D rendering and 2D compositing is already massive compared to most other businesses of a similar scale. the industry has been under paying their artists for decades too.

I'm willing to bet that as soon as unreal or adobe or whoever comes out with a stable diffusion like model that can be consistent across a feature length movie, they'll stop bothering with artists altogether.

why have an entire team of actual people in the loop when the director can just tell the model what they want to see? why shy away from revisions when the model can update colour grade or edit a character model throughout the entire film without needing to re-render?
Is this a speculative assertion, or do you have evidence of this? I'm genuinely curious.

EDIT: Ah, I'm seeing the sarcasm now. I guess I didn't read it closely enough.
If your not banning tiktok for it's ownership opacity... ban it for destroying attention span and training people into being mindless content consumption robots.

We regulate cigarettes and heroin this is a much bigger problem than people give it credit for.

It's an even worse problem if a bad actor is using it subtlety to influence a population.

It doesn't matter if ByteDance or FB are doing this they should both burn to the ground for the damage they have done to the Internet and society.
Notion is putting the database in the Center in a way.
I'm fairly certain the title of this article already makes that perfectly clear: "starting clock for ByteDance to divest it". If anyone is unclear on what is meant, that is purely a failure of reading, not a failure of media reporting.
China can and already has used tiktok to influence the U.S. population. Just because the US spies a bunch doesn’t mean we shouldn’t protect our best interests.
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There are exceptions, though. For example, my advice is always welcome and apropos.
Notifying users that a service they use is about to become illegal does not sound like the covert manipulation congress was afraid of.
I would like to point you to #2. :)

I understand what neurotypical people feel but I am unable to predict it without logical analysis.

Thus,

I fully understand social norms but I am not capable of following them in realtime.

Absolutely none of your unsolicited advice is even remotely useful to me because my current strategy of building logic trees and memorizing appropriate responses is far superior to anything you suggest. :P
Yes, we're not only ok with it as a country... it's strongly supported.
Also keep stubbornly clinging to the idea that organizing and coordinating workers is not real work.
Sometimes the Precheck line is longer than the standard one. Maybe there's room for both. Maybe people could do live bidding for line position. Maybe they could use the money to make flying not suck. Maybe I'll just stay home.
> The very first thing to do is read the manual for the installation and/or parts used. Second, approach the tank setup with a high voltage multimeter and carefully and safely take measurements of what you might be dealing with.

Good call, I’ll make sure it’s not 120v or 24v with a multimeter before attaching anything that expects dry contacts.
They have a year though, and this will certainly go to the Supreme Court.
Did anyone claim anything happened that would require definitive proof? The argument was that a Chinese company having that kind of ability to reach US citizens is too dangerous in and of itself to let it stand.
TikTok is currently also under heavy scrunity in Europe.

In any case, it's just tit for tat, pretty much all western social media platforms are banned in China, why should Chinese social media platforms be treated differently in the western world?
Not sure if I’m being dumb, or if it’s you not explaining it clearly: if Neflix produced low resolution frames from high resolution (4k to 480p), and if these 480p frames are what my TV is receiving - are you saying it’s not downsampling, and my TV would not benefit from this new upsampling method?
This is your perfect time to sell the crap before it goes stale. Come on, have we learned nothing?
That was a gimmick that made the rounds to get around a debt ceiling. It doesn't escape the debt spiral the US is in.
I’m getting emotional just thinking what if my dad did this for my children before he passed away. He would always read to them when I worked doubles.
>The "Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act" was approved as part of a larger appropriations bill that provides aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.

Regardless of your opinions on TikTok, this type of thing is incredibly frustrating and routine practice in American politics. Can't actually get support for the legislation you want? Just add it on to some other completely unrelated piece of legislation that is more popular.
It really isn't that bad either, though.

The key part is that after I spent a couple of days getting the servers stood up, my tech illiterate husband can just go to this website, search for a movie, and it pops up in his jellyfin app after an hour or so.

I have a fairly complex system. I have a VM that tunnels traffic between my local network and my VPN. A second VM hosts all my radarr and torrent servers, which only has network access through the router VM. Files get stored on a shared zvol and jellyfin just automatically detects the new files.

The hardest part was the VPN routing. Setting up all the servarrs is basically plug and play. You run the installer script and then copy a key into all the instances you want talking to each other. It really couldn't get much simpler.
The Chinese equivalent is DouYin, douyin.com
Yeah - interpreting this as a "People can't use tiktok anymore" bill is wrong. It's a "Bytedance can't own tiktok" bill.
They passed a law that allows the executive to ban companies with little to no evidence, I doubt that the US government will forget about this power
Wouldn't any of these devices be better paired with some sort of app-connection to a phone? A standalone Rabbit device just seems to be under-powered and certainly improvable and capable of more by being connected to a phone with more resources...

Why would I want a Rabbit if I could get a Rabbit that also connects to my mobile computing device that is engineered for performance?
You're right. I changed it. Thanks!
What would give you the impression that the government cannot ban a business?
I hope they improve their website so it won’t even need an app. And make it easier for external apps to upload content to the platform.
Controversial, but right move by US.
It looks like they are describing a preconditioner there.
The model seems to be "build something fast, get users, engagement, and venture capital, hope you can grow fast enough to still be around after the Great AI cull".

> offers over 0.6 million different pretrained open models.

One estimate I saw was that training GPT3 released 500 tons of CO2 back in 2020. Out of those 600k models, at least hundreds are of a comparable complexity. I can only hope building large models does not become analogous to cryptocoin speculation, where resources are forever burned only in a quest to attract the greater fool.

Those startups and researchers would better invest in smarter algorithms and approaches instead of trying to outpolute OpenAI, Meta and Microsoft.
If by glossed over you mean put in quotes in the title and made clear in the first sentence of the article.
Got any resources you’d recommend for learning to use llms in the way you describe?
I took a day off of work yesterday to try this AMA idea out, and I'm thinking it turned out pretty well all in all. It was definitely a one-time experiment, though, not something I'll do again.

Something just occurred to me from a review of recent HN item titles: maybe what I _will_ try sometime is a "Show HN" post, for some shiny new Life discovery that seems particularly interesting.
> Knowing the shorthand and actually writing it are different things

CSS shorthand meaning:

margin: 0 0 1rem;

which is the same as:

margin-top: 0;
margin-right: 0;
margin-bottom: 1rem;
margin-left: 0;

etc.

I can't imagine how you would know the shorthand without first knowing the longer form. CSS shorthand requires that you know the original form + the order of values in shorthand, and when values can be omitted along with special formatting as in:

font: normal normal 1em/1.6em sans-serif;

CSS shorthand is - I would say - more advanced than long form.

> I'm going to ask the designer what units to use

I would never get in the habit of letting a designer tell the front-end developers how to write CSS, mainly because they work in pixels, when the developer is often using viewport units, rem for sizing, em for fonts and icons relative to an initial size and current user zoom factor, and flex gaps and alignment for spacing. That level of collaboration and specification on spacing, sizes, etc. between the developer and designer (redlining) might be part of an initial design system discussion, but the resulting component library is probably translated into a style system that works well for the engineering team.

I think it's good you're using CSS generators, I learned most of CSS that way via Dreamweaver, and have copy/pasted from CSS Tricks countless times for edge case stuff - it's a great way to learn.
I agree about the opaqueness likely being the root motivating factor regardless of idealogical bent.

I'm not sold on modularity - the EU seems to be effectively dealing with malicious compliance. Even the details of repairability are tricky enough because you're internalizing an externality but it can be debated that if the externality is a better tradeoff for society which benefits from a faster pace of innovation because the companies don't have to support those products forever (support costs for older products are very real in engineering & supply chain orgs). Think about how very different phones today are from the 1st gen. That being said, now that things have stabilized, maybe forcing phones to standardize a bit would be OK provided manufacturers are still allowed to innovate (e.g. such requirements wouldn't be relevant to VR which hasn't reached an innovation plateau like phones and laptops have).
If it’s based on asymmetric encryption, (e.g. RSA, DH etc) and the private key did not leak, then no.
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No, in the house they voted on this bill by itself and it passed overwhelmingly - 360 to 58
This is forcing the US government to show their true colors.
Yeah, I loved it personally. XNA lives on as MonoGame, but it never felt quite the same to me.
You misread OP. With all spies they should have found some evidence of CCP trying to influence.
DGX cloud is nvidia's cloud offering (you can think of it like a snowflake/databricks in that it runs on top of other clouds), with allegedly the reference design architectures vs someone just slapping some H100s in a server rack.
This little blurb is not the actual law, so it's not worth considering what it means. You'll have to read the text of the law with a lawyer to see how clear it is. Even if the letter of the law leaves a little room for interpretation, think about what you would be trying to prove because I think the courts will agree that the spirit of the law is clear.
From what I understand it’s not just about spying. The Chinese Communist Party knows how harmful and addictive the algorithm is that the Chinese version of the app focuses on showing higher quality content (quality as judged by them).

So if they know it’s harmful, they have an interest on showing low quality content to the western audience and possibly psychologically and intellectually affect an entire generation.
Didn't Democrats kick against it when Trump made the same move?
It is both cost efficient in training (+ future fine-tuning) as well as inference compared to most other current models.

Can you elaborate?
Yeah, I think you're correct.

...but seriously: The Chinese state pretends that Wikipedia is banned in China. Does anybody seriously think that Chinese people don't use Wikipedia, like every day?

Routing around a ban of this nature is so utterly trivial, and the primary audience of TikTok is strongly integrative of demographics which are digital natives accustomed to subverting such bans (heck, they got almost universal training in this area by having to jailbreak their school-issued tablets).
Funny to think of all those scenes in TV and movies when someone would magically "enhance" a low-resolution image to be crystal clear. At the time, nerds scoffed, but now we know they were simply using an AI to super-scale it. In retrospect, how many fictional villains were condemned on the basis of hallucinated evidence? :-D
> I'd love to have managed 2.5Gb switches with 10Gb uplinks in my house using a custom linux OS that I can use standard config management tools with

Me too. I have been eyeballing "SparX-5" based switches, which do run Linux ("SMBStaX"), but you'd need something like million bucks to get anywhere :( Could be candidate for a Kickstarter style project maybe...
> That being said, Google search is 100% dead. I append “reddit” to every Google query to get actual results from people, and I don’t see it on Reddit, I give up on my query.

I just want to point out that there are other search engines out there. I use search.brave.com and like it far better than google.
Please cite a well written study to back up your claim that is not an opinion piece or some state sanctioned message, from any country.
The self consistent actions could just be "tit for tat" responses to the behavior of others. Does China allow free reign of American companies within its borders? No? Then China doesn't get that right either.

Regardless, TikTok isn't going away, it is just changing owners. How does that have any effect on freedom of the press?
It was a series of bills
Biden signs bill into law giving $60 billion to ukraine and $26 billion to israel.

Isn't that what the bill actually does. The tiktok part is just legal distraction as it punts the tiktok issue to the next administration.
However big it may be, it still hallucinates very, very badly.

I just asked it an economics question and asked it to cite its sources.

All the links provided as sources were complete BS.

Color me unimpressed.
History demonstrates that what's good for porn is generally good for society.
If that’s the argument then you need to regulate social media as a whole. Instead this is specifically geopolitical intrigue rather than any care about the mental health of the American people.

Microsoft/Meta/A conglomerate of record labels(?) will buy TikTok and it’ll continue to exist just as it does today.
Oh yeah, IE 6 did not support display:table. This was the age of hacks. Microsoft basically managed to block any progress on web standards for half a decade.

I’m not sure why you’d blame this on W3C though. IE stasis froze any standard including ECMAScript. It was Microsofts attempt to halt the progress of the web because they considered it a threat to their desktop dominance. Luckily it didn’t work.
>pretty much all social media platforms are banned in China, why should China have free reign in the western world?

This is so out of touch that its hard to comprehend. Is it maybe because the supposedly fee people should have the freedom to choose what to use? Unlike you know, the Chinese or North Koreans? Fuck Chinese government, its not something that the "free" world implements. Stop copying the Chinese government.

Is "freedom" only about businesses in the USA? What happen people's freedoms?
You won't have to, but if an actual ban went through, and an iPhone is your only means of connection, you would be truly SOL, because Apple's captured ecosystem only allows users to run what Apple will permit.

We need open ecosystems and access to full root-level control of our devices by default. Accept no substitutes.
Maybe I just value not being bullied over being rich.
As I understand the bill is solely focused with the national security implications of ByteDance being China-based, and not the social impacts of short form video platforms on mental health, attention span, etc. Good news for Instagram Reels.

I also wonder if this goes through, does this set a precedent for enforcing similar divestment expectations for any companies operating in China. Is this isolated to social media platform, or could this also eventually extend in to other industries like manufacturing?
What if they don't want to change owners? Why should a global company from Singapore do what US politicians want?
Sure, raise that to the original commenter.
I get why they did it, but it's disappointing to have congress decide what software we're allowed to use. I wonder if China or other countries will do the same for US apps now.
But assumes that american companies having that power is not. That's the red scare part.
Most of the problems I complain about are not related to SEO spam but to Google including sites that does not contain my search terms anywhere despite my use of doublequotes and the verbatim operator.

As for SEO spam a huge chunk of it would have disappeared I think if Google had created the much requested personal blacklist that we used to ask them for.

It was always "actually much harder than anyone of you who don't work here can imagine for reasons we cannot tell or you cannot understand" or something like that problem, but bootstraped Kagi managed to do it - and their results are so much better that I don't usually need it.
Now let's get Facebook/Instagram and Twitter banned from EU/Asia since they are owned by US companies
> does this mean if I host the .apk or whatever on my personal website I would be breaking the law

Yes, provided you are doing it in a way "through which users within the land or maritime borders of the United States may access, maintain, or update such application" [1]. (It would be perfectly legal to go to TikTok.com, however.)

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521... § 2(a)(1)(A)
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Iphone users are out of luck.
What exactly is their intention?
Part of climate change is that the Earth’s albedo is heading in the opposite direction — as the ice caps melt, less light gets reflected into space, more gets absorbed.

It feels like you’d need to lighten the Earth’s surface a lot just to counter that effect, let alone mitigate warming from other causes.

On a local level, this can work well to keep a town/city cooler. I’d plant greenery as well rather than just paint roads white though.
Uh, so IANAL, but I know enough lawyers to know that asking that question here will lead a judge and/or jury to some very adverse conclusions if it ever turns out your friend isn’t entirely correct on the validity of those DMCA claims.
Not exactly. Galois employees are beneficiaries of the ESOP trust that owns the shares, rather than direct owners as in a prototypical cooperative.
What are you saying? That until you can spin up your own Instagram on AWS using Meta source code that they're not open-source friendly?
So, press F for Bidens re-election campaign I guess?

Watch every republican and jump on this (even though they support it).
> I wonder if China or other countries will do the same for US apps now.

Is this sarcastic ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...
> The Chinese Communist Party knows how harmful and addictive the algorithm that the Chinese version of the app focuses on showing higher quality content

This is pure conspiracy theory. You think the nation that produces and loves Grand Theft Auto needs a relatively puritan foreign country, where certain depictions of death are restricted in media, weed and porn are totally illegal, to push such debauchery on the American people?
I'm not opposed. Granted my basis would be that China effectively bans such social media apps from the outside ... I'm ok with doing the same for them.
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This is really great, thanks so much for your work you all. This kind of actions is what the world most need at the time.
It's American (and any other country's) data about stupid little videos. Who cares? The case for harm has not been made.
I use Blender for CAD. It's not designed for that, but I've developed a particular workflow that fits my needs quite well. I use it to design everything from small parts to buildings. I've used FreeCAD, but it's just too time-consuming.
"I can't see much" - that's the demand
How much memory would inference take on this type of model? What's the impact of it being an MoE architecture?
What improvements should Americans expect to see in the next 6-12 months?
I'd use a flash drive if I didn't also need nav and my wife didn't have online music. So what I've got is a cupholder.
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They should all be equivalent by the end of the year, Qualcomm is launching this fall, Intel has plans, but we know about how well they deliver.
How can they do that without upsetting the record labels?

They get a free pass to use licensed music because it’s a huge marketing channel for the labels. Lose America and that goes away.
I am sure that they would have found a way to also align a closed approach with their business goals if they wanted to.

However, they chose not to. And I assume the the history of e.g. android, pytorch and other open source technologies had a lot to do with it.
Honestly might benefit the US if TikTok gets shut down. Short form content is an endemic attention parasite.
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I use Zoho too for one of my side companies. It works really well for really cheap. I haven't tried their bookkeeping project but maybe I will next year. Currently use Wave for that.

Tbh the fact that it's a one stop shop really helps. Everything covered by their suite. I also thought it would be junk but it's not. It's pretty good!
I put the TD link in there but here is the link to the Applyboard announcement:

https://www.applyboard.com/services/td-student-gic-program
If you want to have a conversation with it, here's a full chat app: https://arctic.streamlit.app/

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

Weights: https://huggingface.co/Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-instruct
it performs worst than 8b llama 3 so you probably don't need that much.
What’s the problem? This is what it says on their repo home page.

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Besides the "unrelated legislation" thing, this is just such blatant corporate welfare for the American BigCo's that will buy Tiktok. Microsoft and Google are absolutely salivating at the thought of buying their way into a major social network in 2024, and not only will the Feds not go after them for antitrust, they'll actually greenlight it in advance and mandate the sale.
Big tech lobbying money well spent!