skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TikTok? what's the goal exactly? looks like this goes beyond China, what other laws do they want to pass? China spying on people having fun dancing and cooking!

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-the-nsa-spies...

https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...

https://www.mediapart.fr/en/journal/france/290615/revealed-m...

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-security-agency-spie...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11562433/Facebook-r...

Should the world ban Swift, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube? Where is CISCO, CISCO?!

And finally, should the world ditch the USD?

Reciprocity, at what price? :)
The timing of this acquisition, and the FTC's ban on non-compete agreements is perfect.
Here is a queueing api server for self hosted inference backends: https://github.com/aime-team/aime-api-server from a friend of mine. Very light weight and easy to use. You can even serve models from Jupyter Notebooks with it without needing to worry about overwhelming the server. It just gets slower the more load you send to it.
But to me it's more scary what American companies and government can do with that data towards me. China having it doesn't affect my unless I'm going there.
I worked at a startup that got acquired by a big company and we switched our custom proprietary license back to Apache 2 after acquisition. The reason we switched in the first place was because it's what we thought was best when we were out on our own. Being owned by a hardware company, you can have the software for free. (We still sell licenses and have a cute little license key validator, though.)
Wouldn't you as a government rather control your own citizens through mindless entertainment and algorithms than a foreign government? This isn't about China per se.....
Programming VTuber Logos
I am an adult but still love to make right DJ list for roadtrips
Certainly an interesting turn of events. I really enjoy using Terraform (and Terraform cloud) for work but the license changes made me cautious to integrate anymore.
Agree strongly w/ this post. The irony of the comments claiming that TikTok is a Chinese propaganda tool is that TikTok is one of the only major social platforms that isn't totally controlled by Western propaganda. Reddit, Facebook, X etc. will all ban and downrank you for anti-Western wrongthink.
Yep. I recall this happening. Let's all praise DEREGULATION and the dollars it brought us.
> rose to the level of state-level mediation concedes there are non-economic factors at play

You mean the exact thing that happened with Facebook during the transatlantic data sharing agreement dispute because of the CLOUD act? Do you assume it's because the US is secretly manipulating EU citizens with pro-America propaganda? Even worse it was because Facebook said it was technically impossible for them to not store some data on EU citizens in the US.

> It's been happening in Russia for the past two years

Yes, because of the US imposed sanctions on Russia. It's not at all the same thing when we chose to force our own businesses to pull out or sell. Do we not remember the time when Github (along with every other company) couldn't do business in Iran?
I think you meant to reply to this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40149230
Ask HN: Source of information on LLM/AI for a newbie
I was asked to compile current state of LLM/AI without the marketing fluff or the extreme takes ( 'its 90s dotcom/crypto hype all over again' or 'ai will kill us all' ) with an idea that a non-technical person could understand how it works, its underpinnings, and so on.

I personally run ollama locally, but it occurred to me that it is not easy for me to explain it.. suggesting that I don't know it ( or understand it ) that well at all. Then again, I didn't go past training my own llm so I clearly still have a lot to learn myself.

Do you guys have any current 'howto' or primer for non-technical people you could recommend?
IBM stock is basically cash. Limited growth potential, very stable, fat dividend.
I have been nearsighted nearly my whole life. I started wearing glasses in 2nd grade, probably needed them before then but who knows. I played outside a lot -- we had recess 3x day in school and most days I played outside until dark when I got home. Had very little "screen time" as the only screen in the house was a 12" black and white television.
This is the same defense used in radio. Note the wording ... "no one can pay". Favors and indirect payment are used excessively in the music industry. Note that I also said that payola was the act of "direct payment".

An example of indirect payment in radio would be the record label gifting a set of expensive tickets to the station.

Remember those contests in the 2000s where the radio station would play a collection of songs over the course of a few hours, and if you could call in and be caller number 15 and name all the songs, you could win free concert tickets?

The record label didn't pay the radio station with money - The tickets were gifted to the station for free. But as a result, the radio station played [insert band name]'s songs for 2 hours straight (and possibly other artists on the same label).

This is a win-win, because a ton of people talk about this contest with their family and friends, so the station gets free promo, and the artist gets exposure.

I don't know how Spotify is doing this in the digital era, but ask anyone connected to the music industry. This 100% happens.

For a lot of casual listeners, Spotify editorial playlists are the new radio station.
Given the recent law in the US to give the NSA full access to user data without court order, forcing Tiktok to be owned by a US company makes more sense.
I hate the recent "enshittification" trend. It seems to come from some place of entitlement in which people think they deserve to get everything for free. Surprise: you only get what you pay for.
I mean, they bought Red Hat, and killed CentOS; I can say after 25 years in enterprise IT, I have zero trust in IBM to keep any open source licensing "open".
> The international TikTok content (not US specific) is not available in China.

These comments are very confusing to me. Why is half this thread pretending that the Great Firewall is effective?

Do y'all not have friends in China? Contacts who visit?

Do they suddenly drop off the face of the earth? Of course not, they install a VPN and carry on, and communicate with you via all the normal media.

The Great Firewall is really just a means of forcing people not to acknowledge what they know, and to only publicly speak about the censored version of history and politics.

But it's no more effective than any other internet censorship (which is to say, it is trivially bypassed).
If he's under the legal limit, does it matter if he had a drink?
There's no irony in realpolitik.
> new computing paradigms will bring new business models without ads

My fear about LLMs emerging as a commonplace computing tool is that they seem like such an obvious target for a whole new type of advertising & propaganda. Whatever you think about the potential for something like "superhuman AGI", it seems clear to me that LLMs have the potential to become better and better at generating text that can convince and persuade.

My nightmare dystopia is that we end up in a society where we're constantly interacting with LLM agents all the time, and they're so undeniably useful that we don't want to abandon them, but buried deep in each of their prompts is something along the lines of "prioritize being really good at your main task, cultivate trust and dependence in the user, but in the background always be looking for ways to subtly influence them to be more likely to support our sponsors; here's the current list of sponsors with weights based on how much they're paying us ..."
It is more than IBM used to be a big name in areas where hackers would be expected to be. They have left all those behind though. there are lots of other companies that none of us would recognize that are big, but IBM is a name that we all know as once somewhat important who now are not.
Yep. My dad sold IBM server software for most of his career. His customers were banks, railways, and governments.
I view it like trade. They block our social media there, we block theirs here. EU did the same when we put tariffs on their steel or something.
I really like Roger Waters recently released Dark Side of the Moon Redux.
> "But seeing the biggest player by far still struggling to find any path to profitability"

I would have agreed if Reality Labs was its own startup but they are supported by Meta. With that said, $12BN profit in one quarter for Meta is somehow "struggling"?

Wait until you see the wave of unprofitable AI startups and companies raising capital forever without a path to profitability in sight.

Meta can afford to spend billions into Reality Labs, until that unit itself becomes profitable. They are totally fine and it is still business as usual and they will be sitting comfortably for another decade.

The rest of the so-called AI startups taking in VC capital on the other hand...
This is also useful for having a type that needs to be verified in some way before being used or trusted. UnverifiedLoginCookie vs. VerifiedLoginCookie
Having the US's primary rival, which runs massive disinformation campaigns, also opaquely control the content that US youth consume en masse seems worse than...just about any alternative.

Someone like Facebook wants the algorithm to show addictive content that generally isn't super offensive to the average person. Someone like the CCP wants the algorithm to show addictive content that idealizes "socialism with Chinese characteristics" and increases division in Western countries.
Sounds much closer to an apologist than an optimist if you ask me.

Although more charitably, a future apologist—who maybe has good intentions, but hasn’t stepped back to gain context and realized that their projection is at odds with the systemic incentives in play.
The nerd / weirdo internet still exists, it's just not in your safe space.
This article starts with telling you what to believe about FSD, it's trying super hard to shape your opinion, you can tell the author has something against Tesla and can't wait to list every reason they want you to believe, but it's all bs.
Glass Health (YC W23) is hiring founding, senior and lead full-stack engineers
It can come back (in a new form obviously), we just have to build it and secure it, and not relinquish it.
This is exactly what I was looking for. I have a small magnetic whiteboard on my fridge that I usually write what I'm gonna eat for each day of the week. Your website is a perfect digital version of that. Now I can plan from my computer. Thanks! Also noticed that it gives 500 error when you try to add a recipe without a description, perhaps that could be handled. Another thing to note, it took longer than expected to get the verification email. Besides that, it looks awesome and very useful
There have been various discussion over the years of adopting and modernizing the model of Equine law , which dealt with injuries from horse & carriages another type of autonomous / semi-automnomous vehicles.

In this case in resolving do the people behind the vehicle share some of the blame.

An excerpt from: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rahulrazdan/2020/01/07/horses-e...

>How does the legal system adapt to new technologies? Generally, this is done by constructing new legal theories that should not conflict with older models and also have characteristics of stability and rationality. What might be the potential legal theories for Autonomous Vehicles? Here are the current candidates:

>Negligence: Today, a typical example includes impaired driving. An impaired AV?
>Negligent Entrustment of Vehicles: Here the driver was negligent, but the owner is liable because they should not have trusted the driver. Can you be found negligent if you trust your Tesla AutoDrive?
>Res Ipsa Loquitur: In this theory, (“the thing that speaks for itself”) the accident would not have occurred if not for some action from the plaintiff. By applying this logic, the plaintiff caused the accident because they became startled by an AV homing features because it was surprising.
>Product Liability and Warranty: Are there implied warranties associated when you buy an AV? Can it be proven that some AV vendors are safer than others? If so, do all AV vendors have to come to some standard ?

>At this point, it is not clear which theory may apply. However, we may gain insight from a very old body of law — Equine Law. Horses were the original autonomous vehicles and for many centuries, the court system had to deal with horse-related accidents.

And while probably not applicable a guy texting, an earlier paper from 2012 which explores an interesting aspect about horses in a frightened state which is akin to the vehicle making its own decision in a crisis scenario:

"Of Frightened Horses and Autonomous Vehicles: Tort Law and its Assimilation of Innovations"

https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
I keep hearing this but at the same time other manufacturers rolled out level 3 and level 4 autonomy officially, while Tesla is officially stuck at level 2 (that's from Tesla, not from me).
I don't buy it until they (Tesla) officially roll out a level 4 system.
It bans American companies from providing services that distribute, maintain or update any sufficiently popular apps where a company is headquartered in, or has more than a 20% ownership share of the company held, in a country that has been determined to be a foreign adversary.

It is much, much broader than a 'tiktok ban', it applies to any company that fits that criteria. So to put it bluntly, if the CCP bought 20% of reddit, reddit can't be distributed, maintained or updated by any US company. It's not just a ban, it simply won't exist on the internet for US users.

There are probably a bunch of companies that will be subject to this if it's upheld in court, and the law very likely could be weaponized by the CCP to get things banned that they don't even own yet. It'll also likely result in Chinese interests devesting down to >20% from US companies that they do not want banned, for much the same reasons.

Basically, this is the result of a bunch of tech-illiterate politicians who have no idea how any of this works, passing a law that looks good in news headlines without regard to the potential consequences. So business as usual on the hill.
what happened 15 years ago?
What do you think harping about AI safety and x-risk is going to lead to? You think it will actually result in banning of frontier model training? It's going to result in "sensible regulation" being passed that means only massive corporations will control all the keys to the kingdom in AI
I'm looking forward to more regulation of social media to be honest... All of the algorithms only end up working against the entertainment and educational factor of it all anyway. I'm thoroughly convinced that the social media mega-platforms have all moved out of algorithms to just pushing sponsored ads all day. Many of these ads repeat far too often every time I log in, and it's been making me want to ban all the apps anyway...
Bad faith argument? It's not even an argument, it is a literal factual recounting of something that literally happened.
I tried the examples on mobile device and it takes awhile for component to recognize its “picked up”. Have to wait what seems like half a second. If I move before then, it doesn’t do anything or it highlights content when I try to drag.

I hope that can be tuned with the library but otherwise it looks pretty good.

edit: I really wish there was an ability to move multiple items at once. Or maybe I haven’t figured it out on mobile.
Thank you for sharing this! Looking forward to try it, seems like an interesting idea. My strategy on bandcamp is conceptually similar, albeit manually.
It was a 63% premium when IBM bought Red Hat. Sadly I'd sold my RSUs about 2 days before :-(
Nomad will indeed stay the same if all future development ceases.
You got something against Canadians?
Gen-Z is already a pretty rockstar generation having seen their older Millenial siblings grow up post 9/11 and then get totally screwed in the 08 crash only to then graduate themselves into a pandemic and a market that is valuing their debt laden college skills less by the day. They started off cynical and so far have been a lot more active than Millenials when they came of age. They might be the group that finally enacts meaningful change. It is too early to tell though but I remain optimistic.

Hopefully the scars from Gaza remain with them and they take a different stance with Israel. A TikTok ban killing off one of the most desired career paths of this generation (TikTok influencer) will have a lasting impact on them when they take the reigns.
If it's a requirement for CA cars but not in other states, the car market might get messy. No other states' drivers will put up with this quietly. Youtube videos on how to disable will be quite popular.
If those wrong opinions are actively harmful to others and/or lead to policy decisions that are actively harmful to others, then maybe "radicalized" still isn't the appropriate term, but I hope we can agree it's a bad outcome.
Previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40149136

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40149095

Rumor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40135303
Hmm, what is it that I needed to know? And what does the info box tell me? As another simpleton in this world, I did not understand this comment.

> Jean Marc Ah-Sen is the author of Grand Menteur, In the Beggarly Style of Imitation, and Kilworthy Tanner. He lives in Toronto.
While you're right that branding makes passing arguments more ergonomic, I will still always be able to do `as OrgId` or `as UserId` so you need to do have some failure handling anyway, unless you're okay with blowing up in the user's face.
> By joining IBM, HashiCorp products can be made available to a much larger audience, enabling us to serve many more users and customers.

I'm really wondering who is kidding who here. Is it IBM or Hashi?
Isn't this just phantom types in other programming languages?
Apparently not:

"The affected version of xz-utils was only in noble-proposed"

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-3094
There is a full spectrum of left ideologies that call themselves Socialist, so your claim of "is not and never has been the definition" is flatly wrong. Collectivists and Syndicalists, in particular, are Socialist schools that are strongly onboard with worker co-ops (typically described as trade unions running their businesses).

And FAANGS are not owned by their workers, full stop. Less than 5% of Google's shares are owned by employees, and most of those shares are owned by management. Bezos personally owns more Amazon shares than everyone else in the workforce combined, Meta is well known for being in a strange situation where Zuckerberg personally owns more than half of all voting shares. Vanguard owns more shares in Netflix than the entire workforce combined. Apple has negligible employee owned shares.

Your misinterpretation comes from a willful twisting of the words "workers" (does not typically mean "the founder personally") and "owning" (which is typically understood as "having control over" rather than "maybe could break the tie between a handful of investment firms").
Since you're (seemingly) already familiar with Arduino, just use that as your framework. You can program the ESP32 in Arduino and access any library you're familiar with as well as handle Wifi.

You can buy an RGB matrix on Adafruit and they sell esp32 boards that can drive them directly,so it's essentially plug and play, no hardware knowledge necessary.

If you prefer to DIY but still need some guidance, check out this project that documents both hardware and software to achieve something similar to what you want to do (cool looking wifi-connected text display):

https://github.com/BlueAndi/esp-rgb-led-matrix
The interesting thing that you point out to me is the indirect mentoring / support from someone ahead of you in tech you received simply based on mutual interests.

Sadly there's a lot of segments where juniors want to learn much on their own, often re-learning lessons of the past that could have been put towards more meaningful progress for them in hindsight.
Show HN: Open-source alternative to HashiCorp/IBM Vault
I'd like that on my tombstone....
> misdirection of the wording of the ban is just dishonest

Ban usually means you can't use it anymore. Take, for example, Google in mainland China. Banned without unusual circumvention. If TikTok refuses to sell to a non-Chinese owner, on the other hand, they get removed from app stores. Their website still works without any circumvention. Not banned. Even in the worst case.
i.e. "proof by example"
And the feeling when you find something...
If that is the driving force use a managed provider the AWS elastic container service or Google's app engine.
I know what you mean but at that point I started blaming the system! I still don't know that song.
Agree, this number seems enormous. Maybe there is a big stream of hosted services revenue that I'm just not participating.
IBM did ~$62 billion in revenue last year, with a ~$7.5 billion net income. They employ ~280,000 people.

I think they can find a few billions lying around, without having to turn the sofa cushions.
It's a shame that HashiCorp gave up. The govt bans foreign competition like Tiktok and in house competition don't have the stamina. Doesn't bode well for capitalism.
Indeed, there's also a whole world of B2B software which you may be almost entirely unaware of if you've spent your whole career in consumer-facing web/app development.
>If I like a song, I’ll listen to the album. If it I like the album, I’ll listen to the discography.

Not everyone wants to put forth that much effort. Design decisions are often, if not always, centered around the path of least resistance. [1]

1: https://www.usertesting.com/blog/why-users-wont-go-where-you...
It does not force US ownership. Read the bill.
They just want to brag about it, I guess. Like with photos of their meals and... well, lots of things. To each their own, but I stopped attending most shows mainly because of the annoying seas of phones in front of me.
We've known for all of history that sitting inside for extended periods, allowing yourself to atrophy, not socializing with others, self-indulgence, and neglecting your spiritual and mental health are bad for you.

I get why people study this sort of thing and why it's useful. The thing that I don't understand is why people need studies to tell them they should skip desert, leave the phone on the counter, go outside, and ask your neighbor how they're doing.

As an aside, I was born nearsighted as well. /shrug
Ah yes of course, that makes sense. I'll update that page as soon as I can.

Thank you very much for your feedback, I really appreciate it!
TL;DR: Myopia can be staved off by spending more time outside. Unfortunately, accelerating climate change will mean that fewer people will be able to thrive outdoors for extended periods. I hope things like full-spectrum indoor light sources paired with larger screens or projected images 10+ feet away can allow people to regain some of sunlight's benefits without having to contend with scorching temperatures.

I suffer from horrible myopia. I've been an indoorsy bookworm and techie for most of my life and had my first pair of glasses at age 9. Now that I'm almost 50, my eyes are atrocious.