skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For example, how would they address it? Govt banning services of ByteDance Inc.? They will change their name. Services of company headquartered at 11 Example Street, ExampleTown, PRC? Change their headquarters. Services using given logo? Modify the logo. Services using given brand name? Change it slightly. IP address range? Domain name? And so on.

Internet service by one company is not trivial to address in a "ban". Unlike, for example, a chemical molecule. At least they have the experience in specifying and addressing that.
Ok, how do I download it and use it though???
The browser extension I created, and presumably many others, will see no benefit from this forced change. To the contrary, Manifest V3 will hinder the functionality of some extensions, including the widely used and beloved uBlock Origin[1].

Nevertheless, if I wish to keep my extension in the Chrome Web Store, and keep it working in Chrome browsers, I am required to bend to Google's demands and spend a considerable chunk of my time to perform this unnecessary update. And it must be done NOW!, with an artificial sense of urgency. Time is precious, and I'd really rather not donate mine to a multibillion dollar advertising corporation. Google is the primary beneficiary of Manifest V3. They are demonstrating why they abandoned their "Don't be evil" mantra[2].

My browser extension doesn't make money. I made it purely to improve my own browsing experience, and shared it for free with others. It's working fine on Manifest V2, and has done so for years. I have no desire to learn Google's crappy new implementation.

[1] https://www.androidauthority.com/google-chrome-manifest-v3-c...

[2] https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-do...
There are a lot of things China does which limits US reach within their country that the US, as a more free society, would not be a good fit for the US.

This seems to me to be one of things we probably should not have done.
Yes. Hosting it for personal use would not be a crime, but distributing it would be. Additionally, even if people were to get it from you without you getting in trouble, they would all have to use a VPN to even begin to see anything, which is past the capabilities of most of the populace currently, which would make hosting it and distributing it via sneakerware basically useless.
A comment mocking a willingness to promote monopolization and the feigning of free, fair, open markets has no bearing?
Discussion:[0] (155 points, 22 hours ago, 166 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40135303
> Queueing in front of ML models is important

This sounds so clean! A super fast NoSQL to hold incoming requests.

Could even throttle your free users and prioritize the paying customers.

Btw, is the project online now?
This was an amendment that was individually voted on
> if an actual ban went through, and an iPhone is your only means of connection, you would be truly SOL

No, you'd just go to the website.
Freedom of speech is right for an American citizen not a foreign country or entity.

Regardless free speech for Americans is already dead. Remember when they took away rights from groups you didn't care about? Now it's your turn.
In all those countries, average salary for JP Morgan employees is significantly higher (especially if you include expats). Also I think you are significantly off with Nigeria avg salary - no way it's so high in such a poor country.
And yet....

You're not happy, because you're here complaining about it. So perhaps it isn't as superior as you want to believe? QED.

(As someone who does the same sometimes, like apparently right now. Sorry.)
I don't know if it's the lack of content or what, but doing the same searches on Instagram usually return garbage. And their algo refuses to understand that I want to see music/books/movies reels instead of girls dancing almost naked.
> should hope we hold ourselves to a higher bar than China

We do. TikTok.com won't be blocked here the way Facebook and Google are in China.
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Well, you probably voted in a congressman who voted in favour of this... And while there is a vocal segment of a population who might oppose it, there also plenty of comments in this very thread who support it. How do you know this isn't an enactment of the popular will here?
All the analysts I've seen discussing this have stated that "China is highly unlikely to allow this", so it is being treated as effectively a ban.
I've seen articles saying that it would be hard to find any large enough investors to buy it who also don't cause a monopoly. Can ByteDance spin off TikTok to a separate company which would have an IPO and go public and in the process no longer have Chinese owners?
Is there more of that type of content? Or is it pushed up by the tiktok algorithm more than other social media? I don't think this is the case, but you are not in a position to state that categorically.
This discussions on house size and housing shortage in a country so big is indicative of a bad labour market and declining quality of life.

The economy is in shambles if homes can’t be built for different income groups. The villain here is the govt that eats up the taxes and imposes more and doesn’t provide basic quality of life. Wealth redistribution is not the solution. Wealth management is the answer. America fails miserably.

Basically..if a country as large as America is wanting dense housing and smaller homes, it means it’s becoming poorer.

For the rest of world..who are resource constrained or resource poor or economically weak…America is laughing stock.

It’s like the world’s richest person has a poverty fetish to fit in.

The only true wealth in this world is land. And the govt has made if so none can truly own it. And there you have it.

The gaslighting is real. Land owning farmers are the richest people in the world. By offering them subsidies, they have become debtors. Land rich and cash poor. The ultimate goal is land grab by institutional investors until very few elite will own all the land…and its resources.
How we manage individual user concurrencies with Nginx and Lua
Yeah that’s the annual emissions for only 100 people at the global average or about 30 Americans.
I am so down with OPP
Guitar Hero ("On Tour" ) for the DS added additional controler buttons to allow you to hold it like a guitar Hero guitar and use their buttons in the game. Was a really cool approach.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar_Hero:_On_Tour#Gamepla...

Edit: a better picture of it in action, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Guitar-hero-on-tour-ds-...
> so we are just... okay with that?

We don't write and pass the laws, and what we're "okay with" doesn't really matter to the decision-makers. Hopefully though, the passage of this bill will catalyze a more widespread discussion about the hypocrisy of the US Government. They can at least be clear about the motivation: "Only _our_ state surveillance apparatus should have such direct access to this psychic imprint of the American people."

What I'm curious about is whether the new ownership will be sufficiently savvy to sniff out any automated data sharing.
> My comment was in response to someone who was an order of magnitude off on price and time.

I agreed with you there. That commenter exaggerated the costs. My response was directed to the 'first class' portion of your comment.

> And the pandemic has made some things onboard worse.

My trip was many years ago. Before the pandemic. I personally don't think the 'first class' amtrak experience is worth the money unless amtrak upgrades everything about the experience.
Anyone who is legally knowledgeable know how this works? The text says "It shall be unlawful for an entity to distribute..a foreign adversary controlled application by carrying out..internet hosting services to enable the distribution", and it specifices that this includes source code. But https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States specified that the publication of source code was protected by the first amendment, so the government would need a compelling reason to prevent that publication. Is there a conflict here? Is preventing the publication of an apk likely to withstand court scrutiny?

EDIT: My best guess currently is that the government is claiming there is a compelling state interest, that of national security, and that is why they should be allowed to ban the publication of this app and it's code. And even if it were to go to the court the courts don't like telling the government was is and isn't national security related, so they would probably just ok this.
Analyst here and not an active professional programmer outside of analytics.

Is there a way to specify a json schema like you do with xsd?
From Bytedance's point of view that's correct but the Chinese gov. would almost certainly interpret giving in to this as an incentive for Washington to ask "which sell off are we going to go for next". You'd effectively send the signal that this is a winning strategy to simply acquire Chinese firms by force. Beijing would almost certainly prevent that sale.
According to:
https://hsr.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Merced-to-Bake...

Between Sacramento and Merced, and LA and Bakersfield, there will be a "high speed rail bus service". For other parts there will be regional commuter train and bus services.

Then, eventually, it'll become:
https://hsr.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Business_Plan_...
Tiktok website is limited. You can't even change your display name.
This gov't must really make you feel safe then. I remember people saying Bush made them feel safe. That played out well. You know what makes me feel safe? Making my own decisions.
Princeton University study: Public opinion has “near-zero” impact on U.S. law.

https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba
Gee I wonder why that is.

Who owns the damn thing anyway?

Oh right. Communists.
Exactly. It's much easier for a company to pay your price tag than to justify giving you a donation.

And it's pretty obvious why -- a purchase is a transaction with a clear expectation of what you're getting in return. If you donate, it's unclear what you're paying for and what the maintainer's obligations are.

The notion that you'd make some useful open-source project used by multi-billion-dollar companies and they'll throw a few pennies your way to make sure you keep the project alive is hippie bullshit.

Unless it's truly a well-established and well-governed project with a diligent maintainer at the helm (e.g. Vue.js), the only way companies financially support open-source is by contributing work or hiring the maintainer.
this comment is either naive or in bad faith. I wonder how a moderately educated person can miss the difference between a propaganda machine operated by a geopolitical enemy and a for-profit company operating within the framework of national laws are different.

You can't miss that if you're even half smart or don't have an agenda.
llama3 narrowly beats arctic at SQL generation (80.2 vs 79.0) and Mixtral 8x22B scored 79.2.

You'd think SQL would be the one thing they'd be sure to smoke other models on.

0 - https://www.snowflake.com/blog/arctic-open-efficient-foundat...
To be cynical that sounds exactly like the "manipulation" they are most afraid of.
You have a weird definition of open source. OS software developers don't release the books they have read or the tools they've used to write code.

This is fully 100% OSI compliant source code with an approved license (Apache 2.0). You are not entitled to anything more than this.
As a US citizen I have recourse against action by US companies and the government through both courts and the electoral process. What recourse do I have against action by Chinese entities?
Just remember kids, TBL told us all that cool URIs don’t change!

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
Why target TikTok only? They should ban any Chinese social media app or network, and that should remain in effect until China agrees to open its domestic audience to Instagram, Google, Facebook, X, etc.
the important caveat here is the TN visa, which makes it reasonably easy for certain skilled fields to move across the border.

if you're in STEM there is easy a 40% difference in pay, and considerably more on the high end (FAANGM, or similar large Enterprise tier).

by limiting it to high-end, educated work, it also skews the market a lot -- high earners leave, low-to-mid market stagnates. Canada then has to import both high-end talent via immigration, but also low-end Temporary Foreign Workers to do crappy jobs like slinging coffee at Tim Hortons.
Thanks, I was wondering why it had so few stars!
The bill doesnt ban shortform content.
Why would they need to release the training data? that's nonsense.
This just proves that some principles (such as free speech) are only upheld conditionally when those in power feel they don't actually threaten their control.

Actions speak louder than words.
Sure you can install basically any EFI+amd64 distro you want, that also has the correct kernel module.

I don't really know why you would want do that (though, RHEL based would be a reasonable 2nd option)

Performance of the distro isnt really a big deal because the OS has so little to do with the day to day packet shuffling, My switch runs at a load average (crappy metric I know, but to give you a idea) of 0.04.

I apply updates with apt update and apt upgrade, as you would a normal Debian server. Only the kernel is pinned since it is special for the switch, however you can rebuild the kernel deb's when you want, as the driver is in the mainline kernel repo.
Flights from the Western USA to Hawaii are ~2 million tons a year, at least in 2017, wouldn’t be surprised if that number doubled.

500t to train a model at least seems like a more productive use of carbon than spending a few days on the beach. So I don’t think the carbon use of training models is that extreme.
I haven't been paying close attention, but I've seen a couple of commenters on HN mention their systems. Largely it seems to be a bunch of different services strung together with scripts and it's just too much manual effort. Mostly, local ML models aren't good enoguh yet and everyone farms out at least some of it to OpenAI.

As to cloud, never. This system would ideally contain every detail about my personal life, and frankly I think you'd be insane to trust google or OpenAI with that no matter how heavily you encrypt it. This is a whole new order of magnitude in personal, private data. I wouldn't trust anyone at all other than myself with this.

My server at home gets free solar power and free geothermal cooling. I have no reason at all to ever want to use someone else's computer. I have plenty.
DePIN: Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks (EV chargers, telecom etc)
Interesting, I have found ChatGPT struggles with CSS, and Tailwind. I tried this prompt for both ChatGPT and this;
"Make me a three column layout using Tailwind where the first and second column are fixed widths, and the center column will expand to take the remaining space, but will ellipse any text that overflows it."

You were able to deliver, ChatGPT was not.
they probably should and they already have. Everyone defends their interest to the extent they can, the only difference is the USA has more leverage.
The DIY scientist, the Olympian, and the mutated gene. (2023)
exactly. Nothing changes if TikTok is sold, and even if it ends up banned in the US, she would be zombified by Instagram or whatever else people flock to
This is one of many reasons why we need congressional term limits. Three terms in the House, two in the Senate, then go live under the laws you made.
tangential, but this reminds me of the "Somebody Else's Problem field" in the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy:

> An SEP is something we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem. That’s what SEP means. Somebody Else’s Problem. The brain just edits it out, it's like a blind spot.

> The Somebody Else's Problem field... relies on people's natural predisposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain. If Effrafax had painted the mountain pink and erected a cheap and simple Somebody Else’s Problem field on it, then people would have walked past the mountain, round it, even over it, and simply never have noticed that the thing was there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_else%27s_problem?wpro...
What would you say about President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania? His term in office was characterised by a peaceful transition from British colonialism to such a 'pure' form of socialism (including a full public ownership of all land and enterprise). This survived for three decades of almost completely peaceful, slow, and steady economic growth before the 90s, when it democratically voted itself into the capitalist state it is now. In fact, the only war Tanzania fought in that period was against Idi Amin's Uganda, which was widely regarded as a far more brutish and tragic country than Tanzania could ever have been accused of.
I see the feedback here is overwhelmingly negative.

My biggest problem is that it’s too narrowly targeted.

I have worked for several US businesses with global footprints and working with China (and some other countries) required whole or part ownership of the business by entities within that nation. So we partnered with businesses in China to set up and operate our infra, and had to manage everything through contracts.

Further, Chinese government officials would show up unannounced and plug shit into our networks, and required access to our encryption keys and accounts databases and employee & customer lists etc. We had to build independent systems just for China to prevent sharing information about non-China based customers and employees. Where we couldn’t do that, we had to build filtered replication “diodes” to prevent data leakage.

China and other countries do far worse to us than just requiring local ownership of businesses; and if they feel that is in their national interest, why can’t we return the favor when we feel it’s in our interest?
What would be interesting is a cap on followers. Would change the platform into being more social and less influencers driven.
Only in that it's a cultural artifact, like YouTube or Bollywood movies or anime. We don't ban those.
Google is banned in China and China is already taking steps to limit use of Apple hardware
I'm with you on the timeline/component stuff. I came from SolidWorks and SolidEdge and I still pine for a complete CAD package that is actually functional. Fusion360 is foreign to me and I doubt I'll ever be in a place where I could afford an annual SolidEdge subscription. Note, the community edition is free [0]. I may have to brush off my CAD skills and give it a go.

[0] https://resources.sw.siemens.com/en-US/download-solid-edge-c...
Does this count?

https://www.amazon.com/Unrestricted-Warfare-Chinese-Wang-Xia...

How does someone do data collection on how the Chinese government weaponizes a social media platform? That would almost certainly involve Tailored Access Operations (or whatever they are calling offensive cyber warfare these days), not only of questionable legality but definitely compromising the sort of Tactics/Techniques/Procedures you REALLY don't want made public.
Well, they're not completely unrelated. The TikTok issue and the defense spending issue are both framed as national security concerns.

But secondly, I don't actually mind this aspect of the US political process. It's part of compromise and negotiations which are indispensable in an environment where not everyone is on the same page about what's important.
Funny list. I'm curious why something like swiggy.com, a food ordering and delivery platform is there. Do they even operate in china?
It's worse at SQL generation than llama3 according to their own post.

https://www.snowflake.com/blog/arctic-open-efficient-foundat...
And that wasn't expected to happen in the Senate. Also that is the vote total for this bill, not the previous one that passed the House last month.
Shadow bans.
see, this is what is great about soft power. If you use it right who is not straight up an enemy will probably give you a lot of leeway as long as mutually beneficial. China is... not doing that.

The Tik Tok ban is years late and I don't know why any US citizen could not understand why it's the right thing to do, unless on the payroll of the Chinese government.
I think it is reasonable that Beijing will not allow any sort of sale just for posture purposes. They don't want to be see as forced by Washington to do something and they care less about private economic outcomes than we do here, at least on the surface.
How could we ensure that ByteDance follows such a law? It’s unlikely they would let us perform the necessary level of auditing.

I’m not against such a privacy law but I think it’s orthogonal to the TikTok issue.
try it out in browser: https://ravichugh.github.io/sketch-n-sketch/releases/v0.6.3/

more info:

https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~rchugh/static/theses/grace-l...

https://ravichugh.github.io/sketch-n-sketch/
I don't think you'll ever be able to get a straight & correct answer to that question, but I don't think it really matters, because the effect is the same.

I and every friend I've talked to about tiktok has seen much more political content on tiktok than other short video apps.
Will be get it before nuclear fusion is the question?
> Yeah, I was actually thinking of kinematics as in classical mechanics. I think you were speaking about kinematic equations as in robotics.

What do you see as the relevant difference?

> I think it's easier than calculating the trajectory of an object, let alone many at once

Well, yeah, but there isn't anything fundamentally more difficult about juggling. It all boils down to Newton's laws.

My point is that there are two different ways that human brains can apply Newton's laws. We can do it intuitively, without even being consciously aware of Newton's laws, which is why humans were able to throw and catch objects before 1687. Or we can do it consciously by manipulating symbolic representations of the equations of motion. Those two activities are in some sense equivalent because they both involve producing a model of a physical system in our brains and using that model to make accurate predictions about that system. But they are also obviously radically different in other ways, and being skilled at one in now way implies being skilled at the other.
I think the article stated that 8% of the respondents who said they had a “bad trip” had their trip in a clinical trial. Not that 8% of clinical trials resulted in a bad trip.
It appears to have limited guardrails. I got it to generate some risqué story and it also told me how to trade onion futures, which is illegal in the US.
> Not letting foreign governments control media in your country is definitely a thing that governments do

Except that china never controlled media in the US, they just offered one option out of many. The fact that the option China offered was widely preferred over those made by US companies seems to be the problem. I'd rather have an open internet where we can get access to information from companies in other countries. We shouldn't be blocked from accessing Chinese Youtube anymore than we should be blocked from Chinese websites or the media at bbc.com or abc.net.au
Rekindling the Spirit of Innovation [video]
They wouldn't necessarily have to keep it that way.
V0.dev is an alternative as well, but focuses on shadcn and react.

Congrats on the launch. I enjoyed that it gave me progress updates as it worked.
As Ted Chiang put it, most fears about A.I. are best understood as fears about capitalism.