skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I've made out quite well on United

No, you made out poorly. Wouldn't you prefer to have been paid more?

>The terms were generous too—a year to use them

Are you for real? That's not generous.
He'll lose, since the US already has done this sort of thing.

Very big example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merck_%26_Co.
Nah, social media is the status quo. It's impossible to 'refrain' from the status quo, unless you invent something an order of magnitude greater.
To be fair if counter arguments put you off it means your own weren't that strong.

It's good you have that attitude otherwise it would be gambling.
Bikes are ridiculously cost efficient especially if you can use them to enable you to own even 1 less car.

2 grand is more than enough to cover commuting for a DECADE. You could get away with 1 grand if you wanted to. Cars aren't getting any cheaper so I only expect the bike to become more and more dominant.
Since they now have to automatically offer a cash refund, any alternative voucher offered will have to be substantially higher value to the customer to get any takers.

Sure, it's possible some grandma who almost never flies anywhere may still get confused but this new rule is still going to put even that kind of person in a far better position.
I'm in my late 40s and I can run around with smooth movements without any issues.

Of course, N=1...
Every Chinese person a Westerner may talk to has a VPN, but you can't compete with Chinese-owned social media without the other 90% of the population. Also, China has been very aggressive with VPN throttling and random outages, since the pandemic.
Ownership restrictions on media companies generally are commonplace throughout the developed world.
I think this is already well known due to the existence of landlords, who are pre-capitalist. Although most people don't think of farmers or California retirees as belonging to this class, which they probably should.
Awesome dude!

Well, when I get into "the real world" I'll make sure to change my mind, especially if I'm making "you know, components..."

I think by then these distinctions won't be "too subtle" for my simple mind.

Thanks bro!
I've been in a similar situation working for a startup in Asia. CEO was great at fundraising (although it relied on very "creative" marketing), but literally nothing else. Unfortunately, the board was weak so nothing was ever done.

Allowing people to save face is important, both for CEO and investors (VC funds have LPs to answer to). Also, seeing a company in a news-making hostile turnover / CEO blowup may be a big turn off for existing and prospective customers.

Where's the board been and what's their take on the situation? How much equity does the CEO own?
Define “reasonable.”

Do we treat the human body closer to that of animal? If so, why is cannibalism a crime? Animals rape, why should humans not, if we are just animals?

If we reject that and say that a human has dignity that an animal or a plant does not; why should a dignified creature act as a beast? Who is to say that this dignity cannot extend to the sexual sphere in dress and conduct?

We already accept this. Just because an animal rapes, does not preclude permanently imprisoning a human, solely for violating that dignity. It follows then, what is suitable for animals, is in no way a certain or relevant guide for how humans should behave.

This is not even necessarily a religious point. One of the most-banned pieces of material by the Chinese Firewall is not material that opposes the government - but porn, which is illegal there despite being an avowedly atheist society. Japan was never a Christian society, but their censorship practices for porn are well known.
Hey! I have a quite similar music taste. (my favs definitely include Slim Gaillard and Fats Waller, that kind of stuff)

If you have Discord, I've been curating a musicbot with a similar music rotation since I've also been completely fed up with streaming services pushing more Glenn Miller/similar straight bands, not the hip ones :) If you are interested, join my server, the bot is running 24/7: https://discord.gg/wjsC2TUZPK
My 95% was an educated guess, it could well be 90%. But I would be shocked if it were any lower than that.

> I've never met a Chinese person whom, when the topic came up, hadn't read about, for example, tiananmen square, in a method contrary to the wishes of the CCP.

I know many as well, but there's major selection bias at work here, in that if you 1) met them abroad, 2) spoke to them in English about 3) a highly sensitive subject, they are highly likely to be one of the 5%.
Merck (not an arms company) was expropriated from Merck.
So not unlike America during the robber baron era!
How well informed are people who talk about TikTok addicts, though?
I think it would be a poor argument to liken the US banning Tik Tok to US (or other) citizens being abused in China with supposed retaliatory measures.

We don’t need to overly moralize this and somehow find the US on a pedestal with impossible to reach and shifting standards of behavior that are only applicable to the US when it’s convenient for various bad actors and despotic regimes (Putin, Hamas, CCP, Iran, North Korea).

America can be “better” than China without having to accept disadvantages. Likewise China could allow American social media companies to show that it is sincere in being interested in free and fair business. That doesn’t mean that there can’t be regulations but there’s simply no good argument to allow a Chinese social media company to operate in the US without reciprocal activity and nothing, nothing is lost by banning Tik Tok.
> If it was so bad then you wouldn’t see engineers with 10, 15, or 20 years experience staying there. They already got their money from the IBM purchase so if it were bad then they would leave.

Every big, old, stagnant company is full of lifers who won’t move on for any number of reasons. The pay is good enough, at least it’s stable, the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t, yada yada yada. There are people in my life who work in jobs like that. They will openly admit that it sucks, but they are risk averse due to a combination of personality and family circumstances, so they stick it out. Their situation sucks, and they assume everything else sucks too. And often, because they’ve only worked in one place so long, they have a hard time finding other opportunities due to a combination of overly narrow experience and ageism.

The movie Office Space is about exactly the sort of company that is filled with lifers who hate their jobs but stay on the path of least resistance.

(I know absolutely nothing about working at Red Hat, so I’m not trying to make a specific claim about them. But I’ve known people in this situation at IBM and other companies that are too big for their own good.)
I recently (last quarter) started cycling to work in San Francisco, netting 80-100 miles a week, and your statements ring true.

Looking at my Strava relative effort and resting heart rate, the amount of aggregate exercise I get is far superior to my previous exercise habits. While it may take me a net +30 minutes when using non-ebikes to get around in a day, I get something like 90 minutes of total exercise, something I could never justify if I separated my commute from exercise.

E-bikes are extremely quick, depending on the task, they are often less in trip time vs. cars, public transit, or a taxi. But for exercise reasons I tend to ride classic.

I use a cargo ebike for getting my kid to school, but days when I do not need to do that, I use the city shared bikes, often the unpowered ones. I like them both. The latter I use even the same day when I have my cargo bike: it's wonderful to cycle to lunch on a less unwieldy cycle, walk to a coffee shop, and then pick up a bicycle from a different dock to return to the office. All that I choose to carry is a helmet to do that.

It's also a lot more fun than the train/bus (which I also kind of enjoy, my route is somewhat scenic), or driving [and parking].
WQXR plays an extremely shallow list. Very little 20th century, minimal baroque, sticks to the more well known romantics.
What's New in Fedora KDE 40?
Please define "free trade".

I think that's a concept that is thorny enough to merit a word on what we mean by that. I personally don't know what it actually points at (is there any "free trade" ever happening in real life ?), or my naive interpretation would be trade with absolutely no rules, but I assume that's not what you're pointing at.
Yep, AML is basically MIT + some stuff about patents. One wonders why they do not use the Apache license instead.
Same in Europe. There's standard amounts.
>> Then suppose that we have proved that P is both true and false. Since we have proved P true, we have proved that at least one of P or Q is true. But because we have also proved that Pis false, we may conclude that Q is true. Q.E.D. This proof is as simple as can be.

Say what now? How do you prove that something is both true and false. Maybe the OP is talking loosely about quantum superposition of a particle? However, that isn't proving a state is both true AND false, it's proving the state is undetermined (neither true nor false, but a hybrid state). I stopped reading here.
It's somewhat of a sinophobic/red scare dogwhistle and provincial protectionism insecurity gasp of declining global influence because it doesn't necessarily matter who owns it when day-to-day operations are led by the same people with the same interests and allegiances as before. Domestic politicians compete to look tough by seeming to attack convenient, distant foreign adversaries in symbolic ways.

US news media is able to spin headlines to maximize drama and outrage for the chumbox sales while misinforming readers. The reason is Americans, in aggregate, are under-educated compared to the rest of the world and so US mainstream news media doesn't have to seek excellence in evidence, integrity, accuracy, or precision.
It’s obvious that is the same problem. It’s not obvious that it’s a more continuous linear tradeoff between the approaches
I think the problem is that the algorithms are based on statistical probabilities from other users. I.e users who listen to X also like to listen to Y. So we’ll add Y to the queue. Then Y becomes the new reference point. I mean that is a gross simplification but essentially if your musical taste is outside of 2 standard deviations of the norm all the algorithms are gonna suck. For me they do.
But you need to control the platform to siphon user data , have a foothold into everyone's phone and to peddle misinformation and entertainment instead of education (Chinese version operates differently than the non-Chinese one).

There is no greater vehicle to deliver a hooking mechanism to target specific users for spyware upload than an app that is installed on a lot of platforms.
Weechat is one other such tool btw. and that thing behaves strangely compared to e.g. Whatsapp if you install it.
Not really. Cargo uses very different routes than people commonly. How many people travel from Shenzhen to the port of Oakland? Now how many cargo containers?
I commute solely by cycling every weekday (15 min each way, with some hills) and I’m still depressed. Must be more to the puzzle than that!
I'm pretty unimpressed with copilot's limitations and am really hyped about the potential of running a good quality local AI that just continuously comes up with ideas.

I can even imagine setting up a CI/CD pipeline with regression testing and let an AI try out ideas for a few days and seeing what it comes up with. What we have now, glorified autocomplete, is some weak tea.
The Turing Lectures: The Future of Generative AI [video]
This is really is opening too many arguments.

Sure American institutions have insular pigheadedness. Indian/Vietnamese/Chinese/Korean institutions are filled with corruptions and nepotism.

We don’t know for sure Zoho would have been an American company, I would almost argue that their success is because they are in India and can most likely build their product at drastically lower costs than in the US. This is probably one of the reasons they can target SMB, including emerging markets in local currencies.

No doubt localization would have helped but it’s again one of those things where there are too many angles to really accept what is the correct or incorrect path. Uber, perhaps it was that insular pigheadedness you like to mention or perhaps they were really dedicated on having a single app, with a familiar process globally. Grab is indeed hyper local but also drastically different depending on the region your in and is a much different experience than what Uber provides.

I could not speak on the Ford in India but on the flip side Tata could never make it in more developed markets probably with the lack of safety.
It doesn't sound like you've really worked out the arithmetic on towing 4000kg with an EV, whether the frame can handle it or not. On even a slight grade your battery will be toast. Anyway it's clear that many compromises have been made. The payload has been slashed by 400 pounds. The curb weight way over 3 tons will keep you off many marginal roads and bridges.
Copy/pasting uses the clipboard, which is already shared across the whole system. Seems simpler.
verisimilitudinously!
Help me understand how the inflation has not slowed down in Argentina. I am looking at Argentina peso to usd chart over the past one year, and recent devaluation of peso is relatively flat compared to the declining rate a few months ago.
It isn't just coming from "Christian Nationalists", hard 'progressive' rags have also been on a puritan streak in recent years when it relates to conventional attractiveness (especially in anime and adjacent circles). As a current ongoing matter there are all the hit pieces and whining from games journalists on how Stellar Blade's character designs are for "porn addicts".
Terrible viewing experience
Theoretically they could sell "TikTok" to a US company who then licenses algorithm processing to the Chinese entity, no?

The US entity isn't beholden to the CCP and can decide to switch algorithm providers if they suddenly notice it's getting very propaganda-y, which provides a degree of independent oversight appeasing US concerns while not necessitating actually switching from the current systems.
I'm no fan of the direction Windows has been going since 7, but this is exactly like the default behavior of KDE Plasma (at least on OpenSUSE).
Interesting to see many of the people who cheered this type of thing when people with ideological views that don't align with their own got shut out of the financial system now are upset that similar tactics are being used against them or content they like. They were even warned that this type of thing would end up used against them but they were sure we were in a new age where only one way of thinking would be permitted and that way would be their way. Turns out these tools can be weaponized against those who promoted them coming into existence. Doctor Frankenstein would be amused it still happens.
depends on time and place. its true that now there is less dependence on foreign internet and you can now be fully decoupled from english internet with the number of domestic apps. most people only use a VPN now just to access email (e.g. gmail, university), if they even need to at all. and yeah, if youre in beijing during a congress, then VPNs will be slow. but its trivial to set up and use a VPN, even my 88 year old grandma has one.
What people don't understand is that it's hard to discover VPNs in the first place. They're not going to be in the Chinese iOS app store (which is separate from the rest of the world), or local Android app stores (Google Play isn't even there). Websites advertising VPN services are likely to be inaccessible (though not all are). I used a VPN for years in China, as did some Chinese I knew, but even among highly educated and well-off Chinese in a 1st tier city it was less prevalent than you would think, not to mention your average Chinese person living in a 2nd tier or smaller city (the vast majority of the pop).
Having done this recently, the pro tip is that you can pop out the old USB/SD panel by inserting a hook pick into the holes on the front and yanking. It will pop the plastic faceplate off, and then you can access the clips to remove the entire unit. Mine was actually fine and I was able to pop the faceplate back on if I wanted to reuse it (not sure why I would), but no guarantee.

Turned it into a 15 minute job vs probably an hour+ of messing with the center console. Babysitting the software update takes the most time.
I fail to see what advantage they're getting from subsidising users for the meanwhile, and I definitely agree, these cloud AI solutions are subsidised.

Still the value gets worse for these cloud models all I have to do if I'm using say VScode is install a different extension and configure a few settings and bob's your uncle I'm using a different AI. What benefit exactly do companies get from blowing hundreds of dollars subsidising my usage again? Where's the moat? Where's the lock-in?
> create sufficient separation between US/tiktok and China/Bytedance

What are the code standards for American social media anyway? It’s not like Twitter has to meet any criteria on being free of Bias, they could suppress all bad news about China tomorrow and they wouldn’t be breaking any laws

I think it’s plain as day, this is simply a trade war, along with noises about China dumping cars and what not. All the stuff about security is just a cover story.
Yeah, how do you become a wealthy country with a strong tax base if your citizens don’t get education?
I Agree, the tree is simply amazing. I had never tried sortable but felt immediately impressed there.
Exactly. Leadership isn't following with tit-for-tat pettiness.

What would be US leadership would similar to what Ro Khanna is saying with data and personal information privacy standards like a nationwide US GDPR but with the teeth of something like HIPAA. Data brokers should be put out of business.
Sad.

Next up, Canonical, though they’ve been tilting sideways without an acquisition to push them.
which robber baron era ¬_¬
The styling options are baffling to me. Did they reference any existing libraries when building this feature out? I think the drag and drop functionality is fine, but the lack of any sensible styling (reorder and drop animations in particular) makes it nearly unusable.
> The massive wave of European immigration they promoted—second only to the United States'—led to a near-reinvention of Argentine society and economy that by 1908 had placed the country as the seventh wealthiest[65] developed nation[66] in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina
Interface for local and remote LLM (llama/chatgpt)
Related: https://endmyopia.org/
Some people have more pain before the restoration. Incidentally those are the same people screwed by inflation.
i wonder how much different the hub motor design is vs what lordstown motors was trying to accomplish. their hub-motor truck performed disastrously offroad at baja, and im not even sure their stock is still trading today.
Misinformation is a security risk that comes both from deliberate sabotage as well as monetary incentives. If it bleeds, it leads. I'm not in favor of censorship like this or social medias tagging things as "fake news" but how else do we prevent people from believing everything they see on these platforms?
So what you're saying is it's badly designed?
According to that Wiki link, the law does actually mention TikTok by name.
>something that seems like truth, but is not truth - otherwise we'd just call it truth.

Not really. Something is verisimilar when it has the appearance of truth, or is likely to be true, regardless of whether it is in fact true. In Spanish, verosímil ('verisimilar') is rather frequently used in contexts in which one hypothesizes about the trueness of claims or statements, especially when it cannot be verified at that very moment, or ever.
If you complain hard enough and get lucky you can get rebooked on a different airline, but it's certainly consistent or mandated. I think I've only had it once as someone who flies quite a bit.
And all it took was to make it viable.

I wonder how quickly other cities would change to preferring bike use if only the infrastructure to use bikes safely existed?
Nice! I did a little todo app with elysia, turso and htmx/hyperscript - the experience is very friendly.

https://bun-elysia-tailwind-htmx-todo-app-falling-pond-2121....
China has already indicated that because the sale would require a "technology export" of the algorithm, it would need their approval. And also that they would not approve it.

So if China has already made it clear it considers a TikTok sale illegal, this is a ban.

That being said, you don't get Nancy Pelosi and Marjorie Taylor Greene on the same side unless there is some serious fire behind all of the smoke. My guess is everyone who has seen the classified info agrees this ban is too critical to even play games with it.
> I'd love to see regulation around all social media algorithms to ensure they're unbiased.

The bias is a feature. They just don't like the fact that they can't control the bias on TikTok so it spews Chinese propaganda instead of Western propaganda.
I feel like it's more joint enterprise in scamming everyone else. McKinsey says in writing what the client wants to hear ("poisioning people is just business"), the client gets to claim they were reliably told that poisoning a few million people was very legal and very cool.
Thanks. I might think about a PAYG pricing for this. This is likely a tool you'd use every now and then. Maybe $1 an hour. This means someone using it 30 hours a month pays the fill price (and maybe I cap it) but if you are using it that much, you are getting value.
Should I read anything into this other than the response making fun of the tone of the original message?
I came of age in the 70's with the fallout from the Mai Lai Massacre, oil embargoes, 16% inflation, high unemployment, New York City going bankrupt (Gerald Ford to NYC: Drop Dead). That's why I joined the military. It never occured to me to become anti-American. Other countries weren't doing so hot either. What does blaming "America" for my problems get me? "America" is not responisble for the pandemic or greedy colleges that prey on vulnerable high school students who want to get ahead. We need new laws to fix these problems, which means electing politicians who will fix these problems.
You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it
I agree with you. But it's the brand of sovereignty that China has pushed for years. The more other countries adopt it and do the same, the more it validates their own totalitarian approach.

Also, you have to understand that it's never about "control" of the population or restricting freedom of speech (which, also ironically, is protected in the Chinese Constitution, yeah, really, look it up). Absolutely not. It's always about "public safety".
2^12 wasn’t a constraint. The constraint was the clock speed of 3MHz. But making the frame size 1500 Bytes was nice because you get a clean power of two for frame transmission time.

You could lower or raise the frame size and have it take any amount of microseconds you want. Perhaps ~4ms was selected with human interaction times in mind. You can send a frame, process for a few ms, then send one frame back quick enough for feedback to appear as instant.
I guess it's not possible to fuel "hypergrowth" this way, but why not just issue debt? Let the market buy in to your growth with a healthy dividend and reduced risk.
Fuck. IBM is where companies go to die
Reference counting does not provide hard performance guarantees. If you disagree consider what happens when a large tree is freed at the root.
How does this fly? Blatant lying from mfgs/corps really is bad. It’s not just ‘creeping’ up anymore, it’s blowing up. Glad to hear some investigative journalism is happening. At least with M-series, it lived up to the hype, regardless w/e Apple’s other practices are..