skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So long as the CCP delivers on economic prosperity this won't happen; people will not risk it.

I think the era of hockey-stick growth and development China is more or less over now, growth will continue but slow to a drip, and will face 3 threats: rising economic inequality, drying up of external joint ventures, and male-female ratio demographics imbalance. It has BRI going for it but external investments can't address domestic structural socioeconomic concerns. Xi will be blamed first because he rode economics to the top of the mountain. I'm concerned that starting a war, a common political tactic for any government system, maybe used to distract from domestic economic woes.
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Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40140675
Gender Pay Gap Report Q1 2024
You're conflating a bunch of things, but the biggest one here is that "hard performance guarantee" is not a synonym for "constant-time performance". Nevertheless, feel free to substitute your own preferred vocabulary. I'm just trying to get the underlying point across about how different GC and RC fundamentally are.
Ah, interesting. Originally, it would answer that question correctly. Then it got concern trolled in a major media outlet and some engineers were assigned to "patch it" (ie make it lie). Then that lie got highlighted some places (including here on HN), so I assume since then some more engineers got assigned to unpatch the patch.

I'll take that as supporting my point about the folly of wasting engineering time chasing moving goalposts. :-)
The article’s worth a read, but no, I was just experiencing vicarious catharsis from the response.
If you try and operative a service that relies on frictionless access by saying your users have to fly abroad to download it, and use an illegal and increasingly spotting VPN service to access it, it's banned. You simply cannot succeed under these conditions.
This is similar to why booster rockets are a certain width — they needed to be moved by trains that went through tunnels carved by the Romans. Those tunnels were the width of two horses pulling a chariot.
It's badly designed for your particular taste, but it probably works for most people which is why it's used.
Question: Biden will also soon sign the extension to the FISA surveillance powers. How is the ownership of TikTok (and location of the data centers) impacted by the expansion of FISA powers?

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-renews-fisa...
These kinds of comments are legally ignorant. I’m always taken aback by these kinds of “but actually” comments on HN that ‘correct’ another user without any regard to how the law would be applied.
I don't know about Pandora, but I've always been cautious to use "dislike" in that way, because I don't know the scope. There's a difference between "I don't want to ever hear this" vs "I don't want to hear it on this station". I use it for the former but not the latter.
Hi, I work at a startup where we train / fine tune / inference models on a gcp kubernetes cluster on some a100s.

There isn't really that much information about how to do this properly because everyone is working it out and it changes month by month. It requires a bunch of DevOps an infrastructure knowledge above and beyond the raw ml knowledge.

Your best bet is probably just to tool around and see what you can do.
Thanks for the feedback and I’m sorry you had an awful experience here. We’re working on improving Cody for JetBrains a lot (our VS Code extension was first and JetBrains is in beta). This is helpful feedback and I hope we can earn your trust again in the future and make you love Cody.
Or just use '/' if you're talking directly to the API and not the shell or cmd.exe.
Want to really mess with someone, do that on a mac file share on a windows server... You won't be able to do anything to that file or directory from Windows. Not sure if it's still an issue, but definitely was in the NT4/Win2k days.
I would argue that XSDs and namespacing are pretty much a necessity when you're trying to represent structured data. I agree that DTD and especially XSLT can be painful, but they're certainly more optional.

Being able to generate XSD from your code and then just pass that off to someone else while remaining generally language-agnostic is extremely powerful. JSON is cheap and easy, but it's really not that great.
I expect it'll never happen to me. My dad was still actively seeking out new music when I was a kid, streaming college radio via the Internet before Pandora, Last.fm, or Spotify were things. He's in his 60s today and he still listens to new music (in a range of genres) all the time.

If novelty in music is actually important to you, this won't happen to you.
The stalk wants to grow tall quickly (but not any taller than necessary, hence the successively increasing node distance in its “search”) until there is sufficient light, then it begins to disfavor further height growth in favor of increased density of leaves (nodes, where the leaves come from)
Agree, valid points.
I mean, if you think like that, then it doesn't really matter at all. Americans aren't so bound to concept of Chinese face that they actually even care about this. Since we don't get face hurt, accusations of hypocrisy are pretty pointless anyways.
Official Transportation release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40146124
Memorability shapes perceived time (and vice versa)
No. Your statement does not follow.

TikTok can be undermining the US (and potentially be a growing problem) without it being currently capable of preventing itself being banned.

By your logic, nobody should go to hospital when sick, as if they can go to hospital then they must not be sick.
California's speed trap law [1] prevents enforcement of speed limits that weren't set by a traffic survey within 5 years of the violation; subject to some exclusions --- school zone limits can be enforced.

IIRC, highway speed limits at or above 55 (maybe 60?) also don't need a survey either.

Unlike some other states, California has a truck speed limit of 55 mph. I don't think it's great to have the car speed limit set too much beyond that. Especially on the middle of nowhere freeways where people tend to find room to really speed... It's not great when people are doing 80+ and come across a group of 55 mph trucks.

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
I promise you Uyghur muslims don't all have VPNs installed on their phones. That alone will get you disappeared into a prison camp.

"Every Han Chinese of a certain background" is the more accurate reference.
It is also my experience that Spotify reverts to what's popular and last.fm doesn't.
Edit timer expired before I noticed and could correct "wasn't" to "was" here.
The childhood treatment for myopia is borderline abuse. Imagine treating childhood obesity with motor scooters. It’s basically that bad.

Obviously the eye, like every other body part, is subject to Selye adaptation. The correct treatment is clearly a training stimulus that reverses the myopia, not one that reinforces it.

Personally, my myopia stopped progressing when I stopped letting the eye doctor update my prescription. The reason, again obviously, is because my eyes are trained with constant close up work, but vision exams assume I spend my time looking at objects 20 feet away.

It would be nice to find an optometrist willing to work with me on reversing my myopia with a prescription suitable for my daily activities, but the ones I’ve talked to all have thoroughly calcified on the subject.
> China's ideology wins over American in the end.

Influence operations aren't about "winning" or even convincing anyone anymore. It's about flooding peoples screens with untold amounts of toxic garbage.
Facebook DAU continues to grow:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/346167/facebook-global-d...

Their engaged audience is skewing older which is why it "feels" weird to you but not to everyone.
I'm guessing that, today, the opioid thing might've really changed how people think of it, and maybe even the undergrads who get targeted for recruitment will have heard of it.

That's fairly recent, though.
California emissions were a thing for years before the federal requirements caught up. The car market in California is big enough to get special equipment.
2003: I went to China with 1 suitcase and came back with 2. The new one was absolutely full to the brim with pirated DVDs and fairly good quality fake LV from the "free markets". Had to chip a Sony DVD player because half of them were random regions. Back then, checking the right boxes and declaring sensible amounts on US claims declaration forms reduced probability of searches.
Everything is explicit until someone decides to introduce a panic() somewhere... (I get that exists in more or less any language)

That said, in practice I see it following a similar philosophy to java checked exceptions, just with worse semantics.

Personally, I don't like high-boilerplate languages because they train me to start glossing over code, and it's harder for me to keep context when faced with a ton of boilerplate.

I don't hate go. I don't love it either. It's really good at a few things (static binaries, concurrency, backwards and forwards compatibility). I hate the lack of a fully-fleshed out standard library, the package management system is still a bit wonky (although much improved), and a few other aesthetic or minor gripes.

That said there's no language I really love, save maybe kotlin, which has the advantage of the superb java standard library, without all the structural dogma that used to (or still does) plague the language (OOO only, one public class per file, you need to make an anonymous interface to pass around functions, oh wait now we have a streaming API but its super wonky with almost c++ like compilation error messages, hey null pointers are a great idea right oh wait no okay just toss some lombok annotations everywhere).

End of the day though a lot of talented people are golang first and sometimes you just gotta go where the industry does regardless of personal preference. There's a reason scientists are still using FORTRAN after all these years, and why so much heavy math is done in python of all things (yeah yeah I know Cython is a thing and end of the day numpy etc abstract a lot of it out of the way, but a built in csv and json module combined with the super easy syntax made it sticky for data scientists for a reason)
Both of you can be right you know, it isn't mutually exclusive....
I’d love to love Cody, I like the ability to choose newer/different models. When the JetBrains plugin gets better I’d try it again.
everynoise.com
"It has become standard to describe A.I. as a tool. I argue that this framing is incorrect. It does not aid in the completion of a task. It completes the task for you. A.I. is a service. You cede control and decisions to an A.I. in the way you might to an independent contractor hired to do a job that you do not want to or are unable to do. This is important to how using A.I. in a creative workflow will influence your end result. You are, at best, taking on a collaborator. And this collaborator happens to be a mindless average aggregate of data."

As a non-famous, non-professional artist this seems like a snobby take. Everyone of these arguments is logically inconsistent with what I know and have experienced using LLM's, stable diffusion, DALL-E, and other generative machine learning algorithms. I wonder what the author would say about plotter artists or CGI artists... would it sound like his take on generative art models?

I guess the only point I would really like to make is this; A closed mind is already defeated.
Do we have proof of that though. Other than "China bad" and the parent company being partially owned by China. It's really banning it on a hypothetical and TikTok doesn't exist in a vacuum. There are many other platforms and I would argue that X does more censorship than TikTok does.
Of course, if you do, be prepared for a lot of software to break because it's hard-coded to use "C:" and not actually use the APIs or environment variables to find the system drive location, user files location, etc.

A lot of what gets blamed on Microsoft is really down to poor third-party software. Microsoft goes to extremes to keep that stuff running.
You’re reading “created” into it to justify that interpretation. If you assume he meant created then sure go with birthed, but that doesn’t prove anything beyond your initial assumption.

A “berthed”-friendly interpretation would be “all books start off tied to a particular point in time, it is their destiny to become free of their temporal bounds, to drift through eternity”
The data uses the Maddison database, which is incomplete and imprecise.

https://chequeado.com/ultimas-noticias/javier-milei-la-argen...
(1) We are talking about an existential threat to the US. The idea that China is literally going to take its navy/army and try invading the US.

(2) Taiwan and Tibet are different cases and could not be considered clear and cut cases of invasion and annexation.

(3) Tibet and Taiwan was never internationally recognized as independent and were/are considered a part of Qing, later Republic of China and later by most nations as a part of a "China" whether now the PRC or previously ROC. They tried to secede, similarly like what happens during a civil war. Therefore they did/do not have what people call Westphalian sovereignty. We similarly e.g. also don't talk about the South during the Civil War as being a separate internationally recognized state. And therefore we also do not talk about the Union invading a different nation, the Confederacy, but simply a civil war within a nation. Nor do we say that the Union annex the Confederacy.

Taiwan has the same constitution, national anthem, flag, etc. as the Republic of China under Sun Yatsen. It still regards all of China, which includes all of the mainland territories as part of its territory, and Taiwan is a mere province, which is considered "Free China". It was the previous Chinese government before the PRC took control during a civil war in 1949. That civil war in a sense never ended. And throughout Chinese history there has been many cases where essentially civil wars took e.g. a 100+ years to settle, but there was sometimes periods of relatively peace between parties, even a trading relationship. A famous one is e.g. the Three Kingdoms period.
This information uses what are considered archeological time series that are not precise enough to derive direct comparisons between countries.
No because a US person can be called in to answer questions in a court of law or before congress. If the owner is Chinese living in London, where would you even begin ?
Addressed in TFA:

> Green roofs might help soak up some rainwater to hydrate the plants up there, but blue-green roofs go a step further with additional infrastructure that gathers up the liquid, stores it, and dispenses it to the building’s residents for watering plants and flushing toilets.
Use a model already trained on Wiki[edia using llamafile.

You can download llamafile and several models, put them on a USB drive or hard drive, them send the drive to him via DHL.
Good question! I wouldn’t trust a government aiming to remove them, but seeing them run afoul of legitimate legislation (where I’m not actually familiar enough with the US/tiktok law to really make a judgement call on) in ways that get them punished satisfies me. (Assuming those punishments are in line with principles I otherwise support - e.g. I wouldn’t support ISP-level blocking.)
You're technically correct (the best kind of correct)!

However, I don't think any materialist would deny laws of physics exist. We might say that how materials interact with each other is an intrinsic property of material itself, just as an electron behaves as though it has a certain mass.

What definition of material would you use that separates it from its laws?
There's a jump in Covid times but you can see on the graph that it started around 2011, which is about the same time US life expectancy started stagnating. It's interesting that Australia has a life expectancy of 83 years, 7 years more than America (before Covid this was 4 years, and I expect America to bounce back up because it affected elderly people more).

Australians are only 4% less obese and 4% less overweight than Americans. However the percentage of Australians that are morbidly obese (BMI over 35) is 9.4%, and for Americans that's 18% - so the obese people in America are more likely to be really obese. Alternatively it could be to do with Americans being less likely to go to the doctor or have operations done due to higher healthcare costs.
A 30-40% real drop in economic activity and a reduction by half in purchases of medical consumer items isn't "cooling"; it is an active destruction of the real economy that has absolutely no rationale.
I don't think there's an outstandingly popular one. Multiposting to get as many audiences as possible is norm these days. Sites like DMM, Fantia or Skeb are strong, but I don't think any of them get the particular traction.

Besides, LINE is extremely unpopular among otaku in Japan (yes, racism).
Do you have data on the demographic breakdown? The papers i have seen have the overwhelmong majority of those deaths in the 80 plus demographic, which is not anywhere near equivalent to an 18 to 50 year old death when doing the cost benefit analysis on any of the mitigation or avoidance policies we could enact
They must be encapsulating traffic on the backend.
ime that’s a way better product to use for secrets management unless you’re trying to do very advanced CA stuff.
That would be my guess. More drugs, less exercise, and less sleep than generations before
> This portion is rarely discussed. The algorithm that serves content, should be the algorithm that serves content. If kid who likes STEM in America searches STEM content, kid in America should get STEM content. Same in China. Kid likes STEM content, kids get STEM content.

Do you have proof of this? Either in the positive, or the negative (if Chinese kids search for garbage they will be given garbage?)
Gell Mann amnesia effect.
I wrote a tool similar to ansible in the old days. We both started about the same time, so wasn't really a goal to compete with it. Later I noticed they had some type of funding from Red Hat, which dulled my enthusiasm a bit. Then Docker/containers started hitting it big and I figured it would be the end of the niche and stopped.

Interesting that folks are still using it, though I'm not sure of the market share.
You can't stop this train.
When an airline says "unaccompanied minor" they mean "we'll charge you hundreds of dollars to escort your child"; the OP is referring to the age above which that escort is not required.
The age for a minor to fly alone and without going through the unaccompanied minor process [considerable hassle and expense]. (In other words, to fly as "any other passenger".)
Why is this downvoted? This is a well known philosophical problem with a known solution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
1000x this, I'm not sure why more people do not see that when it's pretty obvious. People that actually use TikTok know what I mean, Israel narration lost and videos from Palestine reporting what's going on were super popular. Now there are pro Palestinian protests at campuses around US against US Israel policy and US government do not like that. TikTok was IMO the main driver of showing what's going in Gaza.
I'm not sure where you're buying your ESP8266, but mine run less than a buck (on a little dev board).

Aliexpress -> From $0.99 -> four-pack of ESP8266 for $3.19.

Even less when they have a sale.
> automatic driving… in whiteout conditions

Neither FSD nor AP will be allowed to turn on or stay on in these conditions.
> Donald Barthelme in particular praised you for writing about things readers had never heard before between Black and white characters.

It's bizarre to me that in certain circles some Colors are capitalized, while other colors are not.
The US wants to get their hooks into TikTok and use it for PsyOps. It’s that simple. Don’t let the word “PsyOps” trigger your wacko alarm.

It’s understood that the US already does this with Facebook and other websites.
Ya you're not being honest in the slightest. The OP likes the music made by the group he mentions. You instead say he's being racist for liking music of that group. I'm having a hard time discerning if you're trolling or serious.
"Most VR users are children" is a very different statement from "Most children are VR users." The former can be very true without the latter being true at all; it just implies that "most people are not VR users", which is also true.
Do some research on game theory and you’ll find otherwise.
Has the US won a war since 1945?
The free market has never existed in an unregulated state, and since the founding of the country there have been rules and regulations on imports and what companies can operate in the United States and under what circumstances.

It was framed as a moral argument by suggesting the US should be “better”. At least that was my interpretation. I don’t think arguing from a market perspective really changes that interpretation but instead further weakens China’s lack of allowing American social media companies to operate in China with the same unfettered market access.

> If you want to talk precedent, China has pretty aggressive domestic ownership laws for foreign subsidiaries, but we don’t care about that in the other way.

We kind of care and we have been caring more. The problem is that legally it has been difficult to say “go ahead and build or operate your business in the US except if you are China”. Likewise China just blanket applies the rules that it has to entities that want to operate in China.

> Of course it’s a win win for both parties so by cutting off our own foot it indeeds also hurts the other party.

So far from what I’ve seen these types of actions have been very specific and targeted. In the case of Tik Tok there isn’t any loss to citizens and letting it continue to operate with impunity in the US brings all sorts of negative externalities that the market isn’t equipped to solve.

It’s also important to remember that some things are more important than profit. The economy and market are just one aspect of a nation. Lowering cost and increasing competition are nice but they are not the point of civilization.
> China lists algorithms and AI models trained on citizen data as a non-export

Isn't this just another reason to conclude China views Tiktok as a national security asset?
Because you have common sense; so many of these commenters seem to think that it’s somehow everyone else’s fault they chose to live in a place where everything is a 3 hour drive away.
Yeah, that part is a bit grand-standey. It was awkward to read.

Also, it’s not very correct. You could dump bits straight into a memory buffer and still sanitize them before use. It’s not as insane of a security issue as presented. It’s more like downloading a file today and not executing it. It technically passed though your system memory, it was just never executed as instructions.

Well, I think it made the author feel good about themselves so maybe they didn’t notice it doesn’t serve a purpose to the reader. It happens a lot.
"Unaccompanied minors" require an escort to and from the gate, so they are only unaccompanied on the flight itself. For truly unaccompanied minors (who do not require an escort), the age limits are as stated above.
My daughter was considering a McKinsey gig. A friend from Booth said "You can maintain your integrity at McKinsey, but McKinsey won't help."
I have discovered better music in my 30s and 40s and sort of regret my musical decisions in my teens and 20s.

Music to me is linked to my emotional state and like I’ve matured I’d like to think my music tastes have too…

but then I remember I’ve stopped listening to silly music of Fugazi and replaced it with the artistic stylings of Taylor Swift and I’m right back in my pit of despair knowing my musical sophistication is still out of reach.