skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. It's unclear whether the primary goal of TikTok regulation is to genuinely safeguard young users or to prepare the public for further restrictions on other Chinese companies. Regardless, given China's advanced development beyond what many in the West perceive, I think it's important for western countries to start taking protective measures. TikTok is unimportant in the grand scheme of things.
As a non-american (Canadian) citizen, I'm genuinely curious why this evidence can't be made public?
Wouldn't that be a far better way to end this debate and un-fracture opinions?
Making the movie or a documentary series like that would have been awesome.
Javascript and python supposedly are coming to excel.
Why did it matter that a frame was transmitted in 2^12 microseconds, though? Why not 2^11 or 2^13?
> Microsoft reportedly wanted to use the forward slash as path separator, but IBM nixed the idea because it would have created an incompatibility with DOS 1.x, which already used the forward slash as a switch character, separating command options.

It isn’t a poor engineering decision, that guy just didn’t read the decision criteria.

Also, according to spec, CRLF is the proper sequence for a newline, and both Unix and MacOS chose incorrectly.
Yes. You can be judged to be intoxicated even if you are under the limit.
They can make web client and show middle finger. If this happens the US will be forced to block domains and VPNs.
It depends a bit on what you mean by "navigate". Flying in the general direction of an airport is probably a lower priority than getting some help on the radio, but not flying toward a mountain or even a cloud should be a very high priority.
Neat, thanks. This really needs an automatic stepper though, or just a gif maker.
We try to keep around useful versions of Python3, based on what wheels packagers make available. NumPy<2 provides PyPy3.9 wheels, and we have PyPy3.10 ready. Now that NumPy has moved to PyPy3.10 wheels, we will probably drop 3.9. Help is needed to move forward to 3.11/3.12.
Yes, agreed. Modifying the tool to use other tailwind based UI frameworks would be useful. I'd pay for a fast tool that lets me describe an app UI or landing page concept and then shows me previews rendered in different frameworks, themes, and layouts. Most of my time wasted on frontend projects is fidgeting with initial layouts and themes. If I want to switch a tailwind theme from say square to rounded corners on all the components and cards, it's a pain unless I override the helper classes. So an AI tool for theming would be worth it IMO.
I switched to EURKey since I figured I type code more than emails in languages that use umlauts or accents. It takes some getting used to (even more when coming from AZERTY) but it makes me so much more productive. No more cursing at CTRL+] hotkeys.

It's included in most Linuxes and KDE and the homepage has a download for Windows and Mac as well as a nice keymap: https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/
Copilot uses GPT4 now
I recently learned sleeping in a very, or nearly dark room is critical to not develop nearsightedness.
> All of the comments on here from people who don't use it are bizarre.

100% agree.

I would say this offers some insight into the real reason they want to ban TikTok.
Thanks. You are right of course.
> No US (or otherwise) company can operate in China

Not true taken literally, obviously; not true if taken as saying "only JVs are allowed" either. According to the Department of Commerce (https://www.export.gov/apex/article2?id=China-Establishing-a...):

> A large majority of new foreign investments in China are WFOEs [wholly foreign owned enterprises], rather than JVs. As Chinese legal entities, WFOEs experience greater independence than ROs, are allowed exclusive control over carrying out business activities while abiding by Chinese law and are granted intellectual and technological rights.

Also (https://arc-group.com/china-company-setup/):

> WFOE refers to a limited liability company that is 100% invested, owned by foreign investors, and independently operated. Almost 60% of foreign-owned companies are WFOEs, making it the most adopted business type. Famous multinational companies such as Apple, Amazon, Oracle, and General Electric are all examples of WFOEs.
>I agree that tax rates should be higher,

Why? Why isn't reducing waste ever an option?
I really like the short story Typical. It is one of my favorite short stories.
I had no idea there were switches you could run NixOS on. What would be an example of such a switch?
I actually wonder if staying receptive to new music into or past middle age is enhanced by autism. I am a male on the spectrum, in my late 30's, and absolutely nothing about this article rings true to me. I generally operate on a 5 year cycle where I completely reinvent my musical interests, stop enjoying lots of tracks that I used to love (I hate just about eveything I loved at 14), and hang onto a handful of tracks that I consider timeless.

I am already feeling myself reach the end of one of these cycles where I am digging through netlabels and indie internet radio stations looking for the next niche subgenre to become addicted to.
Hooke and Newton did spend a considerable amount of time outside and socializing with others lol
Moonfall is not edutainment.
Even assuming that exception is taken up, it would be difficult to prove in a court that TikTok is using its editorial control to publish propaganda beyond what other social media platforms do quiescently.

Propaganda is what advertising is. Should the courts restrict companies from their ability to advertise?
Indeed. Owned by The Linux Foundation, so this will remain OSS forever/no rug pulls are possible.
I am not used to writing code where 2/3 of it is "if err" statements.

Also, refactoring my logging statements so I could see the chain of events seemed like work I rarely had to do in other languages.

It's a language the designers of which - with ALL due respect - clearly have not built a modern large application in decades.
That's not really true. https://reason.com/2023/07/28/biden-white-house-pressured-fa...

One exmaple of many. If Biden doesn't want you seeing something, the white house will put pressure on social media companies to censor it.
That's possible too, but the issue I was thinking of wasn't exactly reception - it's that GPS signals bounce off buildings and so it looks like you're somewhere else. Stronger reception might actually make that worse.

Japan has local satellites to help with this (QZSS) and local cars may handle that better than global phones.
McCarthyism is back in style.
The lost world is also a great book. It explores a lot of interesting stuff the film completely ignores. Like that the raptors are only rampaging monsters because they had no proper upbringing having been been born in the lab with no mama or papa raptor to teach them social skills
You can't assume your first home won't be your last home because you have no idea what the future will bring. Will you stay at the same job for the rest of your life? Will new houses be affordable and financeable? Will the area you live in change drastically? Will you stay married? Will you become married, have kids? Will you get a chronic disease? Will you have to take care of your parents? Will you have a child that has special needs? Will space junk fall on your house or a car fly off the road and crash into it? This article reads kind of like propaganda trying to get people to settle for buying any home in a high priced market where sales have gone down, it doesn't even mention renting as an option while waiting for new opportunities to open up.
> As far as I understand classes are the only real way to get nominal typing in TypeScript.

Although classes and instances are ultimately structural, right?

let foo = new Foo();
assert(foo.constructor == Foo);
Funny you should mention traffic accidents. When was working in Shanghai years ago I was in two accidents in a taxi in a week. One would have written the car off, smashed half the engine out. I was close to work so just walked the rest of the way.
>"passing a law that looks good in news headlines"

It does not look good at all. It just shows that they have no trust in their own citizens. And maybe for a reason.
I'm sorry you feel it's inflammatory to question urbanization & public transport as panaceas.

First, aggregated statistics matter a lot, especially when examining the history of why humans have clustered in the US the way they have.

Second, nobody is saying public transport doesn't make sense inside the most dense US cities like LA, SF, etc (yes NYC exists). The issue is the network beyond those areas, due to suburbanization. The topic of this thread is building high speed rail to a suburban desert location.

Third, when discussing internet people's fetishization of European density over American suburban sprawl, its not crazy to bring up downsides -- of which there are many. It's true, the German desire for territorial expansion (and resulting World Wars and Genocides) were a direct result of perceived overpopulation. I dunno...I would call that a downside?

I know it's impossible to understand for an internet person in 2024, but childless urban living wasn't always cool and aspirational. Why do you think the automobile found such strong product-market-fit in the 1900s.

> At least try to look up basic statistics: 558,000,000 -> 746,225,356

If we want to argue of the semantics of "roughly the same," I'd say 35% growth qualifies when comparing a US population that grew 250% over the same time and a world that grew by 400%.
I suspect the state dept. would say China banning Facebook/Twitter, etc. is an example of it being a "bad" or "totalitarian" "regime."

But the U.S. banning Tik-Tok? Why that's just good ol' democracy at work!
You can rent GPUs by the hour and there are (limited) serverless options too. So this question makes a gigantic difference in cost.

>of course if I'm launching a public product it should be available 24/7.

Generally yes, but not a given. In some context like data processing you can accumulate tasks and run them in a batch.

e.g. OpenAI just launched batches...50% discount but you don't get instant results, you get them somewhere in next 24h
Just like fusion is juuuuust 20 years away... for the last 30 years.

Not saying they're the same level of difficulty/tech, necessarily, but there's a reason we have the term Hype Cycle. We had one for VR about 25-30 years ago. Recently, we've had Second Hype Cycle... maybe next it'll be for realsies or it'll be Third Hype Cycle for VR?

Apologies for the jadedness, but... you see enough of the meta at some point :)

EDIT: What's the actual killer app for VR for the general population ? We're already over-saturated with a plethora of entertainment.
What happens to the employees of Hashicorp?
I'm interested in what your use-case is. I understand the feature request, but I don't understand why a text file of those things is something I'd want.

I think there are some very interesting accessibility use-cases here, but that's not how the tech is being pitched.
For when people are so stupid that reading is hard and they need pictures . . .
Kicked out for not complying with rules vs. being forced to sell.
Team-managed projects! Jira is, for the most part, quite sensible these days.

Of course, a lot HN Jira hate really comes from people that were beholden to misfiring top-down processes, which Jira was a reflection of.
Accessibility is the biggest use-case I can see for all this stuff, and if that's what we get from this wave of AI, then great. But that's not how any of it is being pitched, and the tech itself is not particularly accessibility friendly in other ways so I don't think it's properly on the radar of these companies.
Ha - I'll bite. How is it the most capitalist country nowadays? It's HEAVILY state-sponsored mixed-market, if anything.
> the branding can still be broken via down-the-stream mutations

Only for mutable values! A branded string should be as immutable as they come, right?
> Children aren't taught skepticism because parents don't want their children to be taught skepticism.

Say huh? Where on earth did you pull this “factoid” from?
And humidity
Tweens and children are the only ones with supple inner ear linings.

As a 40-yo VR enthusiast, I can't play anything that requires elective X/Y movement (first person shooter) without getting sick. The "teleport" mechanic is really clunky.

My kids can play anything and never get sick.

My parents can't even do a driving sim without getting dizzy in a couple of minutes.
Color theory, human color vision, color models and so on
Some ex-TikTok employees say the social media service worked closely with its China-based parent despite claims of independence https://fortune.com/2024/04/15/tiktok-china-data-sharing-byt...

Ex-ByteDance Exec Claims TikTok Gave Communist Party 'God User' Status
https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-political-china-communist-god-use...

American TikTok user data stored in China, video app admits
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/06/23/american-tik...
I don't believe music was better in my day but I do think the older you get the harder it is to find things that sound truly fresh (e.g. someone like black midi would probably blow me away if I was 16 now but instead they just keep reminding me of various acts I've heard before years ago)

Similarly I find myself being a lot more interested in competent but not especially ambitious late period albums by acts where their comfort with knowing what their sound is and how to play with it can be the main source of interest.
Light and heat are both forms of radiant energy. Naturally light can vaporise water. It's not as powerful* as heat but that just means you need more of it.

* There is a formula which involves energy and the frequency of electromagnetic radiation. You could Google for it.
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It's amazing than reading the comments here makes me realize that even in "1st world countries" we all play the same ol' games (one flavor of UT, Other game that became a must for that specific LAN Party like Delta Force, and some other strategy game).

I used to be "the young guy" in my local group back in the late 2000's and I often wondered what games we would play if everyone had access to a top class PC back in the day.
They must have a very creative definition of "active user" because Zuckerberg gets 15-20k likes on his posts while I can scroll down X and find several posts a few hours old from random gimmick accounts with many times more. Taking that at face value to call Threads "the leader in its category" is comical.
Alternatively you could ask the owner holding the dog.

I don't disagree that knowing the breed might be nice, but again I feel like it lacks a real-world use-case. How many dogs do I see in day to day life that are unaccompanied? None.
I think that was the point being made. ;)
Not the parent, but I find that doing dependency injection or defensive programming results in a lot of boilerplate. Custom error types are extemely wordy. The language also doesn't allow for storing metadata with types, only on structs as tags, which seriously hampers the ability to generate code. For example, you can't really express the concept of a slice in a slice containing an integer needing validation metadata well. You'll need to describe your data structure externally (OpenAPI, JSON schema, etc) and then generate code from that.
Typescript is not a real standalone language. It's just javascript after all.

Try Dart, maybe you like it. It's like TS but with it's own runtime.
Why not? If we’re starting with this nautical analogy (unmoored), immediately flipping to a biological one is odd. I strongly suspect this was a transcription error and/or intentional pun - the two are pronounced identically.
This supposes that teens care about East Asian border disputes as much as they care about the funny dance app, which I find doubtful.
Tencent also owns 40% of Epic Games, which wants its own AppStores on the mobile OSes.
I think there are some tricks to ensure a list in pwsh for these sort of operations. I vaguely recall ending variable assignments with a comma to avoid this.
The world needs a way to pay for thin AI wrappers without having to turn them into subscription services. There are lots of potential applications where an indie developer can add value on top of LLM's, but can't subsidize GPT-4 usage for the world. OpenAI still doesn't approve of stored bring-your-own-key solutions, nor allow monitoring-and-approval of API costs at the individual consumer level (the new project keys are a step in that direction). The GPT store covers some use cases, and hopefully will get both monetization and a way to expose non-chat interfaces. But until then, everyone with a solution that needs to pass through API costs has to make pricing decisions inconvenient to everyone (in this case, asking too high a price; in other cases, risking overuse or having to heavily restrict usage).
I opt out every time too. I like getting the individualized attention and I consider it a free massage.
Ok, 3 is not typical. There is a behavioral reason for this. Like in most economic considerations, there's a tradeoff, where humans will tolerate a certain amount of time travel, for the money. So this tends to be stretched out to the maxima, over time.

Given driving time and train time, it's easily 2 hours of a commute in any of the top 20 metros for the majority of the population. From personal experience: Seattle, San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles, Orange County (just Santa Ana to Irvine!), or the rest of the inland empire was all 1.5 or more, each way. Ofc there will be less general cases around the nation, where you might characterize a "very small minority" opposed to what I would believe was 1/3 of the nation doing 2 hours total before WFH was popularized. Some people (including people we each know) still make these commutes.
Both are more close to each other than you think. Just different semantics but speaking of the same
Let's Assume Taxes
> The famous saying is "in an emergency: aviate, navigate, communicate". What that means is that step two should not be communicate, it should be your last priority, even in this situation. You should get the plane flying straight and level before you try to figure out radios.

What does "navigate" mean in this situation? I'd expect that getting the plane flying straight and level would fall under "aviate".
Honestly, I think it may be just a "marketing stunt" to feed the profitable hype for them, right now, in times of growing AI disillusion. Same with OpenAI and Moderna.
Yeah I'm more open minded now than I was when I was younger. All my taste seems to stem from the same roots (for example I like a wide variety of electronic music but the common thread is sounds and/or harmonies rooted in funk/soul/jazz/blues) but when I was a teenager I was only interested in rap music.
IBM was taken over by bean counters years ago. There were researchers and others that would literally skip being in or find a way to avoid bean counters when they walked through IBM Research Labs (like Almaden Research Center) years ago (heard from multiple people years back that were working on contracts/etc there - mainly academics).

Also, IBM has been extremely ageist in their "layoff" policies. They also have declined in quality by outsourcing to low cost/low skill areas.
I've seen this point scattered throughout the thread, and it seems quite popular.
I don't particularly take issue with it since market reciprocity obviously makes sense, but I'm not sure that this bill should tag itself as national security in that case!

Small note: Many US companies do operate in China with large margins (Microsoft, Apple, Intel, AMD, NVidia, etc). There's been a Wikipedia article cited a through times throughout this thread with a complete list of blocked domains! Just a minor nitpick, thanks for the thoughts still.
Ansible is great if you have workflows where sysadmins SSH to servers manually. It can pretty much take that workflow and automate it.

The problem is it doesn’t go much beyond that, so you’re limited by SSH roundtrip latency and it’s a pain to parallelize (you end up either learning lots of options or mitogen can help). However fundamentally you’re still SSHing to machines, when really at scale you want some kind of agent on the machine (although ansible is a reasonable way to bootstrap something else).
> Anytime I’ve come across the need to do this, I’ve found a class is a better and less complicated solution ... As far as I understand classes are the only real way to get nominal typing in TypeScript.

How are classes going to help? As far as I understand TS is structural period. Ex this is valid (!):

class Email {
constructor(public email: String) {}
}
let x: Email = new Email('foo@foo.com')
let y = { email: '73'}
x = y;
Yeah.

If this amount of effort is going into protect us from TikTok, then why not protect us from every other Social Media company that is tracking us.
Because the content is funny dance videos. I don't think you can get to global hegemony with that.
In a long true account of a dust-up at a restaurant in old Austin, not new Austin, a Black man on my roofing crew came to my defense and knocked out a white restaurant manager, who was at the moment presuming to assault me. Willie had noticed that the manager had Black back-up and felt I should too. “Old Padge need him some brothers too,” he would explain later.

The piece was essentially a portrait of a hero, Willie Ebert Brown, in a terrain of racial relations that had hope in it. The sentence that announced the Black back-up for the manager was this: “A sturdy-looking Black guy came out of the kitchen.” This is choice low fruit for a sensitivity editor. “Objectifying description,” she wrote, “that may invoke associations with slavery.”

I should have desisted publishing the book, but I am a chicken-shit person and I really wanted a book with a beautiful photo of an indigo snake on its cover. My celebration of Willie was thrown out; my invocation of slavery (to which who objects, its absurdity aside?) was one of a hundred other crimes in the piece. Liberal racism had its way: remove racism by removing race.

There is not a person of color in my book except a very positive small tribute to Barack Obama as a tool by which we might argue the French can slow their roll about how racist we are and they aren’t. How that was not deemed racist is a wonder, because it somewhat is. It’s not a wonder: liberal racism is a photo-negative argument. I apologize for this rant. Chicken-shit and now tired too.

Snark is a signal of cheap argument: They have nothing more serious to say; they are signaling that there is a bandwagon and you can join in, rather than a serious argument that you can engage and reason with - just grab a drink and hop aboard! Don't spoil the party!

Chicken-shit indeed: It's very easy these days to preach to the choir, white people jumping on the anti-antiracism bandwagon, because they can deny and ignore racism's effects without personal consequence (including that it's not socially acceptable and even encouraged), and tiring of dealing with race (if white people tire of it, just imagine black people who can't avoid or ignore it).

Instead of cutting the story, how about a description of the kitchen-worker as more than "Black" (though we don't get to see the original; maybe that's already there). Instead of snark, how about an examination of what the editor meant, what aspects were racism to what degree? So sorry for tiring you.
That's kind of my point. Why is it they view social media as a weapon aimed at their citizenry and we don't?
Not entirely sure what evil thing the CCP is doing with the TikTok data that I like cat videos.