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As the grandparent comment points out:

> I can get a lot of that kind of content through other channels- there are plenty of podcasts out there.

The law doesn't ban the discussion of any particular topics, it bans social media platforms that are subject to the laws and control of adversarial governments. Specifically, China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, who are already prohibited from participating in sensitive parts of the US economy.

If social media exists to collect vast amounts of information about its users--and it does--then it's reasonable for the government to be concerned about whether that information can fall into the hands of an adversary.

If social media exists to manipulate its users into believing and doing things that benefit the platform--and it does--then likewise the government has good reason to be concerned about how an adversary might use that.

Framing the law as a ban on particular viewpoints is misguided at best, misinformation at worst. And, as you and the GP comment both point out, it wouldn't work since other platforms and venues are still wide open.

The can of worms being left open is a feature not a bug. It's one reason why the law can survive a strict scrutiny review.
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It feels like Europe is asleep at the wheel. We are in a cold war with Russia, right now. Why is there barely any resistance to blatant attempts to undermine democracy?
Facebook != Cambridge Analytica
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'Going alone' on a method of measuremnt is questionable, especially for something so consequential as economics. Perhaps others - notably the UN, IMF - will follow suit. But, perhaps a new way to measure success for Labour - and the promise of growth as a means to judge the government - is entirely the point
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I really love this powerless use of "should". If you spit on billions of lines of code, all you will get is a dry mouth. The reality defines "what is", unless you have lots of tanks and people under your control, in which case you can change the reality.

There is tons of useful code which you will likely never encounter, that helps people accomplish their tasks every day. Do you think there is some central authority who is going to go building to building and dd if=/dev/zero every shell script they find?
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Most importantly, I'm happy to learn and/or be shown to be mistaken.

Based on my study (not at the Ph.D. level but still quite intensive), I am confident the comment above is both wrong and poorly framed. Why? Seeing phrases "incapable of thought" and "stochastic parrots" are red flags to me. In my experience, people that study LLM systems are wary of using such brash phrases. They tend to move the conservation away from understanding towards combativeness and/or confusion.

Being this direct might sound brusque and/or unpersuasive. My top concern at this point, not knowing you, is that you might not prioritize learning and careful discussion. If you want to continue discussing, here is what I suggest:

First, are you familiar with the double-crux technique? If not, the CFAR page is a good start.

Second, please share three papers (or high-quality writing from experts): one that supports your claim, one that opposes it, and one that attempts to synthesize.

Third, perhaps we can find a better forum.
That's not what I said, you can harm somebody who is too young to understand. I'm claiming that nothing bad happens to you from information being traded about you, under whatever definition of "bad" you prefer
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Nothing throws the national security argument out the window quite like the fact that major American companies still hold internal meetings on Zoom, also a Chinese company. The only difference is that Zoom hasn't been used by Americans to oppose any of this administration's foreign policies.
I don’t know how accurate this is. I just loaded up Walmart and Targets sites and they load very quickly and navigating between pages is snappy as well. What’s your metric for performance?
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>>I think it's just a mater of time before TikTok starts seeing bans (or threats of bans) all over in the west.
Countries are starting to view it as a _serious_ national threat, due to the disinformation risk.

Aah I see the ruling elite in the West can't actually handle freedom of speech. The court really should unseal the classified part where they accuse TikTok of towing Chinese/PRC line. Then lets have a referendum to decide its fate or at least Congress to pass a law banning it.
I think I had most or all of that functionality in 2009, with Android 2.0 on the OG Motorola Droid.

What has Google done for me lately?
Even though professional groups representing anesthesiologists fought back against this new policy on limiting coverage of anesthesia, I bet it was the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO that caused them to back off. The timing is too convenient. But they’ll try this again once the public stops paying attention. It’s what they do. All these health insurance companies don’t make money by providing more value to customers. They make more money by doing less for them. It’s a perverse incentive.
What a bizarre take. You think people are being paid to post here? Can you point to any examples?
In a pacific escalation scenario, which I don't think is farfetched in the next decade, the CONUS would still be safe at least short of nuclear exchange.
Nope, it's not. But urban hellscapes happen somehow.

I grew up in my city when it was smaller, safer, and more economically varied. Now the middle has hollowed out and we're headed toward Manhattan, where hedge fund managers step over the homeless to get to their penthouse.

It pains me to think that this is inevitable. I don't begrudge anyone moving out of the city. I personally cannot stand the thought of getting in a car to do absolutely anything, but I know lots of people who live that way and are happy.
I do actually support USB keyboard and mouse with USB-HID. There are some parts I don't support, like mouse specifying its movement with physical units (I haven't encountered any of those yet). Also I only have support for xHCI USB controller so PC's with older UHCI, EHCI or AHCI controllers are not yet supported.
I was talking about the collaborative productivity tools, not language models.
There is no hacking. There was a massive campaign on TikTok for a candidate, that campaign was surprisingly effective, putting someone that most people never heard of, in the first place. That is now hacking, that is trolling grandmaster level.
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The legacy copper wire infrastructure is gradually decaying and not being maintained or replaced. Telecommunications companies are no longer offering new DSL subscriptions in some areas. In a few more years the options in many places will be Starlink or nothing.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/why-v...
Just because we were wrong does not automatically make our enemies right. Both sides can be equally wrong in some or all of their actions. As for the rest of it, determining intent depends on the evaluator and whether or not it's their job to assume the worst intent.
> TikTok needs to be banned.

It won't achieve anything. The issue is not about China/Russia/America or mobile apps it's about media and media control.

Even your comment is filled with a negative narrative - Western Democracies VS our enemies ( China, Russia, etc ... ).

> drive out American relationships for China and Russia to take over quietly

Is it bad for a union to have multiple relationships or multiple vectors of development?

> it is creating mayhem in the systems we have grown to trust

I don't see it, but if something can cause a mayhem in the systems this means that these systems are flawed?
And what is the replacement to power and heat and cool people if those companies were shuttered?
You’d need to split that by business segment.

Intel has more foundries than even tsmc and the others don’t have foundries.
What the article doesn't mention is how cheap printers are. $50 for a printer/scanner combo is really cheap, inkjet printers are high-precision machines and paper is finicky. Notice how you don't find cheap knockoff printers on AliExpress, like they do with most consumer electronics, they just can't compete. You can find knockoff cartridges though.

Printer manufacturers are not fundamentally evil, they just have a business model that rely on expensive ink. Make it so that they can't use that business model anymore and printers will become much more expensive (like the "ecotank" line). Maybe it is a good thing, but you can't have your cake and eat it too. 3rd party cartridges for cheap printers are a hack, it only works when it is not widespread enough so that printer manufacturers can still make profit thanks to those who buy the overpriced ink.
The problem is the modern incarnation of the company intentionally destroying their customers' products after a purchase, so explaining it away as only one product line isn't really applicable. The problem is any trusting of that company going forward, by buying any new products of theirs.

My printer is an HP DeskJet 1220C, which first came out in 2000 (it's got USB and parallel ports). I like it because the "ink cartridges" include the print heads, meaning they're easy to replace if they start getting clogged [0]. But that doesn't mean I'm going to recommend HP as a brand to anyone, given the shenanigans of their newer printers.

[0] As what happened to my previous-to-me but newer-model Photosmart 6520. Cleaned them out good with alcohol, got it working again, then it clogged up again in short order. Figuring out the actual problem there has been a bit beyond me.
I think this is a really good point. A logging system could theoretically toggle "text" mode on and off, giving human readable logs in development and small scale deployments.

In fact, I'm going to build a toy one in python!
No they don't. By PPP, China comes out #1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
No, that is not what happened. Not at all.
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Agreed. Like large language models, introverts excel at "thinking step by step," spending time reflecting and ruminating to make information more meaningful. They can often relate to being in group settings, focusing on details like a menu or building architecture rather than people. Over time, this same curiosity can evolve into asking insightful questions and understanding others’ perspectives.

That said, I doubt extroverts lack intuitive sensing. Many extroverted friends seem naturally gifted at reading and responding to emotions in a group, almost instinctively.
Well, that's your preference, it's definitely not everyone's. But you too would benefit from the explanation documentation being clearly labelled as such, so you can go there and avoid tutorials.
Almost nobody wanted TSA to be temporary. It was created permanently with near unanimous support, 2 months after airlines' own security had quite an infamous failure.
> The google algorithm from about 15 years ago.

I doubt this is true given how the content on the web has changed.

It is fun to be nostalgic though!
The thing is in the United States there's an abundance of properties and communities available that give you lots of personal living and working space. In fact, it's pretty much the default. The frustration is that there's a shrinking pool of available higher-density living spaces that are all astronomically priced because of high demand and low supply, and any attempt to grow this pool of higher density space is met with stiff opposition.
Why do you assume it's about engineering? Not every role demands the same set of skills or they are not equally important.
I mean, in this case I can actually think of two reasons.

1) A lot of people, particularly people who would be in the mindset to install PostmarketOS, probably have an old Android phone lying around, or at least know someone who has a phone they'd give up for free because it's currently living in a desk drawer or something. This means you can get a home server for free. Android phones aren't exactly the fastest thing in the world, but they're probably fast enough for a lot of servery things, and even a relatively small 128GB internal disk can still stream a fair number of movies if they're generously compressed with H264 or something.

2) Power consumption. My phone charger that I'm using right now peaks at 20W, and idles at considerably less than that when the phone is fully charged. That's getting into "guilt-free" territory; you can leave this plugged in and not really have to worry about your bill spiking as a result.
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Recount does not exist in the relevant Romanian law. And recount was done, with no change of the outcome, so they cancelled it completely.
Serverless VPN Self-Hosted is a software you run on your own servers.

Sure --- as long as the server isn't directly traceable to you.

Anyone can easily create a totally anonymous server, right? Right?
Lol, that's what conservatives think about Sotomayor and Jackson, and looking at their comments during oral arguments as well as their opinions, I think they have a point. (Kagan is generally a more rigorous thinker.) Actually most cases argued before the Supreme Court still have a unanimous or almost unanimous outcome, or are denied cert (which would often indicate a unanimous opinion were it to be ruled upon). It's only in the more controversial cases where you're more likely to read the more blatantly political arguments.
Not with tiktok, and “we have tiktok at home” doesn’t work on teens. I have a <10yo niece, guess what I find on my grandmas tablet every time she visits? Right, a new vpn app. We are in Russia, and no one watches rutube. Even my grandma said it’s useless crap with no content and turns her personal ovpn profile on and off to visit differently banned services. Everyone is still on youtube, both viewers and creators. It’s only hard for a week, then you get used to it and it gets normalized in the society. You US just have to live through your first real-sized ban, then that rule stops working. Bans are snakeoil, except for North Korean style.

You actually do have a chance iff someone manages to catch the essence of tiktok and implement it at home without screwing everything up, so better do not.
It’s pretty easy to DIY this with docker-wireguard on any cloud provider for a lot less than $50/month. Here’s their example docker compose, only ~20 lines: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-wireguard?tab=readme-o...
It's an American company, headquartered in San Jose, and the CEO is American.
I think the luxuries could do almost nothing to improve the minimum standard, which is dictated by national productivity and the efficiency of systems.

I think you could seize the assets from every billionaire in the US and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference in day to day life. It wouldn't create more housing or more health Care because production and supply is what limits availability.

Your billionaire is not using a million times more medical services or living in a million houses or eating a million hamburgers.
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That's a great plot - especially for '73.

I wonder what the Ur version of this is?
> See also: is China suddenly a center of human rights activism,

China is, when it serves their primary interest of deflecting criticism from the operation of their very extensive totalitarian/authoritarian system. IIRC, they put out "human rights" reports all the time to that end that do stuff like criticize American prison conditions.

> or was it Americans who got upset about Israeli treatment of civilians?

It's worth noting that TikTok could (and probably would) be used by the PRC in very subtle ways, that would be missed in a distinction of "is it Chinese people speaking or is it Americans." I think the influence mechanism would almost certainly consist of giving artificial boosts to American voices that unwittingly serve PRC goals, e.g. anti-war activists if China invades Taiwan. They could even strongly condemn China as a warmonger, but their elevation would still serve Chinese goals if they spread the message that the US should stay out.

And given that the PRC has access to all the TikTok data (I believe no claims the could not access it), they can probably very effectively figure out exactly the voices to elevate that would do their job effectively.
It is, unfortunately, an accurate explanation. Inkjets need to be regularly run.
I'd guess that at least one of the panel members thought strict scrutiny applies. Otherwise I think they would have ruled both that intermediate scrutiny applies, and that even if it doesn't the law passes strict scrutiny.
> but are not as effective in situations where the reporter doesn't have a firm grasp on the problem domain

Hum... Your point is that LLMs are more effective?

Because, of course people are, but that's not the point. Oh, and if you do create that decision tree, do you know how you communicate it better than with a chatbot? You do that by writing it down, as static text, with text-anchors on each step.
AFAIK Romania is still a democracy. So maybe don't blame on something/someone else when the establishment doesn't take care of the people.

Same with Trump. I don't agree with many of his policies but hey, did the establishment take care of the people?
If we have to couch everything we say online to account for arm chair illogical extremes, then nothing of substance would ever be said.
this looks like a, korean scale:), miscalculation
and about to be corrected, korean style, and for the "court" involved, they better hope its south
rather than northern methods
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A Cold War? I don’t think it feels very cold to the Ukrainians
I will remind everyone that there are a minimum of three identifiers here.

The UID, which is an integer. Ownership resides here; it's the primary key. Can be used by programs.

The username, each of which must be unique and maps to one UID -- but multiple usernames can map to the same UID. Used by humans and programs to login.

The GECOS field, or "human readable name", which is only used as a display label. Some systems include a structure inside this for additional info like phone number, office number, or similar". I don't think anyone would object to UTF-8 here.
I really didn't expect such a response from HN! I guess the Elon energy is still going strong. Thanks for staying polite though :) probably the only place on the internet where polite convos about such a divisive topic/figure/company are still taking place.

Suffice to say, I really don't think drive time comparisons by biased unpaid beta testers is a good way to measure viability in this market. Safety, regulatory cooperation, and ethics branding are going to be paramount, all of which Tesla is known to struggle with, to say the least.

Again though, the biggest problem is technical. I think the evidence is objective and clear that LiDAR guarantees a level of safety unattainable with cameras alone. Not only will this slow down development, it also highlights the issues above; how many more "Tesla swerves into a white semi-truck because the sun was reflecting off of it in a weird way" stories could they survive before backlash? Especially when the passengers are random people instead of invested enthusiasts, many of which have their retirement investments tied up in the company's worth.

You can laugh at Zoox, but A) based on what...? it's still in the R&D phase, there's no consumer product to laugh at, and B) there's certainly a lot of smart people still working on it, and money pouring in. Again, (AFAICT as an outsider-) it's night-and-day compared to orgs Amazon has abandoned, like Alexa.