skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I became a massage therapist by going to school and doing the thing. It took me realistically two years of taking factory work and bartending to (a) figure out where I wanted to fit in the world and (b) to stop identifying as a tech dropout.

For me my greatest motivation was that I wanted to work with people individually, money be damned. I had a supportive spouse and we already lived frugally so I could build a business without (overwhelming) fear of failure.

If you can still stomach office work become an accountant. You’ll use all your analytic skills in a role that is useful to every sized company but your pace of work will be much more constant. Your ability to write small programs and debug excel will make you valuable.
It isn't really whack-a-mole though, because despite the media coverage there is no "TikTok ban bill." Instead it's a "Hostile nation can't own majority stakes in media companies in the US" bill, and this SCOTUS ruling sets the precedent that can be enforced on as many entities as required.

On a more amusing note the Chinese did NOT expect a bunch of Americans to show up on RedNote, and they're not thrilled so far. It seems that sharing details of how to organize labor unions, protest against your government, 3D print weapons, and so on wasn't what they were hoping for either. There's allegedly talk of them siloing off the new joins from abroad.
This is a very partial telling of the current situation.

Orion is delayed due to a heat shield issue: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/nasa-identifies-cause-...

The first SLS launch was six years behind and massively over budget.

Lunar Gateway is almost certainly getting delayed.

None of these programs rely on SpaceX in any way thus far.
> it could really use a lot more explanation on how it works

How Nue works is _extensively_ documented:

https://nuejs.org/docs/

Most of these questions are also addressed in the FAQ:

https://nuejs.org/docs/faq.html

THe Markdown claim is also explained multiple times on this discussion
profit motive does keep the economy going. if you do not believe that youre like a flat earther.
Domestic governments shouldn't let hostile foreign governments the ability to exert soft power over 1/2 of their population. Hence why China banned all USA based tech companies from operating there.
the law doesn’t ban tiktok it just grants discretion to the president to ban tiktok
This can work pretty well if you want to either mask the data in prod or update it in place.

A good use case that comes to mind is using prod data in a retool app or something for your internal team but you want to mask out certain bits.

I’ve been building Neosync [1] to handle more advanced use cases where you want to anonymize data for lower level environments. This is more useful for stage or dev data. Then prod stays completely unexposed to anyone.

It also has a transactional anonymization api too.

[1]: https://github.com/nucleuscloud/neosync
Why just TikTok? Are American corporations immune from coveting thy neighbor's possessions?
Aka because we're the "good" guys
Elon offered a pony. It's no llama but, in a way, handier.
You didn't directly say "this will happen to you", but you are certainly implying that it is something the parent commenter should be worrying about.

It's weird. It's like telling random strangers, who you know nothing about, that they might get cancer. Is it true? Sure, cancer happens, sometimes. But it's weird to remind people about it unsolicited.
Yeah, they definitely won on the embed side. Ruby was also designed for this use case, though I can't think of too many examples, which may hint that the small size and footprint of Lua was important. (There's RGSS in RPG Maker XP.)

Lua on the other hand is all over the place. Wireshark dissectors, OpenResty, game engines, and tons more.

That said, it seems like almost everyone is still embedding Lua 5.1 or forks of it like LuaJIT, and I think a lot of game engine people want slightly different things out of Lua than what it offers, hence offshoots like Luau, GameMonkey script, and Squirrel lang. Maybe it's good that Lua doesn't try to be all things to all people, since it has broad applicability, but it does feel, at least to me, like things could be better. For example, at least having a syntax for types that could be checked externally, like Python. The core shouldn't be bloated up with a module system and package manager, but a CLI tool with that functionality certainly would be nice, could probably be written in Lua. And I do understand why people don't want an all-encompassing standard library, but not having bitwise operators in the language or standard library can be a bit of a drag. That's just my thoughts on the matter, anyway.
This is exactly why I’ve started slinging gen alpha lingo at our daughters: even doing it jokingly makes them cringe enough to stop using it themselves.
Exactly, these are hostile political actors interfering in our country. This is also why Facebook and X should be banned everywhere except the USA.
Incredible stuff, really.
I don't think blindly abiding to copyright is the higher moral instance here, even if it's the law. Knowledge wants to be free, and the way AIs need to be trained now is a sign that copyright laws have become unreasonably restrictive and commercialized.

Not only AIs should be allowed to train on pirated content, humans should too. Copyright laws need to be scaled back so that creators are protected for a reasonable period, but humanity is not gated out of its culture for decades. The cheaper culture distribution has become, the harsher copyright laws have evolved.
First Amendment Right is only for American citizens, no? If you're a visitor to the US for example, you don't get the First Amendment protection against anything, you're a guest. Why doesn't the same principle apply to a foreign company? I don't see how banning tik tok affects your first amendment rights or first amendment rights of American companies - maybe you can explain?
> That the private-sector can trigger crises that have no political or technological fix is on very few pundits' radar.

Interestingly, there seems to a number of cultural solutions to this problem. Like, imagine if the people of LA adopted a fondness for living in dense urban environments, and a reluctance to "live near nature," the problem of wildfires becomes much more tractable. Or for example, a culture of maintenance (forests, power infrastructure, infrastructure fireproofing, risk preparedness, etc.), like outlined in the book "The Innovation Delusion," could very well reduce risk a considerable amount. Unfortunately our civilization is too much stuck in its traditional ways to consider such solutions.
Where is reels, reddit and shorts gonna get all of its most popular content from now?
We have an archiving institution for stuff like that. Relying on a private business to maintain a catalogue is nonsense.
The companies still take risk not obeying the law. Most large publicly traded companies will not task the liability risk based on a wink and a nod.
It's insulting to compare libraries to TikTok.
This is largely a non-starter, though? He can't choose to have it not be a law, he could choose to selectively enforce it. Where selective enforcement is assumed to be no enforcement from your post. But he could, as easily, use it to punish any company he doesn't like that is somehow in breach of it.

And this ultimately puts it in a place where you have to assume that it will be enforced against you. Right?
Do you have any evidence at all or just fear, uncertainty, and doubt?
Xiaohongshu has better sauce than youtube shorts or instagram reels.

Using Chinese social media is cool now.
Wood is incredibly cheap in North America. We're not cutting down forests for it, either. Much of the wood used for residential construction is milled from trees grown specifically for that purpose.
And for every video of quality on the platform, there's one that's blatant political propaganda, one that's blatant conspiratorial misinformation, one that's sexualizing children, etc.

It's a mixed bag. It has no more to offer than any other social network. Less, some might argue, because of how easy it is to crosspost to the other video networks.

The only way this is different from the loss of other social networks, Vine most closely, is the government is shutting down the site and collapsing the ecosystem rather than private equity.
There’s no way that was anything but the automated abort — it was a comprehensive instantaneous rapid event. Or I guess I’d say, however it started, the automated abort kicked in and worked.
The law makes it illegal for Oracle, Apple and Google to continue doing what they are doing. It does in fact make it illegal for some companies to operate with TikTok. The president can use this law in the future on other companies controlled by foreign adversaries to divest or face a ban.
It's not ostensibly, it's an app completely focused on china; did you mean a different word?
I'm sure the other countries are watching this and considering what the US is doing with their data in its apps.
By the given reasoning every official at the EU wonders why they ever allowed Google, Facebook or Twitter to exist.

This is balkanization.
Also, the oligarchs just want us to use their crappy social media sites. This sets the stage for making competition illegal in some ways.
If your source is Dolby Digital, you may not need anything new - just adjusting your settings. Dynamic range compression is a standard feature, and the bitstream should already include the necessary metadata for the decoder to implement this.

It's been a while since I looked into this in detail, but iirc the decoder must automatically enable dynamic range compression when it's set to two channel output. So avoid configurations where you first convert the audio to 5.1 channel PCM or analog, and then apply downmixing or virtual surround.

If you're using a surround system, most receivers have a night mode as mentioned by others already. Some have also an adaptive system that adjusts the dynamic range based on your volume setting - turn it up and you get the full dynamic range, turn it down and the dynamic range is compressed more as you set the volume lower to try to keep the dialog audible. Many receivers include a microphone for automatic settings, and after calibration know the actual output level. The Dolby Digital bitstream (and I think DTS) include a flag to indicate the overall dialog level, and based on these a receiver can do quite a good job. Some I think go only by the DD metadata, others have a compressor that can be applied to any input.
I think the docs [0] are a good way of evaluating the article's high horse claims, and as far as I looked around, I'm not seeing anything new nor interesting. The author seems to be more or less just reimplementing Vue from scratch. This makes the whole condescending tone funny, if not sad.

[0] https://nuejs.org/docs/
Right, Congress was shown some pretty convincing evidence that execs in China pull the strings, and those execs are vulnerable to Chinese government interference.

As we’ve seen in the past couple of weeks, social media companies based in the US are also vulnerable to US government interference — but that’s the way they like it.
No matter what you think of this ban, the court is obviously not the right place to solve it. It is completely unsurprising that this is a unanimous decision because foreign trade is one of the few powers expressly given to the federal government in the constitution:

>[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;[0]

(The actual law may not have relied exclusively on the Commerce Clause, you would have to read it to find out. But from a high level there is nothing stopping congress from regulating any instance foreign trade.)

[0] https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/section-8...
It's good enough.
People lie all the time under oath, they only need to be sure they wouldn't get caught in first place.

Folks are so naive.
Can't think for yourself? This is econ 101. People will try to drive down the cost by:

1) Buying/building smaller houses that cost less to insure.
2) Building using different materials which are less prone to burn.
3) Moving to areas less prone to fires/hurricanes etc
4) Voting for representatives who take this more seriously and install better infrastructure to fight fires/floods.

These are all good ideas which haven't been put in place already because the government has distorted the insurance market so badly people aren't getting the right price signals.
Why is it dehumanizing? What would you suggest instead?
For me it’s super quick to set up, I just put the 40/2 lens on, move two switches (photo/movie selector to movie and mode dial to a user preset position) and drop it into a quick release plate. Plug in HDMI and turn on/off as needed.
Hah financialization strikes again. Try explaining this to a person from a third world country, they would say "what are you talking about". Also they would have better health care than your average American.
I didn't consider the historical context, which several people in this thread provided. I already knew that "/etc" used to literally mean "etcetera" - "whatever doesn't fit elsewhere", but didn't immediately connect the dots that "/etc/glob" was still considered a fixed part of the system, and wasn't meant to be substituted by the administrator.

I won't argue about PHP. I've dealt with it while there was money to be made from that, and moved on as soon as I had the chance. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well it contains cardboard and wood, so it's made of cardboard and wood, among other non-flammables. If I say the house I live in is made of stone, brick, cement and rocks, obviously you know it has windows and insulation, and whatnot. It's still made of stone.
The figure you are looking for is heating/cooling degree-days.

For each day, use the average high and the average low. Subtract the desired maximum dwelling temperature from the average high: if the result is positive, add it to the cooling degree-days total. Subtract the average low from the from the minimum dwelling temperature: if the result is positive, add it to the heating degree-days total.

Over a year, that gives you comparable figures on how much you will need to cool or heat the space. Many agencies calculate this for specific areas.

Here, for example, are the current season numbers for Boston: https://www.massenergymarketers.org/resources/degree-days/bo...

Generic regional numbers for the US:
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/units-and-calculators/de...
From pure PR perspective, it is a win for China; sometimes it is not about the money. US used to be much smarter those kinds of optics.
That can’t be it. Facebook sells the same data to foreign adversaries including China and Russia. The most famous incident involved the British company Cambridge Analytica, which used it to manipulate election outcomes in multiple countries:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook–Cambridge_Analytica...

Edit: Apparently it’s not common knowledge that this is still happening. Here’s a story about a congressional investigation from 2023:

https://www.scworld.com/analysis/developers-in-china-russia-...

And here’s a story about an executive order from Biden the next year. Apparently the White House concluded that the investigation wasn’t enough to fix the behavior:

https://www.thedailyupside.com/technology/biden-wants-to-sto...

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/28/politics/americans-person...

Edit 2: Here’s a detailed article from the EFF from this month explaining how the market operates: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/online-behavioral-ads-...
Specifically, I think it's "take care that the laws be faithfully executed" (Art. II, §3).

Does that mean "If foreign companies don't like our laws, they can pay to have them adjusted"? Seems not very faithful, but I hardly understand that word anymore it feels like.
That is one of the worst cars to own. You will continue to fix it more frequently at an accelerated rate mark my words. So much cheap plastic parts the parts are right at that point where they will fail molecularly and you see an increased rate of failure. To top it off the replacement parts are mostly the same age and those 2 will look new but also fail quickly. Lastly Dodge sucks. They are basically the last car I would ever buy.
My take is that it takes only a small percentage of people to be toxic, for the lack of a better term, for most of the conversation to be toxic. E.g. someone acts inappropriately, then a few people overreact (i.e. follow suit), then whoever isn't interested in thinking in baser terms altogether skips the conversation: ergo, the conversation is dominated by the outraged, divisive minority.
you literally do not know what you’re talking about, source me a number on the “once per mile” intervention - i’ve driven hundreds of miles in waymo and never had an intervention

of course they can scale in a cost effective manner, the operating costs are theoretically the same as just owning a car but they get to amortize it across many different users and don’t have to pay for human labor
Good Docker Files
Not my project but thought this was interesting
Everyone has a new design, maybe I'm more familiar with my Marios than most but I could tell immediately it has a more cartoonish design, and characters have a rubbery kind of stretch and bounce to their animations. You can see it notably on the closeup of Mario where he hops into a drift.

The art style is somewhere between the 2010s bog-standard Mario and Super Mario Bros Wonder.
> 128 billion dollars is equivalent to 200,000 homes, or even more, which does not represent total obliteration,

As of 2023, FL has over 10.4 million homes.

> however, if that level of devastation happened in the UK, the only comparison would be what the Luftwaffe did during WW2.

If you are referring to The Blitz, the numbers I have access to is that over 1.1 million homes and flats were destroyed in London alone.
The constitution applies to everyone within the borders of the country, not just citizens. Tourists still get due process, can say what they want, cannot be forced to house american soldiers in their hotel, etc.

No idea if this applies to companies, but foreign visitors do get protections.
For the same reason Grindr was forced to sell to a non-Chinese parent, the risks of putting some apps / information in the hands of strategic competitors is too high. If a domestic company tried to blackmail people with their sexual history, they face domestic legal accountability. China does not.
I agree with this post. Capitalize on the experience you have in a different way.
Yeah… People just hate being told what they’re not allowed to do.
Then China would just fall back to bombarding them with propaganda on one of the other large social media platforms that are prone to both known and unknown influence.
There are plenty of other places they can upload that content.
They can't afford not to accept it, honestly. They need to work so they don't die.

"A 2023 survey conducted by Payroll.org highlighted that 78% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck"
"71.93% of Americans Living Paycheck to Paycheck Have $2,000 or Less in Savings"
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/banking/living-paycheck-to-pa...
Where was this line of thinking when it was Obama ordering the DEA to not enforce marijuana laws? Where is this line of thinking when it's a city that chooses not to enforce dog breed restrictions?

The enforcement of law being separate from the passage of law is a key plank in a functioning democracy, it's one of the safety valves against tyranny.
>It is very modern meaning of the word. It is almost re-labeled, like "piracy" for copyright infringement.

And people who called themselves anarchists used to be ideologically communist-adjacent. That was well over a century ago.

Words change over time. The definition has been what is has since at least the 1970s, probably longer depending on where you measure. It is not "very modern".
It’s not just the West coast, brick buildings are simply not common all throughout the US, in places fault lines don’t exist.
> Wouldn't the right solution be to protect the citizens from all threats, foreign and domestic?

Indeed, but at the point we are in history the steps to get that done - aka, copy the EU GDPR and roll it out federally - would take far too long, all while China has a direct path to the brains of our children.
That doesn’t seem like that should be possible. He sold his identity for life? Hollywood really does ask for your soul huh.

It would make sense why he’s never even jokingly gone back into that character on his new show.
The concern isn't broadly that "social media companies have data". The concern is the governing environment that those companies operate in, which can be coopted for competing national security purposes.

This isn't a consumer data privacy protection.

The concerns here are obvious: For example, it would be trivial for the Chinese military to use TikTok data to find US service members, and serve them propaganda. Or track their locations, etc.
Tesla also states unequivocally that they do not sell user data: https://www.tesla.com/support/privacy
I assure you, if you read the opinion, that is indeed it, and the objection you raise about other instances of data collection not being targeted is addressed directly.
Rhai: An embedded scripting language for Rust
America has the right to ban since china banned all American tech companies from operating in their nation but this means America could never ever talk about freedom of doing business bs
That may be true in a legal sense (and my reading of that is the same as yours).

My interpretation of the parent’s comment is that we have pretty serious (and dubiously legal) overreach on this in a purely domestic setting as well.

As someone who has worked a lot on products very much like TikTok, I’d certainly argue that we do.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but everyone has different interests from everyone else. That's not a sufficient reason.
The funny this is American teens may start learning Mandarin as a result of this ill-advised ban, which is exactly what the US government doesn't want!
37 here and: yes.
Doesn't courts have the power to ask Apple to actually calculate this number and give the supporting evidence about that? Because judges are not robots and understand that it is really Apple doesn't want to know the number so that it doesn't have to disclose the margin. This is probably not the first a time a company trying this tactic in court. It would be surprising (for me) if not.
Logical Replication in Postgres: Basics
Wildfires can also be avoided by letting forest management people dictate forest management policies instead of environmental activists, and by prioritizing the people that live there over the animals.
A major problem is, that even if I don't click "agree" to EULAs, I have no idea if the companies think I did or not. Also, what prevents someone else from "agreeing" on my behalf without my permission; which apparently happens often when sales people set for their new owners (which I witnessed when I was with my mother when she purchased a new car).
This makes it easier for those 170M users to find new homes with President Musk's X or any of Zuck's advertising products.
This is very misleading "news" and it doesn't illustrate anything, a bunch of users installed rednote out of protest, but this is a fully chinese app with 100% chinese content and 99% of users will move to youtube, instagram, etc

Fake news.
I'd prefer neither nation ban companies they don't like but I only have a voice in one.
Tesla has said that, right on their privacy page. https://www.tesla.com/support/privacy
Public insurance. For housing, healthcare, maybe even cars (since the coprorate political complex insists that we HAVE to drive everywhere).
At some point, we have to accept that the middlemen are siphoning value, not providing any. Vanguard it and let elected admins set the codes.