skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I've noticed in the security compliance space is that asynchronous communication actually works better than calls for complex technical reviews. When security teams handle questionnaires over email, they can pull in the right SMEs at the right time, reference past responses accurately, and give thoughtful, precise answers instead of making stuff up on the spot.

Plus, good documentation is a force multiplier – if you document your security posture well once, you've just saved yourself from explaining the same things over and over on different calls. I've seen companies go from drowning in back-and-forth calls to handling most security reviews purely through email and documentation, with their technical teams only jumping in for the truly novel questions.
AI-written slop.
I think people (Americans) who view China as a geopolitical rival/enemy of the United States?
Thousands of US content creators were earning on TikTok. Now they need to migrate over to other alternatives. Also this is a reminder for all content creators to always plan for failovers. Though I would assume most them already are on multiple platforms.
> Nigeria is or can be controlled by the USA. China is an independent country

Take a step back and consider how ridiculous this is. Every country in the world other than these six [1] is controlled by the U.S.?

[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-15/subtitle-B/chapter-VII...
>They will go where there is the least friction which is likely a Meta or Alphabet product.

Fortunately, I think you're wrong about this. American children will be saying mandarin catchphrases before they start using Instagram Reels.
when i hear stories like that i think it's a ripple of effect of paying out for others but then i also recall seeing how much the industry started paying out to political interests after citizens united, too
My wife transitioned from chemist to marketing manager. The key insight was to break down her resume tasks into transferrable skills.

So "Wrote SOPs for spectrum analysis using CV480 machines" became "Analyzed processes.and wrote detailed plans to spread domain knowledge across team".

The most important thing is to decide as specifically as possible what new role you want to take on and angle everyrhing in that direction. You can't just be open to whoever will take you - make your transition seem inevitable.
At the risk of sounding like a hater there is _nothing_ "Rolls Royce" about a six-channel digital mixer that sells for $1200. No mic pres, tiny unlabeled controls, and six channels of God-knows-what conversion tied together with rudimentary functions implemented in a decade-old $15 DSP SoC is a toy. This is a device for generating Instagram likes, not a serious piece of A/V or music production gear. Under no circumstances should OP buy this.

At least the Pocket Operators are reasonably priced and the OP-1 has some quirky uniqueness to it. The TX-6 is a brazen cash grab on par with their $1600 Ikea table [1].

[1] https://teenage.engineering/store/field-desk
I heard that homomorphic encryption can actually preserve all the operations in neural networks, since they are differentiable. Is this true? What is the slowdown in practice?
There's "doing accounting work for clients as part of a contract" which is not that dissimilar to being an independent contractor on the software side except for 1/3 the pay or less. The work is "easier" but less intellectually stimulating as you're doing the same thing over and over again with different numbers.

Then there's "doing accounting work for a company as part of an accounting department" which is much more likely to be 40h weeks, punch-the-clock type of work. However there can still be crunch time there as the deadlines are real deadlines not VP-pulled-out-of-a-hat deadlines (e.g. tax filing deadlines, SEC reporting deadlines).
>Zuck and Musk don't have armies to back up their propaganda

But they're about to have all three branches of government to back it up.
Sure, and that's why I feel it's a misanthropic take.
Yeah, the ban is interesting because it’s happened before (company being forced to sell or leave), but never to a product used at this scale. There are allegedly 120M daily active users in the US alone. That’s more than a third of Americans using it every day.

While many have a love hate relationship with it, there are many who love it. I know people who aren’t too sad, because it’ll break their addiction, and others who are making really decent money as content creators on it. So generally, you’re exactly right. “Society” is not lashing back at TikTok. Maybe some are lashing back at American social media companies (eg some folks leaving Twitter and meta products).

But if we wanted to actually protect our citizens, we’d enact strong data privacy laws, where companies don’t own your data — you do. And can’t spy on you or use that data without your permission. This would solve part of the problem with TikTok.
> Insurance executives have a fiduciary duty to maximize the profit of the company.

Probably not. Many insurance companies are not "for profit" companies(not a 501c3, something else). Certainly some are, but most of the giant ones, State Farm, etc are not. Most are Mutual Insurance companies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_insurance which handily includes a list of them.

I.e. they are operated more like Vanguard, the investment firm than they are Fidelity(a private for profit company) or Schwab a public for-profit company.

Also, this fiduciary duty thing is not really true, but people think it's true. They do have a duty to work in their shareholders best interests. Lately that's been taken to mean profit above all else, but that's a recent(last few decades) interpretation.

> If the company makes a profit off of treating patients, then it has a financial incentive to not approve treatments that would make patients better.

It depends on if they share the cost(s) of keeping patients healthy or not. Incentives matter. If they are incentivized to keep people healthy, instead of just treating X disease today, it would be a different conversation.

> In other words, if the insurance company refuses to treat you, it costs the government money to pay for welfare indefinitely, not the insurance company.

> There are lots of perverse incentives at work

Agreed. But mostly it's just excess waste as far as I know. I'm not an expert in healthcare, so I'm at best a armchair quarterback here.
I believe this is why a number of products require you to manually activate a free personal license (by clicking a button and agreeing to TOS) in the settings instead of shipping with it. You are then separately licensing the tech from the software vendor and are personally liable for infringements.
Well, yes, because that is the only hope TikTok had - to claim it was targeted because of the speech on TikTok, and not because this is a very boring case of regulating commerce, which as said is well established and has lots of precedent. And their expensive lawyers made it happen, when they should have been looking for buyers. And then SCOTUS unanimously said nah.
> in Fisher's era racial separatism was considered a solution to racism

Not just a solution to racism, but also a defense against genocide. Forced interracial "marriages", rape, etc were used as a genocidal tool against the natives along with murder. Natives who refused to mix with whites were derogatorily called racists by the white settlers.

Miscegenation was actually supported by natives, blacks, asians, etc in order preserve their cultures/races in a white dominated nation. Racism ( by all sides ) actually preserved diversity in the US for centuries. Otherwise, everyone would be white due to demographic realities of the nation.
The title was edited by supposedly HN moderators after I posted it. I actually ran into this youtube channel and thought it was very interesting, since I didn't realize academia seems to make so many mistakes all the time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42728742
Facebook / Meta are not controlled by a foreign adversary as designated by the "Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act". Thus they cannot become subject to the distribution restrictions designated by that law.

The core factor in the law is control by a foreign adversary, it's not a law that outlaws data collection.
The Hebrew alphabet does not include vowels.
But, they're also something like our third biggest trading partner. China is like a Schroedinger's Adversary: Simultaneously an adversary and a friend, until you ask a politician and the wave function collapses and he picks one.
> Of course, people who have no moral principles about transfer payments (as long as they are transfer payments to themselves) support it.

Aren't all democratic elections about electing the person who will transfer wealth into the voters' hands? I think all voters have no qualms about transfer payments.

> Even if you total up all the money gained and lost on bitcoin, the total will be the same amount, whether expressed in dollars, euros, or rubles: Zero.

Not exactly, because the fiat denominator is inflated away by the printing of bank reserves , but the bitcoin supply is fixed and constant forever. That's what it means to hold an appreciating hard asset relative to fiat, in my opinion.

> the government just taking taxpayer money and giving it to owners of bitcoin.

Taxpayer money is a bit of a smokescreen in my opinion. The debt-to-gdp ratio is where the real story of government expenditure.
That’s exactly the kind of nightmare scenario that inspired us to create Prelude (https://prelude.so/). Authentication flows are targeted by fraud like SMS pumping that leaves companies with super high bills that make no business sense.

Our API helps apps take control of their SMS verification costs by proactively blocking fraudulent and suspicious verification attempts before they ever trigger an SMS. On top of that, we let users set daily limits as an additional safety net, so surprises like this don’t happen.
I don’t know the details of this app’s corporate structure, but if it’s developed here and user data stays here it would not qualify under the act. Based on the context of your and other comments I assumed it was also a foreign-controlled app
At least for PCR 7, it's well specified and documented how the digest is generated. You can dump the component digests of a PCR using `tpm2_eventlog`, and I've written a tool that can be used to populate the requisite data structures for hashing.

https://github.com/balena-os/tcgtool
In a fire sale the seller has no leverage.
Bytedance was trying to make your argument. The ruling is that the first ammendment doesn't apply and that was always a stretch for Bytedance as illustrated by the unanimous decision.
I get you. The techies in here won't, they think it's fun to drink liquified cereal waste.
Did you try this with Julia too? Their vector & matrix support is literally first class.
The government doesn't care about addictive anything, this is about control and access. If they cared about life or citizens in general they would fix healthcare and maybe introduce any kind of gun control. This is the same government that was slanging cocaine in the 1980's...
Tbh, what you describe sounds nothing like forcing opium on a people.
If mexico invaded and started making meth in the US, or started sending even more meth into the US than they do now by totally taking over the border, I would not begin taking meth.
IMO first-or-not is moot. It’s estimated that around one billion people speak English to a reasonably fluent level. Included in that is many of the commonwealth countries in which English often holds second spot as a lingua franca (eg. India). It’s an incredibly global language.
It’s not the same, no. I provided the link because it’s what I assume the OP is referring to.

Limiting use to 40 minutes is not a ban but it still shows a view that extended exposure to it is harmful. To turn it on its head, if more than 40 minutes is viewed harmful for Chinese youth, why not American?
> So what is this prediction he made, anyway, and why is it so impressive? Well, in 1914, six months prior to the outbreak of World War 1, Durnovo wrote a truly remarkable ~7,600-word memorandum for Tsar Nicholas II and his top 2 or 3 ministers, which we know was given to them, since it was found in Nicholas' papers and later published in 1922 by communist historians after the revolution. If they had only read it carefully and took its warnings more seriously, the world we live in today might look very different! So what did this memorandum say exactly? If you'd like to read it in its entirety in English, which is well worth doing, you can see it here.

> But I will describe its contents here, and why it was all so impressive. First of all, it carefully laid out a logical argument about the state of the world, and then proceeded to make a very large number of predictions— nearly every single one of which ended up coming true in the coming years.

> For one, it predicted an imminent war on the horizon, which he ultimately blamed on the collision course between England and Germany, which were the two greatest industrial powers at the time. This was certainly not some earth shattering or special prediction; a lot of people predicted some kind of big conflict, and it was often said that "war was in the air" at the time. In fact, Otto von Bismarck famously said back in 1888 that "One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans," which is often viewed as particularly prescient given the importance of the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in setting off World War I.
Can't speak for every app but I've worked on several through the years, a sizeable chunk of all the apps I've worked on were assets. It's possible to hide a lot of it from the app store size if you really wanted to but you'd end up downloading all the assets at some point anyway so there's really no point in putting the extra engineering effort in just to make your app store number look smaller.

This obviously isn't the case for every app and most of the ones I've worked on had a lot of bloat/crap in them as well.
Creating and distributing in the USA, sure. That is allowed. This is why the government isn't regulating Chinese content on Instagram, for example.

The issue here is that TikTok "content" (aka the algorithm that decides what content you get to see) is created abroad and controlled from abroad. The data collected by the app goes abroad. So then it becomes an import/export issue, and the government can and does regulate that.

This is why the government has already agreed to letting TikTik be run by a US entity. You can have the same content and same algorithm, just kept within the borders of the USA.
It’s not exactly watermarking; each encoder works in a different way and it’s readily possible to determine (for one versed in such matters) which encoder was used to generate a video by inspecting the structure of the raw (eg h264) bitstream. This might not work reliably enough for simpler codecs like JPEG but for something as complicated as modern video codec where there are a million ways to generate a compatible payload it is as unique as a fingerprint.
> I'm sure I could run it at those costs.

Are you counting the surely enormous amount you would have to pay Apple for the privilege of being the App Store?
in Morocco most of the adults speak French and Arabic, so when they need to speak to an Englisher they get some kids over to help because they all speak English from TikTok
TikTok is banned in China. We're just joining in
It draws a compelling portrait in people's minds. Everybody knows how easily sticks burn.
UK Recovery Handbook for Radiation Incidents 2024 [pdf]
I get that terms get overloaded especially when mixing between electronics, signal processing, and commercial products. But in the context of audio signal processing that would not be called a "limiter" - it's a clipper or clamper. You won't see products advertised as a "hard" or "soft" limiter - but you will see "hard clipper" or "soft clipper" used to describe that behavior.

The distinction is that limiters and other dynamic range processors do not use clipper circuits/algorithms directly, they have an amplifier controlled by a feedback or feedforward signal path as the gain computer. The amplifier may create harmonic distortion, or harmonic distortion can be created if an envelope follower in the feedback/forward path is configured in a certain way, but it isn't the design or intention of a limiter to clip.

Limiters can can clip if there's a clipper after the gain reduction which happens in some designs where the limiter is load bearing or uses a feedback path and no lookahead, but those are pretty rare these days since the entire point of a limiter is to avoid distortion.

A good book that covers the design and theory of operation is Zolzer's Digital Audio Signal Processing. It's relevant even for analog designs, since the topology of the designs are the same.
The Democrats didn't lose because Harris didn't get a primary. Literally no one but Republicans who would never have voted for her to begin with cared about that.

Democrats lost because they keep triangulating and trying to appeal to centrist Republicans who either don't exist, or would never vote for them regardless. If Harris had distinguished herself from Biden by taking a firm stance against the Palestinian genocide - which was the single issue much of her base cared about - she would have won.

Also, Trump didn't win in a landslide. It was a close election, and Trump definitely won the popular vote, but the margins were still about 51% to 49%.
The case is entirely about speech, and the various levels of scrutiny that apply to laws that violate the First Amendment. You should read the decision before commenting on what was argued and decided in said decision.
That's entirely reasonable, but I think it's unlikely to make a difference in most cases.
If you think of it like a hick farmer would

OK, let's do that. But we need to use an example where there are two or more outputs under 'joint supply'. Otherwise it's not analogous to the situation with Apple's ecosystem.

Let's figure out the profit margin on wool from your sheep farm. Each month:

- Your wool revenue is $1000
- Your mutton revenue is $1000
- Your total costs (feed, labor, etc.) are $1000

What's your profit margin on wool?

Most people will try to split the costs 50/50 since revenues are equal, making wool's margin (1000 - 500)/1000 = 50%.

But then ask them: What if wool prices double, so now:

- Wool revenue is $2000
- Mutton revenue is still $1000
- Total costs still $1000

Should wool's costs still be $500? Or should they now be $667 since wool is 2/3 of revenue? The margin would be either:

A) (2000 - 500)/2000 = 75%
B) (2000 - 667)/2000 = 67%

Which is right? There's no correct answer, because any cost allocation between wool and mutton is arbitrary. We can calculate the total profit margin for the farm, but not for individual products.
https://www.deseret.com/2022/11/24/23467181/difference-betwe...

"It’s almost like they recognize that technology is influencing kids’ development, and they make their domestic version a spinach version of TikTok, while they ship the opium version to the rest of the world,”
if US government says who is allowed to buy and buyers collude (by pooling financial and political capital together) they can easily not fight a bidding war and lowball instead
Because there is none. Freedom is a game. Are you really free to bake your own bread? (Think about wheat, mills, water, salt, yeast, energy, oven...).

I simply point to the fact that you have no control. Just it's illusion.

Ask yourself, how can law enforcement push a software trojan into any mobile phone without physically touching it.
The Shuttle program only failed to recover 4 SRB's out of 270 launched - and 2 of those were on Challenger.

Why should we care what you think if you can't get something that basic right?
I don't know about Shorts but Instagram has solved the addiction problem by ignoring signals like the user tapping "not interested" or scrolling past videos quickly. They just show junk.
The majority of Supreme Court decisions are unanimous, including on major issues. The recent trend of divided opinions is relatively new.
GitHub stars are not an invitation to send me spam
china banned US apps like since forever.
It's a variable reward dopamine hit generator.
iOS 18.3 beta disables news notification summaries after high-stakes errors
That last sentence needs to be taught in every civics class.

They could have a week of the teacher repeating that single sentence for the entire period
Many people here upset about this.

Here's what recently happened in Romania, all through TikTok.

Turns out China (or here, Russia) infiltrated the country, waged an enormous disinformation campaign and succeeded by getting their chosen candidate elected. Without TikTok, this would not have happened. I have talked about this with Romanians who concur.

In the real world, there are two responses to this.

1. "Tough luck, it's too late now, should just stand by and watch the country get taken over".

2. "Ban it and future popular big platforms controlled by a foreign adversary".

That's it. We'd all love for something inbetween. It's not happening, all such options would end up becoming 1). That's the state of the modern day world.

The facts that

A. They seem to rather abandon the app rather than receive tens of billions by selling it

B. "The Chinese government also weighed a contingency plan that would have X owner Elon Musk acquire TikTok’s U.S. operations"

C. The remaining mountains of evidence that it is a CCP tool

Mean that the arguments of Congress here are valid and this is the right decision. It is a tool directly controlled by a foreign adversary, for geopolitical, not profit-oriented, purposes. This is nothing like the PATRIOT act or other moves by governments that claim "protect the children" or "protect against terrorism" for some ulterior motive of surveillance or worse. It might be a rarity, but in this case the claims by Congress are factual and a sufficiently good reason.
I liked the idea! However I do have a few pieces of feedback

1. Switching between mobile and desktop modes resets the progress

2. When I complete a lesson, an explanation is given but I'm given just a few seconds to read it, and then the game forcefully continues to the next lesson. Sometimes I could miss the explanation.
Nope. This is not about "live coding." It is just about creating MIDI - live or not. I do reference the modules you can use for real-time operation: MIDI::RtMidi::FFI::Device and MIDI::RtMidi::ScorePlayer :)

-Gene
> So to say "we are not even close" seems strange. If LLMs continue to improve, they will be comparable to mid level developers in 2-3 years, senior developers in 4-5 years.

These sorts of things can’t be extrapolated. It could be 6-months, it could be a local maxima / dead end that’ll take another breakthrough in 10 years like transformers were. See self-driving cars.
>because it doesn't not have the agressive filtering and CPP propaganda in place to operate in China

Do you believe that all Chinese media is part of a propaganda machine?

Do you believe the same of American or French media?
You are correct, I ignored the "static" point. My nvi size was dynamically
linked. I want to learn static builds, even thought my distro of choice LFS is
not very forthcoming in this respect.