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I don't create for TikTok, I have never had a TikTok account, and I don't use TikTok, outside of being exposed to videos on other sites, or occasionally clicking a link.

I had been exposed to DouYin before, but my first experience of TikTok in real life was someone at a party, holding their phone, exclaiming something along the lines of "I can't look away, it's so addictive." It was uncomfortable, and I'm aware of how fake this sounds, but it happened.

But I think this is very bad.

With Section 230 in crosshairs, EARN IT being reintroduced every year or two, and access to books and sites being fragmented across the US, things are very already bad, and have the potential to get much worse. TikTok being banned is censorship, and presents a significant delta towards more censorship.

Congress didn't just "ban TikTok", Congress banned its first social media. This is case law, this is precedent, this is a path for banning other social media apps.

I think this is bad because I think this is the start of something new and something bad for the internet.
Never heard of it before, interesting!
Redesigning UI for AI Agent browser use
It seems clear AI agents are going to start using the software we all designed for humans, whether we want them to or not. Is anyone redesigning their UI/UX or API to allow Agent use? I’d like to explore best practices with other technical leaders.

Some of my thoughts are here: https://fromzero.ghost.io/redesigning-browser-ux-ui-what-ai-agents-expect-and-need/
I noticed you used scare quotes...is that because you and your team don't think simplicity is valuable?
Everyday Astronaut is Tim Dodd.
But what is the point of all this data? People don’t live forever or have unlimited exploitable LTV, so there is a very narrow window of time for where this data is useful for a given population. Is the goal to just use it to influence elections?
It's a bit hard for me to tell the intention here. Is the idea that finite fields can take better advantage of CPU architecture than something like SIMD for parallel computation? Or is this just for experimentation?

Edit: this tickles my brain about some similar seeming sort of programming language experiment, where they were also trying to express concurrency (not inherently the same as parallelism) using some fancy math. I can't remember what it was though?
I use it every day!
> Build much bigger sewer pipes

Great, now in a storm surge (which is the most destructive part of most hurricanes), you have built an effective system for transferring rising seawater into your urban area!

> and river beds.

Great, now you've completely eradicated the delicate ecosystem that was living there and everything that depends on it.

> Build houses higher.

That is how a lot of coastal houses are built. But now you're more susceptible to wind damage, so you're playing a risk balancing game.

Every time a natural disaster shows up, nerds starting inventing solutions. I love the optimistic spirit behind that impulse. But at the same time, people living in those areas, including generations of civil engineers, having been thinking about this a lot longer than us.

The solutions are known but most either have even worse externalities, or simply take a long long time to roll out.

Any solution relating to housing is particularly slow to ship because, surprise, people don't like being forcibly kicked out of their homes. So houses basically only get upgraded at the rate that people die.
A quick demo of searching for specific details and complex terms in vlogs

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fjIonFUl5J7zkZNjrbkMMsCGNl7...
Lenovo to Acquire Infinidat
Curious what people think. Any insiders who don't mind sharing their opinion here?
Rosalind Franklin didn't figure out how to crystalize the DNA, they were doing fiber diffraction. Similarly, the films were collected by her student Raymond Gosling. She shared her work at a department seminar and published it internally (Crick didn't "steal" it). And she was also published in the same exact journal of Nature.

The reason W&C won the prize is that not only did the propose the (close to correct) structure, they realized it was a antiparallel double helix, and deduced the underlying mechanism for genetic replication: "It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material." and also made a few key observations about isomerization in bases that allows for G/C and A/T pairing to be specific.

Crick was a genius, although he also went off-piste with panspermia, and Watson is just an asshole. Franklin was a great scientist but it's not clear at all that she should have or would have received the prize.
Why would sharding and hash be difficult to translate when they use metaphors that are easy to visualize in a "physical" context ?
And you can only buy one game at a time, and have to enter your password in for each one? I like to do all my game research and shopping in one evening and buy 3-4 games at a time. If there's a way to do this I would love to know how!
I think it's just "-x". It should select the best audio quality automatically.
I imagine you'll get the same content on YouTube shorts or Facebook reels? I don't like using apps, so I never bothered with Tiktok, but tiktok watermarks are still on most of the short videos I view, content creators are either putting their work on multiple platforms, or someone else is ripping it off and putting it on different platforms.
I suspect this is just AI slop.
Yup. Bingo. We've had to pass the cloud egress costs onto our customers, which sucks.

With this, it'll mean we can slash that in half, lower storage costs, remove "per seat" pricing, etc

Super exciting
It’s the same font data but not the same rendering code. The spacing between the characters is probably different.
> Don't we need to have a pretty low opinion of the average american cognitive skill

Well, half the country voted for a convicted felon who _illegally tried to overturn the results of an election_, so yeah, it's pretty low.

> democracy is no longer a viable form of government because the public is also too stupid to vote.

"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others" -- Churchill

It's flawed, but still miles better than what China has. At least there are still some safeguards on Trump, unlike Xi.
I too got thrown off by what they said. Not that the article was really worse off for it, but it took me a moment to parse the meaning.
> It's weird when people praise home-cooked meals, because I've found restaurants that have great food. Heck, I've been to various traditional sit-down restaurants where they bring you the food in one minute and is faster than standing in line at McDonald's.

It's also weird when people praise home-cooked meals and even restaurants but diss McDonald's. As I'm fond of saying, the difference between cooking and process engineering is that the latter actually cares about quality of outcome.

There's a lot of stuff you simply can't make at home, because the necessary equipment is beyond what's allowed in residential conditions (think e.g. pizza ovens, which run 100-200°C hotter than where consumer ovens max out), and on top of that, standard cooking appliances have little to no means of quality and consistency control - it's only industry that bothers with such things.
I think I get it. You're using the Ring isomorphism from the Chinese Remainder Theorem to do "parallel computation". This is the same principle as how boolean algebra on binary strings computes the pairwise results of each bit in parallel. Unfortunately, there's no free lunch - if you want to perform K operations on N-bit integers in parallel, you still need to work with (K * N)-bit-wide vectors, which is essentially what SIMD does anyway.
Strangely the original study misstates the direction of the main finding, contradicting itself directly.

Is this a typo, or something more nefarious?

From the abstract:

Multiple regression analyses revealed that individuals with higher AIS scores had higher daily potassium intake

From the body of the paper (supported by the results):

Multiple regression analysis indicated that individuals with a higher potassium intake had lower AIS scores.
A nice tradeoff in many cases is to have a separate schema rather than a separate database, which allows preserving referential integrity and using the database’s RBAC to restrict access to the schemas. This also means things like cascading deletes can still work.
Static means something different in the context of trust on the web. An entirely static page without JS means you can reason about the page, know it will still work if saved locally etc. A static HTML that loads JS could do anything, like reporting your access to Google, or blocking your viewing if the date is April 1st or whatever, or breaking if it gets saved to archive.org.

File hashes only indicate the file and or hash weren't modified in transit, you can't know which party created the hash, and whether to trust that party, since they aren't authenticated from developer to browser, only from the server to the browser. Even if there were end-to-end authentication and there were a web of trust that could be used for authenticating developer keys, you can't trust code without auditing it, and you can't audit JS on most sites, because it is almost always minified/obfuscated or huge.

I expect it is unlikely Mastodon would care about JS hashes, because they are delivered by the instances rather than a CDN, and each instance can run a different version of the code, and each instance can modify the code as they please.

As above, many/most sites work fine, or much better without JS. The ones that don't can be dealt with using external tools like yt-dlp gallery-dl zygolophodon etc.
So what are you actually claiming here? Do you think these comments are coming from fake accounts?
They've been doing it with Wikipedia for years.
Everyone outside of the US already knows the American three letter agencies and their allies like the Mossad can access, hack or destroy all their networks if push comes to shove. Most network services all over the world are run on infrastructure owned by a handful of American companies with deep defense and government ties - AWS, Google, MS.

As other powers arise, they will naturally want equivalence. The American government may decide that is not in their interest to make this easy - but I'd suggest as Hacker News community, we retain the ability to see beyond propaganda and balance contrary viewpoint.In this case (or the case on Nippon steel),how does one differentiate between "security" considerations and potentially a straightforward cash grab attempt by rich American investors?
As of January 2024, the average price of a new car in the United States was $47,401. Since the cars are 1-3 years old, $100k a notable bit higher than average but not really by much.
This is actually a very good point that nobody else has commented on. The very definition of lightness is somewhat ambiguous. I would argue that vividness itself is a unique axis, separate from saturation.

But which axis you care about is very context specific.
No. Fact checkers have absolutely been proven to have lied and manipulated results. They have not been proven to tell the truth.
Except that falls apart with services like this. "the market" can't create competition. You aren't going to get competing sewer lines, electrical wires etc running down every single street in an area

Companies will (and have done for decades now) carve up neighborhoods and slowly raise prices as far as they can get away with until they get smacked by regulation (if at all)

Comcast alone is living proof of this
It's hilarious how gullible hn is. All you gotta do is put GPU and math buzzwords in your README and you'll automatically be upvoted.

This was discussed on Reddit - this is not actually finite field arithmetic.

Also you can go to this dudes GitHub and see exactly how serious this project is.

https://github.com/LeetArxiv/Finite-Field-Assembly

Lol
Data Sharing Restrictions Are Hampering Precision Health in EU
Security reasons, I presume? Otherwise it would be trivial for an adversary to map out their resources by sampling VM rentals over a moderate time-period.
Then why are private insurers being pushed out of California?
Can someone explain in unambiguous terms why people are so drawn specifically to TikTok? I have tried TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts, and they are all basically the same--algorithmically-driven feeds of short videos. I don't see how banning TikTok is such a big problem, just use one of the other apps.
Makes sense. On my sony camera (a7iv), it does continuous autofocus in video mode. You don't need to hit the record button - just set the focus mode to AFC (autofocus continuous) and it does its thing.

I also just tried connecting it as a webcam over USB, and it does continuous autofocus when set up like that too. I'm sure it uses more power, but the camera can power itself over the USB port while connected, so thats not a problem.
I don't think that's true when the add overflows. You wouldn't want a lane's overflow to carry into an adjacent lane.
There's a big gap between "accept AC" and "build a megapolis in a city named after a bird that bursts into flames."

Phoenix is a slow-rolling disaster regardless of whether it's easier to heat or cool a room to comfort.
Surely there are rates at which they’d would insure the area? And you have shared no data on who is or is not willing to pay those rates.
Yup that's exactly what this is and thus, notably, it is not actually about finite fields.
To be clear, the outages I'm referring to are not when you hit your billing cap. Try designing a billing system for a cloud provider that implements caps, while still retaining the performance necessary for the services you're providing to make sense, and without introducing huge, common, failure modes.
A couple video interviews with the inventor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMQYAqIxK1s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U_KbgF-sAc
> Here in the seismically stable UK

I don't think the US has enough seismic activity to be much different. Chile and Japan do fine with solid construction and periodic 6-8 Richter earthquakes.
California is allegedly a seismic state within the USA and it rarely sees a 4 degree one, and when it happens it makes it to the US national news (and sometimes even to the news back home, but as a comedy break because people don't even think about getting out of bed if it's not a 6).

I'm not sure about hurricanes, but maintenance can't be much different as rotten wood and moldy bricks are both a problem. Maybe insulating bricks is more expensive?

> This lesson is taught in history classes to 10 year olds, and they don't tend to go into other countries' construction traditions, or reasons not to use bricks.

Cultural differences don't help here, in the US people think about rebuilding homes way more often than people in Europe, so there's this mindset that the home doesn't need to last that long because it will be rebuilt anyways. This shorter life span, "freedom" and profits thanks to lower costs also call for little regulation that forces the building code to aim to survive the regional disasters from the past 60+ years. California's fire code is probably an outlier, but SF had to burn down for the regulation to come out.
All valid points - and our ideas for Gen 2 sound directionally similar - but those are at crayon drawing stage.

When we started, we didn't have much of an idea about what the rack needs to look like. So we chose a combination of things we thought we could pull this off. We're mostly software and systems folks, and there's a dearth of information out there on what to do. Vendors tend to gravitate towards selling BGP+EVPN+VXLAN or whatever "enterprise" reference designs; so we kinda YOLO'ed the Gen 1. We decided to spend extra money if we could get to a working setup sooner. When the clock is in cloud spend, there's uh... lots of opportunity cost :D.

A lot of the chipset and switch choices were bets and we had to pick and choose what we gambled on - and what we could get our hands on. The main bets this round were eBGP to the hosts with BGP unnumbered, SONiC switches - this lets us do a lot of networking with our existing IPv6/Wireguard/eBPF overlay and a debian based switch OS + FRR (so fewer things to learn). And ofc. figuring out how to operationalise the install process and get stuff running on the hardware as soon as possible.

Now we've got a working design, we'll start iterating a bit more on the hardware choice and network design. I'd love for us to write about it when we get through it. Plus I think we owe the internet a rant on networking in general.

Edit: Also we don't use UniFi Pro / Uniquity gear anywhere?
Yeah, B/W film was definitely not all that accurate. It was a common practice to use weird makeup, lighting, colors, in order to create a B/W film image that looked correct (see chocolate used for blood).

So in those cases, filmmakers had to counteract the limitations of the b/w transformations in the actual sets.
India also banned TikTok a while ago
I like this one (from low level SC2)... I'll not saywhat it is about exactly for spoilers' sake (avoid the comments) :

https://youtu.be/gLVJq2MHHmk
I'd like to see less pervasive chronic use of media, so would hope Canada follows suit, but I don't think banning specific services for political reasons is necessarily a good way to get there. Along with other toxic outlets like gambling, we should be able to make coherent judgements about what belongs and what doesn't based on assessments of well-being indicators that evolve over time. I know it's a fairly conservative take, but it's one I'm happy with, and have a hard time seeing how we're better off with the existence of things like TikTok that provide such an easy way to siphon off human hours in a way that few things other than TV before.

Incidentally, I feel almost controversial for seeing more ads for alcohol and gambling than anything else, and thinking "when did we agree it was a good thing to be more permissive about encouraging objectively addicting risky behavior?".
It's my understanding you can't do it with any one fe framework really as they work with mfes so it sort means yes you can with jquery
Direct link to the message in the video: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/01/14/3
I don't know for sure, but based on my knowledge as a user, I'd guess it could be something like delivering usage logs from points of presence in the CDN. PoPs can go offline regularly, they're highly dependent on other people's networks, 2 days might be the arbitrary line that has been drawn that gets enough of them in most circumstances, while not being too annoying for customers.
And this is why so many in the industry mistake selling $70k for $30k as "product market fit".
From a geopolitics standpoint, the effective question here is “whose guns are the owners of the company worried about?” Elon is a bit of an outlier here because he’s effectively bought the government now, but in theory, if the US government decides to arrest Elon and seize his assets, that’s a big problem for Elon, whereas if China does, that’s a lesser problem for him (yes, Tesla, I know). It’s the same reason the US banned Huawei from US telecoms: the US government can’t threaten Huawei like they can Cisco.

None of this is a normative statement - I’m not saying that this is good or bad, but if you want to know why the US government thinks Elon is better than ByteDance, it’s because they can shoot Elon tomorrow if they decide to, but they can’t shoot Zhang Yiming without causing an international incident.
Robots might be 1000x harder than superintelligence
What makes you say that? I've seen several cases where an over-usage of branchless programming actually slowed things down. Especially once you get past 2 nested conditionals (so 4+ pathways) you do just end up executing a lot of ultimately-unused code. In fact this has been going the other direction, in some ways, for a little while now: people overestimate how much branches cost, particularly small, local, and easy-to-predict ones.
The last SLS launch was in November 2022. The next one is in April 2026. That is 42 months between launches.

Starship may not go 42 days before the next launch. SpaceX's Falcon 9 + Heavy has launched on average once every 12 days since 2010.

And while Starship was "in development" since 2012, that doesn't mean it was prioritized. The first prototypes were only made in 2018.
> I worry less about the data and more about how a lot of kids, teens, and young adults get their news from TikTok (and social media in general).

Fox News* is America's most watched television news source. Is this the kind of alternative you are envisioning?

*Also owned by a foreign national
There is no legal way to ban FB -- nor would there be any way to ban TT if it were not owned and controlled by a foreign power.
yes, it's called lasers.
Sure, but all the interesting data is stored in a subtree that mostly won't even show on that list. In fact, there doesn't seem to be a way for a user of non-rooted phone to view this data. This sucks.
Those look like they require an account to use. zygolophodon is different, it is a read-only client for use without an account. It uses the same APIs used by the JavaScript based client that instances serve to visitors.
In my experience, that'd turn into a list of exceptions, rather than actually fixing the problem.
> I'm getting my math PhD and I built this language around my area of expertise, Number Theory and Finite Fields.

Your LinkedIn says you're an undergrad that took a gap year 10 months ago (before completing your senior year) to do sales for a real estate company.
It seems that pretty much everybody here is confused by this article. One user even accused it of LLM plagiarism, which is pretty telling in my opinion.

I for one have no clue what anything I read in there is supposed to mean. Emulating a GPU's semantics on a CPU is a topic which I thought I had a decent grasp on, but everything from the stated goals at the top of this article to the example code makes no sense to me.
Your argument sounds like it's straight out of a CCP playbook.
I’m very naive on the subject here - what advantage would this give someone?
The right price is the market price. There are multiple insurance providers and sufficient competition. And certainly the time to raise the limits is when companies are leaving the state?
> and the best way to prevent that is to use SafetyNet and other similar mechanisms.

It's not the best way to prevent it. It's the easiest way for the bank to avoid liability.

The ugly truth of cybersecurity is that, in the real world, most of it is an exercise in shifting liability around and diffusing it. Making systems actually secure is not necessary.
Not only this, Meta will need to fight many governments around the world with its new non-fact checking policy.

I bet the EU and other countries will start giving them more fines.

Would be nice to see some competition though, that isn't either Tiktok or Instagram.