skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What in the world are you talking about? This is completely incoherent.

There's literally a POSIX specification at https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/

Do you seriously not think the people who author Node, et al aren't looking at POSIX, the C Standard Library, Linux, macOS, Windows and moving down the list in that order?

Where do you think all of `node:fs` comes from? Because I sure don't see GetFileAttributesEx there.

Or who could forget good old CreateDirectoryA? I guess Bun didn't get the memo.
IANAL, but my lay opinion is that thanks to the foreign commerce clause this would be a matter of rational basis.

So quite likely Congress could craft such a law and have it hold up, if it could show that foreign control of the NYT (which is incidentally the case) posed a national security concern.
I'm reading this discussion while smh. Looking at a high temperature of -10F on Sunday!
I actually really appreciate USB devices that masquerade as a storage device to provide their own drivers. I suppose in this day and age the "right" thing to do is to upload a bunch of stuff to microsoft servers so that it downloads whatever is needed upon getting plugged in, but I've observed enough stuff needing manually installed drivers to know that this isn't as apparently easy as it may appear to be. (For example, I very often need to download vendor-specific ADB drivers)

Anyways, I think it's clever for peripherals to help you bootstrap, and having the drivers baked into the device makes things a little easier instead of trying to find a canonical download source.
I think it's fascinating that lack of information can generate both belief and disbelief in equal amounts.

For example, it took a while for germ theory to gain acceptance. People cannot see germs, so it's hard to believe in then. But people also fervently believe in ghosts and bad luck, neither of which can be seen.

Both are ultimately "caused" by a lack of information. When the lack itself is enticing because it creates mystery, it invites fantastic theories and superstition, but if it's not, it generates doubt and resistance.

Conspiracy theories resonate because you can always form a picture that explains the mystery in an enticing way in the same primitive way that weather must be created by the gods and ghosts are responsible for strange sounds in the attic.

This kind of dichotomy between credulity and incredulity is seen everywhere where humans need to deal with the absence of clear information. What I find fascinating is that while science has given us tons of powerful tools to reveal the unseen, we are still so powerfully drawn to the opposite side.
Well, if the FreeBSD installer would set that up for me, I probably would have done it that way, but lazy, and I don't reboot that often.
What exactly is being forbidden here?

Outlawing installing a program ("app" being short for "application program") on your computer (even if it is called a "telephone" it is obviously a computer)? Surely there cannot be laws against running whatever program you want on your computer.

Outlawing access of such a program to the Internet? Obviously that cannot be possible, that would be a "Bill of Attainder" (a law against a specific person or group) which is illegal.

Outlawing access to the servers to which that program communicates? Likewise a Bill of Attainder, and illegal.

So what exactly is being done here? No-one is explaining
OKR for the open source kubernetes, kubevirt for the virtualisation part.
This is like saying that you don't care about free speech because you don't have anything to say right now. It's no where close to being a justification.
You need a powerful light source such as a LED laser or a high power LED. Also the setup is not super trivial. To set up for non optics people.
Another big step towards a Star Trek replicator.
> American companies have been doing the job for them.

This right here is the answer. People just don’t care about this type of privacy because they assume some American company already has their data. Combine that with us being two generations removed from the Cold War and the average TikTok user doesn’t see any reason why the owner of this specific data being Chinese matters and frankly I’m sympathetic to that argument. If you live in the US, someone like Musk is going to have a greater influence on your life than the Chinese government and I see no reason to trust him any more or less than the Chinese government. So any discussion of this being a matter of national security just rings hollow.
I mean let's not pretend that an app on the vast majority of peoples phones isn't a non-trivial vector for a zero-day attack.

If there is an invasion of Taiwan, I don't think it would be unthinkable that everyone's phones being broken wouldn't be a major tactical and political advantage of shifting the US's priorities and political will in the short run.

Sure, it burns the asset in the process, but I mean... this has been a priority for an entire century.
This is an article about how 52 factorial is a very, very large number.

That's pretty much it.
> If they can't calculate it how do they know they're not losing money?

If they were losing money, what would they do? They probably can't raise their rates, since people are already very unhappy with their current rates, so it would be a hard sell given how much the company as a whole makes. They can't close the App Store, since it would flush their entire iPhone line down the toilet. Could they lower costs? Probably—cut back on reviewers, get rid of the promotional pages they create. I dunno.
Why is it okay that it's collected by any?

And furthermore, why is it okay that it's collected AND owned by a company based in a country not subject to the rule of law?

"Facebook does it too" isn't a reason not to be worried about TikTok.
It was based on some reports (or podcast? I can't remember) that the California government didn't allow the insurers to sufficiently increase their premiums in the burnt areas. The government (or the insurers) cited two reasons: there was a rule that the annual increase should be no more than 7%, and that if they want to make an exception then the insurers must increase the premiums for all the insured areas instead of setting the price by risk. As a result, the insurers stopped insurance renewal for about 60% of the burnt properties. I assume the intention is to protect the insured or to ensure certain equity, hence the use of the term "ideology". FWIW, it thought it was a neutral term, implying that it's a strongly held fundamental belief.
The Scotus case linked to here by others has noted the possibility of tying networks of contacts to Tiktok user profiles, and network mapping political groups in Taiwan can be leveraged to support any number ventures to disempower the island's democracy-favoring majority.
Yes exactly! In the beginning people used also the Radon transform.
But it cannot account for effects such as scattering or refraction properly.
Swedish Exports of Ball Bearings
Yes, you can talk to a person. That person may not have any relevant information though, and is generally not empowered to find any information.
Story of a Pentester Recruitment
I'm surprised you guys are building new!

Tons of Colocation available nearly everywhere in the US, and in the KCMO area, there are even a few dark datacenters available for sale!

cool project none-the-less. Bit jealous actually :P
Given how politics and companies evolved, I actually trust those people in charge of XKEYSCORE systems more than ever. They may wear suits, but those people usually come from some military background, and have a sense of duty towards defending US, from threats both foreign and domestic, and historically have not really abused their powers no matter what the administration is. XKEYSCORE for example, wasn't really about hacking people, it was just about collecting mass metadata and building profiles, well within the legal system, and the blame should be on the companies that didn't provide privacy tools, because any big government could have build the same system.

Meanwhile, the anti anti-establishment Republican Party since 2016 who cried about big tech turned out to be the biggest pro-establishment fans, giving Elmo an office in a white house and Zucc bending a knee to avoid prosecution.

With these new systems, Id rather have smart people who only work in US defensive forces because of a sense of duty (considering they could get paid much more in the private sector) in charge.
Everything is dual redundancy. We run RAID so if a drive fails it's fine; alerting will page oncall which will trigger remote hands onsite, where we have spares for everything in each datacenter
He really is playing 4D chess
>such a platform would be used to reverse social trends unfavorable to the owner,

Could very well be why Tiktok appeared to begin with, as the original owner's mission.

You're right, anyone who replaced it would most likely have the same mission.

Otherwise,

>expect one of the trends they should reverse to be… their own existence.

Yeah, that won't happen.

Very few could afford it anyway, probably only the usual suspects.

Ah, so Confucius say "Enshittification will be its own reward".

I guess that's as enlightened as things are going to get :\
More info on the cost comparison between all the options would be interesting
A law was passed with a date attached to it, and it is very high profile. My local post office has nothing to do with anything.

Stop.
Except that's not the point at all. The US just proved to the world that it doesn't care about competition and it's citizens (in some number) have rejected the concept of "National Security" by switching to a more explicitly Chinese company.

That's a blow to hegemony that will have lasting consequences.
Forcing TikTok to divest from mainland Chinese control absolutely solves the second, in TikTok's case.

That there exist other problems is not a justification for inaction on this particular problem.
Everything has never and will never be completely fine. Things are better today than ever and continue to improve. Get offline and look around the real world for a while.
Heh I think anyone who studies for the Network+ ends up debating every time RJ45 is mentioned whether to make this comment or not haha
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42732834
>> Raccoon has a particularly obnoxious fanbase

> Anti-Raccooners are an even more obnoxious fanbase

Let's say that's true. When raccoon is lonely, sitting on the toilet, noticing that not enough people are mentioning it, it fires off a provocative tweet to get the internet masses talking about it. Sometimes for days at a time.

When I'm lonely, sitting on the toilet, noticing that not enough people are talking about me, you'll never know about it. Along with the majority of every other person annoyed by raccoon's endless antics.

The difference is reach.
No, they all collect the same level of blackmailable stuff. They shouldn't ban TikTok, they should ban all data collection and get rid of the third party doctrine altogether. But China is sort of an active adversary to the US right now so banning it is a heavy handed method that will probably mostly work to prevent mass indoctrination from a rival and also prop up ailing US social media companies. The US govt wants mass indoctrination and blackmail material on people, it just doesn't want China to have it.
I think the fallout from this is many Americans like myself don’t see China as our enemy. Based on the recent RedNote phenomenon, Chinese citizens don’t see it that way either.

Maybe the uniparty in the USA should make it a priority to improve the life of everyday Americans and not Zuck and Elon. Young people don’t care who the establishment is warring with because they know the establishment doesn’t represent them, they represent themselves.
Is embeddings enough to preserve privacy? If I run the encoder/decoder on device and only communicate with server in embeddings?
We tried hard to make Devin work for us, But it didn't
To get around this, at least in Gmail, you may be able to use an IMAP client, if your workspace has it enabled. There's multiple available for both mobile and desktop operating systems. You'll need to turn IMAP on in the settings menu of the Gmail web page, and for clients that don't support OAuth2, you'll need to create application-specific passwords, in the Google Accounts web page.

As an added bonus, pretty much every IMAP client is faster, has more reliable notifications, and better usability/accessibility than Google's web interface and mobile applications.
My hypothesis on this is that marketers who have personal MacBooks but are forced to use Windows computers at work, with mice with notched scroll wheels, find JS-driven smooth scrolling to be superior to the native snapping experience they see at work on many websites. But it wreaks havoc on people who already have computers with native high-resolution trackpads. Alas, the folks at big companies care more about their at-work than at-home experience, and it's been cargo-culted to smaller companies now as well. The conversation "detect if there is indeed a trackpad being used" never even comes up.
I could not find the recent article I heard on the radio but this covers it https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/04/05/5220383... and there's a separate wikipedia entry just for obesity in Mexico, it's hit them so hard, it's like a hotbed for studies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Mexico
the US would avoid flood damage if they just built apartment buildings. Asian apartments towers are immune to flooding because they allocate the ground floor to parking. Can't blow the roof off a square concrete building either.

Ofc, a sufficiently strong Tornado is destroying everything in its wake. But, they're rare in comparison.
Lots of people think this way and, to be honest, it speaks more to the inability of the thinker to consider the realities of the US's current relationship with China. A good thought experiment is whether you think the people of Crimea or Donetsk would prefer having the Ukrainian government spy on them instead of the Russian government and whether this preference changed in 2014 or 2022.

It's easy to have a gut reaction that your own government has a greater impact on your life than a foreign one, but that does not reflect the reality that 1) the US government is generally benign in that it historically has not abused its power over citizens; 2) the Chinese government has; and 3) the US and China are going to war one day, and China might win.
Your statements contradict each other, don't they?

In the many many complaints I have heard about the insurance industry, nobody has complained about them acting as an oligopoly or about a lack of competition.

Further, pricing is extremely regulated in terms of what can be factored in, so being an oligopoly doesn't have much impact on that.
Battelle is great. They also created some software called Cantor Dust [1] that turns files into images to allow humans to easily spot obfuscated data or files.

The sad thing about this kind of work, because I love it, is that to get paid to do it you need clearances and polygraphs and periodic reinvestigations/continuous monitoring and all sorts of things that I find unpleasant.

[1] https://github.com/Battelle/cantordust
In the most literal way possible.
Yeah, for a substantial fraction of people, this case will stick to their minds as "oh the chinese
.. again" It's both sad and scary. It was even submitted to HN. Flagged by now, but still. Many people won't have read this follow-up, especially since it doesn't come as a 1-sentence TL;DR..
TikTok is being banned because of the algorithm, not user data. Though that’s a nice side benefit.
The requirements end up being pretty specific, based on workloads/power draw/supply chain

So, while we could have bought something off the shelf, that would have been suboptimal from a specs perspective. Plus then we'd have to source supply chain etc.

By owning not just the servers but the whole supply chain, we have redundancy at every layer, from the machine, to the parts on site (for failures), to the supply chain (refilling those spare parts/expanding capacity/etc)
>It's always very interesting to see people pull out threads with low like counts (like 12k) and claim that central idea of the post is widely held.

In what context is 12k likes a low amount? To me this is reminiscent of arguments I heard from neocons that global anti-Iraq war protests, the largest coordinated global protests in history at the time, counted as "small" if you considered them in absolute terms as percentages of the global population.

I think it's the opposite, that such activities are tips of the proverbial iceberg of more broadly shared sentiment.

It would be one thing if there were all kinds of sentiments in all directions with roughly evenly distributed #'s of likes. I'm open to the idea that some aspect of context could be argued to diminish the significance, but it wouldn't be that 12k likes, in context, is a negligible amount. It would be something else like its relative popularity compared to alternative views, or some compelling argument that this is a one-off happenstance and not a broadly shared sentiment.
> From the recent events in California I have seen many photos of burnt houses with unburnt trees around.

I think some of that can be attributed to the fact that buildings are stationary structures that have ample square-footage for embers to land and cause fires, where as trees have less stationary surface area for embers to land, remain and build into fires.
As a Chinese American, this is the real reason people don't know about China.

To be honest, most of the movies/shows China creates sucks. They're Marvel-esque CGI fests with awful storylines.

Meanwhile, Japan and Korea are creating awesome media.

The whole narrative about the US gov trying to "hide" China isn't really true. There are a ton of viral videos on YouTube about how great China is. And we welcome Chinese immigrants every year.

The real problem is that China itself doesn't execute when it comes to soft power.
And that’s different from the primary use case of refs
I don't think that's a useful framing.

If not SpaceX, it would be all NASA. NASA lies about their budget all the time, with massive overruns. For example, the Artemis overrun exceeds the entire cost of Starship development so far [1].

[1] https://www.space.com/nasa-sls-megarocket-cost-delays-report
It's really not. It talks about that at the beginning, but also goes into the appeal and design of card and puzzle games, a few specific card-focused video games, and then a significant segment on the history of playing cards themselves. The bit about 52! is less than a quarter of the whole.
Yup exactly the same thing is happening only with money laundered through nonprofits and political pacs. Once its there the same buy data and place ads & influence is completely legal - which makes the singled out ban on TikTok at odds with the stated purpose of it
I still think this link is hn relevant. We sometimes paint ourselves too narrowly.
How much additional overhead is there for managing the bare-metal vs cloud? Is it mostly fine after the big effort for initial setup?
You could say that about all the American tech companies that are banned in China. They just have to comply with Chinese law and will be unbanned. For example, Google, unlike Microsoft/Apple, chose to withdraw from China rather than comply with Chinese law.
Things are certainly better overall, but that improvement is not universal, and not evenly distributed. Clearly. Otherwise, we would simply say "everything is as good as it can practically be," which is something few people are doing. One of the ways in which the world is imperfect is that our media—and our relationship to that media—could be better. Anything in that to disagree with?
Explicit query plan pinning helps a lot, alongside strong profiling and monitoring tools.
They took my porn in Texas an now this wtf
Linking spatial self-organization to community assembly and biodiversity
If there is predominant evidence of significant calorie reduction leading to weight loss, and no evidence of the metabolic hypothesis , what should be our conclusion?
You are right that, at the moment, the system inherently requires a 64-bit OS. We currently support Debian-based distros; it should work with other parent distributions as well, but you need to translate the installer script ;)
But we definitely need to highlight this more clearly in the docs. Thanks for pointing it out!

We also don’t have a definitive hardware spec requirement yet. We’ve tested it on Raspberry Pi 3s and later models (so anything more capable than a 3 should be fine).

> not ESP32 for example

Running on ESP32 is tricky because it would require porting libp2p to a embedded (which, as far as we know, nobody has done yet). However, we are considering support for embedded “light” nodes that run only a limited portion of the stack. It depends on the feedback we get. Do you have a use case where you’d need it to run on embedded?
Instead of "cheese" or "all-in" they use "pil-sal-gi" which means ace/joker card

That’s a really interesting one to me! One thing I’ve noticed is that Koreans do not seem to have the same hangups / negative attitude towards cheese strategies as westerners do!
That’s theater too - at least without acknowledging the clear harm that american algorithm does as well. The logic simply doesn’t add up, unfortunately - I am for banning all social media apps.

Like foreign adversaries can already run influence campaigns on american media platforms, often, the american ones will even cooperate with it. It’s just theater. They dont need tiktok to do whatever people are saying the reason is.
Massive propaganda. Bannon has been brought in line and has fully recanted after his comments about Musk:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/14/bannon-second-trump...

A couple of Trump forums focus on distractions like the California fires and delete comments about working class rights. The same forums that were full of workers' rights just until before the election.

Breitbart has nothing on immigration and displacement of US workers. It celebrates the (alleged, Trump claims a lot) phone call between Trump and Xi.

So unless the MAGA crowd goes to the capitol to protest against Trump this time, you won't hear anything anywhere.
I wonder when they'll finally fix that 7 year old double notification bug.
You sir, are amazing. Thank you for being so utterly transparent.
I don't buy this narrative, even as a Chinese American.

There are a ton of viral videos on YouTube about people travelling the most beautiful parts of China. Free for everyone to consume.

Chinese movies/shows just kind of suck, especially compared to the quality of Kdramas and anime.
AND, OR, NOT - pick 2
>Personally, I'm still on the fence about the ban. On one hand having asymmetry in one side banning such things and the other not is going to be problematic.

I wouldn't worry about that, as FB, twitter, reddit etc are banned in China. To the extent that we want equilibrium here, banning Tiktok would reprsent a step toward parity.
Nobody has thus far provided any evidence of a “botnet.”
> There's no such thing as a magic money-generating machine.

Banks literally print bank reserves out of nothing. It's one of the more hilarious aspects of modern economics.
I doubt it is about data. It should be about digital heroin and psychological warfare.
Workspace admins have a bunch of Gemini checkboxes but none of them actually seem to disable Gemini.
https://archive.ph/20241007181947/https://www.wsj.com/politi...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/us/politics/china-hack-tr...
For future reference, you can stream SpaceX launches from the SpaceX website. They tend to be higher quality. I've never seen an ad there.
Except they are
This is very intuitive once you've used it a couple of times. I have handled conflicts that others were hesitant to touch with this.
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