skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, retail insurance is up. This is due to crime and theft. In some cases, it's the we don't want your business/headache rate hike. NYC has about 835,000 unauthorized immigrants. That is up from about 400,000 in 2022.

https://capitaloneshopping.com/research/shoplifting-statisti...

https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/02/21/shoplifting-surge-nyc-sma...

https://nypost.com/2024/05/20/opinion/nyc-crime-wave-continu...
> Yes, many big businesses are in fact breaking the law in this regard.

Define big business here. Coca Cola? IBM? Amazon?

> The truly compliant ones are far less annoying. They all generally need only a single click to refuse consent

No, they yare still annoying. It's still something you are forced to itneract with that diverts your attention.

> It's also essential to actually achieve the goal of protecting the data of people in the EU, much of which is done by companies which are based outside the EU.

The problem is it's unenforceable nonsense and has led to this foolish cookie popup situation.

If they had limited it to entities with a presence in the EU, it would have worked better. At the moment it applies to some malicious Chinese teenager who blatantly wants to collect and sell the data of Europeans who visit his self-hosted low-traffic blog.

> All they would then have to do is change the website's contracting legal entity to a foreign partner or parent company and then they could refuse data subject access requests, track without consent, and so on if the jurisdiction provisions in Article 3 were as narrow as you're advocating.

They can already do that because EU has no jurisdiction outside of the EU no matter what they claim.

Also, we are basically having the same conversation in two places. If you want to consolidate your two replies into just one I would not object.
Committees representing the interests of the Chinese Communist Party exist inside of most major corporations in China. It would not be possible to operate a company like ByteDance without acquiescing to government interference

https://www.seafarerfunds.com/prevailing-winds/party-committ...
Note that the Supreme Court decided the argument based on national security grounds, not content manipulation grounds.

Justice Gorsuch in his concurrence specifically commended the court for doing so, believing that a content manipulation argument could run afoul of first amendment rights.

He said that "One man's covert content manipulation is another's editorial discretion".
The text seemed to describe it quite well. They just use a bunch of physics jargon because the book approaches rendering from the physics side of things.

Light leaving a point in a direction = light emitted from that point in that direction (zero if we aren't talking about a light bulb or something) plus all light reflected by that point in that direction.
Bravo, perfect summary of the issue at hand.

It'll be revealing to see which political actors come out in favor of keeping tiktok around.
People have lost their homes and everything they own to a natural disaster that was not under their control. I don't care where you live in the world, this could happen to you. The lack of empathy and victim blaming in these comments is absolutely revolting. I am done with this site. It has been taken over by heartless people with zero intellectual curiosity. Good riddance.
> only very few rich people can mobilize financial and political capital to pull off tiktok purchase

Why do you assume only a natural person can buy TikTok? Why do you assume you need political capital?

The law doesn’t provide that much executive deference in enforcement.
Gigabillionaires with immense influence don't get prosecuted.
I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make, but the law is whatever congress has passed, whatever the courts have interpreted, and whatever the executive executes. People who read the Constitution and make up their own interpretation clearly missed the part about the separation of powers and the role of the judiciary.
I don't really agree with this line of thinking if you consider the addictive part of TikTok.

Imagine the US legalized and exported meth. All of a sudden, the US is "competing" because everyone is hooked on drugs. We had Opium wars in a somewhat similar vein as the social media wars.
Future racism is explored in The Expanse. Humans have colonized the solar system, humans on Earth are on the brink of war with the humans on Mars, and they have slurs for each other.
Because of the complaints? If so, yeah I get it. I'm there amongst them. It's kind of like Tesla FSD. There are often setbacks in releases and they definitely need to work on their communication with the community. That said, for the current price it's still worth any misgivings.
The Tik Tok divestment law was passed by overwhelmingly by both houses of the duly elected Congress. At the time, a majority of Americans polled supported the law, while a minority opposed it: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/more-support-than-oppose-tik....

In a democracy, this is how "society decides" what's in the "public good." This is not a case where legislators are going behind the public's back, hiding something they know they public would oppose. Proponents of the law have been clear in public about what the law would do and what the motivations for the law are. There is nothing closer to "society decides" than Congress overwhelmingly passing a law after making a public case for what the law would do.

Yes, they're doing it for "ideological and geopolitical reasons"--but those things are important to society! Americans are perfectly within their rights to enact legislation, through their duly elected representatives, simply on the basis of "fuck China."
Can you give sample commands on how to achieve both options that you gave?
>Every social media app or website in China is required to ask for your real name and ID number, and implement any censorship requested by the party. If you post something that rubs the government the wrong way, your identity is readily available.

I didn't know this. Do you have any reading on the subject you can recommend?
It is a net negative.

Attempts at intervention by legacy states over the evolution of the internet (which will obviously fail on sufficiently long time-scales) are also a net negative.

Two net negatives do not make a net positive.
You know, they weren't the one to bring it up and their point seems to have consistently been that the majority of the global population does not speak English.
That's a great point. We'll get public insurance for houses only if the legalized bribery paid by existing insurance companies to block public ins. is less effectively applied than the money blocking public health insurance in the US. Old people don't care because they have medicare at 65+, while the rest of us slubs are going along with whatever we can find.

We get what we allow or deserve here in the US. Citizens United led to our current awful outcome.
are there people besides the posters that find this kind of hyperbole compelling?
There was no heat shield issue, it was investigated and the resolved: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/nasa-delays-...

There is an issue with another dependency for Artemis 2 and 3, though - Starship is nowhere near where it needs to be.
Good points. I would welcome a discussion on ways social media (however defined) should be regulated to mitigate harms. Hopefully, that would put the perceived harms in context of other harms we regulate.
International migrants send $781 billions per year to families back home. That's over >3x global aid.

About 6% goes to bank fees. Reducing these fees would unlock a huge amount of redistribution.
Zig has builtin support for vectors[1], which I think provides some alleviation. But sure, it's not as complete or flexible as a whole vector/matrix library.

[1]: https://ziglang.org/documentation/master/#Vectors
China doesn't need Tiktok for opium. They have the real thing as well.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-fentanyl-pipeline-and...
As far as first ammendment it does make no difference if it is print or voice or online service.
This guy doesn't know the difference between React and Tailwind.
Implementing a Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) Tokenizer from Scratch
You know that meme with the guy sweating looking at two red buttons? That was me before hitting post on my original post, lol.

I get it, but honestly, I actually think you're wrong about the TX-6, there is actually no comparable product to it on the market at all when you consider it's full end to end functionality, I also know one guy who has nothing else TE but sought out TX-6 because of it's pretty unique combination of attributes taking it's physical size/IO as part of the framing. I have a lot of their stuff because I enjoy it, but I do agree that everything outside of the OP-1, the TX-6 and the CM-15, are just toys. (The TP-7 is cool, but the most egregious all their products imo)

I think this guy totally nailed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woiCEx5nWZY
Building the Lumon macrodata refinement app – by Emilio Passi
I like this trap. Why would you need historic addresses for this service? In my mind the main reason for the DVLA knowing your address at all is so they know where to post a fine and a new driving licence/car documentation to. Why do they need historic addresses in their core system?
Looks just like Columbia on her last reentry :(
Was his research incorrect? How long should he continue to try to overcome what he believes to be a show-stopper constraint?

He has other choices after all. If this represents a negative that out-weighs the positives, so be it.

These same design decisions in Zig may make it a top tier option for other tasks. Just not this one.
This presumes that:

1) I sell to you my special and cherished resource. You may live in the fever dream of "market rules all", but a cold surprise may come that not everyone does.

2) You can afford what I sell - especially if political winds blow so that your benevolent rulers choose to impose 1000% tariffs on my good tomatoes

3) That you even _know_ there's a difference, and that tomatoes come from a farm and not the store or a can.
As I've said, you can't just sum up populations. About 20% of the US population are immigrants. A lot of them won't speak English as their native language.

Only about 60 million Nigerians speak English. Hausa is the most commonly spoken native language. Just because English is the official language doesn't mean that it's people's native language.

I'm not just making stuff up. The 400 million number is from The Ethnologue, a source which linguists generally consider as reliable.
I won’t say that isn’t relevant; when you’re building a coalition you don’t say no to allies. But it was a cherry on top of a well-baked pie. Not a foundational motivation.
It’s a clone being inorganically pushed to fill vacuum.
> As long as consumers keep making uneducated choices and companies keep copying one another, that's what we will be getting, and honestly, that's what we deserve.

So true! So sad!
Why do they need to benefit all equally?

Campaign with the president, offer large amounts of money to the presidents campaign, donate huge sums to a small inauguration party, and then just be picked to get it at a deep discount. The entire point of bribes is that corruption let's you get away with things at a lesser cost. You just screw over everyone else except for the bribe receiver.
Brood War Korean Translations
More specifically the ban is because of the platform being used to support Palestine. There are public recordings of congressmen openly and plainly saying so.
> China didn't go after TikTok _alone_

Because it was never there. Bytedance never launched TikTok in China.
OK forget the "woke" thing here, let me rephrase, does the "1960s Berkeley protests" have a connection with

- Mao's Red Book, and

- the BLM/metoo/woke thing in the 2020s?
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/tech/tiktok-bytedance-china-o...

> However, like most other Chinese companies, ByteDance is legally compelled to establish an in-house Communist Party committee composed of employees who are party members.

> In 2018, China amended its National Intelligence Law, which requires any organization or citizen to support, assist and cooperate with national intelligence work.
> That means ByteDance is legally bound to help with gathering intelligence.

I would say yes.
China's vision of the Internet turned out to be more prescient than we realised at the time. Everyone is going to their own Great Firewall. In hindsight, it will seem crazy that we ever allowed media platforms to be controlled by foreign governments - especially ones which like to seed revolution, social unrest and regime change
Note, this is supposedly well-sourced by semiaccurate, not random musings.
It was an important lesson for me to learn. I read "Ego is the Enemy" by Ryan Holiday, which covered a lot of these thoughts, and helped me understand why I worked.

What happened later was also interesting. I rejoined the workforce, matched and then quickly surpassed the level I'd left, and did in part because I'd decided to be who I wanted to be instead of what I thought the role dictated I should be.
>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.

Everyone thinks that their one particular issue was the crucial one, but all the data shows that the issues that actually mattered were A) inflation and B) the border / immigration / crime / perception of disorder.

The only two Dem Senators that underperformed Harris were Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The rest of the downballot had been running hard centrist on the border for much longer and with less baggage, and guess what, they did better.
The government makes Meta and Xitter suppress Palestinian content, they can't do that to TikTok, so it's being banned.
That certainly plays some role in why domestic social media companies haven't stirred up resistance to the ban, but is more like #50 in terms of geopolitical strategy.

The domestic companies lost some attention share to TikTok sure, and a ban or domestic sale would generally be in their interests, but it's not like they were about to be Myspaced. They've remained among the most valued companies -- presently and in forecasts -- even while it was "eating their lunch"
Much like Google was eating the lunch of everything in China and the CCP, in response, made it essentially impossible for them to operate.

This is not new behavior between the two countries, the only thing new is the direction. US is finally waking up to the foreign soft power being exercised inside our own country, and it isn't benefiting us.
When people see Milton getting locked up for four years, it's in no way proportional to the upside of making out with thousands of lifetimes worth of average honest work. If others who had done similar crimes before him had received more severe punishments he may have chosen not to.

That's not to mention the court's complete lack of concern for recidivism. Look at Bill Hwang. Slapped on the wrist for insider trading -> billions of dollars of later economic damage. Likely chance we'll see the same pattern of behavior from Milton. I'm generally for forgiveness and second chances, but not in the realm of steering thousands of lifetimes worth of honest economic influence.
On the other hand, there are a lot of narrators who are just bad, and the publisher is not going to pay for an alternate narration. These tools are a good way to re-narrate Wil Wheaton narrated books with correct pronunciation and inflection, for example.

Computer chess took a long time to get better than the best players in the world, but it was better than most chess players for many years before that. We're seeing that a lot with these generative models.
<< The Democrats didn't lose because Harris didn't get a primary.

I can't tell if this is some weird cope, satire or honest to goodness opinion.

<< It was a close election, and Trump definitely won the popular vote, but the margins were still about 51% to 49%.

Just like the previous sentence fragment. Narrow facts are true, but manage to completely miss the picture.
Farmers use anhydrous ammonia that bounds with water in the soil and then bonds to the soil.

I don't know that farmers wear anything special when applying it, but there are safety procedures. I work with a farmer and he was telling me about one time he forgot to switch one of the valves off and when he disconnected a hose, the fumes knocked him out. Luckily it was just the fumes from the hose and not the whole tank or he likely would have died instead of just being knocked out.
Makie.jl v22, advanced Plotting for Julia
New version and announcements for Makie.jl, Julia's main plotting library.
BOTW didn't even leverage the Wii U gamepad. The Wind Waker and Twilight Princess remakes let you equip items with it, and I think that was the original plan for BotW too, but they removed the feature likely because then it would have an extra feature over the Switch version that launched at the same time.
I agree with point #1, but then this ban should also include the US controlled sites - having the main office in the US doesn't mean the data is any more secure, or that the products do less harm socially.

For point #2, this seems like you're saying "they don't have a leg to stand on, and we want to do the same thing". If we don't support the way they control the internet, we shouldn't be doing adopting the same policies. I don't think governments should have any ability to control communication on the internet, so this feels like a huge overstep regardless of the reasons given for it
These bans done for political purposes toward public consent for genocide (ie see ADL/AIPAC's "We have a big TikTok problem" leaked audio, and members of our own congress stating that this is what motivates the regulations) won't lead to greater freedoms over algorithms. It is the opposite direction - more state control over which algorithms its citizens are allowed to see

The mental health angle of support for the bans is a way the change gets accepted by the public, which posters here are doing free work toward generating, not a motivating goal or direction for these or next regulations
EU should insist X divest its European operations on national security grounds. X should be reconstituted as a separate EU based entity subject to EU governance
Legal Eagle claims that embers can travel up to 2 miles:

https://youtu.be/5h1H36rdprs?t=1m51s

That would easily jump a 10' fire break.
> the code he is displaying is definitely idiomatic React

It's really not. There's nothing, for example, stopping you from using <dialog> in React. It works perfectly fine and can integrate with any state or event manager if you want it to.

What he's doing is comparing brand-new web features that don't have good support yet with long-standing solutions that were needed years before those web features were a glimmer in anyone's eye.
I think we all agree that you need to test eventually. I do think most of us would already be double checking for leaks. It just seems one of the obvious things that may go wrong when putting it all together.
The ban only has 32% support from the US public. This isn’t happening because the government is representing its citizens.
I can read Wikipedia too. All the calculations are done in m, s, g, etc. if you want to dumb it down to the public you might as well go in miles per hour, leagues per day, etc., spaceflight is not the place where it is appropriate.
I'd finish your comment with "it's a goal of most US politicians ... to enrich the most wealthy Americans".
This is the exact usecase that we are building for with Neosync (https://github.com/nucleuscloud/neosync)
Billionaires simply cannot exist without exploitation somewhere (though most often throughout the system that enriched them.)

This isn't even controversial.

Many simply choose to think it's acceptable, even preferable, through whatever twisted justifications.
I have that with fstab
Clearly the problem here is using SMS as a verification method instead of an authenticator or literally just an email.
You mean PeerTube? Perhaps it could also be combined ith I2P.
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/03/12/5-things-to-know-abo...

I found the first three alone quite compelling:

> ByteDance is Closely Connected to China’s Military-Industrial Complex

> ByteDance is Bound by Chinese State Surveillance Laws

> ByteDance’s Board is Beholden to Beijing
Cache AI Models in the Browser
Uhhhh what?
The biggest thing is to not focus too much on openings. Past 4 or so moves everything can be mixed up and tactics are more important.

You're at the level where you're probably not hanging all your pieces or hanging mate-in-one too commonly. So learn endgames. You can win/draw like 75% of the time from even being down a piece or two at your level if you can play the endgame quickly and accurately.

Then, refine the middlegame, learning how to get the advantage. Doing puzzles for dozens of hours will teach you how to recognize a lot of basic tactics that can win early.

But only once you've scraped the barrel with the middlegame would I start focusing strongly on openings.
> “You do realize that most nations get different versions of TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, etc., right?”

That statement is misleading, as the differences between these platforms across various countries are typically minor—mostly due to copyright restrictions—so users can still access roughly 99% of the same content. This situation isn’t remotely comparable to TikTok’s China-only counterpart, Douyin, which exists in a separate and completely different ecosystem. I suspect you’re aware of this, yet you brought it up anyway. What is your motivation for such dishonesty?

> “No. It had everything to do with it. How can you say that when TikTok is getting banned? Even after ByteDance bent over backward to appease the US?”

Could you explain exactly what the United States did before 2017 that caused ByteDance to launch a separate app for every country outside of China (not just in the US)? You seem to be muddying the waters by referring to this potential 2024 ban, but that obviously can’t be the reason ByteDance created a separate platform for every non-China country back in 2017.

> “But they weren’t separate apps from the beginning.”

Actually, they were. Douyin is geo-restricted to China (requiring a Chinese phone number to register) and was never accessible to users outside the country. This restriction was put in place to limit the information available to Chinese users, clearly separating Douyin from TikTok right from the start.

> "Everyone can read this thread and see that you are lying. Not me."

Well, I certainly agree that everyone can read this thread and make a judgement on who is more honest.
I got my first switch in 2017 and still use it as my main console. I used to be a hardcore gamer but as I got older approaching my 40s I appreciate its simplicity and catalog. I game occasionally, maybe 2 hours a week, and it allows me to use it on the couch, bed, favorite chair, whereever I feel most comfortable and relaxed after an intense day of work.
That being said, i was excited about a new Switch and must say that I was a bit disappointed because Nintendo always came out with a big surprise regarding their new console designs. On the other hand, I am also just happy that it still retains the handheld form-factor and focus because that's exactly what I love about the original Switch.