skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who is we, though? I can't do anything about it. Can you?

The people who can do something about it are the people who are already in power in the US. They understandably don't want to share with the CCP, but most of them came to power by manipulating enough voters into voting for them. They stay in power by ensuring that enough voters continue to want to vote for them. Which means that someone like Zuckerberg or Musk has an insanely inordinate amount of influence over whether these people who are in power stay in power.

Yes, I think it's marginally better that that influence remain out of the hands of the CCP, but I would rather that that influence not exist at all. It's too dangerous and too prone to corruption.
We attempt to update node dependencies on a weekly cadence, and LTS whenever it’s released.

IMO the sooner the better, lets us outline the maintenance work.
Southern Italy. I believe the rest of Europe is quite seismically stable.
> this decision is not an emotional one but for the nation, just like the opposite party does for its nation

I'd argue that it is an emotional decision for both, and it does seem ironic that the US would be following China in restricting a platform that people see as a major tool for free speech. Whether you agree with that or not the optics are terrible, and the users are very aware of it. If this is really a big concern then they would also ban facebook/instagram/snapchat, but they aren't being included in this, despite having a worse track record.
That's not how the law works.

The law levies fines against distributors of the app, it doesn't ban possession or block the operation of the app itself.

Ie, Google and Apple are forced to delist TikTok or face heavy fines
Keeling Labs (YC W23) Is Hiring an ML Engineer for Grid-Scale Energy Storage
>> Like britain invaded china ( opium wars ) and forced opium on china's population.

> how did Britain force the Chinese population to consume Opium?

The Chinese government of the time had banned opium and the British worked to bypass that, eventually with governmental force.
Don’t most of these cameras have an hdmi output? During the pandemic, I assisted a local church with streaming after their plea for help reached me. We initially used a fairly cheap video camera’s hdmi output with a cheap HDMI to USB dongle to get a feed to OBS. It worked extremely well, although it was later replaced with a professional camera that had actuators to allow it to be moved via a remote during their services.
Is it a link? It doesn't look like a clickable link
I’ve come across this before and think it’s brilliant. Are you aware of any comparable firmware for Nikon users (not that I really have any complaints about what Nikon has provided, but this is likely a case of not knowing what I’m missing out on)?
China didn't go after TikTok _alone_ - they reportedly went after anything deemed too addictive, including limiting the time spent on games. It was very clearly aimed towards reducing digital addiction (which is something us in the West still try to ignore as an epidemic)
Speedier drug trials and better films: how AI is transforming businesses
Not strictly on topic, but I see these articles & discussions with the focus on new car sales.

What happens when the car (and its data collecting habits) is sold in the used car market? Does it still collect data, is the ownership situation "corrected" via DMV registration feeds, etc. ?
Language Models: A Guide for the Perplexed (2023)
El Salvador to Shut or Sell Chivo Crypto Wallet as Part of $3.5B IMF Deal
Your selfishness is not equal to my desire for common prosperity. If anything, lone wolf-ism is what drags us down (no matter how proficient the wolf thinks he is). We live in a society.
Multiple reps publicly said TikTok needed to be banned because they couldn't control the narrative around Gaza as easily. TikTok is the only platform I regularly see content about Gaza fed from the algorithm.
> Because if Zuck or Musk does something bad with said power, we can do something about it.

We can? Like what? What's the chance of that happening?

> Zuck and Musk don't have armies to back up their propaganda.

I'd like to note the seating arrangements published for the upcoming presidentia inauguration ceremony.
I mean that the only evidence that his votes came from the TikTok campaign is that he didn't show up in polls and unexpectedly obtained a great result. So they automatically assume the delta between expected and obtained votes are people manipulated by the TikTok campaign (which apparently are assumed to have become some kind of zombies whose opinion doesn't count).

Out of the fourth reasons you list at the end, only the fourth is not pure authoritarianism (why wouldn't people in a democracy be free to elect a president that dislikes NATO or likes Russia if that is their will?). Campaign funding fraud has happened in many Western countries but typically it's handling by imposing fines, maybe some jail time, but definitely not cancelling the result of an entire election.
It’s even better than that. “Red Note” is the softened version. A more direct translation is “Little Red Book.”
Climate change is gonna be really expensive. Some people have tried to point this out.
There are no apologists in this thread, snakeyjake. You’re making bad-faith assumptions and trying to start shit. This isn’t the place for that.
The justices seem to have argued that eliminating a platform for speech does not inhibit your ability to voice that speech on another platform, so is not a violation of the first amendment. I think this is an important outcome and really goes against what many so called "free speech absolutists" would argue.
Webb Photographs Cosmic Dust That Could Become New Stars and Planets
What would you consider an achievement then? The point of a rocket is to deliver mass to space.
Moon placed on World Monument Fund list of heritage sites in need of protection
There are other methods too, e.g. fire inhibitors (like Halon or whatever is allowed now) or shockwave to disrupt fire boundary. But I doubt they are very practical on a spaceship.
The biggest JWST discoveries so far
The rocket is well beyond max Q by the time the second stage engines ignite. There’s no reason not to run them at full throttle at that point.
Not sure it's the best, but I've got 240K downloaded so far.
fucking hell are we only now having this discussion? when GitHub Copilot first released, a few years ago, my first reaction was: that's a keylogger! it sends everything in your editor to Microsoft, isn't anyone worried about that at all?

No, no one was. I despair
There’s some element of comfort vs necessity here, I think… really, people could be keeping their houses at, like… 55F and they’d be totally fine. They just need to get acclimated to it.

On the other hand, depending on the humidity, heats over like 85F start becoming a health risk for some activities.
EU orders X to hand over info on recent algorithm changes
As a free speech absolutist, I hope that what comes out of this is a completely anonymized, uncensorable alternative. We've gotten the arbitrary censorship walled garden social media sites mostly because until now there hasn't been any particular reason for most users to step outside of them.
What happens to the copyright on these videos?
The 666 workweek(6 days a week 6 am till 6pm) is definitely real in some companies and it's a big problem with work culture especially in tech. But in general I'm sure they do holidays.
Carlson's texts were wild, they proved that he knew he was spreading lies and did it anyway for views. That's why Fox settled with Dominion for $787 million dollars.

Meanwhile, OAN sued Maddow for calling them Russian propaganda and her lawyers responded by flexing, doubling down with receipts under oath. Signing up for consequences if they were wrong, and receiving none because they were correct.

So no, these are not the same, and anyone who argues that they are immediately reveals themselves to be partisan hacks.
Do you know of anything equivalent for Nikon?
You're arguing past me. What I'm saying is that without paying, the Canon is a webcam: it's a camera that plugs in and gives your computer a video input. It may not be the best possible webcam that it can be, for sure. And paying a subscription for the extra capabilities does suck! But nonetheless, the central point of the headline - "you cannot use it as a webcam" is false.
“ Gambling, alcohol, and gacha games are clearly addictive “

There are billions of casual drinkers / gamblers / gamers who do not show any sign of addiction. I’m really tired to hear the same nonsense repeated again and again. Do a pyschology study of any casino employee that spends 40 hours a week in a gaming venue, or any manufacturer of gaming devices that professionally play games 40 hours a week, and none of these employees exposed to so much gambling / drinking are addicted.

Psychology studies have not established that these items are “addictive”, because if they were, they would be banned all over the world. Nowhere in the western world are they banned, ghey are regulated for “fairness”. There are some individuals that throw the word addiction around without justification, please dont be one of them.
I think if you were going to design a rigorous approach to programming from the ground up as part of a like new quadrivium or something, lua could have a place in it.

But when people decide to learn programming now, they usually have a goal in mind so the best language is the one that lets them keep that objective in focus as they learn. Not necessarily do it most easily: love is good because while making a game with it is a huge undertaking for a novice, they can see the whole time that game-making is what they're building up to.

But for example I've seen rank beginners get really fascinated with data visualization, or interacting with their local government's API, or text generation, or audio stuff. All things that are going to be out of reach for a novice in lua. And a lot of people will show up saying they want to make games, but it's because video games are the one programming artifact they have positive experiences with. Once they start to see the broader possibilities other interests develop.

Anyway I have had a lot of success introducing programming with roblox scripting. It adds a lot of the "missing" lua library features and the script editor is a decent basic IDE that simplifies tooling, another huge pain point for novices.

For non-game focused beginners I've had the best results in ruby. Python works as well once you get going but the whitespace is a frustrating time sink in a classroom environment. In these the strength is being able to grab a library for any API they'd want to work with, and build something that feels like an actual useful tool to them.
That's a good point. I guess it will be interesting to see how it shakes out.
i accept.
Just curious, so if the POTUS decides to fine Tiktok, how would Tiktok pay? Because banks can't accept Tiktok transactions.
I'm 100% agreement, right down to the CTO/CIO role. I just don't do business with them, period. I have a strict rule not to do business with people how cold call/cold email, hide info, and force pointless meetings. Once salesmen realize that I'm actually a very low maintenance customer who just knows what they want, they love me, I'm free commission to them because they never have to expend energy on me.
The constitution is very clear on which parts apply only to citizens. The first amendment is not one of them.
The illegal hardwood is not used for residential framing or sheathing. It has nothing to do with fire resistance or insurance.
Well said. Only if we start looking at both of these issues separately, owner and algorith and deal with each one appropriately.
Is the limitation the same regardless of quality, format, frame rate, etc? That would make me suspicious.
So what you're saying is, freedom of speech doesn't really work?
This was actually a problem for me on my current gaming PC build!

I had switched to a new AM4 mobo a few years back and decided to spring for a pluggable TPM chip (since the CPU I have doesn't come with TPM onboard). Plugged it in, set everything up pretty seamlessly in windows, no fuss, no muss, boot drive's encrypted transparently. The lack of a password was a bit jarring at first, but it's a gaming PC, so if things go pear-shaped it's not the end of the world.

Fast forward six months and my PC suddently refuses to boot; turns out the pluggable TPM thing was defective and stopped working (without any warning that got surfaced to me).

It was just my boot drive, and reinstalling windows isn't a huge hassle, but it definitely cemented my mixed feelings about passwordless FDE. Had that been the drive I use for my photo library, or my software projects, or work-related documents (tax slips, employment contracts, whatever), that would've been devastating.

It's actually made me rethink the strategy I use for my laptop's backups, and I think I'm in a better place about that now.
Everyone's losing their collective mind about people watching videos on a platform not approved by our oligarchs, while there's an epidemic of people racking up gambling debt from the sudden prevalence of DraftKings and other mobile sports betting apps.
Agreed. TikTok allows people to speak into the app, and to receive speech, but the act of organizing and strategically disseminating the speech is not speech -- it's societal scale hormone regulation and should be controlled for the health of the national body. It's wild that so many people are up in arms about TikTok when it is a Chinese app that is banned in China, where apps are heavily restricted.

For anyone who does consider these algorithms speech, I challenge you to share a single person at any social media company who has taken direct responsibility over a single content feed of an individual user. How can speech exist if nobody is willing to take ownership of it?
60% of Bytedance is owned by outside of China investors. I fail to see how that makes it controlled by China.
I explicitly stated in a different comment that Rednote will not replace TikTok. I don’t think anyone seriously believes that. It’s subject to the same ban after all.

The interesting aspect here is rather the magnitude of dissatisfaction that a large percentage of users feel towards the other mainstream US social content platforms.
Can you give an example of how the most eligible buyers might collude in a way that benefits them all equally, so that this would happen?

For me, it's very hard to conceive of any concrete way that would work. It's a brand, some partnerships, and a network of users that would all go to whatever buyer, and would give that buyer a huge benefit over their existing domestic competitors. So under what circumstances would those domestic competitors allow that instead of aggresively trying to secure it for themselves?

I'm open to believing you, I just don't see what you have in mind.
The seller doesn't need any leverage if there are many interested buyers
This is laughable, even with your depiction of the events. The candidate in question (Georgescu) had a very popular platform, and was supported by a large bases or Romanians on the left and right.

He was, however, opposed to further expansion of NATO.

If these ideas are too scary to let general public even consider, then democracies have to step in and censor the media. And that begins by banning TikTok, the largest platform where a narrative like this can bypass the existing power structures.
I really didn’t have an opinion on Elon. However, now that he is the most powerful man in the world and seemingly directing his vast wealth to act as an unelected leader in the US. I think he deserves some more scrutiny.
There are the mixers and then there are the people who run the theater; the latter could set the sound to a comfortable and safe level.

I know enough about sound engineering to wire up the board for a concert but I hardly ever do it because I think most events have the sound levels 10-20db higher than I find comfortable, anybody I work with will push the levels up when I turn my back. I think they're all deaf.

In late middle age I know I'm finally slipping because I don't find hiss from tapes as offensive as I did in my youth.
Absolutely but the decision does require some form of experience. For example you'd not want to home cook my own logger and instead rely on a battle tested one. However, if you want to trim/pad strings you could avoid a third party dependency easily.
There seems to be a lot of misinformation around this, no surprise given the TikTok user base..

The law targets other companies that would be breaking the law if they continue providing services for a China-owned TikTok past the ban date. The statute of limitations is five years, past a Trump presidency. No, an executive order can not cancel a law. Google, Apple & co would be exposing themselves to a lot of uncertainty and risk, and for what?
The courts can say anything they want, and they did... but then, so could the authors of the First Amendment, and they didn't.
I remember hearing about this because the one who wanted it classified as a biscuit proposed the test that determined it was a cake. That is the sole reason I remember this story.
I think this has also a silver lining. The E2E encryption movement especially for messenger apps was largely also used to silently lock users out of their own data and effectively prevent user agency to use their own data to move apps, write automations or archive, this is not just true for whatsapp (the data export feature does not fully work since its launch and was just made to appease some EU law that did not properly check if the button works until the end.) Also signal does not have a way to do this. Maybe with ai coming into the game companies finally decide to provide access to data, I just hope it's in a transparent way with user opt in and user control.
Any unfaltering language a company uses is always one bizdev meeting away from "lol just update the contract of adhesion."
Nail in the head with reciprocity. I think the US honored its end of the bargain over the past four plus decades since China started manufacturing goods for US companies. China clearly benefited since they are now the second largest economy. Along the way China grew ambitious which is fine but they made an idiotic policy error in timing. They should’ve waited a couple more decades to show teeth.
All of those are incredibly vague. I'm no astronomer, but I'd hazard a guess that it's "solving astronomy" about as well as it's "solving programming" or "solving mathematics". (That is, it isn't. Outside of a few grifters' imaginations, anyway.)

But sure, let's talk about a few of the more egregious ones.

> Scanning documents into text (OCR).

Useless for old texts, since you still need to review the transcriptions (and the "smarter" the transcription engine is, the harder review becomes since the errors look more plausible).

Useless for new texts, just type them in a readable format instead.

> Translation.

Heh.

> Voice recognition.

Useless. Do you really want more IVR menus?

> Detecting fraud.

Illegal unless you can explain your reasoning (tip: you can't, or you wouldn't be using "AI" in the first place).
CEO of Chinese smartphone brand Honor resigns due to personal reasons
Congress passed a law banning it. Where else would you solve it?
> I doesn't have anything to do with "appeasing" the US

No. It had everything to do with it. How can you say that when tiktok is getting banned? Even after bytedance bent over backwards to appease the US?

> the Chinese version is heavily filtered and tilted towards CPP prefered activities and worldview, such a platform would never work on the international market and they know it.

Sure. But nothing prevents tiktok from catering their app to other nations differently. You do realize that most nations get different versions of tiktok, facebook, youtube, etc right?

> And it obviously is not a split if they are seperate apps from the beginning.

But they weren't separate apps from the beginning. Your fellow bot/propagandists wrote: "ByteDance initially released Douyin in China in September 2016. ByteDance introduced TikTok for users outside of China in 2017."

If someone is born in 2016 and another person is born in 2017 are born in the same year? Are they the same person?

> Why do you lie so much btw?

Everyone can read this thread and see that you are lying. Not me.
Don't fool yourself or fall for the propaganda: China is hardly an adversary -- just look at how much money we send them and how many goods they send us. If they were truly an adversary we'd be treating them like we do Russia.
And they have high enough volume to average out the outliers.

Did you know that in New Zealand, some business/server telecoms offer different plans based on how much of your traffic goes overseas? It's connected to the rest of the world with, like, five really long and expensive underwater cables, but it's also a not-quite-tiny market itself and if you can serve customers in NZ from a server in NZ, you can avoid expensive routing. (Your customers will also appreciate having a ping time lower than 300ms, even if they don't know what ping time is)

Meanwhile, ISPs in Europe don't charge you extra based on how much traffic you send to New Zealand, because you could max out your 1Gbps flat rate with NZ-bound traffic and it would still be a tiny percentage of all their traffic anyway.
> Trust me, bro.

Are you referring to the completely scientifically-untrained "bros" who were touting ivermectin and other treatments or cures with little to no scientific evidence of efficacy?
Thanks for some level headed-ness. HN becomes quite Reddit-y anytime financial topics come around.
I love strange musicals! Link in case anyone else is curious:
https://playbill.com/article/is-it-a-cake-or-a-biscuit-a-jaf...
The short certificates aren't just a random opinion LetsEncrypt had that they decided to inflict on everybody; it's a recognition of the fact that revocation doesn't work, and so it's important to reduce the blast radius of a compromised certificate. There's now a broad consensus on this in the field. I understand your frustration, but you're going to have to get used to this one.

It is, pretty obviously, not a weird scheme to get you to pay for certificates at some other CA.
this is horseshit. Canada, the US and the UK alone have - minimum - 400 million. Australia has 25 million, Ireland 5, New Zealand 5, then there's the Anglophone African nations, plus a lot of the Carribbean. Nigeria on its own likely has 100 million native speakers of English
I'm in my mid thirties and have often considering moving from software to law. My software path tops out at around $200-250k so the upside on law seems better if you look at the big opportunity cost and lower wage periods with some rose colored glasses ;)