skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strategically, they start with cases the public is more likely to support, and then the precedent, law, norms, mechanisms, etc. are all there to take it further. Another common step is demonization, in this case of anything Chinese, TikTok, and, to a degree, of anything not 'American'.

Look at oppression of unpopular groups. They've started with groups, such as undocumented immigrants and trans people, already unpopular groups and easy targets. They demonize them extensively and make oppression acceptable to the public. Now there is precedent; by now, people don't even object to it on the grounds of human rights, justice, or humanitarianism; stereotype, prejudice, and hatred are no longer taboo. Soon there will be camps, a police force accustomed to and trained in mass arrest, and a public accustomed to it as a legitimate mechanism.
Let's look at a few things that we know about Apple:

1. The first $1 trillion, $3 trillion and (soon to be) $4 trillion company.
2. Cancels or stops production of products that don't make money (VisionPro being the latest).
3. Spent over half a trillion dollars in stock buybacks.

No company gets to the height Apple is currently without knowing every dollar coming in and going out.

I'm reminded of "if it don't make dollars, it don't make sense" chorus from DJ Quik's "Dollaz + Sense".

When I apply that to Apple (let alone any successful company for that matter), the claim that they don't know if the AppStore is profitable or not *defies belief*.

Schiller might not know exactly how much profit is generated, but to suggest that he's clueless whether or not on the WHOLE if the AppStore is profitable... If people believe that, I got a bunch of bridges up for sale.
It is front page news in dk - leaders from major Danish companies have been called in by the government … novo is the biggest exporter to the us and the most obvious squeeze.

Technically this is done by the Biden admin but obviously coordinated with the incoming Trump admin who has made their attention of using trade to squeeze Denmark in order to get full control of Greenland very clear.
They can if they choose to do so. Its not trademark law, just because a government doesnt do something doesnt mean it cannot do something
My understanding is that the drugs keeps you from wanting to eat as much.
Because the law bans the operation of software by a foreign adversary. It does not ban speech.

Legal precedent holds that source code (the expressive part of software) is speech, but that executing software (the functional part) is not speech. Even when the operation conveys speech, the ban is on the functional operation of the software, so the First Amendment doesn't apply.
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The worst offender I've seen in this regard was some GUI program on Windows, and it had this checkbox in its installation process with some wording like this:

"Please do not uncheck if you do not wish to not install XXX (bundled bloatware)"

I just assumed that the default state must be installing the bloatware, and changed it, and fortunately I was right.
Internet loves those public school history fact references.
Sometimes it’s fun to watch chaos unfold. It’s subjectively entertaining
Why is that the question? If it learned to do it by itself it still is being allowed to do it by humans.
Even aggregated has been and can be de-anonymized
Rich people can always find a common ground and negotiate deals among themselves, its what they do every day.

As a rich person I’d rather get 30% of tiktok with 99% certainty by committing 30% of capital needed, rather than 100% of tiktok with 30% certainty and committing 100% of capital needed.
Kinda funny we have a president that can and will just ignore the Supreme Court and laws
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It doesn’t label ccp. It denigrates four countries as foreign adversaries. And then allows the president to remove any company located in those adversaries.

Kaspersky was banned this way. Tiktok was hard coded in the law to be banned. The law allows for sale. It doesn’t enforce sale.
That’s an extremely recent development caused by the TT shutdown looming.
I tried to figure out how/if this does what I need and your README had no examples. I clicked a couple of level deep, found no obvious demonstrations and left.

I checked the homepage but I do not watch Loom-style demos personally, definitely not 5 minute ones, and so I left.

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When I click on OP's link, or just search for it on Google, it takes less than a full page for the extension to show me an extremely straightforward demonstration of its value. You should have something like that.

A simple example of what queries will look like, what setup will look like, all concisely communicated, no 5 minute lectures involved.
Like most AI things, my issue with the bot isn't that it exists, it's that they force it at the top of the list with no way to remove it. I've accidentally opened it a few times from the years of muscle memory that the first result is the person who just messaged me.

This coupled with them popping up a people-you-may-know the majority of times I open the app with no way to turn it off (again like most tech these days) gives me 0 sympathy.
I get that it's "wrong" but I really like the translation of "natural expansion" to "courtyard"
I'm anesthesiologist but now I work full time as senior software engineer at a radar company. I wanted to get into medtech (still want to) but this works well with the family. Work life balance was the main reason I took this path. I also wanted more intellectually challenging work.
An example from one of "those who've shifted from established careers to something entirely different"

I used to be a software developer, now I cut up meat at an abattoir (combination choice/circumstance.) In one sense, I traded "work at a desk, go to the gym in my spare time" with "workout for work, sit at a desk in my spare time."

Upsides? Fitness, don't take your work home, redundancy less likely.
Downsides? Less pay.
Samesides? RSI in both jobs.

Doing the same thing every day is relative.
Signal does not have a way to manually export your private keys and chat history, but the process of "moving" your signal account to a new phone is quite straightforward. You put both devices on the same wifi/LAN layer 2 broadcast segment, start the transfer process in the app, input the verification codes displayed on the screen from both devices, and it sends everything over. This moves the private key in a way that does not result in all of your contacts receiving the scary "this person's key has changed" message.
Am I missing something here?

You are assuming Apple is a reseller (whose revenue is the full price paid by the end buyer) rather than an agent (whose revenue is only their commission).

You are also ignoring the app store's advertising revenue.

And you're assuming that it costs zero to run the app store.
> ''sort of kidutainment geegaws''

Or rather as special case learning tools that would gather dust, I suspect.
It’s time to reach out to people in areas of your interest.

Ask them out for coffee, beers, a phone call, whatever and collect as much info from them as possible. Get them to dive into how they got there, and what steps they’d recommend you take to get started.

Zoom in on one you feel most confident you’d want to pursue and try and find someone willing to mentor you through the process of getting started. This can be very casual, it doesn’t have to be some formal “meet every month and talk” thing.

I left tech this year and am back in grad school for an area I’ve found a lot of passion in through the above (clinical mental health, for anyone curious).

It took a few years of seeking out a new career but I am very excited for the transition.

The absolute key for me was finding someone practicing in a speciality I wanted to pursue and having them guide me through the steps necessary to get there.

Most people are going to be willing to help.
That's just not how these drugs work at all.
> It's the most alienating and pessimism-inducing thing

Not using a smart phone makes you feel like that?
Whatever Happens to TikTok, Big Tech Is Coming for Its Creators
The very first versions, IIRC. Now they have diverged completely.
It is a dealbreaker, I have dual citizenship and have been unable to get clearance even before I renewed my non US passport. For the USAF or companies doing private work. It's up to some fat fuck somewhere, his value system, his white knight ideology. Probably sitting at a desk deciding whether you can get paid or not. Maybe it is case by case basis depending on what intel they have on you. They will look underneath your socks too.
There aren't that many native English speakers in Nigeria and Uganda. To me, it looks like your back-of-the-envelope calculation will come pretty close to 400 million.
> The Supreme Court can only rule on cases brought to it.

That might be technically true, but if (1) you're the lawyer representing a party in an important case, (2) you've already appealed that case up to the highest appelate court and lost, and (3) you think there's any chance that the Supreme Court might change the ruling in your favor, then wouldn't it basically be professional malpractice to not petition for certiorari? Of course, they only accept a tiny percentage of the petitions they receive.
So was this app at one point in time: https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/9/21058399/david-dobrik-disp...

It's called Dispo. You probably haven't heard of it because it became almost irrelevant a few weeks after launch. #1 on the app store doesn't mean a whole lot.
The justices said this was not about first amendment.
It was about security and securing the users in the country
I have looked on some videos of how those good looking US houses have plastic drainage, plastic material roof cladding and plastic panels inside and outside. And the first thing that I was thinking - those burn in an event of house fire. But I see more ond more building materials that were used in US now offered and being standard in building here in Europe, so most probably some of the newer houses in an event of fire will burn down in similar fashion. I'm just wondering if the commenter that mentioned "black swan event"(a very popular theme in Russia and unrelated to wildfires) actually understands that USA has plastic houses everywhere and nothing will change - new mansions will be rebuilt in burned areas with the same materials, but because they are going to offer them as fireproof branded, they will cost more. That's all - these areas won't be abandoned, because location, location and location is the only thing that matters in property business and in your property value.
I only use diagramming tools with automatic layout algos to generate visualizations programmatically to debug things. For documentation purpose, I largely prefer to draw them by hand using OmniGraffle, because making graphs look nice using tools like graphviz is very complex and you find yourself abusing features to hack your vision into reality

What's dearly needed in my opinion is a graph layout algo based on a machine learning model (so that it can take into account readability and aesthetics). Unfortunately what I found so far is mostly concerned with displaying large graphs, which is kind of another domain altogether.

I hope Mermaid is collecting every single edition point that happens on their UI, that would make for a nice dataset I guess.
This was an fun read, as someone who's both a Korean BW player and a speech recognition researcher.

It's interesting to note that the original Korean transcription already has many errors, seemingly (and impressively) corrected by LLMs later on. For example, 12 안마당 빌드 (12 courtyard build) is actually 12 앞마당 빌드 (12 frontyard build), which might have been more understandable to BW players. Similarly 투에처리 빌드 (processing-at-two build? makes no sense lol) should have been transcribed 투해처리 빌드 (two-Hatchery build).

Therefore it may also be helpful to directly feed the slang dictionary into Whisper's inference process using contextual biasing. There are lots of ways to do this, but the simplest would be to increase the probability of slang words in the dictionary in the final prediction layer of Whisper by a constant factor. This is fairly easy to implement, for example by using HuggingFace's library: https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/internal/generat...
citation needed

You cant be making shit up and equating a test to blowing up 7 rockets
Big oil pushed to kill bill that would have made them pay for wildfire disasters
> Why would that criteria matter when what we are discussing is the impact when you remove a country’s creators from a platform?

That country’s creators belong to the largest native-speaking bloc of the most-commonly spoken language (native or not) in the world.
Reels and YT Shorts are definitely worse, but I would attribute that to not having the same content to even show and not having the same amount of data because of a much smaller audience than to having an inferior recommendation system.
Pretty cool and shows a clear issue I’ve seen across any LLM. the language and grammar is so formal/robotic
I'll take one in fountain pen.
Instagram and YouTube Prepare to Benefit from a TikTok Ban
Xiaohingshu is widely used outside China... by Chinese.

My experience in the UK is that the whole Chinese community is on it for anything (discussions, classifieds...) instead of Facebook, Insta, etc.
Well, I claim to be a dog on the Internet, so there’s that.

But seriously, this ignores too many simple truths. Companies with even under $100 million in revenue categorize labor and other general expenses. Even full-time employees who don’t log their hours have them tracked by entry-level management all over the U.S.

Why would one do this? To capitalize on software costs, apart from even hardware costs. Something Apple does regularly, and they have a history of sharing that information with shareholders.

So, the GP is talking out of his rear end. The obvious reason Apple doesn't want to share their margins is because every closed software ecosystem is absolutely screwing their developers. That’s why.

There isn’t a single company I’ve worked for in nearly 20 years that doesn’t assign department and project costs to employees, contractors, and ancillary workers. Each department and project also has its own materials expenditure reports.

All of them. Even the smallest companies do this. It’s such a naive claim to think otherwise. I have no idea why people here think the “integrated” argument holds up at Apple, either. Staff there absolutely have "App Store and related work" assigned to their employee profiles. Without a doubt. Even their hiring roles don’t hire general software engineers; each role is preassigned to a specific department or project.
Elon musk is an example of acquisition of global social network. Political capital is needed because the tiktok question is politicized heavily (national security as a reason).

Plus FTC will review the acquisition process as well.

Do you have a counter example?
Have you been to Nigeria?

Not all Nigerians can speak English. But there are a lot who can. It honestly felt about 50/50 to me. And I see some other commenters saying that 60 million Nigerians have some ability to speak it. (But you need to think of that like if I was to say 60 million Americans have some ability to speak Spanish.)

However, even for those with some facility with English,I don't know that I'd classify it as their native language.
It would have been great for ByteDance to IPO TikTok in the USA, it has had plenty of time to do so, it would have made lots of people boatloads of money, Chinese and Americans alike. Even Snapchat, which had similar levels of pervasive arrogance, IPO'd.
Double clicking on the web is extremely common with older less technically adept users. This same cohort is also the most susceptible to scams.
I know, I was pointing out it's not really about data collection because we allow manipulative practices with our own people. We are our own worst enemy. Meaning government and corporations want that power over our people. They are protecting interests that run counter to the will of the people.

I support any ban on social media platforms because control of the public's data belongs in the hands of individuals.
Ah Elon time strikes again.
You state that the US gov is banning it for money as if that’s a fact. I’d love to see the evidence for that.

The irony is that China bans essentially all US social media. I guess these users don’t care a ton their selfish bans?
Yes, I came here to say that. "Wish" definitely does not create a negative, and ticking the box is the correct thing to do.
And in linguistics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_languages
They will levy fines on google and apple if they don't remove it from their stores.
I had you until the last line.

Windows causes so many problems for me in a full stack development role because people come in and have trouble installing things, etc. and nothing works properly.

I'm not surprised this app doesn't support Windows, I certainly wouldn't bother putting that time in myself. You can have a cross-env but everything else should just work or it's not my problem.
What you're really complaining about is that too many people agree with Georgescu. The way mainstream media works, only a few candidates get air time so there's little competition. Georgescu was able to build a following on the alternatives so the election was suspended (without motivation) and new regulations put in place to make sure no un-approved candidate stands a change.

They were so busy banning Șoșoacă and demonizing the best candidate (Simion) that they forgot about Georgescu.

We were already a laughing stock for banning a candidate (Șoșoacă). Now we've suspended democracy and postponed the election 'til kingdom come.
I would consider it for my hosted server.

Entering a password on boot is a lot of work, because I need to vpn in, and run a java webstart kvm application (serial over ipmi would work better, but it doesn't work well on the hardware I have).

Encrypted disks is a requirement because I don't trust the facility to wipe disks properly. But I assume I would be able to clear the TPM (if present) when I return the machine. And I could store a recovery key somewhere I think is safe in case of hardware issues (although, last time I had hardware issues, I simply restored from backup to new to me disks)
We Moved from FreeRTOS to Zephyr RTOS (2023)
If Wikipedia is to be believed, the Chinese nickname is “Treasured Red Book.” It’s just a coincidence that the English nickname happens to match the literal translation of this app’s name. Still hilarious.
I’ve got bad news for you if you think the average lawyer makes more.

https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/lawyer/salary
And why did the CCP pass those laws? Perhaps bc they understood it would block divestment, acting as a poison pill to would be acquirers, thereby forcing foreign governments to fight their own public in outright banning TikTok.
If everyone 30+ bmi can get to 30 for “free” (not sure where the subsidizing stops, for me it’s free if I’m over 30 bmi), that’s just too tantalizing to pass up, even if the moral applies.

At least it takes a load off one problem (obesity related diseases). Could it actually exacerbate unethical farming even more or lead to even worse outcomes? Hope not.
It would be easier to squeeze Novo if they included Zepbound from Eli Lilly in the mix - we could argue that if we're going to spend unfathomable amounts on these medications we might as well buy the more effective medication from an American company.
Even then that was a scare of what people's perception of the future of the company was was, not actual negative performance metrics. Netflix continued to gain subscribers despite the concerns of the time (covid ending, changes in competition, changes in content) hence the quick stock recovery as the doubts evaporated.
I think many have tried but face an uphill battle of unless a significant majority is willing to relocate, the prevailing content will be things that are deemed undesirable/bannable on other platforms, which distracts potential users.

Having a completely decentralized solution also comes with the issue of future governance. If a single entity controls the direction (even if the spec is open and you can host it yourself), then it's not decentralized. If you end up with a consortium then you'll face the same issue of email, innovation is hard to spread as you need multiple actors with competing interests to agree.

If your vision is having multiple entities providing different experiences tailored to individual taste, they might start consolidating and effectively forming several disjoint platforms.

p.s.

The web can be said to be decentralized but it's dominated by large players all the way from hosting to browsers. If all three major browsers don't agree on your proposal, it's effectively dead. Who's to say entrenched players won't arise in your vision of a decentralized social media?
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The one thing I don't understand about these Pi based mini-racks is why you would build a home lab that's less powerful than your client devices. My 24 U rack exists precisely because I want on demand, large amounts of compute/GPU for compiling, transcoding, encrypting, etc. and the cloud is too expensive. If you're going to make the investment into any type of home labbing, why gimp yourself with devices that can only run small services you could run on a single old desktop using containers?
12PM is Noon. Did you mean Midnight?
> Musk has a particularly obnoxious fanbase

Anti-Muskers are an even more obnoxious fanbase
If you don't want to see musk just get the fuck off twitter already.

Every single excuse is fake. No you aren't getting breaking news, you are getting literal propaganda and explicitly rage inducing lies, precisely because the blue check and payment system enforces it.

You are an addict.
Thanks so much for the feedback—it’s super helpful! Persisting progress between mobile and desktop is definitely on my roadmap. As for the lesson timer, I’ve just updated it to 5 seconds as a quick fix while I work on a better long-term solution for completing lessons. Appreciate you pointing that out!
> Oh, so why did you ask ‘renters of what?’ and start talking about home rental?

Have people completely lost their reading comprehension? My comment:

> Renters of what? Items people can just take and leave with [...]

A car is a item "people can just take and leave with". I literally answer the question myself, right after stating it. And not until the line below I start talking about expecting privacy in a rented home.

> Car rentals could request or require consent as terms of rental

They very much do, at least in the countries I've rented a car in. Every time they asked for consent, like the regulations require them to in my region.
Yeah, but it's California, so I'm not sure concrete is great for the earthquakes.
FOSDEM organiser since 2001 here.

I'm sure you meant to help, but a factual inaccuracy crept into your comment. FOSDEM has never ever scheduled any talk or other content in exchange for money. There is an absolute consensus within the organising all-volunteer team to stay that course.

Our goal is to bring free and open source software developers together at a yearly conference. We manage income and expenses very carefully, eliminating any need to compromise our mission by selling talk space.
I'm a strong proponent of alternative information distribution mechanisms within the Internet. An "anti-normie" kind of channel of information. Hell, up until the web 2.0 came along, the Internet was exactly that for the most part.
my favorite part of ozempic is that it settled the debate on calorie reduction.
> You have easily 400 million

No you don’t: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Nigeria

~60 million people in Nigeria speak English out of 230 million people, but that 60 million isn’t almost exclusively native speakers.
The ancient Rome vomiting thing is a myth. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomitorium