skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm tempted to say: what's the point if you've preemptively disregarded it as made up "American propaganda."

But here you go anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Typhoon
For a time, windows would more readily run an autorun from a disc than from a usb stick. Even if that disc was in an emulated usb disk drive.
AI-Designed Antivenom Counteracts Toxins from Snakebites in Mice
This article is from June 2023, Artemis II is now scheduled to launch in 2026 [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_II
Hopefully we'll ban those too. The first step is always the hardest, so you should always look for the easiest path (which in this case is banning a foreign government from controlling a social media app).
Orkut was one American social network that barely had any American content because it was taken over by Brazilians.
Yeah, actual comparable hard data would be nice, agreed :D
Adam Savage Learns About the Flipper Zero [video]
Melt Your Circuit Boards [video]
The evidence and reasoning by Congress was all "non-justiciable" by the courts.

Congress looked at some evidence and made a decision. That is their purview and our checks-and-balances do not allow the courts to second-guess Congress like that. They can look at the "how" of the law, but not the "why".

Specifically the court looked at "what is congress' goal and is there any other way to achieve that goal that doesn't stop as much speech" and there isn't, but they can't question the validity of Congress' goals.

So there's no point in Bytedance arguing any of it, at least not in court.
If you consider TikTok a “Security-sensitive system” that seems to be such a broad category as to be useless. I guess we should stop using any and all Chinese produced software systems then? Which isn’t an unreasonable opinion but again it feels like a different conversation than “ban TikTok”.
Afaik all apps on android have the ability to list directories across most of the "sdcard" file system even without storage permissions.
Ah, the convenience of brainfuck with the performance of flipjump. Excellent.
Yeah it's simply an incredibly powerful way to influence US youth in ways that are favorable to the CCP.

I don't understand how or why this is hard for people to grasp? It's no different than Radio Free Europe being secretly funded by the CIA, except it's even more powerful.
The Grenfell tower fire comes to mind regarding flammable cladding. Not "new" but "renovated".

It killed more than 70 people.
I think you are a bit too premature: China has at least one(usually dozens) competitor for literally everything America has. You just don't hear about everything in the US.

Think of any industry and there is probably a Chinese competitor that is trying.

Tesla -> BYD

Google -> Baidu

Starbucks -> Luckin Coffee

IMAX -> China Film Giant Screen or maybe POLYMAX

Finally Disney -> Possibly Beijing Enlight Pictures

They released an animated film Ne Zha in 2019 that according to wikipedia was "the highest-grossing animated film in China,[16] the worldwide highest-grossing non-U.S. animated film,[17] and the second worldwide highest-grossing non-English-language film of all time at the time of its release. With a gross of over $725 million,[18] it was that year's fourth-highest-grossing animated film, and China's all time fourth-highest-grossing film.[19]"

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_Zha_(2019_film)

Some great info here [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2J0pRJSToU

Ok I'll admit part of the reason people don't hear about these companies is that they are still too half baked. But look at BYD, they started off producing junk but this Chinese mindset of grinding and rapid iteration has put them to be super successful today. Why couldn't that kind of happen with their Disney competitor?

Another thing that might be happening is the literal closing off of the world into two spheres. Western US led and Eastern Chinese led. As we are seeing with BYD, they are taking over all the non western markets(and some western as well) but the US has essentially slammed the door shut on them (they haven't actually but made it impossible to enter with their tariffs). Maybe the Disney competitor will take hold in the non western aligned world?

Honestly its a shame they are not open or democratic. The idea of watching or even being part of a rising country that is building their empire is fascinating to watch. Will they collapse due to demographics or these fundamental issues like communism or will they make it? Unfortunately for many people, the only option is to stick with the US and work to keep the ship afloat as there is no place for them in China.
I have no pride. I push my dumb commits that chronical my weird journey full of sub-junior mistakes to get to the final state.
I think this makes a great argument for Sharia Law as created during the Islamic Golden Age. I don't think there's any period of time with more scientific advancement. Astronomy, architecture, calculus, statistics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine... You name it, they improved it. Does this means their legal system must be "closer to truth" too?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_German

> Swiss German (Standard German: Schweizerdeutsch, Alemannic German: Schwiizerdütsch, Schwyzerdütsch, Schwiizertüütsch, Schwizertitsch Mundart, and others; Romansh: Svizzers Tudestg) is any of the Alemannic dialects spoken in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, and in some Alpine communities in Northern Italy bordering Switzerland.

All Swiss-German is an Alemannic dialect, not all Alemannic dialects are Swiss-German, is how I'd interpret that.
Also, the list of tornadoes the GP refers to in Europe are mostly F0-F2 severity. These don't often cause high fatalities and injuries in the US either (on par with what's reported there). The problem is that tornadoes in the US Midwest and Southeast are often in the F3-F5 range, which are much deadlier. An F3 tornado includes winds to 165 mph, which is considered a category 5 in the hurricane scale. They don't last nearly as long, but high intensity tornadoes can cause catastrophic damage in seconds where they hit directly, unless the shelter is literally underground.
Who is more likely to act: who thinks it is “good enough” or “the game is rigged”?
Well, reporting as recent as April of 2024 suggested that Bytedance is able to access tiktok user data despite Operation Texas. And generally speaking, we have seen enough in the way of (1) security breaches and (2) leaky promises not to disclose data either to govts or 3rd party data brokers, only for those reassurances to fall flat. I would even go so far as to say that professions to uphold trade agreements or international agreements are uniquely "soft" in their seriousness from China in recent history.

Guarantees of insulation from bad actors from major tech companies unfortunately are not generally credible, and what is credible, at least relatively speaking, are guarantees imposed by technology itself such as E2E encryption and zero knowledge architecture, as well as contextual considerations like the long term track record of specific companies, details of their ownership and their physical locations.
> spaceflight is not the place where it is appropriate.

But, a video stream meant for the public consumption is. SI are standardized for the context of calculations, not necessarily for human consumption, which happens to be why nobody gives the weather in degrees kelvin.
https://archive.is/4Y8w5
I agree the evidence is weak, and circumstantial, but it is not true that there none. Quick overview of some of it (which includes critique of it):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_TikTok
You don't consider a massively deployed app, on a majority of mobile devices, via which blackmailable individual profiles can be assembled "security-sensitive"?

I'd absolutely consider Meta to be security sensitive. And Microsoft. And Google. And Netflix.
And Professor X is Martin Luthor King and Magneto is Malcolm X.
We sped up our table scans by 24% by avoiding Go interfaces
parent is connecting self-worth with his work ... very bad :/
It's strange how we almost never praise people for earning their money. I remember growing up on a blue collar family on a blue collar city and being really proud of it. Instead now, we praise those who spend big, as if that is more impressive. Society seems focused on spending as a sign of success, even though a hard work mindset is what should really counts.

What surprises me the most is that this is true even for the self-made millionaires I know, they do not like showing off money in any way. Yet we keep praising people who basically live cashflow negative with inherited money. We focus too much on big spending and end up promoting consumption over real effort.

Maybe it's time we stopped making excuses for an unfair system and started looking for real solutions. We often quote Adam Smith for his invisible hand, but we should also pay attention to what he said about inequality and how dangerous it is when wealth is concentrated in too few hands.
The article has nothing to do with model training.
Clickbait title. It's half a protracted discussion about how solitaire isn't fully computable on current hardware[1], and half a history of playing cards (as referenced in the url). Perhaps "Probability and history of playing cards", or just take "A Playing Card History" from the URL.

[1] There are fully-functional solitaire solvers, though, and have been for literal decades.
The whole point is to point back to something public, building links to increase it's Google Juice. I thought Obsidian was a private repository, thus there are no links, and all you're doing is feeding some future AI, for no private benefit.
seems like a dangerous idea if you're Uncle Sam or the CCP. dogs and cats may realize they in fact enjoy living together. one can hope though, eh?
The problem is that the rhetoric around this law from its promoters is that of an app ban, not a business sanction. And indeed, the app is being banned from Apple and Google's app stores despite it being free to download and use.

The government currently lacks the ability to yank a binary from computing devices en masse, but the technology to do so is already mostly in place. (See Apple’s notarization escapades in the EU, for example. And I think Microsoft is working in a similar direction: https://secret.club/2021/06/28/windows11-tpms.html) I have a sickening feeling that this is only step one, and that the government will eventually mandate the ability to control and curate all software running on desktop and mobile devices within the country for “security” reasons. National security goons are salivating at the prospect, to say nothing of US corporations that are getting clobbered by foreign competitors.
RJ45 isn't even actually the same connector, at least not in the original FCC naming. That was an 8P8C keyed modular connector. RJ45 connectors had only two of the positions connected to wires (one phone line) an internal resistor between two of the other positions, and a keying bar that stuck out of the plug so they wouldn't even go into the unkeyed 8P8C jacks we use for Ethernet.

So I'll still call them RJ45 connectors. Because nobody has time to say "8P8C unkeyed modular connector" every time!
> well within the legal system

It's not a search if we don't find anything, and it's not a seizure if we charge the money with the crime. These are court approved arguments, so they must be correct interpretations.

Point is: modern bureaucrats have proven that they are absolutely willing to abuse power, even in the best of times when there is no real domestic political strife.
People are /loosely/ averse and annoyed, but towards the market in general and that doesn't really materialize in a direct loss. "Boy I sure hate how _______ these days" isn't aimed at some particular product. The phrase names the scene at large.

Yes, everything sucks now, will Joe Sixpack thus stop buying ...everything?

In such an environment why WOULDN'T I take advantage of the nuisances that I can now safely get away with? I gain control, data, monopolistic single-sourcing, and good old revenue, all by being just a little bit shitty. No more than the next guy.

"Quality" is greatly amorphous before buying a product and the stage is increasingly virtual. The only certain metric can be ye olde "bottom line" (price) and indulging shitty practices allows you to undercut. Consumer gets what they pay for but reckons most other offerings have the same shitty nuisances (and is mostly right) and reckons it's an uphill struggle to ferret out which ones are genuinely good quality and not consumer-second (and is definitely right, people crave the product opinions of genuine humans and these are being increasingly coopted)
These comments are so much more annoying than titles ever are.
Can you share a list of dark datacenters that are for sale. They sound interesting as a business.
We pulled some cost stuff out of the post in final review because we weren't sure it was interesting ... we'll bring it back for a future post
Ask HN: What music are you working on this weekend?
Not sure if this is allowed but I see so many music related posts on here it would be cool to see what people are working on this weekend to let off steam (or, according to Sumo, to basically do the equivalent of voluntarily working in a coal mine).

Ideally share your music on a streaming service as it's kind of sketchy to ask people to download files (even if mp3s).

Does not need to be finished work as lots of us don't get to that point. More just a fun 'what are you working on' than a music self promotion thread.

Non music makers music in progress lacks certain polish you may be used to. Turn your speakers down as volumes might not be normalized. Listen for the interplay and ideas. Music might sound boring at first without all the ear candy/final production you're used to.

Maybe if you post something try to post positively on others and show some old school Bay Area PLUR.
I wonder if someone has already made a Reverse Engineering CTF challenge for this concept.
Not to mention the evil ethernet patch cable:

https://imgur.com/Gpgj7w7
Just be careful or you might make a Kugelblitz
@lcamtuf: It's Igor Pavlov, not Ivan Pavlov
What the Most Famous Book About Trauma Gets Wrong
They already have a mobile web interface, that anyone can crate a shortcut to. It'll work fine as-is, with or without a 'PWA' buzzword.

If a government really wanted to block internet access to a service provider, they'd block access to their servers, on all ports. The workaround would be a VPN, not a web interface.

The US has this strange banning-but-not-really, because really banning it would be prohibited by the constitution's first amendment.
It could be preloaded
weird to think my final internship was running on one of these things. thanks for all the free minutes! it was a nice experience
> Yet people are arguing that we should allow the people who did that to continue to install apps on millions of Americans phones

This paternalistic framing is the disconnect between you and those opposed to the ban. The idea that it's TikTok insidiously worming its way onto American phones like a virus. In reality, people download the app and use it because they like it. This ban will, in effect, prevent people from accessing an information service they prefer. You must acknowledge this and argue why that is a worthy loss of autonomy if you want to meaningfully defend the ban to someone who doesn't like it.

If it helps, reframe the ban as one on a website rather than an app. They're interchangeable in this context, but I've observed "app" to be somewhat thought-terminating to some people.

For the record - I would totally support a ban on social media services that collect over some minimal threshold of user data for any purposes. This would alleviate fears of spying and targeted manipulation by foreign powers through their own platforms (TikTok) and campaigns staged on domestic social media. But just banning a platform because it's Chinese-owned? That's emblematic of a team-sports motivation. "Americans can only be exposed to our propaganda, not theirs!" How about robust protections against all propaganda? That's a requirement for a functional democracy.
i dont think fhats the right attack? the influential use of tiktok sould be sharing propaganda like the US did about the iraq war "we did it and the taiwanese people are excited to be liberated and reunified with china"

along with details about how the US has no defensive alliance with taiwan, and that the US does not need to intervene
Of all the arguments in all directions, by far the least compelling have been the ones that attempt to both-sides equivalences between the U.S. and China on question of free speech and democratic norms. It's not that there's no offenses on the U.S. side, it's just the game of whatabouting reeks of JV debate team sophistry that is very discouraging to engage with.

The single party domination, the great firewall, the authoritarian surveillance are without comparison in scale and I think that has to be among the explicitly agreed upon facts that sanity check any conversation on this topic.

Edit since I can't reply to the comment below: all the examples mentioned below appear to involve the very equivocation between differences in scale that I spent this whole comment talking about, or attempt to equate past vs present, or are too vague to even understand the nature of the comparison, and collectively are so disorganized and low effort that they are degrading the focus and quality of the conversation as a whole.
Which is honestly weird. It's Little Red Book, not Red Note, in reference to Mao's little red book.
You can change the visibility of the target page so they wouldn't know
I agree entirely with this statement:

>As a contributor, you have to be an expert, but you're really not on the hook.

>As a decider, you can be a generalist, but you're on the hook.

My transition was from a decider at smaller companies to a contributor, working from home, at a large company. The deciders at my large company spend 30+ hours a week in meetings. I spend less than 5 hours a week in "meetings" though I may collaborate 1:1 or 1:small group much more from time to time.

Decide how you want your work to look in 5-10 years: on the hook, or not really?
Yes the culture here of describing any kind of interesting title as ‘click bait’ is very irritating.
First time checking out railway product- it seems like a “low code” and visual way to define and operate infrastructure?

Like, if Terraform had a nice UI?
Ok, so besides not being able to talk about these immediate 3 third rails, we're completely free to talk about anything. What a perfect platform for free speech idealists to flock to.

What in the actual hell, why wouldn't they go to one of the various other free sites that isn't controlled by such an obvious bad actor? Unless of course they don't care at all about that and they're really being quite dumb.

And yes, of course real life in China is different than that displayed in corporate US media. Real life in France, Australia, Nigeria and Svalbard are all different than what is displayed there too. None of that makes it a good idea to be so outrageously stupid as to adopt such a platform.
Everyone's memory of events is really bad. Eye witnesses are useless.
Not a link to the Human Rights Watch report; however, at oral argument this was stated by the US government (https://www.oyez.org/cases/2024/24-656 @ 1:58:32):

Elizabeth B. Prelogar: And the one final point on this is that ByteDance was not a trusted partner here. It wasn't a company that the United States could simply expect to comply with any requirements in good faith.

And there was actual factual evidence to show that even during a period of time when the company was representing that it had walled off the U.S. data and it was protected, there was a well-publicized incident where ByteDance and China surveilled U.S. journalists using their location data --this is the protected U.S. data --in order to try to figure out who was leaking information from the company to those journalists.
I appreciate them working out-of-the-box on Linux even more. And they mostly do, with Linux being the best PnP (Plug'n'Play — remember that with Windows 95? :) OS today.

But multiple modes of operation really made it harder for to configure devices like those 4G/LTE USB dongles: they will either present as USB storage, or one type of serial device or a CDC-ACM modem device (or something of the sort), requiring a combination of the tools + vendor-specific AT commands to switch it into the right mode. Ugh, just get me back those simple devices that do the right thing OOB.
Bytedance is HQ'd in Beijing and required by law to comply without exception with national security requests.
The Evolution of Formula 1 Cars from 1950 and 2023
You are right. At the moment, we are an opinionated wrapper, but we take a different approach to discovery than other libp2p-based networks with our custom batman-adv-based neighbor discovery.

Abstractions for collaboration are currently in the works, and we hope to release that soon. The work on consensus has already started. Your suggestions seem all very interesting, and we'll definitely consider them. We are also currently in the process of talking to potential users to build handy and approachable abstractions for them.

I saw that [freenet](https://docs.freenet.org/components/contracts.html) went with CRDTs, but I think they made it too complicated. We were thinking about a graph (or wide-column) with an engine similar to Kassandara and a frontend like (or ideally just) SurrealDB.

I remember that iroh moved away from libp2p when they dropped IPFS compatibility and moved to a self-built stack: https://www.iroh.computer/blog/a-new-direction-for-iroh When we got started, the capabilities of iroh didn't really fit our bill, but it seems like it's time to reevaluate that.
As a former contributor to rust-libp2p, I never quite got the frustration with libp2p that many people have, Iroh included, especially since many of the described problems seemed fixable, and I would have preferred if they did that instead, and libp2p remains the shared base people build these things on.

I remember Actyx being a rust-libp2p user, but I wasn't aware that they failed. Do you have more info? How and why? It would be great if we could learn from them.

Grammar will be reviewed ;) thank you!
> Najdork variation

I think OP doesn't like the Najdorf Sicilian... or is this some meme opening I don't know about?
>Surely there cannot be laws against running whatever program you want on your computer.

Why can't there be? Obviously laws against running whatever program you want on your computer already exist.

>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.

"The internet" is neither a person nor a group of people.

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

"Servers" are neither persons nor groups of people.

Also a bill of attainder is a law intended to punish a person or group of people for crime without due process, which doesn't apply here, as neither "the internet" nor "servers" have been accused of a crime, nor denied due process for conviction of a crime.

>So what exactly is being done here? No-one is explaining

When faced with the two possible options of "everyone involved must be too stupid not to have considered this one obvious and simple solution, despite them being experts in their field" and "this one obvious and simple solution must not mean what I, an amateur think it does," you can safely assume the latter.

As far as explanations, you can read the Supreme Court's decision, you can read any of the multitudinous articles written about the decision, or you can read any of the HN threads discussing it. Explanations abound.
Rust's Downfall: From Rising Star to Rejected by Major Projects