skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you considered academia?

I wrote code for a digital agency for a while and it was cool but making stuff for huge corporations wasn't exactly inspiring to me.

So I got a job doing basically the same for a university library. Now I wake up every morning knowing that I'm working to make information available to the public for free. And my work is basically an answer to "What would you do with code if it didn't have to be monetarily profitable in any way?" every single day.

You could probably find a position doing something very similar to what you've been doing (if you want) but in a very different environment.
Yes. No.

(Although that No is getting a bit blurry with US social media bending over for commander cheeto)
Nothing will be lost. It will be trivial to access this content, obviously. The internet has gotten extremely adept at routing around censorship.
Yeah, it's the same with the "millions" of users moving to bluesky or reddit moving to lemmy. A bunch of people go there and eventually come back.
It looks like i've done a bad job at explaining this, so i'll try to clarify:

Making worker processes go fast has most benefit to enormous deployments, as they won't run out of headroom when running lots of single-core python workers.

However, ALL deployment sizes benefit from algorithmic improvements to the protocol and its implementation - which are the cause of smaller servers being slower today.

Specifically:

* Merge conflict resolution (State resolution) is worse than O(N) complexity with the amount of state to be merged.

* Incremental room joins (https://element-hq.github.io/synapse/latest/development/syna...) were never fully finished.

* Servers burn lots of time trying to talk to dead servers: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/413...

* All Matrix traffic currently runs full-mesh - there's no concept of "thin nodes" or delegating fan-out to a larger server.

So, fixing these issues is all going into open source Synapse (and Matrix as a whole) - which should unrecognisably improve performance, whether servers are written in Python or Rust or Elixir or whatever. And the hope is that $ from Synapse Pro funds that work (assuming the gambit is successful).

Meanwhile, all features, security work, perf optimisations (apart from scalability work), experimental MSCs etc will continue to land in FOSS Synapse for the forseeable.
There are other Rust implementations that do not use LLVM. Eg. GCC and Cranelift.
True, but I'd say that in this area (vs. manufacturing where tariffs can be applied), it's more taboo/embarrassing to admit how dominated Instagram was. Reels is the cheap knockoff of the genuine article.
The REDnot is not a "foreign-controlled" app, it's a foreign app, and it does not target the US market. The US citizens chose to use a non-US app. How would US enforce a ban? Send marines to Shanghai and capture CEOs?
Why do you think that Bezos and Zuckerberg have seen the light with the elections if the US government has nothing to do with these private enterprises?

Twitter and Meta are foreign everywhere else, everywhere else except China TikTok is foreign as well and apparently they all lick their respective governments.
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> Turns out China (or here, Russia) infiltrated the country, waged an enormous disinformation campaign and succeeded by getting their chosen candidate elected.

But in the US, Russia also has waged enormous disinformation campaigns on US-based social media networks. Taking the problem of foreign (dis|mis)information, election interference, etc seriously requires that we do more than ban one network based on the ownership of that company. After TikTok gets shut down, Chinese influence operations can still use Twitter/X, Meta, Reddit etc. We need better tools and regulations to make these campaigns visible stoppable in real-time, rather than just banning one network while leaving up multiple other vulnerable networks. This ban is political theater, where the US can act like it's doing something while not having to address the harder parts of the problem.

> A. They seem to rather abandon the app rather than receive tens of billions by selling it

I think this is weak evidence of them being a mostly political tool. Valuations based on their actual use are well above what anyone has actually offered to pay. And disentangling US operations from the rest of TikTok would not be straight-forward; do you merely cleave it in two? Given network effects, would cutting off the US component to sell it make both the US and non-US portions less valuable?

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/15/tiktoks-us-unit-could-be-wor...
While data privacy laws would be good, I don’t see how it would help with TikTok since they have no reason to actually follow the laws when CCP comes calling.
You know they did that with video games too.. Should we do that here?

https://apnews.com/article/gaming-business-children-00db669d...
Thank you for posting that!
I think that it's a bit overblown.

But it's a problem when your biggest ally treats you like an ally, says you're living off him militarily and spies/hacks you non stop.

China is not a military threat to Europe, it's literally on the other part of the globe. It's only a threat to US geopolitical ambitions.
Well I think they're definitely leaning into giving the best portable experience for the dedicated consoles (that are not Steam). I think they've come to understand that's their niche and the sales of the Switch seem to suggest it.

I don't think they feel like they need a huge departure, but rather just to improve on the shortcomings of the Switch itself and just a bit more power. Whatever they can achieve.

But they also know they can never compete with the PS5 in terms of specs and still put out a portable.

And they're probably well aware that they'll have to make up their tech shortcomings with good games ... as they always have.

So you're right. They'll continue with this until has diminishing returns and then they'll probably pivot / evolve again.
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By your own logic, they must like it?

Do you think they wouldn't if they had viable options??
Interesting. Yea if the switch didn't exist I could see a re-attempt at the PSP (or the Vita? whatever that thing was).
Great post. Given me a bunch of ideas to add to my RSS app at https://feedgrab.net!
> which actually seems less open/free? besides the point

You can't have freedom (or at least won't have it for long) if others have the freedom to take it away from you.

Copyleft gives you every possible freedom, except the freedom to withold those freedoms from the next person that comes along. It's not just a way to give freedom, it's a way to enforce it.

You could say that anarchy, where everyone is free to do everything, is the ultimate freedom. Then you step out of your bunker and get shot because someone wanted your shiny watch. So we trade a few freedoms in exchange for being able to enjoy the rest of them unimpeded.
New machines with Windows 10 were sold in 2021.

So, less than 4 years of support for those machines.
How much of a problem is it?
I was able to read the code it wrote, and check that (as hoped) it was using a good existing library to do the heavy lifting. And I had it make plots that I could visually use to check that the values were 'reasonable'. The value in that case was simply that I didn't have to leave the couch and write the code myself (although if the result was actually needed for anything more important than a smug 'i thought so' confirmation I would still have taken over and validated it kore carefully).
Re #2 -- while there is a tit-for-tat element here, forcing a sale of TikTok or removing it from the App stores, is still worlds apart from the type of censoring of information that the Chinese government engages in. So it's not a case of "we want to do the same thing". If you've lived in China (I have) you'll know what I'm talking about.
it's called Douyin. It's the same product, the same way a Mexican Coke is the same thing as an American Coke, and both are produced by the same company (Coca Cola).
Many other platforms have been used for that for even longer, and none of them are in danger of being banned. I don't think this is the real reason, if there is even a singular reason.
> 1) Influence- TikTok gives the CCP significant direct influence over the views of Americans

More to the point: it removes the ability of the existing American establishment to monopolise the viewpoints presented to Americans.
Indeed, it's all protectionism. They want the money to go to American companies instead. Why do you think the EU, which is generally far more aggressive about these things, has not yet banned TikTok? It's also the same reason Huawei are thriving elsewhere but banned in the US. It's all just trying to protect their big companies with deep pockets.
Are the courts not US government? Do you think there isn't any collusion between Supreme Court and the other branches of government?
I'm going to repeat myself as I do everytime I encounter such tools. These tools DO NOT provide anonymization, and especially not at the level required by the EU's GDPR (where the notion of PII does not exist).

As a computer scientist and academic researcher having worked on this topic for now more than a decade (some of my work if you are interested: [1, 2]), re-identification is often possible from few pieces of information. Masking or replacing a few values or columns will often not provide sufficient guarantees—especially when a lot of information is being released.

What this tool does is called ‘pseudonymization’ and maybe, if not very carefully, ‘de-identification’ in some case. With colleagues, reviewed all the literature and industry practices a few months ago [3], and our conclusion was:

> We find that, although no perfect solution exists, applying modern techniques while auditing their guarantees against attacks is the best approach to safely use and share data today.

This is clearly not what this tool is doing.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10933-3
[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-55296-6
[3] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn7053
And they’re right to. In the news today: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/european-union-o...
I believe with software-based encryption (LUKS and the like), the decryption key ends up being stored in RAM, which will always present a risk.

And TPM-based solutions don't have this problem. Could be wrong though.
If what TikTok is doing is dangerous when TikTok does it why is it safe when everyone else does it?

This is theft, pure and simple. The government-industrial complex is trying to steal this app. The private side wants to make money and the public side wants yet another way to control narratives on social media much the way President Musk does on twitter.
If you think delays in aerospace constitute "lies," you're not going to have a good time following any aerospace company. Unexpected delays are par for the course.
That's because (spoiler) SaaS is made for b2b not for regular people
>> The process can be powered simply by ambient wind

>the ultimate energy source appears to be the wind

Seems like you are agreeing that, that is how chemistry works.
"Identity politics" is economic policy – Science
Oh look: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/european-union-o...
I'm not quite where you are yet, but I can feel this approaching... I started my career in IT tech support, became a systems & networks engineer, dabbled in IT management, data center construction management, software technical program management, ending up managing compute resources for a large-ish product with 1B+ MAU. But I think I might be done with tech.

I can't shake off the feeling of impending doom for roles like mine in the current market and the constant push for AI solutions.

So I am seriously thinking of moving and opening a coffee shop or wine bar, or even a coffee truck to be honest. Meeting people, making their day a little better, rather than staring at the computer all day every day.

I would encourage you to read up on Ikigai[0] to figure out what makes you tick and can give you the income you need. Not all passion projects pay the bills but some do.

[0] https://stevelegler.com/2019/02/16/ikigai-a-four-circle-mode...
And a lot of that bashing comes from people who don't understand React or the ecosystem it's part of.
All of these points apply to YouTube, which has arguably higher quality content on all of those things.
Why are people upvoting this.
It wouldn't be the same algorithm, it would suppress pro-Palestine content more aggressively as Meta does. The US's problem is with the algorithm
The key issue here now is: The future, freedom, international policy etc of you US guys no longer depends on democratic structures in ANY way whatsoever.

Who pays Trump most, wins. Who does what Musk wants, wins.

From what I know, there is no second Oligarch-run corrupt country that would come close to this. This is worse than China and Russia combined.

Sorry, not meant to bash our US HN friends at all, just an observation from another western country targeted by MuskTrump that has yet to follow the US lead (which they will), so we still have some time left to be in shock and awe about what is going on on your side of the pond for a while.

FFS.
> the country where the parent company is registered

Ok. But then, if the country of the platform's owner is the issue, why only ban TikTok? And leave other Chinese social media platforms unaffected?

In other words, how is e.g. RedNote safer from foreign influence than TikTok?
1. Is data encrypted in transit?

2. Can the user access their data at rest?

Those two things are entirely orthogonal.

I don't think you can extrapolate a trend from a few apps having bugs in their export code. Google Takeout is also notoriously buggy and they don't use E2E encryption. A more likely explanation is companies of all kinds don't care that much about export functionality, due to the incentives involved.
What if Congress passed a law that said "The New York Times must shut down unless all foreign owners divest"? That's effectively impossible for a publicly traded corporation. Is that just a ban, in practice?
His comment is obvious propaganda
Good. Those things aren't allowed in UK/Europe due to their lack of pedestrian safety "features". I don't understand why other countries allow the vehicles when the driver's view is so limited that they cannot see children if they are close to the vehicle.
> it's not like they were about to be Myspaced. They've remained among the most valued companies

It hasn't been an overnight switch, but the trajectory did not look good for US companies. TikTok was even eating into TV viewing time. There's a fixed amount of attention and TikTok was vacuuming it up from everywhere.
You realize that some of those Trump supporters voted for a Black man with a Muslim sounding name - twice?

Kamala didn’t lose in Miami of all places because of her stance on Palestine. Nor did she lose every swing state for that reason.
Canada and potentially the UK are gonna be having the biggest shock I guess. Potentially Australia too?
> I think everyone is kind of aware that social media is a vice

I don't think this is true. Everyone that is reading this forum might even be too strong. The majority of people happily eating the pablum up as the users of TikTok can't even tell the blatantly false content from just the silly dancing videos.
Most of the cloud providers have a less-than-perfect cutoff. It's worse than the cutoff of the free plan, though, because the free plan can be slowed down to have better enforcement, while the commercial plans have performance SLAs to hit.
a greenhouse can heat a space by enough to be comfortable for free, but not cool it. Windows and sunlight matter.
> Ask yourself, how can law enforcement push a software trojan into any mobile phone without physically touching it.

Can they?

> Are you really free to bake your own bread? (Think about

Yes. It's not easy, but it's not impossible. You have to fight for your freedom to get it.
Interestingly, just saw this in my RSS feed: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/european-union-o...
This is true in principle, yes. In practice, the way this usually works is by converting inputs to bits and bytes, and then computing the result as a digital circuit (AND, OR, XOR).

Doing this encrypted is very slow: without hardware acceleration or special tricks, running the circuit is 1 million times slower than unencrypted, or about 1ms for a single gate. (https://www.jeremykun.com/2024/05/04/fhe-overview/)

When you think about all the individual logic gates involved in just a matrix multiplication, and scale it up to a diffusion model or large transformer, it gets infeasible very quickly.
New year new rules new lines
100% agreed, unfortunately. There is truth in sayings like "the customer doesn't know what's best for them"... I think because they are often simply not informed or intelligent enough.
Because of the Santa Ana winds (with this apparently being more than usual), you'll continually have very dry conditions with high winds and the danger of a fire getting out of control. I don't see it as a black swan either. This is a repeatable scenario, every few years they'll probably have conditions like this. The climate is changing, maybe this will spread or move to areas nearby.

I live in an area that had a special warning last summer, we had a very very dry summer and there was a period with low humidity and high winds for a few days, it was considered an unusual scenario with extreme fire risk - but nothing happened this time. Now that I'm writing this I'm wondering what I'll do if it feels like an annual occurrence. Another parallel, the power company warned us they might shut off the power to reduce risk but I guess it didn't get that bad.
Judging from my experience (house built in non hazard suburb and maintained every few years), Yes.

The thing is that with the additional cost of climate change, a lot of these houses do not have the capacity to go through a once-in-100-years event, as they start to occur more frequently.

We just had a water backflow from the city main pipeline last August. Pretty much everyone was impacted, and insurance cost went up for those that were not impacted anyway.

So to make the house insurable, it requires: 1) massive city infrastructure rebuilding, and 2) everyone pays a lot more to install additional "modules" in their houses. For example I already have a backflow valve but if things get worse and water starts to accumulate close to the bottom of the house I'll need a very expensive French drain, something like 60k CAD. It's not going to break me, but it's 3-4 years of saving.

I can't imagine what happens if we get another once-in-100-years storm this summer. I'll probably leave the basement bare without floor and won't bother to claim it.
It is too bad we don’t have a convention already for the internet:

User/crawler: I’d like site

Server: ok that’ll be $.02 for me to generate it and you’ll have to pay $.01 in bandwidth costs, plus whatever your provider charges you

User: What? Obviously as a human I don’t consume websites so fast that $.03 will matter to me, sure, add it to my cable bill.

Crawler: Oh no, I’m out of money, (business model collapse).
The actual senators that wrote the legislation publicly stated TikTok was banned because of Israel.

I get that Zionists don’t want that reason stated publicly, hoping to blame China instead, but it’s out there now.
If its like Reels (I dont use tiktok) as soon as you are in France its only French content. Same for youtube.
My big fat stink test is if I need tooling at all.

Do I need npm or another utility? It probably stinks. Do I need to build something? It definitely stinks.

# Create a website
nue create simple-blog

Stinks all around.
Does nonlinear optics also create harmonics as with nonlinear electronics?
more that execs are looking for an excuse to tell their board of directors why sales are falling that doesnt include online ordering. the movement to E-Commerce is a double hit to stores because not only do they directly lose sales but when something is ordered from their stores (on e.g -doordash) they have to put people on packaging those goods- which they see no income from and makes the brick-and-mortar store less staffed.
The role parent comment is talking about isn't necessarily tied to an employer. They can be built of external expectations on e.g. what your career path and role should be.
What does this shutdown mean for US employees of Bytedance? Will they shut down their US offices or continue business as usual working from the US but only serving users outside?
For sure, they're not fireproof of course, but they do survive and seem to be more resistant than non-native species [1].

And, like all things, of course there are many interdependent pieces in play, like those hurricane force winds, but oak trees don't burn the same as a palm [2]. I just keep seeing that viral video of a firefighter trying to put out a palm while a guy escaped his house on a bike -- it was shedding embers like crazy. [3]

[1] pdf warning: https://www.fs.usda.gov/psw/publications/documents/psw_gtr21...

[2] https://abcnews.go.com/US/elderly-couple-battles-flames-la-f...

[3] https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/california-wildfires/pali...
Just to jump in here -> We support RDS + more and you can self-host, Neosync.

https://github.com/nucleuscloud/neosync

(I'm one of the co-founders)
So if you use the American app store to install TikTok, it works just fine, even for the falun dafa content? Interesting. I've heard that tiktok.com is actually blocked by the GFW, so even if you have the app, you still can't view content without a VPN, but I guess I can check for sure in a few months.

Obviously the USA doesn't have a GFW, so they can't actually block tiktok, just ban it from the app store and prevent business from resolving in the US around it (e.g. paying content creators).
You seem to have a fundamental misunderstanding of React, Next, etc. They don't stop you from using native CSS or HTML functionality.
> No raccoons were harmed in the making of this extension.

That cracked me up!
I think its likely not the tanks but rather the plumbing to engines and the engines themselves leaking (sense lines, etc).

Next engine revision (Raptor 3) should help, as it is much simplified and quite less likely to leak or get damaged during flight.
Balanced Teams
You are arguing with a strawman. All we are saying is that Palestinians that were displaced after the 1948 terror campaign which created Israel, that it is their right to return to their homeland. It is indisputable that they have this right, and that denying them that right is indeed a human right violation that ought to be stopped.

Whatever happens to a supposed Jewish state should not be a concern. Jewish residents of the area have their human rights as well, but what they don’t have a right to is a demographic majority, a racial supremacy, etc., and any policy which aims to maintain a jewish demographic majority or a racial supremacy is illegitimate.
What you're saying is akin to someone entering a clothes shop and the store clerk asking what they work on, to gauge the T-shirt prices according to the client's salary.
If you think these are mere delays, then I have a bridge to sell to you
1) to be honest, when I see how russia, Iran and other states influence all other networks (especially when it comes to voting), not sure how tiktok is worse than all of them - just think of Facebook & Cambridge Analytica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...

2) yes, that is an issue.

3) fair point.
That might be true. But the answer isn’t hiring someone with no real world experience. I would hire an entry level developer before I would hire an entry level security person.
nothing inherently wrong with fentanyl either. not a strong argument.
Mexican Coke is different though. It doesn't use HFCS.