skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would disagree, the first amendment in fact does protect platforms for speech. If the government tried to ban the New York Times through an act of Congress, the Supreme Court would strike that down.

In this case, the fact that the platform is foreign and that the foreign owner is considered hostile to the US carves out an exception.
I am actually building just this. An AI test builder that uses the browser like a human. 60fps realtime streaming and zero-latency interaction (for manual step overriding). Would love to chat!
Are the people that lost everything the same people that caused the addiction crisis, or the traffic crisis, or the crime epidemic, or the lonelinsless epidemic, or the healthcare situation?

No. Even if they had homes in Malibu, the ones who caused those situations would not have lost everything.
How have fat people gotten thinner without those meds up until now, then? Was their addiction not as strong as yours, as you seem to imply? They just didn't "understand"? Look, I went from being an absolute fucking fatass to 8% body fat out of willpower alone when I was 17. It took a lot, namely destroying every bad habit I upheld for years regarding food and exercise, but I wanted to do it bad enough, so I did. It was a really extreme and sudden change of mindset, like a flip of a switch, actually, because I had enough of the bullying and lack of self confidence. One day I just got mad enough and changed my whole life.
> There's a legally challengable assertion there; "trained on CSAM images".

"Legally challengable" only in a pretty tenuous sense that's unlikely to ever haven any actual impact.

That'll be something that's recited as a legislative finding. It's not an element of the offense; nobody has to prove that "on this specific occasion the model was trained in this or that way".

It could theoretically have some impact on a challenge to the constitutionality of the law... but only under pretty unlikely circumstances. First you'd have to get past the presumption that the legislature can make any law it likes regardless of whether it's right about the facts (which, in the US, probably means you have to get courts to take the law under strict scrutiny, which they hate to do). Then you have to prove that that factual claim was actually a critical reason for passing the law, and not just a random aside. Then you have to prove that it's actually false, overcoming a presumption that the legislature properly studied the issue. Then maybe it matters.

I may have the exact structure of that a bit wrong, but that's the flavor of how these things play out.
Last I heard, depending on local attitudes, potentially jail. For that matter, minors can be charged for producing images of themselves. The CSAM laws in the US tend not to draw distinctions between first- and third-party production:

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/blurring...

https://www.innocentlivesfoundation.org/threat-of-sg-csam/

https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-charges/child-porn...
> I would challenge you to find a picture of text that you think a human can read and OCR cannot.

Are you aware of CAPTCHA[0] images?

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA
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Yours is speculation, not evidence.

> TikTok could have easily gone public in the USA to protect the company and employees.

So is this. There is no reason to believe the government attack would stop if this happened
Why shouldn’t TikTok just divest, then? Bytedance could make a huge amount of money by selling TikTok. And then that huge influx of money could keep TikTok operating forever. The fact that they’d rather shut down is pretty telling.
I do make good decisions and put in 10k steps everyday, which according to my stepcounter puts me in the top 5% for people my age. I've managed to slow my progression into the abyss; but I'm still going there.

Truth be told, my body can't effectively lose and maintain weight unless I'm eating a strict 1500 calories and replacing the walking with an hour long run each day. I know this because I've tried it and managed to maintain it for 6-months. It was a herculean effort and despite the results I paid a toll both physically and mentally. This isn't to say that the laws of thermodynamics don't apply to me; but my body will fight against them harder than most.

(I believe I would be a good candidate for these drugs. The only thing stopping me is the thought of having to be on them indefinitely.)
This same adversarial entity can run in the same fashion on american platforms and the data landscape quite easily. Theater.
TikTok was specifically banned because of one main reason. When it was being discussed in congress, they told their users to complain to their congresspeople, and posted their congresspersons number. Then when a bunch of unhinged teens called threatening to kill themselves, congress members rightfully went "What the fuck" and the bill gained enormous support
Respectfully, have you ever had anything in your life that you have struggled desperately with, and needed help? Anything at all that might give you a little empathy on the topic?

I was obese twenty years ago, and lost the weight via diet and exercise. Keeping that weight off is the single hardest thing I have ever done, and a battle I still have to consciously fight every single day. Doing so causes me a great deal of pain and frustration, and I know that I'm someone who is right on the edge of not being able to control my weight. Why should it be that difficult? So that I can pass some kind of purity test?

The fact is that the food we eat has evolved over time, and is too hard to resist overconsuming for a large fraction of our population. If we can create more addictive food, why not create antidotes? If we could easily treat alcohol addiction with a pill, would we tell alcoholics to just apply willpower instead? Why would we want people to suffer like that?
What did 4o get wrong about the title image in the transcription I just gave you?
RSS was too good and too decentralized to exist. It's a miracle that it's still possible to independently publish and subscribe to podcasts (notably, Spotify doesn't let you subscribe to unapproved podcasts).

I social web based on RSS would be heaven: publish anywhere you want, own your content and URL, no content moderation, pick your own service (separately) for discovery. Google should be pushing harder for this to bust content back out of the walled gardens of Instagram.
Thats a good reason why it's banned. China cannot sell. TikTok is under the strong control of their government, and so won't sell despite loosing an stupefying amount of revenue by doing so.
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I’m interested to give this a go because I want to practice reading cursive. I do a lot of longhand writing including writing all my notes in cursive. It’s exciting to watch my binding fill up with all sorts of different subjects!

I like to write in cursive for a few reasons

1. I find it makes my hand cramp less
2. It offers some shallow privacy in public
3. I don’t want to lose the skill
4. It’s fun!
It comes as lyophilized powder. You reconstitute the drug yourself and follow WHO sterility guidelines (reconstitute with bacteriostatic water, alcohol wipe ampoule top before accessing, keep it in the fridge, and throw it out if you havent finished it within 30 days). I know a dozen people doing this for the last year and none of them have had any sign of even superficial infection.
Solvable with the right tools.

https://github.com/noCaptchaAi/NoCaptcha-Ai-Browser-Extensio...
> Current LLMs can absolutely do this as well as you can, probably better.

This is obviously disprovable, in that if they could, they would, and this call to action would not exist.
Why would they? It’s an anachronism optimizing for writing speed
> How have fat people gotten thinner without those meds up until now, then?

Mostly, they haven't. You and I are outliers.

The population-level data tells us that overweight people are mostly unable to control their weight in the face of modern food. That being the case, it doesn't seem unreasonable to look for alternative solutions to the failed option of just telling people to eat less.

edit: regarding strength of addiction - I mean, of course, isn't it profoundly obvious that different people will have different strengths of addiction? I can drink without the slightest inclination to excess, while others are broken alcoholics. My grandfather didn't have the slightest interest in food beyond the calories needed to survive, while I have to fight every day to eat well.
I did wired WiFi for CES one year. Made having our iot devices on WiFi on the floor much better than other vendors. It’s a long boring story but it was a fun hack.
There's a major difference with the modern social media platforms, which is that the way in which they manufacture consent gives the illusion of popular consensus. That illusion makes them much more powerful than anything that came before, to the point where they are different in kind, not just in degree.

When a mainstream media outlet takes a position, most people are able to distinguish between that outlet's position and a large social movement in favor of a particular political position. The same cannot be said for these platforms, which by design attempt to make you feel like you're interacting with a large number of real people who hold real opinions. They much more effectively become seen as peers, and from that position can much more effectively manipulate people.

The role of "influencer" is a thousand times more potent than anything that we had in the previous era, and that's without even getting into the possibility of creating hundreds of AI-powered sock puppets or of deliberately constructing an algorithm to put specific people into specific types of echo chambers.

At this point in the game, the only way to equate speech-by-corporations with democracy is to be willfully blind to this difference in kind. The very rich at this point don't just have a megaphone, they have a direct neural link into an enormous number of brains. That's not free speech, that's free votes.
Depends on where you are. In some places in the world, into the gulag with them.

In fact, they can get gulaged if they draw a picture of a totally imaginary 16 year old, let alone a real person. It's kind of in dispute in the US, but that'd be the way to bet. 'Course, in a lot of US states, they're also in trouble for having a "partner" at all.

In practice, they'd probably have to distribute the picture somehow to draw the attention to get them arrested, and anyway they'd be a low priority compared to people producing, distributing, or even consuming, you know, real child porn... but if the right official decided to make an example of them, they'd be hosed.
No. Sign up and look at the current missions. A lot of what they want transcribed is totally straightforward to OCR --- not even LLM, OCR. Whatever's going on, and I'm not second-guessing them, a pretty big chunk of their problem appears to be well within the state of the art. The appeal to authority isn't going to play here, because you can just click through to the archives and see what they're trying to figure out.
I partially agree.

The "separation of concerns" is often misunderstood, and historically people were treating html, css and js like they were completely separate beings, which is of course a recipe for disaster [0].

However, what I'd like to see is separation between logic and presentation. In React world people used to call them dumb and smart components. Then you can use stuff like storybook to gauge your layout before applying "business logic" to the application. On top of that you have an easy way to test your "smart" components.

[0] like that time when I saw an org that decided to be "cloud agnostic" and people started pushing their own databases and http servers to AWS. :)
Yes. But atom please.
What does “borking the projection matrices” and affecting the BPE tokeniser mean/look like here?

Are we just trying to produce content that will pass as human-like (therefore get stripped out by coarse filtering) but has zero or negative informational utility to the model? That would mean, theoretically if enough is trained on it would actively worsen the model performance right?
CCP: let's create 200 apps where each app has just less than 1 million active; and then cross-content across the apps so you are sort of browsing a single site. Maybe China will finally bring federated social media.
if youtube was being banned instead for the same reason (pretend it was owned by ByteDance), would you feel the same way? what about any other website/platform that you like?

what if this was YOUR business getting banned?
RSS/Atom works for certain kinds of content, but not as well for others. It basically necessitates long polling and for anything that needs realtime publishing it just straight up won't work at any meaningful scale
The lack of self-awareness with this post…

Never mind the shameless self-promotion, doing it while decrying self-promotion means I’m never looking at your app, full-stop.
I think you underestimate the frequency, strength, and geographic distribution of strong earthquakes in the US. There is nothing comparable in Europe. You have to engineer for the strongest earthquake, not the average one, and on the US west coast that is M8-9+ depending on the specific location. The construction techniques in Japan and US are very similar because both have similarly extreme earthquakes.

The entire western third of the US is has several M7+ earthquakes per century, with a M6 every couple years, and the occasional M8-9+. The 1964 Anchorage earthquake was stronger (M9.2) than the 2011 Japanese earthquake that caused the great tsunami.

In the eastern US, there is a giant seismic zone that had multiple M8+ earthquakes in the 19th century. These were so powerful they changed the path of the mighty Mississippi River. People forget about it because it hasn’t had a large earthquake in over a century.

A lot of R&D is done on new construction techniques for extreme earthquake risks. The challenge with reinforced concrete is the absurd amount of reinforcement and steel you need to make it survive an earthquake that strong, which makes construction slow and expensive. The state-of-the-art doesn’t use reinforced concrete at all, even in skyscrapers; they use specially designed welded steel plates and fill the empty spaces with poured concrete.

The US has an anomalously high exposure to natural disasters as an accident of geography. For example, people often forget just how many active volcanoes there are in the US, including multiple super-volcanoes. While I live in an area well-known for its M9+ earthquake and tsunami risk, I can see three active volcanoes from my kitchen window.
This is great feedback, thank you for playing and let me know these comments.

Yes I definitely need to improve the mechanic of pausing / restarting the game when hand tracking is lost. I'll try to implement it the way you suggested.

Cheers!
Saying “sales pitches are bad” in a sales pitch does not help matters at all
California's ideology is to protect at all costs the people who already live among its hills, lakes, and beaches. Insurance and property tax hikes are threats insofar as they could drain your wealth. The (other, new) rich are a threat insofar as they could become your neighbors and ruin the view. The state protects you in both directions.
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There is multiple effects fighting against people who want to lose weight:

* habits. often times, obese people use food as a stress response, as a reward, etc. this then makes them relapse.

* "target weight" of the body. there is a memory effect where once you have built up fat tissue, your body wants you to return to that weight. In other words, it's not just the first step that's hard, but all the steps thereafter. Relapse is easy.

* fat tissue makes you more hungry.

* environmental issues, like unwalkable cities, an entire industry putting chemicals into foods that make you addicted to them, its excessive marketing, missing availability of non-processed foods (large percentage of US population lives in food deserts), etc.

It's not just discipline of the individual holding them back.
I agree with the ban on security basis, but could this be abused by countries to sabotage companies? China could buy majority shares of a company and force them out of business.
Banning foreign ownership of broadcast media companies is not new. It’s just that the laws have lagged the shift from broadcast linear mediums to the internet.

Source: the FCC specifically prohibits certain ownership of broadcast stations by foreign entities:

“Section 310(a) prohibits a foreign government or its representative from holding any radio license.

Section 310(b)(3) prohibits foreign individuals, governments, and corporations from owning more than twenty percent of the capital stock of a broadcast, common carrier, or aeronautical radio station licensee.”

https://www.fcc.gov/general/foreign-ownership-rules-and-poli...
Realistically, what is the concern for EV batteries? They already make up a pretty substantial amount of market chair in the US, and yet I don’t hear stories about EV’s being more dangerous or more prone to fires or anything. The only time you ever really see an EV burning is one that was in an accident, and guess what, gas cars also blow up when they’re in an accident sometimes
Well too late to edit, but I think I was thinking of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40390287 the programming language Bend.
That's exactly what it was meant to do. You're right, this is a trivial use case.
Part 2: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1938/08/crash-i...
If it's AI-generated, it is fundamentally not CSAM.

The reason we shifted to the terminology "CSAM", away from "child pornography", is specifically to indicate that it is Child Sexual Abuse Material: that is, an actual child was sexually abused to make it.

You can call it child porn if you really want, but do not call something that never involved the abuse of a real, living, flesh-and-blood child "CSAM". (Or "CSEM"—"Exploitation" rather than "Abuse"—which is used in some circles.) This includes drawings, CG animations, written descriptions, videos where such acts are simulated with a consenting (or, tbh, non consenting—it can be horrific, illegal, and unquestionably sexual assault without being CSAM) adult, as well as anything AI-generated.

These kinds of distinctions in terminology are important, and yes I will die on this hill.
Tiktok and communism are the first things that come to mind
That's pushing vertical integration to extremes. Is there any precedent to car carriers dedicated to one manufacturer? Wikipedia mentions a "Toyota Maru No. 10" which was NOT owned by Toyota - although I don't know if it was dedicated to them.
Something about extraordinary claims and extraordinary evidence? The evidence presented, a seemingly easily transcribed image, is hardly persuasive.
The company would have to be specifically added by the President to a list which currently is just ByteDance, it doesn't kick in automatically.
All of Canada. The Canadian Criminal Code is federal.

I think they did carve out a judicial exception in a case where some guy was writing pure text stories for his own personal use, and didn't intentionally show them to anybody else at all, but I also seem to recall it was a pretty grudging exception for only those very specific circumstances.
The interesting thing is the sheer number of different models designed for different tasks, all of which can be performed by one and the same standard-model human.

The robot revolution will be a very drawn-out, labour-intensive affair.
That's quite a lot of faith you have in them.
According to the online Cambridge dictionary, the second entry under “grabby” is “wanting to or designed to attract attention”. But you know how those Cambridge types are…
I am pulling these numbers out of my a* but comparing to the situation in Twitter. People can be enthusiastic to move but if a significant portion doesn't do it in a certain window of time, they'll just drop out of it.

Let's say this portion is around 60% of Tiktok users. So something like 60-70million and window span is 10 days. They need to sustain 6-7 million new US users per day in order to make a successful transition.
It's not well advertised, but you can book voyages on many cargo ships. They just give you one of the crew cabins and pack some more food. Expect to be the only passenger.

There are some issues though. It's slow (slower than an ocean liner since ships are more efficient at low speeds). And it's a cargo vessel, so the cargo sets the schedule. If there's an issue with the cargo that delays the ship by three weeks, you journey is delayed by three weeks. There also just isn't much happening. You have a room, a mess hall, a crew of maybe half a dozen to a dozen people to talk to, a ship to walk around on, and not much else.

It's more of a "the journey is the destination" thing. Accordingly there are a couple youtube channels documenting such journeys
I always found these arguments to be contrived especially when it's already well-known that in the tradition of every Western government, there is no actual imperative for every crime to be linked directly to a victim. It's a far better argument to me, to suggest that the societal utility in using the material to identify and remove paedophiles before they have an actual victim far exceeds the utility of any sort of "freedom" to such material.
I love weird little tricks with popcnt/leading/trailing zero instructions.

I recently had a lot of fun getting Swift’s OptionSet bitset interface to iterate over active members.

(Unfortunately, because of weird specifics of Swift protocol associated types, I wasn’t able to actually conform OptionSet to Collection like I wanted to originally. I find it amusing that one of the first examples in the official documentation for Swift macros is to make OptionSet used an associated enum like it should.)
Montreal is not representative of Quebec in general. Montreal itself is very multilingual and anglophone depending on what specific part you're in. In the very touristy parts of Montreal you won't even notice French "requirements". Leave the island of Montreal towards the rest of Quebec (i.e. not towards Ontario) and you will find less and less people willing or able to speak English very very quickly.

Until they think you're a tourist. If they hear you speak another language than English and you seem like you're a tourist, then almost every Quebecer will try his best to speak English even if it means using hand and feet to communicate.

But if they think even for a second that you're actually Canadian, then outside Montreal and even in some parts of Montreal you will be met with the full force of Quebecois pride and nationalism and you better speak French to them.
Except you have to figure out who is actually selling legit stuff at the real dosage.

From a quick look earlier this week that's not easy, and I've dealt with research peptide sites before. I was hoping to try one of the ones that's newer than Semaglutide for my IBS - that worked really well the later half of the week but not the first few days where it made things worse. I don't need to lose weight but I'd love to get that under control better.
Troll. Just downvote and move on.
They upheld the ban even if there were a First Amendment interest. That doesn’t mean that there is one, it means that if there were one it wouldn’t matter. They didn’t examine if the first amendment applied or not because it wouldn’t matter.