skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The headline on HN was updated, but it's in the key points on the article:

> Although President-elect Donald Trump could choose to not enforce the law...

Which is ridiculous. It's the executive branch's function to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed" [1]. The president's DOJ can't simply refuse to enforce the law. There's some debate over whether this applies to 'enforcement discretion', in that the president doesn't have infinite resources to perfectly execute the law and some things will slip through, or whether the president can decline to enforce a law that he believes to be unconstitutional before the supreme court declares it to be so.

In theory, no, the president can't simply decline to enforce a law, congress would then be able to impeach and remove him. In practice, though it happens a little bit all the time. And even if this was black and white, I don't know that there's anything that the incoming president can do that the incoming congress would impeach him for.

[1] https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S3-3-5/...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Two_of_the_United_Stat...
What It's Like to Be a Waterbomber
As a person who is often labeled as woke by default because of skin color: Fuck this guy. This article tells you how he really feels. He wants to be able to say and do things that some people would take offense to, and doesn't want to face consequences for any of it. Just like in the good old days.

Woke went from being a slang word to top of the Klan's most wanted list.
That’s some serious mental gymnastics
I really hope Ladybird works out. The free Web has everything riding on this.

Congratulations as always, Andreas, and thank you.
> He has a major donor that owns part of TikTok

He has a major donor who owns part of Bytedance. They’re not losing their investment with this ban.
I dont think anyone has agued that the follow through is the hard part.

The whole debate seems like people violently agreeing with each other aside from some fringe idiots that dont believe in thermodynamics.
yeah, but do ozempic et al only rely on calorie reduction? i find it hard to believe that hormones only affect one thing in isolation. it may be doing something like a) suppressing appetite to reduce caloric intake AND b) shielding against a lowered metabolism due to calorie restriction.
I had a friend that argued that Marshall Mathers (Eminem) could never actually be sued for defamation because most of the defamatory things "he" said wasn't actually him saying it, but Slim Shady.

Hah.
Is cybersecurity a real industry? I thought it was mostly a racket? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32039828
Is sharing an island possible to do across multiple Switches?
Yes, most likely sendfile.
It doesn't matter because the law is completely at the mercy of officials to interpret and enforce. A Chinese court was once asked to clarify contradicting interpretation from officials, and they got seriously beat down for it because it isn't the job of the judiciary to tell the officials how to interpret law. The only way an officials ruling is overturned is if their boss (or someone up the hierarchy) disagrees.

Compare this to the Supreme court, which is supposedly in Trump's hands, ruling against Trump twice on this tiktok ban alone (the first to kill his executive order, and the second to not pause the law to wait for him to take office).
> automatically determine context files
this is the killer feature
Beginning of a MIDI GUI in Rust
https://www.thefp.com/p/tik-tok-young-americans-hamas-mike-g...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/13/tiktok-...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/16/tiktok...

https://theintercept.com/2025/01/09/tiktok-ban-israel-palest...

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-listening-post/2024/3/...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/business/tiktok-israel-ha...
Observations on the January SERPpocalypse
Bricks have to be manufactured and transported. In denser countries, the transportation cost is lower and there is a factory near you. In the US, you’re damn well sure you can find timber, the US is loaded with timber.

Brick also isn’t some magical building material that solves all your problems without drawbacks. Wood isn’t some evil building material that creates a bunch of problems without benefits.
SICP Anime-like Opening [video]
I am a fan of these Famicom/NES synthesized sounds, they have a flavor that is rarely found in modern game music. There are a few musicians who does rearrangements of songs for playback on the Famicom, example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM3bYVt-c1k

Original song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIKKyrGGaDk
This is a great point -- the example we chose was meant to be a consumer example that we could relate with.. however a similar example exists for the enterprise which may be more interesting

Let's say that you are a parts procurement shop and want to order 10,000 of SKU1, and 20,000 of SKU2. If you go on parts websites like finditparts.com, you'll see that there is little ambiguity when it comes to ordering specific SKUs

We've seen cases of companies that want to automate item ordering like this on tens of different websites, and have people (usually the CEO) spending a few hours a week doing it manually.

Writing a script can take ~10-20hours to do it (if you know how to code).. but we can help you automate it in <30 minutes with Skyvern, even if you don't know how to code!
All of them are essential as an objective to implement or improve the how.
This is clever, and I got a good laugh out of their example video. The demo UI of "Double click here" isn't very convincing - I bet there's a version of this that gets people to double click consistently though.
Fed Withdraws from Network of Central Banks for Greening the Financial System
Parts of many cities have always been in floodplains, but after just looking it up, it does not seem that "most cities" are meaningfully in floodplains. This also does not automatically make even the parts within a floodplain uninsurable, depending on the circumstances.

Likewise, the level of infrastructure, tornado, and wildfire risk for the vast majority of the country is not sufficient for them to be uninsurable. "Occasionally a tornado comes through and gets 1 out of 10k houses" is not even a huge pressure on insurance prices.

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Again, that delay is mostly about me, and my employer, not the rest of the world.

However if you are running a SaaS or hosting service with thousands of domain names routing to your servers, then this dynamic becomes a little more important, because now the spider can be hitting you for fifty different domain names at the same time.
> China and the US have been in a massively successful, mutually beneficial global economic partnership for decades

Past performance is not indicative of future results. China is now grappling with sluggish GDP growth, declining fertility, youth unemployment, re-shoring/friend-shoring, a property crisis, popular discontent with authoritarian overreach (e.g. zero COVID and HK), and increasingly concentrated power under chairman-for-life Xi. Their military spending has hockey-sticked in the past two decades and they're churning out ships and weapons like nobody's business. He realizes that the demographic and economic windows of opportunity are finite for military action against Taiwan (and by extension its allies like the US and Japan). The Chinese military's shenanigans in the South China Sea with artificial islands, EEZ violations, and so forth in combination with Xi's rhetorical sabre-rattling in domestic speeches don't paint a pretty picture.

Before somebody like this poster calls me a "war-mongering [liar]" or something similar let me point out that this is the opinion of academics [1], not US DoD officials or politicians. I have nothing but reverence for China's people and culture. I'd love to visit but unfortunately it's my understanding that I'd have to install tracking software on my phone and check in with police every step of the way. This type of asymmetry between our governments is why this ban has legs.

With the gift of hindsight I think it's safe to say that neoliberal policy (in the literal sense of the term, not the hacky partisan one) is a double-edged sword that got us to where we are today. To say that the US-China relationship is sunshine and puppies is ignorant of the facts.

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/02/04/china-war-military-taiw...
> Why has the Chinese tech industry advanced so quickly?

Their massive investment in STEM education of the past 20 years. US investment has not kept pace with inflation for the past 20 years and the US still relies on a lot of private funding for higher education and STEM research. The Chinese government has prioritized education and research. The result is China has 8x the number of STEM graduates per year as the US - and many US STEM degrees are earned by foreign nationals!

It's hard to maintain your technological edge when you aren't investing in higher education and research. You'd think someone would have linked the student loan crises to a looming crisis in national security by now, but so far that hasn't gained much traction.

Meanwhile, like Japan did decades before, China's manufacturing has become more advanced and they're now producing more complex products. No, they don't yet have a reputation for quality, but it only took Japan 15-20 years to achieve that once they started exporting more complex products. If history repeats itself then by 2040 China could be the world's manufacturing tour de force even for complex products. As fast as they're improving, I wouldn't be shocked if that were to happen in the 2030-2035 timeframe.
lol credit cards that's a million privilege steps ahead most children in the world do not have two hours to spend on their own education much less chess they work etc
Bit off topic, but what's the reasoning behind messing with the native browser scroll here. Almost gets me motion sick when scrolling through this article.
The entire notion that there's a free speech angle here is a disingenuous red herring by Tik Tok to muddy the waters.

Speech is in no way being limited or compelled - you can say the exact same thing on dozens of other platforms without consequence. You can even say it on tik tok without consequence. You can even publish videos from tik tok in the US just fine.

This law is about what types of foreign corporation can do business in the US, and what sorts of corporate governance structures are allowed.
You don't have to use AI for this. Significance has already been figured out by how many news websites a news story has been published on. Which you can infer via RSS feed collection and looking at the title of the news story. The more platforms published the same title, the higher the significance.
I'm not buying it. They don't care about privacy violations for any American companies.
I’d worry that such a platform would be used to reverse social trends unfavorable to the owner, instead of social trends unfavorable to society in general.

It also seems… sort of bad if an individual has the ability to be strong enough to reverse a social trend, right? So we basically would have to expect one of the trends they should reverse to be… their own existence. In general it is unreasonable to expect individuals to be so enlightened as to work against their own existence, I think.
Dr. Spencer's Science-Based Smoothie for Gut Health
>So on x86_64 processors, we have to branch to say “a 32-bit zero value has 32 leading zeros”. Put differently, the “count leading zeros” intrinsic isn’t necessarily a branchless instruction. This might look nicer on another architecture!

Yes, RISC-V for example defines the instructions for counting leading / trailing zeros (clz, clzw, ctz, ctzw) such that an N-bit zero value has N of them.

I don't know if I can show it on Rust Godbolt because none of the default RISC-V targets that Rust has support the Zbb extension, but I checked with a custom target that I use locally for my emulator, and `leading_zeros()` indeed compiles to just one `clz` without any further branches. Here's a C demonstration though: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/cKx3ajsjh
The better comparison is Fuel Cells and vehicle based electrical generators. So you could put this in a vehicle or remote location, run it off hydrogen or natural gas, and get better efficiency. Potentially this could be a much better option for longer term storage in remote areas as well, where excess solar/wind could be used to crack hydrogen which then gets stored and later burned in one of these instead of a much much larger battery installation.
Exactly. Why not make it official? I feel like split up movies peaked awhile ago ("chop chop movie boy"), but is now limited to live video with a person in the foreground.
I’ve even triple or quadruple clicked sometimes with disastrous results
I would think the energy density varies with that of the fuel they put in. They mention hydrogen, natural gas, gasoline, ammonia, butane, propane, alcohols, syngas…. That’s about anything that is or can easily be turned into a gas that burns.

also, “/liter”, for gases such as hydrogen, can be made larger by using higher pressures in your tank.

On the other hand, they also say “target efficiency: ≥ 40% wire to wire”, and 40% of 1250 is 500, so it may be that.
> The motivation is largely irrelevant to the analysis of this case. What matters is what effects the law has and what services it provides the government.

Let's agree to disagree.
The metabolism slowing down thing is greatly over exaggerated. Everything I’ve read that is evidence based puts it at a nominal difference.

Put simply: starvation mode is a myth for everything but outliers that are uninteresting to discuss.
Acquhired. Read.cv and posts.cv are shutting down on a rather aggressive schedule. Big points for offering download of your CV as a complete Next project that you can host elsewhere, though.
> I was really surprised that my daughters (avid teenage TikTok users) are much more relieved than mad.

A sense of relief may be a coping mechanism. I've heard laid-off colleagues inform me they felt relief in the immediate aftermath; granted, the lay-offs were pre-announced before they communicated who would be "impacted", and it was at a high-pressure environment; but the human mind sometimes reacts in unexpected ways to loss outside of one's control. Rationalization is a mechanism for ego defense.
So this is why I built Digest (https://usedigest.com) -- the algorithms have stopped showing things of interest (my entire Instagram feed is full of memes instead of my friends posts), or things that cause you to doom scroll. We use RSS wherever we can to fetch data from sources to build your personalized digest, but if there is an API available we will use that too.
> Everyone in Switzerland learns English at school for at least five years. Most even for seven years.

We learn the other's respective language for 7 years, too. Yet, as you pointed out, people speak in English because there is no willingness to learn and apply the other's language.

Some of my friends speak English fluently, but I have a very hard bias as I work in IT. My whole family doesn't speak any language other than French. Most of the people I've been to school with don't come close to speaking English casually. None would watch an English content creator.

Due to the shared heritage between the English and German languages, perhaps it's different in the German-speaking region. If you ask someone slightly complicated English questions, they might not be completely lost - after all, some words share the same etymology. But Switzerland is absolutely not an English-speaking country at all.
That's the difference between "your code & my code" vs "our code".

In a good culture it's "our code" where everyone shares the responsibility for quality, performance, and functionality.
Kind of curious how do you think he got wealthy? Just right place right time
It's not specialized at all; "Semitic" is the only word for this concept used in English.

In German they still talk about Hamito-Semitic languages, but we call those Afroasiatic now.
Your assumption that I couldn't have written this myself or that I didn't make corrections to it is telling. I've only been doing dev for 30+ years lol

LLMs are an accelerant, like all previous tools... Not a replacement, although it seems most people still need to figure that out for themselves while I already have
Unblocked:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250117042813if_/https://www.fe...
I think the equivalent would be if New York Times is somehow owned by Tencent and given that the Chinese government uses golden shares to control private companies. In that case, I think it's fair game to force NYT to divest or force them to shutdown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_share
> Can I corrupt data transmission and collection?

In my 2018 Chevy Volt Premier it's not too difficult to disconnect the LTE module. You lose OnStar, remote start, and other "connected" features, but the car and CarPlay still work.

https://www.jamesxli.com/2024/chevy-volt-disable-cellular.ht...
You mean Sottomayor and likely Gorsuch acknowledge the 1st amendment issues at play. The rest just assume it without deciding.
Canon charges $50 per year to use a $900 camera as a functional webcam
The quote you posted is about if the exclusion of platforms "whose primary purpose is to allow users to post product reviews, business reviews, or travel information and reviews" means the law is content-based, but the Court is saying that provision is irrelevant because TikTok brought an "as-applied" challenge (and not a facial one) [0] and that provision doesn't change how it applies to them. So they are looking at the parts of the law (and the congressional record supporting them) which actually cause TikTok to be subject to the qualified divestiture.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_challenge
> You see, that's what I aim to express, but you can not understand

> You can only understand such thing with certain history context/knowledge, without it, it's very likely you can not understand what I'm talking about, vice versa, so do I

Yes I fear so, because know I am even less sure to have understood what you meant; I think we are talking about different things.

>> Everybody already moved to red book and are starting to recognize that the US is just an aging colonialist with nothing to offer the future

> it's not true, most Chinese in Xiaohongshu are not recognize the US as 'colonialist', like I said, many of us don't even know what 'colonialist' even mean

I don't think OP is talking about Chinese people in Xhiaohongshu, but at American people that left Tiktok for it, so it is not about if Chinese people know what colonialism is, but if American people know about (their idea of ) Chinese colonialism.
Depends on the humidity. Sweating is more efficient in less humid climates IIRC.
> The core issue, however, is the inability to participate in the actual craft. Design decisions are buried in React components with cryptic expressions like flex items-center shadow-lg p-6 hover:bg-gray-50 dark:bg-gray-800 py-[calc(theme(spacing[2.5])-1px)]

Give me Tailwind standardised utility classes over having to search through the codebase to find what a dev 6 years ago called a CSS class.
You still need to truck in the sodium additive even if you're cracking water on site to store the H2. Dunno if you need a couple of mg/kg or if it is like 5% of the fuel to make it burn at the right color.
> as SpaceX seeks to make life multiplanetary.

What a waste of time and resources.
We have an X (Twitter) option that does not rely on RSS. I think Nitter is dead anyway?
Pat and cynical oversimplifications are bad for discourse, because they suggest that a default angry response is correct and, coincidentally, frees you from having to think harder about anything.

Don't give in!
We used to use denatonium (Bitrex) in firefighting to test the efficacy of your face mask seal - you'd put on your mask, a filter, and a hood - Bitrex would be aerosolized into the hood and if you could taste it, there was not a good seal.

Nowadays we just measure pressure differentials.
> obesity actually is an adaptation

Obesity is not an adaptation. It's a total aberration. Storing energy in the form of fat is an adaptation. Becoming obese is overloading your entire system.

> why isn't everyone obese

Well... they sure are trying...
In your experience, what has improved productivity?
Looks like we banned you and this domain because of the egregious vote manipulation and bogus comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34856792.

That was a long time ago, though, and the project is interesting enough, so I'm going to assume you've learned your lesson and unban you. Please stop using multiple accounts for this though!
Can they not impeach him for being a convicted felon? Kinda the definition of “high crimes”
> Almost demanding I install and register this app to complete lease agreement.

I wonder how he would react if you were to tell him that you don't own or use a cellular phone.
Yes, you're correct on both, though I think Google Cloud recently started supporting it as well. AWS will likely have GPU enclave support with Trainium 2 soon (AFAIK, that feature is not publicly offered yet but could be wrong).

We work with Edgeless Systems who manages the GPU enclave on Azure that we speak to from our AWS Nitro instance. While not ideal, the power of enclaves and the attestation verification process, we at least know that we're not leaking privacy by going with a third party GPU enclave provider.
Seconded. My experiences were similar.

That said, the algorithm got noticeably worse after 2021. Maybe because of the TikTok shop. I’ve categorized around 3,000 clips into different collections (with 600+ being in “educational”) but that fell off over the last few years. I would be a lot more upset about the ban if they had maintained quality, but now I’m like well, whatever.
The only actual child is OP or anyone who actually believes their tarpit is going to be effective at stopping LLMs
There's a reason Hearst was rich enough to build a castle.
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I've been working on something similar, starting a company around the idea! We realized that a lot of people had concerns or challenges with installing an extension on their production database and also that they wanted non-technical folks in compliance or HR to be able to configure and maintain the rules for individual employees. pgAnonymizer is a database extension but we structured ours to be a proxy server that hides/anonymizes/filters the data. We made a web dashboard that simplifies the configuration process, and allows you to configure what to do if columns get added to the database (default mask or hide new columns). We're about to go GA and if anyone has any feedback or wants to a free beta testing trial, I'd love to chat
The owner of Twitter/X is about to be in the president’s cabinet. And the owner of Meta is clearly cozying up to the incoming administration with their new “anti-woke” policies.
The government doesn't care about the editorial policy so long as if it's not managed by a foreign adversary or proxies of a foreign adversary, which obviously fall out of scope of the First Amendment. This is consistent with the wholly uncontroversial indictments of the owners of Tenet Media who allegedly conspired with Russia. Meanwhile, the commentators on the channel, such as Tim Pool and Dave Rubin, claimed to have had full editorial control over their content that just so happened to align exactly with Russian propaganda, yet they were free to go.
Right, I'm saying they based it on on the "text" of the law, instead of the motivation.

At what point in the ruling did they wonder what motivated the effective ban? "5 why's" it, so to speak. Did they ever say, "because X, Y, and Z, it is clear the intent of the law is not to prevent speech of certain parties"?