skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It required specific legislation to ban TikTok. I would say that's pretty extraordinary. I think even the EFF should admit that allowing the Chinese government to control a major American social media app is an unacceptable security risk.
I have a family heirloom civil war journal and much of it is unfortunately near undecipherable cursive writing.

It would be great if this would eventually develop into some kind of set of open models that would work on content like this.
I've read a few articles about nix and I'm still unsure what it is and why would anyone use it.

From their homepage:

> Declarative builds and deployments.

> Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.

So is it some kind of CI/CD system? A package manager? But people seem to be running it as an OS? Why would I want to declaratively build my OS? Why not just use one of the hundreds of distros already available with lots of packages to pick and choose?

The install nix link on the home page seems to indicate I can install it inside linux. Does that mean nix is not a distro itself? Oh but further below there is a disk image too. Huh...

Its all very confusing to me. And that triangular image every single nix related articles uses is no help.
Oh I loath how that first link hijacks the back button.
In terms of fire risk, ten thousand gasoline cars are worse. And they have to be fueled because the cars are driven in and out of the carrier.

EV fires are harder to put out, but in every other way this isn't different from any other car carrier
As you suggest, the wording should be clarified to say that the key is never copied, is only stored on your device, is not accessible to others, etc.
Or simply set our prices to the average or median of something like 5 hand-picked other countries - and make that not only for Medicare/caid but also for everyone else. It's ridiculous that hasn't been done yet.
Is there a plan to build a desktop or mobile app in the future?
> Tesla states in its online “Customer Privacy Notice” that its “camera recordings remain anonymous and are not linked to you or your vehicle.” But seven former employees told Reuters the computer program they used at work could show the location of recordings – which potentially could reveal where a Tesla owner lived.

You know they're not taking anything seriously when claiming with a straight face in the age of geoguesser that potentially hours of road footage, starting/ending with you literally driving into your garage, could ever be anonymous.
You are right. And by now an "it will be fixed next month" seems to be enough. even when nothing is fixed.
It’s a New Yorker article. Even if the ideas were sound, it wouldn’t be lovable. At least this one doesn’t begin with “Webster’s says…” but it does appear to be a puff piece courtesy of The Submarine[1] McCourt is using to try and drum up support for its TikTok bid.

Fortunately we don’t have to indulge them as the project founder’s page is here: https://www.mccourt.com/project-liberty/ and the project website is here: https://www.projectliberty.io/

New tech isn’t the solution to what ails the web though. The web is built on great tech, and there’s a constant forward motion to iterate and improve on the technical stack of the web. Reigning in specific anti-consumer practices characteristic of surveillance-oriented businesses is because even if you manage to make a decentralized protocol popular for a short period of time, if there is ever enough people for it to be commercially lucrative, exactly the same cycle of centralization will repeat itself.

[1]: https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
This is where my technical knowledge of genAI breaks down, but wouldn't an image generator be unable to produce such imagery unless honest-to-god CSAM were used in the training of it?
It's hilarious because he would have gotten a lot more cred if he just played the game and said "hey, here is my low-level character, I haven't had a lot of time to play but I'm really enjoying the game so far, watch me play it."
We went down this path over the last year, lots of our devs need local and dev/test environments and AWS was costing us a bomb, With about 7 Bare metals(Colocation) we are running about 200+ VMs and could double that number with some capacity to spare. For management, we built a simple wrapper over libvirt.
I am setting up another rack in the US and will end up costing around $75Kper year for a similar capacity.

Our prod is on AWS but we plan to move everything else and it's expected to save at least a quarter of a million dollars per year
This reminded me of something the historian Megan Marshall wrote in the introduction to her book The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism (2005):

“I became expert in deciphering the sisters’ handwriting, and that of their ancestors, parents, and friends. Each era and each correspondent presented different challenges. Some hands were sprawling, some spindly, some cramped; t’s went uncrossed at the ends of words, and f’s and s’s were interchanged; spelling, capitalization, and punctuation could be erratic or idiosyncratic. Often, to save paper and postage, the sisters turned a single sheet ninety degrees and wrote back across a page already covered with handwriting. I learned to be especially attentive to these cross-written lines, in which the sisters invariably confided their deepest feelings in the last hurried moments of closing a letter. Here I would find the urgent personal message that had been put off for the sake of dispensing news or settling business. In one such postscript, I discovered Elizabeth’s account of a conversation with Horace Mann in which the two spoke frankly of their love for each other and finally settled on what it meant.”

A photograph of a letter with cross-writing is here:

https://www.masshist.org/database/1774

Marshall wrote more in an article for Slate:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/05/reading-the-peab...
This won't ban anything. It's on the web. Just sideload the app and enjoy.
I also like Cuis-Smalltalk. ;-)
The main "3D printed weapons" scare was years ago. The current thing is just a blip.
How are 3D printed weapons a misuse?
Specialized car carriers are fairly common. Maybe they added some changes to make this one especially well suited for EVs, like modified fire suppression systems. But it may well be a standard ro-ro ship with an LNG engine.
They should call it …

Don’t Die AI
My comment was in response to a portion of the comment above:

> because the machine-learning models utilized by AI have been trained on datasets containing thousands of depictions of known CSAM victims

I'd argue that CSAM imagery falls into two broad categories; actual real photographic image of actual real abuse and generated images (paintings, drawings, animations, etc) and all generated images are more or less equally bad.

There's a peer link in this larger thread ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_porn... ) that indicates at least two US citizen have been charged and sentenced for 20 and 40 years imprisonment each for the possession and distribution of "fictional" child abuse (animated and still japanese cartoon anime, etc).

So, in the wider world, it's a moot point whether these specific images came from training on actual abuse images or not, they depict abuse and that's legally sufficient in the US (apparently), further the same depictions could be generated with or without actual real abuse images and as equivilant images either way they'd be equally offensive.
Does the "double bosom" occlusion mechanism have a proper name? I always thought it was a bit daft — excusable on watches perhaps — but on larger clocks where there's plenty of space why not just have a half black sphere that rotates once per lunar month? (Even better would be a small model of the moon with a half black shade rotating around it).

Anyway: I made a (web) clock with that shows the moon position and phase: https://sunclock.net
Probably a silly question, but what are the apps she built? Just curious what they are. Thanks.
This seems like a long way of saying “guilty until proven innocent”.
It was just my off-hand recollection. I could be mistaken or possibly conflating Mir with some other space craft that was de-orbited in the past. I'm fairly confident that the Mir de-orbit was notable both because of its size and that it was expected to have an unusual degree of debris surviving re-entry and reaching the surface.
Its a business. With ad and an e-commerce network to support that content. Without that connection, it will die.
Seems a great idea. The trash on social media is some how less trashy than the papers. We should ban it for one or more years then give them their freedom back conditionally, under supervision. We should elect the supervisors.
And what they say matters a whole lot more than what the eff says.
Maybe linking to the resource. "Learn how to read this document."
Fedora 42 Boot Splash Screen Looks to Workaround GPU Drivers Taking Too Long
How TikTok Evaded a Ban Again and Again, Until Now
If it still has to go through congress you still have the same problem.
PCI Express 7.0 Remains on Track for 2025, v0.7 Spec Published
I personally like the stupid time wasting app. There is a little pig on there that they dress up in little outfits and you can watch it eat treats
I'm paying for o1-pro (just for one month) and have been using LLMs since GPT-2 (via AI Dungeon). Progress is absolutely flattering when you're looking at practical applications versus benchmarks.

o1 is actually surprisingly "meh" and I just don't see how they can justify the price when sonnet 3.5 latest is almost as good, 10x as fast and doesn't even have "reasoning".

I'm spending half my day every day for the past few years using LLMs in one way or another. They still confidently (and unpredictability) hallucinate, even o1. They have no memory, can't build up experience, performance rapidly degrades with long conversations, etc.

I'm not saying progress isn't being made, but the rate of progress is definitely slowing.
I totally agree. Is there a community of like-minded folks out there somewhere? I'd love to see someone give this a try.
It's possible for the model to take disparate concepts and put them together. E.g. you can train a LORA to teach stable diffusion what a cowboy hat it is, then ask for Dracula in a cowboy hat.that probably doesn't exist in it's training data, but it will give it to you just fine. I'm not about to try, but I would assume the same would apply for child pornography.
Let's be real, the top talent in China flocks to the tech world – internet, manufacturing, the whole shebang. Entertainment? Not so much. That industry's heavily regulated, you know? Look at what they've achieved: drones, electric vehicles, solar power, robotics... You could even say China basically "outsourced" entertainment to the West and East Asia.
By definition, the Supreme Court's decision _is_ the canonical interpretation. Whether you disagree with the decision has no bearing on the matter.

And of course it makes sense, because the legal system was created by the very laws it upholds. If you think it should be different, then you'll have to convince a lot of people to change a lot of laws and probably parts of the US constitution
Chinese laws allow for more direct state control of tech companies, even more so than the US. They must legally turn over any data they have, and have to have CCP members installed in their companies.
That doesn’t work because other countries already do that - set price reference to a basket.

You end up with a circular reference that spirals prices down.

At some point that price is lower than the net positive profit point.
Not that I can tell, unless you encounter a teacher who (personally) believes it’s worthwhile.

The real problem, IMO, is that they don’t teach cursive but also don’t teach typing. They’ve thrown laptops at the kids without giving them the basic skill necessary to be effective in that medium.
A meteorite strike was captured on video by a Canadian home's doorbell camera
What’s interesting about this argument is that the playing field is highly asymmetric between the us and china. China explicitly firewalls out large amounts of the internet from its population. If you want to do business via an e-commerce in china, you cannot do so without explicit permission, license and partial Chinese equity share - for example https://developers.cloudflare.com/china-network/concepts/icp...

On the other hand, we have much more relaxed restrictions going the other way. Why not consider “fairness” from that perspective as well?
Tik tok was banned because it tried to use children to start a political movement. Unfortunately for them children can not vote so the movement did nothing other than scare adults.
All of the same reasons I love practicing a little calligraphy! I love how it looks as well. I don’t use a special pen but just add my own style to my cursive to make it look even nicer. But I used to write my notes in school with calligraphy (mostly because it gave me an excuse to not care about the subject) but it made the teachers hate me because I would never finish copying their scribbles fast enough.
Go to bed later?
Find out what people on Reddit think about your questions
Hello hackers, me and brother have been building this project for the last month and would love some feedback from you guys.

We were tired of digging through reddit threads and google searches to find out what people really thought about a subject. So we decided to write an app that solves just that. We find the most relevant comments to your questions off the bat and tally up the upvotes based to show your what most people agree or disagree with. This way we are able to get a big picture of what people really think about topic.

We would really really really appreciate any feedback, or criticism you have of the project.

thanks
> Data center science has... well improved since the earlier days

You say that, but...

> There was one day we knocked out windows and purchased box fans because servers were literally catching on fire

This happened to Equinix's CH1 datacenter in Chicago Jan24 (not the literal fire part). Took down Azure ExpressRoute.

Apparently it got too cold and the CRACs couldn't take it? I'm told they had all the doors and windows open trying to keep things cold enough, but alas. As the CRAC goes, so goes the servers
I understood GP's joke, but I don't understand yours.
Meh, I remember time when blogs I read moved from LiveJournal to RSS, and discoverability went way down.

In LJ, if you liked someone's post, you could click on "friends" and see _their_ feed. I've discovered a lot of new blogs this way. There was even "all friends of all friends" page if you really wanted a firehose.

In RSS world, all of this is gone. Sure, one blog I read had a separate "posts I found interesting" feed, and I've discovered some new feeds this way.. but this was only one site, most of the websites had nothing like this.
iPad seems to do OK, but it has more to go by since it has the timing and pressure as well as the written text.
Not just sound. Ever since HDR is a viable home theater option, new movies tend to get very dark featuring long runs of dark scenes with occasional blindingly bright scenes in between. If your TV screen is slightly subpar or the watching environment is even dimly lit, the movie quickly becomes very difficult to watch.
AI-generated "CSAM" is the perfect form of kompromat. Any computer with a GPU can generate images that an American judge can find unpalatable. Once tarred by the sex offender brush and cooled by 20+ years in prison for possession, any individual will be effectively destroyed. Of course, no real children are being abused, which makes it all the more ludicrous.
And this is a great reason to us Firefox's containers feature.
No, SDL provides a window/context in the existing windowing layer.
Can someone please post a sample of one of these images that can only be read by a human for us naive OCR believers to see?
> Is the TikTok Ban a Chance to Rethink the Whole Internet?

No. Next question.
>> You can address women as "bro" and they might even respond to you but they'll think you're absolutely weird.

>I'm about 95% sure that if I ask my two school-age daughters if it's weird to address girls and women as "bro" or "bruh"

I'm 100% sure I said women, and not "school-age" girls, who if they weren't your daughters would probably describe you as "creep" because that's what teenage girls do. But sure, go ahead and move the goalposts anywhere you want. If citing teenage girls helps you think you're making some kind of point, then the mic is all yours.
I believe the parent poster was referring to recent efforts in New York State to require licensure and background checks to purchase a 3D printer [1]

[1] https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A2228
This sounds evil. Why protect the rich when the states always spend huge to help the the poor?
> Similar rules were first proposed nearly two decades ago

What a farcical state we live in. What possible non-malign reason is there to not require it? Why was this not done nearly two decades ago?
Please dial back the attacks. This is not an interrogation scene in a crime drama.
I don't have a list of factors or research in front of me, so let me just state that upfront.

It's widely understood that Meta, X, and plenty of other companies are collecting, and selling massive amounts of data. Meta builds profiles on people that have never even used Facebook, simply by monitoring their activity across the web through Ads, Embeds and Sign-Up w/ Facebook widgets, etc. This data, if I recall, has been sold many times over, and likely stolen, many times over, in data breaches - both disclosed and undisclosed. Which almost assures that China has it already.

Where is the outrage there? The laws, and fines, there? Why not ban that kind of pervasive data collection and digital finger printing, regardless of where it originates, to avoid the potential misuse of that data?

Obviously a company, like ByteDance, running businesses and Apps inside the US, while also being legally bound to helping the CCP - is cause for concern. But clearly we have our concerns right at our front door - and - nothing? Either or government believes access to this kind of data to be a threat, or they don't.

I know that's a gross over simplification, probably misses some key points, and probably falls under the dreaded "whataboutisms"... but it just seems like, its okay of US companies do it, as long as they give that data to OUR government, and losing that data is a just cost of doing business.

I'll take my tinfoil hat off now. :P
Most people just scroll the home page yea. Of course you can follow accounts but that’s not the main use case. The algorithm really is mind bogglingly good
what is the motive? I did not see any pattern from the op's history post
Just because Supreme court said it doesn't mean they aren't heavily biased.
A compressor is the right answer. If you lean toward more old-school audio engineering, I would recommend one of these compressors:

* Alesis 3630

* DBX 166 or 266

* FMR Audio Really Nice Compressor

Explore the various demos on YouTube to see what these are about. The compressor goes between your audio source and your amplifier. I personally use the Alesis 3630 for normalizing the audio in my ham radio transceiver setup.
How is it a political problem when Waymo is operational, and Tesla driverless is not?
Is there an official list of "foreign adversary"? Or is that something that gets determined by the president?
Living in Australia, I chose a BYD over a Tesla. After previously owning a Nissan Leaf, I can clearly see why BYD is leading the EV market.
So Internet apps are banned but data collection devices like electric vehicles are permitted. BYD of course has a privacy policy, but who knows what is actually collected. The same applies to other EV manufacturers.

I suppose one can only buy 30 year old second hand vehicles.
The US is trying its best by kicking 170 million users out of their prefered app. Amazing that I haven't seen more effort to pick up the refugees. Twitter could've made a big video push. Tumblr (I know photomatt is a little distracted now) could've reminded the world it exists. etc.
Surprised Supreme Court let that through. Passing laws directed at particular individuals is not kosher under the article 1 Section 9. Clause 3.

>No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

Then again, the bill is creating a framework to allow a President to essentially ignore that particular enjoinder and SCOTUS has already shown themselves willing to let a President run rampant.
Nice Videos on Analytic Number Theory
Them being the National Archives? What about the National Archives makes you think they're particularly inept at utilizing LLMs?

I'm tired of this brand of dismissive cynicism.
Those two statements aren't at odds with each other.

For example, there's a great abundance of resources to learn about music theory and such too, the average person doesn't know such things because they aren't interested.
TikTok makes much less money than meta per time spent by consumers.
My guess is because it’s the Smithsonian, they’re just not willing to trust an LLM’s transcription enough to put their name on it. I imagine they’re rather conservative. And maybe some AI-skeptic protectionist sentiments from the professional archivists. Seems like it could change with time though.
Doesn't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSub address that?
What's the difference between this and a user ID that's not publicly exposed?
This isn't a privacy or data collection matter. What Meta, X or any other company that is not de facto controlled by the CCP does or doesn't do has no bearing on this particular case.
They can both be wrong
Dittemore's Law: observations on elite organization dysfunction
Sigh....I quite literally laid out this exact design in my head during my 6 hour business travel today. I was brainstorming designs for military swarm applications. Congrats lol
I think this is the direction ActivityPub is headed.

You can already add .rss to the end of someone's Mastodon account to get their posts as a feed (e.g. https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic.rss) and ghost.org is working on their AP integration for longer form content (more info about the beta here https://activitypub.ghost.org/)

I think PeerTube has RSS support too, but I've not experimented with it.
If it was owned by a Nigerian tomorrow and kept the same CEO, board, employees and algorithm, do you honestly think it wouldn't immediately be banned again?
I think there are no climate controls to cool/heat the air to acceptable human levels inside the parking area. I remember seeing on the local news that the inside of the ship looked like a tightly packed parking lot, which seemed to be done by machinery to maximize occupancy.

Here is the only photo I could find: https://movimentoeconomico.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2024/05...
> why didn't Supreme Court find the first ammendment arguments compelling

because it's not about whether TikTok can operate, nor is about content on TikTok

it's about ownership and control of the platform
how does this compare to nuxt 3 and sveltekit 2?
WordPress is amazing and we should all support open source Matt over dark finance backed companies.
I am Korean, and what you are saying is a lie created by anti-Korean people in Japan. Do you really think it makes sense for a government experiencing an economic crisis to desperately seek revenue sources and hope to overcome the crisis by funding a cultural industry that hasn't even succeeded yet?
Anecdotally, I always had much better sleep and mornings every time I remembered to eat a banana (or two!) before going to bed after a night of heavy drinking...
If you want to solve a problem pretend it is your fault.