skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except they've just spun up different apps accessing the same data, and also people are flocking to alternatives even more connected to China's Intel apparatus than TikTok allegedly was, because fundamentally a shit ton of Americans don't trust their government. And IMO, they're right not to.

We could shut all of this shit down if we actually wanted to, but that means going after American companies too, which they won't. They want to have the cake and eat it too: outlaw foreign spying on American users without outlawing domestic spying on American users. They want to make it so China can't do exactly what social media et al does in America, to Americans. Americans are not stupid: they are perceiving this. They know they are being manipulated, perhaps by China, perhaps by the U.S., definitely by dozens if not hundreds of private enterprises, likely all fucking three.

On one hand, the American government's priority is the security of America and her citizens, but on the other, we have an entire segment of the economy now utterly dependent on being able to violate citizen's privacy at will and at scale. Surveillance capitalism and foreign surveillance are effectively interoperable. You can't kill one without killing the other.

Edit: And even more on the personal front, for your every day Joe: this is completely stake-less. "Oh China is spying on me!" big fucking deal. The NSA was caught spying on us decades ago, and by all accounts, they still are. Google AdSense probably knows my resting heart rate and rectal measurements that it will use to try and sell me the new flavor of Oreo. We accept as a given that our privacy is basically long gone, not only did that boat leave the pier, it sailed to the mid-Atlantic, sunk, and a bunch of billionaires imploded trying to check out the wreckage in a poorly made submarine. I don't fucking care if China is spying on me too, that's just a fact of my online existence.
I read the article, and I am no more informed about this than before. What it tries to explain it doesn't put them into a digestible form, doesn't explain anything, or gets it just plain wrong.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42737478
Ughyhur Camps vs Reservations/Slavery/Jim Crow/Internment Camps/Operation Paperclip

lingchi vs waterboarding/black sites

NSA vs Great Firewall

provincial one party system vs micro nation based two party system both favoring the rich

TikTok vs Instagram/YouTube

when both sides consider you sub human kind of easy to compare them without emotion :)

but truly curious where have the facts been misrepresented? I would expect this on Reddit but not on a site like HN tbh
Mostly they seem to have planted a lot more Eucalyptus, which makes the fires worse. The severe floods on the other hand seem to be catching everyone by surprise.
Do you react the same way when an OS prevents you from writing to a file with an exclusive lock placed on it? So much for "a file is simply a collection of data stored as a single object"...

If a git repo was purely a collection of meaningless pointers and graph nodes, git would be a graph manipulation utility, not a version control system. The fact that some of those pointers have a meaning is what makes it useful and it doesn't contradict the fact that what you're working on is still just a bunch of pointers and nodes.
It would be more like Coke was Mexican owned and HFCS was outlawed in Mexico. Then Mexican Coke used sugar and the Coke they exported to America used HFCS. And America said, hey, you're not consuming the same Coke you send here: we're going to ban you if you don't sell to us and our plan is to keep making HFCS Coke once we buy you. You were also hurting Pepsi (Facebook/Twitter), who also only plan on ever using HFCS.
They have had legit unintentional problems with apps like Strava:
https://www.wired.com/story/strava-heat-map-military-bases-f...

What ZTE were up to was way more nefarious, but couldn't be done with just apps.
Awesome!! Hope to see more companies go this route. I had the pleasure to do something similar for a company(lot smaller scale though)

It was my first job out of university. I will never forget the awesome experience of walking into the datacenter and start plugging cables and stuff
Exactly

For example, 2001 was a great movie but Clarke's worst book imo because he collaborated with Kubrick to write it for for big screen.
Yes. I tried to click on that twice; the first time within the text of the toast button and then on the right chevron. I really hate having to wait when it's arbitrary and doesn't add anything to the challenge.
I wouldn't go as far to say "everything costs less" but it is pretty well that established that poverty is very expensive.

A couple of key examples:

Food deserts often mean that groceries are more expensive in poorer areas as opposed to neighboring rich ones. Additionally, bulk food is cheaper but requires having enough funds to buy more than your immediate needs.

It is generally cheaper to own your own home than to rent and low income people are going to pay higher interest on the same home loan.

It is always cheaper for rich people to borrow money than poor people and poor people are often forced into debt in situations where rich people can dip into savings. Having to pay interest on your rainy day debt is way more expensive than getting paid interest on your rainy day savings.

That last one is huge, and tends to compound across all kinds of other areas, increasing the effective price that poor people pay for almost everything.

In the most general sense, it is often feasible to spend more money up front to save money down the road. The amount of interest poor people have to pay to do this reduces or even totally wipes out any savings.

This is all pretty well documented and studied. It's part of the unfortunate feedback cycle at the bottom of the economic bracket that makes climbing back out harder the poorer you get.
And the "u3" flash drives that did this were a hot commodity for a little while!

Then came the iODD and the IsoStick...
5 hours of thought later, I am recalling that Greece is also seismically active.
A library choosing not to carry a book isn't a ban. The government making it ILLEGAL for anyone to distribute the book would be a ban. As far as I know that is not happening anywhere in the US with some extremely narrow exceptions like CSAM.
I think the point being made here is that many offices, including but not limited to your local post office, are closed on Sundays. They were not saying that your specific local post office is integral to enforcing the TikTok ban.

Is there a section in the text of the law that says that enforcement has to happen outside of normal office hours or do you just assume that’s the case because the law is being talked about in the news?
Your math is wrong (you left out two of the main engines):

1) SSME thrust is 418k lbf. The shuttle has three engines, so 1.25M lbf

2) SRB is 2.65 M lbf. Two boosters give 5.3M lbf.

3) That sums up to 6.6M lbf

4) Shuttle weighs 4.4 million lbs.

5) That works out to a 1.5 thrust-to-weight ratio at sea level launch.

If you still don't believe, watch a Shuttle launch and time how long it takes to clear the tower. You'll get the same answer (vertical acceleration at about 1.5g)
This is not a good outcome, this is Meta shooting itself in the face.
And yes, there wasn't a new round of funding since I started, only some additional money from the same investors afaik.
I worry less about the data and more about how a lot of kids, teens, and young adults get their news from TikTok (and social media in general).

That's the real value of TikTok. Having the eyeballs of young people and being able to (subtly or not) influence their perception of the world is valuable in a way that massive amounts of data aren't.

I do also worry about this with Musk, but I also acknowledge that taking away social media ownership from a foreign company is different than taking it away from a US company.
How far off are we from local immidiate voice translation? Something on my computer that translates all spoken words by my computer, keeping tone and intonation?
I don't mind calling the connector an RJ45, but calling this thing an "RJ45 dongle" makes my eye twitch. It's an Ethernet dongle - RJ45 can be used for a lot of other things. For example I've seen "RJ45 dongles" that convert USB to RS232 serial for the console ports on a lot of networking equipment.
Probably, but what's your negotiation position?

If you believe management is amendable and just needs data, then pull data for typical equity grants at this stage to your equivalent position and present it to them.

If not amenable, then decide if you are prepared to walk away and then if so set an ultimatum for a market-rate grant.

Also, regarding "$1m if startup is valued at $1b, it's still only 0.1%" it's actually quite likely to get diluted by that point. You should ask them if the shares are non-dilutive or not (unlikely to be protected from dilution).
But why would you do this instead of cross compiling in the first place?
one would think the ranking member on the House Intel Cmte - my very own Rep - would agree with you, given how he'd be way more privy to such things than you, me, talking heads on TV, etc. yet he disagrees and cites free speech concerns [0][1].

in my mind none of these reasons add up. if this were truly about influence ops on social media we would not have blinders on for our own platforms' role in them. remember Cambridge Analytica and the 2016 campaign, or Facebook's role in the Myanmar genocide? or more-recently the ops Israel ran? furthermore if this were really about our data, we would again not have blinders on. the CCP can still purchase our data as we're all up for sale given our lack of data privacy/protection laws.

as such i tend to side with my Rep: this is bunk, and the pretexts flimsy. i believe the answer is to focus on education - critical thought particularly - and enacting data privacy/protection laws. i do not believe that would lead to 1).

now will that happen? i'm doubtful tbh. our own govt loves the fact that we're up for sale, for it allows them to side-step the need for a warrant. have a great weekend.

[0] https://www.ctinsider.com/columnist/article/tiktok-ban-jim-h...
[1] https://himes.house.gov/2024/3/himes-statement-on-protecting...
> When AI can do the software engineering tasks that require expertise outside of coding like system design, scoping problems, cross-team/domain work, etc then it will be AGI

I think you're talking about the really general case, but in my opinion that's not as important. All that matters is that AI solutions manage (in the near future) to cover the average case -- where most engineers actually work -- in a mediocre but cost effective manner, for this to have huge repercussions on the job market and salaries.

> But the hard bit is finding the information. Some logs here, some code there, a conversation with someone on a different team, etc.

I've no problem believing they will become more and more successful at this. This is information retrieval which can be done faster by machines, and making sense of it all together is where advances in AI will need to happen. I think there's a high chance they'll happen eventually, at least in a way that's enough to cobble together projects that will make the leadership happy (maybe after some review/adjustment by a few human experts they retain?). They do not even have to be particularly successful -- how many human-populated engineering projects succeed, anyway?
The reporting I found (from the Verge) was that an employee of TikTok (in America) would email spreadsheets to executives in China, and other similar cases of US employees having the actual access to data and passing it along to other folks in China.

This all suggests to me that the 'Operation Texas' technical controls were actually in place and pretty good (or dude in China would have just run some SQL himself), and what isn't in place is hard process control to prevent US workers from emailing stuff to China. Which, you know, is exactly what Congress could pass a law to deal with.
It would be nice to have a lot more detail. The WTF sections are the best part. Sounds like your gear needs "this side towards enemy" sign and/or the right affordances so it only goes in one way.

Did you standardize on layout at the rack level? What poke-yoke processes did you put into place to prevent mistakes?

What does your metal->boot stack look like?

Having worked for two different cloud providers and built my own internal clouds with PXE booted hosts, I too find this stuff fascinating.

Also take utmost advantage of a new DC when you are booting it to try out all the failure scenarios you can think of and the ones you can't through randomized fault injection.
Yeap a PIA known issue I've been tracking at https://community.amd.com/t5/pc-drivers-software/memory-leak... - Was finally fixed with 24.7.1 and newer.

FYI, can quickly test by running in a standard user cmd: "FOR /L %i IN (1,1,1000) DO cmd /c echo %i" And then can use Bruce's FindZombieHandles from https://github.com/randomascii/blogstuff/blob/main/FindZombi... to check if the and driver (anything really) is leaking.
In about two years, when these things will be launching hundreds of starlink satellites like clockwork, you’ll just move the goalposts and find something else to criticise.

I’m saying this with confidence because it’s the established history of SpaceX critics. Everything from reusable rockets, space internet, full-flow staged combustion, etc.. has had its naysayers that all shut up and found something new to critique once SpaceX showed it was possible and even profitable.

At this stage you may as well just come out and say “I don’t like Elon”.
It does! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevens's_power_law

> Stevens' power law is an empirical relationship in psychophysics between an increased intensity or strength in a physical stimulus and the perceived magnitude increase in the sensation created by the stimulus
Pretty sure the first one should be done with a closed form formula:

lcm(3, 5) = 15. So there is a repeating cell of values every 15 which we can take advantage of:

0, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12,

+ 15 -> 15, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27,

+ 15 -> 30, 33, 35, 36, 39, 40, 42

The last cell ending in 1000 is incomplete.
>If the grocery store decides to remove the prices from everything, and require its shoppers to first call its billing department only open until 5pm to receive a set of numbers, then call their third party subscription service only open until 6pm to receive a non-binding estimate, for every item in their grocery list,

Good point (buying food would be a nightmare if it worked like American health care!) but that's a different argument from the one made above in the thread, that a profit motive in a vital good inherently creates perverse effects.
> Anyone here who's not a TikTok content creator reasonably upset about losing access to the platform? Can you tell me why it will sting for you?

I like living in a country where the government does not get to decide what I'm allowed to read/watch/see. The TikTok ban chips away at that in a meaningful way.

I value this above most other concerns, including vague worries about "Chinese spying".
I can see you flagged all my comments, even unrelated ones within minutes. You also immediately throttled me. You're vindictive and on a power trip. Your moderation style goes directly against the quote from your bio. You're a hypocrite, man.
FJCVTZS isn't really as specific to Javascript as the name suggests, it actually copies the semantics of an x86 instruction, which JS took its semantics from.

JS runtimes do use it but it's useful anywhere you need to do what x86 does, which obviously includes running x86 binaries under emulation.
NYT would of course never back erroneous allegations by US officials on geopolitical matters like these.
80% done, with no code.

This is often how a functional safety project works - specification is everything, no point writing any code until you know exactly what you plan to build.

Due to traceability requirements it becomes a very waterfall approach.

However one way of improving methodology and outcomes is an executable specification that can be converted to code and documenting at the very last minute, meaning you can be specifying right up until you need to deploy.

Executable specification concept comes from IEC 61499.
It desperately forwards you to the app store right now.
I think a democratic nation is well within its rights to restrict its citizens access of certain systems.

There is no such thing as unlimited liberty, especially with regards to systems under control of hostile nations such as China and Russia. Would you be comfortable allowing mass release of unrestricted Hamas / ISIS, Russian propaganda content to North American teenagers? National security is a real thing and geopolitics always play a critical role in people's lives.

One could perhaps argue that we must educate our citizens better, however I think rather than being naive, it's better to implement realistic regulations (within _democratic_ means of course) to contain the threats.
My negotiation position is fairly weak at the moment since I am not actively searching and didn't mean to. So I guess anything except "I am quitting" is fairly weak.

As to the typical equity grants at this stage, this is exactly what I am looking for. Could you recommend something trustworthy and up-to-date?
Yeah this confused me quite a bit too. I thought the point was to spot the misleading options and avoid them/do whatever was necessary to fix the sneaky tricks the site pulled, not deliberately fall for it to find out why it's misleading.
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It wasn't any more "rude" than repeatedly throwing vague insults and insinuations at me without providing the real reason. But I don't see you caring about that. We both know why. Because "rudeness" is not your real concern, your real concern is the same as the other culture warrior, and you're avoiding stating it directly for the same reasons – it's entirely unfounded and indefensible. So instead you go with vague nastyness that you think could be mistaken for something profound and is therefore above criticism (it can't, and it isn't).

If by any chance that is not what you meant to come off as, you may want to reconsider low-effort passive aggressive one liners as your communication medium.
If so, good riddance. The good point of TikTok is that the videos appear genuine and wholesome. Not the hyper-optimized for monetization crap YouTube Shorts show you. I much prefer the videos with kids goofing around on icy streets over the American narrator telling me some bs about some great baseball player.
Hm, why does shorting CS and S0 make it not work?
It’s not theater. Just calling something security theater isn’t an argument and the fact that Congress passed bipartisan legislation to ban it after internal security briefings should at least cause you to question your assumption.

The other key point you are missing is that we can ban one app and then ban/regulate others later. You don’t have to do it all at once even if all organizations were engaging in the same behavior.

Even more - the process and legislation required to just ban/regulate Meta or other American tech companies for example is more difficult not just because of the actual legal apparatus required to make it happen, but because of economic considerations and jobs and such too. Further, no doubt the CIA, NSA, and FBI all but have offices at Meta headquarters. They might be engaging in activity or influence campaigns we don’t like - but that’s for us to figure out, not some other country.

TikTok is just some random company that doesn’t matter outside of engaging in activities we don’t like and we choose to allow it to do business in the United States as we see fit.

As casually as we can decide to allow it to do business in the United States so too can we revoke that permission. We do this all the time. We recently stopped Nippon Steel from buying US Steel. TikTok isn’t anything special.
Bardet on Pogačar's dominance: 'It's hard to explain'
Rabbi says psychedelics are "elephant in the room" in sacred Jewish text
What metrics do you think were better in 2015?
I tried TALA and am surprised to learn it embeds a machine learning model. I settled on ELK (very complex and time consuming to get right), before getting interested in constraint based graph layout (mostly for aligning nodes). Symmetry is nice to have too.

In fact what I'm trying to do is generating beautiful flow graph illustrations like this (non-sensical, just to give you a vibe):

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG4.sqo88280g1BDb7r2aORg?pid=ImgG...

Tis hard. Graph layout (bites fist). Layout based image diffusion (tears). One day though.
>When you point out that, for example, health insurance profits are low single digit percentage of overall healthcare costs they just don’t believe it.

It's not that I don't believe it, it's that this figure is completely unrelated to the damage and waste caused by the system of healthcare and health insurance we have in the US.

I mean, in a system of chattel slavery, you see above-normal profits competed away, but that in no way means the system isn't exploiting anyone, because that's not how the harm shows up! And yet still we'd see that argument get batted around in comments like yours:

"No, your owner can't possibly be exploiting you because, when you consider your purchase cost, he doesn't actually make much profit!"
> We're exploring some graph re-ranking techniques to eliminate useless elements from the HTML DOM when analyzing the page.

Computer vision is useful and very quick, however, it has been my experience parsing stacking context is much more useful. The problem is creating a stacking context when a news site embeds a youtube or blusky post. It requires injecting script into each using playwright. (Not mine, but, prior art [0]).

I've been quietly solving a problem I encountered creating browser agents that didn't have a solution 2 years ago in my free time. Most webpages are several independent global execution contexts and I'm developing a coherent way to get them all to speak with each other. [1]

> "Go to Amazon.com and add an iPhone 16, a screen protector, and a case to cart"

Are you familiar with Google Dialogflow? [2] It is a service which returns an object with intent and parameters which make it is to map to automation actions. I asked GhatGPT to help with an example of how Dialogflow might handle your request. [3]

[0] https://github.com/andreadev-it/stacking-contexts-inspector

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42576240

[2] https://cloud.google.com/dialogflow/es/docs/intents-overview

[3] https://chatgpt.com/share/678ae18d-5370-8004-97d4-f9949887b0...