skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was trying to get back into photography, the fact that Sony's camera has built-in webcam capabilities played a small (but not trivial) part in choosing to invest in Sony's ecosystem. They're just great cameras overall, but I can't say it didn't play a part.

USB camera feeds work out of the box with Sony mirrorless cameras.

So ultimately, if Canon wants to play these games, let's see if the market of NEW buyers like me respond in a way that will make Canon change their minds.
Plenty of negative sentiment already on US owned platforms, it gets the clicks and the clicks pay the bills.
X or Facebook isn’t “us”. If we had any reason to believe there were or were even likely to be strong effective democratic controls over their ability to manipulate public sentiment it might be different. But as it stands, it feels more like local oligarchs kicking out competitors in their market: “the US population is our population to manipulate, go back to your own”.
Here's my daily task management system:

1. Brain Dump: Record a voice memo on iPhone, speaking freely about anything I need to do - from household chores to work tasks. No need for structure, just stream of consciousness.

2. Transcription: Use iPhone's built-in transcription to convert the voice memo to text.

3. AI Processing: Feed the transcription into ongoing chat in Claude, which:
- Structures my rambling into a clear task list
- Incorporates context from previous days' tasks
- Formats everything in markdown with checkboxes

4. Task Management: Import the markdown into Drafts app, which lets me easily check off tasks throughout the day.

It's a simple system that combines the ease of verbal brain dumping with the structure of a digital task list, without requiring manual organisation.
>They believe incremental compilation should be an option

May be more accurate should be they believe compiling should be insanely fast. And incremental compilation is part of the tools to achieve that.
Because it's not clear what the national security concern is. With weapons or infrastructure, it's easy to understand how they can be used against the U.S., but with a social media platform, it's harder to see the threat. The concern really seems to lie with the users of TikTok.

So what's the issue? That people living in the U.S. and using TikTok might be influenced to act differently than how the powers that be want us to act?
Wait, you're the same person that made the super insightful comment about the origins of life and RNA yesterday...

I'm honestly amazed at how you know so much about everything
The sitting president of the United States of America was banned by almost every major AMERICAN company, and even some Canadian companies (Shopify), yet we're going after Tiktok.

No Chinese ever banned the sitting president of the United States.
Clever product placement of iPhone and Starlink and excellent storytelling. Space age technology used to connect astronauts to their loved ones on earth. Can’t be done any better.
> "Sorry, you can't have this on a golden platter, the best we can do is silver."

Right, and silver is better than nothing.

I think many of us on HN would agree that US social media companies having the means to manipulate user sentiment via private algorithms is a bad thing. But it's at least marginally better than a foreign adversary doing so because US companies have a base interest in the US continuing to be a functional country. Plus it's considerably more difficult to pass a law covering this domestically, where US tech giants have vested interests, lobbyists and voters they can manipulate.

So yes, a targeted ban against a foreign-owned company isn't the ideal outcome. But it's not difficult to see why it's considered a better outcome than doing nothing at all.
Yeah their comment struck me as a joke more than a real critique lmao. But I wasn't sure so I made my reply a joke.
> But its perfectly fine for a US company to do it?

It's not perfectly fine, but you need to start with companies of foreign adversaries first.
You're not wrong that domestic threats exist as well. But perhaps the biggest thing to know that may help you understand, is that the national security apparatus operates within the paradigm of what is called 5GW, or Fifth Generation Warfare[1]. 5GW is all about information, and a foreign adversary controlling the algorithmic news feed of 170 million Americans for an average 1 hour a day is important in that context.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generations_of_warfare
I never understood the practice of it. It makes no sense to me.
Right, they would have to define their parameters first, and there might be a margin of error. But then, that's true of every revenue number they track. And this probably is one of the most important sources of revenue they have. So, I just try unsuccessfully to imagine a scenario where an executive says "I guess we'll never know if revenue is going up or down, c'est la vie!"
Surely China can just buy all the data that's being collected by US companies and sold. So whats the difference here?
TPM+PIN is pretty great, is a shame it's nearly never used.
Look at houses in California. Most have fire resistant stucco exteriors. It's the style out here.
12-year-olds probably aren't getting the same 10-minute videos of auto insurance adjusters taking exceptional calls that I am. But they might if they're precocious.
I think one of the issues is the details of the national security risk hasn't been articulated well. I haven't followed this in detail, but from what I've seen in summaries, news articles etc is just a vague notion of a theoretical risk from an adversary, with no details on exactly what the risk is, or if there is an actual issue here (vs just a theoretical issue that can happen at some point).
Laws don't have to solve all of the potential problems that may exist in order to be valid (this is one of the things they talk about in the decision).

However, there is another law that made sale of data to foreign adversaries illegal, passed in April 2024: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7520
Not only is it straight forward it has long precedent. We’ve long limited broadcast licenses for instance.
> "Respecting our customers’ privacy and earning their trust is deeply important to us," the car maker claimed in a statement Thursday. "Although Smart Driver was created to promote safer driving behavior, we ended that program due to customer feedback."

The stretch and spin on this is pretty insane. I guess it's true if you're forced to do it by a client who you come to care about because they're the federal government and they've named, shamed, and sued you. Yet another reason to continue to avoid American made cars.
“In order to keep using your 80386SX, you’ll need to pay $500/year plus 10% of your power bill to keep it on. Your Intel account has been migrated to a Broadcom account, except we lost your password, so you’ll have to reset it via email. Please sign the new EULA which says we can enter your property and look for evidence in a manner that would make an FBI lawyer in a FISA court blush.”
2/3 of the global population doesn’t speak English.
Like Cambridge Analytica (who used Facebook to do exactly this for the 2016 election).
That justification also seems like it quickly can be used to shutdown access to VPN services hosted elsewhere like Mullvad.
But US companys sale all info about users anyway to anyone (just see today GM) and you accept in between often to over 800 cookies on websites. If thats ok, whats the difference. Why is it ok a website does include over 800 cokies?
Foreign propaganda bots are just as present on US social media, and US social media amplify them just as much.

So where exactly is the meaningful difference here? I don't see it.

The actual difference is that US does not see the money from Tiktok, and blocking tiktok is a convenient excuse to give their propaganda platforms a competetive edge.

Actually doing something about the fundamental problem of foreign influence through the internet would basically destroy sillicon valley, and no politician wants to be responsible for that.
I temporarily forgot that the iPod came out way before the iPhone. So yes, I guess they were called that then. But in my defense, I listened to MP3 files of radio shows that I downloaded manually, so I guess I wasn't quite using them as "podcasts" at that point.
Is it, though? Not a lawyer, obviously. But here I seem to agree with both Bytedance’s lawyers, and the full SCOTUS. Bytedance challenged on free speech terms. There are no dissents as to the Consitutionality of the law.

Prosaically, what individual or group is being declared guilty here? The law requires TikTok to have new ownership; it doesn’t seize it, or set a price for it, which might therefore harm shareholders. Calling this attainder seems like a pretty big stretch to me. And, it seems Bytedance legal counsel didn’t think this would fly as well.
Forestry management seems like a suitable state level activity that should have civilian/legislative oversight but also a fair bit of freedom for experts to do their jobs.
It is really amazing to see so many replies here of people who do not just disagree with the ruling but completely deny the principles at play exist.
Thank you!

As far as websocket hosting, there are a few services out there. We offer a pretty generous free tier for Y-Sweet [1] with 10GB of storage. There's also PartyKit and Liveblocks, though I'm not sure what their pricing is like.

[1] https://jamsocket.com/y-sweet#y-sweet-pricing
Depending on a bunch of factors

[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09601....]

[https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/how-much-energy-does-it-take-t...]

But let’s say we take the upper end of energy consumption multiples between input energy and output energy (kcal), say 120 times. So to feed 1 person 2000 kcal per day, would require 240,000 kcal worth of ‘production’ energy, which at that multiple would add up to 278 kWh per day per person. Signifiant!

Multiply that by the population of the US (345 million), and that is a lot of kWh for sure - 95910000000 kWh. But it looks like national energy usage is measured in ‘quads’. And that is .3 quads per day.

Current US energy production is approximately 100 quads per year, and consumption a bit less than that at around 90 something.

[https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/]

So if we picked the absolute least efficient most energy consuming plants, and grew them in the least efficient type of growing environment, we’d need to drop everything and devote all our energy production to it.

Assuming no rationing, no efficiency improvements (LED lights are quite efficient now, and if we really had this issue we’d of course devote 100% of available production to them!), and no bulk commercial production of simpler foodstuffs (we can make bulk sugars and proteins via bioreactors right now, for instance), it would be terrible but possible. At least for the US.

Countries with more solar production, or colder, would be harder hit of course.

China would be well positioned probably to pivot, and I’d be surprised if they didn’t use it to their advantage. Especially with turning up their nukes and pivoting all their solar plants to making LEDs instead.

India and Bangladesh would be really screwed though.

Everyone would finally think farming was cool again though, so that’s a plus.
Yes, it's technically possible, but indeed it's such a default that no one really tries to fight it.
Great. Get that law passed. The question of constitutionality doesn’t preclude _expansion_ of the ban.
I’m sure he’s bending at the knee right now because he feels very secure and just had a change of heart about everything precisely one month after the election.
For me the biggest scandal in Romania is that they threw the people's choice to the trash just because he didn't show up in polls... a few months after banning another candidate, Sosoaca, for, and I cite textually, "calling for the removal of fundamental state values and choices, namely EU and NATO membership".

Note that from the little I know about both Sosaca and Georgescu, they both look like dangerous nutjobs that should not rule, but if I were a Romanian I would be more worried about a democracy that removes candidates it doesn't like for purely political reasons (not for having commited a felony or anything like that) than about them.
Do you really believe that Tim Cook doesn’t know the profit margin on a key Apple product?
The perl script written by Brendan Gregg:

https://www.brendangregg.com/Specials/psss
The trouble I have is that Facebook & X do this, too, and their owners are similarly unaccountable to US law, but we aren't we banning them. If this law were applied equally, I'd be all in favor. Instead it is transparently just a handout to Facebook to remove a business competitor. That sucks, big time.
Unless you work directly for the US government in some way, you are perfectly free to get on a VPN and continue using tiktok. And unlike your chinese friends, you don't even need to break the law to do it.
Nice! I love how mermaid keeps getting better!

For sequence-diagrams, nothing beats https://sequencediagram.org/ (I am not connected with them in any way, just a happy user)
I would argue that Telegram is a much, much larger security threat to the average individual American than Tiktok. Except they comply with government search warrants and don't enable E2E encryption by default so they are useful to the American National Security Establishment and get to stay.
China is an ethnostate. What does China offer the future to anyone who's not Chinese? Chinese nationals in the United States have substantially more rights than they do in China.
Your words, not mine
> Black slaves weren't funded, radicalized, and armed with military weapons and missiles with a stated goal of its leadership to kill all white people.

They were actually all of those things... Do you not know what the Nat Turner Rebellion was?

> Newsflash, there are a ton of Palestinians living in Israel peacefully. 20% of Israeli citizens are Arab.

No one ever answers this follow up. What would happen if those Arabs were a demographic threat to the Jewish majority of Israel? Would they still retain their voting rights past 50%? Be honest.

> Stop with the bullshit that West bank and Gaza just want peace.

I never said that. I said that when Israelis decide that ethnic hierarchy is wrong and commit to ending it, this conflict can end.

> Peace was closest when Yassir Arafat walked away from an agreement that included a Palestinian state. He was probably paid to do by the Iranians, Arafat died worth hundreds of millions.

Oh so we just throw out lies now? My comment could have been a lot shorter. What happened to Arafat's counterpart, btw?

> Finally,the Palestinians dug their own mass graves by increasing population by a factor of ten when they had no economy

Advocacy of collective punishment. Nice!

> They only way they get money to live is to fight Israel. If they don't fight Israel, the aid dries up and they starve. If they fight Israel, Israel unleashes military force and blockaded and they starve.

Well, like I said earlier, they could get money if Israelis decided to collectively end the policies of ethnic hierarchy... You know Gaza had an international airport, it had a luxury hotel. It was building an economy. Constant war makes that hard. And as long as millions of people in Palestine don't have citizenship in any country, much less in the country that controls their lives, strife is inevitable.

> There is no Israeli kumbaya moment.

I don't agree. The people of Israel have a collective consciousness that will prevail. Ultimately, whites decided to end slavery in the US. Ultimately whites decided to end apartheid in South Africa. Ultimately Israelis will decide to end their ethnic hierarchy as well. It doesn't have to happen, but I believe it will.

> The fact you say "they don't have to accept defeat" is utterly nuts.

It's not nuts. It's a factual statement. The IRA did not admit defeat even after its prominent members were all jailed. The ANC did not admit defeat even after its prominently members were jailed. History shows they don't have to admit defeat. Many here might say it would be better for them and the Palestinians. But there's understandable mistrust of both sides that making a step forward is difficult. The last time steps forward were made, the PA renounced violence only to have more and more of the West Bank stolen. Rabin welcomed talks towards Palestinian statehood only to get a bullet in return. We went from the highs of Oslo to the lows of the Second Intifada. That kind of backstabbing makes it hard for one side to back down, but there is agency on both sides. The US decided to end racial hierarchy, and it was painful, but worth it in the long run. I firmly believe Israel can do the same.
How are kids discovering a new Chinese-owned app? Is it through Tik Tok? Could the Tik Tok algo be biased towards China over US based companies?
“Attic” has several usages. Traditionally it is a habitable story between the eaves and roof. An analog to a basement.

In a lot of contemporary construction it is an uninhabitable space between the eaves and roof. An analog to a crawl space.

In contemporary construction, habitable attics usually get listed as bonus rooms.

The GP is thinking of something reached by stairs. Nonhabitable attics usually are accessed by ladders or ladder like objects.
It's perfectly fine for a South African immigrant to do it, I really don't understand the problem either.
This. Well, I'm not autistic, but I use them the exact same way.

The funny thing is, I have a personal project where I'm following a TODO list for minimal completion. It has finally reached the point where a single item remains, yet I get lost all the time when I start working on it thinking on extensions or not knowing what to do. So I need to constantly consult that single-item TODO list to actually get something done.

It's weird how helpful it is.
Unlike in America where... they say it's a national security threat and vote to remove it?
Makes you wonder: Who actually wants this (the loudness)? Theaters (and sound mixers) must think it's more profitable to blow people's eardrums out. Are customers really demanding this?
I’m a dual citizen and I could get rid of it if I need a clearance, but all the jobs I see require that you have one already
Oh it's meant to be a balance board / seesaw. Duh.
Extremely impressive decipherment results for this script, a long-standing challenge in epigraphy. The methodology seems very sound, and while allographs can make or break confidence in decipherments, their treatment is very convincing and leads to logical and consistent readings. In many ways this is a model treatment of how to set out deciphering an unknown script with a suspected relation to a known language.
Disaster Recovery Device
But the US is a foreign adversary of the EU who has ruined the EU economy in the last three years and wants to wrestle away Greenland.

Half joking, but the US performs corporate espionage in the EU and certainly takes compromising material on EU politicians whenever it can get it.

The slavish adherence from EU NPC politicians (they are mediocre and no one knows how they manage to rise) to US directives has to have some reasons. Being compromised is one of those.
PowerSchool Breach
Back in the early stage of social media, US companies had the choice to operate in China as long as they comply with the censorship and local laws. Had they chosen not to quit China market at the point, they would have been probably huge in China holding major access over Chinese users too. (How would Chinese government react to that is something we never get to see now...)

I keep seeing argument regarding "China bans social medias from other countries". It's not an outright ban saying that "Facebook cannot operate in China", but more like "Comply with the censorship rules or you cannot operate in China". It's not targeting "ownership" or "nation states". e.g. Google chose to leave, while Microsoft continues to operate Bing in China.
I’m not sure. Like how color printers write their serial numbers and date and whatnot on every page, these devices might be watermarking every video subtly, and we might not know it.
It's a very American attitude to rebel against the tyranny of the government, after all. Something about taxation without representation?
Changing the way we apply for jobs
TikTok content is mostly visual. My YouTube shorts are frequently foreign language with AI subtitles.

Also, TikTok is banned in India and—ironically—China [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_TikTok
https://imgflip.com/i/9h0xgl
Is there a demo available without creating an account?
A leftover from cultures where everyone supposedly always does the right thing.
There is a rule of law issue here.

Say, for example, congress passes and the president signs a law that says that product sponsorships in videos need to be disclosed. If a US company (or a European, Australian, Japanese, etc) country violates that law, we're pretty sure that a judgement against them can change that behavior.

China? Not so much, given their history.
As someone who switched careers, from working as a mechanical engineer to(at first) coding JS web to Java engineer later on - do not strategize too much upfront.

Building connections in domains of interest is something one should always pursuit and intensifying this might be the best immediate action to take.

Some other aspects:

- Keep your domain options as open as possible. Do not commit to a new career before securing it. This is vague advice, I know - but focusing on for ex. cybersecurity over general DevOps/cloud engineering with the security vector would be narrowing one's options.

- If you are not prepared financially, be very cautions.

- Manage your expectations, the major factor in a career switching is(IMO) luck and opportunity - over which you have no control but can sorta manage somewhat(ergo the networking).

Changing careers is a very general and realistic goal. Keep the way you go about it the same way.

I've found it very challenging, difficult and frustrating. Wouldn't do it again but glad I did it the first time.

Best of luck!
As their first language, perhaps
> 2 - Use a PC for your video needs.

I would like to second this recommendation. I've put my work desk in the living room; the 43" screen doubles as a (non-smart!) TV; instead of futzing with remotes I have a wireless mouse, an on-screen keyboard, and a macOS/iOS shortcut to switch the display between 2x (couch mode) and 1.5x (desk mode), which could also take care of audio routing, DND, lights, etc.

Using a real mouse + virtual keyboard is so much faster than ANY remote I've ever used, and if you're not into clicking, you can type with a "real" wireless keyboard[0]. Another upside, is you get to watch things in the browser - with a proper ad blocker - instead of half a dozen confusing TV apps. Setting everything up takes a bit more effort than plugging a stick into an HDMI port, but it immediately starts paying off.

[0]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/microsoft-all-in-one-media... via friend's recommendation, they have a very similar setup with a projector and MS Windows.
I do this to my son as well and I have to admit it is unreasonably effective.
That's because that wasn't a material effect in this situation. It was hurricane force winds blowing over native shrubs and scrub land. It wasn't forests of eucalyptus that caused this. California has a decades long effort to restore native plants in areas. Eucalyptus groves are being torn out. The problem is that the native shrubs and grass are pretty flammable. They evolved to burn and regrow. They aren't resistant.
This has never been a significant barrier for savvy Chinese to post outside the Great Firewall.

International Steam is also banned in China yet we curiously see the majority of users nowadays use simplified Chinese.
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