skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In an email to TechCrunch, a company spokesperson claimed that the change is intended to "better protect" Google Search against malicious activity, such as bots and spam, and to improve the overall Google Search experience for users."

How does Javascript protect against bots. For example, Javascript does not protect against Googlebot. Javascript will not stop bots, spam or improve the overall experience for users ("ad targets"). There are reasons Google is pushing Javascript that have nothing to do with "protecting Google search against malicious activity". The change is for Google not for its ad targets. The spokesperson will not mention the reasons and how they benefiot the company at the expoense of ad targets. The question is why she won't mention them.
> Yes, because of how ignorant much of the population is, correlating lower grocery prices with whoever was in office at the time.

Get off your high horse. If you lose the election, you are the ignorant. The democrats lost because they over-estimated their hand and under-estimated the intelligence of the general populace.

The democrats were in a position of power. The only thing you need to do is to not screw up.
The second paragraph of the EFF statement says the ban provides insufficient protection of US security.
The Los Angeles wildfires are self-inflicted
This article literally makes my point and says nothing about China being caught red handed:

“Parliament and other institutions as well as national governments issued restrictions on its use in 2023 over fears of Beijing’s access to the data”

Thanks for wasting my fucking time reading your bullshit links.
China doesn't pretend to be a democracy, so as they don't are nor pretend to be a democracy the rest of us should abandon democracy? Should be stop begin democratic because China isn't?
Bluesky has RSS feeds too.
I remember pre-Musical.ly TikTok here in Japan, and it was MUCH better then. In fact, it noticeably degraded when Musical.ly was folded in.

American social media culture revolves around money and sex in a way that isn't as popular in Korea/Japan/S. Asia—roughly speaking, the original scope of TikTok's userbase, since Douyin has always kept Chinese users separate.

Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of garbage social media content in Asia, but it's more boomers and gen-z era that consume hentai/money flexing/politics/etc., so that nonsense was almost completely absent in the early days of TikTok, when the users were mostly Asian teenagers and young adults trading choreography, in-jokes, and showing off their video editing skills.
Lausanne is also not representative of Switzerland and is pretty touristy, although I guess Geneva is even more so.
Atari 2600?
Trump Team Has Wealth-Fund Ambitions for Small Lending Agency
That would require legacy reporters to get out on the streets and do some reporting.
That was a lot of chatter. Information was great. I am a good listener but someone else might get bored after few minutes. You need to put that talk behind presentation. Also anyone planing to watch. It is really great stuff. Long but great.
Currently, I have a habit of checking the price on the hotel's website. Oftentimes, I could get a better deal with "member login" (mostly just Google OAuth) or promo codes posted on the front page.

However, many hotels use external systems for booking and payment handling. I wonder how long those systems will take to start offering the same tricks as big platforms.
They absolutely could if the NYT was fully owned by a foreign entity, and that entity was a government that adversarial to the US.

The issue is not that a company has foreign shareholders -- it's the fact that is under the control of the CCP.

This was also an issue when Rupert Murdoch wanted to buy Fox; he was only able to do so once he became a US citizen, for the same reasons.

The 1A arguments by ByteDance was a diversionary tactic to shift the conversation away from the real issue (control) -- and judging by all the comments on HN by people who don't understand it's about control, I'd say they were pretty successful.
You could say the same thing about real CSAM. Authorities claim you have it, present a hard drive they "recovered" from your property to court and you get convicted.

At some level we just have to hope, and be skeptical of etc, that the government is basically staffed by mostly trustworthy people.
Great work on that web clock, that's a fantastic UI.
Remember we’re all in a tech bubble here. 99.9% of TikTok users don’t know what sideloading is.
I expected to see mention of the volvelle - a medieval device made of paper that could approximate the phase of the moon by moving a circular hole around a carefully designed track. There’s a long explanation of it at https://astrolabeproject.com/downloads/volvelle/deconstructi...
It's amazing that all three arms of the government can come together so quickly to ban an app, but we can't have affordable housing, public healthcare, a higher minimum wage, or send kids to school without bulletproof backpacks.
They lost because 49.9% of voters believed inflation would be decreased by tariffs and all the money FEMA spent on North Carolina was a lie. Among other things, this was very much a “we have a different truth to offer” election.
Oh man that’s a lot of bloat! Beer + sugar
If only the same logic had applied to Trump.
I think they're pointing it out because stating they're working towards a PhD in something when they've just graduated and don't seem to be (as far as we can tell) enrolled in a PhD program is misleading. Note that the parent isn't the one that brought up their PhD, the author is, presumably to head off the big question marks everyone reading this got as to what it is.

It's unclear whether this page is something that could be useful, and deserves attention. The fact that the author is at best making misleading statements is useful in determining whether you should take their claims at face value.

They claim "Finite Field Assembly is a programming language that lets you emulate GPUs on CPUs".

It's not a programming language, it's a handful of C macros, and it doesn't in any way emulate a GPU on the CPU. I'll be honest, I think the author is trying to fake it till they make it, they seem interested in mathematics but their claims are far beyond what they've demonstrated, and their post history reveals a series of similar submissions. In so far as they're curious and want to experiment I think it's reasonable to encourage, but they're also asking for money and don't seem to be delivering much.

Why would they post the 4th article in a series where the previous ones require you to pay?
There’s a simple, obvious and overwhelmingly popular solution to this problem that respects free speech and privacy. Unlike the current law, it wouldn’t blatantly violate the constitution by targeting a specific group:

Apply reasonable privacy and transparency rules to all social media platforms, regardless of ownership.

I’m not sure the EFF really needs to spell it out at this point.
It's amazing to me how many people are derailed by the free speech argument.

This is about who controls the network, not the content on the network.

There is a law that only U.S. citizens can own TV stations. That's why Murdoch became a US citizen (allowing him to buy Fox). This is in a similar vein.
I have see Chinese users who state that they are gay or bisexual right on their profile page, too.
They stopped teaching cursive for a number of years but all the schools in my area start it around age 6 or 7 now. They start typing the next year with some horribly boring typing program.
> The United States’ foreign foes easily can steal, scrape, or buy Americans’ data by countless other means.

True, but that's not the point.

> Shutting down communications platforms or forcing their reorganization based on concerns of foreign propaganda and anti-national manipulation is an eminently anti-democratic tactic, one that the US has previously condemned globally.

Sorry, that might've been true for old media, but social media is way more insidious.
I mean, all you have to do is feed the image to ChatGPT, and it will read it basically as well as you can.

Denying/downvoting reality is always an option, of course.
I take this as "nobody, including the competitors, think TikTok will actually go away"
It shocked me to learn that alcohol content wasn’t already a required element of alcoholic product labels. Even knowing that alcohol is outside the purview of the FDA, it seems it would at least be relevant for taxation!
Going out on a limb here: nope.

Do I wish otherwise? Of course. Will anything of the sort happen? Nope.
> Legally if it's asserted that these images are criminal because they are the result of being the product of an LLM trained on sources that contained CSAM then the requirement would be to prove that assertion.

Legally, possession of CSAM is against the law because there is an assumption that possession proves contribution to market demand, with an understanding that demand incentives production of supply, meaning there that with demand children will be harmed again to produce more content to satisfy the demand. In other words, the intent is to stop future harm. This is why people have been prosecuted for things like suggestive cartoons that have no real-life events behind them. It is not illegal on the grounds of past events. The actual abuse is illegal on its own standing.

The provenance of the imagery is irrelevant. What you need to prove is that your desire to have such imagery won't stimulate yourself or others to create new content with real people. If you could somehow prove that LLM content will satisfy all future thirst, problem solved! That would be world changing.
Because it doesn't just increase the supply of money--it increases the supply of burgers as well :-)

Sure, the money is created out of thin air. But that money gets invested in things which actually increase productivity and increase the GDP. E.G. a factory borrows money to buy new machines, which makes their workers more productive.

If the increasing money supply does start to cause excess inflation, the Fed tamps it down by increasing the interest rates. From Volker to Covid, it did a remarkably good job of keeping the inflation under 2%. Plague and unfunded tax cuts have pushed that up closer to 3%, but it is dropping.
Oh, good to know! I didn't manage to find this one. But this one is $100 in the US, and $120 in some other places. Which is quite a bit of additional money to pay on top of your camera, which already has USB and should just provide a video stream there…

(this dongle is also USB-A, unfortunately)
Widespread literacy is an extremely recent phenomenon.

I highly doubt most people could write that well
I’m my experience and based on writeups like this: Google hates having customers.

Someone decided they have to have a public cloud, so they did it, but they want to keep clients away with a 3 meter pole.

My AWS account manager is someone I am 100% certain would roll in the mud with me if necessary. Would sleep in the floor with us if we asked in a crisis.

Our Google cloud representatives make me sad because I can see that they are even less loved and supported by Google than us. It’s sad seeing someone trying to convince their company to sell and actually do a good job providing service. It’s like they are setup to fail.

Microsoft guys are just bulletproof and excel in selling, providing a good service and squeezing all your money out of your pockets and you are mortally convinced it’s for your own good. Also have a very strange cloud… thing.

As for the railway company going metal, well, I have some 15 years of experience with it. I’ll never, NEVER, EVER return to it. It’s just not worth it. But I guess you’ll have to discover it by yourselves. This is the way.

You soon discover what in freaking world is Google having so much trouble with. Just make sure you really really love and really really want to sell service to people, instead of building borgs and artificial brains and you’ll do 100x better.
They started teaching it again because it correlated with better outcomes for things seemingly unrelated to writing. And it was important to learn it before typing supposedly. There is probably some better way to accomplish whatever it is actually doing, but they don't seem to know that.
> Is there any precedent to car carriers dedicated to one manufacturer?

General Motors helped design the Vert-A-Pac. https://chevyvega.fandom.com/wiki/Vert-A-Pac
In a way it's not completely tax-free; the embodied costs of producing and selling the cake are still taxed with employee income tax, National Insurance, import duties and so on.

The UK's exemption from VAT covers lots of things, but not an entirely logical selection: cakes are considered staples and are exempt, but drinks (including soft drinks, beer and mineral water) are taxed at the full 20% rate.

In general, I would personally prefer that the UK not have VAT, as it's a regressive tax (people with lower incomes pay a greater percentage of their income on it than high earners do).
What do you get out of evaporated milk that you can't get from milk?
Years ago when I was single, I used sites like match.com and would only pay one month at a time when I saw someone interesting. I probably got responses 75% of the time, many dates over the years, and a couple of long-term girlfriends.

I treated it like a marketing campaign (for myself): I would have an interesting subject line to get an initial read, a message that showed I actually read their profile, and a few ice-breaker questions. I also wouldn't just spam any woman I found.

I didn't end up meeting my wife there. It was nice for awhile, but it's difficult to find someone you are compatible with long-term when you are essentially just dating random people and hoping you have similar interests.

My wife and I met through a meetup group and I knew her for about 5 years before we started dating.
https://www.maritimegateway.com/volkswagen-group-orders-lng-...

These are also not owned by VW Logistics, but on long-term lease to them.

Note this is the similar for several BYD RoRo carriers, e.g. the BYD Explorer No.1 and BYD Changzhou are owned by Zodiac Maritime and chartered by/leased to BYD.

As to why a UK-based shipping company owned by a Israeli billionaire based in Monaco buys RoRo carriers from a Chinese shipyard, and then leases them back to a Chinese car maker, I don't know. But I'm also quite curious about the regulatory and financing-related incentives and money flows involved. I'm aware this kind of setup is called a "Non-operating owner" and is fairly common.
No more exporting of Murican culture and ideologies. Kinda cool on a second thought.
An introduction to Linux IPC techniques with practical examples
The Linux IPC feature provides the methods for multiple processes to exchange data and signals.

This guideline will introduce to you various IPC techniques, including File Locking, Pipe, Signal, Semaphore, Message Queue, Shared Memory, and Socket.

Each technique has its unique use cases and advantages.
Their workers work 12 hrs a day and only get 2 days off per month. It's the worst kind of modern slavery. I don't think they can produce even qualified cars under such pressure.
Never expected to see the EFF siding with a big tech company, and fighting for its right to profit from its users.

Never expected to see the EFF dismiss an argument for user's data privacy as "shaky".

Quite disappointed honestly.
No, I don’t think Meta hates such algorithms. It just couldn’t beat TikTok algorithm-wise.
FWIW, I find MermaidChart's sequence diagram editor better than the sequencediagram.org one!
our patent is here. https://patents.google.com/patent/US12136898B2/en?oq=18%2f51...
Nice!

Ages ago, a "Moonphase" font which I did was used in the typesetting of _Calendrical Tabulations_, so this sort of thing has always been near to my heart (I also used to use a "Phases of the Moon" application as a desktop background).
This is true. Many people I know have uninstalled TikTok because it is too addictive, but no one ever does that with YouTube shorts.
Where did I mention "non-binary people"? I specifically said women. Not a non-woman. Go call an actual Woman a "bro" and see how far you get with her.
No. The relationship between the US government and large US companies is nothing at all like the relationship between the Chinese government and large Chinese companies; the latter exist at the will of the CCP, and if you step out of line you will be shut down. Recently Jack Ma, who would be like Zuckerberg or Musk or Bezos in the US, got slapped down big time -- with significant repercussions for his companies -- recently because he made a comment critical of the government -- and what he said wasn't even bad (so probably it was some other reason that they came after him, but come after him they did).
I'd guess that it comes down to differences between the outcomes that either algorithm is trying to achieve. When westerners advertise they tend to provoke a sense of anxiety and then position the product such that it appears to relieve that anxiety. So we hate "the algorithm" because it's trying to make us uncomfortable without letting us leave. We should hate the algorithm.

I couldn't speak for Tiktok's aims, but they seem different enough that its algorithm doesn't chafe in the ways that we've come to expect.
According to Google, shard directly translates to el casco - helmet, shell, hoof, hulk, body, shard

But in English in this context I read it more like shard of glass, which Google translates as fragmento de vidrio
> No. Sign up and look at the current missions. A lot of what they want transcribed is totally straightforward to OCR --- not even LLM, OCR. Whatever's going on, and I'm not second-guessing them, a pretty big chunk of their problem appears to be well within the state of the art.

If it's that easy, then do it and be the hero they want.

Or maybe, just maybe, "a pretty big chunk of their problem appears to be well within the state of the art" is a sweeping generalization lacking understanding of the difficulties involved.
It is, but that's hardly unprecedented for this type of thing. In commercial porn the legal burden is on the producer to prove that their models were adults, not for prosecutors to prove that they were minors.
I don't understand, the goal is to pay as little taxes as possible. For an individual with a W2 the ways to do that are finite and easily prioritized. There are no choices to make other than commit.
Hmm, interesting: “North America” does make sense, and 4o also seems to transcribe it that way, but the handwriting looks like it says “South America” to me.
I believe eBay still runs on OpenStack, which as far as I know even has as ec2-compatible emulation layer https://docs.openstack.org/api-ref/ec2-api/#supported-featur...
Is spending 4 years of your life on education that will likely only be 10-20% applicable to your job any less bizarre? It's just another hoop employers want to see you capable of jumping.

If you ignore the syntax programming is just writing detailed instructions. Just because AI is able to translate English to code doesn't mean the 100s of decisions that need to be made go away. Someone still needs to write very detailed instructions even if they are in English and it sure isn't going to be the people sitting in meetings all day.

And let's pretend that I can now be 10x more productive with AI. Great, now I can ship 10x more features in the same timeframe and nothing changes - the development backlog is literally infinite. There are always more features or bugs to work on.
All large companies in China are ultimately controlled by the CCP. It's not a secret, but the de facto modus operandi.
The question is if the new law was necessary, if there is case that to be made TikTok has violated other existing law, but government merely has to prove so?

Was government trying to take a shortcut to a TikTok ban which could have been achieved through current law but which needs greater burden of proof/evidence from government.

Did SCOTUS go into the question of the need for such a law considering all other laws which might apply in the situation, just so that government can achieve the same ban without having to prove that TikTok has broken an applicable law.
Reminds me of this older story, of Harrison Okene, who was trapped in a capsized boat at the bottom of the ocean for 3 days: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/sep/26/i-survi...

video of his rescue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um1ym9u8XaA

Randomly, the next year, he rescued his friend when their car goes off a bridge into water. He later became a diver!
Federal Reserve withdraws from global regulatory climate change group
What a fascinatingly horrific story! They’re there illegally and the government was afraid to send someone down because they might kill them. Poverty so bad they’d rather risk this. And a government trying to prevent damage to their country, I imagine.

This did make me cancel my WSJ though. They made it hell to login (username field wouldn’t focus on Chrome on iOS). If it were easier or left me logged in I’d have kept paying I think.
"Grooming" in particular is the angle that Republicans want to use to illegalize any kind of gender-nonconforming behavior, up to and including desired states like "women wearing pants is crossdressing, and doing so around children is a felony".
As someone with terrible handwriting but decent cursive, i think cursive provides a better structure for achieving cleaner penmanship compared to non-cursive writing. My theory is that cursive’s consistency of soft, flowing loops rather than a mix of abrupt angles and disconnected lines helps create a more uniform result.

I also remember teachers telling you when writing cursive to seldom lift your hand from the page. I think that act of keeping your pen on the page for most of the writing process encourages a smoother and more natural flow, reducing the chance of jerky, uneven strokes
It might have been allowed under a bilateral cultural agreement between the US and the USSR.
the title page says 2017 if that matters to anyone: https://docs.jetstream-cloud.org/attachments/bgp-in-the-data...
I’m not advocating that we abandon democracy. To use your argument the other way around, why should we treat china as a democracy as it doesn’t pretend to be one? They don’t allow our businesses to operate on an equal footing there, so why afford them easy access to our markets?

In the case of any foreign ownership of mass media, it is trivial to weaponize that platform to wage asymmetric war against a political adversary by driving division in between the population through lies, half truths, and selected context. That’s why the US has laws to ban foreign ownership of broadcast media outlets.
Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment
State Farm is a mutual insurance company, so it's owned by its policy holders. It's not quite non-profit, but it's in the same ballpark. I've gotten money back from State Farm one year when they (we, I guess) made too much money.
BTW if you want to learn how to put stuff on the screen without any display server on modern Linux, the kmscube example project is a great starting point: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/kmscube
Go ahead and find something hard, and relate back the steps you took to find it.
Cool game, but it's an infinite arms race, plus bugs. It's important, as an individual, to approach every interface carefully, even one's you're already familiar with.
Y'all are both claiming that the major cities in their region are not representative because they are touristy? That's going to apply to most major cities. Tokyo not representative of Japan, New York not representative of USA, Dublin not representative of Ireland, etc.. But they are.
Mermaid CEO is probably the coolest title I've ever heard
A better analogy are TV stations, which cannot be owned by a foreign entity, and why Murdoch became a US citizen (or he would not have been able to own Fox).