skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reddit is absolutely terrible, it has an extreme far left bias and banned anyone with a different opinion.
Yes. They made it illegal even to stop buying their products!
Does anyone have any link to some docs explaining how it works?
Does China not have holidays? Us isn't great there with a total of 7 federally recognized holidays.
I'd wager it's the Sonos that is the problem. I have 0 issues with my Yamaha receivers and AirPlay, or my various branded soundbars.

Sonos never wanted to work with Apple, so I can understand why they'd never make it work.
> Genuinely - why do you care?

Because the article is clearly biased. If I wanted biased articles I could go anywhere else on internet.
> Whataboutism is not an effective rhetoric device, and is unlikely to win any arguments nor to convince anyone.

At the very least it would be nice to hear that hypocrisy runs deep for many many people without actual skin in the game whose ancestors have done the worst things imaginable. They have to give up on nothing, but can feel morally superior by helping 'end colonialism' by ending Israel.

As for Palestinian human rights - they can get the right of return to the Palestinian state without destroying the Jewish state. But no, that's not good enough, the only way to create 100% justice is to 100% eradicate Israel in your eyes and in most Palestinians eyes. This religious/ideological principle has brought tremendous suffering to the region with not much to show for it.
I kind of agree but my main language is actually C++ (I know, don't hate me) and, wherever C is a target I just use C++ :)
So what are the real dangers?

- Frying teenagers' brains with short attention deficit videos. That one seems logical, but others are doing it, too.

- Political indoctrination.

- Compromised politicians who can be blackmailed: The big one, but a certain island run by the daughter of a certain intelligence agency operative was largely ignored.

- Corporate espionage: Probably not happening on TikTok. Certainly happening in the EU using US products.
They do. I worked with someone who was impacted by a previous fire in Thousand Oaks.

Both of her neighbor's houses burned down, but hers survived. Newer build / renovation / luck.

But regardless, they had to tear it down as the smell of the smoke was inside of the insulation and you can not get that out ever.

Edit: houses, not hoses.
That's the way I like it for my children. Pardon the demagogue. The US, being the awful mess it is is still 100x better IMHO than the chinese government. It's the lesser evil kind of thing and honestly the reason I believe that democracy is 100% THE way to go. Things can only get US level nefarious with democracy. Far from perfect but much less evil.

The only problem with democracy is that it's so fragile and susceptible to bad non-democrat actors intervention, which is more of an awareness problem.
Thus why Facebook is blocked in China, but not in the EU, since we have a much less adversarial relationship with them.
This is ban is only because US has no control over the content and organic anti Israel content was not censored like it was in all other us social platforms.
Banning an app because of China's threat only makes you resemble China itself.
Who is thus letter really aimed at? It is too long and rambling to expect Trump, or his advisors, to read it. Is it just for the Nature readership? Trying to win political points back after campaigning for Harris? Seriously, what is it really for?
You could substitute anything you don't like (gambling, alcohol, gacha games, convenience foods, televised sports, reality TV) for "social media" in the above and it makes as much sense.
Oh, which group did you have in mind?
"Impactful" might be counting your chickens a little too early. Let's see if it has any impact. The next POTUS might just ignore it, or some other shenanigans might be used to work around whatever the imagined impact was.
"I like the idea of a meta-mechanism that learns to update an associative memory based on how surprising the data is."

Just pointing out that that idea was in some of Schmidhuber's earlier work.

> Schmidhuber (or in this case you, on his behalf!) effectively saying "I worked on that problem, years ago" is irrelevant.

Ok. People do read his work and get ideas from it even if this didn't necessarily. He had a lot of good stuff.

> but the question is how do you combine and realize these functionalities into an actual cognitive architecture?

I believe Schmidhuber gave one at the time?
I was really disappointed the day I discovered the videogames Ys and that they actually were not about the legend
Buy an older Apple TV, or an Amazon Fire. Connect them to your receiver and you're good to go. Or buy a newer Yamaha or Denon receiver and they'll be ready to go out of the box.
> Tiktok was forced to separate itself into a chinese version and the non-chinese version by the US because we didn't want "da ccp" controlling tiktok

No. TikTok was forced to put its data on American servers [1].

Douyin was launched in 2016 as musical.ly, and is unrelated to U.S. pressure. (EDIT: Douyin was launched in 2016, TikTok in 2017. Musical.ly was acquired in 2017 and merged into/basically became TikTok. TikTok has never been in China.)

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/tiktok-moves-us-user-data...
Your edit is correct. The kernel and initramfs are exploited unmodified to boot a tampered root filesystem, which allows userspace tools to extract data from the TPM, as the PCRs used to protect data like the LUKS passphrase have not changed.
Because people live in a world that is understandable through math and science. They don't need to specialize in those subjects, but as a human in reality they should familiarize themselves with reality.
c10k is about efficiently scheduling socket connections. it doesn’t make sense in this context nor is it the same as 10k rps.
Just launched a new docker image
I am a farmer, I grow tomatoes. The ones I sell to large markets, I use pesticides, herbicides, petrochemical fertilizers, etc etc. The ones I grow for my own consumption and for sale at the local market -- those get organic compost and no chemical treatments.
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So how big does Rednote need to be to "majority stakes in media companies in the US"? I don't like this ruling at all, but it feels very American to see another looming threat and say "well, I'll just wait until it gets too big to deal with it".
Well, I use C++ for that today and don't see much benefit in switching really. Switching to a memory-safe language is something that I can support and even sell to my team, but switching to just a "simpler" language I'm not sure...
Agreed but it has better sync tech than most others that I have tried. Yamaha's is buggy, Denon's buggy, but Apple TVs sync well in my multi level, multi system set up.
The free stuff is junk. Anything worthwhile you will need to pay for.

People don’t want to work for free, regardless of how little you value their time.

As always, you get what you pay for.
> US data brokers can still sell data to foreign companies (out of control of US and thus indirectly to Chinese companies).

This is false. It was made illegal in April, 2024: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7520
Source?

My anecdotal evidence of watching TikTok usage on others’ phones while riding subway systems in Paris suggest there’s plenty of English-language content out there.
You need to in a focused and meticulous way with strategic thinking, likely over some long-ish period of time, venn your skills fully. Use your research and planning to make the center point some highly valuable combination you suspect will be useful to future people to solve big problems that will be presented in society. As I think you've gathered, to do it right, you don't change careers, you change yourself and a career shift naturally happens, your job is to steer yourself to where you think one of the may pucks in flight are going.
The benefit of this approach is that you can directly test any function in the same scope without altering its visibility: it implicitly encourages you to test all functions (and design functions in a way they can be tested, as you are writing tests as you write code), not just those part of the public api contract.

Plus you can update tests, code, and comments in one go, with visibility into them at all times.
> there’s only 380 million native English speakers

Not how a lingua franca works.

There are 1.5 to 2 billion English speakers [1]. By far the largest number of people to speak a single language. Most of them are in America [2]. (If you count English learners, No. 2 is China [3].)

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/english-today/articl...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-speaking_world

[3] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236986651_The_stati...
Slippery slope fallacy. We aren’t banning all chinese companies just like they haven’t banned all US companies
Insurance is America’s best method of pricing externalities. If America is becoming uninsurable, maybe they should look into other methods of addressing or minimizing those externalities.

Like requiring buildings be built to a standard where they can survive normal weather events, not building in disaster prone areas, not building in sprawling huge developments that eat up a ton of natural space and create a huge urban woodland interface, and trying to slow the pace of climate change by not dumping so much co2 into the atmosphere.
Here's an example of a Boston area builder doing just that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f4nqf_HgnY
That's pretty cool. Wish PlantUML community would have something like it.
> The ideal world order isn't the one where Chinese can't find out what happened on Tiananmen square and Americans can't find out what happened in Gaza.

I don't see how this law banning a social media site brings us at all closer to a world where Americans cannot get access to accurate information about major global conflicts. This is so far down the imagined "slippery slope" as to be absurd. In fact, I'd strongly argue that this law would achieve the opposite. If you're relying on Tik Tok for accurate information like this, then you are opening yourself to echo chambers, biased takes, and outright propaganda. There are many excellent sources out there in America freely available and easily accessible.
There's no standard and even moving things from one 3D program to another can be a painful process if someone else didn't already build in some sort of conversation.
This isn't data rights though, this is that the same law that prohibits people from hacking into your computer is applicable to people doing other things with it in unpermitted ways.

Basically, a program that exfiltrates data without permission is treated no different from a rootkit, legally.
Correct! Thanks for correcting
I work from the basic principle that a foreign, government-controlled adversary having control over discourse is worse than a domestic company having the same, despite strongly disliking both.

Just at a base level, Facebook, X, etc are staffed by Americans who have a vested interest in the country remaining functional. The CEOs of those companies are, though it's very unlikely, arrestable. Can't say the same for TikTok.
Would various decompression bombs work to increase the load?
What ISPs blocks? American ISPs don't block anything. The US government prefers to seize domains and hosting.

We're not (yet) like the UK or EU where rights holders can click a button and have IPs blocked without due process.
It's common for the house buyer to want extra insurance (e.g. contents) whereas the bank is only interested in the house as a sellable structure, so it makes sense for the buyer to take on the insurance requirement (it's also less paperwork for the bank).
Im not so confident about that. Attenuating isolationist policy in the face of Taiwan is the easiest, but I can see anti-ROC propaganda in the mix.
> Yes, you can create an RSS feed from a Youtube Channel. You can can create an RSS feed from Reddit.

You don't have to create anything. YouTube and Reddit have never stopped publishing RSS feeds. I've personally been using RSS continuously for both sites without any issues for the past 15 years.

Both sites adhere to the standard link tag structure for declaring feed URLs in the headers of applicable pages. You can use a browser extension like 'Get RSS Feed URL' (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/get-rss-feed-url/kf...) to easily expose the feeds associated with a page you're visiting without having to look for them in the page source.

I personally have all of my feed subscriptions -- blogs, podcasts, aggregators (including HN), YouTube channels, subreddits, etc. -- synchronized via TT-RSS on my VPS. I then use Liferea as my client (https://lzone.de/liferea), pulling from TT-RSS, for a high-quality, no-nonsense reading experience on the desktop.
This would be a good option provided the source is stereo and either the speakers are active or the amplifier has a processor loop.
My girlfriend would watch bob ross to go to sleep to when she was younger
Obviously insurance companies, and i of course, would prefer if nobody anywhere ever had accidents or got sick etc

And i'd love it every lottery ticket, and horse i ever bet on was a winner

Feels like insurance companies just don't want to do their job.

They're getting paid to take someone's risk and then refusing to accept it.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/266808/the-most-spoken-l...
That makes sense.

Do you have a way to limit how much space you use on the user’s device? I hate the Mac/iOS Mail apps which I’m using now because they download gigabytes and gigabytes of emails from forever ago and slurp up all my disk space. Especially with an offline first app, that would be a concern for me.
Do any of the web-based readers offer discovery based on matching your RSS list to other users' lists? Mine (Feedbin) doesn't, but I'd like it as an opt-in option.
I wonder about that: wouldn't the law force internet providers to blanket block any and all web versions of TikTok?
This is arguing technical definitions. As of this week, foreign intelligence agencies transfers money that eventually ends up at Facebook, and they get the data in return.

They can claim this is not a sale if they want, but it’s still a sale. Drug dealers make similar arguments about similar shell games where you hand a random dude some cash, then later some other random dude drops a bag on the ground and you pick it up.

Since Facebook was first caught doing this during the Obama administration, it’s hard to argue they are not intentionally selling the data at this point.
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First, I still don't think the ban will actually happen. The current administration will punt the issue to the next and Trump has already signaled he wants to save Tiktok, whatever that means. That might be by anointing a buyer that he personally is an investor in. Tiktok may choose to still shutter in the US rather than being forcibly sold.

But there's a biger issue than loss of American content should this come to pass: the loss os American ad revenue for the platform and creators. A lot of people create content aimed at Americans because an American audience is lucrative for ad revenue. If that goes away, what does that do to the financial viability of the platform?
Interesting that most of this "gen alpha" slang are phrases used by Black Americans for years
The jihad driver chooses usually a person at random. If it ran over some army general who led an attack in Iraq would it still be terrorism? Because that's the difference here.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/05/business/media/tiktok-alg...

Like Facebook, the "algorithm" is nothing special. TikTok made some smart design decisions that collect more interaction data that legacy social sites like Instagram and YouTube. They use that data to effectively recommend content.
I agree. It's not possible to do.

But that being said, if the AppStore were somehow spun off into a separate company, I think their costs would be less than 10% or even 5% of the cut that Apple takes from the AppStore sales. I'm sure I could run it at those costs.

Still, it's fair for Apple to want the cut they take from the App store revenues. I totally get their position. They built a great product and platform. They deserve to reap the rewards.
Given the controversy over this, they clearly do not represent "the people". I think that's a big part of the issue.
You don't deserve the downvotes from the immature peeps around here. Your question is 100% valid.

I would lean for the latter, the simple explanation may be that people just prefer local content.
The ones you can't boycott, divest, or sanction and hold a public sector job in many states.
That's just data. "Legacy data" was used here to suggest a legacy database/storage system.
The reality is that the situation is not due to an insurmountable technical problem but due to a combination of lack of funds / prioritization / motivation / knowledge.
> honestly, one thing I like about this conflict is that euphamistic comments like this don't get you banned anymore.

What? It's more likely to get you banned. Not only that, it gets minority and female college presidents fired. Something unthinkable prior to this "conflict".

All one can do is push back against the propaganda and censorship.
What I love is that apparently tons of Americans are signing up for a different Chinese social video app whose name is being translated as “Red Note”. I would love if the end result of this was another several years of congressional drama about a different Chinese app.
Being fluent is a different question, you can dream in English without it being your native language.

first language = A first language (L1), native language, native tongue, or mother tongue is the first language a person has been exposed to from birth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_language
This hasn't been my experience, using TikTok from Switzerland, I almost exclusively see English language, with a focus on my interests
I don't understand when the United States wasn't run by extremely rich people
Everyone has been in denial - this was always the most likely outcome.
"We're not banning your business, we're just cutting the water and power and changing the locks oh and also we burned down the entire building and salted the earth so nothing will ever grow again."
So they did it for the fun of it? Because "minor" is still not zero.
I understand your discussion points, I just disagree with them. If we were talking about banning all social media, I think you'd be able to make a stronger 1st Amendment case.

Instead, we've passed a law through Congress to restrict a foreign business from operating in the United States. We do this all the time, and have from the start of our history. Such actions were supported by the founders and are legally consistent. Just because TikTok allows people to share memes better doesn't make it a free speech platform. It's just some company and we can choose to allow it to operate here or not as a society.
This is a problem with 'prosumer' gear in general. If camera manufactures bought a transferable commercial license for everything in it, it would be too expense for consumer use, but the people licensing IP to them want a piece if you are making money with it.

Similar to software that is free or low cost for non-commercial use only, even with the same functionality.

The good news is typically nobody will chase you down on this unless you are making real money. The bad news is, once you are, they will.
> That same year, Douyin imposed a 40-minute daily limit for users under 14. Last year, Chinese regulators introduced a rule that would limit children under age 18 to two hours of smartphone screen time each day.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/tiktok-china/story?id=108111...
Possibly, bisque and china dolls were often imported from Germany.
I have fixed enough (dynamic) linker issues for this lifetime and probably several more. I think I'll let the kids take these. Godspeed.
You're right, though it's effectively a ban on the iPhone because the only way to get apps is through the Apple Store; but yes, it's not like the app itself will stop working, or there will be some IP block, by order of Congress.
Not sure if this is accurate. It seems they’re refusing to take the risk.
Yes, in some cases. Grindr is the most obvious one.
it hasn't been working for half an hour
Yes Hamas exists to remove the foreign attackers. That’s why the world supports them. Thanks.
> The hard part is de-googling.

But it's worth the effort.
Isn't that the same argument used by China for why the GFW is needed? The US allows all sorts of things that can be argued as net negative (e.g. smoking).
> Geopolitics aside, I think everyone is kind of aware that social media is a vice, and like it or not, this could just be the beginning of our society beginning to scrutinize these platforms.

Come on. We all know that TikTok was banned because the US regime couldn't control it.

If they really wanted to ban vice, they would have banned Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and their kin a long ago.
> Including people who speak English as a second language, estimates of the total number of Anglophones vary from 1.5 billion to 2 billion

wikipedia. You are a bit off...

As for native you have US+UK+Canada+Australia+NZ+Ireland. So more then your 380M.
We seem to be passing the point where we discover new things that software can do and entering a phase where development is primarily going to be about gatekeeping, paywalling and eliminating capabilities. After all, why would you sell something when you can sell a subscription to that something and get paid every month? Even better, why not sell the thing and then rent the ability to use the thing?
For those who want to try it out, you can also access these sounds in a somewhat easier way by using an NES audio emulator in your favorite DAW, or by using one of the various tracker programs:

https://www.mattmontag.com/projects-page/nintendo-vst

http://famitracker.com
I don't know a single person outside the tech bubble who sees "coding" as something prestigious
If you think the US is immune to authoritarianism...
I feel like the protest move to RedNote will be short lived. The censorship there is draconian - if you say even the slightest thing that offends the CCP on red note, you get banned. See this discussion on the subreddit for TikTok (https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTok/comments/1i2wll3/how_to_not_...).

Something I read that’s interesting - RedNote changed the English name to cover their actual name - the Chinese name is little red book, as in the red book of Mao (not sure if true).
I truly hope that if you ever design a rocket yourself, that you will test it. I have no idea why you'd think testing is a terrible thing to do if it has to do with rockets.
Dang, I got to fine-tune my AI :'D
TikTok itself is banned in mainland china. Do you need much more of a source?

Yes, you could say Douyin is available in place of TikTok, but have you asked yourself why they have 2 separate apps? One for mainland China, and another for everyone else?

Another source (see the section "How is Douyin different from TikTok?"): https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/business/china-tiktok-dou...
>This was a black swan event that will require a thoughtful response.

Taleb would have a field day with this one. Broadly, I think a big part of the argument is driven by the assumption that the area will be rebuilt, despite being a known fire risk.
I don't have Chinese friends or use TikTok personally, I was just addressing the stupid question
> TikTok is perhaps the most impressively addictive gambling app ever created.

> Geopolitics aside, I think everyone is kind of aware that gambling is a vice, and like it or not, this could just be the beginning of our society beginning to scrutinize these platforms.

Not really. TikTok isn't a gambling app.