skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Democrats loss fair and square. They should have spoken up a lot sooner. Everyone on the inside knew that Biden was incompetent. If they had a real primary would Kamala ever have been the nominee?

The Democrats lost strongholds like Miami of all places. The dumbest thing they did was go against the tech industry who have always been their biggest supporters. Would Republicans go after Evangelical Christians or the NRA?

They gave people no reason to support them.
Company banned user who fragrantly and continually violated TOS, regardless of who they were... the horror!
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TikTok is fun but it has degraded into a commercialized mess of copycats, IP theft and scams.

Like everything else that is commercialized on the internet. It has a lifespan of a few years before it becomes unusable to all but the meek and the ignorant.

A new service will emerge and replace it within months. The truth is their algorithm is about as complicated as a HS algebra test.
Thank you for this. I will almost certainly be deploying that.
> I believe that addresses the concern about this being a "Bill of Attainder".

The definition of "foreign adversary controlled application" in the bill is explicit in including either (a) this specific list of organizations, OR (b) other organization that might meet certain criteria later. I'm not sure how the existence of (b) addresses the concern that (a) amounts to a bill of attainder.
I think we are already cooked on unifying political effort and destabilization. We don’t need help from China on this.
Because they're trying to ignore the national security aspect to talk about tracking generically. Which is a valid argument and a good discussion to be had, but it's irrelevant in this context.

If the US was going to get into a legitimate hot "soldiers shooting at soldiers" type of war with any country, China is extremely high on that list. Maybe even #1. Pumping data on tens of millions of Americans directly into the CCP is bad. Putting a CCP-controlled algorithm in front of those tens of millions of Americans is so pants-on-head-retarded in that context it seems crazy to even try to talk about anything more general than that.
Or cue sports, like billiards, snooker or pool?
This was a unanimous decision. The only points where Sotomayor and Gorusch disagreed with the majority decision was whether TikTok's operation qualified under strict scrutiny for first amendment considerations, but both agreed that even under strict scrutiny, the law would have survived the challenge.

Much of the decision is indeed based around an analysis of the words written by the legislature.
The IRS shuts down all their computer systems for a long window around the holiday season as they transition from one tax year to the next; if you need help from the IRS in this time frame they just can't do it for this reason.
I'd be very surprised if anyone on TikTok is getting 10 minute videos on anything.

I'd still be surprised, but less so, I'd auto insurance adjusters are taking the time to make short form content aimed at the 40+ audience.
> Yes, you can be enjoined from using your own name.

This is not that case.

In popular media when "The Colbert Report" was broadcast, Steven Colbert was very open about the fact that he was playing a character on TV who happened to have the same name as him.

In the case of "The Tonight Show featuring Steven Colbert," he is not playing the character from the Colbert Report.

The very specific bit was from after the 2017 election when Trump was elected. Steven Colbert did a bit, in character as "Steven Colbert", with props from "The Colbert Report", and a guest appearance from Jon Stewart. (Because the main focus of "The Colbert Report" was to mock conservatives.) Otherwise, everything Steven Colbert (the person) does on "The Tonight Show featuring Steven Colbert" does not involve the "Steven Colbert" character from "The Colbert Report."
> The algorithm used in the US was apparently banned in China for being too addictive.

Source?
I could only find this.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/03/08/1069527/china-ti...
> Because carrots don't work. Carrots haven't worked in any country in the planet. Carrots haven't worked in Asian cultures, in Anglo cultures, in Scandinavian cultures.

> They should try a stick instead.

Assuming this isn't a joke, let's go back to the old ages of treating women like horses to be traded at marriage and then force them to pop babies.

As a budding politician, are you willing to accept the drop in GDP caused by a 50% drop in labor force participation rate? Are you willing to lose all the doctors, teachers, nurses in society that are disproportionately women? Are you willing to stand in front of the revolution it will cause to take away human freedoms?

Easy to force "others" to do things. Harder to accept responsibility of your own choices.
Quick search seems to reveal Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) coated glass is transparent enough to let through visible light, but blocks transmissions. One could theoretically build a car with that for the windows. The rest seems easier.
Umm good for Apple? They produce a service that people want. 3rd parties are making loads of money off of it. Its win win all around.
I share that concern. But I also recognize that passing an equivalent law for domestic social media networks would be considerably less likely to pass. Perfect as the enemy of good and all that.
French modernists were alarmed, inspired by newspaper's voracious dynamism
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Reminds me of one of NASA's reckless ideas, abandoned after Challenger in 1986, to put a liquid hydrogen stage inside the cargo bay of the Shuttle orbiter [0]. That would have likely leaked inside that confined volume, and could plausibly have exploded in a similar way as Starship.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle-Centaur

- "The astronauts considered the Shuttle-Centaur missions to be riskiest Space Shuttle missions yet,[85] referring to Centaur as the "Death Star".[86]"
The problem is framing information access as a threat. It is not and that's fundamentally not a First Amendment positive stance. If I want to gorge myself on Chinese propaganda it's my right as an American.
The SRBs could land in the ocean with parachutes and be recovered and refurbished. Shuttle wasn't economical as I mentioned, and definitely the space shuttle wasn't safe.

What you claimed was: "They have the first rocket ever made which can take payloads to orbit and then be reused." That was known as the space shuttle.

The ~$40 million tank was expendable so you are right it wasn't full reuse either. Starship jettisons parts too, I believe the hot staging ring? And the Falcon series throws away the whole upper stage.
But with the reversal of Chevron, this will hopefully be somewhat corrected.
> The algorithm used in the US was apparently banned in China for being too addictive.

Source?
There's a theory an economics that says that the more different prices a provider can charge the more of the surplus they capture (ie they can tilt that percentage towards the seller and away from the buyer).

Of course, if they're a monopoly provider and the buyer really needs it, they have to cough up. But generally there are substitute products. So the buyer would do well to look for an alternative that doesn't do differential pricing to capture more surplus for themselves.
> They're delivering profit

To who? Are there shareholders profiting? Employees on the take?

> Unlike the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, and the Mozilla open source project, founded by the now defunct Netscape Communications Corporation, the Mozilla Corporation is a taxable entity. The Mozilla Corporation reinvests all of its profits back into the Mozilla projects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation

It’s the same with Highmark, assuming there isn’t massive fraud happening.
> TikTok is perhaps the most impressively addictive social media app ever created.

What nonsense.

> The algorithm used in the US was apparently banned in China for being too addictive.

"Apparently"? 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.

> There's a certain historic symmetry with how opium was traditionally used in China, then Britain introduced stronger, more disruptive versions, forcing a stronger social reaction.

There is no historic symmetry. Unless china invades the US and forces americans to use tiktok. Like britain invaded china ( opium wars ) and forced opium on china's population.

What's with all the same propaganda in every tiktok/china related thread? The same talking points on every single thread for the past few years.
Moving the goalposts from destroyed to damaged gives different results.

The issue is most to the city only sustained water damage, a solid chunk of the city is above the water level and was absolutely fine. Moving outside the city most homes in Louisiana, Texas, Alabama etc don’t need to worry about flooding.
Canon can GTFO, this nonsense profiteering should be illegal, and probably will be eventually. It's hostile to customers and will be received poorly.
> they say it's a national security threat and vote to remove it?

From app stores and American hosting. Only if Bytedance doesn’t sell TikTok to e.g. a French or Indian or American owner. TikTok.com will still resolve (unless Bytedance blocks it).

China literally blocks information.
If buying a plastic toilet bowl cleaner, I don't care where it comes from. If buying a 5G network equipment, we do care. Most of the stuff we buy from China is plastic junk.
Crazy take,
More likely the US or it's allies goes to war and they try to play up sympathy with the target.

Nobody wants China to take Taiwan, that's not something its possible to convince people of
| meet the interests of the majority of people

I wonder how do you know "the interests of the majority of people" is to ban Tiktok...
That doesn't address my point, do you believe the law was applied inconsistently in this case?
Let's not forget insurance company greed. They are traded on the stock market and must provide returns to their investors. Let's not pretend they are not also part of the problem. Same with health insurance, it should never be for-profit, IMHO.

But I do agree they should be able to set the premiums, otherwise they just go bankrupt. People should not live in idiotically constructed neighborhoods in danger zones if they can't afford it. But they shouldn't be gouged.
China has 1.4 billion people. Americans can learn from them.
Yes! You can use this in the free mermaid playground: https://www.mermaidchart.com/play
Competition isn’t the secret sauce we pretend it is. There is power in non-competing and doing your own thing as well. You just have to know when to use either strategy.
> none of the parties you've listed have interests that are aligned with the CCP

The interest of the people is to have a peaceful coexistence and cooperation with China, while the interest of the military-industrial complex is to keep the tension high at all times so that more and more money is spent on armaments.

Who do you think the US government will favor in the end?

Who has more power to determine the result of the next elections, considering that to run a presidential campaign you need more than a billion dollars?

No citizen gains from war except the few that sell weapons and want to exploit other countries.
What does the cost look like for running OpenHands yourself? From your docs, it looks like you recommend Sonnet @ $3 / million tokens. But I could imagine this can add up quickly if you are sending large portions of the repository at a time as context.
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"the sauce" is for the audience to figure out. The sauce was disgusting to me, but that didn't matter to those 100m consumers.

And yes, this begs the question of "when does something become a matter of national security". 10 million? A million moving over before the day of reckoning isn't a small thing.
Do you think a Great Firewall of America is a good thing? Because that is what this ruling enables.
Crips?
Specifically, US citizens can see what's happening in Palestine
I don't think I said anything about your friend specifically.

do you believe the state of Israel has a right to exist and be safe from attack from its neighbours?
I'm surprised TikTok isn't trying to push a web version, hosted outside the USA as an alternative to shutting down. While it would be difficult for a new social media service to gain traction that way, TikTok has a huge established audience.
It's unfortunate that Schmidhuber has both made many seminal contributions to the field, but also engages in "retroactive flag planting" whereby he claims credit for any current successes that are remotely related to anything he has worked on, even if only in terms of hand-wavy problem approach rather than actually building upon his own work.

It's obvious that things like memory, on various timescales (incl. working), selective attention, surprise (i.e. prediction failure) as a learning/memorization signal are going to be part of any AGI solution, but the question is how do you combine and realize these functionalities into an actual cognitive architecture?

Schmidhuber (or in this case you, on his behalf!) effectively saying "I worked on that problem, years ago" is irrelevant. He also worked on LSTMs, which learned to memorize and forget, and the reference section of the "Titans" paper leads to many more recent attempts - different proposed architectures - addressing the same problems around (broadly speaking) learning how best to use working memory. Lots of people suggesting alternatives, but it would seem no compelling solution that has been published.

If it's one of the commercial frontier model labs that does discover the next piece of the architectural puzzle in moving beyond transformers towards AGI, I very much doubt they'll be in any hurry to publish it!
Is he bending the knee, or dropping the mask? The billionaire+ class rightly sees this as their big opportunity to seize power for the next several generations, removing worker and consumer protections and enshrining themselves as essential parts of the government.
So China blocking US social media is justified for the very same reasons?
After checking patchouli is indeed a south Asian plant, that is not endemic from the Mediterranean area, so it's even more fascinating than the wine
When designed for minimal load on the bottom chord, plate connected wood trusses cost significantly less. Not just for materials, but less to install because they weigh less.
Your post doesn't say what career you want or even that you want a particular career. Until you make that decision, I'm not sure it's possible to strategize, plan or brainstorm effectively.

I wrote the following on the assumption, which may be wrong, that you're interested in programming and want to do it professionally.

> How did you pinpoint new directions that matched your skills and interests?

I just chose to do what I enjoy, and I happen to enjoy solving problems and working with computers.

> What were the most effective ways to reposition your experience in a new field?

I didn't. Other people did that for me.

> Are there any resources or strategies you’d recommend for upskilling or building networks?

To be skeptical of anybody who tells you they know how to do this.

Bootcamps can be valuable -- or may have been some years ago. Not sure. The people I knew who did bootcamp courses had the outcomes I'd expect, namely that the smart, organized ones who were likable and devoid of personality disorders did well.

Be willing to take a bad job temporarily, or work as a contractor, just to get your foot in the door of the field.

> most advice has been starting at the bottom as an IT helpdesk worker and going from there

Be skeptical of anybody who tells you this, too. It may have been a viable path into the field in the 90s and 2000s. It may still be today, too, but I haven't seen any evidence that it is. I've never met anyone who has made this particular 'jump.' 99% of my team have CS degrees.
I remember telling my friend to start his brother on ApplesoftBasic because its batteries included, has no files or libraries, you just do some math and print and draw colored dots and lines and I trained two people like that on an Apple][ emulator with good results.

My friend was like "no way. im gonna start him with something simple like html."

Within seconds he realized he had to explain what paths were, and his brother struggled so much with them. My friend took for granted what he had already spent time learning. He was unable to guess what would be difficult to understand without priors.

Walled gardens like Processing seem to be better for education.
This is nonsense disinformation. Citations? This wasn't a forest fire so forest management isn't an issue. California makes massive investments in wild lands maintenance. It hasn't "stopped". Also most forest land in California is Federally owned. Perhaps our incoming president will invest some money in maintaining the peoples forests. This disaster deserves better responses.
Why is this true of Zuck but was not true of SBF?
> clout engineering

Back in my day they used to call this "resume-driven development"

(Sorry had to)
I see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action_problem

as what kills us the way an asteroid killed the dinosaurs. The smaller a group is (billionaires) the easier it is for them to organize. Near universal interests such as "opposition to political corruption" are quite difficult to address.
What viewpoint is your use of “da ccp” supposed to disparage?
That's really bad. But then again OpenAI was he coolest company for a year two and now it's facing multiple existential crises. Chances are that the company won't be around by 2030 or will be partially absorbed by Microsoft. My take is that GPT-5 will never come out if it ever does it will just be to mark the official downfall of the company because it will fail to live to the expectations and will drop the valuation of the company.

LLMs are truly amazing but I feel Sama has vastly oversold their potential (which he might have done based on the truly impressive progress that we have seen in the late 10s early 20s. But the tree's apple yield hasn't increased and watering more won't result in a higher yield.
He could be clearer about what he does. He did say "Last year a recruiter reached out to me about a work from home job writing enterprise APIs." He doesn't mention going from writing APIs to operations management. Which seems to be where the confusion is coming from.

Though that is my understanding of how you make a big career change. Do your current job in a company that does what you want to do. Then change roles rather than jump to the role you want straight. Kind of beat the chicken and egg problem, of needing experience to get a job and can't get experience without a job. A job that is adjacent to the one you want is "second hand" experience.
Congress isn't banning TikTok either. The law says US businesses can't work with TikTok. TokTok is choosing to shut down to try and force the issue politically. TikTok can choose stay running, the app will still be on your phone, no IP addresses are being blocked. The laws impact comes from choking off revenue and marketing (access to app stores).
Yes? There's already a cottage industry trying to do exactly that?

The problem is getting enough co2, as it's not particularly concentrated in our atmosphere. So the main ways they go about it are big fans, which is tons of energy, capturing at the source (in smokestacks, etc) which requires complex transport and management, or growing plants and pyrolysing the biomass.

The fundamental theory behind it is quite simple, it's really more of a logistics problem.
From your own link:

> However, the Court has emphasized that legislation does not violate the Bill of Attainder Clause simply because it places legal burdens on a specific individual or group.2 Rather, as discussed in more detail below, a bill of attainder must also inflict punishment.

Divestment isn't a punishment for a crime. Nobody is accusing Tik Tok of having committed a crime. Congress simply doesn't want a foreign power hostile to the U.S. to control a business that's popular in the U.S.
They're detecting Americans now somehow and setting the language to English by default; I didn't have to change the language. The translation looks pretty rushed but it's enough to navigate the app. The community guidelines are, notably, still only in Mandarin.

The posts are largely subtitled in both Chinese and English regardless of the spoken language. Comments are often in both languages, but if not you can click Translate.
> America is ridiculously pro free speech

Except for one group of people which have made any criticism of them carry legal consequences
Tiktok is actually surprisingly national in how it serves its content. If you're outside the US you don't see most American accounts except the ones that go very viral.

Edit: I should clarify. This might mean most content you see is English, if you're interested in English content. However it matters where the video was geographically uploaded from. If you upload a tiktok video and check the stats you'll see most views are from your region or country.

Tiktok shows videos locally, then regionally and then finally worldwide if yoo have a big hit.

It would be interesting to know what fraction of the English content people see is posted geographically from within America.
But this is worse than good: it's giving Facebook & X even more control over the discourse by removing a competitor.
Do you think TikToc is a net positive for the world or the US?
That’s at all, there are only ~380 million native English speakers.

Of that 1/3 (of the global population) a significant percentage have extremely limited skills, though the threshold is above knowing a few random words.
Because it's not the TWEAKING of the content tho tis the problem. It's the ability to manipulate individuals using fake or altered content.

Not sure why this is a hard one to understand but with the ability to individualized media, you can easily feed people propaganda and they'd never know. Add in AI and deep fakes, and you have the ability to manipulate the entire discourse in a matter of minutes.

How do you think Trump was elected? Do you really think the average 20 something would vote for a Republican, let alone a 78 year old charlatan? They were manipulated into the vote. And that is the most innocuous possible use of such a tech.
It's also a social coordination problem. For example a neighborhood where all the homes have to be fire resistant is going to fare a lot better, and probably be cheaper for the individual home owners to build and insure, than the one fire-resistant home in a neighborhood of tinder boxes. I don't think the prognosis is good for the U.S. in that regard. We have very little social cohesion and a lot of parties interested in making the situation worse for their own benefit.