skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Isn't this true for literally all problems in a democracy? Do you have a better solution?

Create a level playing field where money does not amplify speech. Our existing democracy is basically a spending contest with a very small component of eloquently persuading voters to vote against their own interest. The richest of the rich have voices and can manipulate the platforms on which others express their voices, and so those rich people either pick the victors or become them.

For democracy to survive we have to get past the idea that a "free market" approach to speech leads to democratic outcomes. It doesn't, it leads to plutocratic outcomes, which is painfully obvious on both sides of the aisle right now. Americans haven't had a true representative of the people in generations.
It's common knowledge that the CCP has a lot of control over various companies registered there: https://sccei.fsi.stanford.edu/china-briefs/reassessing-role...

The above is based on a linked research paper but the numbers may actually be much higher as it can't really account for proxy ownership, various CCP committees influencing these companies, state banks providing loans only for companies that play ball, etc.
Tesla is quite notable as the only foreign automaker which China has allowed to operate independently in China. All of the rest of them were forced to joint venture with 51%+ control being handed over to a Chinese domestic company. So, really it's pretty surprising that they haven't done that even before Musk owned X.

But regardless, there is a huge difference between a request and actually having managerial authority -- the most obvious being that someone with managerial authority can simply do whatever they want without trying to compel someone else. Also, X, being subject to US law, must comply with that no matter what consequences Musk is threatened with. So, any threats may have limits in what they can practically accomplish.
The recommendation engine is at least partially learned so it’s fairly likely that it’s the latter
Why the hostility? We are discussing the history of science in the early 20th century, not a property dispute about your house.
The ban is not rooted in the concept ByteDance has a minority of investors who are Chinese citizens so any comparisons framed around that concept will not change the analysis. The reason for the ban, agree with it or not, is the perceived control and data sharing with the Chinese government made possible by many things (mainly that they are HQ'd in that government's jurisdiction and then have all of these other potentially concerning details, not that they just have one of these other details).

If the NYT were seen as being under significant control of and risking sharing too much user data with the Chinese government then it would indeed make sense to apply the same ban.

Personally, I'm still on the fence about the ban. On one hand having asymmetry in one side banning such things and the other not is going to be problematic. On the other the inherent problems of banning companies by law. Such things work out in other areas... but will it work out in this specific type of example? Dunno, not 100% convinced either way.
I think it is often the case that the justices' opinions are already established, based on their lines of questioning.

In the way that Gorsuch wrote a separate concurrence, I expected Alito or Thomas to want to broadcast a particular message to their audience.
Why is there a specific list? Why don't we just let Medicare negotiate.
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The US is trying to squeeze the Danes to get hold of Greenland.
That will never work. The TikTok audience doesn’t have the attention span to support such long form content.
presumably it's because the stressors of poverty forces one to think in the short-term, while Chess incentivizes long-term strategy.

If you learn not to take a pawn because 5 moves later you'll lose a bishop, maybe you won't take on credit card debt when 5 months later you owe 10% more in interest.
rumors are that XHS wont region split, in which case this is setting up to a monumental event in the evolution and future of the internet. words can't really describe how big of a decision this is going to be.
That makes me curious about the details; it's worth noting that the Soviet Embassy's physical location would be Soviet sovereign land that is licensed to them by the US so long as they are allowed to maintain an embassy presence. If people go onto the embassy to buy the magazine, they are literally traveling to a foreign country to buy it.
Good thing I talk to my customers all the time!

...via email. :)
No I didn't. I separated my thoughts in two paragraphs, the first doesn't have anything to do with the articles, it was just about the general use case for ZFS, which is using it with redundant hardware. I also conflated the L2ARC with metadata device, yes. The point about the second paragraph was that the using a much faster device just on one of the comparisons doesn't seem fair to me. Of course, if you had a 1TB ZFS HDD and 1TB of RAM as ARC the "HDD" would be the fastest on earth, lol.

About the inherent advantages of ZFS like send/recv, I have nothing to say. I know how good they are. It's one reason I use ZFS.

> If you do proper testing, you will find ZFS does beat XFS if you scale it. Its L2ARC devices are able to improve IOPS of storage cheaply, which XFS cannot do.

What does proper testing here mean? And what does "if you scale it" mean? Genuinely. From my basic testing and what I've got from online benchmarks, ZFS tends to be a bit slower than XFS in general. Of course, my testing is not thorough because there are many things to tune and documentation is scattered around and sometimes conflicting. What would you say is a configuration where ZFS will beat XFS on flash? I have 4x Intel U.2 drives with 2x P5800X empty as can be, I could test on them right now. I wanna make clear, that I'm not saying it's 100% impossible ZFS beats XFS, just that I find it very unlikely.

Edit: P4800x, actually. The flash disk are D5-P5530.
> "The government needs to just stay out of it."

0) Elect people who claim they can make the voters' existing lifestyle affordable.

I agree that sometimes nothing or not very much is the best thing for the government to do, but a crisis is a very bad time to say that, because the other side will just claim they will fix things.

After all, deflation is not good, but claiming that you will bring down grocery prices does seem effective.
> There is a "TikTok cannot be controlled by the CCP" law

It’s also not a ban on the content. It’s a ban on hosting and the App Store. TikTok.com can still legally resolve to the same content.
Some thoughts based on my anecdotal experience — but it depends on the price you are willing to pay.

You can get quite good webcams for $100–300 (from Insta360, Obsbot, Logitech maybe …) which work out of the box with USB-C and have mostly okayish software that supports changing things like brightness, white balance, etc.
These however still have small sensors and cannot achieve a good shallow depth-of-field (bokeh). Running them at higher sensitivity (ISO), e.g. in darker environments, inevitably causes noise.
But if you just want to participate in meetings, it does not matter.
I had a Logitech StreamCam and upgraded to an Insta360 Link 2C, which is definitely much better but still not on-par with a proper camera. You should at least get a good keylight or ring light.

The next step up would be mirrorless cameras with built-in or interchangeable lenses made for vlogging, which also can be used like a webcam. They have much bigger sensors and better image quality at a pricing point of $400-1000, e.g. Sony ZV-E10 II, Fuji X-M5, Canon EOS M50 Mark II, … most of them claim webcam support with the provided software. Fuji's software is bad though, so I wouldn't recommend it on a Mac. I can't talk about the other ones.
The benefit is that they also have a flip screen that you can use for better framing. They all support webcam modes.

If you have a camera that has an HDMI output and that outputs a clean HDMI signal (without any overlays), you can also buy an HDMI USB capture device and feed that into OBS, which allows you to set up a virtual webcam.
There are cheap no-name USB capture cards that produce mediocre images, and more top-of-the line ones like the Elgato Cam Link.
This should be the most device-independent variant where you're also not dependent on any vendor's proprietary software.
It would likely lay bare just how much any of the TikTok detractors actually cared about privacy/security concerns versus cultural ones.
That’s what the China hawks want you to believe, it’s not just a lie but a shameful, war mongering lie. And they will increasingly use that lie to shut people up, shut apps down, until we have no choice but to believe that the Chinese want us dead and we them. It’s textbook propaganda and you’re spreading it.

China and the US have been in a massively successful, mutually beneficial global economic partnership for decades. Zero sum my ass. Take a peace pipe, make friends not war.
I use an airtag to find my street-parked 2014 Prius. Super happy with this solution.
Yeah, if "widely used" means that multiple nations and cultures use the service, then they are not widely used.
> 1) Influence- TikTok gives the CCP significant direct influence over the views of Americans.

There is no credible argument that the CCP doesn't directly control the alg as it's actively being used for just that in tawain/etc.

Does the US really want a (hostile?) foreign govt to have clear direct access to influence 170m americans, an entire generation - completely unfettered? Incredible national security implications. Bot farms can influence X/Meta/etc, but they can be at least be fought. TikTok itself is the influence engine as currently constructed.
Didn‘t know about this project - you just have to love the open source concept
RedNote was #1 on the App Store download list for a couple of days.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/chinese-app-rednote-hits-1-i...
Adam is a popular culture podcaster. I watched the video and it's pretty vapid. He cites industry sponsored research, which I do not trust by definition.

The video I linked is a presentation from a brilliant researcher that's spent his life working on the questions about lineolic acid. You should watch the video. It's good.
To be punk rock. The main reason I see thrown around is most younger users don't care if China has their user data and understand that the government is banning it for their own selfish reasons (money).
Are people who pay for their own prescriptions able to purchase them at these Medicare-negotiated prices?
A and B are both close enough to the truth to indicate a profit margin of around 70%. There is room to quibble over the last few percent, no room to deny a hefty profit margin, hence It won't matter if they get it a few percent too low since actual profits will be far up in the double digits region.
No idea in what field/application this is useful but it's really cool and impressive nonetheless
If the author sees this: with yt-dlp you can download lower quality versions of videos to save bandwidth, like so:

yt-dlp -f "bv[height<=720]" <url>

(where <url> is your URL or video ID)

That will download up to 720p quality.
I jumped the other way round aged 40 from non-tech into tech. I went from being a UK merchant ship captain to working as a software developer. I did it over a couple of years by increasing my knowledge in my spare time as a hobbyist until I felt I was at least good enough to be employed in a dev role. I should mention that this was back around the millennium, when web dev was still a wide-open and rapidly changing field.

The obvious big issue is maintaining roughly the same salary level, but you’d be surprised how much you can tighten your belt if a making a big jump down. A non-obvious negative is getting used to loss of status. That hurt a bit initially, but I soon found that the novelty of re-inventing myself in a new domain was massively invigorating, plus I was suddenly working with very different (and much younger) colleagues. So I decided to shut up about the old job from day one and never mentioned it unless asked (no-one cared anyway).

But be aware of turning a hobby into a job though. I got into dev as just a hobby initially. Then it became a paying part-time gig when on leave, which eventually lead to a job offer via someone I knew in the business. You’ll soon find that doing your hobby for a living cools your enthusiasm for your hobby, especially when dealing with difficult customers, bosses, or ridiculous deadlines. That said, I’m really pleased I made the jump and don’t ever have to wonder “what if?”.
Compared to Tiktok with ~100 million American users, VK is essentially irrelevant and not even worth wasting court time about.
Exactly, even when banned in the US, TikTok (though a lot less valuable business) can still be used to do influence outside the US.

If it was a business they would have sold it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly57kxkmrxo

Apparently Trump did well on tiktok during the last election, and ByteDance (and everyone else) knows that Trump plays favorites.
Why don't insurance companies mandate significant fire abatement in new builds to be insurable? While it may not be possible to save every house, I wonder how many houses could have been saved with a thought behind "how can we minimize damage in a wildfire scenario"
That's a fair point. I personally disagreed with some of the points brought up in the podcast, and I completely see what you mean about the "conspiratorial" tone. What I still think is worth discussing (albeit a bit late now) is the scope and lack of checks on the powers granted.
As do countries on every continent.

But China is a bit different in that they don't simply have the authority to request data, they have the authority to direct management of the company.
The sunk cost fallacy in this case would've prevented the switch from native. And what's worse is they've thought about user experience, "just" set the bar for it too low
> from professional newscasters rather than employees

Then it's not relevant.
Didn't know about NZ, but it doesn't surprise me. Seems like we mostly agree.

Another fun trap I've seen on the enterprise side is that pinging different towers can have different charges. Highest I've seen was $15 per ping.
I understand that those drugs are very useful, but in a way it feels for me like ancient Rome with its orgies and vomit inducing so they can eat more. At least looking at USA from Europe. The problem of sugar content, dietary choices and portion sizes remains. It is similar to gas guzzling cars.

Sorry if it seems not empathic enough, that was not my intention. I know that the use of such drugs may be medically necessary.

Edit:
To serious answers: I was wrong, I stay corrected.
Eh, it's hardly seamless, and double clicking is extremely uncommon on the web so that would be a big red flag.
TikTok is surprisingly national at the surface level, but it is all coordinated back with the parent China based entities (ByteDance, Douyin, and the CCP), so that even if it is national, it upholds China’s national interests. See the story at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42739855 for more details. But basically, TikTok executives had to agree to let ByteDance monitor their personal devices, swear oaths to uphold various goals of the CCP (“national unity” “socialism” etc), report to both a US-based manager and a China-based manager, uphold the CCP’s moderation/censorship scheme, and so on. It is REALLY aggressive and unethical, but also reveals how subtly manipulative the entire system of TikTok is.
I'm saying the government should focus on regaining the trust of its citizens, rather than censoring dangerous opinions.

That trust wasn't lost because of foreign propaganda, but because of the government own lies.
> That's just not true. What even makes you think that?

Well, apart from the fact that he very obviously has a male body, the video title itself indicates this.

> There's no reason to be impolite. Wearing feminine clothing is not a requirement to be a woman.

Then why did you say that he "very clearly presents" himself "as a woman"? What exactly were you basing that on?

It's very clear that he presents himself as a man who calls himself a woman.

> And for the love of god you don't needlessly exclude people.

Agreed. Excluding men like this from women's and girls' spaces is absolutely needed to ensure that they still remain women's and girls' spaces.

The problem is that far too many of these men have no respect for boundaries, and will turn up to venues like support groups for mothers and demand entry.
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In Australia, this is handled at the building code level, as well.
Doesn't the right to bear arms apply only to citizens too?
Apparently currently they’re posting tons of 3d printed gun content. People are weird.
European Union orders X to hand over algorithm documents
> People (like you) hate him because he's a pathological truth teller.

> He can't help but speak opinions that people don't want voiced.

That's not a "truth teller", that's a shitposter, at best.
My guess is that maybe the calendar issue is timezone related?!? That is where I'd start. I am in US central time.
Isn't Red Note planning to segregate based on IP to prevent US Influence from those TikTok refugees? The original CN users aren't exactly happy with the newcomers either, and the TikTok refugees themselves are getting quite a culture shock with regards to cultural attitudes to LGBQT or even basic "leftist" activism like strikes and collective bargaining

Anyways, those alternatives are not so algorithmically driven, and especially if it's forcing actual user interaction and discussion that certainly would be good for Americans to understand what the mainland Chinese are really thinking and saying domestically. Because if you go to the actual main discussion forums like Weibo, oh boy it's not going to be pretty.
It's not like the market isn't aware of this. This kind of motivates middleware more generally, so that the design and functionality of custom services can be paid due care.
> It’s very telling that TikTok would shutdown instead of divest.

TBF; The CCP passed laws that likely make it illegal for TikTok to sell/export that kind of information (the algo). They can't divest without also neutering the sticking power of the service.
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Unfortunately, that's all the Biden administration could get written into law. The Big Pharma lobby is too strong and definitely battled to keep this list as small as possible.
> first amendment doesn't apply here

It absolutely does. (It’s in the opinion.)

It just isn’t the Wild Draw 4 some people imagine it to be. You can’t commit fraud or libel or false advertising and claim First Amendment protection. Similarly, there are levels of scrutiny when the government claims national security to shut down a media platform.
In ye olden days, people who were online had a stable income from a cushy job or retirement, with ample of free time and energy to do a bit of blogging.

In today's world of global economic depression, everybody is fucking bloodshot eyed desperate to make enough money to have a roof over their head. So if they have time and energy to make a quality blog, it means they are scraping by financially and need to monetize ASAP. And if they are employed it means they don't have the time or energy left when they're at home to make a quality blog.
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Re. copycats -- VK was also a blatant copycat of Facebook, down to copy-pasted CSS styles.
Who cares if they're native English speakers or not, as long as they can converse in the language?
The double negative is incorrect, but perhaps the negative "opt out" is being a bit obfuscated by the "wish".

It's been common for these types of questions to say something like "I wish to receive exclusive offers..."

So this phrasing is a little bit tricky in that if someone doesn't read it carefully they will think checking the box is saying yes to marketing spam, when in reality it's the opposite.
Competition is good for innovation and choice is good for everyone. Does it need to be special?
not necessarily.

the Midwest, for example, is roughly the land area and population of France. In fact, the TGV network overlays pretty well onto it https://preview.redd.it/8g59yft1lfs61.jpg?auto=webp&s=6ef0f3...

The Northeast is simply the most profitable because it already had the most scheduled services, the highest speed services, and the most Amtrak-owned track when it started out. But most of the country east of the Mississippi and a few corridors west of it are pretty good candidates for decent, profitable rail service.
My point was that SCOTUS didn't review whether there was a compelling national security interest or not – they didn't review any of the classified material, etc. SCOTUS didn't consider whether or not it was good or meaningful policy, they simply accepted the national security argument which more-or-less required them to uphold the DC court's application of intermediate scrutiny.
No one is asking them to sell the entire company. Just the US arm.

Not sure that changes much but you seem to be talking about non US users, which wouldn't fall under this ruling.
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Thank you for a comprehensive answer, I appreciate the time you put into it.
> Nue's Markdown implementation
> MDX

The problem with Markdown is there is no standard.
Tornadoes are quite a bit less common outside of North America, and especially the US. Some of that comes down to the absence of people in the places where tornadoes occur, so there's no one there to report them.

The Tornado Archive (https://tornadoarchive.com/) has a pretty well executed map to illustrate that. They report that between 2011 and 2021 (just the dates I punched in, so its possible the actual ratio is a bit different from that), the world saw ~20,000 reported tornadoes. North America reported 12,000 of them.

So its not just that Americans maybe don't know how to build tornado resistant structures. Its that the US and Canada's per-capita tornado rate is quite a bit higher than the rest of the world.