skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed that there's always a risk that something like this sets a precedent for abuse of power to control information by the US government. And we know that the US gov is not beyond spying on its citizens (Snowden, NSA). However, there are still fairly robust safeguards in place in the US by virtual of the political structure, to make this much less likely to happen. Those same safeguards make it unlikely that while Trump and Elon would almost certainly exercise the degree of control that Xi has if they could, they are prevented from the worst by the structure in place.

The problem in China is that there weren't strong safeguards to prevent a totalitarian control (CCP is supposed to be democratic within itself in that leaders are elected, though it's all restricted to party members, of course), and when Xi came into power he was able, within a few years, to sweep aside all opposition, primarily through "anti-corruption campaigns". So he now has a degree of control and power that would be a wet dream for Trump. (And you should see the level of adulation in the newspapers there.)

Now in the US we have a separate problem, and that is we have a system where unelected people like Elon and Zuckerberg, Murdoch, etc., exercise a tremendous amount of influence over the population through their policies and who are pursuing a marriage between authoritarian politics and big business (by the way, there's a term for this, it's called "fascism"). That is a serious problem -- but it's separate from the TikTok issue and shouldn't be used to discount the dangers of the CCP having control over a highly popular social network in the US.
> I’m sure when homes are rebuilt the majority will not be fire resistant

They are required to be: https://heatmap.news/climate/california-wildfire-building-co...

The problem is that in many desirable places to live in California, many houses are very old and are not compliant with the latest building codes.
Yes, they can. This is another reason for having closed source blobs running as root under Linux/Android to manage all communication.

You cannot fight for this, unless you design both the communication hardware and its firmware and you get away from Google Play.
Wait...you're telling me I can't charm a cute girl with the Motorola Xoom and its amazing capability of being able to play a Youtube video in full screen?

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgOX9mb7V4o

PS: In reality the stuttering masses were probably using a respectable device that actually provided long term value (and probably had longer OS support than the Xoom haha).
I think they just mean fully shut down in the US, as opposed to trying to serve existing US users as best they can.
That feels more like bashing Redux or one of the state management libraries. That's where I've seen a lot of complexity sneak in.
The governments know this and yet set the insurance premium price ceilings anyways.

At some point you have to consider that as indistinguishable from having a policy to drive people out: deny them insurance, wait for natural disaster, redevelop the now-very-cheap land however the government and its developer friends wants. Whether such a policy is adopted on purpose may not be possible to tell. You'll get called a conspiracist if you even hint that you wonder about it. But you know these people know -it's hard to believe that they don't- what happens when you set price ceilings.
Right?

I'm a Canadian. Almost every major Canadian newspaper is owned by American ideologically-conservative hedge funds, the only variance is how activist they are in their ownership. Our social media (like everyone's) is owned by Americans, men who are now kowtowing to Trump.

And meanwhile, Trump is now incessantly talking about annexing our country. The Premier of Alberta is receptive to the idea.

So, how should a Canadian federal government responsibly react to that?
This is the reason right here. If TikTok was owned by North Korea, this wouldn't be controversial.
Actually, they kind of do.

> US bans sale of Huawei, ZTE tech amid security fears

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63764450

This was an FCC rule
I’m happy you’re taking it in the spirit intended :) it’s a trap I frankly despise but that’s cos I’m old and bitter.

The problem being addressed - if you’ll forgive the pun - is that you’re not storing someone’s current address; what you have is their _most recently known to us_ address, which obvs over time can become a problem, least of all if you’re wasting time and money sending undeliverable post. (I have a vague memory of Royal Mail fining bulk delivery users for not pre-screening, not sure if that was a particularly dull dream or not tho).

The thing it’s important to keep in mind is - there is no single nor centrally-held repository of addresses within the UK. I don’t mean about oh mr so-and-so lives at 11 acacia avenue. I mean for just the addresses themselves.

Throw in the mad mixture of Scotland having a separate national statistics agency that’s independent of the ONS, plus Northern Ireland having the same -plus- a separate OS in the form of OSNI, the whole landscape’s set up for pain and failure.
Right guy for the right time, but no longer the right guy later on.
Google hasn't been the first place I search in ages, but it was nice to have it as an option. Not nice enough to justify enabling JS though. Leaving JS disabled enabled most of the major annoyances Google has been shoving down people's throats.
Link seems broken and un-editable, but here it is: https://mdme.ai/blog/2025/01/17/ai-art
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/27/novo-nordisk-ozempic-can-be-...
Answering tit-for-tat is fine, even if the thing being done is bad in itself (e.g. waging war is bad, but should a country not use weapons to defend itself when invaded?). If else US and in general the West should have acted earlier: if American companies where free to operate in China and influence its people I doubt this ban would have been enacted.
This would have been a great opportunity to regulate and prohibit massive data collection on mobile phones, by writing a law that requires the platforms (iOS,android) to architect differently and police this aggressively. Takes care of a lot of the TikTok worry and cleans up ecosystems from location tracking/selling weather apps as well.
> completely anonymized, uncensorable alternative.

So a fountain of child sexual assault material?
In my experience, I let the LLM help me produce code and tests. Most of my human effort is dedicated to verifying the tests, and then using the tests to verify the code.

Automation doesn't seem like a good idea. I feel it's mandatory to carefully guard the LLM, not only to verify that the LLM-generated tests (functions) are as expected, but also to modify some code that, while not affecting the correctness of the function, has low performance or poor readability.
My preference would be a law that bans some specific activity (i.e. the collection of some set of data that should remain "private"). From there it would be straightforward to establish when an application (like TikTok or Instagram) was collecting this data and they could be prosecuted or their application banned at that point.

This banning of TikTok because of "national security" leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Might the next application banned on these ground be domestic? It's unsettling, in my opinion, to see this precedent set.
Unreasonable search?
If money doesn't concern you at all — you're in the artistic domain, not in business one.

Then just go and create whatever and however you feel like.

If you're talented and lucky enough - something will stick some day.

It's useful to stay within some niche for enough time to build solid skills. To have a backup plan of regular job if you're not lucky.
HSR is incredibly routine and politically insulated. It’s closer to a filing than actual review.
less moving parts means it could work in contexts where moving parts demand lubrication, maintenance.

I felt it was a bit light on putting the system energy efficiency/losses up front. I am sure they're stated but it was hard to work out how it compared to normal PV efficiency, or steam turbine efficiency.

Heat exchangers are applicable to lots of things. I am skeptical that this is significant because almost any heat energy process does reclaim and preheat, and so the size of the thermal mass and efficiency here would be exceptionally well studied and if they have made improvements, they may be as, or more valuable as IPR overall. So while it looks amazing, unless they are spinning it out into wider industry it will be a small increment over things in deployment.
That would be like telling Facebook to "divest" from the US government. Which, in this case, means ignoring all government requests for data and censorship. Facebook obviously cannot do that.
This reminds me of my idea to replace EBT with unlimited amounts of soylent
Cool idea, pretty good execution, but your UI is confusing.

1. There's so much happening on the screen between your app's UI and the fake UI with the dark patterns that it's confusing. IMO you should show the objective first, and then let the user click to reveal the fake UI and challenge. For example, simply show, "Challenge #1 — Find the button that actually lets you cancel the subscription." Then have a button that says, "Start Challenge." When that button is clicked, then reveal the UI.

2. Give me some context. If you just say, "Find the button that actually lets you cancel the subscription," that's not really enough. You should set the scenario. "Imagine you're subscribed to an app, but you don't want to be subscribed anymore. So you sign into the app and click the cancel button. It loads a new screen. How do proceed from here to finalize your cancelation?"

3. Don't tell me the answer in advance. Naming the first challenge "Color Confusion" tells me the answer.

4. Don't auto-advance steps. I had no idea that I auto advanced. I changed tabs, then came back, then was scrolling down looking for the next step button. Just let me manually click to the next step as a user. Preferably at the bottom, near the pattern explanation.
Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study
Some other countries banned tiktok too, e.g. India
I really wanted the N900. I was saving money for it and resolved that the follow of the N900 would be my next buy. And then that never ever happened.
I'd say twin peaks season 1 and first half of season 2 are Lynch's most accessible work
Actually, just very briefly at a friend’s ;)

Thank you! So far, we have tested it with Raspberry Pi 4/5. Jetson boards are on backorder. We have some Intel WiFi chips (since they support some stuff we want), and we will get around to trying them next.

The binaries were also tested on x86 machinery.

In general, I'm not too worried about hardware support since batman-adv is quite widely deployed on a diverse set of hardware and the rest is hardware agnostic.
There are a lot of people that have spent copious amounts of time solving these problems. Fewer than 1.4% of the registered Eulerians have solved more than 100 problems. Releasing the solutions for these trivializes their work, as now anyone can copy them (unless the assumption here is that solutions to all those 100 problems have been previously released on the net).
Potential Technosignature: Low D/H in Planetary Water Depleted by Nuclear Fusion
I went to sea with BP Tankers as a deck cadet in 1976 trading worldwide, largely to escape my small village life. When I qualified as 2nd mate, I moved to mediterranean trade small bulk carriers, then oil rig supply ships on the North Sea. Got my first command at 32 on the rig boats, so around 14 years at sea by then. Ended up on local ferries when I became a father in order to do shorter trips away from home (I had to drop two ranks, but it was worth it). The biggest crew I captained was around 40 when working on a short-lived cross channel ferry service from Weymouth to Cherbourg. Rig boats typically only had about 12 crew though. My last seagoing job was a harbour pilot for a couple of years which gave me the spare time to learn software dev.

And yes, I was probably one of the last generations of seafarers who used celestial nav and paper charts on deep sea trips before GPS became universal. We used Decca Navigator for coastal nav, now also long gone and forgotten. So electronic charts were way after my time! I lost count after 40+ countries visited, but it's really not the flex you might think because there was very rarely time to go ashore.

However the experience and confidence gained at sea helped enormously when (say) presenting a software proposal to CEOs and the like, most of whom were the same age as me. They tended to assume I was much more senior than I really was! I never regretted the jump though. If you can make the money work, then I’d recommend career changing to anyone for the new lease of life it gives you. Especially if feel you have gone as far as you can in the old career.
Launching a rocket is far more complex than shipping a release.

It is more like an "all or nothing" process.
Yes I had to read that a few times to understand it. Much like the google translations.
Can you explain further? Sounds important but I don't understand.
Thy were really great on supporting a bunch of less popular platforms (feature phones and the like) WhatsApp supported Blackberry for a long time. WhatsApp probably supported a potato for quite a long time.
Facebook has never sold user data?

LOL

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46618582
Definitely after 2016, but before Covid.
They exit markets due to regulations banning them from charging the true cost of risk. Large insurance companies don’t just go broke. They have re-insurance that caps their losses. It’s becoming far more difficult to get reinsurance and the premium caps make reinsurance unaffordable for the insurance company so they leave. The business model is managing the money - they don’t much care about the claim losses over the long term and taking 1 percent of rising premiums to be a manager is a solid business model.
Funnily enough there are full movies uploaded on TikTok split up in to parts, they come across my feed every once in a while.
I'm not quite sure you understand what insurance are. You have risk, you don't want to have it, so you pay other people to took that risk away (to some extent). How those people are expected to assess risk? Somehow. That's their problem.

It's like how a hair salon owner evaluates the difficulty of a haircut. And generally, when you want to have simple haircut, but they are gonna charge you extra because Jason Statham is their client, and he has very sensitive and delicate hair ends, each of which requires a careful individual approach... You naturally start wondering what Jason Statham's hair situation has to do with your haircut.
An easy solution is to spin off TikTok to its own company and then that company IPOs.
A friend in South Africa does bee tech[0]!

[0] https://web.bluebeansoftware.com/whats-all-the-buzz-with-sma...
Counter strike irl.
OP didn't say "for money".

As per Mitt Romney, it was banned because TikTok contained too much anti-Israel content (remember, the push for the ban became really strong very soon after Oct 7 when the genocide began)

Source: https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1787288209963290753
As I said, it’s borderline.

Jury duty is an interesting question. I’m not a huge fan of the jury system, although it may be the best of bad alternatives. Maybe there’s no good way around this one.

I get that you’re trying to trip me up (and succeeding a bit), but penal labor isn’t difficult or borderline or anything like that. It’s a straightforward “we can make money by forcing that person to work, and it’s not illegal.” There’s no justification beyond, they’re a criminal so they deserve it. Obviously, criminal punishment has to involve violation of certain rights, but I don’t see any reason for it to involve violating this right besides liking money and wanting more of it.
It's more complicated than that, as always. Here's some (incomplete) background on Florida:

https://www.civilbeat.org/2024/03/how-floridas-home-insuranc...

Re: California, I don't understand the context for your question, or why you would think the California government is more strange than any other US state government. There's no universally-accepted "ideology of California." It's a big state with a huge, diverse population.

tl;dr, though: California does allow insurers to do that, but is using currently an antiquated set of rules that don't allow for modern risk management approaches. It's been rewriting those rules recently to fix this; I think the new rules are supposed to be in effect starting this year.
Those 1.1 million homes were destroyed over a period of years, not days.
The data must be hosted in the US. Oracle will have to shutdown their servers.
Prediction: We'll hear that magically Truth Social has sourced sufficient funds that will enable it to make an offer for TikTok.
Read.cv is winding down, joining Perplexity
I think it’s the difference of budget and type of homelab. Some people homelab for production (smart home, nas, media server) and others for learning and development, and building a small complete network either multi pi or low cost devices is a great way to get experience.
Conducting High Frequency Radio SETI Using Alma
The Surprising Afterlife of Used Hotel Soap
I was fortunate to have learnt low level programming via various BASIC, and Turbo Pascal, alongside Z80 and 8086 Assembly, that C was never special to me, other than being more cross-platform due to the way it came to be.

Luckily around the same time I also got hold of Turbo C++ 1.0, and Borland's Pascal / C++ tag team is what kept me interested.
I read their statement of 40% efficiency would be compared to the currently available photovoltaics were generally 20% efficiency is normal.
> Trump has already signaled he wants to save Tiktok

Trump can blame Biden and move on.

> If that goes away, what does that do to the financial viability of the platform?

Bytedance makes most of its money from Douyin.
It should be noted there is no lack of male submissives and masochists - the very term 'masochism' is named after a man.
The silliness of the ban itself aside, it is wild how casually the whole “both chambers of congress passed a law and that law was upheld by the highest federal court but maybe it won’t be a law if one guy decides he doesn’t like it” thing is being treated by the media.

It is like “Does America have laws?” is a 3 minute section of Good Morning America between low-carb breakfast recipes and the memoir of a skateboarding dog.
I have ADHD and the dopamine dysregulation really makes it hard to avoid eating things with sugar in it.

The semaglutide really helps, I'm on a lower dose of it 0.5mg/week and have been on it for over a year. I've lost a fair bit of weight but that has stabilized. It costs me ~$30 per month and I save much more than that on eating less food.

For me it really helps with chronic fatigue which was destroying my life. I think it really is a wonder drug for people with auto-immune issues. I was insanely sensitive to it when I started which I think is common with people with ADHD so I started really low and only very slowly worked my way up.
That is blatantly wrong.

The EU has been trying to ban encryption for the last 3 years so that it can read all your text messages, listen to your conversations and monitor the images you send to your loved ones/friends without requiring a warrant from the authorities, therefore granting them an unlimited access to everyone's private life without offering any possible recourse.

The EU's pro-privacy stance is a just a facade, they want as much data as the US government, they just don't want to admit it publicly.
Programmable Intimacy
Or poisoned-data that sets up a trap, so that a system will later confabulate false innocence or guilt when certain topics or targets come up.
Thank you for writing this, I really needed to hear this perspective.
Note that the book is even older than that – I remember first reading it in 2009; apparently the 1st edition was in 2004!
Unless I'm not home and it's something I need to buy asap, I prefer to do all of my online purchases or managing money on a desktop or laptop.

Using my phone for "important" purchases or decisions/actions just feels incorrect to me.
Oh maybe we should do something about that and actually treat them like an adversary.
Not really. There is no analogous concept in the US of the CCP's relationship with large companies.
> The debate has never been "will consuming less calories than you expend make you lose weight"

Maybe the debate amongst actual doctors and researchers. But, the debate amongst dummies on the internet (social media) CERTAINLY had people arguing that it was somehow about more than the number of calories in and out.
Funnily enough, as per Mitt Romney, the TikTok ban was done because it had too much anti-Israel content

See https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1787288209963290753
> ... so people can watch while scrolling?

I am rather old. Could someone explain what the point of that is?
China tech shrugged off Trump's trade war; will likely do same with new tariffs
Is there a daily NYT word game called Waffle? I don't think so?

Wordle - NYT daily word game. https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html

Waffle - some other game. https://wafflegame.net/
Where is the evidence for this?

"Another way the Chinese government could assert leverage over a deal involving TikTok would be by exercising its “golden share” in a unit of ByteDance. In such an arrangement, the Chinese government buys a small portion of a company’s equity in exchange for a seat on its board and veto power over certain company decisions.

In 2021, an investment fund controlled by a state-owned entity established by a Chinese internet regulator took a 1 percent stake in a ByteDance subsidiary and appointed a director to its board."

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/17/us/tiktok-ban-suprem...
Tell HN: Slack manipulating users into asking for Slack AI
If you login for the first time in a workspace, Slack is showing a message about Slack AI and asking you to request your administrators to upgrade to it.

Pretty unethical considering they should be showing these to administrators only. In an organization with thousands of users, one can only imagine the flood of spam these administrators are getting.
If the President had over Meta and X the sort of control the CCP has over TikTok, Instagram and Twitter would be banned in most countries. The only reason this is debated so much here is we’re (in my opinion correctly) very cautious about free speech.
this is an unserious reply. and if you are serious then you're likely not a frontend developer. often you want to test if a certain kind of hack fix works. your mind becomes glued to thinking about "does that fix it?" - hence why it's not easy to branch into a new line of thought then just come back to the change you pushed minutes ago. You're pretty much suggesting that the developer context changes into another thing for anywhere between 1 and 4 minutes and then context switches back to see if the build worked. The task that you'd be context switching into for 1-4 minutes will be interrupted by another thing and you'll likely make no progress doing it
1) TikTok was already theoretically a US company, but the strings were being pulled by the parent org in China.

2) US and China regulatory burdens and rule of law aren't equivalent, and I'm not going to grant that equivalency.
Amazing idea. BTW, following Danielle on X, very insightful and bright minded person.
That's much of the game in a nutshell, in varying degrees. If one player makes many units and the other is instead collecting resources, the first player has to do damage to equalize or else the other player got away with it and the first is way behind. At the top levels, smaller actions like making one or two early attack units applies the same to a smaller degree, but early game differences compound thus matter more than the same later on.