skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how old you are, or what your lived experience has been. But the US did not invent the idea of democracy, nor did anyone promise us that democracy could actually work.

What the United States has accomplish over the last 200 or so years is remarkable, but it's colossally myopic to believe that the US has never curtailed the rights of it's citizens in the name of security. The OSS was never legal. The CIA definitely should not be legal. And lord only knows what the NSA does. But I promise you that restricting access to a Chinese mobile app is not the most egregious thing the United States Government has ever done.
Tell that to the moderation team.
to me this is the only important one. Not only can they subtely influence the entire us culture, if they were to get in trouble for it, then what? the US doesnt have any influence over them we would just ban them and at that point its too late. realistically it already is too late. a huge point imo aswell is we ARENT at war right now, but if we are at war the amount of information china can both push and obtain through tiktok would be large enough to change the tides of a war
https://archive.ph/Lpu7G
A good article critical of Taleb's arguments is

"Nassim Taleb on IQ"
January 8, 2019

https://archive.ph/PCvgk
I'm sure that blocking everyone by default will really help them attract users...
You think hiring was previously not discriminatory? Wanna explain this one: https://www.nber.org/digest/sep03/employers-replies-racial-n...
Something something man understand, something something salary depends on.
It is the salient point. A domestic adversary has control over a major influence vector on US public opinion. In the form of Instagram/Twitter/Facebook/etc.
I'll take the bait. What was that last time and what was the devastating national history moment?
> tiktok ban is targeted specifically against one social media that the government does not like

no, it's about the ownership and control of the social media network by a foreign country (that is adversarial to the US)

the other major social networks are all US companies
These are the countries where TikTok is already banned (2024)
This preceded https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/ by a few years; that's a system of writing narratives based on choice selections and variable tracking, and embeddable into game engines.
Funnier? I assume you mean fun?

I assure you there is no bait- it’s an example of things that would make an everyday chore fun to me, and needs no justification. I would suggest you do what would make it fun to you.
So he's going to get a job now?
Meanwhile, domestic spending on corrupting elections is like comparing an ocean to a raindrop. Mike Bloomberg spent $300 million on ads/influencing elections in 2020.
I don't know if everyone does it because of that, but I know in some cases, that's done on purpose so that you can notice whether someone else did something with your account.
The state dynamics are linear but they are time varying and unknown. I am tracking the dynamics with a second Kalman filter (dual UKF like structure but mostly linear). Main "problem area" is covariance propagation, since the dynamics are defined by GRVs estimated by the parameter estimator but this uncertainty is not propagated between state/parameter estimators. It's a known shortcoming with standard (UKF) dual parameter+state estimation. I've yet to conclude whether it's a real or imaginary problem for my use-case.
By that logic Canada, Panama, and Denmark should ban X and Meta.
So if you do 1 thing correctly and use your popularity to con about other things that does not make you a con artist?
Because they summarize and cite sources or because their models were trained on copyrighted materials? Summarization and training should be tranformative, and the user questions add that element of novel purpose to the original materials that should make the output non derivative. But most of their responses are one time use, nobody is ever returning to them.
Q: “What is Forgego?”

A: “Forgejo is a self-hosted lightweight software forge.
Easy to install and low maintenance, it just does the job.”

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I use TextEdit.

I make a file each day 2025-01-18.txt

I write my todos, random thoughts, and whatever else there. I don’t think I’ve ever looked at my notes beyond a day or a week. Also have a strong memory that I’ve trained since I was a kid (went way too deep into building a mental library and what not) so I pretty much remember most things the first time I see or read them.

I just get a lot of shit done everyday. Finding a better notes app (have not found anything better than paper and pen tbh), or building one, seems like a tar pit when pen and paper exist.

Definitely have met way too many people who were the least productive while being very knowledgeable about productivity software.

Probably why there will never be a shortage of people building more and more notes apps instead of just finishing/doing things lol. If I sound salty it’s because I’ve had to deal with people who spend more time on this stuff than actually doing, and I don’t think the issue was ever the software.
I thought you were talking about China until the last sentence.
Of course I read that and know the arguments, I'm not an idiot.

But I see through it because once again, I'm not an idiot.

When far more sensitive social media apps like Grindr were sold to Beijing Kunlun Tech Co Ltd, nobody went crazy because it didn't threaten FAANG.

There's many swiping and dating apps owned by chinese firms. You also have chinese capital firms being the primary investor in cloud and photo sharing apps. Plenty of sensitive stuff going through the spindly fingers of the shifty orientals without a peep - for like decades.

There's even Chinese finance apps like WeBull that hold things as sensitive as American's retirement accounts. Apparently also not a problem.

People have Wyze doorbell cameras and TCL smartTVs and Eufy security cameras. They have TP-Link routers and Hisense computer monitors. Chinese cameras, WiFi, and microphones are everywhere in the modern home.

But once something came around that was a plausible competitive threat to FAANG then all these reasons just materialize and get applied to that thing specifically.

I mean seriously. Give me a break.

We like to look back 100 years ago at protectionism and racism and tell ourselves that we were dumber back then and wouldn't fall for it now.

And yet, here we are.
TikTok can still serve data to the US, it just can't list its apps in US app stores.
There are no preordained guarantees at certain thresholds so of course…?

It could take thousands of times more budget than projected but it would still be physically possible.
i don't know if it does it on auto play, i typically see a "rising video" in a top slot on the homepage. i think its also based on what it thinks you might like so not everyone may get them.
I have a teenager who regularly requests his TikTok screen time allowance to be reduced. He wants to not know the passcode even though he is well old enough to know it if he wants.

What this temporary outage might do is have the opposite effect TikTok expects - to show people they need a break from such an addictive app.

Stranger things have happened on the internet. The longer before Trump "cuts a deal" the more I expect people to press the question - why allow China access to this market if China is shut to our social media apps ?
I think actually it would be (if you are thinking of the Jackson one it’s not actually the way it’s popularly remembered)
the us has political and legal jurisdiction over those companies which is the entire point
I mean the same exact criteria happened in Marbury v Madison and it changed the entire nation's check and balance system, lol. Many will claim for better, but the opportunity is definitely there for worse.
nothing wrong with doing it in advance

but yes, there is some evidence but of course its very controversial
Maybe we could have just closed the barn door when there was evidence the horse was actually bolting?
Yeah, it is crazy how confidently LLMs can say something when it has never existed. Having said that, I'm still a HUGE fan of LLMs, as I know it is very unlikely that multiple LLMs will brain fart at the same time. If you know how to navigate things, you will get a solution much faster than you probably would have in the past.
"If you have Facebook on your phone currently, it can track your whereabouts, it can read your text messages, it can track your keystrokes. It has access to your phone records."

If the United States government gets its hands on that information, "it's not just a national security threat, it's a personal security threat," Hawley (should have) said.
Specifically the statue of limitations is 5 years. Even if Biden and Trump both decided not to enforce the law, the next president could still go after app stores for hosting it, and impose all fines.
While I agree with your argument partially, I still find it ironic.

It assumes that we must prevent public from accessing some thoughts/propoganda as they may not be able to make right decision themselves. This is rhyming with 1930s Germany or other authoritative regimes since then.
those countries are not our geopolitical adversaries, but if the people of those countries want them to be considered as such, it would be reasonable to pass a similar law
Electric Fungi
Still not understanding you, if you meant "a 2% reduction in plastic waste in country A" is of no global benefit if there's a comparable increase in country B (assuming their disposal is roughly equally bad for the environment globally, since only 9% of plastic globally is recycled). So I assume you meant "a 2% reduction in plastic waste, globally". But then the same criticism applies to country-level reduction in CO2 emissions.

Anyway, maybe the second Trump admin will exit the Paris Accord again, putting strain on China and India participating, so climate summits will be weaker till 2029 (earliest).

Likely the domestic economic impact (on the US) of major climate-related events will have more influence on US policy than international. e.g. whether one of the many causal factors to the huge 2025 LA fires was climate change; or California's water setup where Senior Drawing Rights legally predating the existence of the state of CA allow agribusiness essential unlimited water use to grow pistachios in a semidesert during a drought, or bottle and export artesian water. As well as all the other more proximate causes. Anyway, expect a long and politicized fight between state, federal, city and insurers about the LA fire root-causes, liability and federal compensation. Especially given there's a plan to weaken or abolish the US EPA at the same time.

Ditto, expect nation-level debates (in OECD countries) reappraising whether nuclear (alongside fossil-fuel and renewable) is considered safe, desirable and necessary and how that affects/limits GDP growth, and whether datacenters and AI continue to be seen as a proxy for GDP growth, or whether that assumption breaks down some year soon.
VPTERNLOG: when three is 100% more than two
Consider the proximity of Zuckerberg to the new admin

I guess you missed the nine million articles over the last few months about how the head of TikTok has been palling around with the new admin and is going to be proudly at the inauguration.

Zuck is not the scapegoat you're hoping for.
Thanks for the link. A bit of clarification: in this context Asian was not in the category of URM since Asians are overrepresented in tech roles at Meta. So URM meant Black, Latin, and American native.
>Again, this is circular logic. You assumed that the only reason that species go extinct is because it wasn’t fit enough.

Again, I gave numerous examples, and you ignored mostly all of them.

Just to develop the point about extinctions a bit further. We know for instance of birds that had no natural fear of predators on the Galapagos Islands that upon human contact were driven to extinction or near extinction, and we don't need any circular assumptions to tie their fitness to their extinction.

And that's not to mention the rest of the examples I listed that you ignored, such as cases where we can observe that currently living species are doing well or poorly, like algae and pandas respectively, all of which hinge on knowledge of specific biological mechanisms.

So I don't know why you keep asserting that it's an assumption.
Not sure why you say "simply". There is nothing simple about it: there are issues of forced technology transfers; there is the problem that TikTok is a global platform and revenue generation is across the border. These are just things that immediately come to mind and I am sure there are more.
It is definitely a better CYA move to just have a policy that nobody touches the unlocked computers, but is it actually more effective? If the company mostly employs adults that can be trusted to keep their pranks reasonable, it seems like a good way of self-policing.

If calling out somebody’s unlocked computer gets them punished for real, nobody will call out their friends…
you can still access any thought you want due to our permissive free speech laws. you just cant run the app if you're china
It’s not really more equal access, just different people have access than before. There’s still only so much room at the top.
I'm gonna publish more about this tomorrow. I didn't expect this to blow up so much.
selling a company is a solved problem
>In 2004, Barlow reflected on his 1990s work, specifically regarding his optimism. His response was that "we all get older and smarter"

Cyberpunk was already a well established genre in 96, if you didn't see what the net was going to turn into you were already high on your own hopium.
Trump has openly stated plans to annex them in part or whole against their will.

That sounds pretty geopolitical adversary to me.
>"Over a decade ago, we successfully eliminated two PFAS members — PFAS and PFOA — from our products," Apple told Android Central. "Apple has been working to phase out PFAS from all our products and manufacturing processes, which includes engaging with all of our supply chain partners and developing safer alternatives."

Neat.
The tag line isn't the most informative. It took me a scroll or two on the main page to figure out its purpose. (Self hosted GitHub alternative). I'd suggest making that clearer earlier as the word "forge" in terms of software could have a variety of interpretations.
Are you ok with the Chinese government deciding what you’re allowed to watch?
There are lots of lists like that. Like I stumbled across this one the other day titled "Pedophiles of Bluesky" at https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zufzme6bw4kqvd7uwff3qfpc/li...

Now I had a good look and I'm pretty sure the people added to this list haven't posted anything to warrant this accusation. Yet if you go to their profiles on Clearsky or whatever it will show them in this pedophile list, like https://clearsky.app/messyjhesse.bsky.social/lists

That's not right, and the worst thing is you can't see on the app if you've been wrongly labeled that way, you have to use a third-party website to find out.
I think there is also sometimes similar suggestion towards the SPI chip underneath the OrangePi Zero 2W pcb as the producer suggests it is just a micro linux installation to test the function of the board without having to install a full sd card OS. Perhaps somebody would like to investigate that.
There's Zulip. Better to avoid the protocol at this point, after Matrix transferred Synapse to Element.
Wow, you seem to have taken my comment personally.

Dismissing psychoanalysis in one sentence is a lazy power move that elevates the author by putting down others, much like your comment. I picked that example in part because I find it interesting and personally helpful in a way that things like cbt are not (and believe it or not, I'm not a moron). And also I know that rationalists hate psychoanalysis in part because it refuses to elevate pure rationality above all other forms of knowledge. It is thus threatening to the current order and must be insulted and diminished. If it had no power or validity, there would be no reason to attack it anyway.

Your response is exactly in the spirit I was critiquing. You pointed out one thing, which I did not lead with, but provided as an example and added another arrogant and vacuous dismissal of my criticism.

But perhaps this is only evident to me because I have actually read a good bit of Jung and wrestled with it instead of relying on some authority to tell me that it is dumb and wrong. Read Answer to Job and come back to me and tell me with a straight face that Scott Alexander is an intellect on par with Carl Jung. Even Freud for all of his problems, had deep insights about the human condition that most people still don't grasp.
but I need my second left hand to film for Insta! :-P
The thing is that major live sport is now the only category that is successful in the broadcast TV market. Without that, many (most?) broadcast networks may as well shut down. We saw the best evidence of that recently in Australia when the Foxtel pay TV company was sold to European sports streaming service DAZN.

Foxtel has dozens of channels including the “agenda-setting” Sky News but in the end only its major sports rights deals (which it’s been bidding up and losing money on for years) held any value.

One day we’ll all accept that broadcast TV is dead and everyone can just have a personalized content feed streamed to them, but for as long as broadcast TV license holders keep up the fight, it’s going to be a frustrating endeavor trying to see the sports we want, wherever we are.
> Not only can they subtely influence the entire us culture

Not the entire U.S. population is on TikTok. Even if a significant percentage are, your argument is that they cannot think for themselves? It is widely known that TT is Chinese owned/controlled yet Americans still used it. Even a regulation requiring disclosure of that fact each time you open it would be fine. But an outright ban on the app itself? This is a huge "feel good" moment which will not improve any aspects of the social media environment in the U.S.
As a dev I recently sent my first AWS support request. Received a non useful response featuring factually incorrect statements about their own platform. Replied to support ticket, no reply. Sent email to two AWS reps, never got a reply.
> Funny you say that, because nobody serious about AI is actually using Nvidia unless they're already locked in with CUDA.

Yeah right, so Meta and XAI buying hundreds of Nvidia's H100's was because they were not serious in AI. wtf
I explicitly disabled YouTube’s and extra layers of tracking. Ironically, it should still be able to track off my upvoted and playlists, it just doesn’t, unless it’s playing on my TV and then suddenly it can again and that’s when I sometimes (though only hours and hours later) get new stuff.
Automatic Warp Specialization in Triton
Ask HN: Underrated emerging fields in science/engineering?
Hi everyone!

I've come to the realization lately that I have a poor understanding of budding research/engineering fields.

In your opinion, what are some underrated research/engineering fields that you believe have significant positive potential?

For example, what are the "AlexNet"s in the fields of chemistry, biology, physics, computer science, mechanical engineering, etc?
Father Coughlin's periodical Social Justice was denied a mailing permit during World War II for airing pro-Nazi material (such as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion) under the authority of the Espionage Act of 1917, which limited its distribution to news stands in the Boston area. I don't think America has faced a political rival like China since the Soviet Union; not sure if there were any restrictions on the distribution of Soviet software in the late 80s.
It sounds like this is trying to coin a new term. I hadn't heard the word forge used to mean an all-in-one git+issue tracker+project mgmt+etc. suite before.
they didn't ban the app. they said china couldn't own it. but china would rather not sell it.

we don't let any foreign citizens work on missiles and stuff (ITAR), we shouldn't let adversarial countries own and control communications infrastructure
Why is it so hard to build a quantum computer?
Sorry to ruin your guilt free parade, but don’t forget that your charging is still producing emissions - just from a distance.

Congrats on the EV though. I really want one, but it’s just not practical for the 400+ mile trips we regularly need to make throughout the year.
>Going by the spying argument, every US social media company should be banned elsewhere because all data is siphoned by US gov.

Yes. All big social media should be banned for just this reason, we already had Cambridge Analytica to know this. Banning TT for spying is just a good first step.

With this said, the US.g has had the power to ban business with entities for a long ass time and those laws are pretty well established, especially in the case with foreign entities.
This question only ever seems to be asked about "desirable" fields. There doesn't seem to be as much of a push to achieve gender parity in sanitation work[1], for example.

The whole exercise feels like an effort to take attention off of the problem of income inequality by instead framing it as an issue of identity. Under this framing, "fair" means we have parity in male and female CEOs - never mind that those CEOs are still making 300x or more of what "frontline" workers make. Why not focus on pushing for higher wages in female dominated fields like teaching or nursing?

[1] https://www.zippia.com/sanitation-worker-jobs/demographics/
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Detroit Lions lose their first playoff game and now TikTok my guilty Sunday night pleasure goes away.
The pointy-shoed corruption of medieval London
I was a co-owner of the Park Slope Food Coop, I believe the countries oldest and largest cooperative grocery store.

We have about 18,000 owners, everyone had to work a 4 hour shift every month, and we did something like $50MM in annual revenue competing directly with whole foods.

We would also provide training, startup capital and member labor to people who wanted to start their own coop.

I always felt like a well organized group could take over the PSFC and create a new tech model and then scale from within the existing democratic infrastructure.
The quantity in circulation X market price = $7.5B. For reference, that’s close to the total market cap of all NFTs.
They are costly and expensive to enforce. If you are going up against a larger player than it might make it worthwhile. If you are thinking of selling they become a useful feature to raises the price.

Randomly patenting something that is novel is a waste. Patenting something a bigger player needs in a fight against another big player will lead to immediate riches. Trying to enforce your patent against a big player could lead to riches or years of lawsuits/costs.

The problem with patents is you tell everyone how to do it. Anyone can change how it's done slightly go get around the patent. So you probably need to submit multiple patents.

Hardware patents make a lot more sense.
I'm more concerned if our domestic economy can face that much hardship at the whims of a foriegn app. Seems like requiring divesting was the right call. Thankfully the bill includes provisions to require divestment much earlier on.
if you don't save your watch history, yeah, it probably doesn't bother using you for this feature
I mean, we could be getting closer to that point. According to a recent survey, 26% of Canadians now consider the US to be a “threat” to Canada and 6% consider the US to be an “enemy”. Those numbers is up from 6% and 1% two years ago.

https://angusreid.org/canada-51st-state-trump/