skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that even possible? I once tried to make a matched pyramid (JPEG-in-)TIFF reader/writer pair and to retain some compatibility with other people who do this sort of thing (GIS, medical images, etc.). Virtually nobody agrees on how you’re supposed to do it[1]: some prescribe storing smaller versions as siblings (a NextIFD chain started by the main image), some as children of the largest one (a NextIFD chain pointed to by the SubIFD link of the main image), some as children each other (a SubIFD chain started by the main image), some as both simultaneously (a chain of identical SubIFD and NextIFD fields started by the main image). And I mean, I could decide on something for my writer. But now I’m a reader and I get a TIFF file with some IFDs somehow linked by the NextIFD and/or SubIFD fields. WTF am I supposed to do with it? Is it a pyramid? Is it a multipage document? Is it a birdplane^W a sequence of pyramidal pages? I suppose I can walk the whole thing and construct a DAG, but again, how the hell can I tell what the DAG means?

(And don’t take this as a knock against TIFF in general—as far as I know, it’s one of the few image formats that takes the possibility of large and larger-than-memory images seriously. I think HEIF also does? But ISO paywalled it after first making it publicly available, so, hard pass.)

[1] Here’s a writeup that comes to similar conclusions: https://dpb587.me/entries/tiff-ifd-and-subifd-20240226
Wouldn't that eliminate 90% of social media in your country?
Yet on this very website it's likely majority opinion that if you want to start a startup you should move to SF.

A lot of those people have actively tried to build communities on those other platforms, but those platforms algorithms actively work against the emergence of the types of groups we've seen on TikTok.
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Show HN: I built an open source computer-use SDK enabling agents to authenticate
over this weekend myself and two of my friends took part in a hackathon and built this side-project. we have been diving into computer-use recently and developed an sdk to make it easy to implement for devs like us.

one feature we were missing though, was the agent being able to log into services. anthropic understandably blocks this capability with their guardrails, and you wouldn't want your credentials to end up in any model context anyways.

so we added a keychain service to the vm that the agent is using. it was built using the pass cli (https://www.passwordstore.org/). it's not perfect yet but already works solidly (feel free to contribute any improvements).

take a look at the implementation here (https://github.com/cuse-dev/cuse/blob/main/platforms/linux/a...), all feedback is highly appreciated. if you want to get going asap, here is a quick nextjs quickstart repo (https://github.com/cuse-dev/cuse-quickstart), if you want to take a look at the whole sdk, see the documentation (https://docs.cuse.dev).
> That is clearly a conspiratorial statistic taken out of nowhere.

95% of law firm contributions in 2019 went to Biden: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/snubbing-trump-law.... This support wasn’t out of economic interest. The overwhelming majority of lawyers are ideologically captured and hate Trump at a visceral and irrational level for not subscribing to that ideology.

> He was convicted of falsifying business records with intent to defraud and conspiring to “promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means”.

Why quote the statute instead of the facts, which aren’t really in dispute? After he had already won the election, he reimbursed his lawyer for paying off a pornstar through his family business, and booked the reimbursements as “legal expenses” instead of “pornstar payoffs.”

Brilliant minds came over from top law firms to fit those facts into to a clever legal theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carey_R._Dunne. They figured it out, just like the figured out how to make Google’s profits magically all materialize in Ireland. But the underlying conduct remains a politician covering up an affair. That’s the best the legal industry could do after eight years of digging.
What they meant to say was the "right" kind of political.
Would love to see parity in these sorts of trade restrictions between the US and China. Me personally, then I'd have zero problems with TikTok being PRC-owned.

As it stands, foreign businesses operating in China are much more constrained, and laws they must comply with are enormously more invasive (e.g. censorship) than going the other way.
The American citizens responsible for the US part of the business are
(American here.)

I don't think I'd support a ban if ByteDance was a European company or Indian or South Korean or Japanese. China is a unique threat given the totalitarian turn they've taken over the past decade combined with the fact that no Chinese company is truly private in its day-to-day operations. All Chinese companies must have CCP influence as a matter of Chinese policy. It would be like if T-Mobile (the US mobile division of Deutsche Telekom) was required to have the influence of the German government including the monitoring and reporting of phone calls to senior party officials.
I think you underestimate how likely that re-roll would be to turn up worse.
> When the public realized this, they made it clear that there is a limit to the power of the government, and that behavior was very quickly stopped. Forever.

My memory is hazy on the details and Wikipedia might be wrong, but (1) didn't the lawsuits against the perceived perpetrators (NSA, AT&T, etc) fail and (2) is it also not true, that not only was "Patriot Act" not quickly repealed, the sunset provisions were extended throughout the 2000s and 2010s?
...and nothing of value would be lost.
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It's a shame that Framework hasn't managed to implement a pointing stick on its laptops. If they offered one, I would already be using their laptops.

The Framework feature request is here: https://community.frame.work/t/responded-any-chance-of-track...
So you would be fine if all the kids in your country used NaziTok?
Because 2 out of top 3 servers and half of top 10 were in Japan and filled with content that they couldn't politically handle.

Cutting that off and "just walk into the brightest place" couldn't happen at the same time, so the core devs and ops switched to the "Mastodon's strength is in small servers, pick any of the right one" narrative.
> And yet many countries have no objection with letting their citizens use US FAANG services?

You're talking out of ignorance. The European Commission has been putting together initiatives to allow European cloud providers to emerge as credible alternatives to the FANGs in terms of providing infrastructure.

https://european-alternatives.eu/category/cloud-computing-pl...
Every country on earth "has the capacity" to build alternative social networks. They just don't because the need hasn't become obvious enough yet.
It's lasted a year and 10,000 kms so far.
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Why is DevOps still such a fragmented, exhausting (and ofc costly) mess in 2025?
Not to be on a high horse but I would actually love if these "scroll" apps all disappeared. So much time collectively (myself included) being spent on nonsense. I have a timer on mine to only let me spent 15 minutes and it just goes by so fast. I'll see something funny or something I like maybe 1/25 videos.

I know I should and could just delete it but my friends send me stuff and usually its pretty good stuff... it just hooks you in tho.
divesting was never a real option, why would you spawn a US-based competitor - and it would cut you off from all the global content? just never a real good option
I should have mentioned the entire Fediverse supports RSS.
It’s a 85% drop in traffic, not access. People are still clicking on links, apps are still trying to connect, etc.
As a European, you are allowed to feel however you want. As an American, I am allowed not to care.
> So instead of writing one interpreter, we are going to write four, with increasing performance and complexity.

I went in the other direction, and wrote a BF interpreter of reduced complexity and performance in Haskell, that translates to less than 104 bytes of Binary Lambda Calculus [1].

[1] https://gist.github.com/tromp/86b3184f852f65bfb814e3ab0987d8...
Maybe. Or it could get worse.

We put communist sympathizers in jail in the past. We imprisoned 100k innocent Japanese US citizens in concentration camps.

Instead of rolling the ban back this could be the first event in a new kind of McCarthyism.

Be careful. Being seen as soft towards China could make you an enemy of the state soon, if it doesn’t already.
What do you mean by way ahead?

US owns most of the social networks, video streaming platforms and most of the classic media (tv,...).

The diffrence is, that countries like US (and many EU countries) point a finger at china/russia and accuse them of censorship, claim themselves to be free, and then do the same censorship that russia/china do.
This article is just reporting that people on social media believe it to be about Gaza, it adds zero information on the veracity of that belief.
I haven't seen any Windows/Linux laptops with a good trackpad. Apple seems to be unbeatable in this regard.
I’ve never understood this take - no one is being forced to use this stuff. Don’t use it personally if you don’t like it.
Why I can't move over water???
But nothing was done to Room 641A? What imaginary limits are you talking about? All the lawsuits went nowhere.
Exactly. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. The EU should be watching this closely.
Nokia report on iPhone when it launched in 2007
One-third of Tesla owners in the Netherlands considering selling their vehicles
It’s not only TT but all Bytedance owned domains. Also this is DNS so still lots of queries to see the new update page.
Help China's military.
Barlow's vision is alive and well. Go to a Billy Strings show and talk to bluegrass hacker hippies that ride the rail there. Or a good traditional Grateful Dead cover band. Or go to one of the more regen/cypherpunk ethereum events (GFEL, Regens Unite, Schelling Point, etc).

John Perry has tons of fans who came up through his songs and have since connected those dots.

https://justinholmes.bandcamp.com/track/barlows-jig
The whole thing is moot when you can be banned from platforms for voicing certain speech.

If platforms can do censorship, so can the government.
you frogot "Visual" in there.
It's a national risk, simple as that.
Shout fire in a crowded theater. Its literally the first example in that you aren't allowed to say anything you want whenever you want. You only have protection against government retaliation.

Or at least you're supposed to
Woah very good knowledge. Thank you. When his entire reply has little to do with my comment then yes I will make a point about it.
The pricing page (https://about.gitea.com/pricing/) talks about paywalled "Enhanced enterprise-level features and experiences". Are you sure that doesn't count as a premium upsell?
Makes one wonder why it didn't succeeded.
I can disclose my sources and methods. I just reverse engineered it from widely available distribution mechanisms. I know I got a lot of things wrong, but I got a lot of things right as well.
Yes, which is wonderful as new alternatives would grow. It's not like this stuff is rocket science, it's pretty trivial to build.
> If everyone under the age of 30 was using an app run by Nazi Germany would you be okay with that?

First answer: I would ask myself why people are using a nazi-made app, first.

OTOH: the history of nazism in the US is more complicated than you think

A glimpse of it is summarized in the wikipedia page about it

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

After all the US arrived first to the Moon thanks to "operation paperclip" and a a former nazi scientist.
Maybe because user identities aren’t bound to server instances with Bluesky?
> As a European, I find it quite outrageous to demand a company be sold to the US because it is too successful and valuable to be foreign-held.

These sorts of bad faith comments are so tiresome to read.

We all know that if the foreign country in question was Japan or France then nobody would really give a shit. Even a more neutral country like India or Brazil would likely be completely fine. It's specifically an issue because China is a geopolitical opponent of the US that we're engaged in a sort of new cold war with.

Not to mention, China blocks basically every popular social media site from the US already, and a bunch of other websites and apps besides. Tit-for-tat is very common in trade, you can't expect other countries to leave your foreign ventures untouched if you heavily restrict theirs.
But for Gen Z folks, that stuff is ancient history, isn't it? Even the oldest members (using 1997 as a starting point, but some definitions use 2000) were too young to protest or serve in Iraq[1]. By the time the youngest Gen Z folks were starting school in the mid-2010s, the US stock market and unemployment rate had reached pre-recession levels too.

[1] I mean when people cared about Iraq, 2003 to circa 2008. We still have troops there, but I don't think most of America is even aware of that.
Some things are so incredibly harmful for society it is in the governments interest to regulate those things.
All the doomscroll apps are dangerous in terms of addiction and mental health. Even something with a less effective algorithm, like YouTube shorts, is incredibly addictive.
Yeah, and it sucks. But Zuckerberg is still a sociopath, though. He has a tight grip on how Meta operates and is laser-focused on making his apps and the content they feed people worse so people enrage because they for all the fake lies and misinformation, or because it's rage bait for others.
I don't think megacorps should be "destroyed". On the other hand, I do think that a whole lot of those countries grew up taking advantage of mechanisms and data that they seek to exclude others from having by use of their market power and restrictive contracts, and this should be prevented.

E.g. back to Meta, etc: they scraped everything, everywhere for a long time, and it was a big factor that lead to their rise. Now they seek to control all the data in their fiefdom, and use the power of the legal system to enforce EULAs to prevent others from doing the same.

Why? Because economic entities with market power underproduce, overcharge, and fail to innovate and meet their customers' needs. They cause deadweight losses through their inefficiencies. And an excess of concentrated power is just plain scary, whether an individual, a corporation, or a government wields it.

Of course, reducing some of the edge of market power at scale will result in a smaller maximum company size.
They monitor DNS stats, seems plausible some devices already had their tiktok domains cached
I think it depends on how you define a lot of stuff, and what you think the effects are.

If you think there are mental health effects, then it's really no different than outlawing anything with negative effects. "I don't know why we outlaw fentanyl. Nobody is being forced to use it. Don't use it personally if you don't like it."

If someone believes that these type of apps pose a real danger to people and society, it's a take that makes sense.
Just because you say it does not make it so. Oh the irony.
It is my limited understanding that's the case in China?
It’s designed to be addictive. It’s like saying nobody is forced to use drugs, alcohol or tobacco. There’s a reason those are very difficult to quit.
Young people are also less likely to have driver's licenses.
For those that disagree with the above: Reciprocity is an important part of trade. China is making these choices, and the US is just putting things on a level playing field.
I think you're confused.

The company being targeted is ByteDance, not TikTok. The US government wants ByteDance to sell it's controlling position on TikTok to someone else, or else TikTok can no longer operate in the US. ByteDance is a Chinese company that is a de-facto shell corporation of China's CCP. For the 14th amendment to apply, you would need to argue that either a Chinese corporation or China's CCP would be US citizens.
Chinese people and Chinese media businesses are not Americans. They are not protected by the constitution.
> NaziTok

isn't that the codename for X these days?
Not to hijack the intent of your comment, but I’ve been thinking about switching to Bear from Apple Notes. Do you have any experience or opinions between the two?
Late yesterday I was blocked, but today I have access again. Same source IP.
Sure, but this isn’t remotely about that. If it was, we’d get some privacy laws and bans on Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts.
> Digital borders should only be open and allow free traffic between allies.

Oh, how far we have fallen.

> Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
>In 2004, Barlow reflected on his 1990s work, specifically regarding his optimism. His response was that "we all get older and smarter"

...and then he wrote Mother American Night, which is way more radical and prescient than his declaration. If you are suggesting that John Perry's work tended toward statist notions of internet control later in life, you are mistaken.
See Myanmar for what Facebook has done.
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So you do business in China or you have visited China? You totally skirt the topic but it’s clear you lack knowledge of how business is done in China.
There should be an age restriction, the same way 17 year olds can't drink vodka and smoke cigars.

But targeting Tiktok specifically spits in the eye of the spirit of the law. The government is doing the bidding of its lobbyists here.
We already do that in the electoral process. Campaign contributions are "speech," while at the same time we ban foreign nationals from such speech (although as far as I know the constitutionality of the issue has not been tested beyond the 9th Circuit.)

https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/05/16/1...
I guess it would be a form of countertrade of attention for content. Nonetheless I don't think a "trade" of social media content and ads should be something that is within the government's scope to ban. If TikTok was made ad-free, would that change your argument?
I've come to appreciate two things in salty ass tech culture:

* Don't say "hello" alone in DMs
* When you say "Just", whatever follows can be summarily replaced with "Go Fuck Yourself".

Summarized pretty well by [0], honestly.

[0]https://youtu.be/BOKpkWnrq4w?t=309 (timestamp important)
in no way are they on an even footing with the US, their wealth is more similar to Mexico.

there is a US-sized subset of China that is close to an even footing with the US, yes
The point being that there are countries other than the US and China.
Let's say it's the same situation as now. They made a super addictive app that doesn't have any overt nazism but it's fully under the control of the NSDAP, we don't know how the algorithm works, and they can bias it anytime they like. It's extremely popular and most young people use it. Would you say this is fine, yes or no?
In those cases what you are supposed to do is write your logic using unsafe, and wrap it with lifetime safe APIs. That way your "smartness" joins efforts with rusts, and not-so-smart people can use your APIs without having to be as smart.
Disclosure, I have a business in this.

This is what I saw as well. As a developer, I wanted access to enterprise HPC compute, but I'm also not going to do a PhD just to play around with these things. So, I got funding, started a business and bought 8 of them as a PoC test. We got customers, we got more funding, got a real datacenter, we bought 128 more. Crawl, walk, run.

You can now rent them by the minute from us for a few bucks an hour. Currently limited to docker containers for individual GPUs, but you can get a full bare metal 8x box too (with BIOS too!). Support for VM's is coming. If you want multiple boxes, we have the full 8x400G NICs too. The boxes are fully loaded with tons of enterprise NVMe, RAM and top core/clock Intel CPUs (not AMD cause Dell didn't have that as a solution).

Our model is to follow AMD's roadmap and buy/release their products as they come. We're currently debating the 325x and looking forward to / planning for the 355x.

Despite your desire, it will be a long time before there is a consumer version of these things. Especially as they move to more and more complex deployments. Look at the NV72 and the requirements around that... we can all guess where AMD is going. DC rails in the racks, DLC cooling, massive power requirements. It is only getting more and more capex/opex intensive.

Let's also not forget that AMD is really just a hardware manufacturer. When you buy a RX480 (I had 130,000 of these previously), it was from an OEM, like Sapphire, that could handle all the end user support.

This is why the whole NeoCloud industry has sprung up. Large clouds can only handle this pace by selling thousands at a time in multi-year contracts. We are taking the long tail and built a business around that. Short of doing everything we are doing yourself (which trust me, is not easy), your best bet is to work with companies like mine to get you access to this gear.

You can now rent them by the minute from us for a few bucks an hour. Currently limited to docker containers for individual GPUs, but you can get a full bare metal 8x box too. Support for VM's is coming. If you want multiple boxes, we have the full 8x400G NICs too. The boxes are fully loaded with tons of enterprise NVMe, RAM and top core/clock Intel CPUs (not AMD cause Dell didn't have that as a solution).
Waiting for a post where he writes a distributed database.
> When did the US citizens become so subservient to their government?

Technically speaking, they did in 1789. As to the practicality of it, the US government expanded massively from 1900-1950, so maybe during that time period. The FCC was formed in 1972, so on the issue of permissible purveyors of brain rot, maybe then.
It is absurd that users are not angry at TikTok for not protecting their data. Instead, TikTok weaponized the user base and made them belief that it is a free speech problem while they collected swaths of data and allowed it to leave US jurisdiction, into the hands of the Chinese government.

And Democrats just sucked at messaging. Its not a "TikTok ban". The message should have been about data protection.

And yes, it would be far better to pass something like the GDPR. But I guess, with the power of the US media companies, the TikTok law was a compromise.
Nobody is forced to gamble, shoot heroin, smoke cigarretes, etc. We still think it's a good idea, at the very least, to restrict them to adults, ban advertising, and similar restrictions.

Social media is possibly even more destructive than e.g. gambling. Yet it's routinely peddled to kids and pushed as practically mandatory to live in society.
I don't really care whether it's got a ton of people though. I do care if it's truly free and federated.

It's for the same reason I don't recommend Signal to anyone in my circle. I don't want to trade one walled garden for another (Signal still refuses third-party clients for example). I use Matrix which is truly open.
It definitely had something like this at least in beta within the last couple years, or maybe just based on the title.

But you’re completely right, GH search is truly bad
Well that's very naive. It sounds like reverse polarization. Thing A is so bad that Thing B is less bad just because it isn't Thing A.
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