skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know much about voting in other states, but Texas does have it. In a way. I never had to go anywhere to register to vote. It was a part of my DL application, and it got updated with each change of address. You don’t need the mail voter registration to vote either— just your DL. From my understanding there are some states where it’s still not that easy but many do have this integrated with DL renewals, issues or similar.

I agree that Election Day should be a holiday. There’s a slight issue with Federal Holidays being applying only to federal employees and not necessarily to independent businesses, which can choose to observe it or not… but it’s a start.

Also in Texas, the polls are open for early elections for like two weeks ahead of Election Day. I always take advantage of that. No wait, no hassle, in and out. Most states offer either that or mail-in voting.
As someone who has used TikTok, I don’t hate the outcome, but hate the mendacity with which it was executed. TikTok is brain rot, a better way of describing it is digital crack. You can spend hours and hours on TikTok in a numb state, with no sense of what’s going on in the world around you. If the government decided, this addiction is not good, let’s treat it like a drug and ban it, I would be all for it. But claiming it is a tool of Chinese Propaganda is absurd.

Anyone who uses TikTok, knows China can’t really gin up any propaganda through it.

Propaganda only works if it seduces, not if it bludgeons and China as a country never seems to be able to seduce. It’s Hollywood that gets exported to China, Xi Jinpings daughter studied at Harvard, not the other way around. China is a fashion victim of US propaganda if anything. The worst China could do, was artificially boost “how cool China is” TikTok’s, crudely ban TianMen Square TikTok’s and this does not convince anyone. It only encourages even more subversive TikTok’s, weakening its power further.

In fact I would claim, China not only has no power over those that use TikTok, but in its current regime, it has no pathway to ever influence those that use TikTok, even in the future. The Chinese regime is practically capable but culturally uncool. All that the American Regime has succeeded in banning TikTok, is embarrass the American Regime and reveal itself to be equally uncool in the eyes of Gen Z. If you browsed TikTok recently, you have seen probably all the ironic TikTok’s of Americans saluting the Chinese National Anthem. This irony from the younger generation, itself shows how uncool Congress has become. A culturally dominant regime, would have no reason to worry about enemy’s propaganda, and America didn’t realize it but it was very culturally dominant, now however it’s own insecurity has harmed its prestige significantly.
The internet has been dead for like 20 years dude. It's been over.
I don't think this is a data issue, but more of control over media in a sovereign nation. In a free market, can another sovereign nation hold a chunk of the market share in media? I don't know. All I can think of is the impact on regular everyday Americans who use TikTok to make a living.
In the 21st century the United States did this? In the 1980s? At what point do we compare countries in a modern era versus a bullet list of their historical record.

By that standard, Norway, Sweden and Denmark should be shunned for their slavery, raping, looting and imperialist colonizing abroad -- in the 10-11th centuries.
It's ridiculous. Who made their now so called adversary? Who shifted production to them?
On a slightly unrelated note, I am absolutely thrilled about tonybaloney’s other project[1] that automatically generates C# bindings for python. Can’t wait for it to support complete class mappings and finally I will be able to use python ‘type-safely’.

[1] https://github.com/tonybaloney/CSnakes
Not to mention incarceration rates, 119 vs 541 people per 100k. 4.5x difference to an oppressive state.
Richard Wolff: "Most People Have No Idea What's About to Happen" [video]
Unironically it is
Also, Beijing seems happy to help the drug cartels that sell into the US make fentanyl and help them launder their profits.
My wife struggles with shifting gears so an automatic shifter would make things easier for her.
> There wouldn’t be a push to the Red Book if that was the case.

Isn't Red Book pushed by angry titk tok users, just like blue sky was the reaction to Musk buying Twitter?

> I dislike that China has a firewall for American companies, but will gladly enter our market.

China was invited by the USA in the USA market.

In exchange for their cheap and educated labor force and growing market.

Ask Apple if it was good or bad for them to exploit the Chinese market and labor.

It's the USA that pushed to invite them in the WTO.

Is it too much to ask to the USA to reflect a little before acting?
I have a hard time watching anything for too long at 1.5-2x speed. After a while it feels like my internal monologue is running at the same speed and it's incrediblely distracting.
I’ve never used the Shimano system, but I have used the Bosch/Rohloff system. I would much prefer a mechanical shifter.

Pros of electronic controls: it will try to delay shifting until the minimum pedal torque part of the cycle (kinda cool, but I can do this myself just fine without even thinking about it), it will reduce motor torque (useful, but see before — if I pause pedaling for a split second, that will pause motor torque too), and it will automatically downshift when stopped (this is conceptually nice but so problematic that I turned it off).

Cons: you can’t shift large amounts quickly. And, critically, if the Bosch assist system craps out for any reason except low-but-not-quite-dead battery, the shifter will crap out along with it. This turns an oh-well-I-have-no-assist situation into a there’s-no-way-I’m-getting-this-bike-back-home situation.

The Rohloff system is a hub shifter, so all the fancy front derailleur management benefits don’t apply at all.
So "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" episode from the original "The Twilight Zone".
The article mentions in passing the Pirahã and Dan Everett, author of "Don't Sleep - There Are Snakes". The Pirahã have a very interesting language and culture, and the furor that Everett's writings incited is fascinating.
I'm very surprised no one took on this window of opportunity (as far as I can tell). Any new TikTok-like hip app that is not from any FAANG has a good chance of taking off
Ok so US doesn't want "socialist" influence in US and China doesn't want "capitalistic" influence in China. Eye for an eye. Problem solved.
> It’s interesting that they didn’t press the constitutionality of this. They fought over “free speech” where it’s more clear that this might be a bill of attainder or violation of the 14th amendment.

Please explain in layman's terms why do you believe the 14th amendment applies to the federal government rejecting a corporation owned and controlled by a totalitarian regime from operating within the US.
They tried the bill of attainder argument too.

The court of appeals thought about it and decided it wasn't. Start on page 59 of their ruling [0].

They tried to appeal this to the supreme court, the supreme court declined to hear that part of the case. See bottom of page 34 on their petition for a writ of certiorari [1].

[0] https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.40...

[1] http://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A587/335257/20241...
They should, and they should develop home-grown alternatives to these services. It's not that Tiktok shouldn't be banned, it's that Facebook and Twitter should also be banned. Megacorps should to be destroyed up regardless of their nation of origin.
It appears to be back online as of 8:30AM PT. I saw it down an hour ago or so, but seems to be operating as usual again now.

That was quicker than I had expected, though I thought they'd probably find a way to avert even a temporary shutdown to begin with.
It is most likely me reading too quickly. I was caught off guard by the article gaining traction in a Sunday, and as I have other duties during the weekend, I am reading/responding only when I can sneak in.

For your comment, I think you are right regarding compression of debug symbols that add up to the peak memory, but I think you are misleading when you think the debug symbols are uncompressed when the app/binary is started/loaded. Decompression only happens for me when this section is accessed by debugger or equivalent.
It is not the same thing as when the binary is fully compressed, like with upx for example.

I have done a quick sanity check on my desktop, I got.

[profile.release]
lto = "thin"
debug = true
strip = false

export RUSTFLAGS="-C link-arg=-Wl,--compress-debug-sections=zlib -C force-frame-pointers=yes"
cargo build --bin engine-gateway --release

From rss memory at startup I get ~128 MB, and after the panic at peak I get ~627 MB.

When compiled with those flags

export RUSTFLAGS="-C force-frame-pointers=yes"
cargo build --bin engine-gateway --release

From rss memory at startup I get ~128 MB, and after the panic at peak I get ~474 MB.

So the peak is taller indeed when the debug section is compressed, but the binary in memory when started is roughly equivalent. (virtual mem too)

I had some hard time getting a source that may validate my belief regarding when the debug symbol are uncompressed. But based on https://inbox.sourceware.org/binutils/20080622061003.D279F3F... and the help of claude.ai, I would say it is only when those sections are accessed.

for what is worth, the whole answer of claude.ai

The debug sections compressed with --compress-debug-sections=zlib are decompressed:

At runtime by the debugger (like GDB) when it needs to access the debug information:

When setting breakpoints
When doing backtraces
When inspecting variables
During symbol resolution

When tools need to read debug info:

During coredump analysis
When using tools like addr2line
During source-level debugging
When using readelf with the -w option

The compression is transparent to these tools - they automatically handle the decompression when needed. The sections remain compressed on disk, and are only decompressed in memory when required.
This helps reduce the binary size on disk while still maintaining full debugging capabilities, with only a small runtime performance cost when the debug info needs to be accessed.
The decompression is handled by the libelf/DWARF libraries that these tools use to parse the ELF files.
Is that true for elderly non-violent men confined in Japan? I thought solitary confinement was mostly a US barbarity. Does Japan use it as frequently?

The women discussed in the article had compulsory work. That's probably part of the appeal, it's good to stay busy and feel useful.
No, I just stopped contributing to the project and never touched Rust again.
Hmm if Saddam killed 50 thousand innocent Iraqis each year, and American intervention only cost 40k lives each year ... Then do we deduct 10, or add 40, to the "ten million" number you came up with?
That's the smallest of 4 experiments. It goes upto 140 million cells, where MI300X retains similar performance advantage of around 10% over Nvidia's H100.
Which they exert through promotion or demotion of speech. In the end it's still a free speech issue in my mind.
If Hacker News disappeared, would Reddit be an adequate replacement?
A FOSS plugin to mimic Service Desk on top of Github issues would be great.

You'd miss the infinite complexity of Jira workflow configuration, but that might be a good thing.
...?

Neither of the tools I listed require copy-pasting the resulting command. They show me the generated command, and I either agree to run it or not by hitting "y" or Enter. They both suck at adding the resulting command to history, though.

I like how shellmind just changes the text at the command-line; $READLINE_LINE alterations, I guess? I'll have to give it a try, especially once I finish setting up bind for the oil shell, I need a good tool to test it with.

Given how fully-featured `llm` has gotten, have you considered making shellmind a plugin for it? That would enable access to way more models. Just a thought.
> Can you understand how others might disagree with this assertion?

I can understand it, but it doesn't make it any less true.

> It doesn't matter if a foreign adversary has the ability to say words.

It matters when those words cause internal social division to the point where it starts destabilizing the nation. This is what we've been seeing in the past decade+, particularly in the US. One of the effects of information warfare is confusion in the victim, where they're not even certain if they're under attack, let alone by whom.

> They're just words.

Words are never "just" words. They're powerful and in the Information Age they can be weaponized at a massive scale thanks to the global platforms the US pioneered.

> Democracies run on words. If our society is going to fall apart because the Chinese say words, it's going to fall apart anyway.

Perhaps. But not at the rate it's falling apart as the subject of these attacks.

> Can you understand that many of us see state steering of narratives on the Internet as a fundamentally illegitimate activity for a government to be undertaking?

You can think of this however you want. But the fact of the matter is that those same freedoms you enjoy and require from your government have put you in a worse position geopolitically than countries that don't have them. Maybe it's time to rethink your priorities as a nation and sacrifice some of those personal freedoms for the greater good. Is watching silly videos really worth witnessing your country tear itself apart from the inside out?

I'm not taking sides in this matter, BTW. The US has been the perpetrator of many atrocities around the world, some of which have impacted me personally, but I think the world would be in a far worse position if other countries were policing it. I'm just pointing out that from this outsider's perspective... you're screwed.
Things censored from the article:

Shirtless pics

LGBTQ posts

My Hero Academia

The funny thing is, I saw videos from Chinese users that specifically mentioned not to post these things. I had to look up why the anime, and apparently the creator made choices that directly poked at old WW2 tensions between Japan and China.
I see, you prefer jobs outsourced to a deeply intertwined china.
China bans them. Europe, Canada and Australia are constantly trying to regulate the media parts of the business. If they had the capacity to built an alternative (like china) a ban or forced divestiture doesn’t seem that out there.
What reasons would a foreign government want information about foreign citizens of its adversary?

At the end of the day you are the outgroup when it comes to the CCP and it'd be best to remember that.
I don’t understand the question. You are currently using one of the most heavily moderated sites on the internet complaining that another platform which allows individuals to create their own clients which to view content published on the protocol has servers that you are not required to use that are too moderated?
Data collection is a worry of the previous decade, the recommendation algorithm is the battle ground, the US has decided that it much prefers having Meta push its white supremacist and gender wars drivel non stop than what was being shown in TikTok (Israeli atrocities)
For once I think Google's NotebookLM could actually be useful for something that benefits humanity.
> I’m smarter than it is

Given how many important projects maintained by smart people have dealt with bugs that safe Rust makes impossible, I'm inclined to doubt that.
I do! Admittedly I don't write enough on the blog, but it does have an RSS and Atom feed.

I use Jekyll, and it was about the same amount of effort as making a age that lists out all the entries in HTML. For me it was mostly just for funsies, but I do know it gets pretty regular traffic
they didn't demand it be sold to the US. they just said it can't be owned by china, NK, Russia, Iran. a European company could buy it and everyone could keep using it.
Linux Bluetooth got upgraded to best in class when Microsoft replaced the windows 7 Bluetooth stack with the present heap of flaming garbage.

Bluetooth works better under modern Linux than modern windows. I can go on for literal hours about this. Windows Bluetooth stack is the most broken and disgraceful pile of code I've ever had to work with.
Ah, interesting! I just read the arguments from the supreme court case and not the whole history of the thing.

Reading the appeals court case, it appears that they did agree with it being a bill of attainder but decided the national security implications overruled it?
This is such an infantilising take. Adults are fully capable of seeking out good advice.
Given enough time - subvert your government. Take control of your country :))
Sounds like a "shortage of (quality) labor" problem. Industrial products are great, but craftsmanship is lacking because almost nobody can afford it.
Currently living in an 1800's converted church. It's ridiculously well insulated and solid. It's -15 outside but with a little fireplace, and $50 in oak slabwood per month, I'm solid in the winter. The upstairs stays 22 and only drops 2 degrees at night. Meanwhile my old condo had a 4 foot "cold front" in front of the floor to ceiling windows.
I would have said something very close to zeofig's answer, with the one significant change being to say that a deterministic system is itself a very boring kind of Markov chain where all states' transition probabilities are exactly 0 or 1.
Good luck.

With a derailleur, no amount of e-shifting magic can shift while stopped. And even with a hub shifter, most “automatic” systems I’ve used have an annoying failure in which you slow or stop briefly, try to start pedaling again, and discover that the system has chosen that moment to downshift several steps and you actually can’t go anywhere until it’s done.
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I lost interest in Bluesky when I got an “account required” blocker after I clicked on a Bluesky post link.

UPDATE: OK, didn't realize it was a configurable setting. I guess I ran into it a few times and assumed it was a default block. Thanks for the clarification.
Does the constitution apply everywhere?

We take the global world for granted, but it is made up of sovereign states many of them have their own constitution.
Let's put aside freedom of speech and Meta v China for a moment:

Has anyone suspected foreign interference in our social media during the height of the culture wars in the last decade? We had people encouraging civil unrest on the Left (whenever there was some police shooting or event where racism was suspected), and we had people encouraging civil unrest on the right (an immigrant committed a crime, or similar). We had puppet trolls in Twitter, Facebook, Reddit etc.

Russia and the United States have been doing this to each other - stirring civil unrest with propaganda - since the 1950s. It's an old war.

Does that not merit consideration in this conversation?
"Preferably using shadcn/react/supabase. I don't want to reinvent the wheel here."

Respectfully, you don't need supabase for a landing page with waitlist especially when you don't want to reinvest the wheel. You have several options:

1. Find a WordPress theme that has the form built in. The fastest out of the box setup you will find.

2. If you don't want WordPress, then there are plenty of static HTML templates you can find. Just google "Landing Page Templates with Waitlist". One example for you [0]

For Option 2, you can connect the form to an existing API from any email provider like mailchimp, loops, etc. If you want to self host, you can get something like sendy [1] or listmonk [2]

[0] https://cruip.com/demos/waitlist/

[1] https://sendy.co/ (PHP Based)

[2] https://listmonk.app (Golang based)
Sometimes I wish I could upvote twice in replies like this.
I agree with you, but in fact I have nurtured within myself a healthy skepticism that, so far, has protected me from scams, etc. I feel like skepticism is a powerful weapon against propaganda.

Ask yourself, "Does that person have something to gain by lying?" "Yes" should immediately raise a red flag and you can go from there.
Yes, plenty of people say crazy things. So what? If we want to uphold free speech we have to take the good with the bad. If we don't, Congress can cross the aisle and write a new amendment.

I don't want the CCP, or any government, dictating what I see. Thankfully they really can't. They can dictate what is online on various sites and apps, but they can't dictate what I consume. I've never used TikTok personally, the CCP hasn't dictated anything to me at least on that front because I can choose what I look at.
> If you can't or refuse to understand the danger of having totalitarian regimes destabilize your country,

I happen to be born in a country where the US have controlled every single elections for 50 years, at least.

I know what happens when you refuse to obey to them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGHXjO8wHsA

My "so what" should be read as: does this really sounds new to you? haven't you heard about stuff like "operation condor"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor
> So then some CS drone has to answer the ticket about what I was banned. They know that 999 of every 1000 tickets are lying, so they just automatically close it with no recourse. It's not worth the company's resources to make a recourse process.

In other words, classic corporate greed. As for that 1 in 1000, they're making the product they paid for unusable, which should be illegal. I'm aware it's not in many jurisdictions as you're buying a license and what not, but it should be. In places with strong consumer protections like Germany or Australia, Activision could likely get fined over this kind of behavior.
> But claiming it is a tool of Chinese Propaganda is so absurd.

It is a tool of chinese propaganda and surveillance.
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I'd wish there were a CLI variant, though.
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> Does releasing the Putnam answers make winning a mathematics olympiad less meaningful, after all I can copy those answers easily.

Yes, it would make winning a math olympiad meaningless if the exact problems could be copied by someone and submitted as their own. Of course this is not how written exams work, which makes your comparison meaningless.

The same arguments can be applied not just the first 100 problems, but to all of them. To me, seeing someone that has solved more than 300 problems is incredibly impressive. It would not be so if every Dick and Harry could copy them and submit them as their own.
I don’t think it’s even close to a bill of attainder.

For one, it targets a class of companies operating from a collection of countries, not an individual person (and SCOTUS has never ruled on corporate personhood for the purposes of being a bill of attainder).

Secondly, the law in question does not declare a corporation guilty of any crime, it just offers restrictions on foreign control of certain businesses.

Third, the law targets non-American holdings, making it less likely that it could be considered a bill of attainder, since laws directly targeting foreign countries and agents thereof have been accepted in American law.
>Of course all of us here do!

Phew. You had me worried there for a second.
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