skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it's that then it's even worse. There surely are powers dividing Americans but the biggest threat isn't foreign. It's internal, slowly manipulating public opinion to trap the country into an oligarchy.

I am aware of the irony here. I'm Brazillian and the vice president based his entire campaign on the false threat of an internal actor distabilizing the country, in this case the communists. It's the same thing in US but it's a foreign actor to blame. Curious how the narrative always fits the agenda.

Rule of thumb, if the political geist points one way the problem most likely lies in the opposite way.
They don't need their own app for that. American companies are more than happy to sell all of that to the highest bidder.
TrackPoint is the only reason that keeps me buying ThinkPads.
Installing ROCm is easy and well documented [0].

Anush (AMD VP of AI software) has had a fire lit under his butt after the recent SemiAnalysis article [1] and is actively taking feedback on improving the experience. If you have specific things you'd like to see, I'm more than happy to forward them onto him (contact in my profile).

[0] https://rocm.docs.amd.com/en/latest/

[1] https://semianalysis.com/2024/12/22/mi300x-vs-h100-vs-h200-b...
There's gen 1, gen 2 and gen 2 low profile, appeared in that order. Gen 2 and later with maximum sensitivity(separate from mouse speed/acceleration) should nearly completely solve that problem, the default is way too heavy.
There was no executive order. Turning off Tiktok yesterday was a highly successful political stunt.
On the other hand, you have to ask if we want a society where you can generate massive wealth by peddling addictive substances to people.

And that's what "just don't get addicted" doesn't track.

I'm not sure where to draw that line when it comes to social media, but there's more to the convo and we probably do want to figure out where that line is or isn't.
The fact Twitter bought Vine and just shut it down still blows my mind. Sometimes I wonder what things would look like if they kept it alive. At the very least, I don't think Elon could have bought Twitter.
Yeah, I (try to) cycle and play tennis, but due to some circumstances both are less frequent than I'd like. You need to lift weights too, though, to build and maintain muscle, so there's no getting out of that. I'll definitely need to do more cardio, though.

Thanks!
Trade has been within the purview of the government, every government really, to regulate since basically forever.

It's not a content-based restriction, and yeah, trade wars can kinda suck, even for end consumers, no denying that.
I'm an American, and I have worked for both Zuck-owned and Chinese-owned companies, and you really, REALLY might want to re-think your stance. It's extremely ironic that we as Americans have this "question authority" thing so deeply ingrained in our DNA that it pushes us towards authoritarianism just to be contrarian.
Gauntlet AI is an intensive 12-week AI training
Also allow the baby to read minds and see through walls - that triggered a burst of nostalgia for the comic Strontium Dog:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strontium_Dog
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Correct, TikTok itself is banned in China, which makes the complaints about it being banned in the US even more hilarious.
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Trump wants 50% US ownership in a joint venture for Tiktok. Shouldn't be a problem since 60% of bytedance ownership is already non-China (probably a lot of it already US investors - General Atlantic/SIG)

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1138556168486...
He's either been radicalized by his own platform, or he's intentionally being provocative to drive engagement, to drive ad revenue. It's disgusting.

The hypocrisy is absurd. Like telling everyone to go fuck themselves, and then hours later, pleading for users to post more positive content... or making a big show of being worried about using AI untruthfully, and then repeatedly posting AI-generating images smearing people he doesn't like. Pretending like no one had "free speech" until he bought the platform, and then selectively banning vocal dissent he doesn't like.

He's a child. Such a waste.
I don't know the story but why does a language ever fail? Lack of good tooling support, lack of buy-in from large projects, lack of use-cases, crowded market, etc. Not only does every new language (at the time) need to have similar ergonomics to the existing landscape, they also need compelling features to escape the inertia that keeps developers within one ecosystem.
Remember when we overthrew Saddam’s government because Iraq had WMDs?
A house that lasts long will stay well longer, you don't want to live in a house that will fall apart next year.
It sounds dumb/cliche but the answer is to simply make good content. Anything else would just be spam and then you're competing with other spammers.
There is no "great firewall" on my side and there never will be.
I'm struck by the complete lack of confidence in statements like this.

We've got the whole world wearing blue jeans and listening to our music, mostly communicating on our tech platforms. English is the default language for international business. One Chinese social media company and its game over? Have some faith in your culture.
Not a thing. I don’t use actions yet, just the primary repo management UI. I don’t know if I could tell the difference.
Should we outlaw refined sugar? There's definitely debate to be had on a lot of these things, but I'm having a hard time reconciling banning adults from using something that they personally enjoy and doesn't bother anybody else if you care about freedom/liberty.
> I think you would really struggle to convince any US court that without a right to rebroadcast the ticket contract was unreasonable.

I don't know about that. Suppose something happens at the game that reflects poorly on the organizers. Could they then demand that all the fans who caught it on their phones are not allowed to distribute it? That seems about as reasonable as sticking a contract on the purchase of any other product that prohibits the customer from criticizing the product, i.e. not reasonable at all.

You're also stating it backwards. It isn't that the ticket is failing to grant you a right to "rebroadcast" the game, it's that it's trying to take away your default right to relay things you've seen with your own eyes. Notice that it's the presence rather than the absence of a term which is causing the issue.
hey guys, made a small tool to bulk download your tiktoks now that it's banned, you can try it for free :)
No one said anything about the European Union. Let's say our hypothetical modern Nazi Germany is in fact conducting the holocaust. Would you be okay with your kids using their funny dancing app?
Do you realize that the same exact logic can apply to any US company abroad? Not just social networking, _any_ company. We are everyone else's "geopolitical adversary" too. Or is it "different" and I "don't understand"?
The CEOs probably do, at least for their own companies.
So change it to big-pharma-bros, big-four-bros (kpmg, delloite, ey, pwc), wall st-bros, big-three-bros (s&p, moody's, fitch), religion-bros... my point is that billionaries will always be around and there's nothing we can do.
There was only 64% election turnout in 2024. People are not as politically radicalized and polarized as media companies say to increase engagement. Some people are, but the problem is being exaggerated for clicks and views.
But America IS a dangerous and silly country. Source: I live here.
Tiktok has been working for the last 40 minutes for me after going dark last night.

Some thoughts from Donald Trump: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1138556168486...
Same. I've preferred thinkpads since the 90s. If the track point goes, I have no reason to stick with them.
You cannot since it's missing time zone
This was in the ‘90s. About the time the ink was still wet on that spec.

It was in C++, and I couldn’t do 100%, but I probably got about 80% (but not so performant). The weirdest thing, if I remember correctly, was pixel data with different sizes between stored components.
Old twitter switched you all the time. I even used a plugin to switch me back.

I've never knew been switched since the acquisition.
It makes the whole world blind
"Infinite scroll" apps are harvesting your attention for ad revenue. That's what they are designed to do.
So, I should simply be able to opt out of google entirely. glad we agree.
That's like saying the notion of "citizenship" (which serves to discriminate between in-group and out-group) is the "path" to fascism. That's literally how ever nation-state in this world works, we live in a world of sovereign states where the applicability of law only exists in the context of each individual sovereign. Non-Citizens are not afforded the same rights as Citizens. And Citizens pledge allegiance to solely their Sovereigns against other Sovereigns.

If you don't like this, you are free to forgoe your citizenship and the benefits of the protection of the state to live statelessly.
Is anyone aware of any opinion poll among US population about banning tiktok? This to me feels like one of the issues with potentially largest disconnect between voters and politicians

Edit: found one from Pew. "The share of Americans who support the U.S. government banning TikTok now stands at 32%." Sept 05, 2024. In contrast, 87% US lawmakers voted for the law that caused this.
No one cares what badge of pride you choose to wear. Only the output. If an LLM produces working solutions, that's what your audience will appreciate. Not a self imposed title you chose for the project.
I think Europe should ban the US social media as well as the Chinese ones.
TikTok restores service, thanks Trump
Your understanding of the situation is incredibly naive. TikTok can selectively suppress or emphasize viewpoints that are geopolitically advantageous to China that are not as overt as "China GOOD!" or whatever you imagine propaganda to be.

This is studied and proven to be happening already: https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/A-Tik-Tok-ing...
Feels like they published this statement a day early as Trump is not yet president. Whoops.
>Why not call for the dismantling of the global advertising networks in the US

Yes, we should do this also.
Yes i think thats great. Does it give users a way to make decisions on how algorithms are used? On what the platform is called? On when someone should be banned? What should be penalties for breaking the rules? For writing any of the rules?

Just because we can have fact-checking doesn't mean we get to participate in the decision making process. A news station in a country is not the same as voting or having representation in legislation.
OpenAI has the FrontierMath dataset; the mathematicians involved were unaware
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Me and my friend built an unique content based Recommendation System, where user can just select Anime or write synopsis and our system will find the most similar anime available. We used Qdrant Vector Database for the Recommendations.

Other Features includes, Streaming, Custom watchlist creation and sharing of watchlists. We update our Database regularly and plan to introduce new features in future.
Yes, except in a lot of languages, a Promise is the representation of the result of a computation that may already be happening, whereas an IO is a computation that will have data injected into it by some interpreter. But it's a very close comparison, in the sense that both represent contexts that future computation can be appended on. Also, in some languages, the Promise type is truly monadic.
The straight up "shout out" in the pop-up, I almost couldn't believe my eyes.

I don't think I've seen anything like it in a long time. I also don't think an American company would ever do that as it seems "unprofessional." Ironically, it probably got them huge bonus points so they know what they're doing.
No one forces you to smoke cigarettes, but claiming that it's purely a decision ignores a major confounder: they are addictive. Social media is the product of thousands of A/B tests to arrive at the most engaging (addictive) platform possible.
Do you have any article that I can read about it? Sounds interesting!
I'm happy to see it go. I don't like them at all, and they're in the way of typing. It feels awful when I hit it by mistake because it has no 'give'. I always remove the little red hood to make it easier but you're still stuck with a hole in the keys.

What I find much much more of a problem is the awful keyboards on ThinkPads these days. My T490s was the last with a serviceable keyboard. My new T14s has too little travel. It's awful to work on. Strange enough it hasn't become thinner due to the crap keyboard because at the same time they made the screen a lot thicker.

Ps I don't like trackpads either. They're ok in emergencies but usually I just bring my mouse.
Observations from improving a RAG chatbot from useless to amazing
So once again it took the incoming president-elect Trump and for Biden to lose to intervene and reverse this ban and give an extension to TikTok.

If Biden or Harris won the election, TikTok would have been completely banned with zero intervention at all as you have seen with how it went and Biden whilst still being president would have done nothing and it took Trump to stop it.

Seriously the Democrats made themselves look very bad with this situation.
HN is not intentionally engineered to be as addictive as possible now, is it?
If there's a spectrum of harm that includes speeding 5mph over the limit and abusing heroin, I have a pretty good idea where I might put watching cat videos on your phone.
Just post your stuff and interested people would subscribe.

I already have 18 subscribers on my small blog - https://rxjourney.com.ng
Amazing stunt: The establishment tried to limit freedom of speech and Trump saved the day. Probably a pre-agreed sequence of events.

Never mind that it was him who initially trued to ban it.

Nevertheless a positive development.
Yes I also trust the federal government unequivocally and without question. They didn’t tell me any details but I don’t need any, their word is good enough. In fact I will tell others so they are aware of the new gospel.
Bingo, bango, boingo. Just another way to help manipulate people into thinking Trump saved the day, once again. TikTok played the propaganda just right.
That he's a Mormon who watches porn, or that civit.AI is government-controlled?
It is a relevant example that directly contradicts the general statement made about the motivations for bipartisan consensus, not whataboutism.
Actually is extremely simple. I learned by looking the original papers[0]

As you say, just lots of bad examples online. The only thing that made me a little bit crazy at the beginning, was the fact that TCP is a stream without delimiters, no packet concept. Other than that, is not more difficult than writing and reading a file.

[0] https://docs-archive.freebsd.org/44doc/psd/20.ipctut/paper.p...

Another useful resource: https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/

Edit: beej seems already cited and beloved
"If you're using Linux as a sysadmin or on the desktop, try our new easy-to-install PQConnect tool, which wraps end-to-end post-quantum cryptography around unmodified applications."

Long before NaCl was adopted in popular software projects, at the end of one his talks, djb promised an stunnel-like program that used NaCl.

Would be nice to have an stunnel-like program using libmcliece.
Voting isn't hard and costs nothing

People who don't vote have no right to complain about the government.

Arguments like yours are used by lazy people to justify non-participation. You aren't helping them by making excuses for them.
> "Step 1: Apply by January 4"

More than 2 weeks ago, so I guess we don't need to engage much deeper than that, eh?

But really, this looks less like training, and more like the most insane interview process we've seen yet.
Requirements:

..

* Ability to dedicate up to 100 hours per week

If you are doing 'hardcore learning', I'd expect you need 8 hours of sleep at night. 247 - 87 - 100 = 12.

I guess if you eat every meal in 20 minutes, and don't drive anywhere this is totally doable!
That’s rich coming from Europe. You guys pillaged rest of the world for 700 years. Took all the gold from the Americas then proceeded enslave Africans for centuries. And normalized it. Play by the rules? What rules?
My 12 year old daughter just walked over excited that Tik Tok was working again. I’m like “I wonder if Trump worked over the weekend to fix Tik Tok.” Sure enough: https://wgme.com/news/nation-world/tiktok-begins-restoring-s.... She gave me a high five lol.
It's coming back: https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/19/24347280/tiktok-ban-shutd...

Anecdote says the app is currently having network trouble, so I expect there's some devops minions having a sweaty moment, but the ban is (to be) postponed (and in the meanwhile not enforced).
Show HN: Anime Recommendation and Streaming Website
Me and my friend built an unique content based Recommendation System, where user can just select Anime or write synopsis and our system will find the most similar anime available. We used Qdrant Vector Database for the Recommendations.

Other Features includes, Streaming, Custom watchlist creation and sharing of watchlists. We update our Database regularly and plan to introduce new features in future.
Honestly, it's about time. The US and UK/Commonwealth are the only countries whose constitution hasn't ever been updated to match reality in many hundreds of years other than maybe a few cosmetic patches. Everyone else has had their constitution, laws, customs, in some times even the very borders itself or real estate ownership turned over and rebooted from scratch, for some not just once but twice or more.

And that shows, not just in a society that has a wealth inequality not seen since landed gentry in the medieval ages, but also with the complete and utter breakdown of public trust in government itself and the shift towards ever more absurd populism. Or if you want something really small, the fact that elections in the US are still held on a Tuesday because Sunday was Mass Day and Monday was reserved for travel on horseback.
no, it’s a content and editorial restriction. it is not merely trade.
can you elaborate on typing out for didactic purposes, please?
that’s not what a false flag is unless you’re saying the US secretly gassed the Kurds and blamed it on Iraq
Trump literally originated it back then.

Trump is not a president yet.
H.R.369: To provide for the elimination of the Department of Education
> The canonical "Hello World" program in Dylan.

// File library.dylan:

Module: dylan-user

define library hello
use dylan;
use io, import: { format-out };
end;

define module hello
use dylan;
use format-out;
end;

// File hello.dylan:

Module: hello

format-out("Hello!\n");

Give me a break, that is the most insane hello world I have very seen in my life, and I've seen brainfuck. The idea that one must also `use dylan;` in every file in a language named dylan is just stupid, going the extra mile to appear to the untrained eye to be an unused import since the next line is the import that actually matters
I see so many people arguing against the effectiveness of propaganda as if they think an opinion is arrived at deterministically with the same access to facts. Utterly insane.
Wonder why this is being advertised on the front page then.
Timezones are always the doom of programmers.
I'm just saying the US govt hasn't been historically that big on certain types of speech, for better or worse.
Zuckerberg appeared to know Llama trained on Libgen
HN is rife with downvote (and in some cases, flagging) abuse. So the echo chamber is more self-imposed by the brahmins rather than curated.

Slashdot had a superior moderation system whereby the ability to downvote (mod points) was given out selectively and in limited quantity. In all honestly it was years ahead of its time.
Really puts the auto- in didact! Very curious to hear how this worked for you; it’s almost directly the opposite of the copilot approach.

I learned assembler by typing in listings from magazines and hand dis-assembling and debugging on paper. Your approach seems similar in spirit, but who has the times these days?
I live near Wolfsburg and the Volkswagen Currywurst is readily available in some supermarkets around here.
It's hands down the best Currywurst you can get.
And it is really being produced by Volkswagen - in contrast to their also kinda famous ketchup which is nowadays produces by develey and just branded VW.

Also the article is a bit imprecise on the part of swapping it for a vegan alternative in the headquarters: that was only one of several canteens in the headquarters (Volkswagen Markenhaus).
Absolutely. Also TV, newspapers, radio, streaming services, billboards, gas pumps, professional sports, etc.
Incredible.

Isn't ByteDance already owned 60% by international (mostly American) investors?

https://usds.tiktok.com/who-owns-tiktoks-parent-company-byte...
No. My point is that the US is hypocritical about this. Every excuse is found to not call this protectionism. It is protectionism, period.

If Huawei smartphones are a national security threat that justifies a ban, then Xiaomi smartphones are as well. But those are not banned. Why? Because the ban is more for protectionism than for security reasons. Just own it, that's fine.
The difference is communists spying on Americans vs Americans spying on Americans.
Sure, it's an old trope to sit back and ask for examples, pretending your epistemic standard is whether someone on a forum can muster up the examples, and then when nobody does or you wave them away, you've proved that something isn't happening. You've done the investigation.

https://www.newsweek.com/gen-z-infected-antisemitism-spreadi...
Yes! That sound good to me actually.
Using your Apple device as an access card in unsupported systems
> Co-Star, the astrology SaaS, is apparently written with a Haskell backend. I'd love to have seen the casting call for that.

They have a page about it: https://www.costarastrology.com/why-haskell/

It does one of the things I find most annoying about Haskell programmers, which is that they think the language is magic just because it has ADTs.

> HASKELL MAKES ILLEGAL STATES UNREPRESENTABLE.

That's not true!

It's especially not true for numeric programming, Haskell really doesn't provide good support for that. Basically only Ada and dependent-type languages do.
I released a tiny toy fun project under the GPL. It’s the kind of thing that no one could possible want to monetize, but the first PR was someone pleading the case that I should relicense to something more friendly, like MIT. I’d never before been so instantly tempted to ban someone from a project.
GMail sends both HTML and plaintext versions by default.
China should also unblock YouTube and Twitter/X, Facebook if US decided to reverse its decision on Tiktok.
I worry the most about app stores.
> everyone’s “For You” page is different—driven largely by a user-led algorithm rather than top-down editorial control.

But do you really know this? Just because your homepage is different from other people, doesn't mean there isn't a thumb on the scale.

Of course, Meta and the like also tweak their algorithms, in their case to maximize engagement and profit. Who knows what TikTok might be optimizing for?

I personally think we should regulate the shit out of all these things, especially the hyper-addictive short-form video brain rot, and especially for children.
No they're still the same. ThinkPads got a middle button though.