skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hopeless to expect every member of the military to be thoughtful about cybersecurity. If they'll openly share nuclear secrets & base protocols publicly, anything is fair game.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2021/05/28/us-soldiers-expos...
This despite the brilliant defense argument of “that wasn’t fraud because everyone should have known I was lying”…which was also the Fox News defense…and is presumably how the executive branch officially works as of tomorrow.
I would argue this is a bad example because it will lead into a conversation about monopolies, which is off-topic.

Restrictions are fine, but they need to apply broadly -- this law was specifically targeted at a single US entity, owned by a foreign entity. To me, who has only coarsely read up on this due to his account being cut off because I originally signed up with a US phone number when I lived in the US; it seems as though a bunch of rich people got mad that someone else in another country was getting rich.

Keep in mind that I am just now even caring about this situation, so I'm coming in with fresh eyes and limited history. In any case...

> it is not clear to me that it’s unconstitutional to make a law that a foreign company can’t operate a certain type of business in America.

Of course they can. My only issue is that they are targeting a specific entity and punishing them for being owned by someone in another country, which seems unconstitutional. If they targeted all companies, big or small, it would be different. I may not like it, but it wouldn't be questionable.
TIL Lenovo makes a standalone keyboard with a TrackPoint nub: https://www.lenovo.com/au/en/p/accessories-and-software/keyb...

Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ-0WRju2Zc
The models can and will reproduce a lot of their training set given the correct prompt [0]. How you can know you're infringing a license if the model doesn't tell you from which repository it got "inspired" for generating that code?

GitHub was working on a feature which supposedly tells you which repository the snippet you just got is copied from, or IOW, which repositories have similar code, sorted by date. Effectively pushing the blame further on you by making you spend the time you just saved by investigating which repository provided the code you just got from "AI".

Supposedly, if the license is not friendly, you can delete the snippet and write your own version. :)

[0]: https://x.com/docsparse/status/1581461734665367554
You're analogizing the freedom to access the internet to driving on the wrong side of the road?
Every government lawyer in the country was investigating Trump since 2015 and the best they could find was he paid off a pornstar. You can’t accuse someone of being on the take for nearly a decade without eventually putting up or shutting up.
Billionaires chose to move our manufacturing overseas so they could make more money. The working class didn't stop them when we had the chance.
In Scheme what you want to do is allocate a big bytevector and use it over and over. This is what I already do outside of Wasm. I don't want or need linear memory involved, I just want access to my (array i8) from JS.
By its wording, no, because it applies to "Congress". Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

A later amendment is held to have "incorporated" this prohibition against the state governments as well, though that amendment doesn't actually specify anything in particular. ("No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.")

It is frequently argued that some act of the government violates the free speech rights of foreigners living abroad, which is to say that whatever it was the government did fell into the class of behaviors prohibited by the first amendment. People tend to find that argument weird; I don't know what its batting average is.

Summing up, nothing extends rights to foreigners, but since the first amendment is a prohibition on the government rather than a grant of rights to certain protected people, foreigners arguably enjoy equal protection.
> Take control of your destiny.

Deck is stacked against them from birth. The entire system discourages from a young age what you're proposing. So if these kids feel so disenfranchised (and often filled with misinformation) from a young age, it's entirely unreasonable for us to expect them to "step up" in a vacuum.

You need better systems in place from the beginning to help someone become a better person.
There are plenty of smaller houses in Pompeii. Another thing to consider is that the ash covered basically the first floor of buildings, while the upper floors were either blown away by blast or pillaged by later generations. So there could have been one or two upper floors of accommodation for poorer people no longer visible. Also possible there were lower quality buildings on the town outskirts that haven't survived. Archeology understandably focuses on the larger villas.
People seem to misunderstand this metaphor. It’s not about what type of tech the revolution is broadcasted on, it’s about the fact that you’ll be sitting there watching the revolution from the comfort of wherever you are. You will not be doing anything to actually be apart of the revolution, making the revolution more for your entertainment than your detriment/benefit.
Hi HN, I’ve built ZapUp to help small businesses increase email subscribers through customizable, mobile-friendly pop-ups. I’d appreciate your feedback!
I hate to be blandly negative, but this deserves (deserved?) it. This is dumb. Message boards had this property, as did blogs. There is nothing meaningful in this short essay.

Edit: if you think message boards and blogs were too specific, here are a couple of other media with this property: radio and television.
Yes, polls are an imperfect tool. But I think they remain the only tool we have to gauge what decisions coming out of Washington are product of broad popular support vs ones product of intense lobbying from shadowy powers.
They’ll blame it on AI deepfakes even then.
In practice it only detracts a little bit. You can enable GHC extensions project-wide and there are alternate standard libraries (preludes) that are more modern.

If you want a language that is very Haskell-like without the historical baggage or the laziness, PureScript is very good. It’s main compile target is JavaScript, so it’s built for different use cases.
Tibet was a feudal society. The only people who were "crushed" were the people landowners and the elite monks.

Both sides of the strait want the status quo in Taiwan for various reasons. Detent would be the correct approach instead of further military armament. It would be like if the Soviet Union continued to militarize Cuba from the Cuban missile crisis until the current day.

I'm more concerned about the genocide in Gaza than some CIA assets in Germany playing make-believe.
But TikTik is an important forum for the people of the world to solve our thorny issues! In the days before social media, our world was a mess. Today we are awash in sage, well-reasoned discourse: a new Age of Enlightenment! What fools we'd be to tinker with this valuable information ecosystem. /s
Again, that an opinion that will need to be tested in the courts.

You will have to explain why Hunter Thompson copying every word of every Hemingway novel isn't copyright infringement, but a computer doing the same is.
Well I can understand where they're coming from. The discussions have become so polarised and so nasty.

What is happening a lot here in Holland now that the hard-right crowd are constantly spamming topics about totally unrelated issues with stuff like "There are only 2 genders". I don't mind them having an opinion (even though I strongly disagree), I just don't want it shoved in my face constantly and inappropriately. It's like they are so preoccupied with what's happening in other people's pants that they can't talk about anything else.

So yeah that is something I don't want to see in social media anymore and I avoid platforms that allow it. Like Xitter.
TikTok has already received multiple "interest to acquire" letters, including the one from Perplexity that would keep all existing investors fully intact.

Having that along with a republican majority in both the congress and the senate this isn't going to be difficult for Trump to fulfill the requirements of the law.
Chinese buyers interested in German Volkswagen factories, source
So to put it bluntly, sweet talking a president-elect can overturn a Supreme Court decision? Interesting political culture.
Without more context it sounds like you're quoting an old democratic politician. Obviously.
The key question is whether you think Nazis have the right to express their views freely. It used to be that everyone agreed this to be the case, but we are in the process of learning a very hard lesson that allowing Nazis the right to express their views freely only gives them power to restrict our speech later on.
B I N G O
How are we going to find the clit now?
> This is not to say that a ban is the only option here. But I am not convinced that other control options are effective, or less of a danger.

We're definitely in agreement here, there are other options and all have their pros and cons.

The major risk I see with the TikTok ban is that it wasn't actually a TikTok ban, it gave the president new powers to unilaterally ban services in certain situations.

As far as TikTok goes the ban may be more effective. At a minimum I wish the law was specific to them though, and I can't support it simply for the new executive powers created.
> Is it possible that TikTok solved their problem by purchasing $6 billion worth of Trump’s meme coin?

Yep
do you not remember being 12?
this is on the edge of becoming a shitshow...
>Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead…

It is just the oligarchy as the above mentions. The take over startedwith Reagan, then Citizens United ruling locked in their power.

It is already here.
We did a similar format, to allow editable "JPEGs." The IFD of a JFIF container was normal, except that we added a second entry, with the raw source of the image.

Traditional readers saw a JPEG (although an unusually obese one), but our software could access the second entry, which contained the raw source, and the control parameters for all the processing steps that resulted in the JPEG, so we could treat the image as nondestructive, and reversible.

It was never actually released, if I remember, but it may well be patented.

TIFF was originally designed to store drum scanner data, in realtime, so it uses strips, as opposed to tiles.
The fact they they were willing to risk significant legal exposure in order to use this dataset suggests it's worth considerably more than 5 dollars to them. Zuck isn't putting his ass on the line for a Big Mac.
That isn't so tiny.

This is tiny. https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert
Wow, you’re still interested in learning at close to 50. That’s commendable. I did my masters at CMU robotics, and I would recommend doing it. Most students will be under 30, but CMU is a very practical school with an actual focus on building and programming robots, so if you’re proactive you can wet your feet plenty during your masters programme. Don’t expect to learn much from courses though, most of the learning happens in your off time in robotics projects or when doing robotics research with professors, and in that CMU is really good
Why are soldiers allowed to bring GPS-enable consumer smartphones along with them on top-secret deployments in the first place?
Technically, and unfortunately, yes. They are a single-issue organization, and that single issue takes precedence over any other consideration. I doubt many of them who are involved are happy about him being able to use this to consolidate, but there are always external effects when you have a single major priority (especially if it's a good one).
She watches videos about ancient Egypt, her friends lip syncing to songs, and knitting. The content on Tik Tok is way better than the trash on network TV or Hollywood movies.

I consider the Chinese oversight a plus. It’s much more sensitive to Asian values for the most part.
ExpShield: Safeguarding Web Text from Unauthorized Language Modeling
Hope my post didn't come across as complaining because I agree! Wasm is great right now for lots of things, just wanted to highlight a use case that isn't great yet.
Not incredible at all. Expected.
The 1st Amendment applies to US citizens' freedom to read/receive communications from non-US citizens (or i.e. read books by non-American authors). That's not under dispute: the current SCOTUS ruling both acknowledges, and sidesteps, that.
"Experts do not believe the sudden liquidity of local currency will help this issue."
True, avoiding all posts with "Trump" or "Elon" would be amazing. I don't live in the US either and it's just too much drama for me.

It was the same with Brexit. Those 2 years I got so fed up with that constantly repeating discussion about separating goods & services which they knew was impossible from the start.
You should talk to the ACLU.
Get them straighten out.

https://action.aclu.org/send-message/tell-congress-no-tiktok...
https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/banning-tiktok-i...
I wonder if those numbers would change if people read the same intel reports and knew how far the Chinese spies are up our asses.
That would be a lot more interesting to me if it had a stylus and handwriting recognition.
I don’t think we should rule out the existence of digital heroin e.g. a digital experience so compelling that humans forget to eat.

Whether short form video is this or not is debatable, I’d be surprised if there wasn’t a digital media experience even more addictive.
IGNT: Tinder for Cofounders: Build your startup in 30 days
Starting a startup just got simpler. Imagine this: you don’t need to hunt for co-founders, brainstorm alone, or figure out what to do next. Instead, you’re matched with a global team, given a ready-to-go idea, and provided with a curated to-do list for each week. In just one month, you’ll have an MVP ready to show the world.

This is what IGNT.club is all about. Pre-registration is now open, and here’s how it works:

Get Matched: Fill out a simple questionnaire, and we’ll use AI to form a team tailored to your skills, availability, and vision.
Get an Idea: Your team will receive a unique, curated idea to build around—no more struggling to figure out where to start.
Follow the Plan: Each week, you’ll have clear milestones and tasks to guide your team step by step, from brainstorming to delivering a functional MVP.
No more “What do I do next?” or “Who do I work with?”—you’ll have the structure, support, and team you need to make your dream a reality.

Pre-registration is open now at https://IGNT.club

We’re in pre-launch, testing our AI matching algorithms and refining features, and we’d love your input! Please share your thoughts, and let’s make startup building accessible and exciting for everyone.
Robotics is already taking off. It’s just not evenly distributed. I think several companies are being highly optimistic in their projections of millions of humanoid robots in five years. But, I think it’s the common mistake of overestimating the short term and underestimating the long term.
> no automatic memory management solution is ready for realtime graphics

Unreal Engine and Unity don't exist then?
How exactly does that prevent an adversary from spreading propaganda? And what makes you think privacy laws would prevent foreign spies from spying?
> Is there any parallel there

Of course. Promise is a monad, .then is more or less equivalent to the >>= operator and await makes it look more imperative-ish just like <- in Haskell.

Note that in JS you'll need to be inside an async function to use await, just like in Haskell you'll need to be inside the do notation to use <-. Otherwise, you'll need to play with .then just like you would need to play with >>= in Haskell.

About other languages, one way to achieve asynchronous behavior without having it implemented in the language is using ReactiveX (https://reactivex.io/). It's hard to understand at first, but it if you understand the IO Monad it becomes easy, as it's basically the same.
People are fickle and will forget about this in a few months.
That didn't take long. Can we now roll back the bill that gave presidents the authority to unilaterally ban a service in the first place?
Why Software Is Eating the World
As a relative "youngin" (I'm 27), at what point did we make the shift from protocols to corporate-owned ecosystems? What caused it? The rise of the VC funding model? The Silicon Valley ethos of "build an MVP, grow quickly without making money," and users adopting corporate owned solutions because they're easy?

If so, how do we dismantle this? Not from a technical perspective -- atproto for example seems powerful enough -- but from a social/economic/mindshare perspective.
This is the sort of thing I used to think when I was a student with no money. Now I have a job in tech and I can afford many multiples of $12 a month, thousands even.
<< That plan worked, so now ByteDance/TikTok/CCP are again forced to sell, except they come to this round of negotiations in a much worse position than they were originally.

I appreciate the analysis even if I disagree with it.

<< many buyers that have come out of the woodwork and made public and private bids for the asset.

It is mildly funny given that China is not selling it. It was defacto made a real geopolitical issue with 170m US users as pawns. They may well be buyers, but China is not in a position of weakness here. If anything, the past 48h showed that users can simply say 'fuck it' out of spite.

In short, from game theory perspective, even if they decided to sell, they can now extract heavy concessions. Yeah, US won so hard on this one.

As I may have mentioned in another post, individual players may have gained some ground, but that is it. US lost a lot in this exchange alone.
Looking this up, is this [1] the bill? Cuz it turns out this bill was sponsored by a Republican and passed during a Republican controlled House in 2023, by a supermajority 352 - 65.

People always blame Democrats for things that Republicans do.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521...
The context here was Indian raids. Some rich land owner wanted to pay a one time fee. Benjamin Franklin was saying a 1 time fee wasn't enough - and it would only offer temporary safety rather than ongoing safety higher taxes would offer.

This essential liberty was freedom from being killed. Pretty fucking essential.
And Google gave the NSA direct connections into their data centers in order to spy on US citizens in secret.
ACLU is a biased organization and only supports the bill of rights when it suits their political alignment.
No there's going to be some obvious winners.
Trump is going to force a 50% sale to a US based JV.
That JV will be run by / benefit some of his biggest goons.

So Trump & his circle win !
> The TikTok debate has always been about the balance between national security and free speech

And now about how the sitting president can profit from brokering it
For those of us who find the Trackpoint handy sometimes, Lenovo sells a standalone wireless keyboard based on their Thinkpad keyboards with a Trackpoint and three buttons. It works via Bluetooth, RF dongle or wired USB and has a switch for PC and Android compatibility.

https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-ThinkPad-TrackPoint-Keyboard-4... (if the link someday dies, it's Lenovo Model #4Y40X49493)

Like many on HN, I'm keyboard-obsessive, preferring customized split mechanical keybs for desktop daily driving. But I have a few of these Thinkpad wireless keyboards too because they're small, portable and, with the Trackpoint, ideal for places a larger keyboard and mouse won't fit or isn't always needed. I keep one in our home theater, tucked in my lounger's armrest for when I need to enter an app account/password into an Android TV streaming box or game console (it's insane that most streaming apps still don't receive input from the device's system-wide voice typing).

I keep another one in our arcade room where there's a custom arcade cabinet for emulation with a PC inside. With all the arcade controls on the cabinet, there's not much room to put a keyboard when I need to install a new emulator or tweak something. Next to that I have a virtual pinball cabinet with another PC inside. The Thinkpad wireless is great for configuring stuff without opening the cabinets, messing with wires or a separate mouse. It's small, thin and light but has a full standard PC layout with Ctrl, Alt, Win, Esc and direct function keys yet doesn't feel awful like so many portable mini-keyboards. It also has auto-off, holds a charge for a long time, stores the USB RF dongle internally and falls back to wired so it always works.
The outgoing Biden administration actually stated that they wouldn’t enforce the ban for just one day, choosing to leave implementation of the law to the incoming Trump administration.

Efforts to save TikTok have been bipartisan (“Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said he spoke with Biden on Thursday to advocate for extending the deadline to ban TikTok.”) and efforts to enforce the ban have also been bipartisan (“Democrats had tried on Wednesday to pass legislation that would have extended the deadline, but Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas blocked it. Cotton, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that TikTok has had ample time to find a buyer.”)

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-wont-enforce-tik...
People don't care about most things because there are a practically infinite number of things one could care about.

But when you ban something 9 figures of people happily use, with some small chunk of that even being people making a living off of it, people will care about that because it directly and visibly affects them.
That may be why freedom of the press is also guaranteed.
The Onion Router was invented by the Navy to make ship location tracking hard with visibility of some of the network, so it's classified at times. More importantly, just because you have satellites doesn't mean that it's easy to pick all of that out all the time or to be entirely certain of which ship/which mission, etc. Making it harder is better even if it can't be made impossible outside of subs.
Both the Supreme Court and the appeals court went into quite a bit of detail as to the necessity of achieving what the government wanted, because it was relevant to justifying the impact on speech with regards to the first amendment.

Only the appeals court (and presumably the district court below them) heard arguments about it being a bill of attainder. The supreme court chose not to. With regards to being a bill of attainder the appeals court appears to be of the opinion that it is enough that it isn't a traditional punishment, and that the justification for it was something other than punishment, without analyzing whether the government had a legitimate interest in achieving their non-punishment purpose. Of course they had already found that they did have a legitimate interest because of the first amendment analysis, but I don't believe their opinion with regards to it not being a bill of attainder relied on that.
Americans are more similar than they are different, so of course the parties elected to represent them are too.