skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, again I'd look at the examples where a media (or in this case) a media source falls outside what is expected. With Tucker this is easy - he's a very religious person and quite regularly makes his religion a significant part of his arguments, yet few people who follow him support or advocate those claims. In fact he has some order of magnitudes greater viewers than his entire religious group has followers! People follow him mostly for the multipolar and anti-hegemony stuff, but accept (while not embracing) embracing his own distinct takes outside of that because they don't generally run too hard against these worldviews.

Contrast this against the NYTimes. People follow it for the woke, pro-hegemony, pro-establishment stuff. But as per the example with Senator Tom Cotton, if they veer to far from this ideology, far from just accepting it - they rant and rave, and if NYTimes didn't promise to get back on track - they would also have left.
I don't know about that - seems like US is close to half of Tiktok revenue: "TikTok took in an estimated $10 billion in revenue in the United States last year, he said, out of a total global revenue estimated at $20 billion to $26 billion." [1]

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/technology/tiktok-ban-byt...
Proprietary licenses don't align developer incentives with customers. Instead you should consider non commercial licenses that convert to open source after some time, eg 5 years.

Customers won't pay for development unless forced to and it creates a tragedy of the commons. No large commercial deployment will accept 5 year out of date broken insecure software.

Non paying users won't care that they can't use it commercially
Piracy is tending to happen via archive services now, rather than torrenting. The pirates are less sophisticated, so the distribution methods are "more familiar" to them.
I think vtuber sports could be an interesting genre! Real displays of athleticism and sportsmanship but with digital effects to augment it. Maybe it's already been done, I'm not particularly in touch with online trends.
I'm the one who is spying to thr American public

And I have just observed that you have been downvoted
you already posted this elsewhere and it sounds deranged here too
I mean, isnt the default server on ATP also managed by a corpo? So what if they change the rule? they dont even have option to migrate account
See also:

>TikTok users in Russia can see only old Russian-made content

>All non-Russian content blocked, in addition to ban on livestreaming and adding new content from Russia

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/10/tiktok-us... (2022)
Oh, I think it is.
- You can pause a video. Not the best UX, but you need to HOLD your finger, just like you do for Stories

- You can seek in a video too. Again, awful UX, the line is super small, but you can. Depends how large the video is, I believe.
Not even that, every country on the planet is now greenlighted to force USA companies to sell themselves or banned. Every country on the planet can take control of Apple, Tesla, Intel, Qualcomn, Amazon, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, Meta's entire company, all assets, branding, IPs, technology, code, patents, cash in accounts. Everything is up for grabs. Countries can use it to help their citizens by so much, they can end hunger, end poverty, end homelessness, enable free health care, free education, balance currency and trade, elevate tax revenues, end deficits. Protection of inventor's idea, work and assets is not important. Protection of private asset is not important. Supposed communist China only does 50% JVs, and allow foreign owners control of brands, technology, IPs, revenue and profits. The supposed capitalist USA is 100%.
Are they licking Chinese boots or American boots?
Disagree. Refering to GitHub as category-defining would be antithetical to the Forgejo spirit. Forgejo stands on its own.
Fallacy aside, nobody has successfully proven that holding a few spots at Harvard each year is enough to bring the likes of American Blacks back to socioeconomic parity.

It's a flawed means to an end.
I think Path of Exile does this kind of procedural generation of areas very well. Generated maps of a specific area will feel similar with some landmarks and the direction you're traveling in, but this is a good thing, because they can be used as guide posts where to go if you're an experienced player.
The term is decades old at this point. It doesn't seem to play well outside of the older open source communities, now that github has xeroxed.
Shor requires very good qubits to work, with a very low error rate. When someone will have a QC good enough to actually run it, even for small numbers, they will be screaming from the rooftops about it.
Women didn't become the majority of pediatricians until the 2000s, so up until quite recently yes we did expect pediatricians to be 50% or more men.

I get why the majority of jobs that require a lot of upper body strength (lumberjacks as you mentioned) would continue to be majority male, but in other jobs to me it seems like it's mainly networks and socialization that causes gender imbalances. There's no reason more men can't become pediatricians or school teachers. They can obviously do the job, and did in the past!

For tech jobs, I often see people saying that men are more interested in numbers and things, so it's biological that men would gravitate towards tech. I used to think that sounded like a plausible explanation, but then I read that women make up 60% of accountants, and other examples like that. Seems like accounting was just more socially accepting of women, otherwise by that argument accounting would be majority male too.

One example that I thought was quite interesting was that 65% of realtors are women, but in commercial real estate it's only 35% women. It would be quite a stretch to come up with a biological argument for the real estate example.

In my view, a non-discriminatory hiring process is one that accounts for the very real human behaviours that 1) people feel more comfortable with people who are similar to them, and 2) when jobs skew dramatically towards one gender/race it creates a social barrier to people from outside that group getting hired and accepted by the team. If we just completely ignore how humans actually behave, we accidentally end up with a discriminatory hiring process without anyone wanting do anything bad. I have no doubt that some implementations of affirmative action are terrible and discriminatory. But I think ignoring human tendency to feel drawn to people similar to themselves, and thus inadvertently discriminate is a mistake as well.
Infinigen
TikTok goes offline in the US hours before ban due to come in
It produces vapour which isn’t same as smoke
About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in the United States
I’ve migrated over the years from Gogs to Gitea to Forgejo. It’s such an excellent piece of software.

90% of the time, I can get by with hosting my personal git repos on an SSH server I have. When all I’m trying to do is put my Chezmoi repo somewhere that all my computers can access it, Forgejo and friends don’t add much to it. For the 10% of the time when I want to share my code privately with some friends it’s brilliant (and free beats a GitHub paid plan). And if I’m going to have it running anyway for those 10% projects, might as well use it as my personal git repo of record for everything else, too.
I'm sure they took note decades ago when the US first started doing it... then shrugged and continued on.
I guess tiktok is similar to Meta. It's basically impossible to create Instagram, and I guess Facebook accounts using VPN.
Spoke like a true oil industry executive
lmao, it's just exactly what cpc said at the time they banning Google and Facebook

we are the same now
Truth is stranger than fiction. No need to write a dystopian novel about this!
You raise an important point. Why should a Chinese company be allowed to operate freely in the U.S. when U.S. companies offering similar services are totally banned in China? Doesn’t this violate the principles of free trade and frameworks to which the two countries have agreed?

I’m not concerned so much about TikTok as spyware or data gathering or a vector for influencing young minds… though it is all of that, to some extent.

The real problem is the one sided nature of the U.S.-China trade relationship.
See, I’m arguing for writing fewer, better tests.

I realize that it’s the norm to rely heavily on unit tests. Hundreds or thousands of examples of inputs and outputs. We still find errors in programs. “Examples prove the presence of an error, not the absence of errors,” as Djikstra (or was it Hoare? I can’t remember) would say. So I understand how one could view having an LLM generate tests being a win for productivity in that case.

But such test suites don’t add much. And generating 20 more tests won’t tell me much more about the code. It will actually make the test suite harder to read and understand.
Maintaining multiple versions of software that have the same functionality is enormously stupid and wasteful. Eventually the excess versions will be abandoned such as dendrite. I foreseeable that the python implementation will be renamed synapse community and paid development on it will cease.
Bittorrent use has declined, Piracy hasn't particularly.

https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-is-no-longer-the-king-of...

If traffic by application is of interest to anyone, there should be a new 2025 Sandvine Global Internet Phenomena Report out any day now.

See past reports at: https://www.sandvine.com/phenomena
no, my experience in both firefox and chromium on android is equally poor
Or just run an extension cord from your dryer outlet with a splitter. $100 and done.
How to Get a PhD in Mathematics in a Timely Fashion [pdf]
Should people who disagree with your opinions be able to stop others from reading your opinions? As that's what the Bluesky block feature does.

You might be responding to a spreader of disinformation with facts, but if they then block you, no-one else will be able to read your response.
Our team has access to multiple systems that either have MI250Xs or H100s. Getting stuff to work with AMD/ROCm is substantially more effort than the NVIDIA/CUDA experience.

Some of this is lack of groundwork/engineering by packages or system administrators, but it seems a decent amount is the relative lack of effort by AMD to make things work well OOTB.
Text-only:

https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/AA1xolsJ
TikTok Starts Going Dark in the U.S.
Because of its lore. It is a huge collection of classic tropes, carefully put together, nothing will surprise you, you know all of its componentes from somewhere, religions, literature, history, etc. But the sum of all of them and the commitment to it it's quite remarkable.
>without re-encoding

What do you think?
What makes you confident it will be back early next week?
Would it be within the realm of possibility that US intelligence agencies have this proof and have not released it publicly?

Here in Victoria, Australia the state government has deplatformed itself from TT and banned the app from government phones due to security concerns.

Clearly, the state government has taken instruction from the federal government who has received advice from somewhere (5 eyes / intelligence agencies) about the risks.
casinos 'changed the conversation from a zero sum game'?
This level of political engagement seems kind of out of character for him

Is he just kissing ass, or is there genuine frustration on decaying business culture? It feels like both he and Musk are idealizing some kind of past version of SV where WLB was less of a concern
Its the only saving grace the US has against China. Without it, an argument can be made that the game is already over and the US has lost.
I was a paying pro user for a <1000 person server years ago.

They forced me off of it due to offerings they were no longer servicing. Told me I had to self host and export all my data. I attempted this and it never worked. I abandoned that server and my profile I used across many matrix instances (and somehow my matrix room continued to run without me hosting it, and without an admin running it).

I will never use nor recommend them ever again. They clearly do not know how to operate a business nor an open source project.
I don't think what Aaronson says is fair and it's very easy (and kinda rude) way to dismiss an opinion you don't agree with, but also I don't think it applies to your post. You are questioning the implementation, it seems, he says that there are people who doubt the theory is correct in the first place. 17th century physics didn't predict the existence of that sphere of yours, and it's a very practical question if such sphere could be manufactured or not (and it could've turned out either way with given priors).

Instead, what Aaronson refers to is probably more like people saying "planets moving in epicycles are a nice mathematical formalism, but mathematical formalism is not reality" — you know, the kind of thing you say when you want to doubt, but not take full intellectual responsibility for your doubts...
> but the same arguments also apply to Instagram/Twitter/Whatever.

No, they do not. These are US products, not the foreign communist party psyops project.
Most cold wallet addresses with a balance have never signed a transaction. This keeps the public key secret behind sha256 hashes which don't fall to quantum computing (128 bits of security with quantum search).
I guess this is for the kind of person who thinks that Esports is sports.
Why did you post this AI generated drivel?
LLM companies are doing that themselves with their actions. There is a clear connection between search and assistants, historically way back to "Ask Jeeves".

People literate in IT know the implementation difference. For those not literate, the difference is way less proeminent. To most people, it's the same thing and companies know it and abuse this.

They are obviously competing for the same market. That market being "the stuff you go to when you need knowledge".

Anyway, you are deviating from the point. Even if that's not the case, my argument still holds: the article is full of shit regarding the environmental sustainability of the lifecycle of model training.
> There's a huge need for a good chat system to compete with the likes of Slack, but Matrix has bitten me several times and I don't trust it.

I thought this was Zulip?
> lmao, it's just exactly what cpc said at the time they banning Google and Facebook

The CCP is not some weird thing that's wrong 100% of the time, so the US must always do the opposite thing.

The CCP banning Google/Facebook was wrong, but not for the reason of removing something a "geopolitical adversary has control" over, it was wrong because it was part of their extensive and illiberal censorship regime. The US has nothing similar.

> we are the same now

No.
Jup same here. There is always so much negativity on Hackernews. I have been running synapse without issue for years and it has been a joy!
I was pretty impressed with AlphaFold by DeepMind. The James P. Allison work was a big deal - they literally are curing cancer but it seems to not have penetrated popular culture for some reason.

In comp sci everything is LLMs right now, which isn't wrong from an impact standpoint, but it seems like a lot of the future value will be rigging LLMs together with a voice interface and have it "do things" with robots or agents. Theres been some discussion of the "data wall", and optimizations around the algorithms used in training, so it feels like the roller coaster is far from over. I'm personally bullish on CV/ CNN stuff which is largely overshadowed right now... Classification and predictive models still have a LOT going for them, especially since the accuracy is higher than LLMs are (99ish on discrete tasks vs ~95ish).

The rest of the comp sci stuff is interesting but still needs to prove itself as being viable. Quantum is in there for sure, but it looks like its going to be viable just over a long timeline.

Cloning hasn't been talked about in ages, I wouldn't be surprised if the first human clone either happened already or is being worked on.

The space race between the billionaires is moderately interesting when we get stuff like starlink and reusable rockets. The possibility of a moon base in my lifetime would be awesome.

I'm a huge fan of Farming robots. The space is getting some action. Precision weeding is real and being used.

There was a project I believe by the segment guys to pull CO2 out of the air, make gas, and pump it back into the ground. I thought thats great stuff.

Battery tech / Energy storage continues to be interesting. Nuclear power getting a revived interest is great. Theres stuff with molten salt and micro nuclear thats fascinating (I don't know much) Alternative storage like concrete blocks (yes its real) are also interesting.

thats all I have off the top of my head. interested to see what the answers look like
I’d rather have both data privacy protection through both laws and technological security AND a popular platform run by an adversary, than have neither privacy protections and only platforms that conceal their beneficiaries.
I agree with the article and found the non pro version very good at creating my local automation tool chain. It writes the scripts for every step and then you hand them all back to it and it links them up as a single dothiscomplicatedthing.sh
MI Gov. Whitmer touts new fund for startups
The list below is not quite what I would say. I’d have to give it some thought to produce the list though. My mind tends to store abstract impressions and I have to regenerate the concretes when needed (unless I write them down, which I did not).
Blog promotion to drive subscription: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=thehrfairplay
Maybe Yahoo owns TechCrunch. Perhaps they’re detecting access from China based on more than just IP address. Since Yahoo was grilled for handing over dissidents’ info to the Party they really went the extra mile to distance itself from China. They even blocked Engadget from China.
Does this also remove the app from devices?
So people could just use a non-US VPN and a non-US Apple account to download the apps?
If you read the article, no.
Serious, meaning we wouldn't play whack-a-mole and instead place rules on all of them then let the free market decide. I'll repeat, disclosures could be added for foreign controlled apps. I take issue with the fact that we're making a Chinese app the boogeyman but foreign influence campaigns can happen on any platform as seen in recent U.S. elections on Facebook et. al

I think people should be able to decide which social media apps they want to use. They're not even close to reaching the levels of the "infrastructure" box you're forcing them into to justify this decision.
Training data for what real human interactions sound like.

I agree, the value is limited. 18 months ago or so it seemed more important. Thus, the question.
From the article:

> If you already have these apps installed on your device, they will remain on your device. But they can’t be redownloaded if deleted or restored if you move to a new device. In-app purchases and new subscriptions are no longer possible.

But regardless, good riddance.
> Accessing someone’s computer and manipulating the software was instant termination at my old company. Some new security guy joined and tried to do what you did. Find unlocked computers and mess with them to prove a point. He lasted a week.

That's a very strange policy to apply to your security team. They have good reason to make a point about leaving your workstation unsecured.

Working for NCC Group, the expectation was that if you left your computer unsecured, something would happen to it, and you, not the person who followed office policy by highlighting your mistake, would look bad.
NOT A DUPE. A NEWS STORY as opposed to a press release.
If I said "free dogs" does it mean I'm giving away dogs for free or are demanding that they be freed? Maybe referring to dogs that have escaped captivity? It doesn't hurt to disambiguate, particularly in the context where you chose to take issue with it.
People can always "just."
If I understand correctly, GPS and phone number would also need to be outside the US
Has anyone seen any evidence of ISPs/internet providers taking action to block TikTok?
Git hosts with proprietary features
Yes. Or visit TikTok.com in the browser, even if their region is set to US.
>System Integrators who win the big tenders and then mysteriously fail to route any $ to us.

What did you think was going to happen? That's their profit.
No. As stated in the article. But you can’t start or renew subscriptions
Strangely enough, IF7 was the first thing to make it "click" for me how declarative logic could be used for general purpose logic programming, which shortly thereafter led me to Definite Clause Grammars, Marcus Triska's work on Definite Clause Grammars[1], and (like this comment) was the gateway drug to (Scryer) Prolog, and Prolog used not just for niche applications but for general purpose computing.

Of course I since realized that was the tip of the iceberg.

[1]: https://youtu.be/CvLsVfq6cks
If I could remember correctly Apple forces you to reset your iCloud account when you change regions.
I'm not a lawyer but if "maintenance" is interpreted broadly, it might include any operation or service that keeps the app running, which could mean they cannot serve content even if they never updated the app again.

Serving content could be seen as an ongoing maintenance activity.

The bill also prohibits the provision of "internet hosting services" for the app. Serving content over the internet could be considered providing hosting services, which would be prohibited unless there's a divestiture.

Just putting it out there.
In the 2024 report file sharing was #4 in downstream volume. 9% of total compared to 39% for video. Youtube was 16%, Netflix 12%. Piracy is still way less common compared to streaming, tho I do enjoy the unbeatable quality of a 50GB bluray remux
Even if you already have TikTok on you phone, you can’t use it now and get the following message:

> Sorry, TikTok isn't available right now

> A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can't use TikTok for now.

> We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned!
https://archive.ph/VDPuq
Any way to get them to die if you don’t get work done? Would be pretty motivating.
No, Apple has no way to remove installed apps from a phone, but does it disable any payments and app updates
Foreign countries are free to mandate US companies sell or leave their market. Of course, they will not like the results of that process, but they are free and able to copy the US if they like.

>USA has showed it is perfectly okay with this daylight robbery and piracy.

Why? They didn't steal TikTok, they forbade it from operating in the US with the current ownership.

The rest of your comment has so many falsehoods in it I don't really know where to start.
The app was shutdown a couple of hours ago in the US and this was the message all TikTok users saw when they opened the app.[1]

The same guy who pushed for a ban massively last year, is going to save the app despite the security concerns he and most of our government said they had. If only we knew what happened in that classified briefing that made them vote together across party lines.

[1] https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxbusiness.com/foxbusiness.c...