skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple Newton in 1990s had a very similar functionality called assistant. You wrote something like “fax this to Bob” and it would take the current document, find some Robert in the address book, and fax the current note to his phone. Internally it used a pretty simple phrase analyzer.
That's like telling a drug addict that it's bad for his/her health. Sure you're staying facts, but they're not going to take it up. Might as well preach to the wind.

From a young one's perspective, it's natural they're going to take it as one more incursion into their lives, else Red Note, an app made for a largely Chinese audience by an unrelated company would not have seen so much uptake over the past few days.
And it's ironic because this is a perfect example of what the law is intended to prevent -- a Chinese-owned company boosting Trump in front of a hundred million Americans.

If that's not foreign influence, I don't know what is.
Maids don't deal with clutter so you have to clean up after yourself anyway.
> it's called innocent until prove guilty for a reason, it's the system working as intended.

That principle applies to laws, in order to minimize the chance of abuse when investigating criminal and civil charges.

This is not the same. This is about national security, and specifically enforcing national security policies. You do not need presumption of innocence to determine if you should embargo a country, expell a diplomat, and ban a suspicious supplier from your critical infrastructure.
I suspect it's more to do with issue management isn't their core product so doesn't get the same attention an issue management system would give it.
Why should one be surprised that the US Department of State is involved in geopolitics?

Your example further reinforces my point that content matters less than who is saying this content. You quoted a phone call that was very likely to be have intercepted by Russian intelligence and quickly disseminated on Russian-owned media, yet you're freely posting this on an American website.
It is shocking that ANY women are doing this, that's why. There has long been some small number of men, usually homeless ones, willing to commit crimes to go to jail. It's one of the downsides of having humane jails, I suppose.
I am not explaining it again. If you don't understand an analogy or if you don't want to understand it, then it is not worth my time.
> Google also opted to pull out of China instead of selling their Chinese operations to a domestic company. Does it imply that Google had interests beyond financial when operating in China?

Yes. At the time Larry & Sergey still ran the place and did have a somewhat idealist approach to running Google. When it turned out that it was impossible to bring an uncensored search engine to China, they shut it down.
Whose morality? Ultimately, what we value is subjective. There are some seeming universal morals that most excuse or dismiss without a thought because they feel justified in the abrogation of natural rights and social contracts (to identify the spectrum).
We should have consumer freedom under equal protections. Imagine if the FDA only regulated imported food and drugs, and if those regulations were only related to trade wars.
FOSS Synapse already is a hybrid of Python and Rust, and has been for years - with Rust used for the hot paths. Synapse Pro is just pushing that a bit further for worker processes, by having the host process itself being Rust-first rather than Python-first. But the majority of the app and architecture is the same; it's just swapping out some of the python-with-rust processes for pure-Rust alternatives. I think of it a bit like using a hardware accelerator (how I envy the fact that nobody complains about the fact that hardware accelerators cost money!)
The easiest real example I'm aware of is that there was a scandal around the Houston rockets and China (years ago) and you could not find their content or content related to them on TikTok. (You could for every other NBA team)

In this example: who cares? But the problem is how implicit everything is.

Imagine that a major US ally (like Israel) were attacked by a globally recognized terrorist organization. Imagine if, for some reason, a high percentage of people on TikTok ended up being opposed to the US government's support of their ally. Imagine if there were protests across college campuses. And counter protests.

Would we know whether TikTok was behind the scenes, sowing discord? This is the kind of thing - weakening our alliances - that china would love to do. If china can reduce our willingness to defend our allies (think the Philippines in the south china sea, or Taiwan which.... there's explicitly a project 2027 in China to be ready to invade Taiwan)

Do we want the Chinese government to have the ability to do this?
> The difference is that when a foreign adversary has the ability to do the same, it becomes a matter of national security.

Can you understand how others might disagree with this assertion? It doesn't matter if a foreign adversary has the ability to say words. They're just words. Democracies run on words. If our society is going to fall apart because the Chinese say words, it's going to fall apart anyway.

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?
I just install the container remotely, cicd remotely etc and code locally. My use case is the opposite, I might need to do some adhoc support and not have the laptop with me so then I use the online code editor
> And the splitting into CDNA and RDNA comes from the same direction: market segmentation

Not really.

Wave64 on CDNA is provably more throughput. But with most video game code written for NVidia's Wave32, RDNA being reworked to be more NVidia-like and Wave32 is how you reach better practical video game performance.

HPC will prefer the wider execute, 64-bit execution, and other benefits.

Video Gamers will prefer massive amounts of 32MB+ of
"Infinity cache", which is used in practice for all kinds of screen-space calculations. But this would NEVER be used for fluid dynamics.
American companies absolutely do aid in intelligence gathering. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A for an example
> Do people believe that the US government's control over Instagram/Twitter/whatever are similar to the level of control China's government has over TikTok?

Control comes in different flavors. Is the US government covertly and directly compelling corporations like they did during Snowden era? Probably less today if I were to guess, and certainly less than China.

I think today the threat is not government overreach but rather that the tech industry and government have so many shared interests and back-channels that coercion is no longer needed, and probably the big ones would throw hissy fits if so. Instead, I think it’s a mutual back-scratching operation. During covid, the infrastructure was laid out, with corporations running the information errands. I think both sides found that to be much more comfortable, and yes I do believe that became the prevailing MO afterwards.

Race riots? Palestine protests? Luigi support, and similar current uncomfortable issues transcending culture war daily jabs? ”Lightly suppressing” such speech has corp-govt incentive alignment, and frankly might be necessary to keep people in check given the growing inequalities and dissent. Any large uncontrolled social media operation is a risk, even without amplifying or suppressing anything inorganically and deliberately.
I was also having some frustration in navigating GitHub issues.

So I wrote a simple app for fun to navigate and search GitHub issues like emails and even reply

Screen recoding https://x.com/justruky/status/1878507719520387347
Perhaps we need a crowdsourced title sanitizer/rewriter along with filtering? Like, "Your activity and other news" -> "[SPAM] PayPal"; "Your upcoming trip" -> "Trip to %location update"; "Your coming trip" -> "[SPAM] Airline XYZ"...
Did you miss the Arc memo?
Adults are also quite susceptible to propaganda.
I always feel crazy when it starts to sound like fully open and unregulated free market, maybe apart from regulating drug manufacturers safety and purity standards would be lot cheaper...
Write 'bottom left', 'top left', etc. with a Sharpie on the corners of your fitted sheet to make it quick and easy to put on the bed.
The American voter shouldn't be treated like a mere link in a strategic chain of cause and effect. They're the legitimate authority in the US.
Trump just posted this on Truth Social:

I’m asking companies not to let TikTok stay dark! I will issue an executive order on Monday to extend the period of time before the law’s prohibitions take effect, so that we can make a deal to protect our national security. The order will also confirm that there will be no liability for any company that helped keep TikTok from going dark before my order.

Americans deserve to see our exciting Inauguration on Monday, as well as other events and conversations.

I would like the United States to have a 50% ownership position in a joint venture. By doing this, we save TikTok, keep it in good hands and allow it to say up. Without U.S. approval, there is no Tik Tok. With our approval, it is worth hundreds of billions of dollars - maybe trillions.

Therefore, my initial thought is a joint venture between the current owners and/or new owners whereby the U.S. gets a 50% ownership in a joint venture set up between the U.S. and whichever purchase we so choose.

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Basically the same thing - I will extend (so I’m hero) but you need to sell.
You think he changed because he was worried about either admin? I think he changed because he sees the outcome of an election as an endorsement of his beliefs by the populace.
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Trump says he will issue an executive order Monday to get TikTok back up
My read is less that anti-Zuck is the new Kryptonite than that that Kryptonite may be more effective than before.

Even with that read, I have my doubts. Very few if any successful (that is, eventually dominant) social networks positioned themselves as anti-something. Rather, most were based on either an available and generally high-appeal founding cohort, in a largely unregulated space. Facebook was once Literally Harvard (<https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/1058991>), Usenet similarly began at selective research universities, Slashdot with the early Internet / Free Software tech community, HN with the start-up space.

Regulated spaces are far more difficult to grow: banking, finance, the military, and healthcare are cohesive and high-appeal cohorts, but each space has tight regulatory requirements which restrict both what may be discussed and who may join the networks. Bloomberg Terminal, health information systems, and internal communications amongst the banking and government sectors are strong markets of themselves but impose limits to potential expansion and entry by new competitors.
Store all of your clean clothes in the dryer - save time folding and putting them away.
American academia is still full of spies and foreign agents: https://www.propublica.org/article/why-russian-spies-really-...
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You are trusting your “freedom of speech” to an entity controlled by a government which blocks US companies from penetrating the great firewall? Try googling tank man in China…you can’t because google is blocked and tank man is prohibited content.
“Anyone” can implement a class that does something - the mark of a good engineer is someone who understands the context it’s going to be used in and modified , be that a one shot method, a core library function or a user facing api call that needs to be resilient against malicious inputs.
Mao said that the first step in a succesfull revolution, was to kill all of the librarians
and then famously (silent im) killed or re-educated all of the acedemics, with instructions to rebuild all modern technology and knowledge useing the chinese language and invent a whole new vocabulary for science and engineering but useing
accepted international measuring systems, and latin for biology, called that one "the cultural revolution"
The resulting edifice, now proving to be quite secure from outside observation.
Early "travel writers" functioned as reliable spies, with many of them bieng, young, out of work,recent science graduates.
Even Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle has hints.
One of the bigest secret's the British maintained
was determining a countrys hydrocloric acid production capacity, and as still the worlds most
used industrial chemical is a reliable proxy measurement of a countrys total industrial capacity.
The final piece to the British empire was the invention of the escapement, which gave them the abilty to out navigate anyone else, and thereby co-odinate military actions and concentrate forces where and when there targets were vulnerable.
The current information wars are floundering due to a greater and greater difficulty in getting anyone to believe anything and are instead amusing themselves with cat memes, which the chinese residents of "red book" are demanding as proof of
bieng a tictok refugee, which if provided ,they then offer to act as there personal spy.
Being conservative, marrying, raising children and being nationalistic does not align with Russian propaganda.

Similarly, all so called "far-right" parties that are supposedly financed by Russia in the EU ultimately are in favor of national interests.

Similarly, Ukrainian nationalists are in favor of Ukrainian interests.

If it came to a war between Russia and the EU, who would fight? Not the chicken hawks of the Green Party, but the "Deplorables" who vote "far-right".

The entire Russian influence narrative was concocted by the Neocons who had moved from the Bush era Republicans to the Democrat party. Now everyone realizes that perhaps China and Russia had financed culturally left organizations all along, which is entirely in line with the historic behavior of the Soviet Union. So everyone abandons ship now and pledges allegiance to Trump.

Regarding the division to the US population: That is in the interests of the established two parties, so no one looks too closely what is actually happening.
// I can't...continue...I don't believe you're a serious or intellectually honest person //

Exactly the right move. Don't waste any time with somebody who doesn't argue in good faith. Heck, these days, you have to worry about wasting time arguing with an LLM.

// Thanks for the conversation and for your time. //

You are welcome. here's a freebie: conversations on the internet never end in one person admitting they are wrong. Instead, as long as the two participants have rational reasons to disagree, they offer those rational reasons to each other. When one party runs out of such reasons, well...they insult the other guy and break off the conversation ;-)
> No, it's a valid complaint.

For what?

This is exactly what I am talking about: successful 3D products don’t need raytracing or GI, the bulk of the audience doesn’t care, as shown by the popularity of the Switch. Sure those things might be nice but people act like they are roadblocks.
Oh i can dream about a world without the advertising industry we have. It honestly seems to me that targeted advertising is the root of so many evils
Just really that people have a choice between tech bro media and old school forms and a lot, maybe the majority are choosing tech bro. Though personally I guess I am kind of forced onto their platforms to see what people I'm interested are up to - family on whatsapp, PG on x etc.

I have to say re this particular article and it's content I found the Rogan/Zuck interview rather good and this article's content like "Rogan’s podcast — where male brain cells go to die" and "Zuck avoided this fate by not having a personality" a bit smarmy and obnoxious.
For some reason I was never afraid of bees. I have a cousin who keeps bees, and she showed me a bee hive once. Neither of use used any masks or gloves. I remember when she showed me the queen, and I was pointing at it to make sure I got it right, she told me to not touch her, because then the other bees will sense the foreign smell on her and will kill her. In any case, I was surrounded by thousands of bees, but none stang me or my cousin. There's some urban legend that bees smell you, and depending on the smell they decide to attack you or not. I suppose I drew the lucky lottery ticket.
Zuckerberg's lobbying is impressive, but really Instagram has been so disappointing under his watch. Reels will get millions of users by government diktat, not through winning a competitive market with a better product.
I'll say this because it's possible to go from my username to name anyway: I share a name with this language. And usually that's fine because it's not very widely used. But seeing this headline was certainly a surprise on an otherwise calm Sunday morning.
> The establishment types are upset that they can’t just lean on a handful of major media organizations to maintain a uniform narrative (e.g. Iraq having WMDs).

This is obviously false.

Go check TikTok to see what shows up in searches for Tiananmen square or Uighur genocide, or even anyone of the many small catastrophes that go against the CCP's narrative.

You're claiming that consuming propaganda from a totalitarian regime that actively engages against your security, stability, and best interests is somehow better than consuming hypothetical propaganda from your own democratically elected government. Make it make sense.
Trump's pick for energy secretary acknowledges fossil fuels cause climate change
Because the US can investigate and regulate a domestic social network as needed.

They can't do that with offices that are parties offshore, owned by non-Americans.
I don't know details of the history...but in late 1930's Germany, signalling "we will feed you" might have been critical for attracting workers. Food insecurity had been pretty dire in Germany over much of the prior two decades.
Alternatively, you can consider how ancient our modern taps and valves look, and not in a bad way. Sometimes engineering problems get solved once and don't have a pressing need to be revisited.
Not sure how I feel about this. I don’t like the precedent, but I also loathe this industry. It’s a bit like heavy handed crackdowns on tobacco. Yeah, I lean liberal/libertarian but cancer.

I see nothing redeeming in these addictive slop factories. They create nothing and the content on them is trash. All they do is hack your dopamine system to shovel in ads, empty filler, or worse hate and fear porn.

There’s nothing they do that can’t better be done by forums, chat, the web, even AI agents, without the destruction of attention span and brain rot.
When we found out that soldiers in Iraq were mistreating prisoners we put them all on trial and gave the guy who said this wasn't right a medal. What the Burmese military does to maintain its sixty year old dictatorship is wanton murder of civilians.
> And the third one is it takes them forever to ship updates. Bluesky is so much faster moving when it comes to implementing new features, but Mastodon ships even slower than Twitter which is an "achievement" in itself.

Mastodon is a non-profit with a handfull of engineers. How can you compare their resources to something like Bluesky or even Twitter, that has thousands of engineers, is beyond me.
Trump will apply a basic principle. Could this thing manipulate my voter base at scale and in the wrong direction? Yes -> kill
Add insulation, and use a heatpump. The more insulation you add the easier it easy to keep a space warm. Add enough insulation, and eventually the waste heat production from human activities inside the space will equal or surpass the heat loss through the insulation, removing the need for additional heating.

Insulation obviously also helps keep a place cool. But no amount of insulation will ever remove the need for cooling if the outside is warmer than the inside. Energy is always going to move from a hot place to a cold place, but at least insulation lets us control how quickly that happens.

Also the limit on air sourced heat pumps in cold conditions is basically caused by water freezing on the evaporator coils, effectively adding a layer of insulation that limits how much energy can be drawn from the air, we’re not really limited by the refrigerants. As other have mentioned you dig down to find a better source of heat, and often you don’t even need to dig far, a 20-30cm trench is often enough. Although in super cold climates you’ll need to go deeper to make sure your through the frost layer in the winter.
They Built Their Fireproof Dream Home. Even If It Lasted, Would They?
The bronze age wasn't. The way it worked seems to be that there was a guy who knew what you wanted, knew what you produced, and knew people who could produce what you wanted, and he supplied you with it, and wanted what you could produce in return. Acting as a sort of intermediary between everybody else.
If the government was also addressing the concentration of power in the American social media apps, I’d buy it. If this was about making laws on what info phones could record about you, I’d buy it. If this was about establishing transparency laws to allow the government to better enforce the privacy laws it has, I’d buy it. If it was a law saying recommendation algorithms can’t be used for political content, I’d buy it (though not sure that’d be constitutional).

Instead this says it’s fine to spy on and manipulate US citizens and concentrate media power, so long as you’re “American”.
'Responsible internationalisation': How responsible is it?
about the changing meaning of “responsible” internationalisation in higher education, research and innovation, in EU policy and elsewhere, from a means to address global societal challenges toward prioritising national security and economic competitiveness
I’d agree with your quibble.

People are trying to design how to prompt, but it’s very different in both implementation and result than designing a programming language or a visual language, ofc.
What is the status of federation support? I imagine cross-instance pull requests and bug reports would make collaboration effortless.
Don't do dishes by hand - dishwashers save water and of course, time.
(gift article link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/us/malibu-home-california...)
Your negotiation occurs by you deciding to buy or not to buy a ticket. You can go to a baseball game instead. Or go skiing. There is no power imbalance. Compare government-mandated car insurance, or water/sewage service to your home, situations where one does not have great choice in providers nor can one easily walk away.
Fold pillows in half lengthwise before putting in the pillow case.
Yeah, the layout would be a bit weird because the iframe would need a fixed height but it would totally work and add no latency for the main search results at all.
ROCm was clearly designed with Wave64 in mind. It was going to take years for ROCm to be reworked for Wave32 of RDNA.

DirectX shaders however were already ready for Wave32, and other architectural changes that RDNA had. In fact, RDNA was basically AMD changing their architecture to be more "NVidia-like" on many regards (32-wide execute being the most noticeable).

CDNA existed because HPC has $Billion+ contracts with code written for Wave64 and still needing ROCm support. That means staying on the older GCN-like architecture and continuing to support say, DPP instructions or other obscure features of GCN.

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Remember how long it took for RDNA to get ROCm support? Did you want to screw the HPC customers for that whole time?

Splitting the two architectures, focusing ROCm on HPC (where the money was in 2018 for GPU Compute research dollars), and focusing on better video game performance for RDNA (where money is for video game / consumer cards) just makes sense.