skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because TikTok is where the hip young demographic is. If they all move to say Instagram Reels en masse then Instagram will be the platform that is uniquely good for discovery among that audience.

And let's not pretend that TikTok is filled to the brim with high quality products and small businesses. Yes there may be a couple of feel good stories about a local pizza place or small band that got their big break because of TikTok, but 99.9% of the advertising there is for the same junk/scam products that are on every other influencer-driven app.
yet another story pushed down the pipeline to push a culture war and divide us.
> I coined the phrase "post-quantum cryptography" in 2003

It's interesting to note that according to DJB he's the first person to coin the term "post-quantum cryptography".

It's also interesting to note that after several years of open evaluation processes by NIST (similar process to how AES was selected), 3 post-quantum cryptographic algorithms have been short-listed for potential post-quantum encryption standards [1].

What is more interesting to note that the link [1] had been submitted 8 times previously by 8 different persons without any comments from HN (all 0 comments), it's sadly obvious that the subject is not interesting enough for HN crowds.

[1] NIST Releases First 3 Finalized Post-Quantum Encryption Standards (2024):

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/08/nist-releases-...
Patents don't prevent non-commercial use.
The NYTimes has a history of fabricating and outright lying to serve their own corporate or affiliated agendas. See for eg:

https://www.amazon.com/Gray-Lady-Winked-Misreporting-Fabrica...
this is false

if alice blocks bob:
it hides all posts bob made in response to alice posts; blocks bob from replying to future posts of alice; but more importantly it erases bob from alice's feed wich is often the only healthy thing to do because bob is a deranged lunatic and alice does not owe bob the attention he seeks
That’s not true though.

Tik Tok chose to block US users this evening even though that’s technically not what the bill asks for.
Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok
He has to certify 3 things to invoke that extension which he is unable to certify.
It's definitely an edge case, but courts are not absolutely mechanical and given the context I think it can be argued either way (IANAL). Especially when the outgoing president just told his DoJ not to enforce the ban and leave it to the next guy. At any rate the delay only gives a stay of execution.
Me too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42752276
furthermore, he is blaming the company's decision on his COO and not on himself as CEO. more than almost any other founder, he maintained control over his company and for better or worse it is clear that he alone bears the responsibility for what the company does as a result of that control. blaming one of his most trusted, respected, and successful deputies for what he now describes as a failure does not reflect well on him as a leader in my esteem.
It's a one-pole lowpass IIR filter.

But I agree, if a one-pole filter will solve your problem. Kalman filter is an optimal state estimator, useful when you have:

- multiple input and/or multiple output system
- non-trivial dynamics (i.e. the system of interest is in motion and you have a state space description of the dynamics)
- noisy measurements
- statistical estimates of process and measurement noise are available
- ideally, iid gaussian noises

Also good if you want to fuse data on different time scales or with different noise properties.

What have I missed?
>We have far more computers then a decade ago,

Yes that was already taken into account. We rushed pass active usage of Smartphone of 4B in 2020. With additional 1B user who have access to 4G / Smartphone but not using any Data. 1B people who cant afford it or are using feature phone. And around 1B people who are outside the age of using smartphone, child, baby etc. That is a total Around 7B people already. And anything after is a long tail of new generation outpacing older generation. Tablet usage has levelled off. PC market hasn't had new growth outside China and India. COVID managed to fasten a lot these digitalisation. I wrote about how the Growth of AWS in 2023 was roughly equal to doubling of itself in 2016. i.e 2023 AWS was building out the size of AWS 2016. That is insane. And yet we are still building more.

>Another thing which people seem to not notice is that a lot of older DC's are being phased out,

That is something I am not aware. But certainly will keep a look out. This got me thinking if building out a new DC is easier and cheaper than repurposing older DC not designed for high computing power density usage? While I have said we could increase Compute, RAM , Storage density in Rack by 10-20x, we have also increase power usage by 4 - 5x. Not only electricity / power usage but cooling and design also requires additional thoughts.
Oh it does, try your luck as a layman to prove otherwise. It just doesn't at the top, anymore. And it's brazen.
Please don't link to wikipedia definitions of elementary terms. It's condescending and obnoxious.
??? He's said he'll do this and there are a couple of ways he legally could?
This is mostly just a rant without any argument to support the headline. I am more or less aligned with the author but I don’t think it is inappropriate to flag it as unlikely to lead to good discussion here.
there are a decent number of people who make money and market their business on tiktok. those people are probably concerned about their future
> NNNNNNNNNNNNDNNNNNNNNNNND

If the pattern resembles this for a group that represents over 50% of the broader population (women and some subset of males), I'd argue that it's highly possible there are other, possibly discriminatory, factors at play.
It's about 700 lines of the worst Python ever. You do not want it. I would be too embarrassed to release it, honestly.

It complied, but it was absolutely not fast or efficient. I aimed at compliance first, good code second, but never got to the second because of more human-oriented issues that killed the project.
When all you have is a Markov generator and $5 billion, every problem starts to look like a prompt. Or something like that.
The FAA confirmed that debris fell outside designated areas, temporarily disrupting air traffic and causing several aircraft to divert or delay flights.

You can read more here and other news sources

https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/spacexs-starship-grou...
Ro Khanna doesn't represent the majority of rich libertarian types who would be in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, and Saratoga. The rest of Silicon Valley tends to be suburban, upper class tech workers with large immigrant populations who are only moderately likely to have libertarian views.
Don't worry, though, because IP law only applies to peons like you and me. :)
This was a quickie post for me. Just a tale of what my experience has been. No in-depth, apples to apples comparison so I don't know the magnitude of the performance differential.
i’m not normally a conspiracy theorist but i had in mind what trump announced earlier today. he’s going to parlay this into a way to being the millennial/gen z savior and it will work with great success. my gen z kids are already compromising their progressive values and throwing themselves at the feet of their lord and savior donald trump.
App stores are region/country specific and the accounts are linked to that.
Sure, average people don't care about federation, but what about the techies at sites like Technology Review and The Verge who write these kinds of articles? They love to point out Bluesky's (yet to be seen in action) federation thanks to the AT Protocol, so you know they see the value in federation that the average person doesn't, but these reporters choose Bluesky, a platform with all the same warning signs as Twitter that barely has federation, something they purport to value despite the fact that ActivityPub and Mastodon exist and are much more developed and open?
The goals of most DEI programs can't be achieved without discrimination on the basis of protected class. If software developers are 18% women how can a company achieve 40% women software developers without discrimination? And that was a DEI goal a previous employer used. In fact they had the same goal for electrical engineer too despite being 10% women.

Ambiguous goals like "make people feel welcome" doesn't require discrimination. But those are not the DEI goals people object to. 3 out of the 4 companies I've worked at implemented DEI goals in the form of numeric thresholds, and used discrimination to achieve them. Only one carried out DEI in the innocuous manner.
That certainly doesn’t reflect my experience with authors selling their books, musicians their music. Things I would never have found on my own.
Is existing intellectual property law not sufficient? Why aren't companies being prosecuted for large-scale theft?
> Mastadon is too complicated for your average, non-technical user.

The only headache is picking the server. If I pick one for them it's pretty smooth sailing from there.

If someone can't handle the basic interface, there's a really really high chance he doesn't have much of value to say.

The problem isn't that it's "complicated". It's that they have no incentive to sign up.

As much as the HN crowd hates it, ads and marketing work. People went to Bluesky not because it's easier but because several famous people talked about it loudly and everyone knows the people behind the original Twitter are behind it.

Marketing.
So we should expect 50% men in elementary schools? How about lumberjacks? Should those be 50% women too?

A non discriminatory hiring process should reflect the demographics of the workers in the given field (other factors like geography matter too). Why would we expect, say, pediatricians (80% female) to have 50% men?

Achieving a 50/50 split between men and women in a field that's 80% one gender requires hiring one gender at 4x the rate of the other. This line of thinking is what leads companies to set up discriminatory hiring practices in pursuit of DEI goals.

The even government office of non discrimination compliance agrees: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ofccp/faqs/AAFAQs

> The purpose of affirmative action is to ensure equal employment opportunities for applicants and employees. It is based on the premise that, absent discrimination, over time a contractor’s workforce generally will reflect the demographics of the qualified available workforce in the relevant job market.
Don't we have intellectual property law for this tho?
How many times has YouTube recommended a your next video something with zero comments and maybe 10 views.

I cannot count how many times minute I’ve been the first to see or comment on a TikTok video.

It let small creators be shown to lots of people in a way no other platform does.
The beauty of ATProto is that you can build an alternative App View that handles blocks differently. The Bluesky app is open source so you don't have to start from scratch either.

Choice and competition will make this network a better long-term social fabric than the centralized systems we are used to.
This has calling out favorite celebrity saying "Fine I'll marry you" when they don't know who you energy ...
> The whole point about Netflix was that it proved that customers know what they want if you make it available.

yes, but the media rights owners want the maximum money from their viewers, where as netflix model leaves money on the table.

It's why i almost always resort to piracy, now that netflix has lost a lot of their licenses for stuff as media rights owners start their own walled gardens.
Not too hard to understand. He sensed he had leverage based on national security concerns to dangle a sword above their heads. One of their investors donated a bunch of money to help get him re-elected, so now he will reverse his earlier position based on some other pretext. It’s all theater.
Random thought... What if you could link pets to visibility of a variable? If the variable is in scope, a certain pet appears. You get both cute, and something to tickle your brain with familiarity.
They only care about the userbase they will just start publishing to whichever platform users choose
Lol I'm about your age and I'm sometimes embarrassed about the hour or two I end up watching across all my bathroom sessions but c'mon 25 hours. That's too much.
Yes, perhaps there's an argument that having charity shops is better for the area overall than having too many vacant shop fronts. But if that's the case, why not cut business rates for all, rather than for this arbitrary group?
Honestly curious what kind of email falls into this?
A regular status report of some sort, that is never read but only consulted when needed?
Or are these emails that are needed for legal or business cover my ass type of arguments?
When will the last Hacker News realize that Meta and OpenAI and every last massive tech company were always going to screw us all over for a quick buck?

Remember, Facebook famously made it easy to scrape your friends from MySpace, and then banned that exact same activity from their site once they got big.

Wake the f*ck up.
The problem I've heard others bring up is that you pick a server, then later the moderation policies of the admins changes. You can either deal with it or start over again on another server. Losing all your followers is why people put up with bad social media overlords.

ATProto removes the switching cost. This is a significant difference from ActivityPub
It is not false.

> it hides all posts bob made in response to alice posts

Exactly, it hides these from anyone else who might read the thread, including others participating in the thread.

This offers Alice not just the means to control her own Bluesky experience, but also to unilaterally control which parts of the conversation that all others on Bluesky can see.

It is in effect a feature to selectively delete the posts of others for any reason.

> because bob is a deranged lunatic and alice does not owe bob the attention he seeks

That is generally not the reason why users on Bluesky hit the block button. There's a strong tendency there of blocking because someone disagrees with you, or they explained why you're wrong about something, or they pointed out that you're spreading misinformation.

On Bluesky, blocking is a way to quickly and conveniently hide any dissent.
At the end of The Truman Show when it goes dark the cops don't switch off the TV, they look for another channel.
Exactly. That and trying to bury the lede about the Biden Administration's role in the Gaza ceasefire would send a signal to a huge chunk of voters alienated from the Democratic Party that the Republicans care about them. I'm afraid (though unsure how realistic my fear is) that a enough GenZ and anti-Gaza voters will flip to Trump if Trump keeps TikTok going that the Democrats won't be able to win in the midterms.

A lot of the anti-TikTok sentiment seems to revolve around the mores of college-educated, upper-middle-class white GenX and Millenial mores, which the Republicans have gleefully used as punching bags.
Hacker news is the only online space I participate in regularly. But I also wonder if my life might be better if I cut it out too.
Had to look up URM

https://diversity.ucsf.edu/programs-resources/urm-definition
the republican platform is just "not democrat" and plays to people who need an identity
TikTok is doing the same, their goodbye message literally name checks Trump as a potential saviour. A wise attempt at flattering his ego.
Not sure this adds anything more to the status quo:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30417303
> The market for prosumer cards with high VRAM and low FLOPS would be negligibly small. The data center market is massive on one end and the gaming market is big on the other. Casual consumers who just want a lot of VRAM are such a small minority of people that it doesn’t matter to the bottom line.

I'm sure this is also what AMD is thinking, and it's also why they will never catch up to NVidia in ecosystem and software support.

It's not for the casual consumers, and it's not supposed to make money directly! You want these high VRAM SKUs to attract enthusiast and researchers. I have read a staggering amount of research papers where the authors used some random consumer NVidia GPU. Do you know how many I've read which used AMD GPUs? Big fat ZERO! You want to incentivize these people to use your hardware? You want to get devs to support your platform? Give them a unique value proposition that the competition won't.

I'm currently waiting for the 5090 to be available, and I'm going to buy two of them. If AMD would have released a GPU at a fair price, with reasonable performance and double the VRAM that NVidia offers, do you know what would I do? I would buy two AMD cards instead, port my software to it, and contribute PRs to any upstream software that I use so that it works with these cards. But alas, here we are.
This shutdown is performative, by the way. The law prohibits the distribution, maintenance, or updating of the application. There's no reason to disable the app for users who already have it installed except to generate outrage.

No one reads the actual law, everyone is taking the bait.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521
There is no system of digital content distribution that can withstand the will of Government. The only thing that can be done is for the citizens of that government to wake up and take the power away from those that are wielding it to further enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else. I am not a user of TikTok but this is not a good development for our "perfect union", nor the freedom of the internet in the United States of America.
My SF-born mother also often calls it "The City" (though this is 3 syllables).
He can and will. But it's a riot because he's the one who pushed for this.
One question we should ask ourselves is why a field would be dominated by men and not evenly split, or mostly women, etc. Does one feel as if they would face an uphill battle trying to get hired in a field that is 80% their other?
That's exactly what confuses me. Yes, I would expect some easing on that, but it's so 180° that I find myself wondering, what exactly is that force that defines the direction. Like, who dictates the agenda. I mean, I would always assume that any 4chan-level explanations that have an actual person making the order of how this will go are not exactly true and things must be a little more complicated than that. But how something "a little more complicated" can lead to this? Why yesterday Zuckerberg felt that he must, and today he is totally convinced he must not? Surely he has a better grasp of that than me, but how the fuck does it work? Who decides that one day we are woke, and the next day we aren't?

After all, nobody assumed that wokism is dead the last time Trump was elected. If anything, it was harsher than ever. Why today major supporters of it suddenly say "fuck that"? Please don't tell me that it has anything with Zuckerberg becoming BJJ aficionado, because I won't buy that shit.
To your point, TikTok is filled with absolute trash.

For example, there’s a company called “Cerebrum IQ” which scams people out of hundreds of dollars for fake IQ tests. We are painfully aware of this issue because we own cerebrum.com, and we receive at least 100 furious support requests per day from people who have been charged $80.00+ for a subscription they never agreed to, and they somehow confuse us with “Cerebrum IQ”.

They get most of their users from TikTok ads.

We’ve reported them to TikTok many times, with no action taken. Meta at least restricted their ability to advertise.
You keep fixating on one half of my point (this law shouldn't exist) while completely ignoring and not addressing the rational (it does basically nothing to help children at great cost to your rights). In no way am I endorsing generating child porn, but this is a retarded way to try and prevent that.

This isn't a "slippery slope" argument, the specific law we are discussing is already an example of stepping too far.
The message also suggests this may only be a temporary disappearance. TikTok credits President-elect Donald Trump for indicating “he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office,” with users urged to “stay tuned!”

This is the most unusual endorsement I've seen, admittedly of a most unusual President.
as a parent who has attempted to navigate the complexities of social media and mental health and social norms and conformity, social media absolutely has an effect on how the emerging generations interact with their surrounding environments, and in my experience, all been negative. I understand this is colloquial, but the cloak wheel evidence of all of my peers additionally supports this. i’m sad, not that this has been banned and gone dark, but at the emotional and social uproar that this seems to have created.
Yes, people have probably analyzed Alexa traffic once or twice over the years.
To an extent, yes, some of the arguments absolutely apply to other platforms as well. But others don't. You never saw such platforms directly impact elections as much, having Russian operations have as big as an impact as they have had on TikTok in e.g. Eastern Europe. Of course they tried running campaigns in the past on Facebook as well, but not with as high of an impact, and after they got caught the platforms have put in a reasonable amount of effort to crack down on them. TikTok knowingly turns a blind eye, and unlike with the US platforms, Russia can be much more blatant.

Think it would be pretty reasonable for other countries to ban such platforms too though, as China has understandably already been doing for over a decade. Facebook of course played a big role in genocide in Myanmar, so I wouldn't dare say the US platforms are necessarily better.
These bans are more to do with geopolitics and economic interest than security. e.g. Blanket ban on Huawei including accessing TSMC, Samsung fabs is more to protect Apple and Qualcomm.
And we put PayPal and Google on blast every time they ban a creator because they are more than one of many, they’re the main place everyone goes.
Chinese actor's abduction to Myanmar sign of growing diversity of scams
Even their blatant appeal to his ego is already dangerous. But will be par for the course for the next four years.
Indeed the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) and Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) are both standard methods to deal with non-linear systems. They each provide a method of propagating uncertainty through nonlinear state and measurement functions. FWIW I would assume that EKF and UKF are within scope whenever Kalman Filtering is mentioned but I may be misinformed.
Always nice to see the American population kept safe from propaganda, affordable rents, a working healthcare system and fresh food for 90 cents.
How? It's a law passed by Congress with support from both parties. Trump can delay the enforcement, but who knows what will happen after he is gone? Is there any guarantee that Apple, Google, or any companies providing services to TikTok won't face massive fines after Trump leaves?
I guess you really used the fact that most words are repeated to keep the byte count in check? On the old C=64 I had it was a bit of a problem not to blow out the memory with just the text of the document once you started using it for more than a 1 or 2 page paper. Keeping a second sorted copy seems almost luxurious.

I guess you could save the working copy to disk first, then do the sort, then compare, then reload the working copy. I think the C=64 developers probably avoided that strategy because the disk interface was so damn slow.