skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt a study would be helpful for anyone else, except that he had a good read on when his chances of winning were best back before 2016.

Aside from that his popularity -- and ability to lie shamelessly and have enough people ignore it and vote for him -- is wrapped up in the entity "Trump". His play book is age old.
Taleb: IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle
Start seriously reading history; then, realize this too shall be history.

As Paul Graham wisely points out:

“At every period of history people have believed things that were just ridiculous and believed them so strongly that you risked ostracism or even violence by saying otherwise. If our own time were any different, that would be remarkable. As far as I can tell, it isn't.”
One way the free speech angle might make sense is that TikTok (and other foreign-run social media) normally aren’t as susceptible to domestic pressure to throttle, shadowban, etc certain types of content (like airing of some politician’s dirty laundry).

I could absolutely see that being the case. Trump and the Republican Party now have a solid thumb on US-based social media via Musk/Zuck, which makes lack of control of foreign social media more of a pressuring issue than it had been before. It looks bad if the popular discourse taking place on uncontrolled media differs wildly from that on its controlled counterparts.
It doesn't have to be a competitor. They simply have to divest the US operation.

Just like happens in China and in many other countries.
Thats a Huxley's work.
This is silly. Yes, there is a lot of money in American politics. No, that does not mean that any particular lobbying entity, even the AIPAC believe it or not!, controls what happens.

This isn't a battle of moneyed interests vs. penniless altruists. There is plenty of money on TikTok's side here.

If you find yourself buying into a simplistic narrative about a single organization buying the exact law they want, you've been had. It's never that simple.
Interesting position. I wonder if another country could just force Musk to divest himself of Twitter in the same way. Could solve a lot of headaches that way. Maybe the EU could force the issue.
>But Apple said it decided to pull TikTok and other ByteDance-owned apps anyway because it’s “obligated to follow the laws in the jurisdictions where it operates.”

>Sens. Cotton and Ricketts applauded Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft for “following the law,” and encouraged other companies to do the same — the exact opposite of Trump’s request after.

I think Apple is playing it right here and I’m interested to see Google’s statement. I doubt Oracle will publicly comment but it would be nice to hear their rational.
Proof of work is so interesting! For backend changes, does that mean curl commands? some screenshots?

Could you give me an example format of your notes? I would love to see the detail one can get from them?
Indeed. The article should be retitled "C still useless in 2025, including time handling".
> (and never actually does anything new afaik, it's just Gitea under another name, while taking money too)

What evidence do you have for this strong claim? I’m using Forgejo and contributed to the docs once. It seems to me real work is happening in Forgejo. A lot from what I can see is stabilizing infrastructure and fixing bugs. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.
Reaction times differ by types of stimulus, auditory is slightly faster than visual and tactile slightly faster than that at 90 - 180 ms
So if git gave you a slap instead of an error message you might just about have time to react.
Google pay coexists with an open NFC API on the same devices and has since before IOS had NFC support
"TikTok has so much content that any perspective on any topic will have real organic authentic content representing that point of view. The company can then selectively promote or suppress the reach of these views as they see fit."
My spouse and I are avid consumers of the series and we have been hypothesizing on and off why 1-2 game participants each season get almost no screen time whatsoever. Originally we thought it might simply be that the people in question make boring television. This is another possibility we had not even entertained - that the producers were punishing people for meta-gaming.

Based on my knowledge of the show and commentary around its filming, it does seem genuinely mostly unscripted - which means that producers are probably reaching for other mechanisms to control dialogue and contestant behavior and probably threatening screen time for breaking the 4th wall is an effective one.
I have multiple degrees in philosophy and I have no idea what this article is even trying to say.

If anyone has access to the full article, I’m interested, but it sounds like a lot of buzzwords and not a ton of substance.

The framing of ai through a philosophical lens is obviously interesting, but a lot of the problems addressed in the intro are pretty much irrelevant to the ai-ness of the information.
The US has very little privacy law.
So Tiktok is the slave that got the thumbs up?
Well, I looked up Taiwan protest and the 4 I looked at were all allegedly Taiwanese protesting against their own independence.... (For context only 10% of Taiwanese support unification with China per a google search)

Would love somebody who has an account (and can translate) to do a sanity check here.
Yes it was included in a foreign aid package to make it more palatable to Congress. Advocates of the bill on this site are not bringing that up because they support the bill.
Assuming that behaviour is intolerance: Yup. It's a peace treaty. Break the peace treaty, and you no longer benefit from the peace treaty.
Agree, but (and yes, whataboutism ahoy!) one can make observations about a similar lack or principle on the right.

It always seemed to me that the US was fuzzy when the very clear text of the Constitution rubbed up against the realities of a complex State. For example,

- the 1st Amendment doesnt say the speech can be overridden by a compelling national security interest, which is the argument here. But the US has security services, and legitimately there are cases where to allow speech does harm. But if you are going to be honest, shouldnt there be an amendment giving the State an override of 1A?

- 2A is infamous, of course, and for the love of $deity lets not discuss it here, but why does "not abridged" get overriden by bans in, say, machine guns, which have been on the books since the Chicago gangster era? Either you abridge or not. Or at least be honest about it .

- Some speakers in the covid era made a very strong appeal to personal bodily autonomy when it came to vaccine mandates. Ok, let's follow that. Does it not then also follow that a woman cannot be forced to carry a baby to term? That would seem logical, but the connection is not made. Conversely there is no "commonweal" override written into the Constitution and we are left with random SCOTUS decisions over the last 240 years.
I used these in an early job to track vacuum tube information and stock.

This is also a good article on them by Kevin Kelly
https://kk.org/thetechnium/one-dead-media/

This is the culmination of a rat hole run that started with how Unix did spell in 64kb -> Bloom filters -> Zatocoding (where I went "I used that!") to Edge-notched-cards then the KK and Hackaday articles.

Another hour lost, thanks Hacker News.
Repoprompt
Europe doesn't have a competitor for TikTok.
America has Facebook and Instagram that stand to win billions with a ban.

I also observe that the US tech bro billionaires have been complaining about how mean Europe is to them.
This is basically unknown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language
I disagree with that analysis.
I highly doubt this was the reason. There have been a number of Chinese clones of their peripherals that I think they're trying to lock down. This sucks though. Hopefully some good open firmware exists when this eventually bites me.
Is this available in full text anywhere without sign up?
> X is the only corporate social media platform that offers this.

Why would you emphasize that point when it's clearly wrong? Is it ignorance? Is it to push a particular narrative? I'm confused.
I am glad you like it!

Theoretically, routers have public IPs that change often and you have to buy something to make sure they don't.

In practice, this has only ever happened once to me when my router got hacked and I had to get firmware replaced. So while its a major issue if you have a huge site that needs to be reliable, if it is just a personal site it can be okay to just assume it will never change, and if it does you can always just get your domain name to point to the new IP.

It may be worth it to look into something to make it more stable, but right now it just isn't worth the extra fee.
This may be something specific to Japan, which is where the maintainer is from. In the Japanese industrial control systems that I’ve encountered time is typically measured in this unit (100 ms).
Anytime the ST is mentioned, someone always has to chime in with It Wasn't Just Whites! It is a trope at this point.

It is really too bad, because the method they are using is really neat and worthy of discussion.
Well, this is awkward …

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/06/900019185/trump-signs-executi...
> Not to mention, why would they trust the US to pay tens of billions of dollars after this rigmarole?

Don’t need trust when you have the second most powerful state entity backing you. Corporate America has a complete jammed full history of its interests getting screwed over by foreign entities only for the US government to step in either with military force or some coercive measure resulting in a corrective action. Im sure China is well aware of this playbook and are probably apt to copy it too.
That would be if they were American, even if they were not Chinese, not every country puts shareholders capitalism above everything else a company is suppose to decide upon.
You didn't say why that would be inconsistent with the Constitution, you merely asserted that it is. But it isn't.

Our government gets to decide the terms under which businesses operate in this country. Always has and always will. This is not a constitutional question.
Crippling hardware for people using non-original materials is douchebaggery
Yeah, your observation is correct, I was referring to a so-called generative AI or LLMs. I should’ve phrased that properly.
I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to. I can see how my poor choice of words possibly led to this interpretation.

I wanted to say that I believe it doesn’t matter who does something, only what they’re doing. So the same standards should be applied uniformly, irregardless of the actors’ identity.

Ideally, by no means entity X doing something we consider negative should absolve or justify entity Y’s negative (similarly or different) actions.
I just wish they'd improve the markdown autocomplete for issues and pull requests ... I'm not sure why it's so bad but even if i know two or three words in the issue title i almost never get the right issue to choose in the autocomplete list while typing in a markdown comment ...
It blows my mind how easily people are swayed and how ByteDance is playing everyone like a fiddle. I need to walk into the ocean because this life ain't for me.
Keep a diary. Make predictions about the outcome of bigger decisions and write them down. Look back and learn how you actually progress through life, especially watching for blind spots.

Look back at things you've already written in public and do the same.
> There is nothing hypocritical about responding to trade restrictions with trade restrictions

That's right, but that's not what I said. I keep having to explain it so I'll do it again: what feels hypocritical is that the US don't call those bans trade issues. They call them "national security". If you keep saying "we're the land of the free, China is bad because of their protectionism" and then you do protectionism and say "no no no, we are not doing protectionism, it's national security", then it is hypocritical.
This is amazing. :) Small world!

I was testing my new Hikvision keypad against every card I have and wondering if I could use Apple Express Transit, when I stumbled upon your writeup. Looking forward to trying out a T-Union card later!
To extend the driving metaphor somewhat, you definitely don't need to be a mechanic if you live in an area with a lot of mechanics.

You need to know how your car works, however, if you're 50 miles from the nearest garage.

If your livelihood and business depend entirely on a single social media site, that's a problem long term. I'm not talking about creators where their content is a side hustle; if your content creation is your full time income and you have a single point of failure, that should feel scary.

Reminds me of the stories of people that lose access to their Google account. They can't access any account they've created using that email, they had their passwords saved with it, and essentially couldn't function without access. For a more business focused angle, it's reminiscent of the Silicon Valley Bank failure. If you can't operate your business at all if one bank were to fail (or have an outage), that's kind of a problem.
It's a pretty bad idea to change careers in your mid 30s if you plan on being average at it.
Not my intention! Just an esteemed git archeologist
A diminished attention span. Assuming that's still considered a harmful effect.
One is the sworn enemy of the western democratic system, and one depends on it.
Yeah, I like how HN keeps increasing the karma threshold for just being able to downvote. I don't often get downvotes, but when I do it's definitely for wrong think and attempting to disarm people with humor. I'm sorry but this platform needs to treat people like humans, and I refuse to be a part of it from this point on because of that. If I could downvote and move on, I'd comment less. This platform is toxic.
Tell HN: Gauntlet AI Is BloomTech/Lambda School
Gauntlet AI is advertising on HN today, for a “free”, expenses paid, AI training course in Austin, Texas, with a “guaranteed AI job” at the end.

Reading the advert, it screams scam to me, but wasn’t immediately apparent how until I saw “copyright BloomTech” at the bottom of the page.

Given Lambda School’s rocky history, it seems likely that people would want to know who it was running Gauntlet. The fact this is their third name is quite indicative of how they are perceived by the industry.
Versara: Protecting text content on the web by poisoning AI scraper responses
Google (Blogger, etc) pushes Atom feeds. Weather blogger is still relevant is up to perspective.
> people can react accordingly to either reduce or avoid the problem.

Yes, but lots of people won't be consider all factors when buying a house.

Prices are high, houses aren't on the market long, when you do find a house that matches your criteria, are you going to consider if it's safe from floods, fires, earth quakes, etc?

You're already factoring in schools, distance to work, shopping options, etc.

Not to mention the fact that you're mostly worried about whether the house has mold, termites, pest, or construction deflects, how long time to the roofing need to be replaced.

Asking normal people to factor in natural disaster probabilities is difficult.

Maybe, it's better to not allow construction is such places through zoning.

I bet most home buyers spend more time looking for pests, mold, leaky pipes, etc, than they do investigating wild fire risks.
meh. i always thought the real reason for the ban was EVERYONE in the states who has had to deal with ByteDance walks away from the experience thinking they've been dicked. Or at least everyone I've talked with. In my own experience, we signed a deal with US/TikTok and started spending money on things to uphold our part of the bargain. Then ByteDance steps in and says "no. we're canceling this contract," and we point out, "uh... hey bevis... we just spent money on your behalf," and their response is "sucks to be you." The case has been in California courts for about 5 years. We may get our money back before TikTok/US goes out of business.
I only found out last week!

Was not aware that vixie cron was first released 1987(https://github.com/vixie/cron/blob/master/Documentation/Chan... 1.md), and still has fresh commits.
This is a really cool piece of research in how they are using Strontium to track migration (in this case slaves).

> Strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) analysis with reference to strontium isotope landscapes (Sr isoscapes) allows reconstructing mobility and migration in archaeology, ecology, and forensics. However, despite the vast potential of research involving 87Sr/86Sr analysis particularly in Africa, Sr isoscapes remain unavailable for the largest parts of the continent. Here, we measure the 87Sr/86Sr ratios in 778 environmental samples from 24 African countries and combine this data with published data to model a bioavailable Sr isoscape for sub-Saharan Africa using random forest regression. We demonstrate the efficacy of this Sr isoscape, in combination with other lines of evidence, to trace the African roots of individuals from historic slavery contexts, particularly those with highly radiogenic 87Sr/86Sr ratios uncommon in the African Diaspora. Our study provides an extensive African 87Sr/86Sr dataset which includes scientifically marginalized regions of Africa, with significant implications for the archaeology of the transatlantic slave trade, wildlife ecology, conservation, and forensics.

I wonder what other mysteries this could be used to solve?
> you're implying that these elections are on equal grounds with truthful candidates

Where exactly is the commenter implying this?

No political process on Earth, democratic or otherwise, has ever met this standard.
I'm pretty sure they're selling at capacity
Trump's stake is now approximately $55B, on paper. Emphasis on "on paper".

Around 200 Pelosis of net worth:
https://www.quiverquant.com/congress-live-net-worth/
I started having issues when they supported Citizens United
Atom push is actually implemented. SWORDv2 (but not v3) is based on Atom Push, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWORD_(protocol) lists a few implementations.

My employer maintains a SWORDv2 server, and we have a handful of clients pushing to us; most of them are not listed on that page.
The former does not imply the latter. Look at Bezos, he spent years re-investing in Amazon to provide long-term financial benefits to his shareholders. Pressure for short-term gains comes from shareholders on Wall St, it’s not a fundamental property of shareholders.
I think the fact that enough users are using LAN mode and firewalling the printer off that it's less useful as a CCP data theft vector is a more credible explanation.

The new interface code, running on your host computer, is much harder to firewall off than just a whole device.

Bambu's filament offerings are extremely price competitive (except perhaps their PAHT-CF / PPA-CF) and are well liked for their consistency and reliability-- they're not something they need to protect with any kind of lock in... and if they would being able to send to the printer directly from orca/etc. hardly threatens it.

From a lockout perspective the uploader shim won't work anyways, as it will quickly be reverse engineered to extract the certificate. But what it will do is keep most people's prints going through code that can send copies home to China or act as a backdoor to enter interesting systems on a highly targeted basis.

Aside, it's pretty interesting that bambustudio is unusable in qubes, all the GUI dropdowns instantly close when you click on them -- it's literally the only Linux program I've encountered that doesn't work.
> In all these hyped-products, you are actually being given the "and then Mr. Robot said" lines from a kind of theater-script. This document grows as your contribution is inserted as "Mr. User says", plus whatever the LLM author calculates "fits next."

and we are creating such a document now, where "Terr_" plays a fictional character who is skeptical of LLM hype, and "anxoo" roleplays a character who is concerned about the level of AI capabilities.

you protest, "no, i'm a real person with real thoughts! the character is me! the AI 'character' is a a fiction created by an ungodly pile of data and linear algebra!" and i reply, "you are a fiction created by an ungodly mass of neuron activations and hormones and neurotransmitters".

i agree that we cannot know what an LLM is "really thinking", and when people say that the AIs have "learned how to [X]" or have "demonstrated deception" or whatever, there's an inevitable anthropomorphization. i agree that when people talk to chatGPT and it acts "friendly and helpful", that we don't really know whether the AI is friendly and helpful, or whether the "mind" inside is some utterly alien thing.

the point is, none of that matters. if it writes code, it writes code. if it's able to discover new scientific insights, or if it's able to replace the workforce, or if it's able to control and manipulate resources, those are all concrete things it will do in the real world. to assume that it will never get there because it's just playing a fancy language game is completely unwarranted overconfidence.
> pretending that the TikTok law is a speech issue

A lot of folks here are saying that the TT ban had nothing to do with free speech. A couple of indirect rhetorical questions that might be relevant to help illuminate opinions about TT:

1. If there were a single newspaper (in the pre-internet era) that developed and printed a lot of reporting with a particular political outlook and was the home of many columnists known for being the premier thinkers with that outlook, and a law were passed that had nothing to do with the content but had the effect of shutting down that paper, and only that paper, would this be a speech issue?

2. If a political rally were assembling to petition for redress of their grievances, and a law were passed that told them they could say what they wanted but the rally was only allowed to occur in a specific field 30 miles outside the city and 3 miles from the nearest paved road, would this be a speech issue?

3. Given that deadtree-books-in-physical-libraries are not the primary point of reference for most people anymore, if you wanted to block access to certain kinds of information and/or make a statement about doing so, what action would you take in the 21st century to do the equivalent of a book burning? And would this be a speech issue?

There are obvious and easy things you can point out about how the TT law is different from each of those three scenarios, don't @ me about that. But it seems to me that most people who are serious (or, publicly serious, which is a little different) about supporting the TT ban give reasons for it that would be inconsistent with their answers to one or more of those three questions.
My experience with Mastodon is that discovery is wonderful. It is natural and easy - no algorithm, no manipulation, nothing at all. Just type in details of person you want to follow and follow them.
> Would it bail out if it saw this robots.txt?

Yes, it should — I use the library below, and it should split at the slash character, treating it as a prefix match, per spec.

https://github.com/samclarke/robots-parser/blob/master/Robot...
> 1) A Twitter clone without the political baggage and chaos of the current Twitter ownership.

Not the current, but the previous one when Dorsey owned Twitter. And I don't know what's worse, honestly.
I agree they know what they are doing by manipulating or perhaps secretly enriching Trump. He posted on Truth social that he is seeking 50% US ownership. That’s very odd. Why not 51% so that there is US based voting control? Or full divesture from China as the law requires?

And then there’s the fact that the conditions for an extension aren’t met as written in the law. There’s no way he can certify to Congress that the conditions are met, which is why he’s trying to use an executive order. But that’s illegal.