skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't have to sell it, they can simply choose not to operate in the US.

If Zuckerberg, or Musk (X), or Reddit, or Snap, or HN, or any Western platform would want to operate in China, they'd have to hand over control to a Chinese company. Instead, they simply don't operate there.

> "The free market is great, but only if we hold all the cards".

It's been blatantly obvious since the beginning of time that the free market isn't a thing.

Foreign ownership of massive media platforms has been awful. The other way around as well. Would be fantastic if the EU banned Meta, for one. Instead they're suddenly scared of continuing to fine them for their continuous illegal data harvesting and gatekeeping to cozy up to Trump.

Just consider Rupert Murdoch. Every country he's been active in would have been better off if he'd been straight up banned from owning local media companies.
there are definitely actively people going to Yale that are going to the CIA, I actually think Yale is a more common one
As someone who works in AI right now, I’ve rest assured that Langley and ft Meade have deeply co-opted and infiltrated most AI labs, with the goal of doing targeted surveillance of individuals who they worry are capable of the “lone wolf” AI disasters that the less wrong folks talk about. I unironically thinks it’s some glowies jobs at Langley or ft Meade to make sure no one at openAI, anthropic, etc is doing like gain of function research or bioweapon manufacturing with LLMs.

If the IC isn’t doing what I am describing, they’ve dropped the ball and probably ought to be doing it…
> Whoever controls the flow of information has all the wealth and all the power

Control of information is not a legitimate function of the state. The only real reason to ban TikTok or any other platform is establishing control over narratives, and the government must never in a free society put a thumb on the scale of ideas.

So what if the Chinese can boost this message or that message? Is our society so fragile it'll fall apart if people are exposed to the wrong ideas?

The TikTok ban is awful not because TikTok is great, but because it's the state arrogating power to control what's in people's minds. It was no right to do that!
I get your point, but there is very much a moral issue as well as looking to the future.

As I see it, the oil extraction is being pushed to make just a few people a substantial amount of money - it's more about exploitation than simply producing energy.
Average X user moving to Bluesky just wanted to get away from Musk and Trump. They don’t know or care about moving their data, centralization, or any of that stuff.
> but saying China's power is "better" feels tone-deaf, especially considering places like Hong Kong

I'm no expert on Hongkong, but I'm pretty sure it's nowhere as bad as a genocide where 50% of the victims are children funded and supplied by the US. So yes, China is better.

> Specifically, every one of us who worked in an emergency, intensive care, or surgical setting treated pre-teen children who were shot in the head or chest on a regular or even a daily basis. It is impossible that such widespread shooting of young children throughout Gaza, sustained over the course of an entire year is accidental or unknown to the highest Israeli civilian and military authorities.

https://www.gazahealthcareletters.org/usa-letter-oct-2-2024
This is a top-tier professional roast. Loved reading it.
superglue
Because somebody claimed that you can't have organized society without banking, while for a long part of history there were organized societies without MONEY.
I think basic and healthy foods should be VAT exempt. Bread, milk, eggs, vegetables, fruit (maybe not fruit that needs to be shipped from South America or Africa), water etc. Also maybe school books and newspapers and of course medicine. Sugary drinks _should_ be taxed.
How would they animate this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD-FkGeeR-U
Not that I'm aware of. ClojureCLR was pretty much just made by Ramsey Nasser as a vehicle for his experimental video game work.

I never heard of anyone else using it (though I'm sure somebody tried), so I'd bet against it having a better AOT experience. Just my $.02, anyway.
Yes. I have a blog with an RSS Feed since 2002. :-)
"glows for your entire lifetime"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35772466
OSV-Scalibr: Open-Source Vulnerability – Software Composition Analysis LIBRary
Everyone in life has a blocklist, and they are shared.

You have a list of public people that piss you off and avoid, when you are asked about them you say "ugh I don't like x because". Now, you might get someone say "dont be mean about x, they had y, which is why they did z" and you might accept or reject the point they made.

However that person is unlikely to blast you with content or facts to do with said public figure, unless they want to drive you away.

It is part of human nature, infact its the basis of society. The only way we can function is by having effective way to have some shared core "principles" (formally around religion, feudal chiefs, now around semi cult leaders) This means rejecting other ideas as heretical. (see civil rights marches, universal suffrage, silver/gold standard the fracturing of protestantism)
You read across as a security-indifferent.
"But, they won't do simple research to understand the cost of executing someone far outpaces the cost to keep them in prison for life."

High costs of capital penalty are a deliberate choice. There is nothing intrinsic about executions that makes them expensive. Keeping that person behind the bars for decades while all sorts of appeals are pending is the expensive part.

The British abolished their death penalty in 1965. Prior to that, the norm was "three clear Sundays" from the trial (later, from one short appeal) to the execution. Of all the arguments against the death penalty in Old Blighty, cost just didn't play a role. It wasn't costly to hold someone in the condemned cell for a month, then hang them using a two-member team (usually Pierrepoint and his assistant).
Where do you go for your freedom?
It's already awkward just between Lemmy and Mastodon.

I guess Lemmy could be in the form of issues on the repo and Mastodon would be thumbs up emojis and/or "starring" the repo.

Yeah I wish there was a different protocol if we are jamming everything on top of it.
People intuitively expect things to happen imperatively (and eagerly). Imperativeness is deeply ingrained in our daily experience, due to how we interact with the world. While gaining familiarity helps, I’m not convinced that having imperative code as the non-default case that needs to be marked specially in the code and necessitates higher-order types is good ergonomics for a general-purpose programming language.
I'm not sure I follow you. It sounds like you expect to receive from every instance, and in turn expect all to receive from yours?

I don't see the appeal; it sounds like it would devolve into white noise
It's a reference to an XKCD comic https://xkcd.com/1172/ that pokes fun at users with strong attachments to some software behaviours and/or interfaces.

Also, it looks like you are one of today's lucky 10,000 ! https://xkcd.com/1053/
Sorry I'm confused by your comment. The American voter voted for Congress. A bipartisan majority passed this bill easily. The executive branch signed it. The judiciary branch confirmed it.

Where is the American voter being sidelined?
> shut down a particular publisher because the government does not like what they say, or who it is that owns them.

I don’t see where that’s in the constitution.
Obama and Biden often governed by executive order, for example on immigration and student loan forgiveness. When Trump does things that are not within the powers he should be restrained, but let's not pretend that other recent presidents have shown much respect to the Constitution.
The insurance company is the face, the villain is your company. Most bigger companies are self insured. These drugs are expensive and blow up plan costs when everyone is on them.

A relative has a self-insured Cigna plan that randomly fucks with you. The company hired another company to argue with them on your behalf. End of the day, Cigna is administering the plan they established.
They were sentenced to death. But they don't want President Biden's commutation
Certainly in the US there doesn't need to be a negotiation for a contract of adhesion to be binding. Not sure where you got that from - I'd be really interested a reference that says that. I would have thought a lack of negotiation is the defining characteristic of an adhesion contract. You take it or leave it - there is no negotiation.

A contract of adhesion is not binding in the US if it is "Unreasonably one-sided". I think you would really struggle to convince any US court that without a right to rebroadcast the ticket contract was unreasonable. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/adhesion-contract.asp
It's not just broadcasting of info, it's having information on your location, contacts, comments, biometric data, etc. It's the reason why the military banned it first. It can definitely be a national security threat.
Let's not scapegoat illegal immigrants here. They're not working at Subway. Subway closed because they lost sight of what consumers were looking for. Diversity requirements are about giving opportunities to people who are not like you. The opportunities you're lamenting here are not entitlements or birth rights. This is the future that Zoomers have to face: scarcity caused by our generations will make everything more competitive for each successive generation. You're right though, the problem is in leadership. Right now we're telling them they should expect easy employment, a properous economy and class mobility and most of this generation won't see any of those things. Meanwhile, we're creating business models that funnel money away from them to the current generation's management class who are spending beyond their means and leaving little resources in their wake. The take is right here, but the causes are not social, they're systematic and come from what we usually consider "good" in other social groups.
Agreed minus snark
Most functional languages give you so much more choice in managing persistent mutable state than the typical imperative languages. In the latter everything can be made into persistent mutable state so you have both those that are due to the problem and those that are due to the implementation.

Haskell gives you a wide range of tools, from simulated state like the State monad, to real ones like the ST monad and IORef inside the IO monad. For synchronization between threads you have atomic IORef, MVar, and TVar.

If you problem requires you to have persistent mutable state, Haskell helps you manage it so that you can truly separate those persistent mutable state that's due to the problem from those that's due to the implementation.
This is one of those parables where the author seems to think that the moral is a blindingly obvious earth-shattering revelation and where a large fraction of readers just respond "okay, and?"

It's sort of implied that the earring, or the use of it is inherently and irredeemably Bad in some way. It's a moral anathema, to terrible to write plainly or even think about!

Don't let the magic earring do your thinking for you, let this author tell you how to feel instead. No, no don't analyze why the earring is bad, just trust me. It's capital-b Bad.

Also this appears to have been written in 2012. It has nothing to do with modern AI (which I assume is why it was posted today). It was probably a commentary on the rising prevalence of smartphones and social media.
The creator of civit.AI, the largest AI porn website/huggingface for diffusion models, is a Mormon and he felt the need to tell me this quickly when I spoke to him.

I knew what he was really telling me, lol.
The Most Detailed Map of US Waters That You've Ever Seen (2023)
None of the good matches are on ESPN+ though
Humane jails are the safety net of last resort. I wish the US had a humane enough incarceration system for it to provide that role to unhoused folks.

But yeah, there should be a lot of nets above that too.
It’s a false choice, as individual plans are always worse by their nature.
Yes - there is very little HUMINT happening nowadays. The end of an era.

I am going to pass on addressing your hypothetical question.
It might come off as a "weak analogy" because it sounds weak to you ... to make the point that there are valid grounds (the epidemic of obesity & diabetes) for Xenophobic Asians to think addictive Coke / McDonald's are part of some sinister plot by the Americans to impoverish them. And that line of reasoning is ludicrous, or "weak" as you put it because it is (unless we are Xenophobic ourselves, then it isn't)!

If you desire a strong analogy, do Hollywood, YouTube, Netflix etc, which are banned by the other side citing similar reasons to TikTok, I am sure. But the other side is totally authoritarian and we aren't, right?
Regarding Trump, yes. Also,

> Kill all the algos and let me find stuff via regex

I love this. As someone who increasingly feels old and dissatisfied with what computing is turning into, I'm going to start using this along with things like "you'll have to pry local accounts, passwords, and plain text email from my cold, dead hands."
So, principles don't matter anymore? It's all about whose side you're on? Because I think all those "unfree" countries think the same thing.
Americans have no reason to care what happened in Tiananmen Square. That’s Chinese domestic politics. But whether Iraq actually had WMDs does affect Americans, as the people who financed that war based on the failures of the U.S. government.

Foreign propaganda is much less dangerous than domestic propaganda because domestic propaganda is more likely to relate to issues that actually matter to citizens.
Yeah, as I'm boggled down in traffic on 30/50 kmh roads and sitting idle every two meters in Italy I would see no difference.

So I'd rather get the prius-like ergonomics and comfort.
Nice substitution, now let’s try it in “ByteDance or US Govt” form.

(Please don’t ask naively how US controls mass-media, no desire to follow up on that.)
I feel like a lot of these comments not understanding the sentiment are not looking at this in the context of what is going on in the US. The other alternatives people are suggesting are openly manipulating public opinion and stifling speech to serve their own interests at the detriment of the rest of US public.

Books are being banned, the defunding of the department of education is an explicit goal at the incoming administration.

The fact that Americans may or may not be incredibly susceptible to propaganda is a direct consequence of national public policy over the last few generations at least, and it's going to get much worse
It is never okay, but the rest of the world (and sensible Americans) sees it as hypocritical when the land of the free does it.

The US government should just go ahead and say it like it is: they'd like to hold as much power as the Chinese government does, and they're taking the steps to do so.

The American oligarchy feels threatened because the empire is crumbling under their feet, so they're finally taking their masks off.
I skimmed through it and it looks good.

Since I didn’t see this in the list of references, I have to ask — have you heard of the (famous) Beej’s Guide to Network Programming [1]? It’s a classic (in the sense that it’s been around for a long, long time and goes into many more details) on this topic.

[1]: https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/
Well, yeah, now I understand.

You can definitely have organized society without banking, but AFAIK there was no organized society without some form of taxation, and few organized societies without long-distance trade (only in isolated places).
> When we found out that soldiers in Iraq were mistreating prisoners

We didn't "find out", some media and/or Wikileaks got evidence. And the consequences were not even close to harsh enough - each and every instance of war crimes should have led to a thorough cleanup and massive sentences for everyone involved, especially for everyone who tried to cover it up.
Those are very different things!
> it's not the job of the supreme court to present evidence

I think you meant to say that it is not the job of any supreme court to cancel free elections without evidence.

I dare you to quote the documents that link the win of Georgescu to Russian propaganda.

I am not saying Georgescu wasn't helped by Russia, I am saying there is absolutely no evidence, and if an election can be bought with a couple hundred thousands dollars spent on tik tok, are you implying I could win the elections in Romania?

It is that weak the state of democracy there?

Imagine what the US could do there, having tens of billions at their disposal.
Stan Rogers – The White Collar Holler [video]
There aren't many songs about tech work, and it's crazy that this one, that stills feel current, was released in 1979.
I would fully support the EU banning X! Even though unlike TikTok it has not yet decided elections in the EU, it's clear that its owner is actively trying to do so.

Not sure why you think I wouldn't be in favor of it. With TikTok it's even more clearcut though as it has already happened beyond reasonable doubt.
I do not use TikTok so maybe I do not understand, but how does TikTok influence its users? I thought content comes from other users. Does TikTok decide which content to promote? And if so, what exactly are they promoting that is threatening to the United States?
Last I checked NSLs didn't require a court order, not even one from a secret one with zero effective accountability.
It is not so different from the US-based social networks: Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, etc... Both for the good and for the bad.

And I think most people here understand that.
I fear our govt more than Chinas. Just put CSPAN on in the background for a while. Our government's north star is war.
> I wouldn't say the EU has done an amazing job of actually twisting companies arms enough

It takes a lot of time to open political eyes, break through lobby barriers, and get sufficient awareness on the deep issues. Then it takes an age - in business terms - for governmental action and regulation to follow. But if that is ramping up inertia builds and prolonged policy follows, hopefully as unstoppable tide. Other than some decent government regulation and old-fashioned unfair competition protection there's talk talk talk and not much that restrains Big Tech and the maddened billionaire class.
There's no ad breaks on the BBC.
Young developers are still learning the ropes :)
That is precisely the problem. Abacus sorta works, but arithmetics is much more efficient for the same purpose, and gives you ability to do calculations that can't be done using an abacus.

It is a difference similar to the one between a horse and a car.
Then either participate in your government or, at the very least, vote. Take control of your destiny.
Koka has first class effects, but I think we have different interpretations of the statement above.

Could you please clarify what you mean by 'stored'?
It’s telling the the comment you’re responding to, the best comment in the thread, is flagged and dead so fast.

They are clearly co-opting university departments around the nation to prevent left wing revolution or any meaningful anticapitalist stuff from happening. This has happened since at least the 1960s and a significant amount of the dumbest parts of “wokism” was planted by the IC into academia.

I’m so fucking tired of having to listen to yet more academic post modern neo Marxism from folks who are obviously connected to the IC. We know that you only use this rhetoric to knee cap actual “revolutionaries”.
I think the point is that China does not present itself as the paladin of free spech and individual liberties.
Haskell provides https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.21.0.0/docs/Data-...
Wouldn't using an abacus imply using a base-10 system (i.e. not Roman numerals)? Or were there specific abaci designed around the Roman system?
I found your angle very interesting. I'm baffled by the same thing. Is it that a new generation (that is now < 30) grew up without realising this? I wonder what is the age of average commenter here.
Beej’s was great for me when I was doing some socket programming in C for my OS class in grad school. Classic and invaluable resource.
Why not call for the dismantling of the global advertising networks in the US rather than Tiktok since you think it is a giant propaganda machine?

Saying a foreign nation has the capability to brainwash your citizens into making a vote is propaganda by itself. It's not only cheap and imbecilic, it's a waste of everybody's time.
Completely fictional but amusing dialogue "No lonny I can't make them sell you tiktok anymore, our dark lord and comrade used it to help get me elected and that requires tittat for tiktok. Besides, the name Tox was a bit too on the nose don't you think?"
If you’re comparing either current or historic atrocities, China is going to lose badly.

Trying to mix and match is obviously just disingenuous here.
> obvious why a country would not want their biggest media providers to be foreign-owned.

And yet many countries have no objection with letting their citizens use US FAANG services?
At least they came to an agreement instead of just renaming it "Butt-Head Musician"

https://www.cultofmac.com/news/today-apple-history-mac-7100-...
The claims are not contradictory.

They are bimodal.

Bottom 20% of users can't prompt because they don't understand what they're looking for or couldn't describe it well if they did. This model handles them asking briefly, then breaks it down, seeks implications, and prompts itself. OpenAI's How to Prompt is for them.

Top 20% of users understand what they're looking for and how to frame and contextualize well. The article is for them.

The middle 60%, YMMV. (But in practice, they're probably closer to bottom 20 in not knowing how to get the most from LLMs, so the bottom 20 guide saves typing.)
Perhaps they recognize that a perfect decentralized platform without users doesn't matter as much as pushing the platforms being used to improve
> Food insecurity had been pretty dire in Germany over much of the prior two decades.

Not-so-fun fact: this is what worries me the most about the current political tendencies across the Western world. Historically, food insecurity has been the most common factor between regime changes, revolutions and other uprisings - and now we have been through about five years of rampant inflation (either direct or "hidden" behind shrink/skimpflation) with wage raises not even coming close to matching it, and many even centrist politicians don't care.
> Understanding the map signature in Haskell is more difficult than any C construct.

This is obviously false. The map type signature is significantly easier to understand than pointers, referencing and dereferencing.

I am an educator in computer science - the former takes about 30-60 seconds to grok (even in Haskell, though it translates to most languages, and even the fully generalised fmap), but it is a rare student that fully understands the latter within a full term of teaching.
HTTP APIs are just an interface. The application behind it can be almost anything.
I don't think it will backfire for him politically.

Despite previously being for a TikTok ban, and despite it being his court upholding the ban, I think what's going to stick in people's minds is "only Trump can save TikTok".

His base doesn't want due process. If he single-handedly beats Congress and the Supreme Court, that's a huge W for him.