skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be a no-op.

"Twitter cannot be Chinese (or NK etc) owned."

OK, done.
From a historic standpoint, rights are peacetime luxuries.

The US sees China as an existential threat and TikTok is one of its key weapons. Tiktok is getting banned for the same reason Cuba can't have nukes. It's a national security concern.

I don't endorse it. But I understand it.

America blundered in the 80s by allowing technology transfer to then and still hostile foreign power. It has woken up to its stupidity 45 years too late. But better late than never.

It's not fair.....but love and war Yada yada.
That’s the whole point of buying a Thinkpad. I will never buy a Thinkpad ever without a Trackpoint.
Kind of a weirdly written article. Only one model removed the nub, and it's from one of its "we're trying to be MacBook" lines (the X line, like the Z line, are more about form than function). And all that tech shipped in its other lines for a while, afaik.

I recently sold a Z13 because it had so many quirks (low battery life due to OLED, trackpad and trackpoint were crap, bluetooth barely worked through the dense metal chassis, display didn't fold down 180 degrees, felt heavy af).

I got a T14s instead. Holy crap, it is so much better. Feels lighter, the touchpad and trackpoint are great, 500nits low-energy display is "ok" but battery can last all day. I use the trackpoint all the time (partly due to the touchpad drifting for some reason, and partly just to have a more precise pointer for fine work). The only downside is the lack of more USB-C ports.

A random upside if you order it with Ubuntu: it comes with Secure Boot set up correctly. But then a downside: Linux kernel prevents hibernate from working if Secure Boot is enabled, unless you set up an encrypted swap and jump through hoops to set up the bootloader right (and of course it's not set up on Ubuntu). I can't believe it's still such a pain to get otherwise-standard laptop functionality with Linux.
>Over time the nubs can wear down and cause your cursor to drift

This is simply not true. The trackpoint driver will compensate for trackpoints that no longer point "true" center https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/TrackPoint#Trackpoint_moves...
Great content, excited to see the book grow :)
Not a great piece. The audience is Boomers so as an elder I need to elaborate on its phenomena:

It is no longer honest to claim that working harder is a competitive advantage. It’s never been smart to promote the hardest worker, but one difference now is that non-remunerative work is punished. Raising kids, taking care of parents; those are unwise during your peak productive years. Don’t be the hardest worker and don’t overvalue non-remunerative work.

The west has lost its definitions of liberal and conservative. Conservative used to mean: noticing that radical change results in a net negative, historically. I’m conservative in the USA and there’s no realistic political party for that anymore. Ideas for better-balanced rights are liberal by the 18th century definition. Defying that only the aristocracy should carry guns was and is liberal.

Christianity seems to have peaked mid-20th century. The obligation to subdue the most-harmful effects on the poor is now very baroque. I’ve met people who watch a TV church weekly, unable to hold the simplest of conversations about 90% of the word of Christ.

Boomers had extraordinary economics, and it shows in some of your leaders’ personalities. Gen-X and Zoomer leaders will be tougher.
I'm not sure if it was my P50 or not, but the driver was really not good: The polling rate felt like it was about 30Hz and definitely not as pleasant as my nostalgia made it out to be. I ended up never using it, despite the weak trackpad.
Free speech is not about the "who" but the "what".
I visit hacker news for insightful discussions and this ain’t it chief. The world is much larger than your bubble and sticking your fingers in your ears doesn’t change that.
Not sure, I think this is a bit daft from a marketing POV. It was an iconic, recognizable differentiator, and is the sort of thing that makes people tell the story of your brand. Other brands would kill to have a legacy, especially in a space where the product is otherwise largely interchangable and just passes through whatever the latest Intel/AMD product is.

It's like Mercedes deciding not to remind you of the Gullwing every 5 minutes anymore.

If I was working at Dell, I would be flabbergasted at my competitor just throwing away one of their little advantages.

Lenovo already has other brands catering to folks who don't identify with the ThinkPad brand identity and aesthetic (e.g. the Yoga devices, where some of the premium models have been legit svelte and gorgeous; I bought my mom in law a swanky Yoga with an OLED and it's more lovely than anything Apple).
The economics of the deal over the long term are exponentially more critical than the performance in the short term, right?

In that context, how is convincing intelligent people to pay OpenAI to help train their own replacements while agreeing not to compete with them anything but the biggest, dumbest, most successful nerd snipe in history?

Dumping more context just implies getting brain raped even harder. Y’all are the horses paying to work at the glue factory. “Pro” users paying extra for that privilege, no thank you!
> Twitter clone without the political baggage

I tried out Bluesky last week in hope of finding a social network which ticked this box, but my feed was full of anti Elon Musk / Trump messages. So it was very political from my initial experience.

This was after the setup wizard process where I selected tech/science/entertainment preferences.

Perhaps I did something wrong or didn't give it enough chance?

Either way I deleted my account.
Yeah, I don’t think finding ways to make your premium product less distinctive and more like the cheap product is a great business strategy.
I mean, literally right here in the first page of the arguments (page 4):

> First, TikTok incorporated as a U.S. company speaking in the United States.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcr...
WebGL2 is GLES 3.0, not 3.1 (that would be big because 3.1 has storage buffers and compute shaders).
Reminds me of the racing games for the ZX Spectrum. They exploited the rubber keyboard and recommended the use of a large roll of Sellotape pressed on to the computer as a steering wheel.
Especially with our billionaires openly declaring they are working with the oncoming administration because other powers like the EU trying to enforce their laws within their borders. China is just on top of the game since they are a provider instead of a consumer.
I still miss my X61s daily.

The trackpoint was great simply because I didn't need to move my hands anywhere else when using it, could keep my fingers all on the home row and still move pointer.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the constitution only applies to American citizens, not corporations, and certainly not foreign citizens.
i think they could have kept it. the latest yoga slim 7i aura edition (one of the best non-macbook laptops there are) set the trend of lenovo notebooks having a power button on the side.

instead the trackpoint nub could have become a new power button + fingerprint button. just like the TouchID on the macbook.

Its a missed opportunity to keep the brand and update the functionality.
My first stab at running a git server was Gitlab CE (because I was using it at work.) I tried running it on an Atom based server with insufficient RAM and it just crawled. Page loads just timed out. I switched to Gitea and it was a breath of fresh air.

Forgejo got to my attention when Fedora chose it for their repo server. My needs are pretty simple - just some centralized file storage of notes and some source code. I've tested a migration from Gitea 1.21 to Forgejo 9 and it was frictionless.

I'm seriously consider migrating, but I still wonder which will be better supported (and suitable for free-as-in-beer use) in the long run.
There was a (not really propaganda) photo op shot of a US naval captain of a big ass ship shooting a rifle with a backwards scope earlier this year.

I think the reason tends to be that the people involved in prop and photo ops actually have no clue about the particulars and just want it to look cool. It's equivalent to "why is X in movies always so unrealistic?" for various values of X (e.g. hacking, law & courts, guns, etc)

(By people involved I mean the people taking the pictures, editing, publishing, etc. Though in the US captain one, I guess also the guy in the picture too)
valuable. a variation should be applied to public services by privacy offices, as gov often uses virtual entities under the guise of projects or working groups, where the legally accountable entity almost never receives documents or decisions, but pushes them down onto technology teams to implement.

A standard open organization specification that shows people, authorities, budget flows and beneficial parties, and then only funding anything expressed in that spec would go a long way to improving institutions.
The right to participate and to exclude: The role of government in social media
As a Chinese, you know what you can't talk about.
As an American we are "surprised" when our "free speech" results in overt government-sponsored censorship.

You are very wrong.
They did it before. See for example the history of Merck, a German pharma company during WW1.

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

I think that's the actual reasoning. Be mindful that USA is our ally but they'll always prefer their own interest and that's normal.
I never understood why people even cared to choose a server. If you're only looking at posts from people you follow, it doesn't matter. Who cares what other people you don't know on your server are saying
> because it is too successful and valuable to be foreign-held

That is not the reason at all. I highly doubt if it was made in Europe, it would be banned.

China would never allow a TikTok equivalent to operate in China, which is smart. We should do the same.
Yeah same, not quite RSI, but definintively some pain after a while. Just wish they made them more like a game controller joystick instead of a piece of solid plastic with some strain gauges (or whatever they use, almost no travel)
For the same reasons US is doing now ;)
I had an Accord hybrid and it did not have a transmission at all. There was a clutch and a single gear, which engaged over about 45 mph. Otherwise, the vehicle was propelled by an electric motor. The design, as far as I know, is significantly different than what Toyota uses. Having no transmission plus very little brake wear due to regen breaking felt like a good tradeoff.

https://www.autoweek.com/news/green-cars/a34667856/the-updat...

https://hondanews.com/en-US/honda-automobiles/releases/relea...
Petunias don’t breed true, but people have gotten viable glowing seedlings from them.

Might be a mess in 10-20 years when some inevitably escape.
It allows you to move mouse without lifting your hands from the standard position on keyboard. However I developed some strain when using it in my work so had to use mouse later
Why would you want a house to last so long? Are you expecting your children and your grandchildren to keep living there after you die?
Can be done with Mac. You use your thumb at top of trackpad while fingers stay on home row.
I’ve never heard anyone else mention this before, but same here. Incredibly painful. It was 25 years ago and I still wince whenever I see one of those nubs.
There’s proof from Federal agencies that they knew the algorithm was intentionally being weaponized to agitate and promote domestic protestors. Just look at the Chinese consulate shut down when 45 was in office last in Texas. It was rumored to be the base of operations for where the Chinese were weaponizing the algorithm against American interests.
I still use it when coding or writing. You can really easily move the cursor and never take your fingers off the keyboard.
What's your objective metric? I would say one side has way more websites and apps blocked than the other. So if we go by that measure then I'd say the one with more websites and apps blocked is objectively worse.
Hypermiling can be fun. I’ve also enjoyed a sort of anti-hypermiling: basically configuring and tuning a car such that it can be driven hard and still return amazing fuel economy. I’ve managed to configure a few small diesel vehicles like the VW TDIs such that they still get Prius level 50+ mpg when driven nearly flat out.
It actually appears that Ukraine blew up Nordstream.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/06/...
Interesting article/excerpt, but like >95% of it is disconnected from the title. The first half is basically a historical tale relating where the word 'money' comes from.

TLDR:

- A single list of names from 115 AD/CE reveals that about half the people at the mint were slaves.

- The dies used were hand cut with simple chisel tools and no magnification (lenses) available, so they must have been masters of the craft who would probably become nearsighted by the end of their careers.

- It took 3 people to actually stamp each coin (1 for upper die, 1 for lower die, 1 to hammer), so there were likely many teams of 3 in the mint, given the amount of coins produced.
Serious question, why not? Going off recent examples, Brazil seems to haven o trouble doing so.
Lessons on AI Access Control from Asimov
> I don't know if the libraries support that. But I bet Intel's library (TBB) and their programmers are working on keeping their abstractions clean and efficient.

Intel can declare in ACPI a set of nodes, the distances between nodes, and then Linux/libnuma/etc pick it up.

So, e.g. in AMD's SLIT tables, the local node is 10; within the same partition are 11; within the same socket are 12; distant sockets are >=20.

There's fancier, more detailed tables (e.g. HMAT) and some code out there that uses them, but it's kind of beyond the scope of libnuma.
HP discontinued pointing sticks on all of their laptops, including their business workstations, a couple of years ago. Dell did the same, but a bit earlier.
They go into detail on their technical decision making, very cool:

Choosing Clojure6 and Datalog7 was a calculated risk–but one which paid off. The Datalog model offered the simplest and most ergonomic queries, had strengths in graphs and relationships, and the entity model could easily transform to more standard formats. In–memory Datomic was chosen on the server, allowing complicated relational rule–based queries to map over tens of thousands of claims, linking sources to the attributes of entities. Using Clojure allowed for rapid prototyping and fast feedback cycles. Together, this allowed constructing arbitrary graph traversal queries, without having to round–trip from the database to execute recursive code, allowing the nature of traversing the domain model to be separated from the specifics of the relationship. How entities relate, and how relations work through time, could be developed as separate concepts. Using Datalog queries, it was possible to get every subordinate, as well as the time ranges they held true for, with a simple query like (subordinate-of ?a ?b ?start-date ?end-date)
Store/Retrieve Files on Google Drive Using React Native App
In this post, we will see how to Store/Retrieve Files on Google Drive using React Native App.

In this example we will see how to integrate Google Drive to perform following operations in React Native App which will work for Android and iOS both.

1/Create a directory on Google Drive
2/Pick and Upload any File on Google Drive
3/List Files from Google Drive (All Files + Filtered Files)
4/Delete any File from Google Drive
5/Download any File from Google Drive
WinTCacheMulti: An Attempt to Parallelize Thumbnail Extraction in Windows
Hey everyone, this will be my first post on Hacker News, and I hope we will have an interesting discussion. Today, I have published a project titled WinTCacheMulti. It explores the challenges of optimizing Windows File Explorer's thumbnail generation process, which remains sequential despite modern multi-core CPUs.

Performance benchmarks showed minimal gains (~4.7%), and high CPU utilization stemmed from threads waiting on locks rather than doing valuable work. While the project didn't solve the problem, it was a fascinating deep dive into Windows internals. It would be pretty cool if someone who works at the Windows internals could have a look at this.

Feel free to check it out on GitHub at https://github.com/mikayelgr/WinTCacheMulti. I'd love your thoughts on this or similar experiences working with low-level system APIs. If you feel that there are any oddities that I might have missed, please let me know.
It's the other way around. People should only assume the poster is looking for critical feedback when they see "Show HN" in the title. Which is not to say this can't be critiqued, but the grandparent was way off base

https://news.ycombinator.com/show
> But you don't need a license to put something on the internet. And Americans don't want everything on the Internet to be regulated and censored the way TV and radio are.

The end result of your line of thought isn't the return of TikTok, it's the creation of an internet hosting licensing scheme in the US.
You think so, 4chan /g/ has had “thinkpad generals” forever. The reality is that CS departments are full of fedora-core kids with thinkpads and no social skills.
An Interview with Emre Baran From Cerbos
I'm pretty sure that only a small minority of Americans, let alone those in the 18-29 age group, can name their senators and representative and anyone on the Supreme Court. Unfortunately, most Americans instead seem to imagine this country as an autocracy in which they get to vote for a new ruler every four years.
The only reason we buy Thinkpads, is because of the trackpoint and the 3 buttons.
They could remove the trackpad, we disable it anyway.

I do hope other manufacturers will fill this gap. Lenovo's quality has been going downhill.

Typing this on a Lenovo Thinkpad P16 gen2
And that was okay until they started the whole "choose the politically right one out of thousands and good people should have nothing to fear" thing.
The patent on the manufacturing process, not the peptide itself.
In this case the "what" is whatever bias TikTok wants to put in their algorithm that we have absolutely no visibility or control over.
“People” often fancy themselves to be smarter than they are and capable of judging others wrong based on their limited information and passing knowledge, as well as what they have decided to be true rather than what is fact. Things like “because things were made of stone, all things were made of stone”, or “because some things survived the tests of time, all things were built better”.

It is exactly the bias that was pointed out by the commentor.
I've spent plenty of time in China and know how things work there, in general. The idea that everything is run through the Communist Party is just a lazy, scaremongering generalization that's become increasingly popular in the US since 2016. There is such a thing as "Trump Derangement Syndrome," and it's the anti-China derangement that has become the bipartisan consensus since Trump took office in 2016.

The people pushing the ban say it's about Israel. Other Senators and Congresspeople say that's why they and their colleagues supported a ban. There were always some people who wanted to ban TikTok, but they were never able to get majority support in Congress until the issue of Israel came into play. Banning the most popular social media platform in the United States, a platform that more than half of Americans use, is a big deal.
Especially when these companies soak up millions to billions of $$$s in ad spending and pay close to zero tax.
I think that considering TikTok's shop feature, it would be, but to me the dictionary definition of "the business of buying and selling commodities, products, or services; commerce" wouldn't apply to a free social media app otherwise. It lacks the critical transactional nature.
...and everybody knows, _nobody_ in India uses tiktok.
They’re only saying this specific one is and how long did it take for that to pass through legislature and courts?

It’s not always a slippery slope. And China's use of soft power via strict governmental control of its corporations isn’t an imaginary boogeyman.
> Who decides what is propaganda and what is not? EU commissariat?

Like most things in the EU it’s overly complicated, but I think sanctions are decided unanimously by the Council, which in this case would be assembled national ministers of foreign policy or security.
… why do I need to delete something, that’s frustrating :( I don’t want to need to log out and turn off my ad blockers to watch something weird or abnormal on YouTube… I pay for premium for a reason :(
Beyond 'latency numbers every programmer should know'
Yeah, but the lack of comparison to a CPU-only system is suspicious. (As is the exaggerated plot without ticks and labels on the y-axis.)

I've never seen a non-reactive incompressible flow simulation get substantial speedup on GPUs. There are well understood fundamental reasons why this is the case.
cool, thanks. I found this recent discussion of what IDE's folks like to use: https://www.reddit.com/r/ada/comments/1gn68c0/best_ide_for_a...
So what? People freely chose to vote for Calin. He won. Why does it matter how these voters came to their decisions?

Deep down, the sorts of people who'd ban TikTok and overturn the Romanian election are those who believe they, not the people collectively, get to weigh the merit of ideas. They see democracy as a rubber stamp for elite consensus. If the rubber stamp malfunctions, it's time to fix it. This attitude is a betrayal of centuries of liberal values that made this country and the west generally what it is today.
I deleted that comment because it got downvotes. Downvote this one too, tech startup incubator trolls.

Edit: Also reaffirming my position the parent commenter is a combative CCP apologizer using irrelevant comparisons, as all the sibling conversation clearly points out.
As a European I noticed all the neo-authoritarian Russia supporters crying on X and BlueSky and therefore support the US ban on Tiktok. I am usually against the EU frenchies making up new regulations but they get a pass if they manage to ban Tiktok.
belief laundering, as if “network contagion research institute” is some long-standing research org and not basically an extension of the state like the “Atlantic Council”

anyone with half a statistics brain can see the problems in this analysis
Yes! exactly. Post JFK and MLK assassination, there is no need to physically kill a physical being or movement. You just need to do character assassination of the person/idea. And with the fast moving nature of internet disinformation, once you kill the person's reputation that person is effectively neutered.

Post trump win people in elite circles started to realize and actually discuss (to my amazement) that maybe they should not have played all those games to derail Bernie Sanders. TikTok served as an interesting counterweight to the national narrative on many topics. What does not directly affect China negatively may also pose a threat to the US and that seemed to bubble to the top on TikTok from time to time.
Wait, do some people have a positive view of them?
As a long-time Thinkpad user, I disagree. I even have a Trackpoint keyboard for my desktop because being able to do mouse things without moving my hands from the keyboard's home row is a huge convenience. It was the deciding factor between another Thinkpad and a Framework last time I bought a laptop.