skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, implementing an RSS feed is so trivial, I'm not surprised if many of the fedi apps have added it.
GM faces ban on selling driver data that can be used to raise insurance rates
TikTok is restoring service in the US
I mean, if that's the standard, I've also unfortunately been exposed to more Nazi content than I'd like on Twitter/Reddit/etc. Should they be banned as well?
Agree completely. Do any registrars toss in a free (or very cheap) basic [micro]blog service? Domain ownership should be the main entry point to the web, everything else is interchangeable and can be sorted out later.
The question if training an llm is fair use is one that will have to be answered by the courts.
TikTok restoring services in US
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Are you asking for a way to obtain a copy?
While we are at it we should show the Hamas atrocities while we are at it. Would not be complete, without someone of the fake heart pull videos that Hamas traditionally put on as well.
While it's used in industry sometimes, ROS is really one of those by-and-for-academia tools. There's a reason it's near-universally reviled, and why "migrate off of ROS" is a standing goal at a lot of robotics companies.

There's also a reason why it's a standing goal, rather than a completed goal.

It does little or nothing really well, but it does everything kind of okay.

There's a lot of "alternatives", most of which do something much better, sometimes much much much better, than ROS, but none of which can replace it all completely. PyRobot, Viam, OROCOS, Webots, all of these do some things much better than ROS, but none of them can drop in and easily replace everything without a lot of developer time, often adding new features to the platform.
It at least shouldn't be as easily available as it is today. I lived in Japan and been all throughout Asia, returning to the US you realize something is deeply wrong when looking at people. People are suffering.
The laptop I use is just one-finger click-down->drag->up to left mouse drag, and two finger click-down->drag->up to right mouse drag.
"Please share a source" is an incredibly dumb retort in the realm of geopolitics.

"Please share a source that the allied powers are going to invade the beaches of Normandy". You can't, because people are working incredibly hard to keep that secret.
Would be cool to get into the office like this. We have RFID tags.
I'm not defending them here, but the laws in China prevent a sale, so technically they have a duty to uphold China's laws first before upholding their fiduciary responsibility. Same with any American company and following American laws.
I think they should have not reinvented the wheel ;-) and use dCBOR42, which has an actual canonical form. But somehow people like to use json in places where it's shown again and again it's a terrible choice.
Tomatoes roaming the fields and canaries in the coalmine
There is absolutely no logical pathway between the current flavor of hardcore free for all individualistic capitalism and what you describe here
Fiction to reality: Will the US ever embrace insect cuisine?
There is some precedent for doing this. State-level cannabis legalization rests on non-enforcement at the federal level, at which it remains scheduled.
A few jobs back I got “promoted” (honestly I didn’t want it but I digress) to an EM. First thing I did was ditch Jira for GH issues. I was hailed as a hero for it. Unfortunately it ended up being a disaster and we had to switch back a year or so later. These were some of the missing features so pretty exciting.
They dropped the ball on cloud and need to catch up and now it's AI. It's kinda interesting how being ahead with data center infrastructure and also AI research didn't lead to them being ahead on those products
Except now they get to remain the owners and they don’t have to sell at fire sale prices, so it turned out to be the best possible outcome for their shareholders.
What the hell are you talking about, that's the default view.
I was really excited about the new UniFi G3 access card reader claiming support for iPhone unlock until I realized it's $5/year/device. It just seems like a slow boil into subscriptions for a company whose entire value prop is prosumer networking without the contracts.

I don't know if it's Apple or UniFi to blame for this fee, but it turned me off entirely of what would have been a day 1 purchase. Other, cheaper junky IoT home locks support Apple HomeKit for unlocking for free, why can't UniFi figure it out?

Really glad to see hacking in this space.
Do you mean the ban, or the removal of the ban? I'm confused. Because I'm pretty sure the ban is at least in part supported by Zuck, and that's why he gave $300M+ to elect a vegetable in 2020, and that's why Meta is spending more than ever on lobbying: https://readsludge.com/2024/04/23/meta-shatters-lobbying-rec...
That sounds like a pretty good deal to me - but I've always believed that the entire concept of "intellectual property" does overall more harm than good.
yarr - the best
> > One with lots of persistent mutable state.

> You mean like a database?

No, I mean like a routing switcher for a TV station. You have a set of inputs and a set of outputs, and you have various sources of control, and you have commands to switch outputs to different inputs. And when one source of control makes a change, you have to update all the other sources of control about the change, so that they have a current view of the world. The state of the current connections is the fundamental thing in the program - more even than controlling the hardware is.
Does this goes both ways? Can I infringe of Disney’s IP on the grounds that their stories are so derivative that they aren’t actually that new?

The betterment of humanity seems to involve some parties making a ton of money while the people who provided the data apparently just need to be grateful.
> X is the only corporate social media platform that offers this. You don't like the algorithm? Don't use it, and use X just like everybody else for the first 10 years of its life.

Speaking as a non-X user, doesn’t YouTube offer essentially the same thing with the “subscriptions” tab?
Yes. As long as you don’t reproduce other people’s stuff specifically.
I think there is a weakness in our societies that can be exposed by foreign actors via social media.

Just because of your Brazilian example of fake (who knows) internal threats, doesn't mean what I just said in this thread is fake:

"Update: After this story published, Facebook took down two of the five troll-farm pages we identified.

In the run-up to the 2020 election, the most highly contested in US history, Facebook’s most popular pages for Christian and Black American content were being run by Eastern European troll farms. These pages were part of a larger network that collectively reached nearly half of all Americans, according to an internal company report, and achieved that reach not through user choice but primarily as a result of Facebook’s own platform design and engagement-hungry algorithm."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/16/1035851/facebook...
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Is it not so much the exact topics but the control of a recommendation engine that’s at the hands of a government that is a general adversary to the West?
> Define the villains and play the hero.

There's a quote I can't find right now that goes something along the lines of "If you let somebody define the terms of your reality, you've made a sorcerer out of them, unless you catch the bastard real quick".

Trump to a T.
not only has tiktok done this before, uber & lyft & doordash did it in california in the lead up to elections
The way most sports works you can’t just get espn+. They might not license all the games so you are beholden to multiple services to get them. Playoffs are also a mess. Services know viewerships are up and rights are traded for specific games like cattle. It is the most anti consumer thing I’ve seen trying to follow college football. Easier to just watch it at a bar that pays into all of this.
As if that would even have any effect in that situation. No amount of audits and rules would prevent TikTok from collecting data and manipulating the public opinion.
Mr. Chew, does TikTok access the home wifi network?
Magothy
Yeah we may have to cross that bridge later. (Indeed, I think it's a major concern that Musk controls Twitter and has demonstrated an inability to criticize the Chinese government time and time again.) But we can at least cross this bridge first.
Of course. The alternative is that creators dictate the price for any of the infinite number of zero cost copies which is and always has been ridiculous.
> I personally hope we can all get on the same team with AI and treat its advancement as scientific research for the betterment of humanity.

s/AI/capital/.

It's painfully obvious that this is going to make material conditions worse for most people who use their minds to work instead of their hands. to these people, the "betterment of humanity" is a cruel joke.
It has totally optional algorithmic feeds, and the ones it does have don't work (they only show me spambots) so there's no motivation to use them.
You can absolutely use the story frameworks that Disney has done.

You cannot make a story featuring Simba.
> I don't think I've seen anything like it in a long time. I also don't think an American company would ever do that as it seems "unprofessional."

Have you been paying attention the last few weeks?

NVIDIA: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-policy/ "As the first Trump Administration demonstrated, America wins through innovation, competition and by sharing our technologies with the world — not by retreating behind a wall of government overreach."

Companies aren't stupid. They know that in order to be successful in today's world, you have to personally fellate Trump. Thanks to the American voters for bringing us this reality.
Taxes can be assessed as a percentage of production and collected as goods rather than collecting money amounting to the value of those goods.
That quote has to do with taxation.
I can already tell by your hyperbole and lack of critical discussion. It shows.
Neither bees nor wasps will swarm if far from their nests mainly because there won't be many as they forage in a solitary manner.

But when hornets attack as a group, then they swarm, and they use their pheromones to aid in swarming. See:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onq9ixC7OEg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D00mEROqKwU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx2EA_ooCf0

where beekeepers use sticky sheets to get one hornet and then all the other hornets will join the one because they are all attracted to its aid by its pheromones.
The law and also the SCOTUS ruling don't even touch editorial discretion. TikTok is free to do whatever as long user data is safe from being accessed by an adversary like the Chinese. Its TikTok who made it about editorial discretion and free speech. They failed with that argument. And I agree with that.
Property prices are going to crash hard in Canada. The government plans on capping temporary residents at 5% of the population, down from a current 7.5%. That means that 900,000 people are going to have to leave. And that's the Liberal plan. The presumptive incoming Conservative plan is going to cap numbers even harder.

Combine that with a massive recession caused by the Trump tariffs, and expect property prices and rents to plummet.

Rents are already down to a 17 month low, but that's just a minor correction compared to what's coming.
Your statement "the best path forward for me understanding is a path that can maintain that curiosity" comes off as entitled. Only you owe yourself that.

"I can play with Arnold's cat and, slowly, through no scientific rigor..." You are fooling yourself into believing you understand if you leave out rigor. If your post has the words "I" and "me" in every other sentence, maybe you should consider whether or not you are adding value for others in the online discussion.

I doesn't cost you anything to ask other people to do things for you, and you will no doubt find other thoughtless people chiming in about your right to do that. If everything you need is not at your fingertips already, maybe no amount of handholding will help.
Of course it is. What point are you even trying to make?
How does it matter where those videos were shared? Material is either classified or unclassified, it doesn't matter if the WarThunder forums (for example) are moderated by US nationals or not.
What do they, or any elite gain/lose by gaining/losing the appreciation of ordinary people.

Do you care what a cattle or a sheep thinks? Some may, but the majority don't give it a shit.
You clearly know what you are talking about, but I don't think you're representing the situation fairly. There are all kind of ways in which businesses may be exempt or partly relieved of commercial property rates. The particularly important one is the the 'small business rate relief', which exempts businesses whose property has a rateable value of less than £15,000 - that's basically all high street shops outside of London.

If by 'other kinds of retail' you mean retail chains or department stores, then yes, the current tax regime causes them to be disadvantaged. But almost every kind of local high street company (including cafés, jewellers, newsagents, toy shops, and yes, even second-hand bookshops) is helped considerably by these tax breaks - it's not just charity shops.

There are lots of reasons why high street businesses and retail in general are struggling, but I'm confident that business rates aren't one of them.
spin working overtime
It's SSO tax applied to hardware devices. But at the same time, it's clearly a more premium feature and if you're a business you've got the $5000/year to pay for 1000 devices. $5/device/year is not exactly expensive. Heck, I'd pay Ubiquiti $15/year for my family to be able to use it at home. That's less than I pay for almost any subscription for anything.
The only incredible thing is that one third of the US populus can be deceived by such cheap tricks. This is a hiding behind your hands baby-object-permanence-level of deception.

But maybe they see through it and convinced themselves that shilling for the billionaire class is in their own interest. Wouldn't surprised me, given the defenses I have seen from some people even on this site.
When the "real problems" are TikTok access and who can enter in which public bathroom you know everyone loses, panem et circenses
Of course, everything he does is quid pro quo. Now he has a sword of damocles he can hang over their head to ensure he can get anything he wants in the future.
you might read that as a signal about the quality of the ‘joke’
This sounds like the perfect use case for something like v0 or bolt.new

Especially considering you want it to use shadcn etc
We're watching the downfall live on stream. They were wrong, the revolution will not be televised is right, the fascist uprising happened in your social media instead.
Interesting. That also explains why they are claiming to be from YC S17. I guess this just the next incarnation of LambdaSchool, and all the baggage that comes with it. Or, another attempt to re-brand to avoid said baggage.
From upthread:

> This is assuming that the audit consists of validating dependency authorship, and not the more labor-intensive approach of reviewing dependency code.

So, obviously: authors.

I took your reply of "hard no" to be a rejection of validating authors as sufficient hardening and an assertion that only line-by-line code review meets your standards. Fine, but if your answer is always going to be "doesn't matter, not good enough", we can't have a reasonable conversation about how best to validate authors.
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Sure, but there’s no executive order saying we promise not to enforce it (I assume?), that would be counter to the law even if the absence of enforcement is a legal grey area

Either way it feels like there are games being played, and the country is watching because tik tok is so heavily used by so many people
If only Microsoft was interested in finding actual useful use-cases for their machine learning tech instead of constantly selling everyone on their chat bot...
Nope, I have no need for any <whisper>further</whisper> copies.

I'm more interested in how a for-profit corp decides to obtain a copy for development of a commercial product, and how they execute that ... whether they still have the data, and whether legal know about it :)

It's exactly not the kind of thing you can say you "found on a USB stick lying around in the car park"...
The liberty in that example being raising enough taxes to properly fund our government so people can just go about their lives.
The tech oligarchy has been here for years
You’re right that ‘Beingness’ and ‘meditation’ are hard to define with precision, but the essence of meditation isn’t about external markers—it’s about an inner, subjective awareness of presence that can’t be fully reduced to objective measures.
It literally was? Everything that happened in the last 24 hours specifically has nothing to do with any legal requirement or deadline. It was a show.
Interesting thread with other links.
"The law banning TikTok, which was scheduled to go into effect Sunday, allows the president to grant a 90-day extension before the ban is enforced, provided certain criteria are met"

Sounds like they're operating within the law
I think it's funny that it's going online because the new President told people to just ignore the law. Interestingly, he is a convicted criminal so it kinda makes sense he would just tell folk to ignore the law. And even more interestingly, the back the blue/law and order type folks will be thinking this is a great move.
It's probably not a good idea to let a 12 year old use tiktok.
This is cool, do love the hacking ingenuity. And not that I want to give Apple extra credit, but they are slowly opening up NFC: https://www.macrumors.com/guide/apple-nfc-chip-ios-18-1/ - Is is very restrictive (probably) and very late - most certainly. But at least it's slowly coming.
Yeah that's the first stage of grief, denial
The actual law says what countries cannot run a social media site in America. It doesn’t say it has to be American owned. Just not a country that we’re in a quasi-cold war with (China, Russia, Iran, NK, are the usual suspects.)

If America were a hostile nation to a European country, then said country probably would (and should, heck) ban an enemy nation from running a social media company in their borders. As it is, America is on friendly terms with “Europe” and so the worry isn’t really there.

This is why it’s important for nations to not get to the point where relations are this bad in the first place. It results in isolationism and distrust, which is a slippery slope that results in zero-sum outcomes that are worse than if we had open trade. But that ship has sailed long ago. China has openly declared itself to be in utter opposition to the US and has been engaged in grey zone warfare with us for a decade or more. The next Cold War has already begun.

You mention Europe, which is ironic: China is allied with Russia and is openly funding its invasion of Ukraine. Something the EU hasn’t really done anything to help with, because of a complete lack of resources spent on an independent military from the US’s which they have always counted on to defend them. The idea of EU states souring US relations so much that they welcome China, the very country that is funding the invasion of their continent, is utterly insane. If Germany/UK/France/etc had any kind of sense they’d ban TikTok too out of solidarity.
With the algorithm 100% Chinese-operated
That is so embarrassing for the Democrats. Trump comes out that he wants to ban it, Biden finally does on like, the last week of his presidency, just so Trump can come in and save it. Now the millions of people who make their living on TikTok and everyone else who simply likes the app are now thanking Trump for bringing back the app he wanted to ban in the first place.

Just staggering incompetence.
There is an open source project called Aider that does that.
Tangential question: What's your take about Code AIs using GPL and source available code in their training sets, and breaching both licenses?
Oh wow, then I feel very honoured :) It's neat to have that feeling of one of your "weird" or "niche" thoughts being captured (even if poorly) by someone else, living a different life. I love that feeling when I encounter it here!

I often think of minds as very spatial as well, in that introducing new concepts to a mind requires it be tailored to specific characteristics of that mind, like tuning the parameters of a autonomous vehicle before sending it off on its own into the mind, hoping it makes it deeply within.

The truly impressive and powerful concepts (which I understand to have very specific and complex high dimensional symmetry), are those which I assume are the ones that we call poetic or beautiful or resonant. They are the ones whose shape is finely tuned to resonate deeply with the shared shapes of many many human minds.

Often I think of people in their minds as people in mazes, and there are certain areas of the maze people go to, that sometimes certain neurotypes can imagine well, but others can only treat as a black box (though really, they are the maze itself)
I think now I was the one that didn't get my point across correctly.

I'm not claiming anything you say is false. Troll farms and external interference is indeed a problem.

But Musk just bought the election for Trump. If that isn't an indicator that the imminent threat is internal and not external, I don't know what is.
Trump's proposed executive order just gives TikTok more time "so that a deal could be made." Honestly I don't understand how TikTok is able to restore service now before the executive order or even the inaugaration has occured.
> Sometimes I just feel like these people overestimate how much they are actually owed from these training runs.

It’s not about being paid for including their work, it’s about being compensated for having done so without permission. For crying out loud, they went out of their way to remove copyright notices from the pirated work.

> It’s trained on 15T tokens. So how many did you provide that were genuinely novel?

Then they can just take it out. And go ahead and take out every thing you didn’t have permission to include. What’s that? The model is now significantly worse? Yeah, these things compound.

> And how much money do you want? Like $5 from OpenAI? And $0 from meta since it’s open source?

No, they would’ve wanted for the work to not have been included without permission in the first place. Do you understand the world you’re advocating for? You’re arguing it’s OK for rich people to do whatever they want if they throw some scraps on the floor for you. Not everything is about money. Unfortunately there’s no other reasonable way (legal and non violent) to punish these infringers.

> I personally hope we can all get on the same team with AI and treat its advancement as scientific research for the betterment of humanity.

What you’re expressing is “I hope everyone will stop arguing and agree with me”. These moguls care about themselves, it is incredibly naive to believe they give a rat’s ass about “the betterment of humanity”.
It should be noted that they recommended that after one early racing game included a plastic wheel that rolled on the keys in the same manner, and people noticed that it was about the same size as a reel of sellotape

https://spectrumgamesuk.com/index.php?game=Formula-One

Sadly the major racing game that preceeded it, Psion's Chequered Flag, didn't thus support the key scheme that the reel of tape method produced; a shame, since it was by far a better game otherwise.

edit: also, of course, in early 1984 the spectrum+ became the default 'sinclair spectrum' and didn't really work with the plastic wheel / reel of sellotape method, so it was a fairly short lived method all told, even though it lived on as an option in a few games for a couple of years longer.