skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe you could argue the smartest move is to play dumb.

Does playing smart advertise you as smart on a popular TV show, while minimizing the tedious reality-TV drama that you have to go through? The expected winnings aren't all that much. And most (desirable) employers are would rate "smart" as a more desirable trait than to "gullible" or "underhanded".
If it isn't well known that's a great reason for the government to focus on making that clear. Banning the app really doesn't help anyone long term, and giving the president even more power is always a risky game.
> Why would a retired person need 2 bedrooms?

To receive visiting relatives for a couple days. Also when they get sick or break a bone, and need 24/7 assistance for a couple weeks/months, having a second bedroom available is very helpful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(...

Not really?
It’s only about blue jeans? It’s not about pissing Americans off so they are less productive and overall are less able to defend against additional attacks?
> This is why i think that this is a case where the interests of the american people may not necessarily align with the "national" interests of wanting to ban tictoc

Your home country at least has some incentive to work towards your interest. No matter how evil they are because they have to pay the consequences of these actions. Even in autocratic China, for example, anti-lockdown censorship during Covid in China eventually caused even more resentment against the CCP.

On the other hand, look at examples of Russian election interference in 2016 [1]. One of the posts is "Satan: If I win Clinton wins. Jesus: Not if I can help it. Press like to help Jesus win." The entire goal is to get Americans to distrust and hate each other. Nobody in America has anything to gain from posting this, but China and Russia have nothing but to gain from a more fractured America. We only found out about this because Facebook cooperated with American intelligence to find this foreign propaganda. At best, you can't expect the same cooperation from TikTok they are accountable to the CCP. At worst, TikTok would actively be working with China to disguise this propaganda as genuine content.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/us/politics/russia-2016-e...
You can also read that as an example of his opinion that TikTok is selectively amplifying anti-Western sentiment. You _can_ go for "it's all about Israel", but you really don't have to.
Now that's just goofy, I get why they have similar names but it's begging for misunderstandings. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare-metal_server
Strange that issue types is only available if your repository is part of an organization. Why is this not configurable at the repository level?
Out of curiosity, where do you look for the advice?
> antisemitism is rife with the new generation

Is there an example one could provide of this which shows members of the new generation criticizing Jewish people for being Jewish? Surely it wouldn’t be examples of people voicing criticism of the actions of people who happen to be Jewish.
Time for the EU to ban Google, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, due to foreign interference.
a Chinese company, yes, but backed by some of the major investment funds in the west, the Chinese own 20%, Chinese government is under 1%.
Would be cooler if it walked around the whole screen and not just stuck in a dedicated panel.
> Letting the government tell people who they can and cannot listen to flies in the face of the very idea of democracy.

But that's not what this is doing.

People are still free to hear the same thing on other platforms (which they can considering how much is crossposted).

It's like getting rid of AM radio because you want to use the spectrum and claiming it violates freedom of speech because stations have to close down.
Statistical Literacy
What do you consider a real life task, if Graph reachability, Graph coloring nor finding Connected components count? They all have many straightforward applications.
TikTok users should’ve been posting/begging non-stop for ByteDance to sell their U.S. operations once the law passed.

That’s all the law was asking for.

ByteDance chose not to, and now everybody thinks the U.S. is banning apps “just because”.

Where is the “all ByteDance had to do was sell, and we’d still have our TikTokShops” outrage, which is where any outrage should be focused.
He’s probably Chinese; a few weeks ago I remember seeing a similar long comment which referred to solar panels pricing in the context of women’s rights in China - which I thought was strange.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42556337
You don't need a custom back end to receive a simple form submission. As one easy example: https://docs.netlify.com/forms/setup/

There are others. You are probably going to spend more time seeking a pre-canned SaaS that does this vs. just picking a cloud provider and figuring out the easiest way to do a serverless form with them.
How to build a notebook-based data platform
Future Customers Won't Search – They'll Send an AI Agent. Are We Ready?
In the near future, your customers won’t be browsing your website or comparing options themselves. Instead, AI agents like ChatGPT, Siri, and others will handle these tasks for them—making decisions, booking flights, reserving hotels, and even completing purchases.
Unless there is a significant increase in the effective context window in LLMs. Pursuing the goal of having agents working on complex goals is not going to work well. All the tricks and hacks trying to work around this problem is not going to fundamentally change that.

LLM agents will lose track of what they are trying to do after couple of trials. That's something that would differentiate human PhD is that while not fast or always creative, they have better attention memory span.
ByteDance has agency.

They had the chance to divest TikToc and chose not to.
Oh yeah, that looks super similar. I remember the similarity score being tricky to get useful signal out of, for the underlying model I had used back then. Similar and dissimilar issues all hovered around the 0.80 mark. But surely not hard to improve on, with larger models and possibly higher-dimension vectors.
So today's tiktok users would be like this...https://youtube.com/shorts/EOJkm9s5dSE?si=aCoDGv4mNhkImc5e
A ticket to a football game will never be considered a contract of adhesion. The terms are very much negotiated. Nobody has any need to go to a game. Nobody is being tricked or forced into anything. It is a one-time ticket to watch a show or shows, with an agreement not to rebroadcast that show.
Great point. Ever since we’ve had language, we’ve had lies

My comment just points to the naïveté of thinking that somehow big media are big sources of unbiased truth that we can all trust
They already have "Closed as not planned (won't fix, can't repro, stale)". You can use labels for finer granularity if you want.
When you express it has "Haskell has the IO monad" and "Haskell has the Maybe monad", it's no biggie because other languages have them. All Java Objects might or might not be there (so they all implement Maybe). And all Java methods might or might not do IO, so they all implement IO.

The real sell is: Haskell objects which are not Maybe are definitely there. Functions which are not IO will always give the same input for the same output.
I'm a US citizen, not being paid by China, and I've never used TikTok, but I think this ban is bad. I believe Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are bigger threats to the people that live in the US than China is. This ban gives them more power by eliminating one of their largest competitors. That's bad.
They definitely should do that if they believe that these applications are controlled by US government.

AFAIK nobody seriously believes that.
I mean, book banning isn't a federal level thing (at least not at any remotely broad level) and typically happens either on one side of the political spectrum (same deal with LGBT stuff), or at the level of individual school systems. e.g. you won't find that book at the school library at most, but the bookstore down the street will have it.

Vast difference from the typical notion of book burnings and such.

"Objective" media exists (NPR, PBS(?), CSPAN) but just isn't as popular because biased media attracts more attention through confirmation bias and flashiness.
That is very unlikely from a historical standpoint.
Downvoted for speaking truth.
Carter, Reagan, and some hostages, for example.
No, its major point of comparison happens to be called $FART. It’s only coincidentally being “trailed by Fartcoin”. Pretty soon the business news will report on $TRUMP with $FART not far behind.
Ah, so anybody will be able to create rockets to go to Mars or design GPUs or set up semiconductor foundries?
My guess is that self-hosted versions have an infinitely simpler user experience when it comes to accounts and visibility. Jira Cloud is definitely angled towards always being behind some sort of an account system, which used a real, costly backend, but the self-hosted one can get by with the local hosted IdP or an LDAP server.
> FOSS isn't a business model. It never was and never will be.

This seems an interesting point and one I share. Yet it seems equally unethical to enable the corporate extractavism that we now see. It's time the "users should have the freedom to do what they want with software" be updated to something like 'users and makers should be free of coercion and exploitation by software.' What, after all, are the grounds for such freedoms? Are they issues of property? Or are they ones of the dignity of the persons involved? It doesn't seem controversial that we tend to find it problematic if another uses us as means to their ends without our consent. In personal actions, many act as if they believe this. Yet corporations consistently do not act with those values. You're right: we should strive toward a system not in which it's viable to create businesses out of FOSS but in which both users and developers are not exploited or used unwillingly.
Knuth's Sorting and Searching book talks a lot about that sort of algorithm.

The old IBM 360 had a 16MB address space at best, but in 1968 there were very few installations anywhere near filling it. This kind of tape

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-track_tape

could have a capacity of 80 MB or so, which is (1) much larger than RAM, and (2) mainly sequential (it could fast forward for a bit and try to find a particular block, but it was pretty slow) Contrast this to the floppy drives in the 70-140 kb range which the 8-bit micros had. Thus there was a lot of literature on external memory algorithms that would work on tapes in the early days -- though similar methods are still of interest today for "big data" as RAM is faster by a lot when you access it sequentially, you want to minimize round trips in distributed systems, etc.

(It was funny though when I talked to computer scientists around 2004 and was told to forget about external memory algorithms because 'main memory' was the thing; people realized, for instance, that Google Maps could store all the tiles in RAM in half a rack of 1U servers and if utilization was high it was much cheaper than serving the tiles off disk; Hadoop came along and was a blast from the past that itself was obsolete in just a few years)
I’m sad to lose the cross stitching videos, the travel log clips, the live streams of people playing instruments, and the tons of animal videos. Trying Instagram Reels, everything feels performative, which is annoying.
They’re first class in the sense that they can be described, stored, computed, separated etc from pure functions. Fair to call them first class.
No, this is not wrong. I will demonstrate. Here is a sample conversation between three users A, B, and C:

https://i.ibb.co/CJkZWBG/image.png

No-one has blocked anyone at this point, so the conversation is visible to all parties and any onlookers.

Your own app shows the same:

https://i.ibb.co/3kxp5Q9/image.png

Now for whatever reason, user B decides to block user A. The entire subthread starting with user B's response to user A is removed, which includes making the discussion between user A and user C no longer viewable in that thread, to anyone:

https://i.ibb.co/j6f9z92/image.png

This appears exactly the same in your app:

https://i.ibb.co/2Px9bw5/image.png

The root cause is that the app.bsky.feed.getPostThread endpoint omits the entire tree of replies for that subthread in its response:

https://i.ibb.co/F45n6QV/image.png

Please feel free to verify this in your own browser and explain why you believe this to be incorrect.
Great stuff, thanks for this.
It feels like you downloaded it primarily so you could share this related passage.
That sounds like a reasonable argument to create an age limit for social media.

It also sounds like an argument for parents to step in - every child is different and a parent should be doing the parenting rather than Congress and the White House.
Semantics aside, there's an objective list of who bans or censors more, and it's not even close. Not by an order of magnitude. Source: the great firewall's existence.
hanging out has become expensive...
I don’t think wealthier people will choose to live where less wealthier people live. As is, they filter to different neighborhoods with periods of gradation separating them. In a tower, you still have to go to the ground floor to leave.

Also, sounds like Dredd
This seems a bit like splitting hairs.

There is quite a bit of naivete regarding how the Chinese government controls Chinese companies.

It is very different from the US.
And somehow a majority votes for the candidate that puts an oligarch in power of an 'unofficial' position/department. It was clearly vote for people with a lot of money.

Something about The government you elect is the government you deserve.?
Show HN: Ccsum – no more eye strain from sha256sum
I created a CLI tool named ccsum, sha256sum with colors and sorting.
- Checksums are colored so you can check if they're same or not quickly
- You can sort files by its basename, useful when you're doing `{copied_from,copied_to}/*`
My former house was built in 1927 - it had every modern convenience and was 100% better constructed than the terrible house we live in now that was built 2 years ago that was thrown together in the cheapest ways possible but still cost multiples of the inflation adjusted price of out former home when new.
99% of Facebook employees (including Zuck himself) were strongly in favor of censoring all conservative viewpoints, as well, and were in lock-step with Big Gov't controlling speech.

how can you write this with the straight face when top like 100 accounts spreading shit on Facebook are right-wing nutcases. Give me on popular left-wing nutcase on Facebook?! believing that conservative views on any social media platform were ever being supressed is downright craaaaazy :)
I take anywhere from 600mg to 1000mg throughout the day. It depends on my diet and other things. Never all at once.
in practice that's not the kind of content that is defederated. what is defederated is usually for ideological reasons, but sometimes it's because of illegal content (there's a lot of Japanese Misskey instances that will happily federate images to you that are questionably legal to possess in the US whether you want them on your drive or not) or out of spam control / distrust (small instances often have trouble federating)

ironically when I used Mastodon, while dealing with these issues, I was unable to filter out other languages. So in addition to extremely questionable content, a lot of it was simply in another language.

ActivityPub is a really half baked protocol and the sooner we realize that and move on from it the better. Personally, I didn't feel that defederation was an adequate defense against those MissKey instances and I decided running an instance is a very big liability.
Looking at institutions across the West I can't say he's wrong.

I forget who's law it is but "Any institution that isn't explicitly right wing will become left wing".

I don't think it's a real drive to destroy, but the outcome of people identifying that the left cannot succeed democratically, so the form of leftism that ends up prevalent is one that is very enticing to progressives inside powerful extrapolitical organisations.

You could argue that tech was just caught in the tsunami but it was an enormous social revolution — Google are still running Pixel ads of men/amab in dresses iirc
Gen Z is interesting. My brother and sister in law are Gen Z (my wife and I are older millennials). My brother in law and his girlfriend are openly Trump supporters (both happen to be non-white). They went to the rallies and stuff. So are a lot of his friends at work in a blue city (tech sales). My sister in law is liberalish, does the pronoun sharing before group meetings for school, but doesn’t feel strongly about the issue compared to virtually all the millenial women I know.
it’s about to start looking significantly less fascist if Trump admin can pull off their various goals and shake off some of the entrenched regulatory capture
The specific details of the hiring process are in question. You are running away from grappling with the (increasingly likely) possibility that bias wasn't the (only) driver in hiring disparity.
> there is no First Amendment right for RT to be carried on US cable networks.

There might be, but it would be the cable network's first amendment right to carry them, not RT's right to be carried.

The argument in court was kind of backwards, nobody violated TikTok's rights by taking them off the app store, but you could fairly easily argue that Apple and Google's rights were violated by telling them that they can't carry it. That would, presumably, require either Apple or Google to bring a lawsuit though, and they seem to want to play nice with the incoming administration.
> Your home country at least has some incentive to work towards your interest

It's the opposite: if they can block any alternative to the "hive mind" they can easily pursue any interest they like and make you believe that they align with your interests. And if you keep having doubts, they can easily label you as a dissident or a foreign agent, because no one will take your side, mostly for lack of tools and platforms to expose fabricated evidence.
But profit _is_ the driving force of human action. Doing anything voluntarily is by definition profitable, otherwise you wouldn't do it.
If that is the what happened, they made the best case for shutting down US owned social networks across the world. It is not a specific case of misbehaving, but the power they give to the American government that can collude with these oligarchs such as Elon Musk.
I think that this is an example of the Weak Analogy Fallacy.
https://archive.is/jDI96
I think you need to readvise what "simply not true" means. I gave my experience and for you someone who doesn't even know me cannot say what is or is not true about my experiences.
I need to talk to a human
I'm easily in the top 95-99th percentile of people I know and probably most people in general in most respects. Net worth, IQ, height, athletic achievements...

A good 10-20 years ago I anticipated these AI moments, and even some of the specifics like our use of ANNs(when everyone thought they were a failure), and yet I failed to capitalize on it.

It's hard to describe just how defeated and irrelevant these news articles make me feel.

I don't say this to brag or anything, I keep this account pseudo anonymous. Some follow up points and questions

- What hope do the normies have?

- Does anyone expect our representatives to do anything?

- How does this not end badly?
It's more nuanced than that.

Foreign nationals have at least some First Amendment rights in the US. Foreign agents or countries may have restrictions on some other grounds.

<https://www.freedomforum.org/non-citizens-protected-first-am...>

<https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/aliens/>

TikTok tends toward foreign country / agent as I read it.
No, but you’ll get PhD-level ReactJS Hello World templates while people will be replaced by those agents. My vision of the future is bleak but I have yet to be proven wrong.
> In other words, defending democracy involves destroying all independence of thought.

Lots of respect for this guy and his writings but it’s naive to believe people are thinking independently because they can watch TikTok. It just becomes a different propaganda vehicle; the thoughts will still be dependent on the messages they see.
I believe this[1] 99% Invisible podcast episode talks about foley during sporting events.

[1] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-sound-of-sports/
> permanently

Depends on your definition of "permanent"

With enough Strontium-90 involved, that might not be very long indeed.
If ByteDance's interest in TikTok was purely commercial, they would have made the commercial decision to spin out the US market into a US-listed public company or sold it to a US buyer.

The fact that they chose to shut down instead, strongly suggests, that they have interests in TikTok beyond financial.
I pick one from favicon generator [1] for each of my silly hobby sites.

[1] - https://www.favicon.cc/
Yep, it came up on my radar early on but all indications are that it is not diabetes. There was a time where I was looking at it pretty hard.
Alternatively, it's a single national security bill.

But actually, it is a standalone peice of legislation - the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act.
Yes, and the "de novo" explanation appears obvious as indicated - the model was trained differently - different reinforcement learning goals (reasoning vs human feedback for chat). The necessity for different prompting derives from the different operational behavior of a model trained in this way (to support self-evaluation based on the data present in the prompt, backtracking when veering away from the goals established in the prompt, etc - the handful of reasoning behaviors that have been baked into the model via RL).
Strange take. Some kind of philosophical purity says that we should allow foreign adversaries to influence domestic audiences because we should be able to counter that influence with out own?

It’s like saying you should allow someone to punch you because you “should” be able to punch yourself harder.
I could not give two shits about him, I have a life and family to spend my time on, not worry or care about him. I am an investor though… and FSD not only did not deliver but it is downright funny to me thinking that it did…

https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/

https://electrek.co/2025/01/13/elon-musk-misrepresents-data-...
TikTok made a difference in Romania because Romania is the poster child for countries that should not be using "top 2 advance to the next round" voting.

They had 10 parties and 4 independents that split the vote. In that particular election there were 6 right wing parties that collectively got 47% of the vote. The top 3 of those got 19.18%, 13.86%, and 8.79% of the vote.

The highest non-right party got 19.15% of the vote.

Georgescu's TikTok campaign just needed to get more than 19.15% of the vote to get to the top 2 round. He got 22.94%.

With the number of parties they have and the lack of any parties that come anywhere near majority support they really need to be using ranked choice voting or something similar.
I’m a bit burned out atm from the hype headlines that have all turned out to be BS in some way or another.
yet... https://ibb.co/h8JWzHH
Official Trump Coin: How Did We Get Here?
> classified briefing that made them vote together across party lines.

Romney pretty much said it was Israel. They think that--but for tiktok--zoomers would be supporting the genocide in gaza.

My guess is that Trump will negotiate with China that tiktok sticks to the party line on Israel and then it's allowed back in. Possibly it will come with some kind of verification system for someone in the US to pre-vet narratives going forward. Fortunately China already has sophisticated systems for this pre-vetting which they are currently using on their own population.