skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So why not break down Meta and Google first? Too convenient.

A better read I think is just Trump paving the way for Musk and his supporters to monopolize control of data and attention. First step for a silent oligopoly of democracy.
Why does it matter? Why should the machinations of China scare me more than the those of an oligarch?
The set of countries that don't actively object to that is a strict subset of the countries the TikTok bill would have allowed TikTok to continue operating from if ownership had been passed to them.

This was a bill only against China, North Korea, Russia, and Iran. None of whom allow particularly free access to the internet.

For example the Facebook article on "Censorship of Facebook" lists all of those countries as well as Myanmar, Turkmenistan, and Uganda as the only countries that "continually ban access" to facebook.
The countries targeted by this law (China, North Korea, Iran, Russia) generally do have objections to their citizens using US services.
Trump Says He Will Issue an Order to Reopen TikTok in the U.S.
Threads like this are always heavily moderated though. There’s no such thing as free’s peach, only big pretense.
I’m curious - what is Dylan really for? Who should use it, and in what situations? I totally could have missed something obvious, but I read through the intro and the ‘Tour’, and it has a lot of detail about what the language is, but not much on when and where to use it. The closest thing seems to be it’s LISP but faster? What are the reasons to choose Dylan over C++, Swift, JavaScript, or Python?
I didn’t mean “understaffed and they need more people and so that’s a great move on OPs part”.

I meant “they’ll never hire as many security people as they should have on staff and OP would be wading into low-demand territory”.
Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok
Even CNN/MSM admits all of this nowadays, and you know it, but won't admit it.
I guess we're reading two very different posts then.
You can find numerous subreddits with tips and "life hacks" like this, stuff your grandmother knew. Doesn't seem like HN material.
> You want these high VRAM SKUs to attract enthusiast and researchers. I have read a staggering amount of research papers where the authors used some random consumer NVidia GPU. Do you know how many I've read which used AMD GPUs? Big fat ZERO!

I'm just sitting here wondering how you think this affects anything? Enterprise doesn't buy DC cards based on research papers so why does it matter if research papers are or aren't written against one brand or the other.
gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-goes-dark-for-u-s-users-whil...
Hmm, mine already is ...
This constant conflation of speech rules and trade rules is tiresome.

If it was just about content then yes, it'd be unconstitutional.

But security/trade concerns about a geopolitical opponent are not the same thing, have never been the same thing, and it would be crazy to treat them as the same thing.

Not to mention that as a trade issue, China already bans basically all the popular American social media sites, and just a ton of popular US sites in general. Turnabout is entirely fair play and expected when it comes to trade.
> If the latter, you just stop programming fully if the internet connection for whatever reason doesn't work?

It's privilege and probably a dose of luck but I can tally up on one hand the number of hours my house and/or phone hasn't had internet in the last 5 years, including total power losses. I also wouldn't run my editor as a hosted service but I can understand why someone in a similar position might take that gamble. It's certainly no bigger of a risk to me than being limited to working on something physically at a workplace and needing to rely on transportation to get there, which also has maintenance concerns and infrastructure congestion and reliability issues that have caused more productivity losses to me than my utility providers ever have.
The CCP does not have freedom of speech in America and it's not press. China has banned American apps including Google, Facebook, etc for decades at this point btw.
They Grew Up with Pop Royalty. Now They Have to Dodge Their Fans. (2023)
Lenovo has removed the TrackPoint nub from new ThinkPad laptops
If spies were obvious and visible in a way that we could see their intelligence work, they would not be spies, they would be diplomats.

Do you get my point? If there is non-cybernetics human espionage activity, you are not supposed to see it. To people unaware of it, it looks like it doesn't exist.

In this scenario, all this shit about spies (movies estabilishing their personas, tall tales, especulations) is nothing but misdirection.

The espionage holy grail is not perfect tech, is perfect misdirection. Of course, the concept exists, but nothing is perfect.

Both of our discourses are hypothetical, we can't offer any proof. On what grounds can you dismiss mine? (don't worry about it, I don't want to win an argument).
> No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

I believe this applies to the USA as a whole as well, not just to states (Bolling v. Sharpe (1954) according to ChatGPT). One could argue the law is unconstitutional because it applies a punishment without due process.
Without that it is impossible to make conclusions on whether anyone cheated.

I think we actually agree, although I would use not guilty in the court of law standard, whereby it means not enough evidence to convict, not in the not guilty == innocent way some use it.
Sure, I'm not arguing that propaganda is ineffective. I'm arguing that people should at least have access to the facts and be allowed to make their own decisions. In this case the important facts are simply that TikTok is a Chinese app and the CCP almost certainly influences them.

When it comes to children that is a different story, but the debate should be whether we enforce an age limit on social media. There is at least precedent (for better or worse) for an age limit on things we think children aren't ready or able to consume.
I don’t think it’s fair to carry this to the justice system. This is a forced scenario where they have to pick one AND invent the evidence - they’re the jury, judge, and executioner. The justice system waits until someone is suspected of something and then eventually they go through the system, where laws and procedures have been created to try and remove unfair processes. Juries are given explicit instructions about what can and cannot be considered, evidence can be thrown out on a technicality, etc.

Conviction rates are all over the place [1] depending on state, where in some places (like MA) you’re more likely to not be charged than charged. Of course the opposite exists too. Most people (97%) who are charged with federal crimes plead guilty, suggesting that most of them did in fact do it (yes some may not feel like they could win even if innocent, but that won’t be the majority). The innocence project estimates between 1-10% of people are wrongly incarcerated - this is a strong minority of the people and a hit rate that’s way better than traitors.

Unlike traitors, there are definitions for beyond a reasonable doubt, requiring hard evidence, etc.

I think traitors actually argues FOR our current justice system - look what happens when you remove all the rules and procedures, instead just allowing mob rule.

[1] https://www.paperprisons.org/statistics.html
There is no Facebook in China for the same reason there will be no TikTok in the United States. Both Meta and ByteDance won't let another country run their business. Facebook was given the chance to operate in China if they complied with China's rules
This is actually a really great example, I wish I had included it in my original post.

Here, in response to a very public failure of our security apparatus, the US Congress passed a draconian law allowing the US government to do the kinds of bad things that Russia and China do routinely. When the public realized this, they made it clear that there is a limit to the power of the government, and that behavior was very quickly stopped. Forever.

The idea that there is a limit to the power of the government, and that the general public can enforce that limit, is what makes America different than China and Russia. That difference is foundational to our Constitution, and I think it is a very good thing.
The thing is that those companies are very much under the power of American law, so we can (and have) taken less drastic (and less effective, imo) measures to restrict adversaries from using them for propaganda.
Nostr sadly doesn't scale. IMO it's a better system for decentralized account identity lookup but not great for content delivery. It needs something else for the content part.

ATproto allows data to be hosted off-site but account lookup goes through the Bluesky owned centralized infra. Just my hunch but maybe its "federation" aims is just a sugarcoated version of "it's a carbon copy of late 2010s Twitter microservices, but we're building it on public IP with intentionally minimal authentication".
Perhaps because, in terms of numbers, they don't?
my take is significantly more nuanced; orthodox Marxists aren't really very interesting nor do they have a good concrete understanding of things. Those French thinkers, particularly Derrida, have a legitimate response to "revolutionaries," and its not his fault that his philosophy was co-opted by the IC. For his part, I know scholars who are certainly outside that world, who are very radical and take a great deal of influence from him.
Is tik tok even banned in your country? Since your perspective is choosing between two foreign powers controlling social media, sounds like an entirely different thing than in the US.
US was doing the same thing to its own citizens. refer Zuck's podcast with Joe Rogan. The DeepState used carrot and stick approach to make Zuck kneel. They would have destroyed Meta if Zuck didn't succumb to their demands.
> However, that target audience, those hobby enthusiasts, hobby developers, also university labs with low budget, those are the people who will develop the future open source frameworks,

No they're not. Y'all are deluded. There's a reason why the are only two real DNN frameworks and both of them are developed at the two biggest tech companies in the world.
French company paying bribes is utterly believable.
TikTok is a dumb, cringy, addictive product. That is enough for it to be banned in my book, regardless even of "propaganda, surveillance" etc. stuff. I can't even imagine how little life you have to have to tolerate using it.
It boggles the mind that this comment is being downvoted for literally stating facts. People really have their fingers in their ears with this topic.
It has too much influence for China to hold. Let’s be clear if an EU country held Bytedance this would not be an issue.

Really this is about not allowing China to do things and then not retaliating in kind. This is what China does to American companies and so no American company can really survive long term in China. It creates an imbalance and will eventually lead to China’s complete domination in most key industries. America is finally catching on.
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Thanks for your opinion? It would be nice if you explained why you think so.
It kind of doesn't matter why people are rallying around BlueSky but simply that they are.
Embedded systems

There'll always be a demand for physical widgets with ever increasing computational capabilities. And it'lll be a while before ChatGPT can poke a circuit board with an oscilloscope and tell you that your software bug is because your I2C pull-up resistors are too large.
> And anybody can download the audio stream from YouTube with a minimal software setup.

That's the issue. Almost nobody downloads music anymore, however easy it is. Because streaming apps like Spotify make the experience so much better. You are in the middle of the song and wants to cast to your living room speakers? Two clicks. You want to transfer that from your phone to your computer? Just a few clicks. Want to quickly jump back into an album or get recommendations of similar albums? It's all there on the home page. It's hard to beat this experience. The only exception I know is people who rip/pirate FLAC files because they want the best quality possible and don't care about anything else. That's like <0.01% of the users these days.
> He is saying thay specifically demanding a sale to the USA is the odd move; it wouldn’t even fix the issue of concentration of power, just shift it to someone else.

The problem is that right now the power is yielded by the CCP, which is clearly unacceptable. The problem is not TikTok per se but how a totalitarian regime that has a long track record of actively engaging in espionage and psyops against the US is controlling that platform. Forcing the CCP to sell it's position mitigates or eliminates the impact on the remaining shareholder's interests. The fact that the CCP opts for scorched earth tactics is already telling.
> Someone's internet is monitored...

Yeah! and it's 99% the NSA on this side of the World.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-security-agency-spie...

Has someone brought the US to court for that?

And why not?
I don’t understand the claim that the left can’t succeed democratically. If the ‘left’ is the Democrats then the country is split roughly 50/50. The Democrats sometimes win and sometimes lose, just like the Republicans. If the ‘left’ are people who broadly support LGBTQ rights then they’re a fairly clear majority in the US, and absolutely have the potential to succeed democratically (as indeed they have many times). There is currently somewhat of a moral panic around trans people specifically, which is not so very different to the resurgence of homophobia in the 1980s.

As for the Google ad: society is (slowly) making progress on trans rights and that’s reflected in advertising. You’re of course right that that has nothing specifically to do with tech, or with anything that Andressen is preoccupied with. You may not like it that trans people are gaining increased acceptance, but it’s not threatening Andressen’s bottom line or forcing him to vote for Trump.
>If this law had impacted all social media equally, I would be a huge advocate.

I would as well and it is unfortunate that we haven't/can't pass such a law. Hopefully someday we can.

I support the TikTok ban in the meantime.
Correct. All the popular US social media sites are fully banned in China.
35 year old US resident here - the recommendation algorithm is incredibly good at being very quickly tuned to your interests, so if you learn to take that seriously it's an incredible tool for learning about different crafts / trades / topics from experts who create content.

For example, my feed was full of electrician and HVAC content, philosophy, skiing tutorials, constitutional law, international news, physics, etc.

You have to use the app with intention to arrive at and maintain this state. I actively press the "not interested" button on videos that are mindless or just not in line with the kind of experience I want (rage bait, suggestive content, brand content, etc). That's a skill that many non-TikTok users don't really understand as well I think.

The algorithm is very much like an AI companion in some ways, which can be good or bad depending on the user's maintenance and steering of that relationship.
We were interested in Issues and Projects, but the number of people at an organization who need access to those but not to code or CI is pretty large. GitHub does not have a different license option for BA/CX/PM types. We ended up going with Jira for tasking, which was substantially cheaper.

I was sad about this because issues/projects had all the stuff I personally cared about, and there was no need to work to set up integrations. I think there was some anxiety by the PMO that it wasn't mature enough for what they wanted, but I don't remember any specifics. Probably something about reporting.
I completely agree with you. These anti cheat systems, whether it is related to video games or university work or anything in life, need to be fully open and transparent otherwise as you say without understanding and proof of what you did wrong, there shouldn't be any ban or punishment. If they find you in breach of a contract, they should be required by law to prove how you broke the contract.
And rightfully so, because it’s a stupid feature to not have and most people want an app not an ideology.
Yeah, and this is why we capture the country that issued the passport we verified. Worst case we can add a feature that allows users to share which passport country they used. And yes, this will mean that Russian users will be screwed unfortunately.
"The whole point is that the phrase "free software" has nothing to do with money"

But it does in reality.
I have used hivelocity for a few servers over the last 10 years and overall has been solid. Their support used to be much better than recently as they grew and became much bigger but they are still decent with support. I can definitely recommend them if you want a reasonably priced dedicated server.
Not China though.
Interpreting Brainfuck in Haskell
That sounds quite different. The Shimano Di2 is for manually propelled bikes and it has no way to determine the torque/pedal position. However, derailleur systems are designed to shift under torque, so it doesn't make much odds with most shifts, unless you're doing front chainring shift at the same time as that can make a big change in the pedal resistance which you would want to anticipate.
I think we can just cut the crap and say, now the gloves have been taken off. It's a jungle. Let's grab whatever we can.

I mean it has always been like this anyway, just with some gloves. There is no law above the states(elites).
> no premium upsells

So.. like gitea?

From my understanding the fork was done because gitea created a company to build custom-features for companies if they ask. Not really many indicators for a rugpull
In my particular case, I was absolutely sure it was safe without having to test it. Would it remain so forever? Probably not because software changes over time.
I seem many make the argument that life in solitary is a worse fate than death.
> they didn't demand it be sold to the US. they just said it can't be owned by china, NK, Russia, Iran.

On that note, I wonder if the same approach should apply to Elon Musk's Twitter takeover.
You get one guess for who caused the spike on this graph of global deaths.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014067361...
Yes you need to get sober first, maybe then you'll realize how absurd it is calling someone who are against Israeli tanks killing children as a 'tanker'.
The detail is impressive - it even has the little 12" wide, 6" deep creek that runs through my property and the neighbors seasonal puddle/not-even-a-pond that forms in his field after heavy rains.
People were trying to get tik tok sold before the current war in Israel
These people think that minimum wage "fact checkers" who delete posts that don't agree with their handbook are "freedom", not "censorship". So they think they have principles.
I think it does, but you make it sound like it's a symmetric information war. It's not.

From your examples de difference is that we've witnessed police brutality in the us with countless examples of excessive force (the hood and the knee to the throat are example. Whereas the same cannot be said for immigrants, first because I think it's an opinion that wins votes for these anti-stablishment ultra right wing, second because it's totally different to compare immigrants and the police as an institution.
I see what you did there... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42711727
> Is our society so fragile it'll fall apart if people are exposed to the wrong ideas?

Yes.
US is way less dependent on imports than China is dependent on exports
I mean capital-N-capital-I, which is a specific thing in the UK.

It's a free as anything gets (in that it's kinda hard to distinguish from a tax), and universal (or was when I moved out of the UK): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Insurance
It is very difficult - social media giants have very powerful lobbies.
This is an absolutely unhinged take. The US doesn't allow more than 25% foreign ownership of broadcast media. That's not some "free speech" violation. If a foreigner wants to say something, they have many ways to do it. But they don't have those privileged ways.
Yes. Another disincentive for finding a traitor in the first half of the game is that they just get replaced, and you get a target on your back. A good playing strategy is to be just vocal enough, with some open opinions.
Is there top and bottom left on those? I thought they were rectangles, so either end could be at either end. There is usually inside and outside on stitching.
I wouldn't mind a re-roll on the upcoming American regime. Raise taxes on the wealthy and beef up programs that help the poor. Nobody should be rich enough to buy elections
Real time content recommendation algorithm can be rebuilt from scratch relatively quickly (weeks). At the beginning it won't be as effective as current TikTok algorithm so iterations will be required but frankly treating algo like something that can only be done by Chinese engineers is silly.

When TikTok developed recommendations it was novel and on the frontier but now how it's done is much better understood and with GPUs availability can be implemented by any good ML team. Similar to Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and other, the secret sauce is content and users, not algorithm.
Uninvited, randomly forced small mental breaks is disruptive for me.

That said, I have a real pet, when I get the feeling to play with it, I do so, and it helps my mind to come up with a solution while I'm not consciously thinking about it. I often came up with great ideas while I was talking to my girlfriend as well, essentially when I wasn't actively focusing on the issue.
I agree! The current `head` should be renamed `unsafeHead` (or something), and the new `head` should have the type you wrote.
Not really, when you consider the context of each situation. Being banned from an online game is a sort of localized "prison" within the context of the game.

It's called a "thought experiment"
Largely everything has been solved so instead of some ultra expensive coffee maker just buy a Moka pot, and buy old/used stuff. Every 'scene' alive has associated gear, and of that gear, a small fraction is revered by the ultra-nerds. Find the ultra-nerds and follow them. They really don't like when their stuff breaks.

I've bought a ton of old stuff off eBay and similar sites and antique stores especially with this mentality. I can likely toss a grenade into my living room and most of my stuff will survive. I know my WWII sonar recorder will survive.

I bought a BMW 325is from 1988 and I've put well over 150k miles on it since I bought it a few years ago. Nothing leaks, nothing breaks, nothing squeaks, and it still gets 7.5L/100KM. A 36 year old car I got for $7k. One weekend, a Bentley manual, and youtube, and I was able to fix up the throttle body, replace ball joints, update my steering rack, and offset my wheels how I wanted. (On the flip side if I get into a crash I am insta-dead).

Like I wanted good outerwear but as you said, it's all premium market segment stuff without the quality. So I asked my friend who does bike-packing year round and lives outside what he wears and he gave me an entire notebook of gear, prices, longevity, and especially weights. I've had that jacket for 16 years now.

Same with laptops. Cheap modern $500 laptop, or ancient Thinkpad I can upgrade in an evening for $250, that will last me 10x longer? Infinite examples of this.