skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So then by convincing ByteDance to reinstate TikTok, did Trump just spell the end of his popularity, is Trump behaving erratically to reinstate TikTok, or are you projecting because you helped author and canvas for the bill? Moreover if the bill had so much bipartisan support, why did it need to be combined in a foreign aid package to Ukraine rather than stand on its own?

(P.S. Given your deep involvement in the bill and the sheer amount of comments you make on this site trying to convince readers that it's both popular and necessary, I think you should absolutely disclose your position on the bill. I'm a transit and modeshare advocate and I do not discuss specific bills I have helped author and sponsor online without disclaimers.)
Shares aren’t the sole mechanism for influence though. In Russia there are open sixth floor windows one could fall out of. In China you could disappear to a camp for a few months. Shares are kind of soft in comparison.
"Social media? Naw, that's harmless. It's just a way for people to connect and amuse themselves."
This has nothing to do with tiktok and everything to do with shifting power in the US political system towards the executive.
2 years? Jeez. All for a crapfest game haha. Kudos to you for going through with that. I guess they have a streaming platform so reputation was on the line, but I would not have put this much effort. Did you use AI to generate legal documents?
Biden and Harris's arguments against Trump fell flat when they had no explanation for why they continued almost everything awful he started, while also still claiming it was awful. "I was going to send her a Maga hat."
If I could visualise the whole stack I would just replicate it all in straight machine code for efficiency. Good luck anybody trying to code review it though.
This is so pushing happy buttons for me.

Not that this is novel in any way, but I just started a repo call Subcurrent yesterday for the Astoria Tech Meetup in NYC at our Saturday hack session. Subcurrent aims to provide a feed aggregator page made of our community members' feeds.
https://github.com/astoria-tech/subcurrent

I did not know that Meetup.com exposes RSS feeds at all, so I will be adding that to our Subcurrent instance since our group keeps events on Meetup.com.

I had never heard of Kill the Newsletter, but I'm a fan sight-unseen. Substack at least has feeds. You can append `/feed` to the newsletter's URL.

Thanks for writing this!
> Truth is subjective.

Any belief supported by lies and falsehoods cannot be described as truth. It's something else.
Me personally? I am pretty afraid of nazis, that's their whole deal, violence on people, that was kind of the whole big problem with them initially and what led to a world war and genocide. A nazi isn't just someone with different viewpoints from my own, it's people who based their whole ideology on violence, against me, my wife, my children, my friends, my coworkers.
> it would be impossible for an author to simulate a complete human being in their head.

unless it's a self-insert? or do you reckon even then it'll be a lofi simulation, because there real world input is absent and the physics/social aspect is still being simulated?
They claim one hundred million installs. If you believe that one hundred million real people are self hosting Ghost and blogging away, then I don't know what to say.

This is again "if you don't know how to bore out a cylinder you don't deserve to drive".

This is not a simple process for normal people: https://ghost.org/docs/install/ubuntu/
> I don't see a need (and a meaningful way) to develop a scale of maliciousness.

I’m constantly amazed by how easily even smart people will retreat into whataboutism, and this is the most polite way I’ve ever seen to call them on it.
> While Rust doesn’t fill the same niche as Julia with respect to scientific computing, I really like the safety guarantees around ownership and borrow checker.

From the same discourse thread.

Interoperability across languages with FFI is an option, but it comes at a cost. Even if the two languages have polymorphism, e.g. with parametric types, the interfaces are almost always monomorphic.
"It’s a strong stand for the First Amendment and against arbitrary censorship."

That hit's different from Chinese company. lol
>the overall harmful effects of the algorithmic firehose

What material effects are those?
Today? Quite. Tomorrow?
I’d argue that they deserve to have a blog, but they should not self host. Still, initially setting up blog software is just one small step of securing, backing up and maintaining a public accessible system that in no way the majority are equipped to handle.
That's somewhat of a myth that lets these companies off easy, there's no ruling that says you have to maximize profit at all costs, or at all to an extent. The sole motivator is greed.
You have no issues with corporate influence on US politics?
So many RSS stories this week! I'm sensing a trend (hopefully)
But it's not insider trading at this level, that's the whole point. This is a freakishly small amount of stock. At these levels he would own a lot more META if he just bought QQQ (META is 3.3% of composition) with a fraction of his net worth
Isn't that the case for the vast majority of social media?
holy crap… wow!!!
Well fifteen years ago Google was available in China. And at that time, while the masses simply used Baidu, among the educated it was well known that Google delivered better results. And that was because Google capitulated to the censors. The government had a direct hotline into the Chinese offices of Google and could demand the search engine immediately ban certain keywords or results. At that time Baidu's censorship was quite a bit more heavy-handed than Google's. It was Google that grew tired of this arrangement and decided to quit. They first moved the operations to Hong Kong, and then later the Chinese government decided to block the Hong Kong version of Google.

As a former Google employee, during my employment I found plenty of internal blog posts from the China team at that time about this arrangement. It was amazing to me that a lot of these internal blogs simply weren't deleted because people forgot about it and storage was so cheap.
The UK has solid corporate governance and the rule of law. It's not perfect but it is far from a basket case. Don't believe everything you read in the media (or even here).
He's a billionaire, why would he put on a whole dog and pony show if he just wanted to do stuff? He'd just do it, no go on Joe Rogan as well.

No, this is about kowtowing to the new powers that be.
Reflecting on the Risks of 'Mirror Life'
My argument for pro billionaire is “Who gets to set the amount that is too much?

If the global GDP per person is less than $14k, why set at a billion, why not much less? How about $100k?

The upper amount can’t really be agreed upon so we can’t set an upper limit.
Source code you can argue is a form of speech versus a packaged product.

Not that the case is relevant because restrictions on the availability of products is well established under the law. I can’t just buy nuclear weapons for example.
Maybe you don't have a lot of credibility with them ;) If someone would recommend me to Telegram I'd also doubt their credibility.
I like GitHub precisely because it didn't try to capture the entire market of issue trackers and code search too aggressively.

If GitHub sub-issues had existed even in an inferior form back in 2019, developer-targeted trackers like Linear and Shortcut would have had a hard time existing, and all of their ideas (some of which have advised the UX of today's GitHub sub-issues release!) would have been lost to time.

Now, perhaps this was not value-maximizing to Microsoft, or value-maximizing to companies who now need an extra license for Linear - but I would argue that for actual developer experience, GitHub fostering a spirit of innovation through its own stagnation has created a vibrant ecosystem better than anything any company could do themselves.
(sorry that last paragraph got duplicated somehow)
> The problem is most readers still think theres a discernable difference between the parties.

I will give you excellent odds we're going to immediately see a definite difference between presidencies here.
The use of the “useful idiot” trope tells you all you need to know about their opinions on any kind of entity dedicated to social issues.
deci is 1/10, deca is 10/1. So decisecond is correct.
Is that where the 10x more lines came from? Writing more "testable" code?
Of course I read it, opinion said

“ At the same time, a law targeting a foreign adversary’s control over a communications platform is in many ways different in kind from the regulations of non-expressive activity that we have subjected to First Amendment scrutiny”

And the opinion talks about foreign adversary, those exact words, at least 30 times. It mentioned freedom of speech twice
Thank you! https://www.reddit.com/r/AMD_MI300/
It is easy to confuse a mastermind with somebody who is simply willing to break the law.
The problem isn't that they're scary or compelling but that they bring discourse down to its basest level once they comprise a certain proportion of the environment. Imagine if 90% of HN threads were mostly just discussion about if the author of a submission or comment is Jewish, what their ulterior Jewish motives are, and what repercussions they should face in an ideal world. Many clusters of Twitter are now that.*

A lot of people see the culture shift and start posting less or leave, and then the ratio gets worse and worse. Freedom from government restriction of speech is a good thing, but I disagree that this new era calls for throwing out norms of discussion platforms curating their communities' cultures.

I fully acknowledge there are valid, interesting philosophical reasons to host a site like Twitter or 8chan where "if it's legal it's allowed", but on net I think the benefits do not outweigh the costs.

*(Even many 4chan boards are less obnoxious. In part due to its linear format.)
People trying to act like this Chinese controlled vehicle supports free speech is so weird to me. They're not "censoring" anything - they're using it as a straight unimpeded funnel to subvert the west.
It would be crazy if the US banned TikTok and similar developed countries didn't consider doing the same. All the reasons the US came to the conclusion they did apply equally well in Europe.
I live there and I have no idea what you're talking about.
It sounds like your primary critique here is that "rationalist" communities overlap in membership with other communities that have other, not strictly related, inclinations. That may be so, but I'm not sure it's relevant -- if a bowling league's membership consists primarily of Mormons, I still wouldn't interpret criticism of Mormon theology as being relevant to discussions of bowling.
Thank you for referring to a BSD document. Most people have no idea that the modern reference network stack implementation comes from BSD and not Linux.
How does the disconnected audio input of any random PC or thinclient compare?

I continue to find it a bit silly to see "with a raspberry pi" when people just mean "with any random linux box that doesn't need to be very powerful".

It's like listening to NPR, where every smartphone is an iPhone even if it's an Android, you know?
Oh no, SQLite3 is a lot more featureful than SQLite2. The proprietary test suite is what makes SQLite3 so solid.
When he got away with calling the Thai diver "pedo guy" using the "lol jk" defense then he knew he could get away with anything.
I very much doubt it even works or tries to, even though a lot of barriers have been lifted recently (I'm handwaving at https://xkcd.com/1425/ x the input being just a video x output sold as rigorous deep analysis)

I have a stroooong feeling this is just a wrapper around Gemini, as it has video input.
You’re speaking for yourself now. Millions of [mostly russian but not only] people today are convinced that the extermination of millions of Ukrainians is the morally righteous course of action.

Populations being persuaded into harbouring extremely bad ideas is a thing.
When you’re used to hearing one thing….
I do not understand this line of argument. On the one hand there is a political decision to ban-or-annex a foreign company, on the other hand the reaction should not be political and in general political implications should not be discussed?

And if anything, if tiktok US is sold it will be way below its actual value, so there are many reasons to resist this apart from the political ones. And I assume they expect they will come to a concession in the first place.
The CCP doesn’t run a communist nation.
This seems not to be an opinion that other people hold, but I never saw social media as “free speech” given that some third party can decides which parts of what you say get promoted.

If you sent letters to people via a middleman who decided which of those to forward onwards, you’d see that as censorship. I appreciate that that’s an over-simplified example - it’s meant to be a reductio ad absurdum. But control of the algorithm effectively regulates free speech, IMO.

Also (for clarity) the fact that China happens to be involved is not relevant to my point!
The last part would have added something to the conversation over your initial post. You are actually under no obligation to post at all, the downvote arrow is right there.

Earnestly though, you can always take your post, toss it into a llm and ask it to make it sound kind or helpful. Or give it the HN comment guidelines and ask it if your comment runs afoul or ways to make it more helpful. It’s up to you to find a way to add meaningfully to the discourse or just be prepared to be downvoted. Assume good faith is the best way to start.
Ah ok, enlightened one. I’m sure the trough you feed from is propaganda-free. Care to explain why they are not actually our enemies? Please try to stick to facts and evidence.
I strongly disagree with the article on at least one point: ontologies, as painstakingly hand-crafted jewels handed down from aforementioned philosophers, are the complete opposite of what LLM's are bottoming-up through their layers.
Fully agreed. This attitude—that someone making money off my freely published work is somehow hurting me—was, I think, best captured by the inimitable Matt Mullenweg in his response to DHH [0]:

> DHH claims to be an expert on open source, but his toxic personality and inability to scale teams means that although he has invented about half a trillion dollars worth of good ideas, most of the value has been captured by others.

There's a certain type of open source maintainer that is in it for the money—in it to "capture value"—and those people see it as a personal affront if someone else "captures" more "value" from their project than they do. This is not a healthy way to approach life, and it's not an effective way to approach free software. It's especially not an effective way to approach Open Source, which rolls back the GPL's copyleft provisions and makes it very explicit that you're doing this work for the collective benefit of everyone, including people who want to make proprietary stuff on top.

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20241014235025/https://ma.tt/2024...
Pet peeve: Timespan configs that don't include the unit in the variable name.

I'm so sick of commands with --timeout params where I'm left guessing if it's seconds or millis or what.
Don’t worry, chomskys manufacturing consent is also mentioned as relevant reading elsewhere in this thread, and then rejected, naturally on the grounds that learning stuff about propaganda might be propaganda
Yeah, I think it is literally provably 'optimal' if you can execute it correctly with informative data, don't forget or omit any important considerations, and aren't just making up BS- all of which are almost always impossible for regular humans in real life no matter how much 'rationality training' they've had. It makes sense both for optimal behavior of some hypothetical superintelligent AI to realize its own goals efficiently, or for something like a government to weigh pros and cons of a difficult regulatory choice with well defined short term consequences - neither of which are anything like the everyday morality decisions humans make.
I use Newsblur and if there's nothing obvious, I try pasting the blog URL in there -- I believe it checks for alternate meta tags, and perhaps its own database?
personally i think there are two significantly larger reasons:

1) terrible experience: a lot of people just don’t have fun on twitter, it’s just an awful experience. why spend your free funtime in a place that you just don’t enjoy? we don’t go to restaurants that we hate, why on earth would we go to a website that we don’t enjoy?

2) too crowded. take a music concert for example, a lot of people absolutely prefer a music venue with 2,000 people over a concert where there are 100,000 people.
How do they enforce the ban?
Wonderful, thankyou!
> X is the only corporate social media platform that offers this

Facebook has this: menu -> feeds -> friends
1) Sell the power back to the power company (granted, at the wholesale price)

2) Use the heat given off to generate more power
opinion is subjective, truth means (can’t believe I have to write this) that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality. and it is not objective unless you live in a fantasy world half+ of this country lives in
It really is unique to everyone and who they follow.

But when the US election came around all of our business For You feeds switched to political, far-right content even though we are not in the US nor political. And the fact that the EU is investigating X for its algorithm changes means at least some other people have had the same experience.
I like to say that the danger of software archaeology is the inevitable discovery of coprolites...
Wow, I thought mine was old! But it's only 19 years this year :-)
It's not just ventilation. When they smell smoke they also go eat a bunch of honey so they can swarm away with the queen and start over elsewhere.
I bet you did not know Yubikeys have keyboard emulation mode )
When I saw “federated github”, sharing activity feeds is not what I had in mind. I thought maybe making pull requests across instances or things like that.
And/or the fine author.
Sure, the ones posting cat videos don't. But what are the odds that TikTok would ever let a Taiwan Protest go viral?

I wonder if it even lets use use the word Taiwan...
Yes, the republican dominated congress and senate are certain to do that. It's very clear this puppy has no bottom.
Man I got the first edition of this book and it was so bad. Hopefully this is better…
Is allowing them to impose the same kind of restrictions in their US app as they do for their own citizens good for free speech?
I understand, I meant I tried to say the word “decisecond” out loud and we debated if that was a real word or if I was attempting to say “deca” which was understandable.
> Was Chomsky ever an expert? Maybe, I wouldn't know because I haven't read what he built his legacy upon.

My entire life anything I hear from him has been misinformed and anything I hear about him is "Chomsky disproven". I have to imagine whatever he was known for happened before I was born - which I've never been exposed to. Granted I've never sought it out either.

To me he feels like an academic Kardashian: Famous for being famous, and it's not really clear how it started.
IMHO this is a great example of "creeping featurism". At best it introduces unnecessary complexity, and at worst those reliant on it will be encouraged to pay less attention to what they're doing.
"3d printing, molding, material science and robotics " sounds like a Mechanical Engineering degree. I'm serious, I learned everything you're talking about and more. Probably hubris, but I'm pretty sure I'm well equipped to start a hardware company if I really wanted to (Not sure what business manufacturing means though, as in he wants to start an "Integrator" company or a contract manufacturing company?).

As for an Expo, I highly recommend ATX West show in a couple weeks. Depending on your employer, you probably could get it covered by your job and have your nephew come along.

(Was a Design MechE for a decade or so, but I'm a SWE now)
According to Formula 1 web site drivers start on average after 0.2 seconds since the red lights go out https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/rapid-decisions-d...

Anyway, 0.1 seconds would be far too short even for them, which have a job based on fast reaction times.
This whole thread nastoy has been making the argument that blocked posts are omitted from the thread for all viewers, and circumventing this behavior requires modifying the relay (and hence ingesting the firehose) not just the client

You have been arguing that blocked posts still appear in your custom client, which is a different claim than nastoy. As detailed by the GitHub issue that started this disagreement, bluesky relays have introduced thread breaking behavior that one can not get around simply by forking the appview.
> flip-flop so quickly

The timing and phrasing make it clear that this was planned and negotiated in advance, and the shutdown was just for show in order to be able to post a memo about how "President Trump" saved it. If actual negotiation had to occur, it would not have happened in the twelve hours between midnight and noon on Sunday morning.

The point of the stunt was to persuade large numbers of younger folks that the Ds are the bad guys and Trump in particular is the hero. And it'll work as designed.
> People are not as politically radicalized and polarized as media companies say to increase engagement

I disagree based purely off of my own life and experiences. The shift rightward over the past 10 years is palpable. It's not surprising historically at all - the US has always been composed of almost entirely conservative, individualistic attitudes and then little pockets of progressiveness here and there. They never last, rather the hope is just to get as much done as fast as possible in that time frame.

Certainly, policy that would be unthinkable 15 years ago is par for the course now. I think that's just undeniable, and speaks to the radicalization of the US.
I generally don't like Haskell, but the view of non-Haskellers (myself included) regarding state does remind me a bit of resisting structured programming because gotos are easier to program.
I don't remember the last time either party called out their colleagues for questionable use of executive orders, but to do so would require principles, and we haven't seen those in decades either.
The QirK paper is super interesting https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.07494.

We took that one step further with the GraphRAG-SDK - https://github.com/FalkorDB/GraphRAG-SDK
"It benefits society."
> Writing efficient code with 512-bit registers is troublesome when
there are only 32 of them. And the orthogonality of the instruction sets was and is insufficient. The peak was 128-bit.
I will say that again: The peak was 128-bit. Instead of goofing around with 512-bit units, there should have been
more 128-bit units. Or better yet: More SIMD registers. In 128-bit SSE2 mode there are only 16. Give me 32 and I will
be happy. A good name will be Mega-SSE2.

Why would wider SIMD require more registers?
And the only way to win (for us peons) is not to play.
> People aren't allowed to change their minds?

Sure they are, but they should explain why they changed their minds. In the case of meme coins like $TRUMP, it's hard to defend crypto as an investment or as a currency, which leaves the obvious reason: it's a scam.

In the case of Trump, I'm sure he was all for crypto as soon as he realized that he personally could make money from it. Same goes for his NFT grift.
Well it needed people to enforce those things and it needed people to vote. Both those things didn’t happen.