skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make it sound like that's generally a negative thing, implying that the information being promoted by other countries is made equal and has some implicit right to be spread. But it's not, it's geopolitic information warfare.
That $0.10 per GB is direct pass along for the cloud ingress fees

We can lower that once we’re fully on metal
They can’t manufacture consent anymore regarding false flag wars that only benefit large war profiteering corporations.
There is an element global competition no ? Controlling more of global trade is advantageous. It's not that they want others you fail; they just want a bigger pice of the pie.
Didn't the USSR have a pretty good "foreign relations" propaganda team?
You are not wrong.

Cash is superior in the ability to have intermediate transactions hidden. However it has similar issues in that bills are serialized, and I believe scanned/tracked - or at least there is the capability to do so. So in theory, when moving it out of and back into the system, it can be tied to real identities not just pseudonyms too.

Though frankly, it seems like no one really cares most of the time.
these are just random irrelevant or incorrect platitudes
And then all software revision control systems / forges have more or less the same conceptual model for their platform, and just adding their specific sauce and some tailoring to specific needs. Some more innovative and deviating platforms from this more-of-the-same approach are Sourcehut (brutal minimalism) and Gitlab (enterprise dev lifecycle, process support). And then there's the general trend for these platforms to become one-stop-shop maximized lock-in walled gardens, aiming to support the entirety of software development practices (while they seem open and gratis).
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But it makes me more intelligent after I decipher them.
China publicly advertises itself as communist regime. I get that we want to protect our interests from foreign adversaries, I disagree that this is the way to do so.

China banning Facebook is an authoritarian action. If we are doing the “same shit”, it feels expressly undemocratic and I am speaking towards that.
"forge" has been used since "sourceforge" if not longer to describe these kind of hosting-packages.

I guess technically you could have called Redmine, and other systems at the time, forges I think the term took off after that.
Because the mindless videos they get on YouTube and such are better?
Thanks for the link. It looks like in your and the sibling poster’s link the police didn’t protect the public because of cowardice and/or incompetence.

In the case I link, the trial was about abandoning their fellow policemen in danger, not the public.
They probably view things differently when they themselves are affected.
I thought your point was terrible about aerospace. And since you're insisting I follow you further into the analogy, I think it's terrible here.

LLMs may be a key building block for early AGI. The jury is still out. Will a LLM alone do it? No. You can't build a space vehicle from fins and fairings and control systems alone.

O1 can reach pretty far beyond past LLM capabilities by adding infrastructure for metacognition and goal seeking. Is O1 the pinnacle, or can we go further?

In either case, planes and rocket-planes did a lot to get us to space-- they weren't an unrelated evolutionary dead end.

> Yet powered flight has nothing to do with space travel, no connection at all.

Fully disagree.
I would like to benefit from big tech's security teams by hosting web forms and those various different kinds of site you suggest behind them and their teams! WAF + captchas + defence against bots I would rather not do the server handholding and hardening myself.
Totally agree with you, I can't understand how laid back some people are with "all they had to do was sell..."

Terrible precedent for global trade, thing is Silicon Valley pulls hard for deregulation, and it's common wisdom here that regulating tech would be slowing down the only economic sector we have that's still growing, so we cannot write any rules that might make for a fair playing field, protect Americans from data leaks and disinformation or whatever, only tool we have is ban competition.
TikTok is somewhat unique in presenting a real, non-us-based competitor to FB/Instagram. A bit of lobbying to block your competitor is a deft move on Mark’s part
> Music piracy was killed-off by Spotify

I've seen many places playing music from a YouTube playlist, with ads included. And anybody can download the audio stream from YouTube with a minimal software setup. There used to be browser addons that added a Save As button to YouTube pages. I'm not using them, maybe Google banned all of them from its store but there are many ways to do it.
A self hosted repository host gives you the ability to develop software projects without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.
the problem this law solves is that in tiktok's case the "they" who has the power to manufacture consent is the PRC
There’s some serious false equivalence here.

Is Xbox prevented from competing with Nintendo in Japan, under similar conditions as Nintendo competes with Xbox in USA?

Are there representatives of the Japanese government sitting within Nintendos offices overlooking what Nintendo is doing? Is that government run by a single party?

China doesn’t allow US social media apps, mostly because they want extreme control over the content on their side of the firewall. But probably also because they know that US intelligence services could force the US social media companies to give them access to information or make changes to their code.

So it’s utter madness and ridiculous naive to allow Chinese companies unfettered access to the US market when we know that the parent company is forced to be under direct supervision of the communist party of China, and we know that the party and the PLA along with its intelligence services are essentially one and the same entity.

At the very least this gives Chinese companies undue advantage in the US market. It’s much easier for them to leverage the code they’re written in both the Chinese and the US market, making them more efficient and thus letting them undercut US companies over time.

I can’t believe how naive nearly all of the comments defending TikTok are.

(Sure the “psyop” part of the other comment is a bit much, but I took it as hyperbole and I think most readers would)
Thanks for that correction.

I must say, a much more disappointing performance :(
I like how he teaches so many different topics and subjects using nothing more than arithmetics. All computable math is reducible to arithmetics...
This is HN, the forum for tone policing four day old comments.
Exactly. They want _their_ oligarchs controlling their 99.(9)%. This ban is as close as you can get to open admittance.
And the government won’t have a problem if the new digital drug is under their control.
I presume meta is banned in China.
Thanks for this! I have the exact use-case and have been using a Python script to do this for a while.
I self host tiny tiny rss (tt-rss) in my home lab and access it using Firefox. Then I read articles with the Firefox reader view. Being visually impaired I like the larger text available.
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Hope I helped ;)
I'm not a "China supporter" so much as I am simply stating reality for what it is.

America banned TikTok because it's not something America can control, that really is all there is to it. It's even stated right there in the law: Sell TikTok to America and they can do business.
You seem to be an example of what I'm saying. There are very few people that are able to separate the goals of DEI from the practice when doing their analysis. If we're able to do that, we'll be able to find better solutions. And the solutions can't be found by or within individual corporations IMHO. It's much more complicated than that.

It's also possible that you and I have a different idea of what the goals of DEI are and should be.
When the CCP asked Google to censor search results, that was a bad thing.

When the US government asks China to censor TikTok, that's a good thing.

Make it make sense.
> Or is the US just too much of a moral actor to do this?

US government has massively more oversight because of still somewhat functioning legislative and judicial systems. Also free press is still a thing (compared to Russia anyway..).

Ao any large scale program like this would inevitably be leaked and scrutinized (of course if they keep it somewhat low scale it will probably pass under the radar).

So effectively.. yes? It is?
Every company I worked at grades interviews based once correctness and performance. A candidate that fails to produce a working solution at all receives a worse score than one that produces a working, but inefficient solution, which get a worse score than one that has a working and optimal solution.

And again, if the bias comes from people's tone then the interview can be conducted over text. Or have a transcript of the interview that is used by the hiring committee, to ensure that a "high confidence and authoritative tone" doesn't introduce bias. Bias can be eliminated. And if the disparity remains the same, the disparity is not due to bias.
Best practice is to have a backup key.
yes exactly but not on any of tiktok's users to say what they want, which is 1000x more important than the rights of the PRC to tweak the algorithm and moderation however they like
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Oh but we are allies! The USA will never ever use the information gathered on allies for their own profit!
>You can even set the device to recognize your password and beep if you mistype it, thereby eliminating a bevy of incorrect sign-on messages.

Wow, what a thing for a tech publication to suggest doing! Different times.
This is a massive self own by the US estalishment. They are just damaging their own trust but not releasing the full and classified reasoning behind this.
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> China man bad, America man good.

America man friend of president.
Now if only I could purchase one*

*I realize enterprise “GPUs” are difficult to purchase as an individual whether they’re AMD or Nvidia, but AMD might be well-served to mimic their RX 480 strategy (“make a competitive mid-range GPU, distribute it through several board partners, and sell it at rock-bottom prices to get it to as many customers as possible”). If there’s a compelling reason to use AMD hardware over Nvidia, the software support will come. As an extreme example, if one could purchase an MI300X for $50 a pop, surely FAANG and others would invest time and effort into the software side to leverage the cost savings vs Nvidia, who is unquestionably price-gouging due to their monopolistic hold on the enterprise GPU market.
College degree here, I have no idea what it actually means.
Please don't conflate Jewish people with this genocidal state. Thank you.
doesn't have to be fears, can just be good security hygiene. and china's running a whole playbook too. welcome to geopolitics!
> and flash their baseband processor if you like

Could you please give some source on that info?
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I feel the same concerns for which US bans tiktok are valid for EU and fb/meta/x/twitter/google.

How do we know they're not siphoning our EU data to the US, or controlling what the algorithm shows us to influence politics?
qBittorrent has been on a very gradual climb. Though, most people pirate through streaming sites, not torrents.
It’s got 62 million users in Pakistan how is it banned.
What a sad company you worked for
> Ever heard of Sourceforge?

Yup! That clears it up. It’s the site that serves lots of ads and binary packages of some old software. At least as of the last time I looked some years ago.

Ok then, not sure I would want more things like that today to self host, but to each their own.
- That the tab pane switching is the slow part is a bit weird. Is there a difference when you see all units and a subset of units? Maybe open an issue and I can provide more possible settings that could be changed.

- Jep, page up/down handling will be added. Thanks!

- Not quite sure when this happens. Maybe an example screen shot (before/after) could help?

- Yeah, that is definitely on the roadmap.
Now let's do the same with X (South African foreign adversary) and Meta (Aliens from planet Gooblidook).

Yes it is a joke. But whether it is outsized influence of foreign power or uber rich nutter, what's the difference...
In the US we allow significantly more spying on foreigners than US citizens. That’s not as controversial as domestic spying.

Look at the backlash against the US government trying to clamp down on Covid misinformation with a national emergency declaration [1]. There’s exactly zero reason to expect the CCP has an incentive to behave differently, especially when there’s effectively no way for companies to push back in China.

And no that doesn’t excuse the nonsense some US administrations get up to. Like undermining the effectiveness of the Chinese covid vaccine [2].

There is already evidence of pressure being applied to ByteDance by the CCP for data on Hong Kong citizens [3].

So it would be silly to think that:
1) data for different TikTok users is more or less difficult for the CCP to access based on their specific locations (technically or practically)
And 2) the CCP has more respect for foreigners than Western governments do.

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1 - https://hms.harvard.edu/news/whats-stake-us-supreme-court-ca...

2 - https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covi...

3 - https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-china-bytedance-user-data-...
If we did, bot authors would comply by just changing their User-Agent to something different that’s not expressly forbidden.

(Disallowing * isn’t usually an option since it makes you disappear from search engines).
The root problem there is that fossil energy is very cheap and the state sponsors production of fossil fuels. Consequently the energy incentives are weak and other concerns take priority.

This is coupled with low public awareness, many people don't understand the moral problem in using fossils so the PR penalty from a fossil powered data center is low.
It was 2am when you checked, and as mentioned in the article the Pi was rebooting after an update :)
There were no plastic ones but there were very probably some wooden ones, or other luxurious wooden items which were destroyed without a trace and we'd never know
IMO the right to use TikTok in the US is actually way more important than the “right” of users to post whatever they want on it. In the same way that FB can ban you for violating content policy, and the app store can ban you for whatever reason. These are all okay because they’re all the domain of that company/entity to police. The problem is when the government steps in and forces it. I don’t think what website I can use is the domain of the government.
I've thought a lot about this exact topic. You need both to do well.

You need handwavy and vague versions of things to understand the shape of them and to build intuition.

Then you need to test the intuition and build up levels of rigor.

Especially in the context of the Kalman Filter. I just helped a bunch of middle school students build a system for field localization and position tracking. They don't have all kinds of knowledge. They don't have linear algebra or a real understanding of something being gaussian and have to have a bazillion variables. They understand that their estimates and the quality of stuff coming off their sensors have different qualities based on circumstances, and that gain needs to vary. They'll never hit the optimum parameters.

But: their system works. They understand how it works (even if they don't know how to quantify how well it works). They understand how changing parameters changes its behavior. When they learn tracking filters and control by root locus and all kinds of things later, they'll have an edge in understanding what things mean and how it actually works. I expect their intuition will give them an easier time in tackling harder problems.

Conversely, I've encountered a bunch of students who know what "multimodal" means but couldn't name a single example in the real world of such a thing. I would argue that they don't even know what they're talking about, even if they can calculate a mixture coefficient under ideal conditions.
tiktok.com was their full-featured webapp. I guess trying to skirt the law weakens their case even more so they decided to fully comply in both letter and spirit. Even VPNs don't work.
The whole TikTok legislation was not created to suppress Palestinian views, even if that may have been a side effect of it, and repeating that does not make it true.

It’s a convenient narrative because it sounds like „the government“ or „they“ want to conceal the truth, and suppress the honest rebels. It’s a trope.

Again, it may well be that some parts of the government feel like the side effects are beneficial, and I’m not commenting on that. But spinning the story to say this was the whole purpose of the law is simply not the truth, and instead pushing a certain narrative.
It's not a conspiracy theory. We know where the farms were located and several former bot farm workers spoke about them.

The US government can barely make a comment telling people that they're not horses.
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The effort to ban tiktok stalled for a few years due to public backlash.

Only after the strong shift in sentiment by younger Americans on Israel's genocidal actions did the effort renew with vigor.
This is the very top of the "Description" section of the Wikipedia page for "Grey-zone (international relations)"[0]:

> Use of the term grey-zone is widespread in national security circles, but there is no universal agreement on the definition of grey-zone, or even whether it is a useful term, with views about the term ranging from "faddish" or "vague", to "useful" or "brilliant"

It goes on to say:

> Grey zone warfare generally means a middle, unclear space that exists between direct conflict and peace in international relations.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey-zone_(international_relat...
PS. This trend for one-stop-shop platforms will also see their owners start to monetize the absolute hell out of their existing (and often vast, take Github) 3rd-party vendor ecosystem via plugin marketplaces, app stores, and their platform API's and SDK's, which many of these vendors now think bring along on a free ride.
In the image you referenced, the camera is tilting (or pitching, if you think in aircraft terms). Since the axis of rotation (the axle coming out of the tracker) is not super offset from the camera, the arc that the camera traces is not that wide. It seems like the surrounding blanket is mounted loosely enough to allow quite a bit of movement.

It also seems like it does not need to be capable of very long exposures, as also betrayed by the traces of the bright terrestrial lights in the demo photograph at the end.
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> destroying all independence of thought."

Not all of it. Just some of it. No need to see everything in such a black and white way.

Also Orwell was obviously not talking about major entities run by other countries. Do you think he would have opposed stopping newspapers directly run by Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union from operating inside Britain?
India is also an authoritarian government, is that something to celebrate? Also it is hilarious that they complain about TikTok but when you live in India, you realize that half their mobile phones themselves are from Chinese manufacturers. Some of them have Indian manufacturing units but it doesn’t take much scrutiny to realize that this is all political theater.
Laws don't care about technical aspects. ByteDance must comply with the law, meaning, they need to stop offering the service to US citizens, no matter where the servers are hosted, for example, by geofencing their product. If they don't comply, they risk fines. They can only ignore this if they don't care about doing business with the US ever again and their owners never want to set foot in the country again.
> Server certs will be losing the clientAuth EKU this year, so those will be out.

Is this documented anywhere?
China is not a role model for America.

China doesn't allow open social media for its citizens for the sole reason that it's bad for the stability of the CCP's dictatorship regime, not because it's bad for the people or the country.
Well, they at least achieved some free PR for these shenanigans. Probably their best outcome.
Oof. This article misses some important details.

Training is not a "one time cost". Training gets you a model that will likely need to be updated (or at least fine-tuned) on newer data. And before GPT4, there was a series of prior, less effective models (likely swept under the rug in press releases) made by the same folks that helped them step forward, but didn't achieve their end goals. And all of this to say nothing of the arms race by the major players all scrambling to outdo each other.

It also needs to compare this to the efficiency modern search engines run at. A single traditional query is far less expensive than a single LLM query.
That's just more parallelism, they'll take their parallelism wherever they can get it.

It's to be seen if the future is more SIMD or more smaller general processors. Arguably the latter are more flexible but maybe not as efficientas the former.
> Meta services especially since they don't have any competing service that is popular in the US

Meta won't tinker with the algorithm to push propaganda. TikTok will.
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No, US is the one that gives them platform.
That one appears to be an own-goal by an opposing party: https://www.politico.eu/article/investigation-ties-romanian-...
Why are you conflating Jews and Israel?

That's extremely antisemitic given that Jewish groups have been some of the most public and vocal opponents of Israel's genocidal actions.
And where do you think there is evidence of Zuck actually being those things?
> Trump asked the Supreme Court to delay the ban

I already foresee a Mueller investigation part #2 “Trump is a Chinese puppet” stories.
I sincerely wish you good luck with building -- hope people find this new product useful.

This bait-and-switch leaves a really bad taste for me though; I now feel silly for having advocated for Matrix, and will cease henceforth. You can lament the free-rider problem all you like, but suddenly making it a big deal now betrays that you do not take seriously enough your own promises, and were clueless about the fundamentals all this while. This is not meant to be vindictive (I wish Matrix success as a product; it's certainly useful), but simply making clear that the expectations and standards are different for a "community" -vs- simply a business that sells a product. It seems to me like this disqualifies Matrix from consideration for "public infrastructure" IMHO. It would have been better if the differentiation between the paid and free versions wasn't scaling, but some other features not critical for public use (or provided as a non-free plugin), but something that enterprises would consider useful.