skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All those arguments are bullshit as most of this data is now being sold by data brokers by American companies to who ever wants to buy China or otherwise. This ban was because unlike western media and social platforms the narrative was not under their control. It is ironic that Americans talk about freedoms that they have compared to Chinese but are willingly giving up more and more of these to their own government.
Ok. So this is the new version of nocode. The spin is a little bit different, becauase I can tell from personal anecdotes that llms do allow people with almost no experience in a given area to feel confident enough to take steps that only few years ago would cause them to stop rather quickly. In a a sense, there is a real threat to the current demand ( and that is seen across the board already as corporations either suspend hiring or proudly announce 2025 is the year of not hiring devs ), but the agent is still only as good as its operator ( as with most tools ).

I am not saying the real breakthrough will not come, because what is being done already is impressive on its own especially when you pair a person that knows what he is doing with LLM.. but for now this iteration of nocode still has one major flaw: humans.

And again, executives will need to learn.
>Where’s the tech YC?

Following the money. TYC did things like bitcoin.

TYC gives zero shits about information privacy and distributed AI because they can't make more money than god. TYC isn't going to save you here. Nor are the masses going to adopt it.
That's because most of the users are there. Now they will go somewhere else, and you can utilize whatever becomes the next big platform.
Walgreens replaced its refrigerator doors with digitized ad-laden glass. It
The audacity of this:

> tl;dr is more "need to be able to keep paying people to work on this".

https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/113844400165509238

That's your problem. I only had paid attention to this project in the past because it was under a permissive open source license.
it's been happening for decades, data aggregation, understanding the market, stealing personal data, stealing applicant ideas, you name it, the job application is a great rip off tool
Yes try making a comment in favor of bulk data collection by the intelligence agencies, or stating that Snowden's actions caused significant harm and really only helped adversaries - to give two examples.

Even if you write a well argued and decently sourced comment, it's very likely to get flagged by people with ideological disagreements to this. And there are a lot of them on HN, so your comment will likely disappear pretty quickly.
One a similar note, there is this period video where Brian Kernighan shows how to construct a spell checker using a UNIX shell one-liner:

https://youtu.be/tc4ROCJYbm0?t=4m56s
You can always seek asylum in China if you want protection from the "evil American tech monopolies".
it's such false power though, the politicians don't realize we can regulate the shit out of big tech and reallocate the money to more noble causes and google and facebook and all the other "tech" companies that aren't doing much but sitting on monopolies will be just fine. They don't need 1/100th of the capital they have to provide the service they do to society.
Echo chamber or filtering out noise?
This would be extremely helpful. Although, I would love a feature where you can add different linux hosts and manage them all from a single place, using ssh
This has some interesting ideas that I hadn’t seen in the other similar projects, especially around trying to sort files according to importance.

(I’ve been using RepoPrompt for this sort of thing lately.)
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Cool. Now, in Europe, please.
THen you should go read the SCOTUS final decision, it's pretty succinct for a law document.
I'd rent a server and make a couple support tickets and see how that goes (time until replied, time until fixed, if they have any clue what you are talking about?)

What is that one company that bought like dozens of other hosting companies? I'd avoid all of them.

btw I block all of datapacket's ips from most of my websites, not that that in of itself would be a problem for you, but ips from dpacket, ovh, digital ocean, and similar are blocked en masse from several places I control - I can't be the only one that puts trust things from them on a lower tier for reasons with whatever effects.

Of course if you don't send email, you just need something that can serve files fast and stay online, but the support you get or don't get can cost more than the dollars you save in some cases.
God forbid the rest of the world stops wearing jeans, stops drinking coke and has declining divorce rates. They can't have TikTok at all costs. That will show em. We can't have them get brainwashed by others, we already have a monopoly on that. We need to keep it.
Ever heard of Sourceforge?
Another case where an 'eventually open source' license would be beneficial.
People had years to prepare.
I know think of the poor starving only fans entrepreneurs - i mean small business owners. How ever will they pay for college now?
Wikipedia Arbitration Committee Banning 8 Editors from Israel-Palestine Area
Nonzero for sure. But regenerative breaking plus fairly green energy (lotta hydro) is a whole different ball game than 100% gas.
>YouTube non official SoaceX channel with millions of subscribers

This is a 50/50 split between YT and SpaceX on the problem.

That spaceX does not broadcast it live on YT leaves an opening for the scammers to get a popular channel up.

Now, the scammer channels you see are what happens when an actual big name channel with a lot of followers gets hacked, all the old videos deleted, then they start that feed of the launch and turn it to a bitcoin scam at/right after the launch part.
Without mentioning GitHub/BitBucket/GitLab/etc., how would you describe what they are?
Intellectual fads—memeplexes, if you will—burn through populations. There’s a whole lifecycle to a memeplex taking up residence in a host, then eventually getting ejected. Once you’ve ejected a particular memeplex from your mind, it’ll probably never make it back in. You have antibodies. Repeat that for enough people and the tide can permanently turn on a memeplex. Or at least for several decades, until there is a whole new generation of hosts who don’t have immunity.

It’s seemed pretty clear to me that this would eventually happen for wokism (or whatever you want to call it). It’s simply not sustainable to tell the majority of your potential hosts that, because of their inborn, unchangeable attributes (being white and/or male), they are the problem. And people really do not like feeling physically unsafe, which they do in most coastal blue cities, and which almost all women do when there is a man in the bathroom with them.

So the difference between 2024 and 2016 is that the memeplex was just getting rolling in 2016, but today enough people have antibodies that, to any keen observer, it’s days are clearly numbered.
Your company's product will never be the best version of itself if your only business goal is to lead a VC backed mindless race to an IPO. Your company will almost always have to dilute it's value proposition to make more money to satisfy greater returns for shareholders.

If your only goal as a founder is to eventually sell out and make yourself a billionaire, this is fine. If you want to build something of long lasting quality/consistency, then exploring other business models isn't just noise.

When you're free of outside influence you're enabled to perfect your business offerings, or at least be consistent in what you offer, without worrying about greater and greater shareholder returns.

It's no coincidence that Craigslist looks the same as it did 20 years ago, Arizona Ice Tea is still 99 cents, and Chicfila has the best fast food customer service.
The US government is often eager to impose sanctions on foreign entities it doesn't like. TikTok ban is fundamentally no different from some of the more controversial sanctions, such as those imposed on Cuba and Iran. The only exceptional part is that this time the average American sees the effect in their daily life.
US social media companies have been banned in China for many years, so in fact the “brainwashing” you’re referring to has only gone in one direction until now.
We need to keep the women on the independent mindfu*k or else the GDP will go down.
“Asmon behaves like a maverick ‘independent’, but in reality has to ask his boss for permission before he can do anything. He is not his own man,”

To add some context, the message screenshots being shared mentions Asmon wanting to talk to his editors. Musk mistakenly believes editors are the "boss" e.g. at a newspaper. For content creators, editors are more akin to assistants who help with clipping and uploading.
This is sort of no-true-scotsman argument. Sure, there is "DEI" that doesn't amount to a dog whistle for discrimination. That was the case at 1 out of the 4 companies I've worked at. But it's the exception to the norm in my experience, and in that of my peers. It sounds like Meta has reached the same conclusion.
Thank you, I stand corrected! I had used it in the windowing sense and didn’t recall the other option!
a police state
“Entertainment isn’t a real job” is a cool and normal opinion to have, and it’s usually held by people that are a blast to be around
Yes, I know the law doesn't name TikTok/ByteDance specifically to be banned outright, that is just the effect.

> let adversarial countries own and control communications infrastructure

This is an exaggeration that a social media platform for short form content is communications infrastructure, akin to a cell tower or fiber optic line. I'd the say the same for your mention of ITAR in a thread about, again, a social media platform.

If we were serious, there would be regulations for all social media, not just forcing of U.S. ownership then saying "all good, this can't be bad since Americans own it"
It would take a LOT of explaining about the context and political climate as to why this is the case. Im on mobile so I'll give a very reductive take, the political guard rails have been removed. Billionaire after billionaire, politician after politician has gone to Maralago to meet with Trump and kiss the ring, they've been making donations of millions to his inauguration fund. Trump specifically threatened Zuckerberg with prison, so he fell in line, and that is the "right" thing to do in his eyes because he stands to gain a lot by getting on his good side, he could even get tiktok. On the other hand, his other option is prison or endless harassment from the government. This is the same deal with Bill Gates and many others. It's all performative bs and these corporations have never had any convictions other than to make the most money possible and to accrue power by taking the path of least resistance.
As they say on reddit, "this but unironically".

I am shocked that so many seem to root for China pointing a mind-control weapon at hundreds of millions of people? The Chinese government wants Europe and the US to fall to them. The good does not outweight the bad, in my opinion.

One doesn't have to support the existence of Instagram and Twitter to definitely not support the Chinese control of TikTok. I think the world would be better without closed-source algorithm-controlled short video feeds.
There is a reason Russian forces are wearing face-covers in Ukraine. That anonymity even became integral part of the official propaganda with the country plastered with images with covered faces like this https://ok.ru/group/53906516017252/album/922573735012/931001...
> but stating facts of the individual events can’t actually be copyrighted, regardless of what the nfl and olympics say in their disclaimer.

That's interesting. Does that mean someone could go to an NFL game and broadcast the play by play of the game? Stating facts like: "It's 4th and goal, mahomes drops back and passed to kelce for a touchdown". You could legally broadcast that?
> couldn't be an evil mining company, use exploitative labour practices or generally be shitty.

ESG ratings champion companies in industries killing millions:
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/how-tobacco-companies-are...

reminiscent of the comic of people being bombed in awe that 'They say the next [bombs] will be sent by a woman!'
The world is a joke.[!] Nihilism seems so appealing these days. Please, someone walk me through the concept of hope in 2025.

[!] Updated TikTok message: https://bsky.app/profile/gloomchen.bsky.social/post/3lg2xe4t...
depends on the trustworthiness of the source. at some point we have to trust something; could be our own selection process, but it can very well be the opinion of someone who you follow that seem genuine over X amount of time. The false positives are probably a necessary evil, humans will make mistakes, miss sarcasm, etc.
Yes, as open source but under a different license. Now, I don't dislike the AGPL, but think a healthy FLOSS community has a variety of licenses. However, freedom 0 is important. https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-doesnt-anyone-give-a-crap-... I feel like not all software under the same copyleft license is the same. Mastodon is under the AGPL, and I think people are comfortable treating it as a component alongside differently licensed projects, on a subdomain, such as https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon and many others where people use Mastodon for their ActivityPub feed on a subdomain of their own domain. From what I've seen of Element I think they'd throw a fit if people used Element's AGPL projects in the same way, especially if it was made convenient by a cloud provider, while still keeping it separate (such as in a different container).
I'm in France and it still doesn't work. They might have just turned it off completely.

Edit: Nevermind, it works from an incognito window. So it's just my account they banned.
Thanks for the explanation. I was wondering how the heck Intel did to make a 9-way decode x86–a low power core of all things. Seems like an elegant approach.
The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem
I get this, and I use bsky. What I don't understand is why some of my more liberal friends have a meltdown when I tell them I successfully use Twitter for what I want to get out of: instant news and commentary, some memes, some Instagram like feeds, and a couple of other things. I don't use the firehouse feed, I just pay attention to those I follow and have almost zero issues.
They are probably scared their productivity rate will go down or their birthrate. They definitely know something we don't.
What's this "costly barrier to entry"? It is certainly not a given from where I am looking

By any account, it is far less than building an independent social network application. The components are also decoupled so you don't have to rebuild everything. If you want to build an App View, it's just a webapp or react native. You don't have to rebuild everything

re: incentives, there are many, people have different perspectives and motivations to do so
You can call it a butter battle if you’d like

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Butter_Battle_Book
Collaborative development platform with Git repository hosting, CI/CD, and project management features.
I have been saying the same things for over a decade, and writing about it. But more importantly - I built the alternative, we’ve tested it with lots of local communities and will be going to market Nov 5th this year

https://www.laweekly.com/restoring-healthy-communities/
TruthSocial is a forked Mastodon
"A platform to host your git repositories including collaboration features like issues, discussions, and a projects page to track important parts of your code base. All able to run on your server local and private."
What confession? Link? I haven’t heard of this
At Amazon there was a "unicorn game". If you find an unlocked computer, you could send "I love Unicorns" message using the credentials of the logged on person.

There was even an internal site with the unicorn image.
This doesn't have anything to do with copyright. This is about contract restrictions, which would usually forbid reusing the same audio in a case like this.
it is not an exaggeration at all. it's a different layer of infrastructure, but it's still infrastructure. the mention of ITAR is an analogy, which I know you understand.

if "we were serious" about what? the issue of foreign control is not relevant to domestic companies. we could have some other regulations too, sure, but this one is reasonable.
Surely nothing bad can come out of laws impeding the expression of opinions
"Forgejo hosts source code repositories, lets you track and manage issues (and review code changes), and provides all the integrations you'd expect with CI/CD and similar tooling."
At least systemctl status tells you when next the timer will trigger. Cron doesn't.
Attestation is a great way to think about this, similar to cosign/sigstore. We can label an existing record or associate new records with it to support this feature. Multiple entities can attest and their track record, transparency, and reputation can feed into those which people decide they trust

What I like about ATProto is that it is decoupled like this, even if it still has weak points in terms of decentralization. We can build and extend outside of the choices and governance of Bluesky. It is a true platform in the sense that will make the participants more money than the originators in the long run
Now do Facebook
Yeah I meant e-CVT. We actually own a highlander hybrid with e-CVT.

Actually every vehicle I've driven was CVT/e-CVT. 14 Corolla, 18 RAV4, 21 Highlander hybrid and 24 Integra. All super reliable. I'd still say CVT bothers me and I love it every time I get to rent a vehicle with traditional automatic.
Can’t wait for other physical characteristics like height and weight to join the fray, or other markers of attractiveness/power.
In general all these large companies should be required to use open standards or spin off proprietary protocols into an independent open source project.
By describing what they do (also, there is no rule you can't mention github)
What are we? a Communism 3rd world country?
Mobile Safari takes at least two taps for most links on any page. Eg try going to https://yawaramin.github.io/dream-html/dream-html/Dream_html... then tapping on the first link in the content area, 'Form'. It's just a simple <a> tag but takes at least two taps to make it load the page.

It seems like mobile Safari treats the first tap as 'selecting' the link, and the second one as actually navigating to it.
What should the split be?

Take a step back on the supply side. CS education isn't a requirement, though only 20% of CS undergrads are female.[0]

I'm curious what your stance is on the swathe of asians who got negatively handicapped for checking "asian" on their college applications.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/there-are-too-few...
if you were paying attention you'd know their birthrates have been plunging for years even after the revocation of the one child policy.
Is piracy booming again? Google trends show interest in Bittorrent has been flat since 2017.
Yeah, I see four. Mostly $6k over MSRP.
How do you think Worcester v. Georgia happened in ways not popularly remembered?
There is a time and place for everything—and you should not assume a business environment is the only possible setting in which colleagues might pass by unattended workstations.

Ideally the prank is pulled in a high-trust, low-stakes environment like a college campus or high school computer lab, before corporate policies are part of one's life.

It is also a rich tradition, from the days of yore, before robust security practices became standard:

• http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/baggy-pantsing.html

• http://catb.org/jargon/html/D/derf.html

• https://www.multicians.org/cookie.html

I would much rather my colleagues be taught this lesson (even if just through a verbal reprimand) than work with someone who is allowed to remain ignorant of the risks of their behaviour.
It actually has worked well for me, and I've had some interesting discussions on there and some arguments, but over facts and not emotions. I think people have a right to express their opinions, but they don't have a right to make me hear what they're saying if they're known belligerents, spreaders of disinformation, or similar things.
> Africanized honey bees are typically much more defensive, react to disturbances faster, and chase people further (400 metres (1,300 ft)) than other varieties of honey bees.

My bees will chase me about 200 yards, and probably more if I had to go further to go inside a building (they don't like dark places). They lay ambushes, too. They'll wait outside the building I go into and will attack again if I go out.

Well, they used to anyways. Since switching to top-bar hive bodies they're much nicer.
what? china can continue to have cultural exports like every country, it is inevitable, it simply can't own and control tiktok
Yea, there have been a few events where the (very expensive) Apple custom 3D rig has appeared courtside with no details given. It still remains to be seen what they're going to actually put out using it, since the Apple 3D content so far is extremely limited.
Of all the bleak things in our world right now this one doesn’t even crack the top 500
He always has been (literally, due to the share structure of Meta and how much Zuckerberg owns), he is just trying to throw someone under the bus for the change in political winds.
Someone smarter than me please tie this into the many worlds theory of the universe and collapsing wave functions.
I am skeptical. Sounds like this has dubious practicality, perhaps more of a marketing stunt by the inventor than a real product. Maybe more likely he'll be the next Elizabeth Holmes?
I do say they should have even relaunched IGTV again lol.

They were faster to clone Twitter with Threads.
You can migrate your account on masto without loosing followers
https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-anot...
What a cute idea. As long as it's not a tamagotchi :)