skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a single anecdote, not much insight, but I'm interested in advancing discussion around your question.

My wife, in her mid-30s, has friends who will share or send her links to TikTok videos. She says that she can't view them because she doesn't have an account, but she doesn't want to create an account because she "knows she has an addictive personality" [1] and has read about the power of TikTok. Anyway, I imagine that this is how it starts for a lot of people: not wanting to miss out on stuff sent by a friend, creating an account to check it out, and then rapidly getting sucked into the addictive user experience. And it keeps spreading the same way from there.

[1] She does, and I'm thankful that she recognizes this. She's already a heavy consumer of Facebook Reels, by the way.
That China is a totalitarian regime, and the USA (at least for now) is a democracy.

With all due criticism, there are still checks and balances in place in the US that make it a very different place. We're not talking about an objectively "correct" decision here, but what is in the best interest of the USA and its allies, and that certainly makes a difference when it comes to foreign influence on the own populace.

All that being said: American Tech companies are dangerous in their own right, and nothing in my post was defending these either. But that doesn't make TikTok less of a threat.
They set trump up to be a hero. The dude has wet dreams about being beloved dear leader.

The question is if people are still going to use tiktok when Trump bites the CCP bait.
great one! and i would recommnd this hands-on guide for diagnosing memory leaks in Rust applications. it explains how to enable heap profiling in 'jemalloc', collect memory allocation data, and generate flame graphs for analysis. https://greptime.com/blogs/2024-01-18-memory-leak#diagnosing...
> There will always be room to carve out your space and find your people.

That's definitely true. However, what changed is that you didn't really need that 20 years ago to achieve the same thing. It definitely needs more energy and time to get that. 20 years ago you had to go to bullshit sites, now the bullshit comes to you.

During and before StumbleUpon times, when I visited a random site, there was a good chance, that I could trust in the information on that, at least on some level. That's basically 0 for a while now.

Then I started to carve out that space on some selected social media. In the past 5 years, most of the smart people just simply left. Also those spaces (especially when those places became more popular) are slowly flooded with unusable information/misinformation/simple lies shared by others, even from people who I trusted.

Now, even that kind of "carving" is even more difficult, with keeping the possibility to get to know new people. For example, TikTok's, YouTube's, BlueSky's, and Twitter's algorithm are terrible. I tried to teach them with brand new accounts, but they became either very boring quickly, or couldn't filter out even very obvious misinformation.
Trek Lime had an automatic 3-speed, circa mid-2000's. A friend of mine had one. I don't think there were ever widespread reliability issues. Sram had a 2-speed automatic that was fully mechanical.
I am to put it mildly not an e/acc and referenced being very worried about other risks from advanced AI in the article.
It's hard for China to claim that they are being treated unfairly, when US companies are generally only permitted to hold a minority 49% interest of the Chinese operations.

The US is just reciprocating.
Coincidentally I made a shell script (https://github.com/pgodschalk/dotfiles/blob/main/bin/ai) around the same time, though it doesn't put the command in the buffer. I might borrow that idea. One thing I did add though, and would recommend, is an --explain flag. Usually if I don't know e.g. ffmpeg, I tend to want a short overview of what I'm actually about to run.
Just a hypothesis: the fact that there's no need for an American firewall might be a consequence of the information controls being enacted at the level of platform moderation, or DNS resolution.

(I agree with you about authoritarianism in a political sense, but I'm trying to look at the informational "water" in which we're swimming in).
That's pretty neat as an experiment, but I would guess that doing this in Julia would lead to a language that has the worst properties of Rust and Julia.

Like, one of the advantages of Julia over Rust is that GC languages are way easier to write code in. With a borrowchecker, you get a fat runtime and the cost of garbage collection with none of the convenience
I see Russia not caring, but to say China doesn’t care in the slightest doesn’t make sense. Especially with a company at that scale. There wouldn’t be a push to the Red Book if that was the case.

> goes against the sentiment of their population

If you read this thread you’ll see that it’s pretty divided. I for one don’t care that it’s gone and even welcome the ban. I dislike that China has a firewall for American companies, but will gladly enter our market.
I would say it really depends on the goal of art school.

There is a creative purist idea that the best thing that can happen to an art student is to be thrown out of school early on before it ruins your creativity.

If you put that aside, a stable diffusion art school class just sounds really cool to me as an elective class. Especially the group that would be in this class. The problem I find with these tools is they are overwhelmed by the average person, non-artist, making pictures of cats and darth vader so it is so hard to find what real artists are doing in the space.
Will we ever trust robots? (2024)
I need Links back in my life :(
> I’d venture it’s quite rare that the entire machine is waiting on a single sequential task!

But that happens all the time in video game code.

Video games may have many threads running, but there's usually a single-thread bottleneck. To the point that P-cores and massively huge Zen5 cores are so much better for video games.

Javascript (ie: rendering webpages) is single-threaded bound, which is probably why the Phone makers have focused so much on making bigger cores as well. Yes, there's plenty of opportunities for parallelism in web browsers and webpages. But most of the work is in the main Javascript thread called at the root.
Note that the VanMoof was an e-bike with a lot of built-in features, so it wasn't intended to attract a minimalist market in the first place.

The point is, it's an everything bike, in a stylish package.
So the relationship between engine RPM and wheel RPM is always fixed, only torque split is varied, right? I think that's around where some confusions are coming from.
You’re free to use platforms that the State Dept can use to stifle dissent on our disgusting foreign policy
Or they just value things that can make or save them money more.
Biased, but https://usedigest.com
Isn't this much closer to RefCell than the borrow checker?
You can use a heatpump for heating as well. Then not only do you get all the energy moved by the heat pump to warm a space. But you can also use the waste heat created by the heatpump for heating as well.

In a cooling scenario, all waste heat is just that, waste. But in a heating scenario, waste heat isn’t waste, it’s additional heat you can use, and reduces the total amount of energy you need to inject into the system.
I specifically mentioned in the article that I think it's mostly a waste of time to worry about your personal carbon footprint and you should aim for big systematic change instead, but because so many people seem to be worried about their personal chatgpt use I wanted to clarify that it doesn't use much energy anyway
Well said. Time is really the wealth, and those with less money have to give up more of their time figuring out things. Wealth buys time, and time of others, to help the time of the payer.
Freedom of speech has nothing to do with a privately owned platform controlled by a communist country.
Views centered on revolutionary nationalism. Using judicial means to remove opposition and replace holders of governmental positions with followers. Commanding paramilitary forces into an assault at the capital. Consolidation of power to close allies and financial supporters. Alienation of democratic powers. Foreign policy aimed at expanding the nation’s possessions.

The parallels to Mussolini are not nonexistent.
End users just won't care about the algorithm. Try talking to a niece or nephew, especially one who makes money on the platform about The Algorithm and you'll get blank stares, or, at best, a "yeah I know, but...".

If you've had better luck, let me know (actually).

As for "being China", every country has protections on what goes in or out of the country including media. A lot of countries won't let you own a newspaper or news broadcast channel, so this is the next extension of that sort of idea.

It's the same idea as not allowing a company from the USSR to run a news channel during the Cold War, although obviously the lines are fuzzier and still being discovered with apps and algorithms.
OpenMP, Intel's TBB and other libraries/tools are clearly moving in this direction.

The main issue is that Intel is... well Intel. Even if they write a good library, there's probably 0% chance it'd work well on ARM systems their competitor. (And only a small chance that it'd be optimized for AMD).

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Microsoft did put a lot of work into ConcRT, but it doesn't look very successful. Its a very clean model of task-based scheduling, but I'm not seeing too much buzz about it or too many blog posts marketing the benefits.
Why do you trust that an app based in China would actually comply with American rules? Facebook voluntarily disclosed that misinformation was spread on their platform. They cooperated with the DOJ to connect this misinformation campaign to thirteen Russian nationals and three Russian nationals. Would you expect the same cooperation from TikTok?
> Wasn’t it China at one time that placed limits on the number of children you could have?

But considering the statistics at that time, one could say that it was reasonable. It is better to limit the birth of children rather than, after some time, let natural selection to kill the weakest for starvation or lack of proper environment.
I understand that people who don't work in intelligence can have a difficult time recognizing risk, and often don't really understand the war other countries don't work the way the US does with the rule of law, but these are very much not baseless allegations. These are not even historical misbehavior. These companies explicitly and intentionally support and perform intelligence actions on behalf of their countries' intelligence services. Facebook and Google absolutely do not.

Kaspersky has been very credibly linked to Russian intelligence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaspersky_and_the_Russian_gove...

And Huawei has been very credibly linked to Chinese intelligence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Huawei

There is often an attempt to equate these behaviors with compliance with court-order subpoenas, but they are not the same.
Ok

Edit: from your comment history it looks like you’re from turkey. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if turkey banned instagram/fb/X. In fact I’m kind of surprised they haven’t already.
I've tried it a few times, but it's so much more complex that it really requires everyone who's playing to care deeply about reasoning through it. There's so little information that's public to everyone, so if even one player with a role that lets them get private information doesn't understand or communicate that well, the whole game can fall apart.
Yeah.

Those with security concerns about TikTok will be frustrated, because the app will continue to operate.

Those with free speech concerns about the ban are also frustrated, because the law to ban TikTok was upheld (but might be ignored).

To top it all off, we will see an especially blatant disregard for law enforcement from the executive branch.

This seems to be the likely path, everyone loses and our system of government looks like a joke.
Maybe at its core, but Haskell in the wild is monstrously complex because of all the language extensions. Many different people use different sets of extensions so you have to learn them to understand what’s going on!
> This also lets you start off with a markdown checklist, and convert items to sub-issues.

Wasn't that already possible with Tasklists? We did it using "- [ ] description", then clicking the covert-to-issue hover option.
Maybe I don't understand the usecase but I'm curious why speed matters given that LLMs are so slow (?)
> GP’s quote was taken from directly below yours.

They completely changed their post after the Tronno reply, which made the replies look out of context.

Their original post, quoted verbatim in my other comment¹, was:

> It may be you who lacks the critical reasoning skills. Did you happen to think about the fact that 23% of the population is actually younger than age 12, meaning they wouldn’t even be in 6th grade yet?

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42757642
Tritium-lit pacifiers sure sound like a legitimate 1950s atomic age product.
It could be advantageous for applications that need to work offline. It doesn’t seem to need a server connection, making it more like React than LiveView. I may be misunderstanding though! I’ve not tried it myself.
But you repeat yourself
I must say, it's strange watching Traitors after watching Beast Games. It feels slow and lazy.

Traitors is one idea padded out with endless cringey "ceremony". (Claudia Winkleman walks down a corridor in a cape! Claudia Winkelman whispers "murder"! People gather and read out names slowly.)

In the Mr Beast version, the entire series would be boiled down to one 8 minute segment – and there would be 15 other original ideas besides it.
Meta and Google have this in their internal systems.
If we're trying to figure out a reasonable number for how much energy a single ChatGPT search uses, it seems weird to factor in all future training of all future models. It would be like trying to figure out the carbon cost of a single plane ride and trying to figure out what fraction of additional plane flights that one ticket incentivizes. It's too murky to put a clear number on and probably doesn't add much to the cost on its own. I tried to make it clear that the post is about your own personal use of ChatGPT, not the entire AI industry as a whole.
It is already is. Sam Altman told you right in your face.

These AI agents will go after both mid-level and senior-level engineers and set the price of them in a couple of years time.

What is also certain is that there will be far less engineers hired.
> not a reasonable solution

That's your opinion. The vast majority of ATProto users like the enhanced controls over their conversations. If you don't like it, use a different social media platform
Everyone seems to be making the same mistake here. As you say:

> Generally speaking, an A/C uses approx. 1 unit of electricity for every 3 units of cooling that it produces since it uses heat transfer rather than heat generation

You know you can use a heatpump to heat a space as well right? Then you get to move 3 units of heat into the space, plus you also get to use that extra unit energy used to power the heatpump, because the heatpump turns the unit of energy into waste heat! (After all energy can’t be destroyed, so it has to go somewhere).
> people love to name stuff after physics stuff

And physics love taking over natural language

So many words have been co-opted by physics, that it’s almost impossible to have a good conversation about physical concepts between a lay person and someone trained in physics

Any time a lay person uses any physics keyword, they get judged as ignorant and mostly dismissed
I’d love to learn more about your project! Is it public?
I find magnesium a tricky one to get right for me. I have tried most of the kinds available and have settled on magnesium chloride in a liquid form. It has a god awful taste, but has absolutely no other side effects.

Citrate causes me to have too soft of stools. Glycinate is often recommended for sleep, but for me it has the opposite effect – it wires me. I have tried taurine, malinate, and threonate, but chloride just works the best for me.

Electrolytes do ‘wear off’ in the sense that they are constantly depleted by your body, even when everything is working well. I have come up with the metaphor that electrolytes are like gas and oil in your car. They are constantly used up and need to be replenished. This is normal.

The good news is that I noticed the difference immediately!
You run that locally on your own machine, or you host it yourself somewhere? If the latter, you just stop programming fully if the internet connection for whatever reason doesn't work?

I'd never consider running my code editor as infrastructure, but certainly interesting to see that others seems to do.
Considering how many things of questionable veracity are said about systemd in general, and Lennart in particular, I would like a link to that issue before I take your characterization at face value.
American youth was too crirical of Israel and too supportive of Luigi Mangione. Youth needed to be punished and also pushed into american platforms where the algorithm can suppress certain type of content that the ruling class does not approve.
> Will the Wasm GC pave the way to having native object references to JS objects/classes

AFAIK that was already possible via 'WASM reference types': https://caniuse.com/wasm-reference-types

Seeing that this is not yet used by Emscripten JS shims I wonder if there are downsides which prevent its use for something like WebGL objects, or whether just nobody got around yet rewriting the Emscripten shims to externrefs.

PS: probably not worth the effort (see last comment: https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/issues/20021)
I'm concerned about this, too, but this law actually gives the nation's most powerful adversaries even more power by eliminating their competition.
I know about the paradox of tolerance. It cuts both ways. You can't have free speech when you have some people banning anything they don't like on some pretense of "intolerance." You can't dismiss this as "we will just make exceptions" because the left is demanding censorship of just about anyone that doesn't agree.

"Cancel Culture," while legal, is fundamentally against the concept of free speech. It is true that religious conservatives once upon a time orchestrated censorship and public shaming of people they disagreed with. But the recent instances of political persecution put anything the right did in our lifetimes to shame. The closest would be the way suspected communists were treated during the Red Scare, and that actually had at least a plausible justification.

I honestly don't know that much about AfD (nobody but you has even tried to answer my request for proof that they are the new Nazi party, despite downvotes, which I find is suggestive of it all being a fabrication). I can tell you that conservative populists are taking heat in most of the West. It's like there's a conspiracy to work against the will of the people orchestrated by an international coalition of powerful people. I would take anything that any Western media outfit says with a grain of salt. They have been whining about populist conservative wins just about everywhere (for example, the US, Germany, Italy, Romania, Argentina...), and trying to paint all conservatives as racists and fascists.

In closing, I would like to say beware of fascists who claim to want to protect you from fascists, or claim to have the moral high ground. We can't have democracy without free speech and autonomy over ourselves in general, and we can't have free speech without people being free to offend each other and say even horrible things. Almost any rule you can think of to regulate mere words can be contorted into something that can silence anyone not in a position to enforce the rules. I mean that literally. How long before demanding lower taxes is deemed hate speech and violence against those who don't pay? I know it sounds insane but politics since 2016 (and I would say, much earlier) has shown us that quite a few powerful people are willing to enforce arbitrary ludicrous limitations on (or retaliation for) free speech like that.
The solution is not to allow TikTok but to reduce the influence of social media in the first place.

As exposed by whistleblower Frances Haugen, Facebook's algorithms favored content that generated anger and division, which in turn increased user engagement. Facebook now wants to return to that algorithm.
This argues that the algorithm be transparent and I agree:

"Users (and our government) should instead insist that, to operate in the USA, that ByteDance respect the software rights and freedoms of their users by releasing both the server and App components of the software under a “free and open source” (FOSS) license."
I do not agree that seeing a button I don't like is equivalent to forcing AI slop down our throats.
I wrote the article. Water use is used really ambiguously by people talking about data centers and LLMs in general. To get the numbers I just took the estimated water used per kWh (https://www.sunbirddcim.com/glossary/water-usage-effectivene....) and multiplied it by the number of kWh used in data centers for different tasks
> If you have a heat pump water heater, it will actually _cool_ your space significantly. The heat is transferred from your home to your water and mostly goes down the drain with it.

In a cold environment, you can just take that energy from outside. If you’ve got a heatpump, then you can always set it up make sure that waste heat produced can be used to heat a space, and make sure that it’s always scavenging energy from a place you either want to keep cool, or from outside.

> Phoenix, on the other hand, is the hottest city in the country and its summers are some of the hottest in the world. In general, the hottest cities are still closer to what we'd consider room temperature than the coldest are.

If we’re talking survivable environments here, then phoenix isn’t a good choice. Places like Delhi are better where not only are the temps high, but so is the humidity. At times hot enough and humidity enough that the wet bulb temperature rises higher than human survivable conditions, in which case, without heat pumps, it’s literally impossible for humans to survive more than a few hours.

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/wet-bulb-t...
The US wouldn't have to do that, they can go after the financial side of the business. They could prosecute or make the lives of any persons involved with these companies very difficult financially. Imagine trying to do business in the US when no credit card processors, banks, or other financial institutions will touch you with a mile-long pole. Now imagine facing that not as a company, but as an individual; How comfortable of a life do you think you'd have as a person living in the US and being unable to access practically any financial institution? And even outside the US, how many companies with a US presence would kick you out to avoid Uncle Sam paying them a visit?

It's only partially a technical problem -- most of the issue lies in the rubber hose.