skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Historicals are where it's at... Quality of the minis has been skyrocketing, and you can use them for a wide range of games. And it's a fraction of the price of GW.
I clicked open the link to find Yahoo has gone dark in China since 2021. Doesn’t work even with a VPN. I miss the good old days of the Web.
Did they also delist themselves from the App Store or is that by Apple and Google?
Haha... weirdly, I've also done a ton of towing with MKIV ALH TDIs. They're absolutely excellent vehicles for towing, and hardly use any fuel while doing so. Sometimes it gets a lot of unwanted attention - especially at a boat ramp, because Americans don't expect cars to be able to tow like that.

When I was in Ireland for work, I saw that a huge fraction of the farmers use MKIV TDIs for their farm work vehicles- they're all over the place pulling huge trailers full of livestock and hay, and still using half the fuel of most cars that are unloaded.
Also highly recommended are Mechanicus and Darktide.
Even the old battlefleet gothic were good.

They nailed several entries in several genres.

And for media? They have none other than Astartes, though some actually produced things are quite good as well, none tops this youtube miniseries IMHO.
> Other than that, my inbox is for PERSONAL EMAIL. I LOVE when I get letters

People you know send you email? The only time I get one on one email from people is when they are forwarding email as an FYI.

Depending on the relationship, they send me a message via text, LinkedIn, or Facebook Messenger.
A huge shame it'll be undone in 24 hours. Shouting out Trump by name in the ban message is hilarious, they are really doing their best to tie his hands.
Yes, we are about to release a mobile app in the next few days
Desktop app is in the roadmap too
Just like C, C++ and C#
> The internet is filled with shit. Bots, influencers, spammers, the clinically insane, outright enemies.

And also with people who just add people they consider enemies for whatever reason to all sorts of lists, and others who just subscribe to those lists blindly, without ever checking any. Why would they want to, it's supposedly unsavory.

Blocking things as they actually become a problem for you has a way higher chance of success than outsourcing it. Just because it says "list of X" doesn't mean it's a list of X, it just means anyone can title things however they like.
I'm really curious and somewhat worried about what the economic effect of this is going to be. There are a number of legitimate small businesses that saw a lot of, if not all of, their business and customer base through TikTok. Business that just will not be able to make the move to somewhere else.

I personally know musicians, actors, and artists that got a lot of work through TikTok. People who actually create things, and people who just used the app to make ends meet who probably aren't going to make ends meet this month
YT sure. However, there are a lot of anger towards IG from TT users and creators.
I would do tests in the different scenarios that you are likely to encounter and judge the results.

The one concern might be the audio. Depending on the environments you might need proper audio input. With prosumer gear you have more choices with lenses and audio.
Perhaps this TikTok ban is a time to reflect around their addictions and cravings.

A new year's resolution to go cold turkey and a chance to change a cure their own addictions.

It is not the end of the world. Just the end of someone's supply of a brand of digital drug.
I'll take the bait, what part of what you wrote makes it funnier in a Boxster than a Prius?
Signing up for a new non-US account works fine.

As soon as I try to login to my US account it bricks the app.

YMMV.
TikTok just disappeared from the US Google Play Store
That's weird, my optimistic side is hoping it'll have a noticeable positive effect on people's mental health.
This is an interesting analogy, thanks.

But, doesn't this match the parent comment's point? If someone asks why a particular point and not, a nearby point is on the fractal, the reply is just that complicated program generated this number and not another number. It leads to the theme of incompressibility (is there a program of smaller length which can correctly check whether a point in a given region is on the fractal). Sometimes, programs are incompressible, and at other times there is a local explanation.

So, people writing on this topic should be careful to make this distinction and check if their local explanation (which is a 'compression' of the evolution process) actually classifies points into fit/unfit regions with the assumption that the points are in some common region(shared features in the environment).

Compare also with explanations of historical events(list of causes for a victory but with the same causes present, there is failure in another context) and atheist - religious debates on God's grace for a particular prayer and allowing the suffering of others. If a local explanation can't distinguish events, then the global explanation has to be validated by something else.
My problem isn't spam emails, it's transactional emails that are just a bit too chatty nowadays. I can't buy anything online without getting 5 different emails, it seems. Or 20 online check-in reminders for flights. Often, I feel like "yes, I know that I just did thing X, you don't have to remind me".
Consider the proximity of Zuckerberg to the new admin, and the current admin, and remember that this is only market consolidation (data consolidation) around Reels and Shorts.
It's extra bizarre, because Trump is the one that made the initial move towards banning TikTok during his first term.
There are other properties to pivot to. ByteDance had the chance to sell, the access to data that even credit bureaus would want is too much for a foreign adversary.
Bill is been so right about so many things for such a long time! Not. We give way too much credence to past success especially if it involves a big payout - in this case from cutthroat business practices (and grievously incompetent competitors) far more than any real innovation.
Someone should tell these people about Keybase.
YouTube is currently the app that is ruining my life...
yup

Sorry, TikTok isn't available right now
A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can't use TikTok for now.

We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned!
if (voter == 'left')

then insert(billionaire[0])

else if (voter == 'right')

then insert(billionaire[1])

else insert(billionaire[2])

let billionaire = ['Elon Musk', 'Bill Gates', 'Mark Zuckerberg']
He lives to take credit for moments like this. One can only wonder what his actions will be conditional on, but it’s a virtual certainty that it will need to benefit him personally.
I do think this is one possible outcome. I didn't use TikTok (nor do I use reels or shorts), so I don't really feel educated enough to be as confident as you.

I was browsing r/TikTok and the comments there certainly don't seem to imply that everyone is eager/interested in going to reels/shorts. I hardly even see those platforms mentioned in https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTok/comments/1i4p6s0/rip/ but it could just be sampling bias since I'm reading Reddit comments rather than looking for discussions on YouTube/Instagram.

Still, it takes time to habituate to a new app's UI and culture. Even if people are willing and able to shift to a new platform I think there will be a lot of shared frustration in the short term.
Paying for an identity sounds extremely dystopian to me.
What was the purpose of a high resolution greyscale monitor at the time?
It's still a very valid solution.

I used S/KEY for years when I wanted to log into a remote system from a machine I didn't control. I didn't care so much about keystrokes being intercepted; I did care about my password being intercepted. S/KEY (or OPIE, depending on system) let me log in/sudo without exposing said password. I never carried around a preprinted list of codes, rather using a generator on my PDA.

It's possible to do the same thing with `pam_google_authenticator`; that is, having that OTP being the only required password, for the same reason. Nowadays this is the easier solution to go with,[1] because there are multiple OTP generator clients on all platforms, but almost all tutorials assume OTP being used for 2FA and not the only password so some more familarity with PAM beyond the tutorials is needed.

[1] Barring the requirement for read/write access to the secrets file, which SELinux complicates
To borrow a Tiktok meme... tell me you don't use Tiktok without telling me you don't use Tiktok. This seems like such a surface-level comment from somebody with no familiarity with the platform. People love Tiktok. People on Tiktok hate Instagram Reels and Youtube Shorts, for many reasons. Examples:

- IG Reels are limited to 90 seconds compared to 3 or 10 minutes on TT;

- Youtube Shorts can now be up to 3 minutes but that's relatively new (October 2024 IIRC);

- Tiktok moentization is better than these other two platforms, both in terms of ad revenue but more importantly, the Tiktok Shop;

- The comments on Tiktok are truly a league above IG or YT. The latter two are just full of random drivel and vitriol;

- The recommendation algorithm for scrolling on TT is miles ahead of either platform;

- Tiktok is the only platform where people went there for short-form videos. They're native to the platform whereas they were bolted on to both IG and YT as an afterthought, a real "me too" Tiktok response. And they don't quite fit. The user experience on Tiktok is so much better than IG or YT.

- A huge chunk of Reels and Shorts content is simply reposted Tiktoks.

Sundar and Mark may think they'll simply gain Tiktok's user base. I honestly don't see that happening. I'm sure there'll be an uptick in YT and IG but now 170M MAU worth.
Returning to his value roots I see.
> I don’t doubt TikTok is wildly valuable. Is it really that high?

I think TikTok is currently in the too valuable to measure state. It can literally be used (and some say it has already been used) to drastically influence politics in other countries.

The revenue generated is literally nothing at this stage in my opinion. China would be more than happy to spend billions at a loss if it means it can keep the same reach.
After this came out, a more clickbaity titled article asked vendors if they still have PFA "forever chemicals" in their products: https://www.androidcentral.com/wearables/does-your-fluoroela...

TL;DR: Apple and Google eliminated these, Samsung gave a less clear answer.
That's the one thing I dislike about the ban: that it helps zuckergram
There won't really be a noticeable effect IMO. It was banned in India a few years ago, everyone pretty much instantly moved to reels/youtube shorts. I don't know how creators managed, but the consumption just moved to another app.

Nothing specific to TikTok either. PUBG mobile was also banned here around the same time, and people just moved to Call of Duty mobile.
Tiktokers have been discussing where to be reached on other apps for a while now.
the world would be an infinitely better place if those 170 million people were capable of that. unfortunately, i think, by virtue of consuming short form content in 2025, they are beyond help.
Are there? Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts are awful in comparison to the TikTok experience. Red Note is funny, but not really a replacement. Nobody is going to go to Snap.
Everything you need to run Mission Critical Inference (with DeepSeek v3, SGLang)
Is this a big surprise? The law banning it was rooted in national security, presumably because of location tracking. Them knowing where users are was kind of the problem…
Yeah, I think GW is well aware that their 40K and Fantasy universes have incredible draw. Even given the enormous barrier to entry for the premier tabletop game, the IP is ubiquitous.

Unlike WOTC, who seem so flippant about their MTG IP that they're happily slushing it with Marvel, Avatar, Spongebob etc. And even when they're not, they're releasing in-universe sets now that are literally "planeswalkers in cowboy hats," "planeswalkers doing pod-racing," "planeswalkers but its Stranger Things."
This feels so gimmicky and political. It's just a platform. It's certainly not the only app on the Play Store that steals user data.
It is also weird that a few days ago in the YouTube non official SoaceX channel with millions of subscribers, an artificial
Elon Musk asked people to send cryptocurrencies to an address. This was the biggest scam at scale in realtime that I experienced.
It would be nice if such a ban meant that a small competitor could get a jumpstart. Instead I fear the result is that Meta just gets bigger.
Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge
If Q and R are constant (as is usually the case), the gain quickly converges, such that the Kalman filter is just an exponential filter with a prediction step. For many people this is a lot easier to understand, and even matches how it is typically used, where Q and R are manually tuned until it “looks good” and never changed again. Moreover, there is just one gain to manually tune instead of multiple quantities Q and R.
I'm working on an Obsidian plugin called Relay [0] that makes Obsidian real-time collaborative. Users can share specific subsets of their vault with different groups of people. Our goal is to make Obsidian suitable for corporate use.

We use y-sweet for real-time collaboration backends (thanks paulgb and team!) and handle authentication via Pocketbase. We host everything on fly.io.

I believe there's a lot of interesting space between "pure" local-first software and being a data serf to modern SaaS applications.

On the technical side, it makes sense to have most of your graph be server-managed but locally mirrored. We maintain a store of all user-accessible metadata on the user's device while keeping it up-to-date with SSE – similar to a simplified version of Replicache. Pocketbase makes this very convenient to work with. We modified Pocketbase to use h2c, enabling end-to-end HTTP/2 through fly's edge proxies. This allows us to serve numerous SSE connections for collections related to authentication, authorization, file sync, and other metadata.

We aim to keep all documents on the user's machine (following Obsidian's file-over-app principle). This means the Obsidian client needs to sync with files on disk that lack CRDT context when the codemirror editor is closed. We've developed novel solutions using a combination of diff-match-patch and a diff review tool that we surface to users in these scenarios.

One cool thing about using y-sweet's in your architecture (eg. separate collaboration backends), is that your customers could self-host the collaboration server, preventing you from accessing their data. This business-friendly version of partial-self-hosting (BYOC?) creates nicely aligned incentives for a more ethical kind of SaaS company -- you can build pretty much everything open source except the auth server, and then charge for authn/authz in order to fund development of the project, and the customer gets sovereignty over their data.

One interesting feature on fly.io is the `fly-replay` header, which enables dynamic request routing of websocket connections to machines [1]. This is not a redirect that the user can see, rather this allows the edge proxy to replay the connection to another host transparently to the user. Combined with fly.io's auto start/stop functionality [2], you can build something similar to jamsocket/plane with minimal code and some nice properties like controlling geographic placement and having a single URL for all document servers.

It is a super exciting space to build in right now. I'm grateful for yjs and to the jamsocket team for everything they've built (and open-sourced!).

[0] https://system3.md/relay
[1] https://fly.io/docs/networking/dynamic-request-routing/
[2] https://fly.io/docs/launch/autostop-autostart/
That was before Jeff Yass gave him a bunch of money.
If the website is made in this framework I have low hopes for it. Animations are jank. Clicking on links and buttons takes two or three tries before it does the thing. I’m on mobile safari. Maybe just me?
I think they go by your SIM information or at least that's how they've done it for other regions. Try turning off your eSIM or taking your SIM card out.
No. Canada exists.
Also for reference, for those who aren't familiar with typo and don't want to read the C source code listed above (side-comment: citing the comment-free source code 'for reference' is hilarious. Thank you for the laugh :) )

https://github.com/robpike/typo/blob/master/typo.png
The chasm between the current tech world's culture and Barlow's "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" is really jarring
I'd like to discuss the pop-up's content. If it comes out to be that one guy, President Trump, CAN pass an executive order that effectively ignores a law that Congress passed AND the Supreme court upheld unanimously, it's a very dangerous precedent.
Also:

- you can't watch at 2x on reels

- you can't pause a video while watching on reels

- you can't seek in a video either, you just have to watch the whole thing over

- reels interrupts your experience with awful ads every 2-3 swipes

- YT shorts probably has awful ads too, I haven't tried it

The time limit is probably going to be the biggest issue for YT and reels, but the ergonomics of both are so awful that I can't use them for more than a few minutes. I could scroll TikTok until the little video about scrolling too long came up (an hour I think).
It’s been a meme that “email is for old people” since 2006.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/dec/06/digitalco...

Even my 80 year old mom texts me.

How people reach me depending on the level of relationship is Text > Facebook Messenger > LinkedIn > Email.

Even at work almost all announcements and messages go through Slack.

I work in consulting and when we start a client project, we either connect them to a dedicated “external-“ Slack temporary channel in our org or our client creates a user for us usually within their Microsoft Teams/Office365 implementation.

No one wants to use Email.
Countdown til the "SHOW HN: Bypass Tik Tok's newly implemented region lock-out"

12 hrs? I'll probably take the under..
How do you think they derive worth from old posts and tweets?

Meta will make more money from Instagram than Facebook. Inside X/Twitter, I assume they’re desperately trying to negotiate for corporate-palatable influencers.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42746506
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42753396
I hope trump will reverse this action. I don't want government to decide what I am allowed to watch.
You should never be fully reliant on a single corporate platform if you make a living selling goods or services.
A Novel 'Kiss and Capture' Event Gave Pluto Its Largest Moon, Charon
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42753396
> Most people will just use Instagram Reels or YouTube shorts. They’re identical

You’re being downvoted. But you’re correct. The vocal minority inflames about this are mostly ideologically offended, based on the calls and letters I’m hearing both blue and red electeds receive.
I could imagine a future where this leads to Google losing more of their monopoly. Google has search and video (via Youtube), but Perplexity has their search and potentially video through tiktok.
That was very helpful, and I didn't know about the xml filter import. Thank you
Elon Musk's gaming scandal deepens as he attempts to silence streamer Asmongold
Where will the zoomers go?
He'll be about as wrong as everyone else who had said the same thing over the last 150 years or so.
I’d be shocked if this is anywhere close to the craziest thing that happens this year, so, yes.
To be honest, I prefer charity shops to professional shops for 2nd hand books.

That said, I still visit professional shops rather more than I should (it depends on the shop.)

Of course charity shops are cheaper, that's part of the appeal, but I have more success in them because they are less discerning.

Over the years I've acquired a LOT of books, so now I tend to limit myself more. Mostly I now collect science fiction, with an emphasis on work pre 1970. These were made cheap, and are usually in "poor" condition now.

Professional shops won't shelve them, whereas charity shops will, so I have more success there.
They had plenty of time to figure this out.
Maybe once they also ban American propaganda on American social media platforms.
I wish for TikTok-style short form lowest common denominator videos to fall out of fashion.

Trying to copy TikTok is probably the worst thing Instagram has done. Their “suggested reels” are a cancer.
Related:

43K fewer drivers on Manhattan roads after congestion pricing turned on

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42692730
Out of curiosity, why is malloc 75kb ? That seems like an crazy amount of code (if this after linking and dead code removal for platform specific magic?)
> don't want government to decide what I am allowed to watch

We’ve had almost a century of foreign-ownership limits for media properties [1]. (It’s recently been relaxed but not released [2].)

[1] https://www.fcc.gov/general/foreign-ownership-rules-and-poli...

[2] https://www.broadcastlawblog.com/2017/02/articles/fcc-approv...
Hi. The project looks promising. Haven't tested it yet, but I want to try it together with Playwright to speed up tests in CI and some scrapping tools. I will keep an eye on the project. Best of luck to you!
There's nothing inherently special about TikTok. It just happens to be the hot social media platform right now. There were plenty before it and there will be plenty after it. There will be a short period of adjustment and eventually everyone will move on to something else. People aren't going to stop listening to music or buying things.
My friend who is bartender downstairs from my condo is a singer in a band. They are active on TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram.
Indeed everything has an opportunity cost, and every life has its own priorities.

Since you mention Feynman, I would like to observe that many expositors who target the lay audience have the skill of making the audience believe that they have comprehended(1) something of an intellectual world that they have no technical grounding to truly comprehend(2). In my view these are two distinct types of comprehension/understanding. So long as the audience is clear on which type of understanding they are getting, and is not wasting time unwittingly pursuing one type at the expense of the other then I see no harm.

There is a risk however, that the pop expositors will put you in a headspace where even if you are faced with accessible, but type 2, material you will not be familiar with what really constitutes understanding. As a mature age student it took me quite a few years of maths exams to switch from 1 to 2. Nowadays I am more comfortable with admitting that I don't understand some piece of math (for that is the first step on the path to learning) than being satisfied with a pop-expository gist.
For the same reasons people are interested in new iPhones, but not last year iPhones. And tax incentives.
The text of the bill explicitly holds app marketplaces liable for civil penalties if they distribute "foreign adversary controlled applications". So my guess is that Apple and Google are both opting to prevent distribution, even if ByteDance is willing to delist TikTok itself

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521...
He can direct the justice department not to enforce a law.
Of course. If C goes away what you do. Code in C++ or quit programming.
There is only one factory, and it also makes the Highlander, Grand Highlander, and Lexus TX. The Sienna would need to become a lot more profitable for Toyota to reduce production of the other 3 to make room for more Siennas.
I’m a leftist but not an American and I would prefer not to hear from any of those billionaires again, nor any others for that matter.