skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what it currently says for me on the homepage when I view it:

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!

In the meantime, you can still log in to download your data.

It also says it (at the time of this writing) on: https://archive.ph/v0C6c
Twitter and Facebook are already banned in just about every one of the U.S.’s adversaries. China, Russia, Iran, North Korea etc etc all ban them.

Your comment makes me quite alarmed, to be honest. Are people really this clueless about what goes on in the world? Do they not already know that American platforms are already banned in countries that are adversarial to the US?
There are some exceptions for the first part like current war in Ukraine or WW2.
I agree that it tends to add cognitive overhead that could be avoided, but I don't see the ambiguity.
this is a gem, thanks for sharing!
Are you really so dense as to not understand how social media is used to influence elections, and how that is significantly different from any media format that has previously existed?
This seems... unneeded bloat? I guess there are some obsessive organizers out there, but a markdown checklist of steps - potentially with links to other tickets seems like all you need.

If you're going to improve something improve code review! Let me comment on and suggest diffs to lines the author did not touch. Like half the time I am reviewing code it is "Hey, you refactored this but you missed a usage in this other file" and right now I have to manually give them file and line number manually and hope for the best.
Thinks like heating and car heavily depends on the usage, which I guess is based on the USA average.

US houses are HUGE and even here in Europe square m2 / person double in the last decades.

- we don’t have a housing problem, we have a surface inflation problem.

- heating is directly correlated to the volume to heat. Heating 100m2/person with (coal Chinese steel, resource extracted, logistics…) solar and batteries or heat pump isn’t necessarily more carbon or water efficient that 20m2/person with gas.

Bonus point: the resident will have to think twice before filling his property with garbage consumerism.

Ps: my GF and I live in 80m2 house, the precedent family where… 2 adults and 3 children! I thing the space is wayyy enough for us but people visiting regularly remark "it’s so tiny/small! "
Moderna Gets $590M in Federal Funding for Bird Flu Vaccine
The Supreme Court also determined that Long Island isn’t an island — that doesn’t mean they’re right.
Previous discussion, 354 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42458752
Everything's a slippery slope.
https://archive.ph/e22wb
I think we shift to what we have the capacity to care for. Startups care immensely about each bug and customer because there's a small customer base. Once your inflow comes from millions of users, your capacity to care for the individual is diminished and you begin caring about something at a higher level of scale

Same goes for the urban planning example. Regulation and standards attempt to address problems at scale over individual implementations.

Are there definitely people who don't care at that level either? Certainly, but there are definitely people who do care, who just don't have the capacity to care at the minute level
So what search engine without branding and logo do you use?
Could be - the amount of online commentary when that war broke out was all encompassing. Almost like it was a highly volatile combination of an rightfully angry/scared population and paid information campaign by US foreign adversaries.
> Schwartz said as much in an interview with Israeli Army Radio on December 31. “The New York Times said, ‘Let’s do an investigation into sexual violence’ — it was more a case of them having to convince me,” she said. Her host cut her off: “It was a proposal of The New York Times, the entire thing?”

> The bigger scandal may be the reporting itself, the process that allowed it into print, and the life-altering impact the reporting had for thousands of Palestinians whose deaths were justified by the alleged systematic sexual violence orchestrated by Hamas the paper claimed to have exposed

https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schw...

Surely the NYT would verify, right?

And of course the WaPo has no conflicts of interest being owned by Bezos either
>Canada here. The maximum possible CPP (Canada Pension Plan) monthly payout is half the average rent for a 2 bedroom apartment across the country.

1. For cities or rural areas? If you're retired you don't really need to live close to a city center for a job. That'll reduce costs significantly.

2. Why would a retired person need 2 bedrooms?
I believe there's a strange boundary around the idea of simple vs easy (to quote rich hickey) and I don't know how to call it.. (or if somebody named it before)

functional and logical languages are indeed very simple, small core, very general laws.. (logic, recursion, some types) but grokking this requires unplugging from a certain kind of reality.

Most people live in the land of tools, syntax and features .. they look paradoxically both simpler than sml/haskell so people are seduced by them, yet more complex at the same time (class systems are often large and full of exceptions) but that also makes it like they're learning something advanced, (and familiar, unlike greek single variables and categ-oids :).
I have a subset of these symptoms. How much potassium do you take?
It sounds familiar to me because of the flouting of financial laws
I don't think Trump is staying within the rules of the game here. Launching a new business days before assuming the presidency is not appropriate.

It is a con designed to fleece his follows.
At least one Supreme Court justice is well known to be corrupt. I certainly wouldn’t rule it out.
The orange grove is being cut down, sadly:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/26/politics/social-media-disinfo...

The US is taking more control over social media, more than the government ever had over traditional media. This is similar to how the switch to the digital medium has been used as an opportunity to weaken the fourth amendment.
Many open source developers has misread the room and thinking the environment is still like it was 15~20 years ago where open source software were the works of hobbyists who has a well-paid day job and only here for street credit.

You know who read the room correctly? GitLab. They've found a balanced way to offer their product under an open source scheme while keeping their lights on. They've earned trust as well as income, that's a job well done.

If one wants to live off of their open source work, then they need to run it as a business and perform appropriate business tricks. Otherwise their own effort may one day become their own rip-off. Not saying anything sinister, but fairness is a balancing game, if you hard work don't treat you well, then it's unfair too.
To the OP:

Make sure you have updated firmware to latest, plus added active protection against the following known vulnerabilities.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?form_type=Basic&res...
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Incredible how short peoples' memories are. "The American security aparatus says its dangerous" has historically been a very poor indicator of a threat to the American people, and usually forecasts misguided geoplotical interests that will have long lasting echoes. Gulf of Tonkin, Red Scare, WMDs, etc. No idea why people believe now, over the dancing app, the secret briefing given to congress was factual. In fact many congress people have said is was extremely vague with 0 evidence aside from "we think this is happening, and it definitely could happen".

It becomes more and more clear that the people supporting this app don't use the app, making it easy to imagine the worst. The reality of this situation seems very obvious to me: Meta sees the future, and knows that they have lost the next generation to tiktok and social media platforms that are authentic. FB is doomed, Instagram is all ads and manicured posts, and the Metaverse is perpetually 10 years ahead of the tech. They wanted to do what they did last time they needed to stay relevant: buy a relevant company (Instagram). Tiktok wasnt interested. So since they cant compete they spend a fraftion of the money they would need to compete fairly to simply bribe the government to ban the app. Its a "security risk"! And look, they are saying all these bad things about Israel, your AIPAC bribers hate the app too! Its definitely not that Israel is a pariah state that the entire world except for the US (where bribery is legal and encouraged) despises because of their crimes against humanity, its the Chinese government controlling the app! And you have no way of forcing them to censor the news like you can on Meta and MSM! Sprinkle some red scare in the pot, talk ominously about China, and now all the representatives (avg age 63 btw) are scared about the chinese controlled brain control app that all their grandkids love.

Anytime something remotely political comes up on HN I'm reminded that the people that tend to be very matter of fact and well informed on the intricacies of tech are no more immune to tribalism and groupthink than anyone else. No ciritical thought when the government says something they agree with, no matter how nebulous and manufactured it is. And yes, I include myself in that group. Reminds me to take everything I read on here with a healthy grain of salt because this same tribalist-bias exists in seemingly objective tech discussion.
> ByteDance got from the incoming administration

Why do you assume conspiracy instead of unilateral political maneuvering?
FOSS isn't a business model. It never was and never will be.

What Free Software always was is an ethical movement—one which didn't need to prioritize income streams because the point wasn't sustainable development, it was user freedom. Nowhere in "users should have the freedom to do what they want with software" does it say "and we should be able to pay a few developers a salary for their work towards that fundamentally ethical goal". Under the original paradigm and goals, any income streams are just cream on top of doing the right thing.

According to the OSI's history of itself [0], at some point people got it into their heads that the open development model was inherently a good one for business, too—Netscape jumped on board, and then some people got together and decided to rebrand Free Software:

> The conferees decided it was time to dump the moralizing and confrontational attitude that had been associated with "free software" in the past and sell the idea strictly on the same pragmatic, business-case grounds that had motivated Netscape. They brainstormed
about tactics and a new label. "Open source", contributed by Chris
Peterson, was the best thing they came up with.

The word FOSS reminds me a lot of American corporate Buddhism—mindfulness and meditation totally removed from its original deeply religious context and turned into some sort of self-help program, with the result being something that would be barely recognizable to the original practitioners. Free Software was never about sustainable development. It was about doing the right thing—enabling user freedom—because it is right. Everything else was just means to that end, but at some point along the line the means became the end and we started wondering why FOSS wasn't paying the bills like it was supposed to.

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20071115150105/https://opensource...
I’d say I’m generally fairly in touch with global politics, it’s a bit inflammatory for you to ask, truthfully.

I think that local level corruption in my small town in Canada or in yours in Switzerland is pretty markedly different from what’s been originally presented, which is that DJT was paid directly by ByteDance to adjust his position.
I understand this thread started with you objecting to the assumption that polonium is harmful to humans. Going so far as to suggest that anything short of an RCT is not enough.

Yet even if I read RCT results concluding polonium to be harmless, I would distrust that conclusion, not my understanding.

Somehow we're doing this epistemology thing differently. It feels to me like you live in a world of impossibly high standards. Or you just like to argue hypotheticals.
Just wanted to thank you for the reccomendation, the premise looks extremely interesting.
I wonder. Isn't it that type of "ban" that simple VPN to Europe resolve?
I wouldn't be surprised if zoomers would watch tutorials how to get vpn on instagram right now.
I don't consider the White House or the government a business. It's like when they say the USPS is losing money. It is not, it is a service and costs money. It's like saying the military is losing $900B a year
Isn’t this a situation that social media could actually improve? “Hey everyone that doesn’t have anything better to do, tea and soduku Tues at 7 at local tea shop!”
Where's the line? Does hn count?

It does to a degree but HN by design encourages people to set limits in their profile options with maxvisit, minaway, noprocrast. Self govern rather than govern from above.
I was googling for $100m and didn't find it but there was some interesting other stuff:

>So far, Yass has contributed $46 million to conservative causes and PACs, but nothing to Trump directly. If Trump wins Yass over, it could open the floodgates to a torrent of cash. (Mar 24, Vanity Fair)

>If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their business. I don’t want Facebook, who cheated in the last Election, doing better. They are a true Enemy of the People!” Trump posted to Truth Social on March 7. It was a stunning policy reversal, in no small part because Trump had attempted an earlier TikTok ban himself.

>Susquehanna’s roughly 15% stake in the privately held ByteDance is worth some $40 billion (also mar 24)

So it seems quite plausible even if they haven't published details.
Most people I know treat money as fiat, something concrete and exchangeable.

What I think you’re describing is political favor, something entirely different from what was originally presented.
This could go on indefinitely ("I know that you know that I know that you know that I know that..."). I always consider this related to the Byzantine Generals problem.
It took me much longer than I'd like to admit to publish my first bare-metal website on a VM. The main issue was SSL—I could never configure Nginx for multiple sites on the same server with TLS. Setting up DNS and pointing your domain to your server also requires some fiddling. It’s not intuitive, and there aren’t many people doing this, so resources with full end-to-end examples are limited.

However, with tools like Caddy and Let’s Encrypt, the process has become easier. That said, it still involves quite a bit of fiddling if you want to automate everything and make it reproducible without a lot of hassle. Now, I do it all the time for fun. But that said, if it's a static site, then I don't see much point in self-hosting when Cloudflare Page and GitHub Page are so much more convenient.
It’s very telling that the TT ban was not a standalone bill, but rather just one item of a bill that included $26 billion in aid for Israel, $13b for Ukraine and $8b for Taiwan

Congress can’t even agree on the federal govt budget, but they can almost unanimously agree to support war, and banning TT
GitHub doesn’t have ads and makes its money off of enterprise subscriptions (and Copilot), so I don’t think “engagement” is a very important metric for them.
I though TikTok algorithm won't let you choose what to find.
Absolutely. Zuck is destroying 4000 careers.
Therefore, this power to influence younger generations should be restricted to US government and US big tech Corporation. They know what is best for them.
This game (under the "Mafia" name) has been popular in Finnish math-contest circles since some time in the 1990s, probably as a Russian import. In large groups there can be many more roles, such as the axe-wielding lone killer, the police chief who gets reliable information from the game master, and the doctor who can rescue a victim if they guess correctly. Lots of fun.

Someone mentioned Blood on the Clocktower <https://bloodontheclocktower.com/> which has many more roles and a more complicated game that can take hours. The upside is that you aren't out of the game when you are eliminated.

In the other direction, there is a One Night Ultimate Werewolf ruleset <https://www.wargamer.com/one-night-ultimate-werewolf/review> that leads to a much faster game because it's not iterated.
Depends how it is implemented. If it is just suspension of US accounts, VPN could not help.
I can’t speak for everyone, but personally it’s normalized in my Canadian upbringing to exchange this way.
Exactly, Bytedance/Chinese government wants Trump to look bad, if TikTok stays dark. Nevermind that Trump was the one that tried to ban TikTok in the first place. And never mind that everyone from house to senate to Biden to Supreme Court voted to ban TikTok.

And never mind that the majority of users on TikTok are far left woke democrats.
The old Internet was 50% nerds with extremely specific hobbies and 50% teenage boys saying outrageous things behind the wall of anonymity.
Andrew - I'm a little offended but I'll take any feedback on how not to sound like a LLM.
I don't want reciprocity between limitations on the rights of Chinese citizens and the rights of Americans. Our government should be defending our freedoms, not imitating Communism.

We're supposed to be a democratic republic with safeguards for our rights, not a mercenary war machine that can be reprogrammed at will by a few people lucky enough to influence policymaking.
and the difference is…? he is “overselling” 100+ forward P/E ratio conning people to pay $400+/share for a company worth about $54/share… con-job if there ever was one :)
Even if that is true, it might be better that they start getting their livelihood somewhere else which makes whole society more healthier.
I'm not defending Meta here. I fervently wish the company would implode.

But regardless of motivations, is there still merit in their arguments against TikTok?

The only truly "wrong" claim that I detect is the implicit argument that TikTok's ties to the CCP / PLA are the highest priority national security threat that needs urgent attention.
> Win32 performance counter has native resolution < 1us

Yes but that's hardly useful for things like measuring frame duration when the OS scheduler runs your per-frame code a millisecond late or early, or generally preempts your thread in the middle of your timing code (eg measuring durations precisely is also a non-trivial problem on native platforms even with high precision time sources).
As a Korean but with many Japanese friends (as well as cousins that live in Japan with a Japanese spouses), I noticed this too.

Was this always the case historically, or is it a more recent phenomenon.

Also, from what I observe, the child-parent relationship is starting to break down in Korea as well. Considering the demographic issues with low birth rates, I imagine my generation will have significant numbers of people without children to take care of them.
>Without that it is impossible to make conclusions.

Conclusions about what? Whether he actually cheated or not? If there isn't enough evidence to tell someone is guilty or not, your conclusion should be "not guilty", not "it is impossible to make conclusions".
Yes but 34% of adults lacking literacy proficiency were born outside the US. It seems to me that this is more a reflection that the US has the highest percentage of immigrants of all countries on earth.
Brings back memories of bricking the family PC way back before I knew what a bootloader or filesystem was. Good times.
>You are assuming Apple is a reseller (whose revenue is the full price paid by the end buyer) rather than an agent (whose revenue is only their commission).

This isn't an unreasonable assumption, especially considering the invoice for my last App Store purchase has an Apple address and tax identifier (VAT number). Apple is the merchant of record.
Look up Google's TPU. Generally speaking, the Google engineering blogs are quite good. A lot of effort has gone into making all the other parts around the tensor processing fast as well. There are some AI specifics about batching requests into a single model as well.
Describing John Bercow as a "disgraced British parliamentarian" is underselling him. He is a disgraced speaker! That isn't a minor post. And quite a funny speaker. He bought a little bit too much personality into it but was an intelligent man and a very interesting study into managing a room and giving flavour to proceedings.
Because I switch computers (often, for work), and what's muscle memory on one then becomes "command not found" on others without the alias. Many of those computers I don't control and can't say "well, everyone should just run my aliases".

Because I have to share commands with other people who are troubleshooting their own systems, and copy/paste from history becomes useless if I have specific aliases.

Because someday I or someone will want to script these interactions, and aliases are not available in subprocesses.
thats funny :)
There’s a parallel because Promises in a language like JavaScript are “monad-like”, so they’re similar to the IO Monad here. I am not a functional wizard so I’m sure that was not a fair comparison in some way, but it’s how I have thought of it. They’re both a representation of a side effect and require that effect be respected before you can get to the value inside it
One night ultimate werewolf fixes a lot of this. Many roles, easy narration, and no player termination (everyone plays every round).
have you been on twitter?
Very interesting, thanks for the write up!
A tribe assumes a strict hierarchy and mobility only though power and violence.

I can agree with you about the issue of societies failing to organize themselves past a certain scale, but this is not a problem with "Capitalism".
No there weren’t
https://youtu.be/O_CnuIJWLJU?si=i13whtwSkIZS1yxx
I watch this show, but one of the most annoying things about it is that the traitors are incentivised to murder the smartest, most intuitive players first, leaving people they can manipulate easily. Maybe you could argue the smartest move is to play dumb.

This is at its worst in the second Australian season, which is an incredibly frustrating watch.
I think there's a few possibilities:

Maybe he has some political ambitions.

Maybe he's trying to get cred with trump so that he can try to have influence over the tik-tok ban (a huge competitor).