skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read the article you linked to. In Srebrenica there were 40,000 Bosnian Muslims. 8,000 killed (and many more deported) with the goal of exterminating the rest is 20%. In Gaza, according to the highest Hamas estimates, it's 40,000, most of them apparently militants. Out of 2 million inhabitants that's 2%.

And Bosnian Muslims did not initiate a pogrom that killed 1200 people, out of the blue, against Bosnians when that happened.
And then we did this.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/27/eddie-gallag...
Chess is obviously a game without hidden information in the game state, so cheating comes in one of two types on these online services:

1. There is no human player at all, just a bot playing the game (maybe being paid for by a user to boost their rank). This is likely detected by all the usual anti-bot heuristics that many web services have. Another option might be looking for statistical outliers on how highly player's moves correlate to open engines like Stockfish (this was the cause of a big cheating scandal in pro chess last year, if I remember right)

2. There is a human player, but they're just feeding the moves into an engine like stock fish and copying them out. Again, this is probably based on statistical correlations.

Here's the thing with any anti-cheat, the standard for a scientific paper is based on a P value indicating the likelihood of something being chance is about 5%. This is obviously way too high a threshold for anti-cheat, it would make 1 in 20 of your bans false bans. But the logic of an "acceptable" heuristic about lucky shots, or headshot rate, or blink stalker micro saving low hp units, or stockfish-correlated chess moves is part of basically all anti-cheat systems.

I'd guess they tune their thresholds to be something more like 1 in 1000, but after a point the way you reduce false bans for these things is to ban less, which given the high rate of actual cheating, is not desirable to the game companies. So if going from 1 in 1000 to 1 in 10000 requires halving the amount of bans you dish out, game companies are just not going to do that.

So then some CS drone has to answer the ticket about why the user was banned. They know that 999 of every 1000 tickets are lying, so they just automatically close it with no recourse. It's not worth the company's resources to make a recourse process. For PR purposes it's better to just pretend that isn't the case, and say there's no false positives. We've seen the PR reaction machine initially respond the same way when the "is something hooking the game process" checks detect all the Teamspeak overlay users and bans them all, until the sheer volume of affected people cause them to relent. So it's hard to believe that when they have statistical modelling based bans affecting much smaller numbers of people, they don't just steamroll them.

Heck, it's not anti-cheat, but I've had a copy of Red Alert 3 basically stolen by EA as they claimed my CD key was pirated (it wasn't, I bought it on Steam directly). Of course CS claimed infallibility, but it's made me be a lot more suspicious of other cases where CS claims infallibility.

But these games have millions of players, so 1 in 1000 is... quite a lot of people actually.
This looks like a really stupid benchmark, no? 4 million cells in a standard aerodynamic simulation isn't enough work to even saturate the host CPUs on these systems, never mind the GPUs which have far "worse" roofline models from a CFD algorithm point of view.

I would not be surprised at all if these benchmarks ran faster if you removed the GPUs completely.
But that's not what the law says.
The land of the free

It's funny that Trump started this ban attempt, and now people look forward for him to undo the ban. Lord and Saviour...
Comments will absolutely get rotated so the same comment generally doesn’t dominate. My understanding was there was a lot of manual intervention in this process. I could be wrong.

It’s also true it’s never been a strict ranking by net votes either. Getting a lot of upvotes quickly will elevate a comment.

It’s also suspected that certain users will have their comments upranked or downranked based on their history as well as manual intervention.

Organic ranking still exists but there are many, many thumbs on the scale. Hiding comment karma just makes that less obvious.

I don’t normally engage in HN meta-commentary. In fact, it’s highly discouraged. It’s somewhat ironic that an obvious, egregious case of content manipulation here is directly relevant to the issue at hand: the TikTok ban.
I'm using Bazqux reader, well worth paying for
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Just Emacs with LSP and ada-mode. The emergence of LSP means that you can use just about any popular editor and get a decent experience, although there are a few nice things in ada-mode like auto-capitalisation.
It smells more like, "About that sale, let me give you more time to reconsider.", I can imagine Elmo would be interested in seizing more eyeballs for his great "jokes and memes" as well as owning yet another communication medium for his supported "Anti-Woke"-movement, but sadly for him TikTok isn't willing to surrender so far.

And Zuck has nakedly been shown to be the opportunitist, so he doesn't want to lose this chance either.
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Most geopolitical rivals already blocked US social media - Russia, Iran, China. Brazil blocked and forced X to censor opposition Brazilian politicians. It's already happening.

EU/NATO members can't outright block US social media for obvious reasons (military protection is not free). They try to do sneaky things to control social media with DSA, etc.

India/Indonesia and a few other countries are already debating banning foreign social media companies. India was the first to ban TikTok (for the same reason that US is banning TikTok now). US and India are not really rivals and US can retaliate against India if US companies are blocked so math is that it's not worth it to block for now but it can change in future.

Most other countries are not capable/do not have economy and critical number of people to have viable clone of social media. They block social media from time to time during elections, etc.
They're a puppet for lobbies and businesses.
All the pictures of Taliban fighters that I saw after they took over in Afghanistan have good trigger discipline.
I would be interested in any that beats iPhone's demo of OpenGL ES 3.0 in 2011, Infinity Blade.

In real time graphics quality rendering that is.
Reflections on AGI from 1879
People forgot about Alstom?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Pierucci
The linked article doesn't say that, nor does any of the ones it linked to about the eu investigation.
The Constitution does not guarantee any rights to the Chinese government.
Ahh, I did this in Python before I learned about Cursor and Sourceforge‘s Cody. I‘d use a template where I provide a tree of my project structure, and then put code file contents in my template file, and then have a full repo in one giant markdown file. This only worked for smaller projects, but it worked damn well to provide the full context to an LLM to then ask questions about my code :)
TikTok's problem isn't with what they say openly, it's with the amount of invisible control exerted by a foreign government.
I feel like the most-valuable silos for that are LinkedIn, ClearanceJobs, and GovConNet. Those datasets are more-often between humans and have money and/or trust on the line.
> I think it is unfair to point to military mistakes as undermining all of U.S. credibility.

US didn't invade Iraq and other countries "by mistake". Same with all the coups and regime change operations. If you think these many instances are mistake, well then I have a bridge to sell to you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
Any source besides Twitter? Looking for a link I’d be willing to click on..

What officials? Weren’t there multiple incidents within days or weeks of each other, involving different cables, and nearly damaging a gas pipeline as well?
You beat me to it! Old enough to remember reading about this in the tech press back in the day.
Well, language nerds do, myself included. Also honestly, I don't care when people mispronounce words, as long as they can convey the meaning clearly enough.
kind of cool seeing where you are getting your “information” :) godspeed with all that!
this is the cost of free speech. it has to be, or free speech is meaningless. yes speech influences people.
This smears out the definition of profit beyond usefulness.

I can pretty much guarantee hunter-gatherers hunt to not starve, children play for sheer joy, and nobody's thinking of profit.

There are better psychological/anthropological terms to apply to human drives than calling them "profitable". That's weird economist thinking, trying to bring everything under their purview.
I'm sure the US government is also weaponizing information. But the decision to ban TikTok while controlled by the CPP isn't done on moral grounds. It's based on pragmatism.
In California at least there is no law preventing the jury from talking to anyone about the case AFTER the jury returns its decision.
As well as 1.5x, jumping a couple of minutes after a screen goes dark often jumps the 'now you would've watched some adverts on real TV, here's a recapitulation of what you may have missed in the first part (you forgetful bastard)'
Douyin isn't available outside China.

TikTok isn't available within China.

There's no risk of brand dilution.
Fetch and HTTP/2 Support in Node.js, Bun and Deno
I chuckled at this. Tried to find an article that came out recently about why Mormons make good spies but couldn’t unfortunately.
Are there thousands of HN?
so we ban all advertising/“propaganda”? who gets to decide what is or isn’t propaganda if we gonna ban it?
Really? What’d you dislike the most about it? In my experience, the syntax was actually more user friendly than that of GitHub Actions and the file based approach a bit easier to carry across projects than what Jenkins and the likes do.

Drone CI and Woodpecker both felt similar in that regard, at least to me. Though the docs of GitLab CI definitely make me consider it for group projects across an org.
Epoch AI, the startup that behind FrontierMath is working for OpenAI
I'm not really sure. The US has to pay liability insurance which covers medical costs, which can be very expensive. I would imagine countries with socialized healthcare wouldn't have to pay as much for that risk.
The Pathetic Billionaires' Club
We're actually not allowed to talk about them, see the Palestine genocide content being suppressed in US public spaces and social media platforms, but not on Tiktok.
I think as long as the code sticks to the discipline of never actually doing I/O but only manipulating functions that perform them it would basically be doing the same thing as IO monads in Haskell.

So print(s) returns a function that when called prints s. Then there needs to be function that joins those functions, so print(a); print(b) evaluates to a function that once called prints out a and then b.

What makes Haskell special in my opinion is 1) it generalises this way of achieving "stateful" functions, 2) enforces such discipline for you and makes sure calling functions never produces side effects, and 3) some syntactic sugar (do, <-, etc) to make it easier to write this kind of code.

Also note that the above example only does output which would be the easier case. When it comes to code with input, there will suddenly be values which are unavailable until some side effects have been made, so the returned functions will also need to encode how those values are to be obtained and used, which complicates things further.
>Why should a company take the CCP to court though?

Someone's internet is monitored...
I wouldn't be aware of any secretive recruiting, like in the article or the movies, but the first time I bumped into them was actually at an Ivy job fair, where they were publicly recruiting CS nerds.

I went by their table out of curiosity, or to see if they were giving away any schwag. Because who wouldn't want a "CIA" pen, even if it didn't shoot tranquilizer darts.

Since I was a very nerdy kid, I gave the people at the table my resume, while probably forgetting to make eye contact. There was zero indication of them having any interest in talking with me, so I left.

But, maybe because I'd started working very young, my resume looked a lot better than I did, and they must've later glanced at it.

As I was later leaving the job fair, about to enter the elevator, this CIA representative comes bounding across the room at me, shouting to get my attention. Then she asked if I could come in the next day for an interview.

If I did the interview, they must've mind-control drugged me to forget it. But I did retain a nerdy kid story about being chased by a CIA agent. Still no schwag.
America has genocided 10s of millions for what it is worth. From Native Americans to slaves to all the wars in the last years to "export democracy". If any country can rival China in killing people needlessly it is the USA for sure.
> too successful and valuable to be foreign-held

That’s a thoroughly disingenuous spin on the reasoning.

There is no movement to prevent foreign companies from having popular apps in general. The law is narrowly targeted. TikTok could continue to be foreign-held as long as they separated from the government of a specific foreign country.

I’m amazed at how many commenters are twisting themselves into pretzels to try to make this some generic imperialist move or use whataboutism to downplay the reasoning behind this move.

A decade ago it was common knowledge on the internet that China heavily controlled and shaped internet discourse within their reach, to push government agendas in an extreme way. There is no parallel to their cultural control in the US. Did everyone suddenly forget this, or are they just ignoring it for the sake of argument?
The elderly probably need to live close(r) to healthcare facilities. The vast majority of chronic disease burden is concentrated into the last 10 years of life or so. Living in a rural area with few doctors in proximity means realistic risk of undetected cancer, or having a heart attack too far from an ICU etc., thus dying perhaps a decade earlier.
Doctors often volunteer for programs like Doctors Without Borders. Of course there are also many doctors that work 80+ hours per week and there are also those that do research on the side and contribute to the peer review process.

Lawyers in a law firm are just expected to work 80+ hours a week if they want to make senior partner and there are many that do pro bono work.

There are teachers that do side projects like volunteering to run after school programs or contribute to community education programs. Many teachers respond to parent emails outside of teaching hours and grade papers at night.

And this list can go on and on.

The reality is that many software developers are entitled. Some of that comes from extreme naivety because most software developers have absolutely no idea what any other professions looks like. It’s easy to make some bullshit claim about how great or bad something is when you aren’t comparing it to anything else.
I don't remember ever seeing an article at the top of HN for 12 hours straight, and I'm on here an unhealthy amount. While it is a major event, it's definitely not the biggest we've seen, even in tech.
I think it’s more specific than that. The 2008 surge of young people to democrats was driven by rage at the failures of two institutions: the banks (the Great Recession), and the intelligence apparatus (Iraq war). But those institutions never were reformed, and today the Democratic Party has become the staunchest defenders of the banks and the intelligence apparatus.
I implement multiple RSS (and Atom) feeds for different slices of my (EOU) site, eg an RSS feed for the podcast, and a 'lite' RSS feed without music/sonifications for Spotify.
ByteDance must show that it is in talks to divest TikTok to be eligible for an extension.

ByteDance has refused to sell so far.
It’s interesting that they didn’t press the constitutionality of this. They fought over “free speech” where it’s more clear that this might be a bill of attainder or violation of the 14th amendment.
There is now a set of critical operations, among them starting printing operations via LAN which "unauthorized third party tools" are no longer allowed to perform.

The most interesting information is in this setion and the following one:

https://blog.bambulab.com/firmware-update-introducing-new-au...
The orbital period of the ISS is 93 minutes, and it is under Earth-pointing control. That means that facing prograde (direction of travel), there will be 360° of rotation in one orbital period.

To find the angle that the camera must rotate in 15 seconds:
15sec/93min * 360° ≈ 1°
New renewables are cheaper than any existing coal-fired plant in the US except the one located in Dry Forks, Wyoming. EV uptake is to be solved for (although Cox Automotive is forecasting 25% of 2025 US auto sales will be EVs and hybrids).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42752262

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42730643
Butina's vector into anything resembling actual spying was American political advocacy groups and their surroundings, which includes some of academia. What's the parallel to what's being described in the article (American academics who did intelligence work during WW2)?
The ban on TikTok has been in the works since Trump 1.0, way before Musk destroyed Twitter
Did you rewrite the code base into C++ to avoid the borrow checker?
Hehe. Yeah, I can't think of another tool that's simultaneously popular enough, and painful enough, to warrant a site like https://ohshitgit.com
>So the alternative is to defend democracy by letting a foreign authoritarian entity take over your country in the name of (their) freedom?

People being convinced to change their countries geopolitical policies seems to me a perfectly legitimate thing to do in a democracy.

If the american people would like closer relations to china and vote accordingly that seems to me to be the whole point of democracy.

China engaging and supporting that is also a perfectly legitimate means of achieving its goals, no? Or would you prefer that instead of convincing the american people of that, they should instead bribe or coerce their politicians behind closed fdoors?
>7 million of them business owners

It might be best for un-diversified businesses to fail.
Exactly this, they are so close!
Not all quotes are quoting you or anyone else.
From the article here https://archive.ph/bUsFH#selection-1451.0-1451.314
"At least two of the ships suspected of causing damage appear to have dragged their anchors 100 miles or more across seafloor. A ship that dropped an anchor by accident, Toveri said, would immediately be dragged so noticeably off course that crews would scramble to bring the vessel to a stop and assess the damage."
The most recent ship accused of this type of damage was also loaded with spy/electronic/surveillance gear.
Once is an accident, twice is unusual, three times.....
> demand a company be sold to the US because it is too successful and valuable to be foreign-held

This is a reductive and misleading analysis. The US has already prohibited foreign entities from holding broadcast/common carrier licenses, or from owning significant chunks of equity in holders of those licenses [1]. It should be kind of obvious why a country would not want their biggest media providers to be foreign-owned.

You could argue that if the US wants to update the 1934 telecommunications act for the 21st century, it should do so more thoughtfully and comprehensively (I would agree). But the TikTok ban, however poorly written or haphazardly targeted, is fairly in line with a legal doctrine that has been commonly known and accepted for 90 years.

[1]: https://www.fcc.gov/general/foreign-ownership-rules-and-poli...
> But this ban is only because it failed to conform to manufactured consent.

Are you saying that TikTok was banned because the company would not generate specific content? That's not at all how the app works, so maybe I am misunderstanding what your claim here is.
Oh come on, no one was doing arithmetic in Roman numerals. They were using abaci and writing down the results.
There is difference between putting you into a prison and denying you access to an online game.
> That China is a totalitarian regime, and the USA (at least for now) is a democracy.

This is actually false.

The USA are a Republic, not a democracy. By constitution.

> there are still checks and balances in place in the US

If you are rich, maybe it's true.

I give you that.

> but what is in the best interest of the USA and its allies

The US has no allies. My Country is a vassal of the US, we cannot decide anything geopolitically relevant on our own.

Can we for example exit NATO? Of course we can't! They got military bases here, with atomic missiles, recently updated.

We can't even negotiate the release of one of our own independently without the US giving the thumb up/down.

So, please, before saying that what they do it's in our best interest, please, ask us.

It's usually not, BTW.

> But that doesn't make TikTok less of a threat

My point: same threat should result in the same response to the threat.

We should ban any non European propaganda machine on our soil.

One simple example: we all know what went down with Cambridge Analytica and yet if you look for it, you won't find any reference to trials or convictions, because there was none! it had a massive influence on shifting political view of the people in UK and in the US, but you'll only find vague scolds to bad apples that unilaterally abused of one - with a clear conscience - social network, unknowingly to the management. Despite a ton of evidence of the contrary.

How can you explain that?
The thing is that you dont get the same free market in China.

Can you even own a company in China? Not to mention anything uncensored?
Cutting off oil is Canada's nuclear option
Yes, this is exactly why groups of people make me genuinely scared. You can't use logic to argue with them.

When I was a kid there were shows where people would work together on challenges and vote out the least helpful team member, and a friend of mine said once "as a kid I already noticed that in these shows it's not the best person that wins, but the most clever and cunning".