skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is that one time purchases have perpetual costs. Software has become complex enough where the subscription model is all but required in todays day and age to serve happy customers - and can even be cheaper to users rather than rolling customer LTV into a one time purchase.
I've not been to Albania yet, so I can't comment from observation, but I'm surmising that most all off these bunkers would be pretty useless militarily anyway.

A bunker, by itself, is not much of a defense. It kinda advertises the defender position. Without writing a paper on the subject, the short version is that they're useful as part of a defensive plan, occupied by troops trained in their use.

Having a random bunker, unsupported, in the middle if nowhere is not useful from a defensive point of view.
Bluesky supports them! If you append `/rss` to any profile, it redirects to a feed. e.g.:

https://bsky.app/profile/xavd.id -> https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fp2izjrrcsbsqphlu7f5sixa/rs...

More info: https://openrss.org/blog/bluesky-has-launched-rss-feeds
Thanks! I believe the actual code is handling this correctly but would love to read that paper – you don't happen to have another link, do you? https://www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk/ seems to be down for me.
> Because right now, its Elon's playground and subject to contract and his whims.

Tiktok is not twitter.
Human eye resolution is in units of pixels per degree, and not PPI or DPI. Pixels per angle is constant regardless of viewing distance, where DPI has to be converted in order to understand whether a display is high or low resolution. And DPI doesn’t just change depending on distance, it’s also not constant across a flat display surface.
Run ClickHouse locally on Hetzner. Their prices are pretty hard to beat. We've been using them for years.
> If you look at the point of a Chinese, the block of Google/Facebook certainly can be justified by "geopolitical adversary has control". The exactly same reasoning of data security and propaganda manipulation can be applied.

It could, but that's clearly not the reason they are banned in China. IIRC, foreign websites were perfectly kosher in China just as long as they fully complied with its illiberal censorship regime.

For instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China:

> "In January 2010, Google announced ... they were no longer willing to censor searches in China and would pull out of the country completely if necessary."

> ... On 6 August [2018], China Communist Party's official newspaper People's Daily published a column which was soon deleted saying that they might welcome a return of Google if it plays by Beijing's strict rules for media oversight.

----

> You can't say without hypocrisy that China blocking US social media is censorship but US banning Chinese app is national security.

I can without hypocrisy (see above). Your ignorance doesn't make your false equivalencies true.
The short answer is that there is actually a number of active lawsuits alleging copyright violation, but they take time (years) to resolve. And since it's only been about two years since we've had the big generative AI blow up, fueled by entities with deep pockets (i.e., you can actually profit off of the lawsuit), there quite literally hasn't been enough time for a lawsuit to find them in violation of copyright.

And quite frankly, between the announcement of several licensing deals in the past year for new copyrighted content for training, and the recent decision in Warhol "clarifying" the definition of "transformative" for the purposes of fair use, the likelihood of training for AI being found fair is actually quite slim.
I don't think we make a lot of stuff but we do make some of the most expensive stuff. So a lot of stats really don't reflect how unbalanced our trade is in real terms.
Here's a different approach in Common Lisp I wrote a while back:

https://github.com/codr7/whirlog
Correction: it appears there is a 90-day presidential delay written into the law, so we're not quite at god-emperor status yet...
Duckscript
Evolving Deeper LLM Thinking
I didn't know about the hardware part. I installed x1plus this weekend after hearing about this and it was smooth.
No, it really is cured by switching to Linux, or more precisely to free/libre software. Ubuntu introduced ads, so I switched to Mint. I could do that because the code is all GPL and the ecosystem is large enough that there were sufficient other people with beefs about Ubuntu to do something. The license and the ability of the community to fork are the keys.

Consumer software has gone straight downhill for the last 20 years and while the FOSS alternatives have some rough edges I always at least try them first. The outcome has been that I am shielded from most of the industry's worst excesses. Bad things happen, the world gets worse, and I just read about it, it doesn't affect me. I am more of a radical than the post author, I say in your personal life, roll it all back 100%, return to history, modernity is garbage, computing has taken a wrong turn because we have allowed it to be owned by illegal monopolies and cartels. I do make compromises in the software stack we use for business simply because my employees are not as radical as I am and I need to be able to work with normal humans.
They spent the wealth of empire fighting a war and achieved what exactly? They would have been better off losing. Crazy when you think about it.
The content of the article is a bit more nuanced than the headline.

The study was about perception of accents from different regions: Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Newcastle and standard southern British English (also known as received pronunciation).

The participants were asked to rate the voices on 10 social traits: educated, intelligent, rich, working class, friendly, honest, kind, trustworthy, aggressive and confident; as well as on 10 morally good, bad and ambiguous behaviours that included a range of crime types.

The article doesn't say that the study showed that some participants rated some accents as being more working class than others. We have to assume that the study did find that, otherwise the article is complete nonsense.

So, we must conclude that "working class" correlated with "likelihood of committing certain crimes". Again, the article doesn't actually say that.

But still, RP (received pronunciation) is an upper-class accent, and it came in at 3rd place as "likely to commit a sexual assault".

Studies like this sometimes pop up absurd correlations though. See this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/882/
You just need to use TikTok for 5 minutes, to understand that China controlling minds of citizens through TikTok is a fantasy
Would you be willing to share a word or two about your company? The vision sounds large. What do you want to create?
Came here to say same, sad to see this downvoted.

Stay off your smartphones when behind the wheel. I don’t care how slow you are going or how important you think you are. If it’s urgent pull over.
"Mon, 20 Jan 2025 06:07:07 GMT"

I thought the default output of date(1), with TZ unset, is something like

Mon Jan 20 06:07:07 UTC 2025

That's the busybox default anyway
> And without intending offense—is this a work of LLM?

I suspect so, as ChatGPT generates a fairly similar output[1] from the prompt "put this into dialog form between two American 20 year olds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunkers_in_Albania". As an example (this was part of the first output it produced):

OP: "Jake: So get this - there was this leader named Enver Hoxha who was super paranoid about getting invaded. We're talking an average of almost 6 bunkers per square kilometer. They're literally everywhere - beaches, mountains, cities, even in hotel gardens!"

ChatGPT: "Jake: Okay, so get this: back in the Cold War, Albania’s leader, this guy Enver Hoxha, went totally paranoid. He thought everyone was gonna invade—like, NATO, the Soviets, literally everyone.

I retried the prompt twice - the first time[2], "so get this" was used again, and the second time[3] used the name "Jake" again. Hardly proof of LLM use, but it'd be a weird coincidence if not IMO.

[1] https://chatgpt.com/share/678dcdaa-bda4-8011-a3a9-a5d03e7c9d...

[2] https://chatgpt.com/share/678dcf87-869c-8011-8727-8e370bde6f...

[3] https://chatgpt.com/share/678dcfd5-f87c-8011-b1ff-dca4dfd5eb...
Thank you. My question has been edited, because the point at play about 50% government equity remains.
So good to read this and feel...validated, somehow. The UK is culturally a very difficult place to start and run a business. There's a crabs in the bucket mentality that I didnt have words for before I'd left the UK for a few years, but now when I visit or do business there is absolutely everywhere.

One business thing that really strikes me is that people in the UK treat bankruptcy as a moral failing, as if you cheated your investors, and not a strictly financial one, as in, you ran out of cash before achieving product market fit. It seems rooted in an unusually Victorian ethis, which is ironic, because in that era, businesses started and folded all the time.
I am angry at the bait-and-switch Bambu is pulling. I bought one of their printers in the Black Friday sale on the understanding it was reasonably hackable and open. Now they're trying to lock it down so I can't print on my own printer without using their approved software and DRM chain. It's outrageous.

More info on the hacking (the first in what may be a long stupid fight): https://hackaday.com/2025/01/19/bambu-connects-authenticatio...
> How can your opinion outweigh that of the various decision makers who originally agreed to implement it…?

Through subjectivity, of course.
Indeed. Choose peace if possible instead of rushing into war. Nothing that happened in the Balkans was important to the UK.
I invite you to visit Bangalore or any city in India.

Unless you are a career beginner and living in a shared one room "paying guest" arrangement closer to office or you are upper management earning enough to afford an apartment closer to office ... you are more likely living in an affordable apartment (that still costs you your life savings and 20 year mortagage) and commuting through horrendous trafic for 2-3 hours each day. This is me.
"Not Sure" != "ambivalent". It's a mistake to lump "Not Sure" and "Opposed" together and declare a majority, as the group as a while does not represent a specific stance. Any attempt at nuance for either side gets bucketed into the largest category.

That group seems like the most interesting question... what sub groups do they fall into.
Trump isn't president yet, so any such conversations are not legally significant actions the way the person you're responding to meant.
That's not the law that passed. The law that passed is https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/815
(lengthy law -- see DIVISION H—PROTECTING AMERICANS FROM FOREIGN ADVERSARY CONTROLLED APPLICATIONS ACT), page 62 in the PDF.

Also, both the House and the Senate have pending legislation to extend the deadline.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/391
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/103
Linux definitely exists.... except that it isn't free from this philosophy either. From the "don't theme my apps" movement, to Wayland's "security above usability" philosophy... I recently even read about some kallsyms functions being unexported from an 5.x release because it could be used to lookup symbols and it shouldn't be that easy to access internal kernel symbols or something.

Not to mention many projects refusing to add configurability and accessibility, citing vague maintainibility concerns or ideological opposition.

Another blatant example is the 6.7 kernel merging anti-user "features" in AMDGPU... previously you could lower your power limits as much as you wanted, now you have to use a patched kernel to lower your PL below -10%...

Everywhere you go, you can find these user- and tinkerer-hostile decisions. Linux isn't much better than Windows for the semi-casual tinkerer either - at least on Windows you don't get told to just fork the project and implement it yourself.

I'm a bit hesitant to call this corporate greed as it's literally happening in the OSS ecosystem too. Sadly I don't have answers why, only more questions. No idea what happened.
Getting more desks is probably not a bandwidth issue but a logistics issue. Putting more support people on it is not going to speed up the trucks shipping the desks.
Good intuition is a gift from god. For the rest of us, notational confusion abounds. Types are great. Syntax (not semantics) and notation can be a major bummer.

I think use makes master: the more you use it, the more mastery you will have and the better intuition will follow.
> Then you end up with something where you can write "TimoutSec=60" as well as "TimeoutSec=1min" in the case of systemd :)

But that's wrong too! If TimeoutSec is an integer, then don't accept "1min". If it's some sort of duration type, then don't call it TimeoutSec -- call it Timeout, and don't accept the value "60".
Great many folks are completely ineffective in remote setting. Some are not but many are. Simple as that. No real estate mogul conspiracy theories necessary
Tangentially relevant: the TryHackMe Advent of Cyber side quest this year[0] featured a pair of ROS nodes that we had to attack.

I had never encountered ROS before but, having scoured the documentation to figure out how to write a malicious node[1] and exfil data via `rostopic`, it sure felt great not to have to use ROS professionally, and to know I was probably never going to encounter it again.

[0] https://tryhackme.com/r/room/adventofcyber24sidequest

[1] https://0x85.org/sidequest2024-2.html
They would have been better off losing. Crazy when you think about it.

Better if they had let the Nazis won and ruled the UK? WTF?
my claim is not that it would take two days for such a pipeline to run but that it would take two days to make an NLP pipeline whereas an LLM pipeline would be faster to make.
Even when you buy a game by disc nowadays, you are forced into waiting an hour to install cloud updates.
I didn't need any JS here:

<dialog open>
<p>Greetings, one and all!</p>
<form method="dialog">
<button>OK</button>
</form>
</dialog>
What was in the 1856 wreck has rewritten the history of commerce on the Mississippi.
The bambu printers haven't been open source.
I think people are making a big nothing burger out of this.

Bambu is patching a security issue. Personally I don't want any device or application to send any old G-code to my printer. Like say command the printer to basically destroy itself.

Could this lead to completely locking it down in the future? Yes. But they could do that anyways.

I think this is a way to stop getting their pants sued off.

If they really wanted to lock it down they could just make it so everything has to go through their servers and require files to be signed before being read from SD cards.

But instead we really have a half ass attempt.
Your arguments are contradictory. Ghost is not proprietary, it is open source, so unless you're using a different definition of the word proprietary, you will have to clarify how Ghost is proprietary. If you mean "hosted," then again your arguments are contradictory.

You are asking how the average non-technical user should be able to blog without anything "proprietary" (hosted), without also setting anything up. The contradiction is that you can't want something to be self-hosted and also not expend any effort whatsoever towards it, self-hosted always required some knowledge of time and effort, and thus you correctly say that people should use something hosted. Your example itself is literally what Ghost does, (and you even say yourself that it's hosted) I don't see how it is any different or less "proprietary" than hosted Ghost.

Therefore, by the logic laid out by your own stipulations, your initial question actually would not have any logically valid answers. There is simply no platform that is not proprietary (hosted by your definition it seems) that also does not require any knowledge or setup.
>> The US has nothing similar

> this reminds me another brilliant comment:

Do you have a reading comprehension problem? Because all the stuff you were reminded of has nothing to do with the kind of "illiberal censorship regime" that I was referring to in what you quoted.

> Congrats, you just walked in the primary stage of socialism

I feel like you're trying to taunt me, but you're doing a pretty poor job of it. Your mention of joint ventures, seems to confusing walking back from socialism with becoming more socialist, somehow.
I 100% want the shift towards this as probably everyone in this comment section right here.

But how do we sell to the layman that he is missing something, which he never experienced in the first place? Sadly, I believe we are doomed to be niche.
It's hard to communicate without first agreeing on the medium of communication.

When joining a group its easiest to simply adopt the choice the group has already made.

Companies chose Twitter because lots of people (their customers) already used it. If their customers move, and indicate a preference, they'll happily move too.

Personally I don't use Twitter. Lots of businesses post on Twitter, and they're welcome to do so.

I do use WhatsApp. Which has traditionally been business unfriendly. The odd business will connect with me that way, but that's rare.

Email, web, phone, IRL - these all seem to be working well here, but your mileage may vary.
Hopefully you have some choices.
Just like an adored local restaurant, it went to shit "under new management" when the original owners cashed out and the users moved on. So everything started to suck around the moderation.

I vaguely remember such was their commitment to free speech, if you browsed at -1 they allowed posts to remain up that broke the HTML and page rendering, and refused to take them down on principle, until they could update their filters. Those early days of the web were a wild west.
But bringing the service back again today is not following the law, is it? Trump hasn't taken office yet. Curious if you've now changed your mind.
I'm talking about this one:

https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/an-update-on-recent-conten...

A different account operated by the same user was banned for something relating to an image of bin Laden in a different video. I've been unable to locate that video. I haven't found any reference stating that she praised him. She described her use of that image as satirical, and TikTok itself seems to recognize that (but stands by that ban):

> *While we recognize that this video may have been intended as satire, our policies on this front are currently strict.

In any case, the video in question is the Uighur one. TikTok quickly stated that one was a "human moderation error" and reversed it. My point is irrespective of whether their rules were morally correct or correctly applied, though--whatever those merits, they clearly drew more attention to the topic by censoring here, not less. So it's not surprising they don't apply blunt Chinese-style censorship outside China, since it's counterproductive without Chinese-style control of all major media.
Yes, but that does not seem to fit OP's contradictory stipulations [0]. Apparently self-hosting means that a platform is proprietary and thus discounted as a valid answer from their initial question.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42758104#42765003
I feel like Americans didn't realize that the country slipped into a mixed authoritarian regime now.

As any other mixed authoritarian regime, the laws matter somewhat but are also balanced with the intent of the guy on the top.

And I did say authoritarian, not dictatorship, those aren't the same level. There's a lot of shades of black between Norway and China.
Someone mentioned "App Store" during a meeting, probably accidentally. It's a known killer, the tech world equivalent of sneezing while carrying an infectious disease
It doesn't have users outside of Russian. My point was it's everyone except US and China. Well, I guess it's not the case anymore, but it had a good run.
Or nothing. Literally! No GOP representative will dare go against the Trump, or else they will be primaryied. The law only applies if there are consequences, and in this case there aren't consequences. If you don't realize this is how US operates, you are living in some la-la land like the democrats that insist on decorum, norms and such other BS.
Intrusive doubly linked lists are very nice in C for some types of problems, and don't have issues with memory locality.
Nothing important Sudetenland, nothing important in Austria, nothing important in Poland. They tried your strategy in the 30s and it was not a success.
Unfortunately, a vast majority of WebApps are hot garbage and even the good ones can never be as functional or as performative as a native app. We have such powerful machines, but we relegate them to such a horrible method of using them.
Half my feed is Americans talking how terrible it is, the other half non-Americans (or immigrants) praising it.
There are no “Asian values” on TikTok. TikTok is banned in China.

If it had values your 12yo wouldn’t be on it as Douyin has an age restriction of 18+, and prenatal consent if 13-17. Under 13 is prohibited. It also has time restriction of 40 minutes per day for 13-14yo and only accessible between 6am till 10pm. Not only that content is highly censored and restricted.

But keep living in a bubble that TikTok is totally fine.
I think replies to this will be one of two:

* Legally the executive is not granted this power.

* But in practice they are because who's going to make them?

The entity responsible for enforcement always has this power. It's why DA races where the platform is essentially law nullification by way of non-enforcement have been happening for some light criminal justice reform that can't get through the legislature.
This is why any reasonable engineer would go with zaps instead of slaps!
> The UK lost Deep Mind - which could have been OpenAI!! -- to Google.

Deepmind is still in the UK. And more, including foreign, bidders driving up prices for acquisitions and investments, will lead to more people making the jump.
That's an awesome story. How did your brother find the opportunity to acquire the aging app?
Absolutely. Typically in specialized areas that need lots of local compute and low latency. I work in technical diligence, so I can't say who, but I can say that I have done diligences on companies selling desktop downloadable software and making great money, with license fees ranging from hundreds to hundreds of thousands per customer.

Audio software is another one.
We are proud to be part of what we hope is a trend among all orgs.
Not actions, but legally binding statements of intent. If Trump offered a binding statement to the heads of all major players that he intends to offer TikTok the 90-day window and work out a "deal" once in office would be more than sufficient justification for these companies to ease enforcement until things become more resolved.
I'm not surprised that 3D printers are turning out to be as hostile as 2D ones. As usual these days, "security" is the excuse.
"Downloadable software", sure. "Traditional", I don't think so.
How H-1B visa overhaul could transform tech workers' future in US
Man's first words were:

awk grep ping biff ip yum du curl sed
It used to work back when the software market was growing exponentially. You could take care of old customers using revenue from new customers, because you always had more new customers than old ones. Upgrade cycles also used to be much shorter, and nobody cared about security bugs. So you didn't really have to maintain old versions for long.

It was a Ponzi scheme of sorts, and it worked for a while. Obviously it can't go on forever, especially when growth slows down.

Maybe if you could convince your customers to use a subscription-based add-on service on top of the one-time purchase, you might make the business model keep working for a while longer.