skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"They could simply have divested"

What an odd thing to say. Why should a company that started the biggest social media app in a decade "divest" it to US oligarchic interests when it's a global application? It makes no sense.

This is the largest affront to American freedom since the patriot act, and the fact that people are celebrating it on some red-scare bullshit is terrifying.

I am personally disgusted that my government thinks it should be in the business of telling me what apps I can have on my phone. I am a grown adult, and a taxpayer, and the US Government has no fucking business telling me where I can watch and/or post videos.

Maybe it's time to build a decentralized alternative so this never happens again.
Only because it effected the share price.
> is a vessel for any kind of content, with no visibility into the reason why a specific kind of information is displayed to whom

and that makes it different from IG, Facebook, X, YouTube (etc etc) how exactly?
It is less simple, but nowhere Jira-level, and yet still more useful (for my team and I).

We've been using GH Projects at my current org and program for two years. The one feature I wish it had was nested issues.

In Jira, you had Epic > Task > Sub-task and that's it. With GH, you can just have issue > issue > issue (insert "it's turtles/issues all the day down meme"). So it's more powerful, but can be ignored by folks who don't want to do this.
Hire a maid. My parents made their kids do chores to earn allowance. If you don't want to pay a maid and don't have kids to press into service, learn to relax and find satisfaction in cleaning up after yourself. No need to "optimize" everything.
Not so much a representation of a side effect (after all List is a Monad as is addition on integers no side effects anywhere in sight) as the reification of a particular category.

JavaScript's `Promise` is particularly interesting because it is a Monad over "all JS values which do not contain a method called `then` in their prototype chain" or as Dominic put it 12 years ago:

> Indeed, I like the way @medikoo phrases it. There's, practically speaking, nothing wrong with being a monad on the category of non-thenables.

https://github.com/promises-aplus/promises-spec/issues/101#i...
"Stealth mode" and other f'ing brilliant strategies
> the same used to apply to Slavic Studies departments

Yes, of course it does, look where the people in the State Department and related positions in foreign policy come from.
I've missed that part. AFAIK both are forked from nektos/act and can't be dramatically different. All this story is an unnecessary dichotomy for me. Still hosting production code on a Gitea instance and will happily pay a dime but didn't get why yet.
Hoping this forces universities to change their archaic PhD system, to adapt something similar to european system. Then people who really have passion for a field and want to have normal job do their research, without working for labs as a cheap labor.
1. Country wide. In Toronto or Vancouver it's more like 3-4x.

2. Because 2 bedrooms are the most common type of unit so realistically that's the actual "average rent". Statistics that use single bedroom units are garbage because so few units exist.
OP: White vinegar for limestone. With microfiber cloth it's very effective.
Huh, it very well might. 90Sr is a beta emitter, which should excite phosphorescent materials nicely. Even better, it decays into Yttrium 90, and Yttrium Aluminate is also phosphorescent (it's also the YA in YAG lasers). Anyone have some spare 90Sr we can test this with?
Biological Magnetic Sensing Comes Close to Quantum Limit
Although, there are multiple people in the talk section[0] arguing for the "'physical' machine" definition. Might have to get used to it, along with "crypto" and "algorithm".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Bare_machine
GitHub is free for most people, so they are only beholden to large organizations and their feature requests. This is how it seems now - a feature creep by committee. It's getting more and more bloated and unwieldy, sort of like what happened to AWS.
Been using forgejo for years to maintain mirrors of GitHub repos I like.

Works great. Easy to set up (especially on nixos)
This is the kind of question that requires substantially more effort to answer than it does to ask. Potential answers may also be extremely subjective. Why don't you describe your situation a bit, what you imagine is lacking to achieve what you feel would be a healthy home ecosystem, and how it makes you feel?
It's amazing to me that people don't recognize the influence that this kind of platform has. I know it goes against the prevailing idea that American corporations are evil, but American companies are interested in making money while China is interested in the disruption of western society. They are not the same level of risk.
The President doesn't have additional powers in the Tiktok example.

The President has always been able to veto laws. Biden could have vetoed the bill if he wanted.

And a Congress that passes a bill that says the President has a say in it's execution isn't odd either. The administrative body always has powers of execution.

And Congress is free to pass a law to reverse the law and make Tiktok legal if they want.
Based off of the way President Trump is characterized and how he acts behind the scenes in Bob Woodward's reporting on his presidency/campaigning, my suspicion is that Trump has offered a lifeline to TikTok for two reasons: A) he wants to look like the "hero" in the media, which is always important to him; and B) he wants to use the threat of banning TikTok as leverage to get something from China and Xi.

I'd pay attention to any talk of deals or tariffs with China in the next few months to learn the true fate of TikTok.
There's no guarantee that will happen, and even if it does, TikTok will likely have lost marketshare by being unavailable for a period of time.

A financially motivated actor would have avoided the damage by spinning it out. They likely could have even kept a large minority share.
Good idea - couldn't the linter also be an LLM?
Removed the optimizing part from the title. I shared an example of what I meant in a comment.
I have around 1.2 GB of compressed git commits on disk, still fast on an ancient Intel E3 1275-v6 with 64 GB of RAM and 2 TB Intel P3520.

Version 10 also now without any startup errors due to slightly wrong sqlite database structure.

Together with vscodium a joy to use.
> * Young people have the least say in elections

While this is true from the perspective of voting laws (you can vote after 18 but you don’t need to be 18 to see how f’d ip things are…), it’s also true that the age bracket 18-29 has the lowest participation in elections. I didn’t do the math but I would not be surprised if the last elections turned differently if this bracket increased to percentage levels seen amongst older ages.

https://circle.tufts.edu/latest-research/half-youth-voted-20...
Conceptually they’re just a medium. Social media is just a medium. But there’s a big difference in how they operate, the former had to be paid and had many competitors, the latter is paid by advertisor and there are just a few who own the whole landscape.
I’m not sure if this message from the team is a smart move. ByteDance’s decision seems quite strange—it actually strengthens the arguments of those supporting the ban. Critics can now point to this and say, “Look, this proves our concerns.”

While Trump has hinted at possible delay of ban, he has also made many statements that are unlikely to materialize. This is Trump for god sake - we all now what we are getting here.

In my opinion, he won’t delay the ban immediately. He’ll likely wait a few days to gauge ByteDance’s reaction. If the owners aren’t overly concerned about losing access to the U.S. market—given its strategic value beyond just financial aspects—then the ban might not be postponed.

Also, keep in mind that both Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg wield significant influence over how this situation unfolds. Additionally, platforms like Truth Social play a role in the broader landscape.

Moreover, there are classified briefings, intelligence reports, and strategic simulations—such as how TikTok’s algorithm could potentially be weaponized in the event of geopolitical conflict—that we simply don’t have access to.
> We additionally observe other behaviors such as the model exfiltrating its weights when given an easy opportunity.

Is anyone familiar with how this occurs? Since the models can only output text, do they attempt to "connect" to some API and POST its weights?
It is hard to build a distributed banking system without reliable accounting, and reliable accounting in Europe only became possible with the import of Indian/Arabic positional numeric system.

We underestimate just how much of a burden on arithmetics the previous systems were. Too unwieldy.

On a similar note, I believe that for the same reason, the Chinese language will never achieve mass adoption in the rest of the world. The script is too complicated and reaching effective literacy takes much longer than with Latin characters.
I agree but there is also a pretty large subset of that elderly population that is like "I want to die. Please let me die" and then the nurse is like "ok sure Alice now take your pills"
I really feel like GH needs to spin out Projects into a more dedicated, funded team while still maintaining a close sync in order for it to become more viable/interesting. Besides allowing it to grow faster and better, that should also allow for non-dev seat pricing.
It also wasn't the rationale proffered in the arguments to the US Court of Appeals or Supreme Court.
Slowly inching towards something usable for companies / large projects...

One big thing missing is resolution status for issues, like "cancelled", "complete", ...
Polar mesospheric ozone loss changes solar signal in the Northern Hemisphere
So have you done business in China or are you just guessing? I have and in China and other single party communist countries and absolutely all business, especially at large size have direct lines to the party. I am not sure how you can be so confidently incorrect. You can be some small time manufacturer and you are still beholden to your local governing party members with at the very least annual kickback gifts.

You keep latching on this idea of Palestinian content. You do realize this is much larger than that conflict?
The web is a creative industry and is facing the same decline as film or TV
I don't get how more people don't realize this.

Yes, all domestic media has also been corrupted by various agencies that wish to psychologically manipulate the masses. Some of this manipulation is to get you to buy things, while other wants to get you to think, act or vote a certain way.

The difference is that when a foreign adversary has the ability to do the same, it becomes a matter of national security. Allowing that adversary to also control the platform itself is beyond unsafe.

The tricky thing is that the US built these tools, and opened them up for everyone to use. This libertarian position is what will ultimately be its downfall. They can't just go and block access to these tools for everyone outside the US, or heavily regulate them, as it will cause an internal uproar, but that is what they must do in order to survive this war. China is in a much better position in this conflict since the government has total control over the media its citizens consume (barring the rampant use of VPNs, which they can shut down at any point). They have no external but massive internal influence.

I feel like everyone should watch this 1985 interview of an ex-KGB agent[1]. It's more relevant today than ever before, and explains the sociopolitical state of not just the US, but of many western countries as well.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOmXiapfCs8
In general, I hate how tech things reuse regular words. Usually it seems like no big deal at first because it’s a niche thing for a few nerds, but now that tech is “eating the world” it is actually damaging language.

I heard a spoken ad on the radio the other day warning people about the dangers of phishing with absolutely zero context to clarify that they weren’t talking about fishing. I felt sad to realize that is now the dominant meaning of the word.

I write a lot of open source software, and always take the time to think of a new name, usually some type of portmanteau rather than just calling it something like “java” or “python.”
Actually I just shared an example of the type of tips I had in mind. Limestone in the shower was pretty time-consuming to clean up, and using microfiber cloth and white vinegar made it much easier/better/faster.
Love it, I'm the same.

Break the solution selling sales cycle.

Non-technical sales people selling software need a better standard to deliver on the promises of their software.

We want partners, not vendors. This can be communicated long before reaching out.
Edit: The parent comment completely changed what it said, making all replies look out of context. I’m leaving my original reply, which includes a verbatim quote of the parent, below.

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

This is incredibly ironic. It’s 54% of the adult population, which is abundantly clear by the provided link (in a bullet point, it’s hard to miss). It only takes a minimum of good faith and critical reasoning skills to:

1. Realise that of course the statistic will not include people younger than the level used as the threshold.

2. Click through and at least skim the link to steel man someone’s argument.
The flagging system is getting a little out of control.
Vigilante Justice on GitHub
Romans produced so many coins that you can buy genuine Roman coins relatively cheaply online. They are found absolutely everywhere in the ancient port cities and Rome itself, every construction project will unearth a ton of lower denomination coins.

The Roman empire was thoroughly monetized.
ah no real argument so you can do the same like he does and wave it away yeah thanks.
Having to visit the Replies page of user C and try to piece together snippets of conversation - some of which are still unviewable - is not a reasonable solution. In particular, posts 7 and 8 are not there and the link between posts 1 and 2 is severed.
Everyone is asking the wrong questions about TikTok
Maybe this is a chance for the broader population to understand they shouldn't get attached to a free online service that can be shutdown for many reasons outside their control.

If you are an "influencer" build a following on multiple platforms.

If you are a business owner engage in marketing on multiple platforms.

If you need a video to tell you how to bake cupcakes or clean a kettle, learn to use Google.

If you are bored, learn to read.
There is already close as unplanned, which can serve both if you're flexible
We did at my previous employer (https://www.ourbranch.com/) in our data org. I can't totally remember, I'm pretty sure the engineering org did, too. It definitely is lacking in some of the advanced features you get with a Jira, but it was fine. I was surprised by how powerful GitHub Projects is. We also built out extra reporting for it in our data warehouse, using Fivetran for ELT.
Single tabs on links with iOS Safari work just fine with me.

It does not feel slow to me, but I don't know what timings should usually be achieved.
> [about the (R)IFF format] Having a generic container for everything doesn’t make sense. It’s a cool concept on paper, but when you have to write file loaders, it turns out that you have very specific needs, and none of those needs play well with “anything can happen lol”.

Well, it's not like PNG and SVG are any different.
Isn't it funny how our "freedom of speech" is situationally optional?
The extreme irony here, is that what tiktok is being banned for -the ability to sway national opinion, is exactly what they are doing with that Trump ego stroking message.

If that message and it's implications are flying over your head, please look up.
Because otherwise social graphs and organic exchanges don't work. I'm not joining a Mastodon server to passively consume curated collection of serfs owned by benevolent server admins offer. Yet, that's the model of users and communities in Mastodon as it is.
We’re talking specifically about a SaaS app in this post. I’m well aware of this working at small local levels, and even mentioned in my comment that it might work in niche environments, but I have a hard time believing it would work for a disconnected SaaS app, where there isn’t some larger form of Community bonding people together.
Your point is good enough any spaceflight, despite some quibbling from commenters.

But I haven't seen where you make a compelling argument why it's the same thing in AI/AGI.

In your old analogy, we're all still the guys on the ground saying it'll work. You're saying it won't. But nobody has "been to space" yet. You have no idea if LLMs will take us to AGI.

I personally think they'll be the engine on the spaceship.
You can close as complete (default) or unplanned today. It's called the 'reason'.
GP’s quote was taken from directly below yours.
Of course he will reverse it, but just as obviously he was the one who asked ByteDance to block it today...

Biden said (a day or two ago) he will leave enforcement of the ban up to Trump, and ByteDance have been fighting against the ban since it was ever suggested ... so why do you think ByteDance are now voluntarily shutting down access today?!!

It's really no mystery - Trump has already been talking to ByteDance and agreed to let them continue operations in return for favors to himself which have yet to be discovered. As part of this deal, Trump requested ByteDance to shut it down today, so that he can be the hero and have it reenabled tomorrow or soon after (according to how he wants the optics to play out - pretending to take some time to "make a deal", or an immediate "day 1 - look at how great trump is").

You people are being manipulated like sheep. Calm down, it'll be back very soon.
Obligatory mention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory "The Sam Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness, often called simply the boots theory, is an economic theory that people in poverty have to buy cheap and subpar products that need to be replaced repeatedly, proving more expensive in the long run than more expensive items. The term was coined by English fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett in his 1993 Discworld novel Men at Arms. In the novel, Sam Vimes, the captain of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, illustrates the concept with the example of boots. The theory has been cited with regard to analyses of the prices of boots, fuel prices, and economic conditions in the United Kingdom."

Tangentially related on the bigger picture:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1280581-the-state-of-t...
"Money is a sign of poverty. (Iain M. Banks)"
I hear you, I was in the same boat. I had been to the doctor many times without much luck. I am outwardly healthy looking. Thin, fit with no other problems. I had a good doctor, but doctors are used to dealing with acute problems in people that are simply unhealthy. When they see me they are often dismissive that I have any real problems. I had a pretty good rapport with my doctor so he would do tests and we would have some good dialog, but he retired and, honestly, it is just too frickin difficult to go through the process of bringing a doctor up to speed on what my history is.

Fortunately for me I was able to retire at 50 and I am an avid consumer of information, so I spent an inordinate amount of time educating myself. I went down many wrong paths (as another commenter pointed out, diabetes can cause a lot of these symptoms). I wish I could say I brute forced my solution, but it was some innocuous comment on HN about potassium deficiency that made me look into it, and the rest is history. It was my “break through”, so to speak.

I take anywhere from 600mg to 800mg most days spread throughout the day depending on meals and activity level, but as much as 1000mg some days. Never all at once.

On a related note, here is the thing about measuring electrolytes – your body goes through great efforts to make sure your electrolyte levels in your blood are in balance. But here is the kicker, only sodium ‘primarily’ resides in your blood. The other electrolytes primarily reside in your other tissues. For example, potassium is mostly held inside your cells like muscle tissue. As a matter of fact, this is how muscles contract. When muscles contract, potassium temporarily moves out of the cell and sodium moves in. Then in a minute potassium and sodium reverse back to normal. This is one reason your muscles fatigue and then become usable again a short time later. When your cells are short potassium then your muscles fatigue quickly and don’t bounce back.

You can’t measure this level of potassium. Your blood levels might be just fine, but your cells may be deficient and you will never know. It is the same with calcium and magnesium (bone). If you ever get a blood test and your electrolytes are off, you probably need to be in the hospital. It means shit is so bad that your body has lost its ability to compensate. But it also means that if you go to the doctor and get your electrolytes tested, they will likely be in the normal range, but that does not mean you aren’t deficient.
Then why are they serving 93% of their customers, especially when there is low overlap between those users? 90% of the american feed was american tiktoks.
What services are you talking about?
Embedding models are not LLMs in the sense that the term is being used in the title of this post. They are “traditional NLP.”
To upsell? To maintain consistency among repos? To facilitate use among GH Projects?
Now the top spies against us are all Academics!
There’s a reason I say living space, I.e. a space with people living in it.

A living space will naturally heat itself with zero furnaces or electric heaters. Because the living things inside it will always produce heat (at least until they cease to be living). On the other hand, you’ll have a hard time getting living things to cool any space they occupy.

> On the other hand my air conditioner moves 3.5W of heat outside for every 1W of energy input.

Heat pumps work both ways, and it’s still easier to heat a space with a heat pump than cool it. Sure your AC can move 3.5W of heat for 1W of energy input. But that means 1W of energy allows you to remove 3.5W of heat from a space. But if you used the heat pump to heat the space, you would get 4.5W of additional heat, because that 1W of energy used to power the heat pump becomes waste heat that can be trivially captured and used to heat the space.
Weird that “horse wormer” is on the WHO list of essential medicine
I've used interserver as well before, never had any issues.
I stand corrected by you and others

> Maybe actually go to an art gallery/museum sometime

This however is unfair and hypocritical re: assuming. I have been to many of the world's most celebrated museums of art, at least dozens of them, and have never personally seen video games in them firsthand.
Well, you have the recent Romanian election.

Pro-Russian, right-wing candidate (Calin Georgescu) with zero funding becomes leading candidate overnight. Turns out there's coordinate campaigns to push him on social media channels, like TikTok, where tens of thousands of accounts were opened a couple of weeks prior to polls opening. All pushing Calin.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2v13nz202o
sudo service my-service start

sudo service my-service stop