skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Biden's new campaign typefaces are a pivot to the general election
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem ?
Gen Z was addicted to Vine before it. And it will be addicted to anything else that comes after it. No addiction is greater than national security. And the US Government is not obligated to TikTok in any way, shape or form. It can ban without any consideration to the number of people "addicted" to the platform.
The market is a speculative cokehead right now.
>Apple, Quibi, Amazon are trying to plan the perfect breakout show.

Apple is making a series out of Isaac Asimov's Foundation books. [0] :-D

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgbPSA94Rqg
There is a good video that underlines your second point[0], specifically mentioning that compassion is increasingly being replaced by moral superiority, that dialogue is often reactionary instead of responsive, and that the system we live in is often trying to group us based on these very differences, not unlike what happens in a high school cafeteria. She's primarily talking about online and big media discussions I think. She goes on to say that "a lot of us are seeing people who remind us of our former selves and we're attacking that", reminding me that "the biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand -- we listen to reply" (Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People author).

Your first point does remind me of an early xkcd though[1], ironic in that it was about radically being yourself, come what may, and clearly identifying with what was then the underdog. It could be interpreted differently today, especially without an understanding of what the early 00s Internet was like.

[0]https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/the-problem-with-wokene..., also available on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-WimRb2jXs but ironically censored

[1]https://xkcd.com/137/
This was a great read - thanks!
This is not "apologetic BS"

Your comment illustrates a DEEP misunderstanding of dealing with users at scale.

You have millions and millions of users.

You are proposing that the threat / benefit model is such that if they lose their 2FA device (very easy via upgrades to phones, lost phones broken phones) EVEN though they have their password and and have access to a trusted device within the validity window for device trust they will be locked out, potentially forever from their account?

Do you

a) realize how common this situation is?

b) realize how angry users will be to lose access to all their google services with basically no support route to recover that?

c) what pressure there will be to allow for other recovery methods THAT ARE EVEN WEAKER?

I've gone through 2FA reset procedures over the phone with a few companies, and in EACH case it struck me how easy it would be to socially engineer or use very minimal info to get a new 2FA when they allow these methods (ie, last 4 digits of CC was one reset piece of info). So you need to allow workable 2FA update methods so that your fallback can be pretty tight if allowed at all.

Finally, consumer accounts have basically NO recovery option if you are locked out. I had a relative get locked out, nothing to be done (they had a landline that couldn't accept text messages and the system won't do voice calls). There is NO human backup - all emails, google photos, google drive etc GONE.
nobody here takes that seriously and the piece addresses this in the beginning.

"The term “Cultural Marxism” directly echoes the Nazi theory of “Cultural Bolshevism”; the early proponents of the Cultural
Marxism conspiracy theory were more or less overt antisemites and white nationalists (Berkowitz 2003). However, in the
2000s and 2010s, right wing politicians and media personalities helped popularize it well beyond that sphere.[6] During the
same time, it has gained traction in Silicon Valley, too. In recent years, several employees at prominent tech firms have
publicly decried the influence of Cultural Marxists, while making complaints about “political correctness” or lack of “viewpoint
diversity.”"
Who suggests that any individual person walked "from Asia to North America"? Beringia itself was inhabited for millennia, even after the glaciers receded enough to allow walking south. Groups of humans could have moved a mile per year and covered the distance. (Although, it seems more likely that they moved back and forth much farther in a sort of Brownian fashion.) Also, many theorists suggest that much of the "fastest" migration was via watercraft along the west coast of the Americas.

America is something quite different from "the best country in the world". It would be more accurate (although still too simplistic) to say that we're the most successful "bad guys". Sure, there are other people who fight unnecessary wars of aggression for the commercial interests of privileged ruling-class assholes. It's just that we've fought so many, which have resulted in the violent deaths of so many millions. Eventually quantity has a quality of its own. It is interesting that one's response to this basically anthropological map would be "USA #1!?!"
Of course women can handle it. We're all adults.

But is it appropriate in context? Is it welcoming? If you have a choice of jobs, is it the kind of environment you prefer?

Or is it contributing to an image of "we're a bunch of immature boys who think it's funny to use a Playboy centerfold, har har, wait till you hear the sexist jokes we tell at lunch".

It's not the end of the world. But a welcoming and inclusive work environment is the sum of hundreds of little things. This is one of those things.

And come on -- the old line "what's the matter, can't you handle a joke?" is the oldest line in the book for "defending" sexist behavior. Expecting women to just "handle something" is not the right approach. We can be better than that.
Since I'm seeing all these comments about people who were happy that Google does this as they lost/damaged their phone which had the only copy of their 2FA codes.

I would recommend buying a couple U2F tokens which support NFC and/or Bluetooth. 1) U2F almost impossible to phish, unlike TOTP codes. 2) You can have multiple U2F keys enabled on Google, so if one fails you have others to use.

I like Yubikeys, though they are more expensive. Yubico makes a "Security Key" which is only U2F. I like the Yubikeys as can also use them to backup TOTP codes and support PGP keys. But realistically a couple U2F tokens is all you need.
Having the code review app available outside of the corp network / VPN is pretty unusual, at least for shops who aren't just using SaaS services that are available publicly anyway (github, gitlab.com, etc).
> Religion is also a protected class, and that's not unchangeable.

I have to disagree there. You can convert to another religion but unless you have genuine faith, it's not a true change.
I seem to remember reading about some studies that came to a similar conclusion. The optimum approach to generating new ideas was to ask everyone to presubmit suggestions, which were then put to the group unattributed (at least initially) and the group then riffed on those ideas. People tended to come up with a wider variety of options on their own, and presenting them all equally made personal/power relationships in the group less of an impediment to creative thinking (less writing off ideas just because they came from Bob or Carol).
What was that social network that used to be bigger than Facebook in Brazil? Orkit I think? It was something like that.

Edit: Oh, I forgot the one staring me in the face—Youtube! It's no less of a social network than TikTok.
Please don't post any more unsubstantive comments and flamebait to HN. It helps nothing.
It made me think of a rap song by DJ Quick : If it don't make dollars, it don't make sense

https://genius.com/Dj-quik-dollaz-sense-lyrics
I've reviewed (for myself and my kids) enough sites to form a strong opinion. If you're interested, email me and we can chat about piano/guitar education. Contact info is in my profile. HN_username @ email_service . com
I used this to stay sane at my first dev job at IBM--we were allowed to "use Linux" but most of the required software wouldn't run. Colinux to the rescue!
That's an anticompetitive practice. Which makes sense in the context of a tortious interference claim between two businesses.

But you can't sue <the collection of 20,000 twitter users> for collectively boycotting a business for doing a thing they disapprove of. If Sleeping Giants is immune to Tortious Interference claims, so is pretty much everyone else in this context.
With your logic, FB and Twitter has strong ties with US government and controlled by them. Should all countries ban, attack and try to eliminate FB and Twitter from their markets?
Have you looked at Pompei? Honestly between that and "fertility relics" not having access to pornography may be the unhealthy anomally.
Draftees won't be much help if the military is on strike. Let's take a quick look at how that would go.

A group of young adults gets drafted into the Army. They're told to show up at base Foo on some date for boot camp. They go to base Foo and cross the picket line to enter the base. All of the instructors are on strike so there is no one to teach them. They can't get uniforms and equipment because the quartermaster is also on strike. They head to the mess hall to get some food but the cooks are on strike. It's getting late and they want to sleep. The barracks for trainees is locked up and no one is around with the key because they're on strike.

Now you've got a group of tired, hungry people, who didn't want to be there in the first place, who have no training or equipment. How does this help?
I strenuously disagree with that part of hhernandez's premise and I don't think "native lands" is actually problematic at all. It's just a generic, umbrella term to me. You could say tribal lands, First Nations lands, aboriginal lands, it's all the same.
China is building concentration camps that they use for slave labor, ripping organs out of the still living bodies of political prisonersto give to its rich class, creating an increasingly dystopian super surveillance state wherein you could be subtly punished for associating with the wrong people, has no means of redress or removal of the dictator for life, and treats all enterprises as organs of the state that are expected to spy for the state.

China is bad.
Snapchat are you listening? Make a page for your users and allow them to persist the videos and images. You will have implemented a complete platform for those who want images to disappear and for those who want them to persist. That makes TikTok redundant and unnecessary.
Somewhat similar timespan.

Real names, or a version of them, weren't unheard of, but were usually at least somewhat indirected. Of current HN users, I can think of two somewhat notable accounts using the same names now as in the 1990s. One is a nickname, the other first initial + last name. Neither is impenetrable.

I became distinctly uncomfortable with Real Name use by the late noughts, and have used a set of pseudonyms (some more than others) since.
I don't understand how people think like this. It's like a policy that gives to the needy by taking from the even more needy is somehow a good idea.

If you want to help people who can't command high wages, lower their taxes and make it up from people who have more money. Or give them a UBI to much the same effect. Don't take the money out of opportunities for even worse off people, that's ridiculous.
Can you give some examples of alt tiktok, deep tiktok, elite tiktok.
How would you contrast developing with the Clojure REPL compared to irb? I've found irb to be pretty useful for some quick and dirty tasks, albeit not the same level as Clojure (or most Lisps, really).
Creation tools and licenses to large music library that you can leverage. This is a key part of differentiation.
It almost as if your definition of ‘hear me’ really means ‘silently agree with me and acquiesce to all remedies that I alone propose’.
If I say "it would be unfortunate if something happened to your job", am I issuing a veiled threat or am I using my freedom of speech? It's possible that I'm not making a threat, but we know it's unlikely. Technically it amounts to intent (do you intend to ruin someone's livelihood or are you just making a bizarre statement for indecipherable reasons?).
In 2018, Bytedance CEO released a public statement after an incident with the CCP censor. In that statement, he promised that Bytedance apps would strengthen "the work of Party construction" and "socialist core values" etc.

https://chinamediaproject.org/2018/04/11/tech-shame-in-the-n...

I don't know how Bytedance as a company can serve CCP interests AND claim to be independent of CCP interference at the same time.

TikTok is a good product, but it may not be a safe product.

More on the dystopian practices of Douyin (TikTok in China):
https://twitter.com/Izzy_Niu/status/1280906443273768960
https://twitter.com/JoshuaDummer/status/1280877750245453828
That's great for Illinois citizens. Federal legislators are bought off to prevent this from happening nationally.
>It feels like the negative reaction to TikTok is so politicized and just comes from a "China bad" attitude.

The Chinese government is actual, literal, evil.

That is not "PoLiTiCaL" or "China Bad".

It is indisputable that the Chinese government:

* is running concentration camps that house over a million people

* exploits forced labor, a polite term for actual literal slavery

* imprisons people arbitrarily for anti-government sentiment

Anyone who says "buh buh facebookz and NSA" to excuse or minimize the actions of the Chinese Communist Party is so incapable of rational thought that they should be shunned and ridiculed.

You are not put on a government watchlist for comparing the President of the United States to a cartoon character and you are not arrested for subversive thought for selling anti-government books.

And no, YouTube telling bigots to GTFO is not the same thing as being arrested for selling books.

The CEO of ByteDance (the firm that owns TikTok) is on the record has having said that it is his intent to deeply cooperate with the Chinese Communist Party to promote its ideals and policies.

It is probably best to take him at his word.

I invite anyone who disagrees to fly to Beijing and walk around Tian An Men Square carrying this book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1423135792/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_...

I will buy the book for you.

edit: or better yet, take a flight to any city in China. Book a room in a hotel and go down to the pool and write out one page about the TianJin explosion, questioning whether or not the offical death count is correct. Then go to a print shop and make a couple hundred copies. Then stand on any busy street corner with a sign that reads: "questions about the TianJin explosion, please take one" (in Chinese, of course).

And here's the kicker: video it and upload it to TikTok.

I won't do it because the Chinese government is evil and I'm scared.
>That jackboot that has been stomping my face in, I wonder if it fits me?

"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
During the life of any heart this line keeps changing place; sometimes it is squeezed one way by exuberant evil and sometimes it shifts to allow enough space for good to flourish. One and the same human being is, at various ages, under various circumstances, a totally different human being. At times he is close to being a devil, at times to sainthood. But his name doesn't change, and to that name we ascribe the whole lot, good and evil.

Socrates taught us: "Know thyself."

Confronted by the pit into which we are about to toss those who have done us harm, we halt, stricken dumb: it is after all only because of the way things worked out that they were the executioners and we weren't.

From good to evil is one quaver, says the proverb.

And correspondingly, from evil to good."

-Gulag Archipeligo
Adding to this is the ribbon content is just too busy. It fused icons with labels and stuffed it in some uneven grid. The regular toolbar was more or less even grid, well, a row. The usual menu is also structured on quite uniform grid. It's mentally easier to follow straight lines, we read in straight lines, scroll in straight lines, well, typing too. Yet when it comes to ribbon, the adjustable grid layout makes one adopt an adjustable scan pattern.

I find this pattern quite distracting. Always feels like I'm staring at the old-time toolbar customization dialog, as if someone spilled buttons out of a toolbox onto the screen, and to make it more fun, also mixed them with labels...

Anyone remembers the initial requirement for the ribbon to use the specific font, as it was used for positioning and could not be customized? Not sure if it's still the case.

I wish MS promoted a style-based workflow/mindset more than the free-hand formatting. Perhaps, this would by itself eliminate the need for the busy toolbars, if only during style design.
For those interested in this substance, it is worth first noting that it is present in many common foods in notable quantities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coq10#Dietary_concentrations
There are of course people who believe something supernatural (a soul) is involved.
Appetite for risk and energy both decrease with age.
Ask the Sophist
From what I've heard (besides the points mentioned here) the dubbing/scene editing capabilities are on-point (which is the big point of Tiktok
> if you share an article about race statistics that prompts a riot, are you responsible?

Entirely depends on if the statistics and any stated conclusions are true, and to what extent the article actually prompted the riot vs other factors.

> Do you believe that if someone unknowingly published something that turns out to be false, they should be held legally liable for it? For example, if I share a news article that turns out to be false, I should bear liability?

If you unknowingly repeat that someone is a pedophile just because it seems popular, it seems reasonable that you share some portion of the blame for whatever harm befalls that person.

In the news article example it is the publication and/or the author that is responsible. Of course this gets into a grey area regarding the content of the article and whether it's possible to know the content is false or defamatory.

> At some point, some group of people are going to be hurt by speech or lack thereof, and it's more a matter of deciding what tradeoffs we'll make.

In my (based on the downvotes I'm receiving) unpopular opinion, I don't think we should give up any speech whatsoever under any circumstances. If people say evil things that cause harm (go kill this person, this person is a nazi, let's get this guy fired, etc), go after them for the harm.
The difference is the live environment.
Additional considerations here:

Rust invested in a package manager very early, and specifically designed things to make it easy to publish packages.

Rust has a smaller standard library, and so you often need packages to do things that you may not need in other languages, which encourages the use of packages, which I think encourages the publishing of them as well, not to mention that there are gaps that would get filled by packages.
Why is it so horrifying?

What's wrong with using old software, especially when it works better than the new?
It depends on the group.

Small groups where everyone knows each other and are skilled at communication, experienced at problem-solving with each other, and don't have psychological safety issues--- sure, they can brainstorm together and stimulate creative thinking.

I expect that what the hbr guy has in mind is a table of shark-like MBA's, each with something to prove, hide, or vanquish. Yeah, that's not good for a brainstorming session, it will just become a feeding frenzy.
If I had to judge between whether I wanted TikTok or corporate email on my phone, it wouldn't be just about the email. I could live without that. What I really liked, especially back when we actually went into offices, was that I had my calendar available without opening up my laptop, and that it showed the next place I needed to be right on my wrist.
He's listed as a Democrat, though he may be to the right of where you personally want him to be.

Let's not confuse the issue.
Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? We've asked you so many times that I'm not sure why we haven't banned you yet. No doubt that's because you've also posted good things. Unfortunately, though, your account really stands out as damaging this place, and if you don't fix this, we're going to have to.

This thread is a great example because while there are commenters on both sides of the issue, your post is the one that stands out as really dragging the discussion down to nastiness.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Have to agree, though maybe not with the tone. Speaking in absolutes, the whole point of security is to make things unusable. Then for the resource owner we open up a small hole that only they can pass through, by some proof, of varying strenuousness. Wouldn't it be so much more usable if they didn't have to do that? Yes but other people would then find it "usable" as well.
Could be one of those situations where sometimes 4GB will work, but it officially only supports 2?

The HP MicroServers are like that
First of all, that assumes serving ads is somehow better than spreading communist ideals. I'm skeptical, and I doubt there are convincing arguments for either side that don't rely on people's personal preferences.

Second, you're ignoring that many US politicians and government agencies use web services like Twitter and Facebook to spread their own propaganda and control what people see. Unless somebody wants to argue that Donald Trump tweeting "POLITICAL WITCH HUNT"[1] isn't spreading propaganda, or that Facebook flagging political ads is somehow 100% completely unbiased.

Obviously countries have some control over the media and propaganda and manipulation their citizens get to see, but lets not pretend ours is better just because it's ours.

[1] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/12812603292473999...
So you will allow an app whose company is tied to a "totalitarian state built on the backbone of censorship and information control" to steal your data? You cannot have a company in China without agreeing to the terms and conditions of the CCP. The CCP is the totalitarian state you are so against. They are actively collecting your data. In realtime. And you don't want that app to be banned because you have a moral ideal to uphold. Great logic!
That security key works fine in an office environment, but becomes a lot more annoying on, for instance, a mobile device.
This is an dishonest and naive take at Brazilian labor laws.

We were the last country in the Americas to abolish slavery, only 60 years before Vargas created the framework to our current labour laws. Before that there were laws but they were seldom followed.

Of course the laws could use a reform (they are often confusing) but we have many good worker rights that we shouldn't give up.
With a codebase as large as iOS its highly unlikely that all 0days will ever be fully patched. Apple is constantly iterating on their code and introducing new features(and bugs) and security engineers are always coming up with new methods to exploit code.
That's not what cancel culture is, but it's usually the precursor to it. People who are upset over things that are not yet causing negative side-effects know that they eventually will because already what's happened is a bit much in many cases. You shouldn't be fired for things you do and say outside of work, period.
Ah. I actually leave my Yubikeys plugged into my computers.

I use the Yubikey Nano. I have a USB-C version in my laptop and a standard USB version in my desktop PC.