skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Douyin is Tik Tok in China. And no they don't, authoritarian governments have quite a bit of leeway in shutting those sorts of things down. While it can be bypassed, the average person isn't going to do it (or get away with it).
> the idea of a bot-only MMO would be really interesting

Then you may be interested in Screeps: World
TikTok, at the end of the day, is just a kind of printing press.

No, TikTok is essentially digital opium. And China itself has confirmed that reality by 1) restricting their citizens' daily access and 2) significantly filtering the content they can see on it:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/03/08/1069527/china-ti...

It would only be fair of the US to follow China's example of protecting its citizens from numbing out on TikTok digital garbage. We should most certainly should follow suit with an equivalently restrictive measure.
It's an algorithm that shows people stuff they engage with.

While Chinese tiktok users are interested in educational content, Americans are not.
> If TikTok is a national sovereignty issue for the US, should a lot of other countries similarly be banning US tech companies?

NATO, Five Eyes, and close allies like Japan need not bother. Russia, China, Iran, and a few others should, and mostly do.

I thought TikTok’s CEO did a great job in the hearing defending themselves, but ByteDance ultimately owns them. We compel companies to provide data silently through court orders all the time in the U.S. and to think China isn’t capable of accessing whatever data they want, at any time, assumes major incompetence of their intelligence services.

I think it comes down to this line of thought.

China can, so they will, because when we can, we do. China no doubt knows many of our non-public exploits, as we do of theirs.

In a real way, this forced sale is a sign of respect.
This is misguided and naive. The real world analogy is closer to Huawei 5G systems -- thinking about it in that context, the reasoning behind the ban makes more sense.

This isn't a "capitalism based harm" that tariffs are intended to fix, this is a "national security based harm" that's being targeted. You can debate the merits of whether or not TikTok is a threat to national security, but under the supposition that it is, tariffs are not the correct lever to pull.

So, it's not "that easy". I like the smugness though.
>That TikTok executives are as liable to US laws and prosecution as Facebook execs?

They absolutely are - again, TikTok is an American company with American employees who can be held liable if TikTok breaks the law - e.g. Shou Chew. The problem for the government is that TikTok hasn't broken any laws.
“several people” is not the majority
It wouldn't be half the local profits, it would be the whole thing in the end.

They start with the scenario you mention, then they push the weakened foreign entity out of China entirely. They did that to numerous, huge US brands/companies, including McDonalds and AWS. They make it inhospitable to continue to exist at all in China, then a ditch sale becomes the only viable option for the US company.
The number of people working remote is still fairly small compared to the overall workforce. Many jobs simply don’t allow for it. If you’re in tech you’re probably overestimating how big this shift has been.
There's a mental leap you need to make before it clicks into place and I can't do it for you. I have several people who understand what I say and why I say it, but I get that this isn't an easy step to make. If you read the essay, you understand how we turn time into data. You also understand how we can construct partial and global hierarchy of orders, how these are both strongly ordered and still move independently and how observers can construct their own consistent view from the data available to them. There's formal proof in the science-paper that we can do consistency all the way to snapshot.

To summarise: we have a consistent system that works via one-way streaming, via redundant channels. Best possible cache-invalidation. Reads are both consistent and locally available. Upper-bound time of writes is predictable and doesn't suffer from blocking. I'm not sure what other improvements anyone could want from such a system, this is the best such systems can ever be. These improvements go well beyond the limits CAP sets out and it basically makes the whole argument moot.
Id like to see the Uighar camps but sure as heck known that isn't happening. /s

It's hard for me to imagine a lot isn't filtered out. There is a reason they have a separate app. It's likely one is heavily filtered and the other is their propaganda tool but I'd like to see more evidence to indicate that but it's a hard thing to track given they could be just feeding kids the worst things for them or favorable views to their party and we wouldn't even know.
Thanks! I wouldn't say the posts were meant as promotion -- the one on the main blog were a "hey we owe a status update" and the one on my personal blog was "gosh I just need to talk about this thing"
Yes, I'm also a Nix maintainer. `nix develop` does many other things, originally based on re-creating the build environment of a derivation. This means that it is not ideal for the case of development environments that must support more than just building.
Douyin is TikTok but for China. Operated by the same company but with different servers (https://www.bytedance.com/en/products). And i am pretty sure they are effectively telling bytedance to get rid of things that would corrupt the youth (in the governments opinion).

Like they banned effeminate man on TV:
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1033687586/china-ban-effemina...
But how do you know if you are in the remaining 87%?
You're missing the point. It's not about what content users in a country are uploading to the platform or wanting to consume on the platform, it's which content the algorithm promotes/mutes in a given country based on the wishes of the Chinese government.
The argument is that they are an enemy. No other argument is necessary. Not free speech, not reciprocity, not that they're an oppressive government.

If in 1939 Hitler had tried to buy the CBS radio network, FDR would have stopped him, or the Congress. If it had required a Constitutional amendment, that would have passed easily.

Yet we were not at war with Germany (yet).
> We simply have different philosophies; you're a perfectionist whereas I'm an incrementalist.

I don't think the person you're responding to is a perfectionist. He just has a different view on how to improve things.
It’s not just that because social platforms have the ability to easily uprank content they want people to see which is entirely the point here.
A case where "technically" doesn't align with "realistically".
Fivrrr for airplane safety,… it’s like that BM episode, flywheel of death…
This has been proved many times already. E.g. Brexit and U.S. elections when Trump was chosen.
China is not a US citizen.
Flat Beds in Economy Class: Concept from Delft University of Technology Students
Delft University of Technology design students have come up with an economy class lie flat bed that has a generous length. They would be converted to an upright seating position for three people, thereby ensuring safety during taxi, takeoff and landing.

The way it works is by allowing the middle bed to slide up to the top, while the bottom bed folds in half to provide seating for the passengers. This way, all three passengers sharing this special seat can enjoy lie flat comfort during the cruise portion of the flight.

Also:

https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2020/io/february/flying-v-beds-nom...

https://youtu.be/LZ_Yi-Nni4U
Recently Trello has restricted the kanban guests to ten people. If your kanban functionality has some simple file in the background that is easy to share it could be used to hack an alternative to it.
“pleads to X charges” is a common idiom referring to entering a plea that accepts sentencing on the charges named (either guilty or nolo contendere/“no contest”—they function the same in the context of the charges, though the latter cannot be used in subsequent litigation the way the former can, and is typically ag the discretion of the court to allow for that reason.)
Yep.

There are a lot of low effort commenters on HN now. If you take a look at most of the commenters talking about Israel or Palestine on this thread, their creation date appears to be around 2020-2022.
We’re an irrelevant blip in the natural history of our planet. Everything is a waste of time.
Fundamentally, users should not use closed propertiary blackbox communication platforms I guess. But that is not the critique.

The report is quite bad. There is no sensitivity analysis at all. Their methodology does not track bias but user base. I would discard it as a lobbyist hit piece.
Nix supports garbage collection.

Also there are literally thousands of insanely complex things happening behind the scenes every time you use your computer. Not sure why Nix is considered special when abstracting over it.
I am building a house in a rural area, where land is cheap. Building is not.

Timber is certainly expensive, but you know what else costs a lot? All the other stuff, much of it subject to state building codes that get more restrictive every year.

Asbestos survey, assessment, abatement: $10k

Asbestos air monitoring: $1k

Tipping fees: 20k

Spray foam insulation: $27k

Foundation $50k

Solar: 40k (not including rebates/incentives)

Requirements for outlets. Requirements for windows. Setbacks from a utility pole on our property, 50 yards/meters from the nearest road. We have to deal with that mess and pay extra to site the foundation, not National Grid!

Even if we were getting a manufactured home (built to looser FEMA standards) we would still have to deal with some of these costs, such as asbestos, tipping fees and foundation. And the cheapest double wide is $300k.
> Do you vet the JS this site sends you every time you use if,

Hit ctrl+s

Which you should do even if you fully trust the website owner anyway
That's because Sisko hasn't went back in time and instigated the bell riots.

Nothing can work out until that happens
Show HN: I made a website to limit sensitive info to LLMs
I made something that replaces sensitive (and proprietary) objects that you could have in your LLM query and replace it with a random noun. Your LLM response can be pasted back to get your answer with the original objects. Everything happens on the browser side, so this was a fun little project.
NixOS Users Against Mic Sponsorship
Another thing to add is that Boomers would rather age in place than be shipped off to a nursing home until they require extensive care hard to administer in a non-hospital setting. There's nothing wrong with that sentiment, but it does somewhat restrict the housing inventory that otherwise would be freed when they downsize or move into a facility.
There are no 18 year old children. Those are adults, with all the rights and responsibilities that come with that title.
The same way Radio y Televisión Martí challenges Cuban sovereignty which is why the Cubans jam the transmissions.

edit: Decedent western rock and roll also challenged the ideological purity of the Soviet Union so record imports were banned for a very long time.
There really isn't much to the engine of a steam engine. It's the firebox/burner and boiler where all the really hard and interesting stuff happens.
>> Howard Hughes was also fucking nuts.

And also basically a criminal by today's standards. If a 19yo was caught in a Ferrari trying to break a record on a beach, or anywhere other than a closed race track on private land, that 19yo would be lucky to ever drive again. And if that 19yo hurt anyone, possibly a decade or more in prison.
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Raw vote information here: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202486
& Bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521

This bill prohibits distributing, maintaining, or providing internet hosting services for a foreign adversary controlled application (e.g., TikTok). However, the prohibition does not apply to a covered application that executes a qualified divestiture as determined by the President.

Under the bill, a foreign adversary controlled application is directly or indirectly operated by (1) ByteDance, Ltd. or TikTok (including their subsidiaries or successors); or (2) a social media company that is controlled by a foreign adversary and has been determined by the President to present a significant threat to national security. The prohibition does not apply to an application that is primarily used to post product reviews, business reviews, or travel information and reviews.

The bill authorizes the Department of Justice to investigate violations of the bill and enforce the bill's provisions. Entities that violate the bill are subject to civil penalties based on the number of users.

The bill requires a covered application to provide a user with all available account data (including posts, photos, and videos) at the user's request before the prohibition takes effect.
I would have thought geothermal (martiothermal?) power would be the biggest long-term potential result of this. No mention of that in the article, though.
Luckily a feature to limit the disk cache size is in development: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/5139
Only if you fancy being censored yourself.
Of course! These are like BGA or something similar, the solder will crack after some number of on/off/cool/heat cycles.

If voltage is raised we enter the realm of electromigration, though not sure how relevant it is for such a minuscule OC.

As for stability, yes. If the voltage is not sufficient there will be stability issues which will require further raising it, thus raising temps and requiring more power which you can't be sure if you could deliver. And then of course electromigration.
I think it's other actors (China, Russia) who are driving discord in the rest of the world, including stoking the fires in the middle east.
Douyin _is_ the Chinese TikTok.

>Douyin vs TikTok also differs in terms of popular content. The most popular on Douyin is definitely educational content, with videos helping to improve skills and grow personally, while on Tik Tok the most popular is narrating videos, which is a great opportunity for artists, singers, and music producers.

https://marketingtochina.com/differences-between-tiktok-and-...
Perhaps the EU might consider defending the sovereignty of its constituent states? That might even put a dent in Euroskepticism.

I will never understand your particular brand of whataboutism.
C++20 added std::span, which is essentially that.
>>Their results were inconclusive since the people the asks to wear masks, didn't.

Their review was at the macro, population level. If people aren't wearing masks properly through carelessness or ignorance, this proves their point.

Shooting a virus at a masked mannequin in a lab might show some prevention, but in the real world people forget and scratch their nose, rub their eyes, get sneezed on by a stranger etc.
I appreciate the feedback here.

The website, admittedly, needs a lot of work.
We spent all of 2023 forking the project and having our heads down coding. Only at the end of year did we resurface to create a new homepage and stuff. So, it's a bit thin, and needs revisions. Personally I've kinda been punting that until we rewrite the site in darklang, but clearly many people are not appreciating the content on the site, so maybe that punting was a bad choice.

Appreciate the other ideas too -- responding to a bunch of comments now but will circle back to read this comment and process it fully. Cheers.
This reminded me of Blindsight as well. The fact that intelligence does not have to present in a way that's familiar to us is important to keep in mind.

Thank you for bringing up Children of Time... off to go get it.
Ok, but I thought the implication was that it didn’t do retries but just uppercased passwords.

This makes more sense, and obviously a better idea.
That scene (around 3:45) with the two, coupled spools of rope that transmit the picture from one spool to the other is simply amazing.
Feel free to start your own platform.

VK has been the primary platform in the CIS for over a decade now at this point.

And even Signal was started in the US.
It's not even just about propaganda. Watch Tik Tok videos in China and it's all young people helping the elderly, learning job skills, and doing other socially virtuous things. Watch Tik Tok videos outside of China and it's all videos of kids stealing cars, eating Tide pods, and pranking people in Home Depot.
It makes sense to deprecate something they will no longer maintain as it will probably rot and give users a bad experience, major plugins like rust needs continual nurturing and that is costly. Is the old one open source? can't someone pick it up and run with it?
> Tipping fees

What is a tipping fee
Exactly this. We should be giving people incentives to move the Midwest where there is affordable housing. Not everyone can live on the coasts. Here in California, the infrastructure has not kept up with the population increases. As a result, houses are being built in areas that were previously wilderness and now we have fires burning through entire towns.
You can blame the first amendment for that. The first amendment doesn't apply to China, so the Chinese government tells Douyin what content is undesirable and it gets filtered/censored. Is that what you want to happen in the US? Or did you think Douyin was intentionally leaving money on the table due to patriotic fervor?
I appreciate your comments. / I agree that the mainstream understanding is, as would be expected, too often an ignorant jumbled mess. But this is to be expected. I'm reading and ingesting as much as I can on AI safety from many angles. At this point, I don't have a "take" on the status of the legal clarity here. / Happy to continue the conversation as well.
That's not the way statistics work. You won't be able to definitively state there was an increase in the number of cancers based on statistics if the actual increase was smaller than the uncertainty in the number of cancers you would expect. That doesn't mean the increase was zero.
AT&T's "Similarities of Wave Behavior" is incredible.
>B) The united states doesn't _do_ state owned media in the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America
Show HN: Windows Live Captions Recorder
I frequently use the windows live captions feature to capture my thoughts and ideas, here is a simple script to record the captions to a text file for better organization and searchability.
> should a lot of other countries similarly be banning US tech companies

Sure, if there's evidence of the US exerting its influence over the content in a way that's harmful to the country.
Hungary, why do you have so many AR glasses choices when Meta and Apple in North America seem unable to provide anything consumers desire?

Those glasses all look positively cool and wearable by comparison. Even the canine looks kind of classy in the Grawoow (?) glasses. I'm not sure normal humans would even notice the Rokid or XReal glasses. From another article, the Rokid type apparently sit floating off your face kind of weird. [1] They also never show anything other than image mockups, which makes me suspicious of the actual experience.

Do the images all just look horrible internally, or have projector washout? Cause otherwise these all look pretty reasonable for the morning commute and I'm not sure why there's so much of a focus on goggles.

[1] https://www.techradar.com/computing/virtual-reality-augmente...
the first amendment protects us citizens or those on us soil. The chinese government meets neither of those standards.
I understand that it may be more likely for this to happen with an in-house team, but my experience working in large companies makes me think it would still be unlikely. "Not my problem" is necessary armor at a company with 15 levels of management between ICs and the C-suite and a rich weft of (official and unofficial) "dotted lines", where every interaction outside your immediate team is fraught with political implications. Code monkeys, in-house or not, might not even know that they are working on software for an airplane, let alone a Boeing airplane, let alone in a safety-sensitive system. Even if they do, and understand that the overall plan they are contributing to is folly, there is often no linkage by which they can make that insight known to someone who can change things (often there is literally no one, including the CEO, who could change course even if they want to). Even trying to do so is often a career risk.

Large companies are mechanisms that run on their own. People have limited agency in a lot of situations but for big decisions ("our company's only real product is fundamentally dogshit, lets start over") there literally are no people on earth who can actually make them. They are pre-made by the structure of the company, capital markets, and historical accident.
A VC-backed startup's push for growth left little time for actual engineering
or https://forgejo.org/, a fork of Gitea by the folks behind Codeberg
Because that is not the really the whole problem we are trying to solve. At root of the TikTok problem is the fact that a nation like China is not playing on a level playing field in our Free Market. A free market works when all the participants are playing on a level playing field. TikTok is not because China as a country does not believe or follow free market principles. As such to further their national goals they will happily bend and break all of our rules with no real way for us to prevent or even detect it.

You can't treat Chinese companies the same way as US companies or even most European countries. They won't play by the rules. You have to treat them differently.

The experiment we started in the 90's to try to export Free Market to the world was interesting but the data shows that it doesn't actually work in Autocratic countries. It's time to stop pretending like it produces good outcomes overall.
Or it shows US platforms like instagram is thoroughly infiltrated by US propaganda. Or antiPRC people aren't likely on TikTok in the first place. Or how US misinformation networks can't be weaponized on TikTok in the same way as western owned platforms staffed by US ex intelligence. Both in it's abillity to inject narrative or control narrative of others. For all we know, TikTok is the baseline of global sentimentality and Instagram is anomolie of US influence operations. Is TikTok aligned to PRC interests, or neutral but only seeingly aligned because TikTok is simply not specifically aligned to US interests like other US platforms. Ultimately it's the latter that's the problem for US ability to shape narrative.