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Today's issue of Platformer explains it as the following:

>The Supreme Court has previously held that Congress can’t ban foreign propaganda, including propaganda from China. In Lamont vs. Postmaster General, the court considered a law that required the postmaster general to detain “communist political propaganda” sent through the mail. The Post Office was then required to send the addressee a card asking whether they wanted the propaganda to be delivered, in what the court ultimately ruled had an unconstitutional chilling effect on speech.

https://www.platformer.news/tiktok-ban-bill-senate-legal-cha...
> This is amazing and all but at what point do we reach the point of there is no more “real” data to infer from low resolution?

The start point. Upscaling is by definition creating information where there wasn't any to begin with.

Nearest neighbor filtering is technically inventing information, it's just the dumbest possible approach. Bilinear filtering is slightly smarter. This approach tries to be smarter still by applying generative AI.
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Historically this is just how it works. You want law x passed and I'm ambivalent about it, I want law y passed and you're ambivalent about it. We both need each other to pass either of them, so we agree to pass both as part of a larger law. This isn't a new thing and has been happening since the 1800s. As early as the decision to make DC the capital we've traded goals through compromise.

The process does get abused and I get frustration over those instance. For this one in particular, there are thematic similarities that can reasonably fall under "national security concerns".
Then you’d be wasting a huge amount of money for no good reason. If TikTok gets banned Meta will probably vacuum up the audience with Instagram Reels. It would be posturing with no real purpose.
The US has had rules against foreign ownership of media since forever. The main geopolitical rival having control over the largest source of media consumed by children (which incidentally, is banned in China) is insane and should have been stopped a long time ago.

People talk about data collection. I am sure that is happening, but the far bigger issue is having a regime who wishes you harm in change of what your young people are and are not seeing for hours every day. There is a lot of propaganda, a deluge of videos pushing of divisive extremism and misinformation. The people pushing this are also using western platforms, but they're doing it more effectively on TikTok. This cannot end soon enough.
That’s not how people think in a time of crisis and ByteDance will need to be swift in their response/decision if they want to retain users.
It seems to be on the upswing, at least for some manufacturers. I went from a 2017 CRV to a new one recently and they replaced the touch-based steering wheel volume adjuster with a physical wheel and moved the only thing that I ever wanted to use the touchscreen for while driving (HVAC mode control) to a physical button. The only controls that are stuck on the touchscreen are ones that a reasonable person would never want to try to change while driving.
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> So, I was very happy to learn that a friend had a Mellanox SN2010 that they were not using and were willing to sell to me.

That thing retails new for 10k. You got awesome friends if they have such a thing lying around unused and willing to sell it to you at a discount!

For those of us with less fortunate bank accounts: what's the smallest and reasonably affordable Mellanox model that has a similar featureset in terms of native Linux support?
The point is that the limitations of LLMs regarding self-reflection lead to them misrepresenting their knowledge, as in the “(season 3, episode 8)” in your test. It doesn’t matter which parts any particular LLM gets right because you can’t rely on them telling you if they are unable to get some part right.
This shows that values such as “freedom of speech” are only key words used to enforce US policy in other countries. For such a long time it was advocated that free speech is an important thing and good in and on itself. Now it turns out the free speech is good only as long as it’s US who dominates the information market.
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As if US apps don't influence the population of other nations. Should every US company be required to divest in every other nation where they have users?
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They were the first ones to do it at scale. Before, you had to seek out the debauchery. TikTok is saying, don’t worry, we have hundreds of scrollable hours waiting for you, just keep scrolling.
Like Ryan Gosling appearing in a building https://petapixel.com/2020/08/17/gigapixel-ai-accidentally-a...
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> they must release training data and source code under an OSI approved license

The source code is also apache 2.0
It's either this way or pass nothing ever. Unless the country tilts away from basically 50/50 with two parties that constantly try to undo the other there are few options to get anything through congress.
The thing about China banning stuff is that it is sponsored by the whole government, so every ISP in China is forced to comply with the ban. In the US, unless all of the ISPs are forced to ban tiktok at a network level, the ban will essentially be on new downloads I'm sure.

If the ban is on new downloads, it will mean that the ban doesn't hit particularly hard, except for there will be no more platform growth, which would mean that the company sees all of the issue with it, but the users do not which would stagnate the platform and lead to its eventual death. Frogs in a pot of water turned up to a boil, instead of dropped in at a rolling boil kind of thing.

If it is banded in ISP level, there is essentially no real chance that anybody will put any effort to get around it. I see big statements all the time about how people slightly younger than me don't even know what command prompt is, which is frankly a wild statement because even people I know my age that are not techy. Like I am still know how to do almost all of the basic commuter commands and know how to download a VPN and similar. We are either going to see a Renaissance of tech people opened up because of the ban on tick tock and them learning about technology to try and circumvent it, or we are going to see the total death of the platform because most people don't really know how to do anything technical on a phone or computer anymore.

Either way, it's going to cause some fairly large shifts until something is done, and if nothing is done, maybe the main shift will be just to a different platform rather than a different societal state of mind.
It's extensible and not tied to any specific programming language, allowing for constructs like this ( mix chunks of markdown and build TOC ):

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If TikTok truly is a Chinese psyop, the most effective thing they could do is spend their remaining days sewing discontent with the government, refuse to sell, and let the whole thing burn down, thus riling up "the youths" and teaching them that their own government is a problem.

They could also tell TikTok users to install a VPN and access the servers in China directly.

I actually see this as a silver lining. I want young people to realize the government effects them and can directly ruin things they enjoy. I want young people to be more involved in politics and to vote.
OTH, western social media platforms cannot operate in China, why should Chinese social media platforms be allowed to operate in the western world? Even without the whole "spy angle" it makes a lot of sense, trade wars like this happen all the time also between western nations. If China opens up their market, things can be reconsidered.
I'm writing one right now, just waiting on the CCP to get back to me with their internal communications and commit history at tiktok which will prove this.

/s
China has banned innumerable pieces of software. They banned YouTube more than a decade ago
The same tiktok? I highly doubt any sale will come with the algo, which is literally the bread and butter on what makes Tiktok so great and better than the competition. For users who only surf the FYP, the quality is set to seriously decline.
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US version of "free speech" is that the congress cannot make a law that prevents someone from speaking. It was an example of extreme freedom (i don't have the English translation, but basically a freedom that supersede other freedoms, its philosophy 101 or close to that)

It's less true now, starting from when the mafia used this freedom to threaten judges and jury (Basically, when 80% of people think "full freedom of speech is stupid in this particular case", the US government will effectively suppress it).

I've talked with someone who argued that it effectively never truly existed, and gave me a lot of pre-prohibition examples i can't remember, and even a few from pre-civil war era, that targeted white people (which was surprising because most of the other did not), but i don't know if i trust him, and don't really know US history well, so if you're interested, you should research it yourself and not trust what i just wrote (which is basically, "Yes, No, It's complicated and i don't really know". I'm such a helpful person :/)

[edit] Not saying if it's good or bad btw, extreme freedoms are a cultural foundation of the US, and in my opinion define the country.
TikTok made the mistake of making life difficult for the party. Boosting pro-Palestine voices has consequences.
The story back in the ancient history of ~1989->2021 was our free open liberal system was so obviously superior that we were just going to wait around for China to realize their dumb mistake and join us at the end of history. Their great firewall would cripple their economy until then. The new story is we're copying China's tactics because China did it first and it works great.

I mean, sure, go with that. But it doesn't negate the irony.
I am changing my login ID to MilleniumMasterX2!

Here is a nice Easter egg that I found:

Open the terminal. Type help. Then type yahoo_cd

> Company merch exists to provide an illusion of purpose to your meaningless life.

This guy should have a Comedy Central show by now.
I don't think NextCloud and Dropbox are not in the same category for comparison. I would compare NextCloud to the likes of Google Workspace + Photos, and with iCloud.
The average shot length in a modern movie is around 2.5 seconds (down from 12 seconds in 1930's).

For animations it's around 15 seconds.
Banning content that is both critical of the government and extremely popular with younger people

There's a lot more leftist/anticapitalist content (and political content in general) on tiktok compared to youtube shorts and instagram reels.
That's a bit of a ridiculous standard.
Mostly because I don't think China is liable to hand out the records they've been gathering to cross check findings from other study.
Even better, get NU11 and have it go to this poor guy:
https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-ha...
Regulated means a framework of doing business, its not a ban. For example, the government can decide that car from now on have to use lead-free gasoline. That's not ban on cars, it means that from now on the cars should run lead-free.

EU isn't banning American social media, its banning certain practices and if the American social media companies want to do business they simply don't do these things and they will be fine. Unless, you know, forcing Meta to sell to Luxotica or something.
It's intended for SQL generation and similar with cheap fine tuning and inference, not answering general knowledge questions. Their blog post is pretty clear about that. If you just want a chatbot this isn't the model for you. If you want to let non-SQL trained people ask questions of your data, it might be really useful.
> I wonder if China or other countries will do the same for US apps now.

China has been doing this for a very long time, to keep US apps out of the Chinese market (or forced IP transfers to Chinese companies) so that Chinese apps can thrive. There's no room for them to retaliate because they've already gone as far as they possibly could.
Is China really a foreign adversary?

I get that we aren't best buds with china but they are also a huge trade partner with the US. Bigger than many countries which we have friendlier feelings towards.
I think I'd take pass nothing ever...
I should hope we hold ourselves to a higher bar than China. This would effectively set the precedent that the US Congress can choose winners and losers in the market and even force a sale of a foreign company to an American company. That's the type of action taken by Russia and China that is rightfully condemned.

I'd prefer if we focused on why the app is dangerous and maybe pass some comprehensive privacy or anti-monopoly legislation that removes the danger rather than playing whack-a-mole with whatever company has attracted the most attention at the time.
They use Meta systems to do the same thing? What is special about Tiktok?
That would be too simple and clean.
There's ample evidence of China and other countries attempting to influence American events using social media and other means.

It's not a red scare if it is true. And it's not a red scare because China isn't being targeted here because they are Communist - they are being targeted because they are a geopolitical adversary. Russia would be treated in the same manner if some killer app came out of there, and they aren't Communist.
So the great harm is that Congress gets called when they pass a bad bill?
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Tell that to China, it's worst over there, no reason given just a great firewall ban shows up for your app/service. They have banned so many popular services there for decades, it's time for other countries to do tit for tat.
This is a good alternative now. I was just about signing up with a dedicated NextCloud provider to try it out. I'm going to check this one and have it as an option.

Edit: I don't think this is from the original NextCloud. On quick glance, I could not confirm but the domain is misleading. This might as well just be a phishing website. Avoiding for now.
If you leave the US then you've accomplished what they wanted anyways. And now you're much poorer for it. The upside is you feel like you did it on your terms or something?
How is this an attack on free speech? What individual is getting punished for their speech by the government? There is hardly a lack of spaces online for you to say just about anything.
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It got the right answer for "Who is Tim Bray?" but it got "Who is Worsel the Dragon?" wrong.
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Note that I left out Scala, while I included other languages of similar complexity, exactly because improving compile times has never been a major focus in Scala land, versus features.

Example, development effort wasted on Scala 3 Python like syntax.

There are several performance reports that show that the major culprit is the pile of LLVM IR sent to the backend.
I wonder if it is because of, despite of, or unrelated to the recent license drama...
I commend Ben for pushing the boundary of open Software networky-type things.

Even though I have been running HPC clusters for years, I still really don't like core switching infra[1]. Its just a pain in the arse to investigate and run.

[1] I realise that this is very much not a core switch, or even a TOR switch.
American companies are subject to US law and US citizens are protected by US law. What's the equivalent protection China provides?
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I both love and hate when this happens. Discoverability seems like the hardest challenge. I always do quite a bit of searching for existing stuff before rolling my own, and it can be really hard to find stuff. Most of the time I stumble on it serendipitously at some point later.
We should block the behavior, not target specific companies or groups because we don't like them. If influencing our elections is bad (and I agree it is) then we should ban corporations from influencing our elections. If we think collecting and aggregating a bunch of data on people is bad we should ban that, rather than picking a single company to ban from doing it while allowing a bunch of others too.

I actually truly believe we should do this- a GDPR style bill for the US that protects people's right to privacy and limits corporations ability to influence our governments. The fact that we know how easy it is for companies to do this but are just upset that a specific company is doing it tells me we're approaching this in the wrong way.
I think it shows that politicians are short sighted and immoral - nothing new there. Freedom of speech is still incredibly valued and constantly fought for.
> "build something fast, get users, engagement, and venture capital, hope you can grow fast enough to still be around after the Great AI cull"

Snowflake is a publicly traded company with a market cap of $50B and $4B of cash in hand. It has no need for venture capital money.

It looks like a case of "Look Ma! I can do it too!"
Twitter, Instagram, Reddit also are infinitely doomscrollable, with equally if not more inane content.

Vine hit the American streets long before TikTok before it was killed by mismanagement.
Unstable rustc can compile stable code. For code you'd write with Dafny I highly doubt it would be an issue. Perhaps you have a proof of the opposite?

I've only ever needed nightly when doing something a bit off the beaten path, like targeting microcontrollers. The Linux kernel is another big project that needs unstable. It's much more rare a need than you make it out to be.
>One estimate I saw was that training GPT3 released 500 tons of CO2 back in 2020

So absolute nothing in the grand scheme of things?
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> I actually see this as a silver lining. I want young people to realize the government effects them and can directly ruin things they enjoy.

Would you also consider it a win if young people realize the dangers of social media apps owned by geopolitical competitors able to alter the mindset of the population?
When the company takes a loss, do you agree that all of the workers should go hungry?
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40145963
Came here to say this. The US owns Apple and Google, both of which are tremendously more influential than TikTok could ever hope to be. Turnabout is fair play.
They may well have done. It seems a lot of lawmakers moved toward the opinion of banning tiktok after receiving classified intelligence briefings.
The reason it is kind of wild is because a company being forced to sell basically the only thing it has in order to stay relevant in the second most major region of the world is kind of big news, it wouldn't surprise me at all if they just took the ban and then only started working in Europe and China. Is bytedance even known for anything other than tiktok? What do they do other than provide the service for tiktok?
It’s a mass manipulation tool, controlled by foreign interests.
They literally already do, I'm not sure what rock people have been living under but whenever I read comments like this it feels like misinformation campaign material given how common knowledge it is that China regulates foreign apps, internet traffic, and data.
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China already bans many many western companies and services.
You’re misconstruing the argument. American citizens don’t elect Chinese politicians, I don’t want the Chinese government to have my data. I don’t want the American government to either, but at least I can vote for my American government.
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It will cost more than the famously cost overrunned James Web Space Telescope, that was built over a period of 24 years, the largest and most advanced space telescope ever built, launched into the sun/earth L2 point a million miles from earth, to build a rail line between LA and Las Vegas?
“Now”? The US and state governments constantly try to violate free speech. Texas, Florida, and California all had major laws truck down for 1st amendment violations in the past year. And it’s been like this since the first Adams administration
They control what is boosted on tiktok
Then...don't? No one is forcing them to, they just can't do business in the US if that is their choice.
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That's a reasonable take but I think practically things need to get done for government to function.
If you look at sibling comments, you'll find a whole discussion where users talk about the major significance to many people of a different numerical estimate. With that in mind, I think that for many people the issue is indeed greater employee income instead of avoiding pennypinching over basic employee wellbeing.
No it's not. China doesn't have any civil/constitutional rights in the USA.
I don’t know for AWS but I did that once as a teenager with another cloud provider and they sent a debt collector to my family home to collect a few euros. The debt collector had a nice fee.
I need to learn how to use these new models
In the EU all social media companies have to comply to the same rules. This is normal "regulation". China also regulates all social media companies on whether or not they are willing to censor speech or not. This is also called normal "regulation" as it applies to all social media companies. No single social media is selected out and discriminated against.

On the other hand, US is regulating Tiktok AND pretty much only Tiktok, which is breaking no laws except now this new one where part of its ownership is Chinese. This wouldn't look as farcical if the US forced facebook, twitter, etc. to comply with privacy issues, etc.
I mostly use YouTube for Shorts and Reels is the de facto format of Instagram nowadays.
They sent a push notification to every American user asking them to ask their congressman to not ban tiktok.
Don't use an iphone if you don't like it, don't use tiktok if you don't like it. It's really very simple, the government has no role in either case.
> If I were Bytedance I would cut off the US

This is economically irrational to the tune of tens of billions of dollars. If Beijing truly does this, it somewhat cements the argument that TikTok was a CCP policy tool.
Sure, my understanding was that Galois is not exactly a co-op.

Why this structure? Is it more advantageous in the US?