skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That kind of assumes Oracle is lying about the data they host and control for the US instance of TikTok, or that Oracle is unable to secure said data.

A few things are curious to me about all of this, which leads me to believe it’s political posturing.

The EU has a similar arrangement to the US in that they have an “auditor partner” and host the entirety of the EU infrastructure and services within the EU. The EU is not taking severe business actions in the shadow of undisclosed national security grounds.

There’s frequent statements about “massive data collection”. What data? I can only find IP addresses and volunteered contact information being collected. TikTok doesn’t have access to device location data, so IP addresses are the closest there is to geo location. TikTok has said they scrub that when stored - easy to verify.

TikTok has given their auditor (at least in the US) access to the recommendation engine algos. I assume that access comes with some ability to confirm what they audit is what’s actually in use, but haven’t seen reporting that confirms it.

And finally I don’t understand why so many politicians, including all presidential candidates and a not insignificant number of congressional members use TikTok.

Just some of the reasons I think this is more special interest/politically motivated rather than actual national security issues that would be any different than other socials.
If you're bottleneck involves waiting on five people to approve something all at once, then that sounds like a project management problem.

That also assumes that your 17 second hallway traversal results in all five employees being in the same ares and not off doing other projects or in meetings.

> There’s a limited supply of ambitious, talented people, and you need this group.

Yikes.

Well, if that's the case and those people are so in-demand, guess where they'll want to work? (Hint: Wherever they wsnt.)

The people bending over and coming into an office? They have no other option.
Find a new apartment? Here's the FCC broadband map: https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/home
Is it really worth dodging one lawsuit at the cost of the impending disgust from thousands of potential customers?
Pre-tool hominids is going back over 3 million years ago, maybe much further. Long before homo sapiens even existed.
Need to query the California PUC about whether having signed up for Google relieves them from liabilty if you're hit by a Waymo.
Unfortunately those come with extremely weak hw. I got one of those phones (there are no high end, small, 3.5, rootable phones). I struggle to use background apps.
I found the technique he used to find secrets using YARA rules to be extremely clever, at least.
If this argument actually works, then laws need serious change
> any other ideas?

Call it disappointment I guess. No phone from any manufacturer has felt totally “right” to me in years in the way that phones from a decade ago did. It makes sense from a business perspective since smartphones were effectively complete way back then. The business needs a way to justify selling me a new one so it's been a long slow downhill of shit-I-don't-care-about ever since. I especially miss the era of HTC flagships. HIGH TECH COMPUTER!

The software is disappointing too even though today was not really a software announcement. To me it feels like since they're both from Google the Pixel hardware direction also signals what Android itself will prioritize. I used to be a huge Android-the-OS fan but found that my enjoyment of the platform peaked at 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. Version 4.3 was the first version to remove something I loved (the “Phablet” UI layouts that were great on my Galaxy NoteⅡ). Announcements like today's push that point of Peak Android even further away in my mind, and I'm sad about it.
To your credit, you did explicitly call out your example in the blog post as something you wouldn't _actually_ want to do, so it didn't bother me. I've found that I'm more receptive to contrived examples to demonstrate a point if they aren't trying to hide the fact that they're contrived, so if I'm trying to convey a concept via example, sometimes I'll lean into the fact that the example is unrealistic to make it clear that the lack of utility shouldn't distract from the idea. As a silly example of this (see what I did there?), I might implement a trait with a `len` method that always returns 0 on strings to show how to resolve ambiguity when adding a method with name that a type already has in Rust.
Hamlet might have had a point. This feels very like a-moral application of years of legal training.

On this basis, any transactions, of any nature which come with an Implied contract acceptance are going to be superseded by words which enable get-out-of-jail-free for all parent, associated, restructured companies, forever.

Watch out when you sign the hotel bill. You just promised to give your body on death to the parent company's medical school.

I doubt it's that simple but you would hope the justice system is going to tear this legal theory a new exit hole and not wash their hands first. Specificity is everything in a contract. Sweeping terms, perpetual licence would be a nightmare.

(Not a lawyer, which will be obvious)
Or whether having ever done business with Tesla prevents one from suing Tesla if someone else’s autopiloting car hits them.

Presumably a sensible court would hold that no possible interpretation of a contract affects a lawsuit unrelated to the scope of the product or services provided under that contract.
I’ve alerted all my friends in Kentucky. That thing could blow any time.
And I rather depend on a PLB, whose signal can be picked up by an international network of receivers on 406MHz, and even transmits a homing beacon for first responders.

No subscription required either. You simply register the beacon with a government agency (in the US, its via the NOAA, and distress signals are handled by the coast guard or air force receivers)
Tangential, but: As a big Space Trader fan I remember playing the contemporaneous game EV Nova and being so blown away by it. It felt like the same idea as Space Trader (visit different systems and buy/sell goods to make money) but then with exciting space combat, an actual storyline, and so many interesting locations!!

I gave up eventually because I got stuck on a certain station, and whenever I tried to leave I was immediately killed by a swarm of stronger ships. But it was still a cool experience.
Disney isn't worried about a few thousand customers, and most of them either won't hear of this or won't know how else to occupy their kids' attention
Thousand of customers is nothing to Disney
It is worth pausing for a moment to ask who these policies really favour though. I'd contend that the reason why China blocks Western media access is because they want their people to be poorly informed, especially about the weaknesses of the CCP. The policy creates weaknesses in China and makes it easier for them to descend into groupthink. AFAIK they haven't made radical changes to prevent something like the Great Leap recurring, they still have a dangerously centralised system that could cannibalise itself in a 5-year groupthink episode.

The reason the West generally doesn't adopt policies like that is because we believe in letting people speak the truth to power and that generally gives us an advantage because we have more overall perspectives and are more likely to organise around the truth. It is challenging to suppress discussions about our own weaknesses and we are aware of where the major problem points are likely to be.

Mimicking China's policies restricting access to markets is probably a loss for us. We want asymmetry here, it gives us an advantage. Given that we seem to have/be giving up the industrial edge it is worth holding on to what we have left.
apologies will do better
Even if it would be rational to change the probabilities one assigns to one’s future event space, that doesn’t mean one can’t commit to not considering such reasons.

Now, if it’s irrational to do so, then it’s irrational to do so, even though it is possible. But I’m not so sure it is irrational. If one is considering situations with things as powerful and oppositional as that, it seems like, unless one has a full solid theory of acausal trade ready and has shown that it is beneficial, that it is probably best to blanket refuse all acausal threats, so that they don’t influence what actually happens here.
I could have specificed better, but I used "console-style" to descibe a catch all of "90's/00's style games that would launch on console/PC pre-networked age". Thought it was be less confusing and pompous to say that than "Actual PC games"

Then again, I could have just said offline games, and maybe I was overthinking it.
> Now that a single foreign company has gained the level of breakout popularity that had already been achieved by 20+ domestic companies, it's time for pearl clutching galore.

Well seeing as this other country is likely to be at war with either us or our allies soon, yes that is a pretty big deal.

If a country that we are likely to be at war with has significant influencer over our population, that is indeed a big deal.

> So I guess the lawmakers' concerns still aren't really about protecting Americans,

Of course it is about protecting Americans. It is about protecting Americans and our allies from the effects of an upcoming war between super powers.

That is very much a reasonable concern.

> We the People are set to lose.

No we don't. If an enemy country is less effectively able to wage war against us or our allies, that would be a win for our country. Us and our allies winning wars is better than us losing them.
What could have people been doing to take more precautions when the breach was

"stolen personal records of 2.9 billion people from National Public Data, which offers personal information to employers, private investigators, staffing agencies and others doing background checks."
Endurance and spear hunting are not mutually exclusive techniques, they are the same. The African tribes that endurance hunt use spears to make the kill. It's quite difficult to get within spear striking distance of an antelope without a long chase.
Sometimes it's nice to abstract a place where you need the answer from the way you determine the answer; that's basically why functions exist in the first place! Later on, if you decide that you want to tweak the way the implementation works, you don't need to do it literally everywhere.
It can be diagnosed with a skin test. How long does infection last; in a span of weeks, months, or years?

Is the infection pattern closer to resolution followed by repeated recurrence, or lifelong (unwilling) symbiosis?
Ok, "decent amount": Buying a coffee at McDonald's 3.5 days a week is a decent amount to spend on coffee. $150 is absurd. The "house painter" is making their own coffee before work.
Who is the target audience for this? Terraform can deploy serverless apps to AWS Lambda and GCP Cloud run too. Why would I use this instead?
Chinese national security law essentially requires cooperation with anything regulators deem necessary. This isn’t like the western world where the law is written from a presumption that citizens enjoy individualism as a default.

https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/2015nsl/#_Toc423592316

> Article 11: Citizens of the People's Republic of China, all state organs and armed forces, each political parties and mass organization, enterprises, public institutions and other social organizations, all have the responsibility and obligation to preserve national security.

> Article 77: Citizens and organizations shall perform the following obligations to preserve national security:

> (4) Providing conditions to facilitate national security efforts and other assistance;

> (5) Providing public security organs, state security organs or relevant military organs with necessary support and assistance;

> (7) Other duties provided by law or administrative regulations.

> Article 79: Enterprises, public institutions, and organizations shall cooperate with relevant departments in employing relevant security measures as required by national security efforts.
It's called the 'wait calculation' btw if you or another reader are not familiar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_travel#Wait_calcu...
This is probably true but ostriches are also one of the few two legged runners on the planet.
> How does one group doing something bad justify not caring about another group doing it?

If you have two choices and both behave same on some principle, trying to have a principled stand is futile.

> I'd much rather have a dossier with the NSA than with their Chinese counterpart.

That's a naive view. For Italians, dossier with Giorgia Meloni or her friends can be far more dangerous than with Xi. By proximity and relevance, they are more likely to be vocal about/active in Italian politics. Also, Italian govt. has far more power to influence their lives than Chinese govt. has.

As an Indian, I'll be far more concerned about how much I am tracked by Modi/Indian police/agencies than the Chinese counterparts.
Well what sort of thing do you want to read?

Go to the library and have a look
The contract between Apple and "Apple Corp" came into sharper focus when Apple launched iTunes.
my issue with TikTok is not its privacy policy, or whether it spies on me or not. my issue with TikTok is it does not enforce its community standards on pro-CCP stances

i've reported over 100 antisemitic content and comments - none of them have been taken down

simply having an israel flag and yellow ribbon on your tiktok name can result in over 20 antisemitic replies, even if your comment has nothing to do with the conflict

this lack of action seems to contribute to the growing number of teens developing antisemetic views, which is deeply, deeply troubling
I feel in my bones that sometime in the last five years, large enough companies have lost the fear of pissing off the public. Consumers have proven too passive and docile to act. Big enough companies have become too big to be disrupted. We're about to enter a new phase of powerlessness.
It sounds like you're precisely describing Rust's Result type. [0]

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/result/
Agreed. They should at least say that an artibration clause in a contract can never apply to anything that's not covered by that particular contract for that particular transaction.
I actually don't know the answer to this. The US government has more influence over US companies, but US companies also have more influence over the US government.
Everything in its place. 5S in the workplace:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/5S_(methodology)
Seems like any reasonable court would find it unenforceable, but who knows
It reminds me that each year Freiberg University of Mining and Technology publishes a calendar of Complex Beauties[1], of which I buy several copies as gifts every year.

It includes 12 visualizations of selected complex functions and their background and related mathematicians. I would highly recommend reading them. Prof. Dr. Elias Wegert, the author who actively contributes to this calendar, also wrote Visual Complex Functions: An Introduction with Phase Portraits which is mentioned by another comment here.

[1]: https://blogs.hrz.tu-freiberg.de/mathekalender/english/

Edit: Navigate to the german page if you want to buy it
I don't even know where my phone icon is(don't even remember the last time I used it), but I just searched for phone tapped the phone app and it launched instantly. So it's probably something unique to your phone. I suggest you wander it into Apple and see if they can fix it.

As for customization, that's sort of Apple's main feature set: It will always work the same everywhere on every device.
> There’s frequent statements about “massive data collection”. What data?

That is a good question. Answer: among other data, the very data of the platform itself. Everything nearly every young person has said in a message on the platform, public or private. Everything they view, and how they view it. Same with interactions. Easily enough to build a complete psychographic profile ("who in this list is most vulnerable to coercion?") and a convincing AI clone if one were so inclined.

And that's if the mere content viewed or posted or interacted with, wasn't itself enough for blackmail. Which it often is. It could be something as simple as coercing a summer intern to visit a website on a vulnerable computer, if they want to prevent those DMs to Alice or Bob from being leaked. Oops, now all those trade secrets, aren't.

> I don’t understand why so many politicians, including all presidential candidates and a not insignificant number of congressional members use TikTok.

Most of them, I assume, aren't reaching out to their mistresses or paramours over tiktok. Location data collected by the app obviously is still an issue there.

It's not great to think about, and it's not a justification for actions about which the blackmail revolves, but that's how some intelligence ops have historically happened.
I think the reality is that regulations will become more “sticky”. There will be a motivation to get it “right” the first time. Overall, I am happy to see an end to capricious reinterpretation with every change of administration. I don’t expect that we will see more specific legislation.
Rocks and pointy sticks are tools, pointy sticks work even better with a woomera or atlatl, and yes, insanely good at chucking stuff ... I went to a primary school that had old guys come in most lunch times to throw spears and other objects with kids at targets up to an (AFL) football field length away.

Even with rocks you can hunt smart, throwing rocks and chasing to box them into gullys even they find hard to jump clear of before a pack of kids close in.

For general interest:

Is this the best spear fisherman in the world? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gmCX7R-W4c
I think the simple one is x=0.999..., 10x=9.9999..., 10x-x=9.999...-0.999..., 9x=9, x=1
You are wrong in so many ways its hard to know where to start but no we 100% are not better off, "further domesticating native species that indigenous peoples have often already partially domesticated" a phrase that barely even makes sense in the context of the need for modern agriculture to feed 8 billion people.
> Preferring a week long battery life isn’t weird. What is weird is saying an Apple Watch is inferior to a 10 year old watch because of the battery life, when these are different devices with different purposes.

It's the same thing. I'm not going to wear two watches, a choice has to be made. Based on criteria important to me (and to the original commenter you jumped on) Apple Watch is clearly inferior.
> She, a week after having the cameras monitoring the election office turned off, knowingly allowed an unauthorized person to view election machine credentials.

A single insider shouldn't be able to potentially undermine the voting in an entire jurisdiction and, depending on the vulnerability, multiple jurisdictions. That is a massive vulnerability revealed by the fact that she was able to do it. No single person should be able to undermine our voting system and she knew they could and then demonstrated it. It is illegal and she should answer for the way she revealed the vulnerability but then I think Julian Assange and Edward Snowden should have been tried and jailed long ago for their unethical and irresponsible disclosures too, so I'm not a hypocrite.
You seem to be pushing this on every comments you make. Could you not?
so maybe don't cling on to "the job" so much and hoping it somehow can fulfil your life. If the job can be automated by a machine then isn't it already meaningless and mundance and bore you to death anyway?

I agree with the point about "wealth accumulates at the top" though. Maybe Karl Marx was right about a thing or 2. Maybe the distribution of wealth should not fall into the hand of non-elected corporations. Whatever it is, it should be determined by a democratic process and not some "market mechanism" that is actually just arbitrary algorithms optimized for metrics no actual human cares about.
I remember some other Forthers made arrangements to keep it running.
My first instinct would be to use a static instance of `LazyLock`[1] wrapping the data (or `OnceLock`[2] if needed). `LazyLock` only just got stabilized, and `OnceLock` only a bit less recently, but both have equivalents available via the `once_cell`[3] package for a while.

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/sync/struct.LazyLock.html
[2]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/sync/struct.OnceLock.html
[3]: https://crates.io/crates/once_cell
Netflix does pay that well to compensate, but not Amazon.
> Which even without Tiktok, can be straightforwardly done by China (and every other foreign power) paying the domestic surveillance companies for access and influence

I think your definition of surveillance is too broad. If any data broker can pay Facebook to get my data, then it's effectively public data and therefore cannot really be a national security concern. Alternatively, if TikTok hoards all their user data to use against a presidential candidate in 20-30 years, that is a security concern. It's also a concern that China can, at any time, change the algorithm to promote their own talking points. Second hand data and access is simply a much different ball game compared to direct platform control
People want "one big program" that can do everything on the web. Doesn't matter that it's a stupid idea. We still want it.
The scale of incompetence in our industry should be embarassing. You can also see it in the public statements made by some SV 'leaders' - what other industry has prominent people making fools of themselves like that? Is it a surprise that their products are poorly made or often scams? When people tell you who they are, believe them!

If you want to see something scary, look at the fake story Demirkapi managed to post, and note the domain name - actually nytimes.com! (IMPORTANT: The story is not real!)

https://web.archive.org/web/20230330043732/https://intl.prd....

Again, that's not real. But if the hacker tried, lots of people could react long before they realize it.
Unnecessarily agressive
Nobody in government leadership and military command is concerned about authoritarianism and civilian surveillance: These are passionate ethics notions that don't have pragmatic importance. What they care about is giving a major de facto enemy nation (who it's also jointly preparing a conventional and nuclear war against) substantial media production capabilities and backdoor staging areas within its own borders. It's tantamount to granting Germany broadcasting control over most domestic US airwaves prior to 1941. Wars may be decided by the beliefs of the citizens who doomscroll TikTok.