skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court sided with the Biden administration, upholding the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act which President Joe Biden signed in April.

Glad to see when it comes to protecting tech monopolies the wisest among us are in full agreement.

Silly things like a right to a speedy trial are up for debate though.

I think this is a massive over reach. You can argue to restrict social media to those over 18, but Americans should have a right to consume content they choose.

What's next, banning books by Chinese authors? Banning Chinese Americans from holding key positions in social media companies, after all they might have uncles in the CCP!

Follow the money. TikTok is an issue for Facebook, BYD cars are an issue for Tesla.
> China has different interests than the US

Define the US here. Is it the government, the people, the business interests of the private sector?

Each one of those has different interests, often competing ones.

In any functional nation the people's interests should prevail, and it seems to me that any information capable of swaying the public's opinion is informing them that their interests are being harmed in favor of other ones.
While I find it entirely plausible that Trump's character is such that he might accept bribes I am aware of no credible evidence that he has ever done so.
I remember trying out TikTok and realizing in horror that it was a slot machine for video content.
Is no one downloading the best content?

I download all my favorite YouTube videos because inevitably some disappear.
The book is called Daylight Robbery: How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43805741-daylight-robber...
I agree completely.

This is awesome, it says many of the things I would say, and also gives some great tips that I should adopt ASAP.

A few pieces of feedback:

- embrace rich types. Give everything a type. That way you can let your IDE and compiler do the work for you when you change an API signature. If you have a function foo(usize, usize, usize) and change the signature you'll have to fix things manually. If it's foo(Length, Width, Height) your IDE can probably make your refactor for you, and the compiler won't let you screw it up. (Edit: somehow I managed to miss the section where they make a point very similar to this.)

- This is complementary to "Use Simple Types", not in opposition. Put String in your rich type rather than &str.

- These techniques can be used on modules on different parts of a working production system. You can have a bullet-proof core along with experimental modules still containing prototype code like "unwrap". Package the module in a thread so that the unwrap can't blow up your core, stick it behind a feature flag and ship it to alpha testers while you iterate to full production quality and wide release.

- this is a spectrum, not a binary. After reading this article you think "if I'm going to use what feels like a different language for prototypes than I do for production, why not just use a different language?" then realize that this is a spectrum. The code evolves from "super-prototypy" to "full production" over time, and most code ends up stopping in the middle without ever going all the way to "full production". Part of the rust experience is realizing that clone() is fine in 95% of your code. The "anyhow" error crate is a nice middle ground between unwrap and highly actionable error types and you'll find more of your code using anyhow than using highly actionable error types.
> Meta could still turnaround and sell this information to Chinese companies

Let them collect and ban this. Difference between Meta and TikTok is you can prosecute the former’s top leadership.
Came here to say the same - fork.dev is awesome.

I used to be a CLI git guy but haven't used it in years now
Software developers:

> we can't do estimates.

Software developers as soon as estimating something would be beneficial for them.

> all you need is one of us on staff, to do estimates.
Instagram and Facebook is more popular outside the US and China than TikTok.
same reason China forbids or controls US companies operating in China. This is just tit-for-tat.
Having a non-trivial number of videos is not the same as being the replacement platform. Youtube is also being spammend with tiktok users uploading old content. The idea that after the dust settles the majority of 110 million tiktok users will end up using a tightly censored chinese social media platform rather than moving to obvious alternatives such as instagram and youtube seems very very unlikely.
The errors on direct influences to warming have been overwhelming on the "too optimistic" direction. We are above the most pessimistic predictions from decades ago.

The errors on consequences of the warming... I'm not sure one can even talk about them without citing specific studies, because those things tend to have undefined timeframes and way into the future contexts (like this 4°C one... is this even possible to achieve by burning fossil fuels?)
I recommend rereading Fahrenheit 451. Satire is not what I’d call it. Nor is it in any way about suppressing technical information — the firemen themselves have printed manuals — it’s about suppressing meaning in favor of triviality as a means of social control.
HN is literally banned in China [1][2]. And since VPNs are also illegal in China, they're breaking the law if they are here. I doubt they'd break the law if they had such a strong allegiance to China.

[1]: https://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=news.ycombinator....

[2]: https://en.greatfire.org/news.ycombinator.com
ever hear of election tampering?
I'm not sure about that... They'll surely continue to use buzzwords "freedom","democracy" for their geopolitics seo.
It's not leaks and breaches that are the immanent concern here. The concern is deep, adversarial manipulation of public sentiment -- a psyops asset that gives a competing nation significant leverage as they pursue ends that challenge established US interests in the Pacific.

You don't have to agree that protecting those interests is worth the disruption to the global market, free speech ideology, etc. But to engage in the debate, you need to recognize that this is the core concern.
I might have missed it, but I’ve never seen a Soyuz booster fly twice, let alone 25 times.
Mike Pall (LuaJIT author/maintainer) is not happy with some of the design decisions and (breaking) changes:

https://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Port-bitop-to-53,1

The biggest issue certainly is the addition of integer types.
Not sure if we’re talking about the same situation, but the last time I was in Bulgaria, there was massive brain drain and a lot of, eh, ‘false nostalgia’ for a very different past.

But tons of money coming in from the EU. I can imagine a lot of public quiet, private ‘angst’ about the kind of situation you’re describing.

Wild guess - Romania? (If not Bulgaria)
Forgejo v10.0 – self-hosted lightweight software forge
> 700,000 installs amount to less than 1% of TikTok’s user base.

700k in how much time? RN tops the (Play Store) charts here (EU/Croatia) as well, and anecdotally there's a lot of word of mouth growth. Even though TikTok will not get banned over here.

> It’s unrealistic to think Rednote will replace TikTok.

Possibly, but it does have a foot in the door. It doesn't look like they were ready for western audience so remains to be seen if they can seize on the opportunity.
I think you have no good answer to this, you should do some soul searching.
UK wildlife have accumulated many times more than safe PFAS in tissue and organs
Oh, so why did you ask ‘renters of what?’ and start talking about home rental?

Well, I think it’s unrealistic to not expect car rentals to track their cars. Renting gardening tools might be a different story. However, SASS subscriptions are software rentals, and GDPR makes it explicitly illegal to track what the software companies rent to EU citizens without consent.

To me it seems like the question in practice is not renting vs buying, it’s about what information is collected, what they’re allowed to do with it, and who it is sent to.

Car rentals could request or require consent as terms of rental. (They probably do, I can admit to never having read the entire contract.) One underlying issue here is whether the car rental company passes your name or identification on to the manufacturer, law enforcement, or service providers. It does seem like they should not have the right to do that automatically without informed consent (not buried in contract legalese). They probably should have the right to track where their car is until it’s returned, and then delete that data. So all depends on what they do with the data.
That's unfair to your interlocutor who politely engaged with your point and tried give his source once, especially since you started with a false statement that you backed away from (with sources, to your credit).

I don't think you are blinded by emotions but "high" on them btw. I do not negate the fact that you are an intelligent, reasoning being. And it's fine, we all get emotional about things.
I understand how appearing reasonable is part of the aesthetics of conservatism but I still wouldn't trust someone who seem engaged in overtly motivated reasoning to get to the truth of something, and I am speaking of both sides here. If you don't show me your own doubts, I will doubt you.

Edit:

You show a lot of understanding and I think that's a prerequisite for any serious conversation but you also see how it is not very practical for any online conversation to have a wall of "I understand that..."

> I find it quite insulting that you see someone having the pro-Palestinian view and you think "oh yeah you're probably all for genociding the Israeli's to get your way"

Well you see the problem, like any dispute in any relationship, it's an endless chain of "I feel insulted that..." unless you have a strict framework for discussion where everyone feels heard.
Of course I don't see pro-Palestinians as having genocidal intent (and I take offence that you think I do :). I was one and I did not, but I also understand that an israeli person would be concerned about violent reprisals and wouldn't trust high on reighteouness pro-palestinians who would absolve themselves saying "Well they reap what they sow".
That's why peace is hard, it takes a saint-like dedication to dialogue and gandhi-like refusal of revenge.
I think it's a troubling sign that American cultural decline is much broader and deeper than Trumpism.
Hey fellow hackers!

Recently started an interview process for a security role.
To refresh my knowledge of eBPF and container security/runtime detection I've got the idea to do a few exercises to learn and suffer.

If anyone interested I've put together an example project.
Feel free to give tips and further resources.
Thanks for the years of lurking and interesting discussion. First time poster here, be kind ^^
> countries that started the most wars and invasions in the last 150 years and which one tops it easily

What is the list? Does WWII count as one war, or do we could belligerents individually?
> there's no evidence at all that Tik Tok's been feeding China any data.

Because China's political system applies absolutely no pressure for transparency.

> Whereas we have proof and evidence that US agencies can access data about citizens from anywhere else in the world without even needing a court order.

Something we know about because the US political system has levers that can be pulled to apply pressure for transparency.

You'd have to be very naive not to think that the Chinese government has an interest in controlling what US users of TikTok see. Whether they actually have or not is a somewhat useless question because we'll never know definitively, and even if they haven't today there's nothing saying they won't tomorrow.

We can say that they have both the motive and capability to do so.
Whether Congress has jurisdiction here is not at issue. The court is deciding a different question, which is whether the ban would violate the first amendment. We look at their ruling:

>We granted certiorari to decide whether the Act, as applied to petitioners, violates the First Amendment.
So the answer was... Elect in a president who long lost his mental faculties. Okay.
The most scary thing nowadays is that a lot of people fail Reverse Turing Test. They think that the thing there (the LLM) is thinking... They say "I told chat" etc. If high-ranking people will fail the test they are able to start using AI instead of thinking, or for example impose laws using AI...
Can someone please please PLEASE tell SpaceX PR/Streaming team that the speed (per SI system) is measured in meters per second, not kilometers per hour? The speed of sound is approx 300 m/s, orbital velocity is approx 8,0000 m/s (depending on altitude), free fall acceleration on Earth is 9.81m/s, 1.63m/s on the Moon, the speed of light is apporx 300,000,000 m/s, people learn these numbers in middle school. It's not 1000 km/h, or 28,000 km/h, it just looks so weird.

Edit: ok, acceleration is meters per second per second, but my point stands.
For one day? Maybe.
And yet Russian apps are in our app stores.

There are no Russian apps that collect extensive data on hundreds of millions of Americans. (And if I'm wrong about that, the US should absolutely force divestiture of those apps or ban them).
Depends on the limiter.

Hard limiters limit by clipping.

If you look at the output waveform, I mean. It’s why limiters are sometimes used for distortion. The flat top and/or bottom create overtones.
Private Keys in the Fortigate Leak
they think they are going to get cheap eggs and bacon
Plenty of good answers have already been put forward. But in case you're asking in good faith, here are the two main ones:

1- It's in the interest of the US government to protect its interests and citizens from governments that are considered adversarial, which China is. And unlike other countries, the Chinese government exercises a great deal of direct control over major companies (like ByteDance). If TikTok was controlled by the Russian government would we even be having this conversation? (Ironically most Americans are freaked out about Russia, but when it comes to global politics, China is the much greater threat to the U.S.)

I think social media in general - including by US companies - does more harm than good to society and concentrates too much power and influence in the hands of a few (Musk, Zuck, etc.) So this isn't to say that "US social media is good". But from a national security standpoint, Congress' decision makes sense.

2- If China allowed free access to US social media apps to its citizens then it might have a leg to stand on. But those are blocked (along with much of the Western internet) or heavily filtered/censored. TikTok itself is banned in China. So there's a strong tit-for-tat element here, which also is reasonable.
I often hear this (probably because PIL is so optimistic about it), but I would say that 1-based indexing is not just a convention, it's a default that's baked into the language:

> array = {"A", "B", "C"}
> array[1]
A

And there's more: built-in functions like ipairs will not work with hacked-up zero indices (which you would have to specify every time you create an array). Overall, straying from the default is not a great idea unless you really need to (like in LuaJIT).
SCOTUS explicitly avoided ruling on this justification, and it seemed at argument that even some of the conservative justices were uncomfortable with the free speech implications of it.
The concern is they won't be 17 forever. 5/10/20/30 years down the line some small portion of these kids are going to hold important jobs, and some of them will have worthwhile blackmail material in their tiktok history.
I don't know what Congress has said but there absolutely is evidence that TikTok has been used to spy on users for political reasons. A US based engineer claims that he saw evidence that Hong Kong protestors were spied on in 2018 at the behest of a special committee representing the CCP's interests within ByteDance. This is not surprising, most major corporations within China maintain a special committee representing the government's interests to company executives

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/6/7/china-spied-on-ho...
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"we make so much we can't even count it anymore" -Apple
Apple pretending they don't have accountants or data analysts.
Not sure if sarcastic or not, I'll bite. If tiktok infringes some kind of data privacy laws, punish them. If the data privacy laws of the US are bad, improve them.

But this? Just because some... not so bright soldiers use tiktok to upload videos of their base? What else is there so bad it requires a total ban? It seems like hypocrisy to me, when Meta, Google, X also have similar data available and also don't want to adhere to for example EU laws.
What are the limits on Retroaction? Can Retroactive changes revise history?

For example, if I change the code / transactions in a step, how do you reconcile what state to prepare for which transactions. For example, you'll need to reconcile deleted and duplicated calls to the DB?
> 1 - Get an amplifier that has a "Night Mode" function

Well, or get a compressor/limiter that you can jank into any signal chain, so you don't have to buy a whole new amplifier. You can find cheap compressors/limiters for like under $100 I'm sure.
Anecdotally, I can tell you that everyone in my kid's circle of friends at school moved over to it within the course of a week.
It doesn't defeat the purpose. You can just make a new ban. There would be less friction since there is already an example.
The logic behind such a ruling is nonsensical. Imagine if a president, in his/her official capacity, started murdering political rivals. In other countries, that's considered a dictatorship and should be stopped. But in America, that's completely legal according to SCOTUS. In fact, that was one of the questions asked by the justices!

Apparently, committing crimes with absolute immunity is a necessary part of the presidential office. Without such protections, they'd be afraid to do things like extrajudicial drone strikes (Obama) and internment camps (FDR). Oh, wait.

I hate to "Poe's Law" this tangent, but most people forget that Hitler's rise to power was also completely legal. Just change the constitution and get the judiciary to side with you, and you can do anything. It's terrifying.
I was floored to see how miniPCs are bottom-barrel in pricing…interesting to see how this will trend with AI cpus in the next decade for overdriving automated tasks for persons…
It's about psychological manipulation of Americans. TikTok is a completely different experience in China. Social media influences us in negative ways. And the Chinese government can and does take advantage of that.
It was standard-issue junk science: a grabby idea, a statistically significant p-value extracted from noisy data, and big claims.

As a lover of words, I was surprised to encounter the word "grabby", which I don't recall having heard before. According to one of my Oxford dictionaries (not the OED) it means greedy or grasping. I wonder if the author is subtly extending its meaning to specifically mean "grasping at straws".
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/06/900019185/trump-signs-executi...
National security doesn't have to mean they use the app to take over the devices it is installed on. It can also be used to spread misinformation or blackmail people.
That's not forgetting the ability for them to just straight up 100% legally purchase a lot of this information from data brokers.
We are not in agreement about this particular example because it was made with care.
Ah. I see we are spoiled with <4ms queries on our database. See, it all depends on perspective and use case. :)
Immune Privilege
I wanted to recheck my own conception, and while what he says is an intuitive part of the American psyche I would like to advocate a dissenting account.

Ambiguous unnamed faceless special interest groups, not singularly powerful individuals are in actuality the greatest threat among the American people.

You are under duress and are being looted by a fraction of society you don’t even acknowledge exists among you.

The modern western “oligarchs” are only manifestations of our collective psychology in individuals with greater means.
Sure, their recklessness and specific interests may too be concerning.
PSA: if you are using (modern) C++, https://github.com/ThePhD/sol2 makes embedding Lua incredibly easy and straightforward.
Two extremely obvious reasons:

First, it's a national security issue for a company controlled by the CCP to have intimate data access for hundreds of millions of US citizens. Not only can they glean a great deal of sensitive information, but they have the ability to control the algorithm in ways that benefit the CCP.

Second, China does not reciprocate this level of vulnerability. US companies do not have the same access or control over Chinese users. If you want to allow nation states to diddle around with your citizens, then it ought to be a reciprocal arrangement and then it all averages out.
Not exactly.

The Chinese constitution, in addition to endowing rights, also endows obligations.

So while you have things like:
> Article 35 Citizens of the People’s Republic of China shall enjoy freedom of speech, the press, assembly, association, procession and demonstration.

You also have things like:
> Article 54 Citizens of the People’s Republic of China shall have the obligation to safeguard the security, honor and interests of the motherland; they must not behave in any way that endangers the motherland’s security, honor or interests.
They're headquartered in the US with substantial US ownership, which is the same logic applied to Tiktok. Zuckerberg's pretty heavily rooted in the US with no obvious inclination to leave, and you can see the effect that the change in administrations is having on his steering of Meta as a whole.
Right, I guess I'm wrong about this then.
Insurance Companies do need to make a profit and Local, State and Fed Gov is allowing building in very risky areas. Just look at Florida, that is a very risky area for weather and sea rise.

So in reality the burden is falling on Insurance Companies. High rates will in a way prevent building in those areas.
Tiktok was banned primarily for influence, secondarily for data.

The influence is what law makers care far more about. Remember what Russia was doing on facebook in 2016? Now imagine that Russia actually owned facebook at the time.
Bernie Sanders: the H1B program replaces good-paying American jobs [video]
The DHS does that in the United States.

Every major social media and dating application has a law enforcement portal. This was documented in BlueLeaks.
It happened at about the time budgetary winter happened for the us space budget, so there was no follow-up on the demonstrator.
This is a really shitty move by Google. Not happy at all. I don't want to use Gemini or any other AI crap they throw at us. Specially that we had a contract and they are increasing the price during the contract without us having any say. Google has really lost the "Don't do evil" mantra.

The problem is that once you are heavily tied into the Workspace ecosystem (Email, Google Drive, Google Meet etc), it is tough to change and move. Possible Yes. But the idea of moving decades of email and data is just horrifying.
Ok. I am impressed!

I fed a youtube Link to notebook LM and it came back saying: "This video cannot be imported. Transcript not available."

I fed it to swiftnotes.ai and worked like a champ.

Great work!!

Much love,
Gabriel
One of the few federal powers in the constitution includes "control over foreign commerce". Somehow a Chinese website is now "foreign commerce". China bad.

I think that covers it.
It is, and if this a stepping stone to that conversation, that’s a good thing. Great even. If you expect to have everything at once, you’ll make no progress.