skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because there is no "TikTok" ban and never has been.

There is a "TikTok cannot be controlled by the CCP" law. TikTok is completely legal under the law as long as they divest it. However, in a great act of self-incrimination, Bytedance (de facto controlled by CCP) has decided to not divest and would rather shutdown instead.
I doesn't have anything to do with "appeasing" the US, the Chinese version is heavily filtered and tilted towards CPP prefered activities and worldview, such a platform would never work on the international market and they know it.

And it obviously is not a split if they are seperate apps from the beginning. Why do you lie so much btw?
The SCOTUS opinion does not rely on a national security interest to justify itself, merely that the ban is content neutral and thus is subject to intermediate scrutiny.
They copied TikTok.
> Let them collect and ban this.

As if this would get banned.
I think in the future people will look back at kids on social media, like we look back at kids smoking cigarettes.
It was also impossible to make things out of fiberglass, but hand-carved stone was actually available.
Hoity-toity campuses are actually more efficient than every little prince getting his own personal tutor. The problem in both cases is that the parents of these children, as a class, demand the income and social infrastructure necessary to get their children this education, at everyone else's expense.

At some point, the masses say, "No." They realize that they're never getting a seat at that particular table, and turn from fighting over the charity spots to attempts at dismantling their exploitation. From there, you either get a robust public school system that provides a decent education for everyone, or a police state.

Suffice it to say, no one parent's dreams for their kids should come at the expense of another's.
Maybe the "community notes" model isn't so bad after all
Otherwise known as a lever within the US political system that allows for transparency.

No free press, no whistleblowers.
I just wish we could ban user-tracking (and data brokers) entirely so we wouldn't have this problem to begin with, or at least not to the current extent.

Keeping the data securely inside our country is never going to work if China can simply open their wallet and spend billions of $ to obtain the data.
This still doesn't really directly answer the question in plain English.

So would that mean Red Note would get banned as well?
It's also chronically understaffed.
> Even a judge, Sotomayer said during this case that yes, the Government can say to someone that their speech is not allowed.

> Looks like a major erosion of first amendment protections.

It's not an erosion because it was already true and has been true for centuries.
> But why didn't Supreme Court find the first ammendment arguments compelling? As per first ammendment it is legal and protected to print/distribute/disseminate even enemy propaganda in the USA.

> Even at the height of cold war for example Soviet Publications were legal to publish, print and distribute in the USA.

That was explicitly brought up in oral arguments by the court, and the response by the US Gov was: "The act is written to be content neutral."

The court's opinion explains that they agree the law is "appropriately tailored" to remain content neutral. Whether it's "enemy propaganda" or not is, in their view, irrelevant to the application of the law. TikTok can exist in America, using TikTok is not banned, the owner just can't be a deemed "foreign adversary", which there is a history of enforcement (to some degree).
Yes there are. The First Amendment is limited by compelling government interest, which (in practice) means it can be fairly arbitrarily by SCOTUS.

https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/post/what-the-first-amendmen...
Amusingly, Apple and Google might be the first serious regulators of those.

https://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~hchsiao/pub/2024_ACSAC_lootbox....

"Verifying Loot-box Probability Without Source-code Disclosure"

Just read the abstract
What's the alternative? It's not particularly viable to just relocate an entire city.

Then there's the question of where to move them to. Between wildfires, hurricanes, and earthquakes you've eliminated most of the coasts. Much of the rest of the country defines its identity to a significant degree as being opposed to cosmopolitan cities. That doesn't leave a lot of places to move to even if we could just move the cities.
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Make it easier, probably. Even in the glory days of RSS I just never put in the effort to make it work for me. (sort of like how Twitter fans always told me I had to "curate" my feed better to make it less of a cesspool, but I actually just didn't care about randos yeeting random junk into the void).

Curating your feed requires a LOT of upfront investment, and then a nonzero amount of maintenance.
It's literally only McDonalds though who goes to this degree and does so across different codebases in locales across the world. The departments you're talking about exist in many places, but no other big company has their apps be like this so consistently.
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Taking into account how thoroughly you explain all the intricate details of memory handling it's strange that in the example you haven't clearly commented on the fact of oversimplification of handling unsuccessful allocation (leading to the potentially risky situation).

To say that "this is a nice example of how fiddly C memory management is" in the discussion is a bit too little - perhaps intended readers of the article would prefer an explicit warning there, just to be aware that they shouldn't forget to abort the program as you do.
A simpler explaination, politicians were worried that Tiktok may influence mit-term and presidential elections, but it turns out a good place to run campaigns.

Then Gaza happened.
The comparison here is a slot machine: you pay a a few to play, you pull the lever to play, you win a prize.

Here, the payment is your attention, you swipe to the next video to play the game, and the prize if you land on a good video is a small hit of dopamine.
I think your wife is right. I have a tesla and I always think about that indicating something. Also Tesla's are so ubiquitous it doesn't matter that much like it used to be, and you can get a used one for pretty cheap. But that rich guy reputation still persists.

And then now that we have Elon Musk following the Howard Hughes self destructive cycle (greatest video game player AND ceo of 5 companies who posts all day on social media), there's a very possible negative takeaway - especially in tech it's hard to know. I live in a ridiculous world, I actually see 'got mine before elon was a doofus' bumper stickers. We should all try to judge each other on actual behavior and choices. I'm an asshole completely separate from buying a tesla a decade ago, people.
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> Douyin (The Chinese Tiktok version) limits users under 14 to 40 minutes per day and primarily serves educational content, while TikTok's algorithm outside China optimizes for maximum engagement regardless of content quality or user wellbeing.

This isn't true, at least not for adults' accounts. I've watched my girlfriend use it and the content was exactly what she watched on TikTok, mostly dumb skits, singing, dancing, just all in Chinese instead of half in Chinese. It also never kicked her off for watching too long.

I was told a similar story about Xiaohongshu, where it was supposedly an app for Chinese citizens to read Mao's quotations (through the lens of Xi Jinping Thought) to prove their loyalty. Then I saw it for real and it's literally Chinese Instagram.
Misinformation. I've seen plenty of gay people on there. Including myself and my partner.
The arguments presented to the SCOTUS and the opinion itself are totally contained within the context of the First Amendment. No one is even arguing about anything other than the First Amendment and the exceptions permitted to that amendment.
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Chopping up a tree is kind of fun, we bill that to the entertainment budget instead of the heating budget. And it usually happens during a hotter season, so I might have to go inside to take a break, get a cool drink. So, we can bill some of the tree chopping activity to the cooling budget!
How did they find TikTok originally? Or Snapchat, or all the other silly apps they use? We're all being bombarded with marketing and advertising every day. Maybe this new app is good at marketing and the product itself is as good as TikTok, who knows, I don't use either of them.

The TikTok ban would have been the perfect opportunity for any number of competing US social media apps to swoop in and offer TT's current users a replacement, but they seem to have all failed to address that market.
Do Mermaid class diagrams support generics (parameterized types)?
This case was not about speech. It was about a vehicle for speech having a high risk of being used for espionage and PSYOPS. If TikTok was the only vehicle available for people to post on the internet, then maybe the First Amendment argument would hold water.

This decision doesn't tell people they can't speak any more than, say, shutting down a specific TV station or newspaper which has been used for money laundering or which is broadcasting obscene content.
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If it gains more than 1 million active users and the president deems it to represent a potential threat, yes

Edit: assuming they, like tiktok, refuse to divest to a company based in the US

Edit: also assuming it is a foreign company. I’ve never even heard of it prior to this comment section
Daniel Dennett was strong proponent of alternative information distribution mechanisms in case of internet goes down for everyone. We haven't even studied such scenarios.
I think the threshold is way lower than that?
The "Covered Company" definition mentions 1 million monthly active users for at least 2 of the 3 months preceding some determination.

Also, I wonder who is the foreign-based "reviews" site that lobbied for the exclusion clause immediately following that?

https://www.congress.gov/118/plaws/publ50/PLAW-118publ50.pdf
Seconded on MiniDSP being a great solution.

You can have four different presets for different signal processing. The important part is that you can set them up how YOU want. Proprietary black box DSP parameters labeled as “night mode” or “movie mode” are hardly descriptive enough for my taste.

It is also worth mentioning that if you decide to get a Dirac model/license, it is locked to the device instead of the purchaser. This is big deal for resale value, as many receivers lock licenses to the purchaser (and aren’t readily transferrable to new gear).

I am a big fan of what they are doing in the space. I recently purchased a HTX from them for my living room and I have been as happy as a clam.
It's not just that. If you need to use their court system they shut that down part of the year too which can lead to additional penalties if trying to fight an incorrect late penalty. Their legal system is entirely isolated from the federal courts.
> Israel is why we can’t have nice things in America.

I wouldn't say TikTok is a "nice thing" ..
Other countries that were concerned about this started blocking websites of their adversaries decades ago.
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Insurance companies are for profit. They run the analysis of how much they need to charge to break even, and aim to charge above that. If they charge too high, customers will look at the alternatives and switch to a competitor.

You can replace "insurance" with any other business, the whole of capitalism is built upon this. Every stock on the stock market is trying to "provide returns to their investors" - each one is as guilty as the next - theres nothing special about insurance companies.

If the argument is that insurance should be a federally provided service, then we must have a different conversation. Look at the FAIR plan. They are government created, and will get wiped out because of these fires, possibly because they weren't charging enough to begin with (and taxpayers will now need to bail them out). The math doesn't change whether its state backed or privately backed. If a home, on average, gets burned down every X years, then the insurance premium needs to be adjusted to be able to cover that.

And here is the crux of the problem - if you take away the free market aspect of being able to adjust prices, and get forced to sell a product/service for less than what you need to, there will be a loss somewhere, in this order of operations:

1. loss at the insurance company --> insurance company goes broke or leaves the state

2. loss at the FAIR plan --> FAIR plan reserves get wiped out

3. loss at the state level --> taxpayers need to bail the situation out.

Id argue that letting the free market work (at layer 1 above) is the proper way about it. If a house burns down every 10 years, let insurance charge 10% of that cost, because that is the actual risk involved in the system. House prices will naturally come down to reflect that reality of risk.
Exactly how I expect things to pan out. Some 10-15 years ago the countries with dictatorships had the idea that they need to control the discussions on internet, now it is the US. I expect it to have cascading effect as Twitter, FB, Instagram etc are all foreign companies with known associations with the US government and intelligence and ban those everywhere fir national security reasons.
> The actual senators that created the ban

I worked on some language in the bill for my Senator. The unifying concern—and my and their concern—was China.

I know when you have a pet war you tend to see everything through its lens, but most Americans—including electeds—couldn’t care less about what’s going on in Gaza or Ukraine.
Why would it be sold at a deep discount?

About 45% of the US population uses TikTok and 63% of teens aged 13 to 17 report using TikTok, with 57% of them using the app daily

Hell of a product, there would be a crazy bidding war for that kind of engagement
Are they banning any TV channels from hostile countries? RT, for example can be watched by Americans without restriction.
> I can agree to an extent that TT (and social media in general) is an addictive app and harmful to youth and society in general.

You could say this about Fox News, scratch-off lottery tickets, Cocomelon, or anything you don't like.
I won't disagree with you, but it's a big change.

When European descendants started colonizing that part of the world they treated all the resources as free for the taking. You went into nature, developed some land for agriculture, and it became yours by right. The same with the water. It was essentially homesteading.

So water was treated as property the same way the land was. Whoever used it first, owned it. Leaving out the natives because apparently nobody cared about them, it made sense.

How we fix it now within that legal framework is the question.
This can get as far as the test plan is complete, multiply iterated under different interface conditions and thorough. And you are still relying upon the adherence of the simulated models to the physical reality.

Real tests do all of this at once with no option to escape reality.

Again, one thing is automating thorough software tests, another one is testing physical stuff.
Don't people who live in higher risk homes already pay higher premiums?

Do you believe that's not the case? Or that insurers are giving them discounts? Or are the risks miscalculated?
Under what reasoning should these be banned?

I, personally, have views that would lean towards being labeled by HN users as supporting a “nanny state” (at least far departure from younger libertarian phase), but even I struggle with a “why” on banning these platforms in general.
Just start with the pilot first -- as it is, the US pilot is basically a feature-length film (it runs 1h25m), and features enough of Lynch's trademark juxtaposition of horrible and mundane, and piles on the warmth and love for his characters that set his works apart. The European cut of the pilot adds a few minutes to the end and originally aired as a TV movie, and may be worth it if you're not otherwise hooked by the show, since it features a definitive ending as well as the first appearance of the show's trademark "red room" (footage from the sequence was included in a later episode in the US).

For me, the second step would either be The Elephant Man or Mulholland Dr. -- many of his works tackle very dark subject matter and include sexualized violence that can be downright disturbing to watch, but those two omit those elements. The Straight Story is much lighter, but largely lacks the surrealism Lynch is known for.
Most apps coerce their users into sharing location information. That's why they released apps and did not just use progressive web apps in the first place.

But, this is done under the guise of commercial interests, usually advertising, so it's okay?
I was (and remain) a few bad breaks from his situation. I'm not responsible for his state, but we absolutely are peers (i.e., same age, facing the same broad socioeconomic environment).
Tiktok is banned completely in China because it doesn't not have the agressive filtering and CPP propaganda in place to operate in China. The CPP can not allow Chineze citizens to engage in an open exchange of ideas with eachother or with the citizens of other free nations, for obvious reasons.
I spent some time playing around with this recently and loved it at first. I also realized ChatGPT is pretty good at generating Mermaid diagrams (didn't try your own AI features).

However after getting into it some I ran into some significant frustrations. After creating a medium-complexity diagram, I was excited to see the Whiteboard feature to drag things around / improve the layout manually. But it really started breaking, it just wouldn't let me organize/drag things where I wanted, and I couldn't get things to not overlap. I also wished more diagram types supported Whiteboard (I noticed some didn't).

Also I some confusion between the capabilities of mermaidchart.com and mermaid.live. Are these competitors? Variations of similar apps. I was confused. Also "Playground" vs "Live Editor" is confusing.

Overall glad this exists and hope it continues to improve.
Well, Nigeria is or can be controlled by the USA. China is an independent country.
There is an issue with price caps in some regions. Some of those have been addressed.

I think this is a subset of larger shift in the economics of insurance. While coverage focuses most on the climate change aspect, the majority of the change is driven by building costs. If you cant rebuild economically, then you cant insure economically.
Totally agree, and have written my congresspeople several times asking them to push for such legislation
What setup would people recommend? I've tried using an old android phone as a webcam on macOS but it kept flaking out and needing to be reset.

What webcams, if any, have higher quality optics?

Do other SLRs do the same thing as Canon and charge a subscription?
But it sounds like Canon actually invested extra development time to create crippled firmware that deviates from industry standards.
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As written by Bloomberg’s editorial board:

> First, the lottery — by design — doesn’t reward top talent. This deficiency, coupled with loose oversight, has made it vulnerable to gaming and doomed to mediocre results. A recent Bloomberg News investigation found that IT staffing firms routinely flood the pool with entries, often for more visas than they need, crowding out companies that play by the rules. These practices — which US officials have called fraudulent — prioritize a sector that tends to pay relatively low wages for routine IT work. (New rules to curb abuse don’t go far enough.) As a result, many of the world’s smartest engineers are shut out from the most lucrative, in-demand jobs, and shortages at the top end persist.

> Second, visa holders with middling skills are more likely to be substitutes for, rather than complements to, American workers. Replenishing the job market with extraordinary talent that can’t be filled domestically increases productivity, innovation and growth; saturating it with lower-paid workers will tend to drive down wages. Official data show that 85% of H-1B petitions are awarded to employers paying well below the median wage, as determined by occupation and location.
This is an especially superficial take, sure the Constitution says nothing about national security but reality sure does...

Any person that has ever gotten a security clearance has given up some of their first amendment rights to do it and if they talk about the wrong thing to the wrong person they will absolutely go to jail.

And as always the classic example of free speech being limited still stands. Go yell FIRE in a crowded movie and see how your dumbass 1st amendment argument keeps you out of jail.
See also CrypTen, Meta's library for privacy preserving machine learning: https://github.com/facebookresearch/CrypTen. This isn't fully homomorphic encryption, but it is multi-party computation (MPC), which hides the inputs from the company owning the model.

But while not revealing user input, it would still reveal the outputs of the model to the company. And yeah, as the article mentions, unfortunately this kind of thing (MPC or fully-homomorphic encryption) probably won't be feasible for the most powerful ML models.
In fact, the problem is that you have to buy a subscription, with all the implications in terms of loss of control, privacy, security, etc...

$5 on a $6299 camera is nothing, just pay for it, petty but not really infuriating. Even at $500 I would simply pay should I need it. If I had reasons to buy a $6299 camera, it probably means a budget in the tens of thousands, for lenses, lighting, accessories, etc... $500 is peanuts by comparison.

But I certainly wouldn't want my very expensive setup to fail just because some server is down.
As a corporate executive, buying things for good prices is a substantial part of your job. You're not some grandma looking for a movie to watch who will bail if she can't figure out how much it costs. Sure, you can refuse to buy things altogether, but it won't be very good for your company - these kinds of companies seem to have been broadly outcompeted by ones that do buy things.
It runs and operates outside US. How exactly would you enforce the ban? Seize the domain?
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From a geopolitical perspective, this issue about 3 items:

1) Influence- TikTok gives the CCP significant direct influence over the views of Americans.

2) Data- TikTok collects massive amounts of data on 100s of millions of Americans. Opens many avenues for spying, extortion of influence, etc.

3) Reciprocity- Foreign tech companies are essentially banned from operating in China. Much like with other industries, China is not playing fair, they’re playing to win.

Insofar as TikTok has offered a “superior” product, this might be a story of social media and its double edge. But this far more a story of geopolitics.