skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rednote has been shown as the top free app (per Apple’s own App Store in my device at least) for going on a week, so the magnitude may be larger than you imply.

Also, having tried it myself, the algorithm works much like TikTok whereby it learns to show English speakers English content pretty quickly.

Also the general consensus among people who have used IG and TikTok (I personally don’t use IG) seems to be that the former does not at all substitute for the latter, particularly in terms of the subjective “authentic” feel of the content (IG often said to be lacking the community feel of TikTok).
> our corporate information cannot be submitted externally.

Isn't your corporate information already submitted externally if you're using Google Workspace?
because those of us that do not use social media can just about entirely ignore mark zuckerberg.

one cannot avoid seeing Tesla vehicles, and the sky is littered with Starlink constellations at night, and every media outlet in the world reports on just about every SpaceX launch.

Elon Musk isn't only quarantined to social media company he bought and the occasional congressional appearance.

p.s. isn't it weird how everyone is on a first name basis with Elon Musk, and gave Mark Zuckerberg the pet name 'Zuck'?

..Maybe people with mononyms or near-mononyms should just be avoided all together..
The enshitification of tech products has now come to 3d printing via Bambulabs decision to cut off third party integrations with their printers. This is an important story, both for 3d printing and for tech products in general.
> Despite what Google's literature says about being safe and private, they have a history of retroactively opting people into features and our corporate information cannot be submitted externally.

Wait, what? Anything you do in any Google app is "externally". That's what the cloud is.

You're willing to put data in Google's hands, and have Google process data in way X, but you don't want Google to process those data in way Y, which has pretty much identical security and privacy properties?

Anyhow, the solution here is not to use Google services. You shouldn't be doing that anyhow.
It sounds like you have ignored all the answers and then you're saying there's no good answers?

If you want to convince someone they're not good answers you would have to at least engage with them and show how they fail to be correct/moral/legal or something. Pretending they don't exist does nothing.
Where were you for the last 10+ years when China was blocking all social media from the US but the US wasn’t blocking it? Or does hypocrisy just apply to the USA? It seems like you have some kind of agenda unrelated to the pure concept of hypocrisy.
Wouldn't banning the collection of this confidential data provide a better solution? Meta could still turnaround and sell this information to Chinese companies.
Place a piece of wood inside the hot environment of a fire and it will burn down releasing more heat than it absorbs, adding to the fire. It doesn't matter what stuff you add to it.

You can make wood not burn on the kind of environment where it would be the only or main object releasing heat. That is still a completely different category from non-flammable materials.
Easily? No. Within the bounds of the US Constitution, yes.
You don't care how much money they have, but how much they'll spend on your product. If they won't spend much on pants, they probably won't spend much on your product, either.
It's quite easy to generate your own signing keys which you use to sign a kernel you've built yourself.
It is difficult for me to believe Apple doesn't have a pretty good idea what the profit margin for the App Store is.

When they say that the profit margin isn't 75-78%, I assume that's because it's 79% or more.
I have changed my "career" several times and luck played a big role.

Short answer - work for a small startup where you wear many hats. Scale, sell or fail - rinse and repeat.

Started as a mechanic, went back to get an engineering degree which got me into a auto manufacture. I found engineering cool but moved to slow and salary growth was very slow. During dot com days things were booming and I had an opportunity to jump to a marketing startup which helped me break out of my engineering shell(such a different world).

I found operations was a very good fit for me - complex machine you have to engineer to work efficiently as the world is on fire. I happen to make a career out of it working with several startups in numerous industries. My job was always started with - fixing stuff young startups get wrong to help them keep up with growth. Basically put business processes in place and be an interpreter between technical and business people so they stop making stupid technical decision that cause long term problems.

It was a great ride and learned a ton about business that you will rarely learn at a big company. I was responsible for various aspects of technical and non technical operations so always had a seat at the table.
I think Rust is the best option for the `Need to make a project` kind of work.

It is overall better, IMHO, and the ecosystem and safety pay dividends.

But Zig has several nice things (I don't use it directly but appreciate them, and is my way to cross-compile to musl):

* Is truly faster to compile

* Is far better to cross-compile

* Is far smaller

* comptime is a much better `macro` language. I don't like the ergonomics of the split on Rust between the 2 styles of macros, where proc-macros is a cliff of complications

I think Zig fits the bill for `C is a compiler target`. Whatever I need to integrate with C or generate C I think it is now better to target Zig.
It’s pretty weird to get any engineering thing right on the first test, no? The entire development strategy would have to be based around that goal. I think the standard engineering strategy would be to test early and often.

I hadn’t thought about it before, but, especially during the Cold War, the US government had a big incentive to appear infallible that SpaceX doesn’t have. Are we sure there weren’t more tests in secret? USG also has access to huge tracts of land that is off limits, and rocket tests are easily ‘national security issue’ enough to justify being conducted in secret. Just a thought.
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I gave up and started sleeping.
Not only that, but there's no evidence at all that Tik Tok's been feeding China any data. None.

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.

Everybody forgot already US spying on Merkel's phone?

But that's okay, because America is not bound to any rules I guess. Disgusting foreign policy with a disgusting exceptionalism mentality.
FWIW facebook was blocked in 2009, after ETIM (East Turkistan Islamic Movement) (allegedly) used it to organise the July Urumqi riots, and facebook refused to follow Chinese law and cooperate with the police to identify the perpetrators.

Whatever you think of the law of the PRC, they applied it consistently, Facebook was blocked for doing something that would get any Chinese company shut down.

Tiktok is getting blocked in America for doing what American companies do.
> The nation’s highest court said in the opinion that while “data collection and analysis is a common practice in this digital age,” the sheer size of TikTok and its “susceptibility to foreign adversary control, together with the vast swaths of sensitive data the platform collects” poses a National Security Concern.

FTA
Thanks for the specifics.

> which I would think israel would certainly not have the budget for given the size of its economy.

Hmm.

I'll buy that. I've seen a lot of wildly different cost estimates for separation work units, so I can only guess how much it might have cost at the time.

If it would have otherwise been the full Manhattan Project, I don't even need to guess, you're definitely correct they couldn't have afforded it: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=gdp+israel+1965
the world is always insurable

the more volatile it is (and the less you've mitigated the risks), the more expensive your insurance gets
Do you think Apple, Oracle and Google are going to thumb their noses at the law?

Trump initially championed the ban during his first term
Microsoft begins auto updating PCs to Windows 11 24H2 (forced download phase)
OpenAI O1 in the API
Once someone owns their fiefdom and can protect it with robots and everything is automated...?

Then consumer capitalism obviously doesn’t matter any more.
but you are using their software and they can choose how to sell that to you however the want. You're options is to vent and not buy another Canon. This subscription-based purchase is not new and will only get worst. Opensource FTW
re: point #1, the fire command team captain himself refuted this disinformation in an interview with Musk.

I don't know about the other three offhand, but it's absurd to claim that state and local governments in California are somehow not taking fire risk seriously. Do you seriously think that the state that has annual wildfire season just happens to be "incompetent" when it comes to preparing for wildfires?
Taxes Rule Everything Around Me
A Lot of Americans Are Googling 'What Is Oligarchy?' After Biden's Farewell Spea
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If the reality of things, the simple truth, is able to "influence" Americans does it really matter who brought that truth up?

Do you prefer Americans to be ignorant about certain topics, or to be informed even if that comes at the cost of reduced approval for the government?
Yeah I knew what you meant. I have one :)
trump finally got the (fire)wall he wanted
Considering that RedNote doesn't allow LGBTQ+ content or "too much skin" to be shown (women-only policy BTW) I don't think it'll end up being very popular with today's TikTok crowd.
Tesla state they don't sell "personal information" but they also explicitly say that "Tesla may also collect, use, and share information that does not, on its own, personally identify you" (so "anonymized" data) and also that "personal information" is subject to be processed to "fulfill contractual obligations with third parties, agents and affiliates", whatever that means. https://www.tesla.com/legal/privacy#how-we-may-use-your-info...
As someone who works with React Native this is definitely true. Imagine a venn diagram:

Full Navive: 2 very big bubbles

React Native: 2 small bubbles and one big bubble

It doesn't happen very often but it can be quite annoying to implement features that need native controls on both platforms. In my case I only know native android (no ios) so when implementing native things I need to bring in an ios native dev and agree on the communication API and any platform-specific edge case before implementing stuff.

It is a lot easier when I can do it all by myself and it is even harder for team members who have no native experience at all.
The US has a lot of leverage on Europe, so I don't think it will happen any time soon.
I'm still not sure I understand the national security concerns around 17-year old nobodies publishing videos of themselves doing silly dances. Or the "metadata" those 17 year olds produce. Are people sharing nuclear secrets on TikTok or something (and not doing the same on US services)?
You cannot compare a mature product to something that is still under initial development.

That would be like comparing a 1-y.o.'s ability to run to a 10-y.o.'s. Of course the younger kid doesn't yet control their legs, but that doesn't mean it's going to stumble and fall forever.
I don't understand the argument here, Tik Tok would maximize their monetization in US but not in other markets?

I don't buy it.
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1) You can not protect users from being influenced by the media they consume-- that is basically the very nature of the thing.

2) This is not about protecting users of the app, this is about preventing a foreign state from having direct influence on public opinion.

It is obvious to me why this is necessary. If you allow significant foreign influence on public opinion, then this can be leveraged. Just imagine Russia being in control of a lot of US media in 2022. Or 1940's Japan. That is a very serious problem, because it can easily lead to outcomes that are against the interests of ALL US citizens in the longer term...
Could that not have been because they could not sell film for them anymore, rendering them useless? So it was to make customers whole?

Edit: Missed the last part where you said the same
I don’t think anyone thinks RedNote will replace TikTok — it’s potentially subject to the same ban after all.

But it illustrates the general dissatisfaction among TikTok users with the other mainstream US social content platforms.
I love these claims — 30x smaller than Next! Y% faster than Next! (And then a roadmap making it clear it's not even close to feature-complete.) Something makes me think as the features mount, that bundle will get a little bigger, maybe get a little slower.
By all accounts, RedNote is hugely gay, with many people talking about how it's full of gay Chinese folks looking to connect with people.
This is going to be an interesting experiment:
A widely used social network across the world WITHOUT american content.

Until now, the closest thing we had like this were national our regional networks like Russia's vk, but Vk was never truly popular outside Russian speaking countries.

Now we, for the first time ever, will have the situation where a social network has global reach but without american content.

Will it keep being a english first space? Will it survive/thrive? How the content is going to evolve? What does this means in terms of global cultural influence? Will we see internationalized Chinese content dominating it? Will this backfire for the US?
Can someone ELI5 how/why this is legal?
So what number do we determine it to be a matter of national security? 10 million? 50 million?
There's no room for equality and fairness when it comes to global political rivals especially when there's stone cold evidence of mischief.
The really issue is that most people don't understand insurance.

People reduce or stop caring when they know insurance will cover things. In my opinion this leads to higher losses and higher costs. Especially when people choose more expensive things.
From the oral arguments it was immediately obvious that Alito and Thomas had already decided their opinion --- as had the other judges, frankly. They were very skeptical of the ByteDance/petitioner's argument. The Act at issue was written in a very specific way to neuter a lot of their points. Elizabeth Prelogar, representing the US Government, is also an extremely good SC lawyer in oral arguments. A Per Curiam decision is not surprising at all, most people who follow the court were expecting it.
Daylight Robbery [1]

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43805741-daylight-robber...
This may be because RedNote is going to "wall off" US users from the Chinese ones:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/rednote-may-wall...
> yet Russian apps are in our app stores

Major social media apps? Chinese apps are still in our app stores, just not TikTok (as of Sunday).
TikTok is also blocked by the GFW in China, so this puts the USA on par with blocking it also. Weirdly enough, Douyin isn’t banned, specifically, so you should still be able to use it in the states.
> Matter of opinion I guess.

It's not. The discipline of statistics knows a lot about population sizes, sample sizes, margins of error, and that sort of thing. If you're going to seriously question the fundamental ideas in statistics, there's a whole lot of empirical evidence you need to refute.

> Should an advertiser be able to claim the same immunity?

Have you ever purchased anything that was marketed using statistics? Lots of things, I imagine. How many polls have you answered about those statistics? I'm not really sure how you'd get the impression that anything else was ever the case.
I don’t understand why people are so obtuse about national security being an excuse. Do we really believe the Chinese are going to infiltrate by way of tiktok when they can hack into our telecom networks or any significant figures individual machines? This is about neutering our biggest global economic threat.
As an European citizen I'm very uneasy with US-based services having my data and I nuked everything from ages bar LinkedIn and HN.

The hard part is de-googling.
No. The U.S. court should make decisions in the U.S. interest. But this HN thread represents people from around the world who may not share the U.S. interest at a personal level. Leading to remarks which are trying to sway US opinion.

In a way, this thread could very well be monitored and commented on by a non US nation state
Replying to this comment so people can see the incredible video of the breakup taken from a diverting aircraft:

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1i34dki/starship_...
Reminds me of the fun reddit used to have with places and such:

Team purple ftw:
https://imgur.com/a/Oxc6jUA
Now imagine what would have happened if Facebook was owned by Russia.
Does this only apply to TikTok or any other "foreign adversary" application that collects user data?

What's stopping another version of TikTok from being created, effectively defeating the purpose of banning a single app?
> I think the simpler explanation blatant corruption, since the legislation is moving judicial responsibility from from the judicial branch to the legislature and president

I mean, that's true of basically all administrative agencies.
We use it in a production system on the aspnetcore stack, and it's been bulletproof for a number of years.

We have lots of proxies in the way, and old tech on certain networks, and at this moment we are 97% websockets, 2% server side events, 1% long polling, and it's all transparent to me, brilliant.
Incentivizing people to build homes that are likely enough to burn down as to be economically uninsurable is an absolutely wild abuse of the term "solidarity". Solidarity is the idea that an injury to one is an injury to all, not the idea that choices should have no consequences and the environment shouldn't constrain humans; the only way you can possibly sustain a world in which people actually treat an injury to one as an injury to all, is together with some effort to avoid people from gratuitously exposing themselves to injury.
China bans US businesses because it has an autocratic, ethnocratic government. The US is banning a Chinese business for obvious national security reasons.
My read of parent's link says differently.
> The legislation allows the president to put a 90 day hold on the ban too.

Only if there is an in-progress divestiture and only before the ban goes into effect.

Aka, TikTok/Biden would have to announce a sale is in process and Biden would have to enact the extension before the 19th.
I believe Trump said he won’t support the ban because it helped him get elected? Someone correct me if I’m wrong.
This Geoff Mashall video has some signalling systems from the 1880s and ends on some up to date ones.

https://youtu.be/UCXav-ptPeA?si=UzzyU8FSV11a67fN
It seems like two different arguments if you s/US/multi-national-corporations/g in that sentence. I don't have that much faith that multi-national-corporations interests align with US (or China for that matter).
Because US social media companies have sold data to foreign adversaries when then used it to attempt to influence domestic matters
When I first read about TPM-based FDE on Linux[0], I was excited that the systemd guys were finally taking a step in the right direction - BitLocker/FileVault were standard on Windows/macOS for a long time by that point. FDE should be secure by default, dead-simple to set up (e.g. a checkbox in the installer that defaults to "enabled"), and painless for everyday use.

[0]: https://0pointer.de/blog/brave-new-trusted-boot-world.html

Then I read about the implementation details[0], and it's a complex bloody mess with an unending chain of brittle steps and edge cases, that are begging for a mistake and get exploited. So here we are.

I'm convinced that "measure the kernel" into "measure the initrd" into "show login screen" is all it should take.
The only Russian app I'm aware of is Telegram. What other Russian apps might people be unwittingly running?
Maybe that's true for some people. But there's a lot of frustration being shown here and elsewhere that proves there is a demographic of people who really don't want this.

Cars are similar I think. Sure maybe some people need help. But there's is huge demand for a one-click, no-negotiation car buying "experience" (or lack of experience rather).

My conspiracy theory is that this has more to do with Salespeople and established sales channels (dealers) not being able to understand this both because their job depends on it and because they are naturally people-persons. So it feels intuitive to them and they have trouble understanding/accepting that many other are not.
The only reason some company would want to buy Intel would be the $ the US Federal Gov is sending Intel's way.

But that is now up in the air due to Trump and Musk. So I doubt a purchase will happen until the US Fed becomes stable (if it ever does) and people know what laws will be safe for the long term.
I haven't followed this closely, but I assumed it was related to a foreign entity having the ability to hyper-target content towards said 17 year olds (and the entire userbase in general) -- A modern form of psychological warfare.
Yeah that doesn't address the point. The output of an LLM is a compression. It has errors. Recursive training would seem to create iterations that become more noisy. There's no new information, just a lossy distillation of the previous iteration.

I'm not sure what stops that.
This law is dumb, because in no way does it prevent the exact same data to be collected, processed by a US entity and then transferred to China.

I suspect that it's not about data being transferred, but the fact that TikTok can shape opinions of Americans... which US companies do a lot, without any oversight.
Where in that CNBC article does it say that it's fine for US companies to do that? I don't see that anywhere, yet that's the point you're claiming is being made.
How could they calculate this if they weren't tracking it?

The cost would need to included not just development hours that have gone into creating and maintaining the system, but hours of other employee's used for the project. Also the servers, the network, buildings, etc.

If there were forced to calculate this number, it wouldn't surprise me if they were able to do so in a manner that shows they lose money. At best they could be forced to track the cost going forward using a third party auditor.
EU is among the most restrictive legislations when it comes to data leaving European ground already.
No. Zuck is very securely within the class of citizens that is immune to prosecution within the US.