skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know someone else already mentioned about user != email address. But in the situation you mentioned I tend to use cloudflare and have that do a catchall on the domain for side projects and forward it over to my main account. I have a generic name I launch all my sideprojects under to cover this.
I agree that evidence would be nice, but let's not pretend TikTok is simply a 'speech platform' for 'The People'. It is an app on your mobile phone collecting data about you and making it available to a foreign adversary and feeding you content controlled by a foreign adversary.
Individuals can bring Pravda into the USA that is protected speech. But Congress could ban Pravda from doing business in the US same as it can ban or sanction any other foreign business.
I sympathize with your points, especially rebuilding the box from scratch.

But all the “passwordless” schemes I’ve seen support at least an additional “master key” which you can type in.

So if you’re ok with the security tradeoffs of passwordless tpm, it’s only an added convenience on top of your approach.
They are likely appealing to the common population who mostly think of speed in mi/h or km/h due to car speeds
The particular camera he's talking about, the G5 X Mark II, does support clean HDMI out. I used to use it as my webcam.
McDonalds has historically not put an emphasis on security, imo it's just that simple.
Almost all GCP services have quota by default that you need to manually increase.
A Crisis of Trust in the Classroom
agree, it was just a shakedown and money grab.

some US oligarchs wanted to buy tiktok at deep discount while it was private, and make money off of making it public company
https://screenrant.com/lootbox-gambling-microtransactions-il...

There was a bill introduced in the US that didn't go anywhere. Of course gambling has recently been heavily deregulated in the US so I suppose we can't expect much to be done about gambling in video games right now. https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/162...

I vaguely recall it in at least one of those state bills to regulate social media for kids (listing it as an addictive behavior that's "harmful to minors" or whatever), but can't find specifics. I don't know whether something has passed anywhere in the US.
If your concern is editorial preference, then wouldn't a social media application explicitly controlled by a State apparatus be a concern?

I fail to see how anything going on at Twitter is relevant to what I mentioned. Does Twitter shifting its content priorities somehow make the plethora of excellence sources unavailable?
Sort of. In a mobile browser, it almost immediately tries to get me to download the app, which is the opposite of pushing the web version in a marketing sense. Pushing would be telling app users that the app will become unavailable soon and they should use TikTok on the web.
now with LLMs, I've been recreating just the features I need from 3rd party dependencies and getting to know much more about how it works under the hood
Because this is not about the first amendment? This just happens to be a company that runs a social network. Congress regulates commerce with foreign nations and made the decision, as it has in many other cases, that a foreign nation can not be the beneficial owner of TikTok. TikTok then made no effort to divest, giving away the game if you want, and predictably lost this challenge.
I think this is completely valid. From the title ("standards-first") I'd assume it would stuck to minimal third-party addons and use standards-compliant JavaScript as much as possible. Why not JavaScript for configuration, for example?

As a side note, and not to excuse lack of Windows support, but: I've switched to WSL (Linux) for development on Windows. Coupled with Visual Studio Code, the results are much faster than when I used the Windows terminal directly.
They dont need to wonder. The US is constantly operating media propaganda campaigns around the globe interfering with elections and promoting coups.

Democratic outcomes that don't agree with our politics are officially deemed illegitimate, even if the elections are certified as fair.

It would be crazy to believe the US is somehow shy about running psyops when we openly arm rebels and bomb countries.
Those are answers to a different question.

The US companies continue to feed the same information to the Chinese, even though the Federal government has been trying to get them to stop for almost a decade (I cite sources elsewhere in this thread).

So, all of your arguments apply equally to the big US owned social media companies.

Since the ban won’t stop the Chinese from mining centralized social media databases, the important part of the question is:

> Wouldn't the right solution be to protect the citizens from all threats, foreign and domestic?
Missing Missy (2010)
Going to the playlist I get:

the playlist — https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaLOVNqqD-2HgiA-GZyzc...

Here's your problem, Colin; and a solution:

https://imgur.com/a/737HvVI
TikTok doesn't do speech. Users on TikTok do speech. Banning TikTok doesn't prevent any users from printing / distributing / disseminating their speech.

The first amendment doesn't have any provision regarding the potential reach or enablement of distribution of the speech of the people.
The reason for subscriptions is because we've applied a debt based financial model to everything. And for whatever reason customers do not understand the model and how bad they're getting screwed.

$100 of one time purchase software is approximately $5-10 per year of recurring revenue. And so if they can convince you that $5 a month is "not bad" then you're effectively outlaying $1000 for the software. In return you do get massive flexibility like, say, using the software for 1 month and then never again.

Some of it is due to inflation, we'd choke if we saw the real capital cost.

a quick google suggests that maybe Black Ops Cold War (2020): Over $700 million in development costs, 30 million copies sold. Thats $23 just in dev, not marketing and distribution, operation of the servers etc. Whereas black ops 3 was about $10 a copy, but sold for $60. Most of us would balk at paying ~$140 for a game, but that's roughly the inflationary pressures.

Anyways long story, I dont like subscriptions either, but I also dont want to lay down $100s on a piece of software I might not use in a month's time, especially if there wasnt a free trial for me to confirm it's not total crap.
It's a jump scare that works incredibly well, yet it's shot in slow-motion and lit to full daylight, two things anathema to jump scares.
Not all data brokers are US based; they can still buy all of this information practically.
False dichotomy, and not a great analogy. I see what the author is going for but they could have used to stress test their ideas before clicking "publish."

Just for fun let me pose: Where would a Michelin star chef perform better? Whats the equivalent of fast casual or fine dining? Does the type of cuisine influence the outcomes???
Eh. I get your point and truly appreciate structural safeguards as opposed to aspirational ones but this is really not as doable as you make it out to be, and doing it properly would be a full blown product in its own right.
First, this only works if you have a very narrow interpretation of PII. Once you realize most of your non-int/uuid unique indexes (and all your join predicates) are probably PII in some way or the other, the scope of the problem greatly increases. How does your solution work when you need to group by PII, full text search by PII, filter by PII, etc?
Tiktok is not blocked, bytedance chose not to list its app on Chinese appstores and blocks +86 phone registration.

tiktok.com links were available in China.
I agree that a "they reap what they sow" attitude can be tempting but is totally unproductive. You're absolutely right that we need real empathetic dialogue from gandhi-like figures. That was what I was trying to say in my last response. If the Israelis can admit that their genocidal actions have been wrong and that they have to concede some of their land for paece and the Palestinians can acknowledge the Isrealis generational trauma, welcome their need for sanctuary and disband Hamas then we could get somewhere. What I object to is that most of the world seems to believe that the Israelis should not have to admit to their own faults and concede anything. Hamas is a necessary resistance force in the eyes of the Palestinians if the Israelis continue to beleive that genocidal action is justified. I say in the eyes of the Palestinians because this may seem ludicrous to some of us, but that really doesn't matter. What matters is dealing with the greivances of the people in the area once and for all.
Recent Canons support UVC as well (specifically the R1, R5 Mark II, R6 Mark II, R8, and R50).
>"We will find new solutions to a new problem"

Fire risk isn't that new. London famously largely burnt down in the great fire of 1666 and the solution was to build stuff that doesn't burn as easily. It's not really a new science.
You seem to mostly be arguing for a "~fine, but at least it was fast to develop" outcome, which is certainly one choice. But doing this sort of upfront work is for when you're not just looking for ~fine but something more. That's why sometimes you have to "waste work" to find better ways, even if it takes longer time. R&D basically, but for design.

But there is a time and place for it for sure, not every project is about coming up/producing something "perfect no matter the time/energy". Similarly, not every project is about "getting something OK out there as long as you get there fast".
They’re talking about the algorithm that’s used outside of China being banned in China, not TikTok being banned in the US.
More instructions here.

https://www.404media.co/opting-out-of-gmails-gemini-ai-summa...
Again, if you can provide some kind of comprehensible reasoning why that's actually the case, your insightful comment would be more persuasive.
I don't understand what this has to do with US companies at all. It's about foreign companies.
HN is very engineer focused. A lot of us can relate to an incompetent executive taking credit for our work.
The Supreme Court can only rule on cases brought to it. And in those cases, they are ruling on specific points of law which one party believes that a lower court misapplied. In this case, the parties asked the Court specifically to review whether a TikTok forced divestiture (not a ban, a forced sale) violated the First Amendment.
Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable
I dont think tiktok app is banned because of algorithm, because bytedance created and maintains both Doyin and Tiktok.

I think it is form of compartmentalizing Internet and social networks, to keep Chinese internet and social media separate from the US.

the red book app, where tiktok refugees are flocking to right now, also want to introduce geofence and compartmentalize Chinese users and US users separately
This is not a factor I consider when reviewing my experience using an app.
> Was the split during the rebranding?

Musical.ly was acquired by Bytedance in 2017 and merged into TikTok in 2018 [1]. TikTok itself “was launched internationally in 2017” [2].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20191005154207/https://beebom.co...

[2] https://chinagravy.com/what-is-douyin-an-introduction/
> There are numerous products I likely would have purchased, but I either find a substitute or just go without because I won't play the stupid "let's get on a call" game.

> I've rolled-my-own solution more than once as well when there were no other good competitors.

I don't want to be rude but this sounds like terrible business decisions. I would say this is a case of cutting your nose off to spite your face but I suspect it's not your money your wasting rolling-your-own solution. Like it normally costs a lot more in dev resources to build instead of buying. And it seems like your doing it because of your ego and your unwillingness to play stupid games.
> Tiktok algo is the sauce, nothing else has the sauce.

Tiktok algo is nothing special: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/05/business/media/tiktok-alg...

The volume of interaction data from good interface design and huge user base is the core of the success.
What Sotomayor said is irrelevant; she's one of nine Justices. What is in the opinion is what is controlling.
> "Thermodynamics" is singular :)

> plural in form but singular or plural in construction

(https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/thermodynamics)

I think American and British English treat words like this differently.
I thought the meme was woodworking or metalworking
That is completely false. There are many exceptions to the first amendment which the court has decided don't abridge the freedom of speech.

A classic example of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threatening_the_president_of_t...
the sauce = tiktok's algorithm. The audience doesn't figure that out, the company delivering the videos to you does. So far, no one else seems to have even come close. GenZ are proactively against Zuck, so that's even a bigger hole for Reels to overcome. Rednote doesn't have the algo people want and its interface isn't in English. It cost zilch for those kids to make a RedNote account. They are literally making it a meme. They wont be there in 2 months when no one else is there, and the joke is over. RedNote will have even more heavy handed moderation than TikTok as it is currently sharing its userbase with Chinese citizens. RedNote is not an answer to any of the underlying wants or desires of the Tiktok community except for a extreme minority of the TikTok userbase who are rallying against the US govt/Meta. Personally, I think the ban is within the power of the US government to do but do recognize the very real concerns and view of those who think the government shouldn't have done this. The incoming administration is free to seek to undo this if they want, but it can and should take an act of legislation to undo.
Lawyers are getting in on it too. It's a major form of marketing for them now.

- Law by Mike (10M subs): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/meJA30cglvo

- Legal Eagle (3.5M subs): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lgT4iZ9BYF8

- Ugo Lord (1.9M subs): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I77J6n72Oto

- Attorney Tom (500k subs): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kgLTqx2UFUk

- Mike Rafi (300k subs): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/znQgK6God2w

- CEO Lawyer (24k subs): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RzqBiKLZNy4

Law by Mike puts some pretty incredible production value into their videos.

Sharing YouTube links because TikTok web isn't great and the links will likely stop working in a few days.
> Nobody wants China to take Taiwan, that's not something its possible to convince people of

It's not about convincing them to want it but rather about sowing doubt and confusion at the critical moment.

David French's NYT column last week starts with what one might call a "just-plausible-enough" scenario: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/opinion/tiktok-supreme-co... (gift link, yw).
How does the statement of "not taking fire risk seriously" explain the fact that the Santa Ynez Reservoir was and still is empty, and is a primary uphill source of water for those fire hydrants, or that the mayor defunded the fire department and left for Ghana after getting extreme fire danger warnings?[1]

Because Santa Ynez was empty (for the past year), water was supplied from downhill water sources and the pressure needed dropped off to the point there was no longer any water out of the hydrants.

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pacific+Palisades,+Los+Ang...
GM banned from selling your driving data for five years
My point is that your confidence level depends on your task. There are many tasks for which I'll require ECC. There are other tasks where an LLM is sufficient. Just like there are some tasks where dropped packets aren't a big deal and others where it is absolutely unacceptable.

If you don't understand the tolerance of your scenario, then all this talk about LLM unreliability is wasted. You need to spend time understanding your requirements first.
That's traffic lights, not crumple zones.
There weren't any laws passed banning Soviet associated agencies from publishing based on chain of ownership. Nothing to do with SCOTUS.

Read the opinion, the law was upheld on intermediate scrutiny. It doesn't ban based on content, it bans based on the designation of the foreign parent as an adversary. Since it's not a content ban, or rather because it's a content-neutral ban, strict scrutiny does not apply.

Without strict scrutiny, the law merely needs to fulfill a compelling government interest.
I continue to get:

Unavailable videos are hidden
No videos in this playlist yet

I wonder if it's a regional thing.

(I see you've edited your comment to say the same thing ... thanks)
America uses economic sanctions and bombs.
Executive Order On – – – Nation's Cybersecurity
GUI git clients are amazing in the hands of expert users, but terrible for any newcomer that has to actually use Git (and it's not like a designer checking out the source once or twice a month).

The gripe I have is that unless you expose people to CLIs early on, they will just not learn how to use a CLI at all. Whenever something inevitably breaks badly due to GUIs abstracting away how git really works in favour of a nicer UX, they'll end up asking someone that know Git how to fix their mess. And then, it's too late - they already know how to be productive-ish with git and how to deliver something. They can't justify investing time into learning the CLI (especially if they're not that great with Powershell or UNIX shells) so they constantly keep leaning on a colleague instead of learning.

This is not an hypothetical scenario - this really happened regularly at a place I worked at. Innumerable internal training lessons on Git went wasted due to people forgetting everything immediately by using Fork instead of the shell, and then pestering a handful of senior devs. Once IT banned Fork people were forced to use the terminal more often, so they had to learn how to use git for good and actually retained that knowledge via muscle memory.

The adage I've learnt over the course of the years is that the majority of people will go to any length to avoid learning new stuff. It's mentally less tiring to either waste their time doing stuff in an unproductive way than learning new things. IMHO it's better to force people to learn stuff the "right way" early on than let them pick up bad habits and then having to correct them later.
> > corporations aren't people

> Corporate personhood is irrelevant to this case.

Further more, "Corporations are people" implying corporations have rights isn't related to corporate personhood and is based on a (often deliberate by opposing politicians) misinterpretation of the phrase, as spoken by Mitt Romney.

What Romney was saying and what is true when he said "Corporations are people" is confusing because people interpret it as "Corporations are persons" which is not what he, or the case law he was referring to implied. The singular of the phrase is much more clear, a corporation is people.

The whole case was about a group of people pooling their funds to make a movie about Hilary Clinton being bad and the court found that the people still had free speech rights when acting through a corporation to pool their funds and so political donation limits didn't apply as long as no political campaign was involved. Hence, Super PACs having to say that the campaigns their supporting aren't involved with the campaigns.

It's actually an incredibly complicated and nuanced situation and the decision is equally so.
Nokia phone fomr 2007 running augmented reality application
When you get into brands and vertical integration, what you spend is not the cost, and what you receive is not the revenue.

Perception of value can be more important than the actual value. Like Trump famously said:

> My net worth fluctuates, and it goes up and down with attitudes and feelings, even my own feelings

He was right! The numbers on paper (and the convictions in court) don't matter when you ride the feelings into the White House.

You can argue that all Apple R&D and marketing are expenses for the App Store, or at least are so intertwined that they can't be separated. People pay a premium for the brand, and (the perception of) quality and safety. That can't be dissected into pieces.
I provided the solution in the imgur link: check it!

You ARE in the UK, correct?
Disappointed this is not about the Joanna Newsom album :)
If you compare the present to, say, the 1960s, there have been any number of subsequent technologies that have caused 'tectonic' improvements in software engineering productivity. High level programming languages, visual text editors, Intelisense, relational databases, spare RAM and CPU cycles, huge repositories of free libraries, extensive documentation published on the internet that anyone can access... There have also been technologies that have made it possible for non-engineers to perform complex computational tasks (Excel, and to a lesser extent SQL, being the obvious examples).

It could be that AI is going to have a bigger impact than all of that stuff. But my guess is that if that none of the above technologies caused the market for software engineers to crash, AI won't either. What we're experiencing at the moment is a regular market downturn that happens to coincide with peak LLM hype. It's possible to hire too many software engineers. A lot of companies did. In the long run, the amount of software that gets written will probably continue to increase with the ease of developing it. AI tooling will be one more productivity boost in a long line of such.
Wait, where's the Facebook/Meta ban? Is unlawful data collection only unlawful if it's done under a foreign adversary? I guess not to the US Government where their interests align with adversarial data collection practices against its own people.
Can't wait for AV1 to supplant these bureaucratic rent-seekers.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.
It seems to me the first and last line don't really add anything and I don't see why the middle sentence is necessarily true.
RedNote falls afoul of the exact same law and will probably be banned soon after TikTok.
They could always make the amount over that is given due to their cutoff enforcement being less than perfect free, as it likely already is on the free plan. That would avoid the risk of unbounded bills associated with going on a paid plan.
Because if Zuck or Musk does something bad with said power, we can do something about it.

We can't really jail the CCP. Additionally, Zuck and Musk don't have armies to back up their propaganda. We shouldn't let foreign powers own the means of broadcast...
A little tangent:

I've been doing "web dev" since 1999.

Say what you want about Flash, but most of us cared a lot about usability - small details like keyboard navigation (escape key closing modals, arrow keys for navigating galleries, automatic focus on input fields on login pages, manually crafting tab order to ensure you cycle through relevant parts, etc.).
All these things seem to have been lost to time.

On top of that, I'm really frustrated by the fact that the community, in general, constantly tries to teach me how to code in ECMAScript—something I've been doing for 25 years now.
Just a tiny example: throughout 15 years of programming in ActionScript, I can count on one hand the number of times I intentionally had to use "===". Today using a simple comparison ("==") is treated as cardinal sin.

Not to mention that we've done full circle with stuff like React reinventing MXML, TS reinventing AS3, asmjs. Anyone remembers redtamarin? NodeJS but with AS? :)

It's easy to be grumpy about all these things.
People have rights to speak within reason. Governments don't. The Chinese government shaping content is not protected. The law notably does not ban individual content.