skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But these buyers don't want the actual value of TikTok to drop to zero

Quick reminder: TikTok is available for most of the planet (except China), so a US ban does not make the actual value of TikTok to drop to zero.

It makes a sell-off very unlikely, but I doubt it's going to happen no matter what.

It's quite puzzling why ByteDance didn't bring up the idea of making a TikTok US in the same way TikTok CN (a.k.a. Douyin) works.
Because the Chinese Communist Part is not stupid enough to just exploit their leverage over sovereign nations for shits and giggles. You don't need a smoking gun to understand how corporations in China operate. They operate with the blessing of the CCP, and regardless of whether they've ever done anything, the scale of what they could do if they wanted to would be some spectacular lessons in modern propaganda.
I do find people's faith in Democracy, as opposed to Authoritarianism, somewhat exasperating. Two candidates, pre-selected by the powers that be to lead the nation, compete in inane televised debates, wave flags and make promises that everyone knows they are going to break. This everyone debates hotly, and then lines up to register one bit of Holy Democratic Choice, to be averaged with a hundred million similar bits to determine, by a margin of a few percent, the one and only legitimate Government of the People, by the People, for the People. My Ass.

In the end, "democracy" is about power and control, just like any other form of government, and the TikTok ban is just another power-play, however it may be justified publicly. Not that I'm overly sorry to see it banned, by the way :)
Here's a video from March 14, 2024 on how Mike Gallagher (R-WI), who sponsored the H.R.7521 - Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, accepted his largest campaign contributions from Palantir, Google, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC):

https://www.tiktok.com/@iancarrollshow/video/734642717587849...

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4jA_k8Pn12 (in case of censorship)

https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/mike-gallagh...

Looks like Steven Mnuchin, David Friedman and Yossi Cohen were also involved. Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), said that "we really have a TikTok problem", since it's acting to alchemize the left-right political divide into a young-old one.

The video says that pro-Palestine content is some of the most censored content there is, but despite that, a large number of TikTok users are supporting Palestine and questioning Israel's authority to continue hostilities. It suggests that silencing these objections to the Israel-Palestine conflict by preventing their discussion and spread is one of the primary motives for banning TikTok.

I'm deeply disappointed in members of the Democratic Party who voted for the TikTok ban, whose actions call into question the integrity of their party and its priorities. I'm not as surprised by the actions of the Republican Party, which historically has sided with the establishment (Meta and other social networks under US jurisdiction), but openly voting for censorship in the face of calls to protect free speech from Donald Trump and Elon Musk is suspect.

And I'm profoundly troubled by antisemitism and how whataboutism is clouding journalistic integrity. With derogatory comments about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and wokeism becoming more prevalent, we should be mindful of the slippery slope from oppressed to oppressor. This is why we must always call out injustice in all forms, even when it's inconvenient to do so, or risk sacrificing our principles and eventually our freedoms.

I'm reminded of the Paradox of Intolerance, that if a society extends tolerance to those who are intolerant, it risks enabling the eventual dominance of intolerance, thereby undermining the very principle of tolerance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
I think this was given as an example of necessary-but-annoying cruft, not as a suggestion for change.
It is even less meaningful than "software is eating the world". But it sounds catchy, and people can remember it.
This is such a fallacious, misdirecting argument. The speech itself was not targeted by the ban. It was the ownership. If the speech stayed the same then regulators would have been happy.
Highly recommend to avoid any companies that would touch ros with a 10ft pole. It's an unmitigated pile of endless shit, and any projects that don't recognize this are also.
I think it is an interesting take. It might be nice to point folks towards https://github.com/picosh/git-pr it has a better explanation.

So this is like the email source diff/patching workflow but extended to use ssh instead?

I try and limit my ssh access to servers and endpoints that I control. The attack surface for ssh is actually quite large.

It seems since you are shipping a patch, that it could be signed with your ssh key, but posted over https. This would make running a server way way more portable. Everything else about it seems quite nice.

Since the language is Go, creating an https service should be just as easy correct?

I like the idea of dynamic RSS streams with patches flying around.

https://www.phind.com/search?cache=izzjsrslnqwrwmh3mtxwyrx4
That's not by definition, although it is how social security works.

Retirees have assets but not income (or they have low income). Younger people are the other way round. So depending on how governments use income taxes vs sales taxes vs property taxes it changes who pays for things.

California is the worst about this because of Prop 13, which basically means if you don't move then your property tax is much lower than it should be and newer residents pay for you.
And yet here they are, trying to pretend that a foreign government’s ability to run psyops is protected speech.
To add to [1]: if .io can teach us anything, it's not to build on top of ccTLDs. I'd even call into question whether Google's new global TLDs are in the same class as a .net or .com.
Trump does not have the authority to give a 90 day extension by the language in the law from my understanding. There was a provision for a single use 90 day extension that would require the president to certify 3 things (which currently has not been met and can not be met within days) and have that delivered to congress prior to the ban taking affect. The law gives no mechanism to provide an extension after the ban according to republican legislators.
Ah, the propaganda GUI element. I distinctly remember covering it in my HCI class. Right between 'How to Design Intuitive Interfaces' and 'How to Influence Favorability Ratings with Popups.'
If that ever comes to pass. This is not guaranteed.
”What has democracy and capitalism done for us...”

Radicaly increased wealth. I guess you have access to drinking water, food, place to sleep and be warm at cold sessions. It wasn't a standard few decades ago and still it is not fot most in the world.

"I’d love to be able to trust my governmen..."

Do you really believe that government solve your problems?
It does feel like a shortsighted strategy, for the exact reasons you claim - the high performers can flee and you're stuck with those who can't jump. But, just because it's a bad strategy doesn't mean it isn't also the one being followed. According to at least one study[1], there is a considerable chunk of employers that hope that RTO will lead to voluntary turnover.

[1] https://www.bamboohr.com/resources/data-at-work/data-stories...
By "support" I don't mean that you can do it. Rather I meant the opposite - it doesn't stop you from doing it incorrectly. There isn't a lot of thought put into ranged integer types, floating point modes, etc.
While there aren't direct speech restrictions in platforms like YouTube, you're leaving out the crucial detail that mentioning words like "suicide" gets your video demonetized, which directly causes similar self-censorship.
Your _real_ life is a database entry in a corporate s/w platform...
[meta] why is this the only comment I can't vote on?
Ask HN: How do you use Apple Intelligence in macOS, if at all?
I waited for Apple Intelligence but since I got it, I literally never found a use case to use it. Siri is still dumb. How do you make it useful for you?
As long as google, …. All can run in china. It is ok. If not it is unfair and not ok.
I just looked up #Taiwan on TikTok. There are 3.6 million videos.
I will never go to South Korea. Seems like a cruel place
The one where Curtis made a fool of himself and his poor understanding of history?
Literally nobody is saying cat videos are the problem with TikTok. What a moron this guy is.
In this case the reaction starts before you hit enter, as you're typing the command

So, you type `git pshu<enter>` and realise you made a typo before you've finished typing. You can't react fast enough to stop hitting enter but you can absolutely ctrl+c before 100 more ms are up
Same for GIF. I've written decoders for all 3.
The provision for a 90-day extension expires today.
Maybe it why you need a therapist?
It's much too short to read an output, interpret it and realize you have to interrupt

But often you type something, realize it's wrong while you are typing but not fast enough to stop your hand from pressing [Enter]

That is one of the only situation 100ms would be enough to safe you

That being said, the reason in the article for 100ms is just confused commander. Why would anyone:

1) encode a Boolean value as 0/1 in a human readable configuration
2) encode a duration as a numeric value without unit in a human readable configuration

Both are just lazy
No that would contradict freedom of association. People are free to form closed, self-censoring groups if they choose to. What we want to avoid is the government forcing it on people.
It doesn't actually solve anything, rather it makes the baseline lower by hurting everyone. I.e., it's an anti-solution - something that actively makes things worse, and can only make things worse, but masquerades as a solution.

An example of an anti-solution is lowering crime by making something that was illegal no longer illegal (see: public transit vs automobiles). Or, reducing the incidence of something by making it illegal while simultaneously increasing it's necessity (see: abortion). Or, solving wage inequality by protesting minimum wage increases.
Publicly accessible content should be accessible without an account. The only reason they ask for an account is to push you to sign up, which is just annoying.

Imagine if Wikipedia asked you to log in before you could read anything.

It makes some sense for something like Facebook which is more or less private by default (you couldn't see much without an account anyway), but not for X or Bluesky where it's all public.
We should be worried about all of them. But a hostile totalitarian foreign government could have motivations that are a hell of a lot worse than maximizing engagement/profits.

If the goal is to cause harm to the population (ala fentanyl distribution) rather than just to make as much money as possible, I’d say parents are right to be correspondingly more concerned.
Finiancial Times is concerned about the economic impact on the shareholders of the "hanging out" industry...
Crypto is a very easy way to funnel bribes to the sitting president, who has immunity for actions taken in regards to "official actions".

> Hey, I bought $1,000,000,000 $TRUMP coin, can you ease up on $RegulationImpactingMe?

> Regulations are official actions, so sure I can take a look-see.
Democrats? The government as a whole has been incompetent with regards to tech for years now. That said, there are huge issues with the “anyone can talk to anyone” revolution, namely that some people are a bit easier to talk to and some issues are a bit easier to talk about, and that these are selected on the basis of increasing engagement and use time for advertising. This causes the benefits of said revolution to be buried under a mountain of cynicism and slop.
You're missing out if you don't know about PostgREST.
Gitea 1.22 will be the last release with guaranteed migration support to Forgejo. The next Forgejo LTS release, v11, is due out around April. Migration from Gitea 1.23 will not be supported, and since it was released in December those on the fence are now at the fork in the road.

You still have time to figure out what to do, but you'll need to choose sooner than later.

https://forgejo.org/2024-12-gitea-compatibility/
The ACLU hasn't been a credible defender of free speech in some time. (FIRE and EFF still credible.)
Do you consider yourself as stupid?
Russia does all of the things you’re alluding to at arguably a much greater scale.

Also as you’ve outlined, plenty of the misinformation is targeted at Israeli citizens themselves and banning those people from the opportunity to engage outside of their bubble makes no logical or moral sense
Deciseconds is such an oddball choice of units. Better to specify the delay in either milliseconds or seconds - either are far more commonly used in computing.
Show me where it is an infringement of your 1st amendment right to a private platform? You’re free to criticize the government however you see fit, but you’re not guaranteed the right to a microphone and stage that isn’t yours. There are plenty of other communication channels you can use to express yourself. Your 1st amendment rights are not being infringed by being denied access to TikTok, just as the far right isn’t having their 1st amendment rights being infringed by being denied to use BlueSky as their platform.
Hey, could you send me an invite link at dr4ftcs@gmail.com
Backing off a bit should only really be needed by either worn or misadjusted derailleurs. Modern derailleurs work really well and there's not a huge difference between top and bottom ranges for the major manufacturers. Most of the difference is lighter weight, better manufacturing tolerances and often the number of gears. Misadjustment is more common for the cheaper ranges as the bikes will often not be as well maintained as the expensive ones.
This is so interesting. What is your process of understanding the problem deeply? How do you keep track of your progress?
All these companies need to look over at OpenAI and see all the engineers and support staff they are hiring and then ask themselves some hard questions about what narrative they believe.
Edit: I'm done interacting with this platform that ironically doesn't respect people's boundaries and is more of a club house of narrow perspectives centered around increasing wealth for select technical communities.
Thanks for this. It’s the first I’ve heard of it.
This is missing planets.

A good way to find interesting blogs is to subscribe to a few planets.

These are essentially aggregations of blog related to some project/topic.

https://planet.gnome.org/
https://planet.kde.org/
https://planet.mozilla.org/
https://planet.documentfoundation.org/

PS. If you know any good planets worth skimming, please add to below :)

That said, I don't really have a good RSS reader that syncs across devices. I currently use Feedly, but it tries to be too smart.
I made sure it was fully turned off the moment that I was 'offered the opportunity' to enable it. And Siri remains off too.

I am a user of useful bits of AI, I have shipped product with 'AI', and I have an AI degree.

But I don't want anything to do with the current privacy and climate damaging marketing-driven drivel.
> Laws that does not explicitly curtail free speech but effectively still does

You can say the same thing about an antitrust law that forces Alphabet to sell Youtube.
not sure why people still try to understand Trump after all these years him being a public figure. he does absolutely NOTHING and EVER which does not help his bottom line and benefit him personally. he’ll fucking steal money from a children’s charity which is about as low as humans go - the lowest scum of the earth to make a penny. hence him “changing his mind” (he was a democrat and was sucking clinton’s dicks for decades) has nothing to do with me and you changing our minds based on something we learned - for him there is a single thought - how can I profit from it.
> My argument for pro billionaire is “Who gets to set the amount that is too much?

That's not an actual argument though.

It's your gut justification that no one should be able to set the amount posed as a question. You are presuming that just because there's no perfect agreement on an arbitrary number, then the problem somehow becomes not worth solving.

> If the global GDP per person is less than $14k, why set at a billion, why not much less? How about $100k?

Good questions. We can have a discussion about it, but that doesn't mean there's never going to be a number that we can agree upon.
I belive there is a linear relation between how big of threat to the nation Toktok is and the amount of money Zuckerberg spends on lobbyists in said nation.
Alas. The cassette drive is borked. Every couple months I think about trying to fix it, but then some other shiny object gets my attention. I've not even tried to figure out what's wrong with it.
Trump reveals his plan to revive TikTok
Changing positions on bills because they're unpopular seems like a good thing no? Nor does it seem like a particularly ideological position to have, Republican or Democrat. I'm actually very surprised that Biden/Harris seemed so positive for the bill. Biden and the Democrats could have easily used this themselves, Biden himself was a lame duck President and could have vetoed the bill with minimal consequences. The fact that people are getting mad at Trump for taking a gamble to placate angry public sentiment makes me think that folks have lost the political plot: democratic politicians need to support initiatives and ideas that are popular among people.
I believe the law mentioned here isn't focused on which organization it is. The law itself basically said you can't export recommendation algorithm. Yes, in the very similar wording as in "you can't export certain GPU chips".
How about rapist getting less jail time than people who post Facebook complaints about them?
You misunderstood Proppers thoughts. There is interesting article about this topic.

https://www.persuasion.community/p/yes-you-do-have-to-tolera...
Years after nfc was added to android I have yet to see anyone complain that I can write an android app that has raw NFC access.
Yes this is one of the reasons this discussion is so tricky. I just believe that if I maintain a popular project on GitHub I should not be automatically consigned to worst-in-class experiences for Issues and code review. I understand this is mildly controversial but I have had maintainer status on a few top 0.01% GitHub repositories and I have seen tools that do not suck, and so my opinion is that a better world is possible.

Again, I say all of this entirely with love. I love GitHub. I have used GitHub since I started programming. I want them to win.
Uh. They still defend the civil rights of neo-Nazis (aren't any actual nazis left), white supremacists, etc.
Sadly, Orwell was not hugely imaginative, he was just aware of things that happened in the Soviet Union.
I don't believe in conspiracy theories, I tend to believe most can be boiled down to power and/or stupidity. Which is what I see going on here, but if I were to attach a conspiracy theory to it- this was always the plan and now a portion of the voter base has been flipped. Well played by the Thiel, Musk, Zuck circle jerk.
Yeah they’re communist like FedEx is federal.
I want to know more about note taking!

I'll give you my example, when I am driving to work I might realize something or during lunch. In that case, what do you do?
Another free speech interpretation: the right to assemble. I cannot assemble with the group of people I once was with TikTok gone
> Does this mean that the other systems’ cards are easily cloned? This seems very insecure, if so.

Broadly, yes, almost all NFC based access systems are insecure and pretty broken. They mostly operate via security via obscurity, and the fact that anyone serious about security that deploys these systems will put a huge amount of effort into identifying one of an actually secure systems. More likely they will pair the NFC element with multiple other secure elements, such as photo badges, big security humans that demand people keep their badges visible, and card + pin entry on all important access points.

A big part of the reason why these Apple Wallet systems have taken so long to appear is because Apple seems to refuse to integrate with any system that isn’t built using secure cryptography. Turns out there aren’t many systems out there that use strong cryptography, rather than cryptographic systems that have been broken for decades.

Actually getting information on how any particular system actually provides its “security” is extremely difficult. Mostly you have to figure it out by being familiar with the different systems out there, and different NFC systems. Then it’s possible to parse the marketing terms into actual technical specifications that might give a hint at how a system works. The only sure fire way to find out, is to buy parts of the system (such as access tokens or readers), and evaluate the hardware using various NFC and RFID hacking tools to figure what manner of awful design this particular system uses.
It's worse than that. Every ticketing system will eventually become ServiceNow.

Compared to SN, Jira is a breath of fresh air.
The EU has the advantage that their politicians don't all own gigantic shares in any social media companies (because the EU doesn't have any), so they are afforded the rare luxury of actually voting for the good of the people. That's why the EU has decent data privacy laws.

The TikTok ban would've been far less problematic if they had created legislation for all companies that curtailed data trading and increased user privacy. But that was never the goal.
When "containing a dangerous pandemic" means a restriction on civil liberties, I would expect the ACLU to comment on that matter.

I am personally happy with vaccine requirements, but IMO the ACLU should have been defending the people who weren't.
I wouldn't characterize the rationalists as just a loose knit online community with a common interest in rational thinking that happen to overlap with some other unusual interests- but as a real life community and culture - centered around a particular group of people mostly in the Northern California "East Bay Area" with a very unusual lifestyle and social norms they've collectively invented within the movement, that includes all of what I mentioned as central aspects. It's a broad social experiment of trying to reinvent everything "rationally" instead of just doing what their culture or parents taught them.

See for example:
https://putanumonit.com/2019/10/16/polyamory-is-rational/
"The Rationalist community isn’t just a sex cult, they do other great things too!"

I find that post hilarious, because the polling your friends and doing statistics on it thing is even more stereotypically rationalist than polyamory itself, but they conclude from poll data that most of the rationalists came to polyamory from within the movement itself, not from an existing or outside interest in it.

There is a larger international group of people that participate remotely and don't relocate or adopt the full lifestyle, but it would be a mistake to think of that as something that exists entirely separately, or would exist at all without that core community.
TIL 109 – Unpacking kwargs with custom objects
Here's a graphic one (it has a sensitive content warning):

https://www.instagram.com/ajplus/reel/C0SHLYlSynD/

Some others that aren't graphic:

https://www.instagram.com/middleeasteye/reel/C6RA3X0v1-y/

https://www.instagram.com/middleeastmonitor/reel/C4qXD7nvCLV...

https://www.instagram.com/katiecouric/p/CyW65klxgjA/

I'm not very familiar with Instagram, you'll have to tell me if those posts have been moderated to oblivion.
This is a shakedown and violation of property rights.
> "Why would anyone ... encode a Boolean value as 0/1 in a human readable configuration"

It may be lazy, but it's very common!