skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By saying China's using Tik Tok to subvert "democracy," aren't we really saying voters are not individual agents but rather a mob subject to manipulation by propaganda? I sometimes cannot believe it's those who so loudly cry about threats to "democracy" that simultaneously take such a cynical view of the democratic process. Rather than tackle the narratives substantively, they'd argue about who gets to manipulate the mob. It's just wild to me. If that's your view of the electorate, then the whole "democracy" thing is just a cover for elite power. Honestly, maybe there's some truth to that, but it sure flies in the face of the sanctity of voting and "democracy."
The “X”-line was not trying to be a macbook, only the X1 was doing this, which was a class of its own and confused the product lines tremendously.

X- was always ultraportable business laptops, essentially the smaller version of the T-, lots of connectivity, conservative design etc.

T- was the standard sized laptops built to business standards- usually built the best and lasted the longest, with a conservative design and port selection.

W- was the desktop replacement class, the super-amped variant of the T-, compromising portability for power.

Everything else was confused, experimental, sub-tier, and the X1 muddied the branding of the other X-series..
And upheld by the the supreme Court in a unanimous decision
Google "Golden Share CCP ByteDance". CCP has direct influence over how ByteDance is run.
that is all based on some reddit comments, very fake news you have shared here.
> Speech is not being criminalized -- you can say the exact same things on a different forum.

s/criminalized/supressed/ and message still holds true. You can still say the exact same things on a different forum.
Free speech is satisfied in every country, then, because you can sit at home alone and scream whatever you want at your wall without consequences.
> what the rationalist movement is generally hated on

Out of genuine curiosity, what causes hatred/resentment towards this community?
If you think that pretraining is copying then your opinions are irrelevant.
I do not follow all of Trump's lawsuits...but this was just over a week ago.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5078962-trump-s...
then you are being too strict about your analogies on what a protocol is, and your technologist hat (being precise > being directionally accurate) is getting in the way of being a better business person (job to be done is king).
At the risk of stating the blatantly obvious...

Centralized architecture allows centralized control, notably over promotion and moderation. Facebook, Twitter/X, and other centralized platforms are absolutely responsible for what they promote and what they moderate. That someone could state otherwise staggers belief.

Decentralized architectures allow for more freedom of providers, content promotion and moderation policies, and apps.

To sum, the protocol and architecture changes everything.

Also, plenty of software freedom activists choose platforms based on protocol and architecture. Myself included, so you've now met at least one. :)
I don't fault op for posting it. I agree that it's an interesting historical artifact, but intrinsically the essay is dumb.
It's an absolute win for the content creators who relied on TikTok for their livelihoods and the small businesses who relied on it for marketing. And for Gen Z, for whom content creation is one of the few viable ways to earn a good income now that tech grad hiring has completely collapsed.
Effectively the same is true for IFF-compliant formats like ILBM and AIFF, which are usually distinguished either by file extension or by file-system metadata.

It’s a bit like criticizing a format for being XML-based, under the argument that XML can represent all kinds of payloads.
More often than you might think. The EU COVID-19 immunology status certificate scheme saw some fraudulent issuances, for example.

And "putting a banner on impacted accounts" both partially deanonymizes and effectively bans legitimate users for no fault of their own.

Travel documents are not a digital identity scheme, and using the ICAO biometric travel document scheme contrary to its explicit design goals is just asking for trouble.
This is fascinating (if a bit discouraging) take from someone who would definitely know better than most!

I like to THINK that atproto's ability to easily move one's data between providers makes it less susceptible to the "Gmail problem," but I think I'm being naively optimistic
Even if it did, that doesn't matter here, since it's American TikTok users whose speech is being suppressed.
I only recently got a Thinkpad T14 for work and the trackpad is really only serviceable. I was surprised. [0]

Especially because many years ago got a Dell Inspiron line laptop, and the trackpad on that feels great to me.

[0] what's even more surprising is that in Ubuntu there's an extra package, that adds more configuration options for the Thinkpad trackpad, but even with that I couldn't really make it feel as pleasant as my old Dell.
I would say yes, everybody. TikTok is very bad for our society. It has had profound negative effects on people's ability to pay attention to things. I don't know that I'd say the solution is legalistic in nature, but the continued existence of that platform is a cancer on humanity.
What does this even mean?

There is no "algorithm": the policies of a service like Tiktok are spread throughout its entirety. The only meaningful way to "release the algorithm" would be to release the whole source code.

Furthermore, releasing the source code wouldn't help, since regular people aren't able to understand what it means; and there is no way to verify that the released source code corresponds to what is actually being run.

It would be great if there was some way to verify that a service you're using matches some published code, but we don't have that.
that’s like 300 shares at most.
So Pisgah or Lavic or Amboy. All great places to escape.
It’s a cult of personality. By definition it’s him they support and who informs their thinking. He can’t alienate his supporters, because they don’t have any framework to fall back on.
Defer to your betters?

Do as you're told?

Submit?

Great question!
Okay, a quick web search tells me Bluehost.com is what I should go for. On their front page they recommend me a plan for $5 per month, for this among other things:

- 50 websites: I just want to have my own website or blog

- 50 GB NVMe Storage: How many blog posts is this?

- 500 Concurrent Visitors: That doesn't sound like a lot, does it?

- Free SSL: What is that and why do I need that for my blog?

- Free CDN: What is that and why do I need that for my blog?

- DDos Protection: What is that and why do I need that for my blog?

Then after selecting plan and finding a domain, you have to give a ton of info and pay about $60 to get to the next steps. Which probably will be a world of pain again.

GoDaddy and other web hosts are the same. Their target public are developers and sys admins, not the general public. That's why the general public uses proprietary services for putting their creative content online. That's why the general public buys iPhones and doesn't care about how many gigabytes of RAM a phone has. That's why they buy new cars and don't know or care how many horses are under the hood.

On proprietary services like social media, you can start writing, posting and uploading at once, without setting up a dozen different services and routing, worrying about security and hacks, or having to pay out of pocket.

Things get even worse if said blogger or content creator would like to purchase groceries and decides to start charging for his/her work. Subscription / payment plugins are a nightmare on WordPress - and expensive to boot. Anybody who wants to keep his sanity will instead go for a proprietary solution.

Just like driving is for everybody and not only mechanics, the internet is for everybody and you shouldn't have to be a programmer or sys admin to be able to express yourself online. Just like you shouldn't have to know how to bore out a cylinder to be allowed on the highways.
Clicking the hamburger menu has a full second delay before it opens causing you to click multiple times thinking you missed the click target. This saves up all the click events and causes the sidebar to open and close repeatedly while you just sit there and watch. Not great.
The abuse of power is so wild here that I wouldn't be surprised if Trump pushed to include it in his plan for SBR (Strategic Bitcoin Reserve).
That kind of comment has the opposite effect, it keeps people asleep with lazy (and corrupt) misinformation. Whenever people say 'they are all the same', they help cover for the actual bad behavior - it's now hidden among all the other behavior and not worth examining or pursuing, and rationalized.

They are certainly not all the same. If you don't distinguish them, you cut down the people actually fighting on the front lines. It's friendly fire. They are shot in the back.
For the record -- the law for TikTok divestment was not passed on its own, but was instead included in the foreign aid (including Ukraine) package https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/23/tech/congress-tiktok-ban-...

It is not clear if it would have passed if not that procedural trick...
So one has to take this into account when considering 'bipartisan support' of the thing.
It's been awhile since I tested this but I had played around this on Cisco 5108 blade servers. We'd test vMotion by pulling out blades during testing to see the VM migrated. Isn't that what vMotion is for.
> Nothing about this sort of interaction is baked into the protocol as far as I can tell yet FB insta snap etc don’t work this way.

Neither does Twitter.

Its search is frequently broken to push whatever the new version of their algorithm decides to push. If Musk so wishes your entire feed will be just his rants (something I experienced a few weeks ago).

Pre-Musk and pre-algorithm Twitter was a good source of news, as it was near-realtime, and relevant to you. Now? No.
> * Having written all that, I will add that "government" above means the US Federal government, not all the other ones. State, local, have a lot of latitude to make whatever laws they want, unless a federal law specifically prohibits it.

This is not entirely correct. In general many elements of the Constitution are incorporated and apply at all levels of government. It even outranks state constitutions where the two conflict.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_R...
Extend this line of argument a little further and it ends with US citizens not being able to freely access information that is published elsewhere in the world.

You may not like TikTok, but this line of argumentation also would allow the government to prevent US citizens from e.g. reading Iranian newspapers or researching Chinese media. The polarizing nature of TikTok obscures the fact that US users are losing freedom of access to information in this decision.
Our age gap is less then 10 years but here's my two cents: laziness/convenience. Back in the 90's and 2000's, you had to be ready to spend a lot of time fiddling with setups and maintenance as well as some MAJOR early days security flaws(think the IRC days). Corporate-owned ecosystems solved that problem: you log in and forget about it. They won with what some people call user experience. The lower the entry barrier, the quicker something picks up. Back when I was in school I was the biggest Nokia fanboi and even then I acknowledged that downloading a shady jar file and installing it on my phone was iffy. At a later stage when I was a bit older and could afford it, I got my first Android phone and the existence of a marketplace was a breath of fresh air. The problem is that few people(annoyingly even now) fail to realize or admit that those types of centralizations put handcuffs on your wrists the moment you say "OK, that works for me". Whether that's social logins, cloud providers, services or anything else - it's all the same. For example, if today, OpenAI decided to close off their API's for good, I recon tens if not hundreds of thousands of "AI" startups will collapse immediately since they fully rely on OpenAI's API's. Same with AWS, GCP, Azure or any other provider. And as we see with the current fiasco with twitter, tiktok and bambu labs just to name a few from the past two days, it is abundantly clear that people are in dire need of backups. As much as I used to find google drive and docs convenient, I've personally moved away and self-host everything now. The only thing I rely on(and only as a backup plan to access my home network) is a VPN I host over at Hetzner. But again - this is my backup.

Whether the corporations saw that as an opportunity at an early stage or they were at the right place, at the right time, I can't say. I'm more leaning towards the latter since I've worked at corporations and success in those environments is most commonly a moderately-educated gamble.
> voters are not individual agents but rather a mob subject to manipulation by propaganda

Was this ever not the case?
IMO this is really unfortunate.

Not only they are admitting that it is an exercise in futility to set up a medium-to-large Matrix deployment using an open source software stack.

100 000 people is not "nation-scale". It is small town scale. I am wondering if they intend Matrix ever to become truly mainstream instead of being confined to internal use of government organizations.

And it only gets worse from there: https://element.io/blog/synapse-pro-slashes-costs-for-runnin...

Synapse Pro was released only about a month ago. All these years they have been selling their solution to large organizations, despite it being hopelessly inadequate what it comes to scalability.
Tracking and sharing DSA stats across different platforms
its really annoyed to share different links to different dsa platforms on your resume or on your bio so I built dsastats.fun, a web app where you can view your DSA stats from different platforms in one place and share them with beautiful shareable cards.
You can create profile cards with your platform stats and checkout the leaderboard that ranks users based on total problems solved.
Would love it if you could check it out and share your thoughts!
BambuLab new firmware to cut access to third-party API and tools
Trump isn't just a politician, he's a showman. He had a TV series for years. He has effectively hijacked US media to ensure that there is constant news about him.
You definitely have a point. I have trouble accepting just how much people will give up for convenience!
what about all the american apps that have no service in china
Python CLI tool that translates natural language queries into shell commands
The issue isn’t data harvesting, and it’s unclear to me why people getting this wrong.

The issue is a foreign government having access to that data, to installed software on millions of phones, and foreign control of the primary information source for tens of millions of Americans.
Another:

- Markwayne Mullin (R Oklahoma) purchased $15-$50k Meta stock on 01/02/2024 [0]

A nice list: https://www.capitoltrades.com/issuers/431610

[0] https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/3-politician...
The protocol is protected.

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/

"Dual MIT/Apache-2.0 License

Copyright (c) 2022-2024 Bluesky PBC, and Contributors

Except as otherwise noted in individual files, this software is licensed under the MIT license (<http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>), or the Apache License, Version 2.0 (<http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>).

Downstream projects and end users may chose either license individually, or both together, at their discretion. The motivation for this dual-licensing is the additional software patent assurance provided by Apache 2.0."

Even when Bluesky decides to fuck around with the licenses, everybody is free to fork the current version crediting Bluesky PBC due to the MIT and Apache 2.0 license allowing this.

And besides that, the community could also decide not to support AT at all but put their full weight behind Nostr (https://nostr.com/)

UPDATE:

And the protocol spec is licensed under Creative Commons:

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto-website/

"Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY)

Copyright (c) 2022-2024 Bluesky PBC, and Contributors

Documentation text and blog posts in this repository are licensed under a permissive CC-BY license.

For anybody interested in derivative works of documents and specifications, remember that:

- you must give attribution (credit) to the original work
- you must indicate any changes made
- trademark rights are not granted (for example, to "Bluesky", "AT Protocol", or "atproto", or any logos or icons)

Inline code examples, example data, and regular expressions are under Creative Commons Zero (CC-0, aka Public Domain) and copy/pasted without attribution."
The real problem with thinkpads is that the 14" is still stuck with that 55Wh battery in the service of shaving a fraction of a pound, while cheaper 14" laptops have 75+Wh batteries that last considerably longer.
wow that is dedication 1970-01-01! :-)
Glad you enjoyed it! Here you go: https://mirawelner.com/rss.xml
Surely they are doing this to preserve free speech and for the security of hard-working freedom-loving god-fearing americans, and not for their own selfish interests.
Because they aren't TikTok users, simple as that. If the Trump admin was going to ban Reddit for being partially Chinese owned, they'd be up in arms.
Oceans are vast, sometimes there are clouds and storms.
Old as time? Roughly, though the intensity of the insecurity has varied greatly with period / location / social circumstances.

Opinions may vary on the IT workers' free meal benefits. My impression is that the richest firms added breakfast, and dinner, and laundry service - and were sometimes accused of hoping that employees would live in the office and work 20 hours a day.

FWIW, Wiktionary expresses doubt on that origin for "salary" - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/salary Vague memory: It's a topic that an ancient historian could lecture on for a few hours...and still conclude "doubtful".
Yeah, I've used this- I CNC shapes into plastic, then backfill with glow-epoxy. It works incredibly well with a UV lamp.
I wonder how Mr. Johnson is proposing to do his enforcement, seeing as how the executive is the branch of government charged with enforcing the laws.
That’s following the law. It doesn’t require an executive order. But the law requires proving to congress that the conditions for an extension are met
Not to mention, why would they trust the US to pay tens of billions of dollars after this rigmarole? The incoming head of state doesn't exactly have a great track record of seeing through on promises to pay and is threatening tariffs against all and sundry.

Anybody with that kind of financing readily available is throwing it at AI and not another social network, no matter how useful it might be for domestic propaganda.
I think we need to wait and see. So far is speculation by commenters, as per the link you posted. From a technical point of view IMHO just some geofencing is necessary in order not to change the user experience too drastically for RedNote Chinese users.
TT playing both the public and politicians for their gain. Well played.

Biden admin wasn’t going to enforce ban but TT soft shutdown yesterday with message pandering to incoming admin (broadcasted to hundred millions of users).

High suspicion of political theater.

I wish ppl would see through this and realize this is yet another distraction to divide us via culture war.
Maybe he's interested in realtime offers for cryptocurrencies or 1/10 of a thread with videos you wouldn't believe! Premise was good, execution terrible, and ever since Musk took over it's suffocated in spam with a spice of right wingery to it.
Lark is interesting... so just assuming for a second ByteDance was working for CCP...

Lark is potentially corporate espionage spyware?
If he had written "Twitter is important because a critical mass of important people use it to communicate directly with the general public" I would not have called the essay dumb. What he actually wrote is that Twitter was a new messaging protocol which was (a) obviously not true at the time and (b) a red herring.
> Honestly, maybe there's some truth to that, but it sure flies in the face of the sanctity of voting and "democracy."

Although some choose or have to squawk loudly about it, the sanctity of “democracy” is not universally or even widely accepted.

To extend the Winston Churchill quote, it’s mostly a charade but it’s the best one we have (in my opinion).
The point of the analogy wasn't to say those two things are the same. It was reductio ad absurdum, a totally valid proof technique in math and logic.

If person A says "X implies Y", then person B points out that X would also imply obvious nonsense Z, it doesn't mean that B is saying Y and Z are the same, or even that Y isn't true. They're just pointing out that X is too general to possibly be true.
This is littered with so many missteps I don't know where to start.

-Complete overkill requiring the use of a YubiKey for key storage and external RNG source - what problems does this solve? For a Yubikey to act as a poor man's HSM you have to store the PIN in plaintext on the disk. So if the device is compromised, they can just issue their own certs. If it's to protect against physical theft of the keys, they'll just put the entire Raspberry Pi in their pocket. You could choose to enter the PIN manually but this precludes any automation including CRL generation. It's also a waste of a good YubiKey.

-Creates a two-tier PKI... on the same device. This completely defeats the purpose so you can't revoke anything in case of key compromise. You could make it a 100-tier PKI and it would make no difference if they're on the same device. Though they would need a whole lot of YubiKeys and USB hubs for that.

-They're generating the private key on disk then importing into the YubiKey. Which defeats having an external key storage device because you have left traces of the key on disk.

-All this digital duct taping the windows and doors yet the article instructs you to download and run random binaries off GitHub with no verification whatsoever.

-Why do you need ACME in a homelab and can't just hand issue long lived certificates?

-OpenSC and the crypto libraries are notoriously difficult to set up and working properly. A tiny CA this is not.

An instance of openssl or xca covers 99.9% of "homelab" use cases. This is like using a battery operated drill to open a can of soup.
So, letting divergent opinions from other countries and from different entities is like being punched? You know that most world uses social media from foreign entities, right? Curious how until few years ago, when there were no relevant competitors outside US, the dominant discourse was that only tyranical countries would do this.
Dinit: Service Monitoring / "Init" System
> it's crazy to see so much of a flip-flop so quickly.

Trump was against Tiktok before he was for it.

He was also against crypto currencies before he released his own.
You trust all sorts of technology and services: Your computer (and of course that includes an incredible, integrated collection of hardware and software), your car, the plane you flew on, your lightswitch, weekly garbage collection, the fire extinguisher, the chair you are sitting in (will it collapse?), your hammer and the nail you just pounded in. The list is effectively infinite.

This technology is new, but soon it will be old and trusted too.
It’s not top secret deployments, it’s any deployments. All deployments need to maintain a level of operational security. Also if you expect a bunch of people in the 18-29 age range to go without internet for 9 months to 2 years, you’re kidding yourself. The tradeoff is between operational security and morale and if you’re in military leadership, you really don’t want unhappy troops on your hands.
Little bit further... 34°09'54.6"N 116°12'57.0"W

Was heading through JTree...