skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's a major part of the concern. Their first duty is to the Chinese Communist Party. Historically all sources of information in communism have to serve the goals of the party above all else, and this is tightly controlled.
How was the data Google already had access to any less protected by copyright?

The data Google had was book scans, search engine indexing of arbitrary 3rd party content, and private email and documents they hosted.
the reasons are myriad.

Because in a general way you can't say "I want X that will work perfectly until time Y". Instead, Xs are made my a process. That process can cost more or less: more meaning better quality ingredients, higher quality processing, tighter quality controls, whatever. This all yields end results are on a spectrum of quality - a likelihood that the item will last Y time within Z margin of error.

As chain is only as good as its weakest link - many systems will fail with a single broken element. And every time one of those elements breaks, I have a new problem with which to deal. Spend my precious free time figuring out how to do it myself? Try finding someone who will fix it for me, and hope they aren't going to just rip me off?

The example of a home lasting long is especially wild to me. In the US at least, the home is one of the major mechanisms of increasing wealth over lifetime and inter-generational wealth. People frequently buy homes in order to build equity.
Having homes that only last a few decades means that they are worth significantly less, and/or require significant repairs and remodels after relatively short time. I know that when I bought my home, which was made circa 1920, I was really happy that, while old, I could be fairly confident it wasn't about to fall over.
They almost certainly are while on deployment, despite it being really obvious where a ship is.
My comment was originally in another thread that was a statement from Tiktok on Twitter. It looks like this thread was merged with another one so my comment might not make sense now.
IMO what kills Mastodon is what us nerds say is the single important point about Mastodon: federation.

Stay with me...

So: federation is very cool in principle, and it's extremely cool in that it in theory means we don't have Just One Batshit Master of all our content... but in the way it's being done with Masto, it IMHO makes for a weak proposition.

Why?

Mainly because people (normal people, not us lot) don't understand or care what "federation" is. They expect (because it's been the norm for every other service), a SINGLE place where they can go to find their mates and celebs and politicians.

What they instead get is a thing where:

1) They can't search a global place and find all those people they want to find (why the Mastodon team don't have this as the #1 thing they are working on, who knows)

2) They find someone on one "instance" (not understanding what an "instance" is) and then can't (easily) follow them from their own instance without having to think about namespaces and all that

3) They naturally gravitate towards the biggest one - probably mastodon.social - and then we're right back at the beginning, with everyone on a single instance, beholden to the possibly loony who might shut it down / monetise it / etc

Moving between instances is much harder than it is claimed to be (you lose all sorts of stuff like your history, or at least you did when I tried it).

Federation also brings all manner of hard things to those trying to run an instance - I tried, as "medium level nerd" and ended up walking away from the complexity of just not understanding why some content didn't seem to be getting from my instance to others, etc etc.

If I was the Mastodon team, I'd be focusing all my attention on global search, and on never using the word "federated" in any of their marketing ever again. It might well be the coolest thing, but it's a non-marketable thing.

Of course all this is predicated on "a good outcome" being "everyone on Mastodon" and I do appreciate those who don't want that. It's definitely the case that less people tends to make for better online social spaces, and maybe small niche groups leads to better things all round.
You can no more riase taxes to properly fund government than you can fill a bucket with no bottom.

One only need to look at the Harris campaign to see that the political class in the us is fundamentally innumerate as well as incapable of making a cost benefit analysis.
That's not actually true. If you host your data yourself with a PDS then everything continues to work. And your data is all stored in a big merkle tree so you can actually just back it up from the network and if bluesky shits itself you can upload it to your own PDS and continue as if nothing happened.

Same goes for identity (albeit in a different way)
Maybe my interests and those of the general American public are more in line with the "CCP" than Israel regarding international affairs.
There already is browser.wit, that is what a direct interface could look like.
Least surprising outcome of 2025.
Starcraft player detected
The criteria is; they must have a plan to sell.
It's core product is git hosting, you use it to host your git repositories. You use features such as Pull Requests to power how you merge within your git repositories. If the issue system isn't working it's not a big deal, but if we can't use git it's a massive deal. It's all in the name GIThub

Most companies don't use GitHub's issue management system they use issue management tools such as JIRA, Trello, etc. Issue management, project management, CI/Actions, wiki, discussions, etc are all nice to haves and are probably more aimed at the open source projects that are used as a marketing tool.
Agreed that too much power accumulated in the president.

The advent of nuclear weapons is one reason.

You need someone to push the button.

Another reason is Nixon, Dick Cheney and many other right of center "intellectuals" have been successfully arguing for decades that the president needs more power.
> how can you make a house resist major fires such as the LA Fires?

Not an expert, but the main ingredients seem to be to create a defensible space free of combustibles (trees, brush, foliage, wood piles, wooden fences, etc.) within a perimeter of the house and build the exterior fire-safe materials (tile, slate, sheet iron, aluminum, brick, or stone).

> Why aren't multimillionaires doing that?

I don't think the wealthy have anymore risk foresight than anyone. Almost everything in the system is discouraged from emphasizing catastrophic risk: buyers want a fancy looking traditional house (not a barren yard and unconventional building materials), real-estate agents want to close on as expensive a property as fast as they can, and the municipality is discouraged by owners/voters from forcing expensive fire-safe changes. It's human nature not to learn hard lessons until they directly affect you.
Variants of this have been around for a century.

Russian Prime Minister Medvedev comes to President Putin and nervously tells him to abolish these time zones.

- Why, Putin asks him?

- Ah, I can't find myself with these times:

- I fly to another city, call home and everyone is asleep,

- I last woke you up at 4 in the morning, but I thought it was only evening,

- I call Angela Merkel to congratulate her on her birthday and she tells me she had it yesterday,

- I wish the Chinese President a happy New Year, and he says it will be tomorrow.

- Well, these are just minor awkwardness, Putin answered him

- Do you remember when that Polish plane crashed with the president? I called them to express my condolences, but the plane hadn't taken off yet !!
What David Lynch Knew About the Weather
Everyone who visits this forum would do well to remember the narrative of tech being “the last meritocracy” is at the very least completely dead now, if it was ever true to begin with.

Founders have been so thoroughly mythologized that everyone is becoming blind to the reality of the industry as a whole, and that is a few large corporations are increasingly holding all the keys.

Yet you have the people most affected by this decrying others who push against this in society, the workplace or in politics as if it’s an affront to do so.

We are losing our innovation spirit as we allow such rot to set in. We should have known better, we did nothing to prove we did
I also find it comical that banning TikTok is the red line for folks when the NSA and other government agencies have been acting with impunity when it comes to harvesting data for decades now.
The klept will probably escalate until a fellow billionaire gets hit. It's going to get really weird.

We can blame the state of New York for this, who convicted Trump of falsifying business records and then handed him a sentence of .. nothing.
'I Won't Touch Instagram'
Not just consistency. Microsoft themselves don't have a modern, stable UI toolkit anymore. Linux is a mess. Only MacOS have something decent.

Then there is the fact that with native you need separate native app devs, familiar with tooling and environment, cause they totally different, so costs balloon. A lot. Not to mention a difficulty of hiring, compared to Electron.

There are practical reasons why Electron won, people are just ignorant of those reasons. If they poured their hate into solving the problem instead, we might have something decent already. But it's easier to complain. So here we are.

Personally, I'm annoyed, but understand why it is like it is.
Seems I spoke too soon about the US taking a good decision for once when it comes to cyber and civil security. Well... I wonder what muskov will come up with now that twitter is still at large inaccessible in China but tiktok is welcome in the US.
> And the entity being constrained is a foreign actor

Genuine question from a non-American: does the 1st amendment only apply to US citizens?
I've been using TikTok for four years and never once seen anything resembling Nazi content.

I opened a new account in Canada last night due to the ban. I saw a lot of Canadian memes, and a ton of wildly incomprehensible foreign material from every corner of the globe as the algo tried to figure me out. But none of it looked remotely political or ideological in any way.

If there is propaganda it is very covert. Compared with X where my feed is maybe 80% overt propaganda, including from the owner of the platform himself.
To be fair, the “how to deal with your many cognitive biases” part is not what the rationalist movement is generally hated on.
Better tell every parent in America
What exactly do you think Democrats should have done that they didn't do?
You know polls are a rotten way to make policy. Easily manipulated. In fact, Hitches said in "Letters..." that any time you see a poll just realize it's someone trying to change your mind with the bandwagon fallacy - isolating your own opinion as wrong and outside the norm or trying to reinforce the "right" opinion by confirming that you're part of the cool-kid club.
How does that prevent China from using TikTok to inject malware?
Strange to see the ACLU and Trump having common cause.

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/banning-tiktok-i...
https://action.aclu.org/send-message/tell-congress-no-tiktok...

TikTok is coming back online after Trump pledged to restore it
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/19/tech/tiktok-ban/index.htm...
> Sounds like a load of bull.

Don't take my word for it. There are plenty of professionals and agencies who explain how it can be done[1]. I'm not saying there aren't tradeoffs, but it is definitely possible.

https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/fire-prevention-educat...
We're aligned on your second paragraph. It just doesn't change how these demographics *feel*.

Maybe if we're going to cancel tiktok or whatever, offer them some tax credits to cover the cost of registration for a coed sport or other such things that might enable them to be happier. Do more to help them get their first house and get their life going.

Just taking things from this demographic, without giving back, is a surefire way keep them disenfranchised. Even if we're taking something away that is objectively harmful to them (but still keeping instagram around lol).
So you don't have any? ok.
The point (often) is to stop the practice, not to ask money for it.

Like, you get fined for speeding, but if you keep speeding you'll get you're license revoked, and if you keep driving after that you get jail time. The payment required is punitive, but the point is to stop you.
> There's a quote I can't find right now that goes something along the lines of "If you let somebody define the terms of your reality, you've made a sorcerer out of them, unless you catch the bastard real quick".

Four quotes that capture the essence of not letting others define your reality or exert control over your perception:

1. “He who defines the terms wins the argument.” - various thinkers.

2. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” - Eleanor Roosevelt

3. “Until lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.” - Chinua Achebe

4. “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.” - Jean-Paul Sartre
<< Ones that aren't owned and controlled by China... America's biggest technological rival.

And, you forgot to add, do not allow expression of thoughts that are not culturally accepted in US.
On the contrary, we've even following the Pelosy trading scheme for quite a while.
Quick note for anyone who hasn't visited, and has an interest in western civilization: Pompeii, and the somewhat more impressive nearby Herculaneum are well worth visiting at least once. It's really not possible to have the experience remotely from pictures or videos, not the same as being physically immersed. Best to avoid the high summer due to heat and load, but go then if you have no alternative. Herculaneum in particular is never that busy because harder to get to and less publicity.
Tiktok now exists at the whim of the sitting president, whoever that may be. This means that the USA is one small step closer to a dictatorship.
I live in San Francisco and, whenever I'm in the area of Glen Canyon Market, I make sure to pick up several Fiat chocolates there: they cost about a dollar a piece and are delicious. I had no idea they were related to the car company; I thought the name overlap was a coincidence. They are really really good, like drive 10 minutes out of your way to get some good. Especially the green ones.
Strictly speaking:

1. This is true for did:web but less true for did:plc identities.

2. For did:plc identities to survive a full "bluesky PBC" death, you'd need to to transfer master authority for your PLC identity to a set of keys you control. If you don't then ultimately bluesky PBC would still have final authority over your identity. But if you transfer control to your own keys ahead of time then you can use those keys to make changes long after bluesky PBC's death.
The First Amendment enjoins only the US government.
yup, and if we read the same account, then China is still suffering from a the loss of song birds.
From observing song birds, especialy in winter, they are very busy eating, dormant insects and there egg clusters, and most of the over wintering birds are doing this, up too crows.Colder weather pushes the birds to seak out the higher energy food from insects, rather than seeds and plants, and the cold weather will kill certain types of pests in the ground.So warmer weather and no birds
did kill more Chinese, than the Japanese in ww2.
Its one of the bleaker demonstrations of the law of unintended consiquences.
Something similar happened in India, when they killed all the snakes,(cobras), which used to keep
the now out of control rat population in check.
The disease and food destruction caused by rats, is orders of magnitude more deadly and costly than the snakes ever were.And now there are spoty efforts to rehabilitate the snakes reputation and the place they occupied for millenia.
> Fabricating new problems so he can solve them “heroically” is the basic MO of any narcissist or authoritarian despot

I thought Joe Biden signed the law?
when I asked for his support around difficult prioritization discussions, his response was “I believe in the Team First mentality, and our success is not necessarily putting my team nor our customer first- it’s in putting my peers’ needs first. Do whatever it takes to make them successful.”

On one hand I could see how this can theoretically lead to good outcomes all around… on the other, is this a joke? I hope to god this mantra doesn’t catch on, because what is a boss if he is not there to support you.
yup. traitors tend to keep dumb-presenting faithful around because they give the impression of both not being a traitor as well as being unsavvy and easy to manipulate
I thought that was what was meant by the question. Was it not?
Given the correct prompt, you can get the training set almost or completely verbatim [0]. Getting a GPL function is enough for GPLs virality, since you effectively lift the code from a GPL codebase and add to your codebase.

Plus, the stack's latest version contains at least one GPL repository which their license tool failed to detect. So it's not something hypothetical in the first place.

[0]: https://x.com/docsparse/status/1581461734665367554
Indeed, and I suspect as more people learn about jury nullification, the world will grow more just.
This feels like a shallow dismissal, and I’d love to understand what you’re trying to communicate in more depth.
"Qualified divestiture" means "no longer being controlled by a foreign adversary."

Minority or even majority ownership change isn’t enough as long as the CCP still has control.
I don't disagree with you that it's probably bad for them, much like smoking. But it makes them FEEL temporarily happy. Much like smoking.

Do you see my point? We're just taking random shit from them without giving anything back. Also, objectively, Meta's platform is just as bad for them as tiktok, so it's obvious to them that it's not being taken away because we actually care about their mental health lol.
Applying fork/join model and Git-style cherry picking to AI conversations
I once tried to get an image on the screen using the Linux framebuffer device, using Cairo in Python. It was for an embedded device. Turned out that the framebuffer supported only BGR ordering while Cairo only did RGB. Which was disappointing because I expected more flexibility.
... I can't even. How did US win? OP effectively nailed all the facets in which it is overall the worst of all worlds. Few individual political players have won, but it certainly was not US or us.
It would be interesting if fans edited the episodes into a "contestant viewpoint only" version that removed the TV viewer's perspective and allowed viewers to play along without knowledge of the traitors.
Philosophy Eats AI
By that measure they should ban the war thunder forum before tiktok
Plus these apps track you everywhere so the Chinese have your GPS and you're on the aircraft carrier. No need for fancy satellites they can just have that data and track the military and other government employees 24/7. I guarantee you no American company can track Chinese military or Chinese employees 24/7 wherever they're at this is a one-way deal it's not good for the US.
See, the thing is, I do not wish to hear from idiots. Life is too bloody short.

This is how normal in-person social interaction works too, by the way. If you’re in a pub and someone comes up and starts ranting at you about how the pizza restaurant basements are turning the frogs gay, you’re probably not going to engage them. And if they keep at it, they’ll probably get kicked out.

The internet is full of people who (a) insane, and (b) insane in a very boring, same-y way. Filtering these people out is _fine_. There is no moral obligation to listen to every ranting idiot who comes along.
No, there'd be one person left with an eye. They could just dodge the last blind person.
This. It is not back in stores.
Thats funny, I took a look at publicly available harms from various social media apps and deleted Meta apps.
Feature parity is absolutely required. We are ADO customer because A) Inertia and B) GH Actions is nowhere close to features of ADO Pipelines.

Every conversation we have with Microsoft about our ADO -> GH migration is either get GH to feature party or if you force us to migrate, we will evaluate ALL our options.
No, I didn't take it out of context: the argument be made was irrelevant to the conclusion it was offered to support. Choosing not to make an argument either way about the conclusion to add to that comment about how inappropriate the argument was in context is neither taking it out of context nor pedantic.
My own claim is more like a dopamine high. Like smoking. Both bad things in the long run, but makes them happu in the moment. Video games probably up there too in their current manifestation.

Anywho, main point is more about giving this already vulnerable demographic more tools to succeed. Especially if, from their perspective, all we keep doing is making their lives worse.
The us opium wars:

Where the fights isn't over selling opium to the us masses, but about who gets the profits from the sales.
xena said "forward confirming reverse" twice which means rdns and then resolving that forward to confirm it matches.
> then handed him a sentence of .. nothing.

Nothing yet: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czr72m57e1jo

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czr72m57e1jo
This isn’t the only risk. There is also the problem of radicalising people. This has been a big problem in Europe.
Websites do it very closely. I hope they do something good with that information tax (it's very high).

There's a larger you though. A little bit blurrier, completely metaphisical. It is an old tradition (for example, Horoscope, but not only it).

That blurry you thing has the means to spy on you too. Not as close as a website that has your exact identity, but close enough.

One could see your public behavior and gauge what cultural clothes you decide to wear, and from that figure out lots of things about you (in a more blurry, metaphisical way). These ideas are very, very old.

For example, I was supposed to move from being a web developer in the 2000s (very known persona profile) to some kind of crypto-nerd, to some kind of AI-nerd. It's the lane that was assigned to me, the clothes I am supposed to wear given my life circumstances. I decided to make different arrangements for myself (still very much a 2000s web developer), and then noticed how people blindly follow this stuff. I can't help but imagine a lot more people do this (persona mobility), and know what's all about.
The ACLU is thus helping Trump consolidating all of the propaganda distribution systems?

https://action.aclu.org/send-message/tell-congress-no-tiktok...
https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/banning-tiktok-i...
Only for diabetes. Wegovy is authorized for weight loss.
There are other GLP agonists that are also authorized for diabetes. I'm not sure if there are other formulations for weight loss.

The US does allow for "off-label" prescriptions. The question then is : will your insurance pay for it. In my case, even though I am diabetic, they wouldn't cover Ozempic, or, apparently even Trulicity, which is just absurd (or Rybelsus which is the oral form of Semaglutide which they DID cover for a full year before putting me on Ozempic for like 2 months, and then denying (after the "new formularies" are approved and I get to be forced and switch to a med they still claimed to cover but not, apparently - I'm assuming they want me to appeal and give a whole run around on that.

But yeah... Technically it's for Diabetes only, but if you have good insurance, they'll probably hand out for any reason (see: "Hottest Celebrity Weight Loss Drug" for example; maybe that's changed now that Wegovy is released/authorized for weight loss)
What outcome are you talking about comrade? Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.