skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Mao said that the first step in a succesfull revolution, was to kill all of the librarians and then famously (silent im) killed or re-educated all of the acedemics

Mao also said “We should kill all the sparrows” and then tens of millions of Chinese people died during the resulting famine.
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Thank you for the post.

While our focus is for delivering high-performance remote 3D graphical workloads for vanilla Kubernetes and HPC clusters in general, our project should be trivial for anyone to also deploy in their X11 desktop, especially with NVIDIA.
I doubt this has anything to do with "data".

I generally view "data is the new oil" arguments as a sign that the journalist doesn't know what they are talking about, especially if they can't characterise what data they are referring to or why it is valuable.

More likely, this is about control of the recommendation algorithm, and therefore control of the narrative.
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Don't get me wrong, I hate mosquitoes and don't like being stung (both because of dengue fever risks in the case of aedes, and because it itches a lot afterwards), but I never find their bite painful. I suppose it depends on the kind of mosquito? I do know -- cause I've been bitten -- that horseflies hurt like hell, because their mouth parts have evolved to pierce cattle skin!

"Yellowjacket" is the translation I found for a kind of wasp we have in Argentina's Patagonia, where we call them "chaquetas" (Spanish for jackets). I think they might be imports and not native though, but now they are very frequent in our region.
I agree that young folks feel the pain more acutely - inflation, education and housing costs hurt the most as they have the least amount of income/savings.

I’m not sure I would elevate TikTok to that degree though - we have some serious issues especially for young men. Not sure that scrolling through TikTok videos is actually fixing any of that- it’s like saying “don’t take away the heroin, it’s the only thing that makes me feel happy”
Too expensive I assume.
We tried (dev-centric org) but the non-technical users weren’t able to use it well / didn’t like it - so now we don’t have issue tracking at all for non technical stuff -.-
Cat pictures are the "universal morals" everybody agrees on! Anything else is questionable (or might be in future/past).
3 comments total from this account totaling 28 karma at the time of writing and this of the top comment on a 1500+ comment thread about a major issue? Ok.

That fact is relevant to the issue. This comment is the most “State Department talking points” comment you could make and the finger is put on the scales to elevate it.

That’s exactly what Google and Meta do with content via recommendation algorithms and comments.

And it’s what TikTok doesn’t do, which is the exact reason it was banned.

Oldheads will remember when comment karma was public. Its hidden now basically to hide just how manipulated comment rankings are.
Could it be that the straight forward algorithm which empowers the user is exactly the problem with tiktok in the US?
See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

Americans have way more faith in America being the good guys than is warranted.
I'm willing to bet Americans are the most propagandized people on Earth. And it's done by our government with the "public/private partnership" aka "unconstitutional workarounds" of all legacy media and social media outlets. Facebook has admitted as much, and the Twitter files proves it.

China controlling the flow of information is the same. The only difference is China is upfront about what information they are feeding everyone.
There are a number of cults in the US with a strong leader, living in a rural area where information about the world outside is limited. There are Hasidic dynasties and Christian groups like this. To a lesser but wider degree there are fundamental Protestant groups like this - not exactly cults, but with some of this behavior.

We see a celebration of this kind of thinking here. People want to be kept ignorant of the outside world and to keep others ignorant as well. It's a natural way to think, in the context of the road the US has been heading down for decades.

People here are excited the US will be censoring seditious content just like China does. It reminds me less of China and more of post-1905, pre-1914 Russia and the ministry of internal affairs Bureau of Censorship.

Not that it's the only factor, but I watch the US Congress sanctioning the UN and International Criminal Court for investigating the genocide in Gaza, and how many expressed their unhappiness about how Tiktok was a fissure in the US media bubble regarding that. Now Americans can be in their bubble a little longer, unaware of what the rest of the world thinks.
The reason Trump will reverse it is that it helped him get elected. He said this in interviews already. "It is hard to hate it when...".

It also helped that Hungarian candidate when tiktok was used by Russia to push him...

It should be gone. I wish we would ditch FB too. And SEO. Kill all the algos and let me find stuff via regex.
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The West does not have to tolerate the intolerant. When China opens its Internet to the world like it always should have, they can continue to play their little CCP “China good, Collective West bad” game in the West.

To really be fair, we should lock our Internet from China for 30 years and let the Chinese people have the full wide un-CCP-censored Western consent Internet you’re talking about. We can start with old favorite topics like T-square, Winnie the Pooh, that COVID doctor the CCP suppressed and then martyred.

Then we can sit down and have a frank discussion on what the terms of Internet use should be.

Until then, China should be grateful their State enterprises were allowed in at all.

But to answer your question, US propaganda isn’t countering because it just doesn’t exist. We have a free press. It can criticize the government, and does it every single day. The U.S. doesn’t do military parades, and its self marketing sucks because it’s not an imperative, unlike China.

Furthermore, China clearly thinks propaganda and intense censorship is the way to go. What else can explain the efforts to A. Block Winnie the Pooh B. Block the sale of TikTok? Profit clearly isn’t the motive now, which is very suspicious of such a large ostensibly for profit company.

The fact that the consideration to sell it to Trump/Musk in particular is floating around points to the political value of TikTok in the first place. Bribe the incoming admin, extract some favor in return, I.E. back down on Taiwan or relieve semiconductor tariffs.

It’s all obvious.
It’s sad to see so many people have been brainwashed… please think independently based on facts you can verify first hand … refrain from trusting anyone, especially the deep state people and politicians..
I think this is the key.

As a generally smart person with disposable income, I am unable to figure out how to find/purchase higher quality products that are not optimized for obsolescence. Increasingly it seems that _everything_ is as cheap as possible: expensive products are not higher quality, but are instead designed to appeal to the premium market segment.
This is what they have said, in the most honest way of all — action!
I would be careful here and think through the governance well, as the time goes those nice customers may end up being bought by your competitor who would want to do everything in their power to destroy your project

While People change, companies change even more as "good people" may leave and even "good owners" may sell the company, in additionally to changing themselves
It’s immaterial at this point, there are very few actions the new admin could take to slow the energy transition down due to the momentum. The world is getting off of fossil fuels, even if the US is the last to finish the race.
Bluesky also has but a handful of engineers
China is not a geopolitical adversary to me. Why would I want to beef with China when China has never done anything to treat me poorly?
What are China going to do to with my data that US companies haven't already done?
I struggled with the borrow checker because I’m smarter than it is, not because I haven’t worked with one before. Mainly I say “I’m smarter” because I’ve worked on big projects without it and never had any issues. Granted, I’ve only gotten in a fight with it once before giving up on the language, mainly because it forced me to refactor half the codebase to get it to shut up and I had forgotten why I was doing it in the first place.
GNOME forces OpenGL 3D compositing with no way to turn off, which is very uncomfortable without a GPU. Every other X11 desktop environment allows to turn them off, which is more tolerable when using llvmpipe, the software CPU Mesa OpenGL implementation.
> At least in the US, people will say they support the death penalty for violent crimes because they don't want to pay for that criminal to live off tax dollars in a prison. But, they won't do simple research to understand the cost of executing someone far outpaces the cost to keep them in prison for life.

The contradiction is only in your head. The people who think that also probably think that executing someone shouldn’t cost that much. Bullets are cheap, it is all the appeals which costs money. For many with that opinion if they had their way someone would get convicted, sentenced and then executed in less than a day. Some might want more procedural safeguards. Like an appeal in a month and then execution a day after that. Still massively cheaper than keeping someone locked up for the rest of their lives.

These might be inhumane and monstrous wishes, but they have internal consistency. It is not like the cost of executing someone is constrained by the rules of physics.
My parents are kinda progressive. My brothers Close and Finalize aren't as... Open to it
Was it effective? Did you take a chance on the role they were offering you?
PInvoke is awesome. If you use MSVC for C++ it can do stuff like SEH/stack debugging that goes from .NET frames to C++ and back.
Honestly, who cares?

I pronounce it Forge-oh. I don’t give a crap if it’s “correct”.
I don't think that's it. I know plenty of people who were taught lisp first thing at university, and as soon as someone handed them an imperative language, they never looked at lisp again. And lisp is way easier than haskell IMO as IO is just a function and not a pilosophical concept
> I don't mean to sound super callous

Right, let me answer in a tone that I find similar to yours.

> gmail doesn't even do this

How the hell did you test that? Gmail sends goddamn plaintext together with HTML.

If you can't be arsed to even check that, why should I even answer to the rest? You've completely ignored the security aspect of it, but I guess you have similarly "not super callous" opinions about that. Don't bother, I don't care to read them.
Do we have actual numbers on signups for RedNote though? I feel that if I’ve learned anything in the past ten years of social media, a lot of noise is made by a very small percentage of users (not necessarily even people).
The big city equivalent is closer to a bus pass, $5 for a hot dog, and see you at dusk. The danger of dodging cars arguably is less than being locked in with TikTok. Maybe kids hawk chicharones in the city instead of bailing hay, obviously it won't be a direct translation.
Interesting. Are you an all-dev org or did you also onboard non-devs into GH Projects?

> the GH experience just encourages writing, whereas the Jira experience seems hostile to it.

Huh, that's interesting to hear. I didn't personally find it harder to add detailed descriptions in Jira back when I used it couple of years back. Wonder if there's anything specific about the experience you can describe that makes you feel GH projects is more friendly for writing.
As demonstrated by this ban, we're objectively worse now.

The true threat to our democracy is a foreign power. It's just not China.
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This is so flippant. I do read. And I've been online long enough to know that things disappear. I read slashdot in the hay day and was on Friendster, and MySpace.

If Hacker News disappeared, people would be sad because it was a unique place. And others would say "just go on Reddit it's the same thing."

And those people would be mistaking functionality for community.

Yes, all things pass. But if you read what I said at the top, it's not that we should expect things to last forever. It's that people are flip about TikTok in part because they don't seem to have more than a surface level understanding of it — or a completely different idea of what it was than the people who really used it.
My 5 cents on fuzzing compilers, and, actually, finding issues [1], also share another work we have done using black box/pentesting security techniques, including fuzzing in Fireblocks [2].

[1] https://www.coinfabrik.com/blog/why-the-fuzz-about-fuzzing-c...

[2] https://www.coinfabrik.com/blog/fireblocks-api-black-box-rev...
Container images use compression too, so having the debug section uncompressed shouldn't actually make the images any bigger.
As an American who has more power over me, powerful people in China or powerful people in America?

Who is more likely to give my data to my government to adverse affect?

Who is more likely to lobby my government to adverse affect?
[removing because I don't like HN's comment system and drunkenly engaged in a pointless posturing contest with a tanker.]
40+ is a bit weird of a timeline to give considering they invaded Vietnam 45 years ago, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War
Maybe it wasn't clear, but I'm using "contract of adhesion" and "negotiation" in their customary legal meanings. A negotiation here would be communication between the parties in order to decide on the terms of the contract. Since this doesn't occur (the venue has already written the contract and only offers it as-is) the contract is deemed to be one of "adhesion". (Definitions vary among jurisdictions, and I'm only familiar with some English speaking common law ones.)
well I believe if bytedance is a French company or Australian company this wont happen
Yes, it is. I am doing it right here though, lol.
I don't have practical experience with JIRA Cloud Operations, or JIRA on-prem operations, but if I compare on-prem vs SaaS of our own solutions, the answer is scale and focus.

If I combine our three internal ticketing systems, we end up with something like 200k - 300k tickets, with maybe up to 5M comments on those in JIRA-Terms. If you throw a small-ish, decently configured postgres with 8GB - 16GB of memory at it, it'll keep most to all of that in memory at all times, indexes will be analyzed and fine-tuned to your specific dataset. It will answer queries very, very fast. Any cache in the application servers will also be primed with your data 24/7, speeding it up even further.

JIRA Cloud is most likely not an in-memory problem as a whole at a database layer, so it is at quite the disadvantage performance wise for a small customer.

(In case this turns into a SaaS-Hate-Thread: Yes our customers could have a faster system if they were on-prem. If they had the same experience and expertise running postgres as well as all the other necessary middlewares. And then we're not talking about non-functional operational requirements such as availability, emergency scalability or backups yet)
Reminds me a bit of a post my colleague wrote a while back: https://www.svix.com/blog/heap-fragmentation-in-rust-applica...
You guess? As a Chinese I can tell you you are wrong by 10x if not more.
So they are monitoring everyone? We already knew that.
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Now Marvel Snap is claiming it is banned in the US by the same mechanism due to ownership by ByteDance.
Oh my! That doesn't sound like a good place to be in. I hope y'all figure something out to get them onboard or migrate out.
I saw a photo pop up a few months back from a hiring fair at Yale. I guess Skull and Bones isn't pulling them in like it used to.
I'm not sure about that. The US and China sort of need each other, at least from an economic perspective. If one faces disruption, the effect on the other is guaranteed. I'm not saying they like each other, but the relationship is symbiotic in many ways.
Selkies should be generally acceptable for gaming, provided that you go through a bit of the WebRTC setup.
you compared the two, not me (" the only comparison would be what the Luftwaffe did during WW2.")
Similar - Minimal Phone

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I think it's totally reasonable when it has massive influence over your population and is controlled by a geopolitical adversary.

The EU banned Russia Today (correctly in my opinion) and that was nothing compared to TikTok. Propaganda isn't free speech.
I prefer to think of as other countries starting to clean up after themselves, whilst the U.S.A. commits to shitting everywhere as much as possible.
Could that be an organic donut?
My first CS class was in Scheme (R6 iirc), and the year after they switched to python. Then a thousand cries in failure to understand python metaclasses. They are garbage at the repl, and you have a distinct set of folks that edit their editors.
So young people learn how to use VPN and web apps.
A Chinese company cannot take the CCP to court and win. There is no separation of powers in China. There is no constitutional protection held on place by a group outside the ruling party.

China has a faux free capitalist society. Chinese companies are the way they are because the government lets them be that way, not because they have the right to be that way.
How do you refer just to the sort of alphabets that do have vowels and not abjads?
Thank you for clarifying - I disagree with your point.

China is far, far more powerful than Zuck or Musk.
First time I hear about this, have you got anything to read about it?
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As an American, support for democracy and (small-l) liberal values is the best type of government.

These liberties are built into the U.S. Constitution. And, while the U.S. government makes mistakes, this is the ideal we strive towards.
I do not think that for service to be dependent on some particular company is successful way to do it. It is successful to deliver some kind of service but, as we have many examples from and post- web2.0, that service does not have desired outcome.

Anyway I have checked several social medias today (HN included) and everywhere except one place there was too much noise about TikTok - only place that my feed was without it was Mastodon - it is quite slow there but i consder it to be good thing. However I think that there is no good social media - Mastodon included and my days would be improved without any of them. RSS feeds feels like more then enough. Discussion seems to be mostly point-less. Maybe even this one, but those enhanced with algorithmic engagement and endless scroll are net-negative.
It's possible to use tini, supervisord, dumb-init, and other init 1 services for containers. Bit of a heavy workaround to make it work with desktop environments, but works.
> You have very recent cases where Russia has been caught financing US right-wing hate-speech "influencers"

So what?

You also have the same kind of "influcence" from the US, on a total different level though, given the disproportion of available budgets between the two.

OTOH that wasn't my assumption, I simply said that single minded propaganda will harm free people more than those who are not free.

Russia or not Russia (it is honestly ridiculous to compare Russia to the USA at this point of history).

> In 2016 Russia was caught actively trying to spark a race war in the US.

And you don't know what the US has done exactly because they do not allow platforms to speak about it, the "fact checking" was simply state censorship disguised as "war on fake news".

No one can seriously believe that Russia can outsmart US intelligence or outmaneuver them, unless you don't really think that the US are collapsing and are no longer the more powerful country in the World, with the more powerful military, with the more powerful and pervasive intelligence.

Which is frankly not credible.

But there are still people out there that with a straight face will tell you that the US elections have been rigged by Russia (or at least they tried).

Which would put the US behind even some small country like Luxembourg or The Vatican.
I think it’s more along the lines of the free market is great but if a foreign government has close control/ties with a pervasive social media business that it’s not great. Sounded like via an IPO they would have still had the ability to retain some ownership via the stock but would not longer have complete secret control.
>I'm willing to bet Americans are the most propagandized people on Earth.

Perhaps. It might feel that way because we have multiple sources of propaganda and interests trying to sway us while places like China only have one. We have political party propaganda, government propaganda, corporate propaganda, special interest group propaganda, religious propaganda, grass roots propaganda, etc. China has government propaganda that encompasses all of that.

I also think the US apparatus' are just better at hiding which information is propaganda and which isn't; this makes it harder to spot. China has full control so it doesn't really matter if its propaganda is believable. Once you bring up a generation on it, the propaganda turns into reality.
The example on their paper is an anthropic employee giving the model access to an aws instance that has its weights. Ideally the model would refuse to access or change the weights but they were able to get it to attempt to access them.
That is certainly tipping the scales in this case
A quick note: the US is falling down the WPFI fairly quickly lately...
So I'm not sure if Element has made an improvement to this page since, or it's a layout difference based on screen size, but on my windows tablet, the page was as described above, but on my Linux desktop, there is actually a lead generation form. Still a pretty onerous process that individuals are not going to do, which is clearly by design.
Please try this one https://youtu.be/oHUGNWPGCoY
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What can China do to our social networks that is materially different than what American tech companies are already doing today?

Maybe I'm being naive because I don't use TikTok, but all the partisan misinformation I see is being spread by either Americans on American social networks or maybe Russian disinformation bots operating on American social networks.
It took forty years for the country to begin atonement for the hardships inflicted on its own citizens during WWII, and forty years after that discussion began, we’re again talking about interment camps.

We make mistakes and learn nothing from them.
with china wysiwyg, with USA you believe you have freedom of ____ (you don’t) and you believe “US-owned” (X is not, hence the quotes) social media is in any way “net positive” for its citizens…
Absolutely but I do think there is a slice of data. Unlike meta selling its data, we have no idea the full scope of what bytedance collects and sends home. My one thorn is we are so consumed with China but somehow it ignore Russia.
(Laughs in control theory)
> You do not need presumption of innocence to determine if you should embargo a country

Are you saying that US decision makers are the ones to blame here?

> and ban a suspicious supplier from your critical infrastructure.

I don't think China controls through tik tok what country the US should or should not embargo...
Lol. I lurk on Hacker News. I am not a U.S. government employee.

I just felt compelled to state what I thought was missing from the conversation.