skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> With no mathematical rigor there is no mathematical understanding

While I appreciate rigor to really know deep details, is not only not a requirement for understanding, but a hurdle. A terrible insurmountable hurdle.

To first have understanding, I need some kind intuition. Some explanation that makes sense easily. That explanation is btw, what typically the inventor or discoverer had to begin with, before nailing it down with rigor.
I can access the site on desktop with a VPN through Canada, but it won't let me log in to any account that was created on the USA-hosted servers.

I created a new Canadian account and now I see a lot of Canadian memes that I don't get lol

On mobile the VPN doesn't work as it checks your app store country. I saw a few USA refugees on Canada TikTok saying they changed their Apple App Store country and it works just fine now. I think I'll sacrifice an Android device and do it that way.
First, the United States government isn't asking China to censor TikTok.

Second, the two proposed situations are entirely different. The former is censoring particular results, the latter is a content-neutral ban with the ability for ByteDance to continue operating with no change to content.

Third, perhaps this is controversial, but many people don't want a foreign adversary to have the ability to manipulate public perception. If you are the United States, allowing an enemy to have the ability to manipulate massive amounts of your population is extremely dangerous.

I don't even know that I support the ban, but I certainly know that most of these sorts of comparisons simply don't make sense and are either missing or ignoring vital pieces of the puzzle.
Reading about this and similar techniques in Programming Pearls (Second Edition) by Jon Bentley left the younger me spellbound. Similar to the evolution of linkers up to mold.
Let’s say you and I are adversaries. Or maybe just competitors. I invite you for a meal. But I won’t eat the meal myself. I only want you to eat it.

Do you think that’s going to be good for you?
I don't see how encouraging charities can be seen as harmful?

It would be good if it was extended to organisations like CIC however.
:) good one. I have a theory that all those oldies are high on likes/clicks/follower counts. The more info explodes - with the rich get richer effect of networks - they dont realize they are riding a tiger.

One day the tiger will bite their head off. Tis the nature of a tiger ride.
They don't need to, people share and watch the content voluntarily because it has novel value.

"Why wasn't I told this before?" Is a common sentiment in those videos.
If they were really concerned about privacy, they would strengthen privacy laws. Adopt a GDPR like framework with opt-in consent and force platforms to implement a GrapheneOS like model with mock permissions and scoped consent. Banning apps is just a veiled attempt to appease other interests.
FrontierMath Was Funded by OpenAI
In the second paragraph of the link you posted this is said:

> But in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, conservatives have become hyper fixated on policing pro-Palestinian messages on the app, accusing TikTok of influencing young Americans to “support Hamas” and favoring pro-Palestinian content.

If you follow the link attached to "influencing young Americans", you'll find Palestine isn't mentioned once, but Hamas is.

Of course there's bias everywhere, and we should have by now ways to follows stories to their source automagically by now. But anyhow.
You mean more money?

Because in the end it's always about money.

Well about power really, but money is the main means to get that.
Yeah I was thinking that too! Plus the "look how we made you look like the hero" aspect. Shady stuff all around.
Electrical/framing/machining/woodworking/physics/tumbling/rockclimbing/instruments/etc/etc/etc.

Honestly it would be a goldmine of training data.
huge false equivalency. true India is maybe not a model image of a democracy but they are way more free than China. take a look at the freedom house reports for more details.
Always surprised me in the land of the "Free" they ban a whole lot more than in most other countries. Books, LGBT stuff, no objective media. It feels quite medieval.
it’s called a DAO
I'll watch 90 mins of TikTok and think I could have watched an entire movie; then I remember I actually enjoyed myself anyway and stomp down the guilty feeling.
I don't see why it's so critical to not mention Github. That would instantly convey what it is to basically everyone, and it doesn't mean it doesn't have its own identity or anything.
Its kinda morbidly amuzing to ponder what European countries (and others besides the 'quarreling' US/China duo) will do now.

Will they also ban TikTok as a security threat? If not, will they issue a statement contradicting US actions?

If they do, what about US owned platforms that have been known to e.g., interefere with European elections (Facebook / Cambridge Analytica) and (at least) one of the owners openly supports certain type of party across the continent?

What a grotesque theater. How much more hypocricy can the political classes that enabled the wholesale enshittificarion of our digital lives get away with?
Basically how I feel as a European with the US sitting on the other side of the table.
probably not for the guy who gets the few billion dollars.
You can get around it right now.
You continue to focus very narrowly on the specific details of the hiring process. I'm trying to make points about higher-level stuff, related to the intent and scope of DEI-type initiatives. From these few comments, I gather that you're not really interested in talking about any of those higher-level things, so I'll stop trying to explain them.
Show HN: TikTok to RedNote, Done by AI Agent
Steps:
1. Your TikTok account that has existing content
2. Rednote account
3. Opencord AI account + browser extension(limited to desktop only for now)

Give it a try!!
I also knew it but look at the number of comments saying "what is a forge?" here - it's clearly not a good description.
On mobile the VPN doesn't help. Have to change app store.

On desktop VPN works but you need to create a new account if yours was originally created on the USA servers.
Isn’t that just so unbearably sad? These little creatures work tirelessly their whole lives, buzzing from flower to flower, pollinating the plants that sustain ecosystems and our food supply. They barely get to live a few weeks as worker bees, and then if they ever need to sting to protect their hive... that’s it. Their life ends in an act of ultimate devotion.
Some opinions here are super ignorant. Yes Tiktok has lots of silly videos but it also is a way for many talented people to reach their audience. Many small business owners and indie artists depend on it to make a living.
Electricians showing bench demonstrations of what symptoms faulty neutrals cause, machinists doing step-by-step demonstrations of making tooling, including their fuckups, scrapyards doing deep dives into the in-practice economics of when and why they buy and sell, lawyers giving explanations of the laws involved in popular viral accident videos, baking recipes, comedians showing their material, musicians demonstrating techniques, etc
This looks promising. Hopefully much faster and less naive than Repomix
Yeah, and a lot of people opining on US elections had media platforms of their own, or were heads of state or otherwise influential.

Too bad. Sucks that you got beat at your own game.
VPN works on desktop if you open a new account.

I found another USA refugee on Canadian TikTok who said he just got Apple to change his app store country and it worked after he redownloaded it.
Wikipedia's Supreme Court on the Verge of Topic Banning 8 Editors
It's very useful for companies - more control, don't have to host your code externally, and you don't have to pay (well, ish; we ended up paying for Gitlab Premium, but that doesn't exist for Forgejo).
If there is an arm image for it then it’ll run fine
> far too many examples of those very people abusing these tools.

Name one. And not about some agency collecting data, or targeting a foreign national with suspected ties to terrorist, all which are within the bounds of the law. I want to hear an example where a US citizen, fully innocent, who was targeted for no reason what so ever for someone for personal gain.

You can't. Because it doesn't happen. Even in the report that you linked (which I know you didn't read btw), it literally states the multitude of guardrails in place for using XKEYSCORE.

>If what you say is true, there would have been more than one honorable person to step up and say "hey, wait a minute." In the case of XKEYSCORE, there was precisely one, and he's basically been marooned in Russia for over a decade

Here is a pro tip: anytime you hear or read about Bad Big Brother Government, ask yourself why should the person reporting it be given the benefit of the doubt and not the government. People took a lot of what Snowden said as gospel, despite him being technically wrong on a lot of stuff, all because its "cool" to be anti big brother, no matter what the actual truth is.
They are "trying" to go for all apps from China. Someone above mentioned Grindr was also targeted.

As for the one's they've missed, typical government incompetence. They have trouble differentiating what is, and is not a "Chinese app".

"And what exactly is preventing China to launch a new app within hours..."

No users. TikTok's massive userbase wasn't created in 7 days.
200 billion is 3 orders of magnitude larger than 500 million.
Perhaps RedNote is having trouble scaling their moderation?
“The Traitors”, a reality TV show, offers a useful economics lesson
https://archive.ph/FlcDl
It's written in go so should work fine.
Your last two replies here were flagged (most likely for glorifying war and genocide), so you have deleted them and tried again with a softer message. Hasbara is out in force this morning!
It sounds like a real life Black Books.
Don't forget Pandoc!
Indeed. I always recommend Time Series Analysis by Hamilton for this reason. KF comes up as a natural way to solve linear models.
Maybe privacy, outside of that, same client, so not much.
A roommate of mine in college used to leave his laptop unlocked all the time, and I found an app that would put an overlay on the screen that looked like a kernel panic. This went on for months, and he became convinced that his laptop had some issue where it would panic if he left it idle for too long. One day he happened to be going through his apps folder, and he saw something with a name like "iPanic.app", and watching his dawning comprehension as he realized what just must have been going on was probably the satisfying conclusion to a prank I've ever experienced.
Haha fair. But I don't think any company should be strong-armed by another nation into selling. Meta would never be allowed to sell their "Chinese arm" to a domestic Chinese entity...part of the reason there isn't one
It's based on unification, like a Prolog. It does backtracking, like a Prolog. It has something akin to Prolog "cuts". It's equally not Markdown. What it is, is the sensibilities of Prolog (for parsing words into player intent - actions) and for implementing a world model, and for inferring facts from other facts ... and also the text-foremost sensibility of Markdown.

I love it. I've put considerable effort into building tools around it, and to building up a library of extensions.
Of course, it's not the huge number of bots attempting to manipulate google which numerous posters on this thread have also run into (they must be shills as well!) necessitating a JS requirement.

No it's google who wants to get their claws into the last 0.000001% of true believers who're dodging their fiendish JS tracking! I'm sure they're salivating at the prospect of the revenue bump that group militant anti-advertisers is going to offer...

We live on an internet where "not conforming" to what an ordinary user looks like makes you look like a bot. Google certainly didn't invent that and definitely doesn't want bots trying to manipulate its services, but by all means continue to "google bad!" while avoiding any and all evidence to the contrary.
Non allied nations should absolutely ban US apps. Additionally, all government devices should have strict security features. It would be wise to also protect certain places from all electronic monitoring.
According to wikipedia, China is blocking most of the sites you mentioned. I was surprised to see that Russia does not.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_i...
> Can someone please explain to me, why it is illegal to publish biased media?

You have been misinformed, it is not illegal to publish biased media.

> The rececently elected legislative heavily tampers with the executive/judicative and somehow this is stil democratic.

What are you trying to say? The majority passes something, and the Supreme Court chose to allow it to continue.

> IMO the tiktok ban is only about media control, no morale or legality, just political power and somehow there is still free speech for all?

You're right that it's about media control, namely a foreign adversary being able to completely control media widely consumed in the United States. Framing a content-neutral conditional ban, which could've been avoided without any content changes, as being against "free speech" makes zero sense when the platform being banned is controlled by a foreign adversary that doesn't have free speech. The argument is that a foreign adversary shouldn't be allowed to censor and manipulate our media and farm our data.
Nature’s design is often elegant. But also (sometimes) cruel.
What does the US offer Europe that they don’t use themselves?
So it is not Turing complete? It's more a programming language in the 'answer set programing' sense than 'general purpose programming language' sense?
I'm running a small Caddy + Rust (Actix Web) service on my Raspberry Pi 2B. Not the snappiest service ever but usable. Part of the slowness might also be the fact that it's online using Cloudflare Tunnels.
I liked the copying of untracked files, bumped into it a few days ago when giving worktrees a shot, and I was pretty disappointed. Will try the helper.
From personal experience in the government contracting world with a TS/SCI clearance, I have a lot of faith in people in charge not letting bad actors abuse these sort of powers.

Less so than before these days, but still Id wager on them holding true to duty to defend the constitution.
In the end, it's a security and sovereignty issue. A country can restrict foreign business, full stop.

That said, I don't think banning tiktok will have the desired results.
They had an entire year to prepare.
Evolution isn’t a perfect engineer
They gave bytedance plenty of time to to sell. And TikTok would've not been cheap.

I'm not a fan of the ban, mind you, but it's not like they were ordered to leave the country.
I find the hard core defenders of tiktok, such as yourself, weird. I know for a fact you get propaganda videos shoved in between your feed of 'good stuff' that you enjoy watching, but I know you wont admit that, or downplay it or say you can scroll past it. It doesn't change the fact the platform is used by the CCP to push a narrative, and while it might not work on you, there's some 120m users in America on TT. That's an awful lot of people who are being fed bullshit and lies.

> my accounts are all on USA servers

Keep telling yourself that ;)
Nobody outside NATO buys the whole "Mr Justice F. Eagle" shtick anyway though. People inside the US have been raised on anti-China for hundreds of years (yellow journalism never died) and are ready to accept anything to stop the "bad guys" from winning.
I hope this is poorly phrased or I am misunderstanding it, because it feels like it's implying that Matrix's terrible scaling issues will have their fixes paywalled. Even non-federated homeservers chew up RAM and CPU like candy when you get too many users.

It's heavier than any other protocol or chat program I know.
Right so how does the scheduler know what’s low priority?
Is there solid evidence about that?

The only study I've seen said that TikTok wasn't any more biased than other social medias.
I allow password based auth to my VPS because keys are not always a possibility, and I listen on port 22 (and port 25, 465, 587, 993) because I like the convenience.

However I use some simple restrictions such as AllowUsers and pubkey auth only for root.

I think this is a reasonable defence against typical ssh dictionary attacks.
This is going to sound bad but another upside to charity shops is that often they misprice their books, so you can get some real bargains.
The oldest technical assistance organization in the US for worker cooperatives is the ICA Group (originally the Industial Cooperative Association) dating from the late 1970s. They have all sorts of literature to help.
You just have to pay for the hardware instead of going onto crazy expensive fee schemes.
Cam you detail exactly what conspiracy you are alleging without evidence?

This is the corporate version of "he quit before they could fire him".
I did a FIOA request on myself and got back data. I’m no one.

The US also spread COVID antivax information.
> Here's two versions of the Unix Philosophy

Man, we're talking about git. It has never subscribed to this philosophy (and most programs in *nix don't)

Git does about fifteen thousand different things with about fifteen million flags.

And it was never designed. It was thrown together as a kitchen sink of useful things with commands adding new and crazy incantations as new things were added.

"Just write this script to do the useful thing" is a weird hill to die on
The Romanian elections were a debacle in many other ways. So far at least, our authorities have done nothing to actually arrest the fascist lunatic that almost won, nor to bring any concrete evidence that he did anything other than breaking campaign finance laws by paying for TikTok like any other influencer might while not declaring this money in his campaign fund disclosures.

Actually, they didn't even bring any evidence of that, except for the fact that he claims in official documents and public appearances that his campaign cost 0, which is such a bold faced lie that it barely needs dismissing.

But no, I don't share the court's apparent opinion that, but for TikTok, this lunatic wouldn't have won. All suggestions are that, will he be allowed to run again (which is theoretically the current status quo, him not having been put under any sort of judicial control!), he will win again, despite his vastly diminished TikTok presence. Turns out, to my great personal sadness, that many of my countrymen, idioticaly, actually liked the fascist and weren't (just) manipulated by TikTok.
> I went on LinkedIn this morning and I saw four posts from people talking about how good Rust was compared to other languages and then a bunch of comments from people with crab emojis in their names. Four.

What a shame! Enthusiasm of all things. How dare they! Right in your LinkedIn feed! Not to worry though -- a little Java should snuff it right out though.
You can provide them a significant amount of guidance through prompting. The model itself won't "learn", but if given lessons in the prompt, which you can accumulate from mistakes, it can follow them. You will always hit a wall "in the end", but you can get pretty far!
Hardly an algorithm...
American billionaires have a much more direct impact on my life than totalitarian states halfway across the globe.

Also, not to defend the CCP, but America has more prisoners than any other country, China included, and dramatically more per capita.
For some reason I don't mind an ephemeral SSH session on a random device but I'm less likely to do webmail/email.
Bytedance chose this by not doing as requested.

I wouldn't refer to USA as very democratic or China as a center of human rights violation.

If there is no blanket ban, there would have to be many laws, rules, regulations and restrictions prohibiting the software from government buildings, etc.

In addition to the data points: contacts, location, audio, video, etc, malicious actors can learn a lot through deduction. That's before any sort of manipulation.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42681917
"Banned books!" is a phrase used for marketing, but it's not really accurate. Most, if not all, of the allegedly "banned books" aren't "banned" in the sense that you are implying, and the "banning" isn't being done by the fedeeal United States government. You can go to bookstores and see entire sections of "banned" books, which as you might guess from the fact that they are freely sold are not in fact really banned.
the lore and novels/audiobooks behind it are HUUUGE.

Its just a really REALLY well curated universe.
Short form instructional videos on topics such as woodworking that get a point across in 90 seconds, rather than a ponderous YouTube equivalent
Completely different. At least China's rules are technical and can be achieved. Bing, iCloud, AWS, Microsoft office, exchange, Azure are all in China. Of course, whether you want to comply the rules is up to you, but it is doable. Facebook can be in China if they adhere to rules, there were rumors they were going to offer a Chinese version of Facebook but stopped because of backlash, but the point is rule are technical and are doable.

Facebook and Google are still making tens of billions from Chinese advertisers selling stuff on their platform. And China never forced Facebook or Google to sell themselves to Chinese owners, so completely give up control on branding, IP, code, data and all assets etc etc.

US is not even giving you any technical rules to comply with. Tiktok's approach to US is replicate China's rules for foreign internet companies in China. All content moderation done by US employees, US employee work on code and data. Data stored in US based servers. But US companies operating in China, like iCloud, AWS and Azure, US employees can still get access to Chinese data for daily engineering operations, like debugging. Tiktok also offered US government appoint security and natsc officials on Tiktok senior leadership, overseeing all code and data practices. US government have kill switch to shutdown Tiktok if they find anything. Tiktok is perfectly fine with US government implementing the censorship to censor whatever US government doesn't like. These details are equal to China's practices.

But US is not allowing that, it just sell yourself 100% to US owner or get banned. And ban is much more draconian than Chinese ban. Chinese citizens can visit FB using VPN, and companies can transact with FB and Google, hence billions of advertising dollars for these companies. US ban targets all transaction with Bytedance, hence Google, Apple and Oracle are completely geofencing US users that even US user using VPN can't access Bytedance services. And Chinese regulations target specific type of products, Meta's FB main app may not be in China, but FB advertising is. US ban targets Bytedance, the entire company. Capcut, a video editing app is also banned in the US. What data does a video editing app collect? How does a video editing app affect public discourse and opinions? How is Capcut a national security threat? What evidence is there?

US is not offering you a chance to comply, it is offering you a knife to kill yourself, and say here, you got options, why don't u kill yourself. Anyone who think it is not an insult is just, I have no words for you. China gives foreign companies room to live, so your workers have jobs and income, your inventor keep their inventions and private assets. US gives the foreign company two options: either we kill you, or we give you a knife so you can kill yourself. Your workers are out of jobs, what was a comfortable livelihood gone, your inventor's invention is destroyed, you will not get what your invention is worth, your private assets are gone. Or we can take your invention away from you and you lose all control of your baby in the future. If you don't see the difference, I have no word for you.