skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It absolutely destroys criticisms of China banning Facebook, etc.

You mean around 10-20% of the open internet? [1][2] That is what you graciously summarize as "Facebook, etc."?

No, it does not destroy criticisms of that. China is #172 out of 180 countries on the World Press Freedom Index [3]. It was #179 two years ago. Just because the US "bans" [sic!] one app (that, by the way, is also blocked in China [4]), that does not make them equal.

To give you an idea of how bad it is: I went through the Pudong Airport two years ago. I had to scan my passport and my face to connect to the WiFi. After I did, I couldn't call my mother, because literally every communication channel I could think of was blocked. I couldn't even connect to a VPN. I might as well have been on a mountain in the middle of nothing.

[1] https://en.greatfire.org/analyzer

[2] https://cyber.harvard.edu/filtering/china/

[3] https://rsf.org/en/index

[4] https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/24/tech/tiktok-douyin-byteda...
On the same logic, youtube, facebook, google, etc. should not be owned by the parent company in other countries than the US because of the influence they have on ppls opinions (on policital elections and whatnot)
That was my first thought as well, but do you have any reason to say it's wishful thinking rather than the result of a conversation with Trump's team?
Thanks, that's a good point - do you think some analysis of advertising would interest you?

There may only be a couple of ads per 'sample' though, so maybe not enough to be interesting.
It's happened to gambling and poker services. Some file sharing services. A couple services to anonymize crypto. And I'm sure plenty of others I'm not thinking of right now.
Better than having to collect the fox urine first...
Subscribing to a labeller is as easy as following any other account. I use several 3rd party moderation services. The bar to adoption is much lower than I think you anticipate
US government is literally accountable to US citizens. If it is not, you have a bigger problem.
> but china would rather not sell it.

why should China obey to an US request?

Of course they are against selling it, like the US government of course is against Google selling to the Chinese.

But that speaks volumes on the sad state of our democracies, they are so brittle that students protesting against the slaughter of Palestinian kids can trigger a cold war and the revanche of the authoritarian doctrines of a not so distant past.
> Most people I know treat money as fiat, something concrete and exchangeable.

Exactly. Money is the decree – the concrete representation of debt. A recognizable token that can be given to someone that says "I owe you something", which can subsequently be exchanged back by the recipient to get the something of value that they are owed. Which you already know if you've ever used money before, and no doubt you have.

But, as it pertains to the topic at hand, in cases where there is no reason to delay delivery of the actual value, you can skip holding the debt. You could go through the motions of receiving money, and then giving it right back in exchange for the thing of value that you are owed, but there is no practical difference between that and cutting money out of the picture and simply accept the thing of value as payment.

> What I think you’re describing is political favor

Money might be a tool used in offering political favor, I suppose, but that is well beyond the content of my comment about the function of money. How did you manage to reach this conclusion?
In the long run it's better that both China and US have deep tentacles wrapped around each other. The more culture and dependencies merge and intertwine the more cooperation looks attractive over war.
Calling an "idiomatic" C++ API from WASM would also require a (COM like) shim though since C++ has no standardized ABI. E.g. as soon as your API uses things like std::string it already gets hairy.
> Look up Google's TPU
Obviously rights can be limited by contract. That’s what a contract is: two parties agreeing to things they’re not legally forced to do.
There's still some cost to shutting down now like this.
> Thank you for using the correct acronym (CPC, Communist Party of China) rather than the incorrect acronym-of-the-colloquial-variant CCP, which seems to be achieving ascendancy in the discourse.

Glad you pointed out the details. CPC is the correct official name. If someone insists on using CCP, here's my speculation, it usually means they have been heavily influenced by anti-communist propaganda and narratives from the U.S. government, or they are deliberately using the incorrect name to be derogatory.

funny I just saw something similar in other thread:

> I will use the term Ruzzia and Ruzzians to identify the Zed regime and the Zed patriots, Ruzzian != Russian, Ruzzian = a Zed patriot, a imperialist Russian or Putin fanboy, proud to stick a Zed on his face,body or property

At least he's honest, I do appreciate that
Unilateral political maneuvering is not a thing.
I don't recall the author mentioning it but they already have what he describes. It's called a kick bike. My two oldest grandchildren learned to pedal after fighting to not have training wheels taken off at like 5 and 7yos. The next two started on a kick bike at 3 and were flying around the neighborhood like it was nothing. In time they got right on a pedal bike and off they went. Highly recommended. I hope the original inventor got rich off the idea because it is a really great idea.
We do have a giant problem with the policymaking community being very narrow, but the only way to solve it is by having communication platforms that aren't being influenced by that same community.

When I say narrow, I mean narrow. The toppling of the Guatemalan liberal democracy and subsequent replacement by a dictator was performed at the behest of a handful of people who wanted to and did retire to a sinecure at United Fruit, and without the full knowledge of the president.
Actually they do have stuff about that on their website https://www.brkenergy.com/esg-sustainability/environmental

They are the US's second largest investor in renewables and re coal:

>...has ceased coal operations at 18 coal-fired power stations. The company plans to cease coal operations at 15 more stations between 2025 and 2030.
Maritime powers want to control choke points, flow of goods, flow of information, flow of gas and natural resources.

In this particular case I don't care. But it fits in with the Nordstream sabotage, the attempts to control Arctic sea routes via Greenland, the attempted control of the Panama canal and the attempts in the Caspian sea region via Georgia, Armenia and Ukraine.
I guess that means his interests align with the average American's
Better for everyone but american labor, you mean.
The average consumer doesn't understand nor care to understand about the implications of what they are agreeing. That's why consumer protection laws exists. Because, humans are, by a large, very stupid about most things.
Gitea actually got actions before Forgejo did. That was part of what motivated Forgejo to become a hard fork instead of just a rebrand—there was some sort of disagreement about the way in which actions were rolled out and Forgejo decided from there to stop trying to be fully compatible.

https://forgejo.org/2024-02-forking-forward/#the-hard-forkin...
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Cause you can manipulate multiple services in a single command? Not a big deal when you're looking at one or two services but when you've got a 5 to 15 interlinked and interdependent services and in situations where you may not want to restart everything, it's nice to just have one CLI with tab completion to deal with that.
Yeah, I totally expect a 14 y.o. girl who joins TikTok to check trendy dance move to be aware of dangers of CCP propaganda.

What percentage of population understands that propaganda can be subtle? Sneak some ragebait here and there to make it look like situation is worse than it is, exaggerate, radicalize people...
Yep, the very same!
They didnt have to shut down the app.
I agree, a "well informed" society would be wonderful but we have a long way to get there and even then, highly educated people are not immune to misinformation and propaganda. Not everything is black and white, there are always shades of grey and these are difficult to navigate.

I think imposing certain limits on various freedoms, including speech is required for a functioning democracy. I also believe that there are deeper issues if the populace of a nation no longer respect the decisions made by its highest court of law.
...and yet when discussing ways to circumvent the Great Firewall of China, the term used is "Chinese censorship", never "Chinese bans".

This sounds like one of those irregular verb conjugations English is so full of: I ban; you go dark; he/she/it censors.
I disagree - what Trump has done is unprecedented.
Aspirationally yes. In practice US can't even rid itself of civil forfeiture or federal weed laws despite consistent majority against them. We can't get rid of overbearing housing regulations despite it destroying our youth. Hell the democratic party presidential candidate wasn't even chosen in a primary, just installed in without a public vote to ensure viability, handing a default.
People are tribal. It's pretty rare to find someone who acts rationally, enlightened and educated at all times. Of course all of us here do!
What? Wasn’t it China at one time that placed limits on the number of children you could have?
Right now? No way. In the future? Maybe.
Completely unrelated, in the passage of the New Testament where The Devil Quotes Scripture, the aforementioned Devil quotes a Psalm to Jesus, a Psalm that Jesus presumably believed in, a Psalm perfectly applicable to his current situation, in an attempt to trick him into making the wrong decision.

It's weird to me that that idea could be such an important part of culture as to become a common saying yet have so little impact on actual discourse.
Majority of those removals are safety removals not ideological censorship based on some socialist or whatever ideology.
When I'm really working with a service and get tired of typing sudo systemctl restart or status all the time, I'll just do a quick alias or two right then and there.

alias s=sudo systemctl status
alias r=sudo systemctl restart

And if I'm only working with one service, I'll throw the service name in there too.
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why Dropbox when you can rsync, huh? ;)
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It's widely known by Hacker News audience. A quick poll of 16 to 22 year old nephews, nieces and their friends around me is met with blank, completely uncaring faces.

(Not saying one way or another about banning the app, but discussion should start from a realistic assessment)
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US market isn't likely to grow much going forward though, while developing countries have a lot of growth potential. Meanwhile, TikTok is bringing in at least 10bln annually already. Pure profit isn't the only thing that makes it valuable though, it's one of the few global media platforms that's not owned by the US.
Corporations expect average people to read and abide by a ten thousand line EULA, yet it's too much work for them to respect a trivially parseable text file.
Anybody who thinks TikTok is coming back anytime soon is a sucker. They aren't selling and the law only allows for extensions if they are in the process of selling. Trump may be able to violate the law with impunity thanks to the morons on our Supreme Court but nobody else involved with the TikTok ban (Google, Apple, Oracle) has that luxury.
The law does not disallow Americans from accessing this service. It only disallows Apple and Google from distributing the app on their stores. This shutdown of the service is a publicity stunt.
Really looking forward to the federation, hosting Forgejo for my own stuff while having discoverability/issue tracking with other instances would be the best of both worlds. As of now I'm mirroring stuff across self-hosted forgejo/github.com/gitlab.com where the forgejo instance is just part of my self-hosting hobby and not "load bearing".

I think that Gitlab Cells[1] might go into the same direction, there is a mention of federation in the design document.

[1] https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/architectur...
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To think China is not an adversary to the West is simply foolish. Either via blatant cyberattacks, corporate espionage or nefarious trade moves, China is not a friend.
That's what I felt too, described what's missing in my article
> first class effects

There's not really first class effects though, ultimately just IO.
I think American labor is not so infantile they need paternal oversight over what apps they download, for one.
I would even go as far as to say politics, and extends to society as a whole. Repeat a lie for long enough, others will begin to believe it as a truth, and if you can convince a person they will benefit personally, they are more than willing to forgo decency and morality in favor of personal benefits. Of course, in this case people are given an excuse for this behavior under the guise of a “game”.
Could it be that both allowing American billionaires to use their hordes of gold to influence elections is also bad, but we don’t have the tools to stop them as readily as foreign adversaries? Must every solution be perfect from the outset? Must we do everything at once?
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If YouTube never shows people new videos then how do new videos get views?
Trigger discipline is a decadent Western concept.
Even years ago Jira was too complicated, to the point that we joked about replacing it with a physical notebook.

https://thedailywtf.com/images/200802/manualJira.jpg
I had a CS grad student very confidently tell me that TikTok was not owned by a Chinese company.
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It is much more than this.

The PLA took huge lessons from the first Gulf War that the way to fight the US was to fight everywhere but the traditional battlefield.

Their means and methods have been absolutely brilliant.

The most brilliant thing to me is to fight on a time frame that is so long, that even the idea the PLA is at war with the US sounds ridiculous to most Americans.

If this is true, Douyin will never divest of Tiktok in the US. They would rather it just shutdown in the US. They won't let the US dissect an information weapon from the inside. The company valuation can't include the information weapon value so the offer price is always going to be a joke from the Douyin side.
Propaganda works even if you know. Otherwise we wouldn't have the advertisement industry we have.
> 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level).

From the link.
> Current AI tools are unable to keep large codebases in context, making it impossible to reason about system-wide impacts.

they have trouble even with small database, recently I was experimenting with generating a small script

Code-gen tools generated nice testcases from description (this was usable!).

But code they generated failed on exactly this testcases, feeding back crashes/test failures resulted in no improvements. I tried several (Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, Mistral). None was able to do this.
No it wasn't. The law specifically states that the president can only enact an extension in the event that TikTok is credibly attempting to negotiate a sale. They are not doing that, hence an extension will not happen.
I've the maximum muted words (200), literally muted country names so maybe that's why my feed is clean ish. Wish there was no limit though, still get some ai stuff sometimes
It wasn’t even the manipulation that was the NatSec concern, it was the amount of sensitive data they were pulling of not just TikTok users but any friends or family of theirs that they had in their contacts. This means they have data on people who work in sensitive departments, military bases, etc. and they had already been established as providing that data up to the Chinese Government. It’s the same reason India banned it, it was being used as an espionage tool.

Now the other problem is that Meta will sell much of the same data to anyone who is buying. We need to do something about surveillance capitalism from private industry too.
At the cost of China controlling the recommendation system that decides what content US people consume?
Maybe they’ll add “Closed - won’t fix” and “Closed - stale” statuses next!
The Supreme Court did not vote to ban TikTok. They voted that Congress had the power to do so.
Having a public server an crying about a little bit of traffic seems pathetic

Just cache static content and throttle by IP. This isn't a DDoS, just rotating IPs
> China has long banned US social media for likely the same reason.

Sure, but most other countries haven't. Perhaps they should learn from these developments and start considering their options.
> On what grounds did you advocate against it?

It is incredibly addictive inducing drug like state:

> You’ll just be in this pleasurable dopamine state, carried away. It’s almost hypnotic, you’ll keep watching and watching. - Dr. Julie Albright

> You keep scrolling, she says, because sometimes you see something you like, and sometimes you don’t. And that differentiation — very similar to a slot machine in Vegas — is key.

I detest slot machines, so many lives wasted away, and I feel like we already spend too much time on computers to the detriment of both ourselves and society, let alone giving the CCP a hand to manipulate people on top of everything else
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I'm always surprised how hard it is for people here to understand.
I guess the magic of TikTok was not immediately apparent to lay people or those who did not use it regularly.

In my opinion, no social media site, since maybe Stumble Upon, has been as effective as TikTok at bringing different kinds of people together and facilitating the sharing of culture: art, music, philosophy, history, jokes, ideas, etc, etc.

It was a platform used by regular people, consumed by regular people, and really allowed culture to freely flow. It made it easy for the most amazing, interesting, thought provoking, funny things to come into my awareness. It really greased the wheels of communication and made it trivial to participate in the greater social environment that is "right now".

I understand the general concern that technology enables the efficient propagation of propaganda, but there's something very incoherent in policy making about singularly banning TikTok and letting all other outlets contributing to this problem continue to exist as-is.

Let's be honest, both Fox News and Facebook have done significantly more real damage along this exact same dimension for decades and both will continue, as-is, unabated.

There's also the unfortunate fact that the real solution to preventing foreign propaganda isn't a simple Band-Aid, like this, and is going to involve the grueling decades-long process of improving our education system.
I think the answer is to execute on public housing and manufactured homes.

Imagine a skyscraper or tall mall-like facility with different types of housing and income, including a lot of "min-housing" and "basic housing". Incorporate some kinds of urban agriculture and lots of spaces that can be shared and plenty that can be rented.

Use advanced manufacturing techniques. Something like a Yotel for the min-housing.

Within 5-10 years robotics should also be fully capable of elder care also.
I have a feeling theres some native unix commands that should cover this.
So looking at the current scope of this tool, i think it would need more features.

Anyone has a bash script that covers this use case?
The term for an infinitely deep chain of that is "common knowledge"
Should Americans be free to access any information? What about secret military plans?
Anyone can influence those narratives. Owning the system just makes it more efficient than astroturfing, puppeteering and trolling.
To the company, no. But to people trying to get a promotion/bigger budgets by proving the features they work on are getting a lot of usage, plausible.
And these are mostly the same children given the right to vote a few decades ago. (I was one of them.) This has always saddened me.
Yeah I have no confidences in GH to become viable for issue management for large commercial projects.

It works fine if you're a group of highly competent and aligned FOSS developers that need it more as a communication tool than a work management tool. But if you get to breaking work down to the level of a few story points it becomes completely unmanageable. The table view turns into a slog if you have more than like 70 tickets.
>China doesn't allow foreign corporations to operate within their borders. why should we?

China is a dictatorship where people have no rights. America was built on the principle that the government shouldn't have the power to tell the common people what to do.
I mean you sound exactly like the Tesla shorts back when Tesla was starting out.

You obviously have a position and you dislike him - which is understandable. He doesn't fall into a con artist category. Nothing you’ve said here is a con artist if it is even believed ti be accurate in the first place.

FSD took longer but it delivered. Thats not a con artist- thats development delays
This 9 minute BBC youtube video of how a 'traitor' got through to the end is a good overview of the show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYaBWiepkNk
It's been enlightening to me to read through some of the distro-provided .service files to see what can be done, with services I'm more of less familiar with.
While it's not "easy", I was surprised to learn recently that DIY microprocessors are far more accessible than I thought.

Here is BreakingTaps fabricating home made chips, he has a fair bit of equipment though

https://youtu.be/RuVS7MsQk4Y?si=c8PH-FMfcfWLJLiG

There a a few different techniques that can be used. Most of the lithography techniques use Hydrofluoric Acid, but if you are okay with slower build times you can etch the circuits directly with Ion beams or Electron Beams.

But the short story is you need an overhead projector, a microscope, and a few gnarly chemicals. Otherwise fairly straightforward.
Ah, thank you. I'm new to posting.
Ability to buy cheap stuff, accessible to regular people and not ultra-wealthy is new.

You can still spend massive piles of money on long-lasting stuff.

This hot tub cost was likely higher than lifetime earnings of average citizen.

Also, its cost was likely greater than what would cost to buy several slaves. And likely was in fact built by slaves.

Of all things I see nothing to be depressed about here given our situation.
Except for that time browsers used to send your PII along with requests
Intel P cores still do well against amd zen5. But their stacking cache is chef's kiss.
For one of the images it says 15 second exposures. That’s a long time for something moving at orbital velocities. How is that betrayed in the image? Did you mean portrayed or displayed?
> to announce you were buying breakfast for the team tomorrow

Where I used to work the thing was to reply-all to emails simply saying "I love you very much".