skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No doubt the West has had many issues and continues to do so

This … you are right in that West has issue … where you are wrong is that the issues are just as dangerous (if not A LOT more) than China. I quoted “US-owned” cause one of the biggest social media platforms that everyone considers “West” is owned by an African
China can't directly influence US policy, and they mostly don't have any interest in doing so outside how it influences our trade relations. Sure, it's bad if they're doing that. But Musk, Zuckerberg, and the rest of the ultra-wealthy are directly creating US policy, both by serving in unelected advisory positions and by outright buying US politicians. Just like China, they are not working for America's interests, they are working for their own interests. They are removing hard-won safeguards for their employees, their customers, and Americans in general; and they are removing accountability for themselves so they can exercise that power over the people who live in the US with impunity.

US billionaires are far more dangerous to US residents than China is, and this law gives them even more influence than they already had by removing the only significant competitor that was not owned by a US billionaire. If this law had impacted all social media equally, I would be a huge advocate. But as it is, it's just another handout to the US's richest and most influential people. It's a bad law, and will make life worse for the people who live in the US.
> I share a name with this language.

Amusingly, Bob Dylan sued Apple for trademark infringement.

https://www.storiesofapple.net/dylan-sues-apple.html
Another very happy Newsblur user here, again since the demise of Google Reader. No complaints at all, it does one job and it does it impeccably.
Maybe an oldhead can shed some more light on this: hasn't it always been the case that comments are ranked by a combination of timeliness and votes, as to prevent any single comment to dominate the top of the page for the duration of a story's frontpage time?
Young people (and really any working age people) just really don't have that much time, energy, and (mostly importantly) money to dedicate to impacting election and legislative results. When you're working age you have more imminent things to worry about, but the matter of fact is that it's mostly retired people who think the world is going to s*t whose voices are heard the loudest.

Of course you can say it's a question of priorities and it's "their fault" for not being politically active, but I would argue the system is stacked against young people's political participation.

Also, most places in the US have minimum age limits for elected positions.
You can't have this take without acknowledging the US is currently in a technological cold war with China. It's not old school at all, they've been hacking our infrastructure and stealing proprietary data from corporations for years (and vice versa, no doubt).

Having a direct adversary control what young people consume for hours a day with a black-box algorithm is very dangerous.

Also note that TikTok has been banned in Hong Kong for years now.

I also think it's dangerous for domestic companies to do this, but obviously the US gov't is going to prioritize China because politicians can take bribes (in the form of lobbying) domestically.
For the national security agencies, I agree. Other than the incoming decapitation assault by the incoming administration who will install leaders based on loyalty to the executive and not competence and loyalty to constitution, most are very honorable.

The vector I worry about is the prosecutorial groups in the states getting hold of the data, either by purchasing it or by subpoena, and pursuing people based on what they find. Even if they only purchase public data, we can be sure some amoral developer will sell them tools to extract from multiple broad data sets info about periods, pregnancy, travel etc.

I'm reminded of the young woman living at home who started receiving postal mail about products for her pregnancy, and she hadn't even told anyone yet, including her parents. These 3rd parties had just inferred it from FB usage data. I'd bet real money that Texas and Florida will be trolling this data hard, and for far more nefarious purposes than merely selling some stuff.
In poker it's called levels. Fighter pilots call it being inside the other persons OODA loop.
Turns out having firsthand experience living abroad, plus airtight foreign language skills, is quite valuable to intelligence agencies. (The fact that they don’t really drink or do drugs makes them a nice cultural fit, too.)

Paraphrasing a sarcastic comment from Philip Seymour Hoffman’s character in Charlie Wilson’s War: “What a wild fucking idea: our spies should probably speak the same language as the people they’re spying on.”

Lest anyone hammer on the LDS for this: missionaries as spies is not a novel concept nor exclusive to Mormons.
See, but I do. For almost a decade, we have used it as-is for tickets and bug tracking, and it's never been a problem. I just don't see the use case for sub issues.
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The issue isn’t about you per se. it’s about what HN promotes. Since we can’t see comment karma anymore, we usually can’t tell.

But your case gives us a window into that. 28 karma from 3 comments, none of them grey, puts a really low ceiling on the karma this comment has.

Again, nothing against you personally.
Are they considering things like Discord as "alone" or "hanging out"? Because I hang out with friends every night. Virtually. So does my teen son. He does good in school and is well-adjusted. This article seems a bit biased and old-fashioned.
I've had the websites of two American store chains (Napa and Publix) block me while standing inside their stores because my prepaid eSIM from airhub.com geolocates to Israel. I'd really like to know what's in the heads of people who come up with this sort of crap.
If I want a feed of 100 people who post statuses/tweets, blogs, videos, and pictures who I am interested in and by using ActivityPub can use a single client to view all this activity, is that by your definition segregationist and a dead canary?

I don’t understand how if I host my own AP client on my own hardware and choose only to federate and subscribe with a small subset of sites and people who post using AP that this is a bad thing. I can use other websites like Hacker News to see other opinions and views.
Well, you write that it "makes little sense" then you argue that the maxim "China man bad, America man good" makes total sense...
I think this is a great peace of software, though i think its mostly tailored for the single dev, or business case for closed source software, but much less a software peace that allow for great community building. I think this is because of:

a) The network effect that you inherently get with for example github
b) The barrier to create accounts on yet another platform to contribute.

In that regards i find the original way of just using email's to send patches just such a brilliant idea, because at least it eliminates my second point completely. That's why i think sourcehut [0] is such a nice idea at least in theory. Though now you have to teach people not only how to use "git" but also how to use "git" via email :D

https://sourcehut.org/
Yes banning TikTok is a threat to democracy.
oh, it was flagged
My read is you're trying to be fun and agreeable here, but unfortunately, cats are not universally beloved and for some are abominations (either due to status as pets, because they prefer another pet, or the flavor/quality of the meat is off, or other elements we could identify in a universal census).

That morals aren't universal is pretty universal :/
unlike the US, China hadn't invaded another country or instigated coup for the past 40+ years.

No need to invade when you can do neo-colonialism to take over Africa, social media to influence the vote of your primary rival, and forcing a puppet government in Hong Kong (i.e. a coup). Not to mention destroying coral reefs to build artificial islands for military outposts in other nations' waters and blatant sabre rattling against Taiwan and even maritime attacks on peaceful neighbors.

China is regularly swinging their fist within range to tweak noses and crying foul when they're called out on their aggressive behavior. The only reason a war hasn't started is because their victims haven't stood up to their nonsense yet.
New homes are a bit of unique version of the "built to last" theme. Most of the individual components are some of the best we've ever had, while some of them are the worst. Modern windows are amazing. Modern insulation is amazing. Insulation is so good, you need less of it in appliances so you gain space inside fridges/ovens even though the unit itself is the same physical size. If you built the house out of something besides #2 pine, homes could be amazing. On top of that, you have nail guns where the builder doesn't even notice (or care) if the nail misses or not. People just don't care about the attention to detail during construction. It's not like they're building their own home.
After you pick a server is there anything else that makes it hard?
> A Chinese company cannot take the CCP to court and win. There is no separation of powers in China

Why should a company take the CCP to court though?

They are in business together and have grown immensely in the past 30 years.

> There is no constitutional protection held on place by a group outside the ruling party

Where is that protection in the US though?

Call them parties, a faux bi-headed system instead of an honest one-headed one, and you get the same outcome.

> China has a faux free capitalist society

They never wanted US capitalism though, so it's business as intended.

> Chinese companies are the way they are

because the people of China like them like that.

Believe me, they do not want to be like you. The opposite is true in fact.
And those graduates also subsequently make their way into the IC.
It seems there's a psychological trait of people accepting and repeating others ideas while others will keep tickling for more information. In business settings I've seen very educated people start to repeat the behavior and ideas of other less competent people, which I assume was the pressure of having something to do or say to fill in blanks, and that starts the process.
Apppe has deployed FDE properly tied to the user’s passcode/word to a billion+ consumer devices. They have high customer satisfaction and many repeat buyers. The idea that this can’t be done is blatantly at odds with reality.
GFoC specifically filters not only sites (banning) but specific topics, keywords, discussions, and participants (censorship).
> I write code in Ada every day.

What is your development environment setup?
> Do we want the Chinese government to have the ability to do this?

yes. If too many people started reading aljazeera should we ban that too? Do we want the US government to have the ability to do this?
Yeah well the unfortunate truth is this pessimist generation saw their parents buy a house and build wealth with a nickel, a piece of bubblegum, and a handshake so your argument will fall on deaf ears.
That's really nice to hear. I'm glad things worked out for your org.

GitHub marketing folks probably should reach out to you :)
>The US controls Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Youtube, Reddit, Snapchat, Whatsapp.

Not in the way that the CCP controls ByteDance. ByteDance cannot win a lawsuit against the Chinese government.

China, Russia and Iran are designated adversaries and will be treated as such.

And I think Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Youtube, Reddit, Snapchat, Whatsapp should be also be far more regulated.

Musk won't be in the White House for long.
I would be impressed if it actually was available on a browser, without native help.

And that is Flash 3D quality, we would expect something better 15 years later.
But there is no moral side to it, at all. Countries are shifting to renewables because they make more money. It's not about subsidies anymore. In the U.S., with abundant, very cheap fossil fuels, established engineering companies that make extraction quick and cheap, it is more expensive than elsewhere to make a switch, it just doesn't break even yet.
One of the reasons that Toyota was still pushing out cars during covid while nearly everyone else had a shortage was their mastery of the supply chain. They make sure that their critical suppliers are as redundant as possible and well taken care of. Not only did Toyota maintain a stockpile of critical parts, the distributors gave them preference because they paid on time.
I check every point of your list however I have an European-size house so my biggest consumption is probably heating, after schooling (done) and medical (most still to come).

Also beware telling people "not to have children". I know population is the biggest treat because it's a multiplicative factor on hour lifestyle, that we don't like to downgrade. However saying "not having children" is easily arguable as bdangubic did and he's still a bit right: we don't want everybody stop having children altogether. However talking about population have the power to seed ideas in others head, and let themselves make the relation with the number of children they'll have.

You convince people by making them convince themselves :)
I taught at a private school for several years, and what I saw there convinced me that they are up against many of the same things that public schools are except they need a marketing budget and all the parents have financial resources (although few had the resource of time).

I guess I think it's hard to make real generalities about public v private schools, and good data is hard to come by since stats can be juiced in various ways for various reasons.
The political ramifications of a Trump rescue of TikTok should not be under estimated - 170 million America users, 7 million of them business owners whose livelihoods could be restored by a man they probably would've voted against. I'm sure Trump didn't plan this but his MO of causing chaos and then using his instincts to convert negative energy into political capital is quite amazing
Apple might start making Wi-Fi routers again, but in a way you wouldn't expect
It will be obvious when the feed will change and be alliged with the other actors.
Adopt dog in shelter and get a life.
With it seeming like even fewer powerful people will control how social media is moderated, as they say depending on the “policy environment” there’s never been a more important time to work towards distributed social media.
The surprising struggle to get a Unix Epoch time from a UTC string in C or C++
Well, stallman would probably advocate for the AGPL in such cases, which the megacorps are still wary of.
So this is a copy of Cherry pie which is a copy of Flask?

I take Flask over bof of the my thank you.
That is PlayStation 3 and XBox 360 kind of graphics level, yet we hardly see them on any browser, other than some demos.
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Calling it a software forge is the correct form. Even if the term isn't that well known.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge_(software)
Ask HN: If you have a blog, do you have an RSS feed?
Reading this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42746682#42751194 made me wonder. I've seen quite a few personal pages/blogs without any obvious RSS support. Do people think it's important enough to implement these days?
It’s offensive to the notion of free speech as Americans profess to respect.

If the capabilities of these services are so dangerous, we should have laws and rules to control the danger. Instead we’ve done some nationalist cowing to send a message, and we’re arm-twisting Zuck to adapt Facebook to the political expediency of the moment.
There's a lot of things that could be reworked in much better ways if you drop backwards compatibility and think a bit about usability, but the real problem is the time it takes versus how "just fine" things work once you finally understand how to improve on old tools.

To make things worse, tools get much better they get once you start thinking hard about re-implementing things. It seems it takes a lot of hatred to start such a project, and starting is the easy part as it only needs the first 80% of the effort.
Like Didi / Uber in China?
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1. I have a blog and I know it has RSS
“If people criticize Israel on your app we will ban it” is the antithesis of liberal values.

Btw, lots of nice stuff is in the Chinese constitution too. Doesn’t really matter if it’s not followed in practice.
I've got nothing against non-electronic index-shifters, but they do require more adjustment than Di2 systems (not a big deal - usually just use the barrel adjuster). There's also the need to replace the inner cable which most people don't bother doing (I had one snap in the brifter head which seemed to be a fault with that particular brifter model).

You can take my double-chainring when you can pry it out of my cold dead hands.

I do agree about the simplicity and maintenance benefits of manual shifters (I do most of my own bike maintenance, so have worked on both systems) and if I were planning a cross-continent bike ride, I think mechanical shifters would be beneficial as it may not be easy to source electronic shifting components (e.g. hitting a rear derailleur on a rock and requiring a replacement).

However, the sheer pleasure of using electronic shifting (a slight press and then a satisfying click-whirr to change gear) means that most people who have experienced it are unlikely to go back to mechanical.

By the way, you usually just charge up the Di2 system rather than replacing the battery. Battery replacement is only for when something has gone wrong or you require features not supported on the older versions (e.g. synchro-shifting wasn't supported on the older external battery compared to the seat-post battery versions).
It’s also true that age 18-29 bracket is less likely to have historically been registered to vote and that they are typically working in precarious positions with less ability to take time off to vote.

If voting registration was automatic, and election day was a holiday, I’d expect the participation across age brackets to be much closer.
>With a borrowchecker, you get a fat runtime and the cost of garbage collection with none of the convenience

I find the borrowchecker with its checking of mutable references can really assist you well in writing correct code more easily. Especially when it comes to parallelism. But also in not accidentally mutating something that some other function still holds a reference to.

So I wouldn't say the borrow checkers utility is limited to checking allocation scopes.

This also seems to be the motivation according to the readme.
> To me TikTok was the first proof that recommendation algorithms can work.

This sounds great at first. Now imagine you are not just into wood working, indie bands or travel logs, but instead slightly interested in right wing or islamist ideology. Within a short time you are flooded with political or religious propaganda. In Europe that has been a real problem. See for example https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000231964/auf-tiktok-re... or https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/tiktok-afd-100... (Sorry, German only.) The right-wing AfD politician Maximilian Krah became so "popular" on TikTok that the platform had to artificially limit his reach! (Kudos to them, but it shows the extent of the problem.)

To be clear, FB and YT have the same problem of creating filter bubbles, but the algorithm is less effective and therefore less dangerous (but still dangerous enough!)
As a European born in communism, I find it dangerous for a communist and despotic state to yield so much power and for Europe to consider it business as usual, even if China may have started their own hybrid war with Europe, supporting Russia and preparing for the invasion of Taiwan.

China, BTW, is censoring or blocking all Western social media platforms and online publications. Why should we accept their online services when they are blocking ours?

Say what you will of USA, but they are allies and Europe needs to grow the f* up and stop being so tolerant of despotic countries, because our money and resources are fuelling their wars.

I understand that you're afraid of the US yielding so much power online, but then propose a European alternative, not a Chinese one. Let's innovate instead of complaining about US's tech hegemony, as right now all I'm seeing are complaints and regulations for tech we aren't building.
All that talk about Israel and genocide is what got TikTok banned, even as TikTok was heavily demoting such truthful content. AIPAC couldn't take it. A lot of issues that are Israel first are disguised as America First by the Deep Christian State.

Whatever dude.
Anything that tips the scale in favor of one tips it against the other. Why are Americans arguing for the US to have less leverage in this relationship? It's downright illogical.
Well, neither was the Stone Age, but why are you even talking about the Bronze Age under a link that discusses Pompeii?

The relevant event took place in 79 AD, long after the end of the Bronze Age in the Mediterranean.
Yes, they should.

The mistake here is seeing the US action as a universal moral statement and therefore hypocritical.

The US action was simply pragmatic. There is no claim of universality or morality.

I very much agree other countries should also look at US hegemony through a pragmatic lens: is this a net harm? It’s kind of funny that you raise it as a gotcha.
The reason terminal-land is like this, is precisely because the wheel has been reinvented a few hundred times. Basically XKCD 927, perpetually.
Cut the Zoomers Some Slack
2. I have a blog and it might have RSS due to the framework but I've never checked.
Compare with China though. There is absolutely no way that a company like Bytedance would be allowed to operate inside China while under American control.
I'm sympathetic to some of what you're saying, and I believe the original hacker ethos spurred some of the original FS impulses, but...

FOSS licenses don't, and can't, embody anarchism (or any socialism) because they make no distinction between humans and capital-holding entities, lumping them all under the term "users".
Will he change the constitution to allow himself to candidate again in 2028?
As of today, they would not be following American law by continuing to operate. The rules were amended by writing a new law that they're now following.
3. I have a blog with no RSS
Being banned because of using a normal feature can get even more ridiculous.

Playing some games on GeForce NOW (a game streaming service) can get you banned by just using the service or exhaust the allowed plays per day because it runs in ephemeral VMs and each session is from a different server. This is with the game being explicitly added and supported by the developer/publisher...
Would you consider it acceptable to ban these kinds of apps if we were in military conflict with these countries just as we were in conflict against Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan?

> it's all lip service to get their competition killed unfairly

I think that you'd have a point here if we were talking about a country that allowed their citizens unfettered access American social media apps but China does not do that.

If seems foolish to play by a set of rules that the other side does not. This isn't competition in a normal sense.
Well if you want to talk about genocide & Facebook... https://systemicjustice.org/article/facebook-and-genocide-ho...
I'm not sure it's that simple. You have to take into account Congress and the Supreme Court as well.
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