skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just have Devin or some coding AI agents to clone TikTok /s
Yeah, I am about your age, and it is taboo in my work and social circle to even drive a sports car- I can tell most people I know see it as ostentatious, which I am annoyed by since I bought it for less than 1/10th the price of what most of them drive, and I find it fun, I don't care to impress anyone.
>"Perhaps this TikTok ban is a time to reflect around their addictions and cravings."

And tell "go fuck yourself" to FB, Instagram, X ... etc.
My cousin worked at a place where he would stream for 8 hours a day on tiktok and sell trading card packs and other collectables. I guess it was a bit like home shopping network. But his streams were kinda goofy and playful. I didn't really understand who the customers were. I guess some people found him entertaining and liked what he was selling.
I can't believe no one has mentioned, this is exactly the teleological fallacy.

I was once very curious about evolutionary science until I realised exactly what you said. It's everywhere. Once you see it you can't unsee it.

If you're going to go that route, at least have the sense to use the word "how", not, "why" and never "because". There's nothing causal in evolution.
Are you sure about this? I've heard many many times that tiktok is uniquely good at discovery for new businesses.
> Bytedance without TikTok is still an order of magnitude worth more than Perplexity

They’re not buying Bytedance - TikTok, they’d be buying half of the piece of TikTok Bytedance would own after spinning it out to its non-Chinese shareholders.
>"The text of the bill explicitly holds app marketplaces liable for civil penalties if they distribute "foreign adversary controlled applications"."

Spirit of the script seems to be stolen straight from the former USSR
Congress themselves wrote in the president's authority to do this. Although it is unclear if doing it this late would fall within the law.
Except for people who's income depends on it. And their families. And their friends.
Running this on my Samsung Galaxy S23 causes the hamburger menu flyout to freeze halfway, and takes a few seconds for it to appear at all.

I like the idea though. Post again when you get the bugs worked out!
Of course anyone who wanted to, including the Chinese, could just buy that exact data from data brokers in the US. It's readily available.[0] Nobody really believes this was about data.

[0] - https://www.404media.co/candy-crush-tinder-myfitnesspal-see-...
“Quit programming” is excellent advice regardless of the language.
Or RedNote
that's likely the largest reason it went through. If you think US social networking companies weren't pushing the ban for financial reasons, you're just being silly.

404 did an article on it: https://www.404media.co/a-tiktok-ban-is-a-gift-to-meta-and-i...
Do you think he should? Do you think it's a healthy exercise in the country's checks and balances for the president to create a precedent where he directs the justice department to not enforce a law when Congress has drafted it, and the Supreme Court has unanimously upheld it? Last time anything like this has happened, it created devastating national history.
Did nothing to India with its 1B+ users when it was banned there 4 years ago. They just either used a VPN or just moved on.

While I disagree with the ban, I'd rather have a sensible fine just like the ones for Meta, Google (YouTube) and others. At one point it also might have temporarily saved someone's chronic addiction to the platform, then they'll just find another platform to get hooked on.

But for now nature is healing.
Yes he's a chameleon and yes he's a turncoat and so on, but it's interesting that he's gone all in on this. There's some debate whether wokism is finished for good or if it's merely gone dormant. He seems to be betting that it's gone for good.
> I only have a handful of family users but I could still benefit from the additional vulnerability proofing of Rust

Conduit[1] seems to predate Synapse Pro and I've ran it for a short while. It consumes about 32 MiB of RAM for a server with at most a dozen registered users. However, Conduit, like Dendrite, has fallen behind on implementing the latest revisions of the Matrix API. Thus I cannot fully recommend deploying Conduit unless you are aware of exactly which clients and rooms your users expect to interact with.

[1] https://conduit.rs/
Fingered again
>I'm working on a proof of work reverse proxy to protect my server from bots in the future.

Honestly I think this might end up being the mid-term solution.

For legitimate traffic it's not too onerous, and recognized users can easily have bypasses. For bulk traffic it's extremely costly, and can be scaled to make it more costly as abuse happens. Hashcash is a near-ideal corporate-bot combat system, and layers nicely with other techniques too.
They could raise the price if they wanted it to be more profitable! Dealers already exploit the long wait list to do so in a way that doesn’t pass through to Toyota.
I’ve been getting a lot of garbage grade YouTube ads too, like a video version of the crude weight loss drawing banner ads that ookla used to serve. I wonder if we’re being punished for using adblockers. Or are you saying the actual video was a scam?
NVIDIA's physX has its own cloth physics abstractions: https://docs.nvidia.com/gameworks/content/gameworkslibrary/p..., so I'm sure it is a thing we do on GPUs already, if only for games. These are old demos anyways:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80vKqJSAmIc

I wonder what the difference is between the cloth physics you are talking about and the one NVIDIA has been doing for I think more than a decade now? Is it scale? It sounds like, at least, there are alternatives that do it on the GPU and there are questions if Blender will do it on the GPU:

https://blenderartists.org/t/any-plans-to-make-cloth-simulat...
The comments on that post (I saw the same or similar on Reddit) point out that there are very aggressive lists and more discerning lists. Some lists filter out based on links in a profile or certain emojis or if you follow certain accounts.

These are 3rd party lists and a user has to opt into them to leverage their blocking choices. If a list blocks 1M accounts but only has 100 followers, it's not such a big deal.

When you subscribe to a well built list, you are given options for how like mute vs block, your choice, or label | warn | hide, per label, a subchoice within an opt in labeller.

What ATProto gives us as users is choice and competition. Bad lists will not gain subscribers and will be marginalized by the market effect. High quality lists will be shared and gain network effect.

We shouldn't expect or want a one-size fits all solution to moderation. Our social graphs in real life and online are not a giant blob where everyone has to listen to everyone. We naturally break down into subgraphs or communities. Online communities or groups should be able to exclude people for any reason they wish. They should be seen similar to a private group in real life. You shouldn't expect to be allowed into or to participate in a group if your going against the group's rules or customs in real life. Online should be no different.
I think national security might be more important than couple of small entertainment businesses.
I think we're beyond creating dangerous precedent at this point. He'll do what he wants and no one can stop him.
I don't think the country fell apart when Obama directed the justice department not to enforce weed laws. [0]

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cole_Memorandum
Agreed. I don't understand why so many are choosing to rally around Bluesky and its AT Protocol, which is promising federation but has yet to deliver. Not to mention it is backed by a for-profit company that has all the incentive to enshittify much like Facebook and Twitter have.

Compare this to Mastodon (which unlike Bluesky) is just one service in a sea of many others using ActivityPub (Pixelfed, PeerTube, etc) which overall makes for a much more vibrant and promising platform.

And unlike Bluesky, Mastodon has put federation into action; as an anecdote, even for posts with lots of replies, I've rarely seen more than two people from the same server comment on a given post. The diversity is astounding. Mastodon is already everything everyone wants from Bluesky in this regard.

To me, it just looks like everyone is getting set up again to shoot themselves in the foot much like what happened with Twitter, and I don't understand why? Is it because choosing a server is to hard or stressful?
This is unfortunate for women in the US, many of whom were using TikTok to raise consciousness of 4B, a protest movement originating in South Korea that calls for women to fight widespread societal misogyny and boycott men. It went viral on TikTok in the US after Trump's win in November and has been steadily increasing in reach and impact since.

Hopefully this movement will continue on other social media. Though unfortunately none are quite as light on censorship as TikTok is for feminist voices, often unfairly framing these as "hate".
It only takes a single government losing their signing keys (through whatever means) to break such a scheme.

And if that happens, what do you do? Deny service to that country's citizens?
It wouldn’t be the first time an American President decided not to enforce a SC ruling.
Sorry I didn't mean to laugh at his effort. I was laughing more like I see this happening on HN in real time sort of mins after trying. I do think he has a point though. Not entirely sure how zig should tackle it or tackling it at all.
This is a typical HN "marketing is stupid" post. TikTok organic and paid are some of the best drivers of leads and sales for businesses, same like FB and Google are as well.

Handwaving TT away as "another social media platform" is like comparing Friendster or MySpace with the ad machine that FB has built. There are countless businesses that will be impacted by this.
Ah, I see your point, maybe something like "each word must contain all of the letters in the row directly above it"
does the tool snap to I-frames when slicing?
That's pretty good, I'm stealing that. You've just motivated me to go buy the cord I need for my Kindle and probably made my life a few percent better by doing so.
Bridging theory and practice in engineering strategy
Aw, Silicon Valley doesn't want everything banned. They just want all ideas that go against their world view banned. lol.
Isnt taking the app down today just for show? It seems like the ban wasnt going to be enforced? https://apnews.com/article/tiktok-ban-trump-executive-order-...
>But I suspect just as with the web, the problem is consistency.

That is indeed the "problem" at its core. People are lazy, operating systems aren't consistent enough.

Operating systems came about to abstract all the differences of countless hardware away, but that is no longer good enough. Now people want to abstract away that abstraction: Chrome.

Chrome is the abstraction layer to Windows, MacOS, iOS, Linux, Android, BSD, C++, HTML, PHP, Ruby, Rust, Python, desktops, laptops, smartphones, tablets, and all the other things. You develop for Chrome and everyone uses Chrome and everyone on both sides gets the same thing for a singular effort.

If I were to step away from all I know and care about computers and see as an uncaring man, I have to admit: It makes perfect sense. Fuck all that noise. Code for Chrome and use by Chrome. The world can't be simpler.
yeah, tiktok really was (is?) something special because unlike other platforms, their algorithm really increased people's reach out beyond their own community.

youtube shorts and instagram reels seem like they do the same thing on the surface, but they're so much more focused on showing you content that they are certain you'll like, and from people in your network or people who you normally watch. they're a whole lot more focused on keeping people in their existing content silos.
404Found, new blog / tech news site
Nah, there’s no slippery slope here. Don’t generate CSAM.
I don't have the app, but from what I can tell, using a VPN doesn't help either. I guess when you downloaded it from the U.S. Android/Apple app stores, it flags you somehow, so a VPN can't help?

Dunno, I'm wayyyy out of the loop on all of this.
Musk Social provides some options for you to control who can reply to your posts (like followers only), at least it did before I nuked all my accounts.

Bluesky provides a richer set of options. I should be able to choose who interacts with my posts. If that's not your style, fine, there are other options out there. Bluesky users like this feature. It reduces the toxicity and makes it a more enjoyable platform.

The culture around "don't engage, just block" the trolls helps keep the discourse more civil. With a fresh start, we can stay ahead of the trolls and bots. It's a group effort
An MSN repost of a Fox Business article, that lifted a specific sentence from a NYTimes article, where the source was "people familiar with the meeting".

This is likely as accurate as the game of broken telephone that kids play.
Most things sold there appear to be cheap, fast waste products. happy to have them gone and their unsustainable practices.
This should not have been flagged.

This is you HN. If you want to get mad because you don't like what's in the mirror, that's on us/you.
It's the exact reason the platform economy has gotten such a bad rep over the years; drawing people in, taking a (disproportionate) slice of the pie, and providing no guarantees for a sustained income upon disruption.
Bluesky is two completely separate things:

1) A Twitter clone without the political baggage and chaos of the current Twitter ownership.

2) A vastly overengineered distributed software system with a strong ideological commitment to federated design.

There's no inherent relationship between the two, but a lot of the people who run 1 are heavily committed to 2, and so end up sowing a lot of confusion about it.

I would wager that most Bluesky users don't care about it being decentralized, and in fact want a lot of features (soft block, private blocklists) that the federated design makes impossible.
Read the last few words in my GP, I know. Also, a law drafted by Congress AND an SC ruling upholding it??
Social media doesn't punish people for overconfidence. In fact social media rewards people's controversial statements by giving them engagement - engagement like yours.
If that's the case, you could download it from a non-US app store and it should just work...unless TikTok is doing some denial based on from IP address, then you need foreign TikTok + VPN (or at least a way to mask your IP address being American in origin). At least the USA doesn't have a great firewall (yet?), so they aren't going to block it that way (or maybe they can buy the tech from Huawei, which they adapted from Cisco in the first place).
Studies have generally found little difference in writing speed between the two or a slight speed benefit of manuscript over cursive.

Mostly though, speed comes with practice. If you only write in cursive, you'll no doubt feel manuscript writing slow. I only use manuscript writing and find cursive painfully slow.
Since I'm not a celebrity, one is as authoritative as the other :)

But one of them I can receive email on and it also hosts my blog, and if I wanted to, I could reference it here in my bio, just like how people do it for "non-self-custodial" social media identities.

It's not perfect, but at least it works across services for regular people without any risk of "handle sniping" once a new service becomes popular. (I suspect that for regular social networks, different rules apply to celebrities than to regular people.)

And for companies, there's always trademark law, which is already heavily integrated into the domain registry framework: Also not perfect, but definitely better than replicating the same solution to n services/sites.
Show HN: [Early Access] Seen – A fast, minimal Google Keep alternative
Hello HN!
Seen is a very minimal, and currently WIP Google Keep alternative. Seen lets you create little "cards" with Markdown that you can search and edit. Seen is very basic right now, but contains all the basic functionality you would expect. There's no sharing/downloads, no pins, no tags - nothing. But it's all planned!
Seen is not open-source right now either. My plan is to build out Seen with your (yes, your) feedback to make it perfect. It's a little side project of mine, not a full-blown SaaS with pricing and stuff.
If you're interested in using Seen (and it's completely free), drop an email in the address here: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=_bittere

A little about me: I'm a 16 year old who's really interested in building all things web/design. I've built a few projects before, but none that I've shared with the world. Check out my dribble: https://dribbble.com/bittere

Thank you!
i imagine they are still close enough, and perhaps she still has enough stock, that she understands he's willing to compromise his own morals for the financial benefit of the company

on a personal level, it is demoralizing to read though
The Risks of Climate Change to the United States in the 21st Century
Your second sentence is paramount, it wasn't written for this far out.
The cognitive dissonance is stunning. China is a closed system, corrupt, opaque, and doing business there risks being murdered if you don’t grease the right palms. Or if you greased the right palms today, but in 5 years you bribed someone who’s out of favor, could get death.

Chinese business crying foul over simply forcing an app to change owners is the pinnacle of hypocrisy.
Time for the kids to pick up a book.
This is pretty cool! I wanted to try implement this idea years ago…
TikTok actively censored videos containing the word "rape", "assault", and "sex", preventing women on the app from honestly talking about their negative experiences with men. I do not think it's a great loss for Feminism to see the app delisted and it's users migrate elsewhere
The law gives the President unambiguous authority to grant an extension to the timeline.
What you write is simple. But your scalar model suppresses the common situation of a measurement matrix with output dimension less than state dimension. Exactly how the Kalman gain formula works under this setting I'm less clear on. Beyond that, additional insight is needed when the measurement matrix is non-linear and K = P_xy P_y^{-1} as in the UKF. At least I get stuck there, with little formal statistics work.
TikTok and/or Apple and/or Google probably took the app down themselves. They talk to their lawyers, and tell them "no, Trump/Biden said they weren't going to enforce the law" and their legal counsel goes "no, no, no, you can't go by that, obey the law or you are opening yourself up to huge liability" and that's it.
I don't think this compares, but I do see where you're coming from. Whereas the present SC has unanimously upheld this TikTok law, The Court has avoided taking a position on federal non-enforcement of marijuana laws in states where it is legalized
You can be fully aware of this and still have issues building up your platform elsewhere.

We utilize every platform equally. TikTok organically grew at least 5x the followership for our business, meanwhile Meta gouges us for advertising to be seen at all and we see worse results and interactions there.

The ban of TikTok will have resounding effects even if people are utilizing the alternatives. I've seen far too many people who haven't used TikTok and the alternatives for their business, or are not business owners at all, declare their opinions as facts when they have no actual experience in this space.

I'm not saying this explicitly includes you, I don't make presumptions about your experience in this space.
Apparently the law has an explicit clause that allows the executive branch to give a 90 day extension if they feel progress is being made towards divestment.
While there's a ban on overt politics, a lot of social discourse is ultimately political.

It's impossible to discuss health care approaches for example. Americans believe in for profit Healthcare, while (most everyone else) tend to favor universal health care (despite its many imperfections. )

And that's before we discuss other tricky topics like the military etc. There are plenty of folk ready to downvote based on opinion rather than discussion.

So yes, there's plenty of echo chamber here - but equally plenty of alternate thinkers, not to mention nutters.

This is ultimately how human societies work.
Much ado about nothing! Not available for download a day at max! (You can still use the app if it’s already installed)

The ban will be repealed on Monday and it will be sold to US tech lords by month’s end. The damn hysteria is embarrassing
So that last one is a hallucination: there's no `n_frames` variable for the select filter: https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#select_002c-aselect

At the least, I learnt a lot about how FFmpeg works.
More than once it has happened where some NYT article will discuss some private meeting at the White House and attribute it to someone like, "According to a credible source at that meeting, blah blah". Later it is confirmed that that well placed source was the President, or the secretary of state, etc. Credible news organizations don't just repeat whatever some random guy claims to have heard.
School integration was woke. Women voting was woke. Interracial marriage was woke. Gay marriage was woke. Over the long run, progress only goes in the right direction. There's no debate, just noise. The year to year skirmishes aren't terribly important in the big picture.
Even the copies are crazy addictive. Facebook got me in my feed, and then so did YouTube. You can spend hours just consuming things...
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42753396
I feel like I see so much negative, anti-America news I am not sure what propaganda you are even talking about. It's all over Reddit, Twitter, and TikTok. I would say Reels is suspiciously missing unless you subscribe to people directly.
Do you really want to get into this?
Mastadon is too complicated for your average, non-technical user. There is also the issue that your account is tied to a specific server and migration means you lose your followers. Discovery and server DDoS on a viral post are also challenges for the way ActivityPub was architected.

ATProto is still young, even compared to ActivityPub. It will continue to evolve and improve. It certainly has the momentum compared to ActivityPub
I had a similar revelation. But I went a slightly different direction with it. I have filters for anything that I anticipate getting but I know isn't urgent. All those filters do the same thing, which is "Skip the Inbox/Archive", but leave as unread. Every couple days I go through them on my computer where I can cycle through them with a single keystroke per email.

So I think of it as a 2 inbox system. The regular inbox is known important or unanticipated emails. Searching for `is:unread` gives the non-urgent stuff.

An important part of this is the keystrokes. I start from the oldest and just cycle through. No real action or decision needs to be made on the majority of emails.
Maybe re-read the comment. No one is insisting on anything. I’m wishing for more optionality.
I feel the same as you about the awful externalities, but doing it anyway and refusing to enjoy it as 'penance' just isn't how I would want to deal with that. I really love driving, love the freedom of exploring things in cars, and love working on and fixing them. Instead, I work on sustainable biofuel tech- and even as a hobby use and test it out in my own vehicles.
It is a law passed by congress. The only way to reverse it is to (a) have a court invalidate the law (already tried) or (b) have congress reverse the law. Trump can say something about its enforcement, but he can't actually reverse the law (at least according to the constitution, which he also said he wanted to interpret differently).
Now this is serious hardware hacking. Kudos for the fantastic writeup and thank you for sharing the work, it really is impressive.