skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't bother, it's always crickets on this one. China doesn't play by the rules in literally anything and "well that's too bad".
Basically everything I buy now means my money is going to China. Somehow that's ok, but letting me choose to consume their app, that's ok.
Many distros still provide the `service` command, and don't print any warnings when you use it. At best, you might get an informational message that the equivalent systemd command is being called. There is no recommendation to call the systemd command directly, or any sign of the `service` command being deprecated any time soon. As a result, a lot of people are probably still relying on their muscle memory for the `service` command.
Yeah, that's the part 1, all data must be within the border

so Azure in China can only be ran by a Chinese entity

If you look at it from the other side, it's like Tiktok must be hosted by Microsoft/Amazon but not datacenters in China
A point I think most people don’t understand is that the government interest in TikTok has little to do with exploiting user data per se, a lot of other companies do that. The issue is that TikTok is somewhat unique in being aggressively weaponized in currently very active “grey zone” conflicts.

This has been an open secret in national security circles but the average person on the street has no idea what a grey zone conflict is, what it looks like, or why it matters. Geopolitic strategies are increasingly executed as grey zone warfare, and some hybrid warfare, because the costs and risks of traditional overt warfare have become unacceptably high.
Agreed. Open source is an ecosystem. And ecosystems need to be healthy to grow. Matrix is not a hobby project that a couple of hackers implement in their free time but a large project that requires full-time developers. But if these developers don't get paid, then we (the community) won't get improvements for matrix software.

Synapse Pro is a compromise to keep the ship afloat. This is not a matter of greed, but a matter of keeping the lights on.
Awesome. Can we hope for Arctic Adventure next? :-)
> It makes the person posting in charge of their own replies.

I think replies should be owned by the one posting them, not the one they’re replying to.
Their communication really is all over the place. Even the name is really awkward in English.

(And yes, not everything should be forced to be English and it's apparently supposed to be Esperanto; but nothing else on the site is so that's not how most people will parse it).
>it's pretty easy to notice bots and shills

You only notice the bots that you notice. How do you know how many bots you encounter where you dont realize it is a bot? Knowing this number is necessary to make the claim that claim, but it is fundamentally unknowable.
What is impressive to me as a software developer is that the RedNote engineering team added a Translate item to the system, at scale, within a matter of days. It works flawlessly.
If you read Senator's quotes from the the time, for example here https://www.npr.org/2024/03/21/1239691465/tiktok-ban-bill-se..., all the senators are saying the briefing should be public, aka it's b.s. there's nothing in it. They talked about chinese collecting data and potentially manipulating the algorithm, just the standard public discussion about this. Halfway through that article Tom Cotton slips and complains about a "clear skew in pro-Hamas propaganda" which is a flat out illegal 1st amendment violation, censorship based on viewpoint.
None of those obviously correlate to the kinds of websites you’re allowed to visit. The issue is that it’s awfully close to the kind of speech you are “permitted” to be exposed to, which is a slippery slope.
> Would you take the same tone if it were an American startup that were forced to sell a big chunk of itself pre-IPO? Would you roll your eyes at them for "being greedy" at any indication of pushback against such a requirement?

to be clear, I don't think ByteDance was greedy. I suspect ByteDance would have been happy to cash out. but it wasn't up to them, they needed approval from the CCP.

if a US social media startup somehow got extremely popular in China, I'd understand and even empathize with China requiring it be sold. they'd be right to mistrust us.
That's neat ! I've built a transient UI to do this manually[0] within emacs, but with the context windows getting bigger ang bigger, being more systematic may be the way to go.

The priorization mentioned in the readme is especially interesting.

[0] https://rdklein.fr/bites/MyTransientUIForLocalLLMs.html
> to me this is the only important one. Not only can they subtely influence the entire us culture, if they were to get in trouble for it, then what?

Suppose that is true. Then why are you ok with Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, or any other American oligarch wielding even more influence on US culture? When it comes down to it, it's just jingoism, isn't it? China man bad, America man good.
because the election campaign has already ended?
can anyone share what the benefit is over using a self hosted repository host over a service like github/gitlab? obviously you get more power over the interface & such but are there truly any gains over using the larger platforms?
You're not forced to open the app and purchase a $120/yr subscription just because they changed the name.
One American user, who identified themselves as “non-binary” on RedNote, was censored after publishing a post on Tuesday asking if the platform welcomed gay people. The post was removed within hours, the user told CNN [0]

The next day, they uploaded a new post saying they will quit the platform over the decision but was soon on the receiving end of homophobic comments, with some users accusing them of cultural imposition.

A Chinese user suggested that he try covering his nipples, as Chinese social media platforms generally impose restrictions on displaying them when it is perceived as sexually suggestive.

A few RedNote users also noted that posts about the Japanese anime My Hero Academia, which faced censorship in China since 2018 due to controversial references to Japan’s wartime history, have since been removed from the platform.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/16/tech/tiktok-refugees-rednote-...
In a way you have to hand it to China for this master play. Globalization really complicates economies. China became the world’s factory because it produced products for a fraction of the cost, but it didn’t let the West in to provide services and products built by white collar workers into their economy. It copied and made sure that the services and products were produced by Chinese budding middle class workers. Now you can argue they’re on even footing with the West. I agree with you. They caught up and the handicap should be removed. They want their cake and to eat it too.
It is not new. I have heard that word for more than a decade already.

I guess you need to know about the foss ecosystem to know it.
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I found a problem with software. Most of them have a short life cycle. I plan to do an experiment. I made a website to collect software related to youtube and then investigate the life cycle of these software. If you are interested, you can submit your tool here: https://y2btools.org/
Ridiculous insulting article.
Deflecting much :) What does that have to do with whether or not Tiktok is used a tool of war by a foreign adversary to the US?

The no 1 reason the US is banning Tiktok because they are protecting against the war on the minds of their population.
using obscure words doesn't make you look intelligent.
for what I Know, gay content is ok, gay flags are not ok
I can't see this for anything other than massive act of petulance. Sure TikTok are probably spying and influencing Americans, but I'm darned sure Meta, Google etc. are doing the same for similar non altruistic purposes.
Going for a tit-for-tat with China on censorship is so hypocritical for the US it undermines its entire global persona.
Plover: A free open-source stenography engine
The question was whether you would roll your eyes at the startup and have no sympathy for that startup because of the "big chunk of change" they could have gotten selling it.

You can both believe that the requirement is justified and that it comes at a big cost for the org that would have to sell. They aren't mutually exclusive.
Other companies do similarly ridiculous things. I’ve personally had to push back on this in non-McDonalds companies, and I see others out there with the same kinds of problems. For instance, Starbucks has a different app for different countries, and they region-lock them. So if you have an Apple ID registered in one country and you visit another, you can’t use install that country’s Starbucks app to order. Which is super unhelpful when there’s a language barrier because you are in a different country.
But Russia was using a platform that they don't control for all of these.

Meanwhile we have a member of the inner circle of the US President-elect using the social network that he owns to explicitly attempt to depose the leader of the UK, to support violent extremists, and to support far right parties across Europe. TikTok never did any of that.

> https://www.reuters.com/world/musk-examines-how-oust-starmer...
Congress should ban operating systems is a hell of a take.
The graphics and the audio are both updated. The original didn't have the smoothing and fading in the graphics; it was almost just solid blocky colors. It's still lo-fi but not nearly as lo-fi as the original.
Well, this bath house was owned by some one ultra wealthy. There were multiple people (possibly slaves), just toiling away to keep the furnace going.

Today a hot tub can be had by millions.
"unbiased" as in: maximally biased to serve Chinese interests.
It’s always uncomfortable when realpolitik clashes with the values we aspire to have.

What is freedom, anyway? Surely it can’t include allowing a foreign adversary access to a knob to twist on an important demographic of society. A foreign adversary who is actively compromising the network infrastructure of that society [1] but definitely wouldn’t touch infrastructure around an app owned by a Chinese company.

There’s no such thing as a free lunch. One person's portal to a better world is a state's vehicle to shaping it in the state's interests.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/united-states-china-hacking-espio...
Here's anecdote from Google's glory days! We had a similar extension, with Larry Page instead of Nicholas Cage. And anyone leaving their computer unlocked were subject do it.

This became widespread enough to be mentioned at the new employee orientation.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42751726
This is really what I have never understood about Kalman Filters. As to how you pick Q and R. Do you just adjust them until the result looks right? How does that end up working for anything not completely over-fit?

For example, if I'm tracking birds from video footage, I might choose a certain Q, but depending on the time of day the noise statistics might change. What do you do then?
You are right, but in Summmer, if you sit in close to the window, more nits is very nice.
Yes, it has been a security threat for years. It's a shame it took this long. In case you missed some of the myriad stories, here's just a few. Sure seems like the onus is on TikTok to prove they aren't being evil at this point, because all the evidence so far isn't implying anything good. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23634138 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29592103 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34109771 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31920756 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28199588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33280176 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21076459 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33302591 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34098132
I would like to understand your position. China doesn't allow US apps. If Chinese apps are allowed, then China has a big advantage over USA.

Do you understand what kind of information can be derived from 150 million smart phones?
Do you think X was trying to make US citizens angry or content?
>Are they in the room with us right now?

This is well known but ou can contionue to pdo your job pretending it is not.
Independent group also could prove this, it is easy, thousands of accounts that were created at the same time, then slept for years are activated at the same time and spread same content.

Ruzzia was very proud by the cyber troll army, did they start denying it now? And now do you belive their Mistier of Invasion ? I mean they are still reporting that they are always downing 100% of the drones but the debries sometimes hit the target, sometimes cigarrates or lighting cause fires... so please let's ignore everything those criminals say.

Do you pretend bot farms do not exist?

>It's horrible, how should we identify them?

Social Media can identify them if they want.

As a regular users in general you can spot a bot account if it is new or hybernated for years and just started posting. But the issue is with bots that vote, give lies this ones are used to boost content so the algorithm pushes that agenda in fron of real users.
but having many bot accounts increase their evaluation so they are not putting effort into silencing them.
Archived:

https://archive.md/XEEtx

> Focusing American power on its own hemisphere would allow Trump, in other words, to square many circles: to make America great again by making America’s imperial footprint smaller, to reduce the tax burden on the rich by cutting into the apparatus that a global imperium required.

As opposed to USONA, The United States of North America, in which the US, in accord with its founders' plan, would have two senate seats, just like the others.
"The bodies belonged to a woman, aged between 35 and 50, who was clutching jewellery and coins"

Funny to see that some things never change. You're about to get vaporized by a pyroclastic avalanche and your first thought is to grab your bling.
I didn't know you could compose template literal types in TypeScript
it's all about sex!
yes very brave and original to quote 1984 but actually its not totalitarian in any way. the means here are extremely reasonable and there's no free speech issue.
Hackernews don't require javascript for upvote buttons. They work without it.

BTW hackernews requires javascript for collapsing threads, despite it can be achieved with checkbox/css or with the summary element. The reddit frontend teddit used it, and it worked really well. HN is basically the same as reddit, so it would work really well for HN too.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42751649
that's a slippery slope. The Russian government is also justifying all of its censorship with foreign interference (this line of argument works with the Russian public, just to note), take care!
Yeah, but it’s “your realtor” through that transaction, unless they are fired. Regardless, most successful realtors have repeat clients, for buying and selling (even if it’s years between transactions).
American billionares are surely much worse than totalitarian state running internment camps.
It's not -- "why wouldn't we expect important career X to have way more men than women, given <whatever>"

It's -- "if important career X has way more men than women, is this a good thing, at a net societal level, regardless of <whatever> that can explain why this is the case?"

Nobody is looking for complete and perfect parity in all influential careers. The intent is just to make sure that, for the highest-impact careers, we should work towards making them representative of our society, as much as possible
Special interest groups that spend a huge amount of money to unseat representatives who go against their interests: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/16/cong...
It is not new, but also not ubiquous enough to express something everyone understands.

Trying to get "forge" across as some kind of defacto term just adds noise to the product description, I think.
I am still holding out hope for the Drumstick-TikTok Merger. We need more humor these days and i'd really love to see someone like Drumstick take it over lol

[1]:https://www.instagram.com/drumstick/reel/DE07qPUywUg
I'm sure the women who work at Meta have ideas worh hearing/reading on this topic.
It’s not. The effort started earlier. It’s just a convenient narrative.
Yep, that's right. I thought about adding that detail but decided it might detract from the main points. Hopefully anyone interested also sees your comment.
Even better. Thank you!
Nice description, very helpful, thanks. IFAIK there’s a mixup between the words „permanent“ vs „temporary“ in the fail2ban section, you may want to check that.
It's meant as a joke of sorts, not a migration. From the NYT:

"Sure, there are the people calling themselves “TikTok refugees” and joining Xiaohongshu, a Chinese social media app, as a half-joking protest of the U.S. government’s decision to ban TikTok on national security grounds. (The joke part is: OK, Congress, you want to stop us from using a sketchy Chinese social media app? We’ll download an even sketchier Chinese social media app and use that instead.)"

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/technology/what-if-no-one...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/arts/tiktok-red-note-chin...
no, it's reasonable for countries to want mass media their citizens use to be subject to their own government, especially when the country in question is an adversary, not a democracy, and not a particular beacon of free speech or human richts
Right. Grindr puts IP location and and userid information in the ad exchanges so anyone programmatically buying knows which politician/public person is gay and where they are.

We also know who is fat because myfitnesspal does the same thing.

We also know who is pregnant, who has recently been raped, who feels vulnerable. And so on. You see an ad? We know a thing. We know if you like boobs even if you don’t.

Without trying to speak to what American governments and corporations have done with that knowledge, the “security” point is that the Chinese government has this knowledge as well, and the fear they can do something with it.

That being said, what Cambridge Analytica did (a British company) with this kind of knowledge is well-documented, so I can agree the fear is warranted by both those who seek to monopolise those powers, and those who seek to escape them.
No it's not. These aren't people just buying ads - they have a whole following that they need to rebuild somewhere else.
this will have immediate and devastating effects on the economy and culture and the usa especially the incoming administration is not prepared to handle
> if a US social media startup somehow got extremely popular in China

China avoided this problem by ensuring that never happened in the first place.
Say it is true, then both are wrong and evil.
But from my POV Ruzzia has more interests in destabilizing my country and region then do a invasion they would call liberation and grab some strategic lands.
The new president is populist. Once the rage of the TikTokrs is overwhelming, he's going to find a way to reinstate it.
On Android you can have 5 of accounts in Google Play all from different regions to install region-locked apps. E.g bank apps.
Yubikey with libfido works beautifully.

>As for Yubikey... I used it for a while as a keyboard emulator to generate a string to prepend to my corporate laptop password that had insane strength requirements.

Wtf? Tell me you don't know how to use a yubikey without telling me you don't know how to use a yubikey.
This reminds me of the Al Jazeera America (“AJAM”) news channel. They weren’t banned per sé, but it’s obvious they were doomed from the start. An Arab news network operating in the United States… if you think TikTok had a target painted on its back for being Chinese-owned…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_America
What's worse is that the subject of such emails are always some generic "Your upcoming trip". Thanks... i booked 3 flights, which one is it and is this important rescheduling information or just nagging me to buy an upgraded seat.
>but the average person on the street has no idea what a grey zone conflict is, what it looks like, or why it matters.

Education?
It's kind of weird. It brings the gap from what you eat to what you do in life a lot closer. I accidentally became more fish and vegetables as an eater :) The actual gross-out part was not the fact the processing happens. It's the volume.
Elon Musk has become the biggest hypocrite on free speech (Jan 2024)
Look up paradox of tolerance.

> So like the left, correct?

Incorrect.

Regarding Nazis in Ukraine, I'm not sure how it relates to this. Certainly worrying if true. However their country was invaded over a decade ago and is in active war, so not sure how to compare with Germany at all.

First result when googling doesn't paint a nice picture: https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/dangerous-liais...
yeah and we don't want them having a surveillance tool over a huge part of our domestic internet
The Raw Truth About Self-Publishing My First Technical Book
Probably were prayer beads or something. Still 'bling' I guess.
This was actually a not uncommon approach to implementing loops in earliest mainfraims.
Favorite comment today, thank you sir/maam
"Raising ethical concerns". Journalism reamins screwed. They feel the need to treat Trump like they might have treated earlier men that mostly had honor. No one will be effective following up on his profiteering from his policies.
Actually it does, have a look at cronnext
they're not banning any media or expression though so its a non-issue
> What is freedom, anyway?

It's a question of freedom for whom and freedom from what.
I wonder if part of the new move to ban social media sites is because it's more effective because there's less of an open web and presumably government agencies have gotten the hang of hindering emerging sites and social media they don't like.

Ie through state sanctioned ddos and bot swarms
There is a statement from India’s information technology ministry, after 20 Indian soldiers died during border skirmish with China. When India banned TikTok in 2020 [0]

> Chinese mobile apps were stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users’ data.

> The compilation of such data, and its mining and profiling by elements hostile to India is a matter of very deep and immediate concern which requires emergency measures

[0] https://apnews.com/article/bd02ecd62ff9da6b1301868f0308e297
Wow I did not read this preface in high school when we did Animal Farm. Say it ain’t so Mr Kramer.
analogy completely misses the point which is that there is no impact on what anyone is allowed to say