skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they are really blocking even with VPN, i was just testing stuff out.
1 - if you created an account in US and trying to login with that account, then it wont work.
2 - tried logging in to Canada VPN, and create a "Canadian" account so i can login to tiktok, no joy, it somehow throws errors on debugger and does not proceed on sign up button.
3 - Booted up an AWS ec2 free windows tier machine on Canada region, created and logged in with a new account no issues.
4 - if you try to use that account on your machine with canada vpn, you will get suspicious activity alert then it wont let you login even with canada VPN, so they must tracking device location differently.
5 - So, the only way to access it without any issues is by using some virtual machine located in another region - no VPN, maybe a dedicated region IP might work.
I'm going to quote a CBS News article here because I don't feel Congress' arguments in favor of banning TikTok are being well represented. You can agree with them or disagree with them but everyone should at least understand them accurately.

TLDR TikTok is not comparable to the other services you mentioned because ByteDance is required to comply with Chinese intelligence, and China has made many public statements in recent years to the effect that it is a hostile, rival power to the United States. Allowing ByteDance to operate TikTok is granting a hostile government a tool to influence US public opinion as well as to track the locations and text messages of 170 million American citizens. Congress gave ByteDance the option to divest control so that they could get paid and TikTok could continue to operate, ByteDance refused.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-is-tiktok-being-banned-supr...

Why did Congress want to ban TikTok?

U.S. officials have repeatedly warned that TikTok threatens national security because the Chinese government could use it as a vehicle to spy on Americans or covertly influence the U.S. public by amplifying or suppressing certain content.

The concern is warranted, they said, because Chinese national security laws require organizations to cooperate with intelligence gathering. FBI Director Christopher Wray told House Intelligence Committee members last year that the Chinese government could compromise Americans' devices through the software.

As the House took up the divest-or-ban law in April 2024, Rep. Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican, compared it to a "spy balloon in Americans' phones." Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, said that lawmakers learned in classified briefings "how rivers of data are being collected and shared in ways that are not well-aligned with American security interests."

"Why is it a security threat?" Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri said Friday. "If you have TikTok on your phone currently, it can track your whereabouts, it can read your text messages, it can track your keystrokes. It has access to your phone records."

If the Chinese government gets its hands on that information, "it's not just a national security threat, it's a personal security threat," Hawley said.
Major Cybersecurity Executive Order Announced
You've got nonlinear things happening?
I got the impression from Christine Webber that the Blue sky protocol could not practically be federated, there's a bottleneck (relays iirc) that can only be properly implemented with huge resources, and which scales quadratically

https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/
Trump will reverse it by letting one of his donors buy TikTok and restart it. It's better off dead.
Hallelujah but the damage to society has already been done. Instagram next maybe?
Let's compare everything presented there with just one day of Russian war in Ukraine and we can forget about all CO hesitations in our normal lives.
Who’s to say it’s too much? I enjoy it.

I’m over 1/2-way thru my life. I think I know what I like doing with my time by this point.
Yeah agree completely.

Opinions on Reddit and HN are almost always from the 5% most engaged, most online of any subgroup. These are not regular people. Is every software developer you know represented by the opinions that get upvoted on HN? Thankfully, no. Similarly the kind of people posting to /r/tiktok aren’t your regular TikTok user by a long shot.
You think Zuckerberg paid off the Supreme Court? You’ve got to be joking.

Even Trump, who we know Zuckerberg had donated to, claims he will try to “bring back TikTok”.

This case was argued and won on the basis of national data security.
Apple and Google created individual APIs to serve up phone number, contacts, exact location, device model, time zone, clipboard data, photos, files, and cookies to 10 million different random app developers to harvest to their heart's delight. US government passes law against just one of them for using said APIs. Are they going to fix the root of the issue, or just play whack-a-mole forever?
4B was pretty limited in South Korea according to Wikipedia and anecdotally the same appears to be true in US. Anecdotally I see it shared mostly by women who are dating or actively in relationships.
Facebook does not sell data. They sell ad targeting. Selling the data would kill the ad revenue stream and kill the business.
how can the US government just ban an app? has this ever happened before in US history? what gives the government the right to tell US citizens what apps they can and can't use? this is some North Korea tier behavior you expect to see from authoritarian governments panicking when they lose control over the narrative
Because men and women have different interests. Even if you think that socialization is the cause, the law mandates that all applicants are treated equally with respect to gender. If gender discrimination is carried out in pursuit of a 50/50 gender split, that does not make it legal.

> Does one feel as if they would face an uphill battle trying to get hired in a field that is 80% their other?

What people feel is hard to quantify. But what we can quantify is the call back rates of male and female applicants. Tech companies are more likely to call back women: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3672484

HN discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25069644
> Allowing ByteDance to operate TikTok is granting a hostile government a tool to influence US public opinion

I have always and will always say that the government does not have the sole right to influence me as a US citizen, and it is my right to slurp up "influence" from whoever and wherever I want to. The idea that Americans are too stupid to ingest whatever information is out there (edited or unedited, curated or not, propaganda or not) for the sake of democracy is a threat to the very idea of democracy itself.

The very fact that this argument has gained traction is the worst outcome of this entire debacle. I never ever ever thought I'd see Americans cheering that the government should limit the ability of their own fellow citizens to access information, and here we are.
Thanks! It is also critical to balance zinc with copper, and supplementing a lot of zinc without copper can effectively cause copper deficiency, which is very serious.
Examples of quick hash tables and dynamic arrays in C
That may be, but nothing is going to save Polymarket bettors this time.
Core wise Intel had the advantage until the last generation or two. The same can be true for gpus, just add a ton more memory and watch them fly off the shelves.
> It's hard to say if it would've run into the same issues. For one, it would've been easier to port native GCs...

WASM GC isn't just about memory management for the WASM world; it's about managing references (including cyclical refs!) which cross the boundary into the non-WASM world. Being able to write a GC within the WASM (or NaCl) world doesn't get you that functionality.
It's more like "environmental," eg food deserts, and advertising.
Did they ever show the proof of spying to the American public?
Cloth / Hair physics in those games were graphics-only physics.

They could collide with any mesh that was inside of the GPU's memory. But those calculations cannot work on any information stored on CPU RAM. Well... not efficiently anyway.

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When the Cloth simulator in Blender runs, it generates all kinds of information the CPU needs for other steps. In effect, Blender's cloth physics serves as an input to animation frames, which is all CPU-side information.

Again: i know cloth physics executes on GPUs very well in isolation. But I'd be surprised if BLENDER's specific cloth physics would ever be efficient on a GPU. Because as it turns out, calculations kind of don't matter in the big-picture. There's a lot of other things you need to do after those calculations (animations, key frames, and other such interactions). And if all that information is stored randomly in 100GB of CPU RAM, it'd be very hard to untangle that data and get it to a GPU (and back).

In a Video Game PHYSX setting, you just display the cloth physics to the screen. In Blender, a 3d animation program, you have to do a lot more with all that information and touch many other data-structures.

PCIe is very slow compared to RAM.
We should offer a prize for the first person who finds an innocuous input that leads to the model responding with an unintended malicious response.

I think it's funny that 1990's sci-fi movies about AI always showed that two of the most ridiculous things people in the future could do were:

- give your powerful AI access to the Internet

- allow your powerful AI to write and run its own code

And yet here we are. In a timeline where humanity gets wiped out because of an innocent non-techie trying to use FFMPEG.

Somebody is watching us and throwing popcorn at their screen right now!
It is just an app and this ban was going to happen and TikTok had years to prepare for it and change. Another app will take its place.

This is the perfect time for Twitter / X to relaunch Vine again.

> Rather than have some sort of further regulation for what data any application can collect and present to Americans, we've just brought the hammer down on the millions of people that use this application for their livelihood.

That's why we have our existing regulators to issue fines against Meta, Google (YouTube), X, Snap, etc when they violate their user's data in the billions.

> Truly bleak.

Life in India appears to be functioning well after their TikTok ban with its 1BN users so even if this is temporary, it is not the end of the world.

This is a chance for TikTok users in the US to reflect on their addictions and hopefully change for the better. There is life after TikTok.
Grindr was forcibly divested, so yes, it has happened
> I'm afraid (though unsure how realistic my fear is) that a enough GenZ and anti-Gaza voters will flip to Trump if Trump keeps TikTok going that the Democrats won't be able to win in the midterms.

There are about 10 million news cycles between now and the midterms, highly unlikely anyone will remember any of this by then.

Gen Z voters are also young, and young people never vote.
None of those arguments are the salient one, which is that a geopolitical adversary has control over a major influence vector on US public opinion. They could simply have divested.
The owners of the website are the ones doing the displaying.

Again, the "bar that refuses to card anyone" analogy happens here.
Well, in India people are used to authoritarian government banning random online stuff. Or shutting the entire Internet down for days

This is the first largely used anything online the government has banned, and I'm personally still upset it even got this far. The internet was supposed to be free speech incarnate, and banning apps and websites for Americans on it, isn't something I honestly thought I'd ever see
I'm sure there's case law all over the place, but effectively the Surpreme Court unanimously decided that the US definitely has a right to protect itself from foreign influence. This is diplomacy.

And for anyone living in North Korea who ever has a chance to read your comment, I'm sorry, this person has no idea what it means to live in a police state under a belligerent dictator.
I think he did her dirty. Don't think he is where he is today without her being by his side back then. She was and remains a fantastic operator.
>> having Russian operations have as big as an impact as they have had on TikTok in e.g. Eastern Europe

I suppose you refer to this: https://theconversation.com/why-romanias-election-was-annull...

"The Romanian constitutional court annulled the country’s presidential election on December 6.

This decision is unprecedented in Romanian history. It followed the declassification of documents by Romanian intelligence services that exposed evidence of voting manipulation through social media platforms, illegal campaign financing on TikTok, cyber-attacks orchestrated by external forces and suspected Russian interference."
I think Mastodon lost the herd trust when it pivoted away from global federation and made confession of allegiance a firm requirement. They killed the canary and people left.
This is silly. It's like a TV channel going off the air. People who need to advertise will use other available channels (Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky, Reddit, etc.) instead.
Would blender benefit from the bits of AVX-512 other than the width? I would think the approximate sqrt instructions might be useful.
This is a very accurate take, to consider Canada a country when their own prime minister refers to it as a post nation state (ie. Internal economic zone) and nothing more says it all. I would suggest the reason for the high suicide rates seen in the west is connected to this transition.
Why is it my responsibility to piss into the wind because these billionaire companies keep getting to break the law with impunity?
The update cycle for root trust programs is extremely long, especially if you care about anything older than the newest, most consistently up-to-date systems. So it's a "now" issue, insofar as it won't be a problem for at least another decade.
Does it leave money on the table? Genuine question...

Would traditional media have been able to produce Squid Games? I remember Disney suddenly falling over themselves to "Me Too" that they did the Korean thing too.

I can see for certain things like sports where there's big money, but still seems like having "Domestic" oriented distribution management leaves money on the table. When you can broadcast to the entire planet what new opportunities can you get, will they offset what you give up under the old model
It’s funny watching this TikTok ban unfold. Trump went hell on Earth against TikTok before he lost to Biden. Biden got what he wanted done, but now Trump is back and seems to have a special "warm" spot for TikTok.

Every politician flip-flops, but Trump is something else.
YouTube does this for me relatively frequently.
I just remembered your article on the standard cells of Pentium and there you noted bicmos was used by some gates for a reduction in propagation delay in some instances. Were any of the gates in the adder structures bicmos?
Most people seem to want to do these models because of “compassion” and whatever else.

Why not just not be greedy af?

Is it really that hard to not raise VC, bootstrap, pay a fair salary, and then give bonuses?

You’d probably get a lot more done as the benevolent dictator (you’re the CEO) and ensure that while you run the business you’re doing something “nice”.

Even if you take VC money you really aren’t fucking anyone over. People join your company voluntarily. You take the biggest risk as the founder early on. Employees stand to make 1x to 50x on their options depending on when they joined and if you’re successful.

Even if you’re not, at least you paid them and it was all voluntary.

Let me know if I’ve totally missed the point. From my pov all this co op stuff is just noise and only works for something like a consultancy.
But that's not the point. There's nothing inherently special about Facebook either. But the disruption is expensive and many would argue unnecessary.
Damn, thanks for your insights. I recently discovered how much better I sleep when fasting. During my fasts I'm taking precise amounts of electrolytes (sodium, magnesium, potassium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_rehydration_therapy). Being off my fasts I'm getting sloppy with my electrolytes intake and here we are: I'm getting the same symptoms you describe. Not severely, but noticeably.

Now I need to find a proper supplement in Germany. Most electrolytes that also have the recommended amounts of glucose contain artificial sweetener which is a big no-go for daily usage for me.
If C went away, we would have to switch to ++ or #
Strangely, Meta doesn't allow Reels longer than 3 minutes (90 seconds prior to a couple days ago). Why they don't match TikTok exactly is beyond me.
I wind up in jail for ten years if I download an episode of iCarly; Sam Altman inhales every last byte on the internet and gets a ticker tape parade. Make it make sense.
Indian users are very well versed in and used to circumventing government bans. It's a different audience
Similar here at a big company that placed a lot of emphasis on opsec. It worked.
It doesn’t pass the smell test. I think it’s clear from personal experience that some people I meet are just “smarter” than others. They do better at a wide range of intellectual activities. I don’t know if “IQ” is the best measurement of that but it’s clearly true that some concept of general intelligence is real.

A lot of the arguments here are silly. For example IQ has only a moderate correlation with income. Well yes, there are many other important skills for being successful and intelligence is just one of them. It doesn’t mean all else being equal I wouldn’t rather have a higher IQ.
What.... what do you think GDP is? You seem very confused.
Democrats getting trounced by Trump/Republican Party is one of the most embarrassing things to ever happen to the Democratic Party and that is saying something.

If they lose (again) it won’t be because of TikTok. No place left to look but in the mirror.
> Together, we re–developed the data format and domain logic to fit both the ergonomics of existing research tools and to allow for easy analysis.

That is some weapons grade marketing speak.

The rest of the article is relatively interesting once they get to their use of Datomic/Datalog but it was really hard to get past that BS.
AVX512 is one of the best instruction sets I've seen. No joke.

There's all kinds of things AVX512 would help out in Blender. But those ways are incompatible with older AVX2 or SSE code. The question is if Blender will be willing to support SSE, AVX, and AVX512 code paths. Each new codepath is more maintenance and more effort.

AVX512 has more registers: not just 32x 512-bit registers (AVX normally has 16x 256-bit registers), but also the kmask registers (64-bits that take the place of old boolean logic that used to be done on the 256-bit registers). This alone should give far more optimizations for the compiler to automatically find.

There's also VPCOMPRESSB and VPEXPANDB, Conflict-detection, and other instructions that make new SIMD data-structures far more efficient to implement. But this requires deep understanding that very few programmers have yet.
The Kalman Filter is a topic in the more general

David G.\ Luenberger,
{\it Optimization by Vector Space Methods,\/}
John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1969.\ \
I agree. It's mind-boggling their reluctance to be a TikTok alternative, especially with knowing about the ban so far in advance
What do people regret the most when they retire
I'd argue if you're looking to achieve DEI goals in the short-term rather than over decades, you're going to fail because the backlash and other consequences will destroy any progress you think you made. And I think that's what we're seeing. You can work towards DEI goals without achieving them in the short-term and still look to make good changes over the long run. But it requires a systems view of everything, including helping kids from various backgrounds to get access to the education they need and then helping them to be in an environment where they can actually successfully learn stuff. That's a multi-generational multi-decade problem, not a corporate fiscal year problem.
Over 60% of the U.S. population don't have college degrees, but you obviously wouldn't expect Facebook's hiring to be proportional to that. The demographics of CS graduates is much closer to what you'd expect the hiring percentages to reflect (and they do)
People want politicians to say they will do something something, but have nothing ever change. And then they punish politicians who change anything at all.
That is an unworkable solution considering most of the people here are employed by these companies.
Is "does this need to be saved?" Include email chains or topics to monitor if they "go/turn the right way"
For me there is a category like "monitor for a while". I'm copied in on an email chain and I only need to step in if others don't provide the correct information.
What is the incentive to do that, given the costly barrier to entry in both developer time and computing resources?
Genuinely glad to hear it. I almost always get something I’ve already seen before when I let it auto-play.
Oh, police will happily enforce IP law, if the MPAA or RIAA want them to. You only get a pass if you're a thought leader.
Not a bad thing to learn some conservative/libertarian values too.
Going by the spying argument, every US social media company should be banned elsewhere because all data is siphoned by US gov.
I would be happy if all social media was wiped out tomorrow. The eagerness of advertisers to throw money at these platforms frankly sickens me. So many of the internet's current ills originate in how social media platforms operate.

I don't give two shits how many leads these platforms drive, just like I don't care how many farmers the tobacco industry employs.
It's already useless, and companies seem to be doubling down.
There's nothing special about being an app.

And the right comes from their Constitutional power to regulate foreign commerce. The US has banned American companies from doing business with various foreign entities for a while, though it really picked up after 1990.
I’ve had the “discussion” about hour-25 vs rolling over to hour-0 before, but in a video timecode sense. Hour-25 does not exist in timecode, so hour-25 is just wrong in that sense. I’ve seen some very strange things that happen when it rolls over in the middle of a video clip.
Luckily they don't, the first amendment is very strong, they just say the PRC cannot control social apps in the US.
Yeah, no… Bluesky is the best potential alternative.

It’s worth knowing I don’t go seeking new music on TikTok. Music that resonated with me was brought to me while looking for other things.

Topics which I found interesting lead me to books by new authors I didn’t know were authors on topics I didn’t know I wanted to read about. I’m not even much of an avid reader
Was that happening or was it just something we were worried about? Maybe we could have just banned it when there was evidence it was actually occuring?
Of your primary interests in life where would you rank ESPN+? Now multiply that by $12 to get an overall impact since presumably you would be willing to pay at least as much for things you value more highly.

This is why "just" $x per month is, in general, not a sustainable model for most things for most people and why 'piracy' is booming again.
The game is the game
No, we don't. Most of the people affected end up just moving on. It's only a few rare instances where someone has enough of an audience to 'put them on blast'.