skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In summary the Us government should spend its time improving the lives of Americans, and not find better ways to lie them about the quality of their lives.
I have no issue with American companies trying to change American policies.
I cant say what they are trying to do, but it will get done faster
I don't think it's about one ideology over the other. It's about extremism of any sort that threatens to become violent. I'm not justifying or excusing it, but in my limited experience it's mostly about the bureaucratic justification of continued funding. Then the nuance becomes: 'Are these extremist movements genuine speech, or a function of foreign interference' and more often than not, it's both.

(I have no idea why the parent comment was flagged, would love an explanation for it though)
> "(A) a path to executing a qualified divestiture has been identified with respect to such application;

> There is no evidence that Trump will be able to lawfully do any of those once he becomes president,

He can buy or be gifted a partial ownership stake?
Why Twitter is such a big deal (2009)
In practice, US social networks usually promote content that is aligned with US cultural values and geopolitical interests. Whether this is because the government is actively leaning on them or just because being run by Americans colors them with those values, I don’t know. But the fact is, it’s not a coincidence that TikTok is the main place pro-Palestinian content was allowed to go viral, and it’s likely that changing owners would change the content on TikTok even if the law doesn’t actually require it to do so.
> So I've countered your two anecdotes with two anecdotes of my own. Can we go back to looking at what people studying bees have written?

No? You claimed that bees stinging meat cannot survive. Your anecdotes do nothing to support that. Decide what you want to say, then look for support. Where do you get the idea that two examples of something happening provide just as much support for the idea that it always happens as four examples of it not happening do for the idea that it doesn't always happen?

But for what it's worth, Aristotle wrote in the 4th century BC that bees stinging humans often recover, but that they will inevitably die if they lose their stinger.
There was no legal requirement they block service at all, only that other companies stop doing business with them (i.e. App Stores stop distributing, etc.)
I've used matrix a lot and this doesn't sound normal.
Woah, two weeks ago, I just randomly boondocked a few miles directly south from there.
I believe that identity and identity attestations must be well-separated concepts. I am myself (identity), a government had issued me a passport for $name (attestation), and my friends know me as $nickname (another attestation), etc etc.

Third party attestations/endorsements can be based on any conditions, such as payments, behaviors, or whatever - that's up to third parties to decide. But those mustn't be my identity (because that way my identity becomes something a third party controls, and that's not how things are), they must only refer to it.

It's basically Web-of-Trust again (and I realize any attempts to build a digital one had failed so far)
> Now real estate has inflated so much that boomers are the wealthiest cohort [...]

That currently should also serve as a lesson for Western governments.

Real Estate price in Japan have been decreasing for decades almost everywhere excepted Tokyo.

The reason are multiple but the main one is also the declining population: Why would you pay more when there is so many empty houses ?

That removed any hope for many elderlies to capitalize on their properties for their retirement.
I’m not arguing it’s a restriction on TikTok’s speech or bytedance’s speech.

It’s a restriction on my speech. Telling me where I can publish a video? Telling me what apps I can download? Telling my software vendor what software they’re allowed to let me get? Telling internet providers what servers they’re allowed to let my device access?

The law doesn’t fine TikTok. The law fines the people who let me download an application I’ve chosen to use. At $5,000 per instance.

It’s not about TikTok’s rights being violated. It’s about mine, and yours.
The relevant part of the pop-up:

> We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office.

Additionally, an extract from TikTok's later statement [1]:

> In agreement with our service providers, TikTok is in the process of restoring service. We thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers that they will face no penalties providing TikTok to over 170 million Americans and allowing over 7 million small businesses to thrive.

What the fuck? That's some incredible bootlicking by TikTok. They've done a great job making Biden seem like the bad guy for banning TikTok, while Trump saves the day by rescuing them. This is especially ironic considering Trump was the one who wanted to introduce the ban in the first place until he gained 15M followers on the platform.

[1] https://xcancel.com/TikTokPolicy/status/1881030712188346459
I think people are not quite ready for the level of klept we’re about to see.
Why is there no conclusion?
> Is this really so different from IO everywhere in Haskell?

It's a starting point. You'll have to somehow chain (e.g. you want to print "def" after "abc", how would you do that?). You'll also need to put a value into your IO, e.g. if you are inside that IO, all the computations will need to produce IO. If you solve those things, you'll have a Monad.

But, wait! You're in JS, right? You have IO Monads there, perhaps only don't know yet. They are the JS Promises! Look this:

// assuming that you have a sync input function, that receives
a string from stdin and returns it

let input_str = new Promise((resolve, reject) => resolve(input());

let input_int = input_str.then(s => parseInt(s));

let square = input_int.then(n => n * n);

square.then(sq => console.log(sq));

If you want to proceed with your poor man's IO, you'll need to implement your "then". Going further, the equivalent in Haskell (not the best code, though) to that is:

main = result

where input_str = getLine

input_int = input_str >>= \s -> return (read s) :: IO Int

square = input_int >>= \n -> return (n * n)

result = square >>= \sq -> putStrLn (show sq)

Ok, but Haskell has a syntax for cleaning that, called do notation:

main = do

input_str <- getLine

let input_int = read input_str :: Int

let square = input_int * input_int

putStrLn (show square)

And JS? JS has also its syntax, using await. Just like Haskell that it only works inside the do notation, in JS it will only work inside async functions:

let input_str = await new Promise((resolve, reject) => resolve(input()));

let input_int = parseInt(input_str);

let square = input_int * input_int;

console.log(square);
I think focussing on the micro is also a distraction here. An individuals data has almost no marginal value. But if you aggregate everyone's data then it does become valuable. This is why the whole 'just pay me for my data' argument never works.

By extension focussing on the negative impact on an individual is very small, but the overall impact on society and culture is massive (which in turn impacts individuals).

Taking that a step further I think you can argue there is some tragedy of the commons occurring which indicates govt. regulation should exist. Govt regulating media is tough, but as the US showing here, a rule getting rid of foreign actors might be a good idea for many countries.
Maybe we should go farther. Should Samsung divest because so many Americans have a Samsung Galaxy?

Who knows what could be on those chips.
Besides, China doesn't mind propping Trump as they correctly see him as a simpleton who is going to delay USA development by a decade.
Congress looking towards an enforcement while the President trying to make a deal. It is going to be interesting how this plays out.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/speaker-johnson-2-...
I've said for awhile that Pandoc is one of the very few Haskell programs that isn't exclusively used by Haskell programmers.

There are plenty of interesting Haskell programs (e.g. Xmonad, Darcs), but a lot of people explicitly use them because they're Haskell.

Pandoc, on the other hand, is useful to pretty much anyone who has ever needed to convert documents. It's one of the first things I install on most computers.
> the laws in China prevent a sale

First I've heard of this.

The conflicting legal obligations remind me of the Microsoft "safe harbour" case, which is becoming a lot more relevant and still isn't really adequately resolved.
I keep seeing this type of comment here, like a sell is the obvious thing to do. Why? Selling / divesting TikTok US under these circumstances would surely not fetch the best price. In addition they would immediately create a global competitor that have the same product. Why would ByteDance the company or its investors want that?
There is always off screen stuff that pushes the participants toward acting a certain way. This holds true for nearly all reality TV shows
12 year olds having mood swings because their digital crack was banned for half a day. God help us all.
Except...

>In what is perhaps the greatest irony ever, the operators of RedNote (known as Xiaohongshu) have decided to "wall off" US TikTok refugees fleeing to its service as the TikTok ban looms. The reason? The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wants to prevent American influence from spreading to Chinese citizens... Many Chinese users are not happy with the influx as having "ruined" their ability to connect with "Chinese culture, Chinese values and Chinese news."

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/17/2146214/rednote-may...
The two feeds on Bluesky are "Following" (only posts by people you follow show up) and "Discover" (largely dominated by posts by people you don't follow). There are two huge tabs at the top of your feed to switch between them.

If you are following 0 people, the "Following" feed acts similar to the "Discover" feed. As soon as you follow a single person, it works as you'd expect (only showing content from people you've followed).
ByteDance has been rather vocal that they aren't interested in divesting like that. He could be, there is no evidence he will be, and it's not something he can cause to happen.
You should write Cliff's notes for the Odyssey. What an epic summary.
> It's only once humans started domesticating honey bees that the interaction between honey bees and mammals has become a frequent occurrence.

This can't possibly be true; the honeyguides are a family of birds whose evolved behavior is to find humans and lead them to wild beehives so that the humans can forage the honey (and the honeyguide can forage the leftovers).
He’s now publicly a huge hero for saving TikTok and everyone forgot he was the one that wanted it banned in the first place. Fabricating new problems so he can solve them “heroically” is the basic MO of any narcissist or authoritarian despot- and is worth a lot more to him than any under the table cash.

Expect a lot more “big wins” in the coming weeks- where he solves problems to massive fanfare that never existed or that he created- with empty “solutions” that also didn’t really happen or take no effort.
That quote was about making the state stronger and able to demand more from citizends.
B is bytes. b is bits.
Different outcome if Harris wins the election though.

Is it possible that TikTok solved their problem by purchasing $6 billion worth of Trump’s meme coin?
No, the engine can spin without the wheels spinning. Then MG1 gets spun and charges the battery (or spins freely if the battery is full).

This page has a neat PSD simulation to help grok what happens:

http://eahart.com/prius/psd/

I think it only works from a computer though!
Read my second paragraph. Money is obviously just an example.

You said TikTok content stays friendly to trump. Isn’t that exactly what I said?: Some deal was cut.
> Their preference to shut down instead of receiving tens of billions of dollars would be a clear violation of a company’s fiduciary duty to shareholders for any normal company.

It is not. A company would be (financially) punished if it didn't follow regulations. DiDi was an example.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/23/investing/didi-us-delisti...
I find having a trackpoint to be advantageous in situations like sitting in economy airline seats where room to move your arms or position your wrist for using a trackpad comfortably can be awkward, even with MacBook-class trackpads. I don’t like having trackpad sensitivity ramped up super high though so maybe that’s part of the issue.
Not free speech. Amplification of speech and to an extent freedom of association. Speech is not being criminalized -- you can say the exact same things on a different forum. And the entity being constrained is a foreign actor [edit] with likely state security apparatus ties.
Completely unrelated but here’s the Wikipedia for an interesting book called The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Image:_A_Guide_to_Pseudo...
In Bulldozer, two cores shared a single Floating Point Unit. A bet was made made that majority calculations will be done in integers. Unfortunately, actual world requires decimal places, and languages like Javascript only have floating point numbers. Bulldozer flopped hard.
Many American civil liberties organizations think that the the ban is a free speech issue:

https://action.aclu.org/send-message/tell-congress-no-tiktok...

https://www.thefire.org/news/fire-scotus-tiktok-ban-violates...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/eff-statement-us-supre...

It seems to me that they aren't "pretending" they honestly believe the issue is about free speech. Laws that does not explicitly curtail free speech but effectively still does just that can certainly be created.
Nobody prevents you from running your own TikTok locally.
Civil rights aren't a zero-sum game. America must lead by example by not silencing 170 million people because of some "intelligence" that's likely less reputable than Saddam having WMDs or the Marty Rimm report.
FWIW, it was at least year in the making, but I will admit that the execution did add a proper show vibe.. as would be expected from a reality show star.
No, but it went in the right direction. Unlike everything else with the economy as of late (if you don't have the spare money to gamble in stocks.
Would those be shills for the Chinese or US government you’re referring to?
The law always allowed for divesting to US owners. It didn't specify who.
Take this as an opportunity to teach them about why they shouldn't trust politicians. Make sure you tell them about Trump being the original supporter of the ban https://www.npr.org/2020/08/06/900019185/trump-signs-executi...
"Apple silicon has Jira coprocessor" time to retire to the country and raise chickens.
It's almost like you've never been to a school or post office in the US.

I mean, I get that the "pledge of allegiance", "the Texas History curriculum", and the "POW/MIA" flags aren't "propaganda", they are just "completely normal things that any country does to maintain a cohesive citizenry".
He can just buy a sufficient stake to count as a "divestiture" under the law.
In my opinion the Ai and absorbing all knowledge part of Google was Larry Page after his health scare his focus and priorities changed about actually living his life not Google. I think he had also realized what was happening with Google and so wanted Alphabet as an umbrella organisation but in the end he gave it up and let be run as a normal company.
“lessthan three” ;-)

Thanks again.
Tumblr also has this?

(Not counting the ads and specifically-paid-to-be-promoted posts, but those are clearly marked, and I’m pretty sure twitter has as many in-line ads)
Why would someone copycat amazonbot?
Personally, I am more concerned about people pretend it is not.
Chinese government has a golden shares deal with Bytedance granting their 1% ownership the ability to nominate a board seat.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/tiktok-ban-b...
Gitea and Forgejo support OAuth integration and AGit Flow*, which is a breath of fresh air compared to the connected "fork" and PR strategies. It's a good middle ground between the "modern" method and email collaboration. With some UX tweaks it could become very accessible for many.

Available platforms like Codeberg provide the option to sign in/register with GitHub and GitLab auth, so needing "yet another account" has become a much weaker argument.

* https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/agit-support/
I've never understood that quote. Is it ok to give up essential liberty to gain a large, permanent safety? If so, how large and how permanent does it have to be to qualify?

I'm also a little unclear on which liberties are essential, versus those that are merely nice to have. We all give up the liberty of driving on the wrong side of the road, and nobody seems to mind.
In this model, users are the consumers and therefore aren't under consideration for malfeasance by suppliers.
This is an empathizing take. You need a good deal of education and free time (i.e., money) to be able to make good choices in every field.
There was some sort of financial system. Evidence for this is a large lead "whiteboard" in the museum in Rome that records a bunch of mortgages.
They are much different. Democrats are corporate slow and risk averse. Republicans are insane, aggressive and seeking as much destruction as possible.
The NSW government and the planned public psychiatrist exodus
Is there a client/version compatibility matrix or something. That missing MEP problem sounds tricky... Won't clients/peers check to make sure the server supports the MEP before making use ofnit?
The questions in the message I responded to were:

> offensive to the notion of free speech

And, something about New Law (vs Policy enforcement by administrator of agencies or political elected leadership positions), to prevent damage from speech .. via Facebook.

I wanted to fast-forward past this second question, as I think it's a red herring here -- Facebook Management and their operation in the USA is not legally beholden to the government of China. Tiktok is, so it's different. So I rejected the second question.

Then back to the first, the notion of free speech and taking offense. I recognize free speech is not total, as I understand my rights here in the USA. And I see corporations as existing Only by sanction of government. Therefore the authority still rests within the State to moderate corporate behavior.

Tah dah .. that's why I think it's the correct point.

What am I overlooking?

Then, the hypothetical (?) about Oracle and Germany, yes. If your company reasonably can expect to be seen to be working with a partner, that's offering services similar to Oracle, and which is legally obligated to the worldwide operation constraints of an enemy of the state of your company's incorporation (USA), like China, then yes.
I mostly agree, but nothing is worth more to Trump than cash.
Democrats decided they did not like the results of the “anyone can talk to anyone” social media revolution.

I think they should have tried to adapt, they decided to focus their efforts on putting the genie back in the bottle.

Technological progress has made us more affluent and better off. My father grew up in Europe and his family couldn’t even afford shoes for him or education past the third grade. I am wholly uninterested in anti-tech politics or a politics of stagnancy as seems popular in Europe. Democrats need to stop looking to Europe for inspiration and become the party of abundance, redistribution, and human capital investment. How can we make everyone better off, rather than focusing our energies on finding the next bogeyman to blame.
The article explicitly mentions UTC all over the place. It's UTC.
With enough of the proper training the fnords are invisible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord
Plus Trump got all major social media in his pocket.
You make it sound as though you're forced to take nationalized health care.

"Almost all European countries have healthcare available for all citizens. '''Most European countries have systems of competing private health insurance companies''', along with government regulation and subsidies for citizens who cannot afford health insurance premiums."

They are probably more expensive than the government plans, but same is true in reverse in the US. One helps the poor more, and makes sure those who can afford still have an option, the other makes those with good jobs, and get paid well having good care, and costing the poor who can least afford it, far more in terms of their capacity to pay. You're just wrong on this, and trying to be cute with boolean logic is ... "cute".
I do not claim anyone my enemy, for I am not an American at all. I do, however, see the situation for what it is; the USA and China are political superpowers with opposing interest. Pretending like the world is a peaceful place is just a fantasy. Hence, you can’t just ignore a communication tool used by half the population in your strategic considerations. That is not racism, it’s not fascism, its pragmatism in the face of something very powerful that could well be abused.
You could even think somebody is definitely guilty beyond any doubt and still acquit them if you think it’s the right outcome.
Are ship locations classified? I doubt China has difficulty keeping track. They have satellites too.
What's the Short Timeline Plan?
That 1% golden share is in Douyin, the Chinese subsidiary of ByteDance, not ByteDance or Tiktok.
We do at Grafana - it's mostly all public so you can go look at the mess of trying to run jira boards for however many teams out of one repo https://github.com/orgs/grafana/projects. It's a mixed bag, but Github's been building out Issues and Projects a lot in the last few years that's really improved things.
Trump should launch a Tiktok clone on Truth Social in 90 days when the reprieve expires. I'm surprised there wasn't a new platform ready to pounce on new users. Absolutely nuts that one of the biggest refugee destinations is literally named after a Mao-era propaganda tool.

But in all seriousness, there's 3 branches of government and 2 of spoken. Trump's voice should be moot. Hopefully he's put in his place by our institutions and shamed for attempting to subvert the system of checks and balances described by our constitution.
You can again where I am. Have you checked recently?

They voluntarily took it down, and now brought back up. If it remains gone from the app stores, I imagine they will eventually take it down again.

The text of the law is something you can look up yourself, we don't have to argue about it!

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521...
Exactly this. Trump is consolidating all of the propaganda distribution systems. Play ball and your distribution system is safe.
Have a look at the golden shares part of that, 1% gets you a lot.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/tiktok-ban-b...
Somebody purchased $6 billion of Trump’s meme coin.
Lenovo keyboard case for iPad Pro would be a starting point.
"First Team" Principle: Leaders' loyalty to their peers over their reports
and is relevant for more than original intent.

censorship, and similar constraints on free speech, just hide the problems of society so you are unable to act on possible threats as a policymaker.
and every e-mail, and every document in google docs, and every video on youtube ...
Funny, but I remember the difference between `>>=` and `>>` even though I haven't written Haskell in a couple of years.
`>>=` passes to the right the value coming from the left, while `>>` drops it.

To give an example, you use `>>=` after `readFile` to do something with the contents.
You use `>>` after `putStrLn` since `putStrLn` doesn't return a meaningful value.