skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which principles are we talking about?

If everyone under the age of 30 was using an app run by Nazi Germany would you be okay with that?

Propaganda is a weapon and no principle says that you should let an enemy army into your country.
Are you seriously asking why the guy who owns a social media platform and is heavily endorsed by another only needed to spend half of the others "campaign finance" budget? Not to mention all the other money and propaganda that's off the books.
Not the Firefly petunia. They were engineered to not grow from a seed so they don't accidentally spread
yeah can’t get too many people working on the same thing or creating value, that’d be bad and we’d have to destroy it
However, these rights should be guaranteed to a company operating in the USA and strictly adhering to US law. Of course, if the law is (arbitrarily) changed to make this illegal due to the Chinese government's stake, then it could be forced to shut down, but that would be inconsistent with the constitution.
Pointless Pace Killers
Is it really useful and handy? Never had Lenovo stuff.
Worse, it’s an attempt to get us to agree that humans only do things for profit, in order to advance an ideology and make our thought more malleable when an author turns around and starts writing about public policy and ethics applied to things that actually are about profit.

At least that’s what is going on when the schools of “thought” this kind of stuff comes from attempt it. This particular poster might not be. But usually it’s a cheap rhetorical trick, coming from folks who present themselves as simply following logic. Gross.
It's not quite the same. The EU has banned those companies from supplying network infrastructure. That infrastructure is used both by private individuals and by companies, ministers etc. AFAIK they have also banned TikTok on official government phones. However they have not generally banned TikTok for everyone.

To me this makes more sense since a back door in network infrastructure allowing governement communications to be intercepted is far more serious than some kid using TikTok.
As a European, I think it makes sense to ban it. The threat is not the same from American companies.
As a layman who has held to deal with the law on more than one occasion in the US, I would say forcing you to divest or shutdown is a punishment; ie, something a court usually tells you to do when you commit fraud, not a congressman. I'm 99% sure it wouldn't be hard to find at least one congressman on TV saying this law specifically exists to target TikTok and shut it down.
Vibrant communities are perhaps a product of, but certainly not defined solely by their territory.

Luckily they're comprised of humans (mostly? Probably another discussion), and the ability to migrate is component to their nature; the good ones find greener pastures and adapt as necessary to define their next generation.
Everyone must keep in mind that the asian continent had a long issue with communism, and although it's almost extinguished, we should still be very careful about it, like a staph (staffing?) infection almost. Also lets not forget China bans all the western stuff outright yea?
Not the OP. At the end of the day it’s just taste, right?

I use Linux, EMacs with vim keybindings and a dark color palette. Coding this way makes me feel good, I like the aesthetics. If they tried to force me to use Windows, and an IDE with a light color palette, I’d seriously consider quitting. It’s totally irrational, but it is what it is :D
The media reports what he says because he's the ultimate outrage generator, which means engagement. Media outlets are gearing up for four years of effortless content, and however much people complain, enough will click and share that it's worth it for them.

To the point of the above article though, the law is an act of congress, the Speaker just came out and said the obvious: Trump can't change that. In THEORY within the provisions of the law, if ByteDance is making an effort to sell then Trump could give them a 90 day extension, but only in the context of a sale of 51%+ of their shares. Anything less than that and as you said, it's just Trump being Trump, getting attention for free.
Canada threatens 'single largest trade blow' to U.S. if Trump follows through on
Why? I don't think Postgres is a bad name, it's not great but not terrible.
Look at the list of sites banned in China:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...

Did you notice something similar about those companies, of which TikTok is included?

Social media is not normal capitalism - it’s defense industry psychological warfare tooling. We’re seeing this play out big time in the Israeli and Ukrainian conflicts right now and it’s time to take a wartime approach to the issue.
wdym - they’re literally taking it to court right now
They are rectangles, not squares so it is possible (and very annoying) to try to fit it side to side when it should be end to end.
> Nice substitution, now let’s try it in “ByteDance or US Govt” form.

Not substitution, and you somehow missed the fact that it's China's CCP, not ByteDance. It's China's CCP that acts through a de-facto shell corporation called ByteDance, the same CCP that stands behind the Uighur genocide, Tibet annexation, threat of invasion of Taiwan, etc. That's who you are defending as the desirable option.
> anyone else using it?

We're looking for a new home, with Pivotal Tracker shutting down on April 30th (101 days left!). I had not heard of Height before.

On first glance, it looks like a genuinely modern project management service -- which is both interesting and unsettling.
99% of normies don't want to decide what dictatorial fiefdom (server) they wish to belong to.
From "China, China, China" to "My kid, Barron, loves the China app. I will issue executive order right away to allow them to keep spying on our people."
It is, I don't need to use a mouse or trackpad as it's much quicker/easier.
What D-Wave has is not a quantum computer, in the sense that it (the computer architecture) can't solve BQP problems efficiently. They are widely considered shills by the quantum computing community.
Not my point, I don't care if the search engine has branding and a logo, I just want it to be not cringe.
I would not be surprised if governments pushing back against all foreign social media is a major theme of the decade. America is basically saying to the world right now foreign social media companies are a major risk. The global reach of America's social media companies could be coming to an end.
when he started climbing the overview pane I screamed
Relevant XKCD - https://xkcd.com/243/
We had a pacifier chain shapped like an elphant head that included a hidden rattle. It's very useful to find it when it's indide the sheets or cloths.
Deceptive. Half the tech people I used to follow on Twitter now post exclusively on Mastodon.
That’s true. I’ve updated the post.
The way I learned this, at least, 6 dB is what corresponds to a doubling of amplitude, but human ears compress this so it's 10 dB that corresponds to a doubling of volume - this is how the "bel" was supposedly calibrated to begin with. But that wouldn't mean we hear volumes on a linear scale in terms of bels, but rather still logarithmically (perceived volume would just be compressed using the function x^(3/5), which looks closer to sqrt(x) rather than log(x)).
It’s important to note that media companies in China are required to have a Chinese partner who holds a majority stake, typically 51% or more.
We agree on the cause, but not the solution described in your last paragraph.

If it was truly a free market, the federal government wouldn't be involved at all and I could buy insurance from any company in any state. It's because of the government's involvement that I can't buy insurance of my choice and preferred pricing from any insurer in any state.
Email service providers often offer landing pages.

I've built my fair share of 'coming soon' pages, and it was never a good use of time.
Good. Good riddance. Let’s do how long it lasts
You can also just have multiple keys? Most of my devices have an authorized_keys that gives access to a couple laptops and my phone (which runs the normal openssh client in termux), which solves a lot of these access problems.
They have periodically had models without the trackpoint, that isn't new.

Too bad they don't have the courage to bring back some models without the touch pad... it's inches of wasted space.
Yes.

> The pointing stick is positioned such that the hands do not need to be removed from the home row to manipulate the mouse pointer.

> Some people find them more appealing for mobile gaming than a touchpad, because the trackpoint allows infinite movement without repositioning.

> Some users feel that pointing sticks cause less wrist strain because a user does not need to avoid resting wrists on a touchpad, which are usually located just below the keyboard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick#Problem_scope
Even better, if Windows is the only deployment target, throw away P/Invoke, use C++/CLI and there is no need to guess how to get P/Invoke attributes exactly correct for each API call.
Disagree.

I’ll take this all seriously when people admit what the real drivers are. Admit why people are actually looking for an X alternative.

It’s a mix of ideologues, performative outrage, foot stomping, and wanting the 2020 status quo.
Pretty sure it was a US company... probably owned by Chinese, but I haven't been following it super closely and can't see how that matters any bit. It's sad how much the US has changed in the last decade since I became an expat almost a decade ago.
Our government is more than that simplistic reduction.
Prior 2 decades to 1930, 1910-1930 were not a good time in Germany (nor really was after).
In this case the democratically elected US Congress.
I’m an outlier here but I especially prefer to drive a manual transmission sports car with good handling and lots of driver/road feedback in heavy traffic- as it’s a lot more engaging and easier to stay focused and not bored. I’ve heard the same from others with ADHD. The visibility and maneuverability is also helpful for avoiding potholes and other drivers mistakes. I’d still have a ton of fun driving even a Prius on a real track- but if driving through a crowded city I especially want a convertible sports car.
Agreed, "whenever" expresses a necessary implication, while "provided" expresses necessary but not necessarily sufficient prerequisites.
Because no one's actually going to Mastodon. It's really that simple.

If you wanna delve into the details of why people so often avoid the platforms that FOSS enthusiasts tend to recommend, that's an interesting question, but we gotta be clear here, we already knows who's successful and who's not.
So they make infertile seeds. Well fudge.

So cuttings or roots or whatever

EDIT

according to google they can be grown from seed. So experimentation is called for
> The US has already prohibited foreign entities from holding broadcast/common carrier licenses, or from owning significant chunks of equity in holders of those licenses

But you don't need a license to put something on the internet. And Americans don't want everything on the Internet to be regulated and censored the way TV and radio are.

It IS wrong for them to determine what we can and can't be influenced by. By saying bad countries "influencing" us is bad for democracy, they are saying democracy isn't really up to us, the voters, it's up to them. And I'll never accept that.
I re-read the wiki page on the DSA multiple times. It does explicitly spell out that at least one "diverse" candidate must be on the slate for each role. Yes, candidates are considered for multiple roles as they go through the hiring pipeline, but that doesn't change the fact that it prohibits moving forward with a hire if the candidate pool for the role does not include a diverse candidate.

If this is wrong, but all means explain how the DSA actually works.
It was a parti pris by me, I wanted the article to stay focus on the how, not much on the why. But I agree, even while the context is specific to us, many people wanted more interest of the surrounding, and why it happened. I wanted to explain the method ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It was never very useful. If you are typing and you need to quickly use the mouse and the nub is nearby it can be sometimes convenient. Over time the nubs can wear down and cause your cursor to drift so they have to be disabled in the BIOS or physically disconnected. I have never known anyone who wanted to get the nub repaired. People adore the nub but I don't know anyone who admires it and uses it for anything past a small convenience you wouldn't notice if it were gone.
It’s not like TikTok is competing on the open market. They have massive financial backing irrespective of how much money they lose.
> The problem I've heard others bring up is that you pick a server, then later the moderation policies of the admins changes.

Moderation policies change even with the big ones (Twitter, etc).

I suspect you're referring to the confusion due to different servers having different moderation policies, and that could effectively make you invisible to others or vice versa merely by being on a given server.

First, my guess is that this is a problem with a tiny percentage of servers. I've not had to deal with this even once.

Second, when you say you "heard others bring it up", my guess is these others are highly technical folks. Not a single "average" person stayed away from Mastodon due to this. I suspect perhaps 99% of active Mastodon users are not even aware of this.

These are valid criticisms of Mastodon. But they're not the reason people didn't sign up for it. Name recognition is.

> You can either deal with it or start over again on another server. Losing all your followers is why people put up with bad social media overlords.

FYI, for quite a while now you can switch servers, and have the followers automatically follow your new account.
I think we should be extremely cautious about over-complicating grading systems.

From my own experience with university, academic grades and credits are really prone to [Goodhart's law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law).
The primary purpose of schooling is learning. From my own experience at university, complicated grading criteria or too much emphasis on grades push students to make *grades* the purpose rather than the *subject*.

With some examples of exams and the teacher's material, loads of courses can be gamed by "overfitting" on the material rather than learning it. In some of the most valuable courses I've ever done, I dismissed grades altogether and aimed to have fun and understand the subject. Sometimes this correlates with the grade, but all too often, it does not.

I feel like this article tries to solve a hiring issue by over-complicating grades even further, and I see this as quite destructive. Hiring is difficult, but the problem doean't lie in the grading system, it lies in hiring just being difficult on its own.
This is just the paradox of tolerance, if you allow everything you won't be free for long.
lol no, as an American it’s always made me think that they weren’t utterly incompetent over there. With how it looks like TikTok might be reinstate here, it’s unclear I can say the same about us.

Also, American social media companies and all others need far more regulation. But that is really a separate topic.

If russia were to try to buy meta, that deal should be blocked. If china were to try to buy meta that deal should be blocked.
Congress has a "strained" relationship with the voter. On one hand, the voter put them in that position. On the other hand, the voter is a greater danger to the individual in Congress than any foreign adversary. As a result, politicians try to control the voter, the way an employee would try to manage their manager.

This is done in a number of ways. For example, because the media has a great influence on the voter, politicians seek to influence the media. Journalists who publish unfavorable information are denied valuable interviews, incentivizing them to stay close to the administration. Lobbyists with connections to major advertisers, which have a great influence on the media, are attended to with high priority.

Another method is to close off the voter's access to information that originates outside a politician's sphere of influence. This can be done by encouraging nationalist jingoism and a distrust of outside influence, by outright bans on foreign press, or in this case, by either banning or causing a transfer of ownership of a social media platform that had proven unhelpful to a past administration's intent for the media landscape. For TikTok, this was hosting middle east peace activism.
Lapham's Daily: "Feast of Fools"
TikTok ban: data reveals sharp traffic decline and rapid shift to alternatives
Licenses are about legal agreements, not about ethics. Legality doesn’t imply ethicality (nor vice versa). If this was about legality, people would say so.
Gauntlet AI (YC S17) is training AI engineers and hiring them in Austin
Mark Zuckerberg paid lobby$7.6M to aid in TikTok ban
Bach – Musical Offering – Ricercar a 6 – a fugue on the subject of the Decalogue [video]
It's a faster, more accurate, and more effective pointing device in a very tiny fraction of the space. Primary downside is that it has a steeper learning curve-- though a couple days of forced usage is enough to overcome it.

Poorly implemented clones of the device have also hurt its reputation somewhat, as a poorly implemented trackpoint is never particularly usable.
I mean, the insulation of a modern house is clearly better than your house stuffed with horse hair in the 20s, also using 10 times the wood to build a house I suppose is better…
> I believe this applies to the USA as a whole as well, not just to states (Bolling v. Sharpe (1954) according to ChatGPT). One could argue the law is unconstitutional because it applies a punishment without due process.

The 14th amendment applies to US citizens and persons. The law requires ByteDance to sell it's TikTok position. Who do you think is the US citizen or person in this case? China's CCP?
It sounds like you’re saying that Bluesky users are actually just throwing a giant fit.

That has not been my experience at all.
You think that a social media app is trade?

Why does who runs the app matter? Stopping someone from saying something is still silencing them, even if someone else saying it would be okay.

This is just setting the groundwork for the government controlling social media even more than it already does, because they know how influential it is.

I'm not defending the PRC in the slightest. I fundamentally disagree with the government forcing a sale of a company due to its social media app. This is different from every other example of banning PRC-backed companies (ex: Huawei, TP-LINK, etc) because there is genuinely a plausible argument for natsec. With TikTok there just is no such argument, other than the video content being controlled by a foreign hostile entity. And I just fail to be convinced that that's enough to ban it. Do we ban Russia Today?
I use it 99% of the time.

That said, I use emacs and lisp so ...

but to me removing it from the thinkpad line is a mistake

the only thing they should have done is fix the drifting bug that happens once every two days
In the US propaganda is free speech. We allowed enemies of the US to circulate Communist newspapers in America during the Cold War because we believe the people control the government not the government control the people
The law would literally allow an EU entity to own it, or a Brazilian entity, or a South African entity.
Isn’t there a saying along the lines of “land of the free”? Except not free to choose which app you use. lol
That's a misread, tiktok speech .. eg eating toxic Tide Pods for competition .. can be gotten and made in the USA still.
China is not just foreign, it’s a rising superpower who has demonstrated ongoing information and cyber attacks against the US, and who has a stated goal of invading Taiwan. It attempts to dislodge the US or West influence wherever possible. That’s different to eg Germany, France or Japan.

Playing fair is fine, so rather ask for level playing fields. Where there aren’t, apply pressure. Compared to arming other countries this is barely worth a big argument.
> Just how silly "Google" sounded when it first popped up? How Torvalds joked that he named "git" after himself?

I knew these examples were coming. Subjectively speaking, these are catchy names, which is why they work. Forjego and DuckDuckGo are not catchy, there's something wrong with their flow. Maybe they're too long or too "breaking", or maybe they don't work internationally (I'm French) somehow, I don't know. I'm not going to write a thesis on why some names don't work, but if someone did I would love it. Silly names are ok but there's a very thin line between "silly" and "annoying". DuckDuckGo definitely crosses it for me.
The American voter is sidelined the second their elected official is sworn in, and immediately reneges on everything they said they stood for in favor of their moneyed interests. 90% of politicians have no intent whatsoever of fixing problems, after all those problems are what got them elected.
This thread is trying to have a serious conversation about the merits and dangers of the US banning TikTok. I don’t think it’s going to happen. There’s too much value for Trump to leave on the table. He’s a showman and he’s giving us, mainly gen-z, a show. On Monday he will “save” TikTok. He can ingratiate himself with a demographic that historically had not leaned conservative. It seems so obvious yet I see people trying to debate the ban as if it’s going to stay in place. It won’t.
America is a DeepState autocratic core with a veneer of Democracy.
I loved pointing sticks for years but the backpressure gave me RSI.
>In this scenario, all this shit about spies (movies estabilishing their personas, tall tales, especulations) is nothing but misdirection.

Not if you are arrested for espionage.

Of course I cannot disclose my sources and methods - I concede the argument.
Not really, it just helps strengthen your finger muscles, which some people appreciate, if you know what I mean :)

A better touchpad is way more convenient.
Pretty much every country where it is economically viable to build an alternative has an alternative to these platforms that they aggressively push on their citizens.

Europe may be an exception, but that is what you get when the US is your suzerain.
And that is exactly what we don't want.
We want civilized law based international relations not a jungle.

International courts should settle disputes based on law
You are misinterpreting Karl Popper.

Free speech should only stop on those trying to attack free speech. If anything, it applies in reverse here.
> Does that mean the TrackPoint is dead? No, thankfully. It will still appear in the other ThinkPads made by Lenovo

Good.
This reminds me of Bisqwit's text editor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nlNQcKsj74&ab_channel=Bisqw...
He has a super mario running on the bar which is so cool!
is there a way to bring the pets to vs code bar ? bcz I usually close the side panel when I'm writing to a file and I want pets to be there when I don't have the side panel open.
chat, also please let me know if you know any alternative for vim.
If you need https, but whatever device you want to serve to doesn't let you use hostnames.
> Pretty sure it was a US company... probably owned by Chinese (...)

ByteDance Ltd. is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Haidian, Beijing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance