skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of fluffly language here that isn't saying much.

Linear algebra is not something that takes years of patient study to gain basic competency. It had almost no prerequisites and can be understood enough to understand least squares in a focused weekend or two.
Freedom of the press is guaranteed in the first amendment, "freedom of the platform" is a non-existent right.
it's a trade war response to china's long history of walling non-chinese apps off from their billion-odd-user market while happily collecting users, data, and ad revenue from their own apps in other countries. if china removes all limitations on US tech platforms and ceases exploiting our open-by-default policy, we can talk lifting restrictions. until then, all chinese tech services should be banned.

basically china's entire tech industry was built on the back of creating an artificially constrained market where foreign competitors with superior products were not allowed to compete. that is, everything that wasn't built off outright theft of American tech. that could have been hundreds of billions of dollars of increased market cap and returns to the investing public, hundreds of billions that china effectively stole.
I think it would be valuable to extract the JS transpiler into a standalone package. This would allow developers to leverage the transpiler's capabilities independently of the full Hologram framework.

Currently, the tight coupling with the framework limits adoption and potential contributions from developers who might be interested in just the transpiler functionality. By making it a separate package, you could:

- Increase adoption by allowing partial integration into existing projects
- Attract more contributors who specialize in transpiler development
- Make it easier to maintain and version independently
- Enable better testing in isolation

I'd love to contribute to the transpiler's development, but the current architecture makes it challenging without a full framework migration. Consider this a feature request that would make the tool more accessible to the wider JavaScript community.
What do you mean "even India" has banned it? India is notorious for its censorship and is rated near the bottom of the World Press Freedom Index. Being in that company is absolutely not something the US should aspire to.
Which would put Google and Apple in a precarious position of ignoring a law because it's not being enforced right now.
This wasn’t a sudden thing. The law was passed 9 months ago.
you're right, but blocking the best one isn't going to sit right with consumers. if we just passed comprehensive data laws then i would be in support but one company lobbying another company to remove an app doesn't help us at all
The process to ban it was started years earlier.
> China doesn't allow foreign corporations to operate within their borders

It's not true, just to clarify it.

Many foreign corporations operating in China, only if they:

1. Keep all user data within the border.
2. Cooperate with censorship

TikTok meets the first condition in the U.S., and I think the issue lies with the second condition.
controlling the algorithm is a lot more subtle than using bots. it's pretty easy to notice bots and shills. it's harder to notice when it's all humans with sincere beliefs, just that some beliefs are overrepresented.
Idk for the US, but where I live, newspapers have special laws that protects them more than other platforms. Pretty sure it’s the same in the US.
3-4 uops per cycle is more of an average throughput than a typical throughput.

The average is dragged down by many cycles that don't decoded/rename any uops. Either waiting for bytes to decode (icache miss, etc) or rename is blocked because the ROB is full (probably stalled on a dcache miss).

So you want a quite wide frontend so that whenever you are unblocked, you can drag the average up again.
This morning I felt the urge to download TikTok for the first time. I did, but I didn't bother creating an account.

There is a passage in the book Life of Pi, where Pi's family is gathered and ready to leave India for Canada. And his mother does something out of the ordinary:

> The day before our departure she pointed at a cigarette wallah and earnestly asked, "Should we get a pack or two?"

> Father replied, "They have tobacco in Canada. And why do you want to buy cigarettes? We don't smoke."

> Yes, they have tobacco in Canada-but do they have Gold Flake cigarettes? Do they have Arun ice cream? Are the bicycles Heroes? Are the televisions Onidas? Are the cars Ambassadors? Are the bookshops Higginbothams'? Such, I suspect, were the questions that swirled in Mother's mind as she contemplated buying cigarettes.

Do I use TikTok? No, I've always advocated against it. Will I use it if it is reinstated? Probably not. But I downloaded it anyway the same way Mrs Gita Patel wanted to buy cigarettes. It wasn’t about need or use. It was about the loss.

I would stand behind a tiktok ban if it was for the right reasons. But this ban is only because it failed to conform to manufactured consent.
Who's this "we"? Is there anything that runs on the Bluesky protocol outside of the Bluesky itself which has its own extensions which can't be federated. Also, when I opened this site, all the posts were from a certain political ideology. The algorithm is probably more or less the same as Twitter in pushing contents loved by their creators.
Leading politicians said it explicitly. It's been discussed in the news since the conflict started.
One time had an AWS customer (Nokia Deepfield) spamming my shadowsocks server logs with unauthenticated attempts. Emailed AWS to curtail the abuse and they sided with their customer ofc.
>why it's about Russia? are Russians a part of this too?
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Yes, Russian bot farms work hard on TikTok.
Algorithms and bot farms have no right for "free speech".
just banning isn't a good idea. Chinese companies should be forced to give technology transfers.
> massive migration

You're in a bubble if you think there is a massive migration happening to an unlocalized app .
> They didn't steal TikTok, they forbade it from operating in the US with the current ownership.

Are you being sarcastic?
The propaganda sticks because its rooted in some truth.
Make no mistake - it conforms to manufactured consent.
I could be wrong, but I thought you have to operate a subsidiary in China, which is majority Chinese-owned. for example, Azure China is operated by 21Vianet, who also owns all the infrastructure.
"major major major generational problem … We have a TikTok problem, we have a Gen-Z problem." https://www.liberationnews.org/israels-pinkwashing-task-forc...
You’re underestimating the effects of placebo.
China is a totalitarian dictatorship with complete surveillance over the domestic internet. Not really comparable.
Those publishers must have been tragically born without a sense of irony.
By this logic, the US should start imprisoning people who aren't vocal enough about being anti-China, right? Why should the US play fair if China isn't?
Instantly +20% GDP across the country
Or maybe occam's razor suggests that there's indeed something more concerning about usage of the app that we aren't privy to?
What launch? What execution? Some random person just posted to HN a link that happens to be publicly viewable. How does that translate to 'launching a framework'?
A.Z. Fell has a decent bookshop but when I called recently they said: "Fell's Bookshop. We probably don't have what you're looking for and we wouldn't sell it to you if we did."
Freedom of speech means that you can’t be persecuted for what you said. It doesn’t mean you are entitled to be given a megaphone.

You can say what you want and don’t go in prison, sure, but nobody owes you the platform.
There's the "Grindr threat"[1]

There are metadata threats around who's connected to whom, where users are, where they go, etc.

There can be leaked data in videos posted by military personnel

1: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/6/21168079/grindr-sold-chine...
I think this perfectly communicates why it feels so wrong that the government has banned tt. Its an implicit acknowledgement that our leaders feel that foreign influence will resonate with the public in a way that doesn't benefit the status quo.
I think this is more of a cultural issue. We've accepted that Next.js 330MB solution with 250+ dependencies is solid, but anything new (despite being smaller, simpler, faster etc..) is "framework bloat". The old, "boring" technology is better even if the alternative is web standard.
I’m getting a weird issue with scrolling on this page: https://hologram.page/docs/quick-start (iOS safari)

I seem to only be able to scroll once, then it freezes. Tapping the URL bar kinda resets it and lets me scroll again, but then it freezes again.

It looks like a static page so I’m not sure what would be causing that, but a total guess would be re-renders on the code blocks? Not sure if that makes sense though!
Good point but it remains to be seen. China has seemed to look at the Soviets and 'improved' upon their design. At the same time the West has dove deeper into their downsides (corruption) with no improvement in sight. Does China really need to last forever or do they just need to outlast their rival?
This is amazing, I had a bunch of work to do on some remote hosts this night and tried using isd as much as possible, to see how it can help me.

Some feedback :

- it is.. relatively slow ? especially when focusing on different panes (tab/shift+tab). on my machine it takes at least half a second to react

- the unit list is missing page-up/page-down handling

- in some unit attributes, the ordering of some values frequently changes (for example, on unstarted services, in `TriggeredBy`)

- it could be interesting to integrate the output of `systemd-analyse security`

Nice work !
The message being displayed to users is very pro Trump right in the message.

And I assume you mean woke* content not DEI.
It was, but why did the ban only succeed now?

Edit: to be honest, it is an honest question.

My guess is that the uniparty can’t afford a popular platform they don’t fully control and where there is significant dissent.

On Russia-Ukraine, the voices against US propaganda didn’t gain enough traction for them to worry about it. With Israel-Palestine, the opposition was for the first time reaching people who they previously never could.
>this doesn't get enough attention. ByteDance could have easily partitioned off the US environment and made bank selling it. but the influence potential was too juicy for CCP to let ByteDance sell it.

I think that's kind of trivializing the position they were in. 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?

I don't think the law is necessarily bad, considering the national security implications, but it's a cop-out to dismiss the burden of being forced to sell a major part of an enterprise as no big deal and the owner as just stubborn.
Not at all. There are hundreds of thousands of US users. Most of the content I see is localized and tailored for English. There’s even an auto translate feature. They’re very welcoming and nice, and encourage us to post. Most of them are just showing their houses and what it’s like to live in China.

It was a pleasant surprise. That said, I’m not too interested in endless house tours, so I’m going to see what kind of content there is when things settle down. That’s still a migration though, at least for me.
That’s so true, I have seen a company that offer a chat over Slack, so basically did the entire qualification you mentioned over the chat and gave me some high level data I needed before a full demo call.
2 minutes, no sales fluff. That’s was a nice touch.
>Honestly, the only reason Crypto isn’t bigger IMO is because there is such a large and established set of folks doing laundering in the ‘normal’ system, and those work well enough there is not nearly as much demand as you’d expect.

Correct me if I'm wrong. Doesn't the public ledger make it really bad for this purpose when enough is known about some of the actors interacting on the chain here? It's basically an exact recording that everybody can see, of who interacted with whom, based on pseudonyms, right?
Wait what ?
Are they in the room with us right now?

Does they also faked opinions about Isreal and Gaza?

It's horrible, how should we identify them?
Huh? how are they deciding? Every time you watch a video or install an app it's your decision.
Weirdly those content links all work fine for me. The only one I’ve noticed does the double tap is the LiveReload button in the text (linking to https://yawaramin.github.io/dream-html/dream-html/Dream_html...)
For those who don't know, Mitt Romney said this.

"Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down potentially TikTok or other entities of that nature. If you look at the postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians, relative to other social media sites — it's overwhelmingly so among TikTok broadcasts."
"And TikTok has special characteristics—a foreign adversary's ability to leverage its control over the platform to collect vast amounts of personal data from 170 million U. S. users—that justify this differential treatment. [S]peaker distinctions of this nature are not presumed in- valid under the First Amendment."

Unanimous decision to ban TikTok from a divided Supreme Court, 2025.
The additional constraint is that it has to use each colour exactly once.
I agree with your first paragraph - but people went pretty berserk when (supposedly) Russia was influencing US elections via social media. RT news channel was banned, the reasoning being it was Russian propaganda. Lots of people supported Facebook and Twitter, working with the government, silencing anything Russian back around the 2016 and 2020 elections. Did you?
> That scripting and a (useless) base case are the most common usage.

You're thinking as a user. I'm sorry, but the vast majority of linux systems are still servers and embedded systems.

Here's two versions of the Unix Philosophy

- Write programs that do one thing and do it well.
- Write programs to work together.
- Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.

- Make it easy to write, test, and run programs.
- Interactive use instead of batch processing.
- Economy and elegance of design due to size constraints ("salvation through suffering").
- Self-supporting system: all Unix software is maintained under Unix.

Yes, scripting is a common use case (I use git in scripts! I use git in programs. You probably do too, even if you don't know it). Piping is a common use case. And I'm not sure what we're talking about that is "useless". I've yet to run into a command where the default is useless. Even though I have `alias grep='grep --color=always --no-messages --binary-files=without-match'` I still frequently run `\grep`.

But we're also talking about programs that are DECADES old. git will turn 20 this year. You're going to be breaking a lot of stuff if you change it now.

And look, you don't have to agree, that's fine. But I'm trying to help you get into a mindset so that this doesn't look like a bunch of gobbledegook. You call these weird incantations. I get it. But if you get this model and get why things are the way they are, then those incantations become a lot less weird and a lot easier to remember. Because frankly, you'll have to remember far less. And either way, it's not like you're going to get linux changed. If you don't use it, great, move on. But if you do, then I'm trying to help, because if you can't change it you got to figure out the way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
It baffles me that people can seem to comprehend that only the United States government has interests in its media outlets, and the authoritarian second to the US in the global stage don’t. 1. TikTok in the westernized form is banned in China. 2. When some people tried to move to rednote (the in the open Chinese app), they were getting banned in the first few hours for being gay and other ideas that came with them, so it’s very entirely plausible that also TikTok is heavily regulated from the officials of a foreign actor.
True. Clearly your billionaire ruling class has your best interest at heart, so this is fine. /s
You have data?
Canada, Trump and the new world order
I think most people are upset because they're having withdrawal.
Not being noticed due to low quality algorithms. To me TikTok was the first proof that recommendation algorithms can work. I have been using manual curation for so long because so many times I open YouTube or any other social media with the intent to consume content and get that same old feeling "there's nothing to watch" like flipping channels on TV. Just scrolling unattractive thumbnails.

TikTok may have been too effective and addictive, but it undeniably worked. I started watching many niche and interesting content creators that the other platforms wouldn't recommend to me.
> This doesn't impose on your freedom of speech at all.

By this logic, the US government should be able to ban any newspaper that is publishing articles that they don't like: it doesn't encroach on the freedom of speech of the reporters of that newspaper, they can just speak somewhere else. They don't have the right to say anything at that particular newspaper, just in general.

Of course, in reality, banning a publication (TikToK) because you think they may publish stories that you won't like (propaganda for Chinese interests) is an obvious violation of the first ammendment and a form of government censorship.
> the "Grindr threat"

Hadn't heard of this. The linked article explains:

> At the time of Reuters’ March 2019 report, it was unclear what CFIUS’s specific concerns were, but the FT says the committee worried the Chinese government could use personal data from the app to blackmail US citizens — which could include US government officials.
Very interesting and I think important. Something that should be done for any Armee even.

I found the writing style … interesting. The author assumed we the reader would have a specific understanding how to model this data. And that they cracked the code. Well that military posts, commands and in some cases government loyalty can change is known. Maybe I read too much into it this morning :). I dislike being treated as ignorant that’s all.
Yet when posts online described it as an alternative/clone of GitHub/gitlab/gitea it was alsa received with criticism and complains that "what if I don't know what gitea is".

Naming and creating descriptions is not trivial, I wish more complaints would also simply come with proposals of better taglines, so we can bash those ideas quickly in comments and cut that long feedback loop.
I've never understood this conspiracy theory. If Russia does have bot farms, and they're effective, surely the US has much, much larger bot farms - their budgment for this sort of thing completely dwarfs Russia.

Or is the US just too much of a moral actor to do this?
As far as I can recall, this has been their branding strategy:

1996: Rename everything to "MSN" including a news TV channel

2000: Rename everything ".NET" even if it's not a programming language

2005: Rename everything that remotely touches the internet to "Live"

2013: Rename everything to "365"

2025: Rename everything to "Copilot" even things that are not just an LLM

Also sprinkle "Windows" liberally over everything in the late 90's-00's

Did I miss anything?

Edit: was reminded of this classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k
Loads fine for me, even very fast - maybe it is fixed?
UFW is great at what it does, but it's not going to save you from web application attacks.
If the problem is China, why wouldn't they ban all apps from China?

And what exactly is preventing China to launch a new app withjin hours (that is the point of cloud infras right?) under a new company using tiktok source code and allow easy importation of dumps from tiktok to facilitate their migration and get a head start?
I do think that the TikTok ban is being taken too lightly by the people of US. But the more interesting point is that your logic implies that China making a sensible move in banning US companies. There is a real question of why companies like Google are allowed to operate outside the US - if it is this big a deal to the US politicians it suggests their military has been using it aggressively against opponents with some success.
That’s like saying “you can write whatever book you want, but the government can stop it from being sold; we aren’t obligated to sell it in bookstores”. This is a terrible argument; it conflates the government’s actions with the “bookstore”. Yes, if the app store decided to ban the app, we wouldn’t have much recourse. But the government is stepping in and saying no bookstore is allowed to sell it. That is textbook censorship (no pun intended).
Even so, traffic funnels through the same cache, so website owners would see the same amount of hits whether there was 1 crawler or 1000 crawlers on the platform
thank you thank you thank you - told procmail too
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And what makes TikTok different from a newspaper, fundamentally?

Both are publishing stories written by others (reporters for the newspaper, subscribers for TikTok), and taking decisions on which stories to publish (through direct editorial control for the newspaper, through the algorithm + some direct editorial control for TikTok).
Worth noting:
> In a phone call leaked by the Tehran Times
Make one that has anime girls sitting on panels. Classic window sitters!
warning - no pretty videos in this post
Somewhere I heard that there would have been much less drama around the TikTok ban if the US had framed it as tit-for-tat punishment for not allowing US social media platforms in China.
No, freedom of [edit: accidentally wrote "from" earlier] speech also means that the government can't stop you from saying it. If US citizens wants to publish pro-Chinese, anti-US propaganda in the USA, and want to constitute a company for publishing a newspaper or a social media site to do, that is protected free speech and the government should have nothing to say about it.
I was on RedNote just now. I saw some gay content that had been there yesterday as well, and has not been removed.

BTW, the RedNote userbase in China is 70% female, similar to Pinterest in the US. That may be why there's an affinity with a portion of the Tiktok userbase. The RedNote users are not into politics (at least were not). They cats, cooking, fashion, interior decorating, travel, sports.
Not being Apple apologist here,[1] I do think Apple has a marketing and explanation problem with its App Store fees. Something may be Steve Jobs could have done a much better job at it. Apple currently sends $10 per devices to its services revenue as cost to OS, iWork, iCloud etc. IIRC it started in 2016 and backdating to 2014. Apple also use the revenue from App Store for WWDC, continuing work on software development and security update. All of these are legitimate reasons.

Then there is App Store regulation problem. Which is separate to the price / cost of running App Store. That is a much more difficult problem to argue for, practically in 2025 quite literally the society is requires smartphone to compete across all sector of business.

[1] I have been questioning about Apple Store's fees even when Jobs was alive on Appleinsider and other forums.