skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I remember correctly early on there was both the firehose of all tweets you could access and easy to call apis to post tweets. So there were a set of programmatic standards to control how you could communicate, which sounds close enough to me for a blog post.

But only if memory serves correctly, I do not know the timelines off the top of my head.
FWIW this is the type of thing that shows up in my feed on TikTok. It's a fascinating materials process I had never heard of or seen the unreal photos of.
Well, those who made the decision decided to keep the intel secret, so we'll never know.
This is exactly what all Europeans watching US politics expected. No more, no less.
That's very sad news.
They'll hinder and suppress anyone trying diminish US pharmaceutical industry such as high-profit-margin clawbacks of prescriptions, silly 15,000 medical officer endorsements (or 0.015% of industry) against RFKjr for SecOfHealth, or intense lobbying to continue TV commercials of their marginal Rx line, or Delay, Deny, Dispose, or even the ever deminishing CoVID-19 efficacy rate.

This is what politicians that are beholden to grifts like pharma, immigration-related NGOs, military-industrial-complex, complain loudly about their inability to quiet all the bad things as they watch their grift kickback started diminishing due to "public toxic" exposures.
>installing apps outside the app store

How does this work? Any TikToc apk files from outside the app store must been considered compromised at this point.
You cannot expect a foreign adversary to comply with laws designed for domestic corporations. For example, Facebook cooperated with the DOJ to find the source of Russia's 2016 disinformation campaign. Not only will China not allow similar cooperation from TikTok, they would also pressure TikTok to comply with their own demands.
> say I’m in traffic on the highway. Searching 401

Takes a lot of good faith to not think the above implies they’re searching twitter while sitting in traffic in a car they’re driving. They never said “I can ask a passenger to search…” or anything of the sort.
You could ban every non-ethnically Chinese channel to push Chinese superiority. That would be bad, right?

And before you say, “but they’re not doing that”, remember that we’re discussing how this theoretically could be a bad thing.
> the backpressure gave me RSI

Is there actual pressure? Does the pointstick move at all? Does it matter how hard you press on it? Or is that just psychological - you see the cursor moving and assume you are pushing against something.
Why CapCut? Is it Chinese owned?
+1 for One Night Ultimate Werewolf. Removing the need for a narrator role and keeping the game short enough that the antagonistic behaviors don't have a chance to develop works wonders. Friend and couple fights after Mafia are real. Werewolf is pretty kid-friendly too.
We replaced ROS with GRPC, foxglove and our own code. Works reliably, much better to handle. Would recommend everyone else to try it
Sort of?

I think it's definitely the case that the group of voters in 1789 was much smaller and more homogeneous than it is today.

I also think the nature of propaganda has changed a little as well. Today, messages can be delivered cheaply to everyone, everywhere, from anywhere, nearly instantaneously. There is far less of a propagation delay, and far less of a natural check on the rate and volume of propaganda.
Didn't the law passed by Congress give the president the power to deem a service owned in part by foreign entities as a national security threat?

I may very well have horribly misunderstood the situation, but I though Congress here only allowed the president to decide.
Executive Order
Sure, US propaganda do not exist. Not in Hollywood. Not in games. Not in social media and news sources. Makes one wonder then how people got so propagandized.
It's not that polls are imperfect, it's that they're often entirely misleading and incorrect. And if the only tool you have to do a job isn't fit for purpose, then that just means that you aren't equipped to do the job properly.

If the only tool we have for measuring Washington's behavior against public opinion is one that doesn't accurately reflect public opinion, then that means that we just don't have a reliable way to measure Washington's behavior against public opinion.
Something to acknowledge. Slightly wanted to mock because of how predictable it is that they're holding money while they died. And that the priority seemed like it was the coins and jewelry.

However, even in the modern era, somebody with a "bug out bag" or a "Wake Up, Stuffs Happening (WUSH) bag" still includes "cash" as one of the main includes in the top priorities [1]

[1] Basic 72-Hour Bug Out Bag List, https://www.bugoutbagbuilder.com/learning-tutorials/bug-out-...
It was never about that balance. It was always about populism.
Trump still has to do the inauguration. Even a reptile should understand the basic procedures of office.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ina...
You can literally go to any other competing platform and shout the same thing from the rooftops.
I am not claiming the big city is not representative of Quebec because it's touristy at all. Please read again. But let me try to explain again.

Montreal, never mind tourism, is more English than the rest of Quebec. Depending on which part you're in nobody bats an eye if you don't speak French to them.

In other parts of Montreal and definitely in the rest of Quebec, big city or not, you better speak French unless they think you are a tourist. You can be out in the Beauce but if you look, act and speak like a (non Canadian) tourist they suddenly try their best at English. Quebec City is definitely a city and representative of the rest of Quebec with regards to language (minus tourists). Montreal much less so. There are a bunch of small towns across Quebec that are also very English.

That exists in other provinces as well, where things are very French in the middle of an English speaking province. Acadia comes to mind. Manitoba has some French parts.
China probably doesn't care about Hitler. How about Tiananmen Square? Do you see a lot of trending coverage on Hong Kong protests?
There's a metaculus prediction of whether TikTok will be lawfully banned on 1/20, and they were 99.9% confident it would be in effect. (https://www.metaculus.com/questions/31247/tiktok-ban-in-effe...)

I personally picked 40% because I couldn't image a change of this sort being consistent with today's political reality.

That said, the fine print of that prediction can be interpreted that the ban is "in effect" even if it not enforced and has no legal liability. I doubt all the predictors were hanging their hat on that fine print when they predicted, though.
> To the company, no.

Why not? Companies love to boast about MAUs and similar metrics (even if completely bogus), it has good effect on stock prices.
"Code is speech" is absurdly reductionist in most cases.

Yes, the government censoring Tiktok's source code on Github would be a freedom of speech violation, but that's not what this is about, is it? See also: Tornado Cash. Publishing code facilitating money laundering is fine (you'll find the code still on Github!); running said code to facilitate money laundering isn't.

Or to go with an even more extreme example: Writing code for a self-aiming and firing gun is speech [1], running said code on a gun in your driveway isn't.

The fact that we are still debating such basics of the First Amendment here is baffling. This is almost as trivial as the other well-known limitations in my view (shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater etc.)

[1] At least at the moment, and as far as I know; I think we might see this type of speech being restricted in the same way that some facts about the construction of nuclear weapons are "innate state secrets".
Idk about marketable, but I think it's cool :)
Exactly. To the degree elections are not rooted in a competition of ideas and individual agency, but rather are downstream of elite power and influence, then there are other more direct means of controlling populations, all of which tend to be a lot bloodier. All of this strikes me as a really dangerous path.
What if you reach the edge of the trackpad before the mouse reaches its destination?
Excuse my European ignorance, but in what way is a system a "democracy" where one person can overrule actual democratic structures? The power centralized into one person is unheard of in what I would call "democracies".
Classic "Bootleggers and Baptists" situation [0], where both parties are in favor for self-serving reasons.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists
The bot having "Crawlspace" in its UA doesn't necessarily mean it honors "Crawlspace" directives in robots.txt. Would it bail out if it saw this robots.txt?

User-agent: Crawlspace
Disallow: /

> May I ask why you’d want to block it, even if it crawls respectfully?

The main audience for the product seems to be AI companies, and some people just aren't interested in feeding that beast. Lots of sites block Common Crawl even though their bot is usually polite.

https://originality.ai/ai-bot-blocking
In early 2000-2007 I felt technology optimism (things like Digg, slashdot) about new websites and there was a hopefulness about new technology (file sharing) The spirit of new technology that "there is something new" and the "this is how things work from now on" (WAP websites, floppy disks, guest books, simple 1megabyte web hosting, geocities, fan sites, myspace, WhatsApp on cheap phones).

In other words, every new thing was something that may have been before but it was "this is how things work from now on". The platform defines and upholds the character of interaction. Twitter and Reddit do that and as pg highlights how twitter recipients is by algorithm. (From OP: "where you don't specify the recipients.")

I have fond memories of writing HTML from magazines and in the eras before me it was handwriting text games into BASIC interpreters.
All companies owned by some specific countries are impacted by this law.
The follow up clarification specifically was "is it possible then, that it could access other devices on that home wifi network?".

Listen, I'm not American nor on TikTok. I couldn't care less, I just wanted to point out that this is not the best example for weird questions from that whole ordeal.
No, you can't. TikTok was the only mainstream platform where pro-Palestinian content was allowed to go viral.
Of course propaganda works. That's why companies spent tons of money on ads.

Of course it also works on politics, especially if people don't trust "traditional" media, but arbitrary publishers (there's room for a guiding which is more trustworthy)

History over and over has shown that a public can be led into their own demise, including brutal war.

How much active influence China takes I don't know (and I never used tiktok) but we are certainly in a time of massive disinformation and denial of facts. Globally.
At the risk coming off as pedantic, it ceases to be a self-promotion tool if the system is destroyed.
I was thinking:

1. Banning media based on alleged (or real) foreign interference is a very thin line

2. Banning and "unbanning" media based on vague accusations can be exploited for self-serving economical or political interests, which long-term hurts any kind of credibility of media as a whole. And, like it or not: we depend on media. We're not living in self-sufficient communes, at least most of us don't.

3. What made TikTok an issue in the first place: foreign interference (see 1) and problematic content, the policy causes for this probably include insufficient moderation and lack of court accountability. Then there's the question of algorithmic bias: I think this is not a simple question, e.g. is Instagram Reels technically the same or if not, what are the most important differences between their recommendation algorithms?
The Speaker of the House has made it clear, along with a number of other legislators, that they're not about to give up their role in the constitution just because Donald Trump said so on Truth Social. TikTok can afford to play these games, but as you point out, Google and Apple cannot. I doubt that TikTok's US payment processors or advertisers will either.

The result is the usual Trump soup: a lot of noise, a lot of "debate" and then nothing at the end of the day. Personally I suspect that once his inauguration is over, he'll lose even the pretense of interest in this. "Oh I tried to help, but my hands were tied." Then off to the races with the new drama that goes nowhere.

Three things you can count on with Trump's presidency:

It will be loud and distracting.

Very little will get done that can't be undone just as easily.

The Republicans will pass a giant tax cut in before the midterms, and Trump will sign off on it.
>Create spaces that foster creativity, innovation, and connection.

Somewhere a CXO pat himself because he manage to creat all that through open office and 0 clutter policy cause flexible seat/desk. /S
More than half of U.S. counties have no or limited access to local news (2023)
how are the links structured in the ahref tag? is it relative or absolute? if relative, then thats prob why.
Then smart sales and marketing should keep that feature. Lenovo can't sell to 100% of the market anyway. 45% who think it's the greatest thing ever is great marketing.
1. Deeply understand the problem before you start writing code.

2. Provide in depth summary and explanation of the problem and solution in your PRs

Engineers can waste months or years of their collective time because they don't understand the problem they are trying to solve. They slap bandaids and fight wack-a-moles.

Both steps I listed above combat this issue.. the person(s) dedicated to solving the problem must understand the root issue with certainty. And when they explain their fix/solution it must be articulated well enough for other engineers or your future self to understand reliably.. else the mistakes of the past will be repeated.
>so one has to take this into account when considering ‘bipartisan support’ of the thing.

I do not. I can hold a person accountable to their vote on this legislation. Their vote on this legislation caused the Supreme Court to release an opinion that affects every citizens 1st amendment rights. Now if they released a statement at the time condemning this while also talking about the importance of the aid they might have some leeway.
The Twitter of 2009 was a rather different beast to the Twitter of the 2020s. Open APIs were a big part of it, and the idea that people would upload all sorts of random data into their feeds which others could tap into.

(In practice, it never went much further than running apps, book reviews or calorie counters).
They are decided to set the web on fire:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42660377
Trump didn't overturn the Supreme Court's decision. He only gave TikTok a 90-day lifeline. They need a solution to be allowed to operate. Either they will have to cut ties with the CCP and operate truly independently—and provide assurances for that—or they will sell to someone and make billions.

I know which of the two I'd pick, but yeah, I guess you can say they might also restructure out of the CCP's control, which I think is unlikely because China then just gets paid $0.

Another alternative would be for lawmakers in this new congress to change the law they just passed but given the Republican majority is very narrow and there is plenty of support for the ban across the isle, I find it hard to believe they will be able to do so. But sure, that's also a possible scenario.
Pipeline-Parallelism: Distributed Training via Model Partitioning
And? Attacking the internal network from the public Internet using a browser as a proxy:

https://www.forcepoint.com/sites/default/files/resources/fil...

It is a totally legitimate question if attacks like this are baked into an app (unless these kinds of permissions are now the default, in which case I am behind the curve).
Aren't we all, to a large extent?

I mean, yeah, I would be slightly annoyed to lose ${social network}, but in truth, my life would be hardly impacted.
It's the path we've been on for a long time and one that is made a lot more dangerous in the era of social media. Today more than ever people live in echo chambers and believe what they want to or what they think they need to so they can conform with their group identity. More than ever a few wealthy people or state actors have direct control over the reality people see without even the pretense of being "unbiased" media or any sort of ethical guidelines which in the past used to semi-exist for the traditional media/news etc.

Propaganda's job is to influence those people who think they're acting from a position of moral authority but lack the education, or critical thinking skills, or access to information, to be able to see through the manipulation.

I'm not sure what's the answer but I am sure this is not what the proponents of free speech had in mind.
If your loud agreement with a lie is disseminated far more widely than your loud agreement with a truth, does it feel like you have free speech?
With or without Tiktok, the USA is nowhere near as restrictive as the CCP. The users who tried RedNote discovered that very quickly.
$5/year… this year. They will add a “No SOC2 compliance, please upgrade to our $19pm solution and benefit from 10% if you subscribe annually”.
You didn't respond to the point at all and just repeated your original point.
IMNSHO, it started with the "undeclared war" a.k.a. "police action" in Korea. Oh, and 9/11. Look what resulted from that.

Wikipedia says [0]:

> As of September 2024, the United States Congress has formally declared war 11 times, and has not done so since 1942; 6 of these were WWII declarations. The United States did not declare war during its involvement in Vietnam, although the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorized the escalation and use of military force in the Vietnam War without a formal declaration of war. On at least 125 occasions a US president has employed military forces without authorization from Congress. One of the most significant of these occasions was the Korean War, where the United States led a peacekeeping United Nations force to stop North Korea's invasion against South Korea. The conflict resulted in over 142,000 American casualties (about 40,000 deaths and over 100,000 injuries).

And courts can be packed, at times rewriting the Constitution. It's also my opinion that congre$$ has deliberately deadlocked for decades to prevent social legislation and wealth taxes, hence the obscene distribution of wealth, using the voter frustration they created to propel/maintain their seats, since "It's always the other guy's fault" in politics. With perpetual deadlock, the executive branch fills the vacuum.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undeclared_war
You didn't even engage with what I said. You dismiss statements of a US senator because of the paper that reports them?

Please address the actual argument, namely that in the US, when you hand platforms to people like Zuckerberg, you don't need to do any actual censoring because American business leaders change their political opinions in line with the sitting administration the way other people change T-Shirts. That is the point of the sale, anybody who is not utterly gullible can see it from a mile away.

On a Chinese owned TikTok Americans get information presented to them, whether intentionally or authentically, that the US powers that be do not like. There is no other security argument, data was already managed by Oracle in the US, the app was technically separated from its Chinese equivalent Douyin.
I mean, it seems obviously true to me, which is why I posited it here. Do you have a counter-argument you'd like to offer in response?
Entertaining. But then, I'm European far away from this orange man.
Maybe you have to quit acting altogether :)

We all need to be as well-grounded as we can, and that takes enough effort itself.

When you try to act smarter than you are, about the only way to have a chance is to act different than you are.

I think it's pretty common when that's going on the chances are about 50:50 that you may look smarter or you may look stupider.

The best way to come out undamaged is sometimes not to play the game at all . . .
Blanket censorship of this kind is not the hallmark of a healthy democracy.

This ban is the definition of a slippery slope - this ban may be in your interests, but eventually one will not. What then?
I would say moreso it’s that the NSA is at least on some level beholden to the will of the U.S electorate.

Foreign governments not so much.
No, there was a similar one letting the president declare nonprofits a terrorist organization though.

The TikTok one doesn't have input from the president, its all apps of a certain size owned by a country we dont like. Hence, Marvel Snap got banned too in the crossfire
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What I can’t figure out is why the old readers, which clearly read NFC cards, can’t work to read iPhones, which emit NFC.

I understood in the past that iPhones weren’t supported because of the limitations described in the article. I figured once Apple opened up the system and Ubiquiti actually implemented it (both of which have now happened) that the old readers would work.

Although irritating, I’d consider paying $5/user/year, but I’m not about to rip out 6 card readers that I just installed.
Truth be told, I did expect Trump to suck up to Putin first...
Rethinking Software Delivery: LLMs as Dynamic Computational Environments
There is a strong tendency to integrate LLMs with existing apps. Barring few errors that could eventually get corrected, LLMs are fundamentally programmable computational environments. With that notion, every app could be an environment that is dynamically instantiated. Do we need to fundamentally change software delivery? Treat LLMs as dynamic computational environments, generate purpose-specific interfaces on-demand, create adaptive, context-aware interaction models. Eliminate fixed application paradigms?
so im not allowed to criticize it because somebody posted a random link to it?
Thanks. This does sound like a state machine, though, but the devil is probably in the details. Yes, here Haskell is probably a bad choice, and something where direct memory manipulation is bread and butter should do better. Which is completely fine; Haskell is a high level language.

But in your example, PHP is also a bad choice, and alas, it dwarfs Haskell in popularity. I can't really think of where PHP is a great fit, but Haskell isn't.
Can you explain what ROS does/is to the uninitiated? Why is everyone still using it if its such a trainwreck?
I don't know if "only" is the right adverb to use when it's how the first-party apps and website works. I don't know what usage looks like for third-party sites, but I would imagine it's incredibly small compared to bsky.app, and it's nearly everyone's first impression of Bluesky.
What's a man page? [cit]