skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point of all of this stuff is to find a balance between evaluating applicants independently and objectively according to a well-defined set of critera -- equality of opportunity -- and producing an end result that is representational and fair in the societal sense -- equality of outcome.

A good illustration of this concept is the "equality vs. equity" cartoon, with people of different heights trying to look over a fence. https://interactioninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/...

I understand why a lot of folks, especially technically-minded folks, bias for equality of opportunity exclusively. This is essentially what a meritocracy is. There's lots of good things about equality of opportunity and meritocracies, but they also have problems, and one of those problems is that, generalizing, they both tend to reflect and reinforce pre-existing biases, and in particular implicit biases. This is exactly the kind of problem that DEI initiatives are trying to address.

I don't really want to litigate the pros and cons of these two concepts, I just want to point out that they both exist, and that initiatives like DEI can have as goals improving one or the other or both.

It's fine if you say, when doing hiring, you're only interested in equality of opportunity. That's probably the position that most people who are anti-DEI would take. But I think it's also fine if you say, when doing hiring, you're interested in both equality of opportunity and outcome. Both are valid.
seems myopic to focus on final promotions in decades-long world-class careers
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Australia FWIW
Much more complicated than the Cullen's hack at CCC, but I think that also required a bit of luck. This was an very interesting read in terms of solid research experimentation setup. We now have two really nice attacks on the RP2350 secure boot, and only a few months after release.

The Cullen observation that the OTP power supply wasn't being glitch detected was pretty damning and a much more devastating attack in practice. If you require decapping and lasers, anything is possible.

Thanks for the write-up!
>They were faster to clone Twitter with Threads.

Wasn't that because they hired a lot of ex-Twitter employees with an obvious ax to grind ha ha?
>> I love the us vs them argument. Because it's baseless. Why don't you stop buying everything that's made in China. Let's see how far you get.

> Because that would be harmful to US consumers. Lack of short video entertainment reccomended in a particular way is not very harmful. No microwaves or fridges for a couple of years is.

And it wouldn't be a bad thing to "stop buying everything that's made in China," but it's not something anyone can do suddenly. It would require a massive political project on par to the industrialization of China. China makes pretty much everything now (IIRC, they have 30-40% of the world's manufacturing capacity), and that is not a good thing for anyone who is not an authoritarian Chinese communist.
TikTok reported 16B in revenue in 2023. In the same period SNAP reported 4B in revenue. You could conservatively say TikTok is worth 80B from that metric alone.

>I’m not sure TikTok will be the first social network ever to avoid being encircled, outlasted, and strangled by Menlo Park.

TikTok’s growth has been massive - but you may be right only because Meta decided to get the teacher to change the rules; not because Meta was able to out execute TikTok
Is this the first time we're getting a social media with no US-users? This is actually kinda interesting, as US-based content dominates a good chunk of international videos.
The only issue (not a small one) so far have been for my pro email when receiving events asking for RSVP through a service… having such a unsubscribe link in it. Always be careful with rules and don’t forget to check folders regularly.
There was nothing in the classified briefing. The ban was enacted because their zionist donors told them to. Our government is corrupted past the point of recovery.
Hey, in the EU we don't have that crappy Apple Intelligence, but at least we have alternative App Stores. :o) Governments can go both ways!
Thank you, this is a wonderful step by step. Saved for the next time I get a chance to sit down and fiddle. Cheers!
can't relate since im on android
On Hacker news I see this question mostly asked about desirable fields. In education, there is a huge push to recruit more men. I can't speak for sanitation specifically, but I have seen efforts to get more women into stable, well paying blue collar professions.
Americans convincing their fellow citizens to do things is a very different proposition to foreign governments convincing American citizens to do things.
This has probably been priced in for a while
Fyi in the consumerlabs review for zinc, all products passed testing for cadmium levels with the highest (Nature's Bounty) having 0.5mcg/g.

You basically need to be careful with any supplement since it's unregulated, and need to do a lot of careful diligence. It's a good sign if they are honest about their supplier and you trace back their supply chain. E.g. for many chelated supplements (zinc included), if you see a TRAACS trademark then the source is Balchem (Albion) which to my understanding is fairly well regarded.

ConsumerLabs tested one such TRAACS product and found it to be 0.1 mcg/g cadmium, so likely most products using TRAACS zinc bisglycinate formulation should be similar. I also found some EU food safety application [1] which confirms that across 3 different manufacturers of zinc bisglycinate (one of which is Albion), all samples were < 0.1mcg/g

[1] https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2903/j.efsa....
Doesn't China actively block many American companies from doing business there?
I'm not going to pick a side, as I'm not versed enough in the history and nuances.

But I will say, partly emboldened by Massie's admissions, the absolute control Israel has over the US government is concerning.
Correct, I am well aware of what Apple are and don't use iOS. I'm talking about normies — I hope this makes some of them realize computing freedom is something to care about :)
And the job of the executive branch is to enforce the laws passed by the legislative.
Meaning the current administration had literally zero to do with it.

Do you understand that the President doesn't pass laws, Congress does?
Tens of thousands of companies using Tiktok shop or other Bytedance services is suddenly in-operable as well. Jobs loses, layoffs coming.

The power of digital dictatorship, USA government can kill a company, the entire ecosystem, all of the companies, users, entities relying on the digital application and service with stroke of pen. Every country and person on the planet should have vested interest to reduce choke points that can be exploited by USA government. So USA government shenanigans can't just ruin the invention you created, your jobs, your peaceful Sunday.
Unlink vs. DEL – A deep dive into how it works internally in Redis
The American people by and large do not know how government operates, who has power and authority over what, etc. Blame and reward usually is attributed to the President who has high visibility.
They are embedded microcontrollers, which run real-time deterministic tasks, with tens to hundreds of MIPS on fixed-point tasks. These are the kinds of microcontrollers used in products like household appliances or control systems.
openssh-portable already exists.

debian developers tried to be extra clever and it blew up in everyone's collective face.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42753396
this is the most underwhelming launch of a web framework. doc pages say "coming soon". no explanation or differentiator on the landing page forced to click "getting started"

worst of all its just another JSX wrapper and some routing calls with states in some language you won't be able to easily hire/replace people.

many lessons to be learned from this poor execution on top of the framework fatigue
Sounds like TikTok has decided to not break US law
Most systemd functionality has built-in support for targeting remote hosts and local machines (containers, VMs) and mostly utilizes SSH under the hood to do so.

Check the -H and respective -M flags of many systemd CLI utilities.
Will admit, this is a big PR win for him if it works.

Especially since a lot of young voters / voters in general don’t see much of the impact of the president.

Him doing something popular that the average person can see seems like a huge win.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forge_(software)
I’m afraid that this mechanism of Trump losing credibility hasn’t been implemented.
Rather than "desirable" I would maybe say something like "economically dominant". If the highest-paying and most-powerful careers in a society don't at least somewhat meaningfully reflect the demographics of that society, then, well, what does that demonstrate, and is that something we want to try to fix? Hopefully you can at least see the position where the answer to that last question is yes, even if you don't agree with it.
There’s only one frood who could pull off that extraction.
Hey I'm curious about this point of view—would you mind elaborating on what specifically justifies it in your mind? Is it because it's akin to a trade war and we're responding to their 'import restriction' with our own? Something else...? Thanks!
Well, Tiktok is already banned in Pakistan, India, and China so that's over 3Billion people.
It’s amazing how you fully buy into Trump propaganda.
And Trump so far is only offering a 90 day extension to find a new US buyer. The ban was signed into law late April last year, but they've spent much of that time trying to fight it legally than actually find a buyer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_TikTok_in_the_...
The smug replies you're getting are because Monday 20 Jan happens to be a bank holiday (Martin Luther King's birthday) in the US (so markets closed).
Why are bee stings such a common occurance to you? Are you a beekeeper?
Related ongoing thread:

TikTok goes dark in the US - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42753396 - Jan 2025 (312 comments)
If you want another angle beyond "massaging egos", look into the Trump <> Jeff Yass connection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Yass
Related ongoing thread:

About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in the United States - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42754130 - Jan 2025 (80 comments)
was not really on TikTok but a bleak day for anyone that believes in the free speech ideals the US was founded on
I don't like Elon.

I'm not going to look up the original context of Elon's alleged lies, but from what's written here they just sound like long term project goals rather than formal lies (implying things like malicious intent or fraud).

If anything, maybe the only reason he didn't meet those goals is due to his social media addiction.
Yes, if you live in the United States, our elected government has the ability to supersede your right to general-purpose computing which is—as far as I’m aware—not in either the Constitution, the bill of rights, nor in later amendments.
If only our climate emergency had such a hero to swoop in and save the planet. Pretty sure I saw a headline on HN last week that we already blew through the 1.5C limit, I doubt it got a fraction of the 2000+ hits this story got yesterday.
Media companies can’t be owned by non-citizens either (see: Rupert Murdoch’s journey to become a US citizen)

All ByteDance has to do is sell for a generous valuation
> those people are probably concerned about their future

As they should be, because they stupidly made their lives dependent on a single platform that anyone with a brain could see was likely to run into trouble sooner rather than later.

The lesson for the is: don't put your eggs in one basket.
It's pretty clear the comment you are responding to was being sarcastic.
This is exactly what we saw when Sept 11 happened (over 20 years ago) and the Republicans decided to invade Iraq and carry out all sorts of extra-judicial mischief.

I started to think the world was going to end but its ticking along in the same manner which has now coloured my views.
I agree if there was 2% unemployment in IT salaries would be rocketing and there would be stories about foosball tables and masseuses at work.

And in the same breath they say companies are being careful about hiring.

I am on an extended sabbatical of sorts, but I would think I would count statistically as unemployed because I lazily look at jobs on occasion.

In high demand eras, jobs would find me. Nowhere close to that right now.

Unemployment stats have been manipulated for political gain for decades. There are huge numbers on "not looking for work" healthy males that are being excluded from stats.

What's shocking to me is salaries are at or below what was in pre inflation. Outside of SV plumbers and other tradesmen are making as much as an experienced software dev.
Please explain why Lego figurines have no hands
please explain why lego figurines have no hands
Because the trait is not the end all be all. It's a random walk to an outcome that leads to enough offspring to survive for the species to be there at all. It's probably not even the most optimal solution whatever is there, just happens to be competitive among the rest of the ecology to not be snuffed out.

You might be interested in this concept:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitness_landscape
The US government is motivated to have their citizens content and productive.

The Chinese government is motivated to have US citizens angry and unproductive.

While productivity and happiness are not the same thing, I am personally far less worried about how my government would influence me than how China would influence me.
The game is published by Nuverse, which is a ByteDance subsidiary.
I have a low tolerance for paying to watch advertisements.
It is published by a company that ByteDance owns.

Presumably they are switching to a new publisher and will be back soon.
It's the same country that allows a practical monopoly of NVIDIA on GPUs and Intel on CPU (or at least an oligopoly), and then pretend "foreigners are out to get us". It gets one to know one.
Microsoft just renamed Office on everyone's PCs, and the new name isn't great
Where I live, there are a number of co-ops. The procedure to register is clear and normal. https://business.vic.gov.au/business-information/start-a-bus...

A banker at a major Australian bank once suggested I take a coop model, so I am sure it is on the radar.

I think it is a great idea to have tech coops, and wish you well.
This is a wonderful project and an even more wonderful write-up, I wish I came across more in this tone! I'll just add to anyone following in these footsteps: be careful what type of website you host on your Pi. Self-hosting is great, but if you expose services on your home network to the internet, expect people to try to hack you. What type of site you host will either make this very hard or very easy. The difference between compromising a VPS and compromising your home web server is now they have access to your actual LAN. Cloudflare has a pretty good WAF on the free tier, look at it as another learning opportunity.
Good riddance. It was nothing but brainrot, spyware and propoganda.

Though it's hardly unique in that regard. That's modern social media now.
US is the same country that allows a practical monopoly of NVIDIA on GPUs and Intel on CPU (or at least an oligopoly), and then pretend "foreigners are out to get us". It gets one to know one.
As a counter argument (and not saying this is right)

This creates a vacuum of time that Americans now can use on other tech apps. American leisure hours is a finite resource, in a way TikTok competes with Netflix, Meta, and even sports.

That’s revenue in other areas.
Closing TikTok in the US isn't going to kill Bytedance.

Every company is subject to the laws of every country where it operates. I don't know why you're singling the US out.

Ultimatley Bytedance is responsible for their own behavior and the consequences.
If not then should be. I ANAL but Feels Like™ the 4th should cover it as the computer is an extension of my Self.
HN is a tightly controlled media platform and I don't expect any honest discussion of this issue here.
Using protected class as a factor in employment is prohibited nation-wide under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. There is no "balance" between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome. The former is required by law. Using protected class as a factor in hiring doesn't become legal just because it's done in pursuit of equality of outcome. They are not both valid concepts, at least not unless you're willing to violate people's civil rights. One is what employers are legally required to do. The other is illegal discrimination.

Also, think through the implications of this photo in the context of hiring: https://interactioninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/...

What's really the difference between having a group of candidates standing on a box, and lowering the bar for those candidates? At the end of the day, whether it's standing on a box or lowering the bar the end result is the same: some candidates are considered to have met expectations despite not reaching the same heights as others.

I highly encourage you to think through whether this is a good metaphor to use to justify DEI in a workplace setting.
RedHat sold to IBM and neutered it's free CentOS variant recently, so not so sure it's a good example.
100%. I used to love meetups in sf via meetup back in the day, really genuine people wanting to learn new things at the time. When that platform collapsed, it basically wasn’t replaced at all.

Same thing could be said of the academic side of Twitter. It’s now fragmented across Twitter, Bluesky, mastodon, and the level is discussion is very diminished
States have a different (and significantly longer) timelines that humans. Even the Soviet Union "instant" collapse took years.
Are they not allowed to sell books in the United States? How about guns? Can they release major motion pictures? Video games?

We have freedom of speech in this country — and for the boogeyman that China was somehow weaponizing their platform, we just removed the voice of countless communities that had formed on TikTok.
What's to stop TikTok from serving their website from non-US servers to all comers? Using it in a browser is not as smooth as an app, but there must be apps out there that are nothing but a WebView to URLs on a single domain (like you can do in Mac Safari with File... Add to Dock...). Submitting / watching videos wouldn't be that different.

It seems to me the only recourse the US would have is building The Great Firewall of America.
Discussed a bit here:

How decentralized is Bluesky really? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42215410 - Nov 2024 (16 comments)
Of course, because the problem that's trying to be solved is that the tech industry has default, implicit biases in its hiring processes, which tend to favor the majority. Anonymization acts as a force multiplier for those defaults/biases.
The current administration has very little to do with this
i definitely use free streaming websites when i can't find a show or region locked.

strange how much torrenting i used to do. theres just more content on youtube thats interesting.
The omission of blocked posts is done server-side by the app.bsky.feed.getPostThread endpoint, so you'd need to reimplement that to return the content of blocked posts instead, both upthread (parent) and downthread (replies). It would require acquiring and maintaining your own replica of the data, which is hundreds of gigabytes in size.

This is significantly more complex than making a few small changes to the frontend app.
Forgejo is a GitHub clone. No one can claim with a straight face that it's somehow completely unrelated.
Did your startup struggle designing your product?
I see many YC startups hiring product designers.

Was designing your product a challenge for your team?
What problems were you trying to solve with your designer?
What feedback have your users shared about your product?
There's a lot of debate in the media about whether or not the banning of bytedance/tiktok is an infringement of the 1st ammendment rights of users or if it represents a threat to the security of the country.

I just think that governments shouldn't be able to easily take down internet services like this. If it was just a normal web service with reasonably competent userbase, it could continue operating a hidden service over tor or some other mixnet. Instead, the government can effectively shut down the service by sending takedown orders to app stores and ISPs, which are naturally monopolistic and have little reason to stand up to regulators and act on behalf of their user's interests.

People have locked themselves into walled gardens and this is the end product. The town square has been privatized and controlled. Own your computers, people! Or someone else will.
Covid already proved that the government can yank your shit at their whim with absolutely no recourse on your part. It’s just nobody was paying any attention because they all lost their mind. Hopefully people wake up and see how little the government gives a shit about you or I.
Those communities can form else where. There can be another short form video platform.
More people support the TikTok ban than oppose it:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01/17/americans-banning-tik...
probably a wumao

they get paid to post pro-China messages
This goes to European Court of Human Rights. It may find out that cancelling election results was unnecessary.

https://www.ejiltalk.org/electoral-dysfunction-romanias-elec...

> Here, the opposite could be alleged- that Romania took action, but the action was too immediate and drastic than was called for in the circumstances. Considering how the Court expressed a critical view of overly drastic measures in cases such as the above-mentioned Kermiova v Azerbaijan, it is possible that the Court could similarly show a disdain for the expeditious actions taken by the domestic judiciary in Romania.

Also apparently most voters voted this candidate because of economic reasos, not due to Russian proximity.
> It's more work to do that well than to make a traditional game.

hah, think dwarf fortress! That game is still incomplete to this day...
I think a lot of people on here never spent much time on TikTok and it shows. It wasn't just for young people and it wasn't all brain rot.

There were vibrant communities, subcultures.

Real issues were aired there. Real people connected. From the early days of Covid it provided a window into a broader world.
This is funny many levels... but the screen dismissing monoliths with "too many interdependent parts" is funniest.

I wonder when this is from, is it supposed to be serious. As it's undated, is it before the the consensus swung back from microservices to moduliths?
I think in 2024, Youtube changed the algo for the front page. Now there is almost always one video in the top two rows with tiny amounts of views. I think it came about when there were lots of complaints about discovery of niche/new stuff.
At the same time, foreign companies are only allowed to operate in China through partnerships with Chinese companies. Why should we play fair if they don't?
> But they can’t be redownloaded if deleted or restored if you move to a new device.

Amazing news! It's a plot to stop people buying new phones, hence saving the planet a little bit...
As far as I understand it, they wouldn't be able to advertise with US companies in the US so it's a lot of cost for no benefit. Unless they're hosting all that bandwidth for an altruistic reason..
> If only we knew what happened in that classified briefing that made them vote together across party lines.

I don't know about any classified briefing, but TikTok publicly shot itself in the foot badly during the vote, though a hamfisted attempt to influence it. I think that was enough in itself to bring about bipartisan unity.