skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So we get down to actual situation - TikTok is way too popular and not under reach nor control.

The hell will sooner freeze that me as an European will believe US government is not weaponizing data of all US companies it can get it hands on, and well, it can get hands on all data. That's decade old story at best.

For an European, this is really funny, fight for who can control general population more. Don't get me wrong, I consider all social networks a brain and societal cancer, but to claim one is weaponized and the other is not, pinky promise... Snowden, NSA, secret courts and rulings that can't be even made public, recording basically whole internet traffic for further analysis including this comment (maybe apart from youtube traffic). Discussion who is doing worse is then just an academic one, lets make an Excel spreadsheet and compare numbers.
You are putting a lot of faith in the police and judges that issue those things.
Lessons from the Past to Overcome Capitalism
Nothing in your comment changes this:

"If China controls the recommendation system that decides what content people consume that, then they can influence the narrative of the country."
Sure, but just because its law doesnt mean its just. If you are just talking about "the law" you are talking about something very different than everyone else. Even if its the law, its obviously a violation of the intent behind free speech to limit speech only to those who the government can intimidate. If the only way to have free speech is to be within arms reach of the government's threats you arent really a bastion of free speech, you just practice speech within the bounds of what the government will allow. And as we have recently seen, that can change dramatically depending on who is paying.
Systemd does have 'restart' and 'enable --now' (which starts the service too).

Too bad it doesn't have a '--status 2' flag to show the status after two seconds too.
> freedom of the press

In many European countries this still includes regulations for publishers - while social media are somehow excluded from these regulations (and that explains why society is in state that is now when lies are not confronted but amplified).
Looking at other parts of the site, I expect it's attack/abuse mitigation.

These unfortunate souls are trying to host interesting free content. I expect they are getting crawled to dust and unfortunately, so much nuisance came from your country's IP range they had little other option but to block it.
Multithreading yes that works the way you mention but I meant multiple rendering contexts.

In standard OpenGL the de-facto way to do parallel GPU resource uploads while rendering is to have multiple rendering contexts in a "share group" which allows them to share some resources such as textures. So then you can run rendering in one thread that uses one context and do resource uploads in another thread that uses a different context.

There was a sibling comment that mentioned something called off screen canvas which hints that it might be something that would let the web app achieve the same.
>how much information is censored on Google.com if any?

Is this a serious question? Google removes all sorts of content from its index.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google#:~:text=G....
That's how America functions ever since Europeans occupied it
"Better for you if you take me off" – The Whispering Earring
Foreign manipulation of social media is literally why Trump was elected.
Also remember the viewer sees both sides and has complete information, whereas all contestants have very little to go by and no clues are given.
The mistake, IMO is thinking there are any options that are not ‘mistakes’ in one or more ways.
How does this work, why are they banning individual companies? Shouldn't they be pointing to the regulation broken (or just set up such regulation)?
Is the problem here that this is on the federal level and there is are no federal privacy regulations so they just have to wing it?

Speaking of which, how does this work with the GDPR? Does TikTok abide by the GDPR in Europe or are they just not able to sanction them for violating it?
If only we trusted in people to make their own decisions, but that's crazy talk.

Its widely known at this point that TikTok is a Chinese owned business and that the CCP has a history if forcibly influencing companies to do their bidding. If people still want to use TikTok I don't see what the real problem is.
Ask HN: Self hosted Waitlist with Landing page?
Currently building a little app.

To see if people would be interested in it, I want to build a little landing page that features some screenshots and has a waiting list (via email) at the bottom.

Are there any services or open source projects for this? Preferably using shadcn/react/supabase. I don't want to reinvent the wheel here.
Edge computing, especially when combined with AI.
Accidents, not Russian sabotage, behind undersea cable damage, officials say
Do you see the Chinese really trying to crack down all that hard? I’m sure they appreciate the irony.
It is not the same. These news networks as well as papers like the NYT still count as authoritative sources. Almost all pundits on YouTube, even on dissenting channels, still use these to know what is going on.

The real danger is indoctrinating teenagers. For example, China could spread extreme wokeness and tell girls (indirectly via influencers) that having children is oppressive. This sort of propaganda is easier and well known to US adherents of Bernays. The US is world leader in this.
> The China and Russia supporters are crying

except this is not what's happening, the opposite is true: the "manga" (make american nato...) supporters are screaming that China and Russia are finally defeated in the propaganda war, while China and Russia do not care about the tik tok ban.

It's already a victory when the enemy castrate itself and goes against the sentiment of their population, especially the young ones, out of fear that something might happen, but there's no evidence it has happened yet not that it is going to happen anytime soon.

When you think that tik tok is so dangerous that your democracy could fall because of it, well, you got bigger problems on your hands.
Thank you! I can't believe how much defense I see of TikTok on here. Is this website being specifically targeted for astroturfing, or has TikTok been that effective in spreading its propaganda? (And which one is scarier?)
I don't understand, I don't see the connection between these phrases and PR. If they didn't call it "free software" (which then, it seems to me, forces you to distinguish between the two senses of free), what would you have recommended they call it?

Off the top of my head, I can't think of a better alternative. (Libre is nice, but I think most people would probably get that worse, not better)

Obviously nothing is perfect, but this criticism doesn't make sense to me.
Fair point :D it was more about arguing that the situation is complex and it can be an excellent and terrible app at the same time, depending on what your measure is.
but it has flaws too!
http://archive.today/bUsFH
Who's next ?

All Chinese owned social media including the ones people were jumping to unless the US changed the wording in the ban. I guess we would have to wait and see what happens.
You don’t have to have “something going on” for your life to be worth living or have value
So many people think the freedom of speech means a right to your speech being amplified.

It does not.
Any specific pointers to get started?
Sure, but nice to find out quickly at least :)

To be fair I was arrested immediately once in Kurdish Iraq... They just took me to go to wait at a hotel on my own honor and took my passport. After my friend and I were interrogated they decided we were good people and told me I could go anywhere I liked and gave me a police card if I needed help to make sure that happened, lmao.
Yes and somewhat infamously in the fighting game context, high level players can sometimes psych themselves out completely in the heat of the moment, trying to recursively parse the infinite stack of reads and just completely bluescreening and getting hit by the most obvious option possible.
> So why hasn't it happened?

4. History. In those types of discussions, there are always "rational" arguments presented, but this one is missing.

> One with lots of persistent mutable state.

You mean like a database? I don't see a problem here. In fact, there is a group of programs large enough, that Haskell fits nicely, that it cannot be 3; REST/HTTP APIs. This is pretty much your data goes in, data goes out.
https://hacker-recommended-books.vercel.app/category/0/all-t...
People have been accusing Trump of this or that for almost a decade, but where is it? 90% of lawyers are partisan democrats who have hated Trump from day 1 because he is a threat to the professional managerial class. They have been digging for nearly a decade to find something to use against him.

What did they find? He was convicted for paying with his own money to pay a pornstar to hide an affair, in a case that CNN’s own head legal analyst said “contorted the law.” https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-was-convicted-...

At a certain point you gotta put up or shut up.
Tabloids have been everywhere for a very long time. Near as we can tell, people are smarter now than they were.

Does that prove tabloids make people stupid? Or disprove it?

Good luck. But I’m pretty sure hunting down tabloids isn’t going to be on anyone’s priority list if they are tasked with ‘making society smarter’ today.
Survivorship bias. The only artifacts we see are the ones that were meant to last. Those Romans who did not build for eternity have not been remembered, which distorts our view of thier society. It is akin to classic car enthusiasts who think cars were made better way back when. They think that because they only see the survivors. They do not see all the junk that history has rightly forgotten.
As noted most of things are crap - here the thing is documentation
Why is everyone required to federate with everyone on ActivityPub? What if I want to only see Wordpress, Peertube, and Pixelfed content but nothing from Mastodon or Lemmy? How is that problematic as an ActivityPub client? Or I only want Spanish language content?
I think there are 2 factors which affect my success in finding books in charity shops.

what books are sold:
I would like to understand the proportion of books sold by genre. Shops have a very high proportion of thrillers and crime novels.

likelihood of donation: Perhaps some fans are more likely to keep books than others. In my donations, thriller & crime books are donated first, I keep my SF.

This leads to a low chance of success in finding science fiction paperback for me. I guess SF (myself included) are just hoarders.....
> It’s established from these cases that through 1/ qualified immunity and potentially (granted this happened after the case, and rank and file would not qualify…) 2/ presidential immunity for official acts, that any citizen could be detained for speech the reigning administration or local officials do not like, without consequence.

No, it’s really not established. I agree the consequences should have been more severe for both instances, but no, this does not mean the government is allowed to imprison people for their speech.
That’s just fine! I’ve met a lot of Americans and their demeanors are pretty varied. I’m open to any kind of dialogue here :)

Do you have some insults you’d like to sling?
Maybe I'm not communicating well. Or maybe I don't understand how the debug symbol compression works at runtime. But my point is that I don't think you are getting the tradeoff you think you are getting. The smaller executable may end up using more RAM. Usually at the deployment stage, that's what matters.

Smaller executables are more for things like reducing distribution sizes, or reducing process launch latency when disk throughput is the issue. When you invoke compression, you are explicitly trading off runtime performance in order to get the benefit of smaller on-disk or network transmission size. For a hosted service, that's usually not a good tradeoff.
I was using the app throughout

First, there was a generic message:

> We regret that a U.S. law banning TikTok will take effect on January 19 and force us to make our services temporarily unavailable.

> We're working to restore our service in the U.S. as soon as possible, and we appreciate your support. Please stay tuned.

Exactly an hour later, it changed to:

> A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can't use TikTok for now.

> We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned!
Believe it or not, I find most of my disagreement on social issues rather than technical topics on HN and I am a fairly conventional social democrat.
> Is this website being specifically targeted for astroturfing

Of course
Oracle influenced / bought academia into teaching Java for a generation. See Dijkstra’s criticisms[1] from the time, from when his department was forced to stop teaching Haskell to undergrads for political reasons. Note that Haskell had not been too hard for Dijkstra’s undergrads.

Later, Python took its place, since people realized the Java ecosystem was way too complicated and was turning off would-be CS students. Python directly targeted the academic use case by having similarities to C, Java, and Bash——it was not a better language, it just made existing imperative and object-oriented assignments easier for classroom environments. Believe it or not, a lot of programmers and even academics sort of give up on exploring significantly unfamiliar directions after graduating.

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/OtherDocs/To%20the%20Budget%2...
Yes. It's not going to be hard 'traceable' cash, but it'll be favours and other permits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Tower_Moscow
Doing it practically in the US is relatively trivial. ID.me does exactly that already.
I don't get it. If you explicitly acknowledge that"free software" is ambiguous, how does clarifying it by adding (free as in beer/speech) make things more confusing, instead of less?

The whole point is that the phrase "free software" has nothing to do with money.

It almost seems like you want to make things simpler by just merging the two concepts. But that's fundamentally not what the movement is about.
I see it more like a phone number or postal address, which implicitly also identifies you. Maintaining it generally incurs costs one way or the other. Heck, even the mandatory renewal of national ID cards isn't free.
> broadcast tv directly to every Americans home

To take this further, they would be beaming specific content tailored individually for each American.

This is why social media is so damaging for foreign adversaries to control. They’re beaming personally tailored propaganda.
I'm always surprised how hard it is for people here to understand.

I guess the magic of TikTok was not immediately apparent to lay people or those who did not use it regularly.

In my opinion, no social media site, since maybe Stumble Upon, has been as effective as TikTok at bringing different kinds of people together and facilitating the sharing of culture: art, music, philosophy, history, jokes, ideas, etc, etc.

It was a platform used by regular people, consumed by regular people, and really allowed culture to freely flow. It made it easy for the most amazing, interesting, thought provoking, funny things to come into my awareness. It really greased the wheels of communication and made it trivial to participate in the greater social environment that is "right now".

I understand the general concern that technology enables the efficient propagation of propaganda, but there's something very incoherent in policy making about singularly banning TikTok and letting all other outlets contributing to this problem continue to exist as-is.

Let's be honest, both Fox News and Facebook have done significantly more real damage along this exact same dimension for decades and both will continue, as-is, unabated.

There's also the unfortunate fact that the real solution to preventing foreign propaganda isn't a simple Band-Aid, like this, and is going to involve the grueling decades-long process of improving our education system.
Just a little bit more than my faith in “no oversight whatsoever”, yes.
Implement Certificate Transparency support (RFC 6962)
Feature parity is probably not required as long as the different teams are able to adapt their workflow to GitHub's approach. Anecdotally, every employee from Microsoft I've talk to about this point during the last two years keep telling me that ADO is over.
People have been saying this for half a decade, and fearmongering everyone into moving elsewhere (sadly my team fell for it).

Azure Devops is such an underrated tool, it's a shame that it's being ignored by Microsoft. Not only that, but they're enshittifying it by turning into Github. I kid you not, it actually went backwards in terms of features. E.g. Instead of nifty UIs that was implemented for their pipelines, we now instead have to write shitty yaml files with absolutely no validation and guidance. This is the same company that (re)wrote Word, Excel and Powerpoint in the browser! The mental whiplash from witnessing this is very jarring.
Fair, I used a very loose definition then.

My issue with capitalism is fundamentally split in three parts: that profit is the driving force behind action; that short term effects are prioritized over long term ones; and that global markets operate at a scale that does not allow individuals to have any real agency in their environment due to the points outlined in the previous comment.

It just fosters the kind of behavior that goes against my idealized version of what society should be according to my understanding of the conditions in which we thrive.

i.e. it turns people into selfish venal assholes and it destroys our chances at a better future with each passing day

Perhaps I'm also using a wrong definition of anarchy then. But it's honestly the closest label I know for this concept. A less centralized society.
This is the ultimate government hack.

At least in the US, people will say they support the death penalty for violent crimes because they don't want to pay for that criminal to live off tax dollars in a prison. But, they won't do simple research to understand the cost of executing someone far outpaces the cost to keep them in prison for life.

Ask people to bear the massive cost of the elderly and they will say "hmm, well, oh, they should have planned better!"

Ask people to pay for those same people labeled as "criminals" and no price is too great.

All it takes is a few PE firms lobbying for "tough on crime" measures, and the ingenuity to secure a few prison contracts with the state. Problem solved for everyone. Hopefully DOGE will fix these types of loopholes, right?

Having seen a friend without means try to get his elderly father transitioned into a retirement home was shocking. His dad was a vet and even with that it was terrifying as a bystander.
https://sites.google.com/view/sources-why-we-hate-each-other...
§ The Myth of the Filter Bubble
FOSS is a distribution strategy, not a business model.
All implementations of Answer Set Programming I am aware of are actually Turing complete, as are many practical implementations of the Datalog idea, and so is Dusa — this is a common misconception!

From the paper: "often people take “Datalog” to specifically refer to “function-
free” logic programs where term constants have no arguments, a condition sufficient to ensure that every program has a finite model. We follow many theoretical developments and practical implementations of datalog in ignoring the function-free requirement." If every program has a finite model, the language cannot be Turing complete: the reverse is not necessarily true but in practice the reverse is usually true.
Haskell has strong monads, missed this in the article.

It makes Haskell even more procedural, you can use intermediate variables in do blocks.

http://blog.sigfpe.com/2023/08/what-does-it-mean-for-monad-t...
The supreme court ruled that banning it because of "the risk that user data stored on American servers might be exfiltrated" didnt fall under the first amendment.

The head of the FBI (among many others) said the ban needed to happen because China could use it to spew propaganda.

When Russia is heavily critical of what one of its media outlet says and then bans it because of tax irregularities or something, only Putin supporters are under any illusions as to why it happened.
I tend to agree that ActivityPub seems pretty horrifying to work with (as an outsider). At least it works, though, and is implemented by a large amount of different projects and not owned by any single one.
What do you mean voluntarily? The SC upheld the law.
“Give us more control over your algorithm and we will let you stick around”
https://elonmusk.today/

He conned people with Fsd for years that was a con. He lied about funding for Tesla going private was a con. He has lied or bluffed for financial gain multiple times from what I can see is that not a con artist?
Gitea also has actions.

https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/overview
Can someone explain why this matters. Other than outrage, and of course the justice aspect: this must be stopped. However, this is not the problem. Let's calculate a bit:

$7.3 billion, over 5 years = $1.46 billion per year

Technically this is extra revenue, and for example, taxes are due on it. But let's say it's pure profit. The three involved insurers (CVS health PLUS United Health PLUS Cigna make ~10 billion in profit on revenue of 300 billion)

So this would, generously, mean they make 11.5 billion profit on 300 billion in revenue, and the entire profit is 3% of your health insurance bill, with this representing about 0.5%.

Again, there's the justice aspect. This is not very honest of them, and should be changed. But it's a principle thing ... it won't make any real difference on your bill.

Am I calculating this wrong?
My guess is: Because the cloning is done by a stochastic parrot and the people running the parrot don't have the slightest idea what they are doing
This is simply not true. Before Musk took over Twitter they constantly switched to the "For You" tab. Only after Musk bought it it was changed so the setting sticks. You can also change your notification settings to the old way (only people you follow, etc.).
I can relate.

We provide a small PaaS-like hosting service, kinda similar to Railway (but more niche). We have recently re-elaborated our choice for AWS (since $$$) as infra provider, but will now stick to it [1].

We started with colocation 20 years ago. For a tiny provider it was quite a hustle (but also an experience). We just had too many single point of failures and we found ourselves dealing with physical servers way too often. We also struggled to fade out and replace hardware.

Without reading all the comments thoroughly: For me, being on infra that runs on green energy is important. I think it's also a trend with customers, there even service for this [2]. I don't see it mentioned here.

[1] https://blog.fortrabbit.com/infra-research-2024
[2] https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/