skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand where "instead of the holocaust" came from. I'm talking of a hypothetical modern-day Nazi Germany that's just as awful as the real one, and whether you would allow their funny dancing app. There's no either-or.
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Hello! A software engineer with 5+ years of experience building out full stack applications, I've been contracting for the last 6 months and my clients include Amazon (built an interactive touch screen for their Nashville warehouse event opening) as well as writing an AI web scraper for a client.
Also have a background in EE / Digital signal processing and audio/music.
You're going to feel awful silly when he does it in like, 3 lines.
Huawei is also controlled, even more directly, by a geopolitical adversary, and is not banned for regular consumers in the USA.

The reason TikTok being owned by China is considered a problem is because it could allow China to control what American citizens see on their timelines - the content.
The story everyone seems to be missing is how gatekeeping app stores are enforcing it. That is, if TikTok was sold as a "desktop program" which came in an envelope, and was given away for free just as America Online did decades ago, it very likely would be untouchable under the first amendment. The gatekeeping mechanisms at play are a large story that we've become ignorant to.

>TikTok, however, suggested this was not enough assurance for “critical service providers” to continue listing or hosting the app in the United States unless the Biden administration...

This would be a joke statement 20 years ago.
Tangential to the discussion, but I'd encourage you to not give up trying to find a form of exercise that you don't find boring. It makes it much easier to get adequate exercise. Also, not having to spend time doing things you hate is nice.

For example, personally I find lifting in the gym or running on the treadmill to be quite boring. I like biking and running outside, especially on trails. A lot of people enjoy group classes like crossfit or yoga, since the social reinforcement can make it psychologically a lot easier.

Καλή τύχη.
Isn't that also tale old as time? The word salary is believed to have come from either rationed salt or compensation for salt purchases issued to Roman soldiers, and free lunches were always present in every IT worker's dream office during 2000s-2010s.
I'm all for the TikTok ban but listening to your last argument a reasonable opponent might notice that:

1. You assume others play dirty by default, even though we never caught them red-handed. Not necessarily unreasonable, but see 2.

2. You assume we play fair even when we are caught red-handed. You rationalize it with "it only goes to show this was the exception and look what happened after". Spoiler alert, nothing happened after, neither the courts nor public opinion shit it down.

You have to admit these two are a little inconsistent to say the least.
Yeah, but back when there was actually an ethos of morality, there were certain lines which weren't crossed:

- no use of religious/academics/medical practitioners as cover identities

- no high-level clearances to people who had ties overseas and might be vulnerable to blackmail/coercion

Somehow that all went out the locks during the "War on Terror" and I would gladly vote for and donate to a candidate who would make an issue of instances where the above moral considerations were ignored and operations which I would view as war crimes were perpetrated.

It's not worth winning any war at the cost of the moral high ground.
I thought that according law they are distributors, not publishers. That’s how they avoid liability for all the damage they do. They really try to have it both ways
I wonder about that, too. I’m still on Forgejo 7 which hasn’t diverged too much from Gitea, but there’s going to be a decision point soon.

When I looked recently, it looked like Forgejo was getting much more activity. If I had to guess, I think it’s going to be the leading fork.
Pretty interesting. I knew someone years ago who made batches of borosilicate glass with this stuff. It’s difficult to work, unfortunately. The glow effect fades if you work it too much. I still have a bunch of his glow glass.
> Americans have no reason to care what happened in Tiananmen Square.

It's not about what you care or don't care. It's about using China's social media service to discuss the very topics that China wants to censor. Again, go to TikTok or whatever alternative service provided by China and try to refer to the Tiananmen massacre or Uighur genocide. See what your paragons of free speech treat that.
No, it's like banning a newspaper because it is operated by Chinese intelligence agencies, regardless of what it publishes.
Of course if the app have done anything seriously illegal, it would not have been necessary to bring this law to ban it, because existing laws would have sufficed to do it.

Perhaps because US government wanted to do it despite TikTok not breaking any serious provisions of law this law has been made.

It feels like a sleight of hand from government to ban something that has broke no (serious) law (yet).

Did the SCOTUS go into the necessity of having this law to achieve what government wanted, if existing laws would have sufficed, provided that government met the standards of evidence/proof that those laws demanded.

If not, it is as if government wanted a 'short-cut' to a TikTok ban and SCOTUS approved it, rather than asking government to go the long way to it.

What this line argued in the Supreme Court in the oral arguments or in the opinion or in the lower court?

Obviously TT could not have brought this up, but the court could have brought it up while examining the government.
"I did not shoot this person: I asked this person to give me all their money or else I would shoot them."
TikTok to Restore Service After Trump Vows to Extend Deadline
No, the game framework would have to be designed for that, or someone would have to put in a lot of work to get something like an emscripten pipeline working.
> without any obvious RSS support

I'm curious if you checked for an auto-discovery link. These are very often present even if the site doesn't have a visible indicator of the feed.
Baby steps! Let's do both. Let's rid ourselves of a foreign adversaries influence, then let's ALSO get more competition and reduce big techs influence. Why not both?
I'm not addicted to it. I have a 15 minute timer and it locks me out of the app after 15 minutes... and even 15 minutes feels like too much sometimes.

I'm not arguing that it should be banned. I'm saying I simply wish these scrolling apps didn't exist.

I'm sure people get a nice high from heroin. I wish that simply didn't exist too.
I appreciate the recommendations. If Book Tab X has a waterproof rating, unfortunately I'm not finding much about it.
"Dwight was right and Joe is too. But — and this goes for both of them — what a thing to say right before relinquishing the ability to do anything about it."

This begs the question: Why don't they do anything about it, though? That they don't speaks volumes about the real state of our democracy, which is far more imperiled by this than by TikTok, the Russians, or whatever cartoonish villain du jour they squirrel us with.
In all the internet posts about this, I've never seen a response to the fact that China has been doing this to US tech interests basically forever, and even the EU has done its utmost to severely handicap US tech companies for the same reasons. Why hold the US to a double standard against our own interests? TikTok is the exact same garbage you can get from Insta, YouTube, for fuck's sake even LinkedIn has video now. What is the incentive to allow a hostile foreign power that repeatedly and overtly attacks our infrastructure to control the biggest player?
No, then you didn't read it properly. I argue for "I trust my people more than my enemy", which doesn't sound quite as dumb and is something most people would probably agree with.
I'm not convinced this accurately reflects the capabilities of law enforcement or the enforcement of laws on international entities. GDPR, for example, is a regulation that applies to non-EU companies when they operate in the EU. I don't believe it's accurate, then, to say that it's impossible for a country to apply regulation to foreign entities running web services.

Additionally, I'm not convinced that the US is actively investigating such things, at least formally, on domestic social networks anyway. Twitter's algorithm at some point was tweaked to amplify Musk's posts. Was there a formal investigation or certification process, or were any controls put in place, to ensure that nothing Musk Tweeted would ever be subject to foreign influence, and thus enable amplification of foreign propaganda or ideology? I quite doubt it.

I didn't think Twitter was even required to inform the government that his Tweets were being boosted. Researchers discovered it. (And I think there were some leaks from Twitter developers, via journalists.)

It just seems weird that we seem to put very minimal effort into verifying that domestic networks aren't pushing foreign propaganda, but then our logic was excluding foreign social networks is that they might push propaganda. We don't even know that the American ones aren't, and we don't even seem to care very much.
To me, this whole thing just comes across as craven and excessively politically motivated by the US government. If they were really concerned with apps (whether or not they're owned by the Chinese government) collecting and selling user data, they would pass adequate and enforceable privacy laws. Banning one specific app is addressing a symptom rather than a root cause, and any solution to an issue like this ought to apply to the entire field more broadly. I don't necessarily think that banning TikTok is a bad thing, but to do so in such an obviously politically motivated way belies a lack of concern about the underlying issue (i.e. the mass harvesting of user data).
That you don't consider it trade is irrelevant. It is trade, and trade has always been within the scope of the government -- every government, really -- to regulate.

> If TikTok was made ad-free, would that change your argument?

I think as long as TikTok is generating revenue -- or even plans to in the future, as sometimes happens for startups -- it'd count as trade yeah.
Thank you. I was trying to figure out what "forge" meant here.

When I think "forge", I think a tool to turn a raw material into finished product. Ergo, the blacksmith tool that turns iron into a horseshoe.

The software analogy would be turning text source code into a runable binary. Ergo, a compiler or an interpreter.

Github and SourceForge move source code from one place to another. To overextend the analogy, they are more like a combination shop/delivery service. Source code is moved but never altered or transformed.

Long story short, this crusty C/C++ dev thinks forge is a really weird term for a self-hosted, sugar-crusted Git server.
I will never go back to Jenkins. It was my job across several shops over the last decade to keep that thing slogging along and I’m beyond done with it.
Would you be willing to post the llm.py code? (Perhaps in a Github gist?)
Note that the outgoing Biden administration has stated that it won’t enforce the TikTok ban today, choosing to leave implementation of the law to the incoming Trump administration. TikTok shutting down today is an internal choice.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-wont-enforce-tik...
I think it would be depressing. I wouldn't be surprised if the average is 3-4 hours a day with the way some will spend upwards of 6-8.
"I've never understood this take - no one is forcing people to drink, snort drugs, smoke cigarettes, gamble their life away. Don't use it personally if you don't like it"
> * Dems pickup where republicans left off and ban TikTok

So why didn't Biden stop the ban? Instead he signed it and did not intervene. The problem is Biden continued and did not stop it they left Trump to reverse the ban.

It would have been better for the clean up his own mess but again they allowed Trump to "save them" and Biden would have just left TikTok for dead.
Looking forward to seeing the ECJ order Meta to sell its European operations to a European company.
In the US, shouting fire in a crowded theater is expressly allowed per Brandenburg v Ohio in 1969. It puzzles me why it is so often trotted out as an example of things you can’t say since we had a whole Supreme Court case that determined the opposite — it is arguing the losing side. The kind of speech that is disallowed in the US is very narrow, much narrower than people apparently assume.
I have no idea where the "either you allow nazi tiktok or it's the holocaust" false dichotomy came from.
Not FOSS, but this is kind of what Zenhub was/is, right?
> and was given away for free just as America Online did decades ago, it very likely would be untouchable under the first amendment.

Even if they could distribute it under 1st amendment l, what is stopping authorities from IP blocking TikTok servers? Gatekeeping can take place pretty deep in the OSI network stack, at levels that transmit data that can no longer simply be characterized as speech.
So you're telling me the US can't compete in the marketplace of things or the marketplace of ideas?
What’s also outrageous is that while there is no proof that the CCP is using TikTok for nefarious purposes in EU/US (at least for now), there is evidence of the owner of X using his power to influence European elections in many EU countries, while spreading misinformation and fake news himself. But we can’t ban it in the EU because our security-reliant master won’t allow it.[1]

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-vance-nato-support-eu-reg...
> The levels of McCarthyism and apparent Sinophobia in this thread astounds me.

Same for me, but I’m also extremely confused at the naivety of many commenters here who think ByteDance is somehow a company independent from China government and it’s only duty is to make money and that it somehow more important to have freedom of foreign business than freedom from foreign interference.
> (and Surge to Alternatives)

Jiminy Cricket, people. It's the weekend. Try to pretend you're not addicted. Let yourself get bored, and find something constructive to do.

(To put my money where my mouth is, no HN for me for rest of weekend. uBlock Origin reminder filter: `||ycombinator.com^$important`)
> TikTok is the exact same garbage you can get from Insta, YouTube, for fuck's sake even LinkedIn has video now

As a user of TikTok and Instagram Reels, TikTok had an actually good algorithm that would show you interesting things after you showed interest. I found a lot of film students with great reviews through TikTok. Instagram and YouTube don't care to show you that kind of thing.
For SVG there are standards that define how to interact with unknown elements, and a set of standard elements which are actually part of the spec. With PNG, there's a minimum set of chunks that are required, and you can safely stick with those and get something that works for the vast majority of cases.

This is totally different from a container which can contain any type of data in any type of format. If you get a valid PNG, you can load something meaningful from it. If you get a generic container, you might be able to inspect it at a surface level but there's no guarantee that the contents are even conceptually meaningful to you.
Nowadays, certbot can configure either Nginx or Caddy automatically. Make sure you install the appropriate plugin with apt (if you're using apt).
Perl was like this, though it did have wide adoption at one point. But people got sick of having 20 ways to do the same thing so Python was born. Is there an equivalent in the FP world?
We need to move beyond capitalism.

Capitalism is just a gentler version of feudalism, which was a gentler version of slavery.
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How come Xiaomi is not banned in the US? Only the most successful commercially get banned, but that's solely for national security, right? /s

> Not to mention, China blocks basically every popular social media site from the US already

And the US is usually pretty good at criticising that. But apparently not so good at accepting when other criticise the US for doing the same.
Vine was the cleanest and the fact that anyone is using BlueSky or any Dorsey-endorsed product after he killed Vine is the strongest possible evidence of the Gell-Mann effect.
Interesting how the concept of blacklisting was so horrifying to people that they immediately changed their vocabulary, code, and even broke APIs (despite the origins predating unrelated current events by hundreds of years) only to immediately turn around and justify the newly christened "blocklist" as a great thing we should all embrace.
I got an alternate trackpad with buttons for my T440s, and then conveniently broke the motherboard socket. Greatest disappointment of my life. Had to use an actual mouse for the next couple of years.
"For You" is an engine designed to provoke an emotional reaction (engagement) from you at any cost, to the detriment of your mental health. Mine was filled with people getting into fights, toxic right-wing misogyny, "karen calling the cops" videos, etc.

Twitter has a perverse financial incentive to capture and hold your attention, and negative attention is far easier to provoke.
Indeed it should support all commands. ffmpeg shouldn't even be relevant, that's just an implementation detail. If a command is missing, it should be installed.

Just tell the computer what you want, and it figures out how to do it. Isn't that the dream?

I think the logical conclusion here is replacing the shell with GPT. It might not be a good idea — yet — but it's certainly possible already.
Honestly? I wouldn't be surprised if he did...
You equating completely different things. Executive order is how president works.

The German ambassador talks about using government power to go against your domestic political enemies. Or using using lawsuits, threatening criminal prosecution and license revocation to prevent media speaking negatively about Trump.
Show HN: 2500 lines to parse a CREATE TABLE statement
Needed an oracle sql parser, didn't find one, so wrote one myself
On today, the 19th, Trump isn't president yet and can't issue executive orders.

Ed: to be clear, the original title specifically mentioned an executive order.
Have the non-tech people you used to follow on Twitter also migrated to Mastodon? What about the other half of the tech people, where did they go?

Labeling another post as deceptive and then trying to use just one demographic (and not a very large one at that) as proof for whether mastodon is "large" in percentage terms is not very reassuring as to the level of discussion on Mastodon tbh.
Is your argument seriously, "yeah but if the US doesn't ban things as hard as China, it doesn't count"?

Personally I'd love for the US to ban or restrict more things from China. Not because that's the end state I want, but maybe it'd get China to loosen restrictions so that we'd get closer to parity.
Yea. I'm not even arguing for any policies right now, just wishfully thinking it could all disappear. Policies are complex. Headcanon where short form content never existed is easy :)
The white house statement said that TikTok “should remain available to Americans, but simply under American ownership”. If other regions, such as Europe, applied that logic the outcome would be messy. Imagine applying that to X (Musk is part of government) in Europe.
Certainly not underrated, but I'd say RNA engineering [1]. Now that we have the theoretical knowledge of the many types of non-coding RNA (that we previously considered "junk") and the necessary biotechnological and computational tools, we can start making novel, biologically-active RNA molecules (for medicine, biotechnology, etc.)

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[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9714562/
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Not my thing but I see why others would like it. Forgejo is freaking tiny by comparison resource-wise, though. It’s a Go program that runs comfortably on a Raspberry Pi with a dozen other services. That alone makes it super attractive to drop onto any spare computer you have laying around.
Wait you took a repo and started typing it into the IDE? Could you please expand on what benefits you noticed and how it affected your understanding of the language? It sounds like a fascinating way to force attention to the code simply reading it wouldn't.
China hawk republicans, yes. Not enough people to matter. The democrats only got on board, giving it enough support to actually pass, once it became the main place pro-Palestinian content was spreading.
I have started to change my stance on China. Is it worse than the US if you hold them both up to the light? Sure, all of us can cite Chinese ills that we don't have, especially in regard to individual freedoms and democracy. But those things can be fixed.

China has never in its history practiced imperialism. They don't have a burgeoning and entrenched oligarchy.

What good is democracy when popular initiatives never see the light of day? What good is it when political parties ignore court ruling and continue to hold elections on Gerry meandered maps? What good is it when people are continually enslaved by debt and taken advantage of?

I'm not arguing for China here but we have a handful of social media properties controlled by one man who can change the narrative on anything with the drop of a hat.

We don't even really promote the individual (liberal democracy) anymore. The rich and powerful leverage ignorance to hold power. It is disgusting.

And for the record, I still hold onto American exceptionalism as principal and believe America is the light of the world. This experiment has allowed many to ascend from poverty and make something of themselves despite what they were born into many, many times over.
> I don't understand where "instead of the holocaust" came from

Since we are speculating, a modern day Germany has not perpetrated the holocaust, or it would not be allowed to exist in the European Union.

> Nazi Germany that's just as awful as the real one, and whether you would allow their funny dancing app. There's no either-or.

But what tik tok has to do with that?

If nazi Germany was still alive and kicking, it means we would all use their apps, because we would all speak German.

It would be what the USA are today.

We in fact use American apps or buy American devices even though they allow very bad content or are produced where labor protection laws are inexistent and worker are treated like slaves.