skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is an example of a bee disemboweling itself:

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/u9YDf9w6Ps8

Here is another one:

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/fMxZ4vKmOZo

So I've countered your two anecdotes with two anecdotes of my own. Can we go back to looking at what people studying bees have written?

For example, this article interviews two bee scientists that confirm that the majority of honeybees die via self-disembowelment after stinging a human:

https://www.livescience.com/do-bees-die-after-stinging

However, they mention an interesting other thing, that may actually help explain what happens much better: bees don't die when they sting other insects or spiders, they only die when their needles get stuck in our thick skin. So perhaps the most likely explanation for the evolution and survival of the barbed stinger trait is that it's beneficial when bees fight their common enemies, and that bees simply don't interact that much with mammals and their thick skins.
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I may be wrong, but from "external memory" in the description I think the idea is that each of those steps can be done on disk, not RAM. An external merge sort is a pretty standard database primitive, and the other two only require purely sequential access, so are friendly to spinning disks and the like.
its a horrible crutch that suggests america is already dead and gone.

america and americans should be able to view any media and still come to the best conclusions. banning media is a lack of trust in americans ability to formulate opinions. what the point in having media and democracy if you dont think people can make good decisions based on it?
It depends on what content you watch on TikTok. Many comedy content creators on TikTok have identical, mirrored copies of their content on Instagram (an example is Leenda Dong, who has been very popular on both TikTok and Instagram).

This was also tested in practice in India, when the country banned TikTok in 2020. Rest of World published a report in 2023 with the conclusion that most users simply switched to Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts without much complaint, just as the previous commenter predicted: https://restofworld.org/2023/america-india-tiktok-ban/
So America is the same as China and Americans should not fight for the freedoms they enjoy. By the way American social media platform are not banned in China rather Chinese people access to information outside China is restricted if an american company following all the laws of China would open an app it would not be stopped any more than a Chinese app both would have to follow the same laws. In the US it's a different law for US apps vs Chinese apps which I think just tells you the US government is owned by corporations.
Man if you can't trust the guy sitting next to you to pull this prank on you, then you've got serious issues.
No, there are lots of them, including obviously all the ones in China like Douyin and Weibo but also Bigo Live, Zalo, and others.
Even more ironic is that we have a government programming us with fears (just fears!) about what China _could_ do to justify some action they are taking. Literally running the playbook of entity they are trying to make us afraid of. Fucked up.
You say that 3/4 of companies you are familiar with used discrimination to achieve numeric thresholds of 40% women software developers. I can't name a single medium or large tech company that is 40% women software developers. Can you?
Reels doesn't provide a true alternative because it's not about features and functionality it's about culture. The culture on Meta's Reels is really not it. And it's not just the user base but also the way the app is managed, and the algorithm.

TikTok's algorithm was amazing, as was the community.

You can't just recreate communities. They're alive, organic, fragile things.
I used pirate streaming websites as a kid, but I thought fewer people use them today because the video quality sucks. Any stats on the percent of people using them over time?
Why do you bash people who have found a way to make an income? We all know tech ain't hiring after everyone was told to 'learn to code'. What else is there to lead a middle class lifestyle?
I don't understand. If gender discrimination is the cause of the disparity, anonymization should eliminate the disparity. Under an anonymous hiring process, you can't know the gender of the applicants and so you can't discriminate on the basis of gender.

If coding interviews were done with cameras off, and voice masked so gender can't be known, how would that be more subject to bias than with the camera on and the gender known to the interviewer?

When orchestras put a veil between the auditioner and the evaluators, that made the process more biased? That's new to me.
Maybe you can use

https://www.cloudflare.com/lp/ppc/bot-management
Aww yes I believe it was Thomas Jefferson who wrote about the need to form a more perfect union that allows hostile foreign governments to run a direct unfettered pipeline into the minds of its youth with zero oversight.
Is this the 'deep state' Trump accused of?

could you explain this in more detail? really curious about it.
Yes, this is how it's done eg with Python and Go.

An advantage of a common GC could be interop between languages.
Yes pretty much, China and the US are mutually acknowledged adversaries

I view it as the CCP stating American media cannot be trusted. In that case, why should the US trust Chinese media?
If it doesn't support SVN or Mercurial I don't see a need to try and be abstract. At a minimum it needs to use the word Git because that page is inscrutable.

Also a features page would really help
It sounds like this guy came out on top in this, he found out really quickly that he joined a shit company.
He can even appear like fighting the anti-freedom establishment that tries to take away something they like and make people believe that any other legal troubles he might have later be of political nature.
HD should imply at least higher resolution graphics and updated audio, but this version seems to be just a direct remake, as far as I see. Unless I missed button that toggles graphics mode?
Open to open countries. Closed to closed ones. Reciprocity is not hypocrisy.
Those represent what 1% of the bulk output of the field if I had to guess? By volume most news is wire service a la terse AP reports that get reposted everywhere. And they have to be terse because it's breaking news and there is no time to opine beyond reporting the inputs mainly as they are in shortform.
Why do they have to? And if there is, what argument is there that we should stop just at this one platform?
You can't track user as well in browser, tiktok has no interest at all doing that. They make money by spying on their user, making profile and selling ads.
> How about guns?

Imports of firearms and ammunition from China to the USA have been banned since 1994 [1]. IIRC Chinese companies were caught selling rifles and other gear to known gangs in California and that motivated the law.

Firearms imports are also much more restricted generally than most other categories. More than one manufacturer has reincorporated in the United States because of the regulations.

[1]: https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/3355...
> it's a lot of cost for no benefit

The argument for TikTok ban is that it's a Chinese propaganda machine.

I don't know whether it is true. But assuming it is, propaganda usually costs money.
Do we ban propaganda in the US now? Or do we educate people out of believing it?
Yeah. If you don't stop it here, where does it end? Next thing you know, you'll have a guy doing millions of dollars of business with proxies for the Russian government in the White House.
You joke, but do people analyze it continuously forever also? Because if we’re being paranoid, that’s something you’d need to do in order to account for random updates that are probably happening all the time.
TikTok lied under oath about what they do with user data. Also the requirements they have for their managers and executives amount to them operating as an unregistered foreign agent, since staff are literally required to uphold China’s national interests:

https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/14/tiktok-forced-staff-oaths...

You combine that with the lack of reciprocal access for American and European social media apps to the Chinese market, the mental health issues TikTok causes, the lack of safeguards in TikTok that inexplicably Douyin has (China’s TikTok from the same parent company), and on and on - banning isn’t just justified but the only sane thing for all countries that aren’t China to do.
Gannett's app is having problems tonight.

Here is the same story somewhere else:

https://www.pressreader.com/usa/detroit-free-press/20250114/...
Under what circumstances would you consider it acceptable to ban apps from a geopolitical adversary?
> I block all of datapacket's ips from most of my websites

Same, I block all DigitalOcean, Vultr, AWS and sorts form access at all. 99% of security issues together with content are resolved after it.
Wow that actually surprises me. Social media had me thinking it was very one sided.
I see this thought posted frequently. It makes no sense to me... what power could China exert here that wouldn't also be a bad power for anyone to exert? Surely, if they started exerting power on their platform in ways people didn't like, people would leave, right? And also, what's the path to pressure bytedance by the ccp?

It all just smacks of protectionism and isolationism to me.
The New York Times is probably the most trusted, and trustable, publication in all of journalism.
Dominant market leaders aren't inherently bad for the world. That's why anti-trust laws are narrow. Only when they are so ingrained and conspire to be anti-competitive (usually via lobbying gov policy to create barriers to entry) that they harm the ability for competition to replace them. NVIDIA constantly and perpetually have companies at their throats looking to take their market, which means they better deliver to customers.
Source code hosting and version control platform?
Same thing’s happening on the Play Store
This is a US policy for US citizens. Of course they are protecting their own. China does the same. No Facebook or Google allowed in China.
Can you give some examples? I a skeptical that the format, designed for maximum retention and engagement, can be a positive.
As far as Musk boldly stated his intention to interfere in european elections, can we ban Twitter/X on Europe as well? Asking for a friend.
You can override the other unit without rewriting.
Place you config here.

> /etc/systemd/system/<unit>.service.d

I've used PartOf to enforce "dependency".
Lots of other ways to enforce order and dependency once you have the override in place.
Will be replaced by something else doing all of those things in a few months.
My brother in Christ, the US has done more intense things than this in the past and been fine, and will do more intense things in the future, and (probably) be fine.
Maybe you can keep it uniform by always presuming "host" as one of the parameters (and localhost just happens to be the default for it).
Wow, jump straight to the bad faith assumptions huh?
RamNode and HostHatch.

First has great support and second has horrible to say the least support. Both are cheap and reasonably stable
>it's a different layer of infrastructure, but it's still infrastructure.

TikTok isn't "infrastructure", TikTok is software. TikTok exploits the infrastructure of the internet across the world, it is not infrastructure itself. The servers TikTok runs on is technically "infrastrucutre", but those same servers could run anything else, the hardware is not "TikTok". I could run "TikTok" the software on any hardware, even if it isn't connected to the public internet, and that would not qualify it as "infrastructure", at least not in the sense that it's servicing any population.
Lol no, access to executables produced by a foreign adversary is not protected by the 4th amendment
The TikTok legislation was included as part of a larger $95 billion package that provides foreign aid to Ukraine and Israel and was passed 79-18.

iykyk. Also this article from two days ago is hilarious, "congressional leaders who championed the law are now shying away from calling for the ban to begin Sunday" with Schumer, Jeffries and the White House all trying to pass the buck to someone else and try to avoid a ban:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/us-leaders-lawmake...

Reality is this was a game of chicken. American leaders wanted to force a sale not be left standing like a trophy hunter next to the corpse of one of the most beloved apps. Now the elephant is dead and there's no hunters to be found! We'll see what happens.
What do you think US based products will now be used for ?

Healthy political discourse ?
Funny enough, the very first foreign chat room that I've ever visited was hosted by Yahoo.com. Seeing people on the other side of globe talk shit feels kind magical, through that you reflect and gain idea of improvements, and it shapes your world view with a more complete (good and bad) picture.

Now days we have way more advanced self-media platforms, but each one is just an island of (both platform-imposed and self-imposed) isolation.
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US law and freedom of speech is for US citizens. China is a foreign adversary. China bans Facebook. Same shit.
It's an app.

Some money could possibly be made by some people legitimately.

The bleakest part is people who didn't recognize how extreme a gamble it is if that's what somebody wants to pin their entire livelihood on.

Whether they wrote the app or not.

The "house" just drew the winning hand, and all the gamblers lost everything they had on the table at once.

That can happen at any time, and almost always happens eventually, that's why they call it gambling.

It's not so bad if you don't bet everything.
Only one company had 40% threshold, the others had 33% and 30% respectively. They also didn't always hit those thresholds. But yes, the recruiters explicitly had 40% women in tech roles as one of their OKRs at one of my previous employers.

The only company I know of that has over 40% women software developers is ThoughtWorks. But they are an Australian company and it is legal for them to discriminate against men in that country. They are transparent about their use of a strict 1:1 gender quota: https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-es/insights/blog/beyond-quot...
you can sideload apks
Sometimes they don't even need to get paid. Chinese online patriotic outrage can be very strong.
This is really fast! Serialized 50k lines in 500ms on my Mac
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China already wages asymmetrical warfare of all kinds - cyberattacks, IP theft, espionage, encroaching on other country’s territory, literally ramming ships in the South China Sea - subtly influencing other countries is a bridge they crossed a long time ago probably. It’s why Douyin has time limits and strict guidelines on content to make it more productive and educational, but TikTok doesn’t.
Depends on your use-case. For a headless server those are more often than not irrelevant.
In my experience being a founder with a child while working from home was very compatible. You can have a really good work/life balance. And a lot of late nights :)

Not sure you are legally or ethically required to 'disclose'. Your body, your decision.
You missed what this is actually about. This is about protecting the US from a foreign adversary. It's geo politics. China does the same with banning Facebook.
Not really my focus, you'd have to hunt about.

This is current:

According to research conducted by NERA Economic Consulting and the US Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation and Policy Center, over four-fifths of all online piracy-related activities are linked to illegal streaming websites. This trend is especially prominent in the TV and movie industry.

~ https://dataprot.net/statistics/piracy-statistics/

but vague on details, there are many sources quoted by no drill down on methodology, context, details that matter to nerds, etc.
Do they? Do they actually? I'm not sure the U.S. has control sufficient to exercise meaningful jurisdiction, even if it exists on paper. Big companies have too much influence in Congress and with politicians to be meaningfully reigned in in practice.
See here for a counterpoint on hybrids putting less stress on their engines:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eC5FFoCq4s ("It Turns Out, Hybrids Are Really Hard On Engines")
If shedding lightning the genocide of the Palestinian people is "antisemitism", then yes.

https://theintercept.com/2025/01/09/tiktok-ban-israel-palest...

For the down voters, what exactly is the claim here? That everyone on earth is inherently antisemitic, like it's in our DNA? What exactly do the Chinese have against Jews?
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Already hugged to death, rip
Very interesting read.

I don't play video games, but I do play online chess, and in online chess, there is a huge epidemic of cheating. Many cheaters are banned by chess.com. Some of these bans go unnoticed, but in other cases, the cheaters passionately insist that they were not cheating. And I don't believe them.

In a minuscule number of cases, chess.com has been known to reverse a ban. But chess.com does not provide the details of their anti-cheating technology.

So in the arena of chess, I do side with the provider, because as a practical matter, I believe they are almost always (>99.9%) correct. Of course, they still suffer from false negatives, because intermittent cheating is virtually impossible to prove.

I'm not sure what lessons to draw from the article.
Freedom of speech isn’t freedom of a platform. Their speech isn’t limited.
“You can still access any thought you want due to our permissive free speech laws. You just can’t sell this book if you’re Ray Bradbury”
American are the chicken with golden egg, you don't want to lose them. They have the biggest ad profile value.

Indian on contrary are cheap, their profile are worth close to nothing.
We've banned foreign ownership of traditional media channels since the 30s. We did not ban the propaganda but we did deplatform it.
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This just means that China will use bots on american social media for influence. Honsestly, considering Trump got elected, that is enough.

Dont think this will affect foreign influence by china much.
Even the term “side” load frames the concept as something you're getting an exception for and not as a natural normal thing.
I mean, John Saves Energy is one that comes to mind. He shared tons of info about his solar power rig, interesting data, vibrant conversations.

Music accounts like Rare The Nanas who put me to sleep many nights with amazing VHS finds of obscure 90s music performances.

Tons of music theorists, weird quirky bands and musicians who built huge followings there, film makers, game devs, and on and on and on.
From the POV of the users it doesn't really make any difference whether the government bannd tiktok, vine went bankrupt, google decided wave was not worth it or any other reason a service becomes unavailable. They will cope by moving to a different service or changing their consumption habits
Yeah, I was hoping the article would mention this, but no dice. :(
Unreal. Land of Freedom bans Social Media app that runs on US servers, on its own terms, with censorship teams staffed by dozens of ex-US State officials[1].

Amazing that Congress will see bipartisan action on this issue before any of the other much more important issues.

It absolutely destroys criticisms of China banning Facebook, etc.

1. https://www.mintpressnews.com/tiktok-chinese-trojan-horse-ru...
Another bite the dust.

Who's next ?
im aware. i believe i transferred
> they didn't ban the app. they said china couldn't own it. but china would rather not sell it.

this doesn't get enough attention. ByteDance could have easily partitioned off the US environment and made bank selling it. but the influence potential was too juicy for CCP to let ByteDance sell it. even if the CCP wasn't manipulating the algorithm to sway US public opinion - I don't know whether they were or not - having that option open was far too valuable to part with it.

and I think they were playing a game of chicken, honestly. they bargained for the US government being too dysfunctional - and TikTok too popular - for the ban to happen.
Why should they? This is not the early 1900s anymore.
I have a feeling the ban is likely the result of "special interest" groups as opposed to a "classified briefing"
Don't care; fuck all nationalism. We are all complete people — don't frame your own existence as that of a human resource that belongs to some higher power.
They weren't talking about pessimism, they were talking about propaganda.
On the other hand, I find this a bit concerning too? The USA is starting to look a bit more like China. There is now only “one world view” for us. Given the friend group between the people who run X and Meta and it might leave us in a precarious situation?

Banning TikTok only treats the symptom , the real disease is that people are way to susceptible to propaganda and misinformation.
> we just removed the voice of countless communities that had formed on TikTok.

They just move to new place. Loads of online communities have died/migrated for various different reasons over the years.

> We have freedom of speech in this country

This doesn't impose on your freedom of speech at all.

Just because you have the right to say anything, doesn't give you the right to say it where you want.
> The Chinese government wants Europe and the US to fall to them. The good does not outweight the bad, in my opinion.

Do you believe this in your heart? Or how about this: do you believe that Europe wants China to fall? Or that the US wants China to fall?

I feel there’s some uncontroversial stuff like China wanting absolute control over messaging about itself, in the context of avoiding organized resistance in its internal affairs. And it goes to extreme measures to do that.

But (glibly) “we want no criticism to be mentioned of us” does not lead to “we want the US to collapse”! There’s a whole texture to the Chinese position here, one that is different from, say, Russia actually taking more or less direct control of various places during the Cold War.
> “I think that would be, certainly, an option that we look at. The 90-day extension is something that will be most likely done, because it’s appropriate. You know, it’s appropriate. We have to look at it carefully. It’s a very big situation,” Trump told the outlet.

I would have thought that indeed, they have looked at it already carefully.
Amazing that we don’t hear this book quoted more often along with 1984, we seem to be living funhouse versions of both.
Google/Facebook did XMPP federation back in a day and it was spam hell.
Federally regulated airwave media aside, this is the internet. Telling the company they cannot operate in the US because of the content of the messages that might proliferate on it is a dangerous precedent. If you’re really claiming that the internet should be regulated as much as TV, I fear for that future
People who want something they don't use or directly effected from be banned are not the same as the people who use the thing and getting directly affected.

People who loose stuff will feel much much strongly that those who on political or intellectual level support the ban. The later will move on, the former will remember.
Fair enough — was wrong on that point, and happy to be corrected.
Why?

I disagree, but genuinely asking why you think that. Why is it ok if it's on the market level but not on the individual level? Price discrimination is all around us all the time, often "hidden" because people get uncomfortable with it, but I don't see it as a bad thing (and it's often very net positive socially).
Luckily we get the unfettered propaganda pipeline of hostile american billionaires instead.