skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After deadline, though? Even textualists will be hard-pressed to say the enshrined 90-day extension can be exercised after enforcement is actuated - whether by date or action.
This is a very cool read, thanks
It did benefit him personally.

He said so himself. "Trump told the court that TikTok was an important platform for his presidential campaign and that he should be the one to make the call on whether TikTok should remain in the US—not the Supreme Court.":

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/12/trump-told-scotu...
So it is two articles that both ultimately source from NYT? They are not commonly flat out incorrect, and when they are tend to correct the record. So I would say your statement is hyperbole and wrong. NYT sources are likely quite a bit more trustworthy than eight year olds whispering to each other for fun.
They even had 4 years to IPO, it's not like the ban was unknown.
To be clear, Meta's "Diverse Slate Approach" was explicitly discriminatory with regards to protected class. It prohibited hiring managers from proceeding with an offer until at least one of the on-site interviews contained an "underrepresented group", meaning women and URM males. In practice this meant that white and Asian men had to wait a long time to get an offer even after they passed the interview rounds. But women and URM never had to wait for the DSA to be fulfilled because their presence caused it to be fulfilled.

To see how this is discrimination, consider a company that decides to wait 90 days before proceeding with any offer to a Catholic candidate, but no such delay if the candidate is not Catholic. Surely we see that this is discrimination. Even if we argue that the Catholic candidates are still getting their offer eventually it's still plainly discrimination. What if instead we rolled a dice and added 0 to 90 days of delay? Some Catholics have zero delay, just like non-Catholics. Is that still discrimination? Of course.

Now considering how the DSA works. Most candidates are not "diverse". If you look at the sequence of candidates with non-diverse (N) or diverse (D) candidates the sequence looks something like this:

NNNNNNNNNNNNDNNNNNNNNNNND

So if we introduce the requirement that at least one interviewed candidate must be diverse, a non-diverse candidate may get lucky and the next candidate is diverse. Or maybe they'll be waiting a long time until a diverse candidate is interviewed and fulfills the DSA. But a diverse candidate never has to wait for th DSA to be fulfilled. Sounds like a familiar situation where an offer is randomly delayed on the basis of protected class, right?

It's true that the DSA never lowered standards for diverse candidates. But the way it "improved" the demographics of Meta was through systematically delaying offers on the basis of protected class.
That isn't a problem in reality as everyone just uses euphemisms which everyone else understands but TikTok doesn't censor. It's been this way for years, we got used to it.
Reddit is the ultimate fanatic echo chamber. I wouldn’t trust any opinion bubbling up there to be representative of any large group.
> "We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace"

I remember reading this in my mid-teens and it really speaking to me.

Sometimes we tend to forget: nobody is forcing us to use the crap that "the Internet" has become home to.

The Internet isn't the content, it's the network - the map is not the territory and the underlying architecture hasn't changed all that much.

There will always be room to carve out your space and find your people.
Yeah, I'm a little biased here as I now work at Google, but I joined in part due the positive experience we had migrating from bare metal to Google Cloud.

We went through two rounds of migration. First placing our data warehouse, where BigQuery was just so far past Redshift it was almost a joke. Then we wanted to move to a cloud provider with good container orchestration and GKE was obviously better than AKS and all of Amazon's proprietary orchestrators. It was pretty good.

Customer support varied between excellent and ~fine. Amazon customer support throughout that time (we had a few small bits on Amazon) was fine, but less enthusiastic about winning our business.

Not long after a friend of mine reported a security incident to AWS, something that looked like Amazon privileged access to their data, and it took months to get a response from them, and it was never an adequate explanation for what looked in all ways like a hack.
I can't remember the name of the product but in the 80s there was a hardware spell checker for the IBM PC. It was a box that connected between your keyboard and your PC, and if you ever typed a string of letters that it did not recognize as a dictionary word, it would beep to let you know.
lol what a great way to describe it
Don't worry it will be reversed by the end of the week.
It's a shame that it's come to this. I feel that all arguments that TikTok is unhealthy or spyware and bad for our general public are valid, but the same arguments also apply to Instagram/Twitter/Whatever. Rather than have some sort of further regulation for what data any application can collect and present to Americans, we've just brought the hammer down on the millions of people that use this application for their livelihood. This serves only to enrich our American tech monopolies — companies which have proven to us that they have bad intentions towards our country's people.

Truly bleak.
Trump will bring it back in a couple days, it won't be gone long enough to have a large effect.
Wow. Who was the boss? This is contemptible stuff.
I used RazorLame back in the day and then MediaCoder for a decade. Then I found out MediaCoder uses ffmpeg!

The main thing I do with ffmpeg is make highly compatible MP4s because some devices can't handle some MP4s.

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libx264 -profile:v baseline -level 3.0 -pix_fmt yuv420p -movflags faststart outut.mp4

If I can make a Handbrake preset for that, it might save me a tiny bit of hassle.
You're a biased party because you've canvased for the bill and I think it's good to call your stake in the matter out.

If it were this simple then Rep Ro Khanna wouldn't still be posting about TikTok. As far as what happens, as with everything else, we'll see. There's a million variables and Hacker ``Social Media was tantamount to the Fall of Man'' News is not the place I'm expecting particularly fruitful, unbiased analysis.
Between the Unitary Executive decision with "official acts" in July, and being able to claim democratic immunity by winning the Popular and Electoral vote - I'm trying to grasp whatever straws we have left. If this one is broken, we don't even have the "2 > 1" checks and balances between the 3 branches of government that's taught in every Govt 101 class, so it's good to spell this predicament out for people.
I'm generally in favor of Free Speech, but after Silicon Valley censored conservatives for a decade, during the entire Cancel Culture era, I think for them (liberals) to get to experience what it feels like to be censored themselves is probably a good thing. A good learning experience for them to begin to understand first hand how it feels, and what they did to others, without remorse, and with ill intent, for a decade.

So I say to all liberals complaining about Twitter censorship: "Turnabout is fair play" and "You deserve it, because you invented it."
China and USA are both same in a way so I dnt give a f..k which side wins. World will be a little better place with one less bully
The link is to techcrunch and doesn't mention yahoo. All websites work with VPN in China, as long as the VPN itself isn't blocking them.
'Cancel culture' isn't a government sanctioned censure of an individual, it's actions taken by private parties toward another private party that they no longer wish to do business with because of public pressure or public image issues. Sounds pretty free market to me.
They are identical in the same way that my Hacker News and Facebook are identical. They are both places where people post stuff and comment on stuff but the community in each is very different.

If Hacker News were to shut down for just the US users and people were told to go continue the conversation on Facebook do you think that it would feel the same?

Part of what makes TikTok and Hacker News great is the interaction with people all over the world. What's going to happen to the diaspora? Are they going to all end up in one place?

Again, if Hacker News kicked out all of the Americans living on US soil then would the rest of the users follow the Americans onto Facebook to continue the conversation?
their algorithm was inherently special imo. as well as their ad service. instagram seems like the biggest available replacement but it is so offputting for me subjectively with it's worse algorithm and increased and ill-matches ad placement.

some of the fediverse alternatives seem appealing but have less content.

i'm sure something will replace it if the ban remains in place but at the moment there's nothing nearly as good for me
Merge with Arc at that point
Outside the US all the American account contents are still up and visible. How does TikTok designate where an account is from? Can Americans not sign in and delete their content? Do VPNs work if American-created accounts log in? Interesting rollout here I wonder if this will change in the coming days.
The posterior is also a Gaussian, is it not?
Llmpeg by Gstrenge a few months ago - https://github.com/gstrenge/llmpeg
Regardless, the parent is correct. If you're reliant on a single platform, for whatever reasons, you're vulnerable to being fucked over by that platform. Practically speaking, how is TT being banned different than being arbitrarily banned from TT?
Kalman Filtering is machine learning. It has been used as a neural network training method.

I'm implementing real-time dual state/parameter estimators at the limits of computational tractability. Please tell me how "machine learning" can solve my problem better.
It's because people don't care about federated services, they care about services that are easy to use and have people on them and that's bluesky right now
They’re going to need their next fix from somewhere so they’ll move pretty quickly… they may complain for a bit but a junkie needs their drugs regardless of the source and quality
I’m in a large metro area; when I go to the Toyota website and look at inventory within 20 miles, I see 1 Sienna that is not in transit and not sale pending. That’s across 9 dealerships! By contrast, for the new Land Cruiser I am seeing 31 vehicles that are not in transit and not sale pending. On dealer lots. Most of them have $3k+ discounts listed! 12 Corolla hybrids; 24 Camrys. 87 Tacomas!!!

I have no idea what Toyota’s strategy with the Sienna is.
Moving away from color and race blind hiring to discriminatory hiring was not woke, by your definition.
yup, got to clamp down on the "rise up against the billionaire class" rhetoric. Billionaires want to replace the class war rhetoric with culture war, get the people distracted with bs.

Meanwhile, the greatest grifter in the world is installing his kleptocracy cabinet, pushing more neoliberalism economic policies, tax cuts for the ultra wealthy at the cost of public programs.

This country is absolutely cooked man.
> You're a biased party because you've canvased for the bill

Eh, I canvassed for privacy bills and that was a total disaster. I believe in the TikTok ban, but I’m not passionate about it.

> then Rep Ro Khanna wouldn't still be posting about TikTok

If I were advising Ro I would absolutely insist he tweet about it. Particularly off cycle. Anyone in Silicon Valley or a district with rich libertarians, for that matter.
I mentioned here recently that I let LLMs design the APIs which they are going to use. I got quite a negative response to that, which surprised me.
Psychometrics peddlers looking for suckers (military, large corporations) buying the “this is the best measure in psychology” argument when it is not even technically a measure — it explains at best between 2 and 13% of the performance in some tasks (those tasks that are similar to the test itself)[see interpretation of .5 correlation further down], minus the data massaging and statistical cherrypicking by psychologists; it doesn’t satisfy the monotonicity and transitivity required to have a measure (at best it is a concave measure). No measure that fails 80–95% of the time should be part of “science” (nor should psychology — owing to its sinister track record — be part of science (rather scientism), but that’s another discussion).

IQ testing incurs legal risk and yet companies use proxies like the wonderlic, because there is some correlation between IQ and competence, that is not possible to predict otherwise.
Some ways to restrict who can log in via OpenSSH and how they authenticate
That is what ExecStop means. It specifies how you want to cause the service to stop. But the lifetime of the service isn't exactly the same thing as the lifetime of the process that got started in ExecStart.

Maybe think about it this way: ExecStart is what the system will run to transition the service from the "starting" state to the "started" state. ExecStop is what the system will run to transition the service from the "stopping" state to the "stopped" state.

For a service with RemainAfterExit=no (the default), you enter the stopping state right away once the processes that got started in ExecStart exit. That's useful when you are starting some long lived process as a service, and in that case there is usually no need for an ExecStop. But semantically, ExecStop has the same meaning either way -- it's what needs to be run, if anything, to transition the service from the stopping state to the stopped state.
Is this like a Hail Mary pass?
You have misunderstood. The way Bluesky blocking works is not just about controlling who else can interact with your posts, it affects the posts of others too, and applies to every other user whether they like it or not.

See https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/7021 for more detail.

A relevant comment from that issue:

> As it stands, if 20 people are involved in a discussion, and ONE single person decides to block someone, then all of a sudden, the 19 other people in the discussion (+ any other viewers) are now inconvenienced simply because one person had an issue with someone else.

> Bluesky does have a bit of a block culture, and as such, this issue is only going to get worse and worse, and threads are going to get harder and harder to read and follow as more and more people get blocked.

> Just the other day I got a notification, and I clicked on it, and once again, the post they were replying to was "blocked", not because of me, but because the person who made the post blocked the person they were responding to. I was trying to make sense of their post, but now I couldn't as I had no idea what the hell they were replying to... then I think I found the post they replied to; it showed "1 reply", but when I clicked on it, no replies were shown.

> Now, this functionality was probably done with good intentions - but you know what they say, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions".

Another comment explaining the problem:

> This is working as intended but I agree it should be reassessed. For example:

> 1. In a popular thread, User A posts some nonsense

> 2. User B replies to that reply explaining why it's nonsense

> 3. User A blocks User B

> 4. Now User A has successfully hidden the rebuttal to his comment from everyone. The only defense against this is if the thread OP happens to block User A.

> This is a pretty serious downside of the "nuclear block" system imo. It creates an escalation ladder of blocking where the first user to hit "block" is advantaged. On the other hand it causes me personally to avoid blocking where I otherwise would, because I want the conversation to still be visible for others.

> There should at least be a "show reply" button on posts that are hidden for this reason IMO. Otherwise you've given every user the unilateral power to hide a reply, for everyone, permanently. If I hide a reply the normal way, it's not deleted for everyone! There is a "show hidden reply" button! The effect of hiding someone else's reply should be consistent across these two ways to do it.
We utilize every platform equally. TikTok organically grew at least 5x the followership for our business, meanwhile Meta gouges us for advertising to be seen at all and we see worse results and interactions there.

No, these options are not truly equal, and many businesses will suffer.
Not very surprisingly but IME running VMs you still want to pin (at least on Linux).
What about it? IIRC Buzzfeed published it after it had well-leaked McCain had fowarded it to FBI?
Companies had 4 years, and more recently, 4 months of notice. Theres two other doom scrolling platforms to choose from.

I think people overestimate how much local businesses relied on it, sure a few were booming making "me too" content (looking at you pressure washing companies). But you will still find the goods and services you need.

And now you won't have dozens of bad temu ad's "OH I feel bad for whoever bought this vacuum yesterday because now its 57% off!!!"
You can’t possibly be naive enough to believe that Nvidia’s Titan class cards were designed exclusively for gamers.
This is the same for YouTube and Instagram unless you don't want your content shown to anyone.

This is just the state of social media...
That would be a very good reason why a corporate influence dominated government would want to shut them down.
Seeing someone create a whole new account just to say this take amuses me, as if it was a knee-jerk reaction but with calculated thought on the optics of saying it.
Funny you say that, because nobody serious about AI is actually using Nvidia unless they're already locked in with CUDA.

Highest performing inference engines all use Vulkan, and are either faster per dollarwatt on the CDNA3 cards or (surprisingly) the RDNA3 cards, not Lovelace.
Mastodon lacks what BlueSky has - a company with money driving the experience forward and getting everyone going in the same direction.

Let's start with "no one has heard of mastodon" because no one is spending money marketing it to joe public. Sure it'll spread by word of mouth, but honestly that's not terribly compelling (because most of the current mouths are, um, the same people ranting about the incumbents. )

I don't disagree that the same process leads to the same outcome. I personally don't think bluesky will ultimately be any different to the rest.

But the no-money approach of mastodon means its a very very slow burn, which will take a decade or more to succeed, and even then may not be what we expect when a billion people show up.
I’m 41 and watch 20-25 hours of TikTok a week. I love it. Glad it’ll be back early next week, most likely.
medication makes things easier. I think it's better to use technology to make life easier than to be resistant to it and make life unnecessarily hard.
Probably super easy to launch a Facebook or Instagram competitor app right now. All you have to be is the anti-Zuck and you get free marketing.

It's the perfect window of opportunity. Launch, get traction, get funding, scale. It's all teed up.
The first amendment only applies to the oligarchs and their friends in the 3 branches of the United States. TikTok is only the first to be blocked, there will be more, and they will be DC political fodder too.

We need a distributed social platform. Distributed currency system. Distributed personal information privacy. Distributed AI. Where’s the tech YC?
People for some reason have an inability to separate the goals of DEI/EDI from the practice. It's possible that the goals are important and correct, but the implementation sucks. I am of this belief for many DEI programs I've seen. But I'm still pro-DEI. It just gets implemented often too simplistically and naively, enabling the creation of more controversy and also likely many poor outcomes in organizations. As for what percentage of DEI programs result in such poor outcomes, I dare not guess, I have too little data.

However, the comments that Zuckerberg is making makes me think he really thinks that the goals of DEI are themselves intrinsically bad. He seems to be leaning into the stereotypical type of thinking that causes the issues that DEI is trying to address in the first place.

I'm disappointed. I would have hoped that he'd be capable of diving into more nuance.
Bold of you to assume that rule of law still exists in this country.
I agree and don't believe 1) is the killer app for 2) but it definitely helps make 2) viable because at least there is a production social app running on it.
> To borrow a Tiktok meme... tell me you don't use Tiktok without telling me you don't use Tiktok.

Like so much else on Tiktok, this originated elsewhere. In this case, Twitter.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tell-me-without-telling-me
Well, think of it as a technical term and not a metaphysical one then. Self sovereign cryptographic identification is great, but at some point you have to choose a global namespace so people have a handle to address you by, your choices are some centralized dictatorship like a gmail address or a twitter id, or you can use the globally and politically distributed name resolution system with decades of legal precedent we call DNS.

EDIT: I will concede there is likely some kind of peering/pubsub architecture that would allow for connecting to people you know via QR codes of their DIDs and then using nicknames you distribute to those followers or whathaveyou, I for one am enamored by the design of KERI [0], but I guess you have to decide whether you want people to open a connection to you without any prior negotiation with any of your peers. But if you're OK with people having to be "in-network" or part of a gossiping p2p setup, maybe we can get by without paying third parties for identities.

[0] https://keri.one/
Not bizarre at all. Trump doesn’t need to ever acknowledge that he’s the one who made that initial move. Just take credit for saving it now.

Maybe if he’s feeling himself he’ll say it was a 4D chess move to make Biden look like a bozo by being the one to ban it just for him to swoop in and undo the ban in 48 hours.

It’s impossible to gotcha a guy who pretends the past never happened — or who insists that his imagination of the past is accurate.
I always felt like in the age of cryptocurrencies, people can be expected to protect their private key, and yeah pretty much if they lose it, they lose their data. I mean that's how encryption works also. No key, no data. I don't call that boneheaded. I think it's a feature not a bug.
My brain is trying to understand the loop going on here.

* Republicans ban TikTok

* For whatever reason ban doesn't go through (was it via executive order)

* Dems pickup where republicans left off and ban TikTok

* Republicans undo ban

Why.....

Especially since it was the same republicans in both cases
The coverage of TikTok's closure on this site is just sort of tabloid at this point. The culture of HN ceteris paribus hates social media significantly more than the average person. That and its western bias makes questions about the TikTok ban's effects on this site really silly. The folks here are probably some of the most opinionated, least impartial voices to discuss this issue with. A discussion about the ban's knock-on effects among creators, users, and larger GenZ culture around it isn't going to happen because this site doesn't really have much of those populations on it.

As far as what's next, it's up to the Biden and Trump admins to see what happens next. If deadlines are extended, what does a good divestiture settlement mean for TikTok? Can the executive department get away with not enforcing this law? And of course, the question that really lies ahead of us: what does this mean for other social media based outside of the US like Telegram, Line, and KakaoTalk?