skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not defense of TikTok to point out that all platforms are practically identical: centralized, closed source networks that collect ridiculously detailed data about millions of people, and are in a position to process that data for all kinds of fun stuff like surveilling people's physical movement, creating recommendation algorithms, performing sentiment analysis, and using those tools to try to manipulate populations, influence public thought, and sway elections.

There is no behavior that TikTok exhibits that isn't equally applicable to every major social media.

I don't particularly care whether right now, the CCP happens to use that manipulative potential for its own ends more than the US does. It shouldn't be hard to take a principled stand against dystopian surveillance.

I don't understand people who correctly point out that TikTok is a "vector for influence of public opinion", but somehow think that's only a bad thing if it's controlled by a "geopolitical adversary".
> Unanimous decision to ban TikTok from a divided Supreme Court, 2025

Nope. Unanimous decision that the First Amendment does not prohibit banning TikTok.
Literacy is a rather straight and easy to measure concept.

Critical thinking is somewhat more subjective and harder to evaluate (i.e. I wouldn’t give a passing mark for your comment).
100% agree with this
Programmers need to start enjoying life a little bit
Does anyone know how divesting in this case would actually work?

Would Bytedance still own shares in the resulting US entity? Shares they could sell or get paid with via dividends, just no control over operations?
> Given the choice

I would chose China, which is on the other side of the globe, has no military bases in my country (USA have 3! two of them with nuclear capabilities) and probably what they gather from me make little or no sense to them and can't really influence me the same way (not even close to it) content in my language, repeated day and night from the top government bodies to the least popular piece of media that then spread from mouth to mouth and becomes a discussion topic at family gatherings, can.

No way tik tok remotely has that power, no way China could really do anything like that, they can at most insinuate through the cracks already present in our contemporary societies hoping it will work, but banning tik tok will only widen them.

It's one of those situation where having a common enemy should reunite people with opposing views, but it's not evil aliens trying to conquer earth we are fighting, it's social content (mostly entertainment) that this time will take people with opposing views even more apart.
Adult population is obviously implied. Love when the universe gifts us this level of irony.
After the Fires
A guy from my town was on the Traitors and did attempt to take advantage of the loophole you mentioned and they almost entirely edited him out of the series.
Apple is pausing notification summaries for news in the latest iOS 18.3 beta
yes it does…
The difference is that citizens can influence those companies, or influence the politicians that can influence those companies. Also, there's no direct incentive to have broad negative impacts on citizen consumers at a global politics level (not that it doesn't do so at other levels).

If you're another country consuming Meta, etc. then you should probably be wary about dependence on a foreign platform's influence. The biggest difference however is how close the platform is to the government. In the US, it's getting closer, but still has some separation; in China it's rather close to one-and-the-same due to the pressure that the govt can exert on companies to do their bidding.
One jnr dev at a place I worked left his desktop unlocked and a very elaborate email about his love for my little pony and wanting to start a company my little pony fan club was sent from his account to whole company lol.
booktok turned people onto books. there's even a wikipedia page for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BookTok
Largest telescope threatened by light pollution from energy project
He isnt posing for a poster. That image appears cut from something else.
With all the motion tracking they're doing, they could replicate this in a VR environment. You could watch the cartoonified game like you're actually there.
the same argument was about Russia and west relationship with it in the last 20 years, look what we have now
I've almost stopped using GitHub as I switched over to vscode Github Pull Request Extension.
There is a formalization using Modal Logic :) https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-modal/#Games
I'm curious how this all will play out now that Meta has sucked up to Trump.
Just because I think it’s interesting to mention given your perspective about how the youth feel, here is how they’ve changed voting patterns [1]:

In past years, voters under 30 have proved essential on the margins, especially for Democrats, where even minimal shifts in support can decide an election.

It was a group that Vice President Harris had hoped would be part of her winning coalition this year. Instead, she underperformed, and President-elect Trump made gains.

Since 2008, winning Democratic candidates have received at least 60% support from young voters, but Harris did not meet that threshold, getting 54%, according to early exit polls.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2024/11/07/g-s1-33331/unpacking-the-2024...
Engineer turns scrap Yamaha R6 into steampunk penny farthing
Some weapons are "NOBUS" (nobody but us). Imho you nailed it. When in Facebook and Twitter the content was manipulated, the US government did not complain, as they were (again, imho) manipulating the content (e.g. Hunter Biden laptop)(don't involve me in the politics, I don't have a care in the world on the subject, I merely find this very Stasi-ist that unnamed, faceless, unelected people lurking in the shadows, wearing black uniforms and black hoods, control what civilians are 'allowed' to watch).

Since TikTok became massive, US gov & agencies lost that oligopoly/monopoly and now China (or any other country for that matter) could define the narrative, form and destroy opinions.

Simple Porter's Five Forces model of analysis. People despised censorship (I will not debate whether this 'content moderation' and/or 'censorship' was good or bad). The "New Entrants" took over. And since it is clear that TikTok cannot be defeated in the foreseeable future, and it cannot be purchased, then it must die.

(q.e.d.)
Crawling a git repository can be pretty resource intensive on the server side. Viewing the state of HEAD is pretty fast, but once you go deep into historical commits, it requires considerable processing to reconstruct the historical state of the repository.
America is handing this opportunity on a platter by practically outlawing child independence.

A kid should be out exploring on their own, shooting squirrels, riding their bike to the next town, bailing hay for cash at the farm at the edge of town. I didn't become a staunch supporter of most American classical liberal principles because an app told me to, it's because it's how I lived when I grew up. If you shut me in or chained me to a parent all day, well maybe you grow up with whatever tiktok tells you since you see it as the only way to stretch your legs.
Everyone who disagrees with bipartisan consensus is a bot, true.
this is big!
the point is that US has clear and direct influence to twitter/facebook/instagram algorithms and recommendations and they can suppress one topic or another. it is not the case with tiktok, and this is primary reason for this ban
Would Strontium-90 make it glow ~permanently?
That was one of the most frustrating seasons of any television show I’ve ever watched, right up until the finale—which completely redeemed it for me! What an ending.
I'd have to guess this manufactured drama was agreed/requested by Trump, so that he can act the hero by making a "deal" to get it unblocked tomorrow or soon after.

The real question here is "What's in it for Trump?". He doesn't do anything without expecting something in return. What is Trump personally getting out of (about to) letting TikTok continue?
You are really arguing that US should improve on its propaganda game?

wtf

How about as little propaganda as possible?
And which of those nations are not nationalists?
We made a similar thing too for our community discord where you can add an Emoji on a message and it will look for similar issues with a simple RAG. That saves us so much time when a user asks if a feature is planned or not.
We also ask them to go upvote the issue or create one in the response.

Not open source right now but if people are interested I could clean up the code.
agreeing with the point the question makes here; the game theory of global politics does not work with the same morals that we prescribe individual people
Russia is far less a threat to us in the last 20 or 30 years than it was the 20 or 30 before that.
You assume there is a symmetrical relationship between the US and other nations here. There is not, hasn't been since WW2.
I am concerned that our elections could be and have been distorted by our adversaries using TikToc and other platforms.

I am not OK with that.
No, it was the Romanian National Liberal Party that used TikTok for campaigning in the first place:

https://www.politico.eu/article/investigation-ties-romanian-...

The campaign was co-opted by trolls (could have been bored teenagers) to use the hash tag for their purposes.

The win of Georgescu seems organic, he is projected to have the same results in May:

https://www.politico.eu/article/romania-election-2025-hungar...

In the context of the EU it is in no way surprising that a "far-right" candidate gets 30% of the votes. Austria, France and the Netherlands were pioneers in 2000 already.

Germany's AfD had 12% after Merkel's immigration disaster and now was 21% (in polls) after the US has repeatedly used and insulted the EU in the past 4 years. In 2019 pro-US sentiment was deservedly at an all-time high in Germany, that is no longer the case.
Ideally there should even be an API for it so we can use it in other systems like slack/discord bots when people suggest improvements.
> "But you will not write or edit a lot of lines anymore"

> "I wrote a small python file that I can start with"

Which one is it, chief?
They have US locations too, for some time now.
Amd that will be better. No massive global corporation.
GitLab has collected a few severe CVEs. I would choose "v4 final final actually final" folders as a versioning scheme before I used them. It is surprising to me that they have any users at all.
I had set one (Pi 3B+)up to do both a website as well as a public service announcement slideshow display for a local Community TV. Used PHP/CMSimple for the site and wrote a custom slider.

Things I learned:

- set the pi to reboot on poweroff

- Given this was TV used the AV output on the PI displaying in NTSC 4:3 (to support customers with older TVs), so had to be aware of overscan margins

- Added a startup script to start chromium in kiosk mode and open the slider page for the show side. worked 95% of the time, if not just power off then on.

- part of the troubleshooting was just unplug and replug - but SD cards will choke on too many power cycles, so instead of SD use a USB->SATA cable and a regular spinning rust HDD - slower but VERY reliable, the journaling file system can recover after power-outage.

- Get the right USB->SATA cable, USB-3 models seem to be more responsive and the PI can boot from them, there are some are too slow and the Pi will fail to boot.

- Slider had it's own login page (outside of CMSimple) to remotely manage the slideshow.

- Also changed the SSH Port to something uncommon to thwart bad guys.
> It's hard for there to be an open discussions about how decisions get made by juries because people obviously can't talk about their experiences.

I served on a criminal trial jury (U.S.) for 3 weeks and when the trial was over, there was no restriction on who I could talk to or what I could say about the experience.
Played the game (Mafia offshoot with some more complications) with my Swiss friends. The first round was very cringe, and everyone was fully predictable. Then, when people got the taste of it, I’ve seen their eyes glow, as they suddenly understood. Then we had alliances, counter-alliances, regular people adopting the mafia behavior so they won’t be accused this round, layers of trickstery, and all that. Fun times!
As long as we're not discussing ways to circumvent the American firewall, since there isn't one, we can still say that one country tries but sometimes fails to live up to a free speech ideal perfectly -making exceptions for national security- and the other is blatant authoritarian.
Gray zone conflicts: Evidence shows that China, Russia, and other foreign governments are actively using social media to manipulate and influence Americans through covert and deceptive tactics.

“Aggressively weaponized”: These conflicts rely on information as a primary weapon because it is more cost-effective and impactful than traditional warfare.

“National security circles”: This term commonly refers to the U.S. security establishment, including its agencies and defense systems.
> Young people now give up the app they use that actually makes them happy

Citation needed - social media seems to be very bad for young people's health, if anything.
All mispriced even means here is that it would still move at a much higher price. If the goal was just to make sure everything moves, you could price it all at zero.
This. For all of the hate the rationalist movement gets they’re effectively teaching people to be comfortable with uncertainty. It worked for me- I don’t consider myself a rationalist, but do feel comfortable noticing “I’m not sure about this because I have limited evidence- which is the right way to feel about it.”
Microsoft seems to use a similar bot themselves, not sure how it is called or whether it is OSS: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/issues/4765#issuecom...
We're talking about achieving the same/similar things in various ways.

There's difference between adding advanced features well and poorly.
This analogy doesn’t really answer it, it only shows that there’s no generic answer. So “fittest” basically means “the result”. It’s a definition, not explanation. But it is used instead of “the result” because we have some insights into how it was calculated, and we know that the nature simply creates {mi,bi,tri}llions of variants and then some minuscle amount has better chances to pass and mix these genes, outplaying others in this game. That’s where fittest comes from. Any attempt to explain it fully meets with a local complexity, in which only high-level questions can be answered in the same limited high-level manner. So there is some compressibility, but it’s clearly jpeg. Cause if a whole planet of distinct particles would strictly follow some rule to compress the observations into, it would be a rule of physics, not biology. E.g. why do animals fall to the ground? Due to gravity, here’s <formula>, works for all particles.
I had this argument with pjmlp not too long ago, and it goes in circles.

Basically they define anything less than pushing the extreme limits of rendering technology to be worthless, while simultaneously not actually understanding what that is beyond the marketing hype. The fact most users would not be able to run that seven year old demo on their systems today, even natively, would be beside the point of course.

WebGL particularly absolutely has problems, but the revealing thing is how few people state what they really are, such as the API being synchronous or the inability to use inverted z-buffers. Instead it's a lot of noise about ray tracing etc.

WASM per call overhead is a whole other problem too, GC or not.
after having read the entire thing, i don't find the same amusement. In fact, you concatenated disparate quotes and put them out of order.

1: Image viewer [libraries] have silly bugs

a. no one knows what they're doing?

2. Copy and paste code to get images on the screen

a. not very accurately

b. very slowly

3. I want to understand everything

a. here's sRGB, here's Y'UV

b. here's tone mapping

c. etc

the prose and overarching methodology reminds me of frinklang's data file[0] (https://frinklang.org/frinkdata/units.txt) which is... hilariously and educationally opinionated about ... units and measurements and conversions.

the writing style comports with how i approach problems and may not jive with other methodologies, maybe? If i have some problem i generally will try copying and pasting (or copilot.exe or whatever) just to see if the problem space has any state of art. If that does what i want, great. I'm done. if i need to do what i want 10,000 times, i usually will dig in and speed it up, or add features (event handling, etc)

I also like scathing commentary about annoyances in technology, and this article had that, for sure. the webp aside was biting!

[0] huh, this file has been updated massively since i last viewed it (mid 2010s) - it looks like earth has made some advancements in definitions of primatives - like Ampere - and things might be more exact, now. Hooray!
The US hegemony is dying and it is showing. The sign of a crumbling empire. Also, funny how any made up argument about national security goes before the first amendment.
There is a runway (YWKS) on antarctica 'moderately' close to the point where the midpoint of the great circle for that flight is, I'm willing to bet it's used as a diversion point for ETOPS purposes for those flights. It couldn't handle airliners daily, but in an emergency (in summer at least) I bet it could be mobilized just fine.

edit: allegedly YWKS does have a regular A319 service from Australia.
This is 100% what it is. The establishment types are upset that they can’t just lean on a handful of major media organizations anymore to maintain a uniform narrative (e.g. Iraq having WMDs).
Well, a static HTML page with a form submission would achieve what you describe. If you are building an app -- any app -- even your prototype is surely already more advanced than a simple web page? So exactly what piece of it is blocking you from creating one?
Private posts/feeds/groups is one of the biggest things missing from ATProto at this point.

Once they solve that it will really take off beyond just a better Twitter.
But this does

> You will organize the codebase in a way AI can handle it, make architectural decisions and organize the workflow around AI doing the actual coding.
Why drop bombs on your adversary when you can use social media influence to achieve the same ends of reducing productivity? This is far cheaper and gives you plausible deniability.
Anecdote time (but in a more simple case): Like 15 years ago, I got tired of too many wires at home and I bought a wifi pci for my desktop computer. The problem was that the antenna was in the back, so the computer was blockink the signal. I bough a SMA extension to be able to put the antena on top of the computer and it worked like a charm. Best $5 ever.
Huawei Goes to Iraq
Good stuff.

I am going to try to start measuring my prompts.

Thinking about it, I am not sure what the entropy is for the above vs "start measuring prompts".
To be fair, you're the astroturf for domestic Big Tech.
Oh that's interesting. Thanks
The systemd layout allows you to send the same command to multiple services, which is much more frequently useful than sending multiple commands to one service.
Sorting by priority?
In your opinion. That's not the rationale proffered in the legislation however.
Both launched in 2008.
> To me, it just looks like everyone is getting set up again to shoot themselves in the foot much like what happened with Twitter, and I don't understand why? Is it because choosing a server is to hard or stressful?

Mastodon has many MANY MANY issues.

The first is that instance operators regularly abuse their users as hostages in personal petty fights. I don't care too much about drama, but there has been a lot of it regarding Israel/Palestine or Ukraine/Russia and instances defederating from each other as a result of said drama.

The second one is instances can go down for whatever reason - the admins just being unable/unwilling to cope with moderation, running out of money, getting into trouble with the legal system, ... - and users can't move their post, DM and media history to another instance.

And the third one is it takes them forever to ship updates. Bluesky is so much faster moving when it comes to implementing new features, but Mastodon ships even slower than Twitter which is an "achievement" in itself.
Because it’s a stunt. TikTok didn’t need to do that.
Let me guess, didn't read the article?
Hasn't been for a while now. Our government is only held to account by the Oligarchs that own our politicians.
"Sometimes" fails. If sometimes is every day.
That's English for you, same word is usable for describing action, place and the furnace.
Looks very good. I might switch from Gitlab Issues if I find a tool to convert issues
AI or LLMs? Not specified in the article.

LLMs will never be ready.
+ a backend

what's blocking me from creating one myself:

- time

- i don't want to build something that has been built thousands of times in the past

I want to focus my time on my app instead
Using Github issues as a manager of multiple teams using multiple repos in GitHub has so many gaps, I often wonder if I'm just doing it wrong. The multi-repo issues feature a few years back was a huge step forward but also is very incomplete, still. Multi-repo labels and milestones, for example, are an obvious missing feature.
> there's strong reasons to believe that energy is required to represent all information in the physical universe

You simply do not need to believe this. The universe doesn't need to be "stored" somewhere.

> Quantum Computing is firmly based on pretending that this isn't how it is, that somehow you can squeeze 2^n bits of information out of a system with 'n' parts to it.

Quantum computing does not believe this. It is a theorem that you can only get n bits out of n qubits, and quantum computing speedups do not rely otherwise.

Noise is hard, but error correction is a mathematically sound response.
You can, but as that document makes clear, it is very complicated to move an account and to do it right.
It’s hard to know how much of the time they actually believe someone is guilty, vs just going along with the group, though. There’s a strong incentive to vote with the group because otherwise if someone is a traitor you look suspicious. And if the conversation is going after one person and that isn’t you, you’d like it to stay that way.

I don’t think it necessarily reflects how a jury etc works. If you acquit, you don’t have to choose someone else to accuse. You’re not going to face accusations yourself. You don’t have to repeat the process every day.

On your second point, I’m sure the UK second season changed the order to eliminate that, but it’s back this season. I’m sure a player mentioning it would be edited out though, so it’s hard to know if anyone assumes it’s still the case.
PNG and JPEG are simple enough that a single person can write a useful decoder for them from scratch in a weekend or two.

The newer formats achieve better compression by adding more and more stuff. They're year-long projects to reimplement, which makes almost everyone stick to their reference implementations.
How comfortable will the normie iphone user to load custom apps from .ipa files though.
Trump will of course be happy to be perceived as the hero that unblocked TikTok (after having requested ByteDance to block it today), but I'm sure "profit" comes first. He isn't doing this to be nice to China, or nice to the US's TikTok-addicted youth ... he's doing this because it puts money into the pocket of Donald Trump .. precisely in what way(s) remains to be discovered.