skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They blame tiktok for young people not supporting Israel's destruction of gaza.
Both Meta and Google have deep, well established ties to the US intelligence and military. So yes, they have been weaponized. Just by whatever the hell kind of oligarchy/plutarchy/neo-reactionary shitshow the US is turning into, and not a dictatorship per se, yet.
From the article:

>The results, posted after markets closed Tuesday, sent shares up as much as 12% following the release as investors appeared to be more focused on Tesla’s forward-looking remarks about future products,
For those who say "TikTok can just exit the US market", when the Trump administration came close to forcing a divestment/shutdown on TikTok in 2020,^1 Americans were 10% of TikTok's user base but 50% of revenue. Of the top 50 most-followed accounts <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-followed_TikTok_a...>, 21 of 50 are American.

TikTok's buyer does not have to be American. If TikTok were a Canadian, British, French, German, Korean, Japanese, or Taiwanese company, the US government wouldn't have intervened in the first place.

Conversely, if TikTok were a Canadian, British, French, German, Korean, Japanese, or Taiwanese company, American would not have to fear a hostile government silently gathering data on American users, or a company repeatedly shown to be lying about using its app to do so.

^1 And boy, do Democrats who shouted Orange Man Bad back then now wish they had supported the move
Likely yes, because "determination of the President" occurs five times in the text of bill,

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521...
We had a small course in university on esoteric programming language. Each of us had to select a language (Brainfuck, Piet and a few others) and play around with it. I chose Piet and had a lot of fun with it, but to be honest, my small example application was not really aesthetically pleasing. I guess you have to be a Piet expert to make art with it.
I already got my ESP gadgets to tinker, what's missing is the time. It's super fun, and looking so forward for it, but my to-do list cannot give me a break. Great job what you guys are doing!
Nayib Bukele's Security Advisor Who Introduced Him to Bitcoin & Worked on Chivo Wallet Died in Custody Under Mysterious Circumstances

In 2022, while I was living in Ecuador, I got in touch with Alejandro Muyshondt.

Alejandro was the one who introduced Bukele to Bitcoin in 2018, as he was facing 'inbound liquidity problems' to finance his political campaign.

He told me: 'I pushed the BTC law, worked from scratch.... Chivo was just collateral in order to have BTC approved.'

This whole thing was rushed, security was not really a factor; hence now the problems with leaked source code of the Chivo Wallet ATM network, for example.

In 2023 he accused a congressman from the ruling New Ideas party of corruption and drug trafficking - before getting arrested himself in August 2023, for alleged crimes, including leaking documents to journalists.

Then, in February 2024, he died in custody under mysterious circumstances:

'A preliminary report found he died of pulmonary edema, a build-up of fluid in the lungs, according to documents published by local media. [...] contact with certain toxins, medications, and trauma to the chest wall can also cause it.'

But wait, there is more: Muyshond was the cousion of Ernesto Muyshondt, former mayor of San Salvador, who is in a psychatric hospital, facing legal proceedings over alleged crimes himself.

Since Nayib's crackdown on the MS13 gang, many (innocent) people have died in prison.

EFE writes: 'According to figures presented on Feb. 24 by the NGO Socorro Jurídico Humanitario, some 235 inmates have died in El Salvador’s prisons during the country’s state of emergency, with 48% showing signs of violence and 30% dying due to lack of medical care.'

Meanwhile, Bitcoin maxis are telling you that El Salvador is a paradise of freedom.
The argument is basically that for the average US national, mass surveillance and propaganda by US tech is more of an issue.

The argument against TikTok boils down to "it's Chinese", without any kind of detail or thought on how this badness actually works. What, specifically, is bad about TikTok that doesn't apply to any other influence buying or advertising operation within the US?

HN often argues that free speech is such an unalloyed important political good that all sorts of racism and incitement to violence must be allowed. The widespread defence of Kiwifarms, for example. But as soon as someone mentions the magic word "China" all that goes out of the window?

(I should note that if you're a US national or resident with Chinese family or of Chinese origin, the long arm of oppression can be much more of a problem!)
Yes and I think that's what people want.
Kagi isn't amazing, it's just not bad and it really makes plain how badly Google has degraded into an ad engine. All it takes to beat Google is giving okay quality search results.
Certainly Zombie-Chalmers is inconsistent with physicalism. Chalmers is not a physicalist, and the logical/metaphysical possibility of zombies forms part of his argument against physicalism. If you want, you can just stamp your foot down and insist on physicalism (and thereby dismiss whole swathes of the philosophical literature on consciousness), but from Chalmers' point of view you'd just be begging the important questions.

My point regarding Dennett is that his overall picture of consciousness also contains highly counterintuitive elements (such as e.g. his denial of any form of privileged access [1], which is not just an ad-hoc speculation tacked on to his main theory but a necessary consequence of it). I agree that Chalmers' epiphenominalism is counterintuitive too. I don't think anyone has succeeded in arriving at an overall philosophical account of consciousness that is entirely satisfying and free of implausible or counterintuitive elements. I think it's important to have a certain amount of empathy here and understand that people genuinely differ in their plausibility judgments in this domain. For example, I personally find epiphenomenalism, though implausible, to be less implausible than the denial of privileged access; I suspect you have the inverse judgment. It is unclear how to weigh these sorts of considerations against each other.

[1] > I see no other way to force this issue into the open than to defend an admittedly counterintuitive theory and await enlightenment on what, exactly, I have left out. The view that I wish to defend is that our privileged access extends to no images, sensations, impressions, raw feels, or phenomenal properties at all. There are indeed all sorts of interesting things going on in our heads that have characteristics or play roles that might tempt us to call them images or sensations or impressions, but our access to these events is not only not privileged; it is highly indirect, inferential and uncertain. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-9479-9_...
I'm interested in where this data is sourced: "only 21% of people will buy a car without carplay". I find that really hard to believe even if the survey was isolated to SF.
For example the list of “foreign adversaries” is under the sitting president’s discretion.
Perhaps using a ML to craft the deterministic rules and then have a human go over them is the sweet spot.
It shall continue to fall and it will have little impact on anything. The only thing propping it up is a bunch of investment companies who have it in their "environmental" funds. The damage reduction on those will be from other investments rising as Tesla tanks. Fund managers and then funds will be shuffled around. The world will continue to spin.

This will result in some vapid marketing about price reductions and production increase and readjusting to market demands. Then a fat finger pointing at someone else. And some hype about battery technology. That will cause a temporary gain which can be used to sell more interest quickly and it'll tank again.
do you really think they are not?
I think NM translation was broken all along. Not in the neural network part but in choosing the right answer. https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.398.pdf
And the U.S. (people, companies, government, and NGOs) say that Chinese Internet censorship is bad for Chinese people, not just for American companies whose services are blocked.
Are you not concerned the foundation will ever work against your interests?
Doesn't help. I know for a fact I won't buy one while he's still CEO.

But the delayed purchase has given me time to reflect.

I'm in a city and have simply moved beyond wanting a new car. I've embraced tuning and maintaining my current vehicle and using it very rarely. Lower insurance, more satisfaction.

I've just purchased (very cheaply) another classic car just fool around with and restore.

I'll bet my net carbon emissions and costs are an "order of magnitude" less than buying any damned Tesla. And I'm enjoying learning new skills and ... it becomes almost creating a new art piece.

So, I'll say, thanks Elon ... for ensuring you delayed my purchase enough for me to open my eyes to something better.
i expect the opposite soon.

want anything from federal gov? you better have a id.me account with a verified secure device owned by google or apple, or else.
You're right, it seems I mistook some of what you wrote as unserious. Apologies.

My take on robot rights is they aren't something we need to worry much about for a long time, since robots aren't alive or anywhere close to it. LLMs aren't Data from Star Trek. If we do make a Data some day, we could take a cue from the episode where they debate his rights. (The Measure of a Man)

As for humans identifying as robots, that makes about as much sense as identifying as a shoe.
Surely generating Rust is not a moving target, if you choose to target stable?
Presumably gets close to

> Digital Markets Act, a 2022 law that requires Apple to open iPhones in the bloc to competing app marketplaces and alternative payment systems for in-app sales.
Not the parent, but I think the main hypocrisy is to claim that freedom of enterprise and that freedom or speech are paramount, and then cracking down on Tiktok.

The fact that Tiktok has 60% ownership by investment funds (most of which are US based), is just the cherry on top.

Personally, I think that some amount of censorship is warranted (see the "paradox of intolerance"), but I think that then the US should dial back all of that "land of the free" rethoric
> New Performance Model 3 is only 45k with tax credit in US, crazy

If you are middle class on W-2 income, sure.

The rich have moved onto other brands such as Porsche, Mercedes, Lucid, and Rivian.
Ask HN: Examples of lovely user interfaces on and off screen
Hey HN - I'm on the lookout for lovely, surprising, intuitive, playful, fun "user interfaces". I'll take anything on a screen / touchscreen / mobile - but I'm also interested in "in the real world" examples - are there nice things that have cheered up your day because the design thinking has been thoughtful or nicely simplifying something that could otherwise have been complex?

I'd prefer to avoid examples of crap stuff - it's so common (sadly!) to find people writing about examples of terrible UI's - I'm specifically on the look out for good ones!

thanks xx ;-)
It's been a long time since Tesla stock had any relationship with reality.
yes, but only the US is seen as an advocate of unlimited free speech:

https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/brazilian-g...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/18/musk-moraes-...
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>Models 3/Y are literally one of the cheapest EVs available in EU/US?

BYD Dolphin is 34 990 € and a Tesla Model 3 is 41 990 €. And both are pretty high up there in comparison to like a hybrid Toyota Corolla.
I bought an iPad Pro 12.9 1st Gen. recently. It costed $150-ish and I’m very happy what I got for the price. So I’m considering to upgrade everyone to used iPad Pros. Most people don’t need a desktop operating system these days. The 1st Gen. iPad Pro won’t get past iPadOS 16, while the current is 17. But I believe it won’t be a problem for the next 5 to 10 years, which is plenty considering the price tag.

However, with Linux it’s much better software-wise: if you have relatively recent hardware, your support would be literally indefinite. I use 15 years old hardware and I can believe it would serve another 15 easily.
Paywalled unfortunately and archive.is is blocked on my office wifi, does anyone have the content?
Isn’t this just due to (2+2)-3=1? Why is it special to 4 dimensions?
Microsoft runs outlook, bing, and until recently LinkedIn in China.
I've yet to ever find a use case for grid.... I'd prefer this be a flex box feature so I can continue ignoring grid. But it seems like they have good reasons for including it, so I suppose I'll have to actually practice with grid more!
Also a lacklustre demand for electric cars in general. Other manufacturers also impacted and probably the primary driver.
It all depends on the tax treatment of carbon, not physics.
Xubuntu 24.04 Release Notes
> That's never going to happen

Never say never, there is a clear theoretical possibility that we might one day properly price in all externalities (such as cost of dealing with climate change and conflicts related to hydrocarbons) into the cost of goods and services. That said, those chances are unfortunately small.
GrapheneOS is nice for people using Google Pixel phones. And useless for anyone else.
What? That is total nonsense. The ID.3 is much cheaper, even ignoring VW picking up the government subsidies. With the subsidies it costs about as much as an ID.5. Of course prices get much lower, with actual low end EVs which started to hit the market.

Tesla is anything but the cheapest EV.
Thanks. It's fair enough, I'm not even from the US. Just so I know, which one of the bold-font misnomers in the article have I just repeated?
> Models 3/Y are literally one of the cheapest EVs available in EU/US?

They aren't (in EU)? Dacia Spring, Citroën e-C3, Fiat 500e, BYD Dolphin, ID.3 & Peugeot e-208 to name a few are quite a bit cheaper.
Maybe if they're asserting their own first amendment rights, although I doubt anyone would question the BBC's free expression interests in sharing its broadcasting with Americans (or Chinese or Iranians), or Americans' first amendment interest in choosing to access that programming, even though the BBC's editorial line isn't completely free of political influence from the British government.

I thought their statement was that they help Americans exercise their first amendment rights in communicating with one another, which seems obviously true. Much like HN is doing right now, for example!
The problem with new URL(), and how URL.parse() fixes that
Just look at the american media reacting to any kind of control over american tech companies...

https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/brazilian-g...

Any kind of control over these companies is seen as "censorship", while banning a foreign (to the USA) company in the US is seen as a matter of national strategy... That's why it is so hypocritical
Yes. But the assembly experience and the wobbliness of the case are worse than a $70 mini-ITX options. I think even $70 would be half brand tax. As the quality to my mind puts this case among the cheapest of the cheapest.
'Expensive' Streaming Services Are a Key Reason for Americans to 'Pirate'
Could also just be reversion to the mean. COVID issues restricted the supply of new cars in general, resulting in higher prices/margins. Now that they're getting sorted out, prices return to normal and margins go back down.
Do you actively use this function in any projects? What was your inspiration to write the crate?
It depends on how feasible stable Rust is for popular projects. Many projects mandate nightly. Even if it is a fixed nightly version, the discrepancies across nightly versions add up since they don't just add APIs, they remove them too.
> Models 3/Y are literally one of the cheapest EVs available in EU/US?

Er, no. Peugeot, Renault, Volkswagen etc. all make (way) cheaper models. Heck, even Volvo now has an EV (the EX30) that is ~EUR 8k cheaper than a Model y.
Not even mentioning the Asian brand like Hyundai etc.
You’re not wrong, but they aren’t doing it for you. They view tiktok as a national security issue.
Environmental activists committed an arson attack to punish Tesla for being economically unfriendly.
yeah what they don't mention is that Pkl is based on Java.

you need a 100MB+ runtime to get started with.

But if you are already a Java shop like us, there are even more things to make your complex configs even more complex with pkl gradle plugin.

Of course, you do have to setup and install gradle, and to run gradle you need to install and setup Java JDK.
TikTok is concerning. With it's data and algorithms it could be used as a very effective tailored propaganda machine in theory. Given that China is a communist dictatorship with a thing for propaganda, and where government is always involved with companies, I believe that this is mostly justified.
Truthfully, given the backwards compatibility of Windows and Wine, you could still get away in this day and age with sticking with it as a solution.
Find a fertility clinic that partners or will partner with https://www.lifeview.com/

Select eggs/sperm and make embryos at fertility clinic.

Ship them all off to Genomic Prediction.

After you get their simplified test results, call and ask for the full report that is compatible with 23andme.

Search snpedia for keywords like intelligence, retardation, educational attainment and cross reference their existence/non-existence with the 23andme text file.

Have fertility doctor implant the embryo of your choosing.

If you have/are a female, the price is dramatically cheaper. Otherwise its about $200k (all post-tax). Embryo creation $45k, surrogacy agency fee $30k, surrogate $70k, baby delivery $25k, embryo testing $6k.
US big tech is weaponized by the US security establishment, and even used against "allies"

Mass surveillance program PRISM: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

NSA (agency running PRISM) spying on the German chancellor: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-security-agency-spie...
It's potentially adjacent to these issues:

> If you said “Once a company like that starts moderating content, it’s no longer a platform, but a publisher”

> If you said “A site that has political bias is not neutral, and thus loses its Section 230 protections”

> If you said “Section 230 was designed to encourage websites to be neutral common carriers”

Basically, section 230 was not designed to ban sites from having or exercising their own editorial judgment, or to require them to be passive in other ways. In a sense, its purpose was actually the opposite of that: to allow sites to make editorial judgments about content without getting sued for the content that they did or didn't choose to block.
Did you sell, or lose, an old phone that you might still have been signed in to?
Musk seems to be dropping sensible but boring projects that would sell well globably (low cost compact car, semi-truck) in favour of magical technology that may or may not materialise, and if so may be legislated against outside the US (robotaxi, self-driving tech).
Those are some good suggestions, particularly the first one:

>let me directly enter my interests
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Some iOS apps like Google Photos refuse to work unless you give them full access to the camera roll. I don’t know how they detect the limited access scope, but it is a fundamental design flaw that it is possible at all for an app to do this.
Of course they're not doing it for me, I'm not even a US national either! :) I'm just a .. participant in the discourse.

(I'm mildly surprised that the UK hasn't had a go at this yet, since the government has a track record of stupid internet censorship attempts, but perhaps that's going to turn up in the autumn electioneering)
I didn't see it in person, but I like the idea.
Mui Board
https://muilab.com/en/products_and_services/muiboard/
My cynical take on them cancelling the model 2 in favor of robotaxis is that they've (temporarily?) given up on being a car company. They're hoping a new influx of capital after going all in on AI hype will keep them afloat.

Given that the Cybertruck is a laughing stock and growth/profits from China are in bad shape, they may actually be doing the right thing if the only goal is to stay in business for one more quarter.
> bootstraped

i think they got a big injection when yahoo bought them, tried to dogfood in lieu of exchange, failed and sold for pennies back to the founders
Battery can be a problem as low power takes a lot more engineering than you’d imagine and being outdoors creates additional problems if you’re trying to use lithium chemistry cells when temps go below freezing.

For indoor use, I made this to power ESPhome devices from a cheap apple USB adapter: https://www.printables.com/model/703859-esp32-enclosure-with...
Facebook is concerning. With its data and algorithms it could be used as a very effective tailored propaganda machine in theory.

(oh wait, that was the Cambridge Analytica fiasco)
Normally economists say competition leads to price reduction. There is obviously pretty aggressive competition in streaming, with at least 5 global players. I don't believe they have formed a cartel or collude to set price but its pretty clear that they aren't competing on price. If they are colluding the FTC can act. Where's the evidence? The lack of FCC oversight is a problem but they lobbying has apparently been extreme. No politicians want the headaches.

I think the IPR rules mean that because "house" is non substitutable, there actually isn't as much competition as people want: if you want to watch Hugh Laurie in "house" you have to pay whatever the IPR holders want.

It's not surprising people pirate content. I happen to think we were better off with FTA television.