skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TikTok does to the Canadian people what the rulers of Canada do to its people. That's why the govs are mad at TikTok: they can't ban its methods, for it's the same methods the govs use to fool their peoples. TikTok simply identifies your fears, likes and dislikes, and plays on them. It can divide the populace into two sample groups and run an A/B test on them.

However that's not the endgame. I believe the current phase is simply gathering data and creating personal profiles accurate enough to imitate humans. With a bit of progress in AI those imitations will be used to create videos on the fly, tailored to each user. Those videos won't be limited by laws of physics or common sense, and this will give them an impressive insidious power.
What an amusing experiment! I laughed out loud many times. A novel way to explore the boundaries of something so stringent.
This would happen if you just let Windows Update do its thing. As is fine on client machines usually for security.

On Azure it is the default even
https://imgur.com/a/RvEx3yn
"The cruelty is the point"
https://archive.today/mdsm3
Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/HQAtf
The Succession quote, “ I love you, but you are not serious people” comes to mind
But what is out there on TikTok that's so dangerous to the state? Dance videos?
Its great that cursor is working for you. I do think LLMs in general are far far better on Typescript and Python compared to other languages (reflects from the training data)

What features of cursor were the most compelling to you? I know their autocomplete experience is elite but wondering if there are other features which you use often!
What’s crazy is few people even talk about who currently owns major US news networks and what their motives might be. People don’t like Musk owning Twitter/X, that’s a start - but start reading about who owns the rest (especially traditional media).
One possible saving grace for Z is that, due to how expensive it is to keep around, video will probably disappear much more readily than text and photos.
Why all the handwringing about TikTok, but not about X?
Me and my wife were long distance too, through the worst of it, and during covid (Brazil to Europe).

There's certainly advice I can give , or at least experience I can share. It's a pity we can't message on this platform so if you want to send me an email to flatnailedfeatherlessbiped@proton.me, we can chat there
Wonderfully executed joke. 10pts.
Anecdata from the other side, I've done a few passports for family now and it gives immediate ratings and we've not had any issue at all.
> why be alarmed by low birth rate

Cause it signifies national decline.

> as long as its voluntary

"Voluntary" is such a tricky word. The low birth rate was entirely manufactured by societal norms instituted by the elites. Not just in japan, but in much of the world ( US, china, russia, EU, etc ).

> and not caused by an endemic health concern

Declining population is an endemic health concern. If you don't put a stop to it, the nation eventually ceases to exist.
Even if the wait times get bad sometimes, isn't it worth the wait at times rather than going bankrupt? I think it's...a great trade off.

There are wait time problems in US too but maybe not as common.
Gemini is an awful developer experience but accuracy for OCR tasks is close to perfect. The pricing is also basically unbeatable - works out to 1k 10k pages per dollar depending on the model. OpenAI has subtle hallucinations and I haven’t profiled Anthropic.
Just in case you weren't aware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_diamond
In the small towns around me the town halls are not for profit and nobody is doing the events to make money/earn an income but as labours of love.
Oil companies will not spend money just to lose it all on lower prices. Who is going to drill your hypothetical wells?
It's unbelievably bad government behaviour. Allow mass immigration, to enjoy the boost in tax revenues and GDP, while dumping all the costs and fallout on the people.

Rents skyrocketed, utility bills getting more expensive, waiting twice as long for a doctor? Well that's not my problem, is it pleb?

It'd be one thing if they were actively clearing the path for it to minimise impact. Preemptively clearing land and building hospitals etc.

But that would imply something about these people that they definitely are not. Ruled by the worst among us.
yeah I am also getting the sense that people want tooling which meets them in their preferred environment.

Do you use any of the AI features which go for editing multiple files or doing a lot more in the same instruction?
I would argue that has been a persistent topic of conversation for my entire life!
A lot of the "Thanks Biden" stickers quietly went away when gas got cheaper.
everything in film is like that, though. it’s an industry built on gig work which nonetheless has strong unions. a seeming paradox but it works.
But how would the gov't know they changed the algorithm? It's not like TikTok sends newsletters to the House of Commons.
My way: leave it unfolded when you wake up and go through your morning routine. Make it before leaving home.
A 3rd party tool did what MS told it to do.
I am afraid that banning tiktok would make facebook a monopoly in this area.
And facebook has a long story of disregarding privacy, mental health and rights of their users.
This is a needlessly antagonistic thing to say.
> Lock-in.

So do DO, OVH, Hetzner, Azure, GCP, Oracle, IBM etc. Every cloud platform comes with a hard lock-in.
This position underlies Trump's tariffs promise.
Lindner was out of line, did a solo act and Scholz took it personally, his ego was insulted, so he fired him.
Lindner did it on purpose.
He either knows what he's doing (ace under the sleeve) or is a total idiot.
We don't. I probably should make one of those, but as a solo act, the number of platforms I need to keep up with is ridiculous. Reddit/Spotify/Instagram keep my time occupied, it's brutal honestly.
Organised dancing is no more "critical" than cursive. Every generation thinks their version of entertainment and social bonding was better and what the kids are doing is inferior and dumb.

And the reason young people are doing less in-person socialisation is less because home entertainment has gotten better and more because in-person socialisation has gotten worse, especially in America where people have nowhere they could socialise in walking distance, can't afford a car (and would get arrested for drunk driving if they could), can't afford to get molested in a techbro fake taxi, and if they tried to cycle they'll get run down by a boomer in a giant truck who was playing candy crush.
Have you read an actual transcript of Trump's words? Not the "sanitized" summary you find in media: the actual transcript?

https://www.instagram.com/billpascrell/p/C8DljJURzmv/
Trump voters
That's my thought as well.
Indeed, and this is reinforced by a couple of stereotypes. These are repeated in web forums frequented by musicians: People won't dance to a tune that is not absolutely familiar -- why a small handful of "classic rock" hits continue to be played. Second, the purpose of the music is to keep the women dancing, and the purpose of the women dancing is to keep the men drinking.

Disclosure: I've played in a lot of bands, in a variety of styles.
What about that African weirdo who bought the #1 political announcements channel on the internet? /s
And how exactly did other countries take advantage of this giant idiot representing a joke of nation?
But if you already believe it the facts can still support it even if they are wrong. They feel right.
This is exactly why the biggest thing in gamedev, and all software dev to an extent, is getting your software in front of users as soon as possible. As a developer it isn't just that you know how it works, but you'll also have played the game or used the front end of the experience for thousands of hours.

New eyes will see fresh flaws. The user might not be right about how to fix the flaw, but they are absolutely right about where the flaws are.
The problem is that the rules are different. For Democrats, if they want to win, they need someone with charisma. See Biden, Obama, and Bill Clinton, versus Hillary Clinton and Dukakis for historical examples.

Republicans don't need charisma: if the Democratic candidate isn't charismatic enough, they'll instead vote for whatever pile of shit the GOP puts on the ticket.

The problem is the voters.
> Trump's economic plan is to try and figure out how to on-shore the lowest paid factory jobs.

Not necessarily. Tariffs are a limited tax, in this case maxing out at 100%. Making soccer balls from China cost twice as much is not going to bridge the gap between viable and non-viable for onshore production. It really only bridges the gap where the off vs on shore savings are much closer, which tends to apply to more complex manufacturing processes, which incorporate more automation in the process, as cost gaps between developed and undeveloped countries tend to be greatest in the cost of labor. Automation is often cheaper in more developed countries, in fact.

Onshoring those kinds of jobs/infrastructure would provide a range of national security and economic benefits.

I genuinely don't understand how tariffs have become so poorly understood and divisive. Every argument about them I see framed seems either highly biased or pure misinformation, from both sides. They are not free tax money, but they also can have benefits for low and middle class people.
> Please explain to me how lower launch costs will help weather prediction.

Cheaper launch means more weather satellites covering more spectrum from more angles than otherwise.

> What is this special low cost rocket sauce that enables it?

Everything is dependent on cost. If we had a medicine that gave an extra 10 years of healthy life to everyone but cost $100,000,000 per person, it would be utterly infeasible to give to the masses. If it cost $100,000 - now that's an easy decision.

If something is cheap you can do more of it.

> I am trying to imagine how building reusable rockets leads to improving GPS

GPS satellites are incredibly expensive because they need to be light enough to fit in existing heavy lift launchers and reliable enough to last for 20+ years. Cheaper, heavier, more frequent launch means you can dramatically reduce the cost per satellite in a constellation, and thus send up more. Having more GPS satellites reduces time to first fix, improves coverage in adverse environments (cities in particular) and improves accuracy.
When I was young (a long long time ago), my family would go up to stay at a ranch in Sierra County California. They had almost no TV or radio reception there -- you still can't get a cell signal at my cousins house. They would have a Friday night square dance that was like a school dance that teens actually attended and danced together, without much irony. Coming from San Francisco it seemed a little weird, even then. It seems so old fashioned now but I really treasure that I got to participate in what people used to do on the western frontier of the US.
> I meant more along the lines of “on track, on budget, meeting expectations” etc.

By that measure has humanity ever even been to space?
No disagreement here; the link I provided was specifically for TSMC Washington.

I'm not saying that TSMC is never going to build anything in the US, but rather that the current Lunar / Arrow Lake chips on the market are not being fabbed in the US because that capacity is simply not online yet.

2025H1 seems much more promising for TSMC Arizona compared to the mess that is Samsung's Taylor, TX plant (also nominally under construction).
I don't disagree. The problem is that the solutions being talked about have a large negative impact far wider than the problem they're intended to address.
4.5 to 9 on the actual Switch with a 4310mAh vs 2 to 3 on the Steam Deck with 5100mAh doesn't seem to prove your point.
> Like imagine if China owned CNN and the New York Times and decided what stories they could publish.

It is happening on our local platforms here. Meta, based in the US, is systematically censoring Palestinian content that would otherwise be available here in Canada.

Details:

* https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/...

* https://theintercept.com/2024/10/21/instagram-israel-palesti...

For a very recent example, one of the few remaining prominent Palestinian journalists, with a following of over 1M on Meta, was banned today:

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/11/7/al-jaze...
They have tried to do things, but they are not omnipotent and the House was under GOP majority.
I don't quite understand the images that are included here...

Though they're interesting and eye-catching.

I feel like they've got something related to the tool... but are they simply for decoration?
Reminds me of those portraits in the Haunted Mansion ride that expand when you go down the elevator.

https://hauntedmansion.fandom.com/wiki/Stretching_Room
> Right, because how do you empathize with someone who gets $1, and their response is: Oh yeah? Well fine then I'm going to vote for the person who wants to take away literally EVERYTHING to show you!

Consider how the program actually works. You have a job and pay taxes, but don't make much money, so the government takes the taxes you paid and gives them back to you. But you have to apply for the program, and then spend the money (which was originally yours) on only the things they tell you to. And there is more than one assistance program so you have to apply to them each individually. Then each of the programs have their own phase outs if you make more money, but the phase out rates combine to a very high de facto marginal tax rate, which means if you're still struggling you can't get out of it by working some extra hours because that just causes you to lose your benefits. It's a poverty trap.

Then prices go up by 20% or more, but you still can't make any more money or you lose your benefits. In response your benefits are increased by one dollar.

Are people even wrong to want to blow all of that up and replace it with a tax credit?
My understanding is that the Confederacy did seize federal armories, navy yards and other military depots located in the South, which would have supplied a non-insignificant amount of small arms and canons. But most of the antebellum industrial capacity for manufacturing more was in the North, so the Union always had a strategic advantage there.

In terms of warships, the CSA did capture and convert existing Union ships in Norfolk, Virginia (despite the Union's efforts to scuttle them as they withdrew). A good number of ironclads were also constructed or purchased from England. With the remaining being commissioned and put into operations by the CSA itself during the war. Interestingly, this also included some very early submarines, which is I think the first time they were used in warfare.

That said, the CSA was never able to effectively break the Union's naval blockades, and battles by the opposing armies were far more decisive in the war's outcome. Particularly in the strategically decisive Eastern Theater of the war.
Typically implemented accidentally: https://www.tumblr.com/accidentallyquadratic
Yeah, emotions like "I wish I could afford to buy food."
"authentic" voices are sometimes not so authentic. And sometimes they start out authentic and end up being paid by foreign interests (some high profile cases of this earlier this year - "we didn't know the $100,000/week was coming from Russia")
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42049033

As terse as ᴊꜱᴏɴ.
I’m glad this author wrote this up. The guys in All-In really need to be called out for all their bs.

Here’s episode 191 Aug 9, 2024 where Chamath is talking about a Google breakup possibility:

“The big O outcome though is more if you go back to the Ma Bell kind of thing where the company gets broken up. I think that the odds of that are extremely unlikely. I think the big O outcome is probably something that you can pretty safely take off the table.”

And here’s episode 199 Oct 11, 2024 where the host rewrites history:

“We have an update on the DOJ's antitrust suit with Google. It looks like they're going for the break up as Chamath predicted”

What??
The clearest way to look at this is through the lens of Althusser's Ideological State Apparatus(ISK). Media is one of the arms of the ISK. It's not necessarily that TikTok is foreign owned, it's that China's dominant ideology is incompatible with the western hegemony. The western ISK sees alternative ideologies as a threat and control over the arm of mass media is a concrete form of that threat. The ISK must have control over dominant forms of media in order to maintain ideological hegemony.
I do have to say, that I'm very curious to see what the next four years look like. The strange thing about the working class people that Trump brought over, is I think many of them expect Government action/intervention in their lives, and a large part of the Republican party still seems to be pretty hands off, de-regulation, attack the welfare state, tax cuts for billionaires.

So I don't want to immediately just dismiss the idea that Republicans are the party of "blue collar workers", and if they really can bring manufacturing back, they'll be heroes, but I'm curious how patient the base will be for it. If they really do cut $2 trillion from the federal budget, there will be big time economic losers. It seems like a geo-economic realignment to bring back manufacturing could take more than four years, and it seems hard to believe there won't be economic costs. will they be patient? Will that geo-economic realignment even help the current generation, and can they stay in power long enough to fulfill it?
Yeah, but if it was a more common thing, maybe you'd get better at it. Also, if everyone was doing it, a single person wouldn't stand out as much.
VTOL: The Williams X-Jet WR-19-7 (~1980)
Democrat non-voters
>Conformity, if you'll pardon me, is not a trait all those Americans who voted for Trump have, nor want.

I'm sure that's what all 72 million of them think. Including the ones (the majority?) who don't like Trump, but who thought a vote for Harris was anathema.

Anyway, I wrote in Bernie. Yes, yesterday.
Josephine Baker was a star. Bach and Mozart were stars. Pythagoras was more famous for music than math, during his lifetime (well over two thousand years ago). The decline of a particular business model is a legit observation but it doesn’t change this fundamental aspect of music.
I mean it can be encoded inline, including using \n in strings
Can you find other examples for when force pushing a shared branch is acceptable? I have trouble finding plausible examples for communicating a force push with 50 colleagues.
In a stable democracy, whenever there are elections, the losers accept that the elections were fair and they lost. If there are reasons to believe that the elections were not fair, or if the losers refuse to admit that the elections were fair and they lost, the system is unstable.

Peaceful transition of power is the most important factor in the long-term stability of any system of governance. Whenever a leader loses legitimacy or dies, there must be a process to select a successor. If the outcome of the process is contested, the system is at a high risk of collapsing in the power struggles of its elites. It's far more common for a state to fail due to internal power struggles than external threats.
Important to note that they didn’t ban TikTok in Canada.

They booted TikTok corporate from the country as a threat to national security.

Given how China operates globally and especially in Canada, I’m completely fine with them getting told to beat it
Counterpoint: Named tuples are immutable, while dataclasses are mutable by default.

You can use frozen=true to "simulate" immutability, but that just overwrites the setter with a dummy implementation, something you (or your very clever coworker) can circumvent by using object.__setattr__()

So you neither get the performance benefits nor the invariants of actual immutability.
reading the code for helix-gpt over here
https://github.com/leona/helix-gpt/blob/2a047347968e63ca55e2... looks like the architecture for the extension is based around getting the diagnostic event and then passing that along to the chat.

The readme also talks about how LSP services are not exposed properly yet, my takeaway is that its not complete yet..but surely doable
Sure, but at least you have options and get to choose.

Long form content, unrestricted by executives telling people how to run their show, all that makes a big difference. There is no need for corporate bureaucrats to try to run things.
You are deeply wrong here. And this is recklessly dangerous advice to give here with so little information on their situation. You should delete your comment.

I'm sorry you didn't manage to fix your situation but you can't generalize this. BPD is a complex, varied mental illness that does respond well when treatment is pursued (e.g. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6007584/).
> Can you name a policy of today's republican party that is further right than the republican party of 20 years ago?

Sure I can: "mass deportation now"
Not going to lie, I find it amusing the double standard where we all know through multiple whistleblowers and courts that the US government spies on virtually every person on this planet (including world leaders like Angela Merkel) yet it's such a concern that the Chinese government allegedly spies on random Joes dancing in their bedroom.

As an European those double standards and American exceptionalism (the idea that common laws and rules do not apply to US) will never cease to bother and annoy me.
CheapAI
Nothing in the post you're responding to suggests that EV trucking would solve weight. If EV trucking did become common then the model of funding road infrastructure with fuel taxes would stop working, but that hasn't actually happened yet.
Who is ”they”?

The origin of local power to stymie development is from the post WW2 years when freeways were mandated, but local communities they bisected were inevitably the politically weak ones.

Now, the NIMBYs include those same VCs [1] that publicly posted that America should build at scale again… just not in their town.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/marc-andre...
> In looking deeply into why transit is so expensive in the US, they found that a major cost was that the US has too few bureaucrats, and instead has to hire extremely expensive consultants.

See also Noah Smith's 2023 post "America needs a bigger, better bureaucracy":

> I believe that the U.S. suffers from a distinct lack of state capacity. We’ve outsourced many of our core government functions to nonprofits and consultants, resulting in cost bloat and the waste of taxpayer money. We’ve farmed out environmental regulation to the courts and to private citizens, resulting in paralysis for industry and infrastructure alike. And we’ve left ourselves critically vulnerable to threats like pandemics and — most importantly — war.

* https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/america-needs-a-bigger-better-...