skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the author also ignores the advances of material science. Why just decide between hard and soft materials? What about a material that's soft at normal movement speeds but turns hard at the speeds of a bullet? Would solve the problem of being so restricted in armour yet it would look different. For sci-fi this is not unthinkable. There's already materials that harden under electric charge.
To me, the story was never about even about the hypothetical "they could pull some strings and somehow get every 17-year-old in the US swearing fealty to Chairman Xi." If nothing else, do you really want to focus your political infleunce campaign on demographics known for being low-political-activity and with relatively low disposable income the best choice?

It was about the fact that a firm which is foreign and unsympathetic captured lightning in a bottle: they became the cool platform for a new generation. Why bother trying to figure out why the platform that Mom uses to share AI-generated Trump spam with Aunt Bertha is no longer drawing the 14-year-olds when you can just rattle some sabres in Congress and get them to shut the competition down for you?

If we're so terrified that TikTok can blast a candidate into office, we should be equally concerned that Rumble or Twitter could too. If your media is that powerful, it's dangerous wherever the nominal mailing address of the firm is. Taking potshots at single firms or specific ownership strategies just means the next one will take a slightly different form and dispense slightly different hazards.

The only way to actually regain control is to boost media literacy. TikTok can be part of a balanced media diet, but are we teaching kids "Compare what the BBC and Tass say, and the truth is probably in the middle?"
If you want avoid startup cost, llguidance [0] has no compilation phase and by far the fullest JSON support [1] of any library. I did a PoC llama.cpp integration [2] though our focus is mostly server-side [3].

[0] https://github.com/guidance-ai/llguidance
[1] https://github.com/guidance-ai/llguidance/blob/main/parser/s...
[2] https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/10224
[3] https://github.com/guidance-ai/llgtrt
Thanks for feeding my existential dread. For that matter, the you of this moment is constantly being annihilated and replaced by a slightly different clone, in an illusory life that resembles stop-frame animation. And don't ask me about the me from yesterday - the one who didn't bother to do any of the things I am stuck with doing today - or the me from tomorrow who will likely squander everything I've worked so hard for. Neither of them is to be trusted.

On the other hand, I do seem to have a vast store of dream memories; wnen I think about them it seems like living some kind of second life, usually while fast asleep. Sleeping and waking selves are in agreement that being asleep is generally more pleasant than being awake, though being awake seems to have better continuity.
The bigger problem is mutability. Any pointers into the bit-packed enum storage become invalid as soon as you change its type. To solve this you can either prohibit pointers into bit-packed enum storage, which is very limiting, or introduce immutability into the language. Immutability is particularly difficult to add to go, where default zero-values emerge in unexpected places (such as the spare capacity of slices and the default state of named return values)
OpenRCT2 is great on PC! Also consider Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic. It's a really good remaster of the original two games with modern touch-friendly controls and it has excellent iOS and Android versions that play really well on tablets.

https://atari.com/products/rollercoaster-tycoon-classic#play...
It's presumptuous to claim child abuse, since we fundamentally know very little about the situation.

I wouldn't say it's abuse, but it's certainly depriving the kids from learning how to develop socially. They aren't learning how to maintain friendships, and are being implicitly taught that such connections are disposable.

I've had the misfortune to see actual child abuse, from the story presented in the OP it doesn't rise even close to that level. Let's please reserve words/phrases like that for situations that warrant it.

It may not be an ideal parenting strategy, but claiming it's abuse cheapens the word. Are the children being fed properly? Are they being physically/sexually harmed? I've unfortunately had to intervene in a situation with my niece that involved the above 3.

The parenting method in the OP may not be ideal, but plenty of people have had childhoods like that
My mom grew up moving every 5-8 months, her dad was a contractor for the TVA. There are still people who follow around contracting work. Please don't minimize that actual harm caused by child abuse by cheapening the term.
This.

Build only after customers have thrown money at you.

As it’s at that point you have enough clarity and specificity to build.
Headline should have been: “Sell or Die: TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal”
Again, not confused here. I’m talking about older stuff like the 50kW CCS/chademo systems. There’s no “older” with standard level 2 charging. Level 2 charging coexists with level 3 and will continue to coexist.
I wouldn't call dual monitors sick, barely entry level, but... https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08NSW5F8V they make good cheap external portable monitors that are laptop thin or thinner.
Even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Hitler lost the war because he made certain key mistakes -- chasing his country's best scientists out, invading Russia at the wrong time, spending a fortune on gimmicks to murder civilians instead of combat weapons.
It's possible that killing Hitler would have paved the way for a more competent, saner leader to emerge.
It sounds like the Appeals Court basically punted it to the SC (all emphases my own):

"Under intermediate scrutiny, the Act complies with the
First Amendment “if it advances important governmental inter-
ests unrelated to the suppression of free speech and does not
burden substantially more speech than necessary to further
those interests.” Turner Broad. Sys., Inc. v. FCC (Turner II),
520 U.S. 180, 189 (1997) (citing United States v. O’Brien, 391
U.S. 367, 377 (1968)). Under strict scrutiny, the Act violates
the First Amendment unless the Government can “prove that
the restriction furthers a compelling interest and is narrowly
tailored to achieve that interest.” Reed v. Town of Gilbert,
576 U.S. 155, 171 (2015)

"We think it clear that some level of heightened scrutiny is
required. The question whether intermediate or strict scrutiny
applies is difficult because the TikTok-specific provisions are
facially content neutral, yet the Government justifies the Act in
substantial part by reference to a foreign adversary’s ability to
manipulate content seen by Americans. No Supreme Court
case directly addresses whether such a justification renders a
law content based, thereby triggering strict scrutiny. There are
reasonable bases to conclude that intermediate scrutiny is
appropriate even under these circumstances. We need not,
however, definitively decide that question because we con-
clude the Act “passes muster even under the more demanding
standard.”"
> Whenever I read articles like this and the ensuing "just relax and go have fun/travel" comment chains, I think to myself I'm living in an alien universe. Not having a job is a pants-on-fire emergency, and I would be interviewing 24/7 until I corrected it, even if the hiring market meant that was hopeless. I'd be a nervous wreck until I found a job, any job.

That's on you. Stress is something you generated, not something that exists in the world.
I mean, the adult life you describe doesn't sound different from my brother, and growing up we moved once.

Edit: my brother grew up into a child abusing POS by neglecting his kids, but let's looks at statistics VS anecdotes since individuals from all backgrounds can be garbage people.
> Nobody I know is leaving a $70k a year job to take a sabbatical

I did. Best decision of my career.
>> Because he ran an insurance company, you would look at everything from individuals who have been turned down for insurance coverage and lost their spouse as a result of it. That would be one thing the police would look for.

> So I would think more likely it was somebody with a particular grudge that had access to inside information to know where to be and when to be there.

it's usually somebody close to you.

Need to look at the wife, they had recently separated, and she likely had access to the curious information about where he was and would be at specific times (wouldn't you expect him to stay in the hotel where the meeting was to be held? this plot was based on that not being the case.)

She stated to the press there were threats against him. When asked for specifics, she was suddenly too busy caring for her family to answer.

They lived in CT and for a time it seemed the gun had come from CT, despite the killer arriving from Atlanta; but I saw an item that said the CT gun had been accounted for, but I'm not sure the status of that.
The bizarre messages on the bullets? to throw investigators off the scent.
You may not care, and that's fine, but

> every ingredient imaginable available globally

is utterly false. My wife and I have been traveling in Europe for the last couple of weeks. We've had maybe three or four meals in restaurants, and mostly gone to grocery stores and cooked in our Airbnbs. The array of (only) locally-available breads, pastries, meats, cheeses, wines, yoghurts - heck, even breakfast cereals - is incredible, and of fantastic quality. We just traveled <100 miles, and are sad we can't find our favorite cheese from the last spot (the visually-similar one here is a pale reflection), but the sausages we bought last night were outstanding. Virtually none of what we've bought are anything we've seen before - like, there are global-commodity brands, too, but we're avoiding them: trying new things is the point of traveling!

By the way, very little of this is in speciality shops, and none of it comes at a high price. We're going to normal-people shops (boulangeries in France count as normal-people shops) - even some of them chain stores - and paying way less for groceries than we would in the US. (Seriously, way, way less - even before adjusting for the "nice-cheese premium" at Whole Foods, or wherever.)

Again: if you don't like trying new foods, it's fine. I'm not trying to change your mind. It's just, fuck off with your ignorant opinions about how the world works, and the judgemental attitude about what other people enjoy doing.
Often. I watch them while I'm cooking in the background. Max Miller is pretty fun.
Navalny went through a trail (Russian legal process), was found guilty of corruption and died in prison of a blood clot.
Please provide proof of poisoning ...

Alexei Navalny's popularity within Russia was always a western media fabrication, and at best a whole lot of wishful thinking. Navalny was a fringe candidate, with about the same amount of popularity as Chris Christi, and pushed and financed be the same neocons.
To what degree Russia is democratic can be disputed, but the fact is that Putin still has the backing of a vast, vast majority of Russian people.

There are J6 political opponents still rotting in jail on decade long sentences over protesting a highly suspicious election. Some have been kept in solitarily confinement (torture) and some have also died in prison. So Jailing political opposition is done in the states at this point too. Trump survived two assassination attempts. Biden a less popular candidate (as proven by this election) had his justice department attempt to jail him for hundreds of years.

>So Russia trying to annex the Ukraine is actually a plot by western colonialists?

Russia voluntarily let Ukraine secede from the USSR under certain conditions, which they have not kept. If Ukrainians have a right to self determination. Clearly under the same principle that Russian majority that lives in eastern part of Ukraine does as well.
This looks really useful. Thank you!
The books "The Case Against Sugar" and "Tripping over the Truth: How the Metabolic Theory of Cancer Is Overturning One of Medicine's Most Entrenched Paradigms" seems worth plugging.

Sugar is not safe, even though it is ubiquitous.

For many reasons avoiding meat seems reasonable, too. I used to be full vegetarian, for years, and then eventually re-added salmon and sardines.

It's a tiny step to full-on vegetarian keto, which is as good for you as full-on fasting is, I think.

I don't eat breakfast, veggie omelette for lunch (sautee some mushrooms and zuccini, or broccoli, perhaps, crack some eggs in once they cook down, give lots of olive oil and a side of something like kimchi, cabbage, or a pickle.

Usually eat whatever I want for dinner, including icecream, sometimes, but I spend most of the day in a low-sugar state of being, and if I 'clean up' my dinner(s) it's easy to eat a zero-added-sugar, extremely-low-carb, no-animal-protein, extremely-satiating form of food intake.

I really like it for me, and when I cook any of my foods, either when trying to be 'keto' or adding things like sweet potato, banana bread, ice cream, pizza, whatever, it's always well-received and considered delicious.
Ask HN: Reviews on the Snapmaker Printer and CNC
Hi HN, Looking at upgrading our 3-D printer to something with a larger form factor. The default choice is the Prusa XL with dual extruders and enclosure (3K). However, the new Snap Maker Artisan 3 in 1 (Laser Cuter, CNC Mill, and Printer) caught my eye. I rarely do mill parts, but it is always annoying to find an agile vendor without breaking the budget. Has anyone tried the Snapmaker, what is the print quality and experience like? Should I go the safe option with the Prusa
the news is wrong, per the gun type. surprising?
Most are not.
This isn't terrorism. But, even if it met some technical definition, you might be surprised to learn that nobody cares. Digging your heels into this makes you look like a fool.

There's a 100% chance that NYPD have family that have been put to death by UHC. You simply do not appreciate the gravity of contempt for insurance companies and how little anyone cares about the death of their executives. If that startles you, perhaps some serious introspection is in order.

NYPD can simply loose evidence. Or, have it stolen or destroyed in a myriad of "accidents" as is often the case in politically sensitive cases. Just because this case isn't politically sensitive doesn't mean NYPD isn't familiar with these practices. Remember, NYPD gets away with these things when both the public and people with power are watching. What makes you believe critical evidence won't just disappear in this situation?

But even if I am wrong and this hero or champion is arrested and put on trial. What makes you believe an extremely progressive NYC jury will do anything other than nullify the charges?

The only crime here is:

- security cam was not 4K

- security cam did not have audio of the CEO's screams of agony
There's also Parkitect, which is a sort of spiritual successor to RCT2. It might be a little more accessible if you're trying to introduce kids to the RCT games.
It depends how fine-tuned the model is to JSON output.

Also, you need to tell the model the schema. If you don't you will get more weird tokenization issues.

For example, if the schema expects a JSON key "foobarbaz" and the canonical BPE tokenization is ["foobar", "baz"], the token mask generated by all current constrained output libraries will let the model choose from "f", "foo", "foobar" (assuming these are all valid tokens). The model might then choose "foo", and then the constraint will force eg. "bar" and "baz" as next tokens. Now the model will see ["foo", "bar", "baz"] instead of ["foobar", "baz"] and will get confused [0]

If the model knows from the prompt "foobarbaz" is one of the schema keys, it will generally prefer "foobar" over "foo".

[0] In modern models these tokens are related, because of regularization but they are not the same.
It's the most appropriate possible example here because for many non-American readers it will be the one date that they have heard spoken in American English enough times to recall how Americans say it. For people who don't have much connection to American culture, it may well be the ONLY date they have ever heard spoken the American way in their lives.

(Indeed, this one specific date gets said the American way even in British English. We Brits don't do that for any other dates - we say "fourth of July" instead of "July fourth", for instance - but "September 11th" aka "9/11", uniquely among all dates, is written and said the American way in all dialects of English on the planet due to its significance to American culture.)
Germany enters the chat.
I think that's why someone made https://uhcleadership.com/
Not that I'd know anything about it, but this was one of the tools recommended on What.CD back in the day. Along with Max (my friends tell me) https://github.com/sbooth/Max
Yes, because clearly it's the left that devalues life. You known, unless you are queer...
ACA plans would be free / fully subsidized in that circumstance.
If UNH was approving all their claims, then people would complain about increased premiums/deductibles.

People just want to complain about not being able to afford something they want (American healthcare).

While UNH does some shameful things, even criminal things, the celebration of a public execution of a second in command guy is embarrassing for HN.
There is a large and wealthy segment of the population concerned about food health and quality, and large companies who market to them. Are their values not being met? Or are you just describing the quality received by the average consumer.
That one suffers from the effect described in the article, it only considers pixels directly behind the element for blurring. So unlike real glass it can't catch adjacent light.

But it is unique in its own way and has many other good ideas.
Open-Source Re-Implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 (OpenRCT2)
An interesting one is Germany. Different people call them Allemagne, Tyksland, Saksamaa, Německo, Germany, and many more; of course none of these people ever went to Germany and asked them nicely what they'd like to be called.
If an errant JDAM would simply accidentally fall from a jet and turn the headquarters of UHC into a crater, I wouldn't shed a single tear.

In fact, I would probably throw a party because that's what should happen in such unbelievably lucky and joyous circumstances.
Sort of, but it plays not nearly as good and the coaster physics are bad.

The thing I really don’t like is that it puts too much emphasis on scenery and not the tides themselves.
A state of confusion in the victim is one of the main symptoms of information warfare, and what makes it so effective. The source and extent of the attack can never be clearly determined, and it's easy to dismiss it altogether with allegations of fear mongering, xenophobia, sore loser syndrome, etc.

We've seen this in many countries over the past several decades. The Cambridge Analytica leaks should've been enough for lawmakers around the world to realize that there's an entire industry behind these operations and to take action in the interest of national security. Yet major regulations haven't been passed, and even the proposal of a TikTok ban is highly controversial.

We're living in strange times, and I fear it's going to get much worse before it can get better.
When strict scrutiny is involved, (which it is, because there are many US users of TikTok using their First Amendment rights) it IS the court's job to decide whether the law is the "least restrictive means" [1] of solving the problem that the legislators claim to be solving.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_scrutiny
> If it were as simple as getting the services you need in exchange for money, I don't think as many people would hate the system as much.

That's exactly how simple it is to be uninsured. The problem is the risk is not something people can absorb.
> He was the CEO of the company and ultimately the buck stops with him on company policies

No, it didn’t. He had the title of CEO due to title inflation, but UNH’s real CEO is Andrew Witty. The buck stops with Witty (and the board that votes for Witty).
I totally agree this is bad for the kids. Fwiw please try to encourage the kids to break out of their shell and socialize in college/high school/when they can. I moved a ton growing up, went to four different high schools, etc, and had a really hard time being “normal” with other people. In grad school I got a TA position that forced me to do 1:1 meetings with ~300 new students every semester, and that experience taught me how to be more normal. I’m still weird, but at least can fit in with Bay Area engineers. All this to say — I didn’t have their experience, but I think they can ameliorate it
If foreign interference in domestic politics is a concern, you absolutely do not want foreign-owned communication channels operating within you. They have every reason to manipulate discourse within them towards specific foreign ends in defiance to domestic interests.

TikTok manipulates discourse everywhere towards Chinese ends, X/Facebook/et al. manipulate discourse everywhere towards American ends.

This is an entirely separate concern from firewalls, which with the way you posited it might as well be a strawman.
I’ve shared a few reports on Kagi Feedback about poor results but haven’t seen any team engagement. I figure you’re just dealing with a lot overall.
One fun fact about RCT is that it was written almost entirely in x86 assembly. It used a small C++ wrapper to basically do a few DirectX calls to setup the display and make windows api calls, but the actual game engine, all the guest logic, etc was pure assembly. Same basic engine as Transport Tycoon Deluxe.
At the same time I doubt anyone would use that kind of thing as evidence for forcibly settling nomadic cultures. I'm somewhat curious because I'm sure they try to do things like divorce socioeconomic factors, abuse, poverty, and other negatives from such a conclusion. But as someone who moved 7 times through 7th grade and attended at least 6 different schools through that interval, I'm generally quite grateful to not have been dulled and stultified by living in one place my whole life. To the point that I've contemplated planning at least one or two significant moves so my own children don't end up excessively influenced by whatever locality specific tints and delusions color a place. (Maybe another way to put it is its easier to boil frogs that have always lived in the same pot.) But I also do think it's nice for kids to have a solid friend group for a good part of childhood, and so forth. I suspect there's got to be a lot more complexity to this. (And I will say I do think there's a connection between moving a lot and loneliness, but I view loneliness as distinct from generalized depression. But totally not scientific.)
A very nice demo of how to render a page. If it weren't for that I would be very confused why this exists
In case anyone's trying to remember what macos/iOS does with what they call 'vibrancy' - can't find the video directly anymore but they sorta touch on it here (WWDC 2014 , session 220): https://github.com/ASCIIwwdc/wwdc-session-transcripts/blob/b...
"The actual implementation
and blending that we do could
be a Linear Burn, a Color Dodge, PlusD, PlusL."
Thank you, I appreciate it. I thought so too.
Turkiye would like people to call it Turkiye.

even Old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why? Maybe people just liked it better that way, and that's nobody's business but the Turks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqnb_nU7RBE

(Istanbul is the traditional Turkic name for the city, basically a borrowed/altered pronunciation of Constantinople)
I understand all of this, I was just refuting the suggestion that profit motivated private health insurers don't exist elsewhere, because they do.
Great stuff! I really liked your Elixir/Crypto course. Please update it