skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who’s the adversary? China? China is not my adversary even if the United States government thinks so. I believe many Americans would agree with that.

To me it seems China made a superior app that the American youth wanted to use and the American social media apparatus was jealous so lobbied to have it banned.
TurnitIn's cheating detection tools have always been garbage - and I say that as an ex-academic who was 'forced' to use those tools extensively (the PDFs submitted by students are only visible in the Turnitin portal with the 'flags' to the right).

Even before the 'AI detection' tool (IMHO snake-oil) the features around copy-pasting/plagiarism were so bad I always ignored them. The tool would flag things like commonly used coverpage forms. That universities pay a fortune for those tools is an indictment of the industry.
Not how US “democracy” works. The majority in Congress represent a minority of the population.

Montana has one member of the house per 540,000 people. Delaware has one per 990,000 people. Source: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/2020/data...
The decisions were made months or years ago, when there were non-smart options. Cheaper surveillance TVs won out.
There was the PLA hacking gmail accounts in Hong Kong also, which supposedly was why Google stopped playing nice in the first place.
Why can't I just glue a fan to an air filter?
much more relative to the average worker in many other industries
What was the purpose of this clemency grant? I know it is something about people who were granted home arrest during covid, but I don't follow why that group of people was selected as deserving clemency, as opposed to say people who where forced to stay in jail during covid. I'm completely missing something.
Thanks for the pointer - I'll definitely read it
It also does not say that is the only way. Just that it is the easiest one. Some one is actively writing lot of code. Seems to me factually true. If someone is writing code consistently at good effort they probably are in some kind of good state, might be flow or might not.
The court also held that forcing tik tok to sell or be banned is lawful.
> Should we eliminate one leg of the nuclear triad?

Yes, actually; two of them. Air-based nuclear bombs barely made sense in WWII; with modern IADS, the idea that you're going to get nuclear bombers through to target is laughable.

As for land-based assets, they're all in known locations built to withstand strikes that even conventional weaponry can take out these days. Sure, you can put them on mobile launchers and move them around like Russia, but then you have major security problems with hauling them around the country where people can potentially get near them.

The only part of the nuclear triad that actually matters for deterrence is the SLBMs.
That’s an interesting analogy, but I think there’s a key difference here. With plane overbooking, passengers still get the same core service
Part of what constitutes freedom of speech is freedom to hear what someone has to state which is constitutionally protected. The fact that there might be other venues where someone can produce speech, does not mean that the right to hear what someone has to say has not been denied.
A lot of university courses don’t have exams. Rather, the students are graded based on projects, papers, or presentations.

I’ve been teaching at a university for more than 20 years, and only a few times have I given students a final exam. I used to assign final papers, but I stopped doing that in the spring of 2023, when ChatGPT was becoming widely known and I couldn’t decide how to deal with its use by students.

The big issue, in my opinion, is that AI can be used productively and ethically in education; it can be used to cheat; and there’s a huge gray area between those two extremes, where there doesn’t seem to be any consensus yet.

For example, suppose a student uses Claude to brainstorm topics, then chooses one from among those topics and researches it in depth, then does some more brainstorming with ChatGPT based on what he or she found, and then jots down what he or she wants to say as bullet points. Finally, Gemini is used to write a paper that presents the information in those bullet points in a logical and well-formed manner, and the student checks the paper and makes revisions before turning it in. Is that okay?

When I’ve discussed this issue with humanities faculty, they’ve generally regarded that kind of AI-assisted writing to be cheating. Science faculty, however, have been more receptive to it, as they care more about the accuracy and originality of the ideas than about how the words are strung together. My sample was small, though, and I am sure that there are different opinions on both sides.

I retired from my full-time university post in March 2023. Now that I’m teaching only one class a semester, I have each student do a final one-on-one presentation and interview with me, which makes up a large part of their grade. I’m able to do that because I’m teaching only that one class. If I had a full teaching load with a hundred students or more total, there’s no way I could interview each one individually.
17 years for ruining the lives of 4000 kids, scarring them, is grossly insufficient. Even a life sentence won't do justice. He served about 13 years which is a mockery of justice.
This was always about running defense for the likes of Israel and it’s ongoing televised genocide….

This isn’t about national security, if it had been this would’ve never gotten as far as it has been, the door would’ve been closed long ago.

TikTok and its algorithm isn’t beholden to the US’s government mandate like the other social media platforms. It also just happens to be the one with the largest amount of users and engagement, compared to the others..

Anyone who’s been paying attention to the numerous times TikTok has been on the chopping block (nearly every year it’s existed) understand what’s at play here.
That's not a good take at all. The author tries to make out as if Elon Musk is nothing more than a crony capitalist, pointing out that SpaceX has $15B in govt contracts. This conveniently ignores the reason SpaceX has those contracts in the first place, which is because they have consistently been the best available supplier to NASA/DoD/etc.

You can contrast what SpaceX has been delivering with Falcon and Starship vs what Boeing has been delivering with Starliner to get a tiny glimpse into how silly a claim it is that Musk is doing this to gift himself government contracts. Or compare how little the other billionaire-funded space company (Blue Origin) has delivered, even though they were actually founded before SpaceX. Musk doesn't need to (somehow) give his company a leg up via DOGE, his company is already the best provider available by a huge margin.

From there, the author says:

> consider the track record of Musk’s Boring Company, which is responsible for several of the worst municipal infrastructure boondoggles of the past few years.

In what sense is that true, even a tiny bit? TBC delivered the Las Vegas loop first phase for a cost of $31M per mile, which is significantly cheaper than what anyone else is digging tunnels for. A significant portion of that is station cost, which obviously becomes much less of the overall cost if you build longer tunnels. They completed this project in about 15 months. This was their first real project, before they had much opportunity to iterate on TBM designs (which if you look at the history of SpaceX, iteration speed is clearly a strong point in favor of Musk-led companies).

You can compare that to Cali's high speed rail project, which has a Phase 1 projected cost of $106.2B for 494 miles of track, which works out to $215M per mile, and that's not even a tunnel. They began in 2015 (before TBC was even incorporated) and there is not yet a single mile in operation.
Too many elections are being influenced by the free exchange of ideas on TikTok -- best to shut it down if the U.S. corrupt government cannot control it. Who cares what the people think!?
For anyone that has had even moderate experience with TikTok comment moderation, it becomes clear very quickly there's an incredible bias that seemingly disfavours Western interests. This includes calls towards extreme violence that should be banned per their own content policy. I don't think you need to have access to any secret documents to have a good deal of suspicion this platform is being used by foreign actors either directly or indirectly to shape attitudes in the West. If freedom of speech is at stake, protecting TikTok may actually be harmful to that cause.
> It took forever for the US to do anything about Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb breaking the law.

And yet look how fast tik tok was banned.
When people say this, this amounts to just talking about the bad things our government and economic system do to the rest of the world. That isn’t propaganda it’s the truth and you should want the youth to be aware so when they grow up and lead the country they can try and not repeat those same mistakes.
I’m not aware of any other platforms that have been banned, without also having criminal cases opened. Are there any?
Have you tried the others? I don't mean to be facetious, and I think you're correct in terms of long term sustainability and health, but, unless you've tried the drugs or are citing a paper, there isn't much substance yo your assertion.

You're also overlooking the affect of stacking drugs on top of all the other things you list.
This way of thinking has been debated for a long time. It's not clear or self-evident doing it the way you describe is the best way to handle things. Sure, it's more self-righteous and sounds good on paper, but does it really hold? https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
You can still buy "dumb tvs" tho - well a 2-3 years ago you could I guess.

I've never once considered buying a smart TV - nor would I ever.
Man, at that point I would open up the back and snip/desolder the antenna itself. I hate ads on my TV, ESPECIALLY when I've already paid for the damn thing!
> explain its first day

In the beginning The Elders of the Internet created the Server and Terminals, and pipes that interconnects them

And the online community was without form, and void; and illegal/cp/terror/financing/harmful darkness was upon the face of the deep

And the Spirit of State censorship moved upon the face of the waters

And the State said, Let there be right: and there were rights and wrongs

And the State enforced the right, and it was good; and the State divided the right from the wrong contents.
> 2) Benjamin Franklin had a good take.

Sounds interesting -- what should I google?
This is one of the things in my lifetime that gives me the most optimism, alongisde the IRA Bill.

as someone in Australia who strongly supports our recent U16 ban, I hope META gets removed/broken up for you guys soon after, at least for underage users.

I'm 22 and often wish I had never been born into a world with social media, with the belief that it is one of the worst things we have ever made as a species.

I know the Tit for Tat and privacy optics, and the shutdown of dissenting views on certain proveable crimes in the ME may be bad sometimes, but these are far lesser than the desctruction of the social fabric of a society and the loss of development and inculcation of values of entire generations.
I've installed ERV about a year ago. It's great, but kinda overbuilt. The core is some very thin plastic film (some are aluminum). The body around it is 2mm metal. The entire device is 2-3mm metal. There are 2 motors inside that likely need good support, but not reason for this device to cost $1k and weight 30 kg.
I wonder if you could have found success asking those companies if there was anything that the tool could do in addition to helping find files that would make it worth paying for, did you by chance try asking this? Sometimes startups pivot to nearby goals, and it works out. I have a feeling out there is a company you could have appealed to, maybe not 100% with just "find files fast" but maybe "find all x files, from x date, and x client"
I have the sneaking suspicion that they needed plausible deniability for a particular egregious clemency (or a bunch of them) like this one but worse and worked back from there to figure out the criteria.
Agree but I'm not sure why. I'm not a mac user so the initial impression is like "this isn't for you, go away". At least add a linux command alongside it!
> What was the purpose of this clemency grant? I know it is something about people who were granted home arrest during covid, but I don't follow why that group of people was selected as deserving clemency, as opposed to say people who where forced to stay in jail during covid. I'm completely missing something.

I know there was a political fight angle to it: apparently Republicans were planning on passing a law to send all the people who'd be released to home confinement during COVID back to prison. I believe clemency grant was part of an effort to block that.

Now why it was such a priority to keep those convicts out of prison, I have no idea.
It is worth noting that the Constitution itself states (interpreted as stating) that Constitutional rights only apply to US nationals/citizens (which the Constitution derives powers from) and only those residing within US sovereign jurisdiction.[1][2]

So you are correct, except this was decided at literally the most fundamental level of US governance instead of on Capitol Hill.

Obligatory IANAL.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preamble_to_the_United_States_...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preamble_to_the_United_States_...
My friend Nick, with whom I worked on Linux stuff in this era, actually quoted that speech in reference to the free software scene sometime around the year 2000! I think you're the first person since then I've seen mention it in this context.
> Some small companies just don't know their obligations because they think they won't apply as they're not in the EU.

To be fair, unless a company has a business presence in the EU there is nobody to sue for GDPR violations. The EU cannot enforce its laws on an entity which isn't under its jurisdiction at all.
Its possible but unlikely if that data happens to corroborate the suspicions of lawmakers
Nice to finally see this on HN! Excited about it's future
ahh - this is what I do and why I've never noticed "smart" TVs.

My TV is connected to my desktop and will never ever have an Internet connection or it's own - nor will it ever turn on to show anything other than my desktop.

It's the solution for almost media issues tbh.
That's true, but I was more commenting on the loss of science from the public subconscious and our media outside of 7 second tiktok videos that link to current trends.
I wasn't quoting you but an actual piece of art I saw a decade ago in Art Basel that made fun of people pretending something is not art for any reason they can think of, including that their kid would be able to produce it.
Openness?

Sure, but how are you gonna enforce it? Proprietary codebases usually stay...proprietary. Even Telegrams open client doesn't prove shit when it comes to server-side decryption keys and logs. And this, from a black box systems perspective, is a hard thing to make transparent.

Given the history of cryptography we can't even rely on that anymore and have to assume a compromise in the future due to how those elliptic curves (and their seeds) are created.

Even just assuming that Qualcomm doesn't track you with their two GPS domains that are constantly pinged is very naive. And we've also uncovered a history of abuse in CPU backdoors (looking at you, Intel).

So where does transparency have to start? My theory is that without solving capitalism as the bug of democracy we can't have transparency. As long as there is financial incentives, there will be no transparency.
It’s not “uv” part that is important. It’s the focus on simplifying things you do thousands of times a week.
The US Congress is not supposed to represent the will of the majority. It is supposed to represent "the will of the people," which is distinct, by design. The actual implementation might have imperfections but tries to reflect the "will of the people" as the framers interpreted it.

Either way, there is a large spectrum between whatever it is and "authoritarian."
Sure. If censorship is wrong, then it is wrong. If censorship is just fine, the n it is just fine. It is the height of hypocrisy to engage in censorship in the name of stamping out censorship.

It feels like a tautology because the opposing viewpoint is a very simple hypocrisy. If you don’t like something, don’t do it.
There are an awful lot of Chinese products that are not illegal, what specifically about TikTok are We concerned with?

It isn’t because it’s a pair of pliers or a notebook. it is because it has been decided it is too dangerous for that government to wield against society. again, if it’s too dangerous for them, why is it magically not too dangerous for the wannabe kings behind US social media companies?

they have at various times,

1) been caught manipulating citizens,

2) outright admitted their desires to strongly influence politics

3) refused to cooperate with elected officials investigating abuse

4) actively resisted any kind of oversight

so again i’ll say, im not convinced it is truly this dangerous, but We have declared that it is terrifyingly powerful. if it is this dangerous, it should absolutely not be in the hands of people who have already proven time and time again they’ll use it against us and really don’t want any oversight or transparency of their actions.
What would be an example of such an experiment?

By my understanding, even if we have no idea what gas we have, if we put it into a calorimeter and measure the amount of heat we need to transfer to it to change its temperature to some value, we will get a value that will be different for a gas made up of only argon versus one that contains both neon and argon. Doesn't this show that there is some objective definition of the entropy of the gas that doesn't care about an observer's knowledge of it?
I think it's not uncommon for a dev to be faster with one language than another. And for another dev to know the same two languages but be more productive in the opposite direction. (And I am mindful that the bar was much lower for me -- being a temporary hack, my stuff didn't have to integrate fully or have the same level of production manners)

But here are two factors that make me faster in the uncommon language.

You know the usual debugger experience where if you keep stepping or you set a breakpoint and then later realize the interesting part is actually behind you? Which means you have to start your scenario again?

Well, the uncommon language has a recording debugger so you can visit any points in front of or behind you, and see what any variable or return value was. You're not limited by the current stack because the recorder captured every package you told it to from the beginning

Even a third party package...

This means I only have to debug once to find the bug, not n times.

And the language is expressive and pliable enough that this debugger was implemented in the language itself...

And mostly by one guy -- not me of course -- it didn't take a whole company to implement it.

And you know how in some languages like Java if your car (program) starts acting up in LA, you have to update the blueprint, send it to the car factory, build the new car, drive it back to LA, and try the same left turn to see it it still ferks?

With the uncommon language, I can stay in LA and change the car while the engine is still running, n times before the 2nd Java car arrives. The language is Clojure.
Pip is a nightmare to use, compared to npm, and the only thing that caught your eye is “python3 -m pip” instead of pip3? Seriously?
Who would that serve? The kids? Their lives are already ruined.

Two decades in jail plus the stigma of that conviction is an awful lot of punishment. The man might still be of use to society, just not around the law.

This punishment fetish is why we have so many people locked up in our jails compared to ANYWHERE else in the world. Can you actually say that this makes our society safer or more productive?

The irony is that your reflex of "lock him up and throw away the key" was EXACTLY how those kids got long sentences.
Probably meant Legionnaires. Melbourne recently had an outbreak when outdoor cafes used cooling towers (essentially mist sprayers) with some sus water - https://www.health.vic.gov.au/health-alerts/outbreak-of-legi...
The project itself is super cool. It's a modern take on managing schedules, but it feels more deliberate than just another app notification
Hope it does to others then :)
These tests cannot account for the complexity of the information economy today. They are asking for math proficiency for operations that are not necessarily useful outside of a classroom, they are asking for reading competency that has nothing to do with how most people engage with text today (online, on their phones, in a audio-visual format). This is a useless study.

Edit: nevermind, I took the test. It does address those things, but the implementation is terrible.
In some cases, those places buy non-retail "kiosk" televisions. They're hard to search for on the manufacturer sites.
Yes. For their own citizens, not foreign actors who wish to influence said citizens.
Well what if their pen breaks? Perhaps a good fluid dynamics engineer needs to be able to create ink from common plants?

I get the argument, it’s just silly. Calculators don’t “break”. I would rather have an engineer who uses highly reliable tools than one who is so obsessed with the lowest levels of the stack that they aren’t as strong at the top.

I’m willing to live with a useless day in the insanely unlikely event that all readily available calculators stop working.
Less impact? An empty mall.

I’d be over the moon for “empty Facebook”
Ah, the classic "we managed just fine back in the day" argument
It's not the free exchange of ideas if the CCP can put its thumb on the scale.
It's a rogue state after all.
Is subtext to this uncensored Chinese support?
For those curious about Dillo, you can try it right now in your browser. On the JSLinux site, the graphical VMs come with Dillo 3.0.5:

https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=alpine-x86-xwin.cfg&...

(Warning: this will download 30+ MB)

After it starts up, right click, and then choose Browser - Dillo. There's no HTTPS support, but Google and httpbin.org work at least.
Trump said he won't touch medicare or medicaid. Said he wants to increase military spending and not touch social security. That accounts for around 70% of the budget.

How do you make the massive changes he thinks DOGE needs to make out of the last 30% of the budget?

We're going to have to come up creative ways to get there like means testing for social security. If you're hell bent on "rich people paying their fair share." then how about we means test those rich folks and roll THEIR Social Security benefits down to people who actually need it?