skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the state or federal government offers an open checkbook--we'll pay any and all losses, no questions asked--then those ultimately paying these astronomical bills--the taxpayers--will reasonably ask: why are we subsidizing people to rebuild in places that are clearly no longer habitable due to the probabilities of another fire, flood or hurricane?

There's two options:

1: Pay people to leave, perhaps 80% of the fair market value as of a certain date.

2: Pay people for their loss, but do not allow them to rebuild. (Unless the house is built to stricter standards, and meeting those standards might not be covered by the loss.)
We also risk losing so much utter nonsense and false information that I'm not at all worried. You want to learn history and science? Buy some (vetted) history and science books.

The number of times I had to correct my step-son when he repeated something he "learned" on TikTok is disturbing.

Unimportant example: He "learned" from a TikTok video that the commonly repeated command of "Open sesame!" is actually "Open says me!". That's not true, and all you have to do is read the story "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" to know that the story actually hinges on the fact that the secret word is the name of a grain/plant.

Another example: He "learned" that the video game character, Mario, is not saying "It's a me, Mario!" with an Italian accent. He "learned" that he is actually saying some Japanese word, like "Itsumi Mario!".

One more: He "learned" that "scientists" now think that "we" originally put the T-Rex fossils together incorrectly and that the animal's arm bones are actually backwards, and should be reversed to reveal that the T-Rex actually had little chicken wings instead of small arms. Anybody who has seen how bone sockets fit together knows that's nonsense.

Forgetting the political theory and morality of the ban, I say good riddance to the constant firehose of bullshit and lying morons on that app.
Oh. Like what our domestic social media company let happen with Cambridge Analytica? Glad our government is so focused on this one. Great work.
You suspect that? It is the literal stated reason for it.
theres an effect in countries with high average iq where the quality of low skill labor workers is higher. I dont remember the name, but was convinced it was causal.

its similar to what you are saying, but applies across the board, not just to university grads, and in taiwan also.

i suspect japanese workers at 7-11 now are not college grads still working there from the 90s. its mostly young part time workers. i see middle age people sometimes. Noteably theyre losing the high quality service reputation entirely because many of the stores are being run by immigrants from nepal and the philipines now who dont follow the japanese service memes.

They also mess up the sushi at sushiro/kurasushi and your fish come sideways.
I disagree. B2C requires too much volume, both in terms of sales and support, because the price has to be so low imo.

You either have to find PMF or you're going to die.
One of the best ways to handle this sort of thing is to put things like PII in a separate database entirely and replace it with a token in the "main" database. When something like PII actually needs to be retrieved you first retrieve the token and then search the other database for said token to get the real data.

It certainly complicates things but it provides an additional security layer of separation between the PII and it's related data. You can provide your end users access to a database without having to worry about them getting access to the "dangerous" data. If they do indeed need access to the data pointed to via the token they can request access to that related database.

This method also provides more performance since you don't need to encrypt the entire database (which is often required when storing PII) and also don't need to add extra security context function calls to every database request.
Sublime Music End-of-Maintenance
Why do you call it junk? Is everything on YouTube junk, because there are some really bad and fake prank jokes? Is everything on here junk, because some people don't have the best intentions?

Seriously, even in Germany the public opinion about tiktok is so much influenced by people not even having used the app even once (seen some of the good parts of it).
>The concern is deep, adversarial manipulation of public sentiment -- a psyops asset that gives a competing nation significant leverage as they pursue ends that challenge established US interests in the Pacific.

I share the exact same concern about "deep, adversarial manipulation of public sentiment" from US-based corporations running algorithmically-generated designed to addict consumers, and also believe that everyone needs to recognize that core concern as well.

ALL of it needs to die.
> The concern is deep, adversarial manipulation of public sentiment

You mean letting U.S. citizens see the flour massacre video on a platform where the security state can’t ban it.

This bill languished for years until that happened.
This is one example of an area where economic incentives make it difficult to shift.

- There aren't that many people willing to pay for such software, but those that do *really* need it, and will pay quite a bit (passing that cost on of course).

- The technical domain knowledge needed to do it properly is a barrier to many

- It needs to be pretty robust

As a result, you end up with a small handful of players who provide it. They have little incentive to modernize, and the opportunity cost for a new player high enough to chase most of them off to other avenues.

I think the main way this changes is when someone has already spend the money in an adjacent area, and realized "huh, with a little effort here we could probably eat X's lunch"

Beyond that you at most get toy systems from enthusiasts and grad students (same group?) ...
The space shuttle lol?

Are you not considering the fact that the huge external tank and the two SRBs were destroyed every time? Not to mention the insane costs of refurbishing each space shuttle, not the mention the insanely bad safety of the shuttle and the 14 astronauts who died in it!

Space shuttle, while cool, was really, really bad design, bad safety, and totally uneconomical. It was definitely cooler than Soyuz, but Soyuz was cheaper and more safe.

There's a reason the US abandoned space shuttle and had to beg the Russians to use Soyuz to send their astronauts to the space station.
brine can be used for mineral extraction.
So why a single product? Young people watch content from way more than a single app. And reportedly (from my kid) they are all just moving over to a different Chinese content-sharing app. If we're worried about "foreign" influence, shouldn't we be blocking all non-US sources of information that young people might watch and be influenced by? It looks pretty ham-fisted to just target one of those sources.
> Whatever you think of the law of the PRC, they applied it consistently

Chinese courts are explicitly subservient to the party.
"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I’d assume the concern is more swaying public opinion, sowing division to make us incapable of unified political effort, or even to destabilize us, things like that, not so much infiltrating networks - they already manufacture much of that equipment.

If I understand correctly how it works, it’s a propagandist’s dream, building personalized psych profiles on each person. You could imagine that it’d be the perfect place to try generating novel videos to fit specific purposes, as well - the signals from this could feed back directly into the loss functions for the generative models.

I think politicians’ efforts to regulate tech are generally not great, but I think this one is pretty spot-on.
I can relate. But home-cooking is also often reinventing the wheel.
Core logic should be home-cooked but general aspects are probably best solved using battle proven 3rd party dependencies? What you guys think?
I understand the appeal of using the same combinations everywhere, but I thought the great thing about the metric system was that it was easy to convert. So 8000 m/s is 8 km/s.
Yes, I believe so. It's way easier to upload something on tiktok with captions, voiceovers etc than on YouTube. You can have real communities instead of random channels.
I have mixed feelings. The Supreme Court did the right thing; the democratically elected government did decide upon a ban, so it should likely continue as was made law.

I am not sure that banning forms of media feels good. The point of free speech is to let everyone say their thing and for people to be smart enough to ignore the bad ideas.

I am not sure the general population of vertical video viewers does part 2, however, so I get the desire to force people to not engage. The algorithmic boosting has had lots of weird side effects; increased political polarization, people being constantly inundated with rage bait, and even "trends" that get kids to vandalize their school. (My favorite was when I asked why ice cream is locked up in the freezer at CVS. Apparently it was a TikTok "trend" to lick the ice cream and then put it back in the freezer, so now an employee has to escort you from the ice cream area to the cashier to ensure that you pay for it before you lick it. Not sure how much of this actually happened versus how companies were afraid of it happening, however.)

With all this in mind, it's unclear to me whether TikTok is uniquely responsible for this effect. I feel like Instagram, YouTube Shorts, etc. have the potential to cause the exact same problems (and perhaps already have). Even the legacy media is not guilt free here. Traditional newspapers ownership has changed over the years and they all seem pretty biased in a certain direction, and I am pretty sure that the local news is responsible for a lot of reactionary poor public policy making. (Do I dare mention that I think the whole New Jersy drone thing was just mass hysteria?)

Now, everyone is saying that regulating TikTok has nothing to do with its content, but I'm pretty sure that's just a flat-out lie. First, Trump wanted to ban it because everything on there was negative towards him. Then right-wing influencers got a lot of traction on the platform, and suddenly Democrats want to ban it and Trump wants to reverse the ban. It's pretty transparent what's going on there.

I agree with the other comments that say if data collection is the issue, we shouldn't let American companies do it either. That seems very fair to regulate and I'm in favor of that.

The best effect will be someone with a lot of money and media reach standing up against app stores. I can live with that.
That doesn't align with the reality of these areas. To get insurance in these areas you have to demonstrate that you have created a defensible space around your house. This is enforced by local fire department inspections. I know this because I live near a fire prone area. Despite these things the area still burned. The problem isn't "lawns" or "wooden houses". In the case of the LA fires you would have had the burned out husks of concrete houses that would need to be demolished if everything was made of concrete. This was a black swan event that will require a thoughtful response.
> For who? UK users?

Literally every TikTok user from around the world? There's more than just the US, UK, and China, y'know.
This seems like a bandaid, maybe the real national security is that US companies cannot build a product that can compete with TikTok.
The graph is potentially misleading in a few ways. Population has increased, more houses to get destroyed. House prices outpace CPI. Costs went up, but so did revenue for the above reasons. Obviously those factors are independent of hurricane and fire size and frequency.
Every country has "selective liberties", that is not a very meaningful criterion.
Serving cat videos is about at least three orders of magnitude less energy than required to grow food. How much energy do you think you need to light half a hectare with 1 kWh LED lamps?
Why do we need a good answer? Does US need to be a good guy on some made up rules? Post Soviet collapse, US could have just taken over a bunch of territories. We don’t alway need to be some faithful country when the rest of the world is always messing up asking for millions of Americans to spill blood. I think RoW take US goodwill for granted. We don’t need to play nice. That’s not how competition works.
You’re comparing an experimental program that lasted 6 years with a company founded 22 years ago. How many payload flights did space-x do 6 years into its existence?
I think this underestimates how popular TikTok is with 20/30 year olds.
The president can just not enforce a law.
No, that one also appears to be fake.
The profit margins on insurance are usually pretty slim. Insurance companies are generally not well differentiated from one another, so they have few avenues to compete other than on price. A state-run insurance plan also has to operate at a profit/surplus or else it will have to be subsidized by the taxpayers. The effect is the same either way.
It isn't hard. It is basic managerial accounting. You just need access to lots of internal data. Ultimate parent level GAAP accounting won't provide the specific details you need. Apple definitely knows what the number is, every 10k they won't shut up about how much growth is coming from services.
very true, everything started on the seventh and ended thanks to the strength of the new American president and now it’s all fine again as it was before the seventh. no need for political movements or anything, lets concentrate on the more positive things as Musk said.
Startup as a Hunter-Gatherer Tribe
This was made illegal in April, 2024: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7520
Maybe it's because I'm a bit older school, but I turn these kind of things off traditionally. In my experience they degrade sound quality. There might be higher end (or the technology made its way down to affordable) that don't degrade the quality, but I'm not taking any chances with the amount of coin I have put into my setup.
It's questionable what a more functional democracy would actually do, since there hasn't really been one in history. There's been other forms of democracy, but they've all had their flaws, and none of them so far have acted in the interests of all the people in that country.
> In my opinion, Lua would kill for many use cases

Perhaps it could, but it should?

Let me explain. Take the example of JavaScript, which was kinda similar to Lua when it was conceived: both were simple languages, targeted to solve specific problems, waiving more complex features and delegating many things to their users.

Example: early JS and Lua don't have OO, but they have the tables (Lua) and objects (JS) which are hash tables with some syntax sugar to look like POO languages if you needed. Then, the user is responsible to handle this in a sane way, which should not be big deal for the scenario that those languages were created.

JS, however, has grown outside its original purpose. Somehow it became a server language, and somehow it became a monster. TypeScript, CoffeeScript, ClojureScript and others were created to delegate back stuff to the language. Lua, however, is still doing well its job in its simplicity.
Not too obvious to me unless there's some actual evidence of any of these claims of "China takes American data".

They take as much data as any of the various other manufacturing processes we outsourced over the decades.
The thing that surprised me the most was to discover that there was patchouli perfume. I always associated it hippies and the hippie trail from the 60s and was thinking it was from Asia
You misapprehend what textualism is. It does not say that every legal case can be decided by interpreting written law. It is merely a philosophy of how to interpret written law when its meaning is what's at issue. What American lawyers call "textualism" is how most continental european courts interpret written laws. It would hardly merit a label, if it wasn't for a long history in the 20th century of jurists departing from written law in making decisions. In this case, there is no dispute about what the written law means. It's about applying a pre-existing legal concept, the freedom of speech, to particular facts.

Another example that highlights the distinction: Justice Gorsuch, one of the Supreme Court's preeminent textualists, is also one of the biggest proponents of criminal rights. Those cases similarly involve defining the contours of pre-existing legal concepts, such as "unreasonable search or seizure." Nobody denies that such questions are subjective--in referring to what's "unreasonable," the text itself calls for a subjective analysis.
Do you have any proof that the Chinese government played a role in his campaign? Because the 2016 United States election was possibly influenced by disinformation campaigns on Facebook, yet there is no ban and Zuck is taking an even more lax approach to moderation than Tiktok.
Facebook is a company owned by public shareholders.

ByteDance is an arm of the Chinese Communist Party.

What facebook and ByteDance want at their core are very different things.
The rules are that you have to maintain casualty insurance in your property in order to keep the mortgage. If you don’t want to do that, the lender will try to obtain insurance on its own and bill you for it.

The bank is actually the loser here. Property becomes uninsurable, they still hold the collateral, and the borrower can simply walk away on a non-recourse state like California.
I understand that, but, you can run that campaign on Instagram, Twitter, or wherever your target audience is, right?
> Do we really believe the Chinese are going to infiltrate by way of tiktok when they can hack into our telecom networks or any significant figures individual machines?

The allegation is that it's used to spread misinformation and affect public sentiment, not for infiltration.
After some thought, I think I know why this is irritating. The domains I imagine Zig would be suited for are also ones where I use vector operations regularly. Almost a 1:1 overlap:

- Embedded (Accelerations, velocities, positions)
- Robotics
- Games
- Performance-critical scientific and numerical code (Cosmology, computational chemistry etc)
- 3D graphics and visualizations
I went from Law to Software Development after 30. I was a lawyer for roughly 10 years before the change and even was a partner in a small law firm.

For me the key was just to see this huge change as a series of small steps instead of a big "flip the switch and change" move.

Before I changed, I took courses in programming to see if I'd like it, I build projects in my own time to see if I would actually pursue it.

Even once I decided to change careers, I still kept my old things ready in case I needed a fallback plan (this happened over 10 years ago but I still pay my Bar fees every year).

For me, doing it slowly, with a plan, and a backup, removed a lot of the pressure and risk of the change and it worked fine.

I haven't done anything in Law in over 10 years now and am fully "converted" to development.

My advice for you: buy some Cybersecurity courses on Udemy. They might not be perfect, but they are usually cheap (always wait for sales) and see if you will like it. You can take dozens of courses for 9-12 USD there to see if that is the path before committing to something more serious and expensive.

This is just to see if this is really the area you want. The day to day of most careers tend to be heavily romanticized from the outside.

Once you've done that, try to see if you can find some education with a Co-Op component. I found it is much easier to get your foot on the door of a new career as a Co-Op in a course, though that is not required.
Corporations in China all operate at the behest of "the people" (aka the party). If the government thinks a product is damaging or harmful to society, it can be taken off the market without any legal mechanisms necessary.
Please, he's not that clueless. If there's one thing Trump understands, it's how to run a con.
> If you believe in liberal values (with a small l), like freedom of speech, you lead by example

America is ridiculously pro free speech. That doesn’t mean we must then tolerate libel, slander, fraud, false advertising, breach of contract, et cetera because someone screams free speech.

The Bill of Rights exists in balances, and the First Amendment is balanced, among other the things, with the nation’s requirement to exist. That doesn’t mean the Congress can ban speech. But it can certainly regulate media properties, including by mandating maximum foreign ownership fractions.
GPIDRM doesn't protect against much, even if it's perfect [0]. What it gives you is an API your Android app can call into to inspect the device status.

That's not enough because the owner of the phone can just twiddle that memory between you calling the API and using the value. You fully own the code that runs on your devices, and if you don't like it then you can just choose to run different code. The GPIDRM hinders some users who want to fully own their device and also use your app, but it doesn't actually protect your app from being executed in other environments (similarly with any other modification to how the GPIDRM might function, short of it physically decrypting the code/data you intend to run and only ever running in environments that would somehow prevent people from backing up those decrypted bytes -- or, similarly, physically decrypting data unique to a particular instance of using the app and not useful for any reason when somebody else runs the app).

When, then, does GPIDRM make sense to use?

_Arguably_ the thing that banks do isn't terrible [1]. Their servers are authenticated, so it's not a security thing. They're just managing risk (people with rooted phones might be more likely to have root-level malware for example). If somebody has a rootkit leaking banking details and the attacker is also willing to pay $10 to borrow their phone number for the day, the bank account will be fully compromised. When that happens, the bank is on the hook some fraction of the time. The bank server trusts requests to either come from a real user or a user with stolen credentials, and they're trying to reduce the chance of the latter (but not eliminate, even from rooted Android phones).

How does McDonald's differ? There are no server-side checks, no passwords, no logins, no crypto handshakes, no anything. If you send a request pinky promising you're a trusted client then you'll get your free food. The implementation was so bad that the TFA demonstrated compromising it on a phone which _correctly_ passed the GPIDRM check.

[0] No such technique can be perfect. At its core, it relies on a secure hardware enclave. Physical keys are always reversible with enough time and effort, in time _linear_ in the key length. The goal is just to create a constant factor big enough that almost nobody with expensive enough tools to dismantle the chip and go probing is willing to go through the effort (or, ideally, not able to with the current generation of technology, so that rotating keys every few years can keep up with reversing efforts).

[1] I'd be shocked if people with rooted Android phones were actually more likely to be victims of phishing/malware/....
It is a separate law from the one passed in April, 2024, which makes what you're talking about illegal: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7520
Look at the fourth one on the bottom, you can see the black splotches. It's not the best example I've seen, a quick search turned up this better example, notice how the edges become all dark:
https://forum.shotcut.org/uploads/default/original/2X/e/edb3...
This is essentially a whataboutism argument...