skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My gripe here is the parent post is an appeal to how "average" students are quite bad. But, there is no substantiation to that point. It is, instead, taken as a given in what is essentially a culture war talking point.

The point isn't that average is bad, it's that your kid probably isn't exactly average.

You could also want to home school them if they're below average, to keep them from getting left behind. The way a lot of public schools treat kids with developmental disabilities is sadly a lot like the way corporations treat cost centers.

> It would help if I wasn't exposed to so many parents that are convinced their kids are somehow gifted among gifted kids.

Everyone thinks they're above average. Around half of them are right.
Not when the state affiliates are not allowed to collectively bargain.
Americans indeed have free speech guarantees, but I don't think it's quite so clear that foreign platforms have a constitutional right to provide a platform for said speech. How far does it go? Does a North Korean or Iranian or Cuban app have a guaranteed right to exist in America because some Americans use it for their speech?
"Modern JavaScript" === "Whatever just came out in the past week to six months and has had several articles written about it on the front page of Hacker News"
Pages probably consumes less than 10% of resources compared to their free CDN. Probably even less than 1%.
The decision to ban Colorado from making its own decisions for its own election with regard to what "engaged in insurrection" means and therefore disqualifies someone from their own state's ballots.

Purely political. The law says clearly that states run their own elections and it says clearly that insurrection is disqualifying. Would've been politically inconvenient though (for either side of the spectrum, and especially inconvenient for one side).
> foreign ownership alone isn't a sound reason for a ban

You're right -- but foreign ownership by a repressive regime with undemocratic ideals certainly is. For example, I don't think anyone would be too concerned if a European country was the one that founded & owned TikTok.
I disagree. If the explanation is wrong it is good that someone points it out. You might not like the way they express this.
Approaching 100% accuracy on RAG with planning
> breaking that final gold-dollar link to fix the overspending issue caused productivity to be disconnected from the money supply

The point is it was always broken. I wrote a comment in response to someone describing the 19th century as some panacea of monetary stability. It wasn't [1].

The anomaly isn't the 70s or 80s. It's the post-War era of the 1950s and early 60s.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42715153
fyi Sakana AI is founded by one of the transformer gang, although that person is not in the author list.
https://venturebeat.com/ai/what-you-need-to-know-about-sakan...
> felt China was intentionally nudging them via algorithmic suggestions away from STEM and toward vapidness

A ban based on a feeling?
That’s pretty much what Cornell does. It’s basically 3 weeks on, all day, one class, a week off, then repeat.

https://www.cornellcollege.edu/one-course-at-a-time/
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contronym
With some notable exceptions. I'll never love the turbofish [1] for example.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/tests/ui/parse...
> The only way out I see for the Supreme Court is a Congress and President who are focused on fixing the issue.

This is absolutely true. Not so much about the President, who has no legislative authority, but Congress, to be sure.

Congress seems to have abdicated its duty to ensure legislation is clear and consistent and evolves with the times. Many of the SCOTUS opinions I've read--perhaps a majority--get mired in trying to read the tea leaves about Congressional intent, or are frustrated because the parties are using the Court to solve problems that Congress could and should have solved.
I'm not sure whether the uptime guarantee is 99.9% independently or jointly for each service, i.e. if service A is down for 0.06% and service B another 0.06% but not at the same time, will this count as overall uptime >99.9% or <99.9%.

Rereading the SLA, it looks like Github can have each service feature like issue, pull requests, git operations be down 0.1% and still not reimburse. In your head you might not account separately for each feature, but Github does.
And if that was an actual statement people made, then you'd be right to say that. However, I think we can dispense with the strawman. Ownership exists in the real world, which means it necessarily conforms to the laws of the society in which it resides. Your view is a child's perspective on ownership.
You can still access it through the mobile site, no?
Don't let them use it. Are you fucking dumb?
How so? Generally speaking, foreign entities do not have the same constitutional guarantees as domestic with regard to laws concerning national security. Mind you, if this was a domestically owned platform, they would have a very strong case.
Which is why the law was signed by .. checks notes.. Joe Biden?
Wouldn't the best of both worlds be a mixed approach? Let her socialize at school and learn some things and teach her extra at home? Sort of home school lite?
>The outcomes are decided first, and then jurisprudence is employed to substantiate them — not the other way around.

I think this is the thing people don't get. Right or left, Democrat or Republican, it just doesn't matter anymore. You have nine of the best legal minds in the country, supposedly, and they constantly vote along party lines. There is no way that happens if the law is actually being respected.
Don't let them use it. Are you dumb?
Except your analogy is flawed. Tiktok is selling "books" written and published in the US. It's not like the Tiktok's themselves are all Chinese made.
Won’t it affect America as well? Yes, it buys time, but also delays innovation, disrupts global supply chains and ultimately means costlier American cars no?
Last launch had no blackout period, why would this one?
"my feed good, your feed bad"
Hey, one platform is Chinese, the others are American. That's the difference you're looking for
The page says it was trained on under 100 hours of audio. Then, the link says “we employ large pre-trained SLMs, such as WavLM, as discriminators with our novel differentiable duration modeling for end-to-end training.” I don’t have time to read the paper to see what that means.

Depending on what that means, it might be more accurate to say it was trained on 100 hours of audio and with the aid of another, pre-trained model. The reader who thinks “only 100 hours?!” will know to look at the pretraining requirements of the other model, too.
I think that's where we were with seatbelts in the 1950s, tobacco in the 1920s and alcohol in the 1850s. In all of those cases, society ultimately decided that guardrails were needed.
Yes and every failure of a product turns into a support ticket.
Google will just likely follow Meta in laying off the underperforming slackers and the coasters that have been bleeding the company for years now that several "AI" companies are after them.

It won't be surprising, but they will either wait for other large companies like Amazon to follow Meta into laying offs or Google will do it later, eventually.
Explor. evolution: Strength connected to sexual behavior of women as well as men
All of these posts keep talking about banning TikTok... The law doesn't ban TikTok. It bans its continued operation in the U.S. under the ownership of a foreign adversary.

The law:

> It shall be unlawful for an entity to distribute, maintain, or update (or enable
the distribution, maintenance, or updating of ) a foreign adversary controlled application by carrying out, within the land or maritime borders of the
United States, any of the following: ...

In order to take this seriously as speech infringement, you'd have to define software as speech. Precedent holds that the expressive part (source code) is speech, but that the functional part that operates is not speech. This law bans the software function.
Incase anyone is wondering about ETOPS-N

For example, if an aircraft is rated for ETOPS-180, it means that it is able to fly with full load and just one engine for three hours. [1]

Obviously in this case it 5hours 30 minutes on one engine at full load.

-- Slight edit: Unclear if with a 4 engine its rated with 2 functional or still 1 functional engine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS#Usage
I don't think that people are arguing that. What kind of propaganda one is exposed to matters.
I think the easier framework is this: China has banned her citizens from using most United States-based social networks. This prevents American companies from accruing profit from Chinese citizens and advertisers, and shrinks their potential pool of user data for refining algorithms or selling. As such, it's effectively a trade policy for us to in turn ban her social networks. Unless and until we are equally able to harvest Chinese data and suck yen out of China, she will not be allowed to harvest American data and suck dollars out of here.
> Candies

Starts with an F ends in L
The equivalent, for sure. Especially with Zuckerberg and Musk veering hard right recently.
In my experience you still get a lot of stuff that used to work or stuff that it just makes up.
I haven't used django-ninja but to me it looks like the API is a bit nicer or more 'modern' looking (i.e. declarative via type annotations) and it's faster, both due to being based on Pydantic

DRF is old and API looks more like Django forms or class-based views, more of an OOP hierarchy going on, and DRF serializers are slow
They weren't desperate enough to vote Hamas out over the last decade or so.
That would be amazing, honestly. Big Tech needs to get the fuck out of our lives...
Oh, yes, sorry I thought that was a given.
This is a terrible analogy:

1/Selling something doesn't destroy it

2/You don't want to destroy it because you want to fetch a high price for it

3/Nobody's offering $1 for TikTok, and nobody expects ByteDance to accept $1 for it

4/A fair market price would make ByteDance whole
The Game Boy Talk [video]
Don't forget when your coworker prints out a memo, asks you for edits on the paper, then you go in and edit the virtual document.
> What is with tech people and the need to talk about every new thing they learn about like it's an original discovery?

I literally admit that this is something that must have been obvious that I never knew before, lighten up, it's my personal blog.

Some of us learn things for the new time, and then tell our friends, and they all heard about it for the first time too, so decide to share it with others. This will inevitably reach some portion of people who have never heard of it before, as well as people like you who know about it already. Information is not uniformly distributed and some of us like to get excited about new things we just found out.

I'm sorry for being ignorant about something you already knew. I'm just one of today's lucky 10,000, and evidently there are many others on this very board. Not everybody knows everything already.
https://xkcd.com/1053/
> If China sold candies that contained poison and marketed them to Us children, it would be easy, since the FDA prohibits this.

The FDA was created by an act of Congress, as was this ban. These are identical scenarios -- the FDA has a mandate to block certain things, as does the TikTok ban. What's being debated is the constitutionality of it; and there are arguments both ways, but it seems very likely that the ban will hold.
I think the US social media mega corps are kindred spirits and if TikTok is considered harmful/propaganda then so are the US products. The subject draws an uncomfortable amount of heat.
Interesting. I'm afraid I hadn't heard of Cornell College (apparently not related to Cornell University), but it seems legit.
I had to rewrite my response a few time to remove all the curse words.

At least in NJ, you have no idea what you are talking about. Our school laws are completely broken. Just so you know I have spent about 300 hours a year for the past three years fighting with, dealing with, trying to improve our district.
I haven't heard the Zuk as a CCP asset conspiracy theory yet. only a matter of time.
> There are still farms that could be shut down if water is needed.

Wow, that's good, glad you clarified that.

I was worried there weren't any farms that could be shut down if water is needed.

Can you imagine a world where we can't shut down farms to produce 4nm chips?

I am just so glad we can shut down farms to produce chips.

Farms are useless, but chips, we need it for the control grid. I am just glad we are all on the same page.

Who needs food when you have 4nm chips.
Sorry, but civil forfeiture is 'civil' not legal. The US Justice system has completely bypassed all kind of US Level systems controls/protections simply by reclassifying them as 'civil' not 'criminal' because our protections only apply to 'criminal' law, such as the huge differences in the standards for a finding of guilt between civil and criminal law.
> (...) then we hired him out of desperation when covid hit and our superintendent was retiring.

I guess the board is at fault here?
This is why we had Gold and this is why we now have Bitcoin.
Llama AI running on Windows 98
Telegram Closes Z-Library and Anna's Archive Channels for Copyright Infringement
And the US left.

Also, if there's one thing that the House of Saud has made apparent, it's that they don't much care about what their subjects consider controversial.
While this is a fair take, it's not what the law has in mind.
Is this not inherently circular reasoning? "For X to happen, the laws of physics must allow X to happen". It seems totally obvious. Am I missing something? Of course entropy must be discrete and reversible in order to reverse entropy, it just doesn't work that way as far as we know in the real universe.
I think in the non LLM world though you at least have the trail of documentation you can unwind once you're in a bind. I don't care for prompt-a-mole fighting.
I really take issue with the position that parents have zero influence. Our children attend a "mediocre" public school in our US city. We simply talk to the teachers and administrators, and you would not believe the results. I always go into it thinking that we are whiny parents talking to an overworked staff, and the results are incredible.

For anyone who is considering homeschooling but isn't sure, there is a real middle ground: actually engage with your huge staff at the public school who are hungry for parent involvement because it seems like the parents don't care and the kids are just there for the babysitting.

Public schools work great, but you do have to remain engaged and be ready to problem solve. It's like homeschooling but you get a whole publicly funded (somewhat overworked but enthusiastic) support staff to accomplish educational goals for your child.

Yes of course schools vary but if approach ANYONE with a combative attitude they are likely to fight back, even if you're on the same side. Approach with sympathy, open communication, and the occasional set of hands in the classroom, and you can get the best for your child.
Yeah, and what if they don't comply?
A380 has 4 engines, so maybe it doees this with more than one ?
I'm going to have to ask you to keep your voice down, sir.
It highly depends on the design of the judicial system. As individual people obviously everyone has political opinions, but you can shield the judicial system from being politized. Systems like in Israel where judges or judicial committees have a major say in appointment of judges removes a lot of politics from the equation.

That's how the Prussian/German bureaucracy was designed too. Lifetime civil service and merit based selection basically means the bureaucracy manages itself removed from the political process. The US system is extremely personalized with elections and appointments so it's uniquely nepotistic in a lot of ways.
Don't forget that I am saving my own children at the """expense""" of other, usually very disruptive if not outright violent children. Make sure to add that to the list of grievances.

A nice bit of irony is that the same top down, authoritarian control your comment strives for is the same sort of control that prevents schools from improving themselves. Massive government control enacted to fix some social ill or another hobbles admins and teachers, preventing them from punishing disruptive kids, and thus ruining the teaching environment.

The idea that the government owns or in anyway deserves control over our children must be opposed, with arms if necessary.

"Improving" a system your opponents control by sacrificing your children's safety and education is a bad idea. The United States has several good options for parents to avoid the hell that modern antiracist educational doctrine has created.
Hadn't seen this one before, it's great.

>As 6:30 P.M. rolled around, she felt sick in the pit of her stomach, like when she looked at a sentence that didn’t contain an acronym.
May the pattern continue. They've been resting on their laurels for far too long, and the quality of their search results is abysmal because of it. Attempts at actually fighting AI generated content and respun SEO garbage are basically non-existent, and the chances of finding something outside of a few large websites are seemingly getting lower by the day.

Maybe some competition will actually inspire them to clean things up, and provide the kinds of search results people need.
You simply don't understand math if you think that every couple (or even most couples, in practice) having only a single child is sustainable to infinity. You are the only person here who brought up the 3 number; 2 on average is (very obviously) all that's needed to sustain a population, and you chose a higher number (and applied it to the individual instead of as an average) to make the argument look unreasonable.

Also, your assertion that "eventually most do" have at least one kid is already close to statistically false in the US, and if current trends continue, will be false very soon (with the story being the same, or much worse, in all other first-world countries). Go check out /r/ChildFree on Reddit if you want to see just one of the many social movements surrounding this.
The word around socials seems to be that users are just moving to Rednote, another Chinese social media app - doesn't that just defeat the purpose of this and end up with a cat and mouse game?
Absolutely, all of these articles are appeals to emotion. I imagine that works especially for the folks who have an addiction to the propaganda dispenser.
I have a long-time friend who, after years in fintech, now sometimes speaks this way unironically in non-work situations. I mean, I still think he's a good guy overall but when he recommends the DND party splits up to maximize ROI on a spell rather than just say "let's split up", it does make me cringe.
It's not a ban, it's a forced divestment from Chinese ownership. The real question is why Bytedance isn't willing to take fair market value for Tiktok instead of just losing everything, since that makes no sense if this was just "business" and there weren't ulterior motives involved.
Have you got a chance to try it out?
in a slightly different vein: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/i-work-from-hom...

> OPERATOR: O.K., Robert, you understand that what you just described isn’t really lunch, right?

> ROBERT: It is lunch. When there are no rules, it is lunch, Cherise!

> OPERATOR: Did you at any point dip the green peppers in the peach yogurt?

> ROBERT: Probably. Sorry.
Banning citizens from using the app seems unconstitutional, but is preventing the the company ByteDance to operate inside the US unconstitutional? Those two seems like two completely different questions even if the outcome is similar.

From a EU perspective, regulating what companies do is not in conflict at all with human rights. The privilege to operate a company, provide advertisement, sell products and services, to use the local economy, all that is regulated. It should also be mentioned that companies generally tend to receive some benefits that individual persons do not, especially when it comes to taxes, risk taking, and debt. Companies can own and operate things which private person can't. The distinction between the rights, responsibilities and privileges that a private person has compared to a commercial company are fairly major.

Why is the ACLU talking like TikTok is a US citizen which free speech rights are being infringed?
As of 2019, 72% of Arizona's water supply was used for agriculture.

https://www.arizonawaterfacts.com/water-your-facts
I think you’re really quite confused about how video games or anti-cheat software works.

They don’t prevent you from editing your computer memory or even from cheating as such. Rather they merely inform the multiplayer server i.e. other players about that fact which allows them to make the choice to not play with you.

You’re free to edit your memory as much as you want or even “cheat” as long as you don’t impose your choices on unsuspecting victims..
The majority of ByteDance's users are from China. Without India, USA is around 50% of global revenue, and other markets are alot more fragmented hence smaller ecosystems.
>do you find yourself generally thinking in this way when using TikTok? Do you find that your peers that use TikTok do something similar?

Yup. It was new to me, as I learned from younger friends. To them it's obvious it's ride or be taken for a ride - not doing this active navigation, they'd compare it with surfing reddit using just the default frontpage unlogged.

In fact people even troll each other, for example by sending someone a mormon speech or an untranslated meme from India to screw with their feeds.

I have to say that in a way it's way better than YouTube or Instagram, where you can't really tame the thing and it will suddenly decide for a month that you like Joe Rogan and Ben Shapiro because you watched a video about bodybuilding.

>Like, no, this just makes me recoil completely. Why would I want to bother with that?

Because a huge amount of interesting content is there. I also prefer the old style, but I'd rather begrudgingly adapt than be left behind in progressively decaying platforms - it is what it is.
OK I'll have a read of "23-719 Trump v. Anderson (03/04/2024)"
I can only see this working if they're being homeschooled.
> Dropouts are rare full stop, ...

From a quick search, the State of Michigan has roughly an 8% dropout rate. Whatever your criteria for the term "rare", that is a huge number of kids.

If you are trying to run a really healthy society (vs. a Social Darwinism dystopia), then putting all the kids who don't do well in academic classroom settings on a "things like mental disabilities" - "effectively vegetables" spectrum seems extremely counterproductive.
Even for domestic companies, we've used consent decrees to force them to divest businesses (Standard Oil, AT&T, etc.) after they've been held in violation of antitrust law.
the government of China is a hostile adversary and they dont just spread gobs of misinformation and pro-CCP propaganda on TikTok, they also heavily censor topics the CCP does not like. This is not about free expression so much as where the public square should take place. Having the US public square take place in a tightly controlled, deceptive environment controlled by our worst enemy presents an existential risk to the US.

think of the printing press as invented and controlled by your worst enemy and only printing what it deems to be acceptable.
The bill of rights applies to criminal law. Civil asset forfeiture falls under 'civil' law (hence the name) which works under very different rules (for example the standard for a finding of guilt in much lower for civil law than criminal). The US Justice system routinely bypasses controls/limits/restrictions placed on it by moving things over to the 'civil law' side.