skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you. This is coming from Saudi.

I don't have any friend from my school times. Bullying was the norm back in late 80's and the 90's till I am in college on '99.

The real friends? the real education? started at college. School was a 12 years full of non sense useless stuff to someone's practical life and improvement (to me and many of people around me. The most I remember of these days were math and science lessons that were beneficial and my father alone was more than capable teaching me that... other than language lessons, religious teaching that were just a formality for us (we learn religion the best from home, our extended family) etc etc. At the end? We lost most of 12 years that are the best for internalizing more engineering and professional education. Yes we are capable of that at that age, I and my younger brother at the least built some robots and actual cars with suspension and steering etc although using old Lego collections (since we grew poor we couldn't afford actual tools) and that was ALL on our own at home and we didn't have internet or anything. We modified RC cars to go faster by soldering capacitors to give that boost to the motor (at the expense of battery life and potentially burning the motor) when we were in middle school.

Programming you say? my love for computers and computer games? all at home too, with some help from my older cousin (that I will visit in 30 minutes, he is 67 years old now and without him I wouldn't even dream of getting a PhD in CS, and of course my professors who I revere and respect).

Nearly all my useful skills, other than math and science as I mentioned), I and my brother learned on our own... at home. It all started at home. The school? was torture and a formality we had to go through or no one will hire us.

I am for minimal formal schooling with specialization starting from day 1, each one can choose a MUCH shorter path and more focused on what they want to do... switching between specializations and/or profession shouldn't be like collapsing a sky scraper we have built with hay (like it is now the case). wasting people's lives, causing them trauma for whatever miss function (e.g. students being beaten for silly missed homeworks etc). This system is age old and not effective, and there are more effective ways. Most of those who changed the world were school drop outs for a reason... they focused on what really matters and connected it to reality.
What does an AI-assisted developer workflow built around Gemini look like?
Maybe you should have developed a technology to upload his brain.
o1 is not a general-purpose model, and it's not very good at multi-turn; it should instead be given all the context upfront: https://www.latent.space/p/o1-skill-issue
Have you seen the salaries at IMEC?
In 1990 there were zero identified exoplants. Now there are 4000+. It isn't that there is the creation of lots of new planets, but that we started looking for them in earnest, and had the means to identify them.

Being diagnosed is the likely reason there is an explosion in mental health disorders. We go to lengths to apply a diagnostic label on every child. The massive variation in humans means that a huge portion are going to fall to the sides of the curve on all sorts of gradients. Older HNers will remember having a wide variety of kids among their cohorts, with "nerds", depressives, the hyperactive, the super driven and focused, and the manic depressives, etc, but likely zero were actually diagnosed in any way. Now you could apply a diagnoses on literally all of them.

This isn't judgmental, and it's good to know what people are dealing with, and to offer treatment or medication where possible.
I don't think it's strange at all.

Wouldn't this be a near perfect use-case for AI generated websites?
I would suggest you please take a look at the HN guidelines [1]. In particular:

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Should I feel better or worse about it being the CCP instead of a tiny group of billionaires? From where I'm standing the cabal of tech billionaires appear to be a bigger threat to me as a normal american. Do you think this is naive?
> Sure. This is a great model to adopt if you believe corporations exist to destroy people.

corporations exist to make money, or maximize shareholder returns, depending on how you look at it. corporations don't exist to make people happy or solve the fundamental societal issues with capitalism. there's merit to discussing that as a separate topic, but in the context of "capitalism exists and you are operating a business within it", you want to fire low performers and replace them with high performers
“Sociologist” is more of an anti-qualification. In any case let’s not rely on appeals to authority. I think we are intelligent enough to judge the evidence ourselves.
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When I work in an office, I’m more productive when the other people on my team are also in my office.

If management make me come into the office and expect me to work with people who are working remotely or from a different office, I will bitch about it.
>CCP committee with influence over personnel and strategic decisions

Party committees as part of 93 company law basically creates dumb shit like organizing staff picnics for companies with more than 3 CCP members, which is basically any reasonably sized company since 1/8 of country are CCP members. It is much more minor than export controls. The "pervasive control" exists in the sense that there is higher level coordination like META having US intelligence on board, or forming partnerships with said agencies. Fixating on minor shit like internal CCP committee is propaganda trying to pretend somehow US companies are less influenced by geo/politics when they are every bit as much. The big stuff is again, distinction without difference.

> TikTok which is not a PRC company

This is being obtuse like people pretending TikTok being based in Singapore/incorporated in Caymen somehow seperates it from Bytedance's (quartered in Beijing) PRC roots. I'll grant you DE-nationalizing isn't "technically" the same as nationalizing, but geo/politically it's obviously a none starter just like if Beijing told Boeing they would have to divest from US ownership. PRC would never allow US to normalize that kind of behaviour, and vice versa. DE-nationalizing tiktok, i.e. nationalizing by parties other than PRC is another distinction without difference.
Define small. I just interviewed at Dandy (the dental group) and they had me go through this process.

Also, do you do any type of coding exercises? where do you draw the line?
Uh yeah the government? I'm not sure if you expect the US to go out and poll everyone in the whole country first or what you're trying to imply, but governments usually coordinate with governments.

> See: 1990 Gulf War and the 2003 Iraq War.

War is war, it sucks but it's been a part of human history for all of human history. That said, those wars are over. If Iraq no longer wanted US bases in their territory, they could ask the US to leave.
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Yeah, and I'll do that with all of the tools and problems I actually care about :p
Actually that is what we use to teach adults how to ride bikes. They get it much better if they get used to push the bicycle for a couple of hours, plus mounting dismounting it in a standstill. It teaches them they can control it and it doesn't appear like some external contraption whose sole purpose is to make them crash.
Recently completed the first-ever product launch on the platform, featuring six products from indie makers, and it was a great success!

Just last night, I added Twitter authentication to simplify the user experience. There are plenty of exciting plans in the works, and I’m optimistic about gaining traction as we move forward.
I use uBlock to remove UI components that get in the way. It's a top feature for me because I can often DNS block many of the ads anyway
It seems more like a sign of the current hiring climate. There have been a lot of layoffs and contractions in tech, and so companies are getting flooded with applicants (many of whom may not be accurately representing their skills).

My assumption is that these tests are lower effort ways to effectively weed out a large portion of applicants.
It’s time saas apps realise that they can’t make 2.5x normal license money by just sticking AI to it.

In our SaaS we added it for free. We realised that there is no way to sustainably make money off of this in long term.

It’s a great feature but not 2.5x price worth feature.
The precursor to TikTik (Musical.ly) "failed" as well. I think it's because while apps of that era were able to achieve the viral moment, they failed to convert that into advertising and sponsorship $$$. TikTok, Instagram etc. have perfected that pipeline.
Went to look up Ambien's company's stock. Google Gemini is hallucinating like crazy:

> Cosette Pharmaceuticals is permanently closed, so there is no stock for the company.

> Cosette Pharmaceuticals was a pharmaceutical company that manufactured topical creams, ointments, oral liquids, and suppositories. They had facilities in New Jersey and North Carolina.

No, Google. They're just a private company.

Thanks, Google.

Beyond this, I can't imagine this drug will be something people will want to continue taking. It was already posited to not be good for Alzheimer's, and now they have a smoking gun for a plausible mechanism.
Every K-12 teacher I've known (male and female) has had times when they've come home crying from the stress. (workload, the kids you care about and can't help, ...)

The NEA does something about pay and tenure but when it comes to protecting teachers emotionally forget about it. Roughly half of the people who get a teaching certificate at their own expense discover it is a job that they can't stand to do.
Agree, which is why it was nice(r) as an add-on.
I miss that too. I was in China before 2005 and the Internet was pretty much free. I used to speak to the quake editing group on IRC about mapping until deep into the night.

I think it's going to get more segmented. And not only that, the hardware, the OS, everything.

That said, I believe HN is a good platform. I don't think it's banned in China and people here can keep politics out of technical discussions, at least for now.
The support of trans ideology is destroying the progressive movement. What a shame because they’re driving people straight into the arms of fascists.
> This is where a more modern supreme court ruling would come in handy I guess

I'd hate to see how this modern supreme court rules. Odds are likely to be in favor of keeping this policy, especially if some of that money is used to buy an RV or fund fancy vacations
With Amazon as an example for CxOs of the world, sadly, this likely won't happen.

Look at Prime. So much crap involved, and quite literally all I use it for is lower cost shipping. It's almost on the edge of not worth it for me. But I bet from Amazon's perspective, they make more with the higher price, even if they lose the bottom 10% not willing to spend.

Huh.

Just made me realise, a startup that subscribes to Prime as a virtual being, and then splits off each sub-thing for full use by separate individuals would be incredibly profitable.

If any form of AI is eventually granted legal personhood, Prime's model will collapse.
Every time in the last year that anyone has shared me a link to a short video on Facebook or Instagram, it has a TikTok watermark on it. This leads me to assume that most of the content on FB or Insta that I would actually want to see originally comes from TikTok.
They kinda already do it with YT Premium/YT Music. I don't have anything against YT Music, it's a perfectly fine music service from the amount I've used it. But I already have a Spotify with my preferred playlists, and I don't really have incentive to swap it over aside from maybe saving a handful of dollars a month.

Yet if you want ad-free YouTube the proper way, you can't just have Music as an option, it's rolled into your cost regardless of if you actually plan to use it or not.
Suicide rates were higher in the 80s
You've just described the reason for this TikTok ban.
they are making wafers, those have to be sent to china to make the finals chips... in the case of a war this is not great
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Okay, but i'm a white american who isn't being paid by any government just FYI. Maybe reconsider your mental model of people you interact with online?
Frankly I wouldn't be surprised if this was a case of Hanlon's razor. Some "researcher" thought well ENV vars will certainly show us what we want and that's where the conversation ended without thinking a little harder into what else might be in the vars.
Good luck arguing this with the labor dept and the IRS bud.

Armchair lawyers are insufferable...
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> early Facebook, MySpace, Xanga, etc.

This was really a fun time and it was a whole new vista for interaction. It was really something to enter a new age.

That feeling didn't last long, but I still got value from Facebook until the early 2010s.
i think there are obvious reasons why bytedance would not want to spawn a US-based competitor and why a US only social media network would be ineffective.

this is exactly the same as what China does with their gfw, they allow american apps to divest and be owned by a chinese company.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42696955
Are you "liking" videos? That's how I steered it in the right direction because it wasn't doing much for me when I first started using it. It only took a few minutes for it to latch onto my interest and then the watch time took over.
No. “Anti-woke” people have latched onto the “prig” aspects of social justice because being against what it’s actually about would highlight what they really have a problem with: equality.

If someone says “hey you can’t say the n-word, that’s racist” and someone’s reply is “don’t censor me!” the latter isn’t advocating for freedom of speech, they’re advocating for racism.

Defining what “woke” means in terms of the fake justifications of the “anti-woke” crowd is BS. What people labelled as “woke” want is for people to treat people better. “Anti-woke” doesn’t want that.
Congress does have the power to regulate foreign commerce however. Not that I disagree with you, but rarely can something be distilled to a single concern.
Yea ok. Still, it seems like it could produce a lot of very useful data if switched to a blind spinning mode.
http://oyhus.no/QuantumMechanicsForProgrammers.html gives a flavor of one possible shape of things. It's pretty intractable to actually compute anything this way.
Its principles are most certainly taught. They were 10 years ago in my high school. Come to find out these were from CRT sources.
The comparison between American and Canadian Froot Loop cereal is illuminating:

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/uc265y/a...
Yeah, by my ear it was pretty clearly not SJ’s voice-likeness, although there were some superficial similarities.

But some people could have mistook it due to some regional accent similarities, though it would be akin to interpretation of any light southern drawl with a similar timbre as being SJ.
I don't recall violent video games and rap music influencing elections.
You don't just stay home with your siblings. A major factor of how homeschooling works is homeschoolers have local organizations or co-ops where they do things together.

And, yes, this is just reinventing some aspects of the public school system in the private sphere. But that is because parents, rightly or wrongly, feel they have zero influence over how the public school works, so they just sideload their own version.

(I would say that the parents are right about having zero influence, as quite a lot of American public schools are so big and so bureaucratized that parents do not have a real voice without herculean effort.)
> I'm saying there is no point to continuing using it once the kids has developed their balance. That development typically takes only a few dozen minutes, at most.

Well yes there is a point. At the age of 2 or 3 bikes are so small and their cranks so short that the gearing is very low. Which means kids are usually faster on a balance bike at that age so it is much more rewarding.

At age of 4 or 5 kids can realise they might be faster and get tired less by riding a real bike so they have a motivation for it.
> wasn't that the main reason Musk bought Twitter?

Yes.

> there is alot of talk about this

There's a lot of talk by politicians about banning Facebook & X in the US? Really?
Yeah sure, Socrates was worried about books too... now if you can't see the difference between rock music and kids spending 5+ hours a day doomscrolling I think we'll have a hard time discussing anything. Feel free to share the studies showing the negative effects of books and rock music on kids by the way, because there are plenty of these when it comes to social media, especially the doomscrolling type.

Following your logic everything new has to be desirable, that's a tough position to defend imho. Just because new trends were incorrectly criticised in the past doesn't mean every new trend is good until the heat death of the universe, logic 101
1990 Gulf War is actually an example of the Saudi Arabians asking for coalition troops to defend them.

2003? I'll give you that one.
TikTok’s algorithm for the feed and their data science and recommenders are pretty amazing. You can tune it to show you what you like really quickly and it’s effective. Mine is tuned to old house preservation and restoration, a couple guys doing skits as blue collar workers that are some of the funniest parts of my day, motocross videos, and some dog/animal content. I’ve never liked a video or commented on a video, it’s just so effective using dwell time and they have so much data that they can give you exactly what you want and little that you don’t. There is no politics on my feed. I challenge you to get that with twitter, reels, threads, Facebook, vine… any of them
Hope they do that worldwide soon too!
not necessarily; If the police recently busted a <gun ring/drug deal/insert generic illegal activity> paying for goods with that same style necklace(or any mental gymnastics to link the item type to a crime) then they could seize it as surely it is part of illegal activity.
> I think 15 billion profit on 97 billion revenue is doing pretty well.

These are 2023 numbers, in Teslas latest quarter net profit margin has fallen by nearly half vs 2023 (8.6% vs 15.5%)
Tech people were bullied in school. It wasn’t worth it.
noahpinion is generally very insightful but I don't think his analysis holds water here. ByteDance is a major Chinese company -- if the EU tried to force the sale of Google you can sure as shit expect "Washington" to have strong feelings about this. The implication that Beijing controls ByteDance is not really supported by this evidence.
Is Taiwan's national security the major concern here? I assumed everyone was just bluffing at that until they can get their own supply.

Getting dragging in to an East China unification war because you can't squeeze lighting in to rocks on time is a tragedy.
The people who say "it's to make you interact with normal people!" miss a key point. In the real world, you meet a person, and if they treat you like shit, you walk away. If they physically assault you in the workplace, you can report them to HR, and there's a good chance you'll never have to see them again. In school, you get told you need to have empathy for their propensity to beat you, get subtly or not-so-subtly victim blamed, and you still have to interact with them for at least a year, and maybe years.

Exit is probably the most powerful strategy to dealing with certain kinds of situations, and schools deny you that.
Well, what rotten luck of mine!! I have visited a couple of hundreds and I can count exactly 4 that served full meal that's somewhat comparable to that of what's served at Langar. Rest did serve "food" yes but one or two bites.
> Learning how to co-exist with people who aren't like you

A billion times this. School is not to train you on Math, English or Science. It's also to teach you how to cooperate, how to reach consensus, how to make decisions as a group, and so on.

These soft skills are absolutely critical to maintain a properly functioning society.
I was surprised by that too. I assumed we would see a sudden interest in android and iphone jailbreaking.
Mitt Romney basically came out and admitted that the reason for the TikTok ban was that young people were getting unfiltered access to information about the genocide in Gaza.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
I can't be alone in not wanting these features? I don't mind them being available, but I do fear a nearterm future where they are active whether I ask them to be or not.

I remember all of the scorn clippy got years ago. How is this any different? I think Inbox was probably more useful, and they didn't push it near this hard. :(
> It’s not just a right-wing thing — the politics of climate change is grounded in the idea that the climate of the past is the best one.

This seems like an extremely wild take on climate change.
> But when you fly people who clearly have an owner (themself) to another country and they don't have a passport, the country holds the airline accountable.

> Why not hold the captain of the ship responsible for loading illegal cargo? Isn't this the whole point of a ship's manifest, to record what's on the ship? Like extend it slightly more to also record the legality.

Just because an airline lets you fly somewhere, you can still be rejected at the other end. I think it's a bit much to expect every captain to know the legality of everything in their hold, to all destinations, and enforce that.
I assume OP tried to set it up in NixOS config file, instead of using some GUI (such as GNOME's nm-connection-editor).
Am I correct in reading this as you saying poor people and the ones with no options are "dregs"?
I remember the day they introduced the chronological newsfeed! People were pissed about that. Nobody wanted a list of all their wall posts to be published to everyone who could see them.

Prior to newsfeed, FB was obviously an N-N platform, but the interactions were more 1-1. You used the network to find and connect, but you interacted with individuals (on their wall). The newsfeed tipped the focus toward 1-N interactions, and direct messages solidified that (no more wall posts).
A step in the right direction but we still have an ocean to cross for our domestic semi industry.
I tried TikTok and it was awful. I didn’t find a single interesting video. I haven’t tried it since. I’m curious what people actually watch on there?
What are the odds that they will tally that extra $2/user/month up as "AI revenue" regardless of how many subscribers actually use those features?
Most scientific advances throughout history prior to about the 1950s were made by people whose education was either informal or private (including apprenticeship). Private tutoring was the predominant mode of formal education (below university level) throughout history.