skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with all of your points, but they dont merit a logical conclusion of "therefore the switch was a weak console"
> I'm just wondering if the commenter that mentioned "black swan event"(a very popular theme in Russia and unrelated to wildfires)

What does this mean, "popular theme in Russia"
So you want to build your own data center
This is false. There is absolutely content on TikTok critical of the US, Israel, western businesses, etc that is boosted by TikTok’s algorithm and effectively censored or hidden on many American-owned social networks,
The owner of X is in the government.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.12271

https://kvombatkere.github.io/assets/TikTok_Paper_WebConf24....

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04086

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-76520-0_...

https://redfame.com/journal/index.php/ijsss/article/view/566...

https://github.com/SyntaxSparkk/TikTok

https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-122/?utm_source=...
I don’t think health insurance is actually insurance, but I have seen little evidence that it has “insane profit margins”. From what I’ve read, ‘health insurance’ has middling profit margins relative to other insurance specialties; where are you getting that view/data?
It's also not a novel threat model. For example prior art, the browser confirmation dialogs in Firefox at least don't enable their buttons until the window has had focus for 500ms or so. Possibly to avoid inadvertently unintentionally clicking "run" on a recently downloaded item, but it solves for this too and I wouldn't be shocked if this was on their mind too.

If I were running some site where pressing a button does some kind of auth that I really want a user to read, that seems like a reasonable mitigation compared to the hyperbole found in the article:

> This technique seemingly affects almost every website
There is no complexity to the corruption and inefficiency of US healthcare. It has the highest costs and mediocre outcomes. It offers healthcare providers incentives to act even if they shouldn’t and allows insurers to profit directly from denying care.

It’s worse in practice than any system adopted by any peer nation regardless of the wide range of differing approaches to providing universal coverage.

Treating it as some uniquely complicated problem is deceptive. It’s broken because that keeps certain people wealthy and gives employers control over labor.
The specifics were about whether it required any additional preparation like a traditional
poppadom vs being a ready to eat snack like a crisp.

Walkers lost the case.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/19/walkers-min...
I don’t understand, why wouldn’t they send it out on the 19th? Because it’s Sunday? Laws aren’t weekday-only last I checked.
Investigating an “evil” RJ45 dongle
How the legal system continues to treat once-enslaved people as property (2023)
It is one. The other one is already out the door and just said "your problem not mine".
Who is "they" in this sentence? You mean the Republican majorities in both houses of Congress who (nearly) all have their seats at this point only because they appealed to Trump's mob of followers? He could be impeached for all manner of things, but (as the parent comment said) I don't know what it would take for these Republicans to do it.

When he first took office in 2017, I figured that it would happen within six months. Given that he was impeached twice, I was almost right, but it didn't happen until Democrats won the House. Even most of the "old establishment" Republicans ended up backing him. Now there are none of those remaining.
I have heard old time time tv episodes explain that. They were asked why sto digging a site and that was the answer. Archeology seems to be self aware as a discipline. The modern participants have been ham strung by earlier generations.
This is a very handy postgres extension! We've been using it at my job for a couple years now to generate test datasets for developers. We have a weekly job that restores a prod backup to a temporary DB, installs the `anon` extension, and runs pg_dump with the masking rules. Overall we've been very happy with this workflow since it gives us a very good idea of how new features will work with our production data. The masking rules do need maintenance as our DB schema changes, but that's par for the course with these kinds of dev tools.

All that said, I wouldn't rely on this extension as a way to deliver anonymized data to downstream consumers outside of our software team. As others have pointed out, this is really more of a pseudonymization technique. It's great for removing phone numbers, emails, etc. from your data set, but it's not going to eradicate PII. Pretty much all anonymized records can be traced back to their source data through PKs or FKs.
It's not about children. They've done their dash with using 'terrorism' as an excuse to erode civil liberties, and so now they've switched to 'saving the children'.
Related:

Cheap rj45 ethernet to USB adapter contains malware

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42679498
It’s a strange idea that team management is going to be more valuable if individual engineers are more productive.

I’m actually _more_ worried about team managers than line engineers when it comes to AI impact.
What’s the point of imposing sanctions on a Chinese company? What does that even achieve? Every single Chinese company is at some level, directed by the Chinese government. All of them are capable of inflicting damage if they have the ability to. So what is this action supposed to accomplish? To me it looks like this is just meant to placate Americans who are angered by the continued asymmetric warfare. In reality, politicians in countries affected by China’s campaign of asymmetric warfare need to really think about what their broader goals are with containing China, and take more impactful actions. For example, since the hackers from these companies can just form another company overnight, why not just sanction all Chinese companies and impose punishing tariffs? Yes it would be painful for the US and Europe but it could be crippling to the Chinese government, who is clearly directing these repeated cyberattacks.
I take it you never bought LED panels for indoor grow ops right? Never considered the cost and resources required for the wiring, installation, programming, making greenhouses in the span of a year? Do you know how much copper you need per capita? The bottlenecks in manufacturing? This is pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking.
Using HTML features doesn't have to mean manipulating another component's nodes.
lol this is amazing
There's quite a lot of [racoon] off twitter also. Just glancing at todays headlines we have Germany poll, rocket explodes, will make money from UK EV policy, Trump inauguration and many more.
We don't know that the secret evidence was that TT doesn't promote U.S. propaganda. We can surmise, but speculation can be wrong. Besides, the justices might simply have revealed that secret evidence, had it really been just that. But they claim they didn't even consider the secret evidence. Unclear whether they took a peek, but they say they didn't consider it.
You can also become homeless because the market has decided that rent should cost more than you can afford (in a given area). This involves real estate, equity investing, home insurance, zoning, housing regulation, and banking. Is this equally immoral? How many types of business are similarly immoral?
The world bank study suggests there is huge room for transforming education.

“The learning improvements were striking—about 0.3 standard deviations. To put this into perspective, this is equivalent to nearly two years of typical learning in just six weeks.”
But how viable is it? There's 47 active astronauts and millions of children have dreamt of becoming one.
In LA a lot of non-mansions were destroyed but plenty of them were modest to reduce overall cost initially because the area has always been expensive to build or live in, even for the original homes to be put up.

Then you have to consider how quickly development took place by comparison, and the collective degree of certainty among the original buyers on whether or not they would be able to afford to stay very long anyway.

So many come there just to give California a try since it's supposed to be the golden state, who are depending completely on the occurrence of good fortune within a limited amount of time before they would expect to return to states with less-expensive hometowns in mostly less fire-prone environments.

This would influence what kind of home they would expect to be suitable for their needs to begin with, and how long it might need to endure.
> Aren't we all adults here on this site who should be able to handle some pushback?

Sadly not. I'm tempted to say "most adults aren't adults", but the actual dynamics are more what dmos62 described.

Let's say most of us are adults most of the time, but that gap between "most" and "all" is, given a large-enough population, more than enough to ruin every thread if care isn't taken to avoid this.

Edit: one factor that often goes unappreciated is the size of the community. Small, cohesive communities can support more robust (or even aggressive) styles of interaction—especially when people have other things in common that unite them. In the past I've often compared this to rugby teams [1] that beat the crap out of each other and then go to the pub together; or literary or comedy communities where the art of insulting each other is part of the fun. These dynamics break down completely in a context like HN, where the group size is orders of magnitude larger and the bonds holding people together are super weak, if they exist at all.

It's not that those other styles of communication are bad or wrong—they're great! in contexts where they don't cause people to come to blows—but they're not good here, because the context can't support them. In the current context—the large, anonymous, public internet forum—the cost of keeping the community going is a certain blandness [2] of communication. I'm not fond of that either, but one can't wish these tradeoffs away.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I think this is discussed at length in part II.D (starts at the bottom of 17). I would write more but I have spent too long already on this thread :)

I would be a bit careful about trying to liken motivation for something like an EO to a law though; many members of congress voted to pass the exact language in the final bill, and they might not all have agreed with _why_. So I would put to you that the text itself is the primary thing one should consider, especially more in the legislative case than the executive one.
I am using Discord under GrapheneOS and it works fine. No idea about Steam.
Seriously, I'm not sure what is so hard to understand here (I suspect it's actually not that hard to understand, people just hate Apple because "Big Company Bad"). What is the precise dollar figure of value that HN has added to YC? Literally impossible to calculate.
Hierarchy, eugenics, slavery, inequality are all part of the fabric of our reality

History in this reality will always be written by the people at the top of the hierarchy i.e the last two empires to rule the world

Sometimes we dream and see glimpses of a world without slavery, inequality or hierarchy but it is a dream nothing more

Lol shoulda just said that
the code for it can be found here in case anyone is looking for it https://github.com/feldera/techdemo-spreadsheet
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> the newspapers of the time - which were closer to the tabloids of today, but worse - did a lot to stir hatred of foreigners, of Jews, of Poor, and contributed massively in causing wars

Sure, but this is just as true of the earliest printed works in the 16th and 17th centuries. So this really is a fallacious argument unless you also think that we should be dispensing with freedom of the press in general.
I'm actually quite happy with AI crawlers. I recently found out chatgpt suggest one of my sites when asked to suggest a good, independent site that covered the topic I searched for. Especially now that for instance chatgpt is adding source links, I think we should treat AI crawlers the same as search engine crawlers.
Meta AI and Be MY Eyes already can do something similar with cameras. It's useful to me as a blind person but definitely not to the point where I'd trust it to help me do online banking, apply for jobs etc. I frequently get incorrect information such as invalid expiration dates on food, inability to read temperatures on displays in sunlight, telling me products are on the shelf in the pantry that aren't, etc. My wife loves the blindness specific AI image recognition though since it's really good at determining the flavor of Propel water and I no longer have to ask her if it's grape or not.
A worrying angle is that Elon is essentially subservient to the CCP because of Tesla’s presence in China. Remember when Tesla signed a pledge to uphold socialism at the behest of the CCP a couple years back? It’s also why Elon - who claims to uphold free speech, capitalism, democratic values, etc - will NEVER say anything negative about China. If Trump is close to Elon, and Elon is easily influenced/controlled by the CCP, it really undermines the independence of US leadership. I am concerned this next administration will be soft on China in all the wrong ways, including not enforcing a ban that has been legally instituted and upheld unanimously by SCOTUS.
> but even the fact that this could have become a thing

So you're upset that the Biden admin attempted to sway the court with secret evidence. But any admin always could behave in that way, and nothing you can do can stop that. The fact that the court decided to ignore that secret evidence should be comforting. Sure, nothing forces the court in the future to stick to that, but this is always true as to everything.
> Take State Farm, for instance: its CEO was awarded $50 million in compensation over just two years — 2022 and 2023.

Honestly, no one would care about CEO pay if the insurance companies would just pay out and make customers whole. Instead, there are mechanisms and processes in place to keep premiums coming in and to reduce or refuse claim payouts.
1yo and 3yo “technically” luxury brands. But the car values combined is under $100k
Book and Dagger: How scholars and librarians became spies during World War II
Any idea where I could get my hands on such records? Lately my voracious reading appetite has been encouraging me to seek out first hand accounts
Biden won't enforce TikTok ban, leaving fate of app to Trump
To my limited understanding yes, that's what they claim.

Basically burning fuel (any fuel, really) with added sodium to create very bright monochromatic light that can then be converted into electricity using very high efficiency solar cells.
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One of my daughters was born with moderate to severe autism. There's no obvious cause. I'm told that from what we know it's at least 10 different factors that go into it, one of which is environmental pollution. So maybe corporations are partially at fault.

If I could cure it (yes, I'm using that term. It's a debilitating condition and she'd be better off without it) by selling my house and moving hundreds of miles away from family I'd do that in a heartbeat without complaint. All we can do is make the best of things.
For all of those claiming that of course they know, because big companies always know exactly how much everything they do is worth:

1. Do you think your employer can calculate the profit margin on what you do? I sincerely doubt it, unless maybe you work in sales or something.

2. How would you calculate the value of HN to YC?

3. How would you calculate the value of iMessage? It has no direct revenue, but it has a huge effect on other revenue. How much though?
Wait until you hear about how one ordinary guy on a jury can nullify a whole law. Our system is geared to err towards enforcing fewer laws.
Nice to see this here! There's been an interesting discussion on r/rust too: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1i2ttwj/billion_cell_...
Overall, I like the sentiment. However, there’s a common pitfall: as experts transition into decision-making roles, they often rely on their older technical knowledge. Over time, this once-valuable expertise can work against them, because it’s based on a previous generation of technology.

Many people assume that excelling at a role automatically qualifies them to lead, believing firsthand experience is enough. Yet as the gap between how things are actually done and how they think they’re done widens, their decisions can become increasingly detached and counterproductive.
How is a jump realized by Not Gates?
And this is why NoScript is a required extension. Matrix if you use Chromium based browsers.
To your last point -- Humans make mistakes too. I asked my EA to order a few things for our office a few days ago, and she ended up ordering things that I did not want. In this case I could have wrote a better prompt. Even with a better prompt she could have ordered the unwanted item. This is a reversible decision.

So my point is, that while you might get some false positives, it's worth automating as long as many of the decisions are reversible or correctable.

You might not want to use this in all cases, but it's still worthwhile for many many cases. The use case worth automating depends on the acceptable rate of error for the given use case.
>Democrats had tried on Wednesday to pass legislation that would have extended the deadline, but Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas blocked it. Cotton, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that TikTok has had ample time to find a buyer.

> “TikTok is a Chinese Communist spy app that addicts our kids, harvests their data, targets them with harmful and manipulative content, and spreads communist propaganda,” Cotton said.

Let's see how quickly Cotton does a U turn
Saw the GitHub thing a while back I meant comparatively TikTok vs Instagram vs YouTube where they differ / are the same etc
... have you ever checked if you might be colorblind? Speaking as someone with protanomaly who used to think "bright red" wasn't bright until he got functioning colorblindness-correcting lenses (as I explained in a comment elsewhere in this discussion).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42737700
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It may be possible, but I think you've approaching this with the very naive assumption that the authorities actually have any interest in allowing you to preserve your privacy.
Learn a trade.
Western meritocracy traps people in emotions of envy, shame and fear
I updated with the paper comparing how TikTok is beating FB
These interfaces can be cute to play with, but there's a reason that fbdev is deprecated on Linux - it's not a good interface outside toy examples. wscons may be more powerful, but I don't think it can be used to fully enable modern accelerated display devices, although do correct me if I'm wrong.

Despite some confusion in terminology, modern interfaces also operate on frame buffers, but with an API for switching them out atomically. Likewise, your display server (at least modern ones) just take your client window as a completed frame buffer, and mainly serve to let multiple applications all show their frame buffers without having to worry about what other applications are doing. Frame buffers all the way down, just with support for DMA, atomicity, fancy formats and color spaces, etc.

You can use the appropriate modern APIs to make a single, exclusive graphical application with all the benefits of modern display hardware easily enough. That is, after all, what your display server is. You just don't gain much - just a little bit of saved sideband IPC.

X11 makes it seem like a display server is a complicated thing that has to support drawing and what not, but with alternatives like Wayland, a full screen client buffer is handed off zero-copy from the client application tot he hardware without being looked at.
Bluesky accounts add 10k followers per day
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Lived in Switzerland and this is really not true.

What I've learned is that since Switzerland has 3 official languages (German, French and Italian) children and teens at school focus on learning one of the other two regions they are not from.

In particular this leads to French and Italian cantons to be moderately fluent in each other's language. Strikingly when I lived in Lausanne, more people knew Italian than English. English was really not on their radar (plus, add that francophones are kind of elitist when it comes to languages and don't really like to consume content that is not in french).

In German speaking Switzerland proficiency in English was still subpar from most of the rest of Europe when walking in a shop or going to a restaurant.
Ask HN: How good (or bad) is your memory?
Prompted by David Lynch's passing, a friend messaged me: "Remember when we watched Blue Velvet in the artsy Milwaukee cinema?"

Nope… I have no recollection of that event, or the movie.

This isn't a surprise. I will watch movies and write reviews of them in my journal, and 18 months later have no recollection of ever seeing it, and reading the review brings little to nothing back. I'm used to it, and this has been me for decades. I have few memories of my wedding, or when my kids were young (like, 5-8 years ago), etc. I'll spend a week somewhere on vacation and barely recall more than "I was there". I don't like taking too many pictures because it can be frustrating to see myself in places that I have no recollection of (or that I'd even gone there). Sometimes its embarrassing, like when I'll recommend some place and then the person I'm talking too tells me we visited it together.

This rarely bugs me though, which surprises some folks. I live very much "now" and eschew most nostalgia. My wife has a good memory, but it comes with a burden of bad/painful experiences hanging around. e.g. she'll have a sour view of someone, but it's for something they said 10+ years ago. OTOH I literally rely on the fact that I'll forget many irritating things in days or weeks.

HN seems to be interested in memory-related stories, and I'm curious how folks view their own memory, good or bad, and whether its something they think much about, struggle with, etc.
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What checks remain to counter this power? Impeachment? Constitutional amendment? As I understand it, if the president chooses not to enforce a law, then the only real recourse Congress has is a massive escalation that requires an extremely high level of cooperation. I'm not sure it was ever intended for the executive branch to simply ignore the other two branches and unilaterally decide how to run things. Personally I think willfully refusing to enforce the law of the land should be an impeachable offense but I guess that's not how it works.
> as is often the case with serious literary folk talking about technology

You should also see technology folk talking about serious literary folk - it's equally misconstrued and off track.
Sure. I hear the pull-out method is also an effective contraceptive.
To me this comment reads like a lot of bending over backwards to try to the justify a gut feeling of “yea but for sure this time is different right??”

Tech elites on HN worrying about the moral fortitude of the unwashed masses in the face of the technological changes they themselves have brought about…it’s all a bit too “self-important loathing” imo.

Everything’s fine and going to be fine.