skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my NYC neighborhood, we seem to be going through a whole slew of businesses closing shop within the last year and change.

One obvious reason is rent hikes.

But as one of my favorite local bars was closing, one of the staff mentioned that insurance was really starting to kill them.

We don't live in a flood-prone part of NYC, so I'm curious: is insurance for retail space really going up dramatically across the board in NYC, or was this a single, subjective understanding of a situation?
Why are they called laws then? :)

Does the US have a different definition for everything?
I watch at least 2-3 10 minute videos on TikTok daily, and a large number of 5+ minute videos! There's an amazing amount of good content, and once the algorithm hones in on what you care about it gets surfaced for you.

Can't say I have insurance adjusters on my FYP, but I think that speaks to the power of the algorithm's targeting far more than it does the lack of content.
No argument here. Most Democrats, including Biden, and all Republicans serve at the whims of Facebook's owners and their peers. Hence the enormous handout to Facebook in this decision.
This whole Cambridge Analytica thing is such a nothing burger - I have yet to be given a concise reason how it was anything other than targeted advertising. Something that happens day-in, day-out a billion times over on all our "western" platforms in the form of ads. And no, the fact that this data wasn't "consented to" doesn't mean anything other than being a technicality. If anything, I'd chalk the whole thing up to anti-Trump hysteria that happened around that time.
I gave up on mine. It's more than obvious to me that it doesn't care if there's ink in the cartridge after some time and just starts malfunctioning.
Thanks, I uploaded it!
This is nice! It looks like the pipeline is filling up! I signed up to launch NimbleAI [1] on your site.

One small issue with the launch date calendar. When I clicked a date in the calendar the popup with the actual launch date was always one day later. I wanted to launch on Tuesday, Jan 28, but when I picked that date it scheduled the launch for Wed, Jan 29.

BTW... what was the product you launched on PH that got buried??

Also... how funny would it be to launch ItsLaunched on PH and have it bubble to the top of PH! You should coordinate a launch on PH with all the users signed up for your new tool to get lots of votes. THAT would be awesome!

[1] https://www.nimbleai.co
For me as a hobbyist it's so hard to know what to learn and even to know what level the teacher should be.

I'm at 1200 in lichess, tried for example multiple ,,beginner friendly'' openings, like London / Kings Indian defense, but I realized that as four knights opening is the most natural for me, I should focus on the Italian, which is the closest to my natural style of play.

Also there are tactics practice, books, videos, but I get discourage when I see how fast some people are advancing (especially as I'm in my 40s).
> if the end result of this was another several years of congressional drama about a different Chinese app

No need. If it’s Chinese and has more than 100mm (EDIT: 1mm) users, Commerce can designate it a foreign-adversary controlled application and designate it for app-store delisting.
From what I've heard, not enforcing the ban doesn't really work. Apple/Google would be liable if the law does get enforced. So unless they've gone completely insane and want to give Trump a threat to wield over them for his whole term, they'll surely act as if it's being enforced. The term on the law is 5 years too, so even if they do have perfect trust in Trump never changing his mind, they have to worry about the next President deciding to enforce it too.
In the same vein, I recommend reading this post by Robin Sloan
https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/
Producing that general-purpose API from "battle proven 3rd party dependencies" comes at a cost. IME:

1. The API isn't quite what you need, so you add enough extra logic to integrate it that you might as well have reinvented the wheel instead and had a proper solution, plus you have all the bugs and performance problems associated with bolting on extra code to a domain mismatch issue.

2. The API covers cases you don't care about, opening you up to bugs and performance problems from the project's complexity while not actually saving much time since the cases you care about can be handled more simply.

3. Both (1) and (2) are amplified as you change the project going forward. If you wrote the data structure, you could easily tack on the modifications you need. If not, in the presence of desired modifications you needed to re-implement it anyway (or bolt on even more hacks), and the 3rd party isn't a good starting point because of (2).

For something like cryptography, with all the ways constant-time execution and whatnot can bite me in the ass, I'm happy to use a 3rd-party dependency. For almost everything else I'll home-cook it. Networking starts at io_uring. CPU float-intensive software starts with (depending on the domain) a Tensor type capable of lazy, fused operations [0].

That's just a heuristic I use, and from time to time I'll definitely take a shortcut. More often than not though, I'll be replacing the shortcut in less than a year, and the value from having the feature sooner is only sometimes worth the lost productivity. The driving factor is just that as I learn more it's easier and easier to home-cook those sorts of things, whereas the costs induced by 3rd parties haven't really diminished.

[0] I'm curious what a language designed around cache obliviousness and reducing data dependencies might look like. There are some patterns I've used which compose nicely, but they only solve part of the problem. Even custom vector languages like ISPC require a fair bit of work from the programmer.
I'm sure Canon would like me to also pay every cent I have for every sip of water I take, and the ones I do not.

Companies that focus on what they want, rather than what the customer wants, will cease to exist (or change hands).
Have you seen YouTube shorts and Instagram reels. Lol
Would you call Marjorie Taylor Greene a qualified and trusted investigator for the american people? I sure wouldn’t. Talking about what the legislature is supposed to be is irrelevant. What the legislature actually is is relevant.
hence why I said "on top of" a static site generator. By gluing some things together, you can get the same product.

You've done this gluing, sure, but surely at a cost to flexibility. You also didn't even glue, you just reimplemented the whole stack.
We got something similar with social interactions during covid lockdowns (if your country had those). Btw i feel like people would go literally MAD, I can see it when just WhatsApp crashses for just a couple hours (doesn't happen often but I remember people's reactions when it happened).
You can get a feel of what it would do for yourself by getting a dumbphone and limiting yourself from accessing social media.
Some stuff they have sells well: Smash, Zelda, Pokemon. Metroid sells a lot less well.
It’s not about the algorithm but about the owner of the platform.

The same algorithm in US possession isn’t a problem.
~47 million Americans aren’t native English speakers having immigrated from a non English speaking country.
> LA and California as a whole have some of the highest taxes in the nation

The City of LA has a lower per capita tax revenue than most large Texan and southern cities, largely due to property tax caps.
No servers in Russia. Given Pavel's prior history it seems unlikely that he would cooperate with Russian government. Plenty of other criticism of telegram is warranted but it's probably not a tool of the Russian government.

Edit: related https://hate.tg/
Sure

Music assistant is getting baked into home assistant, and can provide a control plane: https://www.music-assistant.io/

You can use squeeze lite to make servers it clients: https://github.com/ralph-irving/squeezelite

You can install it on an esp32: https://github.com/sle118/squeezelite-esp32

And there's a decent wiki full of stuff about it: https://wiki.lyrion.org/index.php/Main_Page.html
There are no carve outs for national security in the First Amendment.
Yes, we understand what a first language is. You should understand why that’s irrelevant to this discussion.
Nobody is saying it wasn’t prudent to divert.

It would have been impossible for the pilot to know if that debris was shortly in front of them and at co-altitude or extremely far in front of them and at a significantly higher altitude.

In this case it was almost certainly the latter. But the uncertainty alone was enough to warrant diverting.

> Stupid comment.

Aim higher on HN.
The word "alphabet" has been used at least since the second century AD (e.g. by Tertullian), but it is composed from the names of the first 2 letters of the Phoenician alphabet, names that must be at least 3 millennia old.

Without additional conventions, "alphabet" would have been the appropriate name for any writing systems derived from the Phoenician alphabet, which include the majority of the writing systems based on alphabets, abjads or abugidas. The few other such writing systems, which have not passed through the Phoenician alphabet, are those derived from the Ancient South Arabian script, which for some reason had a different alphabetic order of the letters than the Northern Semitic alphabets, so it did not start with Alep and Bet.
The is basically just a foreign database key which, in most cases, is not sufficient to satisfy industry and regulatory requirements for anonymization and storage of PII.
> There was no "split", let alone one "forced by the US".

There was no split? You wrote: "ByteDance initially released Douyin in China in September 2016. ByteDance introduced TikTok for users outside of China in 2017."

You say there was no split while explicitly proving that there was split? You're not that stupid are you?

Why do you think "tiktok" was created in 2017 when bytedance already had douyin( aka tiktok ) in 2016?

Why is there a "tiktok" for china and a "tiktok" for everyone else? Because the "tiktok in china ( duoyin ) was influenced by the chinese government and to appease the US, bytedance branched off tiktok from "douyin".
I don't think Tiktok will bring about the end of America as a functioning country. I do think Facebook's executives have an interest in gaining control for themselves at any cost, up to & including the end of America as a country if that is the most profitable route for themselves.

Put another way, I think China & Facebook's execs are about equal in terms of danger to US citizens (I'd probably give the edge to Facebook's execs, since they have direct control over US policy, but we're splitting hairs here). So banning one but not the other is a crappy situation, because it concentrates that power even further.
Say bye to Tesla Cybertruck: Elon Musk announces decision after fall in sales
But that being said, if the AppStore were somehow spun off into a separate company

The 'somehow' assumes we have some way of deciding which costs should be borne by this separate entity. But we've already agreed that's not possible!
What needs to happen is that all of these platforms need to be straight up banned. TikTok is getting picked on because of its ties to China, but why is it better for Zuckerberg or Musk to have the capabilities that are so frightening in the hands of the CCP?

The US social media billionaire class is ostensibly accountable to the law, but they're also perfectly capable of using their influence over these platforms to write the law.

One plausible theory for why the politicians talk about fears of spying instead of the real fears of algorithmic manipulation is because they don't want to draw too much attention to how capable these media platforms are of manipulating voters, because they rely on those capabilities to get into and stay in power.
"Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech".

First ammendment protections have no National security caveats.
> I guess one might argue that 1-based indexing could cause beginners to get confused when they move to another language.

The creator of Lua once visited my university, he told us about the 1-indexing (it looked like this is the thing that everybody asks him). Lua was created in a time that 0-indexed languages wasn't so dominant over the 1-based languages.

Lua is older than Java and JS, and a few years newer than Perl and Python. Before those, as far as I remember about more popular languages: C and C++ are 0-indexed; COBOL, MATLAB and FORTRAN are 1-indexed; Pascal can be 0 or 1 indexed, but its for loop is better suited for 1-indexed.

This way, there wasn't a strong bias to use 0-index in a new language as we have today, they could use what made more sense. Since it was created for engineers used to math notation (sum, products and matrices generally are 1-indexed) and without background in programming, they have chosen to start in 1.

*However*, about using Lua for studying algorithms and data structures, some books use 1-indexed arrays in their pseudocode, notably CLRS' Introduction to Algorithms. When I was studying algorithm analysis using CLRS I used Lua to implement them. I still prefer 0-indexed languages, though.
> I'm surprised TikTok isn't trying to push a web version,

They have a web version that's surprisingly capable. Not sure if tiktok.com will be blocked on Sunday.
Ask HN: How to Implement Ideas and when to leave them?
I truly believe that I have some programming ideas (like hey lets do X thing but the twist of Y) (like decentralized link shorteners) which are really weird but could have some impact on the world.

To me , it feels like I get overwhelmed , Like I wanted to automate signal-chat app (https://github.com/bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api/issues/643)

I get to something which can be considered very decent for my age and I learn something new for my age (16 here) (though I used claude for this)

but I just can't justify it taking my head for like a week straight and eating my marks.

I can't actually seem to have balance. I have had enough. I wanted to create this really cool project that everybody likes and gets stars on github , I wanted to be the cool guy in coding (I know sounds cringe) , I look up to people like primagen , fireship , maybe even theo . But now I just feel like programming has become my tool of saying hey I know things , instead of actually having impact in the world.

I feel like chasing the clout of internet people which just feels weird. I was once in a discord chat (not even related to foss) and there was this one guy who belittled me for not having enough stars (like I think I have 0 stars from anybody else or very less) and he had like 20 something. It just feels wrong. Open source doesn't seem like the thing I had hoped it was. Some people star something if the project is great (maybe like signal) but doesn't have a perfect api (I think)*

It just feels like I am ranting. I used to get really good marks in studies untill I am daydreaming about how to proceed in this action. It has truly taken a toll at me. I feel like living a double life.

I feel so distracted , fuzzed out. I just feel like Leaving coding for 2 years (I am in high school right now) and to join it after 2 years when I am officially in college and this would be the thing which would matter then.

(I like maths , physics but chemistry has just taken another level of toll at me , I just can't do organic chemistry because instead of organic chemistry , I am messing up with electron debugging and trying to find how to use signal to create decentralized shorteners / storage using group avatars or some other idea like a alternative to bittorrent which can work over normal vpn )
I don't even think that I can earn money with any of these things. Most of these are p2p-ish , the most I can earn is someone's good will but I won't forsake my mental health just for that , I suppose.
That is a red herring. The frequency and intensity of the wildfires has increased. Stop repeating fossil fuel talking points meant to distract from climate change.
I have been home cooking for a long while now and a portion of that past cooking has turned into acquired businesses that still operate to this day on the system platforms I architected and wrote. Cooking is a skill that takes great time, effort, and commitment yet since nearly all have no time to stop and appreciate a good meal here we have a compounding societal health issue just as with "fast-food" software we have a rapidly compounding cyber security issue. Everything has a pattern and a cycle so once you spot that pattern be sure to cook something up to ride that next crest.

I love to cook and have fed many yet I also have come to accept that most people never meet the chef who made their meal.

Stay Healthy!
So is Wikipedia. Otherwise Chinese people just cannot stop reading all those wiki pages about that fungi that only grow on a certain volcano in French New Guinea. How addictive!
> Their software -- assuming they still use computers as we understand them -- would be functional bliss that directly represented the problem domain, with every state a pure function of previous state.

I love that this is also a model of reality. Everything is made of differential equations.
> government to protect its interests and citizens from governments that are considered adversarial

That's the exact reason why Communist China setup the firewall in the first place. Good luck.
See also: Linus Pauling and vitamin C https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling#Medical_research...
Yes.

Tornadoes seem like a phenomenon for which insurance is actually a pretty good part of the solution. I mean, it is very unlikely for anything in particular to get hit by a tornado, but it is really devastating. It might take an unreasonable amount of work to build everything to the level where it can sustain a direct hit by a tornado. The expected value of tornado damage is quite low overall, we just need to deal with the individual catastrophes that occur.

Hurricanes… I mean, there are different sized hurricanes in different areas. For the ones that hit Florida, part of the solution is probably legitimately that we should have fewer people living there, because there’s going to be a widespread devastation there occasionally. And if you live in a hurricane-prone area, you are going to get hit by one eventually. (So like what’s the bet here? The insurance company knows they’ll probably have to pay out eventually).

Just to put a number to it, 2024 was apparently an unusually busy year for tornadoes, around $6B. That isn’t nothing! But one single hurricane cost $7B in 2024… and there was a $34B one… and a $79B one… who’s insuring the southern coast of the US? Seems rough.
Lets face the truth, the user get what they want, no need to manipulate.

Just look at US social media sites. It’s not like they push MINT content, do they?
Yes of course you are right, we describe homes based on the component that makes up 1% of total volume. Get out of here with your silly statement. Drywall may have a layer of paper/cardboard but that does not make it a cardboard home. Modern exteriors often use cement board, with a plastic vapor barrier. We don't say the home is made out of plastic and wood. Saying so is just to create a reaction.
The taxpayer is paying for these lies
It's not hard to think of reasons that are rational and not otherwise nefarious that an app developer would want to restrict an app to certain verified operating environments, but I think creating a world in which people have less control over devices they own is bad in and of itself. I don't run a government or a VC firm so I don't have a lot of power to stop it, but I'll make what small contribution I can.
Yes, thank you. I've updated the earlier sentence from "foreign control" to "control by a foreign adversary". It's indeed the fact that China is a geopolitical enemy-to-be that's the problem.
Can we please CRISPR ticks out of existence?
What's the rough value for your two cars?

I live in a similar climate where hail and tornados are both a risk, though hail is a little less likely here than where you are.

Admittedly we have cheap cars, but our car insurance for two drivers is closer to $850 for the year (full coverage with a reasonable deductible).

Insurance costs have seemed to adjust to a combination of more severe weather conditions, but they also have to fix much more complicated and expensive cars today too. A simple fender bender can be thousands to fix, heck I recently heard about a $5,500 bill when a newer Ford got water in the headlight and fried pretty much the entire electrical system.
Oh, right, I've interacted with you on this site before — you repeatedly lied about Hamas being willing to recognize Israel and renounce violence, and when I provided official Hamas statements to the contrary, you started making negative statements about people from "Brooklyn" [which I am not from], an obvious antisemitic dogwhistle that got your comment flagged and removed. I see from your comment history that you're still spending 90+% of your time on this site posting factually-incorrect anti-Israel content. Good luck! I won't be engaging with you again.
Yes. Or both.
> If TikTok was controlled by the Russian government would we even be having this conversation?

Yandex got fragmented into EU bits and Russian bits. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/23/russia-yandex-...

The head of VK is subject to sanctions https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/26/22951307/us-sanctions-rus... (but it appears that Americans are still free to use VK if they want to?)

> (Ironically most Americans are freaked out about Russia, but when it comes to global politics, China is the much greater threat to the U.S.)

American-backed forces are fighting the Russian army itself in Ukraine. Implied in all of that is a desire to not have US forces fight them directly in Poland.
>> I think certain service providers might have made the assumption that if a user belongs to a certain domain that also means they belong to a certain workspace, but that is clearly not a valid assumption.

> If you need to validate that the ID token represents a Google Workspace or Cloud organization account, you can check the `hd` claim, which indicates the hosted domain of the user. This must be used when restricting access to a resource to only members of certain domains. The absence of this claim indicates that the account does not belong to a Google hosted domain.

https://developers.google.com/identity/gsi/web/guides/verify...

FWIW, I worked on SSO products for nearly 5 years and am pretty familiar with this space.
> TikTok was banned because the US regime couldn't control it

The law is fine with TikTok being owned by a Nigerian.
If they are native English speakers, then how do they have extremely limited skills?
What is stupid in these replies to me is that people seemingly think the interests of american companies and the american working class are somehow aligned.
Sorry, While I understand that there are degrees of interest misalignment, I'm not sure what Hitler's interests refers to in this context. Hitler is deceased so it's unlikely his interests are relevant in a discussion about TikTok.
This is the nerdiest, hackeriest thing I've seen in ages, and I love every moment of it. That was brilliant.
Kids are born into a world where the last generation is already essentially locked into lifetime servitude, the world is burning, and the "adults in the room" are a circus. How could they not indulge in alternatives? What is there to look forward to, identify with, or love about this place?

Culture thrives when the people are able to live meaningful lives.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/tiktok-china/story?id=108111...

Anecdotally, I have heard from people who lived in China at the time that there was a significant shift in content a few years back.
I think the question "What is Tiktoks speech?" was raised. And the answer, "the algorithm" didn't really strike home.

So I read it like they didn't interpret this as a free speech issue at all.
sorry we only can install a literal rootkit on your device to detect tampering