skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think something like 8/18B revenue (mostly ads) this year is from US. So it's subtantial, but 10B is not chomp change, and theoretically TikTok has growth potential since TikTok algo is competitive with western platforms, which cannot be said for US steel vs other modern metallurgy facilities. Compared to douyin in PRC, TikTok hasn't even began monetizing / ecommerce, which TBH would probably kill its popularity.
And YouTube Shorts?
I'm in favor of letting people pay for their own smaller instances, like something Facebook esque, and you can invite all your relatives. They can join your instance. But someone (or maybe its a group effort) has to pay for it. Zero ads, just friends and family.

I've thought about this a lot.

I don't think I'll ever build it (I have another idea in the works consuming all my time), but I'll go a step further and share my other thought on it:

The less they use it, the less they should pay for using it. So if your goal is to keep up with relatives via sharing photos / videos, you can do that, and bug right out. So now there's a financial incentive to use it less, but it serves its purpose, like email.
I just want to remind everyone that China/Russia is doing everything you dislike the West doing right now. Please talk when China/Russia opens up. Right now they spew propaganda into our societies with no way for us to retaliate. I don't like censorships but these one-way attacks are a weakness to democracies, not strengths.

Open internet only works as long as everyone is friendly. The world is increasingly becoming not friendly.
My kid did a bicycle with the support wheels for a little while just to get the mechanics for pedaling, then did a balance bike for a month or so. After that I put the pedals on with no support wheels and she was riding in no time. I do think the balance bike helps a lot.
stick a planetary gearbox on any motor and you have a much more powerful motor
Germany was a global leader in solar manufacturing in the early 2010s, but political infighting and lobbying against tariffs from China-dependent companies like Volkswagen undermined their solar manufacturing dominance.

The "Made in China 2025" strategy itself is a knockoff of the "Made in Germany 4.0" strategy of the early 2010s.
> Getting congress to reverse something seems much harder,

The GOP is absolutely flip flopping on this issue since Trump has also reversed on the ban idea. That's why the TikTok lawyers' arguments to SCOTUS were to just delay the ban until after Jan 20 so the incoming administration could weigh in on the matter.

> in that they also have to get someone to introduce the bill, get it through a committee, get it scheduled for a vote, etc, in both houses.

I think you are forgetting that the GOP just took control of both houses. It will not be that difficult for them is that's what the orange man says he wants.
Pretty wild how far the US is behind in banning these sort of things compared to other countries.
Maybe the FDA will get sued by the health insurance companies due to impacting their profits...
IIRC the Napoleonic Code doesn't have presumption of innocence, and countries with a legal system built on that code don't have it either -- but I haven't researched it recently so couldn't say which those are.
Its funny because from the perspective of Germany, Russia was always a good partner in trade with a win-win situation. But can't rely on your allies not to blow up our infrastructure. The US has always behaved like a bully and a Mafia boss. No matter how low you bow, if Master wants to whip you, he will.
Or, maybe, those things they don't see as a problem.

These shifty foreigners, however... Xenophobia isn't just some old timey things we use to do
Well, one can love playing chess and that is all fine and good and so on but if someone says that chess is the fundamental theory of the universe, how much sense does that make? There might even even be truth in that statement, who could possibly know? All we can be quite certain about is that to actually demonstrate the hypothetical truth of the statement 'chess is the fundamental theory of the universe' some number, presumably larger than 5, of nobel price level of physics discoveries need to take place.
Wasn't that said of Benito Mussolini?
no, i think the negative reaction in political places would be exactly the same if they did this again

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/krishnamoorthi-gallagher-ti...
> Private schools are outrageously expensive.

I have observed that any two-tier system accentuates inequality, be it health, education, security, or anything. When one group pays to have a system better than a universally provided one, the differences between both tend to increase, as the incentive to keep the universal system only as a fall-back to the private one by investing less on it (or by receiving generous donations from the private sector) is tempting to politicians.

A former colleague of mine, who grew up in communist Yugoslavia, remembered how he cherished summer vacations when kids from different schools went together to state-operated summer camps. I thought this was an excellent way to build inter-group bonds between kids that would never have met in other circumstances, learning to work together in team-building and educational activities. It didn't turn out well for the country, or, at least, it wasn't sufficient to prevent the breakup and the disaster that happened because of it, but still seems like a good idea.

Over time, my opinion changed from a strong supporter of free market economics to more deliberate models. I would support banning homeschooling along private schools completely. If a country wants to build a society that sees itself as a group of individuals with equal rights and obligations, you need to start early.

Of course, this would never pass any legislative body in the US.
A sign of poor LTE-M/NB-IoT adoption?
I’m sure they will move to some other platform.
We are not able to homeschool our son. Two problems: 1) we don't have time - we both work so there is little time to prepare the material; 2) it is very difficult to teach one's own kids. It's a LOT easier for a teacher to do that at school.

But I do sit with him every night for 30 mins to go over alphabet and Math. I think I'll extend it to maybe 45 mins when he goes to primary, but anything longer than 1 hour is going to be harmful.
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I would like to learn more about the situation of the German economy.

Is there any industry in Germany that will grow in the coming decade?

Has anything important been developed in Germany in the last decade?

Have there been any big IPOs in Germany in the last decade?

Germany's companies seem to have very low p/e ratios. This means the market expects them to tank. Are there companies in Germany with a high p/e ratio, say over 100? Off the top of my head, I can only think of SAP. A company that I find hard to reason about.
Source? The last time I checked the FDA bans more food dyes than most other countries.
You judge people by the amount of kids they have? So like, if a couple has less than 3 kids, they’re awful people and shouldn’t be around?

Interesting take, if that’s the only way you look at people, and whether you want to be around them or not.

I agree we have fertility problems, but if people don’t have kids, well, that’s so not my business. Every person is different and has their priorities. If a person wants to have 0 or 10 kids, god speed to them.
Thanks, helpful response.. I'm a high school student and our school brings in students from anywhere with 5 mins commute time to an hour. It's also not cool to take a bus as upper classmen. If I'm someone from say a neighborhood with 1k homes going to a large high school with over 5k kids, I wouldn't know which of these kids are nearby me. I wouldn't know their phone numbers say when I lose my ride for the day. Plus we could reduce carbon footprint by ride sharing that possibly are driving towards the same destination.

My app will allow kids from same school see each other's requests that either offer to drive or request a ride ensuing safety. Thoughts?
I've never felt inclined to use TikTok. I've always kept my online presence psuedo-anonymous, all the way back to AOL days. I don't use Meta products at all.

The day TikTok is banned I will create an account and post a video showing my face, in which I will state my name and address.
I don't think that's "sure" at all. For one thing, only Python code directly calling Python has that option in the first place, often there is another layer of indirection, e.g., Python code which executes a shell script, which itself invokes Python, etc.

IME it is common to see a process tree with multiple invocations of Python in a ancestor relationship with other processes in between.
I find this particularly interesting because it is due to market conditions, not legislation, that many Canadian foods have switched to colors from natural ingredients.

These companies appear to believe that Canadians prefer fewer artificial ingredients, and that Americans don't seem to care. Very curious.
Drastically more expensive. This adds up way too high for most people who make average income. I do think its also lack of information.

Edit:

The only people I've ever heard of whining about cereals having bad ingredients are the people everyone calls conspiracy nuts, this is my issue with calling things "conspiracy theories" and dismissing people, when someone brings forth valid information, you miss out because you're blindly dismissing them based on bias not fact.
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I'm not assigning a cause, but US culture, these days, seems to encourage folks to treat others as "NPCs," and that can have rather bad consequences.

It's always been an issue (sort of human nature), but it seems (to this battered old warhorse), that it's a lot more prevalent, these days, than it was, just twenty years ago.
Ask HN: Open-source(?) tooling for unified API's and LLM integration
I’m curious if anyone here is working on or aware of open-source tools that unify APIs to simplify LLM integrations. Specifically, I’m looking for something that allows me to define a set of integrations, enable customers to configure their usage, and then convert those definitions into tool-use JSON for an LLM.

Currently, I’ve built a work around system like this in-house for my early-stage ai agent startup. While it works, the process is pretty manual and time-consuming. I’d love to find an open-source framework that could streamline or enhance this setup as we scale.

If you want a startup idea this is probably a pretty solid one and I would be your first customer.
HN is the most addictive social media I've ever used.
It's more of a commentary about how food in the US is overly colored for no other reason than it looks cool, sometimes at the detriment of the health of the consumer.
"To mock a mockingbird" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Mock_a_Mockingbird) is a wonderful introduction to something that's sufficiently more abstract than lambda calculus that you'll probably find the latter pleasingly concrete afterwards, but it takes only tiny, bite-sized steps (err, mixed metaphors) to get you to understanding.
No it's not - the topic is healthier food. If someone said "I bet Hitler[0] will reverse this thing that makes trains run on time" and someone said "actually Hitler loves trains running on time", that would be a fair response.

This is the old "the person my news sources repeatedly tell me to dislike is like Hitler".

[0] Mussolini, no?
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> One reason Europe struggles to attract top talent is language fragmentation.

And regulatory fragmentation on top of overregulation. We build billing and just invoicing alone is crazy with different taxes in each country, different compliance requirements for invoices etc.

And then you're only talking about invoicing, not actual innovation and stuff. So being in Europe just massively increases your overhead in terms of paperwork and compliance.

Maybe there's bureaucracy in the U.S. too, but you mostly need to figure it out once, not 27 times.

> the level of investment in the US is on another scale—the comparison isn’t even close.

If I could, I'd make it mandatory for every tech founder to spend a week in the Bay Area once, just to see the scale of what tech can be like.

Even in Berlin, which is often touted as a "tech hub", working at a startup is still this novel little thing and I'd bet half the people in them couldn't tell you who Paul Graham is.
Michael Edward Johnson has an interesting theory called vasocomputation with the core hypothesis:

> vasomuscular tension stabilizes local neural patterns. A sustained thought is a pattern of vascular clenching that reduces dynamic range in nearby neurons. The thought (congealed pattern) persists until the muscle relaxes.

https://opentheory.net/2023/07/principles-of-vasocomputation...

https://x.com/johnsonmxe/status/1863603206649208983
The concern is China specifically. If TikTok were owned by a German company there wouldn’t have been any concerns.
It’ll come back like whooping cough has.
Climate 'whiplash' events increasing exponentially around world
> The social championing and normalization of transgenderism (literally a disorder)

The "disorder" is gender dysphoria. The "cure" for that is being able to live as your chosen gender, eg being transgender. People aren't trying to "spread" it anyway, what gave you that idea? All the trans people I've met haven't been trying to convince other people to be trans, they're giving people advice when they need it. You cant make someone transgender just by trying to convince them they are if they aren't
And it got lower before going back up.

You could use the exact same argument with the Earth temperature: it was higher 50 millions year ago.
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So the strategy was to lure the bear on your turf and become a punching bag. After getting beat up pretty bad you celebrate that the bear left your turf. Now you hope someone else will engage the tired bear. Who would want to be the next punching bag?
Seems like this is an issue for the company that makes Ambien but an opportunity for everyone else in that industry (and for patients)
My kids won't eat the healthy cereal so for me the number one reason is taste. The organic ones also cost more so price conscious people have a second reason.
But the reason it failed is primarily the fault of the US. Forced decoupling from Russia because of NATO expansion and forced trade war with China at the behest of the American Masters.
It's the same from most things, I wonder why americans are ok with that

mcdonalds fries: https://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/McDonalds-...

fanta: https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/ab2mWVvJ_Tp7.UWQpFd.pQ--/Y...

oats: https://foodbabe.com/app/uploads/2019/02/U.S.-vs.-Uk-quaker-...

chips: https://foodbabe.com/app/uploads/2019/02/U.S.-vs.-Uk-doritos...
No, its a global product silicon chips, america ships em to 100+ countries and will lose its edge if it doesnt stay at the top.

Margins are crucial for this, the driving factor that made US lose its industrial base, is red-tape, red-tape, red-tape, red-tape, political interference, militant unionism (unions are good and fine, militant unions are not), and foolish gov laws which did not make sure that labour standards are consistent for all products in american market, to make sure slave-labour or extremely shoddy labour standard based countries do not erode away great american jobs and its industrial base.

Margins are fine, and good. Unfair competition, rules and red-tape for domestic manufacturers but none for foreign companies, is what killed it.

It’s cheaper for a chinese company to ship to american households than it is for a local american company to an american household… , this is purely because of crazy gov regulations.
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Indeed. Even Gutenberg had his Bibles touched up by artists after they were printed (illuminated capital letters and so on) because even he believed his printed copies were inferior to the hand-made ones.
Big things aren't necessarily centralized, and you can replace big things with lots of small ones.
Wow, that is tremendously messed up! I'm sorry you had to experience that. Kind of makes my young adult life sound like a cake walk.

Ironically, it was the jocks and the gang affiliated kids who always left me alone. I don't know exactly why, though I figured the jocks were popular enough to not waste their energy tormenting someone socially beneath them.

Anyway, I completely agree with what you've said. Whenever I experienced bullying, it was in close correlation to how callously indifferent the overall system was. The couple of schools I went to where I didn't experience trouble had empathetic teachers and administrators whom actually built trust with the students. The earlier schools I went to were mostly run by selfish teachers (whom I later learned were even more selfish than I realized at the time!) and administrators who would punish the bully and the victim equally out of laziness/callousness/stupidity; or look the other way entirely! Guess which ones I suffered under and which ones I didn't.

> If you're being bullied in elementary school you don't get friends. It could be that the bullying drives away friends, or if you had friends you wouldn't get bullied, or the same deficits that cause you to get bullied also cause you not to get friends. Just being in a safe environment is a basic human right.

I know you're referring to elementary school here, but I think this dynamic you're describing also explains why so many kids have a rotten time in middle school. Usually, middle school lasts only a few years, and can easily mean being separated from any sort of peer group you have for multiple reasons. If your friends are even slightly older or younger than you are, then one will have to face a year of middle school without them. Depending on where your friends live, they might end up in a different middle school even though you both went to the same elementary school.

Even though I did have one good friend in elementary school (we are still best friends today), he is a year older than I am, and even though we went to the same middle school I had to spend at least 1 year in elementary school without him and then another during my second year in middle school. And I know he had the same problem in reverse. When you're seen as having "no friends", even though you actually do, everyone treats you like you have the stink of death. Those were some of the worst years of my life.
They also asked her for permission in advance, which was never going to help their case.
The U.S. and France bought Russian uranium until 2024, long after the Nord Stream pipeline was blown up.

They bought Russian oil via the so called shadow fleets. Pure hypocrisy.

Just now Biden sanctioned Rosatom and the shadow fleets in order to make things more difficult for Trump.

Just last month The U.S. coerced Ukraine to stop transit of Russian gas (while collecting transit fees).
> Yet all that separates the λ-calculus from one modern programming language, Haskell, is a layer of syntactic sugar on top, and a runtime that effectuates its pure IO actions. We can in fact compile Haskell programs using just stdin/stdout for IO into terms of the untyped lambda calculus, as wonderfully demonstrated in Ben Lynn's IOCCC entry [1].

That's what Turing completeness means, though; you can do the same thing with C, with the same provisos. (Conal Elliott has an amusing satire on this: http://conal.net/blog/posts/the-c-language-is-purely-functio... .) It's not that the lambda calculus isn't sufficiently expressive, just that it's not a language in which humans want to write.
> a forfeiture system that didn't work as it should

And I'm arguing that the forfeiture system itself contravenes the principles of justice on which the US is founded.

Have you lived in countries where the police can just take away your stuff without recourse because they are a law unto themselves? I have. Trust me, it's no fun.
It seems the group that is 'all about science' doesn't want to investigate big pharma. It's a strange world.

see: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/05/03/7190377...

I read about this right before covid in Wired magazine. Now, they lick the assholes of all the big pharma companies and anyone wanting more science are 'deniers', turning it into a relgion.
Slow/expensive. Good idea otherwise.
Assuming you want to be able to make statements like ℕ⊆ℚ⊆ℝ (as one normally does), 3.0 is a whole number, 3 is a real number, and 3.0=3=2.9999999...

Being equal to 3, 2.9999... is also a whole number.

Teaching to use '=' in a statement like '10/3=3' is an example of where teachers don't know math in depth and make errors about details that are actually important/later cause confusion. 10/3 is not equal to 3. '=' doesn't mean "answer". Then not accepting 3.0 which is equal to 3 just layers on that confusion. '=' is transitive. If a=b and b=c, then a=c.

Saying 3.0≠3 is a subtlety you really only get into in math when defining these things, and then you immediately redefine them so that 3.0=3 and you don't have to think about it again.
I've seen some kids struggle with the pedaling if they've only done balance bike. A week or so with support wheels doesn't rob them of the balancing skills they learned and allows them to put the two skills together (balancing and pedaling) instead of having to learn to pedal for the first time with balancing. I'm sure any of these methods work just fine though including what many of us older folks did of just tricycle to bicycle.
Energy prices are down a lot from their former maximum [1] and have been replaced by lots of renewable sources, which will pay off long term.

Hard price to pay, but it had to be paid at some time. Would have surely been nicer if it had been a slower switch, but former governments didn't want that to happen.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1267541/germany-monthly-...
[2] https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Economic-Sectors-Enterpris...
> we resigned from fixing our fellow folks

We have. It's A) too expensive, and B) we can't agree on what "fixed" looks like. "Think of the children" type scare-legislation is going to fill this void.
I learned riding the bike with support wheels. This was almost 50 years ago, but I remember that it sucked, because whenever a support wheel touched the ground it would pull you to that side. With my children we did the same as you, and they learned really fast. My younger son was a little bit of a hotshot on the walking bike, but that is an entirely different story.
There are resources available for children, eg Muzzy is an animated immersion program for 5 year olds that (if you can bear the cheesy animation) might work. (In the US, available on Kanopy with a public library card.) And if you are good at searching you might also find resources that educators use for teaching recently immigrated children, although that implicitly requires a teacher/partner to be working with you.

Everyone learns languages in a different way. There are some people who like to be told what the basic rules of the language are and can use that to structure new sentences. Like giving someone K&R I suppose. Other people need to hear it. Personally, because I am only learning a language for practical purposes like travel, I'd love a course that dispensed with the grammar and taught contemporary phrases used in everyday life. For example, I am never going to ask and be told where the library is. But I'm very likely to hear, "cash or card?" or to ask "does this train go to Bologna?". So practicality for me wins early on, and then later I'd like to learn the top 500 words, and then the grammar structures.
the microsoft ergonomic kb is vastly underrated
I think we might get it implemented some day but it's gonna be approached from the side of visual programming. Those systems just need to relax a bit and allow some structure inside their little rectangles. Then the internal structure will be able to easily have multiple views and editors.