skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At some point in your life you'll realise that not everyone thinks the same way as you do.

Of course. There are many people who are wrong.

> Hopefully it happens for you before your mindset seriously dents your future prospects.

My future is already secured.

> "There's absolutely no way to earn wealth now" is ludicrous: was it possible a month ago? a year ago? a decade ago? Did anyone become wealthy through methods other than gambling or inheritance a month ago? a year ago? a decade ago?

No.

> If even one person did, this disproves your assertion, unless you want to claim some as-yet-unmentioned recent change that made it possible then and impossible now.

Only if you insist on treating the assertion rigidly which is unwise for all assertions pertaining to any other realm than math.

> I don't recall claiming I did anything all by myself

Ah, so you are a person who thinks whatever is said is about them specifically.

> nor did I see anyone claim you have to do everything all by yourself to "earn wealth". Nice strawman.

It's a well known psychological observation that people who achieved success typically misattribute it disproportionately to themselves even if they know it was pure chance.
Thank you, finally a real patriot in the comments
how did Britain force the Chinese population to consume Opium?
> The algorithm used in the US was apparently banned in China for being too addictive.

Apparently?

What's the obvious about it?
Is there a difference between the communists and the capitalists spying on 'US'?
Meh. If it were worth archiving then someone would be trying to archive it. Nothing the US law is doing would prevent that, even from within the US. If you're really concerned, then start working with ByteDance or archive.org or whoever to actually preserve the data instead of whining that somehow it will be "lost" because you can't install the proprietary reader app from within the USA.
If you're comparing outsourcing, mutual trade agreements that benefit both countries, to intelligence gathering, copyright/patent theft, media influence, etc., you're probably not going to arrive at a serious position here (not to mention the downvote).
The stations should have this on their end really.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285621756629
Liberties are not granted to everyone equaly ≠ Some liberties are [equally] denied.
> 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.

China benefits greatly from the rules based order that America spends considerable effort to maintain and uphold. They would prefer a different rules based order than the one America would prefer, but they're better off with than without and recognize that.

OTOH, Russia does not. They prefer chaos.

China is definitely the stronger threat. But Russia is a greater immediate threat because they're only interested in tearing things down. It's easier to tear things down than to build them up, especially if you don't care about the consequences.
Alright I will switch to easily proven facts. Child support and alimony are usually based on imputed income, meaning what a judge thinks you can earn. Voluntarily taking lower pay is strong evidence you could earn higher.

Finance linked divorce is common, support is common, and throwing people in a tiny cage for not coming up with a fraction of imputed income sometimes happens. We can squabble over why it happens, but when you are locked in a cage after taking a lower stress job the reason may not matter, and the fact I could be wrong about motivations will not get these people out of jail.
As long as you have population growth without increasing land , the density of people will increase and the more damage per square foot will increase.
I thought Chief Financial Officers were supposed to be good at financials.

Do they also have to be good at perjury?

Is that FAANG job interview analogous to the one for software engineers?

"Can you go to the whiteboard, and perform for me one of the standard case studies of CFOs who got away with perjury? Which you should have memorized, even if you learned nothing else in school."

"Using STAR format, tell me about a time that you lied about financials, and got away with it."

"OK, in the 3 minutes left, I want to turn this over to you, for any questions you have. ... Oh, if you have experience working with financials, normally people mention that in the Hobbies section of their resume; here at Faang, our interviews focus instead on the fundamentals."
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Ive been using KDE Connect for years now, on many different devices and OS. Highly recommend. Basically a remote mouse and keyboard on your phone. The latency is very good too.
That doesn't sound accurate. Did you mean as a first language?
I live in North Texas, and I see a similar pattern in home and car insurance as well. Our main local threat is hail. Well, and the tornadoes, but while very destructive, tornadoes create fairly geographically limited damage. Hail can cover whole cities at a time.

Car insurance became quite expensive. My premium is about $2,200 / 6mo (no accidents, no speeding, no claims in about 10 years) for two cars and two drivers. For some reason, 80% of people choose to park outside while they have a 2-car garage available. Usually packed with crap. They find it easier to have their cars totaled every 4-6 years.

For home insurance, my policy is almost $4,800/yr now! While making some coverage adjustments, I noticed that my insurance company no longer offers a choice of lower deductibles for hail/wind. It’s a fixed percentage relative to my property value, currently showing as nearly $15k as the cheapest option. That’s more than 50% of the replacement cost! (I know that because I had my roof replaced twice in the last 10 years.)
Economics, prestige, etc. It’s worth a lot to China to be competing with the US in social media / Internet stuff. China (and Russia) have been pushing a narrative that the US operates on two sets of rules for them vs everyone else.

The US is happy to invade countries and turns a blind eye to Israeli aggression but Russia or China want to do it and they are met with sanctions etc. The last bastion of American exceptionalism was how it’s a free market and values free speech and free competition.

There was a national security threat but the US walked right into it: China is making a move for the top spot as global hegemon. It’s recruiting other countries to say don’t work with the US, work with us instead. The US flinched. Ralph blew the conch and all the kids just installed RedNote .
TikTok is also banned in China. For the Chinese market, Douyin is there from the same company ByteDance. Americans need to understand this decision is not an emotional one but for the nation, just like the opposite party does for its nation.
RPi handheld emulator looks like a Nintendo Switch but can play many more games
From your second line, the answer is mostly no. Why are you assuming otherwise? Who is paying what to who?
Do law enforcement portals provide current location information? There's an extended history of the TikTok being used to spy on the location of user devices

https://archive.ph/kt0fY
Where is TikTok not maximizing monetization? If you mean the GP's comment on China's ban on the algorithm originally used then you are missing a critical aspect of that: It wasn't TikTok's choice to stop or decrease monetization there.

Also, even if they were differently monetizing by region, you are also missing the non-monetary reasons this might happen: Manipulation & propaganda. Even aside from any formal policy by the Chinese govermnent self-censorship by businesses and individuals for anything the Party might not like is very common. Also common is the government dictating the actions a Chinese company may take abroad for these same efforts in influencing foreign opinions.
There is no such protection in the US, and I'd imagine some other non-EU states.

I'd love something akin to a Bill of Data Rights here in the the states similar to the GDPR, but there is no way oligarchs would allow such legislation to happen
Only the control by a foreign adversary part is being threatened in the US, not the algorithmic opium part twisting the minds of the population. They're two different things. The US so far has no qualms with it if an American is in control of the strings. That's where China differs.
If this motivates any significant portion of the populace to learn one of the hardest languages to learn (In the West), I'd see that as a justification alone.
For those claiming Apple should be able to calculate the App Store's profit margin - can you actually define how to do it?

As someone who qualified as an accountant over 15 years ago, it's not obvious to me how you would develop a meaningful allocation of costs.

I suspect this misunderstanding stems from the same thinking that leads people to believe the myth that Costco makes no profit on its physical products, only on memberships.
> > TikTok is perhaps the most impressively addictive social media app ever created.

> What nonsense.

Obviously experiences will vary, but I think this is actually pretty well-established.

Not many studies, but here's one: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9486470/
I've honestly never seen so many stupid people making stupid arguments on HN before.

Nothing but lazy disingenuous arguments who's only purpose is to bait conversations for replying with even lazier whataboutisms.

Either the brainrot has really set in for these people or we are being flooded with ai/bots.
This is what I felt initally, too. However, you easily become used to the lack of overloading, and since the language has method syntax sugar you can easily get used to .add() over +. I'd recommend you give it another shot.
Market intervention through administrative measures is never a good thing for any country.
The question is, was this a conscious human design decision or did the algorithm learn to do that by itself?
> Your using how much they charge, not how much it costs... You seem to not understand any kind of sales strategy or atleast basic game theory here.

I'm using the only public information about this that we have. The Ariane 6 and Soyuz-2 numbers are also prices and not costs, by the way. We don't know how much Russia or the ESA actually spend per launch, we only know what they are asking others to pay for it.

> Also, they get to CHARGE THIS ~20 TIMES PER VEHICLE.

Don't forget refurbishment costs and fuel costs and R&D amortization.

> Also with your calculations you conveniently leave of the super heavy which has a ~$1,500KG per dolar with a ~$97 million price tag carrying ~63,800 kg. Which is a 1/10th of the cost of KG to LEO than their competitors.

You mean Falcon Heavy here (SuperHeavy is the first stage of Starship, it doesn't carry payload). I left Falcon Heavy out for two reasons.

First and most importantly, it is very rarely used in comparison to Falcon 9 (it was only flown twice in 2024, for example). SpaceX themselves are not using it for their Starlink sattelites, even though that should be the perfect use case for it.

Second, it was never flown with anything close to the nominal payload, at least according to Wikipedia. The highest payload ever flown was ~10k kg to GTO, where it's supposed to support up to 26 700 kg. Note also that the 63 800 kg figure is for an expendable Falcon Heavy - if you want to recover it, it's less than 50 000 kg. Also, the price per launch seems highly optimistic, given that launches in 2024 were actually $152M and $178M, each flying with ~5000 kg, giving a MUCH worse number than what we were looking at.

> The loss of the upper stage is around $10–15 million. This includes the engine, structure, and integration. So by saving that in starship and boosting the payload to 150k KG you get a KG/LEO of 10

These numbers are very likely pure fantasy. Starship development got $3B just from NASA, that you seem to not amortize in any way. If you just look at the costs of the actual rocket construction itself plus fuel, without R&D, the numbers go WAY down for many other rockets as well (including Falcon 9).
It's not a top down broadcast and the SCOTUS has a hard time wrapping their head around 250 individual people receiving individualized content with no oversight or necessity for accuracy.
Yet the government convinced both Facebook and Twitter to suppress both the Hunter laptop and information about the Covid vaccines that we all know is true now - that it doesn’t prevent the spread of Covid and that immunity wears off.

I’m not anti-vax. I’ve been shot up with Covid vaccines more often than I can count and I was early in line for the J and J one shot and I took an mRNA booster before it was recommended by the US once I started reading it was recommended by other country’s health departments.

But where we are now is totally the fault of Biden and the Democratic establishment.
Programs like Prism [0] certainly lend credence to the idea that this ban reflects the US’ own behavior in terms of how it uses data. However Prism was markedly different given it collected data vs being a dial the government can turn to produce a given outcome in the consumers of the content.

All of the congressional hearings over the past ~15 years demonstrates how business in the US is still pretty much governed by the rule of law. I’m of the opinion that there isn’t some shadow cabal working with Musk and Zuckerberg to control our minds. However we know that the CCP absolutely manages what the public can consume, so personally while I’m no fan of heavy handed government intervention in business, this ban seems like “a good thing” to me. We must protect the short, middle and long term prospects of our population — it’s a fundamental duty of the federal government to do so.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/07/google-faceboo...
Maybe you're right and maybe that's the culture in mathematics but we don't have to like it.
I can see information on this specific event on Wikipedia, CNN, Youtube, etc right now; all "western-controlled". It's also available through Al-Jazeera, Reuters, and other foreign sources.

You have an interesting and unique definition of "state censorship". Almost like one defined by a bias inherently interested in letting specific foreign interests continue to proliferate under the guise of an emotional appeal.
What does incremental compilation have to do with writing your own compiler from scratch? Isn't Rust supports incremental compilation as does every language out there?
He was just a dumb get-rich-quick kid, he didn't have any political power. Zuck has spent the past 2 decades gathering money and power.
What if, and hear me out, China didn't limit its propaganda to the truth?
Given the slop people are dealing with, I'm sure some people feel right at home.
A forward looking (part of a) solution for Malibu would be the county acquiring and maintaining beach paths every few houses. Prescribed 10' wide fire breaks.

This solves the fire problem AND the limited access to a public resource that is common in Malibu.

Ideally a permeable surface without any growth, cleared at least 2x a year.
Probably. I didn't know that about it when I used that word, but a sibling comment also confirms this, so thanks for the correction.
"I believe this is not the case because: XXX" would be a neutral response. And one that most people would give to most other strangers if they are meeting in real life. But on the internet it happens very often that people aren't actually as respectful as they would be in real life. And it happens very naturally too - I have close friends who have had insane arguments over chat apps which they would never have done in an eye to eye situation.

In general responding with a statement that assigns a quality to someone's work and effort is not appropriate. You can say "That information is not correct" if you want to be assertive but saying "You have not researched or read the correct information" is doing more then correcting information and becomes personal.

I've seen a lot of people, myself included have trouble with this distinction. But I have found it to be an important part of being "considerate" of others and being charismatic to them. People really react differently to the smallest of nuance in tone and wording regardless if they are adults. (I'd actually wager adults react much more strongly to that nuance due to having more experience to tell the nuances apart)
> first language?

1/3 of the global population is at all, there’s only 380 million native English speakers.

US, UK, Canada, Australia is where you find the bulk of native speakers. In say Germany or whatever they may become fluent but it’s relatively rare for German parents to be speaking English to each other in casual conversation next to an infant’s crib.
I'd love to see what a global ban for TikTok, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube, and X would look like. Even better: massive breakdown of iOS and Android installations. Just for a couple of weeks, then revert to the nightmarish status quo we live in. Now that would be an interesting experiment. The change in people's behavior would be palpable for those fourteen days, I bet. It'd be so much fun.
Telling others what they must want is an example of that famous freedom of expression, right?
Musk is a pathological liar and madman that act 100x less ethical than the unethical Zuck and doesn't even pretend any more to have some humanitarian agenda. My couple of cents.
Frankly, I’m not sure what these comments even mean. Douyin (Chinese TikTok) has the same level of brainrot content, except with some restrictions (political and societal level stuff). Chinese kids are as much addicted to it as Western kids to TikTok/IG, from what I’ve seen.
Sometimes I look back with nostalgia to a past role I had and then realize the only thing I miss is Lua, and the salary.
Do you have any favorite Flutter projects I could click around? It’s an intriguing concept but I’ve been offput thus far by Google’s lack of adoption of its own framework.
Sweden unveils drone swarm to be paired with ground troops
Back in your day, did resume-driven development help at switching careers?
Sony wanted something like 500USD to unlock 4k on my prosumer video camera. Kinda insane.
Do you think the first lab produced ammonia was also made at current hourly production rates?

Alternatively, you are looking at a scale model and asking, "what is this, a school for ants?!"

Maybe we should learn to do things in a new way then spend a few decades rolling them out?
That might be true but it's irrelevant. Why? Because that's not the issue the government tackled. Arguing "national security" with (quite literally) secret evidence is laughable. Data protection too is a smokescreen or the government would've passed a comprehensive Federal data protection act, which they'd never do.

It's hard to see how the government would tackle algorithmic addiction within running afoul of First Amendment issues. Such an effort should also apply to Meta and Google too if it were attempted.

IMHO reciprocal market access was the most defensible position but wasn't the argument the government made.

That being said, the government did make a strictly commerce-based argument to avoid free speech issues. As came up in oral arguments (and maybe the opinion?) this is functionally no different to the restrictions on foreign ownership of US media outlets.
That's not what I said, I said that the interests of the majority do not align with the interests of the Chinese government. That seems self evident to me but YMMV
Not sure why this is so complicated --- blame the DNC and party elites, not the population that voted for Trump.

If the DNC was trying to win, they would have never let Biden run for re-election, and then they would have never let Harris become the candidate without a primary.

The Democrats literally told the US population Trump was going to destroy democracy in America, and then created a situation that enabled him to win in a landslide.
Any country has mechanisms to ban products the government deems as bad. I think the point is those are much more liberally used in China vs in the US, not that the US would be unable to do it
The problem is with the "hours" part. Which, not accidentally, is not even part of the SI.
Early years in Big4 as an auditor yes. As you climb the ladder it gets better and you make good money. Once you become partner you can earn high six figures or more in big cities and the pensions are extremely generous.

You can go to industry and climb the ladder and make good money with less crazy workload.

I know a chief accounting officer at a public company and she earns 7 figures. She works a lot but also goes on vacations and has free time.
thanks, that's also what I was not understanding from the article
"Tiktok was forced to separate itself into a chinese version and the non-chinese version by the US because we didn't want "da ccp" controlling tiktok."

You're talking about Propaganda but you are spreading straight up fake news.

ByteDance initially released Douyin in China in September 2016.
ByteDance introduced TikTok for users outside of China in 2017.

There was no "split", let alone one "forced by the US".
Let's just consider Los Angeles for a second. For decades working class immigrants were pushed to the foothills in Altadena by redlining policies which placed them at risk for wildfires. Today their risk is exponentially greater due to the effects of unchecked climate change, and many cannot afford insurance even now.

How exactly do you expect these people to adapt? Many live in multigenerational households and could never afford to rebuild their house or move without uprooting their communities to another state.

Why are the victims made to adapt to the atrocious actions of the wealthy and powerful? Maybe our policy discussions should start from a place of compassion and work towards solutions from there.
GP here, thanks for this reply. It's exactly what I wanted to say before remembering my goal of not getting in too many internet disagreements.
I have the same issue with late night talk shows / live comedy shows where the audience cheering is way louder than the host's voice. At some point I tried an AI model to detect and lower the volume of these parts, but didn't get that great detection with the limited training dataset that I labeled manually. IMO Youtube or other streaming platforms should offer this option.
Divestment could be a punishment in some circumstances. E.g. if Congress passed a law requiring Elon Musk to divest himself of X as punishment for purportedly violating the Securities Act.

The difference here is that Tik Tok is not being accused of a crime and is not being punished for some crime. It's applying a restriction on foreign ownership not to punish Tik Tok for some past act, but because Congress is worried about the risks arising from that ownership in the future.
> But unlike with offshoring (which is a people thing) or magical NOCODE/CASE/etc "solutions", it seems the consensus is that AI coding assistants will eventually get there.

There's no consensus to that point. There are a few loud hype artists, most of whom are employed in AI and have so have conflicts of interest and also are pre-filtered to the true believers. Their logic is basically "See this trend? Trends continue, so this is inevitable!"

That's bad logic. Trends do not always continue, they often slow or reverse, and this one is showing all signs of doing so already. OpenAI has come straight out and said that they don't expect to see another jump like GPT-3 to 4, and have resorted to throwing more tokens at the problems, which works with diminishing returns. I do not expect to see a return to the rapid growth we had for a year or two there.

> PS: I am offhsoring (in a way). I'm not based in the US but I work remotely for a US company.

Yes, and this is a good example: there's a place for offshoring, but it didn't replace US devs. The same thing will happen here.
The is a completely legitimate and not uncommon viewpoint. But is it relevant in the context of this thread?