skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I included health insurance in my calculation, and public schools in Mississippi are just as free in the US as they are Denmark.

Cost of living is much higher in Denmark, so making that adjustment isn't going to help your argument.

If you assume Danish university education is comparable to paying full freight at Harvard (which no one with a median Mississippi income would have to do) or some other heavy weighting on things that are private in the US, you might get close.

Certainly one can argue there's a large intangible benefit to not having to think about health insurance, and I for one place a large premium on having the opportunity to bike everywhere. I'm not arguing life in Denmark is bad.

No doubt there are many public services in Denmark that make transfer payments to the bottom quintile difficult to measure, but I just have never seen a credible argument that in terms of disposable consumer surplus, the median adult does better in Denmark than Mississippi, accounting for all reasonable costs.

And, of course, most Americans are richer than the median Mississippian.

It seems great to argue about the value of things Denmark is good at, but having a large consumer surplus just doesn't strike me as being one of those things. It's also not a value I think the median Dane agrees should be weighted that high, which is fine.
Nexus OSS 3.76.0, YUM repository indexing broken
It does seem to be backward. In my opinion, "insurance" is strictly about compensation for loss, and should absolutely be a private transaction, while preventative and emergency systems should probably be public. Healthcare coverage, despite being called "insurance," is really a system of preventative and emergency services, while California's state-run home insurance is the former. But this is what they get for trying to have price controls.
The global redistributor we never hear about: money sent by migrants
> If they were truly an adversary we'd be treating them like we do Russia

As you said, we trade with them extensively. We didn’t tighten the screws on Russia until it actually invaded Ukraine. Until Xi actually invades Taiwan, it’s profitable to pretend.
If you actually want to know the answer to this question, this is a wonderful and well-researched book on the topic.

https://tendingthewild.com/tending-the-wild/
Is this like how I have to pay my mobile carrier to use my own phone as a wifi hotspot?
> … though generics that include a comma are currently not supported. [1]

So yes-ish, only in the most basic way.

[1] https://mermaid.js.org/syntax/classDiagram.html
I don't think anyone disputes that it is an incredibly global language. I certainly don't.
I'm fairly certain it's because they were ethnically cleansed from and/or simply murdered in the rest of the Middle East by the surrounding Arab countries. For example, Egypt tortured and dispossessed its Jews, forcing them out at gunpoint while holding their family members hostage so they wouldn't speak to the press [1]. Syria made it illegal for Jews to buy property, own a telephone, or even drive, and then seized all the property they already owned and froze their bank accounts, killing them if they fled [2].

Blaming this on "the Zionists" is like saying America wasn't at fault for seizing the property of Japanese-Americans during WW2 and forcing them into internment camps — it was Japan's fault for attacking Pearl Harbor, whipping Americans into an unavoidable frenzy that can't be condemned. Only it's more absurd, because Israel didn't start the war with those countries — they invaded Israel in 1948 simply for existing!

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Egypt

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Syria
What is a long term solution for this? Is there something more than "build tanks that don't leak"? I'm sure spaceX has top design and materials experts, now what ;-).
Interesting article but unfortunately, as is often the case with serious literary folk talking about technology, I find his concluding observations (hopes) about augmented books completely unconvincing as well as vague.

>> The prospect of paper-based augmented books also holds out the possibility of revolutionary combinations of text, image and sound that would recast the boundaries of literary art.

Sounds like a solution in search of a problem, or worse - the sort of kidutainment geegaws you find in modern libraries.
This is a conspiracy theory. The banning of TikTok was discussed prior to the Hamas Israel war.
I had the exact same set of issues and questions.
Yes.
No.
>>>Mandated government "insurance" is a form of welfare.

Yes? Of course? That doesn't make it a bad idea.
I'm not saying Britain didn't do something _against the will of the goverment_. I'm just questioning OP's nonsense that individuals were forced to consume Opium vs not forced to consume TikTok - in both cases, clearly nobody was forced. And in both cases, it's products made to be addictive.
> Simultaneously an adversary and a friend, until you ask a politician and the wave function collapses and he picks one

Which politician argues China is a friend?

We bought Soviet oil in the 1970s [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_trade_of_the_Soviet_...
> One good reason why "honest" app vendors do this is because providing tech support for custom OS's (in addition to the wide variety of popular handsets) is more costly.

I am reasonably confident that some almost-AOSP aftermarket ROM is a less weird operating environment than the weird hacked-up things official vendors are shipping.
The law does not care about who financially owns the company, only about designations of control made by the president (along with a 30 day notice).

The law actually skips this step for ByteDance / TikTok and directly adds them to the list of "Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications" along with the enactment of the law.
That's a 60billion government program I guess to match the program you need to match that as well, starship is doing what it's doing at a tenth of a cost so far.
I'd say that's a bit nihilist. There are certainly companies I've worked for (and now work for) where there is genuine care for the individual baked into the culture, though it does tend to scale inversely with size.
I had a big post written before I remembered wool and mutton come from the same animal. Good post!
You don’t actually know your customers needs until you talk to them. Most businesses determine how to build their products by having conversations with their customers.
It's a pretty astounding mix of "being the most expensive insurer that exists for a particular parcel" and "completely unable to fulfill its obligations in the event of any medium- or large-scale disaster." Hence my use of the term bailout.
Oh no, I guess someone will be going to jail!

...No? Then, uh, a punitive judgment?

>Small fine that amounts to a cost-of-doing-business.

Ah. Hm.
>You can get a feel of what it would do for yourself by getting a dumbphone and limiting yourself from accessing social media.

I already do that. It's the most alienating and pessimism-inducing thing. I'd just love to see a world where people aren't hunched over, staring at a screen for 90% of their waking life.
I think Ebert didn't grasp what Lynch was going for with the Dorothy character, because I don't think anyone else in Hollywood was thinking like Lynch at the time.

Blue Velvet challenges you as a viewer to look at the abuse Dorothy suffers and to be a witness -- and that's hard to do as a viewer because it is ugly. Ebert did what a lot of people did and attempted to defend Isabella Rossellini, who had signed on to the movie knowing full well what would be required.

Lynch made two other movies in that same "the audience needs to bear witness and empathize" theme (Fire Walk With Me, Lost Highway) before Ebert caught on with Mulholland Dr.
The HSBC app runs fine on my rooted phone with a few magisk plugins and 5 marketplaces installed and a ton of sideloaded apps.
This logic makes absolutely zero sense. If a house is uninsurable, people will choose to live there without insurance. But if the house is insurable for a high cost people will not? They can still choose to not buy the expensive insurable and be in the same boat as inunsurable home owners.
I'm with you except for the last sentence.

What's happening to TikTok is not a good proxy for the trajectory of social media companies in the US, esp Meta. They've got plenty of tailwind.
I moved two-steps-to-the-diagonally (two steps right, one step up)

Tech Support --> Sys Admin --> Audit/IT Audit --> Project Assurance --> IT Sec PM --> GRC --> GRC PM --> (back to) Audit --> ThirdPartySecMgmt --> GRC.

I am a firm believer that "you should apply to any/all jobs where your CV/exp matched "70% or more".

If you want to do a big jump (e.g. someone wrote about wife going from Chemist-to-Marketing), ask from ChatGPT to reword your CV to a generic version (as lubujackson's example is).
Or, can anyone suggest a Firefox addon that filters out post based on a blocklist of words?

uBlock Origin can do this [1] with any regex a person desires.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42682879
How does that relate to this discussion?
Clearly, huh?

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/05/support-f...
> Nope, including EU big business sites as well.

Maybe some, but generally businesses are not breaking the law willy nilly like that.

> There are also EU big business sites which illegally claim the legitimate interest basis for advertising and tracking purposes of data processing which have already been ruled by the courts as not acceptable justifications for the legitimate interest basis.

And did the EU follow up?

> The EU is trying to protect the data of the people in the EU.

The problem is it's unenforceable nonsense and has led to this foolish cookie popup situation.

If they had limited it to entities with a presence in the EU, it would have worked better. At the moment it applies to some malicious Chinese teenager who blatantly wants to collect and sell the data of Europeans who visit his self-hosted low-traffic blog.

> The truly compliant ones aren't.

Yeah, they really are. It's still something you have to interact with to make it go away.

If your response says something if companies don't track they won't need a popup, then you have missed the point.
I have a 38" LG curved monitor (LG 38WN95C-W). I personally feel like anything larger than what I have would be too big. I'm also not sold on it being curved, even after 4 years. It doesn't really add much value and becomes annoying if I need it to be a more standard aspect ratio. If I were to choose between the 3 I would get the Dell 43". I switch between PC and Mac pretty regularly so the built-in KVM would definitely be a nice thing to have. On a 38" screen I have two windows side by side that are more than big enough, but if you seriously need 3 windows up then get the 49". Just be prepared for a comically large monitor.
RT is required to register as a foreign agent in the US and is required to disclose information regarding its activities in the country or be subject to civil and criminal penalties for non-compliance. So I would not say it's able to operate without restriction.
I recall reading somewhere that the Indians had done controlled burns before Europeans settled in the parts of the U.S. where fires are now a problem. European settlers who displaced them did not continue the controlled burns and then fires became a problem. Apparently, if you do regular controlled burns, the severity of fires is reduced and healthy trees survive it. When you do not, when fires do occur, all trees die and the fires spread out of control.
Yeah... and ATC for a good while didn't have any estimate for time to resolution. So, do you run the airplane's fuel down to a minimal reserve level in hopes that the restrictions might lift... or just call it done and divert?

I think it's an absolutely reasonable choice to just say comfortably divert rather than try to linger in hopes of it not lasting too long and possibly ending up diverting anyway... but on minimums.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_scrutiny
You cannot operate a TV channel, a radio station or a newspaper in China without running everything through CCP first for approval. You won't find a single news report critical of the CCP because of this.

Every social media app or website in China is required to ask for your real name and ID number, and implement any censorship requested by the party. If you post something that rubs the government the wrong way, your identity is readily available.

I don't believe this level of content control, censorship and user prosecution is there for all American media. And if it were, you are allowed to set up your own channel or social media app in America to be the exception.
In the official BIPM brochure, hours are technically classified as "Non-SI units accepted for use with SI." This puts them in the same category as liters, hectares, tonnes, decibels, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-SI_units_mentioned_in_the_...
Alcohol is literally physiologically addictive. Withdrawal symptoms include seizures and death. Of course these things are known to be and recognized by governments as addictive. Addictive things aren't always banned. Here's a US government page discussing alcohol addiction from an organization the government has dedicated to raising awareness of the adverse effects of alcohol, including addiction:

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/cycle-alcohol-addicti...

You also basically observed that the people selling the addictive thing don't get addicted, which is sort of obvious. You don't get addicted by being near e.g. alcohol and providing it to others. You get addicted by regularly drinking it.
The taxpayer pays for all the lies.
I read it and was happy. But then I dived deeper and it is the same as all the other frameworks.
Why is this not using Webcomponents mixed with markdown? Why not JS template literals? Why do I need bun?
And not to mention the strange naming convention: htm for Client html for Server- wtf?

What I want is Astro with just web standards like Webcomponents
I wrote the OP, and this is very much the correct interpretation. I spelt out the problem more clearly here: https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/113843808583376704

The issue is that large system integrators offer to run huge Matrix deployments for governments, think they can do so by using the FOSS server and maintain it themselves, and have no incentive to route any $ to the upstream project at all. As a result, you end up with situations like https://www.heise.de/news/Probleme-mit-Open-Source-Videokonf... where the project fails, which makes everyone look bad.

So the point of this (pretty brutal) post is to try to say: "Seriously, if you are trying to run millions of users on a deployment, work with us as the upstream project - out of the box, the FOSS project will not work for this use case".
Print media is different. It is much more exhausting to read a newspaper because critical thinking circuits are automatically engaged.

You are more removed from the content because everything is in the physical world. And even within a single newspaper there are so many different topics that it is hard to be in a bubble.

The Internet automatically leads to bubble creation, 200 character messages and indoctrination.

It is more like loudspeakers they had in villages during Mao's tenure blaring politically correct messages. Or like the Volksempfänger (radio) during the Nazi era. Interestingly, many of the most destructive revolutions happened after the widespread use of radio.

Of course the Internet isn't nearly as bad, but most people are completely unable to even consider a view outside of their indoctrination bubble.
At least in circles I frequent, people are pretty upset with the state of sports betting too. Feels like lots of things are pretty crappy these days, simultaneously
> beginning to scrutinize these platforms.

I think the government could fix it with a screen time limit. 30 mins for under 18's, and 1 hour for everyone else, per day.

Maybe allow you to carry over some.

After that, it's emergency calls only.
US should ban the Internet. Lets have huge LAN parties in every country instead!
Americans have faced so little strife domestically that they're unironically comparing social media addiction to the Opium Wars
I'm not a DDOS expert and didn't test out the limits due to potential harm to OpenAI.

Based on my experience I recognized it as potential security risk and framed it as DDOS because there's a big amplification factor: 1 API request via Cloudflare -> 5000 incoming requests from OpenAI

- their requests come in simultaneously from different ips

- each request downloads up to 10mb of random data (tested with multi-gb file)

- the requests come from different azure IP ranges, either bc they kept switching them or bc of different geolocations.

- if you block them on the firewall their requests still hammer your server (it's not like the first request notices it can't establish connection and then the next request TO SAME IP would stop)

I tried to get it recognized and fixed, and now apparently HN did its magic because they've disabled the API :)

Previously, their engineers might have argued that this is a feature and not a bug.
But now that they have disabled it, it shows that this clearly isn't intended behavior.
I'm not, and that's the reason why I went Canon. There is also CHDK for cheaper Canon cameras. Canon seems to be less litigous when it comes to hacking their firmware.
Start? Who’s still at go? I think I’m past “start”, and looking for ideas and fresh thinking.
And distribute it across acreage.
It sounds like we're quibbling over the definition of "destroyed"... if a home is rendered uninhabitable for days/weeks/months, I'd consider that "destroyed" even if the framing is in fact salvageable.

And certainly as it relates to insurance, the trend sure seems to be well on it's way towards "coastal Florida is insurable" (either the price goes up beyond the means of the residents, or the insurers leave the market). Something like 5% of the state is covered by Citizen's Property (the government insurer of last-resort). Some coastal areas are ~10%. I have to imagine it won't be long before it's cheaper to pay people to move elsewhere than rebuild where they are.
Sorry, Artemis carried more than one banana and actually made it to orbit. SpaceX has not provided any ROI yet. You can't compare the (very optimistic) promises of SpaceX against the actual returns of the rest of the industry.
Tech company reveals product, stock goes down. Many such cases.
only very few rich people can mobilize financial and political capital to pull off tiktok purchase.

Larry Ellison (since he is CIA/MIC friendly and tiktok is already running on Oracle cloud)

Zuck has too much conflict to acquire tiktok, but other oligarchs like Musk/bezos/gates can pull it off, given their recent meetings with Trump
you seem to be asserting that you know more than the Fire Chief.
And just think, to those platforms your code is the "seasoning" that the FA decries so vociferously.
It's hard not to see this as a continuation of the American corporate interests controlling the media their population consumes. TikTok I think has the largest share of American's attention out of all the social media?

Doesn't seem to matter which clown flaps about in the wind at the oval office, control of the narrative holds a steady keel for decades. This is the same story, in a new medium. Sure, as the "sides" in culture wars take turns "ruling", certain things are allowed or disallowed. The real consequential stuff, ideas and patterns that would lead to the empowerment of the working class vs hoarders of capital -- all the back to basic education, critical thinking, civic engagement, and the implicit/explicit deprioritization of any and all that in favour of obedient consumerism.

With the "new" tech they've discovered they can really shape people's opinions, tweak the emotional charge to make people act in such unconsidered ways, en masse, against each others' and their own best interest -- of course they'll hold on to that at any cost. It's unprecedented, though not unimagined.

I wonder what will fill this space. Over all the rises and falls of the various blinking nonsense, I've never really seen people go -back- to an app / service / etc. They all just wither away as the next new things comes up.
I purchased a Canon M50 to use as a webcam during covid. I spend a lot of time doing remote training and quality video is paramount to me. At that time, the Canon webcam software worked fine on my Windows machine.

I later moved back to a Mac as my daily driver and the Canon software was never reliable on m1 chips. The camera didn't have clean HDMI out. I was pretty frustrated because my fancy webcam no longer worked. Canon showed little desire to support Macs.

I purchased a used Sony that had clean HDMI and it worked great with a cheap HDMI capture device.

I now use an Insta360 webcam with a large sensor. Image quality and focus speed are great. It has slightly less bokeh effect than the Canon and Sony, but folks always comment about how good my video looks.

They are also quite a bit cheaper than going the DSLR route for webcam.
It can still be both- in the sense that once a precedent is set using the these additional ideological and geopolitical motivations as momentum, maybe there will be an appetite for further algorithm regulations.

As a tech person who already understood the system, it's refreshing that I now often see the comment "I need to change my algorithm"- meaning, I can shape the parameters of what X/Twitter / Instagram/ YouTube / TikTok shows me in my feed.

I think there's growing meta-awareness (that I see as comments within these platforms) that there is "healthy" content and that the apps themselves manipulate their user's behavior patterns.

Hopefully there's momentum building that people perceive this as a public health issue.
There's a write up from Alexey of different approaches considered for clickhouse-obfuscator here: https://clickhouse.com/blog/five-methods-of-database-obfusca....

The summary is pretty funny:

> "After trying four methods, I got so tired of this problem that it was time just to choose something, make it into a usable tool, and announce the solution"
I hope you’re as vocal about your higher ups.
> if US government says who is allowed to buy

It doesn’t. The courts do. TikTok could be sold to a Hungarian businessman. As long as it can’t be proved they aren’t controlled by China, they should be allowed to reënter app stores.
Do you own higher end vehicles or possibly an EV? Or you're seeing those sorts of rates with something like a Honda Accord?
This is a vibe and I'm here for it.
That is not the point of the First Ammendment, it is that Government cannot stop anyone from saying/printing/dissemination of content.

So question if government has power to do so.

Can they ban RT? Or even the BBC, if the government found it wise to do so?
PG is full of shit. "Woke" originated within the black activist community and culturally goes back as far as the 1930s. It got adopted and became mainstream within the white liberal progressive community through the popularity of black music artists and social media in the late 20th century. It has absolutely nothing to do with Mao's Red Book or communism.
Fire at one of the largest battery plants in California forces evacuations
By “this” I think they meant this moment in time rather than the ban being a result of societal scrutiny.
Tesla Cybertruck seized after being unlawfully driven on UK roads
Agreed. I’ve tried other editors but so far I’ve always come back to sequencediagram.org — it just works, low fuss.
> If China allowed free access to US social media apps to its citizens then it might have a leg to stand on.

So now the US should just do everything China does? What happened to American ideals protecting themselves? If free speech really works, it shouldn't matter that TikTok exists.
Yes, the "we have a Tiktok problem" statement is proof of that.
He’s using sarcasm