skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is very welcome as a parent in the USA. It is also sound legally, and was a long time coming. Nothing of great value is being lost and in a year users will have moved on to something else.

There are two positive effects here:
1. A company that is meaningfully foreign is losing control of a mass media asset.
2. Children and young adults are losing access to a product that is not good for them.

A country should not allow foreign powers to control platforms with so much reach--full stop. We do not allow foreign entities to own radio stations... Imagine how much deeper these platforms penetrate a person's mind, and how much larger their audiences are. We should all be MUCH more concerned about how these apps are stretching the social fabric (throughout the world) and how every society's ability to function is effected. I challenge anyone voicing discontent at this result to question whose interests they are voicing.

American manipulation of American minds... Yea! That's the point. I'd rather have someone with interests as aligned as possible with mine working for, owning and ultimately making business decisions at these companies. Regulation as appropriate to further align them.

Which leads me into my next point: I think that everyone here would argue that TikTok is in a class of its own with regard to very engaging short form content and rapid feedback feed training. I would argue that these attributes make it necessarily vapid and reactionary, providing little to no net benefit to either the individual or society to begin with.

If you disagree, what is the value of this product to the user and to society? Does it make people's lives better? I think that when the harms are considered, the answer to both is ultimately no. There are very well-documented negative effects on focus, happiness, and anxiety in children, which persist into adulthood from social media[1]. I don't think it can be argued that something that makes you feel good and connected in the moment but disconnects you from your immediate neighbors and friends and is highly correlated with mental illness is good.

Social platforms (TikTok included) are putting our children at a disadvantage mentally compared to previous generations and need to be more regulated. If these platforms (TikTok and other short-form rapid feedback products most of all) are of dubious value to begin with, what is the harm being done here?

Finally, I conjecture that we've only gotten a taste so far of how power can be wielded through these instruments. Even if Elon decides NOT wield his asset overtly during this administration, I believe we'll see more overt demonstrations of the power of social media sites in the next few years if relations with China continue to deteriorate and Russia becomes more desperate, with Meta clearly becoming less scrupulous.

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1. https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/research/the-evidence
Welcome to Oligarchy America. From now on billionaires will get their hands on whatever they can, with a shining approval from the government and the FTC. DOGE will privatize what's left of public services so they can have that too.

And when that's done they'll consolidate into a few monopolies and we'll basically be back in the Gilded Age.
The Ioniq 5 has a low reliability according to Consumer Reports. Lower than their gas models. I suppose it is all the ICCU and 12V battery failures. Same story with the KIA EV6. I guess those ended up with better reliability than Rivian, for what it is worth.
I think I could be alone, but one of my biggest office-speak pet peeves is using verbs as nouns.

Like “ask” (I hear this one all the time), “(value) add”, and “solve” (used in this article - I cringed).

I see this a lot on HN too, so again, many others here will obviously not agree. But I’ll intentionally use “request” or “question” over “ask” just in protest.

I know the English language has been using some verbs as nouns for millennia, but there are particular ones (like the ones above) that I mostly hear at the office (or outside the office, but spoken by “office folk”), and it’s definitely an annoy.

EDIT: Turns out I'm not alone. Thanks for the validate.
...except that the "extremely precise targeting" is a new thing.
Guile is an implementation of Scheme. As for why not CL, Stallman has expressed his dislike for CL, especially as a scripting language a lot of times over the years. Which is pretty funny because a lot of the criticisms he has about it (like the namespace system and keyword arguments) are in Guile now.
They don't have to send anything since they do all the image recognition on the user's own device.

Sending everything to a server is, however, how Google's service works.
True, and I think with the recent news around Sporify using AI to fill their playlists, we are already getting there. Just need to condition the public that there is no better
This shows how thoughtful our politicians are, they're shooting from the hip at best. It's just dumb luck we haven't fucked up more than we have, and that we have natural resources to lean on (Iron, wood, water).

Everything is over budget, nobody is accountable and psychological wellbeing is way down the drain.
Any plan to make that a Chrome extension?
None of that means you're automatically operating it on behalf of humanity or even to the benefit of all humanity.
I disagree I could never get past the dopamine bait posts on Reels to genuine conversations like I could on TikTok
It was a curriculum reform in the united states in the 60s that emphasized introducing abstract math concepts very early.
In my former communist dictatorship country, we had a term for how the party officials spoke.

"Wooden language".

Applies very much to this too.
I don't know why is this obsession over jargon. I know the cliche, it's not true at all except when you misuse it. Maybe can be used as part of a fraud or some power move or something like that but its intended use case is a shortcut to predefined ideas. It may have side effects but that doesn't mean that those side effects are the reason to exist.
In this case, I assure you it does not add depth, clarity, images. You're just using it as a kind of in-group joke.
Nah -- the schools should teach to the average student and address the average problems. I don't begrudge the school system for not catering to me when I went through it.
I'd love to have bundles where you can get the physical and ebook at the same time. Going on holiday it is ideal to have an ebook reader to carry many books, but, like you say, there is something precious about having books lined up on shelves to see them.
Congratulations! I hate it. You did forget to include my person pet peeve—learnings.

We already have a word for that—lessons.
Also, running other store launchers under Steam Proton works surprisingly well. I've been able to install Battle.net as a custom entry in Steam and run StarCraft II flawlessly in Linux.
If you send 10Gbit/s to an ISP you have to pay for transit to reach it. But if you send 100Gbit/s+ the ISP suddenly is willing to not only peer for free with you but may even host the servers for you in their data center for free. [0][1][2] So yes being bigger can absolutely save you costs.

[0]: https://www.cloudflare.com/partners/peering-portal/

[1]: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/

[2]: https://support.google.com/interconnect/answer/9058809?hl=en
> Is this [SpaceX flight] for the benefit of humanity?

Yes. Much more so than that one weird flight that's "merely profitable for a single company".

> Do we all get a profit sharing check at some point?

Yes, in the form of more space sector jobs, more jobs and economic benefits that come from more kinds of useful stuff being launched to space more often, and eventually - hopefully - more jobs in space and economic benefits coming from that.
> I feel like my penmanship is just worse.

You cannot learn everything. Is good penmanship worth spending time on? What are the other options. What if I gave you (8 year old you, your parents when you were 8, and you today - I want all 3 answers) a choice: you can learn cursive, piano, or go out to the playground. What is the best use of your time? My parents would have selected cursive, but on hindsight I can say it was a waste of my time. I always wished I could play piano (this is why I put piano in the list - there are millions of other options you can teach a 8 year old that we do not), but playground time is also valuable and would have appealed to me as a kid.
It's always fun seeing someone jump into NRC discourse for the first time.
Downvotes should not be for disagreeing with content!!
They've chosen 90% margin (cost + 1000%).

Semicon tool builders (my industry) have margins around 50% (cost + 100%). This is considered high margin manufacturing work.

To match United Health's margins we'd need to raise prices by 5x.
Why can't you take this web page seriously?
My parents responded well starting from a discussion of "Have you seen how good AI imitations are these days? Voice, images, even video..."

I don't think safety rules themselves are patronizing, especially considering how good the tech is: "Never trust a conversation you didn't initiate no matter who the other party claims to be or how good, bad, or urgent it sounds." Generally this doesn't count known communications with friends and family through known channels. It would take a lot more security failures to mistrust known good channels (but it can still happen! eg spoofed caller ID).

Another rule of thumb is to ask yourself, "How would I go about addressing this directly if I hadn't been contacted about it." E.g. the website, app, support line from the main site, etc. Always best to go to known channels, especially for anything financial. Even better not to even answer/respond to unknown contacts if you can avoid it. (Not always possible with work / kids school / etc.)

I agree, I wouldn't use this article as an example, because it does include a lot of poor judgement along the way. But there are plenty of examples of how good AI imitation has become lately.
I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math
Why don't more writers use AI?
This only shows how incompetent Twitter's management was; they not only ruined Twitter but Vine too and gave the opportunity to TikTok to fill the massive vacuum.
Please don't misunderstand me, I'm against unnecessary additives too. But you surely agree that anecdotes are bad source to inform your understanding on a subject where countless actual experts are available.
The same is true for my students (german school system, iPads form 7th to 13th grade): They are marking, annotating and rearranging parts of the digitized pages as they like. It would be impossible with printed books.
(ok, they could take a picture with the camera and do the same)
They have/use printed books but most of the students are borrowing them from the school and are not allowed to write in them.

So I use mostly digital material and most of the books stay at home for studying (the books are heavy).
Be easier just for Arizona to stop growing alfalfa. Its popular because they can grow two crops. According to the feds, there is 300,000 acres of alfalfa in Arizona. Cut that you have enough water saved for tens of millions of people. growing water hungry crops in the desert doesn't make sense.

https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Arizona/Public...
I love riding bikes with no pedals. You do feel like a dandy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dandy_horse

Also, is it shocking to anyone that pedal+chain bicycles were invented in 1885, less than 20 years before powered flight?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle
True. Fox News picks a few storylines for the day/week and emphasizes them over and over: e.g. LA wildfires are the fault of woke liberals, etc.
It's only fair, given that the American industrial revolution itself was built on IP theft; every developing nation takes its turn.

"Intellectual property" is an economic policy, not a moral imperative.
I agree, but we can't talk about "over" without talking about where the line is.
Nothing is shocking about the insurance industry anymore since they’ve been pulling this kind of thing for years. To me the most shocking thing is the people who defend them. I understand the drive to make money and build huge businesses: what confuses me is that we treat human health the same as things that don’t directly impact the health of people. It seems to me that there are endless opportunities to get insanely rich: I’ve never understood why we don’t set aside certain areas and just agree that they are not the place to do that. (I know, leaving potential profit on the table is sacrilegious to those who worship at the altar of the almighty dollar…)
Based on your comment it sounds unreasonable to select this design. It must have some reason to exist?
1) The article's use case is explicitly bootable images.

2) No, most of us don't "hope for the best" with imaging, but would like to actually achieve a reasonable level of confidence. If your approach to data integrity is "you probably won't notice corruption", you don't have an approach to data integrity.
Farms recycle the majority of their water as well. Just instead of it looping inside of a closed process it returns to the broader environment.
I'm unclear if this is a real article.

It claims to be published in 2025 but it refers to 2022-2025 in the future tense.

> [...] Sweden’s putting 104 million euros into bringing books back into classrooms from 2022 to 2025

See the comment identifying a legitimate source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42716448
I don’t understand how an insurance company can overcharge consumers. Isn’t their job to pay what pharmacies and hospitals charge? Do insurance companies get money if they approve the overcharged prices? If so how? I thought their revenue was the premiums which are fixed. Is the extra money because people are forced to pay everything after the little the insurance company pays?
This is exactly it. They are charging that price because that price will be paid, and this maximizes their overall profit. In other similar situations this would spur competition, which would ultimately drive down prices to a reasonable level. But in the healthcare industry competition is often prohibited or made very difficult by law. You can cite the patent system as an example of this, but another horrible one is the "certificate of need" laws, which should infuriate you.
Where's the evidence that TikTok is being used by China to spew propaganda?

Conversely there's a mountain of evidence which strongly suggests that US officials are going after TikTok specifically because they're not in control of the truthful narratives that paint the US in a bad light.

> Please talk when China/Russia opens up.

Careful with this sort of rhetoric. China's constitution enshrines freedom of speech as a constitutional right, just like the US, but they're both taking this freedom away by invoking "national security".

Why would we wait until we're as oppressed as the people of China before we speak up? By then it's going to be too late.
DRF has more abstraction. When I was new to Django I found DRF hard to build a larger API with it and not make mistakes or have things get confusing. You're primarily working by extending classes etc.

With django-ninja you just define your APIs with annotated types as methods, there is no magic, and then you get a generated OpenAPI spec.

this was my experience anyway, I used DRF for this project [0] and ninja for this one [1]

[0] https://govscent.org/api/

[1] https://sidewaysdata.com/api/docs
Space launches have a significant impact on aviation schedules at Orlando and a massive impact on cruise schedules from Canaveral. There has been significant effort towards tightening the size of the keepout windows in both space and time.
> education in Europe not only was better for reasons that cannot be openly discussed in our censorious society

Huh?
> The US had a solid first draft, it's time to update it.

That's what the amendment system is for.
Many American parents did not consider masking their children to be OK. If you want to know one reason many more are homeschooling now: that's one reason. There's other related reasons too. All the covid reasons to homeschool:

- schools were closed for too long
- remote learning wasn't working
- forced masking of children when
schools reopened, both against
the children's and parents' will
- politicization of all things health
The value of distribution is increasing while the value of content and product is decreasing for all but the top end.
my kid goes to private school. expelled students by grade:

1st: 2

2nd: 4

3rd: 4

4th: 3

5th: 5

6th: 3 (so far)

why am I saying this? we pay tens of thousands of dollars per year for having access to this kind of environment. if there is a kid who is fucking up everyone else, the “everyone else” should not have to suffer through it. I would pay double what I pay now for this priviledge for my kid. so yes, 100%, more expelling and more discipline is needed
Fix was merged an hour ago, roughly an hour after you made this comment (at which time they were still working on it)
So ... then don't use them? No one forces anyone to use any dependencies in rust lol its just faster to use shit thats already made
Not at all the same thing.

Comparing books to TikTok algo is like comparing rifles to ICBMs.

This is what people seem to be ignoring: the algorithms are damned near mind reading, and these algos put members of society into separate realities. We would be better off if they were all banned, but at least it should be agreeable that a hostile foreign government should not be allowed to deploy this on Americans without oversight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math

My 2 cents, valid criticisms of new math are _vastly_ outnumbered by ones more in the form of "I wasn't taught that way and so my kids shouldn't be either" / any change is bad change type thinking. There is a lot of overlap in these criticisms with common core ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Core ) which isn't particularly related.
How does this differ from something like yt-dlp? I assume that's what you use under the hood.
Dismiss away, you do you.

I don't regard this as a "strong claim" requiring "extra-ordinary proof". Technically it is a claim, I suppose. Many statements are. I strongly disagree that it any of "speculation" or "Ameriphobia". Those are emotional language, strong claims about me that you throw out. I won't go into biographical details why those just don't fit. And they are, yet again, dismissive.

"All countries are the same" Is quite a claim though. You seem defensive.

"require" makes it seem like I'm obligated though. Counterpoint: as the wise man said regarding when someone disagrees with you online and demands you prove your point: "I've known you for ten seconds and enjoyed none of them, I'm not taking homework assignments from you."
All I'm going to say is that Optum Specialty Pharmacy is the sole source that UHC will accept for a lot of special drugs. For example UHC offers insurance for IVF including a separate cap for medications, but if you use their insurance you have to order through their subsidiary Optum Specialty Pharmacy and the prices triple or quadruple over MSRP if you buy from OSP using insurance versus if you pay cash. They also won't tell you this until you're in the middle of a cycle and an order gets held up because you're out of insurance, but since they billed insurance you're on the hook for the remaining several-thousand dollars because if you stop the drugs you're just out the money and the medication and have to wait another month.

I don't know if I can give them the benefit of the doubt on the cancer drugs because of this.
When it comes to understanding the risks involved with having this many dependencies, one thing that folks might not understand is that Rust's support for dependency resolution and lock files is fantastic.

Tools like `cargo audit` can tell you statically based on the lockfile which dependencies have security vulnerabilities reported against them (but you have to run it!). And Github's https://github.com/dependabot/ will do that same thing automatically, just based on the existence of the lockfile in your repo (and will also open PRs to bump deps for you).

And as mentioned elsewhere: Cargo's dependency resolver supports providing multiple versions of a dep in different dependency subgraphs, which all but eliminates the "dependency hell" that folks expect from ecosystems like Python or the JVM. Two copies of a dep at different versions? Totally fine.
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It's simpler than that. The USA holds the majority of the IP.
> It says that the underlying action is on the torus (R/Z)^2. If the entries of the matrix are not integers, do we have a well defined action on the torus? It seems to me that the answer is no because Z^2 would not be invariant by the action.

Ah, good point.
I agree as well, just drawing some lines!
But why should it be more expensive? Both the purchase price and repair costs should be lower in the US because of lower purchase taxes which should surely push down the insurance premiums. Or are collisions so much more likely in the US?
Reminds me of the rover on that TV show "The Prisoner".
As someone who works in the news industry I find it pretty sad that we've just capitulated to big tech on this one. There are countless examples of AI summaries getting things catastrophically wrong, but I guess Google has long since decided that pushing AI was more important than accurate or relevant results, as can also be seen with their search results that simply omit parts of your query.

I can only hope this data is being incorporated in some way that makes hallucinations less likely.
There's not a lot of detail in the announcement but I assume this is some kind of RAG system. I wonder if it will cover some short time period (past week, past month?) or if they are trying to cover the whole time period since the knowledge cutoff of the current model.
Proton has gotten so good now that this is less of an issue to me. I buy games on GOG and just load them into Steam with Heroic.

I actually will often get better performance doing it this way; Jupiter Hell, for example, has a native Linux port, but I almost exclusively play the Windows version on Linux. I'm not entirely sure why this is, maybe performance issues with OpenGL compared to the D3D->Vulkan pipeline.

Linux has so much fragmentation between distros and the like, the Windows API is ironically one of the easiest ways to get stuff working consistently on Linux. If you're playing games on NixOS, for example, you have to do extra work to get Linux versions working a lot of the time because NixOS kind of breaks dynamic-linking by default. If you play the windows versions on NixOS, it's often as easy as `wine myGame.exe`.
I did the exact same thing. I'm back to buying real books, but I will say I still use my ereader in situations without good lighting or where the book is just too cumbersome. Sometimes that means I get the book twice which is suboptimal, but I strongly prefer the reading experience of a physical book. My appreciation of the work is even higher when the reading experience is better.