skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> U.S. de minimis exception ends on Tuesday 4 February 2025 for all Chinese imports. New limit of 0$ for all goods.

The de minimis exemption ends on Tuesday, but only if the goods are already in a bonded warehouse or customs house pending clearance.

Goods needed to be on their "final mode of transportation to the US" by 2025-02-01 at 12:00am Eastern Time to be exempt.

The total Section 301 tariff on PCBs is now 35%.
Design a business model for an algorithmically free content consumption platform
So I’ve been thinking more about this idea of an algorithmically free content consumption platform.

Consider this,

Today, big tech companies are too fixated on algorithmically driven [everything]. Which has its limits.

For instance, I remember way back in the good old days there was this AI themed YouTube channel based on crappy TTS synthesis which kinda worked, but then YouTube cracked down on TTS (at least the blatantly obvious ones), forcing this channel to move to a more realistic voice that kinda killed the whole theme of the channel.

I suspect this would have demonetized or completely de-platformed Stephen hawking as well in some alternate universe where he became a YouTuber.

While on the opposite side of the spectrum, one can make an argument that online platforms are failing to filter out undesirable, low quality and low effort content, among other things.

In a way it’s like an arms race, and at a fundamental level, with regard to algorithmically driven content recommendation and moderation in general, I suspect there’s no ideal solution that can uniformly apply to all cases in the same way that there’s no general algorithm that can determine if a given Turing complete program will terminate or not.

So big tech platforms are trying to solve a problem that’s essentially unsolvable. Akin to trying to use a calculus based toolkit on a noncontinuous and purely discrete system, by analogy, we instead need to turn to derivative free heuristics, an approach that is completely foreign to the mindset of dumb data scientists everywhere.

So as a fun thought experiment, I’m curious, for those of you out there who are both super smart and creative: how would you design a business model for an algorithmically free content consumption platform?

As they say,

“a successful system is one that is capable of producing the conditions that allow it to maintain and improve itself.”

Or if I’m just completely outta touch, you’re welcome to roast me in the comments since I have thick skin. If I see the light, then great.

Also AFAIK there's no DM on here but since I'm looking for new friends you can reach me at: hello@colbyn.com
Crazy. It used to be huge. I guess Reddit/closed social channels killed the old internet.
The 404 page is a nice touch: https://lumon.industries/404
I hate this cycle.

1) Media - you won't believe this legal loophole!

2) Politicians - what loophole? that's the law working as intended.

3) Media - watch our corrupt politicians defend the evil loophole that costs us millions!

4) Politicians - ok, we'll change it then. that'll get us positive coverage, right?

5) Law - gets worse
> So what's the harm?

Imagine you're making a product that is produced in America (or you import it wholesale from China) and conforms to American standards for product safety - fire resistance, toxic chemicals, electrical safety, IT security, EM emissions.

Now, some Chinese cloners come, clone your product but shart on all the regulations, cut corners everywhere and sell it for half the price or less on Temu. You're out of business, your employees are out of jobs, the US taxman is out of all of your tax revenue, and to top it off people complain about "your" product being faulty/incompliant/dangerous because they got shipped illegitimate clones. In the worst case people actually die in their sleep because the shoddy li-ion battery cell erupts in flames.

Everyone suffers from this form of unfair competition.

> Besides, Amazon and Wal-Mart are often (in some retail categories even usually) middlemen for Chinese manufacturers.

Indeed, but at least Wal-Mart makes rigorous QA for everything they sell in a store (they're known to be especially cut-throat). And Amazon at least gives you your money back no questions asked.
It's fine for MIT work.

The Anki database format is still pretty opaque, despite a few efforts over the years, and it would be great to open some of this this up to allow apps to export apkgs

It doesn't help that our wiki is noindexed by GitHub: https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/wiki/Database-Stru...
So

- for English, I'll use the Jamaican flag.
- for Russian, I'll use the flag of South Ossetia.
- for German, I'll use the flag of Austria.
- for French, I'll use the Malinese Flag.
- for Dutch, I'll use flag of Suriname.

just see how happy people are with this ;)
True, an implementation could choose to allow this. But in is a bit questionable to say they do in practice, because most will miscompile your code in this case in various circumstances.
>I think it's not properly appreciated that Apple fully endorses all of this. [...] they uniquely could stop this (at the price of devastating their app store), but choose not to.

A perfectly privacy respecting app store isn't going to do any good if it doesn't have any apps. Just look at f-droid. Most (all?) of the apps there might be privacy respecting, but good luck getting any of the popular apps (eg. facebook, tiktok, google maps) on there.

>In light of that, perhaps reevaluate their ATT efforts as far less about meaningful privacy and far more about stealing $10B a year or so from Facebook.

What would make you think Apple's pro-privacy changes aren't "about stealing $10B a year or so from Facebook"? At least some people are willing to pay for more privacy, and pro-changes hurts advertisers, so basically any pro-privacy change can be construed as "less about meaningful privacy and far more about stealing".
How to Synthesize Running Water [video]
> if the advertisers/spies are stealing your power and network bandwidth and quota in order to do these things

They're not. The app developer is.
>As I said, in Germany you can indeed have your cake and eat it too in this regard, if you’re okay with the offers you receive being less targeted and therefore less appealing.

The "cake" in this case refers to the offers you had before GDPR came into effect and/or regulators started enforcing it. They might give opt-out people some token offers to appease regulators, but I doubt it'll be anywhere close to the offers they had before.
Automotive industry. If you factor in climate change, then fossil fuel industry first and foremost, but actually quite a lot of them.
A legislative body writing something down doesn’t mean society has agreed to it.

If someone journals and writes down everyone they met with locations and dates, they will laugh you out of the room if you tell them they are violating GDPR.

This also leads to stupid shit like people not being sure if they can point a camera at their driveway to catch vehicle break-ins.

Finally, classifying something as “personal data” because it’s about me still doesn’t make it “my data”.

Health data in the US is strictly regulated, very personal, but is definitely not mine. I cannot remove things from it or prevent it from being shared between healthcare institutions.
https://www.maxmind.com/en/home
> They didn't want to take a position on the N country disputes out there by deciding which country code gets which flag

Why not simply collect all the prevalent "stances" on the disputed topics, and give the user to choose on each stance individually (or for a better user experience: create some presets of "stances that often occur together", which the user can use to activate multiple stances at once).
Google-Adjacent OSS repos are the worst for this!

Passive-Aggressive Stalebot marches into the middle of an _active_ thread and announces that the issue is now stale/dead and everyone should go away.

I get that on large projects there’s a non-trivial percentage of issues which amount to “I’m holding it wrong, didn’t actually read the log messages, or the manual, fix it for me pls” which are just unhelpful noise. However more often than not they take every other thread- including important ones, with them.
this is the page i’d link to

https://block.github.io/goose/docs/goose-architecture/
>dogs are 689x less dangerous than traffic accidents

per mile driven? what are we talking about here, the Ididarod?
The missing cross-platform OS API for timers
A "super lab" that used "cartel" processes was discovered in Canada a few months ago with almost 100 million[0] lethal doses of Fentanyl. It was only 11 miles from the border. The group was linked to a Khalistani transnational crime network; the same group of people (Punjabis) have also taken over our trucking industry[1]. Our border is the longest undefended border in the world and Canada is now taking in more than 1.5 million people per year[2], not including the 5 million on 'temporary permits'[3], mostly from India and China[4] and mostly un-vetted[5]. They get H2B visas with their Canadian passports and can travel across the border with ease. 1 billion doses worth of precursor chemicals were found in the port of Vancouver over a period of just 3 months last year[6], all coming from China. Halting immigration and shutting off the precursor chemical supply from China via the port Vancouver is all my clown show of government had to do to avoid this trade war. Stopping the flow of these brutal new drugs will do more to save both our economies than any amount of 'USA owned' tar sand ever could.

[0] https://bc-cb.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=2087...
[1] https://thecanadianbazaar.com/how-punjabis-came-to-dominate-...
[2] https://www.meansandways.ca/news-articles/chart-of-the-day-c...
[3] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/migrate/millions-of...
[4] https://youtu.be/bg3psxZ_pRg?si=GLSJdquqF4WQgcNt&t=441
[5] https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/terror-suspect-enter...
[6] https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/enough-precursor-ch...
Even if you accept those figures (and the report itself says they are underestimates), in what other industry do we allow 10% of your topline revenue to directly result in suicide and depression?
Are they skilled? Or just arrogant and drunk on power?

Some of them most certainly could not pass US security clearance.

https://bsky.app/profile/jsweetli.bsky.social/post/3lh7nii7y...
I haven't used kotlin. How does it help it?

So the kicker in imperative OO for composition is that the class you are composing has some state / instance vars.

How do you include methods that can view/update those instance vars?

Sure it's easy to compose with static/pure functions.

Do you enclose the instance vars in holder classes and pass those holders to the composition implementation class in it's method signature?

In the end, inheritance or composition is about constructing a class /struct/whatever with a given set of expected signatures with some ideally documented guidance on any intricacies.
Are you telling me that, if you could start over somehow, you'd suggest K&R should specify PNVI-ae-udi ? Or do you mean (which I accept) only that well, too bad, PNVI-ae-udi is the best we could do with C given where we started from 20+ years ago?

I actually think there's yet significant risk that this is swamped by the "Bag of bits" people despite all your hard work. There are plenty of WG21 submissions whose subtext can be read that way, they want their "high level assembler" and they don't care that it's a myth and can't be made real, they're not taking "No" for an answer. So, congratulations on the TS.
There's actually a mathematical model for this. See https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Have We Already Entered the Age of Building Brain Cortexes–Without Realizing It?
Has Capitalism Been Replaced by "Technofeudalism"?
Fraud can be described as deceit to profit in some way. You may note the rigidity of the process above, where I indicated a defined set of conditions.

It costs employers money to on board someone, not just in pay, but in other employees training that person. Obviously the case must be clear cut, but I've personally hired someone who clearly cheated during the remote phone interview, and literally couldn't even code a function in any language in person.

There are people with absolutely no background as a coder, applying to jobs with 5 years experience, then fraudulently misrepresenting the work of others at their own, to get the job.

That's fraud.

As I said, it's not being prosecuted as such now. But if this keeps up?

You can bet it will be.

Because it is fraud.
AI certainly won't be intelligent while it has episodic responses to queries with no ability to learn from or even remember the conversation without it being fed back through as context. This is the current case for LLM models. Token prediction != Intelligence no matter how intelligent it may seem. I would say adaptability is a fundamental requirement of intelligence.
Really all of them if we're bringing in the environmental concerns. Even the "green" companies due to their inputs and methods.
One of my favourite newly discovered YouTubers, K Klein, talks a lot about language.

What sold me to subscribe to his channel is this absolutely wonderful bit with flags at 4:30:

https://youtu.be/iQNdkdqoIdw?t=4m29s

Flags aren’t languages. Listen to your elders.
> I work in advertising and defend tracking, targeting, Meta, etc all the time as largely harmless.

Perhaps tell that to one of my friends that has a shopping addiction. He buys endless amounts of running gear, and then resells it, basically burning thousands of pounds every year. His phone does nothing but show more and more running gear adverts. We've told him to stop but he reckons he doesn't have a problem. No runner needs 30 pairs of trainers a year, or 10 rucksacks etc.
Newly detected near-Earth asteroid has astronomers' full attention
This runs Android 14. What have they done to strip down Android to make it minimal? Given it still uses Google Maps I assume they have not de-googled it.
https://archive.ph/SVM3m
Again, respectfully, I don't think that follows (or makes much sense). There is not a set amount of complexity for all software that gets apportioned between the build system and the business logic, so that an increase in one necessarily means a reduction in the other.

Instead, each domain space has some degree of inherent complexity, which varies from problem to problem. Failing to account for this inherent domain complexity appropriately will cause it to bubble through at unexpected points throughout the system.

Build systems inherently have a very complex job. A good build system grapples with this complexity and tries to harness it; a bad one pretends it isn't there, and becomes a tangled mess once the (inevitably complex) demands made of it exceed its limited assumptions.
Just had a conversation about this on a waydroid github issue. The LineageOS X86 image is outdated compared to also open source Bliss OS' Android 12.

/? Android play store APK GitHub actions

It looks like Android Emulator has the most current version of Android that will run on x86?
(2024)

Year old story.

More recent development discussion:

US targets trade loophole used by ecommerce groups Temu and Shein

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41536137
I'm not familiar with these marketplaces. Could you name a few examples?
> I guarantee you there is no shadow council trying to figure out how to hire "busywork" worker bees.

The council itself is made of "busywork" worker bees. Slave hiring slaves - the vast majority of IT interviewers and candidates are idiot savants - they know very little outside of IT, or even realize that there is more to life than IT.
Alcohol? Probably others.
Dang included. He could unflag these topics, but has chosen not to.
Emergence of a second law of thermodynamics in isolated quantum systems
”A former Klarna manager, who left in 2022, said the rhetorical emphasis on A.I. was no accident. According to the manager, there was a sense within the company that Klarna had lost its sheen in the media and among investors, and that Mr. Siemiatkowski was desperate to get it back.

The former manager said the A.I. story provided a lifeline at a time when Klarna was hoping to offer shares on the public markets. It demonstrated that the company was still on the cutting edge, and that it was shrinking not because it had faltered but because it had figured out how to replace humans with machines.”
That links not bad, though like beiju said, it does mention

"Looking from a wider societal perspective, there are a range of costs that have not, or have
only been partially quantified here (such as crime, education, cultural harms, impacts on
relationships and wider impacts on the families of gamblers). For these reasons, we believe the
figures of £412.9 million and £635 to £1,355.5 million to be an underestimate of the true scale
of the total economic burden associated with harmful gambling."
Note also "And the majority of the time the answer is incorrect anyway."

I haven't looked for development-related jobs this millennium, but it's unclear to me how effective a crutch AI is for interviews--at least for well-designed and run interviews. Maybe in some narrow domains for junior people.

As a few of us have written elsewhere, I consider not having in-person interviews past an initial screen sheer laziness and companies generally deserve whoever they end up with.
I am going to point out how much the vibes have shifted here. When earthquake scientists gave false reassurances in the run-up to the 2009 earthquake at L'Acquila, likely contributing to the many deaths there, Italian criminal proceedings resulted. At that time, though, the usual suspects decided that this was science under attack and there was high-level protest and indignation that scientists might face legal consequences for their statements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_L%27Aquila_earthquake#Pro...
As someone who has been censored and who has watched my friends be censored for being trans people and talking about it we are most certainly not "free to publish whatever".
You can get (real!) SLC USB drives from Aliexpress too, for around $0.70/GB. These aren't the ultra-cheap ones which are often fake in capacity, but prominently advertise the type of flash and controller they use.

I also have some really small USB drives from around 2 decades ago, of course SLC flash (the only type of NAND flash at the time), and can confirm that their data is still intact. They've gone through probably a few dozen full-drive writes, while SLC flash back then was rated for 10 years retention after 100K cycles.
Discussion (520 points, 4 days ago, 358 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42864272
I don't disagree with you, but the other perennial unanswered question on HN is: how do I ensure I'm paying extra for actual quality and not just sucker tax?

Memory cards and ssds are famously obtuse like this. There are the branded versions (custom made for your Switch, for your Xbox,etc) which are exactly the same as their cheaper counterparts. Sandisk itself recently started a "creator" line of cards and ssds which are, again, exactly the same but more expensive. Samsung had Evo Plus which was different than Evo+ but same as Evo Select. Go figure!

Sometimes looking at specs helps but usually not - I.e. The "up to" speed marks are famously irrelevant for real time usage, and brand name companies will offer any number of cards with same specs and tags (u2/v3/class10/mark5/whatever) at varying price points. And then there's the WD Red saga where drives branded "NAS" were completely inappropriate for NAS usage.

I ran a photography business a while back and always bought extreme pro because I just couldn't risk it, but honestly, I felt like a bit of a sucker. It's hard to know when you're actually buying real quality and endurance increase.
I often see the same or similar item on aliexpress for about 2-3 eurobucks, while the local shop will happily sell it to me for 20. It isn't even 2 bucks for chinese product versus the one manufactured locally, it's literally the same thing.
Run competitions. If you're hiring fresh grads, this is probably the best way to filter by skill. If you can use AI to beat all the other candidates that's a skill by itself. In practice, those that use AI rarely ever make it into the top 10. Add a presentation/demo as part of the criteria to filter out those with bad communication skills.
It stops in 2022. I wish it kept going.
Read? They wrote one.
Yes, this has historically been a nice aspect of living in the U.S. compared to Europe, for those of us who like obscure stuff. Want to order some book only available from an eBay seller in another country? If you're shipping to the U.S., it's easy. If you're shipping to Germany, it's going to get held up in a customs warehouse somewhere. Seems we're going to start getting more of the European experience now.
Or phrased less inflammatory manner: "Corporations can enter into contracts and engage in legal action just like people can". Even the much maligned Citizens United v. FEC basically boils down to "groups of people (corporations or labor unions) don't lose first amendment protections just because they decided to group up".
Given that this was made by a nation-state attacker I'd expect something more sophisticated than pairipcore VM..

So, still waiting for full pairipcore (the newer one) writeup.
pricing is all made up to begin with though. your can't take the cost to make an item, add a reasonable amount of profit and that's the "real" price. that's just not the reality of running a successful business. human psychology is far too complicated.

at the end of the day, prices are just a number you make up, and hopefully it's a big enough number that your stay in business. hopefully it's a big enough number that you get rich. but sometimes it's a fire sale and you just end up owing less money to your vendors.
>AI certainly won't be intelligent while it has episodic responses to queries with no ability to learn from or even remember the conversation without it being fed back through as context.

Thank God no one at the AI labs is working to remove that limitation!
I doubt anything will happen to Trump while in office: the Secret Service will move heaven and earth to prevent another presidential assassination. They've already got enough egg on their face from the near-misses during Trump's campaign, but the resources they dedicate to protecting candidates and former Presidents is a mere fraction of what they devote to the President while in office. A presidential assassination would utterly destroy what remains of the Secret Service's already tarnished credibility, and even seriously risk triggering a second Civil War.

I don't believe Musk has Secret Service protection, but as the richest man in the world, his private security budget is effectively unlimited.
De Minimus rules are the reason why you don’t have declare that fridge magnet and bag of chips you bought from your trip to Beijing. Going to make air travel a mess flying into the US setting de minimus to $0 and travelers have to declare everything.
Fabric can heat up almost 50 degrees to keep people warm in ultracold weather
F-strings for C++26 proposal [pdf]