skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There's no reliable polling on Chinese trust in government.

Lots of long term systematic survey/polling methods from western institutions in last two decades (i.e. pre-Xi) all comport with basic trend that PRC citizens don't trust local gov but trust central gov. One could be cheeky as insinuate Chinese polling more reliable than western polling that has many predictive failures vs CCP polling because CCP still in power and PRC hasn't collapsed but have only gotten institutionally stronger.

>Laughs in Hong Kong.

Laughs in mainland PRC who overwhelmingly wanted to tame HK. 99% of population versus <1%, so obviously respecting the will of the people. Well minor exaggeration, if CCP respected will of the people they would have subdued HK 5 years earlier during Unmbrella. There's always implement lag, no system's perfect.

I'm familiar with protests in PRC, local protests get loud enough, concerns get forwarded to central gov... and where feasbile gets addressed, because central gov actually scared shitless to mass mobilization. Except CCP tends to deliver tangible results not like western short term virtual signalling.

>giving them what they want is only one
...
>pacify the people

Isn't that governance 101, preserve peace and give people what they want?
Generally Git for Windows includes bash and coreutils, but it's not work on cmd or PowerShell unless it's added to PATH, so it would be useful sometimes.
This seems like an attempt to play lawyerball and find larger significance than exists in a fact. For instance, the US recognizes Taiwan passports for visitors, those are not China passports... and they treat visitors differently, see how Taiwan is on this list and China is not: https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/201...

So "by default" the US already "officially" recognizes Taiwan as "not China." I think the mistake here is confusing de facto with "officially."

(To put it another way: even assuming your point that "technically" the US could try to prosecute Nvidia for this and a court would get the question of "is this China" - but do you actually think the US will? Or will they continue to walk the same line they've walked for decades in the same situation?)
This kind of behavior isn't limited to authoritarian regimes. E.g. F1 had similar issues (team orders).
I think a lot of people are allured by the idea of starting a startup and it shows in your numbers.
Where as "natural" founders are allured by "an idea" and decide the best way to push forward on this idea will be through startup org(in terms of freedom, financing => obtaining more people, interfacing with users of the idea etc).
My favorite bit is this:

"4k+ ACTIVE CLIENTS, 35+ PROJECTS DONE...10 GLORIOUS YEARS"

I imagine then, there's at least 3965 clients that aren't super happy. At 3.5 projects completed per year, it's going to be a long road.
I guess John Carmack falls somewhere in between but as a complete layperson when he said he gave AGI by 2030 a 50 percent chance, that at least indicated to me that some really smart people think there is a chance.
In so many ways: it really wasn't. China made a bluff, because that's what you do when you're in power in China, and the US went "we're not Chinese" and then China went "k" and nothing happened and no one cared. China didn't back down, they never stepped up. Blustering is literally part of "that just what you do". You don't call someone's bluff in China, you never believed them in the first place, you only nodded initially because that's just what you do.
The gatekeeping GP is referring to is OpenAPI keeping DALL-E 2 behind an invite-only API, with weights unpublished, vs. Stable Diffusion publishing the whole model for anyone to download and use.
I'd reach out to Crowdstrike with the domains names (https://dataservicegroup[.]com). This follows the MO of APTs out of North Korea: https://www.wired.com/story/north-korean-it-scammer-alert/ If you share the list of similar phrases and the domain names that pop up when you search for those phrases the Crowstrike researchers can (a) probably help confirm which group(s) you're dealing with or at least (b) write up an analysis piece on yet another APT trying to gain a foothold in sensitive systems via the ol' fake candidate mechanism.
I don't think most other countries are different. most countries have national training programs just for the olympics
The question is whether you can access and upload photos even if the user has not specifically selected them in your app. Is having photos access enough?

If I give your app access to all photos and then use your app to upload 4 photos, are you restricted to those or can you then continue to access and upload the rest?
As Scalar README says, is it merged to microsoft/git ?
git-remote-gcrypt supports rclone, and all of it's backends. i would use that for your use case.

this takes an explicit dependency on aws, though all that is needed is:

- (large) object storage with read-after-write consistency (s3)

- (small) object storage with compare-and-swap (dynamodb)

it would be easy to port this to any provider that provides these two kinds of object storage.

compare-and-swap means that multiple concurrent writers can safely collaborate without risk of force pushing over each other.
Interesting article, I read the whole thing but this little paragraph at the end stood out to me.

> According to the Chinese sports couple, they still own more than ten properties in China, probably worth more than EUR 135 million, and Hao Haidong is the co-owner of several companies.

Thats a lot of money tied up in China for people banned from it. I looked up Hao Haidong's wiki and looks like theyre heavily affiliated with Steve Bannon and the absolutely ridiculous group New Federal State of China.

Mind you, im not saying this article is wrong. I 100% believe she was treated unfairly and made to throw the match. And im not pro-china by anymeans. But like.. anytime I see Bannon or NFSC or GTV, I just know theres a grift involved.
Australian Signals Directorate releases coin with secret code
> You can still be coached through a take-home and follow-up though.

Of course. Anyone who lacks the ability to complete the assignment can submit a solution written by someone else and be told how it works. Where they’ll fail in follow-up questioning is when you dive into their decision making process.

I have only found one person to have cheated in an interview, and they were exceedingly easy to identify as a fraud when questioned in person.
It's unlikely they would pay the premium when they can rip them off or design their own for cheaper.

Edit: why disagree?
Dear Complainer,

Write an updated RFC, get it published and send me the number.

Yours Truly,

Tux
It might be a vain metric in the aggregate, but to an individual, the people who are passionate about their sport and have worked nearly their entire lives to become the best at it across the entire globe, it's an accomplishment that is nearly incomparable.
As a current job searcher, I literally tried to explain this to my mother a few hours ago. Basically, "I can't get anyone to hire me despite the fact that I interview very well because there's literally no trust that I've done the things I say I've done/worked on, and that are hard to substantiate because of the simple fact that I was making the products instead of making landing pages for the products."
> “learn how to use git” is extraordinarily open-ended, and one of the most challenging parts is to know where to even start.

It's not really. It seems like it is because it has a baroque CLI with a ton of commands and those commands all have a ton of switches and the same commands can do lots of different things.

But under that atrocious CLI git is very elegant and simple conceptually. Once you understand the underlying concepts (blobs, trees, commits, refs, index/stage) the rest flows naturally.

Now I've been working with it since its earliest days including contributing to it here and there, but I never really found it very hard to grok.

"Git from the bottom up" is dated but git hasn't changed conceptually since then. "Git for computer scientists" is another good one. But any of the tutorials that start with git's low-level concepts and build from there are where I'd start.
This is pretty cool as a new way to unbundle/change how people host git. While it's pretty AWS heavy now, some interfaces around the interaction and I can easily imagine this working with other providers (ex. Backblaze) and start shimming out the coordination pieces (currently Dynamo).

Reminds me a lot of gitaly[0].

Awesome work!

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly
All abstractions eventually leak the higher you go. It's just about whether you want to ignore it.

These leaks are usually performance related.
That would lower a stock that’s the backbone of every pension and retirement plan in the US.

Not going to happen.
I'm going to suggest again that Apple still has stuff to do here. For example, on another setup I have 2 very different monitors, 38 inch wide 3840x1600 LG and a BenQ 32" 3840x2160. They don't have the swap problem but MacOS just screwed up and even though I have the BenQ set to Scaled at 2560x1440, MacOS just put it at 3840x2160, and, when I went to go fix it, System Prefs showed it set to 2560x1440. To fix it I had to pick another resolution and then set it back.

There's clearly work to be done on Apple's part here.

Another common problem I have is switching from no external monitor to external monitors. Usually the process is I'm on my laptop on battery. Close the lid. Come home. With lid closed plug in monitors one via USB-C, the other via a Thunderbolt dock, tap an external keyboard to wake it up.

Quite often (once a week?), MacOS never switches on. Often I open the laptop and MacOS flickers all 3 monitors and never recovers (have given it several minutes). Unplug the monitors and there's an 80% change the laptop monitor will come on. Re-plugin the external monitors, wait for them to come on, then close the laptop. The other 20% of the time the Mac never comes on and I have to hold the power button to hard rebooth. This happens on both a 2019 Intel/AMD MBP and an M1 Max MBP. This situation also happens with the 2 identical monitors but the swap probably happens multiple times a day where as the "it can't get itself started" problem happens once a week.
I think the poster is referring to things like "offline Google Docs editing that can survive a browser shutdown or crash" which would be... difficult... to cram into a URL ;)
I'm in the opposite camp, not because I think that you should be forced to do the privileged ports dance, but because I think you should bind to higher ports and it should be your load balancer's work to do the translation. Everyone is running some form of load balancer, whether it be a NAT box, Nginx, Kube-proxy, etc.

The low-numbered internet ports are useful to avoid binding so that your machine that's only a shell host isn't used as an exploit server when a single user on it is compromised. It's useful to provide a minor barrier to understanding how a server works and port allocations are made before someone deploys their cool WebApp on a random ec2 machine.

Probably good advice if you're maintaining a base image for a k8s cluster or on the load balancer box itself or whatever to simply set the minimum port to 1, though.
Careful there; that could lead to a conversation about the cost/benefits of how lockdowns were implemented.

Then we'd have to look at how younger generations were sacrificed for the older.

Then we might have to talk about how that happens in many areas, from wealth distribution to climate change policy, from environmental policy to corporate accountability. Not to mention the wars.

Can't be letting that type of discussion into the zeitgeist. Wealthy people might get upset.
If Mozilla bite the dust, unfortunately Firefox/Gecko developers will lost the job, then possibly some of them start developing WebKit or based browser on Apple or different corp. I don't want it.
Look at the "assets" and "scripts" directories. Those contain images and code. Those things were released alongside a LICENSE file. They are now reproduced in the fork you linked, but with the LICENSE file rewritten completely. The original license (Aug. 10) did not grant permission to relicense those scripts. All it said about them was "All rights reserved".

The current license, the one added on Aug. 22, does seem grant explicit permission to sublicense and redistribute what it calls the "Complementary Material" (which includes the source code surrounding the model), however, it has a lot of specific provisions, among which are the requirement that the original copyright notice be reproduced.

Like I said, in practice this might not be a big deal, but forking a repo whose license starts with "All rights reserved" and which does not explicitly grant permission to relicense its code, and then rewriting the license file in your fork, should be a huge red flag. As of the Aug. 22 license the fork might be compliant, but I think it would be a lot safer to include a copy of that license in addition to the new GNU license for the forker's changes. And pre-Aug 22, when this fork was made, it was just flat out ignorant to fork and relicense. You can't just delete "All rights reserved" and paste in a GNU license. Look at the license the forker deleted[0]. Literally all it says is "All rights reseved", and then lists a few things you can't do. There's not a single provision that would make it okay to redistribute at all, let alone modify and relicense it.

0. https://github.com/hlky/stable-diffusion/commit/b4c61769dfa1...
TCP and UDP communication doesn't just go over a network.

If you're talking to a service on the same machine, and the port number is in the privileged range, then (in theory) you have the assurance that it's a root process and that sending messages to it is as secure as passing data to the kernel.
> As an off-topic peeve, why is "Nix" capitalized in the title when nothing else is?

Good question. The entire title is original, even though the article title (“Japan declares war on floppy disks for government use”) is clear and concise.
The big wake up call for me was a few years earlier. I had just hit 130Kg (285+ pounds) and I had just had enough of it all! By the time I had COVID earlier this year I was down to around 90Kg (198 pounds) - I get the feeling that helped out immensely compared with how I used to be. Vaccines also did their part combined with the lessening impacts of the various variants.

The other thing that got brought to my attention was an off handed comment about various health issues that are impacting populations. Things like declining fertility and increasing health issues almost always correlate more with obesity rather than the environmental factors. Yes, correlation is not causation but it does seem at fairly plausible.

For example could things like micro plastics be doing these things? Yes. But one would expect these to be near global - yet the impacts are felt mostly in obese nations. It could potentially be a threat multiplier however.
There is a newly announced Chinese alternative to those GPUs - the Biren BR100.

Fabbed at TSMC. (I guess we are about to see if SMIC can do their 7nm at scale.)

https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/08/25/china-launches-the-i...

CHINA LAUNCHES THE INEVITABLE INDIGENOUS GPU

…

Here is how Biren says it stacks up on various machine learning workloads, pitting the BR100 against the Nvidia A100:

…

We presume this is for AI training workloads, not inference. The average speedup over the A100 is around 2.6X. It is not clear if the Nvidia machines were using sparse matrix features, which doubles the throughput, or not. Our guess is they were not.
Recently I did a few rounds of interviews. I found that I was bombing the phone only interviews but doing well with the camera on. I'm all in for basing part of the interview based on looks vs how someone sounds but I do think stereotypes play a part.
Eric Schmidt, the former Google chairman, told Reuters in a recent interview that high-end processors should have kill-switches.

“Knowing where the chips go is probably a very good thing. You could for example, on every chip put in essentially a public private key pair, which authenticates it and allows it to work”.

hxxps://www.reuters.com/technology/chip-challenge-keeping-western-semiconductors-out-russian-weapons-2022-04-01/

What he won’t tell is that this is already a reality, as I learned after having my air-gapped system and Pixel phone wiped remotely for researching “silent speech interfaces”. There is no security when silicon trojans are in all devices.
Yes because the 1s place will be base⁰ which is 1.
Mechanical cuckoo clocks are pretty hard to find these days, are they not?
Sorry it's my first time using this. It's NachoNacho.com. The idea is that companies can manage, discover, and save on SaaS in one place. It's like a Costco membership, you get exclusive deals from top SaaS brands, but it also comes with the spend management tools to help you manage subscriptions. As an example, you can see every team member's SaaS spend, issue virtual credit cards (which you have full control over), and of course get access to the deals that are (in many cases) exclusive only to NachoNacho.

Happy to answer anymore questions if you need, I hope I was able to clarify more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%27s_final_warning

China cared a lot. For sure, the US didn't believe china would do anything.

The stance of the US is clear though. China is under US protection.

Doubly so in light of the recent 1.1 billion dollar military aid deal: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-30/biden-adm...
From: https://www.fda.gov/media/150386/download

"The two formulations of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine and COMIRNATY (COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA) differ with respect to certain inactive ingredients only and have been shown to be analytically comparable.35

35 Analytical comparability assessments use laboratory testing to demonstrate that a change in product formulation does not impact a product's safety or effectiveness. For the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, multiple different release parameters were evaluated to assess the comparability of the modified formulation (the formulation with the Tris buffer) to the originally-authorized formulation (the formulation with the PBS buffer). These release parameters ranged from product appearance to size of the lipid-nanoparticle to the integrity of the modRNA in the product. Release and characterization tests include tests for purity, composition, and critical attributes of mRNA associated with the activity of the vaccine. The combination of release testing and characterization testing demonstrated that the modified formulation is analytically comparable to the original formulation."

Changing one buffer to another (to keep the vaccine at a similar pH to the body) isn't likely to have any active effect.
thanks! git-remote-gcrypt has rclone support, which provides all possible backends.

the addition here is a second object store with compare-and-swap semantics making it possible for multiple writers to collaborate safely.

many infra providers have object storage with those semantics, my preference is aws.
lol. lmao
True. Or just zip/tar it up and then rsync that. To be clear I was talking about a one time thing, not continued updates -- which would be done with SVK
> The workaround
>
> On modern Linux systems, you can configure privileged ports using sysctl:

Or you could just run your service on a non-privileged port - you don't have to stick to 80/443.

(If you really must have access to the service on the standard ports, you could set up an iptables/firewall rule to forward packets headed to port 80/443 to whatever port you're actually running your service on.)
The US government is more than willing to go to war to keep the world's chip supply out of China's hands. They're also pretty good at ginning up support back home.
I do feel that if its possible to google interview questions in 20 seconds they are bad interview questions.
Good point, one could measure (est.) years lost rather than lives lost as a way to quantify that.
It makes me think that the r/cscareerquestions tack of forgetting everything else and focusing on just leetcode may actually have merit.

For what it's worth, I think Chris Marshall looks like a great developer and a professional I aspire to emulate. However, a lot of companies do make decisions based on metrics, keyword searches, and standardized tests like leetcode (aka stuff that misses out on the human element), so it makes sense to try and balance both if one hasn't done so already.
Scientific grant applications are getting heavier on hype
Having multiple representations of the same number isn’t the problem one of the commenters thought. In decimal, for example, 1=0.99999999...
see also: the theory of mimetic desire[0]

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimetic_theory
> True statement but it should be the other way around. Deaths by overdoses are much more impactful in terms of life expectancy decline, since they mostly kill younger people.

This, of course, actually depends on the numbers from both (both ages and volumes).

The graph has a very clear inflection point from 2019 to 2020, overdoses were increasing for quite a while before that, so do you actually have numbers suggesting that the 2020 and 2021 impact of overdoses and accidents is greater than the completely-new-to-those-years factor?
Needles to Barstow isn't even a hard build, it's pretty flat and largely sparsely-populated desert. Admittedly it's the Mojave desert, which is harsh and unpleasant place to work outside, but compared to adding another between, say, Barstow and Bakersfield through Boron, Mojave, and over the Tehachapi pass, it's a cakewalk.
> no patch can land if it regresses benchmarked performance.

That's complete BS. Just go search for all the perf regressions in the issue tracker.
Genode OS Framework release 22.08
Perth, the capital of Western Australia is 100km long.

The entire state would grind to a halt, much the rest of the country would suffer seriously as well.
last I checked that's not what's at issue. they can't produce equivalent chips themselves and rely on them for various physics simulations that back weapons research
Being a university fresher can be hard
I really don't understand why things are so different than "back then", as all I can think of is that there was no social media in the 70's and STD's would not kill you. There were drugs, there was drink, lots of music and the remnants of getting one's ass shot off in SE Asia. Same courses (Shakespere, Calculus, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, History, ...), same experience of going from a sheltered home life to unsupervised time often in the big city. Where it was up to me to schedule my time and handle my required events.

What am I missing that makes things so different and so difficult today? This isn't meant as snark, merely that I didn't have kids and I'm really curious as to why there's such a generational difference.

I fully understand how individuals can crash and burn as they did it then as well.
Wow she could have made a killing shorting the stock ... yet didn't.
Good question.

My EVGA RTX 3090’s box says “Made in Taiwan”.
That product mentions the roof antenna in the description.
It's done silently before months ago (I posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31857451 )
FWIW, Ye's story has been reported on Chinese media since at least 2007: https://web.archive.org/web/20170309082422/http://sports.soh.... Unfortunately Google Translate doesn't seem to work on wayback machine, but you can copy paste the text.

Funnily enough, at least in this particular report, it is her coach who told the story. Really shows how this behavior was normalized enough for it not to be considered too shameful to admit.

The reason Ye and her husband are persona non grata is unrelated to the Olympic incident, but because her husband is involved in the "New Federal State of China" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Federal_State_of_China). Supposedly this is what the "fierce criticism" the article is referring to.