skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TFA is light on quotes, but it seems to come down to "China could feed misinformation to users". That's the most concrete claim I've seen.

I'd buy that it could happen, but I'm still not sure it's worth "screaming" about. We get plenty of misinformation, and disinformation, via US-owned channels.

One could imagine a sinister plot where they develop a detailed model of you and use it to concoct the perfect disinformation campaign targeted at you, engaging enough so you don't shut it off, subtle enough that it isn't obvious and annoying. It's not impossible; even mediocre targeting tools have led to some pretty impressive targeted propaganda campaigns. What could they do with the information that is currently useful enough to make it a near-addiction?

And yet, it seems unlikely to me. The alternative is "they're making a ton of money", which seems a perfectly ordinary thing for them to do. That sinister plot seems to hinge on a lot of things going in their favor, like TikTok users not just moving on to the next shiny thing that catches their attention.

Maybe the FBI has more reason to believe that this really is China's plan than they can let on. But it really looks to me just like they beat us at our own game, selling entertainment, and doing it on the cheap.
Context: Lineker is a former England footballer and sports icon and now the highest paid BBC presenter. He implied parallels between the current UK and early Nazi governments with reference to recent proposed UK policy towards illegal immigrants.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64891734
i don’t understand how everyone was super worked up about russia influencing the election through facebook, but now that a foreign power literally CONTROLS the platform, people aren’t concerned about it.

fwiw, I’m not that concerned about either platform. I just think people who claim one and not the other are being inconsistent.
Of course. If Apple brings the money Intel will gladly fab their chips.
Seems like it would violate the first amendment. Government can’t really restrict my speech.
I'm very concerned that the US government will set a precedent for regulating what apps citizens are allowed to use.

I definitely agree about the risks and banning it from the devices of the govt officials makes sense but banning access to an app screams "the Chinese/Russian/Turkish way of governing has won, freedoms are no more".

I hope the US takes the EU approach and regulates what data is collected and transmitted where instead of walking the totalitarian route. In case you haven't notice, FB/Instagram/Twitter etc. are the same as TikTok from the perspective of Non-Americans(>%90 of the world) and TikTok just happen to be a first for Americans.

I've been living in Turkey for some years now and I promise you, it's not fun. Do you know that it has been 2 weeks since Turkey banned country's most popular(and earliest, dating back to 1999) social media for no other reason that they suspect anti-government activity by the operators because they think it is not natural to have concentration of anti-govt views? That's where you are headed.
Banned in app stores and it will die.
McCarthyism was primarily a political thing by politicians.

The FBI chief being discussed here, Wray, is a political appointment but not an elected politician so hopefully the appointment shields them from politics. Nevermind that the DoJ tries pretty hard to be independent of the President. But beyond that, this particular chief was appointed during the previous administration of a different party. And has served in both party's administrations.

I have no position on TikTok, but Wray saying this is not really comparable to McCarthy.
Space Is Still Hard
Even a slow framework is still fast for humans. My Django site renders the homepage in 10ms, and django is kind of in the realm of Rails performance wise.

It's all about cost, really. But you can just tell Nginx to cache pages and then it's not a problem for the vast majority of use cases.
This seems like a false dichotomy. Politicians try to attract new businesses because those businesses, if nothing else, attract these things called employees. The advantage of the approach is that you can try to attract more of the kinds of residents you want instead of just "anybody". Most places have plenty of "anybody" already.

What else does better as a medium of attraction for worthwhile people? Walkability? Save that for the Europeans who pretend like boasting Paris and (formerly) London qualifies them to talk about managing large cities. Civil services? I'm salaried and I've got a car, the only reason I'd use most common civil services is either because my ride is in the shop or I was literally stabbed and needed the ER. Otherwise you couldn't /pay/ me to deal with the kinds of people who take the bus. Meanwhile parks and libraries are for the homeless and parents in denial about the times.

So what's left to brag about to attract people?
Completely agree! We have also seen our users more concerned about comparing the real-world distribution against the training data as compared to previous month's data (we found latter is more useful for PMs and setting alerts).

We currently allow users to specify their training data in the config which is used to initialise the UpTrain framework (in form of json file but are planning to support pytorch/tf data-loaders). In the background, the tool does all the binning and clustering to convert these continuous variables into discrete buckets to later calculate divergence, which is then used to quantify drift.
Ok, we've swapped the order in the title above.
Does the extension being open-source actually help here? I don't have time to look through the whole thing, but essentially it sounds like I can verify for myself that all of my requests are being sent to dust for them to... store for debugging purposes and not make any money while paying everyone's OpenAI fees? Doesn't seem believable to me.
Almost everybody has TikTok via either Apple's or Google's app stores. So it's very easy to block the distribution of the program.
You might not be able to see the surface in question.

Here’s a manual for an ice machine:

https://www.webstaurantstore.com/documents/pdf/hid_manual.pd...

See page 19. I don’t know whether 10 minutes of exposure to 100ppm sanitizer will kill a biofilm adequately. Even “ppm” is vague. 100ppm of (active) hypochlorous acid is quite high and ought (IMO) to sterilize things effectively. But the recommended sanitizer is Stera Sheen Green Label, which, like most powdered sanitizers, is based on dichlor. 100ppm free chlorine worth of dichlor also adds about 90ppm of cyanuric acid, and cyanuric acid buffers hypochlorous acid, such that 100ppm FC + 90ppm CYA is a much worse disinfectant than 100ppm FC by itself.

Also, what disinfects the tubes between the filter and the reservoir?

(Why isn’t chlorine dioxide used for this purpose more often? It’s supposedly much better than chlorine for killing biofilms. Possibly less damaging to plastics as well.)
> The company exists to make money. The fact that it also creates printers is a side effect, not its primary purpose.

The thing is, this didn't used to be the case. This is a relatively recent occurrence, and absolutely not the natural order of things.

Once upon a time (yes, this is very long ago), charters were granted to corporations for specific purposes, and if you didn't propose a useful company, you wouldn't be allowed to incorporate.

Sure, there have always been people with skewed incentives and decision making processes, but on the whole, until the past few decades, the basic idea of a company was always "create a product or provide a service; if you do it well, you will profit."

In more recent time, as you say, for far too many, that has turned around into "make as much money as possible; creating a product or providing a service is a necessary evil to that end, and we must trim it to the bone to extract every last cent of profit."

This obviously is antithetical to a healthy, functioning society and economy. It incentivizes all sorts of ultimately destructive behaviors, far beyond the stuff described in the article.
> Alcohol was fine until hard liquor was invented

If I catch your drift correctly you might want to read up on the history of distillation, and in particular the chronology thereof.
Tiktok hired people associated with multiple governments, were they able to improve the situation? https://www.mintpressnews.com/nato-tiktok-pipeline-why-tikto...

> the threat to completely shut down its platform, subsided only after TikTok began appointing Western officials to important positions within its organization, thereby giving the state considerable influence over the content and direction of the app.
I dunno, I get that there's a distinction between what the product officially supports and doesn't, but if something breaks in sid, I would expect them to still want to fix it because that's the thing that will eventually become a release. It's just theoretically more likely to break in the first place because it is after all the unstable channel.

> there are other ways to do this that don't involve turning your whole system over to the churn of constant package updates

I mean, that's no different than Arch or any other rolling release distribution.
Was it not China that set the precedent by effectively banning many Western apps?
I think that is an insanely insightful comment. It is very scary having an 11 year old and wondering when that day comes when his friends are on social media and he wants to participate. I am skeptical of a lot so don’t fall for get rich scams or ads on these platforms but do enjoy perusing for sometimes too long
Also in Emacs:

https://github.com/joshcho/ChatGPT.el

https://youtu.be/SL-nNOjqoxg
I would agree... but SketchUp is an example of how I think there is an audience for simpler tools.

SketchUp, most professional CAD modelers would think it is basically unusable. No constraints? No parametric modeling of any kind? No actual conception of solids (just faces and lines)? You just draw directly on the models without a 2D Sketch first, or dragging in a primitive? And yet... SketchUp is still really popular, within its own niche. It's not something you'd find anywhere on a "best CAD programs" list, but if you are an interior designer, or another field with simple 3D needs, odds are you'll find SketchUp everywhere.

So... it doesn't have to be a powerful CAD program to find an audience. It just has to be a tool that provides CAD to people who are in a very different field than CAD modelers.

Another example that I'm banging my head against: BobCAD-CAM. The 3D capabilities compared to most modelers are... pretty garbage. But if you are just trying to machine simple parts on a router, I will admit that if you don't stretch its capabilities, it is pretty fast and simple, and the integrated CAM is functional. I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone over separate tools (a CAD designer would hate it, a professional CAM user would hate it, but someone who is neither might find it a good tool that at least gets the job done).
Do you mean actual ownership via stock? If so then I can speak for all founders: NO. I say this based on the absolutely shit percentage of stock with terrible terms that are offered to all employees.
Obligatory xkcd - https://xkcd.com/2501
> When you say write parts of this composition into the script - what form does that take

It's a custom programming language. I have many designs for it, but unfortunately almost nothing is implemented yet. Only exactly what I need is implemented. Currently, it looks very similar to lilypond language with some lisp-y compute help because lisp is easy to implement. E.g. I can do:

(set melody1 "c' d' e'")

(set melody2 "g' g' b'")

(set diff (- melody2 melody1))

(print diff)

(print (to-intervals diff))

This will print

[7 5 7]

[P5 P4 P5]

This ultimately compiles to musicxml/lilypond.

I like using serialistic techniques so I use this to check my rows, also note when I'm violating rows. Another thing I do is to highlight parallel perfect fifths in red so that I can change them if I desire. I also detest vertical minor seconds, and highlight them in red too just in case I accidentally add a minor second between parts. I also think major/minor thirds below E below mid C are too muddy on piano, so highlight them as well.
"register" is often used in the sense boats uses it in like a... let's say English graduate student sense?

Given that "withoutboats" is a Foucault reference, this shouldn't surprise anyone who's familiar with that intellectual tradition.

For a bit more discussion on this, there's a fantastic comment on the Reddit discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/11m0j30/comment/jbflz...
The government regulates imports and exports, this is not a free speech issue
It's not a whole lot more complex.

In the last few years, the city government could have adopted very different policies toward policing, homelessness, COVID, housing and education, all of which would have made it more competitive than it is.

SF's commercial leases, while underperforming on a national level, are a whole different issue to the one Tyler is addressing, which is about competing for residents, not businesses.
Thanks for the very relevant comment :) We provide users the option to attach their training data from csv/json (working to support loading from cloud storage provider or data lakes). We have illustrated this in some of our examples, such as the human orientation classification: https://github.com/uptrain-ai/uptrain/blob/main/examples/hum...
> Opting out would just mean all your missing data alerts fire every time Datadog has an incident and you would then check, see that everything is missing, and then identify the cause as the Datadog incident.

You are missing the last step, which is that, knowing alerts are down, you can actively monitor using other tools/reporting for the duration of their incident.

And why would you have no logs? Even assuming you ingest logs through Datadog (they monitor on much than just logs and not everyone uses all facets of their offering), you would presumably have some way to access them more directly (even tailing output directly if necessary).

And lastly, why would you communicate to your customers without any idea of the scope or cause of the issue? It would likely be clear very quickly that Datadog was having issues when you see that all your metrics are suddenly discontinued without other ill effect.
>Linux Security Modules (LSM) is a framework allowing the Linux kernel to support without bias a variety of computer security models. LSM is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License and is a standard part of the Linux kernel since Linux 2.6. AppArmor, SELinux, Smack, and TOMOYO Linux are the currently approved security modules in the official kernel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Security_Modules
The rest of the world, which for simplicity's sake we'll call the EU and china, have fairly powerful protections in place. EU law applies to companies operating in the EU, and China effectively bans all foreign apps. If Chinese businesses were not de facto arms of the Chinese state, and we had the diplomatic resources to investigate and prosecute chinese companies serving american citizens under american laws, then it might make sense to leaev well enough alone.
Also, pledge would SIGABRT that's process under a milisecond upon trying a non-allowed syscall.

So, as I said, good luck trying to call something outside pledge. Being root? You wish if you can even run something alonside the process.
Because even the subprocesses from a pledged process are pledged too.
Show HN: IaSQL – Open-source tool to manage cloud infra as data in PostgreSQL
Hi all,

IaSQL maintains a two-way connection between an unmodified PostgreSQL database and an AWS account. IaSQL at it's core is a diffing system between the cloud infrastructure state and the desired state that is used to execute AWS SDK calls to update your infrastructure.

But we also use the same mechanism to take changes in your infrastructure, perhaps made via the AWS console or an IaC tool like Terraform, and pull that into your IaSQL database. We use an audit log tracking who made changes where to determine which way the synchronization process goes, and this gives us a lot of "powers" over normal IaC.

First, you can inspect the tables in IaSQL and be sure that it's actually the state of our cloud (within a few minutes of difference), so you can be more sure that the changes you're writing up are likely to work.

Second, the changes you write are SQL statements to mutate your infrastructure rather than editing a declaration file, which is a different mental model vs IaC. But you gain from the constraints and foreign key relations on tables to catch mistakes in configuration before execution even happens to a greater degree than IaC tools can as this is like a "type safety" on top of dynamic information (other tables you depend on).

Third, you can enter an IaSQL transaction (slightly different from a normal Postgres transaction as you can't hook function calls on `BEGIN` and `COMMIT`) to make these changes and inspect what IaSQL will do like you can with IaC tools, but if there is a failure, the `iasql_commit` will take the information from the audit log and roll back the changes that were applied by applying the prior versions in reverse, so IaSQL should always be in a working state.

Finally, (since this is getting long) the live-infra data model of IaSQL makes dynamic infrastructure much simpler (eg, you deploy isolated instances of your services per customer) -- anything with a SQL client and credentials for the IaSQL database can connect and initiate these changes, which can be Postgres stored procedures you write and added to the database.

We're in beta so our coverage is not as large as existing IaC tools, but we now cover 25 different AWS services with our modules: https://iasql.com/docs/modules/ But please let us know if there's something you use that's missing. :)
Might help if you want to emulate a 65816 for a IIgs? But I imagine you'd want at least a 286 for that.
I live in a high property tax county in Illinois, and 70% of my taxes go to the schools. More than half of that 70% pays for teacher's pensions.
If the police aren't going into your home to seize your hard drive, it might be a subpoena, rather than a warrant. The advantage here is that you can fight it. For the subject of this story, he likely could have fought to only turn over footage of the outside of his home -- not the footage from inside his home and store.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpoena_duces_tecum
i.e we don't want to compete so lets just ban the foreign competitor we don't want to compete with.
CEQA could be done legislatively. I think that the recent UC Berkeley outrages have created plenty of support for a fix, in the legislature, where discussion is far less ideological and far more pragmatic than during ballot measures. Which isn't to say it's pragmatic and not ideological, it's just far better than what goes on for ballot measures with millions to billions spent on PR campaigns.
Out of curiosity, what datadog services do you use that cause deployments to be interrupted when they are having an outage?
It's an army of Rust evangelists. We have a lot of time on our hands waiting for compiles.
> Alcohol was fine until hard liquor was invented.

Alcohol is no longer fine?

> Child work was expected, until factories came along.

Doesn't that more have to do with the rising household income (thanks to productivity gains, I'd imagine) and school availability, so people could afford to let their children go to school instead of needing every hand to keep the family afloat?

I've never actually used TikTok, what makes it so much more potent than other products?
| If you disagree then why is OpenAI's safety committee talking about how you should need a government contract to buy an A100.

Fuck, really? I hadn't heard about this. If true, it's the godfather of all ladder pulls.

Not to mention, it's categorically awful to silo this stuff and grant it to an org that's so opaque. Good luck separating the wheat from the propaganda chaff without access to the tools that produce it.
The United States is better than China.
To be precise, he's talking about 5.25" floppies, not 3.5" floppies. The latter are more durable. But either way it's a good idea to get your data off them!
What are the requirements of a CAD kernel?
Thank you, but doing it within a browser is not what I've been trying to do.
Mupdf is the key. Sadly there's no user-friendly mupdf wrapper like Sumatra on Linux.
That's what I would have thought. But the article said:

> Both carbon filters and ultraviolet light are known to decrease chlorine concentrations.

Seems crazy, right? That's why I'm asking.
+1 for react-flow it’s a joy to develop with
PRESS PLAY ON TAPE.

I also think I still have a 5.25" notcher that I couldn't bring myself to let go of.

I promise I don't have THAT MUCH shit sitting around...
I didn't interpret the OP's comment to suggest a specific order of invention, but an order of adoption / influence in a society.
On graduate student mental health (from my email)
How many levels of JIT would be too many I wonder
> Thats 27% more money in your bank account for the same work done.

A nitpick, but that's not "for the same work done", but for the same gross salary.

The benefit is in recognition of the extra home-making costs (and work) a highly skilled immigrant would have upon moving there.

A local would usually have local support system (friends, family, inheritance, knowledge of language...).
The deep state whining about TikTok is the pot calling the kettle black.

I think a lot of people would agree that Twitter and Instagram are worse for users.

Twitter is a bunch of bullying and wrath, Instagram is jealousy and avarice: extremely effective at manufacturing insecurity.

America has been colonizing the world via dominance in online industry for the past 20 years and "winning the war for data". Tiktok is a symbol of the end of this trend and american nationalists hate the idea.
> Property taxes are a large source of funding for these investments.

The idea isn't to get rid of property taxes and do without that revenue; the idea is to tax things that aren't beneficial that we want more of.

I think our perspectives are different on how much of a handbrake bad policy is on the market's ability to create what people want.
My explore tab has bird photography, cool art, and cycling. Its actually quite pleasant

I actually found some coin videos through my explore page
I think one problem with this is that you paying banks twice (mortgage, home equity loans) for that money from your own property. And at almost 10% APR each.

It's really hard to reliably make over 10% on an investment.
“We seem to have forgotten that nothing is completely risk-free”
The number of people on HN b****ing about people shipping MVPs that build on OpenAI is hilarious and makes me feel like HN has definitely jumped the shark.
Millennials are every bit as good as the boomers for having a blizzard of excuses about why they can't possibly be inconvenienced, it just sounds a bit more nuanced. This website is full of it.

And the idea that voting does anything real is kind of cute, that's literally the least you can do and should take all of 5 minutes every couple of months these days.