skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> China has not banned those. Foreign internet companies can operate in China if they obey the same rules that Chinese internet companies have to obey, such as Chinese censorship requirements and requirements to share data with the government.

Those rules, however, are official state secrets, and western companies who wish to operate in China must infer what they are themselves lest they get kicked out. China works on the standard that "there are rules that you must break, we won't tell you what they are, so be very very very careful." Not transparent at all (incidentally, China rejects rule of law as a western imperialist concept).
This is the kind of sober take that is sadly missing from these discussions. Reading all the people LARPing about how ChatGPT can solve everything that humans did until months ago is amusing, but gets tiresome pretty quickly.

And I say that as someone enthusiastic enough about it to pay for premium acess to the thing. Has been an amazing programming assistant, I use it as a web search on steroids.

But I think the advancements on the medium term will be only refinements over what is already here. It will be quite a while for another leap.
If a third party other than Microsoft remotely administered something like this it would probably be labeled a "botnet". No doubt the amount of data that Microsoft exfiltrates about Windows users is at least as much as any "botnet" would, probably much more. Customers have about as much control over what Microsoft decides it wants to do as they do over so-called botnets. As an original Windows 3.11 user (LAN-only, no internet), it's amazing to see how far from sanity things have gone. Computer owners born into this new world of always-on, uncontrollable remote administration would have little reason to know any different. (HN readers or similar being an exception.)

NB. I use the term "remote administration" in a general sense, not only in the "remote desktop" sense. Wikipedia's definition is "any method of controlling a computer from a remote location". For example, automatically connecting to a remote computer, downloading, installing and running code that controls the computer, without any user intervention.
Microsoft's Software Is Malware
The mention of the number of pages seems passive aggressive.

Here's what the book actually covers and it is "initialization and related areas" which you could fill many pages about any language if you include examples, a quiz, some foundational chapters:

The book contains 14 chapters in the following structure:

Chapters 1 to 5 create a foundation for the rest of the book. They cover basic initialization rules, constructors, destructors, and the basics of data members.
Chapter 6 is a short quiz on constructors. You can check your knowledge from the first “part” of the book.
Chapter 7 Type deduction: auto, decltype, AAA
Chapter 8 describes Non-static Data Member Initialization (NSDMI), a powerful feature from C++11 that improves how we work with data members. At the end of the chapter, you can solve a few exercises.
Chapter 9 discusses how to initialize container-like data members.
Chapter 10 contains information about non-regular data members and how to handle them in a class. You’ll learn about const data members, unique_ptr as a data member, and references.
Chapter 11 describes static non-local variables, static objects, various storage duration options, inline variables from C++17 and constinit from C++20.
Chapter 12 moves to C++20 and describes Designated Initializers, a handy feature based on similar thing from the C language.
Chapter 13 shows various techniques like passing strings into constructors, strong typing, CRTP class counter, Copy and swap idiom, and more.
Chapter 14 is the final quiz with questions from the whole book.

And there are two appendices:

Appendix A - a handy guide about rules for compiler-generated special member functions.
Appendix B - answers to quizzes and exercises.
They have absolutely no interest in sponsoring visitors. This visa program is intended to bring in well-off professionals who will have plenty of cash to live a comfortable lifestyle and cover a disastrous broken leg or two and still be able to fly back home if they lose their job. That $7k is before taxes, before retirement savings, before health insurance, before your assumed flight home once every month or two...
Huh.

I wonder what he has to say about the effects of increasing money supply on prices.
Often the point of seemingly obvious questions like that is to have the person on record making that statement and potentially what they might omit.
Yes.

It's going to be an unpopular opinion but there's an awful lot of applications that are out there that are just hilariously outdated, terribly made, or is some form of malware. I mostly use mainstream apps (Google Maps, Bitwarden, Safari, Slack, Discord, Spotify, Canary, etc) and the times I do look for new apps I enjoy having the convenience of not having sift through awful apps that used to plague android market (and to a certain extent google playstore).

App Store is not perfect by any means but I think it's superior to alternatives that are out there for users like me.
> the context of the numbers or any sort of balanced approach

Why is the number of de-transitioners relevant?

If they're too much of a minority to care about, then why is the same not true of the trans community? If, justifiably, you should still care about minorities, then you should care about minorities of minorities too.

de-transitioners aren't the counterpoint to transitioning; they are the counterpoint to dogmatic promotion of transitioning over any caution (or treating any caution as a anti-trans dog-whistle/derailment etc).

The reason this gets a lot of conservative press is that trans is the new weaponized community, so conservatives get accused of transphobia a lot - defensively pointing out hypocrisy in this behavior is all part of the game, but both sides are playing it.

> I feel like they're often used as a wedge to justify animosity toward the very few, through the bad examples of the very, very few

But the "wedge" has its basis in the modus of "the very few", or at least its dogmatic members/allies, otherwise the animosity couldn't take hold. You'll have to explain to me what makes a given de-tranition a "bad examples" versus an inconvenient truth.
GitHub India's entire Engineering team is fired
2% is the same or a bit less than what other cards would give you.
The elaborate and nonsensical (and costly) virtue/fitness-signaling will only continue to escalate, because just like with clothing fashions, the difficulty and cost of staying in the trendy vanguard is the entire point. Scott Alexander (and probably others) had a pretty good analysis of the phenomenon.
Same. The blog is just incredible.
Thank you, we absolutely do not front run domains that are searched with us. These claims are absolutely false.
> Why do they think this is at all acceptable?

You're still a Windows user, aren't you?
(No judgement, just answering the question!)
I used ChatGPT4 daily, for coding. I’m not seeing this. More often than not, it will hallucinate libraries and functions within them. I’ve never seen it write out anything tedious. It’s based on reality, after all. It’s hard to find a hand rolled sort, in code, these days.
I would prefer Amazon receive stock from legit manufacturers with a reputation to protect, whatever country they happen to be in.
Yes, there are farms in a Sweden that get busses every hour. There are also much more densely places in cities where busses stop going after 6 pm, or you have to book the bus after 6 pm a day in advance.

In general it's not that good. I've lived in Gothenburg for 30 years, the second largest city of Sweden. It takes me 10-15 min to get to work by car (inner city/business district). It would take me 40-60 min by bus. I know a lot of places that are worse.
But git gives you nothing to handle more complicated topologies, all remotes you interact with have to result in a linear history with everything on all other remotes… unless you feel like doing a manual merge every time you update your social media feed. Making that work automagically needs another layer on top of git, none of which seems documented here.
China reports human case of H3N8 bird flu
She maybe don't understand technology, but I get the feeling that breaking or weakening p2p is not what she talking about. The scanning means scanning performed on the end devices, not of the communications. The idea is to force communication messengers providers to perform scan on end user's device.

That, obviously, will fail, as many (including child predators) will migrate to messengers that don't do that.
I don't see any critiques.
At Apple's scale, an edge case is a question of when (and how often) not if.
Depends entirely on how the police reacts, but it could as well lead to them confiscating all of your computers and putting you in a jail.

Of course, swatting is worse. An on-demand terrorist attack by phone call is hard to top. But this one can be pretty bad too. Well, or maybe not, because it's not the starting evidence that makes it bad.
I find that GPT-4 works much better with ReAct than GPT-3 for more complex tasks.
My employer did this by splitting their headquarters into four physical offices. No need to convince people to go to a single suburb. In fact, the original downtown office is still there. For me this resulted in a seven minute drive to and from work, instead of a 60-90 minute bus ride each way. Meetings are via Zoom, just as they were during the pandemic.
> As my other example shows, it can’t handle simple languages like “English backwards.”

But that’s not an LLM issue, its a representation model issue. That would be a simple language variant for a character-based LLM, but its a particularly difficult one for a token-based one, in the same way that certain tasks are more difficult for a human with, say, severe dyslexia.
I doubt many of these people laid off have yet to make it through the NSA/CIA pipeline. The background checks alone can take months for those positions.
What an absurd argument. Not everyone works at a for profit publicly traded company.
But conveniently, the example chosen just happens to be one of few well known Nazi/WS publications?

It just happened to be Stormfront, but could just have well been Daily mail, or El Reg?
DRINK VERIFICATION CAN
I apologize adastra22 ran a stop sign in 2015.
A cyberwar of poisoning AIs? That's an interesting thought.
What are you even talking about? Your responded directly to a comment about bidets, not water system complexity.
Structural Alignment of LLMs with ControLogits
Its funny how rampant greed does that and yet we've all just kinda decided its the best possible way to run a society.
That's the first time I've ever heard of that, is there anything to read up on that?
A simple optimization in these cases is to keep the connection open (see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/ref/databases/#persist...)
D7 was minimum wage, if I recall correctly, around 800 euros per month. I don't think 4x minimum wage is at all unreasonable if it makes the process smoother, since they make the D7 application process as horrible as possible.

I had an awful experience applying for D7, so I am now happily living in Dubai instead which has the best residency process I have seen for ANY country.
LY5: Twitter is not publicly traded anymore. In Twitters case, the benefits appear to be dubious, but that might not be causally connected to whether you can buy and sell shares in a secondary market. Tesla is too expensive to take private. After it is valued like a car company and not a "by next year" robotaxi company, it might be plausible.
Filling out job applications using my resume
Thanks, these claims are absolutely false. We do not monitor nor register domain names that been searched at Namecheap, period.
Yes, focus is a high level feature that allows us to have access to more information than we can process deeply at any given time, without being overwhelmed by it.

We can narrow our focus, yet still have the benefit of all that information being processed by process parallel to our focus - ready to interrupt our focus if something is surprising, important, painful or pleasurable.

And of course, its all there ready for us when we change focus.

So having more information available is just that, having more information available. We can still focus and unfocus.
I realize most of that... just didn't realize how many work in terms of direct connection, which is nice to hear.
You don't have to use chains though, you can have pedals on the front wheel, like the original bikes(velocipedes), or not pedal at all, just push yourself on the ground (balance bicycles)
We're right around the the anniversary of the release of the seminal paper in this area. If you're seriously congested and need Sudafed and lack access to it, but you have access to meth. what's baby Walter White to do? That's right! Make Sudafed from Meth!

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/better-liv...
Not unrestricted, but easily. You only have to prove that you’re self sufficient.
Open Flamingo – open framework to train multimodal LLMs
Related: https://xkcd.com/1305/
They started sending me advertising shit the same day, so I reported them all because I considered them to be spammers at that point.
Ukraine and Poland definitely don't want war right now, they'd very much just like the Russians to stop and leave.

The position of the countries that want "peace" is bizarre in the media: "you should just stop fighting the invader and then it's no longer war. You don't want war do you?"
I've been gaming on pop os for a little while now. It's pretty good honestly. I would give it a shot.
Trump made fun of the pandemic, didn't take it seriously, didn't care to warn people about it. Instead he called it a "Democratic Hoax". He said “This is their new hoax”, see below. Let us never forget that.

As a result > 1 million people died of Covid in US. A big mess indeed. > 1 million. Could have been a lot less. Trump was in charge.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-calls-co...
Backwards. It's a vasoconstrictor.
> we’ve all just kinda decided

“we’ve all” kind of masks the way those who benefit the most from that decision are disproportionately influential it making it, both initially and on an ongoing basis,
How is it incompatible? You can use code under all of those licenses in a GPLd work.
Well, that is a variant of the time-honed job of an editor at a publisher or journal.

Perhaps we're going to see a new job: finding experts to write books for AI.
Curious from a technical perspective what you might be doing to protect your users' domain queries from other administrators.
You can absolutely tinker, or replace the DE if you like... it's just less configurable out of the box than Ubuntu Budgie, generally speaking.
Agreed. NSAIDs are contraindicated for me based on chronic health issues and related medications I have to take, so acetaminophen is the only OTC option I have. It very obviously _does_ work on multiple pain sources. It would be nice if it had anti-inflammatory properties, but it's not useless without it.
FYI, there's something fishy going on in this thread. Multiple people from the LightningAI team theaniketmaurya (developer advocate for Lightning AI) and rasbt (developer at Lightning AI) are shilling for this post without disclosing their affiliations. The account that submitted this (osurits) also only has two comments, also with the same behavior.

Having interacted with the Lightning AI team in the past, this is unsurprising behavior.
Thank you, these claims are absolutely false, we do not front run domains on our website.
TBF they will make millions, maybe tens of millions, from blue checkmarks.
A 0% is always better than paying upfront. There is the money you make from your saving account, the safety of having more available savings...

The only downside of taking a 0% loan is if you're bad at finance and getting that loan makes you spend more. Either by buying something more expensive that you would without the loan, or buying more stuff with the money you didn't have to give upfront.
I have no idea tbh, but that's what ericabiz seemed to imply, maybe I'm wrong and she meant something else
Side comment: This is the first time I've seen my preferred username used for its actually meaning. And I've been using it for almost 3 decades. Neat.
I was going to use tellurian, which means an inhabitant of the earth, then saw that tellurion was sometimes used as an alternate spelling in an old Webster's dictionary I was looking through, and preferred it.
And yes, I did search through a dictionary to find a username.
It’s technically possible though. The case of 38sp -> 357mag is a working example. The cartridge is longer and pressures higher so you don’t want to load a 357 into a 38 (and often can’t). But you can run 38sp in your 357 all day long.

One warning I received from my gunsmith though is that you’ll want to clean the barrel super well when switching so the powder ring of the longer round doesn’t cause problems. Hasn’t blown up in my face yet. Will report back if that changes.
There are quantum-resistant encryption schemes.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography
Their goal isn't to make a powerful model. It's to show how well compute-optimal models do on test-loss as a function of increasing model size. This function can be used with some caveats to forecast the test-loss of larger models for which compute-optimality becomes more important.
speaking from my own experience, I got to leave on my own terms instead of worrying about making rent for any amount of time.
I have no real idea what the issue with Windows is. It certainly has drawbacks, but... so does every OS. I hit power, my computer boots up in 10 seconds or so, I launch a game, and I'm ready to go. I think Windows puts ads in the little notification center, but I turned that off ages ago. It seems fine to me.
You'd damn sure better be earning well over 7,000 USD a month. Iceland is so expensive, and I'd imagine those prices have gone up with inflation. Even the locals have a secondary pricelist. It's a nice place to visit, but I'm not sure the cost is worth the living.
Speaking as someone who has lost six family members and managed four of those estates since 2019, these digital legacy features are generally incomplete or developed with little view toward reality. Edit: they’re often also not setup by the user or if they are, they’re not reliably updated.

Apple’s implementation, for example, starts a timer that will eventually nuke the account, and it doesn’t provide access to end-to-end encrypted data. That data specifically includes iCloud Keychain, which many people use to store their credentials.

I understand the privacy reasons for that, but when we die we are leaving behind increasingly large or complicated estates of accounts, services, apps, and devices with various and sometimes unpredictable safeguards. Having a loved ones actual credentials has been invaluable every time I’ve managed an estate.

I absolutely understand what you’re saying and I don’t necessarily disagree with it. But break glass access to credentials has proven important in my experience. Especially where continuity of that access is relied upon by others.
You probably know this...but the song is not about a literal bicycle...it's about Freddie being "bi". I only say this because it took me too long to realize that.
with VR/AR, there is no place to look away ;)
>perhaps rely on listening experience of rap with through the roof bass and inarticulate jabber, there even 6bits may be too much, I give you that.

I think you made a great recap on why this is good and especially good for classical music listeners. But I can't fathom why so many music lovers online are only able to communicate about their love of music while trashing a specific genre. I think more people should be exposed to high quality audio and know how to appreciate it, theorizing to the ignorant that their tastes are wrong because their preferred music is bad probably doesn't move the needle in that direction, and IMO, reflects a different ignorance.
> Are you sure? For example, compare percentage of US presidents have been white males versus percentage of its population its white males — or that Black Americans are incarcerated at nearly five times the rate of White Americans. It has been common practice in the United States to make felons ineligible to vote, in some cases permanently.

It is common to destroy whole nations in China (uyghurs, tibetan). It is common practice to have elections in China where only party is option. Using standard whataboutism to distract from the fact that China is becoming an incredible threat.

> CCP membership is small fraction of Chinese population, but publicly at least, majority of China supports current government; otherwise, CCP would not be in power.

That would be the case if China was democratic. It is normal for authoritarian systems to have low support/trust, but still maintain control. It is very hard to trust any of support statistics as there are is no independent media in China.
There are maybe more recent things they should apologize for.
Ironic that this page is down? (also not https? heh)
But of course nobody uses just those and instead bring megabytes of dependencies.
It's the second topmost thread, start with this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35342160

I think the critique is pretty mild and reasonable, regardless of whether you agree with it or not, and it's definitely not "hate".
> So TikTok not only DID admit to have foreign access to US data, but also lied and denied previously about it then according to the leak in the Buzzfeed New article.

They never claimed their own employees didn't have access to the data. They claimed that access to the data was controlled and it was stored in data centres not subject to China's jurisdiction[0]:

> First, let's talk about data privacy and security. We store all TikTok US user data in the United States, with backup redundancy in Singapore. Our data centers are located entirely outside of China, and none of our data is subject to Chinese law. Further, we have a dedicated technical team focused on adhering to robust cybersecurity policies, and data privacy and security practices.

Furthermore, the Buzzfeed article acknowledges that the "foreign access" was typically in the service of restricting that access:

> In the recordings, the vast majority of situations where China-based staff accessed US user data were in service of Project Texas's aim to halt this data access.

The actions of TikTok don't appear to be that of a bad faith actor. They responded to concerns about data privacy by moving customer data from their own data centres to those of an American cloud provider and have shown that they're working to restrict access to that data further.

> This only proves that TikTok should deservedly get a billion dollar fine from the regulators as I said before, rather than trying to evade responsibility and join the likes of Facebook who did get fined for privacy violations, if they want to continue to operate in the US.

What regulation did TikTok break?

> If Facebook can't get away with the fines, neither should TikTok.

Facebook wasn't fined for allowing internal employees in other countries access to internal data. They were fined for spunking that data all over anyone that winked at them. In the absence of a data breach, I'm not aware of which US law TikTok would have been breaking by allowing specific employees access to internal data.

[0] https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/statement-on-tiktoks-conte...
That's fantastic. Is there any one piece specfically that might run on that?

The author discusses using AWS to get free in network transfers since the source material is published there by the guvment. In your analysis how would you offset that incresed cost by moving off network?

It would also be interesting to try this all on a $10/month commodity hosting and then open it up for user facing apps such as a darksky type service.