skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
85% is the minimum distance, but lens quality improves the further out you go because the lensing region moves up into the stratosphere so you get less distortion from clouds.
You don't need the jumphost to do the auth for the target host. You use -J and the auth happens locally and is proxied through.
They use a linter. Linters are an established and commonly-used part of the ecosystem, and entirely prevent these issues.
...why bring The Netherlands into this?
90% of the bottleneck, not 90% of their whole application. The author says that rewriting everything in Rust would have taken months, so the whole application must be huge.

"It is big and complex and very business critical and highly algorithmic, so that would take ~months of work, ..."
its also exactly the same stupid decision they made that ruined windows 8 - and they're doing it again. I haven't updated to windows 11 on my machines and I wont until I have to, and I will investigate alternatives. Some absolutely stupid design decisions and UI limitations that make no sense and should be optional,
> It's also clearly being used to attack our society and infrastructure via children with poor judgement and little to fear from our criminal justice system.

If only we had a system which taught children how to make better decisions. Some sort of teachery, perhaps. Maybe we should focus on investing in such places before laying the blame on what is basically Vine 2.0.
> I will bet 2-digit sums of money that simple preprocessing step would outperform what they've done.

Okay. I take this bet. If your simple preprocessing step outperforms whisper on, say, me reading a random wikipedia article, I'll happily send you any 2-digit sum of money (denoted in dollars presumably), or donate it to a charity of your choice.
I asked ChatGPT: The article discusses the problem of having too much information and too many choices, which can be overwhelming and lead to a feeling of not being able to accomplish everything. The author suggests that the solution is not to try to filter or prioritize better, but to accept that there will always be more to do than can be done and to make choices based on what is most important at the moment. The author also suggests treating the "to-read" pile like a river, picking and choosing what to read as it flows by rather than feeling the need to read everything.
>the tiktok android binary had the capability to receive code remotely and execute it

So can your web browser. Unless you can actually provide a source here to clarify, you're spreading baseless speculation. Even if the CCP were literally controlling tiktok, it would be stupid of them to turn it into literal malware for a few moments of... what, exactly? And in doing so destroy the most popular social media app of its generation that literally every social app is trying to copy and catch up to.

The CCP aren't cartoon villains.
But he's already in favor of bombing data centers, he just hopes someone else will do it on his behalf. So he clearly doesn't care about #2 & 3. #1 boils down to the fact that it would be kind of difficult, but that is no barrier to many people.

I can tell you for a fact that there are people with the knowledge, motivation, and track record of doing that kind of crime that will pick up this jeremiad of his and incorporate it into their existing corpus of theoretic justifications, mostly but not exclusively built around the writings of Ted Kaczynski. Not a large number of people, fortunately, but imagination and smarts matter more than numbers in that context.
>go after supply and possession again

that achieved 0 results in 40+ years of drug warfare with millions dead and the rise of international cartels who are as powerful as nation states.

This is not the way, complete legalization is the only way to break the power of cartels.
> Or maybe the AI is sufficient to act as a filter, but insufficient to surpass it itself. It stagnates.

> After all, an AI that can destroy a civilization isn't necessarily "intelligent" in the same way humans are. Or even capable of self-improvement. It could be sophisticated enough to (accidentally?) destroy its creators, but no more than that, and without evolutionary pressure, it may let itself die.

It doesn't even need to be AGI. It could be that some less-advanced "AI" technologies of a certain sophistication create perverse incentives or risks that cause their parent civilizations to collapse.

Think asshole billionaire hording all productive the resources, but doing nothing useful with them, while the rest of civilization starves and collapses. Or, AI becoming an irresistible opiate that causes individuals to retreat into some unproductive state then eventually die (e.g. into some VR videogame or something). Or weapon of mass destruction trivially created and deployable by any old wacko.
> things we need for a good AGI future:
> ...
> 3) an effective global regulatory framework including democratic governance

Fantastic, we'll A|B test. Let America stick to its Constitution the control. Have Europe try to wrangle Russia, Turkey, South Sudan, Saudia Arabia, etc. into "democratic governance".

I wonder what Sam feels about a free press and women's rights. Because none of the above countries are exactly big fans.
> but I remember reading that security researchers found the tiktok android binary had the capability to receive code remotely and execute it,

This is a pretty normal thing in Android and a number of larger apps (and many games) use it to some extent as a way to modularize the application. An app can basically download dex files or other artifacts, load them, and execute them from within the app's process. While it's arguably not a good feature for the platform to have, this isn't necessarily some kind of diabolical hack.

The newer version of this is on-demand dynamic modules (which are hosted by Google), unfortunately I'm drawing a blank recalling what the older DIY version was called.

https://developer.android.com/codelabs/on-demand-dynamic-del...
Fuck this noise. I hope I'm not overreacting, but shady af and evil.
How many times do people have to ask this. There's poor quality control of illicit drug production.
As above, there’s no mention of this being limited only to a controlling interest. So, going only by the text of the bill, it _would_ apply to reddit.

In practice it might not be enforced that way, but the bill _would_ allow enforcement against reddit. I wouldn’t expect that to mean “Reddit CEO sent to jail”, I would guess the idea is to reserve the ability to force Chinese divestment from basically any tech company in future.
Looking at how the US reacts to a company winning at the media game, China's iron fist regarding foreign companies entering their market retroactively feels par for the course.

And it kinda signals to other countries they really should put critical effort in lowering dependence on the US and chalenging the dominance if they ever intend to thrive.
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The real world is a lot messier than the TV version.
Mostly that two full drivetrains are expensive, heavy, and labor intensive to install. You end up with the worst of both worlds.

BTW, the volt was advertised/promoted as a serial hybrid, which was a really interesting idea ... right up till it shipped and it wasn't.
> A huge % of reserved seats go empty, simply because there aren't enough candidates.

This is an interesting point. A huge focus of Indian politics is lobbying groups from various lower caste communities asking for _more_ reservation. The fact that this point never reaches discussion, that the Indian schooling system is failing its students never makes airwaves gives me the feeling that Lower caste community leaders and politicians are _not_ interested in fixing the problem if it loses them their captive vote banks.

> https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/16-year-...

Rural India has serious problem in class and caste. Depressing state of things overall.

But I would note that you could have chosen a better example. This incident does not have any caste slur or anything to indicate that this was rooted in caste. Government teachers and employees power-tripping in their little fiefdoms is a common story across caste boundaries. I personally know of examples of upper caste folks facing violence in schools. One had their front teeth smashed by their teacher by "accident", but you can guess the type of environment where these accidents happen. This will also never make headlines since there is no caste angle to push.

Caste is a problem in Rural and to a smaller extent in Urban India. But you will also have to admit that our media and related political interests are hell bent on fanning the flames. The caste angle is brought into every petty bit of violence. So much that it becomes hard to believe even what may be genuine cases.

The American version of this would be race being highlighted if the victim is Black/Indigenous/Hispanic. A common reddit trope is if the victim's race isn't mentioned then they're white. If the perpetrator's race isn't mentioned then they aren't White/White-adjacent.

Scholarships spanning the whole length of education rather than reservations may be a better mechanism for improving opportunity in my opinion. It would also let you know if your scheme is working since with reservation, you just let potentially unprepared students through without fixing other prior systemic issues.
Sure, they said they know what is going on. The essence of my statement was that they don't know yet :-) You're assuming self-reflection is always perfect, I am saying they are on a path... I don't really see a contradiction here...
Are there social media moderation laws? No? Then maybe start there. Because you can ban Tik Tok and tomorrow I can start TokTok and do the same thing legally.

The only result is the government has been used to eliminate a competitor to Facebook, who cannot compete in the marketplace. Doesn't sound like protecting kids is the goal here.
Irrespective of the argument, it's too late. The cat's out of the bag or whatever metaphor you prefer.
More evidence that animals reduce childhood allergies
Well sure, but now fentanyl is everywhere. The game has changed entirely.
https://archive.ph/yojlR
A solar wind-derived water reservoir on the Moon hosted by glass beads
> So him actually not remembering isn't that surprising.

Regardless of the accuracy or implication of where he was or wasn't, which I have no comment on or knowledge of, you are claiming that a government official not remembering he was merely a block away from where the president of the United States was assassinated not that surprising? I could imagine details, like the hotel or street name, being misremembered, but what you're claiming is hard to believe.
Roblox uses Lua, right?

I think Redstone in Minecraft are good examples of introduction to programming via visual programming languages. Something you can really feel and play around with. I'm not sure how Verse or Lua are integrated into their respective games but it's really hard to imagine kids being able to get into these languages without something that gives immediate visual feedback
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> Fantastic, we’ll A|B test. Let America stick to its Constitution

Not sure the US Constitution really addresses AGI effectively, or that there are alternative existing frameworks that substantially differ on how they address AGI so as to provide a good A/B test.
It is also it's own IDE, doesn't rely on microsoft's IDE, and it creates a native application, not a website.

Qt designer is drag and drop GUI builder… is C++ now the same too?
Thank you - we will fix this.
Signed up for early access.
"oh you guys didn't form a global government to stop me so i guess you wanted these bad things to happen to you"
The "point" is the meandering. The medium is really the message here.

Here's an example sentence - "But the nanoscale work of chipmaking is monotone only if your ears aren’t sharp enough to hear the symphony." See that nano, mono rhyme? It's intentional. It's OK if you personally don't like this sort of thing, but it's fun for some:)
Except no cars do that. That's called a serial hybrid, which never shipped, unless you count oddballs like the BMW i3, with the optional "range extender".
I don't know anything about this and on principle AOC is right in my optionion but Europe has the GDPR and other national legal privacy protection and Tik Tok is still being used in Europe. Do we know if Tik Tok[0] does anything different in Europe and the US?

[0]Tik Tok and any other social media spyware in general.
Hence why I said it was vague I'm not sure it's as concrete as the article implies but regardless of that the punishment sounds absurd.
But you can try to get infinitly close to the threshold, to get advantage compared to other parties, but not cross it.
> There is no such thing as a bill comprehensive and deep enough to ensure that a tool like tiktok not be abused by the Chinese government.

This is Cold War 2.0 boogeymanism. It's "the state of exception" [0]: the idea that normal laws aren't sufficient because the enemy is too clever and too powerful so instead we need exceptional laws. (And afterwards more exceptional laws, because they haven't been defeated yet.)

You bring up what would happen in the 1950s if we hadn't been more careful, but look at the actual 1950s: a time full of paranoid McCarthyism, innocent people being defamed and branded as Soviet sympathizers, the FBI framing people, the CIA testing drugs on unwitting citizens, and almost a nuclear first strike. "National security" logic rarely invites a nuanced and balanced assessment of the threat and possible remedies; rather, it's a kind of dogma that takes for granted that the threat is exceptional and requires an exceptional answer.

The discilpined alternative is to make good laws that enshrine a principle rather than attack an enemy (e.g. data protection, public opinion manipulation). This deals with the problem and also preserves the civil institutions and trust in the rule of law. If the problem morphs, then pass new laws. That's how legislating is supposed to work and how it works for every other problem.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_exception
Apparently at the distance of the Hill Sphere of the Earth (about 4 times the Moon's orbital distance) the effect would still work.
I did some searching, and I believe that a footnote in this article, by Nathaniel S. Borenstein, is the origin of that quote.

https://www.guppylake.com/~nsb/CSCW-ATOMICMAIL.txt
What that, obscenely slanted, first link doesn't mention, is that each year around 10k homeless people in Seattle get off the streets.

It isn't like that money is being flushed down a hole, results are being had on an individual basis, but for reasons that are nationwide in scope, the overall problem (# of homeless people on the streets of Seattle) isn't getting any better.

National problems require national solutions, but half the senate is perfectly happy to offload the cost of social ills onto coastal metros.
>“ converges will have happier users and more sales because of it.”

First class tickets are irrelevant, also terrible but that’s a lengthyrabbit hole.

The airline industry is loathed. No one likes them. The users are not happier but the market has pretty much converged on a business model.
Isn't that true of Python as well?
i don't get why decriminalization keeps getting pushed by people

my cynical take, entrenched people have something to gain by the grey area decriminalization offers.
You know what happens when you ban a young person from doing something? They grow resentful and sympathize with the bad thing. If you shelter a young person, they leave and may never return.

Banning Tiktok would be the biggest strategic miscalculation I've ever seen. Basically every Gen Z and half of the millennials will hate the US Govt and sympathize with Tiktok, by extension sympathize with China.

Before we flail around hastily trying to shove some ham-fisted laws down our young people, because the immortal warmongering bigoted cockroaches who run this country don't understand how the internet series of tubes works, we should consider very carefully how damaging this will be to our young people's loyalty to the US.

If the government is unqualified to make the correct laws, they need to work with people smarter than themselves or step aside, because the consequences of this will be catastrophically worse than stupid dangerous "challenges" which exist outside of Tiktok anyway and have since long before the internet.
This is putting aside all the weirdness around the same time frame with Barry Seal and 'the boys'.
Good point, I've seen top performers laid off because of (what I assume) comes down to a cost-benefit analysis. Top performers may get paid significantly more, and may present more of a challenge to management (or challenge management more).

My layoff survival strategy comes down to costing too much to get rid of. I do that by mastering and turning into the go-to for some critical part of the infrastructure the other developers shun. Most often that means the database, but it could mean the cloud setup or even details of the business domain. If no one else in the organization can take over my work without significant time and cost I will get scratched off the layoff spreadsheet. I survived a few layoffs that way, watching more senior people get walked out.

Of course when your employer starts laying off you should start planning your own exit, but avoiding the first wave or two will give you some breathing room.
The US wants to be more like China and the Soviet Union.

My first hint was Snowden.
After laying off 28% of staff, SF's Twilio will at least keep remote work
I'd recommend reading this report by the Australian government, it's very interesting: https://www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=a7e2a076-1112-4...

"Our research confirms beyond any plausible doubt that TikTok is owned by ByteDance, ByteDance is a PRC company, and ByteDance is subject to all the influence, guidance and de facto control to which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP, the Party) now subjects all PRC technology companies. We show how the CCP and PRC state agencies (together, the Party-state) have extended their ties into ByteDance to the point that the company can no longer be accurately described as a private enterprise.

These findings draw on previously unexamined sources and contradict many of TikTok’s public statements. The most significant findings, in our view, relate to how TikTok’s capabilities may be integrated with what China’s leader Xi Jinping describes as the Party’s “external discourse mechanisms”."
Addendum to your comment: Seatbelts are also a horrible idea.
Very naive and narrow thoughts...
You have the option to turn it off if it bothers you, it isn't even all that difficult to do.
> It's utterly antithetical to everything western civilization stands for

mccarthyism, the sedition act of 1918, and the espionage act of 1917 come to mind. whatever your understanding is of what western civilization stands for - and what you are arguing we are losing - are ideals that were created long after those previous acts came and went.

my point is that a set of ideals will be at risk if it is too rigid - western civilization has succeeded in part due to its flexibility in difficult circumstances. in other words, it is better to have waxes and wanes to the freedoms available to a society, than to be rigid in a set of beliefs and watch the society be lost to history.
Who, specifically, is involved in writing the language of this bill? Name them.
Coffee and tobacco are not neurotoxic
What high school kids are interning at hedge funds? Jobs like life guarding, painting, tradesman’s gopher, fast food, etc are still great jobs for kids to learn a work ethic and make some cash. Trying to kick start a career in high school is beyond silly for most kids.
Years ago I worked on a farm raising cattle. We would take great care of the animals every day, often hand feeding cows, but especially the calfs with apples and such. A very enjoyable event was at spring time, when letting the cattle out to grass, they would go completely crazy and jump around.

When an animal had the right age and weight, it would be shot and slaughtered. The process would then start over. Both then and now, I eat meat with the greatest pleasure and will continue to do so. Sorry, your anthropomorphism issues don't affect me and most others.

> I don’t want to control your life. I believe this is a logical conclusion thinking will eventually get anyone to, given the effort - and moral integrity.

How nice it must feel to be so superior :) I hope this will be enough copeism for you, to handle that 90% of the world population will continue to eat meat. As people are lifted out of poverty, they want to eat meat no matter how much you preach.
Or Github?
> Yes, gas stations sell sketchy 'legal highs', but those are an entirely separate category of drugs from synthetic opiates like fentanyl

I never claimed they weren't. My point was that if it was just about kids wanting to get high, they could easily find one elsewhere, for cheaper and most likely it would be easier to obtain.

> Dealers in schools selling hard drugs exist because the cartels have the economies of scale to produce and smuggle opiates in huge quantities, which their adult customers consume in huge quantities and pay (in aggregate) huge amounts for

I don't disagree with this point.

> If that adult demand goes away because they can get their hard drugs legally and safely elsewhere (the Swiss model), it is no longer profitable to peddle fentanyl in junior high bathrooms in exchange for a teen's lunch money

I'm pretty sure people living in Portugal / Switzerland aren't legally buying synthetic opioids like fentanyl, and even if they are - the investment into social programs like substance abuse treatment, education and mental health, dwarfs whatever the US invests in these areas. Decriminalizing / legalizing all drugs or the manufacture and distribution of said drugs, is not going to solve the opioid epidemic in the US.

Drug addiction and death are profitable and there is much incentive for policy makers to preserve the status quo. The lack of social programs and infrastructure is arguably a larger hurdle we'd need to overcome before legalization would bear any fruits. Not every country is a Switzerland or Portugal and you can't just lift and shift and guarantee success. Even the countries that have implemented these types of policies have experienced increases in opioid use: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7...
80x faster than Whisper is an incredible feat. How is Deepgram's transcription accuracy?

Also, have you heard of Conformer-1 by Assembly-AI[1]? It released a few days ago and supposedly scored higher than Whisper on various benchmarks.

[1]: https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/conformer-1/
You wouldn’t do that at scale unless you were basically going to war anyway.

Scenario 1: deploy malware on highly targeted devices

Scenario 2: deploy ddos logic or similar to all devices within a region

Interpret this as ‘what could happen in theory’ as opposed to any TikTok specific accusation. I’m not even sure it is possible to dynamically execute code under Android or iOS.
Who cares, anyone remembers Windows One Core?

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2015/03/02/a-firs...

The difference now is that .NET Native and C++/CX are gone, and WinUI 3.0 / WinAppSDK, still aren't at feature parity level, lack a designer, form validation, maps, and plenty of other stuff.

They burned most of the bridges with hardcore UWP advocates (like myself), so who do they expect will care for Windows 12 besides WinDev themselves?
Make hay while the sun shines, as they say.
also works for bread https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17426743/