skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no source, it doesn't make it illegal to use a VPN. It makes it a legal to use a VPN to bypass the restrictions in the law.

The intended idea is that you can't do business with tick tock and if you do try to use things to bypass that so you can do business with them, you get to face the fines.

It's not intended as a broad generic surveillance bill, and it's not intended as a means with which to ban all VPNs.
Ouch. I just realised I am old.
Funny enough, perhaps the AI threat is what will bring China and US back on friendlier terms. If there is a greater threat than both, they'll work together.

I think signing an AI treaty between the two countries will do a lot for the world.
Creating an account is not free. It costs 1-2 minutes of your time (assuming no errors, I just tried it and never got the phone number confirmation code, in this case I paid with my time and got nothing, this risk also has a price) and that a record will exist between your name and a list of all the images you’ve viewed and liked, millisecond accurate measurements of when you opened the app for and how long etc. for the next century, probably more. I don’t know how to price such a record not existing and different people price it differently but it does have a price.
Am I to understand you blame your father for overdosing 3 times?
New BigQuery Pricing Editions
>sniff traffic

You can just wire up a $10 logic analyzer, that way you can even deal with changing speeds and partial messages (e.g. reset during TX).
Immutable doesn’t mean it cannot be updated. It just means that updates are happening without touching the same copy. This CoW-ish style is what they’re selling.
At some point a standard that tries to cover every possible option becomes a bad standard.
It's a relatively straightforward dichotomy in this instance: either get the most popular consumer option(because then you are getting something exactly as shitty as everyone else), or get something professional music producers are using(because they have sunk in the effort to have a precise, neutral setup that lets them find every error, and definitionally, that means that you aren't getting much of a practical improvement with audio fairy dust - not one that you couldn't achieve with a bit of EQ or "enhancement" DSP).

This kind of dichotomy often occurs throughout tech product categories: sometimes you want the consumer thing that has optimized its defaults to mid-market taste, other times you want an unbiased, configurable professional tool. Rarely do you want a hybrid of both.
I think it’s very region and socioeconomic class dependent. During my four years in the late aughts, at a high school of 1,500 in a wealthy LA suburb, we had one person drown in a bathtub after a seizure, one fell to his death climbing a waterfall, and one died from cardiac arrest playing tennis in the heat of summer. We didn’t have a single fatal overdose despite a significant amount of drug abuse, both illicit and prescription (mountains of amphetamines and benzos especially).

A student overdosing at school would have been nothing short of shocking and would have brought down the entire town on the school
I don't understand why HN allows and abetts the spread of these ludicrous, and frankly dangerous, conspiracy theories.
No, it only applies to entities where China has a controlling interest. If you buy Chinese hardware that doesn’t make your company Chinese.
The author of this paper Prof. Kipping has a good video on the concept. See his YouTube channel Cool Worlds.

To summarise, you put a telescope beyond the orbit of the moon and use the earth's atmosphere as a lens
The company can just delete them anyway, per their policy. What's the court going to do about it? Jail someone? When has a court ever jailed someone in a big corporation for contempt of court?
No, the term "transaction" is defined very broadly in the bill, and includes "use of any information and communications technology product or service."

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686...
I would not use whisper as a good yardstick for English language transcription. I'm not sure what the hubbab is all about but for myself who is not a native English speaker, Whisper is not very impressive. There are engines out there that produce a far better word error rate on my speech than Whisper does.

Maybe it works well with native speakers? But since it's supposed to be so multilingual I hoped that it would work well with my accented speech... maybe that's a wrong conclusion to draw.
> It's the most serious issue facing the country

I disagree. Gun deaths are. Children don't choose to use guns typically. Bullets are forced into them by others.

https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/issue-brief/child-a...
And stop expecting government to fix problems that are inherently cultural. It cannot do so, and in the process only grows in aimless power.
Thank you for the compliments! I’m hoping we succeed and inspire others to choose a similar model.

Your story about the vendor is so commonplace. Paying for software only when it’s used makes so much more sense.
>"No person may engage in any action with intent to evade the provisions of this Act, or any regulation, order, direction, mitigation measure, prohibition, or other authorization or directive issued thereunder."

And which part of the act prevents you from visiting tiktok?
Imagine, Memoji eyes on the front screen.
That could backfire and work against them if a lot of people caught COVID at the convention... which seems likely considering a lot of people just caught COVID at GDC.

Admittedly anecdotal in nature but gamedev twitter has been chock full of "tested positive after GDC, if you were with me get checked" for the past week.
Maybe, but matters of self-esteem should transcend culture. Nobody deserves to suffer unnecessarily because they are literally physically incapable of measuring up to some manipulated version of "beauty", and nobody needs products that cater to it.
I've been sitting here reading this whole thread wondering the same thing.

I don't really know how I would go about it, but I think the only solution is to make people not want to turn to the drugs in the first place.

Make poor people less poor?
Make people feel better about their lives and prospects?

I guess I would spend a heap of money working out what makes people turn to the drugs and try and help them solve those problems some other way.
I'm gonna request more explanations and proof, or at least theoretical path on using Expedia, Zapier, Instacart, Kayak etc. to dominate the world and kill every single human on earth.
But but communists...
Oh man so much this.

We have a brief window where ChatGPT will be clean and useful, before it gets loaded down with ads and bloat. Might as well use it while we can.
I recommend reading it yourself, it is not a very long bill.

It is crystal clear about the penalties for bypassing any “mitigation measures” that the executive branch creates using the bill/law.

So no, just using a VPN will not be illegal.

Using a VPN (or anything else) to access software or services provided by a “foreign adversary” that are deemed illegal to use by the executive branch will be punishable criminally by a fine of up to $1,000,000 and 20 years in jail and civilly by a fine of not more than $250,000.

VPN providers may also find themselves in hot water if an adventurous prosecutor wants to make a case that the VPN provider is “aiding and abetting” simply by providing a service that can be used to circumvent the law.

I would also appreciate a lawyer weighing in on that particular part as I am sure there is a lot of legal precedent involved in determining what counts as “aiding and abetting” in this context.
Not a valid comparison because there is no incentive to dissent. Unlike with nuclear arms or AI, there is an incentive to dissent, because being the only group with access to this tech is an advantage.
"Taking into account BigQuery’s serverless functionality, query performance, and capability improvements, we are increasing the price of the on-demand analysis model by 25% across all regions, starting on July 5, 2023."

To be honest, this seems like a 25% price increase justified by existing features, not new ones. In fact in most cases it seems like you'll be losing account to features. Really not a great look, especially for what is arguably GCP's best product.
A few early explorations on a similar idea:

https://code.sgo.to/2021/07/02/english--.html
https://code.sgo.to/2020/08/31/syntactic-theory.html
https://code.sgo.to/2020/09/16/semantics.html
Right. The theory that the parent came up with does seem like a good idea. However, you can't really expect to have been the first one to come up with this for a problem with as many iq-eyeball-hours as the collatz. Indeed, some googling suggests that this approach of matching powers of 2s and powers of 3s is one existing path for collatz adventurers: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/the-collatz-conjec...

Although I don't understand it, a skim of that Terry Tao post suggests that if the statement about powers of 2 and 3 getting getting farther apart is actually true, it would be a big step towards proving the (weak) collatz.
Is viewing ads in TikTok giving them money? What if I click through and buy the item and they get a cut? What about sending gifts to creators from which they get a cut? What if all done via cryptocurrency? Gift cards? Someone bought a TikTok voucher in another country, gifted to me that I redeemed via VPN?

It also says transactions or any other actions... So, I let myself be tracked by TikTok by using a VPN, am I a criminal?
The dynamics of the offer and potential reauction are interesting.

Since the top bidder was essentially going to pay the 2nd bidders highest price (we can’t know what the top bidders price would have been), it’s very strange that they tried to extend an offer to purchase at the 2nd bidders highest price. I would have expected them to extend at the first increment above the 3rd highest bid, as this would have been the result without the first bidder. (And then presumably they could sue the highest bidder for the difference in damages.)

Doing a reauction will be strange, and it creates a weird kind of arbitrage opportunity. Why would other (legitimate) bidders show up when they already know Mr Gural’s bid will be higher? Perhaps there will be only spiteful bids from competitors to ensure that he doesn’t get a deal. Perhaps it doesn’t matter, as they would presumably be able to sue for damages for any difference here as well.
That's interesting. It surely deserves a study rather than relying on anecdotal evidence.
IANAL but based on the full quote:

>(17) TRANSACTION.—The term “transaction” means any acquisition, importation, transfer, installation, dealing in, or use of any information and communications technology product or service, including ongoing activities such as managed services, data transmission, software updates, repairs, or the provision of data hosting services, or a class of such transactions.

it's pretty obvious from the examples they're talking about B2B transactions, not consumers visiting their site.
Isn’t this bill a bit too broad? They might as well just write “We are the executive branch, we can do anything we want, rule of law does not apply to us”.

It is kinda sad to see such laws from western countries because it discards entire progress humanity have made during the past thousands of years in terms of law and justice. This is some type of regression to cave-men era, one can’t help but wonder how such fall from grace have happened.
They don't suck blood. They don't hide in the shadows. They could be immortal, but that makes them more like the Pyramids. They don't actually bring in knowledge from the past either - they get them from books, much like humanity.

You could argue that they're quietly manipulating us, but if they were, we wouldn't know. They might look and sound a little different, but so do the lizard men.
They should have just stopped at Windows 10.

Maybe even made it such at a license is for 5 years and you'll need to renew at the end of the period if you want updates.

With something like an OS I do not want bold redesigns every other year.

A bold "about the same design" would be very nice.
You're muddling up things. Yes, gas stations sell sketchy 'legal highs', but those are an entirely separate category of drugs from synthetic opiates like fentanyl. 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. 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.
Portlander chiming in here. I think it's almost universally accepted now that decriminalization was a stupid idea - and I myself voted for it at the time. I absolutely would still vote for anything that improved the availability of treatment for addiction, regardless of cost. But I think what we've learned is that every carrot needs a stick. And where there's excess supply, demand will catch up. All of which means, go after supply and possession again until this is under control.
No part does, until TikTok becomes one of the services banned as per the "mitigation" acts defined under this Act.
It's not about dems or repubs it's just that 2 parties can't possibly represent all the diverse groups and agendas in this country and a libertarian option would go a long way to remedying that.

But like you said whether it's on principle or not the reason for his objection is beside the point.
Yep.

Organizations cost quite a bit to run (mostly a mix of staff and marketing), and have different models for funding it. Some are more closed in participation, asking organizations and individuals to pay anywhere from $5k to $100k to participate, while some charge for the specs they produce.

IETF gets 40% of their revenue from meetings, but has managed to figure out how to fund open participation and open specs.
Yes. You’re lucky. They exist, and my first rule of start-ups is “no assholes”.

I’ve encountered true jerks who naturally gravitate towards anger and abuse, and I’ve even worked for a couple of them. It’s quite difficult. When it takes someone energy to keep from getting angry, that’s a dangerous boss to have.

Conversely, what I have encountered more frequently over time is people taking firm refusal to give them what they want (e.g., sign off on a design) as meanness. Firm assertiveness has been conflated with aggression in some contexts. It’s a losing game to be put in an environment with technically weak people where accusations of meanness for holding to organizational standards are given weight. B-players will eventually recognize the crack in the incentive model and get ahead via complaints instead of competence.

There was a point where Jeff Bezos advocated truth-seeking over social cohesion regularly for Amazon, and it resulted in a bruising but brutally effective culture able to attack numerous hard problems effectively.

“Affable” can only get people so far in a productive enterprise, but it’s just no fun to work with a jerk. Jerks and mediocrity are both ways to kill teams.
Nice! I tried something similar where I orally gave a speech, transcribed it and then had ChatGPT turn it into a coherent text. Saved me a bunch of time.
> Addiction is a predictable outcome of inequality and lack of social safety net in the US. If you don't give people any way to solve their problems they'll settle for feeling better about their problems.

Opiate addiction doesn't give a damn about the size of your bank account, your social class, or how loving your family is.

The president's own son has struggled with addiction. Heck go back in history and you'll find the roots of the Opium war in China are tied to the emperor's own son dieing from an opium overdose.

Opiates destroy people at the neural level.

Yes there needs to be medical interventions for addicts. There also needs to be enforcement actions to reduce the supply of the drugs in the first place. Don't just target street dealers either, this crisis started with Perdue and other big pharma players. They shouldn't be able to wash their hands of responsibility simply by writing a big check.
This is not accurate. The bill only applies to companies in which China (or other designated adversary) has a controlling interest. It doesn’t even remotely apply to “everything connected to the internet”. I’m against the bill for vaguely libertarian reasons but the amount of misinformation surrounding this thing is ridiculous.
if they were forced to divest from bytedance would that be satisfactory?
> Voters don't understand how they can be asked to liberalize hard drug use (and even decriminalize dealing) on the one hand, and are asked for billions of dollars for drug addiction treatment on the other

We are increasingly spending more on drug treatment. The current approach has failed and <x> are dead. It's time to change our approach, and a radical change is needed for this massive problem.
If you’re fine with not wishing to explore truth and facts and just accept what is spoon-fed to you, then you’re clearly on the right track
Yeah, I'm not sure why people get so hyped up about Whisper. In production use it's middling at best and there are commercial offerings the handily beat it in both accuracy and speed.

Whisper is mostly an academic toy.
That would be great, but it's hard to see this ever happening in America.
In my experience you stack rank them at the bottom and management lays them off.
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The court can find the company (Google) liable, or direct the Jury to consider any hidden evidence would be adverse to Google. If Google loses a (civil) antitrust case to 38 attorney generals it will cost them 100's of billions.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_37
(A) For Not Obeying a Discovery Order. If a party or a party's officer, director, or managing agent—or a witness designated under Rule 30(b)(6) or 31(a)(4)—fails to obey an order to provide or permit discovery, including an order under Rule 26(f), 35, or 37(a), the court where the action is pending may issue further just orders. They may include the following:

(i) directing that the matters embraced in the order or other designated facts be taken as established for purposes of the action, as the prevailing party claims;

(ii) prohibiting the disobedient party from supporting or opposing designated claims or defenses, or from introducing designated matters in evidence;

(iii) striking pleadings in whole or in part;

(iv) staying further proceedings until the order is obeyed;

(v) dismissing the action or proceeding in whole or in part;

(vi) rendering a default judgment against the disobedient party; or

(vii) treating as contempt of court the failure to obey any order except an order to submit to a physical or mental examination.
That would mean that programmers need to go and start their own companies.
What you describe sounds complex, but for the vertigo part, check out BPPV (benign paroxysmal positional vertigo). If you have seen an ENT, they've probably covered this base, but even though it's the most common cause of vertigo-induced trips to the ER, my ER doc didn't cover it. It was two weeks before I saw an ENT who basically fixed it with the Epley maneuver. "Basically fixed" because I still have some lingering (and annoying) effects that echo some of the other symptoms you describe. BPPV is unique in my experience of medicine in that it has a simple test (Dixie-Hallpike maneuver), and an easy fix.

The other thing that comes to mind is Ménière’s disease, a disease affecting the pressures of the inner ear. It's probably also considered if you've seen an ENT. A friend worked on his Ménière’s with diet (low salt, low glycemic index foods), and diuretics, but what is helping now is allergy shots. His ENT noticed that there was a seasonal component to his symptoms and sent him to an allergist. (The first allergist he went to did testing but found nothing; the next allergist found plenty of reactions and hit on an effective treatment.) Actually, his symptoms sound quite similar to yours. The Mayo clinic page on Ménière’s mentions various treatment modalities, though not allergy treatment.
Because interest rates are now nonzero so they couldn't get their startup funded without a string of successes to point to?
Great video showing the process of learning the technique https://youtu.be/hbWeSHbL-rM
My understanding is that people aren't intentionally buying fentanyl. They're buying "heroin" or "oxycodone" which is really just a tiny bit of fentanyl with something else to make the dose look right.

Since fentanyl is so strong, it's pretty easy to screw up the cutting and people end up dying occasionally.