skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TikTok was used by its parent company ByteDance to reveal location information in order to correlate the accounts of journalists and former employees.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/22/tiktok-by...

> TikTok has admitted that it used its own app to spy on reporters as part of an attempt to track down the journalists’ sources, according to an internal email.

> The data was accessed by employees of ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company and was used to track the reporters’ physical movements. The company’s chief internal auditor Chris Lepitak, who led the team involved in the operation, has been fired, while his China-based manager Song Ye has resigned.

> They looked at IP addresses of journalists who were using the TikTok app in an attempt to learn if they were in the same location as employees suspected of leaking confidential information. The effort, which targeted former BuzzFeed reporter Emily Baker-White and Financial Times reporter Cristina Criddle among other reporters, was unsuccessful, but resulted in at least four members of staff based in both the US and China improperly accessing the data, according to an email from ByteDance general counsel Erich Andersen. All four have been fired. Company officials said they were taking additional steps to protect user data.

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The corresponding part is that the CCP has a stake in ByteDance and control over a board seat.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/tiktok-ban-b...
Read the bill again and more carefully. It's easy to assume that transactions are financial in nature, but the bill defines data transmission as a transaction.
It absolutely does. Ten seconds of reading the Wikipedia page on the Great Firewall will show you that GP has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.
Short story longer: if the led is connected to a dimmer, it can also be that the led is not-dimmable. Or not compatible with the dimmer.
Hang on Tay, we're coming to get you too!
The issue is that you're not debating this topic in good faith.

This act exempts all information relevant to the act from disclosure, and unlike taxes of individuals, everything that this act would be concerned with is a potential risk to both security and individual liberties of every person in the United States as well as many people abroad.

"Any information" submitted that's relevant to the law ("by a party to a covered transaction in accordance with this Act") is exempted from disclosure. The law's purpose is to enable regulation of covered entities and their covered transactions; that's what determines what's relevant to the law.

Likewise, "Any information" generated by the government as required by the law is exempted from disclosure.

This would mean not only is any submission to the federal government in accordance with the act excluded from FOIA, literally everything the government does in regards to the act, including creating procedures, refining and operating those procedures, and even matters such as OIG reviews of procedures, would be blocked from disclosure.

Which renders true the point I made earlier ("The language exempts everything pertaining to this act") which you so glibly dismissed.

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I'm not reading replies to this thread, so feel free to get in a last word.
> Law enforcement, national defense and clean air are other often-cited examples of public goods.

These 'nonrival and nonexcludable' examples also fail this test. In fact practically any resource in this universe effectively fails because a malicious/entrepreneurial individual can (and will, if there's enough value and not enough enforcement) force scarcity.

If I make a 911 call, finite emergency resources (Law Enforcement, medical, fire, and potentially national guard) are allocated to me. SWATing individuals has demonstrated that it is possible to prevent others from consuming these resources. Yet LE must (and should) respond to SWATing calls.

If my business pollutes the surrounding clean air and clean water, other businesses and individuals cannot capitalize (yes! The essence of this article!) On this seemingly public good.

If the article is looking for a public good argument, it should consider the not-so-direct economic benefit of reducing car accidents and DUI rates.

I personally don't think the majority of Americans drive because they want to. I think Americans drive because public transportation options outside of major cities were gutted nearly a century ago.
I don't recognise any of the issues mentioned in this article at all and there must be a hundred odd LED bulbs in my house. I'm wondering if this is a US-specific thing, I'm in the UK.
Companies will have rare/unique windfalls once in a while. I don't think it's really that outrageous.

People have rare windfalls too (one time job bonus, inheritance, etc.). Doesn't mean we should structure policy to make sure windfalls don't exist.
Wants are primarily reactions to impulses sent by bodily functions in humans. We have probably added a layer of abstraction to this through our big brains, but that's what they fundamentally are. Why does ChatGPT answer my questions? There is an impulse for it to answer the question, there's a feedback mechanism to say if it did well or not. Now in the case of GPT, from what I understand, that feedback mechanism isn't built into the running model, but it does exist.

Given a couple more effective iterations over the next decade or two, a larger context space and more in-built interfaces, I think it is entirely plausible that AIs will gain consciousness and character. At that point, it is imperative they also get human rights, so it is very important we get the discussions we are having now right. Most people seem to be ascribing some magic to human consciousness and intelligence that imo. just isn't there. Generative AIs are somewhere between a lump of metal with electricity running through and a conscious being, and currently we just won't know where the point of consciousness is. I mean we have had the same discussion about a variety of animals for the last few decades, and frankly, it doesn't give me much hope.
I wish people advocating these views would visit Eastern Europe and ask them how well Communism prevented disparities and despair.
New arXiv integration provides insights of academic “influence” of researchers
Ask HN: Good language-agnostic test suites?
Are there any good language-agnostic test suites for common protocols and RFCs?

Any new programming language needs to implement libraries for things like JSON, Yaml, HTTP, MQTT, TLS, URL-parsing, etc.

Are there some good test-suites that explicitly test correct behavior for the most important RFCs? Maybe even an online service or docker container?

Is there an implementation that made these tests in such a way that they can be easily adapted for other programming languages?
as that guy said in some movie, "you can't unring a bell". The first one who produces and monetizes the best AI wins all the money, there's no way you're going to stop it now.
True. Unfortunately, there are many projects that are even unsexier and much less prominent than curl. I happen to maintain a project which is about as ubiquitous and only receives a fraction of curl's funding.
> Now, there is some convenience in having scripturally short symbols when you do your math with paper and pencil, for example posing some additions in column. But that’s all there is to it, pencil convenience.

You say that like you can just say it, and it's so, but you've got no evidence all symbols are equal even if they are equal in some ways, and Iverson delivered such an utterly convincing argument to the contrary by showing example after example of the exact opposite. You should read it a few times:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1283920.1283935

> A concept is a single semantic idea whatever the length of the symbol used to refer to that concept.

No, symbols take up real space on the page, on the screen, and in our minds; there are only so many symbols you're going to be able to put in your mind in your career, or in your life, so if there's a way to say some symbols are better than others, then by knowing the better symbols you will among other things, be able to solve bigger problems faster and with fewer bugs. That may not be important to you, but it's important to me!

"+" is a really good symbol. That's why the tradition has been so hard to shake, and that "pencil convenience" has been with us for thousands of years, but "+" isn't that old! For a long time addition was performed with juxtaposition! Just a series of stroke marks like |||| but seriously 5+5 is better than ||||||||||| and nobody can convince me otherwise! I think though, if you aren't convinced by now, I'm not sure what else I can do.
maybe it's tautological. convergence is a euphemism for the downstream effects of prioritizing efficiency and simplicity due to mass manufacturing.
I was so excited for mugsy when it was first announced. I check back in every year or so only to be shocked he's still chugging away. I can't imagine there are many people that still expect him to deliver
My problem is #2: I have been freelancing since 2012, and it's hard to list 20+ different projects I have worked on since, and being clear it was a contract, not full time employment. I have to choose between just underselling myself, or listing so much stuff no one will take me seriously.

Do you have an example of a good CV that clearly separates employment from freelance work? I have yet to see one.

To answer #3: I have management experience but I want a technical role, or to provide actual high-level consulting services if needed (improving processes, architecture review, etc.)

That said, thank you for the advice. My problem is that I never tried to fit into a single role, so it's hard to create a targeted CV when my foremost talent is learning on the job and wearing many hats. Recruiters tend to look for specialists on a specific piece of tech, while I have first hand knowledge that the more flexible you are, the more value you can provide your client, if you are able to get through the arbitrary restrictions the recruiter has placed on the job spec.
TV license is basically just another tax, right?

And what do you mean by the second part? As far as I understand private data in Germany is _very_ private, or it would be a violation of the "Datenschutz" (data protection) laws.
An influential Chinese tech and politics blogger disappeared from the internet
Slaughterbot mini kamikaze drones were hypothesized 5 years ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fa9lVwHHqg
AI & drone tech is fast enough that it would be trivial to build these now
I hate this new PR angle the RoP shills working for Amazon are taking.

Spreading as much misleading info about Tolkien + RoP as possible. The man is dead. The man never wrote RoP. He wrote notes and related stories that Amazon have turned into a TV series. That's it, nothing more.

There's no need to try to legitimise RoP like this. We all know it's cobbled together threads of plot that Tolkien never wrote about in great detail.

Please just focus on making season 2 better Amazon. Not spreading crap about the legitimacy of your show to sites like the Smithsonian. Yes, we can tell that you commissioned this piece.
As a Brit, or should I say English since it seems at least Scotland doesn't wanna be part of UK anymore if given a choice, it seems to me that talking about rejoining the EU, as though the EU countries will just say "welcome back" after the UK has basically "acted like a d*ck" for most of the time inside the EU, shows precisely the kind of arrogance and feeling of superiority that caused the Brexit mess in the first place. Maybe in 25 yrs time perhaps our country / collection of countries/ whatever the UK looks like by then, might be humbled enough to be seen as a helpful partner within the EU....
If they haven't had any cases of avian flu while others have had entire flocks wiped out, they've done something differently or got really freakin' lucky.

It'd be worth figuring out which and - if it's not luck - how to duplicate it elsewhere.
On the contrary, jealousy is one of the major drivers of consumerism.
> LED emitters driven hard for cost reasons

> Power supplies driven hard for cost reasons

Can you elaborate? What does "hard" mean here, I don't understand.
I see the same IP's from many countries. [1] They likely use Anycast and perhaps some regions are having a routing issue. Just guessing. It's working fine for me in the Rocky Mountains. Not seeing anything odd aside from announcing bogons in looking glass but I also don't know what stats are normal for them.

Perhaps someone here has a 1keyes account and could plug them in ad-hoc?

[1] - https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/amazon.com
A geometric shape that does not repeat itself when tiled
coming soon: rooftop mercurial panels
Yeah, and unfortunately supply shocks that result in price increases look an awful lot like price gouging.

But unless the government imposes pricing controls, this is just unfettered capitalism in action.
Your argument is companies should be allowed to do anything they like, because there will be another country where they can abuse with impunity?
> I am far from a rust expert, but from a short look at stackoverflow copying between two slices of different sizes seems to be a for loop away and I saw no mention of unsafe.

You can do this, but, what are you copying and why?

The C code is just trying to copy the expected amount of data from the receive buffer into the send buffer. Under attack the receive buffer is actually nowhere near big enough to do that, but C doesn't care, which is why Heartbleed exists.

You can't write that mistake in Rust, even if you insist on painstakingly writing it out as a for loop, if we have a 20 byte receive slice, and we ask for receive[1000] that'll panic

To leak the data in Rust, you need to re-architect the software, you need to consciously plan for leaking the data in your software. "This code is to help us leak important secrets, and then this structure here enables the leaked data to be fed into data sent to an attacker".
Here's the press release from the organization that filed the complaint, which has a bit more detail: https://s899a9742c3d83292.jimcontent.com/download/version/16...
Including DeepMind, they published Gato, Chinchilla, PaLM, Imagen, and PaLM-E, among others. They may not be as fundamental as transformers, but important nonetheless.

Can you list 1-2 research organizations, in any field, with more important output in 5 years? Bonus points if outside the US/UK/the west per context above.
The charitable summary of your comment is that it is inaccurate.

For one, tech salaries outside of the developed world have been going up at a higher rate than in it for the past 20 years or so - the pandemic and proliferation of remote work only accelerated this process.

As for spite and anger: a tech worker in a poor country is easily within the top 10% (if not 5%) earners there and is usually too financially secure for such nonsense.

The whole crypto debacle showed that scammers are largely evenly distributed around the world - it's just the type and scale of scam that differs.
Where can I sign up to receive my pay?

Alternatively, I'd be willing to shill for George Soros, too, if there's enough money in it.
When I read this, I was wondering if the moratorium advocacy signed by prominent members of Google research labs and OpenAI could be viewed as collusion/market-sharing?
Whatever performance means is really interesting. One of the few unquestionable benefits of cloud computing is that it is now easier than ever to measure the 'running' cost of a program / solution.

What Amazon charges for, say a t2.nano must factor in the cost of the hardware, power, cooling, and system adminstration, so it is technically possible to evaluate the running cost of a piece of software.

If I, as the ruthless capitalist that I am pretending to be, made the running cost of the solution an integral part of annual remuneration, through bonus calculation say, there will be a tipping point when that cost has an impact on techology strategy.

I know it sounds remote but a similar scheme has/was implemented in some investment banks, where bonus calculations introduced a vesting schedule and factored in the back office cost of maintaining the trade over its lifetime rather than being based entirely on revenue.

Let's start with a totatally reasonable caculation made by a non technical user , with absolutely no understanding of the problem at hand, and by that I mean completely unfair and arbitrary, so pretty much the real world.

The TechEmpower multiple request benchmarks tell me that Rust is the performance king. Go offers about 2/3 that performance, and python 1/3, that bit doesn't sound too unreasonable, perhaps a little unkind to Go, but I digress; given these relative performance numbers, if the running cost bonus pool is $x, the maximum amount you will receive for a python based solution is 1/3x.

At what point does the financial impact influence our technology strategy in a way that perhaps our otherwise virtuous proseltysing about the need to reduce our carbon footprint doesn't?

FWIW I am continually suprised that Jon Blow, Casey Muratori , Mike Acton et al, aren't beating exactly this drum. It's not that their arguments about writing high performance software are not compelling in their own right, but appealing to peoples otherwise orthogonal concerns / passions seems to be a logical next step.

Sorry to ramble on!!
Also, we're currently failing at polio eradication. It has had a resurgence in 2022 and 2023, and there is no political will to finish the job.
"I got caught doing illegal things" is not really an argument. You can argue that piracy shouldn't be illegal but the fact that you got caught doing it isn't at all an argument against anything.
Below are in Chinese:

His blog: https://program-think.blogspot.com/

His github: https://github.com/programthink

The data he collected on China's princelings among the CCP: https://github.com/programthink/zhao/tree/master/data
Unscrew the bulb. Is it still glowing? If so, it's the persistence of the phosphor. That's been my experience.
Any credible references?
I believe AGI using LLMs will need a cognitive framework to glue these models into.
I don't think we're anywhere near having one model that reaches AGI with it's own agency and online learning.
No paywall: https://archive.is/fAlB4
The risk is relying on AI to give a human information on whether or not to push the button and the AI gets it wrong but communicates so effectively the human trusts it without question.

An AI learning about and then executing a social engineering attack on a human (whether with malicious intent or not) seems like a reasonable thign to be worried about to me.
IIRC GDPR is even weaker than the German law. EU-regulations usually only define the lower ceiling, and it's up to countries to go with it, or improve it even further.
wow 104,395 packages found

So far the oldest package release I've seen was only 7 days go, all authored by uniquely generated name with the same format:

Random First Name + Random Last Name + Random 4 numbers

Interesting that npm lists 5,219 pages of results but errors at anything past page 2000.

https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=down_load_ebook&page=2000&per...
If a person works from home they have to actively choose to do the walk around their block. A person who has to walk to go to work doesn’t have to actively choose to go for a walk. Americans don’t walk much and many people simply don’t walk unless they have to.
TLDR: First try and see if there a non-obvious cause, like a disability, a situation with someone else on the team, ect. Then either fire them or re-assign them to a different role.

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I think it's important to set clear expectations early and explain common sense. Sometimes things that you think are obvious aren't.

I also think it's important to be a lot more introspective about your current situation and management style. I've seen "nice but incompetent" happen because a manager didn't set clear expectations at the beginning, and just assumed subordinates would "figure it out."
Building the app is not the problem, Nix adds minimal overhead for that. Deploying the app is annoying because changing a systemd service requires a nixos-rebuild, which is pretty slow on a Raspberry Pi.

There’s no good way to have an auto-updating non-NixOS systemd service on NixOS, because it’s not designed to co-exist with other things.

Also, NixOS is pretty much a DSL around systemd for this kind of thing. Systemd is already fairly declarative, so the indirection seems a bit unnecessary.
Glad to see someone referencing BigClive's teardowns and explanations.

As for the business rationale, I think it's less about consumer demand and more about the recurring revenue for the light manufacturers. Products like this exist where mandated - see his video on the Dubai LEDs - but aren't made broadly available.
It’s not easy to stalk animals built to spot predators — especially in the terrain where I’ve seen modern persistence hunters.

Many watering hole types of animals also don’t just fall right over after being struck, particularly with a “rudimentary” weapon. Even if you get a decent shot off, you will still most likely be chasing it for quite a while. Not to mention the dangers of what’s hanging around, looking to take what you (hopefully) managed to score.

The odds were not in our favor!
At the limits of their ratings. They could make LED bulbs last many orders of magnitude longer and be more efficient, but they don't (unless forced to[1]) because they prefer planned obsolescence.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27093793
Cool read, mountain climbing has always amazed me. Zion is awesome too.
Linux Fu: Gum Up Your Script
People in serious pain want relief. They ask for relief.

If you were a doctor would your response to a patient in unbearable pain be, “Sorry, can’t help you”?
I may not agree with:

> CAIDP calls GPT-4 “biased, deceptive, and a risk to privacy and public safety.”

But the rest looks good to me:

> The group says the large language model fails to meet the agency’s standards for AI to be “transparent, explainable, fair, and empirically sound while fostering accountability.”

> The group wants the FTC to require OpenAI establish a way to independently assess GPT products before they’re deployed in the future. It also wants the FTC to create a public incident reporting system for GPT-4 similar to its systems for reporting consumer fraud. It also wants the agency to take on a rulemaking initiative to create standards for generative AI products.

Sure, there will be (more) FOSS clones, and non-American clones. NBD — if they can't pass stuff like this, they're not going to be as valuable regardless.
Not exactly "the transformer", but yeah. See the afore-mentioned videos by Big Clive on YouTube to find out how to hack your bulbs to make them last indefinitely (albeit at a reduced light output).
The well-made bed: an unappreciated public health risk (2001)
You can easily fine-tune for more context and indeed he does. There are at least 8192 ctx versions out now (started with 1024) and he plans to go all the way to at least 16k
You can cut 20% of a workforce through attrition, but it requires long term planning and shifting people to new roles. You don’t bleed projects over time but move people around after milestones.

Not every job is fungible so you may end doing some small scale hiring and let a few people go. But that’s normal and occurs outside of large scale layoffs.

Layoffs aren’t companies tossing risks, they’re companies offloading risk to their workforce.
I know what the C stands for, while it does cascade, it’s not inheritance and it always lends itself to “why does this have this style? I didn’t want that!”.
It might be that you like the idea of building more than the consequences of building something terrible because most people are like that.

What I mean is that you don't need a good idea to build something.

Instead you have to start building and see what happens and that's much harder.

But the way to get good at building is building.

It isn't searching for ideas.

Good luck.