skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'd be extremely naive to assume that they didn't have a back door, didn't have the ability to 'direct' TikTok to do as they required for pretty much anything, and didn't use it to further whatever their agenda is.

The inverse problem is to think of TT as directly an agent of the CCP, which it is not. TT is a company that wants to make money, that exists in a regime where there is no effective rule of law, meaning the regime can do pretty much as it pleases, when it please, and they do do that, particularly for censorship, content control etc.. But otherwise, the company is left to it's own devices.

Much like if you use Google or FB, you can be assured that the US Gov. will leverage that within the normal constraints of the US, which is to say for local policing warrants and judges, and for narrow issues of national security, well, probably 'anything goes' with respect to non-US citizens, 'almost anything goes' with respect to US citizens, but that ultimately the scope of the more acute stuff will be narrow, and ultimately there will be leakers.

Aka Snowden and Assange sadly get a different form of justice, but at least it's a kind of justice and it's in the public domain. You can speak out against Biden all day long but if you leak sensitive docs, that's probably a line that will get you in trouble.

Finally, we need to start to account for corporate surveillance.
I would have been unsurprised if the US government hadn't already forced them to host with Oracle a year or two ago supposedly to prevent exactly this from happening.

Is Larry Ellison a Chinese spy? He would probably have to either be complicit or criminally negligent to allow this to happen given he was given the contract precisely for this reason.

I'm also reminded of that fake story from the WSJ about American chips being hacked that turned out to be entirely fabricated.

And US insistence that "dumb" 5g aerials already vetted by national security agencies had to be banned (along with kit that was absolutely a legitimate risk) because they could potentially possibly harbor listening devices maybe.
>yeah Objective-C is not memory safe but no seasoned programmer would ever make those mistakes that Swift aims to solve here

Wow, that's a hell of an assertion!
> Does this mean google just deprecated TPUs?

No, it is the 9,163,584th [0] indication that Google likes to pursue multiple solutions in the same space in parallel with different submarkets, risk profiles, expected payoff terms, or other dimensions.

[0] this is a conservative estimate
I just published a blog post showing that that is not what is happening. Companies are plugging LLMs into absolutely anything, including defense/threat intelligence/cybersecurity/legal etc. applications: https://kai-greshake.de/posts/in-escalating-order-of-stupidi...
I don't know why you're trying to argue, but I never said any of those things.
MISC. I like it. Good work.
Almost all new car reviews are paid. It often includes flying reviewers out and paying $500+ a night for their hotel
> That's not an interesting question.

It is very interesting to me to see if the US government is capable of putting the average citizen's welfare above that of heavy hitting investors. It would be a welcome change if they did.

> ByteDance is financially backed by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, SoftBank Group, Sequoia Capital, General Atlantic, and Hillhouse Capital Group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance
I am not convinced. Consider the color red. I can explain the physics of what the color red is, how it travels through space, how my eyes interact with the particular waves, sends signal to my brain and somehow generates what I think of as "red".

But this explanation is meaningless, there's nothing about the waves that explain why "red" is the way it is. For example, why don't I experience red as blue and vice versa? Similarly, consciousness is like that. I can have an explanation down to the quarks and follow the chain of physical phenomena that happen from the big bang up to this point and I will find nothing that would explain why there's "something" at all. In a sense, the fact that the color "red" is the way I perceive it is merely a coincidence. I happen to experience it that way. There's no reason why it has to be that way.

I had similar experience when I learnt that some people don't have inner monologue; it completely blew my understanding of what "is like".
Vouched for and upvoted because I think it's important for readers here to see how much effort goes into creating posts that game the system. I think it's better for these strategies to be known than hidden. It will be interesting to see how tactics like this one evolve as ChatGPT use becomes more widespread.

There's a definite tension between the rule of not accusing other users of being shills and the reality that there are quite a few shills out there. I think it a still good rule, but not because it's never right. Rather, the rule is good because the false accusations do more harm than letting some shilling slip by.
So it's ok to lie in a portion of your work? Where do you draw the line? I draw it when someone starts communicating. Being wrong is ok, being deceitful isn't.
Probably a good read. It is unfortunate that the Cold War era archives are still mostly sealed. There was some good progress in opening the Soviet archives, but all efforts have obviously now been halted for decades to come.
Considering every single Android phone "uses" AOSP, I have a hard time taking this article seriously as more than simply fear mongering for Trend Micro.

Yes, many low-end cheap devices come with malware and should be used with caution, but 400 extra "apps"? I'd love to see the data, cause I think not.
Phoenixonrails.com
First thing I do when configuring a browser is disabling search in the url bar and activating the dedicated search bar.

Not only it is less ambiguous but I don't want google/duckduckgo or whichever search engine I am using all the domains, url and possibly credentials I am using and I am pretty sure I will do a typo once in a while.

It should be a best practice in any business entity yet I haven't seen any company enforcing this. Apparently everybody is fine leaking internal stuff.
Ultimately these aren't tech businesses, it (should be) a pretty low margin commodity business of basically taxi dispatch and if we had functional cities most of that wouldn't be needed because of public transportation.
There's hype and then there's overhype. We are clearly in the overhype category for LLMs, but there's absolutely no doubt they are going to change things.
I've used countless languages professionally, but I only ever fell in love with Objective-C. Protocol Oriented Programming is sorely underutilized outside of it. And the subtle difference between message passing and method calling is an abstraction that totally changes how you think about building things in an object oriented environment for the better. There's nothing else I've found which has that amount of low level power (with the ability to drop into C at any time), while still having a world class, well documented OOP framework (NS) on top of it. And ARC is the perfect middle ground between manual maloc and a traditional mark/sweep GC. The power and ergnomics of that language were probably almost single handedly responsible for the early success of the App Store.
Those are very dodgy numbers. Created by one company from patchy and suspicious data, and then just SWAGging the numbers for most of the countries. No peer review. Source data and code both unavailable. And even they say their numbers are "based on the view that wealth inequality is likely to be highly correlated with income inequality", so I think the numbers I used are the better ones for this case.
(Yes, I acknowledge that this stuff is hard, and that a lot of effort is going into it.)

It feels like HN moderation is mostly focused on getting the comments interesting, not about getting the stories interesting.

HN needs to step up its game here, IMO. There's way too much gamed crap reaching the front page. It seems especially bad during European office hours when the Californians are asleep.
Second that, is amazing.
> the laziness of most western governments in understanding if this was a threat or not

I think USA recognized the threat very early on. It's been a hot-button topic for several years. Remember when the Trump administration tried to force a sale of ByteDance's USA operations to Microsoft? And even now the apps and services are blocked on US government devices and networks. And even at a lot of public universities. The concern is there. I don't think it's laziness.
That's perfect!

The electrical metaphor is a powerful one, as evidenced that it effortlessly describes a sister of the OP problem, "Object-Relational Impedance Mismatch". Looking at the most compact expression of the problem - the electrical one, i.e. math - you start to wonder if the root cause of all these is scale(observer) vs speed vs signal.

Could it be expressed as a logical abstraction to this family of phenomenon: impedance matching; object-relational impedance; business system vs ERP?

For every "reference frame" (electrical, mechanical, software, database, system) an organization node (single developer, team, organization) might be in, there would be a sort of minimum beyond which no unit is discernible. As this unit grows, the risk of "impedance mismatch" grows, even if signal and velocity remain static. If signal and velocity ALSO grow, the probability of mismatch rapidly becomes 100%. Unlike in electronics, the actual physical size of the "carrier wave" is getting bigger[1].

Which, honestly, ok, this all sounds pretty damn obvious. Maybe that's why this is a solved problem in EE, but it's a forty-year-clusterpoop in ERP world. Could it be that the root cause, then, is nontechnical leadership? A PoliSci MS / MBA won't - or can't - see that larger systems necessarily have different signalling / flow, but they "think they can pull this off" because "airplanes and lawnmowers are basically the same thing" and "our culture is always our first product". Blop. Fail. Repeat for two generations, and here we all are.

[1] Which, hmmph, ok, that can happen in some specialized setups. But that's outside this sandbox.
>Does this mean Google is giving up on TPUs?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01433 from April 4 of this year.

> I wonder why they didn't try to polish the rough edges with Pytorch, et al.

It's always funny to me when people have this blindspot - because TPUs aren't for you, they're for the ads org. Neither are PyTorch nor TF for that matter. They're more than happy to get external bug fixers but trust me those individual teams dgaf about external customers. They're not in the least bit community driven projects.
Why not? I believe we are this close: >< to an AGI, and chatGPT will turn into an AGI soon.

It probably should rely on its neurons less, and use symbolic reasoning more. That, and learn and grow, either maintain a fact database, or retrain its neurons or add more neurons for new facts.
Fun fact: Asrock was a subsidiary* of ASUS, and its purpose was to specifically produce cheap but worse motherboards.

(Just a random fun fact, not implying its product quality now)

*EDIT: I mean ASUS funded it and owned it by the time. I'm not sure if "subsidiary" is the correct legal term here.
This isn’t a viable option because a) it forces a specific editor on users and b) it’s buying into Microsoft’s proprietary ecosystem (tracking, plugins, etc.).
Don't ban it, just force the sale of US/European or non-Chinese division to an outside party and that's that.

There's actually not that much economic downside. Having TT merged with Bytedance is not a big economic bonus.

I can't believe that this was not done ages ago.

There is hardly a loser here - it's just a 'required fork' of a business, everyone will be fine.

We do this all the time with 'important' things, for a social media app, nothing will skip a beat, the kids can keep their funny songs.
Sorry in advance for the grumpy response, but I hate articles like this and I detest the manipulation of an organic voting mechanism for self-promotion.

I know this is the Internet we have to live with, but this kind of stuff just makes it a worse place to be.
Isn't that the idea? The ride-share co distinguishes itself by offering (some) driverless rides, and the self-driving company can say it has real passengers. Synergy!
not really. this is actually a textbook
It's better to focus on the content than the medium (pun intended, as usually this kind of comment are usually when people post something on medium, as if they didn't have another copy of their post backed-up somewhere else.)

But I'll bite: What's wrong exactly with using Github's markdown renderer?

This is a plain markdown file, the author could host it on S3 and it'd look like:

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/evadne/c9aeca424d30f024ba...

There are a ton of markdown renderers, author could write one in a few hours for the feature used (#, ##, ###, >, and unordered lists), or even better, paste the thing in one of the many markdown-to-html tools (https://markdowntohtml.com/).

This is not like the author used some proprietary syntax, that only displays on Github.
Ah. I had guessed as much, but figured that was an awful assumption to apply to someone. Now, looking at their post history, I see they also advocate for the idea that similar groups of people are less intelligent based on their skin color.

Truly disappointing.
Yeah, but the "expected similarity" (the expected value of the degree of similarity) for consciousness should still be high. That is, there are in expectation more people that are very similar to me than people that are very dissimilar.

There is a related Bayesian argument: You draw one ball from an urn with an unknown number of black and white balls. The drawn ball is black. This is some evidence that most balls are black, because otherwise it would have been less likely that you have drawn the black ball earlier.
Ask HN: How to do Jira and status reporting well as a first time manager?
A while back I asked a question here about how to prepare for becoming a 1st time manager.^1 There were a couple of great answers including a link to Tales from a Red Had quality engineering manager^2 (that I still reference) and a ream of information^3 I’m still taking in.

Well now I am a manager.Things are going well so far, but two things I’m really struggling with are managing Jira and status reporting.

I know that status reporting is frowned upon in most enlightened circles regarding management but not doing it is not an option. Jira, and doing agile well, and managing Kanban boards are tractable problems but I feel completely out of my depth here most days. Any advice for doing both of these well?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31708620
2. https://thenewstack.io/tales-from-a-red-hat-quality-engineering-manager/
3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31710673
Thank heavens the person who bought that domain is Chaotic Good.
And that's Erdogan saying that. Wouldn't be surprised if his "if" is supported by behind the scenes fuckery.
I updated my motherboard with a latest bios version and any os i tried just crashed. All sorts of weird errors. Reverted and all worked fine (fine for an asus board means that it sometimes doesn’t post). I’d stay away from their motherboards.
The version of this heard was that if Marty from Back To The Future happened today he would go back to the 90's.

The 90's.
Most of those apps aren't user launchable from launcher apps. And since most people don't really understand that there are more apps in the Android phones that the ones you can see in the launcher, they might not see that there is something wrong.
Presumably politicians execute the collective will of the people. Otherwise it wouldn't be a democracy. Of course there is some wiggle-room for corruption, but in a decent system that's limited in those areas people care about.

Right now, a lot of the political apathy can feed off the fact that the average voter is pretty old in most Western countries, so climate change will have limited impact on them. So maybe motivating these voters is the way to go.
looking at the submission history for their domain... well, not that consistent and one of their accounts seems to be automatically killed by the spam filter. :D But I guess this confirms the blogspammy feeling I got from them sometimes.
Asrock was great 10 years ago, so if they are even better now, then that's great.
According to Linus Tech Tips, the disclaimer was unintentional, they intend to honor the warranty, and they're working on removing the disclaimer.
Perfect C programmers strike again. Good thing they’re around and memory safety is never a problem thanks to their seasoned work.
Code, by Petzold.

Not exactly eye-opening, I sort of knew most of the content, but I don't remember ever having such joy while reading a technical book. Before or since.

I read the whole thing in a holiday (it's a big book, 500 pages or more IIRC), and I am a terrible reader. I was at a place with no internet, so that surely helped a lot.
> A sentence that says Google are going all in on nVidea GPUs for AI doesn't need to mention TPUs to convey information about their future either

Where are you reading that Google is going “all in” on nVidia GPUs? I don’t see that in the linked article at all.

These are clearly targeted at their cloud customers who have workloads tailored to GPUs. They’re supplying demand, as cloud providers do.

Companies can do more than thing at a time.
I'll add Illusion[1] to the list of games I've played which use perception. Players order cards by how much area they have of a particular color. However, the designs on the cards make this anything but easy. It's a fun game as it gets increasingly challenging to perceive increasingly subtle differences between cards.

1. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/244995/illusion
I'm just wondering, given that everyone and their uncle want to build apps on top of LLM, what if a "rebellion" group targets those apps using prompt injection?

They don't want to steal data or kill people (if they do, it's collateral). They just want to make people/gov't distrust LLMs/AI, thus putting a brake on this AI arms race.

Not implying anything.
have you ever had a look at any Objective-C codebase?

Objective-C is a high-level language and there usually is no memory manipulation. just because the possibility exists (via dropping down to the C part of it) doesn't mean it is done. ARC does memory management for you and there hasn't been the need for manual memory management in ages. even that was pretty hassle-free.

i can count the memory bugs i have seen our Objective-C projects in the past 10 years on one hand.

> entire history of memory safety related bugs and security issues

you are talking about C and C++, not Obj-C
Write or build anything meta Hacker News...

But seriously, create good, intellectually interesting content that people will upvote.
You do understand that this drama is for enabling them to get more views? Dude literally has two side by side mountains of free asus gear and is crying. The white motherboard, he doesn't say he bought it, he says he "requested" it and goes on to cry that his request for free shit wasn't handled properly. I ended up blocking his channel because sensationalist BS on youtube needs to die.
Nope. It just means that Erdogan knows that the outcome will be in his favor.
> Yes, because we all know that humans care so much about the suffering of others: from fellow humans dying right now pointless deaths (poverty, aberrant laws, malevolent leaders, etc.) to the billions [1] of animals we are killing each year for food (I still eat meat, no innocence here).

Humans pulled off a pretty impressive emulation of caring during COVID ("Eeeeevery life maaaaatters!!!"), I wonder if we paid more attention to details like this, might it occur to us that there are exploits in consciousness that we could use on ourselves with conscious intentionality to make the world a better place?
The fact multi-axis voting has not taken off really has made the internet a worse place.
Im more curious what tiktok data amouts to and how it could be used by CCP. I’ve heard of bans of Tiktok use by politicians and army bases and such. Without sensitive location data to some specific users but solely the young sharing memes, I wounder how CCP could use that data… Not a Tiktok user myself, if anyone could illuminate me on this it’s be great. For example does tiktok have direct messages from users to users that could be spied on? My naive assumption is that Tiktok is a meme sharing platform and timesink
I came here to say the same. I moved here in 2003 and I can only think of one week in one summer (2009? 2010?) where an AC was critical.

This has completely changed in the last 6-7 years to the point now where I can't imagine not having an air conditioner here anymore.
I mean, Lexis-Nexis just made their own LLM and trained it with their database. This isn't even about OpenAI anymore. Lexis-Nexis is well-known to legal firms, I'd wager and they have well-established guidelines for what client information can be processed.

https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lexis-plus-ai.page
So, in other words, the signal they get from it is around 70% of the noise, but it's ok because you can indeed do that with good enough statistics?

They better have a flawless methodology, because any tiny problem is enough to ruin their analysis. And well, just flagging almost any paper not from the EU or US as fraud doesn't usually come together with a flawless methodology.
A context menu operation will be platform-specific, and I don't think you mentioned your platform(s). On MacOS, I used to use https://earthlingsoft.net/UnicodeChecker/ (which also does HTML entities).

If you're OK with a command line tool, I just finished updating and finally publishing a Python script I wrote for that purpose around 15 years ago: https://pypi.org/project/unicode-name-inquiry/ Lots of options, but default usage is, for example:

$ uni ≥
≥ U+2265 GREATER-THAN OR EQUAL TO

(It doesn't currently do the string-of-symbols case, because it tries to interpret strings as some other character identifier, e.g. `uni tilde` or `uni 8805`, but that sounds like a reasonable option to add.)

Typically, people just search for the character on the web and land on one of the many ‘monetized code charts’.
This is also a very pertinent point.

Side note: Outlook automatically converting addresses into Bing Maps links is quite frustrating when you copy+paste dozens of addresses a day for work.
Is the term “big 4” for motherboard manufacturers commonly used to refer to ASRock, Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI, like it is for the big 4 accounting firms?
For someone completely new to development Dockyard academy course resources [0] are open source and an excellent showcase for livebook.

For an experienced dev wanting to pick up Elixir I would suggest picking up Elixir in Action [1]. The third edition is currently in MEAP. Much more concise and great discussion of some Erlang/OTP internals too.

[0] https://github.com/DockYard-Academy/curriculum

[1] https://www.manning.com/books/elixir-in-action-third-edition
Human or AI generated, it's clearly SEO optimized. I think that's the real problem.
> Regardless, verbosity's cost is heavier while reading than writing (as you say, due to autocomplete).

can you elaborate? the verbosity is good while reading, because you know what it does even if you don't know the API in your sleep. how could there be a verbosity cost while reading?