skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. My brother-in-law teaches in Bologna and has just been affected by this. He was literally just telling me about it 30 mins before I saw this here! The algo didn't match his first preference, then ditched him for subsequent matches.

The real kicker is that this article is from April and refers to the mess last year. Despite all the havoc, they proceeded to use it again, with predictable results.
Again, you're looking at this from the person with an ad. That's not who I'm saying they are relevant. The relevancy is solely on the ad companies, the Googs, Meta, etc of the world.
There aren't any payment apps in the US from friendly countries either. I think payments are a strategic industry, or at least one where the public doesn't benefit from having a Visa or Paypal take a cut of everything. As publicly funded infrastructure like interbank transfers gain greater adoption, I can see European governments discouraging use of American processors (Visa, MC) unless absolutely necessary.
Meh, it's an interesting exploit for sure (the USB key simulating Enter key being pressed every 15ms is cute).

But IMO unless you run a very hardened setup, protecting against evil maid attacks (wherein the attacker has physical access to your machine in its entirety) is really hard, and possibly always will be. In a hardened setup you lock down the emergency initrd shell - either it's not allowed at all, or it uses a password which hopefully is a little more secure against an attacker pressing the Enter key a lot ;)

The real eye opener for me is what Ventoy can do. You can plug it into a computer with Secure Boot enabled, and it will give you a nice user-friendly way to just ... completely and trivially bypass Secure Boot protection. Yes, really: https://www.ventoy.net/en/doc_secure.html

It won't work for every mobo/firmware combo. It worked first try for me on some used Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q I bought on eBay, though. Even with the latest June 2023 BIOS installed.

Ventoy does this by using a known exploit in a GRUB shim that is signed with the official Microsoft certs (that ones that are embedded in virtually every mobo sold with Secure Boot support), in order to pop the KeyEnroll UEFI application and then enroll its own keys in there. Or something like that.

Sure, M$ put out a windows update ages ago that updates the DBX to prevent this particular signed shim with known vulnerabilities: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5012170-security... ... but who knows how many more are out there in the wild?

Once you've pwned Secure Boot (and I'm making the case here that any script kiddy can do this on a vast majority of commonly available/used mobos, let alone a professional cybercrime gang/local LE division or, god-forbid, 3 letter agency), then you can simply pop in your favourite (Arch, obviously) Linux live USB and `cryptsetup open` your favourite encrypted drive in seconds.

For unattended machines, especially if you've already bothered to stick a Clevis in there, you really ought to blend your TPM ping with a SSS (min 2) one-two combo-punch of a Tang pin.

But again, if the attacker is literally sitting at your desk typing in your computer connected to your trusted networks and such, you're always gonna be pretty screwed.
So are you advocating for not voting? Exclusively using Tor and ProtonMail? Mass civil disobedience? Overthrow of government?

Or becoming a lawyer and filing suit against police departments and other government agencies? Or financially supporting those lawyers?
The TIA structured cabling standard assumes patch(5m)+run(90m)+patch(5m):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNa_IdfivKs&t=11m48s

* https://www.truecable.com/blogs/cable-academy/maximum-ethern...

With the ISO standard the length is strictly informative, and the length of a cable/run doesn't matter as long as the signal characteristics are good:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNa_IdfivKs&t=12m32s
I don’t know how people can be so absolutely shocked that their public posts online could be used by anybody for basically any purpose.

If you want to keep your thoughts private, then maybe don’t post them publicly?

If WhatsApp or another private messaging app started doing this, I’d be right there with the people calling that absolutely unacceptable.

But I’m not surprised at all that Twitter is doing this, and I don’t know how anybody even remotely tech savvy could be.
Anomalies like civilian collateral damage, friendly fire, excessive costs, or environmental problems surrounding military bases?

No, some shit about UFOs. "Hey look, something shiny!"
The French do love a good riot but don't forget that the George Floyd protests just a few years ago were the largest in US history - during pandemic lockdowns, no less. They devolved into something resembling riots in only a few cities but "extra-high shrug" is hardly how I'd describe that series of events or the other smaller protests since. The Minneapolis ones only wrapped up in May of this year after the criminal cases were resolved.

I think with US suburban sprawl it's just a lot easier to ignore what's going on in the cities.
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Voting is at best a harm reduction tactic. But as I said for limiting state powers specifically, it's usually not even that.
(1) Twitter's data is accurately timestamped, (2) there's new data constantly flowing in talking about recent events. There's no other source like that in English other than Reddit.

AFAIU neither of those are relevant to GPT-like architectures but it's not inconceivable to think there might be a model architecture in the future that takes advantage of those. Purely from a information theoretic POV, there's non-zero bits of information in the timestamp and relative ordering of tweets.
Everyone including ARM already has an architectural license for RISC-V. Bad mouth away!
So they can just change the ToS to say "Your full bank account balance belongs to Twitter after YYYY-MM-DD" ?
This reminds me of when Google Shopping (remember that?) started returning zero results for any search containing the substring "gun", so "hot glue gun" or "gundam figurine" would return nothing.
I interpret this as more of a call to greater action, lest people thinking boycotting Twitter is going to address this problem, while happily continuing their use of instagram, google search, tiktok et al.
Or Volkov Commander.
Ah, interesting, I may be wrong then. I remember the George Floyd protests, but didn't know of any more recent.
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> I, too, grew up in this part of the world—my hometown in the Sichuan lowland was only a day’s drive away. But I was naive enough to think that training on an elliptical machine was adequate preparation to hunt caterpillar fungus in person

Yeah hiking up in those mountains really sneaks up on you. I work in agriculture scouting fields and so I’m reasonably capable of all day long activity in adverse conditions carrying light equipment.

I started off full throttle “it’s just normal walking on gravel except up a bit”, only to find there’s an invisible wall you cross passing a certain elevation where suddenly exhaustion hits and taking single steps is a big drain. It was actually kind of funny. It’s the kind of sudden exhaustion you get when trying to walk over grown soybeans, but with nothing in the way.
You are correct on both points.
I think this looks clumsy, obvious, and doesn't seem to be well coordinated with other government agencies
Reminds me of what nissan.com used to do: https://web.archive.org/web/20170120210929/http://www.nissan...
Twitter has an office in Ireland and is most definitely regulated under GDPR.
I don't see any discussion of threat vectors on that page, but Clevis clearly fails to mitigate the threat vector you describe.
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> Trying to do that is a game of whack-a-mole. At some point you decide to enforce a boundary that's far away from the boundary you really want to enforce because it is easier.

They are already doing it with myriad other combinations of search terms. If your hypothesis was correct, you would think they would be censoring the search string "January 6th 2021", yet even it has suggested completions. "July 4th, 1776" is a much more historically important date than that, and it has none.
Clearly can't work.

That's totally why the ozone layer is entirely gone now.

Oh wait.
So what actual actions do you advocate for ordinary citizens to take?
Yup. To be clear, that's with the free version though.

If you pay, corporate versions of Google Workspace won't train on your data. That's very much by design, since companies don't want anything internal ever being exposed.

But with the free version, that's part of what you're "paying" for it to remain free.
Expense depends upon the amount of auditing done in response and auditing time can get very expensive fast if you go deep enough. Especially when you go combinatorial with interactions. There also isn't a neat threshold of when it starts to become "overkill". If it was for knocking a hole in a non-structural wall they can safely call it overkill somewhere between "replacing the entire wall" and "replacing the entire building".
> There's plenty of places where you can pay a nominal free to have your data 100% controlled by you alone.

Do you happen to have a list handy? If I had to do this today the only clear way would be a personal cloud setup.
> I've seen how the US motivates itself to war (e.g. the invasion of Iraq) and it is clumsy, obvious and with lots of infighting.

It somehow still works though.
For those who don't know many knots, I recommend learning the bowline if you could only choose one. It's called the "king of knots" for a reason - it's highly reliable and won't fail under load when lesser knots would.

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There's a way of tying it one-handed as well, which can be useful in rescue scenarios (i.e. you are a hiker who fell into a ravine, and someone lowers a rope to you. Even if one arm is broken/disabled you could tie a bowline around your waist with your other arm)

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Yes that's the explanation according to the article. But that seems sketchy. With such an algorithm the pool of potential candidates would quickly converge to 0. So I doubt the algorithm exactly does this.
All situational. But I'm sure Pauling is laughing in his grave.

See https://www.cancer.gov/research/key-initiatives/ras/ras-cent... and specifically Mark Levine's pioneering work https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15068981/ which adds to this debate.
>I am not an EU citizen or resident,
Resident is enough.
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Isn't that a large ornament of a bird right on top of that house?

I'd argue that scene has _many_ design elements that are there only the sake of aesthetics. Whether you consider them ornamentation or not I guess depends on your perspective, but if you look closely you'll see lots of shapes and textures that would have required significant effort purely to add beauty. Japanese aesthetics also tend to value the uniqueness of hand crafted objects, and architecture that is built with care by a skilled tradesperson.

Whereas Bauhaus and much of modernism in general were often about stripping all non-essential design elements away, whether ornamentation or otherwise. Essentially: the minimum manufacturing effort to produce a building that meets the functional requirements, ideally in such a way that can be mass manufactured. The end result of a lot of Bauhaus designs isn't particularly visually minimalist. Indeed, there are often a lot of contrasting shapes and colours and often lack of symmetry.

Both are a form of minimalism, but very different in philosophy.
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That's how we did it at my first gig with PHP and Drupal. I'm not going to say it was great or even particularly good, but given our work was split across different modules, you could easily have multiple people either uploading changes over FTP or doing some quick hacks over SSH. After all, you only needed to copy over your changes and not re-deploy the entire project. The server was a little Dell box sat under the desk of the 'CTO' in his office.

There were some cowboy-level engineering practices for sure, to the point that I'm not sure you could call it 'software engineering', but there was definitely some beauty in the simplicity of that setup compared to what we typically have to do these days. At least after you set up the box and the access to it, anyway.
>demonstrate or simulate results and show them to all stakeholders

This is a very important point. Especially for any algorithm/policy change that affects people's pay, time off, scheduling, etc., it may seem like a reasonable change to you and to management but a lot of people will have a visceral reaction anyway. Not everyone may be happy at the end but it's important they're at least part of the process.
This is impossible to answer without more information. How much money do you need? What’s your personality like? Were there any programming adjacent roles you thought were interesting?
It really depends on the historical context.
I don't know what the standards were for the period but i saw this random tidbit from wikipedia while reading up on the Roma people (Note : this was after the era of the Andalus ):

>From 1510 onwards, any Romani found in Switzerland were to be executed; while in England (beginning in 1554) and Denmark (beginning of 1589) any Romani which did not leave within a month were to be executed. Portugal began deportations of Romanis to its colonies in 1538.

Compared to getting executed for being at the the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong ethnicity, Andalus may well have been a oasis of tolerance in Europe, relatively speaking.
That's what Google claims Manifest v3 is trying to protect against, but it's actually trying to protect against ad blockers being effective.
Also seeing infinite Captcha loop, not on Cloudflare DNS.
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I know another anecdote won’t help you but when I read this it immediately rang true to me.

> Smoking cigarettes is first and formost an anxiety suppression mechanism

This describes my experience pretty well.
> Whenever I see your sentiment - that you are choosing to not have kids because the world sucks and you don't see us solving anything - my immediate reaction is that you deserve no voice whatsoever in how the rest of us decide to solve those problems. No voting, no representation, nothing. Having kids, in a sense, is a bet that we'll figure things out one way or another.

What an odd perspective. Are children the only way to have skin in the game when it comes to the future?

One consequence of doing something like this would be an almost complete removal of people who through no fault of their own cannot have children as well as some religious practitioners from public life.

Having just read the FDA announcement on artificial wombs, how would those fit into this?
thats unrelated to its classification
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GP5000s for the win!

I doubt any pneumatic tyre would be suitable for constantly riding over broken glass. Solid tyres, however would last a while until they got completely shredded, but the ride quality of solid tyres is dismal. The problem is that the shock of a bump isn't distributed around the tyre as it would be with air, but instead stays in one place. That then requires a stiffer material to be used so that you don't put too many dings in your rim which makes the ride quality (and speed) worse. Riding on solid tyres really sucks the fun out of cycling.
What did you expect? They're not exactly innovators, are they?
To be honest I've never seen scaling done well. I just plugged my 32" 4k monitor into my 16" windows work laptop (both 4k), and things on the monitor are too big, even after tweaking!

I have everything set to 100% scaling because that's a low as you can put it. The defaults had my laptop at 250% (!!!) and external monitor at 150%, which makes the laptop in particular look like some cramped 800x600 monitor out of 1995. In theory I'd like to have my external display be at something like 75% because it's so much larger than the laptop, but I've never seen any OS support this. Does wayland let you do fractional scales like this?

Edit: I also just tried plugging my 4k monitor into my Linux laptop (with a 1920x1080 screen), and it at least defaults both to 100%, which is more sane than "modern" windows. Again I'd probably prefer 75% scaling on the 1080 monitor because things are otherwise too big.
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other peoples' bots.
> The reason I ask is that I often push the limits of current gigabit ethernet distances and have found that actual limits are much shorter than theoretical limits

Get a cable tester and see what the cable type/qualtiy and signal characteristics are. Or if you're near some other equipment that is high-EM (where shielding may be needed).

There is nothing theoretical about the official numbers with a quality install:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_over_twisted_pair#Var...

In the ISO/IEC structural cabling standard the length is strictly informative, and the length of a cable/run doesn't matter as long as the signal characteristics are good: you can have a 130m run and a tester will not pass-fail based on the length, but on the signal quality:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNa_IdfivKs&t=12m32s
And also Apple's 2015-era content blocker extensions.
> lufthansa elite? MUC/FRA was pretty mid. Polaris SFO was amazing

I’m not talking about Lufthansa’s Senator or business class lounges that anyone with Star Alliance Gold can access. Those are at the level of Delta Sky Clubs or the new 2023 United Clubs.

I’m talking about an entire private terminal with chauffeur service to the plane.
This is why I am convinced that the entire online privacy discourse is a psy-op by global intelligence agencies.
This is not new at all.

Nick Lane writes very specifically about this in “power, sex, suicide”.

Specifically, ingested antioxidants have no pathway to enter the cell where we believe antioxidants would be helpful… And even if they could they would almost certainly hurt us by interfering with essential cell signaling mechanisms.

Bad cells need to die. You should not get in the way of this process. In fact, you should probably encourage it.

The experimental basis for this dates to the early 80s.

Yes, that means the entire antioxidant edifice has been bullshit the entire time.
Basically, they can ask anything that is not forbidden by the law. If you disagree, you can try to get them to court.
I think they likely also considered the lawsuit exposure. If just 0.0001% of users sued over false positives, Apple would be in serious trouble.

And there's another dynamic where telling your customers you're going to scan their content for child porn is the same as saying you suspect your customers of having child porn. And your average non-criminal customer's reaction to that is not positive for multiple reasons.
That's clearly a false claim. The US had a long history of combatting the USSR successfully to give one example, spanning the entire post WW2 Cold War era. That included preparing the US population and military for a possible war with the Soviets (which also successfully included building far superior military hardware vs what the Soviets were producing). It wasn't clumsy for the most part, it was exceptional. That included battling them economically, industrially, with espionage, with long-term allies, in locations outside of Europe, and so on. It was a united political front overwhelmingly.

Yes, there were exceptions, and they don't refute the overall.

Iraq was trivial compared to half a century of standing off with the Soviet Empire.

The USSR is long gone. Russia is a joke. The US superpower remains. The US won in part thanks to the US political machine playing the long game, and very often doing it in a united fashion.

There is very wide political unity when it comes to certain enemies, one of those now is the CCP. Major threats to the US superpower positioning almost always draw out unity among the political class, over whatever term is required.