skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you! no way that I could know that words and phrasings were intentionally dumb from the translation, though the meaning I knew.

I'll better look for a different nonsensical bit taken from another song :)
If you want an SBC, the closest you'll find is the MT8395-based IPi SMARC 1200 (yikes on the price...). AFAICT, the mt8395 is just an mt8195 with an auxiliary AI processor. Device trees published for the IPi device have several references to mt8195.

https://www.ipi.wiki/products/i-pi-smarc-1200
However much some people will resent it, I strongly suspect being able to drive a car is going to be a pretty essential life skill for people who aren't willing/able to restrict their travel to mostly urban cores for at least a few decades.
These pigs are specifically genetically engineered and bred so as to be compatible. There are viruses, etc. that are endemic to the swine population that would kill people. It happened in that first human implant recently.
How did they even get the android.permission.INSTALL_PACKAGES permission approved on the play store?

Google clearly states that:

To use this permission, your app’s core functionality must include:

Sending or receiving app packages, AND
Enabling user-initiated installation of app packages.
If your app does not meet the requirements for acceptable use below, you must remove it from your app's manifest in order to comply with Google Play policy. Suggestions for policy-compliant alternative implementations are also detailed below.

Which surely doesn’t seem the case for a shopping app?
The word for grandma is "isoäiti", at least in sentences like "I went to visit my grandma last weekend". Monikers such as "mummo" are borrowed from Swedish, which means that not too long ago, the finnish language seems to have been without any "mama"-related words. Which is more interesting than the fact that some of those have been borrowed into modern day finnish, since it shows that "mama" is not a universal feature of all languages.
I recently learned that the computable numbers are subcountable but not enumerable.

Proof sketch:
Turing Machines are enumerable by lexiographically sorting them. The Turing Machines that compute computable numbers are a subset of them. Therefore the set of computable numbers is subcountable.

Now assume that the set of computable numbers is enumerable by some Turing Machine M. Then I can construct a new computable number who's ith digit is a swap from the ith number's ith digit given by M (ie a diagonialization). This contradiction shows that the set of computable numbers is not enumerable.

Another way of looking at this is that determining if some Turing Machine computes a computable number requires deciding the halting problem, which cannot be done. TMs computing computable numbers are required to terminate given an input precision.
As a biker on the central west coast I just had the 'opportunity' to revisit the midwest and can tell you we are screwed.
Interesting. Recently ordered from them for giggles just because the pricing was crazy yet people seem to be getting their stuff. Even mentioned to a friend that something feels very off commercially here - like something is aggressively subsidised.

Also Noticed that they were specifically pushing in app purchases hard with discounts etc.

…but didn’t connect the dots between those two odd things.
A long writeup but very few facts:

> TEMU is estimated ( Link ) to be losing $30 per order. Its ad spending and shipping costs (1-2 weeks from China, expedited to U.S. delivery) are astronomical. One is left wondering how this business could ever be profitable.

> TEMU is a notoriously bad actor in its industry. We see rampant user manipulation, chain-letter-like affinity scams to drive signups, and overall, the most aggressive and questionable techniques to manipulate large numbers of people to install the app.

> TEMU is demonstrably more dangerous than TikTok. The app should be removed from the Google and Apple app stores.

Grizzly Reports (https://twitter.com/ResearchGrizzly) is "focused on producing differentiated research insights on publicly traded companies through in-depth due diligence."

This seems like low quality junk to me.
It's likely cheap because it's made with forced labor: https://apnews.com/article/temu-shein-forced-labor-china-de7...
Small companies can't cause billions in damage though...
I am a person of color and am not eligible for this program. Please explain.

Also, that you lump poor whites who grew up in the inner city with those who grew up wealthy in Palo Alto is shocking. That Palo Alto native likely has far more in common with their black neighbor.

You are advocating for racist policies. No matter how you slice
your identitarianism, you will never reach total inclusion, perpetually marginalizing and discriminating against minorities you may not even be aware of. Fight on, brother.
uint64, probably
NASA's problem with the SLS is not really its high cost. A 'high cost' is strictly relative.

NASA's problem is lack of funding. That is something that can't be fixed in today's world. Because the US just does not have the amount of spare cash lying around like it did in the 1960s.

That lack of NASA funding is why I predict that the US will never again put men on the Moon, no matter what all the pundits try to tell us. There just ain't no spare cash, period.
> Private means it involves encryption, as opposed to a basic tunnel like ipip or 6in4.

The common-sense meaning of "private network" was, and is, a network that is private. I had one with a bunch of my university friends - we ran our own network services that we wouldn't trust to the wider world, like we had back when we lived together and really did have our own private network.

A point-to-point line to the provider's router that then bridges you onto the public internet is a "private network" only in the most degenerate sense.
Albanian has

Jo - no

Po - yes

Or thats what Ive gathered after ten years of marriage.
I have kids, who have Nintendo consoles, and who like Nintendo's games, and I pay pretty close attention to their net usage and what they see on their consoles.

It might well be the case that I'm enough a firewall that their sinister marketing isn't making it into my home, but I haven't personally seen it. I'd be interested to hear more specific examples of what you mean.

I'm not claiming they're not doing anything wrong, just that it's not consistent with my own experience of Nintendo. Their console seems to be more respectful of my kids than most other platforms (although the fact that there's not a good way to block the Youtube app is a glaring omission - you can password protect the eShop and prevent it from making it onto their device in the first place, but there should really be a way to block a specific application, and nothing I've tried in their parental controls has worked).
I wonder how Brave and Microsoft Edge will handle this change. Are they also going to ship this "feature"?
It’s likely they use runtime exec because they are doing in app sideloading of features so they don’t need to wait for App Store approval. TEMU feels kinda like a superapp like wechat.

I think TEMU is a super shady company but I don’t think the app is the vector to worry about.
Why would temu try be spyware any more than google is spyware? I feel like doing something abnormally super sketchy is too high risk for them given how much stuff they sell and how much money they on their brand.
You can turn on lockdown mode on your iPhone and then specifically exclude certain apps and websites from being impacted by it -- this seems like a reasonable middle ground for most people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgivCGdmFrw
Also, there are so so many animal products used in modern medicine.

Pig heart valves, bovine collagen in grafts, on and on. You just don't know about it.
Yeah, the most popular parks (Rockies, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Zion, etc.) are typically also the most impacted. I think Zion's shuttle program is a good thing, and the Rockies is one of the worst that I've visited in terms of traffic and impacts. Yosemite at least has the valley shuttle, and outside of the valley it's not so bad. More and more places are implementing permit and lottery systems. It's a tough job =/

Private/NGO nature preserves have their place, but I think public access for parks is also a big part in cultivating an appreciation for nature. Not everyone is going to "get it", it's true, but some will. How else would you inspire the next generation of environmentalists, if they never get to experience what it is that's even worth protecting to begin with?
And which of the zillion declensions do they use? :-p
And also the button for not accepting it does nothing lol
Carlyle weighs options for 'RuneScape' creator Jagex, sources say
It's a market research firm, probably also a hedge fund that takes a short position specifically before posting these articles to make money on a short position. (See also Muddy Waters (https://www.muddywatersresearch.com/).

So yes, it's designed to move the stock market. That doesn't mean it's wrong, though.
Falcon 9 was designed from the beginning with safety factors consistent with human-rating, rather than the lower safety factors required for cargo (1.4 vs 1.2 if I recall correctly). And with the very first cargo Dragon flight in 2010, SpaceX talked about how the windows and life support system pointed towards their ambition of flying humans on the spacecraft.

Now, as always happens, actually completing the human-rating of Dragon required more work than expected, and Dragon 2 is quite different from Dragon. But, as far as I know, Falcon 9 did not require nearly as many upgrades to be human-rated.
>bus

Mandarin chinese: 公共汽車 (gōnggòng qìchē)
> English is a bit odd due to having several different words for an animal and its flesh via the Norse invasion in 1066. Here we have a cow and beef for the flesh.

Is it that odd? I've never seen vache on a menu in France. Keema in Hindi (and probably other indic languages) is non-descript mince, it wouldn't be beef in India of course, typically lamb or goat. Carne in many romance languages but in particular Spanish chili con carne just means 'meat'. I assume Spaniards have a different word for cows (or whatever they like in their chili), as well as probably an equivalent for beef.
The disruption machine – what the gospel of innovation gets wrong (2014)
> aggressive and questionable techniques to manipulate large numbers of people to install the app.

So basically like facebook?
I like both.

And since the US Congress is currently funding both, it's actually you who needs to convince people to stop funding "meat cans". Good luck with that.
I would imagine that "okej" is more akin to English's "okay".
Would any of your comment change if I told you the bug was in a Google image parser that they currently also ship to production?
Surprisingly, for almost all the things that I've bothered to compare, Amazon is actually cheaper than Temu. Even cheap toys from China that I thought would be Temu's bread and butter. And of course the shipping is no contest. The deals look good in their app but try searching for the same item on Amazon and I bet you will be surprised.

Temu sometimes gives you more flexibility to order a single copy of small items while Amazon might only have bundles. But then Temu has a minimum order size you must meet while Amazon doesn't. So I haven't found any reason to use Temu after their ridiculous free money coupon for new users is gone.
Short term gains on positive news are based on surprise, this apparently is not at all unexpected. On top of that there’s some Apple China news.
Richard Powers on How to Reconnect with Earth
You could send a postcard here with your thanks for the great deal:

General Office of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
West Building
Zhongnanhai
Beijing
People's Republic of China
I would say it's better to do 2-3 years early on as a young employee. Older, more experienced tech people tend to have longer tenures as they gain years of experience.
Because “hunting down and extinguishing” is a wild overreaction?
Yes. The ImageIO vulnerability just allows for an initial foothold.
Scariest thing here is the `write_external_storage`. Is this just going to install trojan horse things onto SD cards/memory sticks?

The time is coming for Apple to support iCloud private relay for all 3rd party apps. Ideally nothing is leaving the phone without it shortly.
That time will be gone like a flash, and we'll be reading about how we can't afford to let humans drive trucks any more since so much can go wrong on such roads with such oddly weighted freight.
There is a different approach going on in the US right now to breed pigs with small genetic modifications to prevent hyperacute rejection and transplanting the pigs kidney with the pigs thymus embedded in the kidney. Its been tested on a brain dead patient who donated his body to science. There was no signs of rejection for 6 weeks and the kidney continued to remove waste and produce urine.

> The first hurdle to overcome in xenotransplants is preventing so-called hyperacute rejection, which typically occurs just minutes after an animal organ is connected to the human circulatory system. By “knocking out” the gene that encodes the biomolecule known as alpha-gal—which has been identified as responsible for a rapid antibody-mediated rejection of pig organs by humans—immediate rejection has been avoided in all five xenotransplants at NYU Langone. Additionally, the pig’s thymus gland, which is responsible for educating the immune system, was embedded underneath the outer layer of the kidney to stave off novel, delayed immune responses. The combination of modifications has been shown to prevent rejection of the organ while preserving kidney function.

https://nyulangone.org/news/pig-kidney-xenotransplantation-p...
They clearly are not, seeing what's happening.
I believe mango is another candidate for a word that's nearly the same in many languages. Like chai vs tea, the two words (that I know of) are aam and mango.
The list is not arbitrary, but generally based on remote attack surface.
There're shady companies selling privay and others like mullvad. They don't take your name on sign up and allow for paying with cash or BTC and even Monero.

Even if they'd log your IP and traffic (which they say they don't) they'd know way less about who you are then your ISP.
YES! Current lockdown mode proposition of all-or-nothing is inconvenient.
For what it's worth, I'm using several Rust tools replacing classic UNIX programs for at least 3 years now and they never crashed.

Beware of [HN] bias. People are very quick to rain on Rust for reasons none of them have ever explained substantively and with facts, and many others are quick to agree without checking.
We bought a vassal state with highly competent people. They are generally independent in internal affairs and so NSO group would have nothing to do with the government.

But you're right, we don't need that one at all any longer. Someone once told me that Israel would align more closely with Russia if we did that, which is a laughable come back, like, okay? have fun with that.

Retracking the various forms of funding and defense contractor slush funds would be a simple step.
Facebook then or google as verb. : )
The button to decline the TOS is also not a button. It does nothing.
They exempted themselves from the spam rules.
> The moral hazard of letting today’s voters and today’s politicians and today’s senior government employees (the union leaders) steal from taxpayers 30 years in the future is obvious.

You don't seem to want to state the other obvious solution--all defined benefits plans should have to be funded as the person is paying in.

The problem with defined benefits plans is that they are allowed to be funded when the person retires rather than as the person is working.

That simple change takes the problem out of defined benefits plans.
>So that argument doesn't hold.

Yes it does. I can find extremist beliefs on the first page of a google search right now that would be censored if the foundation of your argument was correct, but it demonstrably isn't.
> 1) Dynamic compilation using runtime.exec()

"cmd package compile" doesn't compile source code at runtime. It forces ahead-of-time compilation of an application's existing bytecode, which is something which Android already does on an as-needed basis. I'm not sure why the Temu app would be running this command (performance, maybe?), but it isn't clearly dangerous either.

https://source.android.com/docs/core/runtime/jit-compiler

The rest of the analysis doesn't seem much better, e.g.

> 3) TEMU queries information related to files, and not just its own files, but wants information on all files on the user’s device by referencing “EXTERNAL_STORAGE”, superuser rights and log files.

The EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission is literally just external storage, like the name implies. It doesn't grant access to files in internal storage, like other applications' data or system logs.

> 5) “Root” access. TEMU checks if a device has “root” access.

Yes, this is fairly common. (And indeed, the table at the top of the report notes that most of the other shopping apps they analyzed did this.)

> 6) Encryption, decryption and shifting integer signals libraries are in prior versions of Pinduoduo and TEMU apps. The only purpose of this is obscuration of malicious intent.

I'm not even sure what they're trying to suggest by this. Are they actually assuming that any use of bit-shifting operators is malicious?

> 10) [...] The TEMU app even reads and stores the MAC address, which is a unique and global hardcoded network identifier of a device. This is a big No No in internet security. A Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack and other unwanted security probes could conceivably be launched against a disclosed MAC address.

This is complete nonsense. MAC addresses don't work like that.

> 11) Looking over your shoulder while you use your smartphone. TEMU calls getWindow().getDecorView().getRootView(), to make screenshots

That only captures the appearance of the Temu application, not other applications on the system.
> Life is probably not bad in North Korea, than the propaganda lead you to believe.

If this were the case then it would not be necessary for them to shoot people trying to leave.
Somebody know articles like this on different exploits? What a great read!
Check out the plan to truck gold ore from a mine to a processing facility 240 miles away, passing through Fairbanks, with an 86 ton, 95 foot double trailer truck every 24 minutes, around the clock, for 4 to 5 years.

https://manhchoh.com/ore-transportation/

https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2023/8/24/wit...

https://fm.kuac.org/transportation/2023-06-15/kinross-to-lau...
Well, we can't apply an animal's moral system. If you did that you could justify torturing cats (have you seen a cat play with a mouse?) or raping animals because they do it to each other. That's why I think we need to consider from our perspective, which is capable of introspection and empathy.
> How will I be able to learn anywhere near as much if every interaction will come through a screen online?

this question should prompt you to ask yourself another one - are you the kind of person that can successfully learn, grow, excel, and ideally thrive in a remote-only position?

what else do you consider? can you find a job in an industry that is exciting? a subject matter, a language? that might make it worthwhile to make sacrifices elsewhere, like remote vs not.

remote has lots of challenges, some of which may be harder for someone more junior. self discipline, focus, motivation, that can all get harder when you work where you don’t work. it can get messy. in-person has a different set, commute or otherwise.

some of it is personal preference / capability. some, well, market is a mess… experience makes it easier to get a job. the days of anyone believing in unwavering loyalty to one’s employer are long gone.
the reason many of the crypto geniuses and prodigies are "god knows where" is because it's harder to bring them to justice for their innovative scams
No goalpost shifting.

Procedures in classical mathematics require a series of decisions made based on absolute truths accessible by no process of reasoning. Mathematics that includes entities created through such procedures avoid contradiction exactly because the truths are true, whether or not any reasoning exists that could show it.

Computability limits itself to procedures involving decision processes that can themselves be reasoned about. Attempts to create computable analogs of classical decision procedures reveal a whole world of logical subtleties thanks to the unavoidable possibility of self-reference.

The difference is this. In classical mathematics, diagonalization results in uncountable infinities. In computable mathematics, diagonalization results in undecidability. The reason why classical mathematics avoids undecidability is because decisions are made by appeals to absolute truth. Which represents a lack of process that therefore cannot be diagonalized.
I agree with everything the author said. I could have written that. But having said that, I’d add this.

I’m astounded at the customization that’s still possible. Gnome-tweaks still works on Ubuntu 23.04. I moved the activities bar to the bottom and merged it with the dock (some extension). I changed the fonts to Helvetic’s everywhere in the system ui — just gnome tweaks.

Only annoyance was that I had to create a symlink to make the Firefox snap see the fonts I had installed.

It’s pretty cool that hidpi
even works. I now think things like dbus are intrinsic to the problem of IPC for GUIs.

——

I can see why snap exists. Its worth it to make it hard for a random ‘curl | sudo bash’ from breaking important programs.

But yes it’s ridiculous that I can’t update Firefox snap while it’s still open. And that it won’t auto update if I just close Firefox after getting the pop up about needing an update and wait a few seconds. I’m optimistic that will happen.

Even in 22.04 I could entirely disable the dock using the same tools to disable third-party extensions.

——

I’m a huge systemd hater. But I recently noticed it has something to run an arbitrary one-off program as a unit with all of the isolation/logging facilities that provides. It’s a pretty great from a tech perspective.

So I’ve softened my criticism somewhat. :)

——

It’s amazing how compatible the various distributions still are.

I’ve concluded these problems are not easy. The complexity in modern Linux is probably fine within a constant factor (analogy with time complexity — I’ll edit to clarify).

If we didn’t have multiple daemons etc we would have a single giant “unified” system like systemd for gui also — like windows.

—-

Finally, I think if we really want a simple gui stack we need to:

1. Get rid of graphical login and go back to VT login + startx.

2. User switching by alt-ctrl-f2 + startx.

3. Screen lock performed by actually logging out using the gui equivalent of tmux. (Jwz’s post linked here was educational.)

——

Thanks for reading so far. And THANK YOU Ubuntu and Red Hat for keeping the flame still burning.

PS: one final pet peeve. Why the heck does Ubuntu think it’s ok to half-ass booting other OS’s? Was super impressed that Oracle Linux (RHEL clone) actually listed all my OS’s and booted all of them after install. My hat is off to you.
Every process in iOS is run in a sandbox. That is why these exploits are so hard to come by.
Weird website aside, I would not at all be surprised that TEMU is spyware.