skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uncertainty and doubt is a good and honest position. It is an unusual situation, and it could potentially create a dangerous precedent, particularly in other countries where US-owned software is dominant. There is strong evidence that TikTok is being used to spy on Americans, especially those in the military and those in power, and that this represents a real risk to American interests. The downside is this may unleash a waive of retributive banning (e.g. other countries banning US-owned apps). I personally don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, globally: geographically partitioned services (and therefore power) are fine by me. Of course rich donor corps in the US won't like having their addressable market reduced. We'll see if they can convince us to invade another country to force them to use eBay though.
Stop having the government use private contractors and instead employ critical infrastructure IT development inhouse.

It's not as if the government doesn't have experience employing software developers. When you introduce a private company into the mix you get a perverse incentive to jack up the price as much as said private company can get away with. And since uncle sam has an infinitely deep pocket book, you can imagine how easy delays and budget ballooning can be.

I'd much rather the government waste $1 million on 10 lazy devs that are hard to fire (because, government) then have them spend $1 billion dollars on garbage rushed work that probably cost the implementing contractors $30k to actually produce (So much of the initial work was simply outsourced) and who knows how much to go back and fix.
Behind a paywall - guess I'll just die then
A good reminder to read about how it almost didn't turn out alright.

* https://time.com/10228/obamas-trauma-team/

* https://www.pauladamsmith.com/blog/2023/10/the-10-year-anniv...

(And of course the related Hacker News threads.)

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7312442

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37957152
33, as I think PlayStore demanded it. I had it working on quite old devices as the project was "sitting on shelf" for long time. I'll look if I can somehow publish "backports" via PlayStore.
To be honest, I think they've been talking about this since the Trump campaign or sometimes shortly thereafter, quickly wouldn't be the adjective coming to mind thinking about this situation
It's obviously a sad story but does anyone else feel that the Wall Street Journal running this story is a just a sad sign of a website losing its focus.
Activision QA workers unionize, the biggest Union in the country yet
It is as if I read the grand and the parent comment verbatim yesterday. Deja vu or this is now the pattern for every Boeing discussion?
I use rofi and bind $mod+q to search for windows.
The one outlet you called out by name is already a publicly traded company, not one that is controlled by a foreign country. 63% of it is owned by institutional investors (Vanguard, Blackrock, etc).
You make a good point about on-topic moderation. But I think this misses something.

Rejecting a cell microbiology paper from a computer science journal is not an attempt to suppress the paper. If anything, it is of benefit to the paper, since publishing it in the correct journal will increase it's visibility to the relevant audiences.

In contrast, content moderation, particularly in political subreddits is often motivated by tribalism and a desire to suppress particular viewpoints. It's true that these people could just go to another subreddit, but by the same logic reporters in Russia could just go to another country.

The effect of this type of moderation is that it creates tribes or "communities" of people who have similar opinions and never encounter opposing viewpoints.

Moderating based on topic is different than censorship based on viewpoint. If an argument is allowed but it's counterargument is not, that's censorship, not moderation.
Depressing, but, entirely unsurprising.

Equally depressing that it's entirely unsurprising.

I wonder how much of piracy now is driven by monetary things vs concerns about data ownership.
It'd be interesting to see how much a multi-country effort to make a tool that collects tax information and applies a set of rules to the data to advise the user would be able to share. My impression is that it'd be a lot (the rules, of course, would be specific to the type of entity and local legislation).

As a Brazilian who has been using free government-provided tools to submit my taxes for decades (up to when I moved to Ireland, where I don't even need to do that), this is very interesting to me.
> We all know how easy it is to manipulate users... aka Cambridge Analytica.

There is little to no evidence that CA was able to manipulate anyone other than gullible campaign managers. And frankly the idea that a list of pages someone liked could be used to create a skeleton key that turned people into Republican voters is... far-fetched.
so every gdpr cookie modal
Seems like a stupid use of AI
That's also UB in Rust, Java, C#, etc...

There's no language anywhere where a different process interacting with the file system at the same time isn't UB
IDK. I've seen too much bureaucracy where a bad solution (with properties the bureaucrat likes) is implemented with promises to improve later (into something the petitioner wants). But after the initial solution is implemented, all they gotta do is procrastinate - and the whole time they procrastinate, they get what they want. Why change it? All the bureaucrat has gotta deal with is a bit of complaining.
> would give the president the authority to ban any app or website both foreign and domestic based

No, it has to be controlled by a foreign adversary country [1].

The broadest power is in 3(a)(ii) on page 10, which lets the President designate an app as a foreign adversary controlled application if it is a significant national security threat following public notice and reporting requirements. But even then, it’s a divestiture order subject to judicial review, not the power to ban.

[1] https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites...
Only support for macOS >= 10.14 (Mojave)
The problem with that exponential slowdown is that a million-year runtime is so impractical it should be considered impossible. And if that isn't convincing, double the problem size and square the runtime for a trillion years. The sun will engulf the Earth long before the progress bar reads 1%.
Reintroduce shareholder liability - if you missmanage a company such that it creates liability, you participate in it with more then the shares value?
'A Complete Scam': 23andMe Users Complain About Shady Auto-Renewal Policies
If you throw money at a bankrupt company, it's not bankrupt anymore ;)

Edit: for example by buying overpriced military equipment, tax benefits, or ...
Just when I think I have a handle on how stupid our politicians are... they find some way to make me realize they are even dumber than I previously thought.

According to HuffPost it was a 352-65 vote, so this stupidity was bipartisan. So much for one party being smarter than the other. Banning an extremely popular app, in an election year no less, while providing absolutely zero evidence to prove what you accuse it of doing is really some kind of next level idiocy.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tiktok-ban-congress_n_65f1b24...
You know they can both be true simultaneously, right?

It’s a perfectly well understood fact that our nations use businesses, and literally every other avenue possible to spy on and propagandize each other’s populations

As a result, each nation has to counter that it does so mostly privately, but sometimes very publicly.

This is all part of the totally broken, absolutely run by children, international relations system.

It’s exceptionally mundane and exceptionally bad for all citizens as a result. However it’s great for business. So you’re not going to see a change until citizens demand different international economic, political, communications and relations structure that isn’t based on competition.
MSM is dying.
Thanks for the clarification. I presumed that it's the rsync+ssh protocol chatter that was slowing me down, not the wifi bandwidth (which I've not tested separately ). I don't have my head wrapped around the mechanics in play, to be honest.
> GP was arguing that OP is trustworthy because he has a reputation to maintain.

I, the GP, is arguing nothing of the sort.
No, he definitely is not. Painting every bill Republicans have blocked as having a wrecking amendment is beyond silly. He’s describing a refusal to compromise.
> The technique had a technical name, “glossopharyngeal breathing”. You trap air in your mouth and throat cavity by flattening the tongue and opening the throat, as if you’re saying “ahh” for the doctor. With your mouth closed, the throat muscle pushes the air down past the vocal cords and into the lungs. Paul called it “frog-breathing”.

So, to state it in computing terms, this wasn't a fix for not being able to breathe, it was a workaround. But it seems to have worked really well: at 40, he was "able to spend most of his day outside the machine that still kept him alive".
Pentagon provide Ukraine with ATACMS missile modification with range up to 290km
Reading this link, I'm wondering if my initial formulation wasn't correct after all? It depends on how you categorize "vegan" but in the link they state that "material" is the only group of adjectives that comes after "nationality", and of the categories listed, I'd say vegan fits the "material" category best?

Or am I misinterpreting something?

English is my second language, but I do want to speak it as well as possible, hence my efforts to understand this topic. I do apologise for pestering you all with these questions tho.
Nvidia's stock price isn't at an all time price because of all the people writing fluid dynamics in CUDA.

Nor is it because of all the tensorflow models people are writing, to be honest.
This really seems to just be an extension of GDPR.

Mostly just don't use AI to discriminate or manipulate people.

quite light touch and Not at all as bad as I was expecting.
Dollar tree had too many nearby family dollars. They tried to diversify into groceries vs. home goods but that only went so far.
I always figured the two were competitors based on how often both stores would be nearby..
https://archive.is/ELoDv
I have a theory that whatever popularity my blog has comes from writing to the level of the reader. My favorite example of the opposite behavior is how every blog post on a topic involving Bayesian inference seemingly must start with Bayes’ formula.
I know that, and that doesn't exempt them from accusations of using their reach to actively manipulate the population to gain political power.
Honestly, something here doesn't quite sit right with me.

From the article:

> No single company can get online safety right for every country, culture, and community in the world.

From this post:

> There are also "infrastructure takedowns" for illegal content and network abuse, which we execute at the services layer (ie the relay).

If there's really no point in running relays other than to keep the network online, and running relays is expensive and hard work that can't really be funded by individuals, then it seems like most likely there will be one relay forever. If that turns out to be true, then it seems like we really are stuck with one set of views on morality and legality. This is hardly a theoretical concern when it comes to the Japanese users flooding Bluesky largely out of dissatisfaction with Twitter's moderation of 'obscene' artworks.
Young people getting bombed by the US and its allies, are posting videos of themselves getting bombed and American teens have enough empathy to find such content moving.
On the tokenizers Mistral use for proprietary models, this isn't common knowledge.

This tokenizer is correct for the 7B open model and 8x7B MoE model. It'll probably be the closest to the ones their proprietary API-only models use
One of, I assume, 350 (and counting) brand new users.
It's more like "disrupting the market". The problem is that it's a whole market.

Uber just now turned its first profit since 2009, and I would wager that if not for the newly found appreciation of efficiency and austerity, it would still be burning through money like a drunken socialist sailor.

Classic approach required basic math. "Here is my investment, here is what I am going to charge for rent". You actually can figure out when your investment starts paying off.

This new "model" requires tall, loud, truth-massaging founders to "charm" VCs into giving away billions, with the promise of trillions, I guess. The founders do talk about conquering the world, like, a lot.

I do not know what the WeWork investors were thinking when they expected standard real estate to "10x" their money while the tenants were drinking free beer on tap. The whole thing screamed "scam" even to a lay-person.
Show HN: Better search and management of your saved places
If you use Google Saved Places a lot but feel it’s lacking some features I’d love to connect with you.

If you’d also like to try out an alternative, here’s the TestFlight download link for an app I’m working on before it gets released to the App Store

Some features:
* Import your saved / starred places from Google
* Search your place notes
* Filter by list to find places you’ve saved again.
* Search by your personal star rating or if you’ve visited the location.
* [Your future feature request here]

for giving it a try
Yeah, I did that, but that shows stats per file, which is minimally useful. I would see it go up to 15 mb/s for bigger files, but turns out the aggregate speed was less than 10 mb/s.
They can build whatever they want, I'm not getting in one.
Not sure whether this is a criticism of or agreement with the parent comment. This seems like both an accurate summary of that comment, and the right path forward.

Don't make perfect the enemy of good. The rent-seeking of tax preparation businesses is a bigger problem than these privacy issues. That doesn't mean those aren't also a problem. (And I'd be shocked if Intuit has a less problematic set of terms with respect to privacy...)

But what the IRS is doing here is the correct prioritization of problems to attack.
Tobacco companies, share prices to the moon! What next do you want politicians unable to trade on privileged insider knowledge? Barbarity!
> Domestic spyware masquerading as social media is bad, but foreign spyware and propaganda masquerading as social media is unquestionably worse.

The former is unquestionably worse and a far greater threat to citizens of this country than anything TikTok does.
You can configure the window icons directly in the config file.

for_window [class="(?i)firefox"] title_format "<tt></tt><span foreground='#FF6611'>  </span><tt> </tt>%title
Turbo Streaming Modals in Ruby on Rails
"WebMD" made everyone think they had cancer too, according to the hype stories of that time. "$newthing Bad" sub-flavor "Wise Doctors' time wasted by Foolish Supplicants"
A lot of folks don't realize that MBAification of companies does not have an immediate feedback loop. The entire point is that in the short term it does super well, with the costs being realized in the long term.

Boeing's timeline of failure actually matches the trajectory of other MBAified companies.
> designed to appeal to or pander to the prurient interest

This is the part that really concerns me, to be honest. The main meaning of "prurient" is "characterized by an inordinate interest in sex."

The main reason this concerns me is because some people believe LGBTQ issues to be inherently sexual; and thus this law could be used to suppress general LGBTQ content as well as pornography. It depends on who enforces it and who interprets it, of course. But when you consider it in light of the hundreds of anti-LGBTQ bills filed this year alone, it just worries me.
I've had to deal with offshores my entire career and have even flown out to train them up. They are good people, but almost universally, they contract for U.S. companies via large body shops (you know who they are) that have awful pay, poor treatment of developers, and just a general culture of half-assing work. I've told various great offshore developers personally to leave as fast as possible and join literally any other organization for way more pay. Good developers have zero business working at those body shops that all the U.S. corps utilize.
https://archive.is/631N4

https://archive.today/631N4
"Amid higher costs throughout the economy, consumers have begun shifting to lower-margin goods compared with higher spending on discretionary items earlier in the post-pandemic period."

If Family Dollar is not lower margin I'm not sure what is. My guess is they have mostly lost out to internet sellers and Walmart.
Probably with nationalization.
ID.me is already plugged in to IRS' platform, and is used today for all IRS account services to prevent fraud (return fraud being previously very prevalent [1], but there are other threat actor concerns with regards to IRS and identity). Throwing more people at Login.gov will not cause a solution to be arrived at tomorrow [2] [3]. It's suboptimal, but the world runs on duct tape, and a fix is underway. There is always risk, it is about managing that risk effectively.

Personally, I believe saving tens of billions of dollars in potential fraud costs every tax filing season buys a lot of tolerance to people complaining about the interim solution. The complaints are valid, but so are the attempts at fraud. And so, we balance the risk of the implementation.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/tax/stolen-identity-refund-fraud ("The IRS estimated that during the 2013 filing season alone, over 5 million tax returns were filed using stolen identities, claiming approximately $30 billion in refunds. The IRS was able to stop or recover over $24 billion of that total, or approximately 81% of the fraudulent claims.")

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law

(interviewed with a team that worked on fraud prevention at IRS as part of a US Digital Service interview)
Boeing IS McDonnell Douglas.
Is it? What if that 4-year-old child were blind? Obviously their concept of the physical world would be different, but is it any less accurate? If we remove the need for visual perception, thereby removing that bottleneck, how much faster would we be able to make progress?
Doesn't Apples current dispute with the EU hinge on the argument by Apple that keeping their App Store locked down protects customers from scams?
Unfortunately, the point of having x in the fine print is so legally companies can say, "Technically we are allowed to do this".
The millions of people addicted to the platform probably include at least a few who don't want it banned.
Of course it's all of the mining, but that's not using pytorch either. It's using CUDA
> You have to sign a waiver to drive on the highways.

Are you in the U.S.? I've never been required to sign a waiver to drive or get my driver license. I'm very curious what you were asked or told to sign.
> We all know how easy it is to manipulate users... aka Cambridge Analytica.

There is little to no evidence that CA was able to manipulate anyone other than gullible campaign managers. And frankly the idea that a list of pages someone liked could be used to create a skeleton key that turned people into Republican voters is... far-fetched.

Similarly, I haven't seen anyone actually articulate what the risk from TikTok actually is. They will eavesdrop on users? App store review is supposed to catch that. Promote videos about controversial topics to users? That's cable news. See what videos you have watched or liked? Doesn't seem like a big risk...
Should the Iranians and the Chinese think in the same manner? Isn't this largely a question of how much you trust the official narrative of the local elites?
The US is complicated by having multiple independent and sovereign tax authorities (minimally Federal and at least one State). Add on top of this a highly diversified geographic scope that creates regions with unusual realities that encourage quite varied local tax structures. Even though many types of withholding are automatic, you still have to reconcile their complex interactions if your taxes are anything but trivial.
The far more common problem with bureaucracy is that nothing ever gets done because every incremental step is met with "but this isn't perfect so you shouldn't do it!" from one faction or another, which ensures that no step is ever made, if given credence.
What's your point? China literally has a nationwide firewall to prevent Western ideas from entering the minds of its subjects. Why should we throw open our digital borders to Chinese influence campaigns? "The supreme art of war is to defeat the enemy without fighting", e.g. to undermine Americans' faith in our democratic institutions, to gain the ability to compromise our critical infrastructure, and to influence our politics. All explicitly stated goals of both Bejing and the Kremlin, and the misinformation and distraction campaigns carried out by Russia in the last presidential election are about to ratchet up again. I don't believe we should be making these objectives any easier for our ideological rivals.
The journey of a lone female software developer
> in fact some of Boeing's best and most successful years as a company were well after that.

That's logical, isn't it? If your claim is that the company cut the long-term philosophy and squeezed short-term benefits, the most profitable time for the company is logically going to be the time where benefits go up while long-term investments are no longer made.

I'm not saying that you're wrong, just that your rebuttal isn't going to convince someone thinking like that.
Related: The gaming division of Warner Bros. is also planning to double down on "live service" games following the failure of the Suicide Squad game rather than single player games like their highly successful Harry Potter game.[0]

I wonder if Warner Bros. increasingly sees their gaming division as a potential source of tax write offs and are just intentionally wasting money like the Atlas Shrugged character Francisco d'Anconia[1] to ensure Uncle Sam never sees a cent in tax revenue from them. Otherwise, the behavior of this company seems to be objectively insane.

[0]: https://gamerant.com/warner-bros-focus-shift-live-service-ga...

[1]: https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/a/atlas-shrugged/char...
imo other platforms should allow sideloading too, be that consoles or smart speakers, maybe in some future eu will push this too
If they feel their relationship with the US is similar to the US's relationship with China in the relevant ways, then they absolutely should do the same. My understanding is that they don't feel that way, generally speaking.

They do in fact impose less extreme controls on data from these platforms, that lesser extremity presumably reflecting their lesser perception of the US's use of that data as highly dangerous, as compared to the US's perception of China.
This "article" seems to be a digest of the Mythbusters episode on the subject (https://mythresults.com/episode72 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0940234/)
Regardless of what I think of this bill - the chinese accusation is some usual whataboutism: "resorting to hegemonic moves when one could not succeed in fair competition."
> because they don't take the issue as seriously because their spec says they don't have to.

And yet they all quickly fixed the issue and nobody tried to hide behind "the spec"

Should there have been a CVE? Probably. But there's no central C++ CVE committee to have done that, either, which to Herb's point there probably should be.

Should there have been a blog post? Probably not. People don't ship their own standard library, so the blog post is low value. What matters is whether or not distros/OS's picked up that fix promptly. Which unfortunately is hard to find out since most Linux distros suck ass at keeping their standard libraries up to date.