skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't really see what any of this has to do with the core objection that via TikTok a foreign nation, a global power, has the ability to directly and completely opaquely manipulate american voter at an unprecendented level.

Would be insanely easy to identify swing counties/demographics and slightly tweak their algorithm to influence votes. You can be sure some chinese data scientist has already run the numbers on this (if not already experimented on it at a state/local level). I don't really feel comfortable with the CCP having that level of control.

> Pro Palestinian content is highly searchable on tiktok, and that made a lot of people unhappy and uncomfortable.

Not saying that the popularity of pro palestinian content is a psyop. But if it were, how would you even know? Maybe it's not a psyop today but they pulled the right levels to make it go viral, and now it's an organically driven flywheel? Maybe it's all organic and I'm fearmongering. The point is there is no way to know, or ever find out. Chinese datacenters can't be subpoenaed.
So now I was on the German and the English Wikipedia entry of the Principle and noticed a noteworthy difference:

English: While it is common to refer to pareto as "80/20" rule, under the assumption that, in all situations, 20% of causes determine 80% of problems, this ratio is merely a convenient rule of thumb and is not, nor should it be considered, an immutable law of nature.

German: The 80-20 distribution in the Pareto principle often leads to the false assumption that a sum of 100 is mandatory. In fact, however, any other distribution is possible, in which, for example, 50 % of the efforts lead to 90 % of the effect, and again 50 % of the efforts lead to the remaining 10 % of the effect. This is easy to see in the trivial case that 100% of the efforts are the cause of 100% of the success. [0]

It's interesting how this explanatory information is lacking in the English version. Should be a cool project for an LLM to transfer information between the different language versions of a Wikipedia entry.

[0] Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
Lol, queue china writing a clear document on all the US stock their citizens and companies own. Just to mess with the USA.

Anything they sell just gives them more money to buy more ownership.
Yeah, but your advice is actually useful :-)
No one who has taken a large dose of pure MDMA is shocked by this, or much of the positive research that is coming out about its impact in a controlled environment.

Can you abuse MDMA? You sure can. But there are people who overindulge in a lot of things that cause harm, and some of them aren't even drugs (Gambling springs to mind).

I think the fact that we're doing this research is progress longoverdue.
> only that it has a Chinese shareholder amongst its shareholders, and therefore must be ban unless this Chinese shareholder sells his share

The issue is the Chinese state's involvement. (TikTok's CEO perjuring himself about this didn't help [1].)

> We aren't at war with China

They are, under U.S. law, a foreign adversary [2].

If we were at war with China, we'd be talking about sanctioning ByteDance. Not merely removing it from app stores if it can't find a non-Chinese buyer.

> historically China has pretty much never used its navy to try to attack another nation except for basically (Japan)

Historically America has never used its space force to attack anyone. Meanwhile, China literally invaded and annexed Tibet in 1951 [3] and continues to use no uncertain terms about its intentions in respect of Taiwan [4].

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/05/30/tikt...

[2] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-15/subtitle-A/part-7/subp...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Tibet_by_the_Peo...

[4] https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-drops-peaceful-reu...
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It's possible they are doing such a thing, however I also am sure there are many legitimate users in the comments. I personally have been using them on the free tier for over 10 years. I signed up soon after Microsoft was stopping allowing you to use your own email domain through Outlook at a free tier. Zoho allowed you to use your own domain name for free and even has support for things like IMAP. The current free tier is a bit more restrictive now with features like IMAP being removed, however they have never removed any features from my account. I personally find it hard not to be loyal to a company who will grandfather me in on a less restrictive free plan. I haven't paid them anything, they technically owe me nothing.

However, while I have not made use of their paid services (as I use it just for personal use), I have referred clients before to Zoho when I have been working on their websites.

I've also made use of their invoice software free of charge to generate a couple invoices and have been quite pleased with that as well.

Sometimes when companies are fair to their customers either via pricing or business practices, it results in people being much more willing to go out of their way to say good things about the company. It would be insane for me to be negative against a company that has provided me a good product for free for years upon years. There aren't even ads.
1. You are moving the goalposts. Now it's not "they will be forced to sell", but "the website will still be available".

2. I am looking forward to seeing the justifications that will be trotted around once the USG torpedoes net neutrality and bans the website
$120/mo? What in the world are you doing? Or did you mean a year and not a month there?
Thanks! Yeah I always like seeing other Kiwis' work on here, so had to share.

(and y'know, for SEO purposes etc. cough cough)
I was part of a startup that did ternary CNNs on FPGA in 2017. It involved a ton of nitty gritty work and massive loss of generalit, and in the end a Raspberry Pi could solve the same problem faster and cheaper.
Fine-Tuning Llama 3
You should look into Infisical: https://github.com/Infisical/infisical

Disclaimer: I’m one of the founders.
If this accelerates migration away from Terraform towards a standard, open, IaC platform, then it's a good thing. Something like the JSON version of Terraform that can be generated by different tools, but an open standard instead.

Be "interesting" to see what happens to the recently-renamed Terraform Cloud (now Hashicorp Cloud Platform Terraform :eyeroll:)

Edited to add: I'm guessing the feature I want added to the terraform language server is never going to happen now. Terraform's language server doesn't support registries inside Terraform Cloud, it doesn't know how to read the token in your terraformrc. bleh.
Business Basic probably and probably has a personal domain attached.
> A group of people just asked me what verisimilitude was

This happens all the time! Glad it’s not just me.
It's not just tiktok https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_Americans_from_Fore...

Does yandex have an app or use cloudflare?
I'll bookmark this on my phone just in case I need it in the futur.
Sounds like you might have been too young to enjoy the 90s Internet
> We've known for all of history that sitting inside for extended periods, allowing yourself to atrophy, not socializing with others, self-indulgence, and neglecting your spiritual and mental health are bad for you.

This, IMO, is why WFH is a bad thing and should be avoided.
> The idea of "reduction" in Erlang is inherited from its Prolog ancestry. In Prolog, every execution step is termed a goal-reduction, involving breaking down a logic problem into individual components and solving each part accordingly.

> To promote fairness among processes, Erlang's preemptive scheduling relies on reductions rather than time slices. If a process exhausts its allocated reductions, it can be preempted, even if its execution isn't complete.

Fascinating
> Is Windows Defender really effective in 2024?

Yes.

> You would think any virus designer would design their stuff in a way that the default antivirus built into the product they are attacking wouldn't be able to find it...

You would think that Microsoft would build mechanisms to prevent this. And they do. Avoiding detection is a key goal, to be fair.

> And before you say "well duh, but signature updates", I will respond with the fact that nearly malware is designed to auto-update...

That's actually very noisy, and an important part of modern malware is avoiding detection - internal and external. Auto-updaters are pretty easy to detect. Even large ISPs will look for auto-update traffic and alert their customers (or in some cases, disable their accounts temporarily!). And once detected, these companies are very well practiced in taking down the hosts of the updates.

So that is a "fact" but it's not so black and white :)

> And will obviously make sure that the windows defender signatures fail to auto-update...

Sounds easy in theory, very hard in practice.

On modern systems, requires kernel mode/system/specific elevated privileges. Using a kernel exploit is rare because they're hard to come by and very valuable - limits scope of who an attacker will bother wasting one on. UAC will complain that an unsigned binary is trying to elevate, and such functionality may even be disabled. In fleet machines, the user often cannot escalate their privileges in such a way that allows defender to be disabled.

Anti-virus is still relevant and useful, although slowly fading into irrelevance - although there will always be a need by vendors to remove malicious software.
How many kelvin is 37 million degrees C?
> I can’t even stand any more due to the incredibly small playlists that most classic rock stations use.

That's every bloody station nowadays. It doesn't matter if its radio, SiriusXM, Spotify, or whatever they all degenerate into a small number of repeated songs.

I loathe this pigeonholing. It makes finding something new you might like REALLY hard.

For example, I don't want an "80s station" with the same old crap. How about a station that plays all the songs released since 1990 by those 80s artists? Nope. Nada.

Or, how about just the other tracks from the same albums. Sure, you've heard "Faithfully" from Journey's "Frontiers" album a zillion times and hate it. Have you heard "Chain Reaction", "Edge of the Blade" or "Frontiers" from the album? Bet you haven't and if you hate their sappy ballads you're likely to enjoy those tracks.

Or, God forbid, brand new artists that sound like what you want. Try coughing up Blossoms from liking 80s. You might get there if you really work by starting from the very specific "jangle pop" angle.

Ever heard anything from "Blackstar" out in public? I know I sure haven't.

However, I would also argue that music is simply a LOT less important to today's youth. It's background noise while doing some other activity and not an activity in and unto itself.
Kind of reinforces the allegations of being CCP owned and compromised and not an independent entity. If you have poison pill provisions.
I would like to ask a few questions here.
What key architectural innovations does the APU introduce to achieve its unprecedented performance and efficiency for AI agent workloads, and how do these design choices differ from existing AI chip architectures?

How can the APU's tight hardware-software co-design approach, with the hardware optimized for common agent algorithms and an open software stack, streamline the development and deployment of intelligent agent systems across diverse domains?

In what ways does the APU's open source nature and collaborative development model have the potential to accelerate innovation in AI hardware and software, compared to proprietary approaches?

How can the APU's cloud-based agile development methodology, leveraging open source EDA tools and PDKs, enable a more efficient and accessible chip design process, and what challenges need to be overcome to make this vision a reality?

As the APU aims to catalyze a new wave of intelligent systems spanning research, startups, and industry, what specific application areas or sectors do you envision being most transformed by this technology, and how will it enable new possibilities in these domains?
I give TikTok negative benefit of the doubt though. Nobody can prove if the stream of craziness is organic or a result of Chinese propagandists tuning the algorithm, but I'll believe it's the latter every time. Could I even afford not to? It's just game theory at this point.

> None of it seem to be making us progress forward tbh

The Nirvana Fallacy is when you reject the better of two outcomes because it's not good enough compared to some mythical optimum.

In this case, the optimum could be some social media service that "strengthens progress and unity" or it could be a total ban on social media altogether, both of which seem pretty mythical. :p

I believe organic, chaotic derangement is better than extrinsic, targeted derangement in magnitude and outcome.
I think this wired article is an excellent dive into the issue. Focuses on Taiwan, which has seen an insane rise in myopia.

https://archive.is/ybLnZ
Reciprocation is actually the policy more likely to get China to open up. As long as they can impose rules on US companies with impunity, while we stand back and give them free reign in our market, they have a zero likelihood of compromising.
Anytime I’ve come across the need to do this, I’ve found a class is a better and less complicated solution.

I really like the pattern of value objects from Domain Driven Design. Create a class that stores the value, for example email address.

In the class constructor, take a string and validate it. Then anywhere that you need a valid email address, have it accept an instance of the Email class.

As far as I understand classes are the only real way to get nominal typing in TypeScript.
Reality Labs includes a bunch of AI stuff. I assume a bunch of this is training compute for Llama 3/4
nope, that's not for me; I want light-weight manually curated progman-groups where i can mix projects, tasks and collections and get back what docks and the inflexible menu system make so hard to realize. Even even a decent menu system that understood browser bookmark format and tags and .dirinfo files would do.
Surprising NASA isn’t stepping up to pay
I picked my username so I'd remember that very word...
Lidar is blinded by reflective signage.
> Probably because it’s harder to attend shows

This is maybe true if we talk about superstar kind of show. But I think it's now easier than ever to find out about little gigs, which were hard to find before social networks.

I live in medium size capital city (Belgrade), there are options to listen to live music every single day. Sometimes it's just classic music, sometimes there are cover bands, but quite often there's a chance to listen to original music. And these small gigs are quite cheap or even free. I very often listen a song or two (Spotify or youtube really help with this!), then if it looks promising I listen to some more while walking to the show.

Sure, sometimes it's not good. But very often I like it a lot and you can bet I listen to it much more focused then if that same music came on autoplay at home.

If you're in big enough city or have something bigger nearby - find a way to discover new gigs, follow venues, event organizers, local cultural institutions, festivals, etc. That's my main use of Facebook.
Yeah I was curious about that baby. Do they know how it looks, or just guess? What about the next video with the animals. The leaves on the bush, are they matching a tree found there, or just generic leaves perhaps from the wrong side of the world?

I guess it will be like people pointing out bird sounds in movies, that those birds don't exist in that country.
> US ownership or get banned

Wrong. Read it again very carefully.
I'm tired of ANY-quality AI content; if I go to a company's website and it's full of SEO chum I'm closing the tab and never going back.
IIRC the half-width version of these switches are not advertised as having PTP support. I wouldn't have the first clue if it's straightforward to configure it to work with upstream linux but I do use PTP with Dell SmartFabric OS10 so there is likely some way to achieve it.

As impressive as it is, switchdev is a big departure from "Linux networking" though. This is not a great platform if that is your main objective. The interfaces are not "normal" in that respect and huge subsystems of the Linux network stack do not apply.
But he rhymed “data” (in British pronunciation, “dattah”) with “later”!
Doesn't seem much contrasting. Dao concept sounds quite similar to the concept of Dharma outlaid in Bhagavad Gita.

Wu-Wei sounds very much like Karma Yoga and Yin-Yang too. It's all very much like the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita.
Yes, at least half blind. But an eye for nothing but complacence often results in two eyes for nothing ... and handing your adversary full advantage.
There are many videos out there recorded from radio communications between traffic control and planes where a non-pilot has had to take over the controls due to incapacitation or death of their pilot. It goes nothing like this author suggests.

Far more useful would be information on how to check the radio frequency and how to switch to guard if you can't raise anyone.
37 million Kelvin
That saying applies to things you cannot take back, like blinding someone, not trade agreements. It's also like an eye for 200 eyes at this point. Tit-for-tat (or some softer variation) is pretty standard diplomatic protocol.
MAH BOI
Look over on Reddit at r/ContractorUK it seems no one is getting any work.
Watchexec
Sure, that's a valid concern to have, and I'm not saying the bill is a great idea. I'm just pointing out that there's nothing automatic about the process and the clock to divestment wouldn't immediately start ticking the moment a company crosses 20% Chinese ownership. The person I was responding to said the bill could get weaponized by the CCP to ban things via the threat of them acquiring more than 20% ownership, but that's not how the bill works.
Not being a user of Spotify nor other services, I can only say that I continue to find new music in each decade. And I like much of newer music better than the old classics (which is saying something because I started listening in the 1960s). Thus what Parris says doesn't speak to me.
I just got an interesting[0] response from Claude 3 Opus:

> I don't believe there was an episode of Gilligan's Island that centered around mind reading. The show ran for 3 seasons from 1964-1967 and featured the comic adventures of 7 castaways on an uncharted island. Typical plotlines involved their efforts to get rescued and zany schemes by Gilligan that would go awry. But to my knowledge, none of the 98 episodes had a storyline focused on mind reading or telepathic abilities.

It's probably the closest I can remember seeing an LLM get to saying "I don't know". "I don't believe there was" at least acknowledges the possibility of being incorrect and should prompt a careful user to do further research.

[0] Also interesting is that one of the article's comments shows Opus giving the correct episode title but incorrect details. So ... mixed bag.
Dub side of the moon (2003) is an absolute masterpiece of alternative covers.

Sometimes I forget their version of Breathe isn't the original.
Western platforms were losing to Chinese ones in PRC before they were blocked. When hammer came down to enforce onerous human moderation on ALL platforms in PRC, western platforms chose not to comply, because adding layer of human moderation at the time wasn't worth the cost/optics. This was a time when PRC domestic platforms had 10,000s of humans in the loop and western ones had essentially none. Why do you think Facebook and Google both had internal projects to re-enter PRC market after they scaled up human moderation in west? That's what fair competition is - facebook, google et al blocking what PRC gov wants blocked and handing over info on dissident according to who PRC says are dissidents. All expensive things PRC platforms has to do. AKA "fair" competitive enironment. Thinking western platforms should compete in PRC without following PRC laws is insipid. Fair would also be the TikTok/Oracle JV where Oracle responsible for US interests, like PRC has for Microsoft. Nevermind half the reason western platforms were blocked was because they were unmoderated platforms that helped organize extremist attacks that caused 2009 minority riots. It's one thing to block TikTok if TikTok allowed 9/11 and refused to do anything about it, it's another when they do what every other US platform does, but just better.
Deregulation Destroyed Indie Rock Across America
Yes, they have their reasons. They always do, tradeoff etc, I know.

It doesn't change the fact that ie. adding private member is breaking change in your library which is kind of funny (until it's not funny of course).

Also stuff like:

class Foo { private foo = 1 }
class Bar {}
const a: Bar = new Foo

...typechecks so that's it for nominality.

It's all ifs all the way down.
Soon to be built into Ansible Automation Platform. Should only cost $100 per managed resource.
In early elementary-school I would memorize what color clothes my friends were wearing each morning, so that during outdoor recess I could find them without meandering between clusters of kids trying to get close enough to check faces.

Then with glasses: "You mean everybody sees like this!?"

So I was already nearsighted when I still cared about climbing trees and trampolines etc., the books and computers phase came later.
I read that vitamin d deficiency might be related to myopia. It seems controversial though.
The old school way still works too:

5. Listen to the radio.
Why are you responding to your own posts? This thread is bizarre.
Most hilarious attempt at moving goalposts I've seen all week - this conversation has been about whether or not its bad for California the whole time, now you're switching to say whether or not its good for the FTC! Just funny
"Give up" is not really the appropriate terminology, the board of directors are the only ones that really have a say in acquisitions, and if the offer was given with a sufficient premium their own choice is limited by willingness to face shareholder lawsuits if they turn it down.
The conversation is K = C + 273.15.

At high temperatures, it’s essentially a rounding error.
Next up is probably vicissitudes, then
Hah, thanks, I sort of suspected as much, weird as US id stuff is. Like if you'd told me 20+ years ago that the federal government can't get states to standardize their ids even in full anti-terrorism super saiyan mode, I'd have thought that was bullshit too.
It's not just similitude. It's veri. Similitude.
I think you've lost the thread. Here's the comment you were originally responding to in the context of our back-and-forth:

>Nobody wealthy is sitting around scheming how to keep the proles dumb and subdued.

To which you replied:

>"the idea that rich assholes would like to keep the education level of the general population below a threatening threshold is not conspiracy thinking to me, it's just obvious."

To which I replied:

>"The irony is that one of the largest contributions to the public library system was one of the richest guys ever."

It was all about the conspiracy that the wealthy actively suppress education until you went off the rails on a completely different rant.
Other than a period around 2012-13, IBM's market cap is higher than it's ever been.
Looks like something didn't quite work out this quarter: https://i.imgur.com/r80sPwT.jpeg
Usually during an acquisition like this, the key staff are paid out after two years on board the new company. So not a non-compete, but an incentive to stay and get their payout.

Most staff with no equity will leave quickly of course, so the invalidity of non compete will definitely help those souls.