skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Safeguard National Security – The Commission will have the ability to revoke the authorizations of foreign-owned entities who pose a threat to national security to operate broadband networks in the U.S. The Commission has previously exercised this authority under section 214 of the Communications Act to revoke the operating authorities of four Chinese state-owned carriers to provide voice services in the U.S. Any provider without section 214 authorization for voice services must now also cease any fixed or mobile broadband service operations in the United States.

That seems rather vague. The timing is also rather interesting, given the forced divestiture of TikTok.
> I made changes that impacted
> tens of millions of users in...
> no significant way whatsoever.
> Certainly not anything they'd
> remember on their deathbed [...]

Going into defense to directly contribute to someone's deathbed experience is certainly one way to guarantee that you'll make it memorable.
Would love an open and dumb TV. A phone would also be nice.
The supreme court has a long history of overturning its rulings years, or decades, later

https://constitution.congress.gov/resources/decisions-overru...
I haven't reviewed this particular repo, but I've seen a bunch of these "de-bloat" scripts that do sketchy things, including from people calling themselves "ntdev labs" before. Removing annoying built-in apps (malware?) is one thing. But removing it by bypassing ACLs on system files is another. You don't want to leave your Windows image in a non-supported state which might compromise future Windows security updates from working.

Honestly I think a better answer is to not use Windows, but I'm aware that's not an option for some.
It is important to listen to your body and mind, and for sure - make changes when things are bad. Staying with abusive partners is not worth it.

However it can take a while to realize the problems and manage to get out. This may have effects that last for a good while.
People do not deserve abuse or the negative effects of such abuse, just because they technically could have made a change, or made it earlier.
I still play FPS games specifically to keep my reflexes up. Its a good thing to have going into adult years.
> Gun manufacturers somehow don't get sued into oblivion for how their products are used.

If they were what about cars, knives, forks, pointy objects, plastic bags, bricks, hammers, machetes, &c.
I assume there will be revenue sharing between Tesla and the car owner. Tesla can't force people to give them electricity for free.
Windows 10 LTSC IOT will get security updates for the next 8 years.

And it's already slimmed down enough to be a decent daily driver, without having to bother with 3rd party scripts.
Ongoing discussion: [0] (37 points, 17 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40160429
Apparently one individual was first to react and discuss these at length over twitter, and they convinced themselves that these takedown notices were not genuine:

>They previously argued that the takedown notices couldn't be from the Japanese gaming giant, because Nintendo add-ons have been around since 2005 and because the company would've contacted Valve, the publisher of Garry's Mod, itself.

The nonsensical logical leap of an internet detective. Instead of positive evidence, they make an inference from the absence of information, attaching great meaning to that inference. And then, with that rickety scaffolding, proceed to assert the claims were not legitimate.

There are probably innumerably many reasons, relating to idiosyncracies of where and how Nintendo allocates their resources, the discoverability and motivation to prioritize, that can account for timing.

I think if there's such a thing as Internet Detective Syndrome, it's core defining feature would be the inability to comprehend the extent to which facts are really just idiosyncratic nothingburgers, because reality itself really is that disorganized and without meaning sometimes. Sometimes the facts are just circumstantial, and not key clues that demand special explanation or attribution of special motivations.
I mean, a monarchy is also a system, but I also recognize that's not what you're talking about.

I'm inclined to agree, though I do think there's a disproportionate amount of influence in some groups. I also worry that the true danger of an artificial super-intelligence is not in a SkyNet-like scenario, but a more subtle and slower influence over global societies via trade and economics. It already more or less runs the world in abstract, so a thing that can understand all the complexities and manipulate them with capital has the potential to be very dangerous.
It always depends where you are. IBM is huge and mostly stupid, but they do have some good people and teams via their "hire by acquisition " strategy that are golden handcuffed.
Yet in functioning legislative bodies (think: parliamentary systems), employing something like Hastert doesn't require any enforcement at all.

They don't typically require supermajorities to pass laws, and those in the minority don't have the means to substantively object to bills they disagree with.

A man can dream.
Ongoing discussion: [0] (70 points, 38 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40160429
For Chrome, some apparmor policy relaxation would likely be needed: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/noble-numbat-release-notes/39...
> and today the difference is mainly in the decoding stage

Reordering RISC-like instructions is also lot easier than reordering complex ones. A larger set of architectural registers also makes that easier.
Only recently? They've had non-game products for decades. They had branded breakfast cereal back in the late '80s, the Mario, Zelda, and Captain N cartoons, the first Super Mario Bros. movie was released in 1993, etc.
Researchers create artificial cells that act like living cells
Yes this was my experience too. It was like a hydra. Say no to 1 campaign, get 2 more new campaigns tomorrow
There’s an “epubviewer” but no EPUB?
What about people who live north of the Arctic Circle?
I blame this squarely on the congress. Congress has been the weakest it’s ever been, passing almost nothing substantial. If we had to rely on them to ensure basic things like drug approvals we never have anything. They can barely get funding passed to fund themselves!
Unreasonable pessimism considering state of the art velocity. Determinism, while a challenge to solve for, is not entirely impossible. There is value even if you're using an LLM to code assist with integration builds (using OpenAPI specs) or breakage when an API changes suddenly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35631555

(contributed for several years at a low code/no code prodcut org, familiar with integration maintenance and what integrating with APIs at scale looks like)
??? There's nobody forcing you to have an account at a cloud provider. There are many other choices.

If you really do not trust someone else to operate a computer on your behalf, you can operate one yourself.
22.04 LTS users are advised to wait until August for 24.04.1: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/noble-numbat-release-notes/39...
Not if the agencies have leverage over Congress.
Betting the HDMI port is connected to the NVIDIA GPU too. That might be great for gaming, but NVIDIA drivers are still a mess on modern Linux, especially if they have to render your desktop.
Great! I'm looking forward to seeing this requirement applied to also dissolve the judicial branch entirely so that Congress is entirely responsible for both enforcment and adjudication of the law. Let's work together to end separation of powers.
If you're planning on joining a business to learn the field, then leaving to start your own company in the same domain, then yes, it certainly could be.
No, that is just one part of it. The proposed rules are intended to cover both EO13984, which addresses foreign entities using US IaaS for Cyber attacks, and EO14110 which addresses foreign entities using AI hardware.

They require all IaaS[1] to determine if customers are US persons, and if not to collect and retain certain identifying information[2], and provide annual reports describing their processes[3]. It grants the Secretary of Commerce extra-judicial power to force any IaaS to stop doing business with any foreign customer, or place restrictions on their use[4]. This section lists things that the Secretary should consider in doing so, but doesn't have any hard requirements. Finally, it requires the IaaS to report certain foreign use of AI[5].

[1]§7.301 https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2024-01580/p-189

[2]§7.302 https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2024-01580/p-219

[3]§7.304 https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2024-01580/p-266

[4]§7.307 https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2024-01580/p-377

[5]§7.308 https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2024-01580/p-403
Not necessarily (although that doesn't necessarily mean I think this is OK). Payment-card-based verification is a longstanding method of doing prima-facie verification like this. When you give your credit card, you give your billing address and typically your phone number -- if the postal code is a US address and the phone number is a US area code and everything else is consistent with that, that might be all the KYC required. If you appear to be a foreign national operating outside the US, they can flag that and require additional paperwork only then.

This proposed rule looks to me like it basically requires providers to come up with their own verification plans, which may then differ from provider to provider, so as to be "flexible and minimally burdensome to their business operations".

[note for the following: I am not a lawyer. The following is not legal advice. Do not fold, spindle or multilate. Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.]

The real danger, I think, with things like this is, there's an executive order that was issued, but it further specified a rulemaking process be conducted to determine the actual regulations that define compliance. The link in the title is to the proposed rule. There's nothing that says any amount of prior public input will necessarily influence the details of the final rule, or that rule can't change in the future through another rulemaking process, and if it does the only way to challenge it is either to sue the agency on the grounds that it exceeded its discretion (e.g. by making rules that require unconstitutional things) or that the enabling executive order is itself unconstitutional -- but these kinds of federal cases have a pretty high bar for what's called "standing" (the legal grounds to bring a particular lawsuit): you pretty much have to suffer concrete harm or be in obvious and imminent danger of suffering it to a grievous degree. (This is one reason you hear about "test cases" -- often somebody will agree to be the goat who is denied something, fined, or even arrested and convicted of a crime, so that standing to sue to overturn the law can be established.) Other times, if a lot of potential defendants already have standing, a particularly sympathetic defendant will be selected for the actual challenge. The US federal courts are also deferential to "agency discretion" by default, as a matter of doctrine.

What happens all too often with these things is, the initial rulemaking is pretty reasonable, and the public outrage (if there was any) dissipates. Then three years (or however long) on, the next rulemaking imposes onerous restrictions and strict criteria, and people suddenly (relatively speaking) wake up and find they're now in violation of federal regulations that they were in compliance with last week. (This is one reason public-interest groups are so critical -- they have the motivation and sustained attention to comb the Federal Register for announcements about upcoming rounds of rulemaking on various topics.)
Use Windows 10 LTSC IOT. It's already fairly slimmed down so it's good enough to be a daily driver. It's also supported until at least 2028 if memory serves, possibly longer?

If you want to go further, something like https://www.ntlite.com can be used to remove unnecessary services.
The Court was clear in Heller that "no right is unlimited," but that still does not mean that reinterpreting this specific, independent 200-year-old clause is what would legally enable regulation of the right to bear arms.

The "well-regulated militia" argument was quickly defused by the Court because these people are actual legal scholars with extensive, relevant English and history educations.
That’s my case across all others too, so much eassier to debut by checking the dom in an instant rather go through the debugger process
Wouldn’t their legislation only affect California isp?
>widely-accepted-as-positive increase to liberty.

This is applying a hindsight bias. Do you think it was widely-accepted-as-a-positive when first implemented? Similarly, I don’t know that we can pretend to know a-priori whether changes to the status quo on gun rights may be seen as a “widely” accepted positive or negative.

I think your personal opinion is relevant because it gives context. Forums aren’t the greatest when it comes to nuanced discussion, and understanding someones thought process helps to understand if they take an appropriately nuanced view. When it’s clear they do not, there’s not much interest in further discussion because they lose some credibility.
I should have said, "re-allowed." But yes, and after that first movie, Nintendo really didn't want to let anyone else near their IP for a long, long time.

The Acquired episodes on Nintendo are great btw, and cover this extensively:

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nintendo

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/nintendo-the-console-wars

From Wikipedia:

Released on May 28, 1993, Super Mario Bros. was a critical and financial failure, grossing $38.9 million worldwide against a budget of $42–48 million. Though appearing on several lists of the worst films ever made, it has developed a following over the years,[9][10] and has been reappraised by some as a cult classic for being "so bad it's good".[11][12][13] In 2013, a webcomic sequel was produced in collaboration with Bennett. After Super Mario Bros., Nintendo would not license another film based on the Super Mario game series for 30 years, until an animated reboot titled The Super Mario Bros. Movie was released on April 5, 2023.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros._(film)
Single dose creatine improves cognitive performance during sleep deprivation
Aberystwyth in Wales.
neat project! how have you found resource usage and startup time compares with SQLite?
I mean you’re not wrong, this is getting pretty far into the weeds in terms of typescript syntax.
Ubuntu feels less interesting now that they screwed up LXD.

They still have non-FOSS drivers and multipass going for them, but nowadays Debian feels like a better and much cleaner option.
Would you like to make a wager on that? I would be prepared to bet money (and give you very generous odds) that, contra your claim, if Biden is re-elected in November the FCC will not undo this change and remove net neutrality afterward.
What you describe is the abuse of the power. In the list of US emergencies 80% are sanctions (which qualify as emergencies I would say bc they would not work), 15% real emergencies and the there are the ones which start to be controversial. All what I am saying is: it is a tool for an government. Governments do things wrong. They wrongfully arrest, invade countries, collaterally murder, take bribes, etc. That is daily happening. And the courts and Parlament habe the job to fix , prevent or correct that.

It is not easy to run your life, company or government org without doing once in a while something wrong. It is how you behave afterwards and overall which matters.
This looks an awful lot (suspiciously so) like the FrameWork, but with none of the repairability?

https://frame.work/ca/en/products/laptop-13-gen-intel?q=proc...

It's the same price too, maybe even slightly more expensive - so I'm not sure who the market for this is. Any laptop (almost) can install Fedora.
More proof of the US decadence... After the moral abyss with the its role in the Israeli genocide against the Palestinians. All its colonial wars in Eurasia... Now comes the tech decadence... No need to talk about the abysmal debt....
4x8 CNCs with a vacuum table really aren't faster. Even the watercooled CNCs I've used are still too slow for joinery. All the furniture shops I've worked in have been dominated by the Domino for most joinery tasks.
It's already actively in use to edit and clean up podcast recordings. This use case is basically identical to the malicious case, it's all about who's doing it and what their intent is. If it's fixing a word you stumbled on, or replacing an inaccurate quote with an accurate one, that's fine, but other things are problematic.

Someone who is losing the ability to speak might want to have this tech so they can still have somewhat normal phone calls with their loved ones.

I think the potential for abuse is pretty high with this tech but it's foolish to pretend we can keep it from being used.
im also not clear/sold on the value proposition or perhaps im misunderstanding things but

How does Nango differ from existing solutions? Seems like everybody is working on on programmatic "Zapier" (if thats what this is?) with OpenAI wrapper thrown over it.
> I'm still waiting for AMD or Intel to make a RISC-V chip that drops in one of their existing sockets

There was once a MIPS CPU that was a drop-in replacement for the 80486. It required, of course, a different BIOS.

This is one good thing OpenFirmware had going for it.
It's the opposite - we're way less centralized now. No one cares about what's on the radio or MTV anymore. We have infinite access to every song ever* for $11 a month, and the recommendation algorithms will happily show you music outside the mainstream and outside the current decade if that's what keeps you listening.

*yes this is hyperbole
I come back to that keyboard solo on Lingus every couple of months and it never fails to make my hairs stand on edge. Absolutely legendary.

Larnell Lewis also delivered a world-class performance on that entire album.
yeah, a lot like that actually

I like cryptography, the blockchain, decentralization etc. but the pitch of almost every ICO is- get in now and become massively rich (at the expense of people joining later), almost the exact same dynamic as investing in a company like Visa.
> . It's the idea that every internet packet needs to be tied back to some verified identity

There's been multiple attempts to do this. Via KOSA and a few others lately in our Congress. PR friendly candidates like Duckworth have been trying to walk this through the system.
My rule of thumb is Go is better for writing software, Rust is better for running software.

If I'm prototyping or experimenting, I'm much more productive in Go. If I have a well-specified protocol or something that works that I want to be faster, more secure, or importable via C ABI, I'd go Rust.

In practice this means I almost never use Rust.
With you on this one. As a European, I can't help but laugh at the comments in this thread. Words like 'obviously', 'clearly' when it comes to the dangers of TikTok and not a single piece of evidence. It's hilarious to see the psyopped scream psyops.
Look at what they did with the Phoenix project for Canadian Government. They are not the same IBM they were 50 years ago. Now they are a consulting firm that employ cheap labor.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15303555
I'd flip it and say its what happens when Congress has been dysfunctional for over a decade. It's not even possible to get a house bill with net neutrality passed without it included 99 other things that will inevitably get the bill punted on forever.

Congress could have drafted this anytime if they had seen fit, but they are "too busy" fighting ideology wars.
Yeah I'm sure it'll be great and we will think about every single potential side effects, just like with asbestos, DDT, lead in gas, freon in fridges, &c.

We're most likely utterly fucked whatever we do unless we go back to live like pre industrial revolution humans
Not really. There has been a continuous stream of pro-consumer actions out of the Biden admin since day one. Lots of anti-trust activity in really critical sectors, for example.

You’re not paying very close attention if you can’t spot any substantive differences between the two sides.
Today's news is that ByteDance says they'd prefer just to shut down TikTok rather than sell because:

1) Their algorithms (presumably video recommendations) are proprietary and used by their other Chinese apps

2) TikTok revenue isn't that significant for them

Maybe these reasons are bogus, but I'd not be surprised if they do refuse to sell.
Eh... I wouldn't say so much.

I'd expect that if Biden gets a second term, then after the election you can basically expect little to no action for the next 3 years. Business as usual... ish. Major changes will likely happen before the next election just to try and keep a democrat in office.

The Trump second term will likely immediately start with rolling back things like Net Neutrality. Biden's admin likely wouldn't do that as that'd keep them from getting cabinet positions in the future and Trump's admin will do it right away because it can both be sold as a referendum on the previous admin and would help them get future positions for the next republican president.

For trump, I doubt he'll do anything at the end of his term different from the beginning. I really don't think Trump cares about keeping republicans in office.
I'm fully in support of net neutrality, but I'm somewhat surprised they're restoring it, as I have not really heard a peep about it since it was repealed in the first place. From my perspective, nothing about the internet changed since then (my experience did not upgrade or downgrade). People stopped talking about it, there weren't major protests, news about it even largely disappeared from the front page of HN (!). So, I would be beyond shocked if this was an election year issue of substance. What, then, is the impetus for restoring the net neutrality rules, given there is always some political cost to any action like this? Has the lack of net neutrality caused issues that I just have not heard about?
Go find any GUR operator in Ukraine and ask them what they think of Anduril

Their proprietary controller doesn’t work with TAK or qgc and they keep everything closed with no interop with the actual FPV or other systems in use daily

Unusable in actual war
> We established the Fed (and later, the FDIC) because people were sick and tired of bankers controlling monetary policy and wiping out their life savings

The Great Depression, the savings and loan crisis, and the GFC all happened after the establishment of the Federal Reserve. Sure, I guess you could claim that all of those would have been worse without the Fed, but reasonable minds can differ on that without being an "ancap".
This paper is bad and Gizmodo should feel bad.

Besides making ridiculous and unsupported causal claims (as other commenters have noted), the results are really poor (R score of 0.2). They show that the model achieves human-level performance, which is also really poor. Then they run it on natural images of politicians and the results are significantly worse. What the paper actually shows is that facial appearance can not consistently predict political alignment, but the authors want to try really hard to do it anyway.
Which is democracy working as intended and not a cynical thing at all.