skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to be back at your Mac to install a new profile to circumvent the whitelist, you can't do it from inside your phone.

Yes the whole of Safari can be white/blacklisted, although the way I have it set up if you're in an app with a webview it's still using Safari under the hood, and if that web view lets you browse to an arbitrary site then it can be circumventable that way. You can presumably lock it down further to prevent this, e.g. force the phone to use a specific VPN that you can then control to whitelist certain domains.
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Yeah, "the West" lost a lot of goodwill in the region in the last couple of decades to be able to talk from such a high moral ground. I don't have any studies — they're probably impossible to run in an autocratic state — but in my country among people I've talked with through my life all major powers are viewed with roughly the same suspicion. It depends a lot on who you're talking to. If people are worried of possible secession of territory to China or Russia, they're equally worried about Western powers supporting "the fifth column" and color revolutions. Let's not pretend here they don't have any reasons to be worried.
They're right, at least a third is nonsense slop.

You're right that some fraction of people reaching out for into wouldn't be reaching out for info if the info was readily available.

This is very true, to the point its reflexively and obviously true.

It does not falsify the lived experience you'll have at a business with contact forms, be it for job applications, or product inquiries.

> Saying "crap" comes through the door because the process is frictionless is like saying a person died of suffocation instead of that they were strangled in a domestic dispute

This has to win some sort of prize for analogies.

Here's mine:

An open contact form on the internet is like leaving your front door wide open in a busy city. Sure, some people might wander in because they couldn't find your house number, but you'll also get lost tourists asking for directions, door-to-door salespeople hawking their wares, and the occasional raccoon looking for a snack. No amount of information on your facade will prevent the guy who thinks your living room is a public restroom from stumbling in.
First, large companies get to substitute fair wages with welfare and social safety nets, now they’re substituting customer service with the court system?

How is this all acceptable? Socializing the risk and privatizing the profit is a moral disaster.
ASCII only?
These often tag along in the US as add-on, enhancing or easier to prove items on investigations that have little to do with them. Money was involved but not reported to the IRS: IRS. Anything at all went through the mail: USPS. It says nothing about the core issues being investigated.
Anthropic uses both.

From Claude 3's technical report:

Like its predecessors, Claude 3 models employ various training methods, such as unsupervised learning and Constitutional AI [6]. These models were trained using hardware from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with core frameworks including PyTorch [7], JAX [8], and Triton [9].

JAX's GPU support is practically non-existent, it is only used on TPUs.
>There seems to be a pattern of garbage collection companies involved in corruption cases

FTFY.

Garbage business is the mafia's oldest racket in the US.
Oakland is a dumpster fire. Not surprised if the Mayor turns out to be involved in money laundering schemes. Hopefully the FBI's investigation will proceed faster than the recall vote.
Bluesky feed for remembrances: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/fe...
In the US, pardons and jury nullification would both be able to fix such obviously unjust outcomes. Does Germany not have anything like either of those things?
She wasn’t the target. She will cut a deal for cooperation or for testimony against…
Seems like it would be a great feature on github, or for a standalone site, if a critical mass of usage could be reached and the site was trustworthy (i.e. not trying to monetize the information somehow).
The act of congress that became law doing this is Division H of this bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/815 (ctrl-f "DIVISION H" to find the relevant text)

It's not long, to quote it omitting definitions, enforcement mechanisms, timelines, and appeals process (which are also not long and I encourage you to read if you have questions as to the details):

> (Sec. 2) This division prohibits distributing, maintaining, updating, or providing internet hosting services for a foreign adversary controlled application (e.g., TikTok). However, the prohibition does not apply to a covered application that executes a qualified divestiture as determined by the President.

> Additionally, the division requires a covered foreign adversary controlled application to provide a user with all available account data (including posts, photos, and videos) at the user's request before the prohibition takes effect. The account data must be provided in a machine-readable format.

So yeah, if tiktok makes an apk available on a non-us server it looks like you should just need to download and install it (assuming the bill goes into affect and bytedance doesn't divest/the courts don't stop it). It's not a particularly broad ban, nor does it seem like it needs to be to be effective.
What do you mean by "to hold office"? How does this help a politician hold to power?
New laws always overrule older laws. Most legal systems, including the EU, have a constitution, that is harder to change and that governs what laws are allowed or not (the UK is rather unique in not really having such a law, so that in principle Parliament is free to pass any law they want).

Enshrining a right to private communication and online anonimity into the EU constitution would probably prevent such laws from having any hope to go into effect, but that's a massive undertaking that I don't think would easily succeed.
Is it just me or has the FBI has been on a roll lately. [1] [2]

[1] https://www.inquirer.com/news/new-jersey/george-norcross-ind...

[2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bob-menendez-trial-gold-bars-ca...
I think the real concern is not protectionism per se, but the ability of China to run influence operations through TikTok (as you hinted at), which to be fair is a real concern. However, "banning" TikTok is pretty shortsighted and isn't even addressing the real problem. I would ask how we got to a place where so many Americans are susceptible to propaganda.

This is coming at it from a different angle (kids' mental health), but it's still a move in the right direction:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/17/media/surgeon-general-social-...

It doesn't restrict anybody's freedom, but people who didn't give it much thought before may start putting social media into the "questionable" bucket, and those who were already wary may start putting it into the "bad" bucket. At that point it will be much easier to have a real conversation about harms associated with social media. But if that effort goes anywhere, it will take a long time.
The second article isn't the best link, the satiety score metric isn't as good as in 1st link
+1 from me too. This would be awesome
I don't think it's necessarily bad for the US government to prioritize US propaganda over Chinese propaganda. It's basic game theory. The Chinese will use their power to try to influence US citizens.

I trust the government of the United States far more than I trust the government of China. Ban the hell out of this idiotic app. It will not only be good for national security but also for the national psyche.
>The median operating margins for hospitals is around 0% or some times negative. Injecting more costs into the system is only going to push prices further upward.

Well if they can't run themselves within a budget constraint and require outside subsidy/transfers to function, they should be public services rather than private firms, for-profit or nonprofit.
It's a CCP ban, not a TikTok ban. TikTok can continue to do exactly what they've been doing, just without the CCP oversight, control and reporting.
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No, because it's complicated to run, and difficult to the point of impossible for a normal small amount of servers to withstand a DDOS. Why do we get our electricity from the power company, even though there are occasionally outages? We could just all get generators and battery-backed solar, but that would be expensive and hard to maintain. The scale of AWS, Cloudflare, Akamai, etc. make them less bad at it that the average company that needs a website. It's the same reason we don't all have our own mailservers.
Or people just aren’t reporting crime because at this point, in many places, it’s fruitless.

I know I don’t report crime anymore, got robbed in Seattle recently, didn’t bother calling it in.
There goes my 2hrs of sleep, trying to solve feeling that I was close to solving, only to see myself draw shapes that I have never seen or imagined in my life.

Well in the end it was fun, but the warning is very misleading at least from a game perspective. I have played games at the same level but it certainly wasnt this hard, haha...

But hey, saying that it was difficult, was the only thing that kept me going for 2hrs, only to be annoyed and have a face palm moment after seeing the answer.

Nonetheless it's good post
You know Go has generics right? They took the time to get them right, but then they did.
It's a Chinese company, why would they care about the US trying to sue them? The US will need to block, remove, and sanction.
Yes, this is why I think Laravel is superior to Rails in terms of out of the box functionalities, but I digress.

In the short term, it's fine to use community solutions, but over time, Adonis should bring those things in-house. They also need to find a proper way to monetize the framework so that the core team has the incentive to stick around for a few years to build something truly great. I think this has been the biggest issue with JS world, very few people can and will stick to working on something for long periods of time to make it really good.

The Laravel team figured out the monetization by building out pro-level tools in their ecosystem that people are willing to pay for.
The people are friendly and welcoming, and the scenery is amazing. As a tourist, I don't much mind paying a few bribes to policemen (who barely get paid a wage), and I can stand to keep my mouth shut about their president when I'm there (even though he's obviously a bastard). But it's painful to think what it must be like to live there and have nowhere else to go.
Curious, why do you say Node.js works best served directly after a load balancer? Genuinely just wondering, never heard this before.
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The rise of AI-powered killer robot drones
Ooh we had a one of those!

They organised an in-person demo at our office after they filled in the online forms for their "multi-million dollar drinks distribution company", right in our target zone of customer type and size. So we had a few salespeople present to give a swish demo and hopefully win them over.

Turned out to be a 15 year old doing door to door sales of his home made ginger beer. He told us our (half the price of the nearest competitor) product was too expensive for what it was and that we would never succeed in business like he would.

Kudos to our sales guys though: After the initial shock and eye rolling, they treated them like the large business they claimed to be and just used the time to practice their demo/sales techniques.
Those who really need SSO are willing to pay extra — why not charge them more for something that is useful for them?
Generally speaking outside of constitutional questions, most legislatures cannot bind their successors. So yes, new laws can be written most of the time in most places.
Yes, correct, and mentioned in the abstract. Sorry, I was imprecise and wrong.

Thanks for the links!
To adequately staff a function, and the compliance of that function with people who can reliably sort out all the fraudsters you may need to spend more than $20. A higher price would also filter out a lot of fraudsters all by itself. I don't know what the price should be - I'm just saying - I think its a fair bit more than $15-$20.
Sure, but if a truck that picked up sorted plastic arrives at the landfill, it's going to be dumped all in one place. If at any time in the future we devise a way to efficiently get rid of it, it's easier to remove it from one single place, than having to sift through tonnes of unsorted trash.

I frankly think that an enterprise that can build robots able to sort landfills would make mint.
Couldn't they vent the capsule well before docking with Hubble? I assume the contamination comes from venting the capsule nearby the telescope.
Courts are a fundamental part of a Democracy.

There should be an exponential back-off algorithm for proposals. The public should be able to ask a judge to decide whether a new proposal triggers the back-off or whether it's a new one that can be proposed immediately.
This isn't surprising, fox news and other news networks barrage their viewers with crime reports constantly telling them crime is on the rise, then when this report came out they said "but doesn't it feel like crime is on the rise?"

Like yea cause you barrage your viewers with a torrent of fear mongering nonsense
Meta has automated "support" via their website(s). They certainly have not run out of money, they are quite profitable.
Looks like this will be changing for the better soon:
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-indu...

Even plastic-backed paper (ie, not PFAS) is much better than a fully plastic container, so I support his.
I read the patent. It is BS, literally bunch of garbage in a file.
Murder is almost always reported and has been on a decline, along with general violent crime, since the 90s
Good catch. And not a new issue then with that article from 2020.
How has this been proven wrong? Meta is enormously profitable despite this tiny number of small claims lawsuits. If anything they have proven that customer service is a waste of money.
Personally I think we can make good use of sortition to inject legitimacy into the system. Kind of like what has been done in ireland, france, belgium...

Sortition is very scalable and private citizens are actually much "cheaper" a resource than career politicians while imo being more legitimate and more interested in actually solving problems rather than furthering their careers.

It's an underrated social technology. It's why I recommended Landemore's book previously.
A finite state machine has a set of input symbols, a set of states, and a transition function, which maps the current state and current input to the next state (and, when programming it, it doesn't have to be a literal function; for example, it could be a 2D array). It also has a start state, and a set of accept states.

It's also common for state machines to have some sort of output; otherwise, all an FSM can do is recognize whether an input string is "good." So, there's also an output function, so that the FSM actually does something while processing the input string. There are two types of FSMs: a Mealy Machine, and a Moore machine. In a Mealy machine, the output function maps the current state and the current input to an output; so, one state could be associated with multiple outputs. In a Moore machine, the output is purely a function of the current state, no matter the input. Usually, a Moore machine has more states than the equivalent Mealy machine. In practice, Moore machines are a lot rarer than Mealy machines.

You can model FSMs in a variety of ways. You could use the state pattern [0]. You could have a table-based state machine; examples in C here [1] [2]. It's also common to model them using a loop and a switch statement with integers to represent the current state - or just use "goto" to go to the next state, if it's available in your language.

Also, this is tangential, but something nice about coroutines is that they save can you from writing an explicit state machine, as the state is implicit in your code. One example of this is how it's easier to write iterators as coroutines that yield results as they run, rather than as structures that update themselves based on their current state, transition to the next state, and yield a result.

So far, what I've covered is basically a deterministic finite automaton (DFA). There are also non-deterministic finite automata (NDFAs), which are used to implement regular expressions (at least when regular expressions aren't extended to require more powerful recognizers) [3], as well as pushdown automata (PDAs), which are basically finite automata with a stack, and can parse e.g. programming languages. Finally, there are Turing machines.

For theory on that, I'd recommend reading Sipser's Introduction to the Theory of Computation. If you look up the book on Google, it's not difficult to find a PDF of it.

[0]: https://refactoring.guru/design-patterns/state

[1]: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2020/12/31

[2]: https://ideone.com/94U6aJ (this one removes C-style comments from source code - I didn't make it)

[3]: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
> BSD-derived genuine certified UNIX

To be fair, that never really mattered.
You passed a Triplebyte interview? I heard they ask FAANG level leetcode or harder. That plus going through two boot amps plus SWE job experience looks like high market value to me.
Which is why laws should be made through legislation, not judicial fiat. The majority in Dobbs v. Jackson made it very clear that a law requiring the same principle as Roe v. Wade would be legitimate.
Heh, right when this started, Windows 11 started freaking out and blacking out my screen every 3s or so. Had to reboot to fix it!

Definitely possible it wasn't this outage, but....
Benchmarks don't cover all possible use cases, for one. There's always the possibility that a model does better on every benchmark thrown at it, but for your specific use case it does worse in practice.
Sure, but my whole point is that corruption charges are incredibly hard to bring outside the context of utilizing (or cheating) those two services. Smart criminals pay their taxes.
This is what (for example) congress and congressional districts are supposed to help with, but gerrymandering prevents it from working as intended. I’m kinda guessing that adding a dithering algorithm might only change the gerrymandering without fixing the problem, but I’m certainly curious as to what that might look like and whether there are ways to prevent gerrymandering, with or without vote dithering. I’m guessing it would be extremely difficult to get anything with randomness in it passed as law.

First we need to get “one person, one vote” to be the actual goal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_man,_one_vote). In the US, the electoral college was specifically designed to not have one person, one vote as the primary goal, and we haven’t been able to change it yet. For presidential elections, we don’t really need dithering so much as simple majority winner, plus run-off vote counting.

Maybe run-off voting already is a type of vote dithering?
They're insisting on such proposals on a yearly basis. I suspect they'll intensify the frequency from now on. They can saturate the current generation's resiliency threshold until the proposal is passed.
Ah yes, too complex to really understand what's going on so we will hand wave it away.

It should be a hard rule that people under a certain age CAN NOT have this kind of content recommended, there should be precisely 0 ways for the algorithm to promote sexual material to children.
It doesn’t matter. The account was marked with an age. IG pushed sexual content to it.

You can add as much other information to the picture as you want, but that’s the black and white issue.

Besides, how often do 13yo’s have their own wifi and IP address?
Do these pattern drawings only work with aluck Manipulation?
It would be nice to have a choice, but most of their competition is either priced completely out of the reach of most people, or PAYG with unbounded spending so you can get hit with an enormous bill out of nowhere, which you don't have to worry about with Cloudflare. AWS or Azure or Google could make their pricing structures as approachable as CFs if they wanted to, and peel off many of CFs small-to-medium scale customers, but evidently none of them want to even try. They only care about scoring whales.
Exactly the quote I was thinking of! Great movie!
Unlike China and social media, the US is not restricting individuals from consuming TikTok.

The restrictions are on platform providers and TikTok in the form of regulations.
But we can see that the NIH is going against what’s been shown in meta studies.

Let me tell you a story. My friend was in the World Trade Center when the other tower was hit by a plane. There were being held back by authority figures like security guards telling them not to leave the building because it’s safest. He said forget about that and got a bunch of people to break through the security guards. By the time they reach the 10th floor, the second plane hit their building and they were buffed around the stairwell like ragdolls. if you listen to authority, he would be dead.

Submitting to authority is the problem. Questioning authority is science. Its fine to go along with whatever the NIH believes, but that doesn’t make it true nor helpful.
You may be among a growing number, but for now, this stance is the exception -- especially in other executive positions.
All of the central Asian “stan” countries have a Muslim majority and Tajikistan is actually the most extreme of them. But Kazakhstan, kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Indonesia, Turkey and Iran are all examples of islam without extremism (although Iran has fundamentalism)
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I think it’s because most people who declare “less taxes are good for the economy” don’t want to pay taxes at all and would be willing to let infrastructure and society rot in order to make a few more dollars. There has to be an optimal level, and surely it isn’t always “less”.
If I’m tasked with finding a price, the VP or whoever I report to will only find out about the services that have meaningful replies. And if a reply ever insinuated I was too low level to communicate with, that’s the last they’d hear from where I work.
Because classic wc is not iterating over every byte once, but multiple times.

It's especially obvious in the Unicode case where it first takes 1-4 bytes to get a Unicode character and then checks this character with another function to see if it's whitespace

But even with with naive ASCII approach, if you don't hand roll a state machine you are checking multiple conditions on each byte (is it a space and am I leaving a word etc)

Using a dfa has fixed compute per byte
I guess one simply should not work for Boeing while we are at it.
If this is the innovation we get from Section 230, then we need carve outs.
In the United States, the government acting to protect citizens from themselves is generally not a good strategy and goes pretty strongly against the grain of the culture. We can agree or disagree on whether that's good (and for the record, I don't see that as the government's job), but I think it's hard to deny that cultural reality that stands today.
I was today years old when I learned that each tetromino has a letter shape.
Agreed - I've almost never called [Insert Service Provider Here] and had one of their automated responses be helpful in any meaningful way. I'm calling because I have what seems like an exception to deal with.

I learned pretty quickly as a young man that the fastest way to get my problems solved was to hit 0 on my phone as many times as it took to get that sweet, sweet "Okay, I'll transfer you to a live representative" response.