skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This turns on what TikTok "knew":

"But by the time Nylah viewed these
videos, TikTok knew that: 1) “the deadly Blackout Challenge
was spreading through its app,” 2) “its algorithm was
specifically feeding the Blackout Challenge to children,” and
3) several children had died while attempting the Blackout
Challenge after viewing videos of the Challenge on their For
You Pages. App. 31–32. Yet TikTok “took no and/or
completely inadequate action to extinguish and prevent the
spread of the Blackout Challenge and specifically to prevent
the Blackout Challenge from being shown to children on their
[For You Pages].” App. 32–33. Instead, TikTok continued to
recommend these videos to children like Nylah."

We need to see another document, "App 31-32", to see what TikTok "knew". Could someone find that, please? A Pacer account may be required. Did they ignore an abuse report?

See also Gonzales vs. Google (2023), where a similar issue reached the U.S. Supreme Court.[1] That was
about whether recommending videos which encouraged the viewer to support the Islamic State's jihad led someone to go fight in it, where they were killed. The Court rejected the terrorism claim and declined to address the Section 230 claim.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzalez_v._Google_LLC
In completely unrelated news Theo just released a video on how Erlang/Elixir are the best distributed server languages for small teams.
libolm was not using battle tested crypto. That's one of their main reasons for abandoning it. Our plan is to use gcrypto for it which is battle tested.

As far as vodozemac goes, we're not pulling rust into our build system.
Really? That's odd.
The typical zip code has a population of about ~9000. Dates of birth are about evenly distributed, so you'd still get about 24 people/birthday, or around 12 men or women per birthday per zip code.. I might be off by a fair amount in either direction, but I don't think I'd be twelve times off.
Well, I guess it was probably new when the doc page was first written to introduce it.

> That said, I was not aware of it until I saw this post, and I definitely want to play around with it.

You could almost say it was too casual and low-key. ;)
This essentially advocates for the same thing defined in Cory Doctorow's The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation. That point being, requiring open protocols from big tech will enable competition and innovation. This will return the creative inspiration to the technologists. I completely agree with it, and I hope we are reaching an inflection point where walled data gardens are cracked open.
I see some examples that show this can be used as a lite http daemon.

Is there enough room to have it control the ethernet port for another weaker or perhaps more powerful microcontroller?

Can you combine multiple picos with one being the ethernet stack and another that modifies certain packets?

Are there any other interesting things that can be done?
Post does not mention various Go libraries becoming unmaintained/barely maintained for significant periods of time, like the entire Gorilla set of libraries which are among the most popular third-party libraries.

Post does not mention the number of Go frameworks that are all minor variations on one another but with mutually incompatible APIs.
Not really, the over-cited LCOE of solar/wind does not account for the cost of (its increased need of) battery storage. As time of use does not align with the time of generation. Also, battery storage has its own ongoing costs with battery degradation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxlnBNVCfBQ
That does sound very high. Not sure where you are, but guessing you are in the US at least.

As a comp, SunRun puts out detailed cost estimates for their residential systems each quarter[1]. Their average system cost was $5/watt, but with 50% of their installs having batteries. So for an 8Kw system (if you were buying outright) you should have gotten a quote of $40k with a "half-sized" battery. After US tax incentives, your cost should be <$30k including battery.

But yeah, if you're not in a region where they do a lot of installs, you won't get that price...

[1] "CreationCostMemo" tab in https://d1io3yog0oux5.cloudfront.net/_eb9fb58f3a5f81478f0536...
The article addresses this and notes that most of the cost reductions we've seen in the past decade are only really applicable to utility-scale installations, as it's only then that the one-time costs can be amortized sufficiently. Small consumer installations are dominated by costs other than the panels themselves to a much greater degree than utility-scale installations.
(author) me too, for a while. I always thought it was an excuse back in the 1990s when it was the response to most problems with Windows. But in the years since I have grown to appreciate that whilst it can be used to explain away a bug, it can also justify something that has had a lot of thought put behind it that you might not agree with.

The use of "This behavior is by design" as the title of my blog post was intentional, so that it could be interpreted as either positive or negative by the reader.
If I search for Google it returns a massive dataset because it is also looking at the Google watermark in the street view scraped data.
N100's QuickSync has been good enough for me for Plex transcoding FWIW, though maybe your demands are higher than mine in terms of resolution
> he didn't invent or spearhead the whole thing

Many of the bigger inventions in history were popularized by someone other than the original inventor, because everything is a remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJPERZDfyWc
Been awhile since I've been out to NYC - is KEST and RIBS still a big thing out there?
Dates of birth are not evenly distributed.

To clarify: your date of birth includes the year. It’s more specific than your birthday, which we usually think of as just day & month.
I really disliked myself for most of my life and even now struggle with it. The thing that helped me a lot was learning to be unconditionally kind to others both in my thoughts and actions. Once that was normalized it was easy to apply the same thought process to myself.
>> People need to be able to make public officers accountable (Article XV – The society has the right of requesting an account from any public agent of its administration. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of...)

I agree with this sentiment, but what is the relationship between the linked French Declaration and American law? Why not try to build the argument based on FOIA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(Un...
As someone with plenty of solar on my roof, it is anything but idiotic. With government incentives it pays for itself in ten years and has a realistic life span of 25.

It might comparatively more efficient/cheaper per watt to build solar on the ground or on large commercial structures, but that doesn't change the economics for individual home owners, which in many parts of the world are already positive.
They do. But market forces have pushed the standards down. Once upon a time a "pen test team" was a bunch of security ninjas that showed up at your office and did magic things to point out security flaws you didn't know were even a thing. Now it is a online service done remotely by a machine running a script looking for known issues.
I switched from Google to DDG for default search a few years ago, and then to Kagi maybe 18 months ago. Kagi's simply excellent.
Yes, you can't define a uniform distribution on the reals at all, there's no way to make it to sum up to 1, which is required. Either it's 0 everywhere and the cumulative probability is 0, or it's a positive constant everywhere and the integral diverges, or it's not uniform.
For me the only way it can get out of sync is from power failure in the AC, or someone using the remote. Putting the remote away solves the last.

I have Zigbee contact sensors that provide on/off feedback to HA by detecting if the louvers are open.
> I can't see Paul's exact Tweet anymore after being blocked

https://xcancel.com/atdavidmurdoch/status/182920055910850986...

> I may have ruined my chance of ever being backed by YC in the future.

If anything, this reactionary boring thread ruined that chance.
No, because immunity doesn't mean anyone has to follow his orders.

On the other hand, he could assassinate them and be immune from any punishment.
I hope this makes certain streaming platforms liable for the things certain podcast hosts say while they shovel money at and promote them above other content.
From the title I thought this would be about UV light degrading and destroying viral particles.

Instead the thesis is something like "Outdoor light makes you generally healthier therefore you're more likely to survive a COVID-19 infection."
Four hundred million dollars is unfathomable.

Has Deloitte ever built any software that is good? I certainly have a super strongly negative bias against their work. But hey maybe someone here has worked with them and was impressed…
I split my library alongside the same line. One section to answer the following questions: Why should I do it, how should I do it, how should I not do it, how does it work,.. and the other section answer the following: What to do, what to use,... The first one helps decision and planning, the second is what you use.

So there's the philosophy of the craft which are mostly the core skills of software engineering (or engineering in general). Problem solving, project planning, resources planning, methodologies,... Then the various theories (computer science). Algorithms, Data Structures, Computer organization, Networking, Databases, Operating Systems,... And then the skills. Programming Languages, Libraries, Tools (editors, shells, build systems, debuggers, test runners). Being a good programmer involves being fairly knowledgeable in all three.
It’s also just one of those hard things to prove: is TSA actually stopping attacks like 9/11? The simple presence of them might be enough of a deterrent or we might just be extremely lucky. Seems these days the real threat is drunk passengers attacking flight attendants.
Word is a good analogy here.

The model is a static data file like a word doc.

Meta open sourced the code to run inference on the model (ie the code for Microsoft word reading a doc file).

They also open sourced the code to train/fine tune the model. (Ie the code for Microsoft word writing a doc file)

Then they released a special doc (the llama 3 model), but didn’t include the script they used to create that doc.
Your landing page sucks, I don’t care about your team or your marketing text, I want to see the code!
So where is the even split point? It's [0, 1.5) and [1.5, Inf)! There's `2^62-2^51-1` values in both those sets. Or `2^30-2^22-1` for 32 bit.

Or perhaps even more interestingly, there's the same number — 2^62 or 2^30 — in [0, 2) as [1, Inf).
And a human can do it without seeing that amount of code and consuming less energy.
Best case, assuming you even get charged, your case gets picked up by the EFF, ACLU, IFJ, etc. You spend nothing, you win, and you get a lot of free publicity for your pen testing company.

Worst case, nobody comes to help you, you spend all of your money, still lose the case, end up in a shitty US prison, and get stabbed in the shower by some guy driven crazy by spending months in solitary.

Personally, I would not mess with security research on anything even distantly related to US Gov.
Write your own LLM benchmarks – with Nicholas Carlini
This used to be a question on the Triplebyte interview almost verbatim, and a huge percentage of (even quite good) engineers got it wrong. I'd say probably <20% both salted and used a cryptographically-secure hash; MD5 specifically came up all the time. And keep in mind that we filtered substantially before this interview, so the baseline is even worse than that!
> iPhone 17 Pro Max with 12GB DRAM

Wow. More than a MacBook. /s
the maintainer who left linux is employed by MSFT
Most of this sounds like poor management and not corruption. But perhaps the corruption is intentional mismanagement to keep it uncompetitive
I'm looking forward to see Kotlin take advantage of more of these new features.
Trying to define "all" is an impossibility; but, by virtue of having taken no action whatsoever, answering that question is irrelevant in the context of this particular judgment: Tiktok took no action, so the definition of "all" is irrelevant. See also for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41393921

In general, judges will be ultimately responsible for evaluating whether "any", "sufficient", "appropriate", etc. actions were taken in each future case judgement they make. As with all things legalese, it's impossible to define with certainty a specific degree of action that is the uniform boundary of acceptable; but, as evident here, "none" is no longer permissible in that set.

(I am not your lawyer, this is not legal advice.)
which is the case for that code and it was added by the obfuscator
> "Small flying gnat like insects were observed crawling on the walls and flying around the room. The rooms walls had heavy meat buildup," they wrote.

That sounds like a horror movie.
I would really prefer my health information not be exposed in any way, "anonymized" or otherwise, thanks.
That sounds kinda weird but at the same time understandable in scalable, worldwide, asynchronous and distributed applications, in that "mark read" is not a database query but a task that gets added to one or more task queues that eventually lead to a data update which in turn eventually leads to a local state change.

That said, apps that talk to queue / async based backends like that should employ optimistic updates, that is, mark as read and presume that goes alright, instead of wait for an update. That said, given it's a new architecture, maybe that'll be implemented eventually.
Apple Makes Rare Move of Laying People Off
There's moderation to manage disruption to a service. There's editorial control to manage the actual content on a service.

HN engages in the former but not the latter. The big three engage in the latter.
It does work with any sized file, although it is quite slow if you're using the OpenAI API. HumanifyJS works so it processes each variable name separately, and keeps the context size manageable for an LLM.

I'm currently working on parallelizing the rename process, which should give orders of magnitude faster processing times for large files.
Oxide Computer mentioned! Very cool company, and yes, it makes sense for them to use Rust. They're building nearly all the software, firmware, and hardware from scratch.

> For example, I just looked at the dependencies of a small project I'm working on, and we have 5+ (!) different crpyto libraries

While it makes sense for Rust's std lib to include crypto primitives, you can't blame a language's lack of standardization for your poor choice of dependencies. Dependencies are liabilities.
IIRC when we wanted to move one of the pretty large IKEA dressers that had to be at least partially disassembled to fit through the door there was no non-destructive way to dismantle it. And that was not about trivial things like the back panel being nailed, but about fasteners of the actual structural parts being inaccessible once you put the whole thing together. One would think that going through the assembly steps in reverse should work, but for some reason it did not. I ended up breaking few structural braces (~18x48mm pieces of fiberboard) at the back of the thing to take it apart and replacing that with wooden beams of the same size.
Microsoft determines who they give root access signing keys to
Find out where the domain is registered with a whois command or goto who.is, then find their copyright/DMCA email and submit a complaint.

For example if it's Namecheap their details to complain are here - https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...

GoDaddy here - https://supportcenter.godaddy.com/ipclaims/copyright/infring...

They should take it down pretty quickly if it's a direct copy!
> I can get through with sharp metallic tools and weird unlabeled boxes with wires hanging out of them, but I can't leave my kindle in my backpack?

Because all airport security is reactionary. They don't try to anticipate what an attacker might do, and how they could prevent that. They simply add one more item to a check-list of "no good" items or of "must be separately screened" items.

Therefore, because, one time, someone tried to ignite their shoes, there's now a checkbox that says: "shoes must be scanned separately".

As well, because, one time, someone purportedly tried to mix together two liquids into an explosive that they brought on board in bottles, you are now limited to 100ml max in any bottle, but you can freely walk in with a 7-11 64oz Big Gulp cup and they won't blink an eye. The "bottles" are on the check-list, but the check-list has no entry (yet) for "64oz 7-11 Big Gulp".
The blog post explained it perfectly. There are 2^32 integers when you pick from [0,2^32). But there are 0x3f800000 floating point numbers between 0 and 1. And the former number is not divisible by the latter number. Therefore using division by 2^32 cannot be unbiased.

It's helpful if you first look at smaller examples. If we were to generate random integers in [0,10) by first generating random integers in [0,50) and then dividing by 5, that's valid. Exactly 5 numbers get mapped to one number each: the numbers [0,5) get mapped to 0, [5,10) get mapped to 1 etc. But what if you do the same division trick if you instead want to get numbers in [0,3)? Do you do the same division trick? Then the probability of the number 2 appearing is less than that of 0 or 1.
Lets say 2 years. Email in profile.
The title is misleading. X isn’t blocking NPR, but was displaying a warning about a potentially unsafe link on one article from NPR. I don’t see any evidence that there is something malicious here; it could just be some automation acting incorrectly. NPR did change the URL and title of the article, by the way, and I wonder if that triggered something.

All that said, I am against any type of link blocking or warning functionality in the first place. This type of message is at best patronizing and at worst, censorship. Reddit does this, blocking links to various domains entirely or shadow banning submissions or comments with those links. I have seen their automation do this even in more nuanced ways, for example blocking certain Wikipedia links to articles that they’ve deemed unacceptable, instead of the whole domain. Other social media - including Twitter pre-acquisition, Meta, etc - all variously show such warnings from time to time or block certain domains entirely, both in submissions/posts and comments.

In my experience, the blocking on those platforms (not warnings but outright blocks) has had a political bias towards the left and against moderate or right wing views across these platforms. I find it hypocritical that people who have supported over the top censorship for years are now so offended and upset when it happens on Twitter/X, even if it is accidental and not malicious. Regardless, I think Twitter/X does owe an explanation in such situations and should act quickly to correct it.
Supermaven didn't work for me at all. Tried contacting support - no reply. On the other hand, TabNine serves me well for several years now.
In that case I think the "Pythonic" thing to do would be to have some named intermediate steps:

foos = (make_foo(bar) for bar in bars)
acceptable_foos = (foo for foo in foos if acceptable(foo))
...

Depending on your circumstances, this may or may not be awkward (coming up with temporary names can be hard), or may or may not be a good idea anyway (naming things can help make the code more self-documenting). I can't reckon how it could become unreadable, per se - what do you mean by that?
I'm surprised (or should I?) that this wasn't picked up by the BBC - at least didn't show up on my feeds.
Incremental Gambits and Premature Endgames
LTM-2-Mini is our first model with a 100M token context window
You are directly responsible for everything they say and legally liable for any damages it may cause. Or not IANAL
Does it not? I fly out of SFO all the time and the experience is very similar. I guess I never checked if it was officially the TSA, but I never noticed any difference.
Thank you so much. It's the first time I do understand the _why_ of that fact.

But I could build up a lot of solar panels and use the electricity to heat up an oven more than the surface of the sun, right? Is that "cheating" in terms of thermo dynamics?
Did you hold this view when Twitter censored journalists, banned presidents, and generally manipulated political speech in our society through a mass ~~moderation~~ censorship program?
So, the trick here would be to purchase a ticket with a major airline, pack a no-no in your carry-on, and then bypass TSA security by adding yourself to the Known Crew Member list of a small airline using the third-party FlyCASS system, via the SQL-injection. You'd then board the major airline with the no-no. Is that the vulnerability?
I'm not sure about video, but we are no longer in an era when manual moderation is necessary. Certainly for text, moderation for child safety could be as easy as taking the written instructions currently given to human moderators and having an LLM interpreter (only needs to output a few bits of information) do the same job.
Thanks. I read a bit about WireGuard... seems to create a tunnel over UDP as you say. Where I got off track is the following comment in the article:

> Who says you need to do networking in the kernel though?

I thought it implied they were bypassing the kernel entirely. This isn't true at all if it's still using a UDP socket to send... there's still a ton of code in the kernel to handle sending and receiving UDP. It's also a helluva lot less efficient in terms of CPU consumed, unless one is using sendmmsg, because it's a syscall per tiny datagram between user space and kernel space to get the data onto the UDP socket...
OP seems to claim 13% same / 87% opposite
yeah i would not mess around with this and get put into a for-life no fly list dude. you even wrote data to the prod system, christ!
Ah, signed parts. This is a great idea and a good compromise between the what I mentioned and a full blown console.

Would be great if they strictly enforced what versions of windows you were allowed to run.
Asahi Linux’s (Distro targeting Macs) developer also recounts a similar experience. https://vt.social/@lina/113045455229442533
This is news to my solar installation, which is not fixed to my roof structure at all. My roof is not that steep, so the panels are simply put of frames which are weighed down with concrete pavers. And this is not DIY job, but professionally installed with warranty and everything.

Similarly, most solar installations on steeper roofs here in Germany are either made without penetrations at all (by hooking special frames into the roof structure under the roof tiles), or they use very basic screws that tie into the existing roof structure. Our neighbor did his solar installation himself on a pretty steep roof, something you would absolutely not do if there were any risk of structural damage.