skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a pleasure! We lost nominally in the end (except in California and outside the US) but we built enough awareness to give the ISPs a fear that blatant violations would rock the boat and lead to worse outcomes for them, like more state laws or tougher agency rules when Democrats regained power. I do regret not pushing harder for federal legislation though!

On airgapped email archives, yes, the subpoena threat model is real too. That also happened to us because of some other dirty tricks by ISPs in the same campaign! Fake FCC submissions opposing net neutrality were being created with blatantly stolen user data; like, not people being tricked into singing a petition but just straight up identity theft. We documented all of this and pitched some state AGs on looking into it. New York did, which was awesome, but they ended up subpoenaing everyone including us! We were psyched about this overall of course since it was our idea, and they did end up finding out who did it which was awesome (Broadband for America, the umbrella lobbying group for the telcos) but it was a huge amount of work to comply with the subpoena. The retention limits reduced that burden. Another reason to have them!

I would also say that, if you do create an airgapped archive and store it in an appropriately paranoid way, you are likely to never ever bother to dig it out of storage before the SSD melts into uselessness. You'll miss the ocassional old email but not enough to go digging for it.
This accurate and depressing to know it is likely the future. It makes me think of "nets" in CyberPunk 2077, and how everyone is trying to run/control their own private one, and "the net" is super dangerous, as it's the way direct hacks of your on-person augments are done for example. Then there is the "blackwall", where the rogue AIs exist.
Another day, another person accusing scientists of arrogance without knowing shit about what they are talking about.

> it's so stupid to assume they were junk.

They didn't. "Everyone Thought X but actually Y" is popular science speak for "nobody thought X but we want to talk about Y so let's pretend for a moment."

> A disappointing collectivist conformity

Clickbait sucks, but I wouldn't call it collectivist, the opposite if anything.

> self-limiting arrogance is a genetic trait we will soon evolve out of

Eugenics? Really? Over this?
thanks. Also forgot to note size difference between those airports.. DEN is #4 in the US with 38M passenger boardings/year, PDX #33 with 8M. So maybe 4x larger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_i...
>High speed chargers can cost >$200k installed.
>A gas pump costs about $25k installed.

These numbers seem skewed to me. I think you're quoting prices for gas pumps with just the pump, not any storage infrastructure like underground tanks, stores, employees. Then you're quoting the cost high speed chargers without any kind of electrical infrastructure to support them, which would be expensive, but more analogous to including the cost of all the other infrastructure for gas stations as well.
Can you point me to that? The only mention I see is that of the lower torso plate issue. And of course there was no mention of the other parts of the system that might cover that area (soft armor and the inception system).
There are two separate issues: (1) TikTok favoring one candidate even after the campaign was over, and (2) an IT systems breach.
This law has pretty big free speech implications which seems potentially controversial on the legal front IMO
I believe they may have just changed GPT-o1-preview to GPT-o1 today.
Isn't MBTI largely pseudo-science?
Yep, that all makes perfect sense!
Homer Plessy

I read the entire Plessy entry. Nowhere does it say that he was “sponsored by the railroad” or anything like that.

The closest thing I could find is the following statement:

“The railroad company, which had opposed the law on the grounds that it would require the purchase of more railcars, had been previously informed of Plessy's racial lineage, and the intent to challenge the law.”

I agree with you that Plessy was handpicked, but you also wrote that Plessy “was sponsored by the railroad.” That is what I responded to, and I still don't see any evidence that it’s true. On the contrary, it seems clear that Plessy was selected and sponsored by a group that had no affiliation with the railroad company.

What evidence do you have that the Comité des Citoyens — which recruited Plessy, orchestrated his arrest, and organized the litigation in Plessy v. Ferguson — was connected to the railroad?

Rosa Parks

None of the things you quoted are evidence that Rosa Parks was selected in advance, by anyone other than herself, to engage in her famous act of civil disobedience. Parks’ own statements after the event indicate that she self-selected.

The fact that Parks was very involved in the NAACP is not evidence that the organization recruited her to engage in civil disobedience. Most of what you quoted is in relation to litigation that happened after Rosa Parks’ civil disobedience.

You also wrote that “Various civil rights organizations had guaranteed her family that they would replace any income lost.” What evidence do you have that Parks received such a guarantee prior to her act of civil disobedience?
in what sense do they misuse them?
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I self host just about everything, but I've yet to start self hosting my calendars. I'm worried about the user experience of people I'm meeting with, and I need a migration path from Google calendars. Can folks here who actually self could host either this project, or radical, or something else speak to their experience?
I remember when Facebook did that same thing in 2016! It was literally a whole scandal. Downvote the truth doesn't change it. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/us/politics/cambridge-ana...
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Silencing a majority of the country accusing them of being manipulated to vote is a recipe for disaster.
I am always curious how many people who are in favor of this have actually used tictok.

I have found it very helpful for finding voices pretty far to the left. I also have found it very helpful for finding voices among marginalized communities, specifically indigenous folks, black women, anarchists, and queer folks- especially making fairly rational, well informed critiques of the US. And especially as that relates to things like Palestine or the Democrats failures in marketing Harri.

I can get a lot of that kind of content through other channels- there are plenty of podcasts out there.

However, the TT algo surfaces these things quite quickly and satisfactorally for me.

I can see how that really is a threat to US powers. I have a pretty good understanding of the various US oppressive actions against subversives, including the all-out war to demonize folks starting with anarchists/trade unionists/communists in the late 1800s to the use of COINTELPRO against folks like the black panthers, AIM, and the anti-war movement.

So from my standpoint, as someone who has gotten legitiamte "free-speech" value from the app, this move seems like just another step in a long history of US repression of political dissent.

If you start from the assumption that everyone who has different politics than you has been brainwashed or manipulated into that differing position, then sure TT seems like a great tool to do that. But if you think that it really takes immense amounts of capital and effort to get people to "form" opinions, you might take the position that the effort could only be done by folks who, say, have control of the "history" curriculum in Texas public schools ot, for instance, the power to have their press releases uncritically published by the New York Times.

Anyhow.

It will be interesting to see the US set up its own version of the Great Firewall, I guess.
Did you read it? It's a complete joke.

PRESS RELEASE, December 6, 2024 In the meeting of December 6, 2024, the Constitutional Court, in order to ensure the correctness and legality of the electoral process, exercised its attribution provided by art. 146 letter f) of the Constitution and, with unanimity of votes, decided the following: 1. Pursuant to art. 146 letter f) of the Constitution, annuls the entire electoral process regarding the election of the President of Romania, carried out on the basis of Government Decision no. 756/2024 regarding the establishment of the date of the elections for the President of Romania in 2024 and Government Decision no. .1061/2024 regarding the approval of the Calendar Program for carrying out the necessary actions for the election of the President of Romania in the year 2024. 2. The electoral process for the election of the President of Romania will be resumed in its entirety, with the Government going to set a new date for the election of the President of Romania, as well as a new calendar program for carrying out the necessary actions. 3. This decision is final and generally binding, it is published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, and is brought to public knowledge. • The arguments retained in justifying the solution pronounced by the Plenary of the Constitutional Court will be presented in the content of the decision, which will be published in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I. The Department of External Relations, Press Relations and Protocol of the Constitutional Court
ChatGPT and Claude outputs are equivalent to a 20 yr old intern who goes to MIT?
> 3,000 U.S. Air Force captains at a military base in Alabama

following the link given to the research shows it was actually 222 captains...
> because chatbots are designed to automate highly repetitive, predictable tasks like changing an address or initiating a dispute

You know what is even cheaper, more scalable, more efficient, and more user-friendly than a chatbot for those use cases?

A run of the mill form on a web page. Oh, and it's also more reliable.
Creators start begging for patreon support, tiktok operates at its own expense as a webapp, users set up vpn in case it gets banned at isp. Domestic alternatives continue to suck and fail to attract users. Nothing new under the sun.
A fun related tool someone posted on here once-

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016

Tool seems to be dead, but link to it for the related discussion.
Cancel 90% of the admin office please
They bought a corrupt judge against this climate lawyer:

https://www.freedonziger.com/
Yeah, us foreigners, up to our usual tricks again.
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> I'd consider paying a fair bit more if I have it next time to not transit through if I can avoid it, always feels like hell. But that is admittedly very cynical and I'm sorry.

Surprised no one has pointed this out to you: Get Global Entry (it also comes with TSA Pre). You'll get to go in the fast TSA lines (no taking belt/shoes off). And international arrivals is a breeze. In fact, since I've got it, I've not had to wait in line even once at the immigration.

To give you an idea, I flew into Seattle this year. Went into the Global Entry area. Straight to a kiosk (no line at all). The kiosk took my picture, and figured out who I was and that was it. No customs declaration even (which was weird, what if I do have something to declare?).

So: No line. Kiosk takes a picture. Never took my passport out to show to anyone. Good to go.

In the old days, you'd have the kiosk scan your passport. And it'd ask if you're bringing in over $800 in goods (just yes/no - no need to itemize). But still, no line.

I don't know what they charge now, but it was $100 and lasts 5 years.

If you live close to the Canadian/Mexican border, consider getting NEXUS, which gives you the fast lane when driving to these countries. It's only $50, and it includes Global Entry and TSA Pre. Fantastic deal. The down side is the interview locations are only near the border.
It’s because this TikTok matter is not at all about Chinese ownership, which is really rather irrelevant since it is technically an American company based in CA and abides by American laws.

The China China China histrionics is disingenuous and dishonesty by dishonest and fraudulent people who are concerned with the loss of control of censorship and thought policing. They want total control over thoughts and speech in America and TikTok is a major problem for them, a red-pill so to say, and they want everyone taking that blue pill because their whole tyrannical and fraudulent power structure relies on regularly taking the regime’s blue pills.

It’s why there is so much frantic flailing about this issue and the same people who not only never cared about “protecting the children” from violence, gore, and sexuality including explicit pornography, are all the sudden so concerned with children once they may learn something about the world that makes them realize the dishonest, lying, narcissistic, histrionic, psychopathic dirt bags that control all of the west; have been telling them lies and abusing them and plundering their future for their own kind.
Parent post wasn't saying they were above it, they were saying they were aware of it. Big difference.
The pay is ridiculously low. Lower than tsmc in Taiwan on a ppp basis (not that far off in raw $ terms). Much lower than tiny hardware startups in the USA. Monumentally lower than AMD or nvidia, especially with stock grants factored in.

No pay rises for over 20years now. Layoffs on a routine basis. They asked everyone to take a pay cut last year. All of this in an extremely competitive labour market.

It’s pretty obvious to anyone that a job at intel is temporary. You take the job and do the bare minimum (because hey you’re paid bare minimum) and keep looking. There isn’t going to be a single employee outside the board at intel who isn’t browsing for a new job given the wage disparity. Everyone knows this. If you have a brilliant improvement for process keep it to yourself and take it to the next job. A low level position at a startup pays more than a senior role at intel at this point. It’s a laughing stock and the most recent statement at the last earnings was more layoffs and wage freezes to give more shareholder value.

They already have 0 serious talent and nobody gives a fuck there, reasonably so. “You’re going to lay me off from by far the lowest paying company in tech if I don’t give 100%?” “Ok!”.

It’s such a joke of a company and has been for 20 years now and the investors have made it clear they want another 20 years of this.
E2E doesn't fix the government mandated backdoors, which were implicated in this attack. Check out the last line of this article:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/04/politics/us-telecom-providers...
This ban has always felt so silly. If it's privacy and data harvesting as a concern, don't a million apps do that? If it's anti-China sentiment, why TikTok and not a million other things? If it's about protecting elections and propaganda, why not X and Meta and YouTube?

It's so weirdly targeted to me. Why TikTok only?
That wiki article reads much like a press release that I'm surprised that it has been allowed by the edit police
The new filesystem APIs were introduced with Windows 95, so there was no backward compatibility to break. New programs using those new APIs were forced to support spaces in directories. Using spaces in the system directories forced application developers to consider that scenario and deal with it appropriately.

Meanwhile, DOS and Windows 3.1 applications that did run on Windows 95 could access files under a backward compatible 8.3 scheme, like C:\Progra~1\ instead of "C:\Program Files".
Doesn't mean there isn't some meaningful signal in its results. Signal/noise ratio might be lower than with actual science, but there is so much data using the framework that the signal part is still useful.
As much as there are legitimate reasons to go after TikTok, I can't help but feel it's not a coincidence that it gets singled out for legislation because it's the only one owned by China.

And yes, that ownership is problematic but I would argue that the others including those you've listed here are equally problematic for the safety of users.

So to answer your question: they should be too, but they likely won't, because the force behind this isn't a desire to protect users from disinformation, the desire is to protect western companies from scary Asian competition. Same reason behind us constantly propping up Detroit. Protecting people from disinformation is just an excuse.
They are clearly bored and want to start a year long bug hunt through half of unix
The risks are not hypothetical - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/romania-pres....

TikTok was used to push an unknown, unlikable character to almost win the presidential elections in Romania, who shares a lot of border with both Ukraine, the Black Sea and Danube.
New Box64 v0.3.2 and Box86 v0.3.8 released (Native Flags, Benchmarks, Box32)
New releases, with some benchmarks acrosse previous version and vs Rosetta.
Also introducing Box32 to run 32bits apps on 64bits systems
> We are essentially all complicit.

With statements like these it’s important to take into account proportionality and scale.

Whereas a member of the public may have been aware of climate change after James Hanson’s congressional testimony in 1988, ExxonMobil had its own climate research division in the ‘70s and knew about the dangers of climate change at-least ten years prior [1]. They sat on these findings and in the ‘90s actively engaged in PR and misinformation campaigns to delay action on climate change. They have been incredibly successful at this and the US has no policies to limit fossil gas extraction or burning.

[1] https://drilled.media/podcasts/drilled
"attacking electrical infrastructure is a war crime" is quite a woolly and interpretable thing. It's not blanket, there are questions of purpose and proportionality. If, for example, you strike a single civilian substation because by doing so you take out the power supply to a critical defence radar and are then able to attack an otherwise defended military target, then it's hard to argue that's a war crime. Any more than bombing civilian infrastructure like roads and railways.

Doing it as part of a deliberate campaign of terror whose main purpose is to harm and intimidate civilians is probably a war crime, although it's very easy to fig leaf it if there's any way that attacking the infrastructure impedes war production directly. Doing it proportionately in retaliation is less likely to be.
One does not need to be a sock puppet to believe that the justification for this ban is shaky at best.

Every social media network does basically the same thing as Tiktok and the government has produced no compelling evidence for the ban. They just keep saying “the evidence is classified but trust us”
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Monkeys also develop gambling addiction:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/20/6498468...

Anyway, you can't explain much at all to a chimp, it isn't like you can explain he concept of "drug addiction" to a chimp either.
It can probably be explained as an indication that Democratic candidates are "normal" ones, and a win of one isn't a reason for drastic measures, while Republican candidates are "not normal", and a win of a Republican is enough grounds to cut off friends...
Storage tanks are (relatively) cheap. Stores and employees are needed because margins on gasoline are extremely thin, and it's an easy way to make money if you're already putting in the pumps.

The infrastructure for high speed chargers is a lot of metal, which unlike a store, does not contribute extra money in addition to the pump.
That’s not effective at all, as the practice shows in all censorships where internet access is still available.
I was using aider last night and ran up a $10 bill within two hours using o1 as the architect and Sonnet as the editor. It’s really easy to blow through $200 a month and o1-pro isn’t available in the API as far as I can tell.
It's absolutely pseudo science. People love it, and it's useful as a tool to recognize "different humans problem solve differently", but like, taking it more seriously than that is a problem.
or the hilarious "help your uncle jack off a horse" vs "help your uncle, Jack, off a horse" example. although it does also involve caps.
Maybe all of the people downvoting could try and make a coherent argument against this post instead. Although it's pretty hard to argue against objective facts.

The US can ban TikTok all they want, but the worms aren't going back into the can.
Wood burns, but modern suppression systems increase the time to evacuate.

Fires don't usually (hell, hardly ever) start with the structure wooden or otherwise, they start with the things inside a structure: wiring, upholstery, drapery, etc.

By the time the fire gets large and hot enough to fuel itself on the structure all of the occupants are already dead due to carbon monoxide and/or hydrogen cyanide poisoning, so the flammability of the structure is almost irrelevant to occupants.

Even in Type 1 (all concrete) and Type 2 (concrete and steel) structures, burning the structure's contents will kill every occupant the same as a building made wholly or partially from wood. That's why large steel reinforced concrete buildings have self-closing doors, smoke extraction systems, and areas of refuge: the building being on fire won't kill you, the smoke from the burning carpeting and paint will.

With the Station Nightclub fire, it started at 11:07pm. The wooden structure was compromised to the point that the roof partially collapsed at 11:57pm. All occupants who had not escaped were dead well before the five-minute mark (11:12) when flames were seen exiting the doors and windows with NIST estimating that anyone still inside the structure 90 seconds after initial ignition was already dead.

50 minutes for the wood to burn, 90 seconds for the stuff inside to burn and kill you.

All of that being said, wooden structures are more dangerous to firefighters due to the risk of collapse long into the fire as suppression and/or search and rescue operations are occurring.
It was just a basic murder and those happen all the time.
At least they have more than 2 candidates (and less than 14).
In fairness he can't declare funds that haven't passed directly through his campaign accounts. It's a transparent loop hole, but it needs to be patched, not used as post-factum evidence supporting wrong doing.
> Only a tiny fraction of ICs need the latest transistor sizes.

The problem is that the latest transistor sizes are the ones that have profit margins. 90% of TSMCs chips aren't on EUV processes, but 50% of their profits come from EUV. If you don't have leading (or close to leading) processes, you're completely shut out of the phone, laptop, server, and GPU market. Intel could survive like that, but it would involve laying off ~90% of their staff and exiting all of their major markets.
Do they vote on paper ballots or on a machine, that then logs the vote somewhere?

If they have paper ballots a recount can be trusted. If they vote on a machine they would be trusting the machine that they say was targeted by those attacks. In general my opinion has always been that voting on a machine is a bad idea.
LLMs are good at the gist of accuracy, not actual accuracy. They could create new XML files that follow a schema, sure. But they won't even do that correctly 100% of the time, and definitely are not awesome at going the other direction. So just write a parser. It will be no more work, and more correct.
I agree with the article. I am in the camp "learning with the AI" and the main task is getting young foolish Einsteiborg to use simple things and go step by step without jabbering about the next steps or their alternative etc. I also have to go in blocks to get a usable whole and git branch saves the day every time. But its also really nice and you learn so much.