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> In NL the regulations for false self-employment (enforcement kicks in January 1st) is primarily aimed at low-wage jobs like meal delivery etc. High paid professionals with multiple clients per week (like most fractionals are) are not the target.

I spoke to an accountant about this and he was very clear about it that having one employer is a problem. He said the new rules were there to make it less easy for employers to work around pension, taxes, and social security. According to him it was not about low versus high wages. So he would disagree with your first sentence and the first half of your second sentence. The last part is correct. Individuals with multiple clients (3-5 different clients per year at minimum) will not get into trouble.
The "and not be allowed to host content on US servers" is kinda funny as a requirement in context. Prior to the law being passed IIUC TikTok had already put in a bunch of work to make sure American data was stored in the US, with a US cloud vendor, with access controls, which were to demonstrate that this data was not accessible to the Chinese. Serving in the US, with big US cloud partner was meant to be a way to create confidence.
If TikTok ends up being a webapp for US users, with our data definitely not in the US ... isn't that worse?
Can just use normal jq select filters unless I'm missing something?
How fun was kube-ops-view though
OTOH the vim and emacs lands seem to be huge!
That's so amazing! I wish I saw this at school while learning these by heart like a dumb student.
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I gave a link to an article about Ukrainian ambassador in Germany defending glorification of Bandera in Ukraine and comparing him with Robin Hood.

And he was promptly dismissed from that position for making those comments.

As you "forgot" to mention.
I’d like to add NTP to my on-prem infra so that clients/servers can agree on when certificates have expired. This box would almost do the job, but it doesn’t seem to support secure NTP. Secure NTP allows a client to cryptographically verify that time was delivered from a trusted source and not a spoofer. Without this mechanism, spoofing is trivial, which means making compromised certificates appear valid is also all too easy.
Big fan of his work with Shakti/McLaughlin. RIP.
Why? Wouldn't truly generous people even donate clothes from their backs. And sell their homes to help others? They would not need tax deduction for those either.
Welcome to the post science world
Is doom scrolling rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore
Yeah, it doesn't matter that much if people are voluntarily giving away as many data as possible to an adversarial authoritarian regime. Still, it is disingenuous of Apple to justify its iron grip on iOS apps as a privacy protection measure when it leaves open widely abused API's for years that its users have no way of opting out.
I like the style of the game, minimalist with a focus on language. It would be great to see this style with a story-line that doesn't intend to irritate the player.
What does that have to do with the us being a democracy? You don't have to have universal suffrage to be a democracy.
Yes, because it doesn't matter where it ends up,
what matters is how many people conned into buying at $1.1M right before it crashes to $0.8M.
This is how green field projects become brown field projects in 4 weeks.
We’ve built a solution in conjunction with a university to this problem that is pretty low effort to implement, but very few professors can be bothered to even try it out (the apathy and red tape is unreal). Honestly, it has been disheartening that distribution is so tough, as the results have been great for those who are using it.
> 2) Will this affect apps like CapCut and Lemon8 too?

Both, the bill lists any "website, desktop application, mobile application, or augmented or immersive technology application that is operated, directly or indirectly" by ByteDance, which controls CapCut and Lemon8.
Americans can definitely invest into most Chinese tech companies- the exception is direct investments into non-tech, licensed companies, that require a VIE structure, which enables Americans to still invest.
The fundamental problem is that there is no „wall“ but a labyrinth with many walls. Some of real value, some outdated, misunderstood and some a real problem. We can all agree on that.

Now how does Elon decide which ones to smash?
> If apps are acting like spyware then the government should pressure Apple and Google to fix the issue at the OS level.

If you think that's the issue, you're mistaken or confused.
So far this is incredible and unique tech that we can control multiple devices with single remote..
And also by giving voice commands and Bluetooth technology..became so advanced..

So this is amazing tech so far but the main twist we already know .if we take the past or history china is very good at surveillance and taking data without permission.
So this might be a critic or chinese strategy to capture peoples data and know about them.
that requires a firewall at the border.
It’s as real as Trump decides it’s real. All he has to do is instruct his administration to not disburse the money and the Supreme Court has already ruled that Presidents have presumptive immunity for official acts, i.e. you can’t even bring the administration to court over it as the act of questioning their action inhibits the presidency

These 4 years are not going to be normal just like most of 2016-2020 was not normal
I think you're referencing an earlier era. In 1998, 42% of US households had at least 1 computer, 26% with Internet access. https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publicatio...
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Yeah SSI solved this 30 years ago. It's kind of a fire and forget solution too.
As of my knowledge: no.
Clearly crypto should be a sinking ship with people swimming to the shores of other places in this metaphor
Reciprocity is key. Google and Facebook and most Western web services are blocked in China.

If that is the case, then there should be no complaint with blocking Bytedance/other Chinese apps in the West.
There is some waste that can be trimmed without sacrificing capabilities but those savings are limited and hard to identify. Overall the military is actually under funded for all the global missions it's tasked to perform and the strain is starting to show. Any real savings will require trimming down the mission set. Should we eliminate one leg of the nuclear triad? Back off from defending our treaty allies? Stop protecting the global sea lanes? Give up on being able to fight two major conflicts simultaneously? There doesn't seem to be much political consensus in Congress for any of those options.

And let's not have any uninformed claims that we can somehow achieve huge savings while maintaining capabilities just by swapping manned platforms for drones. That is simply science fiction, and even if the technology was ready the savings would be marginal.
Do you have a source explaining how these work?

Naively allowing the air columns to thermally mix would result in the average of the inside and outside temp. So how does this do better?
Yes, it's nonsense, and "programmer’s editor" isn't English.
I dont like its interface..unlike 4chan this has a menu on top right corner and the style also bad...
But thats okay whoever made this to this stage i appreciate them.
It... seems pretty ordinary to me? Like there isn't even much jargon being used. Try reading a paper in basically any field of hard science!
There's definitely fatigue around science news where media orgs massively over inflate or prematurely celebrate. Without actually being in the field yourself it's impossible to tell if any discovery is a nothingburger, 20 years away from meaning anything, or about to change the world. And most of the time it's the first two.
I’d like to see a relatable ad campaign. One that’s very “hey, we hear ya, no one actually wants this” type speech.

It would certainly catch an eye because what else is there to say? I don’t remember the last tv ad, it was so forgettable.

Now to the problem, much of the points the author makes are environmental concerns about “consumer” electronics. This is just so far off base to the older consumer audience and possibly entirely. You have to focus on…the ads and the bloat. Explain why your tv costs slightly more, because you made sure the experience was seamless.

I’d really love if this took off, but unfortunately without a titan like Samsung it won’t. Otherwise it’ll just be an outrageously expensive tv with average performance, and we al know that’s not the right formula.
When talking about digital signage in particular, it's clearly a premium because it's such a big price difference. A discount for the bullshit would be much smaller.
This is a pretty odious thing.

I know people will say that it's part of a broad sweeping action that granted clemency for everyone who was granted house arrest during COVID because of medical issues but that ignores the bigger issue.

Michael Conahan should not have been given a meagre 17.5 year sentence for his heinous crimes. He trafficked in humans, specifically children for a pure profit motive. And to do so he violated his trusted position in our society as a judge.

I'm generally opposed to a death penalty but I think these kinds of actions are what warrant one. His conduct was directly destructive to the lives of hundreds of children sending them on life paths that they may never recover from and indirectly destructive to thousands of people like their parents whose lives were disrupted by their children being stolen from them and the legal costs that they were forced to spend to deal with this situation.

But what's worse is that his selfish actions have irrevocably tarnished how people view the legal system that is supposed protect them. His actions didn’t just destroy the lives of the children he targeted or their families; they struck at the very heart of public trust in the judiciary. When a judge exploits their position for personal gain, it creates a ripple effect of doubt that spreads across society and corrodes faith in the system.

Granting clemency to someone like Conahan sends a dangerous message. It implies that even the most heinous abuses of power can eventually be overlooked. It’s a slap in the face to his victims, their families, and to everyone who believes in accountability for those who are entrusted with the public’s trust.
I'm not too excited by Phi-4 benchmark results - It is#BenchmarkInflation.

Microsoft Research just dropped Phi-4 14B, an open-source model that’s turning heads. It claims to rival Llama 3.3 70B with a fraction of the parameters — 5x fewer, to be exact.

What’s the secret? Synthetic data.
-> Higher quality, Less misinformation, More diversity

But the Phi models always have great benchmark scores, but they always disappoint me in real-world use cases.

Phi series is famous for to be trained on benchmarks.

I tried again with the hashtag#phi4 through Ollama - but its not satisfactory.

To me, at the moment - IFEval is the most important llm benchmark.

But look the smart business strategy of Microsoft:

have unlimited access to gpt-4
the input prompt it to generate 30B tokens
train a 1B parameter model
call it phi-1
show benchmarks beating models 10x the size
never release the data
never detail how to generate the data( this time they told in very high level)
claim victory over small models
You have no one in your circle thinking he will succeed at making himself richer by crippling regulators?
My favorite MLE example: Suppose you walk into a bank and ask them to give you a quarter. You flip the quarter twice and get two heads. Given this experiment, what do you estimate to be the probability p of getting a heads when you flip this coin? Using MLE, you would get p = 1. In other words, this coin will always give you a heads when you flip it! (According to MLE.)
Why do you say this? I used to live right in the center of the stick figure, and regularly did the loop up around Christie Pits or down around Trinity Bellwoods. Those streets are great for running, not boring at all.
One use-case I can imagine is to ward off tech-savvy paparazzi.
Great Frewall wasn't built in one day
You forget that all topics can be classified into one of two flavors.

There is normal and then there is political. Obviously just stick to normal opinions and don’t bring up political ones

Ezpz
Counter-flow heat exchangers can be very efficient, without a heater or cooler attached. That said, I don't think I've seen a commercial ERV claim to be more than 80% efficient, so I'm skeptical of the 90% measurement.

(I've seen ERVs with heaters attached; but for the purpose of avoiding frost buildup when it's below freezing outside.)
> More of my notes on Phi-4 here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/15/phi-4-technical-report...

Nice. Thanks.

Do you think sampling the stack traces of millions of machines is a good dataset for improving code performance? Maybe sample android/jvm bytecode.

Maybe a sort of novelty sampling to avoid re-sampling hot-path?
They are blocked because they don’t censor content. If they did agree to, they would be allowed - just like Microsoft, Bing, Apple, and a handful of other digital products are not blocked in China.

Edit: for those downvoting me, Google literally shut down their China operations because they were unwilling to comply with censorship requirements. Conversely, Google and other US companies seem completely willing to comply with national security letters that compel them to spy on non-US persons, which should make other countries where US companies operate equally uneasy.
Smartphones are just as bad.
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Yep, somewhat to be expected given the societal response to the idea of critical thinking.
Reciprocity is a perfectly sane policy when it comes to America's top strategic adversary, China, whose stated goal is annexation of our critical economic ally. If I can't eat at your table then you can't eat at mine, and I won't serve my kids your poison-laced food.
the thing is you'd need 3 k8s queries, one for pods, one for deployments, one for services, then link all of them, and filter... jq helps with the filtering, kubectl can query, but you still need to join the 3 resources to answer the query...
I presume you are aware of the recent context surrounding this link being posted to hacker news?
I think they got downvoted because they misunderstood the idea. "mandatory" analytics and advertising would be working for the manufacturer, not the owner. To be an (antisocial) value-add it would have to work for the owner.
Huawei sells teleco gears it's designed to transport information (including propaganda)

Or do you mean the huawei corp is spreading propaganda of some sort?
or start with one project and find your way to another, you can imagine there are shipping lines :)
Counter-flow heat exchangers. A parallel-flow heat exchanger would result in the average, as you say; but a counter-flow exchanger means that as the formerly-warm air gets progressively cooler, it is exposed to progressively colder air.
Did Phil Donahue use the word “Application” for a graphical software program in 1981? Interesting.
> They are blocked because they don’t censor content.

These platforms certainly do censor content. They have large teams globally that do just that.
Just like US companies are beholden to national security letters that can compel them to spy on non-US persons who may be users of their product?
This is a laughably naïve view of Chinese-owned companies and the total, I repeat total, amount of control China's one-party state wields over those entities.
the intuition: if the 2 colums flow in the same direction, the final temp is the average. but if the 2 columns flow in the oposite directions it is posible to fully exchange the temperature
Hi - Miles Cole here… I used lazy APIs where available. I.e. everything up to write_delta() is lazy in the Polars (Mod) variant.

Yeah I was debating whether to share all of the source code. I may share a portion of it soon.
i’m not sure which part confuses you—it means what i said. i don’t magically trust them more than i trust any government. if the collective We have decided we don’t trust governments with algorithmic manipulation powers, why on earth are we trusting anyone with concentrated power: billionaires, churches, governments, etc…

it would seem We have deemed social media to be incredibly dangerous. i’m not yet personally convinced it is, but We apparently decided already. so why are we ignoring other wannabe kings wielding something we deem dangerous?
No, I think it's debilitating, disempowering, wholly unnecessary, and that it would be easily solvable if there existed a will to solve it. It's a cultural issue, not a technical one, I mean.

I didn't mean in the first message simply knowing the difference between tabs and windows and a few other GUI bits and bobs, those were meant to be an example of a larger point. The larger point being the notion that it's fun and possible to be a combative, pro-active, "liberated" computer user.

The empowerment of computer users is diametrically opposed however to the interests of Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Tesla, Amazon, etc etc. The ideal computer user for them is one who knows nothing, except exactly what they need to know to keep clicking, commenting, sharing, liking, spewing out their personal details, and fishing out the credit and debit cards.
Big monitors (e.g., Gigabyte AORUS FV43U) are today's best dumb TVs.
I just typed "48 inch monitor" into amazon search bar and got one that seems to fit your spec. What's the problem?
Which is a good thing. 19th century England is not something to emulate.
So.. how does this differ from the Harmony programmable remote I got, which seemed to work nicely with my existing home devices?
I agree, but they have clearly not met the standard for what China needs. I mean Zuck literally was jogging around Beijing 10 years ago trying to build goodwill to get in, and it was Google that made the decision to exit the market.
> I never said this.

Here's a picture of your post: https://imgur.com/a/5E2sbHV
> Sorry, but in which universe?

In this one. I'm just describing what the situation is, not whether it is a good system. How else would you get events like this one?
Yes! Was trying to keep the 2 points tightly integrated but your thinking is definitely closer to analog31's interpretation of the political economics.

There can be a cyclical aspect to the situation: the new hire gives up fixing legacy and rewrites the base out of anger. Probably many other archetypes that I missed, all of which resemble the basic setup. One might also generalize "coding culture" to "culture around legal codes".

To pile on your point: meanwhile, the suboptimal job market conditions (shall we say) preps the engineering culture for vicious spirals
If that's true, then by the same reasoning you're also saying that heliocentrism wasn't known to the Europe of (insert any time before the mid 1600s), because it was little more than an idea some guy had, not dominant or accepted.

But nobody would characterize the history of the science that way, because it simply isn't true. "Wasn't known to the Greeks" is inaccurate, particularly in its historical context, since science and philosophy were often "little more than 'this idea some guy had.'"
Miles Cole here… thx for the correction, another reader just notes this as well. I’ll get this corrected tomorrow and possibly retest after verifying I have spill set up. Thx!
It can be good for some and bad for others, especially as someone who is not born in China but is of Chinese descent. I usually avoid sharing my opinion on geopolitics outside the family and prefer to keep to myself if I prefer Chinese brands over Western ones to avoid being judged. The government can use the law to target Chinese-born individuals, and initiatives like the 'Chinese Initiative' make me more cautious and aware of my race.
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Sure! Glad you shared your honest opinion. But I just want to reiterate that the blog and its subsequent library which will be released is not being done to create a new standard. All throughout the blog its been clearly stated that this is "a new approach", not "new standard" or "new format" or even "better standard".
What language is it then?
Yes, it is stupid.

Try to design an alternative though, go and actually give it a try. And you are immediately going to find several historical anecdotes where your idea had gone horribly wrong.
Is it legally possible for Tiktok to provide a "takeout" function, and user uploads the data to a non-bytedance app that happens to work exact the same way as Tiktok do?

If so, this whac-a-mole could go on for ever. Feds would practically establish an office dedicated for app approval
Are there trade mags which discuss how effective different products are? If these Yacht owners are like I imagine, they fling open-checquebook rights to some flunkey and they install one, but they also like bragging rights and I am told can be obsessive about "how they chose the best" even when somebody else did it.

So what's the go-to bible for ranking anti-drone fitout for superyachts?
"Doesn't censor content" is probably not describing the situation correctly; while some companies like Google have typically resisted such in the aughts, they regularly take requests from other countries of this sort, and it'd be very simple for them to reenter the China market by having a stance similar to what they have for other countries.

The issue here is probably caused by the requirement for an ICP recordal which requires removal of violating user-generated content within 15 minutes, which is probably a very tight deadline, probably coupled with a strong false positive rate which is why said companies are also hesitant to introduce automation.

It could also be argued that Tiktok is not completely value-aligned with US interests, although this has not been provably shown and whatever we have thus far is speculative.
You've missed the point. It's plenty easy to find articles that clearly explain what the point is (in relation to this ban), so I'm not going to waste the time trying to explain it again myself.

I'll just note that the action that sealed the deal on this ban was TikTok directing its users to call their representatives to oppose the ban, and flooding their phone lines. It was a fortuitously incompetent display of capability, given the actual main issue.

It's kinda interesting reading the comments on the TikTok ban. A lot of them, including yours, seem blind (willfully or not) to the actual major issues involved, then post confidently while centering on some peripheral issue (or non issue) like it was the most important thing.
There isn't a uniform temperature across the entire exchanger. There's a smooth gradient extending from one end to the other. If the outside is hotter, then the inbound air gradually cools as it gives up heat to the outbound air which is gradually warming.