skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In British Columbia both text-based accounts (real and fictional, such as stories) and drawings of underage sexual activity are illegal (basically any sort of depiction, even if it just comes out of your mouth.)

So California is just starting to catch up.
After the Ticktock ban and surge of Rednote installs, more people are seeing these cars here. And they look amazing for the price. The ban is backfiring spectacularly. And this is just one way.
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> as though framing problems "in a way coding agents can solve" is itself a well-understood or bounded problem

It is imminently solvable! All that is necessary is to use a subset of language easier for the machine to understand and use in a very defined way; we could call this "coding language" or something similar. Even build tools to ensure we write this correctly (to avoid confusing the machine). Perhaps we could define our own algorithms using this "language" to help them along!
What? You're musing that a fucking trade war could possibly be placed above freedom of speech? The answer of which "values" should win is 110% clear.
Thats true...you can only go so far with that though and thats probably why many of their industries haven't really met the par yet.

But at the same time they have eclipsed the west in certain industries such as commercial nuclear. That mentality is there in their industries that havent met the par yet and that was a major point I was making in my previous comment.

As far as I understand, they originally licensed the AP1000 but expanded upon the design enough that they have ownership over the new design and they use that now.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China#Reactor...

We also see it in BYD. The Seagull is a symphony of cost efficiency and vertical integration that western companies are now studying.

[2]: https://youtu.be/izvdO-zdlKg?t=29
Do you mean Android/data? This is accessible on a non-rooted device using Marc apps & software's "Files" https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.marc.files (an easily accessible shortcut to the native Android file manager).
Got it. Especially interested to see how you set up PXE. Seen a few materials out there but never got around to doing it in my lab.

Looking forward to more blogposts!
Plenty? I've almost never seen it. I had a few teachers drop occasional insults toward me but they would never dare do anything to me like a kid would. They can't even spank students anymore. Almost every issue that a kid has with a teacher is caused by bad behavior. Of course I haven't been in grade school in decades and I went to probably a nice school in the scheme of things. I have seen quite a few stories of teachers doing awful things to their students, for example harassing them about politics. But I really think these cases are rare, and most likely kinds of teacher harassment are easily avoided by students.
And my point is that it wasn’t being sold, it was made available to strategic partners, who don’t seem to have even accessed much of it. It’s a totally different situation than what you’re talking about.
Good to meet you fellow American.
You lost me at Create your account. I would just want to play with the editor and store in the local browser storage until I decide I like it.
Wrong country (at least for now...!)
> No evidence?

No

> You’re seeing what you (and TikTok) wants you to see.

No, they can show me anything, but I decide to click or not to click on it - just the same thing as HN.

Not every company should be a public one. Valve is not a public company, so what?
Salt water spray is not great for vehicles in general, even ignoring batteries. Wonder what the heck they were thinking.
> You just don't understand how food addiction works.

Would you concede that some foods are more addictive than others? Doesn't this suggest other remedies like food regulations, at the very least, should be deployed in concert with seeming "miracle drugs" like GLP-1 agonists?
Good thoughts but as you point out about Elmo & Zucc, there is no way it stays with just the responsible people. It will also not be limited to protest. Just look at what Florida, Texas, and other states are doing about women's healthcare - any general agent worth its salt and with a bit of data will know about any woman's periods, pregnancies, miscarriages, and travel - which is being criminalized ....
Might not be available in Canada that much longer https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tiktok-ban-canada-operation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_porn... comments a little on this and suggests that some of the existing laws have been tested in court already.

Still, it's probably better not to be involve in a case like United States vs. $YOU and then have your name appear in this Wikipedia article.
It’s genuinely difficult to take seriously a claim that coding using Sonnet has “the same weaknesses” as GPT-2, which was effectively useless for the task. It’s like suggesting that a flamethrower has the same weaknesses as a matchstick because they both can be put out by water.

We’ll have to agree to disagree about whether the last 12 months has had as much innovation as the preceding 12 months. We started 2024 with no models better than GPT-4, and we ended the year with multiple open source models that beat GPT-4 and can run on your laptop, not to mention a bunch of models that trounce it. Plus tons of other innovations, dramatically cheaper training and inference costs, reasoning models, expanded multi-modal capabilities, etc, etc.

I’m guessing you’ve already seen and dismissed it, but in case you’re interested in an overview, this is a good one: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/
My wife, well into her 30s, initially got an inkling that she might be on the Autism spectrum after being exposed to TiKTok videos of high masking, high functioning women who talked about their Autism.

After many years and dozens of tests and questionnaires and appointments with speech pathologists, occupational therapists and psychiatrists, she was formally diagnosed last year with Level 2 Autism (there are 3 levels here in Australia).

After years of being misdiagnosed with various forms of anxiety or depression (and none of those drugs or treatments being helpful for her), this has been life changing. So much of her early childhood and past life now suddenly makes sense.

We used to be very bad at diagnosing autism in girls
It's pretty fast to destroy all the keys in a TPM. Should take a minute if you know the right place to go. Meanwhile securely deleting a normal drive requires overwriting every sector with random data, which could take hours. So it also helps if you're giving away the whole machine.
This ship might not be for peacefully exporting electric cars. China is making unmistakable preparations to invade Taiwan in the near future and RORO carrier vessels have clear military applications in such a scenario.

Consider this analysis of the invasion barges they’re preparing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Klkpk_hO4FQ
It says "The following is the dedication of James Lambert a soldier of the Revolutionary wars with the Americas."

blah blah blah
Ignoring my point doesn’t make it go away.

Using an AI tool to create an image of a painting betrays the person who seeks to be “artist” by short circuiting the practice that leads the prospect to their path of enlightenment through mastery.

In our constricted 3d world there is no circumstance where an algorithmically generated image of a painting will equally serve the prospective artist in its procedural work on the prospective artist, internally. There is no other pursuit in art, and any pursuant will come to that conclusion in any number of ways but always through submission to the course of mastery (for which there is no shortcut).

Worse, the companies at the helm of this side of the technology are pushing it in order to stand middle man to humankind’s modus operandi-to create.

Keep your mind open to perspectives beyond the software industry.
Funnily enough, there have been a few times over the past couple of years I've been asked by younger co-workers to read something for them that was written in cursive. I hadn't really realized it had become such a (comparatively) rare skill. This fact is making me feel older than my actual 50th birthday did!
> with our biology and environment.

Our biology hasn't changed much in recent years. Our environment has. So has our obesity levels. I mean, it's an "environment" that has "super size," as a default option.
> [1]

Look, it's known that reservoir was empty, but it's a covered reservoir. You're looking at the the _cover_. That image tells you nothing about the state of the reservoir at the time.

> primary uphill source of water for those fire hydrants

was 3x 1M gallon water tanks. Hydrants were gravity fed until the tanks ran out (8-15 hours into the firefight), at which point water tankers supplied responding companies.
> The CCP could mandate that the TikTok algorithm display certain types of political content

Who couldn't? Do we have a proof?

> It's not the US - they are punished in China in a way that doesn't happen in the US.

Do you have a comparison graph? You seem to be knowledgeable
Sure but even the supreme court disagrees with the supreme court. Treating their rulings as the best or canonical interpretation of a case doesn't make much sense.

It's not like any interpretation is valid but there are plenty of valid ones.
It seems to already use some batteries, but not sure for what:

“the new ship includes BYD box-type battery packs and shaft-belt generators for the first time”
I don’t think I believe that OCR can’t do it but random humans can

OCR is VERY good
TikTok is used for far more than cat videos which is why it's a considered a threat to those in power. There are freely flowing ideas and narratives which they cannot control - except now they are by restricting access to it.

Instagram doesn't have the same culture at all and it's not a substitute. TikTok is a like a digital "third space" for communities, and just like the real life equivilents, is slowly disappearing. People without community are easier to control.
A company spokesperson claimed that the change is intended to “better protect” Google Search against malicious activity, such as bots and spam, and to improve the overall Google Search experience for users. The spokesperson noted that, without JavaScript, many Google Search features won’t work properly and that the quality of search results tends to be degraded.

“Enabling JavaScript allows us to better protect our services and users from bots and evolving forms of abuse and spam,” the spokesperson told TechCrunch, “and to provide the most relevant and up-to-date information.”
From the post: "...but also despite multi-million dollar annual spend, we get about as much support from them as you would spending $100." -- Ouch! That is a pretty huge problem for Google.

I really enjoyed this post, mostly because we had similar adventures when setting up the infrastructure for Blekko. For Blekko, a company that had a lot of "east west" network traffic (that is traffic that goes between racks vs to/from the Internet at large) having physically colocated services without competing with other servers for bandwidth was both essential and much more cost effective than paying for this special case at SoftLayer (IBM's captive cloud).

There are some really cool companies that will build an enclosure for your cold isle, basically it ensures all the air coming out of the floor goes into the back of your servers and not anywhere else. It also keeps not cold air from being entrained from the sides into your servers.

The calculations for HVAC 'CRAC' capacity in a data center are interesting too. In the first CoLo facility we had a 'ROFOR' (right of first refusal) on expanding into the floor area next to our cage, but when it came time to expand the facility had no more cooling capacity left so it was meaningless.

Once you've done this exercise, looking at the 0xide solution will make a lot more sense to you.
It might be nice for people to be able to actually read the documents in the National Archives rather than relying on a transcription or a mobile app.

I wonder if they've considered making a simple tutorial on how to read cursive? It's not that hard if you can already read printed English. And of course you can practice on documents in the National Archives.

It's exciting and fun to learn to read an unfamiliar script, like the runes on the cover of The Hobbit ... or the engraving-style cursive of the US Constitution.
OpenMoxie – a local network hub for Moxie robot (open sourced by Moxie devs)
the good news on this is that we've got a tonne of deep-dive material on networking and whitebox switches we cut from this post. We'll definitely be talking more about this soon (also cos' BGP is cool).
I think the victim is "the state". The law seems to say that by creating a model using CSAM, certain outputs are CSAM, and the law can say whatever it wants to some extent; you just have to convince the Supreme Court that you're right.
A bit presumptuous to go into a rant that boils down to calling Jeremy an unskilled idiot. Jeremy has continuously used his programming experience and common sense to make more of an impact via his open source libraries, his courses on deep learning for coders, and language modeling research in general, than like.. 99.9% of programmers. It's basically comical how much you have misjudged him.
Or equivalently NAND, leading to the usual recommendation about NAND to Tetris - https://www.nand2tetris.org/
> Nobody’s speech is restricted in any way.

Justice Sotomayor disagrees with you [1]:

> Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a brief opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. She stressed that she saw “no reason to assume without deciding that the Act implicates the First Amendment because our precedent leaves no doubt that it does.”

The rest of the justices sidestepped the question by assuming the First Amendment was implicated for the sake of argument.

[1]: https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/01/supreme-court-upholds-tik...
This is all very cool so I’m not trying to be dismissive. In a lot of ways, giving a hobby out as a way to participate in the national archives is an end in itself.

But…computers can definitely do this way better, right?
> I don’t think I believe that OCR can’t do it but random humans can

I do.

> OCR is VERY good

Uh, my experience is extremely different.
Biden signs 11th-hour cybersecurity executive order
Completely tangential, but from personal experience, the performance of Google Search had been degraded for at least 2 years prior, so when it was banned it was already mostly useless anyway.

GMail continued for a few years after that - I'm not even sure if it was ever actually banned, or just suffered the same fate (death by a thousands timeouts).
I'm 28. I can only read the document in the article with a lot of effort and fiddling with the contrast.
Robert De Niro's child is perhaps the best example of the astounding beauty of mixed raced children. That child is the most beautiful of the lot.
After using a keyboard for circa 50 years, I can't read my own handwriting. I can't even give a reproduceable signature.
This would be super effective as a form submit button that doesn’t respond, tricking the user into rage clicking
It's a bit older, but see also [1] for a great survey of research on the topic.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Before-Wilderness-Environmental-Calif...
While it is more complex to actually build out the center , a lot of that is specific to the regional you are doing it.

Thy will vary by country, by state or even county , setting up a DC in the Bay Area and say one in Ohio or Utah is a very different endeavor with different design considerations.
If this story is true, they were probably fired for lying about doing screening interviews and working hard when all resumes were being auto-rejected.
i dont think the problem is the lack of resources to learn how to read and write cursive
Yeah. I don’t like it, but I can see this getting overturned.
Yes, that seems right. Not that difficult. This one suffers from some poor penmanship, though.
> why don't we have cameras with full fledged modern OS-es running custom androids for example with installable apps…

because then you end up something that is mediocre at a bunch of random stuff rather than great at something specific.

a multitool is rarely as good at hammering as an actual hammer. a multitool is almost never as good at screwing as an actual screwdriver.
I'm not too sure about that reading, I got "The following is the declaration of James Lambert a soldier of the Revolutionary War in South America." rather different
Then all image generation models should be considered inherently harmful, no?
Not wrong country. In 2021, a Texas man was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison over CSAM text and drawings - https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/texas-man-sentenced-40-years-...
Question for anyone that knows, but what happens if a 16 year old draws a naked picture of their 16 year old partner?
I think it likely that reading the great variety of cursive styles makes simple teaching rather complicated. Folks who spent years in school reading and writing in cursive can quickly adapt to the various styles, in a way that I'm not sure it could be done in a simple tutorial.
A Minecraft for books that makes podcasts-inspired by NoteBookLM and James Clear
> particularly for Americans who never learned cursive in school.

American schools don’t teach it anymore?!
The handwriting in some of these snippets, while sometimes difficult to read for one reason or another, is nonetheless beautiful: did everyone who wrote have such great handwriting back then?

I'm looking at the piece in the Instagram post linked by the page, which begins, "honor of holding in their service". The lines are so straight, the letters are so uniform!
I don't often disagree with the EFF. Strange times.
I had the same thought but maybe on old hand writing they can't?

EDIT:

I tried giving the sample to 4o and it gave:

The following is the declaration of James Lambert, a soldier of the Revolutionary War in North America.

The said James Lambert this day personally appeared in the Probate Court of the County of Dearborn in the State of Indiana and at the November Term of said Court (1841), it being a court of record created by the laws of Indiana and made oath that:

On the 25th day of March 1842, he will be eighty-five years old, that he was born in the State of Maryland, that he is now a resident of said county and has been for the 27 years last past; that he has lived in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania...
I used to work on machine repair automation at a big tech company. IMO repairs are one of the overlooked and harder things to deal with. When you run on AWS you don't really think about broken hardware it mostly just repairs itself. When you do it yourself you don't have that luxury. You need to have spare parts, technician to do repairs, a process for draining/undraining jobs off hosts, testing suites, hardware monitoring tools and 1001 more things to get this right. At smaller scales you can cut corners on some of these things but they will eventually bite you. And this is just machines! Networking gear has it's own fun set of problems, and when it fails it can take down your whole rack. How much do you trust your colos not to lose power during peak load? I hope you run disaster recovery drills to prep for these situations!

Wishing all the best to this team, seems like fun!
Why is it worth noting in this context? It seems like an unrelated observation. The original commenter is clearly in the U.S., so you're telling them something that doesn't help them at all.
If you crawl any sufficiently large public collection of images you are bound to download some CSAM images by accident.

Filtering out any images of beaten up naked 7 year olds is certainly something you should do. But if you go by the US legal definition of "any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a minor (someone under 18 years of age)" you are going to have a really hard time filtering all of that automatically. People don't suddenly look differently when they turn 18, and "sexually explicit" is a wide net open to interpretation.
Except that it does say that in the article, that’s it's a lack of education in reading cursive.
TikTok to ‘Go Dark’ on Sunday for Its 170 Million American Users
It takes a special kind of mind to tackle an idea so entrenched, rethink the design from first principles, do it well, and come up with something so different from what was there before.

Bravo.
It appears that you can replace double-click with command-click, and listen for keydown rather than mousedown.
However forcing TikTok to divest of foreign ownership is not restricting the rights of Americans to express their opinions. Americans are free to widely exercise their first amendment rights- the TikTok order to divest foreign ownership doesn’t affect those users ability to speak. The first amendment does not guarantee you access to a specific platform- it means that the bar for the government to imprison you for speech is very high (you can be held in contempt for lying under oath, for example)

I would argue that in this case the platform itself is expressing speech by ranking, recommending and promoting certain content. A foreign entity has no such first amendment right- we have had restrictions on foreign ownership of news media for decades now.

I think it’s an interesting issue especially now that you have TikTok users who think they’re being treated unfairly moving to a pure Chinese platform RedNote and encountering actual censorship. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/01/16/tech/tiktok-refugees-redn....

And now unconfirmed reports that RedNote is considering segregating the new American users from the Chinese users, ironically so Americans couldn’t influence Chinese users - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/rednote-may-wall...
I don't think it does, I don't see any single content from my country's language. Tiktok is very good at adapting the content to you.
Crash in the Desert by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1938)
Isn't this like a bread-and-butter AI task?

“The following is the declaration of James Lambert, a soldier of the Revolutionary War in North America.”
“The said James Lambert, on this day personally appeared in the Probate Court of the County of Dearborn in the State of Indiana, at the November Term of said Court [1841], it being a court of record created by the laws of Indiana, and made oath
that on the 25th day of March 1842 he will be eighty‐five years old; that he was born in the State of Maryland; that he is now a resident of [said] county and has been for the [27] years last past; that he has lived in Virginia, Maryland, [and Pennsylvania]; that…”

These kinds of problems, matching up cursive to actual text, would seem to play to the absolute best strengths of an LLM, given how much basic language structure the models encode.
Seems like something that some of those big AI companies that are desperately starved of training material could chip in on, no? Actually do something for the public good, spend a few cents of that VC money, get some high-quality training data out of it?
Why do they need volonteers to manually do it? Open AI models like Microsoft's TrOCR are very effective for handwritten English
That is a very good observation and a really interesting video.
> I don’t think I believe that OCR can’t do it but random humans can

Considering the people involved are experts in their field, are certainly aware of OCR capabilities, and have publicized a need thusly:

... the National Archives is looking for volunteers who can
help transcribe and organize its many handwritten records ...

Perhaps "random humans" can perform tasks which could reshape your belief:

> OCR is VERY good