skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blackmail. Information. They could be kids of someone with access/high clearance or get it themselves in a few years.
> corporations aren't people

Corporate personhood is irrelevant to this case.
"With no price caps, no one will be able to buy insurance even if required by law."

Burden of proof?
I can agree to an extent that TT (and social media in general) is an addictive app and harmful to youth and society in general. Spend enough time on these types of apps and suddenly your worldview is just whatever the TT algorithm pushes to you.

It’s not entirely unprecedented either. There was the case of FB and Myanmar/Burma which strongly promoted military propaganda. This unfortunately lead to violence against Rohingya.

But the argument is very weak in my opinion, and wouldn’t be a reason to outright ban it. Prohibition never works.

The only thing that does work is fixing our society. In the USA, we have increasing wage disparity, increasing homelessness, increasing poverty, food scarcity, water scarcity, worsening climate change related events (see Palisades fire…), and a shit ton of other issues that will remain unsolved for at least the next 4 years.

Yet leadership is doing almost nothing to address this. Neoclassical economics and neoliberalism have outright ruined this country. Fuck the culture war the billionaire class is trying to initiate.
Because personal data about US citizens is up for sale to more or less whoever wants it, and the US government doesn’t seem to have a problem with this otherwise.

Which makes it seem far more plausible that the real national security capability that is being defended is that of the US gov to influence narratives on social media. And while even that might be constitutional, it’s a lot less compelling.
Nobody in this space gives a fuck about anyone outside of the people paying for their top-tier services, and even then, they only care about them when their bill is due. They don't care about their regular users, don't care about the environment, don't care about the people that actually made the "data" they're re-selling... nobody.
>a treaty partner who gave up their nukes in exchange for a security alliance with the US

If it wasn't ratified by the senate then we didn't enter into a treaty, I really don't understand why this is so hard for people to understand.
> rich company get richer

They have heaps of funding, but are still fundraising. I doubt they're making much money.

I do have an extensive infosec background, just left corporate security roles because it's a recipe for burnout because most won't care about software quality. Last year I've reported a security vulnerability in a very popular open source project and had to fight tooth and nail with highly-paid FAANG engineers to get it recognized + fixed.

This ChatGPT vulnerability disclosure was a quick temperature check on a product I'm using on a daily basis.

The learning for me is that their BugCrowd bug bounty is not worth to interact with. They're tarpitting vulnerability reports (most likely due to stupidity) and ask for videos and screenshots instead of understanding a single curl command. Through their unhelpful behavior they basically sent me on an organizational journey of trying to find a human at OpenAI who would care about this security vulnerability. In the end I failed to reach anyone at OpenAI, and due to sheer luck it got fixed after the exposure on HackerNews.

This is their "error culture":

1) Their security team ignored BugCrowd reports

2) Their data privacy team ignored {dsar,privacy}@openai.com reports

3) Their AI handling support@openai.com didn't understand it

4) Their colleagues at Microsoft CERT and Azure security team ignored it (or didn't care enough about OpenAI to make them look at it).

5) Their engineers on github were either too busy or didn't care to respond to two security-related github issues on their main openai repository.

6) They silently disable the route after it pop ups on HackerNews.

Technical issues:

1) Lack of security monitoring (Cloudflare, Azure)

2) Lack of security audits - this was a low hanging fruit

3) Lack of security awareness with their highly-paid engineers:

I assume it was their "AI Agent" handling requests to the vulnerable API endpoint. How else would you explain that the `urls[]` parameter is vulnerable to the most basic "ignore previous instructions" prompt injection attack that was demonstrated with ChatGPT years ago. Why is this prompt injection still working on ANY of their public interfaces? Did they seriously only implement the security controls on the main ChatGPT input textbox and not in other places? And why didn't they implement any form of rate limiting for their "AI Agent"?

I guess we'll never know :D
"though the launch vehicle is no different than the competitor like Soyuz"

That is ... so obviously and blatantly untrue. That is like saying that an old wooden biplane from 1917 is not different from Boeing 777.
I have no horses in the race but if you justify a Tiktok ban in the US because of a foreign influence, you also do justify a Facebook ban in the EU on the same arguments.
> Textualism might give the court some useful definitions, but it is after all still called, quite literally, an opinion.

I don't think you understand SCOTUS' decision here. They are not banning TikTok. Congress is doing so (actually forcing a sale of TikTok or be banned). They are simply ruling whether Congress acted unconstitutionally by doing so. In other words, if they overrule Congress, they would have to show how Congress' ruling contravenes the Constitution, when the Constitution grants Congress the authority to regulate commerce and decide matters of national security.
As a British citizen by birth, I'm amused by the idea that Americans may get National Insurance for houses before they do for healthcare.
Why would you want an outside nation to have an outsized influence America's social fabric? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQXsPU25B60 Chomsky laid out manufacturing consent decades ago and while his thesis revolves around traditional media heavily influencing thought-in-America, the influencing now happens from algorithmic based feeds. Tik Tok controls the feed for many young American minds.
You can still push a particular group of those 17-year olds pushing specific views to influence elections. As long as some proportion of the electorate watches stuff on TikTok.
> the national security concerns around 17-year old nobodies publishing videos of themselves doing silly dances

C'mon, we can have a more informed conversation than that.

TikTok is an entertainment platform the average young American watches for more than an hour a day. Videos cover just about any topic imaginable. We just had an election. Is it really so impossible to imagine a foreign power adjusting the algorithm to show content favorable to one candidate over another? It's entirely within their power and they have every motive.
In a more functional democracy we would see that mass data collection of any sort, by any company (foreign or domestic), is a national security risk.

Have witnessed first-hand the threats by foreign state actors penetrating US-based cloud infrastructure. And it’s not like any of our domestic corporations are practicing the type of security hygiene necessary to prevent those intrusions.

So idk, the whole thing feels like a farce that will mainly benefit Zuck and co while doing very little to ultimately protect our interests.

We would be much better off actually addressing data privacy and passing legislation that regulates every company in a consistent manner.
Because it’s used to influence elections worldwide. Most recently the first round of the Romanian elections were won by an unheard of pro-Russian candidate who ran a disinformation campaign on TikTok, allegedly organised by the Kreml.

https://www.politico.eu/article/investigation-ties-romanian-...

https://www.politico.eu/article/calin-georgescu-romania-elec...
Action against Tiktok doesn't preclude action against US companies
Thanks for trying it out and for the feedback, it's really helpful! The blur between simulation interface and the tooltips/guidance is one of the design challenges I've been iterating on. It's been something I'm actively working to improve for both this game and future ones.

Haha, that's gold! I was a bit nervous about putting the subscription pattern as the first question, but went with it since it's so relatable. Really glad it created that "aha!" moment where people realize they're experiencing what they're learning about.
The App Store is dependent on the OS. The OS is dependent on the hardware. Are you including the cost of API development, architecture, and hardware R&D into the probability of the app store.

Because that is what Apple is round-a-bout saying. That its such an integrated product, you can't tally the net revenue from one component and call it profit.
Anyone who thinks judicial review is Constitutional has no room to talk about judicial activism.

It started with the Marshall Court and never stopped.
Go Bernie!
We needed to test the integration into the company CI pipeline. One of the requirements was to fully run it in a private cloud environment, maybe even without internet access (this was required for some projects for security reasons).

PS: but that's not the point. We needed an evaluation license, but the sales person just kept bugging us with questions. Like how our environments were set up, what products we want to integrate it with, how our teams are build, how much team growth was planned, and so on.

A lot of internal things that you don't want to share, especially if you are not part of the purchasing department. They probably have some guidelines what they are willing to share and what not. Even when putting aside the security risks by sharing internal information, it could also hurt the purchasing departments negotiation strategies, if the sales person already knows more than they shared with them.

PPS: We didn't want to have SonarQube at all, we didn't like the reports at all, mostly false positives in our case to work through (but I can see that some teams could benefit from it). The requirement came from some check boxes to be ticked for an audit.
Not that OPs use case seems latency sensitive, but it can be good to know for others. If you go this route, you'd have to set things up very carefully as latency balloons up quickly if you pipe things outside>computer>outside. If you're just looking for reducing the dynamic range, cheap compressor for sub-$100 would do the trick without adding much latency.
make working from home (for parents) a labor right?
Think of it like consumer protection laws - Ford has higher safety requirements for the vehicles they sell domestically than they do for those sold in Mexico. Thus, it could be argued that they are not maximizing their monetization of the US market by cutting out expensive safety features that consumers don't pay extra for.

China is wise to have such laws to protect their citizens.
> none of them are foreign adversaries

From the US side it may look like that, but the EU doesn’t see it that way.
OK, wild. It's farfetched, but at least the "blackmail" angle makes a little bit of sense. Still strangely targeted. There are a lot of other apps where people are making "potential blackmail" material.
Sounds like we have our answer. Have China flood the internet with "content". American scrapers train on it. Now we can ban LLM use on American websites, compromised by China!
Facebook's owners & their peers have a massive amount of control over public policy, so no, I don't think the US government can tell them to stop doing it.
Google Research’s "Titans" introduces a neural long-term memory module that dynamically learns to memorize and retrieve context during inference, addressing Transformers' limitations with fixed-length attention spans. By leveraging a biologically inspired "surprise metric," Titans prioritize significant information, scaling efficiently to sequences over 2 million tokens without quadratic complexity. Its three architectural variants—Memory as Context, Gate, and Layer—demonstrate strong performance in long-range reasoning tasks such as medical diagnostics and legal analysis, positioning Titans as a compelling alternative for handling extended contexts in neural models.
Cloudflare workers can host soketi which is websocket.
I hate the whole interviewing process so much, that I have sat on the one and only job I have had since I graduated university. It's been 8.5 years now, and still counting.

Do I want to leave now? Sure, but the amount of effort and motivation required is insurmountable. At least, for me. I've never been a type-A kind of person, and I sometimes envy those that are. I just wish "career trajectory" and fancy titles actually meant something to me, but I couldn't care less. I found no glory in this field, but rather ways to placate one's ego.
Interesting viewpoint. It is my belief that Lua would be nice as a first language, but maybe this opinion is tainted by all my years of experience in programming. Lua definitely wasn't my first language, I started out with C/C++ and Java, long ago. Nothing beats having first-hand experience as a teacher and thus I'll accept your opinion as something more substantiated than my gut feeling.

I'm quite interested in this topic, since I would like to write a good book to introduce absolute beginners into the world of programming. I have a good and encompassing knowledge about many different languages, nevertheless I lack teaching experience.

In your opinion, which languages are good candidates as a first choice and what do you think about using a Lua game framework, like for instance Love2D to teach programming (instead of raw standalone Lua)? The idea being that instead of clunky low level awkwardness, like string manipulation, students would instead see geometrical shapes moving on a screen with just a bunch of simple and imperative statements. Would that provide a better motivation?
SCOTUS doesn't really get to decide whether that is good justification or even correct

They do, and they did. From the ruling:

The Act’s prohibitions and divestiture requirement are
designed to prevent China—a designated foreign adver-
sary—from leveraging its control over ByteDance Ltd. to
capture the personal data of U. S. TikTok users. This ob-
jective qualifies as an important Government interest un-
der intermediate scrutiny.
The rational for why TikTok should be banned in the United States is precisely the same rational why Xitter, Facebook, Instagram, et al, should be banned in other countries.

Meta, Musk, and others have no right or grant to operate in the EU, Canada or elsewhere. They should be banned.
Yes, all of them should be stopped from doing it. And end Third Party Doctrine. I 100% agree.
and no chinese nationals work in the US. oh wait yes they do. and in my experience the majority plan to return to china after making enough money.
The funny thing is that when China did that, it was unanimously condemned in the Western world as an authoritarian move, and often use as an example of why China was a dictatorship with no freedom of speech, etc. But now it's actually the normal thing to do?
When it comes to hifi audio, $1,000 doesn't get you the Rolls Royce version of /anything/
Cloudflare is proxy in front of the API endpoint. After it became apparent that BugCrowd is tarpitting me and OpenAI didn't care to respond, I reported to Cloudflare via their bug bounty because I thought it's such a famous customer they'd forward the information.

But yeah, cloudflare did not forward the vulnerability to openai or prevent these large requests at all.
I’d be fine with a general rule that if China (or anyone) places limits on US social media that effectively limits / bans them… same goes for Chinese social media platforms. Done.
After using this malloc-auto-abort() style for many many years, I've come to believe that if only for the better error handling properties, manual memory management should primarily be done via explicit up front arena allocation using OS API's like mmap/VirtualAlloc, then a bump allocator within the arena.

It helps in the vast amount of cases where sensible memory bounds are known or can be inferred, and it means that all system memory allocation errors* can be dealt with up front with proper error handling (including perhaps running in a more restrictive mode with less memory), and then all application memory allocation errors (running out of space in the arena) can be auto-abort() as before (and be treated as bugs). The other huge benefit is that there is no free() logic for incremental allocations within the arena, you just munmap/VirtualFree the arena in its entirety when done.

Of course, there are cases where there are no sensible memory bounds (in space or perhaps in time) and where this method is not appropriate without significant modification.

*modulo Linux's overcommit... which is a huge caveat
I can only of course share my own experiences, but I’d recommend taking a government cyber role - especially something hands-on. This allowed me to pivot from software development (which I still love and do but just for myself) to cyber.
You are saying that heat pumps get less efficient when deltas are larger, and the parent post says they get more efficient when deltas are larger. In a sense, you're both correct.

There are multiple relevant temperatures for a heat pump, and the pump is more efficient when some of those are higher and some lower. A heat pump has two heat exchangers, one on the inside of the building and one outside. Each of those heat exchangers has two temperatures: the refrigerant loop temperature at that point, and the ambient temperature (air for air source heat pumps, ground for ground source heat pumps). There's also a fifth relevant temperature that has indirect influence: the setpoint (the desired indoor ambient temperature).

Efficiency increases when the temperature delta between the refrigerant and ambient temperatures is higher (both indoor and outdoor). But those temperature deltas vary inversely with the delta between the indoor and outdoor ambient temperatures.

So, in summary:

- Heat pumps get less efficient when the temperature delta between indoor and outdoor temperature is higher.

- They get more efficient when the temperature delta between refrigerant and ambient temperature is higher.

The net effect of this is that heat pumps become less efficient as the temperature becomes hotter outside in the summer and colder outside in the winter.
This reads like a denial of the existence of hybrid warfare. Why wouldn't China use TikTok to sow negative sentiment about the US?
What, was goat farming too pedestrian for you??

(Just a little joke, based the meme of developers quitting their jobs to start a goat farm.)

Also, I'm allergic to bees.
I’m not sure anyone is disputing that, certainly I’m not.

There is an adjacent point that many of us feel is just as important, which is that there is evidence in the public record (see Snowden disclosures among others) that there is lawbreaking or at least abuse of clearly stated constitutional liberties taking place domestically in the consumer internet space and has been for a long time.

Both things can be true, and both are squarely on topic for this debate whether on HN or in the Senate Chambers.
>> Being an ex professional CAD person I think PBR is the wrong visual style for most cad though. The main point of shading is to improve the perception of shape and part isolation there. Traditional airbrush based engineering illustration styles are much better reference. So something like Gooch with depth buffer unsharp masking IMHO would be much much more appropriate.

That is some excellent feedback. I like that our current simple Snells law shader doesn't add specular highlights and can do flat shading by turning off all but the ambient light. I had never heard of "Gooch" and I don't recommend searching for it without "Gooch in the context of rendering". That looks interesting and we already have code to draw the silhouette edges.

I do think adding a PBR based Fresnel component with a backlight gives a similar but less sharp delineation of edges of objects, but it tends toward white right on the edge.

While people like a good PBR render, I agree that in CAD the objective of the rendering is to clearly convey the geometry AND the sketching tools and entities the user is manipulating.
> This is going to be an interesting experiment: A widely used social network across the world WITHOUT american content.

For whom? UK users?

TikTok users who use the Chinese version are not consuming content from US creators. They won't notice this ban at all.
Your question is irrelevant because none of the parties you've listed have interests that are aligned with the CCP, assuming you're referring to the people as a whole. Obviously there are specific individuals whose interests are aligned with China's government but laws in a democracy aren't meant to make everyone happy, they're meant to meet the interests of the majority of people
Aerospace fire suppression is generally Halon, which would purge the cavity with inert gas.
We presented this work at SIGGRAPH ASIA 2024. But I think they do not record it?

Maybe in some time we also do an online workshop about it.
But it’s cool for Elon Musk to do it to get Trump elected, or zuck to do it for who knows what aims (but certainly expanding his own influence and power)
I didn't even notice the author was American. You don't need to be one to be fascinated by archaeology.
Thank you for pointing this out. Carlson and Maddow made nearly identical arguments in court and if both are not mentioned in the same breath, the speakers bias is instantly displayed to anyone who is educated on this topic.

> IMO they shouldn't be allowed to call themselves news without putting entertainment in front.

Agreed but the average person wouldn't understand that Entertainment News was different than News. The problem goes deeper. I despair.
> algorithm used in the US was apparently banned in China

Sounds like they tried.
Because US is not really a free country.

It is obviously way better on this matter than China, but in principle, liberties are selectively granted in US and in China.

The TikTok ban topic has been stale for long time before it became the main harbor for Pro-Palestine content after it became under censorship by US social media thus depriving anti-Palestine from controling the narrative, effectively becoming a major concern for AIPAC et al.

Data collection is more of a plausible pretext at this point.
This was great.

I always recommend watching his old Chipophone video (homemade 8-bit synthesizer from a repurposed old electronic organ). He has made many cool instruments since. Some of which maybe more tehcnically impressive, I can't tell. But this one is probably still on my all time top 10 "most enjoyment from watching a Youtube video" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1pchpDD5EU

Such cool sounds and he plays it well!
Watch Bob Ross' the Joy of Painting Start to Finish: Every Episode X 31 Seasons
Everybody already moved to red book and are starting to recognize that the US is just an aging colonialist with nothing to offer the future

https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/s/hXe9HsWslW

The GenZ folks (including my kids) that I interact with on a day-to-day basis are much happier on that application and they’re starting to realize that the US is not what it pretends to be

That doesn’t mean any place is better (though possible) it simply means people started finally realizing the truth of the United States