skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>And what puzzles me is that the evidences offered by the Congress was quite speculative, whether it's about data collection, content manipulation, influence of Chinese laws, or the potential future threat.

I think in a national security paradigm, you model threats and threat capabilities rather than reacting to threats only after they are realized. This of course can and has been abused to rationalize foreign policy misadventures and there's a real issue of our institutions failing to arrest momentum in that direction.

But I don't think the upshot of those problems is that we stop attempting to model and respond to national security threats altogether, which appears to be the implication of some arguments that dispute the reality of national security concerns.

> Yet ByteDance chose not to argue about the evidence, but to argument about 1A.

I think this is a great point, but perhaps their hands were tied, because it's a policy decision by congress in the aforementioned national security paradigm and not the kind of thing where it's incumbent on our govt to prove a specific injury in order to have authority to make policy judgments on national security.
So why is Apple being forced to evict a free app from their store?
there are plenty of obese people who claim that no amount of calorie reduction works. Ozempic has put that to rest. The truth is they were overeating the entire time.
Just adding on to number 4 - I didn't realize there was additional information explaining the pattern further below the interactive challenge for the first couple steps. When completed, it should then show the explanation and a button to continue.
My person in deity do I need to go down the list of genocides and atrocities the US has either participated in or funded in its long and bloodsoaked history? It's a long list but it ends with the billions of dollars in weapons, aid and personnel we sent to help Israel try to wipe out the Palestinians.

This isn't an attempt at whataboutism here, no one is denying that what China is doing to the Uyghurs is terrible, but the US and its allies have no moral high ground to stand on at all in this regard.
LLM's don't learn on the job, they're expected to be fully-formed after completing their training. It's just too expensive for a business to invest in upgrading their workers.
>the same person that made the super insightful comment about the origins of life and RNA yesterday...

Astute observation.

That's some worthwhile reading.

I would say that some people can make use of natural intelligence better than others can do with the artificial stuff.
Well actually, you can argue facebook/twitter etc are causing harm to the US. Just look at its impact oneverything from politics to misinformation.
My mother constantly struggles between when to double click or not after decades of using computers. This is probably an issue that will die out with her generation, though.

Entirely separate, a common failure mode of dying mice is that they start generating spurious clicks. I've had a couple of logitechs do this to me. And the thing about scams is you can often legit make money off of very low success rates.
It wouldn't be unprecedented. Every now and then you get a monarch who just happens to like doing something with his hands. It's rare enough that it's usually specifically noted when it happens, but e.g. consider Peter the Great of Russia, who famously partook in building ships for his fleet as a carpenter (although in his case it seems to have been driven more by relentless perfectionism and dissatisfaction with quality of other people's work).
Probably making a distinction between high german and swiss german.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alemannic_German
True that. My wife watched a few Chinese dramas, but they're quite boring compared to k-dramas or japanese shows. I find them annoying and full of propaganda. Only the historical ones are borderline interesting. Also the CCP crackdown on celebrities didn't help.

By contrast, there's now a very good k-drama with Lee Min-ho happening in space or the Gyeongseong Creature horror drama with Park Seo-joon.

I did see some good Chinese movies, mostly out of Hong Kong. Wong Kar-wai directed a bunch of good ones but they all predate Xi's regime and the takeover of HK.

One of my favourite contemporary artists is Ai Weiwei, who has gone missing in 2011 only to finally reappear four years later. I understand he now lives in Portugal. Got his book on my night stand, 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows.
Not an expert but I'm not too sure about shockwave in a confined space.

How does Halon works?
Id appreciate more explanations from the power of combined bitflip & goto
My experience today with Google support, and their AI/plagiarism machine
Why TikTok's Anti-Link Policy Makes It a Closed Platform
Don't forget `I was ready to head over to the Dark Web (amazon.com) and purchase one of the dongles just to dump the contents of the memory chip.`
There is no evidence. This is just blind speculation. 95% of the population just doesn't care about telecom cybersecurity.
I had this 2017 project called Sailboat [1], which was almost the same thing but for React. I am aware of Crank though, and it's quite nice.

[1]: https://medium.com/@jeswin/sailboat-a-modern-router-for-reac...
If you have access to the BMI2 instruction set I can do branchless UTF-8 encoding like in the article using only 9 instructions and 73 bytes of lookup tables:

branchless_utf8:
mov rax, rdi
lzcnt ecx, esi
lea rdx, [rip + .L__unnamed_1]
movzx ecx, byte ptr [rcx + rdx]
lea rdx, [rip + example::DEP_AND_OR::h78cbe1dc7fe823a9]
pdep esi, esi, dword ptr [rdx + 8*rcx]
or esi, dword ptr [rdx + 8*rcx + 4]
movbe dword ptr [rdi], esi
mov qword ptr [rdi + 8], rcx
ret

The code:

static DEP_AND_OR: [(u32, u32); 5] = [
(0, 0),
(0b01111111_00000000_00000000_00000000, 0b00000000_00000000_00000000_00000000),
(0b00011111_00111111_00000000_00000000, 0b11000000_10000000_00000000_00000000),
(0b00001111_00111111_00111111_00000000, 0b11100000_10000000_10000000_00000000),
(0b00000111_00111111_00111111_00111111, 0b11110000_10000000_10000000_10000000),
];

const LEN: [u8; 33] = [
// 0-10 leading zeros: not valid.
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
// 11-15 leading zeros: 4 bytes.
4, 4, 4, 4, 4,
// 16-20 leading zeros: 3 bytes.
3, 3, 3, 3, 3,
// 21-24 leading zeros: 2 bytes.
2, 2, 2, 2,
// 25-32 leading zeros: 1 byte.
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,
];

pub unsafe fn branchless_utf8(codepoint: u32) -> ([u8; 4], usize) {
let leading_zeros = codepoint.leading_zeros() as usize;
let bytes = LEN[leading_zeros] as usize;
let (mask, or) = *DEP_AND_OR.get_unchecked(bytes);
let ret = core::arch::x86_64::_pdep_u32(codepoint, mask) | or;
(ret.swap_bytes().to_le_bytes(), bytes)
}
In theory: if you’re clicking on a UI element that has some notion of being selected, then a single-click selects it, and you need a double-click to take an action on it. If there’s no notion of selection, then a single click takes an action.

In practice: adherence to this ranges from perfect to abysmal. And users who don’t understand the computer well may not know how to think about whether a given UI element is selectable or not.
Makes sense. And presumably the 12 means that you expand to your natural ("courtyard") with your 12th worker unit (probe, in the case of protoss).
> What began as elegant HTML, CSS, and JavaScript has devolved into build systems demanding hundreds of dependencies just to render a page.

Huh? `ls -l | grep '^d' | wc -l`

> 18

You need 18 dependencies to generate a page?

`touch index.html`

If you want to go back to elegant HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, it's right there. You don't need bun and whatever this is to use it.

The absolute peak of using web standards is to just open up either the either the W3C or WHATWG specifications. That's it.

> https://nuejs.org/vision/

> Closer to metal.

Come on man. Be serious for a second. Have you ever even taken a look at the WebKit or Chromium codebase? Whatever it is that you're doing here is so far removed from "the metal" that I doubt you have ever shipped anything that actually needs a compiler if you're writing stuff like this.
In Europe, usually the cost of land is considerably higher than the construction. Must be true in rich parts of LA too.
Totally agree.

And a great example that truth is complicated, expensive and uncomfortable. It's much easier to postulate an evil nation-state entity with a bad plan (without evidence) than to dig through the thicket of this article. It's much cheaper as well, certainly in terms of time and knowhow. And it's also much more comfortable to claim you're the victim and have uncovered a conspiracy, rather than realize this was just the result of the patchwork typical of engineering.

Kudos to the author.
From my personal experience, those people even during the pandemic hiring craze weren't making it in. Because once I start asking you questions about your experience, things quickly fall apart if you don't understand software dev

I dunno how other companies work, but when it came to Amazon, if you were struggling with a coding problem, and I gave you a hint on the solution, and you ran with it, usually that wasn't a big concern if you could talk about your experience (even during basic college projects), where you showed evidence of being able to deferentially think about things, not just follow patterns that you have been taught.

I do agree that you should know how to do Leetcode and spend time practicing, but grinding them out isn't what I would recommend. The vast majority of Leetcode medium problems are some form of pointer manipulation, linked list (single, trees, or n way like Trie structure), and some O Log N search, which usually involves a sorted data set. The key to learn is how to map a problem into those things, and how to operate on them, not how to solve a specific set of problems.

Its the same reason why ECE/EE people usually have no issue getting coding jobs at FAANG, because they are so used to low level memory operations and optimizations on how to do stuff that they can easily recognize the patterns.
Or perhaps you haven't encountered Chinese content because of soft suppression of the content from within the US bubble
I wrote this stub a while back

https://gist.github.com/Validark/457b6db8aa00ded26a6681d4d25...
Isn’t that for sunlight though? I imagine if you have a source that only radiates a single wavelength, you could make a collector for that specific wavelength that’s more efficient than some general case one. Could be wrong though.
and `disableButtons` on `document.hidden`
This isn't about the promise of AI to me, it's more about this type of AI technology, which should more accurately be called LLMs, as there are others.

Skepticism aside, looking at what's been possible or similar, much like Microsoft word introduces more and more grammar related features, LLMs are reasonably decent for the use case of supplying your input to it and speeding up iterations with you at the drivers seat. Whether it's text in a word processor, or code in an editor, there is likely some meaningful improvements to not dismiss the technology.

The inverse of that, where someone wants a magic seed prompt to do everything, could prove to be a bit more challenging where existing models are trained on what they know, and steps to move beyond that where they learn appear to be a few years away.
Doesn't it mean you build your expansion once you have 12 worker units?
I feel like most languages are easy to learn. There's only so many ways to write a parser.

It's the standard library that forms the "grammar" of the language and is often the hardest part to incorporate.
> Yes there are differences, but claiming that Arab israelis only receive "token rights" is a far cry from the truth

Aren't the rights only subject to them being an ethnic minority in Israel? According to nation-state law, they could not be allowed to retain those rights if they became the ethnic majority
But it wasn't continuously bad, or at least that's the impression I get. Yellow journalism reached it's heyday in the 1890's but started turning things around towards respectability in the 1900's.
Wish someone did it for vegetarian and vegan friendly restaurants.
Websites and books are already being banned in the US. Ask anyone who can no longer access PornHub or who has seen books being removed from libraries.

But it's not about what you install, or even what you say. It's what you're told and shown. The US and China want control over that, for obvious reasons.

Meta has been 'curating' - censoring - content for years. TikTok is no different. X isn't even trying to pretend any more.

The cultural noise, cat videos, and 'free' debate - such as they are - are wrappers for political payloads designed to influence your beliefs, your opinions, and your behaviours, not just while consuming, but while voting.
there are plenty of people who claim that no amount of calorie reduction results in weight loss. Often it's people who are claiming to eat starvation amounts of food while gaining weight. Of course researchers have known it was delusional, but the belief persisted in pop culture. Ozempic is putting that to rest.

this is a case where more personal / colloquial / folk evidence was needed to convince people.
> Will we see internationalized Chinese content dominating it?

TikTok does not exist in China, they have their own version -- Douyin -- that complies with their more stringent privacy laws.
I run certs on all my internal services so I don't have to deal with this isn't secure errors in the browser when working on things.
"The chinese" yeah sure. Lmao. Everybody panic, there are two chips inside!

Check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42743033#42743428 for more lulz
California's insurance policies are more strange, due to proposition 103, passed in 1988.

It creates a condition where the state can prohibit insurers from selling to residents, if it doesn't like their prices, which has recently lead to a lot of insurers no longer selling in the state, as construction prices in the state have risen significantly faster than inflation, leading to insurance premiums that the state doesn't like.

Residents who no longer have any insurers available can buy insurance from the state, but its far more expensive than the plans it rejected from private insurers.
The former solves the problem but isn't really on the table. The later doesn't settle the question. Both sides would have to come up with a mutually agreeable solution and that isn't on the table.
Big fire at California battery plant prompts evacuations amid toxic smoke
Would you say this is also true of Swiss living in more rural areas? And among older people, too?
Terrible comparison. China hasn’t been caught doing anything nefarious with Tiktok whereas Facebook was caught red handed. The problem is a tiktok ban is based on speculation and playing on the fears of the american people. The irony is the story is pitched as China using tiktok to program a bunch of american monkeys, meanwhile our own government is programming us with “china is the adversary”

Sally stole a cookie from the cookie jar and now the teacher is pointing at the fat kid and not letting him be in the classroom alone with the cookie jar. Just bc he is fat.
Whose opinion do you care about? It doesn't matter one bit what I think but what customers think, what employees think, what investors think are all crucial -- more important is how it plays out for the business.

I think a VC cares if you are going to hit it big or not, more than anything else. You can draw a tree where you: pivot or split and then various outcomes happen. Is the old business likely to be viable on its own? Do you have the resources to run two different businesses? What happens to customers dependent on the old business if you pivot?
// Aren't all democratic elections about electing the person who will transfer wealth into the voters' hands? //

Interesting question. Consider, for example, Eisenhower's building the interstate highway system, which boosted the productivity of the entire nation.

Or the Apollo space program, which yielded back somewhere between 5 and 7 dollars for every dollar spent, by creating new technologies and whole new industries.

Contrast with the bitcoin reserve. Every dollar spent goes from the pockets of the taxpayers to the pockets of the bitcoin sellers, without doing anything to boost productivity, to create new technology, etc.

// That's what it means to hold an appreciating hard asset relative to fiat, in my opinion.

Well, bitcoin is not hard asset (it is created by consensus, and it has no intrinsic material form) nor is it intrinsically appreciating. It could be outlawed, have a flat tax imposed on it, or become obsoleted by, say, quantum computers.

But let's grant, for sake of argument, that in the long run, relative to puny fiat currencies like the dollar (which is merely backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S.) the price of bitcoin will generally keep increasing, due to inflation of the various fiat currencies. You may very well be able to sell your bitcoin for nominally higher prices, but in constant dollars, if you add up every bitcoin transaction from its inception to infinity, the total amount of dollars will still be zero.

// Taxpayer money is a bit of a smokescreen in my opinion.

However you want to phrase it, if we create a trillion-dollar bitcoin reserve, that trillion dollars has to come from somewhere. There's no such thing as a magic money-generating machine. End of the day, wealth comes from the productivity of laborers. If you spend money to increase their productivity, total wealth increases. If you just shuffle your money back and forth between gold and bitcoin, that does nothing to increase anybody's productivity.

// think all voters have no qualms about transfer payments //
Certainly, not enough voters have qualms about transfer payments. But morality is just for suckers, right?
who do you mean by "anyone". it sounds that you mean "nutritionists". There are plenty of laypeople who have supernatural beliefs about calories.
Text publications don't run software that reports to adversarial countries.
That’s true. You have to hire well, ask the right questions and have “strong opinions weakly held” or sometimes even “weak opinions weakly held”.

And in my case, always be studying.
the scrolling is almost normal in librewolf - but that is with privacy badger blocking 14 trackers on that page ...
All USB-to-Ethernet adapters are pretty evil in my experience. Always terrible performance, often slower than WiFi.
How do you deal with drive failures? How often does a Railway team member need to visit a DC? What's it like inside?
FTC Takes Action Against GoDaddy for Lax Data Security for Its Web Hosting
If it was a legal requirement for Chinese apps in China, and this is the path for societal heath then why not pass that law for all social apps in the US?
We will most likely go with an open-core model. The main part will stay open source (the Core OS extension is under GPL3, and everything SDK-related is MIT).

For paid features, we have several ideas: a hosted management plane to configure and control the swarm (with company rbac integration) when one of the nodes is connected to the internet; advanced security (currently no access management or authentication is happening); sophisticated orchestration primitives; and LoRa connectivity (to scale the mesh radius to miles).

Appreciate your feedback on this!
Makes sense.

I was fixating on the opposition of goals in the car (if car doesn’t bend/deform, then death risk increases).
Spending has nothing to do with military reality. Russia is a paper tiger. If the US really supported Ukraine in this war without worrying about crossing some imaginary Rubicon, the war would have been over a long time ago—except Russia might be tempted to use their nukes, so we can't do that.

The way to win against Russia is not via sanctions but rather via destabilizing the regime through guerrilla propaganda. The Russians, the Chinese, and the Soviets before them have always known this. The West is just too slow to catch on.
I was a reasonably competitive BW player until the Korean teams arrived on the scene. I'll always appreciate how they elevated the level of gameplay. Really nice guys, too, I learned a lot from playing with them, and it was fun talking strategy via chat to the best of our mutual linguistic abilities. Good memories. I would have absolutely loved something like this project back in the day.
As for the hurricanes, stop allowing builders to build SFH in areas that are at or below sea level. They're going to flood. Period. That's not sustainable from an insurance perspective.
My ACA insurance (because I was unemployed) covered Rybelsus (pill form, which is a much higher dose due to lack of absorption through the stomach), then in like October or November they said "nah" and said "go to Ozempic" I had just completed my first two sets of increases before the final uppage to be on the stable dose, when insurance said "Nah." So my doc RX'd Trulicity to see if they would cover that, which, for some reason they also didn't. I haven't had the time or energy during the holidays to deal with it, so now I'm dealing with increased hunger from going cold turkey off these things all because of bullshit micromanagement from shitty insurance companies on the market place.

If this makes it better and easier for companies to actually pay out for this I am 100% for it, there should not be a constant jerking about for what is or isn't paid. Also - this wasn't for weightloss (which I assume would have been Wegovy approved), this was for diabetes, and it was under control with Rybelsus, and I assume Ozempic, though we were still in the process of building up to it (I was on max dose of Rybelsus and I'm pretty sure I needed the max Ozempic as well). If they had given a reason for the denial it'd be one thing but it was just a blanket denial.

I just hope this makes it easier for folks who need it to be able to obtain it.
Sure!

https://github.com/tomhea/flip-jump/wiki/Learn-FlipJump

This will let you understand how to implement the very basic "if" in flipjump.

I tried to make it as easy for newcomers, but please feel free and update me if something is written complicated.

After you understand up to the macros, you can try yourself to understand the xor macro, which most of the library is built based on it: https://github.com/tomhea/flip-jump/blob/fe51448932e78db7d76...
Are there "evil" USB ethernet dongles? Of course there are...(just not this one)

https://hak5.org/products/lan-turtle
> It seems to me that the alternative are a bunch of unmaintained one-off apps for each fly-by-night manufacturer

Nah, there are options!

HomeAssistant, zigbee2mqtt, ZHA,deCONZ.
Wouldn't branchless UTF-8 encoding always write 3 bytes to RAM for every character (possibly to the same address)?
Access Advance LLC CEO Pete Moller Talks Video Distribution Patent Pool Launch
Yeah, the insane takes spread faster but it takes more time and resources to look into it than just come to conclusions early.

The worst thing is this creates an environment where most people are either completely credulous and buy into everything or completely incredulous and think everything is unfounded. It's just exhausting to have a healthy level of skepticism these days, and maybe 1 out of 1000 times (number source: from thin air) something that sounds insane actually has some truth to it.
and storing cheese