skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) China is a country, and in that country people use Windows and make /stuff/ that runs on Windows. A flash tool, which was only intended to be distributed to OEMs, only being found on obscure forums is in line with what I've experienced with similar NAND or BIOS flashers.

2) Any USB storage can contain malware. The driver that this one stores is digitally signed by Microsoft as mentioned in the article.

3) If there was a MBR boot block or EFI file, sure. But there isn't. See 2. And that would still require the user to have Secure Boot disabled and USB as the first boot option.

4) So any device with a universal USB controller is "prove[d] backdoored"?
Interesting idea. It seems like zodb (https://zodb.org) might enable some similar things for python - by simply being an object database?

Is it possible to mix typescript and python steps?
>I recommend beekeeping. Go on a course somewhere, learn a little, get a hive, make mistakes, learn, scale, profit.

Oooof, I don't... maybe you know the secret, but being an amateur beekeeper and watching what the pros do, it looks darn hard to reach scale.
Could a human detect that this site is a tarpit?

If so, then an AI crawler almost certainly can as well.
geopolitics aside could a turing machine identify misinformation / programatically check whether something is true or not? because even among humans there is no agreement
That's because it's not really a solution.

It's not a negotiation between two parties with equal power, it's just the government saying "either pay this price or you'll be penalized".

The better solution is to allow parallel trade of pharmaceutical across borders.

It will force countries paying far less to pay more and conversely the US paying less.
Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help
If you don't enable backup, Google Photos randomly reprompts on a regular basis with a "sure would be a shame if something happened to your photos!" modal. It's very easy to accidentally turn it on without noticing when this happens, if one has preemptively clicked where they expect a different UI element to be.
Chinese nation state hacking groups also literally break into American Fortune 500 companies and US aerospace/defense companies to steal R&D and tech to then use themselves + give to private Chinese industries. That sure does help them a ton when they dont have to do any research and can just steal and copy instead.
How exactly would the do this block? At the ISP level? I don't _think_ the US Government has ever done that before, a block on that level would be pretty unprecedented and might be more then they are willing to do.
Simple Sabotage Field Manual, by Office of Strategic Services
It is known that the LAION dataset underpinning foundation models like Stable Diffusion contained at least a few thousand instances of real-life CSAM at one point. I think you would be hard-pressed to prove that any model trained on internet scrapes definitively wasn't trained on any CSAM whatsoever.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/20/24009418/generative-ai-i...
It's not really a "squeeze".

The Danes agreed that Greenland can become independent if supported by a national referendum. Apparently there is a decent amount of interest in that idea.

So the US can come in and say "hey, instead of independent, you could be in a union with the US". There is enough interest in that that it's a serious concern for the Danes.
The wing spar is dual, too.

The idea is to design the airplane to survive an explosive decompression failure, not pretend that explosive decompression doesn't happen. For example, on the DC-10, the floor collapsed from explosive decompression, jamming the control cables and causing a horrendous crash.

The fix was not preventing explosive decompression. The fix (on the 757) was to locate the redundant set of control cables along the ceiling. Also, blowout panels were put in the floor so the floor wouldn't collapse.

It's not always practical to fix an older design like the 747. When it isn't practical, a stepped-up inspection protocol is added.

P.S. The 747 was designed to survive a decompression. The oversight was nobody realized that a failure of the rear bulkhead could destroy the tail section. Things like that happen in complex systems, and an airliner is incredibly complicated.

P.P.S. When I was a newbie at Boeing, I asked about the wing spar, too. That's how I know it is dual!
I've been playing around with Zig as a potential C alternative in my stack, and I think that it's pretty good at least for toy/learning projects actually. I especially like the way `comptime` gives me superpowers.

Before Rust and Zig, I thought I disliked systems programming, while as it turned out, I mostly just disliked C.

However, when it comes to actively maintaining a serious project you do need to take extra care, since using a pre-v1 language does require a lot more efforts, since even in a post-v1 language you need to handle lib updates and such...

Also, even though I believe I'm no longer afraid of manual memory management, explicit allocators, etc. for writing regular userland applications, I still think Zig can be too low-level for certain problem domains from time to time (the same thing for C, and I believe Zig is there specifically to target C programmers), so it's really about finding out which tools would be a great fit for you in which scenarios.
Because a sale is and has always been impossible since it would be an unacceptable embarrassment for China in the current climate. The divestiture is just a way to make the ban pass muster.
Seems pretty clear that the result could be anything from 1 to 20.

(Assumes atomic assignments, as noted by someone else.)
> mayor

I don't care about Bass. She has no role to play in an emergency besides telling the LAFD chief 'go fight the fire with all available resources' LAFD wasn't even the largest fire department responding, and we haven't heard a peep about LACoFD or the county supervisors.

> If the reservoir had been full

>> you're still limited by the flow rate of the main to withdraw from the reservoir

>> the situation was already well out of hand before any hyrdants ran dry.

To expand for your benefit, they were 6-8 hours into the firefight before the hydrants became an issue and ~15-17 hours in before the tanks were fully exhausted.

>> Eaton had so such issues with hydrants, but a substantially similar outcome.

So no, I don't think water supplies supply made a difference at all. If you have the people, and the apparatus to dedicate to wholly one structure, you probably can save it. The actual firefighters were simultaneously fighting hundreds of house fires while a linear hurricane blew it all further and and further down the hill. They had to make the deploy the (region's worth of) resources had they could in the face of an awful situation that would have overwhelmed a state's worth of firefighters.

> Water is quite important ... Why spin this

Please engage with the reality of the situation instead of the simplified fantasy you've imagined in its place.

> why you would

Because I started seeing these talking points on night of the 7th. Certain factions were and are absolutely thrashing to attach blame anyone and anything they previously disliked. There are policy lessons to take from this disaster. LACoFD and LAFD need to be bigger, we need much more brush clearance, we need fewer NIMBYs to complain about the smoke from prescribed burns, ... the list goes on. But these real, essential changes are not shaped like 'one simple trick to stop the LA fires' or a getting gotchas all the woke dem pols.
My rule of thumb is: not more or less than AliExpress, though Prime is a bit reassuring. I got Chinese tech which gives me skin rashes, or smells really bad. The advantage of Amazon though, is that I can sent back items without much hassle. Doesn't work with AliExpress.
Of course if the app have done anything seriously illegal it would not have been necessary to bring this law to ban it, because existing laws would have sufficed to do it.

Perhaps because US government wanted to do it despite TikTok not breaking any serious provisions of law this law has been made.

It feels like a sleight of hand from government to ban something that has broke no (serious) law (yet).

Did the SCOTUS go into the necessity of having this law to achieve what government wanted, if existing laws would have sufficed, provided that government met the standards of evidence/proof that those laws demanded.

If not, it is as if government wanted a 'short-cut' to a TikTok ban and SCOTUS approved it, rather than asking government to go the long way about it.
I actually assumed that was part of the impetus for creating their own ship – standard cargo ships probably aren't well-suited to the job and simultaneously are a bit concerned about transporting such cargo.
The art of illusion: the role of decoys in military deception and modern warfare [pdf]
>the US would avoid flood damage if they just built apartment buildings.

What do you mean by this?
The ship runs on LNG, which is probably cleaner than charging the cars in China and using that for energy, given China's grid mix.
but they already do wouldn't you rather know what they have stored instead of pretend they don't have the data?
Actually if you just eat lean protein, you will become ravenous because of the lack of fat. Humans need to consume fat, if there is a lack of carbohydrates in diet. If you eat only lean protein you will die from rabbit starvation. Check out this:

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/rabbit-sta....
If Apple really wanted to maximize privacy, they wouldn't be constantly collecting so much information in the first place (capture the network traffic from an apple device sometime - it's crazy). User interactions on Apple devices definitely seem to be surveilled for "safety" purposes.

From my perspective, Apple's behavior indicates that what they want to maximize is their own control, and their position as the gatekeeper others must pay in order to get access to you.
I guess we can always try to re-hire all those "Sys Admins" we thought we could live without.

LOL?
I really like reading these because they come with annotations: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt1-9-1/ALD...

Also, more directly for those in the back, the actual first amendment:

> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

The first amendment doesn't guarantee the speaker a venue for their speech. You're still free to say whatever you want to say, so long as it doesn't cross any other laws, in or on whatever other private venues or town squares you so choose.

To turn your question around, rather than spending time defending TikTok I wish people would spend time thinking about the need for actual privacy laws. The kind of laws that outline data governance and the extents to which an individual can expect their individual privacy to be respected. Maybe then we can play less whack a mole with invasive and potentially harmful social software.
For what it's worth, I wish you luck on this.
The Danes aren't concerned because there's enough interest, they're concerned because a violent, hegemonic imperialist superpower run by an unstable authoritarian regime has decided Greenland should be theirs, apparently just because, and historically speaking having something the US wants means your cities get liberated into smoking rubble.
You could process the data on a server but I just accept that I will see a daily snapshot of the top 60 or so items. So far I’ve been happy with that approach. Also doesn’t waste too much time.
To be fair that's perfectly clear to me. Reminds me a bit of xslt but not in a bad way
Privacy laws don't solve the real problem, they would only solve the fig leaf that politicians are hiding behind when it comes to tiktok.

The actual problem is and always has been control over the content being fed to users. It's not an issue of privacy, it's an issue of voter manipulation. It's just that the US has decided that it's okay with its own plutocrats manipulating voters while it's not okay with the CCP doing so.

On the one hand that's a very rational position for people who owe their election to algorithmic voter manipulation to take, but that doesn't really make it better ethically.
He’s more pro-donor than anti-China, and Jeff Yass is a big donor.
Please link back when you do, this is really cool.
This was fun to port over to PlusCal to verify it myself:

EXTENDS Naturals, Sequences

(*--algorithm StateStore {

variables
n = 0; completions = <<>>;

define {
Invar == Len(completions) = 2 => n # 2
}

fair process (thing \in {"p", "q"})
variables i = 0, temp = 0;
{
Loop:
while (i < 10) {
First:
temp := n + 1;
Second:
n := temp;
Last:
i := i + 1;
};

Complete:
completions := Append(completions, 1)
}
}*)

(I acknowledge that this isn't the most elegant Pluscal but I think it is a roughly accurate?)
This is fascinating how does Flutter try to make up for the performace hit that comes with adding a layer of abstraction?
i think that's what sdl provides? except sdl can do more
> I think you would be hard-pressed to prove that any model trained on internet scrapes definitively wasn't trained on any CSAM whatsoever.

I'd be hard pressed to prove that you definitely hadn't killed anybody ever.

Legally if it's asserted that these images are criminal because they are the result of being the product of an LLM trained on sources that contained CSAM then the requirement would be to prove that assertion.

With text and speech you could prompt the model to exactly reproduce a Sarah Silverman monologue and assert that proves her content was used in the training set, etc.

Here the defense would ask the prosecution to demonstrate how to extract a copy of original CSAM.

But your point is well taken, it's likely most image generation programs of this nature have been fed at least one image that was borderline jailbait and likely at least one that was well below the line.
One of the many reasons we went with Switch for our DC is because they have a service to handle all of that for you. Having stumbled on doing this ourselves before, it can be pretty tricky to negotiate everything.

We had one provider give us a great price and then bait and switch at the last moment to tell us that there is some other massive installation charge that they didn't realize we had to pay.

Switch Connect/Core is based off the old Enron business that Rob (CEO) bought...

https://www.switch.com/switch-connect/
https://www.switch.com/the-core-cooperative/
Friends is great, but still pretty advanced as English learning goes, with fast speech, and lots of slang and US/90s specific references.
"The system is under maintenance. It will take approximately one hour. Please save this website and come back later."
what is up or down in a n dimensional space...
Restricting who can own what, however… that’s long been fair game.

In my dream world we’d get something like the rules we had, until fairly recently, restricting max broadcast media audience control in a given market for a single owner, but for Web platforms. Don’t like being limited to five million users or whatever? Then use a standard that puts control over curation and presentation in the hands of the user. Want to control all that, like all these awful platforms do? Then live with the limit.
Indeed, I've seen "data center" maps, and was surprised they were just a tenant in some other guys data center.
> Now it seems like most platforms seem to be thinly veiled psyops hoping to trade quick dopamine for mindshare.

The first step to reform would be to persuade legacy media to stop reporting the opinions trending on X/Twitter as "news". Stop reporting it entirely, it's manipulated, at best unverified, rubbish.
You're presuming that these are communication platforms. I argue that they aren't—to the extent that they are useful for communication it's a pure coincidence, not a design choice.

Each of these platforms is fundamentally a propaganda platform—they're explicitly designed to manipulate people into buying stuff, and that capability is frequently turned to voter manipulation. The US government has decided that while US-based billionaires having access to such influence is fine and dandy, the CCP should not. So tiktok must be sold to a US owner.
Zuckerberg isn't rich. That's a myth. He had $200B and Elon has $450B.
What real world?
You probably have a point and I am not sure that these people know how image generation actually works.

But regardless of a likely erroneous legal definition, it seems obvious that there needs to be a law in order to protect children. Because you can't tell.

Just like there should be a law against abusing robots that look like extremely lifelike children in the future when that is possible. Or any kind of abuse of adult lifelike robots either.

Because the behavior is too similar and it's too hard to tell the difference between real and imagined. So allowing the imaginary will lead to more of the real, sometimes without the person even knowing.
I think someone needs to "manage" these AI engineers still, to supervise them working, and review code, PRs.

It's less about personal development, but more on performance management.
We had a bird land on a transformer up on a pole and blew fuses. A couple years later, I toured the facility and the fried carcass was still there on the ground below it.
Be interesting to see how this pans out in terms of the 1st amendment. Without a victim, it would be interesting to see how the courts rule. They could say its inherently unconstitutional but for sake of the general public, it is fine. This would be similar to the supreme court ruling on DUI checkpoints.
I’m also unsure where finite fields are coming into play. Finite fields have orders that are prime powers, and the author is talking about a “finite field” of order 7x9x11. But if we aren’t dealing with fields, why is the author mentioning plans for implementing division? It definitely needs more explanation but I’m not sure if the idea is coherent.
It absolutely fascinates me that GoPro didn't dominate this space
You could say the same thing about a refined fuel tanker.
So, companies should not be allowed to build new multi-flat houses? Or should they be forced to sell them the moment the building is complete?
I guess it's not clear to me why it's even interesting to talk about their LinkedIn or their PhD in the first place? It's not like not having a PhD will make the work any more true or not. Wouldn't it be more interesting to discuss the merits of the post? There's really little point in trying to say that their LinkedIn has different info than the comment therefore the submission is invalid.

But, suppose I did actually hold that belief for some reason, then it would seem fairly intellectually dishonest to withhold relevant info in my pointed inquisition wherein I just characterize them as someone lacking mathematical experience at all, let alone from a world class university. But maybe that's just me!
I don't know about the case of potassium specifically, but in general I thought that the bioavailability of elements can vary with different types of cooking?
TikTok says it will go dark on Sunday unless given 'definitive' assurances
When everything is easy, nothing happens.
> China hasn’t been caught doing anything nefarious with Tiktok whereas Facebook was caught red handed.

Sure they haven't:

https://www.politico.eu/article/tiktok-far-right-european-pa...

Facebook deserves more scrutiny, that doesn't forgive or waive TikTok's issues. It's a bad faith deflection.
How to build a house:

Step 1: sign a lease at an apartment
Ok guys, somebody, push local copy to origin.
$44 billion
Signal of belief in an excessively strong state?

Clarence Thomas is not actually conservative in the small government sense.
This law isn't a consumer protection law, nor does it attempt to be.
Re: mental palaces and interactive diagrams, what is your take on Ilograph?
This is part of why I think there should exist a popular real-name-only network. It'd go far to prevent these types of attacks on the megaphone.
Is there any link to “ace” meaning a tennis serve that the defending player fails to make any contact with? I could see the parallel with a “cheese” strategy being an unexpectedly fast attack.
cheers! I was looking for something semi productive to sink a Friday night into

on a more serious note, working through a transcription project for letters and journals that nobody has touched since they've been archived is such a wonderful feeling. Aside from being in front of the physical document itself, your degree of separation from the writer and point is time is vanishingly small!

I always like to observe when they cross something out or make a mistake and think about what could have caused that. Did a friend pass by the door and scare them? Did they get distracted looking out the window? It's all so close and yet so far away :)
Two bananas to a potato (I assume we’re talking something like a russet, not a little red potato?) sounds generous to the potato, if we’re talking volume equivalence.

A potato’s a meal. A banana’s a lightish snack.
Cliffhanger! Was mostly excited about the networking/hypervisor setup. Curious to see the next post about the software defined networking. Had not heard of FRR or SONIC previously.
It might help, but the Soviet Union did something like that too, and look at what became of it.
> I’d have thought national security concerns trump the need of its’ citizens to freely watch cat videos

You'd be wrong.

What value would a concept like the First Amendment have if it were voidable as easily as "we have national security concerns" or "the information on there isn't valuable." Given that those are pretty much the immediate go-to excuses for any autocrats clamp down on speech, such a right would be totally meaningless.
> they're concerned because a violent, hegemonic imperialist superpower

To be fair we learned it from watching Dad (England).

> unstable authoritarian regime

How is it unstable?

> apparently just because

Territorial waters and exclusive economic zone claims grant amazing access to the arctic.

> something the US wants

It's really just the moneyed interests inside of it. China and Russia seem to have the same bent for the same reasons. It was recently unusual in Iraq since the federal corruption had risen to such a level, enabled by 9/11, that lackies for these interests somehow found themselves directly employed by government.

I prefer nuance over hyperbole.
Gives whole new meaning to “reverse engineering”
> many it was a revelation that the US government/media complex has been systematically lying to them about China.

The rational and data-based take is that the CCP censors negative content about China on Red Book. See [1], [2] and [3] from David Zhang, and you can verify this on your own.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LKR8-AxFvJY
[2] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4tMxW77lFBA
[3] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/N65jFr061_o

If China is so developed, why does it fight for developing nation status?

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202305/1290627.shtml

> They are arriving at an acceptance that the US is a shabby declining empire dominated by a corrupt elite and heartless broligarchs. Always a good thing to bump up against reality, imho.

Try making this comment about China in Red Book and see how long it lasts.

Can you post a video about use of gutter oil in China on Red Book? You can post a video about drug use in SF on Twitter and not get banned.
My main problem is waking up too early. Any silver bullet for that?
Netbox is just 10,000 Django models with a theme on top. Not very rewarding software to use.
The chance happened in 2023.
Thanks to you and your sibling poster, helpful info!