skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> draw funds by taxing homeowners, specifically, and limiting payouts by fire risk, capping at a mean replacement cost, not per-house

This almost seems designed to maximise fury. You're still taxing low-risk homeowners to pay for high-risk damages. And when a catastrophe hits, you aren't paying enough to rebuild (or avoid bankruptcy, in which case you're just routing taxpayer funds to creditors). Add to that you've branded it a tax increase it's almost something the GOP would run as a false flag against a Democrat.
There is no way on this planet that an LLM "created" the exact unit tests needed to catch all the edge cases--it would even take a human quite a bit of thought to catch them all.

If you change the programming language, the unit tests disappear and the "generated" code loses the nice abstractions. It's clearly regurgitating the Python code and "generating" the code for other languages.
I take potassium capsules frequently and magnesium capsules whenever I smoke, which is occasionally. Both of them were effective and help me with reducing anxiety and relieving stress.
Serious question: Why is the back end learning of so many human habits not creepy to you? It was weaponized once with how they created armies of teenagers who called their local representatives and made threats.
Only in the same way that you not letting me into your living room affects my free speech inside of your living room, I think.
Is it? It sounds more like the mean.

https://www.kbb.com/car-news/average-new-car-price-flirting-...
Yes but foreigners have way lower presumption of rights.
If TikTok were sold to an American company, as the new law demands, why would that change anything about the amount of pro-Palestinian content? Just because the ADL said they don't like TikTok does not mean that's the motivation for the bill. You're still allowed to criticize Israel as much as you were a decade ago (which is to say, less than you're allowed to criticize the US, for some reason ;) but still).
Apple is quite large, so I suspect they don’t exactly use the same strategy as Amazon did in its early days. It also wouldn’t be profit, because that would be an expense they would keep track of.
The court has never determined that corporations are people, that’s a completely unfounded meme.

What they did find was that (real, human) people have certain rights that they are able to exercise by organizing into corporations.
You have to look past "failures" and rather look at development time. SpaceX has a radically different approach to development, more alike to software. While somewhat wasteful with regards to material, it seems to be working rather well. Also f*k Elon.
> similar for GitHub

Uhm I found some 37-odd thousand results

https://github.com/search?q=%2F%28%3F-i%29%3Cdialog%2F+%28pa...

Probably more out there but I kept the strict jsx/tsx extensions.
Green, (the author), makes an important point:
> a technical guarantee is different from a user promise. [...] End-to-end encrypted messaging systems are intended to deliver data securely. They don’t dictate what happens to it next.

Then Green seems to immediately forget the point they just made, and proceed to talk about PCC as if it were something other than just another technical guarantee. PCC only helps to increase confidence that the software running on the server is the software Apple intended to be there. It doesn't give me any guarantees about where else my data might be transferred from there, or whether Apple will only use it for purposes I'm okay with. PCC makes Apple less vulnerable to hacks, but doesn't make them any more transparent or accountable. In fact, to the extent that some hackers hack for pro-social purposes like exposing corporate abuse, increased security also serves as a better shield against accountability. Of course, I'm not suggesting that we should do away with security to achieve transparency. I am, however, suggesting that transparency, moreso than security, is the major unaddressed problem here. I'd even go so far as to say that the woeful state of security is enabled in no small part by lack of transparency. If we want AI to serve society, then we must reverse the extreme information imbalance we currently inhabit wherein every detail of each person's life is exposed to the service provider, but the service provider is a complete black-box to the user. You want good corporate actors? Don't let them operate invisibly. You want ethical tech? Don't let it operate invisibly.

(Edit: formatting)
To avoid relying on projects like that in the future. I use selfhosted version of Reactive Resume [1]. Then I can keep the last version that worked even if change the license or stopped working. I would recommend everyone to look into this as a potential solution.

[1] https://github.com/AmruthPillai/Reactive-Resume
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So why didn’t they? Cmon. Is that not enough evidence to show you that something else is at play here? Of course going public would have been the honest and rational move. Communist governments would never
Plus the machines they don't technically own--like Microsoft's attempts to force online accounts, bloatware, telemetry, etc.
Giant Batteries Are Transforming Electrical Grids
Also AI for accountability laundering. It gives plausible deniability. It's a sociopathic manager's dream.
It sounds like we should be asking "why is it okay that the people training the models have CSAM?" It's not like it's legal to have, let alone distribute in your for-profit tool.
https://archive.today/7Jjj7
Do you mean MSNBC?
Apple should have costs they have to pay to maintain the store, vet apps, credit card transaction fees, etc…
> with Linux being the best PnP

as long as it isn't wireless or bluetooth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_between_child_por... is a good starting link on this. When i last checked, there were maybe 5 studies total (imagine how hard it is to get those approved by the ethics committees), all of which found different results, some totally the opposite of each other.

Then again, it already seems clear that violent video games do not cause violence, and access to pornography does not increase sexual violence, so this case being the opposite would be unusual.
I remember in the Intel days, the Apple Thunderbolt 1 GbE adapter would have high CPU usage when you were transferring at the full 1 Gbps.

I've had good luck with the Realtek 2.5 GbE adapters, no CPU usage issues.

And these days even with a 10 GbE Thunderbolt adapter the CPU use is negligible, so things have improved across the board I think.
Well it's not getting more gooder betterer.

I tend to think rankings in language competency are somewhat bogus. Singapore may very well be number 1 if you can get past Lah but both Norway and the Netherlands impose stringent English requirements to graduate from high school (NL I am confident. Norway less so) - but anyone who has been to both Amsterdam-Hague-Utrecht and then Maastricht can testify, what's retained depends on where you go. Not all Dutch share the fluency of the western edge urban Landscape.
Probably not enough space for people. Often people aren't allowed to stay in their cars.
I learned basically nothing in my k-12 public school but it was fun times.

Emotionally? It is really hard to top those times in high school.

It was the opposite of a prison for me. Like a garden of adolescent roses that had nothing to do with the real world other than the sweet smell of roses as an adolescent.

It is why I am glad to be child free. Anyone posting here is going to have a child that is better off than almost anyone who has ever lived.

I would suspect the best strategy in 2025 for anyone here is to not crush the creativity of the child. The only thing bad you can really do is to impose yourself too much on the child. The more hands off the better. The lighter the touch the better.

Yours skills are not what your child will need t+50 years.
Awesome! I was thinking about playing with this on some BSD like two months ago.
This is simply not true. Even standard German is a second language in Switzerland. I’m Swiss.
News Entertainment?

Like WWE is Sports Entertainment.
> These platforms are fundamentally anti-democratic in their very nature

The US Gov has a mandate to preserve and uphold democracy. Shuttering communication is prior restraint - an anti-democratic action.

Platforms have no mandate to preserve and uphold democracy.
No evidence? You’re seeing what you (and TikTok) wants you to see. Any business and I mean ANY business at its core should act in its own self interest of survival. TikTok could have easily gone public in the USA to protect the company and employees. But they didn’t. Unless you can give me a reason why they are allowing the company to die, instead of survive, you have all the evidence you need about how suspicious the company is at its core.
It's exactly the same. The names haven't converged yet.
I'd argue they'd probably benefit more from 1-1 mentorship, and as a bonus you don't have to force your entire team to adopt agile.
I estimate that all those batteries would get that ship at most 20% of the way across the Pacific.
I'm just here to say electrek's continuous scroll both delights and annoys me by equal measures (because of my right click new tab habit)

This is a giant RoRo. Compared to the one I used to cross the St Lawrence River a few years back, you could pack hundreds of them inside this in a meta meta car carrier.
For Decades, He Has Regretted Sending a Man Away for Life. Can He Fix It?
Read the sentence again. It doesn't claim the data set has CSAM but that it depicts victims. It also assumes that you need AI to see an example to draw it on demand which isn't true.
After shutting down popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal
A single CPU thread should be treated as basically a warp executing 4 simd vectors in parallel.
The naïve implementation of __syncthreads() would be an atomic mechanism shared across all threads that contribute to what is GPU workgroup.

Looks like this entire paper is just about how to move/remove these barriers.
> data harvesting is not the real problem

You may not think this but it was one of the two arguments the made to SCOTUS.
Ah yes, CCP, the glorious protectors of autonomy and independent thought.
There's a legally challengable assertion there; "trained on CSAM images".

I imagine an AI image generation model could be readily trained on images of adult soldiers at war and images of children from instagram and then be used to generate imagery of children at war.

I have zero interest in defending exploitation of children, the assertion that children had to have been exploited in order to create images of children engaged in adult activities seems shaky. *

* FWiW I'm sure there are AI models out there that were trained on actual real world CSAM .. it's the implied neccessity that's being questioned here.
You're correct, there are multiple flavors of Google Cloud Locations. The "Google concrete" ones are listed at google.com/datacenters and London isn't on that list, today.

cloud.google.com/about/locations lists all the locations that GCE offers service, which is a super set of the large facilities that someone would call a "Google Datacenter". I liked to mostly refer to the distinction as Google concrete (we built the building) or not. Ultimately, even in locations that are shared colo spaces, or rented, it's still Google putting custom racks there, integrating into the network and services, etc. So from a customer perspective, you should pick the right location for you. If that happens to be in a facility where Google poured the concrete, great! If not, it's not the end of the world.

P.S., I swear the certification PDFs used to include this information (e.g., https://cloud.google.com/security/compliance/iso-27018?hl=en) but now these are all behind "Contact Sales" and some new Certification Manager page in the console.

Edit: Yes! https://cloud.google.com/docs/geography-and-regions still says:

> These data centers might be owned by Google and listed on the Google Cloud locations page, or they might be leased from third-party data center providers. For the full list of data center locations for Google Cloud, see our ISO/IEC 27001 certificate. Regardless of whether the data center is owned or leased, Google Cloud selects data centers and designs its infrastructure to provide a uniform level of performance, security, and reliability.

So someone can probably use web.archive.org to get the ISO-27001 certificate PDF from whenever the last time it was still up.
The verdict mentioned in the article has the potential to be industry-changing. It wouldn’t be surprising if CNN gets wrecked.
See my sibling comment :).
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 to it.
I worked at EFF for twenty years, and every iteration or incarnation of EFF would have said that it should be extraordinarily difficult for the government to prevent Americans from using foreign web sites or software. And that it should be extraordinarily difficult for the government to compel tech intermediaries to help block foreign sites or software. This would have been a bog-standard EFF position for the organization's entire existence.

(I would say something even stronger than "extraordinarily difficult", but then I'd be on thinner ice.)
Not a guarantee, but it appears there's a nearly 200x difference between the most dangerous and the safest countries in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural_d...
> The law simply bans the distribution of the app on marketplaces stores for reasons stated (national security).

This is red alert talk. We need to make damned sure we know exactly what we're asking for here and that we're not giving up more than we mean to.
is it? that's what TT's requirements look like
Predicting Human Brain States with Transformer
The state is under no obligation to allow known foreign propagandists attached to a known communist party to engage in activities well outside the protections of the first amendment.

Of course, they don't HAVE to shutter. They can sell their interest in Tiktok and stay open. They have chosen not to do that thus far, and hence they have chosen to shutter.
Wondering where the machine learning model comes into play? Googling doesn’t seem to bring me to an article and the terrastruct site doesn’t mention it as far as I can see.
you mean Biden got us out of Afghanistan, right? :)
The future of esports is here
Makes me remember some of the days I had in my career. There were a couple really interesting datacenter things I learned by having to deploy tens of thousands of servers in the 2003-2010 timeframe.

Cable management and standardization was extremely important (like you couldn't get by with shitty practices). At one place where we were deploying hundreds of servers per week, we had a menu of what ops people could choose if the server was different than one of the major clusters. We essentially had 2 chassis options, big disk servers which were 2u or 1u pizza boxes. You then could select 9/36/146gb SCSI drives. Everything was dual processor with the same processors and we basically had the bottom of the rack with about 10x 2u boxes and then the rest was filled with 20 or more 1u boxes.

If I remember correctly we had gotten such an awesome deal on the price for power, because we used facility racks in the cage or something, since I think they threw in the first 2x 30 amp (240v) circuits for free when you used their racks. IIRC we had a 10 year deal on that and there was no metering on them, so we just packed each rack as much as we could. We would put 2x 30s on one side and 2x 20s on another side. I have to think that the DC was barely breaking even because of how much heat we put out and power consumption. Maybe they were making up for it in connection / peering fees.

I can't remember the details, will have to check with one of my friends that worked there around that time.
Trump tried to ban it first by executive power, but the Supreme Court decided he didn’t have the authority to do that. Then congress passed a law, and the Supreme Court is saying that the law is valid and Trump has no grounds to ask for a pause for him to “work a deal.” Congress could just repeal their law, but other than that it stands.
That still sounds like a pretty low opinion, even if it's more general than only applying to Americans. You're essentially saying that the outcome of an election is determined primarily by who owns the most effective propaganda machines, which is a pretty heavy (valid) critique of the concept of democracy.
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/11t4hw3/...
You want to point them in.
> Don’t take anything here too seriously.

I’m not trying to sound snarky at all but I really do think you should reread the first paragraph of the article.
"Forcing" people to be "free".

If you want peace, you better prepare for war.

It is forbidden to forbid.

The necessary evil.

All that to say, we live in a complicated world, and beautiful ideals are only a direction to keep, never to be reached.
To be pedantic (which I feel is fair because it's a concurrency question about possibilities):

>If we run P and Q concurrently, with ‘n’ initialized to zero, what would the value of ‘n’ be when the two processes finish executing their statements?

It depends a lot on the observer of `n` and what relationship it has with P and Q. Which isn't defined.

E.g. a trivial boundary-answer is that it can be 0, if nothing guarantees that P's and Q's threads' memory reaches the `n`-observer's thread. This is somewhat common if you try to synchronize via `sleep`, because that usually doesn't guarantee anything as all.

We also don't know the computer architecture. We can probably assume at least one byte moves between memory levels atomically, because basically every practical system does that, but that doesn't have to be true. If bits move between memory levels independently, this could observe 31, because it can be any combination of the bits between `00000` and `10100`, which includes `01011` -> there can be a `1` in any position, including all positions, so you can observe a number that was never assigned. (IRL: multi-word values and partial initializations can do this, e.g. it's why double-checked locking is flawed without something to guarantee initialization completes before the pointer is exposed)
There's a better way: privacy laws. The US government decided not to use it.
Is it really the black market?

It just sounds like it's sourced from somewhere else like any generic would be.

IMO the state should be able to take away monopolies just as easily as it passes them out in the first place.
>this is the real reason why LGBT was stigmatized for so long

I mean, kinda. I think it was stigmatized for so long because, on a farm, extra hands are very useful, so children are very important to have. You also need to make lots of em because a large portion die. Social norms thus evolved to disdain anything that prevented the production of offspring, eg being gay. Notable here is that it’s an effective strategy in a pre-industrial agricultural environment, not in our current environment, and that it causes immense suffering for those unlucky enough to be born non-heterosexual when in place.

>religion dying removes third space

I mean, yeah? I’m gonna be honest, when you say this, I get the impression you didn’t pay attention to my comment, because this an observation that everyone makes and doesn’t really relate to what I said.

People often talk about these processes as though they are the beginning rather than the end. As though we just started making divorce more accessible one day, and that’s why everything is broken. What this ignores that all of these social changes stem from a combination of previous social changes, in this example that would be suffrage, and technological/environmental changes. It may be, that for our particular environment, one wherein physicality has become relatively unimportant, equality and free association between the sexes is a desirable thing. At the same time, there are myriad unpredictable consequences to altering our environment in the first place, but this process is headless and will continue to occur whether we like it or not.
Exactly.

It's like saying taxes are a "negotiation for a contribution to the state government".
What makes you think I haven't googled it already? Yes, the US CISA agency claims it. But no evidence has been presented.
In a trade war any company is fair game. A trade war thus naturally reaches across multiple values that a nation may hold, bringing them simultaneously under tension. Free speech is just a coincidence to the nature of TikTok, but what about cars, drones, phones, or even soybeans?

When values are in conflict, which should win? In the hierarchy of values, where does economic world position stand in terms of national concerns?
Trump negotiated getting out of Afghanistan, withdrew most of the troops but left Biden with getting the last presence out without any manpower for an orderly exit, which was a very stable genius move on his part. Biden was in a lose lose situation: he could either bring back troops to cover the exit and get everything out (unpopular), or just leave in a messy uncovered exit (also unpopular). It was pretty much lose-lose for him at that point.
It's a shame that this is true for many platforms. Social media platforms have the potential to be incredibly democratic. The more people watch content the more it's shown to other people. Anyone's voice could be amplified in a way that was limited to broadcast networking and printing presses in the past. A million small conversations can occur in such a way that they create a chorus of discussion about public interests. Now it seems like most platforms seem to be thinly veiled psyops hoping to trade quick dopamine for mindshare.
I suggest you read the full 27 page ruling and what I quoted again. Supreme Court doesn’t weigh on the wisdom. But found enough evidence that TikTok does not refute that showed that they were engaging in the conduct that Congress alleged and that the law is not unconstitutional.