skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even without following the letter of the law it's entirely rational behaviour for a popular market leader to foment outrage by fully blacking out services. 150 million users (in the US alone) is a very powerful political influence. Politicians frequently fold for a few thousand vocal people complaining on the internet.

It was a gambit used for net neutrality in 2014 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Slowdown_Day
If all of that happened, I still don't think I'd be motivated to poop on my own floor.
GRPC is very performant. A few points, ensure you have a script to compile the GRPC protobuf, ideally in docker so that you don’t pollute your local environment. That other pitfall, is don’t save raw protobuf binaries, you will face backwards compatibility issues as you change the definition of the protobuf, just write everything into MCAP’s. GRPC essentially replaces ROS messages with protobuf definitions and is not a publish, subscriber model, but you can build publisher/ subscribers out of it. It is managed by Google, used in android, web dev etc so it is very performant and reliable.
I can tolerate everything, except the outgroup of course
What's the difference between the perception of a problem being present and the existence of a problem?

If you create an issue, and solve an issue, indifferent of the issue being real, you'll be credited with solving the issue. It's ridiculous at this scale
> partner, house, possessions, etc) - then you’ve got multiple other problems to solve

I get the intent, but this made me laugh
This has me curious about ARC-AGI.

Would it have been possible for OpenAI to have gamed ARC-AGI by seeing the first few examples and then quickly mechanical turking a training set, fine tuning their model, then proceeding with the rest of the evaluation?

Are there other tricks they could have pulled?

It feels like unless a model is being deployed to an impartial evaluator's completely air gapped machine, there's a ton of room for shenanigans, dishonesty, and outright cheating.
> I have never once dealt with their government in any way shape or form.

It’s likely you have and didn’t know it. The “political officer” or otherwise-embedded party official often has another title or “non-official cover” as they say. Communist governments have operated this way since 1918.
> I think they're trying to say that you don't respond to bad behavior (China banning apps) with your own bad behavior (US banning apps).

This presumes an assumption. I don't consider the banning as a lever for ensuring US controls Tiktok as bad behavior. America has a vested interest in snooping on and having direct control over popular mediums of communication. Giving Chinese ownership access to the methods used (like the physical devices, et al), is a security issue. It's a cold war game that seems a little sophisticated for this day and age (somehow). The lack of understanding explains a lot of these wandering conversation about tangents.
That's orthogonal.

The point is that your question should not be "have I made a profit on these houses relative to an index fund" like a speculator.

Your question should be "would I have made a profit on these houses relative to an index fund if I had kept them rented out to tenants 100% of the time at market rates?".

The core to living in a residence you own shouldn't be the asset value, it should be the living. If you're neglecting the market rate for that quality of life in favor of focusing on asset appreciation, you're approaching homeownership in a backwards manner that is ultimately destructive.
For my first full time job, I was a junior sysadmin. My toolset had to include LOAF floppies, one FREEDOS floppy, and a bent paper clip.

I had an office. My office. With a door.

Since then, every advance in my career raised my skill level, raised my pay, and shrank my office. First came the open office plan. Then came hot desks. Now I'm all-remote, and I mostly float around libraries and cafes when I'm not zooming.

Seriously, it's so demoralizing to be ordered to come to an open office plan where you don't even have a desk you can unload a backpack's worth of things on. (Not happening to me as I'd have to commute on the Acela.) If the powers that be want a return to the office, it's time to rethink what that means.
To be fair, a lot of European countries and localities do not treat their water with fluoride at all. Some have better dental health purely due to better healthcare/dental coverage.

The onset of anti-vaccine sentiment will do far more damage and shouldn't be bracketed in that same category.
A lot of people want AI training to be in breach of copyright somehow, to the point of ignoring the likely outcomes if that were made law. Copyright law is their big cudgel for removing the thing they hate.

However, while it isn't fully settled yet, at the moment it does not appear to be the case.
This is just Conway’s Law.

Microsoft is a juggernaut.
This is what is typically used in nice mechanical watch dials nowadays.
But say through some process a court intervenes. There's no actual way for the court to compel him to do anything.
I'm not saying the extension is unlawful. The person I replied to seemed to imply an addendum to a law should be less enforceable than the primary focus of the law. I was simply addressing that statement.
Last time I used ROS, it forced you to use its build system. Catkin or something? It was a layer on top of Cmake.
OLEDs are per-pixel backlighting, so they can go full black on a single pixel.
No. It's a big political statement to include political messaging and plead to political figures when you shut down. Then to praise those political figures afterwards is additional political messaging.
It's becoming increasingly difficult to grok news headlines
I'm not sure I agree with the tone of this, but imho it's definitely true that British culture views STEM people as just a bunch of nerds ('boffins') to be told what to do, and not really trusted, wheras the 'important' serious people are all 'media' types; politics, sales and marketing, people-people.

Probably true to some extent the world over, but especially malignant in UK, as you say. It wouldn't be so bad if the UK's executives had a track record of excellence, but they are generally abysmal.
> By saying China's using Tik Tok to subvert "democracy," aren't we really saying voters are not individual agents but rather a mob subject to manipulation by propaganda?

Yep. Same thing as the people arguing to reverse the Citizens United ruling. Lots of lip service is paid to "democracy" by people who have no faith in the electorate to actually exercise democratic sovereignty.
https://x.com/ctify_/status/1881144018211660270?s=19
Wait, I think I somehow knew Epoch AI was getting money from OpenAI. I'm not sure how, and I didn't connect any of the facts together to think of this problem in advance.
I think a more generous interpretation of this is simply one that is critiquing planned obsolescence and addicting algorithm. Some things need to increase usage by nature, but how many services have you used that really needed a subscription as a necessary model to work?
I think it means increase usage of the thing itself, and I think it's a good insight. While there is a natural supply and demand curve, unscrupulous growth-focused businesses optimize their products (unhealthy food) and services (gambling, social media, mobile games) for high levels of consumption (at least for a portion of vulnerable users), irrespective of harmful effects. It's the tobacco industry model reborn.
Yes, but it's irrelevant - Apple and Google refuse to allow Douyin on the iOS and Google Play stores, as of writing (and I do not see this changing)
But the ACLU was arguing in defense of free speech there.
Hence, they're probably not being "stolen" as much as someone being like "there's someone else's stuff here where I either thought my desk was, or on this desk which I want to claim for my own, so I will move this other person's stuff elsewhere."
> many still spend large parts of the day on video chats they could have done from home

This has been my experience of "in the office" post-pandemic. I end up on a video call for almost every meeting anyway. And being on a video call meeting in an open-plan office with an internet connections that's trying to serve 10s of video calls is a considerably worse experience than being on one in quiet environment with an internet connection that only needs to serve 1 or 2.

Being in an office when other people are on video calls can also be quite unpleasant.
This isn't an "end run around 1A" - the law doesn't target any speech or content at all. TikTok can keep operating with all the same content, they just need to separate from Chinese ownership first. If this was about censorship, why include that option?

This isn't about censoring content, it's about preventing ByteDance from collecting personal data from 170M Americans that Chinese law requires them to hand over to their government.
They should get Devin to make it for them. =)
They made a bad bet on the structure of their designs. They were bought by SoftBank last year; they have a new design in the works, but might have trouble delivering it as apparently there's been a bit of a talent exodus. There are several newer companies trying their luck in the area.
Yeah, that network effect is always the hard part once you want/need to reach out past your personal circle. Even with a personal circle it can ha hard to make people use a better but smaller service.
Preserved ancient shipwrecks are why I don't believe when people say some material "degrades in X years".
Yes, most of the court felt intermediate scrutiny was the appropriate standard in part because of the reasons you outlined.

(I also agree that this is a different case, I only point to Bernstein because it is a clear part of case law which states that software distribution is and can be a free speech issue and restraints on it would be expected to be evaluated with some level of scrutiny.)
It seems you're copying your data from myanimelist.net, including the synopsis.

I'm not sure on the details anymore, but I can think this is infringing their copyright.

For https://www.anistats.com/ I chose to display the content from anilist.co and their graphql API. But this was 5 years ago I made this decision.

I don't know if this matters anymore or to you. But congrats for shipping.
I’m not sure this is correct. I see where you’re coming from, but there was a clear date that the law was going to be enacted by, and tiktok simply followed that date. Pretty much everybody expected tiktok to be required to shut down. The law is clear that there are penalties for tiktok continuing to operate past that date, so it’s not really surprising.

They were telling users who to blame and who to thank because in this specific case, the blame and the thank are pretty clear. The Biden administration approved the ban, and the Trump administration reversed it. Blaming one and thanking the other is also hardly surprising.
Was it? Apart from Elon’s dependence on China market for Tesla sales, I didn’t think so. Trump has been talking a lot about going hard against adversaries.
The TikTok ban is something he supported. And it’s more popular on the right than left.
There’s a similar issue with server priority and federating too. At least last I saw, maybe a year ago.

Eg if I run a small server I have a difficult time getting my updates federated quickly because other servers have a lot of fire hoses to manage. You end up low on the priority list and less likely to be seen. In my experience from last I tried, at least.
Already do and users are noticing. Ads have been introduce in a really obnixious facebook/instagram style and contebt moderation is more facebook/instagrem esq as well. It would surprise no one on the platform if meta has already aquired it, and it just needs to be announced.
Github used to do this. The result is their dark mode isn't useful for anyone. However, They revamped their color scheme later and made it comfortable to read.
I remember watching the XBOX talk. The one thing that really stood out was how the Flash ROM happened to contain a previous version of the hidden ROM sitting right there. While it didn't exactly match the release version, it still provided a whole lot of information on how the boot sequence worked.
No, many users are sharing the theory that the downtime was to allow meta or google to take over the backend. Content delivery is different on the app now. For example, ads being served during videos not between videos.
That's a very marxist view on wages, actually...

Capitalism seeks rent from having capital, so the obvious optimization is to squash the ability to demand higher wages (original Marxist argument about "ownership of means of production" was how big capitalist controlled access to machines you needed to the work, thus being able to depress the wages)
For what it's worth, they're actually totally different machines under the hood. They share the same main CPU, sound chips, and D/A section, but those are about the only similarities. I think you and GP make great points about product differentiation/price discrimination though. I think this explains Yamaha's motivations.
What about realtime+mobile chat ?

Mastodon and RCS are lightyears from consolidating X/whatsapp/messenger/telegram/signal/discord/slack/teams/etc.

Email+notifications is a joke, lacking groups features, true undo, large attachments and video codecs, etc.
> The privacy losses are more than offset by the gains of communicating with everyone on the planet.

Why can’t we have both?
App stores are middlenen who dictate what users get to see and consume, while taking 30% from what's approved. I think thars eye predatory part.

Apple is the much more obvious offender, even for stuff not traditionally stigmatized against. Microsoft struggled to release Xcloud becsuse Apple didn't want a game streaming service on IOS. Meanwhile, steaming music, videos, and anything that works on its purposefully botched internet was fine.

>The privacy losses are more than offset by the gains of communicating with everyone on the planet.

Definitely a contentious take these days, given recent events.
Packages in Debian mapped to hardware for automatic recommendation
That is certainly a novel form of whataboutism. Spooky murder at a distance through nonspecific actions too.
No, there's no such reasoning in that decision, which confirmed that speech itself is protected by the first amendment, regardless of who originates it.

And this ruling had little to do with any of that -- the first amendment challenge was that the ban imposed content-based burdens on the speech of the users of TikTok, and the court ruled that it did not. So the ban therefore survived the challenge under intermediate scrutiny.

The domestic vs. foreign ownership element of the ruling only pertained to the evaluation of whether there was a compelling government interest in enacting the ban, not whether the government was exempt from first amendment scrutiny at all.
Go look it up instead of having me explain it to you. You're just verbosely asserting your opinion, and at least in the US, your opinion does not map to how the law actually works.

US Constitution Section 2 Article 3: "[The President]... shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed..."
This feels like a done deal. This benchmark should be discarded.
Because it's a terrible blog post. If you applied this criticism to any other author, it would be valid.

But because it's pg it's different? No, it's still a bad post. There are a plethora of other reasons Twitter was a big deal. It being a "protocol" wasn't one of them.
Sadly relatable to a lot of real life. Modern people don't talk "to" each other some portion of the time. They talk past each other in this mimicry of discussion.
No, that is not correct. Search for “unwaivable rights”. Obviously you can’t just limit rights with a contract. If you could, labour laws would be useless and minimum wages wouldn’t exist.
Calculator Forensics Results Sorted by Model (2007)
As many have pointed out it is not only titok's free that is in question, but rather the free speech of its users.

As an analogy you could imagine that all the people in the cases above are neonazi pedos and you might conclude that they do not deserve free speech, but the point of the parent is that in all of those cases the free speech of the people was being infringed upon (the question is whether that is justified or not)
Very good summary of all the things that have gone wrong with tech (and this is a long and growing list). The part on how to recover from this unfortunate mess is a bit handwavy though.

Not that there are ready made solutions that are being ignored, but if we are going to move beyond conceptual statements it will require some pretty potent medicines that can start fighting the cancer by taking it head on.

The enshittification is now in an advanced stage and the billions of addicted masses an enormous inertial weight. Witness e.g., the grotesque politics around the tiktok non-ban.

Imho a key ingredient is to ditch the focus on the "personal" and start thinking of "interpersonal computing" (just made that term up). Basically personal computing that is network-first, web-native. The owner-operator is empowered to join the matrix, find their way around without gatekeepers, connect with agency, exchange, filter, process with helpful and transparent algorithms and get on top of the informatiom firehose. Nothing radically new in terms of hardware or software, just rearranged furniture to serve citizens, not some digital oligarchy.

The huge success of social media is because it tapped into the immense sociability of our species. Somehow we need to reclaim that trait for the good side of technology, with devices and software that are actually desirable without being leeches that suck society dry.
That's a side effect of the way we've educated the market to expect everything to be "free." That leaves the only option available being indirect monetization through ads or in-app purchases or something similar to that.
Yeah, you're correct by the original definition - but in the modern context of Docker/k8s and web servers, "bare metal" is being colloquially used to refer to installing directly on the bare OS, and people understand that.
Your definition of "anyone" is pretty skewed toward the tech-savvy.

Spend some time in the tech support desk of a mobile phone store to get an idea of the general level of technical sophistication of the average person. Average folks are not running containers. They're not installing... anything... except maybe an app from an App Store. Half of them aren't sure what a file is.
Ok, I've been 10 years in it as well, if that's important.

There's simply no reason to skip ROS as a student. My advice was not for businesses, whatsoever. And every single ROS replacement I've seen is ROS-like enough that the language ROS defined for all of us is effectively lingua franca.

But the antibodies that are triggered by even mentioning ROS should tell anyone how much it is not a fun thing to learn or work with. But it is a common touchpoint. It's really hard to understand _nearly any_ design decision in robotics software without first understanding why it isn't ROS.
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35469632
The clueless upper management are serving their wealthy owners who have a commercial real estate portfolio that is losing them huge amounts of money unless they can get the little people back in the offices.
It does seem technologically possible. Eg IRC, mastodon etc

Not convinced the average user cares enough to accept the compromises though and the marketing budgets of big tech is a force to reckon with too
It's both. It gives the President the authority to designate an app as controlled by a foreign adversary, forcing it to be banned or sold. It also names TikTok in particular. I didn't know about the second part until I read the original text* just now, since every summary missed that, but I'm not happy about that part either.

* https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521...
If the city sold the public property with the specific intent of having a private entity stop protected speech they were powerless to stop then yes, it would be a free speech issue
First assumption is that there is a miscommunication between GREF and a team about desks being permanent or "hotel" setup, and most of this stolen stuff is in lost & found or a locker or something like that. But a scratched itch for those seeking a reason to not RTO, for sure.
> inefficient, controlled by elites, and fails to deliver real results.

but then

> a strong, centralized leader (like a monarch or CEO) could better address societal issues

Have strong centralized leaders ever NOT been elites surrounded by elite advisors and sycophant?
And sometimes it’s the rest of us who get to find out.
That's true and that's actually something the courts consider. The standard is unreasonable burden. So it's not necessarily anything that makes speech harder, but if it does make speech unreasonably burdensome then it would run afoul of the first amendment.

So if the alternative places where such speech could be hosted were extremely limited, expensive or very difficult to use then the law banning a platform could create an unreasonable burden.
That's exactly what I'm working towards. It's the difference between just using an XML file and using an XML file with a unique extension tacked onto it. It represents a subset with set expectations for behavior. That expectation is what matters.

For generic containers, there are no expectations on what's inside. If I'm making a video player, do I support MKV? Well, some of them. Not all of them. You have to try it and find out. Heck, even within a single codec it's hard to find complete support. Last I checked, browsers won't touch an H264 stream unless it's also YUV420p which also places certain restrictions on physical dimensions of the data and probably some other stuff that's escaping my mind.

If I'm making an image viewer, do I support SVG or PNG? For this example, let's say I only support PNG, but I can tell from the outset what's inside any file I might try to load. I can confidently say I can meaningfully load and display anything that uses the established standards of the PNG format to store image data. Sure, there are extensible bits, but they're not part of those core expectations surrounding the core part of the format, the image data I care about. And I didn't have to try and open the PNG first to see if it was actually an SVG. I can recognize not-bitmaps at a glance without having to inspect them any deeper than their extension.
Stolen implies intent, "removed" does not.