skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fully agree on all except this point:

> "UK's small market limits growth."

(followed by a list of companies founded before we put up trade barriers with our largest and closest single market)
> I'm not required to use social media and extractive business models.

Most people do use them though.

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

I completely disagree. Most people aren't actually communicating. At least not in any form that matters. The drastic increase in loneliness and depression that correlates with the increase in connectivity should at least show that more social media doesn't mean more happy.
Why don't all British hardware engineers move to the United States? What keeps them in Britain?
Corporations have First Amendment rights as ruled by Citizens United v. FEC. Even though corporations don’t have a vote (which is its own can of worms because of their economic power, money = vote), they still enjoy some of the same constitutional protections as individuals do.
you can do worse than creating credit reports

they could be figuring out how to get people to click on ads
The SWE that you do may indeed be unskilled, but that says more about you than about the field as a whole.
The law didn't require them to shut the service off for those who already had the app installed. It just prevented new updates or downloads. Shutting off the app immediately was just theater and reinstating the app with no changes to the law is just the second act.
Ok, let's try from another angle. Close your eyes and picture the ideal, best, most successful product in this space, for whatever definitions those words mean to you.

Everyone is different, but I think most people would not picture a source control product where search, issues, and on-prem are each so terrible, the default solution for that feature is to use a completely different product from a totally different company, which solves that specific issue (Sourcegraph, Linear, GitLab, respectively).
Terraform-null-label: Advanced Usage
That's what happened last time around with Trump.
Family and friends.
Popular in finance. Often you dont need the details.
Prosecutorial discretion is not a "check and balance" it is a cost cutting approach that allows worse laws to last longer
Cracking down on monopolies and rentierism would be a good start. Followed by tying pension rises to worker's salaries. None of that is actually going to happen because of who votes combined with a government that's scared of its own shadow.
Once you have sizing, the ability to make an issue dependent, estimated start / end, don’t you have everything needed to generate a PERT / Gantt chart?
> on an unjustified 125k.

Irrespective of your self perception of value, I am not sure you are fully grasping the disconnect between the growth in cost of living and the (lack of) growth in wages of the past 50 years for the average human in western economies.

By many standards we actually need that 125k just to live what we would consider a middle class life in the 1980's.
I am using lists and have pinned them, it gives me a custom feed as before
In the case of the UK the solution in effect since the mid 2010s is increase taxation, replace the natives completely with someone more desperate, and suppress wages.
Executive Order on Addressing the Threat Posed by TikTok (2020)
Not that I disagree that Brexit was an awful idea, but this was a problem even before Brexit. The reach of European companies just isn't what it used to be in the face of American and Chinese giants, and the EU is failing to be a truly single market where companies can grow to that scale.
It gave people all of Sunday to react to the shutdown on TikTok ahead of Monday where the focus will be the inauguration.
> Could you point out the straw man in question?

>> I'd be astonished if I learned that soldiers on duty were totally free to do as they please the expense of operational security

The post you were replying to didn't suggest anything about total freedom. You're exaggerating their words to make your argument easier.

>> I'd be equally astonished if I found that military recruitment was based on enlisting cross-sectional samples of demographic categories

Given initial enlistment age ranges between 17 and 30/40 [0], you get cohorts from specific generations.

Kids who are 17 now were born ~2008, which is just starting to be kids with smartphones and mobile devices their entire lives.

No cross-sectioning required: just upper and lower age limits.

>> And I'm sure that the military can find ways of enabling deployed personnel to use the internet without sacrificing security or oversight

I'm going to assume you're honestly ignorant of military networks and field device management at scale.

The military runs segregated networks. Secure networks require approved devices; those devices are extremely locked down. There are often also public internet networks for MWR reasons. Unmanaged devices can be used on those networks. Furthermore, in most non-naval deployments, terrestrial cellular data networks are also accessible.

>> for example by requiring them to use secured military-issue computers and smartphones, or by having an inspection or vetting process for hardware and software when soldiers want to use their own devices.

Military IT is already overloaded managing the vast number of secure devices and networks, so having them manage consumer devices in any way is a non-starter.

For scale context, the DoD PKI includes ~4 million active CAC cards. [1]

Unmanaged consumer devices + CAC are also often used for less-privileged interaction with the military (e.g. HR functions).

> My comment about finding ways to enable internet access in a more controlled way was specifically targeting your argument about the security vs. morale tradeoff

And the responses that you're getting are that these are non-trivial problems for real-world reasons.

Furthermore, you seem to have a lack of understanding about how much it sucks to be stuck in a forward base, and how important maintaining morale is to command authority and force effectiveness.

PS: Also, look at user names. I'm not the author of the original comment you replied to.

[0] https://www.usa.gov/military-requirements

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Access_Card
It's still political but the armies of anonymous blue checks that dominate every reply section on Twitter with regurgitated memes and low-effort insults are missing.
Government spending is 45% of GDP.
The UK as a society doesn’t care about anything related to industrial production because it is ideologically opposed to anything resembling an industrial working class.

Skilled jobs are anathema to the ethos of the people in charge of the UK’s industrial policy - who have never held a skilled job in their life - as they would prefer everyone to be a backbiting, striving social climber like them, either moving money around of gumming up the system with endless bureaucracy.

This trend is exhibited in many of the ‘developed’ economies but it is particularly strong in the UK, a country fooling itself with delusions of grandeur while, like Wilde’s picture, its foundations gnarl and ossify and crumble, like dust into the dustpan of history. Next…
You know what, that’s is actually correct.

Practically necessarily trumps concerns of fictitious and imaginary constructs
He does not need to simply _claim_, he must certify. And one of those is:

“there are in place the relevant binding legal agreements to enable execution of such qualified divestiture during the period of such extension."

This is a binary thing. No such legal agreement seems to exist. You also ignored the other parts of my comment about him missing the deadline in the law to apply the extension.

Johnson himself said they will enforce the law.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/speaker-johnson-2-...
I think he is recommending the following:

- legalizing DRM circumvention (repealing DMCA section 1201)
- comprehensive privacy legislation (US adopting GDPR+)
- right to repair legislation.
- antitrust action and enforcement against tech companies

As he notes, these are currently non-starters because of legislative and regulatory capture.

But even if they were implemented, laws and regulatory enforcement might not have the desired effect. Surveillance capitalism, adtech, and data brokers seem to be surprisingly GDPR-resistant, and California's CCPA seems to have had minimal effect. Right-to-repair is limited by miniaturization and component integration, and the result seems to be Apple's impractical and expensive repair kits. Antitrust seems to be ineffective (see IBM, Microsoft.) Even the DMA, carefully crafted to target Apple, Google, Meta et al. (and to extract billions from them for noncompliance) doesn't seem to be affecting the dominance of those companies just yet.
Combined with the fact that those solutions just listed are short term and a surefire way to ensure nobody gets a pension.

You also can’t act against monopolies when China happily won’t act against their own state owned monopolies, which are in an arm’s race trying to surpass us. Falling behind to China is a great way to cause a tech investment collapse.
The NHS is not dying an entirely natural death. Murder most foul.

Your question is coupling a matter of our policy preference, our tactical planning to arrive at that preference, and a hypothetical predictive model. If like some supervillain I had come up with a satisfactory answer to all those questions I would have enacted it twenty minutes ago.
If OpenAI wanted the questions/solutions, there is going to be a reason for that. This data is not sitting in an unopened folder on Sam's computer.

There are a lot of ways you can use data to improve a model without directly training on it. A train/test validation loop, for example. Or as a wellspring for synthetic data generation. But all of these ways involve some level of data contamination, it's unavoidable.
How is "everybody has freedoms except the governments of adversarial foreign countries" not more free than "nobody has freedoms"?
That is blasphemy.
Visas are not a pleasant thing to deal with.
I am actually surprised that it was not deemed unconstitutional on this basis alone
No, I'm saying that if they aren't even willing to assert innocence of manipulating what trends then we certainly shouldn't presume innocence.

I'd like for them to testify under oath about how they alter what is trending, then I'd like for us to independently verify those those results to the best of our ability.
Let me put it this way. None of the houses I've bought were bought as an investment. I bought them as places to live in and enjoy. I've lost money on two of them, quite a bit.

Keep in mind that if your house burns down, your generational equity goes up in flames.
My guess is that OpenAI didn't cheat as blatantly as just training on the test set. If they had, surely they could have gotten themselves an even higher mark than 25%. But I do buy the comment that they soft-cheated by using elements of the dataset for validation (which is absolutely still a form of data leakage). Even so, I suspect their reported number is roughly legit, because they report numbers on many benchmarks, and they have a good track record of those numbers holding up to private test sets.

What's much more concerning to me than the integrity of the benchmark number is the general pattern of behavior here from OpenAI and Epoch. We shouldn't accept secretly (even secret to the people doing the creation!) funding the creation of a benchmark. I also don't see how we can trust in the integrity of EpochAI going forward. This is basically their only meaningful output, and this is how they handled it?
This entire conversation is about the TikTok ban. My question about why deployed troops are allowed to use social media apps on consumer devices was in response to preceding comments insinuating that banning TikTok is justifiable in light of its potential to damage operational security if military personnel are using it in the field, and was targeted at understanding the implied premise that the problem couldn't be solved by much more proximate, narrowly tailored approaches.
Preach. My friend is a gifted passionate Aerospace engineer (top in his specific stream at Cambridge) and basically is withering away working for the above 2 firms. The location is grim being far from others and generally far from other young exciting people. Additionally in his org, there just isn't a sense of excitement/ urgency which leaves him with little to do. Prioritising career for a career that's not there

Whilst others working in software (myself included) can have a far greater quality of life and salary working in London.
I have a problem and it needs to be everyone else's problem too.
Journalists used to use RSS quite a bit maybe 20 years ago. I guess they just forgot.
The only way you can buy it is with cloud included as a subscription
I find this timing somewhat curious - I recently became aware that Luigi Mangione is accused of, amongst other things, using a 3d printed firearm in the assassination of the United Healthcare CEO. [0]

Now, one of the most popular 3d printer manufacturers is taking steps which could lead to tighter controls on what models can be printed.

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/12/19/luigi-...
Trudeau is the currently elected Prime Minister, and it appears that Singh and many other Canadian Federal MPs and provincial leaders are aligned.

There is an upcoming leadership race, and then an election. Calling an election now, presumably with Trump tariff orders coming out tomorrow would lock Canadians into an election with a caretaker government that would be unable to pass any meaningful legislation. It would be monumentally stupid and your comment makes it clear you have little to no understanding of our government.
It's practically very difficult to move to the US. Getting a visa is hard even in the best case (with a helpful sponsor). And if you're in any way settled in the UK (partner, house, possessions, etc) then you've got multiple other problems to solve.
Immigrating to USA is hard, probably one of the hardest because competition is so high. Tbh I'd recommend going someplace like Hong Kong whose government is starved for talent and pays similar when balancing for tax but similar social services.
It’s kind-of not. A ban would have given them all the opportunity to go wherever their audience went. The demand for their content wouldn’t simply disappear, it’d just be displaced to some other platform. And said other platform would almost certainly be less capricious and better for creators than TikTok.
I have worked in two failed and failing startups that invested heavily in ROS. I could fill several volumes with "ROS Gotchas". Everything in the ROS stack is either a useless curio or an on-fire clown car.

Using ROS is a great way to turn your project and business into a cautionary tale.
The President can offer pardons for criminal matters. However, he is required to uphold laws passed by Congress, particularly bipartisan ones affirmed by the Supreme Court.

For example, why would the President have a veto power if he can simply post-facto ignore laws they pass?
"You may speak if..."

Is a freedom of speech issue.
We have the notes from a zoom meeting between the priests of Ba'al and some early Phoenician scribes when they were designing the alphabet and outside of sacrificing children they were actually really concerned about accessibility standards
If you are looking to move, reach out
For whatever it's worth*: I'm not skeptical of it at all. I've done this in a terminal before without even looking at the screen, so I know it can't have anything to do with visual reaction.

Similar to the other reply, I also commonly do that when typing, where I know I've fat fingered a word, exclusively from the feeling of the keyboard.

But also, your not just trying to beat the fork/exec. You can also successfully beat any number of things. The pre-commit hook, the DNS look up, the TLS handshake. adding an additional 100ms of latency to that could easily be the difference between preempting some action, interrupting it or noticing after it was completed.
OnePlus 13R: OnePlus Goes Back to Define the Future
To me, the fact that they didn't state those things makes it trivial to draw the conclusion: b00lin is in the right, and Activision is in the wrong. Any time one party tells their side of the story, and the other doesn't despite being given the chance to, I always side with the party that did.
Does the UK government actually care about oil or is the chumminess with Middle Eastern countries due to the levels of investments they have in the UK, particularly London?
Yeah, that's one of many things I love about chafa. The charsets are very flexible allowing me to get something decentish working even in the limited default fonts and no fallbacks in putty on windows. Or blacklist stuff that looked bad in my preferred linux font.

Another nice thing about it is the author made an ffmpeg patch (playable using -c:v rawvideo -pix_fmt rgba -f chafa) that was pretty darn handy for quickly triaging videos on a remote server without having to relay them to a more usable terminal.

And it has sixel support too if you happen to be in a terminal that supports that.

And since he's delegating to imagemagick, it has loaded every image format I've thrown at it, including RAW.
Aside from non-economic reasons why one may wish to remain in one's home country, it is not easy to get a work visa for the US.
Had they let it hit 100% it would have been obvious they had the data.

They've sure been careful to avoid that, by only using a portion of it or some other technique
> the Constitution doesn't apply to foreign entities

Sort of true. Sometimes the constitution just says "persons", which has generally been interpreted to anyone.

But it's not material, because the 1st amendment is a restriction on congress. That's why it starts with "Congress shall make no law...". The argument isn't about if TikTok has rights, it's about if congress is authorized to take this action. They're inter-mixed a bit because if TikTok does have the rights they claim, then congress automatically isn't authorized, but they are separate.
It's not that easy to get a work permit in the US unless you're truly exceptional or marry an American.
I actually think going back is a good idea. Throw in an almost free Raspberry Pi Pico, install a 6502-based machine emulator, make it launch at startup and straight away go full screen and you are good to go.

I'm thinking about experimenting that with myself and my son when he is older. But he is of the impatient type so maybe this is a bad idea as vintage computers typically need more focus and research.

Maybe a DOS emulator then. It has better tools and games.
This does not make sense, it is like saying that requiring bezos to sell his newspapers is not a free speech issue (I might or might not support such action as I am not a free speech absolutist)
Union strikes may fit that bill.
That looks like the most radical/unusual operating system thing I have seen in recent memory. Not sure how practical it is, but kudos for trying something so different.
Well everytime somebody wants to build high density housing or really anything to alleviate the housing crisis we get the usual NIMBY screaming similar to OP about evil corporations coming to destroy the character of their local neighborhood.
Well, they’re TikTok users. They only have a five-minute attention span, so they’ll forget about any consequences pretty quickly.
Gotta turn it off long enough for people to notice, but not long enough for people to find another platform.
> if they used it in training it should be 100% hit.

Not necessarily, no.

A statistical model will attempt to minimise overall loss, generally speaking.

If it gets 100% accuracy on the training data it's usually an overfit. (Hugging the data points too tightly, thereby failing to predict real life cases)
Don't they suffer from the same H1B restrictions?
That I agree with, but the way your first post was worded, it sounded like the opposite.
That's a really weak argument. Let's clarify:

1. An anti-free-speech government that arrests people for discussing certain topics that controls a company that seems not to show certain topics much.

2. The company doesn't make any claim it's not filtering out anti-china topics.

3. We find strong evidence that platforms don't match.

4. You want to throw out all evidence and blindly presume complete innocence because you think 1 of 10 topics on instagram isn't easy to explain?

Feels hard to believe you could come to that conclusion in good faith.
> media companies operating in the US to have US citizens owners is likely much longer than you've been alive

You do realise that, should US allies apply this principle themselves, US companies will suffer? Most UK media is foreign owned at this point. As is our water supply, transport and energy

And Elon’s rampant disrespect and general behaviour are inviting that day.
Some people don’t focus primarily on the money. When that’s the case, many things (love, pride, comfort, dreams, fears, etc) might keep someone from moving.
Aside from the Cloud bullshit, Photoshop's auto-update is a pain. After some regression I disabled updates right after they fixed it. But recently when I open Photoshop, it's started giving me a nagging popup about being out-of-date. It's done more-or-less the same thing for many years, just take my subscription money and leave me alone!
It's only circular reasoning if you ignore the mathematical model of evolution. Evolution is simply that your chances of picking a red ball from a jar increases proportionally to the number of red balls in the jar.

What you're saying is that "but why did you pick that specific ball, what were the factors at play?". I say "probability", and you call it circular reasoning. You expect me to explain the physical forces at play that pushed forward a specific ball on the top when you filled the jar, and made it collide with your fingers, and your brain's reasoning chain to pick the first ball that you touched, so you pick that one.

But, basically, you can't. It's impossible because 1) we can't time travel. 2) we can't stop the universe and examine all of its properties. We work with the mathematical model we have and expect everything to work aligned with it. "Why do certain monkey species have holes in their bellies?". You can reason about that question, you can even come up with some answers, but it would be impossible to prove due to our universe's observability constraints.

But the mathematical model works, it even works beyond our physical realm (e.g. it works to solve mathematical problems). And no, it will never explain why certain monkeys have holes in their bellies. That's an entirely different domain of causal analysis.
To some extent, this also applies to software. Except for DeepMind and a few other select places like Altos Labs, getting past £100k is hard, especially outside London. Unless you go into finance, of course. But then, you have to stick to London. Finance is like a black hole that sucks a big chunk of the mathematical, CS and statistical UK talent. They have very proactive recruiters trying to e.g. connect with Oxbridge students when they are approaching graduation.
Aren't hardware salaries outside California basically shit even in the US?
I deleted my twitter account not too long ago and now more and more often I scroll down to the bottoms of websites hoping there is a Bluesky link and tada: there is. @letterformarchive.org
We only regulated broadcast using the public airwaves. That's why cable TV is generally exempt.
I got a heat pump and my energy bill went up