skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>persecute anyone they deem a threat to their power

USA does this as well, its just critique of government by a single person is not a credible threat to the US government. Mind you, all these "freedom fighters" ended up being financed by the USAID, so literally were foreign agents.

Whistleblowers get the whole book thrown at them, Snowden and Assange got nearly killed by CIA, Iraq files whistleblowers get book thrown at them.

USA is just as bad empire as China, and probably even worse, because of the millions of murdered innocent people over the decades of forever wars.

China has no such track record
Depends on what happens with robotics, but I don't think I can even imagine how to put myself in the shoes of a 17 year old in 10 years time thinking about the future, I'd guess the things they can dream to go and do will be vastly different than we did? The Anthropic AI report was very eye opening, and then this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu7LSNYWDTs

Gilbert Houngbo, Director-General of the International Labour Organization did an interesting interview with DW today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhbQvcnugVc
This touches tech through Map programs like Apple & Google Maps, who have both bent the knee to this renaming. This is an organization that has a backbone and a light should be shined on them for not only their original principled stance but also this retaliation that is not in the spirit of the Constitution.
I got a Surface laptop with the Snapdragon. 32GB, fastest model.

In general use it feels way faster than my 1 year old Lenovo, which was 2x the price.

It's the the Lenovo one is specifically programmed to only clock up when the load is sustained for longer, whereas the Surface one clocks up much faster.

And still, it lasts 10 hours, and my Lenovo does 1.5 at max.
I hope these connectors are transitional and limited to NVIDIA, and not something that the industry adopts moving forward.

Instead, a proper standard should be developed.
I probably didn't describe myself well enough. I was under the assumption that there was a Rust middleware to interface with the C API, and some of the C maintainers objected even to this because they feel they will need to be in communication with the Rust maintainer(s). I am not against Rust being used alongside, or even in the kernel. I was just pointing out some of the objections the C developers were stating.

I believe there is a middle ground where everyone can be happy, and firmly believe that the Rust maintainers in the Linux project will keep on top of the C interfaces to know when there will be changes. Going back to my comment, I realize that I presented why the C developer/maintainers don't want Rust, but that is not my own stance. In my opinion, there is enough interest in the Rust for Linux project that acting as though there is only a single maintainer, and if they disappear the entire project fails and all Rust code stops compiling is unrealistic and FUD.

I can see a whole host of problems being tackled, especially in driver development and safety concerns, by using Rust. I feel the C maintainers are acting as if the entire kernel is going to be rewritten in Rust in a timeframe where any of these people would still even be capable of using a keyboard or not suffering from severe dementia.

My apologies to anyone that thought I was pushing for one side or the other, I was only repeating the recent "drama" that I heard was going on, and I respect both sides.
> Are they being fined or imprisoned? No.

Under this bar, everything Twitter and Facebook have done, and any meddling the government may have done in those ecosystems, isn't a Free Speech Issue. Considering the very administration now taking this action called being banned from Twitter a violation of their free speech these look like some pretty mobile goalposts.

> From my understanding, the definition of "The Press" is quite large and allows many entities, since it is impossible for all of them to be physically present there has to be a mechanism for deciding who is present and not.

100% true! But surely you can see how "does the government like your speech?" being part of that mechanism is clearly a Free Speech issue, even if you assume it is legal? Remember, this is the Government. It's not like it's Trump disinviting them from his house because they hurt his feelings.
I think the only way is to check your dataset for the benchmark leak and remove it before training, but (as you say) that's assuming an honest actor is training the LLM, going against the incentives of leaving the benchmark leak in the training data. Even then, a benchmark leak can make it through those checks.

I think it would be interesting to create a dynamic benchmark. For example, a benchmark which uses math and a random value determined at evaluation for the answer. The correct answer would be different for each run. Theoretically, training on it wouldn't help beat the benchmark because the random value would change the answer. Maybe this has already been done.
Because it is using power from solar panels to accelerate the ions, that's what makes it not a perpetual motion machine. We know we can build ion thrusters that generate enough thrust to overcome the drag at these orbits. But that is with different propellant. The question is if you can do the same using air as the propellant, and with even higher thrust to account for the additional drag a scoop would have over an aerodynamic design.
Seems like they're trying to rebrand "easy"; I don't think this is the insighful observation he thinks it is. And easy !== simple, which is typically what you really want and don't find out until it's too late that you didn't get it.
If I understand you, AI/ML is redefining "truth" from facts of reality to whatever the input (or maybe the internal state) says. It's corrupt, a lie, and will obviously output inaccuracies - but only inaccurate by reality's standard!
what you're saying is orthogonal to the post I was replying to, and to my reply.

self interested and short sighted says nothing about intelligence, irrationality, or poor decision making. Back handed and inhumane covid hiring and firing is probably not a mistake from their perspective. professional bullshitting is a form of intelligence (I hate it too, I've been done in by it, but I respect it)
Conclusion: "The administration should loosen all the restrictions that it has imposed above and beyond what Congress has required, and Congress should overhaul the system to open legal immigration for any person willing to work to contribute to the success of the United States."

In other words, we should "promptly admit a majority of the 158 million who told Gallup that they would want to come," according to the 2018 survey cited.

Left out of the article is an explanation for why the US would be better off it that were to happen.
I had to ask Claude because I've never worked with Mongo, but apparently the equivalent query for MongoDB is:

db.api.find(
{ "tags": "qui" },
{
"guid": 1,
"name": 1,
"_id": 0
}
)
Good job! You continue to fail to subtantiate your original claim (low US EV demand) very well!

A+ goalpost moving!
> Without all the trade restrictions, you could buy a BYD EV for 10k.

No, you couldn’t. In Switzerland there are no EV trade restrictions and no, we do not have 10k BYDs. They cost roughly same as any other Western manufacturer.
Thanks for the info, will keep it in mind.
This is a really clever design for the device! Damn, very clever. It's not a car knob with the multi modal thing but it would be great for a home thermostat and related stuff. Click to switch to heat, Click to switch to cold, so on and so forth.
China is very good at mass production. Once they master the art, with the backing of the Chinese government, they can afford to lose money to gain market share. All U.S. car companies, including Tesla, would die if the U.S. allowed Chinese 10k car in.

Hell, Obama didn’t let the auto industry die back in 2008. Can you imagine Trump, who said there would be a "bloodbath" in the auto industry without him—allowing a $10K Chinese car into the U.S. market?
Technically, if you are second you are underperformer.
EU mobilizes $200B in AI race against US and China
The EU might have done a careful calculation with their tarrifs, but the US's tariffs of 100% seems closer to a nice round number they thought sounded good than carefully thought out "proportionate" response to whatever the Chinese governments' subsidies were.
>Maybe, but that doesn't seem practical, outside of having some large oversight body employing many people to review this... which is just what DOGE purportedly is.

The oversight body is Congress. They hold hearings, call on experts, issue subpoenas, and represent the will of the people. Plus, because Congress defines the agencies and apportion budgets for specific projects in those agencies, they're the perfect group to do oversight.

DOGE could abide by the Constitution if it had simply conducted audits, compiled findings with suggestions, and presenting those at a Congressional hearing. They should not interfere with agencies carrying out legally required duties.

It's insane how these days the "crazy leftist" point of view is that we should stick to Article I of the Constitution. We have peaceful transitions of power because the losing side knows there are still rules the winners can't break. If either side makes Constitutional crises their go-to tool, there are only two awful end-states: entrenched tyranny or violent revolution. Maybe both.
Government subsidies. It isn't a fair playing field. You're essentially celebrating that the Chinese government is choosing for their car company to crush rather than the rest of the world's car companies. This isn't an example of being "ripped apart by competition". It's being ripped apart by a government.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43020576
Yes; Elon receives welfare.
Do yourself a favor and just download the PDF, the page is huge with many large images.

https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/2023-06/policy-ana...
iStarUSA are my go-to for my whitebox server builds, and they sell a 9U 50-drive hot-swap enclosure: https://www.istarusa.com/en/istarusa/products.php?model=E9M5...
Just because someone wants to immigrate to the US doesn't mean they should be allowed. This is the underlying truth that is indisputable.

This article says that it grants 1 million green cards per year to legal immigrants, which is extremely generous. To say it's "nearly impossible" is absurd. I myself, my wife, and 80% of my friends are all legal immigrants to the US.
If both China and the US were a free market that didn't subsidize electric car production and construction, neither country would have any electric car manufacturers.
> There are so much factories built and so small demand companies can not survive without help from the Government. They were build thanks to cheap loans from the Government.

It feels like this is true for any older Western country like Germany or the UK too. Why exactly have China been successful in reducing costs?
Any recommendations on where to read more about this? While his style never really engaged me, I never pegged him as being a terrible person.
Here in the UK all this stuff is helpfully already public (hence no need for private middlemen)

https://www.college.police.uk/app
Illegal immigrants can’t vote. Permanent residents can’t vote either. You can only vote once you acquire citizenship (which means doing the whole immigration process, then waiting several more years to be able to apply for citizenship).
They're clearly covered by the "need to know" exceptions of the Act, no?
> Troubleshooting an intermittent problem on a bathroom fan in a subdivided triple decker with common grounds -> hard

I would generalize that to "locating and safely fixing problems inside closed walls or ceilings -> sometimes hard".

Sometimes easy still, but that is where things get complicated, and sometimes dangerous. I've found dead-ended intermittent lines left inside walls without any attempt at proper termination, for example. This is how fires start.

Doing your own electrical work exposes you to the lazy errors made by other people in the past. You learn not to be those people (some of whom were licensed electricians).
That is to say, they used to. Whether they still do is rather entirely up in the air (wahey).
Not really - this is just more Koch free-trade “libertarianism” where the costs are socialized and benefits accrue to only the wealthiest capitalists. Par for the course for Cato.
Not sure if you would say these are the still the only implementations, but autoconf, Bugzilla and SpamAssassin were all at least once thought of that way.
> I believe these are all very reasonable prices

Sure, as reasonable as offers from Western manufacturers. You can get plenty of EVs for 30k USD.
no, it was under a very specific license that required attribution

and other than that, All Rights Reserved
> because it's much easier to control the voting patterns of illegal immigrants

In 2016, 19 foreign nationals were indicted for illegally voting in the US elections: https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/19-foreign-nationals-indic...

If there were evidence of widespread voting irregularities to support the tired claim that "illegal" immigrants are voting, the logically we'd see more enforcement when the "wrong" side wins.
This is not a technical document which outlines which models _can_ collect or even _what_ is collected. It's just a list of what each manufacturer's lawyers thought they needed to put in their privacy policy. In the Nissans for instance, the S and SV models don't even have telematics systems. I've got a Frontier S, and I'm not even sure it has any kind of voice controls. It might have a mic for phone calls, but there's no GPS or modem in the vehicle. Same was true with my wife's base model Nissan Leaf. That Mozilla document doesn't do anything to actually explain which models of cars either do not have telematics, or which telematics can be be successfully disabled. (for details on disabling Telematics in the Ford Maverick, see this thread: https://www.mavericktruckclub.com/forum/threads/experience-w...)

I only happen to know about Nissan and the Ford Maverick because I was buying a truck and my research narrowed me down to those two models. I'll bet the story is similar in at least some other models from other manufacturers. Perhaps in other manufacturers, there is also a fuse, or perhaps the modem / GPS are simply easy to get to, and do not cause problems when removed? People post that useless Mozilla article as is if it actually conveys any information, but we need real, actual information when it comes to privacy.
>> "Deep state" is a term that some Trump administration officials use to refer to a network of non-elected people in government whom they assert are working clandestinely to bypass elected officials to advance their own agenda.

So Elon is "deep state", according to this.

Also, from Fox News:

>> House Speaker Mike Johnson clarified that emergency relief funding is separate from FEMA funds allocated to immigration, but said that the agency should not have any part in funding the border crisis.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/4-fema-employees-fired-over-egreg...
I meant to reply to the genius one comment up. He's clearly got no experience hence why he's putting this stuff on a pedestal.
WASM will replace containers
Only citizens can vote. Ineligible persons try to vote in very small numbers.

What you're repeating is just propaganda.
> Regarding backdooring websites, that's interesting. I'll have to ask someone about that. Thanks

No, thank you! I look forward to an update on Mullvad's help/blog on this.

> The first-order outcome would be a court case that says the law applies to VPNs, or not.

My contention was, Mullvad AB (the other parts of its services like the app, the browser, the website, & the parts of its infrastructure like its control plane that isn't running the VPN) is already subject to 2020:62 (the Act) in ways which may remain secret, if enforced. I'm not an expert in Swedish law, but also, I'm not sure who else to ask.

For example, here's some revealing text (on just who 2020:62 applies), from a 3p source I linked to in my first reply:

The possibility for the police and security police to use spyware was introduced by the Act (2020:62) on Secret Reading of Data. For domestic purposes, secret data reading means that "information, which is intended for automated processing, is secretly and with technical means, read from or recorded in a readable information system".

"Readable information system" in turn means "an electronic communication device or a user account for, or a correspondingly delimited part of, a communication service, storage service or similar service".

Thus, it covers both physical equipment, such as a mobile phone or a computer, as well as a user account to, or a correspondingly delimited part of, a communication service, storage service or similar service.

Note that "electronic communication service" is just ONE of the 3 entities subject to 2020:62, per that source. The legal language is pretty wild and pretty wide, imo. Which brings me to...

> The first-order outcome would be a court case that says the law applies to VPNs, or not ... would be public.

May not matter as Mullvad AB might decisively meet other criteria laid out in 2020:62 (the Act). That is, regardless of whether Mullvad "VPN" is subject to 2020:62, Mullvad as a business building all kinds of other software might be.

> only software-based mitigations

True. Thanks for being so patient. I tried to send follow-up queries to you folks via PrivacyGuides, but for some reason they didn't & in fact, they stonewalled, & even deleted/removed posts on the topic. Now that I'm hearing from you directly, I feel that much more assured.

I guess, it pays to go direct rather than fight it out on some forum with gatekeepers.

> tillitis.se

Dang... didn't realise 'twas you folks. Amazing.

> glasklarteknik.se

Eventually expect Mullvad severs to experiment with either microkernels (ala Fuschia) or unikernels, to replace the monolith that is Linux Kind of like (the uber sophisticated) OpenVPN vs. (leaner, meaner) WireGuard.

Thanks once again.
The Cato institute has actually written a lot of stuff about why they believe that admitting in more immigrants would be beneficial to the US.

A quick search came up with this [1], but they've written a lot more.

You don't have to agree with them, but I'm just saying that they actually have done a fair bit of work in this field and they have given some amount of justification to why they hold these views.

[1] https://www.cato.org/testimony/unlocking-americas-potential-...
Yeah but what do you do for work? You don't have to age like previous generations, but if you work trades for 40 years you definitely will.

I don't know about transitioning to hard work in your 40s or later. My background is blue collar but it's telling that I don't know anyone working a skilled trade over 45 who started later than say 30. I don't know any over 45 who would probably say they feel great either.
Elon is a direct beneficiary of government subsidies on EVs. He wants regulations if it benefits his profitability.
I find them aesthetically displeasing and almost never get annoyed by having to twiddle a comma here or there. If I were to stack rank things that hinder my efficiency, they'd be down towards the bottom.

I mean sure, if people spend most of their day just mindlessly copy pasting crap then perhaps I guess. But compared to the amount of time I find I spend thinking about the actual problem at hand, the single keystroke to edit a comma is a rounding error.
The other hazard trades can be dangerous starting out until you work safely even on automatic when sleepless and zoning out. Learning rough carpentry cost me a broken leg, which healed slowly in my 30s and much worse in your 50s.

Larry Haun iirc even broke some bones in his first few years. It's a young man's game, getting over that well enough and fast enough to return to work without going bankrupt.
Lots of people are refusing to buy Tesla's due to feeling alienated by Musk's political views and antics: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-07/tesla-sales-slump-off...

Like the article says, Many Tesla owners are also looking to offload or sell them to avoid any appearance of endorsing Musk or his views or being linked to them in any way.

Many awkward conversations are being had with Tesla owners around Musk and alot of them don't feel comfortable owning the cars anymore.

This BYD feature, while BYD is not a perfect company themselves, will cause further issues for Tesla.
What's the proposal here, just convince everyone to stop demanding more powerful hardware?
This is why the Northern European countries have a tradition of teaching Sloyd Woodworing in elementary schools:

https://rainfordrestorations.com/2013/06/04/traditional-sloy...

>Students may never pick up a tool again, but they will forever have the knowledge of how to make and evaluate things with your hand and your eye and appreciate the labor of others.
Just want to say the push back you're getting on this topic is one I've experienced everywhere - the actual work of the trades is basically treated as an unknowable black magic which only it's arcane practitioners can do.

Which I think is partly held up essentially by the "dodgy tradie" stories which are routinely passed around but get re-interpreted as "it's very easy to do <obvious stupid thing>" when the stupid thing is something like "don't do a wire run from 10 short pieces of wire you have lying around" or "PVC pipes need to be glued together to not leak".
The aril (the red flesh of the “berry” surrounding the seed) is tasty, and not toxic. But the leaves, stems, roots, and seeds are poisonous. Our elementary school has evergreen yew bushes growing around it and I taught my children not to eat the seeds. A fellow parent advised use not to eat them because other children might not be so careful.
Well not so much built different as "permanently damaged his senses"

Its semi-common in chemists. Unrelated note: concentrated formic acid does indeed kind of smell like an ant sting, and dear god does it hurt.
And without EV subsidies
Fast forward 11 years and the OPM Boyers mine office is still there and still processing paperwork just the same. It's stories like these that radicalize one toward the DOGE agenda.
I've done that, but there is still corruption, so there's obviously more to it.

This gets to the point that you are describing a hypothetical. If thing A were true, then this would be possible.

If we all had identical values, perfect information, and unlimited time to review it, then yes many things would be possible.

I don't think it is possible for the electorate to provide any more than the most superficial oversight and direction in the US Federal governmental system. It is far too big, and far too distant. And that's even if people agreed on what they wanted. 99% of people are ignorant of 99% of the activities of their elected representatives. My state has more than 5,000 bills proposed per year. Even the full time representatives don't read most of them.

You say it is as simple as voting for the corruption to stop, as if that is even possible. Collective action problems are hard, as information problems. You can't just hand wave them away.
Hardware failure. Desire for less power to extend battery life.
Bezos' net worth increased 100 Billion since Trump took office. I'm sure he sleeps fine.
> Why exactly have China been successful in reducing costs?

Reducing price != reducing cost