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Did they actually reverse-engineer it, or did they ask an LLM how it might work and then throw in a sales pitch? This is very surface level, especially considering how easy Electron apps are to tear down.

They are shuffling him off to be UN ambassador per recent reporting. Better late than never, I suppose.

ICE had a warrant. They were being courteous to the court by waiting until after the hearing instead of scooping the guy up on his way in.

And no, you don't have to help ICE, you just can't obstruct them. Sneaking a suspect out a back door while you stall the police is textbook, classic obstruction.

That is not what is alleged in the complaint: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wied.11...

The allegation is that the judge got upset that ICE was waiting outside the courtroom, sent the law enforcement officers to the chief judge's office, and then adjourned the hearing without notifying the prosecutor and snuck the man with a warrant out through a non-public door not normally used by defendants.

If those facts are accurate, it sure sounds like obstruction. Judges have to obey the law just like everyone else.

They did, read the complaint: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wied.11...

The judge got upset that they were waiting in the public hallway outside the courtroom.

This is an interesting emergent trend though because it's designed to evade automated content moderation. The whole point of "PDF file" is that it's perfectly innocuous without an understanding of the surrounding context. With real-time audio transcription increasingly common, even livestreamers have to do this to avoid getting hit with automated bans or deprioritization.

Yeah, from the screenshots on Twitter a lot of it looks like archives of publicly accessible Twitter and Telegram accounts, plus data from old breaches. That makes it seem pretty unlikely there will be anything new and valuable here.

That's hilarious, I just found the same archive and posted it as a top-level comment.

Archive, since the site appears to be down. It's AI-generated slop with basically no informational value though.

https://archive.ph/2C1WB

Why are you quoting AI slop from reddit? That's an incredibly vague summary of the article about the leaked data and provides no useful information.

My family used to do a very similar distance for summer road trips every year, and we always did it in a single day. Just pack the car the night before, leave early, and swap drivers every few hours when you stop for food or gas. The benefit is that it's way cheaper than five plane tickets or train tickets, and you have an entire car to fill up with stuff.

Like I said the train would probably work better for a solo traveller, but then why not fly? It's crazy to spend 28+ hours on a train when a plane ticket is around the same cost and 2 hours.

Except that NY to Miami route you cited takes 28 to 33 hours... You could do that trip in a single long day driving, plus save money if you're a group of 3+ people. And then you'd have a car at your destination, which is pretty mandatory in most parts of the US.

It might be decent for a solo traveler, but for the stereotypical family road trip to Florida, the car still wins out.

Yeah, specifying an automation rate of 93-97% to investors when it's "effectively 0%" per your own executives... That's pretty egregious.

I fully agree with that logic, and further think that the government should also not be subsidizing risky behavior through funding for STD treatment and prevention. People should get private insurance based on a lifestyle questionnaire to ensure that all costs are being appropriately allocated based on one's risk profile. If it turns out that it's significantly cheaper to be in a long-term monogamous relationship, well, then that's just the invisible hand of the market at work!

It's a pretty high bar, the tweet described in the article probably would not qualify.

Brandenburg v. Ohio and Hess v. Indiana are the key SCOTUS cases that established and clarified the imminent lawless action test. Generally it's pretty hard to demonstrate imminence when it's just someone ranting on the internet.

He should have just written #BLACKLIVESMATTER 100 times, because that's apparently all it takes to get into Stanford. Honestly though college essays are a bit of a joke, reviewing hundreds of them sounds like torture. The lack of rigor is probably the point though, since it gives the admissions process flexibility to ensure that legacy students get in and they meet their DEI targets.

Someone had a better suggestion in a comment chain above, which is that it's the responsibility of the dealer to request the rebate on behalf of the customer, and they apparently submit them in batches. So an even more plausible explanation is that it's a combination of people rushing to buy before the rebate expires, and the Tesla dealerships panicking to get all their paperwork for the last month or two submitted before the money ran out.

Either way it should be trivial for the government to verify this, and they should be doing regular audits anyways to make sure dealerships aren't scamming customers out of their rebates. Making a huge deal out of this now just seems like political grandstanding though, since there is no evidence of any wrongdoing.

Those numbers aren't implausible at all. It equates to about two months of sales during a normal period, and is easily explained by people who were planning to buy a Tesla in the next 3-6 months rushing to get their orders in. People are very motivated when there is a $5,000 discount on the line.

This just seems like sour grapes from traditional dealerships who subject their customers to multi-hour haggling sessions to close a sale. Is there any indication of malfeasance here other than Tesla selling a lot of cars?

> Arshad, from Rochdale in Greater Manchester, is said to have transferred sensitive data from a secure computer to his phone, which he had taken into a top secret area of GCHQ on 24 August 2022.

Based on the timeline, it sounds like they searched his residence looking for classified material and came across other illegal material during the search.

This story is hilarious. Yes, lots of people will want to buy Teslas when the government announces that the $5,000 subsidy is about to end. The other car manufacturers are just mad that they lost out due to their antiquated sales process. If they had direct purchase via online ordering, maybe they would have gotten a larger slice of that remaining subsidy money?

Language proficiency seems like a significant factor. India and Nigeria have the second and third largest number of English speakers by absolute population, I don't think it's a coincidence that both countries are also notorious for their scammers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English...

I'm sure the DoJ will love to hear how they came up with a "holistic" qualitative admissions process that just happens to discriminate based on race, just like they were doing prior to the Supreme Court's ruling.

This data should be available with a FOIA, or even better it should be proactively published by colleges online. It should not take hacking to bring this information to light.

The interesting question is, now that this information has been publicized, will the DoJ pursue a civil rights case for what appears to be a fairly blatant case of racial discrimination against white and Asian students?

> It was super interesting to see that they switched to using python there, because it's an odd choice from a redteam perspective.

Is it really that surprising? Using Python makes it easy to write their "business logic" and if they get caught, they just tweak the way they are obfuscating it. They aren't using any fancy exploits that they want to protect, this is the equivalent of a smash and grab robbery.

Asahi Lina is almost certainly marcan's vtuber persona. This has been discussed for quite a long time on HN, reddit, etc, especially after he started interacting with his own sockpuppet on GitHub.

Dug up my old comment on the issue here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36972907

> The project itself is popular, but HN allows people to talk about the fairly compelling circumstantial evidence that Asahi Lina is marcan's alter ego. Per previous discussion, they have /home/marcan and /home/lina on the same box [0], have the same hostname [1], and have similar accents and speaking patterns [2]. Marcan is free to do this, but it's completely bizarre behavior acted out in public which is now impacting the actual Asahi project. Doing v-tubing under a pseudonym is one thing, but maintaining a sockpuppet contributor on a major open source project and pretending to interact with it is a giant red flag.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35242010

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35238601

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35238601

You have been using HN for over 10 years but don't know about the flamewar filter? There is some magic comment to upvote ratio that bumps posts down once reached.

It references DEIA because some DEI programs did a sneaky rebranding effort, using disabled people as a political shield. Where in the EO does it reference eliminating services for disabled people?

Their argument is that using copyrighted data for training is transformative, and therefore a form of fair use. There are a number of ongoing lawsuits related to this issue, but so far the AI companies seem to be mostly winning. Eg. https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/openai-gets-partial...

Some artists also tried to sue Stable Diffusion in Andersen v. Stability AI, and so far it looks like it's not going anywhere.

In the long run I bet we will see licensing deals between the big AI players and the large copyright holders to throw a bit of money their way, in order to make it difficult for new entrants to get training data. Eg. Reddit locking down API access and selling their data to Google.

Lederer is the woman presented as an expert to criticize the practice...

> Jenny Lederer, a linguistics professor at San Francisco State University, argued that the Chatham House Rule has intrinsic flaws.

There are plenty of things you can say that are career limiting moves if attributed to an individual at a particular company. Eg. if an OpenAI employee says that ChatGPT is negatively impacting the education of children, it gets recorded, and then used in a hit piece against the company, that could go poorly. Or a Facebook employee speaking frankly about the negative impacts of social media, as another example.

With Chatham House Rules you don't have to worry about a gotcha quote getting pulled out of context or used as a statement against interest.