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ByteDance says it won’t sell TikTok business in US  | The Hill
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4623942-bytedance-says-it-wont-sell-tiktok-business-in-us/

ByteDance says it won’t sell TikTok business in US 
TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, said it will not sell the popular video sharing app to continue its business in the U.S., despite facing a potential ban under a law President Biden signed Wednesday.   The bill, included in a foreign aid package Biden signed, gives ByteDance up to a year to sell TikTok or…

SDFL judge orders Tesla to "file a Notice of Related Action by the close of business on May 13, 2024 identifying the four other related actions pending in the Southern District of Florida, along with a brief explanation why those claims and defendants were not included in the instant [#ScheduleA] case."

Loved our panel at #Voices2024 today, great discussion about the skills needed in an AI world: interrogating power dynamics. For example how "AI” will be used by corporations trying to wring more profits out of us, c.f. @…'s point on the real AI risk not being robots stealing your jobs, but your boss being suckered into firing you & replacing you with a bot that can't actually do your job.
Also included great actionable tips such as “support independent media" and "join a union" 😄💪🔥

@… The `ts=…` bit followed by a timestamp that is tacked on the curl request is to ensure I do not get a cached version. 😉
Also you can skip the `json_pp` bit on the end if you already have a tool to process the json output. That is included here mainly so you can see the type of information included.

All cars are privacy violations on wheels.
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-pri…

*Privacy Not Included: A Buyer’s Guide for Connected Products
All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed

@… If you're interested, I think I have the TCP/IP and SSH stack done enough for at least the beginnings of a source review.
This is the base stack so the BSP stuff for my current board (i.e. the FPGA accelerator integration and FPGA Ethernet-over-QSPI MAC are not included) but this is probably most of the attack surface.

staticnet/ssh at master · azonenberg/staticnet
C++ TCP/IP and SSH stack with bounded run time and no dynamic memory allocations - azonenberg/staticnet

Loved our panel at #Voices2024 today, great discussion about the skills needed in an AI world: interrogating power dynamics. For example how "AI” will be used by corporations trying to wring more profits out of us, c.f. @…'s point on the real AI risk not being robots stealing your jobs, but your boss being suckered into firing you & replacing you with a bot that can't actually do your job.
Also included great actionable tips such as “support independent media" and "join a union" 😄💪🔥

Wieder einmal ein #Cyber Upsi bei #Microsoft: Sicherheitsforscher von #SOCRadar fanden einen frei zugänglichen

Medical gaslighting: when conditions turn out not to be ‘all in the mind’
“Until a much greater part of society is included in that statistical reckoning, we can expect medical gaslighting to remain a part of our medical experiences. “
#MedicalMisogyny #misogyny

Medical gaslighting: when conditions turn out not to be ‘all in the mind’
More often than not, it is women who have been gaslighted by medical professionals.

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I was in a #Zen jukai ("taking the precepts") ceremony this morning. I found it nice. It included reciting...
The Ten Cardinal Precepts
1.   I resolve not to kill,
but to cherish all life.
2.   I resolve not to take what is not given,
but to respect the things of others.
3.   I resolve not to misuse sexuality,
but to be caring and responsible.

A minor whine about those posting images of computers for sale.
1. Make sure images are not blurred.
2. Image for all sides. Too many SFF or towers do NOT show the back where all the ports are.
3. State if machine boots or if it is for parts only.
4. Keep the area around the images free from clutter.
5. Let us know if the keyboard, mouse or monitor is included. (I assume no if not mentioned).

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01604 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Convergence Tests of Self-Interacting Dark Matter Simulations
Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) theory predicts that dark matter halos experience core-collapse, a process where the halo's inner region rapidly increases in density and decreases in size. The N-body simulations used to study this process can suffer from numerical errors when simulation parameters are selected incorrectly. Optimal choices for simulation parameters are well studied for cold dark matter (CDM), but are not deeply understood when self-interactions are included. In order to perf…

The Boy Scouts changing their name to be inclusive is not a reason to be upset at trans individuals.
Why the fuck does it matter to you what the organisation is called? Wouldn’t you rather want more people to be able to be included in the organisation?

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01604 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Convergence Tests of Self-Interacting Dark Matter Simulations
Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) theory predicts that dark matter halos experience core-collapse, a process where the halo's inner region rapidly increases in density and decreases in size. The N-body simulations used to study this process can suffer from numerical errors when simulation parameters are selected incorrectly. Optimal choices for simulation parameters are well studied for cold dark matter (CDM), but are not deeply understood when self-interactions are included. In order to perf…

I am not a fan of having everything I create on every platform which I don’t completely own being auto-opt-in for them to monetize my labor for LLM (fake-#AI) training.
https://front-end.social/@benschwarz/1

benschwarz (@benschwarz@front-end.social)
Attached: 1 image Huggingface "BigCode" AI project did a shitty thing where they indexed public code from GitHub, making it an OPT-OUT experience. You can see if your account is included and request removal (along with 1,800+ other disappointed souls) here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode/in-the-stack I had 81 repositories included, and while my more important work is private, I am still sending eye-daggers towards huggingface's general direction. You can do it too! Or just opt-out,…

Do not make me tap the sign: if your democratic process has _any_ hint of disenfranchising people who should be included, be it in process, inconvenience or structural dilution of their votes, you're not doing democracy, you're just doing sparkling electoralism.

basically he's concerned that the grandfather clauses included might not be grandfatherful enough

The bureaucrats Hybris unchained. There is a single EU law and 27 different implementations.
https://social.vivaldi.net/@jon/112050705334624472

When you see a browser request to update your customer data to the backend, and see in the update request data (not the response) that this is included....
I mean, at least it's hashed and just my own?
Let me do some more poking around....

A Measure for Transparent Comparison of Linguistic Diversity in Multilingual NLP Data Sets
Tanja Samardzic, Ximena Gutierrez, Christian Bentz, Steven Moran, Olga Pelloni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03909

A Measure for Transparent Comparison of Linguistic Diversity in Multilingual NLP Data Sets
Typologically diverse benchmarks are increasingly created to track the progress achieved in multilingual NLP. Linguistic diversity of these data sets is typically measured as the number of languages or language families included in the sample, but such measures do not consider structural properties of the included languages. In this paper, we propose assessing linguistic diversity of a data set against a reference language sample as a means of maximising linguistic diversity in the long run. We…

Just came up in my mind. Is there work being done on #mastodon by people at @… for posting with an included post. Like the retweet thing I guess? Not quite sure.

Pulsar Timing Noise from Brownian Motion of the Sun
Abraham Loeb (Harvard)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05410 https://arxiv.org/pdf/240…

Pulsar Timing Noise from Brownian Motion of the Sun
Recently, Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) reported a signal at nanohertz frequencies consistent with a stochastic gravitational wave background. Here, I show that the Brownian motion of the Sun as a result of its random gravitational interactions with the cluster of thousands of unmodeled Main-belt asteroids of radii <20km, not included in the Solar system ephemeris, introduces correlated timing noise for pulsars with the magnitude and frequencies of the reported signal.

“I’m Driving a Dump Truck Down the Sidewalk Blindfolded and That’s OK!”
From @…:
https://zeroes.ca/@broadwaybabyto/11234653938173342…

Broadwaybabyto (@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca)
Attached: 3 images “I’m Unvaccinated & that’s Ok!” Is this where we’re at? Children’s books espousing benefits of not being vaccinated? Indoctrinating children at a young age to accept the needlessly risky decisions their parents are making for them? The messaging is terribly damaging & reckless but there’s also a shocking amount of ableism on display in the illustrations. Text is small - I’ve included it in alt text where it’s easier to see. #Ableism #DisabilityRights #…

Plutonium not included
https://www.oreillyauto.com/flux-500.html

The judge in Trump's NY criminal trial ordered reporters on April 18 to not disclose jurors' job info and warned against sharing jurors' physical descriptions (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/nyregion/trump-trial-…

Judge in Trump Trial Asks Media Not to Report Some Juror Information
Some news reports have included details about jurors that had been aired in open court. One was excused after she developed concerns about being identified.

Regularized Principal Spline Functions to Mitigate Spatial Confounding
Carlo Zaccardi, Pasquale Valentini, Luigi Ippoliti, Alexandra M. Schmidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05373

Regularized Principal Spline Functions to Mitigate Spatial Confounding
This paper proposes a new approach to address the problem of unmeasured confounding in spatial designs. Spatial confounding occurs when some confounding variables are unobserved and not included in the model, leading to distorted inferential results about the effect of an exposure on an outcome. We show the relationship existing between the confounding bias of a non-spatial model and that of a semi-parametric model that includes a basis matrix to represent the unmeasured confounder conditional …

Single-Server Pliable Private Information Retrieval with Identifiable Side Information
Megha Rayer, Charul Rajput, B. Sundar Rajan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04820

Single-Server Pliable Private Information Retrieval with Identifiable Side Information
In Pliable Private Information Retrieval (PPIR) with a single server, messages are partitioned into $Γ$ non-overlapping classes \cite{ref5}. The user wants to retrieve a message from its desired class without revealing the identity of the desired class to the server. In \cite{ref6}, Obead et al. consider the problem of PPIR with Side Information (PPIR-SI), where the user now has side information. The user wants to retrieve any new message (not included in the side information) from its desired…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01705 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Beyond Behaviorist Representational Harms: A Plan for Measurement and Mitigation
Algorithmic harms are commonly categorized as either allocative or representational. This study specifically addresses the latter, focusing on an examination of current definitions of representational harms to discern what is included and what is not. This analysis motivates our expansion beyond behavioral definitions to encompass harms to cognitive and affective states. The paper outlines high-level requirements for measurement: identifying the necessary expertise to implement this approach an…

minor complaints about my razer headphones:
- if you plug the included USB dongle into a Windows computer, it immediately attempts to install razer software
- not even just software for the headphones, unrelated RGB software for Razer keyboards that I don't even own
- on Linux, the volume buttons don't change the system volume out of the box (I haven't yet investigated third party software to make it work)

"10000000mAh USB Portable Charger Solar Power Bank"
Sure buddy, a *10 million* mAh portable power bank with solar panel, in a package that is roughly the size of a phone in a rugged case. For $17.59. 🤦‍♂️
Maybe 10 million mAh over the life of the unit. 😉
https://www.ebay.com/itm/385399232918

2023 Super 10000000mAh USB Portable Charger Solar Power Bank For Cell Phone | eBay
Hot Sales ! Solar Panel: 1.2W. Stylish, portable ,user-friendly and durable for on the go use. 1 x Micro USB Cable. The iPhone Adapter and the A/C plug are not included with this device! Press once to open the SOS distress signal when the flashlight is turned on.

Took longer than I wanted and included a Best Buy run, but I am now running on the new HW and Holy Shit. Launched Firefox and started catching up and thought "hey what's the CPU load?" 0%. With 9 pinned tabs. So I loaded 20 more tabs (I keep a bunch of things in tabs I don't wanna bookmark lol) and checked again. 2-5% load. In the immortal words of Calculon: "I'm not familiar with the type of thing I'm seeing.." Time to check out a couple games.

Why does lobbyist Rasmussen write an article in Time that Yermak is the leader of Ukraine?: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/18/why-does-lobbyist.html

It's now 15 (!) hours since landing and 13 since the one and only IM post claiming data reception from #Odysseus - but we finally learn a few more details in the BBC interview https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0hdnh6s with the ground station in charge during touchdown: they received *something* throughout the night before the Moon set in Europe but whether useful data was included (or whether it is by now known why the signal is so weak) is not discussed.

I wish the editor who captioned this pair of photos a nice day. I wish to borrow some of your energy.
(Also bless for the editor who gave a serious alt texts not seen below)
#animals #isopods #wikipedia

"The group said it would not take part in a conference that also included women’s rights groups, the European Union and representatives of Afghan civil society."
The Taliban Refuses to Come the U.N. Conference on Afghanistan - The New York Times
https://www.

The Taliban Refuses to Come the U.N. Conference on Afghanistan
The group said it would not take part in a conference that also included women’s rights groups, the European Union and representatives of Afghan civil society.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14500 has been replaced.
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A Computational Model for Ion and Electron Energization during Macroscale Magnetic Reconnection
A set of equations are developed that extend the macroscale magnetic reconnection simulation model kglobal to include particle ions. The extension from earlier versions of kglobal, which included only particle electrons, requires the inclusion of the inertia of particle ions in the fluid momentum equation, which was not required in the electron-only model. The new equations will facilitate the exploration of the simultaneous non-thermal energization of ions and electrons during magnetic reconne…

Because there is nothing better than a black-and-white widescreen film, here’s a list of 278 (and counting) compiled by @… https://letterboxd.com/claxtondog/list

Black & White & Widescreen!!!
Because there is nothing better than a black-and-white widescreen film. The other widescreen B&W lists on here omitted Regalscope Westerns. Not this one, pal! Tohoscope, Regalscope, CinemaScope,  Warnerscope, TotalScope… all wide format b&w films included. A work in progress so feel free to add any missing films in comments although I'm more interested in pre-1970 and foreign language at the moment. But what to do about VistaVision? I’m as confused as you are.

“I’m Driving a Dump Truck Down the Sidewalk Blindfolded and That’s OK!”
From @…:
https://zeroes.ca/@broadwaybabyto/11234653938173342…

Broadwaybabyto (@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca)
Attached: 3 images “I’m Unvaccinated & that’s Ok!” Is this where we’re at? Children’s books espousing benefits of not being vaccinated? Indoctrinating children at a young age to accept the needlessly risky decisions their parents are making for them? The messaging is terribly damaging & reckless but there’s also a shocking amount of ableism on display in the illustrations. Text is small - I’ve included it in alt text where it’s easier to see. #Ableism #DisabilityRights #…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10854 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepp…

Global Fit of Electron and Neutrino Elastic Scattering Data to Determine the Strange Quark Contribution to the Vector and Axial Form Factors of the Nucleon
We present a global fit of neutral-current elastic (NCE) neutrino-scattering data and parity-violating electron-scattering (PVES) data with the goal of determining the strange quark contribution to the vector and axial form factors of the proton. Previous fits of this form included data from a variety of PVES experiments (PVA4, HAPPEx, G0, SAMPLE) and the NCE neutrino and anti-neutrino data from BNL E734. These fits did not constrain the strangeness contribution to the axial form factor $G_A^s(…

Emission-line galaxies at $z\sim1$ from near-IR HST Slitless Spectroscopy: metallicities, star formation rates and redshift confirmations from VLT/FORS2 spectroscopy
K. Boyett, A. J. Bunker, J Chevallard, A. J. Battisti, A. L. Henry, S. Wilkins, M. A. Malkan, J. Caruana, H. Atek, I. Baronchelli, J. Colbert, Jonathan. P. Gardner, M. Rafelski, C. Scarlata, H. I. Teplitz, X. Wang

Emission-line galaxies at $z\sim1$ from near-IR HST Slitless Spectroscopy: metallicities, star formation rates and redshift confirmations from VLT/FORS2 spectroscopy
We follow up emission line galaxies identified through the near-infrared slitless HST/WFC3 WISP survey with VLT/FORS2 optical spectroscopy. Over 4 WISP fields, we targetted 85 of 138 line emission objects at $0.4

'The Seattle Police Dept. (SPD) came to City Hall Tuesday to help Council Pres. Nelson shut up her political enemies, which included asylum-seekers & lefty allies. The groups attended the public comment period of the meeting to ask the City once again to fund housing for 100s of refugees who will face homelessness if they do not win more funding.'
Police Arrest Six of Sara Nelson’s Political Enemies After She Refuses to Hear Concerns of Asylum-Seekers - The Stranger
…

Police Arrest Six of Sara Nelson’s Political Enemies After She Refuses to Hear Concerns of Asylum-Seekers
It is becoming more and more clear everyday that Nelson and her cronies are opposed to hearing from the left, even through the so-called appropriate channels.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05154 has been replaced.
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The functional generalization of the Boltzmann-Vlasov equation and its Gauge-like symmetry
We argue that one can model deviations from the ensemble average in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics by promoting the Boltzmann equation to an equation in terms of {\em functionals} , representing possible candidates for phase space distributions inferred from a finite observed number of degrees of freedom. We find that, provided the collision term and the Vlasov drift term are both included, a gauge-like redundancy arises which does not go away even if the functional is narrow. We arg…

Building test batteries based on analysing random number generator tests within the framework of algorithmic information theory
Boris Ryabko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02708

Building test batteries based on analysing random number generator tests within the framework of algorithmic information theory
The problem of testing random number generators is considered and it is shown that an approach based on algorithmic information theory allows us to compare the power of different tests in some cases where the available methods of mathematical statistics do not distinguish between the tests. In particular, it is shown that tests based on data compression methods using dictionaries should be included in the test batteries.

I've put up a page about Weird Pride Day for schools. It's probably a bit late for this year - it's in two weeks' time - but I figured it was better to have something there than not!
Among other things, it's got a short list of books with #WeirdPride themes. It's actually something that comes up a lot in fiction, especially #kidlit, so there's a lot more we could have included, but we've got the Percy Jackson books from @…, A Kind of Spark by Elle McNicoll, Wild by Emily Hughes... I'm not super familiar with modern children's books - I'm not a parent, and I only teach older kids, so I'm relying heavily on other people's recommendations!
Any #Teachers, #writers or others have any thoughts about what we should and shouldn't be including here?
https://weirdpride.day/schools/

The grift comes home. What a surprise. 🙄
The text in the last excerpt here is just 😗.
https://us.cnn.com/2024/04/17/politics/trump-campaign-republicans-fundraising/index.html

okay, so the XZ backdoor.
none of the automated tools we're proposing to catch illegitimate artifacts would ever solve a malicious maintainer. how would you even "zero trust framework" that?
upstreams of upstreams of upstreams
even if you did unikernels and distroless or single binaries, like you're not going "I have to audit every package update ever made upstream of #chainguard" (because they certainly aren't code reviewing every patch with a team that size)
or every package included in a rust/cargo build.
or every patch to golang stdlib
how on earth would finding that kind of a "they became the maintainer and added the backdoor themselves" actually ever be feasible, as in not bankrupting you?
vs "we built it with stdlib only, and we monitor stdlib's patches, we have only one upstream" which feels like... no company ever
#xz #xzbackdoor #sbom #zerotrust

Many GOPers Are Quitting – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2024/02/19/many-gopers-are-quitting/

Many GOPers Are Quitting - Digby's Hullabaloo
Can you blame them? House Republicans were shocked by some of the recent high-profile retirements announced by their colleagues, which have included powerful committee chairs and rising stars inside the GOP. But given the miserable state of affairs inside the House right now, they also weren’t exactly surprised. “They’ve signed up to do serious things. And we’re not doing serious things,” said Rep. Ken

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.17692 has been replaced.
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Parallel flows as a key component to interpret Super-X divertor experiments
The Super-X Divertor (SXD) is an alternative divertor configuration leveraging total flux expansion at the Outer Strike Point (OSP). While the extended 2-Point Model (2PM) predicts facilitated detachment access and control in the SXD configuration, these attractive features are not always retrieved experimentally. These discrepancies are at least partially explained by the effect of parallel flows which, when self-consistently included in the 2PM, reveal the role of total flux expansion on the …

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Test-negative designs with various reasons for testing: statistical bias and solution
Test-negative designs are widely used for post-market evaluation of vaccine effectiveness, particularly in cases where randomization is not feasible. Differing from classical test-negative designs where only healthcare-seekers with symptoms are included, recent test-negative designs have involved individuals with various reasons for testing, especially in an outbreak setting. While including these data can increase sample size and hence improve precision, concerns have been raised about whether…

Causal and Stable Relativistic Hydrodynamic Fluctuations
Nicki Mullins, Mauricio Hippert, Jorge Noronha, Lorenzo Gavassino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13119

Causal and Stable Relativistic Hydrodynamic Fluctuations
When two nuclei collide close to the speed of light, a fluid state known as the quark-gluon plasma is formed. Attempts to understand the dynamics of this fluid have generated significant research into dissipative relativistic fluid dynamics. The fluctuation-dissipation theorem implies that any dissipative dynamical system will also experience thermal fluctuations; however, such fluctuations are not typically included in the modeling of the quark-gluon plasma. This work discusses a new method of…

Structural colors with embedded anti-counterfeit features fabricated by laser-based methods
Sascha Teutoburg-Weiss, Marcos Soldera, Felix Bouchard, Joshua Kre{\ss}, Yana Vaynzof, Andr\'es Fabi\'an Lasagni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11254

Structural colors with embedded anti-counterfeit features fabricated by laser-based methods
Structural colors can be induced on metals not only to fabricate logos or decorative motives but also to embed anti-counterfeit features for product protection. In this study, stainless steel (EN 1.4301) plates are colorized by growing a thin oxide layer using direct laser writing (DLW) and hidden anti-counterfeit measures are included on their surfaces by direct laser interference patterning (DLIP) processing. The periodic microstructures resulting from the DLIP treatment have a spatial period…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10375 has been replaced.
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Model Selection over Partially Ordered Sets
In problems such as variable selection and graph estimation, models are characterized by Boolean logical structure such as presence or absence of a variable or an edge. Consequently, false positive error or false negative error can be specified as the number of variables/edges that are incorrectly included or excluded in an estimated model. However, there are several other problems such as ranking, clustering, and causal inference in which the associated model classes do not admit transparent n…