skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Does the above mean that the powers can create deepfakes, but given certain conditions, they're not obligated to reveal their nature?"

There's a similar, obvious loophole, in the statement from the released EU doc:

"users of AI systems who use the same to generate or manipulate image, ..."

Basically limiting the regulatory concern to the 'use of AI' in the process.

So what if 'AI' is not used?

If you create 'fakes' manually - by some non-AI process, by dubbing over a voice - that's cool then?

Because if that statement were used in a legal context, then the notion of 'users of AI' seems fairly explicit.

I've been downvoted into oblivion for the the very clear observation: it's nary impossible to legislate using specific technologies, especially as they are ill-defined.

The issue here is not 'AI' - it's the 'misrepresentation' of individuals, and the legal precedent has nothing whatsoever to do with the means of reproduction.

If you 'fake' a representation of a celeb or public figure, and the EU wants to make that illegal for whatever reason, then that's fine, but it has nothing to do with AI.

The legislators are misinterpreting the nature of this new branch of computing.
What do you like about FastAPI and Pydantic?
And yet you literally can't run your own mail server in most situations. ISPs will block you.

What's the solution?
I guess to be more precise, it was Asimov’s favorite story among those that he had written.

https://www.openculture.com/2015/06/isaac-asimovs-favorite-s...
This is 100% your problem. If I worked someplace for two months I wouldn't even put it on my resume. On the flip side of that if I got a resume with only a bunch of 2 month jobs on it I wouldn't likely interview you.

As other comments have mentioned you have to stick to something for a while. You didn't even finish school so you cant even say "At least I stuck with my degree". The way you read to me is that you will jump ship the moment you aren't liking something.

> I contribute a lot and then quit after I feel like I'm not getting appropriate compensation

Two things about this:

If you don't feel the compensation is appropriate you shouldn't take the job in the first place. If you've been somewhere for a while and been a high contributor then ask for a raise. Two months isn't nearly long enough to make that assessment.

Also you say you contribute "a lot" but I'm betting that it's not as much as you think. It probably only feels like a lot because you haven't ever stuck around anywhere long enough to see what "a lot" looks like. Hint: It's a marathon, not a sprint.
> It says absolutely nothing good about Amazon that the workers voted against unionization. You certainly can’t conclude the workers didn’t want to be unionised.

Astounding.
Twice two makes four.
You don't need to "register" a Bitcoin wallet anywhere.

If you download the desktop client, you have a wallet, and you don't need to log in or register anywhere. You can then create a Bitcoin address and have Bitcoin sent to it.
The big benefit of type hints things like Pydantic (and some things I've written myself) is that it can provide useful runtime information. If you know that property `obj.foo` is hinted with `List[Foo]`, then that allows you to do something expecting to have a list of `Foo` objects. This is really extraordinary for deserializing untyped data (like a json blob) into appropriate objects at runtime. You can take something like `{"foo": [...]}` and attempt to deserialize each element of the `foo` list into `Foo` objects, rather than just guessing at what the list contains. If you stop being able to understand type hints at runtime, then the only thing they're good for is documentation and static analysis.
Thanks for highlighting the protests-it’s getting really bad over there. My dad is a farmer from Punjab originally and while he’s in America now and doesn’t farm he has a slightly different perspective. He tends to be far more concerned about todays farmers using harmful pesticides and overworking the land than GMOs. Maybe Punjabis on HN can shed more light, but at least from what I’ve heard GMOs are not the big issue in contemporary Punjabi farming
The parent wrote "there is no reason to be going into wilderness in 2020 (or 2021)." The implication was that it was irresponsible to do otherwise.

I agree with your comment generally though. If you are experienced enough to make choices you can do so. Including doing solo activities. (Though I might draw the line at things like not taking water which are bad practices in many circumstances.)
India is a terrible place to run a business, Apple's taking the right approach.
Hah, the brown-paper-wrapped bottle in the intro might have been a clue! Great show.
Their formula was being wealthy enough to float above war, upheaval, regime change and so on. If they were wealthy enough, they probably triggered some of that and capitalized on war profiteering.
"There's an obvious solution to the plastic problem...recycle more plastic."

No. The obvious solution is to use less plastic. There is low hanging fruit such as single-use items that can be made from other materials. Most plastics aren't recyclable.
Very interesting. Checking my understanding: In 2012 there was no reputable middleman you could buy or sell Bitcoin to at the current market price, so you had to hunt down a counterparty each time. Coinbase stepped in as a middleman who would always trade with you in either direction at a fair price. Does this sound right?
He was part of the original Xbox homebrew scene.
Because it tries to make people work in a way they don’t want to work. People want to organize their files in folders. They don’t want to tag them all with labels or tags and they don’t want to input all that metadata.

Perhaps they want to tag a few, and it’s useful to have some autodetected metadata but they don’t want to tag them all and they don’t want a gigantic ‘Untagged files’ list. They want folders and they want more than a flat folder list, they want nested folders.

You can implement it, it’s not hard and most modern file systems have all the features you need. But users will hate it and won’t use it the way you want.
This subreddit is gold. Thanks for sharing.
Do you have any evidence at all for the economy being driven by cantillon effects? That is pretty much fringe economic voodoo.
> Having said that Apple isn't really big on cross-platform features either.

While I generally agree with you, Apple is putting apple tv+ on roku - it's not a stretch to suggest they would use a similar strategy for fitness+:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/13/22381067/apple-tv-plus-ro...
> My friends that are now MDs told me that year was the worst experience of their lives.

This is just incredibly telling how shielded these people are.
B2C random internet user here, it's more complex than that for me and not always about price. I'd say the thoughts go something like this:

- is this a product that involves a lot of personal time to get started with and migrate away from? (example: cloud hosting for files and photos)? With this type of product, I'm going to spend more time on the initial 30 day evaluation, and if it suits my needs then I go right for the (multi)year contract. The personal investment is large (get all those photos uploaded, e.g.) so my chances of leaving after a few months are statistically unlikely.

- is this a product that I can walk away from with no real loss? (music streaming service) well this a service which quality can vary month over month, I'm more likely to use monthly pricing just so I can cancel at any time if I don't like it. I have no real investment to your brand, yeah it's nice but there's 100 others out there I can move too easily.

Usually with a multi-year discount, I'll buy the first year just to be sure and if I still like it after the first year, I'll buy multiple years. Just so I never have to worry about randomly missing a payment or somehow "losing" it (my login, my access, my files, etc.) but balance that against "how long will this company be around, really?" - it's a sense of security over time because I've invested a lot of personal time into the product. Walking away is not in my plans at the time.

Third reason that doesn't fit for you but is also a thought: is this a donation to (open source project)? Will I give them more money - less recurring middle-man processing fees - by paying one lump yearly sum instead of donating monthly? I use Liberapay for some FOSS donations and they tell you to do this straightaway, one lump sum is better for the receiver than monthlies.
I have a similar issue where very occasionally the debugger tab will just be empty, just absolutely no files in there at all. The fix is simple enough - just open the site in a new tab, although it's a little annoying.

I still do all my development in Firefox regardless, I'm sure if I switched to Chrome I'd quickly discover a set of equally annoying bugs and quirks there too. Better the devil you know.
To me the benefit of a project like this is that people realize that recycling doesn’t stop when they throw something in a blue bin. Hopefully people see just how impractical plastic recycling is and it motivates voters and policy makers to stop accepting recycling efforts as an acceptable remedy to environmental problems
It may seem like a minor detail but there's a very substantial functional difference between "rifles" and "assault rifles": assault rifles can fire as fully-automatic "machine guns".

There is no such thing as "recreational assault rifle ownership". I posted in detail about this in another comment [1], but "assault rifles" are machine guns and are highly regulated in the United States. You can't buy or own one without a special federal permit from the ATF which has a high bar to get. You also can't buy any gun under normal circumstances without an FBI background check.

What everybody is talking about when they say "assault rifle" are actually just "rifles", which function the same way as other hunting rifles and handguns, merely having a different form-factor. AR-15s (ArmaLite Rifles) for example are just normal rifles, not assault rifles. There are many variants, but plenty of AR-15s will fire the same 9mm ammunition that handguns fire. (Caliber has nothing to do with the classification; that's just an example.)

I'm not even sure that individual people can legally possess machine guns in the US. From what I recall you essentially need to form a corporation and apply for it to become a firearms dealer, and get approved; and then the corporation may buy and possess them. The ATF probably tracks every legally sold and owned machine gun in the US. There is very limited "recreational" use of machine guns: you can go to Las Vegas and pay to fire a machine gun that's mounted to the ground, and whose firing angle is limited. That's about the extent to which any normal person (civilian) will ever legally interact with a machine gun or assault rifle in the USA.

For those who want to use informed language to have a precise discussion, please use the term "rifle" if that's what you mean, and avoid using the FUD term "assault rifle" (unless that's what you mean), usage of which has been polluted by poor journalists and opinion-providers that use sloppy language (and an expired law that
skissane points out below).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26826847
Exceptions are terrible for correctness. They introduce hidden control flow paths that developers forget about and fail to handle correctly. (Also they break the "pay for what you use" principle, so C++ is split into two ecosystems, one which uses exceptions and one which doesn't.)

Exceptions are better than magical return values to indicate errors, that's true, but Rust Results achieve the same thing without the downsides of exceptions.

> That's because Java doesn't attempt to solve difficult problems.

Java isn't my favourite language, but that's just silly. GraalVM will do as a counterexample.
why they have to make it political.
why not just show information without spinning it.
Also, you'd better believe that a tsunami of smart, motivated young people are coming through the education pipeline to pump up the labor supply for the IT/dev sector.

Maybe the demand will increase fast enough to keep salaries from dropping in real terms.
In my very naive opinion; borrowing the open-source (or at least source available) models from software would benefit nearly every industry.
Its more a mix of ide and cloud provider.

The goal is to provide a much simpler experience compared to today's cloud providers and kubernetes, while giving the opportunity to ad-hoc code directly in the browser.
I find it a good thing to name it after someone who discovered something or pioneered branch in the field. Sometimes it makes it confusing but most of the time the name reference makes it very easy to remember as well
The Gray-Green Urban Divide: How Wealth and Poverty Are Visible from Space(2016)
Ralph, spokes-bunny of the global campaign to ban animal testing for cosmetics
Open Maps, long click your location to drop a marker. The “marked location” panel shows your coordinates. Drag it towards the top of the screen to see it
Still no way to test action locally.

This is especially troublesome considering that some actions only take effect once you have merged them into master.

So in order to develop an action that is using the on "delete" hook you need to disable CI on master, push your workflow to master, renable CI on master, switch to your dev branch and push a bunch of commits while iterating on your workflow.

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/events-that-tri...

Github what the fuck.

Don't even get me started on the "master" -> "default" name change... "master" in the git context isn't even being used in the "master / slave" sense.

Spend less time virtue signaling and improve your horrible CI and maybe I will consider bringing my projects back.

For those of you who are going to recommend I try the "act" library, I have, and after hours of debugging esoteric errors I just gave up.
Crypto basically changed tracks in the last few years.

Initially it was supposed to be money, and so there was a lot of effort to drive adoption. You could buy games on Steam for BTC.

But then a thing happened: the value exploded, and new people started hearing about this amazing new asset growing in value. Crypto became not a coin, but a thing to hoard and sit on, waiting for the price to get higher still.

In this situation, using it as a money is stupid. That pizza somebody bought for 10000 BTC was a terrible loss to the buyer -- they could sell the 100BTC for $634 million today. They shouldn't have bought a pizza, they should have just kept their money in a wallet and done nothing at all with it for a decade.

Given that usage pattern, ability to process transactions doesn't matter. The ideal is one buy at the bottom, and one sell at the peak, possibly years apart. Fees don't really matter, because the transaction is enormous. Paying $5 to move $10 is ridiculous. Paying $5 to move $634 million is a rounding error.

And since Bitcoin was made to be deflationary this pattern of usage is more or less guaranteed. Using it as money is always silly because any newcomers to BTC increase demand and therefore the competition for the supply. And over time, some BTC gets lost, which adds to that as well.
What is VAR? I thought it’d be some coding challenge about car, let, const

It looks like it could mean Visual Automated Referee. Or Video Assisted Referee
I've often thought about giving a one month option and a three month option (quarterly) and yet I haven't really seen this in SaaS... do you think there might be some people who would prefer to only worry about it once every three months?
Haha, if you can call implanting a microchip a "project." Thanks, though :)
> I felt like that I should've got promoted after reporting those issues, especially since I found them within my frist two weeks

You won't ever get a promotion within two weeks, especially not over a single instance of good work. Do it a hundred more times, then think about a promotion.

I think you seriously need to re-evaluate your expectations about this stuff.
It'd be interesting to see how one's decisions compare to other people's decisions or other similar opportunities to yell at someone or something that the decision was wrong and everyone involved in making it was blind, in the pay of bettings sites, maliciously biased, etc.
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You seem to think that GMOs mean scientists are injecting mutant genes into corn and wheat in order to increase yield. This is wrong.

GMO means the crop itself has been selectively bred over time to increase desirable qualities, yield being one of them. Taste, perhaps another.

Are you afraid of GMO foods? Perhaps you should avoid orange carrots, and sweet corn, then.
We ave a vim emulator but neovim sounds great :)
Interchange fees are a small fraction of credit card costs to merchants. The EU only capped interchange fees.
Thats awesome. They seem to be doing a great job of building out a business on top of an open protocol. Slowly but surely their apps are also getting better.
The current trend is record breaking wealth inequality. We already have rampant inflation in the form of housing, education and health care costs. It's an unsustainable situation near its breaking point.
What 3 words is also well known and used by emergency services in the UK for example.
Why rental cars are suddenly so hard to find
But we're moving towards sustainability. Whether it's fast enough is up to interpretation but the push for green tech, sustainable farming etc etc it's not like this is an unknown, it's just always been the case that it must be sufficiently cheap and easy for the average person to latch onto it. Unfortunately in a lot of areas we're getting there but not there yet.
Use the built-in Compass app.
Spanish-language TV giants team up to take on Netflix
Running your own mail server, having problems due to shared IP is only one of the problems. Some more:

Spam filtering for one. Uptime and updating without downtime. You would absolutely need redundancy (complexity of the solution required starts building up quickly). Keeping tabs on mail server security and the vulnerabilities discovered in your particular software stack. A 15 second down time means an important mail might not reach you. If your mail server crashes due to unknown reason at 4 am, do you really want it to be your problem to fix? And it will of course happen when it least fits your schedule for the day. On most days I could live with my website being offline for a few hours because I've screwed up, but with E-Mail?

The solution?

The more you think it through, own the domain, yes, but use a mature and reliable (and paid for) provider you trust to do the hosting for you. For someone technical enough to securely own a domain and not let it expire that seems like the best solution really, unless maybe you own your own hosting service? :P (but then, technically, I guess it's not your own private mail server either)
The compass app has your coordinates. You can also share your current location with other iMessage users (maybe SMS users, not sure) if you have location sharing enabled, it can be enabled to send your coordinates to other people (I think the options are permanent, 24 hours, and 1 hour).
true but not quite. They strip it. Store the original and the meta data in their own database (because data on people is what gives them value) then they serve the stripped down quality one.
it's a wonderful feel-good movie (i loved it), but i'm not sure whether this is actually a sustainable farming solution. afaik they make the farm profitable tourism, i.e. the guided tours, which wouldn't scale.
Owning a domain with a registrar like Hover (or if only for email, through your mail provider) is really not that complicated or difficult. You get an email once a year that it will be renewed, they charge your card, and it’s done.

And 2FA? Yeah, if you’re not already doing that for PayPal, Venmo, eBay, and others, you’re not gonna add it for your domain. If you are already doing that, it’s no extra burden.
1) You mentioned "ageism" so I assumed you were toward the older end of the typical range, but then you said you're in your early 20s? Yeah, no offense but you're basically a kid with no portfolio and no proven job history who dropped out of college, so you're probably not going to find a job that offers health/dental. And that's not "ageism" -- lots of the places you mentioned hire people in their late teens or early 20s -- that's just your inexperience.

2) Don't talk about how you spotted some system deficiency three levels above you and reported it. That's just going to creep people out. And that is NOT the sort of thing that makes a manager think you're Good Will Hunting and say "What's that genius doing in the call center cubicles? Get him an office and insurance right away!" Instead they are 100x more likely to say "Yes, drone, we're all well aware of that issue, get back on the phones."

3) You're cold-contacting SVPs at Dell? Spoofing contact whitelists to get through their phone systems? Yeah, this isn't "War Games," so you're about 1000x more likely to anger somebody than you are to impress them with your skillz. There are the "normal" channels of getting a job (the HR application route) and the "usual" channels (having a friend at the company get you hired)... but anything else (walking into an SVP's suite) is really, really unlikely to help.

I mean this well -- twenty years ago, I was a college freshman dropout with no portfolio, no connections, and a rural drawl -- so you CAN succeed. But I had some rough years and I had to put in my dues as an entry-level help desk grunt before rising up as a sysadmin.

* Get some sort of stable job and don't quit it until a year has gone by AND you have a signed offer letter in hand for a provably better job.

* Don't give up on Medicaid! In most states and most scenarios, you're MUCH more likely to get decent subsidized ACA healthcare than you are to find a job that gives you insurance within 90 days, let alone 30 days. But you gotta do the research and the legwork.
It's a "parasite" that pays over $50 Billion a year to people who build around their products.
What if Columbus were a PM? He wouldn't have made it
Algebraic errors are impossible with types and happen all the time in dynamic languages.
Fastmail was temporarily (see below!) called "Operamail" until they bought themselves out from Opera in 2013.
Have you tried talking with a recruiting agency? I notice you've mostly applied at household-name companies, many of which are very competitive. The majority of the tech jobs out there are not at companies you've ever heard of. Recruiters (third-party, not in-house) are motivated to find you something that's a good fit because they get commission (from the company) based on you getting hired. They'll coach you, help you with your resume, draw from a huge pool of companies to find something that's just the right fit. Their job is solving this exact problem.
I like, how every one is different.

- Maxintosh II (and LC) sounds like train departure announcement
- Quadra AV sounds like beginning of some 90s jugnle track
- car crash sounds like a car crash in DOS game
- "Some Random Performas" is bad guy coming to the scene in B-movie - this is my favourite
- PCI based macs is plain boring sound
Your analysis above is remarkably detailed, but it misses the point. When I used the term "sustainable" I was speaking of resource usage and environmental impact, not whether the practice was affordable.
Beijing Is Out to Convince the World That Taiwan Is Not Worth Dying For
On iOS, you can scroll up on your photo when looking at it in Photos, and it should show you a location if it's available.
IBM names managed services spin-off Kyndryl
It's far easier to die alone and probably injured and never be found in the wilderness than people think, especially in mountainous desert terrain.