skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not going to happen with Contacts and Camera, but why wouldn't it happen with Adobe Reader, MS Office, Avast antivirus, etc?

And yes, the Samsung apps are miles ahead. Fast, no ads, low resource consumption, small sizes, great UX and nice UI design. Nothing in Play store comes even close, and I tried practically everything. Play store is a catastrophe in terms of app quality, you can't find even a decent calculator there.
In order to estimate how close a country is to a civil war, the people they should poll is those involved in the military. An attempt to take power through violence without military backing will look something like the 6 January 2021, which is to say a bunch of crazy people dressed up as Indians and cowboys who thought that storming a building means controlling a country.
I love these quotes. The last two go a bit against each other. In truth, I do not think silence is highly valued unless you already command the respect of everyone in the room. If you are a nobody it seems better to follow the last quote and have the courage to say something, even if it may turn out to be stupid.
> prevent you from having any ability to even change the system

But the best solution to that is to just invert the system so that the federal government has the least impact, the states the second least, and the local municipalities the most. Which was what the last civil war was fought over.
I think we have very different definitions of trivial
This is awful.
I've canceled subscriptions so many times only to get billed again, and again, blabla "it's a bug in the billing system" run around.

So now vendors can keep auto billing with dark patterns such as unnavigable automated phone lines, and visa is going to take their side? (because the merchant will have proof of billing history?)

I hope Amex doesn't adopt these rules. I am going to think strongly about canceling my visa cards as a response.

Bitrix24 a SaaS crm/VoIP service was the worst abuser I can recall (kept randomly reappearing a $10.00 months after id asked visa to block them). Free Trial My ass.
You train it on last year's media, on articles and news where the actual situation is now clearer.
Depends on how you're representing yourself to your "customer".

BTW - you're not expecting your "customer" to provide you with health insurance, a pension, paid time off, or any other benefits that only go to real employees, are you?
Not only that but there seems to be a MUCH worse signal-to-noise ratio in every discord I've ever seen (when compared to forums), due to the more chat-like nature of the platform.
It DOES have types, doesn't have type declarations, though.
That's not what I'm talking about though. Forum bans and subreddit bans are small change. What really makes people move platforms is when the Reddit admins nuke entire subreddits for dubious reasons, including breaking poorly defined rules. And admins deleting posts that follow the rules of their subreddit and completely banning accounts for various reasons.
Any plans to add support for the new async and zero copy APIs?
Because you're paying me for my skills and expertise, not for where I live.
The military is the only 'trustworthy' institution in that list, and only to a very limited extent.

We can trust it to not carry out a coup, to not get involved in domestic affairs, and to not play geopolitics without consulting with the DOS first, but that's about the extent that trust goes to.

For the others, you seem to be confusing 'ignorance of' or 'sentiment for' with 'trust'.
Apply for a lump sum payment to leave or retire from farming
They don't need to: Guess where all the cities' food comes from.
>That being said I also find it infuriating when I click a thumbnail in a forum post and get asked to authenticate. Because the image is already visible it's nothing more than a grab for additional user signups.

This is where I smash ctrl-alt-i and go get what I wanted their modals be damned!
They can do that. But people who live 15 minutes from downtown also want to have less density where they live --- most homeowners would! --- and that is a problem.
Probably not. You need someone actually vetting dependencies, developing setup / onboarding scripts that install actual, approved, verified-working dependencies. OS packages are held, frozen at a specific version. Third-party installs are the same. You don't upgrade random stuff.

Obviously this is a lot less "agile" than most of us are used to.
"Both sidesism" is just as much of a problem, if not moreso.

And sensation seeking is more of a problem.
Take it a step further: Can you be arrested for having porn that would be illegal in your country if it was real, but instead it's a thousand generated images/videos? How blurred will those lines get?
Good that in the EU we live under rules that are judged on the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law.
Again, I don't believe they are capable from a business/product perspective of luring customers into their stores. And if they try to force customers, they will have to deal with both angry users and regulators.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32172314

This whole scenario assumes that AdTech has unlimited power, that Apple has none, and that the courts are blind to their malfeasance.

Finally, Adobe isn't even an ad company. They literally sell software!
Why the fuck would a plumber be a baker.
No, it's not "clever." It's ridiculously uninformed. Tugboats are far less efficient than the ship running under its own power to start with. Add to that you now have a fleet of tugboats and their associated crews (robotic tugboats are nice in concept; not so great as a reality in 2022) sitting idle/travelling to meet a ship/recharging/etc. And more vehicles that require ongoing maintenance whether or not they're in use.

A clever idea would be supported by data that shows how it can be effective. This is just an off the cuff suggestion by someone who's thought about the problem for 30 seconds.
The GDPR outcome was largely good though. I can download my data from way more websites than I could before
Content farms using AI to assist with content generation has been common for at least a couple of years now.

The real article title is "The Great Fiction of AI: The strange world of high-speed semi-automated genre fiction", which is a far better description of the actual topic.
The media decline started over a decade ago with the transition from the physical publications to online.

Was the transition to online the root of the problem, or was the root of the problem that drops in readership and revenue of physical publications that led to decisions to focus in online content?

Or to put it a different way, would media be in better shape now if they had stuck to physical publications? Or would they have just died off and been replaced with online publications?
I notice a lot of forums are being bought up by companies who then convert the forum to their own forum software/platform so they can serve ads and sell products to the "captive audience". For example, VerticalScope[0] who use nice euphemistic PR language like "enabling the world to share expertise and discover knowledge on subjects they love", which actually means "we buy thriving forums so we can sell advertising on them". According to their own site, they have 1200+ forums. Pretty disappointing, but the commercialization and monetary exploitation of the internet knows no bounds.

I love the testimonials on one page[1] where they market to businesses: "By utilizing the VerticalScope network of sites, we are able to engage with enthusiasts and position our business as a contributor in order to better understand our customers, improve products and service, and build brand awareness."

One thing I'm really curious is how much the payout is for forum admins who sell their community to businesses like this. I'm basically not really willing to participate in forums anymore because this (or a domain squat) appears to be the ultimate destination of the overwhelming majority of them. Well, that and their likelihood of becoming an avenue for adware/malware distribution since they get hacked constantly. :P

Oh, it turns out VerticalScope isn't immune to the "getting hacked" issue, either, as some 45 million accounts were compromised a while back[2]. Now a whole different type of business can "engage with enthusiasts", it seems.

On the upside, it appears their UI has improved greatly since they first started buying up forums. Initially the usability was pretty poor IMO, but now is fairly acceptable.

[0] https://www.verticalscope.com/

[1] https://www.suzuki-forums.com/business/

[2] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/11/2nd-breach-at-verticalsc...
I have heard this before, but I have several reasons to think it is not going to be a problem above what already happens:

1. AI lets you generate an enormous number of lies, but what is really dangerous is one well-placed lie within a trusted stream of many truths. CNN will retain a power to mislead far in excess of Twitter bots.

2. Democracy averages over everyone's confusion, which means lies are only dangerous when large numbers of people believe them at the same time. Hordes of bots generating spurious lies won't move a democracy in any specific direction, but again, mass media will retain its power to mislead everyone at once in the same, effectual, direction.

3. People have never respected the veracity of random tweets. In the same way that trust in mainstream media outlets is reaching record lows due to their consistently biased reporting (they might not all have the same bias, but I can't think of any I'd consider free of bias), everyone will learn to adjust their incredulity to match the true quality of random tweets.

4. Companies like Twitter and Google are known to be shaping their results and algorithms according to their own "political views" (broadly construed) so at worst this would represent a partial shift of power from the old masters to new masters quite like them (social media companies). In many ways trimming the front page to reflect editorial opinion is echoed in the way Twitter trims its feeds to reflect their own editorial opinions.

All taken together, it seems like the media is afraid that equally large companies with similar business models (content, attention, advertising) might end up eclipsing them. The same old model where the TV station is afraid to upset its advertisers, thereby giving a voice to business interests, is well-recorded in the recent history of YouTube. Not so much will change, although seeing it in its old and newer forms might shed light on how it works.
It's not exactly clear from the article who is "offended".
Image memes.

I left proggit as soon as I discovered Hacker News because on proggit the people just can't accept that somebody somewhere might be motivated to program, at least partially, by the money. I went through a phase where Leon Trotsky was my hero but I still think of the people at proggit as "communists".
Yep, I have it disabled. My main music apps are “Picky” and Bandcamp, and it works pretty well.

When they do start autoplaying in the car (Picky does it), it’s at least whatever I album I was last playing on the app.
Even this image is just an illusion of a perfect photo, which is a blur for most part, see the face of duck. I had access since past 4 5 days and it fails badly whenever I tried to create any unusual scene.

For the first few days when it was announced I use to look deep even in real photos in search of generative artifacts. They are not so difficult to spot now, most of the times anyway.
It’s so dirty what Microsoft is doing here. They ripped the tech out of developers hands just to sell us drips of it. Drips that are not enough to build a product for more than a few people. They require to check on the use before launching etc.
I truly hate this company, their shitty operating system and their monopoly business game.
Everything they buy turns to shit. And don’t tell me about VSCode. It’s just a trap to fool developers.
An observant person knows that in any corporations there are things that are not to be written or implied, some are implied are others are written.

"We should enter soon into the home appliance market" can mean "We have already privately discuss that we need to enter the IT equipment at home so we can gather home consumer habits at home not observable through purchase, credit card data and internet tracking".

It requires a very detailed investigation of written documents, chats, management actions, private accounts, cross checks and all to really understand what such documents mean.
Shared genetic architecture between Alzheimer’s disease and GI tract disorders
Insured price is based on the structure, not the land. If your house burns down, that's the part they need to spend money replacing. Valuing a structure's replacement cost is (fairly) straightforward based on materials, current labor costs, etc.
You don’t need to build a product in order to user test. You can take an existing product, watch a totally new user use it for the first time, and learn a huge amount.

I suggest doing this for a type of software that you know really well, as you’ll be more surprised by your own assumptions.
Full title:

"A large-scale genome-wide cross-trait analysis reveals shared genetic architecture between Alzheimer’s disease and gastrointestinal tract disorders"
I don't 100% agree with this, because even when you're doing containers and just dumping your log output to stdout, you still might be shipping that to a log aggregation system that will work a lot better with structured logging. So you might want to output JSON or some other structured format, and you might want your logger to support tagging, markers, stuff like that.

Even then, of course, this kind of logging should be able to be done in far fewer lines than most Java logging frameworks.
It's actually a new feature being tested right now

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/6208479917079-...
This is perhaps the most impressive "AI" demo I've seen, and that's saying a lot. Interesting to read about the Moscow-based "Samsung AI Center" that seems to be producing this work: https://research.samsung.com/aicenter_moscow.
Insult a synonym for verbal attack
Well, it did happen once already.
> Except the South, presumably Texas sympathizers, are way over represented in the military. The next largest region of over-representation are your flyover states, which political lean red.

That's not true. The overrepresented regions are basically the South and the West. The Midwest “flyover states” and Northeast are the most underrepresented areas.

And while the South is overrepresented, (Also, military recruitment isn't necessarily politically representative of the states it is drawn from; sure, the Deep South is overrepresented, but that's also a big part of the reason the Blacks are super-overrepresented in the military (making up nearly triple the share of the military as of the country at large.) And Southern Blacks politically don't look the same as “the South” more broadly.
Would you apply that argument to other property besides land/houses?

For instance suppose when Grandpa was a young man in 1950 he bought a used 1940 Martin D-45 guitar for a little under $400. That's equivalent to around $4800 in today's money.

He's still got that guitar and has kept it in good shape. Vintage D-45s from 1942 and earlier go for insane amounts on the collector market, and he could sell that for over $100k, probably over $150k.

Why should Grandpa have the privilege of owning a vintage 1940 Martin D-45 as long as he wants when so many other people who would like to play a vintage D-45 cannot afford too despite being working musicians?

Should we therefore have a periodic instrument value tax on musical instruments to keep people from keeping their instruments too long? Grandpa can sell the vintage D-45 and use a fraction of the proceeds to buy a new acoustic guitar or even hire a luthier to build him a custom guitar so its not like having to give up his 1940 D-45 would keep him from having a guitar.
I went from having ZERO interest in classic Polish film to having some interest.

So mission accomplished, Polish Film Institute.
> This isn't really a problem with reddit.

YES it is. Reddit empowers fascist types to run their fiefdoms, UNTIL the liliputian leaders start running *too many* users away.

It's all about users per day engagement. If you harm that, the reddit admins show up and clean house. But in the interim, they'll let you think you own that subreddit.
You can actually buy a device from an official reseller with same day shipping depending on your location: https://lab401.com/products/flipper-zero
I think there should be! And I welcome any technology enabling it!
> There's no algorithm you can use to get steady growth from a fair coinflip. Math 101

THE WIN ON A SINGLE FLIP IS BIGGER THAN THE LOSS

The coin flip is a completely fair 50:50, but you're not playing double or nothing. You're playing "gain 50% or lose 33%".
"teen in hooded sweatshirt wearing sunglasses and gloves typing on a laptop in a dark room"
>I'm personally sick of making logins to things and the hurdles you have to go through to join some Forums. Verify this, verify that, read a rules post, yadda yadda, can't share images because your friend needs an account too.

That's how I feel about discord
> sitting around thinking, "oh man, too many people in the world aren't busy... let's create some more useless jobs"

This is exactly what the Federal Reserve does with its mandate for "full employment". When there aren't "enough" jobs, it loans out of a bunch of new money at low interest rates, for bankers to spend on outlandish bets - like say polluting the environment with electric scooters and hoping they'll turn into a recurring revenue stream.

"Full time employment" in 1950 was 40 hours per household. The definition was never adjusted when women entered the workforce en masse, so it's now 80+. With technological advancement, "full time work" should mean an individual works around 15 hours per week (with that "exempt" loophole closed). Economically, workers should have accumulated surplus and then demanded lower working hours regardless, but the previously described economic feedback loop saw that didn't happen, and instead the gains got siphoned upwards as housing and other economic rent.

That's the macro. At the micro level there are certainly motivations to create useless jobs. For one, the more people you manage/employ the more powerful you are, even if they're spinning idle. Also, adversarial entities can create jobs beneficial to their own self-interest while the overall situation remains nonproductive or even antiproductive (eg healthcare billing).
> why wouldn't it happen with Adobe Reader, MS Office, Avast antivirus, etc?

I don't believe it's possible, partly because already on Android you don't see Adobe or Microsoft starting their app stores. On iOS it would be even more difficult, because the sheer overwhelming amount of users already find the App Store to be good enough, and I simply don't see those other companies as competent enough from a product perspective to entice users over to their own third party app stores (as I discuss in detail elsewhere in my comments).
What do you think it would mean?
The big question now is.... Will this unlock Apple devices worldwide, or will apple make special EU-firmware which only gives this legally mandated functionality for phones sold in the EU?
As the other poster said, the urban sprawl and ridiculous commutes that you see in
every city are overwhelming evidence. The lack of family-suitable housing in urban centres is to blame, and the prioritization along single metrics, like obsessing over "density-only" because it generates more returns on investment, shares a lot of the blame. Density is not the only metric to consider.
some plausible theories:

* policing is broken, investing in communities works better than destroying communities via mass incarceration and the criminalization of existence.

* trees provide shade, lowering air temperature. hot people act crazier.

* being around nature (even urban nature) improves mental health, and increases peoples’ sense of well-being, making them less likely to do crimes.
> often it’s faster and easier to edit incorrect autogenerated code than to write it from scratch, especially when you work with many languages with their own idioms.

Completely disagree. Once you get really fluent in a language it is so much faster to write something from scratch. Especially if you have certain patterns you follow.

Code review is different because that has a different goal.
Apple could make a greater incentive to use their approval

Competition
The cheapest model 3 on Tesla's website right now is $47k MSRP, the 2021 Type-R MSRP was $38k (there is no 2022) and the Performance Model 3 is $63k.

So my bad its $9k-$25k MSRP, not that the minutiae of pricing is that important for this comparison. It was just to note that Honda isn't winning on weight by spending a fortune on materials or manufacturing like if I had compared the Model 3 to some supercar.
Screw trains. Lets rip them out and build man-made rivers so we can use our water planes!
Our kinda-bad system of government relying heavily on social norms & personal restraint that are no longer present and without which it's extremely vulnerable to malicious game-thinking methods and crass populist manipulation to bring it down from within, is where I'd point the finger.

I expect future historians will point to Nixon's pardon as the beginning of the end.
This is for example why we, as a company, rather took 2 hours to escalate Log4Shell internally. Which was like 2-3 hours before it went globally holy shit.

We took the time to analyze the vulnerability, and multiple competent people concluded: Yup. This is serious. Then we figured out plans, mitigations, and communication paths to update the plans and mitigations together with ops, dev and other folks. And then we shoved all of that as a large document into the larger technical organization as "Holy fuck the sky is falling, start patching, here's how to see when you have to, here's how you do. Go".

And that's also something I'm currently telling our new full-time security engineer. Be a bit mindful in the communication of criticality and vunlerability. Like, with my team of admins and SREs, you can be like "We're all doomed" and someone will be "but we don't deploy that feature, calm down. Would you like some tea? What evil thing did the CVE say to you?". Or they might escalate accordingly, if it looks bad to them, too.

But if you do that to most of our dev-teams? That'll be just an unstructured mess, which will be worse than waiting a moment to structure a proper response to the threat.
I was attempting to show that we both read the same comment by JasonFruit and interpreted the phrase "not attempt to make them equal by government-enforced handicapping" very differently.

The base claim was that after reading JasonFruit's comment with the interpretation I had, your own comment seemed like a tangent.

Now, which of us interpreted his comment correctly? I have no idea.

Neither was I attempting to pass comment on the badness/goodness of ADA.

Anyways, have a good day sir!
Is HN a forum? What about Reddit? Facebook?

Seems like the distinction between "forum" and "social media" is mostly about user count. Forums are pretty healthy if you draw that line in some reasonable location IMO.
Well in that list, the military is the only one that's realistically governed the same across the branches.

Police departments are federal, state, county, and city.

Religion is highly fragmented.

I imagine trust in "religion" would change if it was broke out into it's representative governing bodies as opposed to one big bucket.
I suspect it's more a business restriction than a moral one. If OpenAI allows people to make porn with these tools, people will make a ton of it. OpenAI will become known as "the company that makes the porn-generating AIs," not "the company that keeps pushing the boundaries of AI." Being known as the porn-ai company is bad for business, so they restrict it.