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Spains drought [1], fueled in part by more than 50 criminal mega-wildfires. What happened in Spain in 2022 is not climate change, is environmental terrorism.

Last week a woman was caught starting a wildfire in Galicia by a police after seven wildfires occur in the same area.

Environmental terrorism... and maybe even economic sabotage.

If there is a team of puppets, there must be a puppeteer somewhere. Right?. We had a interesting high number of events targeting tourism. More than 6000 wildfires with many very big wildfires in categories rarely seen before, several train sabotages (optic fiber stolen for no reason, and a train exiting from a tunnel directly into a wildfire) in a country with an economy based in tourism. A high number of wildfires also in France, Portugal and Romania but Spain suffered the bulk of the attacks.

[1] I don't think that the mega prefix is justified still
Almost certainly.

Some of them (iirc Logitech is one), surface the automated answers and make you click through that you've tried them before letting you contact an agent. I imagine others have this done but don't make it as obvious to the user.
The Netherlands has some of the best water policy and technology in the world and they staked the land of their country on that. But, they did have a number of floods and they continue to be at risk for out-of-distribution flooding.
Probably not, the numbers chosen were arbitrary.
While I do personally believe this, society having anonymous dissent is quite a new concept.
Any legislation that is known up-front to affect all websites on the Internet associated with any business is, to me, bad legislation. I'm surprised you can support any kind of regulation that is consistent with your #1. Fundamentally any kind of regulation of internet websites ought to be at least partially directed by the counterfactuals. In other words, big sites and small sites are different things, and should be regulated differently in almost all cases. Otherwise you will eventually stop having small sites, since the regulated needed for big sites will be imposed on them too, until it is too burdensome for them to exist. This would effectively kill the Internet/WWW as it is today.
This is a case brought by a group backed by Edward Blum, who has brought cases in front of the Supreme Court before and lost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_v._University_of_Texas_... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_v._University_of_Texas_...
We've just scratched the surface of the implications. I just read another story on HN about the difficulty Twitter has in identifying child sexual exploitation images, and how they have so far passed on a multi-billion dollar business opportunity because of it.

Generative art seems to make such identification much more difficult. Such tech can hardly be stopped from helping to image the full range of human fantasy. CSE and every other form of crime and taboo will be included. The volume of such media will increase by orders of magnitude. Whether they are or should be legal is a fascinating topic, but it matters little to the advertisers that bankroll business models like Twitter's.

I can't even guess if this results in more or less strictness around such fantasy content.
How is this more secure than simply creating new certificates and replacing the old ones is the authorized_keys files?

> I only have to worry if my machine is secure in the present

No. If a host has been accessed by an attacker due to an exfiltrated key in the past it's tainted forever.
Why do you think the generation who actually fought and died against Nazis nevertheless held that displaying a Nazi flag is protected speech in America?

Do you think you understand something they didn't? Were they naive? Are you perhaps more intimately connected to the evils of Nazism than they were? Maybe they didn't understand that an entire country could fall to the evils of Nazism if they were not stamped out aggressively?

Or. Maybe they understood these things even better than you. And maybe they believed freedom of speech is even more anti-Nazi than banning Nazis.
Lol, why do say that? I had the same impression of him.

It appears that people fall for his niceness is my theory about him. And no doubt he is a nice guy. It's just that his explanations lacked the rigor I generally look for.
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Contrast could be a problem.

I find it hard to believe it would be that hard to use with a screen reader even though a little bit of tagging to direct the screen reader to start in the right place, navigate more effectively, etc. would help.

I work on a medium-sized SPA and spent some time making it work perfectly with a screen reader, it certainly is much harder for something like my application than it would be for HN.
> For example, ZFC+CH might non-constructively predict that some machine M halts, while ZFC+notCH might predict that M does not halt.

In general, this can happen, but not with this particular choice of example: If ZFC+CH proves that some machine halts, then so does ZFC (and, in fact, so do ZF and IZF). This is because a given Turing machine halting is a mere number-theoretic statement, such statements "are absolute between V and L" and CH holds in L.
The problem is, that in today's world, more and more time has been taken away from people because they have to work much more in order to survive the same way. Putting a kid on an iPad or the TV for an hour while you have a meeting is almost necessary. Not as many people live in a close-knit neighborhood, either, so help is non-existent for many. I know my wife and I struggle to find time to spend with our son since we both have to work. The only good thing for us is we both work from home, so we don't have an additional requirement to commute for several more hours or have to find a sitter or daycare too often. We still sometimes have to hire help to watch him when we both have busy days/weeks.

You folks (not specific to the OP here) have to stop assuming everyone has the same amount of free time as you do, or perhaps some of you folks don't have kids and don't realize just how much time and effort they are!
You can't synthesize some of the amino acids. I wouldn't think such a diet is survivable.
> We are understanding more and more what we are from a logical standpoint.

I would not equate being able to reproduce something with ML, to understanding something logically
This will force you to log into every single web site that has commenting. So much for privacy. Privacy will go out the window. Discussion and commenting will go out the window. This bill is deeply undemocratic and very much against a free and open society.

I hope your comment was just being sarcastic.
I guess you never consume content that is considered adult. I suspect those who do will feel differently about the issue.
re: Stable Diffusion: is there a site similar to https://www.craiyon.com/ where I can experiment with Stable Diffusion?
That sounds like a fairly mainstream opinion, particularly on this website
You're not alone.

I ran a team at a weekend hackathon event for non-profits. We needed to finish building their new site on the latest version of Drupal. I had SEVEN devs working on a 5 page brochure site with a page to manage events and we couldn't get it done! I felt terrible leaving it incomplete at the event, but honestly, with Drupal as the tech stack—my hands were tied. Luckily the developer who started the work was able to finish it a few months later.

To do it all over again, I would have convinced them to throw away what they had and use a different platform. If we used any other tech stack, we could have finished and launched the site during the event.

That was the first, and last time I touched Drupal.
> If I ask the kinds of questions they'll answer, I get sneered at. If I ask the kinds of questions they say they want, I get ignored.

Damn that is true. I actually have 94,000 rep on Stack Overflow, but I got banned for no reason. I appealed 9 times with no response, and finally they said someone was upvoting my stuff as a scam. I tried to cooperate to clear my name, but they are just ignoring me now for weeks.
It feels like it must be a company policy. When needing to compete with other major tools, choose a name so generic and so easily confused with other things that people who have no knowledge of the product will assume they need it. I can imagine some IT conversations 20 years ago along the lines of ".Net? I must need that for internet access!", just like I'm sure there are discussions today where managers assume they need Azure DevOps to get this new-fangled DevOps thing.
That makes sense. There really needs to be more investment in canal infrastructure in Northern Sindh and Southern Punjab. These kinds of floods were common in East Punjab/Himachal/Jammu back in the 70s and 80s (especially the 1988 flood [0]), but a lot of investment was put into meteorological forecasting, drainage, and disaster preparedness in the 90s and 2000s to try and mitigate something like that from happening again.

[0]
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_Punjab_floods
This is effectively a charity program to give them good pr. I don't see what's wrong with Google acting on the insight that being able to say they hire diverse grad students makes them less likely to face political backlash.
Here's who it applies to directly from the bill[1]:

A business that provides an online service, product, or feature likely to be accessed by children.

Child is being defined as[1]:

"Child" or "children," unless otherwise specified, means a consumer or consumers who is are under 18 years of age.

Meaning all websites, including your blog. No one will be capable of making a bullet-proof argument their site is unlikely to be accessed by a child.

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
There are parental control options on about every popular platform. There is no water in the “protect the kids” argument here, all that can be done on the client side for parents that want to limit what their kids see.
With disparate laws in every legislation, it will I think become increasingly burdensome to own a website. If you can't reliably determine where your user is, you must satisfy all of the laws simultaneously - until even that becomes impossible.
Repeat these kinds of posts often enough and they will end up in machine GPT-3 for generated comments on link sites.
I’d wager that most support for bills like these doesn’t come from people worrying for their own kids so much as wanting to have control over how other people’s kids are parented.

Charitably, they want to protect neglected kids. Uncharitably, they think they know what’s right for everyone and want to institutionalize it.

But most of supporters probably either have no kids, adult kids, or kids who they think they parent well enough to not be in danger.
AI that can learn the patterns of human language
>There’s no evidence two decades of pat-downs and shoe removal have made travelers any safer — so why does the theater of airport security persist?

I, and everyone I know who travels, asks this all the time. Other than the TSA being an employment scheme, I don't have an answer to that question.
Not an expert by any means, but based on some sparse reading I'd guess it's in the "few days" range, not a few hours.
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As universally good as GDPR maybe, where the actual results will be largely worse for everyone.
I'm not an electrical engineer or musician, but I feel like there has to be some kind of hack here that would tickle a programmer like me. It felt like the video started getting into that around the 9 minute mark when he said what he was doing with the theramin was fundamentally at odds with the way computers work because computers are designed to be resilient to small changes in capacitance. Also how does this interact with the C64 software? It sounds like an EE project and the C64 is just mentioned in name only. This guy would also have more impact doing videos if he had more light and relaxation.
This is all great. I havn't read the entire thing but it's basically saying that if your website is likely to be visited by a child, you have to provide the highest level of privacy.

> require a business that provides an online service, product, or feature
likely to be accessed by children to comply with specified requirements,
including configuring a requirement to configure all default privacy
settings offered by the online service, product, or feature to the settings
that offer a high level of privacy

I'll take that as an adult. I hate having to go through the settings of a newly installed application to disable all privacy violating settings.

Also, if someone can point it out, where does it say that it'll require every website to authenticate the users age?
If there was a single clip of me giving zero pushback to someone talking about sexually preying on dozens of women, even as a "joke", I would hope that my peers judge me accordingly.

My degree is in neuroscience. People aren't consistent. The self is mutable. That doesn't mean we shouldn't hold each other to standards? We're intensely social creatures, the opinions of others has incredible transformative power (positive and negative) on our behavior.

Rogan has had opportunities to apologize for the clip or change his behavior. He has not.
> I also don't get where the "eliminate anonymous web browsing" in the title comes from. If anything it will make it less likely for sites to track you.

Presumably the author is assuming that websites would prefer to offer no functionality at all to age-unverified visitors than to offer the child experience. In such a world, every website would presumably require you to login (to prove your age) before offering even basic functionality.

With such a system, private/incognito browsing would be obsolete.
It's only going to get better.
Wow. The BBB(4) example was impressive in particular. I stand corrected.
You seem to be pretty active in comments for this post and you have made several arguments around the ideas that:
* CF is not a utility and is not bound by the First Amendment (although you keep saying free speech)
* CF is somehow immoral because they are otherwise compelled to remove content/service protections for stuff you disagree with (however correct you may be that the content is morally reprehensible).

The first point may be technically true but the second doesn't leave room for the possibility that CF might have a more absolutist approach to free speech in which case they find it more immoral to remove content/protections from one of their customers that the content itself. Since neither you nor I work at CF, we probably have to take them at their word in this press release. Trying to adjudicate what violates their TOS, what is immoral for them to do, or what is good/bad for their business from the outside is a foolish exercise.

There was a time the ACLU defended neo-nazis and it wasn't because they agreed with them. Just another aside, if you feel this strongly about CF, then don't patronize them if you are in the position to not have to use their services, but I'd avoid taking a moral stand only when its expedient to do so if you otherwise don't live with that level of conviction (presumably you didn't stay at Microsoft for 6 years because you aligned with them morally).
It's mentioned in the article, along with why that should not be a model for California.
No. It reminds me a bit of when Snapchat launched and suddenly everyone was posting selfies with terrible filters.

That said, the excitement is understandable. AI/ML have been hyped a lot and there have also been a lot of unresolvable ethical questions. So there's a certain sense of relief at something objectively cool and fun, as well as recapturing the 'wow' factor of what's possible with computers. Often the latter is reserved for a game or video demonstration of what can be achieved with skill + a great toolchain + new hardware (or newly affordable or tiny hardware). It's not so often that it applies to tools, or that new tools so dramatically lower the skill barriers to creating high quality work. Since humans are so visually driven and graphics have always been the fancy chocolate of computer technology, such impressive new tools hit at a visceral level for many people.

I think the biggest (but less obvious) use case is that this in combination with other tools like GPT-3 is suddenly very close to AGI. Up to now AI in computer vision has been about recognizing objects, entities, or behaviors for narrow tasks like driving or surveillance. Suddenly language models, scene decomposition, and visual feedback are good enough that we're close to having real conversations with computers: you can show your computer a picture and talk about how it has people and animals, what clothes the people are wearing, whether they're on a boat or in a field, what they're doing and so on. This is not that far off from sitting with a child and looking at a picture book together.
A nitpick about country names, really? These are really low-effort comments. And you keep trying to derail the conversation back to communism even though you're the only one fascinated by it here.

Do you also refuse to learn basic physics because Isaac Newton was imperfect and despite coming up with some great physical laws, also believed some nonsense about alchemy that later was shown to be nonsense?

Do you bring up the craziness of alchemy every time newtonian mechanics comes up, and refuse to believe in momentum, mass, and kinetic energy?

Having to argue about this crap every time Marx comes up is tiring and intellectually ineffecient.

At this point I wish we could blame just the smart things Marx said on someone else like say, Mark Twain, just so the adults in the room can discuss the workings, benefits, and problems of capitalism without constantly getting interrupted by irrelevant low-effort arguing.
If you do I strongly recommend storing the indices with the chunks[0] and configuring a hassle-free, scalable storage solution [1] up front. Migrating chunk storage after the fact is a royal pain. Do also note that the official Helm chart will only get you so far before you have to start horizontally scaling individual components [2]; depending upon your query and log volume you might want to scale these separately and the chart [3] doesn't support this. This GitHub issue [4] has some Kubernetes YAML examples if you need them.

[0] https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/operations/storage/bolt...

[1] https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/operations/storage/#sup...

[2] https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/fundamentals/architectu...

[3] https://github.com/grafana/helm-charts/blob/main/charts/loki...

[4] https://github.com/grafana/loki/issues/643
For some websites, yes, but on one hand the EU is a lot bigger, while on the other hand California is home to Google and facebook.
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Same companies apply similar practices for fact checking. Just saying.
I struggle to comprehend the obsession about skin color and gender in the modern corporate discourse in US. Selecting candidates based on their physical attributes fundamentally doesn't seem right (and legal).
It amazes me how often the HN crowd calls for the government to regulate the Internet and then every time that a law is proposed to pass regulation on the internet it is universally derided.

But still somehow, there is this feeling that giving the government more power is good.
It took me a couple of hours to get 5 generated images that had a semi-consistent theme and look that I wanted -- for PowerPoint slides. I don't see how AI art in its current state could possibly be used for something like the art in Slay the Spire. I challenge the "now... better quality, for pennies, in minutes" assertion. Maybe in a few years.
I pushed all of my support to an issue tracker, at work. The only requirement is to put a basic description of what's going on, the version that they're using, and include the error text, in full.

This immediately cut the time I spent, with support, by half. Some people realized the solution its almost always in the error text. Others spend hours trying to figure out the problem themselves, just to avoid submitting a ticket. People are strange.
That sounds completely irresponsible if not implausible to me. There are special operation units that are considered more 'elite' than the SEALs and a full tier above the rangers (that are a cut above regular infantry), with mentally tougher but safer selection processes: Delta and British SAS.
I understand your ideals... but in-practice many many children don't have engaged, or even present parents. The older I get the more I believe people conflate having kids as raising kids.

I don't believe we're on a path for this to get better either.

This is why I'm generally in support over codified + regulated child protection acts, especially the online ones.
I wonder if instead of blocking cookies we could make a browser extension to share the tracking cookies (and only those) with random people on the web, to confuse trackers?
You don't actually know if it's valuable. Users = costs, they are only valuable if you can monetize somehow. Inability to develop a workable monetization strategy would lead to this sort of outcome.
Why is the scaling hypothesis so disliked? I guess "we just need MOAR LAYERS" comes off as a bit naive and implies a lot of extant research programs are dead ends, so there are elements of researchers not wanting to appear to be AI techbros and of mutual backscratching. But it's proven to be surprisingly productive for the last few years, so I'd have expected more people to jump on if only out of hype.
This has been california's strategy for about the past 30 years, trying to write laws so it is too onerous for businesses to only comply with them in CA. It's a violation of the principles of federalism and should be smacked down, and california should be harshly penalized for doing so.
I'm not sure what you mean by an AGI equivalent to a cockroach, but let's take it for granted that cockroaches can do things AIs still can't. AIs can also do a lot of things that cockroaches can't, including plenty that until recently seemed far out of reach (translation, superhuman Go play, illustration). Why would we expect intelligence to get smoothly better along a total ordering before it's dangerous? Human capabilities don't work like that.

Re 100% hypothetical: this seems like a pretty useless heuristic. Climate change, the health impact of leaded gas, and the nuclear bomb were all hypothetical, until they weren't. For that matter, if something isn't at least a little bit hypothetical there's no point in worrying at all; it's a done deal!

The alien invasion analogy seems like it suggests the heuristic you're actually using is "wild scifi thing so not worrying". This is a better option than "still hypothetical so not worrying" but still doesn't seem reliable.
What law? She's not giving anyone hormones, you know. She shares information about informed consent clinics, the effects of hormones, and places to buy safe supplies.
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Umm wait lol this blog is from June. This bill passed yesterday. It's the law now.
You are forgetting a very important step. You need to get the source by cloning with git
Anonymous pamphlets and the like were a tool in motivating support for the Revolutionary War.
> This will force you to log into every single web site that has commenting

Says who? You just made up a random scenario.