skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C, D, and E are killers.

(C) An online service, product, or feature with advertisements marketed to children.

Run ads on your site? Dead...

(D) An online service, product, or feature that is substantially similar or the same as an online service, product, or feature subject to subparagraph (B).

Have some element on you site that is similar to any other site that might target children? Dead...

(E) An online service, product, or feature that has design elements that are known to be of interest to children, including, but not limited to, games, cartoons, music, and celebrities who appeal to children.

This literally covers anything in the world you might talk about. Remember, "Child" is defined as someone 18 or younger... which is a huge and broad category that encompasses all interests and topics.

Take a look at Michael Dominick's SE blog: https://dominickm.com/

The home page alone violates all of the above.

Lastly, "Business" is not defined here, which is odd since these consumer protection laws always define explicitly who they apply to.

I have extensive experience with P65 and ADA compliance - so vague laws like this one really scare me. The only saving grace here is there is no Citizen Enforcement provision - ie. the AG has to bring suit. Which also means voluntary compliance will be low until the AG makes an example of a few unlucky website operators...
Hmm, assuming your inverted causation has an interesting implication: The press currently likes to chastise european politicians for the gas interdependence with Russia. This is just an result of peace though. It does not make sense to punish them for maintaining peace. Thus, we should rather congratulate european politicians for what they achieved until now.

I don’t claim that interdependence is sufficient for peace. It is much more complicated. So counter examples are to be expected. What I still believe though: Intentionally increasing interdependence makes war less likely not more.
just capitalism lol sorry for speaking a little suggestively on a vc forum
ha! Generative art is an image search engine with fancy interpolation. Would it be tractible to find a list of nearest training examples? Then you could cite the stolen art. Imagine that as a Twitter bot.
I believe marginal emissions from an additional person taking the train is significantly lower than a flight. Given the option, you'd want someone to take the train [1].

The caveat here is that a lot of these travellers would not have travelled if not for the ticket. So I have to concede that any of the extra schedules were from purely artificial/incited demand.

There is also the possibility that many travelled because they knew the tickets would not last, and so they aimed to take advantage of it while they could.

If the price change was permanent, maybe most of the new demand would be more spread out.

That's why I'd argue that the outlook is not so clear-cut.

I personally view it as a successful experiment but an unsustainable one at that price.

[1]https://www.visualcapitalist.com/comparing-the-carbon-footpr...
What a fun idea!
If this bill passes it will be illegal for Hacker News to not do that.
Sony and Tencent are buying 30% of Elden Ring studio FromSoftware
TIL about `git rev-list --count HEAD`. I've been spelling it `git rev-list HEAD | wc -l` for years.
> try running Console.WriteLine((object)new uint[42] is int[]);, and you’ll find it prints out True

I knew .NET's array variance rules were kinda bad, but that's really surprising.
It's mostly over email with a day turnaround and I don't mind it dragging on. But I worry the customer won't like that!
The premise and outcome of some large scale disaster you imagined being ridiculous does not means that any scenario of large scale disaster is ridiculous.
It’s also the story of why I don’t care anymore if some ‘engineer’ comes crying his XT that he needs 10 minutes ago doesn’t boot anymore when ‘it was working perfectly fine yesterday’. Yes it costs money to stay up-to-date and if you don’t want to pay and it breaks, you get to keep the pieces.
Buttle, I mean… Tuttle?
Does that cover all mentioned usecases though? They're discussing source generation in this thread, not even close to the same thing (for certain usecases)
> or seeks to defraud the public

What does that even mean? How does one defraud the public?
HN is not anonymous. It's pseudonymous at best.
I can see you're not interested in discussion at this time. No worries, we all have those days.

I did not say it was a government service, I said a platform functions a lot like a government service, especially when multihoming is limited due to switching costs.
Where do you find blogging challenges?
That's the sense of the bill, essentially. If sites are required to confirm you aren't children before you're allowed into adult conversations, they have to be able to authenticate and authorize you.
In case anyone is curious, the Spearman rank correlation coefficient between these two provided lists is ~0.32.
This is how things have worked for countless years, and worked reasonably well.

Things have never worked that way for any other medium. Mass internet access has only been around 15 to 30 years, depending on how you count it and arguably it has had disastrous impact on the well-being and mental health of children.

Yes, parents shouldn't be leaving their kids alone with the internet, but:

1. Many parents are going to a bad job at monitoring their kid's internet and if we can create rules that will leave their children less messed up, we should do so. We all pay a price when parents raise messed up kids.

2. Even for strict parents and well meaning children, it is so, so much easier to access poisonous things on the internet than on other mediums. It is hard to keep it out 24/7, it needs to be harder to access bad things.

3. As a strict parent, it sucks being stricter than all the other parents, sucks having to battle with kids about why their peers can do something they can't. Without common norms and common rules, their is an incentive for parents to defect by being the "cool" parent. And the reality of life is that no matter what parents do, teenagers are in large part "raised" by their peers. Teenagers view their peers as a source of authority because they have to live with their peers of the rest of their lives, peers represent the new generation. So what indulgent parents allow their children to do matters for my ability to parent my own child.
This is the point that Cloudflare is making in TFA.
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Shortly thereafter (if not before), governments will make it illegal to go online with a device that doesn't do a remote attestation with Secure Boot, and they'll require that the OS has a system like Gatekeeper[0] which checks a centrally-managed blacklist every time you try to run an application.

[0] https://www.howtogeek.com/701176/does-apple-track-every-mac-...
It's bad regardless of who does it.
Anecdotally I'm -61% on SNAP in my portfolio, great investment on my side..
I'm a mixed-race b/w man...if the product works you can send me emails that address me as "Queen," and I won't care. Based on the Fitzpatrick scale you linked below (hadn't heard of that), I think I'm a 5/V. Sounds like this will work for me?
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> The point I’m trying to make is that not all involved in the advertising technology are exploitive.

I don't doubt that you're being truthful here. The problem is that the vast majority of adtech is extremely exploitive, and there is no way for a user to tell the "good guys" from the "bad guys". So all adtech must be treated as hostile.
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> they have to "shut in" the wells, which means their output is effectively lost for all time.

What does this mean? Like the physical well asset is no longer useable? Or that the resource itself is forever unuseable even if you just make another well, if that concept even makes sense at all?
Yes, knowing where your children are is definitely surveillance. /s
> Ok then: they have decided, and they decided not to take KF down.

Right, so what exactly is your point here? "Who gets to decide?" -- They do -- "Ok, that's what they decided".

We're all aware of who decided and what they decided. Decisions come with consequences, among them being criticized for your decision making.
Does this include collecting or displaying their real name? Is that considered PII as it pertains to this law? I ask because if I run a forum it will be difficult to force people to use fake names unless I generate names for them. Some people would be upset if I force them to use a randomly generated name, though some would be happy to be anonymous.
“Spiegel and Murphy [CEO&CTO] own a whopping 99.5% voting control of the company.”

Why would anyone expect their Class A shares to be treated “fairly”?
That’s because talking to someone is always nicer than perusing error message. Plus it’s a nice break. I am always a bit baffled by people who are full remote and want even less social interaction like if it wasn’t already hard enough to somewhat get to know people when you never see them.
> Tibet, Hong Kong and Taiwan are all historically part of China. Legally speaking, China is on very strong footing in claiming all three territories.

Legal claims, justified or not, are imho irrelevant to the current discussion point, which is whether China wishes to spread its political and social systems to large numbers more people, and whether there is an international ethical obligation to resist that. That's why I mentioned the parallel with Russia, which "claims" Ukraine. That claim is irrelevant: Even if the legal claim was justified, it would still be an invasion, because the Ukrainians don't want to be invaded or be subjgated to Russian rule.

> No one even disputes Chinese sovereignty over Tibet

That statement is false: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_sovereignty_debate

A great many people have disputed Chinese sovereignty over Tibet ever since the annexation of 1959, and they still dispute it and protest against Chinese rule. As for "spreading of systems": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinicization_of_Tibet

> and Hong Kong

Legal sovereignty of a sort is not disputed there. But it does come tainted, as China took control on the condition of a "two systems" treaty about how to treat the people before the handover, and broke that treaty soon after. It is not clear the territorial handover would have occurred so easily if it was known in advance that China would dishonour its commitment to the people. As a result of breaking that treaty, it can be said that China has in fact violated some aspects of territorial legal sovereignty in Hong Kong, because those aspects were not China's legal right to take.

But "legal claims" and "specific territories" have no bearing on the point of discussion in this thread, which is whether China has "zero" ambition to spread its political and social systems

Tibet and Hong Kong are examples where it has spread its recent political and social systems to large numbers more people than before, removing cherished human rights and freedoms from them against their will. It says it wants to do it in Taiwan. So "zero" ambition to spread its systems is nonsense.

I think your argument is that other countries don't need to worry about China spreading its systems further. That may or may not be justified, it's hard to tell. The South China Sea activities could have been collaborative projects with other countries in the region, but they are not, and that understandably makes those countries wary. China does not have a recent history of being particularly trustworthy (Hong Kong broke that), or sane (the "diplomacy" around Taiwan is bonkers), and talk of its ambitions being limited will be taken by some as merely a way to gain their cooperation until it's sufficiently powerful to change its mind.

In any case, the discussion was about people and ethics, and the spread of political and social systems which take away rights and freedoms, and where there's an ethical obligation towards those people. I think there's a good case for countries, legal claims, and historical control, being irrelevant to that.
The idea is much older for example 1948: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotor_(ride)

Various test chambers for astronauts where built to test how people respond to higher gravity / a rotating reference frame. Actually trying to do this runs into some unexpected issues in practice. Here is a Tom Scott video about a more recent example: https://youtu.be/bJ_seXo-Enc
Many of Microsoft's early successes seemed predicated on listening to user and developer feedback.

It is simple to believe that they've taken that as a strong core principle of the company. The over-reliance on deep telemetry metrics, for instance, seems kind of a natural evolution of a company that cherishes as much feedback as it can get.

It seems reasonable to think that the immensely negative feedback on Windows 8 or the sad market response to Windows Phone sparked so many shifts in priority precisely in the way that any heavily feedback-focused (even slightly neurodivergent) person might over-react to negative feedback and try to do everything "not that" to make up for it, even if those were good ideas and the negative feedback was more concerned about execution of them rather than the ideas themselves.

I've been accused of "fanboying" Microsoft at times because I like pointing out the good parts of ideas that Microsoft has had over the years (like how the Charms bar was a good idea poorly executed) not to blow smoke up Microsoft but to remind them, as a feedback oriented company, of ways they've over-reacted to negative feedback, to wonder where they would be if they didn't just kill such good ideas at the first sign of disinterest/complaint but instead gave them room to grow/evolve. Sometimes it sounds like they need a lot more positive feedback to be a better company because all they seem to hear is the hate of some of the noisier crowds.
Cold storage may not be a great idea. With warm storage, you can run frequent checks like scrubs. Storing data with two cloud providers is a good option.

But Online storage must be encrypted. So the question is, what backup or encryption software do you use to be able to decrypt the data in 10—15 years or so?
GitHub is a company & git is a core technology which is replacing Subversion for version control. FWIW, WebKit could have moved to Gitlab, Gitea or Bitbucket & still used git. Subversion & CVS's days are numbered - the writing was on the wall for many years
Supporting your customers is a different scenario than interrupting co-workers. You want to make sure you have frictionless communications within your team. But your customers are already feeling friction if they feel they need to contact you - don't make it worse for them. Just take their call and fix their problem.
Black has been clearly unable to catch up Prettier for years. We still don't have format selection and often times formating doesn't work for different reasons. On the other hand I love how consistent Prettier is, I hope for a similar experience, will definitely give Ruff a try.
Actually this won't really affect 4chan either; while it's speculated the servers reside in California there's no critical dependency that they actually stay there, and once the physical servers leave all ties are severed with the state and California looses any reasonable way to enforce the new law.

It's kinda the same reason the site is accessible in Germany/UK/whatever despite violating every hate speech law in there jurisdiction
The most efficient number system is base e, ie ratio of number of digits that exist to placeholders needed to represent certain numbers.

The most efficient integer is actually base 3, which also explains why ternary logic puzzles are so elegant.
What is the evidence it was 4chan?
I think it's unclear from the text of this bill whether your own personal blog continues to meet none of these criteria if you become a schoolyard meme and children flock to your site of their own volition.
Thank you for the follow up and fix. It's a great project you have there!
Content creators, like artists, also happen to hate filters. They do not want to have San Francisco VC culture induced political correctness imposed on their work. This helps Stable Diffuse to quickly gain popularity.
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13 being greater than 12 is not a property that's just for human vision. In Subversion a commit on a branch increments the global commit number.

Git doesn't have a concept of one commit being before or after another once you've branched, or any native mechanism for enforcing global state across branches.
I once wrote an extremely general and elegant piece of code for an extremely messy problem (some obscure CSV from a source system I cannot influence with a ton of inconsistencies and mistakes that I have to straighten out automatically).

I started out with straightforward and somewhat messy code, but after adjusting that 3 times, I ended up writing something that is more or less a toolset to deal with the problems that data had. The code of the tools is convoluted, but when I have to adjust some things every now and then I just use the tools I built anyways so who cares.

Abstraction in programming should be seen like certain devices, helpers etc. someone would make use of in woodworking. Of course it costs you some time to built them, but it can make your life a lot easier, because ot makes results more consistent and testable.
> As a non-parents and a tech guy who believes in freedom, my preferred solution is parents doing their jobs properly and restricting their children's access to devices and content that is harmful and not meant for children.

As a parent, I wholeheartedly agree. It's not the government's job, or anyone else's job besides mine, to determine what content my children see or do not see.
> But we all know that badge is just a "Famous" badge.

Literally one of the bullet points to get verified[1]:

> Your account must represent a well-known, highly searched-for person, brand or entity.

[1]: https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/understanding...
> We may find individual ads annoying

I actually don't really mind ads as long as the volume of them isn't too great. But I greatly mind the tracking that comes along with them.

> at least so far the dystopia hasn't arrived

I disagree. From my point of view, we reached the dystopia stage quite a while ago.
If they had floating or dynamic externals and a bunch of permission models, I'm not surprised at all. I'd label this more of a conversion versus a migration.
Actually I do agree with that, but...it's still annoying when you think you've done the right thing by providing all the information upfront and placing no expectation that you need the problem solved immediately, just to have it ignored.
> At Lion Pose, we are on a mission to end skin bleaching

If that's what customers want and are ready to pay for, why not deliver it to them?

> Our proprietary blend of acids (glycolic, lactic, tranexamic, and azelaic) exfoliate and resurface the skin

Uh?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azelaic_acid#Whitening_agent

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28669590/

> "As interest in skin beauty increases, the development of new skin whitening agents has attracted substantial attention; however, the action mechanism of the agents developed so far remains largely unknown. Tranexamic acid (TXA) is commonly being used to reduce melanin synthesis"

Maybe you are already delivering what the market wants, just by a different name :)
I love the idea of cognitive AI. I've dabbled with OpenCog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCog , and in my youth I read "Artificial General Intelligence (2005)" by Ben Goertzel and I was really convinced.

But it seems like... cognitive AI hasn't paid off? Big & deep Neural Nets are the type of ML/AI that are achieving milestones in learning, gameplay and tasks.

If someone has a strong case to make for cognitive programming, I'd love to hear it. But right now it seems like it's a heuristics-based system that's destined to lose to NNs.

(And before the nitpickers arrive, I totally grant that using heuristics for toy robots makes sense, and is a good way to expose people to programming.)
> I don't know what you do about that

I refuse to answer them and wait for the next customer. I'd rather wait and sell the item passively (or not at all) than deal with answering questions for people who mostly aren't going to buy the item anyway.
Microsoft's stranglehold over the browser market was a pretty huge problem, irrespective of their business model. The web is way too important to be so tightly controlled by one single company, no matter who they may be.
I’ve been looking for “how to ask questions the smart way” for years! I kept googling the wrong title … I love how thorough it is, in the style of a Linux how-to or RFC.

I’m a solo developer and receive maybe 10 emails a day from end users. I can answer 90% of the questions with a few characters on my phone via “text replacement” so if I type: lllic it’ll automatically insert https://label.live/faqs/licensing/can-i-use-a-license-on-mor...

You know, as an example…

A few other favorites:

Llty “Thank you for the email.”
Lllmk “Let me know if this helps.”

I should really invest in Text Expander or similar. Although, maybe ZenDesk will come out with some wild AI integration that allows me to piece together a response based on my prior responses. Surely that’s coming.
Frankly put, and regardless of your personal views on the subject - if the California Pro-2nd Amendment folks haven't been able to get anywhere with this "Vagueness Doctrine", then neither will website operators.
Yes, selling an exact copy of a copyrighted work is an infringement (giving it away generally isn't). Creating a derivative work, or work in the same style, is fair use.

Generating a digital image of money isn't the same thing as counterfeiting currency.

> I would also not generate pictures of child pornography

Legality aside, why not? Who is harmed?

> There's a reason why SD apply censorship filters to generated images

I'm not sure there is. I don't think any one group of people is uniquely equipped to limit what images another group of people can generate with ML.
This reminds me of a conversation I had with an owner of a bbq restaurant who said he was struggling to meet new laws required stainless steel tables for food preparation, which was going to cost him $25,000 to install. This legislation, according to him, was heavily pushed by McDonalds corporation with the intention of driving out small business competition.

Whether this is accurate or not, I think it's clear the deluge of privacy legislation will have the opposite of the intended effect in terms of empowering the facebooks, googles, etc who can afford an army of lawyers, privacy engineers, privacy ops people, etc.
I'm surprised at the number of people making the argument that if something is not illegal corporations should keep their own feelings on the morality of that thing out of it.

That has a real risk of leading to the law being expanded to cover those things. I think we are better off with the law as a second or third layer of morality enforcement rather than it being the first layer.