skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I'd call it skirting around the issue. More operating from inside our sphere of influence.

> The shift to being able to "see" arbitrary women as they'd look in certain positions or level of undress will also change how young men perceive real women in harmful ways in a society where women already have to deal with constant objectification.

There is a storyline in a children's movie about a young girl making sexually suggestive sketches of a boy in her notebook (Turning Red). The mom discovers it and confronts the boy thinking he's taken advantage of her daughter. That's going to evolve into using AI to do the same. It's not just a trope, those problems exist already; this is just going to make these cases more common. And you're nailing it with how it's going to change perceptions. These dream images are going to be created to match the fantasies of the person generating the image. Those images aren't the actual bodies of the person being undressed - it's just a fantasy created by the artist optimized to their own preferences.

> Firstly it's about things like lighting, skin tone, background details etc that set the scene for us on the unconscious level and which inevitably leaves the current generation of fakes somewhere in the uncanny valley. Secondly the fact that we know they're fake didn't impact the initial associations our brain will create upon seeing them.

Expert fakes exist for celebrities that pass uncanny valley without the use of AI. There are sites dedicated to cataloging celebrity images and documenting if they are fake or not. Same with request threads and WYWD threads - the stuff on message boards can be pretty convincing, enough to get to those initial associations. I'm not sure why you think otherwise. The dark corners of the internet are full of this content.

This cat is out of the bag and has been for some time. The frequency is only going to increase as the bar for generating these images lowers. Photoshoppers running request threads are the bottleneck right now; soon those threads are going to be replaced with generators that spit out 100s of candidate images.

We don't really have control over how others use our likeness beyond the tools the law extends to us but, even then, it only addresses the problem after it happens and doesn't stop someone from doing it in the first place. I don't see us stopping it. If we can't stop it, we either let it happen to us or we figure out how to remove its power over us at an individual level (and help others do the same).

I'd like to turn this around. You're bringing up a lot of problems without solutions. Other than shifting our view of these images on a person-to-person basis, how do you see us stopping it?
The problem is that lack of enforcement leads to criminals that act not out of desperation, but because they analyzed the rules of the game and realized that the reward for a criminal career is better than the reward for a legitimate career, with few downsides.

Why work 20 days a month and make a modest living when you can steal and rob 3 days a month, fence on the 4th, and live in relative luxury?

Throwing people in jail doesn't help with crimes of despair, but it does help with such calculated crime, because it suddenly is no longer worth it.
It's a good set of sub-stories in an established genre. I don't know accuracy, but it's great visuals and decent story.
I think the deeper question is: Are you truly being allowed to opt out if you can't disable (or aren't ever prompted to disable without knowing an arcane set of menus) the UI elements (e.g. the aforementioned prompts on password fields, or the prompt to install an app whenever opening the mobile web version of a site) that serve as an advertisement for the specific service?

To be sure, this isn't just restricted to "please install this" dark patterns, and in certain ways it's been central to the ad-supported business model ever since the first television ad was shown on a network channel. But arguably we shouldn't give any of these examples credit for truthfully being "opt out."
I spent 2-3 years alone, I alienated my friends and pursued my interests, spent 1/3 of my spare time playing CSGO, 1/3 of the time crafting music, and 1/3 of the time writing software and coming up with ideas for startups and web projects. Other than work, I was truly isolated.

Half of me was completely content with the fact that I had my own space, my solitude, my quiet space, my time. I was in control. Yet, after years of this, heck... even after months of this, something starts ticking in your brain... that feeling that you are missing out on things.

Since then I managed to connect with people, through gaming, but later on in real life, that became a huge part of who I am. I also opened up to coworkers, and even though anxiety and depression can be a massive burden and make it really hard to "open up", I fought through it, through the panic attacks and everything, and now I feel like I'm finally starting to appreciate company.

Yet, I love being alone. I love creating, I love my space, and I love being in control of my time, as it is finite, and we can control how to spend it... But it feel nice to let other people into that time, and also to give some of it up to spend time with others; we are all humans with a million thoughts and a million things troubling us and pulling us in all sorts of directions...

That said, I think solitude has massive benefits as well; over time it allows you to read yourself, which in turn helps you to read others. To discover how your mind ticks is to discover how we all differ, and social clues notwithstanding, it does help progress towards a more social behavior.

Solitude as well as companionship both are indispensable in the long term; the key is to balance both. One time I went to a hotel next to a waterfall in northern Mexico for 3 days without a mobile phone... it was bliss. Yet at the same time I recall festivals with friends, barbecues, and gaming nights with the same fondness.

All it takes is time and thoughtfulness.
If google cuts funding from Mozilla, its probably an existential threat for them, it's really their main income, anything else is tiny and won't be enough.

But in the same time, brave seem to be growing quickly, pushing privacy by default, and doing more impactful things for Digital Privacy, on probably a much smaller budget...
You can remove the 'iCloud' notification by starting the setup for it, and then cancelling.

It's a dark pattern Apple repeats with a lot of notifications - they are not dismissible and give the appearance they are only resolvable by completing the notified request, but it actuality just starting the setup and then cancelling will resolve it.
It is the inherent conflict between authority and accountability. It's unfair to be accountable for something we have no control over, but if we have control over it, we can unduly influence it. There is no bulletproof answer to this problem. Fixes are mostly about allowing for the possibility of success.
The Rings of Power is beautiful, but it feels like an MMORPG. The journey is epic but the endgame is so so. I wouldn't mind some more dwarven architecture.
I live in California and have never had TOU at my residence. I do have TOU options that just haven't been very good choices for my family.
I’m currently looking to move off Heroku, leaning towards Fly but Render and Railway look compelling too. However I’m baffled by Railways pricing, the estimating tool on their pricing page is in fractional units and seems to suggest a “resources used” pricing model. The documentation is completely lacking in what this means. Are they autoscaling constantly, or do I have to manage that. How can a customer have a website, on a container service, where they use 0.3cpu per month but be fully available at all times? My assumption was that I need at least 1cpu/month for a constantly running container, unless that scale too zero with super quick startup. Can someone explain it to me?

(I think I read Fly is planning to add scale to zero to their normal service, they currently have it at the api level with “fly machines”)

The other thing I want is a completely hands off managed DB with point in time restore. None of those three have that yet. Crunchy Data looks perfect but are not “in cloud” with them, only being on AWS/Azure/GCP. If one of those three added that capability in house I would probably just go for it.
++ for therapy.

Finding a therapist is all about you, not them. YOU must feel comfortable with them, if not, find another one. YOU control the direction of the therapy, it's YOUR life. It takes time in therapy, to build trust and to open up, but once you do it will be very beneficial.
Effectively poor local policies hurts lower income people the worst.

The ones without garages, without strong security systems, in worse off neighborhoods, etc.

Unfortunately higher income people only act when it reaches their doorstep, which happens more gradually.
I kinda agree - the characters at least are pretty generic/bland and offer little personality. They've started a lot of storylines but I don't really care about any of them because I don't care about the characters. I think Elrond and the Drawf Prince are best part of the show because they actually bothered to offer some but something about Elrond looks a bit weird in that environment so that is a little off-putting. Overall I'm hoping the writing improves and of course because sci-fi/fantasy are in such short supply I'm going to keep watching.
The problem is he's slow; he's going something like 15 km/h in narrow lanes where drivers are expecting to be able to go 30 km/h.
Did you respond to the wrong post? The first line is find a professional? Then says the internet can only help you so much?
The "open all links in Reader view" option in iOS is amazing. I whitelist sites where it breaks or if I need translate, but load times are faster too.
Well, it's countably many, but there are about 200 of them, so we're not even talking US states or US presidents, but more like UN member states. I remember Togo exists, but I can't point to it on a map, and if you left it off a map I wouldn't notice.

So we're asking quite a lot to say people should just remember all of them and actually use this knowledge not just recite the list. And these aren't small things, they include very broad ideas, like 'object is referred to outside of its lifetime' and even just categories of deviations from the standard like 'A "shall" or "shall not" requirement that appears outside of a constraint is violated'

It's impressive that they enumerated them, A+ gold stars. As I understand it WG21 (C++) is still attempting to produce a list of the Undefined Behaviours in their language - but I don't think "memorize all these vague ideas and use that knowledge when programming" is practical.
My only complaints with the new LOTR and Game of Thrones shows is that they seem to be rushing through the story. Part of the appeal of the originals (movies... series.. respectively) is that they feel like more of a "quest" or long adventure, with side stories and character development. Obviously this made for longer content and it took years for GoT to finish, as well as LOTR being longer movies (especially with the extended cuts).

These new series seem to jump around time and traveling much quicker. Overall, I still am enjoying them though and don't understand a lot of the internet criticism.
It seems like all of these nostalgia-bait nerd culture TV shows and movies being pumped out by megaconglomerates as of late have absolutely nothing to stand on in terms of story quality or originality, so all they can do to sell it is show you things you remember from good original movies/shows of the past, and race-bait to trick people into thinking if you like this show/movie it means you're a good person.

I'm almost certain they cast these shows specifically so they can find someone on twitter to say something racist, and then all the journalists can write ads- er I mean "articles" about the supposed backlash to the diverse casting that's apparently very widespread, even though I never see it. Every time a new show comes out, I only find out because of the dozens of articles claiming that there's a huge swathe of people upset about a black person in it. The entire marketing ploy is so clearly planned in advance, I can't believe we're still doing this routine after all this time.
DirecTV changes Dak Prescott’s jersey color from blue to purple at NFL’s request
Purple? So he's a Viking now?
Not being snarky but isn't a tablet what everyone wanted and just needed technology to catch up?
> pick said topic, something you never cared about before, talk about it but don't write any messages containing it;

This does not work. How did you come about the topic? Answer: it was in your brain, because advertising, trends among your peers and social connections, online trends real or astroturfed, etc.

That's why you end up with people thinking their phone is "listening" to them.
I think it looks absolutely gorgeous, but it helps a lot if you don't expect it to be true to Tolkien, because they seem to be intentionally getting everything wrong. And I don't see why, because I think the story would make a ton more sense if they stuck a bit more closely to the events described by Tolkien (plus a ton of invention obviously).

I'm enjoying it and I'll keep watching it, but they've stirred the entire history into an incomprehensible soup, and the questionable plot keeps jerking characters around to places where they shouldn't be. But if you can sit back and not think too hard about it, it's great. Especially the Disa+Durin+Elrond scenes.
Anyone can make open source code changes and be license compliant as long as you don't release the binary (YMMV depending on specific license). However as soon as you give someone binaries they're entitled to request the source. I'd love to see a future with goofy situations like Iran suing for the stuxnet source code because it statically linked a GPL library.
Because if you don’t like it, you’re the ass. But, if it’s bad, they’re the ass.

Few people bother to climb the steep wall of cognitive dissonance required to embrace the fact that the source of their problem might be intrinsic. Much easier to paint your displeasure in the palette of extrinsic and objective failures.

You’re still an ass, but at least you don’t have to think of yourself as one.
The invasion of privacy compared to the degree of crime in SF is incredible. Will people question the principles that led to this or do they still think there's some inconsistency at the top?

Personally I'm glad I gave up on living in an urban place and left for the hills last year.
Not a complete nothing burger; a lot of people here work for companies that sell to the Feds or host FedRAMP-authorized SaaS solutions. There will definitely be private-sector impact from that risk framework, though I'm not saying that's necessarily a good or a bad thing.
That is amazing, I remember seeing an early version of this on Windows, its so great to see it revived and with source!
> I mean... doing what a youtubeing prepper nutjob said and did, has proven to be safer for you, than following what Fauci (and other local equivalents) say... or you'd atleast have masks, disinfectant and a basement full of toiletpaper and MREs at home, while those listening to Fauci wouldn't.

When the pandemic happened, and I had multiple P100 masks from asbestos removal, I felt pretty comfortable.

....Until I tried to wear them in everyday life. It is even worse than being at a construction site, wearing one of those monstrosities all day
fascinating that you are not able to endure bikes going below the average speed of traffic flow
How does Rings of Power have a budget of 465 million? I don't really understand these production budgets. I would love to understand this, if anyone has any spreadsheets or article explaining this, thank you.
How do you know you have picked the topic at random? Maybe you've subconsciously seem adverts for that thing and that is why it is salient to you. Once you write it down, it becomes actually conscious and you start noticing the ads.
"This led top cybersecurity experts to call it one of the most severe and widespread cybersecurity vulnerabilities ever seen."

Apparently they never changed one character in a query string in the late-90s.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it repeatedly, unfortunately, and we're trying for a different sort of forum here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
#!/bin/sh
md5sum $0
Would you prefer they lie to you? Not even Apple is dumb enough to claim they don't have access to your iCloud data.
I use the Windows version of Photoshop 7.0 still. It works out of the box with WINE as well on MacOS and Linux.
Apple has become a parody of itself. A decade ago they were mocking Windows for the abundance of notifications. And now...
My previous laptop (until yesterday!) was a Thinkpad T460s. Not exactly an exotic model. It came with Windows, which I tried to use (with WSL) for more than two years before giving up.

The fan turned on at random times in a way that was completely unrelated to what I was doing. WSL GUI apps (via VcXsrv) terminated on suspend, because the network stack is broken in Windows. At some point it started refusing to see wifi after resume. Ethernet got flakey. I thought those were hardware problems.

On the software side, lack of package management made things outright medieval. Nothing uninstalls cleanly. System tools are a UI mess where you can’t find anything. It also required reboots all the time.

Then I had a bottle of wine, wiped it, and installed NixOs. As it turns out, there were no hardware problems. Both wifi and Ethernet worked perfectly. No random fan noises or overheating except when I did something actually heavy. Software worked, did what I needed, and did not get in my way.

Had to switch from Capture One to Darktable for photos. It’s not as good, but serviceable.

I’m pretty sure all of the points above are technical. Your comment assumes that political reasons are somehow less important than technical ones. That is not true.
due to a decreased sense of imagination and wonderment

I don't know about that. I didn't read the Harry Potter series until my 30's and I absolutely loved it. Full of imagination and wonderment, I was utterly captivated. I've also re-read The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings multiple times throughout my life and it seems to get better every time.

I'm pretty cynical about big budget movies and TV shows in general though. I prefer shows where all the emphasis is placed on the writing and acting, such as Better Call Saul.
Xpeng G9 Electric SUV Debuts in China with 480 KW Charging
Ok, sure, but you know what I mean: commercial yeast without lactic acid bacteria.
I think he was quite a beautiful and most of all charming character before his corruption if I remember correctly.
Do you have any suggested readings to know more about this topic?
It's a taught way to communicate.

That it's you saying it implies that it's your opinion.

There's plenty of room to say "it's good" or "it's good except these parts"

"I don't like it" leaves little room for disagreement. I can't disagree that you don't like it
Good Lord, the Irish Itinerant Hobbit parts are painful to watch. The rest of it seems ok, but then I’ve never read any of the books.
I will definitely use this. I've been looking for something like this to quickly share my ideas with other students.
If you think a 10MB binary is amazing, try out FLTK, your cross platform GUI programs can start at 100KB.
More expensive than alternatives, sorry.
Only issue stopping me from using Fly: bandwidth costs. I am spoiled by DigitalOcean's 1TB tier per droplet created (along with bandwidth pooling if you have more droplets).
1. We can see the corners that were cut and have either been forced to do the same or know how it could have been done better.

2. Having to use some piece of tech because of some external requirement. Especially when there's a preferred alternative.

3. Genuine desire to not use tech for something. If you spend all day working on and with tech, you don't really need a toaster telling you the weather in the morning.

In short, I find myself less hating technology directly, but the half assery that is a symptom of a lot of other things I hate.
The Audacity of Despair (2008)
David Simon, talking about The Wire, statistics, institutions, corruptions, New Orleans, journalism, and more.

Runtime is 70 minutes, long, but decidedly excellent.
Yea, it's 100% cya. Is that really surprising?
I'll echo comments about speaking with a therapist. As someone who sees one weekly going on 5 years now, I can attest to how helpful it can be. It changed my life, but in ways I didn't necessarily expect going in.

I personally love to be alone. I am a deeply introspective person, and have a "rich inner dialogue" that will always accompany me.

I spent some time thinking that lonesomeness was actually my ultimate goal, and that achieving it would bring me happiness.

It's not that I hadn't experienced good social interactions, and I had friends, but the allure of solitude was still strong.

One of the big realizations I eventually reached was that I actually love being around/with people. And I love being alone.

I also came to realize over time that I experience what is characteristic of an "HSP" or "Highly Sensitive Person" [0][1], and when combined with my natural introversion, I would consistently underestimate the energy impact of certain areas of my life (work was a major "forced" interaction), and just didn't understand how to give myself enough time/leeway to rest/recharge after participating in social activities.

Bottom line: It's possible to both crave solitude and need (and enjoy) social interaction. Accepting that both are true helped me fight the impulse to be a hermit, and helped me experience much needed social interaction without judging myself for being exhausted by it.

And being exhausted by something isn't a bad thing. Some of the best things in life are exhausting.

- [0] https://www.verywellmind.com/highly-sensitive-persons-traits...

- [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4086365/
300 million for advertising probably.
> Those stupid license plate holders

In some jurisdictions you can avoid this problem by having no licence plate at all and if you upgrade the car frequently enough, you can avoid ever having a plate.
You're right, at least for me. Been waiting for a reason to switch, given that 4G decoding capability is available on my AM4 mobo that would give this a further performance boost and available VRAM.

NVidia can suck it and go solely target cloud computing - they already dedicated a significant portion of the announcement to just that. Why didn't the fact A) this is extremely lucrative and B) they dominate there already reduce their price for regular consumers? Corporate greed.

If I see NVidia cards start shipping in consoles, I'll know they decided to rip us off so they could get great deals for the same hardware to manufacturers. A total middle finger to us PC gamers.

I'm getting an AMD vs Intel vibe like I did from years back. I switched then, I'll switch again.

/rant