skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh come on. I'm excited about new technologies and I think that image generation can be a net positive for the society, but can we not do that? First, we had people confidently asserting that stuff of this sort absolutely can't happen. Now, we're moving the goalposts to "well, not a legitimate criticism because it doesn't happen often".

The point is that basically all Stable Diffusion / DALL-E / MidJourney output is some shade of this; the only new data is that contrary to prior assertions, in some cases, it goes all the way to a verbatim copy.

I think there are some defensible stances one can take. One is to reject the idea of intellectual property. Another is to advocate for some specific legal or technical bar that the models would have to pass for it to qualify as "not stealing". Yet another is to argue it's a morally-agnostic technology like VHS or a photocopier, and the burden of using it in a socially acceptable way rests with the user.
If it were about something older than Mastodon, this post feels like it could've been written in 2011.

Anyway, I'm a happy user of Tusky. It has all the features I want, and while the UI looks dated it's not at all hard to use. I'm in fact probably happier with a Tusky-style UI than overly-animated whitespace-filled configuration-free apps made by big companies that I also use (and look "prettier").

And yes:

> Android seems to be the platform for people who consider this comprehensive feature checklist to be a helpful resource evaluating which apps they should try

I do find such checklists helpful, since I care about the functionality of apps I use. Maybe Gruber should just let people enjoy things?
I read of a study on piano learning. Kids from a wide variety of backgrounds take the same piano lessons so its a good leveller. The result was there was a direct correlation between hours practiced and progress. Nobody really lagged behind or shot ahead. The conclusion was that while not every child would end up a Mozart, none of them became Mozart without practicing. It raised interesting questions about streaming by ability, what are we really sorting children by? Are we really separating and helping the more intelligent or just cutting loose those children with poor study skills or a lack of motivation to do their homework.
It looks sort of like the infamous "Merkel Hands" pose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkel-Raute
As someone with epilepsy I found this article fascinating.

Over the years I've been forced to learn a lot about neurology on my own. I've never seen anything or anyone explain how the brain operates this simply.

We're on the edge of revolution in the way neurological disease are treated.
The whole point of offsets is to allow fossil fuel consumption to continue.
Maybe. But also it seems like there's some exponential benefits too. Who can produce the next earth shattering discovery: a 1000 researches who've only done one study, or one researcher who has done a 1000 studies? All that experience and context matters.

The woman who wrote the article is sought after today not because what she's produced over the past years, but because of what those efforts enable her to do next.
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It’s intentionally open-ended to engage in discussions about functional and quality attributes. Does the candidate ask questions or just jump into an answer?

I love it because it’s very open-ended and demonstrates problem solving. It’s a great conversation piece.
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Some of what the author says is accurate. Carbon offset credits are bunk. Industrial agriculture is harmful. There are environmental issues to a lot of the “greening” practices. There are issues around how equitably the climate change revolution is going to impact different demographics.

Some of what the author says is false. Consumer choices do make a difference. I work in climate tech and the product my company produces monitors electricity usage in the home. The average user reduces their home electricity usage by 7% in the first month, solely due to becoming aware of what they are using. Residential electricity usage is something like 45% of electricity usage here in the states, I believe. That’s huge progress due to consumer choice.

Electric vehicles are progress. There are companies developing new ways to extract lithium that do not destroy the environment as much as brining does. As where ICEs inherently must pollute (good luck having combustion without emitting CO2), electric power has the ability to become renewable and green. Oil companies are a hundred years ahead and have governments in their pockets, subsidies, and well-established infrastructure in place already. If renewable energy were in that position, there would be no contest in what was more eco-friendly.

Calling for “reparative justice” is another fear-mongering, divide-and-conquer strategy. The proper path forward IMO is capturing externalities so they can be incorporated into the existing economic framework. That’s what drives behavior of companies. I’m talking about putting a price on carbon. I’m talking about taxing land use at different rates for agricultural operations based on the type of agriculture being done. Imagine how quickly companies would change their behaviors if they had to pay the full price of what their fossil fuel usage or monoculture farming costs us collectively.
does ios allow web browsers to have ad blocking extensions? because that's literally the only thing that will ever matter to me about the difference between the platforms
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That's what consenting adults do in lieu of 'bcdedit /set testsigning on' via an admin prompt. Alternately, one can call off the antivirus dogs and get on with it.
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In his book, the climate wars, Michael Mann argues that oil companies want to deceive the public, they want us to give up thinking that action is useless.

In that sense climate deniers and climate pessimists are on the same side: do nothing, business as usual.
Just for accuracy's sake, most of Qatar's wealth isn't oil but natural gas. It is kind of a nitpicky point, but it does lead to understanding some of the political/economic things going on in the Middle East.
> it was capitalism that doomed us and capitalism that saved us

Saved whom?

As I understand what happened it was the biggest wealth transfer in the history of humanity. The disaster investments pouring into the pharmaceutical industry before the pandemic wasn't the reason that the vaccines existed at all; there was decades of research that went into mRNA based vaccines. The pharmaceutical industry was more than profitable already and able to meet demands without the influx of investment.

It seems to me that while it was beneficial to have the vaccines we had rolled out it didn't "save" all of us. It protected a good number of people. It wasn't evenly or fairly distributed. And it made a very few number of extremely wealthy people even more wealthy while increasing the number of already financially precarious people in the world.
The ethics could flow in the other direction. If we wiped out homo neanderthalensis, de-extincting a breeding community of them could be restorative justice.
This doesn't really work if the image is a meme that has been scaled and converted millions of times.
Register a company, say you did freelance consulting work in the gap. Can't disclose details due to NDAs, but it's fascinatingly close to the core competencies of the place you're applying to.
Besides fuel for transportation, the following make up a large use-case: blast furnaces for smelting steel and making coke, cement-making, ammonia synthesis, creating plastics. Electricity by itself accounts for near 25% of fossil fuel use.

None of those can be viably replaced right now. With very large transpo, there seems to be a lot of investment in hydrogen but skepticism surrounding it too, including for the environment.
Awesome, and so much more useful than the original!
I haven't tried it, but maybe spotify-tui[0] would solve your problem?

[0] https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui
The discussion about alternatives doesn't need to be related to switching under the timeline of a routine security release, right? I would say that every security release would increase activation energy to switch to another provider, even if that happens asynchronously relative to addressing the security release.

Assuming that good alternatives are available of course. (I'm a rustls maintainer, so obviously I think that's a pretty good alternative -- we have a C FFI, too!)
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I'm pretty sure something like that has been done at least once, somewhere. It probably doesn't happen super often due to the complications around IP ownership and conflict-of-interest regulations and what-not.

That said, if I were going to pursue something like this, I think the initial opening would be based on a personal relationship with somebody in the company. Preferably somebody as high up the org chart as possible. All I would do is go to $PERSON and say "Hey, can we get together for a coffee sometime soon, I have an idea I want to run by you." Totally informal, casual at this stage. If they meet with you, just lay out the idea in broad brush strokes "Hey, I have this idea I'd like to work on, it doesn't really fit what we do here, but I am interested in maybe standing up a company to build it, in partnership with $CURRENT_COMPANY. Do you think there's a way to make that happen?"

And just let it go from there. Whether or not this is a good idea and whether or not you should even bother hinges a lot (nearly totally, really) on how much you trust the people in your company and how much you believe they are reasonable people who generally want to do what's best for everybody. I've worked for companies where I had so little trust in upper management that I would never have bothered to approach anybody on something like this, and I've worked for companies where I could call the owner directly and run something like that by them. So really, lots of variation and "it depends".
ChatGPT ~is Auto-tune for text. It already kinda sucked to be poor but it is going to really suck going forward.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-Tune
> We could make it harder and harder to use/own a car: more expensive, difficult to park, slower to use, etc. [...] We don't seem to even be trying to do this and it's depressing.

Well, because the parties who try to do that (e.g. Greens in europe) immediately get out-voted out of office once the population starts to notice the permanent traffic jams.

But it's not for a lack of trying -- they put measures like reducing speed limits in cities, reducing car lanes, etc.
> ...on my home screen on my Pixel 4...

> Things like fluid scrolling...

Well, yeah. It's not exactly apples to Apples to compare your 2022 iPhone to an Android phone from 2019. On my Z-Flip 4, Tusky has no problem hitting 120Hz scroll.

That being said, I can't disagree with his larger point when it comes to many commercial apps - design teams are all iOS and ship designs that aren't Android-first or even Android-adjacent. Android developers often end up fighting (and losing) to design teams which only care about one platform
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This is a strange read. Making assumptions about an entire platform from a few cherry picked examples. That's a very low quality post.

Having worked in both platforms I can say their conclusions are demonstrably false, if not outright biased.
> (e.g. we are talking of banning Tik-Tok precisely because Google, Facebook and such will kill any attempt to make an innovative social platform in the US)

Precisely? Why are you so sure?

You are aware of China's ownership, control, ability, and motive to use Tiktok for state purposes, whether surveillance, influence, disinformation, or otherwise. This is the biggest stated risk I've seen across various media (at least what I read; I'm not on Facebook). You disagree?

Perhaps you have evidence that the claims above are false? Do you think these claims are manufactured by US social media companies to defend their turf? This would seem the less plausible claim in my view.

Three articles, one quite different than the rest:

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2022/10/tiktoks-secre...

https://apnews.com/article/technology-china-united-states-na...

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2023/1/26/a-us-state-a...
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I'm a tax specialist for the German tax system. I have 15 yrs of experience. I want to relocate to the US, so maybe some American company that does business in Germany could use my skills.

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Is this a thing? Or did you just spawn a quote for future generations to attribute to anonymous and Mark Twain in the coming centuries?
They don't have to actually work. Just seem for long enough to work, until I have made enough money.
I'm not sure it will even happen in 27 years, with effort.