skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Any commercially reasonable method” is honestly about as minimal as I can imagine a law like this being.
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The whole "attack woke & trans" thing played well with independents for a bit, but it's gotten tired and now it just looks angry and petty. Add in Nazi-like stuff we're seeing in states like Tennessee, and the anti-education/environment policy proposals, and the Republican party has backed itself into a tough spot that even their egregious gerrymandering might not save them from.
The previous owners of PornHub smartly sold the business earlier this year. The writing is on the wall w/r/t hyper regulating the internet. Not to mention the rapid advances in video AI which will render a lot of pornography and distributors in particular as obsolete.
With the advent of ChatGPT, this seems like poor timing. "Hey let's try a show / movie written by ChatGPT and see how it goes".
It's not just browsers, mine was a native Android app. At least they allow changing the locale on app startup.
Nothing is safe sadly, HIPAA does almost nothing, in reality very few companies actually get the full fat $1000 per patient fine. Even the regulation itself is now hilariously outdated, "encrypted at rest and transit" is absolutely the lowest bar for security.

There are way too many fast and loose players in the mental health space, they do not care to actually have security. They do not have separate roles for security and engineering.

These startups only have to pretend to have security to appease their VCs. In Series B they MAY get a small security audit, but they already lie on their SOC2 or ISO27000... so whats some more lies?

The idea of having a rigorous process that ensures security is completely unacceptable if it adds any time to market.

This is why we see numerous hacks in the health tech space.
How are any of those examples equally susceptible to “disregard previous instructions” working on a LLM? You’re listing edge cases that have little to no impact on mission critical systems as opposed to a connected LLM.

Organized religions are neither trusted or untrusted, just because you or I may be atheistic it doesn’t mean our opinions are correct.

Yes actually, I do think the median human mind is capable of separating trusted/unbiased from untrusted input. That’s why most are able to criticize QAnon and flat earthers. It’s also why young children trust their parents more than strangers. Speaking of median, the median adult does not support QAnon or flat earthers.

There is no evidence that humans are equally or as easily susceptible to manipulation as an autoregressive model as I originally stated.

If you have a < 8000 token prompt that can be used to reproducibly manipulate humans please publish it, this would be ground breaking research.
Do you know about Tuskegee Airmen?
Are you arguing that booze is protected speech?
Is this much different to a shop needing ID to sell a pornographic magazine, to avoid selling it to a minor?
Isn't it what archivemount is for?
I expect Canada is not beyond the reach of US copyright law, in practice.
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Google is defunding those people by taking their money ;)
There is a (loud) community of Bitcoin maximalists who fit this description for sure.

But there is a thriving ecosystem of developers who are very interested in improvement. The Ethereum (and level 2 chains) community has a culture of innovation and shipping features.

There are members of the broader Bitcoin ecosystem like this as well even if the core developers are not.
IANAL, but it looks like a law that's designed to suppress specific forms of art and artistical manifestations, which could be argued are free speech.
I heard it as look at which way the ship is drifting and announce that as the strategic direction. It isn't supposed to be a complement.
Because it is a NIMBY/YIMBY question. If you live somewhere for rent, are you against/for new buildings as they will decrease/increase your rent?
It took me solid 2mins to figure out that each text thing is a link. 2 mins i would not give to this site if I had encountered it anyplace other than HN. You might want to do something to make clear what is a link.

I am on mobile, using the brave browser.
maybe not a name that is nearly the same as a very popular tool?
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That page shows a `mkdir` is 3 json commands. I wonder if its that many HTTP requests.
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> The people themselves rarely create the opportunity.

It's impossible to separate the people from the social institutions which do create the opportunity in the services sector which dominates modern advanced economies.

In the Bay Area/SF the digital economy is defined by the ecosystem of big tech, VCs, thousands of software engineers and maybe tens of thousands of support services like accountants.
There's also 29k.org, a non-profit foundation and an open-source mental health app, where privacy were taken very seriously.
https://29k.org/
https://github.com/29ki/29k

Disclaimer: I used to work here.
Isn't it just a small number to prevent divide by zero errors?
Where I live, they can only legally be sold to people ≥ 18 years old. Maybe that should be more commonplace?
this ignores the systemic and cultural reasons why employee-owned companies haven't spread.
It's reasonable to dismiss hypotheses that are untestable, provide no predictive power and have questionable evidence to support them. That's not so much about being close-minded, but just a practical methodology. If you accept non-testable hypotheses, then how can you tell whether it was the result of a specific deity or an invisible pink unicorn?
Not if the ads result in more money being thrown at them.
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Tokyo is mentioned in the Blog.
> but even the largest coops on that list aren't particularly large as far as corporations go even if some have high revenue

And you think that's a bad thing?
A block doesn't need to be completely effective as to prevent violations - all it needs is to provide enough data to authorities so they can make sure you don't do it too often.
The Dems = blue/Reps = red thing wasn't actually a consistent thing until the 2000 election, when news agencies seemed to all start using it that way for electoral maps.
The alpha-variant was in decline and not the most common iirc, when the widespread vaccination started. Either it rains or it doesn't, but having a rainmaker tell you why his service is necessary is comforting.

> Against the early variants the vaccines were pretty effective in reducing transmission.

Even if it was true, what does it matter?
Which translates to "Illustration on the cover: the image is generated by artificial intelligence"
Sure but even then, forking & fixing that one library will be a walk in the park compared to remaking Figma or Google Docs if those sites ever go down. They don't seem like remotely comparable risks.
> The biggest issue that we see is security, as we outline this in The API Churn/Security Trade-off[1] essay.

> Apparently facebook uses a whitelist to deal with the security issues introduced by GraphQL, but many developers who are using GraphQL appear to not understand the security threats involved with it.

I link to a longer essay on the inherent issues w/ increasing the client-side expressiveness of an API. It boils down to the fact that you give that power to anyone who can fire up a web console, in contrast with server-side expressiveness.

[1] - https://intercoolerjs.org/2016/02/17/api-churn-vs-security.h...
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Honestly I preferred billionaires when they just blew their money on jets like Larry Ellison. At least they weren't making my life materially worse.
Yes, that is exactly the point.

People are not actively making a choice, they are passively making the choice to sit on their phones.
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> That they're free to exist but don't dominate the marketplace

Why do you think not dominating the marketplace is a bad thing?
> and the strange head bandage immediately raised some alerts

Not much makes sense in the image. Like almost every other AI generated image, as soon as you start digging it falls apart completely

- What's the weird arm sling thing ?

- Why is there a white corner on his right side, but not the other ?

- Why does he have a full size paper sheet glued to his arm ?

- The body position doesn't match the bed

- The background is a mess, things collide and disappear in weird ways

The light looks very artificial too
Seems perfectly legitimate to me.
Probably no feasible in the US because of political reasons, but technical I think it could be done similar to how gamling works in Denmark.

You have a government SSO solution (2auth?) called NemID / MitID that is normally used for Banking[1], doctor or hospital appointment, library, student loans and what not.

But if you want to gamble on a Danish online casino you also have to verify your account with it. You can even set yourself on an exclusion list, and will be banned from all Danish online casinos. [2]

What is JSUT?

[1] No matter what bank you are at, same login, pretty neat

[2] https://www.spillemyndigheden.dk/en/rofus#-rofus-
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Same experience. I remember opening a .docx in Word and watching it hang or studder at different operations. I think you'd need very reliable and low latency networking for this to be anything but a painful to use toy.

I'd be curious to see how it works running on EC2, especially with an S3 endpoint in the VPC. Although I still think you'd be better suited by using S3 as an object store, given the option to built it right.
On paper PornHub seems headquartered in Cyprus, and parent company MindGeek in Luxembourg. Tax reasons both probably. But it doesn't matter because MindGeek also owns Brazzers, Reality Kings, and a bunch of other porn studios, and they operate out of the US ("porn valley") a lot. Simply ignoring US law can get them in to a lot of trouble. Even a EU-based outfit is relatively safe in comparison, never mind something located in Russia or whatnot.
Global coal consumption is 8MT, same as 2012, whereas world population is 15% larger and also richer, it is absolutely on the decline as a percentage of primary energy. Coal is also unfortunately an essential resource for many impoverished countries, flying is a privilege that very few people can afford, and has a huge per-capita impact.

We should absolutely try to reduce coal usage as fast as possible, but it's more complicated. Stop coal today, and billions of people will die (the same people that would be impacted by climate change).

Also, it costs money, whereas taxing flyers makes money.
I’m aware of a court case almost a decade earlier where cell phone location information was introduced into evidence.
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Correct.

I am a web developer from the late 90s and I am trying to resurrect hypermedia as a viable option for rich web applications.

https://htmx.org

https://hypermedia.systems
The controversiality is exactly that in the Real World(TM) it's possible to either anonymously verify a certain age (by trivial visual inspection in most cases) or handle it in a way that does not require the potential storage of information (Handing - or better, showing - a cashier your ID doesn't mean they can take a photo of it and store for however many months)

Meanwhile, back on Teh Interwebz, the only way we have right now of verifying age is by uploading photos, or equivalent information, of the identification document, which could be intercepted, stored, or otherwise pilfered with no further indication.

I think there was someone proposing a cryptography-based way of proving "yes, this visitor has access to a non-minor identity", but that requires some sort of government (or similar) service that could also log incidental information, and would require some sort of digital identity service (for example gov.br here in Brazil): Service generates a random token, user gives token to identity service using their authentication, identity service replies with the token signed with a key whose public part the website knows.

This would be "better", in the sense of you don't have to provide any actual identifying information to arbitrary websites, but very bad because now the government can log all age-check attempts. There is probably some more complicated solution to that, but it goes beyond me. In the meantime, my opinion is that online age checks are dumb, easily bypassed, and possibly dangerous. Until we find a proper solution, just educate yo kids properly.

Friendly reminder that criminals don't have to obey laws, so actually dangerous websites (be it just psychologically, like I don't know, gore, to actual illegal things) won't be so kind as to implement an age check themselves anyways. If you want the minor you're responsible over to not view harmful content, teach them about the internet and have a healthy relationship with them so they trust you in the eventuality they see something disturbing.
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Feel free to try and ask the same question with people. A good chunk of them will insert the "to" as well. It's not a gotcha.
The lengths people need to go to because OpEnAI isnt allowing people to use the GPT4 API.

Its been 1+ month and still no API access for me? Can't really blame it on demand anymore.

Will be overjoyed when we get a non facebook licensed LLM that is 95% of the quality to run locally.
I don't think anyone mentioned giving up though. It could very well just be a temporary measure until they find a real partner. Or maybe they never will find one (which could very well be an unfortunate reality for some) in which case they will at least die having experienced some kind of satisfaction.
You can estimate age from images of the user's face (taken via webcam/front-facing camera). It wouldn't work well right at the threshold: you can't reliably differentiate 17 year olds from 18 year olds, but you can reliably keep the 10 year olds out. Or at least make a reasonable effort to do so, clever teenagers will find workarounds involving pictures or Halloween masks.

This method doesn't seem to be allowed by the law in question though.
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Not that I know of, we have some virtual filesystems for specific things, but in general Drive is for shared docs, videos (recorded meetings/presentations) and things like this.

We don't use drive to store other files. Actually, we don't really "store files" since almost everything we need is remote.

See for instance this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13561096
hipaa is a joke
Cars registered in Pennsylvania have only a rear license plate.
> I had an eco friendly washing machine

I'm surprised the plates survived at all, I guess you didn't use the spin cycle?

Kidding aside, dishwashers, even new ones, should be perfectly capable of cleaning your dishes in a single cycle unless they've been left to dry out for days, are stacked improperly, or the detergent isn't dosed correctly. It's always worth consulting the manual for tips as well.
This thing is easy to overflow, consider either represent numbers as strings or ask to pick a number between 0 and FLOAT64_MAX.
GCS is not Drive, it's Google's equivalent of S3.
I was about to ask if anyone used one and noticed improvements. To me these mental apps sound like a scam.
People describe foreign countries for a lot of reasons. One of them is to describe the foreign country. Another is to explain how the country the person doing the the describing is from either should or should not be doing things.

The second reason is very popular because the alternative is saying "If we keep or start doing X in 10 years this country will be heaven on earth or a hellscape!" When people hear that even true believers will be a tiny bit skeptical.

On the other hand "Country Y does X and it's a hellscape or maybe heaven on earth!" In that case - there's no "maybe" on the table. The result is right now.
The overall phenomenon is not random. Our brain is structured, so processes that are not meaningful can produce results that seem meaningful to our brains. Like wind blowing through wind chimes.
Hopefully they stored all that in UTC.
Is the threat for copyright infringement? That would be my guess and probably make the most sense. I think the push back here might be a bit of a red herring if what they're objecting to is the name "GPT4free".

It would be nice to know what the actual legal request was.
I think the comment is pretending to argue using the same logic as its parent comment uses, but about something the parent commenter would find normal and palatable, as a way of drawing an analogy.
Izotope, associated with MIT researchers, makes arguably the best such tool for the pro audio industry. Their RX suite is truly miraculous, allowing audio engineers to visualize frequencies in a similar manner, but also offering brush-like tools to do things such as "deleting a dog bark from a guitar take" fairly easily.
That's roughly correct.

What's interesting, from the perspective of this article, is that at the application level, a hypermedia API is much more tightly bound to your particular application (you are returning specific UI to the client that would be a pain for a third party to consume) but that, despite that tighter coupling, the hypermedia API handles changes better.
That's cool! Did you publish the module somewhere? Could it be in mainline?
> How exactly it doesn't work? Not even China has been able to make their Great Firewall resilient to stuff like VPNs.

I don't have any inside information, but my uninformed guess is that this is by design or at least tolerated to some extent. You don't want a watertight VPN because it stifles commerce.

China PR could pull a Singapore and impose the kind of punishment for using VPN that Singapore does for hard drugs. I have a friend from Texas who lives in China PR and regularly uploads to YouTube. Nothing political, he is talking about living and working as a teacher, so he isn't doing anything controversial but in theory what he is doing is unlawful by China PR laws, right?
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CDU/CSU is the new AfD.
SPD is the new CDU/CSU.
Greens are the new SPD.
FDP are the fiscally conservative socially whatever-we-think our-voters-like-that-day-ism. As usual.

Left are... a mess, please get rid of Wagenknecht and the remainder of the pro-russia tankie wing.

Everything is going wrong in German politics. The current progressive coalition just announced a law that affects me personally very much (our self-id law) and it's such a bad compromise, it legitimizes every fear - real, imagined or performative - right wingers have about trans people, conflicts with existing anti-discrimination policy and makes the legal standing for every trans person (and presumably cis people who don't look "normal" enough) worse, the only good thing they did was eliminate the meaningless hurdles that were mostly monetary anyway (nobody "failed" the prior way to officially change your documents; people just didn't do it for fear of being retraumatized or for lack of funds). I am legitimately so done with politics in this country that I'm considering moving to Spain or Iceland.
My hair fell out while taking a folic acid supplement. I don't think it's guaranteed to protect your hair, it just works on a lot of folks.
This is part of Pornhub's counterproposal: Verify user ID on client side, pair with deice, and approve device ID for adult services.
Google Remote Desktop works on Linux.
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Do you honestly believe that climate change, environmental pollution or nuclear war could eradicate our species?

Because I strongly disagree on that-- civilization collapse I'm willing to believe, but I don't really see how any of these could really eradicate our whole species. That seems unreasonably alarmist to me, but I'm quite open to change my view if you want to back up your outlook.

I honestly believe that the risk from AI to our species over the next century or so is MUCH higher than basically ANYTHING else, by orders of magnitude.

But the only other "viable" ways to wipe humans to me appear:

- Big asteroid impact (historically unlikely)

- Completely runaway greenhouse effect (extremely unlikely according to current science)

- Specifically designed pathogen (big maybe?)
I wonder the same, but I also wonder what the actual use case is for the Drive app on Linux. For me, Drive is mostly for syncing office docs (namely MS-office docs), PDFs and images among teams. That type of work doesn’t lend itself well to a Linux env anyway. And for programming-heavy sync tasks, a user will more likely use a remote Git repo for code and GCS for data. Does google even use MS office internally?
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> Marx wrote a lot of things. How many times did this champion of the working class visit a factory? How much time did he spend in working men's clubs, talking to the miners? Did he ever go down a mine to investigate conditions for himself? Did he form a political party to try and put his ideas into practice?

And how does all of this translate to him thinking that intellectuals should run society?

Also, he was politically active, but you know that since you read his biography...
A rubber hose firewall doesn't need to be completely resilient to VPNs, in fact I imagine they would like a steady supply of people to make an example of.
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> Some people will have their fix anyway, while others will find that the friction starts to change their habits away from it.

Yeah, I think people forget in these discussions how costs work. Making drug / alcohol / pornography usage illegal increases the costs involved, and these cost increases will reduce demand for at least some consumers.

For example, I can't smoke weed because then I can't get Adderall. That's a kind of local prohibition. I could go to the black market for both weed and Adderall but I'm not going to do that, so prohibition has worked here.
"I demand censorship of views I disagree with", redux

How will this look when the roles are reversed? Feels shortsighted, but also unsurprising. Lines up perfectly with the truthiness, "My truth is bigger than yours" theme.

Scientism has become the new secular religion, with all of the intolerance decried as backwards and illiberal elsewhere. There's also doomsday theology. Repent by tabooing meat or worse.

Just yesterday someone posted a link here: "Man ends his life after an AI chatbot 'encouraged' him to sacrifice himself to stop climate change"

I'm not outraged, but disappointed. Hoping we can do better. The entire philosophical premise is problematic, but I doubt we'll have a chance to explore that in a genuine way here. These questions are basically heretical.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/31/man-ends-his-life-a...
I don't understand - what is a reasonable regulation?