skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To those saying "Oh I can tell it's fake, obviously!", consider: will your parents/grandparents?

Well, my parents and grandparents are dead, so probably not.

But, when they were alive, they had enough experience of the real world that they would be suspicious of bandages worn outside of clothes, the printed document wrapped around the arm, and the gauze that rather than wrapping fully around the head seamless merges into the forehead.

But, more importantly, it would be trivial to do what all the really successful fake images of this war and most precious ones have done: just take a real picture, from a real conflict (sometimes, even the same one) and lie about the context. Lying with pictures is not a novel threat.
Legalization started with two small states; it currently generates $3.75B/year in states representing about a third of the country. Notably, New York legalized sales on December 29, 2022, which was too late to generate significant tax revenue; Virginia legalized possession in 2021 but has never legalized sales; NJ legalized in April, NM in April, RI in December, CT in January '23, MO in February '23. So a big chunk of the legal market didn't have a full year of sales last year.

>"The Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) is the number one organization in the U.S. dedicated to legalizing cannabis". So they would likely use any calculations methods that would paint cannabis in a good way.

You can find similar numbers with details from the Motley Fool:

https://www.fool.com/research/marijuana-tax-revenue-by-state...

Also, it's questionable whether high usage rates would paint the most optimistic picture of cannabis legalization. If sales are low, then that makes the case for legalization stronger, not weaker, I would think.
If you've ever taken a look at the "Popular with Women" category on PH or similar sites, it seems like women sometimes actively seek out more degrading porn than you might expect.
The prion thing was a joke. (Not prion disease, that's objectively terrifying.)

> I would really caution against relying on any composting strategy that doesn't get hot for treating it.

Oh yeah. If I were to use this system for human poop I'd probably go a step further and use the resulting compost only on plants that were themselves destined to be (hot) composted.
He Paid $69.3M for an NFT So You Can Download It for Free
Personally, I don't think children should be watching pornography ( I know, hot take! )

However, nanny-laws like this suck and end up having a horrible blast radius for privacy and security.

What happened to parents setting up content filters on cellphones and computers? Why is it the government's job to police your kids?

I can't believe how far Hacker News has fallen. Now we're cool with de-anonymizing the internet? Ludicrous!
It should work exactly as camera and microphone permissions work.

No 3rd party app should have write access to system configurations.
I'm partial to Core Common, Core Uncommon, Core Rare, and Core Legendary.
There are already some extremely potent products on the market, and overuse is easy and can cause some really gnarly side effects.

I always recommend people stick with flower and home made edibles for safety sake. I dabbled in the stronger stuff, and it's nothing like how weed should feel. Insanely anxiety inducing.
Being an ass increasses likelihood of getting attacked - verbally, legally, physically.

In you pisoff enough people, someone will eventually succeed
That's not happening until 2025, GP said "this year".
> it was simply aggressively misused

And it wasn't the only one. I remember a short snippet of Fortunate Son was used to imply it was a patriotic song in a TV ad (Wrangler jeans I think?). The line being "Some folks were made to wave the flag, ooh the red, white, and blue"

The song, released in 1969, is quite clearly a criticism of the US's Vietnam policy. It's not likely to be mistaken for anything else (the way Born in the USA occasionally is), but still was aggressively misused.
Genetic Evidence Ties Covid’s Origin to Raccoon Dogs
Funny that the one comment in this thread that is talking about summaries is the longest on the entire page!
Indeed. Scott is a evangelist which promotes .NET. His circle are surely more in the blogger-sphere, conference speakers, presentation cycle etc. I am pretty sure that he has some deep connections (e.g. to the .NET team itself) but most likely not as a co-worker.
> few joints

Hope you're sharing Cheech.
Good point - currently people generally put these remarks in the "why applying?", but it makes sense to have a catch-all at the end, I've just added it to the form. Thanks!

And no problem for your remark about your Python experience - that usually comes back fast.
Wannabe Github competitors have two major problems:

1) it's free and it's hard to make a profit competing with free. Never mind that it isn't really free. It's free enough that making a profit doing the same thing just is not a great plan.

2) it quite literally has close to 100% of all oss projects in existence on their platform. There are no alternative platforms that have anywhere near close to the same network of developers, companies, etc. Being part of that network provides discoverability, easy access to other developers, etc. People care about Github stars. Nobody cares about whatever the Gitlab equivalent is to that.

Feature wise, Github is a commodity. Hosting projects doesn't cost a whole lot if you think about it. Most git projects aren't very big. They don't get a lot of traffic. Etc. So the real cost of hosting a project is pretty low to begin with. There are of course some bigger projects that would generate a bit of traffic. But on average, it's not much.

Gitlab and others have proved long ago that it's not that hard to replicate what Github did. And that in turn prompted Github to offer it for free because they recognized it was a race to the bottom. Making private projects free entrenched them as the #1 company in this space. And of course they are not for free if you are running big enterprise organizations on them. Sponsoring a lot of tiny OSS projects, libraries, struggling startups, etc. with that revenue isn't that expensive. And it makes sales to companies really easy. Because they and anyone they hire are likely already on Github anyway.

It's of course not that hard to roll your own clone that does more or less the same. Lots of companies have actually done that and some of them have a quite nice business offering that as a SAAS service to companies not interested in using Github for various reasons. So, the added value of doing that some more only diminishes its value. To the point that it's a fairly pointless thing to do. Even if you do it well, it's basically just yet another Github clone without a network.

People that argue the social network doesn't matter are missing the point: it's the thing that matters most. Software development is a social process. And a social network without any members is just not that interesting. And not getting that you are developing and competing with a social network is not a great premise for coming up with something better.

Hypothetically, if somebody were interested in such a thing, imitating what Mastodon is doing to Twitter wouldn't be a bad idea. Git is decentralized by design. But Github isn't, which is in a way the biggest problem people seem to have with it. So fix that problem. The fix is not replacing it with another centralized social network. That would be moving the problem, not solving it. Of course the trick is finding a business model to fund that.
T-Mobile does not require any identification to get a prepaid phone line. You can submit whatever name you'd like for the line. There's no SSN requested either.

Any requirements imposed at a local store are specific to your State. If you really want to get one without providing any PII, get the line in a different State.

Not providing information is the first step of limiting the blast radius of data leaks.
Trying to set yourself as the default handler for anything should pop up a system preferences box. Beating a dead horse perhaps but in the Apple world this works quite well: there are various permissions like “read folders”, “capture keyboard input”, “access location” and so on. When a programs wants to use these, all it can do is put in a request, and pop up a dialog box offering to take you System Preferences. When you’re in System Preferences you can look at e.g. “read folders” permissions and see all the programs that have requested this, and you can check or uncheck each program to decide its access. This is how default handlers should work, too (although it doesn’t in MacOS at the moment, probably because they couldn’t solve the UI issue of having a list of every possible file type, each with a sub list of every program that can open it).

If that was what Windows was intending, and Google found a way around it with sneaky automatic API calls, and Windows fixed the exploit which then resulted in those sneaky calls popping open Settings every time, that would be fine and Google would be the bad guy.

Sounds like that was not what happened here, Windows did some ugly hack (up to and including ‘relying on a Chrome.exe process name’, like, come on) and in fact doesn’t even have a “make request then approve in Settings” workflow, so yeah Windows is the bad guy here. Google is still a little bit bad - you’re fucking up my UI by forcing a self-promotion button into my tab bar, that’s not cool - but overall this situation is a point against Microsoft.

(Personally I’m glad the extent of browser wars for Mac is some apps doing some trick to make you choose between “Chrome”, “Safari”, or “the default browser [Safari]” every time you click a link. I want to use the default option every time automatically, that’s what default means.)
Would there be adverse selection here due to cannabis having been illegal for so long, making more responsible people avoid it?
The code remains wrong. For n=1 it cycles forever.
> Why aren't parents doing basic things like setting up content filters?

Not a comment on the policy; I'm a parent and AFAICT none of my cohorts in town know how to do this.
If it requires reboot, I don't get why it's better than the regular update. And macOS updates now require downtime like in the worst Windows days. Something went into a wrong direction.
MDMA is the chemical name, like ethanol is the chemical name for alcoholic beverages.
Why doesn't the immigrants don't take jobs they help to create jobs when it comes to upper middle class? Suddenly it's fraud, taking jobs etc.
It does appear to be a bit more dangerous for minors than for adults. The main issue is that your brain is much more plastic around your teenage years and is more susceptible to building long-term habits.

That manifested in unexpected ways for men recovering from porn-induced ED. The older men - those who hadn't grown up with high-speed internet porn - recovered significantly faster than the younger men.
> disability from those that did dangerous stuff on drugs, O.D.'s or took something contaminated, non employment from those that cannot hold a job, what amount of social cannabis is a gateway to heavier stuff, etc.

Cannabis is really not what you think it is.
Wonder what the searches reveal about someone? What's worse: search history or DNS logs? I guess it's pretty moot if it's all going to the googs with their DNS and Website Analytics + Ad networks.
That's not good!
It's a straw man specifically because no one is arguing for this. A straw man argument is where you take a version of your interlocutor's argument that is similar, but in some way absurd for critically flawed. Then you attack that critical flaw as a proxy for tearing down the entire argument.

Here's the crux of it: "A world where doctors and McDonald’s workers are compensated exactly the same is one where something major is obviously broken."

Yes, it is obviously broken. The implication here is that the person arguing that "income inequality is bad" is unable to see this completely obvious thing, and pointing it out wins the argument. Because the poster has now "shown" the other position to be obviously wrong and broken.

Except it started with a misrepresentation of the position in order to arrive at that obviously wrong argument. Therefore, strawman.

> If you don't agree that income should be determined by the market, why should doctors make more?

Point of fact, doctors salaries are not set just by the market, because there is an artificial limit on the supply of doctors. If the market truly set doctors' salaries, they might be a lot lower. So saying "income inequality is bad" is not the same as saying "market dynamics are bad"; because here, as in many sectors of our economy, a perversion of market dynamics have caused gross income inequality.
Microsoft to Stop Self-Branded PC Peripherals, Set to Focus on Surface Instead
how to do they use the data for training? Will my questions about the optimal shape of a dildo be remembered forever?
I'm not sure but I think he's putting humanure directly on crops that he then eats. It's a pretty tight cycle, and it seems to me (with ZERO expertise) that if human prions are a thing that's a good way to find them.

But as I said in sib comment, it's mostly a joke.
No reasoning at all - I just found the title funny, since obviously it's only adult use that is counted.
I'm skipping over it because there are inherent differences in different types of media. A) Video games don't involve real people and B) Sexuality is wired in the mammalian brain in a unique way. We can't generalise so easily as you're suggesting.

If I see an actress in a movie being shot, she's not actually being shot. If I see an actress in a porn movie being choked, she's actually being choked. That's not a question of consent, it's a question of content.

But on that note, have you ever worked a shitty or degrading job and had to do things you found painful because you couldn't afford to say no? I have. It's painful to go through. I can't imagine coupling that with the complex layers of human sexuality.

You're saying it doesn't equate because of consent but that's not the aspect I was equating.

Take a look at the front page of PornHub now. There's a video on there showing a man flashing strangers. Yes, they must be actors, but it's filmed in a way that suggests they're not. There's absolutely nothing there that would promote the idea of consent in the mind of a young viewer.

Yes, maybe parents could watch those videos and explain that it's normal to fantasise and play-act about assault. But I'd hope that at the same time we, as adults, would speak with qualified therapists and try to ascertain the roots of our attraction to forcing our genitals onto unsuspecting women.

Final point: PornHub has only required verification from uploaders since relatively recently, after dozens of women took them to court for hosting their rape videos and after it was widely publicised that there was a good deal of underage rape videos on there. There are still other popular sites such as chatpic.org or videos that happily allow abuse content to circulate without any concern for consent. That's only what's on the open web.
Not in Germany, just nearby. The legal drinking age where I live is 18.
I'm not that much older than your son and had a different experience. (My youth was definitely not magazines, if that's what playboy and penthouse are supposed to refer to.) I think we'll need more than n=2 before being able to come to an informed conclusion here.
I remember using Perforce and Accurev about 10 years ago, and they were miles better than Git in terms of abstraction and feature set. I often miss being able to work on multiple branches with partially uncommitted local work for instance.

I do want the open-source world to improve and if we merely build on top of git's abstraction, how can we have any progress then?
My friend likes to refer to the US as a "third world country with a Gucci belt" and sadly I don't think this too far off.
>> Big asteroid impact (historically unlikely)

Not sure if I would call this historically unlikely, definitely extremely infrequent but almost guaranteed to happen again eventually, just maybe on a very large time scale. On the other hand, I think its quite possible some small amount of humans would survive a Chicxulub size asteroid. I'd probably classify its potential damage to the species similarly to other mass starvation causing environmental disasters like climate change.
The failure that is Reddit is the failure of the web.
As long as the average age of all of your wives is above 18 it's ok, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Joseph_Smith%27s_wives
So if solve a problem you can’t retrace the thought process? I mean do you not take notes or scribble?
Archive link

https://archive.is/8hhdv
Beware, I would not trust ChatGPT to produce safe scripts. At minimum, consider using ShellCheck on the result to detect common mistakes such as not quoting variables. Writing safe scripts is very hard.
They neither lie nor hallucinate. They get it wrong. It's a fail.

Is the guy who adds an edit whilst citing a seemingly credible source also a liar? No, they're wrong.

Intent is everything. AI does not have intent. Don't feed the animals, don't personify the LLM.
Are you referring to the Online Safety Act 2021?

https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2021A00076

Or something else?
> "No where did I say anyone is inferior to me? I said some are snowflakes"

There, where you insult people. It seems clear from the context that you are not including yourself in the snowflakes, instead including yourself as superior to the snowflakes. When someone calls someone else stupid or slow or weak or whiner, it's usually in the context of "and I'm better".

> "get offended by the most random thing imaginable and there is no obligation to cater to everyone's whims and fancies."

Whenever you can split the political divide into compassion/cruelty, it's the Left encouraging or supporting compassion and the right siding with "fuck you, got mine". Who, for example, said you had an 'obligation' to write in a particular way? Instead of the article turning into "yeah, okay, no skin off my nose to remove those words" or "I prefer it this way, feel free to write your own version your way", it turns into namecalling, ego protecting, self-defense.

> "The right, having a meltdown over "just" and "simply": Remove "just" and "simply" else it will ruin my flow of thought"

Saying "X is bad because I trip over it" is not melting down. Saying "you trip over X because you're weak and clumsy and a whining crybaby, you'd never survive an Antartic exploration expedition like a True Scotsman, I have no obligation to do what you demand, I don't need to because I don't trip over X" is. It doesn't engage with the actual issue, doesn't consider whether the change has merit more or less than it costs, doesn't reply about why the style is clearer/better/more fun/more personal, it's a reply to show a) the author is in with the tougher more superior crowd who don't need it, b) the requestor is pathetic.
The article is worth an honest read, the author states they are not using sim in this case.
The trouble is, anyone trying to build anything gets this shit. The NEPA process is beyond busted. It’s even used to make it harder to build solar and wind farms.

The problem is that there are too many veto points. It’s easy to add new ones, very hard to remove them. There is no attempt at an ROI justification at any step, so “value of one person’s enjoyment of plovers” is held alongside millions of dollars of wages paid into a community.

I don’t want to bulldoze the wilderness, I know about the burning rivers, EPA is good on net, but I think we need to chop the worst 10% of planning/environmental regulations.
> But Git is pretty good, so it will take something vastly better to replace it.

Correction: Git is super mediocre, but sufficiently wide spread it will take something vastly better to replace it.

Don’t confuse inertia with goodness.
As I understood it, these individuals had at most mentioned receiving piracy warning letters from an ISP; they hadn't posted anything illegal per se on Reddit.
Seems like an imperfect analogy because straight MDMA would be called ecstacy whereas straight ethanol would not be called beer or wine.

My understanding had always been the two were synonymous.
over half a decade old! haha, so assuming you don't use it the day it comes out, but after a couple of years, most people have only used it a couple of years. Unless you've only worked a couple of years, you've gone trough a couple of these.
XTC usually refers to MDMA in pill form, used to be contaminated/mixed with some other additives but it's largely MDMA these days.

Source https://www.drugsinfo.nl/xtc/wat-je-moet-weten-over-xtc
Does being a unique grifter better?
Thing is for things to take off, what is often key is retention.

And retention stats relative to the normal/non-AI way of doing it (e.g. learning a wikipedia page) with these models for most use cases have looked like:
GPT-2: 2%
GPT-3: 10%
GPT-3.5: 40%
GPT-4: 65%
GPT-5: ?

The change has came noticeably because benefits of LLM compound with continued use-case usage.
Political ads serve no meaningful purpose at this point; it would be better to ban all of them, most do more harm than good by presenting missleading information, or using fear, hyperbole, etc to provote an emotional reaction. When I receive any political adverstisements in the mail I don't look at them, they go straight into the recycling bin - even for issues, politicians I would vote for.
Ask HN: Slippery Slope of Deprioritization?
I've noticed a pattern in some teams where a ticket will first have a reaction of "this seems lower priority" and then the next meeting it will be "should we maybe push this to next sprint?" and then next sprint it will be "I am not really sure we should do this at all." and it gets moved to the backlog.

This happens with such regularity that I feel like it needs a name at least. When it starts to happen, I can predict where the ticket will end up with some amount of accuracy. But has anyone found a way to engage with this phenomenon?

The reason I feel it's an issue is that all good work has some amount of uncertainty to it. By that virtue you can deprioritize almost anything this way.
How does this detract from email, the standard?
"Wrong", "a fail-state", "I'm sorry, Dave". Any of these do anything for ya?
>The market is definitely there for enterprise LLMs.

Also in the news: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/02/chegg-drops-more-than-40perc...

>but the real value comes from replace internal “tribal knowledge” with an AI who knows your org in and out

I bet Microsoft is already working on that.
If you look at the git project commit history, you'll notice quite a few of the top contributors are GitHub staff. Personally, I've played with the other options, they're mostly just half-baked clones of GitHub so why bother.
Are you proud you are ignorant about the miliatry operations of the world's most active military for the last 50+ years? You never saw a movie with a huge rectangular shape and thought "hey, that's different than ours here in Sweden? Let me jot that down, not everyone is like Sweden" ?
T-Mobile must have very good security to be able to detect these breaches. Most companies (and government) have terrible security and just assume everything is fine because they never hear about any problems. Of course, you will never hear about any problems if you have no active detection and investigation capability.
I remember around the time of the first new "cyberbullying" legislation (around 2016 if I remember right), it was almost immediately used to hinder the Carlton Breweries strike by accusing organizers of bullying and cyberbullying for reporting on scab tactics. It's all very two faced.
Can I get '/dev/chatgpt'? That would make scripting easier.
It’s based on IP addresses, not computers. There are “IP Geolocation” services that aggregate many different databases to try to guess where an IP address has be allocated physically. See https://whatismyipaddress.com/geolocation