skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Silk Road bust comes to mind - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/10/how_did_the_f...
Harvard sounds like a reputable source. But I didn’t even need to click it to know that would be a David Hemenway link.

That guy is an absolute propagandist. A complete fraud given a platform by Michael Bloomberg who single handedly funds the majority of gun control efforts in the USA.

If you do any research on him at all, you’ll find he was center of the Clinton Admin and 1994 Congress efforts to push gun control, including weaponizing the CDC, funding compete junk studies where data was never released and extremely unethical methodology like a phone survey of 250 people who filed police reports that mentioned someone was shot in a home to conclude that for all people and all reasons “you are x% more likely to die if you own a gun in your home” (eneter Hemenway, and data never released), and all the other lies they used to push the Clinton AWB, which they were severely punished for in the 1996 elections.

Hemenway is a liar and a hack. I would highly suggest finding sources that stay far away from him.
Especially at the beach.
When the time comes, I think I'll be opting for it myself. There's never any dignity in death. That's hopefully a very long time from now though! It's a personal choice, and I'm happy folks are finally being given the choice of how they want to go out when the time comes.
A most sensible idea, first one I see in EV context! The US and Australia are very different but for other places in the west I think fully electric driven for 100 km is to much. The combustion engine would grow along with the weight that grows along with the battery weight. Making the engine and fuel tank larger and would make them and the frame heavier which in turn would ask for a larger battery which asks for more hp again and so the circle continues.

The lower limit seems safety which depends on the other clunkers [allowed] on the road. Solar seems a good way to add weight and strengthen the structure.

Another sound idea is to swap the battery or parts of it. The bigger it is the harder that puzzle gets. I want to see swap while moving tech.
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> These strange papery things are also rather portable.

I remember having books transported through an ocean and paying half of my allowances every month to get two of them while I was in middle school. Same when my kid was born: pre-school kids' books are massively absent from ebooks, publisher assume they won't have a device and don't really care about accessiblity, and it's a real PITA to find books that are either out of publication or in foreign languages.

Portable they are not, at least compared to a few MO of data this days.

I think the underlying assumption in this thread is that "books" are a commodity and are purely interchangeable. You just give "books" to your kids and they'll like it. I'd disagree.
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Absolutely! I didn’t pass a judgement on those companies, just pointing out that you need some form of demand (greenwashers) in order to have any supply (CDR companies) because it’s the classic two-sided marketplace chicken-and-egg bootstrapping problem

The purpose of the market can also be clear (removing CO2 from the air) while simultaneously the “value to humanity” is unclear (hard to measure)
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If you don’t directly kill people, it’s all just God’s plan bro.
Not sure what you mean by "reboot to previous versions". My macbook can only boot Ventura after upgrading. If I wanted to boot Monterey, I'd have to wipe the drive and reinstall from scratch (or restore from backup). Also, every system has features that other systems don't have out of the box.

The extreme 37gb example is already deduplicated and compressed (from over 100gb of data). Plus it doesn't require learning the user-unfriendly nix (which is absolutely necessary for debugging when things break).
Ridiculous strawman argument, smartphones —are not— synonymous with all technology. You can educate children in different types of technology and yet also not give them unfettered access to smartphones.
This falls right in the uncanny valley of relatability for me.
America's answer to the trolley problem was to get rid of all the trolleys.
Mods have no real power, because there are any number of volunteers waiting in the wings to take over to be able to wield that same power.

In most subs most care about having that power to silence and punish people they dislike more than to do actual good, IMO.
Even strongly antifascist[1] forums like ResetEra have famously canceled themselves and purged significant parts of their own community at times.

[1]: Largely accidentally, as they earn it through being the most "pearl-clutching"-iest community on the internet.
What’s your suggested path for someone new to this to learn about ML and how it can solve business problems?

Deeplearning.ai
Fast.ai
Kaggle.com

?
Haha, from the outside in this appears accurate.
This is a loss leader for GCP. That's not really the same situation.
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Actually this is a EU legislation, which forces all member countries to do so.
Can you explain further? Eugenics could well be a goal of euthanasia for some folks, but within the context of the article, newly acquired impairment is mentioned.

If you lose your eyesight, hearing, mobility et al suddenly due to an accident, that has no impact on your DNA and spreading any further disability in reproducing. However, being dead may well be preferable to feeling locked in for a lot of folks.
I agree in the general case for more complex apps. Firebase for example.

In this case, it seems the content is the real value rather than the app itself. Meaning, the app doesn't have too many roots that can't be uplifted. The main pieces I see are:

- registering as 1st party app ( a couple months with redtape )
- used a standard database ( shouldn't use more than a year )
- used standard auth ( should take less than a year )
- getting an approved domain name and real estate ( technically it's not a big of a change. it could be political, which brings me back to my original commentary)

In the worst case, it would take 2-3 years even at Google pace to rewrite the app. It's been 7 years.
If you're going to pull that thread, the title of the posted could use some amendments, too.
Maybe... though with a growing trends of the most affluent / best educated families in SF Bay Area not allowing smartphone use I find your prediction unlikely.
It's strange but it appears that Reddit may be astroturfing their own site: https://www.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/140gd1y/b...
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> There is something about developing a work ethic as a young person that is important.

I started delivering newspapers when I was 10. Dropped out of college and was somewhat depressed with a series of menial jobs. Eventually got on track again, got an A.S. and got a job in the industry I wanted to be in. But it was a low level job that left me very little autonomy and didn't tax my intelligence.

At some point I just stopped caring. A "work ethic" can be killed. Or can devolve into a "money" ethic where people play the kinds of financial engineering games that led to the 2008 recession.

I care again, but only because I'm not doing a menial job anymore.
As someone who has lived in London for a long time and spent a lot of time in NYC, no eye contact (especially on public transport) is a hard and fast "big city quality-of-life" rule. If someone makes eye contact with me on public transport they are almost always crazy, intoxicated or some kind of tourist/visitor.
What about the idea that we should do every panicky thing we are told, including shun loved ones and demand people be rounded up or locked in their houses forcibly? Does that feel deeply immoral to you?
Exactly. They are not workers, they do it for free.
Yes they are partner level. How many 50 year old lawyers has your firm hired recently? Ones who haven't advanced to partner?
Unless the trolley is guns in which case America solves it with a lot more trolleys.
>What would be the point of turning it into language internally?

Shorter pathway from thinking to writing or speaking. I don't have an inner monologue, and I do feel cognitive load in trying to express my thoughts that I don't think people with an inner monologue experience. I can 'see' something in my mind, but I need to actively search for words that correspond to that, since transferring an image or a 'concept graph' is impossible to do via speech and difficult to do with pencil and paper.
Honestly, it sounds like a great reason for the world to not care about Reddit.

I hope people start seeing the value in decentralization again.
> The traditional approach makes upgrading a runtime much harder, as everything depends on it

Or just get a package manager that actually solves the problem and can handle multiple versions of every package. Then you get good deduplication, and can still use whatever you wish. Nix and guix are like this.
> I have a strong aversion to Python

Me too, I like nothing about the language. Luckily, almost everything you do in HA besides contributing is not done in Python (by default).

But I love C#, so just in case there are others, I wanted to mention that you can write all kinds of automations in C# as well with NetDaemon [0]. Including full intellisense.

[0]: https://netdaemon.xyz/
How was the rant about Khilanani related to MAID in Canada? It is so random
I see where the strikers are coming from, but isn't this an intractable problem? There's no way to tell if content is AI generated.
Now that this is unlocked.

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2022/06/07/...

> A young Canadian woman is reconsidering medically assisted dying after a GoFundMe campaign
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By and large, no.

The thing to remember is: they aren't being scraped "off the internet" but rather from somebody's site -- and if that site has a ToS which says the material is copyright, and/or has any other restrictions -- or there's a robots.txt that plainly forbids all form of scraping -- well, you know exactly what to do from there. Right?
What is your exact proposal?

Kids - specially young ones cannot self regulate against billion dollars corporations that build features to keep people hooked

So please tell me a concrete applicable way that we can apply today to protect them.

I will not accept as solutions because is not applicable today by parents:
- retricting social media account (the ones over 7-8 years old will find ways to say yes to a screen that asks for age)
- saying Facebook or Tiktok should fix it - they will not
- saying we should give them restricted phones - does not work practically
- family should educate them - that works individually but it does not work society wise

So how do you protect the kids from this as a society?
It’s your decision to make, but in large urban cities like New York, most kids are going to and from school alone at that age.
I'm confused. What exactly was going so wrong with the temporary AI ban that they felt a near-180-degree turn would be better? I did see the mention of "the rate of inaccuracy experienced by automated detectors aiming to identify AI- and specifically GPT-generated content", but that hardly seems so catastrophic as to suggest the opposite would be better.
This is not a wave. (a video essay on the nature of photons)
You should really publish a paper on this novel research.
> I'm tired of ecosystems.

> Bring back the 90s. Bring back personal websites. Bring back people sharing their own content on their own terms.

Not sure if you remember the 90s like I do. The percentage of people sharing their own content on their own terms was dwarfed by that of content hosted on 'ecosystems'. In fact, I'd assert that the path to accomplishing the same is far less steep now compared to then.
> unable to navigate file systems

In 5 years I'd assume that skill will be completely obsolete for "normal" people.

Heck even as a programmer I loathe navigating files and am searching everything as much as I can. Sure some kids will need to learn about file systems as they grow up, just as some of us learned how boot loaders work or how CPU are architected. But I wouldn't put that as mandatory literacy even today.

> regular PC applications

Looking at the latest developments from Apple and Microsoft, I don't see "regular" PC applications staying much different from phone/tablets one for much longer either.
In case you were wondering what happens with those hypothetical "good apples" you keep hearing about. All cops aren't bastards, but the ones that are demand conformance from the rest. Doing this so openly blatant is a strong sign the NYPD union is too far gone to reform, and should be prosecuted with the laws used for organized crime, because that is what it is.
I agree.

Even in Christianity there are noble suicides when the suicide is performed to do a good.
My understanding is that the Steam Deck, which uses a Zen 2 APU, dynamically allocates system RAM to VRAM. It only works in SteamOS (Arch Linux) though. Folk that run Windows on their Steam Decks need to go into the BIOS and bump the static mapping to 4GB in order to get good performance in many games.
On the other hand they could take that 2–3 years of work and spend it doing anything else. I doubt someone’s highly incentivized professionally from migrating this over.
I don't get their current motivations, either. They're about to cut off their nose to spite their face. This is how social media sites die. See, e.g. Digg.
1. Books are portable, but they're much less portable than phones.

2. Not all books are available, or available locally, or available locally in the language you want.

3. Phone book readers don't normally have adverts, videos, or other distractions. If yours does, you should check other options.

Source: Read most of Patchett from my phone on the bus to school, it was not available locally and even if it was I would definitely not add any more books to my backpack.
Do you think these kids are going to get access to laptops?

But to answer the question: patterns of socialization that their peers will follow. How to work around surveillance and filtering. How (and why) to jailbreak locked hardware.
It's not that complicated. "Courses" are canned, one-way training material (comparison: books, lectures) that usually cost nothing. "Labs" are interactive exercises that require spinning up resources for each user (comparison: science labs with chemicals and beakers) so they usually cost something.
Lemmy is great.

https://join-lemmy.org/
This is such a weird article. From rants about a deranged doctor, to vaccine conspiracies, to poverty and euthanasia.

In a sense, it's classic conspiracy theory writing. Mention a bunch of things together and people will connect them even if there's no actual connection there.
It looks like he's pivoting to Intel (but for how long).
2-3 years of not focusing on core product. Google has made this mistake a ton. It’s also learned with Nest using non google hosting for a longgg time.

The app gains nothing by being in google proper. So just don’t do it. Focus on what matters most not on being technically correct.
Lots of commenters here comparing smartphones and books... Hell, ever lost track of time reading because you were so deep in a book? There's no better feeling and doomscrolling is the exact opposite, it's a mindless activity.
> the government controls what the people think (case in point, the helmet "law")

This was a just a cash grab.
I don’t know how you work but in our company (~ 100 people) everybody has a Mac and literally no one has a 1TB drive and no one has issues with hard drive space either (including devs).

Furthermore the Library folder contains application’s data, not applications…
Why? Nobody said that more work == more voting power. It could be just a small threshold of (say) 1 hour of work to gain access to voting.
Why should sandboxing be part of package management? We should absolutely need sandboxes as non-android linux’s security is criminal, but that’s a separate issue in my opinion.
> I hardly think the videos are causing the violence

Don't you remember "happy slapping"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_slapping
>that Google derives the same value from, if that value is not dependent on either person's location, then how does Google justify the differential in pay?

Because the pay is independent from the value the person is generating. It is just the amount someone is willing to accept to take the job. The amount Google pays is based off what other employers are able to offer people living in the area. They gather market data of offers made by the other employers and themselves and then choose a range that they are willing to pay hoping that paying an upper percentile will attract top talent.

>Why not only higher from LCOL areas

The two main factors are that Google wants to hire top talent and they want to have people come in to their offices which may recide in a HCOL area. For why not to split up the offices I imagine there are due to some underlying network effects with having coworkers be at the same location and partner companies being a short ways away.
Technically if you use jemalloc, which most everyone should do anyway, it comes with built-in instrumentation but you need to enable it compile time and generally not many are aware of this.
I think this will make people less likely to tip. I hate the imposition of it in Australia, so fingers crossed this will only result in becoming something that people are embarrassed of due to lacking willpower. After all, you've already paid for something, why should you give them extra money for free? You're not even giving it to the anyone in particular - you're just giving extra to the business because they asked.
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A “good” pdf reader only needs a bug and a bad pdf file.
What do you think the rest of us did? Also, is the topic pretty phones or smartphones?
> olivine coating of beaches promises to be both cheap and effective

The problem with all these novel get-carbon-credits-quick ideas is that they are difficult to verify. How do we know that the outputs aren't taken in by some other ecological process and spat back out as CO2? How do we know the process doesn't reach some saturation point? How do we know how well it generalizes to all coastlines?

... and if we find out 5 years from now that it's bunk, do those carbon credits get revoked?
Canada is no stranger to such things https://mjlh.mcgill.ca/2021/11/24/de-jure-and-de-facto-discr...
> In most subs most care about having that power to silence and punish people they dislike more than to do actual good, IMO.

I strongly disagree with this.

What you describe isn't most mods, it's just the loudest form of modding. Mods who do the banal tasks well will hardly even be noticeable.

I mod a few subs, in my experience most mods are just kinda boring.
there is https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/200203/six-degre...

or its longer version http://www.columbia.edu/itc/sociology/watts/w3233/client_edi...
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

Sure, developing countries don't have the infrastructure to recycle. The point of criticism here is reduce.

Datapoint: I'm vietnamese and think the use of plastic is unnecessary. It doesn't take much education to understand that plastic is bad, especially when the government has no hesititation to govern people's thought.
> And if you don't have a home with a garage to charge your car? How do apartment dwellers charge their car?

Hacker News is obsessed with "but sometimes".

If an idea is obviously better, and improves life for the majority of people but sometimes brings new issues, then throw the whole thing out.

It's a weird kind of technology conservatism that I am truly surprised to see here on HN, but I do keep seeing it, about all kinds of things.
Great read!

I originally learned about this in the mid 90's in a manual for this drab brown and green Timex Field Watch that I bought. I wrote about this on my blog awhile back too:

https://brokensecrets.com/2010/04/22/use-your-watch-as-a-com...
> Man, I love this idea. Imagine if in JavaScript, you could just add a `?` to a line to print out the value of all variables and expressions referenced.

Tomorrow is today: https://twitter.com/TodePond/status/1595464031728459776
I'm a current Googler and I'm not livid.
Agreed. Part of the strategy for obtaining that goal is to stop giving them free propaganda points, in my view. Being as propaganda is one of the primary capital streams (besides oil revenues) that the regime unequivocally responsible for this whole calamity seems to run on.
Can confirm. Don't ask me how I know, either.

But, I can confirm that the worst part of being put in the HN penalty box is that you basically can't get out. I think that's pretty shitty.
The pit bull is bred so that it keeps biting no matter what.

Their bite force is about 235 psi and some can pull over 3000 lbs.

It's the most abandoned breed and the one with most safety incidents.

So:

- keeping a pit bull on leash doesn't make a difference

- once it's aggravated you cannot control it anymore

- nobody actually needs a pit bull

- it can disfigure or kill a person or animal at any moment: you, your family, your neighbors, their pets, dog sitter, etc.
Oh great, another person who prefers other people to suffer through physical/mental illness instead of having autonomy over their own life. “Ooh but people are being coerced” then fix that. The authors argument, and especially their closing statement, is the equivalent of “encryption is bad and must be outlawed to prevent child sex trafficking and if you disagree you’re a pedo”.
I mod about 10 subs myself, biggest with just over a million subs. I think it's absolutely most mods.

Maybe not on the smaller subs that are truly community orientated, and maybe not on some of the bigger truly well run subs, but on most subs? Sure.
See this page for some efforts to archive YouTube, let them know which videos/channels you want saved:

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/YouTube
'round here if the sheep are on the beach they've fallen off the cliff .. that's a whole other carcass of worms to deal with :(
The Open Letter linked in this post is probably a better explanation for most people:

https://openletter.mousetail.nl/

The meta post linked here is targeted more towards an internal audience of active users.

There are two big parts to this issue, one is that the company is overriding the decisions of the communities and essentially preventing them from moderating AI-authored content entirely. The second one is the way this was done, with no feedback at all, extremely quickly, with vast differences between the public policy and what they told the moderators.
This is a harmful misunderstanding and mischaracterization of the phenomenon. Ordinary people are far more likely to get canceled than fascists because the cancelers don't hang out on fascist forums. They go after people who have slightly less "pure" opinions than their own in the regular communities they participate in. A classic example is the implosion of the knitting community - https://unherd.com/2020/01/cast-out-how-knitting-fell-into-a...

This problem predates the Internet and is a strong argument against mob violence as a form of protest. For example race riots in the US invariably occur in low income black neighborhoods, and the result is a bunch of black businesses get looted and destroyed. The mob is not capable of going to where the elite are and doing real damage to them so instead they trash their own neighbors and perpetuate the cycle of oppression. Similarly the cancelers tend to participate in communities that largely share their views and then destroy those communities over minor affronts.