skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you may find this article of interest, it's a decent backgrounder to this point of view, and hopefully gives insight into why many left-leaning feminist women have adopted this view or are moving towards it:

https://hollylawford-smith.org/what-is-gender-critical-femin...

Holly Lawford-Smith's book Gender-Critical Feminism expands on this in much detail. Kara Dansky's book, that you cited, is an enlightening read too, with more of a focus on US law and politics, as her linked blog post is. If you would prefer a more philosophical treatment of this topic, may I also recommend Kathleen Stock's work Material Girls.
Yes, because the owners love paying for and wasting their time to stop and buy more expensive gasoline than they need to.
GitHub Advanced Security is so expensive. I can’t see the benefit considering we have a SonarCloud instance which is 1/3 of the cost. All our credentials are stored in vaults or IaC, so one of their main selling features we don’t need.

When ever there’s a sales team in front of a service it seems like the service isn’t worth the cost.
Source that 1B people use Instagram?
Because the people with purchasing authority know nothing about security, they are unable to distinguish real, good security practices and products from defective, over-hyped, and/or pointless "security" products constantly shilled at them.

In other words, "cybersecurity" is a "Market for Lemons": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_for_lemons

A lemon market will be produced by the following:

1. Asymmetry of information, in which no buyers can accurately assess the value of a product through examination before sale is made and all sellers can more accurately assess the value of a product prior to sale
2. An incentive exists for the seller to pass off a low-quality product as a higher-quality one
3. Sellers have no credible disclosure technology (sellers with a great car have no way to disclose this credibly to buyers)
4. Either a continuum of seller qualities exists or the average seller type is sufficiently low (buyers are sufficiently pessimistic about the seller's quality)
5. Deficiency of effective public quality assurances (by reputation or regulation and/or of effective guarantees/warranties)
I don’t have an instagram account and don’t plan on having one. My Facebook account is basically dormant. Threads would be interesting in any way at all if you could use a WhatsApp account for it. Maybe.
> Personally I'll just leave Mastodon if it happens.

Just change to a homeserver that moderates the way you agree with. Mine made a poll and it doesn't look like there will be any restrictions on federating with Threads.
https://gpt4all.io/index.html
> the government can certainly pass information

As you acknowledge, that's not remotely the issue here.
The R&D will march forward regardless of profitability, there's already been a ton of innovation in the open source space. You're likely to see less innovation with these companies squatting on their IP, data and hardware moats. Case in point: pre-stable diffusion AI vs post-stable diffusion AI. So much innovation happened as soon as the model was "opened".
There's currently months of effort, in part because of the labor constraints. Its not worth paying a guy with a tow truck to go looking for a car that might not even be there. ALPRs exist to lower that cost of labor, potentially to the point that the lender can still make money sending out the repo guy much sooner than 90 days.

I'm not even upset about that. Hell, it might be a net good, I dunno.

The thing that I'm concerned about is that there is no guarantee (or even guard rail, really) against selling that data to a law enforcement organization that would otherwise have to undergo judicial scrutiny to get that data. What happens when some hacker gets a hold of their license plate database and uses it for an actual stalking operation? Or who knows what else?
Threads has such a feigned positivity feeling to it. It's uncomfortable. Like the entire app is an HR cultural video. I'm sure the influencers they poached to the app were given a list of threads to post like "What's an inspiration quote you guys like?" or "What books have you read recently?" Of course this is all intentional since the end goal is just placating advertisers when they eventually add ads to the feed.

Maybe when Meta is done paying people off to post fake things the real culture will make it through.
As a spanish who pays 47% PIT and a ton more taxes including 21% VAT, tax for having a property (only one!) and that I see how much money is wasted on top of a 113% official GDP debt... and I can tell you tjat to pay what I pay you do not need to make even 80,000 eur/year.

Who do you propose it should pay those 20,000? This woman, who talks to people as if they were 10 yo or less, said "the rich people". Do you know how much of that proposal you can pay with "the rich" in Spain? Very little. And by very little I mean not even 5% of that, probably less (I did not make the exact numbers but I am pretty sure it won't go beyond that).

If you knew politicians, especially spanish politicians, you should know that the only thing they want is more money controlled through their hands. You know why, right? We all know it...

Every spanish has 35,000 eur debt right now. A great idea, yes... to charge pwople that did not ask you with more debt til services collapse.
I deeply love the idea that management is like the retirement home for developers after you've burnt out. You've put in your time, and now it's time to just sit back, "manage", and do sweet FA.

I mean... for a LOT of management, that's entirely true.

but you really need to dream bigger!
This might be of interest:

RFC 8984 JSCalendar: A JSON Representation of Calendar Data
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8984.html
The rule is created by the website owner to avoid getting sued into oblivion by not following GDPR (written by politicians), which it shouldn't really have to, because this is a local news affiliate for a city in the United States. I wouldn't exactly call that "local censorship".
> none of the employees left super rich from this deal except maybe the founders

You could say that about 99.9(9?)% of startup exits.
I'd recommend huggingface's transformers library. You probably don't wanna be finetuning these LLMs yourself since that's a big endeavour, but secondly because they already have the NLU capabilities to solve your problem. You basically want to train a single classification layer on top of your models output. I believe it'll be something like "CausalLMForClassification" in the huggingface docs.

As far as resources go for finetuning I haven't found many great resources. But again, you probably don't wanna be finetuning these massive LLMs for your particular use case -\_/-
Buenos suertes.
i wonder how those kinds of proposals are even legal. It's litteraly the equivalent of buying votes.
Great great point
Actually there are currently over 2.35 billion monthly active Instagram users. Instagram achieved the 2 billion mark in the 3rd quarter of 2021, and it is estimated to reach over 2.5 billion MAUs by the end of 2023.

https://www.demandsage.com/instagram-statistics/
How about just cutting taxes? Damn politicians love to rob Peter to pay Paul so much...
I wonder how heavy that bag labeled $44Bn musk is holding weighs...
It's been working just fine for years. The people don't want a platform they have to genuinely participate in. They want celebrities, corporations and their data to be stolen and sold to see it as a successful platform for mindlessly browsing.
It actually is the same Imagination.
These companies always say these taxis are safer on average than the human drivers.

Yes, but I don't drink and drive, which accounts for a huge amount of driver deaths (plus others of course). I don't speed at crazy speeds. I don't aggressively try to pass. I don't use my cell phone to text.

The average deaths stats for a person who does none of the above are VASTLY different than the theoretical average of deaths per 1M miles.
Cool thanks and awesome project =)
I think you can tell a lot about the author based on the fact that they think Bluesky is “free flowing and authentic”
mmmmmmm-oney.

Always be selling. Who do you sell Threads to?
> The cost per user to maintain these kinds of platforms is extremely low

> Many people (especially tech people) have an almost psychotic adversity against any kind of paid online services.

I'd guess it is exactly because we know how cheap running base social network is, how little value is in all the feature and fidelity overhead and realize that ultimately we aren't invited to pay for the service, but for the whole bullshit business built on top of it.
It will always be a fascinating piece of historical trivia that Zuckerberg was represented as an iconoclastic hacker in The Social Network, when he had already turned into a turgid adtech executive by the time the movie came out.
Why do you like it more? I looked it up and it seems nice, but it's full of sales pitches and your comment could honestly be taken as viral marketing. Are there downsides? I'm willing to pay if it is legitimately that much better of a service but I'm not sure the example results are that great compared to Google and just checking sources and skipping ads
> Like a $19 turkey sandwich at an airport

What's wrong with $19 turkey sandwich, is delicatessen 25€ turkey sandwich better?
Surprise! 30 million people wanted to join BlueSky because they wanted a twitter alternative that wasn't filled with hate fill toxic weirdo's. Now Meta's got em.
4D chess move there guys.
> Mark “My other platform enabled a literal genocide” Zuckerberg

Into the garbage bin it goes.
Since you mention it, what part of the Twitter files was most damning? Can you share that part?
Yeah, this feels exactly like the Google+ launch.

And of course that the thread got flagged, for whatever reason.
Yep, Twitter has many "weird subculture" communities where people make obscure references, have their own values and in-jokes, &c. It does feel like these newer platforms are so artificial and cleaned up, and just so right-on and politically correct.
> It’s better than Twitter, of course, which has Berlin 1937-vibes.

Other than giving himself away as a hyperbolic partisan ass, the rest of the article was really funny. I said something similar about the metaverse: it's not really possible to build a community at scale out of nothing like this. Organic growth is what makes something authentic, if you just plop down a multi-million user new community, it gets all of the problems or a big platform without any of the entrenched good stuff that made it popular. It will be interesting to see if it's possible to convert, I doubt it because it will require a patience and stubbornness that Meta has never shown.
More bus lanes would be a cheap and easy start. The problem with current car centered cities is that taking transit is slower than taking a car so people with the means use the fastest transit option by driving. If you remove minimum parking laws and increase bus lanes which let transit users bypass traffic, this is a low cost way to encourage more transit usage.
The paper is linked in a sidebar on the article itself, and a 1-second google of the title plus "PDF" resulted in an arxiv link.

arxiv.org/pdf/2208.05948.pdf
We need a proper, competitive and open source model. Otherwise we are all fucked up.
The package hosting protocol is relatively trivial. I believe a couple of alternative implementations have been written, but I'm not sure they're maintained because there's no point. Anyone can publish to the Snap Store. Because snaps are sandboxed at the client end, there's no gate except automated checks.
This was an entertainingly written piece.

Threads, as an MVP, does not yet have the ability to see only content from those you follow. That hardly means it won't. Already, activity from those you follow shows up first in your feed, so TBH it's a pretty good experience until you run out of followees' content. It's extremely premature to write it off.
no expert, but from my messing around I gather the chat models are tuned for conversation, for example, if you just say 'Hi', it will spit out some 'witty' reply and invite you to respond, it's creative with it's responses. On the other hand, if you say 'Hi' to an instruct model, it might say something like, I need more information to complete the task. Instruct models are looking for something like 'Write me a twitter bot to make millions'... in this case, if you ask the same thing again, you are somewhat more like to get the same, or similar result, this does not appear so true with a chat model, perhaps a real expert could chime in :)
I enjoyed the read. Chucked a few times. Some of the one liners are quite subtle.
Threads seems like a great example of commoditize your complement.[1]

If you can start with the premise that the primary paying audience for both Twitter and Instagram are advertisers then the value Threads provides to Meta is to provide an additional feature bundle to those advertisers. Basically:

"Hey look Mr. Brand Advertiser, included in your $999 a month Instagram ad subscription, you now get access to Threads (our Twitter clone) with 1K Thread ad impressions bundled in for free - for a limited time only."

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
I don't really agree. There are countless ads I have zero recollection of because I don't care in the slightest. I'm a guy, and I remember Playtex commercials for women, because it is interesting in a way what women deal with IMO.
Now, you can argue that advertising works to make me interested in something enough to choose to care, but that's different.
Pretty darn up to date. Tbh I think it's not unusual for it to be more to date than the current Ubuntu stable (which I thought started out as a snapshot of Sid).

As for proprietary drivers, the non-free repos have traditionally carried everything I need.
heuristics are imperfect; validation checks to make sure that you've found what you're looking for.

the rub there, though, is that validation is extremely rigid and heuristics aren't. an attacker could (ideally) change a single bit in their signature to falsely pass validation but a heuristic will probably still catch it.
How much faster is this:

int run_switches(const char *buf) {
size_t len = strlen(buf);
int res = 0;
for (size_t i = 0; i < len; ++i) {
res += (buf[i] == 's') - (buf[i] == 'p');
}
return res;
}

strlen() should be implemented in a pretty fast way, and after the buffer size is known, the compiler can autovectorize the inner loop, which does happen in practice: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/qYfadPYoq
...and Ian.
I really wish people would stop treating IM as a proxy for face-to-face interactions. It isn't that, because we are not face-to-face, but that's how these IM apps got their contracts, sadly.

Email forces people to wait, be patient, be clear about what they want to say since its much more obvious engaging in face-to-face conventions in that medium is hella annoying.
Twitter accuses Threads of IP theft
In the US, less than half of all college teaching is done by professors. The remainder are "adjunct" teachers, whose job focus is on teaching. An adjunct job tends to have low pay, is short term, and you sign away some of your rights under the labor laws. You have to re-apply for your job every semester.

Perhaps the real difference is how Germany treats workers.

The US has community colleges, that focus on teaching. In my state, the community college teachers are unionized, and teaching is treated more like a career.

Disclosure: I was an adjunct for a semester at a Big Ten university, more than 25 years ago. My spouse has worked there as a non-faculty researcher since that time.
It looks like either a Unijunction Transistor[1], or some sort of variable Zener diode[2] would fill this gap.

[1] https://www.eeeguide.com/ujt-circuit-diagram/

[2] https://www.electroschematics.com/variable-zener-diode/
Yes, like any technology, it takes time and real-world use to mature it.

As it stands right now, EV's are NOT up to the task of replacing Combustion Engines full stop, even in the light commercial/consumer car markets. Are they improving each year and able to cover more and more applications where ICE previously excelled? Yeah.

But EV's are pretty shit right now tbh. Sure, they're perfectly fine for a broad part of the personal/consumer car market. There's a LOT of owners of Camry's, Impala's, Civics, etc that would love a similar form factor EV Version of their car. I'm not denying that. But Camry's and Civic's and Joe Blows daily driver aren't the biggest polluters. Additionally, car pooling and public transit could reduce the number of personal commuter consumer vehicles by massive numbers, it would have a far bigger impact on local/regional air quality/pollution than switching them to EV's ever could hope to.

It's the trucks, from pickups all the way up that are the key, and why I say EV's are shit. You can't carpool fully loaded Semi Trucks together (not safely anyway). If your metric for "EV better than ICE" revolves around Emissions, then your EV needs to be able to match the 8+ hour duty cycle of a combustion powered work truck, while beating it on emissions. Battery/Charging tech isn't quite there yet, though a high capacity battery swap system (despite having a multitude of it's own challenges) would help "bridge the gap". Just look at the Rivian and it's terrible mileage when actually hauling a load (even with regen braking, they don't beat diesel on range, despite eating MULTIPLE thousand pounds into the GVWR budget). This is where the reality and logistics of EV's today just fall flat for long haul and large/heavy freight, and unlike with camry's, there aren't viable alternatives like public transit, biking, carpool etc.

And GM's about to learn a very hard lesson by not allowing Android/Apple Car Play to drive this point home.

Also

> Electric vehicles generate fewer carbon emissions than those powered by combustion engines over their lifetimes,

How many EV's do you have to go through to match the lifetime of 1 ICE powered vehicle? Genuine question, they traditionally have been significantly worse, but battery tech is getting pretty good.

Toyota's right. Hybrids are the way to go TODAY, because there's a lot more to this debate than Emissions (Like it or not, the grid is not ready for a rapid turnover of ICE to EV, and it wont be cheap to address). Long term, assuming we don't hit some sort of hard wall with battery tech or something, they absolutely will be superior.

Though, frankly, I'd much rather see this car centric madness die. Advocating for EV's or hybrids over ICE is a lot like advocating for a duller knife because it kills you slower when what you really need to do is realize you don't need a knife for 99% of your daily tasks in the first place.

But the world can still breath so we're not ready for that discussion yet.
I think you'll find that there are a large number of normies on Twitter, if you look under the hood.
> the question of whether it's actually profitable for a tech company to be completely staffed by robots

This is based on the assumption that when we have access to super intelligent engineer AI's, we will be able to construct robots that are significantly more capable than robots that are available today and that can, if remote controlled by the AI, repeair and build each other.

At that point, robots can be built without any human labor involved, meaning the cost will be only raw materials and energy.

And if the robots can also do mining and construction of power plants, even those go down in price significantly.

> the luddite on the street and the concerned politician would be way more concerned about the company building a private army.

The world already has a large number of robots, both in factories and in private homes, and perhaps most importantly, most modern cars. As robots become cheaper and more capable, people are likely to get used to it.

Military robots would be owned by the military, of course.

But, and I suppose this is similar to I Robot, if you control the software you may have some way to take control of a fleet of robots, just like Tesla could do with their cars even today.

And if the AI is an order of magnitude smarter than humans, it might even be able to do an upgrade of the software for any robots sold to the military, without them knowing. Especially if it can recruit the help of some corrupt politicians or soldiers.

Keep in mind, my assumed time span would be 50 years, more if needed. I'm not one of those that think AGI will wipe out humanity instantly.

But in a society where we have superintelligent AI over decades, centuries or millienia, I don't think it's possible for humanity to stay in control forever, unless we're also "upgraded".
Why are we even hashing the nonce in the first place? Don’t we have enough entropy these days to just pull what we need?
so this is a problem but a politician promising giant tax cuts isn’t?
That's not an answer to my question. For example, I see no evidence Debian is moving toward app images as the standard way to distribute software. Same goes with Arch and I'm sure many others.

And btw SteamOS is absolutely not a sandboxed environment. It just has a read-only OS filesystem so they can safely blow it away upon upgrade.
i'm seeing a lot of support on lemmy and mastodon for defederating with servers that are associated with meta. i also hope threads takes off, and i would prefer to see everything integrated, but i wonder how difficult things will be for meta here.

it's possible that it just doesn't matter at all, and in fact the centralization is a selling point for pretty much everyone who isn't a nerd about federation.

we'll see.
Patents? Trademark? What do you mean?
I remember when online defaulted to anonymous, but I don't remember it ever being very private? Most forums or chat systems that predate facebook were public by default, with the users full history in plain view.

I suppose posting photos of yourself or your kids publicly wasn't that common prior to facebook, though.
> Lego themselves have an archived copy of every instruction set going back to the 80s, available here - https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/buildinginstructions

This can't be true: I am very sure that there exist Lego Technic models from before 1996, which is the oldest year that can be selected.
france is slowly but surely turning into an authoritarian regime.

People voted against the extreme right to fight against "fascists" but it seems like it's coming anyway, disguised as a cool looking mid 40 guy.
Suppose you want to force people to drive less — you increase gas prices with a tax.

Citing this extra tax, some lawmaker spends money on something completely irrelevant that was lobbied to them. Public transport is a fairly distant concern for most of them.

Oil companies increase crude prices to get on the gravy train, so does every other entity in the industry.

Car dealerships jack up prices because they want to maintain their profit levels.

Meanwhile middle class people who rely on cars get effed.
I am sure you are just as illogical as other people - and it would be good for you to realize that!

Never did I say that I support governments. I was only asking what I thought (and was wrong about) was a positive provoking question.
> Why there are so many cybersecurity vendors ..

Because the innovators still cannot deign a “computer” that can't be compromised by opening a malicious email attachment or clicking on a malicious URL.
India, Surprising Striver in the World’s Space Business
At this growth rate, Threads is the new Fediverse. Since already exactly in 24 hours after launch, it is double the size of the old Fediverse.
No, not really. Cyber ranges are a very distinct concept/product category than threat visualization maps like you might see here: https://livethreatmap.radware.com/ or here: https://isc.sans.edu/data/threatmap.html

Cyber Ranges (and pew pew maps) are also very different than control validation tools like Cymulate or Safe Breach…