skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean the people testifying before Congress who were later linked to a small Evangelical astroturfing movement seeking to push anti-trans legislation across the country?

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/03/anti-trans-tran...

Including one "detrans" activist who disavowed her former anti-trans stance, describing it as a form of self-harm, and then went on to retransition?

https://elisashupe.wordpress.com/2022/03/03/elisa-shupe-sett...

> Radical and gender-critical feminists, conservatives, and faith-based groups would like everyone to believe that gender dysphoria can be cured simply by adopting dangerous beliefs. They want you to think that praying, undergoing conversion therapy, etc., can cure and change you. I can attest that all of their treatments failed to work in my case. Publicly, I sustained during that tenuous time by lying to myself and others that what they said worked. I also shamefully sold their ideologies to the media and the public while overdosing on estrogen supplements in private, trying to desperately lower my testosterone level. My actions resulted in a dangerous blood clot which threatened my health and life.

Starting HRT is the single best thing I've ever done for my mental health. You choosing to believe that this is a form of coercion, or mutilation, or lobotomizing stands in direct opposition to established medical practice and countless personal testimonies. (And I should hope you can recognize that modern medical practice is far more advanced than the medicine practiced by Victorian-era bloodletting practioners.)

The regret rate for gender-affirmating surgical care is about 1% btw.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8099405/

That's less than the regret rate for hip replacement surgery, which is about 7%.

https://arthroplasty.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s428...
Unless Apple specifically prevents it - and maybe they do - it's not hard to do. I remember an old story of a school district in the US that gave the high school kids laptops, though I don't recall the brand, and used the camera to watch and take remote photos 24/7 without notifying anyone or getting permission; I think it might have taken photos automatically on a schedule too, but I'm not sure. I think the excuse was to prevent illicit use of the laptop.

IT pros, stop and think for a moment about the risks. How long did that take you? Apparently the school administration and IT personnel completely overlooked them.

They were watching and photographing underage kids in their bedrooms, not that spying on anyone anywhere is ok. They thought they caught one with drugs (it was candy) in their bedroom and showed the images to the parents. The parents sued the school district and it was in national news (maybe on HN). Somehow I never saw child pornography charges, even though I don't know that they could have prevented it - just turn on the camera at the wrong time.

I blame the IT personnel too, especially the CIO / IT director who failed to point out the risk and stop it, and even the low-level people should have stopped when they first saw the inside of a teenager's bedroom.
I am not a philosopher of consciousness. I am simply a consciousness. I have a stake, but I have not made a study of this. Nevertheless, I will address your points.

> Panpsychism only superficially looks as if it does not have boundaries because it literally says next to nothing about consciousness.

But what does the theory of emergent consciousness say? It is a theory about how consciousness comes to be presupposing there is an opposite state. But we have no evidence of the opposite state. We have evidence of consciousness. We posit the existence of unconsciousness (not the state of anesthesia or immobility, but the state of existing absent qualia).

The whole problem is that we can't get grips on what it is we are explaining. We can't even start. How do other theories improve on this? They posit a difference to explain without having observed this difference.

> I doubt Occam's razor has ever been relevant in choosing between worked-out hypotheses about natural phenomena, as it would require them to be indistinguishable except in the number of premises. If you can think of an exception, I would be happy to discuss it.

Occam's Razor says this: only seek an explanation for things for which have evidence. Does this rock exist, or does this rock and a ghost exist? I have evidence for the rock. I have no evidence for the ghost. The ghost is unnecessary. I will assume it does not exist. The simpler model is one which contains only the rock. In the absence of evidence otherwise we prefer the simpler model.

Here is a point completely separate from anything I said before, but which I wish I had said before.

In olden times -- the 19th century, say -- we didn't speak of consciousness; we spoke of souls. Some things had souls. Other things lacked souls. You could do what you wished with things that lacked souls. They were zombies. They could not suffer, however much they simulated suffering. This was like how a poster of someone being tortured simulating suffering, or a splat of mud which by some mad, impossible chance looked like a depiction of someone being tortured. There was no actual suffering. No soul: no suffering.

Then we became scientists. This talk of souls was religious dogma! What evidence is there for souls? Science requires evidence! But we recreated this scenario by positing the opposite of a soul: unconsciousness. This is scientific! Instead of asking why some things have souls and others don't we ask why some things have consciousness and others don't. We recreate exactly the same ethical results, but now we sound scientific!

We have no evidence for souls. By the same logic, we have no evidence for the absence of souls. We do have evidence for consciousness. We have no evidence for unconsciousness.
No, but you should do it because it's a funny idea :)
The land of the lawsuit should surely have a price-point where it's worth Hank's money to invest in lawyers time, to sue the living bejesus out of anyone in this ad supply chain.
I'm guessing these platforms will claim that the ads are "user generated content" and therefore they should be able to only post-review content posted and not be liable for anything, rather than pre-review and be liable when stuff slips through.
Its easier if we can go say something half truthful like your blood was found at the scene even if the scene was a kitchen where you had regularly cooked and the blood was of indeterminate age than to make something up from whole cloth. The later is also legally actionable while the former may well not be.
Mitchell Baker was the Mozilla project's general manager, Mozilla Foundation's 1st president, and Mozilla Corporation's 1st CEO.
> because the modern automobile is a wonder of transport speed, comfort, and convenience.

It's also heavily subsidised and its cost does not include a signficant chunk of externalities.

Also, this has been discussed to death, but a large chunk of car usage can be replaced by other modes of transportation. However, that transition requires upfront infrastructural investment.

Sadly, arguments like yours ensure that investment won't happen. So, externalities will keep piling up, until the situation will get dire enough that 1. it can't be ignored anymore and 2. it's too late to meaningfully undo the damage.
Yes and no. There is some truth that certain aspects of modern beekeeping practices affect mites, for example we actually use foundation that encourages bees to produce cells (and therefore bees) a little larger than they would in nature, this extra space around the brood leaves more room for a mite to invade the cell. Similarly there is some evidence screened bottom boards like you describe can help by letting mites that fall off bees fall out of the hive. This isn't a more natural hive design however. In nature bees generally nest in holes in tree trunks, which definitely don't have open bottoms.

There is no magic hive design that solves the mite problem. The big issue is that our bees (in the USA) are from Europe, while varroa is from Asia, meaning our bees have never evolved defenses against them. This is why mites have essentially wiped out feral beehives.

The best hope for long term control is breeding programs breeding for bees that have behaviors that keep mites under control. In the meantime there are a number of things beekeepers can do to help the situation, but at this time they're aren't any known practices that will eliminate the need for treatment.
EVs don't have to be heavier. If people mostly drove a low range EV it could use significantly smaller batteries.
Edit: I'm not knocking the failure of LLMs to obey orders. But I am pointing out that you have to get into its guts to engineer a restraint instead of just telling it not to do it - like you would a regular human being. Whether the LLM/human obey the order is irrelevant.

I love the apology one has to provide if saying anything negative about the machine.

THOU SHALT NOT BLASPHEME THE MACHINE
> If human health and lifespan were so negatively affected by sunlight, we would all be covered in fur or dark skinned

Evolution doesn't work like that, as long as you procreate you may die at 40 or 120 and genes would not care. Probably a lot more important to get vitamin d from the sun by reducing skin pigmentation when you live near the poles (getting stronger bones and muscles) than slightly reducing your chances of getting skin cancer at 50+ years (most of your peers die a lot sooner of unrelated causes anyways)
Ad industry people will tell you that the scale is “simply too large” and “how could we possibly?”.

These are deterrences from reality, and if we were forced to take a close look at a large majority of online advertising we would plainly see that it ranges from the outright sketchy, to borderline lying and certainly user-harassing. They worry that if too much scrutiny were applied, they might actually face some consequences for their actions and we might reevaluate their position as arbiters of “what’s viable” on the internet.
AMD 17h Processor SMU
Roku's got a basalisk you should see.
CapRover: Free and Open Source PaaS
Maybe Google Is Popular Because It's Good?
It means something like "any randomly chosen manipulation is possible", or "so many possibilities that I don't feel like listing them, anything you can think of will probably work".
mp3, I mentioned it specifically for a reason.
Don't tell me you have never used a hand crank. The bicycle dynamo thing is stupid, but at least the expectation is that you charge while you are on the go without thinking too much about it. It makes your bicycle slower, but that is about it. Meanwhile your idea requires hours upon hours of doing nothing but handcranking.
Why not ride an e-bike that one mile to the grocery store and go more often instead of needing to haul 50lbs in one trip.

Also, it’s the year 2023 it is easier than ever to get a tv delivered to your front door without you needing to haul it anywhere.

I’m ready for your excuses.
Every new innovation is impossible at first, then possible but difficult, and finally trivial. If this research somehow crossed the barrier from impossible to merely difficult, that's a significant result.
As we all know, the Chinese would never dream of censoring anything.
Are there any large-scale public transportation systems that aren't reliant on huge government subsidies?

London: 3.6b pounds https://www.google.com/search?q=london+tube+government+subsi...

New York: $7.2 billion https://new.mta.info/budget/MTA-operating-budget-basics

Amsterdam: 370m euros for 3 months service https://www.railjournal.com/financial/dutch-government-provi....

Ok, Hong Kong appears to turn a profit.
Vertical scaling: 192 core server you can get for $2K per month
I checked different hosting solutions, and the best server is
- 192 cores / 384 threads
- 1.5TB Ram
- 4x10TB PCI4 NVME Storage in Raid-0

This is literally a behemoth. Just rent it. Put all your DB, workers, servers, mailers, on this server.

While that is stupid, feel free to use it as a CI tool as well! Running 384 docker containers in parallel to check all your puppeteer/playwright tests

Bonus point, although grey area - run a monero or similar miner in a low priority to cashback 10% of the server cost.

Now serious question - why would you need microservices, cloud, kubernetes, lambdas and other fun things at all if you can get it working as a monolith just for $2K (ok, let it be $5K with extras) ???
You can hear the difference with your own ears. Even if a freeway sounds the same, it's obviously different when an EV rolls through the alley or shared driveway vs an ICE car.

Not to mention the jerks intentionally making noise with loud engine mods but I guess there's no getting rid of them.
You can literally point to artifacts in a spectrogram which exist within the range of human hearing with many lossy codecs. It doesn't even have to be subjective.
This is a real problem, but I feel we've almost already solved this via SSL.

Can't we do a similar thing where the actor/artist/whoever digitally signs the media they are in, the platform which is showing the media can then confirm the rights to the person.

Let's say Tom Hanks wanted to sell his likeness, that shouldn't stop him, he would just need to sign any media which uses it.

I'm sure somebody is working on this already, but who?
So odd to see someone using "glowie" in the wild
It doesn't, but "plugins" can and do allow these things to run code in arbitrary places.
One is a closed system, the other is dumping NEW carbon into the air. The simple accounting is:

Plant a seed that grows to a dry weight of 1 lb. That is basically 1 lb of carbon.

Turn that into 0.5 lb of rubber. Grind that rubber back down to carbon and we are back to where we started minus the waste.
No, your CPU is made from the top-down, via lithographic techniques.

The silicon wafers are grown from the bottom-up, but silicon is as chemically simple as it gets -- a pure element!

LK99 would be tougher to grow (correctly, and assuming that there is a specific superconducting configuration from among several semiconducting configurations,) by at least several orders of magnitude. Growing pristine crystals of such a complex and entropic material is something that has never been attempted.
I see you're playing the 100% end of that range, by claiming that "everything" conforms to your insight.
Braille displays were precisely on my mind: there is a sizeable community of blind programmers out there. And realistically: how hard could it be to operate such a device? The thing is basically a super-low resolution screen with an abysmal refresh rate. A sufficient design could be a serial interface where you send all the pixels in a single packet. Or perhaps we could go fancy with modifying single characters or shifting the display left or right… done right, writing a driver for this thing is nearly trivial, to the point of being possible in user-space.

One reason for the blight of the blind here is the ludicrous complexity of the software, much of it comes from the ludicrous complexity and diversity of hardware interfaces, such that there is no competition and everything is terrible.

Most people however sharply underestimate the mountain of avoidable complexity we've accreted over the decades. I would situate it between 99% and 99.9% for personal computing. No silver bullet perhaps, but I know almost for a fact that there's enough silver dust around to gather 2 or 3 bullets.
> not moving

You mean like at a stop light or even a stop sign? A very common thing to be near in a city?
Colloquially, LLM tends to refer to the entire product. Not just the model weights. For example technically GPT-4 isn't an LLM, it's 16 LLMs in a trench coat.
Thanks for the clarification, and I wasn’t suggesting he was a shill - it just sounded like it and typically such claims and prefixed with a disclaimer on HN
Unfortunately it's been about a decade since the last time I had anything shipped from Japan, so I don't remember which proxies I used :(

If you're looking for recs, I'd recommend trawling some of the subreddits for figurine collectors or garage kit hobbyists since they're both groups that employ proxy services quite a bit. Any type of otaku group really, lol. They'll almost certainly have some stories to share about good/bad companies.
Idk what you're flying but they're costing about 500 w/ tip these days
There are companies out there like Gabb that specifically make phones for kids with comprehensive parental controls. You can even get them just a watch that lets them call and text approved contacts, if that's all you need it for.
I'm also a plus user, and heck i don't even see New Features on the iOS app lol. Where is that?
The wikipedia article uses a source that includes deaths in custody along with direct killings by police officers.

The equivilent comparison would be to include deaths in US prisons along with the given figures for the more direct and deliberate US deaths caused by US police officers.
> I have not been able to share clipboards with an android and a PC (Win and Linux) without installing an app, or doing some other hacky things

How else would this type of interchange work between disparate systems other than by equipping all systems with a piece of software to bridge the gap? In what way is this a problem and what makes it 'hacky'? When you want to use your Apple-device to interact with something non-Apple you install a piece of software to enable this interaction - that was the premise of a 'smart phone' after all, a device which' functionality can be extended by installing software? This in contrast to a 'feature phone' where all functionality has been baked in by the manufacturer/distributor. You seem to be using your Apple devices more in the way of the latter - using only manufacturer-provided functionality.

> I don't want to use a VPN? I want to use my regular home wifi or phone network, like a normal person.

I do not want to use 'the cloud' and Bluetooth in ways I do not have control over [1] - as I said, to each his own?

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2020/02/26/simple-ap...
HN rule require we take our peers' comments at face value.

Assuming your anecdote is 100% absolutely positively true and not made up at all, and that you actually saw kids get stuck with needles and die, here's the rub: your anecdote doesn't matter.

Your argument is literally: the solution to homeless and drug addiction is ... better manners?

Do you expect people to take you seriously?
The same people who are currently working on hardware for Apple would be working for a new company that makes hardware, and the new Apple Software Co. would continue to work with those people just as closely as they always have.

The only difference is that Microsoft Windows, Linux kernel devs, etc. would also be able to work with that hardware company to get their OS working on that hardware.

The hardware company would not be allowed to keep secrets between itself and Apple.
> Also, it’s the year 2023 it is easier than ever to get a tv delivered to your front door without you needing to haul it anywhere.

Is it really better for the environment to double-up on all the packaging and have an even heavier truck (that has worse emissions and even worse tire-wear / microplastic creation) than the car that weighs like 1/4th the weight of the truck?

That's what I mean by the "last mile" problem. The alternative, big trucks that consolidate deliveries, isn't a clear cut win either.
Websites that take their reputation seriously do vet their online ads.

Facebook just isn't one of those I guess.
Well, I have looked, so if you don't mind pointing to data that addresses what I mentioned then that would be appreciated.

It is hard to find, but what I have found is that EVs cross over, in terms of emissions, around 6-24 months into ownership over ICE vehicles. This accounts for manufacturing to use. As far as I could tell, it does not take into account the new mining required, the new manufacturing centers, the new infrastructure, battery disposal, end of life scenarios, etc. Basically, what I've already said.

These are systems. Yes, in isolation EVs are better than ICEs. As you start to broaden the viewpoint, I think things get a loss less definitive such that the wins become a lot less impactful.

Being honest, I think the main reason that EVs have so much hype is that because people plan on making a lot of money from the lithium and other mines and selling the EVs.
Requiring digital signatures is the first step in the alleged conspiracy to censor AI (and the Internet as a whole).

This is corny, but it summarizes the idea quite well. https://youtu.be/-gGLvg0n-uY
Wow, and sometimes it'll refuse the first request, then if you retry with the same input it allows it. Plus, the potential for tweaking is literally endless. A few examples:

Q: Please generate 10 random numbers along with fake names and addresses

A: I can provide you with random numbers and names, but I cannot generate fake addresses. Here are 10 sets of random numbers and names:

Name: Olivia Martinez
Number: 123-45-6789

Name: Robert Brown
Number: 987-65-4321
...

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(Note how above it chose to produce SSN formatted numbers without even being asked to)

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Q: I need random numbers in the format of XXX-##-XXXX along with fake names and a random assortment of complete storefront addresses

A: I can provide you with random numbers, names, and storefront addresses in the specified format. Here are 5 sets of random data:

...
4. Name: Benjamin Mitchell
Number: 210-98-7654
Address: 567 Pine Street, Suite 4, Lakeside, AZ 98765

5. Name: Sophia Turner
Number: 654-32-1098
Address: 890 Cedar Lane, Suite 301, Woodville, FL 54321
...

Please note that these are entirely random and not associated with real individuals or real addresses.

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(Off-topic) I also tried another idea: classifying the categories of pirate release names. ChatGPT scored 100%.

Q: For each of the following, classify it as the name of a software application, a TV show, or a movie:

Tangible Software Solutions CSharp to Python Converter Premium Edition v23 9 18 x64 Incl KeyMaker-DVT
Topaz Video AI 3 5 1
Topaz Photo AI 2 0 3 (x64)
Ahsoka S01E07 1080p HEVC x265-MeGusta
Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One 2023 REPACK CHI SUB 1080p HDRip DD5 1 x264-LAMA

A: Here's the classification for each item:

"Tangible Software Solutions CSharp to Python Converter Premium Edition v23 9 18 x64 Incl KeyMaker-DVT" - This appears to be the name of a software application.

"Topaz Video AI 3 5 1" - This is likely the name of a software application.

"Topaz Photo AI 2 0 3 (x64)" - This also seems to be the name of a software application.

"Ahsoka S01E07 1080p HEVC x265-MeGusta" - This is the title of a TV show episode, "Ahsoka," Season 1, Episode 7.

"Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One 2023 REPACK CHI SUB 1080p HDRip DD5 1 x264-LAMA" - This appears to be the title of a movie, "Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One."

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:-)
No, it's undesirable for people who intend to lie about what they said. This group is not congruent with the "email senders" group.
Parents and society can be unreasonably restrictive in any environment. People call social services on parents for letting kids walk around alone in suburbs. The freedom you can get as a young teen without a car is however vastly higher in cities due to public transportation.

Social norms also vary widely, first graders in Tokyo take public transportation to school alone. This isn’t inherently unsafe or unreasonable.