skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, if John submits his post, then hires an army of bots to re…X it (?), he’s now published false information, which appear to have the veracity of truth. Using bots to advance it is just the electronic version of using a bullhorn.

But the scientist who replies with true, clear info will both get buried by the bots, and will have a less compelling message (because it is inherently more complicated). So now, hundreds of people are refusing polio vaccinations (on this basis of it appearing to be a very popular position in what we’re now told is the online “town square”) putting Jane, who is immune-compromised, at actual personal risk because of John’s free speech.

It seems like a very short leap to make my ‘free speech’ lead to harmful effects, without it being harmful. Suggesting that there’s no causal relationship, or that it doesn’t matter because saying awful things is more important than suffering the effects of someone saying awful things, seems hand-wavey.

The government not penalizing speech is a good thing, but I’m not convinced that it isn’t necessary at some level, given the average person’s media literacy and susceptibility to propaganda.
The court case seemed to hinge largely on the fact that she TOLD them the info was there, that it was defamatory, and they chose to keep it up anyways. Had they taken it down, they would've been fine.

So this doesn't seem like much of a precedent at all: If you are told you have defamatory content, you need to remove it. They don't really have to change much (anything?) about their search engine to make this happen. Maybe a link for "need content removed?" or whatever.
> . . . the insanity of confiscating nail clippers . . . .

I fly with those all the time, never had them confiscated.
It will absolutely make these types of tactics (seemingly employed by only one party, you know which one) far more personalized and therefore more effective:

https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-technology-arrests-...

https://theintercept.com/2017/11/07/virginia-voters-get-myst...
> So if you apply for non-technical writing jobs, e.g. to be a columnist at The New York Times or The New Yorker, do they not read any of your preexisting work on the grounds that it could open them up to discrimination lawsuits?

If you work in an industry where nothing is published publicly, and then demand to see people's side blogs and use that for hiring decisions, then yea that'll make lawyers at a big company a little skittish.

It's a different thing when your job is to write things that everyone can see, vs having your company own everything you do.
Having imperfect restrictions for children is better than having none.
Its just incalculable what the ROI on this kind of a mission is. It is amazing that US and tech was in the state it was in when the planets aligning themselves happened and we were able to send these out there. A decade here or there and the opportunity would be lost.
Revenge of the Luddites
People conspiring to raise up hatred of an individual, and people of the same mind in HR departments green lighting the acquiesence to that hatred, is the problem. Someone shouting a swear word at me while killing me is unpleasant, but I'll allow it. It's the killing that's the problem.
Melbourne's public transport ticket scanning machines are running on Windows CE... hope (but doubt) they have a plan.

https://wongm.com/2012/06/myki-runs-on-top-of-windows-ce/
> They still experience the same losses with headwind, arguably even more.

Which is why having more total energy available in the fuel system is significant and means that EVs are not a "drop in" replacement for ICE. Which is what the assumption in these threads seem to be.

> Then don't get a battery-electric vehicle?

Sure.. I'll just move to a state where it's not mandated, then. Why are you going out of your way to pretend that there aren't actual impacts to real people when these decisions get made?

> How you're able to look 25-50 years into the future is beyond me.

Oh.. experience and training. You'll notice I used the word "probably" and invoked "abysmal rate of infrastructure development" as part of an effort to avoid this type of mindless bullying.

Some of us are actually trying to navigate reality successfully without prefect information. It requires reasonable compromises that everyone should be plainly familiar with.
Well, you've just defined "successful" to mean rapidly growing, and by implication unconstrained by regulations.

European telecom companies are large tech companies, heavily regulated and successful. Yes, they are incumbents now. But they weren't always; at least not all of them.
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They already have to do it for age-gating youtube videos in some regions, like the EU. AFAIK, they want a CC number or phone number, neither of which really confirms your age.
So when some people suggested that it might be important to include it - they decided not to, despite not including not being important to them.

Sounds like it was pretty important to not include it.
Are you already giving it 100%? I put someone on Pip once because they were completely half-assing it. If they had gotten into gear, I would have taken them off.

If you know you're slacking, then you might have a chance. But if you are already working hard and not delivering, then I'd bail.
I stopped using Twitter in 2016 when they started their policy of applying the platform rules differently depending on your real-world community status. Nope.

You know what?

I'm still alive and I couldn't care less about the Musk takeover.
Tipping points and feedback loops are meaningless to techno-utopians, in their eyes nothing is fundamentally different between climate change and other technical challenges in the past
It can be a ban from being a pilot though.
I doubt you're clicking every blind link image. Who has that kind of time?

Consider this on any other site. Consider HackerNews where there's no headline and just a random image: it makes no sense.

I think you're just giving Musk a lot of passes.
DWARF is touring complete and not the accidental kind, it has instructions and all. GDB implements the whole set so you can basically make GDB do arbitrary code execution if you control the DWARF data.
I half-agree in that I'd like to see the inverse: Devices support a parental-lock, and that setting ensures the device sends metadata outward.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37330234
Paying someone on fiver.com to write your essay for you is also difficult to distinguish from completing your assignment honestly, but that's still cheating, and that distinction should be drawn nevertheless. "First there were typewriters, now there's fiver.com, c'mon, it's just another tool"—call it a tool if you want, but it's a tool students aren't allowed to use when being assessed, because it prevents accurate assessment.
The thing is, it is much more confortable for government officials to run after low-level citizens than fighting actual crime. If you paint a scary enough picture ("encryption enables exploitation of children!"), the public might even be more afraid of people those "agitators" than gang wars or robbery.
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Worth mentioning this project (https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler) that lets you create osm mbtiles and pmtiles pretty easy!
The counterpoint is the same: what happens to all the nanofiche disks next to a pile of crushed microscopes that were destroyed when the roof fell in? In one case, the information which mattered to the people at the time persisted. In the other, no information persisted.

The whole point is that the operation persists for longer than a human lifespan. If we have to rediscover 100 years of making lasers and rockets, who cares? If we have to rediscover 2000 years of agriculture and medicine, that's a problem.
I must have read this when I was 12; the image of the eyeball and the smoke lived in my head rent-free. I was reminded of it by that creepy-ass bio-CPU company we discussed earlier (also by Lena...).
> It is tempting to solve every problem we encounter with an abstraction of the layer

It is also tempting to make up arbitrary rules that make no sense and only work in one blogger's very specific thought bubble.
> If everyone knew that I watched porn but respected by right to do so, that's the ideal.

I disagree completely. I think that privacy is an essential component of having a free society. It's not really about porn.
Sure. One is always around the corner.

Meanwhile:

From BofA:

Overall, the data flow since our last weekly pushed up our 3Q US GDP tracking estimate from 3.8% to 4.3% q/q saar. [Oct 20th estimate]

From Goldman:

We left our Q3 GDP tracking estimate unchanged at +4.0% (qoq ar). [Oct 19th estimate]

And from the Altanta Fed: GDPNow

The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the third quarter of 2023 is 5.4 percent on October 18, unchanged from October 17 after rounding. [Oct 18th estimate]

https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow

BUT https://www.conference-board.org/topics/us-leading-indicator... is forecasting at least a mild recession.
Low background jpegs!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
I'm not a Twitter user so if this is a dumb question I apologize.

This sounds like a pretty serious allegation. How do you know this is true? Is it in the source code?[1]

[1]: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm
You do not need to verify every single page. You verify that owner and operator are not foreign entities (so you can catch them and put in jail), review the moderation policies and get a written promise to follow the law.
Given LLM are only trained on an english dataset, it will give some amusing results if politicians of non-english speaking countries try to do the same!
That, and a big chunk of it is kids. In the same way you can't decline to hire someone because they're pregnant or may soon become pregnant (or are the father side of that equation) - requiring side projects is a very thin/loose proxy for "doesn't have kids". It's not a big enough problem to really stop people, but a big company's lawyers will stop it internally.
a bit OT, but has anyone had the opportunity to compare how Vimy feels vs. UTM?
Here's a simpler, equally effective solution:

The parents buy a laptop, and they have the admin password. You need the admin password to change the setting.

If parents want to enable this or not for their kids, it's up to the parents to decide. Also, if adults want to enable the filters for their own personal use, that's fine too.

There's literally an entire industry doing a bad job of this right now. If Google actually cared about improving the status quo, then instead of trying to mandate adults use cryptographically signed advertising identities to browse the web, they could use their web crawl and influence over web standards to improve the quality of opt-in content filters (by producing better site ratings lists, in the style of adblock lists, for example).

Device-level protection doesn't work for kids that can break into the bootloader or jailbreak the machine their parents got for them, but not many things realistically will.

Also, the scheme's failure to work against sophisticated users is a feature: at some point, kids turn into adults. These mechanisms shouldn't be capable of censoring adults' internet feeds.
It's an inanimate object, it's not being stigmatised, it's being phased out.
If we untie this from Musk for a moment: Twitter's user composition has changed tremendously over the last 12 months, whatever the reasons. That means for a lot of people, folks that they'd gotten to know quite closely suddenly aren't there any more.

It's not grief as the same level as "my close relative died", but it's grief on the level of "All my friends left and moved elsewhere". That's still a major upset, and people need to process. And the technical term for that processing is "grieve". That is entirely independent of your opinions on how to treat it, it's a feeling folks experience.

And, given those are folks who like leaving a somewhat public life, they process in public. If those emotions don't resonate with you, it's probably a good idea to just move on and let others feel what they need to feel.
A quarter of households have net worths greater than $600,000. https://dqydj.com/net-worth-percentile-calculator/
Questions I have to this proposal:

* A site must be certified by some board in order to be accessible. At what level is a site certified? Root level? Page level? Individual content item.

* A site hosts user generated content. This could be as small as comments on an article, or as large as YouTube. How is the site certified? If each piece of content must be certified, who assumes responsibility for certification?

* A site is certified as appropriate for all ages. The owner of the site then puts content that would have caused to to fail certification. At what interval is a site expected to recertify? What is the ramification for certification and then hosting of objectionable content?

* You have a process that is onerous for site administrators to comply with in order to host content for children. What incentive is for them to comply vs. not host a site that requires certification?

* As a parent, you install a compliant operating system that enforces this system. Sites comply with the program and it works without exception. Kids talk, as they do, and share how to get around this system by using a Linux live environment to boot into an OS that does not enforce the parental control header. How do you prevent this?

* As a parent, you install a compliant operating system that enforces this system. Your kid either does not know how, or is prevented from circumventing these access controls. They have one or more friends that have computers that are not blocked from accessing this content. How do you prevent them from accessing content in this system?
Don't forget refusing to continue showing content if you look away from ads!
2) Community notes (birdwatch) was already released before Elon Musk took over. Elon just changed the name and maybe sped up the availability of it that's all.

3) Reply and retweet numbers already gave a pretty good idea of how much a post was popular compared to others. Having also the view count would be welcome but the algorithm on how a view is counted is not clear and the numbers seem inflated, so in its current state I am not sure if it is actually helpful, other than showing ad providers some inflated numbers.

4) The text of the tweet itself acts like the headline now, which is even worse than having the headline. Also when you click on the image, it takes you to the page where you see the headline first anyway. So I don't see how removing the headlines helped anything. In my opinion it just made it confusing to differentiate images from links.
Additionally, even if we could remove carbon from the system scale, it's not like everything would magically reset to where it was. We are seeing changes (e.g. extinctions) that aren't really undoable.

With that said, I'm sure that some of the damage can potentially be reversed, and the planet has some capacity to self-heal over long periods of time.

Hopefully reducing emissions and even partial decarbonization will lead to a less bad outcome in the medium to long-term.
If nobody drives any more, there's no point to that.
Chroococcidiopsis potential candidates for Mars colonisation
A good point. Maybe it just shows a.) how much of what we are required to do is security theater b.) that it does not reliably work in making an uncontrollable fire so that is why it is not used as instrument of terror. I've accidentally opened a couple of batteries while repairing phones and they did not burst into flames, though I remember furiously googling and putting them in a bucket of water outside after a minute or two.
I couldn’t agree more. It’s a culture problem. A culture of carelessness and corner-cutting pervades the software industry.
"Bob, we need you to take the fall for us and go to prison for 10 years. We'll look after your family meanwhile, and pay you handsomely for your time."

Plenty of other organisations (of various sorts) are ok with that. Theres no reason Google and similar wouldn't figure out something along the same lines.
Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, and now Palestine. The blood thirsty war mongerers must keep it going. Disgusting.
Not on my part! If I misunderstood your (one-word) comment, it wasn't intentional.
But people have absolutely sued, successfully, for discrimination. Just not in the context of being treated like an adult by an interviewing system that gives actual feedback.

Notably virtually no big companies will give feedback by policy, because of their own lawyers. All the engineers on the other side would freaking love to give constructive feedback. Their own lawyers prevent them from doing so.
Ad targeting identifies a lonely person with self esteem issues. Tells them that they'll be more popular and attractive if they consume product. They consume product and of course it doesn't actually help, but more advertisements are already lined up to explain that they're still feeling bad because they need to consume even more product. The ads show unrealistically happy and attractive people, to reinforce the self esteem issues and encourage the consumption of even more product.

This is a standard business practice for the advertising and marketing industry. It's evil.
Stable Diffusion is capable of training on its own images
Feds expand Tesla investigation to include vehicle range, personal benefits
You forgot issues.

Open vs Closed, and meat in the issues. Will tell if people are actually using something.
Oh, so there's no CSAM on the internet? Cool. It works!
But if you did, you gain protection from defaced sites (in addition to making "show safe content only" actually true). Most of the worst things I saw online as a kid were on otherwise okay sites attacked in whatever way to show shock images.
This seems like a case where an organization like the EFF could help. Does anyone know if they are aware of this specific incident?
>Explicitly not what I, or anyone else, is suggesting.

To be fair you hadn't suggested anything except "Billionaires shouldn't exist" yet, which is a sentiment that so far in history has only achieved dystopian results. How is your plan different?

Taxing and limiting the influence of billionaires and ensuring that workers are not exploited unfairly are fine suggestions. We can add prevention of monopolies and cartels to the list as well, but that's still a very different idea from "Billionaires should not exist".

I'm not carrying any water for anyone, you have just failed to make a persuasive argument for your position.
I have been thinking along those lines for a while. I didn't take it quite from the same angle but it boils down to the same idea.

For me, each layer of abstraction should roughly correspond to people's roles.

In my line of work (finance) it's a little more complicated than what the article states.

There are people who specialize in deep computational optimization.

There are people who do micro financial models

There are people who do macro financial models

There are people who do user interfaces

There are people who do the piping between all these

The ideal to aim for is that each layer of abstraction is cut around those fairly well defined roles. Each person should be able to own their piece of the codebase and hopefully manipulate objects/languages of the right level for them.

In the dishwasher example, the middle layer should be cut in the "electronics layer" and the "hydrolics layer", the electronics layer interfaces with both the user and the hydrolics layer, but the hydrolics layer never interfaces with the user. And it's easy to see that the electronics and the hydrolics are not designed by the same person.

It's a way of framing things that makes sense for me.
A bit more honest than a "Douglas Crockford, Inventor of JSON" NFT at least.

I guess.

At least makes one chuckle, or have an attempt at it...

Or one could use it as bedtime reading: Zero, zero, zero... say it aloud and you're sound asleep.
The magical beliefs are in many ways the cement.
I would say he is more known for his children's books. But he's pretty well known for his adult stories as well. He was such a tragically flawed person, and was clearly unhappy and unsatisfied most of his life. This is a lot of what makes his writing so deliciously and darkly humorous, but the actual tale of his life has always been depressing to me rather than funny.
The original "sin" is that the browser became the delivery tool for what you're talking about. Whether it's a sin or not is of course a matter of opinion.

But is odd after all these years the browser killed off a big junk of "native" apps on the desktop, but in mobile, there's a whole other story.

Which makes me think the problem all along was about distribution, not technology.
In my area, it's been an increasing trend that establishments that must verify age are doing so for all customers, even those who are obviously old enough.

And I don't have a problem with that. I'd have a problem if the age verification leaves a record in a database or is performed by a central entity rather than the employees of the establishment.
“The Champion of the World” is the 1959 New Yorker piece that is the precursor to “Danny the Champion of the World”. I’m a subscriber, but, without searching too hard, haven’t found a find non-scanned text.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1959/01/31/the-champion-o...
TSMC's First Breakthrough: The Copper/Low-K Interconnect Transition
I feel 2001 was far more severe compared to now.

I know since the tech layoffs accelerated in Oct/Nov 2022 some people have a hard time finding new jobs or at the same salary. Particular for newer graduates or people with limited years of experience it is not easy.

But here in the Silicon Valley overall it does not yet really felt that much different. Some companies are still hiring, there are opportunities, roads here have rush hour and restaurants are still see guests coming in.

In 2002/2003 when you drove down N. First Str. in San Jose those buildings were mostly empty. It was scary. Hard to come by any job opportunity and highway 101 had no congestion. Many people moved out of CA at that time and it took years to recover.

To me 2008 with the real estate bubble felt less of an impact as tech was not hit so hard.

Now to me technology companies overall are already in a recession, but in the last few months layoffs, shutdowns have calmed down. Despite the swing back to higher interest rate many businesses are still doing ok, but should the overall economy slow down further in 2024 we might see also more cut downs, more reduction in work force and a weakening housing market might further deteriorate the situation.

I don’t think we are out of the woods yet and maybe a good time to ask in 6-9 months again if www bubble in 2001 was worse
I assume that would require BitTorrent v2 (and I think more specifically something along BEP-46 - Updating Torrents Via DHT Mutable Items) or your map is gonna be out-of-sync and sad after a while.
Discussion of original source from three days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37963826
I can only imagine Mazda's stake in this is that the OSS project is doing something that Mazda would like to monetize. Otherwise why limit a project that's making people fell better about their car purchase?

The worst thing to happen to home automation was companies trying to lock customers into their ecosystem without greater interoperability.
Anyone that brings up this factoid instantly gives away the true depth of their knowledge.

The US and China have over twice as many CCTV cameras per person than the UK does.

https://www.precisesecurity.com/articles/top-10-countries-by...
I am not arguing that taxing income or wealth is right or wrong. Only that given how current taxes CURRENTLY work, TFA's controlled outrage is idiotic.