skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen those as well and get nauseous when thinking about them. Those accidents happen so quick, I can only hope there was no suffering.
"Doing Woz knows what" is both an awesome phrase and probably factually correct.
DALL-E 3 censors mild leftist prompts
Prompt: 5 students in a softly lit bar, discussing art and labor with drinks and notes.

Response: I'm unable to generate images as your request didn't align with the content policy. Please feel free to adjust or provide a new prompt.

The context for this: I'm in a discussion group on AI, automation, art and labor, was trying to generate some example images for the class.

Is it just me, or is this wildly, inappropriate restrictive? Even for OpenAI?
wow. i remember using omegle in 2010. the whole chat roulette craze. this guy dresses up the issue in some pretty overly dramatic and sentimental clothing… in reality this is the failure of yet another company that uses the old model. the model of the early internet where everything is free and everyone is anonymous. its just unviable and becomes less viable as the internet grows. captcha is broken… the old model is dead.

when you have a free service and broken captcha then you will be a magnet for crime, spam and you will hemorrhage money. maybe youll get advertisers if you sanitize the platform and now youve defeated the point anyway. or you can sell user data. at the end of the day people have to pay.
Yeah and that’s exactly what the video says as well: that people can’t consistently threshold break in emergency situations, which is why ABS is so valuable.
You can't laugh at that! It's super serious.
Thank you for your recommendation! Your second suggestion reminds me of Karpathy's micrograd and the accompanying lectures.

At the top of my own bucket list, at the moment, are: Distributed Systems and SCIP, both from MIT, and Compilers, from Harvard!
There is at least GDPR, if you have users of European citizenship, that requires a legal basis to do so if it is mandatory in your registration process
> Many ideas and bugs begin in a GitHub issue. By combining the details of the issue with the knowledge of the codebase and the reasoning capabilities of GPT-4, our research team at GitHub Next has developed an AI-powered bridge to help every developer scale the barrier of putting an idea into code

It's interesting to see how careful they are to put developers first in the way they describe use of the products. To me this is a step closer to replacing developers with PMs.
At least in the country where I live the "people near me" features have been removed/blocked from WeChat/Zalo/Telegram because they are overwhelmingly (like 99% of the time) used for prostitution.
Because most people I speak to in my non-US country don't have Signal, Telegram or WhatsApp. Or they have one of the three and I need to work out which one.

Default messaging app is simpler - if they have iMessage it goes there, if not it's SMS. I can be confident of delivery, and it's no hassle.
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> but the size and frequency are much less than would be expected in a US or EU city of the same size and wealth.

That's a claim that needs some data to back it up.

Singapore has 3.5M people. Kilograms of heroin is a huge amount. It's in the dozens of kilograms per year, and that's not counting all the heroin that doesn't get seized.
You still have to go read the references and comprehend the material to determine if the GPT answer was correct or not.

I don't know the name for the effect, but it's similar to when you listen/watch the news. When the news is about a topic you know an awful lot about, it's plainly obvious how wrong they are. Yet... when you know little about the topic, you just trust what you hear even though they're as likely to be wrong about that topic as well.

The problem is people (myself included) try to use GPT as a guided research/learning tool, but it's filled with constant BS. When you don't know much about the topic, you're not going to understand what is BS and what is not.
> I suspect the ACLU has refined its opinion on the nature of freedoms.

Of all the targets of ire for "woke culture" etc., I'm really surprised that ACLU, SPLC and similar aren't getting more heat. They're actually highly consequential in people's daily lives and can clearly be ideologically captured by a rather small group of people, given that the orgs themselves are so small.

Much better targets of critique than random Twitter mobs.
> Stunts like this Australian thing

You mean OP's Austrian thing? Or something else? Australia's the one with the kangaroos and Austria the one with famous painters.
well yeah, that's why it's shut down
When you find that 100M box of cat6 on Amazon sold by PQUALOOOX for 1/4 of the price of everyone else, it's probably cat5 construction and made of copper clad aluminum wiring.
OSHA doesn't allow it but people still do it constantly, they usually just take steps to make sure they don't end up dead.
Did they post anywhere how the pulled it off, overcoming the obstacles that held up this feature (which I don't remember, other than they were legit)?
Why isn’t having an “over 18?” checkbox enough to have lawsuits brought by children (at the time or later) thrown out unceremoniously?
I think this is essentially a false dichotomy. It's possible to experience the loss of both of those eras, as well as the current one whenever it passes. There's no inherent conflict in wanting them all back.
how far do we take this? would we have motor vehicles if we knew how many people would be killed by/with them every year?
> I guess I'm a bit of an oddity, because I was never that interested in the "big questions", and over time I developed the view that the answer to the questions most people seem to ask isn't really important or useful, but the useful part can be found in a physics textbook.

Have you any concerns about things like war, climate change, etc? Because physics has been quite useful for bringing these things into our reality, but seems less so for making them go away.

Granted, it is extremely easy to dismiss such things with one of the many handy memes our culture has been trained to think in, but dismissing things doesn't make them go way, though it does tend to make it seem like it (which in our culture tends to mean it "has" gone away).
For people who agree with the libertarian stance, the optics aren't horrible, of course, they are good. The question is whether there are enough of those people to sustain an organization like the EFF.
This is an interesting idea. For me the magical period of the internet was also the nineties to mid-naughts. But I'm not sure. It doesn't seem entirely age-relative to me. It seems like something changed. I really have no way to say for sure. In fact, I was recently talking to someone a couple decades or so younger about similar topics and he indeed seemed to have more of the age-relative view. I plan on talking to him more at some point to get a better understanding of his view. But I don't think the two ideas are mutually exclusive. I'm sure many people have a magical period of wonder where their world is expanding. To be perfectly honest, in some ways I've continued to have that even in recent years. There's a really cool corner of YouTube that has tons of incredible content that IMO is revolutionizing education. But I also feel that as a species we humans haven't figured out how to handle the powers of communication that the internet has made available to us. In an age of unprecedented access to the world's information, misinformation still abounds (no matter which side of the political aisle you happen to be on). I don't know that anyone has any really compelling ideas about how to deal with this, but I think it's a significant issue that we all collectively need to work on. The question is, will we be able to come together and do so or have we already been irrevocably torn too far apart?
Gives me chills, that was so heartfelt and raw. Hurt on all sides, but this is a bit like losing access to a public space because someone committed crimes there.

One of the greatest things Omegle enabled is this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhzHV9QD0Is (Harry Mack freestyling for random Omegle matches, it was a series of 90+ episodes and brought me and others so much joy during COVID)
This is cool.

I'm trying to make a push to get richter/antiquake to compile to wasm. I think I can knock it out this month. I just want to host my own Slide Quake server on a Cloudflare worker.

https://github.com/Antiquake-rs/antiquake-rs
The era of tech people thinking of themselves as Prometheus bringing fire, without a care as to how the mortals use it, is over.

... or rather, perhaps the era of being chained to a rock for a bird to peck at our livers has begun.
Not if you catch it early stage. With LDCT screening you can catch the cancer when it is very small and physically remove it.
Most new cars have cell-phone modems built in, providing telemetry back to automakers, since the mid 2010s. That is the dual purpose of the OnStar system, and the connections are paid for by the automakers. Because they buy them in such bulk, and have relatively low transmit rates, they get great deals on it.
>> by a malfunctioning servo on a very large lathe under construction

I got hit right in the dick by a milling machine axis lever spinning up full throttle.

Only once, never again. Still surprised something terrible didn’t happen - hurt like a bitch. Shop dude says it happens pretty often though because people don’t look down at the caution tape telling you not to stand there.
So car manufacturers need to stop making cars because someone might drive drunk? Kitchen knife manufacturers need to somehow prevent their products being used as weapons? This line of thinking is appropriate to a degree, but not really all that useful. Many products can be abused, and there's no feasible way to prevent that abuse.
That's a pointed question as the infrastructure to support individual cars continues to eat the cities in the US and the climate continues to change from the CO2 released into the air, actually.

Had we known what the challenges would be, would we have made them so easy to own and operate? You need a license to fly a plane solo, and it takes years to get one.
I had the pleasure of touring BMW’s Welt manufacturing plant while I was there and it was the first time I’d seen manufacturing robots in action. Even standing well outside of their reach zones and behind at least two layers of fencing, their movement was terrifying. Precise, powerful and completely without any awareness of their surroundings. They remind me of horses to be honest.

All of that is to say that it seems like working on a manufacturing floor with robots has the potential to be so so dangerous. Getting into a rhythm and doing repetitive work all day, it’s easy to imagine slipping and ending up as human soup.
Sounds like that's the only person it has been tested on, though? Subheadline says he's the first patient. Toward the end of the article it says there will be six new patients next year.

Feels like breakthroughs often happen far more slowly than they should when a major debilitating disease is involved. If results are so far promising, only doing testing on six patients next year seems an underwhelming pace.
Why does running red lights crash more than driving the wrong way down a one-way street? Discuss among yourselves ...
I don’t think the “Buy More Stuff” theory actually applies here. The average purchaser of the 8/256 model just uses it as a Chromebook with a fancy logo. By the time they hit the TBW limit they’ll likely have upgraded anyways because the battery will be completely degraded.

On the other hand, the average person who purchases a computer with the knowledge that they need to perform data-intensive tasks will likely also understand that 8/256 is not sufficient for their needs.

Thus, the amount of Mac owners that will realistically actually run into premature SSD failure is probably pretty low.

Apple is just running a multi-pronged strategy here: a “good enough” model for 90% of people, and then a “squeeze every last penny out of them” approach for the people who require performance and are willing to pay the Apple tax.

The actual downsides of this approach are pretty limited, as the swap is fast enough that it won’t create a class of newly disgruntled Mac owners annoyed that their Mac “got slow just like a pc”.

Miserly from their side? Sure. But I’m certain the beancounters weighed every aspect and decided that their RAM budget per board was $2, so 8gb it was. Spending an extra $1.30 for a 16gb LPDDR4X chip would break the bank.

Those are actual, current spot prices on those chips. A 150x profit margin on that upgrade from 8 to 16gb makes for some nice fat CEO bonuses. Where do you think the money to pay Tim Apple his 99 million dollar compensation last year came from?
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Inside EU you vote in your country of residence or in the country you have citizenship. You can choose.

If you move out of EU you vote in your home country. I guess the exact procedure depends on your home country, some allow mail ballots others require you to come to the embassy.
They have changed their direction considerably since 2016. The cases they take on now tend not to align with an absolutist stance on freedom of speech and due process.

When Trump got elected, donations poured in to them amd they made a pretty clear turn to liberal causes. I think the days that they would defend the speech of deeply unpopular viewpoints on free speech grounds are over.

This is their plea for donations:
"Abortion care, trans people’s right to live freely, people’s right to vote – our freedoms are at stake and we need you with us. Donate today and fuel our fight in courts, statehouses, and nationwide."

Now I am not saying these are bad causes but it seems their priorities have shifted. They don't seem to be defending deeply unpopular people anymore
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I'm not sure there's much of a difference in practice?

Firefox is implementing the Firefox-specific V3 webextension API (at least, most of it) that they have on Desktop, and they're also turning on support for installing addons from the AMO generally rather than just a subset of curated addons.

So it's sort of both (with some emphasis on "turning on" because as far as I know a decent portion of the API was already implemented before this point).
And removing the option for unsupervised outdoor play for kids.
My guess is that it's not because of the possible political context, but because it's interpreting "soft lighting" as inferring something sexual. Does it work if you get rid of the "and labor" part?
By that standard I cannot see how any reasonable person could justify building anything at all; most of us, not being evil bastards, have imaginations which will simply fail to suggest such uses.
Start bringing back celestial navigation computers. Airliners have enough altitude to install those.
I'll be right back - I need to tell my local pub and parks authority that they didn't think through the basic consequences of their actions when they made a place people could meet random strangers. I'm sure they just haven't thought through what a moral failing offering public spaces are.

Edit to respond to OP's Edit: Your quote you're replying to includes "And prevent it". Which made us assume you were directly implying that prevention of bad consequences was your point. Yes, people should clearly think through consequences. OP wasn't implying otherwise and specifically structured their statement to include "the worst possible thing" and "prevent it".
If someone is uninterested in publicly discussing a problem that involves public participation & cooperation, they are also unqualified to answer any questions about the problem.

Man in the arena and all that.
> Wait you have to be home for every delivery? How would someone with an on-site day job receive packages?

Sort of. Note that I'm a city dweller, living in a flat in an apartment block.

This is a real problem; classical solutions involve having another household member receive the parcel, asking the delivery person to deliver to a neighbor who you know is OK with it (since I started working remotely, I frequently am that neighbor), having them drop the package in front of your door (undesirable, but works in case where there's an extra door between your flat and the staircase), or putting your place of work as delivery address (if your company is happy about it; some are not). Dedicated "package send/receive" stores became a thing, then started disappearing as grocery store chains became package drop points. And then came the parcel lockers.

I imagine this problem was the primary driver of mass, enthusiastic adoption of parcel lockers - for the last decade, I've had at least one within 5 minutes of home, and this let me pick the parcel up at my leisure.

These days, most packages we order go through lockers; the ones are don't are usually medical or plain heavy (10-20kg worth of cat litter, soft drinks, etc.). This works because I work remotely, and my wife is yet to return to work after post-partum period.
Won’t these pedophiles just move to Roblox or start trading kids’ phone numbers or something? Cut off one head and three more emerge. Can’t the answer to people breaking the laws be law enforcement?
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What's with ML Software and Pickles?
So you’re a fan of judges doing their jobs, but not a fan of journalists doing theirs?

Tracking down and trying to talk to those your sources have accused of wrongdoing to try and get their side of the story and to get them to speak on the record is kind of literally Investigative Reporting 101, and has been for actual centuries now.
Motor vehicles are a great example. They are HEAVILY regulated and have a gigantic focus on safety.
> I have a BA in philosophy. Rather than learning the truth, I discovered that almost all philosophers were wrong about almost everything.

Have you studied any set theory? How about epistemology, or non-binary logic?

> But in tracing the history of wrongness, wrestling with all the fashions of thinking, you learn to think with precision. That skill continues to help me.

Precision: the state or quality of being precise; exactness.

Something seems off here.
I disagree. Not using ChatGPT can be the start of a coalition of people that do not use it. I already have two principles: (1) to not use generative AI, LLMs and other AI tooks, and (2) to give preference to people and businesses who do the same. It's simple. If I find that websites use ChatGPT to help generate their content, I stop visiting and supporting them. If I find businesses using AI, I stop supporting them. I already got one other self-sustaining business to at least pubicly declare not to use generative AI and in my personal business, I do so as well.

If such a coalition grows large enough, then AI tools can be extinguished or at least made sufficiently prohibitively expensive so that they are strangled.
Forlinx launched a development board based on RK3568 chipset with Debian 11 version. It offers stability, versatility, and vast software libraries.
The victim of this abuse had to log on to a computer each and every time they were “abused” which is lowering the bar further than I ever thought possible for there to be a victim
Or spend a couple of million on a gigantic house in the inner suburbs.. :/
Most stablecoins are centralized.

CBDCs are the absolute antithesis of cryptocurrencies.

What "existing adoption" are you talking about? In 15 years I've seen only speculation and a grand total of zero products used day-to-day by average people.

The fact you lump all these things together is a perfect illustration. Most blockchain and cryptocurrencies proponents understand nothing about technology.
They sure did, but they've changed. They helped obtain permits for the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, which devolved into a MAGA riot that ended with a white supremacist murdering one protestor and injuring 35 others. Since then the ACLU has become far more squeamish about their clients and has been willing to compromise on their historical principles.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/aclu-johnn...

I think the ACLU is still a good organization, but it's no longer the ACLU. It should be monomaniacal and universally despised.
Right, a glance at the new Assistant API docs, which seems to mirror ChatGPT in functionality, suggests that the "Assistant" determines which tool to use, or which models to use (code or chat) to generate a response message. The API is limited in that it can't use Vision or generate images, but I imagine that those are just "Tools" too that the assistant has access to.
> But also because we seem to be placing the blame for the abuse on the service, not the abuser.

Blame is not exclusive or zero-sum, and while there is obviously blame being placed on the service, I don't see any evidence that blame is not being placed on the abuser (or that less blame is placed on them than would have been if blame wasn't placed on the service as well.)
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Usually being coerced would involve some amount of coercion.
Yes, if I use the exact same prompt but omit "and labor" it works fine.

Also, "soft lighting" is an extremely standard prompt term and no image generator has a problem with it.
That’s a fairly common and wrong misconception of how doctors practice. In reality, there’s a lot of analytical work and “debugging” of symptoms. But even if you were correct, I fail to see how it makes it apples to oranges.

Do you _really_ believe coding up some CRUD SPA web page is the most mentally demanding job in the world?
So there's a pretty big push for urbanism the last few years. There's lots of YouTube channels and other social media stuff dedicated to the idea that the US needs more walkable neighborhoods, more bike infrastructure, less car dependence, etc.

In your view then... what in the world is this about? If suburbs are perfectly walkable, why does anyone care about urbanism? Why does this channel https://www.youtube.com/c/notjustbikes have over a million subscribers?

Moreover, why is the suburb such a post-automobile phenomenon? If it's viable to get everywhere from a suburb without a car, why were people in 1000 BCE or 1000 CE or 1800 CE not living in suburbs?

I just find this perspective so weird... I've definitely met plenty of people who are very pro-suburb, but it's because they consider it natural and acceptable to need a car for any trip, not because they think they can get places without a car.
I've never used Omegle myself, but I've watched all of Harry Mack's Omegle Bars videos (freestyle rapping) and they are golden. Always fun to see him matched with some random kids and brighten their day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijVGIcVRIbk
I'm really sad about this. I know that a lot of really desperate people used the text chat feature when they needed someone to listen, and there's certainly a lot of people who are alive and happy today because they found someone to talk to there when they needed it. I can't deny that there have also been cases where people's lives have been made worse or ruined because of something that happened to them, but I think on the balance the site made the world a better place.
if only the car contained a computer for diagnostucs and a high resolution dispkay that xould show an error clearly...
My gut instinct is that this wouldn't be particularly hard to build. I'm not aware of any extensions that do that, but I wouldn't be surprised to see some extensions start to fill in mobile gaps once it's easier to install them, so you might get your wish.

I'm certainly going to be playing around building mobile extensions just for fun; absolutely zero promises but if I'm running out of other things to build or if it turns out that this is easy to implement in a single weekend, I wouldn't be opposed to building a quick addon for this and Open Sourcing it -- that's assuming I'm not underestimating how annoying it would be to rewrite URLs in the page or something.