skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Zuckerberg vetoed a 2019 proposal that would have disabled Instagram’s so-called “beauty filters,” a technology that digitally alters a user’s on-screen appearance and allegedly harms teens’ mental health by promoting unrealistic body image expectations, according to the unredacted version of the complaint filed this week by Massachusetts officials.

> After sitting on the proposal for months, Zuckerberg wrote to his deputies in April 2020 asserting that there was “demand” for the filters and that he had seen “no data” suggesting the filters were harmful, according to the complaint.

So, why didn't instagram ceo provide that data? Seems a huge oversight for someone in that position.
> For me, the magical period was the early 90s, when I was growing up.

> In 15 years, are people going to be talking about the current internet as the time when the magic was there?

I remember seeing stats/meme that you will hear the best music in your teens and early twenties. It is because in our teen years, things make big impact on us.

So it is likely that the internet and other media has similar effects and todays teens will be reminiscing about current internet when they are 30+ or so.
> people who are very good at making money

assumptions like that can get one killed
I mean If you have drywall it's trivial to pull a cable down and throw in a lv bracket and wallplate
That “Rorschach test” section is weird, someone basically decided to summarize some random book.
We don't know what wasn't proposed or investigated to lessen issues if the initiatives were all shut down. If cursory work admits there's a problem and your profit is in the billions, where you pay engineers to mostly sit on their ass - the onus is on you to reduce harm.

Rejecting all proposals indicates any harms of the platform are inbuilt fundamentally.
The owner is currently being sued by a woman who used the site as a minor and was matched with a pedophile who convinced her to make and send CSAM. This isn't the usual kind of "CSAM intermediary liablility" lawsuit; the plaintiff is actually making an ordinary product liability claim. i.e. Omegle has no safety bars to keep kids from using the service ergo they are liable for me being abused by an adult.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64618791
> What is the "best possible attempt"? There's was a checkbox added (possibly after this suit was filed)

It was after the suit was filed (prior to the suit, AIUI, Omegle had an over-18 warning (with no confirmation) on the Unmoderated chat option, and a stated policy that users had to be 18+ or 13+ with parents permission.

Also, it may not have been because of this suit, there is at least one other suit that was found not to be barred by Section 230 (this one avoided S230 immunity because it is a product liability suit, not one contingent on their role as a publisher; the other one I've seen, IIRC, was found to raise a triable question of fact regarding whether Omegle's behavior was within the category of knowing involvement in trafficking that brought it out of S230 protection.)
NASA's Dragonfly Tunnel Visions
Hm, the demo video is less enticing than I expected. What takes two full sentences, delayed responses, two map renders... is less than a single keyword search in the Google Maps UI with autocomplete ("martini tower " and then selecting "martini tower groningen"). And, in addition, Google Maps UI shows a lot of additional information instantly.

Not a criticism of this repo, but presentation is important in order to attract potential users.
> There's a catch 22 when repairing machinery, you have to see it in action to determine what is going wrong, and sometimes this means getting up close with it during operation.

This is 2023 and we are well into the age of ubiquitous, cheap, small cameras.

Place cameras such that paths can be observed at a safe distance and diagnose problems in powered machinery without placing a person in harm’s way.
How We Built EconGOAT
Leonard Susskind: The Quantum Origins of Gravity [video]
Do they? On Android all it does is backup to another directory on my phone.
Not for fun. But does remind me I'm a fragile bag of meat.
Here are some videos of the UriLift:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kIy-wEfUGU

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTMBlOyNlqc&t=442s

Imagine using one of those thinking "I'll be fine, it only eats the workers"
> You:

> what was your name before it was Bullet?

> Bullet:

> I don't have a previous name. I was created by Anthropic to be called Claude.
I am still very confused how power will be generated cleanly on cloudy, no-wind days with solar and wind. I am hopeful that hydrogen can be generated in the desert and moved by hydrogen-truck. Or grid-scale batteries actually exist someday. But if we write off nuclear, a lot of coal and natural gas will be burned.
Nothing has changed since the early days. A helluva complicated and expensive way to boil water.

"At present, atomic power presents an exceptionally costly and inconvenient means of obtaining energy … This is expensive power, not cheap power as the public has been led to believe." — C. G. Suits, Director of Research, General Electric, who was operating the Hanford reactors, 1951. ( Ref: Power from the Atom - An Appraisal, Nucleonics, Feb. 1951 )

https://www.ieer.org/pubs/atomicmyths.html

Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free:
https://ieer.org/projects/carbon-free-nuclear-free/
> There's a good reason, because it's my almost always hiding a bug

There's another good reason -- by definition, it's impossible to write a test case with full decision coverage if some of the decisions are themselves impossible.
It's the eternal September and regular nostalgia
Casinos have existed for decades, and yet people still keep going there and losing all of their money there.

What gives?

You can downright reject anything crypto currency related because it fails basic economic theory. There has never been a financial instrument that gives risk free 10-30% yields. No economy has ever grown at that rate. If it is a company what real products or real services does it provide? Where's the value add?

Exactly, there isnt, it's a plain old pyramid scheme hiding behind mumbo jumbo jargon that only impresses the mentally challenged.
technically LOTO is to lock the switch with a padlock in the off position and tag the lock with an identifier so the plant knows who is doing the work but overall generally right.
>If the pedo found her at a walmart, would she sue walmart too?

Well, yes! A different example: with few exceptions (gun manufacturers), when people die everybody even remotely involved gets sued. Examples: Station Nightclub fire, Surfside condominium collapse..

In the case of a pedo at Walmart I could imagine: "Didn't the staff notice the guy dragging the girl out of the store? Why didn't they get involved?" Walmart has much more money than the pedo.
I'd love to see logistics shorn off from point of sale.

I think there'd be a lot of room for innovation if you turned Amazon/Walmart/Home Depot's logistics into their own companies, then allowed people to put whatever between that and the customer that they wanted to.

Which is essentially what Amazon does now... the only difference is they get to control that link and the revenue flow from it.

Segregating market functions forevermore would go a long way towards returning competition to marketplaces, imho. (E.g. logistics|retail, advertising|everything, etc.)
> It works in Rust because the build.rs lets libraries do whatever they want during the build process, including invoking compilers for other languages.

It's still its own mess. You'll find plenty of people having problems with openssl, for instance.
Increased quality of life comes from new technological discoveries and abundant resources per capita. Increased fossil fuel usage is one way to achieve that but it's far from the only way. From a high level, if we increase investment on electrification of appliances, use greener forms of transportation, and design denser cities with less car dependence while also increasing nuclear energy output, we can probably increase energy consumption and have even more people living a better quality life without needing fossil fuels.
Does Elixir's Set-theoretic Types support declaring restricted subset of types for modelling purposes as often done by ML programmers? The "Type-Oriented Programming" or "Domain-driven Design"?
Is this based on any sort of understanding of the economy behind FB/IG/Threads, or do you just not like them? Because like it or not, people's livelihoods are being run off those things these days, which amounts to people needing FB/IG/Threads.
And chances are it will only get worse, because the bleaker a rational look at the future gets, the bigger the lure of irrational fantasies and "explanations"
I'd definitely say LLMs are stuck on step 3: "Failure to live up to the hype"

They are certainly impressive, but their utility-to-hype/gimmick ratio is incredibly low right now, which could cause a crash. The greater the disappointment the greater the crash.

I'm reminded of 3D TVs. Remember those? Avatar came out in 2009. By 2016 the trend was dead. Despite the cries of "this time it's different." Of course, that time it was not different. The tech was impressive. Much more than the previous time the fad was around in the '80s. Remember the blue/red glasses? Absolutely not a single person talks about 3D TV today.

The 3D TV was a technical success but it was too much of a gimmick that it died out. My Facebook feed is a never-ending stream of AI generated garbage. I think people are going to tire of it, realize the images it makes are about as goofy as a 2004 MySpace page, and maybe it will stick around to fill out the useless corporate email and document bureaucracy and boilerplate framework code monkey BS.

But ChatGPT isn't writing Breaking Bad or The Sopranos anytime soon.
> even the stock market is viewed by a lots of people as something of a gamble

the majority of people don't have formal training in probability and statistics, not to mention limit theorems and finance, so who cares how they view the stock market? I mean, I care, in the sense of educating people but most people don't really want to put the time in.

stocks and gambling both have risk, but only stocks reward many/most types of risk; gambling does not. The expected value of stocks is positive; gambling is not.

What people are trying to say about stocks is that they are stochastic, and so is gambling.

on the larger topic, Crypto also does not reward risk or offer a positive expected value. It's stochastic nature is driven by the changing opinions people have about it, or secondary effects from how much other stochastic markets might rely on it. Mining bitcoins is stochastic from the point of view of a miner, but not really from the point of view of the market or at any scale, but without a productive use case providing a reward, no postive expected value and the reward for risk ("you got a coin") is not above the cost of mining, at least not for long.
Small businesses marketed before the existence Facebook, and people messaged before the existence of Facebook. They aren't doing anything special other than being the beneficiaries of the network-effect-du-jour.
It’s because the cops can show up and demand ID from everyone inside, they have to make sure everyone has one.

In this case, they have no obligation to ensure everyone has ID on their person.

Can you sue a bar you used fake ID to get into?

My real question wasn’t if there are kids on the system or not, but why are they allowed to sue when they themselves and nobody else have lied about the age verification question?
I thought that was what people said about php
Absolutely not! Hydro, nuclear fission, solar, wind, etc. Tons of other options. My point is you need energy to cook food and have hospitals. Without those basic needs covered, a society can't function. If we want to continue improving our lives, we need more energy.
Part of Swift 5.9 which is in Xcode 15, so, I think so, but it's opt-in:

> This feature is also available on macOS but is disabled by default. To enable it, set SWIFT_BACKTRACE=enable=yes and sign your program with the com.apple.security.get-task-allow entitlement.

https://www.swift.org/blog/swift-5.9-released/
"If you're going to go down, take people with you."

If there's an issue, you partner with your superiors to fix it. This is what the Insta CEO is trying to do (because he believes there's an issue). Having done that, yes, you leave a paper trail to cover your ass.
I have no problem with the act of writing a cover letter. I have a problem with what it represents as a signal to me, the applicant. The company is basically saying to me: "We don't care to actually invest our time into you so please waste your private time for free.".
No, but if you operate enough golf courses you better be ready for the eventuality.
In my particular case, the fact that it returns bullshit is kind of useful.

Obviously they need to fix that for realistic usage, but I use it as a studying technique. Usually when I ask it to give me some detailed information about stuff that I know a bit about, it will get some details about it wrong. Then I will argue with it until it admits that it was mistaken.

Why is this useful? Because it gets "just close enough to right" that it can be an excellent study technique. It forces me to think about why it's wrong, how to explain why it's wrong, and how to utilize research papers to get a better understanding.
That was the original claim.

What this article is citing is direct refutation of the claim.

Moreover this evidence is valuable because it came unprompted. The evidence may noy be devastating, but its not unsubstantiated either.

I don't think anyone contends its ok for any party to share information with the govt that it deems important. But whether that sharing happened is not the claim. The question is who directed the work.

The original assertion that the DHS did not direct the work is under suspicion, becauae the alibi came from a related party that is now know to be in a business partnership with the same party that is defending itself from the allegations of illegal 1st amendment interference.

And now theres 3rd party information that refutes the alibi.
Crypto Critic Nouriel Roubini Is Launching a Token
If there are enough individuals that the group forms anyway, and being a member of the group is profitable, then any single individual who decides not to join just suffers the loss of that profit.

Only if enough individuals decide together to not do it - enough to not allow the group to form - does it change the math. But unless there is a clear group of folks doing that, communicating that, and co-ordinating with that goal - no individual has any way of determining if they would ‘tip the scales’ or not. So it’s very unlikely to happen ‘naturally’ once a certain degree of momentum has happened.

A type of social prisoners delimma perhaps?

And if you’re noticing this also applied to the Nazi party, you’re not wrong.

Also applies to any other group though.
The just ship it clock
All I hear in contemporary politics is how carbon taxes, already set low enough that they won’t stop increasing fossil fuel use, are too much and must be repealed. This point of view only gets more popular.

Let’s repeal the tax and wait for the good times people say. They’re not anti-environment they say, they just want to try unspecified different solutions, so long as it costs them nothing. Once we burn a little more fuel, the good times will be here, and we can lay off a bit.

People don’t seem to have the stomach to accept what’s coming even to the extent they’re willing to act together to ensure we all have a better future. I never expected people to do much. Yet I was never this pessimistic.
Testing GPT4 128K context length performance
Yes, doctors, lawyers and military careers come to mind. I’m sure there’s tons more
Even more disconcerting is the possibility they believe they're pursuing righteousness genuinely rather than just for the reward.
I'd rather not I don't think many other people were party to some of the things I heard them describe that they personally witnessed. It'd probably be very easy to figure out who they were. This is all from the 2008-2013 era.
Is it possible to transport wind / solar energy across the country via high powered transmission lines?
I really want to continue to support Continue as they're one of the few coding assistants that have extensions for both VS Code and Jetbrains IDEs.
By far the largest portion of the market is bitcoin. Bitcoin is inherently traceable from the ledger and IRS is always looking for large tax fraud.
That's true, even Telstra was slow getting to it (was only available for prepaid services for a long while). I think Aussie telcos need a bit of kick to really go in on eSIM, such as Apple releasing eSIM only iPhone's in the USA. You can't even get a add-on SIM for an Apple/Android Smartwatch from anyone except the big three here still.

It would be good to have regulation surrounding eSIM, because telcos will always find a way to make it awful. E.g. able to do 24x7, max 1hr processing time, no cost to user, able to do via self-service options.
The model generates a prompt that's sent to SDXL, but it’s “seeded” with some randomness, we have an array of adjectives & colours that we input to try to make the output different.

Primarily the model is trying to generate “abstract publication cover art for a research paper covering the following topics…”.
That’s a good point. I remember when Facebook genuinely allowed people to connect with others whom they hadn’t seen for years. MySpace before it is the source of nostalgia for a lot of my peers. Twitter had many genuine interactions between popular celebrities and their fans. Any of these things are likely to be magical to someone.

(Not sure what it means that these examples are all approximately dead to a lot of their previously most active users. That’s actually distinct from Omegle, unfortunately; most of their active users had remained perfectly happy with the platform.)
Sure, but the natural next step after ultraprocessed is highly refined products like sugar and flour, which I know is so much of people's current diet but that's why everyone has health problems.
A lot of these are applicable (in the general sense) to jobs in many other industries as well. But I'd still rather be a SWE because the compensation doesn't really compare.
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Hopefully, sure. But why should we believe that this time is different?
Investigative reporters should act professionally. They should setup a formal appointment with the accused and remain neutral. In the bbc report they showed up uninvited and asked "We want to know why you're not protecting children, Mr. Brooks" which is a loaded question [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question
Especially when signal can't even make phone calls or text messages, there's no need for it to know my phone number
Science can be a money pit, waste of time and threat to health if not directed properly. All that money based on what is funded now would go to studying the effects of coffee or if red wine is good or bad for health with some minor studies that time change sleeping habits and screentime vs teens vaping.
The accounting for CO2 emissions is a bit lopsided. Why do you think developing nations are developing so quickly to become more like the US? The only reason is because they are aided through technologies developed by first-world countries in the first place, the reasons for which are primarily consumerist. If all first-world countries stopped producing so many things to consume and returned to simpler lifestyles, then there would be much less "development" in developing nations.
Nobody is infallible. It's easy to look up to people and think they are perfect, thus modeling yourself to some unattainable standard. And as I get older, I find that many individuals that I looked up to were from perfect, and often downright terrible people.
I don't remember the exact model of PalmPilot I owned, but I owned one way back when...
And how would you propose to do that?
Service Weaver
Importing Dafu 501s as Brooklyn Skippies, cost $4 to make, $11 to pick and ship
Why do things cost what they do? If the shoes cost 4$ to make, what should they cost to consumers?

I don't understand why things cost what they do.
> The magic died when majority of the population got access thanks to the iPhone and androids that came.

...for those too young to think the magic died with Eternal September.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
It's never 'not windy' everywhere, plus gravity batteries can store power for days/weeks.

Geothermal is also an 'always on' renewable.
> So, why didn't instagram ceo provide that data? Seems a huge oversight for someone in that position.

Because there is no data that show causation?
Technically, you are right, I don't mean all ethnicities evolved independently.
Yes, kids can and have sued because they got served alcohol while underage - even if they asked for it. The whole premise is as minor they couldn’t understand the consequences, and weren’t fully responsible for their actions.

And establishments get shut down all the time for it.

[https://ftxidentity.com/blog/abc-laws-if-minor-is-served/]

Next question?
These are still all over Japan, almost every elementary school has one. Even brand-new ones built this year. And they can commonly be found in public parks, too.
What's new in Fedora Workstation 39
I said mostly for a reason.
I’m not a Facebook fan by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s true that Facebook is what a lot of small businesses rely on.

It’s a good platform for certain types of businesses to share information with a lot of people in a channel other than email. Think gyms, restaurants, salons, laundromats, etc.

And then there are people whose businesses run on Facebook. Not that it’s a common thing, but I actually pay a fitness instructor $25/mo to join daily group fitness classes that anre available exclusively via Facebook Live.

If Facebook were to go away, the biggest missing piece up for grabs would be a common platform used by a lot of people to broadcast information to people who share things in common.
Personally, I always thought 19 months, 19 days each, for 361 days and take the last four or five off (we do anyway) made the most sense. Then I learned the Baha’i calendar uses this system.

One variation I would support is a 19 day week, with 14 days on then 5 days off. That’s 266 working days per year, about the same as our present 260.

Alternatively, 10 days on 9 days off is 190 working days, basically instituting 2 months of vacation, which our friends in Europe already enjoy.
Next Airbnb Host Could Be a Private-Equity Firm
If they were journalists they would know something about journalism ethics.

Asking loaded questions and trying to aggressively ambush you is definitely not "getting the other side of the story".
That's an amazing breakthrough and I'm not saying this is in any way a substitute, but a couple decades ago my parents were good friends with a guy who had Parkinson's and would often freeze when he was walking. I came across a study saying patients can get past the freeze by pointing a laser pointer at the floor in front of them. Just focus on the glowing dot on the floor and you can take a step.

So they bought the guy a $5 laser pointer, and it actually worked for him.

I'm guessing as he got worse it eventually stopped working, but I hope doctors haven't forgotten about that study.
As you might expect, compiling rust crates that use C libraries can lead to the inscrutable-block-of-text linker errors we know and love. I have been having a rough time with CUDA, CMSIS-DSP, Tensorflow, and OpenCV during the past few weeks. One of them requires LLVM=v15 to be installed; another requires v16+. A diff one requires an old version of rustc to be installed. On a diff one, when I posted on Github, the maintainers assured me the crate is, in fact, fine, and my system is misconfigured; phew!