skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for sharing your arguments, I'll share my take on them one by one.

> Do you understand that governments already abuse the data held by social media companies and that, by removing, limiting, or regulating young peoples' access to social media one of the outcomes would be that social media companies would hold less data that governments could abuse?

Fixing one problem with another problem. Instead, lets actually take user privacy seriously, and instead of following the abstinence method which works so well, we create a world where this kind of data is not collected/saved or abused in the first place.

> Do you also understand that governments and other hostile threat actors already use social media as a propaganda tool to spread misinformation? Do you think it's a good thing that children and teenagers are exposed to this? Do you like that your household is exposed to it?

Believe me, I do. I also believe that kids have a right to gather online. Our children have always faced danger, and have always needed guidance on how to safely navigate this increasingly complex world. By limiting the collected data as mentioned above, we mitigate this problem as well. Instead of attacking the rights of children, we limit the operational rights of corporations so that individual data privacy and security are better respected.

> Is that corporate abuse of power really better than government abuse of power?

No. See above. Your suggestion of instead limiting the rights of minors to congregate online does not in any way solve or mitigate corporate abuse of power, however it does enable governmental abuse of power, so I'm not sure what point you're making here.

> Whether or not that involves a ban on social media use by under-18s or under-16s or whatever, I've already made clear I'm not sure of, though I can see that it might be a helpful option.

I am very sure it's not the right move.

> What you're proposing on the other hand is no solution at all: many parents aren't capable of correctly configuring a firewall or securely locking down a phone, even though products exist that make both easier. Some would be able to learn, but some wouldn't. You're simply burying your head in the sand.

This is the strongest argument you've made yet, and you're right; Teaching digital privacy and security will be a multi-generational effort, but ultimately society will be better for it. The alternative is still sticking our heads in the sand, and allowing corporations to continue to, as you have agreed, abuse their power and take advantage of both adults and children who get past the filters.

Furthermore, I have no interest in making criminals out of children who circumvent any such laws, and they will circumvent these laws, and en masse. The law is simply unenforceable at scale, and the effect would be to conditiona an entire generation to normalize criminal action. Is that what we want?
OK then how much would you be willing to bet that you could demotivate or motivate me?

The difference in the wallet theft vs. motivation idea is that you have 0 control over my motivation. I am in 100% control of my motivation. You may be able to try to increase or decrease my motivation but you can’t control it.

Motivation’s not a thing you can pick up and take like a wallet. It’s not real and it’s mine.
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I appreciate the general idea of using strong types, but I think the chosen example was a bit unfortunate and distracts from the actual problem. (Granted, it was a toy example, but still.)

Any system dealing with people will inevitably end up dealing with someone whose age is unknown. If the system cannot process this, these (very real) people will become "unrepresentable", with all kinds of consequences. Imagine a hypothetical story like "The hotel canceled my reservation because their system didn't have my age." Sounds familiar?

Also, ZIP code should be string, and you had better not have a type constraint for it, unless you never plan to sell anything overseas.
> At 26 billion USDC circulating, this seems to be quite the business model too.

If you're talking about interest-bearing stablecoins, there's at least one stablecoin on that front. USDV pays out the Fed interest rate back to stablecoin holders.

https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/verified-usd
I mean sure... but that's because there's an actual person photographed there. What happens when you get into "does (s)he look 17 or 18 in this photo?" and no way to prove anything, since the person does not exist?
PSD2 is a nice idea but nightmarish in practice. I used to use an app to track my finances and it would often fail to properly establish a "link" after successful authentication with mysterious error messages, bank connections would just randomly fail to refresh their data for hours, even days at a time, their services provider (the party sitting between your bank and your budgeting app) SAID it would require re-auth every 90 days, but in practice it seemed to start requesting authentication after a month or so.

To access your own data, it needs to go from your bank, to a licensed Account Information Services Provider (AISP), to your budgeting app of choice, and finally to you. You can't utilize PSD2 without involving all of those 3rd parties because banks don't offer PSD2 APIs to consumers and I've only seen AISP services sold B2B. [1]

I'm someone who has no issues using 2FA everywhere and carrying around a Yubikey, but even I got fed-up with constant re-authentication requirements: Enter bank email & password, next, next, confirm, approve, yes I'm sure, now take out your phone, unlock it, open the bank app, log in there, confirm that prompt, yes, i'm really sure. Then it takes 1-2 minutes to "connect" your account and load the latest data. Repeat for every bank account, every 30 days.

It beats trusting your banking password to some random 3rd party, but it's a pretty terrible experience as an end-user if you ask me.

[1] Someone pointed out GoCardless which seems to accept private customers as well, a welcome surprise.
[insert mild grumbling about his post-Pinkerton artistic risk aversion]
The lasers aren't used for ground-to-satellite comms. While they refer to some of them maintaining a link through the atmosphere, the lasers are intended for satellite-to-satellite communication way above the atmosphere.
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I used to write really long, essay style commit messages like this one.

Then a friend pointed out that I was effectively writing documentation and hiding it in commit messages.

Instead, I switched a lot of that effort to updating actual documentation (in a docs/ folder) that was relevant to the commit - so the commit would still have the information in it, it's just it was in an actual file and not just the commit message.

I also make sure my commits almost always link to an issue thread, as that's a great place to put all kinds of extra context around the commit that can be updated independently of the commit itself.
Literally zero of the devs I know spend a nontrivial amount of time coding for fun outside of work. Maybe a few small things once a year or so but hardly what I’d consider regular. We do often do ‘fun stuff’ at work though so it kind of scratches that itch
Protests by farmers block highways to Paris and elsewhere in France
I recall watching a video years ago about coffins for some reason. It mentioned how in the US the coffin industry has to make much bigger coffins since people are much bigger. The reporter somewhat jokingly asked "Is there a coffin season?" like chocolate is for Valentines/Hallow'en or toys for Christmas. The owner of the coffin business said "Yes flu season is our busy time." their sales double. That documentary was years before COVID hit.
Latest? Does no one read history?
While I am thankful for the increased local storage space available today I do not care to use it for storing giant executables and libraries. I prefer to use it for storing data.

Not a fan of storing data on someone else's computers, otherwise known as "the cloud".

Or unnecessarily running software from someone else's computers where I could just as easily run it locally, with better speed and reliability, otherwise known as "software as a service".
Is it possible to click o the pdf and hear the part of the audio related to that information to verify? (Like the OCR feature.)
https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/83980/why-is-sw...
Netflix uses 3-7GB an hour. The average person is spending 4-5hrs a day watching TV. I’d say most are above 100GB/month.

But that’s me.
All new features, as well as those introduced after Chrome became majority marketshare.
Cook 'incredibly excited' about AI news to come later this year
Not when they can fight another culture war battle!
This is from the Shannon-Hartley theorem, the 'power limited case':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theore...
Yeah 1TB seems average for anyone in IT who is really into data.

I'm kinda pissed their is no local ISP competition in my area....and iv tried reaching out to companies with little success...or they say were expanding to your area soon but will not say when.

10GB symmetric fiber isn't hard. Hell I'd use more bandwidth if I could but I'm stuck with no fiber atm
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Sorry, shouldn't have engaged there.
There are plenty of other, longer articles about him discussing how he's swatted a dozens of mosques, temples, synagogues, and others.

He's also not a child. He's 17 years old, and fully capable of understanding the risk of harm he exposed hundreds of people to.
Interaction to Next Paint Becomes a Core Web Vital on March 12
What Garry said is 100% legally protected under the First Amendment. It's also very tame compared to what people wrote in newspapers in the 1800s.

No DA is going to waste their time pursing this, it's a guaranteed loss, especially against elected government officials. The body of First Amendment caselaw is vast and every law student knows you can say far far worse things which are protected speech.

This is nothing more than activist journalists hating successful people for leading a stand against a self-destructive ideology ruining lives.

These folks are the enemy of the people and I sincerely hope the worst for them.
You are correct, that is the link I meant.
I"m not sure tbh. i just joined a few weeks ago.
Offloading the risk on private players, reduces the amount of government investment required, and shields them from any criticism, should the project fail.

Also, if it is that strategically important, the government can just buy SpaceX.
> I wonder who at the Vatican is keeping up with the latest AI advances and helping Francis stay on top of it

The Vatican directly charters universities across the globe. I imagine they have several experts on the topic who are working with them, and I imagine they also have clergy and religious knowledgeable in both catholic theology and mathematics, computer science, HPC and AI. Fun fact, the first american woman to earn a phd in computer science was a nun
Incidentally, I know of a few people, friends of my parents, that have gotten a shunt for NPH. They suffered from one of the 3 "W" symptoms of NPH, wet, wobbly, wackiness, that you're certainly aware of.

One had a dramatic improvement very quickly, where one or more of the Ws was resolved. Another had the spinal tap indicating she was a good candidate, but the shunt is still not resolving all the issues even after 2 months.

Do you have any clinical experience with the success rates of the shunt?
Now we're getting into the fundamental fact that some websites have lots of tracking and such, and some don't.

This is no different than having to send the files to a server owned by the website. I fail to see any meaningful difference here. Should we also not allow HTTP requests? I don't see how this is different.
We've let go of other historical typographic and spelling conventions, it's time to let go of that one too.
50% would probably be fair. Remember that he'd be keeping 50% _per employee_, which means he still makes 10x compared to them.
"...they found the material in Schulte’s New York apartment, in an encrypted container beneath three layers of password protection"

Curious if anyone knows if the original source for this statement (presumably some evidence presented in court, indictment, etc) is available for us to read. Wondering if prosecutors really say stuff like "beneath three layers of password protection", or if that was embellished by the Guardian writer.
> Marketplace developers will need to pay €0.50 for each first annual install of their marketplace app.

This is not going to happen. "Pay us fifty cents per user per year, forever, for the privilege of competing with us" is a joke, it will not be tolerated by EU regulators.

I feel less certain about the CTF charged to app developers, but the CTF applied to marketplaces is flagrantly anti-competitive.
It doesn't really matter who owns it as long as it can be bent towards national goals when it matters.

American vehicle manufacturing was a strategic advantage during WWII because they swiftly pivoted to selling tanks to the government instead of cars to civilians.
According to a quick search the average US household is closing in on 600 GB of traffic per month, that makes 42 PB per day the internet traffic of 2.1 million households. Incidentally the second picture in the article says 2.3M+ customers. With an US average of 2.5 people per household that is the traffic of 5 million people or 1.5 % of the US population.
Yes absolutely right about the modern RISC archs. I should have just said AT&T not AT&T/GNU. The difference is that x86, VAX and SPARC were AT&T UNIX porting efforts prior to or alongside GNU, and GNU sort of chose to inherit that. The newer RISC architectures did not have the hand/influence of AT&T as far as I know.

As far as the operand ordering with the x86, the thing is they did flip it from the Intel syntax and the beginnings of this port date back to Version 7 (1978), a few years before GNU.
So what was the reason other than it looked like the incumbent/precedent PDP-11? I haven't heard it being much more than circumstance.
Netflix and Youtube streams are less GB/hour than a typical movie rip. Roughly 3GB/hour at 720p and 8GB/hour at 4K. A decent-quality pirated 4K movie is more like 20GB/hour. A high-quality rip is 40GB/hour.
(I'm not sure if it's related, but I hope it can give some ideas.) In Classic VB6, I had a similar problem. When you had a magical "autoredraw" picture, everytime you draw all the surface is repainted. The solution was to use a hidden image and draw there, and also draw in another image the screen, and when another windows uncover part of the screen use the hidden image to fill the location.
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Would someone making a serious, targeted attack on the company focus on ops staff, and maybe go to the trouble of keylogging them? Sure. But those are precisely the attackers who wouldn't get distracted (and risk detection) going after those staff's personal machines.
Did anyone notice that Google is still faking their demos?

The Imagen 2 demo showing the typed prompt has a footnote saying: "Sequences shortened".
Microsoft also looking strong.
The complaint was purely about software replacing normal quotes with "smart quotes", not that it did it wrong.
Not sure if this post is meant to highlight continued excess mortality despite the official end of covid?

According to wastewater monitoring, covid is thriving:
https://biobot.io/data/
I drive a recent model year Chevy Bolt where I paid a total price within that 14-20k range.

I don't find myself worried about cut corners. The safety profile is fine. The quality is fine. It's an EV that does everything I want: reach a range large enough to make it usable beyond just a city car, be reasonably cheap, and have a serviceable lifespan beyond the gimmick period of a Tesla.
We are talking about storing data on user's computers.

If you allow PWA apps to do this. You also allow websites to use it for tracking.

Hence why Apple restricted this feature.
Would this CEO have gotten the same backlash if he said similar things about, say, Trump, or some adjacent S.F. supervisor?

Not asking whether they would have gotten _some_ backlash (of course they would), but whether they would have gotten the same backlash, from the same media and people giving it to Gerry now, and whether it would be as effective to get them getting some board discipline and/or have them relieved from their positions.

It's ok to say "but those are bad people and would have deserved it, while the ones Tan targetted are good". It comes off as a little strong, but at least it's an understandable and cohesive political stance.

It's also fine to say "No, saying such things is a no-no, no matter which is the target, period.".

But it's a little hypocritical when people who claim the latter in this case, to ignore or even applaud similar comments when they're in line with their politics.
>I am quite perplexed at how banks view these deals if they (supposedly) regularly end up in bankruptcy.

The answer is simple and boring. Despite high profile failures, the investment on average are profitable for banks.
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Plenty of US strategic advantages are privately held or otherwise very dependent on the private sector. It's fine because the company can't really leave the US.
This reads a bit like an "only in America and the third world" kind of problem.

I never received a robocall in my life (and no spam calls at all after those where made illegal in the EU years ago).
If you're a fellow dropout like me, context:

"P" is the class of problems that can be solved by a deterministic Turing machine in polynomial time. "NP" stands for "nondeterministic polynomial time," and is the class of problems for which a solution can be _verified_ in polynomial time by a deterministic Turing machine, given the correct "hint" or "certificate." Every problem in P is also in NP, since if a problem can be solved in polynomial time, its solution can certainly be verified in polynomial time (just solve the problem again).
I built a smart treat dispenser for my cat using an ESP32.

The best feature is the little speaker inside that plays the Meowmix jingle when dispensing. My cat is now conditioned to come running when she hears that sound.

I connected it to my Apple Home network via Home Assistant, and it works great. I can tell Siri to give the cat a snack, and off she goes.
so they just cracked his pws or what?
The New, New Transistor
I prototyped a system one year ago which created node-based, editable scene graphs in-browser with the help of an LLM-powered agent. It allowed the user to quickly construct complex 3D scenes.

It was some amazing tech with a ton of applications, but sadly leadership had other plans and pivoted to a highly derivative, slapped-together AI sex bot.
Languages, sizes, and degrees of open-ness.
It's already been bent towards missile defense
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink#Military_capabilities
A whole different world where identity based violence is perfectly acceptable and sometimes even supported by the military. In the US those acts would be called hate crimes and the defendants would be raked across the coals.
AI learnt language by seeing the world through a baby's eyes
> the self-destructive ideology ruining lives

What ideology is that?
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The Bing image generator is using DALL-E 3 under the covers. You are likely comparing it to the original DALL-E which obviously is a huge difference.
Yes, I read that the other day. I never claimed he is innocent, but "life" is a long time. I don't know the kid or any details, but are you really sure he's still going to be a danger in 10 years? Or 20 years?

> He's also not a child. He's 17 years old, and fully capable of understanding the risk of harm he exposed hundreds of people to.

It's not. Brains keep developing until the age of 25 or so. Age of consent and age of $lots_of_things is 18 (arguably too young, IMHO).

Trailing people as adults when they're considered too young to vote, buy alcohol, etc. is quite frankly ridiculous.
"Yes" but considerably less often and to date with less drama and no fatalities.

Most famously https://globalnews.ca/news/9097654/twitch-streamer-and-trans...

the same person was targeted in both London, England, and again in Northern Ireland.

The police visited to make further enquiries ..

which was a little different to a fully battlefield ready para military unit detaching a door and storming a location.

Perhaps the US SWAT response could dial initial contact down to an 11 from its current over 9000?
If you've hung out with scientists, you might be forgiven for thinking this.