skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My immediate instinct here is they need cash. Or are dealing with a lot of fraud which is a pain to limit.
> Within the confines of Mastodon, it’s a relatively unknown concept.

Mastodon are not known for adding support for other ActivityPub implementations extra features. I doubt they'll look into this any time soon.
I mean, in as much as it is annoying when an article about, say, NTFS internals does not explain what NTFS stands for, or what a filesystem is. If you're the target audience, you'll know already.
I do think training developers and designers on accessibility is a core part of having them ship professional quality work. Even if product people and designers aren't thinking about it, I think it's reasonable to expect competent front-end developers to understand how to implement designs to some professional standard that doesn't make the page unusable for people with disabilities and expose the company to lawsuits.

On the other hand I don't think the business really knows/cares what HTML you use, they just can reasonably trust people to implement stuff in the "right" way, which 90% of time is identify the correct HTML to represent the nature and structure of the design and build out from there. You'd expect things to "just work" when you are paying for front-end specialists.
> "A whole body exposure to UVB radiation inducing the light pink color of the minimal erythema dose for 15–20 min is able to induce the production of up to 250 μg vitamin D (10,000 IU)"[1]

So when you expose someone to light until they get a sunburn, they produce up to 250 ug. 80 ng/ml serum is still equivalent to 400+ ug and that's in the blood alone.

The real issue is that over time that elevation caused calcium levels to rise. That can't happen with light exposure because you adapt to it.

> Surely naked homo sapiens got a bigger dose wandering around the highlands of Ethiopia 100,000 years ago.

Did they? They were black. If the "natural" level of vitamin D was significantly higher than modern levels in white people, current day black Africans would have higher levels than the RDA- they wear shorts and tshirts, so they should still have >50% of prehistoric levels. But in fact if anything people in Africa tend to have lower vitamin D levels than the rest of the world, and certainly much less than eg the US: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-1...

On top of that, European-descended people have less efficient calcium utilization due to higher availability. They need more vitamin D to utilize the same amount of calcium, so looking at prehistoric levels is not a great indicator.

> What kind of perverse logic led to setting the RDA to 600 IU daily?

Well for one thing its certainly done with an assumption of daily sunlight exposure, since people don't usually figure that into their diet.

If you want the full logic, you can read the 1116 page book by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. They chose the number: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/13050/chapter/1#xiii
It's not Etrade, it is the IRS instructions for Form 1099-B, Box 1e (cost basis).

"If the securities were acquired through the exercise of a compensatory option, the basis has not been adjusted to include any amount related to the option that was reported to you on a Form W-2."*
You may be interested in the Content Authenticity Initiative’s Content Credentials. The idea seems to be to keep a more-or-less-tamperproof provenance of changes to an image from the moment the light hits the camera’s sensor.

It sounds like the idea is to normalize the use of such an attribution trail in the media industry, so that eventually audiences could start to be suspicious of images lacking attribution.

Adobe in particular seems to be interested in making GenAI-enabled features of its tools automatically apply a Content Credential indicating their use, and in making it easier to keep the content attribution metadata than to strip it out.
On Android the certificate pinning makes it very hard even with root. On iPhone where the owner of the phone (Apple) actively fights against your ability to gain root, I can't imagine it's easier, but if it is I'd appreciate being corrected.
To me it sounds pretty damning. "The tool hallucinates" makes me think it's completely out of touch with reality, spouting nonsense. While "It has made a mistake, it is factually incorrect" would apply to many of my comments if taken very literally.

Webster definition: "a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine)".

I would fire with prejudice any marketing department that associated our product with "delirium tremens, schizophrenia, [...] LSD or phencyclidine".
excited to see fediverse's answer to bluesky's DID
It always amazes me that for every type of potentially hazardous substance or situation there will be people state 'Everything I've read' or 'From my own research' and the downplay or dismiss the concern.

There are a LOT of people that have worked with asbestos that went on to develop severe lung disease.
These places are far more civilized than a waffle house. Waffle houses have to hire security guards to deal with the drunken foolishness that goes down inside most weekend nights (at least those sited nearish to bars). Everything in the waffle house is able to be cleaned with a hose.
The US has in my opinion the exact wrong approach to regulation here. The deny-list approach of regulation may very well foster innovation, but it also fosters lawlessness and exploitation.

If a company can get away with not needing to really care about the negative side effects of their products, they will most certainly do that.

The entire model needs to be inverted.
I like the outlook you build through your observations, and I acknowledge the possible conclusion you arrive at as plausible. I do, however, put a heavier weight on your first point because I see what we have today in terms of image/video generation as very rudimentary compared to what we'll have in a couple years. A day's worth of work for a 100% convincing, AI-generated video immune to the most advanced forensics? We'll soon have it instantaneously.

Thank you for the preface you wrote, I completely understand your point of how easy it is to sound like a contrarian online, I'm sure my writing style doesn't help much on that front I'm afraid to admit.
Well I know I can write applications use it, but I don't often write code outside the context of a team that has other opinions anymore :)
Stability.ai – Introducing Stable Video 3D
I think the burden could be on the chemical producer: do “good science” to show this material is safe, or don’t use it at all. That conservative mindset seems very reasonable to me.

The question remains - what is “good science?”
This stuff can be Googled to level-set the conversation. First search result says:

- 54% of adults have a literacy below sixth-grade level.

- 21% of Americans 18 and older are illiterate in 2022.

We can dig further to find more sources of data and judge how reputable they are. If those numbers are incorrect, correct them and go from there.
Investment advisors pay price for selling what looked a lot like AI fairy tales
I used your product when building my start-up. Fascinating to hear the back story!
> likely illiteracy of their workforce

Seriously?

>teaching the workforce just 3-5 letters and using combinations of those letters would be a massive upgrade over this system.

Upgrade, how exactly? This works fast, does not require paper or pens (which run out, dry out or go missing).

See it in action - it works fast as hell
Ah, so ad hominem.
The actual account pages? Can you go to the transfer page and fill in the form?

The public page works fine.
You missed their 10,000 IU: https://www.naturemade.com/products/vitamin-d3-maximum-stren...
?????

Illiterate or not, with this system, you can "read" the order at a glance rather than having to read a list of items or decoding a set of symbols. That might shave a second per order.

Another point, ink in markers run out and thermal printers frequently run out of paper at inopportune times. I presume condiments are well stocked. No hunting for a new marker or fetching a new roll of receipt paper with this system.
Moonlighting as economics researchers, or even considering themselves as the superiors of economic researchers is possible, and can’t be excluded as a possibility. Hence why I said technically.
Are you sure you didn't buy the wrong product?

https://liquiddeath.com/products/sparkling-water
> The argument is that good business spots are a limited community resource that it makes sense to tax, like radio spectrum.

I'm not sure I follow the reasoning here. How does the existence of economic scarcity imply that it makes sense to tax anything?

> If you can make good use of the space you're taking up, go ahead, but you should compete fairly with other uses of the space.

But that's already inherent in the nature of scarcity -- the more demand there is for a scarce resource, the higher the price is. So businesses making use of high-value prime real estate are already paying more for it. The law of supply and demand already does what you are proposing. How does paying additional fees to a separate institution with its own perverse incentives add anything to the equation?

> the largely automated facility wasn’t the best use for a prominent Main Street site

This was the personal opinion of a local bureaucrat who thought his personal opinion should be policy. That's why the company is suing.
One day I hope to have time to have a brief stint as a WH short order cook, and learn the art of catching a thrown chair. It’s also the only way to buy shares in the org, as they’re private but have an employee stock plan. A special slice of America; if you haven't been, highly recommend.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/waffle-hou...
> I guess now it's our time to adapt to change.

I'm just saddened by the prospect that, for me, "adapting to change" would mean "no longer being able to make a living doing what I actually enjoy". that's why if this is the future, it's a career-killing one for me. Whether or not I stay in the industry, there is no future in my chosen career path, and the alternative paths that people keep bringing up all sound pretty terrible to me.

My only hope is that AI will not achieve the heights that its proponents are trying to reach (I suspect this is the case). I see no other good outcome for me.
Anthony Bourdain, upon visiting his first Waffle House, remarked "This is better than the French Laundry":

https://youtu.be/bct8stbZafI?si=ru9hL8xH_a_75J5I
Go watch craps dealers in a casino. They use a visual placement system to track 16 players at a time covering dozens of possible bets per player. No letters or writing needed at all. And casino dealers are highly skilled people.
"I would heavily discourage any start-up that was thinking about starting as a non-profit and adding a for-profit arm later. I would discourage them from doing that. I don't think we'll set a precedent here."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvqFAi7vkBc&t=1959s
I had similar levels and my dr prescribed 10000iu (prescription) for a few weeks and then lowered to 3-5000iu (OTC)
Here's the reason: people who drink have weird feelings about being around non-drinkers.

I've been on both sides of this: I have a straightedge tattoo. I didn't start drinking till my late 20s, post college. I now drink... probably a bit too much at times, if I'm honest.

Back when I didn't drink, I had zero problems with other people drinking. I'd go to the bar with people, no problem. Just a personal choice.

But drinking is a social activity. It's got a lot of vibes, not a lot of rigidity. And some drinkers, when out drinking, find that someone who isn't drinking can ruin the vibe. I found that a lot of people who I was okay hanging out with while they were drinking, weren't as okay as having me hanging out while they were drinking.

Enter Liquid Death. Now others feel like you're fitting in. Seems like you're having a tall boy just like everyone else.

Furthermore, since this is now A Thing, if you want to go out, but don't want to drink, it's nice to know that it's gonna be accessible. I was out a few weekends ago, one of the trio was done drinking, but the other two of us weren't. It was nice to be able to buy them a "drink" too, they could get started on re-hydrating immediately. I bought a Liquid Death over this past weekend, when I was out a bit early, didn't feel like having a drink, but did want to support the event I was at buy buying a drink.

Yes, it's "irrational." It's really about human interaction. Which has its own logic.
I think the argument is more along the lines of "if you look after the pennies, the pounds look after themselves," not the slight straw man of "every single little accessibility improvement benefits every single user." If you have accessibilty at the heart of what you're doing then it will almost inevitably improve the product for everyone to some extent. My argument would be stronger, in that I think there's a very high probability that it will improve the product significantly for a large proportion of your audience.
My kids have always loved seltzer!
Is anyone else worried about how naive this policy is?

The solution here is for important institutions to get onboard with the public key infrastructure, and start signing anything they want to certify as authentic.

The culture needs to shift from assuming video and pictures are real, to assuming they are made the easiest way possible. A signature means the signer wants you to know the content is theirs, nothing else.

It doesn't help to train people to live in a pretend world where fake content always has a warning sticker.
Also things like the asbestos house siding and floor tiles that were ubiquitous for a while. If you have an older house there's a decent chance you either have it or it's lurking underneath what you do have when people just covered it up.

Getting rid of it is a huge hassle because it qualifies for full asbestos remediation. But yet it's nowhere near the danger to get rid of than the loose-fill insulation.
I'm curious if people's qualms around abstracting the cloud/network also apply to the https://modal.com product. Differential seems like a similar project at its core, just focused on the Typescript + microservices ecosystem.
Because writing the boilerplate that hooks up the DB to an ORM Model to a ViewModel to a Router and then back via a Controller to the Model to the DB again sucks? A lot of the times it's equivalent to writing manual getters and setters except it's many many lines of code over many files... No wonder people are trying to cut corners!
Maybe I’ve not used DuckDB enough but: How would you set it up to consume, say, a Kafka stream, apply some transformations or windowed aggregates and continuously output the result?

In my experience DuckDB is a batch tool, vs this thing which is a continuous stream tool
OMG, I went down the rabbit hole on this paper and it is bonkers. Their methodology is amateur hour. It's just an uncontrolled non-validated survey sent out by an activist group. What is their list of survey recipients based on? What were the demographic differences between responders and nonresponders? It's the science equivalent of a political push-poll (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_poll)

The first author is a business executive who launched a huge class-action against Merck without disclosing it in this paper, the only veterinarian in the authors has been cited for practicing without a license (https://www.ocregister.com/2021/10/26/founder-of-hemopet-in-...) and the senior author is an orthopedic surgeon with no relation to the field and has maybe one other publication.

Come on, this is not a serious paper.
> the fibers are not coming out and will continue rolling cancer dice while they're in there

This is rather alarmist. The truth is more nuanced. This resource [1] lists a variety of biological mechanisms that work to remove asbestos fibers from the lungs beyond simply coughing them out, such as via "alveolar macrophages".

> Doing a DIY reno on your asbestos-containing walls absolutely can kill you

This is true, but if this made any readers anxious, it's important to note that "light, short-term exposure rarely causes disease" and that it is "not uncommon for homeowners to do a renovation and then realize afterward that they disturbed asbestos products. Fortunately, the risk from this is low." [2]

My advice is that if you are going to renovate your home, unless it is quite new and you have good reason to believe there is no risk of asbestos contamination, you should assume that materials like tiles, plaster, drywall, insulation, etc., may contain asbestos, and get them tested before commencing. However, if you have renovated in the past and are anxious about exposure, chill out. You can't change anything now, and unless you were renovating regularly, you'll very likely be fine.

Remember that if you live in a rural area, you can be exposed to asbestos via natural weathering of rock. If you live in an urban area, you have likely been exposed to asbestos via construction and demolition work taking place nearby.

[1] https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/asbestos/biological_fate_of_a...

[2] https://www.asbestos.com/exposure/short-term/
Modern technology wouldn’t exist if we had this philosophy 200 years ago. I hardly think it’s a worthwhile trade off.
I think they now use a polymer membrane that works better at keeping the two products separate.
The inner lining of aluminum cans is usually plastic, I believe.
Not EU related as far as I can see.
Volkov attack signals Russia's return to cold war-era spying in Europe
Sign me up! As a botanist I used to work in some areas where it would not be unusual to remove hundreds of ticks from my field clothes in a day. Inevitably one or two would slip through.
Those also have good traction. On a winter morning before anyone gets around to shoveling, those pads might be the only good surfaces on my entire commute. The street corner where cars are turning is a pretty good spot not to be slipping.
They're Reddit Die-Hards. Do They Want to Be Shareholders, Too?
I like the 16 oz cans and their labels are cool, but nothing nails the combination of flavor and calories like Spindrift. Unfortunately, I've never seen Spindrift tallboys at retail.
I don't get this at all. "Hallucinate" to me only can mean "produce false information". I've only ever seen it used perjoratively re: AI, and I don't understand what it covers up- how else are people interpreting it? I could see the point if you were saying that it implies sentience that isn't there, but your analogy to a restaurant implies that's not what you're getting at.
do you use Chrome browser? It doesn't work for me either but I use firefox mobile, so I suspect that may be why.
Owls rely on their very good low-light eyesight to find their prey. Bats use echolocation to detect and evade them. If it's dark enough, the bat has the advantage.
Because when you are at a rock concert and you want something light to drink, it is cooler to ask the bar tender for Liquid Death rather than a Perrier.
Minor spoilers ahead:

I still can't get over the fact that Trisolaris is actually a four body problem, not a three body problem. I've heard some explanations that this is because you can ignore the mass of the planet. While I'm not an astrophysicist, I'm not sure that's true given that the entire point is to figure out how three suns affect the planet.
> Your limited experience - internship as work history - will already allude to the fact that you don't have interview experience.

Sorry if my OP wasn't clear, I'm in a real, permanent job. I meant that I was selected for that through my internship performance, the interview itself was very light. I guess your point still stands though.

> Just go for the job you want. Don't burn other companies and waste their time to exercise your experience.

I'd also like to avoid that. Thanks!
The issue wasn’t portal, it was Nintendo. Even if he reskinned it Nintendo would still be mad at him for using their libraries.

Valve seemed to be relatively cool about it until Nintendo decided to come knocking and then it became too much of a legal threat.
You won't stop until everybody is reading your blog
> Waffle houses have to hire security guards to deal with the drunken foolishness that goes down inside most weekend nights

As is so often true, this is highly variable based on geography and local culture, and the contention that a Denny's is more 'civilized' than a Waffle House has a lot more to do with which one's you're frequenting than it does with the restaurants themselves.
This was exactly my experience. I have very complex prompts and I test them on new models and nothing performs as well as GPT-4 that I've tried (Claude 3 Opus included)
Microsoft promises Copilot will be a 'moneymaker' in the long term
Exactly. As a questions it amounts to "say something that'll score you a billion dollar lawsuit".
"because the brand is what’s important; the brand is all there is"

With enough marketing and a bit of luck, you can sell anything. Even something as unneccessary[1] as a canned water. Welcome to late stage capitalism.

It's worth learning a bit about marketing to recognize how marketing pushes our buttons. It won't make you immune, to does help you to understand when you are being manipulated. This book is a good start:

"Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert B. Cialdini

[1]For most people reading this.
More than 133,000 Fortinet appliances still vulnerable to month-old critical bug
I just deleted one of my Reddit account's since it clearly knew too much about me. I was getting invasive ads that I wasn't receiving on my other account. I don't think Reddit has too much value here, the more ads you push the less people will use it and they aren't revenue positive.
I used to get the opposite problem using GoCatch to call taxis to the airport in the morning. They were so keen for my business they would often call me up to confirm they were on the way. I had no desire for a phone call at like 5.30am...
Their corner on 'limited' oil production was a key selling point.
As a regular customer of the onboard dining on BC Ferries, I was always a bit mystified about how the cashier (maybe 20 m from the counter where you order) seemed to have some kind of clairvoyance regarding which type burger(s) to charge for, as they all use the same kind of wrapper.

It turns out the wrapper (that's printed with patches of stripes and crosshatches in different colo(u)rs), can be wrapped in a way that exposes a particular pattern on the outside of the finished package that indicates what's inside.

I'm sure this sort of system is used elsewhere but I've never noticed it anywhere else.
YouTube creators must now 'fess up to using AI in vids
Slight difference in the companies listed all contain addictive substances and the other just contain water.
Nvidia GTC 2024 Keynote [video]
What do you like about it? It seems incredibly creepy to me.
One hundred is really impressive ! The last and only time I had to do that, I got not only mentally but also physically sick after like a dozen of tailored CVs + motivation letters. (Which then also quickly resulted in me giving up the job I did get, so it was a net loss - though doing that during Covid of course didn't help.)

I got the message : I'm never searching (in this way) for a job, ever again. (Of course I might reconsider once/if I'm homeless, but probably not before that.)
It is spring water.

There is really not much competition. Aside from Fiji and Mountain Valley, almost everything else is filtered municipal supply.
How long will EPA survive? Trump promised to bring asbestos back last time. Will probably do it again if re-elected.
How does Russia make missiles?