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smallerize··on Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond
Children in a car get expensive, cumbersome equipment to protect them. And of course they are never unsupervised when they are driving around. They don't get freedom.
smallerize··on Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year
Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529621
smallerize··on Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond
Survivorship bias.

More children ages 1–4 die from drowning than any other cause of death. For children ages 5–14, drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury death after motor vehicle crashes.

https://www.cdc.gov/drowning/data-research/facts/index.html

smallerize··on 4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok
True, but it includes the full text of the post. That's enough for some copyright strikes.
smallerize··on Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond
Five is too young. Sure they can do the right thing most of the time, with their mom watching. But they don't have good judgement and are easily distracted. Especially with a pond involved. I would never let my kids around an open body of water alone.
smallerize··on 4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok
Make your own recommendation engine. Even if it's just a real literal text search that sorts chronologically.
smallerize··on 4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok
The data is listed near the bottom, under "The 24 Endpoints" https://tiktok-api.seeksocial.io/#api
smallerize··on 4.5B Posts Scraped from TikTok
There's no way this dataset is going to survive on HF, right? It will be hit with so many DMCA takedowns.
smallerize··on Omarchy Histerya
There are two groups of people who are really loud about DHH projects. The first is ones who are really on board with his racism https://web.archive.org/web/20260721200429/https://world.hey...

And the second is people who liked some of his earlier software, aren't overly bothered by the racism, and are worried that the anti-racists will get DHH cancelled and then the good software will stop. They feel like they have to loudly hype the project just to offset the negativity.

smallerize··on Kimi K3 and GLM-5.3 are better than Gemini 3.8 Flash
You're comparing non-flash models to a flash model. They are more expensive, and K3 is a lot slower too.
smallerize··on A Note from LWN
That person posted this two years later https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44870881 so I don't think they're going to agree with your interpretation of the comment.
smallerize··on Creepy Crawlies
But the scraper is making way more requests and is paying for all that compute.
smallerize··on Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
Ok SF needs somewhat higher-density housing. But wanting something good for yourself and your peers isn't anti-progress. If the benefits accrue to only a few people, it's not progress.
smallerize··on Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
You may be surprised to know that residential areas in San Francisco are height limited, sometimes as short as 4 stories. They're not exactly anti-progress.
smallerize··on When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python
That's in the standard. https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr21/tr21-5.html

[SpecialCasing] Contains additional case mappings that map to more than one character, such as "ß" to "SS".

smallerize··on Quantum battery upends the rules of charging
That still seems like a crazy deal, where are such cheap batteries?
smallerize··on Quantum battery upends the rules of charging
Moore's law doesn't even apply yet because they're still testing tiny individual devices. If this get funding it's going to be way faster at first. Integrating the electronics and putting 2^10 of them on a wafer knocks 10 doublings off the top.
smallerize··on A plane war game build by DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp with only $0.5
How was it made?
smallerize··on Tell HN: HN Algolia Search not showing new results from the past 24 hours
You can use the "Contact" link just above the search box to write to HN admins directly.
smallerize··on Could we dredge the Netherlands without fossil fuels? (2018)
The Netherlands uses the largest and most powerful dredging ship in the world, The Queen of the Netherlands. Each of the dredging pumps are 8,000 horsepower (6 MW) and there are two of them. Even the short-range ship-to-shore connections used by container ships are in the 2 MW range. Running "wires" would be ambitious.
smallerize··on Could We Dredge the Netherlands Without Fossil Fuels?
I don't think anyone grows extra coconuts for fuel. It's processed from the waste after the more profitable parts are extracted.
smallerize··on Guess which of these LLM outputs is watermarked
Google's SynthID page says they can watermark text, but it also says that it can only detect the watermark on "image, video or audio". Does that mean that the text watermarks can't actually be used as watermarks?
smallerize··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
I made sure the thread was public before I posted it here. It ends "Fuck, I have destroyed MY OWN books. I’m not overly precious here.

What Amazon is doing is vile."

smallerize··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
I don't think that changes the message at all. If a librarian doesn't like routine book destruction, they would still feel worse about this different thing that is happening.
smallerize··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
Well if you're appealing to librarians:

"Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on.

Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that...."

https://bsky.app/profile/annabookwriter.bsky.social/post/3mt...

smallerize··on Cerebras CS-4
If you're willing to pay a significant premium for latency, why use openrouter? And anyway Cerebras only supported a few specific models.
smallerize··on Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers
They did though. This was 3 years later: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration...
smallerize··on Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers
The article isn't about warming the planet. So you're the one trumping up something that isn't there.
smallerize··on Gmail might partially be to blame for receiving emails from other Sean Conners
Is it possible that the recruiter set up a faulty reply-to header, instead of sending from your email address?
smallerize··on Gmail might partially be to blame for receiving emails from other Sean Conners
Both this post and the quoted one seem to be confused. Adding periods to a Gmail address never ever, since day one, went to a different mailbox.

I would like to see some of the evidence that two different people are logging in to accounts that are only different by periods.

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