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Yeah, I had to read the HN title a few times before the meaning clicked

The bullets had “Deny”, “Defend”, “Depose” written on them, which makes it seem ideological.

https://apnews.com/article/unitedhealthcare-ceo-manhattan-sh...

I’ll just go ahead and drop this link about UnitedHealth’s use of deeply flawed models to deny coverage:

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate...

I’m guessing they’re referring to the 2 inert precursor chemicals that are mixed together right before the weapon goes off?

I agree. I think it’s kind of like how we discovered that cheap, abundant, calorie dense foods aren’t good for people. Humans evolved in circumstances where we weren’t ever likely to have as much calorie dense food as we wanted, so we have wiring that tells us to eat as much as we can (which can hurt us).

I think the same is true of positive attention. We’re social creatures, that’s part of how we survive. In the past we wanted to be part of a group, and having status in a social hierarchy could be a matter of life or death. Now that there are billions of people, and social networks make it possible to interact with a LOT of them. Humans evolved in circumstances where we weren’t ever likely to have as much attention as we wanted, so our wiring tells us to glut ourselves on as much attention as we can, which can hurt us (obsession, narcissism, etc.).

Not 100% sure, but I think they might have meant Ukraine when they said “us”

1 foot is allllllllmost the distance light travels in a nanosecond. If we’d just adjusted the length a tiny bit it would be an excellent unit of measurement

“This increase in the electronic systems led the largest U.S. manufacturer of watchclocks, Detex, to discontinue all of their mechanical watchclocks on December 31, 2011”

That’s a later date than I would have assumed

I know a lot of artists who hate the idea of their work being used to train generative models, and I can’t blame them tbh. That being said, most of them know that they can’t prevent that from happening unless they want to stop posting their work anywhere public.

HOWEVER: there’s a big difference between posting your work publicly and having someone come along and use it to train their models against your wishes, and a platform changing its terms to say “And you’re giving us permission to use this to train our models”. They’re saying “no, you don’t have my permission to use my work and you’ll have to go against my wishes to use it this way”. It’s not a big difference in terms of outcome, but I think the principle of the thing is important to a lot of artists.

This blog post is from another domain, writing, but it’s stuck with me over the years and colored how I see things like open source projects:

https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/entitlement-issues.ht...

Fiber supplements are life changing.

You go into the bathroom, you SCHLOOP out your business in ~15 seconds, and you’re done, like a deer in the woods! Wiping is practically a formality! It’s like getting years of your life back.

And you can store things like your PGP keys on there. I use mine for code signing, ssh, and encryption. For me it’d just be a PITA, since I don’t operate in a very sensitive or valuable area, but it could be a nightmare for someone who signs code a lot of people use, for example.

I have a little blurb explaining “This is why Grindr sucks lately” in my bio on there, hahaha

I remember being shocked at how BLATANT they were about using RTO as a cudgel to break up their employees’ unionization attempt, but then things went silent for more than a year (wheels of justice turn slow, and all of that).

“The labor board can order companies to change policies and reinstate employees with backpay, but it lacks the authority to force companies to pay punitive damages or hold executives personally liable for violations” - The angry primate part of my brain might want more (they were REALLY blatant about their union busting), but I’ll take it.

The gun manufacturers? Their whole business is projection, isn’t it?

“serfdom” is a good way to characterize it, since it’s a lot harder to save money (and eventually be able to rent/buy a real place to live) if you have to go out for meals, entertainment, and meeting your social needs.

“Giovanni Costantino, the chief executive of the Italian Sea Group, the company that owns Perini Navi, said that when operated properly, the Bayesian was ‘unsinkable.’”

I assign a rather low prior probability to any ship being “unsinkable”, so I’ll need better evidence than that before my posterior probability becomes more than minuscule

That makes sense - if they were using a cryptographic hash then people could get around it by making tiny changes to the file. I’ve used some reverse image search tools, which use perceptual hashing under the hood, to find the original source for art that gets shared without attribution (saucenao pretty solid). They’re good, but they definitely have false positives.

Now you’ve got me interested in what’s going on under the hood, lol. It’s probably like any other statistical model: you can decrease your false negatives (images people have cropped or added watermarks/text to), but at the cost of increased false positives.

You should diversify by having multiple families.

This year when I checked my voter registration I noticed that the “phone number” field in my profile was not marked as required, and there was a little info icon that said “this is public information” when I clicked on it.

I removed my phone number and the number of text messages diminished (not all the way, but noticeably better). Not a magic bullet, but worth checking.

Or humans and people who agree with them.

Yeah, taking adderall for the first time was a LOT like the first time I put on glasses. I never knew what it was like to be functional before that. There were deficits in every area of my life. From the obvious like focusing on work/school stuff (wish I’d found out before taking 6 years to get a BA), to stuff that completely surprised me (my handwriting improved, and I no longer have ZERO sense of direction).

Comment from Automattic’s associate general counsel: “ Despite our sometimes fervent wishes, lawyers don't control clients. We are not puppeteers.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41789765

A gentleman.

I’m a fan of “repudiate”. It’s got heft to it, like an antique pocket watch.

I’ve been idly wondering about something like the Web of Trust. A social network where users vouch for one another's actually-a-real-humanness. There could be setting that let you adjust the size of the network you see (people you’ve actually met? One remove from that?)

You forgot the “Hope this helps. Ciao!”, which is where I briefly had my vision go red and heard the phantom war cries of my ancestors skirling up from the depths

The title made me think you were looking for folks to make up a company and pretend they’re hiring folks :(

Well, if anyone wants to pretend to apply to my imaginary tech startup, we have an exciting product that combines intrusive cameras all over the customer’s house with cutting edge AI to blast a bloodcurdling scream through their smart speakers whenever they bite into a piece of fruit.

Semi-recently I renewed my voter registration. When I checked the details in my profile I noticed that there wasn’t a little red asterisk next to the phone number field - it wasn’t required! Curious, I clicked the little “i in a blue circle indicating more information” thing (do those have an actual name?), and it said that field was public information, and would be shared with some political groups, etc. I immediately deleted my phone number, and I’ve noticed the political texts have slowed down noticeably.

I’m not saying that’s your problem, but it’s worth checking.

I think the fact that the ship is damaged, making the fertilizer much more likely to explode, is why they’re calling it a megabomb. Circumstances have made the cargo more hazardous, and pushed the “explosive substance” part of its dual nature to the front of everyone’s minds