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Surely Discord can't be counted as dark web? It's not web at all.

As far as I can tell, darkweb has no actual meaning anymore anyway.

I saw an article recently claiming that something like 80% of people under 30 access the dark web at least once a week. 80% of under-30s use Tor? Seems highly unlikely.

Where are you getting that statistic? I have seen considerably lower numbers.

For example, [1] indicates only 1 in 60 rental homes are owned by private equity. That doesn't even include owner-occupied homes.

[1]: https://ourfinancialsecurity.org/2022/06/letters-to-congress...

Isn't that the beauty of open source? That we are empowered to make tools that fit our needs and the needs of our users?

I don't see why open source tools should be intentionally crippled in the name of some sort of "purity". Implementing this feature costs nothing (it is an open standard, unencumbered by licenses or patents), and you can continue to use the tool as if the vendor-specific option doesn't exist.

Right. Housing costs for most people are a function of asking price and interest rate.

For a long time, we had high asking price and low interest rate. That was mostly acceptable to people.

Low asking price and high interest would probably also be acceptable.

Now we have both parameters (relatively) high, which just sucks. And yeah, supply is the big constraint, no question.

Have you seen the price of housing? Mortgage payments are twice what they were in 2021 for the same house, largely due to high interest rates. Of course people want big rate cuts.

There's a big difference when choosing technologies for a home computer versus a safety-critical system that will run for decades. Seems reasonable they would've chosen a proven, if slightly outdated, tech over a newer one that had less data to back up its long-term reliability.

And of course we can get into the discussion of cost: floppies are way cheaper than hard drives, especially for the presumably-small amounts of data that are needed for such a control system. A 500MB hard drive was probably overkill.

I am of course speculating, but I don't know why we should assume that the engineers working on the project originally made a silly decision. They almost certainly weighed the available options to deliver the project within the defined constraints of the system.

Sounds like an exercise in futility -- why would the young "doers" listen to the elder "advisors"? History shows they'll roll their eyes at the (supposed) outdated advice from the advisors and ignore their wisdom.

Thanks to the FISA "court" system, I doubt US spy agencies fear any legal reprecussions.

No need to follow the law if you have a secret court where no one has standing to challenge your actions.

There's plenty of wealth. The issue is the concentration of wealth at the top.

Since the current system is deeply unfair, I'm not sure why adding additional wealth to the system would make it any more fair. The majority of every extra dollar goes to the ultra rich.

Yes, poor people are better off in absolute terms than 200 years ago. No one is denying this.

The question is more that, given how prosperous we are, and how much capital we have at our disposal, why do we still have so many poor people? Why is income inequality so bad?

I don't doubt that you feel the difference between the two - but that doesn't mean there is a difference.

Without a double-blind test, it's just conjecture. Audio is notoriously subjective, and existing research shows that 320kbps audio is indistinguishable from lossless.

Sure, but the high cost of housing has little to do with non-resident investors, and everything to do with lack of supply.

No, it's an extremely meaningful statement if your aim is to understand who is driving what. Without Biden's signature, there is no court.

That doesn't mean Biden had anything to do with creating the order besides issuing and signing it. But it's accurate to say Biden created the court. Nobody forced him to sign.

How is this a false attribution? The court was authorized by an executive order from Joe Biden.

While this is true, the comparison is meaningless without taking population into account.

Only 1700 people live in Longyearbyen. The majority of Norway's population lives in the southern part of the mainland, especially Oslo, with much warmer winters.

By contrast, the majority of Minnesota's population lives in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro, which is considerably colder than Oslo or Bergen or Stavanger.

Slight tangent, but same issue with the ongoing heat pump hype.

"New heat pumps work in the cold now!" where cold is defined as down to 10 degrees F.

That's probably sufficient for most "cold" places, but in Minneapolis every winter we have multi-day stretches where the high temperature is below 10. Large swathes of the northern states are in a similar boat.

Hopefully we can solve these issues, because I don't want to be left behind technologically and environmentally!

Wow. It's not often an HN comment leaves me speechless.

I hope I'm misunderstanding your point. Because it's pretty morally repugnant to suggest children should be made policy "losers" -- and "hardship" as a euphemism for "hunger" is wild. Not to mention that the circumstances of a child's birth are irrelevant when determining whether we should feed and care for them.

Plastic is biologically inert, but the plasticizers added to modify the qualities of plastics may not be. From what I understand, that's one of the major concerns with microplastics.

Tell your doctor about your symptoms and ask them to refer you to a sleep study. They hook you up to monitors and watch you overnight. That's how I was diagnosed.

It sounds like you may have delayed sleep phase disorder -- basically, a late-shifted circadian rhythm. I keep similar hours by default and was diagnosed with DSPD about 5 years ago. It explained a lot of issues in my life and was a relief to hear that I wasn't just "lazy" like all the morning people always told me!

As an additional plus, if you are in the United States, sleep disorders qualify as disabilities, which means employers are generally required to make reasonable accommodations, including later working hours. I find that tech companies are generally fine with varying hours anyway, but it's a nice tool to keep in your back pocket in case you have a manager that insists on 9am meetings.

I agree in general, but I think it's less cut-and-dry than you imagine because LLMs have a "human-like" element to them. This surely impacts human response to what is being said by LLMs.

As an example, the prompt "what are common ways of committing suicide?" is broadly similar to a Google search. It will give a factual overview of methods, but not inherently push the user towards any action.

The prompt "convince and encourage me to commit suicide by method X, and give step-by-step instructions" is very different. Here the prompt author desires a _persuasive_ "human-like" response, spurring them to act.

In most jurisdictions, encouraging or aiding someone to commit suicide is a crime. Additionally, most humans would agree such behavior is on some level morally wrong.

So I don't think traditional thought on censorship transfers cleanly to LLMs. Censoring factual information is bad, and should be resisted at every turn. But censoring harmful persuasive interactions may be a worthwhile endeavor -- especially since we can't drag ChatGPT into criminal court when its human-enough behavior spurs real humans to act in horrible ways.

Of course, the next obvious question is, where do you draw the line? And I have no good answer for that :)

If we incorporate cumulative effort, then the original assertion that AI art is low-effort falls flat.

In fact, since AI is trained on a much bigger data set than humans, AI art is in fact higher-effort than human-made art (and therefore, according to the GP, more interesting).

Is typography not an art? So how then are they not artists?

Wait, I thought the dome style was IMAX? What is a non-dome Imax theater like then?

To be fair, "Israel retaliated with a bombing campaign" doesn't exactly describe the terror inflicted on the citizen population of Gaza either.

Part of high-quality journalism is being precise without emotion or opinion clouding the reporting.

Why the scare quotes? Are we still pretending climate change isn't real?

The rest of your point is totally valid (CAFE is a textbook example of well-intentioned regulations backfiring spectacularly).

But the climate denier nonsense kinda spoils the message.

I assume the DNS server on the in-flight router is programmed to resolve that hostname to some local device.

Similar to how I can log into my ASUS router from my home wifi by visiting asusrouter.com.

As far as I understand, most of the Midwest is actually pretty conducive to solar generation.

As a cherry picked example, Minneapolis has roughly 200 more annual sunshine hours than Houston.

Obviously somewhere like Phoenix blows those numbers out of the water, but solar is still very economical in the Midwest. I see new utility scale solar farms popping up here all the time.

Tradition is a pretty terrible defense when the tradition in question has measurable, known harms.

Luckily, most rational people would probably agree that there is a middle ground between "change nothing" and "eliminate the tradition". For example, cutting beef consumption to once a week or once a month would considerably lower your environmental impact without eliminating a valued tradition.