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I work in Bioengineering, and I have never ever had a prompt go through Fable's safety filters. So I have never had the pleasure of using it.

Why release a model with such strict filters? It would be more sensible from a buisness perspective if they had sensible filters in place right away.

I agree partly with your comment, but I want to add this perspective:

The dot-com era treatened and killed many jobs in banking (bank tellers and such). AI is now doing the same, but now it is threatening the jobs of consultants.

So the author tried to fix a non-issue of somebody else's dog with human-grade probiotics.

I think that actually there was no issue at all and he just wanted to YOLO it.

And then he only goes to discuss if it was ethical as he didn't ask the dog? What about just not medicating a dog when there is no medical problem? What about consent from the owner? So much more issues with this than what the author discusses.

Health insurance should be rooted in solidarity. It is supposed to be a collective mechanism designed to prevent individuals from financial ruin due to unpredictable medical crises. It is not about hedging individual risk, but about sharing it across society, because health problems can strike anyone regardless of preparation or behavior.

This is a very cool project, and I like the nostalgic feel of it! However, this project got me thinking:

We are on a forum filled with people working on these super addicting infinite scroll technologies at YouTube, Instagram, maybe even TikTok. At the same time though, this post removing all these addictive technologies has reached the #1 spot on HN (and HN is deliberately made without any of this addicting tech!!)

I think it is time for people to really realize how addicting the tech they are making is, without masking it with words like 'friction' and 'engagement'. And hopefully they will slowly work on making their tech a little bit less addictive.

Before Covid we had some kind of movement like this, but it has sadly dwindled.

I agree with this 1000%. Kids need to be free and explore things on their own.

Why are we living in a world where we think that kids do not deserve privacy? Or where we think that we cannot trust our children?

My grandma's pretty good with her Android phone, but every month, she calls us totally lost because apps like WhatsApp keep messing with the UI. Why do they have to change the interface so often? Most times, these changes seem pointless and just confuse her.

I don't think denying children of phones is a good idea. First, we shield and deny them things enough as it is already (which only makes them less prepared for the real world later in life, a thing we can observe already). Secondly, I think that we should make policies that make (social) media on the internet less addictive, and implement stuff like good internet behavior into our parenting.

Wine 8.3 3 years ago

The only thing keeping me from using Linux is the lack of OneNote support in Wine. Essentially, it is only this bug that needs to be fixed: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47135

I can't really understand that if there is a patch made which works, why it has not been merged into master yet?

The Dutch bicycle-network is safe enough to not have to wear bike helmets. We have a really nice system of seperation of car/bicycle/pedestrian traffic. In addition, a lot of tought is given to design roads in such a way that car traffic automatically adapts to the correct and safe speed that is needed.