fortran77

We shouldn't rely on selective, "practical" enforcement of the law though.

I still don’t want to throw kids in prison or remove all traces of a right to privacy in our haste to sun-yeet them.

The one messy corner of this is the "strict liability" for this type of material. An underage kid can take a nude photo, send it to an adult, and then the adult can criminally liable for just having it, even if he deleted it as soon as he saw it. Either both parties involved in handing something for which there is "strict liability' need to be held accountable, or "strict liability" has to be changed so a person isn't liable if he deletes or reports the material as soon as he first becomes aware of it. And this isn't likely to happen because it would provide a plausible defense for every one criminally charged.

The practical problem is, without a threshold, they'd have an order of magnitude more false positives than 'real' detections, making the system useless.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technology/apple-app-stor...

https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/the-fastest-growing-ri...

He wasn't even a licenced architect. He couldn't leagally sign off on drawings or incorporate as a business with the word "architect" in it, etc.

https://codygatlindesign.com/2024/09/28/why-6-of-the-worlds-...

I hate AI slop as much as the next Hacker News reader, but I thought these were just fine. Any one of these would have thoroughly entertained me during the 80s MTV era.

I do a form of this all the time and I've always wondered "how." I can copy Morse Code--hearing the code and writing it down--while carrying on a conversation with someone else. I'm only "encoding" it, in that I have to read it to know what I just copied. The process of hearing a letter or word in Morse and moving my hand to write it has become so automatic that I can do it while having a live conversation with someone in the room.

It would be interesting to know what's going on in my head with an EEG or FMRI...

I once worked with nearly all of those guys! A very interesting bunch....

The folks at Jerk City will be very happy.

https://www.jerkcity.com/9981

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/fine-art/gus-trex-auction-s...

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-is-flooding-the-market-with...

Get a proper wire stripper! Don't strip wires with a diagonal cutter.

I'm a minority in America. I have no problem with Police drones.

It's nice to see SFPD taking car break-ins seriously.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/apples-thermonuclear-response-to...

https://www.wsj.com/business/bending-spoons-jobs-hiring-stoc...

https://www.wsj.com/science/space-astronomy/solar-storm-what...

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/counterfeit-air-bag-parts...

Howdy, neighbor! (We are on Main Street)

I've tried a few of these alternative sites, and it's just not a fun place to go find videos from interesting people working on projects, etc. A lot of unpleasant extremist videos, a lot of slop, with no good ability to filter out just what I want to see. Sure, YouTube has these too but I can manage to keep it at bay.

Nice, but I'd love more log options, and a log-linear. And a Smith chart.

He wants us to be exposed to different ways of speaking, yet he’s afraid to mention a book’s author by name.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-must-pay-nearly-2-billion-to...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/europe-heat-wave-temperatur...

I thought it was about those facny wire strippers. https://www.knipex.com/

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-made-more-than-1-b...

I never shut off my Windows laptop. Just close it. Once a month or so when there's a major update it gets rebooted.

No. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...