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There's at least one company that straight-up reverses a pacifistic cultural reference: a Ukrainian autonomous weapons company called The Fourth Law, as in Asimov's Three Laws of R…

I've run into one government website that required email addresses to come from gmail.com, outlook.com, or another common domain, and several websites that won't let you change you…

How do you fix that data has already leaked and been copied somewhere else under someone else's control? That damage has already been done, and it's not restorable like rebooting a…

What about finding them through the records of their citizen children? Edit: cael450 has already offered a specific example of this threat vector: https://news.ycombinator.com/item…

That has not been the case in the three cities and health systems (edit: in the US) in which I've had transgender care over the past decade.

I hope commenters will dig into the author's citations' data, in line with HN's discussion guidelines, instead of just expressing a negative opinion about the thrust of the article…

As counterintuitive as it seems, that was my experience living in one of those neighborhoods and visiting others over several years. A handful of small stores on one block or corne…

I think people in the US overestimate how much upzoning "has to" affect most neighborhoods, especially infill development or removing default single-family home zoning. I used to l…

Honestly, yeah -- it's not a cheat code, it's facing two sets of pressures from discrimination, not seeing many like you in your field, what you deal with outside of the workplace,…

Local hosting/processing is a good thought, but it only helps in limited circumstances, because partners you haven't separated from yet are likely to have physical access to your d…

A lot more people are vulnerable to abusive partners than you may think, and that's a threat model most of these products never consider.

I don't think the Big Three record labels will want to stop this, even if it's massive copyright infringement, because it's not a threat to their business model. Labels create a wh…

Edit: Other commenters report that Android will silently re-enable cell data under various conditions, so this isn't a surefire solution, either. The Grugq created a tool for this …

People have been anecdotally reporting and investigating similar problems since at least last year[0], and it's entirely possible that changes to improve one aspect of a model coul…

We used to say the same about Eclipse!

Could you explain what you mean by that idiom?

I encourage people to look for a variety of opinions on this bill -- and its various parts -- so you can better figure out which parts you actually want to keep, change, or remove,…

I'm surprised that wind is such a small part of the US's projected future energy mix. Does anyone know why? Wind power works overnight, it leaves a lot more usable land than solar …

Some important businesses are just terrible investments. Airlines come to mind; they always seem to be one minor downturn away from insolvency.

It's always a bad time to be an actor, between long hours, low pay, and a culture of abuse, but this will definitely make it worse. My writer and artist friends are already despond…

If you or another reader has a Lobste.rs account, would you mind sending me an invite? I've been curious to join for a long time. My email is in my bio.

People and governments really need to start asking if the results of the current generation of FAANG-size LLMs are worth the costs, in additional chips, power, and cooling water --…

Because, as the article goes on to say, the problem isn't that genAI repeats copyrighted material. Rather, its automation and massive scale upends the labor incentives that copyrig…