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Any advice on what to do if you might be a victim to this?

I think it's pretty clear by now that the owner of X is using it as a political tool, so discussing technical details of the site seems pointless. I did like the new anti-toxicity features on Bluesky though:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/29/24231414/bluesky-anti-tox...

Bluesky has become really good over the last few months, there's really no reason to support X anymore.

It's been really fun seeing the growth over the last year. Tons of people and fun/interesting posts. Feels like the early days of Twitter.

Is "decripto.org" really a reliable source?

See also https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-m...

There's so much cool stuff these days, like interstellar iron: https://physicsworld.com/a/antarctic-snow-yields-interstella...

The disclaimer really should be much tougher: "Every LLM consistently makes mistakes. The mistakes will often look very plausible. NEVER TRUST ANY LLM OUTPUT."

Until this point in history there has been a reasonable correlation between the quality of writing and the "quality" of the underlying work in most text. If effort was put into the writing (and learning to write), that in itself used to be a decent indicator that effort and skill also was put into the data/ideas that the text conveyed.

That rule no longer works. People are still going to rely on it for a while though, and I'm worried it's going to break some stuff over the next few years.

Hoping for Kessler syndrome :)

I've been thinking the same thing. It'll be interesting to see if we end up with prompt-injecting ads

That was a truly horrible web-page. Does anyone have a link to the actual technology?

This perspective on regulation was interesting: https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/12/28/how-to-regulate-...

    "Congress should declare that big-data AI models do not infringe copyright, but are inherently in the public domain.

    Congress should declare that use of AI tools will be an aggravating rather than mitigating factor in determinations of civil and criminal liability."

1) Sigh 2) Firefox still works great though, I'm a very happy user!

I really liked the interview with the three scientists in the "Decoding the Gurus" podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/interview-with-worobey...

(Interview starts roughly 33 min into the episode).

Am I the only one who thinks ads (including non-tracking/privacy-respecting ads) are universally bad & should be regulated much harder than today? And mostly helps bad products and large companies?

I was referring to the latest results using pulsars.

I'm curious what the amplitude of these waves are: what's the (order of magnitude) change in the distance to a 1000 light year distant pulsar, as the gravitational wave passes through?

What on earth is this doing on Hackernews?

FT is good and seems to be getting better.

Really sad to see the state of Hacker News comments — ultra right wing conspiracy theories are now the norm :(

Good points from Stross in the comments: "The problem is that in practice a solution requires the political elite to collectively admit the falsehood of the axioms they built their entire careers on."

IMO Portfolio123 is the best option for nonprofessionals.

"This paper reports my memories of being a beginning graduate student in physics at Caltech and working on the team producing The Feynman Lectures on Physics" : https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.05210.pdf

"Come, Thou Tortoise", by Jessica Grant.

I found Adam Tooze's overview very interesting: https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-68-putins-challen...