skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Swatting is illegal, users of the site are doing the swatting, and KF simply pretends they aren't. They aren't arrested because the reason they use swatting is so they can't be tracked and thrown in jail themselves.

Meanwhile people's lives are ruined, their friends and family contacted, harassed, and they live in terror of people who congregate, anonymously, on that site, which is hosted out in the open with large corporations providing them services. A donation to the trevor project does nothing to protect those people, it just tells them their lives are expendable and they'll try to save someone else's.

Something must be done to stop them. I haven't heard any legal arguments for what could be done to stop them - one is told simply "you can't fight back, and you can't protect yourself, legally". When people are told that, they take more drastic measures, because the system that exists won't protect them.

Honestly a good proposal I've heard is to at minimum shut down SWATTing or add consequences and tracking of the requestor. Police being able to be consistently deployed on a ruse is, to me, insane.
Strangely I've found at my current workplace no matter how much time I put into preparing the initial message with detailed info, screenshots etc., it just gets ignored and we end up doing a call anyway. And to be fair it usually is quicker to resolve issues with a live/screen-sharing session, but obviously it relies on the other party's availability.
What’s the difference between CISO and Director of Security?
As another commenter already pointed out, you’re treating first amendment and free speech as synonymous. If you request that others be precise with their language you should too.

This could be a free speech issue although not a first amendment issue. America does have a constitutional protection for citizens from their government in terms of free speech but we also place cultural value to it and laws that codify or restrict certain speech.
Some people cannot be bothered to (or are incapable of) finding information unless it is spoon-fed to them at the exact time and rate they require. I think this might be the valid use case for support chatbots, even though I personally despise them.

Ex: I was selling an item on Facebook Marketplace. The price of the item is in the item header, and in the item description. Multiple people started a chat with me - opening a chat window that has the price again in the chat header - to ask me what it costs. I don't know what you do about that other than have a bot spoon-feed them that information.
One liner Python bug finally killed Digg
> as soon as you say agi, you've lost the plot.

What plot? Would you care to elaborate?

Hard to imagine how that term could matter. It's just short-hand for some "thing" that people care to talk about. I'm not interested in quibbling over definitions or whatever. Nor am I interested in the kind of discussions that get all wrapped in what "general" means and reduce to arguing that even humans don't have "general intelligence", etc. To me, going down those rabbit-holes is really "losing the plot."
Are you suggesting that not removing those posts is tacit agreement with their content rather than a principled stance on free speech for it's members? It could be both of course, but I always err on the side of charity even if you don't think they deserve it.
this happens so often and there's something about this (begging Twitter to notice you exist) that rubs me the wrong way. I previously said that Twitter verification is just an arbitrary label that Twitter, Inc, bestows upon someone.
In our experience, even deep learning technologists at the top of their game are surprised when we point out that deep learning (or any other form of AI) struggles when tasked with predicting the future.

It seems to do a pretty good job of predicting future stock market performance. But of course the authors have an axe to grind and choose to view the world through their narrow filter, probably because they want to promote their book and tap into the "tech is bad" trope thats going on in the wider culture.

Most significantly, AGI hypers have succeeded in directing a large amount of funding toward the fanciful goal of ensuring that this supposedly imminent AGI will be aligned with humanity’s interests. Crucially, much of this community believes that we already have all the innovations we need to reach AGI; we just need to throw more hardware at the neural networks we already have.

The problem with this argument is that we have no idea what the "warning signs" of imminent AGI is. It could take 2-3 key breakthroughs or it could take a few hundred. Whatever the case is, we should think about investing in a fire alarm system before theres a fire.
>> I can only guess either safety from misuse

> I still don't understand what this would mean. Where are all of the terrible things that were supposed to happen, now that Stable Diffusion is available?

Mainly people making porn (e.g. stuff like deepnudes). It seems like a lot of work has gone into into preventing that (e.g. filtering porn out of training data, having porn-detection models to block porny output). There's also been a lot of talk about political fakes, etc, but I'm not sure how likely that is to actually happen at this point. I think one of the "selling points" of limiting access to DALL*E was that they could revoke access to people who they deemed to be misusing it.
Fixing Slow PostgreSQL Queries: How to Make a Smart Optimizer More Stupid
I would like to learn more about SLS where you are using hard stones (?) as blades and such.

I have a thing that I want to make and this might be a potential path.
I'm in the process of updating my home including whole house sealing. Part of it is an air exchange system that brings in outside air and matches that air to the interior temp and humidity before circulating.
Ask HN: How do you share your blogs on other platforms?
Hey writers!

I was curious to know how do you share your blog on other social media platforms?

Also where do you generally share and in which format? What tool you use to create and schedule the posts?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32607728
Wondering what is the purpose of the post. It is a cut-&-dry introductory post for Altair using very standard library features that most data science people (using Altair, albeit a smaller group than matplotlib) know. Maybe its just me, but I was expecting some neat hack using some less known features. What am I missing?
But the workaround of injecting scripts directly within the page doesn't solve the security problem either, while introducing its own problem of less effective ad blocking.
Honestly I believe the low level core, dynamic shell is as old as programming. It's a bit part of the make it right then make it fast.
Beyond environmental damage, plastic is hypothesized to be one of the main drivers behind the drastically decreasing sperm counts in human males. I think we are only just uncovering the tip of the iceberg for the damage that plastic can do with respect to hormone disruption in the human body

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7967748/
I think a big problem is discovery. I search google and it shows me reddit or stack overflow and I have my answer. In larger orgs there is no one stop search for all company knowledge or if there is its painful and returns thousands of useless items.
They reline the canals, but other than Taunsa barrage it feels like they haven’t put as much effort into new drainage/catchment. Sindh has firmly resisted new upstream dams due to salinity concerns among other things.
stable diffusion : artists :: expedia : travel agents
Isn't the point of the danger and recklessness of hazing to build a team bond and sense of camraderie through a shared experience? Would an equally grueling experience that is missing real danger build as strong a bond?
hold their feet to the fire to do what?

provide more network protection to objectionable websites?

i'm not getting the idea, reading this thread, that is what people here want.
In my original post, I've outlined our monetization strategy at a high level. And cloud hosting is certainly an aspect of our approach.

It's true that some will self-host Payload, and that's awesome. But look at NextJS - you can self-host NextJS as well, but most people go to Vercel. Hosting a CMS is quite a bit more complicated than a static site or a set of serverless functions, because you need to have a database and permanent file storage as well. Payload will provide all of that out of the box with a one-click Git integration.

Our users thus far have been telling us that they struggle with cobbling together vendors and wish that this was easier, so we're building Payload Cloud as a result.

One other aspect of Payload Cloud is that even though we -provision- the infrastructure for you, you'll always have access to it. You'll be able to connect to your DB, back it up, export it, etc. This is all in the works now!
> It seems to do a pretty good job of predicting future stock market performance.

Does it? Care to elaborate on that?
A lot of people would like to see snap downsized entirely
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I am saying that if someone is harassing you when you haven't done anything to them, it should be pretty OK to tell others about the harassment and others should be able to say "I'm not going to interact / do business with that jerk."

"Beliefs and practices" is, again, leaving aside the "who swung first" aspect. Have all the beliefs and practices you want that don't involve harassing others. If your beliefs are homophobic/transphobic/racist/sexist/etc and you choose to then "practice" those beliefs by harassing people you don't like, you swung first and you shouldn't be surprised if society looks down on you for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
But isn't that fertilizer then packaged, shipped around the world, stored in warehouses, all of which produces more emissions, until it's finally put into the ground to grow crops which are harvested (again more emissions) which are then packaged, chipped around the world (again more emissions), until they feed mostly animals which produce methane, which are then transported, slaughtered, processed, packaged, distributed to grocery stores (starting to see the pattern here, more emissions) all so we can doot-doot-beep-beep around in our little air conditioned emissions machines to the store to pick up and cook and then throw like a 1/3 of the meal away because left-overs aren't as satisfying?
Was a complete turned off by the original monetization model, what has changed?
You are exactly the kind of person that makes me use names like this.

Ideas need no name. Argue the idea, not the human behind it.

Or failing that, perhaps consider relocating to China or Russia. You will find their attitudes to internet anonymity more to your liking.
Yeah, I definitely feel this variance in matchmaking. play games with my friends every Saturday night and 8 hours in after 5 beers, I doubt our MMR is quite as high as it was when we started the session. (The first game probably isn't great either!) But the matchmaker doesn't really know these subtleties, so sometimes the enemies get an easier than expected game. So it goes.

The competitive ladder climbing meta is really about recognizing when you shouldn't be playing and not playing then. Interesting angle to optimize.
Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions. You are obviously trying to cover all the bases with product ingredients and that will hopefully position you for success. Good luck to you all!
Or more accurately, grifters.

The very same ones did it with 'open-source' (hijacking 'free-software' and creating companies that develop closed-source products). The same happened with the Web (and has been ruined by the ads industry thanks to Big Tech), IoT (with phones being the worst IoT device), Blockchains (web3 being yet another hyped up narrative duping retail investors), and now AI once again (with Deep Learning) is already creating a new grift after the release of Stable Diffusion.

All together have been a total disaster towards privacy and are quite frankly dystopian creations and tools for the technologist grifter.
Talking about eating apples could be political in the definition I gave.

I don't think it is a good idea but it is a solution to the question of who get to decide what is political and what it not: everything not job related is political.
From what I've seen a rather typical trajectory is towards a product manager if you are in a tech megacorp or CTO if you are in a small upstart/company (who of course is nothing like CTO at a megacorp). YMMV of course.
Rings of Power: What's with the Accents?
>You seem to think there's no left wing in America when self-avowed leftists if not socialists are the ones who have been doing this whole #DropKiwifarms campaign in the first place.

Some are socialists, but in terms of actual politically power individuals? No. Seriously, no. There's no socialist or social democratic institution that has power in DC or even a state government within the United States.

>If there's no solid leftist base in America and western society as a whole, where is this opposition to supposedly alt-right fortress coming from?

Liberals, seriously go study some political history. Liberalism is not left and it's not anti-capitalist. I don't think you really understand political history and theory which is surprising since I barely crack open political theory works by anyone since I find the subject boring.

>As for my age, I'm 40, which means I went to college between 2000 and 2004 - and was awash in leftist propaganda there

Same here, I'm 42. I'll say there's not much in the way of any leftist positions or professors beyond a few colleges here and there. Most have aged out and been replaced by social liberals (again liberalism is not left nor socialist).

>to the extent that I did not feel comfortable in some classrooms doing anything other than regurgitating what the professors were telling us despite what I actually believed.

That's probably because your views are further right than you want to divulge here. I won't press or bully you but I'll say that maybe you should ask yourself why you see socialists everywhere when everyone else who is a leftist or comes from a leftist position (I come from Mutualism but I use to be into Syndicalism) doesn't?

>To say that leftists do not have institutional power at least in academia is ridiculous, but of course it goes far beyond that.

Having a couple college departments is not having the commanding heights (I love FA Hayek's use of phrases). These aren't people who shake hands with Pelosi, Schumer, Hoyer, McCarthy, or McConnell. These aren't the people that get their proposals even into the hands of Biden's undersecretaries of any department. They don't get much play at billionaire retreats either. So, I'm absolutely confused as to what you define as power because it sure doesn't seem like it.
I agree it's a misnomer and it's confusing for developers to find that disabling cookies breaks local storage, but I think it's understandable. When a user disables cookies their intent is presumably for the website to not be able to track their device, and it's quite easy to work around this with local storage (just add a locally stored identifier to each request made).

At the end of the day it's about either surprising the user or developers, and the user wins out (as they should, imo). One could also argue that developers will eventually find out that the functionality they implemented is broken, while a user who thinks they're not being tracked may never realize they really are, just more sneakily and on a technicality.
Hah, so I guess I'm not the only one with that idea then.
> Is there actual overconfidence?

There isn't. Arvind is just making this up. (Anytime a post leads with many controversial major claims and then handwaves away the entire discussion with "We won’t waste your time arguing with these claims.", while providing almost zero references for anything at all, you should smell something rotten. No no, go right ahead, feel free to 'waste our time', you're not charging us by the word. By all means, do discuss recent DL work on time-series forecasting and why DL is unable to predict, the industrial/organizational psychology lit on predicting job performance, prediction of recividism, why you think scaling is now the dominant paradigm both in terms of researcher headcount and budgets, etc - we're all ears!)

And we know this in part because surveys regularly ask about relevant questions like AGI timelines (median is still ~2050, which implies most believe scaling won't work) or show that AGI & scaling critics are still in the majority, despite posturing as an oppressed minority; most recently: "What Do NLP Researchers Believe? Results Of The NLP Community Metasurvey", Michael et al 2022 https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.12852 If you believe in scaling, you are still in a small minority of researchers pursuing an unpopular and widely-criticized paradigm. (That it is still producing so many incredible results and appearing so dominant despite being so disliked and small is, IMO, to its credit and one of the best arguments for why new researchers should go into scaling - it is still underrated.)
Sharp eye - we threw it away and went MIT a few months ago! Basically.... we listened to our audience. And it was a great move. So, thank you for giving us the push if you commented or provided feedback in any way!
> But what's extremely is that he doesn't disclose this conflict of interest, and in fact goes to great lengths to hide it whenever acting as a public crypto critic.

Yeah. If anyone mentions that, they will get blocked by him. Not even those who support cryptocurrencies are allowed in this 'Crypto Policy Symposium'.

He's doing this because of his failed blockchain company that was killed by public smart contract blockchains like Ethereum and especially Cardano, which resembles everything that he wanted to build, but as a private blockchain with formal proofs. Now he has attached his whole identity to hating all of crypto by writing tons of absolutist articles, grifting and farming for more followers, book sales, and one-sided interviews.

As you know, Stephen Diehl (and his other co-founder Darren Tseng) will never disclose that. Just listen to what he has to say about his blockchain startup before he knew Cardano ruined his business. [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/uc5qv5qabfI?t=21
The intolerant minority bandwagon expecting big companies to take political stance to progress further their agendas, provokes me a utter sense of disgust. Democratically elected governments and regulators decide what should be censored. Not the loudest person in the room
> As a user I have given up on providing this info. Any time I start a support conversation with a detailed analysis of what’s breaking, what I’ve tried, and even which resources I looked up …

I love tickets like that, they are so rare and make a resolution so much easier. So I try to compliment them without gushing too much.

And then, yeah, I sometimes still want to confirm that they've tried turning it off and on again. I'm that stupid, so it doesn't feel insulting to think that they might be too.
They mean to define it by your own means (hobbies, experiences, "taking the reigns", productivity elsewhere for other reasons), not because of an environment where you're more or less forced to exchange your pre-expiration time for money/being a desk jockey for pay.
Beware Mega Drive / Genesis controller has somewhat different wiring in a way that could destroy computers. It e.g. shouldn't ever be connected to a Commodore 64 without an adapter.

An open source design for an adapter exists.
i'd go back to being an auto mechanic like I was earlier in life if my body would cope with it. it's hard work but it's fairly well paying and rewarding if you find the right position.

maybe a marine mechanic -- same thing except the clientele tend to be a bit more pushy, but you get some beautiful ocean views when working on boats out on moorings.
They are:
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63197557/ubiquiti-inc-v...
To piggy back on the optimising twitter comment, does anyone know how to disable recommended content on Twitter? I keep getting people telling me that I'm missing out, and I've fine tuned my feed so it's a bunch of scientists and engineers who's work I'm interested in, but Twitter keeps giving me content from people they follow, or popular topics. It seems every third tweet is something I simply have zero interest in. Is it really that valuable?
WTF does LessWrong have to do with anything? Is anybody associated with LessWrong an actual researcher, as opposed to just an armchair philosopher? And even if some token number are, they hardly represent any kind of field-wide consensus.
Yep, but with a lot more admin-specific features like field conditional logic, block-based layout editors, customizable React components, localization, versions / diffs / drafts / preview / autosave, etc. Payload ships with way more than just a CRUD UI!
btw BP were raided when they started taking direct action to support their communities through programs like the free breakfast service. guns didn’t do BP in, socialism did
What change would that be? I don't know of anything they could do to make themselves a utility besides behaving like one and publicly starting that they intend to do so.
> In response to information provided by ProPublica and the findings of its own investigation, Meta has so far removed fraudulently applied verification badges from more than 300 Instagram profiles, and continues to review accounts. That includes the accounts of Mike Vazquez and Lexie Salameh, two stars of the MTV reality show “Siesta Key.” Rather than get verified for their TV work, they were falsely branded online as musicians in order to receive verification. They lost their badges approximately two weeks ago and did not respond to requests for comment.

ProPublica "journalists" Craig Silverman and Bianca Fortis are total douchebags for doing this and bragging about it.

For all intents and purposes, the MTV stars are public figures and have visibility. This is such a lame move by ProPublica to attack the brand of these folks, which is what they derive their income from.

I feel like so much of this industry has turned to attention and drama seeking. This isn't journalism. This is throwing stones and complaining and trying to get clicks for it.

Shame on Craig, Bianca, and ProPublica.
I'm not sure how you jumped to that conclusion from my post. If I have reason to believe that you committed a crime by acquiring and posting my SSN and I was victimized by it, I would try to get restitution, sure. I don't see how that's in conflict with what I've previously said, though; if a crime was committed by someone doxing someone else on KF, that person is free to subpoena KF and try to bring the doxer to justice. Go for it.

But before you do, you should make sure that a crime was actually committed, and mere criticism, or sharing information you posted yourself, or sharing information which can be found via the 21st-century equivalent of a phone book, is not criminal in the United States. And that's usually what a "dox" is; very rarely does it involve hacking into government databases or something like that.
I think you're losing the plot here. Nothing has any moral obligation to do anything in this universe. Morality doesn't exist. And we're all just making it up as we go.

Now that we've established that nothing matters, the reason is because a lot of us feel that Cloudflare should do something about it.