skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Age verifying every user and not allowing children on the service at all, or only matching children with children, as an obvious first. Alternatively, maybe just randomly sampling video feeds and running them through an ML classifier to see if, I dunno, “adult male penis” was a high probability on one side and “extremely uncomfortable looking child” was a high probability on the other?

In hindsight the entire purpose of the service was a bad idea, absent minimal efforts to avoid its trivial weaponization by users with an obvious motive for using the means and opportunity the service was providing by design.
> When there's money involved, blame always gets placed on the deepest pockets that can be found, which is almost never an individual person.

The individual abuser was located, arrested, criminally convicted, and sentenced to 8.5 years of prison and 20 years of restricted supervised release.

Many would consider that a significant form of blame.
See here, well worth the read, it's properly named: Pipeline Anti-Pattern. https://www.leadinganswers.com/2007/06/the_pipelining_.html
Those problems are real, but they aren't caused by a lack of the best and brightest in the sciences. The problems are structural due to misaligned incentives. Intelligence isn't particularly correlated with ethics or conscientiousness.
I said "Israel is much less sadistic in their killing methods", none of these videos address my claim.

They're either dead terrorists/fighters being defiled or not being killed.
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I think this is one of the most important possible works for open source LLM's, really glad y'all pushed this forward!

That's not hyperbole. Why is OpenAI able to charge so little for their API's? I have heard rival mega LLM company CEO's complain that OpenAI's prices would be a loss for their rivals. But I think it's still positive margin, and that they can charge low prices for API because they've invested more into managing the infra, sure, but most importantly because they have the best utilization of their existing hardware.

If it costs everyone $X/gpu/hr to serve models, the company that has the most throughput wins on price. In a world without finetunes, the most capable model, the one that can zero- or few-shot the most tasks will have the most usage. Finetuned open models can reach parity with GPT on narrow tasks, but until now, having public providers serve the models was expensive. Your private finetune is only going to be queried by you, not everyone, so it's super expensive to serve on a per token level. With hot swappable LoRA adapters, that calculus changes, and the cost per token can go way down. Super, super exciting!
That's already required, fwiw. Yes even in Texas. It's not the full costs, in practice, and ownership often gets tricky, but there are regulations to the effect. You have to put up a bond to operate oil and gas wells in TX and many other cases. That bond is seized and supposedly used to properly plug and abandon wells if you fail to do so, but it's not always sufficient.

Also, old infrastructure is really old. It's not things from 20 years ago. It's 50-100 years ago. The law requiring escrow or insurance (it has some holes) dates from the 70's.

Finally, it often isn't done properly. Either way, there are a ton of improperly plugged and abandoned wells and other leaky infrastructure that goes undetected.

The regulations you're describing have existed for a long time, but that's not enough to fix the full issue.
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I find it hard to be polite to people who try to blame the world around them for their poor luck and poor parenting.
For anyone who needs context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Minadeo_II
Humans will have no economic value. The closest thing to economic activity is competing ASI sub-swarms caught in an evolutionary knowledge seeking battle to prove superior in the natural selection of memetic cognitive constructs. Any means to that propagation will be "currency".

The movement of economies is weighted towards what scarcities are consequential. Resources won't be a consequential scarcity for humans.
Regulation of defective mitochondrial DNA accumulation and transmission
The site is broken for me
What "basic behavior" is that? Anonymously video chatting strangers on the internet? Can't you already do that in many Discord servers? Or on dozens of other apps and websites (e.g. Chatroulette)? There clearly isn't anything fundamentally illegal about the practice, or these would all be shut down.
> you would look much less foolish if you read more than just the introduction to my notes; i did a great deal more math than that

Perhaps, but I see nothing in your post that actually corrects for effective solar irradiation on Earth, or for the fact that half the Earth's surface is by definition not receiving any sunlight at any given time, or for the fact that most of the Earth is water and not land (although I suppose you dropping the 4 from the multiplier for the surface area is meant to account for that). In other words, at no point did I see anything that took into account the error I pointed out.
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You don't see any conflict between that and the claim "The only thing Signal knows about a user is when they registered and their last login time"?
Nonsense; it's getting plenty of attention. And there's a lot of lobbying happening to ensure that.

The nuclear industry actually has been running on subsidies. Also in China and Russia. It would not survive long without them. And of course this whole industry was bootstrapped via massive defense spending. Trillions in today's money.

There's no such thing as an unsubsidized profitable nuclear plant. That's why investors are pulling the plug on this thing. Because even with the (massive) subsidies, it just does not add up to anything remotely financially feasible. Unsubsidized LCOE is off by about an order of magnitude where it should be now. Never mind in a few decades.

And of course the cost of securing them, dealing with the waste, or decommissioning them is typically also subsidized. To the point where that's commonly not even factored into the projected cost for nuclear because that is depressing enough without that. Somebody (i.e. tax payers) should take care of all that. Not their problem. Most current nuclear waste is stored in temporary locations while people figure out how to actually pay for all that. That was the plan seventy years ago and there still is no solution. Those sites need security. Which of course costs money. And eventually "somebody" might do something about it. At great cost.

All of it subsidized. By past, current, and future generations.
By far most organization do not care about you as an individual.

May it be work, government on various levels, special interest groups, you name it. You are just a single member and in the big picture they focus on their agenda first and foremost.
Sometimes I have the impression the larger the organization the worst and unfair that is.
With age I somehow keep shifting my interest and company more and more closer to family and friends, meaning the smaller the circle the better I feel about it.
agreed about being anti-nuclear. probably it is not in the interest of life forms made of atoms to be anti-nuclear

it's plausible that further subsidies could have made nuclear power cheap. the long pole in the tent seems to be the cost of the steam turbine generator, though, which isn't cost-competitive with pv even if the heat to make the steam is free. this is after a century of improvements, and the steam turbine is the main electric power source of every rich economy in the world and most of the poor ones. so i'm not sure a few trillion dollars more in subsidies would change that
I think it comes down the exploration vs maximization/exploitation instincts that grows and changes as a human being grows. For ex: teens/early adults has more exploration instinct.(it's a hypothesis that's true for at least some sections of human society, not sure how far it generalizes).

For me it was yahoo chat rooms that filled the need, this omegle founder had created to solve.(at least till it got filled with bots)
The real question is what will a teenager/(mostly exploration instinct person) today will use and will they even be able to anonymously talk to a stranger to share perspectives??

I don't know, perhaps because I have passed the majorly exploration instinct stage due to life's responsibilities and commitments, but I sometimes worry, that there's no such tool anymore.
>WSL2 is not really a VM though, in the traditional sense, as it has full hardware access

It is exactly a VM, and the WSL2 guest does not have full hardware access. The hypervisor can paravirtualize compatible GPUs, but for other hardware (such as USB) this is not possible. Hardware passthrough is also not possible in WSL2.
I wouldn't want this built into my car. The list thing I want is to pay yet another fee for something I already have. I'll stick to plugging my phone into the vehicle for this feature.
They should do it! Desptite centuries of archaeological research we still don't really know how the pyramids were built. A real world test of the various possible techniques would answer a lot of questions. Plus when they're finished maybe the Goa'uld will show up to resolve the SETI issue.
Part of a larger move to kill off the free corners of the internet. The UN and G7 governments freely talk and plan their means to reestablish the narrative dominance they had before the internet.

Just about anyone or anything can be taken down with the pairing of q woman willing to publicly claim abuse, with no proof required beyond her word, and a lawyer willing to take the case.
The custom prompts feature, and the "about me" mostly fixed this for me, with my usual conversations. In both, I convinced it that I'm competent, and that it doesn't need to hold my hand, so much.

I've also noticed that API based clients (rather than the web or iOS client) result in conversations that hold my hand less. The voice client seems hopeless though, probably because I write ok, but have trouble saying what I want before the stupid thing cuts me off. It seems to love making lists, and ignoring what I want.
Prettier oftentimes removes a lot of parentheses that I had hoped it would leave.

I’ve taken naming them as variables instead. Definitely more verbose but more readability.

const aIsB = a === b;
… aIsB ?? c …
The enter to rename is brutal. What could the reasoning for that decision be?
Yeah, there's a lot of tech debt here owing to us having invented payment cards and all ;)

EMV is pretty common here these days, but evidently optional for restaurants; I suspect there's a carveout in the relevant association rules.
> I think the ACLU is still a good organization

> It should be monomaniacal and universally despised.

Never thought I’d get whiplash just from reading a comment on Hacker News.
I first used Omegle in 2009 in college. I did not realize Hacker News had been around that long lol.
> I've never seen or heard of a real estate agent negotiating to transact a property below its previous sale price

You've never heard of a short sale in which there was an agent involved? (Technically, a short sale is one below the outstanding mortgage, irrespective of the previous sale price, but usually the former will be less than the latter, so...)
Reminds me of the car salesman who put his head in an autoclosing minivan door to show off the safety sensors. Sure, it didn't kill him. But having your head pressed between two thin metal plates until current limiting detects the skull in the head is gonna suuuuck.
The realtor I used to buy my last house does it as a hobby. She also did one of the most ethical things I have ever seen, and only took her commission at our initial offer, she wouldn't take commission on any of the escalation clause raises.
He’s seemed true to himself. I wish him the best recovery.
I subscribe to the belief that, for a chat model with the same parameters, creativity will be proportional to tendency to hallucinate, and inversely proportional to the factual answers. I suspect an unaligned model, without RLHF, wouldn't adhere to this.
Related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38188759
An observation: Computers are already really good at chess, better than most people. You might say that we've passed the "chess singularity." But many people still buy chess boards, play chess against each other, travel to chess tournaments, and so on. There's still a vibrant global "chess economy."
https://orionsarm.com/

Though TBH I am more worried about the global economy breaking before we get actual AGI or even pseudo-AGI. Seems like machine learning is going to create a lot of low quality output controlled by a very small number of people well before it becomes generally intelligent. That will be miserable.
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Author of the rule/post here. It's planned to be included in the set of recommend rules in version 9. https://eslint.org/blog/2023/11/whats-coming-in-eslint-9.0.0...
sure, that's not the issue. The issue is that these mounts let you put a moonlander on tripod bolts. They do not address attaching the so-equipped keyboard halves to the arms of a chair.
Maybe, but (and I say this as the author of an NVR [1]) security cameras only accomplish so much. It helps that in this case Amazon/etc. theoretically knows who opened your garage so with their cooperation (not a given), you should be able to match the video to the suspect, but even then it may not provide the expected standard of proof much less get your stuff back...

[1] https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/
Clearly the author should have stated a third time not to violate thread safety, to prevent the article from being misinterpreted.
My guess would be activists and strong regulatory/legislative pressure, moral panic. Kinda resonates with the recent legislative attacks on E2EE.
GPT4 completion or chat model?
I tried a lot of self-hosted solutions for my homelab. Pretty much all of them were very time consuming and had minor restrictions I did not want to have.

However, Proxmox provided a 'framework' that seemed superior:

- Having ZFS as a filesystem to easily revert to a previous state [1] [2]

- Makes possible using docker within an additional 'security layer' (LXC)

- Having easy integrated backup and restore

- Being scalable, if I had to

- Not focussing 'fancy new technologies' (k8s, etc.), but established ones (qemu, LXC)

[1]: https://pilabor.com/series/proxmox/restore-virtual-machine-v...

[2]: https://xai.sh/2018/08/27/zfs-incremental-backups.html
Also how bad taxi customers could be. No shows for example. Not having the money. Or abuse (at least Uber has a rating).

Uber has robbed us of crazy taxi driver stories though.
In any sale, the buyer is paying for everything on both sides, even if it is characterized as the seller paying for it.

But it benefits the buyer for it to be characterized as an add-on fee rather than part of the basic purchase price, at least in jurisdictions with property tax where an actual sale price is also presumptively the initial property tax assessed value (and even more so in places that have annual limits on tax basis value increase as well.)
Somewhere along the way I feel it became normal to just let your children do whatever they want online with no supervision and no parental controls.

And at the same time I do think computer providers, Windows, Mac OS and all that don't offer good enough parental control.

Age verification is a problem as well, but it's foolish to think every website and app will implement proper safeguards. I mean, Omegle could simply be replaced by some darker Russian clone with even less effort put towards fighting crime.

Instead there should be opt in. When a child user is logged in to Windows et all, an allow list should always be in place. And only apps and websites that claim to be child safe should be included.

And parents must make sure to only let their kids use child accounts.

The idea that some KYC would be forced on all online website and apps just doesn't make sense otherwise.

And now it would be fair to sue websites that claim to be child safe and have opted in, if they turn out not to be.
In fact, I’ve seen an extension several times: senior developers performing code review, and requesting that unnecessary, but clarifying, parens be removed. Not excessive parentheses, a single pair in a line or statement.
Addendum. Well, as predicted, the Government announced it's holding an inquiry into Optus. That's less than 24 hours after the event and has to be a speed record for Govt. Such speed gives a good indication of how big this kerfuffle was and how bad the public's perception of Optus and Govt. is for allowing the failure to happen. The questions everyone is asking is why wasn't there a backup plan and why did the emergency phone numbers also fail as they are supposed to be protected (isolated) when such outages happen.

Many are saying Govt. is largely at fault and asleep at the wheel for not keeping stricter tabs on these telcos.

Given there are three major networks in Australia and a few minor ones and that only Optus went down the level of disruption was alarming. Essentially, much of the country was in turmoil for better part of a day.

If a comparatively small outage can cause such disruption to a country then just imagine the chaos that'll follow when the next Carrington Event hits us.
* They are just forcing you to provide reasons for you not wanting to use their software, so they can change it in a way that makes you want to use it.*

The only way to make me want to use it is to change in a way that they do not force me to provide reasons for me not wanting to use their software.
Mentat sounds like a cool tool, I'll have to try it out. I'm assuming it makes use of your local files and edits them for you?
Are there any other programming assistant packages that use the chatgpt api like this?
I am also not those. Is there something wrong with too many indexes, assuming memory isn't a huge constraint?
Interesting idea. I imagine they could go in some sort of permissions drawer/ list that has a badge letting you know an app is waiting. Any app that you’re currently interacting with and is up front could pop the dialog the same way it does now.

I prefer to maintain the security issues and look for a UX solution.
TypeScript _has_ to support weird old code.

Eslint-typescript works well for this. I also recommend eslint-plugin-sonarjs
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38193494
I still remember the times we were educated to be anonymous in internet and never reveal personal details. How times have changed...
Carbon taxes need a good story for what happens to the tax revenue. Most of the time, advocates want to siphon the revenue into their pet cause, or pay off private interests. This makes an already bitter pill dead on arrival.

I usually figure a simple carbon dividend might be a more effective pitch. If you produce an average amount of carbon, you pay $x in tax and get a refund of $x. If you produce more, you come out negative, and if you produce less you make money on net. So, the clear incentive is to use less than your peers in an eventual race to the bottom.

(One risk is poor folks might actually produce more carbon than the middle class, with older vehicles in disrepair and poorly insulated homes)

At the end of the day though, consent of the public is what will move the needle. Carbon taxes might be Pareto Efficient and popular with economists, but if the public just hates all new taxes and won’t go for it, it’s right in theory but wrong in practice.
Ah that's a fair point, I do hang out in a couple of discords where we have that old internet feel, and same with vrchat.

But at least with the former we still have to be a bit reserved since discord can also be pretty heavy handed with moderation. It effectively suppresses less sanitized content in the sense that if your discord grows past a certain size, it's much more likely to catch their attention. So the old internet type content we have there is mostly a handful of private discords from friends with a handful of their friends there. At that point we just ended up setting up a matrix server for stuff we'd rather not leave to the whims of discord.

VRchat has the benefit that if you aren't in public, you're free to do anything. But that does still sort of mean that you need to know the right people to get into those circles, since public is generally unenjoyable, being filled with screaming "Quest kids" (and even if they weren't screaming, it's obviously awkward to be hanging out with children as adults).
YOE = years of experience
Author of the rule and blog post here. I agree that, for me, I appreciate the extra clarity of explicit parens. This lead me to explore a VSCode plugin which visually show the implicit parens even if they are not present in the code: https://jordaneldredge.com/blog/a-vs-code-extension-to-comba...

I like the idea that different readers of the same code base could opt for differing levels of explicitness when it comes to operator precedence. One thing that working on the project helped demonstrate for me is that adding parens around _every_ subexpression is _way_ too noisy. So, you need to draw the line somewhere. But for me, I prefer drawing that line on the noisier side.
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DIYers are such a small group compared to the entire population that they can't significantly affect market with their dollars in many or most cases.

Just look at manual transmissions: far more repairable and DIY friendly than automatic/CVT/robotic transmissions and there are a lot of people who just like to drive them and are not DIYers. Yet these transmissions are almost extinct in new cars in North America.
I'm sure that's partially the case, but not entirely here (IMO).

I used Omegle when it first came out and I was in college. I thought it was amazing, and lost interest in it for awhile as one is wont to do.

But I decided to check out the site again and I tried out "Spy Mode" some years ago (my late 20s or early 30s) where someone could choose a topic or ask a question and then two other random people would talk about it. It was fun and chaotic and had the energy that 2009 Omegle had again. I enjoyed it quite a bit. People would sometimes answer the topics and sometimes have their own openings and such. It was chaotic without the negative vibes of many other websites that used to be more fun.

The random matching combined with the private one-on-one conversation structure had an advantage of not having a popularity algorithm OR the ability for one person in a bad mood to derail your conversation. So aside from the moderation attempts to stop spam on the back-end, the two participants could choose what they felt was acceptable in their conversation.

Sadly, about a quarter of the topics on Spy Mode were spambots linking to questionable sites (likely related to the law enforcement quotes in the article), and when they took down Spy Mode and reverted everything just to plain chat, the spambots were almost all you could talk to with regular Omegle. (I've never used the video chat so I have no insight there)

Definitely downhill in a distinct way, and now with stricter liability for site owners that larger sites can tank with lawyers, I think it was inevitable that the whole thing was going to collapse soon anyway.

I made a few friends from there, most temporary, but one remains who I am very close to. We never would have met in real life, and honestly I don't think we would get along in person, but we talk almost every day and both our lives are better for it.

But I think that this truly is a material loss for the internet.