skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think today more than ever we see kids in their early teens making videos on YouTube/TikTok, etc. It's different from other people's childhoods where you'd make geocities website or customize your myspace page or write blogs but it's still production nonetheless.

You are correct, but there is a disappointing shift in the nature of said content.

GeoCities sites and the like were at least labors of love. Your site looked like shit but that's ok, nobody's going to see it anyway.

Tumblr was performative garbage that bridged LiveJournal/Myspace and Instagram. Your site looked like shit but if you say something controversial enough, you'll get a lot of views.

The YouTube/Instagram/TikTok crowd only optimize for engagement, to get as many views as possible. Everything is so over-the-top. You're not making anything out of love, you're making what gets you attention. Your content is professionally-polished and staged to attract eyeballs even if you have nothing to say. (No wonder everybody has an identity crisis; everyone's a child star that's been living for the camera since they got their first iPhone.)
C'mon now. I'm not trying to judge you. But every action each individual takes compounds into collective action.

If you think only groups and masses have significance, and individuals do not, then I'd be genuinely curious to hear the worldview & belief system behind this. Like what's the phenomenon behind groups coalescing and forming a critical mass?
Indian astronomers and mathematicians have a stronger claim to that invention than anyone recognizable as a classical European philosopher. I rate this claim as "false."
NOVA considers most homemade jams ultra-processed not because of sugar, which is widely understood and proven to be unhealthy, but because of the use of fruit pectin as a gelling agent.

The irony here is that the more processed pectins can be used to reduce the amount of sugar in homemade jams (while still maintaining a jam-like consistency.)
This - I worked with a guy that had been to a conference where someone from Atlassian said that S3 was made up of over 500 microservices, so this guy made it has mission to create as many microservices as possible in a 100 person company.
Conservapedia and Wikipedia don't call themselves "rational" and the other guy took it seriously, not me. I know its just a bunch of whiny losers. What if conservapedia called itself the unbiased wiki and everyone quoted it?
It's a Sony, you should be worried that it's being supported at the time they released it. Akio Morita is rolling in his grave.
Right - but as the parent said, the proposed language of "all car features must keep working" isn't compatible with that.

Defining a law that allows those features to be turned off and yet disallows "data is broken, heated seats are disabled" is very difficult. After all, heated seats aren't an essential safety feature.
Define habitable. It seems hard to detect planets that are in the life zone (not too far, not too close) and small enough to be somewhat similar.
After a $1.8B verdict, the clock is ticking on the 6% realtor commission
Anyone making multithreaded code in c++ should be using thread sanitizer. Whether or not a specific datastruture crashes more in multithreaded code will not matter, since tsan will issue a warning on all unsafe accesses.
You are right, people have the same sentiment in regards to many other things. A great example is music. The golden age is often the music you and your generation grew up with.

Not sure if this will be true for Internet, but seeing how it already trends in that direction, I wouldn't be surprised. Fully expect today's teenagers reminisce about NFTs, Bored Apes, TikTok as their Internet's magical period.
> people who are very good at making money make stupid investments?

Absolutely, particularly when the "investment" is a donation to charity or a university that's more to assuage guilt or plaster a name for posterity than it is for any return.

People that do end up with a great deal of money aren't always the sharpest crayons in the sun - many have luck and good advisors.
By calling it "repos", they're trying to capitalize on the popularity of VCS repositories, but these don't have their history implicitly tracked the way Automerge does, just explicitly tracked by committing and pushing.

I think it's cool, but I still see CRDTs as very niche.

I also want "local-first" but what I really want is something closer to how traditional desktop apps just open up, edit, and save files, not some real time collaboration that is already set up before I add my first collaborator.
That's a valid concern! At the bottom of signal.org, under "Help", Community" links to signalusers.org
Probably meant ndarray.
The author was right on point, the government and the people moralizing want exactly what they described —- an internet fed to users, with minimal interaction.

This gives more power and stability to government and those moralizing (who are currently in power). Notice the constant censorship, it comes directly from the politicians who argue “we have to remove encryption - for the children!” Arguments. Those same individuals in government, censor opposition where they can and promote imo very authoritarian views.

I also agree, everyone has a breaking point. It’s been amazing to watch the increasing attacks since 2016, it’s been unrelenting.

> Virtually every online communication service has been subject to the same kinds of attack as Omegle; and while some of them are much larger companies with much greater resources, they all have their breaking point somewhere. I worry that, unless the tide turns soon, the Internet I fell in love with may cease to exist, and in its place, we will have something closer to a souped-up version of TV – focused largely on passive consumption, with much less opportunity for active participation and genuine human connection.
But why Armenians, specifically? I assume there's some ethic stereotype I'm not familiar with in play here.
I honestly relate to Zuckerberg‘s decision here:

- there isn’t any data which suggests that beauty filters on insta hurt mental health

- if insta disabled such filters, people will simply move to snap or tiktok to use such filters

From the business perspective his veto makes absolute sense. But it’s was to point fingers at him as if he is the boogeyman.
Tbf on a downward decline, 2009 might still be the highlight, just because someone didn’t experience 1995.

For what it’s worth, I always point out that my parents fondest pre-30s memories we’re drinking, smoking and blasting music while riding in the back of a pickup when they were 16-20. All of which is illegal now and will get you years in prison…
Grandmasters do not make an illegal move every 300 moves. That is noticeably higher than what we would expect, and it should give us pause when evaluating how 3.5-turbo works and how it's evaluating chess moves.

If an 1800 elo human did that, we would find the behavior to be odd and we would question how they learned to play and what their decision-making process was when making moves.

"Thing happening commonly in scenario X can also rarely happen in scenario Y, therefore both scenarios are exactly the same" is one of the more annoyingly reductive arguments to have come out of recent AI discussions. You have to actually take frequency into account when you're talking about this stuff, and events occurring at abnormal or atypical frequencies can communicate information about the world.
But… they didn’t do that? Filters became ubiquitous when they were put into Instagram?

Obviously the bad version of anything is always available at some level of effort, but also obviously “level of effort” is in fact the only deterrent that exists.
Maine Voters Reject Question 3 by Large Margin
Genetics of head lice evolution mirrors human migration&colonization in Americas
It was a complex situation and trying to say Palestinians were the only cause of it is overly reductive. Israel played just as large of a role in that civil war too.

Also my turn for what? Answering something I never said? You said everyone hates them. I said the Arab and Muslim communities do support them. Go look up any polling on it. Their leaders might not, like I said, but that does not mean the communities don’t also.
The IEA has done a pretty terrible job of predicting the mix of energy sources over the recent past, largely being overly biased towards fossil fuels. I honestly wouldn't put a whole lot of stock in their predictions even if their claim is that energy-related CO2 would peak in 2025.
Sounds like they could implement local network IoT and reduce their server costs to $0 - but then they wouldn't be able to get a continuing revenue stream.
I'm all for raising the bar of engineering standards though realistically enforcing that would be a significant logistical challenge.

Consider that there are varying levels of competence required for the different problems in software - for instance someone writing code for medical equipment requires a different type and level of expertise than someone writing a website for a small business.

Consider how many YouTubers and blog posts are out there giving bad advice.

Consider how easy it is to get started but also how many niches there are with differing skill sets required by each niche.

Perhaps we could implement a "bar" exam for programmers - however for which niche would it apply? How many different exams would need to be drawn up? By whom and how would this be coordinated internationally?

Does this apply to esoteric segments like Excel or jobs that rely on basic scripting like bash/powershell/SQL/Python?

Would we need to restrict people from giving advice on platforms like YouTube through a licensing system? - much like how it's illegal to give financial advice online without a license in some countries.

It would be nice but I do think that it's extremely ambitious. I struggle to see how it could be implemented inside of a decade long time frame.
Ask HN: Share an important life lesson that took you a long time to figure out
Either due to it being very non-obvious, difficult to accept, or you were given numerous reasons not to believe it that you later realized weren't true.
https://www.washingtoninjurylaw.com/can-bartenders-be-liable...

> The drunk driver can sue the bar or bartender for allowing them to become intoxicated to a dangerous level. Individuals may file a lawsuit, but this does not always mean it will hold up in court. Dram shop laws in most states make clear definitions to avoid false liability. Washington is one of those states.

It looks like it's more the case that the drunk driver tries to sue the bar, not that the government is pursuing the bar. Furthermore, some States specifically forbid attempts to hold the bar liable for drunk drivers.

And even if it were, it's vastly easier for a bar to monitor the conduct of patrons than a web service. The scale of the latter is too great to make non-automated moderation feasible.
Fair. I'm saying that if these features are 'arguably' legal under a proposed law, that law needs to be refined.
> I hope they keep to their principles.

Not anymore. The Charlottesville incident was the straw that broke the camel's back [0][1][2].

There was a revolt from donors and plenty of lawyers against their stance during Charlottesville.

[0] - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/opinion/aclu-first-amendm...

[2] - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/opinion/sunday/free-speec...
This is the person who got hit by another car and dragged after they landed in front of the cruise.
Golf also requires a membership and equipment to play, as well as physically being there. Omegle is (was?) a free online service with no signup required.
He is saying don’t build anything.

I am aware I cannot think of every bad way a service could be misused . I also am aware that there is always a way to misuse a service. Therefore, in order to prevent a service I use from being misused, I must not build anything.

Obviously that conclusion is wrong, so one of the premises must be wrong. Specifically, liability should be on the abuser not on the service.
> So let me get this straight: The site is being shut down because the owner didn't want to deal with the constant spam of CSAM?

No, not spam of CSAM (in the sense of distribution of material where the abuse occurred elsewhere), but actual grooming and abuse happening through the site.

e.g., https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/virginia/virginia-m...

the more specific proximate cause, I believe, is one of the current suits that has gotten past S230 immunity, possibly the ongoing product liability lawsuit:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64618791
Keyword: temporarily
Most are not. Most are just programmed to move a tool from one place to another.
There was a post on HN months back about testimony to Congress. I forget the details except for one graph. Clear and direct correlation between the rise in social media and teen mental health issues.

The number of teen girls that I’ve seen with cut marks is terrifying. The dramatic increase in mental health issues is shocking.

I know with my kids social media has made every one of their challenging teenage moments more difficult.
Ford might manufacture a car driven by a serial drunk driver. Perhaps they need to install breathalyzers in all their cars, by default.

I'm not really sure how much more ripe for abuse Omegle was compared to, say, Discord. Pretty much any video chat service can be abused to send or receive illegal content, and to abuse and manipulate other people. These are risks inherent to anything enabling communication. Short of a panopticon where all communications are manually approved by a human moderator, there's no sure way to prevent abuse (and even then human moderators are fallible).

There ought to be some reasonable attempts to mitigate abuse, like a reporting functionality. But beyond that I don't see much more Omegle could have reasonably done.
I disagree with this. Even though I'm unhappy with Facebook/Meta and I believe the world would have been better off without the current iteration of their products, lots of small businesses depend on their platforms for their marketing/advertising needs and success in general. Their instant messaging platforms like Messenger/WhatsApp are essential communication tools used by literally millions of users. There is also an argument to be made that Facebook has allowed relationships/connections to be preserved that would've eventually ceased. Facebook/Instagram are terrible tools for creating new relationships or social networks though
Wonder how Chris Poole is doing. I loved using his site in the 2000s and have been amazed to see the creativity it has unleashed, some for good and some not so much.
I think that is about right.It does not change a lot about living with Stoicism to abandon or update their "nature" to something modern and sensible to the practitioner. For a agnostic/atheist it more or less does not matter in my opinion.
There are issues with fraud rings using synthetic identity and other fraud typologies including out of Glendale, CA.
(https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/los-angeles-area-man-plead...)
Which requires a computer, internet connection (subscription based!), and actually going to the website and interacting with it on an ongoing basis.

No one is ‘accidentally’ using Omeagle, anymore than they would ‘accidentally’ go golfing.
Throughout human history, energy consumption has increased along with quality of life and number of humans on Earth. Can quality of life improve with less energy consumption and less humans? I'm not too sure...
This is bait, right? SpaceX is almost as big as NASA, and relies a lot on things NASA invented as well as direct USG funding.
sure that is very cool. thanks for sharing. shows the possibility of this medium. i didnt mean that the author did a bad thing.
Ah, Javascript. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
It is simple: money. They pay a lot better than many other places
Got some examples in mind?
Just today I was dreaming of how awesome it would be if you could just somehow filter "good sports" and just open a game up for online play without having to think about all the bad behavior. How amazing would that be?

In my eyes during the golden age of the internet that I think of, you could still do that... bad actors now and then but not a huge % and we were all excited just to play together and enjoy how cool everything was.
The Lego Arbitrage
The article mentions supporting the EFF if you are opposed to this kind of thing. It's possible they offered to help but the owner was sick of it all. That's the impression I got from reading the piece.
I did a bit more research. Seems they make their money from tours and hotels they work with which typically leads to shittier value for the customer.

I want my ai to have as little financial incentive for itself and only maximize my needs. I'd pay for THAT.
Why aren’t the people responsible in prison? Surely this is more serious than possession of weed.
> “I respect your call on this and I’ll support it,” Stewart wrote, according to a message cited in the complaint, “but want to just say for the record that I don’t think it’s the right call given the risks…. I just hope that years from now we will look back and feel good about the decision we made here.”

Were they saying "for the record" just as an idiom, or did they have a particular paper trail purpose in mind when putting something in writing to the CEO?
I worked in a manufacturing facility and those things were in cages to keep people away. The product rolled in on a conveyor.
The job application process is pretty frustrating these days. Every job I've had thus far has come from someone in my network, and that's been great. Recently, though, a "big" tech company (not a FAANG, but you've heard of them) had a posting I think I'd have been a great fit for.

Seemed like the only real entry point for those kinds of roles is to toss the resume into the pile in the automated system and cross your fingers.

A recruiter friend of mine (from a different company, in a different industry) advised me not to submit a cover letter. He seemed to perceive them as more of an annoyance than anything.

Anyway, never got a call back, which I don't take personally - I know there are probably hundreds of applications and that getting a call is probably at least 50% luck. I also know that the market is flooded now, and I have a good job already, so it's hard to get too bent out of shape.

In hindsight I wonder if a cover letter would have helped my app stand out. But either way, it's frustrating seeing a posting that looks like a great fit and feeling like the odds are so slim for even getting to talk to someone and actually having a chance of making a good impression.
That's also what happens when you turn hobbies into jobs that then become necessities. If you want to pay the bills you have to do and say controversial nonsense or be incredibly exaggerated.
Are fossil fuels the only source of energy?
i think it holds up, but I get your point. Still, if 18-year-old me designed and built a new car in my parent's garage, I'm not going to be able to send it out into the world and make millions of copies of it for everyone in the world who wants one.
I think the post you are replying to was trying to say this, but less precisely. It used to be that a MySpace, account profile on DeviantArt, Flickr, an online forum, or even a personal website was another human trying to connect with (or troll) someone, and that everyone was putting out content because that’s how you needed to exist.

Nowadays, I’m sure that 95% of all content I see is made by a media company for hire, mega corporation, or, most recently, word soup from an LLM where, in a strange twist of fate, I’m just a lab mouse in a giant, AI created A/B test trying to determine which option gets 0.2% more clicks. The age of casual creator is mostly over. Everything you do must be to build or enhance “your brand” and its a full time job to keep up with huge teams that automate the churn of information regurgitation, otherwise you’ll never be able to get enough of a following to qualify for perks that actual content creators make - and we’ve not even gotten to compensation yet. The gold rush of making money selling your brand online is over and it has been enshitified much like everything else novel and interesting in the world and on the internet.
Toys R Us. 90s. Teammate made a map of our store.

Pure. Therapy.

9/11 happens and those maps are now dust (no pun intended).
This isn’t about capitalism.

Wealthy nations are seeing reductions in total CO2 emissions. US dropped from 6 billion metric tons in 2007 to 5 billion metric tons in 2022. That’s back to 1988 levels despite 40% population growth, increased prosperity, and all those crossovers and giant SUV’s. Including imports and exports changes these numbers slightly, but doesn’t change the overall trend.

Developing countries are adopting zero carbon technologies because their cost effective, but they are also ramping up fossil fuel use because they are simply growing so quickly. Ethiopia’s real GDP growth rate is 6.1%/year and that’s a good thing in almost every context except pollution.
Ask HN: Which countries should an startup with 1M revenue secure a trademark in?
I'd love to see that. Give everyone an assignment on day one. Nice and easy and due in 10 days. Then in 9 days extend the project scope. Require collaboration and then set the due date +10 again. Just keep repeating until the final submission when you programmatically test and grade every assignment in front of the whole class with a "big bang" style "deployment"

I think it would be too real for the kids.
Children, being children, are often gullible and easily manipulated, especially by someone practiced in the matter.
Only NASA has "development branch" copies of its robots that they use to test things on.
Nice job. I’ll give it a spin later tonight.
By using Databend Cloud for analytics, the startup reduced their user behavior log analysis costs to 1% of their previous solution.
Why watch this kind of thing? I don't get it and frankly it disgusts me that people do.
Hah that's funny, I recently ported the Swift compiler to a Debian package using the Ubuntu package (aside: why is Debian not supported, that baffles me, especially for Swift on Linux server? But Ubuntu is?).

I thought I did something wrong when the crash reported looked so different. I was unaware, that since the last time I did this (ubuntu->debian .deb), the compiler had changed its error reporting.

Props to the Swift team doing the good work, and please add a .deb to the binaries artefacts!
I found this passage particularly relevant:

> Moreover, as a survivor of childhood rape, I was acutely aware that any time I interacted with someone in the physical world, I was risking my physical body. The Internet gave me a refuge from that fear. I was under no illusion that only good people used the Internet; but I knew that, if I said “no” to someone online, they couldn’t physically reach through the screen and hold a weapon to my head, or worse. I saw the miles of copper wires and fiber-optic cables between me and other people as a kind of shield

Omegle, as one of the last places that didn't tie your activity to a real identity, inherently limited the possible harm. Obviously there were creeps on there, but not interacting with them was easy and the only way for anyone to seriously harm you was to give them information about who you were outside of omegle.

A while back I was curious about what sorts of awful things could happen from omegle chats and when you look into it, every single case ultimately involves people continuing conversations via Snap or Instagram.

It's sad that this free, no-harm site has to shut down while Snap/Insta routinely ignore legitimate criticism of their ability to encourage abuse and have enough lawyers to ensure they'll never have to face any consequences for enabling abuse.
Maybe sqlite3: https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html.
And consequently broke that promise by not using Lightning on Mac?