skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of today's lucky 10,000! Raymond Chen is a gem. His blog has many good features, I'll let you discover then for yourself.

https://xkcd.com/1053/
That Google search you suggested appears (barring some UI thing I'm missing because I'm on Mobile) to only have two results, your comment and the 4chan archive. Is there a name for a google search with exactly two results? I know one with one single result is called a Googlewhack.
I'd never heard of it either. And the comments make it sound like there was a big difference between what it started as and what it turned into.
There are different sides to security.

Telegram openly does not have e2e by default.

What it also didn't have that I think Signal at some point had was:

- a bug that sent photos(?) to persons without you asking

- a rather nasty vulnerability that let people send you a message and pwn your desktop environment

For some reason a large subset of HN is like E2E or nothing. But I remind folks that except in very particular cases, all email is available to one email provider or the other.

Same goes for banking etc. But for some reason according to HN my postcard level communication with my family demands I use a system with a tenth of the usability of Telegram.
Leaving a top class engineering shop for a ... not top class one is one hell of an experience. So many words/phrases for things that shouldn't need a phrase.
Walmart doesn't invite people of all ages to hang out in a private room together, with no supervision, no rules, no limits.

Parents tend to assume that "the internet" is regulated, somehow, whether by laws or market pressures. The thinking goes something like "Instagram is safe, right, because how could it not be? It's used by so many people, and if it could harm our kids, how would it be allowed to exist?" - right or wrong, people expect platforms to be held to some standard, and, right or wrong, put trust in the platforms to meet their expectations of safety.

The thing about Omegle was that it very much was the private room scenario I described above. I left out the part that made the room "safe" - the eject button. But persuasive people can persuade other people, especially children, to avoid that eject button, and while that only happened to some of the 74 million people using the site, it happened to people. And for those it happened to, those encounters wouldn't haven't happened without Omegle's help.

If you don't believe that, consider all those commenting here about how unique and special Omegle was for people who were good to one another. There's, thankfully, a lot of those comments.

But both things can be true, and were true when Omegle was operating. With 74 million people using it, the smallest of fractions of a percent still represent more than zero people experiencing harm that Omegle enabled.

The parents blame the platforms because the platforms enabled the harm.
As soon as i saw microsoft.com, i knew this was gonna be a raymond chen article.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Home Sellers Win $1.8B After Jury Finds Conspiracy Among Realtors - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38156557 - Nov 2023 (7 comments)

Jury Finds Realtors Conspired, Awards Nearly $1.8B in Damages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38089356 - Oct 2023 (273 comments)
> [1] https://github.com/jsx-eslint/eslint-plugin-react/blob/maste...

From what I remember, being able to pass children as a prop is considered a side-effect of an implementation detail, that breaks the expected abstraction. There really isn't any reason to use it, and I think there's a chance it may even limit what the virtual dom diffing can manage?

Also this would prevent you from accidentally doing both at once:

<MyComponent children={<div>Is it me?</div>}>
<div>Or is it me?</div>
</MyComponent>

(I don't remember what React does in this situation)
I am yet to find somethinf as simple and effective as EventBus. I'm just gonna keep using it as long as it's in the library.
I wouldn't ever call it legit for a journalist to chase someone around yelling questions at them and then use the footage, because it's the kind of thing that makes the "guest" look guilty regardless of actual guilt.

Showing up and getting actual answers, sure, but if you chased me around yelling questions about why I'm not protecting the children I would 100% run away rather than give you an in-depth interview. It looks bad until you think about it for five seconds and realise how confronting the situation is to even an innocent man, just like the Reid technique etc.
Thanks, I have learnt a lot of lessons for my next book at least :-)
> The problem with this 90% solution is that the more renewables are added, the more natural gas capacity is required to cover the capacity.

That can be the case only if the demand also increases. If the demand stays the same, adding more wind and solar can only decrease how much the natural gas power plants are used, and the required capacity (that is, how much they can produce at full power) either stays the same or decreases (if the newly added wind and solar are non-correlated enough to reduce the chance of all of them "going dark" at the same time).
> a great off-ramp from obesity

I, and many many other overweight people, have successfully lost a lot of weight in the past. There's no off-ramp when you look at the data, you always gain it back.

Mounjaro is no different from any other way of losing weight in that respect, except it doesn't rely on willpower, so you can keep taking it, and keep the weight off.
Turns out Thrasymachus was right after all.
Author or the rule and post here. ESLint version 9, which is going to enable this rule as part of the set of "recommended" rules, is also removing all of the formatting rules. I'm pleased to see that. In the era of pretty printers (which ESLint predates) I think it makes sense to encourage linters to focus on correctness and other conventions aimed at improving code quality rather than just style.
I will forever respect and cherish 4chan because it's pure, undiluted humanity in all its goodness and badness.
Because I actually get 100MB/s from wires.
Sounds like an American thing, as most of the world don't have "paychecks".

The internet is global, and American laws aren't super relevant.
> Obviously it is wrong to create child porn intentionally. But that's already illegal and people who do this are laughably bad at ITSEC.

That's because you're reading about the dumb CP producers that got caught.... who by definition messed up with their ITSEC or in some other way.
A stitch in time is worth two in the bush
Interesting. I'm not so sure I really 'got' that part of finetunes / LoRA adapters before reading this comment. Makes me want to make one to take it for a spin, see what comes out the other side.
Is there a word for whatever the human thing is that makes people want to watch reaction videos?
Tested: Black 4.0, the "blackest black" is a lot blacker. 0f1012 vs. 272928
It used to be something that you only really and truly understood when it happened to your buddy or somebody your buddy knew. Now we don't need somebody we know to get blown up in an arc flash incident or grabbed by a lathe to actually understand the forces at play. It's awful and you shouldn't subject yourself to very much of it, but if you're around these machines, it's critically important that you have visceral fear of what comes after a mistake.
The issue with USB is you have to have power protection circuits. Analog interface at least in the show appeared much harder to hack.
This is precisely the demo I am thinking.
I feel there's plenty of space for children to tinker, even in an accept list scenario. In fact, it's more so the spaces that empower you to create that would be on it, since they involve no "dangerous" social interaction. Programming environments, drawing and writing applications, game makers, etc.

That said, parents could decide to let their kids use adult user accounts, maybe supervised, or if they trust their child, or depending on their exact age. And if they do, they'd be taking the liability, not the platform whose EULA specifies otherwise.

At least this all seems a much better approach to balance safety of children on the internet, while leaving adults to have whatever free and wild spaces they want for themselves.

The alternative seems to block it for everyone. Or to have some ridiculous requirements like full blown KYC that either mean complete loss of anonymity for everyone, or unsustainable rules that indirectly mean it's not tenable to offer such spaces even to adults.
Sorry for the ambiguity, by "every book ever scanned at your library," I meant every book ever scanned (e.g., Google Books or other virtual copies) becoming accessible at your library
Ah, this reminds me — for a very long time there was a page called “The Sierpinski Triangle Page to End Most Sierpinski Triangle Pages” - which was a stunning tour de force, it seemingly went forever, covering every possible way to create, consider, discover, unveil or rediscover the Sierpinski triangle (and its many, many variants)

It was here:

https://www.oftenpaper.net/sierpinski.htm

Recently - in an internet mystery to end most internet mysteries - the page has gone off line.

I don’t know how to contact the author to provide assistance, care, anything that is needed.

There are copies in the archive.org - though I’m not sure the embedded code demo will work there.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230317130700/https://www.often...
I've actually been a victim of something similar. Visiting a state park I followed a random popular trail I found on All trails. It turns out it was popular because it took rock climbers to the face of a rock wall up a steep sketchy slope. By the time I looked behind me I realized I was in "slip and hopefully not die" territory. In retrospective it's funny how much faith I put in the All trails map and trudged on before I had the wherewithal to turn around. As someone with a lot of hiking experience it was a humbling lesson to learn. It also didn't help that I have experience rock climbing, I think I was on auto pilot while scrambling, which probably would have made others pause sooner.
Ever since Vanta Black I've been super curious about this stuff. I bought the new Black 4.0 and was blown away. Compared it my blackest matte black paint (left), black paper, black 4.0 (middle) and sharpie (right). The black paint looks grey in comparison! If you need something very black this is the real deal.

However, it is NOT at ALL like they show in pictures where things just turn into a black hole in space. To get those photos they need very specific lighting. In normal light it doesn't look like anying special. Only in the right low to medium light does it give the effect.

https://culturehustle.com/products/black-4-0
> (One risk is poor folks might actually produce more carbon than the middle class, with older vehicles in disrepair and poorly insulated homes)

I would expect flights to be what really sets the average.
Great advice at the end of the article, "put unknown trails to the sniff test: If they peter out into forest or unmarked desert, or you find yourself unexpectedly scrambling up steep or loose terrain, stop."

Every one of these "person almost (or does) dies because their GPS led them astray" stories seems like it could have been avoided if people followed that advice. I really do wonder why they don't? I've been hiking a lot and taken some wrong trails and I do know the feeling of, "it probably gets better just around the next corner," but I also have managed to decide to turn around and try again another day when a "trail" gets too difficult, thankfully. It just makes me wonder
Raymond Chen has been at Microsoft since 92 on the shell team and has worked on OS/2, Windows 95, DirectX and others but is more well known for his 2003 blog "The Old New Thing" which does nerdy deep dives into the internals of Windows / Microsoft-verse and the various ways customers abuse it.

Have you ever wondered
what’s up with the CF_SYLK and CF_DIF clipboard formats? [0]

Or why did the message on the Start menu change from Start to Ship It! for one build? [1]

Or how about filling in some gaps in the story of Space Cadet Pinball on 64-bit Windows [2]

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20200226-00/?p=10...

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20200505-00/?p=10...

[2] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220106-00/?p=10...
The problem with Ethics is largely the same as the problem with the church that cost it all moral authority: despite being held up as the source of morality/ethical behavior it fails at actually promoting it. With that failure the open secret is that they are a side-show or distraction from actual power where the decisions, dodgy or otherwise get made.

Ethics professor scandals in particular are a case which highlights the problem. While there may be sincere examples the scandal ridden ones are like cynical constitutional law professors: they clearly studied it to try to find loopholes around it instead of to uphold it.

Despite that the field of Ethics has vast theoretical potential in one subarea: understanding of incentives, including perverse ones and how to properly craft systems of them. "Alignment" is the buzzword for the latest moral panic about AI. One of the many problems with it aside is that humans sure as hell aren't aligned. See corruption for an example of what bad systems get you.
No. My analogy doesn't say what we should eat. It only says that in spite of something having an association with something bad for you, it might still be just fine for you.

Here's another example. "Potassium explodes on contact with water! I think I'll pass on potassium in my diet, thanks!" That would not be a good reaction. Note the logical difference between saying "that's a bad reaction" and saying "you should eat everything that explodes." You're implying that I'm saying the latter. I'm not. I'm saying the former.
> In recent years, it seems like the whole world has become more ornery

Have people always thought this (e.g. "the youth of today are lazy") or is it measurably true?

I feel like it's obviously true.
Matches my experience. It does sometimes warn about race in 3rd party library (that are actual race usually, even though there might not be issues in practice) but then you can add suppression when fixing upstream is not an option.
Thanks for your encouragement! We are working on quantization as well. We recently submitted a paper, Atom [1], that uses 4-bit quantization, delivering 7.73x throughput compared to FP16 and 2.53x compared to INT8. Atom is able to maintain a perplexity (i.e., model accuracy) close to FP16, outperforming existing quantization approaches.

We are polishing the 4-bit code. It will be added to Punica code base soon. Please stay tuned :)

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19102
Let's contrast that with iCloud - which cannot be turned off, even if you are not logged into the iCloud service.
I used gpg today.

It seems that it still works, yes.
> How would you even decide allocation if everyone has the same amount of cash?

By strength of preference. If I desperately want apples and you desperately want oranges, we'll bid different amounts despite our equal capacity, and thereby obtain different goods.
That was a definite trial by fire period of accessing the internet. I imagine there exist similar areas today but I’m experienced enough to know I don’t need to go in search of them.
>> For starters, figuring out where you are with a map and compass takes skill in the best circumstances—

Indeed it does. I grew up hiking in mountains and acquired this skill (thanks boy scouts). We would regularly traverse mountains which had no trails around all. Or go from here to there making use of some trails, and some free walking. Understanding contours, water, vegetation comes with training and experience.

Hiking is also a peculiar sport. It's very safe to the prepared, but can be very dangerous in unexpected ways to the inexperienced. The barrier to entry is basically zero, and with phones/GPS gets ever lower.

Outcomes when things go wrong are usually OK. Wrong clothing, getting lost, you might get cold, hungry and tired. But mostly it's inconsequential. Until you get unlucky in the mix. Then the penalty for failure can be death.

Of course a bit of training covers a lot of ground. Scouts did a lot of that, not least I suppose because we were all kids who tend to make bad decisions. Proper footware, warm clothing, spare water and food, and most of all the ability to recognise when things are bad to Stop, hunker down, and wait for better weather or help.

My recommendation is that if you want to go hiking, join a club or find some training on how to Be Prepared (tips hat) and how to manage increasing danger levels.
You mean covered / adapted? You're right. Doesn't mean it's any less awesome. Most artists don't write their own music or lyrics.
Unfortunately that doesn't prevent "security" from putting checks in the build pipelines.
For real. I've never heard of that term until this thread.

Aren't they just neewbs or something? N33wbs?

N00bs?
Manufacturer liability for software exploits. Keep the cars simple... why do some cars have f*** optic fiber instead of a normal CAN bus?
Perhaps someone can explain to me why this concept needs to exist. When I visit regular Wikipedia on mobile, I get mobile style sheets. What’s the need for the separate url? Maybe Wikipedia is ok with this but I’ve found Confluence basically completely breaks if you try to give someone on desktop a mobile link. Seems like the whole system is just not quite right.
Even a non-golden era can have something truly valuable.

Btw, we are living in a golden age. The vast majority of humanity has never had it better.
> whereas with solar you ain't generating any at night, no matter what.

Nitpicking: that's only the case for photovoltaics. Solar thermal can store the heat for a while, and keep generating even after the sun goes down.
That would be worth something in a debate, where truth is the goal.

But this isn't a debate, this is a decision. The agent is Meta. The field is their products. The goal is reduced teen mental health issues. And the buck stops with Zuckerberg.

"Correlation does not prove causation" alone is not an excuse to avoid an action. It is a principle that can be used to compare actions for how likely they are to achieve the goal, and so it must be combined with some other action and evidence that makes that other action appear more likely to work. Without that, then the action suggested by the correlation remains the action most likely to work, and so it must still be taken.

If, for whatever reason, Zuckerberg doesn't want these changes to be made, then he needs to either dole out resources to gather the evidence he demands and which may free him from them, or he needs to implement some other action which may turn out to work.

If he doles out the resources, and the evidence comes back and establishes causation, then he has to make the changes. It sucks for him, but the goal isn't to please Zuckerberg, it's to reduce teen mental health issues.

If he doles out the resources, and the evidence comes back failing to establish causation, then that's convenient for him. But he still has to try something else, because the goal is reduced teen mental health issues and it has not been achieved.

If he goes straight to implementing some other action, and it at least appears to work, then he doesn't have to make the changes he didn't want to make. That's great for him, and since teen mental health issues were reduced, he can put it behind him.

If he goes straight to implementing some other action, and it doesn't work, then still has to try something else, because the goal is reduced teen mental health issues and it has not been achieved.
"I wish there was a way to know you're in 'the good old days' before you've actually left them." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujJQyhB0dws
Tbh the sad thing isn't any youtuber losing a platform, it's that Omegle was really a place people went when they were having a hard time and other people went there to cheer them up. I really hope there's another platform like it, but I don't know it.
> Imagine an internet made up almost exclusively of French people.

I'm not sure I would want to imagine that. But then, I'm German.
Using Bing AI Image generator to design a solar powered phone
I don't think <stacktrace> is async signal safe, and thus shouldn't be used for in-process crash reporting.
This seems to be an implementation built on RCU, iiuc: https://github.com/urcu/userspace-rcu/blob/master/src/rculfh...
Lol, now you can't even be funny in peace... If you're too funny, you might be diagnosed as depressed... smh.

Tough crowd. :p
great job!
would you consider a react/nextjs version? thanks.
Ask HN: How do you block high-pitched child wailing on flights?
I have AirPods Pro and they're amazing and terrible.

Amazing at blocking engine hum and low-pitched adult conversation, but noticeably terrible at blocking high-pitched child wailing and laughter.

A kid in the seats behind me cuts through the AirPods Pro like they're not even there.

What's your go-to solution for blocking high pitched kids, without giant construction earmuffs? I'm looking for something I can pack in an already overpacked laptop bag.

Thanks!
I personally make liberal use of parens to make the precedence of operators as clear as possible. Then I run formatting tools like Prettier or rustfmt on my code, which remove any parens that are not strictly required. This way, I end up with an expression that is clear as well as concise. Best of both worlds.
lol... no? That only works if there are repairable products that are as easy to find and as good as the non-repairable ones.
You wouldn't be a realtor by chance?
I think costs can come down if you finetune open source models like llava or cogvlm. This demo also cost about 6 cents so it's not insanely expensive either, especially with clever prompting.
I believe that LLMs will automate most of our data entry/copy/transformation work.
80% of the world's data is unstructured and scattered across formats like HTML, PDFs, or images that are hard to access and analyze. Multimodal models can now tap into that data without having to rely on complex OCR technologies or expensive tooling.

If you go to platforms like Upwork, there are thousands of VAs in low-cost labor countries that do nothing else than manual data entry work.
IMO that's a complete waste of human capital and I've made it my personal mission to automate such tedious and un-creative data work with https://kadoa.com.
That's weird, when we remodeled I told my general contractor where the TV and receiver were going and he had 1.5" flexible conduit run between the two places.
Tsan doesn’t understand mach semaphores unfortunately.
Are you upset with Amazon for hypothetically refusing to deliver to your home unless you give them a virtual key fob to your garage?

Let’s just take a step back here and recognise that we’re asking online retailers to leave our deliveries outside our homes, with direct access to members of the public, but we’re also asking for them to assume responsibility if the packages are stolen.

Morally, in isolation, it’s not a very defensible position for the consumer to take. I personally don’t feel so bad about it when it’s Amazon — they can afford it, basically — but in general it’s not realistic for porch pirates to be anyone else’s problem except the consumer’s.
I don't understand why posts like this are allowed. Seems perverted to me. If Steve is in the hospital, it's none of y'alls concern.