skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This really summed up my feelings about it. Were there creeps and people trying to get up to illegal stuff on the site? Absolutely. I ran into plenty over the years, but two hits of ESC later and I was on to someone else.

It some ways, it was kinda like Craigslist Missed Connections or something like that. Just people looking for... something into the void of the internet. And sometimes you met something you didn't want at all, and sometimes you met someone you really connected with, either for just a moment or for long enough that you wanted to keep up with them.
It’s not about the transport medium. My Honda also proxies iMessage and FaceTime.
What do you think Facebook Groups are if not a poorly age-verified way to talk to strangers on the internet?
> Didn't the staff notice

If you want a proper Walmart analogy then you should stick the child in a remote part of a vast parking lot, so that there's no reason to expect the staff to notice.

And at that point the case seems too weak to try.
agreed

a couple of quibbles, tho

the efficiency of photovoltaics and wind is only relevant here if you're powering them from stored energy, such as white-hot graphite blocks, rather than from the sun. or in the far future when human energy consumption has grown by two orders of magnitude

gas turbines are only 'renewables-only' if you make the gas from renewable energy
Eh, when that one sentence is "fuck you, pay me", I think the paragraphs are a necessity of modern polite society. Maybe some people would be encouraged by the 4 word sentence rather than the 4 paragraph version, but I remain unconvinced.
> 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.
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Maybe this is why we (presumably) haven't been detected ourselves.
Circa 2010-2014ish, I had the same Amazon delivery driver for several years, and it was awesome! It was just this one guy who delivered all the Amazon packages to my neighborhood. Same guy in the same truck every time, and he got to know my family and we would chat and he would help me with gardening and give me advice on how to prune my trees.

Nowadays that seems so hopelessly quaint.
Omegle didn't intentionally put people on a collision course with abusers either. If Omegle was intentionally facilitating abuse as you put it, then so is IRC and effectively any other public communications mechanism: because anyone could be an abuser.

Even just preventing 1% of abuse would probably have been beyond the capabilities of this site. You write that they should flag adult men listing interest in topics associated with children. How are they supposed to identify the gender and age of users? People under 18 are prohibited from the site, yet that clearly failed. Human moderation can't even monitor a fraction of one percent The "many obvious" ways of preventing abuse were in fact attempted [1]:

> Omegle implemented a "monitored" video chat, to monitor misbehavior and protect people under the age of 18 from potentially harmful content, including nudity or sexual content. However, the monitoring is not very effective, and users can often skirt around bans.

Sure, Omegle "randomly put you into head on collision situations with others", but so is every other public communications: IRC, discord, Xbox Live, pretty much anywhere you can meet random people on the Internet fits into this category.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omegle
The catch is realtors will not bring people to your house if you don't pay the commission, MLS listed or otherwise.
The FTC has a page on it [1] but I wish there was more there given it's the biggest purchase of most of their taxpayers' lives. The reports section comprises three reports, two from 2007 and one from... 1983. Clicking "view more reports" links to a page with those same three. I know they've done more in this area but I thought that was worth a laugh at least.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/topics/competition-enforceme...

Fun fact: NAR was the top lobbying spender in 2020 with $84B. Second place was Chamber of Commerce at $82B. Third place was $26B, or less than one third of NAR's spend.

https://infogram.com/1pyy66emdxryq1c3yez9wqvxp2by3p7pgn3

I only saw those stats recently but felt realtors are likely a very vocal and substantial constituency for every representative.
Return of the Clipper chip Part V.
Biggest one is write overhead: indexes have to be updated every time a record is created or an indexed column is updated. This must be done within the same transaction as the create or update, so you're adding an unnecessary overhead to every single one of those ops. Now, if the data is relatively small or the use-case doesn't warrant it, it doesn't matter.

Lesser issues: additional strain on index rebuilding whenever that happens; messing with execution plans and causing the query planner to be inefficient; primary/secondary memory overhead; or if your DB engine uses locks you can run into a myriad of issues there.

I'm all for SWEs learning about databases, as I'm morally opposed to the proliferation of ORMs and the like, but I don't think ChatGPT is the right way to go about things long-term. It's similar to Googling or using StackOverflow: yes, you will find information that is relevant to what interests you at the moment, but it's soon forgotten and does nothing to help build long-term mental models.
I disagree - it's only when you try to take ideas out of the textbook and put them in the real world where it is relevant to people that you run into the messy details that make or break ideas.

If the ideas are about purely intellectual things, that's fine.

But if the ideas are about people's lives or actions, or any complex system in the real world, then the idea isn't really fully fleshed out until someone starts to implement it.
Punishing minors for "distributing child pornography" over content of themselves sent in private is completely outrageous. Had you not linked those sources there's no way I'd believe our justice system would be so absurdly inept.
There’s these Chinese work safety videos.

Warning: graphic animated injuries with sound

https://youtu.be/J_ZOIiE8tDs?si=o0gbEg0oiXIt-19e
What a powerful sign off.
Thank you, sibling commenters, especially jacquesm.

All very illuminating.
S-LoRA: Serving Concurrent LoRA Adapters
What was their reasoning for not paying out?
Yeah this is really the one thing Meta is doing right at present. And sure, the reasoning and corporate strategy behind it is pretty transparent. But it’s still good. Similar to Apple pursuing carbon neutral. Who cares if it’s just dedicated posturing if the outcome is net good.
What happened to the plaintiff was really messed up, but I don't see how it's the site's problem. Suppose you answer a newspaper personal ad, meet up with the person and get all your limbs chopped off. Yeah, that fucking sucks, but we're not about to shut down the newspaper.
Implementing Protected Members in JavaScript Classes
Ah, but you didn't get a hardworking realtor, you got a family friend to break the rules just for you. You even admit that no one else would have gotten the same deal that you did.

There doesn't seem to be any luck available.
“… but a TMZ report citing sources suggested the illness was potentially a less serious bout of vertigo.”

Vertigo is extremely scary when it happens for the first time, and you don’t know what it is. It definitely makes you think that you have feels a stroke.

And then you discover that so many people have had it, and that it’s incredible easy to get past it, by doing the Epley maneuver. After which you’re good for the next 5 to 10 years.
WSL2 is both convenient and is extremely well integrated. Microsoft did a really good job with it and VSCode.

Also, in most cases for scientific computing, Mac users are using stuff like Remote SSH in VSCode to work directly on hardware that is running the code, which is pretty much always Linux.

Generally, its kinda said that manpower is being wasted on getting things running in Windows or Mac by the software developers. It should be the other way around, have Microsoft or Apple dedicate manpower to port things over and make both systems conform to the Linux standard.
Thanks for the informative reply. It’s a real shame that this has gone on for so long.
Mcsweenies, close enough.
How is this "recall" different from a normal OTA software update?
> trans rights are incredibly well defined, actually. they’re human rights.

Then why can't I readily find a well defined list of what they are? For reference, the human rights are fairly well defined[1].

Of course trans people should be covered by the human rights. They're human as well, so that goes without saying.

> idk what “problematic statements” you’ve heard

I don't keep an evidence folder, so to speak, so I can't provide references.

However, I think we can agree there are extremists on both ends. It's also not a well-established term, in that it's fairly recent and isn't solidified in the same way as older terms like "human rights". Thus the need to be specific when referencing it.

> it sounds like you need to listen to less ben shapiro

Never knowingly listened to (nor read) Ben Shapiro and I couldn't pick him out in a crowd. I generally don't listen to or read much political commentary.

> I think it’s safe to assume that when a community claims to contain “no nazi bullshit”, they mean that it contains no nazis or their associated bullshit.

No, that is not safe to assume at all because a lot of people misuse "nazi" to mean something very different from actual Nazis, typically someone they strongly disagree with.

[1]: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...
> if the benefits to the people that aren't being victimized aren't worth charging a sufficient amount to cover the harms to those who are, I would argue the service is almost certainly a net social loss, anyway.

You didn't directly address my bench scenario, but this sounds like it fits the bench scenario. I don't see anything you've said that would make it an exception. But I think the logical outcome of that is ridiculous.

Sometimes there are bad things that can happen in a place, and that place should not have to pay damages.

And providing value, as an argument to keep existing, should not mean you have to monetize that value. (or drastically increase monetization)
Can you disable the snap and install the .deb?
i just skimmed through the article - it seems that the numbers are quoted from a company called Vectara. Would be interesting to see how they are getting to this estimate
I hold the minority position that philosophy is a useful means of getting information about the world around us and it's only cultural factors that happened in the 1700s (movement against rationalism) that makes us blind to it.

That's hard to see when we talk about more recently popular philosophical topics like ethics or existentialism.

But hacker News also had an interesting discussion recently on Popper and the philosophy of science ( what counts as science). There was another discussion a while back in the philosophy of math - what is math, what if anything separates mathematical knowledge from other types of knowledge.

Viewed from this framework, I think most people would agree that philosophy is useful and an important means of ascertaining valuable knowledge.
My prediction: In 8-10 years...

Seller's agents will get paid a flat rate, then X% commission for just the amount above some certain price. Basically they'll be rewarded if (and only if) they can successfully create a bidding war that sells the place for more than it's probably worth. If they're just doing their normal job of selling the thing for the appropriate amount, they'll get their flat rate.

Buyer's agents will be paid per hour of work, like lawyers.
Ha! Me too. Even after I posted it, when I saw it later in my submission list I immediately misclassified it as, "Oh, I posted an LLM thing? - Oh, wait..." hahaha! :)
It’s ironic that the volunteer rescue organization, North Shore Rescue, is raising an alarm about potentially dangerous information on Google by posting on Facebook.

Because both Google and Facebook are unaccountable private companies that might be difficult for some users to access and might not respond to attempts to correct false information.

North Shore Rescue even has its own website at NorthShoreRescue.com, but still chooses to only use Facebook in this emergency situation, unfortunately.

Edit: North Shore Rescue is a volunteer organization, but is partly government-funded
Slightly more violence but, yes, the phone calls I had during and after the events were pretty graphic.
The presentation suggested in this very thread would work better for me. I generally pay pretty close attention to package apt/pacman/dnf output because it is all right there in front of me.

Perhaps ironically, if those programs asked me for each change I would just hold Y until it went away. Needing confirmation of each item is why I glaze over.
That’s the aclu of pre trump America. The new aclu is no longer willing to fight for that
First accept reality: yes, this is really happening (despite corporate media concern trolling, err, denials from op-eds and pundits); there is no "winning", nothing is ever settled; we must always defend democracy.

Next step is work towards a multi-racial majoritarian democracy.

It took generations and billions in dark money to unwind the New Deal, Great Society, environmentalism, etc. Hopefully getting back on track won't take quite so long.
Good for them!

Knowing when to call it quits is very wise. I mourn the end of a characteristic internet site, but I respect the founder.
Asking for an explanation as to which part made it "coercion" means I "need a playbook for the sexual exploitation of children?" Wtf kind of leap of logic is that? The article didn't provide any explanation as to how it was coercion, hence the question, which you never answered.

So if I'm reading an article about a crime case and the article lacks details, that means I'm "looking for a playbook to commit that crime?" Give me a break.

Maybe you're a pedophile trying to hide your playbook for sexual exploitation of children? See how easy it is to make insulting, baseless accusations?
Yet the alert has made it here, proving it was effectively distributed. Go to where the people are.
would direct connections instead really impact the nature of the communication that much? i'm not sure that it would. a much less centralized/controlled version of omegle could exist on a quite small budget, perhaps much to the dismay of those who seek it's closure.
No, dude. I was abducted, and my captors tormented me by giving me papercuts all over my body. Naturally, I feel strongly that paper should be outlawed. It would be illogical to allow for the possibility of someone else going through what I went through. Down with pulp!
> Maybe you are arguing that we need such a program?

Yes. I’m arguing that there should be some appropriate path for people like you, and that path doesn’t have to take the form of a college degree. Note that I wouldn’t object to it taking the form of a college degree either. I am agnostic.
They claimed that they had correctly interpreted the documents as presented. The issue was that my condo (in a 2 unit condo building) hadn't been correctly deeded one of the 2 parking spaces, even though the building was designed and used that way for decades.

They claimed that the seller misrepresented the property by claiming it came with a parking spot.
Detecting Hallucinations in Large Language Models
Ask HN: Continuous Profiling and System Metric
I have always been fond of continuous profiling for cpu and allocation and it seems there's been a major improvement in the landscape lately with a ebpf based profiling that is low overhead, easy to deploy and generally covers a lot (system level stuff for VM based language). It seems to be ebpf should also be good at capturing system metrics from cpu/memory utilization to more complicated one like IO/network latency, context switches and what not given the kernel level access.

It seems like a single ebpf based profiling tools should be able to capture almost anything performance related and present in a co-relatable manner. But while I'm finding tools for the profiling or some system monitoring stuff I'm not finding anything combining both. I wonder if I'm not doing a good search, it's not really possible as I imagine or as of now it's not been done because there's dedicated tool for metrics etc.
Vertigo seems possible, especially since altitude induced vertigo is a thing, and Mexico city sits at 7300' above sea level. That's usually not enough to affect a healthy middle-aged-or-less person, but an obese 70+ year old? Definitely possible.

Unfortunately, altitude can also trigger strokes, at least through polycythaemia.

A key question for internet sleuths would be - did he just show up in the city, or has he been there for a while? Polycythaemia takes time to develop so he would need to be there for at least a few weeks before it could play a role in inducing a stroke.
> If three letter agencies or foreign state sponsored hackers want my Baldur’s Gate 3 save files that bad, they can have them.

> Otherwise I’m not installing Linkin_Park_Numb.mp3.exe or raw dogging Russian URLs in my spam folder so it’s tough to care.

I doubt you are, but you may be unaware how many online games have vulnerabilities. There are many avenues to malware.
>Lumber is abundant in North America and cheap so everything is timber-framed, which is awful for noise. I actually do not understand how people can live in two-story houses in the US. Such people complaining about noise seems crazy to me. Only drywall separating rooms. Only a plank between floors pretty much. Awful.

I like dumping on American housing standards, but this is completely wrong. Modern US timber framing has fairly thick walls filled with insulation. Some crappy apartments of course skimp on the insulation and you can hear the neighbors, but properly-constructed apartments are quite quiet, because of the insulation between units. In a single-family house, properly-made ones have low-grade noise insulation ("low grade" meaning it has a lower R-value than exterior insulation, because you don't need it between rooms) in the walls between rooms, so kids don't have to hear their parents screwing. "Only a plank between floors"? Please.

>That's 1 concrete framed floor, often commercial and then 5 floors of timber-framed apartments above that. Terrible.

Yeah, try actually spending some time in any decently-constructed modern apartment like this. They're not noisy at all.

Say what you want about the earthquake or fire resistance of buildings like this, but noise is not the problem you think it is.

>Actual high-rises tend to be decent because they have to be concrete and steel framed (although they may have cheap walls).

If they have cheap walls, they're going to have the noise problems you're complaining about. Cheap walls = drywall (on lightweight steel studs) with little or no insulation.

Noise is almost entirely a function of how well insulated the walls in a building are between units, except in places where the units are completely separated by solid concrete. It doesn't matter if it's wood-framed or steel-framed.
Also see these musicians with many "play for strangers on Omegle" videos:

Marcus Veltri, piano, https://www.youtube.com/@MarcusVeltri

Rob Landis, violin, https://www.youtube.com/@RobLandes

Billy Wilkins, guitar and vocals, https://www.youtube.com/@BillyWilkins

The Doo, guitar and piana and otamatone, https://www.youtube.com/@TheDooo

Both Frank Tedesco and Marcus Veltri frequently did joint Omegle videos with Rob Landis. Tedesco and Veltri also have some joint videos. I seem to also recall some Wilkins, Landis, and Tedesco collaborations.
Ah, very similar to Adept’s[1] concept? Though, their product seems not yet ready.

[1] https://www.adept.ai/
> I also wonder about personas. Are there privacy ramifications to which name you pick? Can you pick multiple so community X knows you as A and Y knows you as B?

I think this was one of the things Google+ nailed, not from the beginning but after a while.

It was beautiful to be able to discuss adhd, photography, programming, and maybe local stuff and everything else without the risk of it spilling over.

I had big hopes for MeWe, but for as long as I cared to check one could always go via the profile specific bio back to the main one.

Different separate identities is important to me. Both that I have access to them and that others have.

Without it I am sure a lot of people I have learned a lot from on HN couldn't have told the things they have done or at least I couldn't have asked or answered a lot if questions. (I mean there is a massive difference between talking about working in such a type of company and having this kind of problem and being on permanent record as the bloke from acme corp who admitted they actually had such and such problem.)
PLO had a right to operate out of Lebanon. They were using it to try and evict the Israelis from their land. I also never said they were the same thing, just that they shared equal responsibility for that civil war happening. Like I said, if Israel hadn’t stolen the land, the PLO wouldn’t exist or operate out of Lebanon. So they are as culpable.

Maybe try and comprehend instead of arguing strawmen.
He wasn’t being accused of a criminal act, ergo he didn’t need legal representation on hand. He was being asked by a professional journalist for a world-renowned publishing source why he wasn’t doing more as the responsible officer to keep his company’s product from putting children into harms way in exactly the way his product was designed to perform… he had neither any right to avoid being questioned nor any real interest in avoiding providing comment. He might not like being approached, and if he has some condition that makes such in-person discussion difficult I’m certainly sympathetic but he could just as certainly have communicated by email as he had been asked to do, but chose not to.

As for the reputational risk you’re pointing to, nothing here was trying to cancel him, ostracize him, etc… the journalist was, I think rightly, trying to pressure him into changing his business’s product to prevent the very real harm that product has been, unquestionably, used to perpetrate. There is a very legitimate question why he wasn’t doing more to prevent his platform’s weaponization when his platform was pretty much by design ripe for exactly that use case.
Really sad to see not being corrected after dozens of comments and upvotes. It gives me the feeling people dont actually know what they are talking about.
I am doing AI paper summaries for my substack. My insight here is that usually the relevant information to understand the paper is not actually in the paper.
For example, when writing about the DALL-E 3 paper, the insight is to understand the problem of image captions on Internet scale data and how a captioner can solve this but its not necessarily in the paper.
Can you access their Facebook page? I cannot. Facebook demands that I create an account to read it.
I think a bunch of this is off.

Single mode fiber is cheap, it’s been around for a long time, and as far as I know, even old single mode fiber supports modern standards just fine. (There have been improvements in tolerance to bending and in performance at extreme bandwidths far, far in excess of anything in your house.)

Single mode fiber transceivers are now cheap and use less power than 10GigE copper, but until recently they were expensive.

Multimode fiber comes in OM1, OM2, OM3, OM4, and OM5, and the older variants don’t get amazing speeds by modern standards.

Copper takes quite a bit of power at faster speeds.
Yes but coercion implies a threat.

If the guy was in another country, it's hard for me to imagine how she became a "digital sex slave" (how the article refers it) instead of just blocking the guy. Naturally I'd imagine there was some kind of blackmail for her to comply, but the article doesn't mention anything like that.