lone_haxx0r (u/lone_haxx0r)

lone_haxx0r commented on Qwen: chat and pretrained large language model by Alibaba Cloud github.com/QwenLM/Qwen... · Posted by u/slyall

anonymouslambda · 2 years ago

We have such a weird fascination with Tiananmen, like it’s some sort of big gotcha. You can ask actual Chinese citizens and they know about it, and care about it about as much as an American citizen cares about the Kent State massacre.

lone_haxx0r · 2 years ago

This is how Chinese citizens in China react if you ask them about it:

https://vimeo.com/44078865

Do you think Americans would react that way if they were asked about the Kent massacre?

lone_haxx0r commented on CFTC sues Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao [pdf] docdroid.net/60YAbCz/cftc... · Posted by u/fabian2k

fabian2k · 3 years ago

There is more commentary by Molly White on Twitter, quoting various parts of the complaint:

https://twitter.com/web3isgreat/status/1640373566322491393

My favorite is probably the VIP feature "prompt notification of any law enforcement inquiry concerning their account". And of course there are all the text messages indicating they knew all the things they did were illegal.

lone_haxx0r · 3 years ago

I don't get why that would be wrong. If law enforcement asked Binance about my account, of course I would want to know, and would choose an exchange that does tell me vs. one that doesn't tell me.

Maybe it's illegal, but then I prefer that over a legal exchange.

lone_haxx0r commented on Fide Women’s Grand Prix Collapses into “Chaos” as Players Withdraw lichess.org/blog/ZCBr7hYA... · Posted by u/d-z-m

xkcd1963 · 3 years ago

Only when it comes to some biological factors. Most of what we believe separates men from women is learned behavior.

lone_haxx0r · 3 years ago

> Most of what we believe separates men from women is learned behavior.

I haven't seen convincing evidence to support this.

There's the possibility that the differences we see in the higher echelons of chess arise from biological differences between men and women. But that possibility is not being explored for political/social reasons.

lone_haxx0r commented on Incomplete history of Forbes.com as a platform for scams, grift, bad journalism niemanlab.org/2022/02/an-... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

lone_haxx0r · 4 years ago

There's isn't any evidence that there was any sort of "fraud" involved in the Bitfinex hack. It was just a hack.

lone_haxx0r commented on PG: The biggest source of stress for me at YC was running HN twitter.com/paulg/status/... · Posted by u/ilamont

ufmace · 6 years ago

I think there's a larger point in what he said. Basically all current social media ends up optimizing for creating outrage, spawning mobs, less thoughtful discussion and more vitriolic arguments, etc. It's becoming a real concern to me that this is going to drive us into some kind of civil war or something if we don't find some way to check it.

The outrage seems to be like a drug. Nothing generates engagement quite like it, even if it's toxic in the long-term. So all social media platforms that embrace it grow bigger until they become near-monopolies, and all that don't so far have had a hard time growing userbases, making money, and generally fade into irrelevance.

It would be a real service to society IMO if we could find a way to somehow generate enough engagement and energy to challenge the big players without the outrage culture.

lone_haxx0r · 6 years ago

Your thesis is true, but we should keep in mind that outrage almost always comes from a perceived injuste in the world.

We have always and will always disagree about political issues. Issues that from our subjective appreciation are destroying many people's lives, so it's not surprising that we resort to all sorts of toxic behaviour in order to "help the cause", whatever it might be.

This emotional need for justice (even when misdirected) can not be discarded in the discussion about toxic behavior. Sometimes it takes the form of physical violence, sometimes it's an insult, a threat, doxxing, etc.

We should strive to channel these desires and differences of opinion in healthy ways. "just ban all heated political discussions" is a good enough workaround at the forum level, but not a noble solution to the root problem at a societal level.

lone_haxx0r commented on Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera support.apple.com/en-us/H... · Posted by u/ra7

lone_haxx0r · 6 years ago

> Mac notebooks have a camera indicator light to let you know when the camera is on.

That's great, but we'll need the electronic schematics and the OS source code to trust that.

lone_haxx0r commented on YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video] youtube.com/watch?v=W0mMO... · Posted by u/lmilcin

DanBC · 6 years ago

YT moderation is genuinely baffling.

YT has policies against animal cruelty, but a search for "electric mouse traps" shows a bunch of live animals being killed. (There are a lot of these).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0D4rJ6zNuM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh_QXnJcP7M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwKN8h1du8s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgh9Bs4TFdY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SIlYiiCGLI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_a8Pcd8k9s

lone_haxx0r · 6 years ago

In the same vein that "hate speech" means "political opinions we disagree with", "animal cruelty" really means "animal cruelty towards animals we don't like for reasons we don't like"

lone_haxx0r commented on Patagonia joins growing list of companies boycotting Facebook ads cnbc.com/2020/06/22/patag... · Posted by u/HiroProtagonist

lone_haxx0r · 6 years ago

I much prefer Facebook's relatively laissez faire approach instead of Twitter's politically biased approach where hateful things are allowed as long as they are from the left side of the political spectrum.

Drawing the line on what is hate speech is a hard enough problem already, and companies like Google, Twitter don't even try to be impartial, their execs have clearly taken a side. Add to that the weird times we're living in and how people's fundamental moral ideas have diverted so much in the last 10 years, and you have a perfect disaster.

Facebook's approach is less harmful than the alternative right now.

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headmelted · 6 years ago

I so want to be on the same side of this discussion but the argument is nuanced.

The reason "think of the kids" works so well to justify blocking E2E all the time is because child abuse happens literally all the time.

When someone solves this problem, and I don't think any of us really believe it to be solvable, we can move on. I don't want the government in my private conversations, but I don't want my kids in someone elses either.

To extend this - we recognise a duty of care to our users and their privacy when we build these systems, but if those users plan and carry out an act of terrorism did we not also have a duty of care to their victims to not aid their killers in planning their murder?

We can't shunt this responsibility forever, the public will not take our side down the road - because we are ignoring the counter-argument even if we wedge our fingers in our ears.

lone_haxx0r · 6 years ago

> I don't want the government in my private conversations, but I don't want my kids in someone elses either.

Easy: don't let your kid join zoom meetings without your permission/supervision until he/she understands that there are bad people out there.