skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The web was never supposed to be a few walled gardens of concentrated content owned by Facebook, YouTube [...]

What are the numbers on views of original Youtube content vs. views of clips of material that infringes copyright? My guess is that the latter still makes up a significant portion of clicks.

If someone makes a serious P2P alternative to Youtube, not only will infringing content be there-- such content's existence will be a measure of how successful the platform is.

Either that, or you design something like the unexplained decentralized internet on the show "Silicon Valley" which somehow still has a single company controlling the pipes.

If not that, then "P2P-tube" has to house Silvestri's "Back to Future" theme[1] just as it houses impassioned vlogs of walled-garden escapees. If you don't have both you'll end up with a bunch of walled-garden escapees rationalizing the virtues of housing unpopular, homogenized content.

Anyway-- as passive onlookers its easy to dismiss Youtube's infringing content. But it's a lot more difficult when its a fledgling service that content owners cannot monetize. I think we've been through this before with Bittorrent. What was O'Reilly's opinion then?

[1] The first Youtube link that popped up was obviously put together in a consumer video editor and currently has over 9 million views:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8TZbze72Bc

Edit: clarification
The only reason I continued to read was this:

> We will create a Python script which will allow us to download even those songs which are not enabled for downloading.

and then he goes on downloading the 128kbit/s web-player mp3... that was very disappointing.

It's like saying "How to download music from Spotify," where I'd expect you to use libspotify or the web API before reading the article, but suddenly I find myself reading about how I can record Spotify music with the "voice memo" app of my phone and a lot of time.
Indeed, and two other things that struck me about it were the amazing frequency of trolleys, and the number of right-hand drive cars (not an artifact of film reversal - the writing on signs is correct.) It is well-documented how the car industry successfully lobbied to kill public transport, and it seems that up to 1910, most American cars were right-hand drive, until Ford effectively standardized left-hand drive with the Model T.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic#R...
I was once told not to change my source code purely to make my unit test pass. Changing the field to push the ratio towards 50 50 seems similar. I think the real question is: how do we get more females to want to learn to program.
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Wetherspoons is very popular with students in Nottingham. Every time I go in the Gooseberry Bush it's half students.
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Didn't the paradise papers basically reveal that softbank is the acceptable face of dodgy money?
Unlike in the past, people don’t build websites for fun anymore. I remember I used to visit topsite ranking sites just to explore what other had built. Nowadays, it’s all templated design hosted in a walled garden.
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Thank you so much for this. I thought "I don't care about football, but I can skim through it." A few hours later I'd finished it and it was definitely an unexpected positive experience.
But that only works for static data?
The difference is that ketamine shows positive results in clinical trials (even for severe depression) while exercise doesn't, unless you include poor quality trials and you limit results to mild depression.
Well your second statement isn't even logically equivalent to the first for one
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> But a user might pay $9/year for all websites

Nope. Not going to happen. A HN user might, but regular user? No way in hell. Honestly I'd be surprised if you managed to win them over with $1/year or whatever the card minimum TX cost is. Even I was blindsided by it with a "wooah, whats this about" and I'm happy paying up for apps etc just to test them once. I thought I'd accidentally signed up to the website side of it

It's hard enough for Netflix to get customers to pay (account sharing) never mind a site that - from the user's point of view - does nothing

On the thought of the website side - Why would I as a website owner have my users pay your service when I could set up my own paywall and also enjoy the monetary rewards? I really feel like I've missed something here

Side note, there's also no way to delete my account
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Thanks for the discussion, even though it is indeed a difficult one to have over a web forum! I think our positions may be more similar than either of us assumed.

> One difficulty is that this difference is sometimes hard to logically talk about because of how unconscious people are. To quote Jordan Peterson (highly recommended) - people say that they like determinism and science, - and yet they act is they were sentient moral beings with choice. There is one thing that people say and think - and another that they do. For example, many people might be thinking about determinism and chemicals, and yet in their personal life they make choices like helping others, like building a better future, like sacrificing instant pleasures or even all bodily pleasures in order to achieve some higher goals, which will not even bring them any of those stimulus-response-based evolutionary candies.

This is exactly the case. It would be crippling to live any other way! So much of how we think and act is more or less automatic, including our mental framing of reality and "choice." Attempting to oppose those processes is a constant battle without any real benefit. (But it is still important to understand this condition of reality while dealing with other people, designing systems, and so on!)

Interestingly, because we also can't really "choose" (under my definition of "choice") how we see ourselves or our reality, our beliefs about choice and creativity and so on are really driven by the information that we take in and internalize. Approaches like Peterson's are actually really valuable because of that. They provide a solid, constructive, prosocial framework for living, which hopefully is read widely and taken up by people in their day-to-day lives. Same goes for the stoics, most religions, secular humanism, and so on. All the more reason to read widely!

I should also recommend The Elephant in the Brain (Simler/Hanson), which synthesizes existing research to show how people are not merely ignorant of their true motives - rather, they actively deceive themselves as to what those motives are in order to better hide them from others. It complements this line of discussion rather well, and helps add depth to the notion that we don't really have control over our internal thought processes.
I was reading something the other day about how reddit has killed the community feel of forums. And thinking about it I agree, I can remember pre reddit I used to be reasonably active on a few forums, made friends etc. Reddit interactions feel a lot more ephemeral if that’s the right word.
You should be expecting any driver to do an emergency stop right in front of you.

I've learned the hard way not to expect anything from other drivers on the road.

Make sure your following distance is such that you have enough time to react to completely oblivious driving behaviour from other drivers.
They can always skip the country if prices collapse. No skin the the game.
This seems to be a very constrained limited way to frame the issue. It is a false choice.

Just because you pay for something doesn't mean you are also not the product. Businesses will maximize value and then they will draw revenue from both subscriptions and advertising. So simply paying will not solve the problem.

Negative externalities are usually handled by regulation in a civilized society as markets are a race to the bottom and cannot account for them. So safety standards, environmental protections, child labour, drugs all have to be regulated and enforced.

In this case the potential for micro targeted propaganda and misinformation are negative externalities. In this specific case its easy to tackle the problem at source by banning micro targeting by advertisers and platforms. Only textual context and immediate location can be used. This protects revenue streams and the current model. But removes the incentives to stalk everyone and hoover up incredible amounts of data to build profiles for micro targeting.
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Well yes another con of the shareholders. Why shareholders invest in companies doing this sort of stuff is beyond me. It is not as though they are they actual owners of the business or anything.
Not really, but it works well enough if you put each item on a separate paragraph (i.e. with blank lines before and afterwards) and prefix it with a bullet point etc.:

- Then it looks like this.

- And still flows nicely.
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Not at all. I just think the employees should be paid in cash and not in shares as a way to hide the total compensation cost.
You might be confusing "do not know" for "do not care."
> There were some bad actors in the 90s, but the scale is different now.

It depends on what you're measuring. Take trolls for example; is the proportion actually any bigger? Sure there are more trolls but there's also more users on the whole so you'd expect the number of trolls to also grow while the percentage might remain the same.

> And the effect is now raised to the level of concern that elections are affected. Some people are even talking about how it is threatening democracy.

That's not really the same point you were making in your first post. I agreed with you about how worrying those specific cases are but you were originally complaining about a more general problem of rot and giving examples of stuff that also existed in the 90s. But yes, I too am concerned about targetted "marketting" being abused in a way that is new to anything we had seen in the decades previous.

> We need to change the economics so that bad actors go broke trying to act bad, while real people have to pay very little and not have to give up privacy.

I don't disagree with you on principle but it's a lot easier said than done. I mean just look at how hard it has been getting a handle on spam email and as a result it's now harder than ever to host your own mail server.

Ultimately I don't think it is possible to have privacy / anonymity and to prevent spam. I also don't think it's possible to prevent bad actors from automation while allowing the good actors to do the same things on the cheap. The problem is the same controls that are used to make it difficult for bad actors will also make it difficult for the good ones, And equally the same controls that give us privacy also make it easy for malicious sock accounts to be created. It's a double edged sward like that of free speech allowing opinions we don't want to hear amongst those that we do need to here.

I think the best approach is education. There was a time when we were taught not to trust what we read online. Not to trust other people online. But things have since flipped and perhaps it's time to re-educate everyone to be cautious of anything presented online?
Cashiers don't know, or don't care?
Are you using robo-calling?
The (Dutch) text under the video linked in another comment states that some people actually do drive the wrong way over it (when there is no other traffic, I hope).
No wonder if all the Silicon Valley homos write on medium because it's hip.
Wow look, an ancap in 2018!
In the late 90s/early 2000s, I went to a lot of raves and everyone who partied and took club drugs used ecstasy and ketamine regularly, often in combination.

A lot of people that I used to hang out with back then are on a private email list now, where we talk about more boring stuff like our families and jobs and so on, since everyone basically aged out of the scene in our early 30s.

I recently made a post about how my mom had been abusive towards me as a kid.

Almost every single person on the email list responded with a similar story of abuse, sometimes of a horrific nature. And almost everyone talked about dealing with trauma and depression their whole lives — and how the rave scene and the drugs they took probably saved them. Several talked about suicide attempts before getting into raves.

I had known these people for almost 15 years and I had never really talked about this except for the random conversation on ecstasy with one or two of them where they or I as sort of worked out our issues with them at an after party or whatever.

I was pretty surprised at how consistent the story was. I know that’s how I felt about the drugs— that the combination of those two (and lsd to a lesser extent) and the community around the music probably saved my life — even though I took a lot of dumb chances and went well beyond the therapeutic info the hedonistic from time to time.

I went from being a lonely, closed up victim of abuse at home and a decade of bullying at school to being outgoing and popular in that scene - even to the point where I learned to DJ and played gigs in front of crowds of 1000+ people.

It helped me not just in the scene but in my personal life and my career. I learned to recognize some of my learned toxic behaviors that pushed people away from me and how to recognize them in other people. I distanced myself from my family and home town friends who had been treating me terribly, and my career took off — even with no degree — and largely because of connections I made in the scene.

I don’t know where I’m going with this, but it seemed transparently obvious at the time that MDMA, LSD and ketamine were near-miraculous substances and deserving of serious scientific study, and it always seemed perverse that the government was doing everything in its power to prevent people from taking them, while at the same time pushing people to take anti depressants and stimulants that were so much less helpful and enlightening.

I haven’t used drugs in nearly a decade and don’t intend to, but I’m glad that researchers are starting to take them seriously.
That reference to old tech may be there because the old tech was sufficient and the new tech has left a gap.

Right now there are two webs and they're interwoven to the point that it has become hard to see, but there is the 'web of applications' and the 'web of information'. There is no particular reason why the second should be implemented using the tools for the first.
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> When I ask friends and family who use Facebook daily, privacy and security never come up as pain points.

Another anecdote: a few days ago my Mum mentioned she was going to cut down on Facebook and move to other social media in light of what's been happening. And she's about as non-technical a user as you get.
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No. We don't do calls at all
I installed ReactOS in a VM, because I have one Windows app I need (Adobe Digital Editions for reading library ebooks), and I figured it would be easier than trying to get it running in Wine. But the current ADE requires Windows 7, so I was out of luck. Probably worth trying the new version.
Thanks for the conversation, and for the reminder. You're right about rephrasing my hypothesis! I need to spend some time reducing it into testable chunks.
> and the potential that there are long term side effects that have yet to be discovered.

Not for medical which is maybe what you are referring to. But long term (recreational) ketamine use (abuse) is well known. Perhaps down to the method of injection (nasal) or the impurities in illicit ketamine, but there is a lot of information on bladder problems, stomach cramps along with heavy addiction
> I also don't think it's possible to prevent bad actors from automation while allowing the good actors to do the same things on the cheap. The problem is the same controls that are used to make it difficult for bad actors will also make it difficult for the good ones,

That's how RealPerson.io is different. It's pay to play so it doesn't try to out-tech the bad actors, and so it doesn't make it harder for the good actors.
Typing of the dead: http://store.steampowered.com/app/246580/The_Typing_of_The_D...

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Actually, I really like these two GUIs which build on the strengths of R by combining the data-exploratory tools that Hadley Wickham created with the visual appeal of ggplot2 (also Hadley!), plot.ly, etc;

1. https://exploratory.io/

2. Radiant: https://radiant-rstats.github.io/docs/index.html

Microsoft IDEAR looks good, too:

https://github.com/Azure/Azure-TDSP-Utilities/blob/master/Da...

In addition, the automatic insights generated by Power BI are another example of how GUIs can help even the hardcore command-line ninja:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/service-insights
How does not being conscious of all aspects of the process of choice ("ignorant (unconscious) of their true motives") somehow equate to "no free will"? If a subconscious part of me makes a choice, and I execute - that it still me making a choice isn't it? Don't you agree that "I" have both conscious and unconscious aspects? And that both are a part of "I"?

Otherwise, do I have to logically think about every single part of myself, every single motivation, every single feeling in my entire being for it to count as free will? Why, what's the point? I have subconscious parts of me, which do a lot of the work for me. It's still my will.

(Another thread)
> Interestingly, because we also can't really "choose" (under my definition of "choice") how we see ourselves or our reality, our beliefs about choice and creativity and so on are really driven by the information that we take in and internalize.

I guess we have to strongly disagree on this one. I have consciously changed a lot of beliefs and ways of seeing myself, the world, other people, the universe, etc. - during the course of my life. I can describe the process, I see where it's going, I see where it stumbles, etc. I can definitely choose these things. This choice doesn't necessarily happen in 1 second always, sometimes it takes longer time (would be really weird if such deep foundational files/drivers in my system could even be changed overnight, wouldn't it? Seems very unstable), but it's definitely happening.
That makes sense - no it's not right. A "web app" can get away with only being compatible with Chrome on the desktop because they would likely have a native app for mobile.
> This is incorrect. There are ongoing phase 3 clinical trials for nasally applied esketamine that will lead to FDA approval if succesfully reviewed.

Specifically esketamine, not ketamine, because focusing on this specific isomer was the only way to get a new patent.

What if racemic ketamine performs better than esketamine? We'll never know because they won't test that.
I'm not asking for advice I'm stating it does technically complicate your setup. What if two people request overlapping ranges concurrently etc... it is more moving parts to setup, test and administer
B2B training should be recurring, large companies hire new classes of entry-level workers every year.
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What downsides do you see from this combination?
Gary Bernhardt (Destroy All Software) has an interesting talk on this phenomenon for anyone who is interested:

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world
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"I Don't have anything to hide"

No, but what if your boss does and a friend of the surveillance company decides they wanted your job.

Or, a politician? Friendlier laws for surveillance companies. Or a client of the surveillance companies.
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Is ketamine approved/endorsed for treating depression in some other countries?

I would think given compelling enough research that there would be plenty of private foundation dollars to complete trials.
I don't believe the problem lies in any technology. We don't need blockchain, it's not JavaScript minification, it isn't the centralisation of services that are the problem.

It's the business model.

No amount of tech is going to change that. If you want to change the situation, start social media businesses with a different business model.
Where did the money go?
What about a site with a little HTML but lots of files. "Might not mind" doesn't sound like something I would bet my business on. There is a gray area and you can find examples of people that got shut down (without warning) whom would disagree that they crossed that line
Still, I can't help but feeling sad, as a human, to be taken out of the equation and not be needed anymore.
Perhaps because you can choose what you drink but not what you breathe.
These articles are annoying. They completely miss the point.

The web as it was in the early 90s was an alternative to major content delivery platforms (TV, press, mostly). So there was these massive systems that were the press and the TV who would own most of our attention span. And then there was this cute alternative technology with a great community that was yet unpolluted by the big guys.

Today, the big content guys colonized the medium, so it no longer feels like the web is "a cacophony of different sites and voices" to quote the article. But in fact, we're in the same situation: big guys with money and loads of content on one side and small guys with communities on the other side.

The web as it is today doesn't prevent you from spreading your ideas to the world on your very own server... And websites like reddit and hacker news are great amplifiers of small voices.

I would probably never have read this article if it had been published in the 90s. Since it's #1 on HN, perhaps 50k people have read it today! The way I use the web feels very much like the 90s: a few aggregation sites, a lot of excellent content written by independent guys, links between them...

Who cares about the centralized internet when the internet that we've loved since the 90s is still there and thriving?
You forget about the bigger FOSS community goodwill that they've carefully been trying to cultivate in the past few years that they will throw away by doing that.
You do in first class. Otherwise, it's 7/8$ a drink which honestly not that bad considering its about the price at a ballgame or bar.
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"Peer-to-peer-YouTube" already exists btw: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
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Is it not possible to work without driving ?
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At first maybe for most people they won't want to pay the cost. What (hopefully) will happen is that smaller sites who have problems keeping bots and fake accounts at bay will decide it's worth it to them to require all their users to use RealPerson. And then (hopefully) over time users face no additional cost using RealPerson on other sites because they already have an account.

Incidentally, this is how RealPeople.io (https://realpeople.io) is able to have no ads because the revenue from RealPerson.io subsidizes it since they're owned by the same company.
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