skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But... they can do exactly that. You can whip up a few pages in HTML with pictures and put on Github or shared hosting. Heck, you can even use a publishing platform like WordPress if you're not technically inclined. Each time you use your pot for a family dinner, you jot down the recipe and you publish it. Boom: you've created content!

So, what's the problem then?

It's how the goalpost for defining success have shifted. You're only successful if you are a full time writer of crock pot recipes, and you can leverage your content as a jumping board for wider fame. Which means you spend your days in the kitchen, churning out recipes, you market your content, you strike a branding deal with a crock pot manufacturer, etc. etc. etc.

This is an impossible and unrealistic standard. It's also the standard by which influencers, streamers, Instagram models and so on hold themselves and each other.

The other implied assumption here is that a source on crock pot cooking is only reliable if supported by a professional expert who does just that full time. But if you use this bar to assess quality of content, you risk missing really valuable and great crock pot information out there. Moreover, that expert? Maybe they are paid to push a brand of expensive crock pots; whereas the next hobby cook does the exact same thing in a pot that costs a quarter of the price.

"Oh! But creative creators ought to be paid for their hard work!"

Tough luck. This was a challenge long before the Web was conceived. Few artists, painters, writers, playwrights, sculptors,... were financially independent. Either they were wealthy themselves (nobility,...), or they were lucky to work for wealthy patrons (historically, patronage was a way to display power). Plenty of creators scraped - and are scraping - by with odd jobs. Plenty of now famous writers had other means of income at the start of their careers.

Kurt Vonnegut, for instance, was manager of a Saab dealership, a public relations officer for GE and volunteer fire fighter. Harper Lee was a reservation clerk at Eastern Airlines while she wrote in her spare time, until her friends gave her, aged 30, a note on Christmas 1956: "You have a year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas." They all had pitched in and gifted her a year's wages. That's what allowed her to write To Kill A Mockingbird.

So, when you look at the body of famous artists, and how things worked out for them, you want to be aware of survivor bias.

Sure, UBI would support many more creative endeavours such as they are. But it's no silver bullet. If anything, there's this prevailing idea that it's somehow easy, and preferable, to make a full time, financially independent living by publishing digital content (text, video,...) on the Web. This is a gross overestimation of what the Web can do for you. It just creates unrealistic expectations and sets people, especially young people, up for disappointment if it doesn't work out.

By no means does that mean one shouldn't be creating content and publishing on the Web. But please do it for the right reasons: because it's something you deeply enjoy doing above all anything else.
And Blair! Watch the new Murdoch Dynasty doco and you can see how they all suck up to him.
Couldn't a quicker rate of expansion explain the missing "clumping"?
No it's a fairly well established meme in Australia that the Liberal Party is conservative.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Liberal Party themselves promote the meme to try to win conservative votes away from the actual (socially) conservative parties. It sort of makes sense. The leaders of the Liberal Party are usually some combination of lawyer/dopey/religious but their policies are significantly less partisan.
Just go back to using PHP (or sth similar like Rails or Django).

Serverless, everything-in-javascript, jamstack etc. are fads that are currently overhyped. (There are of course use-cases where they make sense. But for most project having a normal backend is clearly superior and much simpler.)
What was the PLA used for? From the scant information (and obviously the name) it seems to have been a general purpose logic array. Was it programmable at run time or factory-programmed for a single purpose like the ULA in the Sinclair ZX81?
Urged on by central bank, China weighs antitrust probe into Alipay, WeChat Pay
Yeah, OSMAnd's built-in routing isn't great. But anything based around exporting a GPX from one app and using it in another is going to have the problem you describe; the only way to avoid it is to find an all-in-one app that's good enough on all fronts (or possibly use a fancier format like TCX).
> and the number of people they reached was also relatively low.

And that is because lack of copyright?
You learn to look after patterns.

No different that "grinding" leetcode problems, IMO.

If you do enough, you start to see a lot of similar patterns, over and over.

From there, even if you don't truly know what pattern is right, you can at least do some exclusion - like with multiple choice.
It's definitely the latter. They still want to be indexed of course and I'd assume they'd rather be included in Google News and paid for it rather than not included.
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Why doesn't this incentivize Facebook/Google to create their own news service, with reporters and all? That would certainly be a bleak outcome.
Several big-enough companies use tax loopholes to avoid paying taxes or lobby the government themselves.

This is not specific to big tech though, it's a single point of failure of having a centralised government that is easily corrupted by rich corporations.
Typical mainstream coverage of a tech story that glosses over all the detail, leaving everyone in this thread to speculate about all the details, such as which results it applies to and how will they distribute the revenue.

My 2p guess is it's all about snippets and any other displayed information which would stop the user proceeding to an external result. Some % of total revenue distributed to owners of the snippet content, though it would be hard to determine the breakdown even for a single result page.
How is introducing a regressive tax that removed other duties, levies and taxes "left-wing"?

How is being the only major party with MPs voting against same-sex marriage despite the public plebisciting for it "left-wing"?

I'll give you the other two though, but on the welfare package that Labor introduced following the GFC they (and of course News Corp) would not shut up about how terrible a thing it was, despite Australia being the only country to come out of the crisis mostly unscathed.
That’s not how that works, you should fix your understanding of what it is to be poor.
I would say all of these and more.
Limit kids' screen time while I benefitted from “no limit” as a child
Isn't this the case for nearly any tech acquisition?

A team of a few top engineers could rebuild nearly any app from scratch in a few months.
As a UK person visiting Ireland for the first time it was fun to notice all the things that are the same and the ones that are the same but a bit different. Like Ireland has Primark, but it's called Penneys, and you have the same post boxes as the UK except they are green instead of red. We all have the same plug sockets. We have pretty much the same road signs but Ireland has YIELD to the UK's GIVE WAY. The font used on Irish speed limit signs is almost unreadable at a distance, but your pedestrian crossings are the best with that awesome tik -tik -tik WAKAWAKAWAKA noise.

EDIT: as corrected below, Penneys is the original, Primark is the name change. Apologies!
I wonder if other industries spend quite as much time focusing on how to hire exceptional people? Do we see articles in "The Stage" magazine about how to hire the next Lin-Manuel Miranda for your next production? Do we see Human Resources industry magazine publish a thousand pieces about how to spot the next Hannibal Lecter to really boost your HR teams performance?
Maybe language itself is an attribute of conciousness? Means, the image of self and the image of the environment, must some how reflect back, and this reflexion is expressed by .. language? Be it, sound , gestures, visual, chemical.
> That sounds like bullshit honestly.

It sounds that way to you because it goes against your beliefs. It doesn’t mean it’s wrong...

> I haven't seen any evidence that white people specifically have "invented" racism instead of being a position of power for the most part.

If you read History books, you will find plenty of evidence. It’s not hard to find. Nothing I wrote is particularly controversial among historians.

> There's plenty of evidence that racism existed throughout the history in all parts of the worlds

You’re thinking of bigotry, or prejudice. You are correct that it is present everywhere in the world. But it is not the same as racism (see my definition of racism above).

> and all the races are susceptible to it

Note that races are a pseudo-scientific concept. There is no such thing as “all the races” when talking about humanity as a whole. It’s as meaningless as saying “all the Hindu castes in the world”.

> it's just white ppl historically ended up being on top for the most part.

Yes, Europeans conquered most of the world, occupied it militarily, plundered its resources, enslaved, killed and displaced tens of millions of people, and invented the concept of “white people” as the superior race to justify it. As a result, much of the world’s wealth and power was redistributed to Europeans and their descendants, both in Europe and in their colonies.

If that’s what you mean by “being on top” then we are in agreement.

> To suggest that non-white people are somehow different and could not have possibly be racist or "invent" racism is to deny human nature and perpetuate the myth that the color of your skin makes you special albeit in a negative way in this case, and therefore is racist.

Again, you are confusing prejudice and racism. Sure, I guess anyone could have invented racism and spread it to half the planet. Any human group is biologically capable of doing that. Who cares? That statement applies equally to every historical fact. Any humans could have conquered the Mediterranean - but the Romans did. Any humans could have caused WW2 - but the Germans did. Any humans could have invented and spread racism - but the Europeans did.

> I like how readily every measurable statistically significant difference between races is readily attributed to racism without any attempt to explore multiple other possible explanations.

Oh, plenty of people have looked for other explanations. It’s just that they have failed to make a convincing case for them. By contrast, what I explained to you is supported by mountains of evidence and pretty much the entire scientific community. You might as well be looking for alternate explanations to global warming. But feel free to try!

Sure, the only possibly reason that the racial minority that that has been historically economically disadvantaged and repressed from advancing over generations has been poorer educated, engaged in more crime and less economically involved today would be racism.

I didn’t say it’s the only possible reason. It’s just the only reason supported by evidence and research.
This sounds like speculation. Is there evidence that Twitter has a tool that allows employees to see the UI as the user does?
This sounds a lot like chronic decision fatigue. Without basic human help, we are told to go get the American dream, but never ask for help when you get cancer and it wipes out all future generations wealth accumulation.
So does that mean having a hyper-link to a news article needs to be paid for? (Genuine question!)
YouTube is a social network. You can follow famous people/groups, view and comment on their videos, and post your own videos for your friends or the wider Internet. They even have stories now.
Have you really read the entire Western Canon? Listened to the collective oeuvres of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart? Watched the AFI top 100 movies or IMDB’s top 1000? Watched all of The Sopranos, The Wire and Breaking Bad? Read the SF Masterworks Collection?
That's what I wondered too. From the article, it seems like they're only targeting Facebook and Google for now. To apply the law equally, it seems like it should affect all websites that link to or copy the meta description tag of a news site.
It should up to user to decide what to do with their devices. Operating system should just ask for permissions to perform tasks with potentially harmful effects, and notify on high energy drain. If a user is fine with that, he shouldn't be handcuffed by OS vendor from doing what he needs.

> One one hand HN raves about the iOS quality, OTOH blames Android for trying to do the same thing.

Oh, good old straw man argument? Actually, Android started out as an almost completely free GNU/Linux computer, and is slowly morphing into the same almost fully locked clone of iOS. And in my mind it's NOT a good thing. And yes, Apple's monopoly on sending push notifications on iOS is as harmful, as is Google's on Android.
Yeah, that answers 1 of the questions. But we still don't know what type of 2FA was being used, or what technique the attackers used.
Completely spot on. They are both two sides of failure: one creating the garbage and the other that takes center-stage in its distribution.

What the Australian government can do about News Corp becomes a question of media freedom, whereas Facebook and Google peddling it doesn't introduce that ethical or legal complication.

I could be wrong here though -- happy to be corrected.
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I'm sure we'll survive somehow without it.

Murdoch's empire is fading fast in Australia. The Australian, Foxtel, the print papers are all on their last legs. Their streaming offering Binge is laughably bad - it's only 1080p and works on barely any devices. They could well be done here too.

All upside, as far as I see it.
That's completely reasonable, but some people won't highlight that they have changed their mind as they think it makes them look weak.
Sounds a bit counter-intuitive to me. I always thought the brains of musicians are much more analytical as playing music requires a lot of understanding and (usually) good memory. Classical and jazz musicians typically remember a lot of music in their heads, which require tremendous effort and a rigid process.

Anyway, even if learning music doesn't raise IQ, there are so many benefits. Other than having an enjoyable hobby, I always thought the process of learning classical music properly is very similar to programming (or other aspects in life). You start from small segments, practice until you're good enough to move on, repeat, and slowly put larger pieces together. You then listen to your playing, find out what's unsatisfying, then repeat the process until you've mastered the piece. After learning a piece, you also need to maintain it from time to time if you still want to play it well. This kind of learning process cannot be shown in an IQ test, but is beneficial to a child's development if adopted early.
That compromise OTP 2FA, but not U2F 2FA.
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I have an issue with that people consume news from these sites through recommendations algorithms. Recommendations algorithms just suggest news that you might be interested in, so you miss reading the rest. Ie you consume news through filter bubbles. A filter bubble is where you see the world through your personal curated filter glasses. I would argue that such filtering creates polarized world views where you get less accommodating for views which does not match your own filtered world view. In summary these platforms may in some sense undermine democracy where we respect other with different view points than our own. Plus it’s essential for democracy that we pay for local news journalists which dig and investigate local politicians decisions. Local news feed national news networks which in turn feed international news.

Filter bubble article mentioning news filtering
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble

Article that social media may cause polarized views
https://scholar.harvard.edu/sounman_hong/political-polarizat...

Local journalism
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jul/28/local-journali...
Kind of curious if there's a way to batch support... you put in a fixed amount of money/month and you can subscribe to multiple people, but your contribution gets divided... probably not viable due to transaction fees and somebody's like "oh great I got a penny"
It still gets processed though and only all non-interesting events get discarded..

Otherwise the tape alone to store it on would exceed their total operating budget in a day, so they have to be a bit clever about it.
Well, 70% turnout isn't really "many people struggled".
And of course the important point was that the catalogues were given away free so you'd have one in your home. Imagine it! Being able to sit on your sofa and browse everything that's available in the shop.
Interesting. Where are you from? I've never seen that syntax for centuries before.
Don't remember the details, but I know smaller publishers were hit pretty hard by Google News closing in Spain.
Notably this doesn't apply to news from non-Australian operating companies or to the publicly funded broadcasters.

If I was Google or FB I know what I'd be thinking about doing now.
It's very good - but does come across as a rather worse written and acted version of Succession ;-)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kxw0
It doesn't look like a flailing grasp to me. It looks to me like the press has way too much power and influence and uses it to get policy bad for the public but good for the press.

This idea that the press is dying just because its revenue is drying up isn't rooted in reality. The press has enough influence to just make the public give it money, bypassing the whole "sell stuff" part of the model. For example, Canada just gave the press, as an industry, $595 million of the public's money for some reason.

No, the press is more powerful than ever. And why? Because if you have something nice and the press hates you, you're very likely to lose that nice thing.
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While it's not the selling point politically, I think those lobbying for things like this are very much happy with any monoculture that results.

With services like Google News, people can get exposed to news from various media outlets, but by killing it through lobbying for absurd regulatory burdens on aggregators the well known larger outlets can choke out access to their competition. This of course is hampered to some extent by the reality that many will just rely on other users posting on social media for news updates, and if that too is choked out through regulation on platforms, many will probably just skip the news or reduce their consumption in favor of other things like entertainment.
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I think this is what Brave is trying to do with attention tokens? I don't use it but I think that's what it's called.
No. We need more things like these to happen so people lose trust on everything they read on the stupid internet.

This was good. I hope it keeps happening.
The firearm ban is still being challenged by one half of the coalition (The national party).

They were dragged kicking and screaming across the line for same-sex marriage.

The GST reduced the tax payable on luxury items, so in essence was a more regressive sales tax.
> There is a lot of consideration in committing that recurring payment for .. indefinite duration.

It's (yet another) negative externality of the Anti-Money Laundering / Know Your Customer mania.

If it turns out that a drug cartel used one of these crowdfunding platforms, the government will kill/bankrupt the platform. Requiring recurring payments is the only reliable way to screen out prepaid gift cards, because prepaid gift card issuers are no longer allowed to process fixed-amount recurring payments.

Any other approach is EXTREMELY labor-intensive and still doesn't work 100% -- for example look at Amazon AWS, which devotes a huge amount of effort to playing this whack-a-mole game and yet still isn't 100% successful. AWS bills aren't the same dollar amount every month so they can't go this route.

Basically AML/KYC is Why We Can't Have Nice Things like micropayments or even one-time minipayments to individuals without something like Paypal where they randomly lock up your money for 180 days while demanding "papers please". AML/KYC simply does not scale down to micropayments or even near them. It's not about the payment processing technology, it's about the legal/regulatory burden.
I feel like the power to reset emails and remove 2fa should be only held by a very small subset of customer support, with proper training.
The question is if you want to be peaceful or happy?
These principles seem useful in general, even for talking with non-conspiracy theorists.

I like the bit about asking questions to find out more about what one's interlocutor thinks. When I go to one of my usual restaurants, I usually know what I'm having, but that doesn't mean I don't look at the menu or talk with my friends about what they're ordering.
This is total junk on a 10Mb connection.
I see. I was thinking about Patreon/support like YouTubers but maybe they do something like that already/reason not to.
What startups need is not accelerators
Yeah, can anyone explain to me how FB/G are actually accused of giving paid content away for free? All the Murdoch content is behind paywalls in Aus. Is it literally just headlines and the free 3 sentences or whatever a scraper/aggregator would display?
Harming or helping someone is a spectrum with a neutral point. You can help someone. You can harm someone. You can help someone more or help someone less. Or you can neither help nor harm someone. Because there is that neutral point, when we say someone stopped helping, there is a state other than harming in which they can be, so harming is not implied (although it still may be the case).

Control of a variable—in this case the number of copies lent—is strictly binary. There is no neutral state in which the variable can be neither controlled nor uncontrolled.
servers are a commodity and cheap compared to runtime complexity
> Figure out some categories of content (audio, video, image, text), enforce something that prevents inflating of bits, and then everyone gets paid based on their content.

So. much. handwaving. And there are so many ways this will be gamed by so many parties.
I think it's a mistake to personify organisations like this.
for me the first German association was "klobig" that could be translated as unwieldy.

not sure if this is better, though.
This is an absolutely useless conversation. Of course the US election can be postponed. If there is such a crisis and lots and lots of institutions are struggling, why not do that? The argument that it is against constitution is laughable. So many things are against constitution in the US right now (surveillance, gun restrictions, huge government etc.) that fighting for this particular issue doesn't make any sense. Obviously, the case is that Dems want to do mail-in voting to ensure Biden wins. And yet the discussion as always gets into tiny details that are completely irrelevant.
Article states that they’ll be fined for doing that too.
Most climate change news is always the same "eat your veggies" style reporting. We need x,y,z and we have time until current date + 30 years [0]. There is also the opposite. "Wind power and grid expansion permits have started piling up for the third year in a row". Not exactly exciting. There is also the yearly CO2 tax article and people always respond "I hate taxes". Usually the only exciting times are when the government decides to change things up.

[0] worst cases keep getting worse but the amount of work stays the same, if you tell people we have 12 years left to reach the old temperature goal they'll just give up and call you a doomsayer