skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because Apple knows what we all know: that as soon as you introduce a flag to turn off the nanny state, every company who wants to do something Apple doesn’t allow will tell their users to toggle that flag, and users will do what users do.

Facebook, for example, could immediately take their app off the App Store and tell their users that in order to keep using it, they have to effectively jailbreak themselves.

Whether that’s a good enough reason to disallow the existence of the switch is certainly something we’ll argue about until the end of time.
I think the comments about how this is yet another google wave/orkut/+, etc., are kind of missing what this is (probably because of bad branding overlap with Snapchat/Instagram stories).

I think this is a content marketing and blogging platform for small startups, "influencers", and the like. Think of NomadList, Thrillist, food review websites, blogs, etc.

That doesn't mean that this will be very successful, obviously, but I don't see an individual person making much use of this. Seems like a fine thing for a startup to do, Google will probably not get enough out of this to keep it alive.
this would be after <attention token> has become the new fluid currency and you've gone deep into debt by paying more attention than you had
and how many of those 300 "dropouts" will switch to "liberal arts" or something else, just because having a degree is a "proper choice that will help later in life" as opposed to really dropping out ?
This article is based on misunderstanding, misunderstanding that could have been avoided had the author bothered to read the original internet memos which are, not surprisingly, available online!

> capitalization [...] underscored that the Internet we used was just one particular iteration of the larger category of internets

Actually we have a term for this concept and that term is the lowercase "internet". There were all sorts of internetworking / bridging and translating going on at the time IP was designed; the idea was that the IP protocol could become more ubiquitous (and now de facto utterly ubiquitous) but use of IP does not define the Internet. The idea was that they would all roll up into complete connectivity as desired, and that the way to describe the overall connected world was "the Internet". For after all by definition there can be only one. A global connectome.

And IP isn't even part of it -- you could speak a command into your bluetooth headphone and have it relayed to a remote device -- at that instant your headphone would be an edge device of the Internet.

> Eventually, Arpanet would come to be known as Internet. Once it evolved into the World Wide Web, it was appended with the definite article—the Internet—though the capital “I” served as an implicit reminder that it was just one example of the technology, an Internet among internets.

So this is doubly wrong. First of all, there was the Arpanet (we didn't have many case sensitive machines in those days so I figure you can refer to ARPA's network using whatever case choice floats your boat). And the arpanet protocols were replaced by new ones, IP, with TCP, UDP etc on top) but that didn't make it the Internet -- it was the connectome that did so. The ARPANET was indeed the center of that world at the time, but only in the sense of connectivity and as a medium of experimentation, technical development, and propagation. There were larger "walled garden" networks out there with their own cultures; over time they were connected and everybody influenced each other.

Nowadays when I see "internet" in a non-technical use it says to me "people who think the network is Facebook and Google accessed through a web browser". And that is mostly what this article is about -- had the bogus top nonsense been sliced off it might even have been OK.
A bit of unsolicited advice: before putting money in or pitching to publishers, make a simple static site with a mailing list sign up form, then promote it and run some ads for it.

If you get positive feedback and a bunch of sign ups, proceed. Otherwise iterate on the concept/website/marketing strategy until it clicks, then continue with your plans.
I should dutifully point out that the Babylon Bee is a satire site.
False balance is to pretend that there is a actually another side to the debate. climate-change denial, Trump's election delusion.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_balance
Damn, Google is lame as fuck.
I guess stories will go down in history as the perfect example of a feature that was perfect in a single product (Instagram) and everyone tried to copy it in its own product, failing miserably.
It feels a little like arguing you can’t do business with visa’s customers if you refuse visa’s terms.

You could only accept MasterCard, but you’re choosing to limit your audience.
Just a small nitpick - the subscription to Stadia is not necessary. You can buy a game and play that game without subscription until the service shuts down, assuming you are fine with 1080p.
these smart home devices are terrible. That alexa needs an internet connection to operate sucks. I'm already giving up tons of privacy and now when my internet inevitably goes down nothing in my house works, it becomes a stupid home.
In the decade that I've had an android phone (and my father, and my wife), I've not once encountered:

* malware

* a notification that can't be dismissed that doesn't justify not being able to be dismissed

* bundleware can exist on android, especially on budget phones. Pay the price you pay for an iPhone and this generally is no longer an issue. On the off chance there is something bundled, you can disable system installed apps, which removes them visually from everything except for deep within the settings app.

* The only time I've encountered what I would consider "nonsense" is on shared testing devices. Sometimes they have all sorts of strange apps installed that cause the phones to behave strangely. I've never ran into this myself on an actual device used by someone. However I also don't install a bunch of random apps. And neither does anyone in my family it seems (at least that I'm aware of--and I'm the go to for technical issues within my extended family). So my opinion here is limited. I'd also add that Apple's rules create "nonsense" in some peoples opinions (app developers for one, but also iPhone owners who can't install what they want, or can't pay the way they want to pay).

For what it's worth, I also interact with iPhone(s) on a daily basis (for testing software primarily).
Rolling out a dictionary definition works in seventh grade debate class, not in a court of law.

Amazingly, hundreds of very thick books about what legally defines a monopoly are not the same as a single sentence from a web site.
Thanks for the link to last year's. I'm sort of looking forward to seeing who responds this year.
Taming ElasticSearch Field Explosion
I'm not arguing with this view, but I want to emphasize, that as someone who once worked in the Federal sector in numerous different agencies, that they waste tremendous amounts of money on things that have nothing to do with their core mission. The Pentagon is obviously horrendous, but other agencies that I expected to be better stewards of their dollars (EPA, DoE, IRS, and yes, NOAA) were horrifically wasteful, on dozens of fronts.

The hiring is always a problem, even when there isn't a hiring freeze, but they don't fire enough lazy people, which demotivates hard workers who end up bailing for the private sector.

As taxpayers, we should be furious at the GOP for the Accuweather bullshit, but we also need to be furious at any government agency which tolerates the level of fraud, waste, and abuse that most of these agencies perpertrate.

As a person who happens to want universal healthcare like the NHS in Britain, it's infuriating to me that these agencies tolerate such constant mediocrity in their ranks (mixed in with the talented of course!!!) and are so bad with their spending efficiency.

Bezos had something to say about the Seattle city government last year:

"They don't have a revenue problem, they have a spending efficiency problem."

It seems like we always get political about this, with one side wanting to "starve the beast" (as if government is this evil beast), and the other side just always letting them get away with the excuse that they need more revenue.

Where are the people who BELIEVE in government that will demand that it be efficient?

Edit:

I love how people think that because corporations are inefficient, they assume that all organizations are equally ad inefficient as the US Federal Govt. The rate at which people are involuntarily terminated in the Fed Gov is far, far too low, because incompetence is routinely tolerated where it wouldn't otherwise be anywhere else. Why? Not because a person's supervisor in the Fed doesn't recognize the incompetence, but because the firing process is so difficult that they don't want to or can't expend the energy to do so. If you want government to have a bigger role in people's lives, but are so delusional as to not recognize how bad it is, then you aren't furthering your cause.

The FDA still hasn't approved the Pfizer vaccine, while the NHS already did. Pfizer is an American company. That's a national embarrassment.
I'm definitely not your typical gamer, but I've played and thoroughly enjoyed plenty of games which had way worse graphics and framerate than that.

I much prefer gameplay, wide freedom of action, an interesting world and characters, and good writing than eye candy.
Timnit Gebru: Google’s ‘dehumanizing’ memo paints me as an angry Black woman
> Brave Rewards is built on the Basic Attention Token (BAT) and is a new way to value attention, connecting users, content creators, and advertisers.

Yea no thanks. As you said come we should be heading towards privacy not finding new ways to value “attention”.
Ah, I missed that. It's a funny joke.
The biggest problem with capitalism? Not enough capitalists
The static site is already up, but I don't get why I'd buy ads before creating an actual product to show.

I guess you can see a YouTube video of my prototype on the static site ?
Installing and Using Docker and Kubernetes on FreeBSD
After scrolling for what felt like forever... I finally got down to:

"It’s amazing what you can do with a story.
Web Stories can take many forms. The best-in-class examples below provide just a taste of what’s possible in this engaging format."

They have a bunch of examples, so I watched several, hoping to understand how this thing works, and why it's as good as they say. I guess it's a clone of Facebook stories? You somehow piece together a bunch of REALLY short videos or images, and then it makes a little movie. The best-in-class examples were hard to watch, and I can see no reason why I'd ever prefer this format over anything else. Ever. I reallllly don't get why they did this or why anyone would use it.
Let's let the Department of Justice decide.
> What are Stories?

> Web Stories are a web-based version of the popular “Stories” format that blend video, audio, images, animation and text to create a dynamic, less formal consumption experience that goes beyond a simple play button. This visual format lets you explore content at your own pace by tapping through it, or swiping from one piece of content to the next.

It looks like a format to let Google put small web pages with mixed media into search carousels.
I'd rather have a single entrepreneur, building businesses, creating jobs, creating value and chasing success for his own selfish reasons than a thousand empaths busy telling people they are victims and there is nothing they can do help themselves.

With the empaths, we'd still be in caves.
A Summary of the Texas Election Lawsuit
There are people that used both including me. But I fell squarely on the Clojure side and haven't written Scala for 7-8 years now.
Better solar science is another thing that can be done. Investing in better ways of forecasting problematic solar events. We do some of that today but much is in its infancy.
"When TicToc gets banned we'll be the next hot thing" -- Alphabet execs, probably.
This is what real experience sounds like.
From what I gather with a cursory look, it's basically making a Snapchat/Instagram/Facebook story under your own domain as an extension of AMP.
> There you go, the website will now see the same display resolution for everybody, right? Well, that’s unless the website does this:

delete screen.width;
delete screen.height;

> And suddenly screen.width and screen.height are restored to their original values. Fingerprinting can now use two data points instead of one: not merely the real display resolution but also the fake one. Even if that fake display resolution were extremely common, it would still make the fingerprint slightly more precise.

> Is this magic? No, just how JavaScript prototypes work. See, these properties are not defined on the screen object itself, they are part of the object’s prototype. So that privacy extension added an override for prototype’s properties. With the override removed the original properties became visible again.

This seems like a flaw in the browser extension model. There should be a way of overriding these properties outside the page's javascript environment itself, before it's initialized, in a way that's immutable to anything that runs afterwards.
I recently inherited a Clojure codebase whose original developers are all long gone. I'm finding the experience to be a bit like trying to learn how to navigate a city where none of the streets have names.

When I was working my way through Clojure for the Brave and True, I really liked all the clever techniques around data-level programming and informal interfaces. Not having to stop to define and name formal types lets you slap things together quickly. But I'm now seeing the where that approach leads to: A codebase where nothing is formally defined, and nothing has a name.

I see where there were some efforts to do it by the book, and formalize this stuff by using functions to define an interface. The problem, though, is that we live in an orderly cosmos, and some laws are universal. One of those laws is that people will always take the shortest practical path to get from point A to point B. No matter how politely you ask them not to. So, if a map can be manually hacked to shreds in an ad-hoc manner, it will be manually hacked to shreds in an ad-hoc manner.
I struggle with this too, but one example that comes immediately to mind is the whole failed war on drugs thing and DARE program in the US.

Like, is it true that consuming cannabis can lead to being complacent in life and prevent you from achieving your full potential? Yes, but it isn't universally the case at all. Is it true that it is best to avoid cannabis usage in your teen years? Arguably yes. Is it more harmful than alcohol? Doubtful.

So this argument comes again, do we tell them the truth or do we try to get short-term results by telling half truths (and outright lies) to convince teens not to use cannabis? Well, we know the approach the US took back then, and it didn't end up working out well at all. Because once teens tried it and found out that 90% of the things about cannabis that were told to them were a lie, the trust was gone. By that point, they were less likely to believe even full truths about harder drugs, which could have way more destructive potential.

I agree though, it is a delicate balance to manage, and in some cases this gets really tricky. But imo, I think long-term-focused approaches are what builds up trust over time and leads to the best possible outcomes in most cases.

P.S. To make it clear, in case my post was too convoluted. I do think that War on Drugs was a failure, I believe that cannabis should be legal, but I also believe that we should have an honest conversation about it, without resorting to either "this will ruin your life after one puff and make you an addict" or "it is a miracle drug that will make your life amazing and cure your cancer".

P.P.S. Ironically enough, I think that the South Park episode on medical cannabis handled it super well, that whole talk Randy gave to his son Stan. TLDR of it was that Randy said that cannabis won't ruin your life, neither will it turn you into a drug addict. But cannabis makes you feel satisfied and fine with being bored, and being bored is when you should be learning new skills or improving yourself. So it is a delicate balance, and if you consume, you should be mindful of that. As long as you aren't using cannabis as a substitute for doing things you should be doing (aka consume responsibly and in moderation), you will be fine.
The key part is that it’s hosted by google, and can appear on other google surfaces. So pretty soon google will just show this at the top of the search results, instead of directing you to the website.

At least they’re generous enough to give you some ad revenue from it, unlike featured snippets.
"Today Brave is releasing a new version (1.22) of its iOS browser in order to comply with recent stipulations made by Apple."

Imagine the end user chooses/creates an OS (e.g., I use NetBSD plus own software; Apple uses FreeBSD plus Apple software). Then you make "stipulations". And all these browser companies have to comply. That is how things should be. It is the user's computer, not Apple's.
I don't think the earth is actually courting flat-earthers. Trump is doing that, and more. He's legitimizing white supremacists.
This discussion has been going on since the 90s.

Normally, the humanities are supposed to be able to answer such questions.
This could be said about ANYthing in the cloud though
Not if they don't live there.

Because of it's size and market influence, California laws can effect the rest of the country, should the rest of the country vote in California elections?

The people who _choose_ to sit in the traffic are getting what they signed up for. I could be that person and I choose not to be in no small part to that situation.
This was described pretty well in this video review:

Cyberpunk 2077 Review First Impressions: A Brutally Honest Overview (Gameplay, Bugs, Worth)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2AkZVPZkbI
> There are no goalposts to move around here in some PR flack's hapless dream of muddying the issue.

It's specifically about the goalposts, that's my entire point. It's not as straightforward and clear-cut as you're suggesting.

Even saying something like "mobile applications market" doesn't make it clear whether we're talking about number of users, revenue, number of apps, number of app downloads, which mobile devices and so on.
Not in anyway an authority on this, but I don't think so. They have to price the stock based on fundamentals and make a best guess. Would a different bank have priced it higher? Maybe marginally, but probably not double or more.

Maybe someone with a better understanding can say something here but it seems like the way we do IPOs is not great. I'm not sure how to do it better, but I'm sure that there is a better way to do it. I guess this should be the next yCombinator startup. Disrupting the IPO landscape :P.
I don't think you needed the snark. I was responding directly to the comment which says that a monopoly is not defined by market share. But that is exactly what a monopoly is defined as - it's the "mono" part in the word. If what the parent comment was talking about is not a monopoly, then they could have said that and pointed out what it is instead.
Without advertising sites would require direct payment and that would make most sites unavailable to all but the rich.
Software is different than retail.

Retail has limited space. Also, I can buy milk from dozens of different places.

"Cyperbunk 2077" is being sold just about everywhere, retail and digital. Target, Walmart, Amazon, Steam, ...

Where do I buy games and productivity apps for my iPhone?

Software sales and the marketplace capacity are infinite. Apple is artificially limiting it and should open up. They have no argument other than platform protectionism. (They're doing it for themselves, not you. They sure as hell track you and run experiments on your usage.)
On what basis could they be sued that wouldn't take out a) ad blockers; and consequently b) a user's ability to modify information displayed on their own computers?
There is almost no reasons to not use Amazon Linux on EC2, it's weidly used at AWS, they optimize it for EC2, etc ...
I buy a space and set up stalls for businesses to set up shop. The conditions for being part of this market are:

This exact thing exists. From bazaars to food courts to antiques centers. There are hundreds of thousands of these situations around the world.

But for some reason because "it's on the interwebs!" it's supposed to be magically different.
Anjuna Security Announces Support for Amazon Nitro Enclaves
It's namesmith.io. A tool for finding business names and their corresponding free domains. I had some offers but they basically all were just cheap and not worth any time.

There is money to be made in this market but generally my experience with domains is that it's a pain.
I didn’t see any crocodile tears. It was a very sober write up of changes and why they were made.
Do not use hosted cloud services where the implementation creates publicly accessible API keys and each HTTP request results in a charge to your account. A few specific examples are Firebase, Algolia, and AWS Lambda.

All it takes is one programming mistake or one bad actor and you can find yourself in an equally precarious situation.
Absolutely, anything vendored out even.
Based on the description, I think it's like a web page, but you host it yourself, can embed media, link to other web pages, and it can be found using Google.
Solarpunk would be the positively imagined future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarpunk
Instagram copied it from snapchat.
The main explanation, which the article does mention, is that there's a tendency to capitalize novel terms: Big Data, Open Source, the World Wide Web, the Internet, Artificial Intelligence, etc. Some of these, including the Internet, are still often capitalized. But it can start to be a bit silly if you have a sentence like "We used Open Source Artificial Intelligence software to analyze our Big Data on the Cloud."