skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don’t forget that monopolization is not the only possible offense. Anti-competitive behavior is also an offense.

Amazon, Facebook, and Google (especially Amazon and Google) have demonstrated all sorts of anti-competitive behavior. That’s different than privacy invasions, although there’s some overlap with advertising it’s not a complete overlap.
> There is a lot of money that flows from big tech into the political coffers

It apparently wasn't enough to prevent Lina Khan's appointment. She's not particularly industry friendly, and I suspect that the FTC will file the amended complaint in this case.
By the way there is an easier way to convert C style null terminated strings into an &str than the bespoke c_string function used in this article. You can use the CStr type that is already in the rust standard library: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ffi/struct.CStr.html
This article is biased garbage. Half truths mixed with important facts, threads of truth woven into a tapestry of lies.

Wuhan lab leak? Probably. Long Covid debunked? Not even. Social distancing cost lives because we didn’t achieve herd immunity? Really? Really?
> it's easy to show that most of these companies share data

No, it's not. Mainly because most of these companies do not share data directly. Even GDPR doesn't really do anything much to curb the power of these giants.
The systems can be trustless and upgradable.

As we get proven/tested/formally verified code that implements governance protocols we can use that code to build system of allowing upgrades while allowing those who disagree to exit the system.

For example, one of the ZKRollup chains has a mechanism for upgrading that requires a small number of approvers for the “break glass” scenario. When an upgrade is approved, anyone can exit the network before the upgrade takes affect and move to a system with rules they support.

Governance models will evolve as we figure out what works and what doesn’t. Some people may be ok with a super majority being able to revert the state of a contract in response to a bug while others will want immutability at all costs.

Blockchain/cryptocurrency is about each participant deciding how much trust they are ok with, and having an open ecosystem where assets can be moved to systems that people want to use.
Power generation in power plants that burn fossil fuels is the number one polluter. That's the flaw.
Now I'm fascinated: what's an example of technique B?
Very well articulated. It's the digital equivalent of emotional blackmail.
I disagree with your definition of censor. To censor simply means to to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable. It does not imply a particular public authority other than the control of the medium where the censoring is done.

If I delete certain comments from my blog, that is censoring.
Initially you didn't offer any solutions, only outcomes: "We need to reduce reliance on ff. We need to help nature rebound. And we can't give anything up in the process. We need all the lunch for free." And you never said how this should be accomplished aside from alluding to a few buzzwords.

Then in your 2nd post you gave Tesla as an example of what a solution might look like; making sustainable options more attractive to consumers than alternatives.

Now it sounds like you've pivoted to, "it's complicated and we would have to think really hard about it", contrasting this with an overt strawman, as though any reasonable solution would consist of "sit back and say 'we did the best we could'".

Literally no one is saying that. Obviously it's a complex issue. Which to me means that the solution will involve pulling out all the stops. Sure it would be great if sustainable options were naturally able to become economically viable without intervention. But there is currently a lot of energy going into preventing this from happening to protect established income streams. And the clock is ticking. So i believe we will need to artificially disincentivize things, which seems to me like a vital piece of the "complex system" solution you're alluding to. So I don't understand why you're so resistant to it. So far it's worked great for curbing society's insatiable thirst for murder.
"Of Polish origin"

With that (very Romanian) name, unlikely.
Network Rail had a competition in 2018 for a new footbridge design.[1] This isn't the winner. It's not even one of the entries. It is, though, much simpler and probably cheaper.

[1] https://www.ribacompetitions.com/networkrailfootbridge/
I agree with the individual bits of data but I don't agree with your ultimate conclusion.

The point is - do you aim to make the system fixable by human judgement or not? This thread is full of examples we like: the credit card protecting us from fraudulent charges, FDIC insurance, etc. Are there places in our life that society is forced to operate without such backstops? Yes. But we want to minimize, not maximize those - especially when it comes to consumer-facing capabilities.
Well said.

When people suggest "critical thinking" as a solution to high-volume and high-visibility disinformation, my guess is they think the problem I'm trying to solve is: "There's so much disinformation, and I just don't know what to think!" when actually the problem is "There's so much disinformation, and my fellow countrymen are acting on it in ways that cause measurable harm to me and to society at large."

It's a complex topic. I'm not suggesting that there's an easy answer and I'm not here to sing the praises of censorship, but I find it frustrating to see "think critically" proposed as if it's the simple, obvious solution over and over again.
I know what you mean. I suppressed that reasoning in my other comments as it tends to make things worse, but I might as well spit it out: it's US culture.

The US has always had a binary culture: winner/loser. Democrats vs Republicans. Success or failure. No room for nuance or a gray zone.

Nothing new, but now brought to truly explosive levels of polarization. We all know why.

This mentality has now made its way into everything. As an example, a lot of people, in this example non-tech people, instinctively reject crypto purely based on the narrative presented to them by the media they follow (which fits their world view) and their Twitter friends.

These people haven't spent a minute even trying to understand what it is, yet blindly follow an ever-narrowing behavioral group consensus.

Don't get me wrong, you may very well come to the conclusion that crypto is garbage, but wouldn't you first want to learn about it before you flat out reject it?

Another example is web development, in particular the community on Twitter. It's basically a radical feminist community now. Recently, a high profile account blasted the life's work of some guy. The guy responds that this pile-on ruined his day. The response: an army of angry women complaining about his "white tech bro" behavior. He was close to losing its job (and reputation) for pointing out that he did not appreciate the out-of-the-blue mass pile-on.

Does any of this sound reasonable, healthy, constructive?

Dismissing vastly complex topics without knowing a thing about it? Basing good or bad on group think, and rejecting everything else? Basing who is right or wrong based on ethnicity, gender, the like?

How very limiting life must be to look at the world through this lens. It has like 90% of pixels blacked out.

That's what I mean with the lack of self awareness. US people don't even see this anymore. It's normalized. When you point out they have a closed mind and binary world view, they make effort to show they're on the right side of that binary, failing to see the irony.
More than 40 Indiana counties now reporting sick, dying songbirds
> Lawyers who predict the consensus get rewarded.

This is incentivizing what they think will be the most popular verdict vs what they think is the proper verdict. That's a very big difference and failures will be inevitable.
> It's a rich, beautiful corner of a rapidly growing space.

I can't imagine what kind of mindset/value-system one has to have to find this stuff rich and beautiful. It's ponzis all the way down. I would call it disingenuous and grubby.
I'm looking at the design and living in the UK, my first thoughts are - BMX riders are going to love this.

I'd be interested in seeing it in more detail as whilst the design does seem to possibly be wheelchair accessible, it does seem to have some stepping upon the up and down slops.

Though nice design on many levels, feels like the railway foot crossings may leap out of the Victorian era designs into something a bit more tomorrow. Which if you want to see what many footbridges look like - https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2021/03/victorian-footbridge-re...
will tick many a quaint and tourist box but for daily use or those less able to climb such gradient stairs, not much fun.
I suppose what is slow directly depends on the hardware. On a 10 MHz CPU, 8 ms = 80k clocks, which is not necessarily easy to hit consistently, because of critical sections and scheduling overhead. On a 2 GHz CPU, 8 ms can as well be the normal slice of the scheduler.

I suppose the CPU on this machine may be severely underclocked because of the power requirements.
Who is the central arbiter of truth here? Twitter and facebook have made similar policies.
My relatives only needed a web browser to check their emails and some other basic tasks, so a Chromebox was the simple worry-free choice.
The solstice is based on astronomical phenomena. If you store it in UTC it will always be right.
so, people being fallible and all, are we going to end up in a situation where there is .05 bitcoin remaining in the world; and the government controls it, and backs its fiat with it, and we're right back where we started
My own personal stats is that half my successes came from following up.

You do have to be really careful and get intent right. I don't want to sell something to someone uninterested (they're usually the bad clients that need 80% effort, 20% returns anyway).

A lot of sales people are just manipulative with this and it'll show. It comes across as impatient, pushy, or insulting.

If I know that the other person read it and is interested but evaluating other options, an email could be along the lines of, "So what do you think? I'm happy to answer any questions you have."

If it goes into a void, I'd say, "Sorry to follow up, but I'm not sure if my last email was lost in your inbox or if you've got other things on your mind. To reiterate, (brief pitch on product). I'll probably send one more follow up later for your convenience. If you're not interested, just let me know and I won't bother you."

Many people are afraid of rejection, but IMO it's a very good thing. Encourage them to say no. You know what doesn't work - wrong target market, wrong pitch, or some cases it's just not good enough. We've had situations where we were told, "It's interesting but not being able to log out of all devices is a security hole and dealbreaker." It could be a polite excuse, but it was a feature angle we didn't think of and also a hint when it's okay to try again.
Settlement reached in Flintstone House case
Nobody here understands this lol. They either haven’t been to the UK or haven’t been outside London.
I wonder whether 4chan is the way it is purely as a consequence of there being minimal moderation, or whether the lack of moderation combined with extreme moderation of such content on other platforms is driving it all towards 4chan. Would all platforms wind up the same way if all moderation were removed? Or would it end up being far less obviously concentrated?
You're being pedantic, it's clear what was meant even if it wasn't properly stated.
Bitcoin has had multisig wallets for a long time: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Multi-signature

So it's not that hard to distribute several keys of the multisig to various heirs, who would have to agree on any transfers of funds. Another option is to keep each key in a different safe deposit box, with a will stating who gets access to the boxes.
Well no, the problem is I very frequently have to interface with APIs that give me human readable time strings only. Those APIs were not written by top quality engineers and I often have no other choice or way to interface with those systems.

Also you mention ISO-8601 but this document does not even describe how to input an ISO-8601 string.
I'd put Slotts in between the two, at least.
YouTube is a monopoly and needs to be regulated. Period. End of story. They dominate online video and too many people are dependent on them and because of their monopoly position, they can do whatever they want without accountability.

If they had competition, they would not be able to get away with having no customer support. The fact their customer support (which any other company like theirs would have) is practically non-existent is proof that they are using their monopoly position to the detriment of their customers who have no choice but to use them. It’s the same as them raising their prices. Except what they do instead is instead of explicitly raising prices, they cut services so that they are themselves more and more profitable. This is a direct result of their monopoly.

YouTube and other Google properties needs to be regulated by the government. They need to reinstate competent customer support and have a viable appeal system that isn’t a black hole. They need to be explicit with what constitutes a strike or a violation, and they need to be more effective in combatting fraudulent notices of copyright violation.
One way of reading this coontent is that most don't think there's a problem
Out of curiosity, I wonder if newsletter diversity would be improved if you made suggestions by clustering the newsletters by content (similar to your other comment about seeding the network), but picking from the newsletters furthest from any cluster
That's literally one junior software engineer's annual salary. It honestly is negligible in the context of the crypto market.
I’ve seen 4chan. I honestly mean no offense to you, but I can’t imagine there is anyone who contributes here who could tolerate that.
Apple is introducing a mechanism to allow access to certain data after passing: https://www.cultofmac.com/744814/apple-digital-legacy/. It would be great to see more tools and services provide ways to pass on digital information so we don’t have too many haunted digital graveyards not too much digital treasure lying in waste.
There is no reason censorship/moderation has to be done server-side. It can be done at the client level with subscribable mute/block lists.

Of course, this requires big tech to relinquish their power to shape worldwide discourse, which is unlikely to happen voluntarily.
I'm interested to know what would be the trigger point for you here that might demand regulation. are you fully libertarian and willing to endure serious negative societal effects to preserve this one type of freedom? If you could see that the lack of moderation on youtube was causing societal collapse because everyone believed things that were not true(lets say here for the sake of argument that this fact is not disputable in this example) would you then be in favour of some kind of regulation?
Popescu, for those who knew him, was utter scum. A sociopathic narcissistic villain, it's hard to feel anything but relief that the world is now better with his passing. If you have doubts as to the validity of my characterization, a few minutes reading his blog (trilema) will prove enlightening.
That was Panos Panay who’s usually extremely engaged. I don’t know if it was a conscious decision — he did look like he was speaking at a funeral.
My mom is a web browser. she browses all the time. Uses something call Windows to do it.
What does that mean?

I never used WhatsApp for anything but chatting with my family
QUIC full way.
This seems like a "just so" statement. Fifty years ago people would say that Western societies are more efficient and better at building physical things.

So I don't really see it. I don't think Western societies are necessarily always going to be better at technology and I think you really, really underestimate the chaos and varieties of many non-Western societies. In many ways the West is quite low-entropy.
I've been signed up to The Sample for a few months now, getting one newsletter a day.

Each newsletter includes a link to rate it from 1 star to 5 stars.

I consistently rate the newsletters I receive at 1 star! About 5 good newsletters have been delivered over this time, these have been rated from 2 to 5 stars but I haven't received more of that type.

The recommendation system seems fairly ineffective, I just receive junk each day.

Or would this be reflective of the state of newsletters (98% junk, 2% good)?
I tried to create an Instagram account to be able to see some photos.

The first attempt stopped at "unexpected error" just after selecting a login name.

The second attempt with different email address in a different browser ended the same way.

Third attempt I tried from the third browser, via cellular data and gmail email. That one finished ok but still returned back to Sign up right after the last signup atep. Entering the same data in Sign up resulted in "there is account using this email". So I tried to log in and it was successful but it immediately showed "suspicious activity dialog" FORCING me to enter phone number and do SMS verification. After I did that, my shiny new Instagram account started working.

But I expect it will be blocked or deleted for inactivity soon unless I start submitting photos or generate enough ad impressions or ad clicks. I use adblock though..
thank god they didn't put a browser engine in that thing
QUIC full way. TCP is currently the biggest bottleneck.
There are three layers to it:

(1) CFD isn't an investment, it's just a side bet on the price of something else. It distorts the market for the underlying (by providing a highly uncontrolled supply of it) at the expense of creating tail risk (e.g. CFD house is fine for years and then poof everyone's money is gone). The damage from this doesn't apply to just CFD participants but potentially the market as a whole.

(2) The particular mechanism of CFDs make them extremely ripe for fraud. CFD contracts are against the house so the house has an inherent conflict of interest with their customers. The CFD house can crunch the numbers, blow some money on the real market (or whatever subset contributes to their index price) to dip the price and wipe out a particular set of customers. Sometimes the index prices are based just on bid/ask -- there doesn't even need to be a real trade at the price. Manipulation is hard to detect, and the whole setup where the house is betting against you is unlike the normal situation for investments.

It's even the case that CFD operators-- in the rare case where they detect a customer that appears to actually have positive returns, maybe due to insider info-- will start passing their orders through to another platform, and even riding along/front running them!

(3) Specific CFD products usually have unreasonable terms such as absurd leverage where market volatility almost guarantees the customer will be wreaked. In theory some of this risk could be regulated out, but one can always construct a new product.

So I think sure, you could have an honest CFD house with good controls and products with well shaped risked, and so on... and mitigate a lot of the problems but the incentives are all wrong. And worse, because much (though not all) of the CFD appeal is essentially to a gambling market, the customers actually want the highly volitional highly risky options, they want platforms that will be cheap until they implode, and so on. So in the long run, you shouldn't expect CFD operations to end well.

Other products like ordinary options, or just regulated margin, let you make more complex trades without creating the bad incentives or market risks.
An counter not counting unique visitors or has an rate-limit is the easiest target for anyone knowing how to run an `wrk` command.

There is a reason, why such things aren't this simple.
> When it comes to FAANGs, in what world does Apple or Netflix have 85%+ market share? It's a ridiculous argument.

The bar isn't 85%+, it's significant market power, which may be 60%, and could be less depending on the specific conduct and facts. Apple has something in that range in mobile phones in the US (but not in many other countries), so there is probably a real question of law on what the market is precisely, and what % is needed to show significant market power (as well as what Apple conduct, if any, is prohibites) as well as a question of fact regarding the specific market share controlled by Apple. I dunno, maybe they have a high market share in smartwatches too.

I don't think Netflix currently has significant market power, and the streaming market doesn't seem to have significant barriers to entry; everybody and their dog in the media business has launched WhateverPlus in the last few years to some success. That would be a hard case to make.
re banning ads.

I expected Xanadu. Centralized, omniscient namespace, two-way links, micropayments, etc.

We got The Web. Which eschewed all of that.

Much as I hate The Web (repeating myself), I grudgingly accept that it probably succeeded because it wasn't Xanadu.

Even if Xanadu launched, like a better AOL or Prodigy, I suspect most people wouldn't have grokked it.

Another triumph of Worse Is Better. Like PHP and JavaScript and so many others. Then hot patch it towards something less offensive.
Got it, yeah I think what you're saying now is a lot clearer to me, I definitely felt like I must have been totally missing something.
If your business isn’t scaling with users, it’s a business model problem not a technical one
Right but the post you're replying to asked for any way to do this without invoking Undefined Behaviour.

If p is a null pointer, dereferencing it is Undefined Behaviour and you lose immediately.
Or even dead at 41
China will surpass the USA in raw GDP by mere virtue of its population size. All they have to do is get to something like 1/3 US GDP per capita and they'll easily win in absolute terms.

This is only a bad thing if China continues to become more authoritarian and starts getting truly belligerent.
dont ever be glad that a man has died

- Chuck Conner in the Rifleman
Ah yes, the solution to bias: Hide everyone's faces. That'll teach everyone to celebrate our differences.
This would be a fantastic way to eliminate the unconstitutional gun laws passed in many states.
That's one of the sources of a deflation. Bitcoin was purposely made as a deflationary currency, so it does not change anything.
"Docking with a non-cooperative object!"
Absolutely. But isn't like one can trivially redirect part of an Instagram addiction into a YouTube one based on which company one hates less each morning.
If youtube was "just a dumb pipe," it would make sense for them to not be responsible for the content. But they don't just host videos; they also recommend them.
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3A4chan.org%20new...
"The fourth wave, if there is to be such a thing, won’t be confined to the cup. It will spill out, lifting the water mark for everyone around it."

I'm there. $500 usd for a Commandante C40 grinder, an aeropress, a v60 pour over, and an EKG electric kettle.

That's 4th wave Babae. I even get 20% off local roasters for bringing my own glassware vs taking their expensive environmentally friendly packaging.

I can get 1/2 lbs quality Ethiopian beans for $19-23cdn. With discount (20%), I'm lookin at $1.08-$1.31cdn per cup.
Parents urged to keep Apple AirTags away from children as safety precaution
No? A cursory reconnaissance (e.g. "I'm a potential customer and I'd like a tour") will usually show that sort of theatre for what it is.