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It's not because those are things we have positive emotional associations with from of our childhood that they're actually positive things. I for one would have rather never played video games or watched MTV.

You remember those old farts, annoying everybody with their sanctimonious imprecations about video games ? They were right.
What's wrong with both? A true democratisation of this kind of model would involve both an offline model for those with the resources to support such a thing as well as many different people hosting them and allowing access for a price via an API for those without those high end resources.

I think the issue people have with centralised cloud APIs for this sort of thing is that there's still a single gatekeeper with their finger on the off switch. In my opinion, instead of throwing out cloud APIs altogether a better scenario would be many gatekeepers with a deliberate diversity of socio-political backgrounds.
Funny how this post got flagged in half an hour.
You're thinking of a "(185 million feet) square"
I feel compelled to point out that the outrage regarding “human experimentation” was nearly universal here when it was researchers making intentionally bad commits to the Linux code base.
>Not to mention in the era I grew up in (before social media), people had pretty much the exact same complaint, except it was TV rotting kids’ brains (of course, there can be truth to both, but I’m skeptical the present era is uniquely terrible - kids used to watch a lot of TV).

I grew up in the same era... and the solution to that was easy: my parents told me to go outside and play.

In 2021, their phone goes with them everywhere, and if it doesn't one of their friend's phones does. There's almost no way, short of helicopter parenting 24/7, that you can insulate your children from Tik Tok, and I'd argue it is far, far, far more harmful than TV. Random kids at school didn't attack me for the TV shows I watched privately in my own home in high school.
Another fantastic idea. Get free money from somewhere and simply give it to poor people, so they can stop being poor.

That way we can tax the crap out of all those productive people people and companies over there without worrying about any economic consequences.
Securities lending is regulated by FINRA, not the SEC.
> A literal interpretation of the word "liberal college" reflects the reality that many places are liberal bubbles of thought, where there won't be a safe space for researchers to pick apart and look closely at conservative views of a subject

Isn't that the opposite of what he is complaining about? He criticised illiberalism and picked apart a subject in an unorthodox way, which resulted in his critics harassing him. There were not any liberal bubbles/safe spaces that could protect him from the harassers.
> I still can not understand how we moved to a point where Vertical Video is acceptable in civil society

- default phone capture mode

- default phone display mode, both due to the way you hold it

- humans are vertical: vertical video frames the whole body, useful for dance videos. Portrait mode more useful for quadrupeds
> Real time billing is actually a Hard Problem to solve.

I refuse to believe there is no workaround. I can understand it is not easy to fix for corporations who need AWS to make money but that is not the use case for students.

If it were, Azure for students couldn't exist. Signing up for Azure for students does not require a credit card so they must have figured out a way to prevent / stop the bleeding?

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students/
Capitalism is also a utopian dream, we're living how it turns out...

Here's an anecdote: The Sackler family contributed to thousands of deaths by lying about how addictive their opioid was and by pushing doctors to sell more of it. They then paid off the government, made no attempt at apology, and walked into the sunset with billions of dollars.
Not exactly. After many, many decades of frauds, schemes, panics, and crashes, harsh experience has led to a regime where nobody can do anything without a very explicit carve out. In tech terms, it's a default "deny all", with a white list of "things which are not thinly disguised ponzi schemes", not a default "allow all" with a black list of "things which have been shown to be thinly disguised ponzi schemes".

So yes, banks are one of the exemptions, because they have their own regulator (which is one way to get on the white list).

> Consulting with relevant regulators when the legislation is unclear (or non-existent) seems like the opposite of a red flag.

No, the red flag is that Coinbase (correctly!) understands that the SEC is the relevant regulator. Your local credit union does not go to the SEC when they want to offer a new type of savings account because the SEC does not regulate credit unions. Which is good, because the SEC is only competent to apply securities law, and securities law doesn't allow savings accounts.

So yes, absolutely you should consult with the relevant regulator, and if the relevant regulator for you is the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (who regulate banks), they're probably going to cheerfully sign off on your savings account idea; they like savings accounts. But for Coinbase, it's not the relevant regulator, because they're not a bank. Nor do they seem to fall into any of the other many exceptions and regulatory schemes so...
There is a constant tension in the USA between the republican vs democratic parties as to the relative wisdom of bigger (more centralized) vs laissez faire (smaller, less regulated) government. I find it fascinating to see such experiments played out in the real world, via different approaches in other countries. I ask readers here, do you think this move by China, to redistribute wealth from the wealthy to increase standard of living of those more poor, will make them a stronger country? A more formidable adversary to the US? Or by curtailing the rewards of successful business persons, will it strip them of innovation and lead them to become weaker in comparison to USA?
Here, hot tap water is heated by district heating, while most dishwashers take cold tap water and electrically heat it.

District heating is waste heat from coal plants that produce electricity - so, depends on how you count, it can be considered free from CO2 perspective. Or then as purely made by coal, so actually really bad. Depends.

If you use electricity and the coal plant is 30% efficient, that means each kWh of electricity produced 2 kWh of waste heat.

So the calculation might not be so simple energy wise.
What is with that guy in the article desperately trying to advocate for hand washing dishes? He really tries to rationalize the joy of hand washing to the point I feel really happy for him. He found joy in a mundane, mildly awful task but it also feels darker for a reason I can’t quite pinpoint. Like an OCD thing?
I moved the utensil bins from the front to the right side of our dishwasher (it fits nicely in our new machine), but sadly my roommate didn't like it there :(
as an island, that would burn much (non-organic) fuel. they probably have the capacity themselves though, it's just that they haven't adapted yet.
Ok, i thought this was overblown, i did not know that this was as extreme as this.

On the other hand, i think it was latent. It seems to be as extreme as Baudrillard postulated, years ago. So i guess victory for the postmodernists, if their theory could predict that.
>For example, Cohere is providing the NLP capability for Ada, a recent unicorn company in the chatbot space. Ada has experimented with the Cohere natural-language models to match customer chat requests with available support information. Rather than trying to anticipate all the possible wordings of a request, Cohere’s model tries to understand the intent behind it, Gomez says.

>Cohere, he says, offers a platform containing a “full stack” of NLP functions, including sentiment classification, question answering, and text classification.

Google (Cloud Natural Language, Dialogflow), Microsoft (Azure LUIS, Bot Service), Amazon (Lex), and IBM (Watson Assistant, Watson Discovery) all offer Conversational AI and NLP APIs that do exactly what these guys are trying to do here. What is new or unique about them? I work in this space, and the Chatbot/Conversational AI market has been flooded with startups all doing the exact same thing for the last 3-4 years.
Moderators: would you mind taking this opportunity to explain to us what it means when we see "[flagged]" in a title?

Is it an automated title edit triggered by many people clicking the "flag" link? Or does it show that a moderator reviewed the article and deemed it inappropriate for HN? Or something else?
I use a mac so bugs get caught quicker in that version. The Linux and Windows builds are comparatively buggy so we did have not launched them yet.
Not op or linked post, but AWS sends a message N minutes before it shuts you down.

You just turn that msg into a in-game countdown.

I always wanted to go after an auto-switch style system but never got that far.
It’s not even really a harsh truth. It’s just a hot take from someone who only has the most surface level understanding of why people like TikTok.

It’s legitimately the best social network around right now. The content is so freaking good, raw, silly, and spans all walks of life. Whatever they did with the algo makes it extremely high-signal for me and my friends who are on it. I get really high quality content for exactly my niche interests without ever having to spend time searching for it.
This seems like it's misunderstanding the proposals.

No one's suggesting that we democratize medical care by expecting everyone to do their own dentistry, or abandon the idea that the people who should do X are the people who are good at/well-trained at X. They're suggesting that we don't need to be beholden to centralized hierarchies for everything—like, for instance, electrical power.
Fun fact: you can sous-vide in a dishwasher.
To be honest, I find it hard to believe the "it saves water" argument.

How do you need 100 liters of water to hand wash 144 items? I can wash up an exquisite dinner for six in two tubs of water, that is maybe ten liters tops? (Just make sure to start with the cleaner stuff so your water doesn't get full of chunks of food.) A normal small family dinner is easily washed up in 5 liters of water and one squirt of liquid...

In a similar vain you need to use a cotton tote bag thousands of times to beat the environmental impact of plastic bags (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/24/style/cotton-totes-climat...) and the same goes for your reusable coffee cup (https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2017/07/reusable-or-dis...).
For a 0.03 IFR?
Kind of amusing in a sad way how quickly this post got 'deplatformed'.
I think there's degrees of democracy. There's the directly democratic model at one end and "not hidden away in a black box at $mega_corp" on the other. You can be in favour of democracy without advocating mob rule for example.
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Looks like we're well into the shitcoin phase for NFTs.
I don’t believe rock & roll, music videos or violent video games rot children’s brains (those were moral panics). But the current generation of social media and certain kinds of video game designs are absolutely designed to be addictive. I don’t think culture war stuff is comparable to people engineering software for dopamine hits.
> I for one would have rather never played video games or watched MTV.

This is rather sad; would you rather have been prevented from them? What would you prefer to have been made to do?
> The DNS lookup query is logged in Route 53 on our public hosted zone.
> CloudWatch forwards the query to a Lambda function.
> The Lambda function modifies an existing ECS Fargate service to a desired task count of 1.

I had never heard of this architecture before; a pretty creative way of doing Heroku-like scale-to-zero at nearly no cost on AWS.

> Fargate launches two containers, Minecraft and a watchdog

I'd love to see a cost analysis between running the "watchdog" as a Fargate container versus another lambda function. Even having a lambda function run once every 5 minutes 24/7 would trigger ~15,000 invocations a month, which is in the realm of "near Free".

If there was some way to trigger the scale-down event from there, it would reduce the expensive part of this setup (Fargate) even further. Though, granted; given both containers are packed into the same Fargate VM, it would really only mean freeing up some additional resources for the Minecraft server.

It looks like the watchdog is simply checking for connections on a port, which is probably too low-level to handle with lambda. But, an architecture like this could work in a ton of services, and if you had e.g. an ALB set up in front of the services, one could use the lambda to scan incoming request metrics and scale down on that.
this is flatly false -- I was a participant on academic networks in the early 90s, and on the proto-Internet in 1995 and onwards.. a primary means of communication between coders at that time was Usenet, which I read and posted to daily.. Programmers discussed at length, repeatedly, for years, about the ethics and social implications of commercializing the networks, about owning domains personally and re-selling them, and about using ads, ad placement, commercials, micro-payment systems and others.

The general sentiment at the time was that it was rude, crude and unacceptable to monetize the open networks with ads, as it was clearly a "commons" and every single Western person was familiar with bill-boards along a highway, and endless commercials on radio and television.

It is quite interesting today to see the name of the man who "invented adwords" as I had not seen it even once before.
I'm not OP, but sounds like you're looking for anarchism? It's all about decentralizing power, to avoid evil people being in control, as you say.
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Do they say that you won't go over the prepaid amount? I can't see that in the pages that I've read, but maybe I missed it.
That is very cool! Have you built a physical copy of it?

No, I think the smaller size is probably a non-starter for the intended audience. This is meant to be a tool that a lot of these folks are using for hours and hours a day so overall typing and reading experience is paramount, and meant to be a "selling" point.

Cost-wise, yes--we're still grappling with costs of the e-ink screen. It's the by far the largest expense in the unit. We've got a good lead that I unfortunately can't talk about at the moment (under NDA).

A cut-down Linux really is overkill for this, and isn't capable of making some of the other specs happen (battery life, availability), at least as far as we've been able to determine. Custom code is unfortunately where we've been forced to go.
> I don’t think culture war stuff is comparable to people engineering software for dopamine hits.

It should be noted that most culture war stuff is itself engineered for an emotional "hit", although usually an angry one.
Some do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3njWjIimd4
i was speaking fairly generally about an array of fairly complex things, but more simply and precisely - capitalism may drive much of our society and much of our government is captures by capital.

But the democratic system isn't bent 100% to their will. Mostly, but not entirely. Sometimes capital is restrained by that system, sometimes the illusion that it's restrained must be maintained as they hide behind a wall of bureaucracy

you're not tearing down capital without tearing down the state that enables it - the same state that keeps it at bay.

you take off the safeties, and the influence of money to control becomes even more unfettered and uncontrolled.

if you "tear the system down", it's not like the power money has will just go away. you'll end up in a more of an AnCap scenario than some left wing dream of anarcho-communism.

Think..Somalia but with a lot more monied powers at play
I'm asking as an outsider who wants to learn: do you mean people in european universities got harassed because they were against Mao? do you have any articles about this that I can read?
Knowing very little about the US educational system, I wonder if this is somehow a symptom of unresolved trauma of the historical crimes against African slaves.

They were enslaved then, many died an awful death, then technically freed, but still living as an underclass for decades, arguably still today. It never ceases to amaze me how many societal statistics in the US - education levels, wealth, teenage pregnancies, crime and incarceration rates - are explained by something as superficial as skin colour.

So you see this every day, poor neighbourhoods are full of Black people, and you know why they are there - because White people enslaved them, brought them to America, then gave them a very sub-standard freedom. There is a hypocritical narrative of how we're all equal, but we're not (affirmative action?), but we ought to be, but really you know the society is so unequal, based on race. So what do you do?

Most people cannot do anything of major practical impact. Maybe there are charities you can donate to or work with. Maybe you can vote for the right political candidates - but that's so indirect and diluted, it doesn't feel real.

So the least you can do is be very vocal about how guilty and outraged you feel about the whole situation. It probably feels very genuine, it may be 100% genuine, just not actually productive. You put the sticky tape on the crack in the wall so it looks less bad.

I don't know how that massive historical injustice can be fixed, but I think it should. I don't think Woke inc. is doing anything productive towards that though, and I understand the OP's frustration. But that's my best guess as to what the root cause is.

I hope none of this comes as disrespectful to Black people. My point is they were very badly mistreated, and the consequences of that last until today too, not to posit that one race is better than another.

Based on 2 trips to America, some reading and some very unwoke thinking. But I care about it a lot, not just for its own sake, but also as Woke is being exported, with some success, as the new prevailing ideology to shape the Western world.
This is such a bad idea for the banks. ByteDance has plenty of money. This is a political move to create domestic impact if the U.S. ever wants to ban TikTok again, which almost happened under Trump.
I don't know turminal, that really doesn't sound like me.

Anyway, I thought I jotted my point(s) down quite amusingly, but oh well, hit and miss. Restated more plainly:

- I am acknowledging what the world is and where that leaves anyone disabling JS indiscriminately (sic) in 2021, solely because of the technology and not because of individual usage.

- I think it's important to acknowledge what the world is to have any serious discussion about the world. How about you?

- I made no statement about what I want the world to be. You have been inferring (wrongly, but, oh well, it barely matters)

- Being compared to the Amish is not "sad" to me and it's not meant to be offensive. What I think is sad is if you chose to be disconnected (like the Amish) but unclear that you are disconnected because of personal considerations (unlike the Amish) and then get angry at the thing you are disconnected from because it doesn't care about your personal considerations.
I normally don't like the idea of an institution which aims to protect people from their own poor decisions...

But in our current, highly artificial, manipulated, money-printing economy, I think the SEC should just go ahead and shut down all the big crypto projects. If a crypto project can be shut down easily, it should be shut down. The SEC should also try to shut down all these so called 'Decentralized Exchanges'; if a DEX can be shut down, then it means that the DEX was not decentralized enough.

There are projects in existence today which are truly decentralized and would be impossible to shut down but they are not getting any attention because these huge crypto projects are hoarding all the newly printed money which they claim to be fighting against.
> submits bogus papers to obscure open access channels to discredit "feminism" and "the left" when they get published.

I think you missed the point.

> The work is largely in the same vein as what you'll see out of Project Veritas.

I'm not sure what you're point is here?

> "PC" and "SJW" are largely swapped out with "woke" in discourse.

Again - not sure what point you are trying to make here. Words and meanings change over time.
Every repo has different contribution rules and a one-off in one repo often just isn't worth the time to learn all the bespoke boxes that need to be checked. The work is there in the comments and if it's of value, someone more familiar can take it the last mile ... and codespaces _just_ came out generally. Could you edit online before that?
> how we moved to a point where Vertical Video is acceptable in civil society

Think about what shape a human being is…
Newsy seems pretty cool. Definitely bookmarked for later as I've got a few domains just sitting at the moment.
The opening absolutely does not “compare Occupy Wall Street activists to flat-Earthers and climate change deniers” in any way, even remotely.
See a video with similar setup of a rocket launch constructed out of a timelapse photo sequence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJy1u-N3NY0
The world is a terrible place, largely because it is what we make it (2018)
And now I'm going to be breeding some wolves into dogs, and chimps into humans.
If your pipes are not insulated, the dishwasher might get only room temperature water anyway.

Also, district heating - it depends. In the winter, they run this district heating not only for electricity, but ramp it up for more heat production, in the winter.
I'm with you 100% on this one. I wish I never picked up that first game when I was 6.

I wasted so much time especially in my 20's racking up idiotic "achievements" that exist only in a Factorio savegame and other similarly irrelevant places.
It's also true that a lot of trials show that it's only a couple percent more effective than a placebo.

That fact is even more true about anti-depressants. Tons get rejected because they are only 1-2% more effective than a placebo. Even worse, we make the anti-depressants and don't actually have any real idea about what causes depression in the first place nor what exactly the drugs are treating.

We're also really bad about long-term side effects.

Meridia was pulled after something like 15 years.

Permax after 20 years years due to causing birth defects and other things.

Cylert was an ADHD drug pulled after 30 years.

Accutane (for acne treatment) was pulled after around 30.

Pentylenetetrazol was pulled after 48 years because a whopping 42% of the people who took it got spinal fractures from the seizures it caused (not to mention all the other body damage to other bones and muscles).

Propoxyphene (pain killer) was supposed to be pulled in the 70s, but the FDA waited 55 YEARS until around a decade ago to pull it.

And if you look up lists of recalled drugs and their reason for recalls, there's hundreds with many having been in use multiple decades and sometimes like these, despite the high risk being well known.

That's just one problem with the FDA and big pharma having a revolving door policy.
In the "marketplace of opinions", everyone is automatically accountable. So accountability should be deleted from your list of features that distinguish disinformation.
I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives.