skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't know about you, but I find that abhorrent from the perspective of site owners.

No, I find it amazing and I can probably write an essay about it.

The "ad-supported" economy is directly responsible for a lot of content, but the majority of it is not just bad, it is also actually damaging to society. Think of all the sites that "make a living" on clickbait, content farming, fake news, SEO manipulation and outright fraud. Also, think of all the big ad tech companies that have no incentive in ensuring any kind of quality on its users and just focusing on metrics like "engagement".

It is not too much of a stretch to think of how the "ad supported" content economy is correlated with the increased polarization of people, the growing tribal divide and the isolation of individuals. I honestly think that we should be treating the majority of "ad supported" websites as heavy polluters of our minds and our societies.

"Ad-supported" sites have nothing to gain by working on quality content and can put all their efforts optimizing for controversy, shock value and eyeballs. When everything became "free", we lost our ability to vote with our wallet and lose any power in steering the market to produce the things that we value.

Given that we can not simply ban "free" sites, the next best thing is to find an alternative way to finance content creators, but where the users can have a say in how the resources are allocated. The Brave model does exactly that. Content creators still have a way to make money from their work, but it is not just enough to plaster ads on our faces and collect a check from Google. They will have to compete for quality. They will have to be able to demonstrate that their work is not just worth of the people's time (for those that want to put up with ads), they will have to produce something of value to us.

> If it became dominant, you'd just be creating a new monopoly.

No, not at all.

There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING stopping Mozilla to create a similar ad network and to follow a similar model. In fact, they can even also base it on BAT and leverage all the work that Brave already did and avoid all the pitfalls that Brave had along the way when they were developing the system. Brave buys the token in the open market, Mozilla could do the same. They could use the same partner exchanges. They could probably even use the same codebase on the client side.

Honestly, if Mozilla did just that on Firefox, I'd switch back to it immediately. Like you, I also wish that Firefox continued to be a strong alternative to keep Google in check. But after the many years of poor management, blatant cash grabs and all the marketing spending that makes them more focused on "looking good" than "doing good", I've given up. I don't want wishy-washy feelings, I want to destroy Surveillance Capitalism.

Mozilla/Firefox are not working on anything to do that. Brave is.
We are in a world of Orwell's surveillance devices, lovingly toted by the proles as Huxley suggested.
Please note they said it was a mistake which was quickly fixed. Bugs happen.

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1269313200127795201

https://brave.com/referral-codes-in-suggested-sites/
True, and it's already been happening with TVs from what I recall.

You know what I wonder? Where's the hatred threshold for ordinary people? When you see an ad in a middle of something and you're so pissed that you'll go out of your way to specifically avoid the product that's shoved in your throat. I know mine's been reached, but, hey, I'm just an grumpy asshole ;)
A more traditional one, older than these you linked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Titleblacklist and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Title_blacklist
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If it wasn't sufficiently clear from my scenario where Hitler wants to merge an NPM dependency into the Linux kernel while Linus Torvalds is treating him at a euthanasia clinic, I was joking.

In the scope of any realistically possible pull request discussion, yes, you're undoubtedly right.
Emotional Labour is definitely the better term for it. Thank you for giving me the right term to google.

I wonder how much of the ‘economy’ (in terms of work done and the dollar figures we put on that) is actually a part of this undocumented category.

The GDP-PPP of countries doesn’t take this sort of thing into account as far as I’m aware, but I’d like to know what would happen to those numbers if everyone simply stopped doing unpaid emotional labour. You could get a sense pretty quickly of how much society is undervaluing it.
Browser vendors know they need to change this gradually as a sudden impact would spawn a fork with a slight chance that it might catch on. Mozilla is certainly trying to boil some water here, but I think Google is worse in the long run.

Mozilla is still dependent on Google for funding, so the situation is already bad.
Do tell us what you think a "modern" approach would be.
I wonder if one could compensate by having a control group with high-pressure but low-concentration oxygen
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The American Dream of being a busybody bothering themselves with the finances of others.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPkwIn5W0IE&t=8s
Wikipedia (and its sources) tends to disagree with you and agree with GP. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brave_(web_browse...
Even more damning is this:

> about $30 billion of its dollar holdings are invested in commercial paper—short-term loans to corporations. That would make Tether the seventh-largest holder of such debt, right up there with Charles Schwab and Vanguard Group.

"Would", because nobody in those markets has seen them.
The first program I wrote was a quadratic equation solver on my TI82 in the mid 90s. I bought the link cable and enjoyed playing assembly games on my TI86.
No, quite a few gyms advertise “no contract” month-to-month payment schemes that still require a specific cancellation process.

For example, Planet Fitness has “no commitment” memberships, but you still have to explicitly cancel.

> You may cancel according to our policy: Per the agreement, in order to cancel a membership, one must either go to your home club in person to fill out a cancellation form, or send a letter (preferably via certified mail) to the club, requesting cancellation. Please note: Memberships cannot be cancelled via fax, phone, or email.

https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/51m0e0/com...
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> Why do some users assume that the whole world revolves around Apple...

Because for those users, it does, and Apple coddles and encourages that mindset.
So the next step of evolution might be a hive, Locutus?
Hashids does this (avoid bad words) if anyone is curious to see an implementation

> algorithm tries to avoid generating most common English curse words by never placing the following letters (and their uppercase equivalents) next to each other:

> c, s, f, h, u, i, t

https://hashids.org/#how-does-it-work

E: ah it was already mentioned later on, hadn't got that deep into the comments yet!
Please let me pay for Firefox!

I'll never enable or click on any of these ads but I'd gladly pay a monthly subscription _that goes only to the Firefox budget and not Mozilla_.
I don't think I'm alone here - it would be a non-negligible revenue stream.
I suppose that makes sense. I actually did agree with a point from your original comment * building a new operating system that applies this kind of simplicity to modern hardware* and well as the hellishness of that task :)

Apologies for the aggressive tone in my comment. I do a lot of weird stuff with retrocomputig and have found myself having to defend my time in the past
I do think the second implication makes sense, if you take out the tenses, i.e.:

If I am willing to entertain then they honestly spell what they're doing and why.

It means that if you know that I am entertaining the idea you can infer from that they were honest.
Exactly. Thanks for writing it out.
For reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQHdFAm7g7E -- controlling a pipe organ via MIDI
Not only Microsoft. That at this time was one of the greatest motivations to attend conferences. Not to mention all the tshirts and stuff companies gave for free.
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Calling the caste system a higher form of social organization compared to monogamy couldn’t make me disagree with your perspective more. Additionally I share Huxley’s belief and preference for a pastoral lifestyle and the odiousness of a feminized society. Your classification of child rearing as a “burden” doesn’t make your views palatable.

The only things we agree on are that I like the heads of the one world government as well.
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> 8. Find entirely new ways of doing any of the above more efficiently or effectively. This is "research" or "invention."

I think automation fits squarely into #8.
That's called the tragedy of the commons, everything starts pure and innocent, that's why people tend to romanticize the "early days" before X
I think that the --hotswap option does what you are hoping for speedier updates. It allows CDK to update some cloud resources directly (e.g. Lambda function code) so that they "drift" away from the CloudFormation template definition. It's good for quick development.
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I think logging a bug to remove this associated functionality might have been more "Valid."
What kind of "WYSIWYG editor" are you looking for?

Something that'll render Markdown as you type? There are a few

Something that's more-or-less Dreamweaver...but on the web?

Something like Google Docs?
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Before iPads were commonly used while flying. My first program was setting up an app to calculate wind correction and fuel estimates into my TI-83.

It was the first time I was able use Trig and programming to solve a real world problem.
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The problem I’ve always had with learning assembly (arm in my case) was that I never really had a project to work on that would use any of that knowledge
Please use the appropriate name for the person in question. Claire is her name.
I'm not sure that's a complete perspective, either. It's been a minute since I last read the book, but doesn't the world society offer an option of exile for those who can't tolerate participation in it? I recall Mond offering that to John, anyway.

Read in retrospect, one could find in it a cri de coeur on behalf of what is today called "authenticity" and, oft as not, itself manufactured (#vanlife).

I think what the book is really missing, in the light of a century hence, is a discussion of how this exquisitely planned, designed, and constructed society handles a crisis - a change in circumstances that calls the assumptions of its design into question or invalidates them outright. When Huxley wrote, it was still possible to repose one's faith in technological positivism, which was after all the vastly prevailing intellectual current of the day. These days, maybe not so much - if nothing else, the last few decades have put a lot of deep dents in the idea that we, as a species in the large, can and will engineer ourselves out of any difficulty we encounter. I'd like to see someone take on the question of what happens to the Brave New World society in the face of that.
I think the 'if' is the first point you list, and the 'only if' is saying that if Mozilla doesn't spell it out honestly then they'd not be willing to entertain which is a bit strange but logically equivalent to the second point you have.
Seeing the headline I came here thinking I'd read about TI-58/59 hacking. I actually had no idea there was a whole later generation of TI calculators based on the Z80!

I spent endless hours messing around with my Dad's TI-58 in 1977 and recently bought two examples on a popular online auction site to preserve for when I have that kind of spare time again.
I'd be in favor of that if it meant that companies and government would go back to taking mail and phone calls seriously.
I'll never forget this project a friend and I worked on because of the "clear your devices" procedure they had us do before every test to make sure we weren't cheating or something. At that point we could archive things and whatnot, but it was just a PITA to deal with it and we kept getting annoyed at having to clear our calculators. So then, of course, we made our own program that would simulate the memory cleared screen, and we used it successfully. Of course, we got paranoid lest anyone would find out, so we ended up just adding to it, so you could then interact with the calculator and even do math on it, so it wouldn't seem like you were interacting with our program.

Funnily enough neither of us ever came close to using it for cheating -- I mean, we didn't need it. But I maintain that in the couple decades since, it was probably some of my best work.
Showing ads for cars when the user searched for bars.
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And then you lose the ability to temporarily switch to the real mode to call BIOS functions so you better load the rest of your program before switching to x64.
Hardware and Software have very different dynamics, therefore the comparison with POSIX is very weak.

There is no way today to build competitive opensource hardware, and RISC-V is not about providing opensource hardware. With RISC-V (or any other ISA) we remain mainly dependent on the manufacturer who implement whatever they want within your processor. I think you are expecting too much from RISC-V, it's not about winning a war against manufacturers, it's about providing a royalty-free high-performance standard ISA which makes it easier for newcomers to enter the market.

RISC-V is built around the idea that manufacturers can make their own non-standard extensions and benefit from existing work.
Did anyone catch this in the comments below?

> There is one major category of wealth-producing activity that I just thought of that I did leave out. I'll leave it as an exercise to see if anyone can figure it out :-) I'll post it in a couple of days if no one gets it.

That was over ten years ago, I don't see a followup.
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> Each treatment included 20‐minute pure oxygen inhalation (O2 = 99.9%, oxygen supply pressure 0.4 to 0.7 MPa, oxygen flow 10 to 15 L/h), 15 minutes interval, and then another 20‐minute pure oxygen inhalation (O2 = 99.9%, oxygen supply pressure 0.4 to 0.7 MPa, oxygen flow 10 to 15 L/h) under the pressure of 0.22 MPa (0.12 MPa on pressure gauge) in hyperbaric oxygen chamber (Medical Oxygen Chamber, SY3200‐8500, Yantai Hongyuan Oxygen Industrial Inc., Shandong, China).

Controls that spring to mind would be to have the chamber pressurised to a lower pressure (if you're not already familiar with hyperbaric chambers, you won't know it's at a lower pressure), or to replace the pure oxygen with normal air. Showing a dose-response relationship to pressure or oxygen concentration would go a long way towards making up for the lack of a true negative control.
I want sellers to be able to reach me when I buy from them. If something goes wrong, or something happens, it is absolutely essential that they are able to contact me.
It's answered in the article:

the answer to the question I posed above about what the U.S. traded to China in the 19th century is "fur"
> but simply having a positive test result isn’t the sign of long term immunity people assume

You were overly dismissive in your first mention of this. Do you have data behind the tests being false positive? Multiple positive tests + symptoms are surely sufficient
I am in agreement with you precisely because I wasn't trying to contradict the original comment. I did want to correct their statement about intrinsic value because others will accept it as fact without understanding that things can be evaluated in multiple value systems at once, and their intrinsic value can be more or less independent of their market value.
Copilot supports serverless too (App Runner, serverless Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, CodePipeline etc). But if your app is using a huge nr of AWS features, you're probably over engineering it.

Sure it's opinionated enough that it won't fit every use case people have on AWS, but in most cases for new apps it's good.
Implication is not causation. "If I'd be willing to entertain [...] then they will honestly spell what they're doing and why", as if they wouldn't honestly spell it, there's no way I'd be willing to entertain the idea.
Let it go, downvotes don't matter.
While shady on Facebook's part, it does match the general shadiness of Facebook ads.

It is legit hard to find ads which are not a scam in some way.
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I believe the bidirectional implication in iff is logical implication, not causal implication. If the GP is willing to entertain ... then you can conclude Mozilla will honestly spell what they're doing. Iff in general use does not introduce a causal relationship, just a bidirectional set of conclusions. In other words, iff sets up necessary and sufficient conditions.
I didn't discount anyone's existence, or make any insinuation about "all people" of any description. The claim upthread was that BTC is useful when exfiltrating wealth when emigrating; for that to be a compelling and common use case for BTC, said wealth would need to be common. My pointing out trivially verifiable facts re: the typical (a.k.a. statistically predominant) financial disposition of refugees might not put that claim in a good light, but it's not pejorative or dismissive whatsoever of anyone or their experiences.

IMO, the not-classy thing is cryptocurrency advocates constantly trying to leverage the plight of refugees, the unbanked, and those living in locales with constrained economic freedom to underwrite the reputation of a set of technologies that are overwhelmingly used as pernicious speculative vehicles.
I do not believe that you went through my comment history in the few minutes that it took for you to respond to me.

Also, something that I did not mention before

> ...but that your views are considered problematic by quite a lot of people?

This is not a justification for toxicity.
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Well

It's certainly buzzword-compliant

> People who love jam sessions rather than structured orchestra concerts. We are open to cyberspace citizens, world travellers, nomadic and social minds, and to those who have a "Let's do it!" attitude.

> We use crypto, NFTs, web3 tech, videogame engines, memes, avatars, No-code tools to build our virtual worlds. Depending on the experiment we're running we might use:

> - Web3 technologies

> - Blockchain/Crypto/Social Tokens

> - HTML5, JS, CSS3, OpenGL

> - NFTs

> - DAOs

> - GPT-3

> - VR/AR/XR

> - Videogame engines (e.g. Unity, Unreal or Godotengine)

> - 3D Design (Blender, Maya, Cinema 4D)

> - No-code tools (Bubble, Webflow, Retool, Typedream)

> - Landing page generators and leads magnet

...though it's been years since I heard anyone mention OpenGL
I wonder if this metric would be expressed as 12x better if we'd had 6 fingers.

Not that it matters, just idle mindless rumination.
hahah that's awesome! Makes me wonder now if anyone ever took a checkride and instead of an e6b just whipped out a TI83 in the middle of it. I'd pass that guy instantly! hehehehe
"Turn on by default the tools to AMPLIFY FACTUAL VOICES over disinformation. - https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...

The feature is clearly designed to push their Trusted Partners into the faces of their ideological opponents. Wikipedia is non-scary entry point. Expect SPLC or some fact-checkers next. The low revenue un-targeted advertising feature can easily be jettisoned to placate people while the real payload is deployed.
> 3rd party software does something bad, then that's totally your fault

Apps in stores are 3rd party software as well, so it's Apple and Google's fault?
Anyone use Brave? Is it a good alternative to FF?
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We should expand our vocabulary when it comes to community building
That is already illegal. Report the companies. Apple has absolutely nothing to do with this.
> I think it's purely a creation of the author for the purpose of making his point

It's a deliberate critique of eugenics, which was a popular and little criticized school of thought at the time of writing, and which did in its original iteration claim to offer the prospect of engineering people to fit assigned social roles.
Es una buena alternativa para evitar que los anunciantes se aprovechen de generar dinero ilicito.
As a former TV production assistant in the US, the headline made me think it was an article about the various over-the-air repeater stations that stations use to expand their signal reach. Thought that was mildly funny.
Its useful to read the Social Mania & Legacy section [1] as a more modern look at 'Tulip Mania' tends to see the "historical" record of it as a post-event reaction. A recent book actually suggest that the entire thing might be BS [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania#Social_mania_and_l...

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/431666.Tulipmania
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> The side effects of drugging children long term seem scarier to me than any possible side effect of glasses they can take off at will.

As the doc says, the risk isn't needing thick glasses, it's all of the other problems that come with high myopia (an eyeball that is slightly too long). Two big ones ones are retina detachment and lattice degeneration -- basically, the forces acting on a misshapen eye are slightly higher and over time, that extra tugging adds up.

If the only negative byproduct of high myopia was needing thicker glasses, I would agree with you. It's not even in the top 10 negatives.

As an example, retina detachment risk is 6x higher in people with high myopia than those with low or moderate myopia: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6688422/

> Retinal detachment. The risk of developing a retinal detachment is five or six times greater in people with high myopia compared to those with low myopia. People with high myopia have longer eyes (axial elongation), which means that the retina is more stretched and therefore prone to peripheral retinal tears. In addition, myopic eyes have a degenerate vitreous that is more likely to collapse and separate from the retina, also increasing the risk of retinal tears. High myopia can also cause central retinal degenerative changes such as posterior staphyloma, lacquer cracks and chorioretinal atrophy; these have been used to grade myopic maculopathy.