skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's been a steady increase in astroturfing and blogspam over the years on reddit to subs like /r/frugalmalefashion where small indie shops are able to pump and dumb objectively low quality wares. The mod team does the best they can but they can only do so much as the effort to surface good content costs way more then the effort to artificially boost bad content.

In a few years Reddit will be just like the generic google searches for everything but the most heroicly moderated or obscurely small subreddits.
The Eternal September always wins.
Billions of Big Macs have been sold, but few would claim eating one as their all-time favorite meal.

Selecting the least bad option to the greatest number of people is not the same as finding the maximum value for any given person.
This is the consequence of arranging a society around infinite financial corporate growth; everything is optimized to squeeze out every dollar for the balance sheet.

Ironically we’re watching this play out now with products and techs that market themselves as “decentralized.” Maybe after this phase the tech community will consider this isn’t something we can tech our way out of.
Yeah, it's been happening for so long that it's easy to forget it wasn't always this way.
They could probably get the American government to flex if needed. 'Drop these demands or no Aston Martin will be sold in the US'. The problem with both companies being American is that the American government can retaliate with popular support, the ads write themselves
How would the people who use the term "toxic masculinity" react to the term "toxic femininity"? That's the tell.
Remember when Amazon stole delivery workers' tips?

https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/2/22262294/amazon-flex-wage-...
Price increases. Easy student loans remove a lot of pressure from qualified education providers for keeping their prices/expenses down.
In my experience reddit comments are less likely to be marketing than Google results are. Still not entirely trustworthy, absolutely.
I believe the author was banned from HN a while back.

I find his bluntness funny and somewhat admirable, where I disagree with him and not. Might be a regional thing, we're both New Englanders.
An extra 340GB per month. At 10Mbps that is roughly 75 hours of Netflix per month. And that is for the whole family. So really not that much.

But I have been mentioning this for quite some time, we are fundamentally limited by our time spent to watch video. Which means our appetite for Data wont grow forever.
I wonder how do they link back to the main network? Would it require a fiber backbone in place as a prerequisite? Or through satellite uplink? i.e., would somewhere really remote, say, the oil rig in the North Sea, be out of luck for such installation?
The general advice is not to park one’s money in a savings account.

The general advice is to park one’s money in an index fund.

Let’s say one buys AAPL stock or the Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF – in what way is that to invest in fiat?
I like to either walk, focus on the present, or pick up an old book.
Do they work if the user has disabled autoplay in browser media settings? This is one of the first things I do when setting up a browser.
"The goal here is to build a tool for people" This tool is going to be unusable for 99.99% of people.

"There is no intent to be the new YouTube." Good, no one likes YouTube. That's why people want an alternative.

"There is only one developer"
On this page it says Framasoft has "40 members, including 10 employees". Maybe they should fire some of those people and hire some more developers of Peertube? Quite frankly no one cares about any of the other 30 projects they are creating.

Also from their page:
"Framasoft is (and wishes to remain) a small not-for-profit association".
Imagine if there was no covid vaccine yet, and Framasoft was developing a vaccine for covid, except they stated they could only ever manufacture 10 vaccines a year, and had no plans on expanding their project. You are going to get a lot of angry people every single time you announce progress given the current context we are in. And every single time, someone is going to defend them saying, "They never intended to be a big project" or whatever. Then why would anyone care?

It's like if you were in the middle of WW2 and there was a guy walking around saying he wants peace, and if you ask him what kind of peace he wants, he says peace between cats and dogs. How autistic would you have to be miss the context we are in?
In the US, the FCC has specifically allocated 3.5ghz for open use[0]; paying for a license just gives you priority access to the spectrum. Use of the band requires checking in with a server to lease spectrum at a granularity of about 4 minutes. This is akin to if your Wi-Fi router could ask the FCC to give it a channel known to not have any users within a certain radius of itself.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_Broadband_Radio_Servi...
„Don’t argue with the rhetoric“
I really don't think Twitter could afford to charge for reading or writing. There is too much competition for eyeballs in social. What they need to do is continue making it free, and enable creators to grew new businesses on top of Twitter and take a cut. The issue here is Apple and Google taking 30%, but growth is growth, even if that cost exists.
> Blockchain

Hard pass
If I throw a bad pass in a ball game, and it gets called out as such, does that imply that they consider me a 'bad person'? Possibly some totally irredeemable piece of shit that should be locked up and not around children?

Or is a bad pass, like a the bad idea thrown out there, just that?
hehe, yea!

tg value proposition is based around a superior user experience, that's what competition is all about.
Hurt feelings aside, sometimes a naysayer misunderstands, and a quick dismissal of an idea misses out on some good ideas, and some bad ideas that are still worth dissecting to figure out the reason they are bad.

Why not:

tzs: we should try X.

someone: that can't work because of some reason

[...]

We have emotions, and sometimes an emotion tells us an idea is bad, and that is more economical than analyzing carefully why an idea cannot work to ultimately arrive at the same conclusion that our gut already made.

But sometimes your gut can be misleading, and sometimes it is worth putting in the work to possibly discover an incorrect assumption. In both of those examples I don't really see any communication about the reason why something ultimately works or doesn't work. All I see is people thinking to themselves.
Sample images at https://hidrive.ionos.com/share/ayvcprk57q show the resulting 5k*5k depth map. It has lower depth resolution than what I would expect from a $4k lens. It would be interesting to see a comparison of this depth map compared to an RGBZ image generated from Google or Apple's Portrait Mode AI filters. The primary benefit of this is probably the ability for RGBZ video, but that can also be generated from 2 or more DSLR cameras + software.
Amazon is absolutely terrible. Try this search, for example: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A1990+trackpad+replacement

There is an actual product (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B084GKQB9T) with all of my keywords in the title. I found it via a google search because I gave up scrolling through Amazon.

I actively avoid shopping Amazon where possible these days, just because it's such a trashy experience.
Looking for the Perfect Illustration?
Works pretty well. https://www.anwb.nl/verkeer/veiligheid/strepen-op-de-weg
You still have to pay SS (at least in the US and NL), it just doesn’t come out of your check every month. In the US, it’s pretty high (15%) IIRC.
If you're going to make a reductionist argument like this, then consider the byte size of a text transcript versus the byte size of an audio recording of the same speech act. The latter will be orders of magnitude larger. Thus it strictly contains much more information.
My point was your anecdote has nothing to do with PostgREST. It's a foggy hand wave that could be laid over just about anything with an HTTP socket on one end and a database on the other.
> While firefox may be a better choice than the other two, that's not saying much and Mozilla is very sleazy.

Rather than take such statements at face value, here's an example of one such instance that probably hurts its credibility: https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html

Also, they're not exactly a world apart from Google in some respects either, for example: https://killedbymozilla.com/ vs https://killedbygoogle.com/ (though i guess the amount of projects also illustrates the difference in their sizes)

However, that's not to say that we even have many viable alternatives to Firefox either: https://batsov.com/articles/2021/11/28/firefox-is-the-only-a...

Personally, i think that we're past the peak of Firefox and are currently in the midst of it fading away, which i expect will come to its conclusion in the following decade. Apart from that, we basically have just a bunch of browsers that are all similar to Chromium.

Essentially, Chrome will have probably lived long enough to kill IE by becoming the next IE.

Who knows where the web standards will go when there will only be Google backed browsers: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/
VLC and OBS as well.
It'd be cool to have a tool that runs locally on my Firefox history and builds metrics like how often I have to refine my search query.
not sure I agree with this. films are still shown in 24 frames/sec.

the tv interpolation tech is trash and without a doubt makes films look like a cheap set on BBC
"used to" is basically the same thing as "in on it".

Moreover, context matters a lot with language style. One can't just lift Feynman's way of talking, transplant it somewhere else and expect it to be effective.
If the US retaliates with tariffs or sanctions on UK companies, how long can the UK last before public outrage begins?
If a man was making a real income of $95k in 1980, and was then knocked down to $55k, so his wife raises their 1 kid (as the example given), goes back to work and makes $100k - they have moved from middle class to upper middle class.

Interesting these charts start in 1980 as well. The average real hourly wage went down from 1972 to 1980, then began a recovery. So when you don't show things were better beforehand, it looks like a constant rise, which it was not.
Well good. Now get rid of GIF and make it H.264y. There is literally zero reason to use GIF anymore in 2021.
Elon Musk tells SpaceX employees ‘risk of bankruptcy’
> Look at the first comment you replied to. It's about how Apple restricts how you can browse the web for user lock in but has convinced people it is for the sake of their battery.

Ah yes. That comment is obviously wrong, and your comment is obviously correct because you are right, and the other person is wrong. Is that how this works?

> Worse than Pixels, ... and ChromeOS devices currently.

So. Pixels and ChromeOS are made by Google. You know,

- 80% of Google's money comes from online advertising. And this advertising relies on far-reaching privacy invasive tracking

- Google's own employees admitted that they have no idea how to turn the various methods of tracking off. Among others location tracking is so intertwined in Google's products that it's impossible to turn it off at all

Yup. These devices are surely worse for privacy than iPhones which go as far as limit tracking at the OS level.

Can't attest to the devices current security. Given Android's spotty track record of updates, I wouldn't hold my breath for AndroidOne. Oh. And Pixel 3 which was released in the ancient times of exactly three years ago will no longer receive any updates. So yeah.

Meanwhile the iOS 15 which was released this September is available on iPhone SE from 5 years ago.

> There are several open source focused devices in the pipeline that have better ... but are not yet ready.

I yes. Imaginary non-existent phones. In that case I have a phone that's better than any of those, and better than iPhone, and better than Pixel 6. Care to buy one?

> I said that people are duped by marketing, and I gave examples.

No, you didn't. What you did, was make overly broad statements that are either pure speculation, or can be easily refuted.
They could've called it AWS Infinidash Mobile.
It's an old saw, but we teach children the "sticks and stones" bromide because it's true. Having to bracket everything you say in qualifiers and conditions is why press releases are completely unreadable dreck.

If you're in a field where Things Have To Get Done, stopping every few words to make sure nobody's getting their feelings hurt is a cost with very little benefit, other than airy and nebulous principles like "inclusivity." Not to mention you will never--and I mean never--get people of a certain temperament to go along with an ever-changing set of rules designed to inflict zero emotional distress. And the people of that temperament are very likely to be in technical roles.

I mean, you can want it to be different, but you might as well want the sky to rain cheese.
When it comes to reaching actual content that isn't just an entry in an API doc somewhere, Google is basically just a vehicle for me to get to StackOverflow/Reddit at this point. For almost every search I've done without appending "reddit", the first page is full of bullshit zero-effort listicles. Like the other day I wanted to see what web frameworks Go has to offer, but when I search "golang web frameworks" I get a million links like "Top 10 Best Go Web Framework 2021!!" that are filled with obviously scraped or auto-generated content.

I get that SEO is kind of a race-to-the-bottom scenario, but I always wonder - how are these random sites in business? I understand that they get a good amount of traffic from said SEO and "advertising" pays good money for that traffic, but do advertisers really not grasp that people spend all of five seconds on these pages before going somewhere else?
UK’s minimum gap for Covid booster jabs to be halved to three months
There isn't any other way to make money from something like a gif hosting platform. Plenty of new companies get started all the same without being acquired.
I use encrypted peer to peer with no metadata signup.

https://twin.me/en/support/twinme-protect-data/
If someone mistakenly interprets "that's a stupid idea" as "you're stupid", then that's on them. You can't stop someone from thinking the world revolves around them like that.
Thank you, that's desperately needed.
> It’s not surprising that those who directly benefit from the lack of unionization are not in support of it.

Right. But what people are missing is that "those who directly benefit from the lack of unionization" is most people who actually live in the region. The jobs are there because the unions aren't, and people want jobs.
> Galls Law: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.

> John Gall (September 18, 1925 – December 15, 2014) was an American author and retired pediatrician. Gall is known for his 1975 book General systemantics: an essay on how systems work, and especially how they fail..., a critique of systems theory. [from wikipedia]

I like this although I was hoping Gall was an engineer. Regardless it seems like a super compelling concept. Although after having typed that I'm wondering if living organisms / intelligent life are kind of the ultimate example against this? Or maybe they're the ultimate example supporting it?

The bigger point is that this repo is awesome and Im forwarding it to my software students. Hope it continues to grow with PRs!
The biggest difference seems to be that aside from dropping some buzzwords like blockchain that page gives no description for what Helium 5G actually is or what the intended use cases for it are.
I was given a Sun t-shirt that had been compressed into a surfboard shape at a conference. Unfortunately they gave me a size that could probably have fitted three of me in, so it got worn a couple of times and then used for painting until it wore out.
The presupposition there is that regulating something trivial should be easy, and regulating something important should be hard. I would suggest exactly the opposite is what we should aim for.
While that is true to an extent, it drops some very important context.

What happened / is happening, is white and asian middle class households have continued to climb into the higher economic tiers over the last 40-50 years. In their place, hispanic households that have rapidly expanded in numbers in the US since the late 1970s are taking over an ever larger share of the middle class demographic.

When people claim the middle class has seen no economic gains in the last 40-50 years, they're either lying or painfully ignorant of what's actually occurring: a dramatic and rapid demographic shift. It takes a mere few minutes to dig up the relevant economic data and see how the middle class of ~1980 was nearly entirely white, and many of those formerly middle class whites have now shifted upward in the economic tiers (which you can spot today by looking at the median or average white household net worth vs the national median or average).

So what some of that middle class disappearing into the upper classes represents is an ongoing bifurcation by race among the classes. The US middle class will soon be overwhelmingly hispanic, in other words. That's tremendous progress in a sense, given the people it represents often came from third world countries with nothing to their names and speaking little to no English. Will they see continued progress or will their position ossify there? That's the next issue for the new, vast US hispanic middle class for the coming decades.

And what about black households over that time? They're being left behind by hispanic household net worth growth and are not seeing nearly the same progress in moving into the middle class. That is going to cause significant political ramifications as hispanic political power in the US continues to expand.
When I've joined startups in the past they've been up front about their exit strategies during interviews.

Everyone knows that they're making a risky bet that might end with the company folding or might result in a big windfall.
I don't think there's a blockchain or currency involved with Peertube. It's more like Mastodon for videos. In fact, you can follow Peertube accounts and comment on Peertube videos using your Mastodon account.
sure, but this does not prove anything.

besides who would want to give a cookie to curl UA?
I posted this on here because I thought I can open an intellectual dialog, where we can have a mature chat. Instead, my post gets flagged, for who knows what.

Seriously losing all respect for this site - it's the same as every other place that is supporting this mass hysteria.

At this point, not sure what to do.
> wireless network supported by the Helium Blockchain.

The fuck
You won't be the first, or the last, to wonder this. There are people who have dedicated entire lives to it.

Look into post quantum cryptography if you're interested to know about one of the big trains heading our way.
Anecdote: Once, driving across this great state of Texas to get to college, the tensioner pulley on my truck started sounding a little noisy. I was with some friends and we wanted to get to school rather than wrench around, so I pulled over in the next town and bought a can of WD-40 and a spare pulley. I sprayed a bunch of WD-40 into the pully bearings, since WD-40 is a lubricant, and I hoped for the best.

The pulley seized about 200 miles later. Burning rubber smell from the engine; loss of power steering, the whole nine yards. I pull over and get out the toolkit to take off the pulley. I had to use a breaker bar, but I finally got the danged bolt to start moving.

Turns out, the bolt was reverse threaded. The whole tensioner needed replacing now. I called a tow truck.

Don't use WD-40 as a lubricant. Also, don't slap quick fixes on critical components if you could take ten minutes to do it correctly.
Facebook's UK revenue in just one year (around £1.2b) is 4-5x what it paid to buy Giphy ($300-400m). They could exit the UK market just to spite the UK, but it makes no business sense to do so.
4-year cliff?
I mean it's very obvious how it's different: helium is not private. It's also obvious that you just wanted to namedrop Helium even though it has nothing to do with the use case for Amazon's product.
> it could play back on a 66 MHz 486 DX they found in the dumpster.

ooh actually, I got banned from the Ars-Technica forums way back in the day for posting a giant 800x600 animated GIF. It took browsers a few minutes to render! People thought I had crashed their browsers, but they just needed to be patient. ;)

I think I had a Duron 700mhz back then, so a 486 would've been turned into toast.

(Or, possibly, IE's GIF code was just really bad at that time! :) )
profit optimized is the inevitable result of any system that has profit motivation

banning advertising would help for awhile, but other profit streams would be optimised and expand to fill void, such as data collection/mining
s/important 5th amendment issue/important 1st amendment issue/
Is calling Mississippi "Amerikwaanza" a New England thing?
I just looked it up and the number of kids on disability started to skyrocket in the early 90s. In 1980 there were about 260k kids on disability. By 1990, there was ~300k kids on disability. In 2000 there was nearly 900k.

> Let's imagine that happens. Jahleel starts doing better in school, overcomes some of his disabilities. He doesn't need the disability program anymore. That would seem to be great for everyone, except for one thing: It would threaten his family's livelihood. Jahleel's family primarily survives off the monthly $700 check they get for his disability.

https://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/
What does a smart TV have to do with a private 5G network? People just upvote any meaningless comment on this site as long as it sounds mildly controversial.
I get so many phone scams that I’ve set my phone to ignore all calls from unidentified contacts.
Flipping existing concepts upside down
While I was researching existing concepts of most popular apps I realized that most of them took existing concept and flipped it on its head. Maybe I'm wrong for some of them

Snapchat

Existing concept: uploaded images and photos stay online (forever)

Flipped: images and photos stay online shortly

Vine

Existing concept: videos are long

Flipped: videos should be short

Whatsapp

Existing concept: SMS are not free

Flipped: SMS are now free

Twitter

Existing concept: blogs/blogging should have large texts

Flipped: blogs/blogging can be short

Digg

Existing concept: News should be aggregated by journalists

Flipped: news can be aggregated and voted on by visitors

Tinder

Existing concept: dating online is opened for people to send messages to whoever, no matching

Flipped: you need to match in order to continue

These are of course most popular examples. Seems like all of them followed the same formula, probably unintentionally. Of course some of them were lucky, some had good marketing. What's your opinion on it?
I never imagined

This is probably the crux of the problem, the scenario you're describing is based mostly on assumptions of your own - like 'brand management' (whatever that is) and 'secret'. See for instance https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29231229

As with any online thing made mostly of people, there are lot of not entirely obvious things about HN, both good and bad. It's not the Brand Management (whatever that is) Shadow Council you seem convinced it is.
The accounts as shown by that side are consolidated, and include the trading subsidiary.
This seems like its http and web sockets, so probably not useful for game networking until HTTP/3 and WebTransport happens so that UDP becomes possible.