skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there was less to be divided about. Back then, the best the evangelist could do was create a blog and try to game SEO to get noticed. They could post on a few popular forums, but discoverability was limited and algorithms designed to pump engagement didn't exist because social media platforms were in their infancy. It's a different world today. The barrier is lower. Blogging influentially is as easy as posting a medium article and pushing it on the social media platforms. So specific voices which tend to be controversial are getting way more amplified. Then the algorithms just creates echo chambers to keep the users engaged to pump up the ad revenue.

That being said, Web 2.0 had two primary themes and business value propositions. It was social media/ads, and e-commerce. Those were pretty clear and there was no confusion about how money would be made. Out of those was born what I like to call Web 2.5, where basically every industry was getting SaaSified in one form or another. Out of this was born big data and the emergence of the most recent ML hype due to the need to create these algos to maximize ad driven profit.

Crypto/Decentralization/Web 3.0 has a much much more challenging road ahead to get mass adoption. Outside of the obvious scaling issues decentralization brings about, decentralized apps have a much less clear path to monetization. That's in essence why they need to create their own economies with tokens and crypto. Really for "Web 3.0" to be successful, we are looking towards a whole scale reimagining of how economies function. This is entirely different than using the internet to create analogs to real world things like stores or newspapers.

The value proposition of social media was abundant, and the path to profitability was clear. Ditto for ecommerce platforms. Ditto for the majority of SaaS applications.

I think the fundamental divide here is talking about Web 3.0, (or ICOs, DApps, DeFi, NFTs, or w/e the "use case" of the day is), generally seems to be avoiding talking about the true value proposition of decentralization, which will face such tremendous resistance from powerful world governments, that it's akin to a war being fought to creating a new world order and evolution of how human society is shaped. The stakes are much higher and failure is much more likely.

I wouldn't be surprised if all the most successful projects just end up being centralized layers on top of the protocols and all they really end up doing is usurping the place of some existing Web 2.0 platforms due to some network effect pushed forward by a few key influencers. That's essentially what happened with TCP/IP and HTTP. I don't see why it will be any different this time.
https://betanews.com/2015/07/19/windows-10-secret-screen-rec...
Indeed, I was very impressed by the extensive configuration options, and of course ability to export/import them.
> What you don't like is that I called you out on your bs.

Nah, just really tired of engaging with libertarians pushing the bullshit line of "personal responsibility" to every single issue.

Alexa is marketed towards kids as well, parents can't control every single instance a kid will interact with Alexa therefore Amazon regulates Alexa either by goodwill or by force of regulations. Guess which one is compatible with capitalism? As you said, we shouldn't rely on the goodwill of corporations ;)

Godspeed, Ayn Rand acolyte.
Watching My Mother Watch Music
> 1. How experienced a pilot is this man? Is he a very junior novice or experienced such that this should be a non-factor.

Shouldn't matter. By the time the FAA examiner gives you a pilot's license, they should be convinced that you can safely handle aviation, to include engine failures.

But unless the airplane is literally coming apart around you, bailing out of a light airplane is almost always the wrong answer. They land fairly slow, especially an old T-craft, and it doesn't take very many feet of deceleration room for it to be something you walk away from.

I'm not familiar with the particular accident and circumstances, but nothing I've seen in the avweb writeup makes it look very good. And I generally suspect YouTube "pilots" are mostly in it for the views, and nothing sells views like a crash.

As far as "the engine has quit" stress, as long as the rest of the airplane is in good shape, it's still a perfectly good airplane. And pilots regularly train (at least, should...) for engine out landings. It's a common event in training - you get somewhere near the airport, the instructor pulls the throttle back and says, "Your engine quit." I hate to say it's not a big deal, because if it quits for real, you'll certainly be sweating, but a general aviation airplane doesn't fall out of the sky if the engine quits.
This adds another service you now need to deploy and maintain. For small personal projects, I definitely would like to avoid that if I can!
The giveaway for me is the camera mounted to his wrist. Why would you have that on the wrist, it makes no sense if the flight had gone "as planned".
> transferring ownership of the photos to Flickr, not even attributing the photographers

I would love to know what you’re talking about here.
In my opinion that should have been an instant close of the issue. If the customer has the type of money to have a nuclear weapons program then surely they have the money to pay for the software they're relying on. Or maybe since they're apparently paying Bill to handle the software - Bill should take issues he has into his own hands and fix it himself. Sheesh.
html/js/webgl-based Tetris clone that has extensive options and play modes.
Agreed. The tone comes across as smug however.

Can the theatricality bill, nobody on the GCC bug tracker but you cares if the country that spent two trillion dollars to replace the Taliban in twenty years with the Taliban doesn't seem to have they acumen to fund something they're now critically dependent upon. They can barely get it in gear to fund their own budget each year without a partisan meltdown.

If they could do any of this themselves, you'd be on the golf course.
GNU generally considers those types of clauses in opposition to libre software[0]

[0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#JSON
Surely this is like claiming the Fire Dept are obviously arsonists, otherwise it would have been named the Extinguishing Dept? Or that the 9/11 Commission obviously commissioned 9/11. We have a "Serious Organised Crime Agency" which is more akin to the FBI than the Mafia.

What you're describing as a gaffe is a very intentional misrepresentation.
I hate the name - were we not at web3.0 already? I am rooting for decentralized solutions, but I could barely muster the energy to look up what "web3" is supposed to be.
I think it's likely that some banks will start building better communication features inside their apps because of this. IMO the telecom companies in the US lack not just the incentives but the skill to fix the spam problem, so people are just becoming blind to phone calls and texts, with phones abetting that blindness with spam filtering features.
I would love to read those! Sort of trip sitter reports but the sitter is a psychiatrist or neuropsychologist. That would be absolutely fascinating (of course with patient permission)
The photoshopping step is unnecessary. You can literally mint infinite NFTs of the same piece of digital art.
Was saying that Go's std lib also "hides a ton of complexity that lives in the filesystem" for you.
> The FAA/NTSB investigates basically every crash

No. The NTSB investigates significant accidents (either commercial operations or passengers involved.)

There's an average of 400 GA accidents per year, so about one a day.

If two CFIs climb into a Piper and crash, it probably won't be investigated. Add a passenger, then the NTSB gets interested.

Source: commercially-rated airplane pilot.
There's definitely some suspicious stuff going on:

- gave up waaaay too early compared to any pilot I've seen with an engine out

- skydiving rig[1] (bulky, more/less easy to reach handles, steerable) instead of safety parachute[2] (light, one accesibile handle, none/little steering, not intended for high freefall speeds)

- gopro on ~wrist~ selfie-stick

- long and stable freefall before pulling

- before jumping, he opens the door and looks straight down a few times, exactly like skydivers spot the landing zone before jumping

Basically I feel like I've watched an experienced skydiver on a planned jump more than a pilot surprised by an engine out.

[1] http://scrisc.com/image/cache/data/m2aad/tn_zoom_obrazek_88-...

[2] https://www.chutingstar.com/media/catalog/product/cache/dc97...
I guess the question to what is, is this featured in other videos of his? If not, very bad look.
Yeah, it kind of works that way in the US as well, though over-regulation of trades is more our tendency for sure since it keeps out competition from existing players (of course mostly the existing players get a say in the process). I won't bore with the details but look at how many hours of training it takes to become a hair stylist versus a police officer if you're morbidly curious.

My point though is that this person lied, publicly, about being endorsed by the author of the article. You don't usually do that unless you have absolutely positively no other options that will increase your credibility. But sure, maybe psychologists have credibility while behavioral scientist is the equivalent of being a "brand influencer".
> Also, Computer Age Statistical Inference which is newer and covers more material.

isn't that more a history of modern statistics than an actual statistics textbook?
For foreigners like me that are not so initialism-savvy, "BOTD" stands for "Benefit of the Doubt".
> So, we would have databases like Users.db, UserSessions.db, Settings.db, etc.

How do you do joins?
> They kinda already do at this point.

Their sources of profit are from very different products and services though.

Microsoft and Alphabet and Amazon have cloud computing.

Alphabet and Meta earn money from ads.

Apple is the only one making money on selling hardware.

Microsoft sells software, with the bedrock being Excel.

Amazon is selling logistics, physically via warehousing and delivery and virtually via a website others can sell on.
Yep, there are some amazing FB groups out there still. Some of them are even still Public groups, which I lurk in only because of how the Public model works, but the content is incredible. SF books, SF movies, wargaming, some linuxes, specific ham radio models, specific niche meme groups too, and that's just what I've found useful. But also it's a terrific environment for retro things. Retro TTRPGs, programming languages you used to use a lot, stores you used to like, even.

(If you're into art, be sure to check out art and artist groups/pages. People wonder where Flickr went and it's right there, not Instagram.)

Keep in mind that some of these groups actively use their Files and Photos sections which can be like gold.

FB's participation model does incentivize things like simple brigading & passive-aggressive behavior, though (IMO), so it's also a good idea to get a feel for the quality of discourse and moderation before diving in if you are interested in participating rather than lurking.

It's really too bad the participation model has to be so static across the entire platform, because some of the groups are one or two customizations/tweaks away from being really epic with regard to community particpation. You could solve a lot of the social problems there with a more dynamic approach to the software design & provisioning.
> hardware owners have the buy-time option to enable adding their own keys to any root trust stores on their devices

Would you really be more comfortable knowing that your hardware vendor had the capability to produce machines with a low-level, unremoveable backdoor? I'm not sure I would. A feature like that can be used against users more easily than it can be used by those users.
Hello,

The spot market prices rised the whole year. But in December it fully went off rail. Nothing good will follow.

Source: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/289437/umfrag...

https://energy-charts.info/charts/price_spot_market/chart.ht...

I’d like to know the exact reason for that massive increase. Is it undersupply? If yes why is no one doing arbitrage from other countries? Is it increased fuel cost coupled with little supply from renewables? Is it the shutdown of three nuclear power plants and the fact that a lot of base load must now be supplied from somewhere else?

Where will it head to? My personal decision is as follows: I will now try to obtain a minor amount of land and build a pv array there hopefully in the scale of ~1MWp. This will cost less than 1M€ and I’m sure that I and my family can fully life of the earnings later in my life. Maybe I let some sheeps roaming around the property to cut down grass and move in a trailer next to the facility once my kids are larger. For sure I will get the biggest and most scary sheep dog one can find to keep strangers away then.

Edit: with other words: I will get a solar farmer!
> Just dumb bug in software that puts your computer in DFU mode that says, please connect it to another Mac. Nice isn't it? And then you should run and find 'another mac'.

If your fundamental firmware-stuff is screwed up on any platform, you are going to have a bad time. Being able to plug into an off-the-shelf machine and fix it, or to plug into another PC running special software, is much better than I'm accustomed to.
No it doesn't, because you can simply keep selling the "old" version with the signature that say that you are the owner. It is digital, so you can make an an endless number of copies.
With web3, there is no deplatforming, no moderation, no accountability. There is no responsibility.

That’s what they really want. They want a system that, in their minds, won’t be subject to regulation or social pressure.

They are still mad that Reddit blocked certain groups. That parler got banned from public clouds.

Those are the things that made them “wake up” to the need for web3.

Deleting data and social accountability are important features that they find abhorrent.
If you frequently vote against the prevailing opinion, then your votes get disabled and/or inverted. I have spoken with Dang about this multiple times to confirm. Some call it an echo chamber, others call it "consensus". There will always be a contrived justification.
Web3 is like a solution in search of a problem, except worse, because the solution does not actually solve the problem.
HN is such a small slice of the "tech community", if we see the definition the same way (people who work in "tech"). I don't think you should take anything you read here as "majority of people in tech thinks like this", because the size is so small.
This is really nice, but for me there's one thing that keeps me away from emacs, and its good multi cursor support.

Very frequently, I'll want to perform this kind of process:

1. I search for some frequently occurring string or regex in a file.

2. Get a series of cursors for every result of that search.

3. I'll know that it's possible to do a manipulation of all these lines, but frequently it's not immediately obvious how, so I experiment a bit at this point. Frequently I end up doing things like manipulating the cursor to delete sections of the line, and modify the shape and order of some elements. This requires I can select portions of text, cut them, and paste them in a different part of the line. So each cursor needs to have its own clipboard. I also tend to do things like add variables to the cursors. Sublime has a nice way to have incrementing integers so the first cursor inserts a 1, the second inserts a 2, etc. There are all sorts of little tricks like this. One appeal of something like emacs would be having a simple language to write stuff like this quickly myself.

4. After experimenting, I complete the manipulation. If I fail the first time, I undo, and do it again.

This kind of thing takes less than 15 seconds for me, but it saves a ridiculous amount of time.

It's really useful during this to actually be manipulating all lines at once, since it lets me see where assumptions I have about the data I'm manipulating is incorrect.

I've tried every multi cursor package I've seen in emacs, and I've tried to figure out how to get this kind of thing down through macros, but the live editing of multiple lines seems invaluable and keeps me in Sublime/VS Code. I'd love to know if I'm doing something wrong with macros, there's a solution to what I'm trying to do, or if realistically my best bet is to stick to what I know.
Nimble Chinese satellite grabs hi-res images of US city in seconds: SCMP
I did a PhD in physics and feel like I missed all the great "meta lessons" some people seem to learn in their PhD. Mostly I just spent my time alone doing calculations either with pen and paper or computer. Most of the stuff I did was either suggested by my supervisor or was obvious continuation of some previous work. Even after I got my PhD I didn't feel like I was really a member of the research community or that I had a PhD level command of my field. I just did a bunch of calculations, wrote papers on what I did and got a PhD. It was almost like doing homework on a really long course, but just more difficult.

I left academia after a failed postdoc because I realized I had no clue how to conduct research on my own; I didn't know how to pick good research topics, or how to manage my time, or how to find people to collaborate with, or how to collaborate productively with someone for that matter.

I'm not sure if the fault was my supervisors or mine. I'm a bit "on the spectrum" and have lots of difficulties with social interaction, but I guess so do many other people drawn to technical fields and still they manage to navigate the system somehow. I certainly never sought for any kind of mentorship because I didn't realize it was needed and, also, because it felt extremely awkward.

Also, the whole academic system seemed a bit fucked up. People do research and write papers because they have to produce something measurable, not because the research they do is actually interesting or important. I published five papers during my PhD and I would say that maybe only one of them was slightly interesting or important, and even that could have been much better. All of the papers were published in proper, highly regarded journals (mostly Physical Review). Towards the end of the PhD I started having some vague ideas of stuff that would be _actually_ interesting and more worth my time, but also more difficult and less certain results. When was I supposed to do those? I was still in the mindset that I wanted to stay in academia so I couldn't take any risks.
Land and water ecosystems, 'stressed to a critical point'
Peter himself! Thank you for your work, I had a great time chatting with you in Colombia back in 2017. Cheers!
Maybe we will get lucky and find out something like this announcement.
Some kinda non-conformist witchcraft I suppose. I quickly bucked the religion that got forced on me as a child, an easy journey - I'd like to think because abrahamic cosmology is plainly nonsensical, but more realistically I likely fell off because it was quite authoritarian and being told what to do makes me bristle in any context. I would have mostly self-described as an atheist for most of my childhood, and still am from a pure epistemic/cosmological standpoint, but I both started to balk at the hidebound tendency of many people and groups who use that label to trust and privilege established institutional implementations of empirical epistemology more than I think they deserve (And being in academia and following the big cross-disciplinary replication crisis in 2014 contributed in a big way to shifting my thinking more in that direction), and felt a lack of fulfillment in what I think is a pretty close to universal human need for ritual and a diminished vocabulary for explaining intuitions from those circles, so I've become interested in various practices many would consider "magical" or "spiritual" or "pagan" or dismiss as "woo" depending on who they are. I wouldn't call myself religious, I don't really go in for attempts to organize this kind of practice under stuff like "wicca" or "heathenry", but I do rituals for my own psychological purposes that friends in "atheist" circles would probably roll their eyes at, and am more comfortable offering explanations for phenomena (especially related to psychology, metacognition, interpersonal matters, information/decision/game theory, computer science, and linux system administration) that sound/signal/codeswitch more "witchy" than "scientific" than I was previously
Beggars can hardly afford stockpiles of nuclear weapons!

(Though when it comes to programming, they have armed themselves with a flint arrowhead.)
There is some project. NFT Replicas - https://nftreplicas.net/ Nothing is stopping any one to mint another NFT with same content.
The Reason article makes perfectly clear that masks are very effective and should be worn in school. It's then totally dishonest for the article to have that headline which seemingly questions the effectiveness of masks. The author knew what they were doing.
Seriously. Your average dirt road is probably comparable to some of the runways it used to fly off when it was new.
It's not a "misconception." I may not want to go find a new job in 6 months because the stock tanked. There's opportunity cost if nothing else. While that company's stock is tanking, I could instead be at one that's growing at even a modest rate.
> A rich person who does this quickly stops being rich.

No, that depends on how fast you're consuming it. For example, instead of investing most of your excess revenues, you can invest only half of it, and consume the other half. Or, if you are wealthy enough, you can keep consuming without investing for a long time. Lastly, you don't have to stay rich forever, as you can't take your wealth with you to the other side.

> Raising capital gains tax will have the opposite effect: rich peoples' income will go down and they will spend less.

Unlikely: the rich already spend only rather small fraction of their incomes, and it is the prospects of making more money in future that is keeping them from spending more.
The genesis of this discussion is “NFTs are a scam and are retroactively obsoleted by digital signatures”. I basically said “how to avoid double spend in digital signatures”, someone replied “but you can clone NFTs!”. I said “yes but that is different”.

You are correct double spend is not a problem with NFT because they piggy back on crypto layers.

However double spend is a problem with just digital signatures that “retroactively obsoleted” NFTs.

Since there are multiple people commenting and steering the thread in different directions I feel this is being filibustered. So ill stop replying. Im exhausted!
> Who in their right mind would subscribe to that with all the better streaming options available?

Large swaths of the US can't get usable broadband. These people use satellite TV services. Of course that market is already developed so growth requires pestering the people with better choices available.
TuSimple finishes 80-mile, semi-truck ride on public roads without a human
Snopes would usually list that as mostly true or true right?

That said I stopped following them when the websaite was taken over by ads and whitespace.
There is copypasta of banned expressions that you can use.
You really think Azure and Google Cloud have that much difference? If you use GCP, you can select whether they can also use the data for training, per request. Does Azure have that option or clarity?
I'm curious is Techmeme in the ballpark or no?

Hackaday was already listed, that's nuts so much creativity on there.

IEEE video friday's is good imo regarding robotics stuff.
That would stop the GPL from being a FLOSS license, which would be against the philosophy of its authors.