skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not even remotely odd, it is a vital defence of that same democracy. Private ownership of the media is a direct path to authoritarianism (Hungary: Orban, Italy: Berlusconi).

When the government is "aligned" with the same media moguls who control the media (TV, newspapers) you have a huge problem for a democracy. Channel 4 was one of the few entities in the UK that stood out from that trend. In the current context it is madness to privatise one of the last remaining independent news sources in the UK.

Some would argue that the media landscape in the US isn't in the best shape either.
Don't. Run your own. It's a cost of business, you can either rely on the standard terms of your suppliers, or you can supply your own, it's far easier than the vast majority of industries.

Git especially is a federated system that has no need for things like github.
This absolutely happens.

If I can find the time I plan to write some code to gather enough evidence to make a substantial case to prove registrars doing it.

It's happened multiple times to me with one particular registrar.
Yes, except for the visual paradigms thing, and the "as relevant in this context" bit; the WWW was text only for years, except in the sense that you could use it to download files of any type. And he wasn't doing it for profit. But he was doing it on a network that allowed that kind of decentralized extensibility, unlike CompuServe, Minitel, Tymnet, AOL, Facebook, or AT&T.

An interesting feature of capitalism that Marx liked to talk about a lot is that they can be unstable, like democracies: participants in a free market are free to pursue their own profits, but by far the most profitable situation for them is to become a monopoly or monopsony, which destroys the freedom of the market and ends capitalism. So we have this interesting situation where the internet, arising from government planning and with commercial use prohibited for decades, ended up being freer even for commercial use than the alternatives established by for-profit companies like CompuServe, Tymnet, and AT&T.

(In the same way, a politician in a democracy is free to pursue power by getting elected, but if they are sufficiently successful at pursuing power, they end democracy.)
We did this for Patafour
https://github.com/OwocekTV/V4Hero

Hasn't gone quite as far as making our own language, we did it all in c++.
For us we know doing things this way is a vastly more difficult approach, but nonetheless we plough on. Yesterday I was learning how bezier curves work so we can animate wind effects. The list of interesting maths and physics problems to solve are endless but oh so satisfying, and ultimately its a hobby not something we sell for money.
If has been shown that opening an amazon warehouse in a location actually destroys more job than it creates.
Did you just compare a Video Advertisement which takes over the whole screen to a 2-3 second Subtitle Ad which happens at the end of the movie ?
When an article starts by saying that it has found the "perfect way" to do something, the article is usually disappointing.

First personal knowledge management is not a new field, it was just called "note taking" before.

Second the place where you really need to manage knowledge is at your job. Using a system that requires discipline at work is usually a bad idea as most people are not disciplined. Also at work information is spread around different applications which makes sorting all information about everything into folders difficult

Finally if that method works for the author then good, but I also have also method that works for me which is : try to take notes of almost nothing
Sunak understands plenty. He's the richest politician in the UK with a net worth of at least £200m. He's previously announced a plan for 'Britcoin', totally not crypto, but a totally government-controlled currency system to serve their own authoritarian purposes.

> Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, has asked the Bank of England to look at the case for a new “Britcoin”, aimed at tackling some of the challenges posed by cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.

> A Bank-backed digital version of sterling would potentially allow businesses and consumers to hold accounts directly with the central bank and to sidestep others when making payments, changing the lenders’ role in the financial system.

> “We’re launching a new taskforce between the Treasury and the Bank of England to co-ordinate exploratory work on a potential central bank digital currency [CBDC],” the chancellor told an audience of financial executives today at the start of the UK FinTech Week conference

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sunak-considering-a-britc...
Most care more about optimizing their own outcomes than spiting domain squatters.
>it should be capable of carrying on its endeavours privately with no issue whatsoever.

But that's not the way that things like this work. C4 produces some programming that no other broadcaster in the UK does. The programmes may not be "everything for everyone", but there is definitely something for everyone, and just about everything they've ever made is still available to watch.

It will not remain that way if it is privately owned. There's too much pressure to serve shareholder interests and make everything profitable. Not everything can turn a profit, and "the market" doesn't solve all issues - the arts in particular being a case in point.

Dorries has always struck me as being pretty incompetent and not someone you would label as a deep thinker. She's obsessed with the destruction of the BBC, and C4 is clearly an easier target as most people don't even know that it is currently publically owned.
HN crowd uses Ad-blocker.
I was going to ask a similar thing. Does this AI not pull from a massive pool of countless examples of real human-written code? In the majority of cases, perfect code is far from necessary (put another way, solving Y will generally suffice even if you should be focusing on X), and that seems to be reflected in the sample data that the AI is most likely pulling from. Obviously it isn't perfect, but I never expected it to be perfect, so I'm left more impressed that the AI functions at all than I am upset that it doesn't function absolutely perfectly in every way.
The quality issue you describe is often because there's simply no higher quality available. Even on DVDs you'll find similar quality video.

Availability issues are often because companies have paid big bucks for long term distribution rights within a geographical area. In this specific instance it could also be Paramount screwing you over like Disney did when they launched their own competitor.

Years ago, my Netflix subscription drastically reduced the amount of shows I pirated. As the streaming industry started to develop and more and more studios pull their content or try to get people to pay for their own special Netflix, I'm finding myself using Sonarr more and more.

Like Steam and Spotify, Netflix solved the accessibility and availability problem. Now the media industry is trying its hardest to undo that and make steaming unnecessarily burdensome again. Their short term profits are ruining their business model once again and when this system eventually collapses, the media companies will complain about piracy once again.
The main one I can think of is companies altering their return to work posture after having an exodus of employees who did not want to return under stated terms. This sort of thing is rare though as it needs to be simultaneous, consistent feedback that is actionable.
Yeah but that's what https://sponsor.ajay.app/ is for.
What is interesting with this method is that it seems to work effortlessly even on the personal side.
I always found easy to maintain an organization when it is shared ; it is the only way to keep the communication easy.
Much harder for personal files and projects, which always end up in a big mess…
I may give it a try, but I wonder if it is not just another method that will add to the existing mess.
> every React app eventually starts to look and act like the Reddit redesign,

Not every unreal engine game starts to look and behave like gears of war. If you drop a bunch of asset packs from the store it's going to look like every other asset flip out there, but so will your game engine if you use the same assets.

> , I like to write my own engines to get the end-user experience I want.

My day job is working in unreal engine, and in the last 7 years of using it I can only think of one scenario where the engine was the limiting factor in the user experience I wanted, and not something I could easily work around. If you think you're going to be limited in your end user experience in unity or unreal you probably need to reconsider how much you know about those engines.
I've heard that real serious addictions are never just about the drugs, but also about underlying issues. It makes sense that someone without those issues would have an easier time quitting.
Not had any of those issues for me for -years-. There were definitely issues many years ago, but I find All4 (both on computer and smart TV) to work very well, remembering pretty much exactly where I left off across programs and platforms.
I dunno, you can reach the point of blocking rooted phones without malice, too.

Like, they get an internal or external pentest (maybe as part of PCI), consultant has finding "hey best practice is block root / add obfusc / etc", ticket enters backlog, dev shrugs "I guess the experts are telling me to..."

That's normally how it happens.
All4 has always worked fine for me, I find Channel 5 the least reliable of UK TV channels for streaming. Having said that, I usually record interesting Channel 4 programmes so I can skip the ads!
I bought a Brother HL-L5000D mono laser off eBay for £50. It's been going for 2 years and hasn't needed any maintenance whatsoever (or any new toner). It just works.
My company gave me a i9 MBP for work, but I use my own personal M1 Macbook Air instead as it's so much better; no fan noise or smell of cooking thermal paste! Also and sites nicely under the 45" 4K QLED screen that I use as a main monitor.
This may be a dumb idea, but, would it be more efficient and useful to use DC battery storage in series up to 120V rather than up/down-converting between 120 and 12?
Ok, then pausing the show for a 30 second ad is equally unacceptable to me - is that better?
I wonder if the author's previous blog post about spending an enormous amount of money for a previous .com domain tipped the domain name squatter off that the author would be willing to pay big bucks.
No, Netflix should not sell ads. What they should do is start syndicating some of their content on lower tier platforms. Those platforms that might very well be ad-based, perhaps even run by Netflix, off-brand if they don't find any takers. Modeled after the old trickle-down from cinema to video to broadcast. This wouldn't just be another income stream, it would also be an ad for "real" Netflix.
Google almost instantly index posts that appear on the front page. And it even gives them a high ranking so if you go in Google search console you will see a peak traffic from Google search at the time the post is on the front
A problem that is not in NP is, by definition, a problem that can't be solved in polynomial time even with an infinity of processors (or equivalently, with speculative execution given a perfect oracle). So, it can't be embarrassingly parallel.

So, a problem in EXP - NP (that is, it can be solved in exponential time, but it can't be solved in polynomial time even if given an infinity of processors) will require exponentially more time to solve for a higher n than a lower n, regardless of how many processors you have - even up to infinity. You may get some kind of speed-up with more processors, but it will not be enough to remove the exponential runtime blow-up.

An example of a problem like this is the Travelling Salesman Problem. As far as is known right now, there isn't even a non-determinstic algorithm that can solve the problem in polynomial time. Even if you had an infinity of processors, and could solve the problem for 1000 cities in 1 minute, you would still need ~2^1000 minutes to solve the problem for 2000 cities. Note: this bound is not proven, there may be some non-deterministic algorithm that can solve it in polynomial time.

I will also note that even for a problem that is in EXP and in NP, so an EXP problem that is embarrassingly parallel, doubling the problem size would require 2^n more processors to keep the same run time, not 2n (assuming it's time complexity is O(2^n)).
> ….real solution is to simply not work for them

And as hard as it may be, choose to buy from them
Linus used to be a massive jerk until he fixed his attitude. Hackers can grow.

I've got massive respect for everybody who addresses their own problems and fixes them. Way too many people only look for the problem in other people, but it's never that simple.
I think that Thunderbolt is not a particularly good solution for anything. You get 99% of the things it can do in USB-C, and the things that it can't either don't work on Apple machines (eGPU) or are needlessly high performance (I'm fine with my external SSDs being limited to just a couple 100 MB/s).

In exchange you get a lot more expensive hubs, stiff, expensive cables, and a much more limited computer compatibility.
I don't think a user should be able to tell the difference. The initial handshake would still use something like passwords or API keys to authenticate the user.

The difference is post-login, where authentication can return for example a 'session key' or can return a JWT or other token that can then be used to say, "I've logged in, I'm xnorswap and I'm allowed in the system until 202204051200Z. I'm allowed access to view users and create reports".
It doesn't. It's pattern matching, and you're seeing cherry picked examples. The pattern matching is enough to give the illusion of understanding. There's plenty of articles where more thorough testing reveals the difference. Here are two:
https://medium.com/@melaniemitchell.me/can-gpt-3-make-analog...

But you could also just try one of these models, and see for yourself. It's not exactly subtle.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/22/1007539/gpt3-ope...
What is wrong with Namecheap?
I like this a lot. Spending a lot on a domain seems to say a few things about your business - you're big enough to have money to spend, which reassures people that you're not about to disappear; you value the brand enough to 'invest' which gives people confidence that you're in it for the long haul; and you're being intelligent about SEO and domain trust to know that a .com is preferred by people over a .io (outside of tech).

Spending between $10k and $99k on a domain is just silly, but spending that money on marketing by buying a domain and then telling everyone you bought a domain is quite clever. You could get more value than that the cost of the domain back in PR and press out of a move like this if you were really savvy about it and had connections to the right journalists.
That would very likely end up being a 'own goal'. There are lots of past wars and past war criminals that would end up standing alongside Putin.

Guys/gals like 'W' Bush, Cheney, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, John Howard, Obama, etc, etc, etc. are war criminals over aggressive wars or attacks against Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and others. Even Biden himself would end up in the dock, being Vice-President during the Obama administration.
Not necessarily; there's a depressingly large group of people who have terrible control over their finances and are poor because they're easily influenced into buying expensive items. Definitely not the main source of poverty, but a great target audience for advertisers to manipulate.
The SSD controller is on chip in the M1 family, but the actual SSD controlled by that controller can still be removable. The Mac Studio proves that. The actual storage is on a removable card in a socket.

I don’t think Apple has said why they did it this way in the Studio. I’ve heard three theories.

1. They plan to at some point support upgrading storage.

2. It is so failing SSDs can be replaced instead of having to do a whole logic board swap.

3. It is for easier and cheaper inventory management. It is easier for them to build most of them with the most popular storage configuration or two and then when someone orders a less popular configuration change the SSDs than to build ahead of time and stock the less popular configurations.
This is a crazy story, well worth reading.

No matter what you think about crypto, Sam Bankman-Fried getting rich so he can do as much good in the world as possible is a pretty great outcome.

It's funny how he started the arbitraging Bitcoin to Japan by just seeing different prices at different markets. I've seen that too but I always just assumed there was a good reason and if not, someone smarter than me would already be taking advantage of the arbitrage opportunity.
He just went for it and made a fortune.
I think it's a compelling critique of Arendt that she basically just bought this characterisation wholesale - the Nazis had every reason to present their actions as 'banal' both in limiting the damages selfishly at an individual level and also limiting the damage to their ideology ('anyone could do it'). Eichmann was probably not the nazi-punchcard, mindlessly executing horrible plans, that she states.
Is there any anecdotal evidence that Namecheap does this?
Is there a legitimate reason why a .com TLd would increase the business value over .io?
It is funding the state not being funded by the state.
State-owned media is a common part of democracies. The UK has the BBC and Channel 4, France has france.tv, Germany has ARD, Norway has NRK.
It is possible. I have successfully migrated all of the data from Google Timeline to self-hosted owntracks. Quick and dirty conversion script is available here - https://gist.github.com/skrobul/bd1f64309123c34bf5cfcad144e6...

I have not looked into deleting data from Google yet as my free time is taken up by migrating from other Google not-really-forever-"free" services.
Disbelief in human evolution linked to greater prejudice and racism
Try to see it from the other side. The side where “contract liberty” is just a buzzword, and the real situation of real people in real life is horrendous and sickening. No amount of philosophical maneuvering is going to stop us criticizing (real and substantive) abuse and mistreatment of fellow human beings.
I'm not aware of any web APIs for secure key storage. That feels like something that would be of value, but coming up with a way to attest to the key being hardware-backed is hard to do without privacy impact - you need some sort of intrinsic hardware-tied key to validate that, and then anyone you do that validation with can tie a key back to the intrinsic key and associate accounts. The Trusted Computing Group tried to solve this with Privacy CAs, which were supposed to issue certificates for intermediate keys that could be randomly generated. But nobody's stepped up to run one, so we're left with Direct Anonymous Attestation, which it turns out may not be possible with the cryptographic features that TPMs provide.

Overall, hardware-backed identity is probably viable in enterprise scenarios where you don't have the same expectation that company-owned hardware will respect your privacy, and we don't have a great solution for doing it at consumer level, and that probably impairs our ability to offer any sort of browser-level API for it.
I recently learned how to use Bearer tokens with a PHP JWT interface and disagree that they are `just awful` (I'm a FE dev for perspective).

I have a setup of a 24 hour token that holds the necessary information to authenticate the user's requests (like a PHP session really), along with a 30 day refresh token.

My Vue FE detects when a 401 status code is returned (using axios) and attempts to refresh the token. If this fails, the user is redirected to the login page.

It works quite well IMO. This setup lets me authenticate cross domain requests without any trouble. I was previously used to doing everything same domain via standard PHP sessions.
I think you are confused as to the difference between democracy and capitalism.

Indeed privatisation could be seen as anti-democratic; the motivation to sell it off (to sympathetic parties?) is because it is critical of your government or you want to maintain control of the media once you are voted out of power.
Happened to me when I checked availability of a domain via Uniregistry (now part of GoDaddy). Domain was available, a few days later when I decided to buy it it was suddenly a registered premium name costing over $2000.
No. Just fuck no. Netflix is about the only media one can enjoy without being bombarded with advertising to sell me products I don't have the money (cars) or any need for.

The sad reality however is that an user-friendly, ad and spyware-free experience will never get the amount of investor money that the hypergrowth-driven startups get in the hope of establishing dominance followed by rent-seeking.
It publicly owned, it doesn't represent the government, which is why the government wants to sell it off
That's why we use expiration times. If I was a bank, I would be using very short expiration times and also use second factors. And have a lot of ceremony around releasing our app. And if I cared enough I would indeed add some claims narrowing down the scope of the token to a device, require our user to wear tin foil hats, and what not. Security measures are proportional to the thing they protect. Plenty of banks use both bearer tokens and JWTs. Nothing inherently wrong with that.

If your require these things, do them. If you don't, then don't.
As I understand it, the wids of an enfilade constitute a Fenwick tree, though not an implicit one.
GPT-3 was specifically worse at jokes, which is why PaLM being good at this so impresses me. At any rate, I don't care if it only works one in ten times. To me, this is equivalent to complaining that the dog has bad marks in high school. (PaLM could probably explain that one to you: "The speaker is complaining that the dog is only getting C's. For a human a C is a quite bad mark. However getting even a C is normally impossible for a dog.")

"It's pattern matching" just sounds like an excuse for why it working "doesn't really count". At this point, you are asking me to disbelieve plain evidence. I have played with these models, people I know have played with these models, I have some impression of what they're capable of. I'm not disagreeing it's "just pattern matching", whatever that means, I am asserting that "pattern matching" is Turing-complete, or rather, cognition-complete, so this is just not a relevant argument to me.

What do you think a neuron does?
Yeah, there is this classic: http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/06/19/stop-using-jwt-fo...
Can you really call something 'state funded' if it receives no funds from the state? I can't see any justification for that definition.
Why no error correction in the USB-C protocol, though?
"Are we claiming nothing at all that happens to any of those 2 Billion children makes any difference?"
>> B12 supplementation would certainly help some and is quite cheap on a mass scale. I think it boils down to what people want to read from these kind of studies.
I didn't even know what yak shaving was! Not sure if I'd ever heard the term before.

Alas: http://catb.org/jargon/html/Y/yak-shaving.html