skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They wrote:

>> It's a higher barrier to having a good experience, which I can't think of many successful examples of to be honest.

> The way I read the poster is that they think being asked to pay more will create worse experience

That is something they say, but the quote you pulled isn't related to it. You were looking for this one:

>> At best this will reduce conversation quality on Twitter

But they never bother to justify that.

> which is implied to be stupid.

The quote you pulled is stupid. Nothing is more common than successful examples of placing a higher barrier in front of the good experience than there is in front of the bad experience.
You couldn't previously buy a checkmark, now you can. This opens new methods of attacking the network.

This move perhaps limits spam as practiced today, but the attacks that will happen once the network changes will be different in ways that are difficult to predict.
> Error: Cannot query field "hideModeratorHat" on type "Comment". Did you mean "moderatorHat"?
This is what happens in takeovers - some people lose their jobs, options, benefits, seniority, you name it. Musk isn’t being “insane”. He’s being like every other new CEO that takes over a company. Been through many of these kinds of events. Yes, they often suck. But, the issue with Twitter is that everyone is afraid that Musk has ended the left’s echo chamber. That remains to be seen. The fact that it’s now been documented that Big Tech was colluding with the government should be a major concern of everyone.
Napster distributed whole songs. If it sampled 1000's of songs then created original compositions that sounded kind of like the 'style' of those songs what would the legalities be? That is a huge difference. I'm a professional artist who has been able to make a good living and support a family, what does this mean when someone with an algorithm and some key words can produce good-enough work in a fraction of the time for pennies? There is a huge swath of professional artists whose livelihoods are at stake.

Is this like the stagecoach makers when automobiles where invented? Or is this like Napster stealing copyrighted material? This is new territory.
I'm going to have to disagree with your disagreement.

> I got my kids used to not caring about insults by actually insulting them. Things like "You are a moron!"

I do that too, although just because its fun rather than for any other reason. But your kids know that is friendly banter with you. It's quite different to your boss calling you a moron and insulting you all day.

So you might say, well if my boss did that then I'd leave, fuck them. And I'd be the same. However, not everyone is in a position to be able to just get out and quit.

And that doesn't even address the far more insidious ways people use words to hurt you. Telling other people you're a moron, building up an undeserved contempt. This is what bullies do and it's not so easy to shrug it off. When they get a significant number of people in on it then you can't escape it and feel like a fool. This is the source of my shyness and anxiety about talking to people. Even though I try to push down those feelings I still feel awkward and on guard because for a few of my school years ANYTHING I said unguarded would be pounced on and I'd be laughed at.

Then there's gaslighting and other verbal lead ons where you're sweet talked into believing you're a moron. I don't have any experience with this.

> The best approach is to turn those words into irrelevant noise. To go from that, to have words affect you for life? No, that's a big mistake.

I wish this were the case. Toot toot for you if it is, but for many it's not possible, I think perhaps you could take a more sympathetic view - what has worked for you does not work for everyone and perhaps others had a difficult time when they were more vulnerable to it and that left an unshakable impression on them.
Indeed I agree.

Musk hasn't addressed how he will compensate or at least incentive creators yet. Having a mainline stream of subscriptions certainly provides more avenues for such a thing.

So personally I think the compensation or promotional quid pro quo deals are a very different animal than checkmarks. Unless it means multiple tiers of checkmarks.
My hot take: Anyone who's new to the BEAM/ERTS/OTP ecosystem should just go learn Elixir instead: You get to learn Erlang for free, and you get to use nicer build system, package manager etc..
How is this different from using notion ?
Should probably put "Works best in chrome" in the project summary for the time being then. I did get it to work in Firefox somewhat with a small sample, but it'd be nice to know this stuff up front before trying. I imagine most people are going to try to load in their one of their full length favourite songs.
I guess we can define the terms however we like. An acoustic piano also has a keyboard.

My point was that "keyboards" include a much broader class of electronic instruments than strictly what the set of "digital pianos" includes, like synthesizers, MIDI controllers, semi- or unweighted electric "pianos", etc. Unfortunately, to the beginner, they all look the same.
Isn’t it their worst performing model?
Considering Russia did #1 in Chernobyl and all they got was their own (well Ukraine’s) land irradiated and a lot of strongly worded letters, the bar is practically a lot higher than you seem to think it should be.
Iconic? To my eyes it's corporate memphis in car form.
By definition, the rich can only act rich. Whatever they do, that's what acting rich looks like.
I agree. You only know about the pain and how to fix it when you encounter the problem. Pick a business field and I'm sure there are hundreds of pain points to deal with but looking at it from the outside it's unlikely to easily be seen.
The difference is that the great artist would spend time studying, learning and researching the style. Which could take days, months or even years. That would be impressive.

AI can produce the same result in seconds allowing the content to be ripped-off quicker than an great artist trying to achieve the same result. Isn't that unfair?
Would you mind expanding on the how ? I am trying to get a handle on whether identity providers / VC providers are going to be 5 big firms or if everyone will do it like everyone used to have a office stamp for banging a red inked logo onto documents
What is a bit hilarious is the idea that the new guy will change any procedure at his new place because of his experience somewhere else. “Thank you, but it’s the franchise HQ who makes the rules, not the rank and file”
I'm sure I've still got a bunch of MP3 files from Napster on a hard drive somewhere, but yeah, that genie was put back in the bottle. This one can too.
Ah, so the chaos and lack of documentation in my company is really protection against chinese spies! Clever!

On a more serious note, I find it quite unfair that Western conoany go into China to take advantage of loose labour laws and child labour, and then they complain when loose IP laws hit them. Like you knew what the deal was from the outset.

Lastly not every society believes in the concept of intellectual property, it is not even clearly defined - for instance EU does not issue software patents.
How will we remember the age of cheap money?
Even just XORing the address with a hardcoded, pseudorandom bit pattern would have alleviated the issue.

Yeah, that's in the same vein as Seznec's 'skew-associative' cache where a cache line would be either direct mapped or mapped based on some hash of its address
I did this as a minor personal project back in the 80s. The audio went through a filter which turned it into a 'mark-space' signal which is perfect for computers with their '0' and '1' binary levels.

IIRC, the biggest problem was working out the speed of the sending. That took some trial and error, but eventually gave some text output to the screen.

A similar project worked on RTTY signals, that worked better than the morse project because RTTY signals are sent mechanically and don't have the 'human variability' factor.

Going back to the article, humans do better on noisy signals because they can naturally distinguish close audio tones. The electronic way would be to pre-process the noisy audio signal with fourier analysis filtering the noise from the signal before converting it to binary levels.
The answer is actually not that easy to find when searching for less than 5 minutes.

The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is apparently 440 ppm. CH4 (methane) is 1.85 ppm.

At identical concentration levels CH4 is 84 times more impactful greenhouse effect than CO2 over the course of 10 to 20 years and 28 over 100 years. So it should be about 35% of the global CO2 effect short term (which is not the total but close, probably ?), so highly significant. Curiously the number that I found is around 10-20% so either my numbers are wrong or other graphs I found use confusing units.
Wanting to ban something is different to actually banning people from speaking.

But, no doubt, there are republicans who would do this too. I would say the exact same thing to them, as and when they start actually banning something or someone.

Freedom of speech is not a political position; try not to drag me into the gutter, please!
it seems weird to "invade" this space, but I mostly found them "episodes" interesting and useful. and I assume most people did because each building had (many) volunteers to replace the episodes each week.
Corporations are multinational. The atmosphere doesn't care if that methane plume came from a plant in the US or a US-owned plant in Nigeria. Or on an rig in the North Sea.
I don't understand this comment. Systemd is a lot of small tools with a specific scope that do their job well.
That’s actually what I meant, but my comment didn’t describe very well.
This is going to be a somewhat disjointed and nonsensical comment as I'm finding it difficult to find the proper words to put down regarding this whole issue.

Never in my life did I expect myself to become somewhat of a luddite when it comes to AI, especially considering how much I love the concept in general. Something about the way it seems to be working out in the real world has me questioning my opinions, though.

I think more than anything I'm fearful for the future and what advanced versions of these tools will mean for everyone. Will the world simply become overflooded with these A"I"s for every little thing imaginable? Will every billboard I see and every sound that comes out of a speaker be some weird, uncanny computer-generated thing engineered for the maximum possible user engagement? Will anything anyone ever touches be examined by a dozen different AIs, all looking for ways to cheaply and efficiently replicate it en-masse? Will we all just become a meat shell of fried dopamine receptors, with various AIs and algorithms dictating every facet of our lives?

A lot of people call the recent and probably future AI explosion some sort of progress, but from where I'm sitting it barely feels like progress at all, considering it's already being used in the ways I've just described albeit at a less effective scale. Seeing my partner use TikTok to my dismay, and the efficacy of its algorithms and just how good it is at sucking countless hours out is just going to get worse once every single platform we interact with starts doing similar things.

It's strange, because AI could truly go in any number of possible directions, but so far what I'm seeing is it's going to lead us to ruin, and a lot of people seem to dismiss it or are even accepting of it (even in this very thread) simply in the name of so-called "progress".
I feed your code in to CoPilot, I've now got my super app. All those years you've spent coding, learning, refactoring, now done by AI in mere seconds.

Why should I credit you? I don't need to credit you, why should I feel the need to credit you? AI produced the product. You'd feel pretty annoyed right?
The Primary polluters are still China and USA. India is a far 3rd and emits 50% less CO2 than the USA. https://www.statista.com/statistics/271748/the-largest-emitt...
Yeah no.

From your link ‘9) “Trade secret” means information, including a formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, or process, that:

(A) Derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to the public or to other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use; and

(B) Is the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy.’

Pretty hard to imagine a customer list meeting any of those criteria.
> Most of Europe is off coal. It's not really a necessary part of an energy mix.

This is not exactly the best time to be talking about Europe's superior energy infrastructure.
They also seem to care about fighting windmills in VR.
False equivalence. A $1k acoustic piano will likely be shit. A $1k digital piano will likely be much better. A good acoustic piano is better than a good digital piano but in the real world where most people are not wealthy. The kinda acoustic piano most people can afford to get, play, tune, maintain and fix is close to the $1k acoustic. While the kinda digital piano people can afford to buy is likely closer to the $1k digital piano. So no, your average piano won't make you feel closer to music because it will be out of tune most of the time and you won't be able to afford a tuner.
> Not if the switching cost is high and/or slow. The problems of a monarchy will not be solved by setting up a competing neighboring kingdom.

That was how the US grew between 1700 and 1914. Everyone in Europe sick of monarchies just moved out to the new world.

When there isn't a finite amount of land to squat it becomes a viable long term solution.
If your stack overflow only allows user input to overwrite other unvalidated user input, then yes, it's "ok". Sometimes you get lucky. Of course it's a bug that should still be fixed, but if it's not an exploitable vulnerability then it's not an exploitable vulnerability. (It's not exploitable for ad-hoc rather than systematic reasons, but anyone who's still using C in this day and age is already only avoiding exploitable vulnerabilities through ad-hoc rather than systematic reasons, so that doesn't seem like a reason to rush out a fix).
It is pulled out of his butt, the F150 sells 3/4 of a million a year (just the f150!) and makes on the low end a gross profit of $10k per sold. The model x sold about 7.5k cars in 2021, way down from the 20-30k it was selling each year.

OK let's say it sold $30k, and Tesla made a profit of $100k (more than the car sells for) for each car.

That's still less than 50% of the F150 yearly profit. LOL.
In one of my best sales jobs, I got a full day training course on choice fatigue and how to guide customers to both maximize revenues and their happiness. The business I worked for had high rates of customer return, so the training was centered not around scalping the most money today but how to develop a lifetime relationship where we maximize LTV.

It was pretty fascinating. I ended up doing a fair bit of independent research on the topic to see if it was just same sales BS or a known psychological phenomenon, and it turns out it's a well-known branch of psychology/sociology. (Not necessarily related to the Decision Fatigue / Ego Depletion theory which has been tough to replicate, but is probably true in some respect).

Coincidentally enough, I took that education to my next job, which was waiting tables, and it held up there very well. The key, in my opinion, is actually being deeply knowledgeable about the product so your recommendations are authentic. Bonus points if you use the product.
Google puts an end to Google Hangouts once and for all
Microsoft: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
I used to use a phone as my backup camera when I was out doing bird photography. After a while I gave up. In variable light and high dynamic range conditions phones just don’t hold up (they do a better job with video). If you’re taking snapshots, nothing better than a phone.
Presumably, concurrency and fault-tolerance?
When we get to $0 for any possible artwork of any quality - yeah, it's game over for everyone, the end of the industry. Right now we are far from it, thankfully. AI still can't produce usable commercial quality files. Most of them are simply not good enough, and even those that look kind of good have to be fine-tuned and reformatted by a human artist. Which takes real skill and effort and costs money.

And until someone does any job for some amount of money, a beginner can start his career by doing the same job for less money. This will still be the case no matter what technology comes next.
It is very similar to a computer keyboard. Would you prefer to learn to type on a freebie kb included in a Walmart bundle, or <insert what you enjoy typing on>? They both get the job done, but one likely 'feels' better, which in turns makes the entire experience more pleasing.
> The Pareto Principle is just a rule-of-thumb, it's not an actual law of anything, and is just an expression of power law dynamics.

I never said otherwise.

> 97% of content being created by 25% of users is staggering

100% agree, it's just not surprising and is within a range observed in other communities. It's also unclear how many accounts constitute as active.

> I know very few people in my real life that actually use Twitter.

I don't know if most citizens necessarily hung out at the forum all day either, I'd be curious what percentage of ancient Greek and Roman populations made use of forums, and how frequently. If, besides commerce, discourse was often left to highly engaged citizens.

> I don't pretend that HN or other online communities I'm part of are somehow a vital resource for all of humanity.

I think positive networking is one of the most important activities our generation should be engaged in. We should be forming rich, useful and sustainable social networks which allow us to tackle problems at scale. A lot of serious relationships, companies, and ideas come out of places where similar minds meet such as Hacker News. Whether it's vital to some arbitrary societal metric is of little interest to me, as it is personally vital to my own life and I'm sure my individual experience is common enough to warrant nurturing.
Was there not some point where someone might have thought it a good idea to sink a gas wellhead half a mile away to drink that milkshake instead of letting it burn for 50 years?
Sure, on a small scale, but Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal and I'm sure many other platforms exist and are quite successful.

I'm a big pirate myself, with multiple TB harddrives full of pirated music accrued over the years, but even I choose to use Spotify and Tidal a lot of the time, out of pure convenience.
I was surprised at how long this list was:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_spy_cases_in_t...

It seems unlikely that any country could monopolise any particular weapons technology for long. I assume the US also has programs to extract any innovations from China or Russia.
I think it goes in full effect in 2023. They haven't really defined, legally, which companies are the ones that will have to comply. Of course Apple is one of them but they won't say "hey it's us" until the Europeans tell them.
I used to spend time configuring my wallpaper and many other things in my computers. Today I use it only for work and change only the strictly necessary. I want less friction.

Today I hit a though decision: I missed the niceties of fish shell on the VM I work on, but everyone else uses bash so it's so much more convenient to share commands through chat, pairing sessions, etc. I have postponed the decision.
I'm an over 50 gen-x er. The protocol is to text first to see if I'm available to chat, and then do the call.

Unscheduled phone calls, if you're not my kids, go straight to voicemail.
> probably so we dont see how fast they are progressing.

The problem is we don't know either way. They could be super advanced, or it could be that they are covering up shortcomings.

It feeds into the bigger question of: why do this stuff? If it is to advance human knowledge the results should be shared. It the results aren't being shared it's an exercise in nationalism with limited significance.

A similar situation arose in the history of computing. Colossus might have been the first programmable electronic computer, but it is a historical curiosity since it was kept secret until the 1970s. Humanity already had microprocessors by the time it was made public. Despite being a "first" it made little contribution to progress and is arguably of little import. Any secret research program runs the same risk.
You sure? The model x that sells like 10-30k cars a year is the MOST PROFITABLE CAR IN THE MODERN ERA?

When compared to cars like the F150 that bring in literally billions of dollars in profit a year?

Are you sure?

Oh, you're going to say you weren't counting trucks ;) Mercedes, BMW, Lexus still blow Tesla out of the water with their lineup.
This seems focused on ads; I don't see a clear commitment to not blocking sharing of newspaper stories (for example).
https://archive.ph/PFrp7
> The biggest problem with OIDC is how non-standard every implementation is.

I'm sure you've read it but I have to mention it for good measure. OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell: https://gist.github.com/nckroy/dd2d4dfc86f7d13045ad715377b6a...
Any other use of methane besides combustion most likely ends up releasing the exact same amount of energy as burning it.

For instance, nitrogen fertilizer eventually breaks the hydrogen bonds and ends up back in the atmosphere.
No, I didn’t miss it. You’re moving the goalposts.

That something is a civil tort doesn’t mean it’s a criminal offense (what is generally referred to as ‘illegal’). Trade secret theft is illegal.

But trade secrets have a specific definition which can pretty much never plausibly include a list of customers.
That some accounts were suspended under specific circumstances does not mean that conservative content is suppressed. Potential bias in moderation policies of specific behaviours/events and the matter of suppressing ideas are two separate issues (although the moderation of the Hunter Biden story, as I mentioned earlier, was probably a mistake).

Twitter is flooded with pro-Putin, anti-vaxx, stolen election, and "only two genders" content. The claim that these ideas are suppressed is so easily debunked (with a quick search) as thoroughly false, that I doubt that those making that claim actually believe it.

I don't know if Twitter punishes conservative Twitterers more harshly under similar circumstances, but it is simply and verifiably untrue that conservative content, of any flavour and level of extremism, is not widely disseminated by Twitter. I know that suppression has been a fundamental narrative for the right for some generations now, but like its other incarnations -- "the war on Christmas" and "cancel culture" -- it is just not real.
> Developing nations do not care about your supposed externalities. Caring about these things is a luxury they cannot afford in the literal sense.

Then WE (the west) pay for the cost to eliminate the externalities. We will pay for them either way and the only reason they can't afford it is we stole all their shit.

> You'd have burned them pretty badly if you compelled them to install solar even 10 years ago because of how inefficient it was compared to other cheaper means of energy production. Even in the past 10 years solar tech has come so very far... that is my point about it not being ready yet.

Utter nonsense. Slap in a combined CSP + PV station and call it done. Where >50% of the people live it's more reliable than coal or nuclear, the marginal costs stay in the local economy rather than going to rio tinto and paying half (unconditionally, no loan) costs significantly less than the externalities that reach us from a coal plant.

There are areas where this doesn't work, but 1 coal, 1 wind, and 2 solar is cheaper than 2 coal, and having ~2 units of constant power and 1 unit of intermittent has more uses than 2 units of constant.