skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ostensibly, the issue presented is this:

> Whether Section 230(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act immunizes interactive computer services when they make targeted recommendations of information provided by another information content provider, or only limits the liability of interactive computer services when they engage in traditional editorial functions (such as deciding whether to display or withdraw) with regard to such information.

The background is that the families of a victim of a terrorist attack are suing Google for hosting an ISIS recruitment video on Youtube, for which Google has clear and undisputed immunity because of §230, and the plaintiffs are trying to find any argument they can stand on to make the suit stick (they've lost at all lower levels of the court).

What I quoted above was the explicit question presented to SCOTUS, but from reading some of the actual briefs, there's almost no discussion of this actual question, with everyone instead wanting to discuss §230 as a whole and not its narrow application to recommendation content.

Of the briefs I did skim, I liked the US solicitor general's position the best: recommendations are not protected by §230, but it's not enough to say that recommendation engine produced objectionable content, since the content itself is protected. Essentially, the recommendation would have to be in some way unreasonable, and the burden of that unreasonability is presumably on the plaintiff's part, and these plaintiffs are clearly unable or unwilling to properly make those allegations.
The correlation between gun ownership and gun-related homicides (by state) is (weakly) negative.

We are happy to talk about the statistics, they just don't tell the story you want to tell.
Like one proeminent example some years ago (gallowb...) and I'm sure there are more modern ones as well
And about $120 billon of that is stable coins

It's too soon to say it won't fall further. The chart is still very weak. It won't take much for btc fall below 16k again. Another major failure like gemini or greyscale will do it.

Yes, it's worth a lot still, but for most btc investors long-term returns have been bad unless you bought pre-2017. BTC is only up 15% from its 2017 highs (from 19.5k to 22.5k). This lags almost all index funds.

The combined value of oil or copper is worth a lot too, but this does not make it a good investment either.
Same issue. This morning I'll check if it happens again. I was thinking I could mark it as hidden to solve the issue
This is nihilistic value: the “value” of Bitcoin seems to be latent not in its productive capacity, but in its ability to extract value from other people. Which is to say that it has the same value that a credit card skimmer does, and that that is not a useful definition of “value.”
> but the people who do the most important work,

Strange, I thought that was the people contributing and curating the content, ie the posts and comments. They also do it for free. Should they be paid too?
Is it not? Seems pretty niche to me. For example, I know lots of types of engineers but never a browser engineer.
I am fully responsible for this layoff

- CEO of every tech company
The graphs show that, with the possible exception of the Centralized exchanges, there's more revenue out than in. On the protocol level (though I didn't see the Centralized exchange protocols in the graphs), on the Decentralized exchange level, etcetera.

Basically all of crypto except the goldpan and pickaxe sellers, and some rare gold miners and gold traders, are as deeply in the red as Charlie Javice's startups.

Not mentioned in the article of graphs is that if this ever isn't the case it becomes more and more likely that a Sybil attack would become worthwhile. To protect against a Sybil attack you need to keep the value of the coins needed for a Sybil attack at greater than the total value of each protocol. I guess this is also the case for regular companies, with P/E greater than 1, and a marketcap greater than the liquidation value of the company.

But it also means that people can't all cash out at once, only at a trickle. For publicly held companies a larger company, or a billionaire, can buy out all shareholders at the current share price. But for crypto most of the value of the coins or tokens are that other people are willing to buy them at the current price. If someone buys out all of the tokens for a protocol it automatically loses its value. If crypto ever is used primarily as a currency maybe you don't need to cash out, but that's a big IF.

These charts showed me that publicly held crypto really is a ponzi-like scheme.
I was a miner and you only have 56 friends... so would you like 57? =)
The other thing the Western media bemoans and digs on is Japan's birth rate. That they have aging populations, yet haven't taken drastic immigration measures we saw in 2015 in Germany under Merkle, or Sweden. Measures that have created massive cultural clashes, general chaos and the resurgence of far-right parties, all under the loose guise of funding pensions and other embedded growth obligations.
Exactly. I had a 286 for a long time and then jumped to a Pentium. In between that period I missed a lot of games which would only run on >386 especially Doom. I played a lot of Wolfenstein. My first walkthru was with one life and lots of lots of saving and reloading, because I didn't realize you could press m to use a medipack, HAHAHA dang!
This is part of the reason that a lot of people are excited about stablecoins and blockchain payments.
Google already has lambda. I bet they’re full steam ahead on making that work with search.

As a side note, I think Sundar is a perfect CEO for a time like this. He’ll do whatever it takes to get the future lined up without injecting a lot of ego into it.
Why is it unlikely? I take it as a given that retirement age would increase.
Possible does not mean likely or easy.

Bitcoin is by far the most secure and decentralized crypto to date.

If you have ideas on how to build an even more decentralized or secure money, then please do so. Regardless, there is definitely need for money outside of the control of centralized actors.
They were lit and graded with the pre-home-theater home video market in mind.
And to reply in a single comment:

Reddit is nothing without its moderators. The moderators create engagement through their hard work. You can take a great topic, and it will die in the hands of bad mods. Reddit owes its entire existence to its mods.

The equivalent is Twitter or TikTok's algorithm. Reddit has tricked thousands upon thousands of people to do the hard work for free.

They SHOULD get paid by reddit. Or, maybe reddit should adopt and non-profit structure and never IPO. But the idea that all these reddit employees will eventually become millionaires on the backs of free labor is disgusting.

It's funny how HN loves to shit on Lyft/Doordash/Uber for exploiting drivers, meanwhile if reddit mods get paid it's somehow dishonorable. For the record, Uber gave shares to some of its best drivers upon IPO.
The European Parliament Corruption Scandal
You are loading up my question with your own assumptions. My point specifically is if I’m just observing a piece of work and running the NN algorithm in my brain, does this constitute as illegal thought then? Do my thoughts violate rights? Note that I am not “reproducing” anything (whatever that term means). I am just observing the work and running the algorithm in my brain while silently sitting.
Excellent. Most people and resources sited on this Machiavellian capitalist mega-bro site often disagree with me. I take it as a compliment. It’s a positive sign I’m on to something sustainable and worth investing my time into. Thanks for helping me smile today.
Open Source High Performance ELT in Go
You are describing a comparison shopping search/aggregator.

If you are having a sale, you are going to be near the top of the results for any reasonable sorting scheme. (An actual sale, not here's 50% off of my bullshit price)

And searching Google for "buy lawnmower" is a good way to buy something you didn't want or need. Even if you actually needed a lawnmower. The only people it helps are those who don't care whether the item is good, and don't care about the price at which point they might as well just walk into the nearest store and buy the first one they see.
https://archive.is/pGFSK
This claim was made often early on, without any supporting evidence. Because the network and userbase was smaller it was more plausible. Now it's substantially larger, and industry has developed within it.

So what's honest about claiming that it was or continues to be without any data?

Even if you decided to go out and attempt to gather this data (good luck), why does this matter? How much impact to the USD do you think there would be if all illegal drug trade stopped tomorrow?
Yes, I am, and the server is in the house.

I periodically do a "git pull" onto an encrypted HDD that's stored at the office.

Offsite and backups outside of my normal backup procedures, in case I'm suddenly really screwed.

The PGP key is on a YubiKey, and I have an encrypted offline backup of that as well.
I think you should look up infiltrate and entrap in the dictionary.
Absolutely as opposed to those things. With Google, if you use a reliable source like Mayo, NIH, even a WebMD, It is clearly more likely to have accurate information than something that proves even numbers are prime. Certainly all those things can be inaccurate but where in the world you think ChatGPT pattern matches it’s information from?
If you have $10B worth of stock in a company with $440B market cap, you’ll have no trouble converting those shares to cash.

If you have $10B worth of Bitcoin today, good luck trying to extract $10B in real dollars out of the crypto system.
The mods are NOT the commenters. There's a difference. Twitter moderates its own content via algorithms. Reddit still has comments in the same way Twitter does. But moderators literally moderate the content to make sure it's good and engaging and THAT'S what drives reddit.
Not really a point. I guess because security demand is generally low, it was easy for the assassin. But compare the number of 'everyday crime' like theft, murders and gunfights to the US and I guess you easily come to the conclusion that Japan is safe.
> > > Violence is always abuse,

> > So any form of self defense is abuse?

> Yes, it's abusive

Abuse is a term used to describe impropriety of action. The idea that impropriety is used to counter impropriety is not coherent. Self-defense is proper (suitable, appropriate, etc) use of force, insofar as an individual values safety of their person. Self-defense is necessarily not abuse. I dont think any amount of rewording will change this.
This is a really charitable view of things.

Most of reddit is controlled by "powermods" who mod anywhere from dozens to hundreds of subreddits. They collect them for clout and don't give the slightest damn about their communities, don't participate in them, don't have time to even spend time reading them and getting a feel for them, etc. They're not trained or educated in community management for the betterment of said community.

Nobody has the sort of free time to spend moderating an active community, especially unpaid - and therefore they must be getting paid by someone other than reddit. I'm convinced that a large number of subreddits are moderated by accounts that are controlled, directly or indirectly, by advertising, PR, and reputation management firms - and government agencies, ranging from intelligence to "PR." Either directly, or via payoffs to promote or suppress certain subjects, topics, and types of posts.

I think there's a reason Ghislaine Maxwell - whose father was an intelligence agent - was a reddit powermod.
It sounds like you're skeptical about the business case, I was just pointing out that article did provide you with one.

I don't know the answers to your questions. Though I agree the article doesn't back up the claim that layoffs are reducing diversity, except possibly indirectly by references to Twitter, where there are claims layoffs disproportionately affected women.
Sweet! Yeah the slow animation is a Manim performance limitation, I think (hope) their community is working on improving that.

Yes --low-quality works for testing but the fastest way would be to first test without the --animate flag at all, so you just get a final image of the command's effect.

Then once you get that you can add the --animate flag to generate your final video to share.

And awesome to hear it will be used for your company session! I love teaching people about Git. Feel free to share the tool with them so they can try it out as well!
I have one of those cars (Kia EV6), and when at a 350kW charger, I've never seen it go over 180kW. As for every 2 hours, that's only true once there are more fast chargers, especially on long stretches of freeway between major cities. I did a drive from Houston to San Diego, and we had to stop every 60-90 minutes, not because we needed it, but because the fastest charging locations (Electrify America) weren't close enough to skip any. Also, freeway range is far less than city range, due to wind resistance.
The layoff literally means the the role is eliminated, it can be eliminated because of your performance, or it can be because companies doesn’t need the role anymore even if you are performing well. Not to say we should feel sympathy for these people but Why is this so surprising?
Because most problems like merging and resolving correctly, or rebasing or squashing if needed don't get resolved by cloning a new repo. If you avoid learning the tool and you just clone a new repo when you have a problem you won't be able to do any non-trivial task in git.
TLDR: Avoid it if you can!
You think Google does not provide results from books, published articles, etc? Really?
Some of the use cases of the last year:

- Working with companies everywhere in the world, as the bureaucracy of setting up the monetary relationships for, say, a Ukrainian immigrant residing in Poland willing to work for a US-based entity, is prohibitive;

- Targeted high-impact donations for Ukraine;

- Basically everything where the official way of doing is too slow or where there is too much red tape.
Good suggestion, I will add that.
It won't be wrong forever, there's a good chance they'll figure out how to evaluate sources and provide more useful results. And besides, the bar is low -- Google search results for some topics (e.g., programming related) are quite poor, filled with garbage and clone sites.
The problem is with the mega rich avoiding taxes while the rest of the plebs pay taxes.

It's not moral to avoid taxes while the rest of the people pay taxes and you use public services.

If the rich lobbied to abolish all taxes so it was fair, that's fine. But that's not the case. They lobby to create laws that help them avoid tax whilst making other people pay tax. Because at the end of the day, it's in their best interest for the government to function, just not on their dime.
One big hurdle is that just because the camera can deal with the dynamic range, that doesn't mean the viewing setup can. I can watch the Battle of Winterfell just fine on my laptop screen, or with an expensive beamer in a dark room. But on a TV that reflects the bright window in the dark parts of the screen?

The lack of dynamic range in movies meant we got away with glossy TV screens in brightly lit rooms, often combined with compression algorithms that do worse in dark scenes. And with more and more content shot for television or streaming instead of cinema, this will limit what filmmakers can do without causing problems.
It'll certainly help AWS to get a lot more profit :)

Mastodon is not a single service, but open source software groups/individuals/organisations run. So it's not really accurate to say Mastodon itself had issues with the huge influx of users, but rather some popular instances of Mastodon had issues.

Mastodon is supposed to be more decentralized (federated being the way of achieving that) than currently existing social media, so it'll benefit more from heavier focus on performance optimizations and more experienced gained around running it on dedicated instances, at least in the long run and considering the core idea behind Mastodon.
Can I put all the app icons in the bottom right corner where I can reach them with one hand yet? Or does it still force them to float at the top?
I'm certain they could sell more EVs if they made it a priority. I had to wait a couple of months for them to manufacture my Chevy Bolt, in which time I could have gotten cold feet or bought one from someone else. Apparently now there are 4 people on a waiting list at the dealership, which has 0 EVs in their inventory.
> But every time I watch something made before 2000, it looks so beautiful to me—not otherworldly or majestic, but beautiful in the way the world around me is beautiful.

For a contemporary example that underscores this point, check out "All Creatures Great and Small" https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/shows/all-creatures-gre...
2bi USD is like 1% of Google's annual operating expenses.
I second this. In a year's worth of using Privacy.com, I've been very pleased with the service.

I like how you can set a budget for a particular card, as well.
Modern Japanese society is closer to 1950s America than it is Meiji or Edo Japanese. Occupation had a profound impact on them and still does to this day.

In fact, I’d posit that the reason why the “West” views Japan with such fascination is because it’s looking into an alternate history. “What if the hippies and postmodernists lost in the 1960s?” A lot of the cultural values Japan exhibits can be found in old PSA videos and newsreel footage of 1950s and early 1960s USA. Then they skipped straight into 1980s yuppie consumerism, spedrun straight into a financial crisis and then skipped straight into the smartphone era.

It truly is a different place but not for reasons of deep history (bushido is a 19th century invention, Sushi as we consume it is only as old as modern refrigeration, Tokyo metro used to be a dirty noisy place).
A lot of recent (high-budget!) shows are very incompetently graded and mastered.

The recent game of thrones spinoff had a lot of scenes with terrible grading, where they'd clearly done something wrong in the grading pipeline - maybe accidentally squashed the entire HLG range down into SDR before exporting to PQ.

The grading on Wednesday was quite good. They had a number of technically challenging lighting scenarios that they pulled off quite well, and the output was properly mastered PQ.

It's possible studios don't actually care about this because, form what I can tell, most viewers don't even notice stuff like this.
> Perhaps Section 230 shouldn’t extend to sites with anonymity. If somebody is harmed then somebody should be liable.

The creator is liable even if they are anonymous.

There is a difference between someone being liable and it being easy to identify who they are. (And, even if the site owner isn’t liable, a John Doe suit against the anonymous user can be a framework within which to subpoena the site owner for records which help to identify the liable user.)
It's not Berkshire Hathaway, Bitcoin's "test of time" was 3 years of media attention that is now coming to a close. Regulation and taxation is disincentivizing people from using it. Exchanges and liquidity holders are being ousted as scammers, it's basically The Reckoning for everyone who promoted a Laissez-faire economy.

I love the idea of a democratized currency, but Bitcoin's value is propped up by very little now. As I said before, you cannot run an economy on goodwill alone. Someone's getting fooled into holding the bag, and the longer you hold out for a payday, the greater the chance that fool is you.
FWIW - The supreme court generally will allow just about any amicus brief.

So this is not particularly special in that respect.
Or virtually all trade magazines, Auto Trader, swingers' magazines, plenty of hobby magazines. There are tons of things you buy for the ads. MaximumRocknRoll in the 80s and 90s, the reason you bought it was to find out where to buy records, the articles were extras (and they told you what records might be good and what bands might be good to see.) Their coolest co-publishing thing was issuing guides to all of the clubs and other vendors in every city and state that touring bands needed to book.

These are all ads. The enemy isn't ads, it's an extremely intrusive and adversarial advertising industry posture.

Ads are useful, they tell me where and what things are available. The problem is that everyone uses the methods originated with patent medicine to sell everything.

The methods of selling patent medicine are simply the methods of confidence men; the "medicine" was probably just some unholy mix of alcohol and mercury. Patent medicine marketing emphasizes secrecy, because they're usually mostly frauds; and also because to any extent they are not fraudulent, they want to be exclusive and not copied. Patent medicine marketing also emphasizes leads, surveillance and secret dossiers. When you're selling dreams, you have to know what people are dreaming about; you also have to know how much they have to spend.

Our advertising problem is a legislative problem. We find it very difficult to police this kind of behavior because it is so widespread among the powerful (and is usually what got them powerful.) It is also completely rational behavior because the methods of con men will sell more regardless of the quality of the product i.e. a good product sells even better using underhanded methods. So there's simply no way to protect your world from being run by the best con men without creating legal obstructions for them.
Does Pomodoro give anyone else a lot of anxiety while they are using it?
Because the question needs to be revised. It is not about what you can do with an append only database vs. blockchain. That's not reflecting its purpose.
I’ve not been using desktop icons for decades, maybe W98 was the last time. I have never been fond of the cluttering ever since, especially on the larger displays (SVGA does not lend itself to many icons anyway).

To run things on Windows nowadays I mostly use the Alt+Space applet that comes with PowerToys.
That worked! Thanks.
I don't know why you're downvoted.

My company literally does Remittance using Crypto and business is booming.

And I completely agree with the other uses.

Those downvoting, mind at least providing some arguments with those votes?
Couldn't you just disable the garbage collector in those languages? I know you can select a "none" GC in the JVM, you should be able to do the same with other runtimes too.
Yeah, its like old school page templates, but using an amazing stack.
Won't disagree they've slept on this but I'm pretty sure now that gpu compute has reached enthusiast hands people do think of AMD and whatever intel may bring to the table. Who knows? AMD tends to arrive late but with more available tech like FSR, Mantle, upstream kernel drivers etc.
The two are pretty much equal in legal terminology.
To avoid some misunderstanding, I was referring to Betteridge's law of headlines [0]. Just an attempt at humor from my side, nothing else.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
> we've found value in digital things and may, thus, call them assets: e.g., data, media, and information/knowledge

> We have no way to deal with digital assets

Are you writing an ad for a new crypto platform that is definitely not a scam?

There are literally people on the Internet who are able to deal with data, media, information and knowledge without ever touching crypto. Amazing, right?
This quote dates back to earlier than 2010. I don't think jwz would agree with it in 2023.

On Windows you burn time eliminating ads, Edge, "set up your machine" popups, and other bullshit.

On MacOS you burn time papering over what is a completely incompetent OS for dev: containers, package management, fourty-fucking-five minute security patches, and other bullshit.

Linux generally just works.