skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can't use a currency to pay bills or mortgage it's pretty useless.
Is Alphabet lacking cash? Unless a spun-off YouTube were to issue more stock, they don't really care what investors would like.

If Alphabet needs money for YouTube investment they can issue more Alphabet stock, and investors can take that deal or not. But I doubt that Alphabet's challenges involve cash flow.

It might well be better for the world if Alphabet weren't a conglomerate. But it seems unlikely that it's better for them.
Even if it is it's not the sort of thing you can remove by changing a few words.

I liked his books quite a lot as a kid, and haven't prevented any children in my care from accessing them. But on revisiting as an adult there is a kind of... meanspiritedness to them. It's hard to describe but almost like, spiritual viciousness or a deep nasty pessimism about people.

Part of this may be why they appeal to children anyway. I didn't consciously notice as a kid but I suspect they registered as slightly transgressive in some way, and were alluring for that reason. Anyway none of the edits really address that, or could. To a significant extent that feeling is a fundamental part of the books and can't be removed.
I don't think sex bad is a Google problem as much the US problem. After all, it's not just ads and it's not just Google.

People in the US have this puritanical view on sex -> it is inherited by Silicon Valley -> it gets forced onto the rest of us.

Since the rest of us are forced to rely on US-based products in some capacity (app stores, payment processors, CDNs...), you can't make anything sex-related even in places where sex work is viewed far more openly than in the US.
Right, I'm not really trying to get into an economics debate about currency. It is a far more nuanced topic than I care to discuss and is heavily "by definition" depending on when/where you are. (In particular, the easy "stupid" hypotheticals usually just boil down to strength of the one arguing.)

My point here was largely that I don't get where Stephenson was trying to argue. Even some of the points made in the slides are somewhat silly. If Jack's family could have sold their home to get enough money to build a new one and have food, they would have done so. But, of course, that wasn't the story. So trying to nitpick odd choices there are post-hoc justifications.

Are we just wanting to beat up on the silliness of scarcity in video game items? I mean, I'm all for that. It is silly. It is also silly that people are willing to pay money for the items. But that happens with or without market wide scarcity. (Just see the items in Candy Crush and its ilk.)
This response is just handwaving and avoids the question. Why even bother?
New Patterns of Brain Activity in Freely-Moving Octopuses
Because the US is out of the compass right wing when compared to any other country.
Could you share any good resources for someone to start brewing it? Or any tips?
I think you're right. Feeling like you are the pinnacle of the game, at or near the top of the culture you're immersed in is probably a rush. I'm curious if the programmers making the cheats generally get their kicks the same way.
I predict that creative innuendo will always stay one step ahead of the AI censors, which will always be playing catch-up. It's just another form of euphemism treadmill.

When I was in public school, the adults got sick of kids using the word "retarded" as an insult so they renamed the class for people with actual disabilities to "special education". So kids started calling each other "special" as an insult synonymous with "retarded". Euphemism treadmills always lag, they're reactive and can't keep up with the rate at which people can invent new insults.
That doesn't make it any less stupid.
Belko Experiments, obviously.
Thank you for sharing your experience on the challenges of data aggregation from different platforms. It's interesting to hear how you dealt with it while working for an insurance broker. I was previously looking to build a B2B marketplace for medical equipment, but your comment has inspired me to explore more about data aggregation services and their potential applications in the medical industry.
Spot on. I once heard the Kims described as multimillionaires with one of the largest armies in the world [1] and nukes.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_...
well, yeah, that might be the default business choice. but it still leaves the question: what to do with the office space? what is the philanthropist going to do? should we completely renovate the building? demolish and rebuild? or is there an actual good use case for an old office building?
Conflating liberalism with moral decency is why we oppose y'all to begin with, btw.
FYI, the pronouns are killing me. 'You' and 'yourself' are referring to OP and not vertis, correct? Sussed that out by the 'you would be unwise to take vertis' offer...'

Also, it appears you meant 'it would be unwise to NOT take vertis' offer'.
> The people taking care of children at daycare make pennies; most of the revenue goes to a landlord.

I listened to the podcast recently (the one mentioned in the article) that went over the operating costs of preschools and daycares. Something like 85% of their revenue went straight to payroll, not "landlords."
I think it's even broader than that. Just the destruction of context altogether.
Also related, from the Diamond Age:

> The media net was designed from the ground up to provide privacy and security, so that people could use it to transfer money. That's one reason the nationstates collapsed-as soon as the media grid was up and running, financial transactions could no longer be monitored by governments, and the tax collection systems got fubared.
So does "avatar", tbh
If anything, crypto at least seems to indirectly put food on your table, articbull. I would find it hard to believe you don't get any compensation from religiously covering every HN comment sections about crypto with misinformation. Surely your motives can't simply be the fear of being out of a job if bigtech fades into irrelevance. AI would logically be a way bigger threat to your occupation.

Here are some stats for any passerby who might be convinced to think crypto really has ~zero non-criminal usage [1]. Surely calling 5-25% of many countries' populations criminals (including the US), should be relegated to a fringe extremist view.

[1] https://triple-a.io/crypto-ownership-data/
Privacy absolutists are free to deal in cash. Whatever amounts they send and receive, criminals and dictators do orders of magnitude more and people suffer as a result.

If it wasn't so sad it would be funny that the countries with highest levels of freedom and least corruption tend to be the ones with most vocal privacy absolutists...
Intention to not provide a reason for creation of a work _is_ having something in mind.

To recapitulate, they had in mind creation of a work with no intrinsic meaning.

Accidental art, if it is possible, has been of interest to me for a decade or so; my conclusion (limited as it is) is that it is not art.

However, finding an object and imbuing it with meaning is an artistic endeavour, so if the painter were able to produce work devoid of intrinsic meaning then it would become art if a person finds the work and imprints a meaning on it. Quintessential postmodernity, I guess.

It's an interesting area. It reminds me of reading a poet's reaction to reading an analysis an educational organisation had applied to that poet's work: you know the sort of thing 'the poet used the darkness of the sky to highlight the sense of foreboding of the hero'. The poet did not recognise any of their motivations in the analysis that was (IIRC) being taught to schoolchildren. Consciously they had been very plain in their approach of recording a (fictional) event ... of course they might have subconsciously made choices in language that would follow the analysis given ...
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That doesn't make sense, in modern match making systems you see your rank and/or rating points, you get higher, perfectly fine feedback.
No one convinces themselves that they are great when they are can see that they are in the bottom division..
There is also being an actual designated remote employee. If someone is located two time zones away from you/offices, you wouldn't call them in to solve a problem.
I stand corrected! I might have actually confused the background of the two apps with eachother...
The “classic editions” will probably be deluxe and more expensive, so overall it might be a win-win for the publisher.

If they dont sell they will be discontinued, if they sell they will continue to be published.

> possibly even make money

Of course. Publishing is a business. If they dont make money they will stop existing.

There is no mystery here.
Probably more accurate to say they are different demographics. Is laughably odd if you consider facebook to be social. Either bragging about doing things with others or to others. Current VR is very much not social. Largely single player games where you are literally disconnected from the people in the same room as you.
It did! That's the entire interaction right there.
well that's silly
I just love this. What is the next step? The gtp therapist? My therapist 90% of the time talks like he relates the keywords in my sentence to what Freud/Lacan said about it.
You have now just transferred risk. You have done nothing to mitigate it, and created more work for those of us that actually do read code.

Then again, if someone wants to pay me to do nothing but read and vouchsafe code, hell, why not. As QA I basically do that anyway. Will have to think on this.
> A yes volunteers that happen to be Russian, with Russian weapons, and Russian equipment funny that isn't it.

Let me ask you this: is everyone who owns an American gun an American trooper?

> you won't believe any of that evidence because...

...you will never deliver it. This seems to be a reoccurring problem with you. I've already pointed out that you don't link your sources, and you keep talking out of your ass.

> Theres no need to be rude, personal attacks against people are against the rules on hacker news.

It's not a personal attack, my dear. Personal attack is an appeal to some quality of an opponent. There was none. I just told you, that if you can't back up your crazy "objectively true" claims then better keep them to yourself.

> Russian soldiers, have been seen on camera many times just straight out executing citizens, I mean im sure you'll find a way to justify a Russian tank deleting a vehicle in a town they where meant to be 'liberating'.

Ukrainian soldiers, have been seen on camera many times just straight out executing citizens, I mean im sure you'll find a way to justify a Ukrainian tank shooting at a school in a town they where meant to be 'liberating'.

> But they posted it AS them castrating the Ukrainian, so once again this is just straight up mind blowingly stupid.

It was just a theory. Since you haven't linked the source yet, I'm not aware of the whole context of this post. So yeah. Sources again.

> The Russians have a reputation for kinda doing terrible things during wars so saying something like "it's just Russians being Russians" is not meant to be literally applied to every Russian but more to the situation.

How exactly did they get such reputation? Ah, USA propaganda, alright. Ever since the cold war they were trying to smear reputation of USSR soilders, now they do the same shit to Russia. Let's take for example the "Bucha massacre".

Ukrainian trooper's posted horrifying pictures of bodies laying all over the street, they claim it's Russians who did it. ONE HOUR LATER western politicians already post shit like "WE KNOW THE TRUTH, ITS RUSSIA WHO DID IT". No investigation required. Ukraine can post ANYTHING, and they will happily accept it. Because it's convenient. Yet the Russian side was on the more rational side, actually trying to investigate stuff, a lot of people noticed that circumstances about this incident just didn't match up. But the west didn't care. And the amount of such cases is just too big now. It's much easier to produce bullshit than to disprove it.

But the fact is it's USA army who's known for atrocities during war. Like shit they did in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, and so and so on... They were ruthless. The amount of war crimes committed by them just in 21st century probably exceeds all of humanity previously. Their officials singing in a cheery voice shit like "bomb bomb bomb Iran".

Why don't you talk shit about them? Ah, they were bombing brown people, they probably are worth less to you.
> Well, let's start with the idea of “I wish I could invest in YouTube without investing in the rest of it”. Why not?

The preceding parts of the comment literally explain why not.
I think you just didn't look deep enough. It says "Look up your destination country in the Index of Countries and Localities to make sure you’re following their rules." and the rules for Sweden say

> [...] paper money [...] are prohibited in Priority Mail Express International shipments to Sweden.

So don't pay for Priority Mail Express, just First-Class:

> First-Class Mail International is a generic term for mailpieces that are postcard-size, letter-size, or flat-size and weigh less than 16 ounces [...]
Using Rust to process colors from two decades of space photos
yeah i like that idea
I don't think so, plurality of AI's should solve this.
That it apparently increases testosterone? Yes, that surprises me.
well, match making in team games is an extremely finicky beast
Sad to see the early reviews being so poor and the game being in a such an incomplete state. From a software development perspective it would be very interesting to see inside and know what went wrong. From the outside looking in, it seems the larger decisions were disastrous.

* Take Two buys KSP

* Releases two well received DLCs and gets the game to a very good state

* Starts (from scratch, apparently) on KSP2 with a new team (Star Theory), throwing away working code and experienced developers who worked on the first game

* Drama and disruption as Take Two starts another team (Intercept Games) to develop KSP2 and hires (according to Wikipedia) one third of Star Theory - more knowledge lost

* Releases no new DLC for the first game during development of the sequel (mods show what can be done with the first game. There were plenty of things [new planets, new parts, resource system, life-support system, other solar systems, ...] that could have been developed which would have been successful

* Pushes the second game back and back only to finally release a buggy, resource hungry mess that has fewer features than its predecessor
now i have a new movie to check out. thank you
Until Dovecot and systems like it support JMAP, I don't see it gaining the critical mass it needs to succeed.
What’s the flashpoint of a Kindle?
The problem with probability is that it's actually quite a difficult topic. It is not very intuitive to most people, and it's basically the "footgun" of applied math - things could feel right, but still be woefully incorrect. There are enough fallacies for everyone.

I'm not saying that this is a "problem" in the sense that one should discard probability and statistics - but rather that in order to truly know what's going on, you need to actually study the topics. Deeper than surface-level knowledge. It's not something you can learn over the course of a tutorial or two.
> when automating your backups, what's a good way to make sure your rolling backups aren't simply backing up malware-encrypted files?

Maybe you could check the level of entropy (measure of randomness) of files before backing up - very high entropy could suggest encrypted data?
"Whether to choose Emacs or Vim is a difficult decision, as it depends on the individual's preferences and needs. As Seneca said, “Will any one give this passion as an assistant and companion to virtue, although it disturbs calm reason, without which virtue can do nothing?” (1). It is important to remember that we should not let our passions dictate our decisions, and must use reason to guide us."
A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life
You’re not wrong, but at some point, the dependency problem will slip onto someone’s desk in then legal department and rules will be pushed back across the hall into the engineering department.

It’s not a bad idea to stake out a product that’s mature and ready to go when that happens. It doesn’t even have to be foolproof. It just needs to be earnest enough to check off some boxes and show that “best practice” effort was made.
What great news! The support for the sx1276 is awful. I was digging around your github, you're referring to Freakwan[1], right?

[1] https://github.com/antirez/freakwan
As of mid-2022, Gartner had emerging AI technologies (somewhat surprisingly to me) early in the cycle--so on the way up but near the beginning.
We're at most five years away from florida passing a law requiring the original phrasing of eeny meeny miny moe.
Pragmatick
Speech generally doesn't threaten free speech. Misreaction to anonymous bias reports sounds like the real issue ..
In a country where people complained bitterly about the golliwog being taken off a jam label, I would suspect that yes, a certain segment of society would like that version back on shelves.
How are you feeling morale-wise with the company? I've been seeing a lot of negative sentiment around Airbnb as of late, a total transformation compared to what I've seen in years prior.

Before - airbnb is awesome, it's cheaper than hotels and you get a much nicer place.

Today - airbnb is so expensive. Similar price on the surface, but after random hidden feeds the price comes out way more expensive. In addition, there is the whole side of logistics (getting the key), having to take the trash out, do laundry/dishes, etc.

In my experience, the sentiment is kind of justified. Airbnb used to be the cheaper/better option, but it's kind of transformed into the more expensive option for arguably less convenience. Which sucks to say - I loved the original iteration of the service.
How does Adobe assure this? Or any tool maker?

Email has problems, yet the good and productive uses vastly outweigh the bad actors. The vast majority of systems humans use have benefit, otherwise they would be unwound by governments (eg. crypto).

People want to be creative more than they want to be destructive. The destroyers will be moderated, just as they are in every system.

I want a world where every kid can make their own Star Wars or Princess Mononoke and create more than Scorsese's entire career within a single year.
You should also read the source code. Developers are probably the only profession that blindly trusts their peers.
Besides being Orwellian, is this also a sneaky way to extend the copyrights?
>Are people looking for the Oompa Loompas as African Pygmies from the original version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, before they were removed in the 1972 edition?

The reasonable answer is "they should still be something people can readily access but not endorsed/actively reprinted" but usually these arguments boil down to very partisan takes on speech unfortunately.
^...The most insightful comment of the day, right here.
That's harder to answer. The building's zone may have existing restrictions that limit what may be done. For example, a common idea is to provide housing but that may not be an option depending on city ordinance and zoning regulations which means that philanthropist may first need to lobby the city to provide exemptions. If they donate or invest heavily in the city then they may get unfettered options or at least more options. Whether your company owns or leases the building is also a major limiting factor.

- One example would be to make the first floor a branch office for the local police department.

- If there is garage space then perhaps part of it could be sub-divided out to the fire department. Investing in the city buys a lot of power and exemptions from rules.

- One floor could be turned into a public library that provides internet access, selling coffee and snacks. Accept donations of old PC's to be iPXE booted into windows or linux, users-choice, nfs/cifs diskless.

- If the building is big enough, perhaps part of the first floor could be turned into a city civic center that people can rent out for events.

- If the building already has a decent security system then perhaps one floor could be converted into a museum for the city. Local historians should enjoy this.

- If there is a big parking garage it could sub-divided and become low-cost or free public parking, assuming the insurance company is down with this idea.

Zoning regulations aside, all of these things have tax and insurance implications.
I read recently a sensible comment on the situation that it was the publisher that decided to do the changes because parents were increasingly uncomfortable with it, thus long term unwilling to buy them. That they're backing out now is kind of a confirmation. I read Charlie and the chocolate factory with my son a couple years ago and, um, did not have a recollection of Oompa Loompas which were basically little slaves. I was fond of the book as a child, but some parts haven't aged well.

Speaking of Oompa Loompas, they were even originally tiny black people, but Dahl changed them to white himself in a later revision.
"all the foreseeable consequences"

If this was feasible why wouldn't you do this for every decision in life.
>the countries with highest levels of freedom and least corruption tend to be the ones with most vocal privacy absolutists...

Correlation or causation?
The Making of Dust 2
Yes, just like Google & co killed Microsoft, Oracle, IBM :-)
Thank you for succinctly saying what takes me multiple paragraphs.

One nitpick - it’s easily $10s of billions of in investment, more than likely approaching or surpassing $100s of billions.

A16Z alone has raised roughly $10b. Throw in other big VCs, a bunch of coin/crypto specific funds, likely thousands or tens of thousands of angel/seed rounds we’ve never heard of capitalizing on the hype (or just outright frauds), initial coin allocations (the Ethereum foundation alone had over $1b last I looked), etc, etc. Then there’s trying to figure how to “value” “investment” in things like ICOs and ICO 2.0 stuff like NFTs, etc.

Not to mention the tendency for crypto projects to be outright frauds from the start. OneCoin alone brought in $4b in what could be characterized as “investment” from the perspective of the victims. One incomplete analysis[0] shows this specific category of frauds (of which there are many in crypto) to be at least $26b in total.

It’s been 14 years, hundreds of billions in investment and roughly speaking zero non-criminal usage and no real-world killer use cases. That’s just fact. Time to move on.

[0] - https://www.comparitech.com/crypto/cryptocurrency-scams/
Capitalism isn’t a form of accounting it’s a mode of production
So long as the original remains available, I'm okay. Yes, I think there have always been people who'd prefer a 'sanitized' version of things --though maybe that wish wasn't always available or fulfilled.
And I certainly think that the original ought to remain. I'd hate for people to come down and revise Plato or Sun Tzu, etc., because some aspect or passages hurt their sensibilities. I feel the same about modern works as well. The Original must remain but it's okay to have a 'sanitized' or bowdlerized version as well.