skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
other very popular industries could be selling securities, if you actually apply the test. Tell me the flaw in the following, and if there is no flaw, why did the SEC never go after them to make an example:

All shows like Yu Gi Oh, Pokemon, etc. have been running, technically speaking, unregistered securities offerings throughout the world and United States, yet the SEC does nothing. They are textbook cases of the Howey Test:

1) People (kids, in fact!) buy Yu Gi Oh trading cards

2) There is an investment of money (either they nag their parents, or they actually spend a non-trivial proportion of their own life savings)

3) With an expectation of profit. Witness how many of them don't actually use the cards, but keep them in mint condition (and as we have seen SEC successfully argue in the recent case SEC vs LBRY, if even a few people buy with expectation of profit, then ALL those sales are securities).

4) From the efforts of others -- namely the producers of the show, and their promotion of Yu Gi Oh trading cards. Trading! Perhaps even selling!

5) There is definitely a common enterprise, that isn't even decentralized. The Yu Gi Oh show is produced in Japan and shown in the USA, and drives the sales of the cards. Cancel the show, and the cards fall in price.

Yu Gi Oh Abridged series even lampooned this, to great comedic effect.

Oh those foreign-owned Japanese companies, preying on our kids selling them investment contracts! Do they really think the kids are sophisticated investors who think things through when they keep their mint-condition cards! Who will buy the top and be holding the bag after the show is canceled?

So being a textbook definition of Howey, why did the SEC never go after Pokemon, Yu Gi Oh and any of the other "merchandising" companies? How about Marvel with their mint-condition comics? Isn't that a "common enterprise" since some people buy comics for their investment value?
I want to remind everyone that the irrigation of the entire south Kherson oblast depended on the Crimean channel, providing around 17% of Ukraine's agricultural output, and the water supply to some of the largest cities in the area such as Kherson and Krivuy Rih was also dependent on that water reservoir. Not to mention the colossal flooding and displacement of tens of thousands of Ukrainian people. This act had ruined a chunk of Ukraine's future. It's extremely unlikely Ukraine had anything to do with it or anything to gain which would compensate the economic loss.
Sure, but what's the relationship post Blu-Ray? Serving video in general has been important, but not pornography in particular. Ridiculous to say porn is the real usecase. If you have some articles about how porn in particular has driven cutting edge tech please do share. My understanding is that it's been more military, video games and space that have driven cutting edge tech (along with serving ads, of course).
That live rendering exists is in itself a sign that we want more than plaintext. On its own, plaintext is simple, which is why we like it. And it shoves everything directly in your face, which is also why we like it. But many of us also want more than just plaintext, so we invented markup, to add some levels of richness. But this makes it complicated again, and the more we want, the harder it gets, the less support from the tools we have.

Obsidian is now in a space where many people want something more richful, with elaborated data-handling, charts, pictures, videos, code-fragments with syntax highlighting, execution of code-framgments, and so on. The scale of demand is far more than just plaintext, or simple markup, and the tooling can't fetch up at the moment, because anything becomes very dirty and hacky around the higher abilities and more specialized workflows.

And then there is the problem of documentation and learning, which with plaintext is always a big problem, because everything depends on your input. With richtext-interfaces, you have an environment whose whole purpose is to support you in inputing and manipulating which ever richful text/object you want. So they simply scale up better. Which brought me to the realization that a modern environment around richtext and objects is what I really need. Because it's simple to level down richtext, but hard to level up plaintext.
"More time" would equal "lower ROI" unless there is some magic inflection point that would cause a dramatic upward leap in gross margins. Gross margins, in this case, is mostly cost-per-user-acquisition. But "this new social network is amazing, I love it, and you should join" mostly happens when social networks are new, young, and small. It would be difficult to bring back the days of triple digit growth for a network the size of Reddit.
Yeah; almost all the subreddits with more than a few thousand members have decided you can't post any links to anything of your own, labeling it self promotion. I think corporate blogspam is to blame.

But I have been soft-banned from the Raspberry Pi subreddit for years (which is rich!) for self promotion since I used to link to my blog posts about various Pi topics.

So I started doing text posts, and would have 3-5 paragraphs about the topic, then at the bottom a link for more info to my blog post. Nope, self-promotion.

I had similar issues in many other places, and in a lot of subs, even if you post a link, if you forget to also add a comment with specific points, or set flair after posting... all kinds of arcane rules, then your post will get deleted.

I haven't been banned from any sub AFAICT, but mods are swift to ban for almost any reason these days, especially for anyone who dares to challenge whatever the groupthink is (in the Apple sub, it was basically "if you dare put Apple in a bad light or question anything they do" for a time, I think I may have been banned there for posting a complaint about the Touch Bar!).
Nope, just a plain average user. And I never leave reviews for apps, positive or negative. Most people complaining are NOT average users. Which is why this is just a bunch of nonsense.
True. The Iphone is an Ipod Touch with a sim card.
I assure you, I hate that thing. It has dogged me and the Internet Archive for over a decade. It is not just vaporware, but dangerous.
Sexual desire is pretty universally human, not personal.
We can hope that SCOTUS tears Chevron apart this term. Then Congress will be forced to actually do its job, something it hates doing because it puts responsibility for decisions in its box.
The problem is that one at a time times 100,000 DBs takes a long time. For every second a migration takes its 1.1 days.

You can parallelize it, of course, but that's a challenge in of itself.
IIRC, the fines are some % of revenue. Basically enough to tap into margins.
It might sound silly, but I would be fine using this with a keyboard and touchpad. The lousy thing about working from a laptop is the screen being tiny and in the wrong place. It's bad in general, but it's intolerable on a plane. This solves that.
Read the room, and by the room, I mean this thread.
Interesting, given how stringent Japanese copyright is otherwise. I'd bet large Japanese media companies lobbied against that (eg Nintendo surely doesn't want AI nets able to make Mario/Zelda/etc art indistinguishable from source material). Curious what ultimately led them to reach that conclusion.
Destroying dams is explicitly a war crime.
1. article says nothing about external identity providers. which is what everyone here wants. still fully locked in.

2. it only hints at the UI being open to other apps, approved in the app store of course, using their new undocumented api

3. the sharing features will probably happens over their central control. not over the UI implementers.

so many misconceptions in these comments. specially mixing up passkeys with in device keys
Can you explain what those rules are wrt crypto?
Alien Information Theory by Andrew Gallimore

Excerpt reading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxC2cyg-cTg

Less about psychedelics, but a great accessory read is Mind and Nature by Gregory Bateson
In what sense did the iMac G4 fail to live up to the hype? That was my first Mac, I still have it. Thought it was an incredible computer for the time--the iMac + OS X 10.1 Puma was absolutely magical coming from Windows 98 on a beige Dell.

The design still looks incredible too, 20+ years later.

I will grant that the Newton failed. In the Apple hardware category, I'd also add the iPod Hi-Fi, the butterfly keyboard, and the touch bar.

That said, Apple's failures are rare and their multi-decade track record of delivering on hype is unsurpassed.
People comparing this to reddit today and anticipating a downfall to a new flashy competitor are in for a rude awakening. A huge portion of the country believes in "hate speech" and "election misinformation" as a major issue in the country.

If the original reddit were introduced today with the exact same owners (RIP Aaron), rules, and layout, they'd be cut off by AWS, their IP provider, called Nazi's on CNN, etc.

On top of that, it's clear a site such as Reddit pushes their political viewpoints forward. Why would they give up such power for a more "balanced" and "fair" site. Look what happened in 2016 when the DNC leaks occurred and Trump stuff was on the frontpage day and night.

Personally I hope this does happen and would LOVE to see a few things defaulted in the new reddit.

1) Allow viewing of removed comments.
2) Give mods the ability to remove upvotes in comments (for a more OG message board vibe)
3) A different type of view for a political post. Maybe instead of just seeing the best comment, you'd get the ability to see the top comment + top rebuttal or something.
Does anyone think the military would be interested in using vision for training purposes, like a fully immersive combat experience?

Seems like a market that the article missed.
Do you? You are likely in violation a lot more than you realize.

They also haven't been clear or consistent.
I believe people at the FDA and NIH are allowed to have financial interests in the drugs they regulate[0]. I'd bet the SEC doesn't permit that. That would probably explain the difference.

[0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC545012/
I feel light headed and forget to fully touch my phone screen outside of VR (thinking just pointing at it will work, as it does in VR).

But only for an hour or two after taking off my headset.

Not sure what you mean about socially? I can't see how interacting with people in a virtual space would have any strange effects on how I interact with people in a physical space. I don't really see a difference between chatting in a group around a virtual table versus a physical table.
The "only because" relates to why they don't fight the regulators. As in "why fight them when you can have a revolving door agreement where they get cushy jobs in your company after they leave the FDA". In other words, I am not implying that there aren't other reasons for collaboration with the FDA, I am implying that there isn't a culture of "fighting regulations" because there is instead a culture of manipulating regulations. This in no way implies that there isn't also good collaboration.
wow, the not a microdose video is a pretty accurate representation. about half way in i could almost feel that anxious like feeling rush through my body.
I'm confused. I used to use and absolutely love Alien Blue. I love gestural swiping. It makes collapsing comments and moving rapidly between posts easy.

Reddit bought Alien Blue. Sure, it's got ads and other bullshit, but the core UX is the same. I've never had it crash or cause any problems. I've always been confused by what people mean when they utterly trash on the "official reddit app". Is there another one I'm not aware of?
I'm not too sure, removing porn and nuking apollo is a pretty big slap in the face and will impact a lot of power users.
> The question here is: will anyone notice the breakage?

Few months ago I wrote a feature request and patch to GNU coreutils that resulted in some discussion of this NULL argv issue.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2023-03/msg0000...

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2023-03/msg0000...

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2023-03/msg0001...

> An edge case is we may want to support allowing to specify a NULL argv[0].

So the GNU developers are aware of this issue. Perhaps they make use of it in other GNU software. Not sure.

It seems my patch wasn't accepted to the coreutils. I offered to add support for NULL argv, they said they were deciding what to do but I never got a reply. So env doesn't have this functionality yet.
> smartphones didn't have "a" killer app per sè I don't think, but they became part of everyone's daily lives in a really short timeframe

The smartphone's killer apps were messages, phone, email and calendar. By the time the iphone came around it was just to eat Blackberry's lunch because it gave us multitouch as the killer interface.
I was under the impression you're actively building your own solution "<product> integrates different APIs [...] and provides a single GraphQL layer to integrate third party APIs" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35526107 Is the question about evaluating competitors in the same market?
You'd really think so eh? Unfortunately no one wants to pay mods.
> 95% of it is just showing things other devices have done for years.

The rallying cry of people being wrong about what makes Apple products successful
Right, you need to utilize the steamworks SDK to use DRM. And even if you use the SDK, it is actually possible to not implement the DRM. Specifically, you can just not run the drm wrapping tool, and not implement DRM directly though the Steamworks api calls. The wrapper in compatibility mode (used when wrapping with another drm scheme that supports after-compilation wrapping) literally just checks if launched through Steam, and if not, requests that steam start and launch the game, and if launched through steam, checks for a valid ticket. In non-compatibility mode, it adds some basic checks against the executable being modified, etc.

For offline games, the DRM is little more than an anti-(casual-piracy) feature, making the obvious copying of the game folder not work, with generic cracks being easy to get online. It is more like games requiring the disc to play back in the day, even when fully installed, as a measure to avoid casual piracy, especially before CD writers were a thing.

Interestingly, despite having a generic executable wrapping system, many games that choose not to use Steamworks DRM are the older ones where source code is no longer available to recompile, or there are concerns about recompilation. I’m not sure why the wrapper would be a problem, unless the games contained integrity checking code, or you want compatibility with modding tools that edit the binary. Alledgedly at least one publisher literally applied a crack they downloaded from a piracy site to their retail release, and uploaded that to Steam, and in that case, I could easily see the steam DRM wrapper not being feasible to apply, as residual checks from the old DRM could cause breakage.

Valve even went out of their way to conceptually decouple the SteamVR SDK from steamVR. Instead they made “Open VR”, an interface conceptually like OpenGL or Vulkan, which allows for more than one runtime implementation. However, SteamVR is the only runtime implementation. But in theory, if a VR game on steam did not use Steam or other DRM, and you had an alternate OpenVR runtime, you could take the game folder from Steam, and run it against said alternate runtime fully separate from Steam (if only such a runtime actually existed).
Reddit going back to it's roots with fake users
Tesla doesn't make their batteries, they buy them from Panasonic.
It’s like people read about Vision Pro, ignore the demonstrations in the Keynote presentation, and then comment and criticize as if this was an Occulus. These comments are peak Hacker News. Practically “why would anyone ever want a touchscreen on a phone.” Or “where’s the stylus?” Or “You can make your own Dropbox in just a few hours.”

The intense criticism of a device nobody has even seen in person is astounding. Some guy that codes CRM software complaining that Apple isn’t innovative enough. Or some other person that makes one of hundreds of podcast apps is lamenting that nobody needs Vision Pro. And those from third world countries are whining about how expensive it is. And the Marxists are going on about rich CEOs. Vision Pro apparently has something for everyone to hate — which is why is clearly a world-changing product.

However very few are actually discussing the world changing possibility that Vision Pro is finally going to unlock. People laughed at the 3D birthday party demo.. but can you imagine having conversations with your grandparents and recording those like you are actually there? Or 3D immersive journalism that lets a single reporter take you into the battle, protest, or history making event? What about an app that can take you inside of 1942 Paris.. you walk along down the streets and see it as if you were in occupied France. Imagine the Pokémon-Go level of immersive real world gaming that is unlocked. Imagine the possibilities for rural and remote medical care delivery. VR required lots of specialized programming — Vision Pro can make everyone a creator. This isn’t the f’ing “Metaverse” — this is real life at a whole different level of possibility.

Many of you folks are talking about the boring, whining, pessimistic view of Vision Pro. Where is the optimism? The imagination? What innovation will this inspire? Possibilities are endless. The original TV cameras were huge and obtrusive, but TV changed the world. Now imagine what Vision Pro is going to do.

I miss the times when the tech world was about the (Peter Thiel definined) Definite Optimism. Now it’s as if we have this European-influenced malaise and everyone is indefinitely pessimistic about everything. Everyone is so cynical and lacking in imagination.

However, thanks HN, these comments are going to be legendary in 10 years.
Discord doesn’t charge for per sub access does it?
It sounds a lot like a version of "pump and dump", which the SEC puts in the securities fraud category.
What does it even mean, "no reliable input"?

Are they talking about input devices? Not only the headset doesn't need one for basic operations, but it's also compatible with keyboards, mice/trackpads and game controllers. What's missing?
I wish the SEC would go after MM manipulation in the current stock market. Get rid of Fail to Delivers altogether and stop allowing obvious pump and dumps to prop up margins. But that is just me. as I'm not heavy into crypto.
Article discusses Coinbase Earn, which was a staking service providing APY yields.

Is that not an unregistered financial product? That's also the kind of financial product directly behind FTX, Voyager, Gemini, and Lunacoin / Celsius collapses.

So we have direct evidence of a particular produce (staking) that is both unregistered and dangerous. That many Americans lost money over.
Use-case is the missing ingredient - we will have to see what comes of it. It reminds me a big of google glass -- impressive product without a reason to need it. Yes comparing glass and Vision Pro isn't fair but there are parallels.
Wish they would you know go after congress for the consistent and blatant insider trading violations but nah gotta protect the consumers from themselves.
It’s impressive, I admit, but I’m skeptical Vision Pro will outdo the legacy of iPod Socks.
That’s a good point.

Look at Telegram. They tried to use Reg D to sell the initial SAFTs, and restricted it only to millionaires, so clearly they were the type of “accredited investor” the SEC wanted.

Well, Rule 144 says after a year of holding, these millionaires could sell to anyone. Read section 4a(1) of the Securities and Exchange Act. But, somehow, the SEC got Telegram to abandon its plans and return all the money. Because the SEC argued that TON itself was a security, not a commodity, they said that it cannot be sold to the public.

What if the investors were the ones selling, and not TON? If they are not AFFILIATES of TON, purchased without a view to resell, held them for a year, then why can’t they resell a few here and there? They are not considered underwriters under Section 4(a)1. Even most states allow such sales. Not to mention that the new Reg D after the JOBS Act pre-empts state laws for the primary sales, so I am not sure the states could easily win a case.

I followed that case and it was never really clear what securities laws Telegram broke by making a Reg D filing and a SAFT. Maybe someone here can explain, if you actually read the case also.

Now the decentralized TON community is building it instead.

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2020/04/12/making-sense-of-...
Any book in particular?
Up to 4% of global turnover, so substantial.

From personal experience, businesses I've dealt with in the EU are eager to be compliant as long as it's applied across the board (ie, they aren't losing their competitive advantage).
> There was no genocide by Ukrainians in Donbass, this Russian propaganda has been a persistent narrative that has any had a single word of truth to it.

I used double-quotes, mostly because both sides claim a genocide. It's clear that both are at war. A dirty fact of war is that civilians are going to die in the war and both sides are going to lie about every aspect of the war. That is not different this time and we ("the west") are not a neutral observer.

This war feels forced especially with the western interference in the coup-d'état that led to the banishment of Yanukovych. The western narratives surrounding it make no sense at all, but we can probably agree that an elected government was replaced by a movement funded by EU and helped by the US.

We ("the west") forgot the value of peace I think or respectively what war entails.
It's not a catch 22 though. There's coherent logic to it.

It isn't that the SEC "isn't allowing you to register." It's that crypto exchanges can't/won't properly register.

To put it more abstractly, it makes perfect sense for not all securities to be capable of becoming registered securities.
EVs are a political issue, short-term-ism vs. long-term-ism. Some states have always been more in line with short-term-ism.

Texas, Delaware, Florida, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico,Mississipi...

I am not surprised by the EV tax, it's a statement that implies 'In this State we don't give a damn what happens 150 years from now'. It was bound to happen, tree-huggers are becoming insufferable.
The visuals are interesting because they're the only aspect that can even come close to being shared with people who don't use the drugs.
The article is introductory in nature, tending to be irrelevant for the HN audience.

What worries me is that I have seen people here more often commenting on the author's life, their academic or professional attributes instead of paying attention to the article.
Large organic molecules found in a galaxy a billion years after the Big Bang
Magic Leap didn't do it though. They said they were going to do it. But at no point did they actually do it.
Yeah that's how I try to see the image again now. But it's not as vivid.
Saying "just register properly" is insane at this point. Coinbase has spent millions in legal fees over the past decade trying to get the SEC to publish how to do exactly that, and the SECs repeatedly refused to clarify how to do that. So much so that Coinbase sued the SEC for ignoring process in April, and Gensler got pulled into a congressional hearing a couple months ago where several congress people attempted to get him to clarify rules, and he refused to do so.

The SEC wants to "rule by enforcement", and are doing everything in their power to refuse to define clear rules, because then people would be able to follow them, and the SEC would no longer have the power to leverage enforcement actions against them.