skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's be honest though, the primary thing that attracted most powerful people to web3 wasn't decentralization, it was reintroduction of artificial scarcity into digital spaces. Web3 billed itself as empowering users, but it always had an undercurrent of commodification and gatekeeping.

And that's exactly why (ignoring the scammers or pump-and-dump businesses) it saw such heavy investment from VC/tech types. The promise they were interested in wasn't democratization even if that's what they told their users -- what they were interested in was taking a plentiful resource (digital bits) and building a scarce asset that they could use to further entrench exclusivity, status, and monopolistic control over what that asset represented.

Read back over every sales pitch for web3 games. At some point they always devolve into talking about how ordinary users will be able to rent seek: to "license" characters/weapons/gear and passively earn income from other players, or to hoard exclusive tokens/releases in the game and speculate on their future value. Web3 looked at infinite digital spaces and its response was, "infinity is a problem that we need to solve." And it's revealing to look at most web3 branded metaverse attempts and see just how quickly they reintroduced real-world concepts like housing/space scarcity (why on earth would we want a housing market in a digital space with no physical constraints?), and how quickly they leaned into cosmetics and customization as a monetization strategy rather than a user right to free expression.

In general, if a technological "paradigm" is primarily associated with and primarily popular with VC firms, it's probably not being developed with the user in mind.

On the other hand: federation, interoperability, mobile identities, and legal efforts to build a right to data export existed independently of web3 and have shown a lot more promise when it comes to actually increasing user agency.
It makes sense for Apple to have put little focus on gaming for the launch of this product. They're betting on "spatial computing" as a new computing paradigm alongside desktop and mobile interfaces. I wouldn't even call it a "trade-off" as Zuck suggests—Apple just doesn't want to sell you on what other headsets are already doing. As of now, you can't compromise and just get something else instead of Apple Vision Pro (but if the paradigm takes off, I'm sure you will be able to).

That said, it's a given that VR games (and probably third-party controllers) will trickle into visionOS. I also agree with Zuck that Apple's entry will generate more interest in the VR space in general, indirectly benefiting Quest and the VR gaming industry.
If I privately tell thousands or millions of people "John Doe committed fraud!" then am I not engaging in defamation?
Amazon literally hasn't reduced prices for S3 since 2016: https://www.petercai.com/storage-prices-have-sort-of-stopped...

Hard drive cost $/B continue to fall:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/

Self-hosting is looking more and more attractive.
spez's responds just a corporate bullshit, and not the hard answers. You can read responces here if you want:

https://www.reddit.com/user/spez/comments/
Here is more context: https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/warrior-dockerfile/issues/56 ( ARM support #56 - Apr 16, 2021 - 27 comments )
What irks me about this is that 100% of their data is provided for free, by the community that they have fostered, the people like myself who have answered > 2500 questions[0], and now SO feels hard-done-by by LLMs using all their hard work to create tools like CodeGPT, GitHub copilot, etc.

Were it really a site for helping developers to improve their skills and increase their productivity through the give-and-take model that SO was, at least once upon a time, SO should perhaps take a deep breath and realise that this might not change a thing apart from causing their contributors to feel like they were never part of it in the first place.

I'm not sure if I've correctly articulated that, but I do find SO's stance to be quite revealing. It feels to me like they're crying foul that ChatGPT and the how many other systems out there are stealing their revenue. None of the contributors (apart from the employee ones, I suppose) ever got paid any currency other than high-fives in the form of rep, medals, the gamified stuff, moderation rights, and at certain rep levels some swag in the form of t-shirts and the usual.

I never wanted any money from SO, but the revelation of this attitude has left me feeling, well, a little sad to say the least.

[0]https://stackoverflow.com/users/70393/karim79
Why do people drink so early at airports?
I don't think there's a real answer anywhere, but my guess is that it's not about selling the product per se. They want to introduce the concept to people, get them used to it, so non-owners don't cause a wave of bullying like what happened with Google Glass, whose users came to be known as "glassholes" [1].

[1] https://www.wired.com/2013/12/glasshole/
I. love. this.

I will never look at my cat the same way again.
There are lots of solutions to needing to create an account now. There's social logins, and the prevalence of password managers if you want to use an email and can't remember if you already have a login.

Reddit is easier because you already have an account, but creating an account on a random site has never been easier to do or manage, so it's not that much harder (and importantly, people already do it because not everything is on reddit so it's not "new" to learn how to create an account somewhere).
Could be mistaken but I think my Mac already does this -- it has "true tone" and when I open the lid, my main external monitor changes color temperature.

I wonder if there's a way to scrape that data and then send it to Home Assistant for light control.
https://archive.is/2023.06.08-152400/https://www.theatlantic...
I had that dictionary. So thorough that I did an entire research project just by reading definitions!
Octopuses Can Rewire Their 'Brains' by Editing Their Own RNA on the Fly
Maybe. Probably are a partial truth. Regulatory pressures to crack down on NSFW content of any kind are very real.
So there are some bad lawyers therefore all lawyers are useless?
I agree the buck stops with Kennedy BUT the original story was that Michael Arndt (Toy Story 3) was hired to write a trilogy. He didn't write fast enough (for Iger?), and Abrams replaced him and his story. What we can deduce, is that ad hoc unconnected movies wasnt plan A.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/nov/09/star-wars-micha...

There is also maybe more recycled Arndt ideas scattered through the trilogy than he gets credit for.

https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/michael-arndt-re...
> the complexity that each individual company/employee needs to handle has increased

Also regulation has massively increased. There are tons of laws you might accidentally break as an early startup without even knowing it, and there are tons of laws that restrict entry into the marketplace through a high legal compliance burden.

Imagine trying to create Facebook today. With 3 employees and a few hundred users, what's your anti-CSAM strategy? What are the laws about who is responsible if some ends up on your platform, and how you need to handle it? Ask your $500 per hour lawyer. I'll wait.

Imagine trying to create Paypal today. Oh, wait, you need something like a million or more dollars to even operate.

https://www.amazon.com/Captured-Economy-Powerful-Themselves-...
Oh man, does it have a way to set the fog to different density in different areas? Vanilla's max draw distance seems way too low in the relatively-nice parts of the island, especially the South, West, and coastal East, but if you set OpenMW's draw high enough to feel right in those areas, it's way too high in the ashlands and around the volcano and all that.
maybe use Python to connect to ChatGPT api.

Here's simple app I built to connect:
https://github.com/gnuconcepts/ChatWindowLLM

You could look at connecting to Supabase.
I read somewhere that some believe consciousness to have arisen from paradoxical wants (i.e. not dropping something hot to accomplish a task).

I just remembered hearing on joe rogan maybe 10 years ago about delta wave (?) training, where someone would have their delta waves monitored while watching a movie for example. When the waves got outside optimal range the movie would begin to stutter and buffer until the waves got back into optimal range. It was said to be efficient - and it's effectively training your subconcious.

This might also interest you
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/free-will...
It's not brigading if Reddit explicitly put out a homepage banner for people to engage with the AMA.
They literally warn you every time you log in that the results may not be accurate.
> I'm not willing to let tens or hundreds of thousands of people die because of social stigma

How about a comprise then? What if we made it so that you could get unrestricted medical record access for any patient for whom you are willing to to guarantee (under severe financial penalty) will not die?
All of our institutions are headed by the likes of Caligula, Nero and Elagabalus so it's only ever a matter of time before the charlatans in charge set it on fire themselves. Never count on anything lasting longer than a year. Motivations can change overnight.

With one exception, there are no instances of anything crowdsourced/community-supported that aren't later paywalled, gatekept or destroyed to prevent exfiltration. It's always an advance-fee scheme. The longer the duration of time, the more the terms are corrupted until the people expecting delivery on the original promise end up being told "what promise?" (The exception is piracy sites. Ironically the illegal nature of the activity seems to keep the owners honest.)

Never work for free, for any promise of long-term future payout, "exposure," or any other bullshit. When they fuck you over--and they will, because you made it so easy--you'll be too broke (and broken) to sue. Every inch, every day you give them is just more time for them to find ways to cheat you.

(You'll learn this lesson the hardest way in making concessions to a high-conflict ex-spouse armed with a 50/50 child custody agreement...they get you to agree to let the kid stay with them during your scheduled time, more and more, until they can prove the kid is basically with them 100% of the time-- then you get slapped with a vastly-increased child support order. You can't claw anything back because they have commitments now. Thus, you get cheated out of both your relationship and your money.)
You really would need an existing dump to seed the new site.
From what I've read, personal API keys (issued to anyone) will continue to work fine, but apps that expose a way to use arbitrary keys (like in a settings UI, rather than hard-coded at build time) will be deemed in violation of ToS, specifically so that personal keys can't easily be used by the masses as a workaround for apps that have a 1:many dev:user ratio.

If you can build an app (or clone what someone else has built) that contains your key, you can proceed. This is fairly high friction for mobile apps, like building/patching an .apk and side loading it.
I think there have been multiple leaks in the past, and this website is not the first either...
Nil and false are both not truth. It's also just a leaving c conventions, which state anything not 0 is true (& 0XFFFF!= 0) be praised has been expanded to ridulous levels.

The merge of existence checks and boolean operations in the same operator is wrong.
Strange that we sue companies for selling products we haven't even bothered to ban yet. The idea that 3M "knew the whole time" is kooky when we aren't even sure now, 15 years after people started looking into this, whether we should ban them.

Scientists, regulators and legislatures should decide what the rules are and then hold companies accountable for actually breaking the rules.
Fun to work on doing FP in languages that don't really support it, but in my view a language has to be built for FP for it to be a practical option in any real applications. Several obvious reasons for Python being a poor lang in which to do FP:

- mutable data structures
- no built-in function composition
- limited support for HOF
- no tail call optimization (AFAIK)
- performance in general isn't great and I imagine it's even worse when relying heavily on recursion, etc

Still, a fun project!
At the same time, I'm in awe and in horror of seeing those high current, high voltage disconnects being opened only to end up with a few meter high arc of current jumping through the air between contacts.

I was taught the procedure of disconnecting a 10/20kV disconnect for an on-site transformer (alas, only an old one that had been decommissioned) and that thing scared the crap out of me when I first heard the spring loaded high voltage disconnect actuate.

Having a 3 meter fibreglass pole to actuate the thing, just incase, tells you there is a real risk of the thing blow up in your face, on a good day.
>> Why would Apple need to pay to promote something?

The Apple Vision Pro is expensive ($3499) and they need to get lots of interest to promote adoption in order to recoup their investment in developing it and make it "the new shiny thing that everyone wants".
To give you dreams like the done I had last night where I lost 6 points and decided to delete my comment so I wouldn’t lose any more.
No, the vast majority of social media companies trying to limit porn on their platform are certain conservative religious fundamentalism groups working their ass off to ban all porn, currently by hiding behind the claim of "mountains of child porn" which has a small nugget of truth (child porn most likely gets uploaded to pornhub and other sites every day), but that's just a facade. The same group also goes after sites selling sex toys to consenting adults and makes no attempt to help victims of sexual violence. They are merely a rhetorical tool to justify their awful goals.
Just like having a headphone jack is a feature now. Still, combining it with a grid style menu makes it even more efficient.
The CA isn't directly compromised so a third party couldn't generate any arbitrary certificate this way. Essentially though, assuming my understanding is correct, it would allow them to be a man-in-the-middle and take copies of the keys & certificates used by this tool, allowing them to use keys and certificates generated by that tool. Also, if such a tool is run by root (bad practise, but not uncommon practise) or other significantly privileged user, they potentially have access to far more.
> That's always been the case. People used to just murder or enslave the populations they conquered.

I don't understand. Murdering or enslaving the population of the conquered country is a lot cheaper as a way to maintain control of it. So the fact that it's a lot harder politically to do those things now, than it was in the past, greatly increases the cost of maintaining control of a country. As the article says.
> [edit: Something that we've unfortunately over-promised and failed to deliver on too many times, e.g. Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Kurdistan, Hmong people, any war where the Pentagon seizes on a "third way"]

It’s like there is no need to even compose a reply. This philosophy is absurd on its face.

But I’ll just say that the US has supported dictatorial “regimes” (instead of overthrowing them, or fomenting a popular uprising).

(What if the US was in fact a capable superpower and not a bumbling, idiotic giant who whoopsies all of its attempt to to good? Because the war aims had nothing to do with spreading democracy.)
Buying your way into electric truck marketshare instead of designing and building it yourself and letting the consumer decide? Instead of a Rivian truck and a Tesla truck, consumers just get one?

I mean, it's typical US corporate behavior at this point, but I fail to see how it positively affects the market or truck buyers. Tesla stock, sure.
if you assume that reddit won't just ban or at least take API access away from any user doing that, sure. I would not assume that.
Totally wrong. Have you used Apollo vs the official iOS app? Night and day user experiences. The official app is buggy, ugly, difficult to navigate, and affords not even half of the amount of customization that Apollo does.
Option B. Always option B.

More seriously, I get the impression Being A Cat is rather intense and takes up their entire concentration.
Is it just an early stage index fund?
Where does the article claim this is not the case?
There are legitimate use cases for reddit interactions. Some of the smaller communities in particular, discussing specific games or health conditions for example, actually are excellent. Most are not that good, however.
I feel like we should make a comment here about you're not in the sudor's wheel.
Speak with a few lawyers and you'll realize they're just as dumb as the general population.

In some cases - even more dumb, since they have this belief that their credentials mean they know everything about law.

An awful lot of what a lawyer does is look stuff up... and in some cases, they aren't even that capable. All too often you are responsible for providing your lawyer with mountains of research, arguments, etc.
As a counterpoint there's this article about the technique, not the flour, being the critical ingredient. I remember both because I dated someone from the south who missed the biscuits and I was trying to make better ones. The link you have made me think I needed to work on the flour. Then this made me think improving the technique was more important, but by that point I had gotten better at it. Now I'd have to restart the practice to make something I'm proud of. Most of the biscuits I make now get frozen and then shared for breakfast while camping or even backpacking.

None of that is to say I'm an expert, seeing that article just reminded me of a lot of biscuit making.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/01/19/686579106/is...
> Peaceful just has to be a continuum in order for us to make any sense of a theory of peace.

Nope. Any reasonable person will accept an argument about how things are peaceful in relative terms. Factoring in everything and not cherry-picking.

Demanding perfect peace would be way too idealistic.
> Who doesn't want what they want?

A more pertinent statement is:

How can people afford to have what they want?

Either people need to have more money, or costs need to come down. Generally, this comes from figuring out ways to do something that is already being done, but in a more efficient, cheaper way.
If you have good reasons to build on a third party API and you do it responsibly (not over-leveraging yourself, not annoying the API provider) then it’s fine, sure. Perhaps the real value of that rule is that it makes you conscious of the risks and pushes you to mitigate them.
I think your making the spot comfortable explanation is very compelling.
Everyone's hating on this, but I do think we have to rethink limited liability because of some of these contexts. 3M paid out dividends for years while producing these chemicals. Their liabilities exceed their _current market cap_, but their market cap could have been higher had they not decided to consistently make those payouts.

Consider J&J's (failed) attempt to spin out a new company to hold their liability over the talcum powder case. It was attacked and shot down because it was so clearly a post-hoc maneuver. If they had merely spun out that child company earlier, would it have been ok?

What if the new playbook is:

- spin out a new company for every potentially risky product line. A parent company may hold a large stake, but other investors can hold shares too.

- sell, grow revenue, but keep few assets in the company; pay out dividends aggressively

- drag out or quash or deny any research or evidence suggesting your product is dangerous, or being sold in an irresponsible way

- when you're finally sued and lose, the company has very little money left in it; plaintiffs get relatively little compensation for their harm, but you don't care because you're busy growing your next dangerous company

If that works, it sounds like a broken system. If you're doing something you should expect will cause large liabilities to crop up later, it seems abusive to pay out dividends to shareholders today and become insolvent tomorrow.
Uscsb Postmortem: Transient Hazards: Explosion at the Husky Superior Refinery
March 1960, the Lisp I Programmer's Manual:

ff[x] = [atom[x] -> x; T -> ff[car[x]]]

or

DEFINE ((
(FF (LAMBDA (X)
(COND ((ATOM X) X)
(T (FF (CAR X))))))
)) ()

which one or two decades later would be in Lisp:

(defun ff (x)
(cond ((atom x) x)
(t (ff (car x)))))
No, it's mostly Putin. He wants to be Tsar of All the Russias, like Peter the Great, whom he greatly admires.

‘All his (Putin's) ideas... come from the past. He wants to move the country to the 19th century, to a time when empires were possible.’ — Marat Gelman, former Putin adviser.[1]

[1] https://archive.is/ddazo
That's not at all what I said.

What do you think about the video I linked?

Also, analogies to dysfunctional interpersonal relationships don't represent the dynamics of many-party international competition very well.
Case in point: new refrigerants with lower global-warming-potential were adopted after the hue-and-cry about CFCs. Many of the new refrigerants are now also source of concern due to PFAS. The CFC refrigerants themselves were introduced as superior and safer alternatives to things like ammonia and chloromethane.
There is no point, the only use case is what you’ve mentioned. The problem is this can’t run programs people actually use, so it’s just a pretty, useless user shell.

It would make more sense to use some sort of in browser rdp, vnc, etc. Then you can run a real opereting system.
> This was one of the promises originally of Stack Overflow: all the content is Creative Commons licensed

This reminds me of the promise OpenAI was built on. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a bold claim to be respected and too good to be true [0]

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34979981
That worked so well for tumblr. Reddit pulling a TwitterTumblr combo at once, let's see if they can survive this. 20-30% traffic drop?
Care is a big component as well. The real power of cast iron is that you can renew the coating when it wears off by re-seasoning the pan. Using a drying oil like flax, you coat the pan and heat the oil until it starts smoking, then wait for it to stop smoking. Repeat this process a couple of times and you have a durable non-stick surface again.

If you ever have the surface roughen up you can also strip the old seasoning by covering it in oven cleaner and heating it to cleaning temperature. The easiest way to do this is to stick it in an oven on high.

I’ve had the same frying pan for 10 years now and this is how I keep it non-stick.
There was no "main" source of truth for each version and each ISP could have its own set of posts. The bofh.* hierarchy for example had a very limited distribution and if it was found that one of the sites that provided it was leaking it to the general public they'd collectively cut off sites from being able to post or receive posts until they rectify their configuration.

http://usenet.trigofacile.com/hierarchies/index.py?status=pr... and https://web.archive.org/web/20220815151921/http://bofh.taron...

Sure, an ISP could host its own news.answers site and not accept posts from others for that group nor pass messages from it out to others... but that would be a rather lonely place.

Likewise, one ISP may have a different set of posts that it shows for a news group because of moderation actions (we don't accept any posts greater than 1MB in size because of disk space issues and we don't host any newsgroup named *.binaries).

Federation comes from exchanging those posts using a common protocol - NNTP.