skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is precisely what happened, it happened long ago though and has been the driver behind actual physical war more-so than any other factor that I can tell.

I'm admittedly kind of annoying with the frequency for which I post it but I wrote a short paper that attempts to demonstrate how we got to that position over the last 12,000 years. This is the most relevant portion here from the Third Proposition:

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"“Creating Markets/Value” (Inducing novel scarcity fears via public storytelling) becomes an optimized resource acquisition strategy, as monopolization of production is most efficient when the market “Creator” controls access to the new market from the outset, minimizing appropriation costs. “Investment capital” (Hoarded value) is used to generate these new markets at a sufficient scale, while the relative abundance of capital for the “house” (Investors) will allow the creators to impede competitors from the start, thus ensuring a maximum return on investment. Power law guarantees that existing resource hoards will forever seek returns and accumulate more into increasingly fallow pools of capital. Unrestrained “Free” competition, a reinterpretation of “might makes right,” then must represent the dogma behind forever growth." [1]

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In a nutshell, people with a hoard of money will fund the creation of "New" markets. Think Meta with the "Metaverse", Apple with the "App store" etc... with the intention of being the monopolist of that market by virtue of creating it. They then propagandize extensively (marketing) to convince people that this new market has value that hasn't been extracted yet and IF YOU JOIN RIGHT NOW you can get a piece of that growing value as a new gold rush. People even use the same language here.

The problem is, only a handful of people can fund large scale new markets and they DEMAND monopolist exploitation capabilities within that new market. Like with Amazon and Reddit, part of the strategy is to delay exploitation significantly so as to bolster the monopolistic market position by pushing platform growth over all other metrics. That way when you flip the cash flow exploitation switch, nobody has anywhere to go and everyone just rolls over cause there isn't enough collective will to change behavior that was reinforced over a decade or more.

[1]https://kemendo.com/Myth.pdf
> if enough users suddenly remove their whole history from Reddit.

Reddit has around 52 million users according to this unknown source I dug up[1]. Only the people who care the most about this situation will actually delete their posts (especially with a python script). What's that, like 500k people? So yeah only the "best" data will be removed from Reddit, but that's not even the data that makes them money. It's your data, remove it, but I think it's an illusion that it'll hurt Reddit any.

[1] https://backlinko.com/reddit-users#reddit-daily-active-users
> I absolutely am leaving Reddit over this.

ok

> I am keeping my account, because I might need it to promote my business (it still has utility in that area and I am pragmatic

ok, so you're not leaving. Everybody else will be just as pragmatic and the rest won't care. Realize that you just pretty much proved the point of everybody here that believes that this likely will have very little impact. If you were principled you would leave.
> in print form, accessible to all

That's a contradiction, albeit surely an unintentional one. Only electronic text is fully and automatically accessible to the blind, visually impaired, and dyslexic. I assume that in this context, "accessible to all" is intended to mean that it's accessible to people without computers. How big a problem is that these days?
Who Will Maintain the Maintainers?
On the contrary Icelanders are very friendly and will talk to you in Icelandic if you ask. People mostly switch because their English is excellent and they want to be accommodating. They’re also not being deliberately aloof from tourists there’s just waaaay more jobs than there are native Icelanders to fill them, particularly in construction and seasonal work like tourism.
sure but to engage in the relevant consequentialist reasoning correct you need to argue that this is more people, not just some people

(I'm undecided on the whole thing but this argument as stated is bad)
They're also building plenty of coal plants, too: https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/china-permits-two-....

The argument of "being left behind" is flimsy as it's more "China is catching up" as they provide more power to their numerous rural regions.

I would say the US generally has "enough" power (well enough is never enough) so that a trickle of expansion is fine. China needs to and is building en masse, it's just incredibly bad that so many of their new watts will be coal.
This is false. It was mostly designed as a tool for Unix hackers, with motivations that seem not too dissimilar from perl. It was the ease of use of the language that brought people in from the math/science community who usually weren't programmers. This has often historically led to terrible and non-idiomatic (but working) code, because if you have an idea in your head you can quickly hit the ground running.
Just need to update the script to also create new comments with random garbage, edit those to other random garbage, then delete. Add in some random delays between actions, randomize the order of all individual actions, and this would make it very difficult for admins to separate legitimate activity from script activity.
> I don't think it's self referential

It involves perception, and you believe it despite not having gone through what you claim is necessary to acquire the knowledge.

> the whole idea holds on that if you manage to do predictions that are confirmed, you still have to assume that your perceptions are consistent across time.

YOu may have to do this, but I certainly don't - in fact, I believe essentially the opposite of this!

> As an individual you can check you perceptions across time, with several people you remove yourself as a variable.

That could depend on the nature of your relationship with the people - it's possible, but not guaranteed (and knowing which situation you're in isn't easy).

> I've been extreme in the formulations, but no, you don't need other methods, repeatable experiment with accurate predictions is enough.

This is only true if it is actually true though - how do you confirm that it is true?

> The heuristics are quite reliable.

...the heuristic process suggests.

> It's just that we tend to forget/ignore that everything that what we think of being true is just a large compound of beliefs, and that the only way to validate those beliefs is to use them to make prediction, and validate it through experiments.

It is true that there is value in science, but there is also risk.
Why would I choose Fedora over Ubuntu?
I think it's more about vengeance. If it were not for vengeance, it seems healthier to just quietly move on and completely forget about the thing they hate. By deleting data and being vocal it, they are hoping to find like minded users to amplify damage. Maybe it's schadenfreude.
Agreed - Microsoft's Xbox backwards compatibility is awesome. I bought Xbox 360 LEGO Batman ages ago and play it with my son now 2 player on Xbox One.
Iterators are a fundamentally non-functional construct. Long ago Henry Baker wrote "Signs of Weakness in Object-Oriented Languages": https://plover.com/~mjd/misc/hbaker-archive/Iterator.html
Question is, how are they going to identify tracking parameters in links ?

They can't just blanket remove all GET parameters (because it would break legitimate non-tracking links), plus advertisers could use subpaths instead of GET params for writing the tracking data.

Therefore I suspect it's only going to be arms race between a blacklisted list of GET params and advertisers changing up the variable names to escape it, making it unsafe to use any GET param at all because you can't be sure a link that works today will still work tomorrow if they changed their list of banned properties.
Really not sure what you're talking about.

The Levoit moves a lot of air on its highest setting. The filter is $23 and lasts for 6-8 months. It works amazingly and effectively in a bedroom or living room or office. I know, I use them and measure my indoor air quality with an Awair.

The CR box is probably far more powerful, yes, but it's also gigantic. You'd never put it in a bedroom or living room. I'm honestly not sure where you'd put it.
The notion that a pizza robot company was once valued at $2B is absolutely hilarious.
I am willing to agree on this one. There is a clear weariness in US for giving military even more money. I am seeing something similar in the old country and that is despite Russian aggression aimed at Ukraine.

Is there really? There’s some grumbling online, and the recent debt ceiling fight did involve a cap on spending. But they still increased spending, and it’s entirely possible and probable that cap is going to get uncapped in a supplemental, as Republican and Democrats in the Senate are still quite into spending on this.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/mcconnell-says-mil...

The US populace may get grumbly about spending on Ukraine, although realistically most people are just bored and have tuned out that news. But I think there’s about a 0% chance we won’t still increase military spending, especially given even more posturing and escalation about Taiwan.
Not truly anonymous but if you just delete your account, the comments will remain and the author will be `[deleted]`
A Spontaneous Disassembly Event? ... Has the Bubble...
I deliberately omitted protein as I've not really thought about it beyond it being used for muscle and body tissue in general; it can be used as a source of calories, but currently I think of protein purely as a building material, never as a source of calories.
Speculative sampling: LLMs writing a lot faster using smaller LLMs
Is 12W meaningful heat? I mean, I have laptops that run 10-15W and it doesn't seem like much. I guess it feels hotter because it's a much smaller surface area, but not that much (laptop heat output is mostly over the CPU/mainboard anyways)
I have experienced this with Levi jeans. I buy a nice pair of jeans, they fit well, look nice, affordable etc. I need more jeans, so I go to the store a month later and try on a bunch of different jeans. One pair says they are the same size but fit entirely different, so I chalk it up as being a different "fit" of jeans. Nope, when I get home, they were an IDENTICAL pair, but fit like a different size.
"All of this just works" - Todd Howard
There are ways to get around that, e.g. the author legitimately buys it, but for some reason his payment for that story is $1500 more than usual.
> but I was trying to meet OP half way.

I'm not. Getting pretty tired of having the meeting point of getting buttfucked and not buttfucked being buttfucked, but with lube.
Apple has a shot at solving the mental health crisis
It's not as black and white as that. People also have died because of the abuse of medical data. There is real, genuine harm either way.

And I'm not saying I wouldn't be willing to share. I have consented to such things before. But it should be my decision how much risk I'm willing to shoulder.
Nice first pass, but its clearly calculating these as the pigeon flies and not taking the various stitched together street grids into account. You should get diamond and square shapes, not circles, for the most part. I'm working on a redesigned subway map / nomenclature an indicators of walking time to nearest stations is a subtle feature I want to build in. Something between a watershed like this and a vornoi diagram depending on which edge comes first.
Same. Last night I felt a sense of grief that all this immense knowledge & the tools to aggregate it have been fully captured by the bland sanitized values of ad networks.

Even today I can’t find answers on Google to my daily inquiries, but will find it on Reddit.

If there is an internet worth building, it’s not on ads.

But we all knew that from the start.

Here’s to those working on the federated web, maybe the outcome can be different.
It really isn't. I have a lot of contrarian opinions, and HN doesn't dismiss them as quickly, and there are more people that will engage in reasoned debate with them.
I always imagined it was a reflex to check for things like snakes or other pests before lying down which also doubled as a social cue (as outlined in the article). You see cats kneading blankets seemingly checking for something until they feel secure enough to sleep.
What a weirdly cool buy very niche site. Why 40 minutes? Why just NYC? Why just subways?
Would you care to share mods that worked as expected with OpenMW?
I've just started my journey today, so any input will be appriecieted.
I find it fascinating how Toronto is no where near as bad as New York. The fight to protect the environment has to be a global one
Opioids are only really safe to use in a hospital, by and large.

The exception seems to be fentanyl, which gets handed out to old ladies with dodgy hips who chug it like milk.
If 1T Apple are such magic tech wizards then why couldn't they make AirPower work?
It's good for a large room, not just a small one. I have one too.

The CR box is tremendous overkill for something like an apartment. It's gigantic and I don't even know where most people would put one even in a house.

But it's also not what the original post was talking about. The original post is a device akin to a Levoit in terms of size and power.
I beg to differ, there are a lot of small fixes all around which really add up
That seems less like an argument for this being a job of Archive Team and more like one for individual Reddit communities and individuals to handle. If the content really matters to people, and the tools to archive that content are available, then it's those entities that are in a better position to archive. Yet, if very few communities manage to take on this task, then that speaks to the lack of actual value that most Reddit content represents.
I disagree, it worked before and it is the reason the internet even exists.

The core issue is that user generated data is owned by one individual company. There are existing system that don't have this issues e.g. Usenet or bittorrent.

We don't need to idiot proof the web. There are enough people to gather some place for a social network even if it's hard to use. The others can stay and will stay on reddit anyway until one day when they also had enough and learn to use some alternative.
Building Realtime Apps with Server-Sent Events and GraphQL
Is there anyone who isn't seriously impacted by the government? It seems like you are just restating my position.
Big Tech, Small Tech, someone will eventually have access to our medical records and honestly it's the direction things need to go in order to have cheaper, more transparent healthcare as well as drive innovation in the space a large.

It's less about "who" and more about "how". How will we grant this access in safe and (preferably) anonymous ways.
Diablo IV Running on Mac Mini M1 Using Game Porting Toolkit on Sonoma Beta
For any curious, the original announcement of the data dump - https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/06/04/stack-overflow-creativ...
When I was young, my family rescued two balls of fur from a couple of crows that were playing with their supper, and both of them were kneading our elbows when picked up all throughout their lives. It seemed obvious why they did that as we were feeding them from a bottle until they were old enough to eat solid food.
> Very very achievable, with minimal effort.

Not with how complicated the whole stack is...

We still can't say "don't charge if other device has no AC power" even tho that info can be propagated via USB-PD...
The explanation I always heard was that they were removed from their mother too soon, and I stopped buying that explanation several years ago.

I don’t know about every cat I’ve ever had, but my youngest currently? I think there’s two reasons she does it: 1. To announce her presence on top of me and make it known she is pleased her bed is in bed and 2. To make the spot more comfortable, like how we fluff our pillows or smooth out our bedspreads or whatever. She’s making the spot hers.

I mean it is an action that can also deposit their scent, but uh, in my experience my cats have never respected that marker if they don’t want to.
I agree and if you want to refer to a color in an absolutely correct, objective, device-independent manner you need to define it in terms of L*a*b*

The CIELAB coordinate space represents the entire gamut of human photopic (daylight) vision and far exceeds the gamut for sRGB or CMYK.

You might initially think that the three axes of what is "RGB" defines a perfect color cube which accurately describes all perceptible colors but this is not true. The typical RGB we encounter when encoded with an sRGB gamut (almost always on smartphones, TVs, and PCs as of 2023) forms a bizzare polyhedron in the objective L*a*b* color space instead of filling the whole thing with itself because it is just a small subset of what we can actually see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SRGB_gamut_within_CIELAB_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIELAB_color_space
> non-dystopian societies.

I would say that your view is extreme or at least hyperbole.

A lot of people believe they should be able to do things with their property so long as it doesn't impose on others.

Whether I live in my house or a guest who is paying me shouldn't be a legal concern. All this talk about party houses or too much parking, or other externalities pushed on neighbors are misleading. There are laws or could be for all of these.

Instead we have cities which have de facto taken ownership of other's property. Sure, reasonable things will be mentioned like fire codes or proper sewage. But then there are things like not being able to paint your house a certain color. Or have tenants.
I am a bit conflicted on this, maybe we should first push for better archives of this data before we start deleting it?

I often find myself stumbling into reddit when I am searching for something so I worry that this would be a big loss.

Idk I guess I am just a bit worried about efforts to send reddit a message with how this will impact various information that is stuck in comments on reddit.
> How does someone weaponize your information?
Increase your health insurance prices based on more detailed knowledge of conditions? Deny you health insurance entirely?
Makes sense if the goal is to get content flowing. Doesn't make sense if you want the quality of content to be good.
We have an old set, and some friends were over with their third grader, who had to write a report. She tried using wikipedia, but it popped up a 30 page article on an advanced topic she was trying to find a definition of.

I handed her the encyclopedia, and showed her how to look up the word. One paragraph later, she said "that's EXACTLY what I needed."

Indeed.
Ever since Gracenote/CDDB it was pretty clear that this is the model. Still pissed off about that.
This is funny, I come from a different angle and see almost the opposite of what you see (being overly caricatural on purpose):

- where you see the dropping of an old cynicism, I see a lot of capitalist cynicism: where spiritual masters would spend years in prayer and meditation before teaching for free and providing help to all, we now have "life coaches" who ask absurd prices to guide you, because they had a "breakthrough" after two months of psychotherapy

- where you see modern spirituality without the traditions of religion, I see the form of religion (groups organized around a particular dogma, with churches organized around trademarked psychotherapeutic methods) without spirituality

Spirituality and mysticism are all about metaphysics: we got physics to an absolutely awe inspiring level of sophistication, but we still pretty much ignore completely what consciousness is (and we might forever). Spirituality is, according to me, entering into that mystery and poking at it. I personally think metaphysics is an essential part of meaning making, and as such of well being. But this means that I need to be able to discuss it with someone who cares about it, not someone who just sees it as a story that helps holding it together.
And now that you use throwaway accounts, do you continue to be unkind?
If I would be buying a house, I would be looking for a HOA which would have an explicit, contractual obligation of keeping the noise level low. So when this dentist would do this, I would be delighted to get compensation from him.

Government's laws and regulations are not contracts. People don't enter them voluntarily and they are not known ahead of time — it's simply the will of the voting majority, or worse, imposed on everybody with violence.
Unless it says "MWSE" it should work with OpenMW. 99.9% guaranteed.
Read @NoMoreNicksLeft's comment in this thread, you'll understand why. I have dozens of examples, but I don't care enough to find them, cite them, collate them. You think the site is functioning properly? I'm happy for you, keep using it, it's a free country.

The rest of us moved on years ago.
1 - Having an open engine allows for enhancements.

2 - Having an open engine means opportunities to fix defects (OpenMW crashes far less than the original, even in its final version)

3 - You can recompile it for other architectures and operating systems, that weren't supported by the original.

4 - Someone could write a whole new game for the engine, and release the entire thing for free.
They moved to this away from the per-article comment system they used to have for news posts, etc. In the past anyone (no account needed) could post a comment on the documents they posted and have it displayed in-line with other comments at the bottom.

But then The Tor Project chose to move to a registration only forum where all the discussion of news is hidden away from the article. It's really impeded discussion of the tor project's decisions... which I think they consider a benefit. They didn't like having criticism of things like their early removal of tor v2 support on their main pages. Much better to hide in registration only forums requiring the latest bleeding edge browsers and JS to use, in part of the site no one visits.
Tesla drivers mostly don't have a choice at the moment, unless they knew about and bothered buying the expensive CCS adapter at the moment.

If there were third party natively Tesla compatible chargers (including payment negotiation), are you really saying you'd never use them? Like, if your hotel had a third party one, or there was the Tesla one off the highway a few miles away, you'd go.out of your way to go to the Tesla one? What if the third party ones were cheaper?

I totally get most Tesla owners ignoring CCS chargers currently. Most owners don't have adapters, many chargers would require some app for a subpar billing experience, people don't like the connector, etc. But I wouldn't understand people choosing Tesla ones over similarly equipped ones. It'd be like driving well out of your way to always use Shell stations while you pass up an Exxon, a Phillips, a Wawa, etc.
>If I could replace my monitor with a portable device that would grant me huge virtual desktop space I would pay 3500$

People keep parroting this line, but have you ever actually tried this? There's way more to discomfort in VR than just pixel density.
Deveraux explicitly endorses (1) in the article:

> If anything, I think cultural values have lagged, resulting in countries launching counter-productive wars out of cultural inertia (because it’s ‘the doing thing’ or valued in the culture) long after such wars became maladaptive. Indeed, I’d argue that’s exactly what Russia is doing right now.
We are talking about malicious code, not unintentionally vulnerable code.

Last pass wasn’t malicious, just incompetent. There is nothing to suggest that their extension is going to be secret malware.