skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m saying it made those companies more competitive (as in “better equipped to compete”), not that it made the various markets more competitive (as in “characterized by competition by multiple actors”).

“Big Tech” tends to refer to the companies.

Edit: To clarify further, I’m not casting those claims about older Big Tech acquisitions as wrong or misinformed. Nor am I trying to make any specific argument about the Democrats’ strategy / Neo-Brandeisian thought here. Just directly answering the question I replied to. I’m quite confident that this particular case against Microsoft, as argued by the regulators, is quite weak and that the political tail is wagging the dog here.
I'm not poo-pooing that idea. The issue is the political (mis/dis/ab)use of language in all contexts. This is Nature journal, for goddakes, using the term "man" in a completely obvious biological convention to discuss chromsomal effects on cancer prognosis. They have no reason to latently apologize for that by acknowledging gender sex disparity in this piece.
If you don’t want to be tracked then you have to make sacrifices on the scale of not carrying around a cellphone. But that really doesn’t scale.

Handing out your customers secrets doesn’t have a big red flag that automatically tells them you’re selling them out. That’s the core issue which has nothing to do with customer choices and why regulation is one of the few ways to give customers informed choices.
The answer is as always: Why not?
Try to get a train ticket to Philadelphia (airport code PHL) or Newark, NJ (airport code EWR) and fly out from there. I'm sure lots of other people have the same idea but it's worth a shot. If Amtrak train isn't an option, there's also https://us.megabus.com/ which may be more affordable and have more availability.
If you can watch the first half hour without crying, you have a heart made of stone.
>When an artificial womb is invented that can allow a baby to grow to term the dynamic will be forever changed.
Can you elaborate on this and what impact this artificial womb will have?
I’m imaging actual gladiators and spartan warriors going into therapy because they want to be middle managers.
You know what's more dead-simple than using NAT as a firewall?

A basic firewall without NAT.
> even in pornography with only a few minutes of grooming every day.

You’re either incredibly blessed or incredibly underestimating the barriers to entry to be successful as a male porn star.

Also Elon Musk and Donald Trump both have a shit ton of memes straight up body shaming both of them. Trump had literal fucking statues made with the sole purpose of showing him as fat and small dicked. People still often post the shirtless picture of Elon or the one of his hairline before the plugs to try to shame and discredit him. It’s absolutely wild and false to say no one gives a shit about it. His fans might not, but his fans don’t even care that he did a bunch of crypto scam shit, so that doesn’t really mean much.

He’s successful despite the body shaming, but women like Lizzo are wildly successful despite the body shaming they receive too.
FlightAware's MiseryMap shows that about 2 hours ago DC had 205 delayed and 46
cancelled flights.
A lot of stuff is proprietary so adopting it as a third party can be much riskier. While Google Cloud does have a pretty solid depreciation policy it still means that you are locked to Google Cloud and whatever their future is. At least internal users can escalate if there are serious issues.
Yeah, obviously one has to be careful about lamenting this stuff, but it seems pretty clear that #MeToo not only ended the careers of many successful senior creative visionaries but it probably provoked a more-cautious stance from many companies towards the mere idea of having powerful visionaries to begin with, especially if they're male. They represent potentially catastrophic single points of failure, after all - and it's not just coming from #MeToo, but having an errant tweet or even an inkling of "problematic" political beliefs could suddenly end one's career and whatever works they have in motion would be ruined.

But as a consequence of this caution, we're also seeing that Disney and Pixar and other firms are just dissipating their brand capital by putting out safe, corporative-approved and committee-driven works. Within the next 5 years we'll probably see the first movies released where most of the writing was done via LLMs. I'm going to guess that it won't end well, unless the LLMs get much better...
no they haven't, what the hell are you talking about
LinkedIn is even worse, its practically impossible to browse without a login, they even call it an authwall in the link!
Not every packages in RHEL is GPL. Red Hat could just refuse to offer source code for those licensed in permissive licenses.
Is there an implication that because a state did something likely racist that a federal agency is motivated by the same racism? Are there white station owners with felonies?
Tornadoes are very uncommon in the west coast of US (also, much of the Northeast and the rest of the world)[1][2]

[1] https://hazards.fema.gov/nri/Content/Images/StaticPageImages...
[2] https://64.media.tumblr.com/64f5e2b83554ea3342a609c64bd8b4dc...
Is it possible to have a Linux server provide an APFS-formatted network share? Or does it require a Mac Mini + external drive in a closet?
I'm confused as to why anyone outside Google would care about the possibility of Google deprecating Zanzibar. It's an internal-only project that handles authorization across Google services. It's totally invisible to all users and customers. I can't think of a reason why anybody would be affected by Google switching to a new global authorization system.

What are you concerned about here: a potential impact on users, or the internal impact for Google engineers that could come from switching to a new system?
Circling back late here, but thank you.. and thank you to all the sibling commenters as well!
They start at 30 k so they are out of the running instantly, and you can't work on your own car, and repairs cost a fortune. Can't even change your own tires if you get a flat!

And living up north I'm uninterested in full evs, hybrids at best!
I can't testify as to Sunscreen, but I can verify the UV thing first hand: my aunt who went to the tanning bed multiple times per week got skin cancer so severe they had to remove a golf ball size piece of flesh from her leg.
There is "wikipedia article summary" kind of correct, but that doesn't mean resources that are aimed at teaching are not valuable too.
This is off topic but your original comment is from May and super old. I just wanted to say thanks for mentioning Running on Empty back then. It made me get a copy and it explained a lot for me, and I'm really grateful to have found it.
Fascinating indeed!

David Wengrow and David Graeber published the absolutely phenomenal The Dawn of Everything [0] which is a must read - though they ask the question (that I think I answer in my paper) "how did we 'get stuck' with hierarchical society proliferating from 10,000BC on?"

The book Blood Relations[1] by Chris Knight is also fantastic here and I got started with my own research with Lionel Sims a British marxist [2]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawn_of_Everything

[1]https://blackbooksdotpub.files.wordpress.com/2021/10/blood-r...

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muya-MSX7uk
You're right, we don't want that sort of adoption! We want slow, paced, organic growth. Users should join the fediverse because they want to be there, not because a giant corporation cut their accounts over to a new service that supports some random thing they've never heard of and don't understand. The culture clash that will result from Facebooks decision could be devastating, so naturally people are pushing back against that kind of adoption.

> with the smaller ones making themselves irrelevant if they do

I don't think this is true. The fediverse started out as a way to specifically have small services where users (mostly trans and queer users early on) wouldn't be harassed all day. "Irrelevant" only makes sense if you're thinking from the perspective of "get as many users as possible", but the fediverse isn't really about that. Small servers of marginalized people talking in private spaces where no one is harassing them is still extremely relevant.
Ah, I didn't know that. Hope they add reconnect recovery then. And a lot of other QoL things.
You mean like Apocalypse Now or Birth of a Nation? Movies have been political lecture since the very first feature length film, and have never been very subtle about it either.
They are trying to protect the fediverse from Facebook Embrace, extend, extinguish them.
That is incredibly mild compared to how much facebook, reddit, twitter and google are monetizing their users.
How do those graphs make sense? It's saying parents spent <10 mins per day with their kids in 1965?! Is that for real?!
I got stuck once at Pearson and ended up calling the various rental car agencies until I found one (Hertz) that had a car that had to return to NY state, so they didn't penalize me and just charged a "normal" one way rate.
As a stand alone movie, Lightyear fails to deliver an interesting and sound science fiction film for adults, or a competent action filled romp for kids. I could not tell you who it's supposed to be made for besides the producers.
> At no point do they just throw their arm on the backside of the passenger seat, and turn around to look out the windows while keeping one hand on the wheel. It is as if this movement, this posture, is completely new to them.

As a point of reference, Adam and Jamie of Mythbuster fame both had to be trained in this technique. And they’ve probably been driving longer than many of us here have been alive.

In other words, it’s a trained driving position. Some folks learned it early, some late, and others haven’t been trained in it yet.

Also, it doesn’t work well in modern vehicles with shorter windows. This last week I couldn’t see the driveway I had to back down by looking out the back window. I could via the camera though.
Ideally yes. But in my very limited exposure to a therapist, it seems like therapy is far slower and open ended than going to a physician. A physician would not say “I can’t give you an immediate diagnosis, You will have to visit this clinic regularly for an indefinite period to understand what your problem is”. Doesn’t exactly fill me with confidence that I’m going to get anything out of it
When admins decide to outright block entire domains based on some contrived bias with no input from users (ie user setting to block meta or whatever fediblock says) that pretty much kills the utility and purpose for having a federated network.

This is like if some mail host decided to block all mail from gmail domains.
To read a piece of paper I only need glasses or magnifying glass, and the entire menu is still available; it's easy to jump from one place to another on it. Zooming in on a small screen restricts the amount of information I can readily access, and forces me to scroll around to find what I want
Bit off topic, but what was the point of the Meta rename?

Literally almost all of their internal domains are still Facebook, and now they dumped the mertaverse and switched to AI, just call it Facebook!
As I understand it, what is attested under penalty of perjury is specifically that you are (an agent of) the rightsholder, not that the the subject of the complaint actually infringes. It certainly seems that just spamming then willy nilly ought to be not allowed though.
Just a guess but I think they're going to do a full two-way federation with injected ad content. This could be very sneaky in how it works with the existing fediverse protocols. You really only have the power to block an instance or a user. What if each ad has its own user ID and is returned inline with any remote query for content? What if they take it a step further and inject ads using desired user's own IDs to show them when you follow your grandmother's content who would be very difficult to move off of FB?

As a fediverse host you can probably make custom spam like filters, and I'm sure there will be some distributed tools to fight this kind of thing... But right now a lot of the fediverse is assuming that moderation of external hosts is pretty straight forward and not actively adversarial. If you disagree with the policies or the populace that is attracted to a particular instance block the instance. That doesn't work with something at this scale.

I don't agree with instances proactively blocking Meta before they've shown their true colors, but I also don't think they're wrong. I just think we should let the monsters take off their mask and allow the social consequences to come when the blocks happen for a good reason.
The parsimonious explanation is that most people do not care about this issue as much as you do, which suggests quite plainly that no such regulation is necessary. You might want to consider that your views on privacy are eccentric and unpopular and that nobody is asking for laws to "protect them" from something that doesn't bother them in the first place.
The network connection is a pretty fundamental part of the vehicle software architecture and a lot of things depend on it.

Which is very worrying when you stop and think about it. If anything that actually matters is reliant on anything not travelling with you then that can not be a good sign for the safety and security of the vehicle. For one thing any vehicle that has any open incoming connectivity of any kind immediately has an attack vector for malware. And in this case that could literally be a matter of life and death and it could literally be used to attack thousands or even millions of vehicles simultaneously.

The closest I can think of to any legitimate phone home feature is an automatic emergency call function that is triggered by a collision or theft being detected. But of course it's very easy to specify that those features may only be activated from the vehicle side and may only be used to contact emergency services.

Anything else like GPS or infotainment does not need to be integrated at all with the essential vehicle systems or emergency communications functions and can be subject to the usual safeguards like any other device - including an off switch if the owner chooses not to use it and requirements to opt in for any potentially intrusive behaviour.
>Anyway, we’re in an area that doesn’t have a whole lot of “acts of God” kind of destruction

Are you in the US? And if so... mind sharing your vague region? I'd love to know where to actually avoid tornadoes.
Startups are an interesting case since the incentives are not aligned to building long term businesses.

Instagram being a startup, their user's goals were aligned with their own while they were growing. The happier the user the better the growth metrics, the better they are playing the VC game. Now that they need to be solvent, they need to balance two goals, user happiness and profit per user. If you aren't contributing to ad rev or data acquisition you're no longer aligned with their goals, so log in or bugger off is the message we get.

I think there is something to be said about how a business will form as well, it's unlikely a business that formed all it's goals and policies in a glut of money and a growth mindset, never having to make the dollars make sense, will suddenly pivot to profitability without turbulence once the bills come due.
I was recently wondering about who was typically in the delivery room 50+ years ago. So when I saw my elderly grandmother last week, I asked her whether my grandfather was there when my father was born in the late 50s.

She was a little offended by the question (itself interesting), but said it was just her and the medical staff. No other support people. She thought my grandfather was at the hospital, but wasn’t sure.
I'm still so very disappointed in all the scientists who stuck around on Twitter, even now when the new owner declares 'cisgender to be a slur' and pushes far-right voices. How on earth are you supposed to 'remain and fight from within'? What possible path is there to victory when it's all owned by one man???

I've quit academia after about 10 years and Twitter has been invaluable to me, not just as a source for new research but also a source of contacts, collaborators, and 'different ways to do things'. But I always felt like we researchers on Twitter (and like OP) were all kidding ourselves: it's an echo chamber where the hyper-online researchers mostly talk to each other, 'public outreach' part is more a random chance occurrence, a byproduct.
The point is that the threat cannot be real (to the class as a whole). Indeed, it is hard to consider it real to an individual, unless you think there are gangs of women going around beating up men just for being men.

Surely you can see the distinction between a real and possible threat, that might genuinely put fear into the object class, and words that can never be actioned? "Kill all men" might as well say "beware of the vicious rabbit"
I don't understand what you mean by push/pull in this context. Aren't I pulling content through a VPN or TOR exit node? Pulling content through my ISP?

> expecting that no IPFS gateway operator will try to contest the DMCA claims.

Unfortunately, even if you have a case, there are substantial legal costs involved.
Why? FB doesn’t need to. They’re what, tens of thousands of times bigger?

And there is nothing stopping servers from defederating at the drop of a hat. We already know that, it happens constantly for some reason.
It's not a competition. Just because renewables have hidden costs doesn't make hidden costs of gasoline acceptable.
That's what it is now, and that's fine (well, the "harder to use" isn't fine and lots of people are working on that, but it's okay that it's not ultra-popular). The fediverse (for the most part) isn't looking for rapid growth, there are no shareholders to appease, we just want to exist and not have to do free moderation for Facebook when they fail to moderate the content from their users, as they have always failed to do. We block small servers who are bad actors all the time, and Facebook has always been a bad actor when it was a walled garden and they have done nothing to show that they won't continue to do the same once they support activitypub.
I assume if you're displaying a time to me with no timezone specified then my system timezone is being used. If I find a system that's displaying a timezone-less time that's not my system time zone I won't be using that system much longer. But nowadays this is exceedingly rare.

I am in New Zealand so I understand your perspective, I just don't think it's a major problem.
That's a revision. The comment originally made the blanket statement that RISC-V executes in order.
Google killing reader did more to cause the demise of rss than fb ever did

That said there's totally plugins for rss in Firefox and the likes but no one uses them because why would anyone
That's incredible, I will try that. Thank you.

I did just find out that U-Haul has some that I can one-way rent, though they are expensive, closer to $750 USD, which is roughly the price of a next day flight.
Meta on the Fediverse: to block or not to block?
> Which foreign governments are you accusing? Do you even know, or are you just assuming somebody must be doing the thing?

I've yet to encounter a scenario in the last year where filling in that blank with "Russia" wasn't considered an objective fact by most.
The Playboy interviewer is Alex Haley, who conducted many notable interviews for Playboy magazine. He had another memorable interview with George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party. Rockwell made sure Haley wasn't Jewish as they were arranging the interview, but was shocked to learn that the interviewer was black. He did seem to have a grudging admiration for Haley, as he continued corresponding with letters opening with "To my V.I.N." (N being the n-word).

Haley later went on to author many notable titles, including The Autobiography of Malcolm X (as ghost-writer) and Roots, which turned into a monumental TV series. Part of the show contains a reenactment of the meeting with Alex Haley and George Lincoln Rockwell, each played by James Earl Jones and Marlon Brando: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8SxzNdX1MQ
Annoyed janitor turns off cryo-freezer destroys decades of scientific work
The benefits of exercise are abundant and I don't know many that would argue against that. If exercise is so beneficial to the whole being, why is it such a difficult thing for us to implement regularly on a long-term basis? Even during periods of life where I've been in a good routine with working out, there still seems to be some sort of internal resistance to going to "do the thing."
It's become clear to me in my mid 30s that I was very emotionally neglected as a child. I had literally no idea because I had nothing to compare it to, and the behavior of my parents feels relatively normal for when I was growing up.

It's my belief that this neglect has had a big role in the insecurity, lack of vulnerability, lack of self-esteem, and lack of honesty throughout my entire life. I don't blame my parents and I own my mistakes. But it's freaking wild to me that it's only now in my 30s that I'm going through emotional development that I can look back on and see people I knew in high school who had already done this sort of growth. After having read Running on Empty I started asking people about the dynamics with their parents growing up, and it really solidified how uncaring my childhood was in many ways.
Its been called “deceptive pattern” in my design teams for a number of years so as not to be racist.
Can you just mix and match the app router and the page router?

I'm not actually sure what the value of the app router is, but the page router works well and is more mature.
Sorry but this ignores a lot of history. The plot of the first feature film - Birth of a Nation - is literally the Klu Klux Klan saving the day by driving away the black people run amok during reconstruction. How is that lighthearted and apolitical?
As someone who works in the industry I can assure you that you're not harming morale nor affecting employee retention in the slightest. Being an asshole doesn't make you relevant, it only makes you an asshole
> You could say "well, that's not very good deepfake

Its not deepfake at all, much less very good deepfake.

“Deepfake” has a meaning, and its not the same as just “fake”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depp_v._Heard
Those both sound pretty sexist and racist to me.
So it'll just be a new set of walled gardens with no history we can evaluate? How is that better?
Still works fine for me, even on new reddit.
not all men have xy-chromosomes and not all xy-chromosome bearing people are men. it’s really simple, tbh
No alternative. Mastodon is impossible to sign up for for 99% of people.
In auto racing, if you’re not cheating you’re not trying.
all trans people must have been included, because they were either born as male biologically or became men and self-identify as such
Yeah, Google killing Reader was the big driver.
I think in some cases the more distance in time you have from it, the less obvious the politics are.
Wait, what?!

I read Death's End, and I don't remember that.

The trilogy talks about human society ebbing and flowing between "tough" and "sensitive" over the generations. Mostly, the Trisolarans rely on the Sophon lock. With superior technology, the masculinity of your prey is totally irrelevant. And, in Death's End, everyone's in an Australian penal colony anyway.
Do we define "product is reality" as [prototypes and test mules exist] or [commercial availability]?

For this context, I'm kind of in the latter camp, considering prototypes to be roughly equal to vaporware, in development, but...?.
They were both quick to try to "don the caul of victimhood," but were they actually successful at all? Certainly in my "leftist" circles no one took their side.
Because most exercise is both repetitive and boring, and people tend to have continued interest in new novelty