skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This model not only profits from the aforementioned, but also aggressively competes with other activities people could participate in instead of watching ads mixed with highly monetized cat videos. The implied question here is what would happen if it fails? The answer is something else, not the end of the world. If it can’t be financed (or at least behave) otherwise, maybe it simply shouldn’t.
Keep in mind that Biden sought to get the debt nullification by Executive Order because he did not have the votes in Congress to pass it.
Agreed. It's association with Google makes it get less appealing to support.
That's just nopes all the way down for me. It would certainly keep me off of the web entirely (which might not be the worst thing, admittedly).

I'd much rather put up with the fake crap.
Medical data and data about children have very specific protections. The article says these were accessed without permission. If a lab tech dropped my lab results on the floor and you picked them up, it would not give you the right to store and use my information.
Not to counter your comment as I agree, but:

> nasty chemicals into the water like hydrogen peroxide

Hydrogen peroxide really isn't that problematic. It is pretty unstable and reacts into oxygen and water. It kills algae and bacteria in what is likely the cleanest way possible.
By "national vote", do you mean a ballot referendum or a congressional bill?
The gratuitous anti-Apple remark. Walled gardens are at least as old as video game consoles and I can run whatever I want on macOS even if I can’t on my phone.

Somehow, whenever anyone spots a flaw in the FOSS model, it’s Apple’s fault. This is what people wanted, this is libre. Red Hat can sell for money. Remember, kids, CC violates a freedom!
On Amazon at least, they aren't. There are giant networks of companies seeking out American reviewers, basically giving free products in exchange for reviews. I was invited to one after leaving a good review on some product I'd bought, and did some digging.

From what I can tell, Chinese companies hire companies in India and Bangladesh to boost reviews. They then act like middlemen, seeking out pay for play reviewers in other countries. It's funny because they pretend to be Chinese women in their profiles. After chatting one lady 'Eve' up, basically saying I knew they weren't Chinese by the way they wrote English, he admitted to being a young man from Bangladesh, though I forgot his name. I thanked him for his honesty.

I was sent a spreadsheet of multiple items to choose from. Clicked on a few, and saw a couple 'Top 10 Reviewer' labeled folks making reviews on these unheard of products. So the 'all stars' of Amazon are all in on it.

All this is separate from the multitude of companies who put little cards in their packaging offering a rebate for a good review.

Garbage all the way down...
Let's wax philosophical on the tax implications of ancient chattel slavery

:) Just kidding. Nice idea
But if you don't trust Mozilla, what made you think that further integration wasn't already going on without you knowing?
The old inventions are just as likely (if not more) to be dangerous, we've just had more time to learn which ones are dangerous, which makes it easier to stay away from the dangerous ones.
This week I got locked out of my car. I left the keys in the trunk of a 2022 Toyota Camry. A car that happens to have strong anti-theft features.

In a state of desperation, I looked for locksmiths in my area. First Google ad that popped up for “Locksmith Redmond” seemed like a reputable website. To confirm their credibility, I looked up their Google reviews: 400 five star reviews.

I requested the service, and twenty minutes later some dude turns up in a Ford Escape. He proceeds to “open the car” and quotes me $299 on the spot for simply opening the door.

If you’ve dealt with anti theft on these Toyotas, you know this solves nothing. You can’t get into the trunk without disabling it.

I refused immediately: are you insane? He started getting aggressive with me. It’s me and this dude, alone in a parking lot at 10 PM. Dude’s twice my size, I was terrified. Long story short, he didn’t get the money.

It was a scam, a bait and switch. In my state of nerves, I fell for the reviews. I took a look at the reviews after the situation was resolved.

Clearly fake reviews: same writing style, similar names. Only two or three people who actually exposed the scam.

I’m a very tech savvy guy. I got screwed by fake reviews and Google ads this week. I have a feeling this measure won’t stop them.
> blocking automation is not an easy problem

Amazon is very much willing and able to tackle difficult problems, as repeatedly demonstrated throughout their history. Admittedly they prefer to choose which difficult problems they tackle, but still.
It could require user interaction first like for other APIs such as fullscreen: https://stackoverflow.com/a/30871435
The thing is that no ESL looks into British cuisine.
You really do not want to use those kind of words around places with value added tax. The law basically says that if a person or company is providing a service in exchange for money, goods or services, the seller will have to pay value added tax on that exchange.

The way that advertisements in the past has managed to avoid paying this tax is that the service or product is given away for free along side the advertisement. Since it is not an exchange of services, and the product is being giving away for free with no expectation of any money, goods or services, there is no tax to be applied.
Yeah, Red Hat is free to terminate their business with you. And you are free to get that software from somewhere else. To quote again from the Selling Free Software article (linked above):

> With free software, users don't have to pay the distribution fee in order to use the software. They can copy the program from a friend who has a copy, or with the help of a friend who has network access. Or several users can join together, split the price of one CD-ROM, then each in turn can install the software. A high CD-ROM price is not a major obstacle when the software is free.

And so all these arguments, once all the misinformation is expelled, eventually boil down to this "it's in bad faith" schtick. Well, what is the faith of Rocky Linux when they are purveying a bug-for-bug clone of RHEL, selling support contracts on top of that, and directly competing with Red Hat's business?

Trick question, because "faith" doesn't matter. It's all legal, and these are businesses. They are making business decisions. If one thinks that some corporation--any corporation--owes "faith" or loyalty to their customers, then I got a bridge to sell you.

You're free to hate Red Hat--no one is forcing anyone to _like_ them--but I hope you have some substance somewhere within, and can articulate why.
Yeah, in advertising there's supply side and demand side. So even more parties can get screwed!
> Businesses would be prohibited from creating or controlling a website that claims to provide independent opinions about a category of products or services that includes its own products or services.

This is literally designed to kill vpn review websites. All the major ones are owned by a couple of vpn mills
> California was deep red when Silicon Valley was being built

The GOP was much, much different when Silicon Valley was being built.
Because the Law of Supply and Demand cannot be repealed. All attempts always result in "unanticipated" deleterious side effects, such as shortages.
The best bit is that we're enacting very similar laws in the West [0]. As much as China is often deplorable I do wonder how much of a blind spot we have here to our own sins.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36428046
Wow, that is a really dock move.

Probably not entirely legal no matter what EULA says, at least not in EU
I've been enjoying my Nothing Phone (1)a great deal. Very few pre-installed app - I believe just a reskinned version of the weather app; full Android experience and the updates have been very impressive so far.
Also, incredibly cost-effective.
> Why the hell are government agencies using Twitter/Facebook for official communication in the first place?

Reach.

IDK if anyone is using it as the sole method of communication.

But Twitter in practice has a much higher reach than every other method.
The difficulty of a problem scales in an adversarial environment.
> b. we could just stop wasting 40% of the food we produce to make up any deficit that comes from sustainable or regenerative farming, and

Waste is high because food is cheap. Reducing waste will look exactly the same as making food expensive.
This is a common anti-establishment trope but it clearly lacks cognizance into the recent military past. The us military is more clear-eyed in it's role than some like the Korean war. It was a better argument when the us was in iraq. Morale and senselessness were worse in the 90s/80s and the 70s the military was absolutely reeling from Vietnam & counter-culture.
Neither agent has a fiduciary duty even to the person that hired them, in the US. That situation took a lot of lobbying to create, and takes a lot of lobbying to preserve. The agents can make a deal between them that they both profit from and screws both the buyer and the seller.
I mean as "selling a quarter billion dollars of stock before publicly disclosing the cyber crime of the century that you likely knew about for quite some time" is less "anything" and more "trading on material non public information."
I know it is not accepted in many smaller places. I was reading maybe too literally the nonsense assertion, "accepted basically nowhere outside of the US."
Need? Sure. But there are plenty of things that would make my life better that I learned about through ads.

I do run an ad blocker, because the web has spent too long spreading viruses and malware through ads to be safe _not_ running one. But I don't mind ads conceptually; they just need to be safe, not obnoxious, and not take up more of my time than the placement is worth (ie, a 20s ad pre-roll on a 15 second video).
At university I was using JANET, and in some ways it was better than what we have now.

I don't think they'd have ever bothered inventing privacy violating trackers A/B testing (though if I'm wrong this is the best place to assert wildly and be quickly corrected).
Bad therapy can have a longer lasting effect and be much more corrosive than a bad trip.

Don't ask me how I know this.
If you look at the website, none of those homes are under 2000 sq. ft.
Neither of them have ever had Indian CEOs, so what they claim couldn't have been true.
> it makes the files less hermetic

what if the script was inline in the DSL? e.g. some syntax for opening a script “block”, with an annotation of the command to exec or pipe the script into
Saving pages to Pocket tells Mozilla what you read though. Reading List did not.
Ha, totally get it.
OK but what if the will of the people is to move forward from democracy?
The alternative is a dystopian slippery slope.

ie Please press 4 if you think they have a weapon.
EU companies claim the EU’s AI Act could ‘jeopardise technological sovereignty’
It is, you can find the rumble WAV's (well, AIFF's) if you dig enough through iPhone OS dump
That’s how the one in the iPhone works as well. I remember people’s surprise (myself included) when it was discovered. Teardowns revealed a second audio amp that wasn’t attached to the speaker and that’s how it was discovered to work.
I don’t really understand viewpoints like these.

The submitter knows the AI isn’t lying and the submitter is being purposefully obtuse in order to drive controversy.
Now if they'd only ban "this review is based on a free product I got from the company in exchange for reviewing it" fake reviews.
So cool, I didn't realize how deep the JSON and XML functionality out of the box were. So much better than the support that Mysql or most others have. Thanks for sharing!

Also, when do you find yourself using Arrays in a database? (instead of, say, a one-to-many FK table).
The difference between a viking (Germanic) conquest and a French by way of viking conquest invasion.
> The other side of the argument seems to hold very odd assumptions about things like thermodynamics and robotics work, or even intelligence itself.

There are two major types of arguments for why we should be cautious about ultra-smart AI:

1. "Ultra-smart AI will rapidly improve its own abilities to vastly super-human intelligence, invent nanotech, and kill us all. Maybe in a week or two." This argument does require a number of very specific assumptions to be true.

2. "If humans are the second-smartest species on the planet, we may not get to make all the important decisions anymore. We might not enjoy this."

(2) doesn't require any exotic ideas about thermodynamics or nanotech. It does assume we might be able to build something that's noticeably smarter than we are.

Honestly, even if the best AI we could be build was equivalent to a very smart human (say, an IQ of 145, or three standard deviations from average), and if that AI was tireless and easily copyable, then the future would become very weird. Personally, I give us reasonable odds of us making it this far within my normal lifetime. And it might be possible to build something smarter than that, given time, depending on how "intelligence" works.
>I'd bet dolphins, seals, and the like have a lot more sensors/cm2 of skin than humans, and probably other important sensing as well that we don't need.

That's interesting. For what reason should we presume sensors/cm2 is higher in aquatic than terrestrial species? Is sensation of flow across the skin very important to them? I was thinking about this myself and presumed the opposite, that proprioception is important but feeling each portion of the skin isnt so important, after all sensation across the skin for a swimming animal would be unending, like tinnitus for a man.

Good thinking and glad we could connect.
This makes sense. It’s all been downhill since we stopped using the public utility company America Online
If not the plastic, also the glass:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36535828 - 7 hours ago
I was at first super confused by this comment, because cross play has been a thing for at least a year or two without YouTube premium. You just have to enable YouTube history and it will populate across devices. I know a lot of people disabled YouTube history because it tailors the experience but it's a fair tradeoff for continuity.
I just ran into this problem -- not being able to view tweets without logging in. As much as I hate Musk, this is clearly the trajectory of all platforms. Without a unified push towards self-hosting or the fediverse, the internet as we know it is over :(
> The same is also true for Debian, Ubuntu, and many other .deb distros. This is far more common in the linux ecosystem than not. Suse seems to me to be the odd-one-out here.

This is something that is explicitly warned against by the Debian developers - https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Don.27t_make_a_Frank...
I really don't understand how Google and Facebook lost control of their own platforms to the extent that they actually serve malicious advertising.

Some people use the excuse of 'scale', and "can't monitor everything", but it's not like Google and Facebook don't have the resources to solve it, it's just that they have no motivation to solve it because it's not costing them anything to be a platform for malware and scams.
Basically: The demos isn't prohibited from deciding something that conflicts with its own later will.

There's a vaguely similar case in Germany at the moment, where a political party and its voters was in favour of a a rule to keep fringe parties out of parliament, and now that same party is in danger of falling below the threshold it helped set, even if it wins every seat for which it fields a candidate. The voters for that party wanted the threshold then, wanted it to apply to future elections including the upcoming election, and if their party is below the threshold in the upcoming election, their past will conflict with their present vote.

Nothing compels the demos to have conflict-free preferences.
Ford, Chevy, Toyota, Honda, et al. repo cars daily, and their brands are not hurting. People know when they can't make payments that their collateral is likely to be collected.

I'm not saying I'm for them doing this or anything, but just taking the dystopian concept to a logical completion. We've already seen where self driving cars have been discussed repossessing themselves, so this is just the natural extension of the same concept. This forum tends to think that places like FB, Googs, etc should have a very negative brand due to the data collections, but the masses don't give a damn.
I was responding to your claim that "he thinks", not the claim that all these other scientists that he covers in a book think.

Anthony Fauci used to spread misinformation about AIDS, too. [0]

[0]: https://www.yahoo.com/video/video-resurfaces-fauci-warning-h...
That's a fairer comparison that I read it as. I'd say they're more like a pharmacy, usually dispensing medicine. But we don't really know how half the medicine works, and sometimes it hurts people.
> Musk has been deferential to governments to date, even when that flies in the face of his idea of a free speech platform.

It’s a business. Free speech is the brand.
There should be some kind of Terminal.app for iOS. I can’t see why they don’t implement this. There are some community-made terminal-like things like iShell, or a-Shell, though, neither of them is capable of running programs bare-metal.
It depends how you define an account. Is an account an email? Is an account an id in a database? An IP? You can't sync anything without an "account"
> The internet was conceived as a democratic haven, a realm where every individual had the potential to influence and shape their digital experience.

I have a hard time reconciling this perspective with history. Were any of these ideals present among the people/organizations responsible for the internet and the Web at the time that they were being developed? Or is sentiment like yours something that people adopted later on?
It will be interesting to see what "controlling" means.

Can they "Sponsor" a site, and put a little tiny disclaimer on the bottom of the page, where no one ever looks, indicating this is sponsored content?
This is why Swatting is a crime that should severely punished, like attempted murder or harsher. I know it's not going to solve how the police handles interventions like these, and people lost their lives as the result of these actions but it's clearly people trying to murder others via cops... these aren't pranks.

But yeah, we need to rethink certain police protocols as well...
I'm not even talking about those producing content. It's their choice to upload things.

But the platform itself needs to be paid for as well. You think Youtube should provide video hosting for free? Facebook should provide their .. social network stuff for free? Twitter should serve tweets for free? No? Then either pay or watch ads.
You can see what the agents are looking at just going through a security line.
Like I said, it's too bad. Doesn't matter the hows and whys of the fact.
I recently learned Fennel and cranked out a Love2D game as well. Not only that, but I discovered it’s trivial to run the game on some spare nintendo consoles I have lying around, because Lua is insanely portable.

In contrast, I spent a ton of time trying to build other lisps that are designed to be embeddable on those consoles and got nowhere.

Fennel rocks. Such a pragmatic and well designed mini-language.
Do Pocket/Mozilla have artists to pay?
The original comment stated that Germany was responsible for starting the two World Wars, not Austria. But to describe Austria as "a clearly aggressive country" is totally inadequate to an accurate view of this history. Austria was a declining multi-ethnic empire with internal ethnic conflicts mostly concentrated in the Serbian Nationalist movement. The Serbs were in turn supported (prior to war) by a militarizing Russia (that allied with France) who was in geopolitical competition with Germany for warm-water ports via the Balkans (sound familiar?). If you were leading Germany at that time, you'd be worried about Russia's ambitions, too. You could do a similar analysis of the complexities that precipitated WWII, not least of these was the incredibly punitive conditions of the Treaty of Versailles. Read Keynes' "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" among many other books about how "stupid" that treaty was. Combine that with the incredible street-level social-political instability of the inter-war years, mass migration, Bolshevism, etc... and you might have a more nuanced answer about how wars are started and who is culpable. In any case, moralizing about war and geopolitics is a sort of category error, imho. What would you have had these countries do differently, I wonder?
Paul Graham famously started to use Mastodon (but has not written anything there since last year). But the HN Status emergency “is HN down” channel is still only on Twitter. It used to be publicly readable at <https://twitter.com/HNStatus>. But now, if HN was to go down, only logged-in Twitter users would be able to see why.
Oh, I agree. There's many good reasons to celebrate population stagnating: economic, social,ecological. But it's not going to be a painless transition from the last 2-300 years of a system predicated on growth.
> Like I sayed important but uninteresting

Uninteresting to you. Interesting to me.
Cool that they made this. A little weird that it's for Android. Wouldn't it be better running on an always-connected server?

EDIT: https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar-mailbox From the README right now it looks like they're open to it: "We want the mailbox to be as easy to deploy as possible. The target for this project will come as Android application since it will be easy to setup and besides a spare phone, no special hardware is required. Once this is done support for any hardware supporting Java (e.g. unix server, raspberry pi) could be added."
When SWAT was first instituted, the idea was that it would only be used for high-stakes situations. The Grubulanese Liberation Army has taken 33 hostages at the First Asshole Bank, and are threatening to kill one every 10 minutes until their demands are met.

Now SWAT teams are used to serve warrants in residential neighborhoods.
It does sound kind of misleading, but the nomenclature is correct. It's being used in the broad sense of hallucinogen (ie the drug is a dissociative, deliriant, or psychedelic). MDMA definitely has psychedelic effects, though less pronounced than eg MDA and much less pronounced than eg LSD.
The word "forward" needs a bit of explaining here.
> Probably much less than the average human, and that's a pretty low bar, even with a generous definition of "interesting"

In the open ocean, an environment so foreign to us, we might not have a good sense for what /is/ interesting. Perhaps tactics is interesting to dolphins. Perhaps social equity is of chief importance, or they control technology related to the moving of currents and surface waters, we won't know unless we can place ourselves in their position, else its speculation.

Again, quite interesting and glad you've shared your ideas, hope we can connect.
How would that keep you off the Internet? You can still post anonymously.
Hell, they could put "Sponsored Content" above the article just like in news readers, and people will think it is legit news