skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me that's absolutely the strongest ground for comparison.

In recent decades, we've had two big waves of tech advance: the Web and mobile. A lot of people have lived through them both, giving them an expectation that another such wave should be along soon. You could see that in the decade of blockchain/ICO/DAO/NFT/web3 hype, where people, many with shaky credentials, touted the transformation soon to come, taking in a lot of cash.

In retrospect, from Mt Gox to FTX we can see that it was all horseshit. The main real advance was decentralizing not finance or property or computing, but the Ponzi scheme.

Despite this failure, and echoing The Great Disappointment [1], we see a lot of the same hype and even the same people. Is it possible that this is different, that there's more substance here? Or is this going to be another Groupon or Metaverse? That does not matter to the hypesters. They're going to run the same routine that worked before. They're going to take in a lot of money, which is the primary goal. It's possible that some of them will, by luck or accident, latch on to something that isn't a total fraud. Surely most of them won't.

But we should never forget that is basically irrelevant to a lot of people in the early stages of a cycle. And not just for the fraudsters, but for anybody who makes their living on the upswing of the the hype cycle, including a notable fraction of investors, "experts", and journalists. how ever it turns out, they'll get paid just fine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Disappointment
Interesting -- is a "major action" defined legally as well?
I hope the word becomes more pervasive. I would like to see people start calling tech CEOs "Chief Enshittification Officers". The more the word enters the lexicon, the more the enshittifiers will begin to feel at least some resistance -- similar to the way "second-hand smoke" helped to trigger the decline in cigarette use in the west.

The era of free money may be over, but that doesn't mean we're required to present our gaping maws willingly as receptacles for the enshittifiers' effluent.
Eh. Just treat Bun as a testing ground for (very) experimental new features. It's no secret that the project moves very quickly, and anything that gains enough traction can be folded back into the spec.
This won't work because lots of people accidentally forget to scan things, and any arrest for that is ridiculous. Also, single parents or desperate people stealing bare essentials should not be put in jail.

Actual police response and penalties for theft which is clearly unwarranted (e.g. theft of makeup, electronics, and other non-essentials), especially organized theft, would be great. I don't think stores are losing money on people taking individual loaves of bread and formula, and those can and should just be ignored. But everything else I don't see anyone defending.
Well, I did that search before got here with my question, but despite of one or two good reasonings the remaining ones I found simply not true or very much opinionated. And my questions are very specific.
I think that's a more complicated issue because a bar is less independent. In the US I don't know if there's anywhere that you can sell alcohol without a license, and in any case there's a host of other rules that apply to brick and mortar businesses.

Imagine a town square with spaces for market stalls. There are limited spaces. Thus if you take one, you are preventing someone else from taking one. They are public property and thus the public has a right to set terms for the business you conduct there.

Now that analogy holds for other kinds of business too. Even if you "own" the building that your bar is in, you never really fully own real estate in most countries. There are limits on what you can use it for because it's connected (physically) to the rest of the world which belongs to other people.

In contrast, my expectation is that I do fully own my brain and my thoughts and my attention and my intellectual output, and it's extremely disturbing to me that anyone thinks they should be able to compel me to devote those things to their purposes.
You might be interested in a book from long ago called No Place to Hide by O'Harrow. In 2004 he discussed Target, Home Depot, and shopping malls using mobile phone identification to collect and classify customers. This is just the next logical step. I would be very surprised if major retailers are not already using facial recognition software.
At what point are people going to wake the fuck up and riot?

Be careful what you wish for. Like 99.9% of the rest of us, you have a lot more to lose in a class war than you could ever possibly hope to gain.
Isn't it also possible that the local housing market is softening and that a price that would have been competitive 3 or 6 months ago is now considered too high?
https://www.maxlaumeister.com/tonematrix/?v=1&d=BAAgAAAAAAAg...

love it
yep, I was pretty clear about that being a tolerable outcome of being barred from grocery stores from prior behavior

as long as there is that alternative as opposed to no alternative

(and as long as the accusations was accurate)
>A lot of the AI doomerism comes from folks who do not understand the real complexities in making systems which really can function in a fully autonomous way

IMO the doomerism from what I see isn't skynet esque worries, but the usage of AI in really dumb ways. Ways such as inundating the internet with AI generated spam ie blogs, articles, art, music, fake forum interaction, etc.

The smartest people are busy making AI work for us, the idiots are ruining everything for everyone else.
With the Switch it's more specific to the sticks on Joy-Con and presumably the Switch Lite. Drift affects other controllers as well including Xbox/Playstation.

What makes the Joy-Con sticks so horrendous in my understanding is 1) they're tiny 2) the shrouds protecting particle ingress into the sensor compartment is wildly inadequate. Rather than the stick having a very large hemisphere under the primary casing and surrounding the sensor compartment, whereby particles that manage to fall in it are directed into the case cavity, the Joy-Con sticks have this dinky paper thin rubber skirt that floats on top of a convex hemisphere on the sensor housing. In use, this skirt can expose the sensor compartment directly to air or it can pick up particles on the housing and drag them into the housing.

I recently found Hall effect Joy-Con sticks on Amazon and am giving those a go right now. This issue is something I'm overly invested in as I think the combination of independent controllers and some fine details in how Splatoon (twitchy shooter) manages motion controls yields the best control scheme for a shooter even compared to mouse and keyboard. Unfortunately outside of the concept the devices are horrible.
> Nate hagens work on resource depletion

May be correct, or not, but it's not that connected to either "will aliens contact us" or "will AI give us scifi future" or "when do the stars go out".
That's fair and also why I believe a complete authz solution needs some elements of both.
> top 327 shoplifters in NYC last year were arrested more than 6000 times

so, what they mean is (get it? "the mean is" :) 6000 / 327 = 18+ arrests each

not arguing against the argument being made, but refocusing it with a "broken windows theory" style argument, if so much mayhem can be caused by such a small number of people, I think when the shoplifting problem is allowed to go unchecked, friends of the shoplifters join in for a very small increase in the number of people, but a big increase in the mayhem.
Good products hardly ever take out on their own. I'm not sure what computer you're logged on from, but to take that as an example, I'm pretty sure it's made by a company that would likely go under if it chose not to advertise.

Advertisement is sometimes just to inform and build awareness, sometimes to build brand, but often to persuade, and sometimes it exploits unethical persuasion techniques. The gap between ethics allowed by society and your own personal ethics are very variable from place to place and person to person. For example in a lot of places it's illegal for doctors and pharma to advertise; some might consider it a good thing not to exploit hypochondriacs, but is it ethical if it results in patients not knowing about an actual cure for their condition? These things are endlessly debatable, they're very far from a black and white situation.
Web3 / Metaverse was a solution in search of a problem.

AI is solving problems today.
Okay, I'll keep that in mind.
i m sure a lot of people lobbied for this to not be legislated
First Waymo self-driving car experience for Bay Area reporter [video]
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The article mentions many of these shoplifters are stealing things like nappies. Sending them to prison might mean the state has to take care of the kids.
Import Attributes are a stage3 proposal which means it is very likely to become part of the language. It’s the last stage before becoming part of the language.

> Another failure I see is the fact that the "type" property is not meant to be used for this type of language augmentation, it's meant to describe the type of the file without inferring from the file extension

It sounds like you’re confusing Import Attributes with Import Assertions, which was the previous iteration of Import Attributes.

Interpretation of import attributes is host defined. For Import Assertions, that wasn’t true - they were intended never to impact runtime evaluation. That’s the difference with Import Attributes. Import Attributes do impact runtime evaluation.
What would you expect to see happening, in a developed country that doesn't have the benefit of debt denominated in USD and of control over USD, if they had an even worse debt:GDP ratio than the US does?

I ask because there are a few such countries, and they seem to be doing OK. They shouldn't be, if this is something that'll definitely cause serious problems for the US—right? It should already be "really bad" for those countries, I'd think.
> For instance, if BOTW was released under a different IP skin and released for xbox, it would probably be a 6-8/10.

Hard disagree. I was a PC gamer since forever and decided to buy a Switch when I had to travel a lot (pre-Steam-Deck days). BoTW was my first Zelda game (and second Nintendo game ever, after playing Mario on PC). I'm not a Nintendo fan, I'm not a Zelda fan, and I still consider BoTW to be a 10/10 game. It's the best game I've played in years and it's in my top 3 games of all time. The only quibble I have is with the crafting system, but I'm not big on crafting in any game, everything else is perfect: combat, open-world roaming, pacing, puzzles, character design, level design - everything. Nothing was half-assed.
The Aeropress Clear is made out of Tritan. The Premium (from the link) "will feature a construction of glass, stainless steel, and aluminum instead of the usual plastic."
> Or guide them into traps?

It sounds like this is more of a phenomenon they exploit to get on to hosts, as in literally pulled on by static electricity.
This is a brief, not the ruling of the court.

Major questions doctrine is older than (most of) the current Court, e.g. see MCI Telecommunications Corp. v. AT&T Co. from 1994.
Cool, thanks. I'll check it out!
I think the Framework laptop is pretty much as close to a "Linux" laptop as we're gonna get, at least for the foreseeable future. Shipping computers without Windows licences by default and supporting hackers with plenty of documentation on repairing the hardware and making custom modules seem to be pretty in line with the open source mentality.
Pushshift was the Reddit archive but apparently recent agreements with Reddit may have changed that.

Anyone else creating a Reddit archive will likely get a C&D.
No, it's not a slippery slope. The fundamental concept that our society needs to recover from the corporatist memory hole is that there are drastic differences between various sizes and legal structures of businesses. It's been overwritten by this simplistic distinction of "government xor business", when in reality things like large corporations are closer in functioning and effects to government than they are to individuals.

If this particular web design business is a few people and they are all individually refusing to do a certain job, then I'd say this is pretty sensible decision. Whereas if this is a business with many employees (some who likely would do the job), then it would have been sensible to prevent the owners/managers from imposing their personal whims onto the whole group.
(author here) There are at least 4 killer apps ($100m/yr revenue potential) so far:

1. Generative Text for writing - Jasper AI going 0 to $75m ARR in 2 years

2. Generative Art for non-artists - Midjourney has by some accounts $80m ARR

3. Copilot for knowledge workers - GitHub’s Copilot has roughly 50-80m ARR as well

4. Conversational AI UX - ChatGPT probably has >$100m ARR by now, Bing Chat has brought $m's worth of attention to Bing

(More on agents as the immature #5: https://www.latent.space/p/agents)

what else do you need to see to believe? (geniune question)
The year of the markets drying out.
But please don't keep it in a room safe at a hotel. If I had a dollar for the people I know who put valuables in the room safe and lost them...
I don’t really think this is a problem everywhere in all industries. I think that there is something inherently corrupt about the business culture in the entertainment industry that attracts an abnormally high concentration of psychopaths and sociopaths.
Every creator I watch gets their money through merch, patreon, sponsors, basically everywhere BUT youtube, because nearly every single video will be "unmonitized" or copyright claimed by someone who doesn't even own the rights and cannot be challenged in an unbiased setting.

The only people who make meaningful advertising money from youtube are the ones in the extreme high value advertising niches, like Swell Entertainment when she does a tech related video (though she still makes way more money from sponsorships) or all the Logan pauls making clickbait screaming content for literal children to mindlessly consume all day because their parents can't afford baby sitters because all the money goes to advertising behemoths instead of the workers.

I actually WANT youtube to be a great, pro-creator platform, where I have to pay to see people who feel that youtube gives them support and good tools to do their damn job. But that's not an option. The only option available is for me to pay youtube to remove their horrifically overbearing advertising, often from advertisers that are fraudulent, so I can watch videos from creators who genuinely hate youtube for making their lives hell.

I will not give youtube a dime until they stop viewing creators as replaceable cogs in a machine designed to grind them to dust for every second of content they can produce and then cast them aside.

I mean fuck, does youtube even send content creators documents to help them prepare their taxes? These people are all technically self employed, couldn't a behemoth like google help them get a pooled health care scheme that was affordable to middle size creators?
What’s it like to experience derealization? For some reason I’m reading about it twice in a week suddenly, and I was never aware such an experience existed; I read a story about someone who slowly started suffering from derealization more and more, and was having trouble dealing with it after several years. It sounds frightening.
> 9 The dissent complains that our application of the major questions doctrine is a “tell” revealing that “ ‘normal’ statutory interpretation cannot sustain [our] decision.” Post, at 23, 30. Not so. As we have explained, the statutory text alone precludes the Secretary’s program. Today’s opinion simply reflects this Court’s familiar practice of providing multiple grounds to support its conclusions. See, e.g., Kucana v. Holder, 558 U. S. 233, 243–252 (2010) (interpreting the text of a federal immigration statute in the first instance, then citing the “presumption favoring judicial review of administrative action” as an additional sufficient basis for the Court’s decision). The fact that multiple grounds support a result is usually regarded as a strength, not a weakness.
Price controls never work.
IIRC the recommended approach now is to freeze them off with those wart removers you can find at drug stores. Even the special tweezers were hard enough to use properly that it's no longer the recommended approach.
Good. Maybe they'll start blogging instead.
Yes.

There is the pushift dataset covering posts and comments through 2022 [1].

And the ArchiveTeam has begun crawling reddit as well some time ago [2]

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/pushshift/comments/10bwxke/updated_...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36254172
I'm fine with talking to them now - I don't personally find your argument very compelling; there is almost always a step further that someone wont consider that someone else will think is obvious.
You wouldn't hire some ex US special forces person hiding in Russia in deep cover, like a movie. You'd hire local thugs who works as enforcers for a gang to simply grab these guys and shove them in a van and deliver them to a warehouse.

These are cash-motivated criminals not ideological or patriotic fanatics. I imagine the interrogation would be like "You know why we captured you, right? Yes. Login and disable your entire network and live or we brutalize you until you do and then kill you. Ok."

Especially if this was at a government level (ie, not private "loss prevention") you'd be able to tap the intel network for local criminals and things to hold over their heads to motivate them.
For a team using VSCode you can try the vscode-restclient[1]

But really Hurl looks really interesting, being editor agnostic is the best solution for your problem, I agree.

[1] https://github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient
I think the nuance is in the type of service and to the degree it is open to the public at large.
> You can see exactly which book series I'm reading, which TV shows I'm watching, what my hobbies are, what my profession is, etc. If you can't figure out how to advertise to Reddit users then I can't help you.

These are very bold claims to make, considering that Reddit is at the bottom of every advertiser's priority list, despite being a lot cheaper.

Have you considered that Reddit users simply do not like being advertised to? Asking for a product recommendation on a message board is fundamentally different from seeing an ad for a product on said board.
Why are you being cheeky and muddying the waters in a serious discussion?

We're discussing more than if the WSJ, FT, and NYT allows ad blockers or not. We're discussing how stupid it is that a service shows ads in the first place for premium service people pay for. WSJ and NYT are only two examples.

We're discussing how there's precedent to pay for a service and still see ads and how it wouldn't be a shock if Google pulled the same stunt.

We're discussing concepts and ideas, not specific companies and their policies.

Furthermore, the link you provided has a section "4. PROHIBITED USE OF THE SERVICES" which is an overly broad section that reads exactly like Google's TOS and could be interpreted as banning ad blockers if NYT wanted to say that's its purpose.
I think your argument would make more sense if the bar had to stock "black beer" that only black people want to drink and "normal beer" that everyone drinks.

The bar is welcome to serve whatever beer they want, if you come in and ask for a specific brand they can refuse service because they don't stock it.

I would argue it would be akin to walking into a bar and saying I am racist because I only sell brand X and you demand I buy brand Y just for you.
Images are subject to copyright, which makes them different from facts about the world which aren't.
Uhhh, yes, soda is phenomenally profitable, especially considering all the accounting loopholes to make expenses appear far higher than reality (not that this is unique to any given corp).

> CocaCola revenue for the twelve months ending March 31, 2023 was $43.493B

> CocaCola net income for the twelve months ending March 31, 2023 was $9.868B

> CocaCola net profit margin as of March 31, 2023 is 22.69%.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/KO/cocacola/revenu...

(note I also specifically argue that soda is nearly free to produce, not nearly free to store, or transport, or market, etc.)
You can use uBlock Origin (and a few other addons) on Firefox for Android.
Leaving your car door open isn't a great analogy.

The internet is closer to leaving your own journal open at the library or a magazine store, and people going through it. You made it available for everyone to peek at in a public space. Maybe you didn't intent to leave it there, maybe you didn't intend to make it visible, but you did.
The Technium: Future Scarcities
Some great IM apps I've not heard of in a long time, thanks for the memories!
Yes they are encrypted.
Had this in Hungary about 2004. Had no money at all at the time. They handed me a notice in 15 languages which said I was now permanently excluded from ever entering Hungary again ^_^
I'm excited for Mojo, but it'll be years before it's ready for prime time as a general purpose language. It's not even available to download yet AFAIK...
This is so real. Google's core functionality has become a victim of its own success and is now borderline unusable.

No exaggeration 80-90% of my searches have reddit affixed to the end.

SEO is the devil and page ranks utility died many years ago.
YouTube Premium is a far superior experience to Nebula.
lemmy is a federated alternative to reddit, you can see more at https://join-lemmy.org/
What software do you use? If it’s based on FLOSS in any capacity, then by your definition you’re a slave driver.
your car can be parked in a public street
VASS 2013 – Robert Hoffman – Concept Mapping [video]
All Youtube and Gmail accounts will be converted to Google+ accounts...