skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For now. How long do you think it'll really take before it's also pitching you products? We might have a golden period, kind of like when streaming and Netflix first arrived, but that will surely give way to enshittification and ads.
And you believe that process has human review as a step?
> I think the same about Elon. His luck ran out with Twitter.

Why would that be? Because some advertisers pulled their ads? That's not what he's trying to do. He wants Twitter - actually X now - to be the next PayPal, the Western counterpart to WeChat that folks can use to accomplish pretty much anything. The whole free speech angle is very much in service to that: no one is going to be financially dependent on a platform that can ban you for life simply because influential people did not like what you said in the platform's BBS-like "town square".
I guess so. But I've never thought this was the true spirit of that phrase. To me, fake it till you make it means to pretend you know what you are doing until you do.
I hope we can have a more reasoned debate than this. This topic is really important and frankly there's so much to it I hope that hearing others I can learn more.

When I read some of the thread above what I am hearing is: "I don't want people to be able to run programs on my computer without asking explicitly". Which is exactly what the modern web and modern web browsers enable.

If you learned computing in the 90's you were very much told not to install things you do not trust. Everyone remembers downloading some game from the internet and suddenly their OS was trashed via malware or non subtle virus. The modern web is essentially a giant way to circumvent that. Sure only your browser can get shitted up but its the same browser you do your finance in and has access to your GPU.

Certainly it enables easy sharing of programs but so does something like java. Most OS's still recognize a .jar file as an executable and ask you about it before you can run. They never do that before javascript starts processing in your browser.

There are several other issues here such as:
- Many essential processes such as banking, medical records and education all rely upon the modern web paradigm at this point. One cannot simply access them on an e-reader or using a browser with javascript disabled. Are you saying you think that someone should be left uneducated or lack medicine if they don't like running an unsecured browser? Should those with privacy concerns just incur the cost of having one "safe" device and one they do their "interacting with the web" one?
- The modern web sandbox includes very high access to sensitive things. Many people's file systems are from a cloud platform all of which malware in the browser can access for example.
- The modern web can be highly performant but generally its not and requires ever increasing hardware cost simply to do things like read a book.
I'm very stoked about this as I trust Flipboard to get major social federation right more than Meta/Facebook plus they're more ethical in all sense.

As a long time user, it's a great that they're put their eggs in the ActivityPub basket and I'm looking forward to see what they truly got in the coming months.
What did I say that makes you think what you said is contrary to my own comment?
I mostly use spotify on weekends when driving to the supermarket. So I’m on the opposite side of use than you.
> Why wouldn't transit advocates be in favor of more support for intercity transit?

The solution for intercity transit is obviously trains and aircraft. The primary disadvantage of intra-city trains is the expense of building a rail line to less traveled parts of a city, but nearly every city already has at least one intercity rail line.

The reason intercity passenger trains aren't more popular is that Amtrak charges almost as much as a plane ticket costs but then gets you there much slower. Which is in part caused by low ridership, which subsidies for intercity buses would only make worse.
As a graphics designer of almost 20 years i have to heavily agree. Firefly is nice for drafting and dabbling with stuff that once would've been served by stock sites, but aside picking a few demo images or making some abstract pattern backgrounds here and there, this has close to zero overlap with the UI/UX into development & design system management process Figma serves. It's almost like saying the Bing bot eats away at Laravels user base.

As a personal aside:
I'd like to commend the initial push you guys did with XD. While Figma was still out of my scope back then, and XD played a major role for me in transitioning away from oldschool Photoshop or Indesign mockup processes into a modern workflow that integrates with my dev team and focuses on component & design token centric thinking.

Figma may have left XD thoroughly in the dust by now, and i honestly couldn't be happier that the merger won't happen, seeing how Adobe has been committed to absolutely dismantling the UX of Photoshop to the point of it only remaining installed on my workstation because Affinity Designer still lacks some core feature parity - but in its earlier days XD has been absolutely crucial to the development and modernization of my whole thinking and workflows!
Do you think he would have gotten that far in today's interest rate environment? I mean, are investors paying more attention now, or does the bigger idiot theory still work?
> Does this mean that if none of the creators you support accept BAT then you aren't paying anything?

Creator's can't really opt out of BAT afaik, Brave will just hold the BAT in escrow until they make an account. Brave itself doesn't really benefit. Maybe from a value increase in BAT?
I'm not entirely certain how much they seeded to themselves, but I can't imagine much if at all because of the optics.

Whilst it is not ideal, you have to remember that this is a three-step from a previous situation:

1. No one has adblock, security and privacy are deeply compromised

2. 'Everyone' has adblock, ads are blocked, creators make no money

3. Some users start to use BAT, those users now actually pay for content again
Hey friend - you're wrong on this, although I understand how it might be comforting to think this is all some vast elite conspiracy.

The reality is that you "become chosen" by building a company that is growing very quickly in a big market. That's it.

Most successful startups didn't wait around for some name-brand VC to pick them (that's the most anti-entrepreneur mindset I can think of). The big funding happens much later than the initial traction and momentum.

Yes, you have to be personable enough to be able to talk to clients, investors, recruit top talent, etc -- but that's not the VC arbitrarily choosing whether they like you or not -- that's a cold reality of being a great founder.
"I wonder if we will get to a point where the web is so saturated with this junk that the web itself starts to lose its luster."

Why should it? 50% of IP traffic is caused by robots, maybe in the future 99% will be. Robot shit viewed by AI robots, SISO. Shit in, shit out.
from a couple of months ago, https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/apple-watch-faci...:

"The ITC's ruling upholds a January ruling that found that the Apple Watch infringed on a Masimo patent. The exclusion period recommended on Thursday is supposed to go into effect after 60 days, during which time President Joe Biden can overturn the ruling. Biden previously declined to veto an ITC ruling that found the Apple Watch violated patents of a different company, AliveCor."

"Masimo has accused Apple of entering discussions with it for a potential partnership, including a potential acquisition, in 2013, only to steal Masimo's idea and poach some of Masimo's engineers to implement it."

"As noted by Reuters, Apple and Masimo's legal battles are ongoing. In May, Masimo's lawsuit against Apple in California federal court ended in a mistrial, and Apple has also sued Masimo in Delaware. Flipping the script, Apple has accused [PDF] Masimo's W1 smartwatches of violating Apple Watch patents."

"Meanwhile, Apple is also in an Apple Watch patent battle with California-based AliveCor. AliveCor is currently appealing the revocation of three patents that it claims the Apple Watch infringes upon. Before then, the ITC ruled that the Apple Watch infringes [PDF] on electrocardiogram sensor-related patents. But there's no import ban in effect because the US Patent and Trademark Office revoked the patents in question. Like Masimo, AliveCor has accused Apple of initiating a potential partnership but ultimately poaching AliveCor workers and infringing on its patents instead."

Looks like the patent lawyers are going to do well...
Meh. I think those with means quietly vote with their feet, not quite aware of what they are doing. Have you ever been to / seen video of The Villages? Golf carts and pedestrians owning the street, with cars as guests. And this might be the most politically conservative place in America.

Yes, they probably need an at least one experience of good intercity transit before they see it is possible, but now that the Brightline is running in The Old People Holy Land of Florida, many will have it.
Consuming energy productively > storing it?

Well, yeah...
> De facto? Google's puppet company to keep regulators happy.

If you think that's the case, then Google is clearly failing at that goal, since they've aggressively taken browser share directly from Firefox users to the point where Firefox may no longer be supported by government services.
Hype? I guess

It made Firefox competitive again
I think it's fine to invest in say battery technology.

In Europe IIRC, for example, doctors are not allowed to advertise. Not considered ethical.

In this article, the for profit medical system has placed ethics so far behind money. It's not just one outlier doctor , it's a whole system.

Maybe I overreacted. But to me something is wrong when basic human decency comes in second in the helping professions.
They did a SPAC in 2020 so his 'investors' were mostly the general public. Actual investors were pretty skeptical of them, e.g. Hindenburg shorted them extensively and called them a fraud.
where can i read more about the engineering behind Figma? Is it not just a UI for rendering polygons? Is all the technology in getting high performant rendering on top of a javascript engine? If so that doesn't seem like anything that crazy.
From my memory around that time (2014-2016), smartphones went big and became easy to use such that the dumber half of the population now also had access, platformication intensified, and the human scale social norms that held most of the web together were displaced by noise and oblivion by way of engagement maximization. It's also the time I got rid of Reddit and FB (though FB was only ever chat bridged to weechat for me) for good.

Also, algorithmic feeds, "influencers" and "content".
It seems the victim you referred to earlier wasn't a minor. The buzzfeed article also reports the woman's behavior before and after the assault did the prosecution no favors.

It's notable the officers in question were dismissed.

I do think it's a good idea to pass a law that sex with an officer while in custody cannot be consensual.
I'm not sure that Greyhound needs large bus terminals.

A couple years ago, a canceled Amtrak necessitated me taking a very long Greyhound ride. I started at the Greyhound station in LA and got dropped off at a McDonalds in the very small town of Lordsburg New Mexico.

Other than one bus transfer in Tucson all the stops were at gas stations or parking lots. Their terminals were actually much worse stops because people tended to congregate there and Greyhounds attract an interesting group of people.

It was a horrible experience overall, but the stops were very much not the problem.
Another one you may not have heard is Elon Musk.. he's been delivering self driving cars since 2015
All depends in your definition of successful.
Phishing attempts are irrelevant as long as users check TXes before they sign.
Fake ledgers are also irrelevant because the software does a check if the hardware is legit.
Bricked Ledgers losing funds is only a thing if a user didn't keep a backup of their seed phrase, which would make them lose funds regardless of what wallet they used.
Yes- everything on US soil is uh, vulnerable to the national guard showing up with tanks and giving orders.
This is a stylized comment.

It is a bunch of lists, but the UI is sometimes the lists are scrolling horizontally album covers, sometimes they are popping up from menu buttons, sometimes they go full screen and scroll normally, sometimes they are cut short to 5 elements and you cannot see more, sometimes they continue to 20 elements and you can press to see more, sometimes it's a list with headers that all contain more than a presentable number of elements and you have to tap the header to see more, sometimes it's a mix of horizontal and vertical scrolling sections, sometimes it's squares and sometimes it's rectangles, sometimes your whole list is shrunk because of a popup up top that is going through a list of items they want to notify you about but the popups are shown one session at a time, sometimes they have a full screen popup that is going through that list of items, sometimes you are driving your car or trying to find a song for a baby or trying to do your run and you are being shown many different kinds of lists when a simple, scrolling up and down list with a search box would be preferred, but instead there is so much stuff they want to show you in these lists in so many different shapes that you didn't ask for.

Do you know what the provenance of this morass is, at Spotify? There are many, many Figmas, each a UX designer hoping to reinvent the list in their own way, various product managers competing for attention from the user to introduce a Feature and Increase Engagement for their Key Performance Indicators. The user is better served without any of this stuff.

Man, have you seen the Google Maps and Gmail apps? Google doesn't use Figma either, but the ethos isn't unique to Spotify, it is absolutely toxic. The amount of crap I can accidentally tap on while driving using Google Maps, telling me information I absolutely do not care about, trying to get me to Do Something for Some Product Manager's Product: it's negative ROI.

> why do you think collaborative design works so poorly?

To me, using Figma is a symptom of the incompetent people outnumbering the opinionated and competent. It's not so much that collaborative design works poorly, I'm sure it works very well in Apple's design org. But that's not what the Figma product is. It's a holistic social experience of giving 10x as many people the ability to inscribe their opinions and get credit for participating in a project, as corporate people do, which is very valuable to 10 subscribers as opposed to the 1 person actually doing the work. It's a great business!
Well, we know how that will turn out, unfortunately. We will end that experiment when the body count gets too high.
The '80s are back!
The worst? Are you sure? Reddit's worst acktchsually guys are often spilling out of actual cesspit hate subreddits.
I can give you one worse: a board member (and deal lead, from <redacted> Ventures) telling me there are only 3 people on the board.

3 months later a month before the deal is supposed to close, 2 more board members come out of the woodwork and shut the deal down. No idea they were on the board. Was outright lied to. (I have the call recordings to back that up)

Mind you these are top tier brand-name VCs. They hide behind their reputation, and it works because people like me are extremely hesitant to write comments like this calling out specific firms and people.
Switching Frameworks in Web Dev
I've been doing Django/Python-based web development for the last seven years, and find myself looking for a job, in a Lower Midwestern city. I've been searching for about 60 days. I'm having some luck but not much.

When I look at a lot of the jobs available either remotely or locally, it seems like the majority are in .NET. I have some .NET experience but it's been a while and was mainly through Windows desktop development.

Looking at the market, it seems like at this stage in my career (mid-senior) it's expected to be more of a specialist in a technology than a jack-of-all-trades. My specialty is Django. However, it has a rather small share of the framework market. If I were more specialized in Java or .NET, I'd probably have more options.

How common is it for people to switch to different technologies and keep in roughly the same salary range? How do you find employers that'd take a chance?
so much for the argument that 'stealing from the rich incurs the steepest penalties'. This is such a small sentence for such a large fraud.
I am confused, so people who do not do research and work in a given field should be the only ones to talk about it?... sounds like a recipe for conjecture and assumption and opinion IMHO. If I read a study, I generally like to know that the authors are actively engaged and well informed and educated, experienced in the subject matter they are talking/writing about. This really has become a ..."damned if you do, damned if you don't, you can and you can't you will and you won't" (ala Mark Twain)...situation. The problem that absolutely DOES exist is that there is not ENOUGH research, which is why, presumably, so many are now working on research to fill in those knowledge gaps, and refine clinical understandings, and provide better care, better breathing, better feeding, better sleeping to babies and families globally. So long as the studies are being performed in accordance with the best practices in the field, and are in absolute alignment with the hippocratic oath. Are there cases being misdiagnosed? Yes, are there cases being mistreated? Also yes. BUT is a hard stop on studying, and learning more a good idea if we want things to improve?
What makes you say so?

ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 AMD is on Lenovo's own list of laptops that are supported by Ubuntu: https://www.lenovo.com/linux
Also it can be seen as Disney Feature Animation wanting to celebrate a 95th year anniversary of sorts [1]. Sure the anniversary means a lot now to the public domain, but don't forget that it is also still a big anniversary for the company itself and can be a fun reminder of how far the company has come and all the things they've done over that span of years [2].

[1] DFA itself as a division of the company hasn't existed continuously in that 95-year period, of course. It was shutdown by Eisner for a while in favor of cheaper (and mostly outsourced overseas) Disney Television Animation and various dalliances with Pixar.

[2] Including the years that Disney thought it didn't need an active Disney Feature Animation department. The Steamboat Willie logo does also feel a bit like an internal political statement in that respect, too, because it kind of also says "this company was founded on Feature Animation".
I signed into Instagram for the first time in many months; it was unbelievable how many of ads are using AI images of celebrities and politicians. One was of the comedian/TV host Howie Mandel being led away in handcuffs for who knows what.

It's as if Facebook saw what Taboola and Outbrain were doing with their 'one weird trick' style ads, and decided they needed a piece of that themselves.
> and they've probably been working on Adobe's roadmap / integration for the past 15 months.

$1B would be enough to cover that completely, but as a person who has been in companies that have been acquired. (multiple times), that's not really how it works.

I've never worked anywhere that started working on integrating or unifying roadmaps before the contracts were inked and the deal fully ratified.
I don't think it will.

But the comment was "just imagine founders, investors and employees, thinking they had a really good exit".

If the company cared about "a really good exit" for everyone, it can make that happen with a billion dollars of nearly-free money. If the company doesn't want to make that happen, then why should we expect the merger would have made people any happier? What makes this demotivating?
> It's worth pointing out that most of the best science happened before peer review was dominant.

This seems unlikely to be true, simply given the growth. If you are arguing that the SNR ratio was better, that's different.
eight other ways to give people cancer, yay
So much this. It seems to detect any bright spots as LEDs. It should make a difference of the current frame with all-leds-off frame and then detect the LEDs.
You can trade BAT on Coinbase, Binance and Kraken. Probably a lot of smaller exchanges as well, those just seemed like the most logical one's to check.

So much for a black hole.
What Do AI Companies Want with the Media?
There were numerous incidents and failures on the Apollo 11 mission, it's just that the astronauts were able to overcome them.

One rather terrifying one was nobody thought to put a door handle on the outside of the LEM. This meant that if Armstrong or Aldrin reflexively closed the door on their way out, there was no way back in.

I've been reading "Rocket Men" by Nelson.
Life-Sparking Gas Strengthens Evidence That Enceladus Could Be Habitable
Poor Hank Hill, watching his Texas neighbors freeze in 2021, knowing it all could have been averted if they'd switched from electricity to sweet lady propane.
Real Engineering did a video on the "insane engineering of the Space Shuttle: a couple days ago that is similarly interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcBc0l7IrZU
Microsoft acquisition makes sense. GitHub is basically Figma for developers, and they are one of the most solid AI players out there.
Interesting incentives. Watch scam ads, use an ad blocker (no longer allowed), or pay Google to go ad-free.

Looks like Google benefits by allowing scammy ads...
I don't understand the current news and the pointless debate. Germans knew this at the beginning of the year, if not even earlier. And there is no anger. None. Four out of a hundred people are angry about it while a majority wouldn't have gone for an EV anyway.

A lot were thinking about buying a hybrid but the general population believes that the minute enough people have EVs, parts will start to break "in series" so that the manufacturers can increase profits.

Yes, there are articles and bits on TV and the internet about how maintenance costs of EVs are up to a third lower than usual but it's really hard to believe politicians and manufacturers after things like cum-ex, the wirecard and the diesel scandal.

Now, none of this talk and checking statistics will result in anything but more distrust into authorities, the industry or the media, that is, if you dive deeper than the surface and the nonsense German economists are babbling on TV.

The subsidies are probably going to return, the latest with the next Bundestag, who will then be celebrated as being on the side of the people, while also being slightly or much more right wing, either more or less openly or secretly under the hood.

This whole debate is nothing but a preparation for the next election and to elevate the "conservative" parties.
Unfortunately taking investment means you are accountable to their interests, not just your own. This includes the employees whose investment was opportunity cost.
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There's something poetically beautiful about the fact that the first computer program also contains the first bug. The Original Sin of computer science.