Croatia shutters a libertarian paradise, orange site readers have a sad
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Just being diligent about replication
Do not give SSC a water stone.
Well I certainly hope ethical concerns are holding back eugenics. Possibly even among the main things doing so.
I don't claim to know any better than you, but my intuition says it's the funding, combined with the fact that even understanding what the claims are takes a fair bit of technical sophistication, let alone understanding why they're bullshit. The ever soaring levels of inequality — constant record highs in a couple generations at least — make it hard to realize just how much power the technocrats hold over the public perception and it can take a full lecture to explain even an educated and intelligent person how exactly the sentences the computer man utters are a crock of shit.
And more cynically, for some people it's the old saw about not understanding things when your paycheck depends on it.
It's a self-repairing problem, since you can't fool most people forever, but the sooner the less people still buy into it, the better.
This is like TV being invented in 1927 and then people in 1930 saying that it’s a bubble because it hasn’t grown as fast as they expected it to.
That's the exact opposite of a bubble, then. A bubble is when the valuation of some thing grows much faster than the utility it provides.
Yea sure maybe we're still in the early stages with this stuff. We have gotten quite a bit further from back when the funny neural network was seeing and generating dog noses everywhere.
The reason it's a bubble is because hypemongers like yourself are treating this tech like a literal miracle and serial grifters shoehorning it into everything like it's the new money. Who wants shoelaces when you can have AI shoelaces, the shoelaces with AI! Formerly known as the blockchain shoelaces.
One step away from only being able to choose among chatbot-generated posts, two steps from a social network consisting only of bots replying to each other.
Reminds me of a Žižek bit where he describes his ideal date. He brings his Stamina Training Unit motorized onahole pocket pussy and she brings her vibrator dildo. While the machines perform the mechanically perfect and virtually tireless deed of ideal techno-sex, he and his partner can indulge in the intellectual stimulation of conversation with thair date without the performance anxieties involved in the deed.
'OK, we've accepted "True" to refer to an arbitrary entity denoted as "#t" and "False" to refer to an arbitrary entity denoted as "()" which is the result when evaluating "'()" as defined by the earlier clauses. Let the record state in the form of a comment that the judge would like to appeal to the supreme compiler that the concept of precedent/dependency be reinstated in the judiciary process so that every law not be recompiled by hand during every single trial.'
Complimentary joke keyword for sneerful programmers: lex
It also sounds like katala, which means "wicked" or "devious" in Finnish.
Well IRC doesn't support rich text at all. Even I can admit some text formatting can be a nice feature sometimes. The "disguised link" issue applies to any medium that allows posting formatted hyperlinks like this: https://example.com/
Allowing this kind of formatting for the link cards seems like an odd choice, and seems to stem from reusing the component for other media embeds. Ultimately it's just an extension of the same principle. With sufficient formatting, you can obfuscate or spoof your hyperlinks. You could argue that the link preview card feature itself is superfluous and not having it at all would help mitigate the issue. The latter part is true, but you need to consider that some people seem to actually want link previews. It's a staple feature for IRC bots, too.
It's true that these oversights make it easier to sneak malicious content in your posts and that presents a legitimate security issue. But I think it's also true that posting a disguised malicious link is trivial in any social media platform. It's an issue inherent to the way the web is structured. I would consider these pretty minor as far as security flaws are considered.
My other feelings about Bluesky as a project aside, I'm sympathetic to them on this one. The presented issues straddle the line between a bug and a feature and at least they're promising mitigations. A noncommittal reply four days later is better than what many companies would give. I'm not commending them for handling this especially well, but I don't think it's TechTakes level bad.
If they have a full room to themselves, a DC might let them fuck around without supervision. There's no way I would let them into the structural/electrical bits without seeing his signature under the mother of all responsibility waivers, though.
After that, if this was just a regular asshole I'd hope their fuckaround trip goes without a major incident both to save myself from a lot of trouble and out of common decency towards a fellow human. This particular asshole would really be testing the limits of the latter.
YC has become an educational brand as powerful as some top schools
Sure, no school will prepare you for the amount of hype and grift the tech industry has to offer quite like reading Hacker News does.
As an educational institution I'd rate them somewhere between Prager U and UnIversity of Phoenix.
I've been thinking about this reply for some time now, and while I think you're being tongue-in-cheek (in which case, good sneer!), I resent this. I reject the noxious characterization of the web and its supposed generations as being defined by their method of monetization and the concept insults and saddens me.
It also doesn't match the usual way people use phrases like "web 1[.0]" and "web 2[.0]", which generally boils down to approximately whether a site looks more like it's Geocities Angelfire academic homepage HTML written in Windows Notepad or like a typical Squarespace Dreamveawer Wordpress Django Drupal Framework de jour fuckness.
SerenityOS and Ladybird are extremely impressive. Andreas comes across as very likeable and the community he's built seems cool.
There's a pervasive idea in the programmer community that it's impossible to make a modern web browser unless you're a top 10 tech corporation. I love that they're challenging that and showing that all it takes is a handful of volunteers with good programming chops and a bunch of elbow grease.
A worrying number of people in engineering don't seem to think software is worthwhile unless you can expect to compete for majority market share with the incumbents. If "hacker" is to be taken as a title of honour, I think it belongs to the ones who make things without expecting to take over the world.
And the project has seemingly helped Andreas stay sober, which is pretty heartwarming.
Nobody even knows what the fuck web 2.0 actually is. CSS? JS? SPAs? Flash? No flash? Rounded corners? Ad blocker blockers? Sevice workers? Sans serif fonts? Lack of "under construction" gifs?
Web 3.0 is inevitable, not because blockchain or machine learning shit is revolutionarily useful, but because whatever becomes popular will end up being called web 3.0 anyway.
Also annoyed at the .0 BS. Maybe it sounded cool and techy in the 90s but if the major versions are already nonsense, how the hell are you gonna have a minor one?
Went looking for this image and realized it was originally from the same website.
Holy gold what a shitmine of TechTakes this thread is.
It's justified that figures like count dankula pitch rightward when faced with persecution and left-leaning public opinion turns on them. This is the only way they can sustain and get support. Attempting to stay true to your beliefs is self destructive in these cases. Therefore on the other side of the coin, the people on the left doing it are sabotaging their "side" to satisfy personal vendettas, and people caught doing it would in a perfect world become targets of public hatred instead of their victims.
Oh, it's straight up justified to double down on nazi shit because people were mean to you for doing nazi shit?
Battery on someone is never justified for a belief or words someone says. Defeat their ideas with debate and steer them towards a non-violent resolution.
Yea that worked great in the World Debate II. Discourse of Normandy in 1945, allies stormed the Marketplace of Ideas so hard Hitler's heart grew three sizes and the nazis were convinved by liberal values after some open-minded heart-to-heart discussion.
… not through “debate” but through discussion or maybe music, see
FWIW I once got assaulted by a neo-nazi specifically for singing. Actually, both for me personally and among the people I know, having been assaulted by a nazi is way more common than having assaulted a nazi. The left is full of pacifists who disapprove of violence, even against nazis and people who approve but would not do it themselves. When's the last time you heard of a pacifist nazi?
And the top prize for the most up-its-own-ass comment of the thread goes to…
Seriously, these Nazi/Commie disputes manifest themselves in strange Windows/Linux disputes, iOS/Android disputes, Tesla/The World disputes, and so forth. In my mind it's all the same and there are many characters involved behaving in this same way.
Wow, how come I never considered that nazism is just a normal opinion like preferring a certain operating system or a car brand.
Honorable mention to the hundred varieties of "oh but how do you know someone's really a nazi before you assault them???" Do libs actually have this much of a hard time identifying a nazi or is there a widespread phenomenon of nice non-fascist type folks eating knuckle sandwiches from people mistaking them for nazis I haven't heard of?
You might be comfortable using a single significant digit for any probabilities you pull out of your ass, but Yud 's methods are free of experimental error. He works using Aristotelian science, working stuff out from pure reason, which brought you bangers like "men have more teeth than women". In Yud's case, most of his ideas are unfalsifiable to begin with, so why not have seventeen nines' worth of certainty in them? Literally can't be false! Not even AWS would promise these kinds of SLAs!
No but what if it's actually divisible by Theta Prime?
Maybe this person is a time traveler from a century ago when libertarianism mainly meant anarchism and similar decentralist leftist ideologies.