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Clickbait title and OP didn’t disclose this is his site. Flagged.

what are billions of people doing on Facebook if it's harmful? I don't know.

This is extremely naive and akin to asking "why do people drink if it’s bad for you then??" Popular != healthy

It's the television and the Internet. It's that simple.

There’s a more generalizable work on this recently for those expecting more. https://github.com/leochlon/hallbayes

A lot of pearl clutching over extremely average marketing material.

“Bans ByteDance” might be better wording.

Wow, this might be one of the worst PR decisions in recent history.

they don't refute that they did betray it

They do. They say:

Elon understood the mission did not imply open-sourcing AGI. As Ilya told Elon: “As we get closer to building AI, it will make sense to start being less open. The Open in openAI means that everyone should benefit from the fruits of AI after its built, but it's totally OK to not share the science...”

Whether you agree with this is a different matter but they do state that they did not betray their mission in their eyes.

Can the title be updated to include the “Meet”? Otherwise it’s a bit ominous…

The reporting on this study is conflating sentiment with plot structure, which misrepresents the study.

See for example, Frankenstein. The sentiment rises slightly during the Creature’s narration to Victor of his circumstances - likely the narration of the French family he was “living”/stowing away with - but that’s certainly not a “rise” in the sense Oedipus rises to noble status. It’s hard to interpret Frankenstein as anything other than the protagonist’s consistent and tragic downfall (riches to rags in this analysis).

Not sure if that’s fundamentally a problem trying to extrapolate plot beats from sentiment alone, or a bit of less than accurate journalism.

TLDR:

Word standardizes text through:

- Document templates

- English as lingua franca

- Auto correct and completion

Whether or not you agree (I personally do not find it convincing) it up to you, but there’s a summary because the article is very long-winded.

The internet is not centralized. It is literally the largest decentralized network in existence. A network of networks with no central hub.

Seems intermittent. Sometimes a refresh will work to display files and commit history.

You have it backwards on two counts. First count is the point of POSIX is any OS vendor doesn’t need to worry about any other OS compatibility. Just implement POSIX interfaces. Second count is that is OP’s exact point: it never has been done before, because too many OS vendors give POSIX very little thought. This helps realize the original vision of POSIX.

Yes. No one likes a sore winner. Providing your customers with assurances? Good. Providing tips to Okta customers? Sure. Publicly chastising another company you do business with? Unnecessary. That should be kept private. Just my opinion

Recommendations for Okta

Seems a bit haughty to publicly chastise another company. The tone of this article is a bit off-putting for me personally.

Good news for me. Somehow the local mediterranean place here had an issue with this so I got to take from the backlog of un-fulfillable orders for free :)

Faulty analogy. The lack of DRM would not hamper my enjoyment of the media, as the lack of anti-cheating ware would hamper my enjoyment of a shared game. Put simply, DRM is about protecting the creator, anti-cheat is about protecting the consumer.

FWIW, I pay for nearly all the streaming apps and still get the file itself through ${other means} because I want it for offline viewing/future viewing etc just like we used to be able to with DVDs. If the streaming provider provided this file, I wouldn’t need to resort to these other means and they wouldn’t lose a customer who now already has to have an alternate pathway to get a soft copy of the file.

The unfortunate second-order effect of the death of globalization that no one likes to talk about is the rising cost of all kinds of goods and products

These aren’t second-order effects or some kind of dirty secret. Anyone with a high school education in econ understands that buying American is more expensive. What is a far more interesting question is why we are now willing to pay that cost, and how we got here. It’s worth noting that this is largely a counter-current movement within the semi conductor industry, since a lot of industries post-Covid are actually more global, more remote, and less local than ever before. Would be interesting to touch on this.

This pseudo-conspiratorial thinking, that somehow the increased costs of domestic production are a secret the “elites” are trying to “hide,” is just a convenient way to make a very basic observation seem clever and insightful.

Smells like a cheap shot of desperation given recent events and Apple’s rumored AR/VR/MR entry. If anything, Whatsapp’s competitor is Signal and Telegram, not iMessage, since they are cross platform and fulfill the same niche internationally.

Although of course trying to compete with Signal on privacy grounds would be a fool’s errand.

because at least we can hold them responsible when they don't deliver it

This is a common but I believe overstated, even naive, ideal. What exactly does "holding them responsible" even truly mean? If a company is greenwashing and they are still emitting carbon, what really is the difference between the company who never claimed to care at all? The carbon is emitted all the same. "Oh, the stock price would fall because investors would lose trust." But greenwashing is a dime a dozen these days and I think the investors/upper class know that greenwashing is just marketing and don’t truly expect/care about the cause.

Regarding this, how does anyone hold Parler accountable for making a platform of "free speech"? Either you sign up or you don’t. If you sign up and complain they aren’t extreme enough, they don’t care or at least they don’t have any material reason to care. If you don’t, where else are you going to go? Twitter? But the whole demographic is people who didn’t like Twitter in the first place and want to be with their kind. So how do you "hold them accountable" without say, legislation, regulation, and government oversight, something today’s "free" speech advocates are opposed to?

Faster data rates, lower network congestion, more efficient spectrum allocation, and private commercial networks for IoT. There are many benefits. Although, perhaps marketing has oversold those benefits that will be passed into consumers. Largely, 5G will benefit network operators, carriers, and industry.

5G has not appreciably made “flying more unsafe.” If anything, this is a good push to start updating altimeters to spec (installing bandpass filters, better testing) which actually will make flying more safe because currently these altimeters are susceptible to out of band frequencies.

Yes, that’s exactly what OP proposed. /s

open identity standards and open payment standards

Ah, but that won’t line Elon Musk’s pockets.

This is conflating two very different issues around social media regulation in my opinion. I won’t claim to know “HN’s” opinion because it will likely be as varied as its users, but there are two main camps in this area:

1. Regulate data privacy and tracking

2. Regulate porn/liability risks

The first camp generally opposes Facebook for its huge collection of personal information and tracking across the web. By “regulation,” they mean make this kind of behavior illegal so I don’t have to run Facebook Container and try to cover my tracks to have privacy online. I don’t really believe these sorts of people have issues with porn online, unless their porn habits/opinions are used to profile them perhaps.

The second camp is the likes of Nicholas Kristof and FOSTA-SESTA, who believe that unregulated social media will lead to sex trafficking and prostitution. I’m not gonna get into the validity of these concerns, but generally these people are not concerned about data privacy and in fact want companies to be able to identify people by name and stop any crimes facilitated via their site.

You also have another curious mention of regulation for kids which I interpret as a reference to Instagram Kids. The backlash here was, from my memory, much broader than the likes of either the EFF or the porn crusaders alone and had a lot to do with the recent press about Facebook being harmful to teenage girls in particular and children in general. So, a lot of parents were upset at the idea of an entire app dedicated just to Instagram for kids. Of course, I am sure there were also people concerned that Facebook was further cementing a digital “pipeline” from childhood to adulthood where your Facebook account follows you the whole way and makes data collection and surveillance even more powerful.

I also disagree with the notion that “no company wants to be the most lax company in the space.” If anything, from this post and also from sites such as OnlyFans, I think many sites “want” to host adult content in the sense of “want” meaning don’t want to turn away potential users. The issue is, as this post touches on, being associated with adult or illicit content can result in payment processors blocking your accounts and advertisers souring. You can see a milder example of this on YouTube with unsavory videos being demonetized because advertisers don’t want their ads played over a video about serial killers or racism. It’s not that YouTube is cowering at some journalist penning them as a public menace, it’s that they want advertisers’ dollars and advertisers don’t like adult content because it’s a threat to their public image.

Regardless, this “race to the bottom” theory doesn’t really hold water when you consider that only Tumblr has banned adult content. Twitter and Reddit still allow it and there are even whole sites dedicated to distribution of it (OnlyFans and its clones) which have never existed before on this scale. Then again, you have things like PornHub taking down “unverified” videos after threat from Mastercard, so it’s not really clear either way.

This was a very long reply I realize, but I had a lot to say I suppose.

Perhaps but Library Genesis worked long before it started using IPFS as well.

Yeah, I read about Ramon and his wiener dog ramps when this was first submitted to HN months ago and I said the same thing then as I am now. It’s bullshit. If Ramon wants to sell wiener dog ramps, then the system to do that should be “buy adspace when people search for wiener dog,” advertise on wiener dog enthusiast forums, sponsor videos/meetups, etc. Not “create an all knowing digital surveillance system tying together user profiles across devices and networks and embedding tracking pixels in websites.”

So Ramon wants to sell a niche product and that means I have to be tracked across the internet so companies can sell a digital profile of me? Get real.

But it crushed FB, Snap, and 1000s of small businesses in the process.

Ironically, this is far more of a narrative than this guy’s idea of Apple’s “narrative.” The idea that banning user tracking hurts small businesses was FB’s narrative to try and get backlash against Apple for its tracking crackdown. That genuinely is a narrative because from Apple’s decision we have seen that consumers (1) prefer not to be tracked (go figure!) but also (2) are spending more than ever.

What he calls Apple’s “narrative” is actually their substantiated history of privacy-protecting technologies. Not just tracking, but iCloud Private Relay, Hide my Email, iMessage E2E encryption, keeping many things on-device only. Even the example he gave as a gotcha - personalized ads - has an opt out button right there! Try opting out of FB’s tracking and ads network and see the difference.

With this update, you’ll see more results with unique, authentic information, so you’re more likely to read something you haven't seen before.

This phrasing sets off a little alarm in the back of my brain. Overall, I agree with the intent of the update and I think Google is maybe internally realizing that their questionable search quality combined with legitimate and privacy-focused competitors (DDG, Neeva [1]) could turn into a serious and existential threat to them.

That said, this is not quite the issue a lot of people have with Google search results. For me, when I search a movie for reviews, it’s not that I want new reviews to show up from smaller sites. It’s that I don’t want the whole screen filled with Google’s own little special sideshow for movie reviews. I can easily see this becoming even more frustrating actually if I search for “x reviews” and rather than get the usual Rotten Tomatoes, IMDB, newspaper reviews, I get RandomGuy.com. If I want RandomGuy.com, that is actually what a social media-esque site like Rotten Tomatoes or Letterboxd is for, not a search engine.

Hopefully this will be what we want it to be and not, for example, the TikTok-ization of Google search results, constantly and algorithmically showing you something “new.”

[1]: <rant> That said, the game is still very much for the taking and no one is still able to easily answer one of my most common queries for work: “python regex.” Seriously, it feels like a battle to get a simple example showing how to use groups/named groups to extract specific information. I don’t want a reference guide to common RegEx wildcards, I already know about \d and +! I don’t want a toy example showing how to use RegEx for seeing if “rain” is in “The cat is in the rain” (that’s using a hammer to kill a fly - you would just use “if rain in string” for example). I want a helpful and succinct guide on the specifics of Python’s RegEx so I can stop fiddling with it ASAP! </rant>

Yes, Signal’s phone number requirement is bad. But, given that, the fact that they don’t store any messages on their side and everything is client side is still a huge benefit over a lot of other apps and still a huge step forward for privacy! Criticism is definitely important but I just wanted to put that out there that all things considered, Signal is still very much a good thing.