paulchap

For some reason, this reminds me of https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2howud

The computer is the most remarkable tool that we've ever come up with. Yet the modern computer is the equivalent of a bicycle with stabilisers: the added support might be nice for children, but comes at the cost of agility and manoeuvrability. Do we really need the PC to become another device used exclusively for entertainment?

Funnily enough, I got a warning telling me uBlock prevented this page from loading...

By that logic, wouldn't any company inventing/developing a new technology be forming a monopoly?

The one you found is the most ambiguous, since there's no background in the (cleverly) cropped testimonial photo, but Google Images turned up pictures for every single testimonial[0,1,2,3]. The timestamps from these websites go severy years back, as well. [0] https://www.stclairdentist.com.au/smile-makeover/ [1] https://www.dmdentalgroup.com/articles/professional-teeth-wh... [2] https://helpingminds.org.au/new-geraldton/ [3] https://reductress.com/post/the-best-haircuts-for-what-youve...

How exactly do you arrive at this conclusion?

Fortunately, Flash is not a limit for ZomboCom: https://html5zombo.com/

I don't think any VC would like to be attached to the app if the author were to be committing fraud under the FTC Act. Not only are the app reviews suspicious, but the testimonial pictures[0] are definitely faked.

[0] https://getbright.app/

He does have a GitHub account[0]. He successfully founded his own company. Entries from his blog also made the frontpage on HN several times[1].

You, on the other hand, do not have a GitHub account tied to your HN account, or any other records of your achievements, for that matter. You also don't seem to have made any meaningful contributions. But people still took the time to read this comment.

The author's history of contributing to OSS projects shouldn't be relevant here. You shouldn't use it to attack his claims. If someone wants to read the article, they can read/evaluate it based on their personal opinions/knowledge.

[0] https://github.com/erikdietrich [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=daedtech.com

P.S.: No, I'm not the user registered with GitHub as PaulChap.

I couldn't find anything corroborating this claim, and the entry seems to be removed from Wikipedia for lack of source, so is this really true?

I guess now would be a good time to recommend 'Permutation City' by Greg Egan... Great book!

I don't think that laws that dictate companies how they have to manage their property are inherently bad. > Consumer protection law should protect consumers, not their convenience. My comment was targeted at the claim that mild censorship on privately owned platforms should be regulated in such a fashion, because their users depend on it. If you sign up for something, you should know what you sign up for. It's perfectly alright if you disagree with their measures. That doesn't mean you should call upon a body of law to penalize them. If Mrs. Fisher doesn't like the fact that her landlord is asking her to lock the door on her way out, she shouldn't be lobbying for the OPEN IT act. She should settle matters responsibly, or... move?

Basically, I'm just saying I found the grandparent a bit... overkill ;-)

Cyc got hyped for while in the early 90s. It became apparent, however, that rule-based wasn't going to play as big a role as ML in the future of AI research. It still exists, but the company is really secretive, and hasn't released anything viable in years.

[edit: I wasn't alive back then, so most of what I know comes from the Wikipedia article and a recent HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21781597 . My view of Cyc probably comes across as slightly negative. Their (Cycorp) view seems to have evolved since then, and they seem to be creating some really interesting stuff.]

> I think it's dangerous when platforms function like a public utility and is yet allowed to do whatever it wants because it's _technically_ private property.

It _is_ private property. The companies in question are just exerting their rights. The users agreed to the ToS while signing up, and it's perfectly reasonable for them to cut off your access to their service, as long as it's within the legal bounds of the ToS. I don't think companies should be directly regulated/penalized for banning users. I do think however, that people should be more conscious of what they're signing up for. Consumer protection law should protect consumers, not their convenience.

Because Cyc crashed in a truly spectacular fashion.

Linking to one flagged comment from a green account doesn't really support your position that the entire community is "racist-adjacent". Neither does linking to a blog post that claims Scott shut SSC down to protect his patients support your position that he did it to evade justice.

I don't know the movie, so I agree with the title being a bit strange, and I probably could have done with a slightly more factually oriented article, but I appreciate the effort to keep it light. And the stereotypical girls' cliques the article seems to riff on do exist... Girls are known to be more relationally aggressive than boys, who tend to be more physically aggressive than girls. Girls also behave in a more pro-social fashion, so girls' cliques are often larger than boys' cliques, creating more complicated power dynamics. That said, I don't really get what you mean. That's like saying a book called "Good Habits for Incompetent Managers" reinforces the stereotype that only managers are incompetent.

Found it! Things of Science: http://ecg.mit.edu/george/tos/ for the price of 5$/year.

[edit: looks like I misremembered though, neither the Make article nor the website mention radioactivity... must have got it mixed up with something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_U-238_Atomic_Energy_La...]

I think I read about something about a subscription bankrolled by the US government in an early edition of Make Magazine (2006-ish). Every month you'd get an item + a booklet of some sort which suggested an experiment. Apparently you got things like small fossils, and if I remember correctly, a small chunk of some radioactive material. It got cancelled in the 70s... I'll see if I can find it again.

Would you (or the parent post) care to explain what's boring about them? Not everything can appeal to everyone, after all - that would seem to be an inherent flaw of the crate model. I had a look at their catalogue... A lot of the Eureka crates seem to be sports-related (a table tennis robot and a golf putter for instance), and some of them haven't got any moving parts (the golf putter), which would've certainly made it more attractive to some - but personally, I don't _really_ have a problem with that. From what I could gather, they also explain the design choices behind each kit, which makes it all the more interesting. I'm a bit concerned about the durability, since neither their tiny printing press nor their pendulum clock look like they'll make it for longer than a week, but overall, it seems like a fun thing to do on a rainy afternoon.

Maybe a kind of argument ad verecundiam[0]?

[0] https://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/authority.html

No problem. The subtleties of human speech don't carry over to text very well ;-)

> "Serious operators" probably use a cloud storage solution that supports WebDAV/FTP/SFTP, like box.com or Google Drive - "real operators", on the other hand, have a self-hosted solution (-;

I didn't mean to discredit you for using iCloud - if it came across that way, I apologize. My original comment was meant to be tongue in cheek. I've got to admit that I'm a bit gob-smacked by your reaction... After all, my comment was similar in structure to yours. I even quote unquoted the terms, and the "real operator" part was a reference to the editor war xkcd you mentioned. Taking your post literally, I could accuse you of doing the same thing by assuming that real operators were Mac users. And I'm sure there are many use cases where hosting your own cloud storage would be absurd. But, re-reading my comment, it didn't read like a flame war instigating piece of propaganda "Calling all real sysops to arms against the user threat. Grab your cattle prod, fellow comrades, and crank up the voltage!"

> And IMHO relying on iCloud for essential data storage probably isn't a good idea.

I don't condone gatekeeping (although, to be perfectly honest, I don't see how my comment could be interpreted as elitist. It's not like the learning curve for GDrive or any other solution with a better cross platform support is _that_ high), but I don't see a reason why I shouldn't voice my opinion on a tool, even if responding to something obviously meant as a joke. Of course you're free to use iCloud. Personally, I wouldn't feel comfortable with the thought of my critical data being stored on a platform that, historically, hasn't always been known for being extremely stable. Maybe I'm just biased. If you feel comfortable using it, then use it. I won't stand in your way.

"Serious operators" probably use a cloud storage solution that supports WebDAV/FTP/SFTP, like box.com or Google Drive - "real operators", on the other hand, have a self-hosted solution (-; And IMHO relying on iCloud for essential data storage probably isn't a good idea.

I'm not saying they shouldn't have done what they did. I'm just saying that, from what I've read from him, Assange totally miscalculated the effect this would have on the public. The Manning Documents didn't lead to fundamental changes in society. Neither did leaking US diplomatic cables.

I'm not really criticizing their actions (well, I'm calling them naive, which, in retrospect, seems like a bad choice of words). If I'm criticizing anyone, it would be our society in general, which only engages with information in a very shallow fashion.

Maybe I'm just too much of a pessimist, but I think Assange (and others like him) are naive to assume that bringing leaks to the general public really has that much of an effect in today's world - people just don't care enough. You won't find many people actually reading the documents... maybe they notice those going viral, but that's probably it. People don't associate WikiLeaks with the idea of transparency, they associate it with scandals. A tabloid newspaper isn't something the majority of the population respects. WikiLeaks seems to share that negative image. Most of my (Gen Z) peers don't even know WikiLeaks exists.

The new Siri design reminds me of War of the Worlds... let's welcome our alien overlord orbs!

Ah ok, thanks!

Your clash with the conventional usage and connotation of these terms was probably intended, but how is browsing repos active consumption (and vice versa)? Isn't creating and collaborating on projects much more active than just looking at interesting stuff?