Hacker News: icebraining

New comment by icebraining in "Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout"

icebraining — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:16:28 +0000

You can subscribe to the Memes@lemmy.world community from your account on another instance, even if your instance has its own Memes community. Then when you create a thread or post a reply, it'll be sent from your instance to lemmy.world.

New comment by icebraining in "Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout"

icebraining — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:00:05 +0000

There's Lemmy and Kbin.

New comment by icebraining in "Tell HN: Locked Google account reopened after two years"

icebraining — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 13:06:43 +0000

Did you buy it through Google Domains? I think you can migrate it to some other service without affecting the gdrive account.

New comment by icebraining in "Europeans Take a Major Step Toward Regulating A.I"

icebraining — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 23:02:06 +0000

Where do you see this obligation to register your AI service?

New comment by icebraining in "Europeans Take a Major Step Toward Regulating A.I"

icebraining — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 16:46:37 +0000

I'd advise you not to take a single article from a general news source at face value.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7066108...

New comment by icebraining in "Reddit is OpenAI’s moat"

icebraining — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:24:23 +0000

Plus Reddit doesn't own the copyright to the posts, the users do.

New comment by icebraining in "Burn My Windows"

icebraining — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:54:33 +0000

Yeah, Compiz could literally play a movie across two or three sides of the cube, with the video player "bent" in 90º. Felt quite impressive that the graphics card could even handle that.

New comment by icebraining in "Debit cards are hidden financial infrastructure"

icebraining — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 11:41:22 +0000

Only if it actually costs you more to use the credit card. If not, it's the cash buyers that are paying for your rewards.

New comment by icebraining in "Debit cards are hidden financial infrastructure"

icebraining — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 11:10:38 +0000

That's only true if you do not have overdraft, and therefore some transactions will be denied.

New comment by icebraining in "Breaking down the 'payment for order flow' debate"

icebraining — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 10:36:55 +0000

Only because they have been artificially inflated? That seems unlikely; the materials and labor costs alone would take multiple years to pay off by an average family. Being able to move in immediately seems useful, even if currently we're paying way too much for it.

New comment by icebraining in "Breaking down the 'payment for order flow' debate"

icebraining — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 10:18:32 +0000

That there were funds profiting alongside WSB was well understood in the discussions, IIRC.

New comment by icebraining in "Automation != Leverage"

icebraining — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 11:40:43 +0000

This sounds a lot like pg's Do Things that Don't Scale: http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

New comment by icebraining in "How to build a low-tech website? (2018)"

icebraining — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 10:26:56 +0000

Pretty green. An advantage of running very large infra is that it makes sense to spend engineering time optimizing energy use, even in a fully profit-driven sense.

New comment by icebraining in "There is no bottom when it comes to Section 230 reform proposals"

icebraining — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 12:39:15 +0000

No, not all sites use identifying information to "enhance the prominence of information with respect to other information". YouTube doesn't have to use my location to decide which videos do show. In fact, I'd prefer it didn't.

New comment by icebraining in "There is no bottom when it comes to Section 230 reform proposals"

icebraining — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 11:29:46 +0000

No, not everyone was angry about it. Biden, for example, said in January 2020 that it should be "revoked immediately"[1]. There were also other proposals backed by some democrats to limit it, like the EARN IT Act.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/17/21070403/joe-biden-presid...

New comment by icebraining in "There is no bottom when it comes to Section 230 reform proposals"

icebraining — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 11:24:52 +0000

Why would YouTube need to end? You could still search for videos, subscribe to channels, share them, etc. You'd just lose the sidebar.

New comment by icebraining in "The Bitcoin mine with its own power plant"

icebraining — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 21:12:32 +0000

I don't agree; for most computing tasks, the result of every computation produced by each node is used. In Bitcoin, only the "winner" for each particular block gets their computation result used, everyone else literally throws their results away.

New comment by icebraining in "Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”"

icebraining — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 23:34:39 +0000

Except that's not a winning move either, because (currently) you'll be heavily criticized for it as well.

New comment by icebraining in "Techdirt Is Now Without Any Google Ads or Tracking Code"

icebraining — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 23:16:02 +0000

Yes, so what?

New comment by icebraining in "A crucial idea for silicon PV cells was excluded by a patent for 20 years"

icebraining — Sat, 24 Jul 2021 22:33:19 +0000

In theory, just publishing the invention means it'll become prior art and prevent its patenting. Supposedly the US patent examiners will review places like https://www.priorartarchive.org/ before issuing a new patent.