Wow, I’m making this my homepage.
Readit Newsfrenzcan commented on Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you ooh.directory/... · Posted by u/hisamafahri
> These markets are also manipulable. In 2012, one bettor on the now-defunct prediction market Intrade placed a series of huge wagers on Mitt Romney in the two weeks preceding the election, generating a betting line indicative of a tight race. The bettor did not seem motivated by financial gain, according to two researchers who examined the trades. “More plausibly, this trader could have been attempting to manipulate beliefs about the odds of victory in an attempt to boost fundraising, campaign morale, and turnout,” they wrote. The trader lost at least $4 million but might have shaped media attention of the race for less than the price of a prime-time ad, they concluded.
Reminiscent of PG's essay about the submarine[0]: it's another way of attaching credibility to a 'news' item you're pushing.
>As this new kind of writing draws readers away from traditional media, we should be prepared for whatever PR mutates into to compensate. When I think how hard PR firms work to score press hits in the traditional media, I can't imagine they'll work any less hard to feed stories to bloggers, if they can figure out how.
I think it's safe to say they figured it out.
It's missing what's sadly the only important difference:
Git: Used by everyone else
Fossil: Not used by everyone else
I wish it wasn't the case, but network effects are really important. Mercurial was a better DVCS launched around the same time as git but it lost out, not because "worse is better" but the network effects spreading out from the of the linux kernel itself.
I used Mercurial before switching to git. The positive difference from switching was how branches worked. I don’t know the technical details but branches on git felt “lighter” to use and maintain than with Mercurial.
frenzcan commented on Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS github.com/huseyinbabal/t... · Posted by u/huseyinbabal
Please don't use or suggest using homebrew as a Linux installation solution. It's better to simply point at the binaries directly.
What’s the issue with homebrew?
frenzcan commented on Using AI generated images to get refunds wired.com/story/scammers-... · Posted by u/MattSayar
We absolutely need certified no-AI digital proofs.
This seems like such a tricky problem. There was a no-ai camera posted here recently which verified the photos were genuinely taken on the device. It was pointed out someone could photograph an ai image via the camera to produce a verified image.
Maybe it needs to be similar to SSL certificates where trusted authorities can verify and revoke verification for digital assets.
frenzcan commented on GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder gog.com/blog/gog-is-getti... · Posted by u/haunter
frenzcan commented on My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020) jeffhuang.com/productivit... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi
Once I realised I rarely read my notes, I now put them in a single note and prepend it when I add something new. It’s weird but I think the value I get from notes is in the writing of them, it’s a way of thinking rather than for recall.
Pretty funny how the top story there references A.I.!
Since /front is a ranked union of all the stories that were on the frontpage over 24 hours, here's an actual snapshot too:
https://web.archive.org/web/20151209195229/https://news.ycom...
> Jukedeck – create unique, royalty-free music for your videos using A.I.
Aquired by TikTok in 2019 for an undisclosed sum.
At last, extension properties in C#. I’ve been waiting for these for years.