skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Section 230 provides a very clear definition of what an “Interactive Computer Service” is, and makes it very clear that someone who provides one cannot be considered to be the publisher, full stop.

> The term “interactive computer service” means any information service, system, or access software provider that provides or enables computer access by multiple users to a computer server, including specifically a service or system that provides access to the Internet and such systems operated or services offered by libraries or educational institutions.

> No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

These two combined mean that you cannot find a way to consider Google to be a publisher under section 230. If they meet the definition of an Interactive Computer Service, then they cannot be a publisher under 230.

> But the courts do.

The courts have not weighed in on this aspect of Section 230, but they taken a very expansive view of the level of immunity that it grants. Particularly interesting here would be Blumenthal vs. Drudge, which granted AOL Section 230 immunity even though the content in question was written by AOL’s contractor, which is probably closer to the line than moderation.

Outside the courts, the general legal consensus is that Section 230 does not require impartiality or neutrality at all, based on both the text of the law and the congressional record around when it was passed.

> That sounds like fear mongering. If we can trust the US government to do anything, its to respect the first amendment.

Or, you know, it’s in line with the past few centuries of liberal democratic tradition to limit the power of the government in the area of free speech. The point of the 1st amendment is explicitly to get the government out of the business of deciding what is and is not acceptable speech. You would put it back into that process.

Also, you probably shouldn’t trust the government too openly here. Ever heard the phrase “shout fire in a crowded theater”? It comes from a supreme court case that jailed somebody for protesting WW1 (Schenck v. United States). That bad precedent stood for 50 years. Just saying.

Of course, there are so, so, so many practical problems with just saying “Google cannot block anything that’s protected speech.” Pornography is protected, violent videos are protected, hate speech is protected. Much of the internet becomes completely inoperable if you set the bar at protected speech; surely we’ve all seen enough poorly moderated forums to predict that.

It’s easy to imagine a scenario where Google can block “obscene” speech but not political speech. But where is that line? And who do you trust to have permanent, hegemonic power to decide what is and is not offensive for the entire Internet? Remember that we got into this mess partly because one group of people decided that another group of people’s political opinions were offensive; do not assume that they wouldn’t use the power of the government to suppress each other given the opportunity.
How to Avoid Paradoxes While Traveling Thru Time
Here you go: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12683469
You are in fact the one that sounds like you are crusading, not the person you are replying to. You seem really fired up about it.
>And all govs control info. Democracies just pretend they don't (they do it covertly, through narrative control, disinfo, etc).

Wishful thinking. "Narrative control and disinfo" are categorically different than banning expressions, opinions, theories and thought. The scale and types of information control are not on comparable levels.

There are always contradictions inherent in governance. There are always both open and classified activities. There are always those peoples/departments/regimes that seek to stretch or overstep rules or norms.

But you can't group it all and say "Great Firewall is equal to think tank lobbying."

What citizens, businesses, platforms, politicians and basically every other entity is allowed to say in a free country vs. China is on different planets.

> [XJ secret master plan]

Citations needed. Testimonials of citizens and family members dealing with camps are more convincing than wide-ranging, decontextualized, strung-together internet rants about XJP's secret genius plan.
Companies have a profit motive to upset as few people as possible. Politicians who are democratically elected have incentive to rig things in their favor, especially when it comes to more ambiguous things like gerrymandering.
OTOH, when I take a limo to and from the airport (well, normally), I call their office and do the scheduling. I know there are people here with an aversion to telephones but this works well for me. Much better than rideshare for this purpose as pickups are often zero-dark-thirty in an area without a lot of drivers. (And, yes, it's relatively pricey but this is usually business.)
yep, was going to say that this is probably the real source behind the mystery. Early OS X is basically NeXT when Jobs came back to Apple. Doom was developed on NeXT, so id Software and Carmack already had a history of using BSD. They also released Quake for Linux around 1996, which may have used X11 (I cannot recall, maybe it just depended on 3dfx/nvidia without X11 at the time... it's been so long)
I have, but I wake up after every lucid dream, so I need to spend more time in bed to get a full length sleep.

And it only last a few minutes, so there is not enough time to study. Even if there was, I am always more interesting in flying around.

And most of the time I only reach a half-lucid state. Like tonight I got stuck in a time loop in a train station. Like I could not leave, because I did not have the right ticket or travel card. Then on a random train the ticket inspector wanted to arrest me. I was aware enough to realize that I could control the environment and could wish the ticket inspector away, but that just triggered the time loop and put me back in the train station where I started.
Thanks, and looks like you're really making some progress. Good effort!
I don't much care about these changes one way or another, but it would be very sad if they went away. For better or worse, they created far and away the best fitness platform for cyclists, if only because of the mindshare and network effects. Their analyses are also quite good. It would be a real pity if they went away, and I hope they stay solvent.

I've been a paying subscriber since I first joined in Aug 2018 and am happy to support it.
The one app among those you list that will always need a stock Android install is your home banking app. Everything else is either open (including Telegram) or will most likely be runnable in Anbox, which is a high priority for all Linux-on-mobile projects.
Their front page tells nearly nothing about the app. Instead, one half of it solicits registration. This tells me all I need to know about their respect to the users.
In IT you need to average a few hours per week learning new things just to keep up, since the half life of what you already know is probably about 5 to 10 years. Other professionals also need continuing education, such as doctors, veterinarians, and lawyers, but IT probably requires more than other professions.
I did say it was a cliche.

On the greater point... I agree that some gig economy companies are more on-the-nose, but they overall proposition wasn't that different. The business model lost money, but generated growth.

In hindsight, once you know who the winners are, it's easy to point out the differences. Realtime, it's harder.
This comment reminds me a bit about what Dave Chapelle said (jokingly) about Bill Cosby:

> Didn’t want to believe it. At first, I didn’t believe it. I said, “These people are obviously trying to destroy Dr. Cosby’s rich legacy.” Even 34 allegations into it, I was still like, “Man… he probably only raped ten or 11 of those people.”

The "other side" is that maybe there's a flimsy pretext for a few of the sexual assaults. Not all of them. Not even most. Just in some cases that women whose careers and reputations Weinstein had the power to destroy chose instead to pretend to be interested in him rather than repulsed when he threatened their livelihoods.
There are people in the US that don't like the idea of a national id card. The US has a very special love / hate relationship with government.
can someone address this instead of downvoting. It makes sense in my head, lol.
Nvshim is an amazing project, but it is a far cry from official Nvidia support for CUDA/NVENC/NVDEC.

(All Nvidia would have to do is build another binary; it's still chatting with the same driver blob internally so it's not really clear to me why they don't bother compiling it for FreeBSD.)
The definitive reference for all things sleep is “why we sleep” by Matthew Walker. It’s a fantastic read, highly recommended. It single handedly moved getting enough sleep from a similar category to “I should probably eat less salt” to “this is the single most important thing for my health” for me.
I read about the Uberman sleep schedule stuff myself when I was younger and trying to recover time I "wasted" sleeping. I ended up trying Uberman myself (15 minute naps, 6x per day).

I did a decent amount of prep work. I talked to my doctor (who basically said as long as I'm not falling asleep while driving, go for it). I set up ways to track my cognitive abilities around work (remote software engineer at the time). I started tracking kill-to-death ratio in favorite first person shooter (I thought it was a good measure of my innovation, as you can't use the same tricks for very long against human opponents). I also started tracking my weight, strength, endurance, and food intake.

It was hard to get into the schedule, and it never really clicked and held. Eventually I found the schedule to be frustrating and difficult from a social perspective. So I ended up dropping it a little over a year after I started.

So yeah, a little over a year.

When I analyzed my numbers I didn't see any particular hits in any of the areas. Work stayed stable (I actually got promoted about 9 months in, so I'm fairly confident about that). My kill-to-death ratio in the FPS climbed steadily along a similar trajectory as it had before I started. I found I was eating more (from ~2300 calories per day to almost 3000 calories to day), but my weight stayed level. Strength and endurance went up slightly, but that's probably more because I was checking them regularly versus not doing any exercise leading up to it.

Would I suggest it to others? No. There were other issues I had with the plan, more societal. And it was frustrating to not be able to focus on something for more than 3.5 hours at a time. But it certainly was an interesting time.
Yeah, I think I should have been more specific that I'm judging against the things I usually need to complete for work--which do not necessarily take my utmost brilliance. I haven't been rigorously tested on low sleep.
If the intention is to save data from your bank website, you're probably going to have to jump through hoops anyway, assuming your bank is doing its job. (Or just remember to use Reader mode first..)

However, if the intention is to just save a link to the bank website for future reference, my technique still works since every page in the PDF produced contains a header with the URL - just like a normal bookmark.
Xiaomi responds to proof of recording private phone usage
It is possible to acquire in any specific case simply by asking.

> Until HN decides they don't want to answer it.

Sure, there's always a risk that the people operating the site will ruin it.

> Or until they play the "lost in my inbox" game, like used in this thread multiple times.

A swipe like that deserves no response, but in case anybody actually thinks we might do that: I have 44 emails waiting for replies right now (edit: 45, while writing this. edit: 47). I spend hours every day answering HN emails, but haven't had a chance to do much today because I've been busy providing explanations to the commenters in this thread, as well as trying to do the normal workflow of HN moderation, which itself has been set behind by several hours. If I'm lucky, I'll spend my evening working through those emails. It's a point of conscience to try to give everyone who writes to us a meaningful reply, it's not a game, and I don't lie to the community—that would be not only wrong but stupid.
It wasn't immediately obvious to me what this change actually was about (perhaps I scimmed the comments parts too quickly), but I found this reply somewhat illuminating:

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=158978831318077&w=2
I travel to India, a lot, as I have family there.

Pre-Uber days, here's what it took to get an auto-rickshaw (also called "auto"): you walk up to the "auto stand" where you see some auto drivers lounging. As they see you walk up, they size you up; and immediately jack up the prices they're going to quote you as they see you don't seem a local. If you turn one of them down, the others will simply refuse to talk to you or even look at you. Then your best bet is to keep walking, looking for an idling auto driver.

Post-Uber world: pull up the app, enter the destination address, and watch as the car approaches your location. Hop in, driver is incentivized to get you there as quickly as possible. Hop off at the destination, give him 5 stars, and you're on your way. Simple as that.

For me, Uber was always an essential service in India.
...Or completely replace the innards with a Raspberry Pi Zero W. (Not sure if it’s actually possible.)
He's Frank Sinatra's son, not Woody Allen's.
It's worse when the language is only in half of the interface. I often see sites in "spanglish" and that "language" never fails to make me want to tear my eyes out.
you are missing the point, it is still a year of work, regardless of gender.
That isn’t an example at all. It’s a random assertion from a 3rd party with no validation.
In the example from TFA, Doordash says you can buy a pizza for $16 and charges you $16. The restaurant menu price is $24, and Doordash pays $24 for the pizza. That's... the starting place. (As screwy as it is)

Now, if I order a dough pizza for $16, in coordination with the restaurant, and Doordash pays $24 to the restaurant, and the restaurant gives me a dough pizza, and then the restaurant makes it worth my while, what do we have?

Doordash has been paid $16, and spent $24 + (cost of delivery) = (-) SoftBank money

The restaurant has been paid $24 and spent ~$1 (cost of dough pizza [1]) = ~$23 profit (minus labor)

I paid $16 (let's ignore tip). The restaurant reimburses me for that (me: $0, restaurant: $7) to make it worth my while, and then splits profits with me (me: $3.50, restaurant: $3.50).

So at the end, Doordash: -$8 - delivery cost, restaurant: $3.50, me: $3.50.

It's the reimbursement of the customer that seems... suspect.

The way to ethically monetize this would be for restaurants to target Doordash misprices, and "sell" coupons (a food box, containing only a paper coupon), good for future food orders directly through the restaurants. Then encourage all their customers to buy as much as possible.

[1] We'll say we return and recycle the boxes, being environmentally conscious citizens
What makes you so sure that this is not something that belongs in the C++ standard?
American companies didn't side with authoritarian regimes before and wouldn't if they just followed 1A rule. People wouldn't be censored on platforms if they just followed the 1A rule.

The metric is personal freedom and how much you can do without the government or someone else preventing you from doing so. Anyone can say what they want and people can ignore and block, leading to more freedom for all.

This is an improvement. It was also what we had before. It worked everywhere in America. I don't know of any place where it didn't work and do note that many countries without freedom envy the American way.
Well, you will definitely see more than 24 fps, but that might or might not translate to better experience. If you want the cinematic effect for a movie, it will be 24 fps, otherwise you will get the soap opera effect.

For other uses, like fluid animations or games, you want as high as possible.
There's a compelling reason: that encourages city growth into the subsidized areas.
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Oh, you might be surprised how many people are not working on anything of consequence. Some of these companies don't even do much in the way of building stuff outside of the product teams, and even then, they frequently fizzle after some point.

You know the line "don't mistake motion for progress"? There's a whole lot of motion up in those SoMa offices... but very little progress. Some of these teams are very good at doing a lot of jiggling around while never accomplishing anything. They manage to snow their manager, which snows the next-level up, and if nobody calls BS, it just goes on like this.

R&D? When the response to building something new is an _immune system flare-up_ from the people who benefit from things remaining exactly as they are, there can be no R&D.

Just like the server situation, the employee situation is bloated beyond belief. You have people making messes and others cleaning it up, instead of just not making the mess in the first place (and then needing neither of those people).

If a million monkeys at a million typewriters would eventually produce the works of Shakespeare, some of these companies would likewise boil down to "three monkeys, ten minutes" (not my line but I love it).
> is a return to single income households

previously it was always men who were earning the income. So "return" is not desirable without the prereq of it not being gender segregated.
> if you do business in China ... it's not really different.

Turning the U.S. into something no different from China is perhaps not what you would want to aim for.
"Facebook IPOed without a business model."

That's a fallacy. If you read Facebook's S-1, the business model is there. Their ad platform could have not been great technologically speaking but it was a hardcore money machine that set FB in a clear trajectory to full operational profitability. Their user numbers where fantastic, so they had a perfect virtuous circle.

They had an accelerated revenue growth and their ad-depending revenue ratio was improving (as well as their cost of revenue)

Imagine going public with a 150% year over year growth. Like it or not, Facebook had a business model. A global business that could scale massively with a relatively small operational footprint. We know now at what cost and the moral implications, but the business was there.

No DoorDash or shit has the numbers to pull a "Facebook".

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000119312512...
Strava integration with apple watch and apple health is so poor I stopped using it directly, relying instead of stuff like health fit. Having tried Summit I honestly don't understand why anyone would pay for such a lackluster experience especially for swimming.

If the Activity app would allow for a bit more detailed workout sharing and basic social like likes and comments I'd be done with it entirely.
It is tiresome to see these types irrelevant comments on a story. So yes it does fire me up a bit. These are people out of work, and the parent chose to focus on pushing their gender-neutral grammar preferences. Real problems vs. Snowflake problems.
Not able to focus on tasks for long periods of time? Get distracted easily? Just use this system constantly for everything you’re doing. I jest but sometimes that’s how these come off.

That said, the GTD stuff has helped me a lot - I’m not great yet on doing the most important things, but I’m at least doing more.
This is not a downturn though. It is a collapse.
I'm not OP, but for my part, I hardly ever use Termux with the on-screen keyboard. I hate typing on that junk. I carry around a small bluetooth keyboard, and I generally pull it out whenever I'm going to do anything with the terminal, or spend more than about 10 minutes using my phone in general.
So use the taxi for once a month? Uber doesn't have to exist for you to address your problem.
There are many things incorrect about that blog's approach. As others have pointed out, this isn't like HD Audio, where people literally cannot tell the difference between normal CD quality and HD Audio in any realistic test. I can absolutely see the difference in a 4K screen, and I can tell if even a smallish laptop screen is 4K or not from much higher distances than normal usage. I remember the first time I saw an Apple Retina display on a tiny laptop from across the room and said "holy shit!" out loud and walked over because I could see how sharp it was from meters away.

First of all, 20/20 vision is the average, not the best. Many people have substantially better than 20/20 vision. I remember laughing that I could read the super fine print "copyright notice" at the bottom of the eye test that is about 1/3rd the size of the smallest font in the test itself.

Secondly, the eye is complex, and has surprising capabilities that defy simple tests, which are designed as a medical diagnostic tool, not as a test of ultimate resolving capability. For example Vernier Acuity (1) means that much higher resolution printing (and screens) are required than one might think based on naive models.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernier_acuity
Being outward focused when possible to try to see things from other’s point of view.

Slowing down a bit and not jumping to conclusions.

Trying to keep my ego in check. It’s okay to be wrong or for a better idea to come from someone else.

Making a conscious effort to listen carefully and not interrupt. I can be impatient so I have to actively work on being present and tapping the brakes.

Avoiding caricaturing a point of view based on the loudest or most extreme versions of a point of view. Related: make sure you understand and address the strongest version of an argument (i.e., avoid the straw man version).

Avoiding Subscribing to ANY ideologies. All ideologies are bullshit and an easy substitute for thinking for yourself.
I always feel thankful that I don't have to deal with taxi drivers when I travel.
And Quest has that proper hand tracking already (had it for something like 5 months now), it's just been an experimental feature until now. I haven't used it much; for some reason the tracked hands seem to be placed lower than the fake hands when I'm using controllers, which makes the latter a better experience for me.
Is there a list of offices closing?
>> or carnivore with a focus on ketosis

Following a "carnivore" diet is a really terrible idea. Unless you're an Inuit living in the frozen north, you should eat some greens.
It depends on the site - but I haven't found 'lost formatting' to be an issue at all - since, when I want to do a granular search I'm using 'pdftotext' to search on plaintext, and when I find a PDF of interest, I open it and can go directly back to the web page from which it was printed by way of the footer/header which contains a clickable URL.

Most of the time though, the formatting isn't an issue. It depends on the site though - some authors produce stuff that doesn't look good as PDF, even if the content is still there. That doesn't bug me much.
A monopoly is not a lack of other options.
> Re-open the bars, and suddenly all those people who 'chose' to self-isolate will start 'choosing' to go out to drink and mingle

This is not a good faith argument, why are you trying to frame it as some kind of moral good vs evil dichotomy?
Ask HN: Tech Stacks at Voice Assistant Startups?
Anyone have some insight and willing to share what technologies are used to build voice assistants such as RASA[1], Alexa, Siri, etc?. How do they structure their platforms and what is the architecture behind it.

[1]: https://rasa.com/docs/