skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know you are trying to be helpful but I can't stop laughing. There are no "relevant authorities", it's Apple/Google's way or the highway. Even if there were "relevant authorities" I don't have the funds/time to buy the justice I want.
I'm glad to hear there's a follow up book to What If? (How To was also good, of course) – it's one of the more entertaining, yet educational, audiobooks I've listened to (and it really does work well in audio form unlike much non-fiction, plus Wil Wheaton is the narrator).
Why is it illegal? Where is that stated?
You’re welcome. I’ve found it an outstanding addition to mine, too, and have written about it here:

https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2022/07/pagefind-quite-find-...
I think it's fair to say that the use cases for bitmaps have not yet been fully explored. I believe their use in areas of analytics and OLAP/RTOLAP will continue to grow as the desire to infer and target demo's across households increases.
New Zealand had one until last month, when it was repealed. Their ACT and National parties have said they will bring it back if they ever get a chance.

I don't know enough about New Zealand politics to know if those parties have a chance of actually doing so.
Pretty much what I was thinking too! If your company has violated the law previously in the same or similar manner, you should not be permitted to sell to customers in that market for the equivalent amount of time an individual would be jailed for. I am not opposed to the concept of treating a corporation as a legal entity, but I think that if a corporation is going to be considered a legal entity, they should inherit the same legal consequences a human would incur, if they break the law.

Realistically speaking, I don't see many politicians supporting this kind of change. I'm not even thinking of the issues around corruption, but merely the knowledge that hurting that company would in turn, also impact their own economy in the process.

Imagine if no business of a nation were searchable in Google for a 4 year period. It would be devastating.

Similarly, there are a lot of physical consequences to consider as well. If you lock out a company like Apple or Coke from operating in a country, suddenly there are a lot of related issues.

If Apple could not operate in a specific nation for a set amount of time, suddenly any stores they have would presumably be closed. This would impact customers ability to get their devices repaired. I would also have to assume that all employees at each of those locations would be fired, leaving a sudden glut of unemployment, impacting people who had nothing to do with the situation.

If Coke were to be banned for some set amount of time, it would make a lot of weird cases around things like Vending Machines and Grocery stores. The company might not be marketing or selling their products to distributors, but those distributors might still be selling that product. Once their stock ran out, if they were to attempt to purchase more from the company in a nearby country, who would be at fault? Coke, or the distributor?

I imagine it would create a ton of issues with other things, like agreements to pay X amount of money over time. Stock trading would be another big one, not just in individual stocks, but in mutual funds and ETFs that might be heavily invested in that company. In one sense, it might make investors and day traders more weary and discerning from who they decide to trade with, but trying to figure out which company is breaking which laws, and how likely they are to get caught doing it, is practically impossible to determine, without inside knowledge on the matter.
Indeed, we use it professionally. If you can server boost to level 2, it's quite nice for screen sharing. In my opinion, it's also set up way better than slack for voice channels. Krisp is the icing on the cake.
It's not quite that straightforward. What happened according to Zuck (on the JRE podcast) was that the FBI came to FB and said "We believe some kind of Russian disinformation is about to drop in the next couple of weeks, be on the lookout for that".

When the Hunter Biden laptop story came out, FB reasonably concluded this was what the FBI warned them about, and suppressed it. It's now clear that this story was not "disinformation" in any normal sense, and FB should not have censored it.

Whether or not this rises to the level of a first amendment violation is a tricky question though. It seems to me that in this particular case, both parties simply made a mistake. The FBI was too quick to characterize it as misinformation, and FB was too credulous of the FBI, and didn't do their own investigation.

My opinion is that this isn't quite a first amendment violation, but just an unfortunate series of mistakes. Some of the CDC stuff seems closer to true government coercion though, at least, if you take what the Tablet piece is saying at face value.
As someone who tried learning C++ a few years ago this is (personally) my biggest gripe with the language and this gif[0] perfectly sums it up. Gave up and started learning Rust instead, which I'm very happy about in hindsight.

[0] https://twitter.com/timur_audio/status/1004017362381795329
I see, I rarely use lower level stuff like this, so don't encounter it much, but, when I have to, I would get deallocation errors when dealing with things like metal buffers and just assumed the system always took care to protect the memory.
> Too difficult: you need to prove they knew and took a series of actions to get there, but it's very hard to do, and they usually have fall guys all the way to protect themselves. It's also easier than ever to destroy evidence.

Make it illegal not to have a "custody trace" of how a decision came to be. Even if the CEO came up with it in the shower, for the thing to be implemented, it has to come across a lot of individuals. Make them having to keep all of that data around, and required to disclose how something came to be in case it's revealed as unlawful.
On the short run, yes. But on the long run, that would be more effective. Once the customers and workers have been burned once, they will be very hesitant to give their trust to the company again.

Companies would then have to get their things in order quickly, and win back the trust. A very effective deterrent.

Imagine Google being out of the EU market for 3 months. How many youtubers would try and publish their videos on other plateforms? That would open competitions. People would boo google everytime they suck because they would fear for themself.

It would create pain right now, but a sane pressure that would force companies to stop playing with fire because they know they can't get a bad burn.
Another alternative to ES and Lucene respectively - QuickWit (https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit) and Tantivy (https://github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy).
Didn't he change the law to punish Disney because of their political opinion?
> It claimed harmful COVID-19 lockdowns could be avoided via the fringe notion of "focused protection", by which those most at risk could purportedly be kept safe while society otherwise continued functioning normally.

Calling this notion "fringe" is just incorrect. The citations for that sentence say it may be hard to achieve. Sure, lots of things are hard to achieve but some of them are worth it. It seems plausible that avoiding the current economic disruptions that are significantly harming the world's poor might have made it worth it.
There is no "conflict" other than that which is created by most distros; there is no inherent problem to having different applications use different versions of libraries. Containers/nix/whatever do not really sidestep this, so much as not having this problem in the first place.
> pretty good track record when it comes to consumer rights

Are you sure EU has "pretty good track record" with these fines of Google, FB, et al.? If anything, I'd say the EU puts a mild theatre every now and then, and gives the US giants a free pass otherwise.
I guess I'll ask the same question that I ask every time a search product appears here – does it handle languages other than English? Last I checked Meili search was still English-only, for that the inbuilt Postgres search is honestly good enough for most usecases.
I had a Windows phone. The web version of Youtube worked fine. The Youtube app on Android is such a pain in the a* that sometimes I use the web version of Youtube on an Android tablet I have!
I'm not sure how that could work exactly, but yeah, did think of some sort of guix shell build environment container. Though I guess inside it should be the same as "regular" Linux, but you've specified the environment exactly (i.e. you could capture the exact Guix commits to make a reproducible container). Unfortunately, once in there you have state to worry about, so you'll lose reproducibility control as you say, but do think there could be some way to make this a nice stop-gap.
I don’t get why Facebook is so often singled out in these types of studies. What about other activities like dating or school or going to church? I bet those can be shown to increase anxiety and be bad for mental health
Fair enough, thanks for mentioning it, but damn, that's a bit dystopian. It's a testament to how bad the process is that it's possible for there to be different levels of expertise in navigating it.
The UK is in a really bad shape. The rest of the EU and the US are doing fine.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-27/welcome-t...
So you said recruitment would be nothing like in DPR. Here you go Siberia: https://twitter.com/valya_de/status/1572879890277625858 kidnapped from homes in the morning.
That feature isn't coming out till 2023 in a later iOS 16 release. We will see if that moves the needle but like I said in a comment below [0], even when push notifications aren't part of the conversation companies still just wants apps.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32939559
The best engine for generating a startup idea? Find a successful company that charges per user, then build a competing product, and don't charge per user. That's it.

It would be nearly impossible to this for Salesforce. But for a lot of other applications like Slack and Dropbox, you could carve out a profitable niche.
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> I'm not sure airing a single episode is a good measure of interest.

It's probably not in most cases.

How many decades have we heard of shows that were about to be axed because of poor ratings or apparent disinterest, then... somehow they turned out to be megashows? Even something as simple as changing the day it was aired often could make or break a show.

> personally I won't start a show like that until I can binge watch it.

Rewatching some older shows (frasier, right now), my wife and I notice some things that... just weren't an issue 30 years ago. "We just saw this story line last week!" Well... no, it was from 2 seasons earlier, which translated to 2 years earlier back in the 90s. But binging things back to back that were produced for annual serialization ... it's not how they were intended to be consumed.

Are 'shows' now being produced with the knowledge they'll all be watched within a couple of days, not dramatically played out over weeks/months? Will 'cliffhangers' continue to be a thing to get you to 'tune in next time!'?
But OP is asking for a modification of Section 230.
If I'm reading this right, there would be more censorship _in the algorithmic feed_ (no one will get Alex Jones recommended) but the chronological feed will have less censorship (Alex Jones will still be on the platform and you can follow him if that's your cup of tea)
That great innovation is at the root of the market's disregard for negative externalities such as climate change. I'm not in support of jailing shareholders, but say a tax on the dividends of shareholders who front the capital for companies that impose a burden on civilization doesn't sound outrageous to me. Especially since fining the company directly doesn't necessarily discourage bad behavior at the tiers of power that have the ability to take a different path.
It's generally because someone pushed a new model which changed the distribution of content. We're pretty bad (as a species) at understanding what heaps of matrix multiplications net out to on an individual source basis.
Exactly. These young people have no idea what they are talking about and don't know American history at all, except what they've been propagandized to think. Immigration policy used to be very locked down, and now we have foreign agents encouraging our government to let them flood in unchecked.
> E.g. a malicious app mallocs a large buffer and just reads the memory looking for anything interesting?

No, the OS zeros pages before giving them to a new process, otherwise you'd have all kinds of information leaks across security boundaries.

You only see dirty memory within the same process when you malloc and then free and malloc again and get a page from the free list within the process. Increasingly allocators are zeroing those too though to reduce the attack surface from malicious inputs (which is what changed in iOS).
My startup does. We have a public facing one and a private instance.

It doesn't have the ACLs and controls Slack does, but it certainly feels better and friendlier.
+1. Amazing book. Derek Lin has a good translation of this book too.
I use FB in that same way. Nearly all of my "friends" are muted and most of the content is from pages and groups I have chosen. But it does feel like I'm fighting the platform to make it work in a way that works for me. God forbid they should empower the user instead of perpetually trying to squeeze more blood from the stone.
I wonder if Getty Images knew about this problem, when they decided to ban AI-generated images ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32926073 ). Even if they were somehow legally in the right...selling rights to "AI generated" images which included lightly-filtered versions of someone's private medical photos could be a PR nightmare.
This is a fairly jaded take, but my impression is that "blockchain engineers" often expect to be able to work pseudonymously, which implies that credentials and reputation are not as important as in other business domains. One consequence of this is that it's probably easier to break into the field if you perform well in an interview; another consequence is rampant insider fraud.
Or it's cleverly done so everyone has plausible deniability, when in reality everyone involved knew it was basically election interference and first amendment violation. It doesn't take an IQ of 200 to do that without leaving direct evidence.
Interesting. That pricing doesn't seem that bad if you're running a company of that size, but for open communities it's obviously a bit ridiculous.
Not that absurd. People would start doing way more due diligences to invest. They would put pressure on the company to not do something stupid.

You invest in bad actors and want to make money with it? Well you should pay the consequences for that.
Distracting Slack noise. I'm always a little annoyed when people do this and litter public channels. If you feel strongly about communicating your status changes all day, set your personal status - if someone wants to communicate directly with you, they can see that you're "out to lunch until 1:30EST! :foodemoji:" or whatever, but it's not proactively notifying everyone else who doesn't care.
Both individuals have committed crimes (perjury, for starters) here in the United States as well. We can jail them here!
I understand what you mean, but keep in mind that many nations do have extradition treaties with one another.
I wonder how long until programs start to accidentally depend on it, the same way some programs currently accidentally depend on freeing memory not immediately overwriting it.

For instance, I can imagine a program which accidentally follows a dangling pointer to an already freed structure, and reads another pointer from within that structure, not crashing because it ends up checking this later pointer against NULL... until the stars align and the memory used by the freed structure has been returned to the operating system, or overwritten by a later allocation.
Texas has been doing this to big tech

https://gizmodo.com/texas-big-tech-google-meta-social-media-...
It’s probably validated by a human before the message is deployed.
Drives me nuts that even just websites, like Reddit, push so hard to get you to install their app.

I think it is not primarily related to notifications and telemetry, although that's obviously part of it, or to access to your contacts or whatever, like in the case of FB. My theory is that it's much simpler and dumber than that: that "number of app installs" has simply become a metric that managers can use to promote themselves inside a company, and that companies can ultimately use to sell shares. It's an engagement metric, and since there is no metric for "home screen bookmarks made", there is no way for companies and managers to gamify the web site. Therefore, they simply don't care about the website, except as a means to get you to install the app. It's all a bullshit numbers game.
Or you could just use Mattermost.
I'm not a Slack user, but relying on Discord for business purposes seems like a bad idea. They can decide they don't like an account at the drop of a hat, and out of 1000 users it probably isn't an unlikely scenario.
USAF just happens to be a customer, and I really don't believe Ditto has any strong stance one way or the other on this. This statement falls into the "Charlie Manson openly liked McDonalds so as a McDonalds franchisee you openly support serial killers" bucket.
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> Part of that reason is discord is just spying equipment dressed up with a nice UI.

In what way? I didn't know about this.
Most in-person social activity is good for your mental health. Studies show this includes church: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/05/776270553/hidden-brain-does-g...

Facebook is singled out because they are the largest practitioner of surveillance capitalism. The entire idea of “optimizing for engagement,” where Facebook has been a pioneer and the largest player, is increasingly being shown to be a primary driver of political polarization, anxiety, bigotry, and hate crimes.

Thus Facebook is the new Big Tobacco.
It sure didn't look easy when I looked at the OpenSearch docs a few months ago. Any pointers to an easy way of configuring OpenSearch (or ElasticSearch) when I only want to run it on one machine, and it will only be accessed by other processes on that same machine (so I can just access it via localhost)?
Note - this is for Nomadlist that has a community of 1k people, not a corporate employee base of 1k people. Different value proposition here. Discord is actually a decent fit for them.
Cool!

The animation, is that a 3d actor with replaced visage by AI? Could you explain what you did there?
SoftBank cuts internal valuation of $10B Oyo to $2.7B
I fear to imagine what the next iteration will be. Probably someone, somewhere is already working on it.
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> but that rule has changed and no longer allows you to pre-ask. I complied but the very next day I opened an app from a billion dollar company and I got a pre-ask that I was able to dismiss without popping the system dialog. wtf...

Apple enforcement on rule changes has several different options:

a) only applied to new apps

b) only applied on next app submission

c) app will be removed on date unless it's fixed

This sort of change seems likely to be in category A, and then over time will be in category B and eventually the billion dollar apps will get an update denied until they fix it. They may drag their feet a little or a lot first.

Some of the subjective review things will get flagged only sometimes, so you might get through if you resubmit with no changes, or if you only address some of the requests. Inconsistent enforcement is frustrating, of course.
It seems that Silicon Valley is at least in part fueled by universities, notably Stanford and Berkeley.

So I'd expect a competitor would want to be near universities with a focus and strong record in engineering and technology.
Boring people to death using existing underutilized equipment, les expensive than dedicated machinery.
Why not self-hosted Mattermost instead of nothing-is-encrypted Discord?
Lots of naive advice in here. A lot of work goes into a product besides LOC in source control. PMs and management interface with other teams. Do YOU want to be in meetings with sales and marketing going over the product for the millionth time? The business doesn't want to pay engineer hours for that either. There's nothing worse than slick B2B software with no human intervention. Walk outside the happy path and you're SOL.
The movement in this space has been an overall negative in my opinion. These closed gardens aren't searchable, they're expensive, they don't work on open protocols, and in Discord's case they are extremely invasive about imposing their values on communities in the name of "safety".

What we really need is IRC 2.0 that supports the quality of life features these companies offer without all of the negatives.
> HN, which is about as fast as sites get in my experience

We have different experiences. HN is light but it's not fast.
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No, you don't, because "resources" don't magically vanish once you've used them. They just become harder to extract (assuming they're not already being renewed--in the biosphere, "resources" are constantly being renewed by biological processes); but that's what technology is for. For example, it is said that we are using up fossil fuels; but combustion processes don't need "fossil fuels" specifically, they just need easily transportable liquid fuels with decent chemical energy content, and we can make those, because the atoms that the fuels are made of are still there; they didn't vanish when we burned the fuel. We don't do that now because it's cheaper to use fossil fuels while we have them; but of course that will change as fossil fuels run out.

Similar remarks apply to just about anything we currently call "waste"; sooner or later, if we need to, we will find ways to recycle all of that "waste" into something usable. The key limitation is population growth, but as I've already said, population growth is already into the "asymptotically flattening" phase.

It's possible, of course, that population growth will in fact go negative (many projections assume that); but that doesn't mean it will stay that way. The exact sigmoid curve is obviously an idealization; real world systems do oscillate about reasonable equilibrium points instead of just staying stuck at them.
> but they are very selective in what they present and how which means they'll often leave out very important information and context.

part of what i've found with something like that is... I've already heard the other context or 'important information'. Something like LWT is a balancing factor, not the primary source of info in the first place (well, for me anyway).
>But it does feel like I'm fighting the platform

I couldn't agree more.
Most of the transactions with Bitcoin happen offchain, depending of course how you define "transaction". Definition for transaction can be stricter or more lax but for sure it is not only onchain transactions.

For example Bitcoin onchain transactions are routinely compared to Visa network - fairer comparison would also include transactions from lightning network and offchain transactions within services.