skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" is propaganda and cultural myth.

Conditioning liability limitation on being hands-off will only go so far. For one thing, most platforms are basically unusable if you try to turn them into the verbal equivalent of 2b2t[0]. You need to do spam filtering at the least, and that implies making editorial judgments as to what users to take on. It is also possible to use free speech as a censorship tool - say, by harassing or doxing users as reprisal for speech.

Even if we walked this back to "utilities must have consistent rules and users can sue for unfair application of them", this is still historically lenient in terms of intermediary liability. The law does not chase pointers: with literally any other field of endeavor, we don't accept the idea that someone can facilitate a crime without being liable for it. That would be a massive loophole. But we accept it for defamation and copyright law because we convinced Congress to accept the propaganda of the Internet[1].

Under current law, Visa and Mastercard cannot disclaim liability that Apple or Google can. This is why the anti-porn campaigns have been so successful at killing amateurs in that space. Apple might be prudish about not having porn in their app, but they can at least accept filters on the app[2]. And, as we've seen with cryptocurrency, letting those companies disclaim liability would be an absolute nightmare. Cryptocurrency has been an absolute boon to ransomware and scam enterprises that otherwise would not be able to take payments. So you will never convince Congress to carve massive, gaping loopholes in banking law the same way we did to defamation and copyright law.

A decade and change ago our biggest worry was that Comcast would try to turn the Internet into a series of cable TV packages. Now, we have forced so many people to effectively immigrate to the Internet, that they are in a position to demand that it does actually work like cable (in that things they don't like can be sued into oblivion or taken down). The old Internet cannot exist in a world where it can be used against itself to destroy itself.

[0] The oldest anarchy server in Minecraft.

[1] For the record, I am not opposed to CDA 230 or DMCA 512. But we still need to recognize that these liability limiters have massively harmed the ability for plaintiffs to prosecute legitimate defamation or copyright cases.

[2] I am aware that Tumblr got smacked down for this, but this is not because Apple refuses to accept filtering on social networks. They got smacked down because they are absolutely terrible at filtering anything, and an app reviewer saw CSAM.
The best part is at the very bottom they say

> Honestly this template does look really nice, though.
I'm happy about it because all the celebs who paid $ to churn out an 'AI music video!!?!' with Stable Diffusion and whatever shitty demo they had lying around are suddenly revealed as tryhard chasing the hype cycle rather than innovators.
So, relying on a major company.
> If you wanted to start an adult social network in 2022, you’d need to be web-only on iOS and side load on Android, take payment in crypto, have a way to convert crypto to fiat for business operations without being blocked, do a ton of work in age and identity verification and compliance so you don’t go to jail, protect all of that identity information so you don’t dox your users, and make a ton of money.

It's really quite sad that this is the case. What can we do, collectively, to fix it?
Maryland couple plead guilty in submarine secrets sale case
I suppose this was the only way to avoid a leak, but I do wonder how far in advance Phil knew this was going to happen.
I said it's apples to oranges, didn't I? This comparison just makes no sense whatsoever.
Happy user here. I started with 2 of the BT connected widgets, that used my phone to upload to the cloud. I then added to the Airthing View Plus which does wifi, BT, and if you plug a cable in will act as a gateway from bluetooth to the airthings web service.

Seems like a cool company, and have seen things like forest fires, using a gas stove, and burning things while cooking all correlate with readings. In particular I noticed that 3am in my bedroom has a pretty big CO2 spike. I also monitored radon before, during, and after some radon mitigation.

I really like that at least some of their units allow exporting their data to graphana, without any cloud involvment. I'm unsure if the view plus does the same though.

So for the HN crowd, lots of sensors, can use a raspberry pi as a gateway, your phone, or a turn key view plus. Graphana support is a big plus and you don't have to use any cloud service if you don't want to.

I do wish they had a carbon monoxide sensor.
It’s a combination of RIAA equalization, mastering suited to vinyl, some distortion, and some surface noise (mostly unobtrusive clicks and pops), according what my ears report me while listening to vinyl.
Imagine being of IC7+ caliber and voluntarily deciding to jump on this sinking ship. I doubt such a person exists. Might be an opportunity to upsell yourself into an IC7[+] offer, though.
Was it ever really an Apple Silicon issue or a macOS issue? I thought this was a macOS and SSD issue even before Apple Silicon came out?
Much like an alarm clock, some sounds are best heard only on demand.
At this point it is obvious that their occupation of Ukraine outweighs the $11 billion cost of the new pipeline. That's just the total cost by the way, not who paid what exactly.
Stadia was quite clearly part of the commoditize-the-competition strategy, probably mostly aimed at Sony and Microsoft.
That's awesome. I have some old kindle fires with lineage. I mentioned the echo because they have been iterating the hardware to make it harder and harder to gain access. For example, I have one[0] where they removed the USB port.

[0] https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Amazon+Echo+Dot+3rd+Gen+Disasse...
Agreed with this take. It's frustrating to see people in this thread pinning this on Sundar. I certainly think he could've done better as CEO, but the incentive structure and culture around products was baked in from Larry & Sergey's time.

I was around during the pivot to "landings" - which didn't actually make many practical differences. For the most part people simply redefined "landing" to "releasing a product"... which was also the definition of "launching" :)
> Scary fn thought!

I'm a kotlin programmer so it's a scary fun thought for me.
Ask HN: How does Stripe manage IDs?
I like the way Stripe formats their IDs. It looks like they do identifier, underscore, random string (eg. cus_ja19382 for customers).

Does anyone know if they treat the ids as an opaque string or if they break it up and use the identifier portion too?

Wouldn’t it impact database performance if all your ids for a table start with “cus_”?
This ignores consoles
It's fascinating that I can just click and run a game compiled in 1996 (WINQUAKE) in Windows 11; but my ubuntu installation breaks after not touching it for two months.
I think I broke it.

Input: TypeScript
Output: QuakeC
Code: Sample 3

Seems to spin forever. (Which makes sense, as QuakeC is incapable of the constructs in Sample 3).

Edit: after a few minutes spinning it's... Spewing a lot of nonsense. It seems to be dumping every variable combination it can "think" of that it has seen in QuakeC.
an acquisition
Hopefully Optimus, or some other robot, will be able to repair Hubble, when needed, and we can extend its lifetime by a century.

https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/tesla-ai-day-2022-elon-...
> For one, impressions should probably be priced lower since the user has no engagement with the content.

And because displaying a web page in a temporary in-app browser will likely prevent the user from viewing or interacting with the ads as intended. (For example, if a user taps on one of the ads, where does that open?)
I don't necessarily disagree with your premise, but something _can_ be both historic and modest. The first, tiny steps can show that there's something we can do about it and that's historic.

Whether these benefits actually exist... well I'm on the same page as you with skepticism.
> It's sad to me how successful people have been sanitizing the internet.

Not just sanitizing, but sanitizing to US social mores. Showing a naked boob is considered porn and banned on most of these platform while public toplessness is perfectly legal in many jurisdictions worldwide. I guess it's lucky that at least these companies are not based in an even more restrictive society like China or we would see further restrictions become commonplace.
That's the part people forget about "utilities" and "carriers". The reason they were indemnified, is precisely because they know the exact identities, (and even locations), of all of their users. The cops can handle things themselves, they just ask the "utility" or "carrier" who X is? And who is X connected, (or even connecting), to.

We have to think up an entirely different model for the newer technologies we are using.
Where are you getting your information on the methods to protect against dementia? That seems like a very dubious list tbh
It would have been nice if they'd have provided a download link or github repo so I could use this as a template to quickly launch new sites.
> It's basically forcing the developer to do all the hard work and boilerplate that async/await saves you.

It doesn't. Both require the exact same kind of invocation by the user. Neither automatically parallelises operations that aren't explicitly marked for parallelisation.
The phone number at the bottom of the page seems to be a legitimate phone number for "Berg Consulting and Technology Leadership" in Wisconsin, US.

Hopefully that is actually the site owner's number and not someone else's.
They could just take the old game engine as-is, give it a new plot and art, and I would beg them to take my money.
> Bernie was very close to clinching the nomination

That's a counterfactual.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/a-close-look-at-sander...
Short-term, this is a great way for SpaceX to play nice with astronomers who have been pissed about Starlink satellites photo bombing their shots. Long-term, astronomy is really going to benefit from increased access to space! As launch costs approach zero, distributed space telescopes with unique properties become viable, not just monsters like JWST.

I couldn't find an estimate of just JWST's launch cost. Bundled with a couple other parts of the project, it was 700 million euros (https://www.planetary.org/articles/cost-of-the-jwst).
I believe it was required for early adopters. Then they let you claim free games while a subscriber, but you lost access if you stopped. If you weren’t subscribing you could miss free claims. It was all very manipulative and low value.
From the article you linked:

> That was not the case according to Nike’s chairman and chief executive at the time Phil Knight, who told the New York Times in 1998 that he “truthfully [did not] think that there has been a material impact on Nike sales by the human rights attacks,” and pointed instead, to “the financial crisis in Asia, where the company had been expanding sales aggressively, and its failure to recognize a shifting consumer preference for hiking shoes.”
Not sure why it's downvoted. They are all a part of PRISM, according to Snowden revelation. And they collect too much data.
Or let me have some toggles so I don't have to seek out a hundred different fringe sites.
Same for East German chips (mainly Z80 and family), but with the Western CoCom embargo in place for anything that was more advanced than a toaster [1] there wasn't really a legal way to obtain a license anyway.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinating_Committee_for_Mul...
But now I'm curious to know which quotes you're referring to...
> I can not understand why a rational actor would ever pick a number larger than the number of participants.

If there are two of you and you're both always picking 1 or 2, you're going to both lose half the time when you collide. You'll win 1/4 of the time.

If you instead pick from 1-3 you're only going to collide 1/3 of the time, and you'll win 1/3 of the time.

1-4, 1/4 collision, 3/8 win rate.

(I think I've got the maths right, based on picking numbers uniformly.)

If you accept this is logical but decide to actually only ever pick 1 or 2, your logical opponent will surely decide the same and you'll both be worse off.
If you buy porn with cash, there's no payment processor to stop your payment from going through.

But now that we all use credit cards, it is technically feasible to stop your payments from happening depending on what you are trying to purchase. And so credit card companies are under pressure to do so.

It's not just limited to porn. If anything is controversial enough, then its payments can be shut down. I was just reading this earlier today: https://world.hey.com/dhh/i-was-wrong-we-need-crypto-587ccb0...

What should the future be: cash, crypto, or mobile payments à la WeChat?
Indeed the Nash equilibrium is not always what we would like to call "optimal", especially in games with more than two players.

As you notice, it is possible the Nash equilibrium strategy will be crushed if more than one agent chooses a different strategy (i.e. a situation where players are deviating from a strategy in a non-unilateral fashion). If Agent 1 and Agent 2 work collude beforehand they can completely crush Agent 3. The Nash equilibrium only says the agent will lose more if they change while the others use the follow the same strategy (i.e. a unilateral deviation).

In defense of the Nash equilibrium, there are some reasons we can sort of assume that the two players will pick a strategy which happen work together to beat us by a lot. For example, one of the two other players could just play the Nash strategy along with us, in which case we know the other player will not be able to exceed the equilibrium value. There is no way the player can pick a strategy all by themselves which is guaranteed to win more than the equilibrium value. For the other players to actually have a guaranteed higher probability of winning, they must coordinate playing their strategy with the other player and trust that the other player will keep their word. This is known as forming a coalition.

There are some other notions of equilibrium which take this into account and do not permit coalitions to change the value (see: strong Nash equilibrium), but it won't exist for many games (like this one).
Money is a useful proxy when used to allocate resources to individual economic agents, but is not useful when analysing and coordinating an entire economy. In fact, the loss of fine-grained information and introduction of social subjectivity is often highly counter-productive.
I'm not sure, but you may be right. In either case, going by the results here, it seems this is expected usage. That is quite something, especially comparing it to linux. No idea how windows plays into this.
I've kind of noticed this, too. I actually use a LG OLED as my primary desktop PC monitor in my master bedroom, mounted to the wall above a standing desk. I don't usually use it as an actual television for basic sleep hygiene reasons, but I've used it more than zero times in the two years I've had it now, and never noticed any ads in any interface (excluding the streaming apps themselves promotion their own content in their apps).

Same thing on the Sony Bravia I have in my living room, which is what I usually watch television on.

But I do run my own DNS server in an OPNSense router/firewall with some pretty strict blocking rules, and it recurses to a NextDNS server that also has its own blocklists enabled. So if these devices are actually using DNS via DHCP instead of hard-coding their own servers, and serving ads from known ad domains, that would do it.
It's a tragedy of the commons.

You used to have to -want- to be a hacker, and connectivity much less the processing power to receive it was not guaranteed. I had to mow lawns to get a ride to the library to read dusty Bell UNIX surplus manuals. You were lucky to even meet someone other than Dewey D who knew the same words or the nature of what you were doing.

Consequently, when you met someone online, it didn't matter what kind of weirdo they were. You knew that when you were in certain spaces that anybody there had some special something and that kinship bridged all gaps and mismatches. Those friendships were forever and we didn't even know eachother's names or faces. That's not guaranteed now.

Now everyone has an apollo mission's worth of compute on their wrist/pocket and the swill is so sweet nobody's hungry. If you extrapolate the current situation to other events in history, we're headed for danger and that's a good thing, we need that struggle.

"Crises precipitate change", Deltron3030 was right.

p.s. don't say 'mainframe' say 'cloud', you're all set.
having recently been mattress shopping, note that boxspring/whatever else you have under the mattress can have a huge impact on the isolation from left/right of the mattress. I also recommend Consumer Reports' mattress reviews.
Our mattress had excellent isolation in the store, but at home, on our adjustable platform, isolation is much lower! The adjustable platform sways left and right quite a bit.
CEOs are collectively hammering these talking points about the economy, pretending that it's 2008 all over again. They want their workers scared.

The thing is, this isn't 2008, not by a long shot. They can keep complaining, but the jobs numbers speak for themselves.
This template looks great actually. I think I'll use it for my next random website project.
First person to accurately describe the Rick Roll video wins the Internet
It was probably Russia, Germany would be to pissed if Biden did that
Or in-painting with AR glasses. Change things in the real world just by looking at it (with eye tracking) and say what you want it changed into.
It's quite the precedent they are setting by issuing refunds on the hardware. Presumably dodging a class action, but interesting nonetheless
That's not really true. I consulted for two companies that provided payment processing services for... non family friendly websites. They were making out like bandits charging ~30% fees. The blended charge back rate for this side of business was about 5%. The blended charge back rate for the family friendly side of business was around 3%
An interesting story:

In our journey to get the temperature right, we made extensive use of thermal imaging and compared our prototypes with competitors.

The images showed that one of these sensors got extremely hot during operation but the temperature was nearly identical to the real ambient temperature. We couldn't believe this.

So we made a test and put a strong fan onto this sensor. The temperature then dropped by more than two degrees Celcius BELOW ambient which showed clearly that they made a software offset.

It can be debated if such an offset is a legitimate design choice (and I personally believe it has a lot of risks) but it was something we wanted to avoid in our design.
Unfortunately, many people let their political beliefs interfere with their use of this principle; if one institution('s representative) lies, then it's just an isolated incident or there was a good reason, but if another institution does, it's because that institution (possibly including all institutions in that class) are "evil".
> Why aren't there OS-native green threads, or at the very least user-space scheduling affordances for runtimes that want to implement them without overhead in calling blocking code?

Green threads are, definitionally, not OS threads, they are user space threads. So you will never see OS-native green threads as it's an oxymoron. The way many green thread systems work is to either lie to you (you really only have one OS thread, the green threads exist to write concurrent code, which can be much simpler, but not parallel code using Pike's distinction), or to introduce multiple OS threads ("carrier threads" in the terms of this article) which green threads are distributed across (this is what Java is doing here, Go has done for a long time, BEAM languages for a long time, and many others).

EDIT:

To extend this, many people think of "green threads" as lightweight threading mechanisms. That's kind of accurate for many systems, but not always true. If that's the sense that's meant, then OS-native lightweight threads are certainly possible in the future. But there's probably not much reason to add them when user space lightweight concurrency mechanisms already exist, and there's no consensus on which ones are "best" (by whatever metric).
The piece was in progress for fifdeen years.
I agree, none of this was blatantly obvious and a lot of aspects need to be taken into account. The world isn't black and white even though it would be nice if it was at times.
For those who have never heard of the sandbox tree, this is well worth the watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNSDRAYn43s
There is an immense gap between 'major streaming sites' and torrents. If you're a bit unlucky, you'll find stuff straight up illegal to create through rather innocent searches.

Whoever did the 'sanitizing' of the web should get charged a fine for doing a shoddy job.
Ask them for a million dollar bonus to do so and a contract saying they'll pay any losses due to divorce later on :P /s
Nah not easily repairable, replacement are hard to get and pricey. 3/5 at most. Better luck next time apple your stuff is still shit.
This conflates websites as a medium of art or personal expression vs websites as a medium of business communication. For the latter, I just want to get the point across quickly and painlessly. For the former, everyone is welcome to design whatever they want and consume as much time is required.
doh! /removed obvious link
> For awhile this Google dev was putting up extremely detailed amazon reviews for USBC cables

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson_Leung
So much for making things accessible to the color-blind.
Url changed from https://dreamfusionpaper.github.io/ to the page that names the authors.
I’ve used bootstrap themes successfully quite a few times for internal applications.

I just pick something that uses stock bootstrap and adjust the colors, shapes, sizes, and font to taste. Add some extra utility classes or widgets. Maybe an icon library and a logo or two. If you’re looking for it, you may notice it’s bootstrap. At least it looks like someone put work into it.
Much as the BBC began to do a decade or so earlier.

I know the arguments in favour of this. I'm ... not entirely sold, in both cases.
There's https://berty.tech/ as well. Not sure if it's as mature yet though (https://berty.tech/blog/berty-not-war-ready/)
That still allows `x as string` and many other traps. Typescript just isn't type-safe, and this has bitten me so many times in real world projects with strict mode and all. The best thing I can say about Typescript is that it's an improvement over Javascript.
It is actually his phone number, the website (dagusa.com) is on the same IP as report.ly, which is the real mailto right next to it. The same phone number is on that page.
Lots of reasons to stay anonymous besides for hiding what org is behind the paper. Maybe they don't want to be kidnapped by the North Koreans and forced to produce new paens with "lost footage" to Kim Il-Sung.
> Yes, I struggle to think of a good reason to work for such a harmful company as Meta.

Then you aren't actually asking to learn. Instead you are judging the poster. That's a thing you can do, but couching it in a question is terrible forum etiquette.