skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Things going bad is bad.
Dying is bad.
Etc etc.

Sometimes on net things are good because of other effects like "ah, promising new competitor gets a chance to shine!" but if you could have _both_, you absolutely _would_. A company going bad is a _cost paid_ for new blood, not an _added benefit_.

It's not good that you have 100 fewer hours when you spend 100 hours creating something awesome. It's bad that you have 100 fewer hours. If you could create the same awesome thing and still have those 100 hours to do something else, that'd be fantastic.

All other things being equal, I would far rather Intel be awesome than not. If it turns out the world is such that all other things can't be equal, it might be worth having Intel not be awesome in favor of other benefits, but I'm never going to be _happy_ about Intel not being awesome.
If I send someone to kill you would you consider me unaccountable?
I had a great use for 1/1 in my career at a hospital helpdesk. As part of our small jack-of-all-trades group, we were responsible for the paging system, which was being upgraded.

Our integration vendor had to test and set the volume of all the speakers and put on classical music. We realized that classical music wasn't probably the best choice in a hospital (figure that it can get very... dramatic) and the rest of the crew was figuring out what to put on overhead to carry onwards.

I grabbed my iPad, hooked it into the paging amplifier, hit play on a certain song...

... and the paging system dutifully played 3 chimes indicating an emergency page, and 1/1 boomed across the hospital. A very healing-space-esque theme, very fitting.
Okay bud.

The common law has been developing for hundreds of years. It is an extraordinary institution and an important part of Western traditions.

At its best, the common law has allowed a finely balanced rule to develop - not in a vacuum, but incrementally and iteratively proven in thousands of real-world cases.

Some of the best minds of our civilizations have tussled over these guidelines, and the more lawsuits that have occurred, the better-developed that area of law, in general.

The United States' approach to the common law of libel and defamation has been strongly shaped by the First Amendment - and that Amendment was not nearly as strong a century ago, remember. It has been accorded more respect and power over time, and that is a wonderful thing.

All of this to say: you're ignoring the entire edifice of law concerning free speech, libel, and defamation. The balance of free speech vs libel and defamation is a defining feature of the success of our society, not its failure.
You can backup your password manager.

You don't have to depend on the cloud for your password manager.
In that case, the answer is not to fine Jones less, but to fine the WMD liars more.
It is advertising, but usually not the kind people are complaining about. There's no Netflix tier to remove product placement from shows.

And yeah Nickelodeon did but that's because the network was "off" during those hours. When it was on it was 12 hours uninterrupted for the first 5 years.
You don't have to. But this article isn't about you. Kids will, because of peer pressure, and the fact that it just works.
fwiw i've also seen this in Rust quite often:

let foo = foo.clone();
let bar = bar.into_inner();
let baz = baz.to_owned();
let quz = quz.unwrap();
...
I think that's borderline a similar argument to loss prevention in department stores. I don't know hard numbers, but assuming there's a 2-3% loss in goods due to theft, the department stores can still make profit. "No one is harmed yet" If everyone stole goods, the stores would go bankrupt.

I think the same argument can be made for pirating. It's harming no one as long as it remains a minority action. If the entire population felt the same as you, the movie/game/show industry would take a huge crash.

My personal believe is that morals shouldn't rest on other people not doing what you're doing for it to be ok morally. It needs to be applicable for 100% of the population for it to be moral. (barring obvious exceptions like handicapped people using handicap stalls, etc)
Heat pumps are a big part of electrification, but contractors seem resistant
It definitely copied a piece of Moonlight sonata in the last 7 seconds of the first continuation sample: https://youtu.be/4Tr0otuiQuU?t=516
Wouldn’t an armed robot by default not be “general purpose”?
Bankruptcy notwithstanding, he almost certainly does not have $1B. He's a celebrity figure of sorts, but pretty fringe. It's a symbolic victory. He'll have to liquidate the bulk of whatever assets he may have, and the plaintiffs will get a few dollars when it's all said and done.
I tried avoiding the iPhone bandwagon for practically a decade, going from flip phone to the HTC Droid Incredible, to some HTC M<#>, to Samsung S4, and then a series of Pixel phones, starting with the OG Pixel, and ending with the Pixel 3.

I have to say: besides a few clunky swipe experiences, the iPhone is better in every single way. The camera opens when I click the camera button. The phone pairs wonderfully with my airpods. With Android, the camera would inevitably lag after pressing the button, sometimes taking 10+ seconds to load, and making me miss a photo.

I don't miss Androids/.
There is no public RCS API on Android. Only OEMs can create RCS clients.
Why go to such lengths to monitor your 16yo?
When I was a teenager and mobile phones became widely available everyone had Nokia, Siemens or Sony-Ericsson, depending on how well-off the family was, it was either the old or new model. But we customized the phones as much as we could - custom ring melodies, screensavers, custom covers, if the phone didn't allow that then at least some stickers. Everyone wanted to be unique, go against the social norm.

Android phones are arguably equivalent in terms of functionality for what today's teenagers use (whatsapp, tiktok and camera), but offer much wider variety and a chance to stand out.

Why do the current US teenagers follow the herd in this regard?
Is the iPhone se really luxury? If you are starting from the idea that every teen will have a smart phone, I think apple has blanketed the market with products at all the cost points.
That’s probably because feature-wise it is
That is definitively not the definition of a false equivalence as I did not claim he should go scott free. However I doubt that there is anything fair regarding a 900 millon dollar punishment on a person that has a net worth that is orders of magnitude smaller.
You forgot genes. Why on earth is society oblivious of laws that allow copyrighting of human genes?

"Unlike, say, having access to food or water, or even education"

This is YOUR take. MY take is NOTHING should be copyrightable. People will still go to concerts and movie theathers. If anything, copyright stiffles production and innovation.

EDIT: I forgot to remind you that copyright is different from trademark. I think trademark is constructive, but copyright is not.
> did he just say they’re crisis actors and its hoax?

This is what he did, and it's defamation. If I say "go kill Trump" that might be incitement (although it might not be if it's not credible.) If I say "Trump is a murderous liar," that's really just a personal characterization that can't be disproven - you can find things in his past that can be interpreted as murder, and things that can be interpreted as lies, whether that makes him a "murderous liar" is just banter. If I say that Trump molested a child, and I clearly intend for the charge to be taken seriously, that's defamation unless I can show the kid.
I admire their intent but question the claim of "digital sovereignty" while their public-facing website requires Google Analytics as well as cookies for Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and doesn't even offer an opt out.
I meant it in response to "you can get a MacBook Air now for $1000". It is the cheapest of the Apple laptops but it's not a particularly cheap laptop.
But wouldn't a standard structural/anatomical MRI work better than fMRI for that purpose?
> No this is not good news. Say the wrong words and get financially destroyed for ever is a feature of failed societies: dictatorships, and totalitarian counties.

Oh please, Jones is no way a victim. Your idea of a successful society is one that richly rewards wilful dishonesty - not the kind intended to amuse or entertain, like fiction or the tall tales shared by Art Bell, but by deliberately ruining other people's lives.
Seems like an opportunity to teach that it is folly to "Keep up with the Jones."

Wait till they hear that they can make purchases in other areas to "Keep up with the Jones" - fancy cars and McMansions. By then they will be fully enslaved to debt, but boy will they have that glorious glorious status.
Lies are covered by the first amendment. There is a rather narrow exception for lies that can be proven to have harmed somebody, and you can prove that they knew that they were acting negligently (i.e. knew that it would case harm and knew that it was false). Those are very high bars to meet.

Beyond that, you can lie your head off. Jones has been lying for decades. This is the first time that it was so egregious that somebody managed to drag it across the finish line for a civil judgment.
To the free speech purists in this thread, I have a hypothetical I'm curious about:

What if it happened to you? Let's imagine that a media source with millions of viewers - like a local news channel, for example, or a radio show, went live with a story that had specific and false allegations that you did something odious. Like they said you were a cannibal or a pedophile or something like that. And as a result, you were faced with a campaign of harassment and threats by fans of this source. If people googled your name, "Cannibal" was the top hit.

And they made millions of dollars from these allegations.

What would your recourse be?
No, but it’s a step closer. CBCT is the standard right now, but it has limitations like poor bone density measurement and no dynamic imaging.
There is indeed a lot you can do to avoid overcrowded sales departments, e.g. define minimum order volumes your prospects need to hit to let your salespeople interact with them (and refer them to an external reseller otherwise). Invest in online sales tools like product configurators to let you customer do the sales job etc.
This proclamation is likely triggering for the HN audience
This is it, if it wasn’t the phone it would be something else.
I have not been in any prisons, but State prisons look awful on YouTube. Are private ones worse?
New Apple services and apps are rolling out on Windows 11 and Xbox
That's only if you're using google's SMS app. Many phones ship with something else (like Samsung's) as the default.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25669864

Poll: Switching from WhatsApp
A lot of kids got oculus quests for christmas/birthday but I suspect many collect dust. Some sort of daily or weekly active user stats for teens using VR would probably be a better indicator.
> I lack the vocabulary and metaphorcraft necessary to even begin to break down such a false equivalence

Odd given it was your comment, not the one you're replying to, that first drew the analogy.
I am under the same impression. Everything I've heard re: the bankruptcy filings suggests that none of his machinations will protect his assets from the courts.
The way an SMS message is displayed in iMessage (sent from a non-Apple device, as opposed to a "blue bubble" for iMessage-to-iMessage messages).
I appreciate you sharing your experience. Mine has been essentially the opposite, but I suspect the root cause being working for a company with a terrible culture.

Any tips out rooting out the companies that actually reward this virtuous behavior?
>If you lose one you have one safely secured that can get you into any service you need to.

Even that is not good enough, by a longshot. This is so much worse than even regular passwords.

It works for corporatiosn. Lost your key? Go to IT and generate a new one.

It does not work for individuals.
People gawking at the magnitude of the fine are perhaps underestimating the scale of profit being generated from the enterprise in question. To be clear, I'm not sure one way or the other, but I'd keep an open mind to the possibility that it's actually possible to collect a large fraction of this penalty.
Thank you for sharing this! Do you know of similar gems?
I was a profoundly uncool teenager and enjoyed life quite a bit. Buck the trend.
His speech isn't being suppressed. The government didn't arrest him. He's being sued for damages he caused to the families of the victims he lied about. That's as American as it gets.
Naive question here. What's the encryption story here with RCS?

What I like about iMessage is that I feel its relatively secure. Given the choice of trusting Apple vs a Frankenstein arrangement between Android and the various carriers, I'm inclined to go with Apple, unfair practices aside.
You might want to take a look at bestpracticer.com — they’ve been doing great work in this space.
I automated video creation for learning vocabulary
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On the other hand, Gawker network was completely obliterated for copyright infringement over the Hulk Hogan thing. That seems more disproportionate than this.
In reality automation is about individual tasks, not jobs, which are collections of tasks. The makeup of jobs may change.

The paper doesn't start off well, with its first concrete example being bricklaying. Brian Potter, on his "Construction Physics" blog, has one or more posts discussing the history of attempts to automate that very task.[1] TL;DR: it's not going well, for a variety of reasons.

Most tasks are proving far harder to automate than expected, even the "easy" ones, for task-specific reasons that are obvious to anyone who has closely observed the task in the field. These guys write as though they are desk bound.

Woo-woo like affirmations? Seriously?

How about worker ownership and profit sharing, an improved social safety net, and free retraining?

1. "Where Are The Robotic Bricklayers?" https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/where-are-the-rob...
I have never understood the arguments that Apple doesn't have a monopoly or monopolies and thus should get away with all the anti-trust violations they get away with. They definitely have monopolies when it comes to market power and influence, even if Android phones (which are split across several manufacturers) have a larger worldwide market share.
Neither contains a call to action.
Discord has a feature called threads, but it works differently to any other feature called threads anywhere else. You can pick an existing comment, create a thread starting at that comment, give that thread a name, and it works like a mini-channel - people can post comments in the thread, and they appear there, and not in the channel (there is no option to also post a message to the channel). Threads appear in the sidebar under their parent channels, and there's some UI to show that a comment has a thread hanging off it. After some period of inactivity, threads are archived, and no longer appear, but you can find them somehow.

We use them now and then on the gang group chat, but they don't feel as comfortable as Slack threads. I'm not sure why.

It's a bit weird that you name threads, rather than just replying to a root comment.

Discord also now has a thing called "forums", which is basically a highly mutated channel that works like a bulletin board. People make posts rather than comments, and there is a reply chain off each post. The structure is fundamentally the same as comments and threads, but it's laid out very differently.
Not saying that you are. But if Alex tried to make a mockery of the litigation he was facing why is the outcome disproportionate in your opinion? Didn't he undermine the process with his own actions here?
But it would naturally lead to lawyers letters and probably your apology and a costs settlement on the steps of the courthouse. The settlement might be zero sum, but you would expect a competent lawyer to advise you to back down gracefully all things being equal, assuming you lacked any evidence for a truth defence.

Oftentimes, the outcome isn't about winning in court. It's about the restitution of the potential harm.
Making energy too cheap to meter
Bit Slicing
Do you think Ruby will ever be able to catch up to PHP in raw web performance? If so, when (months/years)?

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Please don't take my comments as unappreciation for the hard work going into Ruby.
Defamation law at the time of the framers was even harsher than it is today. Truth wasn't a defense, and there was no "actual malice" standard. You were as likely to be arrested and imprisoned for these kinds of statements as you were to be sued for damages. The founders would have been fine with this outcome.
That's a very uncharitable interpretation.

Whether you like it or not, Alex Jones is insanely popular and so is Joe Rogan. Their audiences votes and can certainly tip elections.

I bet you never thought Trump would win in 2016. I knew that race would be close because I understand the mood of average Americans better than you.
Yeah, I had to google it too:

"If you see a green message bubble instead of a blue one, then that message was sent using MMS/SMS instead of iMessage. There are several reasons for this: The person that you sent the message to doesn't have an Apple device. iMessage is turned off on your device or on your recipient's device."

So apparently iPhone users see text messages from us Android users in a green bubble instead of a blue one. And apparently they've been conditioned to think this is icky?
A lot of teenagers would rather be dead than uncool.

One day, someone will figure out how to become a "blue bubble" with an android, and that person will make a lot of money.
As a parent of a toddler wondering why you deactivate th data. To disincentivize sneaking out? Preventing game addiction or too much social media?
Nolan Gray on How Zoning Makes Your Life Worse and What We Can Do About It
In iMessage, which seems to be a thing in the USA (I don't know of any other market where it's a dominant messaging system), non-iPhone users participating via SMS appear to iPhone users with a different (green) background color to their message bubbles.
Sadly, no.

Liars on CNN get fired. Plaigiarists at the New York Times get fired.

Let's contrast this to ... say ... Fox "News".

Oh, wait, Fox testified in court that they weren't news.

Sorry, my fault.
That entirely misses the point. He didn't send the people. They acted on their own based on bad information he fed them. No call to action.
> the establishment wants to shut Alex down for speaking the truth.

For speaking the "truth" that Sandy Hook was a false flag operation? No, he is being held liable for the effects of his broadcasting that lie.
Really nice submission, super interesting content, thanks a lot :)

I'd love an energy hacker news :)
> you're looking at roughly a factor of 100, with ~40 MJ/kg for gasoline and 0.4 MJ/kg for a lithium ion battery

If you only care about acceleration, energy density doesn't matter very much. What matters is power: The rate at which you can move energy from the storage medium to the wheels. In that respect a capacitor-powered dragster could probably smoke a top fuel dragster, even though the energy density of capacitors is pretty lousy. No idea if anybody has tried to build a full-size capacitor-powered dragster. Or if any human would be brave enough to drive one.
See today's other story:

One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33176668
Also of note:

> Weekly usage of VR devices moved to 14% from 17% last Spring; 26% of teens own a VR device (flat vs. Spring 2022)

I find these numbers actually more surprising, but I hear VRChat is really popular.
Did Alex jones only say that an event didn’t happen? Or is that perhaps skipping over the numerous other defamatory claims he made? Regardless this was a self own business jones refusing to defend himself and not continue to perjure himself repeatedly. He likely could have made all the same claims and walked away with a settlement or judgment in the low seven figures if he merely stopped lieing when caught and told to stop.
Californians can now get a digital license plate for their car. Here’s how
So should it also happen for burglary? Shoplifting? Illegal immigration (actually, I’m all for much more open borders)? Drunk driving?
It’s about status more than anything else. A teen‘s greatest fear is that owning an Android makes you un-effable.
The people who released opioids upon the American public didn't get fines like this. Insane
> he doesn’t make 100M in his lifetime.

Infowars made $165 million in 3 years [1].

1. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/alex-jon...
You think Joe Biden influenced the jury? I guess it's worse position than having a president who was a praiseful guest on your show.
... this is why Apple should be investigated for Anticompetitive behaviors regarding app store policies and iMessage interoperability.
and what would those lawyers do? green just means sms. if you disable iMessage you should get that on iPhones too. there has to be a way to differentiate the method of sending texts, as they may incur some costs in some markets.
> are we holding all news to the same account regarding deliberate lying for profit?

Yes.

You can sue news media companies under the same laws Alex Jones was sued. People do it all the time.
Yeah, my son is entirely too young for a phone right now, but my wife and my plan is to just upgrade every few years and give him one of our old phones. It wasn't too long ago that we did the same thing for our parents.
I’ve never been able to negotiate a damn thing with my employer. There’s no such thing as individual negotiation except on the day you get an offer letter, and that’s if you’re lucky enough to be an in-demand professional worker.

This is retail we are talking about here. Do any of you remember what it’s like to work hourly jobs? I’ll say it one more time: there’s no such thing as negotiation.

“For every good union story out there there are an equal amount of bad stories” seems like a false equivalency. All I see is union members on average making better compensation than non-union employees. The numbers do not lie. [1]

Apple knew this news story will read exactly like it’s reading when it took the actions it took. Giving non-union employees something visible like this is a well-known union busting tactic. They want people thinking of unionizing to feel bad for not getting some relatively worthless perks.

Meanwhile, Apple’s unionized store will be able negotiate far better benefits than non-unionized stores, the kinds of “perks” that matter like better hourly pay and healthcare, not some one-time benefit that’s arguably just a tool for the job.

The pitch against unions in America works just the same as the concept of “temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

“You don’t want all this scary union bureaucracy because you’re so above average that the union’s contract is going to hold you back.”

It’s a lie.

[1] [PDF] nonunion employees make 83% of the salary that union employees make: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/union2.pdf
Does the iPhone have a standard that other phones could adopt? Ie is your argument that Apple has been pushing an alternate standard, but Google is rejecting it? If so what is it?
>>That’s not true. Unions negotiate minimums, using collective power to balance the employer’s power over employees.

It is absolutely true in every union contract I have negotiated.