skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, can't read minds. What I can read is the many other sub-threads where the "first amendment" point had already been addressed. Maybe if some new argument had been presented it would be easier to consider good faith, but not even an old one was. Just a casual dismissal, which is almost as bad as someone making meta comments more often than substantive ones.
The reason why libel and slander laws worked was in part due to broadcasters having contributory liability that would hold them liable for broadcasting someone else's libel or printing someone else's slander. This long-standing principle - that the law does not chase pointers - is something the Internet was exempted from. CDA 230 created a new category of entity that is neither speaker nor publisher and thus exempted from defamation liability[0].

Also, the law itself is actually quite weak for very obvious 1st Amendment reasons. It has built-in exceptions designed to keep it from becoming a censorship tool. However, the context in which that law exists has made the exceptions wide enough to drive trucks through.

You see, CDA 230 alone would not have dynamited the foundations of libel or slander law. Back then, the entities shielded by these safe harbors were supposed to just be web hosting providers. But technology moves on, and now we have Facebook and Twitter, which act almost identically to broadcasters except without the liability. And since they've pushed everyone to make everything public, that makes everyone a public figure[1].

If you are a public figure, it is harder to be defamed. This should be obvious, if I say Donald Trump has a narcissism problem or just mis-state the size of his wealth I should not have to defend a multi-million dollar lawsuit from him[2]. However, if I, say, get defamed by someone and respond to them on Twitter, that makes me a public figure now - which means the bar is also raised for me as a plaintiff. This is how Elon Musk got away with calling one of the Thai cave rescue divers a pedophile, for example.

[0] DMCA 512 does the same with contributory copyright liability, though with the extra step of having to give anyone with a registered copyright total censorship powers over your platform in order to get the liability exception.

[1] Technically this is a "limited-purpose public figure", which basically means "you aren't a public figure, but you stuck your nose in the debate, so for this particular time we're going to act as if you were one".

[2] Not like it stopped him - the US court system has very few ways to stop a baseless suit before it is filed.
I’m just saying this hack is the work of a deranged programmer.
My perspective is that if it doesn't serve ads it likely doesn't have a future at Google.

I would be interested in playing around with this tech, but I wouldn't integrate it into my business or any other part of my life.
Yes, they just presented that evidence to you:

> Because when you look back over time many fundamental workers rights came from union involvement.
I love how the loudest criticism is "Apple is making teenagers feel bad with green bubbles".

I will gladly take that over the next generation being completely plugged into the ad tech surveillance machine.
>docs.google.com

Not clicking that.
I am with you, but remember, you are preaching to their employees or at least employee-wannabees in here. :-)
>whose life has been ruined permanently, and how? genuinely curious.

Imagine losing your child in a mass shooting, and then having someone get up on their soapbox in front of a massive audience and, repeatedly, drum up outrage from their audience towards you. Why? Because they say that no kids were killed in that mass shooting. That it was bogus. Your child never existed, and you are a liar and a crisis actor.

The audience gets angry, hits you up on social media. Googles you, starts calling you. Some people start showing up at your house, harassing you at your place of work. You want it to stop, but this dude on his soapbox just keeps going, getting himself angrier about it, and his audience angrier. They keep calling. They keep hounding you in public. You change jobs, but they find you. You move, but they find you.

You lost your child, but you always - year after agonizing year - have people coming up to you and telling you that that's not true and that you're a horrible person. Grief is a hell of a thing to deal with, but society won't even let you properly fucking process your loss.

That is how their lives have been ruined.
That was my reading as well. And, of course, there are also quite a few non-union legacy defined benefit pensions as they were pretty standard at big companies for a long time.

As someone else commented, a lot of big unions aligned with well-paying blue collar jobs (as well as at least solidly paying public sector etc. work). I'm not sure that you can conclude those jobs were better paying because of unions or because you had relatively empowered organized groups of workers who formed unions.
Thanks. This link should really be higher up in the comments. The community forums discussion is much more interesting than the blog post.
Also remember that top fuel dragster engines only run for a handful of seconds before they need to be rebuilt, and will be destroyed in a non-recoverable way after more than a few handful of seconds of run time.

I'm not sure if anyone is building electric dragsters with run-once components, or how that might change assumptions?
No - people are cheap and lazy. Pay for the support, do the work.
I haven't heard of that - could you describe the books being removed from schools? Are they still teaching books like 1984, Brave New World and Animal Farm?
Are they offereing to return Tito back to the Earth or is that an optional extra?
The desire to connect across distance is very real. Grandparents want to see their grandkids, customers want to see their vendors, friends want to see each other.
I hope I get to try this at a WeWork sometime soon.
Sure it is. The jury literally just found those damages. These aren't punitive damages, they're compensatory. Punitive damages are the next phase of the case.
Google could setup a domain and simply provide people freely with "[usersPublicKey].domain" subdomains updated by users with a dynamic dns client. Even if this were a google special DNS service not part of the global DNS this could work.

Google could also then provide a messaging app to use this service but if some other open source app were to become the defacto and make facebook irrelevant that is still a big win for google. Advertising $$ with one less big competitor.

If Google marketed this correctly then they could be seen as a champion of privacy too.
That is why I'm specifically advocating for us calling them out on it - that makes it damaging to them.
Benefits were not withheld from the union, they get to negotiate separately. They earned the right to negotiate. Most of the company is under at-will employment.

Non-union Apple employees didn't get to choose those "additional" benefits and didn't have a choice of taking the cash value or bargaining for something else.
I wouldn't exactly call it a teaser. The formulas they published stand on their own, and putting them out there in the wake of all the press of the AlphaTensor paper, is just a good idea.

Of course, these formulas are not super interesting on their own, and so the forthcoming paper on HOW they developed these formulas is in some sense the "real" paper.
This is indeed how WA is being used.

I have few friends with iphones here in Spain and of those all of them use WhatsApp. Not sure if they use iMessage with other Apple users but nobody ever uses it to SMS me (and if they did I would tell them to use something secure)

The main messaging apps in use here are WhatsApp (#1 by far), Telegram (used a lot for groups) and sometimes signal.

I've never had a friend suggest something else like Google, iMessage or Facebook/Instagram. I'm not on any of those anyway (even though I have an Android phone I don't use a Google account with it).
Any good guide on getting started with hosted AROS on Linux (Arm64 or x86_64)? I've been able to get to so far was building, being able to run but just getting an unresponsive process that did nothing (didn't debug further, but there was no high CPU utilization), but I could have missed a crucial step or have used a bad revision of the codebase.
Tapered down and began treating for type-2 diabetes instead. Strict intermittent fasting and a fully PBD for 13 weeks with NAD supplementation on top of basic (senior citizen) multi vitamins and extra b complex.

After the 13 weeks I allowed myself meat again and I will drink root beer or creme soda when I feel "off".

It's a sugar problem. It's hypo. It's a metabolic disorder.

It's been 2.8 years sober after 15 years daily drinking.

Getting sober unmasked my OCD. I take a gaba-b agonist now to treat that and I will never ever drink again.
Yeah, my mother is basically the only one in my family who uses Android, so when Tim Cook ticked a bunch of people off the other month by suggesting that we should buy our moms iPhones, I suggested it to her. She doesn't really know the difference between Android and iPhone, but she seems ideologically opposed to paying more than a drug dealer would spend on a burner phone because "that's all she needs". It's pretty frustrating because when she has problems, she asks me for help and isn't all that happy when I tell her to get an iPhone.

It was also very frustrating when trying to share photos to put together a slideshow for a funeral. And on that subject, it's her primary camera now and the quality leaves a lot to be desired on that front.

On the other hand, it's kind of amazing how much an $80 Android phone can do, and that it can take passable pictures at all, so I sort of see her point too. And obviously there are quite high end options as well.
It's not naive to think that may be the case for some or that it happens. It's very naive to think that's the only reason for or result of unionizing, and it was presented as the only ting that matters enough to be mentioned.
Oh nevermind, this link was to a very old bad copy of the document. There are newer nicer copies of the same book laying around the internet.
> if techie kids are less likely to own phones, you need to be pushing 90%+ iPhone usage in working class schools

You're vastly overestimating the number of "techies."
The beauty of the US court system is he has every right to challenge it if he feels it's not appropriate.
Hopefully it would support some peer-to-peer protocol so that when Google cancels it, it won't just stopping working.
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The goal is to create a personal workspace where people can manage their days and weeks on a single screen, set their personal and professional priorities, access a single schedule combined of all their calendars, and navigate through their days without switching between multiple apps.

At the moment, we've implemented bi-directional Google calendar synchronisation, various types of tasks (e.g. daily, weekly, "until done"), and basic note-taking functionality.

Also, Emery has some things we really wanted to see in other apps – private notes for meetings, group editing of overdue tasks, categories that can be used to group tasks/notes/meetings together, and weekly productivity reports.

Currently, it's a web app for desktop. A standalone desktop app is coming soon.

Happy to hear any feedback and answer any questions!
What about monthly data plans and their recurring costs?
The shoes thing is definitely still true in some circles. It's a valuable lesson to teach, but a very hard one. And most people don't internalize it until adulthood. Most parents will shrug and just spring for the iphone rather than listen to the incessant complaints.
But these aren't puntive damages, they're compensatory damages, and plainly excessive ones at that. Alex Jones level of remorse has no bearing on the level of damage he caused, and so should have no bearing on the amount of compensatory damages. To the extent that they did, that's an injustice.

These damages are absolutely insane for emotional distress and defamation. The average lifetime earnings of a US citizen are $1.7 million. These damages essentially allege that each plaintiff suffered emotional distress so severe it was over forty times the average person's lifetime earnings. That's plainly absurd.
Yes. The Quest2 did really well last Christmas. My kids use it daily. Several of their friends have them too.
Casting from any T* to void* back to T* is always safe.

Are you sure this also applies to function pointers?
>whose life has been ruined permanently, and how? genuinely curious.

I hope you're trolling.

You want to know whose life has been ruined? The 26 elementary school kids whose heads were blown off by a deranged asshole.

You want to know whose life has been ruined? The parents who had to move 5-6 times because Jone's deranged followers kept stalking them and actively engaging in some of the most inhumane, heartless and disgusting behavior I've ever seen from one human to another. I'm a native of Fairfield County and have seen some of these assholes firsthand, and it is truly disturbing.

You know whose life wasn't ruined (until now)? The guy who went around harassing the grieving parents and inspiring a legion of paranoid internet tough-guys to do the same, and profiting over $815k a day for over a decade by doing so.
I founded Hellō to address your concerns. Check out the Show HN post I wrote this morning. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33177705#33182379
SMS has always been pretty broken for group chats and multimedia. I don't think we can blame Apple for that

We could blame Apple for not making an Android iMessage app, though
Is there some sort of troll farm apple campaign going on here? In my experience Apple has been much more troublesome, their walled garden pretty much guarantees bugs and errors and ofcourse the trademark throttling of CPU, battery, functionality in general when they think it's time for you to get a new phone, where's the die-hard fandom come from? My $340 Android works better than a $1000 iPhone.

I admit they're actually better built phones, but Apple is shooting yourself in the foot and paying for the bullet.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33183758
Don't forget about construction.
I can think of another aspect of the badness: It's bad for geographical regions that have become dependent on the company. Intel is Oregon's largest private employer, for example, and most of this employment is in the Portland metro area. If Intel were to go away next year this area would be hit very hard economically. That's not going to happen, of course, but one can imagine a long slow decline. Tektronix used to be a very large employer here - employed about as many at it's peak in the late 80s as Intel employs here now. Tek went into decline in the 90s, fortunately Intel's star was rising then. As Intel's star declines it's tough to see a new replacement for the area.
> The book is now closed on multimedia: ffmpeg is the solution to almost all of your problems.

Isn't gstreamer very much used within this area too?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punitive_damages
if you think your kid won't outsmart you, think again
This gives me an idea for my Halloween costume this year. I am going to be a green bubble. I am actually proud to be one anyway.
My statement doesn't come out of any sort of fanboyism, I was an Android developer and built custom ROMs for many years, was heavily into Android in the beginning, and I still use and support Android devices in my home (see above).

It /is/ clearly a better experience for several reasons, not the least of which is the difference in privacy stance and the tighter integrations for families. I do not want to re-litigate this every time I comment in one of these threads, because it's annoying, irrelevant to my central point, and obnoxious. If you wish to engage, please engage me on the central point I was making, not on an aside.
I don't have a source other than that I develop plugins for IntelliJ professionally, but it's definitely true that performance is generally not a focus earlier in EAP cycles. I think they mention it when you download an EAP release.
The standard relevant in most defamation cases is recklessness, not negligence.
Ffmpeg is indeed incredible. It was the workhorse behind Remote Potato, a previous project of mine that allowed remote control and streaming of Windows Media Center TV recordings to smartphones, back in the day when that kind of thing was a novel.
No but when RCS was invented they still did because they hadn't lost the war with messaging apps yet.
Fred Again makes great dance music, reminds me of how I felt when I was much younger and discovering great dance music. "Upcoming" is understating it though - he is pretty huge right now.
These are compensatory, not punitive damages. The only relevant factor is how the victims were impacted. Jones' level of wealth or the profit he gained from lying are both improper and injust to consider in the context of compensatory damages.
87% of the children*

I wouldn't call Finding Nemo or it's current equivalent mass market even though I have no doubt 87% of children have seen <<insert cultural movie I probably am missing by a generation or two>>.
Maybe an old version of android but this has what it's look like on Google Messages. Think it changed sometime in the past year. https://i.imgur.com/GYHMkHy.png
Man, kids aren't stupid. They see a busted, slow old phone running 2 or more major versions of Android behind, that puts a bad taste in their mouth. Apple has made many deliberate steps to appeal to youth, iMessage playing some part, but that's not the whole picture.

Kids want something that works and is as fast as they are.
That's patently incorrect. Incoming texts from my Android-user contacts are green bubbles. Incoming texts from my iPhone-user contacts are blue. Source: I'm looking at my iPhone right now.
> I mean, if 87% of teens own an iPhone, then that's very much by definition NOT luxury.

Yeah this is the point. Apple has a strong brand and pricing tactics that places itself as a high-end company. This branding works really well and Apple is perceived as luxury by many people, but the truth is that it creates consumer products and there's no luxury in that. If the iPhone was a luxury you wouldn't find it everywhere in almost all high schools. Luxury doesn't dominate a mass market.

Some tech guys seems to think that value comes solely by a sort of price/performance ratio. If you can get MORE POWER for less money then you are getting ripped off. The rest of the price is not justified, you aren't paying for anything else so you must be paying a luxury premium.
That's really a shallow way of analysing apple products. You pay more because the following is included: long time support (software updated and that continues to work without random behavior for 5yrs), really high quality control and higher quality components (no things that randomly stop to work after one or two years), great customer and tech support (yeah, non-tech people actually need it), seamless software integration, privacy and security guarantees. There are so much more things included in apple devices beside than tech specs and people find a lot of value in that.
Netris – Tetris over SSH
It's in practice mostly open, anyone can make apps for it, they give you enough APIs for things like Tile to actually work, and it's pretty much hassle free. Stuff just works.

It uses tiny amounts of power on cheap hardware and still is always reasonably performant.

It's very discoverable and convenience oriented, there's no gestural control stuff(Aside from the hideous pull to refresh feature that I hate, which I'd imagine apple has too).

Anecdotally, Bluetooth never seems to give any trouble(Aside from a rare bug where it was turning bluetooth off occasionally, which i think was specific to my phone model), wheras Apple users seem to always have complaints whenever they try to use it with random gadgets.

And subjectivly the intent seems different.

iOS is an appliance. A multipurpose appliance but still an appliance. It has a set of things it does and some it doesn't, and it trusts you'll be able to get by without the stuff it doesn't do.

Android is a generic multitool made into a consumer friendly format. It can replace a sizable fraction of ones's material possessions. It seems to be meant to be the catch all point for everything that integrates with everything else no matter who made it.

Also, hardware wise, the phones are relatively free of luxury fashion, which is a really specific aesthetic that only appeals to certain groups. All Apple's stuff has a theme, it feels like it's meant to be at home next to a whole foods bag, some Nike sneakers, or even some Supreme underwear.

They're much more willing to use plastic instead of metal and things like that, instead of spending money on stuff that can't even be seen when it's in a case.
You haven't looked that much into it then; RCS has encryption[0], and works great for me. (I have an iPhone 13 Pro & a Pixel 6 Pro. RCS works as well as iMessage for Android-to-Android devices, for me.)

[0]: https://www.gstatic.com/messages/papers/messages_e2ee.pdf
The data is right censored, rendering the analysis pretty useless. Businesses that close (e.g. the entire US steel industry for a generation), are absent, and their employees sure didn’t enjoy that bump.
Meta, aided by Apple and Google takes down an ad-free Instagram clone
You are correct that I also asked other online communities this question.

I wouldn't say I was trying to force a narrative. I was asking out of concern. I was especially unnerved after seeing the development graph on GitHub:

https://imgur.com/M09Nkx9

Also seeing there were features that haven't been implemented for the last 6 years made me even less confident about the future of the project:

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/68

Even from this post:

https://andrewkelley.me/post/full-time-zig.html

Of all the Zig projects the author said he was going to work on:

- https://github.com/andrewrk/groovebasin/tree/zig

- https://github.com/andrewrk/genesis/tree/zig

- https://github.com/andrewrk/clashos

he never committed and did any of them.
Have you tried a Pixel? I've been happily using them for years.
>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.

I'd add that he is still free to continue lying forever. No one is stopping him from doing so.
I’m curious how the distribution looks. (I’m also curious about this in general but I haven’t tried very hard to find data on it and I’d guess it differs a lot depending on the type of work and industry norms). I don’t know if it’s in the study as I could only read the abstract.

It also seems slightly difficult to reason about unions today from this data; I think unionised work from when the study started was somewhat different. But it would probably also be unfair of me to say that e.g. becoming a unionised coal miner (back when the study started) wouldn’t be great for lifetime earnings – becoming a non-unionised coal miner might be even worse!
This could be just another index for measuring a country's wealth. Percentage of teens who own an iPhone. I like that. Here in Brazil, the price of some iPhone models is greater than 1 year of the national minimum salary.
Someone did a blog post about that, but it was actually misinformation (literally).

The Contrast between Green and Blue is actually roughly identical, it's just that both colors fade upward as time passes. So, the author picked a green bubble from higher up (which had faded), and a blue bubble from the bottom (which was fresh and dark), thereby comparing Apples and Oranges. Both have similar contrast when freshly sent and arrived, and similar faded contrast.