skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've yet to hear a single valid reason for forced arbitration. I have nothing against two parties, at the time of a dispute, who want to engage in arbitration, in doing so.

There's also numerous stuff that should, IMO, fall into class action, but gets divvied up in forced arbitration, to the point where it isn't worth the time and expense for the individuals in the class to continue to pursue justice. (Although there have been some novel DoS style mass-arbitrations … that's more of a means of trying to force the corporations hand into a normal class action, and towards justice.)

Normally the reasons cited for arbitration are things like "the courts are slow" or "the courts are expensive" or "the courts are overwhelmed" — but you could still just do arbitration at the time of dispute with those. Saying that forced arbitration is better from these arguments is non sequitur.

There's also a conflict of interest between the chosen arbiter and the company. (And conflict of interest is independent of bias; a good arbiter can very well be unbiased, but it is easier for everyone involved to believe that if there isn't a conflict of interest.)
Because they didn't reach out to the very real lawyers at Boston Legal.
Also the guy who memorized how to build a power loom during the industrial revolution

https://www.history.com/news/industrial-revolution-spies-eur...
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Methane becoming CO2 means it also produces H2O + a lot of heat, correct?
Enough heat to use it as energy source for example.
Clearly not. It would be a touch screen control. Knobs are too simple.
They wrote:

> It's a higher barrier to having a good experience, which I can't think of many successful examples of to be honest.

The way I read the poster is that they think being asked to pay more will create worse experience, which is implied to be stupid. Except it isn't, it's literally what's happening in every market all the time. Getting people to pay more for worse product is entirely normal, and the way it usually works is by removing the option to keep paying the same amount for the product they currently enjoy.
Good riddance, the previous system was painfully toxic.
Didn't think of that, makes sense. Like white headphone cables vs. custom (potentially technically superior) ones in the iPod days.
So you've limited the success of bot farms only to the set of state actors. Yay, such a great improvement...
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Nice. Having a manufacturer on this side of the pond is good, however I’m not in Europe, either. :)

Not every developer can/want to use cloud instances, like not every developer is $OS_OF_CHOICE developer.
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The 25x number is already accounting for the fact that methane doesn't stick around as long. It's based on 100-year GWP calculations [1]. If you look at shorter timescales methane is relatively much worse.

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How would you regulate this?
Everyone has always had the option to vote with their dollars. If we allow ourself to be eco-capital-realists for a moment, we have to conclude that living on a habitable planet is simply not that important for most people.
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Nice stuff.

I want a browser extension to "send to recall"

It could save me to have 100 tabs saved by groups of interest...
Fascinating.

It seems like some table choices are better for the customer, some are better for the server. As a customer I like to be away from the other tables and the server wants everyone together in a noisy clump.
> Together, the Turkmenistan sources release an estimated 111,000 pounds of methane gas per hour

If this is happening all the time, then the number of global methane emissions due to human activity on this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_emissions) Wikipedia page can't be valid.

Crazy how human negligence and greed might end humanity.
Hmm but if we make businesses do something that is not the most short-term profitable choice, then the shareholders may not be able to extract maximum value!
I wonder how big the exodus from Twitter has been-- (seems noteworthy from what I've seen)-- and whether it will be covered by journalists? They seem to have already decided that Twitter = news, ignoring the fact that most people don't use Twitter at all.

If (say) 5% of people leave Twitter, will journalists notice? Of course not, they'll just keep pretending like "people on twitter" == "people".
Can you perhaps sell this as an automated/smart Obsidian? Personal knowledge bases are all the rage now, see a recent discussion of Obsidian 1.0.
> I'm not sure why blocklists aren't sufficient.

We have a great example to see why - email has existed for decades and neither spam or abuse is a solved problem. Both waste years of manhours each day.
All this malarkey reminds me why I would rather read HN than twitter.
I'm guessing most folks who've been working on k8s probably had the same thought.
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We need it at the worldwide level, which is especially difficult.
If all you have to do is pay a little, won't the status of a blue check go down? I mean, that's why we have the phrase "stolen valor"
The 90s sitcom Frasier parodied this mentality to hilarious effect. Frasier and his brother Niles got memberships to an exclusive spa and then progressively kept discovering that there were more and more exclusive membership levels to which they promptly upgraded. Then they see one last non-descript door leading from the diamond room. Niles opens it to an astonishingly bright white light, they step into the light and their eyes adjust just as the door closes and locks behind them, and they realize they are in the back alley with the smelly garbage.
I appreciate any kind of export into plaintext, yes.
Hashes of phone numbers is unfortunately not actually useful in almost any circumstance. You can trivially reverse them by iterating through every phone number and computing the hash.

Hashes of emails is not quite as useless, but not far off (consider 90+% of emails are at like ~3 domains, and also that lists of vaguely ~valid email addresses aren't hard to get).
I've noticed it's getting easier and easier to take photos with the SUN in the frame than when digital sensors first came out.
What if, instead of a flat fee, blue checks were charged based on their number of followers or the level of engagement with their followers (how ever you'd quantify that)?

This would align the value and goals for both Twitter and blue checks.
Nice story, he looks proud and a little scared in the final picture, probably some interesting times ahead.

My uncle had a Bechstein concert grand. When he passed away the family expected it would fetch a nice sum but were told that it was cracked and worth just enough to pay for disposal fee. Sad!
I don't see an issue, given that they don't intend to do an objective comparison to other (non-Apple) smartphones.
Thank you. I'd forgotten that, and it's very relevant.
I'm being perfectly sincere.
Not if you use force
Have you done any side by side comparison shots? Even with a high quality scan, you're unlikely to get the same resolution and dynamic range from a 35mm negative. And that's leaving aside the obviously vast differences in convenience and flexibility. (I'm old enough to have used 35mm SLRs, and I have absolutely no nostalgia for that era.)
Elon’s Vision:

1. Charge $8/mon and a bunch of people will pay
2. Fire a bunch of engineers
3. Twitter looks way better on paper
4. Flip the company in 18 months when rates go down and market is better esp tech
That’s not a very kind response.

I’d love to have a constructive conversation rather than resorting to base name calling.

I mean to say that centralization is caused by digitization because of the financial incentives, not that centralization IS digitization. And all of our current systems are systems of legacy control.

In fact I generally agree with you. Generally the identity system will be interrupted, and at the core digitization of the legacy system will happen. I’m simply saying that there will be further consolidation and centralization first and it will take longer than most people think due to the powerful financial interests involved.

To put it in your own words, I generally believe we will have to go through a economics “with the tragedy” before we get to the part where the tragedy gets removed.
Yeah the people who think that repealing 230 would make all social media stop moderating are simply fooling themselves. The result would be absolutely extreme moderation that accepted huge numbers of false positives just to ensure that nothing bad got through, or even just the complete end of user generated content.
If you’re talking about string diagrams, then these are actually just 2D notation for very precise category theory. Manipulating the diagrams is equivalent to proving things in the category, provided you’ve shown soundness and completeness.
If it is an insult it seems very defensive, and feels like he gave Stephen King the upper hand.
Is there not like a go-between celebrity (or team of them) Musk could hire for these communications, to make it look like he takes everything a little less personally?

When he jumps into these stories on his platform(s) the air starts to feel stuffy really fast.

I understand he loves control, but he gives it away far too easily by focusing so hard on protecting his passions.
> Nobody said that they are national governments. They are organizations with governance policies.

Under this definition, practically any organization "is a government". My college debate team, Tesla, your local Starbucks. All "governments", because they are organizations have a governance policy (which really just means "leadership").

> Banning moderation is deregulation.

No. The government controlling how corporations can act is, definitionally, regulation. You can argue that is good regulation, but it is regulation. If I am allowed to censor you, that is less regulation than if I am legally prevented from censoring you.
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i m not really seeing it.

The old money (journalists of mainstream newspapers) can leave and take all the audiences with them. Their audience is there for the narrative and ideology, not because they are fond of Twitter.

Twitter does not have a "native" audience, because it claims to be a platform. If they engaged deeper with content producers (like substack does) they might have. It's a solely megaphone, hence useless without a voice behind them.

Old money reigns supreme because the "new" voices are not independent. They go on twitter so they can graduate to mainstream media (or to onlyfans)
I guess I'll go on record and say I think this is a great idea. There's too many journalists who just spew hot takes all day - at least make them pay for the privilege
Think you're over-estimating their value, if they were posting their thoughts elsewhere without the blue check next to their name no one would be engaging with it, it's honestly such bad content.
I wonder how this will impact the average car size? I would expect to see fewer big pickup trucks being used by people that don't need them in the near future?
Exactly. Who's hurt more if it's hard to tell who the real celebrities are on Twitter? Whose press is worse when a celebrity is impersonated by some asshole on Twitter—Twitter's, or the celebrity's? Maybe initially the celebrity, but I'm gonna say it's Twitter in the medium-term. Who's gonna be hurt by "Twitter has an impersonation/fraud problem" headlines?

Whatever else the blue checks are, they're also a solution to a problem for Twitter, and those blue-checks and their activity are a huge part of why everyone else engages with the platform. If they make people pay, they better hope the adoption rate is incredibly high among existing blue checks (who cares about the unknowns who pony up for it, in addition) or they're gonna be in for a bad time.
Yes. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2022-0270... is the full text. The relevant portion of that is 56/57:

>The aim of the obligations is to allow competing third parties to interconnect through interfaces or similar solutions to the respective features as effectively as the gatekeeper’s own services or hardware.
Maybe some of ASML's EUV lithography machines would be contenders?
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Socialist here. Nice to meet you. I have no idea how anticapitalism is related to putting the state in charge of your child.
I think you're wrong. The network is stronger than that.

Yes, those highly-connected nodes could easily kill the network... if they all coordinated to leave at once. Which is a real risk here, because of how high-profile and controversial the issue is right now. But normally, they're just as glued to the network as everyone else. Perhaps even more so, because...

... they aren't creating content for fun. They're creating it to make money off the audience. So they have to stick to where the audience is.

People with blue check marks would like to think they're special and valuable to the platform, but they're not. At this scale, they're a commodity too. They play a different role on the platform, but for the platform, users with different roles is just what makes the whole thing tick and print money.
There is a lot i can't really talk about on this forum as I want to be sensitive to others and I can't exactly "spoiler" details that are gross/disturbing.

If you so desire the information is out there, and there are blogs and so forth on the internet that link to the details.

However i will summarize. Mastadon has taken a staunch position against racism and nazi ideas, which is fine. However they will go after those who are not so militant in this en devour, even if they do not support the aforementioned ideas, there's a lot of shaming that goes on if you don't all decide to block the same instances for example. However they have, many times over, allowed certain, borderline illegal (usually linking to illegal) content to be freely accessible on said platforms in the early days (for like a good 6+ months) of mastadon. After a lot of complaints they still did very little to nothing to stop that behavior. This is the source of my hate for mastadon and those instances. They have shown in the past that they are not consistent in what they block, they do not allow others to have agency and still federate with them, and they have turned a blind eye to the proliferation of child abuse.
Gab has a hard block coded into mastadon, you can not federate with them unless you actively modify the code; however, other instances that are completely untenable are not blocked in the same manner.

It was for this reason that the great "split" happened, about a year or two-ish ago. Where a lot of mastadon instances no longer federate with large portions of the fediverse. It's caused a weird bubble. I just will never forget the twisted concept of, "if you are racist, or like Hitler we can't have you" while on the other hand, leaving a large (believed intentional) gap for illicit materials that personally, it breaks my heart to see that kind of degeneracy. On our instances we do not block political ideologies, however when it comes to drawn or real child abuse, we have never allowed it, and will never allow it. It is one of the greatest evils of our time.

EDIT: this is my opinion from what i saw back in the early days, they could have changed, i don't chance it, just know when reading that this was a long time ago in internet years and a lot of those people aren't as active as they used to be. I hope they have improved the community, but i will always hold this grudge.
They can say anything, but the behavior has gotten enough voter anger to make politicians view this as something to regulate, so their opinion on the matter is quickly going to lose any weight
Given how polluting diesel is, this could be a good thing long term. So much of our commercial transportation is dependent on it though, so this is a major pain point short term.
Yeah, but the way this played out and was promoted, it wont say "cool". The badge being cool requires certain kind of PR and this does not seem to me to be it. In github case, pro badge means you support resource many many developers user for free and is super useful. In case of twitter, it is unclear what it means, really. That you want to yell louder I guess?
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thanks, I am glad to hear it!

I assume you're talking about our "fresh sat" layers -- in some places the recency of the imagery in those layers is unfortunately dependent on some rather stochastic factors. These factors are usually (but not always) correlated to location on the earth.

We get the latest imagery taken from the satellites (Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8/9) nearly as soon as it's acquired, and then apply some quality filters to it which either accept the imagery for processing or reject it. It's entirely possible to get repeatedly unlucky in that regard, where for a given location no imagery that passes our quality filters has been taken for a long time.

This especially happens a lot near the poles, or in very cloudy places.

are you willing to share where you were looking that you experienced this issue?
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Most companies pay very quickly if you offer 1% Net 10 or 2% Net 10 terms. Paying within 10 days to get a 2% discount is pretty money-efficient from their standpoint.
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Didn't know that, thanks. I've only just deleted my Twitter account.
Nothing makes sense anymore, I read that Exxon mobile made record profits this year. How?

We’ve messed ourselves up so hard relying on oil companies the way we do, how’s it’s the peasants that are paying for endless price gouging.
> The lotto is a tax on the poor.

This is a common saying, but it's a backhanded exaggeration.

Maybe more accurate to say it's a tax on those that want to be rich.
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I'm sorry, I misread the parent comment. I thought they meant recreating the the software, not installing it.
Assuming you were asking seriously, its a comedy show that was not trying to accurately portray how businesses run.
There is no exodus. People are slaves to impulse and comfort and if you don’t understand that on a fundamental psychological level then why are you commenting on the topic in the first place?
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