skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If you held YC liable for its user content it would be broadly alright because YC has very very good moderation and for the most part bad stuff gets taken care of very quickly.

If you held YC liable for its user content, HN would (and quickly) no longer allow user comments.

Why? Because YC doesn't want the liability. Doing so would likely kill off most sites that allow user-generated content or, at the very least, cause them to stop accepting such content.

Ironically, the folks who would have the best ability to fight the dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of lawsuits filed every week would be the ones that have the deepest pockets (Alphabet, Meta).

Everyone else would likely just fold unless they had a few million in cash they can use for frivolous lawsuits.

And that's the point. Section 230 forces plaintiffs to sue the authors of such content, not those who host that content.

There's a lot of nuance with that, as the algorithmic feeds and showing content (allegedly) based on previous user interactions could be argued to be "authorship" of a sort.

The arguments on both sides are nuanced and complex -- based on ideas about freedom of expression and private property rights.

Personally, I think that, on the whole, Section 230 does more good than harm. But I also believe there is room for disagreement among rational, good faith interlocutors.
It also makes a lot more sense to scale up the grid and battery manufacturing than to try and invent entirely new infrastructure for hydrogen production, storage, and transport. I had an open mind about hydrogen in decades past, but it increasingly just seems like a scam to get money to develop something that doesn't work and isn't economically viable in most cases.
Wikipedia, in my anecdotal experience, is wrong all the time on mid 80s to mid 90s minutia. I probably sense it because that was my peak era. But good luck finding a source besides, “that’s not how it happened, man…”
To be fair, that was also a problem with the books: the scale was completely off in quite noticeable ways – huge armies but no mention of how they’re supplied, cities which are referred to as large but feel small in terms of logistics, etc. We’re repeatedly told winter is coming but there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of stockpiling supplies, building greenhouses, etc.?
They had a business relationship in 2011, they can't just use the phrase now and claim it is generic.
The Failing Economy of Sri Lanka
Facebook marketplace is as trustless as you can get. It's 2010 version of Kijiji/Craigslist with built-in picture upload.

Right now depending on how much effort you want to spend, you can get a place for $2000 usd a month or $600 a month, for relatively similar unit maybe 20min of walk distance apart. Simply because information does not flow freely.

Airbnb fixed the trust issue and dominated rental market in the last few years. But hefty fees + taxes are making them less and less viable for travelers.

I honestly see a big opportunity to just improve the overall experience. Especially considering Riviera Maya is the fasted growing realestate market in Mexico.

If you're serious about working on something like this, email me (check my profile), let's connect.
That's true, but they did need special permission to leep the identities of the moderators anonymous:

This, Reddit’s spokesperson notes, is “a significant departure from normal Supreme Court procedure.” The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit defending online privacy, championed the court’s decision to allow moderators to contribute comments anonymously.

“We’re happy the Supreme Court recognized the First Amendment rights of Reddit moderators to speak to the court about their concerns,” EFF’s senior staff attorney, Sophia Cope, told Ars. “It is quite understandable why those individuals may be hesitant to identify themselves should they be subject to liability in the future for moderating others’ speech on Reddit.”

I'd note both the EFF and Reddit said this was unusual.
Hydrogen cogeneration system called Ene-farm is just an efficient replacement of gas water heater. It uses only hydrogen from gas and just emit CO2. Gas company don't want to switch from gas to electric heating for obvious reason. Also there are many houses/apartments that is small so can't have heat pump water heater. It's weird solution and similar system can be built with ICE, but fuel cell is sounds clean for advertisement. I don't know is govt focused much on it.
I think most of the enthusiasm lies in the toxicity or safety of the energy store. Lithium batteries are toxic waste that doesn't get recycled well yet and requires minerals currently produced by child laborers in appalling conditions. Hydrogen fuel cells produce pure water as their byproduct and could theoretically be loaded with hydrogen fuel produced through green-powered electrolysis. They both explode on a bad day, but one rapidly oxidizes in a more environmentally friendly way.
And this is probably not true, since "Code Red" has a very specific meaning internally that doesn't apply here. The various codes cover various different timelines. "Strategic risk to the company over a period of months or years" isn't described as "Code Red."
Counter to the trend of comments here, I found the article uninsightful and without focus. He has vague gripes, but no apparent understanding of (or empathy for) Japan's social drivers. It's hard to respond to the article as a whole, so I'll just focus on one misconception, about "stagnant" living standards.

My Japan was Tokyo and Kanagawa of the 1980s-90s. It was brilliant and daring. It was the future. It was darn expensive. I was both in awe and angered by it, because life there was terribly unfair for the Japanese. Quality of life for individuals was always sacrificed for the good of the state and big companies. All of the wonderful things you hear about 1980s Japan were in the public space. In the private space, life was pretty miserable, as in nearly-3rd-world-slum level of miserable. Housing, though expensive, was shoddy and uncomfortable. Workers suffered long hours and harsh management. Prices for relatively poor quality consumer goods were kept high to support lower prices for higher quality exported goods. Dental care was abysmal quality. I could go on.

Private life in Japan today is hardly recognizable. My impression is that quality of daily life is now equivalent to the nicer Western countries. I think this is primarily due to changing social attitudes over the 1990s. Japanese traveled a lot and saw how much better life was in other countries, and decided to demand the same of life at home.

I really miss 1980s Japan (it was great for me), but life for the average person there is vastly better now than it was then.
Hydrogen is 100% an attempt by fossil fuel companies to remain relevant in a "green energy" world. The primary source for hydrogen would be from methane in natural gas, and they could then sell this as a "zero pollution fuel" while continuing their non-renewable energy business as normal.

If you read between the lines and look at the companies involved, they're always linked to fossil fuel companies directly or indirectly. That, or fossil fuel powered vehicle manufacturers that are reluctant to completely retool their factories.

Hydrogen has a few legitimate use cases, such as iron ore refining and chemical feedstock, but that's about it. In all other scenarios, battery-based technology is vastly superior along multiple metrics.
And it has already likely been trained on correct information and yet it produces bad results. It certainly has been trained data that explains what prime numbers and yet it produces what it produces, whereas using Google and hitting a credible source directly is more accurate and efficient.
I heard somewhere that trying to make hydrogen from water was like trying to make wood from ash. It doesn't make sense.
The Psychology of Indifference
Better question: Why do we endlessly produce so much state?
My early Swift UI app might not have worked as well as it did, had I not modeled the UI as hierarchical state machines.

But I think that a lot of the dialogue I see around state machines in programming is effectively strawperson. Much like the dialogue around DSLs in programming. People end up debating over weak examples, and then dismissing valuable ideas.
The "COVID deniers", as they were labeled, (think people like Jay Bhattacharya, Scott Atlas et al), warned about all of this. They presented the tradeoffs and probabilities on both sides. But they were completely shut down without debate, in the name of "following the science." They were shut down in concerted fashion-- by govt, by social media (under govt coercion, or ideological pull), by legacy media. And now the truth is coming out, and there is still no accountability for the "beat COVID at all costs" proponents.

If we are to prevent this the next time a pandemic rolls through the world (and it will), there needs to be a society-level post-mortem, and not a blameless one.
Maybe, but https://www.youtube.com/@EngineeringExplained is probably a better person to ask to explain why this is just not going to work, through his "The Unfortunate Truth About Toyota's Hydrogen V8 Engine" [1] and "BMW's Hydrogen V12 Engine Is A Hilarious Engineering Stunt" [2] videos.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJjKwSF9gT8
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AouW9_jyZck
It said "half as much", and that's a lot. It can amount to hours per day, and a lot of needle sticks that leave you looking and feeling like a pincushion. You have to calculate your carb input for everything that goes in your mouth. It's very wearing day after day, with zero days off.

It's subject to a lot of variables, not all of which are known. Both too high and too low are problems, and the solutions are not instant. It's easy to veer from too high to too low and back by overcorrecting.

So yeah, half as much time is a very big deal. This is not a one pill a day proposition. It's like having to be conscious of your pulse or breathing.
Toyota started dumping money into hydrogen vehicle R&D more than 25 years ago. They just picked the wrong technology, and they’ve been advocating for their horse in the race ever since.
I suspect that’s more an attempt to warm up a domain/ip or something. Manually replying to emails wouldn’t scale
RAV4 Prime is awesome and huge wait list. PHEV is a great solution, it doesn't require these huge heavy batteries.
Man i love your games, definitely buying a copy!
Seasonal storage is an interesting idea. Rare grid outages seems pretty easy with batteries if the South Australia example is anything to go by though, and for medium-term storage there's also pumped hydro -- not sure where that compares in cost?
Did you find this link at the bottom of the blog that leaked TSA no fly list? Because that’s how I found the same site today. https://maia.crimew.gay/
I didn't know Toyota was a fossil fuel company, or was owned by one?

Japan is uniquely trying to make this thing work. They have no domestic oil production, and so few coal mines as to basically be irrelevant: all their fossil fuel is imported. Anywhere else on the planet: sure, this might be another way for big fossil to push for relevancy, but in Japan's case, hydrogen would be something that they can produce themselves, literally freeing them from fossil fuel dependency, which is a big part of why they keep trying to make it work.

And yeah, the math says it's physically impossible to make it work without constant refueling, but again: it's Japan. The very idea of "my car needs to go 300 miles on one charge/tank" just isn't a thing there.

Hydrogen, despite this article's claim, is actually perfect for Japan. Any tanker of import fuel saved is CO2 saved both on the tanker's transit, and on that fuel getting burned, but at the same time: it's also perfect much perfect only for Japan.
I had the same issue. I think changing the logo to improve legibility is a good idea.
Disagree - the biggest nominal advantage of hydrogen is mass storage. In theory, tanks scale up in capacity more easily than battery cells (perhaps to the point of seasonal storage). In almost every other respect hydrogen would be worse than lithium batteries (requires complex infrastructure for power conversion, terrible roundtrip efficiency, etc)

In the end, the shortfalls of hydrogen are turning out to be simply too insurmountable.
I'm lost, I thought hydrogen is the goat. Many manufacturers (eg Benz) push it no?
I built https://chatgpt4google.com which is a browser extension that enhance search engines with ChatGPT. It got over 500k users in less than two months.

I started doing some monetization experiment recently, and already got $500+ now.
Yeah, I’ve wrestled with this, too. Usually I’ve compromised on having sub-states (Swift enums with associated types alleviate some of the pain), but still doesn’t feel quite right.
"halved the amount of time patients spent with high glucose levels, doubled the amount of time glucose levels were safe"

That's huge. Diabetes is a disease that involves damage over time. Sugar (glucose specifically) is an extraordinarily damaging substance when it is present in high concentrations. If you can keep your blood sugar level within the goal range for longer, that means that you've reduced the time window in which significant damage is being done to various organs around the body. This in turn reduces the chance of developing complications of diabetes like kidney disease, retinal disease, neuropathies, and vascular disease of the heart and brain.
Yes. Some models don't have it at all.
I have 2 projects. One is already out in the wild getting used and abused by some. It is an SMTP server that can be used for testing and also simulating errors and delays. https://mailsnag.com
The majority of women that frequent host bars are hostesses themselves. It's an expensive hobby and not something most women would choose over just making the approach to talk to a guy or just hang out with their friends or some kind of social club.
I suppose applicability depends on the problem domain. In embedded systems that control some device I've found them very useful, particularly as the logic becomes complex. () Perhaps for other realms such as Web back ends that tend to be transactional, they are less useful.

() Many years ago I was tasked with coding a replacement for a device that operated from discrete logic involving a number of inputs, timers, decisions and actions based on all of these. The first thing I did was to model it as a state machine and everything went well except for one part where it was not clear what the next state should be based on the inputs. I reviewed this with an engineer familiar with the existing logic and he shared with me that the actual behavior of the device was indeterminate in that particular situation. That was easily fixed with the state machine.
I think it was really just residual PR intended to try and shake off the stink of Balmers run.
Sounds to me like you're describing farmer's markets or farmer's co-ops. If your government is failing to provide these services the only alternative is to buy land and do it yourself, but you may even get pushback to that too depending on how you want to structure the co-op. As far as I understand though in the USA there's not really legal barriers to structuring a co-op.

In Taiwan we do have lots of these kinds of things you describe, especially outside of Taipei. Seems every time I motorcycle through a smaller village I always see a farmer's co-op. I'm not sure if the government set them up or not, but I'm pretty sure the government built the ubiquitous enormous covered basketball court that I see in every tribal township that functions as a playground, market, and wedding venue.
Wim Hoff method. ;)
If you need recoverability from every state to A or B, then it’s not a 2-state (with intermediates) problem and you do need to go through the complexity of modelling all 6 states.

Also, the full state representation is not the problem, that’s easy enough to do with a reasonable type system. The problem is defining the transitions. But if you need the full transition matrix (or even any substantial subset), then you have a lot of things to do. But it’s things you’d have to do with a non-state machine based approach.

Realistically the only overhead with a sparse state machine representation is adding is the “catch-all” error branch you need to deal with any forbidden transitions. Everything else, you’d need to deal with anyway for normal operation. And you probably want the catch-all branch anyway, for debuggability when it breaks.
I went from 255 to 190 at age 50. No great change to my diet. I just eat less of what I was eating when I weighed 250. It didn't change my life. I just weigh less.
Energy density. I'm not sure exactly what it is for lifepo4 but it's lower than 1,406.6 kWh/m^3 for hydrogen at 700 bar, i think roughly half.

Both compare poorly against diesel though so I'm left wondering if synthetic fossil fuels produced from renewable inputs might not actually be the way to go. In the beginning it seemed like efficiency was going to be important and a limiting factor to all this, and batteries definitely have an edge on fuels produced from renewable sources. But now it's seeming like actually producing large amounts of energy isn't as much of a problem as ensuring that it is available at the point of consumption economically and logistically. Synthetic fossil fuels that pull carbon from the atmosphere would be carbon neutral and fit neatly into the existing system with no other modifications.

It stands to reason there's a threshold at which the cost of production is so much lower than the cost of transmission and storage that it makes sense to take efficiency losses for storage and transmission gains.
Not all people are the same, but, I think the amount of sugars we eat that break down to yield significant levels proportion of fructose -- is the biggest culprit and the food industry knows it. Some foods it's added in directly and labelled as sugar.

The reason I know the food industry or some part of it aware, is because I've written about fructose at large but unassuming forums and been stunned by the fall out.

After trying out a version of an experiment done on rats with a fructose free diet reported in the "New Scientist" mid 90s, (a couple of years after it was written,) on myself, I was convinced. I didn't easily have the means to remove all fructose, what I did do was replace sucrose with glucose plus sweetener for drinks and self made food. No bought desserts iirc, but still occasionally eating fast food. It worked too well but I wish I'd not been too embarrassed to take a pillow to sit on until I had adjusted to having less padding on the backside. Later during the 00's I would comment on it, usually without much detail. Forums tend to die off suddenly, the second time a forum died off after a protracted discussion on the mid 90s findings and how well it worked, I thought that was very very odd and wasn't really keeping track of the vast numbers of forums I had surfed. The next post at another different very healthy large forum, I was telling myself it was all just coincidence ... next day that forum was dead, gone, buried.

Since Harvard published similar findings only a handful of years ago, it seems maybe in the 10's there's so much disinformation floating about there's less reason to immediately shut down the topic maybe it's just too much fructose; noting that I've seen and participated in a couple of forums discussion about it, where nothing happened.

P.S.. The amount of fructose in fruit is really not much compared to what's been added into some processed foods. I know better but I still probably have 20 teaspoons or more of sucrose a day in hot drinks ... equates to ten teaspoons of fructose.

If anyone wants to read further on other things fructose does which isn't so good ...

https://www.sci.news/medicine/high-fat-plus-fructose-diet-li...

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-08-uncovers-fructose-die...
Welcome to science, where we actually reproduce results and don't just yell "everybody knows". (Since you are fond of the Indian approach, though, may I suggest you inspect your anger?)

And yes, it's fairly basic stuff - but it's also laying the foundation for ongoing studies. And it's not like it's ignoring ancient practices, they're specifically referenced.

While we're on "how does this study help in any way", it's also worth calling out that it has conclusively shown that you can remotely administer intervention and monitor the physiological response. Yes, again, a small thing, but important going forward.

And finally, this study was intended as an exploratory study - what can we find when we look here. And it will likely lead to a clinical trial. Yes, more reconfirmation of "what we've always known", but in a way that makes it more likely it finds entrance into the Western medicine canon. That's a huge step forward, because it'll move it from the easy dismissal of "maybe just woo" to "proven practice", and so gives a chance to reduce the number of pharmacological interventions doctors opt for.
They're a car company committed to keeping the internal combustion engine. They are market leaders in hybrid cars, but have been surpassed in all electric. So they're not a fossil fuel company but their interests are aligned.
> employee owned company in the US

Hardly a co-op: “The [Jenkins] family owns an estimated 20% stake in Publix, and its wealth is estimated at $8.8 billion, based on the latest Forbes magazine tally. Publix was founded in 1930 by George Jenkins when he was 23.”

Barron’s article on archive: https://archive.vn/zIy6g
I think you’re trying to say “don’t write in C if you’re a poor programmer.” Fair enough.
The popular Israeli drink limonana (mint lemonade) was similarly borne of a fictitious advertising campaign: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint_lemonade#Names
i.e. one of the greatest auteurs was able to achieve what can be done by a TikTok today (just about)