skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arizona state law requires that challenges to existing election procedures must be brought before the election.

From the appellate decision:

"at best, Lake’s signature-verification claim attacked
Maricopa County’s process for verifying signatures that first-level reviewers questioned—a challenge to the County’s election procedures, not a claim that the overall procedures were violated. Accordingly, the superior court correctly concluded that Lake’s contest attacked the manner of holding an election"
So not fanless
>Why would it be safe for them to use an older recommendation system? It doesn't solve the problem, if their older system recommends a terrorism video, even if it only did so because that video came up chronologically, they're still liable.

A system that keyword matches isn't making recommendations, it's just keyword matching based upon the user's request. The law actually cares about intent and how things function, not just hypothetical possibilities that can occur, i.e. the law cares about what does happen and why it happens that way. So it's pointless to characterize a non-recommendation system as a recommendation system as a means of end-running an argument.
Atherstone ball game (1199-present) descends into brutal violence
> What accountability is going to happen?

Women and blacks couldn’t vote back in the day. It’s in the realm of possibility that the society will change and demand leadership accountability.
That last point is key. To imagine that such power plays only occur in one direction, or that somehow workers have more power when exercising such behaviors vs when companies do so, is poor rhetoric and poorer argumentation.
Another possibility is to assume the user is the authority and is always right. For example, if I post a tweet to my feed, I’m (or should be) the authority and always right.
Ask HN: Is there a non-chat Turing test?
I've seen a lot of debate whether the current large language models (ChatGPT, Bing/Sydney, etc) exhibit sentience. Given the history of the Turing test, I think it's inevitable for these discussions to happen whenever there are advances in chatbots and NLP.

However, I don't recall any discussions about sentience a few months ago when image generating models were all the rage (DallE, Midjourney, Stable Diffusions, etc). There were plenty of discussions about whether the machine should be given artistic credit, which gets really close to the sentience discussion, but I don't recall it being explicitly discussed the same way we're seeing with the language models.

So this has me thinking -- how could you assess sentience for machine/models if it's been trained to do something other than chat?
VAT evasion is not something you'd expect a large company to get in trouble for. Either the government is wrong or Meta really messed up?
Dutch-Uighur Air Force officer suspended after China imprisons his family
3.227% total return, inflation adjusted from Feb 2020 to Feb 2023. Not too bad, actually. See https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/ . Perhaps people got used to the 11.883% inflation adjusted total return from Feb 2010 to Feb 2020.
Feb 1871 to Feb 2023 is 6.878% .
The content explicitly asked what your alternative is. That is the most commonly suggested alternative in public discourse; what's your solution if not that?
You should take a two week vacation before making any decision like this. Also I would say nothing about your thoughts on this to your cofounders. Just take a break, come back and get ready to execute. If you feel the same in three more months, then think about walking. Probably its just hard. Raising a big seed round isnt easy, stick with what you already have.
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Almost all software engineering jobs can be done remotely. If the only thing you have to offer is proximity, you’re probably not going to be in a good position.
If they cut the Metaverse spending tomorrow, there's still a huge legacy ads business throwing off a ton of revenue. The company will do fine. It probably will not grow to Apple size.
> Umm rapid tests are like 98% accurate.

98% is the specificity in the link you cited, not the sensitivity, which would be the relevant statistic. That's also a consumer-facing marketing page for an urgent care clinic that just cites "sources", so you should probably take anything you read there with a grain of salt. It's essentially an advertisement.

But furthermore, we're not talking about the tests performed in a clinic by a clinician. We're talking about OTC tests performed at home by an untrained non-clinician.
They still have cops, courts, and jails in Seattle.
The article doesn't really explain what it is about the internet that isn't being understood. Even if these companies have been identified under the general "tech" category by investment firms, they're essentially media companies and there's no reason why they should be exempt from the regulations of other media companies. The idea that somehow first amendment rights will somehow be overtly compromised by adding extra responsibilities for internet companies would require us to ignore the censorship these companies have been willfully prompting in the past decade.
It took my mom a few years to find her rhythm, but she's loving retirement. Crucially, it took her some time to find community that she could meaningfully participate in, but now that she's got that, she doesn't look back.
why is it obvious that that is untrue?
That makes sense.

If you are flying out of Denver (high altitude) on a summer day, you need a TON of runway to get off the ground. There are some aircraft that simply can't take off fully loaded from high altitude with the runways that exist.

The solution is to not take off fully loaded (lower the weight) So you either don't fully fuel up, or you remove cargo/passengers. It's very common, and by design. The software exists so that you know not to fully load the cargo bays if the conditions don't allow it (cargo makes airlines a lot of money).
Eh. You can't layoff your way to business growth. At most it can move some ratios that Wall St cares about and induce model-driven stock movements. Sustained revenue growth at tech companies comes from making investments that grow the business.

There is a difference between cutting costs because you've discovered efficiency improvements, and cutting costs because you've decided to decrease your output. Tech layoffs are more of the latter.
Along this topic of Apple Watch, does anyone have a "killer"/"can't live without now"/"actually makes the watch more useful" app they use (other than watchOS defaults)?
cost controls are a form of rationing and a good one, at least for the field of healthcare.
There is nothing in the mathematical description of a black hole (whether a normal black hole or the "black hole" like objects with dark energy inside them that are proposed in the alternative model being discussed here) or the physics that that math describes that corresponds to the ordinary language description "a contraction of local spacetime in a way that gives the impression that local space is static while distant space expands".
Is there any indication chicken farmers are seeing a massive influx of money? Or is it just the companies that control the pricing to customers at grocery stores seeing the extra money, while farmers don’t make much more?
GP didn't mention degrading retinas, just age. I'm over 50 and need glasses but, while acknowledging that life is a one-way journey, I just don't like people talking like ageing is necessarily this slide into decrepitude after 40.
Facebook isn't a neutral arbiter, they make active choices in what their users see. And they frequently choose things that maximize engagement in order to maximize profit. Things that are inflammatory and divisive drive engagement, so that tends to bubble to the top.

This isn't just a problem with Facebook and Twitter either, its an issue in modern journalism as well. Basically anything that is funded by advertisement will fall into this trap.
are you british?
As long as it's not a photo showing them or the loved ones, or a piece of art they created themselves. 'Meme culture' mostly seems to reject licences because it's a bother, not out of idealism.
It already has happened. In the big tech companies I worked for, adding new headcount always seemed to come from outside the US. Even today, many of the senior leaders come from India. Not to mention the people with Visas.
Because Apple has more money and higher margins than they do.
Apple is the only company to sell an insanely highly mass produced product at insanely high prices. Usually you have to pick one or the other.

So the reason is that no-one can afford to out bid them.
I just don't get the line of thought that goes:

"I don't like the content that ends up on + promoted through algorithms on Facebook, therefore, they should be responsible"

It's not their content, and they aren't the ones engaging with it.

They are pushing it because users post it and then engage in it.

Say we got rid of Facebook tomorrow. This exact same problem would happen at another company/platform unless there was heavy intervention/moderation (which to my understand, Facebook absolutely already does some level of moderation?). What's that equivalent to? I'm not a "free speech advocate" or anything like that but what you're asking for is censorship instead of asking users to bear the responsibility of the content they consume.
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This is the correct answer :)
That doesn't sound right.

"Facebook reported $23.1 billion net profit in 2022, a decline on the $39.3 billion made in 2021. Meta has invested heavily into the metaverse, which is cutting into its profits."

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/facebook-statistics/
You're citing Gross Profit, not Net Profit - which is being used here by the article deliberately to emphasize their point.

The net shows an increase as well, but not totally out of line with the increase in sales and costs, even when we look back several years.
Is your point that the sample size is too small? Beyond a certain threshold, sample size doesn’t matter as much as you think.
Now you need to check everything it outputs because you don't trust what is says as it hallucinates nonsense and incorrect answers. Thus, it is much worse than Google or using it as a search engine replacement.

This is what the AI hype squad doesn't tell you in the small print of their snake-oil that they are selling to you. If anything, this hype will subside just as quick as with the short-term hype that happened with Clubhouse.
There isn't difficulty there. Lawyers aren't having problems navigating this language. Obtuse techies who obsess over edge-cases definitions are having difficulty. No one reasonable would describe the SPAM filtering as a recommendation algorithm and to suggest otherwise is either outright ignorant or just facially disingenuous. The law doesn't care what can be argued to be a promotion algorithm based upon some HN-poster's obtuse reliance upon a specific word, the law deals with reasonability as a standard all the time.
They’re only too old due to age discrimination. I’ve worked with a number of excellent 50+ y/o workers in tech.
They seem to offer RSS feeds, maybe you could use them instead?
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They get more from you, in terms of data worth collecting and selling, merely because you have that app installed on your phone, than they get from the couple moments you have it open.

Marketplace works fine on the browser too, and with the browser it is much easier to lock down malicious tracking behaviors.
Multiplayer in games is a hard problem to solve because each game has their own set of requirements that are hard to abstract or make generic, you'll always have to make compromises wich is not idea, hence why everyone end up doing something custom

But having something ready out of the box is a nice competitive advantage over something like Unity for example
been going on for a few months for me, some where obviously spottable, Tons of word.s.like.this in the subject and also random numbers a la 12895830
It's not a matter of price sensitivity - the top end hasn't changed prices.
ah yes, thats the one I was thinking of.
Yeah, this sounds great. Everyone in the world getting access to the tech industry without having to be gatekept by living in a few tech-hubs in the US.

I think at some point we have to turn off the "but any advancement at all will be bad for me because post capitalist hellscape" voice as that's true of everything.
Definitely agree that the multi-cloud thing is a premature optimization for sure.

But k8s isn't cloud agnostic either, at least not if you hold it to the same standard that you're holding pulumi/terraform.

Many of the lower level native abstractions, like CNI plugins, aren't 100% interchangeable and don't always just work depending on your use case. There's a reason AWS had to build its own VPC CNI plugin to get EKS fully functional across all of its networking services (particularly any service involving peering like DirectConnect etc).
Most topics in philosophy. Any time we attempt to define what a word means, we use other words to do it, and a big chunk of philosophy is spent dealing with the bottom of that mess. What is "real", what is "knowledge", what is "intelligence", what is "art", etc.
Tesla makes Sentry Mode more “privacy-friendly” after Dutch investigation
IANAL, but I would start developing my argument with the idea that emails Google placed in my Priority Inbox were sent to me specifically, and the intention of the sender is that I specifically would see it. Google is still not putting anything in front of my eyes that was not intended to be there anyway.

When YouTube recommends content to me, the original author did not target that content specifically to me, and YouTube alone is making the decision to put it in front of my eyes.
Intel's been going to ASML and building their own fabs for decades now. It's clearly not that easy.
Headline aside, it sounds like the real news is just how difficult this problem is - even for Apple. Back in 2020-2021, the rumor was that a Watch might include Rockley glucose monitoring[1], possibly in 2022-2024. If this article is correct, Apple is nowhere near that:

> Apple’s system — more than 12 years in the making — is now considered to be at a proof-of-concept stage, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the project is confidential. The company believes the technology is viable but needs to be shrunk down to a more practical size.

> Engineers are working to develop a prototype device about the size of an iPhone that can be strapped to a person’s bicep. That would be a significant reduction from an early version of the system that sat atop a table.

…

> Before shifting to TSMC, Apple had worked with Rockley Photonics Holdings Ltd. to develop the sensors and chip for the technology. In 2021, Rockley publicly disclosed its work with Apple, stoking interest in the supplier. Apple later ended the partnership, and Rockley filed for bankruptcy last month.

[1]: Related conversations: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I don't see how anything of what you said is incompatible with the article. the unions got 10 hours, probably wanted better but that's all they could negotiate. ford wanted the most profit he could get and he found that through 8 hour work days it would be the most profitable for him. he, of course like much of the capitalist class(of course not all but most of the ultra-wealthy capital owners are sociopaths), didn't care that much about workers.
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Not in this bad econ timeframe
I feel the time is ripe for a programming called spider so we can have a spider web framework.
I presume that non-profit forums would be judgement proof (literal first amendment grounds). Possibly even including non-profit forums attached to a for-profit entity. With regard to Hacker News in particular the only possibly problematic element would be the YC-linked advertisement posts.

Of course I'm not a lawyer. But section 230 is not the only protection here.
I would assume veganism or just opposition to factory farming is the explanation.
It feels somehow unfair and anticompetitive to buy up all the stock of the best processors so PCs and Android devices can't have any.
> Facebook and Instagram will continue to provide excellent paths for advertisers to target consumers.

This assumes Facebook and Instagram remain the communication and user content hubs they are. But this is not a given, any company asleep at the wheel (remember myspace) risks losing leadership, then users and then money needed to recover. And recent FB escapades suggest that it indeed has a sleeping driver. My 2c.
I just posted an item on Marketplace for the first time and in the past day I’ve received messages from over 10 spam accounts. I

They all say the same thing and offer to pay for them item before even seeing it, saying their brother or manager will come later in the day

Somehow I’ve never received this much spam posting on CL
I manage an engineering team at one of the big 3 cloud providers advising startups on their cloud deployments. We often get earlier stage startups asking us for help with building their deployments on Kubernetes. We often suggest they consider a simpler solution, so that they can focus on building their product and not worry about managing k8s. Some of them do. Most stick with k8s. Rather than assume that they all don't know what they're doing, I tried to take their point-of-view and understand why they're making this choice. What I learnt makes a lot of sense:

1. You won't get fired for choosing K8S. Tech leads of startups, just like anyone in a position of responsibility, need to be a bit conservative with their choices. As CTO, if something went wrong with your deployments, or you're having scaling issues, the last thing you want is to have to explain to your CEO or your investors why you've chosen a less popular and recognisable product.

2. Startups are conscious about vendor lock-in (or any kind of lock-in). That makes a lot of sense - early in the days of a startup you don't really know what direction it will take, so you want to keep your options open. Make a choice that limits your freedom later down the road and it could be fatal to your startups as it grows and adapts. It's reasonable to agree to pay a price for this flexibility.

3. Hiring good engineers is always hard, and you don't want to make it harder for yourself by choosing technologies that are less familiar. A common objection would be that basic technologies like containers, VMs, and serverless functions are easy to adjust to for most engineers, but as a startup you really need to optimise for the common denominator or you risk wasting time on onboarding engineers on tech they are not familiar with.

4. Startups often don't spend as much time and energy on familiarising themselves with every new technological development and option. They are busy building a product. It could be that there's another, better option for them, other than the most recognised brand in the industry, but if they spent their time on learning and evaluating all these options that's time they wouldn't spend building and shipping features to their users.

5. Startups are optimistic by nature. They have to be. Tell them that they don't need the complexity of K8S at their current scale and they'll just remind you that they're aiming for ∞X, any day now. Most of them will not reach even 10X any time soon, but they have the right attitude to behave as if they will.
The "feels safer" is an interesting argument. From what studies I could find the more light has the opposite impact on safety. IE: The more light at night the less safe you actually are/more crimes occur.
I'm not worried about competition from returning retirees. I'm "considering" learning another foreign language too. There are a lot of things I consider but end up ultimately not doing, on account of the fact that they take a lot of effort and I don't really have to do them. I don't expect that to change when I'm retired, sadly.

Frankly I'm surprised only 1/6 retirees are considering returning to work. Maybe we all get more realistic with age.
Why would sharing have made those claims any worse?

And this way they annoy a huge number of people.
The next challenge is software stack.
Most non-inmates in America don't receive world-class healthcare.
Is this satire?

A startup should ruthlessly prioritize doing only the one single thing that drives revenue, which is not bespoke infrastructure configuration.
I genuinely do not understand your definition of "promote"? Is the difference that Youtube recommendations are personalized?

Of course HN promotes content. There's much more content submitted than can fit on a screen. Automated filtering, human moderation, and signals from other users decide what to show you -- on both sites.
Problem for the Italian pasta restaurant is that they don't have dozens of offices and subsidiaries across the world made with intention to make it more confusing for tax authorities to understand what's going on and decide what fraction of their business and income belongs to Italy.
I don't think it is necessary to understand how the internet works technically to "understand the internet". It's like saying a race car driver can't drive fast without understanding the physics of a piston.
A decade ago, I worked on a team that was half in India and half local to me (in the US). There was no problem with skills, language, etc. at all.

But the time difference was a constant and pretty large issue. If you wanted to have a live meeting, it meant that someone was going to have to be working at a problematic hour.
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Any Web 2.0 system's basic premise is that it provides a space where humans can be humans. The bedrock assumption is that people can POST things that a server will instantly and automatically display publicly, and that the server owner will not instantly become legally liable for what they post.

This mirrors pretty well how the rest of the world operates. If I walk into a Macy's and start screaming libel or inciting a riot, the Macy's Corporation is not liable for that speech. Why should a 'digital property' like a social media site work differently?

Of course, it doesn't totally erase the server owner's liability. If someone posts child pornography that my server displays, it is my responsibility to remove it as soon as I become aware of it, just as it is Macy's responsibility to escort the libel-screamer off the premises. Failure to do that can confer liability onto me.

To break this consensus is to break the ability to foster human interactions on the internet that mirror how humans interact in the real world.
> Why is the real reason for this? It's not clear to me from reading the articles.

Same reason why every study of open offices show that they're bad for productivity but managers and executives can't stop building them.

The managers have an emotional need for it, the data doesn't matter.
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Regardless of where you stand on the 'Pepe the Frog is a hate symbol' issue, you might want to reconsider including it. The Wikipedia page¹ is fairly informative.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepe_the_Frog
Mostly defaults for me. Music and fitness tracker.

Closest is when I’m trying to do a workout circuit and I don’t have my phone I use Seconds. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/seconds-pro-interval-timer/id3...

However I prefer to use Seconds on the phone so I can see the timer without looking at my wrist.