skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Astroturfing isn't "I have worked here and am therefore biased when expressing support for the product", it's (to quote Wikipedia) "the practice of hiding the sponsors of a message or organization (e.g., political, advertising, religious, or public relations) to make it appear as though it originates from, and is supported by, grassroots participants."

If they explicitly disclose their internal knowledge or affiliation, it's not astroturfing. If they used to work for the company but are now unaffiliated, it's not astroturfing. If the company isn't knowledgeable or supporting of the effort, it's not astroturfing. etc.
Keith Johnstone's book Impro recommends an exercise involving looking around and naming everything you see out loud, but deliberately giving the wrong name in every case. Look at a chair, say "banana!", stuff like that. Can be done with a partner or a group, too. A few minutes of that is supposed to have a perspective-shifting effect—making things feel off such that you notice more details—lasting hours or days.

I tried it once, just for just a few seconds, and it did seem to have an effect. Need to try really doing the exercise one of these days.
1. A lot of Japanese companies hoard money instead of returning it

2. Supposedly the Japanese government is trying to get them to 'return' it to shareholders

3. Some people believe the currency will go up making these bags of cash more valuable in dollar terms

4. Warren Buffet figured out he could borrow money in yen at a lower interest rate than their stocks pay out, use it to buy yen denominated stocks, and basically print free money. You can't do that but a lot of people are buying what he's buying.
In the same way a highway cop's lidar gun estimates.
> There just wasn't room for a third player

It took something like four years until Apple and Android passed Nokia's market share. They had their chance to fight.
There are links in the comments here to actual "reporting" by e.g. Ars Technica.

If you only look at Twitter, Twitter's all you're going to see.
There's more to a chip than the ISA.
Real sudafed is OTC, you just need to ask for it at the counter. No prescription is required. They just don't have it on shelves, because they require you to show your ID when purchasing it. I'm assuming this is so they can track how much a person is buying to track people who are using it for illicit purposes.
I just use 1Password on all my devices and it works fine for passkeys and passwords and 2FA and credit card numbers.

It's not as safe as hardware keys, but way more convenient, especially across multiple platforms. I've used it on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android. Not sure about desktop Linux.

As a bonus, it makes sharing passwords (like Netflix) much easier and safer too.
Exclusive-Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel
I think the distinction matters not only in mathematics and logic but in security too. Companies with "proven security" are often proven wrong.
This is why "hours" are so important for pilots, but not just pilots. "Hours" for pilots is just a way of saying experience, but cooler. Every aspect of life has different ways of letting others know your experience in something. Ranks in the military, Senior/Junior dev titles, intern, apprentice, black belt. Some are just more mundane, and also get ignored!
for city driving, electric vehicles are crazy efficient. the energy is negligble. basically all the driverless cars are EVs.
This is what the entire latter 2/3 of the article is about.
people are frequently quite bad at writing code to be read, so actually understanding what's going on can be a mess.
You will have an easier time inasmuch as you will no longer think, as almost everyone did, that your purchase of phenylephrine is adequate. The hardest pseudoephedrine to buy is the one you don't think you need.
> 30 years ago was before the Internet became commonly available, and there was not a lot of talk about CSAM.

Cypherpunk FAQ dated 1994-09-10 had:

> 8.3.4. "How will privacy and anonymity be attacked?" [...]

> like so many other "computer hacker" items, as a tool for the "Four Horsemen": drug-dealers, money-launderers, terrorists, and pedophiles.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...

The 'Four Horsemen' term was coined in 1988. So yes, it was being talked about thirty years ago.

Some of us witnessed the (first?) Crypto Wars of the 1990s:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars
https://archive.ph/znM06
It's already easy to buy the stuff that works. You just have to go up to the counter and ask. You have to show ID, just like you do for liquor (and, because purchases of psuedoephedrine are rate-limited, they're going to log your purchase). You'll need to get over that, because I don't think the rate limit is going anywhere: psuedoephedrine essentially is methamphetamine, and it's the worst conceivable kind: the kind that you obtain by constructing horrible hazmat labs in garages, mobile homes, and apartments.
Actually, Sudafed continues(d?) to make both, you just have to ask for the one with pseudoephedrine which is usually locked behind the counter. Not a meth chef here, but do I have allergies and get migraines, the only thing that seems to help is pseudoephedrine. When they introduced this crap however long ago I could immediately tell it did nothing compared to the 'original' version. Not surprised at all by this revelation/confirmation years later.
https://archive.li/DNtq5
And the state senator got arrested!

I'm really not sure what you're trying to argue here. I'm saying its pretty believable that people forget they're carrying guns because people also forget they have a kid with them. And then you counter with an admission that people do forget their kids.
Mostly because these companies are very rarely letting people make an informed choice. Though, random homeopathic remedies in the store are far from the leading culprit for this.
That's the funny thing about tribalism, it's just a different flavour of the same base human corruptibility (or, to use less aggressive wording: opinion, bias, or subjectivity).

The US is no better or worse than Europe, it's just a different alignment of values.

The "better or worse" argument is based entirely on each individual's alignment being closer or further away from one alignment or the other. This will come from personal experience, highly affected by the boundary the individual grew up within - which can affect can ones biases in both directions.
But is X providing the service that KLM did? I'm totally ignorant on what KLM is. KLF or KMFDM on the other hand...
because it's often the case that people don't know its homeopathic. I consider myself pretty smart but fell for Zicam marketing for quite a while. It matters because it can prevent people from seeking effective treatment, especially when they are placed on the same shelf as things that are vetted by the FDA.
I’m just clarifying because you said it was low risk and there’s at least one case of it being high risk.
That picture shows "Sudafed PE". The product "Sudafed", which contains Pseudoephedrine, still exists.

As per https://nida.nih.gov/publications/drugfacts/over-counter-med..., "Over-the-counter (OTC) medicines are those that can be sold directly to people without a prescription.". Sudafed—the real Sudafed—is still OTC, by that definition.
Wow, I have legit never made that connection.
I don’t think that’s what the OP is saying. They’re pointing out that it’s inconsistent for CVS to offer their stated rationale for phenylephrine while continuing to shelve homeopathics.

Whether or not it’s personally bothersome doesn’t enter into it; the inconsistency is itself noteworthy.
MicroSemi (which was later bought by MicroChip) had a relationship with SiFive and you could buy a MicroSemi PolarFire FPGA dev board with a preconfigured SiFive U74 soft-core in it. DAMN if it wasn't difficult to configure.

Which is my way of saying... yeah... Microchip buying SiFive? Stranger things have happened.
It's usually seen as a bad thing when people are scammed out of money.
Fraud and deception should bother everyone, regardless of whether they are victims.
You might enjoy https://typst.app/

The underlying input->PDF toolchain is open source, and very nice: https://github.com/typst/typst
wow, really? did you miss the point of being able to dial in the optimal polarization?
i like tunnels too. Just put cars in them that can easily transition to surface streets for door to door.

Bikeable/walkable cities are not an argument against quiet, cheap, ubiquitous, efficient driverless EVs.
Makes more sense than deliberate suicide.
I don’t know if you would count it as “lost” but as a college student I mined 35 bitcoins and then ending up selling them at $30.
I heard that the way Waymo works is that the car actually presents solutions, multiple-choice style, to the call center operator. The operator assesses the situation and chooses one, and then the car executes it. I assume there’s also a “none of the above”’or some such which would flag someone to come on site.

The remote operator cannot manually operate the car under these circumstances and that is by design.
Glad to see this take here.

So often I've seen the opinion that effectively expresses that some company or business plan has a God-given right to be viable. Not directly of course but through about-face when someone points out that the company's business proposition conflicts with something—but how will the business make a profit if it has to [submit to government regulation] because of [concerns about marketing to children]?

Some people could probably steadfastly support a new business that was selling something dangerous but that was new and “innovative”. “Oh well people just have take responsibility for their own well-being—regulating crystal dust fumes™ would be way too onerous and impractical.”
Flaws in OAuth's social sign-in could have put billions of users at risk
Except it didn't immediately do that. Cruise released a report today saying that the car actually drove 20 feet and dragged the woman. There is no simple answer as to what to do. It's simply difficult and acting like there are easy answers to this is unproductive and imo not in the spirit of hackernews.
So again, his solution is to completely rewire the US health care system, which is inactionable when someone's health is at stake.
Actual beehives though generate honey which can be sold, offsetting the cost.
> They manage to avoid collisions by driving extremely conservatively, but the way they traverse, say, a left turn against traffic is absurd. They slow everyone down, including emergency vehicles and public transit, by performing far below the level of most Human drives.

Are they performing worse, or are they just making a better risk tradeoff? Human drivers kill a lot of people every week.
Conti successor Akira stole 690GB of BHI Energy data
I operate a relatively small website that receives approx 200-300 unique (legitimate) visitors per month.

As of the last time I measured, 97% of requests my web server received were malicious.

I've seen empty domains that respond with a 404 on every page with all kinds of bot/scanner/crawler in the logs.
There's nothing wrong with buying homoeopathic tinctures if you like them, but putting them right next to medicine legitimises them for those who don't know any better.

It's not like these tinctures are hand-crafted by some wise old shaman, they're mass produced by billion dollar companies profiting off the association with proven medicine. The confusion and misinformation is problematic, not the sale of the tinctures themselves.
Sudafed also makes pseudoephedrine HCl, which works. That’s why their name is a contraction of ‘pseudoephedrine’.
> Wishful thinking, but next up should be homeopathic snake-oil.

It sounds like it's serving a useful purpose.

> "I know so many people… hell, I've done this myself, I've bought [a homeopathic] product by mistake," Little said. In a trip to the drug store while sick or as a weary parent of a miserably ill child, it's easy to mistakenly pick up a homeopathic product in haste or the fog of infection.

If folks are going to irresponsibly take some random drug without having any idea what's in it, it sounds like funneling them toward something that won't harm them is a good thing. I mean would you really rather have them giving their kids something like tylenol without reading the dosage instructions?
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/global-billionaire-...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/oct/22/eu-funded-r...

Authors

https://gabriel-zucman.eu/bio/

https://www.ipe-berlin.org/en/institute/associate-members/sa...
There are inequalities within a tiny village, within a family, and even within a relationship. One is smarter or more healthy or stronger or more cooperative or better looking or feels the cold or has better eyesight…
We are a totally unequal species.
Aside from the fact that CVS is implicitly approving of the remedies by having them on their shelves, my wife accidentally came home with a homeopathic product once because it was right next to non-homeopathic products for treating the same symptoms.
https://blog.june07.com/introduction-clippings/

Bunch of changes since the initial post 12 days ago and a new feature addition:

https://blog.june07.com/clippings-emergency-alerts
False. It asks for both injunctive and monetary relief.

On monetary relief:

On the joint COPPA claim, it asks the court to “Award the Filing States damages, restitution, and other compensation”

On the state law claims, each and every state asks for monetary relief under its own law in the form of civil penalties, damages, disgorgement, and/or restitution.
> Despite Dasung's promises of "unbelievable refresh speed on Color E Ink" the video makes it appear as if the display's refresh rate might fall somewhere below 60Hz.

Wow, I guess I've been out of the loop for a while. I had no idea e-ink technology had progressed even to 30Hz. I thought it was still very slow, too slow to even try to display any sort of animation, limiting it too e-readers like Kindles. I just watched a video comparing it with the Color Kaleido 3, and yeah, it does appear fast enough.
This isn't a very constructive response. OP wants it to be easier to buy decongestants, as do I.
I don't use Twitter at all, but the Ars link wasn't there when I first came upon this thread. Thanks for pointing it out!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38005867

It indeed is much more readable than Twitter.
The Taxman's Dodgy Data
For P1 (which is only to prove safety) this may be the case, but for pivotal studies in P2 and later, participants are almost always randomized so cherry picking shouldn't be possible.

But sure, the study design and primary/secondary endpoints are always levers to increase likelihood of admission. There are often long discussions with the FDA and other regulators on how the endpoints and study population should look like.
Errrrr in this exact scenario the other car that hit the woman didn't stop...
I'm impressed by the strong negative reactions on this thread. Maybe because this is a US-centric forum, or because I don't have kids, but I fail to see the big deal with Meta. Facebook is mostly groups with little engagements. Nowadays, people really fight on Twitter which has less moderation. Then Instagram, I thought kids were on Tik Tok?

Well, I can see how some people might be negatively impacted by this sites but it has to be marginal considering we're taking about billions of users. And what's new? the same could be said by tons of other businesses (how many people are obese with reduced life expectancy because of agressive marketing from Mac Donald's and Coca Cola for instance?). I mean, is Meta that bad?
So what actual model are they using? The details are super vague.
the cpu race on mobile will be interesting to see.

let's see how this matches up to m2 / m3 vs the amd 7840u series chips too in terms of performance vs power draw.

people soon will be spoilt for choice. no more noisy laptops.
Are you using GPT-4 or ChatGPT? I only trust GPT-4, and I have a fairly good idea of its 'limits' so to speak (don't ask it to walk step by step through a decision tree question for instance, but if we generally want to know about xgboost or lgbm it's good). I agree that if you don't know what is trustable by ChatGPT and what is not, then it frustrates the whole process again
Okay man, things you don't like can't be involved in accidents, any harm they cause is intentional, it all makes sense because someone conducted research that has nothing to do with the actual meaning of words.

> A majority of fatal crashes are caused by intoxicated, speeding, distracted, or careless drivers and, therefore, are not accidents. Most importantly, characterizing crashes as accidents, when a driver was intoxicated or negligent, may impede the recovery of crash victims by preventing them from assigning blame and working through the emotions related to their trauma.

These people not understanding what the word accident means is not my problem. If it was not on purpose I don't care if it was "riding on the hood" levels of negligence, the thing that makes it an accident is the intent so all crashes where the driver did not mean to do it would also qualify by the rules of the English language. Crucially, negligence can be, and in fact practically always is, a proximal cause to any accident. Consider, when was the last accident (not car accident, just spilling tea or something) you had that couldn't have been avoided with sufficient protections in place?

Pretty ironic to spout politically motivated redefinitions of the word accident while complaining about astroturfing the terminology surrounding car crashes/accidents.

Before you respond, if you intend to at all, I really need to know, do you understand and agree with what I'm saying? That by the definition of the word accident which I shared up-thread that almost all car crashes are accidents according to that meaning? Because if we can't agree on what words mean when we both have access to the definition, we have no hope of achieving communication.
My only problem with the videos—which is 100% not Sakurai's fault—is I find it very difficult to read the english subtitles while also focusing on the visuals. I have no trouble following subtitled movies, but for some reason they're problematic in this format.

I almost wish someone could create dubs...
Even if one accepted on face-value that shorts provide no value and enable hedge funds to extract value with "illogical tricks," I don't understand how that would justify making them illegal.

I'm not saying the justification doesn't exist, but I don't think the reasons you articulated are sufficient.
What a wild comparison or two completely different things.
> If you believe the statement is true when you say it, it isn’t perjury. It’s just incorrect.

Yes, but whether you believed the statement was true when you said is not just a matter of your saying so. Other evidence can be brought to bear on the question: for example, as I have said elsewhere in this discussion, asking you how you came to believe that what you said was true, and you either admitting that you just made it up or had no good reason to believe it, or giving obviously false or evasive answers, or answers that are rebutted by other evidence (for example, you say you were told it by someone who denies that they did so). That could lead a jury in a perjury trial to conclude that in fact you were wilfully lying, even though you deny it.
It seems to me like Meta’s marketing harms everybody who uses their products… it’s not specifically kids.
A pleasure to read a post that is what it is and does not try to turn into something grandiose. Thanks
This really rings true to my early experiences with driving. As a novice, every moment driving was a sensory overload. Check the rearview mirror! Am I going at the right speed? Is anyone overtaking me? Am I staying centered in the lane? How long has that light been green? Plus all the little mechanics of actually operating a motor vehicle, actually moving your hands and feet the right amounts.

Now, a lot of getting better at driving was just building up muscle memory and good habits, yes, but I think a lot of it was really improving my selective perception and being able to quickly filter out the irrelevant to focus on exactly what was needed to drive safely and effectively.

I also play a lot of fighting games in my spare time, like Guilty Gear, and I feel this there as well. Pick up a new fighting game - especially if it's your first one - and quickly get overwhelmed by all of the things happening on the screen and all of the precise button presses you're expected to make. But then over time, you filter out all the noise and just track the minimum information - the positions of characters, the strategies, the higher-level gestalts at play - and end up spending much less cognitive effort for more effect.
How many mistakes/bad predictions does it take to make someone a charlatan in your opinion?
Note that most of those are GNOME issues. GNOME is hilariously bad. Most of your issues are simply not a problem in other desktop environments:)
I didn't ask about search results - I asked about e-mail spam detection performing politically motivated censorship.
Yeah me too but the dates didn't match up which initially clued me into the inconsistencies.
Could you share the paper(s) about "backdoors" in physical constants? That doesn't make much sense at first sight.
That was fairly damn insensitive and horrible. These people were just as complicated as we are.
> The cloud is good when you have more money than time.

Or skills, which is why I've noticed government departments are migrating everything to public cloud, no matter how expensive it is.

Fundamentally, they just cannot hire skilled staff, because they're legally prohibited from paying the going market rates. Those skilled staff also tend to stay away because they're put off by the extreme bureaucracy and generally unpleasant work environment.

Anything that can be offloaded to a non-staff contract is pounced upon.
It might be counter intuitive but using general purpose directories like ProductHunt or similar to showcase your project is likely just showing off to off-target, extreme churn, user base with high potential to becoming competitors.

In my opinion, the best and only place you should showcase your product is where your actual target customers are!
In all seriousness, no, and for obvious reasons. The toxicity is created by the participants, freely and of their own volition. Is it Facebooks responsibility to police that, shut it down, censor it? Honestly... And where who and when? According to what laws in what regions. Also how do we know Facebook created it, or if it is simply making visible the toxicity that everyone knows is middle school and highschool.

I honestly don't know, but I don't like so disingenuously simple shoot the messenger answers. That being said, if Facebook amplified it willfully knowing the damage already -- then it's a different issue. And I think there is some evidence of that.

Either way its different than tobacco which was created by the company itself.
Yep. If you want to retire on a 401k alone, you have to start putting money in it as close to the day you are born as possible.

If I get to have a kid I'm opening them a Roth IRA and putting all the money that I possibly can into it.

$10,000 on the day they are born would be somewhere in the $250,000 - $1,000,000 range (depending on whether they average 5% or 7%, and if it were to average 10% it would be $6.47 million at age 65), assuming no further investments were made on it and that there were no management fees attached to it, and that somehow they could resist the temptation to draw down from it early to buy a house or pay student loans, cover debts, etc..