skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you have a new forum and you remove misinformation, does that removal constitute an actionable defamation against the poster?

Twitter was sued for this, because they attached a note to a user's post. But note that this was not a user-generated community note. It was authored directly by Twitter.

Without Section 230, any moderation - even if it was limited to just removing abjectly offensive content - resulted in the internet service taking liability for all user generated content. I think even acting on user reports would still result in liability. The two court cases that stablished this are here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratton_Oakmont,_Inc._v._Prod....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubby,_Inc._v._CompuServe_Inc.
Is that also the case for grass fed beef?
I guess there are just so few interactions in space that it’s pretty easy. Bunch of rocks that have been on the same course for millions of years, and aren’t impacted by air resistance or anything to slow them down.
Couldn't flutter work as public-first that then gets vendored into third_party?
Or is that literally the fork strategy you are talking about that I'm too dense to understand?
Because billions of people or their devices aren't even online every hour.

Unless you're discussing background processes on google's side
Using an M2 SSD instead of soldering the chip on board has more implications: PCB gets physically larger, and takes more power or has less performance talking to the SSD. Heat transfer is also worse. I completely understand why they go for a soldered SSD chip.

One way of true environmentally-friendly innovation could have been to find a way to attach the SSD chip so that a user could safely replace it, though, with little additional space.
There are actually neural networks with explicit optimization layers but I don’t think these have really had much success.
Right, imagine how much better my Magic Trackpad would be if I had to leave it unplugged while I was using it!

...not.
Why not simply have a laser projector, keyboard and canvas textbox then?
Had a similar idea focused on old pictures. Think of older family members going through a box of photos and explaining who, when, where, etc...
Out of curiosity, do you think you realized any benefit from some of the puzzles entering into common knowledge by now? And/or the Seinfeld Effect?

I could see how that would be true. By on the other hand in objective terms it’s pretty obscure pop culture knowledge so could also see it providing zero benefit
And a fantastic way to get sued out of existence by a rich corporation.
Reminds me of the quote, "Complaining about a problem without proposing a solution is called whining" attributed to Theodore Roosevelt. What a simple world you'd need for this to be true.
> Neil deGrasse Tyson, Sabine Hossenfelder, Brian Greene

None of those three "cover" any topics. They push their own topics and agenda, which can often be fringe or counterculture and highly personal pet preferences or topics. Tyson, in particular, just likes to hear himself talk above all else, took 11 years to get his PhD, was kicked out of the UT Austin PhD program, is often wrong, and is a living breathing example of "well, actually".

These three are about as far from journalism as you can get and are actively hurtful, at least in the case of Greene and Tyson due to their popularity, to science.
I have to wonder what the world would look like if USA did not go along with Chinas entry into the WTO.

Why a communist state was afforded WTO status is puzzling.
Look at the situation now. Slick Willie did that.

Press release about how bad we fscked up:
https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-...
Maven is actually pretty behind in terms of JVM dependency resolution. Mill uses Coursier, same as my last company did, and when my last company switched from Maven to Coursier we saw a 2 order of magnitude speedup, with resolution commands that used to take 30min finish in a few seconds to give the exact same artifacts and versions.

I actually have no idea why these other resolvers are so slow, or why Coursier is so fast, but this slowness is very much a "maven" or "gradle" thing rather than a "jvm" thing. And Mill using coursier does significantly better!
Well you are over indexing on someone by getting married.

Whether after 10 years you don't end up regretting the decision or not is something you probably can't control.

Marriage like any other social constructs primarily focuses on preserving culture in sacrifice of individuals.
Thank you all for the questions! This was basically my first submission on HN, I'm still learning how to do things around here, but the overall tone was gentle and encouraging. And my main take-away was that I need to make the software more user-friendly in order to help potential new users try it out -- I'll work on that.
There was also a segment on this on one of the NRP shows over the weekend. I don't recall which one. Ideally, someone else will know.
> Leaves me wondering how many of these Apple actually sell.

The target audience for this machine is my local yoga studio (which has two), my local comic book shop (which has two), and my local spa (which has one).

They run a web browser, some kind of inventory or booking app in the browser, and Spotify. That's it.

Last year I went to Bali and the Gili Islands on vacation and both of the places I stayed checked me in on an M1 iMac. In that instance they were both also running the WhatsApp app.

They're going to sell millions.
> It being just a suggestion or a recommendation is also important from a legal standpoint: because recommendation algorithms are simply opinions. They are opinions of what content that algorithm thinks is most relevant to you at the time based on what information it has at that time.

Is that really how opinions work in US law? Isn’t an opinion something a human has? If google builds a machine that does something, is that protected as an opinion, even if no human at google ever looks at it? „Opinion“ sounds to me like it’s something a humans believes, not the approximation a computer generates.
That's fair. People have different preferences. I personally don't even really care much for macOS these days..

> every app have its own updater

Well certainly not all due. But mainly because they are not part of the OS/distribution. And it's not like there arent any proprietary apps on Linux that have to be installed/updated independently.

Also you can use the App Store if you are so inclined. IMHO an awful experience but still better than the extremely laggy GUI app stores on Gnome/KDE.
I am not in finance and I’m not interested in investing because I’m rational and simply use world ETFs and don’t see why I would ever want to do anything else. I really enjoy Levine because I learn a lot from it about how the world works. I do not read anything else from finance so really appreciate his summaries.
I can appreciate that as a developer, but as a user I don’t particularly care that some company wants to ship identical looking apps on every device under the sun.

I would prefer the apps I use to work and behave in a consistent way, using the same platform idioms I am used to. The software available and how it works was a large part of the reason I chose the platform I did.

Of course, I recognise that, a. most people just don’t care about platform idioms, and b. the choice is often a non-native app or no app at all.
Can you elaborate? What's missing that makes you feel confident saying "complete lack of" despite well-documented accessibility functionality (including testing for accessibility)? [1]

[1] https://docs.flutter.dev/ui/accessibility-and-internationali...
That looks straight out of Beetlejuice lol
Why would an app not looking like a native app automatically be seen as badly implemented?
Provable quality human curation has always been valuable, but hard to identify. It's becoming a smaller slice of the pie as it fills up with AI slop. Good time for newsletters and podcasts to be out in force if the higher quality content can be identified.
> News media keeps making this mistake - "if we go centrist enough the right-wing will join us!" It never works.

There are right-wingers who read the NYT for Ross Douthat.

> Even Fox News is losing viewers to further-right outlets.

Fox News is rather low-brow, and further right stuff like OANN is even more low-brow. Not the kind of thing who attracts the more intellectual right-winger who reads First Things, Commentary (in its current neoconservative incarnation, not decades ago when it was still left-leaning), The American Conservative, Compact (which isn't purely conservative, more a strange medley where you'll find a Marxist on one page and a Catholic theocrat on the next), even National Review. But they might read NYT for Douthat.

WaPo has Jennifer Rubin, but she seems much less conservative nowadays that Douthat does. Rubin's current output seems to be mainly targeted at liberals who are looking for a conservative who agrees with them.
This is a good point now that you mention it. I’ve found the Dutch translations and spoken voices on iOS to be outstanding. A few more people than Denmark, but in the scale of Apple, 6 vs 14 million is a rounding error.

I think the relative wealth of northwest Europe also plays a role in the adoption of Apple hardware. Or at least it certainly helps.
founder is a word that exists outside the context of SV and has never exclusively been the domain of startups.
I never found it useful for trading (he's never been involved in that as far as I know) but I found it useful for gaining general knowledge when I was new to finance.
It's such a shame mobile development with C# isn't more viable. I want to make some apps, and I hate JavaScript, but from everything I've read Maui just isn't practical.
If everyone does it, the world grinds to a halt and everyone dies.
To Hossenfelder, I'd add Ben Thompson on "the business, strategy, and impact of technology" and the Financial Samurai on personal finance...

https://stratechery.com/2024/elon-dreams-and-bitter-lessons/

https://www.financialsamurai.com/minimum-investment-threshol...
Well... that doesn't really matter if you have to use Teams/Slack or whatever?
Other link: https://www.reddit.com/r/Malware/comments/1gee0fg/suspicious...
> but the most obvious one is that Japan is eminently walkable

Big cities like Tokyo or Osaka are walkable; outside of them, Japan quickly devolves into very pedestrian-unfriendly urban sprawl (I know because I live in one such place). But somehow you still find plenty of vending machines everywhere, even besides a road in an otherwise empty field.
Just because the device is too slow for you does not make the device useless in totality. What are you going to ask for next? HDMI-in port on the iPad and MacBook so you can use it as a display when the internals are outdated?
Yup, exactly. I have a flir one, and I’ll have to keep my old lightning iPhone around just so I can use the flir camera when I need it. There are probably a bunch of such peripherals. The key difference between MacBooks and iPads where they did switch to USB-C early is that dongles are WAY less convenient of a workaround with a mobile peripheral.

I think the lifetime of the lightning connector has been very reasonable. If they switched much earlier they would’ve really screwed over those who invested in lightning peripherals. I think it’s reasonable to expect the peripherals to last at least one phone upgrade.

Yeah maybe it still sucks for people who bought such peripherals in the last few years. But more and more stuff is done over Bluetooth now and we’ve had years where everyone should know that there wasn’t a future for lightning
The Wikipedia article on this mentions that Wikipedia was partly inspired by it, which makes sense in that it very much values local, decentralized knowledge and dismisses the possibility of an all-seeing oracle (which even the sum of Wikipedia is not, cf edit wars).

Compare and contrast the repost today of The Singularity - would Hayek believe that a computer (with the goal of being an Economy Maximizer) would even theoretically be able to have enough knowledge to implement economic equilibrium (and maintain that equilibrium over time)?
I suspect the sciences also aren't as "juicy" for want of a better word. Finance is a very human field and there is huge scope for interpersonal conflict and drama, which people love to read about.
I think it's extremely overestimated by the technical crowd how many people would ever upgrade their RAM or SSD in their Macbook. I honestly doubt it's even in the single digit percentage points. The energy, engineering and material wasted on having connectors probably vastly outweighs the environmental savings by having that one tech person upgrade their RAM or SSD,
I have no use for a weak willed news product. Endorse Trump, Kamala, or a third party, but if your tagline is “democracy dies in darkness” and you’re embracing that slogan in the opposite direction, I’m just going to cancel.
Thanks for flagging. Just fixed this.
Grafana is intentionally not included by default -- but it takes a few minutes to set it up. We're still trying to figure out what to bundle by default in terms of UI -- for now it's API only.
I won't say that metadata isn't valuable, but I still don't think it's holographic. You can tell I WhatsApp my friend every day around noon, so we're probably talking about lunch, but you don't know that today I had a tuna sandwich.
That is obviously untrue by the definition of unsafe that I've been explicitly using.

I've been sticking with the concept of unsafe language, whereas you're talking about an unsafe program.

The two are related. An unsafe program misbehaves when given bad inputs. It's behavior is undefined.

An unsafe language is an unsafe program with regard to bad inputs, which consist of certain kinds of incorrect programs. (Those which are not diagnosed).

It's easy to write unsafe programs in unsafe languages. If we only focus on the program's functional requirements and none of them speak about what to do with bad inputs or in bad situations, we can end up with a program which is perfectly correct but unsafe. It will behave as specified on the correct inputs.

If you happen to be advocating Rust due to misunderstanding this kind of material, you're in it for the wrong reasons.
That’s beyond my level of expertise, but yes.

Quoting from the abstract of The Motion of Point Particles in Curved Spacetime <https://web.archive.org/web/20151203142700/http://relativity...>

> This review is concerned with the motion of a point scalar charge, a point electric charge, and a point mass in a specified background spacetime. In each of the three cases the particle produces a field that behaves as outgoing radiation in the wave zone, and therefore removes energy from the particle. In the near zone the field acts on the particle and gives rise to a self-force that prevents the particle from moving on a geodesic of the background spacetime. The self-force contains both conservative and dissipative terms, and the latter are responsible for the radiation reaction. The work done by the self-force matches the energy radiated away by the particle.

Note especially that the charged particle won’t actually follow the geodesic. Because the synchrotron radiation carries away some energy, the particle will be continually pushed off of the geodesic; it will spiral inwards instead of orbiting forever.
> Elahi adds that in a previous study, his team discovered that some long COVID patients had a deficiency in two amino acids, sarcosine and serine, that have anti-inflammatory functions and neuroprotective effects. Both are available as food supplements that can be purchased at health-food stores or online.

> “Some patients who have taken them have claimed signs of improvement.”
That's only true if things like you know, automation, don't exist.

The payphone example isn't that bad honestly. What people are paying for is sending around information. You could pay a person to run around and tell it in person, or you could build a network of telephones and charge for their usage. The latter is faster, easier, cheaper, more convenient, and doesn't take any people to run despite being a major boon to society. Yet it's completely passive outside occasional maintenance.

I suppose the question is if it's ethically correct to pay the maintainer vastly more than it actually takes to maintain the public good just because they "own" it. At least currently in our society it seems we've collectively decided it's worth overpaying for the benefit since the rewards tend to be good enough (otherwise everything would be nationalized).
You gotta be careful about going overboard with it.

Recently I was trying to get a refund on Groupon because the company I'd bought a Groupon for was under new management that refused to honor my groupon.

The form had a stipulation "minimum of 15 words". Try as I might, I could not get the form to pass validate until I inspected the HTML.

<input pattern="^(\b\w+\b\s*){15,}$" required>

\w - word characters
\b - word boundaries
\s - white

Literally zero allowance for any sort of punctuation.
It's certainly powerful, but that wasn't the claim I'm asking about.
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> Blocking at the edge (on the CDN) is another, and it would be even quicker ;-) (I use Cloudflare, a Cloudflare worker could be set to answer /wp-login.php or anything, without even reaching my own server.)

With HTTPS, blocking on the edge requires using a CDN that holds your secret keys. The only way they could block paths is being able to decrypt requests since the path is encrypted. If you trust Cloudflare or someone else to manage your secrets, this will work, but if you are terminating your HTTPS connections, you'll need to handle it with your own infrastructure as people above have.
Bezos has always been a Libertarian.

Also I don't get it why people left (no pun intended). The pinnacle of journalism has always been the AP, AFP, Reuters etc.

The 5 W (what, who, when, why, where) delivered in a fast manner. No speculation or anything, no partisan BS.

If anything this move brings the WP close to the aforementioned agencies and thus more worthy of consideration.
You're skeptical that many people believe those things?
Maybe one day with robots taking over some mundane care tasks, it can free more direct care work
Human walk a fine line. We're not actually civilized but more like pets... domesticated. We're house broken to a point, but still might bite, shit on the sofa, etc.
Seems obviously true to me. Spend time on Reddit r/all and you'll see these beliefs repeated over and over.
Yeah, it's related in that way. Fed or other central banks setting / controlling interest rates is definitely price control (interest is the price of money), and it is a form of central planning, or central intervention which makes price signals less pure.

I think it's "too soon" to say that Keynes was right. Afaik, Hayek predicted the Great Depression based on the Austrian business cycle theory. I think that ABCT is mostly right, but it's probably imperfect. There's so much going on in the real world that it's almost impossible to say whether a policy or a theory or whatever actually caused something or didn't cause, and what would have happened otherwise.
> It also helps a lot with planning/building if parts of your country were bombed into oblivion and gave you a chance to rebuild and rethink everything from the ground up.

Hahaha, now this is a good joke. Japanese cities are notoriously chaotic and urban planning is almost non-existant; my guess is that they didn't rethink anything, they just rebuilt everything in a hurry, and afterwards, shoganai.
Suicide is pretty much the only thing bucking the downward trend. As kids stop having sex, doing drugs, smoking, etc. they are killing themselves.
I disagree. What makes corporations afraid of liability are laws enforcing liability. We never got those, and I don’t see why weaker encryption would’ve created them. We could, for example, have meaningful penalties when a company leaks passwords in plain text.
As the article mentions, the test server had 12 cores. The Node.js server ran in "cluster mode" so that all 12 cores were utilized during benchmarking. You can see the implementation here (just ~20 lines of JS): https://github.com/pretzelhammer/using-rust-in-non-rust-serv...
That is good to hear and hopefully gets fixed. It has been some years now, but I did use flutter for some toy projects and liked using it - I am used to using ReactJS I found there was a lot of transitive knowledge coming from that background.

Ultimately what dissuaded me from pursuing it for any bigger projects is a lack of examples of great looking production apps with complex requirements. When I was looking, I was seeing a lot of CRUD apps - display a form, click an upload button, ect. This was probably 2018/2019 when I was taking a serious look at it.

All of that is to say: Quality app showcases do matter for whether or not devs will trust a solution enough to pull the trigger.
Right: So what we need to do is make organizations liable for mishandling data.

Imagine if you could sue a company for disclosing your unique email address to spammers and scammers. (They claim it's the fault of their unscrupulous business partner? Then they can sue for damages in turn, not my problem.)

There are some practical issues to overcome with that vision... but I find it rather cathartic.
Baller was the right CEO for 90s Microsoft up through about 2002. He was the wrong CEO for 2010-onward Microsoft but it took a chunk of years for the board to realize that.
Apple should hire a couple hackers to create “end-of-life” firmware for their obsolete devices; give them new life as super-specialized devices. Part green program, part customer delight, even some wacky art projects.

Maybe if an iMac doesn’t have a video input—have it boot as an AirPlay-only monitor.

I’ve got 2 old EOL appleTV boxes sitting in a drawer—again, one last firmware update to make them dedicated AirPlay receivers.

Take my 2011 MacBook Air and make it a dedicated Notes machine/word processor—all it does it run notes and sync with iCloud.

Obsolete iPad picture frame is an obvious one.

They can work on the “Reuse” side of the 3R’s of waste reduction (with reduce and recycle, right?)

PS, I’m available, 9 years embedded SW experience ;)
Why are they not releasing it in 27" size that they had before?
Levine being at Bloomberg (which is a central org in finance media) is important. That finance media can support a Levine and his salary is also important.
What kind of users/apps are these? I'm genuinely curious about this, actually. I have a couple of apps with 100K+ installs, and I talk to people who are actual users from time to time. I have never ever heard the claim that they don't like UI because it doesn't feel native. Like ever. But I can imagine that in some niches/demographics/app types it might be different. Can you share some evidence or explain how you built the understanding that users dislike non-native UIs?
I prefer bad competition to no competition.

They still keep the good guys more honest than they'd be with no competition.
USB-C mandate.
The lean FIRE stuff really seems like schtick to me pretty quickly. Yeah, some of it is worth reading and thinking about, but a lot is pretty alien to my personal objectives. I'm not going to panic about going out to dinner or taking, what he would probably consider in print, a moderately comfortable vacation, if not an extravagant one.