skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CDA 230 was written specifically to overturn a defamation ruling that held online platforms responsible for content; this was specifically a result of Jordan Belfort - the Wolf of Wall Street - suing to censor negative opinions of his fraudulent investment offerings.

Prior to that lawsuit, the existing law regarding defamation was that you could hold a newspaper accountable for what they had printed, but not the newsstand selling the newspaper. The courts in the Jordan Belfort cases decided to categorize online services based on their moderation policy: if you published literally anything sent to you, you were the newsstand[0]; if you decided not to publish certain things then you were a newspaper.

In case it isn't obvious, this is an unacceptable legal precedent for running any sort of online service. The only services that you could legally run would either be the most free-wheeling; or the most censurious, where everything either has to be pre-checked by a team of lawyers for risk and only a small amount of speech ever gets published, or everything gets published, including spam and bullshit.

To make things worse, there is also standing precedent in Mavrix v. LiveJournal regarding DMCA safe harbor[1] that the use of human curation or moderation strips you of your copyright safe harbor. The only thing DMCA 512 protects is machine-generated feeds (algorithmic or chronological).

So let's be clear: removing CDA 230 safe harbor from a feature of social media you don't like doesn't mean that feature goes away. It means that feature gets more and more censored by the whims of whatever private citizens decide to sue that day. The social media companies are not going to get rid of algorithmic feeds unless you explicitly say "no algorithmic feeds", because those feeds make the product more addictive, which is how they make money.

The "slop trough" design of social media is optimal for profit because of a few factors; notably the fact that social media companies have monopolistic control over the client software people use. Even browser extensions intended to hide unwanted content on Facebook have to endure legal threats, because Facebook does not want you using their service as anything other than a slop trough.

So if you want to kill algorithmic feeds, what you want to do is kill Facebook's control over Facebook. That means you want legal protections for third-party API clients, antitrust scrutiny on all social media platforms, and legally mandated interoperability so that when a social media platform decides to turn into a slop trough, anyone so interested can just jump ship to another platform without losing access to their existing friends.

[0] Ignore the fact that this is not how newsstands work. You can't go to any newsstand, put your zine on it, and demand they sell it or face defamation risk.
They found that Ambien interferes with the natural cleaning process or removal of waste products from the brain.

It suggests that artificially induced sleep might not provide all the benefits of natural sleep.
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In that case it's not a gluten intolerance; there is gluten in bread in France. Might be a sugar thing? Bread in the US is more likely to contain added sugar and/or HFCS than in most countries.
33 * .6 = 19.8

My general feeling is always that if someone is going against the consensus of the experts who have studied something (whatever the issue is - it could be climate change or GMO food or effects of airline deregulation or whatever) I think the burden of proof is on the person who claims the experts are all wrong.
Not the person you asked, but I too enjoy good web comics.

https://marketoonist.com/2023/03/ai-written-ai-read.html
It's more like eating meat. You need to get past major mental blocks before getting used to it.

Americans start conversations with assumptions like:

* We need space because all amenities must be privately owned at home

* You should be able to drive everywhere

* 30 minutes driving is the same as 30 minutes on transit

* Street walking & biking are unsafe hobbies, not modes of transport

* The average American city is a representative city.

It's impossible to have conversations with someone who starts from these base assumptions.

Given that cities are uniformly more desired in the rest of the world, the American city hate has to do with deliberate actions that stripped-out cities from 1950s-2000s. In other countries and cities insulated from these changes, the criticisms fall flat.
Protip: neither of those are oats.
This person is part of a group that seemingly posts to twitter and cites twitter as statement against academic institution and traditional scholarship. Some members of the group are academics themselves. Maybe some things can only be posted there, and so your intuition is correct. But I think you misunderstand why specifically you are seeing twitter links so prominently used. My sense is it's attacking the politics of citation.

The politics of citation, to be clear, are actually quite fucked up and elitist. E.g., Feminist Approaches to Citation https://cmagazine.com/articles/feminist-approaches-to-citati...
This isn't the timeline. She decided to get divorced midway through this scam, and used the proceeds to help Brad.
IIRC, Feynman said something like "I can't explain magnetism to a layperson in terms they can understand."

> ...causing a growing rift between scientists and the normal population.

True.
>> Then China gains control over TSMC without a fight and much of the American economy is at their mercy.

> Much of the American economy is already at China's mercy, due to the $500,000,000,000+ in goods we rely on from them annually.

Yes, but let's not use that as a justification for letting it get worse.

> This whole "Taiwan is super important to USA" narrative is itself pure government propaganda, related to military power projection over China's coastline.

The whole f*ing modern economy runs on semiconductors, and the most advanced ones are fabbed in Taiwan. You might have a point if Intel wasn't falling on its face, but it is, so you don't
Yeah we are not talking about Dr Oz, he has nothing to do with the conversation about food dyes or RFK's policy ideas.
That is one option. Research is needed to see if other options work.
Atheists who rely on STEM to make choices focused less on religious poetry more on quality of their lived experience. What a shock

It would be nice if more people set aside their high minded story mode melodrama and demanded a better lived experience instead of living through some vain obligation to nation state or religious and their austerity for all but a few ring kissers

Trouble is, most don’t care enough about themselves to argue for better for themselves. The masses just throw up their hands

Zuck and the politicians come from American institutions and communities which are full of fatalistic losers who see life as a dead end
“Large portions of US teens will get second phones for one specific social media app” is an absolutely wild thing to predict seriously
The tools we are aware of will create a 1-to-1 mapping to some code, but very often with hardcoded values because they lack the full context of your infrastructure. This can lead to potential incidents in the future (broken dependencies / visibility). This is at least the way we are approaching it, and why we want to build this "deterministic" part first and then use it as context to the LLMs.
Yeah, it's very strange to write an "origins of" essay without citing examples (just Larry Summers?), referencing experts, or showing evidence. This article is just about his feelings. He's not an historian, or a social scientist, and frankly I don't think he's familiar enough with this topic to present an historical overview. It's an unconvincing essay.

I laughed at the beginning when he stated that student movements in the '60s didn't have any real power. Paul, please just take a sociology class or something.
You're just making things up. Civil Forfeiture is used for non-money items regularly, the definition of money has nothing to do with it.
The German car industry is completely outdated and very, VERY conservative. This includes Bosch. I would never work there.

The VW board even fired the CEO (Herbert Diess) because he wanted to make too many changes at once. The German car industry is a hopeless case, except maybe BMW.
Are you against the FDA releasing all the data from the pharmaceutical companies so that others can conduct their own studies from full data? Right now every single head of the HHS, FDA and CDC want to protect pharma companies and let them hide all their data. RFK Jr. is the first candidate that isn't looking for a job in industry afterwards and wants to actually free the data for the sake of the American people. For that alone I think he should be head of HHS.

As far as I've seen the only debunking has been done on single vaccines like MMR, not on the full schedule of vaccines. And it's a lie to say that they have been thoroughly debunked. Studies have shown that some vaccines can cause allergic reactions. Autistic children have over a 3X rate of food allergies or neurotypical children. Doesn't that warrant studying that maybe adjuvants are causing an immune response and the immune response causes autism?
I don’t know how Guile does this, but note that finding a fixed point does not generally require a lazy language; you just can’t do it naively — you can still take a bunch of functions that act on a config and ‘while (changing) keep applying’ — equivalently, the Y combinator can’t be evaluated strictly to get your fixed points, but the Z combinator can.
There are plenty of universities around the world doing real science on soil. I don't see any of them quoted.
Is BlackforestLabs a German company? On their website, they provide an address in the USA.

If Biontech is swimming in money now and did not before Covid, why didn't their market cap increase?
The Napoleonic Code was civil law, nor criminal law. It doesn't deal with these issues. And it treated the burden of evidence similarly to how modern civil procedures do. France and all other countries that emerged from it have a variation of In dubio pro reo.
It’s impossible to prove a negative.
> Trump is extremely pro Corporation and anti-regulation

Trump is actually very, very anti-corporation. It's a very prominent part of his stump speeches and campaigning. He's accusing corporations of everything.

His fortune was made from real-estate speculation and the Trump corporation is basically run like a family business. If you were try to attach a label - he is pro-aristocracy. He believes wealth tied to land and inheritance is "legitimate", and wealth tried to trade and commerce as illegitimate.
100 direct dependencies is insane.
Originally (and I don't know if this is still the case) the case for randomizing the content view on Reddit a bit (fuzzy numbering) was as a layer which helped prevent vote manipulation and brigading/bandwagoning. There may be similar reason for other platforms where not being exactly the same is unrelated to tuning the types of information presented to people. I.e. I don't know how much it matters that "all member absolutely must see the same exact order" as much as "the ordering defaults are not gamed for individual engagement"

Even then, I'd settle for "must have the option to use chronological/absolute vote based/similar type by default" type option. I'm not as convinced I know what others need to do to save themselves as much as I'm I think it'd be nice if it to be easy for us to be able to choose how we engage with content feeds (regardless what the platform is).

And then there is a matter of content groups when it comes to exposure rather than the addictive nature. Does it really make a difference if people end up seeing only /r/MyEchoChamberA and /r/MyEchoChamberB anyways. After all, each is perfectly representing the same echo chamber to all of the users who bother to browse there.
It's a complex issue. He is obviously extremely intelligent and at least a decent business man. If you've never used Wolfram Mathematica before, I implore you to pick up a raspberry pi and play with the educational version. It's nothing short of magical in many ways. I still prefer Python in a lot of ways (least of all with Python being free/open), but Mathematica notebooks are nuts. You can do anything from calculus to charts, geographic visualizations, neural networks, NLP, audio processing, optimization, text processing, time series analysis, matrices, and a bazillion other things with a single command or by chaining them together. It has its warts, but is very polished.

He also did some important early work on cellular automata if iirc.

Then he wrote "A New Kind of Science", which reads like an ego trip and was not received well by the community (it is a massive tome that could have been summarized with a much smaller book). He also tried to claim discoveries from one of his workers due to some NDA shenanigans (or something along these lines iirc). The latter doesn't make him a crank, just a massive egotist, which is a trait nearly all cranks have. Sabine Hossenfelder did a video on him and how he only publishes in his own made up journals and generally doesn't use the process used by all other scientists. I think a lot believe where there is smoke, there is fire. To his credit, she also mentioned that some physicists gave him some critical feedback and he did then go and spend a bunch of time addressing the flaws they found.
It's simply a better model to connected online. I use present tense because the "better times" didn't really go away: it becomes Discord servers.

The bad part, of course, is that Discord is owned by one single entity and not indexed like the open web is.
> To build an embedding for a human means to build an approximate map of entities within a metric space. We do this all the time, for example unsupervised clustering of related entities (for example species classification based on visible character states).

I thought you said "for a human". These are all computational concepts that are unrelated to human cognition (at least in terms of evidence). Why are we talking about human cognition in terms of "metric space" when metric space applied to human cognition is nonsensical?

> From what I can tell, the human brain basically has a number of approximate computing systems- we have associative memory (hash tables/dictionary lookups), trajectory interpolation/extrapolation (catching a ball with only a few glances), logical reasoning from a premise (theoretical math), monte carlo tree search (formulating a complex plan wiht multiple steps and some unknowns), etc, etc. I certainly don't propose that my terminology is specifically scientifically correct, it's just heuristics I apply to my own thought patterns.

Police? This comment right here: they failed to read my comment.

I of course certainly strongly support you describing your mental cognition the way you want to! It's just not evidence that other people can be modeled with the same computational mechanics, nor that these mechanisms are sufficient. We should use meaningful terms that people can actually recognize rather than trying to forcing mental cognition to fit models that are curently in vogue.
Kind of, yeah.

IRC, simple php forums, no TLS, easy stuff. Nowadays we're full of technology and very poor content. In no way can mastodon (mentioning because it's the defacto decentralized social media) solve that problem. It's really easy to post stuff that shouldn't be posted.

On the other hand, crappy looking forums, slow internet connection, you really had to take the time to think about what to say and mainly why say it in the first place. It was more about the content than about quantity.
The only mention of the First Amendment seems to be specifically in regard to Zuck's allegation (whether you believe it or not) that the government subjected him to overwhelming pressure to fact check as he did.

I don't know whether that's legally a First Amendment violation, if true, but I don't think the article is conflating anything.
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The authors of Xi are currently working on Xilem, an experimental reactive UI framework for Rust: https://github.com/linebender/xilem

In the announcement post, they mention that work on Xi is considered "on hold" rather than strictly discontinued: https://raphlinus.github.io/rust/gui/2022/05/07/ui-architect...
I read the title thinking it was a joke, and after reading the article, I still can’t tell if it is or not.
Same with me, who "needed" to join FB because that is the main communication platform for a leisure activity. Apparently I am a fake person.
On a related note, what are the best sleep aides as of 2025?

Are any of the side-effect profiles worth it?
An iot botnet + command and control infra cooks this entire idea.
“We will teach you to be free”
Moderation matters. If you eat mostly whole, nutritious foods, it’s totally fine to eat processed food occasionally.

No food is inherently unhealthy or bad, so I don’t think there’s any issue with him eating McDonalds on a plane. Maybe he was in a hurry, or just wanted to be social and stopped there with someone else who wanted it.

What is unhealthy is when the majority of your food is not nutritious, which is currently the case for most Americans. So why not try to make common American foods more nutritious by default, as they are in most other wealthy countries?

It was awesome living in a European country for a couple of years as an American. You learn that ingredient lists at the grocery store really are shorter in ways you don’t expect. It’s easy to buy a fruit yogurt that is just yogurt and fruit, for example. Not “yogurt, sugar, artificial and natural flavors” as you’ll find in many popular foods in the US. It was noticeable with a lot of different food choices.

Also, whenever we would come back to visit the US, after living there for a year or so, we would always have mild digestion issues and stomach cramps for a week or so. This was common among many expats that we talked to. We visited over a dozen countries while we lived there, and the US was the only one that had that issue.
Probably true that we are all vulnerable to scams in one way or another, especially as we age. Some of us has more mockable vulnerability, but one way or another it's just a bug in human software.

Even if we aren't vulnerable to scams, we may be vulnerable to falling for false rumors, fake news, myths, or just things that sounds true but turn out to be false.

"Don't be a fool" isn't really much of a lesson, but it is useful to know there are fake Brad Pitt milling around potentially preying on vulnerable women.
Basic screaming-at-your-face statistics, gets traction, specially coupled with the mental gymnasts trying to "disprove" facts, shouting "spurious correlation" when the implied causation is clear... Paper money is nothing new and this is nothing short of expected. The only surprise is people's surprise.
I think 90% of the negative social impacts would go away if they just did reverse chronological, opt-in news feed.

The black box algorithms are the problem.
Any examples? I’m not really aware.
About the Nokia Design Archive

The Nokia Design Archive is a graphic and interactive portal designed by researchers from Aalto University in Finland. It currently hosts over 700 entries, curated from thousands of items donated by Microsoft Mobile Oy and representing over 20 years of Nokia’s design history — both seen and unseen. You can freely explore the archive, learn about designers’ experiences working in Nokia and discover interesting topics surrounding design and mobile technologies.

https://nokiadesignarchive.aalto.fi/about.html
Why does any paid platform have a generous free tier?
Yeah very commonly people say, "I have identified this as a scam but given that other victims weren't mocked relentlessly enough, I shall part with my money." /s
How why would anybody give money to Brad Pitt? Dude's rich enough already.
TikTok crisis builds unlikely 'cyberspace bridge' between US and China
The US right to remain silent is different from the presumption of innocence.
Google: Is that a trick question?
In May 2019, the U.S. government placed Huawei on the Entity List, which restricted American companies from doing business with it without a special license. This included Google, which meant Huawei lost access to the licensed version of Android and key Google services, including the Google Play Store.
As a result, Huawei could no longer pre-install Google apps like Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps, and other essential services that many users in Western markets rely on.
Huawei was once a strong competitor in Europe challenging Apple, Samsung, and other manufacturers.
It effectively limited Huawei's competitiveness in Western markets and diminished its momentum when it was at the peak of its challenge to Apple and Samsung.
The same will happen with TikTok in the U.S. Under the umbrella of national security, competition is being sidelined.
Dr. Soon-Shiong was responsible for developing oncology drugs. Does that give him enough authority for him to evaluate RFK Jr's stance on drug safety?

You haven't researched him at all, have you?
parents aren't on Discord
It is more complicated than this, the US has much more rigorous food safety standards in a number of dimensions.

For example, the US has much stricter standards for preventing bacterial contamination than Europe, outside of the Nordics which share similar food safety regulations as the US. The US prohibits a lot of food importation from Europe because of lower food safety standards related to contamination.

Europe makes a lot of food safety exceptions on the basis of a process being "traditional" in some sense, nominally preserving culture. The US is a bit more technocratic less prone to the naturalistic fallacy; the FDA doesn't care that something is cultural or traditional, if there is scientific evidence of material risk then it will be banned.

If I had to summarize their food safety perspectives, the EU tends to focus more on allowable ingredients, the US tends to focus more on the uncontaminated and sterile handling of the food supply chain.
My understanding is that it's meant to push the gold standard/anti-fiat currency, judging by the quote at the end of the website + link to Bitcoin whitepaper.
that's terrible, and it's also very interesting. i had various allergies as a kid, but nothing so severe. mostly ragweed pollen turning my nose into a 2 month running faucet, and itchy eyes...classic stuff.
> LA Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong

Billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong who prevented the LA Times staff from publishing their endorsement of Kamala Harris?
This is heartbreaking
As a US citizen living in the US, I think it's entirely unreasonable to fear the Chinese government more than the US government. It seems utterly ridiculous to me to even consider, and seems just as ridiculous that a Chinese citizen could feel the same.

Even leaving aside the state's monopoly on violence, agents at any of multiple three-letter agencies could easily ruin my life. An IRS agent could randomly decide to audit my last decade of tax returns. A law enforcement agent (local, state, or federal) could deliberately incorrectly mark my vehicle as stolen. They could SWAT me on a trumped up basis. They could just black bag me, and throw me in some dark pit.

China could probably hack me, and fuck up my digital presence, including my finances. But the US government could easily skip a few steps and just declare those finances illegitimate in a variety of ways much more difficult to undo.
Could this finding have implications for people taking medications like Atomoxetine (an SNRI prescribed for ADHD)?