Yet another example that I've dealt with from the outside: as part of regulated community, I must submit some trade secrets to the government for regulatory purposes. Those trade secrets are legally required to be kept secret by the government from disclosure. This regime allows the government to inspect things that involve trade secrets, and me from those trade secrets being disclosed to competitors.
Because the social security numbers, health records, or geographic details of people who have interacted with the government shouldn’t be open to the general public, for one.
It’s a human on the other end. My suspicion of how it works is that the first several messages are scripted no matter the response, and then upon passing some gates you get a human in the loop. Makes sense too, them not wasting a human on the first several messages.
I do this a lot. Basically there are some initial steps that are obviously done programmatically no matter what you say, and then I guess if your responses pass enough gates you pierce the veil and get a real person. I’ve gotten scammers so worked up they started cursing in all caps for long periods of time, but even those start with “Hello is this Anna?” or “Make sure you get the props to the stage by 7pm.”
I totally disagree. For one, for every minute the spammers spend on someone trolling them, that is real harm not being done to people in the world. That’s high value. Second, this is a fun side project that this person would have been investing time in regardless (I assume), so it might as well be a side project that adds real value to the world.
This is the informed voter thing, right? We know Trump is a liar, and beyond that perhaps the most documented liar in human history, and we also can plainly see who is involved in the campaign, his cabinet, his inner circle and easily cross reference them to the people whose names are directly on Project 2025. That is to say: to anyone paying even the minimum amount of attention, it was obvious that there is a 100% negative correlation between Trump disavowing Project 2025 and the expectation that he would lean in hard to it.
Even that is not entirely relevant. I think the criteria here are likely actual addiction combined with harm from that addiction combined with scale of that harm. So even if we showed that HN was addictive, the harm and scale are so low that banning it shouldn't even be a conversation. Under the same framework, we have TikTok, which combines an algorithm designed for addiction, actual or imminent harm from a foreign power, and probably the most massive scale possible. So it seems within the realm of possibility that banning TikTok should be a discussion.
> But targeting Tiktok specifically spits in the eye of the spirit of the law
The Supreme Court of the United States, the highest court in the United States and arguably the arbiters of the letter and spirit of the law, disagrees with you.
Seemed like the comment was. It mentioned wanting to see banning all scrolling apps and was implying because they cause addiction. Did you sense a different implication from the poster?
I found the moderation and choosing your own feed with blocklists so far implies that even if you copied and pasted all the odious people from Twitter, I still would never see them, nor would any other thinking person, and they would die in darkness. Also, there are examples of the most odious people joining and BlueSky banning them sua sponte almost immediately.
Incredibly cool. I am constantly amazed by these efforts and the find my network is a really impressive thing. What’s stopped me from using anything like this ever is the fact that I’m confident that at some point Apple will either embrace this sort of piggybacking on the network and open it up more officially, or it will ban any Apple ID that has ever been associated with such things. Right now they know about this and are not commenting either way.
Hope in the future either Apple supports this more officially, or there is a way to use it with no direct link to my Apple ID or account. Until then, I am a spectator in these things.
I totally agree. This looks like a pretty new startup too. I would be livid if my team had spent so much time on this instead of building capabilities to get the startup traction.
It has an awesome effect of being able to more effortlessly spend time with friends, of whom 50% of them drink alcohol, in environments that are generally meant for alcohol drinking like cocktail bars and pubs. You’ll also be happy to know that NA cocktails and NA beers tend to have substantially less calories, so better for the “belly” than alcohol-based drinks.
Further, if you’re going to look at it through the lens you’ve chosen, I recommend just drinking water, which has been shown to have strong positive side effects without the downsides on calories or cost.
When I get cash from the bank teller, as rare as that is nowadays, it is regularly brand new and uncirculated. I bet you could just withdraw cash and ask for uncirculated and they would oblige. They’re hard to count because they stick together.
We don’t. But if we keep throwing companies into the grinder like this where all their IP is stolen and they are just replicated in China on an unfair playing field, we end up losing anyways regardless of intent.
The absence of photographic evidence from the gulags doesn’t negate their existence. The Soviets deliberately restricted documentation of the camps, and destroyed records before and during the fall of the USSR.
This is a good article to familiarize yourself with the concepts, but would be great if they just listed a few keyboards that are top notch or popular for people to get started. Regardless, this is a lot of words to day that people should own either:
1. An IBM Model M keyboard, or
2. An HHKB Type S in charcoal with Topre switches and blank keycaps.