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Amazon lost its motion to dismiss the class action lawsuit, which alleges false advertising. The plaintiffs say most consumers expect "buy" to mean acquire full ownership, not merely obtain a "limited license" which coul
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Cmd-L followed by Cmd-F will always get you the real browser search, at least.
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Models aren't trained on pure "facts" though - they're trained on a dataset of artifacts that reflect today's and yesterday's biases from the world that created them. If you trained a model purely on past histo
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Judge rules Prince Harry's phone was unlawfully hacked by UK tabloid(nytimes.com)
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A lot of marketing is aspirational though. People want what the pros use. If it's their top hobby or they aspire to becoming one of those pros... then they want the best, no limits if they can afford it. Even if many of those buyers re
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All these calculations are only true if your destination is on the road the bus runs along. Since not every road has a bus line, you also usually have to walk multiple blocks perpendicular _away_ from the bus line in addition to some of the
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by ytpete 3y ago
I'm guessing the DEF-H was some kind of electronic countermeasure jamming device, a newer version of this "Def B": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird#/medi...
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Proposed law would require “country of origin” label in app stores(lawfaremedia.org)
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There's also a thread here summarizing points from the article: https://twitter.com/nandoodles/status/1673806735142789128
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What are the things Vision Pro can do that Quest cannot though? Genuinely curious as I don't know much about the Quest - and others above are saying it already supports floating virtual desktops/windows and video conferencing. Que
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Gaming cheat software found liable for copyright, RICO, hacking law violations(thegamepost.com)
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Headline: "Bungie Wins Massive $16 Million Lawsuit Against Destiny 2 Cheat Seller Elite Boss Tech" Quick summary for more context: The cheat utility is called "Wallhax," and while three of its creators settled with Bungi
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Executive order limits US Government use of commercially built spyware(nytimes.com)
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Longer threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35208721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35207787
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Right, but you don't expect NYT or WSJ to be required to print every "letter to the editor" submitted by anyone in the world. They are for-profit, non-government, and they print what they want. Twitter is also for-profit and
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Didn't this happen primarily during the Trump administration though? At least the previous "Twitter Files" releases concerned a time period when Biden was still just a candidate. Yet I don't think the people supporting T
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A big problem here is, what is the airline's incentive for the list to be accurate? If it has a whole lot of false positives, in absolute numbers it's still too small to put any real dent in their business - there are millions and
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There's an important distinction here. It seems there were some tweets the Biden campaign raised with contacts at Twitter - they contained porn, and were rightly taken down. Then there was a NY Post story blocked by Twitter - that move
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What about, say, Cnn.com? Foxnews.com? Facebook? Do those parts of the Internet tend to carry politician communications fairly often too?
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Presidents and members of Congress constantly try to pressure the media to cover things differently, cover things less, or more. This happens every day, sometimes in the obvious form of yelling from a podium publicly or blasting out tweet
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The First Amendment constrains only the government, so it is the biggest possible deal in this conversation. If you are talking about the a more general ideal of "open and free speech" - which private companies are never legally
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> Taibbi hasn't yet provided enough detail to know one way or another The tweets in that citation are mostly available on the Wayback Machine, and 100% of those accessible ones contained frontal nudity: https://twitter.co
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This makes me think consumer protection agencies should have more UX researchers involved in thinking about how best to safeguard the average customer from these non-software dark patterns. Lots of different mandates or regulations might
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Larger discussion thread over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33659197
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Last night he said the Twitter office would be locked until Monday. This morning he tells everyone to be there in person this afternoon anyway. Then sends a follow-up email encouraging remote employees to fly into SF today on just a few h
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This message comes after engineers were informed yesterday the office would be locked until Monday. Remote employees encouraged to fly to SF last minute if possible.
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To me the key question is the value of voice devices . There may be good use cases for voice assistants – but many of those interactions can take place via your phone, which is always close by. What do dedicated hardware devices like Ale
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Apple will pull the plug on things that aren't panning out too though. The MacBook Pro's Touch Bar came and went in a pretty short period of time, for example. Though I suppose in that specific example at least, the people whose t
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I didn't read that comment as picking on normal people. It's using their experience to pick on Mastodon by illustrating how its UX is more flawed than many "tech users" are able to realize from their own frame of referen
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Are transparency and accountability in their moderation decisions important? I'd say so. ML/AI also have a host of ethics concerns that I think it's incredibly important to grapple with lest we all slide into a Black Mirror l

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