Hacker News: zztop44

New comment by zztop44 in "Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion"

zztop44 — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:55:47 +0000

Yes, defamation. Many such cases are dismissed; this one was not and resulted in large punitive damages being awarded.

Less relevant to this case, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent infliction of emotional distress can also both be against the law in the United States.

New comment by zztop44 in "Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion"

zztop44 — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 13:57:04 +0000

That hugely depends on the circumstances.

New comment by zztop44 in "Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion"

zztop44 — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 13:54:32 +0000

Most people who have this opinion going in tend to change it when the learn the particulars of the case. Jones absolutely knew he was lying, he did it deliberately, the lies caused incredible real world harm, he knew they were causing harm and he kept doing it because that’s his business model and that’s how he gets rich.

New comment by zztop44 in "TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court"

zztop44 — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 01:25:52 +0000

It’s sad that people think this way. As a young child growing up in the 90s in a rural part of a small country, being able to access the “speech” of people around the world via internet forums was a revelation.

Are you really so scared of China that you’d throw that all away?

New comment by zztop44 in "QwQ: Alibaba's O1-like reasoning LLM"

zztop44 — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 02:44:54 +0000

Isn’t every government putting out a policy paper making AI a focus area? Why is it suddenly nefarious when China does it?

New comment by zztop44 in "Over ½ of Long Posts on LinkedIn Are Likely AI-Generated Since ChatGPT Launched"

zztop44 — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 22:04:48 +0000

What about the algorithm changing over time to favor longer posts and content creators on the platform adapting to the change? I suspect you’d see the same pattern with the average length of popular non-music YouTube videos over time.

New comment by zztop44 in "What's Next for WebGPU"

zztop44 — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 02:03:49 +0000

I don’t want to download a random executable from some unknown source. However, I trust the browser sandbox.

New comment by zztop44 in "Blender 4.3"

zztop44 — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 11:55:25 +0000

But what’s stopping you just using the web page (in a browser that it works with)? Yes, they want you to use the app, but you can still do what you want.

New comment by zztop44 in "Opera will always help you block ads natively"

zztop44 — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 23:48:13 +0000

This seems like a much better reason to be suspicious of Opera.

New comment by zztop44 in "Opera will always help you block ads natively"

zztop44 — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 23:07:35 +0000

I’m curious, what’s the rationale for this? Is it corporate espionage? Or do you live in China/have family there and engage in online activity that might cause problems?

New comment by zztop44 in "Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris"

zztop44 — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 00:43:15 +0000

Is this sarcasm? Globo has never missed an opportunity to be virulently anti-PT.

New comment by zztop44 in "The World’s $100T Fiscal Timebomb Keeps Ticking"

zztop44 — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 16:18:50 +0000

Yes and that was either because the Clinton administration decided that shrinking the money supply was the right macroeconomic policy, or that they decided that a Democrat president delivering a budget surplus was good politics. At the time both were plausible.

New comment by zztop44 in "The World’s $100T Fiscal Timebomb Keeps Ticking"

zztop44 — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 16:08:17 +0000

Only because policy makers choose to do so. They could just as easily create the money the pay off the debt out of thin air. But doing so wouldn’t make sense. Governments will never pay off the debt because doing so would not be good macroeconomic policy. The debt doesn’t exist to be paid off.

Governments don’t handle national accounts in the same way households manage their budgets. Don’t think about them the same way.

New comment by zztop44 in "Microsoft and OpenAI's close partnership shows signs of fraying"

zztop44 — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 17:29:35 +0000

No, but it might be able to organize a fleet of humans to stock a grocery store shelf.

Physical embodied (generally low-skill, low-wage) work like cleaning and carrying things is likely to be some of the last work to be automated, because humans are likely to be cheaper than generally capable robots for a while.

New comment by zztop44 in "PayloadCMS: Open-Source, Fullstack Next.js Framework"

zztop44 — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 21:09:40 +0000

By that standard, nothing is stable. New features are added to HTML, the Linux kernel, x86, PHP, etc all the time. In fact, building on top of higher level abstractions can sometime insulate your application from this change too.

New comment by zztop44 in "Zod: TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference"

zztop44 — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 21:14:21 +0000

Agreed. I recently moved a production app from Zod to Valibot for exactly this reason. I still slightly prefer Zod’s syntax but the performance issues were absolutely killing us.

New comment by zztop44 in "Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets approval"

zztop44 — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 13:41:07 +0000

“Learnings” has a potentially useful nuance, referring specifically to whatever it is one took away from a lesson. I know the word “lesson” itself can also cover that meaning, but “learning” is more specific and given how widely it’s used, that specificity appears to be useful in some circumstances.

New comment by zztop44 in "Who died and left the US $7B?"

zztop44 — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 01:53:51 +0000

Oh okay, that makes sense, and I agree with you. That said, paying tax is still important for a number of reasons; and ultimately the national budget is a large bucket made up of small drops.

New comment by zztop44 in "Who died and left the US $7B?"

zztop44 — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 01:36:33 +0000

How can you be sure it’s not wealth trickling up instead?

New comment by zztop44 in "Who died and left the US $7B?"

zztop44 — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 01:34:17 +0000

Why do you care? The country has never paid back this debt, will never pay back this debt and no-one expects it to.