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015a commented on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday reuters.com/technology/ti... · Posted by u/xnhbx

dang · a year ago

Posting like this will get you banned here.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

Edit: I took a quick look at your recent comment history and it seems just fine (other than https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42713605, also in this thread). If you'd please post like that and not like this, that would be good.

015a · a year ago

Its not ok to over-moderate against jokes, especially when you can't even point to the guideline that was broken here (though, I'm sure you could take any comment from anyone and find at least one guideline that was broken. Every comment in this thread could be banned for "political or ideological battle") (emphasis again on the word "guide" in "guideline"; are these bannable rules, or are they guidelines?)

The voting system exists and works more than well enough to bury bad comments. That's why my comment up there is at -4; it was bad. Problem is solved.

015a commented on Scientists Discover Underground Water Vault in Oregon 3x the Size of Lake Mead scitechdaily.com/scientis... · Posted by u/geox

015a · a year ago

This meme does not miss [1].

> There is a global resource shortage.

> Authoritarian state on the other side of the planet controls it.

> US is finished.

> American farmer in the middle of nowhere US discovers the largest supply of said resource known to mankind.

> Repeat.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/1e77yxp/it_keep...

015a commented on Luck Be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play blog.trampolinetales.com/... · Posted by u/doppp

015a · a year ago

Apple and Google's app store policies have destroyed billions in potential market capitalization of both large and small companies alike, and have measurably negatively impacted the national security of the west by destroying the resilient peer-to-peer software delivery supply chain common to systems like MacOS and Windows, replacing it with a centralized, easily exploited gatekeeper.

015a commented on Mullenweg Shuts Down WordPress Sustainability Team, Igniting Backlash therepository.email/mulle... · Posted by u/robin_reala

bovermyer · a year ago

Mullenweg's behavior is poor, yes, but I wonder how much that will affect Wordpress's market presence. The average person who would use the service isn't likely to hear about any of this.

015a · a year ago

I'm not as sure about that; products like Wordpress have an amplification effect with their users. The average person who uses Wordpress doesn't just have one Wordpress site; they have dozens to thousands, because they're actually an agency/contracting firm/whatever. Its the same, but opposite, reason why Microsoft can build products that piss off literally every corporate end-user they've got on the whole planet; they aren't selling to corporate end-users, they're selling to people with higher leverage, and they haven't pissed those people off.

015a commented on Mark Zuckerberg: Fact-checking on Meta is too "politically biased" hollywoodreporter.com/bus... · Posted by u/mpweiher

_fat_santa · a year ago

> The social media mogul said Tuesday that Facebook and Instagram will shift to a community notes model

I'm curious, what are HN's opinions around community notes on X/Twitter? I find them to be pretty good (and sometimes quite funny) but I wonder what others think.

015a · a year ago

Ultimately: It can take some time for community notes to correct misinfo posts; by the time community notes gets to it, the firehose has ten more misinfo posts community notes needs to fix, the people who saw the original post rarely see the community notes correction, and given the algo has a massive temporal bias the original post was probably on the way out of new viewers feeds anyway.

Its a good system that should exist. It could probably be made better by finding any way to help it act faster (e.g. the moment a post is even in the process of community notes voting, attach a temporary banner like "The Community Notes people has suspicions about this post, it might be misinfo, we're doing our research").

015a commented on Apple squandered the Holy Grail xeiaso.net/blog/2025/squa... · Posted by u/caust1c

rylan-talerico · a year ago

While I agree with the post's sentiment, its assessment of Apple Intelligence overlooks its incomplete rollout, with most of the meaningful, step-change features (e.g., Siri’s contextual awareness) scheduled for release in 2025 at the earliest.

In my view, Private Cloud Compute and Apple Intelligence, together with the ubiquity of Apple devices, position Apple as a leading candidate to realize the widespread, AI-enabled transformation of personal computing discussed in the post — with tasks requiring less energy and cognitive load than they do today for the general consumer.

015a · a year ago

Execution matters. Microsoft was best-positioned to reap the widespread, mobile-enabled transformation of personal computing. They didn't, and today with the discontinuation of the Surface Duo, they have literally zero strategy in mobile.

015a commented on Apple squandered the Holy Grail xeiaso.net/blog/2025/squa... · Posted by u/caust1c

015a · a year ago

I think it is concerning that every single Apple Intelligence feature they've shipped thus far has been not just mediocre; but bad. Being last to the party is a very normal Apple thing; quality and Doing The Right Thing takes time. Announcing something then taking months to ship it is very not-Apple, but it has happened a few times. That thing they finally ship being bad is, geeze, horribly un-Apple.

One of the few examples I can think of however is Apple Maps. And it did get better; a lot better, some say better than Google Maps nowadays. So I generally do have hope for Apple Intelligence. At the end of the day, there are some disparate competing utilities in this class on the Samsung and Google phones, but no one is shipping something that is obviously game-changing and in first place; they all kinda suck, they're all tech demos, and it'll inevitably take many years to get this technology honed in to something that is truly useful to consumers.

015a commented on Human study on AI spear phishing campaigns lesswrong.com/posts/GCHyD... · Posted by u/DalasNoin

015a · a year ago

"Look, humans will adapt to the ever-increasing and accelerating nightmares we invent. They always have before. Technology isn't inherently evil, its how it is used that can be evil, its not our fault that we make it so accessible and cheap for evil people to use. No, we can't build safeguards, the efficient market hypothesis leaves no room for that."