Yes, it's the ads. After all, we know how economical and fast it is for people to access healthy meals. I look forward to the speedy eradication of all obesity problems
Readit Newsjsyang00 commented on UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers france24.com/en/live-news... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung
jsyang00 commented on TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court cnbc.com/2024/12/06/tikto... · Posted by u/belter
Things can be manipulated without being removed. This sort of word substitution is the type of misdirection "never squarely denies" could be referencing. They're asked about manipulation and they reply about removal. Removal is merely one type of manipulation. For example something like permanently hiding content while keeping it in the database isn't a removal.
"We are not influenced by any foreign government, including the Chinese government."
It is laughable to suggest that the basis for this ruling is anything less than fear and paranoia about Chinese government softpower. Nothing they could have said, and no fact they could bring to bear, would change the outcome of the court, which has been predetermined, for better or worse, by the current American political climate.
jsyang00 commented on Europe is under attack from Russia. Why isn't it fighting back? politico.eu/article/europ... · Posted by u/isaacfrond
Isn't war spending useful in a depressed economy? You'd think building tanks and shells was worth doing, for Keynesian reasons.
jsyang00 commented on DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/redm
Who would possibly buy Chrome? Letting any of the large tech companies purchase it (the only possible buyers) would just give someone else monopolistic power.
Chrome can’t exist as a standalone business without being even more consumer hostile.
What about X (the everything app)?
Could happen under Trump...
jsyang00 commented on FBI Raids Home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan axios.com/2024/11/13/poly... · Posted by u/jaboutboul
No, because even though insurance companies make profit, the primary motivation of insurance is risk pooling amongst the policyholders. This is not the case for those trading binary options or similar instruments (except for "hedging" - a legitimate use case of producers buying futures, for example).
you do not think there are legitimate hedges which can be made with events trading on prediction markets?
I think, indeed, a lot of people are effectively using the markets to gamble, but the same can be said for equities/futures.
I see no reason they shouldn't be allowed, since there are proxies that people can trade as well
jsyang00 commented on Jury rules Masimo smartwatches infringe Apple design patents 9to5mac.com/2024/10/25/ma... · Posted by u/mgh2
The impact would appear to be low for Apple and good for Masimo. Only $250 in damages awarded. More importantly, as the article says:
> Masimo touts the jury’s ruling as a victory as Apple failed to win an injunction. “Apple primarily sought an injunction against Masimo’s current products, and the jury’s verdict is a victory for Masimo on that issue,” the company said in a statement.
I don't understand how the award is only $250? Isn't there some market standard for determining the damage amount
jsyang00 commented on · Posted by u/aspenmayer
No they didn't. You can read the actual document the stuck at the very end of the article.
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jsyang00 commented on Don't let dicts spoil your code roman.pt/posts/dont-let-d... · Posted by u/juniperplant
Here’s an out-there take, but one I’ve held loosely for a long time and haven’t shed yet: dicts are not appropriate for what people mostly use them for, which is named access to member attributes.
dict is an implementation of a hash table. Hash table are designed for o(1) lookup of items. As such, they are arrays which are much bigger than the number of items they store, to allow hashing items into integers and sidestep collisions. They’re meant to act like an index that contains many records, not a single record.
A single record is more like a tuple, except you want named access instead of, title = movie[0], release_year = movie[1], etc. And Python had that, in NamedTuple, but it was kinda magical and no one used it (shoutout Raymond Hettinger).
Granted, this rant is pretty much the meme with the guy explaining something to a brick wall, in that dicts are so firmly entrenched as the "record" type of choice in Python (but not so in other languages: struct, case class, etc. and JSON doesn’t just deserialize to a weak type but I digress).
I think most modern Python codebases are using dataclasses/ something like Pydantic. I think dicts are mostly seen, like the author suggests, because something which you hacked up to work quickly ends up turning into actual software and it's too much work refactor the types
The porntential is immense.
Seriously though. This is the company that is betting hard on VR goggles. And these are engines that can produce real time dreams, 3d, photographic quality, obedient to our commands. No 3d models needed, no physics simulations, no ray tracing, no prebuilt environments and avatars. All simply dreamed up in real time, as requested by the user in natural language. It might be one of the most addictive technologies ever invented.
Meta is already a target for regulators - they are going to have to be very careful around this. I think this is why the "metaverse" is still more likely to be decentralized than created by a tech giant. Even if Meta wanted to take a libertarian, "dream whatever you want", stance or even a "dream whatever you want so long as it is more or less legal" stance, they would see a regulatory deluge come pouring down on them. There is no way VR will be able to go mainstream without a drawn out fight over content prohibitions. I think the early internet was a bit of a historical outlier in this sense, where it happened to come about when a relatively laissez-faire attitude towards censorship was prevailing and people did not realize the full impact it would have. That is not the case now. People understand on all sides that this technology has the potential to revolutionize our systems of social relations once again, and I suspect that they will be fighting tooth and nail to shape that outcome as they most desire.