skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the obvious answer is to remove all street lighting on major roads.
Do you really want to keep doing business with a company that charges you $1500 and doesn't promptly make it right?
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Where is it "here"?
Most users want to take back control when the default behavior stands in the way of their current workflow. So the best scenario is the default configuration is handy for basic uses, and the behavior can be tweaked extensively when needed.
I disagree. Many people have moved away from FB to IG after all the bad publicity FB has had. If IG was an independent company that consumer choice would mean something. As it is, any privacy conscious social network that mounts any threat to FB will simply be bought as happened with WhatsApp.
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There's a big difference between "choice" and "control". iOS doesn't allow you to customise your home screen, but it does offer strong guarantees about what happens to your personal data. My local convenience store has a hundred different kinds of sugar-sweetened beverages, but no fresh fruit. My cellphone company offers dozens of different price plans, but they're so confusing that I strongly suspect that I'm being ripped off.

Choice only amounts to control if those choices are meaningful and legible.
Implemented by Scania (owned by Volkswagen) and Siemens. The same are now the main partners behind the one in Germany.
Just because something doesn't make anyone money doesn't mean it doesn't have value.
They're surrounded by children all the time. It probably rubs off.
After Academia
Non-US credit or debit card owners are not in that good position wrt. disputes and getting their money back. Most of them charge for disabling the card and sending a new one. Dispute last for months, and are not automatically protecting the customer.
http://example.com should work, it doesn't force https
advertisers and web masters wanting analytics can get together and share cookies on users they want to track weather Facebook or google enable them or not.
WideProtect almost looks like what I want, I wish you could just do regex filtering on the incoming numbers instead of this individual number crap.
Founder here. We're not processing our "spamware" through PayPal, as mentioned in the post:

> The most interesting thing is that we’ve moved away from PayPal in the last two years and have only been receiving some minor payments and paying for a few online services.

We've stopped using PayPal for our SaaS business a few years ago.
Every single weekend I venture to the mountains. There is basically no connection at all with public transport to 95% of the places. Those that are take 3-5x as long to use. How should I carry all the equipment for climbing, skiing, camping, alpinism, paraglide etc through the city?

But OK screw me, imagine pregnant couple, or couple with kids. Would you force them to use public transport with all the equipment required just to get out of city? Elderly? Disabled?

Gotta love the folks who feel entitled to tell how whole planet should live, just so that it fits their narrow world view and specific (for me boring) city lifestyle
This is a typical feature of any bureaucracy, which basically describes every large power to some degree (some of which are more bureaucratic and others are less).
How did the military reach these CO2 levels in their tests? Were these levels created artificially or through human aspiration?

It might be that CO2 in the air is simply a proxy.

My personal observation is that usually good air quality is reached when CO2 levels are around 600-1000 ppm. Lower it is fresher the air feels.
>The absence of those masses of people is what I miss the most about the internet not being mainstream.

I've seen this sentiment before, but I don't get it. Sure, the internet's mainstream and there are parts of it that have a mainstream culture and that's probably not going anywhere in the foreseeable future.

But the internet itself has no culture (heh). It's just a network. There are still corners of the internet that have whatever culture you're looking for. And if you can't find it, you can make it. It probably won't make much money or make the news, but the option is there.

That said, I agree with the main thrust of your argument that tech companies are just reflecting the mainstream preference to whitewash reality.
The Netscape loading logo is the one I feel very nostalgic about, if we can have animated gravestones when I die, that is the one I want to have on mine https://imgur.com/a/G6quKu8
Niteo produce a product to produce content farms and generate spam.

PayPal has done the world a favour by banning them.
We have them in Cambridge/Belmont Massachusetts though I didn’t know they were called trolleybus

Setting the title would probably do a lot. They do occasionally come unhooked and the driver has to hop out and reconnect.
Germany will use French nuclear power and feel good to have no nuclear plants.
That is a separate issue from control - one of defaults. You can have a simple default that works or a complex one with defined behavior which have usability issues.

Customization gives control to those who want to take it.
I just don’t get the class/prototype approach, honestly. It really seems to me that you get almost all of the benefits and more by just returning an object from a closure, which has the extra benefits of encapsulation and using only simple language features that a JS user pretty much has to use at some point:

const createCounter = ({ startAt = 0, incremementBy = 1 }) => {
let count = startAt
return {
currentCount: () => count,
step: () => {
count += incremementBy
}
}
}

const counter = createCounter({ startAt: 5 })
counter.step()

versus

class Counter {
constructor({ startAt = 0, incrementBy = 1 }) {
this.startAt = startAt
this.incrementBy = incrementBy
this.count = 0
}

step() {
this.count += this.incrementBy
}
}

const counter = new Counter({ startAt: 5 })
It's far, far less widely accepted, though. Which makes it rather less useful if your primary use case for money is to buy things.
I don't believe in free markets. I am too much of a realist for that. :)

I ask you what can we realistically do though?

It's very apparent that budget Androids that lag like hell and break down often aren't to the general populace's taste if they have a choice -- in my "poor" country (Bulgaria) people get loans so they can buy the Galaxy S10 or Huawei P30, en masse. Most people I've known in my life buying budget Androids only did so because of money constraints. I only knew 2 people who bought cheap Androids to tinker -- and it was because they loved tinkering with tech more than having sex with their wives, or spending time with their kids, or go jogging.

I already said I am not OK with Apple lobbying against the right to repair.

But I have no recourse as a customer. My iPhone is legitimately saving me time and frustration for a no small amount of leisure and work activities. If it didn't, I'd be using a budget Xiaomi for life. But here we are.

What would you do? Would you sacrifice your free time so you can punish the big evil corporations? And how?
But entities really are not objects, because they neither send nor receive messages, and because they have no associated data (and therefore no encapsulation). In fact, the component-system relationship encourages you to break encapsulation.
That’d be very cool. As much as I dislike Electron, something like Hyper already can render SVGs.
Which is exactly what banks do if they decide someone is on the terrorism blacklist, or you are "risky" - often on absurdly weak grounds. Mistaken identity or not, guilty or not, it seems to leave the customers with no options. Freezing funds only seems to happen with terrorism related closures, but it does happen, and the bank is judge, jury and executioner.

One instance from search: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/feb/03/natwest-closed...
The reason the number of robocalls exploded recently in the US is because the FCC's order defining what an autodialer is was overruled.

There is an interesting reply all episode about it: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/awhk76/135-robocall-...
It's also fairly homogenous in terms of ethnic and socioeconomic demographics. It's a lot easier to have direct democracy when factors like this are limiting the presence of non-overlapping interest and ideologies.
From the article

"In English language use, the Kontaktwagen was later named the "trolley", giving the trolley car and trolley bus their names."
I don't think it's possible to outlaw what Facebook does without unforeseen consequences. Facebook is fast-food for the mind. You know it's bad for you, you know you shouldn't do it, you know there are healthier alternatives, the fact that corporations profit off of making people fat and sick is outrageous, but you can't very well outlaw the concept of beef in a bun.
According to [1] right now, if you want your bitcoin transaction to have a good chance of being in the next block, the fee is 18,450 satoshis, i.e. $1.11

[1] https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/
I see Uber more like providing the network and the app, not like the service provider. The service is provided by an independant contracter on which Uber has little control over.

In fact, a lot of drivers use several apps like Uber, and sometime even contract privately.

Imagine the same incident happen, but suddenly the Uber app crashes. You ask for a ride again, but on Lyft, but it's the same car arriving.

Now what ? Lyft is responsible ?
IE4 -- 11MB
IE5 -- 56MB
IE6 -- 13MB

Their sizes seem to be off (or including something extra). But there definitely is a huge change in IE5 requirements. I'm guessing that's related to the US v Microsoft antitrust bundling lawsuit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_4#System_req...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_5#System_and...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_6#System_req...
Because then you have to go through the hassle of doing all of the paperwork, talking to the bank and getting a new credit card number (which means updating all your services that used the old number).

It's a pain in the butt when it happens.
I'm not sure if that's what PayPal does, but whenever I saw fraud policies in companies, they never provided specific rules violated and for a good reason. If you know the exact rule you're breaking, you know what else to change for your scam to work. Pretty much the same reason you get "authentication failed" rather than "your password's 2nd letter didn't match".
If they had then why perform the study? They clearly wanted to optimize this cost.
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Founder here. We're not processing SaaS through PayPal, as mentioned in the post:

> The most interesting thing is that we’ve moved away from PayPal in the last two years and have only been receiving some minor payments and paying for a few online services.

We've stopped using PayPal for our SaaS business a few years ago.
Mortal Kombat video game so violent 'developer was diagnosed with PTSD'
Trolleybuses are operating in a couple Polish cities as well. IMO they’re great - clean like a tram (which are very widespread in Poland), but make less noise and vibrations (as they ride on rubber, not steel) and don’t require the tracks. Also, one tram’s failure causes entire line to shut down, which is not the case with trolleybuses. I really like them.
We already gain most of the advantages you list by having full disk encryption. I agree it would be a lot more practical to essentially hotplug the TPM module, but isn't the decryption key stored in RAM after start up anyway?
WhatsApp and IG _were_ alternatives, but our timid regulators were happy to let FB buy them up. Naivete is thinking the free market can regulate itself. Markets are not naturally free. They only function when zealous regulators keep the gears well-oiled.
It's not any less evil and needs to be broken up just as quickly, but focusing on one giant and not trying to simultaneously fight both is probably a better idea. At the very least this sets precedent for splitting up the other.
"Mark Zuckerberg is a good guy. But his company is a threat to our economy and democracy."

"Mark is a good, kind person. But I’m angry that his focus on growth led him to sacrifice security and civility for clicks."

I always find it difficult to take an argument seriously when someone is defined simply as "good". It glosses over a lot of things, like what motivates a person and how we define "good". For example, if we can agree that Facebook's privacy issues are bad, and that Mark was directly responsible for them, then it seems that either

a) Mark selfishly disregards privacy for the growth of the company. (bad)

b) Mark does care about privacy, but if he doesn't grow the company, he'll be forced out and someone less good will take the helm. (good)

c) Mark thinks that all the good Facebook does outweighs the negatives, and therefore the sacrifice of privacy is a net positive. (good)

For reference, that first quote is taken from the NYT front page summary, and the second from the body of the editorial.
Both should be broken up. They are both equally dangerous. It's just that Facebook's standards have been degrading faster and so it's been more noticeable.
I don't think that. Forever is a long time.

However, so far the "Energiewende" has been a total failure in terms of reducing CO2, despite Germany having a huge amount of renewables and extremely high electricity costs. If Germany had any obvious alternatives to coal, they would've long done something about it.

As it stands and into the foreseeable future, without technological breakthroughs, the idea that electric vehicles could significantly reduce CO2 emissions doesn't stand scrutiny.
If you break the guidelines egregiously like this again we'll ban the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Conduct your business ... in a manner that results in or may result in ... complaints"

My guess is they have a mainstream Republican employee or corporate officer. That's a bannable offense in silicon valley. Politics is a big problem.
I mean, I understand you might not have the need to upgrade, but why?
Stratechery had an article that I think provides a reasonable compromise for displaying and taking responsibility of content some might find objectionable but which others would argue has value. It involves the poster being responsible and owning the consequences for the content as opposed to some third party platform which has to try to please opposing sides.

https://stratechery.com/2019/a-regulatory-framework-for-the-...
I think I agree with you, but I also feel like a few missteps out of alignment with that narrative and google would be up for anti-trust conversation just like Facebook. I’m mostly musing about how your relationship with regulators has a lot to do with how you treat them and the public. When people perceive you as good, you can get away with monetizing people’s data. When people perceive you as bad, you’re the monster selling data to the Russians.

It’s a matter of perspective (and sometimes reality). Let’s not pretend that the Russians couldn’t have bought google ads, it’s simply that Facebook’s audience targeting is way, way better than google’s because their surveillance economy is richer.

It’s complicated. Is Facebook simply too good at targeting?

This is part of why I’m working on mobilecoin. Can you imagine Facebook ad targeting if they also have all of your payment information?
You can easily connect an iPhone to a computer and copy the pics off of it. You don’t need to swap an SD card around
Google hasn’t committed the same evils Facebook has. They’ve been smarter about handling personal data in the west, and their platforms haven’t been used to attack democracy.

In Asia their platforms haven’t been used to help countries commit genocide.

I mean, you could make the case for breaking up google for monopoly reasons, but google has mostly just done business the way amazon or Microsoft has. And unlike Facebook, google has been branching out of the advertising business for a while with their cloud services, hardware and paid software.

If I want a privacy secure add-free gmail, I can actually get that by throwing money after google.
This is probably 10 years old at this point, but still accurate: https://paypalsucks.org/toon1.shtml
>Reasons: No risk of credit card info misuse (by vendor), I only need username and password and I get certainly at least some kind of receipt for accounting.

It's a shame virtual cards never got more traction through the CC industry. For those who aren't familiar, some banks/cards offer you a tool that let's you set an arbitrary spend and expiration date (+2-12 months usually) and then generate a credit card number (with CVC) with those attributes (Bank of America branded theirs "SafeShop" for one example). Since it's a fully backed card number it'll transparently work on any site a normal CC would, but it cannot be charged more then the small limit (so you can set it just to the checkout price of one item and it's done), it can be trivially cancelled at will (useful for fighting dark pattern subscription services), etc (some of them can bind to merchant too). It's very effective for preventing misuse from online purchases. However for whatever reason it never seems to have spread or evolved really. BoA never added it to their mobile app for example, which seems like the most logical place, but rather kept it as a little Flash tool tucked away in their website. Plenty of banks do not offer it at all, and it never got much PR. It is more work to use and while that could have been reduced through better UIs (mobile again could really help there) it would always have been somewhat more work.

Maybe options like Apple Pay/Google Pay will ultimately fill that role, since they're essentially an automated version of the above (tolkenized per-purchase card numbers). It'd be nice if the industry would work harder though on some standards for the hardware ecosystem needed.
Yup, if you're using ssh-agent (as opposed to something like gnome-keyring) setting `AddKeysToAgent confirm` to your ssh config should cause a pop up to happen every time anything requests a key from the agent.
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You can't break up with your stalker.

If Facebook is building a data portfolio of you, which is highly likely, then you can't avoid them, which means the problems that arise from the practice still impact you, whether or not you want them to.
> Then they would've been quietly hunted down to the last one without making much of a bang.

That's pure conjecture, of course.

One thing to keep in mind is that the events of Tiananmen (and beyond, actually, as they did not involve only Beijing and only the students) scared the government, as you mention.

That's why the reaction was so harsh and the backlash so durable.

The government might have taken a softer stance if the events had been less threatening.
Russia was also hilariously poor, even when it was relatively powerful. Saying Russia is more ethnically diverse than China is an interesting statement, given the enormous breadth and width of China and all the different subcultures and people living there. Unless this is a skin colour thing? I don't really understand ethnocentric reasoning
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Writing is lowering the barrier entry one notch. I think this will result in large volumes of more trash books, look at the music today, a lot is autogenerated, autotuned, auto-this-n-that and theres so much garbage out there that it’s made harder to find the decent one.
This is a known risk with PayPal... so many similar stories.

However, it's also a risk with Google and Facebook. I'm not sure if Apple and Microsoft are as bad.

One must assume that some automated systems are involved in these terminations because no reasonable human would slam the door and refuse any attempts of discussion or reconciliation.

Short of getting some significant press (here on HN where there are staff from each of these companies), one's chances of getting a termination resolved reasonably is practically nil.

The problem I see is that these companies have become so large and have acquired such relative monopoly positions that they can afford to lose/screw some customers because it's cheaper expense-wise than managing human staff to resolve these issues. That's not reasonable.

PayPal has much less of a monopoly position than Google, Facebook, and Apple do (because of the two app stores and the center-of-all-social). We know better than the use or depend on PayPal, but we have no choice but to depend on Google (Android) and Apple.

I really was hoping that React Native and other webbish technologies would kill the mobile "app" system and return the power to the people who actually create things. So far it doesn't seem to be working that way.
PayPal badly needs to be hit with an anti-trust suit. This behaviour is clearly harming end-users, and there are no alternative choices that won't result in a huge hit to turnover.

Thus, de facto anti-consumer monopoly.
TODAY IS YOUR LAST DAY TO DUMP PAYPAL!
(Louis Rossmann)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6APNcFOuE1g
> I wonder why teachers and school administrators don’t simply interact respectfully with their students instead of engaging in such extraordinarily bad behavior.

Lots of them do; if 1,000 do that and one acts badly, guess which one is going to be the focus of a story that gets widespread exposure?
As I mentioned in the previous comments - we're not using PayPal to process our SaaS products.
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Yes, some sort of tiered access seems better than mass deletion.

However, I'm sure all these videos still exist somewhere in backup. I doubt they are really deleted.
Drawbacks:

1. No full-text search in the web app.

2. IMAP interface is still not 100% reliable (yes, I have the latest Bridge update).

Other than that, it’s ok.
Not quite the same thing. From the article you link to :

You’ve been a loyal customer for years, but then a letter arrives saying your bank has decided it will shut your accounts, and you will have to take your business elsewhere. No reason is given and the decision is final.

So, yeah; a bank can get rid of you for any and no reason at all. But they can't just keep your money and stop talking to you.

That's nothing really new. Ask any American citizen trying to open an account abroad. They may be having an unusual hard time thanks to FATCA.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...
I know that's the idea. The result is schools spending a non trivial amount of time jumping through hoops for the benefit of people who are ill equipped to evaluate those schools. On top of that the number of places are fairly static year to year so all schools end up getting filled anyway, but the 'better' schools are filled with the students that arguably least need the benefits, whereas the worst schools are filled with the children of the least able.
For the first 3.5 months of this year I was completely off artificial sugar. That meant fruit was ok, but any kind of dessert wasn't. It was hard initially but after a couple of weeks it was easy. I didn't feel the craving to eat dessert like I always did. I also felt much better and more productive now that my insulin levels were more stable than before. On my previous diet I had regular sugar highs and lows (which of course meant more sugar), and it was great to be rid of that.

If anyone wants to try this and finds it too difficult initially, please stick to it for at least two weeks! It gets easier!
Any location where a Luxembourg bank license applies, ie. most of Europe, from Iceland to Greece.