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The point being that phone systems really aren't that different than Twitter or Facebook.

I am arguing that common carrier laws already exist, and are not controversial.

And that it really isn't much of a stretch to change and expand our existing, uncontroversial, common carrier laws, so as to apply to other things that really aren't much different than our phone system.

Even if those laws have yet to be slightly updated to apply to the modern era yet.
Shipt does the same thing for some stores they deliver from. They claim something like a 15% markup average, but in reality from our own experimentation on items we most frequently purchased, it often hit 35-100% markups and higher. (Actual examples: a $5 watermelon for $12; a dozen store brand eggs $0.99 in the store but $2.99 from Shipt). Add tips and it's rarely worth it for us anymore.
Just a note that Hacker News frequently censors, shadow bans and blocks comments that don't follow their agenda. Where is the uproar?
I've had Instacart workers make pretty good substitutions that weren't even in the app's automated list of replacements. They marked my original item OOS and added the new items as an "adjustment", so these judgement calls are at least something that is possible for them to do.

The issue is that YMMV with the worker you get on any particular occasion.
Great way to have Musk buy her (his old) number. Its not like he hasn't the money.
I don't think that's what the parent comment is pointing at.

What's throwing him off is static method dispatch based on type inference on the return value.

Haskell, for example, does this too:

class Foo a where foo :: a
instance Foo Integer where foo = 3
instance Foo Char where foo = '*'

foo1 :: Integer
foo1 = foo

foo2 :: Char
foo2 = foo

main = do
print foo1 -- prints: 3
print foo2 -- prints: '*'
I'm watching the livestream now. Some of the UX the astronauts are using are large touch screens.

I hope they practiced on tablets
My theory being that drained yogurt has a sharper flavor, it may or may not mask the unwelcome flavors.

I had to double-check. The carb content of the 'water' you drive off (whey) is pretty high. I couldn't say one way or the other how much of the added sugar comes out with the whey, but I suspect a taste test will tell you. If you're stuck at home anyway it's worth a go.

It's good to have an arsenal of substitutions for dishes.
DevKoala,

I don't think you may realize how much of your online activity is already tracked by google / facebook / instagram.

Google's javascript is everywhere, including explicit tracking with analytics, and lots of CDN loads for endless lists of things (js libraries, fonts etc).

Their properties also track you, google search, youtube, email. They also make software you might use (chome / android / google maps / google play store).

If you think something about signed exchanges let's google track you, and they can't now... please examine these assumptions.

Folks who come up with these super complex schemes (google will use javascript loaded into AMP to take over and track you) ignore that google ALREADY tracks them.

And folks who say they don't use any google products (no android / google maps/ play services / chrome etc etc) are often either lying or don't understand how many third parties load google analytics into websites, or load recaptcha bot protection etc.
> No, we little people are supposed to "save for a rainy day"

We really aren't. Between government pension plans, unemployment insurance, and all the welfare programs, I would challenge whether this is a real expectation at this point.
There will always be certain people who are more in demand than others. That doesn't mean aggregate demand isn't way down.
Not that I disagree with the act, but I love how politicians are trying to frame destroying Hong Kong's economy as supporting "Human Rights and Democracy."
It seems crazy to go with them when you can move further up the food chain to someone like netlify and host your gatsby site with a lot of value-add
How much do you think it costs?
> she seems to be a professional science contrarian

She's a scientist. To the extent she's a "contrarian", it's due to her personal experience in seeing how science actually works as compared to how it's supposed to work.
That's good news for me, but apparently a lot of people don't feel the need for it. I'm still confused why. In general, are people switching modes or doing side-by-side or what?
If $celebrity = Tarantino then yes, that’s actually interesting.
Well, it would seem that if we close down all the non-essential businesses, and the economy immediately hemmorhages 10s of millions of jobs, that most of what we're doing isn't essential. In some bizarre twist of fate, an enviable hegemonic position has been squandered: where Americans could have cemented their dominance by doing likely anything else, we instead de-industrialized ourselves into a service-based economy specializing in shuffling the same 300$ around between 300 million people while nose-diving off a cliff the second the invisible hand comes knocking.
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Really? I trust Rotten Tomatoes more.
But I don't have either in Netflix :(

HBO has IMDB.
> you would not call facts "bad"

But we do. Any facts that cast certain religions (but not others!), or certain lifestyle choices (but not others!) in a bad light are considered _____-ophobic. Bad.

Facts are routinely politicized and made out to be evil.

> Censorship is just admitting that you dislike the ideas but cannot argue them down with reason

This is true. And this is why it is so hard to have an honest debate. Many people in the United States (perhaps elsewhere?) think with their feelings, and not facts or reason. The videos of people screaming over the top of presenters on college campuses are case-in-point.

The world as a whole is marching towards the cudgel. Hate speech laws are a manifestation of this. What remains is the removal of an individual's right to defend their life. After that we have tyranny.
This is a very eloquent way of describing my exact feelings toward this situation.
> it's going to be an order of magnitude cheaper

Soyuz is $60m per passenger I think? Are they saying dragon would be $6m per passenger per launch? I find that hard to believe...
Jeez, this is so messed up…

So basically I cannot have both Time Machine and SMB from the same NAS box servicing a Catalina Mac? I just tried disabling Time Machine share in Samba and Catalina Mac still complains "The operation can't be completed because the original item for "Share" can't be found." if I click the sidebar to connect to a share.
The fact that tickets to traditional cons are often limited which creates exclusivity which expands upon the hype of any announcements demos.

The costs involved with a con are obviously a couple orders of magnitude higher than a virtual con, but I don't think the marketing impact is the same at all. Traditional cons are certainly not going away by any means.
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That plays a role, but I'd guess that overall stability (financial, career, friendships) may play an even larger role.
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I didn't see anything about middle class people slipping into poverty in those links.
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> Those right-wingers who love to proclaim themselves champions of free speech are really objecting to the Tyranny of the Majority. That is not an authority that requires a rebalancing of power. It is just an established opinion.

A tyranny of the majority—which you appear not to understand is a bad thing[0]—is a disaster and precisely what modern democratic institutions seek to avoid. It always leads to the repression of minorities, whether that's ethnic minorities, religious minorities, or political minorities. I doubt you would be much in favor of tyranny by a majority of a different political persuasion.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority
Just maintain the underdog start-up public perception, like Google, and all will be forgiven in 2055.
IDK if I fully agree with that.

Possibly pedantic, definitely anecdotal, but I've always felt like the best time to buy a laptop or home appliances was right between Xmas and Tax season. For some reason it seemed like the sales just weren't as good during peak Rebate time...
That describes perfectly most interactions with Siri

Is it worth the hassle to try and stand a reasonable chance of failure, and then also have to do it manually, or should I just skip to the chase and do it myself.

Unless I’m setting a timer, probably just do it myself.
I think that "fighting terrorist propaganda" is actually the origin of social media building tools for moderating politics. Most people seem to date it to the 2016 US presidential election, presumably because they weren't following Middle East politics as closely as US politics.

I really saw a chilling effect in r/SyrianCivilWar after the rise of ISIS. Media showing graphic violence would remain on the site for several more years -- r/WatchPeopleDie was removed only last year -- but videos considered to be "supporting" ISIS (even if only because they showcased recent advances by ISIS or allies) started being removed from Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, and other places. I think that even LiveLeak eventually started removing some of these videos. Reddit itself started banning pro-ISIS posters.

There was plenty of all-sides hand-wringing before 2016 that social media wasn't doing enough to suppress terrorist propaganda.

"After the recent spate of terrorist attacks inspired by the so-called Islamic State, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for greater cooperation from social media companies like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter in combating hate propaganda."

https://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/08/how-social-media-cos-try-to-...

The social networks banned a lot of content that would be legal to publish in the United States. They went well above and beyond removing only the "imminent lawless action" speech that falls outside of First Amendment protections. And with good reason. Plenty of lawmakers were ready to make their lives miserable if they didn't take an aggressive anti-terrorist stance.

It's fun to daydream about big American social media companies removing only such speech as would be unprotected by the First Amendment. But sites like YouTube have never offered that much latitude. Even in the pre-Google days YouTube didn't allow porn -- not even perfectly legal, mainstream porn. And of course it's perfectly legal to advertise locksmith and dental services but I don't want platforms overrun with high volume advertising for those businesses either. Finally, both Republican and Democratic legislators were talking less than 5 years ago about how social media had a responsibility to curb terrorists' propaganda, regardless of the stronger protections enshrined in the First Amendment.

I don't really like where we are with social media, but I wish that the discussions we had around these issues on HN were more historically grounded instead of centering on partisan polarization around the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath.
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I think it's quite early to say if it weathered the storm, there might be long-term consequences. Also not sure what to say about the experts calling a rally, specially when those 'experts' are politicians.
You do both, but only give them 3 seasons.

Netflix has done decent drama along with some terrible reality shows (the one where men compete to impregnate one woman is notable https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/may/21/labor-o... ).
You are talking about the conceptual notion of a "fact", which is out of human reach. Outside of mathematics, labelling anything as a fact is an opinion, and the label is considered okay as long as everyone involved has a high confidence about this opinion.

For example, if you let an apple fall down to the ground and you say "The apple fell to the ground", then you can't really know whether it's a fact or not, because you don't have access to the official logs of the Universe where it would be recorded that "An apple fell to the ground". So you have to trust your senses (and for example the fact that you're not under hallucination or visualizing an illusion) to put some confidence into this belief. If you know you're not under drug usage and if there are other witnesses of the event, then you'll have a very high degree of confidence into the idea that the apple indeed fell on the ground, so much confidence that you would consider it a fact.

When it comes to complex questions about society and everything that we can read on the news, such degree of confidence is very rare. In the end, the threshold at which you consider something to be "a fact" is subjective and for this reason I think all this "facts aren't opinions" thing is dangerous, because it gives the illusion that what we call "facts" are absolute and binary, whereas it's often things we just have a high confidence about, and so it opens the door to slide our standard of what a fact is.

What matters is that our view of the world shouldn't be shaped by what we hope or believe the world _should_ be, but by what it really _seems_ to be. And that is sufficient enough without having to get on one's high horse with "facts".

I don't question the casual usefulness of the word "fact" in appropriate contexts, but when the discussion at hand precisely handles the very nature of what is a fact and what isn't, we need to dig down the true implications of the word.
Why are we rehashing this for the 1000th time??
> I was born in 82 in France, was 21 on 9/11/2001

Do they count years differently in France?
As a German, no, thank you. I get why some people think Germany would be a good fit but the German people don't want it. The parliament has enough trouble justifying German military involvement in peace keeping missions - playing world police would never fly.
There's no "legal" definition of hate speech according to the US federal government, but the most accepted that I've found is "any form of expression through which speakers intend to vilify, humiliate, or incite hatred against a group or a class of persons".

See: https://repository.law.miami.edu/umlr/vol52/iss3/4/
What do you mean "preventing any rent control," precisely? If it's in California, I guess, but rent control need not be implemented the way California does.
>Effectively, there is no difference between an apple and one with a bruise. I still get the same nutrition and taste, most other differences being unimportant.

That's simply not true. The bruises become rot spots and before getting there they introduce oxidation which affects taste. The shelf life is then also diminished not only for the bruised apple, but for any that are nearby.

Relatively speaking, I think the bruise on an apple is actually a measurably greater decrease in (relative) value than the dents in a car.
If each one came to that decision separately, then sure, ban them. The problem arises when a company controls, say, 90% of the restaurants. And then ban you for no reason.
"Europe" is not a nation, this word is like garlic for the nationalists.
The word is niche.

There are 2 major factors that will power a resurgence, that could use better tools:

1. Discoverability - self-reinforcing webrings, blogrolls, directories, ad free-search etc.

2. Creation - next-gen Dreamweaver. A low-code site creator app that exports a static website as a folder of readable CSS/HTML that people can tinker with by hand (and learn), instead of being locked into one of these cloud WYSIWYG site generators. Hosting is solved. No need to tie the one to the other...
This so much. I've been messing around with the Phaser framework for fun to try and create an HTML5 game, but its nowhere the same as the days of making games and animations in Flash, especially in terms of simplicity and user friendliness. I hope something similar comes along at some point.
Latency is super important.... High latency is one of the largest problems with modern software.

But what about transcription accuracy? I mainly use Android but also use an iPhone.... I have found transcription accuracy is so much higher on my iPhone then Android.

I pulled out my old BlackBerry (Android) when I sent my Android phone in for repair recently. The voice transcription via blackberry's keyboard is hands down better then either stock Google or iPhone. It's surprisingly feels like a regression going back to the new phone (other than speed and battery life)
You have now introduced this "interesting things to say" metric as if that is an objective thing. But it isn't. Alex Jones doesn't have more interesting things to say than I do, the difference is that he seeks an audience, and I don't. But just because someone seeks an audience, does not mean that platforms that have audiences must oblige them.
> This seems completely, and sadly, reasonable. You probably couldn't design a situation in a lab that would screw over the poor more than COVID-19.

I'm in a very low-income rural community. With most the folks living off food stamps already, their lives were relatively unaffected by COVID-19, it's not like they were working much anyways.

If you wanted to maximally screw over the poor, you'd first get them all sitting pretty long enough to start making families while riding on a social system like food stamps, then yank it out from under them. This is something the current administration has been both working on and threatening, and that creates significantly more anxiety from what I've observed.
Whether reporting on Trump objectively makes him look 'bad' obviously depends on the content being reported on. The objective reporting (meaning, nothing but the facts, no insinuations or implications past what we can garner from the facts) on something like Trump tweeting about Joe Scarborough's possible culpability in the death of his intern might make him look bad while reporting of Trump's efforts to pull troops from abroad back home might make him look good.

The problem though, as I think some of the posters above have touched on, is how can Twitter effectively account for media biases in a way that will not make them look biased? I suppose that's just begging the question of: should they care if they appear biased?

One thought I've had is that perhaps, for every tweet that Twitter decides to put a 'fact-check' on, they could link to three different sources of information - one with a well-established left-bias, one with a well-established right-bias, and one without any well-established bias. Just an idea, I'm sure that'll probably present problems as well.
Self promotion:

I maintain an open source visual studio code plugin that organizes plaintext (md, tex, html you name it) files with a simple directive `@nested-tags: tag1, some/hierarchy/you/want`. I have been pretty lazy in regards to actively adding features to it though. I do have plans on adding a graph based visualization and to add more detailed views to simplify workflow. If you're interested in obsidian but don't want to be locked in, check it out.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vscode-n...
wordpress crushed a lot of proprietary and far more difficult to use options - is that still the case for Gatsby? With 50+ million in VC capital is this a billion dollar market segment today?
20 years ago, technology wasn’t as pervasive as it is now. Pre-Covid, in most major cities in the US, senior developers who kept their skills current and knew their market would be swept up as soon as they came on the market. My fastest time going from looking for a job to getting an offer with a subsidiary of a F10 company was 4 days in 2012.

I met a local recruiter for lunch on Monday, he sent my resume to the company Tuesday, I had a phone screen Wednesday in person and offer Thursday.

I was no special snowflake. Just a regular 37 year old Enterprise C# developer.

True on paper I had 15 years of experience. But in reality, I had been an “expert beginner” in 2008.

That wasn’t a fluke. Everytime since then the company I usually ended up working for was one that I was introduced to during the first week of looking.
> Featured was a dozen eggs for $4.59 (why featured?), and I'm not sure why that's featured when it's a terrible price.

That's exactly why it's featured. This is no different than being in an actual grocery store. All the high markup items get the premium shelf space too. And stores often have the same meaningless signage on their shelves as well: "Look!", "Wow!", "Special Offer!", heck even some just literally say "Promotion!".

They want you to look at that product, and you did, so it worked exactly as they intended.
This is what I found doubtful. Generally implementing and debugging complex solutions is very time consuming and self education is very efficient.
Here you go https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/idea/443508/msvc...

Read the comments, it should be available in the next VS2019 update.
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Pretty sure this is a dead horse. Must be a slow news day.
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Hoping this can get on to the top of HackerNews.
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> I don't think it's entirely fair to say there is no competition in this market

Good thing I never said that. The market is inefficient. I like that idea of monetizing negative results. More transaction volume generally helps, I think external market signals and their actual value are whats really missing.

Like, how much would someone pay for an exploit should dictate how much a company should pay for letting a crowd try to fix it where only one person/group gets the payment. If there was a way for additional participants to get paid for bothering to look at all that would be helpful too, and different people can focus on how people try to game that instead of worrying about the idea of people gaming it.