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>Without Facebook, Twitter, etc, Trump would just be shouting hate to himself. With FB, trump shouts hate at everyone.

Is that actually true though? Sure he has an unfiltered platform via FB and Twitter but somehow I doubt that if he didn't have those and merely screamed his rhetoric from the whitehouse front lawn or at press conferences that the various media organizations wouldn't gleefully reprint it word for word.

Of course we can argue that the media is also responsible for giving him a platform (and in some ways we'd be right), at the same time it seems like a bad idea to champion the idea of not allowing the truth of who or what the president is to be revealed, however ugly it might be. And it likewise seems a bad idea to encourage a situation where people's only access to their elected officials bloviating is by way of pre-ordained gatekeepers.

Granted that's how it was in the past, but this seems like a genie we can't put back in the bottle. Best case scenario trump just takes over the whitehouse web page to publish whatever he wants on the front page. And we definitely don't want to get into the can of worms that would be white house staff preventing the president (or any politician) from speaking to their constituents by denying him that access.
And w stonewalling from the administration, which really needs to be cracked down on.
> A logistics company elsewhere caught charging this much would be laughed out of the room but in a new and exciting field there's a lot of room for markup.

I would argue that they are also the owner of many of the customers. DoorDash owns me as a customer simply because when I am hungry, I turn on the app and select from one of the offerings.
> My fear is that true UBI will create a giant section of the population whose sole purpose is to consume food/water/utilities and create meaningless art, music, babies, etc. which raises questions about what our purpose in the universe is.

What they consume is culture, culture has a price tag, and the most sought-after culture is the most expensive.[1]

I'm sure UBI will change marginal spending behaviors. The question is by how much. I doubt it would change spending habits so much that civilization collapses, but even if it would some evidence of that effect would be captured by studies attempting to capture more boring marginal effects.

[1] Including the culture of non-consumerism, which uncoincidentally is conspicuously favored by the elite and wealthy.
It's different now. Early in the presidential campaign, anti-Trump demonstrators were blocking the road to the Reagan library to deny access to people heading to a Trump/GOP fund raiser

I remember thinking, America is in for it now, the Rubicon has been crossed. Since then politically motivated violence has been embraced and celebrated by many luminaries. Welcome to the normal.
If GrubHub brings awareness to your restaurant that turns into an order why shouldn't they be compensated? You may not like the commission. Don't like it, leave.

The only case I think is a step too far is if GrubHub uses their search rank to display results above a non-participating restaurant and attempts to extort commissions by displaying a proxy number anyway. Is there any evidence of this?

If a customer decides to store the proxy number in their address book thinking that it's a direct line and GrubHub charges the restaurant for each call, then that's a bit scummy.
The demonstration payload is the best part.
That’s because the FBI was investigating them and their buddies. For Trump it’s not about principles, it’s about power and what they can get away with.
A commission isn’t earned when you’re fraudulently impersonating a business.
Hmm... If they want to stop rioting and looting, why are they going after "protestors" rather than the rioters and looters? Someone's torching a mall? No police in sight. People are walking and chanting in the street? That calls for a crowd of 1000 police fully decked out in military gear and tear gas, itching to crush heads.
You’re just reversing the burden of proof with more words. The expectation you’re setting up is that we have to refute every single bit of nonsense tossed out; an impossible and exhausting process.
Sorry, I took the total gun count(~400M) and didn't state that I did some math based on how many adults there are in the US since children and the extremely elderly tend to own far fewer guns than run of the mill adults.

The result is still more or less the same if there is 1.1 guns per capita.
Depends if Grubhub did anything to "find" them. I.e. if some googles for a restaurant someone recommended to them, Grubhub buys the Google advertising spot for the name of the restaurant, places an ad directly above the Google Maps result and the restaurants website in the results, captures the click and demands a commission for it, what value have they added?

https://www.saddlebackbbq.com/how-google-doordash-grubhub-co...

Or if Doordash puts their phone numbers on the restaurants Google listings, replacing the direct one: https://support.google.com/business/thread/5820393?hl=en

Would you label a sales guy you hired to find you new customers a bad guy if he camped in front of your door, talked to people coming to visit you and claimed commission?
Food delivery is simply a terrible business. People must have seen how much waiters on wheels charges, and how much pizza places charge and said if we get costs down to pizza delivery and charge less than waiters on wheels, we'll make a bunch of money.

The problem is restaurants with enough delivery volume to justify their own delivery service can send a driver out with several orders, and can schedule the next round of orders to be ready just as the driver gets back. That's hard to do in the order whatever from wherever model, and one order per delivery run ends up with costs high enough that a lot of people would rather pick things up themselves.
So, if I want a page full of ads, by yours and the other commenter's examples, I should have to type in 'buy mattress' or 'mattress shopping' shouldn't I? Why should just searching the word mattress imply I'm looking to buy one? Ideally, if I search for just mattress, I should get a little bit of all those things in one search, including a few ads to buy one, but it shouldn't be everything.
Not usually. I grew up in a generally lower middle class town and most of the police scanner activity of “repeat problem people” were for domestic disturbances or drunken/high fights. Responding to wife beaters isn’t really subjugating anything.
It says for fourteen days. Can you open an very wide investigation and keep it ongoing for longer than that?
The way we fix legacy software systems: By carefully refactoring it one step at a time and testing and monitoring to make sure our refactoring doesn't break stuff that's working correctly.

The big rewrite is always appealing but almost always doomed to failure. There is 200+ years of painfully learned lessons in the US legal code. If we throw it all out and start over, we'll have to re-learn all of those lessons one tragedy at a time.
I think this is touching on a key point about militarization of the police. I'm a non US veteran who went to Afghanistan.

The police in the U.S. seem to think like they are in the military , in their training and tactics. One big problem is the U.S. military is not exactly well regarded for is nuanced handling of conflict.

I once spoke to a marine who was involved in the invasion of Bagdad who describe their rules of engagement as "shoot any man woman or child holding a spade, a mobile phone, any kind of parcel or anything that might be a wire". These ROE are almost certainly a war crime, but the US is special so it gets away with it.

Now in the military you have a bunch of guys who actually have to deal with very dangerous, fluid situations that have a high likelihood of death. They mostly operate in areas where you have little room for anything other than binary control (obey or get shot). Whatever the details of the culture that was set down by the high ups before the Iraq invasion, I can somewhat get onboard. Casualties in a war zone are logistically hard, getting effective treatment often means at least some part of running them on a stretcher, potentially strapping them to the back of a vehicle and driving for an hour. If you aren't conservative in how you instruct people to respond, the effect can be highly non linear. One casualty take a 3 others out the fight, meaning casualties become more likely etc.

How police respond simply should not be modelled on the military. I entirely disagree with the idea that they are constantly primed to consider themselves one stop away from a body bag.

They almost certainly interact with more innocent members of the public than criminals. They are in largely stable situations. They may deal with bad people, but they do so in places that have good access to support, they will get timely care if something happens to them, and they almost certainly are well backed up if the situation gets out of hand.

My opinion is that the police basically suffer from a kind of dunning Kruger effect. Most would be woefully unprepared to handle an actual combat situation. You just have to compare the countless videos of about a dozen cops all unloading at the same car like the first to finish gets a prize.

Being a good solider is about maintaining discipline and composure under pressure. Most unit tactics involve some variant of your unit shooting over your head or off to your side whilst some of you push some kind of flanking manoeuvre. Our military even dropped the shoot from the hip on contact SOP because of the risk of friendly fire.

The police do not have anywhere near the same level of conditioning to operating under pressure from their training as any competent army gives it's soldiers. If they want to act like the military that's fine, but they should go through similar training before they do.
I've seen the boston tea party brought up several times over the last couple days, and it strikes me as an odd comparison. unlike the rioting/looting that sometimes accompanies protests, the boston tea party was a specifically targeted act of resistance. the colonists resented british taxes in general, and were particularly enraged by the EIC's exemption from the tea tax (which allowed them to undercut other tea merchants in the colonies), so they directly targeted an EIC tea shipment. doesn't really seem that similar to taking advantage of a protest to smash windows and burn random buildings.
Violence and destruction of private property is celebrated if you win.
In a lot of cases Grubhub is creating websites that look official for restaurants. Few businesses are aware of this, as it siphons customers from many legit websites thanks to better SEO. There have been quite a few instances of this even with restaurants that they've never worked with.
It's not clickbait if you watched the show
As a systems engineer you probably also know that building something complex from the ground up will have very buggy rollouts for the first versions :). Rewrites also have a pretty good history of bankrupting organizations. The current system is very fixable if somebody actually had the political will. Compared to building something new it will be easy.

This reminds me of the discussion about terraforming Mars. It’s deemed to be too hard and expensive to reduce our greenhouse emissions on a perfectly fine planet like earth so people think it’s easier to terraform a barren planet.
Unless they sell them to unsuspecting individuals or people looking to make a quick lowball trade, and then the burden and repercussions fall on them
And the present has said "Good people on both sides" in reference to the current protests, right?
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Our neighborhoods (especially poor/black neighborhoods) are war zones, ever since Nixon declared them so in 1971. The war on drugs is the primary cause of police militarization and mass incarceration. It's like that Orwell quote "We've always been at war with Eastasia"; it's gone on for so long, we've forgotten its actually happening.
Thanks,I didn't know about smsmatrix.
If only you could refactor faster than features are added...
> The executive branch has always taken more and more power.

No, the judicial and legislative branches have ceded it. The whole point of checks and balances is the tacit understanding that each branch will naturally grow as much power as it can and it is the responsibility of the other branches to check it.

Blaming the executive branch for growing its power is like blaming the seller for high prices in a free market — the system is designed presuming competition and selfish behavior.
You can hold a gun. You can't, and shouldn't, shoot police with it.

Even Castle Doctrine or Stand Your Ground cannot help you if you are being attacked or harassed by the police.

I'm anti-gun, but as I understand it, the second amendment only "helps" against state actors if the population as a whole is willing to overthrow the current government. At that point what "is legal" changes, like when George Washington's troops took America from the UK and wrote the constitution.

However, from a legal standpoint (i.e. based on the current government), the police has a "monopoly on lawful use of force".
You'd probably want to start by passing a sweeping anti-corruption plan. https://www.vox.com/2019/9/16/20867216/elizabeth-warren-anti...
i understand the idea of proof-of-work. but idk, when i think about all that electricity and computing power wasted on guessing arbitrary numbers... just doesn't feel right

kind of reminds me of how FAANG job interviews require memorizing not-very-useful algo stuff to weed out people who "aren't motivated enough" to study that stuff for the interview¹... "proof-of-motivation" if you will. it serves a purpose, but requires "burning" a lot of ultimately pointless effort

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1. at least that's what people say about them, never interviewed there myself
And the court has been packed, and executive agencies gutted of non-loyalists.
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And cost a lot of heads.
Palantir has contracts with these agencies. So you've got Facebook board members, and probably Mark Zuckerberg, profiting from this chaos.

Are you guys figuring out the game yet?
I don't think you've understood the design decision.

Matrix isn't a distributed ledger, and doesn't provide transactional guarantees. For unencrypted conversation, the user trusts their server not to spoof their messages. Other servers cannot spoof history as messages are signed into a room DAG. The worst scenario is that a malicious server could indeed withhold messages from a room DAG, and this would be indistinguishable from a network partition or a slow server.

The way we mitigate your own server attacking your conversations is at the E2EE layer - ensuring the messages are encrypted by the right user and spotting replay attacks based on signed E2EE metadata

There's no mitigation to servers dropping your messages, however, but practically that has little value - you're not going to be able to use it to give different sides of a $$ contract negotiation different views of what the contract value is.
That and the fact that it would be easier to get away without hunting without a tag since the state game department doesn’t have night patrols.
There modern day expression-oriented CLIs where this would work, too :)
The studies that show an advantage for serif fonts are old, and were done with printed samples. I doubt their conclusions apply to the screen.
Police Riot
> Is yc attempting to limit the amount of political discussion?

Errm... https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I guess we'll have to wait and see if it results in any changes, but baltimore is currently making national news for having some of the most peaceful protests of this last weekend.
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I don't know.

I'm not saying it's productive or a good thing, I'm just saying that's what it feels like.

People are only going to stand and watch their fellow citizens get shot point blank in the face with tear gas canisters, pepper spray and rubber bullets for so long.

Law Enforcement are denying people their right to demonstrate, and I feel like people are going to fight hard to keep it.

EDIT: I mean, watch this [1]. Those look like Police who are desperately trying to maintain control with the only means they know how - violence.

Do you think everyone will continue to just watch them swing batons like the first few seconds and do nothing?

[1] https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1267968926761312256
>America certainly had violent riots during elections.

Not in recent memory, and certainly not as a regular occurrence.

>Also after sports games.

Ok, you got me there.
Zulip, Discord, Slack, Signal groups, mass SMS, just to name the first five that come to mind.
Retirement doesn't have to mean sitting around doing nothing. It's the freedom of not needing the steady income of employment, and the freedom to do whatever you want.

Like work on those 100 ideas a day.
Yep, it is what I still have to fight against; ‘this is going too slow, let me do it!’. If you cannot do it yourself, you won’t even attempt, which seems much more relaxed in many ways.
Larry Lessig also points at treating campaign donations like the illegal bribes they are and reforming the "money in politics" problem first.
As of last week the matrix.org homeserver should no longer be laggy, as per https://twitter.com/matrixdotorg/status/1265412147737223174 fwiw :)
For me, I’m not on twitter or Facebook. I’m “stuck” with google until I get off my rear and migrate my gmail. I signed up when it was invite only and have about 15 years of email history with it. But that’s the only google product I use.

Facebook doesn’t really offer much more than “social” but I can have gmail without using any of google’s other products, including search.

I used amazon a lot in the past but less and less and probably never again based on their response to COVID.

So, for me at least, it’s not the companies so much, I’m pretty disappointed in all of them. It’s the features and I just don’t see a need to be on anything social media related these days unless we’re counting HN as social media. This is close as I come anymore. But, again, for me, buying from amazon or having a gmail account isn’t the same as following what social media has to offer...
The due diligence is because the restaurants offer a terrible experience.

Most still do not have an independent online ordering function. They want me to call.

Most still haven't set up meaningful profiles on Yelp and other review sites. So I would need to root around to find contact information.

That is in addition to needing to give my credit card over the phone, not knowing how long the order will take, and needing to be concerned about the person hearing the order right.

The restaurants are barely trying to compete for customers.
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I too wanted to do almost exactly the same. I want to port awk to GPUs by hacking its code and adding OpenCL tags at right places. Someday!
Paint the rams pink. There’s no need to make them look like Tie Fighters.

Here’s an Italian police car [0]. Here’s a Cobra HISS tank [1]. Here’s a local police department’s default cruiser [2].

When the police car looks more like a GI Joe tank than other nations, that’s an easy fix. Just like making kids were corny uniforms affects behavior, I think having police drive non-threatening cars will reduce violence.

[0] https://images.app.goo.gl/3uEds6hdzPwoiF6D7
[1] https://images.app.goo.gl/eJAaVdK5qNXEKah39
[2] https://www.ajc.com/rf/image_large/Pub/p8/AJC/2017/03/20/Ima...
Since the word 'lidar' can be taken out of the title without damaging it, I've done so. (Submitted title was "Show HN: Street View Simple – Explore Street View Lidar Data in a Browser")
I would think the business/ethical policies of Twitter and Facebook would be something "good hackers would find interesting".
The redirect number can also appear higher in Google search results (including the Google panel for that business) than the restaurant’s own line. This leads some customers to call it even if they don’t intend to use Grubhub.
Aha, but the analogy that you made with those questions has a critical error. The correct analogy would be questions that read:

Is destruction of property what you expect from civilians?

Yes, sadly, 1% or less[1] of civilians are are going to be stupid and riot instead. And that is unacceptable.

Should they be reprimanded?

Absolutely. And we have specialized government entities that can utilize appropriate-force to reprimand them.

Is unwarranted destruction of property what you expect from police?

Yes, sadly, 1% or less[1] of police are going to be stupid and abusive. That is unacceptable, their job is to protect and serve. Even from each other.

Should they be reprimanded?

Yes! but we as civilians have no legal way to do this, and even the "good cops" have no good way to do this.

[1] We do not have data for either of these figures, so 1% is being used as a placeholder, and is not meant literally. I suspect that the percentage of criminals in the general population is far bigger than the number of police who destroy property for no reason, but I admit that I have no data for that.
> when you’re fraudulently impersonating a business

The article suggests diners are calling numbers from the GrubHub app. If that’s the case, the commission is earned per the agreement. Practically, the app provided discoverability.

When it appears on Google or Yelp results, assuming Google or Yelp aren’t being compensated and disclosing this relationship, that is a problem.
Curious: what is Zuck’s relation to Palantir?
> when a handful of Republicans in the Senate

This is one of the really brilliant things the GOP has done. They've led us all to believe that it's just McConnell and a couple of other shitbags but that the rest of the Republicans are mostly OK.

That's a deliberate smokescreen. Notice that the "handful of Republicans" always happen to be in red strongholds? McConnell volunteers to be the public face of the GOP's bad policies because they know his seat is secure. Meanwhile, all the other GOP Congresspeople who support those same awful policies but might risk losing an election can stay out of the news and pretend it's not their doing.

McConnell was voted into his seat by a majority of the GOP Senators. They all know what they're doing.
Ah my bad, thanks for the correction. I'm still at 13.4 and I haven't been overtly refusing upgrade notifications, so I thought it hadn't been released yet.
They don't care about rioting or looting. Watch how the police have been arranged, in Los Angeles at least. They are there to make the protest seem dangerous, while intentionally allowing looting to go on 2 streets over.

The idea is to allow scary looking but ultimately meaningless damage to occur while blaming it on protestors.
Very much serif. I believe Apple used it as their corporate font back in the 1980's.
There are instigators involved in the hartals, no doubt. But working with the police?
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This is so completely fucked. I always worry about sounding hyperbolic, but I really do wonder these days if we’re living through the last days of the American republic.
DGG lets you disable ads in the settings: https://duckduckgo.com/settings#general

But the main difference is that DGG chooses ads based only on search term, as opposed to tracking you and collecting your data across the entire net.