skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leave even traditional retail aside, is it that much different than what pretty much every gaming console does? I am aware that there _are_ people who are ideologically consistent in disliking the walled gardens of both iOS devices and popular consoles, but I have never actually seen the level of heat/vitriol that Apple gets targeted at, say, Sony or even Microsoft for the PlayStation/Xbox ecosystems respectively. I suppose it's due to people seeing games as "frivolities" even though the PlayStation Network for example pulls in the same ballpark of revenue as the App and Play Stores.
Yes, there is a very clear reason. I've stated it elsewhere but I will state it again.

Under common law, there is no legal contract without a meeting of minds. There can be no meeting of minds without comprehension. Per studies of reading abilities, only 2% of Americans read at a college level. (See https://www.wyliecomm.com/2019/03/us-literacy-rate/ for a source.) Therefore such contracts should not be legally enforceable on the other 98% of Americans.

This reasoning applies only to contracts where members of the general public were expected to review the contract unassisted. By contrast in a business contract where both sides retained legal counsel, the complexity of the language is not prima facie evidence that the contract was unlikely to be understood.
> In the rest of the world, I guarantee you they are not paying over a million dollars for something like this

Not quite the same construction - this is widening a motorway - but an order of magnitude more expensive - £30M per mile in 2006 money.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2006/dec/13/guardiansoci...
I set up my own domain, and forwarded emails from it to my Gmail account. Over a year and a half, every time I logged into something, I updated the email address to my own.

Eventually, when I jumped to FastMail, I repointed my domain name to it, and most of my new emails started coming over automatically, since the email address is now something I control. I monitored Gmail for a while regularly to catch straggler services. (I chose not to forward to avoid complacency with stuff going to Gmail before reaching my FastMail account.)
What the World’s Most Powerful Quantum Computer Looks Like
I don’t see a war effort supporting Taiwan playing well in the US domestically. It would be very bloody.
I'm going to plug a charity here, Allfed, working to develop technologies to let us survive the loss of conventional agriculture for a period of years by working out efficient and economical ways to convert things like, e.g., dead trees into digestible calories and the plans to deploy them in the event of a large volcanic interruption or asteroid strike or nuclear exchange.

https://allfed.info/
Very much agree with this.

We have started some early data collection. I tentatively feel there is a very strong "because" for some of our representatives. An example: We strongly oppose candidate X because they permitted the unconstitutional Presidential Surveillance Program while sitting on the Senate Intelligence Committee. You can run ads in their district "Your government is actively breaking the law. Candidate X is allowing it. Vote them out."

The November 2013 Senate Intelligence Committee meeting (recording available online) has some pretty good quotes that would line up nicely with the supreme courts ruling on the program.
The VPN providers are not paying per gb. They are paying for IP transit, probably in the range of 50c / mbps. They make money by oversubscribing, just like any ISP.
> by boosting or suppressing those opinions, you have basically exactly the same amount of power and influence as a traditional publisher.

Strong disagree there. First, on either platform, you can go seek out every opinion under the sun, it's users that do their own content selection. Not to mention that there are top-level features that break any user-bubble like Twitter + Trending.

There's plenty of nuanced opinions on power/influence, but equal power/influence does not make them publishers, and I struggle to see how that relates to topics like moderation and liability. If these types of boosting/suppressing mechanisms are the policies actually in concern by people, this has nothing to do with all of the recent buzz/potential actions as any laws addressing that aren't going to get near that, only increase spam and abuse levels.

Are you going to make a law that me choosing the people I follow on Twitter is illegal?
Here are the steps I've been following:

1) Sign up for Fastmail.

2) Sync all mail from GMail account to Fastmail (via the Fastmail web UI; you grant FM access to your GMail data through OAuth - once sync is complete you can revoke this access).

3) Set up an auto-forward rule in GMail for all incoming mail to go to your Fastmail address.

4) Set up a rule in Fastmail to put all incoming mail sent to your GMail address into a separate folder (or labeled with a special label if you're signed up for Fastmail's label beta). Any time you get email in that folder, that's a task for you to either unsubscribe or update the corresponding account to your new email address.

I'm currently in month #10 of migration. Most commonly used accounts were updated during the first couple of weeks. But be careful that the tail of services that are still configured to use your old email address tends to be long, and in my experience those are some of the more important emails that you don't want to miss. The ones that are only sent once every couple years.

Also, it really helps if you've been using GMail with a personal domain name (e.g. through Google Apps). In this case migrating is a matter of pointing the MX DNS records to Fastmail's servers. Bonus points: Fastmail allows wildcard recipients, so if you prefer to have unique addresses for each service you sign up for, you don't even need to set up a separate xyz@example.com alias. Just register with <whatever>@example.com and you'll get all email delivered to that address in your inbox, and you'll be able to specify it as the sender's address if you decide to reply to some of those mails. Having a separate email address for each web service also makes looking up who leaked what on haveibeenpwned.com more fun.
Senators are on the record saying the MLK assassination riots spurred the passing of the civil rights act.
Turbolinks does this from what I can tell.
On the contrary, that is exactly why it was created. Dog lovers forums aren't supposed to be compelled to allow cat lovers a platform to voice their opinion on the dog lover's private server. Private servers are not public forums in the legal sense. We can have a conversation on whether or not that needs to change, but basic US law on private property is very clear about this.
> taking away a private party's ability to make pricing decisions on information transfer

Seems like it's a soft form of anti-censorship then.
I recently watched the "Helvetica" documentary that was posted here a few days ago [0], where they briefly mention "Grunge Typography" [1], a seemingly dead-end branch of typography that, for some strange reason, became pretty popular for a short period of time.

After some years however, consensus amongst designers formed that what they've created was a pile of illegible garbage, and realized that there was no other way than completely dismiss that branch, go back to the roots, and evolve from a few steps back.

I feel the same kind of consensus is slowly forming around ideas like SPAs, client-side rendering and things like CSS-in-JS.

We saw the same happen with NoSQL and many other ideas before that.

We recently deployed an entire SaaS only using server-side rendering and htmx [2] to give it an SPA-like feel and immediate interactivity where needed. It was a pleasure to develop, it's snappy and we could actually rely on the Browser doing the heavy lifting for things like history, middle click, and not break stuff. I personally highly recommend it and see myself using this approach in many upcoming projects.

[0] https://www.hustwit.com/helvetica/

[1] https://www.theawl.com/2012/08/the-rise-and-fall-of-grunge-t...

[2] https://htmx.org/ (formerly "Intercooler")
It's less than 30 years since we had a much, much larger eruption than Eyjafjallajökull. Mount Pinatubo erupted one June 12th 1991. That was a VEI-6 eruption.

Eyjafjallajökull was only VEI-4.

Now, one can argue about how Eyjafjallajökull caused ashfall in most of Europe, while Pinatubo is in the Philippines, but given the extent of ashfall from Pinatubo ..

EDIT (forgot link): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_eruption_of_Mount_Pinatub...
SMIC also has a fab in Italy.
You are right, and I am unhappy with several other points of the quick redraft that I did.

However my point remains. The complexity of the language was not required by what was actually said.
It was not my intent to imply anything about the severity of COVID infections, only that a 10-20% infection threshold is contradicted by several real world examples. While it is still possible that T-cells may have some immunological benefit against COVID, I don't think the 10-20% number qualifies as evidence of that.
This is a hard pass from me.

Mozilla controls my browser. I have no interest in giving them control over any other part of my online life.

I like how Mozilla is run and hope other organizations emulate them to provide these other essential services.
We hadn't considered this, but certainly will. At this stage (we just launched today) I don't think we have the resources to effectively manage donations that way. As we grow, I'll fit this into the roadmap.

Also, if you feel passionately about a specific area and want to provide help/feedback, donations of time are always welcome and we are always here to listen.
I tried to set this up yesterday and spent 3 hours and still couldn't get it working.
In WSL 1.0, you would run into show stopping bugs or incompatibilities eventually. I haven't had any problems in 2.0
So providing bitcode is still optional for release on App Store?
https://archive.vn/oGOcW
Thanks. It's hard to get nation-wide reports by chain. All I see are pictures on social media of outraged people going: "Why don't we have any sock-eye salmon? And Look! The shelves are empty!".

Surely data are the aggregate set of anecdotes, but while I see a lot of spot anecdotes, I don't see much data.
Can't say I have received 30-40% raise when I found a new job recently more like a 8% pay cut.
Say YT censors after publication, NYT censors before. If you're liable either way, then the first model is just not possible.
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> We will prioritize based on election cycles (who is coming up for re-election), how much they've undermined these three measurements, and how close they are to the committees that are supposed to oversee these domains.

If I may offer a suggestion, optimize also on how close an election is expected to be. It may take a lot of ads to swing some elections, but only few to swing others, and you want the most bang for your buck.
I'm afraid I don't understand it. I assume a data warehouse is in a relational DB anyway, so from https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/introduction/

"dbt (data build tool) enables analytics engineers to transform data in their warehouses by simply writing select statements. dbt handles turning these select statements into tables and views"

So you are taking some runnable SQL and... running it? Why does SQL need to be turned into tables an views anyway? What problem is this solving?
swings and roundabouts
> confluence of aging infrastructure, cost of displacing entrenched residents / businesses to make improvements, labor cost, insurance, etc.

What about corruption e.g. ghost employees, inflated billing rates, intentional delays, knowingly letting things be done wrong according to a mistaken spec to bill more hours later, all done by a company owned by the mayor's cousin? Construction is famous for those kinds of things.
No advertisment, just an example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxygen
Does Google ban bypassing their stores on Android?
It's not possible for a gamma ray burst to 'screw' the entire solar system. It's already an incredibly unlikely event to occur near enough to do damage. Then the beam would have to be directed in our direction. And the beam would have to essentially hit the solar system edge on or face on, but not at any other angle.

Even if all that happened, underground bases would be protected, as would above-ground or in-space habitats that happened to be protected either by the mass of the body they're on by virtue of 'facing away' from the GRB; or by virtue of being behind another body (e.g. Jupiter, the sun, some body they are orbitting) relative to the GRB. With space habitats, they may also be protected by virtue of already needing some level of protection against cosmic radiation; but that's highly speculative.

A GRB also wouldn't destroy the Earth. It would do a lot of damage to its ecosystems, but the Earth would be relatively safe again not terribly long after the event, even without human intervention. If we had the technology to colonize space, we could definitely recolonize the Earth, even in a worst case scenario where the entire ecosystem collapses.
Many people have proposed putting sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere. It looks relatively easy and could potentially be within the means of even poorer countries like Bangladesh which have a lot to loose from rising sea levels. But we can't predict exactly how it would turn out and it would certainly make ocean acidifcation worse so it's very much a desperation play.
It's my understanding that even the worst case eruptions described in the article didn't make it globally impossible to grow crops. IIUC they just produced a higher than normal prevalence of local issues.
I think my post laid out the response to this clearly: NYTimes has affiliated authors, thus enabling liability. Youtube has promotion at best, more like allowing. The sheer scale of Youtube and the vastness of what is allowed (their monetization system is fucked and needs reform/regulation but that's another matter than liability) makes it clear that youtube is applying policies with large swaths of opinion, not taking any editorial stances beyond what they deem is hate/abuse.

If youtube only allowed centrist opinion vlogs and no other content, you might have a point. They are not even close to comparable to that in a practical world.
I agree, it's technical jargon.. Do you have a better way of wording it?

The core is that a 501(c)(3) legally _can not_ spend money on campaigning without losing their non-profit status. They are stuck in courts, lobbying, and talking about their causes.

A 527 is allowed to actively campaign. If you donate to a 501(c)(3) you're money can't be used to campaign. If we want to vote them out, we need to do it on the same ground they do, a 527 puts us on equal footing.
We are in the process of revamping our table layout code at the moment - this should remove subpixel issues like this. Our master bug for these subpixel issues is:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=377847

We expect it'll be ready for testing in a few months. However we expect that it'll be a bumpy rolling this out as table layout has a long history, and isn't exactly well defined :).

- Ian
If you do mere joins, you need an optimiser.
The difference I'm hoping to draw out is that virtue signalling implies the person doesn't actually care, just wants to be seen as virtuous.

Buying CFL lightbulbs is performative climate action.

Buying CFL lightbulbs is virtue signalling climate action.

One of them is about the action - buying bulbs isn't effective, the other is about the person - if you buy bulbs you are fake. Perhaps "performative" fails at making this distinction clear enough, but I'd like a way to imply that someone is all-talk-no-action, without undermining their actual belief in something.
Granted. However, even in the poorer countries coal is struggling. Look at India -- there is great risk of stranded coal assets there as solar crashes the price of electricity.
Is this technically unani tibb
That’s kind of the rationale behind the Unix philosophy. Every individual tool does one thing well, but, many tasks need you to do n things. So, you bodge together a few of the simple tools (analogy: simple machines from classical physics), et voilà! Now, you’ve done something bigger than the sum of its parts.

Yes, this is a bit different, but, you know, having a super-linter around would be kinda handy. It gets old installing and configuring these things sometimes.
Apple needs to be pissed on from a height - I wonder if they have bribed the monopoly inquisition they face in the USA/Europe
Things have changed since you were in. The Army leads the other branches in infosec training now. Other branches send their people to gordon for it.
Why Cops Shoot
As a guy that spent a long time in the Army doing telecommunications we interacted with electronics techs in the Navy and they were almost always really really knowledgeable. We didn't have the same level of confidence when talking to our counterparts in other Army units.
> What came to be called the Plague of Justinian spread rapidly, wiping out one-third to one-half of the population of the eastern Roman Empire and hastening its collapse, McCormick says.

Hastening its collapse several centuries later?
I found it interesting to know that there are people on HN who would downvote these sort of posts. Kind of disturbing more than interesting, though.
> If abolition sounds dangerous or radical, the key point that got me over the hump was that it is a long term goal, say a hundred years

Normally, when people say "abolish" they mean "get rid of it now". When you say "abolish" but you actually mean "we'll get rid of it in a century from now, after everyone currently involved in this issue is dead, and we don't even know how that future generation is meant to pull it off, but we are sure they'll work it out somehow" you aren't really talking about abolition in the here and now, you are actually talking about reform in the here and now. "Abolition" is really just reform with a deliberately provocative presentation.
They have a lengthy history of technically illiterate demagoguery and utterly idiotic statements about it while only paying attention to what their lobbyists feed them.
Your first listing is an apartment. Shouldn't have to explain why that's not a house.

Your second listing has an estimated sale value of nearly $1.7m. Your third is nearly $2mil. Have you ever tried to get a loan for that much at that income with a traditional 20% down? (Assuming you have 350-400k laying around) You will not get approved for a loan on that at $250k/yr. Your monthly cost on that first home is $8,375 after tax (tax is around 1.2-1.6% in CA) + insurance. That's past the maximum 36% of gross monthly income. https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/mortgages/how-much-can-i-... Try the calculator. In general, going past 4x yearly income is not going to get approved by a bank. Theoretically, you might find some lender who'd do it but I haven't seen many. Most people buying here are buying homes with cash or really large down payments.

The fact you're even mentioning negotiations on buying homes in the bay area tells me you have no idea how the market here works. There are bidding wars - there aren't negotiations.

At this point - it's obvious that you're completely out of touch. You think spending 50%+ of your take home pay on rent is sustainable and that you can somehow retire with that expense. Maybe lay off the tidepods?
Well that brings me back to my first point that on the face of it, the business model seems perfectly reasonable. I brought up Tom Cotton specifically because in that case the NYT moderated after publication like YT, but in any case I don't see why when the moderation is applied should determine liability or lack thereof.
From my perhaps minimal experience with query builders they're there to make sql queries graphical and therefore presumably easier. IME they don't do a good job of that. If you an handle the semantics of SQL you can put a bit more work in and learn the syntax. It'll pay for itself rapidly.
Using renewables would be more cost effective, even up to 100% replacement of fossil fuels. Cost of storage does not change this conclusion.
I don't think communication should be restricted because of scale of moderation issues.

That seems artificial and strange.
Hey looks great and I trust it will be around for a while. Unlike inbox from Google.

I would 100% sign up for hey if I didn't migrate to Fastmail this year.
What's most interesting to me is subtractive manufacturing of ceramics.

From what I've seen in metals, there's a preference for powder bed technologies over binder technologies. But it's not like I have a wide scope of current industry or research.
On Cultures That Build
Another thing that came to mind: typically i think of the EFF as being front and center in many of these fights. Even if you don't mention them by name, it might be good to communicate if you have capabilities they don't that can be complimentary.
I'd say it's going to be great for Linux, since usage of Nvidia will drop and progress will accelerate, because no one will have to deal with blob idiosyncrasies caused by Nvidia refusing to upstream their driver.

With Intel joining AMD on high end GPU scene with open drivers, it's Nvidia who will be the loser with their dinosaur blob approach.
"How Are Things? Better. Better Than Tomorrow, Of Course—Worse Than Yesterday" - Credit to Eugene Volokh who posted this old saying from Soviet Europe this morning.
> From the offers I’ve seen, if FAANG/Big Tech really wants one of your team members, they will get them and there is nothing you can do.

True, but your team members aren't getting any offers from FAANG/Big Tech unless the team members put in some effort. At least, they have to do a series of interviews.

FAANG positions are notoriously coveted, at least here on HN, and most people have to work hard, including preparation, to get into them.

So the question comes, what does it take to make your engineers comfortable enough they don't think it's worth going through the process to get those other offers.
You seem to be keen on startups, have you explored startup schools/incubators?
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Thank you.
I suspect from the Chrome security team's perspective there is very little difference, which is why they take significant measures to reduce the Windows kernel attack surface.