skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Risk is not only an estimate of the extent of harm if something happens but the likelihood of it happening, hence they're not prepping for Doomsday - which would be fairly pointless - but worse case scenario, of which there are several vying for the title of worst case, each with varying chance.

I'd rather liken it to fastening my seatbelt than prepping for Doomsday.
When Uber came to Japan, they pushed heavily on their three main points:

- Uber is convenient.

- Uber is safe.

- Uber is clean.

Japanese taxis are (a) everywhere; (b) probably about the safest form of transport that doesn't have armor plating; and (c) likely cleaner than a Blue Cross operating theater.

Moreover, ride-sharing is a non-starter in Japan. People in cities... don't own cars. People outside the city... already have a car.
There's obviously no inherent problem, but their reasoning is all theoretical and there's no reason not to expand it further based on their own logic. If you don't trust Google, why would you trust any of the other major players online like AWS, Azure, Cloudflare etc? Without those the internet basically doesn't work and you'd be better off not even bothering, thus meaning option 2 is the end result of the privacy minded.
I've met a few people in california that have a mexico cell phone plan and claim to pay less despite it being international than they would if they got an american plan. I haven't tried it myself though.

I'm on an expansive "family plan" with 6 people I know instead right now. These are the same companies that charged more for calling across town with a "local toll rate" than across the country merely 20 years ago, they'll invent whatever they can to justify a fee
> Yes. Any group that controls information distribution controls what we know about the world. By controlling what we know about the world, they control politics completely.

I agree, so I want to deny as much information and power to powerful institutions as possible and diversify my relationships with them such that it becomes less likely that any one could become the Kingmaker.
Some interesting statistics:

"Between a third and a half of those infected do not notice any symptoms. In those who do become unwell symptoms usually clear within two to three weeks with just home rest. In Europe only around 3-4% of those who become infected are admitted to hospital."

"..that as many as 60,000 people in Britain have long-term symptoms.." - about 1.5% of those infected
I know some that bought some Bitcoin in the very early days because a friend said so or something and ended making a lot of money. They're now Bitcoin fanatics despite not really understanding it. The logic is that they got rich from it so everyone else can do the same. But yes, the majority are more libertarian or anarchist leaning for sure and that's how they were introduced to Bitcoin early.
Not an alternative, bit insidious is aborter frontend to YouTube... and om Android there is newpipe.

However, for me, the problems are: Maps. Google Maps are great.
Calendar: my calender provider online has ICS calendar sharing, not e.g. itip.and imip.
The same holds true for the words "nigger" and "faggot" however, yet somehow both of these are bad but "incel" is okay.
So perhaps it could produce convincing looking proofs that are ultimately nonsensical.

It could generate math problems and have students try them out. Might be a bit of fun.
I don't think it really matters; Google has a track record of abusing privacy (regardless of what the policy is.)
Fido has 9gb for that price. Retentions can usually work better deals.

Wind has 20gb for $50, but it’s Wind :)

I always investigate here: https://forums.redflagdeals.com/ongoing-deal-discussion-f129...
That also reflects on the ordering of files for navigation. I'd rather see files `VerseFake.source`, `VerseReal.source`, `VerseOther.source` next to each other. (Unless there's a way to extend the namespace and just have `Verse/Fake.source`, ...)
This strikes me as falling into the 'interesting new phenomenon' category.
The Story behind the Games: Hacknet and Wrestledunk Sports [video]
The same holds true for the words [censored] and [censored] however, yet somehow both of these are bad but "incel" is okay.

I had to repost it because https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24250085 does not appear when viewing it outside of my account.
That’s what it says in the article as well
First three lines of the article were so unnecessarily wordy.

For an article that is supposed to be about effective communication.
It's interesting that they took the Audi and made a few small mods to make it look like it's a ford police interceptor from the front.

Is there a possibility this would fool other police? Or just people to get out of their way.
Thanks for the extra examples!

I know far too little to judge around Japanese culture myself, so interesting to read :)
Show HN: Voidpass – A CLI password manager for stateful and stateless profiles
> I have no idea why Mozilla should need a business model.

Because developers aren't free and "let's get money from Google searches" is great until Google decides not to fund a competitor any more.
An AI Breaks the Writing Barrier
I'm assuming you hadn't heard about this.

https://www.projectveritas.com/news/insider-blows-whistle-ex...
Of course they’ll take 0. You do realize that Google is in the business of harboring as much data about you as possible. It’s much more worthwhile for them to know what you’re buying than for them to take a cut from using Google pay.
The article says this is the 6th new record since Nov 2019.
I thought the point of the internet is that it removes, to an extent, the friction of distance, meaning that the circles you move in may not be local to you. In the past, if I wanted to chat about politics I would have to do it with someone local or someone face to face. The postal service removed some of that friction, and now there is far less friction than that.

I doubt your neighbours will know much about your politics unless they're your Facebook friends too, and why would you add your neighbours to Facebook when you can speak to them face to face? (and do you?)
Excited delirium is a really, really sketchy diagnosis. There's certainly no good clinical evidence to suggest that ketamine is an effective treatment.
> That seems like a weird distinction to draw, given the numerous other activities you could be doing with that time (reading a book, for example).

I believe it's similar to the difference between running because you're late and need to catch the bus and going for a run because you want to run. One is the end ("I want to play a game"), the other is a means ("I want to kill time on the train and a book is too complicated").

Tetris isn't a video game in my opinion, but it's a computer game. A video game involves video of some kind of world to move in, be that a football field you're running on, a race track you drive on, or a wasteland you crawl through. Maybe you could make the immersion a distinction, but I'm not sure about it.

> I will posit that is largely because of the stigma around being a "gamer", partially warranted (gaming communities can be notoriously toxic) and partially not.

I don't know. I've never been part of any gaming communities, but there has been a time when I played a lot of games and if asked, I would've said that I'm a gamer. I haven't for years, so I don't consider myself a gamer now.

> Again, I think with any other hobby it would be hard for you not to qualify as at least an enthusiast if you spent an appreciable amount of time engaging in it.

I'm not sure. I've watched a lot of movies but I'd never consider myself a movie buff, I just liked cheap entertainment. I believe it's different with books because there has to be intention, reading isn't the path of least resistance, it requires more intention than candy crush, movies, meme scrolling or listening to music or a pod cast.

Similarly, driving a car to work (or using public transportation) isn't really saying anything about you. Biking to work all year, no matter the weather, is different.

I don't think it's about "gate keeping" as much as wanting clear communication. It's not useful to call everyone a gamer that has ever in their life played a game on an electronic device. It's not useful to call everyone a climber that has ever in their life climbed something, be that a mountain, tree or bunk bed.

And my general opinion: don't worry about identifying yourself as a gamer because of some stigma. People who are worth talking to will usually ask and find out what you're talking about. It may be a good litmus test to quickly sort out those that live by factory made opinions. Don't bother trying to be liked by them.
Federal receipts as a percentage of GDP have been basically the same since WWII. (Before that they were significantly less.) One of the reasons for this is that we started spending around the "maximum size of government" level during WWII for obvious reasons, i.e. the point past which raising taxes doesn't increase government revenues because they're offset by shrinking the economy, and never receded from there because there was never anyone who could cause it to stop and had the incentive to. What changes is really only who gets the money.

So all the spending is effectively zero sum. The real tax rate never really goes up or down very much, so if you want to do something, you have to find something else to not do.

All of the incentives then fall directly out of that. If you're getting money and nobody is paying attention to you then the most important thing is to have them continue to not pay attention to you so that you can keep getting the money. Meanwhile, if you want to get money for something, find someone else to make look bad so you can justify taking it from them.

Obviously this doesn't produce good results, but the problem is structural. The populist reforms made in the first half of the 20th century deleted all of the checks and balances on federal spending (compare how much of the budget of EU countries is the EU itself), which requires government programs to compete based on political power rather than merit because you can't just say that a program is worth the money, you have to find something else to displace whose advocates are weak enough to defeat because the trough is already full. Which has little to do with whether your program is better than theirs.

Imagine if we spent half as much money but the reduction came out of the likes of ludicrous military boondoggles and de facto subsidies for pharma companies.
Most countries are most powerfully concerned with protecting themselves. Both North Korea and Iran are mostly stocking weaponry and military knowledge because they are facing constant threats from the world's most powerful military that their leadership will be annihilated.

Iran is constantly being threatened with the use of force by one of the most powerful and belligerent countries in the region (Israel). It has a history of having its leaders deposed by the USA. It has a history of making deals with the USA, keeping its end of the bargain, and discovering the USA had no intention of doing so (while accusing Iran of being the problem). It is one of the only places where their particular religion is accepted in the region, with extreme intolerance of it from one of the other powerful nations in the region (Saudi Arabia). And it is one of the few countries who still care about the fate of the Palestinians.
Ah, the comment was edited after I replied, oops. Yes.

(Though I don't believe whether it's enjoyable in the right setting has much to do with whether cops should be using it. I get that this is a defense of ketamine as a recreational drug, but e.g. alcohol would probably be un-fun if the first time you experienced it was at a high dose during either surgery or an arrest, and that one's widely accepted as a reasonable recreational drug.)
I don't want to mix usages in the same window though. The container features are nice, but they don't make up for the fact that Firefox profiles are still harder to use in general.
The headline is misleading. The original policy was the US Forest service - a federal agency.

As for calfire and the state being reluctant to authorize controlled burns, well given the risk of wildfire and having controlled burns escape, we probably need to not just be slack about who can burn what when, with which supervision.

The title does do the state of California a disservice. We already have a president* who is attempting to blame state leaders for fire, as a political fight. When the federal lands and federal agencies are also responsible for this as well.

The notion that not having smaller burns leads to larger fires is well established going back decades. We need to accelerate our adaptation to the new drier climate. This article could help. But give the blameology a rest.

Edit: also note the editorialization of the title. The original article title was a “native wisdom” approach, which got dropped for “some reason.”
What if only the other partys messages where deleted?

In telegram it is understood that 'secret chats' constitutes confidentiality. As such, both parties, I believe, ought to be able to delete everything.

I kind of see you point about non-secret chats.

But then we are back with a opt-in model for privacy.

Personally: what I tell you at the coffee machine, in confidence or not, is ephemeral. I would probably not talk to you at all if you where taperecording all conversations, as you want to do with messages... so I think both.parties.should be able to delete text conversations. And privacy should be on by default.
Many languages (other than English) are happy having adjectives behind.

As other commenters have observed, plenty of great reasons for doing so.
When that new operator started (Free Mobile), it had had already revolutionized fixed internet.

Then the operators went to the state to cry there and say thousands of people will lose their work. They cried, cried, saw that they would not get anything so they came back home and lowered their prices to align with Free Mobile.

There were no massive layoffs.

This is one of there rare cases where the French slowness to change was different.
The federal policy stopped in 1968.

Enthusiasts of subtraction of real numbers will note that was 52 years ago.

I'm a California native, and a quick look at past wildfires[1] confirms my hunch, that the vast majority -- 82% -- of California's most devastating wildfires have occurred in the past twenty years.

One peak happened in 2008, the other in 2018. Pretty sure Trump wasn't president in 2008.

California absolutely has done a poor job of state infrastructure management, across the board.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_wildfires
> what a weird american way to measure network

I believe the report is written in the UK.
Yeah, rename IETF to GETF (Google Engineering Task Force). The only thing that prevents total domination today is iOS with its WebKit only policy.
> the UK leads the count for 5g towers set ablaze by far

I think that was the point.
Cops also use pepper spray. It's against someone's will, by non-cooks, for no culinary purpose.

Cops also use electric stun guns. It's against someone's will, by non-electricians, for no electronic purpose.

Mind proposing an acceptable method of restraint? Go ahead, and see people tear it apart as a human rights violation.

It's much like the hopeless situation in bad schools, where all possible methods of discipline have been banned. Things are a mess if we deny the need to impose proper behavior by force.
Please provide an example when Google did something harmful to some person in China.

Global censorship is not an example - Google doesn't need to collect someone’s data to implement it.
An interesting note is, the footprints where formed on the supercontinent Pangea.
I’m all for people convincing their governments to enact legislation in the public interest. I think there are huge misunderstandings with the current case, however:

1. People are suggesting there is no need for new legislation, that current antitrust law covers Apple’s behavior. I think this is, politely, wishful thinking.

2. People really underestimate the consequences of government intervention in the form of a consent decree or industrial regulations. They can be very good or very bad, and it usually takes many years of tinkering to figure it out.

Like: once you regulate the app stores, you’ve effectively enshrined them as a state-sponsored enterprise for a generation or longer. The %cut might get lowered, but now adjusting it is like fighting over taxes, and is wrapped up in all the other ideological problems of the day.

3. People underestimate the unintended consequences of breakups or forced arrangements.

Say the stores are forced to be spun out of their parents. How do we know this will lead to a lowered cut%? If you regulate that cut, what does the company get in return? Indentured servitude isn’t generally looked upon with favor. What about mergers and acquisitions, like, could the spun out google and Apple stores eventually merge, creating an actual monopoly? If not, why not, and for how long? Now we are back to enshrining a business as a state-sponsored enterprise.

Of course I’m sure that some kind of regulatory arrangement in the public interest could be dreamt up, but let’s remember that the AT&T split took 8 years to sort out into a consent decree. Microsoft’s trial and second consent decree took 3 years - finalized in 2001. If the antitrust law isn’t enough to tackle Apple and Google (and I doubt it is), crafting the legislation alone could take up to 5 years or maybe longer. The US communications act took 60 years to get revisited. Are we so sure there’s not some kind of alternative on the horizon that will disrupt Apple and Google in the next 10 years? The web browser disrupted Microsoft once, maybe some successor with WASM and other goodies will make native apps a moot point? Doesn’t seem that way now but 10 years is a long time.

This is the trouble with antitrust law or new industrial regulatory law: unintended consequences, or being too late to be effective. The better way is to promote entrepreneurs to topple this regime. It’ll take 10-15 years either way, but I think the latter approach has the chance of a better overall consumer experience.
I can take you to various streets on Long Island, NY that get no or extremely unreliable 4G from all carriers.
I have spent time on incel forums too, and I disagree with this assessment. There were lots of instances of guys who "got out" of inceldom, found partners and entered successful relationships.

They would come to the forum and share their success stories and advice (and in most cases it was the common sense generic advice you would expect) and in every case the poster would be ridiculed in one of two ways. Either they were never an incel to begin with, just a Chad who had a prolonged dry spell and who had been an imposter or interlocutor (regardless of their tenure on the forum, often of several years) or they were just a flat out liar and imposter who had just come to give the same trite, cookie-cutter advice that they hear from every Chad and Stacey every day.

The success stories only reinforced their toxic ideology.
> We have regulations because a majority of your neighbors want them

A majority of my neighbors want the promised outcomes of the pitches for regulation given by politicians and big businessmen. If those outcomes can be provided more quickly by other means the regulations themselves become comparatively unpalatable. No one asked for cookie warning popups on every site.
ex-Israeli here (currently living in Berlin). It's truly amazing how cheap mobile internet access became in Israel. I'm guessing home broadband as well.

Here in Germany it feels like a cartel. Prices are pretty homogeneous and quite expensive (I pay 10EUR/4weeks for 2.5Gb + 200 call min or SMS, pay-as-you-go). The home broadband is worse in terms of competition. Contracts are typically 24 months or more with draconian cancellation options.

At least pretty much everything else here (apart from Internet) is cheaper in Berlin than it is in Israel ;-)
Yeah but if you're an American you probably have more to worry about if American intelligence agencies and law enforcement are spying on you than if it's the Chinese and vice versa
Also Project Veritas so I'd be quite skeptical. They have history of doctoring footage and overall other sketchy practices.
The .dev tld is “owned” by Google. Pratice what you preach...
The bulk of public land in California is Federally controlled - BLM, USFS
They don't need to know about your habits to have such influence.
> we know part of the story, but not the full picture.

Sure. Collecting all the pieces and building a full picture is the job of a historian.
As far as I can tell, this is an illegal race that puts innocent peoples lives at unnecessary risk. Nothing to glorify IMO.
No, there is a PPP index, eg: https://data.oecd.org/conversion/purchasing-power-parities-p...

You would be correct if you created a new PPP index based on GB of data (which is an interesting idea actually), but the proposal is to use an existing one and compare using that.
It didn't happen with competition alone though. There was competition before in Israel on the telecom market, but prices were very high. Then one of the ministers stepped-in and regulated to make it more consumer-friendly.

disclaimer: I'm an ex-Israeli, so my knowledge about it is very limited, and I don't follow Israeli news. But that's broadly my understanding of what happened to drive prices down and improve consumer value.

EDIT: found an article from 2014[0] that mentions it

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/israel-telecommunications-re...
I can't speak for what other people have posted, but there's, to my mind, a quite analogous case for this situation: Kodak v. Image Technical Services.

The case involved Kodak refusing to sell parts for its copiers to outside repair shops, and they were sued by the shops who claimed this was anticompetitive behavior.

Kodak made a claim that since there was robust competition in the market for copiers, they couldn't have market power in the aftermarkets for "Kodak copier parts and service." The Supreme Court rejected that argument, holding it was possible to show that there was market power (and therefore antitrust liability) in a secondary market even if the primary market is competitive.
Ask HN: Why desktop apps are moving to browser but mobile apps to native?
This is something I have been wondering fir a while. It looks like on the desktop there is a clear trend of more and more stuff being done in browser instead of native apps . But in the mobile ecosystem everyone are pushing their native apps. Why is this difference?

Is it UX differences? Economical incentive differences? Someone with wested interested pushing things in one or both? Just a fashion thing?

And is this trend sustainable? Or is that going to reverse or are thing going to migrate into either native or browser apps in both ecosystems?

I just do not get my head around why this is happening.