skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We no longer own a domain that we previously legitimately owned.

I won’t mention the complainant's name, however, you gotta respect their (lawful evil?) tactics.

Taking a previously open-source product manufactured by (the awesome) SparkFun Electronics, “un-open-sourcing” the product, and moving the manufacturing away from the USA to China.

When SparkFun ceased manufacturing the product, the result was that schools in my region are now charged more for this line of products. The complainant's restrictions in their reseller agreements also prevent resellers from selling any competing products.

The complainant trademarked the name of the open-source hardware and obtained a second trademark (in the quoted category below[1]). I am not a lawyer, but it could mean that anyone commercially teaching (hear deriving income directly or indirectly) or creating educational content that incorporates the trademarked term could potentially be violating the trademark.

[1] “Conducting workshops and seminars in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education; developing education lesson plans for others in the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education; educational services, namely, conducting informal programs in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, using on-line activities and interactive exhibits, and printable materials distributed therewith”
That's a hard to parse title. How about:

"Apple won’t require apps to let users opt out of tracking until next year"

Apple doesn't force what developers do, only what gets permitted into the app store.
That's still true in some places today.
I’ve been thinking about going to Canada for a long while, and this might sound silly but I was wondering, do people on HN who have immigrated to Canada arrange a lot ahead of time like doing interviews with companies via teleconferencing? Or do you go there to meet people in person first and to investigate opportunities? Or something else?

And when you did go, did you get a job at the company you thought you were going to work for, or did you have to interview with other companies instead?

Furthermore, has anyone here had the misfortune of trying to immigrate but ending up not finding work and having to cancel their immigration plans? If so, what were your experiences like and what would you do different this time?
The turn-around takes place at the half-way point of the journey. This means that for the entire second half of the journey, the engine is pointed at the oncoming dust.

Engines used in such long journeys will likely emit a thin stream of particles at extreme velocities. This stream is not wide enough or thick enough to stop space dust from hitting the engine. An unshielded forward-facing engine will get destroyed. So we must shield the engine.

Instead of having two shields and turning the ship around, just turn the engine around. Make the engine emit streams forward from the sides of the ship.
Maps from CMU's EarthTime Chart Humanity's Greatest Challenges
Yes, but don't most of them also come with syslog forwarding enabled and a syslogd (rsyslog, syslog-ng, etc.) and logrotate installed?
Gitlab might also be looking for where they can grow during the pandemic.

1.5% of 6m existing free tier users is 90k accounts who now need to reduce usage, pay Gitlab, or move to another platform. Only one of these options is fast!

I don't think this is the only reason they are doing this, but it does sweeten the pot.
> Not only are micro reactors far more economical

Experience to date has been the opposite. They have diseconomies of scale in construction and operation. The proponents claim they will make up for this somehow, for example by making the reactors in factories, but note that NuScale has given up on that and is going to have the parts fabricated by others and assembled on site, just like larger reactors.
The "straw-man" concerns one of the most hateful, vapid and odious ideas that humanity that ever devised. Corbyn failed to confront it.

Conspiracy theories, whataboutism, insults -- these are less than nothing, yet the spineless Corbyn and his supporters dare claim leadership over better people, and fabricate whiny paranoid stories of their persecution. Given that there are liberals and leftists who are not comfortable with pointless evil, everything else is insignificant.
No that is not going to be their argument, it will probably be along the lines: google may be skewing the bids towards the $100 high end in order to maximize their own cut. We don't know whether bids should really be $100 because all their competitors have died so there is nothing to compare.

I don't think google would violate their agreement with publishers. That said there are many questions to be asked there too : what is that "invalid traffic". Why are inventories not filled , why are some ads not allwed etc etc. Google can claim their agreement is "take it or leave it" , but that is where their problem lies. If both advertisers and publishers are forced to "take it" due to lack of alternatives, it is an admission that they are in a monopolistic position.
your bubble does not represent reality. the u. s. is and has been the destination for brain drain for decades. and our decades long green card application list shows it’s not going anywhere
Those are links to Dear Joan columns and the Seattle PU that don't apply to my septic system that is large enough and capable of handling this. Water from my toilets goes through a home recycling system. Pregnant women who drink water at my house are not susceptible to toxoplasmosis.

People didn't invent cats, who have been self-burying their feces for a long time. Seattle and the municipalities in your links may not be configured to handle cats, but people have known how to compost cat feces for a long time without withering the vegetables and poisoning pregnant women.
Can we please not use WSJ links when there are perfectly fine other ones out there?

LA Times link: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-09-03/juul-plans...

Edit: Apparent LA Times also is paywall ...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2020/09/03/juul-m...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-juul-layoffs/juul-to-dras...
If you're as diligent as you say then it's probably not an issue, but hearing people state this so confidently always reminds me of the Febreze story: https://priceonomics.com/americans-thought-they-smelled-fine...
Proofs from the Book
A project I've had in the back of my mind is to make a little outdoor contained porch area for it. That way it always gets vented. It would be a bit of an expensive project although.
@dang Could we please get an updated headline seeing as how the source walked back his claims?

Thanks!
> My cats not only sleep through the night, they insist I go to bed on time (no later than 11) or they start getting upset.

My boy Dudley is the same. It’s so funny I’ll be in the living room watching TV and at a certain time he’s like “okay good night” and wanders off to the bedroom. He sleeps through the night, but will be up at dawn to watch the birds outside through the window.
Lists.apple.com Mailing Lists
Even if that is true, do you deny that they are search engines themselves.

Siri, Alexa etc are even more opaque as they don't give a list of results, rather have deep integration to their own services and can't even be replaced by an alternative.
A single text is all it took to unleash code-execution worm in Cisco Jabber
Depends on how Uzi Nissan’s will/estate is set up, whether the domain has been left to a particular heir or is simply part of the overall estate to be split among heirs — in which case you’d probably need to set up a corporate structure so that heirs can own shares of the company owning the domain. Otherwise liquidation is likely. This is often how long term RE holdings or family businesses get sold.
> 2019 MacBook Pro 15 with touchbar [...] which is awful and amazing at the same time. I wouldn't spend my own money on it though.

What's the awful part, and is price the main objection?
So what makes you think that immigrants are the tipping point? If there were no immigrants, who's to say white people (who are themselves... descended from immigrants) wouldn't fill those housing units?

Edit: housing prices are somewhat a function of demand, and I don't think you've adequately shown that any excess demand is driven by (recent) immigrants. You're being downvoted because this rhetoric is blatantly jingoistic. There ARE nuanced conversations to have about immigration policy; "immigrants make Bay Area housing expensive" is not one of them.
If this trend continues US will likely see this as an act of aggression by Canada. They can't just "take all the talent". Canada should be careful or US will push for annexation.
Even if nuclear could level up and down instantly, it's economically incompatible with variable renewable sources. If the plant is not operating nearly all the time the cost of power from it goes up and up.
This brings a smile to my face. You don’t always need “F* you” in order to say “F* you”.

I nearly want to collocate a server with them, just for the heck of it (see their “services” page).
Given the rise of Sourcehut as some people's new goto and Github finally offering container registry, it seems like a good time to pull that trigger too. I as a whole like GitLab as an all-in-one solution.
They actually appear to own square.com, though it redirects to squareup.com
This disappeared. There were two other forks, but now I can't find them. It was interesting analysis, couldn't find blatant inaccuracies.
‘CRISPR babies’ are still too risky, says influential panel
Very cool! I've connected two shared gdrives from work and am finding it infinitely easier to navigate than my usual workflow.

Couple of very minor FYI's i've noticed on the macOS app:

- on logout the ui redirected to a text 'error' screen (no ui / obvious blip) .. had to quit. The webui worked as expected redirecting to the homepage. I'd initially signed in to the wrong email account.

- When 'app visibility' is set to 'Just in menu', cmd+j-ing into the command bar causes the app to reappear in the dock and needs to be (x)'d again.
All of the things that you claim are evidence of a problem are only evidence of a public perception of a problem. In a world where they are guilty, and a world where they are innocent and it's all a smear campaign, the investigating bodies respond the same.
Most countries don't give the USA carte blanche access to their citizens criminal history unless it is in their interests to declare (I base this on observations of people who have past criminal convictions yet still get ESTA approvals and travel to the USA). However, the USA may have become aware of something that they previously were not aware of.
Having used vim for several years, switching to VS Code greatly improved my productivity. Having an in-app file tree, and being able to quickly peek at definitions or all references of a variable are convenient features to have, and IMO not matched by any similar vim plugin. I feel the greatest advantages of Vim are its small memory footprint and keybindings, but it is possible to use plugins in VSCode for the latter and the former is something that has not affected me too greatly.
It kind of paints a dark picture. The family unit used to be like a person who never died. Wealth, ideas, skills, values all would be passed down and developed over time. Now the corporations can outlive us, they can wait. Our families are weaker than the corporations. That scares me.
While I agree with you, for the most part, there is a cost and complexity issue. I was really just trying to tell marsh that they aren't making accurate conclusions from the selected data that they are pulling from to generate their absurd anti-nuclear stance.
In the 90s, I worked for a web firm that did the Nissan Motors USA customer-facing web sites. The management at Nissan USA were always sure we'd be switching to the nissan.com domain "any day now."
It was impressive how much firepower they expended on Uzi Nissan, and how he was able to fight and hold on by a thread. I secretly sympathized with him, although professionally I had to pretend that the "nissanusa.com" domain was an abomination.
> Yes, it gains you some of the economics of factory construction

They have given up on that, I read.
Ask YC: How did YC S20 demo day succeed?
In the past, YC was very specific about moving founders to bay area and it was willing to reject the ones who can't. The reasoning was that the downsides of not being in valley overweighs missing out on otherwise good startups. Now I hear from YC partners, S20 Demo Day was more successful than previous batches. Did all the downsides suddenly disappear? What are the downsides and which ones still exist?

Explaining them would help YC applicants to make informed decision. Otherwise, such claim sounds salesy and too good to be true.
Yeah I don’t think they would buy it. It’d just result in bad press.
Back in 2015 I was pitching Optimizely internally. We already had an in house barebones A/B testing tool. Once I got over that hurdle our CTO let fly how his only experience using Optimizely had been a time when Optimizely went down and took his site down with it. Optimizely eventually brought out their head of product, and an army of senior engineers to convince him things were good now. We signed an annual contract, but Optimizely was never added to any page that was revenue critical/dependent on speed. Optimizely got their huge contract, and in the end marketing and design got their lightweight A/B testing tool, but we never realized the white paper level metrics jumps because it was never used on any page that would actually have material impact.
> On one hand, you have someone with absolutely no use for the the name

No use for the name? He bought it because he had a use for it, and used it till the day he died.

There are many other examples you could have used, but not this one. He was not a squatter.
What Zeno's paradoxes can tell us about the hard problem of consciousness
Lessons from the Gnome Patent Troll Incident
Doesn't want to share the code because it works or because it doesn't work? Disgrace to science.
> On one hand, you have someone with absolutely no use for the the name

How sure are you that they have absolutely no use for the name? If he gets his email and runs family email accounts at name@nissan.com, that's a valid use for the domain, IMO.
It's a shame there are no more people putting up fun websites anywhere. /s
I’m not sure anything you say here is true:

* I really doubt GMO has raised the standard of living for the average person.

* I really doubt people in less then stable economy have any less salt towards the rich, the government, or polluters.

* I really doubt there is a correlation between the standard of living caring about your neighbors.

So to answer your question. No. I have never noticed that countries where people are pissed at the rich are the people that live in stable economy. To prove you wrong, take a look at Greta Thunberg’s twitter feed. She is constantly retweeting people from poorer countries being pissed at the rich for ruining our climate.
I don't think this will be a popular comment here, but I use an amazon shopping list for this.
This is the story as I read it the other day:

https://jalopnik.com/uzi-nissan-internet-domain-owner-who-fo...
Maybe your bubble doesn't represent reality.
I’ve seen this chart before, and I believe it, but how is the wage theft number calculated? If employers are underpaying workers, how does one find out how much without a court ruling against the company?
Our Post-Privacy World
I wouldn't say those approaches have turned out to be sufficient by themselves, so far. Why not keep improving them, and try additional measures with some hope of success and little risk?
Square the software company that makes games? Or Square the software company that makes payment processing?
The Dryer

Turns out dryers are reasonably good at removing cat hair
if you wait long enough. Remember to clean the lint trap
frequently.

Brilliant idea. How long should I leave the cat in?
"Would you be willing to have your house turned into a waste dump?" is a challenge that would seem to strike down virtually every industrial process dating back to the Stone Age.
No use for the name? It’s his own last name and he ran a computer consultancy from the website. It wasn’t until Nissan began targeting him that he turned it towards activism, which one might argue is of even greater use.
> Earlier you said you thought 99% of people believe whatever the media tells them. Anyone in that category doesn't think there's any more to be demanded.

Agreed. Absolutely correct.

Isn't it interesting how if we go deep enough in root cause analysis the answer always seems to be education?
Different circumstance but reminds me of the battle Microsoft had with Mike Rowe over mikerowesoft.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft

mikerowesoft.com still redirects to microsoft.com
I guess that's true in some sense, but I wouldn't frame it that way. When I say I'd like my company to hire some great engineer, that doesn't mean I see other companies as just a pool of job candidates or that I'm trying to stick them with bad employees.
I also have to respect your chaotic neutral tactics by posting their trademark wording in its entirety, hence guaranteeing they're the first search hit for that phrase.
Government Backed 'MDBR' Service Blocks Connections to Malicious Domains
The current approval time for residency applications is 49 months.

I'm sure it's less for straight-up worker visas, though.

EDIT: I was not sufficiently precise. I'm not speaking of Express Entry / skills-based applications here. If you have a high score in the CRS system, you are eligible for other programs which may be much faster.
The Republican Party now views Google as a hostile, specifically anti-Republican entity. Google is regarded as a political enemy.

It's not just about the election. The Republicans will persistently pursue any comapny that attempts to attack them as Google openly has. Google declared war on that political party, that party is now striking back. It was an enormous mistake by Google, as the Republican Party is one of the few entities in the US that is drastically more powerful than Google is; they can make their operational existence absolute hell, and they can destroy the company over time very easily just by pursuing their executives using available power levers, the best execs will avoid Google rather than deal with all the shit. It's what prompted both Larry and Sergey to run for cover as fast as they could, so they could avoid the scrutiny and investigations; I pity Pichai, he's the well-paid volunteer patsy to stand in and take the fire for Larry and Sergey.
how old was he? cannot find that info anywhere
> can generate output in both raster (JPEG & PNG) and vector (PDF & SVG) image formats

I thought browser canvas was a completely raster tool? What if I drew a million lines onto skia-canvas -- which is something you can do in a browser canvas -- would that result in a huge stack of vector operations getting saved somewhere for the possibility of future vector export?
Perhaps "occasional" wasn't the right choice of word. They have regular columns, yes, but when the Guardian goes into attack mode against the left, these writers either don't appear or are drowned out by others in the paper.

I spent some time helping collect examples of the Guardian's output during its obsession with attacking Jeremy Corbyn. Try to find comparable coverage in support of Corbyn in the Guardian to offset these attack pieces published between 2015 and 2017: https://theguardian.fivefilters.org (note that Owen Jones, far from being a dissenting voice, joined in with the attacks here, later apologising).

David Graeber tweeted a link to this at the time - after all the Guardian's doomsayers were proven wrong. https://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status/874853587880423426

After some time the Guardian intensified its attacks, this time focusing on spurious claims of antisemitism. They refused to run Graeber's piece defending Corbyn. Again, see if you can find comparable coverage defending Corbyn in the Guardian compared to ones trying to tar him with the antisemite brush: https://theguardian.fivefilters.org/antisemitism/

And that's of course not mentioning the study that found the Guardian to be one of the most innacurate in reporting claims of antisemitism (more so than even the Sun and the Daily Mail). That little fact is still the pinned tweet on Graeber's Twitter account, which must really annoy the Guardian when his name's trending on Twitter. https://twitter.com/davidgraeber/status/1210322505229094912
"All press is good press."

Remember getfirefox.com?

Can you imagine how many people type nissan.com into their browser? And how niche that press release would be?
Is anything changing except the timeline? Pushing things forward a quarter is not really a big deal if we're still getting the privacy improvements.
Interestingly, many other companies are starting to take this path, and I think it sucks. Not that they're focusing on enterprise customers, but that they're essentially pulling a bait-and-switch: get traction and word-of-mouth with smaller self-service customers, and then once they get enough street cred, go tell those smaller customers who were crucial to their early success to fuck themselves.

Full Story has gone this route. They used to have a plan that would work for smaller companies, now they have nothing between their free tier (1000 sessions a month) and their lowest level paid tier which is "5 figures annually" (they won't even announce any pricing on their website, though not sure if they ever did).
ITER is not a power plant, but if one could turn its gross fusion output to electrical power at 40% efficiency it would cost $100/W (vs. $10/W for fission and $1/W for solar). Not sure why you think this will be something worth waiting for.
Some great thoughts here, but I just wanted to clarify that Chewy.com does warn you via email several days before autoships happen. (I've been using autoship for close to a year now.)
I am also significantly more hassled entering the US than any other country. And I'm actually a US citizen.

The worst part about going to Canada is coming home. Typically a 40 minute affair where 5 different officers pull all the luggage out of my car, dump the contents on the ground, pull out the seats, inspect the engine and all other major cavities, and leave me with a mess that has ruffled and scratched my vehicle.

4 times in a row now.
there's no space to reclaim, honestly. If removing a 12pt line of text saves space, please buy a phone that supports more than just WAP.
I don’t know much about LitterRobor, but I must say, as an expert in cats (yup, don’t ask), that if you have the money and the room (best place is in the laundry room or next to your washing machine): CatGenie is the way to go...(https://www.catgenie.com/)

I’m not affiliated or involved in any way, it’s just an amazing product, from what looks like a great company, that has not-as-good SEO skills and (I would guess) is enjoying success enough that they dont need to be so agressive.

In any case, it’s a cat-owning disruptive item if you make it work for your cat: as any robot litter, it takes some training.

I litteraly don’t change the litter ever. I add more of their recycled washable granules once a year and, around every 4 months, one box of the product that washes them.

It wasn’t talked in any of the threads, so I couldn’t resist sharing.

Maybe our household and cats are an exception and lots of other people had a lot of problem with it. Or maybe people just don’t know how amazing this thing is :-)

I’m rooting for the latter.

In our home, it clearly succeed in wiping what the article start with as the big ticket item: the smell.

For the rest of the blog post, I do believe there’s solution but they all depends on the cat :-)

We have more problem with the air of our small dog, than with our persian-hairy cat...(and thanks robot vacuum cleaners!)