skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a constitutional amendment, so it would take another amendment to overturn it. It has created its own positive feedback cycle for support, because its beneficiaries are long-term residents, which means older older and wealthier people, who vote more. If a) your rent isn't going up, because you own and your taxes are fixed, and b) your kids are old enough to be out of school, and c) you live closer to work because you bought when the areas were less developed, then you're insulated from the 3 main problems that Prop 13 creates.

Those who would benefit from its repeal - renters, people who moved out, people who choose not to move to CA in the first place because of cost and governance, children, etc, either don't vote as consistently or can't vote in CA at all.
Was that a conspiracy theory, and had it failed in court?
See rgorhill's comment from 2018:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897...

It's not just about the limit.
Not sure what this has to do with my post. I meant my post as anti-censorship. That education in critical thinking is the answer to fake news, not censorship.

But I am curious why Kamala Harris would be expected to resign now? There are several weeks until inauguration, and there may be several votes in the Senate or on the Judicial Committee between now and then. Why would she leave her position vacant for that long?
If only we had a government mechanism for holding service providers to higher standards for neutral delivery of services to citizens regardless of economic incentives.
Why have rate limiting at all? Just disable it
The difference is that with MD5, attacks were found relatively quickly. Introduced in 1992, and by 1996 cryptographers were already recommending that people switch to a replacement such as SHA-1 or RIPEMD-160.

SHA256 meanwhile was introduced in 2001, and since then no significant attacks have been found. So not only has it withstood attack for much longer, cryptography has advanced greatly compared to what we knew in 1992.

That still isn't a guarantee of future success. But look at it this way: I don't think you could have introduced Bitcoin in 1998. Hash functions were just too new to be trusted to the extent that Bitcoin requires.
doubt it. oculus alone will fade to obscurity
Great point. Are there any bootstrapped $1B+ open core companies? There are a surprising number of proprietary ones (e.g. Esri, Mailchimp, etc.)
Youtube, at least up to now, is a platform not a publisher.

Part of the muddying is that it is very difficult for people to see information if it is not on one of these major publishers or platforms.
Information that is legal to present, but no one will ever see, may as well not exist.
Most cases, sure. But did you see the evidence in the article about her reputation at work? She was quite obviously an appreciated employee all around.
That article uses "populism" as a derogatory term.

The GOP does not employ "populism" they employ scare tactics.
If we don't have a meaningful signature match, than we don't have a meaningful way to prevent fraud with mail in ballots. Period.

Bad ballot Rejection rate of 6% in previous election to now 0.02%, with mail in ballots. Mismatched signatures resulted in a rejection for only 0.02% of all absentee ballots cast. How is that even possible. They counted almost everything.
For those of you that think its unfair to reject ballots. Well how do you verify that the person cast the ballot is the one that sent it in?
I'm not arguing Google are censoring legal documents. But let's take this trend in that direction...

1. How would the average person find that website? A search engine perhaps?

2. How many search engines does the average person use? One, perhaps? Which one?
It should be forbidden after IPO to acquire other companies because of this kills competition before it has the chance to compete.
> But...

There is no "buts" regarding freedom. I dont know if you have any experience with authoritarian measures but none of them starts like "This is a bad and permanent measure for no reason"... all of them are "exceptional", "to ensure public safety" ,"only valid as long as extraordinary circumstances are present"..all of them. The democrats were claiming fraud 4 years go due to a supposed Russian influence.The evidence was tenuous and circumstantial at best. I dont remember seeing a similar cry for censorship. The problem that America , and for extension a big part of the world has, is that the world is view through tribalism. People LOVE to say they are objective, but that is rarely rarely the case.
Did we read the same thing? She was trying to escalate to upper management that she saw some issues with suppliers, which were possibly due to people choosing their friends as supplier instead of choosing the best supplier, and also some issue with floor mats that could be a safety concern. And they fired her for that.

I don't know what else there is to spin? It looks to me she cared too much about doing a good job and tried to mingle with a manager chain that cared more about themselves.
The way I see it, an important argument is that it won't solve the problem: these organizations take advantage of network effects to build monopolies and that mechanism won't go away. A good book on this is Who Owns The Future by Jaron Lanier.

Of course, forbidding anti-competitive acquisitions would have helped in that maybe then we'd all be using an independent Instagram under the leadership of its original founders and Facebook would be dying. But that still wouldn't change the fact that it would be more than likely to be a quasi monopoly. That's just the nature of social networks.
Because it's revenue.

If I spend $10 to acquire a customer worth $50 in revenue, my revenue is $50.

If I spend $150 to acquire a customer worth $100 in revenue, my revenue is $100.

In the second situation I have twice as much revenue. The fact that that revenue has been heavily subsidized and isn't profitable doesn't make it any less "revenue".
GCP's UI controls for adding/removing instances from instance groups is appalling. It's unbelievably slow and can even lie to you (i.e. telling you an instance has been removed when it actually hasn't).
Fourty-eight States and Federal Government Sue to Break Up Facebook
Can you really call these "partisan actions"?

They are removing videos containing provable, obvious lies. An unabated, huge volume of lies and deceit, that altogether is potentially dangerous.

Those lies happen to favour a political party, and are even instigated by the leader of that party, but I don't agree that the action of removing them is "partisan"; these actions would be taken regardless of which party was benefiting.
I would argue that open core isn't a business model but more of a development strategy.
Tactics, strategy, you're just shuffling. The point is that the Democrats could easily have done much more with the impeachment and they didn't.
The first line misses a delta as well:
δἐδυκε μὲν ἀ σελάννα

The poem is beautiful and the translations do its sophisticated simplicity no justice.

Thanks to the OP, by the way, for the astronomical article. I have tried to date the poem as well. And the imagery of the Nebra sky disk made me try even harder.
click

"Leslie Nielsen, star of 'Airplane!' and 'Naked Gun,' dead at 84 [10YA | Nov 29]"

Oh :(

I didn't realise.
And a good engineer usually does not make a good salesperson. Starting a company does not make a good engineer better nor does it guarantee a better path in one's career. On the contrary I would dare say.
>Source: work for FAANG, I see many one way relocations US>EU, not so much other way around.

At FAANG salaries I sure as hell bet they love life here since they're basically part of the 1% top earners in Europe but not every skilled worker in Europe can achieve FAANG levels of compensation. In other words, your sample size has too much room for selection bias and is purely anecdotal.
The gov't portion includes basically everyone over 65 via Medicare, who have a disproportionate share of healthcare needs.
what if one of them used privacy as a selling point?
It's kind of funny how hard the CAGOP pushed for independent redistricting thinking that the Dems were gerrymandering them out of existence. After the independent redistricting happened they lost the few seats they had and now essentially cease to exist.
Monopoly of what? Some other social networks I use every day or so: Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok and various forums and communities like this one, which in my mind are pretty similar to a social network.

And since WhatsApp is a chat app, how about all the other chat apps I am using? iMessage, Slack, Teams.

Does this action has any merit or is it just the usual political posturing and games?
"Second, because your skin in the game probably doesn't change, instead the total amount of skin in the game gets larger."

But the dimensions of the game grow as well, and that is where mistakes can be made.

Some founders are probably better bosses/managers in a collective of five than in a collective of fifty. If the company grows slowly, they may improve their skills/catch up. If it grows in a sudden leap, which is well possible with a large injection of cash, the space for making bad decisions from ignorance or lack of experience grows as well.
No I believe it is true that a plaintiff from Pennsylvania who was suing Pennsylvania was denied in the SCOTUS, but this was after Texas files their suit which was more inclusive, so the two might relate.

Edit:
SCOTUS declined to hear that case, possibly in anticipation of hearing the Texas one instead, possibly because they intend to hear neither.
For the cost of a normal middle-class home in Palo Alto [1], I could buy an entire public airport with a paved runway and home on almost 300 acres in the (not Texas) town I lived in as a child [2].

1: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/529-Driscoll-Pl-Palo-Alto...

2: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/37-Colonel-Lindbergh-Ln-M...
If you spend less money, you need less money.
This lawsuit: https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/ima...

As a former resident of Texas, I'm particularly entertained by irregularity #2:

"Intrastate differences in the treatment of voters, with more favorable allotted to voters–whether lawful or unlawful–in areas administered by local government under Democrat control and with populations with higher ratios of Democrat voters than other areas of Defendant States."

Check out Tarrant, Dallas, Harris, and Travis counties:

https://redistricting.capitol.texas.gov/docs/19R0036_86th_Se...
"It’s still unclear how ubiquitous this behavior is among pandas" ... "And if the idea pans out, it would be a bit baffling, Dr. McShea said. Pandas, like other bears, have very thick coats of fur. “They are adapted for cold weather already,” he said."
>36.6% Non-Hispanic White

>41.4% Non-Hispanic White

4.8%. that sure makes a world of difference.

I'm wondering if you're implying that there's something wrong with having such a preference though. You have provided some interesting statistics, would you mind if I did so as well?
In response to this article's discussion of automating some tasks away, back when I was at Microsoft we studied the effects of an automated code reviewer on team collaboration. Our automated code reviewer utilized a family of analyzers (e.g., static, dynamic, binary, security, and dependency analyzers, along with best practice linters), unit test results, and feedback from the build system.

To summarize, a lot of effort during code reviews is spent on superficial details while missing high-level design discussions and bugs. Anything that can get rid of those superficial problems (i.e., linters and program analyzers) is helpful, but we found that it was even better to optionally show the analyzer's warnings to the entire team , not just an individual prior to the code review. Showing the warnings to the entire team let them discuss them (and they often did) and decide as a group what should be done.

Findings from our project: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/pubs/Henley2018CHI_CFar.pdf
EU at most will just ban FB to allow local competitors to emerge. There's no point regulating american companies
I'm not a fan of the partisan nature of our politics, or the political theater of Russiagate.

Out of curiosity, did you mean: partisanism?

I accepted that President Donald Trump won the electoral college in 2016, and that he lost it in 2020. I don't think Democrats trying to get a few million people in on an election fraud conspiracy would have been good for the country, and I don't think Democratic politicians believed that was a good idea either.
I haven’t worked with IBM, but soon as Oracle was mentioned, I understood.
That other comment is not acceptable on HN either. Please just don't go there.
Generally no, he couldn't do that, as that would be the opposite of the concept of divestment.
Sturgeon's law: "90% of everything is crap". With the benefit of time it's easier to filter out the crap. New crap is shiny, old crap is stinky.

Sturgeon was talking about pop culture. There was a lot of crappy music composed contemporaneously with Bach, but the crap has been forgotten and only the good stuff survived.
On the same note, a relative asked me the same thing when they IPO.I thought if Google could make money selling ads why couldn't Facebook. I bought in at IPO price for them. I sold for them about 2 years ago when the price was dropping due to privacy scandals.
I don't listen to right wing media. Or left wing media. They're both terrible. (I pay for my news to try an avoid the nonsense.)

I will say this nicely as well, you should re-read my argument to see where the depth lies. I take caution to ask a simple "IF/THEN" question that's really just a latent criticism of media including social media. The idea that "voter fraud" is some "Trump concocted nefarious scheme" is also rather ridiculous. Voter fraud gets claimed after every election.

I hope our new censorship overlords are fair and honest in their censorship.
> From an entrepreneurial point of view I wonder how it will affect the future of big tech players acquiring other companies.

It won't.

The full power of the United States does not reverse all those shares you sold to a big tech company, or sold as a big shareholder of a big tech company.

If the market tolerates a price, based on their own exuberance and view of future revenues, that is fine here, and the incentives will continue to promote near term profits with a who-gives-a-shit slim possibility of cleanup by the regulators.

Corporations are just a conduit for money, and the regulators only enforce actions on the conduit, and thats a maybe.
I think you nailed it, but I want to reframe it just a little.

There have always been limitations on free speech, especially when it presents a danger to others. That’s exactly what the talking heads are doing, and their speech absolutely should be limited.

But as with so many harmful things, we humans tend to only be good at reacting to immediate threats while ignoring those that kill us slowly. Think dietary decisions.

If you call for violence, you get in trouble, but if you spend months pushing propaganda meant to inspire violence, you get away with it. We’ve got to recognize the cumulative effects are the same and react accordingly.
That's a super interesting point! Way subtler than what Taibbi is saying.

I heard something, I can't remember from where, about the economics of promoting meme stocks --- which Robinhood is guilty of --- but that might just have involved shorting loan fees.
So what? Completely irrelevant.

You're acting like a jilted lover, not a participant in democracy.
Sounds good. Keep going. We can never move forward if nobody tries.
It also triggers survival instincts due to the similarity with the sound of swarming insects.
Unless they rewrote Whatsapp from ground up, the two platforms are not mixed. Whatsapp is written in Erlang where Facebook has transitioned from PHP to Hack to the best of my knowledge.
My personal opinion:

The answer to that question is "Yes."

A platform is a particular kind of publisher, and a publisher is a particular kind of platform. 'Publisher' and 'Platform' are two overlapping circles on a Venn diagram.
My concern is they said that 18 months ago and the limit still appears to be 30,000. I think I'm going to check out the beta and see if that's the case.

Edit: I just tested it and the limit is still 30,000. Here's the error if you're curious:

https://imgur.com/a/EmywSUk
>just had a successor (XM4) which has multiple device support.

As an owner of those same Sony headphones (XM3), their multi-device support is a joke compared to airpods. Not even kidding, night and day. Manual pairing, limit on devices, having to do everything through Sony's buggy app, etc. I still like them, because when I am working at my desk in an office, I would prefer over-the-ears. If Apple manages to match and/or beat Sony's sound+ANC quality, but bring all the connectivity and great multi-device pairing features of current Airpods to Airpods Max, I am sold.
The link I shared in my last comment goes into detail on how we view the differences between application vs infrastructure.

To your point on your usage - it's certainly possible that folks use GitLab in different ways and that our thesis does not apply to each use case.
China taking over TSMC control. How, exactly? China isn't looking to invade Taiwan any time soon, unless America puts bases in Taiwan first. And an invasion of Taiwan would immediately result in the destruction of TSMC, thus invasion is not a viable strategy to gain TSMC.
Note that the oil industry-related taxes and fees tend to subsidize TX coffers. Without plentiful oil, TX would probably have higher taxes.
It indeed is trying to solve a real problem, but also conveniently breaks effective ad blocking. Doing that is a choice; there are other measures they could've taken to improve privacy to the same level while keeping granular blocking intact.

For example, they could have chosen a system where privacy-sensitive information like visited URLs are fed into a part of the extension which is a side-effect free function returning limited information. As they already have capability-based extension permissions, this would not be terribly hard to add if they would set their mind to it.

More manual reviewing of valuable extensions would also be a path. They don't need to allow all extensions this permissions, and there doesn't need to be a level playing field for extensions here. It's just that Google doesn't see effective ad blocking as valuable, but rather the opposite.
Will splitting off Instagram make a meaningful difference given how little protections there are around selling advertising data?

I agree we would’ve been better off if they had never been allowed to buy Instagram AND we had meaningful laws in place, but I don’t see how this fundamentally changes things given where we are now.
Some views Moderate Democrats held in the 90s could be very far right, depending on the subject. Bill Clinton supported "Don't ask, don't tell" and the defense of marriage act. They were considered moderate in the 90s, but I would classify them as far right today. A moderate in the 1930s could literally have supported Fascism, and the "progressive" Woodrow Wilson supported the Klu Klux Klan. I'm not saying this applies to you, but "moderate XX years ago" is not an argument against something being far right.
Can you not read the sarcasm?
If only there were some kind of federal agency, maybe a "trade commission" that could have blocked these mergers when they originally happened ....
The state has gone downhill on every metric possible. People can't name even 5 things that have improved over the past decade. Taxes, infrastructure, homeless, rent/housing, cost of living, gas, traffic, smog and pollution, crime, illegal immigration, gangs, fires, droughts, private property issues, local govt gridlock and deficiency, and now the weather isn't great either.

Unfortunately many of those leaving don't realize the policies they voted for are the main cause of this mess and might repeat the same thing in the new areas.
You can vouch for a comment, but not a post. (Except by emailing dang.)
Very true. I unwisely chose an employer and my life has been increasingly harsh and lately scary, and the snowball of problems grows and rolls down the hill. OpenTable, don’t work or them.
It only looks bad to people who have only gotten interested in politics in the past 4 years, and for many had never known the actual process, but without any past data claim that this year's process looks "shady".

A large problem is you've seen everyone else as the other group, and your group as persecuted, so to me, it looks like you are accepting right wing talking points without critical thought. I promise you I don't think every single GOP/Republican is a nazi, but some of them are feeding you misinformation.

For example, there were no observers kicked out in PA. This claim famously went to court where the Trump's lawyers were forced to admit that they had the same number of observers as democrats before having their case thrown out [1].

Likewise in GA, where you have a completely Republican controlled voter apparatus, you have come to believe that the governor, secretary of state and many of the republican workers for the state have decided to sloppily tilt the state in Biden's favor, for seemingly no reason.

Also consider, that in many of these cases, they are being presided over by Republican judges (or judges appointed by Republican presidents), as is the case with the majority of our judicial system. McConnell famously prevented Obama from making many court appointments, while Trump has made hundreds. The further you look into this, the voter fraud story would have required co-ordination between not only the democratic party across the country, but also with several Republican staffers and judges. Voter Fraud of this magnitude would require an incredible grand conspiracy but somehow that is more believable to many than the fact Trump lost.

Again, I don't believe every single GOP/Republican is a Nazi, but the media wing seems to be working incredibly hard to make you believe that there is something nefarious going on in this election when there hasn't been any credible proof there is. Maybe that's not what a Nazi would do, but I implore that you take an unbaised look at what is being said, and what is actually happening on the ground.

[1] https://twitter.com/kadhim/status/1324485343274557443
Arguable. The antitrust cases against MS had a real and profound effect on the development of the first round of internet companies in the late 90's and early 2000's, even though it never went to a trial and verdict.
When people are sufficiently separated and it doesn’t affect them, people can make very poor decisions on the fate of others.
Host pings, but port 80 is dead.
Climate change: Low-carbon revolution 'cheaper than thought'
Does lemmy still do the thing where they censor certain words and don't include a way to configure the censorship to try and discourage certain groups from using it?
If you sell the software, you could in theory form a team with hired individuals, etc. It’s not proprietary software that has some advantage; the act of keeping the source proprietary does nothing to help with logistics of development, that’s what charging money does.

As for the questions, I don’t have the solution, I am limited to knowing what the problems are unfortunately.
While half the country cheers on. How many of those half actually believe in what's happening and how many are just along for the ride, pursuit of power above all else?

It's sickening how a coup attempt is being normalized by our media.
Working from my dining room table in tee shirts and shorts led me to hook my toes over the bottom rung of the chair a fair bit of the time. This caused stretching the got rid of the mild plantar fasciitis that had troubled me for most of a year.
LOL if it is legitimate I'll just read about him in the Post instead hah.