skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a bit late replying so I'm not sure if you're going to see this or not.

In your headphone example, I'd say it's pretty clear that this would not be a public performance. Let's approach the problem from the other direction. If you have a store and play music over speakers in the store then this does count and stores pay licensing fees for this. What about if an employee regularly plays music with a bluetooth speaker while they're working at the cash register? This is a representative of the company playing music where customers can hear it so you could argue it still counts. What if they don't use the speaker and play the music directly over their phone's speakers? Does the quality of the speakers matter? What if instead of a store it's a government employee working somewhere like the DMV? Is the government exempt from copyright laws? What's the difference between the DMV employee and a cop? They both work for the government, doing a job where they interact with the public, and are playing music over speakers where the public around them can hear it.

At what point in that series does it stop being a public performance? Where exactly does the law draw the line? Is there even a clear line in established case law? Does that precedent vary depending on your location in the US? I would be surprised if there is relevant precedent for this example. There wouldn't normally be any incentive for anyone in the music industry to claim this type of scenario is a public performance. However, I think that changes when the police start doing this to as a way to avoid criticism.
On a related note, I've noticed lately that Google has been giving me old results that show up as having recent dates, even though there's no date anywhere on the page (or it was grabbed from a random Disqus comment), and the content is clearly outdated (and often blogspam). I wonder if DuckDuckGo is any better...
This sort of thing is why I’m fine with Apple charging the people I do business with a 30% cut: Apple provides a lot of value making “payments” and “subscriptions” consistent between vendors.
Not at these electricity prices it's not.
When assets are skyrocketing but "inflation is low" it makes me think the inflation indexes are rigged as an excuse to print money.
Google's Flutter plagued with extreme animation jank issues on most iOS devices
Has anyone analysed Starlink in terms of jitter and packet loss yet? Seems like every source so far only shows average ping and down/up speed.
Not directly.

In Texas and other deregulated markets, you can be on either a fixed rate for n months or on a variable rate. If you're on a variable rate, the rate will be much higher than normal for the next few months. If you're on a fixed rate you're fine for now, but keep an eye on when your fixed rate expires. This assumes that your supplier is still in business after the next few months (many suppliers will go bankrupt because of this). For the suppliers, they're going to be hit hard by people who either decide not to pay their supplier next month, or have people who switch to budget billing. They're going to suffer a cash crunch for a bit.

If you are in a regulated market or are using the regulated utilities like ConEd in NYC, you'll see limited rate increases to deal with the increased cost to supply. These rate increases need to be approved by the state's Public Utility Commission.
Heh, this is a 100 billion+ disaster when it is over. There are so many things people have not talked about yet. Multiple blood banks have lost their entire cooling and flooded at the same time. A medical testing and samples lab has had similar issues. You've not seen that in the news yet.

The there are the things we do know, like the Samsung IC shutdown that will cost millions in itself.
Link previews (headline, image, blurb) are a substitute good. Many would-be eyeballs never click through. Big tech profits, news media dwindles.
The author has been looking into this for years. The problem is of course complex.

However in the end there are two possible problems : a fundamental difference, or bad management. New York has more complex rock and slightly higher wages vs Spain, thus fundamentally it should cost about 1.2x more to build in new York, but we have direct comparisons so we.know new York is about 7x more expensive.
Anyone use a 'alternative energy supplier' (e.g., not the local power company, who you do pay for the transmission). Are your per-kWh prices fixed or do they float?
I don’t know the market dynamics but I’d assume it’s a combination of the excessive amount of nuclear available around us and old coal.

I put the hourly numbers on a couple of dashboards around my house populated by this api https://hourlypricing.comed.com/hp-api/
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What's the currrent word on data caps? Unlimited for now?
MMT is dumb, it's isomorphic to the current situation only it moves the responsibility for "cooling off" an overheating economy from the central bank (interest rates) to the legislature (taxes). And there is no way the legislature will have the wherewithal to actually raise taxes when it needs to to regulate that system.
This is a consequence of society breaking down into a collection of selfish individuals, which I think is largely a result of economic theories turning into self-fulfilling prophecies. Nobody is going to take pride in their work when it's viewed as nothing more than a selfish and cynical bargain by society at large.
There are other historical factors for methane utilization in TX.

By the early 1970s, the artificially low price set by the federal government had created a shortage, but only of interstate gas. Gas consumed within the state where it was produced was plentiful, but more expensive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_gas_in_the_United_Stat...
In St. Louis, MO (which is also seeing a long cold week and winter storms), our power has averaged 8¢/kWh this month. We have a mix of hydro, nuclear, gas, and I believe one coal plant serving our area.
All of the power sources failed because in the de-regulation of the power grid[0] allowed looser operating temperature tolerances.

The point is, as you allude to, is the wind turbine is absolutely an easy narrative to "blame someone else" instead of "us" being the problem.

So, the current party in power, blames wind/green energy, which then effectively shrinks wind's scope overall, leaving the old infrastructure which is still inadequate.

The thing that frustrates all of us is - the general public is blind that the root problem was never solved. A cold snap like this won't happen in 10-20 years and by then all the politicians will have "blamed green, successfully squashed/fixed it all" and moved on claiming they won.

There needs to be a fight, investigations are the starting point for sure.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/17/how-the-texas-power-grid-fai....
That’s not really the point. It’s that once companies have your CC info they make it arbitrarily difficult to stop paying them. This kind of behavior should run afoul of consumer protection laws.
Am I the only one having a really hard time reading this font? Its weight is way too light/thin and the letters are really close together.
It’s not really meant to compete with cable/fiber. This is for people stuck with geo stationary trash, dsl, microwave relay, etc. It’s a massive market and can take SpaceX to a trillion dollar company easily without ever stealing a cable customer.
Thanks so much! The phrase "unreasonably helpful" comes to mind. Also, kudos for the extraordinarily high-quality documentation in snebu!
For people who live in rural areas this is pretty typical.
Somewhat off topic but I wish the font were easier to read.
$150 for 50Mbps is what I'm paying for Comcast Business, and they haven't been able to render an invoice for months.
It depends on your utility contract, but very likely not. Most consumers pay a fixed volumetric rate, and it's the utility that is exposed to real-time fluctuations in the wholesale price of power.
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Standards in various parts of Europe are not that different, and sometimes they have harder standards. In Asia you often find high standards as well.
Unlimited for now but they've hinted they could cap them later.
You’d at most lose what you staked, right? Like if the bet is truly 100:1, and you bet $100 and win but the exchange implodes, you only lose the $100 correct?

Mind you not sure how it can be a risk free 100:1. I think this assumes the leverage is on the same exchange that goes bust.
> But we’ve seen that Amazon can’t or won’t commit to changing the pharmacy channel.

The article says no.
Markets are just collections of individual decision makers, making resource allocation decisions. If you want to understand "market rationale" you have to make some attempt to understand the why those individuals are making those decisions. When you do this, you tend discover perfectly rationale decision making. If you still want to call it irrational because you disagree with the motives of those decision makers, or you think they've made mistaken assumptions, or because their risk appetite exceeds your risk appetite, or because you simply think they're dumb, then all you're doing is using the word "irrational" wrong.

For instance your comment about GME seems to involve an intentional misrepresentation of what occurred, for the purpose of supporting a judgemental comment. All of the decision making involved was perfectly rational. The decision to short the stock is a perfectly rational risk to take based on the short sellers analysis of the business fundamentals. The decision to squeeze the stock is also a perfectly rational risk to take based on the knowledge that the short sellers would eventually have to close their positions. Your statement that the price of GME should have (in a rational world) reflected the value of the business is simple a misrepresentation of how the system works. The price of GME represents the demand for GME, and for a set of perfectly rational reasons, that price was temporarily misaligned with the value of the underlying business. I get the feeling you're trying to make some criticism about how the mechanics of the system work, but to do so under the pretence of irrationality is simply wrong.
I am long on Bitcoin and also believe Tether is a fraud. I expect Bitcoin will significantly drop, but I realize I could be wrong. If it does drop, that is nothing but a large buying opportunity to me. If it doesn’t drop, I’ll be happy to just buy smaller amounts on a steady basis.
Is it possible for Western Canada to contribute into the US grid?
What would you recommend, then?
Consider developing a plan for the removal of dead fish at plant’s intake structure in case low lake temperatures cause massive fish kill.

From ERCOT’s winter weather best practices:

http://www.ercot.com/content/meetings/other/keydocs/2011/201...
Getting collections to your door for not paying your internet bill is mostly a European thing. I haven’t seen it in the US.
the primary purpose of a market is supposed to be to accurately allocate productive resources and pick winners and losers. In a market constantly flush with cash where everyone just buys index funds that discriminatory function basically vanishes and you have a political commitment to always make the stonks go up even if it supports zombie firms. Which is already the case tbh.

Same with housing. Nimbyism is such a big deal in the US because rather than seeing housing as a utility that should be cheap, it's become a store of value that must always go up.
I want to know what the beat tiling manager was in 1997
I prefer to think of it as "depreciating fiat currency worth less every year", but sure.
FDIC insurance is 250k per account, in the US. Only 323M/7.6B can take advantage of this.
Don't forget the USDT liquidity in the defi markets, which is a growing area too: https://defimarketcap.io/protocol/uniswap-v2

I think my point is that at this point even the solvency of tether corp is actually irrelevant to the value of their USDT. People believing in it seem to work well enough. Until people no longer believe in it, it will seem to exist.

Bitfinex haircut is yet another reason why you don't store money in exchanges.
Please stop assuming that people don't want to custody their own funds -- I have spent a great deal of time in the recent months and years convincing folks to install wallets and take custody their funds. Most find it easy and painless. There is a light bulb moment when people realize they are in control of their funds, and nobody can take this away from them. Exchanges are like internet banking, boring in 2021.
Money over the internet, however, is really cool.

Always stress the importance of backing up the seed phrase, and folk's wont lose access to funds.
People like it! Its like a magical incantation to recovery coin anywhere in the universe.

Negative interest rates are coming for your dollars. The bank is not your friend.
Back in 2006 an AOL subscriber recorded their conversation with an AOL customer service agent while trying to cancel the service. It was really bad, way worse than this NYTimes process. The NYT wrote an article about the debacle [1] and had this to say about Netflix's great customer service and ease of cancellation, compared to AOL's awful service:

"Seeing how Netflix would be so protective of my time were I to leave makes me all the more unlikely to do so."

Maybe the NYT should take their own advice.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/business/yourmoney/02digi...
A little trick might work. You only need to say you become a trump supporter and they will cancelled it immediately. I use this way and the whole process cost less than 5 mins.
I like Carbon, the option of creating new themes and saving snippets. Is the project still alive? I got a message from Open Collective [0] saying they stopped accepting donations.

[0] https://opencollective.com/carbon-app
> But this means you can't actually use the correct submodule commit during the rebase?

You can update during an interactive rebase if you need to, why not? I've never personally needed this but given how rebases work then an update should be possible if you need to.

> How do you admit this and yet simultaneously say "I don't know why people raise such a stink about them"

Because the lack of a simple removal command does not warrant the "avoid submodules at all costs" sentiment currently the top voted comment on this thread.

> You somehow know there are pain points, you know the various workarounds which can consist of N hoops to jump through,

There are places to improve commands. That's it. And the only hoop I have to jump through is a removal of a stubborn submodule the need arises.

> Aren't these clearly contradictory?

No. The world isn't a dichotomy; both things can be true.

> I'm pretty sure I know what all of those are and still find submodules painful.

A submodule is just a ref, just like a tag. Init and deinit can be finicky, that's about it. If you fully understood refs, then submodules shouldn't be that difficult to reason about.

What, specifically, do you find "painful"?
Up-front as in your initial release is rejected, instead of a point-release a year later that only fixes a typo.
I was able to place an actual order just last week in St. Louis, MO.

I will be using it and doing some tests in an area that actually has cable Internet (though spotty, and until very recently was limited to less than 20 Mbps up, no matter how much you paid).

But you have to realize, when you look at the $600 initial cost and $100 monthly fee—this will bring 100+ Mbps down and 15+ Mbps up to so many places (even in suburbs) where people couldn't get more than 10/2 or so for any price.

I already know a few people who don't even live in rural parts who would happily pay triple just to get off their junk DSL or flaky Cable connection, even with Starlink in beta. They are already used to spotty Internet, so Starlink is a massive improvement even if it's spotty (which it hasn't been, according to these users).
? link says limited pre orders
This is what mirroring or forking is for...
If you're a residential PG&E customer you'd have to look up your current tariff schedule here: https://www.pge.com/tariffs/electric.shtml

Likely, no, as your rates have been set some time ago.
It didn't have to be this way :( https://www.energy-net.org/01NUKE/CALIF.HTM

"Northern California is the home of the first successful opposition to the promotion and development of commercial nuclear reactors in the U.S. In the 1950's northern and central California's privately owned utility company, PG&E, was planning to be one of the giants in the new field of nuclear energy."
Great insight, and I agree. With a lot of family and some friends in rural parts of the U.S., the weak internet and cable connections are detrimental to any sort of internet-based tech.
Wells freeze in all the time. Around a decade ago I was working with an in law that was dealing with a frozen dewatering unit on a very large compressor. We also measure the water tanks get pumped back into the earth. High output wells need their water emptied every day or two. Guess what an ice storm prevents. On, and the water tanks will freeze and cant be emptied.
For me, "Fellini Satyricon" is his most remarkable film, even if not his greatest and certainly not his most popular. No film about the Roman world has conveyed so graphically what must have been the actual, enormous strangeness of classical times. It's a disturbing film, both a picaresque sex comedy and a nightmare of everyday superstition and casual violence.

In comparison, the most famous works of cinema about ancient Rome -- Ben-Hur, Spartacus, I Claudius, and so forth -- are laughably sanitized and similar to our own world, which is the common failing of most historical drama of course. Fellini ditched the convention by, among other things, staying extremely faithful to the original source. The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter is a jolting and bizarre read. A lot of the humor and wordplay, I'm told, is lost in translation.
I don’t understand why the author mentions the $200K salaries paid to those managers. As if there is a threshold that has been crossed. That sort of thinking is problematic.
This has not been my experience with Netflix at all. I regularly unsubscribe and resubscribe later. Unsubscribing is always just a click of a button and I've never had to speak to anyone at Netflix for anything.

Incidentally they also appear to honor their data deletion policy. If I stay unsubscribed for more than six months, my account ceases to exist and I need to create a new one to resubscribe.

I would have thought Netflix would be the gold standard for how to do this properly. I'm sure they have lots of people like me who subscribe a few months a year just to check out whatever's new. If I ever ran into a problem like this I would never sign up again.
> Does GNU not (at times) restrict the distribution of software

No, the GPL does not restrict the distribution of software. The GPL requires that source code be made available. That's not remotely the same thing. The GPL also doesn't have anything to do with manual curation. The GPL is also, while we're on the subject, not a platform. The GPL does not prevent you from running GPL-licensed code on another system, or building your own system that interacts with GNU code. Apple does prevent all of those things.

So ignoring that the GPL does not restrict the distribution of software[0] there's still this huge jump in logic you're making that starts with "here is a thing that resulted in good outcomes" and jumps to a completely separate concept and says "maybe this will also have good outcomes." But it's an Apples and Oranges comparison.

It's like saying, "the GPL has resulted in good software. Maybe an increased federal minimum wage will also be good." Those two things aren't related to each other.

> It seems self-evident that a lot of the privacy improvements in recent androids (like filesystem isolation in Android Q) probably would not have occurred without the impetus provided by Apple’s competitive pressure in this area

It is also self evident that concepts like filesystem isolation do not require gatekeepers to work. The web has better security than your iPhone. It just does. And it doesn't require mandatory curation to get those benefits. It is possible to build systems that have good sandboxing controls without closing down platforms and installing gatekeepers that decide who is and isn't allowed to make software. Filesystem isolation is a good example of that. We can do things like retire persistent device advertising IDs without an app store.

> it's not fair that GNU is restricting user freedoms because Microsoft isn't allowed to distribute code that links against GNU source

No, Microsoft can distribute code that links against a GPL library, in fact if they link against a GPL-licensed source they are required to do so with the code they link. The lack of restrictions in the GPL is the reason why the GNU and the OSCI don't recognize "source-available" licenses like SSPL, which do actually restrict user freedom. The GPL is a different thing. We actually do want Microsoft to link to GPL code, and sometimes Microsoft does release code under the GPL, and we're all usually happy about it.

[0]: In fact, if anything it's the opposite, it requires the distribution of software code (in some instances). The GPL is never going to tell you that you can't release something.
My house is an artificial monopoly. Only I get to decide who comes in. People come in only by choice. My guests and I having freely chosen to be together, in my place, abiding by my rules.

It's like that, except my house is very big and I'm Apple. Everyone, by their choice in accepting my invitation, have chosen to abide by my rules.

All guests are free to leave any time!

Now, what right does a 3rd party (the gov't) have to come in and crash my party and force me to change some of my rules? Consenting adults chose to be here!
40 Year History of Opposition to Nuclear Power in California
And you would be wrong. Inflation != asset prices. Don't make me post the global savings glut thing again... Also "rigged" is just conspiracy language. YOU CAN LITERALLY LOOK UP THE INDEX YOURSELF. Channel your inner hacker and do it, learn something, you don't need anyone's permission. I'll even help.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_consumption_expenditu...
Any idea on pricing?

I wonder how many people would switch over if it was priced ~$10 higher than a Comcast plan, just to avoid having to deal with Comcast. I hope this ubiquitous competition will force prices for wired Internet down and customer service quality up.

And if it is able to scale, this will be a VERY attractive offer in underdeveloped countries like Germany. (Germany may be a first world country, but the Internet access options sure don't feel that way.)

Will Starlink offer mobile solutions? I could see this being a game changer for Internet on ships or for temporary use in extremely remote locations where a sat phone at eye-watering prices were the only options right now.
I have seen a lot of Stadia bashing since they shut down their development studio. It’s annoying. Stadia is an awesome product and a very promising technology. It’s sad for that one game that everyone seems to worship, but has never played it, I can’t remember its title.
I’m so tired of the hate trains, general saltiness and cancel culture on the internet.
Long live stadia