skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi.

I first thought this is a stupid question, but the details make it difficult to answer (I think).

So mainly I would say: No, you can not sue someone over its pricing schema, except its "price gouging" or "monopolistic".

But why is there a different price per Country? I would suggest that prices are lowered (or raised) depending on "market entrance" and "market competition".

So in order to gain market share, the entry prices are low, even free.

About "circumvent" this: Yes, probably possible.
About suing when "discontinue account": Probably there is something written in the TOS, so mostly no chance of suing.
Make it per contact per month. Most people reoccur calls to the same few people. Theres a way to get creative to penalize spammers but keep it cheap for customers.
>Utilitarian ethics require that people inhabit thought experiments like this.

Sure, utilitiarian ethics might require this.

But moving a level up, utilitarian ethics themselves are not required. Especially in this form.

Historical ethics have always been utilitarian - in the sense of serving the preservation/goals of the community (or leaders) that established them.

But precisely for that, they were developed not based on astract utility (based on ill-defined terms like "good", "happiness", etc), but on concrete goals, beliefs, etc, and under the influence of concrete desires and historical feedback and struggles ("emergent/evolutionary" would be a better term).

The modern eponymous "utilitarian ethics", is an ahistorical, naive version of ethics, where everything is reduced to abstract utility discussions and mind games.
I think your reasoning is sound, but one problem I see with your suggestion to optimize for odds of survival is that it would reward societies that most would consider incredibly unethical.

As a simplistic example, imagine a scenario where 10,000 of the richest, most intelligent, and most physically fit wipe out the rest of the human race and establish a high-tech self-sustaining town from which they live full happy lives and conduct research on how to face existential threats to the species. Reproduction is allowed, but every cohort of children goes through a Hunger-Games-style test when they reach a certain age to keep the population stable and select for the fittest children.

Wouldn't that be a more survival-optimized society? Would it be a society you'd want to live in?
That isn’t what I said nor is it the conclusion I’m drawing. The field becomes “clearer” because people who are not atheists then self-filter themselves out, don’t become philosophers, etc. It has nothing to do with the legitimacy or illegitimacy of theology.

Which is exactly why you should be skeptical of philosophical consensus on social issues. Philosophers are subject to the same social pressures and effects as any other human group.
And space exploration solves happiness for a significant portion of the human population? If we're talking about minimizing the repugnant conclusion we're generally talking about resources and how they're distributed.
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> Subsequently, on October 13, 2020, the Tax Administration demanded that all private individuals who had received money from abroad pay their taxes and social contributions for the preceding 6 years in a single installment, including accrued interest.

I've never heard of a tax that gets announced and is retroactively owed on prior earnings. That's terrifying. Does this happen often?
Google has a speed test built in now, which is difficult for ISPs to carve out. Just google for ‘speed test’ and it shows up as a card at the top of the page.
If they have never accepted contributions, then they are the sole copyright holder, and thus can do whatever they want with the code. Including not providing the source code to users.

You can't sue the copyright holder for infringing their own copyright.
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Spam calls were very active at the start of this year, but I don't answer calls and spammers fairly quickly gave up.
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We need to stop building a world without trust. Always checking, ensuring, surveilling (,mining on a blockchain), this is anti-human and will only lead to unhappiness, burnout, depression. It's no way to live unless we want to be like the Borg eventually.
They have a CLA, the legal side of things is clear. They can use their code however they want, the licenses are only relevant for others. When you contribute, you basically license your code under a permissive license to Signal (because of the CLA).
If you can stomach some more features, KeePassXC is well-maintained and has an excellent browser extension as well as FDO secret service integration on Linux for CLI access via secret-tool.
I've heard great things about MX450 graphics. I'm not sure why it's not making it into more ultrabooks.
Then people will go the cheap way and hope nothing wrong happens to them. But statistics is a bitch and it will inevitable happen to some. Then they'll start asking around for payouts.

We sort of had this in 90s and 00s in ex-USSR when not paying taxes was completely normal. The result is not pretty if you want to have a functioning society.
I agree. This synergy between the design and the message really appealed to me.
>For example, take self-driving cars. We can take it as a given that at some point such a car will be in a state that it will likely collide with a bystander or else risk the lives of it's passengers. At that point, which lives should it prioritize?

Those which the community will deem as acceptable, based on its historical ideas, tendencies, morals, etc (and adjusted to taste later on, e.g. when the victims pile up, or don't).

And that will solidify into a set of laws.

There wont be a pick based on some "perfect" abstract theoritical answer on this or that thought experiment.
Has the UK outperformed the EU on Covid-19 vaccinations?
Probably Coinbase is going to relist XRP. That was probably to be beyond conform in regard to their IPO and the SEC investigation in Ripple, now settled ...

As for Zcash and Monero, yes, these are sensibly some more anonymous cryptos, still nothing as anonymous as some simple bank notes .. :-)

Btw, when I see the amount of people thinking that Bitcoin is used (nowadays) for illegal activities, and commenting about it on HN (which has theoretically a more educated audience), this is mind-blowing how little Bitcoin is understood at the moment. It feels like our governments have made a really good job of disinformation
This is an excellent podcast around the Dunning-Kruger effect, how we can all be afflicted by it, and what it actually means. Setup around a (true) airline hijacking.

https://timharford.com/2021/03/cautionary-tales-the-dunning-...
Not sure about anyone of you but in my case the experience is terrible. Initial load 3.7 secs, then additional assets were downloaded +7secs. And this all just to show the button "Enter" which was unresponsive. After waiting for a couple more seconds background appeared. At this point I've spent 10 seconds on a site.

FYI I'm on 16'mbp so there is more than enough processing power. Maybe it is because of 11MB the website needs for the button to start working (delivered via 114 requests), but on the other hand my network throughput is around 100mb.

edit:
Network monitor says that each of png tiles (~300B) took 11sec on average to receive.

edit:
Still can reproduce this but the loading time fluctuates 3-11secs. I'm on FFv87. Maybe I'm too far from the CDN server.
I'm questioning Investopedia here.

Fiat is typically contrasted with commodity or representational currencies. The key element is that fiat has no intrinsic value. It's usually issued by a government, but need not be. The value comes from faith.

Bitcoin meets all the qualifications save government issuance. The bits themselves have no value. The currency's value is based on faith in both the underlying computations and in the existence of a market for trading bitcoin.

Wikipedia gives the definition "often by government regulation" (implying not necessarily) citing Goldberg, Dror (2005). "Famous Myths of "Fiat Money"". Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. 37 (5): 957–967. doi:10.1353/mcb.2005.0052. JSTOR 3839155. S2CID 54713138.
Not exacrtly tech oriented, but technology is often addressed as a fully-fledged topic:

Boston Review: https://bostonreview.net/

Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/

Eurozine: https://www.eurozine.com/

Jacobin: https://www.jacobinmag.com/

London Review of Books: https://www.lrb.co.uk/

Quartz: https://qz.com/featured/

Poynter: https://www.poynter.org/

ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/

The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/world/

The Baffler: https://thebaffler.com/

The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/international

The Hedgehog Review: https://hedgehogreview.com/

The MIT Press Reader: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/

The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/

The New York Review of Books: https://www.nybooks.com/

The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/

WIRED UK: https://www.wired.co.uk/
There's also the EFF website, "Am I FLoCed?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26755313 - April 2021 (33 comments, 144 points)
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> The government needs a warrant

not everywhere. In some places in Europe (e.g. Germany) the IRS is able to pull up your banking history without the bank having to notify you, and they can query a subset of the info (time of account opening, current deposit, personal info) without even notifying the bank.
Looks like it's a 2001 law that is now being enforced?
Wire is intended for team chat. You can't use it to talk to your friends, parents, or third party companies. Signal, Telegram, Whatsapp, Matrix, etc. are general purpose chat networks with millions of users each. Different use case. Matrix you could use for corporate chat and lots of companies do. It's one of the few federated options out there currently. Oss too.
Anything? What about software that continuously records everything you say and sends it to your employer?

If we're suddently ok with all kinds of intrusions, just because we got agree phone, that seems like a bad deal.
Thanks, that was a very insightful write-up. What is your take on the eight Clavinet parts? From what I understand there were only two takes each playing a different riffs: Clav 1 is the well-known main riff, Clav 2 complements it with a different pattern. All the other Clav tracks are one of these two either run through a (hi, mid or low) filter or through a delay.

Why did they use so many tracks to record the same performance with different effects when they could have easily applied only the effects they liked in the final mix afterwards?
Well thought and designed! I'm just wondering how it exactly works, do you have to set things manually or does it have access to your data and is automatically managing your schedule, tasks, payments, passwords…? I reckon the idea itself is pretty interesting but I would fear relying on it too much and missing to type something if I have to use it manually, but I'd also fear relying on it too much and seeing it crash for one reason or another.
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I'm quite intrigued with this message system… So how does this work exactly? Do people know who send them a message? And how does it collect your information so send you confirmation that the message was sent?
And it's noteably slow due to it; c.p.s. made sense at that time, but modern hardware takes advantage of the existence of a stack much more aggressively.

Chicken Scheme also uses it with a novel approach that allows the C stack to become the garbage collector which is still relatively fast as far as I heard.
It's actually very user friendly.. You can buy a DSM license to install on a normal machine
Try thinking about it more holistically. It's not so much that ants on their own are great for a specific purpose, but rather that they work together with other parts of the ecosystem to make the whole thing work. If you're so inclined, maybe it's useful to think about neural networks; take a face-recognition network, pick any node, then ask 'what is this good for?'.
As you state yourself, cs degrees fail at being proof of competence. They are too long, expensive, and unfocused. Hence why we really could use something else, simpler and more accessible.
"Besides being a beautiful website".

I think my beauty standards are terribly outdated since the last thing I would say about that website is that it is beautiful. Let me list my concerns:

1. It plays sound in the background
2. It is horrible cluttered, the only missing thing are those '90 animated torches and blinking text (but those moving blocks are even more annoying, what is an achievement in itself)
3. It is totally unreadable. Grey text on the black background, text is shifted, so reading requires keeping ones head bent over to the right. I can't imagine that someone with bad eyesight would be able to read the text.

Fun fact: the designer know that this sucks so there is some "switcher" that let you make text straight. One more fun thing: this switcher in barely visible for me when page loads, since "view" text is displayed on top of yellow "3D castle" on the left that cast grey shades, that are almost the same as grey color used for text.

4. You can't mark text, it is somehow blocked, so if you want to copy paste something (for instance to translate), it is not possible. No idea what could be the purpose for doing this.

5. Ctrl F for searching does not work, found text is not highlighted

If this is "innovation" and "creativity" and the way to "improve society" that this website keep chanting in every sentence I would say, thanks a lot for your corpo PR talk, you make into HN top page, good job, but better go back to making money and please leave society alone (and don't go into website building business, pleassssse).
I think you misunderstood; by "single-party state", the commenter is referring to those US states that consistently return candidates from the same party. Of course the union is not single-party; but some of the component states are, in practice.
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9 million - including many children, and mostly people of colour - die each year of starvation. Where's the emergency, trillions and unprecedented worldwide cooperation and effort to eradicate that forever within less than a year? It doesn't even require the invention of anything new, and is primarily a logistical (/expense) problem. Would save three times as many lives just in the first year, overwhemingly more life years overall, and be much easier to implement, being confined to mainly a few known, poorly-resourced areas (rather than the entire earth).

If you've seen or lived the effects of starvation firsthand, you'd find it difficult to understand why suddenly everyone is willing to do anything, even destroy their own livelihoods or take rush-developed intravenous shots, to try and save the lives of a significantly smaller number of predominantly elderly people who were about to die of just about anything else anyway, at the expense of those 9 million (or any other of preventable causes of death that kill in higher numbers per year and have been known about for decades, for example: smoking).

Why not spend a year making the manufacturing of cigarettes illegal, have a worldwide crackdown with cigarette company executives hauled to jail for crimes against humanity, make it illegal to depict smoking in any media, censor all images of cigarettes, and launch a 24/7 every news channel, every street corner propaganda campaign, with celebrities publicly blacklisting smokers?

Save significantly more lives in the first year, and keep doing so year after year. Wouldn't need to trash the economy, ruin businesses, or risk plunging anyone into poverty, etc - and no need for anyone to take a rushed, long-term untested shot.
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> This isn’t the thread for that.

The discussion organically lead to my point (I don't just go around moaning about Nintendo for giggles in any old thread) and it's not as if HN doesn't already have a long and rich history of conversations going off topic.

I also don't see why authority you have to tell me which topics are off topic on this discussion board. If you're not interested in a tangent then fold it and move on. It's what I do :)
From the company with industry leading support periods, device lifetimes and second hand value retention. If their intention is to deprecate devices early, they're objectively doing an incredibly terrible job at it.
Thanks! Hard to tell from the speed, but it looks alright.
No problem if the employer provides the "phone" and restricts the usage to the time and place where you are doing the work you are getting payed for. Then it's even ok to track me down to the meter in real-time.

With no obligation to take it along with you to the restroom or to keep in on you while you're on a break. Not like a short normal coffee/smoking break, but when you're officially clocked out.

Install something on my phone? Definitely not.
Budgie and Pantheon are built on the GTK toolkit but aren't forks of Gnome, similar to xfce.
That’s true, but I’d categorize it more as a social factor affecting philosophers and not philosophy itself. But of course we would get lost in endless debates about this.
From the article:

- "Toronto employment lawyer Lior Samfiru told Go Public that employers can compel employees to download an app on their cell phone — but only if they're told it's a requirement when they are hired."

So it's legal. Moreover, the lawyer continues saying that an employer can fire someone for any reason. So, if you don't sign an addendum with app requirement and install the app on your personal phone, then you are fired.

Now, I am amazed that an employer can legally have rights on other properties (hardware and data), and we are speaking of Canada here. I fear to know what they can do on more liberal countries (like the usa).
What happens if you have long running tasks in the worker?
> Bitcoin can be traced by sophisticated nation state actors at the cost of tens of millions per intercepted target.

Please... Bitcoin transactions can be traced by whoever has a laptop and internet. If you want to stay anonymous, there is nothing worse than Bitcoin. Do yourself a favour and switch to Monero and similar which offer some level of privacy. But there is nothing better than the good old bank notes. Anyway, please educate yourself https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin
How does it connect to the cars speakers?
What kind of legal route is there though? The NASes were explicitly sold without support for btrfs (when I was looking at options, they were clear about that). They explicitly did not allow creation of btrfs arrays and did not expose any settings related to them.

To get btrfs, you had to use another btrfs capable NAS and then move the drives over to use that unsupported functionality (which was, again not documented and clearly marked as unsupported) and this patch has now removed a module that allowed for accidental use of that unsupported functionality.

What legal grounds do you have here?
I sympathize with this. On the other hand, you have to consider the big picture:

- the open-source argument was mostly meant for everyone to look at the sources and draw their conclusions regarding privacy and security

- these guarantees are mostly client-side (and you can't check what's running on the server anyway, even with the code)

It's fair to say that the server code was proprietary for one year. Most of their code was still open-source during that time, and most of it (now that they push to the server repo as well) is now.

I feel they would have taken less flak over this if their server code had never been open-source to begin with, or if they just released it now.
I find this helpful. It satisfies my need to be doing 2 things at once, like turning the subtitles on when watching TV/movies
Do people really make 5 calls a day? I'd be surprised if I make 5 calls a month.
I've replaced the batteries in a handful of iPhones over the years and it's never been particularly awkward. The glue is just enough to hold the battery firmly in place, it's never been a significant obstacle to replacement. I don't know about the laptops.
What a funny thing to be ethically concerned about. Conflict is not over (will never be), anyone taking ethically and not functionally motivated positions on demographics will simply be replaced by evolution.
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> Besides being a beautiful website

And at first glance, it appears to work fine even with javascript disabled.
Most of my groups went to Signal. But until they support live location (something I use frequently, albeit less during Corona), I won't uninstall Whatsapp. For all their privacy faults, it's still the app with probably one of the best UX (so easy it's the only app my grandma can use) all features I'd want for a chat app without annoying extras.
Bulky, low res screen, design suggests that it relies heavily on active cooling, looks cheap and plasticy even in the marketing photos. I wouldn't buy this if it was 10x faster than a Macbook Air.
Isn't it clear that the website is to be taken as a piece of art besides also having some information content?
I consume a lot of audiobooks - but I can really only listen to them in certain contexts when I am doing something else that requires a certain level of concentration: driving, gardening, cooking, cleaning and most of all walking. If I try and listen to them without doing something else I just fall asleep and I can't listen to them when doing something that requires a lot of concentration either.

I now have a lot of unused Audible credits because of the recent lockdown here which is lifting on Friday!
And that's excluding the potential legal fallout from reporting their own employee for theft because the employee was taking a break mandated by law; not only would the employer act in bad faith, it would also incriminate them in regards to forcing their employees to break the law!
How is this different than Staloral? (besides subscription vs regular purchase)
Source on this? Sounds like an interesting, albeit terrifying, read.
+1 nice correction.
That means your family can't communicate if your server is down?
Yeah, that's the crappy part. My intuition says that they didn't deliberately plan to remove it and it was a side effect of some firmware update cleanup.
yes but it mostly undocumented, unsupported and trouble assured.

I tried several time and always got stuck somewhere.

Rust that has the reputation to be hard, but is way simpler and faster to get into WebAssembly.

I wish they adopt nlvm as the default compiler, it would make stuff like that way easier and probably boost adoption.