skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This "The Dutch do X" kind of story is almost always taken way too extreme. Same as the main article, the author describes many things about the Netherlands which don't apply to that extreme in practice at all.

The country is tiny (3x smaller than the state of New York) but differences are huge by area. For example the "1 (or 1.5) car per house" thing you describe only applies to some neighborhoods in specific cities, people that live there choose to live with that but it's definitely not a country wide thing. As a counter example I live 20 minutes outside Amsterdam, can park both my cars on my own driveway plus more than 10 visitor spots less than 50m walk from my house.

As for the permission to build: That only applies to the outside of the house never the inside, so the bathroom example doesn't exist. And even on the outside it's not for small things like a dormer. The practical restrictions are not that different from what most HOAs in US suburbs put in their contracts. And if you live outside a city you don't have any of these restrictions, because there are no neighbors to be inconvenienced.
Yet there's plenty of people that speak out specifically against semiconductor subsidies:

https://foundersbroadsheet.com/does-the-semiconductor-indust...

Supply and demand shocks will work themselves out fairly quickly if just left to market forces without government involvement. But a large section of the US population is under the delusion that if there’s a problem, only government can fix it.

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/560338-government-...

One part of the legislation, the CHIPS Act, allocates $52 billion to subsidize the construction of new chip factories in the United States. Officials believe it could result in seven to 10 new U.S. factories. Although a national security case can be made for it, too much subsidy can do more harm than good.
According to OnlyFans, nudity is still allowed (be interesting to see where they draw the line regarding what's explicit)
I always start from scratch. The reason is, I know what every single line does because I put it there.
The company will prohibit users from posting any sexually explicit conduct, starting in October. Creators will still be allowed to post nude photos and videos.

Makes sense
> By the end of the year, we will have grown our index to include every open source repository with more than 1 star on GitHub and GitLab (that’s 5M+ repos).

And what if your source code has a license that says "Do as you like, as long as you're not Sourcegraph"? I'm not entirely sold on the legalities of what they are doing...

With search engines you have your robots file and many other ways to opt out of indexing, I wonder what Sourcegraph have. My guess is nothing.
It's perfectly possible to find the source of the infringement with a little investigation. The user who created the page has a comment on their talk page notifying them that Donna Strickland page has been nominated for deletion due to "unambiguous copyright deletion". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:SteplightJohnson#Spe...] There's a link to the source that was copied, [http://www.osa.org/en-us/about_osa/leadership_and_volunteers...]. That leads to a 404, but in the Wayback Machine, I found this on Dr. Strickland: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130426010318/http://www.osa.or...] And the second paragraph is a word for word copy of the summary from the first edit in the history of the page, "Created page with ''''Donna Strickland''' is a past president of the Optical Society. She has worked on several committees within the OSA. She has been on the editorial board of O...'" [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donna_Strickland&...]
"The company will prohibit users from posting any sexually explicit conduct, starting in October. Creators will still be allowed to post nude photos and videos"

Makes sense
Yes we currently offer integrations into some of the current major software vendors out there so our tools can be utilized along side a customer's existing stack.... Our long term goal is that customers use DigiBuild across the board. But we needed a low friction way to let them try us on a smaller scale first. APIs like that do dilute the effectiveness of the blockchain a little bit, but the tech is still effective in removing uncertainty around information so it works.
I think you are putting way to much stock in what the media writes. Remember that last year the WSJ uncritically ran a story about how Russians were paying the Taliban to kill American troops. The story turned out to be false. And prior to that the paper claimed that that the Russians were aiding Bernie Sander's presidential campaign because they thought he would lose to Donald Trump.

I urge you to read the book which you can find online. It is written by a medical sociologist and a neurologist and is a bit more reliable than the mainstream press.
These are two fun games that makes you familiar with the mechanics. Having a good grasp of the fundamentals always helps.

https://flexboxfroggy.com

https://cssgridgarden.com/
You are totally right. They play by words. Never by facts. Capitalism is so bad that let us go rant about it day and night, live from it, and ignore all socialists paradises.
That's interesting thanks. I guess there is a limit to the price of IP. Say if the glasses cost $0.50, can you sell that $400 really?
One of my personal conspiracy theories is that bitcoin (and Tor) are the reason so many states have legalised weed: you have to permit what you cannot actually police.

Hopefully we'll see the same effect here with bitcoin or a single processor making a killing in the market for "sins"...
I agree that GDPR-style privacy legislation is the ultimate solution, but unfortunately due to the international nature of the internet that sort of legislation will have difficulties until at least (1) the USA passes some sort of GDPR-style federal legislation, and possibly (2) GDPR-style privacy protections become part of international treaties going forward.
Agreed, it's absolute garbage. Avatars are a joke.
We do pay them "enough." They do the job for that price. Why are they not payed more? Consumers care more about price, and capitalism cares more about the bottom line, than the ethical treatment of workers.
The cliché is the inverse. Porn is always the first industry in making use of new technologies. VHS, DVD, www, streaming video etc.
That is called democracy and yes there are a lot of things that are not sold.

General public agrees that explicit material is bad.

Right now we have in Poland shops closed each Sunday - it is annoying for me. Selling alcohol in Norway is heavily restricted and I see more and more restrictions on alcohol sales in Poland.

Explicit material is tied a lot to money laundering, there is also a lot of scams tied to it and lots of stolen cards are used to pay for explicit material. It is huge cost for payment providers, all the laws for anti-laundering trump any "payment neutrality".

If you want to see naked ladies go to "a place" and risk on your own, pay with cash.
At some point I think they intended to be something line a competitor to Patreon. It also sounds like they're going to keep allowing softcore content.
I don't think they don't understand it, they understand incremental improvements. Whatever you're talking about is coming:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3XcQtoja_Y
Examples of on-device scanning via PhotoDNA?
That's already much more restrictive than even inner-city rules in the Netherlands. Solar panels don't require permission, only bigger changes that affect neighbors do.
It was a bit anticlimactic. Think about it, there was supposed to be a major new (and Open Source) platform announcement, and instead we got a resignation with very few details.
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Show HN: Bubble Video Commenting Launches on PH
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The 'social' dimensions of social media have always lived in the comment sections below our posts - often richer, funnier, and more personal than the posts themselves. We felt it was time to innovate commenting by bringing the intuitive and authentic nature of mobile video to those conversations. Instead of browsing through anonymous posts, you can now hear and see others while they discuss opinions, raise questions, or just laugh along with you.

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If there is any conspiracy, it would have to be how the hell did it take so long for all these societies to come up with an electronic payment utility.
The Islamic empire was not ethnic and spanned those cultures yet worked pretty well.
If you put a billion magnets in space haven't you just increased the space-junk problem by multiple orders of magnitude?

Also, heavier objects decay slower than light ones. Atmospheric drag is the driver of orbital decay. If you increase an object's mass, you lower the de-acceleration provided by atmospheric drag. Drag force scales with surface area, which increases as the square of size, whereas mass increases with the cube. Therefore, increase the size, and mass increases at a faster rate than drag force. Therefore in general larger objects decay slower than small ones
I read somewhere once that it's because his dad knows a lot of right people.
>Because there is a global chip shortage that is making life substantially worse for the vast majority of Americans.

Is it really? I don't know anyone who has had substantial impacts. Some prices have gone up, but I don't see the urgency.
I don't know if you were aware but PornHub had a massive scandal with the content people were uploading that led to them basically deleting the majority of user contributions altogether. So maybe not so easy for them either.
Next up

Google blocks search and Twitter blocks politics
What is now Iraq was largely almost always under Sassanid/Persian rule. The old Persian capital of Ctesiphon was basically next door to modern Baghdad. The old fault line was really in eastern Anatolia.

Rome held Mesopotamia for a very brief period of time and didn't have much impact other than the occasional army passing through until the Muslim conquest.
I guess it also matters what we define as a prebuilt. Some prebuilts are just standard components assembled (hopefully competently).

Some prebuilts, especially from Dell, HP, Acer and Lenovo will have custom motherboards, custom power supplies and custom cases that can't be re-used later on. Those usually have the very crappiest cooling solutions too. So they will end up costing you more money down the road, because you can't incrementally upgrade the pieces as much as you could with a self-built PC.
I guess it was inevitable that the would go full circle on reinventing Sears.
I've been robbed! Twice! I went to this wedding and the money we collected for the lucky couple was stolen, can you believe it? *Really?* We put the money on a debit card and the code for the debit card was a secret message on a nice video we made for the couple. *How?* Everyone said something one the video with a number. How clever, then how was it stolen? We send the debit card together with a usb stick and a basket with other gift like hard liquor via the post to the couple. Guess what? *What?* The packet arrived but the usb and debit card where missing. *The debit card and usb are missing?* Yes, those sneaky bastards at the post office only took that and left the vodka, those criminals just know what to get away with. *Who send the package?* Me, I'm going to the police this afternoon the file a report. Hopefully the couple in not too angry at us, like what can we do. *Nothing I guess, you said you where robbed twice?* Yes this morning I noticed my electrified cargo bike is gone. *What a coincidence, you really are unlucky.*
Drug tests of the sort performed by LabCorp don't test whether an employee is showing up to work intoxicated. And they don't apply only to those professions where it's valid and/or necessary, but to pretty much any where the employer feels they can get away with it.
The noscript tag is something the page would need to use, and does not. Again, page is completely empty (or was, author commented that they fixed it, very nice)
> In order to get rich, I need to create things.

Why do you want to get rich?

I've been thrilled to have a life of consuming and not creating.
Note that the parent boiled away all the noise to the actual information -- which could have been contained in a single tweet.

I wouldn't have bothered wading through all that to get to the simple little factoid. I appreciate the post, therefore.
Asking if reality creates emotion or vice versa is like asking if the front of the horse pulls the back or if the back of the horse pushes the front.
Cool startup! I like the name. In my locale, “sekin” is slang for money.
Correct -- In many jurisdictions, corporations cannot proceed pro se. They must retain counsel.

As far as a company speaking for itself, a corporate representative is often designated to speak for and bind the company in any civil action.

See, e.g., Federal Rule 30(b)(6): https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_30
I think this would just rely on the ransomers to have the ransom paid to the correct address, which would be tied to a smart contract that'd take care of divvying up any money coming in and forwarding it to other addresses. If money comes in, the work was done, so distribute it, all automatic.

Aside from bugs in the contract, or opsec concerns, the main risk (for the saboteur) would be the ransom folks directing the victim to pay some other address that wasn't part of the smart contract, so no money ever comes into it. Really, it's only marginally more reliable than just depending on them to pay you when they get paid.
Well, allowlist to a known DNS server and block anything on DNS that isn't allowlisted.
Very curious about the performance gains being hinted here: 19% for Golden Cove (vs. Cypress Cove), and 1.5X for Gracemont (vs. Skylake Atom?).

The 19% Golden Cove jump doesn't seem very impressive given Cypress Cove was a regression. As noted, it should've been measured against the newer Willow Cove (e.g. Tigerlake cores) for better indication.

As for Gracemont, 1.5X perf sounds great but how capable will be it for everyday tasks? E.g. if the Big/Performance core has to spin up for almost everything, then it won't be very useful. Furthermore Skylake was initially released in 2015 so 1.5X better after 6 years is way below Moore's Law.
Payment networks should operate according to laws and regulations, not reputation and public opinion. Would you want your electricity turned off because someone did not like who you were or what you believe? That is a road to tyranny.
Ask HN: Epic Games sues Apple and copies PUBG and Among Us. What do you think?
What do you think of Epic Games suing Apple for App Store Monopoly at the same time they keep copying other games like PUBG and Among Us in Fortnite?

I know those are totally different contexts, but their main argument against Apple isn't about ethical business practices?
Lack of focus on recycling is a big sign that government "green" programs are not all they purport to be.
(f)Protection of Privacy.

—Nothing in this section shall be construed to require a provider to

—(1)monitor any user, subscriber, or customer of that provider;

(2)monitor the content of any communication of any person described in paragraph (1); or

(3)affirmatively search, screen, or scan for facts or circumstances described in sections (a) and (b).

Hrm, that's interesting. I wonder if Apple iCloud has surfaced in enough cases as where criminal activity is actively taking place that it prompted Apple to do something about it.
"we paid that guy and he got caught"

"we paid this other guy and he got caught"

"come join us!"
One thing I do no not understand about free market extremism (no government intervention) is that governments are democratically elected organizations but private companies have power structures that one would normally associate with authoritarianism if they were governments. The very thing the "no government" idealists want to get away from.

In this case it's not free market extremism but still, the desire to stay in power and reduce accountability exists no matter the ideology.
Whoa holy flying spaghetti monster!
No business operates this way.
> '100% verified'

Just reading those words is rage-inducing, but I'm grateful to have learnt this example of government lying. I feel like it should become an expression that societies teach to their children to warn them about abuses of power. Other mottoes synonymous with government deception and corruption come to mind, but at the risk of being too controversial I will share only their initials and dates: "SAARH" (2013), "MA" (2003), "IANAC" (1973), "NHDAEMZE" (1961), "AMF" (1940).
Not why!
Why do we need to open all utilities, finances and banks, to they internet?
It's crazy. All of a sudden, in ten years, everything is accessible to any one with desire and intent.
And worse, it's harder and harder to be that person, that doesn't want to use online access.
> Prices in many foreign countries are wonky though, because of different cultural & economic systems.

You should just adjust for PPP. The world bank estimates taiwan's GDP (nominal) to be 759M, but adjusted for PPP it's 1,403B. If we do the same adjustment for wages, we get $3165 per month, or $18.19/hr.
My mom thought American math was already dumb and watered down in the 1990s when we came here from Bangladesh. Apparently it just keeps getting worse.

The sad thing about all this is that the elites will just bypass this damage in the system. We just enrolled our 8 year old daughter in outside of school math tutoring. This will just hurt middle class kids who will get a watered down education.
Those salesmen never stood a chance -- that's the point. All the grit and perseverance in the world can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. They were selling shitty real estate, hoping to find someone clueless or out to lunch enough to buy swampland in Florida or whatever it was. Alec Baldwin's character was there as much to prevent the salespeople from catching on to the scam as to motivate them by making sure they felt that it was their own fault if they couldn't move the bad product. "The fuckin' leads are weak? YOU'RE weak."

I've noticed that multi-level marketing companies use "love bombing" tactics with new members, showering them with praise and good vibes and assuring them that it is easy to make money using their system. Once you're in, however, the "sales experts" quickly turn into the Alec Baldwin character, pressuring, mocking, and grilling you to sell more in an environment where it's near impossible to sell anything.
This is wild! I had no idea such discrimination existed, though on reflection, my partner has had quite a hard time building her credit for not too dissimilar reasons. Congratulations on the launch.
You likely spent (pre-pandemic) more time with your coworkers than your spouse on an average day. Most everyone at your company has close bonds to a number of their coworkers and most people define the positive qualities of their workplace around their coworkers rather than the employer or the work. Losing a coworker is quite similar to a friend's parents moving them to a different school district - it's not uncommon to suffer a brief crisis as your brain copes with the change in expectations around what work will be like.

It is an extremely bad idea to bring coworkers into the scene at the time of firing and it's an even worse idea[1] to bring unnecessary people into the decision about firing - especially if they effectively have no voice in the decision.

You probably won't notice most of your coworkers leaving - but there are a few you'd likely feel deeply and people do occasionally need to move on. Go grab a coffee with them after the fact (or during their two weeks notice if that applies) and get your empathy in - but before someone is formally let go it will just hurt moral to spread that news too widely.
Well first of all, it's not provided by the US government. It's a non-profit, and Apple has already said they're going to look for another db from another nation and only included hashes that are the union of the two to prevent exactly this kind of attack.

If what you mean by blinded is that you don't know what the source image is for the hash, that's true. Otherwise Apple would just be putting a database of child porn on everyone's phones. You gotta find some kind of balance here.

What do you mean you can't verify it doesn't contain extra hashes? Meaning that Apple will say here are the hashes in your phone, but secretly will have extra hashes they're not telling you about? Not only is this the kind of thing that security researchers will quickly find, you're assuming a very sinister set of features from Apple that they'll only tell you half the story. If that were the case, then why offer the hashes at all? It's an extremely cynical take.

The reality is all of the complaints about this system went from this specific implementation, and then as details get revealed, it's now all about the future hypothetical situations. I'm personally concerned about future regulations, but those regulations could/would exist independently of this specific system. Further, Dropbox, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, etc all have user data unencrypted on their servers and are also just as vulnerable to said legislation. If the argument is this is searching your device, well the current implementation is its only searching what would be uploaded to a server instead. If you suggest that could change to anything on your device due to legislation, wouldn't that happen anyway? And then what is Google going to do... not follow the same laws? Both companies would have to implement new architectures and systems for complying.

I'm generally concerned about the future of privacy, but I think people (including myself initially) have gone too far in losing their minds.
> Why would they have to threaten Apple directly?

They'd do it directly because it's expedient and useful. If you're operating such a sprawling authoritarian regime, it's important to occasionally make a show of your power and control, lest anyone forget. The CCP isn't afraid of Apple, Apple is afraid of the CCP. Lately the CCP has been on a rather showy demonstration of its total control. If you're them it's useful to remind Apple from time to time that they're basically a guest in China and can be removed at any time. You don't want them to forget, you want to be confrontational with Apple at times, you want to see their acknowledged subservience; you're not looking to avoid that power confrontation, the confrontation is part of the point.

And the threat generally isn't made, it's understood. The CCP doesn't have to threaten in most cases, Apple will understand ahead of time. What gets made initially is a dictate (do this), not the threat. If something unusual happens, such as with Didi's listing on the NYSE against Beijing's wishes (whereas ByteDance did the opposite and kowtowed, pulling their plans to IPO), then, given that Didi obviously understood the confrontation risk ahead of time and tested you anyway, then you punish them. If that still isn't enough, you take them apart (or in the case of Apple, remove them from the country).
I tend to agree here, while everybody put their camera on at the beginning of the covid, now I see much more people turning off their cameras during meetings. That being said, having an avatar is a much different feeling, and I could see how one could tune what degree of realism they want to expose to others. Perhaps some people could just look like robots, while others could show all of their facial expressions.