skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The statute is broad enough (it includes "emergency supplies", and the CDC has a how-to guide on creating a box-fan filter) that I'm sure they'd be running afoul of the law if they tried to jack up prices for box fans.

But yeah, any large retailer would avoid any appearance of price gouging even if they could get away with it legally just to avoid the bad publicity.
Except in the case of hosting providers (and other services) you have options. A lot of options usually. At what point in the infrastructure stack would you draw the line? Something like AWS is far removed from the ultimate regulation that may it difficult to start such a competitor (running your own fiber?)

Would SMS providers like twilio be considered the same, built on top of a regulated industry?
> The burden of proof is on you to demonstrate that your opponents are motivated by race and class rather than peace and the rule of law.

Cause all those countries we plunder are clearly not full of POC. /s
There's also a r/NoLawns subreddit worth checking out.
More consequential was the passage in 1978 of PURPA. With PURPA, the grids began to be opened to non-utility competition -- and this was cheaper than utility nuclear plants. Initially it was mostly just cogeneration, or at least things that were nominally cogeneration, but mostly run to make power to sell to the grid. But this (and the cessation of the growth in electric demand) ruined the case for new utility nuclear plants.
Many americans don't have insurance.
Let's call street harassment what it is: an epidemic. According to a survey of subway riders conducted by the Office of the Manhattan Borough President in 2007, roughly two-thirds of respondents, mostly women, experienced sexual harassment on the subway; 69% reported feeling sexually threatened

https://www.mic.com/articles/120898/7-simple-ways-to-stop-se...
Specifically I quizzed him on saying the letters. We were just stuck at a bus stop and having some fun. Not really a pencil and paper type of situation.
TBF, everyone has fair access to whipping up any of hundreds of domain servers (including their own homespun server) and buying a domain name to direct to. No one company has a monopoly or oligopoly for creating a public website

This isn't quite like citizens lobbying the government to restrict media. This is a private storage company adjusting their policies on what they allow to be stored on their servers.
hmm, but I just cloned the ripgrep repo and it tells me 28k loc ?

$ cloc .
193 text files.
170 unique files.
114 files ignored.

github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.88 T=1.88 s (73.3 files/s, 25634.5 lines/s)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language files blank comment code
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Rust 85 3984 9128 28104
Markdown 19 923 0 3637
Python 2 194 313 830
TOML 13 42 11 342
YAML 3 30 60 313
Bourne Shell 8 22 9 130
zsh 1 16 14 67
Bourne Again Shell 2 11 22 28
Ruby 1 4 0 19
Dockerfile 4 4 0 12
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SUM: 138 5230 9557 33482
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isn't the crates thing counting dependencies too ? which would be weird, if so why not also count the libc or kernel32.dll source code ?
It is a beautiful Christmas story.
> Is there any reason to think your satellite, drone, or spy plane will survive that 2-hour window in a wartime scenario

The threats of concern...have quite a large inventory of drones, spy planes, and other sensor platforms, and, in any case, if your method of evading detection is destroying all available hostile sensor platforms, stealth is superfluous.
For me those are not objects upon individual examination except the house - the witch is barely identifiable as a witch; its generally a triangle body with a hat not at all shaped like a witch's typical pointy one. There are cloud forms, but I'd be hard pressed to call them a tornado. Only when I take in the whole image in-general do I see them, but to focus on specific areas, definitely not.

The way people's brains are analyzing and picking apart these images differently is fascinating to me
That there is no legal distinction and Amazon may be within it's rights, doesn't make it right.

Imagine if Amazon actually does start using political criteria for hosting services, and bans journalists speaking out against torture? Or suppresses sites hosting videos of police brutality? How high on the horse would the EFF be in this position?

The EFF is correct to point out the legal situation in that there's no difference between a publisher and a platform etc. but this is going to get out of hand quickly as corporations start abusing their ability to filter data willy nilly.

I think it also runs counter to the spirit of Net Neutrality and frankly hypocritical in this context.

I don't trust for a moment that Verizon and A&T won't get into the business of messing with information as well to the extent that they have the power to do this.

Our roads and infrastructure generally remain free of interference unless there's something very illegal going on, we ought to maintain some of these practices on the internet itself.
FB makes more than that in a day! [1]

The infraction here seems pretty big.

Even considering that originally the fine was going to be much smaller... what good are wrist slaps, especially for an culturally unethical company such as Facebook.

Could this help future infractions get a larger slap (as second infractions)?

[1]: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/FB/facebook/gross-...
There are large rubber bands you can buy specifically to hold the filter in place on the box fan. I've seen them on Amazon.
Does he deserve credit for all green technologies? Certainly not, but its disingenuous to say that cars account for a "tiny fraction" of CO2.

Before Tesla, "green cars" were basically hybrids like the Prius. Tesla legitimized purely electric cars as an actual alternative.
True, but note the GPS data transmission rate is only 50 bps; yes, just 50 bits per second. The signal is so week and so slow that after headers and error correction you get less than 4 bytes of data per second.

When comparing satellite reception it's not so much if you can receive data or not, but at what bandwidth. By contrast, data rates for Starlink are roughly 50 to 100 megabits per second; a million times greater than GPS.

So that's why the Starlink dish and electronics are orders of magnitude larger than a phone. Or to put it another way, that's why mobile phones can handle GPS data but not Starlink data.
Good point, but you could have the sender/pusher process read from Kafka Connect and parse into a domain event before pushing.

It sounds roundabout, but you're letting a battle-tested implementation handle the database-table-listening aspects with no special outbox implementation needed on the database write.
I was with you up until the end. Sorry, but that’s just ignorant.
Global Status Report on the Public Health Response to Dementia [pdf]
It happens... I can think of a couple that bit me in the last 5 years or so. Some of them felt like bugs but were flagged as new features in later releases like this one from 4.4... spent way too long trying to figure out why this worked under 4.4 but not 4.3 and didn't even consider a bug, let alone a feature at the time. I was convinced it was something I did wrong :P

"a. Using ${a[@]} or ${a[*]} with an array without any assigned elements when the nounset option is enabled no longer throws an unbound variable error."
The weakest point of any crypto is the implementation itself.

We used to say that key management was the weakest link, but now I think the implementation itself is the weakest link.

Alice and Bob simply cannot defeat Mallory when Mallory is responsible for the implementation of the crypto that Alice and Bob are using to defeat Mallory.

But most users can't implement their own crypto. And the few users that could would stick out like sore thumbs. And they would still have key management headaches.

Basically, crypto can work to protect against criminals, but not against the state. That was always true anyways: the state can apply legal and nominally-illegal rubber hose cryptanalysis (i.e., they can beat you with a rubber hose, real or metaphorical, to get you to give up your secrets).
I own a fair amount of land, mostly forest, but I grew up in a city and have lived in suburbs as well, so I understand why lawns confuse people.

The answer is that it's really low maintenance and it prevents erosion while also lowering the complexity of putting in adequate drainage. It's also very efficient to maintain large swaths of grass with uniform equipment, whether it's with push mowers, riding mowers, or tractors.

Maintaining forest is challenging, dangerous, and more labor intensive than you might think. It's real easy to die doing forest work: trees really wanna kill you. Trees are always getting sick and grody. It's easy to accidentally kill healthy trees when you are culling dying/dead trees and, at least for me, making mistakes makes me feel sad and guilty about it. Chainsaws are easy to use and you really have to be not paying attention or not using protective equipment to hurt yourself with them -- it's the trees that are dangerous. This is one of the reasons why suburban developers don't go out of their way to plant forests even if it would make the area look nicer. There's also the question of who would maintain the forest in an area where everything is subdivided into small private plots, but any living forest requires a lot of space to grow.

It is also more intellectually challenging to maintain forest. This is reflected by the difference in wage rates between forestry workers and normal landscapers. Stump removal when you have to do it is also its own set of challenges.

The other reason why uniform lawns are easier to work with is something that only dawned on me after years of letting the weeds grow amidst the normal grass. Weeds grow at different rates and have different impacts on the soil. It's a lot easier to maintain a uniform lawn. A weedy lawn can look cool at some parts of the year with lots of wildflowers and then look crappy at other times when the flowers all die and it's just some weird scratchy bunch of weeds that creates a weird erosion pattern, which is a problem that is more expensive/difficult to fix than just never having it happen in the first place.

I understand the intellectual perspective in this article but the explanation is very silly in light of the practical considerations that become apparent when you are responsible for land yourself. The labor-hour estimate in this article is also totally delusional, or based on some absurd standard that no one actually keeps their tiny lawn to.

I mean, how would you even spent 150 hours a year maintaining a tiny suburban lawn? Are you cutting it with a toenail clipper? Huh? That's almost 3 hours a week, dude.
Left wing Jews just hate me and want me replaced? I'm the only one that's noticed? Your reply is lacking specificity.
The FAA's reputation in other countries is an example of soft power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_power
I think the 10X web site explains how they work -- see the FAQ and Guides (10xmanagement.com).

They do act as my agent -- their model is the same as entertainment and sports agents. I pay them a percentage of my gross. They do all of the marketing, contract negotiation, legal, billing, deal with customers and get additional resources as necessary. They put projects in front of me, I get to decide what I take on. In general I'm getting higher rates through 10X than I would get on my own, and they do things that I'm not good at or that would cost me non-billable time.

I had my own freelance business when I signed on with 10X. I had decided to live overseas and got worried about getting new customers in the US, and 10X seemed like a good way to maintain and grow my freelance business.

See https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/programmers-pr.... The article mentions me.

Recruiters and placement firms get paid by the employer, so that's who they work for. I have worked with placement firms who place contractors. Some of them act kind of like agents, others hire the contractor as an employee and then outsource to companies who need people and skills. All kinds of arrangements are possible, it's kind of a seller's market in IT right now, at least in the US, for people who have in-demand skills and experience.
A video of hoover from 1984, a year before his death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzfWbNTKndw

As noted in the youtube comments, a good sample of him talking can be found around the 14:30 mark.
On the efficacy of surgical (i.e. non-N95/KN95) masks a Danish randomised control study covering 6000 participants, half of whom got 50 disposable surgical masks each and were told to change them after 8 hours of use did not show a significant difference in infection rate (between-group difference was −0.3 percentage point (95% CI, −1.2 to 0.4 percentage point; P = 0.38), 95% CIs compatible with a 46% reduction to a 23% increase in infection). There is a long discussion on CIDRAP [2] triggered by Michael Osterholm's statements on the gap between the perceived and actual efficacy and the downsides of an over-reliance on their protective effect.

On the efficacy of vaccination as a means to slow the infection rate there are several sources, once of which [3] was discussed on this site [4] recently. With regard to the "delta"/"Indian" variant the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine offers 43% protection against infection while the Moderna "Spikevax" mRNA vaccine offers 76% protection [5].

Maybe I am wrong about your willingness to give up freedom, this is the impression I get from your approach to those who dare to dissent. When it comes to freedom of speech it is exactly the type of speech which goes against the common narrative (while staying within the bounds of legality) which should be protected [6].

[1] https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817

[2] https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/07/commenta...

[3] https://www.science.org/news/2021/08/grim-warning-israel-vac...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28395776

[5] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.06.21261707v...

[6] ...which does not mean you need to agree, not even that you need to listen.
> In 2007, RIM [...] held multiple meetings after the iPhone was launched and accused Apple of lying

That in itself is completely absurd. The iPhone was disruptive because it had a slick touch interface and thoughtful UX. There were phones doing vastly more (e.g. multitasking) than the iPhone years prior (Symbian, Windows CE), with a full day of battery life. It's no wonder RIM ended if they were that disconnected from the smartphone market.
That’s with the antenna collapsed. Extending it looks like it adds another 10cm or so.
Except users don't switch because of network effects. None of the twitter, reddit, youtube alternatives have managed to put even a dent in them.
200 years ago, only the bourgeoisie could vote.
you must have a great recruiter because the candidates we get take 45 minutes to solve a problem; it’s painful. no time to chat.
I disagree, it's a totally different market, and your remark only makes sense in a myopic "everything is a competing social network" sort of way.

2 core features of Discord are voice chat and access control, both of which are necessary for groups like a guild in a video game. Adoption in small groups like that was huge, competitors like Teamspeak and Mumble had incredible friction.

Even if you focus specifically on text communications, access control is a major feature. One example is the integration with Twitch, where there are servers limited to subscribers. Reddit focused on "the whole site is a community" rather than Discord's "start your own community, limited to very specific people."

I'd argue that the overlap you see is Discord monopolizing a disjoint market and then encroaching into Reddit's market due to userbase size. "Why isn't there a Discord server?" is the sort of question that gets asked when everyone there is also on Discord.

Personally, what amazes me is that Discord allowed Slack to grow to what it is. I was very surprised when they doubled down on gaming focus.
Some popular music production hardware are skeumorphic aberrations with practical but dated UI. They are reliable, but clunky. It is a shame that hardware designers have a very weak tradition with regard to UI.
You don't want it to become a thing, either.

Section 230 protections enhance free speech on the internet, via the safe harbor provisions that allow places like Twitter and HN to function. Without it, you'd have vastly fewer places to publish your thoughts.

Codifying a distinction between platform and publisher would require a place like HN to consider either shutting down comments and submissions entirely or abandoning any efforts at moderation. It would suck, royally.
> Is there an alternative?

Well, I mow twice a year, don’t water except for young trees, put the leaves of my 30 trees in compost in automn, and that’s it. Just let it grow.

You can use clover or any kind of cover instead of “grass”, and plant trees to keep it in the shade so it doesn’t burn. You can also grow 20-40cm high flowers as well if you like.
Every time I buy Apple products I spend the same amount on AAPL.
Yes it gets expensive, but so far its been a very good investment - i wouldn't actually call it a strategy - method..

Since its very expensive - I don't buy as much hardware as I otherwise probably would.
> There would have to be something new about it's UX

Mobile first would be enough. I'm a little bit older and still do not understand the appeal of snapchat, tiktok, etc. I understand FB/twitter/instagram (I just don't like using it). But making a mobile version of a small feature fuel the hype storm needed
I’m not sure if you mean Tesla or manufacturing in general. But it’s not labor in general. It’s specific problems in specific places, and supply chains have dependencies on those places.

For example, Vietnam just went into lockdown. Less than 3% of the population is vaccinated.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-01/tangled-v...
Partisans use reddit as a platform for vitriolic hate-mongering.
I had to pay a bill by typing numbers into an online bank along with an address that the physical check would then be mailed to.

I thought the banker who told me they would send a check was joking. Or just using it as an metaphor for making a payment to the account. But no, at one point the check actually got lost and and then reappeared later so my balance with PG&E went positive.

Oh, and it could only pay fixed amount at regular intervals.

I eventually learned that most vendors would accept check numbers, and then magically withdraw from my account. So long as a checked a box that effectively allowed them to withdraw whatever they deemed I owed them.

In Denmark I get an electronic statement of all the bills I have signed up for automatic payment. It just works.

Oh, not to mention: to rent an apartment in the US I had to get a cashier's check. I'll admit I didn't even know that was a thing...

(In Denmark banks don't accept checks anymore)
> I'm sure there is a lingering sense of rivalry between them.

That's a common stereotype I hear coming from english-speaking people, but it doesn't really translate to any meaningful behaviour in France. I'm afraid if such a rivalry actually persists, it is one-sided.

> The Britain and France have been adversaries for nearly a thousand years, after all.

Germany and France have been pretty cross too in the past, and bad feelings have died off in a generation. I wouldn't give too much credit to this kind of claims based on folk history.
The irony of a developer website where everyone is pissed at somebody else's inability to do good estimates.
There was a worry that TSMC would have to reduce production because of a drought on Taiwan but that ended up not having any effect on production at all. For consumer electronics of the sort that TSMC makes the supply crunch has that a lot of people have been cooped up inside without any vacations to spend money on and demand for GPUs, etc, is way up.

For automotive chips, though, the problem is that there was a fire at the Renesas plant in Japan cutting into supply of those sorts of chips. And there were some mis-estimates of what demand would look like.
Virgin Galactic responds to FAA investigation over Unity 22 flight deviation
I expect somewhere which has 1. pseudo-anonymity, 2. strong moderation and 3. a kind of federation but not quite actual decentralization.

1. pseudo-anonymity, gives people freedom to speak their minds

2. moderation ensures people know that they are in a controlled space

3. Ensures that spaces have a branding, shared identity between them but are not being controlled from without, but only within
I mean, isn't buying a car a terrible investment in general? Reserving a Mach E is a similarly terrible investment vs buying Ford stock.
> your personality is built around always being right.

Amazing how effective this is. There is a C level executive at the Unicorn I work at that tweets Musk daily asking him for help or advice, of course getting no response. It's as if it's some sort of daily prayer.
Such a delightful read!
I'm a bit disappointed to see the word "learning" thrown around as if we actually understand what it means. If you can explain it's working in simple mechanical terms, does it become less valuable?
Pre-WWII British writers may have noted that 85% of Bolsheviks were Jewish, they attempted a revolution in Germany in 1919 and they had been expelled from dozens of territories in Europe. Not all that half-witted.
Look forward to reading the book - sounds like it will be a very interesting read (although publishing on the same day as Adam Tooze's Shutdown presents a dilemma!)

Completely applaud any effort to step back and examine these effects. We do need better ways of thinking about how technology interacts with economics and, I think now especially, geopolitics given current challenges.
> "self destruct" features that involve wiping the onboard flash memory

Had an entirely different image in mind.
>it's the trees that are dangerous

This reads like a lawncare shill quote
Something about acquiring users is low cost. For a while it seemed like each 1-2 year block of new HS students was picking up a different app.
> Switching cost for users is near zero.

Not just that. Once we all have GPT-n power in our back pocket, it will become trivial to flood Reddit and all other forms of social media with absolute time wasting drivel.

Platforms will start to require government IDs. But these will also be falsified with thispersondoesnot exist.

And then we'll have to verify with a trusted identity provider or phone number. And that will be required for and stick to everything we do online.

Short text-based social media, long government tracking.
It shouldn't even be a question, seriously?

This cop[1] tells a lady not to stand between the vehicles because she will get killed if his patrol car gets hit, and seconds later it happens and he says "just like that".

>this is not one of them.

Yes[2], this[3] is[4] one[5] of[6] them[7].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZDIwaRWCl0

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97D3llj0KSQ

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV5FrWTATDY

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loex5U9zD0s

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khz9hlpvhko

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyaa6zEHZ2Q

[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piT4lZBGU4w
I think you should be much more cautious before making a generalization like that.

People also watch British films and TV shows (Harry Potter, James Bond, Dr Who, Peppa Pig), listen to British music (Ed Sheeran, Adele, Little Mix), and play British video games (GTA, Tomb Raider).

I think it's probably under 50% of the market in non-English-speaking countries on average, but could be the majority in some countries with closer past or present associations to the UK.
Remember digg.com?