skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SLAPP is specifically an action in response to a civil claim or other public criticism.

The extension itself isn't such a public participation action. Facebook's C&D isn't a SLAPP.

Facebook and Perkins Coei's letter are simple intimidation. Quite arguably monopoly abuse as well, which might interest the US FCC, US FTC, and CA State AG.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ...
The license conditions are there to keep the airwaves open. By convention, Amateur Radio is pretty much used as a way to meet new people around the county / world. It’s set up as a public commons, and encrypted traffic goes against that spirit.

There is nigh on constant pressure from government regulators to take back the spectrum. One of the best political arguments the Hams have for maintaining amateur radio is that it is a common public space, like a park, or a town square.

The worry is that if encryption were commonplace then you end up with a public park filled with anonymous men in hooded sweatshirts and ski masks, whispering to each other. The park gets closed.

It’s not illegal per se. You must have a license (and therefore a callsign, your identity) to operate legally, and you lose your license if you are caught using encryption.
I agree. However, for remote solar power plants, having an explosive H2 tank is much lesser of a problem than in residential areas.

IMV batteries are not sustainable. Currently there is a huge hype on batteries, but once the first set of batteries start dying out and the disposal process begins, we will have to deal with a lot of toxic waste. This is going to start happening in about 10 years or so.

Suppliers like Tesla and Panasonic might be making recyclable ones, but Chinese vendors scarcely give a thought to recyclability.
By what metric? The crime rate is down and the stock market is up. Not to mention that given the scale of the country, just continuing the same level of government services costs trillions
Shudder. Thanks for reminding me of that hellscape :-(
In the US they’re getting fewer and fewer. Property tax + mortgage interest combined is now capped at $10k. This was no doubt to punish blue state residents where property values are higher
Tesla agrees to big office lease in Palo Alto, despite HQ exit
>They are relatively fewer that unvaccinated, but no fucking way near the 90% constantly touted in these forums.

Imagine there are 100 vaccinated and 5 unvaccinated vulnerable people, and all of them are exposed to covid. At 95% effectiveness against hospitalization, you'd have 5 vaccinated and 5 unvaccinated, i.e 50-50. The OP is referring to places with lower percentages of vaccinated than Iceland.
Yep, what's wild to me is there's actually a non-insignifiant overlap between radio and networks(ex: aloha from RF links in Hawaii ended up heavily influencing Ethernet and most of your cable modems use a variation of coding scheme(QAM) that is also widely used in more modern radio protocols).
As an atheist that grew up in a religious environment, the techniques and patterns of religions are recognizable. You may not realize it, but you are introducing religion into the workplace.

A Christian posts on HN: merely saying "we as a company believe thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" or "we as a company believe you shall not steal" are just...basic things you need to do in 1952.
Agree with most points except these two:

> - Many American work environments have more of a hierarchy within the company, particularly in more corporate environments. US companies are often more stratified. Some to the degree of oil and water.

I found this the opposite. If we have a spectrum from Flat <-----> Hierarchical structure, then I've found the following: USA <----- Germany -----> Japan, where Japan is the most Hierarchical.

> - You will likely get less vacation. Not only that, you will be discouraged, though rarely explicitly, from taking it.

True you do get less vacation but it is not true that you will be discouraged. May be if you work at IBM or GE, etc. Not here in Silicon Valley, not in most modern corporations that were founded in last 20 years. Vacation is tremendously encouraged in all companies I've worked for and every other engineer I know. I think this might be true if you're in a <100 employee startup (< 4 year old company and VC backed).

Spot on about politics and I prefer it that way. IMO politics, religion, activism, etc. is probably best to avoid at work.
North America. We are not yet at federally mandated vaccine or else, but there is a visible trend to require vaccine mandates in more and more settings: work, travel, shopping. So far it is localized in a handful of spots. Absent strong pushback it is possible the trend will spread like fire.

Los Angeles: L.A. to require COVID vaccine proof for indoor restaurants, gyms, malls

Canada: Traveling in Canada by plane or train? You'll need to show proof of vaccination

IBM/RedHat: Big Blue will require employees in the U.S. to get fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Dec. 8 while Red Hat requires proof of full vaccination by Nov. 29.

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/l-a-poised-to-enact-one-of-...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2021/10/0...

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/ibm-red-hat-issue-new-covid-1...
I have no knowledge, but my gut tells me that someone busting their butt to stand out is someone I might want to be associated with.

If it's a piece of paper from MIT/NW/etc. rather than U of Phoenix (not hating), I'd pay attention to it/you in a different way -- I'd say, "Oh, you're upper-class, you're one of us, therefore you're a safer hire".

Then again, I wasn't raised upper-class, so I don't know if that's actually how upper class people think when they hire, but i met someone recently who, when i said my most enjoyable job was at a startup in Palo Alto because everyone was _really smart_ and just _got it_ -- he was like YES!

It was like, he wanted to be around winners - high achievers - or at least people who were well-born - that's how I took it, anyways.

And so I suspect spending that relatively tiny bit of cash would be 'worth it' -- probably x10+ within 10 years in pure monetary ROI. And plenty of intangible benefits.

There are people who think school/uni is about learning. That's fine.

And there are folks posting to HN right now saying MBAs are worthless. Ok.

I'm actually surprised you'd be able to spend that little on a cert, but I guess there are all sorts of certs, mini-certs, programs, etc.

I suspect it would actually be pretty fun if you were actually interested in the material, or at least interested in finding out if you were interested in the material.

If you're lucky, if you can control your diet and not have too much bad luck, you'll probably live to 100. So, spend the cash. That's my take.

And make friends with the people in your classes.
The slogan is only divisive if you make it so. It certainly isn't "intentionally" divisive.

> Since Biden was elected for example

Looking at Google trends, there's basically no correlation between Bidens election and "Black Lives Matter". You're reaching to creating a narrative that doesn't fit the facts.

> even if I support the general idea that our police force and judicial system need reform to infuse them with more humanity and empathy.

Do you support any group or organization that does policeor criminal justice reform?

> It's not like the issue is so obvious and simple (i.e. all people have equal rights, women should be able to go to school, ...) that it's okay employers take a side. The simple stuff is usually written in the US constitution.

The stuff you mentioned doesn't start out in the constitution (and arguably actually still aren't). It only got there due to activism by people and organizations, some of which happened in the workplace. Were they wrong to do so? Concretely, you're making an argument from status quo in a conversation about how we change norms. That misses the point, unless your point is that the norms shouldn't change.
> What is suspicious is that if I enter that truck's license number (19-BLD-5) into https://ovi.rdw.nl/ that it comes up as a more or less regular Volvo truck with a 12.7 liter LNG installation, not a hydrogen installation, which it would surely mention if that were the case.

I guess it is easier to modify an LNG truck to handle H2 rather than a diesel one.
I think saying that work and politics are completely separate is naive and a cop out to avoid responsibility. You joke about pillow companies but as far as I'm concerned MyPillow is run by an insurrectionist and an undemocratic authoritarian. Similarly I will not participate in an organization that doesn't value diversity, honesty, and our environment. I would not, for example, feel comfortable working somewhere like Chick-fil-A knowing the owner opposes human rights. Some people have decided that basic decency or acceptance of reality (ie vaccines or climate) are a political opinion when they're not. And companies who think it's not their problem are also wrong.
I think that in some cases, the multiple finals are at least semi-ironic. For my fiction writing, I number each draft with -dn at the end of the name and leave it at that. I will occasionally have modified versions of that when it goes out on submission (most commonly -d5-anon for journals that require anonymous submissions, or -d5-journal for journals that have idiosyncratic formatting requirements (some journals want the cover letter included with the story, some want single or 1½ spacing, one asks for a brief note on the creative process at the end).
Related to…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28793615
Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin (kxan.com)
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Coinbase decided to focus on consensus rather than pure raw technical competence (which is also what companies do when they try to meet diversity quota).

Companies trying to meet the diversity quota very much do not focus on pure raw technical competence. In fact, to suggest so, borders on gaslighting.
> There was no need for technology, nazis weren't checking the papers or bothering with recording anything.

The Nazis did census data to sort out all kinds of undesirables, one of the more infamous examples being the Pink List; Since the German Kaiserreich police made lists of homosexuals and those suspected of being homosexuals.

These lists made it trough the Weimarer Republic, and once the Nazis took over the Gestapo already had most of their work done for them, because these pink lists were only one of many lists Germans liked to keep about the population.

It's one of the reasons why Germany to this day tries to be somewhat careful about large collections of personal data because after the Nazis, there then was the GDR with the Stasi, who once again took it to a whole new level.

These are relevant and well known historical examples for data collections being abused, making the Nazis out as mere "Dudes with guns" is vastly underplaying the levels of sophistication and effort that were put into "sorting trough people" on population size scales.
Sure. They provide a service, that service is being used as a vehicle to do harm.

> especially in light of the downsides of them having that responsibility/power being as large as they are.

No clue what you're referring to. They almost certainly already do this, they may just be doing it badly.
None of that claims that EU laws override Polish laws or that EU judges can override Polish judges when interpreting Polish law.

From the treaty:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

"To the extent that a provision of the Charter refers to national laws and practices, it shall only apply to Poland or the United Kingdom to the extent that the rights or principles that it contains are recognised in the law or practices of Poland or of the United Kingdom."

Rather, it is an agreement in which national parliaments agree to pass national laws in harmony with certain EU laws, or face some penalties. The reason why national parliaments need to do that is because national laws and national constitutions as interpreted by national judges remain the supreme law of the land, and so this treaty was required in order to provide a framework to urge members states to harmonize or give up various EU funding perks.

Look, I get that a lot of people want a Federal Europe, but you can't get there by pretending you've already arrived and being outraged at those who point out you haven't. The EU as presently constituted is basically the articles of confederation, where states need to pass local versions of EU laws, rather than something like a true Federal Europe.
https://archive.is/OrNTn
I would suck at this. I'm the worst at humility.
As much as this sucks, I can’t say that I’m surprised. I made a script to unfollow everything 2 years ago (and I did the same to Twitter). Shared the script on GitHub gists so the few people who were willing to open the console and paste the code in would do so. Several people asked me to make an extension. It would have been trivial but I refused because I figured that would put me on FB’s radar and get me banned. Just running the script was nerve wracking in case I triggered some detection mechanism (I inserted random times between actions to avoid it if possible).

If I was this person I’d have done this as anonymously as possible.

What’s more sucky though is that at least with Twitter I was able to use the api for this. FB has locked down their APIs for personal use which resulted in having to script browser actions :-/
I can guarantee you that a lot of BLM supporters tie looting to BLM.

Noah Trevor went on a long monologue how looting was justified because police broke social contracts first.

A lot of people applauded him for saying this.

And I would consider Noah Trevor to be an highly influential BLM leader.

It still makes absolutely no sense to me to loot random shop owners (who support BLM) because police breaks social contract.
Opera / Vivaldi
youtube famously doesn't use the DMCA.

if you really want to make a DMCA complaint against youtube they will honour it, but they try to push all requests through their own DMCA-alike system that lets copyright holders file takedown notices, but it doesn't have any legal standing under the DMCA or any other country's copyright laws. the youtube takedown notice system is basically "if you ask nicely we'll take it down".
Cellular networks are indeed vulnerable, but he also mentioned satellite phones and BGAN terminals.
Some of those long-s ligatures are wild.
It's less about the difficulty of the process, more about efficiencies. I don't have time to find numbers, but I believe it's a pretty lossy process to split water, and then turn it back into electricity in a fuel cell type device.

There are also (probably) a lot of costs involved with trying to contain the hydrogen, and making and industrial sized fuel cells. Maybe quite a few unsolved problems as well e.g. do fuel cells eventually wear our like batteries?

Basically, we could do it, but the current techniques are possibly more expensive and too lossy compared to other options, like molten salt, pumped hydro etc.
I mean, by the same standard I'd guess we also haven't said a large portion of all phrases that have meaning

When things get combinatorial I'm not sure percentages really matter
It's their service, you host content on their terms already. Of course they have the right to remove content that does not comply with their terms.
From the text of the Treaty of Lisbon:

17. Declaration concerning primacy

The Conference recalls that, in accordance with well settled case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the Treaties and the law adopted by the Union on the basis of the Treaties have primacy over the law of Member States, under the conditions laid down by the said case law.
How so? Grind out leetcode problems?

I'm a decade out of school and 200k would be life changing for me+family.
I have no idea what is Coinbase’s CEO politics. The beautiful thing is that I neither have to know nor to care.
The technology is hidden and restricted by NDA and made up FCC rules, that's why.

There's underground digital radio FOSS but no way to do it legally. Slow going because of NDA.
They talk about “industrial iot”, but no mention of SCADA.
You are confusing EU regulations and EU directives. One is automatically binding.

Read these two pages. They are fairly clear, contain references to primary sources, and disagree with your claims:

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-making-process/types-eu-la...

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=LEGISSUM...

Article 288 Treaty on Functioning of the EU

(ex Article 249 TEC)

To exercise the Union's competences, the institutions shall adopt regulations, directives, decisions, recommendations and opinions.

A regulation shall have general application. It shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. [...]
I would argue maybe it's a lose-lose.

There's no reason on god's green earth that a reasonable person should not be able to work at Coinbase, and in reality, Coinbase probably has pretty much the same level of inclusivity at the end of the day as every other tech company. Moreover, there's no reason why Coinbase can't at least acknowledge some of the social ills flaring up, it's not 'unfair' I think to staff to do so.

It's a sad war of words.
What do you consider the potential of cryptocurrency to be? Specifically, which of those potentials excites you?
Yes, obviously, so that part matches. But the license would then be changed when you register the fuel change with RDW and that hasn't happened as far as I can see (at least, not with that particular truck), and the conversion as far as I know with those trucks is to a hydrogen/electric system that uses Hyzon's fuel cell technology.

There are 100's of promotional pictures of that vehicle but none that show it in actual operation or with its license plate post modification and you can't just take a truck like that on the road here without going through all of the required processes.

RDW is pretty strict and good at what they do, if you bypass them for something like this they'll smack you down hard.

They claim they will deliver 100 trucks this year. So far I've seen precious little evidence of that.

69-BPR-8 is a good example of a vehicle that is powered by Hydrogen, it is listed as 'electric / hydrogen' with RDW, and that's what I would expect for this Hyzon truck.

That's a garbage truck in the city of Groningen, which is also a hydrogen conversion of a regular (diesel) truck, no data about reliability, availability, range or service.

See:

https://www.alexmiedema.nl/2021/01/22/exclusieve-beelden-nie...

These are the tanks they use:

https://www.waterstof-centrum.nl/product/700-bar-waterstof-c...

Hyzon went public July of this year:

https://www.fleetowner.com/emissions-efficiency/article/2116...
Given the numerous other claims and demands made in P&C's C&D, why not specifically include such a claim, if merited.

It would certainly read far more charitably toward FB on HN, in US Senate and House hearings, and at the FTC, FCC, and DoJ.

But that's just me.
Same experience here. I thought about getting into it about 7-8 years ago, but the local group was a clique of 70 year old retirees who all knew each other, complaining about their taxes and social security, and sharing their -- unfortunately stereotypical -- uh, political views that would be considered NSFW at most offices. Not exactly welcoming.
> Something tells me the amount of drugs purchased with fiat currency is exponentially more than the amount purchased with cryptocurrency.

In raw numbers? Sure. Everyone uses fiat and nobody uses cryptocurrenices.

If you compare percentage of transactions, though, cryptocurrencies are almost all illegal transactions.

Rookie mistake comparing raw numbers and not percentages.
Also, cigarette smoking alleviates anxiety.
> The described procedure resulted in a "dose" ~100 000x greater than what circulates after vaccination.

The variance between infections can be greater than 1,000,000x between the least infected, and the most infected.

They were not studying it as an example of vaccine-induced endothelial dysfunction, but, the vaccine does not stay localized anyways.
Thanks for the feedback. The command's fixed now.
Humans are the product that facebook sells to advertisers, data brokers etc.
Anything that mentions Industry 4.0 and 5G together leaves me with a large degree of skepticism.
I have a technician's license. My unpopular opinion is that I wish there was something like the HAM bands that requires a license but with less regulation of what you're allowed to do. Sort of a hybrid of part 15 (personal electronics) rules and part 97 (ham) rules: keep the license requirement and (some reasonable fraction of) the permissive transmission power limits of HAM, but with the "use this for whatever you want" permissiveness of wireless ethernet.

For instance, suppose you're allowed to use cryptography, and do commercially useful things, and play music as long as the music is live and you aren't violating anyone's copyright, and use profanity as long as its over an encrypted channel and not in the clear, and so on.

The main rules I'd want enforced are no ads sent in the clear, stations must be identified, and rules around permitted transmit powers and frequencies and not interfering with other users are respected. Maybe also a ban on pre-recorded content sent in the clear.

The usual fear is that the band would be overrun by all kinds of people running their own radio stations or whatever. But if using the band requires a license, then it's not a total free-for-all, and if few people have radios that can even receive in those bands I don't think there's much risk of the band being overrun by radio talk show hosts or something. You can buy a cheap Baofeng radio without a ham license, but the number of people who actually own one in a given town is a very small audience. Why bother when people can access and host content on Youtube for free?
The economic system holds a gun to my head. Threatening my life and financial liberty and that of my family.
Now I want to know everything about this person and this thing!
I am not sure your threat model, but Apple has no keys to decrypt iCloud Keychain entries.
What you've said makes no sense. Coinbase offered a bunch of employees the change to quit gracefully with an exit package rather than fire them. That's not virtue signaling, that's material reality.
I will say nothing that incriminates me but I have broken plenty, plenty of laws in my life. And I have done unspeakably shitty things to people that were perfectly legal. Someone's criminal record is a different kind of CV to me, simple as.
Tax status is determined by factors that are (close to) non-optional, such as birth location or country of residency.

Employment status – especially at the top strata of a high-skill industry – is determined entirely by individual choice. You must first choose to apply to the company, then choose to accept the job, and then continue to make the same choice each day you don’t quit.

Every single engineer at Facebook could walk out the door and get a new job within a week. But if you’re a US taxpayer, good luck renouncing your citizenship. There is no legitimate comparison between the moral obligations of which megacorp direct deposits $10k a month into your bank account, and which geographical lottery you won based on your mother’s birthing location.
It would nice if they offered some sort of lambda that could run against your entire newsfeed inventory that would rank the stories. You want most recent? OC first? MSI first? Fine it's just a simple function that you would be able to provide (in hack).

This way advanced users get the feeds they want without FB worrying about creating another "API" to be discovered by NYT journalists on a slow news day