skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To prevent this from happening again. To force their hand to ensure that their incentive structure changes to test and verify emergency calls _first_ regardless of how long it takes even if it slows revenue generation before releasing their products to production. To hold them accountable to society for brazenly ignoring one of our major rules while still selling products pulling in a ton of cash. Lots of reasons to raise an official complaint. So they don’t just get to walk away with an “oops my bad”, much like many of us wouldn’t be able to if we messed up big time.

It’s not like this is some random Joe shop that missed a small feature. This is Google and Microsoft, two of the biggest tech companies out there, making billions while not even caring to follow society’s rules (move fast and break things right? All in the name of scaled super fast profit)
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A marketplace with sellers with third-party fulfillment is obviously different from a marketplace with no third-party fulfillment in a case about the fulfillment market.
To be honest that doesn't sound good at all. No response while you're in an actual emergency and then just "closing the ticket" unless you call again.
My Gen1 Pixel is still going strong here. 2-3 days battery life with light use and monthly AOSP updates via Pixel Experience ROM. Hope to use it another 5 years.
Just yesterday I stumbled on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard_furnace Doesnt sound like Mao was that hot on admitting failure.
Agreed terrible law. You’re just creating a black market for smuggled tobacco.

I predict they’ll back off this before long. Or won’t enforce it.

Just tax it heavily - cigarettes are almost $20/pack in NYC and the problem solved itself.

Not sure if it’s proximity to China but NZ and Australia seem to have a fetish for authoritarianism that other Western countries don’t.
Ships with the base OS.
Teams is actually integrated with many PBX multi-line systems, including the popular 3CX. You can place calls via the PBX from Teams.
> You can't create competition through regulation.

real world experience suggests the contrary is true.
We were talking about product quality... but OK.

While not exactly fan of Google pushing their other offerings, I still have to find someone who doesn't do that on their own properties. Even our office landlord keeps pushing us to rent some more parking spaces.

But that does not make it a monopoly and the very fact that those other offerings are unsuccessful shows that this behavior is not that problematic.

I am willing to put up with it if this means preventing yet another competition stifling, consumer harming, incumbent favoring - regulation.
> Why raise hell about this?

Because it should never have gotten to this point. They are lucky that somebody has not already died.

> What would filing a complaint improve to this process?

It would encourage proper testing, and proper development practices that would prevent such a bug from occurring. Why was the system so poorly designed that Microsoft Teams could cause a hang during a 911 call in the first place?
On one hand, the abbreviations are extra mental work. On the other hand, when you start composing fairly complicated chains together, all those extra letters are also extra mental work. Neither is inherently right, but I do prefer something like the former here (just making up something emulatorish):

mw(cpu.r[0], mr(mr(cpu.r[1])));

memory_write(processor.register[0], memory_read(memory_read(processor.register[1])));
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Somewhat related, Natural Earth is a global map dataset in the public domain. I stumbled on this issue regarding Taiwan and China: https://github.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/issues/331

Apparently, the resolution was to create political POV versions, although the default seems to lean toward a "Western-centric" direction.
Lead paint isn’t pleasurable or addictive? What a silly comparison.
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I've luckily not seen a crash-to-lock-screen, that really sucks. And of course these things usually happen when you actually need them.

While driving to NYC recently, I briefly lost all signal between two bridges; the whole phone slowed down rapidly and hung within a couple of seconds, google maps frozen on screen.
The thing that has frustrated me for a long time is google discover showing the temparature in Fahrenheit. Predictably there is a support issue with all sorts of people saying they suffer from the same issue and no resolution[0].

The problem is that there are about 5 different ways to get the temperature through google now, probably all built by different teams, so everyone suggests a different way to set your temperature units, but they're all wrong.

Pretty sure the same thing is happening internally at google with every team just trying to blame each other one, and no-one caring enough to fix the issue.

It just feels like shoddy coding.

[0] https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/105615277/temper...
Just have another number that gets treated by systems as an emergency number. Something like 822. Then it should work without a sim, and whilst the phone is locked. 822 can then give an automated response.
This is obviously nonsense. EU has companies in all businesses and in many many fields the market leaders.

Two big weaknesses though: They are generally behind in the tech world (but even there it depends, see e.g. ASML) where scale really matters and scale is much easier and quicker to achieve with a single language and legal system like US and China.

Where Europe is also weaker is finance, which in the US is a barely regulated free for all compared to the EU context. This in turn reflects in market capitalization and stock prices where a US company with equal (or lower) output than an EU company will generally have a much higher valuation.
[EDIT] - Apologies, you are right -- I mistakenly wrote "profit" -- I meant to only discuss revenue. The comment has been corrected now.

Please note that I'm talking about revenue not profit ("income"). In 2020 (and 2021, which to be fair are maybe a little bit skewed) Amazon was consistently making >$90B in revenue for the quarter. Key word being revenue.

> The company also delivered its largest quarter by revenue of all time at $125.56 billion, pushing it past the symbolic $100 billion mark for the first time.[0]

Wow it's frustratingly hard to find such a simple thing as revenue for a company graphed by quarter -- ycharts is at least straight forward[1].

[0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/02/amazon-amzn-earnings-q4-2020...

[1]: https://ycharts.com/companies/AMZN/revenues
USDT: $77B
USDC, 41 + BUSD 14, + TUSD 1.2 + PAX 1 = $57B and growing faster and follow US regulations.
Can anyone explain to me why this is flagged and disappeared from the front page? Just curious to understand the process.
It’s just moralizing from the left instead of the right.

The left used to be all about personal freedom but it was always about “acceptable personal freedom”, just like the right.
I don't think that follows. GPS access is universal; accurate mapping data is not. These rules are an attempt to ensure that precise coordinates for key targets are not available to anyone with a satnav system or smartphone.
The technical state of Hacker News front-end is an embarrassment.
Thanks, you wrote it in a very clear way.

I think we should note though that the Egyptian blockade of Gaza seems far stricter than the Israeli one (which just seems to control that weapons and things that can easily be used to create weaponry or tunnels aren't brought in).
As the majority of the costs of smokes will be tax, you’ll have to do better than 2% to beat inflation.
[EDIT] Apologies was mistaken here -- I did mistakenly write "profits" here, meant to point at revenue.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29495949
Most Linux installations are cloud servers. So yes, Linux really needs to be secure.
You are confusing protectionism with fairness.
Webkit was not started by Apple, please don't erase the original developers.
My history with smartphones goes:

Original iPhone (2007), iPhone 3GS (2009), iPhone 4S (2011), HTC One X (2011, not because the iPhone broke, a friend convinced me I should try Android, and on paper it seemed like I would love that so why not?), Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE (2012), Sony Xperia Z (2013), Sony Xperia Z1 Compact (also 2013), (LG) Google Nexus 5X (2015), iPhone SE (2016), iPhone X (2018), iPhone 12 mini (2020).

I actually knew I was done with Android by the time my Z1 Compact broke in the same way it had already been repaired for once (small crack in the display glass which the digitiser was glued to meaning touch stopped working on one side of the crack, unfortunately about 90% of the screen), but I figured maybe I've just been buying the wrong brands and figured I should give Google, the premium brand, a chance before I went back to iPhones for good.

Alas, the Nexus 5X was so bad (laggy, terrible battery life) I actually went back to my iPhone 4S (which I had also been using between the Z1 Compact and the 5X) within the first year, and then bought the iPhone SE when it came out and never looked back. That iPhone SE actually went to my little brother when I bought the iPhone X, and he stopped using it in 2020 after the screen finally cracked (still usable because Apple doesn't glue the digitiser to the display glass like many Android manufacturers do, a practice I personally think is to force repairs since it becomes impossible to use them without a repair).
If I use BankID why would I also need to supply a utility bill? Or are you using the term BankID in some generic sense? BankID is the name of a company that provides a service of the same name: https://www.bankid.no/en/private/
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That is already true anyway with OSX86. I have known a number of people too poor to afford macs that rig up a hackintosh.

Apple has never stopped the DIY crowd. Their core market is the people that want the support and the branded aluminum.
Politics isn't some formulistic emotionless process; having access to supportive media, which in turn influence public opinion and pressure politicians, who in turn are not entirely free from bias and have agency to pick and choose which priorities they will address most quickly - that kind of stuff matters. Companies try to have great PR even when it doesn't directly influence sales because of this. Additionally, companies spend quite a bit on lobbying. Influence matters, and being a home-grown darling is likely to grant much more of it than being a fairly faceless corporation that's likely not remembered much (and if it is, remembered for negative things).

Regulations are never perfect - and Dyson's own cases clearly show that. But being able to nudge their evolution such that flaws don't hurt you specifically too much is valuable, even if it's not any kind of enforceable right.

Also, while I have a great deal of respect for the value of the EU, no organization is entirely free from regulatory capture (or effects like it). That's not some kind of anti-EU rant; I'm entirely willing to accept that the EU is probably on the healthier end of the spectrum here. But just because they're no worse than others doesn't mean lobbying isn't a thing.
Wasn't the name for this originally 'Darcula' and not Dracula?
Of course you can. Competition and free markets are orthogonal concepts. Competition is a process that exists within any regulatory framework, while free markets refer to the extent and stability of the regulations.

Infrastructure is the usual example. If your company owns something like a cellular network or a local power grid, the EU requires that you let other businesses use it for a fair price to sell their services to customers. This regulation creates more competition and lowers the prices for customers, while simultaneously making businesses more efficient and less profitable.
It looks like there was a party last night and every emoji in existence was invited.
The document: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/21114562/jan-2021... (PDF)

> FBI's ability to legally access secure content on leading messaging applications

From the article:

Nine popular messaging applications are included in the document:

- Apple's iMessage

- Line, a Japanese message app

- Signal, an open source encrypted chat platform popularized by Edward Snowden

- Telegram, which originated in Russia and is now based in Dubai

- Threema, a paid encryption chat with servers based in Switzerland

- Viber, which was developed in Cyprus and then bought by the Japanese conglomerate Rakuten

- the Chinese Swiss army knife app WeChat

- Meta's WhatsApp

- and Wickr, which is a chat service that Amazon Web Services apparently owns

> The bottom line: of the most popular apps, iMessage and WhatsApp are particularly susceptible to FBI snooping. Telegram and Signal score far better according to the documents.
> No one here dreams of getting millions for burning their mouth on hot McD coffee

You do know that this is not how that story went, right? The popular version of the story you mention is just wrong.
The rule is really simple: If you dial 911, you must be immediately connected to the emergency services. This means that there cannot be any other number that starts with the prefix 911. If this means that you have to shuffle around what number you use to call an external line, then you just have to do that.
The explanatory gap you're seeing is the difference between equilibrium and dynamic analysis. As time goes to infinity, the probability of an organism retaining genes not useful to it declines to zero. Given enough time, that resistance gene, if not directly beneficial by side effect, will be pruned.

But evolution takes time. If the resistance gene is on a stable plasmid, if the plasmid confers other fitness advantages, and if the resistance gene itself only infinitesimally reduced fitness, then evolution can take a very long time indeed to reconfigure that plasmid and optimize away the resistance gene.

Both camps are right here.
>IMO the biggest issue with property taxes, land taxes, or any other similar idea, is that they arbitrarily tax one kind of wealth over others.

Exactly. They tax wealth created by nature and/or the community rather than wealth created by individuals. The land Trump Tower sits on isn't valuable because Trump owns it. It's valuable because all of New York surrounds it.

A $5 million fleet of cars is wealth (mostly) created by human hands. Those human hands ought to decide what happens to them. Right?

There's also raw materials, but they would be subjected to a georgist tax too.
And yet it is not possible to run a single MacOS targeted GUI application on it without many proprietary components on top.
Extending Bootstrap components using utility classes only, just like Tailwind
It baffles me how fragile joints are, unlike other bones once they're injured it's game over. Thankfully the surrounding tissue can ensure some functionality but it's not fun living your life with a malfunctioning limb.
I've destroyed both my elbows and knees and I'm shaking with anticipation for good replacement options. Our mechanical implants tech is terrible, they can't even support the same amount of weight as a destroyed biological joint last I checked (max weight at something like 3kgs for elbow implants if I remember correctly.)
Remove predatory, keep the question.
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At least some of the examples might be explained by _new groups_ taking over _old brands_, no? This would result in the group seemingly change its beliefs, when in reality, it has been replaced.

Take the cathlic church. Say some people realize that the geocentrism is wrong. You have the option of either splitting off and starting something from scratch; or, if you have the option, you launch a coup, and replace the people in the cathlic church, effectively changing the group, but still seeming as the "cathlic church" from anyone outside.
> it will never make up for the cost to the country

The opposite is true -- smokers contribute much more in taxes than the cost of smoking related illnesses [1], and more importantly, die younger so tend not to have the long lingering (very expensive) deaths of non-smokers.

See "The smoke screen" ("Yes, Prime Minister", 1986) for a comedic take on this.

[1] https://fullfact.org/economy/does-smoking-cost-much-it-makes...
To be fair, none of these competitors are making money either. It's hard to make money from "growth and engagement" in a world already saturated with advertising.
Luckily we don’t blacklist our companies that use AI to kill muslims like NVIDIA.
I wouldn't say that. Maybe not the best design you might think of but much faster than e.g. indiehackers.
not really? looks good, functions well. slightly awkward on mobile since the text is small. very fast, loads on all devices, very accessible because of good document structure. you could reasonably browse HN on a text-only terminal.
OK, please educate me on how that difference is relevant from a competition-harming perspective.
I only remember Python even from the very beginning. Also Cobbler (Michael Dehaan’s prior project) was in Python too.

I could be wrong though, the only reason this stuff sticks in my mind is because i was working on a CFEngine deployment (scarred for life) at the time Ansible popped up.
The only thing I regret after switching to an iPhone SE this year is the ability to use Firefox with uBlock. I regret not buying an iPhone sooner. It just works.
I don't know about Android 12, but on Android 11 it's in Settings > Apps an notifications > Defaults Apps.
This is where you choose which app you want as default for phone, browser, messages, etc
macOS is absolutely not a FreeBSD fork, but there are lots of bits and pieces in current macOS that are direct derivatives of FreeBSD code, including kernel code, libc and lots of userland stuff.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Da...

"The BSD portion of the OS X kernel is derived primarily from FreeBSD, a version of 4.4BSD that offers advanced networking, performance, security, and compatibility features."
Yes, but in the case of Germany, it wasn't the case that the German government and societal structures changed their beliefs; they were replaced.
Finally :D

This is something I could do with
Thank you, this is a perfect illustration and one of the scenarios I feared around keeping data long-term, though I was thinking about disk errors and such.

Sidenote I seem to have experienced Cunningham's Law for the first time semi-consciously, as I was aware my claim is most probably wrong. Still, I wonder if data corruption is a more common scenario rather than crashing, because ever since I use Linux I don't recall experiencing many crashes I couldn't attribute to a driver issue or known instability in the software I used, especially on compatible hardware. Windows days were another story... But maybe the memory modules were worse back then and perhaps having less memory made it more likely to crash?
The short answer is it doesn't, it just dials 911.

Way, way back in the day when dial-up was a thing, I worked at a company that had an automated system that called a large bank of test numbers to make sure they were still working. This system ran 24/7. It required you to put in the numbers as <areacode>-<number> without a prefixed 1. The code would add the 1 automatically. Because it operated in a lab inside of our phone system, it dialed 9 to dial out. Well, at some point someone had to reconfigure this system and I guess thought it would be good to add a 1 before each # in the configuration.

This resulted in thousands of 911 calls being made to our local call center. We had accidentally created a 911 war-dialer.

The moral of this story is don't dial 9 to get an external line. You're literally a keystroke away from calling 911 every single day.
What kind of testing (and from whom) would have caught this?
If one actually watches, instead of making rhetorical arguments, they'll observe that there are different types of products, and one can't make a generalized statement.

Windows for example, is expanding their ad-base, even if they have a base revenue due to the product being sold, so it's reasonable to present a slippery slope argument.

Ubuntu is not (directly) sold, yet, they've removed the ads (Amazon sponsored searches).

Android products have different dynamics - differently from O/S, the cost of switch is considerably lower; users do complain/act when advertisement becomes too invasive, so there is a balancing force.

This balancing force applies also to messaging apps, so the slippery slope argument is not realistic. See the significant number of users who switched to Telegram when WhatsApp was sold to Facebook, or when they changed the privacy rules.

I don't know how many users expect to freeload messaging apps (that is, to expect that apps don't monetize metadata or ads or not to directly sell the product). I have heard people complainints about Whatsapp's privacy invasion rather than Telegram's advertising (as a matter of fact, I guess that none of the people I know has ever seen a Telegram ad).

In this specific case, paradoxically ads are less dangerous, because the cost to the user is overt, as opposed to metadata (ab)use, which is covert.
Very interesting, thank you for that.
It made me feel sick almost instantly. Maybe making the central section completely opaque would help as well as changing the direction of the movement so it's not linear, and increasing the frame rate also.
Great idea to have a cross-app theme, but Monokai Pro is hard to beat for me. I love that theme and I wish I could use it for other things too.
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This question is out of the scope of land value taxation. The overall tax burden would fall on the institution running the condo (HOA/company/whatever). How they decide whom to charge and how much, etc. would be a separate question government by different rules and laws.

Which is not to say that the outcome would be fair, but whether it is or not would depend upon how these organizations are regulated and run.
So every app vendor now needs to make a 911 call as part of their CI process? I don't think 911 call centers are very happy about this.
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If us-east-1 going down for about 24 hours costs Amazon $1.3+ billion, wouldn't that make the yearly revenue of that region something like $475 billion? I think that's like AWS and Amazon yearly revenues put together.
Settled for undisclosed amount after the last court round was at $640 000 (which both sides appealed).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restau...

The point being, in EU you'd be expected to know hot coffee is hot, and get nothing for pouring it over yourself. At best you'd be looking at medical expenses (loss of income is covered by state).
That Google keeps getting fined only says that the earlier fines were not enough.

They definitely are capable of playing by the rules.
Right now it only one of the bug among thousands of others bugs in their bug tracking system, By raising hell with fcc, After penalty and rapping from fcc Organizations legal department will get involved, they will make sure this gets required attention. Will ensure this is one of the must check/test before shipping product/app.
> it's not clear how to automate applying one such javascript snippet on each page load of a URL of defined pattern matching - there probably exist at least browser extensions

Userscripts with extensions like tampermonkey.