skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The typical US laws are mostly misunderstood: Even where vehicles have the right of way, they have an obligation to yield to avoid hitting a pedestrian, just as having right of way doesn't permit you to intentionally cause a wreck."

Worth repeating.
1. This is a PR win for the SEC. It can now go to congress and say, see, we are working with Crypto companies! (while they really aren't, not in good faith anyway).

2. This is a win for Blockfi. Like other mentions, they gave their business a legal veneer for the sum for $100m. If you are of the opinion that all Cryptos and related companies are scams. Guess what? The SEC disagrees.

3. The same product (even better actually) is done via DeFi. That's where the real battle will be with major implications on the Ethereum ecosystem (or whatever Dapp blockchain you prefer).
It might be easy enough but it's not very helpful because it's a duopoly. I disagree with even more of Google's business practices than Apple's.
"When you hear hoofbeats behind you, it's probably centaurs."
Because Canada is not part of the USA?
2 words: frame.work
> which does carry a lot of benefits besides not paying the fee, including better customer management and support

And most importantly, making it really difficult for the user to cancel the subscription
This seems like not only a boneheaded move but also a very user hostile one. Not the one I would have expected Apple to do. The obvious approach imo is to require apps to offer Apple payment as an option, while optionally offering other payment options. That way users who like apple payment can always use it.

Having apps that don't integrate with apple's payment system but still charges the huge revenue tax is both greedy and bad looking for apple, but throws the customer to the dogs.
I'd speculate that not paying the 30% Apple Tax is basically the whole point for most businesses that care about it.
Gitlab supports mermaid too. It's always nice when there's feature parity between the two, as it makes it easier to jump between them.
Absolutely. When Facebook got to the point that my old friends and family were ubiquitously present, it was a godsend. I reestablished contact with people I hadn't heard from for years, kept up-to-date on family that I would otherwise not have heard from - it was great.

Lately, Facebook doesn't do a very good job of this, so I've been thinking of better ways of doing it. Something like an email reminder might work.
I'm confident that these kind of powers will never be abused now or once the shoe inevitably goes on the other foot.
Yeah, you probably don’t want to cash out $100 million at a time. That is obviously going to draw attention.

But $10 million a year? Perhaps much more if split over a couple of jurisdictions? No problem.

In the end this was about stolen $100 million being worth more than totally legit $2 million. I firmly believe that it would be downright easy to safely cash out $2 million a year from the stolen $100 million.

> To believe that they are just gonna accept "I mined it lol" is a grand delusion.

Unless you keep evidence of your crimes sitting around, at some point they’ll have to.

Assuming you use monero correctly, no amount of forensic analysis will be able to go back from your funds to the original crime.

And besides, the “early miner” story is hardly incredible. Many people have recovered huge sums of money from old hard drives.

> If you describe that you got $100 million from mining Monero, you're gonna have to show proof that you have the equipment to actually get that, over the timeframe you're claiming you have mined

This isn’t really a problem as long as you claim to have started mining early enough, fairly basic hardware would probably suffice.
FigJam is out of beta: Use Figma for brainstorming, diagrams, planning
Some actually see the constant flow of alerts, and ask if you want to supress alerts for that site. So, depending on how quickly you interact with that site, the browser might save you.
>Er, you don't know truckers think people getting killed by police officers is "no big deal".

I agree that "no big deal" was an overstep, but the argument works fine with "is justified"/"is not justified".

>Or do you have some specific evidence, like a poll of the truckers on what they thought of BLM last year?

Unfortunately not, but based on this poll[1] and demographic factors of truckers (ie. less likely to be college educated, more likely to be republican), it seems pretty reasonable to conclude that most truckers oppose BLM.

[1] https://civiqs.com/results/black_lives_matter?annotations=tr...
> which had no way to escape the dialogues.

Ctrl+Alt+Del?
This is either hilarious or you're working for Dell ( I love cats ).
> Several years later, in 1968, architect Charles Eames, along with his wife Ray, directed a "rough sketch" film of the same concept and finally completed the work (entitled the "Powers of Ten") with the assistance of Philip Morrison in 1977.

The video they talk about here is available on Youtube and is still quite interesting, despite looking a bit dated now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
To me it stands to reason that the armored 4 ton machine wins the battle every time against a small fleshy pedestrian.

So the pedestrian should really be the one avoiding the auto.
> It's akin to pulling away the seat of a teacher who wants to sit down.

You're right, it is. You don't get arrested for pulling away the seat of a teacher who wants to sit down. You might get detention, but if that's the only bad thing you've ever done, you'll probably get let off with a warning.
Lycos is still around but stopped providing free email in 2018.
Apple may do whatever they please on their Appstore app.

But they should stop trying to control a phone they SOLD to customer and allow unimpeded running any app the customer needs, including competing stores or directly installed apps.
> those using an alternative payment method still must give Apple 27% of income

While 27% is higher than expected, everyone knew Apple would (and had the right to) impose a fee for alternative payment methods. There isn't a magic flag you can wave to avoid paying Apple if you are accepting payments in an iOS app.

> app developers have to produce an entirely new app

This is the part the Dutch court slapped down. The development concerns in the press release are overblown, though ("must develop a completely new app") since it's more like you must submit a new app that uses the new entitlements.
So you think it's acceptable for citizens in one country to fund political movements in other countries? Would you feel the same way about oligarchs in Russia or China funding political organizations in the US?
We have a famous example here of someone who is forever forbidden to work around financial markets, that include the IT systems and network equipment.

But I don't think companies here are ever barred to go further than the law. If employees have to be vetted, there is a department in the Ministry of Interior that does just that, they say yes or no without any detail as to why (and there is an appeal process that still doesn't involve the employer).

But here if you cook the books as a CPA, you will probably be barred from the job for at least a few years.
Maybe it has to do with its competitors being a 1.7 trillion dollar company and a 2.5 trillion dollar company!

Winning against those requires not only better technology AND marketing AND consumer favor, but also leverage in the legal processes that enable/disable network effects. So anti-trust is unfortunately one of Mozilla's biggest hopes.
>meh. even cheap hot hatches are close to being too fast to fully use on public roads these days. the race to ever quicker 0-60 times is incredibly boring and misguided imo.

currently drive a hot hatch. Can confirm this. The magic number for me is probably around 4.5s. Anything faster is really not needed.

>a model 3 probably is superior to a hellcat in every measurable way, I'll give you that. although I doubt most hellcat owners would willingly trade them in for anything lacking a loud V8.

Ironically... had hellcat before this. Can confirm this as well. I do miss the supercharged v8 whine.

>but people don't buy Porsches to drag race. there have always been much cheaper vehicles that would beat them handily on a drag strip; it's not what they're are designed for. they are pretty fast on the track, but unlike a Tesla, the appeal of a Porsche cannot be summarized in a single performance metric.

My next vehicle will most likely be an EV truck. I think this is what you are missing right there. I would bet the majority of people driving porsche have not taken them to a track. That's not the purpose.

A car with good accelerating power will automatically give me a high speed performance. ~ Ferdinand Porsche.

I cant find the exact quote, but Porsche said, To build a car that drives well at 200km/h, you must build it to go 300km/h.

Tesla plaid doing 2 second 0=60 is idiotically fast as you would agree. It's not about that. It's about driving it without doing that.
It cost me ~$400 in 2017 (just in software) to switch from Android to Apple. It’s not easy.
Fair enough, surely someone in Europe has made an alternative that can you move to then?
Or if you want to get arrested in Russia you can go this way

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/02/10/russia-sentences-t...
There are vending machines full of SIM cards at Heathrow, so I'd say they're still available.
From the TC article:

It’s not known for exactly how long the bucket was left exposed, but a text file left behind by an unnamed security researcher, dated September 2018, warned that the bucket was “not properly configured” which can have “dangerous security implications.”

So... this has been a known problem since 2018. Time to stop tilting at windmills.
Yes, I don't understand why there aren't more feature phones with full hardware keyboards. This, combined with the GP's requirements, would likely convince me to shift to a feature phone.
I thought having a QAnon son was an odd way to prove you’re not racist.
I'm not sure how disclosure makes it not an unregistered security?
BTW, if one wants to see more problems with worked out answers than their professor and/or textbook provides, there are books you can buy for this. For linear algebra for example you could get Schaum's Outline of Linear Algebra [1] for $13.44 which includes 612 practice problems with step-by-step solutions.

There are such books for most of the major first and second year undergraduate STEM and STEM-adjacent courses.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Schaums-Outline-Linear-Algebra-Outlin...
They've also got a pretty thorough podcast episode on it from a couple of years ago: https://www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast/49
>If pedestrians cannot get around at night without wearing ridiculous fluorescent outfits because of the danger of cars

They can get around just fine, they just don't want to walk further to get to the crosswalks, which is fine, but I think it's reasonable to ask people to wear reflectors as a trade off. I also can't exactly expect drivers new to the area to intuitively know where someone might decide to cross at night. Thus reflectors. When I see someone walking on the sidewalk, I slow down (even though it's not necessary given the amount of space between the road and the sidewalk). If I can't see that anyone is on the sidewalk at night, how am I going to know to do that? I want people to wear reflectors so I can give them a lot of space to feel safe not because I think it's their fault if they get hit.

>If pedestrians cannot get around at night without wearing ridiculous fluorescent outfits because of the danger of cars, then the problem is with the cars, not the pedestrians' fashion choices.

Yes, but saying this doesn't just magically make the problem go away. I also think people should wear reflectors at night regardless. When I'm walking around at night, in low-visibility areas, people seem to appear out of nowhere and I'd prefer to keep my distance.
Amazon is a dark horse that can win the music-streaming wars
Look, I'm 55 years old. There are people I haven't heard from in maybe thirty years, easy. I wouldn't mind catching up on those people yearly - and it would be at least a thirty-fold improvement over my current management technique, right?
The number one issue with the browser ecosystem right now is Safari. iPhone browsers being forced to render with Safari's engine is already bad. Blocking browsers from having extensions is far worse in my opinion. Most of the reason I use Chrome and Firefox on my desktop is their rich array of extensions.

If I were Firefox, I'd sue Apple to hell for abusing their dominance in OS and device market share to block me from competing fairly in the browser market.
Chrome just works and Firefox doesn't.

I know that's reductive and perhaps not to the standards of this website, but that's really it for the majority of people who couldn't care less about the diversity of browser engines out there.
You missed the point, that being; isn't triple backticks meant for whitespace preserving, highlighted in certain cases source code? And not embedding other file types.
> I don't agree that censorship means "totally restrict".

Can you point me to a definition of censorship that supports your view?

Your definition is so broad that anyone who declines to share anything ever is “censoring”.

At that point we need a new word for the action of totally suppressing content everywhere and declining to share content to distinguish between two very different events with two very different outcomes throughout history.

Or I guess a qualifier like “total censorship” vs. “limited distribution censorship”. At this point why not just use the words “censorship” and “restricted” as originally intended?
> as a modern human we all have to rely on organizations and companies outside of our control

While true, we should be striving to minimise that. The internet era radically accelerated the rate at which we pick up new "external dependencies", and we should be trying to bring this rate down rather than embrace it.
The premier's daughter is definitely unmasked, and an adult as calculated by age:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krista_Haynes
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-anti-vac...
Anyone else remember going to the GMail homepage and watching your available storage climb upwards like the national debt clock?
I came up with a nastier fork bomb about 20 years ago. This also tries to eat your memory. It at least used to reliably hose any *nix system I tried it on, even ones where people had tried to put various process limits in place.

#!/bin/sh

perl -e 'push @big, 1 while 1' &; $0 &; $0
As foreigner who traveled to the US a couple of times: how do you get a phone number that is associated with your identity in the US? I recall only needing $60 and a compatible phone to put the sim card into.
Well, as a backup, USB drives don't have that great of a lifespan compared to tapes. They're also not nearly as space dense or competitive for $/GB once you've amortized the drives.

And for an org, there's still attacks in both cases. Do your backups get requested through an automated system? Well you've just made a very slow tape library with people rather than robotics. Are the tapes/USB sticks encrypted and the encryption keys stored in an online system? Then the hackers have a mechanism to deny you access to the contents of the tapes, which is probably their goal anyway.

Yes a USB drive with a text file is pretty safe from such attacks, but it also doesn't scale to the backup concerns of even relatively small orgs.
And ask spotify of how they feel about app store, apple and it's practices :)

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2019-03-13/consumers-and-innova...
In what way is was it not? Of course it’s not free but I don’t see how it’s not easy.

Just download the new software and then you’re done right?
They were only petitioning for early elections - in case Covid restrictions were not immediately removed. Not unconditionally.

Petitioning for early elections (even if impossible legally) is a far, far cry from "overthrowing the government"*.

Would you be willing to edit your original post to provide some context here?
Good on you!

I can imagine -- a solid feed with reply capabilities sounds like a maintenance nightmare. But a smaller feature set could cover the queuing need described here -- something that just extracts a simple .csv file listing contacts and when they were last contacted.
The reason that the "yet you participate in society" argument works in the original comic you're quoting is that the peasant with sticks on his back is saying "we should improve society somewhat" and the peasant isn't allowed to choose whether they participate in a society. The reason what you're saying is not convincing, and why people keep pointing it out, is that you're saying in effect "a product that I freely use should never have existed".

Let me spell it out for you.
* The peasant doesn't get to choose whether he participates in society.
* The peasant wants to improve society.

Here's you:
* You get to choose whether you use hacker news, and you have decided to use hacker news.
* You think that websites like hacker news should not exist.

Do you see why your argument isn't convincing? Your riposte of "yet you participate in society" could be used for literally anything. You're saying that hacker news shouldn't exist, but you don't actually believe that. If you argue things you don't believe, it's not really a good faith discussion.
I've been looking for a term for this, thank you.
How can "the science" say that warming will be worse than all of the scientific models say it will be?
Back when I managed to get OSX running on VMWare Player I recall having to edit some of the DSDT stuff to get the battery indicator to show on the desktop!

It still boggles my mind that there's a virtual machine interpreter running in kernel mode.
Dell visual design is great. Anything else sucks. I had to heavily mod my dell XPS 13 with heat pipes, thermal putty and thermal pads to make it not throttle. It's literally 20!!!! degrees cooler now and never throttles. It's unbelievable that an amateur like me can run circles around their design. Picture for the interested: https://imgur.com/a/SfaI0RA
> Surface is horrible so I’m not sure why that’s comparable.

The Surface Go with type cover is an amazing janky device. It weighs almost nothing and has the CPU power to match, but I can toss it in my backpack and have a lightweight dev environment with me all the time.

It's great because it's has no software constraints, despite all the hardware compromises. I'd ditch it in a second if the iPad could run full macOS.
Also, fwiw basically everything you know about the chestnut tree is a lie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TksLHWB9Wbk
- Health care workers in Ottawa had to be advised not too wear work wear in the streets to avoid harassment and assault.

- The Canadian Trucking Alliance have stated that between 85 and 90 per cent of truckers are already vaccinated.

- 65% of Canadians think the Freedom Convoy represents a small minority of selfish Canadians. (Leger poll)

- Hate groups spotted among the protesters include the Soldiers of Odin, Three Percenters and followers of the Soltrean hypothesis. I'm sure there are some very fine people among them as well.

- Prominent among the organizers are advocates of the "white genocide" theory.
Related Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30334094
Basically, the Investment Act of 1934 says:

1. You have to file a prospectus (an S-1) before collecting money.

2. You have to disclose a lot of stuff, like who's really behind this, where the money goes, what the risks are, what's happened so far, and what the business plan is.

3. Lying in an S-1 is a crime.

Crypto schemes tend to violate 1), because 2) would show that their scheme is a scam, and if they tried to cover that up, 3) would put them in jail.

There's grumbling about "paperwork", but that's just an excuse. It's the part about having to disclose all that stuff under penalty of perjury that scammers hate.
Note that horse chestnuts (aka "buckeyes"), besides (as you say) being unrelated to standard chestnuts, are toxic. Just handling them is not a problem, but eating them is definitely bad news. Native Americans used to grind them up and use them to stun/kill fish.
Seems like they’re ok with it since they’re still on iOS.
Smartphones count as creation machines because people create content on them. If you take a look at Tiktok, Instagram or many of the other social networks, you'll see countless pieces of content that are created by smartphones each day.
How galaxies can exist without dark matter
Well, maybe they should get vaccinated then.
I'd be curious to see foreign donors.
"California also has the "jaywalking" law that clearly prioritizes automobiles over pedestrians."

The cars are still obligated to stop to avoid hitting someone. It just allows a pedestrian to be ticketed for impeding a vehicle's travel (which is dangerous) while not being in an established crossings (which I believe includes implicit ones at intersections, but unsure about that part).
The Sonic games are a bit like rhythm games. By playing multiple times you will identify patterns and eventually flow through them which can be very satisfying. Also while playing levels the first time you will stumble into some of these patterns by design (e.g. bouncing onto an enemy even though you only intended to jump over an obstacle).
What are the best ways to fight imposter syndrome?
When my students get jobs in tech (especially FAANG level) there is this feeling like they don't deserve to be there. This causes their mental health to suffer pretty significantly.
My current approach to helping is to just remind them that if they passed a companies technical assessment, they deserve to be there. It doesn't feel that effective.

Would love to know if anyone has successfully tackled imposter syndrome or has helped others through it. What works and what doesn't?
Because Roblox is not developed by a government from taxes. It is a company that seeks profit and needs to pay employees.
This.

However, I think they need to answer the question, why should Firefox exist? If there is no compelling reason, well, there you go. If there is, double down on that make that reason shine. They have wasted so much money on the wrong things, IMO.
In Ireland you can buy a SIM card without ID and pay cash. Similarly with mobile phones too -- I would very much doubt the US is the only country where this is possible. Data protection is generally taken much more seriously in Europe than the US.
... but 2 years of government mandated economic destruction is fine?

They didn't do all this in Sweden.
sequencediagram.org is a pleasant (and free) tool for generating standalone diagrams like this outside of GitHub. I discovered it while helping Corrily with their docs, e.g. the diagram at the top of this page: https://docs.corrily.com/docs/price-optimization-overview
Probably once Chrome brings in the new Manifest v3 changes then FF will start reversing the trend.
Maybe they just enjoy a good martyrdom.
If push notifications are an important value add, which go through Apple's servers is it reasonable for Apple to have companies that make money using there services subsidize the free ones?

Alternatively, if everyone who is publishing free on Apple is using an alternate payment system, and Apple doesn't collect anything from those apps, would it be reasonable for Apple to have some sort of "Developer pays $10 for every 10k push messages from a free app?" and "Developer pays $0.25/month for each app on the App Store"?

There's a question of "How does Apple pay for services?" Yes, it is currently quite profitable. If moving to a 3rd party payment processor with no associated fee causes the App Store to become unprofitable, what steps is Apple allowed to take to return it to a profit center?