skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is not the law, but rather the class action lawsuits around these cases. I have no problem working with blind users to improve the accessibility of the website, but I have been sued by plaintiffs counsel in a state where we had no customers, no business of any kind, the claim was bogus, and we had to spend money on legal counsel to get that thrown out.

Class action lawsuits are a plague on businesses and I'm confident that it would be a large "net positive" for society if they were eliminated.

The answer to "punishing" people should not be allowing lawyers to blackmail companies to settle class-action suits. Rather, it should be to make it easier to actually resolve smaller issues. I explicitly require the use of fairclaims.com for smaller disputes on my site. I recommend them as they are genuinely a fast, easy form of binding arbitration.

Maybe I could be on board with class-action lawsuits if the defendant has lost 5 or more individual suits for the same reason, or something like that if someone was truly a repeat offender.
We need yo kill SaaS. It was a better world when you sold software and the license. Be it in physical form or digital. In the world we have now you lose access to your info the moment you don't pay. This has already caused countless businesses to go under. Especially since covid. People need to wake up.
Performing a DNS lookup on that same domain name, they seem to have claimed[1] in 2013 that the fair price of bitcoin is zero; that's certainly a valid opinion, although not one that appears to have stood the test of time.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6843676
A lot of companies have a huge investment in commercial real estate and likely don't want to see those values drop. But I'm with you--this makes no sense to keep oscillating between "yay! cases are dropping, the pandemic is over!" and "uh oh, everyone WFH for now".

IMHO companies where possible should scale back to the bare minimum on site and build a strong remote-first culture. Sell offices and move to smaller locations if it makes sense to reduce that footprint. This doesn't mean no one can work on site, or that no one can work remote.
> He quoted the height of it to quite a degree of accuracy as proof of his touristic intentions

Doesn't really prove anything. Could just be a really strange individual who memorises statistics. To 3 significant figures doe.
Nothing will substitute that well because these are prestige luxury goods. Xi wants to send his daughter to Harvard, not to a university in Moscow. Abramovich wants to sail in Europe, not China.

It was the case in the Soviet Union too that even though the West was the enemy, the status symbols were still all Western. In a weird way the elites aspired and lusted over the produce of Western consumerism.
I'd love a similar article on how America's oligarchs are buying America.

For some weird reason they get called "elites" if they're American, but oligarchs if only if they're Russian, even though they're the same class of wildly disproportionately powerful people.
One would think that after going through this you would become more empathetic and understanding of the ordinary citizens side. But no, somehow the takeaway was that discrimination against innocent people based where they're from is OK
I doubt it. Anyone with any money or power in China already has a foot out the door, in almost all cases in a country with strong property rights and rule of law. Russian oligarchs won't find anything in China that they don't already have at home.
It might be as simple as they don’t know if you are working or not when your butt isn’t in your seat. Or, to put it another way, lack of trust.
You can say created! It exists in etcd just hasn't been materialized in other ways yet.
It's not that they don't think (though they don't). It's that they don't have any kind of a realistic feel for how big various groups are. (Which means they would have to think, instead of just responding by intuition - and they don't think.)
Kagi requires users to sign up (even though it's currently free?) which is 1000x more user-hostile than anything Google does and makes it a nonstarter as far as I'm concerned.
For those who don't want to try to read a picture of a magazine embedded in a tweet:

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2022/02/26/...
Current lists of the laws I have in mind, YMMV, but there's some good stuff in here (by which I mean assaults on freedom of expression from one and only one political quadrant).

https://freedomforallamericans.org/legislative-tracker/schoo...

https://freedomforallamericans.org/legislative-tracker/anti-...

FindLaw is a pretty ideologically neutral resource:

https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/law-and-life/book-banning...

https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/law-and-life/understandin...

https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/law-and-life/can-academic...

I could go on and on but you'll see it or you'll find reasons not to.

This comes from one political quadrant.

There is no other side to this issue, which is the issue I've been discussing.

I don't know what to tell you to get you to see that substituting some rioting anarchist self-proclaimed leftists who have no representation in our politics for the liberals I referred to is insulting to my intelligence.
Security policies api still not removed so as a one-off you can disable sysctls that way https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/policy/pod-security-poli...
DDG's organic link results are from Bing, sans personalization. DuckDuckGo advertises using "over 400 sources", which means that at least 399 sources only power infoboxes ("instant answers") and non-generalist search, such as the Video search.
So she basically directly sublet part of her apartment, and is surprised the landlord didn't care and still held her responsible? That's exactly the stance the landlord should take in such a situation. Assuming it wasn't just directly a breach of contract of the rental terms to start with, which would even further just protect the landlord.

Did she even bother to draft a contract with the subletter? Or was this all just, "sure, stranger, move right on in to the property for which I am legally obligated? I'm sure this will all work out fine."
> Test accessibility with keyboard

One very simple step a dev can take is to just `tab` over their pages and check that important elements (links, buttons, etc) receive focus. Especially if they toggle something on the page via JS. If something doesn't, replace the div soup w/ a focusable element like `<a href="javascript:;"></a>`

For those saying accessibility is hard, doing just this one thing can make a big difference.
the problem isn't the accessibility standards, that is reasonable.

the problem are the insane hacks and shoddy coding that devs were forced to do because the money wanted pretty interfaces instead of reasonable ones that could handle screen readers and the like.
maybe the solution is to make google itself reddit style. let users downvote the seo spam websites and allow them to be downranked.
sure it opens the door for a different kind of abuse... but maybe that problem is more fixable?
There's a video? I just meant reading the homepage and looking at the example docs!

Regardless, looks cool. Thanks
Their yachts are apparently escaping to the Maldives [1], so that's an option, as long as it's not underwater. But then again, they have yachts.

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-02/russian-o...
How do you know you got real entropy instead of a replay of an already recorded stream of events?
How big of a city are you talking about? I live in a city of just over 50k and house prices have been an issue for years and keeps getting worse. It's the same for every "city" around this size that I've looked into. I've seen a town with <20k where house prices have more than doubled in the past 2 years. It's a bold statement to say everyone can afford to own a desirable home in even a smaller city.
the richest people in america got that way by creating enormous amounts of value and then capturing lots of it for themselves.

the richest people in russia got that way by plundering the country of its natural resources and the remnants of the soviet-era industry.

those are not the same.
I want to say upfront that I have no issue with the latter half of your statement, but not the way intended by who I responded to. First though what I don't think is correct:

>With the highest level person at SpaceX worried about them going bankrupt

Um, no. That statement got very, very confused in the media and retellings. The "bankruptcy" has to do with SpaceX's ultimate Mars ambitions and the rapid viability of Starlink without further investment. Very correctly, Musk and everyone else at SpaceX wants it to be able to stand on its own two feet as fast as possible, and further be able to be printing enough money to fund the enormously long term and capital intensive vision of Mars development. That is the point of it after all, and ultimately that must happen for it all to work. However, that's not the same thing at all as saying that it won't actually be getting further funding. Musk has tens of billions worth of Tesla, a bunch of which he liquidated last year. He will indeed continue to pour money into it. The number of private investors who'd be happy to add in is not exactly tiny either, nor the public for that matter though both those of course bring some challenges around control and overhead.

But that message was a rally-the-troops kind of thing, in stark contrast to Blue Origin for example. Musk doesn't want employees to think of SpaceX as a government too-big-too-fail contractor on safe cost-plus financing simply because it's backed by someone wealthy and dedicated. SpaceX's vision is too big even for him by itself. It needs to be a viable enterprise. It needs to stay hungry and fast even though it has earned the top spot in the current launch market, because they want to obsolete the current launch market entirely while expanding it by orders of magnitude. Starship (and future even bigger ships) has to work for all this, and for Starlink to work economically and help kick off the planned virtuous circle. And Musk is correct that the environment may turn hostile in unpredictable ways so who knows how many years SpaceX actually has to prove itself and really get bootstrapping.

But it's still in a stupendously better position than the ESA, which isn't aiming humanity for the stars in the first place right now with Ariane.

So all that said:

>their own launch systems an capability

This is certainly fine and yes I think it matters strategically. While I don't agree with much of what the EU has done, I also think much of it is wonderful and that fundamentally it's a great institution as well as Europe as a whole. Any entity on that scale should have a route to space in the future, just as the EU has Airbus for flight. And that will help the US as well.

But the way to go about that isn't through Arianespace. The EU, yesterday (a decade or more ago in fact), needs to get their own commercial sector going. With proven examples they can go much faster than NASA did if they want. But they need to supply the vision, big incentives, cut regulatory obstacles, and provide good government infra support and so on then let private players work out the actual implementation servicing those goals.
Thanks - I did consider using that term too; perhaps I was led astray by the most recent Advent of Code challenges. They're similar, although I think there's a risk of confusion with regulatory capture -- maybe a justified risk -- but one I'd like to avoid unless proven equivalent.
We've had two years now--that's plenty of time for management and HR to figure out how to measure and validate remote work is getting done. If a tech company still needs a manager to see a physical person in a seat then the company has far, far bigger problems.
We're building Socket to stop this exact type of attack. See https://socket.dev

Socket turns the whole npm security problem on its head and asks: what if we assume all open source may be malicious? Can we proactively detect indicators of compromised packages? What's the simplest way to mitigate this risk without hurting usability?
I think the term started life in Russian (just before my time) before being translated directly into English. It's got little to do with Oligarchy in Plato's sense, but it originated as a reference to it. Incidentally, the term Aristocracy is also used in a corrupted sense, but not in the context of Russia.
Current rumors are that the upcoming Mac Pro will support add-in ram sticks and pcie cards so that form factor is not necessarily obsolete yet.

I will find it disappointing though if the new Mac Pro doesn't have an option for a lower end cpu (like an M1 Pro) and consequently a lower price tag.
Lol this is typically something locals don't know yeah. I've also been reluctant to even visit tourist hotspots in the places I've lived. Never felt like waiting an hour in a queue with busloads of Chinese snapping photos and listening to a tour guide with a flag to make sure her herd doesn't lose their way :P Friends visiting me in Amsterdam would be appealed I never saw the Anne Frank House.

It's just not really a fun thing to do in your own town. And to be fair most tourist attractions are hugely overrated.
Former C1 employee here with a personal opinion. C1 is walking the walk; everyone up to the CEO is very tech-forward (which quite surprised me initially)
Note: YouGov is a platform where internet users are paid small amounts to complete surveys. Their primary product is market research and focus group stuff. These type of posts seem to me like (advanced!) marketing content to drive clicks/eyeballs to their platform. It is not exactly an academic study and there may be a selection bias not truly representing a random set of Americans. If you are interested they do disclose methodology at the end of the post.

I do like their more entertaining content - such as this: "You’re doing Italian food all wrong, say Italians." [1] I'd like to see more data binned as "Acceptable/Not Acceptable/Divisive to Italians".

[1]: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/international/articles-reports/2...
Can't they just migrate off of it? I guess the only part being held hostage according to the article are their Play Store purchases, if even that (the article says the purchases' fate is unclear).

To me it seems Google has given ample time to either migrate off of it or to become a customer.
And there was a silence in Heaven about the space of an hour...
I don't think anyone disputes the power of American billionaires - especially with their incessant meddling in politics and their proximity to regulators - but the Russians earned their scorn by looting the state to earn their billions. Sweetheart deals to "privatize" public assets with no accountability - random people like Putin's chef/cater being given billion-dollar companies and multi-billion dollar state contracts. Their spouses and children amassing huge net worths with multiple houses, yachts, and airplanes while their official public salaries are a few hundred thousand per year.

It really is a wide difference in degree.
Yea, it's too bad we can't have a presinator. He would get my vote so fast
I am willing to bet a lot of money that SpaceX will not go bankrupt as long as it keeps up the pace of innovation, and even after that happens, for a very long time.

SpaceX can turn to private investment and there are a lot of people willing to buy what they are selling. And SpaceX is incredibly innovative and a stratetic asset for the US so they will not let it sink. Sometimes, the utility of something is much more than the immediate economic calculation.
it's pretty gross if you ask me. i don't think that throwing stones at the people in a nation where the government is misbehaving helps much anything at all. on the contrary, all it can do, is harm.
> Is it just me, or I feel like Google does not provide anymore good results for me.

I am starting to suspect that there might be nothing to find.

I just don't think people (other then the tech oriented) are creating websites and running forums - and why would they? Reddit might be be only place you _can_ find that type of content. What should search engines do then?

With a tiny number of exceptions, it might be that people chat on reddit, read Wikipedia, ask questions on the stackexchange network/Quora, local communities use facebook groups, and businesses have a wordpress site with nothing more then a bit of fluff, a phone number and an email address.
Most of the richest people in the US got their wealth through inheritance.
> Many average Americans directly benefited from US wars as military employees and contractors.

True, but the Iraq War was a net negative for the vast majority of Americans, even just financially.
Billionaires row is hardly the only home sitting empty as an investment. Further they represent an outsized share of housing space even if the total number of apartments isn’t that high.

So even if 5 buildings out of 300 skyscrapers are at 50% occupancy on their own don’t matter much they still impact the market when combined with similar investments. Worse they prime the bubble by convincing more people to invest without putting them up for rent.
Because in Russia the
KGB associated people took political and economic power. Hence ruled by few as is the definition. I'm assuming you believe Mark Zuckerberg has a iron grip on your country and will have you killed if you cross him?
From Durov's Channel at Telegram:

"It seems that we had an issue with emails going between our telegram.org corporate addresses and the Brazilian Supreme Court. As a result of this miscommunication, the Court ruled to ban Telegram for being unresponsive.

On behalf of our team, I apologize to the Brazilian Supreme Court for our negligence. We definitely could have done a better job.

We complied with an earlier court decision in late February and responded with a suggestion to send future takedown requests to a dedicated email address. Unfortunately, our response must have been lost, because the Court used the old general-purpose email address in further attempts to reach us. As a result, we missed its decision in early March that contained a follow-up takedown request. Luckily, we have now found and processed it, delivering another report to the Court today.

Because tens of millions of Brazilians rely on Telegram to communicate with family, friends and colleagues, I ask the Court to consider delaying its ruling for a few days at its discretion to allow us to remedy the situation by appointing a representative in Brazil and setting up a framework to react to future pressing issues like this in an expedited manner.

The last 3 weeks have been unprecedented for the world and for Telegram. Our content moderation team was flooded with requests from multiple parties. However, I am certain that once a reliable channel of communication is established, we'll be able to efficiently process takedown requests for public channels that are illegal in Brazil."

https://t.me/durov/180
Piggies got fat enough, they can be finally eaten.
Yea, I would put myself in that group. Most of this obviously comes down to personal spending habits. The only category that is really applicable to Amazon is the grocery category. For the purposes of the Amazon website, I would counter that the subscribe and save is often much cheaper than the store. I'm a little surprised that my original comment got downvoted that Prime + credit card makes sense if you spend $4.5k on Amazon. I don't eat meat and so my protein purchases alone through Amazon equal $500/year. People on HN I guess think that spending $4,500 per year on food and other essentials is unreasonable.
It's 123m and that's an easy number to remember. (404ft).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_church_buildin...
You mean the shirts made abroad, printed with Random Co. logo, shipped to the US, then shipped right back when no one wanted them? Those shirts?

How does it ruin the local textile economy for a foreign company to pay the local mill to give out free shirts?
I don't mind giving my email or making an account after I have any inkling that the product might be worth deleting a few spam emails. Neeva was giving me a modal popup in my first minute; that's never going to get my email.
You could at least be more honest in the "why" part.. what's that term for a narrative that only gives one side of the story and is divisively worded to promote a simplistic, visceral, and opinionated, explanation?
Blindspots on SUVs, vans, and pickups are bad for pedestrian health
It’s extreme developer specific tunnel vision to think removing JS would be good.

Your comment is pretty ironic because that same sentiment (“this is how I see the world”) is what makes the web so inaccessible for disabled people.
You can think whatever you want, but we are still discussing the quality of the code that they write. Not which skill is more important, what life is like at Google, your inferiority complex about not passing the whiteboard test, or anything else.

FWIW, there are plenty of people who shipping great quality code everyday at Apple, Google etc. Not "FizzBuzz", but concise, human readable, robust, maintainable code. My only contention is that Marco probably wouldn't be able to write code to the standard required at some FAANGs. Casey definitely wouldn't. John quite likely. What do you think?

Keep in mind we are only discussing the code aspect. Not putting up with standups, corporate jargon, middle managers, 9-5 etc.
I listed a bunch over at https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe..., and I'm always adding more.

I first discovered Alexandria in early February: https://git.sr.ht/~seirdy/seirdy.one/commit/935b55f10f9024ee...

Around the same time, I also discovered sengine.info, Artado, Entfer, and Siik. By sheer coincidence they all were mentioned to me or decided to crawl my site within the same couple weeks. So yes, from my perspective there have been more than a few new smaller engines getting active on the heels of bigger names like Neeva, Kagi, Brave Search, etc.
Chaos Engineering is what I tell my boss I'm doing when I accidentally break something in production
I feel like this was tried a decade ago: https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2011/03/introducin... ("Introducing the +1 button", Google, 2011)
I believe the major advantage of lists is that they make it easy to block out all the chaff from the rest of the prose, allowing you to comfortably concentrate on the current item. That's the same advantage provided by well-chosen taxonomies. Also I think the best UIs are defined by how well they help you identify the areas which you can ignore. I wish this were an explicit priority for designers.
I'm Russian, travelled to UK once, didn't get asked that. Sorry if that was a joke and I ruined it...
to be clear I meant emotionally able to move on. burnout is often characterized as being unable to do that, even if the person wants/needs to

but yes I agree anyone who can takes months off work without financial stress should consider themselves fortunate. I know (non-parent) people who did that who were far from multi-millionaires though
Fingerprint resistance isn’t the only thing it has going for it though. And face it every device has a more or less unique fingerprint, many methods available these days. Much more important is security.
> creating enormous amounts of value

To be honest, the poster child for American businesses are Intuit, Equifax, that company that manufactures EpiPens, or the company that manufactures insulin etc. They all essentially exist by rent-seeking without creating value, enforced through lobbying or regulatory capture.

Painting American companies and Russian companies in such stark contrast is overly simplistic. And pretending American elites are any more altruistic than Russian elites would be insanity.
the US’ top billionaires have often profited a lot from government funding, whether it’s subsidies, tax breaks, regulatory capture, etc… the “rich because they created equivalent value” is old school American Dream flavor propaganda