skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The context in the Wikipedia article seems a lot more favorable to Chevron[0] than the Esquire article. I know, I know, NPOV and all that is Wikipedia's MO. But everyone here seems to be thinking that all companies have a magic "put person in prison" button on their desk. While I do have very many complaints about the civil legal system this isn't exactly what happened.

What it seems to me is that the legal system has a blind spot: they are very much obsessed with jurisdiction and ethics rules, but don't know what to do when those are in conflict. What happens when you insist that the only venue for a case is one that demands bribes and does not try cases impartially? Chevron seems to think that Ecuadorian corruption meant they were above the law - it's the same logic as the Idaho Zone of Death[1]. Donziger figured that if he's being told to try the case there by an American judge, than it's OK to pay the bribes necessary to get the ruling he wants.

The only reason why that even seems remotely OK is purely a function of how dirty and awful oil companies are. Had this happened to almost anyone else the countersuit on Donziger would have been considered to be a moral imperative. If a lawyer bribed a judge in another country to get a quick judgment on, say, a bakery or something, we'd be up in arms and wanting to see that lawyer behind bars. So perhaps this is a new benchmark for unsympathetic plaintiffs somehow. You are such a bad person that we don't care if you got extorted by a dirty judge-bribing lawyer.

That's, of course, assuming the judge-bribing happened. The person who delivered the testimony has been rather unreliable about this; and has recanted and un-recanted his testimony multiple times. I don't necessarily treat this as evidence that nothing happened and that he made it up. It's entirely possible that this guy just plays up all sides for himself. He could have taken a bribe from Donziger, then "protection from Ecuador" from Chevron, and then more money or favors from the other international tribunals he testified at later. That doesn't exonerate Donziger, it just implicates Chevron, too.

The ultimate take-away here is that the legal system has tunnel vision and is easy to distract. Allegations of unethical conduct by lawyers is enough of an internal threat to the functioning of the courts that they will forget the original crime in favor of circling the wagons. Scumbag lawyers like Chevron's legal team know that they can gin up an ethics trial to get out of their own misconduct.

[0] Or at least, as favorable as you can get for a company that dumped oil on indigenous peoples

[1] A small strip of Yosemite National Park in Idaho where it is constitutionally impossible to empanel a jury for criminal proceedings because Congress demanded it be treated as part of a Wyoming judicial district
I read your article and you miss the third option for the user

c) do not consume the content

It is actually the best option for the user in most cases when ad-supported content is in question. The way it evolved over the years, the purpose of the content became not to inform the user, but to monetize their visit. As such it transformed from being intelligence amplifying to intelligence insulting (in general).

Why? Because ad supported content tends to be of lower quality, produced en-masse, with inherent conflict of interest, clickbaity and poorly written (ads significantly contributed to detoriation of journalism globally), littered with ads to the point of being impossible to read and finally infested with tracking in the worst privacy-invasive ways.

In the event you still want to access it, the best your browser can do is indeed to try to block all ads/tracking on the page. What this converges to is either the sites producing low quality content disappearing or them actually making it worthwhile for people to pay for. Both outcomes are good for humanity, where preserving the current state is bad.
There are already various rules against engaging engaging in various types of bad faith behaviours. Like all disciplinary systems it is far from perfect of course, but it exists, and people get banned for behaving inapropriately every day.

Most people at the top of the power law are not evil people. Its difficult to be both prominent and evil. The real pov pushers tend to keep a lower peofile to avoid discovery. That doesn't mean prominent people dont have beliefs, everyone does, but most people can have beliefs and behave appropriately.

I think your real objection is its more difficult to argue with an experienced person who is willing to devote more time. Which is true. It is after all why in the real world expensive lawyers are worth the money.

But why is that a bad thing. If another person simply has researched the topic more than you, they should win the argument. That is life, the more effort you put in, the more likely you get a positive outcome.

If you really believe power users are more likely to behave in bad faith or maliciously, i'd like to see some proof, because i highly doubt its true.
LSP and Neovim; a Retrospective
Is there anything interesting in how neato came to orient this correctly?
Yea. I now use JSONNET to generate my schemas because of it oftentimes.
These seem orthogonal to the flexibility desired in the post. My understanding is cargo-raze doesn't provide a way to trim -lm from the link line, for example -- it doesn't seem like it would provide any such features over what cargo provides.
Proteins are the molecular machines of all living beings on this planet. They do almost everything. We need to understand their structure and how that structure changes when they perform some function. Essentially we have to reverse engineer nature's machines.

Biology has traditionally studied these things from the outside in, top down. Advances in biology are correlated with advances in microscope technology. We went from seeing with the naked eye to being able to magnify tissue to see cells and even what's inside of them.

Studying biology from the inside out, bottom up is significantly harder. You have chemistry which is hard science. On top of that you have biochemistry which is equally rigorous. Above that level of abstraction things start to get a lot less well defined. We go from organic chemistry (carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, etc.) to more complex things found in life (aminoacids, carbohydrates, lipids) to polymers of those things (proteins, polysaccharides, triglycerides) to a point where they get so big and complex their tridimensional structure starts influencing how they interact with other molecules then we start seeing aggregates (quaternary proteins) of these complex things!

Important proteins like ATP synthase are well understood (it's a friggin' turbine like in a hydroelectric power plant!) but there are so many others haven't received the same attention. Bioinformatics technology is changing that. The human genome's been mapped. Now it's time to map the proteome.
That’s great until design decides that modals shouldn’t close with the escape key and users should be forced to scroll a text field and click a toggle to navigate away.

Then some data elsewhere on the page animates to a new value, and the user should be notified of this data immediately.

Designers don’t like using prebuilt components. I haven’t found one yet that can live with constraints.
The academic center-left consensus like the CEO of Citi?

>“Will inflation be transitory? There are many reasons that the peaks we’ll see at the moment will be. But what’s the longer-term trend? That, I think, everyone will be keenly watching. We think the jury is out.” — Jane Fraser, chief executive of Citigroup
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Direct actions like immediately cancelling the keystone XL pipeline.

Imagine you're a company which builds refining and extraction infrastructure. The government wants you to build more capacity to bring down the cost fuel, but 18 months ago. you watched them just straight up cancel a project which was already half finished.

Would you go for this? I wouldn't.

And you have a bunch of land lease contracts which allow you to extract oil. Without these contracts your business will collapse. The government has said that they won't give you any more until you use the ones you have. But again: they've spent the last 18 months cancelling projects, and talking about how we need to make a transition away from your business.

Do you trust that once you use up the remaining leases you have, that they're really going to give you more? I wouldn't trust that.
I have encountered very few of these, with Swift. The reference counter seems good.

I tend to declare many of my object references as weak, anyway; even if not necessary.

Of course, I'm old-fashioned (and I primarily work with UIKit), so I use classes a lot.

If I am doing it the "current" way, most of the program uses value semantics, so it should not be an issue (in theory, anyway).
> Gas if still $4.2 national average per gallon. That's HUGE, and the direct actions of the administration are to blame for this.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/shell-reports-record...

"Shell (SHEL.L) posted record results on Thursday, with a $11.5 billion second-quarter profit smashing the mark it set only three months ago, lifted by strong gas trading and a tripling of refining profit. The company also announced a $6 billion share buyback programme for the current quarter but did not raise its dividend of 25 cents per share. It said shareholder returns would remain 'in excess of 30% of cash flow from operating activities'."
NBER tells us when the recession started only after months of being in a recession. Unless you can travel to the future, you have no way of knowing if we are officially in a recession now.
Having watched a lot of these stories go down one thread in many of them is Stripe was required by some combination of regulators/banks to freeze funds of someone who has been selling cannabis, and because of privacy cannot openly say that such is the case.

The person proceeds to escalate and escalate through every customer service option (including Reddit, HN) not necessarily because they’re not getting a response, but because it’s not the response they want.

I don’t know if that’s true here, but I’ve seen it happen internally with YC companies many times.
Mixing Linux and Windows Commands
Do you have any tutorials for setting up CI/CD? My impression was that's all stuff that runs in the cloud but if it's something I can use on my own personal projects I'd play with it. Frankly a lot of these things become unintelligible. I've used pre-commit for things like black and autopep8 and that's all pretty understandable to me. The CI/CD things I've read all seem like everyone already understands some giant Rube Goldberg contraption that they're strapping on things for some reason that probably matters to giant dev teams.
$11.5 billion in profits on $103.06 billion in revenue is a profit margin of less than nine percent. That doesn't seem all that unreasonable to me.
This is a roundabout non-answer that doesn't explain why chat and phone support were/are greyed out.

Are you just trying to say "we're so short staffed, there's no one to answer your messages, let alone your calls?"
Gawker was certainly trashy journalism, but I think the only lesson anybody learned from that whole experience was "Don't fuck with Peter Thiel".

The lesson should have been that Thiel and other billionaires have such enormous influence over governments and courts that he's a direct threat to democratic systems. Just look at how things turned out, Hogan couldn't touch Gawker because of Freedom of the Press, but then Thiel got involved and suddenly the 1st Amendment stopped protecting Gawker. The moment a billionaire got involved the legal system changed.

And if you need any more proof that people like Thiel are a threat to democracy, he's currently funding conservative candidates in the US who believe the presidential election was "stolen" from Trump.
The NBER is a private think tank. You may be confusing them with the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which is an independent federal agency.
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I've slept on the train plenty of times.

Once you get used to the journey I honestly don't know how, but you often wake up just before you stop. Fortunately I've not missed my stop when sober.

I'm sure the first few journeys would be harder to sleep through, but once you get used to it, it would be weird to not fall asleep if you plan it as rest time.

I just don't think I could fall asleep in Glasgow though...
That is the result from the rate of inflation changes being so steep. As it is, the interest rate is being adjusted at the fastest reasonable (and predictable) rate. There were more than a few people shocked with the first 0.75% increase... not so many this past time.

For addressing inflation, the fed's tools are rather blunt (adjusting interest rate). The issues of disrupted logistics and energy cost increases are ones that the fed has little direct control over. The monetary policy tools are being used to the greatest degree they can. The fiscal policy tools have been left rather idle as those require political will to use.

Returning to the reserve currency question - is there another currency that meets the requirements? Saying "the euro" is ok - and that represents the second largest reserve currency holdings, but, if you are pointing to inflation, it is hitting just as hard in Europe. The yen and the pound sterling have their own issues and China's currency has another set of issues.

The crystal ball gazing of "what about 15% inflation and reserve currency" misses out on what is happening to the rest of the world and what can and is being done to address inflation.
Brave – Spyware Watchdog (2018)
Yup! In fact, getting more stickers has been on my list for a while now.

They're used for everything, but they both:
* Capture an emotion with more granularity than available emojis
* Capture an intended physical action whether sfw or nsfw (owo)
* Invoke everything that comes with seeing your character "come to life" as well as assisting you in embodying that character (like a fursuit does)
Their best engineer went to work for Microsoft https://nickcraver.com/
As did their SRE SQL Server DBA.
I don't know if their replacements are up to speed.
After a very "ugly working day" on my end, this story managed to make me ROTFLOL and enjoy living on Planet Earth :)
Trucking isn't always symmetrical. If your current drivers are mostly doing City A to city B to city C, then you need a lot more drivers and half of the time they run empty going back and forth.
I do not know. I only state what the original author posted.

Maybe someone is willing to create a Stripe account and trigger a block to test it.

Edit: another thread 3 years ago mentions the same: “I tried to contact support by chat or phone, but it seems that when they suspend an acct, they block your ability to contact support by any method except by email...” [0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21031665
what's your point? you dont think the administration plays any role in the increased gas prices, it's only the evil+greedy oil execs?
I wrote an article on this last year and submitted it here and got down voted into the lower levels of Hacker News hell. Later, of course, someone else has a similar experience with Stripe, and now everybody is all about it. It gets a frustrating trying to talk to tech people sometimes. I never know if they are going to be a shill mafia or actually consider the evidence.
> Direct actions like immediately cancelling the keystone XL pipeline.

It's unlikely an unfinished pipeline for export purposes had a significant impact on current gasoline prices.

https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-895299166310

"Experts tell The Associated Press that the Keystone XL pipeline cancellation isn’t affecting what’s happening in the oil market today. It was never operational when it was shut down, and was not slated to go into service until 2023, according to a press release from TC Energy, the company constructing the project."

"Even if the Keystone XL pipeline had been completed, the amount of oil it was designed to transport would have been a drop in the bucket for U.S. demand, experts noted. The U.S. used nearly 20 million barrels of oil a day last year, while global consumption of oil was near 100 million barrels. The pipeline would have contributed less than 1% to the world supply of oil, according to AP reporting."
And beyond that, I thought the first half or so of this reading (that Bombadil is a lot more than meets the eye) was also common.

But he is definitely one of the most interesting characters and one of the best ways the story shows it is taking place in a big world with a lot of different things going on.
We aren't talking about "the government." The NBER is a private organization.
Brainfuck interpreter using TypeScript types
Haha exactly the same story here.
Not my area but seems like if you swab cabs you would be able to keep your fleet either on the road or charging & getting maintenance.

> The charge time offers time for maintenance & switching trailers

> Charge times keep dropping & miles per charge keep increasing

> Batteries currently make up almost half the price of a car. Battery prices are dropping though. Not sure about cab prices. Also these cabs might be very cheap without human comforts in comparison to the battery, so if battery ends up being bulk of cost, you might gain little value there.

Anyways just 2 random cents from someone who finds interest in this but doesn't actually know anything.
I recommend Square, it works great for my mom's business. https://developer.squareup.com/reference/square/payments-api
Moons Calendar (2009)
Departments are small enough on a film set with strict union rules that if you're carrying something and ask the wrong person you will immediately be caught and asked to leave. It's much better to just lurk confidently like this poster. You can always say you're a guest of an executive producer or something and people won't push - they're isn't enough time to usually.

If you want to really fit in, have an old walkie talkie on your belt and an ear piece (surveillance).
Sadly these folks seem to have no actual policies, so I am not sure that constitutes a political party in the normal sense of the term.
Metabase is great! I was using it 4 - 5 years ago and it was shocking how good it was as OSS.

It depends on your use case: Metabase is designed for BI (i.e. reading large amounts of data and chating it); Retool is designed for apps that write back to databases / APIs. Metabase (TBH) is better at charting (they have nicer charts, better caching, etc.). But it doesn't support writing back to APIs or databases. For example, if somebody on your team is asking "what was our revenue last month", Metabase is going to be better for that. But if your team wants an app that "shows possibly fraudulent orders, with a button to cancel & refund them", Retool is better for that (and Metabase wouldn't allow you to do that).
There are two big lies here.

Lie #1: Web3 platforms don't have to take a chunk of your revenue

Lie #2: Web3 platforms are not responsible for the content they are hosting

Lie #1 suggests that crypto can effectively cut out the middleman between the creators and their fans. But platforms offer hosting and discoverability. Without them the fans would not be able to find, let alone download your creation. Self-hosting is not always viable, or even possible. Running a platform costs money. A Web3 platform presumably would also incur crypto transaction costs. Most people also don't own cryptocurrencies, so they would have to pay traditionally. At that point however there is no reason to involve cryptocurrencies at all.

Lie #2 suggests that Web3 platforms can do just whatever, without adhering to laws, norms and customs. Society would just lean back and take it. Such platforms would act as a magnet for the worst of humanity, and that would be a barrier to becoming mainstream in the first place. And of course nothing guarantees that a Web3 platform would be more fair. If anything it would be the opposite. There isn't a single honest crypto peddler out there, they are all greedy and selfish.

What the creator economy needs is better regulations. Beyond busting monopolies, you really should be able to contact companies like Google and receive more than automatic messages. Being automatically flagged and excluded from basic utilities should not be entirely up to the companies. The fact that society now depends on these services must be a part of that conversation.
Don't worry. I made your correspondence public concerning my account from last year so people can see how you handle complaints.
It even goes both ways - it allows non-native English speakers to publish their work in correct technical/scientific English with far less barriers.
Well, it's not wrong. But I think that comment would get flagged, it parses too obviously an off-topic joke
I tried to get into learning Swift/UI several months back and was pretty disappointed how buggy the whole thing is, even when you're trying to do pretty basic things.

It seems like a lot of the iOS veterans are still not interested in switching to it so who knows, maybe I'll come back to that in the future when it's actually production-ready like Apple claims it is.
It's similar to global warming/climate change. Moving from the former to the latter wasn't some nefarious plot to move the goalposts. The former is an imprecise term which hadn't mattered very much until that imprecision began to be weaponized by those with an agenda.

Same thing with vaccines, the previous definition was inaccurate--but up until the covid vaccines, nobody pretended to be bothered by it. There hasn't been any notable effort to discredit flu vaccines because they don't offer permanent, or even particularly reliable immunity in the many years that they have existed. Along came the anti covid vaccine folks to weaponize the inaccurate definition--so, in response, the definition is updated to be more accurate.