skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless they try to aggressively regulate the sale, import and manufacture (at this point, many hobbyist level homebrew retrocomputers are powerful enough to run a VPN) of general purpose computer devices or aggressively firewall all of the EU and punish anyone using to obscure encrypted data flows through approved protocols, this will of course only stop the people who actually don't have anything to hide. It'll be trivial to work around for anyone actually up to no good
You are disingenuous. 'Gliding path' is standard practice in the EU.
Apperantly he started the whistleblowing process before any Musk involvement with Twitter.

https://twitter.com/KimZetter/status/1562061556745089025
I don't think RISC-V was ready for prime time when Apple decided to switch away from Intel, which was likely many years before the first M1 products were announced. The RISC-V spec may be stable and fine but you need a whole ecosystem around it to put it to the kind of use Apple wants.
When was the last time you rode an electric bike in summer? Unless humidity is also very high I find it much more pleasant than just walking. You can't compare it to riding a motorcycle because you're not clad in leather from head to toe.
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10× is an exaggeration, but there has been a huge increase in illegal immigration across the southern border. The Biden administration has a de facto open border policy, so that has motivated a lot of people in Central and South America to try their luck.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/11/09/whats-happe...

I actually think we should have more immigration. But it should be controlled with strict vetting, not random people paying coyotes to smuggle them across the border.
but then your date is also sweaty, and both of you are in good shape!
We're talking about commuter bikes, replacing a car...a good Speedelec is indeed 6k-10k Euros.
I think it is clear we need more public regulation over these companies, and a lot of the mechanisms need to be embedded in a non-profit / social utility system, given they DIRECTLY impact politics. Anything that democracy is reliant upon should not be subject to private, opaque control.

In the case of data harvesting, data is the most valuable resource. You can control what people want using data. No entity should have unfettered access to data — it is undeniably evil in the truest sense of the word. Which, in the context of my use, means to decay forward progress or to increase aggregated suffering.

They will not fix these issues until the public makes it so painful not to, that they must. As an example, how is Experian still in business after what they’ve done? They should have had a $100 billion+ fine levied against them, and that fine should pierce through limited liability to the extent that the board of directors and C-level staff are liable for it. The company and any owners of it should be bankrupted and living in poverty after what they’ve done.

Until we make PEOPLE liable for the evils they induce on others, this will keep happening. I don’t get limited liability if I went out and murdered someone, why should the PEOPLE running companies have limited liability when they murder millions with pollution, or with financial terrorism? Answer: they shouldn’t.
This is just slavery without the upkeep.
It's the opposite for me. I don't like YouTube for a number of reasons, but only stick around because the algorithm discovers things I didn't know I wanted. I ended up making an extra account for music, and then once they started offering YouTube Music, I canceled my Spotify and happily threw money at them.
I didn't know there was a hardcover. Thanks for sharing! It used to be one of my favorite games and this would be a great sometime read.

For anyone else looking, it's $23 from Stripe: https://press.stripe.com/the-making-of-prince-of-persia (sadly it's only available from Amazon)

You can also get the ePub version for $8: https://www.jordanmechner.com/books/journals/?lang=en_EN
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And I'm saying if the risk was that small, they couldn't charge that premium.
They'll stock the reds and yellows, but usually in the convertible, and the one parked out on the corner of the lot where it catches your eye.

The vast majority of the vehicles are ordered in colors that will sell. Some auto companies assign vehicles to dealers, others let the dealer pick the options on the ones they're getting, and the dealers know what will sell (and upsell).
> The founding fathers were heavily against democracy

Well yes, but this is the UK so the founding fathers would be one of William the Conqueror, James VI and I (that's one person), or George III and his regent, depending on which argument you want to have.
Some of each because they lack the means of having an option.
Are motorcycles somehow cooler than bicycles?
with a twist that officially Rust doesn't have "life before main()". There's no user code running before main(). There are no static initializers with run-time constructors like C++ SIOF.
So the "animals" mentioned in the title refers to roundworms, a parasite that lives in soil. Not something you exactly want, but also not something you would expect to be targeted by a herbicide.

Glyphosate discussions always brings out people with strong opinions, but the product is studied extensively by researchers and the majority of studies have not shown harm. That doesn't prove it's safe of course, but it's where we're currently at.

Because Roundup is such an important part of our agricultural industry, it should continue to be studied in depth. This study and others like it are important to ensuring that farming at scale remains safe for human consumption, as well as minimizes environmental impact.
Eh, fashion is usually very cyclical. At some point, people will get tired of this and things will trend the other way. Same way as 90s-00s clothing is very popular these days.
If I thought that was likely to work, I'd agree in a second.

I've seen the way these things go too often for that, though. Once there's something "good enough" in place the carriers and others who have the power to change things will just ignore all the calls for anything better. After all, we just got them to change to RCS! If that wasn't good enough, why were we pushing for it??! No, we have to take another 15, 20, 25 years to amortize the costs of switching to that.
> Nope. Resale value is way too forward thinking for a corporation these days, it's all about short term profit.

This kind of blanket statement is almost always wrong about anything in the messy real world.

But it's especially wrong in this case. McDonald's is effectively a real estate company[0] that has been growing over ~80 years.

[0] https://thestrategystory.com/2020/09/24/mcdonalds-real-estat...
Why does it sound good to begin with? Realistically who would trade in their car for a bike? I would imagine it would be young upper middle class urban dwellers. Not people with a family, elderly or people that live in cheaper suburban areas. It sounds like its a wealth transfer from taxpayers to the relatively wealthy.
> Which is why you only find "reused iconic buildings" in parts of the city that are now more run-down.

This isn't true at all - city centres often have protection for their historic iconic buildings. In somewhere like central London the majority of buildings are reused iconic buildings. You'll find McDonalds locations in Georgian town-houses for example.
I pity the one who has 10GB of notes. It's a fair point though. E2EE is a tradeoff that may make sense in some cases but not others, and yes, it doesn't do away with the need for trust.
Paddle is a bit of a joke tbh, you can’t even create a coupon for a subscription with a trial

They also randomly removed domain approval for some days without even sending any notification

They will also take you VAT if user inputs his VAT number but you have “VAT included in price” option enabled
Am currently living in England, can confirm things they don't like didn't disappear and things have, in fact, been getting worse

But hey, happy fishes and being able to flaunt that stylish passport on the massive customs queue

Maybe I should get myself a job in the continent and move there...
"What if the government allowed private enterprise to open emergency clinics in times of great need?"

Using what for doctors?

The problem is a supply side shortage of medical staff. Praying to the god of the private sector won't magically cause doctors to appear.

I'll remind everybody again. Primary care in the UK has been in private hands since 1948. It's the lack of capacity in the private part of the NHS that is driving people towards A&E for basic stuff.
You don't want the expensive stuff if reliability is of prime importance. You want a 3 speed hub gearbox and a cro moly steel frame. Or in areas where servicing a real bicycle is hard to find, a mid range 1x8 derailluer system with bog standard rim brakes. It's not big box cheap, but the former have been being made for a century and are almost identical. New is about €200-500

In places with a decent bicycling culture you can get one second hand for a hundred euros or so.
My point with the "hidden" comment was that even though people have coverage they may not be able to use it due to having an unaffordably high deductible, and your first link is showing that there is a rise in high deductible plans and that lower income people don't usually have an HSA to offset the cost. It also points out that 60% of people get their insurance through their company, and that companies are increasingly moving towards the cheapest plans with the highest cost to the individual user.

Is an insurance plan an insurance plan if you can't pay the deductible?
No, because GSV is at least a decade old in Germany, since the whole "pixelate my building" has understandably been too much of a hassle for Google to push any picture updates.
Most southern countries in Europe people aren't clad in leather when driving motorbikes, the most crazy ones might even only have a bathing suit as clothes when going around the traditional Summer vacation regions.
> Most of society is pay gated, where increasing costs are required in order to maintain your current standard of living or day to day operations.

The cash benefits tax rates can also be increased.

As a rough outline:

UBI to ensure minimum quality of life

Marginal sales tax to tax luxury purchases more than necessity purchases

Estate tax to prevent too wide of wealth gap.

The goal would be to incentivize income and disincentivize profligate spending. If one does not want to be at the whims of a highly fluctuating car market, then they have to plan accordingly. But in the worst case, the UBI will be the safety net, and whether or not that means they can afford a car is up to society.

> At scale, we can't buy the computer components we need at a price that isn't a huge markup of what we paid three years ago, which either gets passed on to customers or means we have to limit our service offerings. Instead, we're suspending some operations and waiting it out while we rework some designs. We're about as big and wealthy as orgs get and can survive it.

I am not sure how this relates, but I think this is getting more into anti trust rather than personal taxes. Either way, I think society should reward businesses (or individuals) that invest in robustness/redundancies/resiliencies.
While there are almost surely economic forces that incentivize colour choices, as others have pointed out, and the article points to a gradual trend over time ... I think fashion trends tend to swing in both directions as well.

I remember the 80s being colourful and vibrant. Big hair, bold colours. Especially in women's fashion. Then the 90s pulled back from that quite a bit. Hair styles got flatter and straighter, colours toned down. In the 00's I remember 80s fashion starting to come back a lot. The last 10 years have been felt grey and "flat" again.
In real life, if you're in the public square shouting your opinions at whomever will listen it's somewhat risky. Twitter are just providing the same digital risk for the modern public square. It's a feature, not a bug.
The animal in question is C. elegans, a soil-dwelling roundworm. So, undeniably an animal, but probably not among the first 50 animals that the headline is likely to conjure in the reader’s’ imagination.
Twitter's always hedged their bot stats with the MDAU caveat (e.g., "we're not estimating all the bots who log into Twitter, just the ones that are meaningful for advertising and revenue purposes"), so while these allegations are not at all helpful, they're not necessarily a serious blow to Twitter's position (Mudge is a hacker, not a contracts attorney, and a lot of the allegations he makes regarding regulatory law aren't necessarily supported by his evidence).

However, there's enough here, provided by a highly-credible technical expert, and under consideration by the US Congress, that Musk's litigation team has a strong opportunity to find at least something that holds up as a material misrepresentation, even if relatively minor, and then link it to the broader effect of this document, which could very well rise to the level of a material adverse effect.

So, where bots are concerned, bad but not disastrous; for everything else -- well, let's just say that Musk's litigation team are burning incense to the gods this morning, while a whole bunch of Twitter execs are going to be spending the next few weeks getting grilled by their own retained counsel, at an even more exorbitant hourly rate than they were paying before.
Lack of qualified staff willing to work at the current pay rates. There are shortages in plenty of sectors at the moment so medical personnel who have had enough are leaving or retiring early and they can’t be replaced because pay rises are not keeping up with inflation. I’m going to look for my source just now but I read that there are 100,000 vacancies in the care professions currently. Postal workers, train drivers, bus drivers, dockers and barristers(!) are all planning to strike in the next month or two because of inflation effectively causing large pay cuts.
This is the second negative article today regarding the GCP. I am starting to wander about bots in the HN... just saying.
Ok, you have a point. There is innovation in the "infrastructure" space for protocols. Almost none of the stuff you describe is directly visible to end users. I should've said there's no new application protocols, like SMTP, POP, XMPP, SSH, etc. Example: I had hopes there would be some sort of federated "instant messaging" standard so we wouldn't all need to use separate apps.
For this I use Standard Notes and Listed.to for E2EE encrypted writing as well as one-click sharing to either my little blog, or an anonymous link.
> Those who actually risk everything, like, their lives (say, refugees in boats) do so because the alternative is existentially intolerable. The comparison to entrepeneurs is just... not actually ok.

This is a great summary of the problems with this analogy, thank you. It's always annoyed me when people excuse the bad behavior of landlords and bosses exploiting low-income people with "well, they took a huge financial risk buying that building or starting that business!" Sure they did, but it was a risk to their ability to buy fancy organic steaks, not to their ability to continue breathing oxygen - and if it an unprofitable business investment _was_ going to put them on the street, then they should just go get a job like everyone else. The risks taken by landlord and tenant, by boss and laborer, are not comparable.
I wrote a short futuristic essay on this topic if you are interested: https://glthr.com/continuous-healthcare
Street view in Germany sucks because Google didn't want to deal with so many pixelation requests, so they drastically reduced the coverage.
At least when I was in Mexico the pastels made sense, because the outsides of the buildings would get dusty pretty quickly, and pastels look fine under dust, but bright colors get muted and look a bit weird.

And not everyone would wash their houses, and it didn't rain much.
The really damning part of the whistleblower's statements isn't about the bots, it's about Twitter executives misleading the board of directors and stockholders. That's what could aid Musk at trial.
That seems like an uncharitable read. The phrase "an obligation of result, not of means" simply stating that the regulation doesn't choose a specific methodology, as it only prescribes a standard for its results. It's as if regulations for clinical thermometers require accuracy within a 0.1C margin of error, but manufacturers can choose how the device works, and how to make it.

Of course, the scary part is that they would consider an 10% error rate to be OK.
Yes, it will add more tables. But as the project progresses, this will be reduced once the relationship between the entities are clear. What I am worried about though is the performance.
> They have pipelines of exploitation for everyone that gets "discovered" into contractual nightmare deals, they require tons of free labor and costly hurdles just to become notable and visible on the platform

For what it's worth, as someone running a high-five-digits account, it is possible to get notable on Twitter - you just have to put in a ton of work to make quality content people are actually interested in.
So Estonia wants to play the tax haven card like Malta and NL?

Ok, but let's not pretend that taking away tax money from other countries for stuff like healthcare and schools is something to be praised.
> Especially since the Whistleblower seems to basically be blowing the whilst on himself.

Whistleblowers are by definition insiders.
> All while YouTube keeps banning LGBTQ creators from recommendations (not even just demonetization) for using words like "lesbian" in video titles. Why does HN rarely get upset about those cases?

Like I also said, Neither YouTube or HN cares and expecting YouTube to change is futile and it will happen to anyone. That is the point.

But then again, some believe it is not enough to de-platform or do a mass ban of these LGBTQ creators off of the internet. Why not get the payment companies and the banks to freeze their funds as well, or why not contact their energy and phone provider so that they can't access the internet or have electricity as well?

I await a giant outcry when this happens to another person and the whole of HN starts crying about the big tech surveillance dystopia they helped to create.
Not to mention the rules are known in gambling, such as required minimum bets. Business has no such courtesy. The criterion is worthless if your small bets always result in failures because you need capital to get going.
Implementing E2EE encryption safely is difficult. If it's not your core competenancy, should you really expect them to do that? If you don't know what you're asking for.

If you're not a paying customer and you are not willing to buy the product, what causes you to think they'll do what you think they should do on arbitrary principles (that you might still not buy the product even if they implemented it) rather than practicality of reality. Why should they listen to voices on the internet who aren't even their customers?

Expecting other people to do more for you without giving anything in return is some thing I don't like.
in the states, my experience has been that neighbors will frequently discuss the location of new urgent care clinics or share them in group chats. "hey do you guys know of any good urgent care places? I have a swollen arm from a bee sting" was a recent msg thread that popped up on my phone. Usually the patient is insured but you can (should) also ask for a cash price if needed.
This (the quoted bit) is a convoluted theory, essentially about "which straw broke the camel's back?" - in an extremely dangerous situation, which was already far outside of widely-accepted parameters for the safe maintenance & use of both the specific bicycle, and bicycles in general. And the same for adult supervision of children's activities.

In a country where you can have your child seized by the authorities for letting him walk down a flat, quiet suburban sidestreet without adult escort - these parents should be in jail for reckless child endangerment resulting in death. And the required design change for the bikes should be "If {computerized safety mechanism} is not aware of a legally adult human rider, and speed is greater than {limit}, then immediately call 911 and the Child Welfare authorities."

(Yes, obviously, that ain't gonna happen. Arguing over "which straw" and blaming $Corporation feels cool, sounds good, and does not upset anyone in the jurisdiction who has much social status. Those are the things which really matter here.)
You’re really reaching here. How could “roasted green chile” possibly be referring to the country?

You’d be surprised how quickly and frequently you are interpreting the correct definition of words in english just based on context.

Learning another language helped me realize this. I would, frustrated, complain about how two words sound the same or are spelled the same and my older wiser friend would simply point out examples in english that I have no problem with.

Anyways, unless you were confused yourself and you’re being modest about it, I wouldn’t be so quick to assume anybody else is having trouble grappling with the word here.
I keep hearing this, but it hasn't happened to me yet. I wonder if it's because my Spotify history without kids is ~10 years vs ~2 years with?

We listen to a lot of Disney music, etc in the living room on my account, but I've never had that type of thing show up in my Discover Weekly or any of the Daily Mix playlists.

I will be very displeased if/when it does happen though.... Discover Weekly is a major reason I've paid Spotify for so long.
From a few quick tries, this seems to have the same spelling difficulties as other models including DALL-E, which in a way is actually quite lovely.
> What silly American paranoia in eastern europe? And social democracy has nothing to do with socialism.

A relatively high percentage of Americans believe that getting health insurance from the government will lead to a Stalinist like era in America. We can't even make simple improvements to our bureaucracy like a federal ID system instead of having all 50 states issue seperate IDs because of this.

Many Americans cannot differentiate between the social programs of Marxist countries and the anti-democratic single party systems which concentrated state power and made them repressive and corrupt.

It's a bit like thinking that because a country starts building an interprovincial highway system it is going to become fascist Italy or Germany.
What if I told you that those same workers were being hired by Tim Horton's?

https://www.macleans.ca/economy/business/a-growing-problem-f...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/headlines/who-s-look...
Big cities are always a lot more progressive.

But a christian-conservative like Merkel wouldn't have come to power if it wasn't for the more rural masses. They must have enough votes to influence policy in such a big way. And those are the ones that are the most susceptible to 'for the children!!!' type privacy invasion. At least in my experience here in the Netherlands, this is usually the angle those measures are pushed from.

I've also been surprised at how bad Germany is for privacy. For example when I tried to sign up at Hetzner they demanded that I sent a photocopy of my ID. When I did so after arguing, I blacked out my social security number which is very susceptible to ID fraud and even the local police provide instructions to block it out on scans.

However they refused that. So I refused them. I didn't try other German providers but went to France instead (Scaleway) and had a much better experience without ID crap.