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Tell HN: Stripe/Link auto-enrolling you into mandatory arbitration
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Because you’ve transacted with a business that uses Stripe and you used our one-click checkout feature Link, we’re letting you know that we have updated our Terms of Service, which will go into effect on July 31, 2023.

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We've included a mandatory arbitration provision. By continuing to use Link, you agree to our arbitration agreement, which requires you to arbitrate disputes on an individual basis with Stripe, contains class action and jury trial waivers, and limits the manner in which you can seek relief.

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The following additional policies and terms also apply when you access or use the Consumer Services, all of which are incorporated by reference into these Terms:

Arbitration Agreement. IF YOU ARE LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES, YOU AGREE TO OUR ARBITRATION AGREEMENT, WHICH REQUIRES YOU TO RESOLVE DISPUTES BETWEEN YOU AND STRIPE ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS THROUGH ARBITRATION, PROHIBITS YOU FROM MAINTAINING OR PARTICIPATING IN A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT, WAIVES YOUR RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL, AND LIMITS THE TIME IN WHICH A CLAIM MAY BE BROUGHT.

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Privacy fears persist as Europe mulls digital euro law
Or they could put in the work to create their own snowflake distribution, like thousands others on Distrowatch.
> There's little proof that we have meaningfully lost anything

Did we gain anything? I ask in earnest, I don't know.

I can guess that the cost of running, maintenance, etc are now "not a cost of the state", but the cost doesn't just disappear, it was always on the consumer via tax or bills (or tax and bills, hopefully in a way that sums to the same cost!).
> These companies, with no regard for your, the citizen's, vote or input, prioritize profits above all else.

And they are easily reigned in by the Australian Electricity Regulator, while governments owned businesses are not.

We recently had a price cap put on coal and gas prices, private companies had to eat a massive loss, government owned generators huffed and puffed until they got billion dollar bailouts from the rest of the nation for their coal guzzling power plants that should have been shut down years ago had they not been taxpayer liabilities.

There's simply no evidence of these things driving up prices. We have a huge government owned pumped hydro power storage project underway that has blown out from $2b to $10b in the spacce of a few years, if this was privately owned it would have gone bankrupt, instead more and more cash from electricity users will eventually have to be paid to fund it. It's costing 5x more than simply putting grid scale batteries in the cities and the government has sunk cost fallacy that it can't walk away from.

This is the problem with government ownership of electricity assets in Australia, politics gets completely in the way of good decision making and projects that should have failed long ago.

As I said before, where's the evidence, because all I see is ideology.

This is what happens when governments run electricity projects:

> He assured the electorate it would cost $2 billion and be up and running by 2021.

> By April 2019, a contract for part of the project was signed for $5.1 billion — and that doesn't include transmission costs, which will cost billions more.

> Who will actually pay for transmission is still being decided.

> "Someone's going to pay for it," Snowy Hydro CEO Paul Broad told 7.30.

> "The taxpayers will pay for it through your taxes, or you pay for it through your bills.

The current cost is $10b and the project has blown out to the end of the decade. No one is admitting how far they've dug or the status of meeting targets. The transmission bill is still up in the air but will likely be an additional $5b added onto household bills.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-14/snowy-hydro-2.0-expen...
It's not the intended use case & it's explicitly bound by restrictions in accepted DNS practice that say 7 days is the max time one should trust domain authority, but I really wish & hope somehow Signed HTTP Exchanges (SXG) can become a thing. https://web.dev/signed-exchanges/

The idea is that http content can self sign itself, in a way where one can safely make a bundle of these exchanges & potentially sneakernet/thumb drive them to a friend who can then read the content. And trust that it came from the origin it came from.

Crossed with certificate transparency systems it really creates a new possible expectation on the web, that users can take-away the content they come across. This seems like a minimum bid towards FAIR. https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/
There was so much coming out of vice that it’s hard to paint the whole company as a poor journalistic endeavor. Yes, some was bad. Some was good. It seems all media corps go that way in the end
I was expecting the self-hosted spam cannon service that also went by the name kaboom a few years ago. I assume anyone who hosts a mailman list server is aware of this nuisance by now. Someone had created a list of thousands of mailman mailing lists across the internet and had a simple javascript page that could then be loaded and a victims email address entered. You'd select how many emails they should receive and hit run (increments in thousands). The script would then deep link to initiate a subscription request for the victim. All the victim would receive were requests for them to click the included link to activate the subscription, so they didn't actually get subscribed. But it would generate thousands of unique one-off emails to their inbox. The fix for list operators was to block the deep link into the subscribe url of course, and it's been several years since I've seen kaboom in my referral logs at this point.
So how are these litigants going to prove that little Johnny got hurt by looking at nekkid ladies? The idea that kids get hurt just by looking at nudity seems a little far fetched to me.
Two eight year old pieces don't reflect the recent changes in Australian electricity prices which is the period in which the most grevious examples of price hikes have occurred.

While interesting time capsules one wonders whether Lynne Chester holds the same opinions today or has updated the prices tables 2007-2014 with more current data.

Personally I'd look less at the month to month prices and more at the decade on decade projections .. what are the winning long term strategies for cost effective power generation with the "lowest bad for climate" emmissions totals.
Who swats the swatters?
Only if there's a workaround. This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
You double commented. Just a heads up.
It's sad to me that dropbox still exists in 2023. I was hoping many years ago that they would have died a slow, painful, miserable death ... that they very so much deserve. But here we are.
I’m so jaded with the internet at this point. Most phone apps and games are a microtransaction hell. Most social media apps are a race to the bottom with clickbait. Every website is littered with ads and popups and cookie banners.

Time to go outside and forget that the online world exists.
Better look up who it refers to before you whip out the indignation
>I’d assume this starting will reduce inflation by pulling money out of consumer spending.

You're assuming people are spending money they would otherwise use to pay these loans.

In fact, many of the people who owe on student loans can't pay them, or can only pay barely enough to keep them from growing.

So what will happen is a lot of defaults or (for those who pay) a lot of people who can't save enough money for a down payment on a home or can't afford to have kids, or other problems caused by living hand to mouth.
Thanks for the interesting article on the atlantic, I had to go through google to read it, the usual sites to unlock it didn't work. There may be trouble ahead:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/591435/house-price-to-in...
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/04/realestate/housing-market...

Almost uniquely in the west, American millenials can enjoy fixed interest rates for multi-decade mortgages, so that may soften the blow for current homeowners.
They're measuring the groundwater and there's no evidence of radiation in it yet. That it's been this way for 13 years means it's not going to suddenly reach groundwater now—it's just that they didn't realize how much there was in the immediate location of the spill.
What I'll miss most from BaconReader is the Android widgets, which as far as I can tell, are not available through either the official app or anything else.

It was super convenient to be able to display a sub or /r/all on my phone's home pages, and I used it every day to keep up with current events or my favorite hobbies without needing to open any apps. For many years that's been a core part of how I use my phone, and I will sorely miss it :(

If Reddit someday added something as nice as BaconReader's widgets to their app I might give it a shot. But looking at the design they used for their iOS app, which apparently does have a widget, I don't have high hopes for it (https://old.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/kdycmj/introduci...).

Other than that, no plans to use Reddit on mobile anymore. One less bad habit, I guess.
$100 Amazon gift card + security deposit
Rewatched Glengarry tonight. His role isn’t huge but it’s such a good movie.
Thank God for archive.org
Your second paragraph isn't exactly right.

The largest instances have a little duplication so there are something like 3 large gaming-related communities, 3 large world news communities, etc. This is not generally the case, for many topics communities on particular instances either "win out" so to speak in terms of subscribers or duplication doesn't exist.
A lot of people think ads before and after videos, or peppered eveyr 3 minutes within an hour long video are no big deal, but many of us have had enough. I pay google around $20 a month to avoid watching ads. I consider this extortion.
HN isn't next. We hate change.

(More precisely: we're acutely aware that users hate change, and since we do too, it's kind of an easy call.)

Also, the value of HN to YC consists of the community and keeping the community happy is therefore a must.

(Did I say happy? More precisely: as happy as possible under the circumstances)
What are you talking about? 7b parameter models run insanely fast if you can offload to gpu, and are entirely reasonable speed if CPU only.
Easy solution: Regularly upload dumps of public tweets to the internet archive, like how stackoverflow used to do. Twitter's value is in live engagement, not in stale tweets.
Somewhat agree, though the income disparity across nations (and even within) makes pricing somewhat more difficult- but I agree with the spirit of it having to be non-free.
There is nothing more temporary than a permanent solution.
I'm thinking it'd be nice to make a DB mapping people's twitter ids to their preferred RSS feed in anticipation of this future. Just not sure how to deal with commenting/ feedback/interaction. Guess that's what the fediverse is for.
He's been somewhat critical of OpenAI. Specifically the part about it pivoting to a for-profit business.

> I’m still confused as to how a non-profit to which I donated ~$100M somehow became a $30B market cap for-profit. If this is legal, why doesn’t everyone do it?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1636047019893481474

> I donated the first $100M to OpenAI when it was a non-profit, but have no ownership or control

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1639142924985278466
So -- everyone is moving to slashdot?
Disagree .
Two of its most toxic waterholes finally gone.
Join the wholesome and useful internet .
Its out there. I promise .
> Boggles the mind why people still fall for the iPad Pro as a serious work machine beyond writing meme

Depends on your definition of “serious work”. I don’t write much code anymore, but I can definitely do my entire job using my iPad Pro. I have pretty much done my job for the last couple weeks while managing a family medical situation with multiple back and forth to hospital each day using my iPad. Built in cellular, a small and very light form factor even with the Logitech folio touch case I added, which is completely comfortable to work on…and I can pull it from my sling bag and be up and running in about 3 seconds.

Frankly if I needed access to my main rig back on my desk, Parallels Access is more than sufficient to accomplish that need, but I rarely finding myself needing to use it.
No ad revenue can be made off RSS. Google made sure of that.
> but there is certainly that problem with university. With almost zero alternatives.

The alternative is mostly that a lot of people shouldn't be going to college. We shouldn't be guaranteeing loans and the government shouldn't be in the business of handing out student loans. That is a large contributor to the massive inflation in student fees. When you improve elementary education, the negative effects of less people attending college are offset by the general working knowledge of the populace being higher, of better quality, and with a mindset that allows people to really think and learn.

Without that, all we're doing is basically setting people up for failure and a whole lot of school debt. There is a large percentage of Americans who have absolutely nothing to show for their time and money spent on college because they never completed their degree.

> And as is any policy would probably benefit schools that need that support less.

The entire public school system is one that favors the privileged. They are funded largely by property taxes and so obviously the wealthier your area is, the more funding and thus better education children have access to.

So yes, there is extreme deficiencies in equity when it comes to educational opportunities in the United States. Providing subsidized college doesn't fix that issue and it doesn't target the right people, either.

I wouldn't necessarily oppose actual public (completely government funded) universities that compete with the private schools, but that's serving such a small population of people for it to really see much benefit.
The person to whom you are sending your iMessages.
> We’re now having to define what an expert in the field is now

What do you propose, just delegate an authority who defines an expert and blindly accept what they say? That we should stop asking questions and should hold an expert's opinion as absolute infallible truth? Never mind the fact that there are different opinions of experts and they can't even form an unified absolute consensus?

Good idea. Forget dark ages, dystopia is the future.

Extremist positions are never good. One side is to never trust experts. The other side is to trust everything experts say. You argue for the latter against the former (strawman), because you see it pointless to define expertise and that experts opinion should not be discounted (why not?).

Experts are tunnel-visioned by their narrow specializations. They don't see and know everything. It's up to the people how to interpret and apply their opinions to their respective domains.

> I’m sure if you received diagnosis for a rare and life threatening illness and your doctor referred you to an expert in the field to help save your life. You’d be totally happy to believe in experts.

A good example of the extremist strawman, where you decide that thinking for one's self and asking questions about expertise is the same as never trusting an expert.
And yet people do. Kind of predicting what various people react including scammers, bots, scrapper and what not is, like, job of a management in a company like this.
Only slightly. People working remotely through the "hot cell". Somehow the floor was broken? What's a hot cell? Why was the floor I guess flooded with this stuff? It's pretty vague on details, maybe someone who already knows a lot about what would have been happening would fill in these gaps but it seems unclear to me.

And even then the most detailed explanation in all the links given above just mention some sump that had a crack in it or something. It still doesn't actually describe what was going on one the "hot cell" that led to leaks. Someone tip over a drum of nasty stuff? They washing exposed stuff in there? Not a lot of actual details on what went on in there.

There's no "on October 2nd 1983 operator John Smith actuated the robotic arm incorrectly knocking over the canister of strontium..."
Seems like that has the same limitations the Texas law has then. i.e. no effect outside Virginia. Suing across state lines would require federal law to my understanding. I would think anything without a physical presence in Virginia can probably ignore it the same way abortion providers who do not practice in Texas are unaffected by the Texas law (presumably... I don't think the Supreme Court has considered those aspects of the Texas scheme at all yet).
From my PoV so far it looks that subs which decided to join lemmy or fediverse did not become active in same way as on reddit. I'd guess that these communities are rather a 'rogue' spin-off of subreddits created by people who didn't like mods and how they ruled subs. It's also possible that only more tech-aware enthusiasts moved over while those who mainly provided content and activity didn't bother themselves with "alternatives" and exodus. They decided to stay (or don't do anything) and join the blackouts or whatever else these protests took form.

Overall, I'm not surprised with what happen to reddit or even twitter. This crawling enshittification driven in most cases by the greed and power lust; I've seen this happen many times in the Polish part of the Internet and it looks like it's an inevitable stage in platform's life.
There have been a number of security vulnerabilities that have lingered in open source for years.

Open source is more secure is just as much of a fallacy.
I don't really know. I'm on Mastodon but that doesn't really do anything I mentioned as far as I can tell.
Previous Nvidia gen was on Samsung silicon iirc.
I don't think the proposal says that llvm will be dropped as an optimising backend. It also doesn't say that you can't call clang at compile time using some other mechanism. It just says the zig compiler will not depend on llvm.
It’s a gigantically dumbass move that’s killed off all amateur creators and consumers. My feed is just filled with full-time content creators churning out 1/20 threads that are consumed by other full time content creators.

Just a boring echochamber.
There's just so many small & interesting possibilities. We should embrace & be excited for good uses. But negativity amplifies & builds, is a common thread, where-as possibility is dispersed & uncentral. Having positive moments is structurally difficult & society at large is suffering for this great deficit of willingness.
I like that there's an engine willing to break the spec. It's good to have variety and see how people experiment with this stuff, at least for the fun of it!
I guess the related question is - the half life of Cs137 and St90 are both about 30 years. Can the place just be secured well enough to prevent it from being disturbed for the next few hundred years? Why keep poking at it?
There’s a lot of Modern Marvels episodes available on YouTube now. I’ve been watching them as nostalgia TV: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4F4CD715F1A3E6C7
Check: https://hexmos.com/lama2/tutorials/examples.html#headers

Similar to hurl and it has built-in postman import.
We will archive 4chan and 8chan?
Sure .. but typically for centuries in commonwealth countries undergrad university degrees don't include paid on the job training.

Sure, medical degrees include time in hospitals after the basics are completed, etc .. all that aside this really does read like a (good) trade apprenticeship program - time split between course work and supervised practice, which I agree with.

But a Bachelor of Science equivilent undergrad degree?

Apparently technically yes .. but that does seem a stretch.
It’s not violence. You can use another word for it but someone denying you their service is not using any force on you.

Yes, property is an arbitrary thing defended by violence, but we both believe in property. I’m just more consistent.
https://lemmy.world/post/330415

https://lemmy.world/post/302384
And I've used precisely none of them.

Why would I deliberately tie multiple logins to one credential, which may or may not go out of my control for any or no reason whatsoever? I'm not even talking about Google specifically here, I'm talking in general terms.

The more I hear about the federated multiverse, the more I see it as just another centralization abstraction layer on the decentralized network that is the internet.

If we want decentralization, why can't we just use the internet like ye olde days?
Lemmy.one wants a written answers and pre-approval. Garbage.
The No Tech Job Diet
Like the 10nm node, it was always coming for roughly 7 years till it wasn't.

But Intel jumped on the 7 node so even if 4 fails doesn't mean 2 will do as well.
My dad’s contract with Westinghouse at Hanford ended in 1980 or 1981 (definitely he was not there in 1982). He got contracts in New Jersey, Louisiana, Michigan, but was unemployed for a year when the entire nuclear industry imploded in 1985-86 because they stopped building new nuclear power plants. He eventually got an FTE job in Mississippi of all places, and the pay was much lower than we were used to (also our family declared chapter 7 bankruptcy because of the unemployment leading to a house that got foreclosed).

Don’t go into nuclear engineering if you want a good job in a nice location (they never build nuke plants in nice places!). The only places providing nuclear engineers are the navy and overseas (universities got rid of the NE programs in the 90s), it isn’t considered a nice job, and the pay is just so so (unless you are contracting, but then your job isn’t stable). Also kids if you do good on your ASVAB, and a Navy recruiter wants you to sign up to be a nuke, just say no unless you really really want to do it.
i don't read a lot of really shitty takes on hn (though they have increased a lot in the last 10 years or so) but this is up there.
The article is missing some details. It doesn’t say how you agree to the contract. I assume there’s some software you have to install to get data out of the device, and this term is in the EULA?

Is the software necessary to use the device - you could just not install it, or someone could write a third party driver that doesn’t make you agree to these terms.
As long as it's still SemVer...
Under Norwegian law, data is not protected, hence it cannot be owned. If you have access to some data, by all means, it's "yours" (under Norwegian jurisdiction).
The problem is that a lot of news come from Twitter, but also interesting tidbits that people won't otherwise share in a blog post. It's also often used to point out companies doing weird stuff, which tend to be popular on HN.

So, I think maybe Archive or someone else needs to step up and create a way to cache Twitter pages. I don't think it should be a problem, but I can see how it adds another layer of annoyance for having someone cache a tweet every time.