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Terrorist recruitment and selling drugs is conduct, and whoever engaging in that illegal conduct can, and should, be prosecuted.

The problem I have is with requiring the chat service to police that or making its operators liable for the illegal conduct of its users.

It shouldn't be up to Durov to prove he did or didn't do anything, it's up to France to prove that he or his company actively participated such conduct. And no, people using the service to engage in the illegal acts isn't nearly enough, any more than Google's CEO should be liable for a drug dealer using Maps to navigate to the drug deal location, or Venmo should be liable for the buyer paying the seller with it.

The reason it's worth defending this "hill" is because allowing governments to use censorship as a convenient means of solving these problems always leads to more control and restrictions that infringe on the legitimate rights of everyone.

I understand the appeal of these tactics. Since we know that terrorist groups operating abroad will use chat services to incite locals to commit violence, it's tempting to search the chat service and stop that from happening by censoring the communication, preventing the radicalization. Since we know that drug sellers organize the sale of the contraband using the chat app, it's tempting to search the chat app and censor that speech, thus preventing the buyer from learning where to meet the seller. Or wait for enough speech to cross the line into conduct and then arrest them for it. Sounds great. If it would work, I'd support it.

The problem is that it won't work, and the only way to "fix it" will be to push more and more and more surveillance and control. It's already being pushed. Look at this chat control nonsense. Do you support that?

So what I'm saying, is let's just recognize that it's a basic human right for people to communicate freely and that operators of communication services shouldn't be held liable for the actions of their users.
Absolutely agree. Use what works, and we should always be grateful to have good options.

However there's a lot to most of the tiling window managers that never clicked for me. I've always assumed it's a personal problem. Perhaps I have spent an unreasonable amount of time thinking about "why not?"

I'm not good at remembering keyboard shortcuts. Ctrl+Z seems to be all I need.

I've tried sorting and categorizing apps into tags, but it makes me slower. If apps open on a virtual desktop that I couldn't see, I'd just lose it. If I can't see something it stops existing pretty quickly, which makes even too many virtual desktops a losing battle.

Inconsistent behaviour will always pull me out of whatever I'm doing. 4 apps tiled, 5th app opens in a floating window, now I'm distracted.

For now I use a single 4K monitor at 100% scaling with a couple of virtual desktops. Current task(s) and background apps.

I haven't spent much time managing windows since. Once the windows are open for the day, that's a solved problem. Memory is cheap. Windows mostly open where I left them last time.

There's a certain cognitive load to keeping all of that straight. The computer is supposed to do the thinking and apparently I can't.
tl;dr: Safety, speed, borrow checking, algebraic types and pattern matching, error handling, scoped resource management (the Drop trait), traits, first-class wasm support, tooling.

What's not explicitly mentioned, but may be implied:

- Rust got rid of implicit nulls!!!
- Explicit control of mutability.

An imperative language where you have explicit control of mutability, is a great alternative to a purely functional programming language.

And yes: it's not simple, compiling takes time, and the syntax is noisy.

> f32 and f64 does not implement Ord

Is NaN greater or smaller than -Inf?

At least Rust is honest about this being nonsense!

Both f32 and f64 implement PartialOrd, which is even an improvement over Haskell's trait hierarchy:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/std/cmp/trait.PartialOrd.html...

I think this is the general thing I like about the Rust ecosystem: You can expect that people seek to model a domain with afterthought. Like not favoring convenience in the common case over saying wrong things at the edge. There is, admittedly, a lot of drive-by coding where some domains are littered with half-done crates nobody pushed to in 5 years.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/940944/0000940944140...

https://goldengatecap.com/vereit-announces-sale-of-204-milli...

https://fortune.com/2014/06/30/why-private-equity-investors-...

Darden had a very interesting pitch to GGC, going so far as to secure covenants from franchisees holders in advance to sale+leaseback - GGC in spite of S+LB, obligations, the in fact bought millions more in real estate to try and shore up the stability in locations.

Then here, you'll see it play out: https://bankruptcy-proxy-api.dowjones.ai/cases/Florida_Middl...

Story is considerably more complicated than PE is evil.
The optimal rent for who? The point is that if Everyone has higher prices, because you can't not have a place to live people will be forced to pay more
I've looked into this too, but it always felt like it's best suited for a "one app per server" model, and not really like Dokku which makes it easy to run many workloads on a single server.

Did I misunderstand something there?
IMHO, a better taxonomy for WMs (and DEs) is "keyboard-centric" vs "mouse-centric" vs "trackpad-centric" (and "touchscreen-centric", but we don't talk about those). Of course you can have all of them at once, but there will always be compromises.
> without worrying about having to be built for this version of this OS, etc.

Maybe call it "server-agnostic" or "OS-agnostic" then.
Totally agree, my server should definitely be able to handle the load. But this is a WordPress install, which is definitely doing too much work for what it is when just serving the pages. I plan to improve on this!
It isn't possible for an American company to actually comply.
I must have missed the incident where a major cloud provider was stealing their customers' data. Do you have a link?
The High Price of Minimum Security Federal Prisoners
And the new MacOS version also finally got Windows XP style tiling. (I still like Rectangle because I can do it from a longer distance..)
> I don't want my web browser or video player to be resized because I open a new program

You use tiling only if you intend to use tiling. Else you switch to another workspace or whatever.

This is not so different from a normal desktop environment, except you hit, say, Meta+3 to find your web browser instead of hitting Alt+Tab over and over, accidentally missing your web browser, and doing it over and over again.
The local company laid fiber in my neighborhood last year and still won't take my money. I guess they are waiting for a certain number of people to sign up before they light up the fiber. It is just a few yards away! Take my money!
I miss 4:3 as well.
No one's saying that they should include a DE into Sway. Your precious WM will still be with you even if someone decides to make a new tiling DE.

I'm a Hyprland user and honestly, cobbling together a poor man's DE using half-baked amateur-ish GTK apps and copy-pasting Nerd Font icons no longer spark any joy for me. I'm basically ready to jump at the first sight of a viable alternative. I'm very optimistic about Cosmic DE in this regards.
> but they sacrifice the full-featured nature of a desktop environment.

_For me_ it is not a sacrifice, it is conscious choice. I have everything on the tip of my finger and have all (or most) of my config done in a single file, I don't need a heavier DE for no benefit.

> increased control over their workspaces and the ability to customize their desktop...

Is it even achievable? I don't think you can't have the full-featured nature of gnome and the control of sway. They have antagonistic design. For example, on sway you set up your workflow by composing a lot of software together (with things like wofi, mako etc), while on gnome it is already a cohesive package with everything you need already in place (and trying to change that is uphill battle).

Also if the author allow me, the text is quite prolix, you say the same thing over and over again without providing any concrete example.

> there is a limited number of desktop environments that offer non-traditional (MS Windows-like) window management.

Like what? From those DE you have listed what are they missing? Why do you need more?
That's totally fair. Building out a 7Gb last mile is probably giving them 10-15 years of headroom for last mile upgrades.
Lago doesn’t store card data. You still use a Payment Processor like Stripe to process one-off payments. But the Subscription management and data related to subscriptions moves into Lago, in short you save on the fee you pay Stripe to manage subscriptions (Called Stripe Payments), it’s aprx 2% of the charge.

Who has subscriptions and when they are charged is now handled in your Lago code.

You can also then mix in other payment processors and regain control of your data.
Google Fiber offers 8 Gbps in Austin for half the price. They're also piloting 20 Gbps in some areas.[0] I wished it were available where I live because the only maximum options currently available are 1 Gbps through either GVEC (fiber) or Spectrum (cable). Spectrum is slow and has outages occasionally. GVEC lacks useful information on their website and hides pricing.

0. https://fiber.google.com/gfiber-labs/20gig
California unemployment remains highest in U.S.
Certainly there isn’t any natural human language that needs disassembling Z80 binary code.

Yet.
The fact hubris shows through in this article, it's like they don't see the fundamental cause of their troubles.

They hate spacex, instead of I dunno, respecting a competent rival and learning from them. They don't think there will be dead astronauts, well NASA trusted their iudgement before and now they've got a dead airlock and two stranded astronauts. And they're butthurt that NASA won't listen to them?

> blames NASA

Why am I not surprised?

The article is probably fake (I don't trust anonymous sources anymore) but honestly it would be my image of what I would guess goes on at Boeing.
The lack of an option on Windows makes it harder to justify when alacritty + nvim achieves great speeds as well, with all the customizability and what not.

Can anyone chime in on whether using zed on wsl is viable, or loses all the speed benefits?
Is this similar to Bart Simpson's Superstar Celebrity Microphone [0] ? Because it has the same mic-to-radio feature and looks like it [1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WH-r0Tb7tI

[1] https://www.ebay.com/itm/334088758981
Yeah I agree, somehow Borges's Spanish seems more accessible to English speakers, maybe because he was fluent in English as well. But my Spanish isn't good enough to tell if his writing is significantly different from other Spanish language writers.
I think what you're referencing is just a change in social norms. The lowest rate (according to BLS data) is 35-44 year olds and they are still spending > 2 hours per day just watching TV.

In an era where groceries can get delivered and there are many more remote work/school options, I think people may have more time than they think but it gets fractured across too many activities and just falls through the cracks due to too many pulls on our attention.
He's not real active on social media. I'm at www.bitmasons.com.
It is, but "We provide a programmatic interface for deployment that allows deploying docker containers on a VPS or server that you control" doesn't have a good buzzword.
I just recently bought a dual-screened laptop with 10.95 inch screens: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007494713654.html

I bought it mainly out of curiosity (and I needed a newer laptop) and am now having fun trying to configure Linux on it. Got Ubuntu running well on it, but KDE doesn't seem to have any touchscreen calibration tools, so for the moment, I'm ignoring them and just using a trackball instead.

It came with Windows 11 on it, but I half expected it to have some custom software to use one screen as a touch keyboard, but it was just the standard Microsoft software. I considered dual booting it, but there's really only one or two things that I ever use Windows for (e.g. CheckPoint firewall configuration).

Edit: Forgot to mention that there's an issue with the Bluetooth keyboards if you want to use full Luks encryption with Linux - you really need a USB keyboard (I've also set a power on password which also requires a USB keyboard).

From my limited tinkering with the touchscreens, they both present as ID_MODEL_ID=abcd and ID_VENDOR_ID=1234.
HN post here claims this paper may not exist https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36848605
Yes, Olivetti PCs frequently looked nice. The sting in the tail was incompatibility with third-party components, combined with high prices.
AlphaFold Predictions Driven by Memorization
I get > 2 Gbps goodput on my Wi-Fi but I think you're right that this $310/m offering is aimed squarely at similar power users. 10G-PON uses the same stuff at the back end regardless if they offer 1.1 Gbps or 7 Gbps service so they might as well offer the larger pipe if they can.
Paris is one of the most desirable places to live in the world. I assure you the people who fight tooth and nail to live there don't need to be "herded" there by the government.

> no means of locomotion other than by their own power or that owned by the state

wow, so much edge, what a juicy take! let's analyze it

what exactly is wrong by making short trips that can readily be made on foot or bike on foot or bike? why would it instead be desirable to walk to a parked car, drive through one of the densest, most congested urban spaces on the planet (probably taking longer than just walking or riding a bike), polluting and endangering yourself and others, and then have to look and pay for a park at your destination? (parking has never been easy to find in central Paris) like, I'm just at loss, is it the fact that it's healthier and you hate being healthy? that it keeps the air clean and doesn't endanger people, and you prefer everyone pollute and endanger each other instead? have you never taken a walk or breathed fresh air? most people like doing that. is it that it's free and you hate poor people and want to contain them to specific areas they can't exist outside of if they can't afford to drive? enlighten us?

but ok, let's say you travel by car. you then have to be in state databases, subject yourself and your vehicle to fitness requirements, and you will be subject to far more laws and regulations while transporting yourself, including but not limited to speed cameras, breath tests, having appropriate insurance, police stops etc etc. you will also be traveling on state owned roads. is it that you like this degree of state interference in your life, you think it's desirable for the state to invade every aspect of something as simple as how you get around every day?
> I agree with you, but the data does not.

Do you have the data that you can share?

> It's good to remember that most businesses exist to make money, not to be pleasant to us HN readers.

HN does not have a monopoly on discerning users. We are not special. It would be unrealistic to think the number of people who care about this is but a subset of people who frequent one website.
I saw the fall of NewRelic when they started copying DD pricing practices, but to be honest, it was all the startup ecosystem at the time that started doing stuff like that.
Good luck with the launch guys!
I really don’t like Macron like, at all.

But in France there is separation of powers. No politician, including the president, have the power to make arrest people.

Also, in France, when you are arrested, you can be kept in "garde à vue" for as much as 48 hours (sometimes more but it’s rare exceptions) and during this period, there is no communication whatsoever.

It’s then up to the prosecutors to either decide to give up or to go to trial. If there is a trial, it will be a public trial. Like, any French citizen can just get in and out the tribunal during the trial whenever he wants.

So even if it was a political arrest (which it isn’t because it would be useless), Pavel Durov couldn’t be retained more than some days.
Yes, it doesn't explicitly say it in the article, but since he mentions he has run 40+ iron mans (iron men?), he has probably been doing it for at least 20-25 years. So he probably started in his 40s at least, and I'm going to guess he was fitness oriented even before that. Random 70 year olds shouldn't necessarily take his advice on how to get off the couch and complete an iron man, though most of it does seem good.
> Do you read other news sites that mention Telegram

The average person I know that uses Telegram ("non-techie" as GP comment put it) certainly doesn't. People join telegram because it has a group they want to join, or via word-of-mouth of a friend recommending it. Normal people don't read tech news, and if they do they don't give it much weight.

Maybe that sucks, maybe they'd be better off somehow if they did, but the reality is that most people live in a different universe from those of us who care about e2ee security or read tech news with interest.
Every time I see the advice to wear insect-repellent every time going outdoors, I wonder whether that's actually good advice, and what the health pros&cons are.

Like "Murray Gell-Man Amnesia", usually when I see public advice in MSM about something I know (e.g., computers), it's mostly wrong, and to the exclusion of good advice. And this smells like that.

Also suspicious is that protocol is missing. For example, how do you use bug spray, where on body, do you really need it every time you go outside, when do you wash it off and how, what about clothing, why do only sometimes they say not to use such-and-such spray on children and pregnant/nursing women (but other times they don't), does advice differ for urban vs. rural, what are the side effects or adverse interactions to know, etc.

Do they think people will read all the 6pt narrow speckled white on orange fine print on the package of whatever they buy? Do they not think that people will end up believing whatever essential oils MLM dropshipping influencer quackery and snake essential-oil they see on the Web?
Cops radio dispatch for everything, dispatch could disable it during their breaks. Simple checks and balances.

This might not be the ideal solution, it's the one that I thought of in 20 seconds of reading your response - which admittedly, I hadn't even considered. But instead of taking this as an absolute solution please take it as the, "maybe we just need to put some thought into things and we could figure out the better solution that doesn't involve an on demand off button" because that is essentially shrugging off the accountability concern most citizens have.
There's a huge difference between researching your competition and coordinating with them. In effect, Realpage is acting as a mechanism for landlords to coordinate prices collaboratively rather than competitively. It just hopes to get away with it by having them outsource the analysis part of this to a third party. It likely would have gotten caught sooner if it weren't for the nonsensical attitude regulators have taken toward software products, where using a computer to do something is treated as somehow different from simply doing it
I follow the RE space, and have done some RE investments (albeit mild ones - I don't own homes to rent or anything like that).

> punishing vacancies with taxation

Outside of tourist spots, this will hurt more than it will help. Most RE investors lose money on vacancies (it's literally a line item in their expenses) and work hard not to have them. They definitely do not make more money by artificially limiting supply that way. I assume you're targeting rich folks who own multiple homes (and do not rent them)? They're what - less than 5% of all vacancies? Perhaps less than 1% in many cities?

Almost everyone I know who purchases houses/apartments to rent them would get out of the business if vacancies were taxed - they operate these properties on a narrow margin - most of their "profit" is due to depreciation benefits and gaining equity from the payments the renters are making (and in a minority of cases, property value growth).

It may sound like if they sell, that's a good thing (more people can buy their offloaded property), but a lot of houses would also go out of circulation, because these people often buy distressed homes that banks won't give a loan on - and they renovate them, bring them up to code, etc.

I suppose if you could tax vacancies only for those that are not trying to rent them - sure. I'm on board.

> promoting construction with tax breaks

There are plenty of these, although it varies from location to location. But it's a pretty common RE investment strategy to go for these, as the tax savings can be very significant. People pool their money for a down payment on a construction loan (be it for an apartment complex or office building), build it, and are required to hold it for a number of years to get the tax breaks.

Of late, the push has been in the other direction - states/cities are removing some of these tax breaks - not sure why - perhaps they weren't as effective as they thought?

> and removing the demand by severely limiting rent seeking real estate investors.

There are ways to do this that may not be popular. The main one would be to remove fixed interest mortgages. Most developed countries don't have them - that's why plenty of foreigners buy in the US market.

Another is to allow property taxes to track actual property values (i.e. remove the cap on increase in property taxes). You can imagine how unpopular this will be for SF residents.

Remove tax benefits like bonus depreciation or accelerated depreciation.

Remove tax benefits that allow one to count RE losses against their W-2 income (it's tricky to do it, but possible for AirBnB investors).

Basically, just remove most tax benefits :-) The majority of RE investors get in it for tax benefits, not appreciation, and not that much even for cash flow (cash flow is fairly pathetic in most cases - getting $200/mo is considered good).
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Well, write the law to address that, too.

Too often, we throw our hands up and declare legislation impossible "because companies will just get around it in ways, X, Y, and Z". The solution is to write better laws that also remove X, Y, and Z as options. And also X0, X1, Y0, Y1, Y2, Z0, Z1, Z2, Z3, and Z4. The world is complex and regulation can be complex, too. You'll never fix things by giving up and saying "We can't write the perfect law--oh well, let's just let companies do whatever they want!"
Show HN: BatchWizard – A CLI tool for managing OpenAI batch processing jobs
BatchWizard is an open-source CLI tool I've been working on to simplify and streamline OpenAI batch processing jobs.

It's built with Python and can be easily installed via pipx or pip.

I'd appreciate any feedback or suggestions from the HN community.
You're both right. Frontier bought up established infrastructure.

Where that purchase was DSL nearing end of life, Frontier neglects much of the network. West Virginia and the NorthEast US are degrading by the day.

Verizon's FiOS was very well engineered and Frontier acquired it near the beginning of it's life. Even there Frontier spends less than Verizon did. They abandoned Verizon's IPv6 deployment, for example.