bigwavedave

> Except that the article is about the decision of a US Federal judge. There is no court case filed in NZ, and NZ law doesn't apply in the US.

No, the article is about a New Zealand company using the discovery process of a lawsuit in CA to get the names of people they will, by their own admission, sue in New Zealand court.

From TFA: "In court, Zuru said it plans to file a defamation lawsuit in New Zealand against whoever posted these on Glassdoor, once their identities are revealed."

So, no, the rules for burden of proof in the US have nothing to do with this.

> How exactly are you supposed to prove that an opinion was honestly held?

>> You don't in the US. A defendant is presumed innocent and needs to be proven guilty by a finder of fact. What needs to be shown is that the poster posted a statement that he knew was false.

Except this isn't about the US and the person you're responding to hasn't mentioned the US. This is about a lawsuit in New Zealand, where the burden of proof is not on the plaintiff, it's on the defendant to prove that they sincerely believed what they wrote. Hence the question.

There've been a lot of additional great questions proposed in these comments! The one I like to ask the most has 2-parts:

1. "Why is this position open?"

and if the answer is anything other than "we're doubling the size of our company", I like to follow up with:

2. "Tell me about the last person who had this role."

The way #2 gets answered can usually tell me a lot about the culture.

> This person did this with 2 separate judges. Why is it so easy?

Easy and cheap! TFA says it was only $300 to $5k per election total... Which was then split _at least_ two ways?? I mean, sure, the average politician hasn't been accused of having integrity in a long time, but this is just ridiculous.

> Any plans to revisit the pricing? I've in the Kagi beta for months and it's way better than DDG, but it's hard to justify US$120/year when Google is free.

Everyone has different needs, but I've seen this "I hate google but not enough to spare $10 a month out of my budget" sentiment quite a lot in these comments and it really surprises me.

Folks, there are almost non-stop complaints on HN about "big tech is evil" this and "Mozilla is mismanaged" that. There are endless tirades about "big tech monopolies" and how there is an insurmountable dearth of competition in the browser space. The sheer number of comments I've read where people attack Apple because anything that isn't Safari is more or less a second class citizen on their platforms, where people cry out for more options, for even a single ever-loving service that isn't driven by ad revenue, and about how freeloaders who expect unlimited free tiers are the bane of humanity is bonkers.

I mean, HN has tens of thousands of comments bemoaning these things.

Any of you who're reading this and haven't tried it out yet, give the beta a shot and then ask yourselves: is watching and experiencing the continual decline of free services from huge companies (companies that may as well be monopolies and duopolies) worth saving $170 a year (kagi and Orion+)? Or would you rather support a worthy cause with some real potential?

One of the most oft-repeated sayings I see here is "vote with your wallet" and now's the time to do it.

The voice in my head that narrates whatever I read pronounced it "ally" from the start- it didn't read it as "A-eleven-why" until someone mentioned it, so if nothing else it had the desired effect on me!

Agreed 100%. Something I enjoyed doing a lot during the height of the pandemic was getting in my car and simply driving around, looking specifically for places I haven't been before. I'd drive up and down mountain roads, through small towns I'd passed through before but never paid attention to, and then when I was eventually unavoidably hopelessly lost, I'd pull out my phone and Waze my way back home.

For me, having that power to find my way home no matter how lost I'd get gave me the freedom to get out and explore.

I'm not affiliated with either, but I use rathole (https://github.com/rapiz1/rathole) and kamatera (https://www.kamatera.com/) as my own kind of ngrok. But I've also heard good things about tailscale (https://tailscale.com/pricing/) which has a free hobby tier. Gonna give that a try after work today.

> I'm just wondering why the author keeps making those articles about strongly disliking Go, ok we get it your favorite language is Rust, you don't like Go. Why does the author does not move on, exactly?

He made a post two years ago in 2020 that was attacked by zealots yesterday when it hit the front page of hn and a post today that was a reply to that. It would be like if you were to post an opinion about perl two years ago, respond to people who attack you because they love perl more than their own children, and then be dismissively accused of crusading against perl when in reality all you did was post a response to people attacking you based on your two year old post. It's insane to say that two posts written two years apart is a crusade; I imagine most people who flagged the article and downvote its defenders simply can't accept legitimate criticisms of something they love too much to admit it has any flaws. So, I'll ask you your own question: "Why don't you move on, exactly?"

I just wanted to take a sec and say I've been using Calyx for eight or nine months now- sure, there was some pain that came in the first month from adjusting to a new phone OS (there always will be when being a Samsung lifer trying something new to me), but overall I've been very pleased with it. Thanks for all the work you and the team have put into it :).

Nice! I use rathole with kamatera- it's nice to see a fellow ratter :).

"You're very clever, young man, very clever- but it's tortles all the way down!"

> If it works as advertised I don't think people would blink an eye at paying 5 figures for it.

>> [snip]And most of the Western world has healthcare where this would be covered for all citizens.

Well, let's be honest with ourselves here- if it's covered for all citizens, they probably wouldn't bat an eye at it whether it costs five figures or one.

I think it's 8 + 8 + 8 + 35. OP just worded things a little strangely. They're saying it's:

* $8 remote connect * $8 safety connect * $8 destination assist * $35 wifi connect

So $59/mo unless op has multiple Toyotas, I guess? I'm probably missing something.

I'll respond to both of you here, since I cba to refute the same thing twice.

Let me ask you this: was the colony of Jamestown not a colony? English citizens in a foreign land ruled by a governor beholden to the crown?

Because that's how all the "provinces" populated by Spanish settlers were set up. King Charles V chartered the Council of the Indies, which set up viceroys to govern the "provinces" in the New World, which was beholden to the monarchy.

Aside from this, the actual charter of the Council of the Indies uses the words "colonias" and "territorios" when referring to their "jurisdicciones" as opposed to "provincias". I think those cognates can be fairly easily understood.

Look, I'm happy to admit I'm wrong if you can provide a better source than the charter for the council over Spain's colonies.

> Oh, by the way, Spain never had colonies. They had provinces and everyone in those provinces was just as citizen of the empire as someone from current Spain.

Um. Okay. A colony is:

1. "an area over which a foreign nation or state extends or maintains control"

and

2. "a group of people who establish residence in that area and who retain ties with the parent state."[1]

So, to say that Spain had no colonies is patently false- it most certainly had pockets of emigrants from the homeland who were still culturally tied to it and under its rule (the Philippines, Louisiana, any number of Caribbean islands, colonial Mexico, and the list goes on and on during Siglo de Oro and beyond).

I don't have a horse in this race, but if you wanna act like a pedant, you're gonna be treated like one. Ridiculous.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/colony

Except they're not supposed to be split. Just like splitting "therapist" into "the rapist" doesn't capture the intended meaning of the thing, neither does splitting "chaotic good" into "chaotic" and "good" capture the intended meaning. Someone of chaotic good alignment is one who "combined a good heart with a free spirit. These characters acted as their own conscience directed with little regard for the expectations of others. They were often kind, benevolent, and strong individualists who were hostile to the claims of rules, regulations and social order.[1]" I don't give two figs about which horse you have in this race- splitting a phrase to distort the intended meaning is bad faith, full stop. That's all I came to say. But thanks for being condescending in the defense of your fallacious claim, it gave me a good chuckle.

[1] Player's handbook v 3.5, page 105. Draws from version 1, 2, 3.x, and influences v 5. Essentially, everything but 4, which is largely regarded as a version to be swept quietly under the rug.

What? "Chaotic good" and "lawful evil" are common terms. Why are you trying to split up the grandparent post's wording in a way they very obviously didn't intend?

> [snip] that doesn’t mean people need to talk so dismissively and condescendingly of them “recruiter spam” and such.

What else would you call an unsolicited, undesired, insincere, largely irrelevant, automated message if not "spam"?

> It's not like she would be the first or the only team member with rather controversial political views. As long as these views don't meaningfully impact her work on Rust, why shouldn't she be on the team? Why can't we just learn to be more tolerant of dissenting views?

The link goes into detail about her effect on wasm-pack, the official Rust wasm project. Her personal views and behavior at npm aside, this alone should be enough to remove her from being part of Rust in any official capacity. I guess being in a relationship with Steve Klabnik has its benefits.

"For the first six months you own it, the Series I bond we sell from November 2021 through April 2022 earns interest at an annual rate of 7.12 percent. A new rate will be set every six months based on this bond's fixed rate (0.00 percent) and on inflation."

As someone who's never bought bonds before, how do I know the 7.12% won't change after the 6 months of the locked rate to the 0.00% and whatever pittance they decide to toss my way in an attempt to account for inflation?

Sincere question, I don't know anything about anything.

I'd like to apologize for how I've been speaking to you. When I saw your product, I was filled with hope- more competition for the behemoth to deal with is always a good thing, especially if it's privacy-focused and at the very least non-adversarial towards users! Then when I gave it a try and saw that typing a query into the search box didn't lead me to results, merely to a page telling me to download an extension to make this my default search engine right away before even being allowed to try the service... well, I went to the comments to see if my experience was the norm- turns out, not only was my experience the norm, but the founder and ceo of the company was in the comments! Great! Being able to engage with founders and get a deeper understanding of what they're doing and what their struggles/goals/pain points/plans are is one of the things I love most about HN! I can engage with him and see what's going on! Then I see the CEO is replying defensively with things that made no sense, things that tried to make the commenter feel like they were being unreasonable for expecting to try something before jumping through hoops (and by "jumping through hoops", I'm not referring to how difficult/easy installing / uninstalling addons / changing defaults is, I'm referring to deliberate barriers being raised by dark patterns for reasons that do not benefit the user in any way!)... That's what really got my goat. It wasn't the technical inaccuracies in some of the replies, it wasn't the side-stepping while building strawmen when faced with legitimate concerns, it was this particular attitude more than anything that made me angry. It made me think if this is the way the company treats its users, how can they be trusted?

However.

I'm sorry I lashed out- sincerely, I am. I do hope you have great success and I honestly hope that You (and you!) become the next Google but without doing the whole "evil monopoly" thing they did. I wish you the best of luck.

Also, I'm sorry this apology isn't a great apology- pride is a bad habit that I'm still trying to work on.

For real. It makes me wonder what the culture is like for the other people working there. Apparently, they're currently hiring; for their sake, I hope one of the open positions is for someone who can do PR.

The dark patterns, the complete and utter inability to address legitimate feedback appropriately, the excuses, the gaslighting... Yeah, no. I don't need yet another company with these philosophies and this kind of founder in my life.

> Especially (from their intro comment, which I can’t reply to for some reason):

>> We believe in superior privacy choices without losing convenience.

> Their replies in this thread contradicts that - both privacy and convenience are compromised in favor of sticky user acquisition, with the founder doubling down on how this is somehow not contradictory, just “unfortunate”.

Absolutely. That, and constant references to how much of an underdog they are fighting as the peoples' champion against a $2tr Goliath with a browser monopoly that forced them to implement this "unfortunate" requirement. eye roll

> [snip] or to just be a respectable human when interacting with others. He came here to convince the startup and dev community that he's our savior against Google, and then repeatedly told us we're just too stupid to understand what he's trying to accomplish. I find it disgusting.

100% agree. Considering how poorly he handles feedback, user concerns, and basic human interaction, I'm very glad I don't work with him. With the quality of his comments and behavior all day, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that he was bragging about not having a PR person, either.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29169583

Considering the responses you've been copying and pasting all day with minor variations whilst ignoring legitimate and relevant feedback from the people you claim to have made this "service" for, I highly recommend you reconsider this stance.

Do what's best for your business and, for the love of Zeus, let someone else handle PR.

Wow. Did you really think this nonsense was going to fly? Or that the size of the extension is the problem? Or, frankly, that you're the right guy to be doing unscripted PR of any kind? Somebody paid a lot of money to make this- why are you sabotaging it?

The saddest bit is that when it does end up failing, he will have convinced himself it's because:

1) "competing with a $2tr company is hard"

2) "people were too dumb to be able to immediately make it their default navbar search engine"

3) "We made a super easy extension to let people install it before trying it! We even open sourced it! Clearly, people don't care enough about privacy yet. It's not my philosophy or my PR approach, it's the users that suck. I hope the target audience for my next genius idea isn't as stupid and lazy as this one was!"

Insane. Absolutely insane.

Just to be sure we're on the same page here:

* You're pitching this search engine specifically "for devs".

* You're pitching it on HN, a community which (correct me if I'm wrong, @dang) is largely composed of your target audience.

* When given feedback, you're responding very defensively in almost 100% of your comments with something akin to "an extension takes 5s to install and uninstall, just do it, no one cares, we don't want to prevent ordinary folk whom we consider morons from using our search engine so everybody has to use our middleware to even give it a try". Buddy, in case you can't see why that's inane, let me help you: you're marketing this as a search engine for devs and devs are telling you why they won't use it. If you can't even get your target audience to give it a try, why on earth do you think the average person (who sadly doesn't give a fig about "the big bad monopoly boogeymen") will spare a glance for your product _if they even hear about it in the first place_? You're defending a user-hostile practice with shallow nonsense logic.

It's been my experience that founders who are seeking to "disrupt a monopoly" by ignoring feedback from their target audience don't end up disrupting anything (unless you count disrupting their employees' lives when the VC money runs out and everyone gets laid off), they just end up alienating anyone who'd ordinarily care enough to give the product a try. Best of luck, though.