cdirkx

The parent probably meant that Amazons market share is much higher in the US than in the EU [1], meaning that in the EU there is thus more competition.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1183515/amazon-market-sh...

I remember a similar thing as Boris Johnson was about to become prime minister [1]

> As Boris Johnson described his hobby of making model buses out of wine crates and painting happy passengers at the windows, it looked like an off-the-cuff revelation.

> Google searches for “Boris Johnson Bus” led to negative stories about Mr Johnson’s EU referendum stunt in which he travelled on a coach emblazoned with the claim that Britain sent £350 million a week to the EU. This claim led to a failed attempt to prosecute Mr Johnson.

> After the radio interview these reports were pushed out of the search results.

Of course it could just be that Boris really likes to make boxes, just like Tesla really likes to make whistles.

[1]https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/it-s-not-fare-doubters-sa...

Also discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21122806

Unlisted means (I believe) that a video won't show up in search or in a feed or on the creators page. You can only watch the video if you have a direct link.

> the messaging application, not being able to observe that the user is still interacting with their device, may assume that they have left to grab a coffee and start delivering notifications to their phone, causing it to buzz distractingly, instead of displaying notifications on their desktop or incrementing a badge count.

Is any webapp doing this? To me it sounds like multiple steps into the future:

- First a webapp has to have the capability to notify just one device, so in this case your browser and not also your phone. I cant think of an app where you dont receive double notifications on web+mobile (or triple with a smartwatch).

- The webapp then needs to be smart enough to dynamically select the "most active" device to send the notification to.

- The new feature can then be used as a workaround for "incorrectly" classifying your computer as an inactive device, because you are not interacting with the webpage anymore.

But you (generally) don't recursively put your physical folder inside another folder.

Everything is okay in moderation, it's just that moderating yourself requires some discipline and some of the uses of the internet are actively trying to get you addicted. One "solution" is thus to just never interact with certain stuff, although I agree you then miss out on some of the good parts of the internet.

With Noita another narrative aspect of the game is the extremely hidden lore and extra game mechanics. They are never explained and the developers encouraged players to work together to figure it out. I believe they even encouraged datamining and manipulating game files as part of the "powers" of your knowledge seeking alchemist.

(mild spoilers)

Once you figure out that the world is actually much bigger than the normal levels you go through the game also has a big exploration element: you not only need to find spells to defeat enemies, but also to traverse the terrain and access secrets. There are cryptic messages hidden in places behind terrain, hidden combinations of liquids that have powerfull effects, secret artifacts that have to be interacted with in a certain way.

Nowadays if you see someone playing this game online you'll see them do all these things, know where to go and what to do. But when the game just came out almost none of this was known; people had to figure things out on their own and worked together in the Noita lore discord. I really liked being a part of it.

Of topic, but reading the headline and the intro about Alvy Ray Smith I was half convinced this was going to be a satirical article about how he invented raytracing and that it is actually named after him; in similar vein as the “Running was invented in 1784 by Thomas Running when he tried to walk twice the same time” meme [0]

https://www.google.com/search?q=who+invented+running

Maybe they are not exactly fired (not familiar with Switzerland myself) but I know of constructions of keeping people (mostly women) constantly on 3-month temporary contracts. Those contracts then don't get renewed if someone is pregnant.

I think how it works is not exactly that the UK can force the sale, but they can deny Facebook access to the UK market if they don't follow the rules set out by regulators. It is up to Facebook to decide whether that is worth it, similar to the issue between Google and newspapers in Australia or following GDPR in the EU.

A new implementation could choose to not add those older features, but there will always be some websites that still rely on them. Who is going to use a website that isn't able to display the sites they want?

Isn't this something that could be done automatically by rustfix?

But are those ideas winning because people are rationally chosing to believe in them in the marketplace of ideas, or just that we grew up with them and the people with contrary beliefs are dying out.

There is a saying that "science advances one funeral at a time" because even professors etc., one of the most rational group of people on the planet I would think, have biases against new theories despite evidence supporting them, instead sticking to what they already know even if it would be disproven.

Curious that there are two replies here calling it a three ring binder explicitly, while if I think about it I have only seen them with two or four rings.

According to the wiki article: "A few years later three-ring binders became the standard in the United States"

People communicate outside of work; a heart to a loved one, my dad using a car emoji in the family group chat to indicate he is driving home from work, a thumbs-up when someone in a friend group suggest going to a movie

One problem is that the uncertainty around hackers can lead to a toxic accusatory culture. I have seen multiple games where the high level (but below pro) gets bogged down in accusations of hacking; is someone genuinly more skilled or using aimbot (one is more comforting than the other). People giving up on a match because of some percieved inconsistency in the movement of someone on the other team etc. Or cases where someone is genuinly hacking but others not believing it "you're just mad" because of all the false positives.

It doesn't matter if something is true or scientifically proven, if that is what policymakers/interest groups/lobbyist believe and act on.

In an ideal world everyones belief would be rationally motivated, and be able to change if new evidence comes up, but that is not often the case.

Being part of a bigger Rust project? The GUI is just one component after all.

But are the trees this article is talking about are not planted by rich people personally? If you live in a poor neighbourhood you can't just "invest" a public park into existance.

That is if you equate viewership with revenue, but most Twitch streamers I have heard talking about this is that the income from advertisements (scales with viewership) is lower than income from subscribers/donations (also scales with viewership, but more so with willingness to donate).

There are different levels of personalization. I won't be okay with something based on my search/purchasing/location history, psychological profile, personal details etc. But I would be okay with something targeted at my age, gender, and the content of the page I'm visiting.

It is sometimes explicitly used by the government to bring down sites: see the "Great Cannon of China"[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Cannon

Not really multiple brains, but there are animals that dont have all control centrilized in their head, instead more distributed throughout their body with local controlling "nerve clusters": Insects have "ganglia" and I thought octopusses have nerve centers in each arm to control their movement.

It does? At least in group chats I have hundreds of people not in my contact list but they display as "0123456789 ~Steven".

There have been multiple instances of games being anounced to release on Steam/others and then some time later Epic signed an exclusive contract with them. This even happens with crowdfunded indie games [1] or games that had already started pre-orders. Even though moves like that are unpopular, Epic said they will remain a core part of their strategy [2].

(True the developers themselves agree to that exclusive contract, so they share some of the blame of disappointing people, but if you're an indie developer it is hard to say no to that much money)

[1] https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-07-03-epic-games-wil...

[2] https://www.pcgamer.com/epic-games-boss-defends-exclusivity-...

My new SAAS startup idea; scapegoat as a service.

For a few million dollars you can hire me, put all the blame on me, I say "I take full responsibility" and resign my position.

Yeah it's mostly a reference to Y2K and Y2038 [1], using representations that seem clever and work now, but will lead to bugs in the future because nobody thinks their software will be around for that long.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

> The latest time since 1 January 1970 that can be stored using a signed 32-bit integer is 03:14:07 on Tuesday, 19 January 2038

> MySQL database's built-in functions like UNIX_TIMESTAMP() will return 0 after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038

The obvious solution is to encode it like this: `null` is `null, `yes` is the timestamp when it was set and `false` is a timestamp somewhere in the future. Now t < now() maps nicely to the value of your boolean.

You just have to pick your `false` timestamp somewhere far into the future, let's say something arbitrary like 03:14:07 on Tuesday, 19 January 2038. The software won't be around for that long anyway, so it will never be a problem...

Why would the amount of software engineers that can touch type be down?

Because at the start of the pandemic, when the virus was just starting to spread outside of China, the prase "the Chinese virus" negatively impacted people in other countries who "looked Chinese" (although in practice this was "looked East-Asian"). They were avoided, not allowed in certain places, harrased, "why are you bringing the virus here", etc.

Now is a different situation, the whole world is now a part of the pandemic. The phrase "the UK variant" or "the Brazil variant" is much less likely to negatively effect people.