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Does https://ads.google.com/intl/en_us/home/campaigns/search-ads/ answer your question?

    This case is particularly noteworthy because it involves a series of
    requests across different jurisdictions and companies, highlighting the
    complex interplay between technology firms, user privacy, and law
    enforcement.  The requests were made under the guise of anti-terrorism
    laws, despite the primary activities of the Democratic Tsunami involving
    protests and roadblocks, which raises questions about the proportionality
    and justification of such measures.

The Indian government has, over the years, awarded contracts worth billions of dollars to Infosys for projects like the Goods and Service Tax portal, Income Tax portal. In all these cases, the implementations are slow and super buggy. Deadlines to deliver are routinely missed. In an ideal world, these companies should not be allowed to exist.

This is hardly surprising. Most of them would be completely clueless about the code they've "written".

Interesting thread about Tesla and Elon:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1590111416014409728.html

It seems to do an awful job.

Input:

"At the start of Covid, the world rapidly moved online and the surge of e-commerce led to outsized revenue growth."

Results in:

"When Covid first launched, the world was moving quickly online, and the e-commerce boom caused an astronomical increase in revenue."

Everybody used the same AI to write the memo.

I particularly like the fact that you can control floats much better than in LaTex/pdfTeX, but I agree that the community is smaller.

It appears that there is no development in ConTeXt for a while now. I haven't checked it, but it seems that they are working on LuaMetaTeX.

http://www.pragma-ade.com/luametatex-1.htm

Does anyone use ConTeXt these days?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConTeXt

Nobody seems to have mentioned pandoc [0].

[0] https://pandoc.org/

Glassdoor has systematically taken down negative reviews for companies for years.

For a fee, of course :)

How Uber Deceives the Authorities Worldwide (2017)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-...

If the ruler is the law, then there is no rule of law.

I thought that it was obvious :)

Not quite. Just that the ruler is the law.

In UP, India, a Muslim restaurant owner was arrested because the non-veg food he wrapped with old newspapers had photos of Hindu gods and goddesses.

https://thewire.in/rights/up-man-arrested-for-wrapping-chick...

Musk believes in "free speech". So he decided to set them "free".

The TV places an order if you're paying attention.

.. more registration, and more active users.

No wonder there are frequent emails from Twitter with the subject "... don't be shy" and "... we miss you".

Reminds one of "Google Chrome Listening In To Your Room Shows The Importance Of Privacy Defense In Depth" [0].

[0] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/google-chrome-lis...

No wonder IMDB <https://www.imdb.com/> is down (returning 503). Sad that Amazon engineers don't implement what they teach their customers -- designing fault-tolerant and highly available systems.

This appears to be by design. People have been demanding a budget capping service [0] for a decade now. AWS would continue to bill for compromised accounts [1]. AWS "free" offerings can cost a lot more than you think [2].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3356987

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20045615

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22988647

This sums it up:

India’s devastating second wave was fuelled by a series of crowded events, including mass rallies addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi [0].

Fuelling the catastrophe was a series of crowded events, like mass rallies by politicians such as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, religious holidays and pilgrimages on the Ganges river.

As governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ministers, including Modi, touted victory over the virus, people relaxed their vigilance and stopped wearing masks and maintaining social distancing.

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/4/29/indias-deadly-vi...

Seems pretty likely that the model underestimates the causalities.

https://twitter.com/ARUNSHARMAJI/status/1385439504136237067

https://twitter.com/ahmermkhan/status/1386614534748590083

https://twitter.com/NicolaCareem/status/1386357371652526082

The government believes that hiding data is the answer to the problem.

“It’s a complete massacre of data,” said Bhramar Mukherjee, an epidemiologist at the University of Michigan who has been following India closely. “From all the modeling we’ve done, we believe the true number of deaths is two to five times what is being reported.” [0]

A related comment [1] on censorship in India.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/world/asia/india-coronavi...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26928462

Censorship in India isn't new. The usual modus operandi is to shutdown the internet. 4G mobile services were banned in Kashmir for 550 days [0]. The objective is largely to control the dissemination of news.

The government had recently amended laws to govern social media giants including Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter [1]. These laws were introduced during the protests against the farm laws when government had requested Twitter to take down a number of accounts:

The new rules come on the heels of a tense standoff between Twitter and the Indian government. Twitter reinstated several accounts that the government had ordered it to take down for using what it called "incendiary and baseless" hashtags related to farmers protesting against new agricultural reforms. The platform ultimately took down hundreds of accounts and partially restricted others, but drew a line by refusing to block accounts of journalists, activists and politicians.

The public policy directory at Facebook had opposed applying the company’s hate-speech rules to a politician from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party who had in posts called Muslims traitors [2].

The WSJ article said Das had told staff that applying hate-speech rules to politicians close to Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) “would damage the company’s business prospects in the country.”

[0] https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/india-restores-4...

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/25/tech/india-twitter-facebo...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-india-exclusive-...

Curious to know how does it differ from HN Search [1]? HN Search API documentation [2].

[1] https://hn.algolia.com

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/api

Not sure what it'd do to the NFT market, but it has crashed their servers for sure.

Server error. Continue to search the Louvre collections

The mess is by design.

Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: ‘Is curing patients a sustainable business model?’

<https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patie...>

Bitcoin's role in the world's energy consumption is increasing.

https://github.com/kmcquade/endgame