skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mechanically more fuel efficient, absolutely.

But when I still drove a manual it always felt like I was planning ahead, engine braking early at red lights (which often meant I could coast though it without completely stopping) etc, which you can't do with the lesser control on an automatic. Driving "lazily" in a manual means reducing shifting which often translates to more fuel-efficient driving. Driving lazily in an automatic is very different.

I'd love to see a study on hypermiling with auto vs manual in real-world condition. AFAIK all the efficiency numbers we have are just based on purely mechanical tests on a driving cycle on a dynamometer, and we all know what that kind of testing leads to.
the real problem is that newspapers have no idea how to monetise themselves in the age of the internet, with its near-free content duplication.
I will never understand all the "this did it for me" talk. I drove a manual Tacoma in all conditions for 16 years, including lots and lots of heavy traffic. Never was an issue.
Not true. Many of the directives differ in countries (even major ones - for example countries in EU that don't use Euro). EU wants people to believe it is USA but it is not. The directives are not enforceable directly but if you want to be good EU country (which has its benefits) then you need to behave :)
They only collect data of the installation process. Once installation is complete, no additional data is collected. They've even publicly released the results.

>The collected data is not-personally-identifiable. Meaning that a user cannot be singled out or tracked based on the data he/she provided. Here’s what Ubuntu collects

> Version and flavor of Ubuntu you’re installing

> Whether you have network connectivity at install time

> Hardware statistics such as CPU, RAM, GPU, etc

> Device manufacturer

> Country

> Installation time

> Whether you choose auto login, installing third-party codecs, downloading updates during install

> Disk layout

https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-data-collection-stats/
I don’t see the nuance between a loot box and a slot machine designed to extract $50-$100/hr from a bettor.
I'm curious, how does an application such as OBS Studio (https://obsproject.com/) work with such limitations in place?
Remember getting downvoted on Hackernews for pointing out that you don't trust their new image of "openness" and what not a month ago? People praising the new line of the new CEO and analysing that there would be nothing to fear from Microsoft anymore (github contret) - That didn't age too well...
I see two main areas where the halting problem comes into play:

SQLite involves extensive amounts of IO, it's a flat-file database most of the time, afterall. That is inherently unsafe, and can't be proven to terminate.

SQLite also has an internal VM, for which it generates code (the source of the bug in this article). The VM is Turing-Complete, hence you can't always prove that it will terminate.
They've really done a number on these people, because not only are they using MS stuff again, but they've been turned into "New Microsoft" cheerleaders in many a comment thread, for a couple of years now.
This is a great point. No post-market locks the user into only purchasing via loot crates.
Correct. Boris owns the bus, Nigel owns the poster.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/16/nigel-farag...
This is a growing problem in the gaming industry.

I've been boycotting EA since the dawn of modern DLC with Battlefield: Bad Company, which was 10 years ago.

Every single gamer who has not stood on this side of the line since then is a part of the problem.

If you have purchased a single EA game directly from the publisher in the last decade, instead of aftermarket, then you have absolutely no right to complain about loot boxes because we live in a time where all of the information about EA's destruction of the gaming industry has been freely available for anyone to find.

You chose to feed the beast for your own selfish desires and now you act like it's someone else's fault that the beast has gotten so big.
It is however easy to imagine "royalty employment": 1 executive employing 20 "clergymen" who don't work a lot but keep the executive happy, and who's needs are then maintained by 200 "peasants".
> This is a sadistic logic. People dying because they can't afford healthcare.

At some point everyone dies, and we know somewhere we run up against physical limits of what we can achieve. You'll need o be more specific about what your issue is here.

> Living precariously from wageslip to wageslip.

I've met people on $150,000 who manage to live paycheck to paycheck because they spend all their money in one go. You are probably referring to a real problem, but again maybe be more specific about what the actual problem is.

> Internalising the toxic logic that one's worth is directly proportional to one's market value.

It is impossible for everyone to simultaneously be 10x more productive than average, so I would _strongly_ advise anyone who thinks like this to pick a more achievable standard for measuring their self worth. But the choice of economic system does not determine anyone's mindset.

Several things 1)

Seems reasonable.

Several things 2)

> A system in which the majority of people hate their job, have no bargaining power, have no say in their workplace, and are told by society that they aren't worth anything

I mean realistically this is a value judgment so there is nothing to disagree on, but there are a lot of aspects here that are very negative. Clearly these workers are worth something, being humans, and nobody is seriously going to tell them otherwise. A lot of people are happy in their job, and realistically what is the actual problem with modern jobs? That workers have to turn up on time? That they have to be nice to people even if they don't feel like it? There are some horror stories that come out of retail, but they are caused by bad behavior of customers, not by the economic system.

I've seen a lot of people with lousy jobs who really struggle through life, but often the actual problem is something that is strictly in their personal life. I'm not sympathetic to the idea that somehow because workers don't understand the importance of what they do that they are therefore wasting time.

Several things 3)

> It's proven that above £28,000, increased income has no effect on quality of life

I'm not really familiar with the income and expense situation in the UK so I'll not try to talk about it. I would suggest that once you get beyond lifestyle expenses there are a lot of things that the wealthy do with their money that have nothing to do with their short term quality of life (like investment, or supporting family members or close friends).
I remember the excitement of hunting for animated GIFs for your homepage and putting up the ubiquitous “under construction” image on the pages you were still working on.
Does that happen for unattended installation too (chocolatey)?
Also has better WMs and package management!
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Very interesting! Sadly, their code does not seem to have a license. Hopefully they will correct that soon. No one gets to opt out of laws, and the default laws don't really let you do anything.
That's an interesting point. It's true that the issue wouldn't be quite as terrible if IP laws were more reasonable to begin with. We shouldn't have to wait for literal centuries before a work becomes public domain for instance.
Since an update to vector-based mapping, Google Maps performance and stability is pretty bad on anything except Chrome.
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Hmm, how/when does that trigger? Right after reading this comment I started a screen recording in hopes of capturing the behaviour then installed Chrome and Firefox downloaded via Safari on a new Mac recently set up from scratch and saw no such notification.
If this lands, they will get another x billion dollar fine from the EU. Looks like the fine needs to be set higher...
Well they did learn to sell a better image convincing even the ever-cynical HackerNews apparently, looking at the threads of last months.
Will this affect the global internet, or will big sites simply make a reduced "european version" where some filtered content isn't shown in the EU but is shown in North America?
Sorry, my comment started as a reply to the comment about “better than most countries” [1] (hence the comparison).

I explicitly didn’t want to make this comment about advocating for a policy, but first to make sure we’re all on the same page: the US minimum wage isn’t enough to get by on. I should have added that a huge portion of the labor force is at or near this rate, except again I’m on my phone, so I couldn’t back that with the precise number.

Since you asked, I’m one of the Basic Income folks :).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17966080
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And the publishers are in nice conflict of interest with this piece. I saw one online medium that I follow(It is relatively balanced), to publish only one article saying that we shall support this law. For 5 million country pretty sad. But not really surprising.
> So you can blame UKIP for lots of things

Such as what? I hear UKIP demonised a lot, but I genuinely don't know of anything they've done that is bad that wasn't simply political disagreement (wanting to leave the EU) or talking about contentious issues in a clumsy and ham-fisted way (immigration).
Best word of the article has to be numismatist: expert in rare coins.
Why wouldn't Silicon Valley be affected by this? Most companies have european customers.
When stuff like this comes up I cannot help but think of websites hosted on geocities and angelfire. Oh the memories.
And then if you install chrome and don't see the edge pop up, you start to worry that maybe your msi has the wrong signature and may have been tempered with!
Fair use (in the US) is actually designed to provide for the ability to comment on, or criticize another work. You can’t do that effectively without showing the subject matter you are discussing.

There are absolutely well defined “fair use” exceptions which a stringent filter will block.

> Other than yes, the most frequent answer I get is "I don't know, it depends.

This is the only answer a lawyer will basically ever give you.
I'd wager there are plenty of Linux Desktop users that feel that the inverse of annoyances are true, including myself.
This shows you the power of old money vs new money ( tech companies ). I laugh when people say tech companies are powerful when you see even small newspapers bully them into submission.

Of course what's best for the people and the internet is a non-consideration for these politicians who work for the moneyed-class rather than the people.

The news companies ( especially the big ones like BBC, NYTimes and CNN ) already bullied google and facebook to give them exceptional preferential treatment. Now they want a link tax? We already have news companies' social media team bombarding the internet with their spam, now they will go into overdrive mode if news links are monetized. That's so ridiculous. What's to stop anyone from creating a "news" company and them spamming their own links everywhere to profit from this tax?

As for the upload filter, all that's going to do is to impede or silence critics, artists, etc using materials protected as "fair use".

People talk about china or russia all the time, but the biggest enemy of a free internet so far has been the EU since their legislation can be global while china and russia are pretty much confined to their own borders. And of course with EU behaving so erratically, this will just embolden china, russia and the rest of the world to act in bad faith as well.
If those were the only interested parties against it in the UK then that doesn't bode well for us getting rid of it in a few years, even if we don't negotiate away our right to. Shame.
The problem goes beyond dev choices and UX. As an FE dev, it's advantageous to your hiring options to gain experience with the latest shiniest frameworks. I don't see any FE job postings asking for YUI/Dojo/Mootools/Backbone/JavaScript-native anymore.
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I’m under the assumption you have to setup your site and apply for Google News before they start indexing your articles. Of the
Big publications opt out it just leaves space for smaller outlets to grow.
Exactly and tbh Google could just buy a newspaper and not give a shit about it.

Many newspapers are rubbish and publish rubbish content anyway so that's the problem, not the copyright.
I'd rather not call it "uninformed". We pay good amounts of money to parliamentarians, including their personal assistants.

It's more like a "bug" in democracy as such. As long as a topic doesn't have widespread attention, it's the lobbyists who make the laws, not the citizens. I am pretty sure there are other bad laws in other very specific areas, we as techies don't have a clue about.

As I've written in another comment here, this is obviously an unavoidable "bug", but the more centralized a legislation process is, the more it is prone to exactly this "bug".
It's a bit ironic, since the very first thing I see when I visit the link is a giant banner to consent to being tracked, or visit each and every third-party advertiser's opt-out site from the giant list of advertisers present on Vox's platform. Said list carries the explicit note "We provide the table below as a courtesy, but we are not obligated to maintain or update it. We are not responsible for third-party sites and their privacy practices as it relates to opt-outs from tracking activities."
Is the license fee really for a simple link? I'd think the other publishers would love for sites like Google to be linking content and driving traffic to their platforms.

If it's about scraping content and presenting it in a separate feed or otherwise outside of the source platform, I can see why they would not want that.
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mobile Q&A results slide-down-widget thingy is the most egregious imho
I think the collection is not open to the public, rather for scientists/researchers. I'm there every other weekend and have never seen it highlighted/advertised for visiting.
> This is another example of the classic lobbies-driven political decision where politicians pass legislations as a favour to their friends in corporate A or corporate B.

It's still the politicians passing the law. The fact that back-handers might be involved only makes them potentially even more corrupt.
> The problem is that Google is without question a monopoly

Is it? I mean, sure, far more people use Google than, say, Bing or DuckDuckGo. But there's nothing actually stopping them from using those alternatives, other than the fact that they're not as good.
What kind of effect do you think that these laws could have on your use of arXiv?
Isn't the point of multistage build to have your build-time dependencies isolated from run-time dependencies, so that you can jettison the build-time deps before deploy and have a smaller image?

Does that really make sense with Ruby? I mean sure, maybe you don't need that C compiler at runtime, ... unless you wanted to avoid building a new image every single time you needed to try adding a new Gem to your Gemfile that might try to compile some native extensions ... and maybe that shouldn't be happening as often as I'm imagining, and the right thing to do is to build a new image... but:

CMD ["bin/run-dev.sh"]

I don't know what to make of this but it does look like something that's intended for use in development. If I was going to ad-hoc "bundle update" to give my app's Gemfile.lock a refresh anywhere at all, it'd be here. So I'll need those...

Can you elaborate on why this should scare you? I've actually been given some orthogonal advice (nothing to do with multi-stage)... that a buildpack is something you don't want anywhere near your production servers, and that I should be using Dockerfiles or pre-built images instead (so, closer to what's suggested by the OP.)

I don't know why I'd follow either piece of advice. I love buildpacks! But what exactly do you find scary about these particular Dockerfiles?
From what little I know of memory recall, there is a very good chance that is a false memory if it happened before people generally start being able to form memories.
So since the majority of the voices here on HN seem to be pretty negative towards this, I think it's worth noting there are some creative voices who are in favor of some copyright law. For example, here's one fellow on the twitter machine who's a composer and seems pleased: https://twitter.com/Howard_Goodall/status/103983376226213478...

Simultaneously, I'm not campaigning in favor of the "link tax" component, here. I think it's widely agreed upon that that part of this proposal is pretty dire bunkum.

But let's not be eager to discard the baby and bathwater together. The idea of some EU copyright policy consensus is not inherently evil. If HN wants to rally about the "link tax" issue, do so. Don't jump directly to "boo, the EU is undemocratic because they didn't do what I want". That's just bizarre and we should be above that.
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Yes it is. See a link from the Department of Labor below.

https://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/faq/esa/flsa/002.htm
Tsk, tsk ... did we catch someone falling back into his old behavioral patterns?
Oh yeah good luck trying to stop library genesis/scihub/PirateBay with that. Meanwhile everyone else doing business legally will have to suffer while the perpetrators go free.

We already have lots of tools to block user access from the EU, time to upgrade them!

The EU fail to understand that the internet is inherently free and you can’t regulate it well (unless you’re a dictatorship in China, but you have bigger issues there).
No, this is just lobbying by the copyright industry playing the "look how poor Bono is, he deserves more" card.
Google does need them, and all the other content they index and search. Google just doesn't need any individual one of them.

I sympathize with that. Google's market power is problematic. But.. this is not a solution.
Adding my upvote to this recommendation. One of the few books I've read mid-career in which the material was as intellectually revelatory as it was applicable.
http://www.tpc.org/tpcd/faq.asp

By policy of the TPC, published comparisons of any TPC benchmark results must include all metrics for that particular benchmark. Therefore, the comparison of TPC-D results for two or more systems must include the power metric, the throughput metric, and the price-performance metric. While one metric may be emphasized more than another, the three metrics are considered a unit, and none may be omitted.
That's ... hilarious. I'm actually excited to try this on my Chromebook which is eligible for Android/Play apps. I'm not getting my hopes up though.
almost all of their sources are from these papers
http://www.bioinitiative.org/research-summaries/
Well jobs absolutely are the solution for the 85% of Americans living above the poverty line. That said...

The article completely ignores the major cause of Vanessa's struggles: she is a single parent trying to raise three children. Where is the father of her children?

If you are not married, do not have children. Just going by the statistics, I suspect Vanessa's children were born out of wedlock.

Also, if you are very young (still in high school) and not on financially sound footing yet, do not have children.

Remedying these problems alone would massively reduce poverty.

Children are a massive financial and time sink, yet according to the Brookings Institute [1]:

"...more than 40 percent of American children, including more than 70 percent of black children and 50 percent of Hispanic children, are born outside marriage."

Many of these children are raised by single mothers and fathers. Sure, married people get divorced, but the number of children raised in single parent households is far less among those born to married adults than those who are not.

It's been clearly shown that the average child raised in a single parent household has worse outcomes than the average child raised in a two parent household.

Cultural issues must be addressed in this country, but everyone seems unwilling to do so because they worry about "blaming the victims".

Well in this case, poverty is clearly being perpetuated by poor decision making on the part of individuals and cultures which perpetuate this poor decision making. The "victims" are at fault.

Culture can be changed, but we must identify and talk about the problems before that change can occur.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/three-simple-rules-poor-t...
I'm rather conflicted about this. Whenever big companies say a new regulation is going to be "disastrous" or use other similar hyperbole I'm immediately suspicious.

On the other hand when the government wants to regulate something I'm also immediately suspicious.
Hm. I like this one. It feels more like one single word, and not just several long words written without spaces
Sad. The public gave their opinion two months. It appears they haven't listened.

What actions can the average citizen take against this?
It's worse: this is driven by Doepfner and co. They don't even hide.
How is this a local issue though? It affects 500m people directly so should be debated at that level.
Just because there are other websites on the internet does not mean that Google doesn't have a monopoly. They have 91% search engine market share.
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Monopoloy: exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices.

I don't think that word means what you think it means.
I never owned a car and I don't ever plan on buying one new, but 6% doesn't seem that high given the added comfort.

Also I quickly checked, it seems that if you're willing to buy from dealerships' inventory, the sticker price is a moot point. Let's say you want a Golf 1.5 TSI (which is probably the most popular compact car over here in Switzerland), I find 14 of them with a manual transmission, and 96 with a DSG, and it seems trivial to find the exact same model for a similar price, or even cheaper.
If (cost of providing content to EU visitors) > (revenue generated from separate non-personalized ad network for EU visitors) { turn off EU visitor access }
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I have no idea how you think those two are even remotely related or in the same category.

Oh, and by the way, as long as you show something to EU visitors (even an error page telling them to GTFO), you need a privacy policy.
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I don't believe this is true. Every legitimate YouTube fair use case that I've seen go to court has gone in favor of the fair user.

The biggest name one so far is the H3H3 trial.[1] One that looks to be settled soon is Akilah Hughes suing Carl Benjamin (Sargon of Akkad), where all that Benjamin does is edit together two of Hughes videos with the only original addition being a new title. This is almost certainly going to go in favor of Sargon, yet YouTube's algorithms turned up to the nth degree would almost certainly have blocked it.[2]

If you go outside of YouTube, fair use law in the United States is very broad. Just look at what Richard Prince does with others' art. [3]

edit: added links

1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/41037631/youtube-stars...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LMgGBDZbJY

3. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/18/instagram...
Yes, the OP did also state that point as well. The comparison was just to illustrate that this law is unenforceable at large scale so people might just disregard it. The danger is, as he and yourself have both stated, you then have a situation where the law becomes a weapon to be abused rather than legislation to safeguard businesses or consumer interest.
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