skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was mostly a piece of elaborate sarcasm about the value of reducing consumption rather than capture. Going down that route, should the value of energy used in carbon capture be counted at the market rate or its opportunity cost?

It's valid to point out that the value of a barrel of oil is more than its cost and this gives rise to a "consumer surplus", which leads to the carbon tax arguments.

(Although, as Retric points out upthread, there are consequential CO2 side-effects from oil extraction more than just burning it, so maybe those should be counted too?)
Sure, and can I sue Lufthansa when their plane is late or flight is cancelled? The airline has all the power to enforce an extremely one sided contract where they don’t have to perform. Including near monopoly control of many routes.
DDoS attacks changed in a year: shorter, but much more complex and intensive
There are many reasons for doing the things the author did, but I highly doubt saving time is a valid reason. The amount of time spent on setting this up and learning these tools and optimizing the workflows and writing scripts will most likely be much more than any time saved (real or imagined).

It is a similar pitfall that developers step into when they optimize their code before profiling where the bottlenecks are at.

But of course you should still do all of this, because it is a lot of fun and Vim rocks.
I would humbly suggest that you might not understand equity. Equity is a right to future cashflow that the company will generate (aka dividends), as well as a claim on company assets after all debts are paid off.

If the company builds valuable assets or generates a lot of cash, then equity is valuable. The company might be able to "get bought out or go public" as a result, but if not you still have a claim on future cashflow and company assets. Most companies don't go public but many of those do pay dividends to equity holders.

Anyway my only real advice is to find out how the founders are compensating themselves. That will tell you a lot about where they think value creation and capture will accrue in the long run.
> A Berlin district court dismissed the lawsuit in December, but Lufthansa's spokesperson confirmed to CNN that the company has "already filed the appeal against the decision."

So basically this lawsuit has already been dismissed by a lower court, and but Lufthansa is appealing. The entire dynamics here seem like Lufthansa is unlikely to win and even if it does the amount it is claiming ($3K?) is way lower than legal costs, but the publicity of the lawsuit is the entire point they're making. A version of SLAPP, if you will.
> I can't because Apple doesn't accept my indian cards nor other alternative indian payment systems.

Read this: https://www.isaumya.com/paypal-google-wallet-indian-debit-ca...

I use my SBI international debit card for apple music, and used HDFC international card before. Domestic card doesn't work and you need special activation. It wasn't possible to use SBI card two year before. Also, almost all credit cards are supported.
It’s kind of like bundling cable and internet I guess? Or perhaps considering it like buying “in bulk” in a way.
This is awesome!!! Amazing work.
They are referring to Chinese and other Southeast Asian policies, as Hickels said in his post.

What they won't say is that those policies are fundamentally capitalist in nature. China's economy is capitalist at its core, with a super powerful state (that happens to be remarkably repressive to its citizens, an inconvenient fact Hickels simply ignores) that engages in protectionism for specific national industries.

Hickels is trying to get us to implicitly assume that Chinese policies are socialist and that non-capitalist policy is responsible for their gains, but he won't say it directly because he knows that would be an outright lie.
I agree with most of the article. However, what I do disagree with is how they lump "security experts" into a single category:

Computer experts like to pretend they use a whole different, more awesome class of software that they understand, that is made of shiny mathematical perfection and whose interfaces happen to have been shat out of the business end of a choleric donkey.

I'm sorry, but there are vastly different grades of security experts. Security experts make Kali Linux. I'm pretty sure everyone runs their user as root despite it being created by security experts.

Now, look at the OpenBSD developers in comparison. Sure, bugs are found as they inevitably are, but they make it very difficult to take advantage of bugs that might be disastrous on other operating systems. They use privilege separation throughout their operating system (and packages if possible), announced recently their way of making ROP-chain exploits basically useless, and relink their kernel any time it's booted so that no two instances are alike (even if it's the same version on another computer). Using defense in depth is key. Unfortunately it's easy to talk yourself up in this field and not walking the walk.

There's a reason OpenSSH is such a highly deployed application and yet isn't constantly having RCE bugs. Sure there are bugs (as all software inevitably has), but there are definitely different degrees of security experts that the article fails to mention and lumps them all in one bucket.
Biosphere was an interesting experiment, but very different from what I had in mind. It relied on a huge up-front engineering effort, orders of magnitude more than what would be realistic on Mars. What I had in mind was a colonization effort in the desert starting with what you could realistically carry on a spacecraft, i.e. a few shipping containers (even that is being pretty generous) and then no outside contact for two years (at a minimum).
> why did they [...] kept the slow one?

For compatibility with legacy systems

> why did they get rid of the optimized implementations

Probably to give people less reasons to choose rc4, in case this was enough reasons for these people to choose rc4. Also because this is less code to maintain.
Yeah, but you're basically just programming. Does Emacs really matter to what you listed?

You could do all of that with Python and any programming editor.
I'm curious about this. What specifically did you feel they were biased on in regards to the Scottish independence referendum? Do you have any links?
It is an editor that is hard to learn and master. There are other options you could have some / most of the mentioned benefits with much lower investment. Not everyone has the energy / willpower / time to learn vim.
That the contract you've entered into explicitly says this.
Well, Delphi is well alive and current:

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi

(it have a free edition) and alzo exist Lazarus, a open source clone:

https://www.lazarus-ide.org

Is probably the most fleshed idea under more "traditional" paradigms (OOP, RAD, etc)

Smalltalk and others are less popular(?) and only know them passing, so can't give too much of that.

---

Another interesting stuff can be rebel/red:

https://www.red-lang.org

much low-level but nice way to do UIs in a apparent declarative way..
taxes, airport fees, etc.
Certain airlines have near monopolies on certain airports. These airports are called hubs. The airline uses these hubs as points of connection for multilegged flights. It also means that someone who actually wants to use the airline's hub airport as their final destination can be charged more due to lack of competition from other airlines.
What's a tobacco company quote got to do with anything?

The parent was talking about the precautionary principle. Im not really old enough to remember the 1980s global warming debate, so not agreeing or disagreeing with the factuality of that statement. Yes your first quote is damning, are you saying the science was more settled?
Some yaks just look really good bald.
Right, it actually depends on the terms of the ticket. Advance tickets, which are linked to a specific train (or sequence of trains), don't allow you to break your journey or start/end short.
That's pretty weird because you had a schedule change. Usually, they're more helpful during those. That should have been marked as an vol pax reroute or the like.
After reading the German court document linked in the CNN article (not a lawyer), it appears charging customers extra for not taking a leg of their flight is actually legal in the eyes of the court. They also cite a decision of the highest ordinary court in Germany (BGH) to that effect. I find that quite worrying.

The lawsuit was only struck down because of a lack of transparency in the pricing, as the customer has no way to check the fare they will end up with if they skip a leg. So if they publish prices for skipped legs, it would be a-ok I guess.
You are not under contract to board the plane, but the contract says if you do not board the plane without a good excuse you agree to pay the difference.
I'm pretty confident that this is not part of the contract. I doubt it would even be legal to enforce such a thing.

https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly/contract-of-carriage.ht...

I couldn't find any example of such a thing in this united airlines contract.
> So how does that solve a problem lineage os doesn't?

LineageOS depends on the proprietary drivers and/or undocumented devices, which will never get any updates. If there is a security bug in your WiFi driver, game over. This phone is being designed to work with free software, anyone could do updates.

>assuming the company survives, and

Again, free software gives us the freedom to do updates ourselves (or pay to someone to get them). GNU/Linux supports most of the old computers quite well.

>There will be little to no mainstream app support

"We will test the capabilities of powering Anbox or Shashlik to allow users the ability to run Android applications within PureOS on the Librem 5", https://puri.sm/faq/

>It seems to be relatively underpowered

True, but one has to start somewhere. Personally, I think this phone brings a lot of hope for the future.
Can someone explain the economic rationale to force passengers to fly more for a cheaper ticket from the airlines perspective? I understand the breach of contract arguments but why sell tickets priced this way in the first place?
I've used vim for years, have vimium / vimperator installed in all my browsers, use vim navigation bindings in i3, etc.

I still broadly prefer using ST3 with vintage mode over classical vim. It doesn't have the performance limitations of electron editors, doesn't force keyboard-only interaction and has a package ecosystem that is easier to maintain and navigate. Best of both worlds to me, just IMHO.
Learning vim with a focus on the basics instead of plugins is a good way to get started. Things like the basic navigation, reflowing, digraphs, macros, splits, etc. are super productive.
content muting^

thanks Autocorrect
This is true for most train tickets. Not for boat tickets though: you can get very cheap return tickets (e.g., for the ferry Portsmouth to Saint Malo v.v., but doubtless many others) that are cheaper than a single fare, and the terms and conditions include a penalty that they say they'll deduct from your credit card afterwards if you don't actually take the return leg of the trip.
You're forgetting radiation and gravity.
> But of course you should still do all of this, because it is a lot of fun and Vim rocks.

Heh, probably. You should also compile your own kernel once (maybe even go for a LFS setup), configure FVWM with bells and whistles and probably a few other things I'm forgetting now :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enquire_Within_Upon_Everything
No, they can’t “just withdraw” without a compelling business reason because their leadership answers to their shareholders.
GSE Demand Remains Fueled by Spiraling Growth of Air Travel and Airline Industry
Yes?! The British government also creates fake news to sway the public to support the invasion of a foreign country.
They build cities...using their army. Your description of the country's general economic characteristics is off-the-charts wrong, and is especially wrong concerning the area where Pinker pretends that liberalized markets are why poverty in China has been in sharp decline.
You're literally commenting on a case where the court found that this is part of the contract.
I hear you. To be clear, I'm not saying vim is significantly faster than any other app out there. I'm merely saying VS Code specifically is sluggish in comparison
Thanks! I was 99% sure the common reddit response was wrongheaded.

I'll make this point explicitly when I see it, that phones may get some updates, but that old phones don't get the security patches at an os level.

Am not on android so I didn't want to be mistaken in how it worked.
No, to really be low level, you have to implement your stuff in FPGA. But that's not truly low level. To truly be low level, you have to forego pre-fab hardware and fully implement your logic in RTL yourself. But to really be low-level, that isn't sufficient. You must shed your digital abstractions and implement the whole thing in analog circuits.
Canada also has three stations broadcasting time signals. More information: https://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/time/broadcast_codes...
Still seems counterproductive. Why would they do that?
This is not new. Behavioral Economics has always recognized biases as the result of heuristics -- rules of thumb that are mostly correct, especially with regards to our evolutionary history. However, in specific, predictable contexts, it can be very wrong, and lead to a person being manipulated.

For example, the anchoring bias is actually a useful heuristic in many situations. If you ask someone about the length of the Nile and a third person guessed 5000 miles, you probably would guess closer to 5000 miles to integrate the third person's information, which is usually somewhat informative.

The bias comes when an outside marketer manipulates you by saying "how much should the iPad cost? $2000? No! $1000? No! It's only $500!".
"Article also doesn't advise strongly enough to do an online or early checkin."

What is not clear from your statement is that, if you try to check in online, you must pay for seat selection, unless
You check in to the website 'exactly' 24 hours before your flight, even a few minutes earlier you have to pay extra just to get a damn seat.

there is no option for "I dont care just give me any seat"

you do not have the option of checking in and choosing a seat at the time of purchasing your ticket. I dont know about you but that feels like they just want to charge me extra unless I jump through ridiculous hoops just to get a seat for a ticket that I have already paid for.

I have been put on GTE for exactly this reason at least 6 times in the last year, and have not eventually been given a seat only once and bumped to the next flight
The author of the article was having issues with a 1.5MB file. 5MB is substantially larger than that!
Next Era of Globalization Will Be Shaped by Customers, Tech, and Value Chains
Not from my experience the elctrostars where much more comfortable for longer > 20 min commutes and there are no power points and no tables at all in standard.
I'm not sure any of us has a right to speak for every consumer. I live in a country were majority would likely prefer cheaper devices w/o any security guarantees. Forcing producers to provide 5(?)-years updates will make prices rise, and it could be against interests of a large segment of consumers. The only regulation which I believe would be beneficial for all is obligatory transparency. There should be clear warnings like "The producer expects you to replace this device in 2 years, and will not support it after that", or "This producer doesn't promise anything in regard of this device - use at your own risk"
Anyone who thought Daily Mail was a reputable outlet for journalism instead of a tabloid rag hasn't got their "fake news" barometer screwed on straight anyway.

Might as well point out that the newscasters from the Marvel cinematic universe are also fake news.
>I suspect Colemak is better, but it's a much smaller gain going from Dvorak to Colemak than from Qwerty to Dvorak, so I'll stick to what I have.

Yeah I'm in the same boat, that's why I was mainly aiming my comment at people using QWERTY and looking to switch to a better layout. Even the Colemak people acknowledge that:

https://colemak.com/FAQ#Is_it_worth_switching_from_Dvorak_to...

> The Colemak keyboard layout fixes all the issues mentioned above, and wins in virtually every criterion, but the difference will be less noticeable than the difference between QWERTY and Dvorak. The switch won't be as easy for veteran Dvorak users. If you're generally happy with Dvorak, you should probably stick with it.

The FAQ also has an interesting list of "what's wrong with the Dvorak layout" which might be of interest for people looking to learn it: https://colemak.com/FAQ#What.27s_wrong_with_the_Dvorak_layou...
I can't think of another business (outside of promotional activities) that requires you to accept something you don't want to reduce the price.

It does seem like a breakdown in their pricing logic rather than anything injurious the passenger did.
The idea is so absurd I really hope it's a comedy.
Airline pricing drives me insane and is what happens when you take price discrimination/revenue optimization to the (often idiotic) extreme.

It's very much possible for a one way flight to cost more than a round trip flight that includes the one way flight. For instance, a one way ticket on Delta flight #92 going from JFK to TXL at 8:39pm on May 15, 2019 costs $2,902 [0]. But if you add on a return flight (which includes the original DL 92 flight), the price drops to $957 [1].

[0]: https://www.google.com/flights#flt=/m/02_286./m/0156q.2019-0...

[1]: https://www.google.com/flights#flt=/m/02_286./m/0156q.2019-0...
is it possible that airlines have arrivals quotas or limits in certain airports, or pay per passenger which arrives at an airport? this could cause what looks like "batshit" pricing.
Forex mistakes textbooks
This is covered in the article. In particular, it makes inserting and rearranging hard.
Needlessly apocalyptic thinking.

No one knows what will happen as a result of this reduction in insect biomass, that is literally the definition of unprecedented...

Every time some alarmist starts preaching apocalyptic nonsense because of a story like this, nature inevitably plugs the hole. Do you remember the climate alarmists telling us Florida would be underwater up to the panhandle by 2010? Yeah, we are still using those same models, just tweaked around the edges.

Academics are not as smart as they would have you believe.
Berlin Tegel?

That airport has no centralized check-ins anywhere. I have no idea how you would spend any amount there without just going to the gate indicated on the screens everywhere. Most people who don’t know it don’t even notice the difference. They just see it saying “A21” and follow he signs to A21.

It’s actually a rather well-liked concept because check in, passport control, and security only serve that one flight at a time. It’s faster, and you will never miss your flight because of people in front of you in a queue booked on a later flight.

Alas, it requires more personnel, and the airport will close soonish.
Not everything needs to be a contract.

Why can't we just pay our money, get our ticket, and then decide on our own whether we want to use it or not?
> We are talking of censorship conducted by the government, the worst kind there is.

Why the censorship is done by a corporation is so much better than the one done by an elected government? I think that censorship is the wrong thing not who does it.

> So on to the idea that Google and Facebook should be regulated, I think it's an absolutely horrible idea.

For what it seems the USA election was deeply impacted by a foreign hostile government using Facebook ads. There are countries where sectarian violence is on the rise thanks to how Facebook prioritises stories for engagement.

Facebook or Google need to be regulated because they are radicalizing people in search of more engagement to sell more ads. That is not a good situation, and there is no incentive for them to stop doing it. As it is the best way to get more money.

Should these companies be allowed to run what accounts as psychological experiments on big portions of the population without any supervision? For me, the answer is no. It is unethical and it will impact negatively the people affected.

> Just fucking educate people on fact checking and elementary logic.

This supposes that the fault is in the individuals not in the system. And that it is easier to change all the population than to regulate a handful of companies. I am all for better education, but to solve the problem with the big tech companies regulation is needed.
Opinionated App Design
China's space debris cleanup may be cover story for arms against U.S.
Attempting to extend the "semver skeptic" OP's original questions: where would such information be represented in semver?

Whatever probabilities you give to it appearing in the major/minor/bugfix slot, the point is that the skeptic dev cannot safely assume that it will appear in the major slot. If it doesn't appear in the major slot, that means there is a mismatch between what the package author/maintainer considers to be backwards-compatibility and what the author assumes it is. Given the sad state of FLOSS documentation, this is a common type of mismatch where bugs hide.

That means the skeptic dev has to pin to some version that they've tested, only upgrading for a critical bug or some feature valuable enough to warrant the increased time building tests for the new version and hunting for "mismatch" bugs.

I think that skepticism characterizes a critical mass of npm usage. If that is indeed the case then those devs do not trust the minor and bugfix slots to convey meaningful backwards-compatibility information. There might as well be a single incrementing version integer with a changelog at that point.

Edit: clarification
The parent comment was about airplanes. The argument was that batteries are too heavy and that airplanes will still need to run on hydrocarbon fuel. And the argument the parent made is: you burn the fuel in the airplane engine and then sequester it later. And my response is: ok, but if you're sequestering carbon anyway, then use carbon you just sequestered instead of burning new carbon. You didn't understand my point.
I think that the point is that if, today, you could spend $100 on pulling 1 ton of CO2 from the air, or spend $100 on green energy which prevents 2 tons of CO2 going into the air, the second is more important, even if we need to be extracting CO2 from the air.

There's no point in extracting 1 ton of CO2 and putting 2 tons of CO2 back up there.
How the Green New Deal Could Retrofit Suburbs
Environment in multiple crises – report
What are your thoughts on the Synology overall?
So if I'm understanding this correctly, we're essentially terraforming Earth...
Footnotes are the most important text, in my opinion! I remember from college, to remember and study footnotes. Because, always (100% guarantee) exam questions come from those! Little golden nuggets of information are placed in those and reading them is habit, for me - through today!
If you buy a Blu-Ray player it will only play approved disks. Heck, the iPhone can only run iOS.
Explain this to me:

A person doesn't get on the flight. The airline can go after him for inaction. The whole transaction is based on purchases of services from LH. The customer elected not to accept all services detailed in the transaction.

Should you expect the grocery store to sue you for food waste?

Definition of extortion: the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats.
Postgres was misusing fsync for 20 years. Yes, everything is broken.

I’m actually thinking it might be worth snapshotting my bank accounts, to make sure super reliable bank software doesn’t lose my money.
At the end of the day it is written by the same folks as me :)
The Intel 80386, part 17: Future developments
5MB isn't big.