skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a big problem for them.

In the case of Saudi Arabia, it's the combination of oil production ceiling vs population, that is almost guaranteed to be the Kingdom's undoing. Their population growth is slowly unsettling their stability by debasing the per capita well-being. This has resulted recently in record unemployment and a struggling economy.[1] The record youth unemployment in particular is very concerning in a region where that can lead to severe destabilization and the formation of revolutionary groups (desperate youth seeking change). Their oil reserves in 1990 were similar to today, except now they have twice as many people and oil's outlook is getting more dim by the year. In 1990 they had a mere 16m people, in ~2035 they'll have 48m people dividing even fewer oil resources than in 1990.

Unlike, say, Russia, which has a fixed population (net unchanged in 30 years), Saudi Arabia has rapid population growth and is almost entirely dependent economically on subdividing those oil resources per capita (in one form or another). Their efforts to diversify the economy have failed repeatedly and wealthy developed nations are less interested in doing business with them than at any other time in decades. They've lost 1.5 million expat jobs in just a few years, and haven't been able to replace them with new domestic jobs.[2]

Saudi has to figure out how to produce eight million (or more) jobs in just roughly 15 years, when so far they've demonstrated they can hardly produce any net new jobs at all (for Saudis). And these can't be just any jobs, they need to match the present relatively high expectations for a standard of living that Saudis have. If they fail at that vast job creation requirement, the Kingdom is going to fall into violent revolution in some manner.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/saudi-unemployment/saudi-une...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-03/as-expats...
Europe’s greatest qualities are unity and peace
Very cool. Any idea on the market size you are addressing? Are you currently raising, and at what conditions?
52 years is a blip in human civilization. I'd be curious to see how in the grand scheme the depletion of oil looks. Will our tech/development boom grind to a halt all of a sudden? Do we switch to nuclear?
The comments here are striking in how unanimous they are. This site often presents counterpoints to existing dogma which is why I keep coming back. But it is interesting to see where the tech community (and associated) stand on issues such as this kind of censorship (evidently against any censorship). The broader conversation in Aust and NZ is far less unipolar on these laws.
Would you shame someone who catcalls women?

I’m shaming a culture who contributes to the distraction of endangered species. I don’t see the issue
Perhaps they wanted the service killable, but for it to always restart?

Considering the physical memory mapping stuff, I wouldn't be surprised if the service doesn't have some roles firmware should have had - for example ensuring the battery charger is stopped when the battery is fully charged to prevent a fire.
We're open to candidates from anywhere in the world. The constraint is they'll need to work hours that overlap with the rest of the team – we do daily standups and 1-2 hours of pair programming each day. For candidates in a significantly different timezone, that could mean working in the afternoon and evening instead of a typical 9-5.
What a crock of an article. A five-second search and a minute of reading points out that the marshmallow experiment was almost completely debunked[0].

[0]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experimen...
You have to copy the video as well if you want to keep all the metadata, chapters, and cover art. I'd suggest converting to m4b rather than mp4. I gave an example in my other comment in this thread.
> Stay in your lane.

Meaning what?
The title is misleading. The article is about the early Web, not the early Internet.
Just going off of memory, I believe I read that gasoline consumption has plateaued, meaning we're weaning off of it and it's being supplemented by alternative sources. I think it's a fair assumption that this indicates a shift that will lead to declining numbers in the next 20-30 years, if not sooner.
I really like the inclusion of basic graphics routines. Not a lot of languages include these out of the box and it's something I've really missed since I first started toying with programming in QBasic.
That sounds a lot like a slippery slope fallacy.
What is preventing larger players who already operate reactors from doing exactly what you propose (ie close packed supply chain)? I'm curious what kind of protection you can have for an idea that is essentially - let me put all the tools in the same room.
I do a lot of work with the rail industry in the UK (both heavy and light rail) - but the UK is much more passenger focussed.

Reducing cost can take a lot of tweaking to get right, and is likely to take more than one cycle to do. But new schedules do take some bedding in until they are running smoothly. Once that happens, you can then look for the next round of optimisations - tweaks to the way the trains are assembled in the yards which then start building the incremental gains.

If you have a better scheduling system, you build resilience into the schedule. You open up more time for maintenance, you keep your assets in better condition, so you have fewer breakdowns. One thing to remember is that (in general) there is a Pareto on train breakdowns - 20% of the locomotives cause 80% of the problems. It will be the worst locomotives that are taken out of service, so the reduction in service affecting failures should be quite significant.

You make some money on the OPEX side by doing more scheduled maintenance, and less emergency maintenance (overtime is really expensive!). You also make savings on the CAPEX side, because your assets last longer.

[edit]. Changed para order
I think the point is that they will likely destabilise long before they run out of oil. The price/demand/Saudi's share of OPEC's allowance will mean that the dire economic situation that you describe will play out no matter how much oil they have left. Whether that's true or not, I don't know, but that's what I understood from the OP's post.
Programming is a lot like playing a guitar. You can play old songs forever, but you can’t fairly complain that they went out of style. Plus like guitar, your skills at playing one genre don’t directly translate to another so if you want to keep up on the trend threadmill it takes a lot of extra practice.
You haven't provided any evidence, so it's just an unbacked claim at this stage. Posts like that never go well on HN. There's only 30 slots on the front page and the Ask page, so people like them to have substance.

Also, even if it's true, it just sounds like a bug that would be fixed in 10 minutes once known about, and there's no great potential for data leakage or loss to anyone except a bit of revenue loss to Google, which wouldn't really bother anyone.
If you say what you mean by gaming the system with any of those, Wall Street, Las Vegas, used car sales, maybe I can respond intelligently. As it is, I'm not sure what you're referring to. Most things I think of that would be considered gaming the system to do with those have to do with human rules applied to a system, instead of emergent market economics, and that's what I was referring to.

There is gaming of markets, but I think generally if it's not based on some regulation, it's because of information asymmetry (which is a market inefficiency).

All I was trying to point out in the prior comment is that there are different kinds of incentives. There are incentives that are constructed, and there are incentives that are natural. Constructed incentives are much easier to game. Natural incentives are emergent. Microsoft is incentivized to have good security for their OS now by the market in general, because it hurts them to not have good security (compared the the bast, where they could get away with lax security until it became a problem). That's emergent from the market and people deciding to use or not use their product. I wouldn't consider that "gaming the system", and if they did game it by talking a lot about security but not actually doing much, eventually the market should note that and respond appropriately.

Alternatively, Microsoft can reduce their tax burden by shifting business entities to different countries and shuffling how it appears their profit is created, so it's registered in a country with very little taxes, leading them to pay fewer taxes (not that they do, I don't know. I believe Apple and Google are reputed to do this). That's based on rules set by people, such as country boundaries and tax rates. Doing this could be considered "gaming the tax system". It requires specific changes to the rules to fix, it won't just shift naturally.

To me it appeared the comment you were responding to originally was using "incentive" in the pure form, meaning "benefit for doing so", and it appeared you were referring to incentive in the regulatory sense, where it's a human construction to influence behavior, but that's only a subset of the meaning.
I agree with much of what you’re saying, but the search and spam control make it worth far more than what I pay. YMMV certainly.
I was about to post that link too. Here's a relatively dramatic segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldpj_5JNFoA#t=2m56s. Notice the famous index cards.
Really stupid question here, but how do I start compiling Lobster programs on my machine (Windows or Linux)?
> based on what?

Rising popularity of electric cars, increasing vehicle efficiency in general, potential legislation targeting climate change, etc.
Presumably part of the case on their behalf would be that most or many of the people accused of being white supremacists, or afforded other such titles, are simply not. Granting Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, et al, an opportunity to speak is giving people accused of being white supremacists the opportunity to not only quickly prove that their positions are not collectivist, let alone racial, but (more importantly) represent valid counters.
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It was a mixture of things, including other killers like Alexandre Bissonnette, victims like Ebba Åkerlund, historical events like the 1683 Battle of Vienna, memes like "Crab Rave," etc.
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They're of course not talking about the original Bohemia.
It's a badly written post. That's what you're missing.

In the first example, author didn't even indicate what the loop invariant is in the code, before moving on to a second example.
It could have totally owned much of the space now occupied by Yelp and Craigslist. A true class act Bill pulled the plug on far too early. One of his most egregious mistakes IMHO.
You don't need to spend years gaming to beat a game. Gaming skill doesn't work like that. You practice the specific game you want to play. Spend a few hours and voila, you learn. It's literally that simple.

The problem is that games journalists don't want to play games. They want to get paid to write, and they were only able to get a job writing about video games. That's literally the only reason this is a topic. That and the fact that journalists as an industry have sussed out ways to increase monetization, and one such way that is particularly effective is the "rage bait" method, whereby you infuriate, or "nerd snipe" a particular demographic that feels invested in defending something to the point of sharing the thing they feel is attacking them.
> And no one writes pure functional programs. I mean, because they don't exist.

This is, both mathematically and practically speaking, incorrect. People write pure programs all the time.

For example, `f x = putStrLn x` is a pure program. The reason for this is because, despite the name, nothing actually "happens" when this function is evaluated. I suggest you try it: just bind `f "hello world"` to a variable! Nothing happens. Because it's just an immutable value, computed by a pure function with no side effects.

There are situations where IO values get executed, but the crucial point is that computation and execution are logically separated. You can have a structure of IO-producing functions, get a list of IOs from them, filter and modify and reorder them, bind them, process them: they're just data. Pure.
Wow, thanks for that list, in particular for Simon & Schuster. I am a Trekkie (that's the origin of my handle, too), and I sometimes bought Star Trek e-books on Amazon (most recently, Department of Temporal Investigations series). I'd much prefer to buy DRM-free.

> I don't mind watermarks, I ain't a pirate

That depends; pirates mind water marks on goods they liberated on the high seas, as they reveal the provenance of the merchandise. They like the marks left by water on their equipment, as a proof of prowess.

(Yes, I had to.)
For anyone in Sweden there is a nice e-bookstore called Bokon. It has DRM free books that can easily be synced to a Kindle or some other device.

https://bokon.se/
If you are already using Calibre, it's not hard to protect yourself from Amazon. I have a Kindle PaperWhite that's about ~3 years old and it only connected to the Internet once during initial setup. I've put it in flight mode after that and it will never go online again.

As for books, when I buy them on Amazon I select "transfer via USB" which let's me download it and when I add it to Calibre, the DRM is stripped by DEDRM_tools [1][2] before transfering into the Kindle.

[1] https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools

[2] Note that the tool only removes the DRM, it doesn't anonymise the file. It's still associated with your account.
just because reality is ruined at the moment doesn't mean i shouldn't expect the law to work.
plus, we get CEOs sent to jail all the time, so it's not like there's no precedent.
Do you mean even books from Kindle store are without DRM?
Good luck making plastic.
Australian living in Slovakia here.

Definitely agree on the sweetness factor. It is also the same with Vinea, which others have mentioned here. I am not a soft-drink person really, but it is more refreshing by virtue of not having such a sweet syrupy vibe.

My kids like Vinea and I feel better about giving it to them now and then, than I would with Coke, which to me is mouth-puckeringly sweet.

I liken Kofola to a mix between sarsaparilla and cola.
>Verbosity describes a programs behavior without implied knowledge thus a reader of some code will understand exactly what is meant.

Readability is not just about "understanding what is meant if you take the time". It's also about each piece of code being easy to scan and understand to find what you need. Devs have to scan whole projects to find what happens where, and there's a balance between cryptic very succinct statements and getting lost in expanded verbosity.

Verbosity hurts that by making less code fit on your screen, the code having more stuff that's needed to convey the meaning, etc. You get lost in the extra details, and have more baggage to keep in mind.

It's the difference between saying, e.g.: "Yeah", and "I am indeed craving something savory with lots of melted curdled milk and processed pork cuts, and I believe that we can immediately proceed with the thing that we were just now discussing to do".

Which is one is the more "readable" answer to "Wanna go for a pizza?".
20+% increase by 2015-2030
https://www.statista.com/statistics/547100/projected-base-oi...

A more realistic assessment from Shell Oil is that oil demand continues to grow over the next 20 years, a view shared by rival BP and energy consultants like Wood Mackenzie.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/daneberhart/2018/09/18/forecast...

Long-term oil demand is expected to increase by 15.8 mb/d, rising from 95.4 mb/d in 2016 to 111.1 mb/d in 2040
https://www.opec.org/opec_web/flipbook/WOO2017/WOO2017/asset... (page 101)
> A person who is opposed to same-sex marriage has no place in a discussion of technical ethics.

Following this logic you're saying that ~30% of the population[0] is unworthy of discussing ethics. I find it amusing how Google has become hostage of its own employees in so many aspects. There already have been outrages when it comes to China censorship projects, military projects and now this. It gives Google a lot of bad publicity and I suppose it got out of control. If you think about it, no other company experiences employee revolt to the same degree as Google.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_of_same-sex_mar...
> He was extremely popular with the people and the Army.

Yes, he was extremely popular because he was a skilled general. He had a very good understanding of Roman military strategy and tactics. Not on the top-5 but surely on the top-10 of the best Roman generals of all time.

> If that was the case, then why did he not just run the Senate out of town

That wasn't possible. The Roman Senate and the whole Roman political scene was in complete stagnation. Plus, you couldn't really "run the Senate" remotely – many tried (including Caesar) doing so, none succeeded. You had to have a physical presence or to delegate (e.g. Caesar with Mark Anthony).

At the time, Pompey had strong political power and run for Console, but on his way to power, he found Crassus with the very same goal in mind. The problem is that Crassus was the richest man in Rome (a billionaire compared to today) and he had much more political influence.

Pompey (mainly because of Crassus's obstructionism) wasn't able to fully capitalize on his military success.

Caesar well understood that the stagnation was mainly due to the Crassus/Pompey (personal) rivalry and offered them to run himself for Console, (1) stop the Senate stagnation and (2) approve their reforms.

The rest is history.
I get my books from Google play books and it does allow downloading as epub. I'm not sure if it includes any kind of drm in it though. I always assumed all of them allowed downloading

# Edit: apparently you need something called Adobe digital Editions to read that epub later. So there is some kind of drm.
>not a subset so small to be statistically insignificant by any measure

do you think the number of trans people compared to the world population isn't "a subset so small to be statistically insignificant by any measure"?
They might IPO their oil industry and diversify.
Why should your ebook files be watermarked? Your printed books aren't. Watermarks are ugly.
When I started studying economics the most baffling thing I learned was that the total amount of Oil we had was increasing and not decreasing. That weird fact kind of made me learn the basic concepts better and I think I have learned not to read too much into these sort of news items. Journalist often lack this outlook.

The world is not going to run out of Oil ever. The world is more likely to run out of "need for oil" sooner than the oil running our scenario. A particular oil field is fading means really nothing because Saudi has far too many unproven oil fields which it has not even bothered to explore yet. Now that this field might be running out very soon they will explore that oil and soon their production will grow up. The capital investment of discovery would reflect in slightly higher oil prices may be.

Coming back to the CO2 emissions point you raised, even if the Oil in that Oil field goes to zero in 1 year, it wont matter. There will be more supply available soon enough. CO2 emissions will probably go down unrelated to Oil production as developed countries move to electric cars and better power plants fired by nuclear, solar and wind energy.
In french my wife uses "lutin en herbe" (or just "lutin") instead of "putain de merde"
It might not matter. One of the worst aspects of this kind of thing is the chilling effect. It doesn't matter whether it actually breaks the law, just the fact of such laws existing will stop people from doing anything like it.
-A INPUT -p tcp --dport <port> -m limit --limit 25/minute --limit-burst 100 -j ACCEPT
“Tokyo is one of the few cities in which supply has kept up with demand, keeping a crisis from developing. But that is due largely to deregulated housing policies that other countries would have a hard time reproducing.”

This “crisis” is completely artificial and the solution is obvious: take off the zoning straight jacket and make it legal to build higher density housing.

Property owners should have zero authority over anything outside of their property lines. Giving Joe Blow the ability to shout down and bikeshed new developments is idiotic.
Because they're not both illegal under all jurisdictions. IANAL but breaking DRM for personal use is legal in the US.
What I am the most worried about the depletion of oil is that most people assume it will be a bell curve, like US' (conventional) oil production was.

Thing is, it was a bell as people switched to other more profitable sources of oil as US' oil was becoming more expensive. I fear the depletion of world's reserve could look a lot more like a cliff.

The absence of alternatives changes a lot the fundamentals of the problem.
Yes; I have a Kofola from the tap once in a while with a Langos at the nearby market. It does taste better.
Tried that - doesn't work for wsj.com
Fun concept in a game theoretic kind of way, but it doesn’t work in practice obviously. Telling someone to go to a site and push a thought about you is extremely awkward, the only context where it might work is within a dating site or similar, but people don’t seem to need that indirection there nowadays.
By the way, if anyone's interested in buying Japanese eBooks, my current go-to store is Kobo (owned by Rakuten): https://books.rakuten.co.jp/e-book/

The biggest differentiator for them is they don't compress their images to oblivion like Amazon and Google Play does, which is really nice for light novels and manga where image quality makes a huge difference. Being Kobo, they also happen to be the only eBook store other than Amazon to offer their own line of eBook reader devices, most of which can be hacked to use a bigger sdcard for more storage (they literally use an sdcard for internal storage instead of emmc).

Of course, their DRM is easily crackable, but I would love to hear recommendations for DRM free Japanese eBook stores if anyone is aware of any.
The current recommendation here is to air out for 5-10 minutes, 3 times a day. Not just one window open, but full airing out with as many open windows and doors as possible.

It's a good habit to get into, no matter how old and drafty or new and tightly sealed your house is.
i've been using a similar thing, a pre-processor written in powershell, that lets me embed a few different languages in any type of file.

i've used it for writing books, and interactive checklists, and for generating static html websites.

this is the one i implemented: https://github.com/secretGeek/pre
The Apache Software Foundation is a record label not a rock band
I'd count being written in a small codebase in clojure and not literally a million lines of e-lisp a big advantage that you haven't mentioned
There is already bio-plastic, it's just expensive because oil is super cheap.
Starlink is planning to deploy at 550km according to Wikipedia.