skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure that argument makes some sense, but my comment was in response to the claim that the main issue is illegal hotel businesses. If that is the case, If don't see how this law can't make that problem worse.

If it is attractive to investors to run illegal hotels now, it will only become more attractive to do so once they are unable to raise rents on normal tenants.
They are fascinating. I live in Western NC and I've seen many of them. You're climbing up the mountain, nearing the summit, going through the trees and then, pop, the trees are gone leaving only a mystery.
Net exporter to the U.S... But as the OP points out, they do other things with US$ such as buy oil and invest. You are right that they aren't running out of dollars, but they aren't stockpiling them at the rate of the trade surplus either.
That is the trade-off they are making in exchange for things such as access to more employers. At some point though, they will demand more money or move out, assuming their quality of life relative to other places they can live drops to a sufficiently low level.

There are people who are poor and scraping by everywhere, not just cities. Low paying jobs are low paying because the demand is not high enough relative to the supply.
George Carlin had it right. We should turn all golf courses into public housing, and plow up cemeteries for farming.
In the meantime while we wait for this to happen, people will keep getting evicted due to rising rent. How long do we wait? When can we expect results?
All Linux, All the Time: Supercomputers Top
I get the argument of less investment into maintenance, but new buildings with higher capacity (instead of higher quality) could still make you more profit than current ones while boosting supply. Sadly new constructions will continue to target the high price market, since the new caps seem to specifically exclude them.
I wanted to use a workflow like this years ago working with Apress. Possibly (hopefully) things are better now, but at least at the time, all their tooling expected Word docs as the input, and you had to use a very specific stylesheet (including goofy stuff like magic text strings to insert images).

There were also some manual transformation steps occurring on their end, because there was a cutover point where the Word doc was no longer accepted and you had to just quote page and line numbers to get further changes made.
Too bad most of the messaging now is about personal carbon footprints instead of political action on a mass scale.
>> At the end of the day people are going to get what they want

The end of _that_ day is when all of their credentials are leaked from a data compromise.

I would agree that most people prefer convenience to security (and that they are two opposite points on the same line), but people only learn what security means when it's too late.
The wealthy westerners will not notice because of air conditioning and endless bottled water.

The really wealthy westerners are spending their money inventing ways to leave Earth. That might be a clue to whether or not they believe aircon and bottled water is going to be enough to save their way of life.
Like how toxic the remnants of civilization will be for the surviving tribes? The collapse of society won't be an orderly process...
Iceland’s data centers are booming–here’s why that’s a problem
Back when I regularly wrote white papers/explainers/etc. of various sorts (3K-4K words or so), I often felt a need to redo a piece that was 12-18 months old to fix a couple things that weren't correct any longer, shake any dust off, and so forth.

Invariably, half the thing ended up being rewritten to various degrees. It was still a lot easier than starting from a blank sheet of paper but, as soon as you rework something, you don't want to ignore all the sections that aren't quite fresh, want to bring in new facts and figures, bring in more recent examples, etc.

And, in reality, the extra time is probably justified because the act of opening up an older piece, republishing it, and all the associated background machinery makes it worth spending a bit more time.
there are locked in cycles that are going to cause 2 degrees and more in warming regardless of if we stop emissions completely right this second. it only goes up every year nbd
Same here with a Subaru Forester. Even though I have a giant diesel RAM pickup we typically use the Subie to haul stuff since it's easier to get stuff in and out.

The RAM is so tall it's unwieldy to get stuff in and out of the bed. I really need to sell that thing and get something practical.
> > - A currency outside of traditional governments would theoretically be free of currency manipulation by those governments (ex. China and the Yuan)

> You can't live your life outside your country's currency though. It has a built-in demand because you have to pay taxes in it. So you're going to have to buy some of it somewhere.

Yes but then you can shop around for conversion and can keep the majority of your liquidity in a vehicle which is less easily manipulated but just as fungible (I am just arguing about the utility of a global, trans-national currency and not speaking to specifics offered by the Facebook coin specifically).

Currently, if you want to hedge against the Yuan but still want to buy goods in China, you don't have many choices. But if vendors accepted some other currency in addition to Yuan, you can convert to Yuan to settle debts with your government and keep your holdings liquid elsewhere.
the closest thing to a realistic dream I truly have is more dense housing
Why does it make you angry? The price of the appliance would likely be the same if that spare capacity was not pre-installed, and the cost of an upgrade would likely not change if hardware was delivered when the upgrade was purchased instead of being pre-installed.

They have calculated that enough customers will upgrade to pay for the hardware installed in the customer appliances that don't.

What's wrong with that? You don't have to wait for the hardware if you buy the upgrade.
Rather, I don't feel the need to baby obviously disingenuous arguments. That, more than anything else, is the hallmark of aforementioned pseudo-intellectual discussion sites that insist that ritualistic, feigned ignorance of context is a necessary virtue.
It's amazing as the white paper manages to avoid mentioning Bitcoin and Ethereum.
... until we collectively decided to stop leveraging the upsides of nuclear and it turned into just a money pit, rather than a plausible investment. Yeah, I hear you. FWIW I consider it a lost cause these days too. It didn't have to be that way.

Sounds like China is making a go for it, though. Maybe in 20 years they can come build some plants to save us from the duck curve.
This is some great advice in my opinion. Every project starts from a base - give it a shitty base, and you're always going to have problems. Spend the time to write an OK base that doesn't try to do anything clever but organizes code in a clear and sane way and you'll be reaping the dividends for years to come. There is nothing more valuable than, from day one, unit testing, organizing files in a clear way, preventing clutter, and starting writing basic documentation of how to work with your software. These simple cues will remind you and others of what the expectations are for your project.

As popular as it is to say "just solve the problem in front of you", no one actually does that. No one sits down to work on something with one problem - the sit down with likely hundreds, all vying to be solved. Average engineers will look at one, solve it, test it, put it in a text file, push it to prod, and say "look, done!" Good engineers will look at the whole class of problems and recognize commonalities that inform basic architectural and infrastructural decisions.
> Common Lisp also is "image-based development", just like Smalltalk. This is a direct ST influence.

Lisp from the early 60s used already images. It went from there to Smalltalk.
Current 19 year olds have not much to worry about. Remember it's 2-4 deg C by the end of the century along with a sea level rise of perhaps 1m. It's her grandchildren that are truly going to suffer. Of course, nobody knows how long the current status quo can last in the face of climate change.
>The solution is to build houses, but what kind of investor is going to throw their money at Berlin, where their opportunity to make a return on their investment is severely hampered?

Uh, the state. It's strange to me that someone can honestly ask this question. The free market has failed as is its wont in these matters, this failure always needs to be addressed by the state. Where were you for the last global economic collapse?
When I started I named one of my first projects at work somethingsomethingTest, it is this way 3 years later. Honestly, I tried changing it but it caused a cluster fuck, so every time I have to fix a bug it gently reminds me about being a fresh dev, writing test programs that just somehow wiggle their way into production. Management says, job well done if it works it works. :\
Not mentioned in the article, but Nvidia bought Mellanox last March.
you don't really go and implement saml, you deploy saml. you pick one service depending on your preferred language and go with it.

I've worked both with apereo cas (java, was called jasig or something like that then) and simplesamlphp and they managed across multiple proprietary dialect with minimal effort, so those are good starting point
> See Amazon Basics? Sellers sell on Amazon, Amazon tracks what sells well, enters market with same cheaper product and puts you out of business.

Or they contract with you to sell a private label version of your own product.

For example, Ergotron makes a very nice quality monitor arm:

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00358RIRC/

Amazon Basics has a monitor arm that looks just like the Ergotron, except it's all black instead of silver and black.

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00MIBN16O/

I have a couple of the Amazon arms. The reason they look the same is because they are made by Ergotron. It says so right on the box:

Ship From: Ergotron Inc - Private Brands - US
I looked at your careers page to get an idea of internal teams and I didn't find any fraud related teams. How do you handle credit card fraud? Do you outsource it?
I had never heard about the theory that climate change might have played a role of the Roman Civilization collapse.

Here's an interesting article about it:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-climate-ch...

The key factor, apparently, was "... an enormous spasm of volcanic activity in the 530s and 540s CE, unlike anything else in the past few thousand years. This violent sequence of eruptions triggered what is now called the ‘Late Antique Little Ice Age,’ when much colder temperatures endured for at least 150 years."

(New theories should always be taken with a grain of salt, but I found it interesting either way.)
For anyone looking for more info on the Brave browser i did a quick writeup about it: https://www.tkjef.com/blog/what-is-brave-browser/

Was a diehard Vivaldi user, but Brave's performance has won me over.
Web Development Subway Map –2019
> They're building housing as fast as possible.

That's not true at all.
The number of building permits granted has actually dropped and when new developments are granted, the number of apartments build will always be negotiated down from the original proposal.

It's insane. The dense Gründerzeit quarters are the ones that are most popular, yet we are unable to build anything alike.
Wealth is a claim on the output of society. It's very hard to store wealth outside of society. Actual stored wealth:

* precious metal and fossil fuels, etc

* seeds, canned goods, grain reserves

* Buildings, wells, physical infrastructure on the land

* tools etc that last through time

Money is only useful to the extent it can buy things. If civilization collapses, then that's a destruction of wealth.

If output merely diminishes, that's also a destruction of wealth. It will still be better to be rich than to be poor, but even the rich depend on what society produces.
Global warming is not an existential threat if you consider the studies that look at existential threats in general. It's not even in the top 10.

Of the top of my head, asteroids, bio weapons, disease, the Sun, AI and authoritarianism are more serious. Especially AI - not being the dominate species anymore will be dangerous. But 10°C more? That just requires AC and migration.
They'll probably do a collective face slap that we failed to invest in Nuclear technology (see the difference in Gen IV vs old tech: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor). We had a solution for clean energy, but let fear override reason.
The Machine Stops [pdf]
I take it he means it's a delusion because fiat currency means very little when the environment that our civilisation is tuned to breaks down.
These things are everywhere in Austin. Thanks for that article, really interesting.
I think the problem is totally different for those who live to see their projects finished. Then there are people like me who have no such urge.

If a person like me can get into the routine of writing (which would be very difficult trick) then the writing itself would probably be quite easy. There is no fear of blank page, no depressive thoughts of "am I ever going to finish" etc. But there is no reward in the other end of the tunnel either. The writing itself would have to be fun enough.
> If you don't believe such projects should exist, you can at least agree that such project will inevitably happen and that it is a good thing that they have people like me onboard to influence them in the right direction.

Unless you sabotaged the project, no. It would be a better thing if people like you refused to work for Facebook so it would have to hire someone less competent or at least someone more expensive,
Google pledges $1B to tackle housing problem it help create
That is somebody doing an incompetent summary of IPCC's Special Report "Global Warming of 1.5 °C -- an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels"

https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/

Published 2018. Just to quote the few actual lines from the report summary:

"A.1 Human activities are estimated to have caused approximately 1.0°C of global warming above
pre-industrial levels, with a likely range of 0.8°C to 1.2°C. Global warming is likely to reach 1.5°C
between 2030 and 2052 if it continues to increase at the current rate. (high confidence) (Figure
SPM.1) {1.2}"

"A.2 Warming from anthropogenic emissions from the pre-industrial period to the present will persist for
centuries to millennia and will continue to cause further long-term changes in the climate system,
such as sea level rise, with associated impacts (high confidence), but these emissions alone are
unlikely to cause global warming of 1.5°C (medium confidence). (Figure SPM.1) {1.2, 3.3, Figure 1.5}"

"A.3 Climate-related risks for natural and human systems are higher for global warming of 1.5°C than
at present, but lower than at 2°C (high confidence). These risks depend on the magnitude and rate
of warming, geographic location, levels of development and vulnerability, and on the choices and
implementation of adaptation and mitigation options (high confidence). (Figure SPM.2) {1.3, 3.3,
3.4, 5.6}"

And so on.

As you see, very precise and very conservative. It is about what will happen between 10 and 30 years from now, due to the emissions that the humanity is just going to make (see A.2 quoted -- what was already emitted is not what is going to raise the average temperature for the next half a degree).
Isn't that more because the choice to support C interop by giving C access to interpreter internals, which is the easiest-implemented option but not the only way to get easy-to-use C interop.
>Perfect surveillance will be a hurdle society must cross, but we can come out of it to a more honest place.

Surveillance doesn't lead to more honesty, it leads to theatrics and reduction of behaviour to the lowest common denominator. One only needs to pay a few minutes of attention to influencers on social media to see what happens when someone is made completely transparent to their environment. Any notion of authencitity goes out of the window and you get a black mirror like popularity contest.
The evolution of puppy dog eyes
Any plans to launch an Agent for .NET?
It's not the same though. If you jump in and start selling merch in Amazon then you are entering _their_ space directly and using their platform to do so. As you said, you're not only handing them money; you're handing them all of your data.

Using AWS to build your back end before finding out that Amazon is now going to enter your market is hardly the same thing. Your handful of VMs make exactly zero difference. AWS or no, Amazon was going to eat your lunch.
We need to turn this amazing machine of capitalism we've created towards solving the problem.

That requires strong political leadership and buy in.

American needs to turn back into the country represented by Captain America. They need to be leaders again, instead of acting like they're being run by one of those infant English kings from the Middle Ages..
I very much beg to differ. Just because a database maps to memory and doesn’t commit to disk per transaction doesn’t make it less of a database.

So if not a database, what is it?
> It is called science bitch.

I think I'll just avoid climate change threads here from now on, they're the /r/politics of HN.
You make it sound so clear cut and yourself as such a virtuous person knowing who is a monster and who isn’t.

Has human trafficking gone down since Backpage went down? Has sex work gotten better or worse for sex workers since Backpage went down? Have pimps and other assialiants and middle men of [rougher] sex work and trafficking stopped doing their work since Backpage went down? Or been caught more?

If nothing actually changed, but now all we have are the morally bankrupt Backpage founders fighting against government overreach and abuse, why are people monsters for being against what the government is doing (and thus in a way, on the side of Backpage.com)?
Why don’t allow employees to WFH full time and only come to office as necessary?

Why don’t government stimulate and encourage corps who promote full time (not 1 day a week for good behavior) WFH policies?

There is absolutely no need for 2/3 of all high tech employees in Bay Area to drag their physical bodies into their statically assigned corporate chairs. Lots of meetings, conf calls and work can be done remotely.

That’s the solution that doesn’t require $1B and will take very little to implement and could have REAL impact.
> You’re all dead.

Oh darn, I was counting on my immortality.
You think the prediction made in this book about returning to a gold standard can still happen?
One thing missing from her story. Did she pay cash for the Model 3? Because if she's making bank payments on her new Tesla I'm not sure she legally can cut it up.

I'm not saying that what she's done isn't amazing. But if her bank learns what she's done they will not I would think be very happy.
To be fair, Arch dropped i686 years ago. How many people are really stuck on 32 bit? & if companies are so quick to axe things, why is Windows still offered on 32-bit where it'll run many 16-bit programs?

Your post is really slanted "upgrading to Debian", "Company vs Community", suggesting that profit goes against the user's best interest

I'm writing this as someone who uses Arch at home & Debian at work
The brain consumes half of a childs energy and that could matter for weight gain
There are a few more things a person can do to fight global warming:

- most of all, speak out for reneweable energies and against coal

- if possible use some solar yourself

- try to buy an electric car or a real fuel efficient one, don't drive too much

- in general, try to use energy efficient devices
That's not at all what he said. He was talking about the company confronting high cost of living near their headquarters.
Facebook is going to great lengths to stress how little they own, but I think the point is moot; even this article is calling it a Facebook token.
Guessing it's a CMS without a configured deep-caching server in front of it, like Wordpress, That does some DB request(s) and a few addon modules on each article request.

That's not to say its' bad, but is probably seeing higher than normal traffic. I've been interested in static content generation again.
It is kind of decentralized in the sense that no single company can manipulate the ledger but it's definitely not decentralized in terms of wealth ownership.
No. Is there a good reason we don’t have a well regulated set of laws and enforcement for legal sex work for people 18 (or 21) and up?
Myths about Testosterone
This is the reason I am less-than-thrilled with the way most companies get to MVP.
Make MVP good quality ("V" should have "Quality" as a principal metric). It may be bare bones, but don't skimp on the quality.
Or you'll be very, very sorry.
Or just sell up and find a more respectable way of making money, increasing supply in the buyer occupier market, lowering prices.
Scary...
Music of the Mind, Virus-Proof Cells and Apollo’s 50th
I did a bit of sleuthing in the dev console.

The site is a static HTML site generated by Docusaurus [0]. That seems like it should be very fast and lightweight for serving tons of concurrent requests.

In the page's response header, it shows that the server is NGINX on Ubuntu. Ahhh, and "X-Powered-By: Express". I suspect that's the bottleneck, serving static assets via Node.js+Express, instead of directly with NGINX.

I also see in the document foot that it tries to load a script from http://localhost:35729/livereload.js. That could be a sign that the site is a development build, not optimized for production..?

[0] https://docusaurus.io/en/
I'm not defending Bitcoin as the ultimate cryptocurrency; I think it's inarguable that it remains the most empirically successful so far. Whether that's first-mover advantage, network effects, a hardware-capable PoW function, or that it struck closer to the right balance of concerns, who knows?

I don't agree that the energy consumption is a real concern because we don't have a comparison here for what other currencies cost. The cost seems like it should be fairly efficient because there are competing uses for energy.

I'm not sure exactly what the quoted text is trying to say or how it is relevant. I guess towards the notion of "decentralization"? What I would say here is that the reality is that we don't know the gini coefficient of a single thing in the universe except goods that are extraordinarily scarce (like "Mona Lisa paintings"). The estimates for these things for real-world currencies are laughably bad; they are based on self-reported statistics and upsampling, and they rarely reflect the actual scarce good -- effectively M0 of a single currency, which is a number we don't even have for Bitcoin because exchanges represent aggregated possession rather than actual ownership. So my point here is that yes, maybe that Gini coefficient looks bad, but it's the first time that we've even had a moderately realistic look at what a Gini coefficient looks like. Maybe they all look like this -- maybe gold is .99+, maybe Dollars are .99+, maybe Euros are .99+, maybe cigarettes in prison are .99+? Nakomoto coefficient is even more immeasurable for anything but cryptocurrencies, and also disregards aggregated records of deposits.
An ECU is not typically remotely controlled and updated. You can also replace an ECU, to one with more control so that you can fine tune performance.

For cars that do have that feature, I doubt hiring lawyers will change anything. No one is obligated to sell you anything.
Pace of Heat Records Will Pick Up with Warming
You can do this today in both messenger and messages yeah.