skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who aren't from the UK, a council flat is an apartment owned by the local government, with subsidized or free rent for people who can't afford to rent in the area. Residents are means tested (i.e. availability is based on income / special situations). People at considerable risk on the streets tend to be prioritised in the waiting list (families, single women).

This man was eligible, lived in the apartment at some point, but took £110 a night from airbnb guests and lived elsewhere when guests stayed.

Sub-letting council flats is illegal, but pretty common as it's basically impossible to stop on a cash in hand basis. However, a platform like AirBnB could easily block this activity from happening on their platform, if they wanted to.
Convenience and speed aren't reasons?

You're handicapping yourself against your competitors, and no one who does that lasts very long.
I'm convinced that if someone could find a suitable replacement for sheetrock walls that is semi-easy to relocate, there would be less of a perceived need for open offices.
Just an opinion, but I don't think Bernie can get elected. I think that 'democratic socialism' can be sold to enough voters to get elected, but I don't think Bernie is charismatic or endearing enough to be the person to do it.
The sensibility you have expressed is chiefly why we should fight US dominance of the tech sector. Not why we should lean in to it.
I believe that in general(, the more fibre you get whilst eating the better. So sure if you are getting most of your fibre during other meals and are about to eat a sandwich. It is better to also have fibre during that eating session.

As with anything it is just general, but less processed / higher fibre / whole grain food is better and (subjectively) much tastier. After only eating higher whole grain food, going back to the more processed version, you realise just how lacking it is (opinion)
"low cost Indian scooters"

Would those actually be included in these figures?
I love AirBnB on paper, but in practice, its just too ripe with issues. So many similarities to Uber too. Socialize the costs, privatize the revenue. Use litigation to fight to keep the loopholes open. At least Uber isn't screwing with the housing market, that I know of.
Thanks. Do you know more about the actual flaws of the architecture in the early days?

As I recall, they used to be hosted on Akamai and in colocation centres, but I don't know much about the rest.
This is the instagram hashtag https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/%E4%BF%AE%E6%82%A6%E4...
1. The oceans are being murdered: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-ocean-is-runn...

2. Deforestation is destroying the environment: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warmin...

3. 24 billion tons of fertile soil disappears every year: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/26/land-deg...

4. Large animals are dying out: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/66/10/807/223613...

5. At the other end of the scale, insects are disappearing: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000632071...

6. This is because we're in the middle of the 6th major mass extinction event the Earth has experienced, and this is our doing: https://truthout.org/articles/sixth-mass-extinction-ushers-i...

7. And we're polluting the planet so badly, plastics are showing up inside our bodies: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/10/news-...
I personally can't stand the term "processed" when applied to food. Everything from harvesting/slaughtering/milling to prep and cooking is a process. I prefer the term "mass manufactured food", because that is exactly what it is, food mass produced in a factory.
Yes, it is right. Nobody should privately profit like this from socially funded housing.
If A is getting subsidized housing they’re earning taking others’ taxes and profiting from it. I’d say they’re not entitled to the subsidy in that case.
Like I wrote somewhere else, the Gitlab case is both worse and better. Gitlab did not make a specific decision to block Iranian users, it merely made a technical decision to move to Google Cloud, and Google Cloud is blocking sanctioned countries on a network level (which is abhorrent).

But I don't see Gitlab making an active decision that they have to do this for sanctions compliance reasons, it was just a side-effect and they didn't care enough for it to change their minds about the move.

Specifically, if I sign up to Gitlab, set my country of residence to Iran, and Gitlab lets me create private repositories, then they are not enforcing the sanctions the way Github does.
The money will be squander by the government and all that will happen is the poor people will get poorer. It's so easy to be like oh just tax it, and forget the guy who's scraping by can't afford another 10-25 cents more per thing they buy at dollar general because adding a tax to it tried to justify the plastic.
If its independent and vigorous how did the MAX get through to begin with?
The Amazon link searches for books written after the year 2000, and the copyright at the bottom is 2001-2014.

Also, Outliers came out in 2008.
Engineers Don't Solve Problems
That's a problem of poor engineering and not a first principles issue.
" biggest sponsor of terrorism, ...."

Mohammed Bone Saw, and the rest of the billionaires in Saudi Arabia who funded 9/11 would beg to differ.

The only reason we are embargoing Iran is because AIPAC tells us to. Iran has never done anything to the United States. Saudi Arabia killed 3,000 Americans in 2 hours, and we didn't seem to mind.
> So things like Soylent and Beyond Meats are also quite processed.

yes.

Eat real food. Mostly greens. Eat little. Eat often. The end
Alternate “clean” way, but sort of hacky.

raise ValueError(“File exists, not uploading: {filename} -> {bucket}, {key}”.format(**locals()))
This is interesting, I didn’t see that.

In which case they are actually providing -more- than gitlab does.
It took me a while to get, that Goodenough is the name of the inventor (John Goodenough) and not a tacky brand name.
I get what you’re saying but I’m still not convinced it totally makes sense.

The goal of subsidized housing is to make housing more affordable for some group of people, subletting likely has the same effect so the money subsidizing the building is still going to the same thing.
It is not just your “right”, it is “right” to do so since it is your “duty”.

Otherwise you are just subsidizing / helping law breakers, is it not?
is 1mil miles and low service reqs the actual current specs for Teslas?
> If an individual feels wrongly and disproportionately impacted by US sanctions they can apply to the SEC for a waiver. A small, lonely dev will probably be ok.

And github & Co will then invest money to not blanket-ban, but make exceptions for this individual? I have some doubts.

Do you believe that Iran's cyber warriors or their critical infrastructure people host their code on github? Because if not, you're not "fighting" the government, you're fighting individual developers.

> Do you think if Github were located in Tehran that Americans would be able to post a commit right now?

I find that a very problematic worldview, as it gives you permission to do anything. There are no limits, because "what if the table were turned? I'm doing it to them, so clearly they'd do it to me, right? So you see, I must do it to them first".
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Irans government is pretty backwards. The Iranian society is and was much more open a few decades ago. Truly a sad story of development in the completely wrong direction.
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> The cost of moving to zero emissions here in the UK was estimated as being £1 trillion so it was kind of kicked down the road to maybe slightly after 2050.

Got a source?
My share of that is 16 grand (1T/63M).
Let's just bloody do it. My god. That's a biscuit, it really is.
Liver transplants could be redundant with discovery of new liver cell
If I recall right from previous thread they can still create and commit to public repo but can't delete them. They also can't touch even their own private repo anymore.
As long as hobnobs get a clean bill of health, it's all good
Ha, good additional info indeed. I took the Github post as in "if I'm in Iran but use a VPN, and set Iran as country of residence I'm fine".
Unfortunately, based on preexisting cases it really doesn't make much of a difference, the liars will still deflect the blame and the logs will always be "wrong".
3.8 won't be released until late October (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0569/). 3.9 is a ways off.
Not consistently, no. The UK and Ireland have the highest levels of obesity in the EU15, but Germany and Belgium are low-ish.
Github (and Microsoft) are US companies, not disinterested arbiters of good and bad who have come down on the side of the US.
> The laptop was seized due to his sexcapades, then discovered to have much more interesting data.
> Anthony Weiner's wife is Huma Abedin. She was deputy chief of staff to Clinton. Somehow, his laptop had come to contain lots of classified emails to/from Clinton.

I am aware of the facts (and Abedin "was" his wife). The FBI eventually established that the "new" emails were either personal or duplicate of already known emails.

You seem to be implying (correct me if I am wrong) that:

- Abedin was using Weiner's laptop to write the most "damaging" and "interesting" emails to Clinton,

- somehow, the emails sent to/from Weiner's laptop escaped months of extensive investigations by the FBI,

- somehow, the emails got erased from everywhere else apart from from Weiner's laptop and could be found only there (that's not how email works),

- somehow, in their criminal conspiracy, Clinton/Abedin forgot that Abedin had 650'000 (according to official reports) emails from the Clinton campaign on her husband's laptop - they erased all the damaging information from everywhere else but somehow forgot Wiener's computer (which she must have used extensively to accumulate that number of messages),

- 10 days of "around the clock" work by FBI agents couldn't have possibly established that most of 650k message where either "personal or duplicative" in nature[0].

Sorry, but that's just way too much mental gymnastic for my taste.

Again, the idea that Comey's public re-opening of the official investigation was somehow less damaging, from the point of view of public perception, than unsupported and unsubstantiated leaks from NYPD just does not hold water.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-director-comey-s...
Save for the indigenous Crimean Tatars and some Ukrainians who are, although a minority, being harassed like there's no tomorrow.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/11/14/crimea-persecution-crime...
Some dictators are popular and their actions are supported by the people.
As long as the government just calls people names instead of invading them, I am completely fine with that. Progress, I guess.
Coverity scans most open-source software you likely depend on: https://scan.coverity.com/projects
Length of boom? Sustainability of boom?

The EV boom seems to tick both those boxes. Your wallet boom has only been going for a day, and you know better than me how sustainable it is.
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That's been debunked here in Norway. The major factor to road wear and tear is and has always been trucks and other heavy vehicles.

> - It does not matter how many passenger cars drive on the roads. Only heavy transport wears it down, says Arild Ragnøy at the Norwegian Public Roads Administration.

> - All the analyzes I have seen show that all wear and tear comes from the heavy trucks, zero from private cars, says Harald Tune Larsen at the Department of Transport Economics.

Source: https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/nxE5/Bare-de-tunge-kjoret...

(Also by current law, EVs will never pay more than 50% of ICE taxes and fees, for toll roads, public parking, etc.)
His name should already be famous, but it sure will be if this new battery works out.

Phones that fully charge in five minutes, then last twice as long...and can go for many thousands of charge cycles?

Count me in!
https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/19/18140799/amazon-marketpl...
this is like a parrot learning how to say 100 sentences in french. the parrot has no idea what it is saying, only that the result might generate a cracker or a grape.
IIRC the whole point of economic restrictions on the occupied territories is to increase number of unsatisfied people which could oppose the occupation from inside.
A dog's life is pretty boring. There's a lot of laying around, a lot of waiting to eat and go for a walk. A smart dog needs things to do, and it's work for you to make that happen. Talking, TV, computers, work, the things we fill our time with a dog can't participate in. My dog is in perpetual state of disappointment and mopiness, just waiting for the next interesting, stimulating thing to happen. I could train him for hours on end and he'd never get bored, but laying on the floor watching me sit in front of a computer, he can barely contain his boredom.

We had a trainer once who said the hardest thing for a smart dog to do is to just ignore stimuli. You're putting together furniture, cleaning the closet, setting up a stereo, what's that? where does it go? what does it smell like? Is this a game? Can I help?
Textbook example of the tragedy of the commons.
> If Tesla can establish their cars as almost never needing service

Teslas have quite poor reliability so far:

- https://www.thedrive.com/tech/27725/tesla-fleet-company-stru...

- https://www.thedrive.com/tech/27989/teslas-screen-saga-shows...

I'm sure Tesla will improve with time but they're not going to out-Toyota Toyota any time soon.
How do you come to this conclusion, and what exactly do you mean by "free software community"? Github/Microsoft?

There are quite some free software projects that use their own code hosting (e.g. https://salsa.debian.org). But if you don't have time for that and use github for your OSS project you are now disgusting because of the iranian sanctions?

How about gender equality? CO2 neutral servers? Why are the ones that put effort into building and improving things blamed for not being at least perfect?
Yeah, it's totally abhorrent that the US blocks people that would prefer they get wiped off the face of the earth. How dare they!!!
To cheer you up a bit - the good news is that, apparently, it only takes about 3.5% of the population to take an active stance on something to effect change

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSehRlU34w
Oh. Well your original post was saying that human nature had changed radically over the past few centuries. I mentioned the authors as evidence that the stuff they taught about human nature still applies.

When you said when we only understand them in a limited way I took that to mean you disagreed with me that the books have practical value still, and thus were not a good marker of an unchanging human nature. But that's mere contradiction of a claim, you didn’t argue anything directly to show that old authors are in fact hard to understand etc.

I don’t think it’s merely cultural continuation. We can likewise read Sun Tzu and recognize ourselves and our psyches in his stories. There is no cultural continuity with European authors there.

Perhaps I missed something?
You can burn plastics into energy or reuse it. Temperature should be high enough to avoid toxic byproducts.

Consider:

hydrocarbons -> energy

vs.

hydrocarbons -> plastic product -> possible recycling -> energy.

Plastics can also be made from cellulose. If this route is taken and becomes more popular, you could grow stuff, make it into plastics, use it, then bury it to store rid of carbon. Possibly turn plastics it into cubes and drop them into some deep place in ocean without volcanic activity where it stays inert hundreds of millions of years.
Sorry, should have stated it's a pre-release.
> but expect no fixes or enhancements from now on.

This is a common misunderstanding around the Racket 2 proposal. Racket is completely different from Python and Perl when it comes to syntax. Racket already supports multiple syntaxes over the same semantics, and is designed for people to be able to build new syntaxes themselves.

IOW, Racket 1 (more precisely: `#lang racket`) and Racket 2 will not be different runtimes, only different ways of writing what is to run. You cannot run Python 2 and Python 3 in the same process, or import a Python 2 module in Python 3 file; similarly with Perl 5 and 6. But a `#lang racket` (less precisely: Racket 1) module can be imported and run in the same runtime and context as a `#lang racket2` (less precisely: Racket 2) module.
It might be better, true (apart from the thermal limit thing in the article, that's a hard limit). But our civilization is set up for the climate of the last few hundreds of years, reflected in our distribution of cities and infrastructure.

If you were to change the sea level either way many cities would either be submerged or far from the sea they were close to since it's useful. If the precipitation patterns change the arable land distribution and ground/runoff water availability will change, the soils and landscapes are not adapted to that yet. Animal and plant behaviour will be different, but in many areas humans are dependent on them. Further out, if any of the atmospheric or ocean circulations change to a different pattern, it will change the local climates as well, with all and more of the above effects. To live in a fast-changing world is hard in itself too, it is unclear what to expect for the near and mid-future, making agricultural and infrastructure planning very hard.

So even if the end-state was preferable, the transition will be very painful, for us and the natural world.
Those stews sound delicious. Any particular nuts, or just whatever's available?

Minor nit: the best nectarines are still worse than the best ice cream. ;-)
A new alphabet is helping an ancient people write its own future
This seems like a bit of hype over very little.

Look at the graph in the article. Lithium cost $5000/ton 4 years ago. Now it costs more than $11,000/ton. The only difference is the period in between where the price of lithium was almost $21,000/ton.

Presumably the mines operation 4 years ago were profitable. Now there's all these additional mines, and demand still has the price doubled in 4 years. And yet somehow the story is that EVs aren't succeeding? I see just the opposite- EVs are succeeding so much that the industry supporting them is growing and profiting very nicely.
Note that this conference is "virtual", so no travelling necessary!
What is facial recognition – and how sinister is it?
In the UK we require a peak load of 40GW, average about 35GW.

Wind varies a lot. On May 4th in the UK it was generating nearly 9GW, but on May 1st was generating 220MW.

Over the last year it's generated 15% of the UKs electricity demand, so increasing by 10 fold would mean it could generate everything, if there was infinite storage.

Lets assume we start off with 100 lots of South Austrailia batteries - so 13 GWh of storage, and fully charge them on May 13th 2018 at 22:30.

After 40 minutes we've added 5.5GWh, but we've taken out 12GWh, and in the next few minutes it stops.

OK, lets go for 130GWh Storage - or 1,000 SA batteries.

That's great, we're doing well. Until May 14th at 07:50, when the battery is full, so we throw away the energy. That's great, we can last until May 17th - less than a week.

So we start with a battery that's got a total capacity of 10,000 SA batteries - 1.3TWh, and starts off full.

Unfortunately on June 1st it wasn't very windy, and we've been drawing down on our batteries for 2 days. The lights go off on June 1st at 10:50.

For the UK to be wind powered for the last year, we'd need
1) 10 times the current wind production
2) A battery or other storage capacity of 13 TWh -- that's 100,000 batteries the size of the one Musk delivered to South Australia.

Or
1) 100 times the current wind production
2) A battery or other storage capacity of 300 GWh -- that's 2,500 batteries the size of the one Musk delivered to South Australia.

Or
1) 1000 times the current wind production
2) A battery or other storage capacity of 500MWh -- that's 3 batteries the size of the one Musk delivered to South Australia.

I'm not sure if it's possible to get 1,000 times as much power from wind as we currently do (21TW of production, generating 57TWh over the course of the year), but it would generate an insane amount of excess energy at windy times.
>it's often really hard to go through the steps needed to improve the situation for themselves. Having others around them understand that it's a struggle, and not something they can "snap out of" is really important.

Having gone through some dark periods of my life, I'd much rather take "snap out of it" advice over the unintentionally patronizing "support". Both are the words of well-intentioned people unable to relate, but one of them mistakenly believes they've overcoming their inability to relate.
“Forcing over building of” solar is still cheaper than building a new coal or gas plant in some areas. I am positive there are plenty of people who live off grid and do not always need gas or biofuel backup.
Same. Given the vastly disproportional amount of power between the super rich and the rest, it doesn't look like any real change will happen any time soon (at least before it's too late). I think the only way real change could happen is if we have violent action - the type the results in many killed, but given how technology has pacified even the most angry, no such action will happen any time soon (until it's too late).
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I don't contest your overall point, but this calculator suggests that the actual CO2 contribution by an economy class round trip flight from NYC to London is twice that amount (2.1 tons): https://co2.myclimate.org/en/portfolios?calculation_id=22461...
Your sentence uses "they" ambiguously, FYI. Two very different interpretations possible.
I've been working on something similar for a while now called Lightbus: https://lightbus.org

Like Lahja this too is rather much in the alpha stage, but I have been using it in production for over a year now.

I mention it here in case it is interesting to anyone, interest/feedback always welcome!
> What if you wanted to buy a $25,000 car in cash from a dealership? That's not intentionally avoiding taxes. It's trying to get a better deal.

Eh? The normal way you get a better deal by paying upfront is by avoiding the financing costs or convincing them that you're closing the deal immediately - although sometimes the financing makes the dealership money at the expense of the manufacturer, so it could go either way.

All other possible ways of getting a discount for cash involve either tax evasion or fraud (e.g. salesperson gives you 5% off, writes down 10% off in the records and pockets the remaining money).

> It's not unreasonable to want to avoid keeping a lot of money in a checking account in the US.

The bank is insured, while you're not, and at risk of being held up at gunpoint by robbers or the police. Keeping a large amount of physical cash lying around incurs security costs and risks.
Have you considered that regular people that live under an oppressive totalitarian government have no control over said government and are actually just victims?