skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wouldn't say it was exactly left behind, because the average consumer will not really benefit from anything over 1Gbit. 1Gbit is already enough to saturate most consumer harddrives.

That hasn't been true for a long time. Even one single spinning rust hard drive made in the last decade can do sequential reads at ~120-150MiB/sec, which is easily enough to saturate a 1 Gbit/s link.

SSDs have way, way higher throughput for sequential read and write. Good SSDs will also beat that number handily for random read/writes.

And of course, any machine with more than 1 hard drive can easily saturate a 1Gbit/s network.

I also find it surprising that wired networking has been 'stuck' on 1Gbit/s for decades.
> Why is it so hot and is climate change to blame?

No. No more than a cold day in winter means that climate change isn’t real.
> half of those who died were aged over 75

France/Paris has a deeper problem that comes out in these heatwaves. Older people that live alone, with little or no relatives caring for them, and living in flats without air-conditioning, or have low income/pension that they cannot afford an extended heatwave, happen to pass every summer there is a heatwave in Central Europe (which lately is more frequent). I remember hearing/reading about this every couple of years about France, and apparently not much is being done to make this stop.
I wonder how solid the knowledge about this is? Are there actual studies showing a risk from "gambling games" at young age inducing gambling addiction? From your quotes, it sounds more like individual opinions that actual scientific knowledge?

Most games have a luck component, after all. Even Monopoly, to name one popular board game.

I don't like Roulette Wheels in my children's games, ad I have certainly seen things I don't like. For example "garden scapes" even sends notifications on the tablet computer, that new "loot" is available (I forgot how they called it).

Nevertheless, I see it as an opportunity to talk with my kids about such strategies.
That becomes difficult when 2 bedroom+ places are rarely built because it’s more profitable per m2 to build 1 bedroom units.
The new law enshrines the existing case-law test into statute, so if they are properly categorized as contractors under existing state law, then they are also properly categorized as contractors under the new law.

That said, if they were on on-demand W-2 temporary workers instead of contractors, then they’d probably be treated exactly like all such workers (who often are signed up with multiple agencies to receive assignments) are by their employers and not be paid when they were merely willing to receive assignments but only after they had been offered and accepted and were actually working on a particular assignment.
I don't think it's exclusive to FP. I've read many times people describing Lisp, Ruby and Python code as "beautiful".
There is also a big difference between editing the germline and somatic genome - the former can be passed on to children and descendents - clearly a much bigger change than one person.

For a genetic change to be passed on it has to appear in the male or female gametes ( sperm/egg ). So if I change your skins cells that change isn't in your sperm/egg so can't be passed on.

When you edit an embyro at an early stage you are effectively changing all cells - including gametes - so the change has impacts beyond the immediate individual.
Well, now CF will know per-organization IT structures. All those LAN-only administrative interfaces, and, with link prefetching, internal resource maps could be built in just a few clicks , using account with sufficient privileges.
This is such a security-defying move by Mozilla I can't even start. And CF DNS logs will be the obvious first step for every targeted attack.
A number of email clients will add a header line that identifies them to every email that's sent.
Just make ev owners get “emissions checks” like everyone else. Mileage can be read there.
Sorry, but I don't agree. Copyleft software compels certain things.

There's a history here and important points of distinction. The OSI and FSF are separate organizations for a reason.
I don't own an EV but I have no problem giving them a pass.

I'm sure the fuel tax these states collect at the pumps for gas powered off road vehicles and equipment more than covers the extra fees they want to charge EV's.

My lawn mower, weed wacker, kids minibike and gas generator don't use roads but still pay a fuel tax at the pump.
For comparison last winter 13,000 died of influenza in France

https://www.connexionfrance.com/Practical/Health/Flu-killed-...
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> generating a truly random dataset is really hard

IMO it's not just hard but impossible for polls to be unbiased, because people that don't like answering polls are never represented. If the subset of people that don't answer polls isn't itself following the same distribution over all possible opinions as the rest of the population the results are biased, and by definition we can't test for these correlations.
Wow, I literally belly laughed.

If a renter can't find a landlord to rent from, then what?

"Why should I care about the woes of water treatment plants as opposed to water drinkers?" Do you want drinkable water, or not?
Logical turn of events though, everything goes to human replacement by robots and/or AIs in many kind of manufactures. Total human replacement by robots is a matter of time I believe.
While I agree that extreme temperatures certainly contribute to the death of people who would not have otherwise died I don't think it's that cut and clear. In many cases of heat death there is shared responsibility. To lump them all together as heat deaths is sensationalist.

If it's 100deg out then you shouldn't be doing things that require massive amounts of PPE. If someone dies because they were improperly clothed for the cold we wouldn't allocate all the blame the cold. If someone decides to swim in 8ft surf we wouldn't allocate all the blame to the wind. Obviously there's specific situations where the ambient temperature is more to blame than not (elderly people without air conditioning being the example that comes to mind) but you can't just lump every death that could have possibly been prevented if it were cooler in as a heat death though. Sure some of them are more heat than personal responsibility but a non-negligible amount of them are more personal responsibility than heat. People need to start thinking about heat the way they think about other severe weather (people in tropical countries already do this) because at this point the climate is going to change a substantial amount whether we like it or not. If there's gonna be a hurricane you cancel your outdoor activity unless you're fine with the risk. The same applies to a heat wave.

I know that this comment combines two things a large subset of people here generally hate but it's my opinion and I stand by it.
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Why should the use of electricity be taxed differently? Whether I'm using it to charge a car or power a computer isn't of any business of the state or the utility company.

Sounds similarly to ISPs and their attempts to zero-rate sites they have deals with. You're just a dumb pipe, what I do with the output is none of your beeswax.
Only in that it’s a “bad” employment relationship.
Only a few jobs can be made remote. Do you have a remote shop clerk? Remote salesman? Remote janitor?
Remote gardener? Remote garbage collector?

The growth in jobs is not necessarily in the skilled ones.
And those are definitely not the jobs poorer people who cannot afford to rent or own do.

And there is very strong opposition to going fully remote. When you have to be in office even once a week or every two weeks, you need a temporary place still...
> They can, it just takes extra steps.

For 99% of users, that means they can't.

Luckily for them, they probably aren't allowed to use Firefox anyway, and are stuck using Edge or whatever, and the local MCSE will use this as another reason why Firefox may not be used by anyone.
How is "economists broadly agree that rent control is bad" irrelevant to a discussion of rent control?

The intention of the law is what's irrelevant. What matters is what the law will actually do. Economists broadly agree that rent control will drive down supply. Are they right? Is this law different? Time will tell. But there's every reason to be skeptical.
That process toward ever lower interest rates drives asset price inflation:

Stocks, houses, and land — everything becomes more expensive. Because the lower the interest rate, the higher the present value of future payments and thus the market prices of assets. The low interest rate policy facilitates a spectacular inflation of prices in the asset markets; a gigantic speculation bubble is pumped up.

This initially offers investors high returns. At the same time, however, the future yield prospects worsen. This can be explained as follows: Zero interest rates make investors bid up the prices of stocks and houses until the expected future returns of these assets are close to the zero interest rate set by the central bank. In the extreme case, when the central bank sets negative interest rates, expected market yields can even fall below zero.

Once central bank policy has succeeded in pushing all returns to or below zero, the free market economy is about to end. Without a positive return in sight, saving and investing stops: Because acting man has a positive originally interest rate, it does no longer pay off to save and invest. The division of labor economics comes to a shrieking halt. Replacement and expansion investments will no longer take place. Capital consumption begins, and the modern economy falls back into a primitive subsistence economy!
> This could have been handled between operating system developers and DNS infrastructure but they didn't care to.

No, there was a lot of caring over the years as DNS is old and insecure, in particular unencrypted communications with authoritative DNS servers being the biggest issue. And yet completely ignored by DNS-over-HTTPS, because solving it would likely eliminate the need for resolvers in the middle, so surveillance capitalism isn't interested, they only want to "solve" it in a such way that doesn't really solve it, but just gives them DNS data.
"there are concerns" - what exactly does that mean? Scientists are concerned? Or parents? Or religious groups?

My grandmother hat a toy Roulette table, we liked to play with it occasionally when we visited her. I don't have a gambling addiction. I even gave up World of Warcraft after 2 weeks. (Social Media, however...).

We have at least one game that sends notifications on the tablet "the Roulette guy is here again, check out your winnings of the day". Of course that is awful. On the other hand, it is presumably limited (not infinite spins of the wheel every day), and also, I can talk to my kids.
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> What is stopping any airline from simply opening fully owned subsidiaries in every country they want to fly from/to?

Historically countries would have their own airlines (more or less state owned) and thus the regulatory framework is build around ensuring monopoly rights for the one (today multiple) local airlines.

A subsidiary fully owned by a foreign entity would under this framework not to be considered local.

I can only give some example for Germany. Lufthansa, the local carrier, uses a special kind of stock ("Vinkulierte Namensaktien") [1], where each owner is actually tracked (citizenship, name, ...) and everyones ability of buying shares is subject to Lufthansa validating that with this change in ownership, the company will still be majority owned by Germans.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinkulation
The implementation of bounds checking couldn't be written any better: https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.37.0/src/core/slice/mod.rs.html#...

#[inline]
fn get(self, slice: &[T]) -> Option<&T> {
if self < slice.len() {
unsafe {
Some(self.get_unchecked(slice))
}
} else {
None
}
}

This is exactly how you'd write the feature, by hand, if you were implementing the language.

That the optimizer could, but does not, do as much optimization as it theoretically can, means that it has more work to do. But that's different than the feature being written in a sub-optimal way.
Not sure of this was a web project, but I imagine when you add an entire framework and web server, you may see less performance than a small binary, regardless of the respective language speed
They are trying to put the fast growing market of freelancers under control. I don't see it as a bad move. The market is becoming bigger every year. Eventually everybody will be freelancers. You like this videos of Yegor, he is constantly speaking about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gnDmr_H2Ks
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San vs. NAS: Comparing two approaches to data storage
France is rich country and AC might be considered in people from certain age

It's not the first heat wave and from the speed the global warning is heading, we might see many more heat waves in the near future
Not nearly as much as the 2003 heat wave; which took almost fifteen thousand lives in France alone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave
For what it's worth, Python is a strongly typed language[0] and is what the manual calls "multi-paradigm," i.e. you can write purely functionally in it[1] all you want, though it is a fair point to observe that the community, PEPs, Guido et. al. do not encourage it, and the language implementations are probably not optimized for it.

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11328920/is-python-stron...

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/howto/functional.html
This seems to be why https://github.com/veggiedefender/hn-friends and some other extensions exist.

I've got some people tagged by companies, or their interests, or names if I happen to learn them randomly (like spotting John Nagle!) It definitely makes the experience more interesting.
Reading the Amex coverage, it does address this issue
https://www.americanexpress.com/content/dam/amex/us/credit-c...

“If the item is also covered by a purchased service contract, the Extended Warranty Period begins at the end of the purchased service contract and extends the original manufacturer’s warranty for a period of time equal to the warranty, up to two (2) additional years.”

So yes I think Amex extends the warranty after (prepaid 2 year) AppleCare expires for a term of one additional year, taking coverage to 36 months.
Given that it's an open standard that anyone can implement, I'm not seeing why DoH == "Centralization and snooping"?
This thread seems to love Big Oil in ways that make me skeptical of the msg
AMD “Trusted Memory Zone” Encrypted VRAM Support Coming to Linux GPU Driver
I'm not sure if transferrable and sellable rewards make CCGs less of a gambling activity. If anything, obtaining a physical object which can be exchanged for cash, with a potential for profit, is the definition of gambling.

Non-transferrable rewards exploit the same weakness of the human psycology, but offer even less in return.

Both kinds of gambling in games should be regulated. It's not easy to define what constitutes a lootbox, and what kind of randomized output is safe. The industry will probably argue that the lootboxes are actually randomized content, not prizes.. From that point of view they sell a non-transferrable experience (service), not a tangible item (product).
This is very cool. One feature I'd like is the market share report that caniuse has for each listing.

I currently rely on https://emailclientmarketshare.com/ (by Litmus) for this but if someone's aware of a better data source, I'd like to know.
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I find a decent percentage of influencer marketing is still just affiliate marketing with a slightly different delivery channel.
People have already implemented them, yeah. Dropbox did for some of their code, IIRC.

I think having the speedbump is worth it.
Other long-form movie content - Movies with Mikey (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEtB-nx5ngoNJWEzYa-yXBg) thought provoking movie commentary with a great visual style. Patrick Willems (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF1fG3gT44nGTPU2sVLoFWg) analysis of movie structure and technique.

Music Commentary - Middle8 (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfeppgcy70ERp4gQrsYijsg) Nerdwriter-esque content focusing on music.

Besides commentary there is also the whole maker community that produces fantastically produced videos for metal/woodwork - Clickspring (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCworsKCR-Sx6R6-BnIjS2MA), This Old Tony (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5NO8MgTQKHAWXp6z8Xl7yQ), DiResta (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiEk4xHBbz0hZNIBBpowdYQ), etc
Do tell me how your $4k apartment rental, at nearly 3 times the national average rent and above market for most of NYC, is the scourge of housing markets, forcing rents up for everyone and preventing new construction.

Because that's what rent regulation's detractors are arguing, even though your empirical evidence (and mine) suggest the opposite. That's the context we're discussing this in.
Oh, sure. My point's just that a 3-4 year old design isn't a big deal, and if you're concerned about performance it's absolutely not the age to worry about.
Except that "in" would be incorrect – "with a computer", or "using a computer" would be less ambiguous than "on", but unless it was hidden inside the case, "in a computer" doesn't sound right at all.

Similarly, "reconstruct" would be less ambiguous the "find".
I cycle a lot, but bikes are a pain in that you need somewhere to park them, something to secure them to prevent them getting robbed, they're horrid in the rain and you have to ride on the road or a bike path. I can see the attraction for scooters that avoid these problems, but for the length of journey they're good for, why not just walk?
I can't speak for the OP of this thread, but I agree with them and yes, I really dislike GitHub, too.
Lisp is and was the best programming language. I moved to Java many years ago and still regret :)
The frequency of unusually hot days is going up dramatically because of climate change.
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> That's a popular misconception, but flatly wrong. Canada has the 10th largest GDP in the world. It's larger than Russia's and just shy of Brazil, a country with 209M people vs. 37MM in Canada.

https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-by-country/

Brazil and Russia are not first world European countries. Germany, France and the UK are and have a very small fraction of Canada's landmass.

> The vast majority of the country is within 100km of the US border, and frankly we've massively under-invested in critical infrastructure like high-speed rail.

My point exactly.

> Our telecoms routinely claim that prices are the highest in the world because of the sparseness of the country, and yet our telecoms are the most profitable in the world. Same for our banks.

That is due to monopolistic tendencies and protectionism in Canada.

> No, Canada's real problem is its lack of self-confidence... we still coddle our banks and telecoms, regulating to protect them against foreign competition while failing to enforce competition laws that would prevent anti-competitive behaviour within the country. We seem to be afraid of competing globally on a level playing field even though this would make us better.

Precisely.

> It's a very frustrating place to be an entrepreneur, particularly if you have anything remotely resembling a libertarian bent.

I think it is frustrating for all Entrepreneurs, which is the major reason most of them move South of the border as soon as they reach a certain size (or are acquired).
> Feudalism: the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.

Large power imbalance between the workers and those with means? Check.
Not in use since Medieval times and thus an analogy unlikely to be confused? Check

An analogy, by definition, only has to bear partial resemblance to the thing being compared. The power imbalance in feudalism and the gig economy is clear.

So no, feudalism does not mean "things I think are bad".
As opposed to letting your ISP do it.
Not sure why you're being down-voted. (As usual here, only clicking a down-vote button contributes little value.)

- You are correct that implementing markdown consistently is hard because there is no real spec. CommonMark is a spec, which helps, but a heroically thorough spec, so it's still not exactly trivial to implement.

- You are correct that markdown can escape to HTML. Indeed certain marketing email "features" probably would do this?

If I am missing something maybe someone could make an actual contribution to the discussion and explain.

In any case I think by far the most important point was made elsewhere: Google AMP is awful for the web and for email, both.

p.s. edit: Actually, I think the even more important point is that anything except plain text email is awful. :) So there, sure, use markdown or org-mode formatting conventions. Humans are pretty good at handling messy human protocols.
Not American, so my knowledge on the matter is limited. Is it that expensive even outside SF and LA areas?

Also, AFAIK, these two areas (and surroundings) are very, very stressed in terms of traffic, and more housing means more people, and more cars. Can those cities deal with more traffic?
Feudalism is joining the esteemed ranks of now-meaningless words like “violence”, “cancer”, “white supremacy”, and “patriarchy”.
> Sorry, but I don't agree.

You seem to agree, though.

> Copyleft software compels certain things.

Yes, and that's what you were complaining about and why it seems that what you really prefer is permissive licenses over Copyleft licenses.

But open source software/licenses and free software/licenses are essentially identical sets (essentially all open source licenses, whether permissive or copyleft, are also free software licenses, and vice versa.) So preferring open source over free software is meaningless, they are the same thing.

> The OSI and FSF are separate organizations for a reason.

For political reasons that have nothing to do with what licenses meet the definitions each organization establishes.
Fond of https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/alternatives-to-resting-...
How cross-platform is LXC containers? Somehow I still use Vagrant in my pet project, since I want Windows and Mac users to have a dev environment in a few steps.
One major difference to point out is that fortnite doesn’t have loot boxes, you know exactly what you’re getting when spending their online currency.

I keep hearing about the social aspects behind these games (kids who don’t have skins in fortnite are bullied at school, etc.) It sounds like goods that make a child popular are just digital these days as opposed to physical items like Pokémon cards.
That’s simply not true. Large organisations of people have decision makers, and their decisions can be predicted just as well as anybody else’s. Perhaps your confusion lies in the fact that in an organisation, not everybody is going to have equal influence over decisions, therefor your suggestion that every individual be accounted for in such predictions is pointless.
No, and yes. Heatwaves like the one experienced in Spain have been extraordinarily long. We experience heat waves all summers and they usually last 2-3 days. This one lasted 1 week. And last year we had 2 heat waves 5 days each. I am talking about ~40 degrees every day. At night barely 28. You can compare historical data here (es) http://www.aemet.es/es/idi/clima/registros_climaticos

You can look at the median yearly temperature and see how it is steadily increasing http://www.aemet.es/imagenes_gcd/idi/clima/registros_climati...
Teaching AI to plan using language in a new open-source strategy game