skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adyen also actually do physical card terminals hooked up to an API, which for Stripe is currently invite-only and only available in the US and Canada.
In the HN hive mind, this makes solar even more deadly. With installers falling off of roofs at a faster interval, the death rate per gigawatt will grow.
I have seen it before but thats a good reminder in this case!
The inciting article fails to mention the financialization of our ecomony - lets make more money for having money!

What do you mean these serfs cant pay $2,000/ month for a studio apartment while earning minimum wage?

Note that historically, this sort of behavior on behalf of markets has preceeded revolutions - from Irish Independence to Mao's Communist Revolution.

We can stop it, if we work NOW to make the economy actually distribute goods and services.
After spending a scant few minutes looking at it, here are the things I like about this project so far:

- It has a "How and why are we different" page. In the age of "I made a meta package on top of Ubuntu and called it a new OS", it's refreshing to see a Linux distribution come right out and say "here's what we do that separates us from the other 700".

- It actually is different. Recognizing the nigh-uselessness of separate user accounts (for personal computers), embracing of simple GUI tools over terminal wankery, eschewing of the legacy UNIX file hierarchy.

- They use the ROX filer, the only file manager for Linux with AppDir support and the centerpiece of the unfortunately long-defunct ROX Desktop.

I'm anxious to find out more.
I don't doubt you're right, I do wonder to what extent everyone would understand something that looks like a physical break in might be part of that.
I don't think the author is saying that the best team only wins 1/N of the time, where N is the total number of participants. Far from it.

What they're saying, as far as I understand it, is that the best k teams (where k << N) each win roughly 1/k of the time.
That's because iOS is all just reskinned Safari. Blame Apple, not anyone else
That boggles my mind. Maybe it is just where I have worked all of my 35 years, but source and bug tracking were always at the forefront of every engineering effort. Hardware and software, didn't matter. Code and documents. Requirements and design. Everything was tracked. If you had a printed requirements document in your hands, you could look up what the current working version was, and check that against the version printed on the first page. (yes, we used to print documents, back in the days of VT220 terminals....)

Who in their right mind works without version control? Who would want to? And version control has just gotten better and better over the years. I started with SCCS -> CVS -> SVN -> GIT (with a couple of side treks into Perforce and Clearcase). Currently using Bitbucket/Jira, but have also recently used raw git/gerrit. (The organization makes the choice)
This reminds me of: https://arewesimpleyet.org/
> I note this policy is being mooted UK wide - good.

To moot is to argue, but then your next statement seems to suggest you want the policy to be rolled out across the UK? Are you for or against rolling this policy out across the UK?

I currently live in New Zealand where alcohol is relatively expensive and it has a massive drinking problem for young persons. When I go back to the UK, the problem is about the same, but the young people aren't going broke buying alcohol. I don't think it works. Increasing the price of Tobacco didn't do much to stop smoking, but vaping and preventing smoking in public areas did. Changing social attitudes to smoking is fundamentally what reduced it.

Personally, I think it's better to use the carrot and not the stick. It shouldn't be the responsibility of the state to raise people's children correctly.

I think this works in my experience. As a child, my parents would let me have a small drink with a meal. As I grew up I never felt the need to drink to excess, I knew how alcohol worked. My sibling had the same experience and doesn't drink. My younger sibling still, was prevented from drinking anything and then went crazy when they legally could.
There's an interesting glut of wind power detractors in this thread right now. Not only that, they all come off quite aggressively for HN.
Mathematicians Top List of Hottest Job Titles Once Again
California's Uber-Driver Law Hints at Go-Jek, Grab and Didi Dominoes
A French court rules that Steam must allow resale of games
KISS doesn't have different packages that Alpine doesn't have. KISS has a more recent "yet another package manager" that sill looks pristine.
"The enemy is stupid; they think we are the enemy, but they actually are the enemy!" (French comedian Pierre Desproges)
That's exactly what the author is trying to say, I think. We shouldn't put so much emphasis on who got into first place (which is mostly determined by luck) but rather investigate all techniques used by the top 5th or 10th or whatnot percentile, which is meaningfully separated from the rest.
> One cannot continually evaluate and determine worthiness (as defined by you) of all users.

Why not? Or even, occasionally evaluate and determine worthiness?
Serious question: what if the answer to "why these people are making these choices" turns out to be "culture"? As in, this is the way lots of big Scottish people have behaved in front of lots of little Scottish people for generations, and absent any opprobrium from the rest of society (which is something this law provides, in addition to its purely economic effect), it will continue that way for the foreseeable?

At that point would it be reasonable for Scotland, as a society, to decide to put its thumb in the scale through a measure like the one discussed in the article to try to reduce the harm?

Note: I've never been to Scotland, don't know any Scottish people, and certainly don't have my finger on the beating pulse of Scottish culture, so the above is purely a hypothetical! I'm just always curious to see how people who emphasize the economic causes of problems think about possible non-economic factors.
If the government allowed your neighbors to use your property as their sewer without paying for the privilege, that would definitely be a subsidy for them. We make people clean up their sewage before dumping it.

Breathing isn’t an issue only because it’s a negligible quantity. If it was more significant, we’d have to have rules around it just like we do for other human waste.
But then the app went on for years after without the required feature corrections to make it work as he wanted. Clearly that 1 hour productivity volcano drained out after existing templates were exhausted.
Alternatively you could try https://getmakerlog.com
It's free.
“...and they’d have extra wisdom and experience to boot.”

And that was the moment in the article where I realized the kids are gonna be just fine.
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coda.io. https://community.coda.io/t/firefox-support/8395/3

That's the only one I remember encountering.
Engaging politically is not virtue signaling.
If it’s part of a money making business that you own, why not?
>This could exacerbate the sort of intergenerational inequality we already see today. Compared with earlier generations, millennials have less money and more debt. Having each generation hang onto power for longer could make successive generations not only even poorer, but increasingly powerless.

20 year olds being broke is fine, 30 year olds being broke en masse is not fine. Fertility is the cruelest mistress. Well-meaning millenials are already putting off marriage/children due to financial concerns.
Daughters’ Math Suffer When They Grow Up in a Family That’s Biased Towards Sons
Amazon is now copying shoes with its house brand, unveils Allbirds clone
You've got pretty bad reviews, mostly because you seem to hide essential features behind a paywall. I can't tell which features those are because your site is not really transparent about that either, probably in a weird attempt to hook whoever is reading it on the bold "free" part of the page.

Not great.
>Look at the valuation increases: Almost 2x year to year for quite a while. I don't expect most people seeing that kind of valuation increases looking to liquidate any part of their position unless they really can't help it.

I'd rather take 2x whatever today than 0x nothing when the company folds tomorrow/in a month/in 5 years never having gone public.
Almost all of them are now only visible to people with showdead on.
Could this extend to ebooks as well?

Valve's argument that what they sold was a license and not the game feels like a distinction without a difference to me. Say I accept that. Then why can't I sell that license?
I like to log everything I do in a log file. I use OneNote for this as it is very easy to create checkbox lists.

I start the day by creating a new day title with the date and then add empty checkbox items for the things I want to get done, then I move over stuff from the previous day that I did not get around to yesterday.

And I also have a list at the bottom for stuff I need to do eventually but is not a priority, I review this list every morning as well.
> There comes a time when YOU would strap on a bomb belt. Just imagine that They killed half your family and then goes on telling you they will continue doing it...

It's not that hard to imagine - after 9/11, people did enlist themselves to go and start shooting at others, sometimes with the consequence of dying themselves, believing it is for the greater good.
Some people call it "hater news" for the tendency of people here to be negative on new things, though in my experience it's not as bad as other sites.
I think that this, i.e. with request and element filtering, is how it works the majority of the time. However, uBlock Origin can (and sometimes does) inject arbitrary scripts into the page. They can it "scriptlets", see this link: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax#... . You can see some usages in the "uBlock Filters" filter list included with uBlock Origin. I think it's more the exception rather than the norm, but it's there.

My fear is that if extensions are crippled and mainstream ad-blocking standardizes on those kinds of restricted "content blockers", it's possible for ad companies to implement an effective technical bypass for them, since they can execute arbitrary scripts, but "content blockers" can't, unlike extensions. You would need Apple/Google/etc. to play the ad-blocking arms race, and they probably won't have incentives for it.
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"mooted" here means "considered". The authorities are considering extending this policy from Scotland to the whole of the UK. brianmcc is in favour of this.
I am as American as they come but wealth as reported by this article is a false metric. The Swiss have an amazingly high quality of life and standard of living. For most Americans, I don’t think our quality of life is anywhere near what it is in Switzerland.
That's a cool font! Have you tried Operator by Hoefler Text?

Source: https://www.typography.com/blog/introducing-operator
Yes, the marketing of heroines preceded them and is generally harmless (protests against "Wonder Woman" notwithstanding).
That is an excellent summary, and I _highly_ recommend everyone go read Michael Pollan's "How to Change Your Mind". I actually recommend the audiobook, as it is read by Pollan himself.
mooted also means suggested.
The link on their full site, which I found a bit easier to read: https://www.npr.org/2019/09/20/762430305/it-gets-to-you-extr...
I absolutely love the overall objectives here!

Unfortunately I can't see a reason to use this over Alpine Linux, which is also quite simple and minimal and has been around for a while and works fantastically well.
Of course. And? The implications of that hypothetical are surprising only to a very few with out of mainstream belief systems. Of course it’s worse when it happens to us than when it happens to someone else. The point hardly bears mentioning.
Using CD4ML to evolve without bias
I’m talking about a garbage company because they’re an example of a polluter that can’t just dump their pollution wherever they feel like, and their pollution is much more visible. It’s not an analogy, it’s an example. Polluters aren’t analogous to companies dumping trash on your property, they are companies dumping trash on your property.
My first engineering job, 1984. All source code was in version control (SCCS wrapped in some tracking tools) and all bugs were tracked. By 1989 we were doing root cause analysis on all defects.
Part of the problem is the fed has tried to raise short term rates while the rest of the world has had a zero interest rate policy. Meanwhile, the US interest rate curve is inverted. So banks, who typically lend long and borrow short get squeezed. So even if the fed is targeting 2% rates, but the 10 yr is at 1.5%, a bank really shouldn’t be borrowing from you at 2% to lend it out to someone else at 1.5% on a ten year loan.
> 13 percent worked at home full time.

That was really surprising for me. Maybe it's that area's unique situation. I know quite a few people working remotely, but for an overall number, I wouldn't guess above 5%. It's great that the number's raising.
Why would Apple care if Mac users used a none Safari browser? Apple doesn’t lose a penny from users switching browsers. As far as iOS, no matter which “browser” you use, you’re still using WebKit.
Agreed, correlation is not equal to causation. I think alcohol, drugs, mental illness and suicide should all be looked at together (at the very least). I suspect they might be just moving the problem elsewhere. Of course their statistics on drugs abuse will be approximations because people won't want to share their illegal habits.

I was told a funny story from my Russian friend where they introduced some law to prevent people buying hard liquor after 10pm to curb alcoholism. He was quite amused to see people running into the shop at 9:55pm with a trolley and back out just before 10pm with a trolley full of hard liquor.
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So, if I understand things correctly, the change is from “browser passes URL to blocker, blocker runs arbitrary code to decide whether to block it” to “blocker passes description of URLs to block to browser, browser runs code”?

In the (somewhat) analogous case of antivirus tools, that change is from using heuristics to detect viruses to using fingerprints. I’m not sure that makes much of a difference there (but possibly I’m wrong)

Also, the risk here is lower, so not taking the risk to run arbitrary code in exchange for somewhat better ad blocking may be the better choice.

So, what are real-life examples that the uBlock Origin currently blocks that new blockers won’t be able to block?
I'm not sure he would have a choice if asked to, nor would he be allowed to say anything else.

He still could be correct, but his status makes it hard to simply believe what he says outright.
So long as it’s not sold. It’s happened before - a popular ad blocker is bought up for millions of dollars by an ad agency, and turned into an already installed vehicle for new ads.

I see nothing about “free and open source” which prevents this.
> powershell

Imo bash and posix shells are too verbose. I have to learn 10 different little programs that have extremely different syntax instead of just learning powershell.

> package manager

https://scoop.sh/
Wow, whiddershins, those are some baseless comments.

> How exactly does the reporter know which people are IS fighters?

You aren't reading carefully at all. The reporters are quoting Afghan officials. The reporters are quoting American officials. Afghan officials have indicated at least 30 civilians were killed and 40 were injured in an attack that accidentally targeted farmers and laborers. American officials "are working with local officials to determine the facts."

The reporters have not made the claim you are attributing to them.

> The idea the United States might accidentally kill some civilians is somehow morally outrageous, but the regular and deliberate targeting of civilians by the Taliban and the IS as they attempt to completely destabilize the Afghan government is taken as somehow normal?

That's a strawman, and you ought to avoid that sort of thing. (edit: although you've suckered some people into arguing about it. kudos!)
Yes - per liter of pure ethanol. If you buy a pint of regular lager beer you are buying basically 0.56L times 5.2% alcohol which is 2.9 cl pure ethanol, or as a brit would some times say "about 3 units". So a minimum proce per unit is the same as a minimum price per litre of pure ethanol. The minimum price per liter of ethanol is 100x the minimum price per unit (since one unit is 1 cl pure ethanol).

The reason this is so fantastically confusing is because sometimes even regulators use "alcohol" to refer to the drink, and not the ethanol.
Google is investing $3.3B to build clean data centers in Europe
New surveillance tech means you'll never be anonymous again
If you’re using iOS - you’re always using the rendering engine that came with your phone.
Seni Sulyman explains what's happening at Andela
> The only remark I have regarding code quality is that the word splitting warning is disabled for the entirety of kiss: I would have disabled it on a per-occurence basis.

There are 8 occurrences of word splitting in the source, each and every one is intentional.

I also enable all lint errors when working on the package manager itself (to catch any unintentional word splitting which may slip through my fingers).

The ideal goal is to reduce the word splitting count to zero though! :)

(I'll go ahead and make the change you're suggesting until I do remove all word splitting).
For important stuff like that, you want an active and affirmative response. You can't rely on an incidental reply.
" they are more secure in that they can't possibly collect your browsing history (not that uBO does), but lack the level of customisation and power that a regular blocker like uBO can provide."

Quite the spin to make a negative a positive.

"Privacy" is the new buzzword.
Is this common practice? I assume they’re being built closer to the arctic.
Sphinx Search has an engine plugin for MySQL
> I see people giving up on searches because they are not able to formulate what they are looking for

In fairness, a number of things I've read about here on HN and experiences have led me to believe the quality of search engine results has declined as well
“This was a horrible accident, but you have to realize there are probably some very bad people they intended to target and the US doesn't blow up random Afghan farmers for fun and games.”

We wouldn’t accept this excuse in my hypothetical, so we shouldn’t accept this excuse when we’re the ones murdering dozens of innocents.
This isn't going to cause any meaningful fragmentation because, simply looking at its goals and features, very few people will find it usable at all, and those who do will be an extremely small set of highly technical users.
It's hardly the fault of capitalism that lots of people do not believe in human responsibility for climate change. I wouldn't advise to force people into complying with your vision.
"... just one huge mega-city that fabricates all of its needs, ... "

Plug for "Girl's Last Tour" anime/manga.
Normally nothing, but Google employees are usually so woke about the identity politics. So it is relevant in this context.
Of the major distros I feel Arch has one of the best KISS implementations of systemd. For my use cases and system admin style, I'm really glad they made that decision.
USSR collapsed. I already won.
>So what do you mean by "worthy"? Higher market share or some missing features?

The former, I also use Firefox as my main browser (and have been doing so for a long time). I worry that it may not survive in the long run if its market share remains so low.

That being said the latter might also be true for Mac users as apparently it suffers from performance issues (it's even mentioned in the Github issue linked). Fortunately it seems that it's going to be fixed in the not-so-far future.
You left out #3, tighten lending criteria and raise interest rates on loans to increase income per dollar lent and reduce volume of lending, which also improves liquidity.

But, yeah, if you are flush with cash and don't own a home but want to, #1 & #2 sound great if you consider only their first order effects on you.

#1, especially, is a huge brake on the economy (as is it's close relative #3). Which probably also has a negative impact on you, unless you are living entirely off of a pile of cash previously earned.
This is not correct. Resistive losses are linear with distance. There are some other issues such as getting out of phase, which can require a transformer (and its associated losses), but there's absolutely nothing exponential.

For the basics:

http://www.learnabout-electronics.org/Resistors/resistors_03...
As long as you launch an object capable of aerodynamic control (glider), you can compensate for wind by launching with excess energy/speed. Launching could be easy by a catapult of a couple hundred meters (50m distance for 100m/s speed gives 10g, 200m distance for 200m/s gives those same 10g.

My best idea would be a flywheel, because for 5kg mass (including a sled/rope), and assuming force-limited operation, you'd need 100kW peak power at the end for the 200m long 200m/s exit speed installation.

Spin the flywheel, and engage a clutch to connect it with a winch that pulls the sled via a (Dyneema) rope. There are magnetic clutches that provide precise control over the force, allowing it to run the glider/rope near their structural limits.

Rough, back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest viability of 25m long catapults that launch suitable freight at ~200m/s, but "suitable" here means ~100g, likely requiring fancy rigid foam fillers for the box and limiting to sufficiently solid freight.

If you figure out how to dig a 100~400m deep, 2~3m diameter hole cheaply, you could save massive horizontal space. Launching out of an elevator shaft of a highrise or on the wall of a tall building could be practical, too. Just drag a thin rope up behind the sled, and use it to pull the main rope back up. The sled should be far too light on it's own. Click/hook in the next glider, while getting the flywheel back up to speed. This should allow 10~20s spacing on a single sled/guide, and up to ~2s if you robot-mount the glider fast enough to the next sled on an array of parallel guide rails. As soon as one glider clears the launch space, the next one could be moved in. That'd be important to the economics of building / converting a tower for such a use case.

And even if the contents require long (and thus horizontal) catapults, it might be feasible to launch the empty glider from much smaller (50m vertical would also solve most clearance issues) facilities to use most of the range for actual delivery.
Somehow all those groups managed to get by without email in the past. I'm sure they would be fine today as well.
You don't even have to go that far - imagine China flying combat drones over US territory.

The US is a military power house, and they use and abuse this power to maintain their ways of life, no matter the costs to others.
How is bringing up something from the past anti-free market or anti-authority? And how does it preclude a person from being able to defend themselves?
The money quote: "The price of 39.65 pounds per megawatt-hour ($49.70) was 31% below the level in a similar auction two years ago."
There's always https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8098
You must pay at least a certain amount of money for a certain mass of ethanol.
The minimum price of any container of ethanol is determined by how much ethanol is in that container.

In Ontario, Canada, it works differently. They attempt to apply different minimum prices to various broad categories of alcoholic drink (beer vs wine vs liquor).