skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While subsidies are one cause, another cause is demand response problems:

Imagine you have a greenhouse factory producing strawberries. The strawberries come out of the factory on a conveyor belt. Now, you can't just turn off this factory easily since it might take a week to get it up running again and you don't have any storage, so what happens when nobody wants your strawberries for a day?

You pay someone to take them.

And yes, it happens to physical products too, e.g. household electronics - you need to pay someone to scrap them.
Typing the Technical Interview in TypeScript
> Barr seems so intent on trying to change technology in such major ways as this

He's not saying that. He's asking for a discussion on how the laws can be adapted for the current world. In the video of his speech, he specifically says they haven't made up their mind on how it should change. He's simply bringing up the points on how the current law is a bit outdated for the current world.
I really miss the more technical blog posts that OKCupid used to do like this... then after selling out to Match Inc, they wen't through that weird woke period... and radio silent for over a year...

The technical insights were far more informative in terms of dating trends.
The original question is if you curtail the ISPs rights here, under what legal framework are you not curtailing the rights of NYT/Wikipedia/etc.

Pornography in law is famous because it is one of the few 'I know it when I see it' situations. While certainly the law lacks the rigor we enjoy in technical fields, it is a rare circumstance where that is the legal basis of an opinion.
Do you live near a university? Or somewhere with a lot of job/population growth? People who move buy new mattresses.
> However, this doesn't even look like 90%...

Are you saying that 90% of rental through phone are made in area without data service?

I'm a big user of Communauto in Quebec, which is a similar car sharing service but does have a key inside (I'm pretty sure they do have the same issue of unlocking the car though, but you take and release the car at the same spot, so the unlock will work at first for sure, and afterward you should keep the key). 99% of my usage with them has been done with data coverage. I only used it once without cell coverage and funnily enough I may have stressed them a bit because I was close to the border and it lasted 48 hours ;).
As usual it involves making questionable fashion choices
My district uses that excuse, and the logical answer is to swap elementary and high school start times.

In my district the HS start is 7:20, middle at 8:05, elementary at 9:00.

Any parent will tell you 9:00 is a crazy late time of the morning for a kindergartener.
See below, people are saying this.
> In fact Germany even recently invested in new coal powered plants.

Any sources on this? In Australia in the past few weeks Germany is given as an ideal example of a country decommissioning all of its coal mines and power plants.
This was an interesting comment to me.

I'm pretty anti-advertising, but somehow "cookie wall" just struck me as an absurd request. But when I think about it, cookies are kind of the engine powering advertising, so wanting to be able to avoid a cookie actually should strike me as reasonable.

Best of luck to you. Atlasobscura doesn't really seem like a place I'd be worried about this kind of thing, but then again I don't know anything about who they are or which affiliations they hold.
I don't see why it would not be a problem here.

I could easily post a libelous but interesting comment here that I'm sure that no moderator or no HN user would recognize as libelous, so it isn't going to get buried.
Firefox just suggested the following article to me a minute ago, actually...

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/brain-scans-reveal-why-ni...
Show HN: Yabc – open-source Bitcoin tax calculator
No parcel carrier will allow me to mail my cardboard box full of loose fish guts. They turn me away because the box is wet and falling apart and smells terrible. They find the content I want them to ship to be objectionable, and it would negatively affect their ability to provide service to their other customers.

I'm not sure if that is a great analogy for what Twitter et al. are doing in regards to content policing, but there is some kind of argument there.
It was a lot of fun working through this, figured I'd add my gist to verify it: https://gist.github.com/dfee/df3b2cdd68761f154ac290c79968f30...
Those regulations and their effectiveness have nothing to do with your being able to personally track flights around you. Indeed those regulations were in place and effective long before there even existed a means for you to obtain the tracking data you now regard as somehow essential to those same regulations.
Yes if you analyze it thermodynamically heating via natural gas is terrible. You're taking a high quality source of energy (a flame at 3500 degF) and turning it into the thermodynamic equivalent of garbage (hot air at 70 degF). All the work it could have done (say generating electricity) is tossed.
since I let my Tesla 3 drive I have to say, what is out in public is damn shy about what it does and will slow down for curves and the traffic aware cruise control seems to have a second sense. On the open highway if you are navigating on autopilot you can let it change lanes on its own but I still like to control that because I think it doesn't do it as soon as it should; I usually use the must confirm mode. It does react well to people who cut in and my car has dodged someone merging into my lane. Going to be interesting if there is any change to driving when the computer gets upgraded next week.

frankly I don't think any of the teams who have demos are as close as they hint they are. there are just so many exceptions that it becomes maddening.

look, people road rage over the driving habits of others and the computer while it won't road rage has to react to those who infuriate others with their driving either because its reckless or just bad driving

some of my favorite conditions....

people stopping to let you out, how does the car know? people going out of order at an intersection?

* I do not let it drive where I think the situations are complex and obviously it does not have the ability to respond to traffic signals or make turns at intersections.
Overdrying clothes damages them. Hang-drying clothes increases the clothes' longevity.
The losers in this bang bust of pretending to be billion dollar industries are always the stock market investors which includes mutual funds and hence the common people.

Keep pumping money until we can list it on the stock market. Find the sucker investors and wash our hands off the investment. The greater fool is ultimately the retail investors on the stock market.

Big vcs have already made their mark-up. It's up to the mom and pop investors to pickup the baton and run
i.e. the 'hey I'm a billionaire / bond supervillain' look
I wonder with the recent work with polygenic score of intelligence if eventually an estimate could be made for Neanderthal IQ.
There's a lot that can be done with renewables without nuclear or fossils, you can use demand response, batteries, hydro storage, and compressed air storage to store very cheap electricity.
There is I think a little bit of an ethical grey area in buying, trying, and returning a thing in the hope that it’s not worth their effort to ship it back.

I can’t really say that taking a company up on a free trial counts as wardrobing.
The Boston plan was to start elementary school kids at 7:15, which is why parents were complaining about forcing young kids out of bed at 5:30-6:00 am. Not an unreasonable criticism, I think (there were also complaints from working families that they'd have to pay more for after school childcare).

But you're right that part of the problem was that there was no interest in spending more on transportation (or in generally improving the poor state of transportation). I'd say it's also worth questioning why we insist that all students need to go to school at the same time. The education system seems needlessly rigid (though I suppose imposing a certain amount of conformity is one of its goals).
I'd still pay the cost, because energy is cheaper than my free time.
> How much does that "illegal and harmful" content help their bottom line? Is it making 50% of their income? 10%? 1% or less?

The problem is that nobody actually has that data (and they'll claim your point is invalid unless you have the data, which only they even have the potential to gather). Google and Facebook will tell you it's very low, but since they're ignoring reports of malicious apps on their platforms and restoring scammy ad campaigns after they've been reported and taken down internally, what they consider bad content is likely much smaller than reality.

Honestly, with both the amount of flagrantly malicious content I see on Google and Facebook ad platforms, and the network effects that their participation has on bidding for placement, I would suspect that these companies are nearly dependent on malicious content for profitability.

Another huge point is that a lot of legitimate advertisers are paying just to protect their brand from having scams placed above their own site in searches for their trademark. This is pretty close to an extortion racket.

I think there’s a Big Short level event on the horizon where we discover some of the top valued companies on the planet are built on a lot more of this than they’ve let on.
Good point.

I was thinking China, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, etc.

But then, in the EU, you have the Right to be Forgotten ;)
In most places the energy company owns the poles and the municipality grants them the right to be the sole energy provider. The access to the pole is limited to the cable company and the phone company(around here spectrum[cable] and cincinnati bell[phone]). The other option is satellite. Municipalities require payments for each lot that the company services whether or not they have a paying customer. These companies are given exclusive rights to access the poles.(Source=widowed spouse of TCI VP)

I imagine if historically cable tv and phone were transmitted by the same technology or company, there would only be one company allowed access. Since these were historically separate, they are granted access to the poles. Technically this is not a monopoly given that there are two different providers. It is monopolistic in my view. I have yet to live in an area that has more than two companies with pole access.
I’m amazed that someone would think that the investment banking division would be an appropriate trial. I don’t know about long breaks but that seems like a crew that definitely puts in over 8 hours a day.
For static site hosting there are a ton of "good enough" free options these days like GitHub Pages, Netlify, etc.

For pure VPS, there are cheaper options, especially if you don't need a ton of customer support like DO offers.

For example, buyvm.net has a VPS with 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM, 20GB SSD, and unmetered bandwidth for $3.50/mo. DO's cheapest VPS is 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM, 25GB SSD, and 1TB bandwidth for $5.00/mo.

Digital Ocean does offer a ton of value in other ways - support, uptime SLA, and other managed products...

Edit: Check out https://lowendbox.com/ to find cheap VPS providers.
New Mexico Sues Google over Children's Data Privacy
Aren't enterprises that spend millions a year the niche and not the other way around ?
The technology that enables Mandalorian
Chrome? Not just no, hell no.

Wake me up if they let us set Firefox as the default.
New Application Manager Brings GitOps to Google Kubernetes Engine
Hypothesis I would like to test one day - does the increase in calories (and therefore additional energy used to produce food) to heat your body offset the energy saved by reduced heating. Start by assuming person living alone.

Then could take it a step further increase number of people and take into account the body heat of each person (people produce alot of heat + water)
a sad but true story. there are - hn commentariat included - adults, some of whom earn “large salaries”, yet at the age of 30-40 live in shared accommodations and with flatmates. some of them are software engineers and earn what to some may appear a large salary. equally bad, some spend more than half of their income for a property they will only be able to enjoy very late in life due to long and expensive mortgages payed by selling their most beautiful years. this is pretty much what corporate socialism leads to. pathetic.
The irony is that dryer sheets promise "spring breeze" scent and have pictures of clothing hanging on a line outside.
"I'm not saying we won't get our hair a little mussed."
You’re right. But this is pure satire. The joke is that the white plains-folk are way dumber than Sheriff Bart. It’s a mockery of how stupid racism is.
Eh, my reputation will survive. I should just out-SEO my younger self with awesome technical content or news articles about my startup :P
Assuming a successful outcome, VC deals are actually more expensive. They cost founders and common holders much more in potential returns. Don't forget about the dividends associated with preferred shares. Those shares are basically earning interest, just like debt.

Given that nobody expects to fail, why wouldn't a company do debt if they can afford it and are credit worthy?

And the bad outcome for both is the same: the company goes broke.
Wolf 359 has a rather storied history in fiction. I would guess more people are probably familiar with the reference in Star Trek: The Next Generation than in the Elite games. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars_and_planetary_systems_in...
Actually, I ran into this just the other day with Alibaba's earnings [1]. From their definitions:

> Adjusted EBITDA represents net income before (i) interest and investment income, net, interest expense, other income or loss, net, income tax expenses and share of results of equity investees, (ii) certain non-cash expenses, consisting of share-based compensation expense, amortization, depreciation, operating lease cost relating to land use rights and impairment of goodwill, which we do not believe are reflective of our core operating performance during the periods presented.

> Adjusted EBITA represents net income before (i) interest and investment income, net, interest expense, other income or loss, net, income tax expenses and share of results of equity investees, (ii) certain non-cash expenses, consisting of share-based compensation expense, amortization and impairment of goodwill, which we do not believe are reflective of our core operating performance during the periods presented.

So yes, EBITDA - D!

[1] https://www.alibabagroup.com/en/news/article?news=p200213
Savings Plan Update: Save Up to 17% on Your Lambda Workloads
Throw shoes at Ellison. 10000s of shoes with flyers in them about FSF ;)

This is just another iteration of BSD vs UNIX.

This is so silly. It's like every toy compiler has to pay a license because it looks like "C", even if you make money and other software with it.

As long as they did not "literally" steal the code, I don't see any reason to bother with Oracle's defense.

The same thing happens with MPAA and others, where the actual creators hardly get much but "abstract" corporates get a lot. How long should the copyright law hold? No more than the lifetime of the author. They have made a corporation an abstract person, giving it all sorts of inalienable rights. Lulz ... if that's how you want to go, every time someone in a company commits suicide, the entire corporation needs to be charged with murder and the entire team needs to be thrown in jail and be charged for murder. Every privacy violation would be espionage charges .....
Anywhere, given requisite extradition agreements.
We are decommissioning them. The plan was quite badly executed.

Basically, in order to set a deadline, politicians decided to compensate power plant owners for their losses. Problem is: suddenly, all power plant owners came up with very optimistic plans on how long they would’ve kept each plant running.

This would’ve been acceptable to a certain degree if the plan to shut down plants was aggressive to begin with. However, the phase-out plan is largely in line with the plant’s lifespans anyway, so we’re not actually shutting anything off very early.

Reactions have been very mixed, to say the least.

On the bright side, it does close the discussion around coal energy once and for all, but for an unnecessarily high price.
Founder of RudderLabs (RudderStack now) here. You nailed it - Control, Cost & Privacy (Data-Ownership) are the main drivers we have seen in people adopting us. Kind of related to Control is the whole drive to adopting open-Source technologies. We engineers always wanted open-source but increasingly larger enterprises are interested too - maybe to avoid vendor locking or maybe just because cool engineers (who grew up adopting open-source stuff) are finally getting into decision making positions.

Shameless plug - we wrote a blog on setting up an Open Source Analytics Stack with one of our deployments highlighting these issues.

https://dev.to/rudderstack/how-to-build-an-open-source-analy...

PostHog looks awesome!! Congrats on your launch. Would love to collaborate and share notes.
The problem for industrial states isn’t that the people can’t afford to move to San Francisco and become programmers (good luck with that plan, even with low housing costs), it is that the local factories shut down and moved to China or Mexico or wherever labor is cheap and regulation is nil. If they still had their middle class manufacturing jobs, they wouldn’t need to move, and they’d have healthcare. So it is at least partially globalization’s fault.
This is very clever and useful, but not everyone will do it. I agree that this is best thing, and if we all get together and have open access points, with no password and even same name, would be amazing. We tried to get this same thing your are doing, getting people on board with incentives. So people connect for free watching an ad, or pay a very small fee to use the network everywhere. So you will get some extra change at the end of the month to help pay for your connection and why not, make it faster so network becomes more reliable.
I got the “Edow 10 inch firm foam mattress” and it’s perfect for me. It will probably last a long time too. It’s firm though so not everybody will like it. I would go to a mattress store and try out a firm foam mattress first
State of Clojure 2020
No.

There are different views about what inflation is, and certainly, monetary inflation is a way more useful measure than price inflation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_inflation
Small sites would be absolutely devastated because the threat of being held liable for user comments will be way too large of a risk. Small networks don't have the resources to pre-moderate comments or build sophisticated automated systems of identifying high risk content. How many people would host their own site when the consequences of user-submitted illegal content being posted could mean millions in liability? Very few, if any. The result is that large players are the only ones that can survive in a market where companies are held liable for user submitted content.

Maybe if by "small" you're talking about dozens of people. But I fail to see how comparably small sites like Hacker News could continue to exist without section 230 protections. It'd probably take fundamental changes like charging users a subscription in order to pay for enough moderators to pre-moderate comments and submissions and I am unsure if that's even a viable approach.
This technique will produce potentially significant rendering artifacts in the final image. The backdrop is correct only from the position of the camera. A reflection from any surface will not be geometrically correct (as seen by the image from the article) I think that even ambient lighting would contain noticable deformations.
The title is misleading. This doesn't sound like it will do anything to help make crypto safe for those people who need protection from government backdoors and key escrow.
His point isn't that individual items are more expensive. His point is that necessities in broad categories have grown in price faster than the median male worker's income. It can be true that the Dodge Caravan (and all other cars) are cheaper today when adjusted for inflation, and the amount of money spent on transportation has grown faster than wages. The retail price of a Dodge Caravan does not include the higher cost of gasoline, longer commutes, rising toll fees, or increasing car loan terms.
Depends, I have fuzzy search decades of command history, that's not a trivial, and it's more intensive than basic reverse search.
I watched that video, it doesn't really seem like the same thing in this article (although it's very cool). This is a real screen behind the actors rendering the scene from the perspective of the camera
That's an additional problem, not something that cancels out the other expense.
It means the police are not falsifying records of drug seizures to make them hit any of the statutory thresholds. They may be falsifying them in other ways but this can’t be verified one way or another by this data.
Some huge percentage of Western mass media is illegal under Saudi law.
I lived in one of those areas in the 90s. We had dial-up. I was incredibly happy when we moved to the city and were able to get broadband. I was shocked when I found out a friend who lives in my city today was still operating with broadband. He complained about his wife having trouble using voip while watching netflix, so I suggested he upgrade his router or move it. When I went over to install the new router I found a broadband modem...! His street is serviced by the same companies as mine. He is in an arguably affluent neighborhood. He had to switch companies to get to 50mbit+.
Boomers
search for "Datteln 4"
Isnt it possible to use a virtual company like Xolo at the beginning?
It’s an interesting thought experiment, what is harder for society?

-Going to bed earlier?
-Rescheduling everything to be later?

As we know from many parts of Latin America and other equatorial countries, the eventual result is dinner at 9 or 10 pm.

I have no idea what is better...
> alas they loaded it onto the standing charge that is a flat rate per day for having a supply.

Not true, source: my electricity bill. A standing charge exists, but the vast majority of what we pay is per kWh.

The part that you misunderstood, I think, is that the EEG is fixed per kWh and not per euro paid (just like most of our fuel taxes, even if crude doubles or halves in price our price at the pump only shifts a little). The article was quite misunderstable, bordering on wrong even, in that part because it reads as if market rate had any influence on German electricity bills and only the EEG charge was fixed. In reality, it's impossible for a households to get a contract that follows market rate, you always pay the same per kWh no matter if it's Sunday or Monday, windy or calm. The electricity spot market price is only relevant for utilities and for a few heavy industrial users with special contracts (the kind of heavy use where you'd be mandated to give the utility a heads up before increasing or dropping the load).

This will have to change eventually, because load shift is so much mow efficient than storage, but it's difficult to implement because you can't really have both constant rate and variable rate in parallel due to an abundance of bad actors who would have both and ruin the pricing models by opportunistically switching between them.
> But even Macron wants to reduce nuclear % in power production of France.

What? Why?
People playing speed chess (presumably) get fixated on improving their Elo rating by the next 100 point span, leading to spikes every 100 rating points in the distribution: https://lichess.org/stat/rating/distribution/bullet
How is this site’s cookie notice legal. There’s no way to reject
> but see for a less hysterical writeup)

See where? Did you miss including another link here?