skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This loss is from (insane) government intervention, not a natural risk.
That is presuming that MSFT ever issues more stock. They haven't appreciably done so in the past 15 years, and the same trend applies for most of the DOW.

If MSFT never issues more stock, what then? Furthermore, helping to determine the value for possible future issuance seems like a very marginal benefit relative to the overall volume of stock trading.
Most homes here in the Bay Area don't have basements.
One side: making cash from your product

Other side: saving people by making security-by default for free

difficult choice I'd say, up to the values that Elastic believes to.
I have tried not to use uBlock because I understand that this is ad supported content, but Youtube is just killing me with the ads now. I don't think I'll be able to hold out. Literally every 5 minutes they break in with two commercials. It's worse than broadcast TV.
No. The CDC should be given full permissions to do what it needs to do to prevent a public health crisis.

They are the center of disease control. Part of control means this.
Some Thoughts About the Social Implications of Accessible Computing (1965)
> the $25k median salary is also incorrect (it's closer to $40k).

Not according to the government:

> The U.S. Census Bureau lists the annual median personal income at $33,706 in 2018

33.7k pretax is closer to 25k than to 40k post tax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...
In this case it's about how it interacts with OH radicals in the atmosphere, meaning other GHG stay in the atmosphere longer. So it's not a greenhouse gas, but it makes others hang around longer.

> The reaction
of hydrogen with OH radicals has a further side-effect of reducing the availability of OH
radicals with potential impacts on the build-up of greenhouse gases.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Doesn't https://lbry.tv/ host this video?
I'm very familiar with landlord-tenant and real estate laws, at least in my home state, and I remain extremely concerned about this extreme interpretation of the CDC's statutory authority.
Another guess waiting for authoritative source: it could possibly be applied when talking about the quality of a braille pattern (assuming that's something one does) :)

Also, it's a word with a definition in the dictionary and I'm sure plenty of blind people are curious about words :)
5GW sounds very much like the wars fought by various insurgent/paramilitary groups.

My experience is from Northern Ireland. The IRA and other republican paramilitary groups would never defeat the British military but would rather make the British government's position untenable through various acts of violence against a variety of target classes.

The republican motivation was as much frustration with the rights of the catholic population in northern Ireland as anything else.

The targeting was not quite free for all though.
> To the point, if you got a job purely based on such advantages as gender or skin color,

But even if someone did get a job based solely on their skin color or gender (increasingly rare in the US), there's no guarantee or even likelihood that the next random person who loses a job because of affirmative action ever got one because of his/her skin color.

To take the most obvious example, what if the losing party is just entering the workforce? How are they guilty, other than by their skin color?

No, you can't solve racism with racism. It only causes more ill will. It's not a popular opinion these days, but I'm quite sure it won't help us attain a more just, harmonious society. Only firmly rejecting all forms of racism will get us there.

In any case, it's increasingly clear these days that attaining a racially harmonious society is no longer an objective for many folks. It's all a power play, for themselves and their political or identity group.

The past 5-10 years have been utterly discouraging for someone who hoped we could move past racial thinking as a society. I was wrong to be hopeful, for a variety of reasons now clear to me.
CDC is the center of disease control. This means making measures like this to control disease.

Human lives > property.
> Did you read the part where it says that the people writing the content don't receive any of the donations?

I did, but I think there's value in just sustaining the platform. I'm worried about perverse incentives and gaming metrics if you reward the contributors. I'm sure you can imagine that going poorly. And, even without rewards, there sure are a lot of good contributions.
It does but its not the only thing it does.
Part 3: Deciding on a Tech Stack: Back End
Ironically I disagree with that, I only think the government should pay reparations because the government literally caused the harm.

Although you can argue that the gov did punish banks for not loaning to low-income individuals. I’m rusty on those details. But you get the point.
Quarkus and micronaut really should merge, they have the same goals but yet they fragment the ecosystem because of NIH syndrome. If they cumulated their human resources spring would get a real strong contender
Google tried with GAE, which is much closer to the Borg model (“I don't care about VMs, just run this code somewhere for me, and make it scale, make it automatically have access to a database”), but the world wasn't ready for it.

The world wants VMs and virtual networks and firewalls and clickable web interfaces and to run big legacy enterprise apps that MUST NEVER DIE and to fuck around with Terraform and to SSH onto boxes. This sucks, though, and Google SREs know better than to use such terrible abstractions unless forced to. The internal software development ecosystem is eons ahead of anything you can get with any cloud provider, but that sort of alien technology doesn't sell.

Kubernetes/GKE is a good compromise between something that Google sells but Google also wants to use. That, and some of the GCP versions of internal tools (Spanner, BigTable, BigQuery, ...).
Can the CDC also mandate that no one be laid off during a pandemic, or that hospitals provide care for free?

Yes.
Youtube and GCP are not the same, I mean you woudn't use AWS because your shop on Amazon could be shutdown without warnings?
You can put solar panels on most of the roofs.
Streaming HD video is expensive, that's why similar services like Twitch are owned by Amazon or have some alternative way of providing the same service like Peertube.
for(;;); is unethical.
Show HN: Toonify yourself
I suggest seeking peace with God and abandoning all hope of being gratified by the material world.
What water? Atmospheric or ground,? it still seems this would be a multi million year concern.
Turn what over to law enforcement? The ciphertext and timestamp?
Are there any limitations that you'd see fit to impose on a government that claims domain over such a large area?

What if this were a world government decision? Is that still OK?
This is not about reducing carbon within CA's borders. This is about levering CA's market power to spur changes to the behavior of multinational corporations.

A carbon tax is only effective if everyone pays. Nevada doesn't care if California pays for carbon. However, if CA incentivizes electric vehicle production, multinational car companies can sell the same cars elsewhere.
This does nothing but restrict landlords from kicking people out of their homes.

Good. Do you know how many more people died in the 1918 flu pandemic and the Irish famine due to not having housing?

All that death could've been avoided.
Punishing landlords seems like an odd choice, I’d begin with the CDC punishing themselves for testing lags and not forcing people to wear masks.

Like, imagine I have a bug in my Production hospital billing system, and instead of looking inwards, I decided to say “there is now a moratorium on car sales — they sell cars which cause accidents which land people in the hospital, to hell with the dealerships — those dealerships are investments and deserve to lose!
Does Tesla even have a status page for the online services they provide to cars? I couldn't find one.
The cheapest provider in existence runs on renewables (Hetzner Online). There isn't too much of a difference, especially for EU datacenters as they have a high excess of renewables and the energy market works in a way where you pay for renewables but just as everyone else you'll be using the base capacity generating dirty sources.
There's plenty of opportunity to discuss pertinent facts without flamebait. Threads are most sensitive to their initial conditions. If the initial condition is a blanket inflammatory statement about $group, the resulting thread isn't likely to illuminate anything. Fortunately it's entirely unnecessary to comment that way, so we can have other kinds of discussion.

Admittedly this is all subject to interpretation and reasonable people interpret these things differently. I appreciate your not jumping to the accusation of bias that usually comes up in these cases. The way I look at it, HN's influence on politics is negligible but politics' influence on HN is existential, and our first responsibility is to protect the container here.
To be fair, it’s more a B2B service than something you would expect an individual (researcher, analyst, ...) to fork out from their own pocket.
I was just thinking in terms of the morality / virtuosity discussion there. In practical terms, there are of course massive problems with enforcement and the flight of wealth, for both estate taxes and wealth taxes.
It's not like avoiding rent is a good deal for renters. They get out of paying for some number of months, yes, but they then face the likely prospect of both eviction and being unable to find new housing in the near future, which is an extremely harsh disincentive.

While there are always edge cases, I really doubt any significant number of people who can afford to pay would even consider taking advantage of this.
There is room for improvement here. Wiki could detect language preferences based on accept-language Header. "en-US,en;q=0.9,pl;q=0.8" is a pretty good indication I want English and Polish translations to be the first one listed. Alternatively/additionally you could let logged in users define sort order/preferences.

As is now I have to inject

['.vector-menu-content-list .interlanguage-link.interwiki-en', '.vector-menu-content-list .interlanguage-link.interwiki-pl'].forEach(el =>{
if (document.querySelector(el))
{
el.style = ''
let lang = document.querySelector(el)
lang.parentNode.insertBefore(lang, lang.parentNode.firstChild)
}
})
For people who truly cannot pay, yes. But a person who could pay, and chooses not to so they can take advantage of the moratorium, would be recoverable.
Sweden failed with that part, yes. But what they got right was not locking down.

Universal lockdown, ignoring constitutional rights for a second, increases the proportion of at-risk individuals who must get sick before herd immunity is reached.

If you have a population of 100 people, the HIT is 20% (assume homogenous mixing), of which half your population is high-risk and half is low-risk, you can enforce universal lockdown and end up with 10 high-risk and 10 low-risk infections, or you can encourage just the at-risk to isolate and end up with like 18 low-risk and 2 high-risk. It should be self evident which course is better.

Unfortunately the world has been tricked into viewing “herd immunity” as a dirty word as opposed to an emergent phenomenom.
Reader View is available in Firefox.
AWS does that as well, you think hardware is infinite? You will run out of instances type in any cloud provider, nothing new.
I want to say it was Richard Matheson who said that, but I could be misremembering.
The dispute isn't about whether human lives or property are more important; agreement is universal on the former.

It's whether a government with such broad, sweeping powers (which aren't among those clearly enumerated) is good for human life.
This is great for AWS compared to GCP, but what about Azure? If anyone was "the new IBM" I would have expected it to be Microsoft (but I agree, it's not).
We have a court system to decide if these decisions fall into the public health crisis prevention.

Would this pass the bar? Certainly. We have historical evidence that homelessness during a pandemic significantly increases death and spread of disease.
A democracy means no one has full permissions no matter whatever are the circumstances.
> Hydrogen fuel cells are not a source of energy, since hydrogen (H2) is not naturally found on Earth. All H2 must be generated in a process which consumes either natural gas or eletricity. Therefore H2 fuel cells are more aptly described as an energy storage system than as an energy source.

100% this.

IMHO, this is by far the biggest misconception about hydrogen among people.
While helpful, it just seems to postpone the inevitable. If you lost your job due to COVID and submit this declaration, it sounds like the landlord can make you pay the full amount when it expires or kick you out.

I guess it gives you time to find another job and get a new place lined up, though.
oh i was thinking this was going to clean (as opposed to expand) my urls.

http://instagram.com/user?importantkey=importantvalue&tracke... -> http://instagram.com/user?importantkey=importantvalue
The communist approach?
As someone "reading with the mouse" I love them until the mouseover appears over the piece of text, I was just going to read.
Anecdote time: My tenant said they were denied unemployment. They never tried to negotiate the rent. After 4 months of nonpayment when Oakland formalized my ability to offer them a "Covid19 rent reduction" which wouldn't affect their lease'd rent price on an ongoing basis I gave them a 20% reduction. 7 months later I still haven't received a dime.

I finally decided to look them up on LinkedIn—turns out they used to be a property manager, something I'd overlooked during my background check. I think they just know how long the rope is right now, and how my hands are tied, so they're using the system to their advantage ¯\_(ツ)_/
This is impressive work, thankyou. Do you know when you might add a GraalVM Native version of the Spring examples?
The ability of the government to do this, legally, should be factored in as part of that risk taking.
The continued belief in this herd immunity bullshit by people who apparently cannot comprehend basic statistics is simply beyond me. Sweden fucked up. They choked on this one, big time. Their excess mortality was far in excess of their neighbors and the Swedes know it. They killed thousands of their own citizens and did not even get the economic benefit that they had hoped for. The only morons who still think that Sweden performed admirably are right-wing Americans desperate to pretend that lockdowns don't work.
I believe that this is absolutely the case. In fact, this is kind of the point. No way we would have Wikipedia if it did demand much structure from the very beginning. I don't see it possible (and, in fact, I don't want it to happen) to enforce structure in articles that cover some abstract concept, idea or new phenomena.

But for better or worse, Wikipedia is now also a huge database of biological species, anime characters and car models. It has several million of biographies, which cannot (nor probably should) be simplified for machine comprehension, but (not universally, of course, but highlighting that is a part of the point as well) have very concrete data entires, like DOB/DOD, "simplified characteristic" (actor, mathematician, politician, imperor of Rome), height/weight for many athletes and so on. And (even though this isn't the point), amazingly, all these countless articles already follow roughly the same structure. Like, for each biography you can expect to find the circumstances of death near the end of "Life" section, but before "Legacy", and you'll find "Interesting facts" in the very end. It may seem very natural (and it is!), but the reason I'm mentioning this, is that encyclopedia also is the tool that helps the authors to structurize data. I'm sure that 2nd and 3rd dinosaur articles were very different from each other in structure. But when you are writing a 1001th, it will be pretty similar to 1000th. Even if for you personally it's the first one to write.

And it is the point that it's hard for people to consciously produce structured, machine readable data. But we want to have structured, machine readable data. That's why I think gradually modifying Wikipedia itself in a way to unobtrusively trick us to provide this data, is the way as opposed to wikidata.

There is an example to get the feel of what I mean in the last paragraph of my response to bawolff, if you are curious.
> why is there so little competition in this industry?

How would you monetize it?
I would love for good contributors to be rewarded, but I'm not sure how you do that without people gaming the system and creating worse editor politics than there are now.

However, I am sure what happens if you don't pay the electricity and networking for the servers, or have a team of lawyers protecting the overall effort. Despite it's flaws, the current system is working well by my standards.
Yes. This would go through the judicial system who would make a judgment call on it.

Think of it like an executive order, are they always legal? No. Do the courts have a say in them? Yes.
> Every nuclear power plant in the United States has been a money pit

Let's pretend that this is unequivocally true. Sometimes doing things for public health and safety costs money. It seems like the main question we should ask is "would switching to nuclear significantly save lives and improve the environment?". Most research says yes.

See e.g.:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

And since that's the case, then we can ask a new question: "Does your 'money pit' statement account for the benefits of reduced mortality and greenhouse emissions, or are you only thinking about the electric bill?"
> why in the world would we subsidize investment losses

Well, I think if you are changing the rules of the game, then you ought to compensate my losses.

The government essentially expropriating your investment is not a part of traditional risk profile.
Do what I did and emigrate to Canada about ten years ago.

We're being really polite about it but we're building a wall, also you guys are going to pay for it.
All nuclear problems tend to be political, not practical. Makes sense when every other energy source is afraid of losing to what would be the sole power source (besides some scattered wind farms, dams, and solar panels where practical) if properly done.
Hey if saving lives is a communist thing then sure I guess I'm a communist.
If this is allowed to happen, I think we're seeing the new face of government overreach. Last time it was terrorism, ans that saw a whole wave of government powers used in the name of fighting terror. And back then, very few batted an eye. Now, it's fighting disease (corona) being used to justify these things. And, like last time, suggesting this might be too far gets you shouted down for not caring about other people or not taking corona seriously. I wish history would stop repeating itself but I don't think it ever will stop.
The government is broke. They will just have to take on more debt to make the proposed business "reparations." I think it's all gone. There's nothing that can fix what has happened to this nation... from the criminal monetary policies to this situation...America is gone.
This was from two weeks ago, right? I'm not sure I'm following the significance today.
500 years is longer than most royal dynasties lasted. In China, none of the CE dynasties lasted that long, in Ancient Egypt, no dynasty lasted longer than 300 years, and in Western Europe, off the top of my head, I can think of only the Capets and the Habsburgs who lasted longer.
Becausr you imposed those losses?
The duration is not the issue that I have with the idea. Jonestown only lasted for 3 years, but caused some rather big waves with its experimental forms of government.
The court system exists. We also aren't a democracy.
PG&E and the CPUC need significant attention to come to serve the people. CA pays some of the highest rates in the nation but gets some of the shoddiest infrastructure in return. Check out slide 28 in [1] and read the entirety of [0].

[0] https://www.buttecounty.net/Portals/30/CFReport/PGE-THE-CAMP...

[1] https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/uploadedFiles/CPUCWebsite/Content/Ne...
Not to heap it on with anecdotes here, but I am also part of this group. I was working with the platform team as part of a marketing tech org that sees half the us pop in monthly visits. We were deciding between signing a long term deal with AWS or GCP. We wanted to use k8s at the time too and even realized that GCP was far superior in this space versus ECS / EKS. However support, and product lifespan was the deciding factors.

Similar factors in deciding between Office 365 or GSuite. Different products, same Google story.
Like the article mentioned, it had terrible reviews. It's a game in which the 'new and fun hybrid gameplay' ambition doesn't match the reality. They didn't screw up the marketing (lots of 'iterative' or 'persistent' shooters have become massive hits almost organically), they screwed up the game.

I don't think the premise upthread - that there are zillions of high quality games that nobody notices is really true. Yes, it's a crowded market but it's also absolutely mobbed with people looking for the next big or interesting thing - to play, to stream, to make a catchy review of, etc.
You don’t want to live in a society that is forever at risk of forced government closures. It drives up risk which drives up the necessary return for an investment to be worth it which makes starting new ventures prohibitively difficult. It makes thinking long-term impossible because you can’t risk hiring full time employees.

Here in California, my rock climbing gym, which has to pay sky-high rent, was closed down when we locked down 6+ months ago. When gyms were allowed to reopen they weren’t classified as a gym and somehow were never allowed to reopen. Now gyms are closed again anyway (thanks Newsom). It’s been like 7 months of them being completely closed while paying sky-high rent. They weren’t swimming in money before all this; rock climbing is a niche market. What was done to them is WRONG.
Which is why you move when you retire.
China’s Pledge to Be Carbon Neutral by 2060: What It Means
Ok, I guess I'm not surprised. I'm usually suspicious when the story is published on a .edu because it seems like it's often just marketing.
Can you be more creative than having one single entity make the decision for every single person? How about we leverage multiple brains from many walks of life come up with ideas, you know, like in this forum
I do it all the time, have an old (2009) laptop that's basically just a thin client to my main desktop machine via VNC.
The term is dogfooding
Yeah, it's such a depressing read.
Its really not a big deal if that's what you're worried about. Just go out of state or get some collectable car status. I'm sure there will be plenty of loopholes for enthusiasts willing to jump a few hoops. This is about changing the retail experience.

The order seems vague enough that zero-emissions could possibly include net-zero emissions but I'm not sure we know all the details yet.
How involved was he with Diablo 2? I don't know specifics, but I was disappointed by everything in Diablo 3, including the story, and I think that's due to the lack of the Blizzard North people.
Ask HN: What's your take on Tesla's battery day?
Yeah, the trend towards larger and larger pickups is unfortunate.

A small, light truck is a really useful vehicle, and the U.S. truck market is due for some new vehicles in that class.

A lot of the older used Tacomas have headed south of the border where they're used quite a bit, so that market is drying up.
Thank you for explaining that to me. I think I will continue filtering out that person for stating banalities.