skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we can be pretty certain that the city of Amsterdam will do everything it can to discover and issue fines for more illegally parked cars. They're heavily incentivized to do so given that it's a not insignificant source of revenue.

Is there discrimination? Probably. But over time as the system gets better and more fines get issued less illegal parkers will get away with it. That's the goal right, to fine everyone illegally parking. It's not as if right now you can park a car illegally in Amsterdam and expect to get away with it. That's never been the case regardless of where you parked. As we get closer to catching everyone discrimination becomes irrelevant, because as enforcement approaches 100% it becomes less and less selective.

I live in Rotterdam and I don't own a car. So my priority is to see less space given to cars and for people who park cars pay more for parking. I don't actually care about discrimination because the general trend is for parking to get more expensive, and for urban areas to become more pedestrian friendly. I want more parking enforcement, fewer cars, and more revenue from car owners.

My friends who own cars are constantly complaining about parking fees and I have little to no sympathy for them. For many people in The Netherlands cars are a luxury. Most people don't need them, and if they claim to need them they usually actually don't. This is especially true in Amsterdam.

All of this leads me to have very little sympathy for any discrimination argument.
Not that different in the EU. Most member states keep track of EU citizens from birth with a citizen ID. To get a phone, you need to show said ID. There are states which keep biometrics in the ID and passports, such as face biometrics and fingerprints. Some EU states even sample DNA from the child at time of birth and keep in their records for future use.
This is the first time I've heard about this, and quite interesting to me as Article 12 of WIPO Copyright Treaty specifically requires signatories make circumvention of DRM protection devices illegal. This would seemingly be in contradiction to that. However, seems as the US, who were the driving behind this treaty, also provide exceptions/exemptions, I can see how the EU were able to justify any such contradiction.

That said, from the EU directive:

> Member States shall take appropriate measures to ensure that rightholders make available to the beneficiary of an exception or limitation provided for in national law in accordance with Article 5(2)(a), (2)(c), (2)(d), (2)(e), (3)(a), (3)(b) or (3)(e) the means of benefiting from that exception or limitation, to the extent necessary to benefit from that exception or limitation and where that beneficiary has legal access to the protected work or subject-matter concerned.

There are certain exceptions, in articles 1, 2, 3 and 4, which can be read at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL.... So there's not a blanket right to circumvent DRM; and nothing is spelt out that clearly.

Additionally, not a lawyer or in Government, however, in my lay-mans reading of this directive, I'm seeing a lot of usages of the word "may". I'm (possibly incorrectly) interpreting this as meaning a Member State can introduce these copyright exceptions, not that it's mandated as the FSFE article states.
Yeah, he would've been better off ending the sentence before that statement.
I interpreted it as getting rid off unneccesary air travel. There are multiple ways of achieving such a reduction, but not all would require a ban.

A total ban of air travel is, of course, not possible.
From the article:

> Roku is hard at work turning its TV platform into a "next-generation ad platform" [0] while Amazon has been showing ads on FireTV devices for years. Most of these platforms have also been confirmed to use ACR, just like Samsung.

https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=...)

Apple TV seems to be the only reasonable option at this point.
Impressive. But which one is your mother tongue?
I hope you have reported the issue to Apple so they can fix it ASAP ?
Lithium carbonate Li2CO3 is worth $6.75/kg

https://www.fastmarkets.com/commodities/industrial-minerals/...
He mean the owner can disable it to repair his machine, and not forced on him.
Try KA JavaScript. It's very clear, step-by-step, in-depth tutorials, around fun topics, followed by an open-ended coding environment. It seems almost ideally designed for kids.
In what world is your work not impacted by climate change? How you use energy, what supplier you use, your carbon impact, the raw materials you use to make your products, etc.. This is all part of it. Even if you don't believe in it, the fact that you don't believe in it while other companies do will impact you! You can't just ignore all those things and pretend they don't exist, as a business owner it's just entirely impossible to ignore it.
This would obviously be socially unacceptable, but airlines do already charge for weight in other ways – baggage weight, large item surcharges, hand luggage charges, etc.
I lost 40 kg at some point - then you see what they charge for baggage (yes, yes, baggage handling has costs) and think you should get a discount
Not within the next couple hundred years, even going by the worst case climate change predictions.
Yes, cancer did not exist before nuclear. We can blame cancer on nuclear plants and bombs.
That's quality commentary.
Thanks for the feedback!

I haven't worked with hex editors much. From what I see a hex editor needs to have quite a lot of features to make it useful. Do you have any specific features of a hex editor that you use a lot? I'll see if it's make sense/easy to add to the app. Thanks!
The customers in affluent countries could see they are paying €1 for the product and €2 for pollution (€1 for coal power and €1 for fuel used to ship across the globe), and realise they can buy a higher qualirlty €3 product made localy or. To higher environmental standard.
Tritium is in the fuel, and it's quite radioactive.

A 1 GW(e) reactor would burn enough tritium in a year that, if that quantity were to be released into the environment, it could contaminate 2 months worth of the flow of the Mississippi River above the legal limit for drinking water.

Tritium containment at a fusion reactor will have to be damned near perfect. This will be a major problem, as tritium permeates through all sorts of things (for example, plastic seals on containment penetrations cannot be used).
> I'm not "supporting" a scaffold if I don't help you cut it down.

Except that, in the case of society and politics, you and I are both the worker and the scaffold. You support my cutting down the scaffold by choosing to fall with it.
Firstly, thanks so much for your hard work. All I want is to run Arch on an MBP 15,1. I've given your repos on Github a try--do you have a functioning bootloader config? T2 just freezes GRUB for me no matter what I try. Thanks again
RSS Readers “Fiery Feeds” and “Reeder” Removed from Chinese App Store
If you have earned $0 from a commercial book (as opposed to a free one) then that would be a negative signal. "Your book is rubbish".
This is interesting because it's an implementation of Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM), that is a theory about how a biological brain works in terms of memory processing, why we learn in sequences, how a single memory is distributed in many areas.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_temporal_memory
He addressed the lobbying for crypto related issues in the plog post, something to the affect that we may engage in political lobbying when it relates strongly to our core mission.

That seems fair to me, lobbying for crypto and maybe even internet privacy laws wouldn't seem outside the mission to better his company but publicly declaring support for one candidate or another would. Likewise getting involved in a non-crypto centric mission like BLM would be quite far outside its mandate.
> 770,000 litres of fuel a year

Out of 15,000,000,000 litres that they did use.

Their fuel costs were $5.649 billion.

They reduced the cost to $5.649 billion.

They reduced their fuel usage from 15 billion litres to 15 billion litres.

They justified some high-paid execs salary.
> For what it's worth, Coinbase must "allow" those discussions by law in the US.

I'm not from the US, so thanks for pointing that out.

> For what it's worth, Coinbase must "allow" those discussions by law in the US.

I feel most companies think that this isn't desirable. However, as long as the complaints, and the complainers, are treated fairly, that's fine by me.
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>And the existing research projects like ITER have not even started to address these issues - they are purely plasma physics experiments.

Section 3.2 Test Blanket Module (TBM) Testing Program in ITER

https://www.iter.org/doc/www/content/com/Lists/ITER%20Techni...

Look even closer at the fusion energy research community and you will find a lot of work has already gone into this problem. Assuming physicists sit on their thumbs is a bad bet.
Conservative unease with science in the US was not naturally occurring phenomenon. It was manufactured.

Those who were ideologically fighting communism and commercial special interests in special issues met in DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, ozone layer and global warming. They were all framed as "communist plots".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt

Mindscape Episode 32: Naomi Oreskes on Climate Change and the Distortion of Scientific Facts
https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2019/02/04/epis...
I said if we applied that logic to every industry, we'd set standards of living back centuries. The vast vast majority of what humans produce and consume is not essential for living, but if we cut it all out there wouldn't be much to live for.
the same way they enforce baggage requirements. When money's involved, the enforcement will happen.

Maybe you buy "x kg plus or minus 5 kg" and they weigh you and penalize/refund if it's changed since buying the ticket.
Elon Musk says neither he nor his family will take Covid-19 vaccine
Isn't Knative for functions & serverless only? That's not my main scenario at home.
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Gotta love Elon Musk. The man is extremely brilliant and rational.
Ask HN: Do Google and Cloudflare provide data on captcha misses?
Lately, it seems to me that CloudFlare hcaptcha and Google's recaptcha have got more frequent and aggressively hard to solve, and I got increasingly tired about them, so if I get such a captcha I often abandon the website I'm trying to visit, unless it's something that I really, totally need.

I wonder whether Google and CloudFlare provide data about such "abandoned captchas", and how many people may be leaving a website because of them. I've found an article by cloudflare (https://blog.cloudflare.com/moving-from-recaptcha-to-hcaptcha/) but it's very generic.
Your high level point about universal tolerance stands - but you might like to challenge some of your object level assumptions about world religions and LGBT. Iranian theocratic leadership for example
officially does not think that being trans is against sharia and the nation carries out more gender reassignment surgeries than any country except Thailand (not that their treatment of trans people is perfect by any means).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_rights_in_Iran
Ask HN: Do you close your eyes when you put food in your mouth?
Done people pointed out that's weird what I do, how about you?
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Orion was essentially an "external combustion engine". I.e. you have a huge piston that is driven by repeated explosion of nuclear bombs. With a spring mecanism to even out the whallops. And no "engine block" around it.

It did not generate electricity, and given the discrete/pulsed nature of the mecanism, I have a hard time seeing how you would "even out" the output, should you decide (somehow) to attach it to a generator. Let alone imagining how you would transport said electricity back to earth.

Because, don't forget, it was possible to have an external combusion engine because it was in space. Even by 50's standards, the project was judged a non-starter for atmospheric flight, from environmental standards point-of-view.

The project itself was in theory viable for it's original objective (space travel), but highly impractical. It requires massive, robust structures (read 'heavy') that can resist very high impacts. Not a problem once you're into space, but you have to get it into space first. And no-one will let you blow up a couple of scores of nukes in the atmosphere, on a recurring basis. The thought of launching hundreds of nukes into space to a ship built in orbit is not exactly an easy proposition either.

Still, should an extinction-level meteor ever show it's face, it would be useful.

For fun : some original footage of the prototypes in flight (using high explosives) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Sv5y6iHUM
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The difference was when that was common, virtually all the carriers in certain countries did it because as you said it netted them more money and for a while they mostly refused the compete on it. There are plenty of competitors selling rootable phones and laptops, there’s even ones completely without stuff like Intel’s Management Engine. These are more niche, because the desire for them is more niche, but they’re by no means extinct or on the way out. The users have the option to opt for different products with the properties you want.

There is less money overall put into these products, and correspondingly less software, but that’s not because of anti-competitive practices. It’s because the reality is less people care about this stuff. I don’t think “people are obligated to put effort into the products I want” is a particularly noble political position, since you seem to be insistent on framing it that way. The position you’re talking about in the carrier case is different, it’s “people are obligated not to conspire together to do things that none of their users want and give them no options to vote with their feet”.
You have to get rid of the packaging, and dump all the manuals etc or otherwise you might get a date with customs to explains why you have 10 unopened MBP's in your backpack and you get a nice import fee + VAT or you can leave them at the customs office. Also, you get about 10% tax added when buy.
Significantly less security concerns. No need for a massive containment vessel or massive redundant safety systems. Likely cheaper fuel and no long term high level nuclear waste. A smaller percentage of the reactor becomes contaminated. Lower insurance costs.

D is already cheap and even used by fission reactors. Extracting T from the blanket is presumably inexpensive, and one of the things ITER will test, but that’s an unknown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeding_blanket The real question is how expensive the physical reactor is going to be to build and maintain and does that offset the other savings. It’s expected for that cost to drop over time which is why it’s possible to eventually be cheaper than fission.

Finally, DT is easiest to achieve at a 50/50 ratio but DD fusion still takes place. So a lower mix of T is viable once very high Q values are possible, thus eventually zero T designs should be viable.
It's actually a perfect example. It's hard to imagine everyone fighting for civil rights was previously aligned on all fronts or agreed with everything that was done along the way.
> Would you say the civil rights movement was successful because it wanted to put aside differences?

Absolutely. Everyone involved with the movement put aside their differences to focus on the same goal.

It would not have been as successful if everyone showing up for a rally was expected / coerced into supporting other political issues.
I ended up watching the two videos from Sean Parent mentioned here and they are great! His explanations are simple but touch important considerations we should have about type, especially when we begin to create some ADT. Thanks a lot for that!
It’s generally a small but vocal group. And I wouldn’t call it politics so much as activism. A sort of religious zeal has made its way into our institutions like schools and universities. Some people have taken to it like a missionary would religion and believe it’s their duty to spread the word everywhere at all times. The Inquisition was no different in this regard.

You just have to read what the activism says. It says everything is racist, sexist, etc and that in every situation you must try and identify not if things were problematic but how they were. And then “do better”, etc. so it’s impossible for these people to separate their beliefs from their jobs.

It’s far beyond politics and more a religion than anything. It would be as if a very Christian employee made it their goal to point out everything that isn’t within Christian morality and protesting the company to comply with the word of god.
What's it like to negotiate with ransomware gangs?
My English (my first and only natural language) definitely takes a while to recover from a single day spent programming, so I can definitely see that happening.
Do you have a link to where I can find that historical data that you are talking about? Genuinely curious, because I've been facing the same problem you have.
>groups of us

not 'all of us'
I'm also curious about this. I wonder if they'll start requiring drivers to "clock on" and "clock off", and you won't be able to accept rides outside of that dynamic. I know it already kinda works like that, but something more formal since now they're paying you while you're "clocked on".

I also assume this means they'll be more strict about turning down/canceling rides when you're "clocked on", and they'll assume you're available to accept rides when you're "clocked on" and don't currently have a passenger.

Which of course makes them much more analogous to a traditional livery cab.

EDIT: But then also kinda not I guess? Because a livery cab driver can decline a ride before it starts obviously.

I wonder if it'll work more like food service, where Uber covers the "difference" if you make less than the minimum wage (and for better or for worse, much like food service I assume if they have to make up the difference too frequently you'll be booted off the platform).
Every time people show me a "natural" monopoly I find regulations around it that corrupt the market.

People believing in the so-called natural monopolies lack fate in the entrepreneurial drive, creativity and innovation of the free individuals working hard in their own interest, for their own betterment.
It's just the trolley problem. Inaction often carries consequence. You're not supporting the scaffold but you are not concerned about the consequences of it remaining in place. And if we're talking about systems the difference between supporting the system and ignoring the consequences of the system are so small as to not be apparent.
Secured voice and video calls via local networks
Everyone in the Linux space, from what I regularly read and hear, says that NVIDIA GPUs are notorious and a bad idea for using Linux. They're saying go with AMD. (As well as Ryzen instead of Intel for CPUs, where possible.) The only open-source nouveau drivers are absolutely terrible, I can attest to that fact myself. There's several benefits to not relying on NVIDIA's proprietary and non-in-built drivers for a decent experience. You'll know this already, depending on how deeply and regularly you use Linux.
Society involves more than one human. Larger populations can handle more complexity.
I got suspended from Facebook for a region-specific, non-offensive expression
I think self-hosting is the only way to avoid all the privacy issues created by centralized analytics.

Plug: I am currently working on https://www.usertrack.net to try to offer self-hosted actionable analytics, and I'm also developing a more lightweight and cheaper version for WordPress, as currently most WP analytics plugin are just fetching and sending data to Google Analytics.
37 hours a week is a danish standard week, also used by private companies.
> And if we apply that logic to every industry, we end up driving people's standards of living back centuries.

That assumes that the only way to reduce CO2 is to halt the industry, and that is not true for most industries. The problem is that most industries have no cost associated with CO2 emissions. So they have no profit incentive to reduce those emissions. Simply adding in the full cost of operation, including CO2, would drive industry to innovate more efficient technology, reduce CO2 waste, and yes, some industries would be revealed as being too costly in CO2 production to be viable at the current levels of use.

There are many industrial processed that are horribly inefficient and wasteful, but the cost of that inefficiency is not paid by the company, so switching would only hurt profit margins. Any company competing would be at a massive price disadvantage. If the full cost fell on the company, consumers would quickly buy products and services that used efficient tech and reduced waste, because those would be the cheaper options.

Most industries are not CO2 producers because it is required to maintain that standard of living. I pay for my garbage to be collected and properly disposed of, but if I could just dump it in my neighbor’s yard for free, I could save money. Forcing me to pay for it myself keeps us all from having our yard filled with garbage.
Probably not. REBCO was discovered in the 80s but is difficult to work with. A fusion energy Manhattan project would make 3-4 reactors in parallel. If it happened in the 2000s then they would have thrown significant effort at HTS technology. That’s one of the most obvious areas to invest in. The whole world would benefit from that.
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This isn't about sacrificing all worldly pleasures or even all vacations.

It's about perhaps rethinking whether one needs to fly so often for one's vacations.
Why is a company wanting to be apolitical is controversial? That should be the default, is this an American thing like how masks and healthcare are controversial?

I would expect a government to have proper separation from church and state, so why is it weird to want a company to separate politics and mission?

I can't see any good coming from being in a work environment where the company supports a political issue I'm strongly against, it would make co-workers and myself feel like opponents and likely make for a hostile work environment.
NASA technical note: Lunar sample processing [pdf]
Jack Sharp works of amateur photographer circa 1950-1970
If you’re talking about the US here, can you expand on your comments? I’m very confused about what you’re trying to get across here.