skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Australia will probably end 2020 as the largest natural gas exporter in the world. It's also a country that is very well positioned to take advantage of renewables and export energy via lithium, ammonia, aluminium, hydrogen, electricity (See the sun cable project to Singapore)

This _more_ than makes up for the coal industry
The vast majority of index funds don't buy IPOs
woah so cool
Index funds will buy at the market value, no? Is the market still overvaluing oil given knowledge of renewables?
> The simple fact that 40 states are getting involved just says Facebook is guilty until proven innocent at this point

This is a matter of civil law -- the burden of proof is the balance of probabilities (more likely than not that the allegations are true) rather than the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard of criminal law.
Growth isn't necessary to make something a good investment. Imagine you are investing in a single mortgage: you get a little income each month, and after 30 years it stops completely. Essentially the value goes to zero! But the stream of income is what you care about. Aramco is similar; it will kick off income every year in dividends and eventually be worth zero.
But the NLRB ruled that what Spiers did was perfectly within their rights, so you’re completely wrong in this specific case. However correct you may believe yourself in the abstract, entirely relies on the lawfulness of the specifics.
> It's a great way to screw over Boeing (American) and boost sales for Airbus (EU), while having the fairly legit rationale that you no longer have confidence in the US regulator due to a long series of blunders

Trade agreements are written to anticipate this sort of thing.
Hypervisor virtualization is still virtualization and still has a performance penalty. And if you actually watched the video you’ll see a very large portion of it is specifically devoted to x86 emulation. Including running several win32 binaries and DOSBox.
Google also "invented" it as part of SPDY (it's surprisingly difficult to find a clear reference, but I'm reasonably sure it was in pre-standardization-process SPDY too). For this kind of thing, one one hand it doesn't make much sense to apply a global opinion about a relatively minor thing to a company of that size, where different teams and their goals aren't aligned or even at odds. On the other, I wouldn't take GAE not having a feature as a big signal: its best days clearly are over and it's lacking/buggy/... in all kinds of places sadly.
At least in Germany that's already the standard plumbing practice: a mixing valve on the tank outlet ensures the tap temperatures are safe. This is important because the tank is required to periodically heat to 65C to kill legionella bacteria, and with solar input can heat to as much as 85C, so without such a valve the tap temperature would be unpredictable and sometimes dangerous.
Man. Modern internet standards are some serious turd-polishing.

First you have HTTP2, which goes from a plaintext protocol to a binary protocol. But it's backwards compatible with HTTP/1.1, because... nobody in the entire world will consider adding a new internet service port (81, 442, etc). In 100 years, we will still be using ports 80 and 443 - not because it's a good idea, but because literally every business in the world just refuses to update their software.

Then you have HTTP3. Where we do the above, but with a transport protocol. Literally nobody in the world wants to update their protocol stack, hardware, middleware, software, etc to add a new internet protocol. So we clamber on top of another protocol (UDP)'s back, to create a new protocol (QUIC), and then clamp yet another protocol (HTTP3) on that. So we have IP->UDP->QUIC->HTTP3. Which is backwards compatible with HTTP/1.1, because, you guessed it.... nobody wants to add ports 82 and 440.

The next step is going to be nobody wanting to update to IPv6. So they will probably implement IPv7, and stick it on top of whatever replaces UDP on top of IPv7. Then add on QUIC, and HTTP4. So it will be Ethernet->Arp->IPv4->UDPv4->IPv7->UDPv?->QUIC->HTTP4. All because nobody wants to update their software to use an existing, widely supported, network layer protocol. Or transport protocol. Or application protocol. Meanwhile, anything that wants to use the new features of the new protocols needs to implement 4 new protocols.

It's going to keep going like this until we have some new Apple-ish company come along with brand new everything, and everyone will flock to it, and the only way anyone will be able to use it will be to implement the new snowflake protocols. To even connect to the devices you'll need to have a license agreement with them and establish a secure connection that only that company has the keys for (because "privacy", because the internet standards are so ancient they never adapt fast enough and hackers basically compromise all web security). And those new things will become a de-facto standard. So we'll never have, say, a new TCP, but we'll have an AppleTCP.
In those subjects they choose different units so that the speed of light is 1 of that unit, but it still has that unit associated to it. So it is not dimensionless.
> It's better.

No, you misunderstand.

Making a claim that the data shows your conclusion to be true is what is not scientific. I.e. your statement is not based on any scientific evidence whether you think it is or not.

It's just an unproven statement.
Here's a real engineering youtube video about this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWiX2edcBoA
wow, that's terrible advice.
Several of the comments mention that HN hates lazy comments. That may be, but HN does often hate humor. This is most often dependent upon the thread in question as the subject dictates the audience

1 some people are fully incapable of accepting sarcasm even when something is deliberately expressed using the word sarcasm

2 some people are easily offended and deliberately search for hostility even where none was intended

3 for some people everything is a political holy war. I have noticed that many of these commenters seems to only participate on threads of extreme social commentary lacking any hint of technical or business concern, which could suggest selective participation in subjects lacking expertise. I have also noticed that some of the highest karma HN users skillfully bait such threads

I have also noticed humor is more likely to be positively accepted when it is clever enough to escape notice by people merely skimming and when avoiding subject matter solely limited to social commentary. In these cases the humor in question can even be vaguely insulting or insensitive and still receive a positive response unlike the contrary where you have to tip toe across egg shells.
When I see Medium URL listed in Google, I prefer not to click it first until I can't find the information in other search results.
Its a shame. Because it would do away with nasty packing strategies like webpack.

I always built my go+react apps to avoid webpack,on service start it would scan all the includes from the each entry point and built out a map for each entry point. On request I would push all the dependencies.

It was really nice. :(
A bad keyboard doesn’t really justify an antitrust suit... even if we all did want the amazing 2012 keyboards back
Edit: Apple enablers downvoting.

You're probably being downvoted because you posted an off-topic rant. The topic is Facebook. Going all, "But what about Apple!" is deflection at best.
A bit of _as a game developer_ here:

Game consoles shouldn't be special. If the NES and Genesis hadn't had their locks broken then we wouldn't have been graced with some of the greatest entries in their catalogue. Consumers won because anti-consumer digital locks were broken.
Do you think a tech union would be in favour of immigrant labour?
Be Cautious of California, I Left
Created a throwaway to say that as someone being treated for ADHD as of recently, 100% this. Every day at work for years had been doing exactly what the GP describes. If I'm really interested in the work, I'm all in and focused. But when I'm not, I push off every task that can be pushed off as far as possible. And the overwhelming majority of the time, it's the latter. To the point that I've sat at my desk quietly questioning my career choice dozens of times.

Please look into this, GP.
I have some idea what I'm talking about. I was pitched on Urbit by Curtis himself on April 20, 2012, long before it launched, and before it was even called Urbit. He tried to sell me a block of Urbit address space at the time. I don't remember the asking price, but it was substantial, many thousands of dollars. I declined.

Yes, the crowdsales priced individual addresses at less than one cent, but it's a 64-bit address space, so even at one cent that puts the gross valuation of Urbit at many orders magnitude greater than the gross planetary product since the dawn of human history. I'd say that's overvalued. Also, the addresses are not sold individually but in large blocks, with part of the pitch being that people who get in early can turn around and sell parts of their holdings to greater fools. If memory serves, the first crowdsale raised $500k. So even at 1 cent per, someone ended up writing some pretty big checks.
Why litigate in the case of Apple? There is so much competition, Apple is not a monopoly in any market by any stretch of the imagination.

There is a very easy solution to the problem, don't like the computer/phone? Buy a different one!

I totally agree its really stupid to go to such great lengths to lock down devices like they do, but at the same time it really doesn't hurt anyone because anyone who doesn't like it can just buy one of the million (vastly less expensive) alternatives.
I hope browsers implement 103 early hints. I’d like to tell the browser to preload assets while the server is still working on the response, which may take a significant amount of time to determine if the response is 200, 401, or 404.

https://evertpot.com/http/103-early-hints
It sounds like you're talking about domestic mass surveillance but there's no way the US would use such a dangerous tool just to find random cryptocurrency geeks.
Course materials (projects) seem to contain only slides, with bullet points, not real explanations. Am I missing something? Should I buy the book to actually have the course?
For the curious: https://jisho.org/search/%E5%A7%A6
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Since when do you have a right to computing freedom? Why don’t you buy from Purism instead?

Sorry, but I can’t get behind such a draconian government takeover of private corporations. No one is forcing you to buy an iPhone.

Support free products with your wallet instead of demanding that a the government coerce a private entity to make your arbitrary wishes and desires real.
No way; generic products are a boon to affordability.

You'll see a hell of a fight if you try to take "No Name" from Canadians.
Is HTTP/1.1 pipelining basically dead too?
No offense taken. I meant that if I start researching it again I’ll be up for 5 hours because of the personal ties to it.

My recollection in researching this a decade ago was that the cold weather made the behavior of the rudder change (my term was invert, maybe that’s not accurate), and pilots were trying to pull up, but in fact putting the plane deeper into a nosedive. Some 25 seconds later they hit the ground at some 300-400 MPH and vaporized.

The only way to have saved the plane would have been to dump the hydraulics and/or switch to a manual fly by wire mode, neither of which were a logici thing to do in the 15 seconds they had to save the flight.

I’ve only flown for 20 hours in a Cessna so sorry if my terminology isn’t perfect!
It's not harmless. Google is very concerned about internal security, and putting irrelevant messages in security notifications makes them more likely to be ignored in the future. Your ASCII dinosaur hypothetical is a good way to think about it, and I wouldn't be surprised or outraged if that also resulted in the offender being fired.
Game of Life in Cuelang
Well, it's always a concern. However, having a chance at getting a vaccine, even if it's 50%, and the likelihood of some protection is a whole lot better than 0% of getting any protection. Plus, we have to have these trials and the development of these vaccines before life can get back to any semblance of normal.
Anecdotally, where I currently live in an apartment in Australia. We have occasional brownouts/blackouts in summer when everyone is running their aircon. Not often, but likely to happen more with higher temperatures. I am keeping an eye on things like Tesla's Powerwall as a luxury item for that concern. Especially for when I am over 60 years old... (20 years away but still a thought.)

I plan to visit the Great Barrier Reef now, while it is living.

Operating temperatures for outdoor mechanicals.
For me, small aircon, cars. But big building infrastructure, factories, farmers etc buying and building for the future will have to expand their operational parameters, if only slowly and only a comparatively small amount.

Highly underrated though is more energy in the system will mean more extreme weather events more often.

Floods, heat waves, hail storms, but also with large shifting air cycles it often surprises people to realise that blizzards or cold snaps will happen differently too. They may be "warmer" but with faster moving air they will travel more to areas that didn't experience them. Or they may be colder as the air travels faster carrying air from the poles. Weather is not an easy thing to predict. But I think it will be even less predictable.

In the US it may mean that hurricanes or tornados are a thing more often. Here in Australia Queensland will get hit more often. Insurance premiums will adjust accordingly.

I suspect international migration will also be a thing. People moving away from the equator and to the poles more.

TL;DR: Plan for slightly more hot, windy and extreme weather events. :-P

NB: rereading this almost casts a picture of drastic disasters every day. But I want to clarify that it will be incrementally more than now over time and only a bit more by the end of my lifetime. But who wants "a bit more" hurricanes in their life? And where does it stop for the future?

PS: maybe this question should be asked of an insurance company quant?
Why would that be better than the hundreds of hours of flight testing that they have done since the plane was grounded?

Everyday flights are as boring as possible on purpose, you do everything you can to keep the plane away from the limits.

Flight testing inverts that. You run everything to the limit, and beyond, to see if it is possible for systems to fail.
The wider topic is antitrust, and that is part of the wider problem of “big tech companies are eating the world.” Its on-topic in a broad sense in my opinion
How do they have a monopoly when there are many other messaging apps?
> CAs that have been installed by the device owner or administrator into the operating system trust store are expected to continue to work as they do today.

Huh that's a really cool idea. I wonder how it's implemented, as it might be useful for the rustls-native-certs crate as well...

Edit: found it: Apparently there is a bool field is_issued_by_known_root that gets set by the differerent backends. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/net/+/2f96522...
Great video about Oyako Don at Tamahide: https://youtu.be/Q2QCvORjBYk
4M Docker Images Shows Half Have Critical Vulnerabilities
Middle-income Americans - their innumeracy, their illiteracy, their armchair-quarterbacking, their habit of seeing the Other one-dimensionally, their racism, their dollars - have always been a greater threat to Saudi Arabia and other people of the world than the price of fucking oil.
NSA employees used PRISM data to spy on romantic interests, I don't see why this is any more dangerous
Who did you sue?
Which one is worse? Costco shelfing it followed by a generic replacement once the consolidated volume is high enough to achieve a crazy margin profile, Walmart using the bill of materials to alter the product in a way that achieves a particular customer goal (like all-in cost) or Amazon paying nothing but requesting meeting after meeting and demo after demo ahead of a potential acquisition and (maybe sometimes maybe never) stealing your idea basically full bore and competing with you?
How is it that we still don't have custom wake words on any smart home platform? I don't want to say your stupid name, I want my own wake command.
In Croatia, where the VAT is 25%, the solution was: every customer has to be given a receipt without asking for one and the customer has to take the receipt and carry it out of the store.

Stores who don't comply get massive fines.
For the reasons explained in http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/metcalfe.pdf (yes, I'm one of the co-authors), I DO NOT believe that Facebook's social media "monopoly" is nearly as durable as it appears in our daily experience.

And I think that they themselves are aware of that.

The fact that Wall St misprices them gives them the money to buy potential competitors early. Which they have to do because they know very well that the barrier to entry to overthrow them is less than it appears to be. And indeed, the success of Tik Tok stands as a demonstration that their strategy of "buy every potential competitor for more than anyone else is willing to pay" is doomed to failure in the end.
Network effects are a real thing. You could switch to the Ubuntu OS if you wanted to, but there’s no developer ecosystem to provide the apps you use daily
Unrelated, but I just want to rant.

I hate how the minimum possible websocket message is smaller than the largest possible websocket header. You can have an entire message that's 6 bytes, but you can also have a header that's 14 bytes.

I'm curious why they added support for massive messages (2^32+1). And I'm curious how much bandwidth would be "wasted" if instead of supporting a 6 byte header (for messages 0 - 125 bytes) and 10 byte header (for messages 126-2^32) they just made it fixed for 0-2^32 with a 9 byte header.
But that's a completely different point.
Being able to self-host your wallet is the entire point of cryptocurrencies. Without that, all of the clever innovations such as the blockchain, or mining are pointless.
The alternative is obvious - corporate manslaughter charges, aimed at management that knew plane was unsafe and pushed on regardless.

> " collateral damage so cost of that outweighs the benefits"

Do we have a system a justice or do we not? You seem to suggest some people are above the law. Let's see, could that possibly lead to corruption and abuse of power?
>Most officials pushing for restrictions are compromising their public goodwill (and [re]electability) to try to save lives.

The governor of CA violated his own rules to attend a party while demanding others dont

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/11/biden-covid-advisor-says-us-...
> But, do we really have a plan for the consequences, not only in Saudi Arabia but also every other nation that's dependent on oil? Hint: we do not.

That's kind of sad.

A long time ago (just before the GFC) I looked at trends in climate change (Arctic sea ice specifically, but that's just a canary), demography, China's GDP, and things like PV/Wind learning curves, and said to myself: "things will get interesting in 2023, plus or minus 7 years." Meaning, geopolitically.

Covid seems to have accelerated events, but the trends were all there way back then, visible to anyone who had the time to think about them. I seem to recall reading warnings by internal think tanks in the US Military that were penned in 2005 or so, warning of these very issues.

Still, I have printed and blu-tacked up the quote from Axel Oxenstierna: "Do you not know, my son, with how very little wisdom the world is governed?"[1].

So I shouldn't be surprised.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Oxenstierna#Quotation
While I think webpack is a beast in its complexity, it and other bundlers can/do output based on the strategy you described.

It emits entry point bundles, as well as smaller chunks, many of which remain unchanged between releases. All of that gets pushed out. I think it works pretty well.
It’s certainly not going to happen, but the most directly way to eliminate Facebook as a monopoly is to repeal section 230. Facebook cannot exist without it.
> If you have good points corrective votes will happen.

I've seen corrective votes happen, but I wouldn't be so categorical in saying all votes are well reasoned and reward cogent argument.
I don't think there is anything fundamentally different from an existing database. In all relational databases, some lateral joins can be expensive to compute. In Materialize, those same lateral joins will also be expensive to maintain.

I'd be surprised to hear you beat up postgres or SQL Server because they claim they can evaluate any SQL query, but it turns out that some SQL queries can be expensive. That's all we're talking about here.
> Provide robust safety nets and universal healthcare

and the question becomes "who" does the providing? In the US, the going mentality is 'user pays' (which leads to insurance, which leads to insurance company dealing with healthcare provider, which leads to employers providing good insurance as a side benefit to compensation).

The US populous can't easily change their mentality to "society pays". Therefore, this is where the issue should be tackled.
“My absolute dream would be for the DOJ to make Google and Apple collaborate on a cross-platform native app API and treat it as a first class citizen. Doubly so if web/WASM can make those API calls.”

You want a government mandated software platform?

Regardless of whether any of your criticisms have merit, putting the government in charge of API design seems like a questionable suggestion to say the least.

Also, all these breakups you are suggesting are anti-consumer. Your assumption is that somehow ‘competition’ would produce better products than we currently have, but history doesn’t support that idea.

Without vertical integration you just end up with inefficient consortia attempting to solve problems by committee and political jockeying.

That’s what enabled Apple to overtake WinTel in the first place.

The way to unseat Apple isn’t to use the government to force us back in time.

It’s to recognize the needs they aren’t satisfying and actually contribute to meeting them.
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If you're deploying Firefox to begin with you can easily add this setting to your deploy system. If you aren't, then you probably don't have a customized CA policy.
Of course. The best engineer should have the best workaround to inflate the highest artificial metric.
Thank you!

Actually, I realized this after writing out the whole thing but that sorry for the long rant is kind of like a good manners thing in Japanese internets. If you look up "長文失礼しました。", which literally means "Excuse me for the long writeup", it's usually appended to say a comment in a blog, or sometimes at the end of a Tweet when the speaker felt what they said is a bit on the longer side.

I somehow ended up picking up that habit somewhere down the line it seems. :)
Most likely, everyone you know, especially outside of tech, when referencing a search engine, says to "google it".

There are, unfortunately, millions of ways we form relationships with brands. A brand's reason for existing is to live somewhere in our psyche either subconsciously or consciously. We say "Q-tip" instead of cotton swab, "band-aid" instead of bandage, "Advil" when we need ibuprofen, or "Tylenol" when we want acetaminophen. When we see white polar bears around Christmas time, we think of Coca-Cola, and so on and so forth.

All that to say, kudos for you for taking a principled approach, but I am not sure it's going to achieve much.
What if they switch it for a Tiger Moth?