skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to Pew, teen alcohol consumption has been in decline since 1997.
[ I guess you mean "high technology" ancient civilisations? ]

The problem is that wrong/inadequate/inferior theories will tend to be neglected, professionals will be stay clear of them, and "if only we had better theorists" could be a rallying call in those cases as well.

"If only there wasn't such a bias against phlogistonism we'd have higher-quality phlogiston research."

Weirdly enough I don't think I've heard this argument much in the crackpot science world, where I have more experience, but it is not uncommon for people to imprint on obsolete theories that modern working scientists can't really discuss because they don't know them in detail or maybe even in broad strokes (epicycles or the like).

I'm happy to leave it to the professionals. History is a quite high-evidence high-rigour domain, with many converging sources that confirm earlier theories (genetics/linguistics/carbon dating/etc.).
You never run ICUs at 100% because where would you put the people who have car crashes etc?

Optimal rate depends on the country, but about 75% is typical.
The difference is going to be less what gets built and who gets to profit. Instead of land speculators like Donald Trump making profits off the backs of our hard work the unearned land wealth will be distributed more evenly.

In both scenarios few people will build villas in downtown Manhattan because it is too profitable to build skyscrapers instead. The difference is that with LVT building a villa will be a massive tax burden whereas under our current system there is no tax burden.
I see "buy or rent" label, only trailers are free
Can you trust -the corners- of QuickLook in Big Sur?
I agree it's rather silly for an adult to have a strong emotional attachment to a corporation. I can understand a child feeling that way about the company behind their favourite products, but it seems unbecoming in adults. The best example might be Apple 'fanboys'. (I don't know of a gender-neutral term here. Fanboy implies an excess of appreciation, but fan means something weaker.)

I don't see that it has much to do with religion though. It's only silly because of the specifics of what a corporation is - a somewhat amoral body of capital, very roughly speaking - but it's not always silly to be attached to an institution. There's nothing religious about supporting the Against Malaria Foundation, or the EFF, or (here in the UK) the National Health Service.
Given that, as a sibling commenter noted, you can spread COVID-19 to others you come in contact with (who may not have your exact circumstances), this seems daft.

The other element of this that's highly questionable is the claim that "the risk is lower than the flu of any complications". I'm really not sure this is actually true; a significant portion of people seem to be COVID "long-haulers". Even if you're not, maybe some of those other people you're socializing with might turn out to have those risk factors.
Then it ought to document that it assumes that entry exists and that this walk will not hit the end of the list. Which also implies the list is not empty.
"over-reliance on technical solutions"

This drives me crazy. While closing down the oil industry should be a goal, all solutions that the public would accept
(and aren't worse than climate change itself) will be technical solutions, not sacrifice. The lockdown gave us a good glimpse at how effective sacrifice it. It's not enough.
> You don't need Big Government to do that.

Regulations are there tools that citizens have to reign in corporate behavior. 'Big government' is just a catch name for many anti regulation lobbying entities to remove power from citizens and acumulats it on corporations.

> Vote with your wallet.

Yes. And also vote with your ballots, one person one vote triumphs one dollar one vote if you want freedom.
Wow, thanks for sharing Unison, seems super interesting! I've been thinking about content addressed code compilation lately that could allow one to have all versions of a program within a single binary. Apparently there are other benefits to it. Can't wait to learn what they have discovered!
Many local authority run buildings do not have sinking funds, so large bills can happen.

An outcome from Grenfell is the government is considering mandatory sinking funds.
That's a good book.
Truely believe that Tony Hsieh wasn't a cynic or a wannabe. My question was centred around their financials because I still believe that the culture that Zappos famously practiced is impossible to imitate without dangerously compromising the company's productivity. So I want to know did it work for Zappos either? Because I think it didn't but I don't have any data.

Disclaimer- Nothing against Tony Hsieh. I am sure he is a good person as I have rarely heard anything other than nice stuff about him.
IMHO most problems (apart from the missing C APIs) of the Android NDK could be fixed if they'd steal a few ideas from the emscripten SDK.

In emscripten I can do:

emcc hello.c -o hello.html

...and this gives me a complete 'web application' ready to run in the browser.

With the Android NDK I should be able to do this:

ndkcc hello.c -o hello.apk

...and this should give me a complete APK ready to run on the device. Emscripten's emcc is just a "simple" python wrapper script which looks like a gcc-compatible compiler/linker from the outside, but does additional things besides calling the C/C++ compiler and linker (such as creating a .js and .html file next to the .wasm compiler output).

If the NDK would have such a compiler wrapper script it would be absolutely trivial to integrate with any existing C/C++ build system.

Another idea the Android NDK should steal from Emscripten is how to integrate the C/C++ side with the "other" side (in Emscripten's case Javascript, and in the NDK's case Java). In Emscripten I can simply embed Javascript code into the C source files with some macro-magic, and call back and forth directly between C and JS. This is how the Java integration should work in the NDK. I shouldn't have to deal with the JNI or with the Java toolchain or with .java files at all.
What do you consider to be large and infrequent? I see so many micro-commits that I start to wonder if some competition is going on...
In Scotland and elsewhere in Europe you have “commonhold” where tenants own the freehold of their flats.

Edit: sorry, in Scotland it is called freehold or feuhold not commonhold but could be considered equivalent. I believe commonhold is also used in the US.
Just like people, not markets, create deadweight loss, rent, and negative externalities, and people, not institutions, cause systemic racism? /s

The web is a complex system that is more than capable of producing outcomes that are drastically different from the sum of its inputs (i.e. "people"). Based on what kinds of mechanism design and incentive structures are put in place, it is not only probable, but more mathematically likely that even a web filled only with rational correspondents will eventually devolve into a mess filled with falsehoods and echo chambers.

The important corollary to this insight? There's an entire class of structural remedies we can take that you're not even considering, before we even approach anything remotely resembling censorship on the individual.
I think no-code was not the right idea.

Removing barriers of entry comes with its own problems. Today we see that horrible error-prone excel sheets that are created by non-programmers wasn't a great idea at all. Similarly, many web developers don't understand performance and we end up with bloated sites / electron apps.

I think lot of progress will be incremental. Seemingly "revolutionary" ideas like light table break on modestly real world stuff. Function programming is elegant and all unless you hit a part of problem fundamentally imperative or if there's a performance problem. I think programming progress will be incremental, just as industry continues to mature.
It's literally nothing. It's too little and too late, and nobody can guarantee that it isn't reversed before '50. The oil companies can still search for and extract oil right up til the deadline. So if there's enough money to be made lobbying will remove this deal. Jørgensen loves to big himself up with a lot of hot air and very little impact.
So no hope of Harvard notation from the Beeb, then?
I have no numbers, but that was my understanding of the market when I bought a flat.

The government does sell leaseholds of their home to council tenants through the right to buy scheme, but in general leaseholds are not a government scheme: they are sold and bought between private parties.

In the past I understand that a significant percentage of the UK population used to be council tenants but the through the right to buy scheme the government got rid of a lot of housing stock and it only replenished a fraction of it.
With this comment I request a link or other reply, explaining how climate change or global warming is due to man, and how to judge the validity of models predicting that. I’m a reasonably intelligent programmer who is OK with maths and stats, and am trying to curiously learn but of course am sceptical of grand claims. Many thanks to anyone trying to enlighten me wrt the truth
What is your claim?

Drinking is normal in your culture —> drinking is not risky in your culture ?

This is patently false; drinking carries risks in any context, perhaps even moreso in environments which fail to recognize its potential for harm
Yes, I think that's the key.

I'm not a C programmer, and though I do have a basic understanding of pointers, I still find them rather confusing because of the indirection they introduce. I could follow the first example just fine (because I know how to deal with linked lists from Lisp), but the second gave me rather a headache (two levels of indirection!).

However, I think that once you've really understood the concept of pointers - and I'd expect that from all kernel developers - the second example really wouldn't be any harder to understand than the first. And yes, then it is the cleaner way of doing things, and therefore to be preferred.
Wow. I had never heard of the project before. Just saw their teaser video and it instantly threw me back to the late 90ies with LAN parties playing death match Duke Nukem or Doom.

The times when we kept our Burgers warm by placing them on the 17'' monitor heat outlets. Not that they really stayed warm, but that didn't matter to us when gaming away the school holidays.

It was the time I got introduced to some very cool people on these nights who taught me html, taught me that there is more than Windows (something called Linux) and a lot of other stuff. Damn - these were interesting times. And it put me onto a track that led me to were I am right now.

Thanks a lot to these people.
Does anyone realise that the oil industry does not just provide us with fuel. Pharmaceutical's also use petroleum based products [1].

Anyone who thinks we can simply stop using oil is simply ignorant.

That is not to say that we shouldn't use renewable energy for fuel but the narrative of we should stop everything 100% is highly irritating.

Happy to hear is anyone has different opinions :)

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3154246/
I know that if Apple did not offer products in some of the countries I live(d), many more citizens would be using spyware-loaded phones—because they don’t have the skills or dedication to use a PinePhone (or even to clear their Android devices of preinstalled malware and maintain them in that state), because it’s infeasible for them to purchase an Apple device overseas, or because they just don’t know better—which would lower the bar for propaganda and censorship, ensuring people with inconvenient opinions are fewer and farther between.

It seems highly unlikely that oppressive governments would be compelled to stop being such if Apple decided to withdraw from their countries’ markets. Yes, it is profitable to allow and tax Apple’s sales, but by my reckoning not nearly enough to pursue through a fundamental shift in political climate. (Yes, some citizens will wonder what happened, but considering Apple’s minor market share and domestic media’s capability to spin the story in favour of the leading party, public opinion would hardly be a factor either.)

To allude to an essay I read recently, a withdrawal in this context would be somewhat akin to Apple acting like Star Trek Federation (first do no harm, avoid mistakes at all costs), while remaining engaged, preserving the opportunity to enact a positive change laterally through non-obvious implications of attractive technology with superior security, would be them acting more like Culture.
HN codeblocks are just two spaces indented. Any extra spaces indent further.

This has no superfluous indentations.
Found the person that thinks this is Reddit.
Growth hack to generate more leads on LinkedIn
>>"In 2020, people seem to forget that the Cold War happened and that the KGB, GRU, etc. existed. Most of these outrageous CIA actions were done in the context of combating the Soviet"

If this article have a message is that those dirty wars were against the poor people living in those countries, not against the KGB.

And what is the excuse after the cold war? Because nothing has really changed.
Climate minister? Please! Their oil reserves have been projected to run out in 2047 [1]. So, they decide that they're going to close the oil industry by 2050, obviously because of their "deep concern for the environment".

I understand that people care for the environment, but I hope people do understand the economics and politics behind these things, right?

[1] https://ing.dk/artikel/teknologisk-spredehagl-skal-klemme-si...
UK's first all-electric car charging forecourt opens in Essex
It is mostly virtue-signalling...

Part of the same plan is that Denmark needs to be CO2 neutral in 2020 - but not without using fossil fuels. This just means Denmark will be capturing CO2 using storage and planting trees. This is not my claim, it is right there in the proposal from the Danish govt.

So Denmark WILL consume oil in 2050 - but now it has to come from abroad.

So Denmark gets poorer as a result - and have to consume oil that other countries have produced anyway - but at least it feels and sounds good now!
edit: sorry, misread the OP.
But the advantage of avoiding C specific bugs is shallow, because the Rust code contains lots of unsafe blocks. Bugfixes made to the original source are not automatically ported to the Rust code base.

From my point of view the chosen porting "strategy" doesn't make much sense. It is more of a toy project to see what's possible.

What would really make sense would be starting with an extensive test suite and trying to build a properly architected Rust implementation according to it.
Terrain yes, npc face yes. Levels... no
"Stop consuming... " isn't enough. You also have to do some of the work needed for the other side of "vote with your wallet". "Vote" for the system/product/method you wish to see. This might include building it yourself, using crowdfunding/micropayments for journalists/politicians/artists you trust/follow.
Musk’s SpaceX to bring Starlink internet to Greece
Beware of the Cyber Risks Involved in the Promised Covid-19 Vaccines
Your cat walking across the piano certainly doesn't follow scales, and probably not tempo either. But yes, the more rules there are, the more "musical" it can sound.
Yes, I just wouldn't call it a 'clean way'. It's not an easy thing to which there's an obvious solution making the freehold/leasehold split bonkers.
You have a point, but that standard protocol doesn’t exist yet to even be implemented. Even then, is it a strict standard that everyone will follow to a T, or is it one where every company will have their own special interpretation?

Unfortunately, people need something that works right now.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25330764
CAA is not the record for this. As @schoen already replied, it is only used by CA's to check if they are allowed to issue a certificate to a domain.

But with DANE TLSA Resource Records you can pin a public key to a website. Alas the implementation of TLSA-RR checking in browsers is dependent on extensions at this time. I wish it was native in browsers with a big red sign when violated. When done in combination with DNSSEC it's very hard to fake certificates. Or more precisely asymmetric cryptography key pairs used by servers. Certificates for TLS would not be needed anymore if TLSA-RR's were standard practice. A company might still use a certificate to attest it's identity beyond internet domain ownership.

Edit: This is for TLSA 3 1 1 and 3 1 2 records. That's what I have experience with. Just read on Wikipedia a lot more is possible with TLSA-RR's including certificate and CA pinning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Na...
LG Rollable Phone Appears in South Korea's Carrier Database
Agreed. "Vote with your wallet" does not exclude the idea of being an investor or sponsor of better alternatives.
A decent overview may be found at https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/download/#full , which is the IPCC's special report 15.
Same. Apple makes killing a subscription super easy.
Background Job Scheduling Using Hangfire
I think you misread the gp comment - it should be read as "move away from [...] non-electric transportation"
PS If any Apple fanboys want to use the above rant as proof for why iOS is better, you should be careful not to tempt me in to putting in to words my feelings about iOS, because you may not like what i have to say.

I'm intrigued; please do! (I'm an iOS developer... and definitely not a fanboy.)
That's a weakness of allowing elected police chiefs who may be doing this for political reasons and not considering their duty to protect the public.
I think most of the readers here are aware of that. Plus there's a ton of other applications, like plastics, other chemicals etc.

But this article is not about that - this is about one country deciding to get out of oil production. I guess they have discussed this at lenght and decided that, all factors considered, it makes more sense for them to stop oil production, decarbonize their economy as far as possible, and import the oil that they will still need.
Not to speak for the op but for me it’s not that I’m lacking choice it’s that I want to use the first party solution because it works better. For me, it’s like a programming language with one canonical way to do something. It makes things so much easier. Easier to read. Easier to reason about. I just use the Apple version for things because 9/10 times it works flawlessly.
> The "pedophile scandal" was the work one fantasist,

Plus broken pattern-matching by people who see individual abusers as being part of some organised conspiracy and not as evidence of changing attitudes to child abuse over time.

Cyril Smith's offending was covered up by his colleagues. Jimmy Saville's offending was an open secret for years.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/westminster-...
That's one view. But my view is that affiliate links have created a massive race to the bottom, polluting search results and creating a new style of prose optimized for inserting key words and links.

I may not be able to stop that, but I certainly don't want to support it.
The Value of Short Sellers
git-send-email

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email

Git was designed for patches (diffs) to be sent in email. That’s how many people used it before GitHub.
It's possible to have a locked bootloader (so no unsigned OS), but still have vulnerabilities in the vendor OS image that allow rooting (on devices that are 4 years out of date this is pretty likely).
Server hosting for smaller services is no longer expensive when cheap cloud servers and Raspberry Pi computers are available.
IMHO programming language design is (or at least should be) guided by the underlying hardware. If the hardware dramatically changes, the way this new hardware is programmed will also need to change radically. But as long as the hardware doesn't radically change (which it didn't so far for the last 70 years or so), programming this hardware won't (and shouldn't) radically change either. It's really quite simple (or naive, your pick) :)
So people will burn electricity for mining, to save energy? What am I missing?
Denmark has about 6 million people. That is about the size of Atlanta. There are small operators in the US who make as much oil as Denmark.

To really make a dent in greenhouse gases you need US, China, India, etc. to come to the table.
Any specifics on DoS? What sort of strategies to prevent a malicious user pushing multiple streams to DoS encoders, etc?
One reason it hasn't taken over is because the banks are reluctant to lend for such properties as there is less clarity on who's responsible for maintenance.
Isn't this built into all modern Wifi routers? Asus has had this for 10 years or so, and they also had their share of security issues that comes with the territory :/
> by definition most books are mediocre

What? Oh, well, in that regard most elements in any category is mediocre. Doesn’t really mean much...
Yep this is why I dropped it.

I started working on an alternative that supported writing but didn't follow through since I didn't think many people were interested in Kaitai to begin with.
Hey, I read at an average pace.About 20 books a month. Some are read in 3-4 hours, and some you won't read in a week. Sometimes I think that if there were no books, I probably would have shot myself. Working at the factory, I am the only one who sits with a book during a break - they consider me somehow strange and I look into their eyes and see such melancholy that I am grateful that I have such a hobby here https://pdfmania.com/adventure/57-peter-pan.html
I think at this point Apple are just laughing at their customer base and testing how much they can get away with
Being on HN and talking about TeXLive, I was thinking in terms of Linux, for which those 90GB blockbuster games don't exist (?). So I did a mental jump there, because to me TeXLive is the "native" Linux TeX distribution, and Miktex the "native" Windows distribution.
O'rly?

https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/blob/master...
> don't make sense in Australia.
That comment make me smile. After moving out of Australia to Germany, those crazy things (hot turkey dinners in 45 degC days) started to make sense for me. Enjoy your the Aussie Christmas!
I don't quite get the actual mechanism by which this incentivizes energy efficiency investments, or why blockchain is required vs normal debt, but the "blockchain, but for climate solutions" idea appears in "The Ministry for the Future", where it also looks like a weird idea.
Let's “Git” shopping. Understand how Git works under the hood
Nope they’re counting my dollar bills. They keep putting out amazing hardware: AirPods, iPhones, M1 Macs, etc., I’ll keep bending around their software (which I love 99% of the time) and their control of the experience which I think is what makes everything work so cohesively.

We just bought a new MacBook Air with the M1 and my wife will use it until it dies so if it’s anything like our other Apple laptops could be 7 years or so.
> Also, `lualatex` does not have some of the limitations of `xelatex` (memory limitations, `contours` package, ...)

Are there some more details of the memory limitations you can share with us?
Find out what the consensus is, read the papers that are referenced to support this position.
How does an artist “coerce money” out of someone? Unless you mean robbery?
How does one capture CO2 with trees in long term?
I don’t like RT[M|S]P, but I have not seen an acceptable alternative for realtime streaming.

The main reason I don’t like RTMP, is because it isn’t supported at the OS level in Apple systems (the platform I program for).

HLS doesn’t come close to RTMP. It’s designed for movie streaming, and doesn’t support realtime streaming. I write video surveillance software, and the HLS lag is unacceptable.
Wow, rclone is very cool! Works with 50 different storage providers.