skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there's certainly fashionability, ego, and projection in homebuying that drives up bids, which can raise home prices in a given neighborhood over time, but that's largely because supply is artificially limited by things like regulatory capture and demand is distorted by economic policy promoting price inflation. for instance, low interest rates mean that more house can be bought at a given monthly payment amount (everyone seems to assume more is better), which is the economic basis of that ratcheting you're describing.
> What exactly was done because of pressure?

In the past 2 decades:

* Big business on the whole went from ignoring or denying climate change to embracing solutions.

* Innovation in alternative energy tech and its production has driven prices for non-carbon energy down to parity with coal.

* The political world has gone from ignoring it to signing on to international support for climate agreements.

* People are aware of the issue and it's a central issue to billions of voters globally.

* Carbon capture and other methods of reducing atmospheric carbon are being developed and scaled up significantly.

> I find your line of reasoning maddening

I can't prove causality but any good faith scientific argument needs to at least consider the hypothesis that the efforts of the last two decades might have had an effect. Simply ignoring the changes and saying that the original predictions were "wrong" is not a good faith argument, let alone a scientific one.
Do you trust the police to be honest?

Sowing confusion with bold claims of compromise will lead criminals to not believe encrypted platforms are not secure and not use them, instead using easier to intercept methods of communication.
> Nobody wants to buy a subscription yet the app transaction they want on their terms (e.g. buy once, never expire) presumably doesn't exist

It used to. The subscription model is pretty new and has only become common in the last decade or so (generously; it's probably even more recent). Buying a perpetual license to use a copy of software was the way to buy software up until fairly recently.

You can characterize this shift as malicious, as a result of corporate greed and a desire to protect IP. Or you can characterize it as simply companies struggling to generate stable, predictable revenue with the old model, and finding subscription revenue to be more healthy. Regardless, subscription models are new, not the long-time status quo.

> It's a pebble's throw from just complaining that you'd prefer if everything was free so that you could keep your hard earned money.

No, it's not, and it's disingenuous of you to suggest that's where people are going with this.
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I've been living this way for a decade. No Facebook, use RSS or Atom for every possible thing that I can. I even use it to subscribe to video feeds, such as YouTube channels. It really boggles my mind what so many billions (!) of people tolerate just to avoid having to learn to do something simple themselves.
But that is the entire point. Of course PA doesn’t want refugees to resettle in the West Bank, they want them to return to Israel main. Two states solution means completely different things depending on who you are talking to. To the Palestinians it means two Arab states
The battery time, at 3–5 hours, and the inability of the phone to charge while turned on, they called "A stark reminder of the Librem 5's beta status".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librem_5
I said it was hard to develop a nation in the desert, I didn't say it was impossible. Israel is a world leader in agricultural technology [1] precisely because of this problem.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Israel
the only difference between an ivy league graduate and a state school is rich parents.
Nicely spotted. The decline of American industry tracks nicely with the decline of Labor.
If curious, past threads:

Flipper Zero Manufacturing and Shipping Plan - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25870255 - Jan 2021 (14 comments)

Flipper Zero (Repository will be open in public soon) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24090716 - Aug 2020 (1 comment)

Flipper Zero – Tamagochi for Hackers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23996733 - July 2020 (53 comments)

Show HN: Flipper Zero – Tamagotchi for Hackers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22941733 - April 2020 (10 comments)

Tamagotchi for Hackers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22859083 - April 2020 (1 comment)

Flipper Zero: Under Development Multi-Tool Device for Pen-Testers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21842830 - Dec 2019 (1 comment)
The alternative is trusting someone (or something) else, who's values, motives, and incentives are rarely obvious, to curate your news for you.

Even if you could find a curator that you have significant faith in, eventually, they will become a centralized target that powerful interests can carrot or stick in various ways to push their interests into your curated feed.
Then why are existing fossil fuel plants treated as a separate problem to be tackled later?

Greta is right. There are certain things about climate change that are complex. But the lack of sufficient action is not a complex mystery. It’s just not a priority.
I think you've spent too much time looking at the social media narratives on policing.

Police are neither bloodthirsty men out for people's lives who take pleasure at the misery of others, particularly the misery of minorities, or are they pure innocents who were just in fear of their life, and so justified in using deadly force no matter the circumstances.

The truth is somewhat muddier and somewhere in the middle.

With power and authority comes the need to exercise discretion in its application, accountability for misuse of that authority, and someone to watch the watchman.
why ipv6?
How is that something to be worried about? There are companies out there that try to monitor if employees are in rooms/areas that they're not supposed to be. You can do that with badges/RFID but then people can take a card or slide by in various ways. (Happens all the time at big companies - people just tailgate) If anything, they might be taking privacy more seriously by not letting people without authorized access into secure areas.

I think you give up any sense of privacy as to where you're located in an office or where you've been in an office when you decide to work in an office owned by some employer. I don't know why there'd be any expectation there.
> the debate is over. Nuclear lost, renewables won. Get over it.

This is the level of understanding of Brexit voting stereotype.
> There's also the touchy issue of storing spent nuclear fuel and contaminated hardware. Ignoring the problem presents a hidden cost and safety risks.

Is it really that big of a problem? Sure, the cost of dealing with these is not negligible but in the end, it is just a matter of digging a hole in a deserted place and putting things there. It is dangerous stuff and is to be handled with care, but we deal with dangerous stuff all the times: explosives, toxic chemicals, weapons, ... and nuclear waste is not that high on the list.

The usual argument is that nuclear waste can stay hot for thousands of years. In fact, while true, the kind of stuff that stays radioactive on these time scales tends to be weak, The most concerning elements are usually those with decades-long half lives. Compare to stable but toxic elements like mercury that last forever.

Also worth noting that coal contains long lived radioactive elements that end up in the atmosphere after being burned. So, coal plants also produce nuclear waste, but instead of having it conveniently stored in a specialized facility, it is released in the atmosphere to be stored into your lungs. As I said, long life elements are weak, so it is not that much of a problem, but it is not a reason to do the worst thing that can possibly be done with these.

And while we keep talking about waste, this is only waste because we don't use it. Radioactive "waste" is made of rare elements that produce energy, and maybe a treasure for future generations.
I really like what you have done.

One easy improvement "Showing results 16 — 30 out of 26 results" :-) showing below search results...

> Hope to include more curated signals, like "won a paper
> prize", "journal in DOAJ and other reviewed indices", etc.
This would be a great addition.
> like environmental activists

Having worked in energy (and radiation) I've always been confused by the fact that the activists aren't aligned with the scientists. I have yet to meet a single climate scientist that is anti-nuclear. Most of them are shy about their support and will end up saying things like "but we can't get support for nuclear, so why even try?"

The only real argument against nuclear is cost. Safety it is number 1 (you can see numbers from my other post), emissions (lifetime) it is on par with solar and wind (without batteries), waste isn't as big of an issue as it is made to be (waste is magnitudes smaller than most people think and storing on site is perfectly acceptable), it is clearly environmentally friendly (low footprint, you can recycle fuel, most emissions are from construction). The only argument against it is cost. The only argument is that the cost of climate and human lives is low. I'm really frustrated with the misnomers people are making about this.
I did have root on it. It was just set up for me by IT. Having root doesn’t change my account name.
Great question. We have a good idea of which species drive oral diseases, so we can tell if you have an overgrowth of these species. Our hope is through Bristle we can better characterize what constitutes a healthy microbiome so we can develop better oral care products and guide treatments (though we haven't studied the effects of making out yet)
I guess I'll have to stop running

$ sudo git clone ...
I hope this gets solved. One interesting aspect to consider is that all in person communication involves some form of sign language. It just isn’t nearly as explicit when the people are deaf, but you can tell what people are communicating Just by watching them sometimes, as you know.
More reasons it was a good idea to just spread our asscheeks for this borderline-satirical, evil tech monopoly that thinks it's a government.
But I'm sure some silicon valley toolshed will be here any moment to deliver a TED Talk about how the wishes of the U.S. intelligentsia are divinely inspired and anyone with questions about overreach is a luddite who doesn't understand ~it's a private company~.
And before Elixir, Erlang itself was a frequent visitor on the HN front page. Still is.
Me too! It's great. I started doing it for YouTube when the algorithm started selectively showing updates for channels I like. Now the algorithm is irrelevant.
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Past related thread:

Italo Calvino, The Art of Fiction No. 130 (1992) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21340794 - Oct 2019 (29 comments)
I recently finished a history podcast inspired by Six Memos for the Next Millenium, called Six Memories of the Last Millenium.
Thanks for your insight!

> This algorithm is only fast with high probability

Why is this not mentioned in Theorem 1.1?
What I never get with these is: one has to really go out of their way to run the same code on a vm and serverless. So why even bother building the thing twice?

Do people really consider putting a server app in a function?
We don't have to rearrange the professional world to make interviews suck less.

Being interviewed at a lot of places is 6 hours of narration while you solve LeetCode problems with a dry erase marker.

Actually talking with candidates is more effective in my experience.
UI Failures: Netflix
In the spirit of recent illustrations of UI failures, this shows a confusing Netflix UI which likely causes people to un-like shows they previously liked.
When was this? Element (formerly Riot) as a client has gone from having serious UX limitations in 2019 to something I can hand to techno-phobic contacts today.

Integrating with Slack, IRC, etc all in one app has also been quite convenient.
And humanity is greatly affected by the loss of use of a patch of land? I'm saying it's inconsequential.

How many people are dying from coal plants? How many are dying from the exhausts of ICE cars. How many more from the rising tides, the swelling storms and the blistering droughts?
An ill-informed, un-true and blatantly anti-semitic attitude, although not surprising coming from someone with a link to an anarchist wiki page on their profile.
That someone can get rich gambling is not some new insight!

Most of the WSB equity analyst is the equivalent of the blackjack player sure he's going to win it big because Mercury is in retrograde!
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I don't think that's really the same concept, though.

Yes, a utility app might be "done" at some point and only need updates when the App Store requires you to build against a newer iOS SDK. Fine. But many apps go through large changes over time and accumulate large improvements that might be worth paying more for.

Selling a new major version as a new app is a clumsy experience for users. They need to find the new app, install it, somehow transfer all the data and settings from the old app to the new, and then delete the old app. Most of that isn't something the app author can automate or do for the user.

I agree that some people might "abuse" this sort of functionality to sell subscriptions without selling subscriptions. But so what? Under this imaginary App Store upgrade flow, the user could also choose to keep using the old version and not upgrade. That gives the user more choices, not less.
> At a bare minimum, it's not obvious that what GP wrote is "just wrong". This isn't something we have a definite answer to.

I agree that we don't have definite answers, but that's why what the GP wrote is just wrong. They're reducing a very complicated set of technologies to the economics of lithium ion batteries. While yes, pumped hydro is something of a cop-out, it's clear there are a variety of techs that are cheaper than lithium ion.

The economics of this are also a little unclear to me. In the presence of sustained negative electricity prices, it seems obvious in principle that lots of storage technologies would suddenly become economical. But it's hard to imagine how that would work given the way we currently finance these things. (And by extension, it's not clear to me that this is actually a technical problem so much as a political one.)
I agree, thanks for the help. I am glad I unchecked them again.. As its been said before, we need better privacy laws. We could start with opt in being mandatory for specific services. Start with telecoms. If they were using AI to listen in and process voice 'data'.. I don't know. Sure I would hear the good old, if ya got nothing to hide..
Funnily proponent of the theory 'make everything 50%'
tendd to think of an individuals free will as the most feeble thing that can be broken oh so easily by almost anything.

I don't know if they actually perceive this, but, the fact that some people can automatically assume bias without deeper investigation when their whole fight is, trying to fight preconceived notions, its sort of ironic.

Sure, study WHY certain fields are underrepresented and try to fix systematic problems. But if your blind go to answer is, 'certain group of people are to blame' - just maybe you're exibiting behaviors that you are try to reduce in others and it may not lead to real solutions..
On the other hand, they got a look at how little that rhetoric meant by the protestors' reaction to police not letting them roll over the capitol building. The video of the cop being crushed between a door as rioters tried to push through is stark next to videos of the people they thought were the bad guys only destroying property and not really touching the police officers.

Maybe it was a wakeup call for enough of them.
They were always a bit warty, if you ask me.

I got stuck with a $300 cancellation fee with T-Mobile after using their Starbucks Wifi service. When I told them I had specifically signed up for only one month's service, I was told over the phone that they had "decided that I wanted a one year contract instead."

The reason I even bothered to pay for wifi at Starbucks? This was before the 'free wifi' was common and standard. Almost 20 years ago. I was homeless and needed an internet connection to get things done during the day on my laptop before I found another place to stay.

The only option I was given was to continue using the Starbucks/TMobile Wifi service or pay an early termination fee. The rep said "since you have one nearby, I don't see why you couldn't keep using it."

The closest Starbucks, after I relocated, was a 30 minute drive. No public transportation. And I didn't have a car.

All carriers are bastards.
The single state solution is idyllic, but disfavored by both sides because there is shared fear of the country going the way of Lebanon afterwards - devolved into factionalism with zero sense of shared nationality.
Bookmark the homepages of busy feeds and then toss them out of your feed reader.

I did this a few weeks ago and it's been great.

BBC World News would be a good one to start with, I imagine. Bookmark the homepage and then unsubscribe from the feed. Click the bookmark once or twice a day, or whenever. Click through to full articles of stuff that interests you. Rinse and repeat.

Keep doing this for each busy feed as needed. Eventually you'll be left with just the quiet feeds.
Disparaging an entire nation as "illegal and amoral" qualifies for being vlagged in this forum, I believe. Not to mention the fact that this is a digression from the topic of the thread into vitriolic politics.
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1) Naming
3) Cache Invalidation
2) Off-by-one errors
3) In-order once-only delivery of distributed messages

And an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope
> So why even bother building the thing twice?

Time elapses. What makes sense today may not tomorrow. It's fine to adapt designs when the economics point that way. Also fine to leave things as they are when the economics point that way.
It can be worth it if you use your time wisely. Think about a good topic for a final project and start working on it. Taking the time to do a large scale project and gain experience can definitely make a difference. I know that my final project had a lot to do with me getting hired in a different industry, so it can be really useful for that. Also, if you ever need to emigrate to a country with a more restrictive visa system, having a MSc. can be a factor.

See if you can work part-time (in the industry, web development or something that's still programming, but not necessarily your desired area) while enrolled. Then you don't take that much of a hit for starting your career later and you still get the benefits of having the degree. You don't have to maximize your test scores, focus on the final project and your work and put in just enough effort to pass.
I like framing the problem in this term. Our ultimate goal is decarbonization: $1 million per gram of C02 emitted unless equivalent mass is sequestered.

Do we have a realistic plan to built a wind and solar grid under that market? I don't think so, wind and solar are useful for taking a bite out of natural gas but not actually serving as the backbone of an electrical grid. The amount of storage necessary to decarbonize with wind and solar is not feasible, and essentially amounts to betting on some future invention of a cheap mass energy storage device that works everywhere.

By comparison we have demonstrable examples of countries going 80+% nuclear, and the US is already at 20% nuclear power generation. Building four nuclear plants for each existing plant is a lot more achievable of a goal than first building a massive amount of solar and wind, and building extensive HVDC transmission, and building tens of Terawatt hours worth of storage. The first step in the latter is cheaper than building nuclear, it's the other two steps that are wildly expensive if they're even possible. If we actually enacted a binding rule of zero emissions by 2050 people would start building nuclear power plants.
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There’s nothing anti-Semitic about criticizing Israel’s actions. Nothing I said is untrue. They are actively engaging in human rights violations and have since their inception (with the help of the US).
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"the same police"?

So, they are in their late 80s now?
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It was an at-the-market offering, and Hertz didn't know anything about its market value that wasn't already a matter of public record. Hertz stock was already being traded. I guess I don't understand the ethical system that says "everybody that holds Hertz stock should be able to benefit from an irrational enthusiasm for Hertz stock except for the issuer."
Love the domain name!