skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awair Element: https://uk.getawair.com/home/element
So did animals in Chernobyl.
it's not exactly "it protect children", but "protect them in the same way accros the union" So that when people travel they have the same safety than at home.
Yeah, I have no idea what the writer is saying. The only part of that I “get” is telegrammatic speed. What the hell is “high modernist impersonality”?

I’m a native speaker and have read 3 Hemingway books.
I’d guess it is a poor translation of Arabic. ربان Can be translated to “captain” but it means the person piloting the ship which is part of the duties of the first mate when the captain isn’t at the helm. Saying that she piloted the ship through the canal would be consistent with the rest of the facts presented.

The point is that the antidote to distasteful fake news isn’t good intentioned fake news it’s factual news. So wether this error was unintended or driven by their own biases to write an overwhelmingly positive story to counter the false one it manages to perpetuate the problem.
It’s not fear of being dead once you’re dead, it’s fear of losing all of these joys in life while you’re alive and knowing that it’s all going away.

I’m only not bothered by pre-birth because I wasn’t alive to understand the wonderful existence I have now.

It’s like being at a great party but knowing that your ride home is coming soon. I’d rather stay at the party.
The important figure is the bottom line. US total assets and total liabilities. So you see, everything you own is actually borrowed.
Howdy everyone,

Me and some friends have been working on this website since November to provide lots of comprehensible input for folks wanting to learn or improve their Spanish. I've been learning Spanish for a couple years and was frustrated that finding material to read and listen to can be quite hard, unless you want to watch a bunch of kids shows. So we made leerly to fill that gap, and it's working great!

We find articles from around the web, summarize the facts of the article, and then we have our native Spanish speaking cofounders translate them to B1/B2 Spanish. Then we provide a bunch of tools to make the experience as smooth as possible, like translating in-app, studying vocab, slow audio, etc.

Let me know what y'all think because we want to expand to other languages once we have the user experience figured out.
I recall getting a handful of their gear when I was a kid, for paying shipping. I'm both shocked they're still around and that the hardware doesn't look to have changed at all. If someone told me x10 was still alive and selling gear, I would have assumed wifi or zesvr or something similar.
The evidence is overwhelming, unlike the case with Iraq's WMDs.
It should be land value that is taxed, not property value anyway so it's not much of a problem. Taxing people more because they have built a nicer house/building on the same land is not only unjust but also leads to people making their building worse on purpose.

The author runs into a contradiction as well. First they call assessing property values a basic task the government fails at but then goes on how it's not actually easy to assess.
The new kitchen example given is the prime reason it's a completely impossible as well as pointless task. Assessing land value though is actually quite easy.

As value land tax is easier to implement, more fair and doesn't misalign incentives (let's ruin our kitchen or demolish part of the house so we don't need so taxes are lower problem) I guess what happens is that actual property evaluation is mainly based on land value anyway. We don't want nor can afford government officials going around (and inside) houses to assess how much they are worth.

As a European I find it also quite disgusting how race angle is added to every article possible. Yesterday I read an article in Bloomberg about traffic fatalities in US. The author was blaming white men for regulations that encourage speeding and carelessness. She then followed giving examples of solutions from countries like Germany and Netherlands. The irony of this was completely lost on her.
Same in property tax example. It's about rich, middle class and poor not about white, black or Hispanic.
Agreed, it probably is time for that deal to be dramatically improved.

Currently however, for a Canadian to move from Canada under a TN series visa than any of the visas available to Europeans, other than some limited cases such as diplomatic missions.
> how lack-luster Toyota has been in pure electric cars

It's not Toyota's fault, it's a government mandate in Japan. That's why the CEO of Toyota has bashed full EVs in public and why Toyota is the only manufacturer actually pushing fuel cell vehicles instead of going all-in on EVs like everyone else.

From Japan: Strategic Hydrogen Roadmap [0]

> Japan’s Prime Minister, Yoshihide Suga, recently announced that Japan will aim to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. To decarbonise its economy, Japan is increasingly looking to future fuels such as hydrogen and innovative technology.

> Japan’s Hydrogen Roadmap has an ambitious goal of:
> 40,000 fuel cell vehicles by 2020; 200,000 fuel cell vehicles by 2025; and 800,000 by 2030;
> 320 hydrogen refuelling stations by 2025; and 900 by 2030; and
> 1,200 fuel cell buses by 2030.

> In Japan there are currently:
> 3,800 fuel cell vehicles;
> 135 hydrogen refuelling stations;
> 91 fuel cell buses; and
> 250 fuel cell forklifts.

Basically Japan's problem is two-fold. Their electric network is a 100V system, split to 50Hz and 60Hz sections because of historical reasons. There's no realistic way to build a charging network for electric cars in Japan.

The second part of the problem is that Japan is also heavily reliant on imported coal and natural gas for its electricity production[1] (around 60-70%).

They're betting on Hydrogen fuel cells, because that is the one thing they can produce themselves and not rely on other countries so heavily.

[0] https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/trade/mfat-market-reports/market...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Japan
> What does it matter to you if they pay or we all do

Because when you know you'll be held personally responsible, you'll act accordingly. If you feel like you can act any way you want without repercussion, then you'll automatically take more risks. Usually this is the way we justify the salaries of CEOs as well, "they are the ultimate responsible for everything in the company, so high salary is needed for that big risk".
Yes. But don’t forget that for many, berating people into living like a vegan hermit is part of the point, and if science solves that problem it gets taken away from them.

It’s the same people who want everyone to keep using masks even after vaccination.
I recently stumbled upon this again and I think that many things that the author predicted, actually happened, even accelerated since 2020. What do you think?
This just sounds like a version of Pascal's Wager.
One of the comments essentially accuses the author of hysteria.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that can't type Cloudflare reliably. Couldflare is an important part of my architecture. Same with Cloudlfare. No CloudFalre or Cloudfalre yet but there's still time ;-)
If you can't pass a CAPTCHA, you need to stop and ask yourself -- are you really a human being, or have you just been programed to believe that you are?
Individual accountability for corporate misdeeds might act as a deterrent to future misdeeds. Sarbaines-Oxley has some of this in it, if memory serves.
Exactly, no contract can override legislation which is applicable to contract jurisdiction.

Environmental pollution and human poisoning are hardly allowed on consent basis.
The differences here are over values not facts.

Specific examples aside, the EU buys into the idea that you can harmonize society with the right laws. The Brits were never going to be okay with that. It's a continental idea and inimical to common law. This is a country where they don't have ids. They passed a law to create ids but then it was repealed and the ids were destroyed. You can read Notes from a Small Island for more about this specifically British attitude. Or Orwell: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...

Anyway, there are good reasons for not being in the EU. Low voter turnout. Austerity policies (Boris Johnson is part of the conservative movement to the left on economics). The disastrous decision to share a currency (which plenty of economists warned against).

But the main reason the EU is going to atrophy over the next 50 years is that European identity is illusory. It's something for well-off cosmopolites. That doesn't make it wrong but most people in these countries are not a part of it, though they might go along when times are good. Moreover, as Hobbes put it, "covenants without swords are but words". Countries are about shared land, shared borders, and a shared duty to defend that land. The kind of people who feel European identity (or consider themselves "citizens of the world") are uncomfortable with this bloody-mindedness (and not for no reason). But nations are martial compacts and, for all of our discomfort with that, they are the best way we have of ensuring rights. The UN and EU have proven ineffective at that. In a crisis (like covid) Europeans will act singly as countries or not at all.
There was something I read once about the Arab world failing to use 50% of its workforce efficiently being a reason for slower development. An interesting hypothesis for sure.
“ In fiction, the writer should be invisible unless they are a narrator.”

I don’t actually think this is reasonable or possible. Readers are fully aware that writers are distinct from other writers in their prose structure. This is colloquially known as “style”. Additionally, other writers can most certainly identify individual writers by their narrative choices based on the same notion of “style”. Hemingway had a style and that’s why so many people compare their prose to him!
There’s also a book based on the show, which is roughly one chapter per episode. I found it enlightening, honestly. It’s like a set of fables about bureaucracy. They’re not true stories, but they highlight patterns and tendencies that crop up all the time.
That's CEN, not EU
There's several available for around $100 on Amazon. I have one, it is hard to know how accurate/complete it is with respect to VOC detection, I mainly use mine for PM10 detection during fire season, and it seems reasonably accurate in that it agrees with the state's readings
And I found hCaptcha to be way less annoying than ReCaptcha when using Tor.
The operative phrase is "yet". Better safe than sorry. I've not read the paper yet, and I am curious on the performance impact. I don't mind trading some performance for better security. Because when exploits are found in the wild, its too late.
Sorry, it wasn't clear that you were arguing that they were equally intuitive. It seemed to me you were arguing Celsius is more so.
German film Das Edukators had an interesting approach: kidnap the rich.
Depends, try not drinking for 4 days and see how you feel, now try without eating.
London average fibre availability is 21%, sure that's better than nothing but I'm not sure I could say 1 in 5 is "plenty", especially compared to cities with >99% coverage.

There's no reason for London's poor coverage rates except deliberate telecoms underfunding. London should also have >99% coverage by now, but instead we play catch up in the post-covid world while available bandwidth for many residents can not adequately sustain a family working from home and distance learning.
Niv looks interesting, I’ll have to check it out.

Trawling through git commits, hosting my own binary cache, these are all awful stories. Package versions are the normal pattern, and this lack of support for them in Nix has turned me off the two times I’ve explored using it. I kinda get why they aren’t supported, but it is a huge dissonance from the rest of the software world.
Perhaps they're practicing blameless post mortems.
> litigation and class action waivers.

How can that be legal?

I mean a legal system which allows people to trick and force people into not being able to protect themself if they are scammed is completely broken IMHO.
Show HN: Beautiful and interactive Unicode plotting for the terminal
Romanian wages are way lower, easy as that. And they get lots of EU subsidies too.
Is it "China" or "Chinese Company"? The title makes it sound like the Chinese government is making GPUs.
Pop-Up Bike Lanes Increased Cycling During Pandemic
Cool. I’d be interested in any hints about bypassing Akamai’s protection bot. They use some annoying js machinery to detect browser sensors and stuff.

Stumbled on that some days ago. Quite annoying and there doesn’t seem to be a easy hack.
>"For a short list of "IDT exception handling problems", I'll just enumerate some of them:

(a) IDT itself is a horrible nasty format and you shouldn't have to parse memory in odd ways to handle exceptions. It was fundamentally bad from the 80286 beginnings, it got a tiny bit harder to parse for 32-bit, and it arguably got much worse in x86-64.

(b) %rsp not being restored properly by return-to-user mode.

(c) delayed debug traps into supervisor mode

(d) several bad exception nesting problems (NMI, machine checks and STI-shadow handling at the very least)

(e) various atomicity problems with gsbase (swapgs) and stack pointer switching

(f) several different exception stack layouts, and literally hundreds of different entrypoints for exceptions, interrupts and system calls (and that's not even counting the call gates that nobody should use in the first place).

But I suspect I forgot some."
"The website, which offers officials in Brussels a chance to rebut media accusations of meddling, features hundreds of reports that are based on inaccurate or misleading information."

So it was made for officials to rebut lies printed in the media about the EU.

I take it that you don't mind "journalists" printing lies as long as they're lies that support your point of view?
You don't know that to be true. I have questioned similar claims myself and many of the people have been male. Mostly women though.
I hear that a lot. Wealth, science, infrastructure are better ergo the political system and decisions were good. I hear that from such diverse sides as Bill Gates and capitalism apologists as well as Soviet apologists.

The truth is things improved in general in the last century because technology improved in the entire world in the last century. More efficient production, better medicide, massively more know-how in all fields of human endeavour. Yeah things got better in the entire world, but probably despite the system, not because of it.
It feels better, but in terms of actual evidence it’s not. One core issue is everyone makes mistakes, and nobody can research everything. So, the minimum error rate in all human content isn’t that great.
I myself bought an air quality monitor, and am happy I did (uHoo). I have several gas appliances and was concerned about NOx and other possible gases. It turns out everything is about normal, except that CO2 levels in the basement tend to get elevated. I had no idea that this was something that happened. I now make sure to try and air it out down there once in a bit and take breaks more often, since that is where my office is set up.
So the Brexit to EU is like KGB to US? Why do you want to keep UK inside EU then?
“Sick building syndrome” is a difficult topic to discuss because it’s very difficult to prove a connection between the vague symptoms and the building. In many cases, only a single person seems susceptible to the claimed building issues. In this case, the apartment complex appears to have over 1,800 units, which makes it surprising that only a single person is experiencing such dramatic effects.

Unfortunately, doubting these people’s stories is taboo online so I’m going to tread carefully. However, when only 1 unit out of 1800 apartments (presumably 2000-3000 total residents considering multi-bedroom units) is experiencing severe and dramatic symptoms, my first guess would not be the soil under the foundation. I would be looking for building materials or chemical spills in that specific apartment unit.

Also, I’m not suggesting that we discount this person’s story. Their symptoms are certainly very real in that they are suffering, but the selfie of the person wearing medical equipment in front of a mirror combined with measurements from consumer devices as evidence should be approached with caution. There is a relatively new phenomenon casually known as Munchausen by Internet where some patients are drawn to the increasing attention they can garner by sharing, and unfortunately exaggerating, their stories on the internet. These patients often post selfies of themselves wearing medical equipment, in doctor’s offices, or in hospital beds. More commonly, typical patients prefer not to be photographed with medical equipment or in medical facilities. Again, I’m not suggesting we disbelieve this person, but it’s important that we consider the bigger picture (1800 unit apartment complex, apparently only one case of severe symptoms?) before accepting a single person’s analysis of what is causing her issues.

Mistaken “sick building syndrome” diagnoses can actually be very detrimental to patients who mistake other illnesses as being caused by their buildings, as they hyperfocus on their presumed explanation to the exclusion of following more typical diagnostic work ups that would help them eliminate more common explanations for those symptoms.
Just some words of caution, please don't read this article and think that getting treatment is futile. I was diagnosed with Stage 4B non hodgkins lymphoma 2 years ago, numbers were showing that multiple organs were failing, wasn't able to eat much because the belly got so distended, my PET scan lit up like fireworks after months of diagnostic failure. It took around 3-4 months to get to diagnosis and I was miserable. By that time I had read this article and was thinking maybe I should just go home and die in peace, but my wife told me I need to be strong and not give up.

The following one year was tough, initially I was carried around in wheel chair, too much muscle loss by time of diagnosis. At first, my body was so weak that doctors decided I can't even take the first cycle of chemo at once. My arms were so bruised with all the poking that I had to move them carefully. Then chemo side effects started getting overwhelming. But slowly, things started working. One year in I was back on my feet, started working again. Two years in, here I am writing this comment and hoping for a healthy bright future for everyone out there.

It's better to get advice of multiple doctors, understand risk vs rewards. Yes, there maybe a point when its time to optimize for quality of life and give up, but that should be after one or two lines of treatments.
This. In sense we are always thinking some cpu simulation. Where in fact can be more of edge computing case. As in you only need to simulate the whole personal experience.

In computer graphics terms. Culling. Objects are not simulated if u have no direct observer.
> If you are reading this post you're very much likely not a fan of systemd already

I don't really care either way. I'm using systemd since that's what my OS ships with by default, and I had to learn it. But still curious in Linux distributions in general, so at least a small explainer would be welcome. Is there a reason I should feel strongly about this? If so, would be helpful to have that written up front, because it's not obvious to everyone.
I haven't found anything that would point to total safety or the opposite. Then again, there are plenty of studies on the dangers of sugar and I still eat a bit of chocolate every day. Same for red meat, plastics touching food, caffeine, beer, being slightly overweight, driving, not using sunscreen regularly, stress, lack of sleep.

Is the risk of taking a small amount of melatonin every day really something to worry about in the bigger picture, if it helps you and has a long history of being used for this purpose without problems?

Like lots of people here I just can't beat my tendencies to stay up late despite massively good sleep hygiene. I end up missing sleep, being cranky and depressive, and generally having a lower quality of life because I just don't feel like going to bed - and when I do make it to bed I ruminate for a long time before falling asleep. If no new information presents itself, I plan on keeping good habits and being on melatonin for the rest of my life.
> The question is: is it more expensive than getting lapped by other countries because the industry cannot keep up in regards to digitalization?

Of course it is but Conservatives lack the ability (or the will, given their party donors) to think of the future. "Wer Visionen hat soll zum Arzt gehen"...
> If the Ever Given really was ran aground to due a once-in-a-75-year-sandstorm then it's hardly the fault of either the captain or the port authority to predict such a freak weather occurrence.

An interesting hypothesis that I ran across (on gCaptain? blancolirio?) is that it may actually have been a wind lull that caused the issue.

There was supposedly a steady cross wind in the area in question, and given the ship is 400m long and 13 storeys high, that's a lot of area. The wind seems to have been coming from the west/port-side, so the ship had rudder to port to counteract the pushing to starboard/east.

When the wind dropped suddenly, the pushing-to-starboard force suddenly disappeared, and so the steering to port all of a sudden became 'unnecessary' and if it was not corrected soon enough may have been the reason why the ship steered to port and into the channel wall.

Just an hypothesis though.

I'm sure a sorts of folks will be looking at the sensor logs.

I wonder if the Canal authority has any kind of instruments along the route to measure conditions. If not, they should consider it. Perhaps set up some "buoys" on land next to the channel that broadcast things out via AIS so pilots and captains can see things on their chart plotters.
The contradiction pointed out in the article (section 2) doesn't require domain expertise to understand. Basic comprehension will suffice for that.

The misquoting of sources doesn't require domain expertise to understand.

The misleading way that data is presented in graphics doesn't require domain expertise to understand.

The author's credibility is not relevant when the claims are easily falsifiable by yourself.

You should read Gelman's more positive take on the article. He's someone that's quite credentialed, if that's what you're looking for.

"I disagree that a "researcher" is a loose label"

It is a loose label that's commonplace in industry.

Researcher isn't synonymous with academic.

"The first thing to do when one finds fault with someone else's work is to contact the other person"

I agree with what you're saying here. It would've been better to contact him privately first.
> Why not just settle on bash, zsh and fish shell?

When Ubuntu and Debian switched from bash to dash for /bin/sh, the stated motivations were mostly performance (particularly during boot) and size:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh#Why_was_this_change_made...

https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2007/07/msg00027.htm...

https://lwn.net/Articles/343924/
What changed my mind was moving from product development into enterprise consulting, specially in industries whose main business is completely unrelated to software.

All the bonsai-like rules about software jewellery have zero value in those industries.

What those company owners and management departments care about is their main business line, as long as those boxes keep shipping or people keep buying their stuff, they couldn't care one second how the sausage is made.

It is easy to blame all the major consulting sweet shops for the quality of delivered work, while in most cases what gets delivered is what customers (e.g. management board) are willing to pay for.

Just ranting out loud, not targeting anyone.