skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, rent control is fundamentally about providing stability and security for existing tenants.

I get this, but lets also be honest that we're trading off this stability against rental quantity and quality. And while this stability can be good like when is able to afford to live in a neighborhood they have deep roots in. But it can also be bad like when someone really wants to move neighborhoods but can't afford to due to rent control.
If we agree that a streaming service for workout tapes is in fact what we want. How is Fitness+ better than simply Youtube which already has thousands of similar videos, many which are of really high quality.
But you're comparing this with nonrenewable energy! I'll state for the third time that I'm in favour of replacing non-renewable energy with renewable energy.

What I'm saying is that it's still wasteful, and not cost-free if we're producing insane amounts of energy that don't need to be produced in the first place.
They use 'assisted GPS', which requires cell service for a reliable reading
There a couple others, two.
Well, these are better models fine-tuned to the actual situation. That's great

I was referring to the the econ-101-style reasoning that the mainstream has used when engaging with public to say the minimum wage or rent control is bad.
How about promotions? Would you expect to be promoted up the corporate ladder while on extended leave?
I get what you're saying since it's a different architecture entirely, but it's not as if you run EXACTLY the same hardware as your server (e.g ECC RAM, number of physical processors, things like AVX-512, etc).
Here, let me Google that for you.

First, let's assume for a moment that this February 2021 CNBC source [1] is correct in that Bitcoin mining produces 36.94 megatons of CO2 per year. The original source the CNBC article cited can be found here: [3] (which currently pegs Bitcoin at 47.62 megatons/year).

According to the EPA, the US economy alone produced 6,558 megatons of CO2 [2] in 2019 (i.e. under pre-COVID emissions).

So, Bitcoin's CO2 annualized output as of February 2021 was 0.5% of the US economy's CO2 output from 2 years ago.

This works out to be:

* 5.6% of the US agricultural sector emissions, OR

* 4.3% of US commercial and residential building emissions (heating, cooling, waste), OR

* 2.4% of the US manufacturing industry, OR

* 2.2% of all US electricity generation, OR

* 1.9% of all US transportation emissions

According to this article from 2016 published in Environmental Research Letters [4], the US could save a combined 110 megatons of CO2 emissions simply by using better building insulation, since it would reduce heating/cooling energy expenditure. That's about 3x the Bitcoin CO2 emission rate I quoted above.

So, @SwimSwimHungry, I'll ask once again: why the outrage over cryptocurrencies? Can I expect you to have 3x the outrage over bad building insulation?

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/05/bitcoin-btc-surge-renews-wor...

[2] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...

[3] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

[4] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/03...
Case study of large-scale profitable regenerative agriculture in Brazil: https://medium.com/presencing-institute-blog/regenerative-or...
Unfortunately, the iTunes link is not available here in the US. ;(
I think the state of affairs with the mobile world is the worst. I can't help but think that Android was the worst disaster that happened to software industry.

Android corrupted the ethos of FOSS, decimated all hopes for privacy, contributed to destroying the environment, stripped users of freedom of choice. I think it'll take a very special group of people to reverse the tide.
Doesn't that defeat the purpose of blockchain?
PC versions of CoD do this, and switching between mode on a 360 was always kinda slow so I could definitely believe its doing something similar
No amount of building will stop people parking their capital in real estate and extracting high rents.
It does happen - with friends son so that you give favor to friends and hope he will reciprocate.

From sons perspective, executive found diamond, little bit pushed him on starter point.

From other employees perspective, it is nepotism. Friends son got a job that more experienced and qualified people could or should do.
The government already heavily skews the market by telling land/house owners they may not build on the land they own. Often it's landlords behind this as this keeps supply low, but there are plenty of landlords who would love to invest into new constructions but can't because of the captured government's monopoly on violence. The result can hardly be called a free market. Personally I don't think that restricting rents is a good solution to the problem though. Just allow more construction of affordable housing to happen.
I don't know whether it is only in my country, but teachers in school teach students otherwise.
Not repeating the same word for the same things is alright for elegant literature, but problematic in the digital era.
Who is to say what is a valid use of energy? How much energy goes into watching television? The pollution tax should be levied such that it provides the government enough to "undo" the pollution.
This is definitely an "open core" business model and you were right to call it what it is. While right now, the "core" is still fairly large and the proprietary addons are fairly small, it is not hard to see New Vector making more features proprietary additions.
I don't think the criticism is exactly wrong, but it's more like Bitcoin mining is the reductio ad absurdum exposing the waste of resources that goes into gold mining (yes, there's some industrial uses, but that is a rounding error compared to the quantities that are dug up, purified, cast into bars, shipped around the world and buried back underground in vaults).
That's not really a rebuttal though.

He asked why it's better, not the same as.
That said, according to that StackOverflow page, the error only appears in DevTools. That's not as bad as it sounded at first. I was worried it would be an IE-style alert on page load, for example, or a visible bar across the top of the page. It's not, it's just spam in the DevTools console.
Traits!!
Ask HN: How to start building a remote working career in Software?
Hello,

I am a Software Engineer at an e-commerce company and have a long term goal to settle down in home-town with a good remote working Software Engineering job. I come for a tier-2 city in India and it does not have any Software opportunities as such. Most of the resources that I have read online about remote working are fluff and does not answer a lot of critical questions. Advice on this topic would be very helpful.

My main question is -

- "How can I get started slowly towards remote working without completely leaving my current job?" . I have not found an answer about how to get started. Some concrete steps in this direction would be very helpful.

Some other questions for which I am also looking for an answer -

- A lot of websites mention "Remote (US)". How about Asia? Or better would be "Anywhere"?

- What are the best in class engineering companies which support remote jobs?

- Stumbled upon "Basecamp" which was one company which hires across the globe without pay normalisation (what I read in text). What are other companies where one could get handsomely paid irrespective of the location?
I totally agree with you -- I was trying to explain the thought process that I think is going on in some peoples' heads.
I think I remember hearing at DNW that the uncontested TLD application fee and annual fee are flat $185K and $25K. Donuts probably owns many more TLDs than Google, but I'm pretty sure they still paid the $185K fee.
It would remind the community that Freedom(R) is very important. I think the least they could do is release it under the AGPLv3. That license is accepted by the Free Software community while being universally rejected by business as toxic and dangerous. No business will pick up the bridge and use it, while Free Software people can still use it for their own purposes (whatever those might be).
The answer is yes as long as you're using any browser, Golem wouldn't make it much worse.
I truly think it’s a minority who feel bad about it, or care about it at all.
Those are fine. PHP has just been tainted by its past and low barrier to entry. I hate to say it but my company now just filters out candidates who have PHP as the majority of their experience because the signal to noise ratio is so bad.
Oops, you are right, I confused it with ownCloud
Java won by its portable deployment model, stack traces, GC, libraries and security sandbox safety. In over two decades, very few other platforms have come close to its promises. C# is perhaps much better, but has stronger proprietary ties and vendor lock-in.

Java became overcomplicated by frameworks and design patterns, so has always felt bloated and slow. But has worked best for business logic. Though is maybe behind COBOL thus far, and tends to hide/obscure logic. No two java designs looks the same, scales well or converge to clear consensus. The language did lower the bar for what cheap programmers could accomplish faster though.
The things you mentioned in your second paragraph are precisely why. Because there is no shortage of "devs" who took a month-long training course and think they know everything there is to know about PHP, who will get the thing you're paying them to do mostly working in reasonable time. More importantly, they'll accept crap pay to do it.
Perhaps someone will set up a remote^1 web proxy that adds the suggested "Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=()" HTTP header to disable FLoC. Browser extensions are great but there is nothing to stop Google from removing access to them through the Play Store at any time.

1. Another alternative is to run the proxy locally. I run a web proxy bound to the loopback.
Exactly. It might not be their fault but that is not an excuse for me to hire them, it is not my prerogative to give the benefit of the doubt especially when so many other job applicants exist.
That’s a hard challenge. Balancing usability and security. Bitcoin protocol and Opsec has to be understood to safely use Bitcoin. Best bet IMO is dedicated hardware wallets that are easier to use and communicate out via scannable QR code’s. this would be secure and fairly convenient with a decent app. Anything that is online or running on a phone or pc isn’t secure enough for more than $100 in crypto. A wallet in the literal sense - you don’t want to get robbed!
Feature request for JavaScript: omit catch
I propose that statements of the form:

try {

// do stuff

}

// do more stuff

be valid.

Further I propose that we may emit an argument to throw, e.g.

throw;
Because Bitcoin is not the sole cause of climate change, carbon is.

You can try to play a game of whack a mole by taxing and regulating individual activities hoping to reduce carbon as a second order effect, or you can just target the root problem.

There's will always be another wasteful use of carbon intensive energy so long as carbon intensive energy remains cheap.
If you like hacking or more importantly pen testing..Start with bug bounties..will take time but if you get some bounties you get money a well solid proof that you have skills.
Because carbon pollution is an externality no matter what its use case is.

The point of the tax is to make the carbon price correct so as to incentivize correct usage across all domains.
Verifying Bitcoin transactions is mining.
Install one one of these:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eclipsim.g...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.gp...
Remember this question, to ask during the "do you have any questions for us" part of your interviews:

"is there anything about my background or experiences that give you pause?"

Furthermore, do not get defensive, If you think they are wrong with how they reply, this means you didn't sell yourself well in that area. This should be taken as feedback in that vain, to improve further interviews.

Given your low level of paid experiences in software dev, i'd assume you have some level of personal projects. My suggestion? Drink the koolaid, Start converting them to serverless microservice SAAS cubes and containers. Document this journey on a blog, use this to build out articles about what you learned while doing it on a portfolio, use that to answer their questions in more interesting ways.

If you work at Amazon, apply for the Amazon Technical Academy.
Yeah, but that is only necessary if the page contains ads or ads-related resources, right? That’s how I interpret the previous quote.
That's not the One True Bitcoin (TM).

There can be only one bitcoin, all the others are false government shills.
The 911 system in the US is slowly modernizing and more and more agencies support E911 and NG911 capabilities.

Additionally both Android and iOS support location sharing with dispatch centers and more and more jurisdictions across the country are capable of receiving that info. So, we're getting there.

https://www.blog.google/products/android/expanding-emergency...

https://rapidsos.com/our-latest/google-and-rapidsos-partner/

https://rapidsos.com/our-latest/apples-ios-12-securely-and-a...
Makes sense. All work and no play makes Jack a very dull boy.
How to fight back against Google FLoC
As the volume of panels has gone up over the last decade, the he price of panels has also gone down as production scales and efficiencies improve.

You would need enough demand to create a global shortage. That doesn't seem likely and would cause a short-term spike, not a long term price increase.
You kinda alluded to this, and kinda got the wrong conclusion, but when a game developer releases a complete game, and then after fixing some patches, it moves on to other things, no one claims that they "bailed out" on the game. Do you think Valve "bailed out" on HL:Alyx? It just makes no sense.

Earth VR and Tilt Brush are pretty complete apps, not everything needs to be worked on forever. At some point you get diminishing return and start wasting your time.
You have misconstrued my point in a very silly way. Is there some reason that a woman can gain experience A that a man can't? Or a way that a man can gain experience B that a woman can't? Is the optimal ratio in an organization 50/50 men-to-women? If I turn $200M profit a year but my board is 80/20 men to women, can I get $270M a year with some gender-based replacements?

I don't care about any illusion about inferiority or superiority; what I am desperate to do is stop other people from fallingunder the influence of fools who change their ideas as soon as it becomes politically expedient. Either adding women is a performance benefit, making them superior or at the very least different in a completely inaccessible way to men, or it has no result because men and women are interchangeable.
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The whole point of paid parental leave is that employees continue receiving a salary (and health insurance, 401k matching, etc). Logically one would expect that stock grants would vest during this time period too. Anything else unfairly penalizes new parents.
I definitely read resumes (and ask about it). While it's not the sole criteria for hiring/not hiring, I think it says a lot about the candidate.
Econ 101 style reasoning doesn't tell us whether the minimum wage or rent control is bad. Only that it's inefficient.

It also tells us it will reduce the quantity and quality of jobs and rentals. But whether or not that's the right choice is going to depend on a lot of things theory can't tell us like how elastic the market is or what we value.
When it comes to government regulation: let private businesses do as they please, as long as we are free not to participate.

When it comes to what the government is allowed to do, the answer should always be, do less! Why is the government using mass surveillance? That isn't cool!

To clarify what private businesses are allowed to do, they must abide by all the rules individuals are commonly held to, such as don't be violent, don't steal or defraud others, don't despoil the environment.
Note that Cloudflare doesn't proxy wildcard domains unless you're on their enterprise plan.

Which means you also cannot use Argo Tunnel / Cloudflare Tunnel if you need wildcard domains unless you're on an enterprise plan.

Most sites probably don't need it, but I was surprised by it. Especially having it only be available in the "Ask for Quote" pricing tier makes Argo Tunnel a bad solution for many projects.
Absolutely. Block page with instructions on how to gain access.
As someone who has studied modeling, these situations are fundamentally unmodelable with the tools we have.

Whenever you read a study saying that 'In complex system X, Y will happen in a decade' breathe easily -- we can't model what the stock market will look like in a day. We can't model what user demand for a sale will be in a week. We can't model most complex things in any large time frame, and believing any conclusions in the XX years for something as complex as climate is bizarre.
I've been using FastAPI and type annotations for over 2 years now and they have improved even small scripts. I love FastAPI, it is the best Framework I've come across in years. I wish there was a way to vote for PEP 649 instead of letting a small group decide about this alone. Maybe we can create a fork of Python 3.9 and call it different from hereon?
I wouldn't hire William Gibson tbh.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on whether NFTs are here to stay
> What probably should happen is to make converting from any cryptocurrency to major world currencies a crime.

Lol.. and that will stop all crypto-world currency trading? Just like how making drugs illegal stopped all drug trade?
Anyone remember the Fifth Element where Milla Jovovich hits the word "war" in wikipedia?

Any civilized space civ will keep us in box with a lock in the best case.

Any rapacious space civ will enslave us, or just exterminate us.

We are evil. We're trashing our planet. Conflict, murder, war is omnipresent. Our leaders are liars and sociopaths.

Our only saving grace may be our sanity with respect to not nuking ourselves to the stone age.
Yes, literature and technical documents have different requirements.
I have to say that I am lucky that I have a print-related disability, because I almost never need to go websites with ads.

Services I get access to (no-ads):

* 975,000+ books for $50/year (Bookshare.org)

* 60,000+ professionally narrated audio books for free (US National Library Service)

* 80,000+ volunteer narrated audio books for $135/year (LearningAlly.org)

* Hundreds of Newspapers and Magazines for free (NFB Newsline)

* 99% of the books posted on OpenLibrary.org for free (even books currently "borrowed")

* Virtually all libraries for print-related disabilities around the world (sometimes free, sometimes paid) (I can get books in foreign languages easily)

Additionally, I use the paid audio apps Blinkist, Audm, and Curio, which everyone has access to. I find them to be super helpful. Blinkist in particular is almost 100% of the time a YouTube and TED talk replacement for me.
/etc etsy has become more current in my (oz) community. there's still a divergence between /sbin (s'bin) and s-bin ess-bin

/tmp is pretty much temp to everyone. /var vahr not vair. and luckly, we all think soodoo is pronounced the same. Oh wait, soodough. Damn.
The LC sound certainly brings back some horrifying memories. I recall the sound looping on our family computer (a chunky all-in-one from about 1995) when the hard drive failed.
I believe this COULD be a great idea, if it isn’t just washed with discriminatory speech. I think controversial ideas and potentially extreme ideas should be subjected to honest, peer to peer scrutiny. The draft, universal pay, abortion, human experimentation, genetic editing... these subjects are touched on, and more are hidden by fear. They should be thoroughly investigated and their findings should be viewed, so they can be weighed and measured for the ideas that they are.

https://www.targetehr.me/
6 weeks of parental leave is not enough, as anyone who has cared for a newborn can attest. 3 months should be the bare minimum for both the mother and father.
The argument is not so much that cryptocurrencies don't replace anything as that they don't have a use case (this is something that we can observe, unlike "value" which is subjective), and therefore it could be argued they are objectively useless regardless of their actual value in the market.
That's how literally anything which is "executable" works. You just point the interpreter (kernel, ld-linux, php, python, ...) at a file, and it runs the file.
My sweet summer child...
You'd be a lot more convincing if you weren't in the throes of a hissyfit over something that's 0.5% of the US's total CO2 output in 2019. It's not great, but it's far from the worst problem. Like, bad building insulation in 2016 is responsible for _3x_ the CO2 emissions of Bitcoin _today_.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26829795.
I'm wondering if it is possible a large portion of the survey takers were non-native English speakers that simply don't understand what 'ad' means in their own language.
For non-players, the "self-imposed restrictions" are actively enforced by the UI if you choose to request them. The most restrictive category is "no moving, panning, or zooming", abbreviated "NMPZ", in which you must guess your location from a single still Street View image.

If you search for "NMPZ" on YouTube, you'll see that some people have become very very good at this (!).
They should have thought about that and planned for it when designing the software
Is Inreach something you pay a subscription for? Or do you get charged a (massive?) fee only upon use?
Good point (I think). This could slightly be a DK effect in that such unskilled people maybe were unaware that there were talented experts they could compare themselves with instead?
A Casino Gets Hacked Through a Fish-Tank Thermometer
IRC is great, but it most certainly is not at feature parity. XMPP works iff everyone has the right set of extensions, which can work but often doesn't. Email doesn't even solve the same problem (real-time multiuser chat).
Do you know if the algorithm favours sites with GA as a positive SEO ranking factor? or am I going into tin hat territory here?