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> From climate activists' perspectives, if oil companies are less trustful that any permits they're issued will be valid long enough to complete their projects, and it makes them more hesitant to start new infrastructure projects even during cooperative administrations, that's an even bigger win that the defeat of this single project.

What is climate activists' perspective on the price of everything increasing, leading to everyone's standard of living declining and poor nations remaining poor?
And the fact property taxes are often used as a slush fund makes those of us paying attention very sensitive to their increase. With those taxes comes bureaucratic power and control, often leading to more taxes and less of a say over how one lives one's life.
Why did you buy a lot zoned ag when you clearly wanted one zoned residential? A little due diligence before purchasing the lot and you would either know what you in for and still buy or decide it's too much of a hassle and walk.
I guess the decrease of tourism and cruise business would've happened whatever Florida did.
I hadn't heard that. Thanks for the new info. They'd be another store I'd avoid like the plague if I was selling stuff.

if this isn't collusion and racketeering, then what is?
The little tiny company I work for plays by the same rules. We don't support any subscription payments through either of the app stores, only through our website.

Every couple months Apple will reject us over it, but it always escalates and we always get approved.

Google at least allows us to link to our own website, but if you use our iOS app, you have to figure it out on your own if you want to subscribe.
As always, I wish there was a way to DM on HN. :)
How does this contrast with Google?
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Elizabeth Warren chairs Senate hearing on crypto
Literally told a FB recruiter yesterday I was already earning near FB comp for global remote work, and for that reason I wasn't even intersted in interviewing for the position they were offering which required in the office work in SF after "corona ended".
i’ve worked remote full-time for eight years. The first year she was pretty weird, was a good employee? yes. But managing my home life and my work life was something I was still figuring out.

Am I better am I a better employee now? I think I am, because I can always make time for work if I have to, and I know how to make time for my family if I have to.

I think I would work better at home than I would at the office at this point
There's great power in scratching your own itch and building the tools and software you want for the real problem you have right now.

But on the flip side, a lot of the software regular people use for their jobs is awful. As software engineers we've built lovely tools for ourselves (development environments, version control, etc). We've scratched our own itch. But we collectively don't feel a lot of empathy for folks in other industries. So they end up with bad, missing or massively overpriced software as a result.

The answer is to go outside, and make friends with people who aren't software engineers. Pick up a hobby or a craft. The best software is always made out of necessity.
>environmentalists ... suppress dissenting views

>dissenters are less censorious and more oriented toward discussion

This is a really broad insult and complement to two really broad categories of people. This is frankly almost as over-general as saying "people I agree with are good people and people I disagree with are bad people".
Study doesn't seem to check for the B.1351 (SA) variant which has shown a limited ability to overcome natural immunity.

Arguably this variant isn't a big deal for now (compared to spreading out vaccine doses), but I suspect previously infected individuals will need to get a single shot eventually.
You can use Ctrl-C, alternatively.
Un ironically, Spaniards are too modest to even suggest this, but Spanish seems like an ideal solution to this issue.
Presumably this leads to narratives with higher engagement. The market for technical root cause analysis amongst BBC readership is likely fairly low, so getting into the technicals is not going to sell clicks.

Humanizing the problem OTOH is (presumably) a narrative that resonates with their audience. Who was this guy? What was he doing? How does he feel about bringing down the Internet? (Is he sorry?) Is he anything like me? Could I accidentally bring down the entire Internet? Should I be worried about that? etc etc.

Not saying modern mass media has no room for technical truth, but I would argue their business model demonstrates over and over again it's this other meta-narrative they're tilting at.
Don't you understand that there are many people who, deep down, feel that destroying the fossil fuel industry is an absolute imperative, consequences be damned? For example, here's one in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27454580
You could use camera head tracking for that.
I assume you're referring to the safety and environmental aspects that motivate them? Which (to reiterate from above) I recognize the importance of. The trouble is all the things that run afoul of local zoning rules (and sometimes even local code!) for no obvious reason other than "that's what it says".

The refusal to issue a septic permit noted in a nearby comment is a prime example. Such things should be "will issue" so long as they won't cause any health or environmental problems in that location.
Looks like its being recreated by the first three employees at r/newsecretsanta (https://old.reddit.com/r/newsecretsanta/)
You literally have that choice right now. Today. You can buy ANY smart phone that isn't an Apple phone and you can choose how it installs and runs your chosen software. And for people who don't want the necessary tradeoffs that come with that freedom, they can choose to buy an Apple phone where such a thing isn't possible. Everyone gets what they want.
There's a little bit formality with it, but I've also found that "hey, let me record this" is a super power. It makes it a lot less critical that you understand 100% up front and then it's there for reference.
"Rougelike" is such an obscure name for an obscure subculture, even google trends confirms that this isn't Baader-Meinhoff syndrome for me as nobody was using this term and still aren't. Its proof that all the favorite "relatable" reviewers on youtube and twitch were fed a script for Returnal because now Rougelike is in their vocabulary as if it was in the gamer lexicon the whole time.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=rougelik...

but anyway, I guess there is no better simple term for it. Even saying "Groundhogday-esque" just replaces a game-that-tried-a-concept with a movie-that-tried-a-concept.
It does mean you shouldn't bet your business on winning that fight
There is this suicidal tendency, when somebody raised "a lot" of money, to immediately spend it to hire as much people as possible, get an office and otherwise pretend to be an established company.

It doesn't work like that, unless you really have infinite pockets and already have a lot of experience.

The more money you spend the less value you tend to extract from each dollar. Your 20th employee is not likely to be as motivated as you, your cofounder and your first employee.

The more money you spend and especially the faster you do, the less time you have to actually be prudent with it.

The project will not get done twice as fast if you put two times more people on it.

Allocating all your money puts a countdown till your death as a business, which is exactly opposite from what you should be doing -- ie playing a long game to stay in business for as long as possible.

If you don't have infinite pockets and especially if it first business, it is better to start slowly and ensure that every dollar is spent with as much benefit as possible. Having those dollars work to prolong your business also means you get more time for learning and learning is as much important as getting product done.
If you can manage a 100% policy of using no services that ever require users to do X, then you can also just disable doing X entirely through MDM. Phishing emails can't get your users if your users' email clients don't open links other than to whitelisted domains. :)
I was worried about some niche Rust related news!
Sure, I'm just saying embedded systems also care about GC cycles
I would very much like this to be true. Do you have a citable source?
> You're free to use a browser

You may be free to do that, but it’s worth noting that if an app developer tells you that you can use a browser, their app will be rejected and they may have their developer account banned.
You don’t need a paid account but the limit in that scenario is 7 days.
That's great. I really appreciate the growth boundary. It is one of the reasons I like Portland. That's not at all what I'm referring to. In fact, my position, is that removing the single-family zoning restriction is a good thing. That works against sprawl.

> people like you

I think you may have been triggered by poor reading comprehension and gone off in a fit of ignorant rage and assumed I thought sprawl was a good thing.
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Thanks for providing some insight into the inner workings. It’s worrying seeing one of the nominal leaders of a union of over half a billion people succumb to these pressures. Clearly he is intelligent and perceptive enough to understand the consequences.

And besides the long term costs that can be reasoned out, all sorts of emotions, insecurities, etc., will undoubtedly come flying out from many quarters.

I doubt if these sorts of topics can be discussed calmly by anyone invested in the change.
Yeah -- this might act as a reminder to keep it for the community, run by the community this time, instead of handing it over to Reddit who are becoming increasingly profit-driven at the expense of anything else, including their users.
> However there already exist real people in the world who have had Covid twice

Sure, but these things are rare enough that it can be only people with a wonky immune system or some other exotic condition.
Main thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27453226
What changes are you most concerned about? How does Manifest V3 negatively impact your extensions?

You may want to consider getting involved in the recently announced WebExtensions Community Group in order to discuss your concerns with the future of browser extensions with browser vendors and other extension developers.

http://w3c.org/community/webextensions
https://github.com/w3c/webextensions
Safari is the new IE6

They're blatantly holding back web tech to maintain their entrenched interests
> Because openly stating this obvious fact would get you downvoted on here a few months ago.

Attempting to discuss it here will still commonly get you downvoted. HN is not a particularly rational forum. People make the mistake of thinking it is because a lot of engineers hang out here. Engineers are not especially rational, that's a common myth derived from failing to understand the way people mentally compartmentalize; how they can frequently be rational about one subject and irrational about another.

Try this one for example: the numbers they've been reporting about Covid infections the past year are not the actual infection numbers, not even remotely close. Yet they're held up everywhere as being representative of how many infections there have been.

This is still the biggest comedy going about the pandemic. It's hilarious how batshit crazy people can be.

If the US were a sane nation, the people that have been trying to represent the supposedly official infection count as being fully representative of the number of infections that have occurred - those people would be publicly mocked and shamed for being anti-science, the equivalent of flat-earthers. Instead, the flat-earthers dominate the media and national discussion. That's why the lab-leak theory was buried under so much censorship and for so long, those same people have been holding that conversation back very aggressively.

Most people know on some level that the held-up official infection tally is not representative of the real number of infections. And yet the mainstream media, without exception, pretends those are the legitimate infection numbers. Any attempt to discuss how many infections have really occurred, will be shouted down. The shrieking emotionalism that pours out when you open this can of worms, is endlessly fascinating to me.

If you say: how many people in the US have had Covid, they'll point at the magic official number, which is not correct.

If we wanted to have a serious discussion nationally about herd immunity (for example), one of the most important steps is one they intentionally refuse to take: let's try to get a more serious estimate on how many people nationally have actually had Covid.

They won't have that conversation and the media goes out of its way to avoid it (and has done so for a year now). Why? Pick your poison on the why answer. Political psychopaths lusting for control, looking to prolong their ability to take advantage of a disaster (the 'ol never waste a good crisis mentality). Wildly irrational anti-science types in power that pretend they represent science, which is the wing that Fauci belongs to. Maybe a combination. Maybe it's just the fear that if the masses of people think we're anywhere near herd immunity, the vaccination rates will plunge even faster, so some people want to maintain the false illusion (on the actual infection counts) as long as possible.
And what happens when she has an Xbox without a disk drive?
The last server was the one that is serving christine.website, which is being served from the EU for GDPR reasons.
French is fairly predictable, there are pronunciation rules. On the other hand you have English where you have things like "weird", "weight", "heir" and "receipt", "recipe" and say "sniper", this uncertainty around "data", "direct", "neither" etc, and as a pragmatic rule there are no pronunciation rules really, you have to learn the language twice.

If your native language has sane spelling correspondences this feature of English never ceases to amaze and to be honest baffle, even bother you.

Will this vowel in this particular word be the diphthong you'd expect according to the patterns you've inferred up to this point or some wild monophtong just because? Let's find out!

As for the French, good for them, they speak a world language that is also one of the three working languages of the EU. My native language is another world language. English is a lingua franca nowadays, but there's no methaphysical necessity about speaking English, it's just popular enough and therefore convenient.
> So which view is the 'well-established consensus'? In the last election for instance the population was split nearly down the middle

A well-established consensus isn't just about how many people believe it, it's about why they believe it, the observations and reasoning behind it, and to some extent the depth of any relevant domain expertise in approach the problem and formulating the conclusions.

When many Americans believed smoking was harmless or even healthy, that didn't make it so. The eventual consensus (smking is harmful) was founded in expert-reviewed but publicly available statistical observations connecting smoking with higher probabilities of cancer or other disease, first hand observations by doctors, and eventually models of how/why it happens. Of course, you can have those things and still have a population that doesn't understand them because tobacco companies engaged in disinformation campaigns to provide cover for their business interests, and that brings up the question of how you address it. The answer seems to have been limiting advertisement of tobacco in some media, requiring clear labelling about the hazards, and in some cases subsidizing efforts to communicate consensus information.

Now, do you want to reject the consensus here as some arbitrary norm? Do you want to be as full-throated in your free speech advocacy for the right of tobacco companies to present any picture they like of how the world works through whatever means their wealth can provide?

Or would you acknowledge that at least sometimes, as this case illustrates, matters of public interest -- even public health -- include matters of public information? And that there's reasons to rely on expertise and try to amplify it?

> In the last election for instance the population was split nearly down the middle

You may be mixing up the issue of how people vote with the issue of confidence that the vote was accurately represented.

Elections are contests. People take different sides. That's expected and explicitly allowed. The consensus isn't that people should all vote one way or all vote another, the consensus is that accurately represented vote counts should decide who holds public office.

Are you going against that consensus?

> We just had a full year of misinformation from all directions.

misinformation involving mistakes or communication gaps arguably is part of the human condition.

disinformation is something else entirely, and no, it doesn't come from all directions.

> ( Recent news is proving this to be very true ).

Presumably you're talking about revived talk about outbreak sources as if it's some matter of controversy or coverup. It's not, and it doesn't matter much.
Sometimes when I access a webpage I think to myself "what if I do X and the whole website crashes?" Or if the webpage crashes I think "heh, what if I brought down the whole server?"

It looks like this guy did just that. And for Fastly. Wow.

"So, did I just hear three distinct light switch clicks?"
I caught it over dinner with friends who had it and didnt realise. Basically was just proximity.
Routing in LN has a bit of a problem where sometimes it can't find a route though. My understanding is that it's an NP complete problem and it's approximation in practice leads to the dreaded "unable to find route" problem.
What a sad way of looking at life. We used to have "if all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you too?", talk about people as sheep, and generally look down on people giving in to peer pressure.

Now it seems to be a badge of honor, or at least a popular opinion, amongst educated people, to lean in to being part of a herd.

Doing stuff because it makes sense is one thing, but praising the abstract act of being peer pressured is ridiculous.
Of course I realize this, but unless you're suggesting that most PhDs lie most of the time, I'm not sure how this is relevant.

Just a reminder that these are actually good heuristics to live by, in life in general:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_the_assumptio...
> You are making best (but unreachable in today's political climate) the enemy of good.

From another perspective, you are doing that: fossil fuels will be a necessity to some extent, if not forever, for centuries more. They are used for much more than just generating electricity and transportation. What you advocate will make that necessary use of fossil fuels more expensive, reducing standard of living, and more polluting, harming the environment--that which you claim to care about most.

Absolutism is generally problematic.
Increasing the price only needs to reduce usage in any areas to see a net benefit.

As to transportation options, boats and trains are extremely efficient to the point where pipelines don’t make that big of an environmental difference.
Professional sports betters absolutely think in probabilistic terms -- "I think there's a 25% chance we'll win, the market thinks there's a 20% chance we'll win" etc. Kelly bet sizing absolutely makes sense, though market depth and Bayesian uncertainty also act to reduce bet sizes.
What about size? Does the advantage disappear if you need to bundle a large number of these on a chip?
I was reading this strongly expecting it to be about startups and avoiding creating a product for non-existing users. It was such a pleasant surprise to learn this is about not comparing yourself to others and living a happy life. I think it's more than a coincidence that the right answer in these two vastly different areas overlap so neatly.
Honestly I agree, it's not worth upvoting
This is great news for some, but not for most. What will happen is that most employees will choose to return to onsite work because of the perks and deeper connections with colleagues.

If most of your team is not working remotely - let's be honest - it'll be hard for a remote worker to not feel disconnected with the rest of the team.
What do you think the suboptimal outcome was in this case?

Is it better for websites to be unavailable at different times as opposed to all at the same time? This seems to be a really common assumption people make re these occasional cloud take-downs, but I don't really understand why people think it.

Seems to me that in cases like this, everyone operating in their own self interest, by all using the best value service, is actually the best outcome. Everyone suffered the same outage at the same time, which minimised the overall cost of the outage (one resolution, one communication line etc. as opposed to many).
For a usage like that, no as you'll probably rack up lots of allocations and need to GC eventually. But if your goal is this from the outset, there's way to do it as other post mentions. If you never create more than a fixed amount of Lua objects, closures, or unique string values you can certainly indefinitely postpone the GC
But a company is making the decisions - Apple.
well pack it up boys, lets not make this go viral on social media and just hope the "peers" organically pick this study to review over the next 6 months instead of some other study that appears to be more in the public interest and has more popular people behind it

a while back I looked to see how long it actually took for the peer reviewed studies to come out for previous diseases and outbreaks, such as SARS 1. It was too long and we have to weigh inputs right now and react now.
> Even the buyer’s agent gets paid a percentage of the sale price, so if they try to lower it they’d be essentially working against themselves.

Yeah, I really wish we normalized fee-for-service for buyer's agents. Agree on a fair hourly rate for their time, plus some constant fee for actually closing. The agent can have more consistent income over time, and the buyer can know that the agent's incentives are not misaligned. Buyers at the lower end of the market also don't get lesser attention.

But I think because we have normalized the commission structure, there's now also a bias effect, where the agents who are most willing to agree to a fee-for-service arrangement are the agents who are least successful/satisfied under the commission model.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/business/real-estate-fee-...
Wow really? Do you have positive test results that document the sequence of events?

If so you should probably email these researchers or something. Bet they would be interested
There is a culture, that has remained in place since the time when Apple was about to go bankrupt, to try to keep every penny possible. This corporate culture literally saved the company from its death (remember the Bill Gates Borg appearance on the giant screen in ‘97?) but it’s becoming a bit much now.

Apple should have been pulling every trick in the book to help this young female entrepreneur build a digital platform — she’s exactly the sort of person we need in a leadership role in that industry. Instead, they’re killing her business — what? This goes beyond “the rules” ... It’s time for their culture to evolve.