skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Obviously, you're right long-term but it's a slow transition not a switch we can flip.

And trains lend themselves much better to slow declining transition than a new pipeline. Can be used for other cargo; are a bit more expensive so they are a mild financial disincentive; the contaminated material (tanker cars) are by definition mobile and therefore easier to deal with at EOL.
Outlying suburbs should see an increase in the sorts of things that make them "places". Cafes, bakeries, bars, restaurants, offices, markets, schools, plazas, bookstores, and so on. Then they can further densify without automatically driving more commute traffic into the city.
If this erodes trust in the government's commitment to allowing new fossil fuel projects, I'd consider that an absolute win.
Not as far as I can throw them.
The standard argument that a 30% is ok for video games but not ok for the App Store is that games are special and different. I don’t find it convincing. I think a better argument is that a 30% cut is wrong full stop, but going after phone app stores is a higher enforcement priority because the stakes are higher. An increasing portion of commerce is digital, and increasing portion is happening on phones. Apple will try to expand the coverage of the 30% cut until someone makes them stop. The only way they can keep growing as a 2 trillion dollar company is to take an increasing cut of the world’s economic activity.
Yes.

https://harvardcrcl.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/...

Norlidger v. Hahn (worth a read https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/90-1912.ZD.html) didn't make it but also didn't address the Fair Housing Act.

Prop 13, especially the extensions that preserve tax rates through bloodlines, disparately impacts minorities even though that wasn't the explicit intent of the law. Turns out that intent doesn't matter on issues of race so there's legal precedent to overturn the law.
> If we ever answer the question of ‘how many years of income’, we’ll have no choice but to come to the conclusion that sellers are operating in the realm of cruelty. That one can charge 30 years of your income and frugality for what they are selling. It’s unreasonable to ask for such a thing, so instead we don’t speak about it and hide the disgusting asking price behind financing.

This is true, when other regulations prevent people from creating more of the goods. Yes, a seller can sell a box of pasta for $100k... but who will buy it, if you can make your own pasta for cheap, and even sell it to people who want to buy it, but don't want to pay the first sellers house.

In my city, the housing prices are fscking high and rising, but we have literal cornfields and cows in places that are technically the middle of the city. We have right governments, who don't do anything about housing, we have left governments, saying they'll rais the rent taxes (so making rents higher) and build government apartment buildings (=too expensive) for people (=their friends), but noone stops to look at the satellite map and say "hmm.. we could build here, and there, and there...".

Look at San francico for example... there is a huge need for housing, but most of the houses are single family houses... there's no way to pack so many people there in such houses - you need to build huge apartments buildings, but regulation does not allow that, and housing is expensive.
Right, and the US isn't even a nation-state, despite the persistent efforts of certain reactionary groups to change that. But it's a backwards justification, because thousands of years of history show us that large standing militaries increase the risk of war, while fortifications diminish it.
Biden lifted sanctions on Russia to allow an undersea pipeline,

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57180674

I don't think demand reduction was an objective with Keystone.
https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Facebook,Google,Amazon,Apple...

Roughly, "senior" at a lot of places.
This claim is nominally true, but leaves out a metric boat-load of context, in the classic "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" sense. BC only has resource extraction take up 10% of it economy, but it is more dependent on real estate (aka flipping houses) as a percentage of its economy that Alberta is dependent on Oil and Gas. Flipping real estate isn't exactly a great foundation for an economy, but sure it has transitioned away from extraction.

Secondly, the majority of Canada's economy is service oriented, but due to the way Canada is structured, the super-majority of the transfer payments that the federal government makes to the various provinces comes from resource extraction generated revenues.

The following statements are not meant to be value judgements, they are just simple statements of fact that should give color to the context that is missing from the parent comment. For non-Canadian HN users, in order to guarantee a relatively equal standard of living for Canadian citizens regardless of where they happen to live, the federal government distributes billions of dollars every year to various provinces, taking from the more wealthy provinces and helping shore up the budgets of the less wealthy provinces. These revenues have been generated in overwhelmingly large part by resource extraction, and the service oriented economies of other provinces show 0 possibility of taking up the slack for these revenues should resource extraction end, they simply don't generate enough surplus on a per-capita basis. Without these revenues large portions of Canada would face absolutely devastating cuts to government revenues and thus services, and frankly no government has really put forth any sort of solution to this, outside of larger deficits on a temporary basis. How Canada navigates this difference between its aspirations, a service oriented non-resource economy, and the reality on the ground, an absolute dependence on resource revenues for current quality of life, is probably the biggest question it will face in the 21st Century.
So Does GM have a monopoly on Chevrolets? Does that mean they can be regulated as a monopoly? Chevrolets compete with Fords and Mercedes and Honda, etc; so having a monopoly on your own brand is not a monopoly. I have both an Android phone and an iPhone, so when I hear that Apple has a phone monopoly it just seems like dumb whining.
Static array. If you wish, it was allocated for you by the JVM, when it started your program. My point is that it wasn't allocated from a call to new(), and if someone calls your function, you don't have to call new() to give them a block.

This is in fact an allocator, in the same sense that a C++ arena allocator is an allocator, and in the same sense that malloc is an allocator, and in the same sense that the OS's memory manager is an allocator. They're doing the same things - they're managing a block of memory, and returning sub-blocks of it when requested.
I did have covid (not diagnosed while active but shown in antibody test), and I got vaccinated significantly later. This was not driven by belief in medical need, but by social/rules need. You get no "points" for being recovered like you do for a proof of vaccination.
Wonder if they will hire more in UK/Canada now?
L3 is new grad
L4 is an intermediate level - you must be promoted to L5 in a fixed time frame (2-3 yearish)
L5 is a senior level
I wonder how professional gamblers approach bet sizing. It seems to me that for most applications the Kelly Criterion is not the right choice. The utility of money is asymmetric; gaining $25000 is worse than not losing $25000. Relatedly, most actual gamblers want to ensure good returns while not going broke, so minimizing risk of ruin is often more important than maximizing return rate. Further complicating the matter is that in real life you don't know your actual probability of success, but you may have an estimation. And finally, though this is less commonly significant, your rate of return in a given game might depend on your the amount you bet.

From what I've seen in the poker community, no one has really approached this type of bet sizing from a rigorous perspective beyond the relatively simple Kelly Criterion.
You could use libp2p's DHT over Tor (I did a poc of this long ago, and the situation's only improved). Combined with other libp2p/IPFS components, you can essentially have a private IPFS over onion services (not to be confused with accessing the existing IPFS network via Tor exit nodes).
The pictures aren't in the email. The email contains instructions saying “phone Steve and ask for the images, then put them in this gap”, but if your computer follows those instructions then Steve knows when you're reading your emails, and where.

Who is Steve? Nobody knows, but he's in the “knowing who's reading emails and when” business. It's a shady business. Don't let your computer phone Steve.
The only thing to see here is the humor of the highest French diplomats reforcing extreme ethnocentric stereotypes about the French people -- the man on the street will snobbishly ignore your request of directions if not attempted in French first -- on the global stage: The EU president will ignore your country's pleas if not communicated in French first.
What is their revenue source? And what is the reason cash flows from that revenue source if not Firefox? If Firefox did not exist, Mozilla would have no reason to be considered by anyone about anything.
It’s not a requirement at Red Hat, because anyone can be converted to the open source religion. This surprised me when I started - I thought I would need to be indoctrinated, but then it just became normal to see open source as the only way to work.

That said, RH hires key contributors all the time (as do many companies), so being the maintainer of a project is definitely a plus.
> Is there a growing sense that our GUI/UI paradigms took a wrong step somewhere in CS history and we've pushed the current UI path as far as it will go?

Well, there are two conflated problems here:

1) The GUI and interacting with humans, itself.

I don't think we've even scratched the surface here. I'm not a big fan of the Instagram/TikTok "HAH! Everything is hidden, Boomer! If you aren't spending 5 hours a day with our application talking to your friends how to use our application you'll never figure it out." However, at least some stuff is different.

2) The software implementation of the GUI underneath

I do think we've gotten lost in a local extremum here. The whole "The GUI must run on the main thread" when we've got gajillions of cores spread across the CPU and GPU is a gigantic problem. We really need a multithreaded UI implementation.
Yet Alberta is feeling economic pain in a way that Ontario and BC do not seem to share.

They aren't diversified enough.
You mean Audible by Amazon.com, Inc.?
once upon a time I wrote a script that took a MARC file from the library catalog as input, and output a PAC file for the group that ran the campus proxy server.
For FB WFHers wondering whether COL adjustments are in the cards https://mashable.com/article/mark-zuckerberg-instagram-whats...
As far as I know, there are two: 'o' (as in 'bon') and 'eau' (as in 'beau').While that's one more than it should have been necessary, it's not that bad I think.
I honestly don't take your point. My point was that many important prescription drugs are unavailable to people who need them because they cannot afford them.
Black Mirror anyone?

Highly recommend watching this episode: (spoilers on Wiki obviously) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Against_Fire

Soldiers naturally face immense PTSD from harming human beings. There is only one natural end game of this technological progression uninterrupted; soldiers will be coddled by tech to dehumanize the enemy.
The creator economy is running into Apple Tax – this startup is fighting back
Securing the Personal Perimeter
How else would you do it though? Surely you don’t want a random Mac to push its cursor onto your iPad? Same with all the other handoff features. Maybe I’m missing something!
"around the corner" is the problem. That isn't now. Li-ion is good enough and the tipping point has been reached where we can now have mass adoption of EV's with Li-ion. IMO it's more important to grow the EV market share with existing Li-ion batteries than hold off for a future tech which may not arrive. + Growing the EV market will spur further investment in alternative battery tech. bigger market = bigger investments
Who is downvoting you? Why? Your comment is perfectly on point IMO.
Note, this has nothing to do with not facing criminal charges. It prevents any civil damages being awarded from any jurisdiction if I read the article correctly. You make a mistake that destroys innocent people’s property, and in some cases health and lives, and it doesn’t matter, no requirement for competence if you can get someone to believe you’re probably in good faith.
This explains why the price per unit is very high, but the land itself is valuable in the first place because there's high demand for it and that land would be even more valuable if it were legal to build more units on it, which would lower the price per unit, but increase the overall value of the investment.

This is what's called a win-win.
I am really curious to see where we'll be in a year, two, three down the line wrt remote/office/hybrid work at major companies.

This forced experiment has had some surprising outcomes about the effectiveness of remote workplaces, but working from home for only a year, in pandemic conditions, is clearly not the same as indefinitely in normal times. But there's reason to think that may go even better, not worse; I am really curious to see how it plays out and glad more companies are continuing to let people work remotely.
Having had this almost happen to me, I always strongly recommend that you remove your phone number from Gmail as a recovery method. And then go and test it out to double check.

SMS 2fa is okay but SMS recovery is not okay and high risk.

It's also ideal to have obscure email addresses used for, say, coinbase so that in the data dump they they likely have, containing your email to phone number mapping, points them to the email address not linked to coinbase.
Are there any more current versions of HN code available?
Sorry how does this article address this at all?
> “When you consider the hundreds of thousands of people who have died in this pandemic, is it too much to ask to share your heart rate or temperature?”

This is honestly disgusting, it's the worst kind of lazy "think of the children" style rhetoric. I'd like to think this kind of argument stands on it's own as ridiculous, I guess we'll see.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. Energy is a money game.
Consider that:

- Most American households own their home.

- Homeowners vote at substantially higher rates than renters.

- Home equity is one of the largest components of American wealth (roughly equal with retirement accounts).

Taken together it's difficult to see how home values will be allowed to fall.
Even if they do them they’re extremely unlikely to be significant
500mg/day was the figure cited for heavy users in the OP article.

You're right that 500mg is far into overdose territory for novice users. But, he probably has been using for a long time and has a very high tolerance.
Also no knowledge on the subject, but I can image a case where it is more durable:

If the spike protein is absolutely critical to the virus, but can't change too much without affecting function, an immune response that is specifically targetted against it would be better than an immune response against any other protein that could change without affecting the function.
I think seed ratios and seed time (mostly used by private trackers) attempt to solve this problem.
Part of why I like bitcoin is because the artifical digital scarcity should in theory reduce pressure from the housing market by attracting speculators to a much more liquid, low maintenance, and secure asset. Just anecdotally, I feel more inclined to invest my money into bitcoin than real estate. I wonder if there are others like me?
> There is no malice in the law as it is written

Please read what you have wrote now.

Law say go spy after A and B, ESPIONAGE
This doesn't help if it gets sold to someone else, as many extensions have.
Because you push the government to legislate an alternative on an immediate country-wide level. At their scale they could've been taking smaller profit for many years without poking the bear.
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=41754

That is a recent thing. It can easily go the other way again.
But that wouldn't contribute with the propaganda of the current mainstream narrative, would it?
> has had some surprising outcomes about the effectiveness of remote workplaces

Curious, what are the outcomes?
it's 1.5 year into pandemic, wtf?

I guess it's never too late
> Gmail is required by law to really delete things the user deletes.

This is not universally the case and the opposite is actually stated in their privacy policy and data retention agreements as it relates to financial transaction information (which likely needs to be retained for tax purposes).

While Google likely pays it safe and complies mostly with CCPA/GDPR 'rights to be forgotten' for the rest of the US, and a good chunk of the world there's no legal requirement outside of the contractual agreements provided in paid Workspaces on when they need to purge this data.

Current privacy policy: https://www.gstatic.com/policies/privacy/pdf/20210204/3jla0x...
Data retention policy: https://policies.google.com/technologies/retention
I gave up on IPMI/DRAC/ILO on my old server equipment - it was the most fragile part of the machines.

I ended up just getting a used Raritan IP KVM off ebay, and its worked perfectly.
Inducting this lesson only to the most convenient level for your argument is intellectually dishonest to the point that I really hope you understand, deep down, that you are playing semantic games and don't actually believe this argument.
no, it’s always worth pointing out irrational reasoning though.

There are clear benefits to real-time monitoring of power. So far I’ve only heard made up, theoretical, what if, privacy concerns.
No... We don't deserve this (not yet).
Those are some good examples, you're right. It is quite a bit less regular than I remembered from my high-school days.

For 'er' though, isn't the rule essentially that it is pronounced 'a' at the end of verbs, and 'ar' otherwise? I realize that is not a phonetic rule, though.
Haha, OP has no awareness of his/her bias!
sure 1M is OK in SF Bay area (you need to plan for retirement too). But even based on your calculations suddenly 500K is not enough to allow a middle class lifestyle.
Funny to see so much drab posturing about our supposed « language entitlement » while almost calling for languages to be rolled over and wiped out by English.

I'm quite certain the position of French-Canadians has little to do with « entitlement », and more with how trapped they feel. Not that Anglo-Canadians would give a rats ass about the actual motives of Québec's cultural policy, as long as it can get weaponized for political currency.

Frankly this entire thread reeks.
Correct if they did this virtually every really big player would opt out and offer a package on their website. See the MS and apple desktop store.
Here's the link: http://hn.boxpiper.com/

Sorry mate, a bummer moment.
Here is your Friday afternoon, dump it when no one things we are looking.

I do believe that we should be doing alternative energy at this point - but it's also clear that this particular decision has a lot of negative side-effects (including greater exports over trains and trucks, and increased dependency on oil-fracking and bad middle eastern regimes).
Hmm, well Apple already has seemingly got their profit from the device when it was...purchased the first time?

Or should phones just become a subscription service overall so that you can never actually own your own hardware?
Americans want to live in 2500+ sqft homes with long driveways, no sidewalks, etc. Like it or not, that's the modern American dream.
Thank you for your question
The choice between mandatory ‘more than half time’ in the office and completely remote (‘with on/offsites!’) is interesting.

Swooping through the office for meetings is discouraged. What a challenge for management!
> his document is about silencing people who don't agree with the 'norm'

Apparently you're implying "The norm" is always nothing more than just another possible range of opinions, or worse, that it's some arbitrary standard that outsiders are forcing upon you.

Since this is an engineering forum, though, the idea that a norm may represent a well-established consensus should be readily apparent. As should the idea that there is such a thing as "noise" that obscures true signal and it's desirably sometimes to filter noise out of well-functioning systems.

Is that tricky when it comes to the marketplace of ideas? Sure. Does that mean every effort to come to grips with the problem is censorship? Nope.

> This document only and substantially focuses on Republicans, conservatives, Fox News, NewMax, etc as the problem.

Yes, because that's where people are relying not only on noise but on outright disinformation most right now along the political spectrum. It doesn't have to be that way -- there are conservatives who are capable of advocacy on honest merits -- but it is that way right now.
In my area, we have everything around us (big retailers, malls, nightlife, etc.) in the suburbs in a well-off area in South Florida. How would adding more houses appreciate my property's value?
Norway is an entire country that has just slightly more people than the province of Alberta, which is to say that is it much smaller than Canada, while having oil reserves equal to or greater than those in Alberta. Alberta should obviously have been more diligent in saving up oil revenues generated, but this ignores the fact that a huge amount of oil revenues generated in Alberta have gone to help the rest of the country develop as well. Roughly 250-300 billion dollars from Alberta has transferred to the rest of the country since Alberta's discovery of oil, which would essentially give funding equivalent to the Norwegian sovereign fund. So when people say "where did all the money go?" the answer is that it went to hospitals in Chicoutimi, roads in Neepawa, schools in Battle Harbor, etc, etc. Trying to compare sovereign Norway with a single province in a confederation is always going to give a skewed view of what Alberta should or should not have done with its resource wealth.
Netflix doesn't take payment in its iOS app as far as I can find.

They are allowed to take payment on their website for a subscription, but so is any other developer.
The argument with videogame consoles was that console makers were actually loosing money on each console sold, and would make up for it by taking a larger cut on each game sold.

This is of course very different from apple business model.
I got started with moria/umoria on the Amiga, which had beautiful graphical tiles. Then I played quite a lot of moria/angband in the terminal on Linux (occasionally dabbling with the tileset/gui versions).

It's an interesting game.

> MAngband was (wait, IS! it had a release in 2020) a mind-blowing multiplayer Angband variant.

I still remember how delightfully different the game became with multi-player - mostly because it wasn't lock-step turns (a la Civilisation), but tick-based. I still think there's room for a multi-player rouge-like - but Mangband is not it for me.

But it remains an illuminating lesson in game design ("Completely change the feel of your game, with this one wierd t(r)ick!" :)