skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is just a really silly way to think of craftsmanship. Whoever you pay to redo your bathroom doesn't care at all, literally at all, about your motivations behind wanting to redo your bathroom and how you think it'll change your whole morning and evening routines.

This depends on who you hire. I recently built a home and dealt with lots of different contractors with different attitudes. Very often when they needed clarification they would come to me, and very often I would ask them "what would you do if it were your home?".

I worked with companies and workers who I would hire again in a heartbeat - they understood what I wanted from my home and how it would be used. They incorporated this into designs and decisions made on site (because I don't care how well you think you've planned, there are ALWAYS decisions to make one site).

The people I would never work with again were the ones who either never even asked for clarification and simply chose the easiest / cheapest solution to a problem (often surprising me - in a bad way) or when I asked them what they would do in their own home were not interested in engaging with that question - they would respond by asking me again what I wanted.

You may not care if your current employer considers you a bad hire or not, and that's fine. In our industry, in this market, you can get away with that. Some of us hold ourselves to a higher standard.
FWIW, filling a screen with monospaced pixel-font text (plus colors and stuff) takes single-digit microseconds on a modern GPU once everything is in on-device memory. Fancier fonts or distance-field-based antialiasing is a few times that.

All the rest of the time is bookkeeping and memory transfers.
Everybody answering this with examples of Congresspeople is clearly missing that elected officials can't lose their jobs. You have to vote them out of office. It's why politicians can get away with saying and doing way more outrageous things than any ordinary employee, and arguably can just flat-out break the law in many cases if the rest of the government refuses to enforce laws against their own party members, claiming all attempts at enforcement action to be politically motivated from the other side.

An actual civil servant enjoys no such impunity from normal rules of conduct.
My line is pretty simple: if there's a clear purpose for the platform or even a part of it, then you have every right to remove content that deviates from that purpose. So I would say that your political platform should not be forced to host content supporting any other party. Of course it would still have to follow campaign finance laws and things like that, but that's a whole different ball of wax.

Social media platforms are content-neutral. They want to be treated like the "public square" because a lot of benefits come along with that. But then at the same time, they censor content that they disagree with. That's where it crosses the line. If Twitter came out tomorrow and declared that they are officially a left-wing social network and updated their rules to reflect that, then I'd have no problem with them kicking every Republican off the platform and banning every person who complained about taxes being too high. But Twitter won't do that.

I don't want to get further off on the tangent about telecommunications infrastructure, so I'll just leave that alone.
Not necessarily. It might mean people just shift to different industries.
I'm fairly certain that dominating costs of a private jet besides the initial purchase price are the maintenance and employing a flight crew.

Fuel price is probably a rounding error in comparison (they get a few miles per gallon). Edit - some quick Googling suggests that jet fuel costs $1.96/gallon in the US at the end of last week.

Jets aren't cars, you can't just change the oil every 3 months and have it run for years.
The Nordigen website says 31 countries, but does not list them anywhere.

Is this information, or a list of banks available anywhere?

I'd rather know if this might work for me before spending time on it.
Reminded me of xkcd 522[1] alt text haha

> Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'

[1] https://xkcd.com/552/
Yes, I would be in favor of unified carbon tax and dividend (which should be distributed evenly to everybody), but that is a nuance that we can discuss. I suspect such proposal would actually negatively affect super-rich even more, because they have sky high real emissions.

To clarify, I was specifically addressing GP's point where they said "fighting climate change is a power grab", not those specific consumption taxes as opposed to general carbon tax.
People really don’t get this, unfortunately.

I always think that if f=ma, then as velocity approaches light speed, the deceleration of the grain of sand as it hits the hull approaches infinity. So even with a small mass, the force is huge.
yeah. no idea why it's even called 'davisYC' aside from the fact i lived in davis then -razib
I didn't see any specs for this SoC in the article, did I miss it?
If you’re interested in having the same laws apply, airline fuel is already exempted from most taxes in most jurisdictions. (It is in the US.) I think this proposal is trying to align business aviation to the same taxation as commercial, not to give business aviation a specific tax break not enjoyed by others.
early Uber wasn’t crazy, it was a blatant and malign attempt to use cheap capital to monopolize an existing sector. Uber is and was always about as close to evil as a company can be without selling opioids or nicotine.
Follow the science.
Exactly the same. I don't feel like investing in companies that are popular with other people (which is what the S&P 500 is) contributes anything to society, so I don't think it should be rewarded.
Hard to tell 'engraving' from a mechanical deformation during some industrial process. E.g. rubbing a fire-hardened stick against the bone as an abrasive sharpening task?
The subtext being that defense companies are inherently unethical?

Tell that to the Bosniacs, Iraqis who lost everything due to ISIS and were pushed back with coalition air cover help, Kuwait's existence today... etc (and this is coming from an Iraqi)

The HackerNews "Defense Company Bad" trope doesn't hold up to reality as much as HN likes to believe. Life's not as black and white as you might think
> The notion that it’s no different from China is absurdist propaganda.

I was responding to the notion that it is completely different from China. It is not. The western nations are more totalitarian than they would like to admit.
>> Japanese ministries and agencies use faxes when handling highly confidential information, including court procedures and police work, and the Hokkaido Shimbun said there were fears that exclusively online communication would result in security lapses.

I like this. I used to be Anti-Fax, or basically Pro Digital All things when I was young. Now increasingly I want to go back to the good old Analog world.
>Also aren't there a LOT of other problems from smoking and nicotine alone, in terms of lung health and hypertension, heart stuff etc

Probably. Weed isn't good for you either. Neither is Alcohol. At some point, you got to let people make some decisions.
I made a mistake with Terraform and Azure made it worse
List of Special Elevator Modes
Author isn’t wrong per se, but has a thing or two to learn about human nature. The polemic as written is weak.
The key word here is probably "draft". Bill proposals usually don't amount to much, and for that reason it's generally good practice to wait for a state change (no pun intended).

Proposed bills usually go nowhere - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

On HN, there's no harm in waiting - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
I wrote a piece here about avoiding bad trips. Maybe it can be useful to someone.
https://www.eleusiniaretreat.com/how-to-avoid-a-bad-trip/
Show HN: Penny for your thoughts? Bounties for answers
Should've left 19 years ago.

Libya's fall from grace has been spectacular to watch as it is disheartening. Such thorough and menacing destruction of one of the most promising "African" countries...
When you quit smoking, you quit smoking. Vaping is not smoking. What's inaccurate is to insist that someone still smokes when they do not, because you insist on calling something that is not smoking "smoking".
I like to think most software engineers have at least some interest in what they're investing most of their waking hours in. Sounds miserable otherwise!
Brokers provide a service that people in most cities happily do themselves for free, and take an extortionate cut. Someone is coming in and doing it better. Why should I be sad?
I was honestly worried about Microsoft/Github...but I'm pleasantly surprised out how much better Github is now than it was a few years back even.
OP here - Estate agent asked for 6 months bank statements, which I assume was requested by the referencing agency.

I don't think is common practise in the U.K, but I asked around and lots of people told me it is more common that the larger agencies ask for it, plus it was for an apartment in a very competitive development so I feel like it might have been a forcing function to reduce the amount of applicants but that is speculation on my part.
discoverability isn't zero. you need a foothold on other parts of the fediverse so that people know who you are and once you have that people will subscribe and share.
> it has saved thousands of lives a year due to less drunk driving

According to Uber?

> Additionally, it has enabled millions of people in cities to skip buying a new car/any car which saves tons of emissions.

Citation needed. I believe the last analysis I read showed that most people used Uber etc to replace transit or walking, which means it adds to emissions.

I've used taxis in multiple cities that I booked through an app and got a fare ahead of time. At this point Uber is "a taxi, but with no guarantee of quality* and no cap on how many of them are creating traffic"

*GPS routing does no good when the driver clearly can't read a map and doesn't know where they are or how to follow directions.
Yes, there is a tangle of 5000+ Air Services Agreements which, as international treaties, supersede national laws. Almost all agreements include mutual tax exemptions on anything not unloaded at a destination, including fuel.
Wow that defeats any reasonable point this could have had except to benefit larger corporations. The EU might be better off without the law entirely.
Also interesting: https://knowledgenuts.com/atom-bomb-creator-tried-to-poison-...
> even a ship with pure antimatter drive cannot accelerate like that for decades

Sure it can. You just need a decently-sized asteroid and an equally-sized antimatter asteroid for fuel, and you can do it for decades, even with the price you pay early to accelerate the fuel you will use later.
> Yet somehow Epstein and Harvey Weinstein run rampant among our own soil, all with open secrets.

What are you talking about? Epstein died in jail, and Weinstein is currently in prison.
Ground-source heating/cooling is quite different from geothermal heat or power. With ground-source, you just have a heat pump like an ordinary air conditioner, but using the ground as the heat sink instead of outside air. A couple of meters is deep enough. It's nothing like prospecting for the rare resource of accessible hot rock or natural steam, as in Iceland.
GitHub only recently allowed non-paid private repos. Previously these were only reserved for paid plans. Also, GitHub has a specific section for license files. GitHub actually believes these license files mean something, and states that they must be included with the repo so they are downloaded with it. Just because you can teach a script to ignore a LICENSE file, doesn't mean that it still doesn't apply. That is like saying that because you can teach a robot to ignore restricted airspace, that it is allowed to fly around an airport.
It's somewhat confusing that there is already a `triceratops` python module: https://pypi.org/project/triceratops/
I don't think this is even true. Lots of people get rich on luck, i.e., inheritance or other connections to wealthy people, or else they happened to come into stock (e.g., employed at a startup) that beat the odds significantly. Of course, one has to spend less than he earns to stay rich, but even that doesn't demand scrutinizing one's expenses--one could simply be content or conservative or minimalist.
I had those solvespace tutorials bookmarked and was wondering why they went private a few days ago. I'm glad they're back and even more happy they're no longer on YouTube.
>(via Electron, in part)

Electron is basically the digital equivalent of coal-rolling in my opinion, technologies like React Native are a much more elegant way of achieving what Electron tries to.
I'm not going to expound on all topics here. Instead I'll give you a resource that closely matches my thoughts on one of the subjects of concern.

> We used to have entire cities burn down.

https://mises.org/library/development-municipal-fire-departm...

This same resource hits nearly every one of your points with well reasoned alternatives to government intervention.

Instead of expecting an answer to every what if that immediately comes to mind, please research the viewpoint from credible libertarian sources like the Mises Institute.

Another research avenue--anything Murray Rothbard.
Practically speaking, aquatic life moves around pretty freely in three dimensions. It's not perfectly equivalent to zero G, but it's at least illustrative.
I've heard these arguments for years, depending on the company. How long do things have to go on, for people to stop believe that prices are going to massively rise?

I heard the same thing about amazon. That the inevitable huge price increases are coming. Hasn't happened yet.
My understanding is that the proverbial jury is still out on whether vaping truly is less harmful to the lungs that smoking[0][1]. That would mean that vaping (instead of smoking) isn't necessarily a positive health outcome.

[0] https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2020/05/risks-vaping

[1] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-preventi...
> Google doesn't MITM sites

AMP.
In Pakistan, the Peshawar airport has a railway line crossing through the airport runway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEBgVEYjSq8
Humanity is the sickness. Only through software and bureaucracy can humans cure their ailment and achieve the proper goals. It's 2021, get with the times.
Cab drivers had goals to own a medallion. That medallion value rose allowing someone to retire.

What we have is slightly higher pay until your car breaks. No retirement plan.

The drivers lose out.

The customer rides in someone's personal car pays a little less sometimes but a lot more (demand pricing) when they really need it.

Uber/Lift lose money on each ride but will rise prices as soon as they can once you have fewer choices.

Zero sum indeed..
Big-O notation and real-world performance
It's not as if IP addresses were ever a reliable way to tell whether a data subject was physically located within the EU. VPNs and proxies have been around forever. Someone could be accessing your site through Tor Browser or I2P while located in the EU—and if so, these are the users who would be most interested in limiting processing of their personal data.

Just assume that no consent is granted. Access to the site or specific services cannot depend on granting consent, which implies that anyone who does grant consent probably failed to understand that it was optional, or did so only to avoid being harassed with further consent requests. The GDPR already makes the "consent" completely one-sided with no possibility of consideration; it might as well have disallowed the requests altogether and saved everyone a great deal of hassle.
Not sure if you were aware, but the cost of building materials such as wood and also hvac has went up massively. The same central heating and air units a year ago would have cost maybe 20k with a full install. We got three quotes for three different firms that do geothermal.

And as I mentioned elsewhere, if I installed a horizontal loop, I'd have to cut down a ton of beautiful 100 year old trees surrounding the home. I'd rather not do that when there are viable alternatives. The cost of higher electricity usage isn't a big deal as I've got 48 bifacial solar panels on the barn that run to the home.
The UK does (including back in the good old days when we were still in the EU).
What you're saying has nothing to do with what I'm saying. Total population is a lagging indicator, in the modern era, due to very high life expectancies, lagging a lot, to fertility rates.

If you look at South Korea's population, it's still being going up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_South_Korea#/m...

(Edit: Actually in 2020 it went down for the first time in recorded history, it seems)

Give it a few more decades, when people actually start dying off en masse (because we haven't really found a way to reliably have masses of centenaries living), and then you'll should see the population dropping. Unless they increase immigration.

What I'm saying applies once the population actually drops by a large amount.
> As human beings we have limitations.

That's a fair point. ML models don't seem memorise all the code they've seen either, it seems. Plus while the argument of human limitations applies to the vast majority of people, what about those with eidetic memory?

> what happens when Copilot produces certain code verbatim?

There are several options: suppress the result, annotate with a proper reference or mark the snipped as GPL'ed.

There are technical solutions to this question, but it's also important to ask to which degree this is necessary.

Is a search engine that returns code snippets regardless of license also a tool that needs to be discussed the same way? After all, code samples from StackOverflow or RosettaCode are copied on a regular basis and not every example provides a proper reference as to where it's been taken from.

So maybe a hint like "may contain results based on GPL'ed code" suffices? I don't know, but that's a question best deferred to software copyright law experts.
I hate to be that guy but this sounds very much like "old man recounts tales of how things were 'back in my day' to youngsters". The Apple II was not anywhere near as complex as the computers and devices we're talking about now and it wasn't wrapped up in the patents and chip licenses that nearly every piece of technology today is wrapped up in. You can't even have a DSP (digital signal processor) that would be repairable or that you could include schematics for without vioating any number of patents held by third-parties or patent trolls (and I'm not, in any way, saying that patent trolls aren't the spawn of the devil).

Apple wanted to make FaceTime open sourced and they couldn't because of a patent troll. I don't even think we can get into the complexity of today's hardware systems without running into any number of reasons why that stuff can't be "open-sourced". It's great that super-techy people want to be able to repair their own devices (and there's no reason currently why you can't) so I feel like the current right to repair movement, and especially people like Louis Rossman, are doing a huge disservice to the ideas behind people's actual rights to repair devices they buy when they conflate them with "open-source" and completely ignore the fact that 99% of people don't care.

Unless they find a way to show people what the upsides and downsides of the current situation are objectively, they're never going to get the support they need. As it stands, they're being misleading at best and downright lying at worst to try and push a narrative that gets to the end goal and, as soon as the lies come out, it'll push the momentum backwards instead of carrying it forward. The number of people with expertise to actually fix most of these issues with these complex devices is incredibly small and dwindling and opening that up to anyone and everyone without some kind of plan in place is just going to spectacularly backfire.
"Rudolf Kompfner in 1942 —notably after his public announcement in 1946— when he was secretly working on microwave vacuum tubes for the British Admiralty at the University of Birmingham during World War II. But the history of this device is more complex because the traveling-wave tube was, consecutively, discovered thrice independently"

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01754885/document
Both are unacceptable.
~6,500sqft / 4 stories with a basement.

The price a year ago would have been more like 20k, but with the crazy price of lumber and all building materials going up, the HVAC companies followed suit :(
Thanks for the thoughtful response.

I agree that if one company is the only feasible option - a true monopoly - there should be controls on their power.

However, I'm not convinced why any social media would fall under this umbrella at the moment. Facebook(& related) hardly have a stranglehold on the market, at least from the point of view of it being in competition with other social media platforms such as Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, etc. All of their products are slightly different, but generally are grouped under the same niche. If Facebook decided tomorrow that half of the political spectrum was completely barred from discussion, I assume people would just successfully migrate off Facebook (in a way they could not do if their government banned their opinion, or if the only place they could discuss on the internet banned their opinion).

Afaik phone numbers are a completely different discussion, as I believe the government is involved in creating and maintaining phone networks (placing it under the First Amendement).

You make a good point about something like YouTube, though. YouTube is the one on your list which most clearly has control over its market, so I could see the argument for oversight there.

This is a great comment, and definitely food for thought. I'll use this to examine my own beliefs — much appreciated.
I'd like for my contractor to suggest garage designs that aren't decades old, insecure, unmaintainable, to know what're the modern garage tools...
Fax initially was used to transmit writing when the code space was too large. It was huge in Asia before it became popular in the West, because at the time there was too small a Morse Code (or other telegraph encoding) code space to capture many Asian languages.

I believe they used a wax cylinder and a make-or-break stylus switch. The cylinder rotated, the stylus progressed down the image in a slow spiral fashion, dropping into the grooves the author had made in the wax. The signal was used on the other end in a similar apparatus with a pen, which would make marks when the stylus dropped into a wax divot (part of a letter) and raise the pen when no mark was detected. The resulting image was a sort of raster-scan of the original.
"Why would they ever say no to a qualified tenant?"

I agree with the rest of your comment, but in my experience landlords in hot markets can be pretty capricious. If they know they'll have a steady stream of applicants, many will definitely reject qualified tenants based on personal whims or to hold out for someone they see as "more" qualified or more likely to stay long term. That said, as long as the apartment still gets turned around quickly then it's not really a threat to this business model.
*these statements have not been validated by the FDA

There are countless products from weight loss to joint pain to "improve your memory" that sidestep the issue with those 9 simple words. I don't see why it would be any different for Juul.