skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time shit like this happens, it destroys faith of ordinary citizens in the system. The more likely they are to conclide that this is a mugs game and less likely to follow the law when noone is watching
shitcoins are called shitcoins for a reason bro.
It would be nice if you were more specific. Most of the serious complaints I see artists making about GIMP are about lack of non-destructive editing features, or about lack of support for specific workflows, which are technical issues, not UX ones (and ones that are being addressed, slowly).
Yeah, SmartRent

Here's the wording if you're interested:

https://i.imgur.com/qF22wG9.jpg

Plus even though it says "If you elect to purchase..." half-way down, I basically had no option but to walk away from the lease entirely. They wouldn't remove them, turn them off and replace with a physical lock, or anything else.
Sure. But this is a different claim from the OP’s. Nobody is entitled to returns on investments, but the claim that ridershare apps are either affordable or good for cabbies is farcical in NYC, at the minimum.
"When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money."

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/20/last-tree-cut/
I was pleasantly surprised by the focus on esthetics in the article. So many places in the US look so artificial or industrial.
One thing that was missing though was creating density and the need for mixed use mid rise buildings with shops and restaurants in the ground floor and apartments above it. This is ubiquitous in virtually all cities we regard as great places to be, but in the US it is often illegal to build like this nowadays due to zoning regulations. So you often get shopping malls with huge parking lots that are completely abandoned after 7pm and residential areas that consist purely of houses and are devoid of any interesting shops.
I know it is cool to hate on rich people these days but the amount of CO2 pollution created by handful of private jets is miniscule compared to the rest of the aviation industry which is still miniscule compared to general transportion, agriculture and meat industry.

Just keep the magnitude in context, I think it is still an issue but our focus needs to be appropriately allocated.

Should we also care that rich people take up more room in the airplane than the rest? Business class should be abolished?
Or do you have to accelerate all the way to do that

That's what "1G" means in this concept, you're always accelerating at 1G (9.8 m/sec^2)

On the first half of the trip you're accelerating toward the destination, on the second half, you're decelerating at 1G.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_using_constant_ac...
Yes, you may interpret this way, but the U.S. law wouldn't designate those speeches as inciting violence. "direct line" is simply insufficient.
Blog spam (edit: link now changed to something less clickbaity). The original source, anyway:

https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/draft-...

The European Commission has drafted plans to set an EU-wide minimum tax rate for polluting aviation fuels, as it seeks to meet more ambitious targets to fight climate change, a document seen by Reuters shows.

...

Introducing the proposals could be politically difficult. Changes to EU tax rates require unanimous approval from the 27 EU countries, meaning a single state could veto them.

...

From 2023, the minimum tax rate for aviation fuel would start at zero and increase gradually over a 10-year period, until the full rate is imposed. The draft proposal did not specify what the final rate would be.

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The minimum EU tax rate would not apply to cargo-only flights or to "pleasure flights" and "business aviation". That could include recreational use of an aircraft or a company using a plane, not for public hire, to conduct its business. Member states could choose to tax those flights' fuel on a national basis.

The draft proposal would also introduce minimum tax rates on polluting fuels used for waterborne navigation, fishing and freight transport within the EU.
I've always cared but never talked about it. Someone copy and pasting code from a source that is clearly forbidden (free software, reverse engineered code, leaked source code, etc) isn't an interesting thing to talk about. It's obviously wrong.

Also people rarely do it; I've caught maybe a couple instances of it in my career and I never really thought too much about them again. This tool helps make it a lot easier and more common. I have a feeling other people chiming in are also in the camp of "Oh, this is going to be a thing now, huh?"

I also can't help but to think that my negative opinion of it isn't solely based on this provenance issue. While it's cool it seems questionable about how practical it is. If the value was more clear I think I could stomach the risk a bit better.
Reminds me of https://marketresearchtelecast.com/the-minister-of-consumer-...

A few weeks ago the same Sanchez said that we Spaniards should eat way less meat by the year 2050. Obviously that won't apply to him.
I'd be very reticent to take the source that OP has given. If it appears elsewhere, fine, but Guido and chums are not credible, especially on matters pertaining to the EU. They are ideological and partisan.

The only other outlets carrying this story are of suspect origins, too:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=eu+carbon+tax+private+jets&...

See: RT.

There is one more credible looking source though, which is this one:

https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2231434-eu-draft-exempts-...

The key wording:

> The European Commission has proposed exempting private jets and cargo flights from the planned EU jet fuel tax.

It has proposed this. Which is to say that it can be amended with input from back channels from both Europarl _and_ the national governments. I would be surprised if this headline grabbing omission wasn't kiboshed totally.

As usual, Guido will take the opportunity to bash Europe without fairly portraying how it works. This is basic journalistic failure equivalent to slamming Westminster because of the publication of a green paper.

EDIT: Original link was to an awful source, the lovely moderators have changed it.
Ok, we'll change to that from https://order-order.com/2021/07/07/eu-to-exempt-private-jets.... Thanks!
I disagree. I would love this hire. This person has clearly expressed what motivates them. I now know what type of work they prefer (and don’t), as well as the level of involvement they expect with outside stakeholders. It’s much easier to have a productive relationship with someone who can articulate this clearly.

What I see too much are teammates who say they want to be more involved with customers or prioritization but don’t show up for feedback sessions or high level discussions and then later complain about not being involved enough, causing even more headache. The more you accommodate, the more problems they come up with, and never actually get around to doing the actual work.
Is there a possible compromise where the damage is mitigated for a modest increase in extraction costs?

I feel like "stop" is not terribly productive. Copper will probably be mined somewhere at some point, and saying "stop" just makes it happen in other places (which could be worse) or with a delay of ~10 years.

But if we focus on better extraction methods, it means we can keep domestic production, control the environmental impact, and improve tech that can be used for cleaner extraction everywhere.
Nothing about further enriching Microsoft and continuing the network effects behind a closed source “social network”, is making the world a better place. Quite the opposite really.
I can't change the link itself, but I changed the HN headline to match the Argus article, which makes more clear that this is a draft proposal.
Ohhh I thought it was the other way around..
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Have you noticed a trend in this thread where everything is way more expensive in cities like NYC and SF. I wonder why that could be? I just used Uber for a 35 minute trip to the Airport in San Diego and it was $30. Pretty damn cheap and the driver was amazing.
This is great info, thanks!
This just makes the per-person metric a useless metric. There's not a lot of space flights to even point it out as a issue.
The wealthy class are, presumably, wealthy enough to pay the carbon tax and still enjoy the perks and privileges of private jets though? It's not like they're being exempted from a ban on flying private jets, but rather a tax on them. Their wealth itself was already their ticket to perks and privilege, because it lets them pay the tax.
I think we’ll probably be having subspecies of humanity like Homo Sapiens Destinationshipnamehullnumberius
I can think of certain things here. As human beings we have limitations. We get tired of gazing at code, GPLE'ed or not. GitHub's clusters don't. It puts fair use of copyrighted content under question. The next concern I have, is what happens when Copilot produces certain code verbatim? I saw the other day on HN that it produced some Quake code verbatim. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27710287
Their client seems to work on almost any Android and iphone, including a web client, has possibly hundreds of screens, supports multiple languages, regions, currencies…
When you perform a move out or move in inspection, you change the key. It's super easy. The reset tool can fit in your wallet or glove compartment. It's a big change versus having to change the cylinder as in the past. Having to manage a load of electronic locks is likely more costly. Again, this is long-term rentals not short-term.

As for self-tours, they make electronic lockboxes. They've been around forever and used by every MLS.
Its been the same with lockdown. Enforce totalitarian restrictions and tracking on the plebes, whilst the rich and connected routinely ignore or are excluded from the rules.

Its possible that Lockdown is a ploy to distract from the trillions of dollars of money printing that has gone on during the pandemic, to suppress the inflation generated, as well as to normalise location and biological data collection and arbitrary interference in personal liberty and private businesses.

It seems unlikely that the motivation is really the health of the populace, when deaths and ill health from air pollution and obesity, and from the interrupted medical treatments during Lockdown itself, are routinely ignored.

You can follow the same logical pattern for all the other major issues of our time. Are the massive migration inflows of violent military-age males into Europe from MENA really about humanitarian aid, or about injecting cheap labour into the continent and providing justification for giant intelligence agencies, tracking and banning of encryption?

The same for critical race theory - is the goal the betterment of humankind, or to set the working class against eachother and to distract from insane wealth capture of the 1%?
You could argue the same for speech or literacy. Free speech lets people organize gangs and crimes; literacy lets people learn how to commit crimes or learn about legal loopholes. Ignorance is bliss, so why not revert to medieval times where the church and monarchy keep people safe and happy in little bubbles of ignorance?
General Aviation - the category that encompasses private plane ownership.
love this, especially the photos
You mean like a search engine?
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Your comments all presuppose the existing broker solution is superior and people just haven't found the problems with Caretaker yet (and some vague and unfounded speculation about a future price increase).

Consider that perhaps Caretaker is taking customers from brokers because they actually provide a better and/or cheaper service. Maybe the positive comments aren't a short term buzz but instead good reviews of a good product.
My local supermarket has a CoinStar machine that advertises
"buy bitcoin here!"

Hard to say where things are going to go from here. Public awareness is now about as saturated as it's every going to get for a financial "product" like this. The only things I see significantly moving the needle on BTC price at this point are pieces of news about potential regulation and things like Musk Tweets.
You should read past the headline. The judge's ruling boiled down to the fact that Tucker Carlson Tonight is an opinion show, not a news show, and that any statements should be viewed through that lens.

Nobody, including Fox and Tucker Carlson himself, has claimed that Tucker Carlson Tonight is anything other than an opinion show. This is in contrast to CNN, where their opinion hosts actually do claim to be simply "reporting the news."
As with steps someone might have a legal obligation to take to prevent people from thinking negative things about the King or to prevent six from being an even number, you should do whatever you feel is appropriate. It might even make a difference. Perhaps you could put up a notice which says "I run guest WiFi here and I have legal obligations to block illegal traffic so, don't do anything illegal".

It's certainly weird to insist it's everybody's else's problem that you're subject to legal obligations that may be impossible to fulfil.

If the purpose of this "obligation" is to ensure nobody is technically compliant and so they can arrest, imprison or even execute whoever they want, it doesn't seem like that's my fault, or Mozilla's fault, or any of the authors and acknowledged contributors for RFC 8484. Any more than it's Giuseppe Peano's fault that six is even.

And if (as seems most likely) they're just covering their backside, the notice is probably sufficient.
It's easy to point your finger and say that "we are in this together" when you are in a position of power.
This is not correct. For example, I designed my circuit so it meets EMC regulations and standards, like I should. I still have to file my paperwork with the FCC which definitely counts as a "regulatory burden".
I think the bigger issue is that use of Copilot puts the end user at risk of using copyrighted code without knowing it.

Sure one could argue that Copilot learned in the way a human does. There is nothing that prevents one from learning from copyrighted work, but snippets delivered verbatim from such works are surely a copyright violation.
I'd be happy to see the link changed to the Argus article linked by jey earlier. The Reuters article buries the lede.
Yes it's extremely unfair that the West used up what turned out to be the planet's entire carbon budget. But it doesn't change the fact that humanity has to stop emitting carbon.
Your lack of experience with businesses or information that is only available through social media is not on me to correct. Especially in places like 3rd world countries or small businesses everywhere.
Since I'm in a similar boat to them in regards to my feelings about the state of modern software, I think they're like this because it has been going on for over a decade now and it just keeps getting worse.

Note that this whole twitter thread is in reference to Casey lodging an issue on GitHub about how slow Windows Terminal is, wherein he was told that his simple suggestion for making it fast would be a PhD level thesis worth of work. He was being polite and explaining things to them until then, but after that statement he was so disgusted he closed the issue and created refterm to prove his concept[0]. Then a bunch of people came out of the woodwork to make excuses for why it still couldn't be done. It's a fucking terminal emulator, a piece of 80s technology[1] that mimics a 60s technology, running in 2021, and people still think it makes any sense at all that it could be slow!?

[0] which is not anything groundbreaking, it's pretty much the obvious way to do things. He has intentionally done no optimization since it's designed to serve as a minimum performance benchmark.

[1] I'm guessing here, since I can't readily find an answer to when the first terminal emulator was released.
On the other hand, technology is full of bugs and idiotic assumptions, from which it can't recover - it's also strongly biased towards the one controlling it. And it can also lie, cheat and conceal things, and there's exactly shit you can do about it.

The older I get, the more I prefer dealing with flesh-and-blood people rather than self-service solutions. Life is too short for dealing with systems that go out of your way to railroad you into a bad deal.
Death rates are declining for many common cancers in the U.S., report finds
Do you have any I-V plots of the wave tube?
exactly, when we cook food, we're not damaging it we're just making various foods easier to consume.

Maybe this global warming, climate change is just like cooking food.
Exempting private jets seems dumb, but I guess it's important we don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Taxing regular commercial passenger flights will have most of the impact, and should encourage more efficient planes, bootstrap the market for sustainable synthetic fuels or electric short-range aircraft, and encourage more travel by train for shorter journeys. If exempting business jets is what's required to make it politically acceptable to all 27 member states so it actually goes into force, so be it. Much better this than another decade of debate and no action. The loose ends can always be cleaned up later.
I quit smoking with Juul, and still use Juul - better experience and more convenient than smoking. I quit smoking because it was inferior to the juul experience AND had health benefits AND juuling is significantly less antisocial - it wasn't a challenge because it was better in about every way. Nicotine gum or previous generations of vapes didn't scratch the itch well enough, juul scratches the itch better.

Apparently juul can no longer ship to private addresses in my state, so I guess I'll have to start looking at other alternatives or go to the tobacco shop to pick up refills regularly.

I'd like to step down my nicotine dosage gradually, but juuling is unfortunately not very conducive to that - only 5mg or 3mg, so I'll probably have to roll my own solution, which is less convenient so I worry about compliance.
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I'm not familiar with whether the 737 Max development used DO-178B or DO-178C; the latter is a successor to the former, but frames the development process significantly differently.

Any process can be used well or poorly, and DO-178C isn't really a process, it's a set of objectives that a process must accomplish. When used in good faith, I believe it can lead to software of higher quality than almost any other approach (although, to be fair, at higher software development cost than almost any other approach). That doesn't mean that chanting the document name and using hand-me-down rituals is sufficient to achieve high quality software, of course :-).
"They" = the federal government.

Also, I'm not suggesting that this should happen, I'm just saying that it would be pretty easy to throw a wrench into the crypto machine.
The First Amendment explicitly differentiates on scale, as in "the people" versus "the government". When companies get large enough to wield power as de facto government, then it makes sense to demand that they too respect our natural rights.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318173438_Global_ri...
It's hard not to when the planet is dying.
This seems pretty much the same as Chinese law which requires publisher verify the sources. I dont know what exactly to make of it. But I think it probably makes sense from the government's perspective.
> many thought they were doing a great job lifting Germans out of poverty

There is a highly prized ad for a Brazilian newspaper pretty much about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PShbxd42JN8
So some professionals will have the chance to migrate systems back to on-premises, after having migrated them from on-premises to the cloud? Interesting.
Regulations, guns, or both, define markets.

Technological progress disrupts markets.

The only thing that changes are the cast of winners and losers.

Society sometimes prefers the greater good (fairness) by reigning in the powerful.
At what point will we stop acting as if the government legislates to represent the interests of the constituency who voted for the politicians and not the elites who fund its politicians?
The fact that Freedom of Association is implicit in the First is not in question. All that's well litigated, and well understood.

Which is why one can have country clubs with, for example, racial exclusivity clauses. I'm not saying a like the idea of racial exclusivity policies. I'm only saying the First clearly grants private organizations a right to practice racial exclusivity.
That is a very generous interpretation of the EUs action in this matter.

If the proposal regarding "pleasure" flights stands, then the EU is no better than UEFA or IOC.

Is that really the message that the EU wants to send i wonder.

It also reflects poorly on Slovenia that is currently holding the presidency, but i suspect they don't really care.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_the_Council_of...

EDIT:

Having read another source it doesn't seem clear that pleasure flights are exempt.

https://www.transportenvironment.org/sites/te/files/publicat...
Indentured servitude?
Not the OP, but I'd like it if my contractor shows at least a bit of professional engagement.

I'm hiring them because they're the expert - and if they ask some questions about why I want the garage and what I plan to use it for, it'll help them deliver a final product that's a better fit for my needs.

For example, if I say "I want a garage that's 200 square feet and has an epoxy-covered floor", I'd like it if my contractor asked me some questions and came back with responses like "Since you want to do x in your garage, I'd avoid the epoxy floor and go with painted concrete. Also, I've has several clients who were interested in doing x and they ended up wanting a storage loft in the garage. You can add one later if you'd like, but it's much less expensive if you add it during initial construction."

So...maybe not passionate, exactly. But engaged and professional, absolutely.
I'm going to be honest and say that I'm reluctant to get into a debate with you on this. Simply put, I already know we aren't going to change anyone's mind on this subject.

I will say this, it is perfectly fine to worry about hierarchical structures and the impacts they have on people. But the mere existence or implication of hierarchy is not a problem in-and-of itself. Especially in this context, where I am certain the impact of North being considered 'up' and South being considered 'down' has not materially harmed anyone living down under. I also see no evidence that this paradigm/convention is actually harmful. Only speculation that it could be, in an indirect way, and for reasons I don't find compelling.

I'm also concerned that we're going to slip into one of the least productive kinds of argument, trying to define, redefine, and shift the meaning of words. So I'd like to avoid all of this and let bygones be bygones.
> Private and recreational flying is explicitly exempted from the tax too. So I don't think it affects them.

That was my point. Most of the comments hammer down on "oh, the corrupt elite wants to cheaply fly to Davos", ignoring that flying - while a very expensive hobby - is an aspirational and achievable endeavor for many people including an attached industry and jobs.
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Whether or not they're legal, they're a bad idea to use next to your head.