skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Domestic consumption is tiny in Norway, not least of all because of their small population. They are something like 13th-14th largest in the world for exports, Saudi is about 10x larger at number 1. The planet doesnt care about per-capita, the sooner the environmental lobby figured this out the better, and I mean that sincerely.
*See my prev. comment in a same comment branch.
I have similar experience being with my close friends who don't make a lot of money. We never go to expensive restaurants or expensive places. If we get together and I think the bill will be high, I just cover for myself, my gf and person in the group who makes the least. That pretty much covers 75% of the bill. My friends are OK with that, because they know, I always there for them and never will use it as point of leverage or being show off.
I thought there was also a way to schedule a copy of a file at boot time...something that installers use to copy/delete locked files.
The market only achieves the idealized results in ideal situations where supply and demand can freely change with minimal costs. Real estate in cities is inherently supply limited because you can't magic more land out of nowhere and building a larger building only kind of works for retail because upper floors make for shitty retail spaces.

There are also a lot of forces pushing building owners to keep rents high, principally because building value is partially determined by the rental rates of that building. So if an owner is angling to sell or get a loan they have a strong incentive to not lower rents so long as the rents are in line with the 'market' rate because it immediately lowers the value of their property if they do, potentially driving them underwater on any loans.

> creating a “business” that is open “by appointment only”

The law could easily address this with requirements about public accessibility. It's disingenuous to pretend the law has to use the broadest, most abusable definition of any word to create loop hole counter arguments.
The difference is that Norway is not replying to internal demand but external demand. They have reduced their own need for fossil fuels. The issue is that other countries are extremely dependent on fossil fuels due to before stated lobbying efforts. The bigger, wealthier countries do not take climate change seriously and continue to consume high amounts of fossil fuel. They need to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels.
Just because one poor family has paid for test prep doesn’t mean all families can afford this expense.

OP’s comment about other needs (haircut, clothes, etc.) is very real. Where would you suggest test prep stacks relative to paying rent on time, food, clothes, etc.? Are you really suggesting that all poor families that haven’t spent on test prep are simply ignorantly misprioiritizing spend? It seems like there’s a massive gap between your life perspective and that of a poor person’s.
>" for regaining control over my own PC.
Just yesterday I learned how to Run-As TrustedInstaller, and that let me remove a lot of unwanted bullshit on my windows 10 install."

I understand Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, Magic-Pony-OS is not everyone's cup of tea or they might not be in a position to choose their OS (Work etc)

But DAMN that quote above is really showing me how bad it is out there ! Sure it can/does happen on other OS as well, but I'm betting Windows is the leader in "my-pc-is-not-my-pc-anymore" :/
What timeline are you talking about?

Also, toilet paper is probably traded over longer distances than you realize. Your area not shutting down yet, doesn't mean other areas weren't already affected?
...which is approximately zero VPS providers. I haven't seen them advertised outside of specialty azure/aws instance types.
We don't know what the SNR is. It would be great if the paper included the linear regression values and fit analysis. It could be rubbish or not - but we don't have the data to confirm or deny that.

I get the objection, but I'm getting annoyed at comments that state what's invalid with the study where we don't have the data available for that claim. What's wrong with "we don't know if the study is valid since we don't have details on X"?
Unless you’re in an environment where you literally have to type or provide the decrypting key on each start, you are dealing with a situation where your provider has both the encrypted data and the encryption key.
I believe the website must be hosted on a homeserver on some shelve somewhere. I still can’t reach the page, timeouts!
Both invest (almost?) exclusively in an agency capacity, i.e. they don't directly make any investment decisions other than by shaping what sorts of products they offer.
Set up FTP server on NetBSD using ftpd
Look into tunneling options. Many require either a cheap VPS to act as a tunnel host or paying a monthly fee for the tunnel service, but there are a couple options, such as Cloudflare Tunnel, that are both free and don't require your own VPS.

I know some in the self-hosting community may be opposed to using Cloudflare as it represents centralization, but if you are willing to use them for your domain's DNS then their free tunnel service is a compelling option.

It also (like any Wireguard tunnel, I suppose) obfuscates the nature of your traffic which might be useful if your ISP doesn't allow you to run your own webserver, and hides your home IP from everyone but Cloudflare.

It creates outgoing connections (only) to their servers so no worries about firewall setup; the tunnel daemon can access whichever services on `localhost` you want, without opening any ports to the world (the lack of open ports could prevent DDOS attacks on your server, since they would have no way to directly access your server without passing through Cloudflare first)

I have no affiliation with CF other than using their free services, and you could certainly set up something similar on your own VPS with Wireguard, but this might be cheaper and/or easier.
I’ve always been curious what the most optimal “network-portable mountable filesystem image” format for Linux would be (for e.g. being a zero-install auto-fetched-from-the-network “mount and run” format for applications ala Flatpak/Snap; or being a NeXT-alike distribution container for “bundles” — where, as in macOS, it’s just as viable to open the app/document bundle [read-only] from the image, as it is to copy it out of the image.)

Such a format would have to balance the considerations of download time, storage size at rest, mount time (incl. any integrity checking), and access-time overhead when mounted. It would especially have to worry about per-file-open overhead, given that one of the primary use-cases would be rsync-ing the file tree out of the image onto your disk.

It sounds like you’re saying that a SquashFS filesystem image would actually be bad for this use-case, vs. just downloading a regular (sparse) loopback image of an ext4 filesystem over a compressed transport. Which is kind of surprising to me! I would think that the use-cases stated above would have been one of the design goals.

I’d also be curious about the relative merits of the “pure userspace” option — i.e. rather than mounting a disk-image and then accessing the files inside it through regular VFS inodes, instead having your zero-install daemon or whatever just use regular tarballs, by linking in a library like libarchive and using it to get internal virtual handles on the files. (Lots of games seem to choose this option, so it must have pretty good perf.)
I haven't encountered this in years and years and especially with REALID standardization I assume it's vanishingly rare, but driver's licenses used to vary enormously from state to state and many didn't even have photos. So I assume the logic on requiring in-state government ID would be that a store clerk had no way of knowing whether an out-of-state license was a blatant forgery or not.
You are absolutely right about the situation in the developing countries. Here in India, an Apple product costs around 150% of what it cost in USA. But when it comes about after sale service, they are absolutely horrible. Xiaomi after sale service is miles better and cheaper than Apple. I had an iPhone X which was just shy of 2 years old. I dropped it last year from a 1 ft height and the thing doesn’t turn on after that. When I took it to an Apple’s authorised service centre (they don’t directly provide service in India), they quoted such huge amount for replacement (yeah, they don’t repair here) that it was cheaper for me to simply buy the latest model at that time, an iPhone 11.
A potential explanation I've recently heard is that, due to the impossibly fast, silent maneuvers made by UFOs, is that maybe they have Alcubierre drives - they don't move through space, they move space around themselves, enabling moves at any acceleration/speed without the ship experiencing the utterly brutal acceleration observed. This localized bending of spacetime would create gravitational lenses that obscure their true shape, so a "clear" picture is not possible unless one turned off their engine, in which case it would be in freefall, a clumsy move. The sharpest footage yet seems to be from CBP in Puerto Rico in 2013, you can see the footage here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldV5LUsTkJM

The description on the video has a link to a page that goes into much more detail. Obviously the page gives similar vibes to any (other?) conspiracy theory page, but the explanation seems more consistent than any other I've heard.
Thank you for the suggestion! I'll make sure to look into it. And yes, you're right that I should stand on the shoulders of giants. My only problem is that I want my project to eventually be used by a variety of build tools for ClojureScript, and afaik there's only one that supports NPM packages (Shadow-CLJS), so I try to get by without and also lessen my dependency on NPM packages.
I like pg's definition of the term: A startup is any (pre-IPO) company with potential for high growth.

http://paulgraham.com/growth.html
Framework Laptop Review: Let the Laptop Disruption Begin
The term “Asian American” was made up by Berkeley activists to cultivate left-wing identity among unrelated people: https://time.com/5837805/asian-american-history/
>Norway is the 13th biggest oil producer in the world

So, not in the top-10 even, exactly as the parent noted.

And even if they were in, say, fifth place, such a ranking would tell us nothing about their impact, without knowing the distribution. In a top-heavy distribution, for example, if the top 1 makes 10,000 tons and top 5 makes 100 tons for example, it would still be as if the fifth largest produce doesn't matter at all, impact-wise.

>and outside the Middle East the 1st per capita.

Why would "per capita" production have any relevance at all?
It is not a good study: "A total of 503 healthcare workers were recruited to the study, of which 223 (44%) had previously had Covid-19." The sample group is not representative of the population and with a large proportion already having had COVID, it is expected that the first dose of the vaccine acts like the second dose, and a second dose as a booster.

It is also ignoring the downsides of the longer gap, the main one being the increased likelihood of creating a vaccine resistant escape variant. The UK government admits that this is a risk: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

"There is therefore an increased risk of virus replication under partial immunity after one dose than after two doses, so in the short- term, delaying the second dose would be expected to somewhat increase the probability of emergence of vaccine resistance - but probably from a low base."

Last time I looked, UK now had the 3rd highest case rate in the world. A variant factory you could call it.

Part of the justification of the risks of the increased gap was the high death rate at the time.

"Is such an increase material? It is not currently possible to quantify the probability of emergence of vaccine resistance as a result of the delayed second dose, but it is likely to be small. The UK currently has more than 1,000 COVID-19 related deaths each day and has limited supplies of vaccine. In the current UK circumstances the unquantifiable but likely small probability of the delayed second dose generating a vaccine escape mutant must be weighed against the measurable benefits of doubling the speed with which the most vulnerable can be given vaccine-induced protection."

That is no longer the case, vaccine supply is good and take-up is falling.

The Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine did have clinical trials with a longer gap as far as I understand, but Pfizer didn't. The mRNA vaccines have different properties but the UK government is treating all vaccines as the same.

Now with every small and pretty weak bit of evidence the government jumps on to justify their decision, which initially may have been the right choice but the unlocking and delta variant have changed the situation massively.

There was a similar study in Israel with some strong arguments against its findings: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

And more good reading: http://www.thelancet.com/retrieve/pii/S0140673621004554

"We have no concerns regarding the second dose of AZD1222 at 12 weeks, as this is supported by evidence. However, if escape variants arise due to sub-optimal dosing with BNT162b2, they will likely be resistant to other vaccines that target the same viral spike protein.
In conclusion, we would strongly recommend that the UK Government reverts to the two doses in a 3-week schedule (94% efficacy) for BNT162b2; or, as recently supported by WHO and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, adopt no more than a 6-week delay to the second dose “in exceptional circumstances”."
I’m curious how the hardware labs would be done. Do you purchase all the gear for your own home electronics lab?
Often even just "read the newspaper article" vs just the headline or the TV news snippet.
So obviously the computer vision part here is nothing novel, but also the algorithm itself seems like the kind of problem that computer game developers have likely solved a few hundred times already, thought nothing of it, and moved on.
Dude, what you should take away is that there is money to throw around. A lot of fucking money.

Which is not going into our pockets as employees.

Remember that, next time you ask for a raise.
Seems like that should only be the case if the cost of childcare is greater than the post tax wage of the lowest earning parent.
Others have pointed out the ecological reasons. It’s also a sizable chunk of oil and gas that’s currently not very well developed. Once the infrastructure of arctic extraction is built up, the marginal costs of extraction would likely decrease making it easier to extract more oil from the region and consequently harder to keep the carbon in the ground. It’s easier to block new extraction than to shut down an existing development that has jobs and investment dollars committed to it.
Is your type system open source? Better typing is something I'd love to have for the FIRST Tech Challenge blocks environment.
To accurately compare Norway and Nigeria would require broadening the scope of the history you're providing.
Sure that’s the right plan but who’s going to do it? Remember that there is no Left in the USA.
It's not a proposal, it's a thought exercise.

But nobody's actually talking about a 100% ban. They're talking about incentives so that people choose an electric car when they buy a new one. And some higher taxes on the use of fossil fuels. And maybe eventually banning new fossil fuel-powered passenger vehicles.

If it's anything like Australia, the agricultural industry would be exempt from such taxes. And presumably countries won't tax their own militaries.

Whether that's sufficient, I don't know. But it seems like a multilateral agreement, including the US, on both supply and demand side, is the most likely to happen and also have a substantial impact.
Coping from my other comment:

What you should take away is that there is money to throw around. A lot of fucking money.

Which is not going into our pockets as employees, but easily given to those in the know, even with a huge chance of everything going to vapor.

Remember that, next time you ask for a raise.
Yes, that kind of impact it can very well have.

But not a "climate change" related one that's tied to the drilling area (for that only the increased consumption would matter, which would happen elsewhere).
There's also that building values are partially determined by the price of renting it so for loans and selling owners are encouraged to keep rent prices as high as possible.
+1. I've intentionally never owned a smartphone.

Living in Estonia and using a dumb phone, I can still comfortably query my bank account balance via a voice service. I can also sign documents with my digital ID by confirming a secret and entering my PIN code. Buying intercity bus tickets also works, including season tickets for e.g. 30 days (by calling a number that includes your bus card identification string and another string for the type of ticket you want to buy). The newly created electric bike network in my hometown also sort-of works if you bind it to your bus card.

What I miss, though, is being able to work as a bike courier for Wolt or Bolt using just a dumb phone. Or maybe also use a Bolt electrical scooter. Not quite sure, but I think none this is possible.

All in all I'd say the quality of my life has massively gained from sticking to a dumb phone. No cravings to hug a smartphone in my sleep; enjoying the luxury to actually look out of the window during train commutes, etc. It seems obvious, though, that these simple, hassle-free, app-free, visual-glare-free solutions are on their way out.

Then again, seeing things like the Gemini protocol develop still gives me some hope. Maybe the next generation of nerds, facing climate and energy overconsumption issues, will start preferring really simple solutions again. Who knows.
All right. For some reason they didn't use that before - maybe it wasn't available at the time, or maybe they are using that, but they deliberately want to spread disinformation. Anyway, we'll see how it will go with this linked project, it's privately funded and it will require new research, so there is no harm in doing that, only new opportunities.
If you have access to legal databases like Westlaw/Lexis, you can look up the lawsuits the FSF and SFLC have been a party to. All of those suits were settled and the plaintiffs secure monetary compensation, disclosure of the source code, and in some cases the ability to pre-screen future releases to make sure they're complying with the GPL. The reason why many shops take copyright seriously or ban the use of GPL software (you can argue either way that the latter is or is not a victory for the GPL) is because this creates a deterrent effect.
Can consciousness be explained by quantum physics?
I've made tens of thousands of razor-sharp photos over the last ten years. Three years ago I visited the world's largest model train track in Hamburg (go see it, it's amazing!) and in one part of the track they have a little UFO coming down on a wire.

I took several photos of it, but after I come home I realized they were all unsharp - unlike the rest of my photos, which were fine, including those taken during the night cycle. I wrote that down to 'excessive realism' on the part of the builders...

Anyway, apparently the device that causes photos to blur can easily be miniaturized and installed on a 5cm large UFO.
British too. I've probably drunk more tea out of politeness than I actually wanted.
Increased supply creates its own demand (via reduced prices).
> Use Duckduckgo or some other service

DDG is not a silver bullet. I use it, but only when combining it with a VPN or sometimes Tor for ultra private searches. DDG is a US company and the US doesn't have a good track record for spying and human rights. DDG's servers are all Amazon based too meaning the data is probably tapped and being spied upon. There's no way of knowing, so combine DDG with an anonymous proxy if you can.
It is endemic. What you think of that fact is irrelevant. It’s a contagious respiratory virus with multiple animal reservoirs. Even if you could somehow vaccinate every person on earth tomorrow, the virus would still be here.

This virus is not going to be eliminated, and it’s well past time to move on from that discussion.
Oh, many don't violate GPL by avoiding it like the plague (esp. GPL 3) and complying with the terms when they cannot.

BSD tends to be easier to comply to by including a license note somewhere within the manual or software. MIT has even fewer terms.
Desal takes a tremendous amount of energy. In a state where there's already an electricity shortage to the point of rolling blackouts, I don't think desal is an option. You can't build reservoirs anymore either, so I'm not sure what else to do except population control.
>It didn't effect Experian.

You, as a consumer don't really get to choose experian or not.

>It didn't effect Yahoo.

Who says it didn't?

>It didn't effect Sony.

So a bunch of internal business documents got leaked. As a consumer I couldn't care less.

>It didn't effect AT&T.

If every provider was mandated to do this, then I wouldn't call it "poor data security reputation".
Those are each reasonable things to say with certain conditions and caveats. I would guess the issue is with various experts and policy makers trying to simplify things "for" regular people. Different people have different priorities and different summaries.

Another issue is that some health officials won't recommend something until there has been an official study result. For example, it was very likely that mixing vaccine types would result in stronger immune responses. But almost no one was willing to recommend it until there was a study done. That's why Britain finally put together a tiny quick study just to get a result out that they could point to.

A related issue there is that the recommendations are all based on the quickest results to study. The short 3-4 week spacing was recommended only because testing longer gaps takes longer.
Because people don't eat cattle feed. The fundamental problem is a self centered world view.
I would quite literally rather contract covid than live like that for any period of time.
> Overall, as software complexity grows, self-hosting will be increasingly harder.

Setting up self-hosting is not easy, except that it can be, as I see in the responses to this comment.

I am not sure I understand what "as software complexity grows" means. My observation is that "as software complexity grows" it eventually (and hopefully) fails, and we go back to simpler software, albeit using a few things we've learned along the way.

"As software complexity grows" is not a desirable trait. I hope that there is no need for such software, but I can't predict the future.
Ford make the parts that are unique to Ford vehicles, like chassis and engines. Things like seats and brakes, which are common to all vehicles, are bought.
Yes, it's on homeserver. I'm on ADSL Link.

OR, maybe, you're blocked by Geoghegan's pf-badhost rules for PF. Or, by personal rules if your act as villain by detecting few "details". Maybe…

(I am not saying that this is necessarily your case)