skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like it's somewhat pegged to income, but not a lot of detail in the article:

> There would be a base fee of $6.50 to enter the congestion pricing zone with eligible discounts based on income level. If you make more than $100,000 a year, you’d pay the full amount. Commuters who make less than $46,000 would not pay a fee.
What about the opposite? Maybe there are animals that have the same level of sentience as sims.
It's an embedded browser. When I click a web link in an app, I want my browser app to open it.

There's no option in Google maps to do this.
Other than being proprietary, macOS is definitely much better than Windows. The problem is that macOS requires Apple hardware, which has been dog shit for years now.
That's an awesome set of tools! I've written much jankier versions of these myself, and I'll definitely look into using the official ones.

That said, I don't know that they would have helped in the article's case. It looks like there was a higher-level resource getting leaked, which would also most likely leak these.
Nobody knows where the USD supposedly backing it goes. Most of it is in “commercial paper” they said, but the investors who work in that industry say they’ve never heard of them.

This seems impossible because at their scale, that would make them, like, the 5th largest commercial paper investor on Wall Street. How could commercial paper investors not heard of them?
No. The Olympics are a commercial operation owned by the IOC. NBC has sole US broadcasting rights until 2032.
i would not call this quiet
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You've misspelled it. It should be "runs".
That was such a terrible move. It made no sense.
Life expectancy in Japan is 5 years higher than in the U.S, which does not suggest the U.S. population is benefitting from this alleged prosperity.
The Polgar sisters are very well known. The more you learn, the more you will agree "painstakingly hard" is an apt description.

Hard work will get you there, and in their case, hard work meant they were literally born and raised as human chess-playing experiments.
> Windows XP always booted and worked a lot faster in a VirtualBox under Linux than it did directly on the same machine.

Then it could probably boot even faster under QEMU/KVM.
Could replace a lot of the items on that list with:

"Real artists ship."
nowadays even an abacus will phone home.
Well now you've gone in a completely different direction with it...

How many companies whose products we all use on a daily basis are directly or indirectly involved in abhorrent practices? Probably a lot, to be honest.

I'm not disagreeing with you, btw. I'm just saying the depth of what you're saying is a bit much for most people, since it feels inescapable.
That's true for all phishing yet people fall for it just the same, even tech people
He must not have had much experience with quant desks at trading firms.
Any rational person can see that Tether poses an existential risk to the crypto economy - but the market is highly irrational. There was an interview with tether's CTO and GC the other day that was an absolute car crash[0] and should be sounding deafening warning bells for anyone invested in crypto, but instead we see the BTC price shoot up by 15% in the days since it aired. It is utter madness.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBEqyiO35cQ
Don't, and they also shouldn't. I just got my first AZ shot last Friday, as many others did, and we are all much better off with it. No matter what, you can't understate the amount of good this vaccine did throughout the world.
Having watched a bunch over the weekend, my opinion is it feels very 20th century. It's about what you'd expect from a TV broadcast and not much more. Had me wishing that it was broadcast on Twitch or Youtube instead.
FWIW, Amazon Prime Video in Canada also has the CBC coverage for free. Not quite sure what the value add is though.
A personal favorite example of mine was the article “Recycling is Garbage” from 1996 that is chock full of misinformation and continues to do damage today. I wouldn’t be surprised if the article was sponsored by the plastics industry. (I’m speculating with zero proof, it just feels and smells like paid propaganda and corporate interests.) The online version has had orders of magnitude more readers than the excellent rebuttal at the time by the Environmental Defense Fund, but the NYT gave the author another platform to reprise his anti-environmental rants again six years ago, where he repeated the untrue talking points. There are a lot of real problems with recycling, some of them stemming from lack of buy-in and participation, and these NYT articles are fueling the anti-recycling sentiment with myths, undermining the will to improve the situation. The article’s pushing and glorifying of throwing things away is even doing damage to the idea that we should reduce consumption of single use plastic packaging, which is far more important than trying to recycle plastic.
> It is extremely hard, if not impossible, to prove a negative.

It is actually rather easy to prove a negative:

If P, then Q.
Not Q.
Therefore, not P.

This is called modus tollens and has been known since antiquity.
GDPR fines companies that operate in the EU. If you don't operate in the EU, you don't have to comply. The only penalty possible in that case is that your operations that are in the EU will be fined. You won't be deported, and also it applies to corporations, not individuals.
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I never understood the rational behind the second one... Sure I get that's how directories probably work underneath the hood but in a GUI I guess I expected a bit more "magic"
Sure, that is a legitimate protest, but the statement that was made was "there is no possible good use for a mac" and that is simply not true. You're reframing the issue to be about morality when that wasn't in question in the original comment.
The sounds may be easy to pronounce. The people may just not be devoting the attention to remember it. They've been told it's "Isabeya," say, but they just keep forgetting it's not "Isabella."

I would treat this as similar to forgetting someone's name. Yes, plenty of people have a "terrible memory for names," but at the end of the day it's a matter of respect. If you really care -- if it's someone who's becoming a friend, if it's someone you ought to know for your job, if it's someone who's been introduced to you five times -- it's on you to remember the name, unless you have a genuine neurological condition.
In Canada, it's on CBC and tsn networks.

CBC comes on free to air cable if u have an antenna, and they have an app for free access even if not a tv subscriber.

Plus they have a deal with Amazon Prime, the CBC live streams of events are available though Amazon Prime too.
There’s a weird game-theoretic angle to it too. US regulators tend to mostly hammer down when they are confident they can win, they don’t like fighting and losing. So in a way, being told to pay a fine is seen as “pay the fine or else we’re going to court and winning”. It saves the regulators the hassle of actually proving they are right.

But of course there is then a second-order effect. If you are defending yourself against the regulators, right or wrong it is assumed the case is very strong, by all parties.

Ultimately it’s an agency problem too: regulators want (are incentivised to maintain) “clean” markets, not to send people to jail. In the short term, if their civil fine achieves it, their job is done and there is no need to drag themselves through the courts.
The reason this happens is that the bar for proving criminal intent on the part of a corporation- which would lead to jail for executives and could lead to dissolution of the corp- is very very high. Getting the evidence related to "mindset" and linking it to action and doing so in a way that sufficiently resists various defense strategies is almost impossible, and extremely expensive and
time consuming to litigate.

The result is a Nash equilibrium where companies, in a world where prosecutors had infinite time and resources, could be convicted of criminal acts, instead make a deal with prosecutors- whose investigations cost companies money to support and whose work is often public which can damage reputation. The size of the deal and other aspects of behavior/policy change will all be negotiated.

A company can never "admit wrongdoing" as doing so would have so many downsteam impacts as to make it impossible to stay in business. For instance, a company that "admitted wrongdoing" would be in violation of any terms of financing and of many employment contracts.
We need more analyses like that. As an ex-consultant I always amazed by how people try to optimize the smallest blocks. The Pareto principle is universally applicable. Let's tackle the biggest carbon blocks first.
Fossil fuel's use in German power production is falling faster than their nuclear mix is. They never "went back to coal". In reality renewables now account for almost double nuclear's output at its peak.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/sites/default/files/styles/g...

Germany is absolutely a great example, even if it somehow became the target for the weird cadre of nuclear boosters.
Unlike Bitcoin, Eth, and other coins, Tether was always claimed to be backed by something which ensured it's stable value. Tether the company claims that their tether coins are each worth $1.

There are now >$60Bn worth of Tether coin issued. With that much money they'd be a very serious private financial institution, and yet they only have 13 employee's. They have never been audited by any independent third party. They have repetitively lied about who owns the company (the same people who own Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange own Tether, and yet did not disclose that until it was found out). They have receptively changed their story on what backs Tether coin (originally each coin had $1 in a bank account to back it, now it's majoritively unspecified "commercial paper").

There is nothing which proves that Tether actually is backed by anything and the billions in new Tether coin which are minted could very well be worthless.
Freedom of movement exists within the US, many US states are more progressive than the EU, there are slightly more people of another “race” in the US, but most importantly: there are far more people (# and %) of non US/EU background in the US, and the only countries with more % are other “Anglo” countries like Australia and Canada.
I would first of all think about getting it up to $3000 MRR or so.
Maybe I should submit a pull request for Spanish names. It'd be nice to get Arabic, Hindi, and Russian in there too.

Common errors I've heard for Spanish:

- Juan being pronounced as [wan] rather than [huan] or [xuan]

- Jesus, of course

- Javier mysteriously gets mispronounced (only by British English speakers!) with the akSENT on the wrong syLOBBle, as ['hav jɛ] HAVyer instead of [hav 'jɛ] hav YAIR (the closest approximation fitting English phonotactics to the correct [xaβ i 'eɾ]).

Other people in the thread mention Jaime, for which [hajmej] is much more reasonable than the commonly heard [dʒejmi], and Vicente for which [bisɛntej] is a lot better than [vɪnsənt] or [vintʃɛntej]. (I'd be careful about [biθɛntej] though; Vicente might be from Latin America.) I bet Julián gets [dʒuliən] rather than [huli'an] pretty often, too.

The only one I've noticed from Hindi is people pronouncing "Rohit" as "Roheat" instead of the straightforward "Rohit". Like, "row hit". Couldn't be easier, but for some reason English-speakers screw it up all the time. But then, I don't speak Hindi or any other Indian language (yet!) so there may be a lot of others I'm overlooking.

Also in 02021 there is no excuse for not having some reasonable idea about how to pronounce "Nguyen", even if [wɪn] is the best you can do. Don't go around saying [nəgajən].
NBC's Olympic coverage ... the only reason I've ever found to pay for an IP proxy in the UK so that I could watch the BBC coverage instead.

ps. I did try to pay for a UK TV license too but they don't seem to have the concept of someone outside the UK paying for this.
ATT is not comparable to NBC. ATT has a structural monopoly, without which society cannot communicate.

NBC is a glorified ad broker, and they could fall off the face of the earth and no one would notice. Of course, they are owned by Comcast, who is in similar position as ATT, so I assume Comcast is just milking these legacy companies for all they are worth.

My solution is to simply not watch. If consuming entertainment content is not as simple as search, click, pay, watch, then I simply do not get enough utility from watching TV.

And if I am paying, I do not want to see ad breaks, another dealbreaker.
> we never had a security incident with files coming into our support center

...that you are aware of.
That may be true but it doesn't change that we are trapped in bodies that evolved to survive in the universe created by that kid.
Android 12’s stash payout varo bank Chikitaisaac123 gmail.com could be Snow Cone
IMO Rust is much easier and simpler than C++, but much harder and more complex than any managed GC language.
Don't worry, they are planning to turn off coal completely around 2035… and replace them with natural gas plants imported from Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream
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I think it's really hard to make it play like a human. Even GMs miss two-move tactics sometimes, wheras computers are pretty perfect at this.

On the other hand traditional algorithms might not be very good at positional chess when on a budget, wheras even weak human players can understand basic concepts like putting your rook on an open file. Then it gets even more complicated with the NNUE position evaluation models - maybe even with a one-move budget the neural net is still implicitly strong at understanding several moves ahead, and could still beat a strong human player.
Some laws are about settling convention where the specific content of the convention has no normative component, e.g., which side of the road cars drive on
Heh, I think employees should be given a fully synthetic identity, mostly for privacy reasons, but it can help with this thing too. The nickname can be also selected so that names aren't reused in a team, which would reduce ambiguity in communication. Even in small teams a lot of time is spent resolving ambiguities which John was referred.
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Funny part about the Morphy quote is that he would probably waste less of his life had he actually stick to chess.
Yeah and that's typically a mistake too. Cuba has nothing to provide us economically.

Name one good thing that having a "relationship" with the Cuban government would do?

It would be about as fruitful as cozying up to NK. It's a waste of time negotiating with fascists who have no plan on changing their ways.
Totally understand, I enjoyed the writeup, and applaud the outcome; thanks for sharing it!
Interesting ideas here: how antivirus becomes a form of censorship. Maybe that’s an extreme view but it feels like now that Microsoft supplies it’s own defender app. And like all forms of martial law beginning as a way to protect citizens!

I also noticed that with win10 when apps crash it sends the data to Microsoft—as though they can fix 3rd party apps for us. Yeesh. I think I’ll skip out on Windows 11 TYVM.
There's so many ethical problems constantly overshadowing the Olympics that it's hard for me to enjoy watching them. I have some excitement for the athletes but no longer make a point of watching them. It's a shame because it's a good idea, but there's a lot if changes that need to happened; coverage is just the tip of the iceberg.
Paying $20 to watch something that should be freely viewable anyway just makes advertisers pay even more to get your attention. They won't ever go away until advertising literally becomes illegal.
Not to mention his arguments can easily be broken down and expressed as logical fallacies such as false balance. For a professor of epistemology he sure seems to fail in his ability to justify his statements.
Earth's interior is swallowing up more carbon than thought
> 5% of the world’s power plants account for almost three-quarters of carbon emissions from electricity generation

I don't have any idea for what that really means. I Any idea how big a part of the overall carbon emissions problem that is?
And using Linux Desktop seems like masochism to me. Why would I want to use an OS where I can't install applications to a different disk without recompiling them or otherwise jumping through a bunch of namespacing and filesystem overlay hoops?

There are reasons people make the choices they do and to assume that just because those reasons are beyond you that they are not reasonable is silly.
I believe one of the reasons for this is that in general the sporting calendar is pretty full and this two week period in July/August is always empty.
One more reason why I only use windows what it was built for: to run games. ^.^

No flames. But I mean this is really really rude, even from MS.

Forced upgrades were very hard to kill, but eventually some dns and firewall tweaks in the router did the trick.

But this? Removing stuff they don’t like? Without user consent? Wow. This is a new level.
> Very difficult in the US because the Federal government has no authority to require one,

It absolutely could require one for functions within the federally-regulatable sphere, and not prohibit its use for private and state functions.

(If it was national-but-decentralized, it could just set standards for the digital ID and let states issue them, the same way it has for physical ID, see, e.g., REAL ID.)
Learning and playing chess is great for you, but probably only up to the point of being competitive.

Mid/high level players to progress up are in large degree forced to study positions memorise lines etc. To large extend its a competitive memorisation game.

This is natural step in high level chess, its like a precopmutated hash table, the more upfront work you can precomputate the less time you need to spend over the board on that move.

I play chess for fun and as casual hobby, and i think its a great way to exercise your brain. Thinking about board and evaluation positions. It translates into real world too.

Its also one of the last few things i can do and not get distracted by anything else.
With the internet, you can please everyone.

Search, pay, click, watch whatever you want.
This thread speculates that Tether’s commercial paper may be in Chinese real estate, which is currently suffering huge losses…

https://twitter.com/TheLastBearSta1/status/14183024655571107...
The parent did say "by default". One thing that bites those of us on company machines is that right-click > open requires admin privileges.
Great.

> I would never dream of using the word "Germania" with someone that does not speak Italian...

That's the strawman. In the example, we're talking about Italians, speaking Italian, not being corrected for speaking non-Italian words like Italians do.

So, when speaking Italian, if a German insisted that you pronounce his homeland as Deutschland not Germania you would think he was a nut.

So, when speaking English, why would you insist that someone saying "brusheta" is wrong? Help me understand.
Chandler did not. He died in 1959.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Chandler
iOS's bult-in QR code detector, and others I've seen, only show the domain name of the code. To opt out due to tracking parameters, you have to be shown the full URL. To attempt removing the offending parameters, you need the option to copy the URL to the clipboard or otherwise get it into a text editor rather than simply requesting the URL in the browser.
Competitiveness may be local/relative (against peers, a la climb the ladder) or global/absolute (against giants, a la advance humanity). In both cases, it is usually healthy at different stages of life if it acts as a nudge instead of an obsession. Obsessive competitiveness is too much too often a high risk / low reward game, but you only live once and then be it as you like: self-reflection and evaluation will however come, later.
"Windows good, you can't change my mind!" doesn't add anything of value to the conversation, especially for people who aren't dead-set either way.

If you swear by windows, you probably have good reasons. People who like windows would love to hear them. Otherwise, why partake in a conversation that frustrates you at all if you don't want to argue in support of your opinion?

+1 for the windows camp: Personally, I haven't found a better alternative for running Adobe programs on good hardware without taking out a loan on my house (mac pros are a no-go). So Windows works best here.

Another +1 for the windows camp: Gaming (but SteamOS is starting to compete here).

Other than that, I have found that some variant of linux or macOS outperforms windows in every way for my needs (insert obligatory, YMMV), and I am happy to list those out if anyone is interested or needs help deciding which OS suits their needs best.
Though if there is good public transit that doesn't matter, as it drives those people into the transit where they won't look back.

Good is key here. Good means if you can drive there in half an hour (with traffic), then no matter when you leave your front door you can be there in 40 minutes or less. SF only has a few areas of good transit.
It would be possible, though very difficult, to turn the OS into a staging bootloader, and load another OS bare-metal from there. Still insanely difficult though.
Hmm, I wonder if this is why I've been unable to use qbittorrent in the last month or so.

I connect via a socks5 proxy, and everything appears to be connecting but I get nothing but "checking" continually and no activity.
I mean, that would reduce congestion too:)
Right, so the problem isn't really because "Windows is a bad OS, m'kay", it's because Windows is popular... why might that be, I wonder? Maybe people like using it more...
I don't know why everyone insists on No Mans Sky. Having a space engineers MMO with thousands of players would be way more interesting. If every player builds 5 autonomous vehicles then the game would have simulate 5000 vehicles 24/7.
A tactic used in some almost autocratic countries is to pay for lots of ads in the press, ensuring that the press stays friendly to the payer. It's legal, it passes first scrutiny, and it's effective. NYT wouldn't want to lose a big client, so they will be thinking twice before publishing a damaging article.

I don't think 100k a month can break NYT journalism integrity (their revenue is 1.7 billions), but not because it's too cheap, they became a propaganda mouthpiece anyway. A high quality one, that makes you believe they're not actually propaganda, which makes it so much more effective. It's easy to see Fox as propaganda, so much harder to see NYT; and they are at roughly the same levels.
I suspect it's even harder than that. Chess GMs have a certain kind of mind, and no amount of training will give you that if you're not born with it.

I honestly don't understand the "If you work hard enough you can do anything" mindset.

To me it's clearly, obviously, objectively wrong - because otherwise you'd be able to take take absolutely any random child and turn them into a chess prodigy, a musical prodigy, an art prodigy, a literary prodigy, a sports prodigy or a STEM prodigy just by hot housing them.

There's no doubt a lot of talent is wasted by circumstance. But does anyone really believe that at the top levels, hard work will compensate for lack of aptitude?

Edit: Polgar experiment. Inconclusive without a bigger sample and a control group, surely.