skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its not just the coal generator accidents but the weirdly long underground fires that rarely get a mention.
Here's one article I found of a fire underneath some suburban houses: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-26/underground-fire-in-c...
It casually mentions a decades-long struggle a primary school has had with an underground fire. Obviously not a very big deal for some folks.

I haven't read the actual study, but this write-up helped me understand the climate change denial phenomenon more clearly. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talking-apes/202012/...
Personally I have a MUCH easier time paying attention if I busy my hands with something mindless like dishes. This has been ruined lately by me becoming the guy that runs the meetings, but hopefully I can change that soon since I really dislike running meetings and would much rather wash dishes.
Because AML/KYC laws and cross-country report requirements mean that the financial institution holding the funds reports them.

There is a ton of information sharing between financial institutions and governments.

It is not just FACTA (though that particular law takes things much too far)
FF user. I don't see any option related to credit card usage. I didn't find anything in about:config either, though the defaults mention credit cards in some places.

The subtler point is whether a website owner can put in place a simple payment system - and be sure it will work on all clients. This is what you can do with Apple Pay, right?
Came here just to say that. It's such a beautiful case where a developer notices an issue in their mental model of how the tools work, changes their mental model to account for that issue, but as a result introduces a completely different bug in their mental model.
> Rich white males can murder and rape here and nobody cares!

Vincent Chin's murderers didn't get any jail time. The woman who falsely accused Emmett Till is still alive and well. It took months of rioting for them to begin convicting people like Chauvin instead of just giving them paid vacations. I don't know the situation in Germany but at least in the US that statement isn't far from the truth.
The problem is that many forum-commentators don't know how to craft policy that avoids figuratively trying to "boil the ocean".
In fairness to the author, he does mention the JSON and YAML at the end of the blog. Though he does still completely misunderstand how bash is handling strings in his conclusion:

> Bash cleans up extra spaces when writing to stdout unless you use variable quoting.

Nope. Bash parses the spaces as parameter delimiters if you don't quote:

$ echo "a b c" # is equivalent to echo("a b c") in C
$ echo a b c # is equivalent to echo("a", "b", "c") in C

Also remember that variables are expanded on the command line, not passed to the calling executable (the calling executable wouldn't know what to do with a $variable so any variables need to be expanded on the command line).
Some of the highest performing humans for the past couple thousand years have spent an abnormal amount of time in dimly lit rooms reading, what we're doing now is not far off if you're actually plugging away at useful tasks and not mindless scrolling.
You're pretending that domains aren't a cheap disposable commodity, they are.
Australia did well with this strategy initially, then returned to normal months before the rest of the world and with really low deaths to show of.

So they went ahead and used the strategy again, but this time (because delta is much worse) it didn't work, but they can't stop because the politicians who back this would take a hit if they admitted it. So they do the only thing they can, which is go at it, but harder.

This is basically the US Vietnam war situation.
I would bet that most people would actually get in that car - assuming the "skin" is leather and not rotting dry skin, of course.
Yes, but you can’t rent out the house you live in. So that means you need to buy multiple houses…
In general no, as was remarked in a sibling comment in this thread: SARS-Cov-2 on average spreads within the first 1-4 days after infection (viral titers peak on day 2 I believe), so the virus is indifferent to what happens after.

I also want to remark that there is the opposite effect that transmissibility correlates strongly with viral load (amount of viral particles) and viral load correlates weakly with lethality.
Spacedashboard have a nice summary of the streams and the position over earth.
https://spacedashboard.com/
Yes, users can make an informed choice about what product to use or to buy. This is true for computers, this is true for mobile devices, this is true for any kind of software, and obviously this is true for web browsers. People have been doing it on all other OSes since web browsers have existed.

There is no reason to prevent competition in such a market, and hopefully regulators will become aware of the issue and act on it soon.
The EU looks at the health of the market and there is plenty of competition and Apple only controls a small fraction of it. Windows on the other hand was installed on like >90% of computers.
In America, we have just made it too difficult to build new houses.

We have short circuited the market equilibrium.

The real way to make money here would be in building new houses. It is somewhat odd to me how this point never comes up. At least where I am, there is absolutely no shortage of land that could have new houses built but there is so much red tape it is not a good investment. This is especially true when we juice the stock market constantly to create a much better alternate investment.

Of course, any real problem in the world is multivariate but we like to dimensionality reduce everything to a single variable.

Hedge funds buying single family homes is bullshit. Not building enough new homes while giving everyone money borrowed from the future and rules to promote home buying has obvious consequences on price and supply though.
Artikel 18

> Wer die Freiheit der Meinungsäußerung, insbesondere die Pressefreiheit (Artikel 5 Abs. 1), die Lehrfreiheit (Artikel 5 Abs. 3), die Versammlungsfreiheit (Artikel 8), die Vereinigungsfreiheit (Artikel 9), das Brief-, Post- und Fernmeldegeheimnis (Artikel 10), das Eigentum (Artikel 14) oder das Asylrecht (Artikel 16a) zum Kampfe gegen die freiheitliche demokratische Grundordnung mißbraucht, verwirkt diese Grundrechte. Die Verwirkung und ihr Ausmaß werden durch das Bundesverfassungsgericht ausgesprochen.

Try to use your rights to abolish the democratic order and you lose them. That's indeed pretty simple language.
I do not think successive UK governments have had enough of a long term strategy to do this consciously (though I would love to find out it was a deliberate), but I think the Battersea / Nine Elms development is a fantastic way to exploit the surging demand into Western real estate.

Tens of thousands of flats have been built almost entirely funded by foreign investment. If/once the market collapses on whatever time frame, London now has significantly increased housing stock almost entirely on the back of foreign money (whilst providing income for local builders and suppliers). Already foreign owners are taking huge losses on their investment and I expect this to drop even further. If price drop to a reasonable level for your average Londoner, this will be a great win.

On a side note, that entire development is an architectural disgrace and as you note, for the time being a ghost town, parking dodgy money from abroad.
TIL: UTC vs. GMT
Good afternoon everyone! I don't want to have anything to do with Amazon since I found out about a big hole in the privacy of their security system. As I have heard, they are literally leaking tons of information from cameras to federal and internal authorities, the police. This did not suit me at all and I had to look for alternatives on the Internet, like https://ajax.systems/ . Of course, this is not a panacea, but it is still much more reliable. In any case, it's safer for me to think so... And what do you think about that?
Building the Vehicle Physicists Called Impossible
> That's how it is in practice. Everyone's equal under the law. Specifically on these issues, all groups are equal (meaning all races, ethnicities, etc.)

If this were true in the US, for example, then the following would not be true:

> Black men and women are imprisoned at higher rates compared to all other age groups, with the highest rate being Black men aged 25 to 39. In 2001, almost 17% of Black men had previously been imprisoned in comparison to 2.6% of White men. By the end of 2002, of the two million inmates of the U.S. incarceration system, Black men surpassed the number of White men (586,700 to 436,800 respectively of inmates with sentences more than one year). In the same year, there were also more Black women behind bars than White women (36,000 to 35,400). African-Americans are about eight times more likely to be imprisoned than Whites. The Sentencing Project, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization, released in 1990 that almost one in four Black men in the U.S. between the ages of 20 and 29 were under some degree of control by the criminal justice system. In 1995, the organization announced that the rate had increased to one in three.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra...
You're probably using the botanical term 'fruit', while the GP was using the culinary term 'fruit'. Olives are not fruit in the culinary sense (no one puts olives in a fruit salad).
Well, of course you wouldn't get in, because someone with a car upholstered in dog skin would probably be a fucking serial killer.
> how have people (and potentially programming languages) adapted to optimistic concurrency control

If they started with PostgreSQL, then they're already adapted to optimistic concurrency control, right?
To quote the dictionary:

extreme | ɪkˈstriːm, ɛkˈstriːm |
adjective

1 reaching a high or the highest degree; very great: extreme cold.

• not usual; exceptional: in extreme cases the soldier may be discharged.

• very severe or serious: expulsion is an extreme sanction.

• (of a person or their opinions) far from moderate, especially politically: groups of his more extreme supporters rioted in front of parliament.

• denoting or relating to a sport performed in a hazardous environment and involving great risk: extreme sports like snowboarding.

2 [attributive] furthest from the centre or a given point: the extreme north-west of Scotland.

It fits every option, other than the extreme sports.

Edit: formatting.
But when that happened didn't Microsoft have something like 95%+ of the global desktop operating system market share? Whereas Apple has nowhere close to that in mobile market share and likely never will. They are not a monopoly in the same way Microsoft was a monopoly.

With Apple you have viable alternatives from Android handset manufacturers: alternatives that are suitable for the average person on the street.

With Microsoft this was not the case. When that case started Apple were basically dead in the water on the desktop... and then you had Linux, which was not suitable for the average user (yes, I'm sure we can all cherry pick a story about somebody's grandparent being perfectly happy with Linux back in the day but these anecdotes, whilst fun and interesting, do not add up to meaningful data).
Hello there! I have often used a variety of smart devices especially smart sockets in collaboration with the security system https://ajax.systems/ . I think that this security option is the most reasonable, since it allows you to use cameras of different brands in one application, as well as control them and various smoke sensors and leak sensors, turning off the power from the outlets if necessary. This is an extremely convenient symbiosis. So I'm just curious, have you tried using several smart security systems?
How to Ease the Pain of Heartache
> Consider the simple act of buying something.

For a significant portion of the population (disclaimer: me included) this equals to going on amazon and pushing a few buttons. That’s on par with anything Apple provides.

I think your whole point about the web being complex is because you’re ok with that complexity so you engage with it. People who want to keep it simple naturally do so (we don’t gush over GAFA for no reason. A ton of users live their online life within these 5 companies).
How much of the power of the wind does the turbine turn into electrical power? It is not really a fair comparison.

I think BEVs are a better solution for most cases, but my feeling is that renewable ICEs and EVs with smaller batteries and "trolley bus" solutions just are way downplayed and underrated.
I prefer to say that programming is boring (to most people). It’s not particularly hard - what is hard is keeping enough motivation to learn it.
> it fairly flew on expert-tuned assembly

There's your problem.

Given the bajillion programs out there already, how many companies wanted to dig into assembly instead of just waiting 18-24 months for Moore's Law to speed up their software?

It's all very well and nice to have nice hardware in theory, but if you can't compile existing code to be fairly fast, then in practice you just have some expensive sand (silicon) in the shape of a square.

> People let their (understandable) hatred of Intel-the-company colour their technical judgement.

So getting back to your first statement: no they didn't. Everyone was basically all-in on Itanium. All the Unix vendors (except Sun) dropped their own architectures and steered their customers toward Intel. Microsoft released software for it.

But it seems the market didn't like what they saw, and just kept on with x86—and then amd64 came out and gave 64-bits to everyone in a mostly compatible way.
Hard to say... Household income and home prices average about 100k & 1million respectively in NZ. That makes sense at ultra-low interest rates of -1 to 1%, but not at the rates of NZ (>3-5%). Loan-to-income probably averages about 5x, but price-to-income is about 10x so I'm not sure what feeds the difference. Doubt people are sitting on 50% downpayments. But I wouldn't be surprised if there's a ton of generational wealth going from parents to kids.

Averages can be a bit misleading as you'd compare average home-owner prices to average household (owner or renter) income. The incomes of owners are typically above this average, for renters below the average, so the price to income is probably not 10x but a bit lower.

Second, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of wealth flowing into the market is not sourced from overseas wealth by immigrants. As in, the source of the wealth is foreign, but it's spent by people who have migrated to NZ.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migra...

You can see NZ sits in the top 20 in the world in net migration rate. The net migration rate (net, i.e. with the short-term workforce filtered out) probably consists of relatively high-income and high-wealth expats.

Second it seems like home ownership is decreasing in NZ lately. Perhaps the rental market is becoming bigger and homes get bought up by investors. Means less supply in the home owner market. That typically pushes prices up strongly, too. (good for the rental market, bad for homeowner market).

Lastly there's a slight increase in average home sizes. Naturally that should increase prices without it necessarily meaning certain floor space of housing is more expensive.

Still, these figures are quite crazy. I'd make more sense if they were 30% lower. I'd also be quite concerned as NZ seems to run off of variable or short-term fixed interest contracts... corrections and volatility is much bigger in such markets, and given mortgaged RE is by definition leveraged, it can really wipe out large chunks of wealth.
I orchestrate ZFS snapshots using Monit and Syncoid.

See: https://serverfault.com/a/842740/13325
What, you don't like multiple paragraphs with sub paragraph parenthetical phrases and taking the time to make sure the reader understands how these business processes are 'barnacles' but then tries to have it both ways by saying he won't use the phrase further. Like you haven't put the idea in the readers head, directly.
That will always just be a slow bleed. Some are already selling and moving to warmer climates. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Villages,_Florida
That's pretty neat! You actually gave me an idea - it'd probably be neat to be able to export a note in HTML/MD.
Perhaps they realize that opening up the browser on iOS would disproportionally benefit Google and nobody else.
> the defaults were good enough that no one changed them, and consequently every SaaS startup's product looked the same for about 5 years

Sounds like native GUI experience on Mac or Windows for quite some time, then? I'm certainly not offended when all buttons look the same. At least I immediately know that they're buttons.
Yes, the core idea is that you use a class which applies one css property to the HTML element.
In practice you can end up with a lot of classes.
Right, thanks for the correction, I meant Scrum of course.
True, but that article only refers to political parties. It says nothing about personal opinions published on some website (unless you're a representative of a political organisation, then it's a different matter).
Yeah it’s called “being in the market”. But you do realize it as you downsize one day when you don’t need as much space, etc. you can also move to a new market so maybe you lived in or near a major city at one point and want to move elsewhere - there’s a good chance your gains from one market can cover all costs in another.

For instance people moving from the Bay Area to Austin, Portland, and Boise.
Using well known tools is a double edged sword. On the one hand security issues are often found fast and fixed fast. On the other hand they are also exploited fast and en masse.

I have been building websites professionally for nearly two decades. In that time I have seen major attacks against a number of sites I worked on. They were ALL exploits in up to date frameworks/applications found by bots scanning for known vulnerabilities. In order of severity Wordpress, Django, osCommerce; Django was actually the most recent.

I’ve never had a custom built app compromised. Unless you’re some major player, no one wants to take the time to find flaws in your snowflake (outside query injection and the other common things you should know to protect against with experience). They find a flaw in a framework or library and then try to apply the known flaw everywhere.

Should every site be a snowflake? Surely not, not every developer is competent enough to build safe applications. Does it come with major upsides? Absolutely.
Yes, exactly! So why should I have a tool modify my home, just because you prefer it that way?
Since we are comparing random events, I would mention:

1. Al Sharpton, from the famous Tawana Vicenia Brawley rape hoax where she accused four white men of raping and other crimes, has a MSNBC contract and is living life.

2. Tony Timpa, rich white male, pleaded for help more than 30 times and died - prosecutors dismissed charges against the officers after they were indicted by a Grand Jury. Then the officers returned back to work last year.

https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/tony-timpa/

This is not a race problem. It's bad people getting hired to become cops and then unions and prosecutors protecting them problem.
Is there a good explanation for why? It seems so unbelievable that the number hasn't gone up that I would assume an error somewhere.
I think these are lithium ion batteries not lithium batteries so you should be able to just use water to smother them.

Lithium ion packs have hardly any lithium metal, if i remember right it’s lithium salt?
I want this story to end with him pulling out a small paper cocktail umbrella, holding it over his head, and singing "Give me a home where the buffalo roam," before disappearing into the rain... never to be seen at the office again.
The question was about why courts had power over FB and "you live in a society" explains that. Your (bad faith) attack completely fails at questioning that reasoning, because the reason is true regardless of your feeling about the particular courts that exist in a given society.
> True but for that your don't need a pkg-manager,

Why not?

> and for retro gaming..i would argue that 99.99% use DosBox, and the 0.01% with real hardware use probably MS-Dos 6.22.

Most do use DOSBox or physical hardware. Some do use FreeDOS too but yes, it is a hell of a lot less common so I do take your point :)

> What do you mean with that?

Have a read of it yourself: https://s3.amazonaws.com/eswenson-multics/public/releases/MR...

A lot of it is production features and bug fixes rather than toys for hobbyists. I will admit I'm talking about my subjective impression here though.

> First it was PLE then PL/1 well and some assembly, in Mutltics tradition the language the OS had to be implemented was written in stone before the langspec. or a working compiler existed (PLE E stands for early PL)

Interesting. Thank you :)

> BTW: The opposite to Multics the "Incompatible Timesharing System" gets some Maintenance-(love) too:

I've not heard of ITS before. Thanks for the link!
It's fairly annoying for other reasons than just shell quoting. For instance, I use the browser history to know whether I've already watched some video; this extra parameter makes all these video links appear to be unvisited to the browser (since back when I visited them, that useless extra parameter didn't exist).
You can call it entitled, but:

- Lots of people don't have a choice if they want to use AWS, someone in the business decided it for them

- AWS is not some non-profit open source pet project but actively tries to pull as many devs and companies as possible into their ecosystem

- Breaking users' workflows is always going to cause issues. AWS CLI v1 was distributed on pypi, lots of people had already built workflows around that.

- It is my understanding that for some people / use cases (e.g. using pyenv), having aws cli being tied to the system python causes significant issues for some reason (I can't remember exactly why, but a coworker struggled with this for days). It might have something to do with the PYTHONPATH, not sure.

- The whole response from Amazon reads as "we know what's best for you" and frankly, I find that kind of attitude (which seems to be increasing among big corps) infuriating. Large tech companies already have way too much control over the ways we build software, it would be nice if they didn't also control our workflows.

Full agreement that many people in that GitHub issue were not being constructive and behaving childishly, but I still believe that Amazon deserves criticism here.
'Neither may apply today' is quite the phrase. I mean asbestos used to cause mesothelioma and be highly regulated, but neither may apply today.