skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If party owned Evergrande they don't need to have three red lines drama
Japanese economy was getting too big for the US's tastes.

The housing crisis and stagnation followed a tradewar after which the US forced it to do technology transfers, limit exports to the US, take a minimum amount of american imports in industries, etc and forced it to pick up a shitty monetary policy.

The thing is. Japan kind of had to roll with it.
Exporting to the USSR was a nono, other markets like china were not nearly as developed yet and western Europe being another export market was joining the US in it's efforts.
Additionally they weren't allowed a standing army but did have the US military around.

China has less of those restrictions.
Just to be clear, they aren't banning the sale of gas cars. FTA:

> This is a lot earlier than their 2025 target (which, to be clear, is not a legal requirement yet, more of a soft target agreed upon by Norway’s government).
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> champion decentralized sharing systems which would make this sort of content uncensorable.

Decentralization does not make illegal content uncensorable, in fact the opposite is true, because regular citizens and small organizations hosting individual nodes are exposed to a lot more risk and legal liability than a massive tech giant. These gigantic centralized networks allow this type of content to hide in plain sight because something like Facebook is "too big to fail" and won't ever be shutdown regardless of how many times illegal content is re-uploaded to the platform.
I'm not really clear on the whole downside part.

Pollution? It comes from underground, does something useful, gets buried again.

Waste? Uhh... It may "feel" wasteful, because it's more durable than paper, but if it's both cheaper and better than paper, I don't really see the issue. Plus if I want to pay to buy something, it's kinda by definition useful.

Environmental damage from fruit & vegetable plastic packaging. Again, not clear on the how. Plastic is very chemically inert to the point of being used as food packaging. It may at worst be visually unappealing in the wrong context, but that's a disposal issue.

And please, please, for the love of all that is still logical, don't tell me about plastic in oceans. A ban on packaging in Spain will do absolutely nothing about how municipal waste is disposed of in Africa and Asia. Both wrong problem and wrong continent.
Ok, then start school at 8AM one month and 9AM the other month, but don't move the clocks.
The Linux kernel's Integrity Measurement Architecture can be used with the TPM to establish trust of the filesystem. ref: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-use-linux-kernels-integri...
There's so much I love about this laptop, but why is the keyboard layout so Mac-ish even though the aspect ratio is 3:2? This thing could have a much more traditional keyboard layout with that extra vertical apace.
Are people incapable of nuance?

Blocking slave adverts != Censorship

I have no problem with that.
I believe OP is referring to the fact that a sophisticated attack has access to the hardware and you continue using it afterwards. They could, for example, change the unencrypted /boot partition to log the password you use to decrypt your partition. Or, if you sign the boot partition, they could install a hardware key logger, or do any other kind of hardware modification that defeats the security. Preventing this kind of attack is incredible difficult. They are many means to prevent those kind of attacks but, for the most part, it just making it harder for the attacker so that the attacker needs to become even more sophisticated.

Full disk encryption only helps if you are worried that your hardware gets stolen
2. The alternative could be not using oil at all here. I don’t remember our ancestors needing plastic packaging to eat fruit.

Plastic packaging doesn’t always get buried either. Landfills aren’t exactly a solution because of toxins they leech into the surrounding soil. It could end up in bodies of water. It could end up burned in an incinerator which releases the CO2 + volatile organic compounds stored inside it (and volatile organic compounds are quite bad for human health)
The truth is that virtually no human has ever had dominion over their healthcare decisions at any time in history. Having that dominion involves both freedom to choose and the understanding and information you need to choose well. Lewis and Clark taking mercury supplements to help with constipation is not them "having dominion over their healthcare decisions", it's them being woefully uninformed. Humanity never had "dominion over nature" until we could build shelters, control fire, cultivate crops, and tame animals -- advancing medicine and seeking the advice of experts is how we might start to attain such a dominion over personal healthcare. The people who demand Ivermectin, or who go for crystal healing or homeopathy, they don't have "dominion" over their own healthcare, they're just ignorant and have been infected with viral disinformation.

But upvoted for "yay for the neigh"
If they don't want to be seen in a negative light, they can start by freeing Tibet, the Uighurs, and Hong Kong, or at least take the jackboot a little bit off of their necks.

Also stopping the expansionism in the South China Sea and ridiculous claims to own Taiwan....

IOW, if they can't conceive of it, they are pretty far removed from reality
A major reason for trash separation is actually easier furnace control for burning it, not recycling.
The license is currently just

All rights reserved.

Copyright (c) 2020 Lucian Marin

It was the MIT license at the time of initial commit, and been updated to this. So it's not immediately clear if anyone else can necessarily use Logparser - care to clarify, Lucian?
You're just reiterating my point. Even if this where true, it doesn't add any information. For a Catholic it simply affirms their Catholic worldview, however for someone with a secular worldview it is also perfectly inline with their existing views.

As such the statement "Surprisingly" make no sense, since this information is not "surprising" to anyone, even if it were true (which is it very likely not).
Norway’s getting electric cars and Samoa is ditching Ben Franklins biggest screw up.

Small countries rock. I want to move. I speak Norwegian and love Samoans, I wonder if either will take me.
> But, sadly, Apple is letting their desire to get vengeance outweigh the interests of their users

Of course they are, that's Apple's standard business relationship practice. See also why Mac's still don't have an Nvidia GPU option, because Apple & Nvidia got in some spat a decade ago and Apple has been holding a grudge ever since.

The more Apple brings stuff in-house the less this matters to the bottom line, but it shouldn't be surprising. Unless not having Fortnite begins to seriously impact iPhone & iPad sales, Apple isn't going to care regardless of whether or not it's hurting their customers.
An0m (the product) would be legal regardless of who operates it.

An0m did not enable any illegal actions, those same acts would have taken place regardless of An0m.
Does anyone else find this bit just comical:

> The measure is opposed by the plastics industry. Tim Shestek, a spokesman for the American Chemistry Council, a trade association that includes large companies such as Dow, DuPont, 3M and ExxonMobil Chemical, called the measure “a massive taxpayer-funded giveaway of billions of dollars to fund a variety of special interest pet projects.”

> He said it threatens small businesses like restaurants and that the plastics industry is committed to reducing plastic waste.

Oh, good, the plastics industry is coming to help reduce how much plastic they sell. It's transparent to the point of being satirical!

It's also just funny to me that the slightest price signal ($0.01 per piece of packaging) is deemed completely untenable, and further a 'giveaway' of funds. Give me a break!

The market works on price signals. We are allowed to create signals to indicate our preferences (less trash everywhere please) in order to have the computer (the market) solve for a more optimal solution. Collective action (eg legislation like the one mentioned) is the way to do this!
Yes. This is why all the people that copy-pasta "you're wrong about section 230"[1] on HN are missing the point. Even if the law doesn't say "Once a company like that starts moderating content, it's no longer a platform, but a publisher" - that's still a moral position that many people (including me) take.

Like you said, "If you centralize, you own the platform - the good & the bad." and I would extend that to "You can either choose moderation or waiving liability, but not both, because that's morally wrong (or, selfish/inconsistent/harmful/unfair)."

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
Had to google wtf 'maid cafe'...just when I thought Japan couldn't be any more weird.
> 1 cent fee on plastic packaging to be paid by manufacturers

It's adorable that CA thinks that manufacuters will be the ones bearing this cost.
Unfortunately the IANA tzdb is less reliable than most developers would probably assume.

A few years ago I was using moment-timezone for a web app and noticed it was displaying time wrong for Chinese users. Looking into the issue, I found out that the packaged tzdb version somehow thought China Standard Time was observing DST, which was a brief experiment scrapped decades ago. Digging into tzdb source, I felt like being thrown into an old style wiki page where people argue with each other back and force over the years, leaving all the historical arguments directly in comments in the source code. At times people just go with incomplete information and somewhat questionable sources, which might get corrected a decade later. You can check for yourself: https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb-2021a/asia

(Btw, I can't really pinpoint the problematic version I encountered years ago now.)
> "Are you also going to push for governments to force Apple to make iPhones with removable batteries?"

Kinda - I am pushing my government to force Apple to provide spare parts, and give us right to repair. Make ownership of digital device mean something again.

US obsession with choice is a red herring. I don't want sadistic 'choice' between getting going backrupt and dying of a treatable disease, I want the problem fixed.
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It's literally just one game? Fortnite? Which is really a cash cow at this point. Epic couldn't care less about you, or smaller developers. Which is what is most disingenuous on their part, to pretend like they're the "small guy".
Related..

China Makes Preparations for Evergrande’s Demise

Beijing, reluctant to bail out the country’s most heavily indebted property developer, is asking local officials across the country to prepare for a ‘possible storm’ https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-makes-preparations-for-ev...

https://archive.is/XG5dD
have you bothered with VR? On PopOS i get audio issues with the mic and i have to manually switch the speakers to output to my index and it still gives me feedback. i dual boot as well but i would love to ditch my windows partition.. just need VR working 100%
You can find a very comprehensive list of regex patterns looking at the logstash’s grok definitions:

https://github.com/logstash-plugins/logstash-patterns-core/t...
You don't believe that, when any discussion of the laptop was banned to right after the election, and it was considered racist to believe in the lab leak theory, right until the president changed and now it is officially considered a possibility worth investigating?

I don't agree with Trump, but I can easily see why somebody might have lost the remaining trust in the institutions.
By that logic, any nation's government is also highly centralized and even more powerful. Are politicians complicit with human trafficking because it exists within their nation's borders?
2. Leave the oil in the ground.
By the time this gets resolved, the world may have moved on from Epic’s Fortnite cash cow.
> Can someone explain this to me?

Sure. Start with this: your perception of the “zeitgeist on HN” is based on the loudest commenters, but on different issues those are different sets of commenters. So, yeah, the zeitgeist of the subset of HN engaged by icky posts on Instagram is different than the zeitgeist of the subset engaged by decentralized sharing systems.

Second, where there is overlap, tribalism plays a role, and “anti-big-corp” alignment fits both stances you point to.
If you had read what the poster said you’d know that they are fixing the problem. And already did a lot to fix it.
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead also comes to mind. https://cataclysmdda.org/
If you’re only looking at the cost to the consumer. If you include the cost of externalities to the environment… And I guess animal suffering isn’t a cost this is going to include… And the article addresses subsidies only once, in this one hand waving sentence: “ To be fair, the traditional meat industry already benefits from enormous direct and indirect government subsidies.”
> what planet we’re going to get the lithium and cobalt from to make billions of EV cars

This one. Lithium and cobalt are slightly less abundant in the oceans and Earth's crust than nitrogen and there's more of it than lead or boron, which are produced at much greater scale than lithium or cobalt [1].

The problem isn't the amount it's the concentration of the elements in economically extractable ore. That's rapidly changing as various extraction methods reach economies of scale.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth...
If that was important for people, people would buy phones with removable batteries.
Snap permissions are a mess.

The fact that I have to give Remmina each of its permissions one at a time after installing with snap is silly.
My back of the envelope calculations put that kind of refresh rate at more than 230Gb/s if you wanted to send the pixels in 4K@1000Hz, uncompressed, with 10 bit colour (which is not unrealistic, HDR is being adopted). This is over 3x the bandwidth capability of DisplayPort 2.0, and is the equivalent of 2x16 PCIe 5.0 lanes. In short, it's a lot of data.

This makes me think that perhaps the future of gaming may be that the GPUs move out of the PC and into the screens, with the "display" connection just being a data pipe that sends textures or compressed video for rendering/decoding on the screen. That, or fiber optic.
No. It points to "friends and family" as a place to boot a network if you don't have a better idea.
Thanks for sharing. I'm similarly in a city, similarly not super dense like Manhattan. But I'm East coast and most of my travels have been up and down this coast. I wonder if the difference is regional. Of course there's the good chance I'm just not very observant and pass by non-gas station 7-11s all the time.
> An average consumer probably gets a new phone every 1-2 years

We don’t know the same “average” consumers.
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Is there any need to ban it? Impose a reasonably priced tax and this, along with all other superfluous plastic usage, will end.
Instagram controls what is uploaded to its servers — a web browser does not do that.
Same thing happened to Age of Empires and Railroad Tycoon. The 3d versions were never as special to me.
And then the brick and mortar store says "oh and also we want 30% of anything the customer purchases through your product for ever" -

Yes, yes I do think we would be saying the same things.
Most of the Eastern European countries have significant exit moves.
The buildings in question are new though, not old decaying buildings. They are just very shoddy constructed with corner cutting everywhere. How prevalent? It’s hard to say. Guess we will find out in a few decades.
Different strokes for different folks. Though not every game benefits from having to discover its basic rules by trial and error, there is some appeal to it exploring the unknown when the game is designed around it. Scape rooms are a game genre, after all.
Thanks. I’ll try that brand. I buy mine from Encompass, the official seller of Lenovo batteries. So they shouldn’t be knockoffs, nor unsealed. But, one battery went from 90% health down to 30% in the course of six months. And they’re not cheap!
https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2005/04/25/1352797.h...

> The OIC says religious scholars will have access to accurate pictures of the shape of the Moon instead of having to rely on naked-eye sightings which have in the past created discrepancies between Muslim countries or mistakes.

> "Hopefully the satellite will stop the problems associated with lunar sightings," spokesman Ahmed Imigene says.

> "The satellite will have a fixed camera on board that will take highly detailed pictures of the Moon and beam them back to earth," says Professor Mervat Awad, the centre's director.

> Dr Ali Juma, chief of the 15-member panel from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain which decided on the contract for the satellite, says it will solve many problems related to crescent sighting.

Though... not all countries use that technology. I'm not sure if its still in use as that was 15 years ago.
anyone working with a people located in different regions knows how counterproductive daylight savings is. I've come to that it is inevitable that daylight savings will be eliminated, and the only thing keeping it around is the name implies that legislators have some supreme power over the sun. if we all agreed to cal it "useless time adjustment" i think it would go away quicker.

i do think that we should eliminate different time zones entirely. there isn't a sundial industry that we need to keep afloat. it would be simple and better for people interacting across wide longitudinal gaps. as a first step, i would suggest the united states selecting a single representative timezone, to make the adjustment simple, then just force the rest of the world to follow suit, using climate change as a reason or some such. we can also declare the new proper timezone as metric, to satisfy the europeans.
I like to sow chaos and confusion anytime anyone asks if we're gaining or losing an hour with "it's spring back, fall forward!" while grinning like an idiot.
> and forced it to pick up a shitty monetary policy.

I think this was the real killer. There’s a bestselling book on that in Japan, Princes of the Yen (and documentary on YouTube).
> which i wrote.

lol?
Thankfully, if you have an eSIM compatible phone, you can use a service like https://www.airalo.com/ to quickly get a local data plan. Let's see if this forces carriers to reduce their roaming fees.
I am pretty sure they don't. I was interested in LispWorks since the late 90ies. I downloaded and used a bit the free edition, but that was too limited even for hobby usage. The personal edition was a bit cheaper then, I almost bought it. I would assume, if they had offered something in between, I would have noticed.
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We all know how the carbon tax ended.
As a former student of probability (ok, I took Math 361 at UIUC and worked in Google Ads Quality!): I've always felt that probabilistic statements like this:

the number of near-Earth objects above a given length, L, in kilometres can be calculated with the equation N(>L) ≈ 1,148L-2.354, and that for any given near-Earth object, there’s a ~1.6 × 10-9 chance of hitting the Earth in any given year

are meaningless. "Whew! Only 1.6 × 10-9! I guess we can feel safe, then!"

The question isn't "what's the probability?" but "could it
plausibly happen, and is it worth defending against?" (The answer is Yes to both.)

What was the probability of the 2007 housing crash? All the financial models said it was negligible, and yet it happened.

I suppose you can tell I'm a Bayesian, not a frequentist.
My experience has been the opposite; that people are great at making excuses for entirely contradictory sets of opinions they deeply hold.
Oh man, there was a post of a (new?/in preview?) productivity/project planning app on HN recently that I've been looking for in a while since I lost the link.

Hoping that shows up here again.
I don't remember the name but the website left an impact. It looked really highly polished (a la Stripe).

Some of the features I remember:

- email integration

- tags and folder for organising projects

- richt text editing
Thank you. That does sound like something that could resolve my skepticism into concrete facts.
Please explain how it is not censorship.
I think many of them (including me) were waiting for this to play out. I can remember walking into a cell phone store years and years ago to look around. I remember overhearing this:

Kid: I really like this phone.

Dad: That’s a Windows Phone, you don’t want that. It doesn’t have that many apps. You want an Android because you get all the apps out there.

I can see a similar argument for Android vs. Apple now. “Get Android, you’ll get all the apps. With Apple, you only get Apple approved apps, which includes malware, but not that game you like to play, what’s it called? Fortnight?”
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"If the EU was really for "fair markets", Dieselgate alone"

Dieselgate has resulted in criminal prosecution, remind me how many people went to jaill after 2008? 2?
This analogy only works if you modify it:

There are only two chains of brick and mortar store in the world and one with double digit market share (Apple) has decided to take 30% off the top for all goods sold in all of their stores and have banned products from having any indication on their packaging that they can be purchased elsewhere for different pricing. Entering any store also requires an extremely expensive chain-specific device that most people purchase on credit every few years, eliminating the ability to easily shop around at both chains.

If this were to happen outside of tech, the perpetrator would get crushed by anti-monopoly legislation.
Why don't massive new ATX cases have 5.25" drive bays anymore?! I get that an optical drive on a laptop is a bit extra, but I still need to burn media, backups and images!

Where is the IO panel? Where are the hot-swappable drives? Why is the underutilized CPU liquid cooled, when the over-stressed GPU is poorly air cooled?!

Nothing about this makes sense, except it's conformance to modern fashion. Don't even get me started about the fan placement...

Don't get me wrong though, I love the glass (or plastic).
I won't need to go to the hospital because I have natural immunity from an infection that was so mild I'm not even sure when I had it.

False equivalence. The treatment methods for heart attack and broken legs have a long history and wealth of data. I gladly take every other vaccine for the same reasons.

They are not reliant on brand new techniques for which no long term testing or data exist against a threat that has repeatedly resisted vaccination with disastrous results historically. They are also not treatments propped up by singular hundred billion dollar companies who have a massive interest in their product being pushed as the only effective prophylactic. Companies that are set to make $30-50 billion, and also happen to be some of the largest lobbyists in the world.

Would you accept Ivermectin as a treatment prescribed by your doctor in India or Japan?
Ha ha, can't spell "proactive" without "PR".
I generally agree that the rules were well-intentioned, so now we have seen a bunch of loopholes being exploited (basically dark patterns) so I fully expect the next revision of these rules to come down with improvements that would make the current dark patterns illegal.
Sound advice. Do you have a blog or anything?