skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's used to let governments that aren't interested in being green, look green.

Here in the UK it's a slow drip of initiatives that catch the public eye. Microplastics, single use bags, straws, now they're looking at coffee stirrers, and bags again as the law had an obvious unintended consequence. I just know the next things will be plastic plates and some absurdly overcomplicated deposit scheme.

They'll also ban new ICE cars which will have a clear unintended consequence in driving people to upgrade their cars early for their "last ICE car", creating more manufacturing emissions. But it sounds good.

The "big stuff" goes ignored, in fact our current PM is contemptuous of the environment. There isn't going to be any action on meat, aviation... actually they're building new runways.

It's as if we are asking for work life balance and we get given our birthdays off. All PR and no actual progress.
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I've heard that some online accounts don't actually represent real human beings. Perhaps they counted some of those "fake" accounts?
a friend of mine who works at Target and is on wellness leave right now for a month where she get 75% of her pay. all she had to do was have her physiatrist write a letter to her HR department. i don't know what Amazon policy is on things like this but I'm sure they are better than Target. bottom line is, look at all your options.

i feel bad for this dude... my heart goes out for him like you wouldn't believe. that said... he put himself in this situation, i would have NEVER have taken that job knowing my wife was sick. his previous boss was empathic and kind, who cares about the money when what he really needed was time with his wife.
>What specifically caused this sudden spike over the last 3 months?

Looks like it's because ships are leaving empty for China so the unloading has slowed since the available warehouse space is taken up by outbound shipments (which are not being loaded because of that mismatch in shipping rates):

However, westbound freight rates have not risen nearly as much, leading to an odd and problematic phenomenon: incentives for container owners to move them back to China empty to accelerate receipt of eastbound freight rates, instead of waiting for containers to be refilled to earn westbound freight rates as well. This is illustrated in the fourth chart which shows departing containers from LA/LB: a lot of them started leaving empty once eastbound freight rates surged. This further exacerbates supply chain issues, since US goods (i.e., grains) that were supposed to depart US railcars and warehouses for export remain in place, occupying space that US imported goods were destined for.
But you cannot take your 42in TV with you in a backpack. Mobile setups are more practical than fixed ones for most people.
This is really interesting, if SpaceX allows organizations to subscribe to higher levels of GPS-like accuracy, I wonder if it would shut down other country’s attempts to launch their own GPS competitors.

On the other hand, I can imagine the Air Force not wanting this to happen, as high precision location data can be used for missile and ICBM delivery. However, if it is an inherent property of the low orbit network, there is no point in blocking it from consumers.
> People seem to think that once they are hired that their employer owes them something more than the agreed upon compensation for the work they agreed to do for them.

Legally, no.

Morally and ethically, yes they do. And the consequences for breaking a moral or ethical 'rule' is loss of reputation, which is exactly what this post is doing to them. And if companies keep doing this kind of thing, as a society we might decide to make it a legal matter, like we did for minimum wage and protected classes.
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Isn't this just a Desktop implementation for the SteamVR? It is even open source right here -- https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula

No headset in sight, other than just "any headset".
> relgion has caused unfathomable turmoil and despair across centuries.

Religion has been used as a justification to cause unfathomable turmoil and despair across centuries. Even if no religion existed, wars and conflict would still exist.
> The alternative to debate is force

The alternative to debate is usually emotional manipulation such as rhetoric, advertisements, emotional art, memes, etc.

That has done most of the work in shaping people's opinions historically and even now. Force is also used, of course, but it costs more to employ.
> Crucially, though, the report concludes that the farms’ motivations seem to be monetary. It points out that their content did not focus solely on divisive content, but on whatever generates clicks.

And who would be behind it if they followed the money? My money is on parties like the Heritage Foundation, which is a quite open front for rich conservatives to pump money into certain goals, and I'm sure there's plenty more that have escaped the spotlight for now.

I mean yeah it's a conspiracy, but since it's in broad daylight nobody cares - it's not shady if it's out in the open.
> Taiwan, China sea matters are localised to the close neighborhood of China.

Or the close neighborhood of the Philippines, a major US ally with a mutual defense pact. Or Taiwan, a major US ally and trading partner. Or Vietnam, a growing trading partner. There are ongoing disputes between and among those groups.

A huge amount of shipping goes through the South China Sea, including most oil for S. Korea, Japan and the US West Coast. Meanwhile, goods bound for Europe and the Suez from those places also go through there. Something like 10% of the worlds shipping. Letting China just call "dibs" on international waters and set up a chokehold would be weird to allow.

I don't think anyone is urging war with China. But stopping their advance in it's tracks.

Meanwhile, China has been aggressively expanding its influence worldwide, in South America, Africa and Afghanistan.
Quite likely that troll farms are active there. Most likely on identity and environmental issues, too.

I still have some hope that Zuckerberg will come out soon and say that it was all a big practical joke to see how much people are willing to put up with, after which he pulls the plug. Well, one can dream.
I understand this must reveal areas where the other person is less knowledgeable. However, don't you think it's alienating for them?
What I like most about this manual (and others from that same era) is that the manuals do not coddle you. They provide the details, up to the exact memory layout of your computer. And that in a manual for an educational language!
but unfortunately, publisher only want money mean they do not concern who can publish article, they do concern their reputation(bring money). I just want to direct that build a new system control people corporate from different science organizations will not resolve problem easily.
What tunes are you working to at the moment? (2008)
Political debates have nothing to do with truth and to pretend they do is intelectually dishonest. A good debate is an exploration of topics, not posturing with arguments everyone already knows.
Agreed about manliness (“build ford tough”!) and patriotism but don’t forget status. Part of me dies seeing people driving around land rovers in the city by themselves. What a waste of energy…
This really does show something though, namely how financial motives drive outrage and polarization as much if not more than political ones.

On the YouTuber front there were more than one who jumped on the alt-right shock jock bandwagon back then for the same reason. It brought clicks both from the people attracted to that stuff and from the people outraged by it or just gawking at it.
Citation needed; you seem to be presenting an anecdotal observation as fact.
My parents had a terrier when I was younger, and she loved it when it was time to mow the grass. She would be out there eating her fill of the field mice that got flushed out and just having a blast.
From what I understand, this is using in the production itself as well, potentially for steps inbetween? Especially the"The Conclusion" reads like its not a one-time thing but happens through the whole process?
> ...so easy to create a throwaway account

Bingo.

Why is authenticity so verboten?

If u/gonewild can manage user verification, then any one can.

Doubly so when surveillance capitalists like facebook and NSA already have (shadow) profiles for every person, living and dead.

Facebook absolutely already knows the true identity of each and every troll. Not verifying account creation is a convenient fiction, willful ignorance, allowing their outrage machine to profit. "lalala", hands over ears, "i can't hear you!"
Is GPS a general synonym for GNSS these days? I was always under the impression that GPS is just one specific GNSS among others like Galileo, GLONASS or Beidou. This article is describing a new concept for a GNSS system that has no relation to GPS? Or what am I missing?
No where did I say they did. I'm saying that they have a very privileged, first world view of this issue.
exactly. contractors or not gotta checkin there phones before entering places where anything top secret may be. if this was real heads would roll you would expect.
Yes, at least for laypeople. if it tells your position it is "GPS", and nobody knows what GNSS is.
While there are rules and expectations on HN, I wouldn't call it heavy moderation. I think there are about 2 moderators?

What I see is a reply when something crosses the line and users might down vote the post. Users adjust and carry on.
Ever try to ship 1000's of SDKs and new OSs at the same time every year, build new hardware, even chips, keep dev pipelines going for years in advance, and keep it from being plastered all over HN and reddit? It's a miracle anything works.

Probably it's a management nightmare to keep all this moving, and clearly parts of Apple are likely poorly managed. I worked there 25 years ago when it was going out of business (before Steve), and it was already a complicated mess.

Does not of course mean they shouldn't make a bug bounty that works. You'd think that someone would care in a company that values privacy. But if you have to deal with 50000 different simultaneous issues some are likely to fall through the cracks.

My last job was at a huge company with even more employees (not tech but built a lot in-house) and you'd be amazed at how much crap is never addressed that seemed obvious to us low level people.
> Does anyone seriously believe that an advertising company wants to improve the performance of ad blockers? It's obvious what Google is doing.

I believe some people at Google want to make plugins more efficient, some want to kill ad blockers and probably a few other reasons. Obviously Google is externally (and probably internally outside of specific teams) playing up the efficiency concerns. And I don't doubt most advocates we hear honestly think primarily about that.

That said, if you claimed they got the clout and priority to do that because of the ad concerns behind the scenes, I would say "duh"
True, I guess my perspective is biased towards CS. In that field, what I've seen in terms of editing on the part of a publisher amounted to requests for minor formatting changes (to be done by the authors) and insertion of a copyright notice. I have never heard of any publisher-side "first pass screening" of submissions to conferences I was involved in or journals I know the editors of. There, desk rejects are done by the committee/editors (and personally I would be very nervous having a non-expert do this job). To the best of my knowledge, in CS, there is nothing being done that comes close to justifying, say, the open access publication fees at their current level.
The big problem being that prayer doesn't work.
It’s “Driver’s License” in my state (Idaho), while it’s a “Driver License” in California.

I always assumed that the possessive form was to indicate that it was a license possessed by a driver. In fact “Driver License” makes less sense in my head, as I can’t make heads or tails of what role each word is supposed to make in that clause.
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Likewise, Lehman may not even necessarily represent the tail risk of a financial crisis, after all the other banks didn't also collapse.

Extreme Value Theory tells us it is hard to calibrate estimates of tail risk but it's not as if we have no data and no grounds with which to do it in the case of nuclear power.

Flippant analogies that are actually flawed analogies upon close examination aren't helping. If there's reason to believe that modern nuclear plant designs could lead to large scale death with a non-trivial probability, far beyond the scale of Chernobyl which had a very small death count relatively speaking, then the case for this needs to be made by outlining the actual mechanism by which this can happen.

Regarding the significantly improved safety of modern plant designs, this was addressed by other commenters.
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There is a decent cost of volatility of labor that humans have that machines do not, as well as reduced liability. Machines are more predictable.
I assume that not all encodings of every movie are stored in perpetuity, to save space. Thus, sometimes they need to be regenerated on-demand, which is why efficiency is important.
I do care about the CPython GIL. I develop a program with a lot of analysis and output to custom formats. The things that can go to the underlying C extension go there, but the development cost is far higher for migrating stuff there. I'd like to be able to parallelize the different sections, but multiprocessing is a mess (only pickable data can be used, no shared state), threading doesn't give me any benefit due to the GIL, and PyPy hasn't worked the last three times I tried. Also, improvements can stack. If I get threading working, I can still move more things to the C extension to improve performance, or migrate finally to PyPy (if they manage to remove the GIL).
Amnesty International/The Republican Party/Greenpeace/<insert political party or NGO you happen to like> is a troll farm, too.

That's taking it too far, for the sake of edginess. Trolls cynically employ outrage tactics for purposes unrelated to the audience's interest in the topic. That religions attract cynical power abusers, like any other large organization, is another matter, regardless of your stance on religion.
Snooze. Yet another half baked idea from the W3C. Remember WebID? Probably not because it went nowhere after repeatedly ignoring major weaknesses. What did they do? Address them with well thought out solutions? No, they did exactly what they always do, ignore it until they can't and then bolt on some actually implemented solution hoping to ride their coat tails. Sort of like what we've got here with JSON-LD. So now we can be lectured to for a decade about how superior their DID solution is if only we would listen.
I don’t read this as foreclosures are good for the economy. Rather that (among other things) the distortion created by intervention in housing market has a number of significant implications for other parts of the economy.
You mean the plant that's been in discussions since at least 2014[0] and isn't really related to COVID at all?

[0] https://www.pcmag.com/news/intel-scraps-plans-to-open-cuttin...
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One of the design goals for GPS was munitions guidance, including missiles with suborbital flights. So yes, at least in LEO.
Sci-Hub needs to be uncensorable and forked into a separate project, without Alexandra E. at the helm. It needs to be a Tor hidden service with the admin being completely anonymous. There's too much heat around the project currently. Jumping from ccTLD to ccTLD may help a small bit, but a hidden service with an unknown admin (or group of admins!) is exponentially better.
My parents didn't get me glasses until I was eight years old. I thought blurry was normal. They thought I was dyslexic because I was routinely failing spelling tests.

It wasn't that I was failing them, it's that I relied on spelling phonetically, because when they wrote the words on the blackboard during practice time, I couldn't see them, even at the front of the class, so I just made up my own spellings as the teacher called them out.

When I finally got glasses (massive, horrible tortoiseshell things with huge lenses provided (only in part) by the NHS, I finally realised things like: Trees have leaves! all the way up, not just on the ground, and that teachers often had a pained look on their faces.
Is this some kind of growth hacking nonsense?
What a useless article. The entire contents:

> Supervisor ACM has fined producer Samsung EUR 39 million for influencing the prices of televisions sold online. The Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM) announced this on Wednesday, according to the competition watchdog, it is one of the highest fines ever.

Diff source with actual reporting:
https://nltimes.nl/2021/09/29/dutch-regulator-fines-samsung-...
I doubt that would work at scale.
Hello, I tried your product, and I'm still using it to keep track of my productive time. The emails can help me whenever I lose track of how many productive hours I have clocked in every week.
> I'm sure they've built very sophisticated filtering tools, but imagine someone slips through the cracks and gets a cryptominer working.

It's been done, multiple times. Here's a handful (96) of documented cases which are somewhat recent. [0][1]

It seems to be surprisingly easy to abuse the process, and GitHub are continually playing catch up.

[0] https://dev.to/thibaultduponchelle/the-github-action-mining-...

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-action...
Will attorneys also bear the criminal reponsibility of the actions of the company?
They should use all that filthy money they are making from 30% revenue theft on their app store to pay out their bug bounty participants properly.
The s was quite a journey!
Why not though? Isn’t storage cheap compared to compute?

Hell, compared to the cost to license the movie storage is pennies.
I've often found that when people complain about a manager not being attuned to interposal dynamics it's because there is an issue below the the surface of the team that isn't easily seen and not being communicated.

As a manager, I've been in situations where something bad has happened for months that was completely outside of my view. I had absolutely no visibility. Nobody was telling me anything.

The best way to manage up is to directly tell me what is going on.

Sometimes people try and make little off hand jokes or passive aggressively and indirectly include a cryptic sentence in an email or a standup. "Jim and Georgia are handling the unit tests, but you know how they've been, haha..."

I follow up and people will say something like "oh they've had a disagreement over types of tests" and no one will tell me there have been bitter feuds at every meeting for half a year. Jim and Georgia both say nothing, the team won't say anything, and then somebody on Hacker News says I'm incompetent and not attuned to interpersonal dynamics. ;)

This isn't a specific example from experience but a hypothetical to give you some idea of what the bad manager could be working with.

Delegation gets tricky too. Although I won't code or do technical individual contributor work I won't delegate other tasks because I perceive you as being busy enough already.
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I think the conclusion is unfair. It IS an existing VR option for work right now if you have a compatible headset. No it's not perfect and many people will not want to stay in there for a long time with existing headsets. But that doesn't mean it's not an option.
Did these websites and social networks just discover that "outrage sells" or they've conditioned us to get more and more outrageous?!! It's kinda hard to tell!
This is probably the last thing that the likes of Microsoft and Google are worrying about right now. I'm sure it is fun imagining being the lone hacker keeping them up at night.
> platforms supporting more silo'd communities that make and enforce their own rules are how it will look

Those individual communities need help enforcing their own rules.
I would happily pay a couple bucks per months for a bot that could warn and ban people on my discord server.
I've never heard that before. Is there any way for me to verify that.
> ...if you don't block/censor some people, they will block/censor others.

Terrific rephrasing of the paradox of tolerance. Thank you.
In the EU, 25% ultimate beneficial ownership must be declared to Companies House equivalent, though not sure if this has to be published..
Ask HN: Where do you guys go to build an MVP in 2021?
Hi HN,

Where do you guys go to build a small MVP or how did you start our to. do it?

I’m working on building a start-up, and I'm really not a developer with another job on the side but would like to know how one usually gets started on building an MVP on limited resources?

Any help from people who have done this before would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
No, it's because rail doesn't get the massive subsidies that roads do. Roads are artificially cheap to use, especially for trucking that does the majority of the damage and pay minimal road fees, while rail has to pay for itself. It is very hard for rail, passenger or freight, to compete with the largess of federal tax dollars for road usage. If road fees were matched to the actual cost of road maintenance, like they are with rail, a lot of freight would shift over to barge and train overnight.

Simply put, railways are much more efficient between two fixed points than roads. They require much less fuel per ton, and they require much less labor, land, and capital equipment per person mile or ton mile. If the costs were properly priced in, consumers of various different types would strongly prefer rail for transit between fixed points (e.g. city to city). But currently the inefficiency of road usage is paid for by the federal government.

The density argument is massively overstated. Ohio has roughly the same density as France 282/mi^2 vs. 269/mi^2, and it's not even our most dense state. The fact that states like Ohio don't have anywhere close to the rail network that France has is a consequence of political decisions, not economics or the built environment.
What's interesting is if you go to Columbia, South America you get signal everywhere, even in the jungle, because when the cellular companies came in and asked if they could create a network Columbia said sure, but it had to work everywhere, even in the mountains and jungle.

We could have internet everywhere if our governments gave 2 shits and wasn't corrupt as all get out.
It could even be argued that the barricade around scientific research is what kept the epistemic "superiority" of academia and academics. Opening up the tools to review the scientific literature gives people the power of "doing their own research" without having the tools and skills to decide whether a paper they have found on whatever topic is good research. It's possible that this democratization process has opened up the scientific knowledge to the masses but it is also possible that access to scientific literature doesn't really help without the training required to make sense of it.
I don’t think Heritage Foundation is nearly hip enough or digitally savvy enough to make money this way. Their business model is to spend money on digital platforms like Facebook, fundraise from rich conservatives to enable that, and take a cut to pay for staff and overhead.

This is more likely Eastern European scammers who are just looking to build an audience any way they can.