skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing is stopping anyone from building denser infrastructure, I'm in favor of lifting the often absurd parking requirements seen. But I don't wanna see a world where density is required, because I don't want to live in a dense area.
>> I agree that the US has overextended its military and is involved in a lot of conflicts and operations that seem very irrelevant and poorly reasoned

translation : killed a lot of innocent people. Men, Women and Children.

I am emotional about this, and rightly so.
This.

The short term temporary solution is pressure on OPEC+ and jump-starting Shale (no small task).

The long term permanent solution is EVs and massive investment in renewable base load power generation.
Teaching critical thinking at schools would solve this problem instead of spending huge amount of resources on censorship algorithms.
True, but the parents in the story are imaginary---their decision-making is not being tested. Rather, it's the observer who is being tested. But the story is so contrary to experience that is does not do what the premise of the article suggests it does: distinguish observers that care more about equality than utility. Because the premise is flawed (ie, that this is a valid test), it tends to moot the rest of the article drawn from that premise.
The Technics SL-1200mk2 (or 1210, in dark grey) turntable for vinyl records.

In case you aren't aware just how influential this design is: specifically the mk2 as it was manufactured to (almost) the same design all the way from 1979 to 2010; despite newer 'mk' revisions being also available.

Weighing 11kg, mine is 30 years old and I expect it to last for as long as there is the right voltage from the mains supply and records to play on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technics_SL-1200
That and denial of service doesn't even need to be something that "clogs up" technical systems. Just making it impossible for the HR people to work by overwhelming them is still a DOS attack.
> 5G only does about 15-20% more data hertz for hertz than 4G

At low-band, it's often quoted as 20%, but when you get to mid-band it's a lot more. That's one of the reasons there's been a mad-dash for mid-band spectrum.

I'd also note that the radio standards are made to evolve. LTE wasn't nearly as efficient as it was when it was introduced which is why, for a time, HSPA+ networks were able to compete with LTE.

> but of course the telcos are now realizing this spectrum, even the half gigahertz they stole of C band, doesn't actually propagate well around Earth instead of straight up and down

The propagation isn't really a surprise and the idea it was stolen is terribly biased. The incumbents on that spectrum were paid huge sums for it and moving expenses.

It does propagate well enough that it will be very meaningful. T-Mobile is seeing amazing gains using the 2.5GHz spectrum that they got through their merger with Sprint. They already cover around 60% of the US population with mid-band 5G. 3.5GHz won't propagate as well, but there are ways to overcome that like having the towers transmit at higher power and then having lower-frequency spectrum handle the uplink from the handset.

The three carriers didn't spend nearly $100B for something worthless and they aren't realizing its propagation as some sort of surprise.

> 2G and 3G standards have their place and keeping a 2 MHz channel open for them is not going to get in anyone's way, on the towers, or spectrum-wise

Running a 3G UMTS network requires 10MHz of spectrum. 10MHz of spectrum can be pretty meaningful. CDMA uses 2.5MHz for voice and 2.5MHz for data and maybe you're thinking of that, but it's still 5MHz to have both voice and data on a CDMA network.

Things can certainly be kept around, but it means less for other stuff.
And people have outages in all of them.
Log4j 2 Vulnerability Analysis
The whole of Amazon isn’t falling, just some services in one region, it is easy enough to build region redundant services but most people don’t because the few hours of downtime per year don’t seem worth it.

You usually just don’t need 100% uptime. “Sorry were closed, come back later” is fine.
How much does scale matter to this problem?
Inflation (especially asset inflation) is as much expectations about future price rises as it is anything else. If investors expect to a vast expansion of housing stock in 3 years, they'll start exiting the market today, to get ahead of it.
I find this is true nearly anywhere you go in the world, even in countries with excellent public transit (e.g. Korea, Japan, Taiwan). The moment people have the money to afford a car, they buy one. The only places I've seen that this is not the case are isolated, hyper-dense city states (Hong Kong and Singapore).
Not just that - monastics practice 'prayer without ceasing', hesychasm.

There's a great book "The Way of the Pilgrim" that explores a man's journey to discover what 'prayer without ceasing' means and how it could be possible.

There's also a monastery that was called 'the unsleeping ones' where they divided the hours of the day into shifts and had monastics in prayers throughout the day and night continuously.
It's not going to hurt owners that much, really, not those in it for the long haul. It's unlikely that in a liberalized market, all else being equal, prices would truly crater, as builders would pull back. You'd probably get something more like Germany has been, where prices are fairly stable and boring, rather than an exciting market to speculate in.
The comments prove once again, as if proof was needed, that the easiest way to provoke an argument with a bunch of hackers is to bring up date-time.
Emacs. I plan on still using it in 30 years.
> Likewise, if you think leaking the pentagon papers is the same as leaking all diplomatic cables and operational communications from a period of time is the same thing, not sure I can say much to change your opinion.

It would be very difficult, because you believe that journalists enabling the distribution of secret government documents means they're not journalists, they're activists. That equally condemns the Pentagon Papers and Wikileaks. You agree with their opinion, which is why you can't say much to change it.

edit:

Daniel Ellsberg: “Whatever Julian Assange is guilty of, I’m guilty of.”

https://www.exberliner.com/features/julian-assange-trial-202...
You're aware that it's perfectly possible to live on the surface in Egypt without air conditioning, right? Like you can just go there and put up a tent if you want.
> That's why when you're using child selectors in CSS (or the nesting in SCSS that's transpiled to child selectors), you're forced to keep two hierarchies in sync, which makes it a huge PITA to refactor.

Yep, trying to keep data and presentation separated like this comes with a lot of pain. Why bother? I don't see the practical benefits in real-life projects as long as you're still using semantic HTML tags.

There's this other pipedream that the HTML is generated/written by people that aren't concerned with the presentation and then the CSS can be swapped in to style it however you want. You can and should do this in a sense that you keep your data/articles/posts in Markdown, SQL databases, behind APIs etc. - I think trying to split this further at the HTML/CSS level isn't gaining anything.
Gasoline was quite a bit down when Covid happened, so isn't this just returning to normal?
The real problem isn't the existence of misinformation (whatever that means): it's that powerful people want to have their cake and eat it too.

They want the masses to unhesitatingly believe whatever propaganda they're fed (Politician Y says X and therefore X is true, Independent Fact Checkers Say Y is true so no further investigation is needed), but not trust whatever naughty conspiracy theories they read. That doesn't work. If you're tuned to believe whatever you read is true, you can't just suddenly shut off that impulse.

You could solve misinformation tomorrow if there was a concerted societal messaging that said something like the following: "Everything you read online, from any source, may be inaccurate. People with money and power try and manipulate you for even more money and power. Verify everything with multiple sources, consider all possibilities and peoples' motives, and use your brain."

We all know that nobody with any bit of power is ever going to say anything like that.
Yes, utility as a concept in decision theory is great, but it’s not the same as the concept by the same name from utilitarianism. In my understanding, coldtea is doubting not decision theoretic utility functions, but utilities as they are used here.

Most importantly a decision theoretic utility function is only defined up to any positive definite transformation. Inter-agent comparisons like "Imagine that the gifted boy has a total utility of 80, and the disabled boy has a total utility of 40” don’t make any sense in terms of decision theoretic utility functions.
A lot of libs for logging have similar convenient ways for getting usernames and so on. The error here seems to be that even though you use the lib correctly a bug was introduced that made the injected parameters a part of the layout, at least that is what people are claiming. The example from the article though is an incorrect use of the lib and one can expect the same type of issues in a lot of libs when dealing with input parameters.
It is perfectly fine to debate the prudence, or lack thereof, of the High Court's decision.

My point is that, in this context, speculations as to whether Assange secretly desired this outcome, due to some supposed martyr complex ... are plainly irrelevant.
W.R Hamilton's discovery of the Quaternions is semi-famous itself, with the story being that after the critical flash of insight he carved the equation describing quaternion multiplication into a bridge in Ireland with a penknife.

A interesting read is this letter [0] written the following day, where he explains his ideas in his own words. It's a great (and accessible!) look into his thought process.

[0] https://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Hamilton/QLette...
Maybe succinctly?
> Further, the DNS sink will hide elements - everywhere ADs are placed I see simple whitespace.

I find those leftover empty spaces extremely annoying. Imagine being interrupted by a big portion of nothing in the middle of an article. uBO hides those empty spaces as well.

And no, I don't use or like Reader Mode. It's yet another click I need to do to just read an article.

> Finally, scripts are blocked from even getting loaded - e.g. stats for the top scripts blocked today (2 hours in) for me:

That doesn't look like individual script blocking to me, you're just blocking domains. If the script you want to block is part of the first party domain itself, you can't just block it using a DNS sinkhole.

At this point, I'd go as far as to say that a web browser which doesn't support the complete capabilities of uBO, considering things like CNAME tracking exist, is a user hostile web browser. This includes all Chromium based browsers.

https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/04/characterizing-cname-cloak...
Those examples are hilariously egregious, yeah! It's slightly taboo in polite conversation to see increased utility there, yep. Thanks for the kind words, too.
There is no way to pressure OPEC without military force. They know this is the sunset phase of petroleum, and they want every dollar they can get per barrel of oil before the death spiral accelerates [1]. Shale will, of course, take considerable time to start back up.

Better to lean hard into electric mobility; in the short term, mandate employers allow remote work if the role supports such a config. This prioritizes oil for uses where it must be used (moving atoms versus bits), and is the only practical short term action that would be effective for managing the oil demand run rate.

We had the 70s oil embargo, we've had numerous oil price spikes since then that cause outsized diversion of productivity to acquiring energy for consumption [2], it's time to get off of oil. No more bandaids.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehic...

[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/1369/crude-oil-price-history-cha...
It's higher than pre-COVID in the northeast
That's only a problem if your laptop manufacturer chooses to ship a glossy display, god forbid.
I think, in the context of possibly dying of Covid-19, it could be effective though. If the messaging was there that you could greatly reduce your risk by loosing weight, at least the group of people who were both obese and seriously frightened of Covid could be engaged to make positive changes. That would save lives.
Agree 100%. This got me thinking about a quote that I heard recently that has stuck with me - it was something to the effect of “being right and being effective can be two very different things.”

Unfortunately, a lot of the time the person who is trying to do the convincing is just as unwilling to let go of their desire to be proven right, so they aren’t willing to employ more effective but less satisfying approaches like this.
When things change drastcally, the stress ends up on the hands of the maintainers and distributors - that's not good because there is already little disbalance for OSS (compare with: the ratio of open "issues" vs "contributors").
When you change the rules at the top, everyone needs to comply or else...well, you need someone else to comply on your behalf - and forks happen!
Let's go brandon!

I'll tell you what, Trump gave us big returns in our 401(k)'s, Biden is taking it all back.

Remember that next time you get your 3% raise, it's not 3%, it's actually -4%
Kwin (the KDE compositor) has most of those effects. I'm not sure about wayland support though.
What does it matter if he's an "activist" or "journalist"? He exposed war crimes. He IS being persecuted and that fact is being waved in our face out in the open. The punishment doesn't fit the crime, that's the problem.

> I consider setting up a website purely designed to encourage leaking of potentially classified information and assisting with the ability to do so as being no different than any other criminal conspiracy.

He exposed crimes committed by war criminals. "Criminal conspiracy" is disingenuous. Furthermore the "classified" label is defined by the organization that committed those crimes. Do you think murdering innocent civilians indiscriminately should be classified?

You seem to be arguing semantics more than establishing any sort of moral or ethical argument against what he did.
Just to be more forceful on one point - Seth Rich had absolutely nothing to do with Wikileaks and it's extraordinarily shameful that Assange winked and nodded like he did.

Rich was a low level staffer working for the DNC to help voters find polling stations - he wouldn't have had any access to their email systems (and of course wouldn't have had access to Podesta's emails since Podesta didn't even work for the DNC and it was his private Gmail that was compromised).

Both Podesta's and the DNC's leaked emails came from targeted Spearfishing campaigns, some of the source emails for these were leaked alongside the rest of the contents. (e.g. Podesta's: https://cbsnews3.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2016/10/28/b4836dda-...)
In the EU new cars now are mandated to have an automatic way to call the emergency services after a crash, I wonder if the governments have a clause about what would happen if 3G is turned off (I guess they're not planning to do that for a while yet).

If I were in power and I genuinely cared about saving the planet, I'd figure out how to make cars without this auto-emergency-dial system more expensive to insure; that way, people would look at newer cars more favorabily, and I'd incentivize electric cars as well. But hey, luckily the car lobby is still pretty strong in the France and Germany!
Facts absolutely change our minds.

Telling people facts they don't want to hear is the issue.

Someone has to be open to receiving new information that might not align with their currents thoughts.

Most people are not this open and can't handle it. It's a skill that can be built though.
I hadn’t thought about this. That’s a really good idea. Thanks for sharing!
A lot of this is due to fuel prices. The price of fuel affects the price of everything else. It's a benchmark since everything requires fuel. Manufacturing, transportation, agriculture, etc. It all requires fuel. It doesn't help that OPEC refuses to increase production in order to make up for their budget shortfalls last year. Also doesn't help that the US government is sending signals that it is no longer on board with fossil fuels. The shutting down of pipelines, ending of fossil fuel leasing, etc. sends a market signal to producers and traders that the US is hostile towards the industry, leading the producers to cut production and maintain their profits.

Best option would be to have a diverse portfolio of energy production: oil, natural gas, solar, wind, hydroelectric, and nuclear. Don't go all in on one, that's how you arrive at the situation we are currently in.
Talk about holding a gripe:

> The peninsula was raided by Catalan mercenaries in the 14th century in the so-called Catalan vengeance due to which the entry of people of Catalan origin was prohibited until 2005.

It seems Catalans are old troublemakers
The impact of salt on blood pressure is based on concentration (osmolality), not quantity. Consuming excess fructose can also cause hypertension due to the biochemical mechanisms in humans and other primates that cause higher uric acid production.

https://peterattiamd.com/rickjohnson/
That doesn't make it any more of a computer. It's not like you're going to take it out to the park and do some debugging in Valgrind with it.
Ugh, typo: Who are not as zealous.
A History of Our Lady of Guadalupe Hidden in Plain Sight in the Vatican Library
People that advocate this are advocating for lowering the quality of life. Long term it raises the price per square foot and makes it harder to have the space you want and need.
This is the opposite of what is happening. There has been a massive transfer of wealth and income to the middle and lower classes at a rate that exceeds inflation, and that I hope will lead to sustained growth of the middle class.
We won't see evidence that can be trusted.
Nobody has as a goal to subvert the truth

Seriously? This is priority #1 of anyone with alignment with authoritarian goals. Does the phrase "alternative facts" ring a bell? Ever heard of Joseph Goebbels?
Smart Home: Matter could bring universal casting
Yep. This would line up exactly with what I've said: a post-viral sequelae (with unique post-viral effects for covid) superimposed on a CFS-like disease population that is more driven by psychological factors, both being referred to by the label "long covid."
Your long term part is quite inflationary as well. If it wouldn’t be more expensive everybody would already driving evs
A well-maintained car can drive for a very long time, but for a poorly maintained car, restoring it to like-new condition rarely makes financial sense. It's usually cheaper to just buy a new car, and/or do the bare-minimum maintenance until it dies completely (then buy a new car).

I'm not sure tech debt can ever be fully paid down. You can pay off a bit, and you can stop the debt from accumulating further, but the only way to realistically unburden yourself of a really horrible, big pile of tech debt is to just rebuild the thing from scratch. Or don't, and just keep making money while you wait for the business to fail. (From an investor's perspective, this is the equivalent of riding the car into the ground.)
They said it is NOT a quick fix.
From the sister article (sic):

> Giving the judgement, Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett said: "That risk is in our judgement excluded by the assurances which are offered.
https://www.zillow.com/home-values/

19.2% according to Zillow. Sure there will be differences between metrics, but housing is clearly more than 0.5%.

We desperately need to dramatically curtail municipal planning authority and crank up construction.
The consent forms were introduced separately. If it wasn't an app you'd have to fill those out with pen&paper, they'd have to keep or scan them for permanent record.

Like your AT&T example I hate any kind of unskippable ads. Even with (real human) operators they now have to try to upsell you if it makes sense or not. And if you have time or not. Some are honest "I have to tell you about some products now"
Interesting headline. It's almost as if the establishment is attempting to bolster the FUD in crypto because the underlings are losing trust in traditional currency.(gasp!) Certainly, we should blindly trust our rulers?!?
In my opinion, Geometric Algebra and bivectors (https://bivector.net) in particular is a much better (both practically and pedagogically) approach compared to quaternions and significantly more elegant. It's a real shame that people continue to focus so much on quaternions in this day and age.
> Does being labeled as a "striker" give you additional legal rights that you wouldn't otherwise have?

Actually, yes.

For instance, if you are an employee who is striking, you have the right to use racial slurs to abuse and harass employees who are not striking, without being fired for use of those remarks. See Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. v. NLRB. (Remarks included: "Go back to Africa, you bunch of f--- losers!", statements regarding fried chicken, watermelon, etc.)

There are a variety of other rights conferred by law.
That's not what "sacral" means.

Otherwise, good research, strong argument.
It is middle of the road.

Which means it’s probably at least 80th percentile nowadays.
It’s like…America copied the UK. Whoa
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29509944
How ethical is it in 2021 to own a car?
Assuming you don't necessarily need it, you have no commute and you only use it to support your hobbies?
we were energy independent until january. gee, i wonder why these issues are happening now...
First they said he was a rapist. Then that fell apart. Now they say he's part of a foreign intelligence service. I don't buy that either.
I was aware of your implication. The US has similarly noisily hinted that people may have been put in harm's way but then they would, wouldnt they?

That is, unless there were somebody they could point to who was dead as a result. Then they would describe what happened.

Or stay silent - if there were no examples.
A lot of applicant tracking systems will start to fall over at a certain level of items in the database.
Passenger assaults flight attendant and air marshal, forcing plane to divert t
There are a range of IOLs (intraocular lenses) which can provide more than a single range (monofocal) of vision. While bifocal has existed on the market for some time, trifocal iols now also exist and mostly use a lenticular lens to present focus of near, intermediate and far vision together - however like other multifocal technologies an adjustment period is required and they are not for everyone (your brain needs to adjust to the fuzziness and the fact that the image is not resultant from the natural lens being manipulated can be difficult for some people to work with). There are also other approaches to this problem such as crystalens which is an iol that attempts to solve the same issue by moving forwards and backwards - however this kind of approach is falling out of favour.

The names in this space are johnson and johnson, alcon (novartis), zeiss, bausch and lomb and hoya. This field is rapidly developing with new iols every year, some newer products are promising a wide range of vision without the use of a lenticular lens which seems promising but might be more hype than reality. As for you and your vision: only your ophthalmologist can truly advise if any of these will work for you as there are a myriad of factors at play including some that might not seem obvious such as the patient’s behaviour and expectations.
Pretty sure they already fund some open source projects