skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's all iOS, though? You can do a lot with a rooted custom Android installation, modders never disappeared. Pretty much any file explorer can connect to network locations.

The display is the biggest battery eater, but you can significantly extend lifetime by disabling mobile data and Wifi (use Bluetooth PAN kind of like on a PDA lol) and either undervolting, locking clocks low or disabling the performance cores, there are options. 10-12 hours screen on time even with Wifi on can be achieved.
Seems down, here's a mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20220419110330/https://www.mattm...
Source article (without full-page subscription modal which disables scroll until interacted with):

https://apnews.com/article/business-chrystia-freeland-justin...
How do you know or are you just assuming that?
> These are just a few of the incredibly practical use cases that quite literally change people's lives.

I've heard this for a decade now but no one ever gives any evidence. Where are all these people with changed lives who aren't affluent white guys?
I would have thought that the pandemic and travel restrictions would have effectively “banned foreigners from buying homes” for 2 years.

If home prices haven’t fallen during pandemic, then the reason why prices are high is not because of foreigners.

The government is trying to point to a scapegoat rather than trying to get to the root cause.
Export controls don't work? Did I miss the news, North Korea bought an MERV tipped intercontinental ballistic missile from the 'free market'? Do they have thermonuclear warheads?

I am not convinced if we way we treated Iran is justified, but thats a different suvject. And after Ukraine, noone will. Ever give up nukes
There are lot of small, annoying details.

"Many whiskies, especially those that are made on the Scottish island of Isley, have a typical smoky taste that develops when malted barley is smoked on peat fire."

The smoke comes from the drying step in the malting process, which was/is traditionally done by burning peat. "Malted barley is smoked" sounds weird and incorrect. Nitpicking, sure, but can be spotted by anyone familiar with the process.
>the colours and contrast are defined in the standards, and they strive to show them accurately

Not to defend Samsung, but this isn't such an objectively straightforward task as you make it sound. It's impossible, in the general case, to convert colors from one colorspace to another without information loss. So there's an element of subjectivity and judgement in selecting the algorithm used. In other words, they're all "enhanced", and your complaint is simply that Samsung has poor taste.

Of course this all assumes that the display is doing its own color management. This is exactly what you want with a standalone TV, but for a computer display you really want to just provide the computer with the ICC profile and give it the lowest-level access to the pixel values possible, so that the user can assume control over the rendering intent - for that you'd want some kind of "direct mode". It's quite right to criticize Samsung if they do not offer such a mode, but are the other brands any better? The trend for TVs seems to lead away from being good general purpose displays, and towards being standalone devices.
And even more, "unmonied".
It could be that there is a sufficient amount of housing (built or being built), but that it is often not occupied on account of just being an asset in a wealthy person’s portfolio. In this case it could be seen as wasteful to build more, and too much of an oversupply could lead to an economic collapse if it’s on a big enough scale.

The other possibility is that they are building more homes, and want them to be purchased by people who will live in them.

Note: not a Canada expert and tbh the “they” in question is a bit undefined here
I'd rather have companies control that than governments, which is all about mass control, power and citizen slavery. My current government, along with our autocrat president, is one good example of this (Spain)
My first Shell Account when I was like 15. I learned a lot from SDF before I started running BSD at home.
3M certainly do good some science, they just had(?) a terrible engineering ethics problem.
My question for you (and I think about this myself) is how much would someone need to pay you for you to go into home construction?
Also, how can they tell that it is librespot, and how can they block it? Isn't it basically simulating being one of the official Spotify clients? I really do not want them to get banned or blocked
Sounds pretty nice, actually. I don't have a phone that can run Linux, would love to try it.
This is primarily about foreign investors who are buying sight unseen, then leaving the homes vacant. Note the exception for permanent residences.
It's foreign investors they're concerned about, not second home holiday-makers and immigrants.
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I remember finding this article several years ago when the watermark was really quite obvious and offensive. Especially obvious in piano music, since the tone of a piano doesn’t naturally waiver. Since then, they’ve either dialed it back or removed it, because I don’t experience this anymore.
We aren't talking of 99.9% of Facebook users, we are talking about 99.9% of banned Facebook users - and a VPN is just one thing that can get a non-malicious user banned.
I feel bad for the artists and engineers who work so hard only to get their track modified like this. It's like a gallery stamping a barcode onto the middle of a painting.

I do wonder where else these show up. Does Audible put them in audiobooks for example?
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From what I've read before, the issue isn't foreigners buying the homes to live in, it's foreigners using it as a way to move cash out of their own country to hedge against devaluation/government blocks. A lot of the houses don't even end up being rented out, they just sit vacant.
Major labels not only compromising fidelity with lossy compression, but also adding distortion along the way. Tut tut. Would be appalled if this was my music.
Actually this sounds reasonable to add, I added this feature to my backlog, it won't be too hard to implement it.

By the way, as for now we also support no-JS tracking via 1x1 px GIF.
I wonder if the simpler solution would not be to require residence, for homes in popular locations.
Are you implying that all those Jews worried about anti-semitism in the Labour Party lack basic sense? I'm not sure they're likely to find that a comforting response.
I guess if you have a recurring need for it you might be able to contact them to have access to some system on demands or a scheduled windows. In the last news it says the following:

"The system will be up from time to time to help open source development - but it is closed to the public."
Doubling interest rates doesn’t double the cost of a repayment mortgage. If you’re buying on an interest-only mortgage then you’re very exposed to interest rate rises though.
I have an Intel NUC based iGPU and it works with Linux-Libre + MESA. OpenGL and Vulkan.
Ok, just libre games/engines, but they with all the FX'.
A bit sad that they confuse umami with salt in the opener but this does sound like a great invention.

An acquaintance suffers from kidney disease and due to the zero salt intake has lost much appetite for food. A lot is still possible when cooking with tomato or mushroom rich foods but it’s hard. Something like this would be welcomed!
User and subscriber of Standard Notes too. Works great.

Open source so you can self host if you wish but I'm a happy subscriber to their SaaS model.
Not at all, you can buy property remotely and you can in vest in clmpanies which buy properties on your behalf.

Trouble is that restricting foreign buyers is meaningless unless you also reign in corporate 'investment', as endless shell conpanies obscure the end benefactor

What you have to do is reign in buying houses as an investment by people who have no intention of ever living in them.
Here is some more anecdata: have had the same Macbook for 6 years with absolutely no issues, stellar reliability and battery life. Same at work. Only recently switched after 5 years at work because we had some new employee turnover and it made sense for me to get a slightly nicer machine for a new project.
Remember to read the initial recommendations: https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
>> being an asset in a wealthy person’s portfolio

Why wouldn't that wealthy person rent the property out and get better ROI? Keeping it empty does not make sense to me.
Previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30945444
> The paper states "Before bottling, the whisky is diluted to around 40 vol-% by the addition of water", which is clearly not always true,

Ah, yes with that qualification then it's certainly not true. Cask strength isn't even that rare any more.

> I'd say that most enthusiast do not dilute most of their cask strength whisky down to anywhere near 40% ABV if they can help it.

I have heard of people who add a drop of water to a 70% whisky but I can't say I understand why. Perhaps it's individual but I just find I get a numb feeling in my mouth with anything 60% or above, which simply feels like it lessens the flavors.
We all knew that DRM in software generally makes it worse, now we have the same in audio.
In economics, in general it's usually better to tax than to ban.

In this case, you could just tax foreigners for owning property. Or you could tax non-residents for owning property.

A land value tax would be a good idea in general. But if it's politically necessary to restrict that to people from far away, that's still better than a ban.
This should be (2013).
As a commenter from 2012 mentions, the original quality recordings are now only available to pirates. Way to go.
>I'd rather have companies control that than governments, which is all about mass control, power and citizen slavery. My current government, along with our autocrat president, is one good example of this (Spain)

Well I have to tell you... the government is fully involved in censorship on those platforms. Especially spain.
But presumably foreigners can put their capital into a Canadian corporation that they own which then buys the real estate.
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Contact your counsellor or teacher at school! There is a very definite advantage to get their specific opinions because they will be grading it, and involving them shows both interest and concern.

Furthermore, it is always important to boil the paper's subject down to a single sentence, and start from there.
Yeah - there's a line in the article about an exception for "permanent residents", which makes sense. I don't see how one could defend not allowing workers living in Canada to buy a house.
What if some of these "French researchers" are let's say Chinese citizens residing in France since finding homogenous research team is very unlikely?

I'm quite annoyed with these constructions as foreigner living outside my home country when politicians/media always say Czech citizens this, Czech citizens that as if there were no residents with other citizenship affected by new laws/decisions.
> even 25/75 water/whisky mix seems to eliminate most of the 'whiskyness'

I've always heard about a few drops of water per glass, nowhere near 25/75, probably closer to 5/95
I wouldn't say it was lost because of streaming. People don't pirate music like they used to because there is a convenient alternative. I still pirate because I like to have an actual library that doesn't change when licenses do, my I have nobody in my circles who still does the same.
Or why don't they just tax the owning of real estate?

No need to ban those 'evil' foreigners, just tax them so they can pay for what the locals want.
I think this is supposed to mean that humans appeared relatively late in Earth's history ("two minutes to midnight"), instead of being there from the very beginning. Or to put it in a different way: much more species appeared before humans existed than after they already existed.
A small note, just to descend from the dream to reality: lithium is already expensive. Mining lithium in space means making it more expensive than gold. Even if we can source a hyper-abundant source of lithium just on the Moon it's price would be so expensive that's useless. Not only, the quantity we can mine will be ridiculously small.

Space mining might be an option in 200y IF we are able to find ways to escape Earth gravitation with cheap and easy manners, otherwise is just a dream game of some who dream a "private space" to start a new "Alaska-like Gold Rush". Such dreams must be annihilated from the start for the sake of humanity.

Just the dream of private Moon/Mars colonies should be allowed only when single individuals can form a small society, buy a transport means, start a colony independently under their own State's laws. Otherwise those colonies will NOT be colonies like the west rush in the USA but dictatorship where the private holder can do essentially anything shielded by the fact that State's laws we have are valid only on Earth. That must not be happen.

Beside that: we can't even really know how much minerals in general we have in the Earth crust. We have estimation, reasoned, tried a bit, but nothing really certain so before working on something we should have been framed the scalability up front or live them as experiment.
Bottom quark's mass is lighter at higher energies
This is such a solvable issue it deeply disturbs me you need to dance this dance.
Whilst you might not be complaining about it, this is exactly the kind of stuff that deters people from using more FOSS. Not only are selecting non-default options every time you install a debian system, you've also spent the time to learn this ritual and you've had to comprehend the complexities of what, how and why to do this. Just to install an OS. I understand the FOSS advocacy angle, but this is impractically stupid. You're not the only one who has learned to deal with this, so I'd wager there's months if not years of waking hours lost to what could easily be automated away.
Hi. A long long time ago I paid for an ARPA membership and my account was never upgraded. Who/where should I contact to get this resolved?
I worked at a start up that was reading all these zero trust blogs or what have you. They outright told us they didn't trust us. We weren't allowed to talk to one another unless we had permission, etc. Was bizarre, but mostly a mechanism so our boss could say whatever they wanted to the CEO and no one knew anything of what was really happening.
Reminds me of the chase scene in "The World Is Not Enough"
Many phones are very much unlocked, even though support for other operating systems is limited. However, even Android can be installed as a standalone OS with no Google crap.

If you want them to be general purpose computers straight from the store, yeah, that's not happening. But you still own the hardware and can change the software, again, on many, sadly not all, devices.
Still, it's a valid criticism. How is anyone supposed to know which of the numerous searx instances has what they want. Seems this would really benefit from an instance run by a transparent non-profit organization. You still need to trust someone, you always do, but that doesn't mean that that trust can't be earned rather than just assumed.
Mineral oil is _very_ messy, which really doesn't help at all. And the one company that sold the tanks had to stop due to some patent nonsense.
> Obviously I know what a scalar is, a scalar is one number

Hang on, is that a Natural number, or a signed Integer? Is it place-value, and if so what's the base? Big- or little-endian?

Is it fractional, and if so is it a rational (numerator and denominator), or fixed-point (what precision?), or float (how big's the mantissa?); maybe it's a unum? How about a sequence of continued fractions?

This is tongue-in-cheek; but from a software perspective, all those representations have the same "API" (arithmetic). Likewise, geometric algebra is an "API"; that's essentially what an algebra is.
Thank you for giving me spinning cows to start my day.

And Matrix math, holy cow (heh), it's been a long time since I needed that.
I feel like grabbing a power up should grant you an extra turn. Or just not reveal your position. Which of course requires not revealing that the item has been picked up to the other player.
It can be difficult to disprove residency, especially if you can say you travel a lot for your work. I've uh...heard of people that are residents of Nevada for tax purposes. They have a tiny furnished apartment and their car is registered there, and they're registered to vote there, but let's say they aren't home very often.
Why have politics in the USA become so chaotic?
Right. "local culture has myth around mysterious secretive humanoid creatures" really shouldn't alter our priors at all.

If this investigation is justified, it's because of the fossil record. The folk story makes a cute human interest angle, and if the researchers do find anything, it will make a fantastic stick to beat them with: "the Lio people have known about this ape species for hundreds of years, why didn't anyone just ask them?"
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As a former sailor, burning $100 bills had the advantage of not making you sea sick.
You say this like it’s the norm and that businesses don’t get penalized if they do this. That’s simply not true.
The submitter likely stumbled over the site after reading the discussion on `oggify` earlier today, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31080518 (I know I did).
It seems straightforward that cancelling internal vibrations as far as possible is a factor in the cooling, because warmth is movement (Brownian motion), and vice versa.
> As long as you're not engaging in homosexual sex

I think most would agree this is 'being gay'. The most important part, for some. So yeah I think it's fair to say GP would be arrested unless s/he actively hides who s/he is, which is a gay person.
This is really, really stupid. It reeks of economic illiteracy.

If you think foreign investor cause harm, just estimate how much harm it is, and tax them accordingly. Why would you ban them?

Taxing is almost always more economically efficient than banning.

You can even pay out (part of) the tax take to the people you think are harmed.

(In general, a land value tax for everyone would be a good idea. But if political reasons dictate that only foreigners should be taxed, so be it. Still better than a ban.)
> Voting independence is preferred over military or terrorist tactics.

I have a better idea, why not threat with stop breathing until their requirements are accepted?

Now seriously. This is a false dichotomy. Threatening an entire nation with terrorism until you have your candy and are allowed to stole the properties of the majority of your neighbors is neither acceptable, funny, or serious. Not when all that you have to sustain your utopia is a big mouth and guerrilla tricks seen in internet.

If suggesting naive adolescents to engage in terrorism is the level of the arguments, we need more adults entering the room. Blackmailing an entire country will often backfire.
Exactly how I feel, nice explanation.
- French company invents…

- French lab invents…

- Researchers in France invent…
> It's like $60-70,000 for the ship just to sit in the port!

This sounds out of context. Maybe a speciality ship (stabilizers? crane?), capable of dragging/lifting a 1000-ton payload, in harsher weather, and can loiter if required.

If you build your own 2000-ton ship (excluding r&d, construction, depreciation) what would be the daily operating cost (crew/fuel/insurance) etc?
Would this be satisfying though? Most enjoyment of food comes from swallowing it. I’m guessing it doesn’t last as a sensation.
> You can't run arbitrary binaries, but you can run whatever code you want.

...isn't the definition of "running whatever code you want" equivalent to "running arbitrary binaries"? How else could you "run code" if not as an "arbitrary binary"?
Between geotargeting and A/B testing and possible differences between the Bing API and public website you really can't conclude that DDG is not just what they get from Bing based on one example.
A free market doesn't require laws to enforce bans on bidding systems some people happen not to like..
We have how many foreign investment agreements? Banning foreign investment is not possible at all.

The data is public as well, foreign investors aren't the problem. To say you are doing this would not only be punitively not allowed. So you're literally telegraphing that you intend to do nothing. Or for that matter try to make things worse.
So much this!

I work in E-Commerce and (needless to say) we scrape a lot of websites. Due to our growth and the increase in scrapers we require, I’ve been writing a proposal to a higher up to talk to our biggest competitors to all set up a public API that batches the data for a smaller amount of requests.

It would save everyone quite some traffic and effort.
> I have heard of people who add a drop of water to a 70% whisky but I can't say I understand why. Perhaps it's individual but I just find I get a numb feeling in my mouth with anything 60% or above, which simply feels like it lessens the flavors.

I've had one whisky that was bottled at close to 70%, and it's certainly an "evaporating" feeling. For me it's situational, sometimes a 55% whisky goes down smoothly, sometimes a 46% one is harsh. The longer the tastings become, the harder it becomes for a (relatively) low ABV% whisky to compete with bold, 55%+ ones. Tasting order and length, mood, food, so many variables.
If the property itself is valuable enough? Renting the property out might not actually be worth the hassle. A single bitter tenant can cost a lot of money, from eviction to repairs/damage.
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Of course not. “Critical thinking” implies a willingness to learn and change one’s beliefs. Most people are not interesting in or willing to change their beliefs, having inherited them from parents or from the society they grew up in.

It’s like Kuhn and scientific paradigms, they change not by convincing the leading lights of a field but by having them grow old and die off.
Never seen it discussed, but maybe the drone landed a bomb on the superstructure which knocked out their radar or other detection systems.
This. Too many canadian homes are sitting empty. Those who dont live in the country are less likely to actually live in the homes they buy. It is a hamfisted approach but at least they are trying something direct to address the vacancy issue, something other than moving money around.
It feels plenty fast for me, what have you found to be slow? I wouldn't have thought it was non-native. Is it React Native or something?
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You are the developer if rlwrap? Thank you for that!
“Best Practice” is not a reason to do something
Yeah, this is not normal. Now before you can get a low-skilled worker visa you have to sit through an hour long lecture explaining your rights, they tell you over and over to not let anyone take your passport and who to call if someone does.

These countries have been modernizing so fast that it’s really pointless to talk about how things were a couple of years ago.

2 years ago if someone said that this would happen people would probably have laughed at you https://www.thenationalnews.com/uae/courts/2021/11/28/uaes-n...
Because they can make a far greater profit by selling the property at a moment's notice, than say renting it out for an year.

I mean, a place where your rental profit is 3k/month, might sell for 100k more than you bought it for, to the next wealthy person who thinks they can make another 100k profit by holding and selling after an year.