skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fact that YOUR suppliers are reducing CO2 emissions matters.

If enough people did that, every supplier would eventually reduce CO2.

Energy can be produced with very little CO2 emissions, like solar, wind, hydro, and nuclear.
Which is why I doubt Caspian Report. Anytime he ventures into Western Europe it's either so high level it's basically meaningless (Brexit will change relationships with EU members? You don't say!) or just way off base. Eg. For UK-Newzealand to sign a trade deal, the US decides what happens because... it's geographically between them? I guess assuming the world is flat?

I find the same with Peter Zeihan. In depth researched accurate data.. used to construct always wrong predictions. Eg. Alberta to secede from Canada and become the 51st state because oil pipeline infrastructure.
Not really. Buyer biased dispute resolution simply shift the costs of fraud to the merchant, which then build it into the product costs. The only real winner is the middlemen (credit cards) that make money on increased transaction volumes.
So then no loans should be removed by bankruptcy then.

How is the lenders fault you lost your job and can’t pay your mortgage? What a genius justification.
Simon Tatham? SIMON TATHAM!

Thank you for writing PuTtY, a Windows-based SSH client.

Totally made our day, months, years, and decades!

You rock, Simon!

Now I am going to play your games … for the first time. Thank you for raising awareness here, HN.
“Move along, clank” indeed.
Sure, but if getting the Adobe Reader involves downloading and installing the Adobe Store, creating an account, and finding and installing Adobe Reader there, lots of people will prefer using the next best app that's on the app store they already use. Convenience cuts both ways: yes, you can get people to do stupid things, but if installing your competitor takes one tap where installing your app takes ten you are going to lose market share.
I was hoping for some edgy economic model wherein ransoms were pareto-efficient or something, but this was fun, too.
Sure. I guess my point is that we have OPV to thank for the near-eradication of polio, and that all of the COVID vaccines are instead more like IPV.
Many of these puzzles, and others, can be played in the browser at https://www.puzzle-loop.com/.

There are multiple puzzle sites, connected with common user accounts to keep track of scores. Random puzzles with varying difficulty, and daily challenges.
I agree, I was just putting in plaintext what I've heard others say over the years when I complained about living in a state where I was paid nearly a third of what people doing my same job in SF made. I think those kinds of comments and attitudes that got us here need to be preserved, especially for how combative some of those folk were.
"Where software goes to live" sounds tongue in cheek.
Tell HN: Salesforce has globally revoked Slack's holiday shutdown benefit
The workplace policy has been in effect for many years, and was until recently an advertised perk of working for Slack. It allowed all employees access to free paid time off from 24th until the New Year (some employees like incident responders would take shifts, but even Customer Experience (their support team) ran skeleton shifts). Today they have announced this policy has ended as a result of the economy as well as making the workplace more equitable (as Salesforce employees could not access this benefit).
> Few projects seem to have bothered moving to it, probably becuase log4j is such a collosal pain to set up or modify.

Every new project I see defaults to slf4j/logback.
Currently using DWM-flexipatch for the last 6 months. Would be interested in learning what features I gain from switching to Awesome.
No, they're a symptom of lack of investment in curbing crime and other antisocial behavior.
Try this: Write down (yes write down) what is important to you in life. The things that make you happy. Only write down what actually makes you happy. Being rich for example isn’t it. Money is an important tool but not a goal in itself. However it might be that being wealthy will enable you to do more of X which makes you happy. So write down X not “being wealthy/rich”.

When you are done, use this as your “life strategy”. Ask what you need to change in life to better follow your life strategy. When anything brings you down, ask if it in anyway impact your life strategy. If not then realise that it isn’t important and carry on.

I did this myself years ago and it was a life changer. It gave me clear guidance and clarity to make decisions in life and to properly filter out things that aren’t important to me.
For others like me that wondered "Wait is proof by induction not induction?"

> Although its name may suggest otherwise, mathematical induction should not be confused with inductive reasoning as used in philosophy (see Problem of induction). The mathematical method examines infinitely many cases to prove a general statement, but does so by a finite chain of deductive reasoning involving the variable n, which can take infinitely many values.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_induction
It was the days of MS-DOS. I had written a program to manage the inspection of Fire Extinguishers in Fossil Fuel generating stations. The Operations manager pulled a random person in, explained to them that he understood they weren't trained for this, and anything that was wrong was MY fault, not theirs. He gave them a list of things to do, and told me to watch and not say anything.

The user got stumped at 1 second into the task... and I blurted out "just press F1 for help"... to which the reply was "How is he supposed to know that?"... and thus began my education of building appropriate user interfaces. F1 was ALWAYS on the screen after that, and I learned lots of things about the differences between someone just trying to get a job done, and my view of computers.
you forgot

> I myself am planning to move to Africa because it's getting expensive here. Good luck.
8-bit 64K 1802 computer with front panel and serial port in an Altoids tin
By extreme, you mean that a business doesn't have to bear the cost of a fraudulent chargeback if they can prove it?

What is extreme about that?
Apple famously went with gorilla glass over plastic for the original iPhone, despite glass being more breakable, because when it would break users tended to blame themselves rather Apple. Plastic on the other hand scratched just from everyday use and users would have blamed Apple for that cheap design. Perceived fault matters.

Interestingly, I think this can be used to argue either side.
I guess I just assumed he sold at the bottom-ish and that they had previously bought higher, though I am probably wrong.
> Buy this course I'm selling. It will teach you to do the stuff I did to make this thing that I got you to pay me for.

That sounds a lot like a pyramid scheme... scratch that, it is a pyramid scheme.
Sure, if you arbitrarily slice the pie to make it that way. The great thing is you can just semantically decide what you want to call EE and CS until your assertion is true, so you've made an assertion that is completely impossible to disprove. Bravo.
Not all is lost
Under bankruptcy, you don’t necessarily get everything wiped clean and a fresh start. A court will determine how much you can pay and to whom and assets will include a percentage of your future income. On top of that, your ability to get credit will be severely impacted for at least seven years meaning good luck getting a car loan at non-usurious rates, credit cards, etc. You may even find that getting something like a simple checking account becomes rather difficult (I had to sell my first house in a short sale in the 90s and even though the consequences were less dramatic than bankruptcy,¹ it still impacted my financial prospects for a long time afterwards).

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1. I went to a credit counseling agency in the midst of that financial distress and the counselors all insisted that I didn’t want to go through bankruptcy although in retrospect, that was exactly what I should have done. What I didn’t know then was that the credit counseling agencies are all run by the credit card companies.
I'd agree if there were reasonable terms (maybe 30 year maximum term from publication date), but what copyright has become is not great in a lot of ways.
It didn't happen that way when it was legal. Also, people tend to try to be honest and do the right thing.
> At the time of writing the 2nd Amendment (December 15, 1791), the accepted "Arm" was a musket, with a muzzle velocity between 1425 fps (434 m/s) and 1700 fps (518 m/s) with a ¾” (19.05 mm) diameter ball (. 640 caliber), and an approximate weight of .9 oz (25.5 g) [1]. Today the court accepts that an ArmaLite AR-15 is an "Arm", with a muzzle velocity of 3,300 ft/s (1,006 m/s) using a .223 Remington cartridge with a 55 g FMJ bullet [2].

Why is it that political philosophy that hates constitutional originalism in every other case wants to try and selectively apply some weird quasi-originalist argument not to the amendment itself but to two individual words within it?

If the amendment was written before muskets were common would you argue in only applied to swords, bows, slings, and catapults? The amendment is about providing the populace with a mechanism to keep tyranny in check, its not about caliber and projectile ft/s.
$12500 in 1985 is $35000 today. That's more expensive than MSRP of highest trim of 2022 Honda Civic, which is a better car than any 1985 Honda.
Afaik, eyes capture only a tiny bit of the image - the rest is a mental model. Whatever partial data eyes capture, the mind maps to known patterns - face features and the like. So animals may indeed see the same pixels, but perceive something wildly different.
CDL being “Controlled Digital Lending”
> We all hate for our homes to be worth 10% less in 2023 compared to 2022

Speak for yourself. If all property drops, I'm ecstatic. I'm not moving or withdrawing money with a HELOC. So lower property values just mean less taxes for me. I mean, sure, it also means I may be underwater, but who cares?

And if I decide to move, that just means the delta between my current place and a new place is smaller in absolute terms.

There is literally no benefit to most homeowners for the real estate market being higher.
Thank you so very much. I used your guides heavily when working on my senior project doing linux networking at the system level many years ago!
> If so, why not just get rid of speculative buying (simply make it illegal)?

How do you propose to do that in the US?
its basically what renters have though, and is considered a "benefit of renting"
Correct, 10000x.

Some anecdata: I used to work for a bank in Eastern Europe and we once lost a grand total of $6K to fraud one year with about ~1M cardholders.
10000x of that would be $60 per customer per year. Some neobanks here in the US lose more.

The point is, all the fraud loses end up being paid for by other customers.

So that guy changed his mind, filed a chargeback for a transaction he actually did authorize, and he and his laywer got paid by all other customers who did nothing wrong. And some folks who could have been happily banked ended up unbanked.

You are right about your P.S
In case you or others are unaware, there's https://hnreplies.com/ - created by @dang
That doesn’t sound “American”legal.

In the US, summary judgment is a procedure used in civil cases, typically one party seeking money from the other. Ineffective assistance of counsel is a criminal concept.
>why try solving it at the lender's expense?

All that is being proposed is the cessation of the government providing services to creditors where they chase down some disabled person with student debts from 30 years ago and shake them down for money and garnish their wages. It's simply not nessecary and not in the interests of the government's stakeholders to provide such services to creditors.

If this means that schemes where a debtor lends out so much money that they will go broke unless they end up milking people for decades aren't viable anymore, so be it. If a debtor goes broke due to such regulatory changes, they should not be compensated, as it's not reasonable to expect zero risk given how unpopular the debt bondage is. Normally one wants to only make such changes with compensation, in order to give lenders confidence their contracts will be enforced or at least they will be compensated, but the status quo around student debt is so extreme and exceptional I don't think that's necessary here. Outside of student debt, prison labor is the only other form of legal slavery I can name in the United States.
is it a problem that some people are losers in the new scheme? there are losers in the current scheme too
It seems to mostly be annoyance that they have to share the road. Cyclists aren't zooming along at 44MPH on a 35MPH road. Other motorists are also in their way. Automobile commercials always depict an idyllic empty road just for you.
Most doctors unfortunately have zero education when it comes to nutritional science. I recommend listening to actual leading edge nutritional researchers before forming a strong opinion. A good source is the “low carb down under” channel on YouTube.
What do you miss from opam (dune is a build system - nothing to do with dependencies)?

Last time I checked it did pretty much everything you might need and was fairly pleasant to use.
I don't think Netflix had a choice.

Who is selling good content anymore? HBO? They run their own thing now. Paramount? They've got their own thing now. Disney? They've got their own thing now. MGM? They're streaming through Amazon Prime now.

Netflix was forced into this position by competition, not by internal decisions.
Laws requiring occupancy before selling them? Just guessing.
I'd prefer that, but nobody I know uses it :(

I got invited to a probabilistic machine learning study group my uni is running, but couldn't access because of this issue. It'd be a big ask to get them to set up a matrix bridge
The history part doesn't start until well past a long section on 'what is microprogramming'

Disappointed to not see any mention of the Alto which I consider a significant computer which was also a microprogrammed design. Nevertheless, an interesting essay.
No, property taxes are completely immoral.
Covid-19, 5G conspiracies and infrastructural futures
While I think the idea of secession is ludicrous (who would give up the free services that the Federal govt hands over, especially after it gives the state oversight?), the idea that Bombers and drones and soldiers stave off a secession is pathetic.

You can't aim a gun at someone to changing their beliefs, much less kill your way toward that goal. What you will do is create more and more costly asynchronous warfare, as we have seen with people in other nations that our military has tried to subdue (ie Hearts and Minds). Modern communication has created and maintained rebel organizations over great distances with little investment and minimal effort. What's worse is modern warfare usually empowers the targets of that military effort. eg Running some tanks over to Texas is basically agreeing to destroy those tanks when they are inevitably captured or left behind, because it's too vulnerable and expensive to bring them back from the front lines (which would be everywhere), as the Russians have learned.
The problem with the US diet is not the meat. The problem is the carbs. Leading directly to insulin resistance.
We're US only, but our salaries are flat across the US. Same salary in the Bay area and say, Moscow, Idaho.
It isn't racist or classist bullshit. It was that people liked cars for the independence they provided. Today's live in their parent's basement generation can't comprehend the concept.
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How many of you have lived on a street with an active street car line? Probably not many of you, not many Americans here anyway, but I have. I lived on Lancaster Avenue in Philadelphia for years, with a street car (there called a trolley) running right in front of my house.

Nobody in this thread has mentioned it yet, but the noise was awful! Every time it went past the whole house would shake. Every wall in the building turned into a sub-wuffer as that thing rumbled down the street. Was it at least useful? No, not really. I rode it maybe 30 or 40 times total in those years, usually when grocery shopping and sometimes just as a novelty with guests visiting town.

In principle the trolley would have been useful for my commute, which entailed going to 30th street station to get onto the SEPTA regional rail (which I loved, and still miss.) But in practice, it was always more reliable to walk the ~1.5 miles / 30 minutes to 30th street myself. Street cars are subject to street traffic, which makes them unreliable. To reliably catch a trolley would have required me to leave the house much earlier every day.
Oh! I had assumed that it was closed. Thanks!
Mifare Classic is anything but "proper" encryption, with numerous vulnerabilities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIFARE#MIFARE_Classic
I think in time we'll find that much of the bickering is due to online misinformation campaigns.
I'm quite happy with a world where we do neither if that bothers you as much as you're pretending it does.
Sounds almost like "have the government own all the housing stock and rent it to the people"
Not familiar with such kind of software, but if it were written for, say, Linux, would it need such an expensive rewrite to work with current versions?
what could you sell it for though? what could you mortgage it for?

what you paid for it is irrelevant if people are buying the neighboring places for double or triple the price.

if it's worth so much more than you think, sell it
"as a result of the economy..."

Salesforce raised the prices for Slack Pro Plan as well recently. Doesn't sound like something you'd do if the economy is that bad...

And i assume Salesforce revenue is going to decline this year since the economy is that bad, huh?
Google made $20 billion in Q1. Is it really a bubble?
good artists borrow, great artists steal
That's one of the core annoyances of Bluetooth: it's 1:1, not many:many.

I've got a desktop, a laptop, and a phone. I've got a Bluetooth earbuds (with microphone) and a Bluetooth speaker (no mic).

So obviously it should be simple to play audio from any of those devices to both the earbuds and the speaker at the same time. With wired headphones & speakers, that took a $2 splitter. But with Bluetooth, at best you can get one application per output.

It'd be really nice if you could play audio from multiple sources to the different speakers at the same time. But that can't be done. You have to disconnect from one device, connect to the other, each time. I've never even seen a Bluetooth mixer (not a wired mixer that can use Bluetooth, but a device that can manage multiple Bluetooth connections for different audio streams at once).

The same stuff all applies to Bluetooth microphones.

Bluetooth needs many:many audio streams to get parity with wired sound.
It wasn't actually Socrates that said that, btw
You don’t have to like it, or harbor power fantasies, to be realistic about how supply and demand works out.
Defense contracting is broken. Here’s how to fix it
“Practical relevance” (funny use of quotes here) is the end-goal of statistics, and what makes it worth studying in the first place. On its own, the practice and theory of statistics is actually fairly vulnerable, not exactly “hard” in the sense we’d use for conventional mathematics.

The principles we use for relevance, and other techniques we’ve built upon them are axiomatic: there’s no real reason they persist except as a form of historical convention and necessary standardization.

What makes statistics useful is when it’s able to capture quantitatively something that exists practically, i.e. material phenomena. When the stats don’t square with reality, it’s not exactly reality’s fault, so to speak. It’s the statistician’s job to understand and explain why the statistics, or the techniques thereof, failed. This is the red meat of “hard” statistics, how the field refines itself, and it’s also the most fun and challenging thing about it.

When eye-to-eye with a provoked bear in real life, I’d be curious to see if any statisticians would dismiss it on statistical grounds. My bet is zero because they know the limits of their discipline.
I've been reading HN for nearly a decade and never commented, but mlyle has it spot on: this is an important issue to me and nearly all the commentary here was one sided.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misoprostol#Black_market
I agree probably not the best business plan. Apple has plenty of cash so maybe it comes down to something more important than market share - principal.

On the other hand I don’t see how the U.S. banning TikTok has any bearing on Apple being the security gate on IOS. I don’t use TikTok myself but if I decided to at least I would do so with the knowledge that it at least meets Apple’s standards. I wouldn’t even get that if I was forced to use a 3rd party app store.
Not quite true.
Python PEP 8, kind of a core in Python style, states that lines should be no longer than 79 characters. I personally, and I believe many current Python developers use a more realistic 120 character line length.. But, in Python,
long lines are frowned upon, and your multi-line function call is the preferred approach.
That's been a constant refrain about IR auto-flushing toilets for about 30 years. They were invented in 1988.
Variable pricing is always because supply and demand are constantly in motion.

I see a sign on the Taco Bell advertising a $4 per hour premium ($21 per hour) for people who are willing to work late night and will stay to close the place up. I see a possibility of restaurants charging more for food at 11pm rather than 1pm. Which already happens at many places via discounts for “lunch specials” available only during noon hours.

Same reason for hotels to charge different prices for different nights.

You can throw in price discrimination / price segmentation and collect different prices from different people for the room night. Similar to how retail businesses give a lower price to people willing to spend their time finding coupons.
Google Maps almost does this.
Came here to post this. Also, Cooper's Inmates Are Running The Asylum.
> (be VERY VERY careful using a Flipper with a car key fob, because they can sometimes go out of sync and you can't open your car afterwards)

FYI many cars with "keyless" entry have a traditional keyhole hidden under a piece of trim around the door handle and a key (sometimes plastic) hidden inside the fob; sometimes the key is part of the ring for a keyring, and can be released by pressing on the manufacturer's logo or inserting a paperclip in a hole.
>I think that the good design is that the end user has full control and programmability, and try not to add too many animations and other stuff like that

Approximately 100% of the population cares much more about having a nice UI than having full programmability.
You are surprised that human beings react more strongly to things that more directly threaten them?
please explain that chart? thanks
In my experience (pre-pandemic included), remote works well when:

1) the employees are already experienced (not a great environment for someone in their first job doing this)

2) the team is small (people who want to freeload are naturally drawn towards larger bureaucracies where they are not noticed)

3) the nature of the work benefits hugely from long periods of low distractions

4) occasional in-person team meetings are good, even if most days are remote
That's app dependent, at least on Android. I've got the PowerAmp music player as my default, it has an option to disable "Resume on Bluetooth".
We joke about it, but an early and very cheap robotic floor cleaner I had was one of those weasel balls constrained in a flat ring harness with a dusting cloth underneath. It was entertaining and not completely useless.

Put a guinea pig in there and you'd get the same effect.