skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are thing that the President of the United States can do and thing he can't do. He can stop the issuance of new permits to drill on federal lands. But he can't stop companies from drilling on places where they already have a permit, federal or not. Implicitly, a candidate cannot promise more than a President can deliver, and that's why Biden and his team were vague about what "shut down oil drilling" meant.

The technical term (on Wall Street) for oil companies is "Oil and Gas Exploration and Production" companies [1]. Note that "exploration" is mentioned ahead of "production". Banks have special departments dedicated to lending to O&G E&P companies, and the lending standards are mostly described in the regulatory handbook [2]. If you take a look there, you'll see that lending in that space is mostly about reserves. E&P companies carefully husband their reserves. They need to have all levels of reserves, from proved and developed to proved and undeveloped to probable and then to possible. As they extract oil and gas, they need to continually upgrade their existing reserves (for example from possible to probable), and to acquire new rights of exploration.

All this is very complex because the price of oil is volatile. In Spring 2020 the price of oil reached record lows (including negative futures prices for a few days). In Spring 2022, it reached recent record highs, but oil executives have a longer time horizon in their planning, because prices can plummet in a hurry (as we speak, they've already dropped 25% from their peak).

Bottom line, the oil companies have inertia. Just like an 18-wheeler can't turn as quickly as a personal car, they can't change their operations as quickly as people would like them to.

But of course, both Biden's administration and the oil executive will try to score points. The administration claims that the oil industry is artificially restricting its own output in order to keep prices high and maximize profits, while the oil executives will try to pressure the administration to allow new permits on federal lands.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_exploration_and_pr...

[2] https://www.occ.gov/publications-and-resources/publications/...
Easy solution. Charge a 25% recycling VAT style tax on products that don't offer a 10 year no strings attached in-home pickup warranty.
Four years of on-campus private school education is a consumption good and I’m not paying for it with my taxes. Nobody who commutes to state school is graduating with six figures of life-destroying debt, and the educational quality is the same or better. Don’t fall for the shiny brochures. A decent, cheap higher education can be had if you aren’t in it for the parties.
> The thing is, why bother? I always have my phone.

Relying exclusively on the phone's turn-by-turn directions without having any spatial awareness of your own or knowledge about the planned routes has a strong tendency to make you do stupid, dangerous stuff in traffic any time there's the slightest ambiguity or delay in the phone's instructions to you. This is mitigated somewhat by newer cars that can show you the map on a display that's not too small or too far out of the way of where your eyes should be pointing. But the responsible way to prevent those problems is to pull up the directions and study them for a minute before releasing the parking brake—that way, the phone is more reminding you than controlling you.
I don't believe that 20 year olds with good leadership skills even exist.
> doesn't this open up the ability alter e-mail history at will?

Yes. It should invalidate the DKIM signature though, which mainstream servers add to each email now. So it's possible to prove the contents of that email haven't been tampered with... assuming you have a record of the sending domain's public DKIM key. I imagine your email provider would have logs indicating you modified an email too, but I have no evidence of this, nor how eagerly they would dig up such logs for a court if they have any.

I have no idea how people deal with this in practice in court. (What if the domain's DKIM key has changed? Is there an authoritative source of old DKIM keys for most domains?)
Is there really enough lithium in the world to supply fusion reactors while also meeting the demand for its use in batteries over the next 1000 years? It will be interesting to see what the actual long term consequences are for building fusion reactors, as humans are notoriously bad at predicting what unforeseen circumstances arise from new technologies.

Maybe the Belters will mine lithium from asteroids and send them back to earth in exchange for air and water...
Old American made washers are running 40 years later. Speed Queen isn’t really about the warranty, it’s about the implications.
Is the assumption that a signal needs to travel and that the speed of light is the limiting factor? My thought was that they're interacting in some other fashion, such that they are physically connected to each other. If that were the case, it would be instantaneous
> After CSAM, I switched the main office machines to Manjaro

> Actually, CSAM had a positive in my life.

This post sounds like a confession that you had CSAM on your machines and because of that switched away from Apple.

(Read what you wrote out loud expanding the acronym)
> Who seriously think it is?

Nobody. I'm not implying anyone is that stupid. It's obviously a
figure of speech. Which you get, right?
In cities with a lot of traffic GPS is useful even for routine trips because it will help route you around traffic jams.
If there's some level of creativity/originality in the preparation, then that is copyrightable.
Sure.

The point is more that a person's choice of degree is _correlated_ to earnings, jobs, etc, but the job they take is causatively related.

If you want to work on botany you might study botany and work as a botanist. It's not the degree that means you end up with a botanist's salary - it's the fact that you wanted to be a botanist!
That’s not true.

But Amazon, Walmart, Whirlpool, GE, etc, have no useful indications for longevity.

There’s no way to know how long your fridge will last before you buy it. So why spend more when you literally have no idea if it’s actually better quality?
I just watched an amusing video that compares Mr. Coffee's original machine to modern drip coffeemakers. Mr. Coffee would cost $300 today (adjusted for inflation). There's been great simplification of the design over the years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp9H0MO-qS8

Given a more than order of magnitude reduction in price, a shorter lifespan can be tolerated, and could even be a rational consumer choice.
There are whole industries where it's unacceptable to ship 'barely functional' products -- aeronautics for instance.

We should be striving to expand this to more industries not the other way around.
if memory does not fail me, original sprint was 3 weeks long followed by "spare" time till the end of the month (mostly meetings, planning, review, etc..)
Nikon had this years ago. The signing key was extracted: https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2011/04/nikon-image-authenticatio...
> The trouble here is that now we have two opposing anecdotes.

Actually, i was agreeing with the GP, so it's at least 2 v 1 ;-)
The CarTalk articles conclusion captures it brilliantly:

“So this is the stuff that some automotive legends are made of – a wacky idea, a shameless promoter’s dream and a credulous press, excited to herald the coming of a wonderful new future. “There were a lot of articles about it. But there was never a road test that we could find,” Lane recalled. “People talked about its features and how it was futuristic, but nobody ever said ‘I drove it.’ But do you think they would’ve let someone drive it? It’s terrible. I mean, it’s a ‘30s car, so not so terrible for the time, but I doubt they would’ve gotten glowing reviews.”

Thus, the story of the Dymaxion car reminds us, you don’t have to change the world to be famous. You just have to look like you did.”
This isn't energy research. It's really fundamental research that is directly useful to nuclear weapons.

The funding source being mandated solely for nuclear weapons goes against your claim it's not primarily for weapons.
> There are some adapters to allow mixing batteries, for example this one allows using Black & Decker 20V batteries on Bosch 18V tools

DeWalt, Craftsman, Porter Cable, Black and Decker, and probably another brand or two that I can't recall at the moment all use very close to the same batteries. The pins are in a different order and there's small plastic tabs in certain places so you can't swap brands but with a little bit of work you can charge a Craftsman battery in a Porter Cable charger and use it to power a DeWalt drill. Don't attempt to modify these batteries and chargers unless you have an understanding about what you're doing, though.
Was the word 'sprint' chosen to describe a never ending crunch? Or just to roughly imply quick forward motion. Unlike waterfall that often slows for large portions of time until the next sudden and irreversible release?

Perhaps it would've been more accurate to use something like 'unit' in education. Which is just a subdivision of time and effort roughly equal to a week or two.
Probably not being used the way you think it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault
Riding bicycles is also a sport, but children learn how to do it well enough. Orienteering as a sport is done for speed, precision, or optimal route planning. The basics of knowing how to use a map and compass and figuring out roughly where you are can be (and is) taught to children.
How would it work in practice? How could they forbid me to edit an "authenticated" image (which is still just an array of numbers) on gimp, and publish the modified image as raw data? Wouldn't I be then "producing content" whose provenance is not authenticated?

As long as I have a functional C compiler that can read the files on my computer, I don't see how this C2PA thing can be effective at all.
Hi, this looks very nice. It says "text-editor" in the HN title. Is there a way I can edit the linked page, or something like that?
No to both. The Linux distribution you use is responsible for backporting patches, fixing the vulnerability, building updated packages, testing them and sending the updates.

You get targeted security updates without changes in any other functionality.
Sounds like BMW. I can't believe how much plastic crap they put under the hood where the heat destroys everything.
Quality from Harbor Freight? I use tools for my day job and almost nothing from Harbor Freight holds up.

Edit: Sorry, I should add a bit more. I certainly have not used all (or even most) Harbor Freight tools, but for the work I do, the tools I've bought from Harbor Freight, they just don't last. For a backyard mechanic or Average Joe Homeowner, they're probably just fine.
Cadre parents and entrepreneur children? Intergenerational elites in China(2021)
So I gave you a reference. But you're smarter. And a "watershed divide" still suggests a higher height of land that still needs to be passed through whether or not it passes your personal definition of a continental divide.
I've been able to quiet noisy volume potentiometers--where the problem is dirt inside the control--by squirting contact cleaner into the pot and rotating the knob. I have the advantage of having a (now almost empty) aerosol can of no-longer-legal CFC contact cleaner (I bought it many years ago and save it for the good stuff), but I'm guessing what whatever the good stuff is these days for cleaning circuit boards is likely to work just as well.
I built a mobile app for musicians to capture ideas and iterate on them, while getting feedback from a small group. It's kind of the shared recorder/playback experience I wish I had when I was in a band. I got it to a fully functional state but TBH I have no idea if there's much demand for something like that, theoretically Soundcloud could be used to do the same thing. But it was a fun little project.
Kiddie porn/rape comes to mind, if someone fabricates enough plausible examples you can get your house raided or you could be arrested

Can you plead innocent, and will you ultimately prevail? Sure. But will you be able to take back the newspaper articles or news reports about you and these horrible accusations? The chattering on local comment boards? Rumors that might circulate around Twitter or Facebook? Will everyone be able to see that you prevailed and roll back any changes in feelings they had?
Fascinating! Here's their website with a showcase of projects.

http://www.tatjavanvark.nl/projects.html
I got an incredible amount of pushback on twitter when I posted that I think we should ditch handwriting in schools in favor of accelerating typing skills earlier.
Yes, check out the mostly non-AI, non-Lisp advice in Norvig's very brief summary in What Lessons are in PAIP?, the next to last section in http://norvig.com/Lisp-retro.html
Who actually wanted / needed cheap tools ?

Cheap tools were pushed on the majority of people.
I prefer the implication of having it in writing.

If Speed Queen’s data showed them their machines lasted 40 years, then they would advertise them with a 40 year warranty to maximize sales.

Since they do not, it is safe to say that Speed Queen does not want to bet their machines will last 40 years. So why should I bet they will last longer than their stated warranty period?

It is possible that Speed Queens are worth more because they are more repairable, but I have no interest in spending my time repairing my washer/dryer. And calling a technician would be $100/hour plus parts, at which point I might as well buy a new machine.
They're two stage: fission primary and fusion secondary.
Any book recommendations for someone who almost failed physics in college but wants to understand QM at a high level?
Makita too, in Buford, GA.

Not sure which tools, other than some corded planers.
There is a way, it’s the reputation that builds over time and is associated with your brand. It’s why many people buy Toyota by default. It’s why we paid 5x the price for a Miele vacuum (which are awesome, by the way). It’s just that most people either can’t or just won’t pay a significant premium for it, so those products tend to be niche.

Of course, many execs look at brand value as something to be harvested for short term gains to the value of their options, but that’s a different problem.
But sheet music is copyrightable, and it's a set of instructions isn't it?
Or one could choose to not do any further nuclear weapons research.

I understand that is not the marching orders of the US government but it could be, and it could also be a choice made by individuals on the ground.
I think you're being overly literal with "sprint".

And no, developers are not expected to be "in a sprint more or less at all times".

To the contrary -- in between each sprint, there's a review, a retrospective, often a weekend, then regrouping and feature analysis, planning poker, decision on which features to impement, and getting it up on the board.

That's the whole point. Instead of a long marathon without revision/reassessment/regrouping, it's a series of short sprints interspersed with revision/reassessment/regrouping. The metaphor here is the distance traveled, not the speed. Sprints are shorter distances, that's all.

Nobody has ever intended "sprint" to mean that engineers are going faster than in a marathon, anymore than "waterfall" means engineers are all tumbling down white water to their deaths at the bottom. :)
If you don't count Android as being Linux, then your choices are basically either the Librem 5 or the PinePhone.
> "Colleges and universities were never meant to be a way to riches and fortunes. [...] What exactly were you expecting may I ask?"

I disagree with the assumption that the administrators and many professors at universities intend for undergraduate programs to be primarily for learning, and not for improving job prospects.

Many professors focus on material benefits during the first lecture of the course. There are also numerous career fairs and sometimes internship opportunities with industry, which focus greatly on getting material benefits.

Consider also the marketing for many universities: many advertisements (e.g. on public transit) show enrolment at even research-intensive universities as a way to get into prestigious jobs. Alumni networks are also promoted in marketing (though I'm unsure how effective these really are). In my view, times have changed, and the expectation of material benefit is entirely reasonable and even supported by university officials.
This is all that it took me to port a fairly sizeable code base to Linux[0]. This commit allowed me to run the app with the only problem being some font issues that I needed to fix by modifying how I used a library.

The total:

> Showing 26 changed files with 255 additions and 90 deletions.

If you architect your code well, porting between different systems shouldn't take anymore than a few hours ;)

Edit: I just looked through the diff and remembered that the bulk of these changes was fixing warnings that surfaced from using a different compiler.

The actual code that I changed necessary to get this running on Linux was in File.cpp and consisted of 124 lines of code. Going the other way (from Linux to windows) would have been just as simple, I just would have added the code in the __WIN32__ macro block instead of the code in the __linux__ macro block.

[0]: https://github.com/codingminecraft/StreamMinecraftClone/comm...
That's not how any car I know of works. Infotainment stuff can't go on the CAN bus due to bandwidth limitations. It's usually on its own network. Historically that was MOST, now it's usually Ethernet (or A2B for some specific components). That network may be bridged to other networks like CAN with a locked down gateway module, but frankly even that design is out of style due to security issues.

If you know a manufacturer putting radio devices on the CAN bus, by all means name and shame. I'd be morbidly curious because of how obviously terrible an idea that is.
and linked from there an article with more details: https://craftsmanshipmuseum.com/artisan/tatjana-van-vark/
You sure about google searches curing distrust?...
I worked in steel plants for 7 years before becoming a software engineer. Making the switch was the best professional decision I've made. Steel is cyclical so it was so stressful when times were bad -- I survived 4 mass layoffs. There's also the constant penny pinching in every possible way, even to the point of removing the free coffee from break rooms.

Now my salary is significantly higher and I deal with significantly less BS
What was the fiasco that happened with little snitch?
My solution to this has been: Always have a dummy plug. I built this "on the fly" once by reconfiguring a service to use a blank copy of it's database, with permissions set to read-only. All the read queries succeeded, with zero results. All the write queries failed fast. It solved a hard problem fast.
Click 'start' in the upper left corner, and you can then edit the page's lambda-based source.
Battery busses are much worse than trolley busses or rail. They're also significantly more expensive than all other options.

Their only upside is nimbys might let you have a transit system if you suggest them.
Undervalued option for a hand blender: A power drill with a blender attachment, it'll easily beat any store bought immersion blender when it comes to reliability.

Of course you might end up wishing for crappy plastic gears over something with enough torque to shear a finger off...
> Is the website and forum written in your language?

I forgot to answer this. It isn't but that'd be a good milestone.
Not all Lego bricks. Some early bricks were a weak plastic which deformed in the little "cups" underneath. Had 1960s lego, some was good, some wasn't. They definitely had a pre-stable window (and these were real Danish lego, not some 3rd nation knock off)
Choreography sequences are potentially copyrightable outside of an individual performance, though there's a lot of grey area. https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/how-to-copyright-a-dance
At least they're open about how they weighed their values. And they give you enough information to draw your own conclusions from your own values. Some people want to be told what's "best", and they've found a way to make everyone (minus one) happy.
It's more like the endgame.

1. Western companies moves production of components to China.
2. Chinese companies becomes good enough to produce their own products.
3. Western companies starts rebranding Chinese products.
4. Chinese companies buy western companies.
5. Chinese companies open factories in western countries.

Manufacturing isn't industry in itself and the growth of industry is orders of magnitude more in China. Most people just have no idea how supply chains work or how many R&D centers are opening up elsewhere. Many western countries are no longer great industrial economies but still far from real knowledge economies. Western countries don't really have the infrastructure, housing or education necessary and increasingly not alternative ways of competing either like creativity, influence or equality.

There is a documentary called "American Factory". It isn't the best but it is something.
And important things don’t hang from parachutes?

Nothing is ever 100%
No. And I don't think CSAM is gone. By demonstrating the capability to the governments, Apple actually created a demand for the technology.

Politico reports that the European Union is planning on announcing a new law requiring tech giants to scan for CSAM. That would leave Apple having to figure out how to comply without reigniting the controversy.

https://9to5mac.com/2022/05/11/apples-csam-troubles-may-be-b...
Yes, like a novel, but the sound of a note isn't.
Psychological inoculation can reduce susceptibility to misinformation
Yes that makes sense. Steam engines had to be larger to be more efficient so the best size for them was a locomotive.

Internal combustion engines are sized at a point where they are profitable and efficient.

Electric motors allow us to make terribly small cars, and their small batteries will mean even more efficiency improvements. Combined with self driving abilities and we no longer need to own our own car…just hop on the city infrastructure and get driven to your destination.

In fact if we make it small and light enough you could suspend the car from a metal rail and now have an extra lane up in the roadway above the regular traffic. And then you can add another metal rail layer…and another. And you no longer need intersections because the rails can dip down or up to cross each other. So the biggest source of traffic latency (stoplights) and bandwidth limitations (not enough road surface area) will be eliminated.

Eventually we may build entire city blocks pre-fabricated with vertical and horizontal elevators inside, so you no longer need your own vehicle to navigate. Heating costs will be proportional to the external surface area and not to the volume enclosed by the building.
You’re right, what I should have said is that Scrum doesn’t work. And I tend to use big-A Agile when talking about the formal processes and little-a agile when talking about the manifesto.

I think the manifesto is great btw. It’s just that the formal “Agile” processes, such as the way Scrum is practiced, don’t implement it.
> I had no idea there was an API to modify the content of existing e-mails.

There isn't. As per the article, the application creates a copy of the original email, sans the attachment, then deletes the original.
Everyone that owns an iPhone cycles them out every 2-3 years. It’s a perpetual cash cow.
“ According to this article Fuller publicly lied about the testing, safety, maximum speed, stability, production capacity, funding sources, crash details, and more.”

Sounds like Elon musk, well minus the max speed
Doesn't work for me either
Thoughts on Maytag?