skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if you're sarcastic or not, because this is exactly what I mean by using a monetary scale. It's free to me but it still is an incredible waste of energy, time and ressources
Russia and the EU aren't at war, neither is the US and China. You haven't really proven that economic integration doesn't prevent wars.
Ask HN: Accessing company officer's commingled personal Gmail?
A key company officer recently passed away. They had fully commingled their personal and corporate correspondence in their personal Gmail.

Has anyone had experience/success interacting directly with Google on similar issues to recover past/ongoing correspondence and records?

To head off the early questions:

1. Yes, we worked hard to prevent this situation, but we're in it now.

2. Yes, we have extensive legal support/advice.
If this is true how do investors drive up price?
I ran into a bug in production unpickling some builtins (dicts or sets or something) that were pickled in 2.2 and unpickled in 2.4 (or 2.4 -> 2.6, it's fuzzy).

Between those two versions, the exposed 'dunder' methods of whichever builtin changed, and this resulted in unpickled dicts being empty, IIRC.
I would walk around with a camera many times before iphones. I still didn't take pictures of ordinary street life, because it seemed completely uninteresting. My parents were also amateur photographers, and rarely took street pictures. I had a camera in college, but rarely took pictures of ordinary things. When I look at the pictures I took, it seems they are of all the wrong things.
What causes the restriction of /24, rather than being able to route individual addresses?
News about politics is also helpful. You can decide who to support, or to run for office yourself, or to campaign on behalf of others, or at least donate.

Society does foment a favorable environment for you to exist in without effort. And if it does, then you are lucky to be in the right place at the right time, and assume the favorable environment is temporary.
> Also, what the heck with gpu enabled terminals?

On some operating systems, prior to GPU acceleration, all existing terminal emulators were so slow that they caused noticeable and frustrating lag under some circumstances, for example running tmux with text scrolling in multiple panes.

Since then, we've seen the rise of cross-platform, performance-oriented terminal emulators (Alacritty, Kitty, Wezterm) on the one hand and tmux adopt what amounts to frame dropping in the other (check out the fork called tmux-sixel if you prefer not to have this behavior or want sixel-based terminal graphics support).

I do not understand why terminal emulator performance, especially on Windows and Mac, used to be so atrocious that only GPU-accelerated terminal emulators didn't suck there. Konsole, xterm, st, urxvt, and even GNOME Terminal have never needed to resort to that just to avoid massive flickering and lag.
We keep repeating the pattern of scaling some technical innovation up to all of society, and then years later discovering that it was really harmful. Leaded gasoline, CFCs, microplastics, pesticides collapsing insect populations etc. And it can take decades to fully understand those impacts. When the stakes are literally, "all rainwater on the planet is unsafe", should we ask -- would society be better off if we were much more conservative about demonstrating the long-term safety of new substances before scaling up their use?

Also, I'm curious if there will be legal implications from this: Will literally the whole planet be able to pursue lawsuits against 3M and peers for making our rainwater 'unsafe'?
The best option here is a private constructor with public static "constructor functions" which can return something like Result<T>.
Observing the absurdity of something doesn't necessarily mean you have a more desirable alternative. I can observe that it's absurd that my apples were shipped halfway around the world without saying "so i don't want them".

Capitalism is absurd, what it makes humans do is absurd. It's also useful and has some worthwhile properties.
That’s horrible.

If what you claim is true true, public funding of universities should end. Universities should serve the public interest, and teaching is an essential part of that.

The public spends untold billions funding universities and we should at least get a well educated workforce out of it.

The thousand year old college system’s time is over if what you say is true. There’s no point to it.
Mathematician here. For me, writing in latex is the lowest possible barrier to making a document, because I write all my documents in latex. Professors get free and easy static webspace, fancier web services are a headache. It's not a statement. It's the familiar and accessible technology.
It feels like it would snap under its own weight well before that, though, unless it was suspended from multiple points.
That is something I’ve never encountered anywhere except bridges. Just because there’s no road there doesn’t mean you can’t walk (unless the space next to the road is air/water).
They are referring to crossing these thresholds (from Fed 87-118):

> EPA’s health advisories, which identify the
concentration of chemicals in drinking
water at or below which adverse health
effects are not anticipated to occur, are:
0.004 parts per trillion (ppt) for PFOA,
0.02 ppt for PFOS, 10 ppt for GenX
chemicals, and 2,000 ppt for PFBS.
Health advisories are non-regulatory
and reflect EPA’s assessment of the best
available peer-reviewed science.

0.004 ppt is also more commonly known as the number zero. It's probably just the currently best limit of detection for PFOA in water.
Meet is annoying because I have to remember to sign out or open them in a private window if I don't want to leak details associated with the current gmail account logged in.
Gotta have time and/or money and then naturally further support in terms of other people to pull that kind of innovation off.
The nonstick pans today still have PFAS. They removed PFOA but there are hundreds of similar chemicals that they can use instead, which reason would dictate are just as toxic but which so happen to have not been safety tested yet
Doing a PhD is a bit like doing a startup, in the way that you can work on something for years and produce nothing of value. This is way more stressful than regular job where your effort is validated every month with a paycheck. Many people are not built for this level of stress and uncertainty, but they're too young when they join the PhD program to know that about themselves yet.
In that case we shipped literal dirt around the world so that he could put it in his garden. Is that any less absurd?
It is not silly, depending on what one does with it. This is a bit linger than you may expect, but I do take this topic quite seriously and wish more people would.

I have a specific set of criteria for how I evaluate media[0]

The two sides problem is chronic.[1]

I compare their mission statement and other branding type information to their output and if there is solid alignment, I can have some degree of confidence they are honest in their bias.

They are left, but are independent in terms of media consolidation. Most orgs are owned by a handful of people, and they have many conflicts of interest.[2] That kind of thing also generally leads to poor alignment between their output and their stated biases.

In media, bias is OK. In fact, it is the norm. Nobody, and I literally mean nobody produces objective material. To do that requires very significant time, people and resources. Does not ever happen on a news cycle.

The best way I know to deal with that is to accept bias and see whether a given org is honest about their bias.

This group is. That helps me know what I am getting.

[0] Evaluating media

There is always bias. Question is whether a media entity is honest about it.

Next up is clarity. Are fact and opinion clearly differentiated? If yes, then one can get informed and also consider their take on what facts may mean.

Do they publish retractions, errors and the like? If so, then I have some greater basis for using them to be informed.

[1] I use these criteria because of the two sides problem:

There are facts and there is what people think they mean. High clarity media makes it easy to discern and get informed while also taking their point of view as one of many out there.

Many media orgs lean on two sides and claim objectivity or neutrality. Both of these are a disservice and should be discouraged and for damn sure anyone leaning this way is bot authoritative.

Two sides does the most harm when it is used to manufacture controversy and or limit the scope of discussion.

The manufacturing of controversy generally includes putting an expert and a blathering drivel expert together for a "you decide" type presentation. I need not say more.

The more subtle harm is the idea of there being only two sides when the reality is far more diverse. Many points of view are marginalized away when we need them the most!

Clarity helps a lot when one is looking to reason about some facts. A diverse set of opinion can help to formulate our own take.

[2] Conflicts of interest

A great example can be seen in the near complete lack of news presented from a labor point of view. We just do not do that inbthe USA. We used to.

When I was a kid, primary school education included identifying what point of view a news item was written from. Labor vs corporatists or back then, big business or management were used.

As time passed, labor news evaporated as media consolidation happened.

Indie orgs are the primary source for that today, and that is part of why this org is worthy of consideration. And definitely does not merit being incorrectly labeled as right wing.
probably the main negative consequence of any real estate regime change would be the destruction of incredible amounts of (paper) wealth. if you're going to reduce the market price of real estate, you're going to devalue one of the most foundational assets in the economy.

but, that's the point. you can't reduce real estate prices without reducing real estate prices.
I was commenting on monthly cost. Upfront cost for owning is much higher. Compare a mortgage down payment to a rental deposit.

How much more expensive proportionally matters; it should be up for discussion democratically.

To own property is to accept responsibility for the land, architecture, and legal liability. If you abdicate that responsibility to another party you should pay for a service; and the bar should be high for the standards of that service.
> because their anti-nuclear environmental groups were actually being funded by Russia behind the scenes.

Every competing energy source lobby is probably trying to stack the chances against each other, but the activists were not by and large funded by Russia.

> These people said if Europe just paid a bunch of money for Russian energy they'd obviously never attack them.

You can't expect any party to hold still forever. If you provoke your partner long enough they might react at some point. In the long-term that is basically a guarantee.
> Funnily enough, on Windows their new Terminal supports it also if you dig in the settings a bit.

Can you permanently resize it? Last I tried it, it was slow and I didn't see how to make it fullscreen or behave predictably on multimonitor setups, so I couldn't actually use it.
What is the opposite side?
If you are residing on your property rather than subdividing it and making it available up people who can't afford to buy you should pay way higher taxes, maybe 4x. Rental availability would explode and that would be the point.
Then you get a bunch of defaulted and abandoned properties. Cities often have a ton of property that nobody wants and sit on it for decades, and they make a bunch of weird rules that keep people from doing anything useful with the property once they do want it.

The value of the properties would just drop to 0 and you'd get nothing in taxes for it.
Thanks.

The postgres variables are sourced in the line above I use them, they will always be set. It's a hard requirement of the Docker postgres image. I did end up pushing up the nounset change and it didn't complain about it since it's set from being sourced.
>Well I’m not aware of them happening “much less” just that there are less categories of bugs. We will of course rarely have software written with and without GC so it’s not an answer we will find.

I would say your very inexperienced then. "Much less" is very obvious. Simply forgetting a delete operator or free in manual allocation leads to a memory leak.

It is also proveable. Error surface area is smaller. delete and free don't exist in languages that exclusively use the GC for freeing memory thus you cannot "forget" to use those functions and thus error surface area is smaller, thus it must happen less frequently.

>Memory leaks happen very frequently in managed languages e.g., http://ithare.com/java-vs-c-trading-ub-for-semantic-memory-l...

It happens but not frequently at all. I'm sorry. If you did manual memory management you would know this.
Related, in June 2022, the EPA changed its guidelines, which is directly triggering this news cycle about all water being unsafe to drink.

In other words, the sky is not falling, we've just adjusted the definition of where the sky starts.

https://www.epa.gov/sdwa/drinking-water-health-advisories-pf...
> Sad to see small browsers go.

I still miss Arena and Chimera...
Why the hell does Zoom require root access to begin with? I used to work on a competitor and while it would have made some things easier we never found anything we wanted to do that was impossible without root permissions.
With replay-based saving, if you want to load a game that has 30 minutes worth of progress, you have to replay 30 minutes worth of gameplay! what a gigantic waste!

In other words, as usual it's all about tradeoffs.
If the research in PFAS is at all like the article posted yesterday which did multiple statistical tests without doing the appropriate correction, I am not convinced that PFAS are all that harmful.

Because PFAS are so widespread and they have been around so long, if they were really bad we would be seeing massive issues. However, we are not.

Likely they do cause some harm if you have enough statistical power, but likely below the threshold that we live with (for example birth control, going to the beach, driving a car, red meat, and maybe even cooking itself).
No prompts to ask for the root password though
Why haven’t we seen higher incidence of cancer in global populations if its leached into all global water supplies?
And still the current plan is for Germany to shut down its few remaining nuclear reactors by the end of the year, while the company/companies maintaining them are saying they can keep them running? Please stop the shutdown, ffs, are you insane?

Let's try to stop Germany from harming itself further via international pressure. Blame and shame. Call them idiots to their faces. Point fingers. They need to shocked.

The germans seem to need to need a healthy dose of sanity/science. Their politics have been hijacked by anti-nuclear anti-science activists for too long.

Their celebrated "Mittelstand" industry is no good if they can't provide basic functions such as electric power in a clean way, but then again I'm not really sure they care.
Why you wouldn't trust that site?
There's a lot to be said about Tokyo and how easy it is to get around on foot and live without a car. It's kind of a surreal dreamscape of unbroken high density urbanity that makes you rethink how large highly functional cities can be.

One of the challenges for seeing it on foot though is how effective the public transit is, especially the underground rail systems. You end up seeing islands around transit stations but not the stretches in between. It's totally worth it sometimes to skip the train and just walk the entire way as there's lots of interesting stuff in the "out of the way" bits of the city.
He posted a 35-minute followup:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07jEAaAj1VA
Overscoping doesn’t imply you’ll get stuck. It just implies you won’t finish it anytime soon, and probably will start something else at some point. When I started programming, I learned a ton from projects I never finished as originally intended.

The most important thing is choosing something to build that you are excited about. If that means overscoping, it’s still better than selecting a smaller project that however you find boring.
Compared to what?

There is violent crime in Berkeley that is above average for the USA as a whole. However, it has a significantly lower violent crime rate than, say, Dallas. (520 vs 814 per 100k)

The comment above you is confusing how they feel about violence with the actual facts about violence.
Don't forget that you are living in a democracy. If the tenants can make the rules they don't have to repeat history. However, as the zoning laws show, they are short-sighted, and most likely will repeat history.
Indeed and look above many just believe the catchy and misleading headline as truth. If it's not catchy the public doesn't care much for it yet when it is they do and are more then not they're being misled even lied too.
I don’t know how I’m supposed to feel anything but hopelessly depressed by the housing market.

My neighborhood consists of approximately 10% corporately owned rental homes purchased after the housing crash using money borrowed by said corporation for next to nothing.

These houses are now full of people such as myself who can’t afford to purchase homes, paying ever-increasing rents and never able to scrape together enough capital to buy anything of their own.

Sure looks to me like we’re reinventing feudalism, with serfs paying tribute to their investor lords.
Still easier:

(1) Pick a practical problem in physical science, engineering, medicine, some other field, e.g., ecology, or business, a problem not yet solved.

(2) Get a good solution to this practical problem, mostly using math, hopefully at least a little new math.

For publication, the math is supposed to be "new, correct, and significant" -- get the "significant" part from how much the math does for the practical problem. In medicine, your work might save thousands of lives. In business, your work might make/save millions of dollars. In ecology, you might help clean up a river.

(3) Surprising blunt academic fact of life: Academics is very short on money and understands clearly that very little of their new theoretical work has any near term practical value. So, academics understands that they are short on money mostly because their work is short on valuable, current applications. Indeed, the words and applications are commonly in the titles of journals. So, publish in such a journal.

Some high end universities say that the requirement for a Ph.D. dissertation is "an original contribution to knowledge worthy of publication" -- so, remove all doubt and publish your work.

Advisor? Show them the letter that your paper was accepted.

Done, fully, de facto, essentially, or nearly so.

Where to get the practical problem? Typically outside of a math department and maybe off campus.

For a job?

Long the main source of good jobs for a Ph.D. in math was US national security, heavily near DC. That may still be the case.

If you have any hope of a career that lets you be financially responsible, e.g., support a family and provide for retirement, stay away from academic careers.

Academics just quietly assumes that any recent Ph.D. is just obsessed with research, even apparently useless research, and will pursue it neglecting nearly everything else in life including being financially responsible.

Instead, go into business, e.g., start a business, own 100% of it, and make it successful. The business is likely a sole proprietorship and LLC (limited liability company).

In that business, maybe some math, new, or new to the field of the business, will be an advantage.

In particular, currently take advantage of the not fully exploited amazing technology of current computing and the Internet.
>No. Renters are paying for the value of the land and the improvements. If the rental price of the apartment is above that, they won't pay it and find another place.

Then why are investors a problem?
How do we determine the long term safety without first scaling it up? All of these things many seem innocent in a lab setting and it is only once they reach a critical point that the issues arise.
> If you are rent-seeking rather than residing on the property

For the 10000th time, this isn't what rent-seeking means.
I missed the "custom". Sorry about that.
Imagine if I told you there was an asteroid coming for Earth, and it's large enough that nothing can be done about it. Go back to your life. Relax. Don't think about it. One morning you will wake up and see a giant fireball in the sky, and then you will only have a few minutes to live. Or maybe you won't have a chance to wake up.

How does that work?
No she doesn't make millions. It's not her fault that now her house is 10x more valuable ( on the paper ). As long as she doesn't sell, rent somebody else she has no income. No income, no tax.

Simple as fuck logic. She bought the property, not a license there for living up to her ends.

The thing you are here presenting is a tax of not realized potential income. It's diabolical insane idea.

If we can do it for real estate, why not for cars, and any idea property?

You basically want people buy a license for living in their flats.

About basically nor useful, she earned the money, paid multiple taxes for this and she bought this from the real property dealer / construction company which hired many people for this.

Isn't this tangible contribution for society?

All because people like you flocked to her location for work what used to be peaceful, quite suburbs
Crap, I’d been thinking of going there ever since I arrived in Japan 9 years ago but never made it :/
Well more of Europe's Uranium comes from Russia than Germanys gas. It is not like Germany has vast Uranium reserves.

When the Green/Social Democrat coalition under Schröder decided on stopping nuclear the idea was to largely exchange that for renewables (and the German wind and solar industry was leading in the world at the time). This would have been a much bigger step toward energy independence. The coal, nuclear and gas lobby (note that they typically are the same lobbyists) strongly pushed to reverse that decision and the Conservative, free Liberal coalition under Merkel initially reversed the decision, but at the same time was generally pushing for the cheapest energy solutions, which was largely gas. The strong regulations put into place for wind and solar at the time largely destroyed Germanys wind and solar industry, because domestic demand Collapsed.

It is important to remember that Germany has still very strong manufacturing industries who hold a lot of sway over the government. When Fukushima happened public sentiment went strongly towards quiting nuclear again. There was not really much opposition from industry either, because nuclear was more expensive than gas so we saw an even stronger push toward gas.