skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can try to minimize it all you want, but indeed it would be transformative.

Somehow, when we build a $2 billion Central Subway in San Francisco, through some of the very densest neighborhoods in all of America, with a realized daily ridership of ~3,000, there are no jokes about how unimportant the train is compared to fertilizer.
> We should be able to get by, happily, on 2000 EJ per year sustained. By your figures, that's less than 1% of what the sun provides.

Then at that rate we'd have 100,000 years of Tidal energy available even if we used it for the totality of our energy needs (and 10,000,000 years if we use it for 1% of our needs as taken in the paper). And that was basically the point of the person you're responding to: it's not so much that tidal energy is non-renewable, the problem is that the paper assume exponential consumption growth, and exponential growth is unsustainable no matter what.
Apple released OS X/Darwin open source, but kept the moneymaking frameworks (cocoa, carbon) closed source. This generated positive PR while keeping the secret sauce needed to ship polished applications under lock and key

Google released Android open source, but then made unlocking bootloaders and flashing devices as difficult as possible for laymen. So they get to point at AOSP and say "open source" but in practice the vast majority of users end up running proprietary builds with big G's telemetry baked in
The difference is that wages have not kept up with inflation nor with productivity and house prices are much higher. And another big problem is that the whole thing was poorly managed. People built lives around low interest rates, and people that were responsible got screwed over. I don't see how we suddenly flip that. Expectations were not clearly communicated.

I often feel like a lot of social policy is simple as long as people understand the tradeoffs and everyone is on the same page. Unfortunately that has not been the case.
Dupe of this exact article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37281480

But repeats of the same basic story make it to the frontpage multiple times per month:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36857506

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35667547

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37006174

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35649281

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36871178

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35632233

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36083380

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36857208

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36114532

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36863095
This article is a lot of FUD. Look at this list and see how many devices have a date of 2030!

https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366
What does this mean? Anchovies are normal food sold at the supermarket.

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/306930957

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/310103367
I do indeed know the difference but was using the pun to make a point.
What calculations are you referring to?
I don’t think React is the final way to do web development but there are tangible benefits to a large community of users that aging competitors want to pretend don’t exist.

Just like there used to be a jQuery plugin for anything you wanted, there’s probably a similar React solution for anything you want. Outside of React or Vue you’re often reinventing a wheel. It’s doable but not productive.
In the US, where this company is located, software engineers are exempt from overtime rules.

The exception is supposed to be for workers that control their hours and managers who control others. Software engineers are explicit exception. The manager exception was cresting problems for low-salary managers so they added salary limit which are talking about increasing.
I meant you are welcome to join everyone else, not as in you should be thanking me. Sorry if that came across as patronizing, it wasn't meant to be.
On the topic of our commenting patterns here on HN, since you brought up mine... I just noticed that your account was created in 2017 but you have literally never commented anywhere, ever, nor submitted anything, before you came here to dunk on JeanHeyd. That's kinda odd. Not that it's wrong or invalidates what you're saying, I just found it strange.
I see...that makes sense. Thanks for explaining
They definitely could have more life than the duration of the ChromeOS updates. It's an arbitrary date, not performance-based at all.
In this thread: a ton of people with european work standards
This is a good point, actually I think schools should buy the leftover devices and then run linux on them so kids can be learning things like django at school.
Why would the information that Coca-Cola uses coca plants imply that they are a drug cartel?

They base their business off of the same plant as the drug cartels. They operate independently, and Coca-Cola isn't really going to do anything about the cartels. Or care what they do to coca farmers as long as they also get the part of the plant they care about. And since they don't need the cocaine, it's quite possible that Coca-Cola is made with the by-products of the cocaine extraction process.

Technically, we could have one without the other. Because each needs a part that the other does not. And I'm sure as long as it's cheap enough, Coca-Cola isn't going to question too hard about where its extract is source from.

And to be fair, Coca-Cola isn't above hiring paramilitaries to keep people in line.
Contamination of the marine environment by Antarctic research stations
You don't need Parallel corpora for all language pairs in a "predict the next token" LLM.

What I'm saying is that if an LLM is trained on English, French and Spanish and there is Eng to French data, you don't need Eng to Spa data to get Eng to Spa translations.
JSON never got new features. We just made new things around it.

Which is why it's amazing for data interchange and obnoxious to directly interact with by hand.
>And cherry picks data starting at 2013.

In their defense 10 years is a nice round number. Also, the text surrounding the chart says

>“There’s no place to hide from these severe natural disasters,” said David Sampson, president of the American Property Casualty Insurance Association. “They’re happening all over the country and so insurers are having to relook at their risk concentration.”

>That trend is too costly, insurers contend, and necessitates rewriting policies or eliminating coverages in growing geographic areas.

If change the window from 10 years to 15 or 20 years, the general impression is still the same: insurance losses are trending up, and the last few years are consistently high (as opposed to having one or two years of high payouts followed by periods of low payouts).
Had the exact same assumption, definitely still interested in something like that.
There's always a price where it makes sense to offer insurance. It's possible that nobody wants to pay that price, though.

Like in your example, if the annual premium is half the cost of rebuilding the house, it implies that the insurance company expects the house to get destroyed every 2 years (maybe a bit less because profit & overhead). The rational thing to do there isn't really to bank the premium into your rebuilding fund (unless you're really wealthy and really want to live there), it's to move. Continuing to stay in a house that gets destroyed every 2 years is what we consider an exercise in futility. And that's the situation that climate change puts us in: some areas that were previously populated are economically uninhabitable, because the cost of rebuilding so frequently becomes greater than the benefit of continuing to live there.

The issue with price restrictions is that in some places, the response to "it's becoming more expensive to keep rebuilding and insuring these places" has been "well, there should be a law to limit how much those greedy insurance companies can charge." And the predictable response to that is "if it costs me more in insurance payouts than we can charge in premiums, we are just going to stop doing business in this state." And so even homeowners that would've been willing to pay the higher premiums simply can't get insurance.
> no inherent reason it must be a profit-making business

Insurance is an extremely demanding business. This isn’t something you can throw commodity drones at. If you’re willing to create a coöperative job that pays millions to its actuaries and risk managers, fine. Most don’t. Hence why a profit-based model works: it can incentivise the people that are needed for it to work in the long run to do the job. (In the short run, anyone can run a sloppy insurance operation.)
In my experience it’s easiest just to break the xref table and run something like “mutool clean” to fix it again. It can be completely derived from the content so it’s safe to do.
Why THP is bad for beer and what you can do about it
"it just seems that drivers believe wrapping themselves in tons of metal gives them the right to bully and brutalise other road users with impunity."

It seems that way to people projecting their hysterical delusions on everyone else.

And, again, we all know that modern roads are for vehicles and not PEDESTRIANS, (since you pretend to need it spelled out). That's why we have sidewalks.
I would be interested in knowing about other cultures where pereptual and permanent multi-generational enslavement was a thing. Not saying it wasn't I am just not as informed as I should be on the topic.

Context is critical. If you raid an enemy people and enslave them because they are your enemy for whatever reason, that is different than justifying slavery because the enslaved are essentially beasts of burden like donkeys and farm animals.

I don't think colonialism or slave trade was special beyond the racial aspect of it. If england was invading everyone, including the french, arabs,etc... to enslave and colonise them, that would make them comparable to the mongols. It's not like genghis skipped asia because he only thought non-asians as inferior enough.

My firm belief is that the colonised failed to protect their nations using a strong military (as they continue to do so even today!) but slavery cannot be justified outside of an immediate loss in war or repayment to debt in a historical context (things are different now). For a human to be considered a human by definition is a human right. And I can't imagine anything more fundamentally unjust than to be punished simply because you exist. These two things transcend cultures and societies and it is their violation that is the shame of europe. It was the same violation the nazis and fascists repeated and continue to repeat today. Britain didn't need to give up her empire after WW2, it was won as fair as conquests go. The empire was lost because after WW2, they didn't like what they saw in the mirror looking too similar to who they spent millions of lives defeating.

It is in fact the lie of inherent european superiority that stood in the way of ultimate european world domination, instead of being proud of their achievements, those of old decided it was because of their natural ability instead of ingenuity and hard work that they accomplished so much.
There's goldmine of information on 4chan's niche boards as well. But people referring to "4chan" the website tend to talk about the wide strokes of communities.

It's the same with reddit. Sure, I do appreciate some small gaming communities that I can't find anywhere else, but it's not what the site cares about, nor what many people see when they go to reddit.com. You need to search for those communities,and they aren't guaranteed to be good. Or active for that matter.
That seems short to me. I build a new desktop approximately every 8 years and buy a new laptop every 5-6.
I guess I just question the naming. You have five levels of priority, but two are higher than "without delay"

It's sort of like "our amplifiers go to 11."
Really? All it took for me was to format `/dev/mmcblkp1` to use Fedora 38 exclusively.
If you need a demo day for your five-person team that works in person to identify that one of the four other people hasn't done any work over the last two weeks then something has gone very weird.
In Python: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17185348/how-to-get-avi-...
I owned a copy of this book. I tried a few lines of code but at that point in time it was too difficult for me to fully grasp it. I was still programming in basic at the time and the leap to a different language was too big. I do regret throwing it away...
That’s not my position at all

Its “is this the least worst solution, or the most best, and why?”

if you cant engage you have the same choice
My (very limited, admittedly) observation is that people who own multiple properties do not panic-react to the market changes. A great example of that is London, where a vast number of houses and flats are unoccupied and that doesn't seem to bother the very affluent class owning the properties.
My local store was £2.50 a night in the early 1990s. That’s £6 a night today. By the late 90s it was £3.50, about £7.50 a night today.
Most other laptops, even low end ones, can have new life breathed into them as laptops with a lightweight Linux distribution or even take on entirely new uses like a Plex/Kodi box or retro emulator box hooked up to the TV, power efficient file server, smart home control hub, etc — basically anything one might use a Pi for, an old laptop can do just as well or better.

This is impractical on most Chromebooks because of how locked into Chrome OS they are. They're more like cheap Android phones with locked bootloaders than they are proper laptops.
Yeah, Aum borrowed a tiny (tiny) bit from Revelations, but it was overwhelmingly Buddhist rather than Christian. Their killing was initially justified through a corruption of the concept of phowa. "You will become enlightened through death."
There’s should also be a tribble in there, somewhere.
Okay, then I suppose no one wants to reinsure the California Earthquake Authority as their condo unit policy only covers up to $100k and everyone else seems to flat out refuse earthquake coverage for a large building.
Great. Stick to the ancient roads while you're walking, and you should be fine.
> end up loosing money in the sate of California for example?

the home insurance industry in California changed dramatically with the 2017 summer fire season. The numbers are about "billion" in claims. (edit) substantial destruction of buildings of a major city Santa Rosa. At the same time, price escalation of homes was in full swing. Some houses experience a paper-value growth of more than ten percent a year, on top of high prices. The combination is fatal to the stable insurance industry.

No party is innocent on this.. all players are aggressively padding their positions adversarially, including local government. Less than half the burned homes were rebuilt, four years later IIR.

ps- a recent study claims that about fifteen percent of residential homes are under extreme fire risk in California now, out of maybe 1.5 million structures... roughly, depending on definitions.
Game over for the Amiga happened in 1994 when Commodore went bankrupt.

Quite a few Amiga owners didn't switch away until Windows XP came out.
Vscode packaging as/is famously not public. Plus, trust to do what exactly? Come with telemetry flipped on?
Of course there is a better interviewing process that we know of. The US military has been using it for like a century.
It's not uncommon to visit tourist-magnet cities and see entire buildings with only a few lights on, as many units are owned by the wealthy and left empty, as rents are not as important as having a safe place to "park surplus capital." Thousands of other units have been pulled from the long-term rental market to reap the higher returns of STVRs [short term vacation rentals].

In NYC, another sign of STVR buildings are lockboxes chained to metal railings outside.

Starting tomorrow (September 5) such rentals are supposed to follow very strict new rules introduced by the Adams administration including hosts required to live in the same unit and reservation caps of no more than 2 people. Whole apartment rentals are banned unless the term is longer than 30 days.

https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/8/15/23832212/how-new-airbnb-re...
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/HEAD/wri...

Chromebooks are among the better-documented and more open hardware platforms. The document above indicates how to disable firmware write protection both within and without the operating system.

It also includes this quote:

> Since the start of the project, the Chrome OS team strongly believes that when someone buys a device, they own it fully. ... To that end, we strongly believe that users must be free to fully program their device in any way they want.

Can you point to any ChromeOS devices that have violated this principle?
with the caveat that we don't know what the bottom blue line looks like to date, from your nominal/nominal chart being in a bubble seems pretty plausible (assuming we call the 2006-2008 deflection a bubble)
Woefully incomplete. search for "ping pong" + major city for better data...
Its just a random assortment of possibilities to demonstrate that Jitsi’s is a false dilemma

people pretending that the only people that can question one solution must also be the person to have the other solution
that's likely larger and more mature presorted units. Salmon can eat smaller ones. You can tell from the price that those cost more than actual salmon.

I am not expert, I am just speculating that if you dig into details, picture can be very different.
But what about your property value? What about your net worth? Or are you one of those radicals who own a home to —*shudders*— live in it, rather than for its natural purpose as a financial investment?
Me neither, but this notion was introduced by the prompt writer, not the chatbot.
> But my point is, running ond old HW is probably counterproductive if you only value ecology.

Do you have a calculation for that? It's not entirely clear that this is the case if you factor in that the old hardware already exists and new hardware needs to be produced.
>What changes is a return to the old world where you can't put in one site to get it all anymore.

I personally desire that. You'd think all these fallouts of various social media would be a grim reminder of that cost of convenience, but alas.

So inevitably, people who like reddit want another reddit, and they will fall back into the same pitfalls if/when a better replacement comes.
I don't remember hearing anything about Cochrane in mainstream news until they put out an unfavorable review on the effectiveness of mask usage during covid 19.
I don't know about the good deal but the e-waste part was clear from the beginning. No surprise. It's written on the package.

For this reason, and the part where the children's privacy is sold to Google, and the part where the children are taught to rely on someone else's computer (in particular big US corps), and the part where the pupils need to agree to some private corp's ToS for what is mandatory and public, schools should never have signed for this. No, it was not a good deal.
You might be correct, but that article doesn't support your claim. The article says 86% of claims were closed, of that 86%, 70% received payment, 30% were closed without payment. Maybe that 30% were screwed, maybe they weren't actually covered, maybe they were below their deductible. The article doesn't have an answer.
I guess I should qualify it by saying "Domain Specific Language" instead of "language". Newer programming languages are different because they have a huge body of extremely clever people working on it making sure it's up to standard. DSLs do not reach the same amount of rigor, they're just there. Some parsers loosely thrown together. Where's the documentation? The specification? The language servers, the editor support? None. Don't invent your own DSL (other than for yourself).
Without posting the details, was 13% that your parents paid a significant chunk of their joint earnings? This is the more important aspect of the current situation, not the percentage number itself.
This seems to be missing an important step in the use of qpdf’s --qdf mode: after you’ve finished editing, you need to run the file through the fix-pdf utility to recalculate all the object offsets and rebuild the cross-reference table that lives at the end of the file (unless you only change bytes in-place rather than adding or removing bytes).

My top 3 fun PDF facts:

1) Although PDF documents are typically 8-bit binary files, you can make one that is valid UTF-8 “plain text”, even including images, through the use of the ASCII85 filter.[0]

2) PDF allows an incredible variety of freaky features (3D objects, JavaScript, movies in an embedded flash object, invisible annotations…). PDF/A is a much saner, safer subset.

3) The PDF spec allows you to write widgets (e.g. form controls) using “rich text”, which is a subset of XHTML and CSS - but this feature is very sparsely supported outside the official Adobe Reader.

[0] For example: https://lab6.com/2
This smells a lot like when crypto people say their markets will affect greater financial markets. The scale is just not there.
Kids have a lot of other important things to learn first. But perhaps for some high school elective.

One can run ChromeOS on old, used devices. They won't have quite the same security, but are a lot better than nothing.
>> This RustConf fiasco is certainly not an instance of [his tendency to take any criticism to his work, and his technical opinions [as] meritless and [his] history of implying that there's bigotry, and that objection is the same as obstruction]

> It absolutely is

This is you claiming that "this rust debacle was precipitated by this trait of his."

Even if you're walking that back, you could've linked to anything which shows that "this trait of his" is anything more than your assertions. You haven't.

Also, I haven't claimed that anyone has been sabotaging his work.

Goodbye.
While this is true, a lot of economists build their models assuming unlimited exponential growth. It does seem that we're going to hit a brick wall in growth in a few hundred years if that doesn't stop. There seems to be some idea that we can continue exponential growth if we can just figure out renewable energy and we can't. There is _no such thing_ as renewable energy in a regime with unlimited exponential economic growth.
As I recall, words aren’t even necessarily made up of contiguous characters. Especially true in OCRed documents in PDF.
> - Dependency injection - not sure what it is exactly as I'm not familiar with Vue, but I don't think Svelte has a concept like this

It's poorly named (holdover from earlier version of vue when svelte didnt exist and react didn't have contexts), but it's basically React/Svelte context API for passing data to children further down the tree instead of passing them through props or through a separate state management solution (e.g. vuex/redux).

There's some nuance, but roughly:

- getContext = provide

- setContext = inject
The article isn't a WaPo assessment of the causes of the increases - it's relaying statements and changes made by participating insurance carriers.

"At least five large U.S. property insurers...have told regulators that extreme weather patterns caused by climate change have led them to stop writing coverages in some regions."
Better than making your own syntax for a declarative system, that now needs custom tools.

I'd prefer it to lisp, and to JSON if I have to hand read or write it.

What's the alternative, besides specifying your declarative stuff inside something like Python?
To be fair, if you wanted to stop copying of text it would be easiest just to drop the ToUnicode mapping against the fonts and then it’s a manual process for people to recreate them.