skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in Taiwan, we also offer free Wi-Fi access across the High Speed Rails system (~180mph, ~200 miles of coverage), reliable enough even in tunnels, as of this year.
But not so much for breathalyzers...
Thanks for cluing me in on that. There's no point in arguing with an ideologue.
Thank you. Though, I wasn't implying these bandages have spit in them.
The fact that creating a middle class improves one's business in no way changes the fact that it was done on purpose and was not some weird freak accident.
> in the hypothetical self-driving future

In suburbia/regional areas certainly, but most large cities are already heavily congested, how many more people could possibly fit in peak hours? As optimised as we can make it, there's still a predictable one-directional crush every day.

The real optimisation of roads would be incentivising companies to make their employees start/finish outside of work hours.

A self-driving future will likely still heavily involve public transport in the short term at least.

Hopefully fully autonomous vehicles will get far smaller, travelling pods which are both cheap to buy and maintain, much like a motorbike but without the downsides that turn most people off.

Smaller vehicles, especially trucks will quickly be needed to reduce road wear and offset the likely cost of greater road usage. Smaller personal transportation would also be a boon to road efficiency.
This article, its headline and its use of statistics is stupid and doesn't deserve a place on HN.

It's a bunch of poorly analyzed and disjointed statistics.

They mention the hourly rate for actors, but don't talk about average yearly earning per actor for acting. I doubt most actors work full time as an actor and most aspiring actors certainly have other jobs.

They talk about the advertising revenue per year for the top 3% of channels, but don't consider the amount of time put in by the creators per channel. What percentage of that top 3% are full time compared to the bottom 97%?

The only actually interesting statistic in the whole article "In 2006 the top 3 percent accounted for 63 percent of all views. Ten years later, the top YouTubers received 9 in every 10 views, he found." completely fails to account for the factors that might be driving this change besides "it's getting harder to make it on youtube". How many of that bottom 97% are active channels still producing content? Does the top 3% of channels actually produce 90% of the videos on youtube?
I don't really follow what message you're trying to convey, but it sounds a lot like that you're starting the problem is with the demand for real estate in Silicon Valley, not the supply.

This isn't the case. Silicon Valley, Seattle, etc. are just on the leading edge of a larger tend towards greater urbanization. It's a pattern that's also happening in Austin, Portland, and more cities just to less extreme degrees. The simple fact is that in a developed country dense population centers are more efficient - both economically and environmentally.
That's the biggest load of bull I've heard. (From the power companies.) They need to invest in batteries and diesels, not tell us what to do.

Diesels are the industry term for small generators that can start within a few seconds during high load. They can run on diesel or natural gas.
"Intent" has a long history in case law and it requires proving a state of mind. Negligence would handle the case where a person "didn't do enough" but didn't intend the outcome.
We can readily quantify how 'perfectly good' incandescent bulbs are no longer perfectly good in terms of energy consumption costs, to which you might also factor the environmental and health impacts of consuming more energy than you could be.

But quantifying the wastefulness of prematurely sending them to the landfill is much more difficult. We can suggest that LEDs longer expected lifetime is another benefit to the environment but that is equally challenging to quantify for the premature replacement scenario.
Atlantic Broadband offers them as set-top boxes to customers.
> "Yes, Google has a data center, but it's in Council Bluffs. Have you ever even heard of Council Bluffs before that?"

Most people working for Google in Council Bluffs probably live in or spend their time in Omaha, which isn't that bad of a city.
I believe it will :)
I was also a long time TiVo user (3 units in 3 rooms for about 10 years) and gave up on them this year. Now I'm just using YouTube TV which has an unlimited DVR, and with a couple Chromecast and Roku devices under displays now, I don't miss it one bit. I get access to everything I need, anywhere I am, and don't have to clean up the disk constantly or pay extra on top of the TV service.
Indeed, thanks for posting this. I’m concerned that, while well-intentioned, the bill may not help.
But doesn't the rest of the universe speed up to such an extent that billions of years pass (our frame of reference) before you cross the event horizon? It would just pass extremely quickly (from your frame of reference).
So hook up an arduino on USB (or 10 of them) and have all the GPIO you could possibly want. They're less expensive than a good USB cable, which also means that if you make mistakes you blow up a $2 arduino rather than even a very cheap $200 pc (or even a $50 rPi)
Don’t listen to the people that say “Ugh, not another notes/docs app”. They way you’re thinking about the problem and how you’re solving it, I believe, are right. Your product reminds me a lot of Quip... which Salesforce bought for ~$750M.
An unsubstantiated claim doesn't require a well researched counter. The suggestion to do research is just that a suggestion. I find that when dealing with posts written by people who are uninformed or have the intention of misinformation that it is important to point out that the issue is contested. If someone is lying then a bit of research will prove that and we can all be in agreement. If the subject isn't worth bothering with then my accusation surely can't be bothered with either.
The "social contracts" in european nations reflect those societies as does lack of one in the US. The author for some reaso correlates the opiod crisis even though he admits there has never been such a "social contract" in the history of the U.S.

Moreover,he lumps "strongmen" with "self-help" and religion with no obvious relation other than people "turn" to them. And generalizes by saying being "joel osteen enough" is what conservatives mean when speaking of family values.

This is how democracy works,americans simply don't have the same beliefs and world views as swedes or portugese.

No strings attached housing for homeless people is cheaper than leaving them on the streets. Treating drugs as a disease instead of a crime is cheaper. Earlier retirement of elders allows younger workers with more relevant skills to join the work force. A more humane prison system would result in less prisoners (cheaper). So,are americans simply unaware of this? Nope.

"Americans" are a diverse group of people with a diverse set of social divisions and conflicts. They simply don't think "free housing" or most anything "free" is a good idea even if free is cheaper than what we have now. Why should a criminal get treated better? Why can't homeless peoole get a low paying job just like immigrants? Etc.... That's how americans see these issues.

The homeless,poor,under privledged are "them" in the eyes of the american popular majority. In western europe,those people are "us" or "our people".

America spends 20% of it's gdp on the military. Yet spend a bit more to solve these societal issues and all the powerful (typically older) people would say "not with my tax money".

That being said,why is everyone so pessimistic? We know these problems. It might take a decade or more for the demographics to shift enough to where we can fix these issues but why panic?

Essentially, America needs to be united. Neither the leaders nor the population seem to have a strong interest in being united,this by itself is the equivalent of having a terminal brain tumor!
Breathalyzers will tell you what's up right on the spot, unless you've come across some that require the cops to collect a jar of your breath for processing at some remote discrete location?
Hope this tool could help you at some future time :)
Why do you value democracy? My answer would be because democracy realizes liberal* ideas in a political process. But if liberal processes lead to illiberal outcomes, what do you do? I don't think you can argue that the past ~40 years of housing policy in California have produced liberal outcomes - there's been an immense concentration of wealth, particularly in property, displacement of underprivileged communities, exorbitant housing costs for many people, and hugely negative environmental impacts.

I'm willing to sacrifice liberal processes to get liberal outcomes. To somewhat invert the meaning of an aphorism, the means do not justify the ends.

* to be clear, we're talking about small-l liberal here, not "liberal" as in "left of center" as it is frequently (mis)used.
Marxism and Stalinism are different things.
I would love a feature phone with Facebook Messenger, rudimentary Google Maps, and no other features.

Honestly, if there's one that works I'd buy it tonight.
Thanks for your appreciation :)))
The first car I owned was a 1987 Oldsmobile "Delta 88".
Two wolves and one sheep can also have a vote about what's for dinner and the outcome be democratic.

I don't know why people in San Diego or NorCal should have a vote about what happens with respect to zoning in Palo Alto or Mountain View. Why not let people in Butte, Montana put in their vote as well?
It's too bad they didn't adequately consider the privacy backlash in the first place, but at least Microsoft is taking some steps in the right direction.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/5/15188636/microsoft-windows...
https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/24/16927056/microsoft-window...
Throughout the article, "knowledge" should be in quotes and link to an Urban Dictionary definition.
Classic off-by-one error.
Anyone care to explain what this is and why it's significant? Don't know much about hardware.
Three iterations of time:
Thanks for posting this. Very excited to check it out.
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It closed a loophole where Prop 13 (and other tax-restricting props) could be circumvented by introducing new taxes with slightly different names.

It is still circumvented (Mello-Roos, special assessments, bond measures which shift the bond payments to a special tax that acts as a property taxes, but is not called one, versus servicing payments through property taxes revenue) but through well-defined legislative routes versus political backrooms.

The broader goal was to limit the maintenance costs.

Areas with no new residential construction and no changes in ownership would experience predictable rise in maintenance expenses. Areas with high growth will have modern-day assessments and be able to operate at higher budgets necessary for higher growth.

It's the case with any other industry that has cost-of-living adjustments. Why shouldn't it be the case with public finance?
Accused of spending 100k, mostly after nov 7th. Compared to h spending 1.2 b. Or the rest of media. Never mind that Asante posted on American bots trying to create consensus.
My personal experience with licking my wounds, after two decades under the assumption that it would help: it gets infected and then scars badly. N = 1, but admittedly a very pertinent sample, at least for me :p
There is an “or” not an “and” between these two clauses. It applies if you offer any goods or service, OR monitor behaviour inside the EU.

It is interesting that the monitoring clause only applied if the subject is inside the EU when the monitoring is done, while the service or goods clause applies if the person is inside the EU with no requirement that the service or good was acquire or used within the EU. I can’t really think of any logical reason for this distinction. The “takes place within the Union” for one and not the other is strange.
I can imagine some conflation happening in the 1930s, but at least today, there's a stark differentiation between Stalinism and Marxism. 18% of social scientists do not identify as Stalinists.
my goal for this year is to stay more active during work. I'm your typical American working in small cubicle 8 hours a day in a boring looking office. Soon January I started doing push ups 6 times during my work day. I start a set number so, for example 4. And set I add one. So first set is 4 and last set of the day is 10. Once I'm comfortable doing 9. Then I add one to my starting point. So start 5 and then end at 10. It has been now nearly two months and I am starting at 10 and ending at 15. That adds up to 75 push ups in one day. It's incredible but I couldn't do more than 4 when I first started and now I can do 15 at once.

Next month I plan to add one other excersise. Either squats or crunches.
Yes I agree. Just as there is a difference between theory and practice. Marxism is to Stalinism as theory is to practice.
In case WaPo won't show you the page, here is the same story from the Weather Network:

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/articles/arctic-storm...
Assuming a normal electric consumption, an off grid solar system costs $30-40k more than grid tied. Furthermore, the batteries won't last forever. (That's assuming electric cars, heat pump, basically an all electric household.)

You gotta be far in the woods to save money!
That's right. Especially for doing animations. There will be a lot of additional tracking work even though those operations have been tracked. Performace issue will be a challenge future work
There's a word for that: shitty.
Nah, 88 is Radium
I know that for myself and many others I know, it is California's weather, nature, and ocean that drew us there. Nowhere else in the continental US can you have great year round weather.
With 10000 baby boomers turning 65 every day, a butt wiping robot might be very successful.
I agree there’s the potential for a greater audience based on the content, but the audience is an equally important factor. I suspect the vast majority of this creator’s audience is in India - how is the Patreon adoption there? What brands are looking to connect with home cooks of the suncontinent? I don’t know, I’m way outside the market. It might be the case that YouTube ads are her most solid and repeatable opportunity.

But I do hope for her sake that she finds as much success as possible.
Sealioning
I thought the slogan is older than that though. Sounds pretty puritan over all.
As I commented in other thread, your argument about people having all they need could be re-phrased as a "lack of innovation".

Last thing we have invented which consume electricity is home PC. And it was 40 years ago. Without this invention we probably observed the declining demand much sooner, but hey, large monitor and good graphic card and latest 3D shooter, this stuff rocks. But before we invented home PC, people "had everything they need", they were just unaware of 3D shooters, and your argument was as valid as today.

For the last 20-30 years we had no other inventions which can convert electricity into value. And older inventions, such as fridges, got more efficient.
That article literally gets supply and demand wrong...
Doubling down on open
Why would you put an official company announcement on a medium.com domain? Is there any way to verify that the person/blog is who they say they are?
My thought on this is say there is a network of 1 million peers. You join the network and post in the chat with a signed message. Now there are 1 million clients who want to verify that message and hit you up for your key at the same time. I could see that effectively turning into a DDoS, especially for people on slower connections. Haven't tested it though, so I could be making a wrong assumption.
And that does what for a wife, the kids, visiting parents, etc?
This is a cool hack. Our project (Stopify.org) can do this transformation on source JS programs and automatically give you heap bounded stacks transparently.

A cool result of doing this in JavaScript is that any language that compiles to JavaScript (python, ocaml, Scala, c++, clojure...) can transparently get heap bounded stacks by just using our compiler.

For some more examples, look at pyret (pyret.org) that also supports heap bounded stacks. (In fact, we were able to strip out the Pyret compiler and just use Stopify to get all these benefits)
as my dentist said when I asked him about is there any thing to heal them - he replied well they can take either a week or 7 days to heal. He's a funny guy.
And as always with posts on Russian interference, an immediate comment a few minutes later denying and whatabouting any activity. HN is within the sights of the disinformation machine.
Really thanks for your information, its helpful! I wiil think more about it if there is any possibility to overcome this limitation
How does that article in any way compare in rigor to the most famous paper on the US housing crises?
The site is as beautiful as it is functional.

In addition I really need to learn to do responsive CSS better. Just made my first responsive Vue app. The CSS was the hardest part of the whole project.
Transit-oriented development is great but not quite radical enough. It’s usually focused at rail nodes and if you take Oakland, as an example, you would barely move the needle on housing supply. One problem is that there is already some dense housing around these, and other nodes, in the Bay Area. The other is that these locations can only accommodate so much of the area’s housing supply. To address the housing crunch, there needs to be ubiquitous up-zoning of any — no EVERY — parcel, in any zoning category — by right. What that means is if you own a burger stand by the lake (using Oakland as an example again) and that burger stand is a one-story building with a big lot out front that is 90-percent empty virtually 100% of the time (if my memory serves me correctly) and you want to sell your lot to me and I can justify 50 units based on precedent of adjacency alone, then I should be able to supply those 50 dwelling units (60 with an affordable density bonus, 150 with a high rise even) and not have to litigate the local NIMBYISM for 5 years to do it. The cost of land in Oakland (my example again) is not that high on a per-unit, land basis cost. The issue is that people will come out of the woodwork (read: other parts of the Bay) to fight you and then the cost to litigate, the time value of money and the entitlement fees kill the desire to even start a project. If you could up-zone every single family lot to 3-flats, you could dramatically increase supply. Hell, you can focus on just one and two-story neighborhood commercial and rapidly decrease price pressure. And SV is not approaching $1500/sf without all the barriers to redevelopment of underutilized land (parking lots or otherwise).

To be fair, not everyone wants Manhattan so density, and even change, can be terrifying. But, to be fair, there were special and specific circumstances that created Manhattan that just don’t exist in SV or Oakland. So, that fear may not be justified. Still, is a step in the right direction...
SV is not urban. It is sub-urban and that's the problem.
Breathalyzers are easily tampered with by police to provide false readings. One case of this in New Jersey could have potentially thrown out 20,000 DWI cases. But breathalyzer results in cases today are not thrown out after pointing this out.
Where are you getting the 100k number from? That wouldn't even cover a small misinformation campaign and they are also accused of executing multiple hacks. 100k wouldn't even cover the total cost of 1 hacker for 1 year. Would that 100k just be advertisement spending?
It appears "leaning forward" was not a great phrase to use. I meant to say it may force you to lean forward an additional amount into a bad position where you need to lean backwards to correct it. This is where hurting your back would occur.

I agree, front squats are great! But I personally feel squats do minimal to back muscles.
I sympathize with your lot Doreen. For a certain type of person who is unwilling to "play the game" society as it is architected means you do something you hate and keep your head above water or you follow your heart and drown a little bit more every day.

Thank you, though you are missing a key detail: this has been better for me than a corporate job. In spite of being dirt poor, I have been paying down debt instead of running it up.

Nonetheless, I continue to live hand to mouth due to larger forces beyond my control. This is the least worst thing I can arrange and it isn't sufficient.

I suspect this is true for many people. The good jobs are just not out there in abundance. This us not just a personal choice. Society is pushing people into such choices and then throwing up barriers to it leading to middle class stability.
> It's weird how people don't realize that the flyover states also have big, metropolitan cities.

Name one “big, metropolitan city” in something commonly portrayed as a “flyover state”.
More than 99% of the total lifecycle energy of a incandescent is in its use.

Let's just repeat that.

More than 99 percent of the total lifecycle energy of a typical incandescent bulb is in its use. That includes raw materials, manufacturing, and transport.

Source: https://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/10/f27/lca_factshee...
Ah their API is far more consistent than Azure. Azure has the worst API of all. But their services are much faster than AWS.

Aws is much more consistent if you know how to use one API then learning a new feature is simple because it’s more or less the same thing (only basing this on .NET and JavaScript SDKs)

Been on Aws for... 6 years now. I was an Azure insider for like 5 years till they discontinued the program and use it for contract work.

GCE I don’t have a lot of experience in but just try to Ensure I know what’s going on incase we need to switch one day or I move to new job.
Absolutely do it at least once but do not expect it to be super easy. Most years we average more climbing than Ride the Rockies and it's always 10 degrees hotter on the pavement than the air temp which will likely be in the 90F's. The great thing though, this is not a race, and there's lots of places to stop and relax along the way. You have all day to make it to the next overnight town. Many of us do a gravel route and end up in the same towns every evening as the main ride. Riding gravel is a really big deal here and this alternate route has caught on. The official ride now even includes an optional gravel loop on one day. Hope you make it some summer soon.
https://xkcd.com/538

All I want is my every day encryption to be a big enough pain in the butt to crack that the feds can't break it without spending a medium amount of money.

===Edit
HN: Apologies this was lost in my subtlety, but consider the game theory aspects. Your best bet is to _just enough_ of a pain in the butt it's difficult to reach you, but you certainly don't want to be singled out on a national stage either. Maybe I'm the only one that considers this angle?
#5 seems like the deal breaker to me for a lot of use cases. The average user is not nearly savvy enough to be trusted to secure their private keys. I can't count how many of my non-tech friends have been locked out of their email accounts or fallen prey to some kind of password fishing attack. With centralized solutions they still have a reasonable chance of getting their account or data back. With a blockchain they are screwed. For most consumers this will be more than enough to scare them off.
Can I Legally Use the “Fluent UI” or Ribbon Design?
Might be worth addressing both posters directly as the initial ideological hijack Tech-Noir was rebutting seems to have missed the point that neither sides of that flame-war belong on HN.
Great! And great job fielding these questions/comments.
Which monopoly are you thinking of that’s state mandated?