skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since at least 1975 when a federal law was passed making metric the “preferred” measurement system.

In the 80s I was doing metric conversions in years 4 or 5.
http://www.privacy-regulation.eu/en/recital-32-GDPR.htm

https://privacylawblog.fieldfisher.com/2016/the-ambiguity-of...
Not true. Direct quotes from the article:

Still, Ersek cautioned that the pilot may be too early on and “too small” to draw conclusions, as Western Union has only tested the cryptocurrency for transfers between two currencies—U.S. dollars and Mexican pesos—so far.

“I don’t want to kill it,” Ersek said of the partnership, adding that the Ripple team working with Western Union “are good people” who are “very innovative.”
I find talking to a machine uncomfortable and embarrassing, regardless of whether they work. I doubt I'm the only one who feels this way. Why can't I just turn a dial?
I picked up a Brother AirScouter 300C for similar purposes (assuming you're looking for a display that goes on your face). BHPhoto sells them. HDMI, 720P, USB powered, effective birth control.
Of course. Caves aren't designed by people for people, so there are surprises there.

I haven't thought that it's a big deal until actually having to lead into a pretty tight passage without prior information about it.
>started sharing your data with 3rd parties as an additional way to monetize.

Germany's national broadcaster Deutsche Welle produced an excellent documentary looking at the exact same scenario you described. [0]

It looked into the possibility of making short-haul transportation (focusing primarily on Hyperloop) virtually free with just one caveat: a precondition that users share all their private data that advertisers might find valuable -- free ride in exchange for ad-targetable data -- scary and intriguing at the same time.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER9vlfPSBa8
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The article promotes a more moderate Bitcoin Maximalism, that does not abolish "Smart Contracts" or the possibility of another chain overtaking Bitcoin e.g. in market cap.

For the first point there are more and more 2nd layer solutions building on bitcoin, like RSK, or Lightning, supported by many Maximalists.
In the end I would prefer using those solutions which have the most seemless integration with my store of value.

Now my store of value of choice should be that of everybody else, or else it would not be a good store of value. This leads to the case where another chain overtakes Bitcoin.

This is kind of alright with me, as long as that chain is a fork of Bitcoin or an Airdrop, and it should probably be a done deal, meaning a vast majority of the ecosystem supports it, even before it goes online. In every other case, e.g. Ethereum overtaking Bitcoin, I could not accept the new leader as a store of value easily, since it could be replaced again. Especially if the replaced asset would lose worth quickly. Exception of course is a possible but improbable unfixable technjcal failure.

It seems I am risking the predestination trap.
Sorry but when has this happened? Which government?
And I'm saying that the perception of a novel's 'goodness' depends a lot on its relevance. I'm not saying that you shouldn't read them, but rather that you should consider their relevance when you make your judgment call.
> Most users cannot distinguish when websites are hogging resources.

Of course they can. The user happily works on their computer. They open your site. Their browser (or entire computer) starts to lag shortly after. Doesn't take a genius to connect the dots, especially after this happening several times.

> Metrics like the first paint, first meaningful paint and time to interactive

Those are metrics for maximizing amount of people not closing your site immediately; not for minimizing the misery they have to suffer through.
Sorry if you get asked this a lot, but why Guix over Nix?
We shouldn't limit ourselves only to either staring at a wall or a tea slurping coworker. They both suck. There are other ways to set up an office like having a window for example.

For some reason the people higher up the chain don't work in cubes or open space. So they shouldn't tell us that these are the only options.
Are the armchair diving experts on YC News _really_ arguing over whether these divers are _brave_ or not?
"node" is initially blue, and then you do:

node = node.next = red_node

If assignments were right-to-left, the .next attribute would be set on the blue node.

If they were left-to-right, it would be added to the red node.

The AttributeError exception shows it is the latter order.
> is there a github repo of all companies:products:services and associated lobbyists who are advocating for the proposed EU copyright law?

I like the idea for the site, but might a wiki be better suited for this? I've noticed with some passing curiosity that git is being used increasingly for things that aren't exactly its forte. Maybe it's just the metaphorical hammer that make all problems look like nails?
Six off-the-grid stories that will inspire you to escape the rat race
Actually I fuzzily recall seeing homebrewed IMSI-catcher and IMSI-catcher-catcher projects.
Some big mainstream brands such as Volvo and Audi have introduced touch screen based UX. You need to use the screen even to operate HVAC. Range Rover Velar even has a touch screen in the steering wheel which changes according to the context.

But I do hope the manufacturers do realise that having touch screens only is incorrect and physical controls which can be operated by muscle memory are safer.
Sprawl taxes are badly needed for the environment. What needs to be financially incented is extremely dense urban population centers. As in Manhattan everywhere.

IIRC Japan has density patterns like this.

Basically, if an area adjacent to a high density population area wants to expand into the area, it accepts a very very high entry cost, either ongoing property tax or initial permit cost. That would force only very large and dense building development.

Transportation could be exempted as could parks and certain low income housing which is basically government controlled anyway at this point.

That might also incent vertical farms, although I haven't kept up with the viable economics of skyscraper-class vertical farming yet.

One of the primary challenges of modern environmentalism is just sprawl: people driving too far, people spreading out too much, people buying too big of houses that are energy inefficient, people buying yards that they use 1% of the time
Is that a guess? Greater demand -> better market value and greater trading volumes -> better liquidity because it requires less XRP to move x amount of money from A to B, and the market price is less likely to be affected by the move.

The majority of their XRP is in escrow contracts, so they physically can't flood the market with more than 1b a month.
What happens if 2 or more people send fund at around same time. Will it wait and spray one after another? suppose filling water takes time, it might spray non-stop if gets quite active with transfers :)
Visibility is basically zero, a remote operator wouldn't be able to see anything.
Both Uber and Lyft punt massive operating costs onto their semi-disposable drivers.
Wow I don’t even know where to begin with this. Perhaps the biggest flaw is confusing language with architecture. Twitters scaling issues had to do with non-trivial architecture issues that are much more widely understood now than they were a decade ago. It’s very easy to sit in your armchair now with your pipe and claim how bad their approach was, but the fact that you think it has to do with choice of language shows you aren’t as smart as you think you are. If Twitter has used 2006-era Java they likely would have moved too slow to even get traction and we’d never have heard of them. It’s a pleasant fantasy land to think you could survive early Twitter hypergrowth, but actually dealing with it is not simply a matter of correct up front planning.
> The restaurant starts getting a lot of unusual phone calls... An employee asks the man if he is Paul Denino. He says yes, but then explains that the callers are pranking him. He is live-streaming through the camera on the stick, and some of the thousands of people watching are trying to fuck with him. The calls grow more disturbing... The restaurant manager asks Denino to leave. Almost immediately, the restaurant’s rating on Yelp begins to plummet. Dozens of one-star reviews flood the page within seconds.

It's hard for me to see things like Ice Poseidon's stream as media or entertainment, really. If this is a predictable consequence of streaming which restaurant he's going to, then Denino is basically just ruining someone's day (and possibly much more) because he thinks he'll make money off of it. Nor is this anywhere near the bottom of the pile. Trollstation has picked up jail time over three different 'pranks' - a bomb threat, a fake armed robbery, and a fake kidnapping. Which puts "fire in a crowded theater" to shame, honestly - waving a fake gun around specifically to frighten people isn't even something that gets considered in most free speech debates, and rightly so. (I shudder to think how that prank might have ended in the US.)

My favorite example, though, is still RossCreations. Whose idea of a prank was... taking down stopsigns. Just that, going to an intersection and taking away stopsigns so maybe some people would get in a car accident. He was apparently charged with felony grand theft (stop signs aren't cheap), but I'm a bit surprised no one threw in a public endangerment charge alongside it.

I guess I don't understand how we got here. I know people doing stupid stuff and misjudging pranks is nothing new, this isn't a "kids these days" complaint, but where did people get the idea that "it's for my channel" changes the ethics or legality of things they know will go wrong?
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I wonder why we don't have a system where the norm is no property taxes on property that you designate as a personal residence which cannot be leased or otherwise monetized, and then a moderate property tax on properties beyond that. Ideally the goal of a property tax would be to discourage people from buying up immense amounts of land simply as a sort of naturally inflationary and stable wealth storage device, but as is the various rules seem to be really just all over the place.
Its a short book with a delicious twist at the end. I think the pay off was somewhere in the last 10% of the book.
You have to bare in mind that we - on HN - are inside a niche bubble and thus the kind of developers that read HN are very different to the kind of developers in many of the web shops outside of the big tech hubs like Silicon Valley and London. There are a hell of a lot of frontend devs who do still like to keep Javascript at arms length and a lot of "web developers" who are basically just Wordpress themers. I know this for a fact because I've worked with a great many of them before moving closer to London. These people are obviously still competent at what they do since not ever website nor development job requires "superstars" and the web framework - for all it's faults - offers a low enough barrier to entry that anyone can throw a page together. Including even those who don't do dev for a living. In fact one of the reasons the web took off was because of how easy it was for anyone to throw together a homepage.

Had Scheme been Netscapes scripting language instead of Javascript then I could easily see many of the less dedicated developers and hobbyists getting frustrated at S-expressions and such like. I mean I love functional programming but even I cannot deny that the learning curve is steeper and S-expressions are less readable (at least to an untrained eye) than Javascript is.

So my point was if Javascript didn't exist then I suspect there would be enough demand to either dumbdown / bastardise Scheme, or implement another scripting language which was more hobbyist friendly (also hence the VBScript quip).
27 Thought-Provoking Quotes to Push You Out of Your Comfort Zone
Pretty sure the "great productivity while WFH" is contingent on having a dedicated workspace (I mean, I guess it can be shared with other work-from-homers in the household, but it should be dedicated). Which isn't something everyone can afford. That's why, even as I advocate for WFH as the default, I think companies should still have offices where people can do their work if they need to.
This 100%

I was disappointed they didn't have photos of row after row of poorly maintained multi-million dollar single-story ranch houses in the Bay Area. My old neighborhood in Mountain View was filled with retirees who were paying next to nothing to stay in the houses they bought in the 60s and 70s. These were the same people who would regularly vote against new housing because it "harmed the quality of the neighborhood." Every time I walked to work, I day-dreamed of how many people could live close enough to walk to work if we could put a 10 story apartment building over each of those junky old Eichlers.
This is pretty awesome. I'm a big fan of both SVG animations and terminal recorders, so this is right up my alley. I previously built a small library called svganimator for creating smooth animations between static SVG images [1], used generated SVG animations to help design the Wayback Machine loading animation [2], and also put together a fairly comprehensive comparison of terminal recording solutions [3]. I'll need to update the comparisons to include termtosvg, I can't wait to try it out and see what the file sizes look like.

As others have mentioned, the major issue with SVG animations is that Microsoft doesn't plan to ever include support for them in Edge. This means that you either need to create fallbacks specifically for Microsoft browsers, or to disregard that portion of the market on your website. It's a real shame because SVG/SMIL allows you to create high quality animations which require a fraction of the bandwidth that would be necessary for comparable GIF or video files.

[1] - https://github.com/sangaline/svganimator

[2] - https://intoli.com/blog/designing-the-wayback-machine-loadin...

[3] - https://intoli.com/blog/terminal-recorders/
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> Keeping property taxes means that old people have to pay yearly rent to the government to simply keep their house. In Florida that's about 2k a year for my home.

I don't see why, at least in an area with any sort of constrained land supply, it is desired to keep old people in the same home (I can see same community, not same home).

From a land efficiency standpoint, where single family homes and apartments/condos both exist, you'd generally want to incentivize:

* childless folks (young people, empty nesters) in smaller homes (apartments, condos)

* families with children in larger homes (single family homes)

Property taxes are a powerful incentive to encourage people that become empty nesters to move to smaller locations. The lack of incentive to do this is part of why Bay Area single family home prices are surging - older demographics aren't selling their homes to families that really want to own for stability reasons.

(note: For the curious, in CA, Prop 13 doesn't per se create a disincentive as it allows moving the tax base to a new property for those older than 55 - but its presence removes what would be a strong incentive (cut taxes by moving). A strong tax disincentive to move though is capital gains tax structure on housing).
That is the other side of the coin. People and especially journalists expect any politician to have a short, quotable statement ready on any topic at any point in time and don't accept "I don't know" as an answer. Which is just a silly expectation.

I'd rather have a politician not having strong opinions on social issues (and doesn't vote on them) if they have proven expertise and focus on lets say agriculture. But lots of people would disqualify that person on the latter because they don't align with them politically on the former.

Maybe I'm too cynical, but I have my doubts that calling them really changes their mind, or if they just count the number of calls and when it reaches the threshold to endanger their reelection, they act on it. That kind of coercion is perfectly fine by me, if the system doesn't provide other tools to the public like more direct democracy in Switzerland, but it is not ideal.
Coming Apart? Cultural Distances in the United States Over Time
Completely agree based on my experience as a CTO. I didn't agree with all of it, but there is a lot of solid advice in here without a bunch of filler.
I personally have had some huge wrist pains recently (I do have a doctors appointment planned to check that out).

This caused me some great stress because I am an avid gamer, and also a developer.

Knowing that there are solutions, really reassures me, at least for my day job.
Please present your research which does not simply state "XRP can be created out of thin air" without sources, that can be verified...because you can't.
Even the Financial Times, notoriously partisan backers of privatisation and markets, struggles to make the case for rail privatisation these days (although they do try, bless them).

https://www.ft.com/content/d82848ca-f7ba-11e7-88f7-5465a6ce1...

>There is a growing consensus among both executives and industry experts as well as the public that Britain’s unique attempt to create competition on Britain’s rail network has not delivered.

>While it has led to more services, and encouraged more users to pay higher prices, it has not unleashed the productivity improvement necessary both to upgrade the network and stabilise the network’s finances.

>Over the same period, for instance, London’s state-owned metro network, Transport for London, has grown just as quickly and delivered much more state-of-the-art investment.
> Why so negative. I like how Europeans/Chinese/Everyone stands behind their companies and expect them to succeed globally. USA on other hand is bent on destroying/defaming their own.

Companies aren't national sports teams. You shouldn't "stand behind them" unless they deserve it.
They also keep the HVAC controls entirely separate, and there's controls on the steering wheel too, in addition to the "commander" knob and volume/mute knob.
That was a disturbing read. That guy is practically a slave to his followers. There may be money in it, but I have the impression he is beyond the point of no return. Even if he would want to stop streaming, the more sociopathic lot of his "community" will probably sniff him out and expose him.

> “It was just easier to break up with her than to deal with it.”

I don't know whom I find more pathetic, him or his followers. This is just sick.
>On one hand, it's not desirable for most people to rent longterm, and owning property is an important way to store and grow wealth.

Neither of these are particularly true in an economic sense, except in that homeownership in growing, zoning-throttled areas is a ticket to the rent-seeking wealth transfer those supply restraints create.

Homeownership is driven by this effect, federal subsidies, and general social norms encouraging it, but it creates labor market frictions by tying you to a place and ties up all your wealth in a single asset.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2016/02/67...

https://www.economist.com/free-exchange/2010/04/21/rent-or-b...
The 70 year leases are probably going to be renewed very cheaply/easily as happened in Wenzhou when the middle class made a huge fuss over the early (shorter term) leases ending. The central government had to step in and make the local government renew them for basically nothing.

Also, China lacks very good investments (the stock market is still a joke), so real estate is seen as the only viable option to beat inflation. So even in hot markets like Beijing and Shanghai, lots of nice apartment buildings will have empty units, which are just being held as an asset and are not even renovated to be rented out.

China is not really that unique from other countries, it’s real estate market is quite expected considering the factors that created it.
DOCSIS 3.1 devices mandate pie, which helps a lot, but it's not as good as fq_codel, nor do they do shaping from the isp, which is kind of needed for all the cable links in the USA I've tried. Get one if you can, though, they are better across the board in many other ways.

pfsense has fq_codel.

Anything (1000s of routers) from lede/openwrt has the most advanced bufferbloat-fighting stuff in it, followed by dd-wrt, tomato, etc. If you need high bandwidths the multi-core arms are the best. fq_codel is pre-configured on all links (ethernet/usb/fiber/wifi/whatever) but if you need shaping to the ISP provided rate you need to configure it. All the research that went into fixing bufferbloat queuing problems everywhere landed in openwrt and lede first. Most of the research that improved tcp everywhere came out of google.

Most gaming routers now sold commercially have some variant of fq_codel in them in their trade name ISP "qos" system.

Also fq_codel derived anti-bufferbloat work has landed in many commercial wifi routers on the wifi side (eero, google wifi, some ubnt products, meraki, many others). The paper behind all that was: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.00064.pdf - happily that work was "good enough" to enable by default, and boy, does it make a difference if wifi is your bottleneck.

The current premier dsl router with cake is evenroute. I think there are several new models from several manufacturers that are going to get it right, soon.

Not tracking FIOS (gpon fiber) closely at the moment. Yes, fiber networks have bufferbloat, but it's harder to hit, and generally smaller than on dsl and cable technologies. I configured cake on sonic fiber recently and got 60ms back. (going from 60ms latency under load to 3ms )

Regrettably shaper setup is finicky and requires a few minutes of testing with a site like dslreports or a tool like flent.org to get right. If more ISPs published their shapers' bitrate and burst rate settings, life would be easier here... but the hope has always been they'd just ship a router with this stuff on and remotely configured to be "right".

In some ways, what are you doing about bufferbloat is
Well that and the people who make "open office" decisions are often immune from them. It's rare to see someone like Gordon Moore actually sitting on the floor in an open cube with everyone else. Making ED or MD (depending on location) in my company means getting an office, even in buildings that are otherwise strictly hoteling setups with no assigned desks. The higher up you go, the more dedicated resources you get.
You seem like the kind of person that called kids with glasses "4-eyes" in elementary school. Glass didn't look that bad, calm down.

Glass failed because it was a pain in the ass to develop for, hard to store/take off (no hinges), and weak tech (battery, video processing, voice control).
> Food is like a modern 64 bit system. Meanwhile, the roads are still in miles per hour and all temperatures are in Fahrenheit, so I need an 8 bit subsystem to run it.

The problem with that analogy is that a 64-bit computer is inherently, in isolation, much more powerful than an 8-bit. For the vast majority of cases, the same is not true for a switch from from, say, ounces to ml to measure the size of a bottle of water.