skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tax rebates for "going green" is irrational because it defies its own purpose! If EV's are great, they're great because they emit less NOx, and that should be the impetus to switch.

"Impetus" is an issue of opinion, not rationality. Some people are incentivized by different things. But if the government as a whole wants less gas used, it can use money as a carrot.

I mean, if you want to call that "irrational" then basically all government spending or credits are irrational. Sales tax is irrational. Farm subsidies are irrational. The mortgage interest rate deduction is irrational. Military spending is irrational. Parks are irrational. Sports stadiums are irrational. Public universities are irrational. The term loses its meaning.

Everything is "pay for play" (as you put it) in a real economy. We, as represented by our elected government, pool our resources to get things that we can't get by individual action. This is like government 101, dude.
> Family names start appearing when you need to be able to identify a person unambiguously among the population of a big country

Pretty sure they go back further than that. Family names that are former patronymics (Svenson, Stevenson, Godwinson etc) are notably more common in Northern England than Southern. Reason being that was the Danelaw part of England where the Vikings held sway until roughly the Norman Conquest - 1066. They've stuck around as family names for over a thousand years.

The Domesday book was a survey of landowners and their holdings - mere peasants were listed numerically by class amongst the other holdings of the landowner, for tax and military purposes. The next attempt at a similar census was the mid 19th century. :)
Reading about how diverse their testers are made me wonder: why is the end result only a single size? Why do they not go all the way and offer their keyboards and mice in multiple sizes?
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Collecting data in the field without a reliable connection means saving it robustly locally for later upload. My concern, based on experience of websites not loading in my browser and fixing them by having to clear local storage (not just cookies) for the website, is that expensive field inspections could result in data loss. Is this technology and implementations reliable?
Because it's "sticky"
Reads like communist propaganda
Why should maximizing the well-being of the people not be a government priority?

Any system, including someone's anarcho-capitalist fantasy, determines allocation of resources. Some are just more humanitarian than others.
I still think someone tried to redirect its path and made a minor mistake in their calculations ;)
> basic keyboard designed in the 19th century

You seem to mean the 20th century.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
Likely not profitable to have so many SKUs.
No.

You are not an investor if you're buying your own home to live in.
The only reason for a UID is to track what you do. A world full of events where that is a pressing need is a frightening one.
Many HNers have a weird belief that Apple is somehow a privacy focused company, despite it actually being no more private than Facebook or Google.

The main concern people have (voice assistants beside) is data gathering for ads, which Apple does for their app search, among other places. Also, their data centers are in China, which gives Chinese authorities full access to their iCloud account.

If you want privacy, don't rely on corporations. Host everything yourself, and encrypt your data at rest and in flight.
> Unfortunately, being a big company, they can’t do anything very radical.

In my opinion, being big they have the means and resources to do some wacky and unorthodox experiment. I suppose that's same division that produced a Xbox controller for people with disabilities, it's quite a radical departure from the standard controller that one is used to find on a modern consoles: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/09/xbox-adaptive-control...

But, from what I know, they never tried something like this for keyboards.
This may be tangential but I’m regularly amazed at how bad Siri is at basic things still.

I’ll try to use it for things in front of guests on the HomePod and Siri is embarrassing half of the time
The right way to do Agile
Is vertical staggered the same as ortholinear? Haven’t encountered the term before.

Agree that default physical layout + qwerty as status quo is disappointing, though.
I don't think that calories production per unit of labour is a big concern when you don't export produce and you've got access to so much labor and a socialist economy where food prices are fixed and jobs are all but guaranteed.

The Dutch have a stronger focus on produce export and a higher income per capita, so they have to be a lot more efficient in order to be competitive in the global economy.
The obvious problem is that without the government authority by threat of violence, selfish entities will certainly choose to go their own way. You and your community may choose to use composting toilets, but Dow Chemical will find it cheaper, sans EPA, to just dump their effluvia in the local river.

To be clear: I believe in and support the notion that the government should set the rules (based on established science) and enforce the law. (No, not particularly with physical violence beyond that needed for incarceration of gross offenders.)
I can't agree with the claims of this article.

Kinesis is far ahead of MS's so-called "ergonomic" keyboards. I know because I suffer from RSI and have tried every model I could get my hands on.
UID per se no. Asking for it, most definitely yes. This is a hill I would die on. I have a passport and driving licence. I can be asked to produce my driving licence in limited circumstances (suspected of driving offences and stopped) at a police station within 7 days. Every other production of ID is optional, except passport at international ports. No ID needed for NHS care, dental care - there's an NHS number but I haven't the foggiest what it is. It's unconnected with my criminal record or lack, my debts, my pension etc etc. To vote I have to be on the electoral role, which is a special purpose UID, and can be hidden from public view. None of these are wrapped in an all encompassing national ID. They are specific to purpose, and should remain localised to that purpose. e.g. My employer will want my NI Number for pension and tax contributions.

I don't have to produce ID to the police, though I can be asked to identify myself. If arrested and I claim to be Winston Churchill I can probably expect a little more than average checking.

Circumstantial proof of ID is more than enough in most cases. If I want to apply for my first passport there are ways of acceptably identifying myself without any other form of ID.

We've managed without for 70 years without reducing ourselves to a banana republic (You may feel Brexit is doing that). :)
The basic design is from the 1870s.
Sure, but even among the remaining 2/3rds, meat consumption is much lower, compared to other regions where they typically eat meat every meal.
Yep, both of those are memorable and well worth the trip (also Biosphere 2 if you're in the area ;P)

I grew up in Tucson, and my dad was stationed at Davis-Monthan so I'm pretty familiar with the AMARC. The boneyard is a remarkable sight. A major road (Kolb) even passes through it, and you can see the planes on both sides! There's a lot of neat stuff sitting out there like B1 bombers and those little drones they'd attach to SR-71s (I guess?)
Used to be a Microsoft hardware fan, until my MS Sculpt Ergnomic Mouse broke thrice in 2 months.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20539387
If you place more load on a grid that's purposefully transitioning away from fossil fuels, the entirety of the extra load should properly be accounted under the carbon emissions of the dirty plants you're shutting down, because that will be delayed.

In other words, the marginal emissions caused by the extra load is the actual consequence, not the emissions proportional to that load.

But PHEVs in my opinion have an overlooked utility for demand dispatch and battery to grid transfers, even when compared to BEVs.

The entirety of a PHEVs battery can be used for either task.

A long range BEV that you use to commute may be put in a mode where the power company is free to decide when to charge the battery once it's above a user set minimum. This allows off demand to be shifted to follow renewable production.

But for a PHEV, that minimum is zero. While the battery isn't as big as a BEV, the portion set aside for this purpose may be as large. During a heat wave, they don't have to pull anything from the grid, and can in fact contribute. Dirty power, but much less impactful than building power stations for a few days a year.

The net result is a vehicle that acts as a BEV for commuting, is able to travel long distances without a supercharger, and allows the grid to tolerate higher renewable mixes.

I think it makes a ton of sense today. But the market is shifting so quickly, it may only for a short window.
I have seen the following variations in Pakistan. Given name is what people prefer to be called informally. * marks if people strongly prefer to be referred to by this name in a formal setting. Prefixes are usually religious in nature (Muhammad/Syed) and then you are never supposed to use them except when reading out the full name.

FamilyName GivenName*

<optional prefix> GivenName FamilyName

GivenName* Father'sGivenName

GivenName Father'sGivenName FamilyName

Father'sGivenName GivenName FamilyName

Prefix GivenName*

My name is of the third type and as a scientist it annoys me immensely that my work is referred to by my Father'sGivenName in western culture when no one has ever called me that in real life in my culture.

Source: my own comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19973627
There used to be notebooks with slightly curved keyboards, can’t recall the vendor (HP? Dell?). I really wish Microsoft (and Apple) would re-set this trend.
It varies widely by state but registration is typically not limited to 'show up at place X on day Y with a photo id in hand'.
A/B testing showed that it increased the number of page hits ;)
Please don't take HN threads further into political flamewar. All such discussions just circulate the same generic material, and it's exceedingly tedious.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20539876 and marked it off-topic.
I'm not completely sure, I think with ortholinear is used to indicate "array" layout keyboard like the Plank (first Google image link: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/440508407294189587/ )
Most modern keyboards are the result of small iterative changes to the keyboard of the first commercially successful typewriter, released in 1874. Note the QWERTY layout and staggered rows:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholes_and_Glidden_typewriter
Are you holding any investment grade bonds in your portfolio? If so you are directly rely on their (and other rating agencies) data. The fact that rating agencies fucked up mortgage in 2008 doesn't mean they can't see other real problems.

Also, if you're holding any high grade/investment bond ETFs you're very likely to own some mortgage backed securities in there.
Based on the title, I thought this was going to be a hackeresque how-to style thing, distilling techniques that the rich use and getting them into the hands of every day people. But no, rather it's a call for legislation that will stifle less-moneyed actors, keeping the privilege reserved for the elite. The end result would undoubtedly contain a loophole akin to FACTA's directly-held art exemption.
It breaks the site guidelines to go on about downvoting and that often triggers further downvotes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's not called 'voter fraud' though - 'voter fraud' is a more narrowly specific term than 'election fraud' and 'election shenanigans'.
Ah, fair enough. I thought it could be possible but all your actual examples were from the 20th century.
The author has other great answers in a similar structure too!

https://www.quora.com/profile/Janus-Dongye-Qimeng
I agree, but Moody's does have a reasonable defense against being called a failure.

We can't really expect them to ascertain the true state of things, because that is impossible and nobody can do that. And if they could do that, they'd put their knowledge to use as a trading firm rather than telling people what is going on.

Their job is to compile what 'everyone' knows and report it because that is all they can reliably do. That is something that can be achieved consistently, and that their customers probably do want to know.
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Ortholinear is no stagger in either direction.

Column stagger is what you see on the Ergodox or Atreus or Mitosis or Iris or any of the recently vast proliferation of ergo designs.
Many additives and colorants used in US food are banned in Europe for example. I wouldn't go as far as to call them toxins but they're at the very least suspected to be a net negative for the human body.

But again à lot of it is a question of dosage. A bottle of coke a week might not do much, a bottle a day and it's a whole other story.
You're assuming it's like killing. By that you're making a moral judgement. Significant part of the population disagrees with you. That means your judgement is not universal and shouldn't be forced on others.
There are moral principles vast majority of the population agrees with but abortion=killing is not one of them. Don't force others to live according to your religion or moral conviction.
It's largely impossible to anonymize data you don't understand, isn't it? They have somebody transcribe the recording because they don't know what it said, so they can't know whether PII is in there. I suppose they might try to split it into multiple parts and have different people work on each part, but that may lead to problems, as you need the full sentence as context in some cases.
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python already forked the language once for py2 --> py3. it has taken a long time in many places for py3 to be adopted. i worked professionally with python for about 8 years and never once wrote a python 3 program for a client. the last enterprise i was working at that had python code would have had something like 1 million lines of custom python 2 code last year, and was showing no signs of slowing down, or thinking about porting to python 3. it is arguably not a winning move to make another backwards incompatible change to the language. a lot of the value is in the ecosystem of existing useful libraries.

one of the things i like about go - ease of deployment - is more irritating with python. but: once you have set up a pipeline for deploying your python code, then you're good. it's not really like the python language needs to be reengineered to compile into a single statically linked binary to make it possible to ship. these days there are containers and so forth, and historically a number of bundling and packaging tools for python apps have been available.

i would still pick python over go any day for prototyping algorithmic or numeric code -- it is a terser and more expressive language for computing things, and python's dynamic typing + duck typing lets you write syntactically generic code.
Don't forget Navitaire, the darling of LCCs. While they were acquired by Amadeus in 2015, their technology is quite separate.
Forgive my bluntness, but I thought we had buried the 'efficient market' fallacy over a decade ago. Besides, the only thing your market would optimize for is how to maximize rentseeker profits, the 'climate' situation be damned.
For those interested, you can watch Joe Rogan's podcast with Randall Carlson on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R31SXuFeX0A
If you google "mark of the beast real ID" you'll see all kinds of very interesting reasoning. I don't know how much I'm joking about it, because if you don't think there's believers you're in a bubble -- I'm not saying whether or not they're crazy to reject a Real ID on religious grounds, but I think it is a pressure in american politics at least.
Thanks. That was my guess. I mean, I didn't think that aluminum production was big there.

I wonder what the energy efficiency of petroleum refining is. From the US DOE,[0] I get:

TBtu
3542 primary energy
2082 applied energy
1460 energy lost

So ~59%. That's a lot of energy to blow off.

0) https://www.energy.gov/eere/amo/dynamic-manufacturing-energy...
Can you refer me to the source of "crypto exchanges [volume] keeps dipping", please? I'm looking at BTC volume and it's not dipping at all. There was a sharp drop in Jan '17 when Chinese exchanges were forced to close. Other than that volume correlates to the price.
We don't run a TSDB. A TSDB doesn't work for the kinds of queries we run - specifically, TSDBs don't work if you want to

* analyze every datapoint you receive
* when the dimensional cardinality is high
* you want to analyze behaviors over time (e.g. the output depends on the orders of events followed - like creating a funnel report)

There's no off-the-shelf solution that does this at the scale at which we operate - hence the need to write our own custom solution.
>Hybrids "sort of" appear to be ahead in lower lifetime CO2...

I think that this is unnecessarily cautious, to the point of being misleading.

The right answer is "Hybrids ARE lower than ICEs when it comes to GHG emissions" - this is true in general and of all hybrids collectively. It may not be true in some rare individual cases, where the hybrid is not particularly efficient and the electricity is generated from coal (see figure ES1 in the Argonne paper you linked above).
The remaining trees also get to take advantage of the extra canopy space that the fallen tree leaves behind.
They don't seem to have an API?
This constant stay on latest and cross your fingers mentality has to go if we ever are to have more stable releases and interfaces (both UI and APIs) again.

Average app developer is clearly not trustable for keepimg a whole system secure (Zoom for a recent example). We have to go back to air gapping but do it on app and even internal component level instead of whole machine. Sandboxing and containers is the only way forward.
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Who really cares about the space treaty?

It'd be nice to have a well-funded group that has 'making sure no asteroids hit us' as part of its motto
There's a $200 threshold for reporting gains. Almost no one hits that while traveling.

Crypto is basically different because the high volatility resulted in large gains being realized.

Source: publication 525
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p525.pdf
My install of OS/2 Warp failed due to a bad floppy. Disc #33, of course........
As an aside, it’s highly ignorant to refer to pedophilia as a “crime”. Please be aware that pedophilia is not in fact a crime at all. It in fact refers to the attraction one had toward pre-pubescent children. Be aware that this is entirely different than being a child rapist. I assume you meant to say “child rapists” in your statement.

In the same way it’s generally accepted that homosexuals and heterosexuals don’t choose their sexual identity, neither do pedophiles. One could say they’re “cursed” to be given that sexual preference they were born with. Since most are not both pedophiles and rapists, most are doomed to live a life of unfulfilled attraction. The majority of pedophiles recognize that rape is wrong and would never consider it. To equate pedophilia and rape is flawed as equating all neck-beards as obviously rapists (since presumably they’re so sexually repulsive they could never get a woman to agree to consensual sex). Obviously the majority of sexually repulsive males don’t just feel entitled to rape at will, neither do pedophiles.
The replacement USB-C chargers don't even come with any way of connecting to the computer.
I'm entirely certain this is tongue-in-cheek humour playing on western stereotypes about China.
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I am sure you also like to point out that when people are using cash, they are "really" exhanging rectangular pieces of cotton/paper/plastic.
Hahaha that actually sounds plausible
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The beauty implicitly assumes the math is correct and consistent, but expresses something much deeper.

Analogous to how music adheres to certain rules and structures (these rules and structures are allowed to vary across genres).

Another analogy is how a “beautiful play” in basketball should adhere to the rules of the game. For example, a beautiful dunk during a game implies that the player wasn’t travelling or carrying the ball.

My third analogy would be a “beautiful move” in chess. It’s implied you followed the chess rules to make that move otherwise it wouldn’t be beautiful.
At this point Apple should just release a mid-2015 MBPr with modern hardware and call it the "MacBook Pro Classic".

The 2105 MBP is no prize either. I just got an email this morning that it's covered by the battery recall — I had checked when the recall was initially announced and it wasn't included.

Soldered storage means I can't just pop my drive out and give it to Apple for repair. Glued in batteries mean I can't just pop the battery out with a quarter and swap it out at an Apple store.

So what? Apple wants two weeks to repair the damn thing. Sure I'd like to be able to upgrade stuff, but ease of service is (now) an issue I've to contend with. This may very well be my last Apple notebook.
I worked in insurance for over five years. One of the more common reasons we had to send out HIPAA notification letters was due to relatives in the same city with similar or identical names getting claims processed under the wrong policy. These were very often two male relatives -- father and son, twin brothers, cousins. They sometimes even lived on the same street.

There's also this story about two women with the same name and birth date who kept getting mixed up by the government of the city they lived in and finally met to sort it out:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/03/identity-the...

There are very real issues with not being able to reliably identify people in a world where we so routinely interact with people who don't personally know us. Thanks to my ex and I both having first-hand experience with family members having similar names, we both agreed on making sure our children had names that wouldn't cause that type of issue for them.

Yet I still have mixed feelings about our systems insisting on a particular name format. If it were a foolproof system, identify theft would not be a thing. Plus, it places a lot of weird, intrusive limitations on people who may not in actual fact get called by the name they are required to give as their "one true name."

Internet age version of this type issue:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20539187

See also the artist Banksy for a similar issue in terms of an anonymous person nonetheless having a consistent public identity and body of work.
Maybe this is an out of the box solution but ... start charging an entry fee for the Lavender fields and designated areas to pose in so the real fields don't get trampled?
> Try explaining you have three to a clerk...

Or even that you don't have a first name but a set of given names and that the relative that gave you the name that is conventionally often put in a later position would not be amused about another relatives name singled out to be a "first name".
Don't forget: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_the_lucky_stiff
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Rent control is not a neoliberal policy - neoliberalism promotes free markets and de-regulation with which rent control does not align to.
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