skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One interesting thing I found comparing UK towns to Australian towns was the UK towns allowed a much higher quality of life because road and house block sizes were calibrated to walking, whereas Australian roads are all calibrated for two way car traffic and block sizes are huge. There is also an assumption that if you want to buy something you will drive to a local retail distribution point. It forces people to spend a lot more on transport to get the same lifestyle.

I'm not a fan of cars. It'd be nice if they were toys for the rich and Australian cities were built around everyone walking around or catching public transport.
> GPS does have some limitations for photography because it takes a while to lock on

My Canon offers multiple GPS modes, including periodic sampling even in standby mode, and "always on", for this reason.
I wonder about this...

The Tesla model 3 has no dashboard in your line of sight, and Elon Musk says he builds something he likes and hope others will too.

But the car has sold well in spite of the fact that many owners I've talked to said this was a big compromise for them.
If anything, it's the opposite; for a given motor winding, more voltage will increase the top speed, and high-load draws more current. That's why electric motors can burn out if you stall them.

The reality is more complicated when you can vary the motor design, Kv, etc.
It's not lunacy, it is being done for foreign policy reasons.

Manipulating the global energy market by making the US very competitive (or just able to compete in the market) means that Saudia Arabia, Venezuela, Russia, Iran, etc. can't push us or anyone else around by threatening our energy supply.

No matter how supportive you are of renewable energy, the very solid reality is that we aren't there yet and we still very much need oil.

When it comes down to it, much of US foreign policy revolves around convincing everyone else that we could win WWIII - explicitly so it does not happen. The nuclear deterrent is weakening as time goes by as people are less and less confident that their own leaders and the leaders of their adversaries would ever actually be willing to press the "destroy the world" button. Then they get to thinking there could actually be a shooting war that didn't turn into apocalypse (we don't need nukes any more, we have precision weapons that can take out a single room in a house being fired on the other side of the planet, being able to destroy a city doesn't really seem that helpful in war any more)

The world is a more complicated place than most people really want to think about, and the wonderful period of peace we are experiencing is the result of a complex game that is being played around the world.

People grew up in peaceful times and just assume everyone will be nice forever, it's just not true. If there is some way for a player to take advantage of another, eventually it will happen, it should be obvious by now that general human decency isn't guaranteed.

War is prevented by eliminating weakness, the United States adopted all sorts of policies after WWII to ensure it had no weakness and no comparable adversary. (why do we spend such a huge portion on military when our NATO allies spend so little? we want them to spend little so that military conflict within NATO isn't even a hint of an idea)

Energy would be a huge source of weakness which could not just be magically fixed over night (or in a decade or five) by renewables. Our oil policy is a power policy, not an environmental one. Pour money into energy companies to make sure that we have a huge refinery capacity here, to make sure that we have and actively develop fossil fuel resources and maintain the expertise to continue doing so)
Increasing efficiency is different than lowering total waste. People push for efficiency thinking it will lower total waste, but you can easily increase efficiency and increase total waste.

In the physical environment, total waste is our biggest concern. Our economies are more efficient than ever, but we're also producing more total waste than ever.

We have to focus on lowering total waste. I talked about this in my podcast episode 183: "Reusing and recycling are tactical. Reducing is strategic." https://shows.pippa.io/leadership-and-the-environment/episod...
I'd rather they had a pissing contest by building space exploration companies than that they just kept building bigger and bigger boats.
Show HN: I kinda fixed the textures on my JavaScript ray cast engine
> It isn't the same anymore. What airbnb was in 2013-2014 was magical.

I'm a host (a single "entire" house) and started in 2015, which in Australia was early-ish.

As host it's getting hard and thankless. Supply is driving prices down (about $40 a night less than a year ago) and vacancy is higher too. Guests are more than likely new or only have 1 or 2 reviews, and are not the early adopters looking for something different, they are people looking for cheap and easy accommodation (where easy means no responsibilities).

The review process is painful and hosts live constantly in fear of guests that leave glowing reviews, 5 stars for each category but 4 stars overall -- overall is the only rating that counts. Remember that hosts need an average of 4.7 to remain on the platform, so a couple of 4-star reviews can be devastating.

The other thing is that Airbnb keeps dictating terms for hosts. Children and infants are free!
As a manager who might hire you, I would tack on some caution to this advice.

This works for smaller businesses that can be flexible and are not really liable/viable targets for anything.

Once a business gets even some traction and size, this becomes a wasted effort, if not an annoyance to the manager. Most of the time I choose not to respond as it's just the safest option for us, or I redirect the email to our HR.

Most of the managers making the decisions do not do hiring as a full time job, it's just an aspect of their job. While it can be enjoyable, it's also very emotionally draining and physically taxing (non-stop interviews on top of regular responsibilities) and when people go outside of the normal process like this (and worse, raise a stink if you don't respond to their deviation well), it just adds more headaches for me.

So the above advice might work sometimes, but be aware there is another side.
Why do you have such a basic question if you are a researcher in this field?
> How is that? GDPR protects EU residents when they are outside the EU, so you already can't just look at someone's location and decide not to give them GPDR protections.

How does the company know they are an EU resident when they are outside the EU? Probably because they have an account with the service, which makes it unlikely that they are anonymous.
The amount of public photography doubling over and over in an exponential increase of surveillance is a serious problem that cannot be dismissed with a simple "the act is legal and always has been".
Twilio almost certainly has a different agreement with Stripe than is standard, and Stripe commonly bans Telecom related services: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20012656

The Ubiqiti forums are also littered with ISPs that signed up with Stripe (since Ubiquiti integrates with them) used it for a few months w/o chargebacks or any fraud, but got an email one day saying they were not allowed to use Stripe. Appeals are consistently rejected or go unreplied to.

I emailed Edwin at Stripe 4hrs ago, have not heard back from him.
Journalists in Chinese state media to be tested on loyalty to Xi Jinping
Many products could be produced without fossil fuels, but aren't. Like delivery company could get an electric truck. A consumer is powerless
> Amateurs rarely benefit from pro grade equipment. Atleast photography is somewhat cheap as a hobby. I see friends buying expensive amps or guitars because so and so uses them and they end up still sounding the same.

This doesn't follow. Photography can be astoundingly expensive as a hobby or otherwise. Lenses into the five digit reason, many in the thousands. You can buy expensive lenses, bodies, flashes, tripods etc. I don't think most people see photography as a cheap hobby, once you get beyond the bottom tier Point n Shoot, or entry level APS-C DSLR with kit lens.
Homelessness rates in the US are lower than many big European countries: https://www.oecd.org/els/family/HC3-1-Homeless-population.pd...

Lower than France, Germany, and the UK, Sweden, Canada, and Australia. Equal to the Netherlands.
Sexist, no. Weird and completely out of place, yes.
Okay, I'm happy to rewrite that whichever way you like, but I believe businesses are just groups of people. If you wish, consider that 'prefer to minimize regulation binding units of people or groups of people acting in concert'. I'm also content with it just being 'prefer to minimize regulation binding businesses or people so long as no active harm yada yada'.
Texas has literal shanty towns with 100,000 American citizens living there so I think this is a situation where statistics (or the ones presented) are highly inaccurate or deeply mischaracterized:

https://www.google.com/search?q=texas+colonias&sxsrf=ACYBGNT...
Right. Thousands of people get detained for dumb reasons every day, in countries around the world. It’s only when China is involved that this somehow becomes the sinister, cynically strategic, premeditated work of a hive mind.
My point is not that the guy was an idiot for asking the question or if he was helping Greta in her argument. My point is that such question should not even need to be asked in 2019.
> It’s fair to assume that in both places, if people had more means to consume they would.

Not the parent commenter but why do you think they would if they could?

Consumption habits across borders aren't as obvious to me because of advertising, culture, etc.
AI workloads actually have a business reason to exist though. Bitcoin/cryptocurrency space is still a novelty filled with armchair investors who still think they can get rich from it.
Yes, this is in fact a viable strategy. Source: I contributed a few GCC extension in Clang forced by Linux kernel.
Probably took 1000x that before the process finally gave him his medal.
>Similarly, it's important to display the local taxes separately, because some customers may be e.g. entitled to a rebate for that part (some localities e.g. only charge foreigners).

Yeah, and we can come up with a story of why a hefty AirBnB fee should be hidden until the last moment as well.

Or we can notice that 99.99% of AirBnB users aren't going to have their taxes and fees rebated, and would be better off seeing the total price right away.

Yes, including the cleaning fee.

The users enter specific days anyway. The rate changes depending on which days those are. You can't infer the price for another date range without getting a quote specifically for that date range anyway. Separating the cleaning fee out achieves nothing.
Team Safety with the Anonymous Fist to Five Method
I'm 90% certain Stripe has had a few fly by night calling card companies sign up with them, and gotten burned when the calling card company gets a ton of chargebacks for not delivering everything promised.

Thus, a blanket ban on Telecom and anything vaugely related (like ISPs). Certain flagship clients like Twilio get a pass, but smaller players like SignalWire, Telnyx, Teli, etc do not.
According to Itamar Turner-Trauring on Podcast.__init__[1] the issue with Alpine (at least in a Python context) is that the use of musl[2] instead of glibc (and I paraphrase) is an increased technical risk where corner cases that may not be as thoroughly tested are in view.

ITT counseled in favor of using containers based on ubuntu or centos.

I haven't done huge amounts of container work, but my light outings with Alpine have been fine. Maybe load and internationalization expose more personality in musl, or these concerns pertain to issues that have been fixed.

It's something to keep in mind when assessing risk.

[1] https://www.pythonpodcast.com/docker-python-production-episo...

[2] https://www.musl-libc.org/
That logo makes it a non-starter in any organization I've seen in the last decade.
Wait until europe wakes up. A karma system based off of time zones would be super interesting even if it just a post statistical analysis.
France has much slower internet on average than the US: https://www.akamai.com/de/de/multimedia/documents/state-of-t...

It’s almost as if it’s part of a pattern, where the top 75% in the US do better than France, while the stronger French safety net is better for the bottom 25%.
Uber and Lyft both make losses that are directly proportional to their usage. Eg more users or more trips will only ever increase their losses.

WeWork makes a lot of money for the CEO - I recall he used a large amount of money he cashed out during earlier rounds to buy the building that We leases.
>You know upfront what you're going to pay; there's no bait and switch.

The map only displays the nightly price, IIRC. And not being able to filter by total is a hostile UI.
The Significance of Bitcoin, Part 2: Proof of Work and Immutability
"The real challenges of being remote are more human, than business." Quoting from ghost.org/blog/5

Communication and collaboration is key. It is harder when there is time zone differences, but you have to find a way to bring everyone together online at least a few times per week.

From our experience, regular team standups and brainstorming sessions are a great way to get the whole team in sync, on the same page, and move in one direction as a single unit, and that is why we built Taskade for nimble and distributed teams.
Colt to Suspend Production of AR-15 Rifles for Consumers
That and the package manager is a bash script.
> The problem is that you're equating things that aren't the same.

Actually, I'm not.

If two countries both engage in indoctrination, in different forms and to different degrees, pointing out that one is different, or does it to a lesser degree, is not a proof that they do not do it in the first place.

> There's no way to deny that the American government thinks it's great, and puts in effort to convince people that it's great. That's the explicit goal of e.g. civics education.

I feel like you're implicitly suggesting that's all they do.

> What the American government doesn't do is require citizens to believe it's great, or forbid them from saying it's not.

That isn't a prerequisite for indoctrination, and only a prerequisite for certain kinds of censorship.

> If you get on a soapbox and talk about how the system was rigged against Bernie Sanders, a lot of Americans will think you're being silly, but none of them will think that you should be arrested for subversion.

Of course. But indoctrination and censorship can take many forms, and can be very hard to spot when done well. It also helps if the private sector engages in it so the government doesn't have to.
Chef-sugar stands its grounds against ICE contract
I drive old cars, and have had the same exact model for over a decade, and cross the country often between the west coast and midwest.

It used to be that I'd have to clean my windshield at gas stops and the car would need its bumper and hood washed of insect genocide on arrival.

These days neither are necessary, it's very apparent.
Quite rare to find projects standing its own ground .
Is Porchd.com a useful site for the real estate sector?
I wanted to get some feedback from those who use real estate websites to take a look at ratemyporch.com and provide constructive feedback about it.
Anything that runs on electricity, the internet, wifi, computers, fiber optics, lasers, etc. Not only we use those things every day that come from science, but most are oblivious to the gigantic infrastructure that powers a single Google search.

> or we will be facing a catastrophe of biblical proportions in the next hundred years

Probably much sooner than that.
No need! I’m not presenting a hypothetical survey’s results without evidence. The person I was responding to is, unless they actually have such a survey. I asked for it and no one answered. Therefore, until there is a time with supporting evidence, we can’t even qualify the opinion as a theory, let alone a fact.
It seems like if you are slightly more business-friendly than competing countries then you have a big advantage (not to mention network effects), but if everyone tried to be more like America then the world would be worse-off.

Just like a classic coordination game.
Do you have a list of states you operate in?
Is that in PPP?
When reading any of Pico Iyer's drivel about Japan, remember that he can't read or speak the language:

"And the virtues of when I got to Japan, finding that I was essentially an illiterate. I can't read — I can't — to this day, I can't read or write Japanese."

http://www.dailygood.org/story/1092/the-art-of-stillness-pic...

"He’s a big proponent of his own ignorance, saying he doesn’t choose to learn more than a smattering of Japanese because he needs mystery and “a sense of open space in life, something to offset the sense of the familiar.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/books/review/pico-iyer-au...

Which makes him exceptionally unqualified to spout bullshit like this:

A single verb in Yasunari Kawabata’s short novel Snow Country is translated in 29 different ways because what we would render as “I think” can in Japan mean “I remember,” “I long for” or 27 other things.

No, おもう means two things, and they're written differently so you can tell them apart:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%81%8A%E3%82%82%E3%81%86#J...
> the humans in the military would probably not be okay with that and this scenario would never happen.

Yes, but in this scenario they would be shooting back. All you need is to label them something starting with T and ending with 'rists' and the rules of engagement change.

In this day and age, the best bet for democratic societies is to try to keep democracy while they still have it. After that is lost, all bets are off. The government controls the legislative, the executive and the judiciary. It controls intelligence gathering. It can make your group illegal, it can then persecute your group, it can throw law enforcement at it before it is even properly organized.

If the military even gets involved, it means that whoever is in charge dropped the ball.

Small arms mean nothing if you have well organized law enforcement. If you add the military to the picture... well, they are trained for exactly this sort of thing, aren't they?

It's all delusions of grandeur from people living in a romanticized fantasy world that does not exist.
"Jevon's Paradox"
It is sexual, it references sexuality, does that make it sexist?
In a legal studies class I took we compared two cases taking about (IRRC) unreasonable searches. In one, a police officer walking a beat saw some drugs/guns/etc. through a window and promptly got a warrant for a search. In another, the police "happened to be doing some aerial photography" over a weed farm and thence got a warrant etc. IIRC, the former was fine, the latter wasn't, basically because of the definitions of "ordinary" or something like that.

Obviously IAMNL, YMMV, etc., but the legal system does care about degree of normalcy.

Ps: if someone can better fill in the details I'm sure these are commonly studied cases and that I've butchered the facts. Please correct me!
Twitter Launches Its Controversial ‘Hide Replies’ Feature in the US and Japan
Another ham radio business owner shoots himself in the foot (2017)
A government can't use tanks, artillery, missiles, bombs, etc. in its own territory without wrecking civilian infrastructure and eroding goodwill from neutral or (initially) pro-government civilians.

The goal of conquering an area (unless it's purely a natural resource grab) is to put its infrastructure and people to work to boost your economic tax base. That's not so easy to do when you're blowing stuff up and hurting innocent bystanders and scaring everyone.

Whenever you look at advanced countries fighting against guerrillas, no matter how many guerrillas die for each government soldier, the war never really seems to get won, and the government bleeds money: it has to feed the war machine (direct capital losses), and it suffers productivity (tax base, GDP) losses when infrastructure is destroyed and productivity declines.
Kubernetes is supposed to installed nodes close to each other, typically in the same server room, or datacenter, otherwise the latency would kill the etcd cluster. Ansible is perfectly fine and simple for your use case, why would you bother even thinking about overcomplicating it? Simplicity is king!
I think there is a valid point to it – there is a certain degree of hypocrisy in criticising other country's human rights problems when you aren't doing enough to resolve your own country's human rights problems. Calling it "Whataboutism" seems to excuse that hypocrisy rather than giving it the condemnation it deserves.
Another: Rust is de facto QA service for LLVM's support for overflow intrinsics. Unlike noalias they continue to work, but in practice they continue to work only due to fixes from Rust project.
Consumption habits don’t vary that much in the developed world. The household savings rate is 5-10% in most countries, with the US being lower than famously frugal Germany, but higher than Italy or Spain: https://www.gfmag.com/global-data/economic-data/916lqg-house.... (Switzerland and Luxembourg being heavily financialized countries seem to be outliers.)
He still took money from Jeff Bezos.
The vast majority of the "FIRE" economic sector is not an important part of the economy. Before neoliberal economic policies and the government handing $10 Trillion + handouts to the FIRE sector, yes, it was important and efficient. Not now though, unfortunately.
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My issue with most non-Macs including the X1 is that they mostly choose 16x9 screens.

I'm carrying the weight, give me the real estate. I'm not one to run many full screens and swipe between them.
If it is a fact then show me the proof.

Just because people use a service doesn’t mean they have read the terms and conditions. Therefore, your anecdote is just that.
Valley state of mind, though.
No. It used to be great but then they went way downmarket about 20 years to increase readership. After several years of declining quality I quite when I noticed they had adjusted the font size and spacing to have about the same number of pages (and ads) in each issue while reducing the actual content by ~20%.

I mean, it's not terrible but it used to be solidly educational whereas Nature or Science is relatively hard work to read unless you really love getting into the weeds. Scientific American used to sit in the middle ground between Popular Mechanics or National Geographic and actual journals, but you'll probably find it disappointingly shallow.
Bird up
You joke but I've literally heard people make this argument about seat belts.
How did you get from "slower internet" to "there is a pattern"?

If you scroll two comments up, you'll see the most crucial difference: free healthcare. Healthcare-related expenses can bankrupt an entire family in the US, even with great health insurance...

Then there is free education, but let's leave that aside for now.
> GDPR opt-out rate is very very low,

Then again GDPR requires opt-in, but most sites ignore that and many make the opt out extremely time consuming.
I'm sorry I misunderstood you.

> I object to data about me or my use of my machines being collected without my permission at all. Past that, I object to it being shared with others. What it's used for is beside the point.

What can I engage with here? I'm trying to figure out what bad consequences you're worried about, but you seem to have a terminal value that companies shouldn't be allowed to keep information you sent them.

Let's try another tactic: What do you think of casinos that share surveillance photos of card sharps with other casinos? Or wifi hotspots at coffee shops that keep logs of mac addresses to limit abuse? Or news sites that limit non-paying visitors to 3 articles per month? Your statement seems to be so absolute that it forbids all of these legitimate uses.