skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Telegram was implemented in Berlin and now is domiciled in UK; most of their operations, money and people are fully within reach of the western judicial system. While Durov comes from Russia, he is in exile and Telegram is structured to keep their money and people out of the reach of the Russian judicial system for various reasons.

Also, a big part of their target audience of Gram early holders is in USA, so they also obviously care about the legality of these transactions. For them it's not sufficient to have some technical workaround that enables them to sell the tokens they have, they need a solution that allows them to do so legally.
> Sounds like something that can be solved quickly

Then how do you think they could compensate the damage done and extract the methane back out of the air?

My definition of "solving" may be a bit different from yours. And most probably, not even your definition of a solution will be implemented. Tragedy of the commons at work.
I was off by a 0, but 100x better than you. Not a fan of the snide remarks.

Again, the idea that big banks are chasing returns for their depositors is false.

WellsFargo: 0.01%
https://www.wellsfargo.com/savings-cds/rates/

BofA: 0.02%

Citibank: 0.04%

I was surprised by Citibank being so high.

These are for basic savings with minimum deposits and don’t take into account any fees.
Chrome now uses AI to describe images for users with vision impairment
The work of Robert Moses is slowly getting undone. He left a major imprint on NYC, building infrastructure to support the automobile. For Moses, the car was the great middle class equalizer.

The result is NYC has 2 highways going up and down it's waterfront when it could have focused on integrating it's city on the rivers as opposed to using them to funnel cars into Manhattan.
There are two fundamental problems.

First is the scrollbar thing I mentioned. It means that you can’t use it for layout purposes; you thought you could sit four blocks side-by-side with `width: 25vw`? (And that was pretty much the whole reason why people wanted viewport units in the first place—this being before flexbox provided alternatives that are generally acceptable, though not without flaws, or grid provided often better alternatives.) Sorry, that’ll only work on a platform with overlay scrollbars, not where scrollbars actually take up space. There’s fun history around Firefox’s implementation where they made it possible to get the “right” behaviour, but no one else implemented that, so it was eventually removed from the spec.

Secondly, it was also predicated on the idea that the physical viewport size won’t be changing all the time; but on mobile platforms where the address bar can get out of the way as you scroll that’s simply not true, so you’re stuck with browsers having to decide between two interpretations: vh picking either the smallest or largest value and thus not actually reflecting the viewport height half the time, or vh reflecting the viewport height and causing the page layout to jump around in a jarring fashion when the address bar expands or collapses, when vh is used as part of the layout.

The first can be fixed in two ways (which can be combined): firstly, by defining new units that exclude document element scrollbars (e.g. 100vw2 ≅ calc(100vw - env(scrollbar-layout-width-auto, 0px)), to define it in terms of what follows); secondly, by exposing the layout width of scrollbars to CSS, e.g. as env(scrollbar-layout-width-auto) for the width with `scrollbar-width: auto` and env(scrollbar-layout-width-thin) for the width with `scrollbar-width: thin`. These values would be something like 17px and 8px on Firefox on Windows, and 0px and 0px on platforms with overlay scrollbars.

The second, you probably need to expose new constants for the possible extreme values of viewport height. e.g. I could imagine env(viewport-min-height, 100vh) and env(viewport-max-height, 100vh) working, which would then allow developers to select one or the other, as suited their purpose. Or define new units opinionated on which value should be used, and then deprecate vw and vh since they’re inconsistently implemented.

(In using env(), I must caution that it’s currently rather broken for some sorts of situations: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3285.)
My feeling is when you refuse to limit yourself to the one true and golden measure of inflation (basically cat food, toilet paper, and very sketchy imputed rents) and look at differential inflation.

Becomes really obvious, there inflation in stock prices that isn't supported by any real economic growth. Makes sense then that if you can create bullshit stocks out of thin air and push them onto the market with all the other bullshit inflated stocks. Then you can make a lot of coin. Especially if you can get investors to swallow tech company valuations[1].

[1] Go ahead try and value any tech company as if it were a ordinary company. I dare you.
Yes — it’s utterly irresponsible. Even with Android One, you get something like 2 years of OS updates and 3 years of security updates. Windows XP got better than 7 years of security updates, by comparison.
Wasn't that the way Google Docs was originally implemented, but everyone preferred having it organized more like a file system, so Google Drive has a folder structure.
Don't be toxic and rude.
solar noon is the time @ the shortest shadow. You don't need an almanac for that. It's got problems, but if you're lost on land with a digital watch and a stick it'll work pretty well.
The Japanese DO NOT talk in elevators.
Android phones wouldn’t sell in the west without Play Services. Google has a lot of control over Android manufacturers. They were just forced into a consent decree by the EU - because they were forcing manufacturers to not sell non Google Android forks if they wanted to sell phones with Google Services.

Amazon is doing okay with cheap tablets but their phone was a failure.
> Poor people are the people that have to drive everywhere

I don’t know what this means. I assume that’s a regional difference.

I live in an area where there are a lot of people who have to walk or rely on an incredibly unreliable and slow bus system. They’re not going to make a trip 5+ miles to the nearest Costco, especially since they’d have to walk half a mile to/from the bus stop and try to manage those bulk goods along the way.

Not to mention the fact that our bus system is mostly hub and spoke, so the bus trip would take 2-3 hours each way.
They must exist. I can buy Soylent off the shelf at my local Fred Meyer (Kroger for people who don't have Fred Meyer in their area). They are pretty aggressive about dropping products that don't sell in sufficient quantity.
Not sure if your comment is sarcastic. But free is a major mispricing by the city. All you need to do is go to the garage next door to see that they charge $40 for the day.

The streets are a public good and they should be for cyclists and pedestrians.
Reading the "digression" about the plans for the monument at Kitty Hawk, and Washington's meddling and bumbling, gives you a whole "the more things change, the more they stay the same" feel.
Cities change...it’s the longing for days past that created the housing crisis in SF in the name of preservation.

I’m not familiar with the exact building restrictions in West Village but I assume there’s strict height restrictions that have been grandfathered in long ago...I’m going to guess these restrictions is the exact reason why the ultra wealthy can just buy up a small building and make it into a SFH, which obviously just exacerbates the housing problems in the neighborhood.

The story touched on this a bit but also seems like every time I visit half the stores are either closed or new because rents are so high for businesses. The only stores that I see have staying power are the ones that look like obvious money laundering fronts like jewelry stores. It’s this strange ghost town for retail.
Help your manager help you by owning the one to one agenda
How BugHerd came back from the brink
Hot bots: The payoffs and pitfalls of robotic process automation
> A lot of masks make claims about being NIOSH approved and N95 certified, but they don't provide the approval numbers and NIOSH has no records of the manufacturer. I even saw some masks that supplied an invalid NIOSH approval number (it had been revoked in 2014).

IMO, this is criminal.
HTML5 video had significantly better performance in terms of CPU from the beginning, and I'm fairly certain the Flash video players weren't written by amateur programmers with bad programming practices.
Beautifully written - worth a read.
Most of what makes Android, Android in non Chinese markets are the proprietary closed sourced parts that manufactures have to license from Google. Google has been abandoning more and more of the open source parts over the years.
I feel bad for people coming of age now in the world of programming. There's a lot of pressure to follow the best practices and they sure as heck don't involve an easy way to draw a Z colored pixel at coordinate (X, Y). Or to coax a programmed beep out of the speaker. Which is basically how I learned 50% of programming.

You don't really get that visceral moment of magic reaction from web technologies or super polished game engines which is where that happens now.
It certainly doesn't imply that this is the main cause, it suggests that it's an important cause (say, > 10%) that has to be acknowledged in a 10k word article. I also think dwelling on a "culture of littering" is much vaguer and less likely to make falsifiable predictions.
Supporting the counterfeiting point, this just hit the front page as well:

https://twitter.com/nostarch/status/1183095004258099202
I spent more than that on a house that I've mostly learned about through things breaking, because homeownership is a deeply humbling experience.

Things are complex and people are busy.

But would be nice if there was some qualification about how many solar owners are actually confused. "Many homeowners are learning the hard way" are epic weasel words.

Maybe they're right and battery sales will spike, maybe commenters are right and no one who lacks a battery system will be surprised or change their decision.

I'd guess 1-3% of battery-less eligible solar owners get inspired by the blackout to buy a battery. More than zero but definitely below one in twenty.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/active-trading/020515/...
I don't know if I'll buy any more technical books anymore, even in electronic form.

O'Reilly doesn't sell e-books directly, which made me mad. You can get their subscription service, or buy the paper version. I ended up buying the book I wanted from Google.
I know... that's part of what makes it so interesting.

There are still 3rd party sellers somehow selling Walmarts own product cheaper via Sam's Club. Or sometimes for products that aren't available on both public facing sites. (Sam's and Walmart)

Which is probably why Walmart made the effort to better integrate the brands.
If I guess your password in the password form input, should that count as wrongful use?

If I rifle through your personal papers because your door was open, should that count as wrongful use?
> That suggests that we'd need to keep most of the existing infrastructure for power generation and also replicate its capacity with wind and solar plants. That sounds both expensive and inefficient.

Its efficient to use existing plant for as long as it is useful. The main expense of running most of it is fuel - and the cost of that in legacy terms and in CO2 is slashed by 'replicating' its capacity with wind/solar.

Currently when we add wind and solar capacity almost their entire output replaces fuel burn. When in a handful of years wind and solar have replaced 30-40% of demand supply, about 10-20% of their output may possibly be getting rejected. That makes wind/solar maximally 10-20% more expensive than what they would be with full storage and use. Hydro, batteries and long distance transmission is already economically viable in certain situations. Hydrogen synthesis will become increasingly economically viable, with carbon pricing and development. There are technologies existing which are ready to reduce waste supply from wind/solar as it arises. But even without them a potential overhead of 10-20% cost wont stop more wind/solar getting built, because its already currently cheaper than fuel burning -without carbon pricing and has been getting more efficient year on year, with no end in sight.

This actual economic performance contrasts with new nuclears promises which are in truth in their final throws, completely outperformed already by the alternatives which have been developed. Investment in Nuclear is no real threat to wind and solar anymore, the arguments seem to persist only to delay overall action on policy transition. New nuclear plants may or may not get built, wind and solar IS getting built and its variable nature will make nuclear supply uneconomic - there's no sense in financing plants on the basis of supplying constant power, when a huge competitor supplies much much cheaper power 75% of the time, and encourages hydro, biofuels and maybe cheap storage to fill in its gaps. Nuclear is not going to be economical for that, and that is the opportunity which is being created by wind and solar manufacturers and installers, as we hash over this outdated debate.
Isn't it illegal to sell counterfeit goods knowingly? I'm sure someone would be knocking on my door if I did it.
Methane is logarithmic though.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/04/11/methane-the-irrelevan...
Intellectual assignment clause. It's limited a lot of ideas I've had. Combining that with constantly having to look for a way to provide a roof. It limits the ability to start a new business.
Yes.

He asked his kid to hide in the attic, but instead the kid hid in the basement.

When he couldn't find his kid in the attic he assumed the kid was actually in the balloon, so he freaked out and started calling the media and authorities.

I'm not sure whether he originally planned to get the authorities involved or not. In any case he planned a hoax but it backfired on him big time.
> And we are happy to have the option not to care

Good for you. But those that do care have worryingly few options.
Disclaimer: I'm loosely involved with the Archive, helping with the DWeb Meetup.

I love this. The Archive has been helping emulation a lot, but hosting full rom sets, and javascript-based emulators. It's a great fit with the idea of video game preservation.

MS-DOS games are an interesting problem: on one hand, Dosbox is very powerful, on the other hand, it does require a good chunk of familiarity with the original platform. After all, who's going to know to run setup.exe, what IRQ and DMA are? Thankfully I've never ran into the EMS and XMS fun, but I can imagine that some aspects of DOS would feel very arcane to younger people.

So for the Archive to make those games available, easily playable, it's a whole chunk of older computer knowledge that's being made available to all.
That’s why its a discount chain.

If you want consistency in terms of quality, go upmarket. Even a JC Penney or Kohl’s will be more consistent for the socks.
The simple answer is that HN is full of people pretending to be lawyers, whose legal education is from University of Posterior, so don't look her for good information about law.
Well-paid workers, a limit on markup and careful curation of quality products get my dollar-vote every time. Thank you, Costco!

On the other hand, maximizing exploitation (treating workers with no respect and no humanity, paying them as little as possible and having my taxes cover the difference), maximizing profit (manipulating me and anyone using the platform as much as possible as to extract more) and peddling an avalanche of crappy and fake products... do not take my dollar-vote, Amazon.
Except that it can. Youtube lets producers (channels) post polls, let's consumers (viewers) post comments, and if channels want to, they can do something interactive- over a video series & etc.
Well, the good news is methane is fairly short lived in the atmosphere. About a decade. So it is very potent but if we stop emitting it, levels will fall on their own.
I mostly work at small startups, so I get laid off every few years.

First time was a huge traumatic shock, but the 4-5 times after that, I was prepared and mostly saw it as unplanned vacation.

My trick to being cool about it is to always have 1+ years of saving in the bank.
Great story. Good luck going forward.
It really is a shame that it is not realistically possible to upgrade phones. Its somewhat simple to remove the camera and replace it with the same one but it is just about impossible to put a different camera in.

The only way I see this could be done is if every oem committed to standard shapes for every part but that would never happen because they shape and layout of a phone is the only way they can make visual changes so people know its a new phone.
It was probably intended to be a hoax, but it sounds as though they had a legitimate concern he actually was in the balloon, which...makes it not a hoax?

Crazy story all around.
Our friend saw someone return snap together wood flooring with nails in it. Costco took it. Amazing. Granted, shitty for a person to abuse that, but amazing for Costco to honor it
Not needed in my area. Google maps shows public transport directions pretty well.
> Mostly all I got was just a simple sequence with nothing interesting or surprising.

It absolutely depends on the text of course. One one end of the spectrum you have something like Euclid's Elements, where a DAG representation seems to be very well suited to spirit of the text. Of the books that I explored, Baby Rudin came the closest to this ideal. While many of the individual chapters contains long runs of mostly linear development, the interdependence of the chapters is complex, and apparently very carefully considered.

You might be right about the linked textbook. I suspect that there would be a core linear algebra subgraph that most of the rest of the book depends on, but otherwise little else in the way of complex structure.

One thing that occurred to me was that the reductio ad absurdum of this ends up being something like mathematical logic. As you try to capture the dependency structure with more and more precision, you find yourself trying to build a proof assistant.

Still, I think that there's something to be said for studying the structure of great textbooks purely as cultural artifacts.
What gives you a rightful claim to information that I gave to someone else, if neither I nor they consent?
>I think your concerns are unfounded.

> cigarette ads are banned, in some places you’re not allowed to sell sugary drinks that are too large

It sounds to me the slippery slope has already started? Hate taxes on cigarettes are a thing everywhere, some places have a sugar tax already. It's not banned, but it is controlled already.
I mean, you get like 16 packs of chicken.. 3 boxes of cereal, a crate of pears, 3 things of hummus... yes you can make it work but still it’s a lot.
People like that should really not own dogs.

Everyone wants to get a dog when it’s cute and adorable as a puppy then they move on in life and have kids and other responsibilities and the dog just becomes a burden. There are definitely good dog owners, but there’s a ton of people who just have them and don’t really do anything with them besides feed them - dogs need exercise.

I’ll admit I surrendered the only dog I ever had after having her 6 years from when I was a college student until about 3 years after graduation. People usually think this is something to be ashamed of, but I knew the lifestyle I was living at the time was not good for an active dog (golden retriever). At that point in my life I was spending full days in an office and working out at the gym 1-2 hours per day, on top of sitting in traffic an hour or two, and I was moving into a one bedroom apartment after living in houses for most of the time I had a dog. I knew I would be subjecting the dog to a life of boredom and sleeping on the couch if I kept her.

Fortunately, for dogs like Goldens it is quite easy to find great homes through breed specific rescue societies, especially here in Austin (many thanks to Gold Ribbon Rescue).
> Microsoft used them to quash innovation on the web

Microsoft didn't "quash" any innovation, the ActiveX framework allows more innovation than any other browser on the market,
Flash was invented as an ActiveX plugin, so does AJAX and it started the whole Web 2.0 era. IE had so much incredible feature that it makes modern looks like a dull corporate utility. We had VRML and vector graphics. We can playback videos with IMG tags. Heck we can even embed the mighty DirectX on Web. Chrome basically re-invented everything we already had with dHTML in the 90s.

Microsoft didn't took down ad blockers by crippling the API. In fact there's innovative abuse problem with IE, think all those toolbars!
Author forgot self-study time.

It's a great day when you get an hour or two to increase your knowledge of work-related technical stuff.
Glad you found it useful and thanks for the feedback!
>Intellectual assignment clause. It's limited a lot of ideas I've had.

You had those ideas right after the contract with the assignment clause was terminated though, right?
I have been working with IP based networks for over 20 years, and specifically IPv6 networks for over 17 of those. IPv6 is the main reason I got my current job, FWIW.

> The use of NAT64 is helping many organisations to delay migrating to IPv6.

That's...not how NAT64 works. NAT64 is fairly dependent upon deploying IPv6, like T-Mobile's 11+ million IPv6-only users who use their NAT64 platform.

I do agree that from a purist's point of view, it's not ideal, but it enables network operators to stay largely single-stack (on v6), while still facilitating access to the IPv4 internet.
Flagged for inflammatory title the pollutes discourse.
Fossile fuel is used for anything from concrete to cement to textites to pesticides to contact lenses, to ..... solar cells, and..... wind mills and medicin and thousands and thousands of other products.

Fossil fuels is the most valubale resource we have and all modern life is heavily depending on it. There is currently no realistic alternatives to most of this.
On the flip side, I do public transit advocacy, and having spreadsheets of the monthly data reported to the board, it would be so much better than ocr/text extraction and manual editing.
> A youtube video is pre-rendered and stuck at that resolution forever.

AI can do a decent job upscaling flash-style content from low res videos.
If this interests you, I would suggest PDFsam.

It has a lot of actually really useful pdf slicing features, like alternate merge (for merging both sides of scanned documents into one).
I wonder if they celebrate two birthdays for the baby? That'd be fun.
Agree! Can't happen soon enough.

My project Aquameta is one such attempt, trying to rethink the programming stack, and by extension all user data, as relational data instead of files, with the filesystem still there under the hood, but basically as a bootstrapping mechanism to get the database running.

Here's an essay about the reasoning and approach:

http://blog.aquameta.com/intro-chpater2-filesystem/

The TLDR is that the filesystem lacks a sophisticated information model, and doesn't provide mechanisms for defining structures, and we really need to embrace this basic requirement at a systemic level.

Boot to PostgreSQL! :)
No one goes to Costco anymore, because it's too crowded, as the saying goes. It's become a victim of its own success.
Make vector animations with simple clicks and works on every browser.

And make it streamable. No, your fancy JSON over Websocket is not exactly streamable.
I would love to see something with a Flash-like UI.

The 2D GUIs of many 3D games were written in Flash. There are non-Adobe Flash players which can be embedded. The advantage was the authoring tools - the GUIs could be elaborate and graphical without much effort.