skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is California gas price break down for August 2019 [1]:

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Aug 26
Branded Unbranded

Distribution Costs, Marketing Costs and Profits $0.410 $0.650

Crude Oil Costs $1.430 $1.430

Refinery Cost and Profit $0.850 $0.610

State Underground Storage Tank Fee $0.020 $0.020

State and Local Tax $0.076 $0.076

State Excise Tax $0.473 $0.473

Federal Excise Tax $0.184 $0.184

Retail Prices $3.440 $3.440

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Total State tax: 0.02 + 0.076 + 0.473 = 0.569

California high gas price might have more things to do with location, affordability, and demand than what people are willing to attribute to it.

The breakdown shows that California does have high gas tax, but it's not $2 high. Even within the Bay Area, I can see $1 price swing between the rich neighborhoods and other neighborhoods. Driving from SF to LA, and you can also see the price swing through different town. Some parts in LA county often have higher than $5/gallon. I'm guilty on multiple occasions when I just pull up to the closest gas stations and fill up without checking if I can save a bit more somewhere else. When half of your town earns at least $250K a year, the gas stations can jack up the price without being afraid of losing customers.

[1] https://ww2.energy.ca.gov/almanac/transportation_data/gasoli...
Apple could, for example, switch out the version of an app on my phone with a backdoored version of the same app. The backdoored version could upload a copy of every message I send to law enforcement. It wouldn’t even be difficult - just a keylogger would do the trick, or the OS could periodically take screenshots of the app while it is open and send them somewhere nefarious. Those latter techniques would also work with web apps. If this sort of thing was done selectively, I doubt anyone would notice.

If the government passes laws requiring backdoors in WhatsApp, terrorists can use another app. If the government passes laws requiring Apple and google to add backdoors to their phones, it will be almost impossible to avoid government surveillance. (And if the approach of the Australian government is anything to go by, we won’t even be able to tell this has happened. Instead they’ll pass a law demanding backdoors on request, then legally forbid Apple et al from making any of the details public.)

This is one of the reasons I buy phones from Apple. Unlike Google, Samsung, Huawei, etc they have at least made their opposition to government meddling very clear. And as this article points out in detail, they have put their money where their mouth is. If some of the sales price of my iPhone pays for Apple lawyers to fight for my digital rights, that is a tax I pay willingly.
Something about your comment rubs me the wrong way, and I think it’s a kind of toxic idealism that doesn’t acknowledge how software isn’t a mathematical object but situated in the real world.

You realize 48 years ago is the Unix epoch? Circumventing this problem to admit commits that were made before 1970, which clearly has no real world use case, is over engineering at its worst. Similarly, with designing a system to last longer than 68 years. The number of tech companies that have lasted more than 68 years can be counted on one hand.
> automakers believe that low-emissions cars will not sell well unless people can acquire them as a means of signalling virtue and wealth

That's totally why I bought my sweet sexy Spark EV.
How is this a catch-22 situation?

It is some kind of dilemma, sure, because you have to decide between making your life easier by using powerful and convenient platform-exclusive APIs or staying more independent by trying to use as much generic, cross-platform foundations as possible, even though this makes your job more difficult and consumes more effort.

But it is by no means some kind of contraption from which there is no possible escape route - which is what a catch-22 entails, as far as I understand it. It's an engineering trade-off, just like all those other trade-offs that we as engineers have to evaluate and eventually decide about all the time.

It seems to me like someone wanted to use the well-known "catch-22" moniker as a catchphrase (pun intended) here ;-)
if someone doesn't look Japanese they are most likely not Japanese

Like the Ainu?
Possibly more feasible if you periodically capture and store a few ms raw IQ, then transfer a quick burst when the handler comes near, to do the nav solution offline.
Microsoft, Intel Draft 500k Jrotc Kids to Fight National CS Talent Shortage
It’s a great book.
Yeah, you make a good point. They'd have to either make an explicit choice (no default) or opt-in, because most people don't know the platform well enough to even understand that the choice even exists.

It's only a guess, but I would think the added expense wouldn't be that big of a deal. With popular products, they already have lots of units everywhere so it would very rarely be an issue. With other products, it is more likely to be an issue, but still not every time.
It seems very on topic and relevant to the discussion. The preceding posts were:

Unfortunately, the effects of consumption aren’t contained to where (and when) one consumes

That’s why we need to enforce borders

So pointing out that the emissions (one side effect of unlimited consumption) aren't stopped by border control or a wall seems to be completely on topic.
let them take a selfie
I’m so sorry that happened to you.

For what it’s worth, Bessel Van der Kolk is not without issue himself. Here’s a partial transcript that I wrote up (so any mistakes are my own) when listening to a podcast episode about trauma and abuse. The relevant part is around time code 30:00.

https://www.probablypoly.com/post/episode-25-interviewing-sa...

Trigger warning: trauma, gaslighting, and abuse

Mandee Conant: Well, I think it’s important not to discount the book, More Than Two, because we know that Eve had a lot of input into this book, but as a whole, just because someone writes a book about something does not make them an expert in it, and I think we kind of… as a community we kind of took that because their book was one of first how-to manual what to do, what not to do resources fo us, so he must be an expert. And we just took that, we took that too easily, and we need to learn to not do that.

Samantha Manewitz: And sometimes even when when people are experts they can still be terrible people. For example, Bessel Van der Kolk, who founded The Trauma Center in Brooklyn, which is my back yard. He wrote wrote the book, The Body Keeps the Score, which is required reading in any grunt school and required reading for anyone who ever wants to go into trauma work. Period, full stop.

I was initially applying for a job at The Trauma Center, and then it came out in The Globe that his co-writer and co-founder and CEO was horrifically abusive and he created a toxic work environment, and the way he responded was just textbook gaslighting, and then sort of [wrote this letter] why these people didn’t come tell him to his face. Yes, why would someone with 1 or 2 years under their belt make ever make a criticism about this person who the luminary of trauma work. If anyone should know better, it’s Bessel Van der Kolk.
Payroll tax is based on apportionment of payroll expense, rather than headcount. It also includes stock based compensation. I'd guess most of their payroll expense is in San Francisco.
Worth noting that with what people make in Romania on average, $4.5 feels like $10-$15/gallon would feel like to Americans.
> such a reasonable, trivial task?

Tom Scott has a pretty good video explaining exactly why writing code about time is not trivial:

The Problem with Time & Timezones - Computerphile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
Wasn’t the epoch 48 years ago? Wait, the epoch was 49 years ago, so that isn’t it.
According to the Police "90% of (criminal?) traffic is encrypted".

There's also the recently enforced "Data storage directive" that record all ISP traffic for 6 to 24 months. (Accessible without warrant)

The "Data storage directive" law has been deemed illegal by the EU, but was forced through anyway and applied 1 October 2019.
Italian here. I read all Calvino's novels and short-stories in high school.
I would suggest The Nonexistent Knight and Cosmicomics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nonexistent_Knight
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmicomics
> Posting comments in favor of a service without disclosing your’re its author is usually seen as a conflict of interest

Not sure why, since it isn't in any practical or philosophical sense.

I judge the merits of a post by the content. I don't know if you're Celebrity X or Author of Y and I don't care much. Yes it would be useful to reference other statements, but that's something you often sacrifice in an open (even moderated) online forum. It's a strength of the platform as well.
Top 10 Newspapers in India – Front Page Newspapers
Pokemon Go Battle League to Release in Early 2020
A connection with Seligman's https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness experiment

Two dogs in separate rooms with floors that can give them a mild shock. Arranged so they get exactly the same shock. One dog can turn off the shock by performing an action; the other has no control.

This experiment turns the second dog into a shivering nervous wreck... but the first is fine. Same shocks; only difference was control.
There is a shortage of remote jobs though :-)
I believe these are the same scooters that you can swap out the motherboard using a cheap conversion kit. The guy who wrote about it got a takedown notice from Bird that the EFF ended up getting squashed.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/11/scooter-startup-bird-silen...
RLSL Allows Running a Subset of Rust on Vulkan/SPIR-V Enabled GPUs
Is there anything like this in Ontario?

I came across this one recently, but it's closed apparently: https://pcmuseum.ca/

I went to an awesome one in Croatia that had tons of stuff: https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Attraction_Review-g297516-d362915...

The large scale concept is a great idea.
Like their free DNS service that supports DNSSEC, Rotor (CDN JS optimisation), Let's Encrypt integration out of the box, low latencies where the users live, etc
> If you and a cohort were the last survivors of a dying tribe, with your own special language that no one understood, and you criminally conspired with them via written word, the government could not compel you to translate your messages just because they cannot understand them. That's the 5th Amendment in action, as you'd be creating testimony against yourself.

Ignoring the fact that it seems, uh, unwise to ask a defendant to provide an unverifiable translation of self-incriminating evidence (which is different from most encryption scenarios)...

I imagine that if this scenario were actually common and law enforcement was complaining about it, there would be a political debate, much like this one, except including "should we reinterpret or amend the 5th amendment to allow a court to order them to translate it", and a lot of people would agree with them.

Now of course many criminals in the past have written down coded notes that have been seized as evidence, but they're often somewhat interpretable or inferences can be drawn from them even if the defendant doesn't cooperate, which is not the same as your hypothetical, or something that's been AES or RSA encrypted.

I do take your point about how terrible things are going to get once we have brain-computer interfaces, which is a major reason why I think we shouldn't build them.
There's a lot of search engines before Google, maybe you could offer a better service than the existing ones?
Ask HN: If the NSA created SHA256, can they crack it as well?
> although there will be the Craic at some point in the next couple of years

The CR929? That thing? [0]

I think that if people are still complaining about Boeing's safety record and obfuscation when that goes into service, the'll start to relearn what real obfuscation looks like... (Russian airliners do not have the best safety reputation, to say the least)

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRAIC_CR929
I suppose, but before that happens the environment could get very, very unpleasant for humans (and animals in general).
The supply curve shifted, and hence the price moved along the curve. If the demand curve also shifts due to the new price being too high, then the price will once again go down.

The solution already exists, without any outside forces. If the seller prices too high, they won’t sell, and if they want to sell, they will have to lower their price.
Well that’s what most people in the pile and gas industry probably thought https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/23/us/oil-and-gas-aid-bush-b...
I find myself confused about the new tax and unwilling to invoke Cunningham’s Law to get clarity.

So I went to the source (I think) and it appears Stripe would have been taxed at 0.560% on its gross receipts. [0,1]

Assumptions:
1) Stripe would be classed as a “financial services” company per the law and subject to section 953.6 of the law
2) Stripe has gross receipts over $25 million

My confusion is the discussion of a 1% tax rate on gross receipts. I don’t see any business taxed at that rate and on this case neither Stripe nor Square would be.

[0] https://sftreasurer.org/business/taxes-fees/gross-receipts-t...
[1] http://library.amlegal.com/nxt/gateway.dll?f=templates&fn=de...
The feel of San Francisco is already lost, when a small single apartment runs $3000 a month.
This guy is all about how much of a threat the expansion of Chinese hardware is but doesn't say a word about the same being true for American hardware. Chinese networking hardware may contain backdoors, American hardware has been confirmed to contain backdoors over and over again.

Re: the iPhone: when any country has the golden keys, every country has the golden keys. How hard is it to. Get that through your head. The moment the US demands golden keys, China is going to demand their own set of golden keys, followed by Saudi Arabia and any other foreign adversary. These keys are going to be used the same way the US is going to use them (spy on allies and enemies) as well as for seeking out minorities and problematic citizens.

As a foreigner, if something doesn't cross the US Senate of all bodies because of ethics or surveillance problems, that's really saying something. These are the people that brought us laws like the PATRIOT ACT and the CLOUD act, systematically expanding the reach of US law enforcement across borders. The EU, supposedly an ally, had to negotiate a quick, likely invalid or quickly overturned bandage treaty to make it legal to even just store personal data on US company servers. Is this what the US wants to become? A risk to their own allies?

Forcing weak encryption is not defence, it's offence. It's hard to believe that people like these aren't jealous of the spying network China has set up.
> Everywhere else it under performs a Model S

That isn't the practical reality:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/30467/watch-a-porsche-taycan-t...

https://www.thedrive.com/news/29946/porsche-taycan-laps-brok...

A Nissan Leaf can also hunt down the Model S on track:

https://insideevs.com/news/359903/video-nissan-leaf-beats-te...
Linear Regression Using TensorFlow 2.0
A third party is supplying the answers but not necessarily the third party the user thinks she is using.

Sometimes we can bypass this by using non-standard ports for DNS.
It's trivial to lock the USB stick in such a fashion as to be impossible to decrypt in a practical time frame.

Furthermore it's practical to communicate in such a fashion that grabbing one party only grants you access to communication intended for this party.

If really paranoid it might only grant you access to communication between compromise and his fellows realizing that he is burned.

Maybe nothing at all if you can't successfully coerce and all devices are locked.
> Texans have noticed that people arrive from California, and then start voting to turn Texas into California. There seems to be no awareness of the connection between policy and the cost of living.

Is that actually true? They are a self selecting group, not a random sample, and probably conservative if they hold views that would cause them to leave a liberal state.

The one piece of data I've seen is that had native Texans been the only ones to vote, Beto would have won. https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2018/11/09/native-t...
Regulation is one way to force people to drive more fuel efficient cars (because the less efficient cars will either be priced out of reach or be unavailable completely). But so are fuel taxes as the parent poster pointed out -- make gas more expensive and people will demand more fuel efficiency. I think both have a place -- make less efficient cars more expensive to buy and operate.

It's not just zoning laws that keep people from living close to work, some people just don't want to live in a city so they are happy to commute for an hour if it means they can have a 2400 sq foot house on an acre of land. No amount of zoning can provide large numbers of big single family houses on large lots that are also close to large urban work centers.

Though I just wish those people would stop complaining when cites repurpose streets for transit and bikes for those that do live closer to work and can more easily use alternative transit.
The elephant in the room, which nobody seems to mention, is that the real price after adjusting for externalities like the climate crisis (largely caused by the burning of fossil fuels), should probably be closer to $10/gallon or even more.

I find it strange that we still have articles which discuss the new interesting arrangements for chairs on the deck of our Titanic.
After watching this I realized that we need to update mobile app permissions model to distinguish between front and back camera access. I can see many cases where I would grant the app back facing camera permissions but would not give it front facing camera access.
Where have plastic bags been banned? Everywhere I've seen these policies in place, there has just been a mandatory charge added for receiving a bag. This seems reasonable enough to me even without waste or environmental considerations.
Engineer Commits Suicide: Is a Job Worth Dying For?
It doesn’t change the overall quality of the applicants and yet we received more than half from the US :-)
Why on earth didn’t Bird lock down the STM32 through builtin hardware fuses, thus disabling the debug interface? Is that a consequence of moving fast and breaking things?
I took my first driving lesson on an automatic today, and it was kind of a surreal out of body experience. I felt like I was playing a video game. Maybe because I could control something that was moving the world around me?
> Payment processing is an ultra low margin business, no way they can compete while paying ~1% of revenues to the city.

Stripe charges %2.9 + $0.30 per transaction.

That is not an "ultra low margin" by any means in the CC processing domain. Actually, that is a massive markup when compared to other ISO's and VAR's.

Depending on the Merchant's processor and their volume, significance, and sophistication, their Discount Rate[0] is often well less than the %2.9 Stripe demands. The fact that Stripe also tacks on another $0.30 USD on top of the top-end Discount Rate for their transaction fee is insane (see here[1] and here[2] for some context and these don't even account for fee negotiations).

And to suggest "no way can they compete while paying ..." is to ignore Stripe has a valuation at/near $35,000,000,000 USD[3].

0 - https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/glossary/term-d...

1 - https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/visa-usa-in...

2 - https://www.mastercard.us/content/dam/mccom/en-us/documents/...

3 - https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/19/stripe-is-raising-another-...
If you don’t know what SFINAE is (the article uses the acronym a lot but doesn’t define it):

> Substitution failure is not an error (SFINAE) refers to a situation in C++ where an invalid substitution of template parameters is not in itself an error.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_failure_is_not_...
That's totally why I got my first Spark EV in 2013. It has a tiny badge that says EV so you can tell I care about saving the earth. Although to be fair, the otherwise identical gas Spark looks dorky too.
Fog is worse than where? I work in SSF as well... A) its where businesses like Stripe should be in the coming years (it wont be creative, it'll be internet infrastructure) B) there is a ferry to Oakland (to help alleviate the absurd traffic jams over the bay bridge) and C) bring some variety (right now SSF is all pharma and med device) into SSF.

There is no reason why SSF couldn't be a thriving, cool place to live and work. It takes companies like Stripe to take the lead and have a vision.

Right now downtown SSF is totally boring but add a good grocery store (ahem, Berkeley Bowl) a couple cool coffee shops, wine bars and great restaurants and it would be a perfect fine place to live and work - half way between the south bay and SF.

Buy, renovate or build a place or open a restaurant in SSF now while you have than chance. It will be corporate, funky but potentially cool in 5 years with your creative and financial energy in it.
But then these devs look at the market consuming their site and see that about 0.5% of the users need graceful degrading and decide there are more important issues to work on. Can we blame them?
My point is that Rogan does have some sort of moral responsibility for not letting his platform be used so easily to massively disinform the public on non-scientific beliefs.
Finally a podcast host built just for SaaS businesses
...says a guy from a country that basically created the Mexican cartels out of thin air via the War on (some) Drugs.

Which "most lucrative market on earth" do you suppose they service?

You should really do a bit of additional research on:
The Monroe Doctrine. Henry Kissinger, Salvador Allende & Pinochet. United Fruit & Guatemala, and the list goes on...

We are ONE singular species and the climate crisis ain't the elephants or squirrels fault my friend.

Then there's this thing called a global market, but I defer to your urge to hide under the covers and suck your thumb instead of engaging with the real world.
You can buy them (or if curious, simply see which books have been banned) here http://www.unz.com/bookstore/
Somewhat ironically, Singapore is one of the most racially and ethnically diverse places in the world, demonstrating that ethnic non-uniformity shouldn't be a proxy for unknown dangers.
This is why I want to move to TX and help support the reason why Texas is good. All of these stories about CA people moving there worries me though. Not sure what a good plan B is that's not in a southern state with a backwards economy.
Wow! This reminds me a lot of that old "Americans spent millions of dollars developing a pen that could write in space, and the Russians used a pencil" story.
> and how much money do they stand to lose on those plans that got canceled?

That's not a problem for Comcast, it's a problem for the incumbent wireless carriers.