skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't speak for the UK, but in the Netherlands the tax deduction laws have changed (already 4 years ago) to no longer give lease-car drivers a tax advantage when driving a hybrid. Only full electric cars were eligible for a lower tax rate - the hybrids were taxed like regular ICU cars.

I have personally driven a C350e - a hybrid with an amazingly short range - and I really like the concept. If you compare the fuel consumption with similar cars (same, weight, size) it is much more fuel efficient. And indeed, that greatly depends on how disciplined the driver is. I charge wherever I can, manually set the car to 'full electric' until I run out of charge and don't "blaze around small roads at excessive speed". The 1600 kg Mercedes can run a comfortable 1 liter per 30 kms and more.

So sure, the fancy stories told by the salesmen, you are never going to see happen. But better fuel consumption without the charging stress (anyone seen the Tesla's waiting in line for supercharger-stations during the previous winter when we still were allowed to ski?) is easily done.
I'd give them a raise for being low maintenance & self managing.
Rather offtopic, but isn't RGB a very unsuitable color space for communicating with people? HSV seems like a much better colorspace for talking about color.
The vowel! Yes, they are the same.
Well, no. And one wonders to what degree Amtrak plans will be pushed out because of the plunge in travel. It's also easy to be a fan of trains if you live in the Northeast Corridor. More or less uniquely in the US other than a handful of other city pairs.
One of the strangest things to me when I was a kid, was reading the comics at my aunt's house. They lived in a different town, got a different newspaper, and the comics were different.

The big ones like Beetle Bailey, Garfield, Family Circus, they were all there. But some of the smaller ones were missing. And there were other comics I never heard of.

None of them were the same size or on the same pages. We had Peanuts on the front page. They got a tiny version of Hal and Lois. But the oddest thing is that some of the comics were in a vertical instead of horizontal format. Then my dad explained syndication and editors and all that stuff flew right over my 10 year old head
So in your experience is the price for this USB drive justified?
I've seen a lot SEO motivated DDoS attacks in very high value money-keyword niches. An attack basically downs a site for an extended period of time. GoogleBot notices the slow speed and logs dozens of 500 errors, which can result in dropped rankings.

I did a quick check for usefathom.com though, the only somewhat interesting keyword would be "google analytics alternative", but fathom ranks on page 2, which imo would not really justify an attack. Maybe there is some other long-tail keyword with a high enough value though where usefathom.com pushed small niche players out of the top positions.

Also a DDoS is obviously bad for the user experience of paying customers, nobody wants their analytics service to be down or have missing data bc of downtime etc.
Members of Congress finding agreement on a tech antitrust agenda
> The Beacon Chain lets us randomly assign validators to different shards

This is interesting. Cross-shard attacks were a major flaw in shard designs. How is this solved exactly and who is "us" in this sentence? How can the network force a miner/validator to use a specific random shard?
America's Heavy Equipment Rental Marketplace
HeavyRentalz is SaaS enabled heavy equipment rental marketplace in U.S.
Terminal (human) UI and scripting (machine) UI should be separate if the latter is a concern at all.

Think Debian's apt which is intended for human use, while apt-get is for scripts and sticks to a predictable console output.
I wasn't quoting a hypothetical. I can look at a storefront right now and see that I am correct. What you imply here has not happened.
Dictation is still there, or voice recording? I turned off dictation, but can still record voice memos or texts.

Aside: I find the concept of a voice "text" amusing and somewhat redundant with voicemail, though I can see an argument that the use cases are slightly different.
That's higher than I'd expect. Lots of people get zero days off.
The spectacular startup failure of Oomba
Reminds me of an episode in 'Billions'.
“Pilots a boat”, is what I was taught.
What gets me as a Brit is when wealthy Hollywood celebrities campaigning for gun control point to our country's gun laws as an example and then insist that of course their security guards should be allowed to carry guns. (Private sector armed security is basically illegal here.) Of course, what really really gets me is when they talk about our total ban on guns while insisting that their security guards don't count because they have handguns and not big scary rifles, because the total UK ban they're likely thinking of is on handgun ownership specifically.
Tokamak Network On-demand Platform ease building decentralised app organizations
Also sometimes the business doesn't make that much money so it's kind of that or nothing.
Hmm. I'm having a hard time relating the '1990 All-Pacific-10 Conference football team' to anything in my life though.
In my experience with non-techies they'd prefer you just to say "it's done" (assuming a reasonable timeframe) than go into detail on why it's not. Every new report is translated to "it's not done yet" with an excuse, which is probably why you were deemed a slacker.

Also in my own experience I can get carried away with the side tech -- spending a few days setting up a monitoring system and things like that -- is it really needed or are you scratching an itch? Small companies can't really spare the time to set up the enterprise-grade tooling if it's not one and done.

Maybe you are actually slacking, it took me a while to accept the reality myself anyway.

To directly answer your question: go to the meetings. Meetings are a way to reset your slacker status to "not a", no matter how boring or pointless they are or how accurate it is (it's why managers love them). They're also sometimes a decent way to share information with the team without relying on having written it up nicely if you get to talk before the snacks come out.

Of course this is just one guy's assumptions and opinions. They could just be jerks.
Taxes aren't the issue. It's how people are taxed. Income tax is just one way people are taxed and they aren't the ONLY type of tax on income (despite people using the word tax to mean income tax). We have social security tax, payroll tax, sales tax, capital gains tax, estate tax, property tax, and (maybe possibly a wealth tax in the future). And that's just individual taxes.

People say this all the time and it is false: California is a high tax state. No it isn't. It is a high Income tax state. It is an extremely low property tax state.

To put this in perspective, I live in Boston and my mom lives in California. She owns > $3 million dollars worth of property that she pays 1% tax on when she bought it (for around 500K total) so an effective property tax rate of .16%. In Texas she would be paying 3% property taxes which 1800% percent more. She also gets depreciation on the rental property that is marked up to when some it got transferred to her so she gets depreciation amortized over 18 years at ~2.5 million valuation. She also collects social security, a pension from a previous government job, and rental income. All unearned. Some of the rental income comes from Section 8 and other welfare programs (paid for by young workers). Let alone medicare which she will certainly get way more out than she ever put in.

I on the other hand, make ~190K a year. One year I got lucky with stocks/bitcoin. I've been paying in the 250K income tax bracket for 3/4 years. I've also paid >5% state income taxes every year on that money. I've paid double or triple my mom's taxes every year despite her making total earnings including investments way above me. ON top of that I have high payroll taxes, sales taxes, and no deductions. I live in a crappy apartment (near a bunch of frat houses) that costs 2K a month (a little less than my mom's mortgage on a house worth $1.7 million).

For young people that have no property and income we are in an awful position. All we hear is increase income taxes, but that is the only way we are moving up the socio-economic ladder. We have many types of inequality in the US, but the most extreme is age-related inequality. Older people have almost all the money in America. The largest generation now is the millennials and they hold <10% of US wealth. Millenials are now in their prime working years and income is the primary way they will acquire wealth as they hold almost none of the assets in this country.

Its no wonder that younger and middle class people are flocking to places like Texas where they can afford a house (because property taxes prevent money flooding into real estate), and can actually get ahead because of little to no state income taxes.
Ask HN: Why is the Windows taskbar autohide setting so badly implemented?
I have always set "Automatically hide the taskbar" in Windows, for as long a I can remember. I just like it if the UI gets out of my way and only pops up when summoned (in Windows' case by hitting the Win/Super key).

But also for as long a I can remember I have played the game of "what app is forcing my taskbar up"... Usually while I'm trying to hit something that the taskbar is now obscuring (like Firefox's search box, or half of a Teams notification. It is absolutely maddening because I have to click every open app to see if it has anything to report before the taskbar goes down again. And it seems to be getting worse lately I have the feeling.

So I want to ask you HNers., how do you treat the Windows taskbar? Am I missing something? Why is the responsible app never flashing? Why can't it flash just the upper pixel line so I know something is up but it doesn't obscure anything. I have the feeling I am a very small minority of taskbar hiders and nobody really cares about this setting.

In comparison, I never have this issue in Ubuntu, the taskbar is there when I hit the Win/Super key and not there when I leave it alone. How hard can it be?
Off topic: is it new for HN to elide urls this way? I’ve never noticed it before but it really annoys me. I like that HN is just text, and preprocessing it this way adds no usability. It makes it harder to copy a URL, if anything, and it certainly isn’t prettier.
Isn't that just noise? It's possible to extract useful signals from extremely noisy data if you understand the statistics.
In-browser transcoding of video files with FFmpeg and WebAssembly
That is generally true of any proof-of-work cryptocurrencies.
I once saw a solo improv performance that was started off by using that to get a prompt for a story
My PHEV - mini countryman - can go up to 140km/h on pure electric. It even has an option in the car settings where driving on pure electric can be the default setting.
Same goes for BMW PHEVs and Porsche ones.
> Discrete math, computer science, etc. are sciences (although some people claim math is not a science

I was surprised to see that, at least according to Wikipedia, opinions (of people of consequence) vary on this point. [0]

Seems to me perfectly clear that math is not a science, as it's not empirical, but this doesn't seem to be universally agreed upon.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics#Mathematics_as_sci...
Just for fun:

https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/volkswagen-golf-201...

Edit: The current Mk 5 VW Polo is quite a bit bigger than the original Mk1 Golf.
I gave NixOS a serious try... the reason I gave it up was that pretty much all build systems for my own projects were broken and it was a pain to "nixify" them.
> bribery is a bad thing in America

Well. At least openly talking about it.

Pretending it doesn't work in Americaa is ostrich syndrome.
Just the first google result to prove my point. https://www.usnews.com/news/elections/articles/2020-10-22/tr...
,,I was also unable to convey why some things take more time than expected during modelling or software development''

For a business it doesn't matter why you don't ship on time. I bet the team would have been happy if you ship something much simpler on time actually. DHH was writing about the philosophy, that features can be dropped/changed by communicating, but the timeline has to be hard in business.
Warmer temperatures and higher CO2 levels are great for plants. The world is fully capable of growing all necessary food inside greenhouses if necessary, all it would take would be spending 25% of GDP on food rather than 10% as we do now. There will certainly be starving people in the future, but that will be a failure of capitalism not lack of capability.
The world needs a fully up-to-date edition of https://www.amazon.co.uk/Windows-Annoyances-Nutshell-Handboo...
There have been discussions of an "N of P" distribution, i.e. if 80% of available peers (or substitute servers) advertise the same build result, then treat it as safe.

I expect that both will be implemented, and the choice left up to the user.
Curious to see how this goes, specifically what percentage of current owners are still involved in operations 5 years from now. Live music is full of characters on the business side and I wonder it will be like for them having a boss.
It's hardware encrypted so the only 2 solutions to get the data are to either brute force it (impossible) or to get the crypto key from the chip inside.

If I understand correctly this drive is supposed to detect tampering and erase the key if you attempt to open the encasing.
The amount of caveats in his question made me laugh. This guy certainly knows his audience.
Notice that the sheriff who received the bribe was not charged.
What is the probability of an event that will compensate the effects in say next 50 years? e.g. nuclear exchange of X warheads or major volcanic activity etc ?
That is probably because you look at it from too narrow a position. Yes, the public transport inside Oslo may be brilliant. That is very good for transporting people around who lives inside Oslo, but chances are that a lot of people cannot afford or want to live there. For probably each kilometer extra you move away from the city center, the difficulty using public transport increases exponentially. Once you get to 50-100km away from the city center, then your options look very bleak.

I live in Copenhagen myself, but I grew up 100km outside of Copenhagen. Using a car to go back and forth from there to Copenhagen takes approximately 1 hour each way. Using public transportation all the way takes closer to 2 hours. Using a combination takes 1h 30min on a good day.

Some people move out of cities because they want the countryside. But other people are forced to do so because of prices. Banning cars from cities seems to only think of people who lives inside it and not how difficult it will be for a lot of people already "taxed" with hour long commutes because of stupidly expensive housing combined with centralization of workplaces.
Open Letter to Bundestag and EU on the EPO and Unitary Software Patents
They exist, but not at the big stores. You need to find one targeted at a conference room, or factory. The factory is probably better because safety information is displayed on them so people can die if it doesn't work for some reason.
Giving up on our current system will kill billions during the chaos of the transition. Green New Deal is still Industrial Capitalism, which is one of the reasons why it's a great idea.
Not to mention, they're supposed to be competitors, but they're cooperating so sweetly.
Presidential Neckties Recreated in CSS
s/wealthy/deserving/g

In their view.
TIL the difference between apt and apt-get; Thanks! (I was often a little bit curious, but never quite curious enough to go chase it down.)
EC2 Origin
The Combinatorial Object Server
Why Finding the Original 1977 ‘Star Wars’ Verges on the Impossible
The first few Google results for "sliding dot product" basically describe it as a convolution with the domain of one of the functions reversed. (Note as far as whether or not to reverse one of the functions, multiplication in base-b agrees with "convolution" and not with "sliding dot product".)

Elsewhere in the thread you seem to be suggesting that convolution is a way to convert between a frequency domain and a time domain, which suggests that you are confusing convolution with Fourier transforms. There's some nice relationships between these things, so they are often discussed together, but even then a single convolution happens either entirely in the time domain or entirely in the frequency domain, not as a way of going from one of those domains to the other. E.g. the pointwise product (in the frequency domain) of the Fourier transforms of two functions is the Fourier transform of the convolution (in the time domain) of those two functions.

There's also a chance you are focused on the difference between functions with a discrete domain and functions with a continuous domain. The term "convolution" is often applied to both.
This is incredibly cool: thanks for making and sharing it. Can't believe it's taken me 16 years to discover this gem.
Sure sounds like derivative works and that infamous JJ 25% different Trek & Wars.

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/04/star-trek-discoverys-vers...
In any project, you need some basic milestones/OKRS + something measurable, like a KPI. If the management layer around you did not structure their communication with you around these, that was their shortcoming perhaps.

You could certainly have compensated by putting these in place yourself, which would have shown some initiative and leadership.

For example, you could conceptually divide your project into various stages, with milestones in each, then communicate any road-blocks that prevented you moving to the next stage.

You could also create a KPI for your model (or a few KPIs), like a % success-rate for a classifier against some kind of benchmark data-set. Even non-technical people can understand "we're at 60% now, and we aim to get to 95% by the end of the project".

Ultimately, people do not care about the unusual edge-case or bug that you're dealing with - they care about the output. Perhaps structure your communication to focus on outputs, not the minutia of technical steps along the way.
Back a decade ago when I was doing cyber security work we would have to generate executive summaries of our reports. The only way for this to make any sense is to imagine the audience is an ADD 3 year old. Here were some of the factors that determined an executive summary:

* Very few words, and no jargon. Every statement is a meaningful fragment, like a subtitle.

* Colors, but not too many. Think of a pie chart.

* Numbers. Executives love numbers, but be careful. The numbers have to mean something that contains very few words and no jargon.

* Keep it short, because they don't care anyway. They are just concerned that something was wrong, something was done, and finally risk was reduced. All your words and fancy colors are quickly discarded so that a quick pass reassures them emotionally.

That is exactly how I would brief a business partner today unless I have full faith they are actively involved in the health of the product. It isn't that they are stupid, but that they don't care and you cannot make them care.
HSV isn't really its own colorspace, it's just an RGB colorspace that’s been twisted around.

If you want to communicate colors with people, I think your main choice is to either use color names (e.g. light teal, dark red) or Pantone.
Things I wish I knew before I bootstrapped my first SaaS startup
> 83% of gun owners support universal background checks.

It's kind of like how everyone supports "better infrastructure" or "fixing healthcare" but people greatly differ on the implementation details.

We already have background checks for commercial sales. What people support is extending that to private sales but with the caveat that it preserve the privacy of private sales. When you start talking about requirements like recording serial numbers and keeping records (both of which are required for commercial sales) support drops massively.

We could have universal background checks. It's not the NRA that's standing in the way. It's the legislators that propose background checks in ways that ensure they are a backhanded means of creating a registry that ensure those bills are stillborn.
Giving charity to non-muslims, is it permissible?
sure, if you could. but the value is in the eyes of the beholder. if the market genuinely believed that to be the case - PoW currencies wouldn't be worth anything, so far that isn't the case, so claiming that PoW is wasteful is disingenuous at best.

p.s. somebody really dislikes my opinions, as i'm banned from commenting on HN for the last couple hours or so :D
I think you are correct. That's something I failed to notice when I referenced your post.
Well, when nature does CO2 sequestration, it IS energy positive. The overall reaction

silicates + CO2 --> silica + carbonates

is mildly exothermic. This is why most of the carbon on Earth is in rocks, not in the atmosphere.
> security is not the primary thing they're buying

sounds like speculation. it's a major desirability factor in bitcoin.

> constantly increasing level of energy use is indeed a waste

the more money you store in a vault - the more security it needs for you to sleep well. you wouldn't lock a $5000 bike with $5 lock. so difficulty increase correlates very much with amount of wealth poured into bitcoin.

edit: typo
Hopefully there will be another flood before 2030!
Yeah, in NL people with mobility issues can use Canta cars or mobility scooters on the bike lanes, though there has recently been some pushback as people who don't need the mobility aid have sometimes been using Birò cars (similar in size to the Canta) there, so there have been rules introduced, or at least proposed, about who can park them on the footpath, though I'm not totally up on the details of it.
Looking back on 2020 – what's been the biggest thing to happen to DevOps?
>stackoverflow page comparing hash algorithms (from crc32 md5 xxhash to sha) thru patterns it generated onto an image.

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/145633

>Also answers by the zlib guy

https://stackoverflow.com/a/20765054

https://stackoverflow.com/users/1180620/mark-adler

>the nagle algorithm guy

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Animats
It's nice on mobile to avoid left-right
scroll for long urls. Copying the url is easy enough with right-click for desktop or long press for mobile.
I agree with you.

I've been thinking lately a bit about the scale of the problem we face. We essentially need to create enough carbon sinks that balance out all the oil and coal burned since the industrial revolution. Hopefully we do something with it all like build a giant coal brick pyramid.

It's really handy the sun shines light on us for free. I sort of have this crazy idea of turning large parts of the center of Australia into rain forest by using solar power desalinization plants to pump fresh sea water inland. But alas. Australia has carry over credits from Kyoto. She'll be right.

I'm going to reread all the Dune books in the holidays.
BitBar Needs a Developer
all it would take would be spending 25% of GDP on food rather than 10% as we do now

I don't know, I've grown quite sceptical about what technology can achieve against this problem. I'm pretty sure increasing food spending to 25% of GDP would involve a massive societal shift. Whatever way you look at it we are in for a lot of pain.
This .. also it's an issue of V8, not electron or vscode.
Have the dominant TCP implementations of today discovered the same solution or is there still dormant potential to increase bandwidth?
Fake news. It obviously lacks the required 1:4:9 dimension ratio.