skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't true.

The Transport Select Committee found that the loss of fuel duty from full electrification would need to be replaced by either a 5% rise in the base rate of income tax, or something else. Given that:

1) 5% on the base rate of income tax (in effect already 20% + 13.8%) is a big increase and that the 1.5%/3% increase in the national insurance component is already going to substantially increase the wage tax burden on many people so this may not be politically tractable.

2) If you wanted to recover it from higher rate tax payers, it would be a massive increase, a lot more than 5% this is probably also not feasible. (There are 27m basic rate taxpayers out of 32m taxpayers and only 4.1m higher rate taxpayers).

3) VAT ditto would have a catastrophic effect on the cost of basic goods, even more regressive than the NI increase.

4) People are already used to paying this money as part of owning a car so no "sticker shock"

The Select Committee therefore found that some kind of road pricing was the almost inevitable way of replaying fuel duty.

They did not say that this would require full tracking telematics, there are broadly a few different ways of doing this:

1) By far the simplest and most privacy preserving is a simple mileage counter with a flat rate. This means no data needs to leave the car.

2) A zoning / timing system operating on the car itself. This would allow simple congestion charging based on location and time of use without data leaving the car.

3) Fully dynamic charging system, this requires a central database tracking all movement.

I think a lot of transport economists would love 3 because they could make driving costs almost fully reflective of transport infrastructure costs - arguably someone who drives a light vehicle only at 3am imposes almost no load on the system while someone driving the same car, the same distance during the morning rush imposes a lot. It also allows the existing congestion charging infrastructure to be removed in London and the other places that are putting it in.

However people generally do not like this idea so I am almost sure that we will end up with either (1), (2), or those with an elective (3) that allows savings for people willing to disclose the data.
Most of the point of road pricing is to charge (much) more At places and times where traffic is congested, so traffic flows well 24/7 and we don't have to keep adding lanes and freeways eternally for the non paying traffic.
Yes, and when your protocol is almost 30 years old and has most of the true quirks and edge cases ironed out because nearly everyone with a computer uses it - I think adopting a more strict approach can make sense.

That said - there's a reason this draft wasn't adopted: it doesn't make sense in most other areas (and certainly wouldn't have made sense for http and some of these protocols even 20 years ago).

The reality of technology is almost everyone gives zero fucks about how good your standard/protocol is - they want to use it to do something genuinely useful.

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To summarize: The initial argument of this draft states "The posture this statement advocates promotes interoperability in the short term, but can negatively affect the protocol ecosystem over time."

My rebuttal is: Interoperability in the short term FAR OUTWEIGHS negative consequences in the long term, and should be prioritized for any protocol which has not yet seen wide and robust adoption.
Full title: Commercial Airliner Environmental Control System: Engineering Aspects of Cabin Air Quality

This article was put out by Boeing in response to concerns over disease spread by circulating cabin air. It doesn't cover biological factors, but gives a detailed description of the total air processing chain. Very interesting to me, as I found various factors to be more extreme than expected.
Agreed. Not that there's any dearth of slap fighting on HN, but it always perplexes me when people on Twitter and r/programming talk about "the orange hellsite" as though the quality of HN isn't dramatically higher than any other sizable web forum or social media network.
Identity theft from stolen card details is highly unlikely. Possession of credit card detail are never used as a proof of identity. They have your name and address from shipping information even with Crypto.
If I were you, I'd do write-ups of my process - or at least what I was trying to accomplish, what I did accomplish, what I tried that didn't work, and how I [eventually] got there

That said, you don't need to be able to give your entire life story in 17 minutes flat - but communicating is absolutely the most vital interpersonal skill there is!
Maybe it could allow new vehicles to self-report yearly until the first MOT.
“Just do it.” Frameworks absolutely suck, don’t use them. Normalize your data and just build things one step at a time.
Cars are already taxed per mile according to weight and inefficiency, it's called fuel tax.
I don't have an answer. I think maybe it's not so important that everyone be right all the time. I mean, it frequently seems like people are just talking past each other anyways.

However, I'm pretty certain that when someone says, "do you have a reference for that" or similar, what they really saying is "I think you're a fucking liar". So really, they're being antagonistic and dishonest about it. It's passive aggressive.
If said investor is risk-averse, I'm not sure I would be recommending going all-in on broad market index funds either.

Generally speaking, we're here recommending approaches to young investors, whose timelines are long enough that risk shouldn't be meaningful. Based off that, the result that will produce the best return on average is not going to be DCA.
Question is, would Apple's VR kit require Apple devices to work...
I use to joke that its a miracle people are still allowed to go outside without a specific reason and/or permission. Corona made it less funny. I still have my pedestrians should wear reflective jackets helmets, safety shoes and knee pads joke. Curious how long that will last.
I've never seen Trump lumped into the scapegoating of recent traffic deaths onto grumpy motorists, but certainly the pandemic-despair traffic death meme is widespread. Strong Towns has a different explanation that is less dependent on the entire driving public sharing a mindset with a few journalists at big papers: much of the congestion, which acted as the only reasonable limit to speed on our very dangerous roads, has gone missing. Jeff Speck (Walkable City) also recently talked about how he got suckered into the same just-so story until he heard Marohn's explanation.

In podcast form: https://podcast.strongtowns.org/e/driving-went-down-fataliti...
In article form: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2022/1/10/driving-went-d...
I'm pretty sure it's sarcastic and a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World
I think it's important to note that in Bradburys book, that book burning was initially approved by all of society, by both politicial sides, factions and peoples as these first books were universally condemned. The subject matter of these horrid books were basically things that are today illegal in England today to own. Truely evil stuff. The initial book burning in that fictional history did not have critique, warning, criticisms or opponents. Everyone did it and wanted it.

I'd be happy to burn most of that kind of material, most of us here would also be eager book burners of that first wave also. That's partly why Bradbury's book is True and powerful.

Edits, answering the article a bit: The truth (obviously not the main message through) in the novel is not that people were led into ignorance or gently coaxed by technology, just the opposite: people will exclude and censor naturally, especially when they all agree.
Not silly at all but quite practical. How do you propose they could have easily measured true airspeed and true altitude before GPS?
Just because a Business person gives a description in non-technical-eze doesn't make him/her an idiot

It means you're not yet fluent in their language
There is a difference between "you're over 40, get out" and "you don't understand how to do this job in the current tech landscape, get out." One is age discrimination and is illegal. One is smart business.

As for "here were are with most stuff in the cloud now" that is 100% a function of what industry you're in. Healthcare, banking (consumer and investment), security, very little of that is in the cloud and they're huge industries controlling hundreds of billions of dollars a year.
I’ve posted idiotic things to Usenet years ago that I wish weren’t archived and impossible to delete.
Ephemerality is sometimes your friend.
Is the site massassi.net? Me and my friends went there all the time as kids, it was our first exposure to modding.
I'd actually prefer a Bayer panel over the traditional stripes, if it's sufficiently dumb in "native" mode and there exists a post-process shader for the GPU to monolithically handle reverse-debayering, overdrive (LCD response speeds are non-linear), dithering, and color-mapping. Ideally, the latter even able to use a head tracker to compensate for viewing-angle-dependent gamma curves (the main pitfall of MVA panels for semi-static content).
A Short, Non-Fungible Story
Hello fellow HN swiftie. I've also been pondering creating some (non copyright infringing) Taylor Swift app recently. Something like this is always a good idea as I'm constantly doing double takes to make sure I'm listening to Taylor's Version whenever a Red or Fearless track starts playing. I wonder if this would be possible too for Youtube playlists/suggestions, as that's my primary streaming music source. Also, since this app is written in Swift (natch), don't suppose there's any possibility of an Android port?

I know this is an unpopular take among reddit swifties, but I really miss The Swift Life app. When it shut down part of me wanted to reverse engineer the server-side to keep it going. It was a unique social media app and had a great, creative and artistic community. I even got free rep tickets from a friend on it! Also Taymojis. I still keep the app's icon on my phones homescreen, and launch it every now and then...
Of course you're going to get a different experience than on a desktop OS, and you're not going to satisfy every programming environment. But between "virtually none" and "every" there is a huge space that iOS would be able to fill with its current OS design. I'd argue that a lot of developers could do their job on the iPad, if there was VS Code available for it. Right now this isn't even possible, because alternative browser engines aren't allowed on iOS. Why not allow the software on the device? There's no need to change the OS in the slightest. It's easy to dismiss the concept, when it hasn't even had the chance to prove itself.
Just wait until everyone is doing this though!

The next Ask HN thread will be: "How to deflect all these people who suddenly want to stay in touch or keep texting me every 3 weeks on the dot"
It really depends on your project & how your code is split up. A lot of business type logic code should be identical.

I've migrated a couple decade plus old web form projects. A lot of the business logic can be moved to .NET Core 6 verbatim. I'll often set up a new version & slowly proxy web requests from the old site to a new version of the site as we update it.
A pay as you go model seems reasonable in principle, but the devil will be in the detail. In theory the information being gathered is public already. I could follow someone round the public highways if I wanted to. But having everyone’s movements in one big database obviously presents huge problems.

The UK has no written constitution, which has its advantages sometimes, but could be a problem here. What we have instead is institutions. So we must hope that one of them steps in and puts limits on how this can be used.
Do you have an example? Contested topics can be flagged by users, but it's possible to appeal to HN moderators. Has anyone been banned from HN for a topic? Over the last couple of years, HN has been one of the few places where debate was even possible.
A problem with annual milage is annual tax. How many people are planning for a 4 figure tax bill? Gas tax is per fill and built in.
>e.g. locking the user out and prompting them to install an app

this has never happened to me in 5+ years of using reddit
Then just say "time". Honestly, if your director, CIO, and CEO don't have a decent vocabulary then perhaps explaining this issue isn't your firm's biggest problem.
Also, there is significant evidence that reducing the frequency of MOTs would be a good thing all round (no real downside, until a car falls below a specific level).
So just to recap --- they're not random, they're not really audits and they're not done by E&Y.

Basically, you're just trusting Coinbase.
If I accept your argument I should reject it on account of the impossibility of adequately verifying its premises!
We do have driving licences, I fully expect cycling and eventually walking licences in future.
Latin didn't even evolve lowercase letterforms until the 9th century AD. "J" didn't evolve as its own letter until sometime in the 16th century AD. Early Roman had only 19 or 20 distinct (strictly uppercase) letters depending on exactly which scholar and century you're looking at.

IMO, the various letterforms in use by all of the alphabetic languages have more to do with the available writing technology of their day, and in keeping the letterforms sufficiently distinctive to quickly recognize whole words. Compare Etruscan engravings to early Roman engravings to German blackletter to Spencerian cursive to Zaner-Bloser cursive for example.

Hangul has a similar diversity in stroke shapes to Latin characters, but much more diversity in stroke position. I pity the poor engineer who might have been tasked with constructing an N-segment display for Hangul in the days before dot-matrix technology was feasible.

Finally, the 7-segment display doesn't actually look particularly recognizable when being used to render latin text. It only really works for the European evolutionary branch of Arabic/Hindu numerals. Even with only 26 (modern! English!) letters, we still have enough stroke diversity that we'd prefer to render text with more complexity. 2^7 segment combinations for only 2^3.3 characters doesn't sound so optimal any more, does it?

But if you want to stick with your information-theoretic observation, I'll point out the completely unrelated fact that some of the early and successful forward error correction schemes for Gaussian channels use rate 1/2 coding. Anything optimized for burst errors is quite different, though.
Agree in almost all ways:

- ETFs, Vanguard is a good choice for most. If you're older and might need a large percentage of the money fairly soon, consider getting some bonds as well.

- Don't try to time the market

- Don't think you're smart

The only personal difference is I prefer FTSE All World as it is diversified into over 4000 global stocks, while the S&P 500 is (obviously) 500 American stocks. That being said the S&P 500 has been outperforming the FTSE All World for a long time, and I certainly don't want to give anyone specific investment advice.
The bill is called a "special assessment." It does permit you to do the work yourself if you want, but that's much more expensive typically. Right to work on the property is called an "easement."

These measures are common in urban areas in the US.
> The disadvantage of taxing based on fuel is that it mostly benefits newer cars, generally owned by the richer groups in society

At the point we currently are, even 10-15 year old cars can get a good mileage. Sports cars and aggressive driving, on the other hand, can't. So while it's not perfect, I think the system actually works quite well.

Additionally, taxing fuel has the advantage that people 'feel the pain' every time they refuel, which is a lot more effective than paying once a year.
No, never was.
Not by default?
Mostly only for certain definitions of "grumping" that are poisonous to substantive conversation. I find on HN that [user] moderation is largely irrelevant to the subject, which is a small miracle even despite its imperfect application.
I hate letting the Biz Analyst "handle that"

All too often, the "spec" a BizAn tries to hand over is nothing resembling a "spec", and instead just a bunch of word vomit I have to take back to the original source(s) and ask them to explain everything they wasted hours explaining to the "analyst" because the "analyst" didn't analyze anything - they just reformatted what the enduser(s) said into a standardized form
Driving the price of a stock higher is a bad thing?

Also why are you calling his actions naive ? He made money as did others.
Boston drivers were cconditioned for perpetual bumper-to-bumper traffic. With traffic levels down, there was no bumper in front of them to slow them down so they just floor it until they find one.
We don't ban people for that sort of reason.

Comments like this need to come with links so people can make up their own minds.
No. Moxie equated FB messenger with Telegram. Neither offer the encryption guarantees of Signal.
I don't take notes, I create documents that I refine over time. A bit of research into a topic gets continually added to as I read related books and articles, with linked pages for the specific sources tied into the core topic with generic content in it. I find taking notes to be pretty pointless, but organising information to be helpful - if that makes sense.

The limit of my notetaking is daily journaling because if I link out to the pages I created or updated with some contextual information (e.g. "read chapter 2 of book X, went off and read a blog post at https://X that was mentioned") then I can retrace the backlinks to find out when/how I learned something. I wish I could do that with things that I haven't put into Roam (or Notion, which to be honest I use more often).
It depends on the city/state/county you are in and the local building codes. The city I grew up in the code was to have a sidewalk in pretty much all new construction building conditions except in some very narrow ones. It was very nice. Biking/walking was easy and 'built in'. The sidewalk at my parents house I think is the original one the builder put in, in the 1940s. With a small segment replaced because tree damage. If you DIY the cost is fairly low, just a lot of work. But if you hire a contractor to do it, the cost can spiral pretty quickly. If the cost is folded into the price of the house you would not notice it much. But to add on after the fact it can be a bit of sticker shock.
This is such a bad advice. Buying an index is what they want you to do. They want you to buy and hold until you retire. Do you not see the problem with that logic?
Basing games on engines - a long and fruitful endeavor. My favorite: a Star Treg TNG based level on Unreal Engine called "Run, Neelix, Run"
The key issue here is that over the years petrol and diesel have become cash cows for the government, which is now in a bind because of EVs.

Instead of jumping deeper into the rabbit hole with this slightly insane proposal perhaps the time has come to move tax income back to more sensible sources like income and corporate taxes.

There could also be a drastic increase of the road tax but obviously that would cause a political shitstorm.
To be pedantic, It is entirely possible in .net to have either multiple classes per file or multiple files per class.this has been in since least .net 2

Pardon my formatting I'm on a phone

Namespace foo{
Class class1{}
Class class2{}
}

And

Partial class foo{
}
But now you successfully filtered most of the people that don't. And there is tons of quality software without a business incentive aside from the fun to create said software. Happens, since part of software development is a creative (non commercial) enterprise. I would write more free software too if I didn't need to pay rent. Of course free software cannot be the only model, but as I said, you won't find much of that in app stores.
I really sympathize with you and GP, and I believe "war" could somewhat easily be made obsolete.

But to answer your question historically...

> and all this for what?!

I would argue that it's for Pax Americana, a very complex thing which the world has largely benefited from and yet we all hate on it.
But do the mobile networks keep a log, and can those logs be subpoenaed anytime?

I assume all protections can be dismantled in the name of “security” or a “terror threat”, even in the Netherlands.
I think there's an even more understated value here: being able to send a file and the server never running out of space and you, the user, never having to worry about it and wonder "should I have just uploaded this somewhere else and linked it?"
Thanks for the feedback! I've actually never heard of The Swift Life, I was a casual fan for a long time but I only really became a huge fan around the time Lover was released.

You're right about Android (and fwiw this app is 100% SwiftUI). I would love to make one but I don't know if I have the time and ability to make an Android app that I'd be proud putting my name on. I am considering making a web version though. I'd also love to add support for Apple Music, but their API doesn't allow third party apps to delete songs from playlists.
Monthly tax bill for the year prior?
This sounds like good advice no matter what language/framework
The tax savings and subsidies are a major driving force behind people getting EVs. They're inherently more expensive if those tax advantages were to be removed.

Currently it's carrot and stick, they'll eventually have to transition to a "smaller stick and larger stick" model.
Hmm. You tax fossil fuels heavily in Order to persuade people to use less and choose more environmentally friendly alternatives. They do that but now you're used to having the money so you tax the thing you wanted them to switch to..
You’re parroting unfounded conservative talking points. We never defunded the police. Any cuts were minor and temporary

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/cities-vowed-2020-cut-po...
I think where they are going with that is that this sounds suspiciously like a “people problem” and not a technical one though it is attempting to solve it via technology. For some reason desktops let software do whatever and they don’t seem to have near as much an issue as mobile OSes.

IMHO, it’s the fact that there’s a (basically, by default) a single market driven by (basically, by default) a single search engine to locate software. The desktop market, is largely NOT driven by a single market or search engine. With the “single market” if a malicious actor can game the search engine for even a day, they can install on (potentially) millions of devices. However, with the ‘ole distribution model, it’s much harder to game.
I drove a 1990 Mustang V8 from ‘00-06 or so. It was 0-60 in about 6-flat. So that is a good reference point. Our 4Runner also makes 300hp and is actually sluggish, even by older standards. So not all cars are insane and it is really nice to have efficient 300hp engines for a lot of reasons. My truck makes 500hp and 1000 ft/lbs torque and gets like 18-19 mpg in its stock form. Extremely useful for towing and amazing efficiency given what it does.

So, some cars are too fast, but that efficiency and power also has a lot of practical purpose in many vehicles. Anyhow, I agree with the thrust your statement, but most people are responsible enough to not drive a powerful car recklessly.
I’m surprised at how much this got downvoted. The laffer curve is pretty intuitive. I’m not sure why there is all the hate