skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Of course if you are reading this you probably trade in your car much sooner, and send it on down the line to poorer and poorer people, eventually the car ends up in Mexico/Central America (US/Canada), or Africa (Europe), where they keep it running until it is ~20 years old and the body fails.

Which is why the brands of cars less wealthy people buy are over-represented in the 15-25yo age group on US roads compared to when they were newer. All the stuff rich people buy get traded in, auctioned and (mostly) shipped to Central America. The stuff less well of people buy sticks around because they get private party sold to the next guy and the next guy and the next guy. You'll have an easier time finding early '00 Hyundai parts than early '00 Honda parts.
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A market doesn't exist in a vacuum, there is always a framework of rules or fees in place. A carbon tax is simply a convenient way to recoup the true costs of market activity.
But this very article is talking about the possibility of running out. Do you disagree with the premise of the article? Nature is a respected publication, if you think they're wrong you should work on a properly sourced and peer reviewed rebuttal.
Find a niche that serves as a barrier to entry to the young, trendy, and easily distracted. Security clearance could be one example.
Well, that's the point. Its called "irony". Likely were the money spent on AI, it would be better spent.
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Isn't this part of the premise behind The Thing?
Is a librarian going to give me sound statistical research, or regurgitate shibboleths about the importance of education?
Pretty sure he meant worst case in terms of reducing oil reliance, i.e. if use and demand can't be reduced to maintain existing supply then biofuels have to make up the difference.
To bad Amazon bookstores are such a disappointment.
They’re not wrong when they say that the greatest privilege of all is the blissful lack of awareness of your privileges.
Before you propose altering libraries across the country to fix this, check to make sure that this is an issue that libraries across the country face. I suspect that this is an issue in cities, but not at all outside of them.
And then you have the mayors of North Fulton (for example Mayor Mike Bodker of Johns Creek) that are fundamentally opposed to expanding various forms of rapid transit into their supposedly low density housing suburban communities:

https://www.johnscreekga.gov/NewsAndEvents/News-Archive/2018...

Having moved to Johns Creek from Boston last year, I think the Red Line should go all the way up 400 to Cumming and they should add more express lanes along 400.

But there are two messages I hear consistently around town when I ask various people about this issue:

1. People like their low density housing, and you are never going to be able to put in enough rail access (like Boston's T or NYC's Subway) close enough to where people live or where they need to be on the other end to eliminate cars off the road through most of the area.

2. They don't want particular groups from other parts of Atlanta having easy access to where they live...essentially to keep possible criminal elements away.

Point 1 is a legitimate concern, but commuter rail systems do exist in other areas of the country, and parking garages can be placed next to rail stations. Would definitely ease the nightmare that is rush hour on 400.

Point 2 is just a terrible legacy of racism that still exists in the South (and I'm a Southern boy born and raised until living in Boston for 10 years). There is a terrible acronym for MARTA that I have heard multiple times since moving here that just needs to disappear.
What's wrong with that? If you're writing code for pedagogical purposes, it doesn't necessarily need to be as concise as possible.
So true, my girlfriend had a driver pull his emergency brake then claim his brakes "didn't work" and she had to get out, because he didn't want to drive to Brooklyn. I have 0 sympathy for yellow cabs, Uber and Lyft have raised the bar. If cabs want to compete they need to completely rethink their experience.
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The thing that frustrates me about Spotify comes from a developer angle. They’ve deprecated libspotify and have been disabling bits of its functionality. A replacement has been promised for ages now but so far, it hasn’t happened.
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Out of curiosity, how do you post to an Instagram account. I thought their API doesn't allow for posting images without being logged in as the user.
Wow! nice one! Those PH hunters are getting out of control
Can we cite third world nations and past human history? Or do you want a detailed list of every time that lack of education or information negatively affected individuals, regions, economies, or governments? The list would be several billion lines long and no human could possibly compile it. I'm sure r/AskHistorians could give you a list of some of the more entertaining examples if you're interested.
Stuff that didn't work: novices with inaccurate mental models
Lots of people do. Politicians are well known for changing their speech later in life in order to convey a different feeling, usually "confident and statesman-like".

Personally I modify my speech by context, just as I modify my writing. When I'm "home" (where I grew up, my parent's house) I emphasise my accent a little more, just as I use local slang.

Some people, subconsciously echo a speaking-partners accent - changing the tone, timbre, inflections, and such between conversations.

But yes, you're right that voice was strongly linked to his identity as is often the case for prolific public speakers.
or, more typically in my experience, (and somewhat more worryingly), "I don't understand that people with economic, social, and cultural differences exist".

To paraphrase Eddie Izzard, it's like the traveling Briton visiting Afghanistan. "Sausage, egg and chips please... you do speak English, you just don't try!"
If you consider that every municipality in EU (or world) has similiar problems and the costs for running Microsoft and other commercial software is quite high everywhere I really don't know why the EU doesn't start some public company or organisation and polish the existing open-source tools.

It's probably considered anti-competitive but let's image they scrap 1 billion of their budgets and invest in opensource:

- polish Samba to be a viable Windows Server replacement. Replication, missing Kerberos functionality, Implement ADWS, ADFS - maybe Exchange APIs. Save millions on server costs.

- unfuck LibreOffice, develop a strong foundation to implement typical processes

- polish KDE / Plasma to macOS/Windows usability/stability
- rewrite kmail/korganizer with modern usability/ui

Not sure if that's possible but it feels like a lot of things are 60-80% done - maybe taking a leap and fixing the other 60-80% might make a difference.

- have an EU wide service agency that supports municipalities in implementing OSS

- demand opensource software for public money.

- create strong open standards and enforce them by law for public institutions.

maybe it will take 5 to 10 years but everyone should profit.
In fact, in my firmware writing style, I tend to separate MMIO accesses from mutation to make it clear when those bus accesses occur.
Censoring ‘bots is one thing (by which they mean politically oriented ‘bots, and not consumer oriented ‘bots.)

Censoring people (at times classifying a person-associated account as a ‘bot) on one side of the political spectrum more than the opposing side is an altogether different thing.

The latter is what brings the accusations of censorship.
Let me steelman that argument.

Libraries were invented because information was only available on printed (or hand written) books, which were very expensive and scarce resources.

Now information can be available almost literally for free and instantly, to anywhere. If the institutional inertia of libraries didn't exist today, would they really be invented as they are?

https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Steel_man
The problem is that the output of mining isn't a big, hard Thorium bed. It's going to be a big mountain of loose ore contaminating the water table.

It's like lead in car batteries. Lead is incredibly toxic, but is mostly safe in that application, as there is a very tight chain of custody for batteries and good recycling programs.
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It is very close. I'm sure I heard a closer one somewhere though ...
Libraries provide lots of value for non-“impoverished, underserved, and most vulnerable populations” too. I manage a maker space in an academic library on a health sciences campus. I collaborate with researchers to bring new ideas to life, and provide free public workshops around emerging technologies (for example, creating a 3D printable anatomical model from CT scan data, leveraging GitHub for scholarship, and more). My colleagues provide instructional workshops as well, and collaborate with researchers around systematic reviews, bioinformatics, and research data management.
True, but we are talking about a single person, not the population at large. You can personally change your behavior and save up a 20% down payment. You can probably save to a 100% down payment - if the market collapses at the right time (unlikely) in 10 years of living cheaply. Of course you forgo a lot of other things: I personally would rather have the toys now vs a paid for house in 10 years. YMMV, your goals are not mine. If you want to tour the world on a 6 star cruise ship for 30 years staring at age 50, you can save up enough money to do that if you live cheaply enough from age 20 on. (I can't help you live that long though, average lifespan is just under 80, and you could die in an accident at age 49.5 just before you retire)
> Those aren't even slightly equivalent positions, though. One is a request that material dealing with shocking or upsetting subjects be marked as such so that people who may be affected can avoid it, and the other is unsubstantiated racism that has been known as wrong for a century or more.

Technically speaking they're categorically equivalent in that they're both sanctionable under freedom of speech. From that perspective, whether or not you find one or the other more sanctionable has more to do with your personal opinions than it has to do with accuracy.

Since Twitter is a private organization it can freely decide to curtail freedom of speech on its platform, because that right is not guaranteed (or rather, relevant) in the private sphere. But that puts it into an uncomfortable position because it must then start being opinionated itself. Which opinions are the "right" ones? Which curtails are merely reducing spam and abuse, and which ones are censoring honest but unpopular opinions?

Now that aside, I agree with you that there is a difference between broadcasting unpopular opinions and targeting unpopular opinions towards another person. This makes the situation more difficult for Twitter, but there's a credible argument that curtailing the expression of those opinions in either context is censorship, while curtailing the expression of those opinions in the targeted context is spam and abuse reduction.

Twitter is fully allowed to engage in censorship, but it's probably strictly more beneficial from an inclusionary standpoint to invest in sophisticated tools for empowering users to reduce the spam and abuse targeting them (or which they come across) than it is to invest in sophisticated tools for curtailing "wrong opinions" across the entire platform. Most people can agree on the most extreme opinions that should be censored (though obviously not everyone). But it's hard to make companies the arbiter of which other opinions to get rid of, because from the obvious extreme ones there is a long, long tail of benign opinions that many people will reasonably (and unreasonably) take offense to.

For what it's worth, I think the situation is extremely complex and companies like Twitter are (somewhat unfairly) demonized for not doing enough, or doing too much to reduce the problem. But I don't think there's a substantially easier or more straightforward way of navigating these waters than Twitter has done, given the same capability and information.
> Could Amazon meet those needs more cheaply? If so, that is a win.

I question your premise. There are other KPI's in this world besides numerical financial efficiency.
If rarity is what makes a unicorn then they are more of a unicorn than the social media company du jour.
>nobody cares for your search for authenticity, you're expected to show up and work.

You are equating being authentic with being irresponsible, and those are not the same things at all.
Batteries might get more expensive, but if that happens then we'll see old batteries having scrap value, just like with aluminum today. People will hold onto their old batteries instead of trashing them or recycling them for free, and will re-sell them to recyclers, and recycling rates will go way up.

Just look at the recycling rates today for car batteries (lead acid): it's nearly at 100%, though of course part of that is because almost no one changes their own battery, and when they do, they do it at AutoZone in the parking lot and leave the old one there. But it's perfectly possible, especially with them retaining value, to have extremely high recycling rates for Li-ion batteries, so that the lithium, cobalt, and nickel inside never goes to waste and is continually recycled.

What we really need is better standardization for batteries for small devices, particularly phones, and elimination of the ability of devices to have non-replaceable batteries. I would actually favor a legislative approach to this: ban the selling of devices with sealed-in batteries altogether in major markets, forcing manufacturers like Apple to come up with standards and making batteries at least somewhat easily removed to facilitate recycling.
"I see no reason why Wells Fargo as a company — from both an investor standpoint and a moral standpoint going forward — is in any way inferior to the other big banks with which it competes"

--Buffett
I'm under the impression that its more to do with external hardware compatibility like printer drivers (do industrial printers have linux drivers?), license plate scanners, etc.
That's one thing I have noticed at the libraries close to me. They are pretty good at adapting to the needs of their neighborhood and pretty creative.

They seem to be one of the places where poor people get exposed to things they typically would never be able to use. 3D printers are one example.
Can you rephrase? The "prototype chain" refers to the whole sequence of objects that link to each other by the `__proto__` property, e.g.:

let vertebrate = {hasSpine: true},
mammal = {hasHair: true},
dog = {sound: 'bark'};
sparky = {name: 'Sparky'},
jumbo = {name: 'Jumbo'};

mammal.__proto__ = vertebrate;
dog.__proto__ = mammal;
sparky.__proto__ = dog;
jumbo.__proto__ = dog;

console.log(sparky.hasSpine); // true
console.log(jumbo.hasHair); // true
console.log(sparky.sound); // 'bark'
console.log(jumbo.name); // 'Jumbo'

When you access `sparky.hasSpine`, the JS engine first checks whether `sparky` has an "own property" called `hasSpine`. It doesn't, so it checks `sparky.__proto__.hasSpine`, which is the same as `dog.hasSpine`. No luck, so it checks `sparky.__proto__.__proto__.hasSpine` (i.e. `mammal.hasSpine`), and finally `sparky.__proto__.__proto__.__proto__.hasSpine` (i.e. `vertebrate.hasSpine`), which resolves to `true`.

This entire structure of objects linked through their `__proto__` property is what we call the "prototype chain". Does that answer your question?
There's something ironic about a lawyer and university employee decrying education. Perhaps we should hit you over the head a few times until you forget everything you've ever learned and see how well the rest of your life turns out?
https://algebra.sympathyforthemachine.com/

Basic algebra, but from a more proof-oriented perspective.
This kind of racist horseshit has no place anywhere.
IMs hit the sweet spot between fully real-time (like the phone) and fully async (like paper mail).

The UI is built for efficient real-time communication, but the underlying data model (the log, notifications, statuses, etc) allows for very easy async communication.

I think someone could make a great product by just adding IM-like UI features on top of an existing email backend. Email is pretty fast these days to work as mostly-instant communication.
OP didn't just assert that education has a value, but that it is "almost invaluable." In this context, we're talking about the marginal returns from more education compared to the marginal costs. I'm asking for evidence that, for our society, the marginal benefit from more education exceeds the marginal cost.
> Does it really matter if you are getting 88FPS or 80FPS if your monitor refresh rate is capped at 60FPS?

It does when you want "the best of the best" for gaming on an expensive 144Hz display, and also spend a ton of money on a GPU to handle that. You don't want your single-threaded CPU performance be the bottleneck in your games then - so for a top-of-the-line gaming PC, Intel is still the best choice.
Syncthing isn't very intrusive in my experience/opinion.

I created a keepass/syncthing directory somewhere inside my home directory, and I told Syncthing to sync only that directory. And the directory only contains the Keepass database plus a few Syncthing log files and such.
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I hope that's where this is going.
And to be honest they're not wrong (in those aspects)
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My point was that cars are versatile people moving machines. They’re very imperfect, but they go almost anywhere. HN seems to have an assumption that what’s good for the Bay Area can be exported everywhere, but that’s simply not true.
As they exist today: free access to computers and internet. Information is only literally free and instant if you have access to the internet, which isn't gauranteed especially for low income people.
If libraries were invented today, that would be immediately killed by the copyright and retail lobbies.
Ironically, in Nickel, the only company that somehow manages to lives outside the cartel scheme is Chinese.
Libraries have already been disrupted and in fact have mostly pivoted to providing free internet to people who need it.
Democracy can't function (at least not well) without an educated populace with access to information.
I agree Linux requires some polish, but have you tried e.g. LibreOffice lately? It's very good.

I have a small deployment of Linux machines running GNOME and the typical office suite applications, including LibreOffice. I'm using NixOS to ensure everything runs extremely controlled versions of software. It's rock solid.

Furthermore, the users are really technologically illiterate. And they like the UI. They have no issues.

I think the big problem is usually that people expect a perfect replacement for MS Office. They try to open DOC (not DOCX files) in LibreOffice. And it's not perfect. It can't be perfect, as it's playing a very hard catch up game on ill-defined file formats.
BTW: you can order a lot of Sparkfun (and Adafruit) stuff from DigiKey. I do this a lot since Digi-Key ships faster and I already live in MN so it gets here next day.
I'm sorry but everyone here is completely ignoring the congestion arguments, which like it or not, are actually very valid, just as much as the race to the bottom and long-term unsustainably low prices.

I dislike yellow cabs as much as the next guy but street space is definitely a limited resource and not being regulated in a healthy manner.
I wasn't under the impression there is a shortage of people on earth.
> Why should the city buy them back

So otherwise hopeless drivers/single medallion owners who are severely in debt don't end up committing mass suicide.
The counter-argument is that libraries provide vital services to communities as public facilities in addition to simply being collections of shared knowledge, and that physical space should not be so easily replaced by the virtual.
In many states foreclosure takes a "long" time. Making partial payments can prolong the process too. Research foreclosure laws in your state. After the housing burst there was a flood of delinquent mortgage payers. The banks didn't want to hold empty houses and were slow to go to foreclosure. Not to mention the courts were/would be swamped with them. Perhaps include these factors in your risk analysis too.
Imagine you go to the office canteen and suddenly you get Asian food and chopsticks. But all of you want your traditional, local food served along utensils you want and know how to use.

It's not possible anymore because Asian food and chopsticks are a decent and cheaper alternative.

Also not allowed to pack lunch. Also you get penalized for not being able to eat fast enough to meet your targets. Also you have to eat that food 8 hours a day, every day, for as long as you stick around. Well... imperfect analogy but I hope the point is clear. :)

So it's not just the fact that enterprise support for Linux solutions is flaky at best, that the tools themselves are many times nowhere near as powerful as they need to be, or that there is no coordinated strategy to push Linux in the enterprise where it should be going because the promoters never seem to be interested in having the "end-user" tell them what they want and how they want it. Sometimes it can be a lot simpler: the users don't want it. They don't feel comfortable with it so they won't do a good job with it.

This is one of the most common things IT departments all over the world get wrong: instead of enabling their users to do their job better they try to just dictate how to do it with solutions picked in a vacuum.

Just pick the right tool for the job and make sure you have the people using the tool to confirm it's right and you're good.
If you're going to have copyright and intellectual property, then you need libraries, period. You can't charge money for such goods and completely cut off access to those that can't afford them. You need a balance between compensating the hard work of the creators and making sure that all citizens have access to their own culture, especially children.

I also host a software development meetup at our local library, and I'm pretty sure that this is commonplace in the software meetup/user group world.

Even Thomas Sowell, a man that isn't fond of government ventures, frequently talks about how important libraries were to his intellectual development as a child.
How are you missing that the medallions exist and have a value at all because a former mayor and NYC council moved to cap Yellow Cabs too.

This isn't exclusively a protectionist issue. It is an anti-congestion issue.