skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"fix the Internet so that thepiratebay.org no longer resolves," sounds a lot like .. “take that pizzeria on the corner off the phone network," and not like an attack on the fundamental principles of internetworking.

I don't get this - disconnecting the pizzeria from the phone network seems more severe than simply removing it from the yellow pages. If you remove thepiratebay from DNS you can still reach it via its IP address, you can still link to it, and you can probably still find it using search engines.
Except the US government is by far the largest R+D spender in the world. Its not like the drugs it fund become public domain. You don't seem to address that at all.
If an investor is planning to buy $1 million worth of housing, it is strictly better that he spends it on 2 small units in the midst of a luxury high-rise than spending it by snapping up 2 large traditional family homes. High density central housing reduces prices for the suburbs. That's why Tokyo housing is so cheap.
Why isn’t windows just built on Linux at this point are there reasons for MS to maintain their own kernel? There must be people inside of MS asking this just like how edge is now built on chromium...
"that's why you don't see a reinvented mouse trap at home depot"

Interesting for you to say that. The last time I went looking for mouse traps, I found that every place I went had a reinvented type, and traditional style were extremely hard to find. Yet, it is true that the traditional style is simple and effective. I've learned from experience that anything else is likely to be useless.
What makes you think they are even trying to make a profit? Uber has investors willing to throw billions at them to spend on growth, why wouldn’t they take it?
Thanks for the DBT tip. I've always wanted composable SQL statements but never known how to achieve it.

https://docs.getdbt.com/docs#section-what-makes-dbt-so-power...
Had to search to see if there had been any discussion on this piece on HN - what an important testimony. Sobering and unrelenting.
For anyone else immediately curious: the US's [ex post facto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law#United_State...) law applies to retroactively deeming acts to be criminal. Challenges to retroactive tax laws on this basis have not succeeded.
Since Nextdoor is siloed on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis, the tone of the site can vary significantly from one area to another. And once the fearmongering starts in a neighborhood, it's likely to stick.
Fusion 360 (or FreeCAD) renders a triangle mesh on-demand at display time from the underlying model. But that underlying model is based on solids with perfect platonic shapes like arcs, spheres etc.
In Blender and OpenSCAD the underlying model is also based on triangle meshes, so they cannot do the same.
As someone with experience in using PostgreSQL, but who found that it would fall short for a current project due to among other things the problems you refer to as “poor system cohesion”, I am intrigued by EdgeQL.

Something I wonder though; can materialized views be created with EdgeQL? And if so, does updating materialized views still require fully rebuilding them, as PostgreSQL does, or can they be updated incrementally?
And here's the problem - "investment". Residential property should never be an investment,it should only be a place one calls home.
> Line up every person in the city in order of how much they're willing to spend on a home.

This is the “city as a closed universe” fallacy. What you actually have to do is line up every potential purchase of a home (which may be more than one per buyer) in the city by any person in the world in that order.

Which is why you can't move the needle very much in a high demand region by increasing supply in any way that is practical over any reasonable period [0]; there's usually a lot of available demand that must be filled before you see a perceptible price drop.

[0] at least before considering the effect that population density outpacing service and infrastructure scaling can have on desirability, which isn't usually the effect people are looking to leverage to reduce price, though making the city into a hellhole does have that effect.
Datalog appears to address a lot of these concerns
Is it true that plotters were the first graphical device to be controlled by computers? before oscilloscopes?

Doesn't really make a difference to the point in the article. Both are "vector" devices. But I'm curious about the history.
> Once everyone who wants a house at a price point gets one. Same applies to roads: if you build them big enough eventually there are enough lanes.

Here is a report from UC Davis that shows otherwise:
http://www.dot.ca.gov/research/researchreports/reports/2015/...
Model 3 is safest production car to the date, as most of the car components are integrated problems can be fixed remotely but still when you have to get to Service Center Tesla is notably improving it. Quality of Tesla drive train, battery, efficiency, supercharger network, software ecosystem, Autopilot (which is best driver assist system available now) .
> IMG would autoplay, would not have sound, would loop, and would not have controls.

Why do you hate my phone battery so much?
Well simple and dumb generally is good for all engineered things, as long as they aren't so dumb that they can't do their job.

This principle applies especially well to boot loaders, because the job of a bootloader is to hand control off to some other, more sophisticated piece software.
EdgeDB is not quite D if you read all the proscriptions to the letter, but it's very close :-)
From a simple consumer's perspective, I'm content with all software I already have, and don't have extra money to burn. The few times I need more software, I can usually find free (and open source) solutions pretty quickly, and I've never had to compile it myself.

From a seller's perspective, I've made software that I found useful and nobody's ever willing to pay for it. The few times I did make money off software, it was because it was shiny, during the era when shiny software got attention and made money. And even then, it was short lived.

I personally think we've exhausted all categories of software possibilities. What society could really use now is to reinvent existing software in a reasonable way, with better principles:

- Make software much more interoperable with other software, and invent decent protocols for this.

- Make software less invasive of our lives, and less manipulative of our minds, moods, and attention spans.

- Make software that encourages you to get the job done and move on with your life, rather than optimizing for endless consumption.

Put another way, imagine there was no software at all right now, but we still know everything we know about software. And imagine avaricious people didn't call the shots, but the software engineers who care make the decisions. Imagine we could still collaborate with one another as fast as we do now. All you have is hardware and a bunch of specs and firmware. Now, what could humanity come up with?

That's what we should be working towards.
> I could not name a single microtransactions game that offers a similarly deep or atmospheric or satisfying experience as, say, Breath of the Wild, The Witcher 3, Final Fantasy X or a round of multiplayer Mario Kart. Can you..?

I'm not sure what you consider a "microtransaction game" but LoL and dota 2 are both completely free and have huge hardcore followings. I believe CS: GO is also free to play now.

They're significantly more involved than Mario Kart at the very least.
Well, let's look at it from the other side of the equation. It seems like a lot of companies are creating a second office location in Austin, Salt Lake, etc. at the series C stage. From my conversations with these founders, the required salary/costs in SF just make it unfeasible for both the company and employee at some point. If more housing just induces demand, it still means the required salaries are still too high for the company versus say Salt Lake. At some point, this matters. If the average SF vs. SL engineer isn't 10x, but 1.2x, a Salt Lake company will beat its SF competitor if the SF company has to pay 2x for 1.2x talent. The job side of the equation has to be there to induce demand, even if the cost of living falls.
Because things like sleep and hibernate work on Windows?
> I drive a Tesla on a daily basis, so I have some idea of how close it is.

Come on, this has to be self-parody at this point.
It works fine in economic simulations. It works out terribly on human timescales. I could post a couple thousand words describing the negative feedback loop this can create but you're not even thinking about transaction costs.
It's not even a chroot. That's how crouton works.
Crostini, the google provided solution, actually runs all the "containers" under a KVM virtual machine. So it's even more abstracted.
We do. Dunno what country you're from, but in the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Food_and_Drug_A...
Can you use views or other feature to tie together a table and its mapping table into a single view?
A moon base must have seemed inevitable to those in the 1960s too.
To be fair it's the unit economics that you'd want to look at, not the timeframe.

If their goal is to go very global, very quickly, it'll take more than a decade of burn.

If the unit numbers work in established cities, and they are spending on direct expansion, then it's good.

That said, much of their 'expansion' has been into other things, and their unit economics are questionable, though on the later ... when Lyft and Uber settle down into a nice duopoly in most cities prices will inch up a little bit if need be.
Shooting someone is never a good outcome.
Typical Red Hat... takes over CentOS and now they are going to take their sweet time to update it and we'll end up with a bunch of EL distros again because Red Hat can't automate anything. It really should be built the same day as RHEL. I don't know anyone who uses RHEL anymore though because they are so antiquated.
I didn’t really understand your post other than a high level point that you believe SQL is insufficient.

I’m not quite understanding the benefit of your example. I don’t personally want to write that style of syntax.
> They reference the concept of open file handles and moving folder structures.

I think this comment may have been disingenuous on their part. The reason is that this problem more than likely still exists in WSL2 for the /mnt/c, /mnt/d file systems (i.e. what they used to call "DrvFs" in WSL1).

WSL1 comes with (at least) 2 file systems. "VolFs" which is the file system that they use for the Linux root file system and "DrvFs" which is the file system that they use to access Windows drives (C:, D:, ...).

In WSL1 VolFs was implemented as a layer on top of NTFS, so it comes with all the Windows file system and NTFS baggage. In WSL2 they will replace this file system with a native ext4 formatted partition on a VHD file, thus eliminating the Windows I/O stack (except for READ/WRITE I/O to the VHD file).

My contention is that they could have instead replaced VolFs with a native WSL1 file system that uses a disk partition or VHD as its backend storage, thus eliminating the Windows I/O stack in the same way. They could then have implemented proper Linux file system semantics without any baggage.

> I think they found the boundary of OS research in this case

Unlikely. It would not surprise me if the changes we are seeing are less technical and more political.
X-Rays Are the Next Frontier in Space Communications
In our well to do South Bay neighborhood, it's about unknowns ringing their door bell, which is obviously a very suspicious activity.

When my wife and I once had to go to all the houses of the neighborhood, it was amazing how many people who were clearly at home did not open their door.

It's a totally alien concept to where I originally come from.
I'm confused. Does this actually exist yet?

The linked page says things like "Blue Moon is a flexible lander", and "Blue Moon can land multiple metric tons of payload on the lunar surface". Is there any actual hardware? Or is it entirely CAD drawings and renderings? They seem to be implying that the hardware currently exists and is ready to go (presumably for the Pence/Trump 2024 mandate), but the videos and pictures don't seem consistent with that.

Edit: I found a bit more info elsewhere [1]. They built a nice nonfunctional model of it. It sounds like it's relatively early in development, let alone integration. They'll start testing the engines in the next few months. This sort of hyperbolic marketing copy that abuses verb tenses and grammar is a huge pet peeve of mine.

[1]: https://spacenews.com/blue-origin-unveils-lunar-lander/
Apple is only making sure their profit from mobile section isn't falling by just playing around with sales.

All they do for desktop and laptop is just tell the public number of git branches they made as number of new features added.

I could still use Snow Leopard if they kept patching it for recent hardware.

Loss of a visionary is a way for a slow death. When are they going to wake up and be innovative again?
My university was fond of saying it expected to serve students for thousands of years to come. Always thought that was laughably naive. It was maybe 70 years old at the time.
2004 Infinti G35X
Owning a fleet is mostly a problem when they are laying around depreciating without being used. Higher capacity factor of self-driving cars will make the economics a lot better. The main issue would be if one player owns the self-driving IP they can capture that surplus. So investing to develop that IP is an good opportunity.
You either have actual NULLs in your tables or you have implied NULLs that don't exist in the actual tables but still come up when you do LEFT JOINs etc.

I don't think NULLs are actually a problem in SQL. It's not like we're talking about pointers, it won't cause your server to crash if you use them wrong. NULLs in SQL are fine.
I vividly remember the weird artwork of "I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew" as a kid.

Also prominent in my memory were: The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and Fox in Socks.
"If they could have gotten a higher price, they would" - this is very true.

But consider with every price is risk.

It may very well be that Uber wants to limit risk of some debacle and is taking a conservative approach, which is reasonable.
Early investors need to recoup something, so thats going to come from retail investors and pension schemes. When the share price halves in 12-24 months time the early investors and founders will be so rich they wont care.
What I meant is the interface of the built app, not an IDE.

Whenever I bring up Wolfram doc, someone tells me there are thousands of pages. I know that. Have you read any of them? They're not like any programmer doc I've ever seen. Instead of explaining principles and rules, they just give a lot of examples. It's not really helpful and it helps cement my position that Wolfram is more of a library than a language.
Given that is the case, what exactly stops a city from enacting a 100 year retroactive income tax? Are there limits to how far back they can go?
I think you must also fake the user agent as "iWalk-v2"
Sure, why not? Uber fights dirty with municipal government, might as well fight dirty back.
With 1KB of flash do you even need a compiler?
I remember in my control engineering classes, my professor would say that the worst buildings to construct in a high earthquake risk area are midrises (~18 stories). I'm not an expert on this matter, but if this is correct, San Francisco has a natural challenge to housing that NYC doesn't have. Building tall is expensive, and building low doesn't create optimal density.
I consulted for someone once to do some market sizing among other things. They were determined to make a case around winning 10% or whatever for the worldwide market for X.
No it does not exist yet. This is a page devoted to pulling both private and public funding and something to wave in front of Congresscritters' eyes.
> Is open source really more secure?

I think the trend now is to believe that closed software that is actively maintained by a well resourced party is more secure than open software that is barely maintained by whoever contributes.

Binary blobs for hardware that has long shipped doesn't really fall into the "actively maintained" category. At least not reliably.
controls engineering still mostly deals with the physics of the process and not how the software is implemented.

It is probably different on larger projects or when working for public utilities. All of the ones I have worked on are less than 50MW and are owned by corporations.

I think a lot of the automation field is learned on the job. you can take a PLC programming course but all you learn is the specifics of how to program that platform. It doesn't tell you what to program. That depends on the process you are controlling. I got in to hydro by working for a utility that owned a power plant as a student and then when looking for work after university sought out any opportunities for someone who liked programming and power plants. There are lots, but the catch is having the experience to get the job. I got in the door of a power plant by helping to program their datalogging and alerting system and then learned how to program the machines from a consultant who graciously provided me the on the job training and an owner who was willing to let me make mistakes.
Even after you tell Alexa to delete your words, it still keeps transcripts
Which is why nobody's addicted to crack and there's no problem! /s

The notion that people are perfectly free and rational entities is a dangerous fallacy. People don't have perfect information, they don't make perfect decisions, and if there's something the government can do that improves the lives of many while inconveniencing few, then it's absolutely the government's job.

There exist substances which will get you addicted instantly. Do these have any place in a free market? Where does the rational "value equation" come in to that?
Exactly this. The problem is that capital is essentially globally mobile at this point. I personally support making cities for the residents of that city first and foremost. An example of this would be:

- All property ownership needs to be tied to a person as in no shielding behind LLCs for tax purposes at least (you might for privacy reasons).

- Owning a property in a city makes you a resident of that city (and country). Your worldwide income and assets are now taxable.
Astronauts train for years before going to space. Do these space tourism companies pretend that anyone with enough cash can do it?
>Is it curation from the staff or is it selective manipulation?

Curation is selective manipulation. Whether it's positive or negative correlates to whether you personally agree with it.
That's just personal preference, in our shop we use lowercase for SQL reserved words.
Presumably their New Glenn rocket
Does Windows et al really not provide a mechinism for saving privileged settings in a tamper-resistant way? I frankly find that hard to believe. How does other software solve this problem?

There are of course always workarounds on an open platform like Windows/Mac/Linux, but the threshold isn’t “impossible”, it’s just “as difficult as injecting into the browser’s code.”

Edit: For example, what if the config file contained a checksum of the file's contents + the user's hardware? If the setting is changed by the user within Firefox, the checksum is updated and everything works—if the checksum is invalid, settings are reset to the default.

Video games will occasionally do this type of thing with their config files. Modders often figure out the formula—but again, the idea here isn't to make editing the file impossible, it's to make it as difficult as injecting into the Firefox executable.
Yeah I do run termux, but I don't run an SSH daemon anymore (mostly because of issues like that). I just plug in the USB cable and run `adb shell` whenever I need a shell on the phone.

Performance for file transfers is also way faster and more reliable using `adb pull /sdcard/DCIM ./` than with `scp -r phone:/sdcard/DCIM/ ./`

I use termux mostly just run my own ruby scripts or SSH to cloud servers and stuff.

Mind if I ask where the conversation is? (if it's public). That sounds like something I'd enjoy :-)
Ouch that scrolling though
If people are having their bikes stolen, that’s not paranoia. I would not want to live in such a neighborhood and it’s always a little shocking to me to see this type of commentary on Hacker News where low level theft and vandalism appears to be accepted as just how life is. It definitely doesn’t have to be.
Any thoughts on voxels? Write ups I’ve read on the concepts behind voxels have been pretty interesting. The idea of building up objects from grains of sand with material properties (instead of shaders, textures, bump maps, bounding boxes, etc.) is pretty interesting.
That was also my initial thought. It's hard finding it in California but found one place (Rick's Ice Cream in Palo Alto) that sells it in the bay area.
>They are only going to be used when the latter isn’t viable

Which unfortunately is a large portion of the needed areas.
I didn't know the term for it [1], but yes, I had long since started checking out whenever someone starts to appeal to "if we can just get n% of <huge market>".

[1] Even "Chinese Soda" has not entered common usage enough to justify calling it "the" or "a standard" term for it.
The recommendation part is not my experience. (The whining about suspicious people walking on the street OTOH...)

We pretty much only use Nextdoor for the occasional recommendation or when we have some garage stuff to sell/give away.
It’s not that uncommon. I’ve certainly heard of it. But basically winning 1% of sizable markets is neither easy or cheap in most cases.
You’re unusual, relatively speaking. Most people keep numbers for decades.
They'll launch this paper lander on their paper rocket (New Glenn). Nothing exciting here because there's no hardware being built yet.
If SF wants more affordable housing, step one is to allow developers to build more freakin housing! Then sure, you can tax IPO lottery tickets if you want. Honestly it probably won't make any startup leave the city. The companies don't bear the tax burden, the employee does. And I don't think a company is going to lose out on employees simply because the employee doesn't want to lose an extra 1.2% in their stock comp.
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I'm only starting to hear that Uber intends to replace public transportation:

> Our Personal Mobility TAM consists of 11.9 trillion miles per year, representing an estimated $5.7 trillion market opportunity in 175 countries. We include all passenger vehicle miles and all public transportation miles in all countries globally in our TAM, including those we have yet to enter, except for the 20 countries that we address through our ownership positions in our minority-owned affiliates, over which we have no operational control other than approval rights with respect to certain material corporate actions. We estimate that these 20 countries represent an additional estimated market opportunity of approximately $0.5 trillion.

See "Our Market Opportunity" section in the S1 (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1543151/000119312519...)

This seems quite ... optimistic to me. I'm not sure how many public transportation companies actually operate at a significant profit, such that they can undercut. It also seems risky, in that they might generate a huge backlash if they try to do the whole "we're just gonna loss lead until we're dominant, then jack up the price" strategy.

I'm guessing there is section of the population that says "screw it, I'll rent a car" where public transportation is quite slow, but replacing public transportation for poorer people is just going to be losing money. Given that Uber is already losing money, I'm just wondering how you'd develop a model where this TAM makes sense.