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This is true, but the highway trust fund is not funded exclusively by fuel taxes, it's funded from the general fund

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/what-highway-t...
Are you giving the same line to high income earners who are complaining about high taxes?
Oil change is maintenance, not a fix. If there was a flaw in the design of the oil filter, it will definitely come to people who designed it.
Hey, can you elaborate more on how you were using it and where it was failing? I'm genuinely curious as we use it at Supabase.

I assume you were using it with high throughput? We are benchmarking it at around 2000 request/s now [1], and finding it's better to scale it horizontally rather than vertically.

> process millions of heavy computing requests

Was this reads from the database? Was the compute happening inside a Postgres function/view?

[1] Benchmarks https://github.com/supabase/benchmarks/issues/2
Because context matters, everyone is going to have different opinions on some (or all) parts of this one.

From my experience, I've run into a few challenges with some of the claims

For 1: If engineers always operate their code, you will end up with an organization structure built around "these developers work on (and operate) this code." That might be what you want, but it's often not what I want. There are going to be some part of the code base that don't change very much and I'd rather not have a specific team perpetually taxed with operating it (instead of building new business value). Likewise, there are some engineers who are much more productive at building new things (and not just in the the crappy, "now it's your problem way"). I don't want those engineers to have a larger share of operations because they are more productive at development. Support-focused roles have value.

For 5: I have never seen a maintainable automated test suite. I'm sure they exist somewhere, just not in my experience, and I've never worked with anyone who knew how to ensure that developers create one. This means that, with purely-automated testing, your development costs can become dominated by "fixing the tests." My preference is to automate the most important things and to have have humans, with judgement, test behaviors based on test cases written in English.
Income and wealth disparity is the biggest problem in the US and it’s not given the attention it deserves. The republicans have no interest in addressing it, in fact they actively make it worse every chance they get. The Democrats want to address it but cannot focus. It’s what is causing these symptoms like trump in the country.
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If you're using an n64 controller, you might want to consider using a gamecube one instead (it uses the same control logic, it just adds a 5v line for rumble features)

Unless you're particularly fond of the N64's controller design that is
The relevant issue: https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy/issues/19

> Status update: JMAP is a big complex protocol that is not used by any popular clients and has no server libraries available for Go. IMAP is a big complex but also widespread protocol that is well-known, supported by any email client and has server library available for Go. Some of IMAP disadvantages come from incomplete client implementations, not protocol flaws, as JMAP developers want to convince you. I do not expect wide JMAP adoption in next several years, therefore the decision was made to prioritize improving IMAP implementation.

> If somebody insists on having JMAP, I recommend looking at Cyrus email server, perhaps write a Go library for its SASL delegation protocol so it could be used with maddy just as easy as Dovecot.
Wage growth and gdp increases don't really do much for a lot of people if inequality is high.

Unemployments statistics also differ heavily on what the specific statistic consider unemployment to be.
Yeah, looks like a bug to me.
The US has the most progressive tax system in the world - far more than Europe. The middle and lower classes pay basically 0 tax, or even get refunds (negative taxes), while the rich pay basically all taxes https://www.economist.com/united-states/2017/11/23/american-...

The middle and lower classes in Europe pay very high tax rates, but get a lot in return. The left in America is promising European-style safety nets without any tax raises - but the rich simply can’t afford this amount of safety net. Bernie was at least honest in that he plainly said new, broad-based taxes would be necessary to fund his proposals.

Edit: HN is hilarious because people downvote facts they don’t like. At least admit reality to yourself - or post a comment that refutes the statistics.
That’s super interesting. What did you do with that information? Did you report it to the authorities and have them investigated and arrested? One person finding 12 cases of fraud is a huge deal and I think you would be hailed a hero and be on the news. Can you tell me what happened with your finding?
It's pretty shocking, isn't it.

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The good news is that as batteries improve, bike like the all-electric Zero line are going to get both more popular and more affordable. I'm looking forward to when I can get one!
Israeli scientists claim to reverse aging process
Systems like Hadoop and Spark will run multiple versions of the same task writing out to a FS at once but to a temporary directory and when the first finishes the output data is just moved to the final place. It's not uncommon for a job to "complete" writing data to S3 and just sit there and hang as the FS move commands run copying the data and deleting the old version. It is just assumed a rename/move is a no-op in some systems.
I like using web on mobile, I just want to use the desktop website though. No apps, no mobile version. Just give me the website.
I would love for this whole thing to end as much as anyone, but I don't see how this gets anything back to normal.

In January of this year, there were a negligible amount of people in the US with Covid. Let's say now in November everyone gets tested every day, and you have an unbelievable compliance for self quarantining on positive results. It would never happen, but pretend it's 99.9% of people following the rules to "drive the virus towards elimination within weeks". Great, now you think you've beaten it back to where it came from.

How does this do anything other than reset the clock back to last January just in time for next January? As soon as everyone lowers their guard and goes back to normal, it's going to spread again. We need immunity from a vaccine or from it running its course to be done with this.

What am I missing? Are we going to setup nationwide contact tracing this time? Just a few visitors from other countries, and we're at it again.
> It's impossible to change something. We can only do small things for which no cooperation is needed.

And yet the migration to systemd, which required lots of changes in disparate packages, happened. And the migration away from python2 will happen too, albeit perhaps not as fast as the people driving it would like. And the new source format happened. And for repeatable builds - Debian leads the world.

Methinks "we can only do small things for which no cooperation is needed" might be overstating the case a smidgen. Lots of things with aren't small happen in Debian on a regular basis.
Not really. Reddit infrastructure and product development has been subsidized by hundreds of millions in VC funding for almost a decade. At this point they don't even need a good product to stay at the table. Meanwhile to compete you need moderation tools, highly performant and reliable caching infrastructure for media rich content, enough of an ad network the investors believe you can eventually build an ad network, and to sell you soul to investors to buy marketing to keep people around long enough to gain critical mass.

Social Media isn't about innovation anymore. It's about buying a stake and rent seeking. And guess what nobody is going to sell you an acre to get started just because you feel like giving it the college try.
They have also made many of the subreddits not viewable via a mobile browser pushing you to the app, it seems though the blocks go in and out of effect. At some point metrics of a sites app downloads don't mean anything when they make their primary site unusable.
Same here. In a lot of areas it's feasible to roll out something that works to a reasonable degree and then respond to bug reports and fix them quickly. I now work in medical devices and it would be hard to explain that after somebody has been killed by a pacemaker that we are fixing the bug now.
The US is a big place, I think many people situated in tech cities do not appreciate just how inexpensive it is to live in many parts of the country. Cost of living can be surprisingly low in flyover country. I know many people that get on pretty adequately with a family on much less than the median US household income. Definitely not living large but also a reasonable if basic standard of living. Wages are relative to a region.

If $20k/year per worker is "poverty", and to be clear it is a relatively poor wage in the US, it would be interesting to apply the same analysis to European countries. It gets uncomfortably close to the median income in countries that we typically don't view as particularly poor. Americans have anomalously high incomes, even those below the median.
From last two month there are 6 new Debian Developer and 10 new Debian Maintainers. This information is available at https://bits.debian.org

For me, working with packaging is a joy, once I learned how it works I see it as a thin wrapper around an upstream code base that, after built with whatever upstream tooling, is copied within a package alongside it's dependencies information.
Yeah, I noticed that as well.

For now, you can still edit the target URL manually.
I read it as that Integrity and Confidentiality was the only factors here, so USBKill-style stuff (Availability) would just mean the machine was replaced, Integrity should handled by the boot process and Confidentiality should be handled by the embedded OS itself.
No, I don't think that's true. Android is just Linux with an Android userland.

Richard Stallman was quite correct to call it GNU/Linux, as much as I dislike the guy.
I just really wish there were some alternative uses for iPhones and iPads once they hit obsolescence. I’d love to use them as little smart home interfaces or poor-mans homepods. But they don’t generally support that kind of use...
KStars v3.5.0 Is Released
I think with social networks moving more and more into gatekeeping and protecting users from information they shouldn't be allowed to see for their own good, independent platforms - like forums - will find their renaissance.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that only women are disadvantaged, though I wrote much too hastily.

What the data shows is that between two groups with very different hand size distributions, the one with (on average) larger hands has a tremendously easier time playing. So, while some people will argue hand span is a secondary factor, in fact there is a critical need for smaller keyboards.
> Include and Extend your Classes

And — since Ruby 2.0 — Module#prepend, which places the prepended Module ahead of the caller in the ancestor chain https://ruby-doc.org/core/Module.html#method-i-prepend
I can tell you as a Linux user since before there was an iPad, I just don't care about that. At all.

Meanwhile, this sort of story (and the often technical discussion with people who know their shit) is precisely why I keep coming back to HN.

To be sure, there are a fair number of people who gained interest in Apple when they finally gave up on pre-OSX (I remember having to admin a Mac lab back in the day; long hours spent imaging machines and fighting the OS to make it as close as we could to multi-user), and many who just got fed up with Linux's learning curve at some point, switched, and never looked back.
Which just goes to show you can't tax your way out of inequality. You need better incentive structures.
I have sympathy for the feminist movement, and the GPs post was needlessly hostile, but in their defense I'd like to phrase the argument a different way:

If we imagine a world where men and women hand-sizes were statistically equal, ought we be interested that some people have smaller hands and are under-represented in Piano competitions? If so, shouldn't a study that looks purely at hand-span as the variable, without regarding gender or ethnicity, ought to be equally useful as as impetus for change in both contexts?
Having just emerged from an exploratory dive into Wayland, this thread popping up here is surely a sign from the gods. :)

It's been a good experience: Weston, sway and Wayland itself have such tiny foot prints while doing so much. I haven't tried qtwayland and some of the others mentioned and will give them a run out. I didn't have any problems on Arch but for some reason Weston wouldn't build on GuixSD which I am also exploring.

One fun part was having to use the flag --my-next-gpu-will-not-be-nvidia to invoke wayland against Nvidia drivers. It isn't supported and promptly crashes anyway. I was glad I had a Radeon gpu also installed, on which I continue a most satisfactory exploration.
Wow, I always knew the semis are ruining roads but this 10k factor just blew me away, crazy! Thanks for a great post.
Who said anything about a corporate network? You seem to be thinking that I said that it's okay to take random USB's and plug them into your laptop which I definitely do not.

I read it as that Integrity and Confidentiality was the only factors here, so USBKill-style stuff (Availability) would just mean the machine was replaced, Integrity should handled by the boot process and Confidentiality should be handled by the embedded OS itself.
I've found you can google the subreddits, and they will show you these subreddits. As long as your referrer is still Google, it seems to be fine.
"If your work isn't ready for people to try out yet, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then." https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
It was a winding road, but it went like this:

In school for welding while also working at the machine shop. Making ~10.20/hr machining parts to repair electric motors. I start thinking about my future a bit more as I was making money (lol @ me thinking 10.20/hr was money but I was 19 and working more than I ever did). I started thinking about the doomsday scenarios where if this machine shop closed down, what would I do? The world was going more toward CNC machining. While today there is a place for a manual machinist, what place will it have when I'm 50? This fact, alongside the fact I could make more at Arby's, led me to quit.

I decided to give another trade a shot, which was plumbing. A family friend was a solo plumber and I inquired about being a helping hand. I enjoyed the work, but my boss wasn't exactly pleasant to work for. I got a decent pay raise in comparison to my last job, but exactly 0 vacation or benefits. In the beginning I was fine with this as he was 'doing me a favor' by showing me the ropes, but in the end it didn't work out.

When that job was winding down, I decided to go back to school for computers. I built computers in my day and I knew my way around which led me to pick this 'trade' up next. I started applying for L1 help desk jobs and got in with this company doing internal IT. Very thankful I ended up here as it was NOT a call center. We fielded maybe 10 calls a day, sometimes we had as little as 2, so I had a lot of downtime to study up on the next role. I signed up for LinuxAcademy and grinded courses.

LinuxAcademy has cloud servers, where I learned Linux on. The corporate security team caught that (oops), which is where I met them. Eventually they had an opening for a SecOps Analyst and now I'm here :).
No, I just don't think altruism comes from people who present the world as bad so they can point out the great thing they are doing in contrast to that. There is definitely an underlying something to it and it's quite plainly obvious. Remember I was responding to someone else who noticed it too.
The scarred landscapes created by humanity’s material thirst
This is my problem with most every success story so far. For how quickly this spreads where it spreads, and that it is a corona virus, I'm not seeing any panacea here.

I say this as someone that is fine complying with my states restrictions. I even think they are correct, if only as something to try. I'm just not seeing the end game here. :(
And for iOS, Apollo[1] is delightful. The most thought-out app I know about in general.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/sk/app/apollo-for-reddit/id979274575
I used to hate microsoft for locking us into shitty software for decades.

But looking back I see that they gave us all an enormous windfall in the form of comoditized hardware with decades of hardware growth. (hardware is the complement of OS software, so drive hardware costs down and OS sales go up)

You would think Apple as a hardware company would open up software to increase hardware sales, but instead it seems to try to control everything so it is fighting a battle on multiple fronts.
We’ll still be playing piano in 10,000 years. I would hope we would have the gumption to be the generation who painfully went through the transition to make the piano accessible to all.
> You need that historical baseline to assess the current situation.

But what if the historical baseline has always been misleading, and undercounting a problem?

> Simply redefine "murder" to mean "persons killed by a woman wearing a blue hat on the third Tuesday of February".

This isn't a useful example, because the point of redefining unemployment is to get a more accurate view of it, whereas this redefinition of murder gives a less accurate and completely pointless view of the problem.
Plus it's DASH, so you can't just link to an mp4 file with combined video/audio streams to avoid the interface.
I still can access.
Or you can go to Github repo here
https://github.com/microsoft/Bringing-Old-Photos-Back-to-Lif...
Good leaders will help you and can recall instances where your knowledge helped.
An alternate solution to the same problem would be to streamline running your own local certificate authority. For example: if the local router was its own certificate authority (that spoke ACME), and OSes and/or browsers were configured to check with the local gateway for their cert authority. You could add the Name Constraints exception and restrict it to local-only (reserved) TLDs.
I have VM for my data scientists already in GCP, my datasets live in Google Cloud Storage. Can I take advantage of HopsFS for a shared file system across my VMs. Google Filestore Is ridículous expensive and at least they give u 1TB. Multi writer only supports 2VMs
It's the typical story of CG researchers vs CG artists. Check out innumerable SIGGRAPH presentations using the same Stanford Armadillo model with constant-valued textures!
It was cool back then, I played commander keen and lemmings on a gateway 2k. Lots of power, reactively cheap for a “ibm clone.”

But the reality is things are different now. The threat model is different.

You can’t just copy a “cdrom” full of 200 shareware titles you got in the mail and let your kids randomly run executables.
When you live in a world where you know that pianos come in different sizes, you teach people how to adapt for that. Right now we live in a world where those are gotcha novelties.
Maybe we’re just not the target audience for reddit anymore. I’ve spoken to spoken to zoomers who use reddit and their response is that the “new UI” is all they’ve used and they like it because everything is embedded in the same page and scrolls like their twitter/facebook/instagram feed.
I went looking for other data that might let us make conclusions about the situation. Here's what I found:

Cayea, Danelle, and Ralph A. Manchester. "Instrument-specific rates of upper-extremity injuries in music students." Organ 26.362 (1998): 11-14.

The high-injury-rate instruments (12.0 to 18.0)
included the piano, guitar, and harp. Women had
a higher overall injury rate thanmen (8.9 vs 5.9).

Small sample sizes for some instruments (e.g. only ~20 female trumpet players) make me doubt the solidity of the results, but it looks like bigger instruments are vastly more dangerous for women to play. The piano and organ are both pretty bad, with about 10% of women reporting injuries compared to about 7.5% of men. The double bass has the largest difference in the study, with 17% women reporting injuries compared to 8% of men. I have no idea how harps compare because there were exactly zero male harpists in the sample, but female harp was tied with female double bass as highest-injury sampled instrument at 17%.

Note that, as the studied population was "the students at a single institution's music major", an RSI injury this early might indicate the beginning of a chronic, career-limiting problem.

I can't find any competitions for the double bass that I might be able to use to confirm the correlation between injury rate and under-representation in high-level competition.

TL;DR I find it quite plausible that some instruments are objectively difficult for women to play as indicated by a higher level of upper-body injury.

edit: I read some more of the site and found http://smallpianokeyboards.org/pain-injury-and-performance-q..., which agrees with the research I did above.
Amazon utterly revolutionized online shopping, a benefit Amazon provided. There's simply no way it could have otherwise grown to the biggest company in the world from a garage in Bellevue.

25 years later it's easy to assume that online shopping was always like it is today. No way. Nobody even conceived of what it has become. I remember, for example, when ordering by mail meant "allow 3 to 6 weeks for delivery". I'm still astonished by next day delivery - which Amazon created and made ordinary.
Sounds like I would probably love getting into eve online, but u can't find enough time to game anymore on regular basis. My Steam account and old ps3 is still full of games I haven't played yet.
I still can access. Or you can go to Github repo here
https://github.com/microsoft/Bringing-Old-Photos-Back-to-Lif...
Yeah, every time I hear stories of those "great pianists with small hands".

Somehow those "small hands" always translate to "can comfortably reach 10ths or 11ths or more" and not octave at most.

Which just drives home the point of how gigantic hands are taken as a reference point.

And those supposed "greats" that do have smallish hands aren't all that great and have a severely limited pokey repertoire.
An Abandoned Mansion in NYC Raises Questions
It was mentioned somewhere it's not going to be killed anytime soon, similar to how i.reddit.com is still working. But it also won't get updates so you may get a "degraded" experience.

A good example of this is GitHub-style ``` ... ``` codeblocks, which don't work on old.reddit.com, but do in the new UI.
I was with you until this bit:

> This is also why I'm not so enthused by USB-C...

Please elaborate?
I dislike all things "new web". The websites feel like layers upon layers of Javascript, fancy designs that feel like they are responsible for the decreased responsiveness. Styles delegated to the same CSS frameworks that everyone else uses. The rounded corners.

Give me plain HTML, minimal CSS, and a template engine any day of the week.
Reddit has a 100 trackers now. Takes so long to open so I come on HN meanwhile.
Shouldn't Google punish this in the results? A fake website that wants search traffic but doesn't want to operate as an actual website...