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These moves always come out of some sense of unfairness about electric vehicles not paying gasoline tax. However, we want people to stop using gasoline, and it makes no sense to punish people for doing a net good thing for society by abandoning ICE vehicles. To truly make a fair system, the payments for road maintenance should be proportional to the damage done to the road by the vehicle. Thus, fees should scale exponentially with vehicle weight.

This of course would make road freight very expensive, and that's a good thing, because freight should be shipped on roads as little as possible. Freight should be shipped by rail until the last possible mile.
Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the site guidelines? This comment and others you've posted are breaking them.
Indeed, hence my point. It's all well and good to paint the situation as one of petrol vs electric, but if the issue is actually private vs public, and the later is generally more efficient, then applying a road-tax on both petrol and electric vehicles makes perfect sense.

And it's not like the remainder living out in rural victoria (where there is no PT infrastructure) are going to be picking up EVs en-mass, so it probably doesn't effect them in any fundamental way.

edit: oh wait, you mean to imply that EV vehicles don't have the CO2 impact of ICE vehicles, and thus there's not an incentive to switch to public transport? I'm guessing that's still wrong (in that our mass transport is still more efficient overall). But there's also other pollution issues aside from CO2, and the general efficiency in terms of distance travelled and efficient use of space and traffic issues that come from preferential PT use.
No, that's exactly my point. Even if it went according to your best possible plan, all you do is reset it back to Jan 2019.

Or did you mean we're all going to do daily testing and contact tracing forever?
> I'm fairly confident most people think climate change is concerning, but not "on the brink of destruction"

Lucky for them, those people jus haven't yet experienced the destruction of a category five tropical cyclone.

> Interesting, because the United States has actually been lowering carbon dioxide emissions

You can use this excuse when talking to children or US Republicans, but it doesn't work with people who have more than half a brain.

I live on a quarter of an acre. I could use my property to make X, or I can just buy X from my neighbour and make the claim that my property isn't used to make X, and is therefore uncontaminated and clean.

You can't get China to make your polluting garbage, and then blame China for being the worlds polluter.

It's Americans who demand massive trucks to drive on hours-long commutes every day instead of building public transport; who fight wars for fossil fuels to burn.

> Interesting how America is always to blame for the world's problems.

Not interesting at all. Quite depressing actually.
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I have no problem with older systems being used for financial stuff like this. Sometimes it’s easier to just keep using what you already have. What I do have a problem with is when the antiquated computer systems make an entire country’s banking sector move glacially. ACH is so slow, and other countries (EU especially) have payment systems like SEPA and Faster Payments which are universally used, and clear pretty much instantly. I don’t know why the US doesn’t have something like this (I believe the fed is working on it), but it’s definitely created the room for the myriad of p2p payment apps like cash app and Venmo in the US, which really need not exist in a more developed banking system.
What Biden says about school choice

The Biden campaign said he’s firmly against using public money for private K-12 schools. Here’s the full statement we received:

“Joe Biden opposes the Trump/(Betsy) DeVos conception of ‘school choice,’ which is private school vouchers that would destroy our public schools. He’s also against for-profit and low-performing charter schools, and believes in holding all charter schools accountable. He does not oppose districts letting parents choose to send their children to public magnet schools, high-performing public charters or traditional public schools.”

https://www.statesman.com/news/20200720/fact-check-does-joe-...

https://joebiden.com/education/
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25168859.
What would be measures to help bartenders remain employed while closing down bars? I’m struggling to imagine what you have in mind here.
> It always bugged when my teachers would take umbrage about hand size complaints, they always had some piano pro to point out that had smaller hands than me.

Perhaps your complaints were logically valid, but your teachers were responding in the way they thought would help your education? After all, they can't do anything about the size of your hands, or—realistically—the standard piano key size. They wanted you to focus on playing your best, and on overcoming your limitations.
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN—we're trying for a different sort of conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Arm standardized on dtb’s. It’s a static file that describes all the information ACPI lets you probe dynamically at boot.

Edit: and also uboot, which bootstraps the kernel, and hands it a dtb.
This was one of the argued motivation for introducing the Platon system in Russia in addition to the fuel tax. It's an electronic toll system mandatory for trucks over 12 tons and costs every such truck ~5 USD cents per traveled km. Unfortunately it does not take into account current mass of a truck (probably because it's much harder to control and easier to cheat). Part of the proceedings goes to a federal fund for road maintenance, another one to the company (partially owned by an oligarch close to Putin) which has developed the system and currently maintenance it. This concession will work until 2027.
I don't understand why they're doing this:

1. Why are they forcing me to use their app so much? it's just not practical: for example if I quit the app and come back it doesn't return me to the page I was looking at; worse it often doesn't display comments for me (infinite loading).

2. Why is the web redesign so bad? Who are they trying to cater for? There's just so much friction in reading comments from multiple posts now, when I click on a post to read the comments an then outside it scroll back up to the beginning. Why can't I read comments if I'm not signed in?
You can pay for Mozilla VPN to support them
Sorry to disappoint but I think you'll find it's turtles all the way down!
That just looks like a dramatic reconstrcution
14 year club high five!

The default subreddits are as bad as you'd expect, but there's many awesome smaller ones. Pray your niche subreddit never becomes default.

IMO this is why they keep old reddit around. Some use reddit for bite-sized entertainment; others use it for serious advice and discussion. It makes sense for the site to have two modes.
This is intriguing.
Is there a book or resource you'd recommend that I could use to learn more?
I thought this was going to be about trying to find pianists who could play wrong-sized keyboards--pianists for alternatively sized keyboards. English is odd sometimes.
If you have evidence they didn't log it to CT, that's a miss-issuance and reporting it to the root programs (via the Mozilla list) will trigger an investigation that will be taken very seriously.
Pardon the newbie question, but could someone please recommend a good conference talk (or any video I suppose) that provides a good intro and overview of all these terms? I've been using Linux for a couple years now and keep coming across these terms X and Xorg and X11, and whilst I've read up on each I'm admittedly still struggling to understand how they all come together.
the day they stop supporting RSS feeds I'll be really sad : (
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It isn't that the CPU architecture that's the problem, because that's well supported, it's the rest of the hardware configuration that isn't standardized and is almost always unique between ARM SoCs.

ARM servers use UEFI, and have enumerable buses for hardware detection, while most ARM SoCs require a custom bootloader or a forked open source one, and can't enumerate over hardware, thus requiring something like the DeviceTree in Linux.

Here's an idea of what kind of work ARM SoCs need for Linux to run on them[1].

[1] https://elinux.org/images/a/ad/Arm-soc-checklist.pdf
You can on a raspberry pi. I recently confirmed keen runs as well on a rpi4 as it did on my old gw2k.

Win 3.1 audio drivers under dosbox are a bit beyond my current capacity for tinkering though.
Pdp-11 and VAX were also open.
Coding in COBOL was a real downer after 2 years of assembly language coding. One register pointed to the top of all your main memory in assembler. Solving COBOL dumps required resolving pointers to pointers, and I had not kept good notes in COBOL class. Fortunately soon after I returned to COBOL programming debuggers came on line that solved the COBOL misdirection for you. Misdirection is the kindest word I can think of to describe COBOL dumps.

I've really never solved a dump since COBOL, which I have not worked in since 1996. Debugging has come a long way.
I read an article the other day about a nurse with Covid patients who refused to believe they had Covid at all, because they're convinced it's a hoax.

The damage Trump has done is incalculable.
Yeah, the only way I see this becoming practical is if you can decouple the keyboard from the "sound box".

That is, when you encounter a "Steinway Model X", you should be able to swap out only the keyboard, while retaining the acoustic qualities of the piano itself.

Some standard keyboard/piano interface is needed for this. It could be digital or mechanical.

Such a thing is perfectly possible to build, and should be acceptable even for "purists" who won't touch electronic pianos. The bigger problem would probably be to get piano manufacturers to agree to building these things.
Well, that'd be fast enough for some venues. I'm still skeptical it'd work in practice.
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What degree of feature parity depends on the specific implementation. There are in fact a variety of things that don't in fact actually work or work only in a specific implementation adopted recently.

I'm presuming what you actually mean is that the specific features you use in insert environment on non Nvidia hardware work well enough.
close, but it’s actually

sudo journalctl -u $service -f | grep

Not a huge deal, but I have to google it every few months because I don’t use it very often.

Note also that if I just want the log stream, I have to pipe through less to get the full log messages. There’s also a flag for it, but I can’t remember my workaround is easier than digging through man pages.

Again, no big deal, just friction. Like everything in the systemd ecosystem—everything is manageable, but it’s tedious.
And, by implication, they're a massively higher contributor to local pollution. I was surprised to learn that most road pollution is no longer generated by tailpipes, but by the grinding of brake, tire, and road into dust through friction. Vehicle weight has an outsized effect there too.
Gimp is 25 years old today
I knew the Internet when it was fun, AMA.
I suggest to them two approaches:

1. Status customization. Apps and games based on communities have proved that this business model can bring lots of $$$, the whole idea is to let users customize the way they appear to others in exchange for money. Think "skins". I've heard even discord does it.

2. Competition platform. Trade will always flow if things work well, but how can people trade on your platform? Allow people to produce themes and plugins for communities, and create a marketplace for customizing your own community. Then take a cut.
Yes, you're right. I think I recognized that at the time, though, but the barrier still bugged me. :)
This was such an incredibly insightful historical perspective. Thanks for sharing.
It isn't the locked bootloader that is the issue with porting Linux to new ARM Macs, it's that ARM SoCs require vendor support for Linux in varying degrees, and Apple has made it clear that they won't support other OSes on ARM Macs outside of virtualization.
The noble liar strikes again
I also find the new UI to be awful on desktop. Just disastrously slow. I hardly use Reddit anymore part of it the community and me just having different priorities but the other part is this new Mobile first mentality. I’ll use old.Reddit.com until they finally kill it.
Ish might support that. It can export its file system as an ios folder, and there’s a way to force ios to let it run daemons in the background.

However, you might have to manually start it at each reboot or something.
These books sound great. Would you recommend I read them in that order too?
I do chrome and chrome beta on mobile.
Also, you can install whatever you want on a PC regardless of how old it is. But on iOS you can't download an older version of the app unless you've owned it previously. I do have an iPhone 4 and it's useless because I can't get any apps for it.
Most web applications are basically just interfaces to a database. Why even have “REST” at all?
>I think that road users should pay to use the road.

I think we should have pay to use parks. And schools.

What's the point of having government funded infrastructure if not to make it equally available to all regardless of means?
I just use RedReader. An unofficial reddit front end. Its pretty amazing.
Current Linux kernels support the 486 CPU from 1989, and I think you can reasonably run a current distribution and web browser on a PC from around year 2000, and you probably can't distinguish a 2005-2010 system from a current one using only a browser on common websites.
That’s why I turn off background running process off in various web browsers.

Also put tab to sleep once it’s out of focus.
Owning a car wasn't a requirement to get anywhere 100 years ago though, or to hold a job, whereas it is for many areas/people now.

Or another example: I really don't like smartphones, for all sorts of reasons not worth getting in to here. But having one is sort-of a requirement these days since all kinds of services are only available as a phone app, and many company's primary method of contact is WhatsApp, and a lot of social life happens on there as well. Of course you can go without one, but it's debilitating.

There are a few more things like this. Income has risen, but so have mandatory costs for a normal life.
Apple is winning in terms of making virtually all the profit available to those selling phones, and Android's market share advantage is not nearly as big as you think, at least not in areas where people have a lot of disposable income, like in the US, where it's basically 50/50 between Android and iOS.
This is what I’d buy:

https://www.pine64.org/pinetab/

Haven’t used one. I like the pinebook pro.
Thank you, I'll check these out.
I honestly think writing this way demonstrates a lack of intelligence. Clarity of writing demonstrates a clarity of thought. Muddy writing demonstrates a muddy mind.
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Nobody who actually understands Apple's business and how it works "would think" this.
NixOS is designed so that updates won’t break the system in non-reversible ways. If an update didn’t work out well for you, you can always roll back to the previous version and withhold the update until you’re ready. I’ve used NixOS as a daily driver myself for years, and hadn’t needed a reinstall even once.
Was his plan to do the same few gigs a month for the rest of his life? Into his 70s and 80s? What if something happened to his hands, and he could no longer play? I'd actually love to quit my job now and only do enough work on the side to break even every year. But I wouldn't be able to sleep at night knowing my life was a ticking time bomb that could blow at any second.
I agree, hence why I live on https://i.reddit.com on mobile. It lacks some of the features of the new UI, but I don't use those anyhow since I just lurk/read.
Hi, my use case for EFS Lambda is burts of small writes. Could you add a perf mode that favors bursts of small writes? We did some perf tests and just couldn’t make it fast enough.
I often thought the same with the use of GraphQL. Instead of building a highly curated API with business logic, optimisations and other general stuff you are building a direct interface around how your data looks in the db, a 1:1 mapping and crud interface. In software we are taught to prefer loose coupling vs tight coupling yet here people are preferring the tight coupling.

I’m not a fan of this as the user interface (API) has a tight coupling with how you store your data. Then like you say, why not just speak SQL as you have all the same issues, essentially multiple clients writing to/owning the same tables.
Bug meaning, they quit caring about the old UI and the bugs are just gonna accumulate
The vast majority of ARM SoCs' Linux support amounts to Linux forks, and not mainline Linux support. Forks eventually stop being maintained, and quickly become outdated.

Now that I look at it, it looks like this is the case for some[1] ARM Chromebooks, too, in that they are stuck having to use the specific ChromeOS kernels that ship with images for their Chromebook models.

[1] https://github.com/RaumZeit/LinuxOnAcerCB5-311
The comment missed its impact. The www is developed there first abd without the internet revolution might be delayed. I always thought Steve touched so many IT things but network. Seem the web page missed that.
Metrics:
It is easy for them to keep track of metrics, including the following:

* did someone pause on a post, mark it
* time on page,
* whatever other crazy metric you can show to advertisers
* in-line advertisements

Also, the walled garden makes it so you get the endorphin hit of clicking the button and it can algorithmically entice you back with notifications and other engagements.
We had a people choice award for such work. And then you could use that in your appraisal.

But yeah, I used to do this just for my own interest of learning. Companies can't accept that only one or two persons are doing this. They would say - its a part of the job.

One thing you can do is keep tab of problems and create a common resource point for all the team. And use some kind of way to show hours saved. Long shot but it holds a substantial promise.
That's a new iPad, not the iPad under discussion, which is worth much less. You can often buy a replacement out-dated model for around that $75 mark, and that's ignoring the time cost of trying to fix the broken one.
> construction workers their own hammers

Aren't most construction workers expected to provide their own basic tools? The contractor usually provides specialty tools and power tools, but when I did demolition, I certainly brought my own hammer.
Shows how long ago I played it, I got it a bit wrong. Sorry, it's actually the first rhapsody, op 79. Seven bars before the bridge, beat 2, left hand - two beats after the climax. It's actually notated arpeggio but it always felt like a wet noodle in my hand and I always felt like I could rip it off with authority if my hand was just a bit bigger.

That middle section more than makes up for it though...
A very significant percentage of Reddit browses the old interface (I think 20% or 30%). These people are likely to leave and help create another viable competitor.
Run a local web server for the interface and enable guided access to prevent accidental clicks and swipes. Should make a decent smart interface or destination to push video or audio.
Wouldn't hands have been smaller on average in the past when the current size was set?
That's probably the case.

I only use Reddit from behind Tor, on desktop, so I open a bunch of tabs to amortize the load time, then read them in sequence and close each one as I read it.

If you have fast Internet and a short attention span, and faith in your web browser's back button, maybe that doesn't make sense.
I am guessing it is just an issue with the custom CSS on this subreddit.

EDIT: Nevermind, after investigating the issue does not seem to be the CSS.
I understand it in the sense that I can conceptualize it. I just have a hard time believing it is really best for business. They determine how much money they make per user and find that signed in users make more money. Signed in users on their mobile app (users inside of their walled garden) make the most money. If they lose a couple users trying to convert everyone to using their mobile app, so be it.

Having an account and using their mobile app makes it easier to track you, easier to show you ads and likely worth more per advertisement.
Shucking: Finding Useful, Discounted Disks Inside External Drives
I prefer old reddit for the same reason as you, I like to read and comment. But I can tell you who they are catering to: People who scroll through subreddits scanning photos. If you go to meme focused subreddit, the new version is pretty good. If you go to a discussion focused subreddit, the old version is better.

Try https://www.reddit.com/r/Watches/ in an incognito window to see it in the new Reddit, then try it old reddit.
> Would you prefer the exact wording from the mailing list, "a bunch of bug fixes"?

The mailing list [1] contains much more than "a bunch of bug fixes," arguably more than what the Phoronix link provides.

>They always link to the original source, which is more than what many news sites do.

I don't find this to always be the case with Phoronix, as well as when referencing previous news they do a self link to their other posts rather than straight to the original source. Besides, is it not Hackernews guidelines [2] to "submit the original source?" How does Phoronix get away without being changed to the the right URL so often?

[1] https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2020-November/003...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A sign that there's nothing good on the site, just people reposting the same stuff, maybe with text macros.

There's 3 new comics per week. It's not like you can sustain a whole website on that.
When I had a facebook account (years ago) I would go through that hassle, and then a month later the settings would get reset and I'd have to do it again. I think there might have been some explanation like they were adding new privacy options or similar.
I actually still have a 5s that I barely used due to country zone restrictions at the time. It would be cool to unlock this and get this running on a Linux os
I started coding professionally after 40.

Previously a network engineer.

I loved going back into the classroom (boot camp) to learn, and found I was more patient, and a better student than the past.
> I am clearly missing something, but at that point, why not just allow the client (presumably a web app running in a browser in most cases) to just make requests via SQL?

Because REST-over-HTTP is low impedance with browser-based web apps, whereas SQL is...not.

Plus, with REST, you abstract whether all, some, or none of your data is an RDBMS; the fact that you've implemented something with PostgREST doesn't mean everything related to it and linked from it is implemented the same way.
Thank you for maintaining. The beauty of oss is that this is possible.
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