skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your maintenance cost seems optimistic to me, and you're also omitting parking and the cost of parking tickets (surprise yay), but besides that, I would say that there's a fairly high cost in terms of time and stress when driving a car.

As someone who doesn't own a car, I don't have to worry about parking tickets, or de-snowing my car, car not starting in winter. I also don't have to worry about finding parking, or parking tickets, dealing with repairs and scammy repairmen, paperwork, my car getting stolen or damaged, etc.

I also don't have to worry about driving drunk. It's pretty freeing to go out with friends and just have a car drop you at the door, and another car pick you back up when you want to go, and never having to worry about parking, when your parking timer might run out, or drunk driving.

And all of this being said, as someone living in a big city, between public transit, bike rentals, walking and ridesharing, the total cost I pay is less than your stated 400/month.
Nixpkgs and the nix build.

After rough times with ubuntu default package manager I finally installed nix and there's no going back.

Previously installing any software used to be a risky affair that could corrupt the packages or bring some dpkg issue. Now I literally install whatever I find. It's truly game changing. I haven't seen a missing library error since then. Being able to reliably install software across machines with different versions is huge and right now there is no better solution than nix.
> What could we have in a World's Fair now that looks ahead?

Well, to start with, the massive restructuring of industry and everyday life needed to mitigate or begin reversing the effects of climate change.
Don't forget the payment process - no tip to worry about, no conveniently "broken" credit card machines, costs and duration are estimated up front.
Oh, I see: trial by jury. (Or is it more like the court of public opinion?)

I wonder how well that'll work out. Will those automatically-selected "other users" really be able to grasp the legal and contractual issues adequately to resolve a detailed technical dispute?
I was to type something like

(a ^ n) % n = a % n
The article says this rotted wood could be used as a building material but isn't the very rotting that makes the piezoelectric effect more efficient also counterproductive to strong building materials?
I run openbsd virtualized on proxmox and it’s fantastic and not that difficult to set up (I’m a casual tinkerer at best). I’ve got a gigabit connection and can saturate that without any significant stress on the single core that it runs on.
Ctrl-Alt-Del
You can't exactly jump start an electric car.
Cricut back-pedal: A letter to the Cricut community from Cricut CEO
Issaquah is in the Puget Sound region, not the mountains. It has about as much snow as Seattle; i.e., some but not very much.
> dispatcher

I remember a lot of taxi companies used some funky phone-to-CB thing where the dispatcher would be talking to you over CB radio on your phone call, which was just rotten audio quality on top of any lingo barrier. Just hilariously awful.
I used to take UberPool (or the Lyft equivalent) to work every day for more than a year (around 2016). It was on average ~$3-4 one way, slightly more than but still comparable to public transit. The door-to-door time would be 15 minutes as opposed to 40. And I often got discounts which made it cheaper than public transit.
Why would anyone want Swift on other platforms?

From the start it seemed to be mostly a product of NIH and the necessity to move away from Objective C while keeping some compatibility. Other platforms tend to allow you much better choices.
No, it's called distributive property: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributive_property
> But what are the people who aren't programmers or artists supposed to do?

Keep the programmers and artists happy.

You can make a lot more and better AAA games if 50% of your time isn’t spent on life chores.
> Firefox and Chrome were able to dethrone IE because Windows doesn't have any gatekeeper preventing apps from being installed.

What’s preventing people from buying an Android, though?

This really is just a story of two businesses who can’t agree with the terms of engagement: Apple requires subscription-based services to use their payment system if the services want to be available in their platform, and Librem doesn’t want to share their profits. I’m struggling to see why Apple’s terms are unreasonable here. Any business that has an ecosystem of products isn’t and shouldn’t be legally required to support competing ecosystems/platforms—and Apple already does have Google’s and Facebook’s apps in the App Store, by the way.
> I put a 1050 Ti in it without any problems.

Possibly a stupid question, but isn't a "1050 Ti" an Nvidia chip? How did this help you with the driver issues?
I know what you mean. But I am a software developer so I dunno if that counts, or if you meant that non-developer people would know.
The next generation web framework for Cloudflare Workers
Because all the ones they catch are dumb. There’s no information on how many are smart
Two Methods for Testing HTTPS API Calls with Python and Pytest
> these donations in the name of racial policing equality

Neither the BLM movement generally not most of the organizations associates with it nor their supporters nor their donors pretend that it's about simply “racial policing equality”.

But it's cute that conservatives scaremonger about bourgeois identity politics (though they don't tend to call it out as bourgeois) for being needlessly divisive and counterproductive to their overt goals by not incorporating and prioritizing crosscutting issues that fundamentally underlie the specific problems of the groups notionally served, but also criticize progressive identity politics as counterproductive to their overt goals for incorporating and prioritizing crosscutting issues that fundamentally underlie the specific problems of groups they serve.

It's almost as if the problem wasn't about the approach to the problems of the particular populations, but that any approach is taken to those problems at all.
> Remember, award winning writers like Piers Anthony, Isaac Asimov, and Robert Heinlein all wrote books targeted at children as well.

Don't forget Tolkien.
I work in embedded. Embedded Java has always been a huge set of tradeoffs, which is why it never took off outside of application platforms like mobile phones and set-top boxes.

If you wanted the full fat SE Sun/Oracle JVM you were pretty much stuck with power or ARM, and even then you had to be careful. Remember the portability disaster that was symbian and Java ME? These ISAs weren't exactly the low end of the embedded market at the time either. The farther away from x86 you got the less portability you could actually take advantage of.
This is a compelling laptop I wonder if the build quality will compare with Lenovo.

15.6 inch screen at 1920×1080? That’s barely OK but not great for a laptop in 2021.
Emacs: its versatile and easy to configure code editor. If you are fan of Org mode, then you have to use Emacs.
Hjernevask (Brainwash)
oh, i guarantee you it is not just a driver thing.

In a few months, when games start to get awful performance on those cards, they will claim they can't fix it because it is in the silicon and can't be patched.

But this is on everyone hoping graphic card driver authors would know anything about anything. heh.
This is really exciting.

As is, jails feel a lot more like base system + fragile setup scripts.
> Should everyone wait until their kids turn 18 to start teaching them their own morals and values?

You keep saying morals and values. Which part of the pledge pertains to morals and values? It was still said during a time of complete racial segregation. Did the practically unchanged pledge teach children about the morality and values of that? Or domestic internment camps during WW2? What about during the Vietnam war? What deeper nuanced meaning am I missing where it balances "freedom and liberty for all" with the massive expansion of the post-9/11 surveilance state?

It's got nothing to do with morals or "values".

Perhaps we should just say "if you feel so strongly about your country at the age of 15 that you want to recite a prayer to it every morning then you can in your own time".
The key thing about a land value tax is that it's based on land value, and not land area, so the allowance should also be based on value and not area, for it to work right.

10,000 sq ft in Manhattan is much more valuable than 10,000 sq ft in a rural area, and so it doesn't make sense that both should be treated equally.
Exactly.

The greater problem is that the ways to fail monolith specific work vastly outnumbers the way to succeed. Furthermore, the primary work involved is months to years worth of horrible unattractive refactoring. Then this is compounded by it being very hard to measure success. So you run into a situation that makes principal engineers run or look for the door. Rather than working on an actually hard problem, they would rather pad their resumes with increasingly complex novel work, further detracting from the commons. So not only is it an un-owned common, but senior engineer alignment is directly against work involving the root problem because no one in their right mind would be responsible or accountable for something with so few avenues to success.

Not only is senior engineering alignment individually against being directly responsible for the monolith, but managerial leadership is as well. You have infrastructure with infrastructure concerns, and product worried about shipping product, and then you have to ask where this monolith responsible team is. Pushing code, monitoring, capacity management, oncall, etc. are all traditionally under the infra umbrella. Business logic is traditionally under the product umbrella. So who takes responsibility for the monolith, the chief repository of business logic? A monolith is a marriage between the two entities. Each individual product team doesn't want to do monolith work, because it makes it harder to ship the features they promised. Infra doesn't want to do monolith work because it is business logic code that needs to be refactored. So no infra team and no product team will directly feel responsible. Senior managerial leadership is at the mercy of senior engineering leadership, and therefore also cannot claim responsibility for the monolith. If you travel up the management hierarchy, that leaves roughly 4 people capable of doing anything about this most critical problem. The CEO, who has ultimate responsibility for all problems, the VP of infra, who could choose to claim responsibility for this area, the VP of product, who could choose to claim responsibility for this area, or the CTO who is the most directly responsible person for solving this problem as the de facto mediator of product and infra concerns and responsibilities. The answer is probably inventing a 3rd VP responsible for the area between product and infra and giving them proper authority.
For me, Google Maps got slow some 5 years back.
Signed up to HN after many years browsing news here just to say this, is very, very cool. My startup could not afford to use it but my goodness your execution on this is brilliant. Good luck!
> That's what the video is arguing, but it won't be the case unless we've fully satisfied all of our desires. If we haven't, there are, by definition, still things to do.

If wealth continues to become increasingly centralised, the wealthy might be able to have all their desires fully satisfied, while the poor won't have enough power to demand that - which potentially creates a vicious cycle.

Then the existence of sufficient jobs is fraught.
I'm having trouble imagining any way this could be implemented from a technical perspective that isn't, simply put, terrible. Is there more information on how this would be implemented if it came into practice?
I suspect the title is conflated with the phrase "redistribution of wealth", which when deployed in the political or macroeconomic vernacular has a default subtext of, "from those who have more, to those who have less". This is in turn obliquely comparable to (but not identical with) the Marxist slogan, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs".

The explicit reverse, and the content of the article, suggests an author responding to these common allusions, and including "reverse" to convey the antithesis.
Lots of places have bike shops where you pay a membership fee to use their tools.

I've known and heard these types of shops referred to as "yellow bike" coops, is there another word for it or am I conflating yellow bike communities with something else?
I’m not sure if I got tricked or not, it sounds ridiculous but apparently you have to pay extra to get heated backseats in Teslas. It’s a software thing, so it’s not like you need to install new seats. It works similar to miners - consume electricity and generate heat
My grandmother had the same expectation.
That is cool. But what do you mean with "based on a machine learning based programming language"?
>" Previous to the internet, media sales mostly went to the labels who held hte mechanical rights and songwriting copyright was earned directly to the artist."So if you bought a CD the label gets paid, if you play a song on the radio an artist gets paid.

This is not correct. Mechanical royalties have always belonged to the songwriter. A record label pays mechanicals to a songwriter's publishing company who then passes it on to the songwriter. When a record label sells a record that contains a song an artist owns the copyright to the record label must pay that songwriter a mechanical royalty. When that songs is played on the radio at least in the US the songwriter gets a performance royalty. The songwriter gets paid a royalty in both cases. The label as a mechanical license holder is obligated to pay out a mechanical royalty.

https://www.bmi.com/news/entry/Understanding_Mechanical_Roya...
I live in a country which has none of the racial tensions present in the US. There may be some social tensions, but they're not along the black-white divide and there is no history of black slavery here.

So why should I have external forces impose on my use of the English language, when those forces are concerned exclusively with what is happening in the US. Especially when what I am saying has 0 racial connotations.

Meaning might be mostly relative, but you can't push all responsibility onto the speaker. As a speaker, I can't be held responsible for what you're hearing from your bubble and you're obviously doing 0 effort to meet me halfway.
Losing customers over such a simple, known problem, over years… is tragic for a company like Rockstar. This is like Microsoft ignoring a bug that made Windows take 10 minutes to start and just letting that happen for 5 years. Now tell me that’s not tragic.
Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA. Using it since about 2004, it was slow as molasses and unstable for my codebase but it was the first widely available refactoring IDE for a mainstream language, and it rocked and it and its offshoots still rock today. They didn't invent automated refactoring but they made it excellent and accessible in a way that VisualAge and similar tools weren't.
Yeah, I know. I'm just lamenting how long it took to get to async/await. It's weird for the official language of a mobile app ecosystem to not have a pretty strong async story pretty early on, IMO.
This is one of the reasons I still enjoy using my old XPS. The buttons are great: nice deep solid clicks. Even doing stuff like dragging windows around is so much better than on a touchpad-only design. (I've used Macbooks with the old "hinge" style touchpad, and they're even worse than using a double-tap-and-drag gesture, just because of the force needed to keep the button pressed.)

Given the number of people these days who don't even own a desktop, I don't understand why mouse buttons aren't the standard. With the XPS I can even play casual games while sitting on the couch. No need to move to a desk and dig a corded mouse of the drawer!
Over time, I believe more public non-profit sites will introduce this. Then for-profit sites. Until Google eventually pays for most of the valuable content it gets today for free.

I own multiple sites where I and my users work to produce valuable data (e.g “so so company reviews”, “Is tenet on Disney” and other data of that kind). And what does Google do? Scrap it all and display it on their page. As a result, the page links gets millions of impressions but tens of clicks. Thus, the sites cannot be monetized. Any reasonable person knows this can’t go on for long before the free and open web comes crashing down or Google (and others like it) pays its due.
Yeah that's why I said for a family of 4. $12,000 is hardly enough for food, shelter, and clothing for a single person.
And libgen/scihub for ebooks
If you take the approach that it's going to be leaked by Chinese and/or Russian intelligence anyway, you might as well tell the truth to begin with rather than let Ivan or Winnie 'reinterpret' it for you.
Of course at that point you may as well just calculate gcd(n, 15) entirely since the fast version of Euclids algorihtm only needs 2 divisions at most anyway.
BASIC.

Back in the days when 'home computers' became a thing, and RAM memory cost roughly $100 per kilobyte, the race was on to produce a programming language that was good enough, and small enough to fit in a 4-kilobyte space.

Behold! There was plethora of 'Tiny' BASICs.

And also the Lawrence Livermore Labs' floating-point BASIC at the end of the 1970s (http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/interfaceAge/197612/110-124.pdf).

Today, with GIGABYTES of RAM in even the least expensive computers, we have all sorts of new-fangled languages. But none, in my opinion, as underated as the BASICs of the 1970s.
Heck, while we're at it both sex and reproduction can be put on the chopping block as well - nothing has meaning except the acquisition of wealth, right?
> We are asking Spotify to raise the average streaming royalty from $.0038 to a penny per stream. Doing so would give artists a better chance at making a living from their art, and begin to restore the public valuation of music.

The public valuation of music is that it is a commodity, and yes while it would be nice to make a living from art it would then be a product.
What’s wrong with hanging your country’s flag? I’ve seen people from all over the world wear or display their own country’s flags.

Have you taken a look at yourself?
I envision the complete opposite. In 10 years I think there will be many companies who offer high quality AI services.

I'm not worried that these companies will just have their cake and eat it too because there's bound to be someone who would unbundle the AI from the product.

I even think it's more valuable to do that than building your own AI-powered product because then you're a service provider, which generally seems like a cushy place place to be.
Google to cut commission it charges app developers amid pressure from regulators
Could always use some help. It's still in it's infancy right now, very much a PoC to see if it was worth attempting. Once it gets to a good enough state I will make the repo public and let you know. Props to

Nice job embedding Python in Swift. I haven't done Python, but Wren and Gravity were pretty challenging to get working right. I was going to use a scripting layer for the UI, but eventually came up with a solution that allows for Swift to be used. I sort of mimic the system Apple uses for Playgrounds/Live Preview in Xcode.
Just clone any large open source software you know, most of them are several gigs.
I don't know if it's necessary, but that's just the way it is: large monorepos are everywhere.
Yeah I would actually argue that a minimum amount of corruption IS necessary in real life. Unless you live in a utopian society with perfect laws and application of them, corruption allows to move wheels that otherwise take forever to move or may never move. Of course, corruption can also be (very) detrimental to society. But attempting to remove all corruption from it seems to be the wrong priority.
Why in the World Would You Own Bonds When
You've thrown lots of numbers around, while claiming other people are wrong and/or incautious:

> I'm against the current narrative's misinformation which cherry-picks stats to push a political agenda.

and

> If we're just going off journalists' opinion pieces, then we're not ever going to get any further than the cherry-picked stats that they choose to provide. If you don't think my numbers are worth taking into account because they come from the source data and not someone's propaganda, then I don't know what to tell you. You're happy enough to cite numbers when they fit into your argument.

However, all your figures push the narrative that wind is / should be 25% of the total state capacity all the time:

> There are over 25000 GW of wind capacity, so we would expect to see a maximum of a bit less than 6250 GWh of wind output in the best 15 minute periods ...

and

> ... being dismayed by fact-checking pieces that turn "only 25%" of our capacity being 87.5%

Despite, as I quoted earlier:

"Wind energy accounts for 10% of Texas's winter energy capacity and throughout the entire year it is able to provide 24.8%"

So your 25% ratio, and all the GwH figures you keep extrapolating from that, are not what ERCOT projects or expects to obtain in winter. (EDIT: Indeed, this implies the average for the whole of winter is 10%, with an understanding it will dip well below that figure through those months.)

Are you cherry-picking yearly average figures and inappropriately applying them here to push a narrative?
At least Firebug was attached to a good browser. IE6 was terrible to use so being able to develop in Firefox with a decent debugging experience improved web development
for the actual paper https://sci-hub.se/10.1021/acsnano.0c05493
>Since we’re on the topic of System76, a fully upgraded Oryx Pro (except leaving the GPU at the base option) costs about half of what a fully upgraded 16” MBP costs (also leaving the GPU at the base option), while offering similar specs — $3158 vs $6000.

Not sure where you're getting these numbers. Comparing like for like and maxing out the Oryx, and the Mac's processor, they both have 64GB RAM and a 4TB SSD. The price I'm getting for that Mac config is $4800 vs the $3168 that you mention. $6000 doubles the Mac's storage to an 8TB SSD, which the Oryx does not offer. 6K is indeed a lot, but how many PC laptops even offer an 8TB SSD at any price? I haven't seen many.

But I digress. That's roughly a 50% markup, which is indeed a lot. For the extra $1500 you get a much higher resolution display (2880 x 1800) with good color reproduction, much better build quality, macOS and the Mac software ecosystem, Thunderbolt ports, Mac trackpad and keyboard, etc. Maybe these things are not valuable to you! But it's not like you're not getting anything for that money. The products are not equivalent, even if their specs were the same on paper.

I own System76 products and Apple products, and have owned countless PC laptops in the past. I do the math regularly and know what I'm paying for with Apple stuff, and it's almost never a 70% markup. And Apple stuff has specs you just can't find in other products, like the high-res displays and high number of Thunderbolt ports. Which isn't to say it's perfect! I don't like the Touch Bar and would like an SD card reader and HDMI out. But in general, statements about the price inflation are overblown. It exists but it's not as bad as many people think.