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I enjoyed Crime and Punishment for similar reasons. Tolstoy was masterful at engaging the reader in the mind of an unsteady protagonist.

I just finished reading Crossroads, a new novel by Franzen. There are some similarities you might like. No murder, but Franzen has gotten quite good at inhabiting the mind of unsteady, sometimes unwell characters.
I lived for a few years next to a big road in one of the bigger German cities as a student and suffered a lot from the noise and polution. In European cities you can get around pretty much without a car (in fact you will be often faster with the bicycle or public transport).

One day I took the effort to just check who sat in the car. It was 95% one person in a 5 seater car. The few vehicles with more than one person were Vans with 2-3 workers in front.

Driving alone with 2x5 meters into a city with limited space is — ultimately — a very egoistic act.
This is fascinating:

> Mind-controlling parasite makes hyena cubs more reckless around lions

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/mind-cont...

the study for those that prefer primary sources:

> Toxoplasma gondii infections are associated with costly boldness toward felids in a wild host

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24092-x
This is a twist on a somewhat similar system used in the Netherlands, I think. Over there, you pay 4% (or something like that; some amount of gains are 'assumed') on the assets you are holding, such as stock, every year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_Netherlands#Bo...

Here, the proposal is that if the asset is held and grows in value, then it will be taxed without it being sold (i.e., the unrealized gains will be taxed).

I very much doubt if this will pass without legal challenges, and it may not stand up to close scrutiny in court.
> Physics doesn't care about your right-of-way

My own counter-blasphemy: as a lifelong pedestrian, I don't care about a car owner's right to own a car.

If you want to operate a killing machine, then you either yield to people who don't operate one (yes, even to reckless idiots), or you accidentally kill them.
Enforcing existing traffic laws with consistency and social norming good driving behavior. Banning things never works but having people face the consequences of their actions on a consistent basis can change behavior
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I would reply to this, but my government is monitoring my blood pressure and taking me to an intervention camp if it gets too high. (Apologies for the sarcasm.)
No mention of Tom Lehrer?
I still remember the -LY song he wrote.

One recurring joke was based on 2001. A giant monolith would crumble to reveal the sound of the day while Also Sprach Zarathustra played.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY0GhNBMkM8
That doesn't look nearly as frustrating as the right shift key. I'm not sure how I wouldn't miss that every time I tried to hit it.
I bought a used Kia a few years back, and the GPS/head unit had many addresses still as saved destinations. I could have easily figured out who owned the car, which shouldn't happen.
I use Quizlet for exactly this (https://quizlet.com/). Works great. I paid for the "Plus" plan and am happy with it. (I can't recall if I needed the paid version or just wanted to support the project, but recall being pretty happy with the free version too).

Lots of great Flashcard apps out there. Definitely a great way to learn - especially things that fade quickly if not using them regularly (looking at you, Powershell ;-p ).
Yes, gradual replacement is easier and more practical for large projects. However, typical C APIs and idioms are different from idiomatic Rust. Rust uses more type-system features, generics, iterators, RAII, and prefers tree-like data structures and far fewer pointers (no linked lists!).

C rewritten in Rust is still very C-like, and requires refactorings that you can't do until it's all Rust.

BTW: There are two GCC-based Rust implementations in the works, so compatibility with exotic platforms is going to be solved.
It’s funny we can’t even discuss cutting spending.
Are you saying one of the most toursity places in the USA, dont get tourists?
>What is your proposed alternative?

Precisely what the post describes. Functional components and memoize all the things.
Discussed in the past:

Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10225096 - Sept 2015 (248 comments)
While we're asking, would it really be that much trouble getting Vulkan working? It falls in the same category of 'not going away but needs doing'.
I learned to read by watching The Electric Company.

My mom tells me that I would sit in a trance while watching this show, especially during the "silhouette" segments. Just zoned out while being programmed by the TV.

When I entered preschool, she told the teachers that I could read and they were like, "yeah, right." After about a week they were shocked and amazed that I actually could read.

I recently purchased the DVDs for my nephews.
I dont know about you, but I think a better use of time would be going into preventing pedestrian vehicle contact, then trying to ruin the vehicles people love.... (and make no mistake, adopting the changes people want to these vehicles will ruin them)
True... but you might be able to put an object in superposition with another object and separate those a bit within an existing gravity well and observe the implications.
It also mentions chaining your habits. Find something you do already every day, e.g. brushing your teeth, and then chain your meditation to that habit. After you brush your teeth, meditate for 10 minutes. That way as you are brushing your teeth, your mind will be primed to get ready to meditate afterwards.
>because it's quieter

Electric cars aren't quiet at speed. Other than that I agree.
We need a dramatically overhauled taxation system. We should stop using taxes as a cudgel to promote political agendas or enforce moral virtues.
The current tax system is weird. If you're poor it's pretty straightforward. If you're middle-class you get hit by weird rules that don't make sense and can end paying a lot of taxes. Some examples are international tax rules and AMT on stock options. When you get very wealthy (IE net worth >25M is required for good wealth/tax management) you end up paying very little taxes.

I'd prefer real solutions to the tax system instead of applying more duct-tape to it.

The same for the climate plans. Any real solution requires an efficient carbon pricing market. Instead we get a subsidy on all electric cars other than Tesla.
I don’t really agree with your first point. Obesity puts a huge strain on the healthcare system, increasing wait times and friction for people at a healthy weight who need services. It also increases health insurance premiums on healthy weight people.
When do gravitational waves actually arrive from distant objects relative to light from those objects?

Generally the space between us and distant objects isn't actually a perfect vacuum. It should have an index of refraction greater than 1, and it should vary by frequency. Light from a distant object should arrive here spread out in time by frequency, and the earliest should arrive a little later than something moving at the speed of light would arrive.

Is there something like the index of refraction for gravity waves? If not then we should see gravity waves from an event before we see any light from the event. If there is, then it should be possible for gravity waves to arrive before, at the same time, or after light from the same event depending on the frequency of the gravity wave and the light.
Oh, I never knew that. TIL
Hahah I don't know if you meant that sarcastically, but I think I fit into that description--I do like, even love, driving, etc., but I do hate most of the consequences of having cars around.
Well, it's generally frowned upon to pass off someone else's work as your own. Hell, he wrote an entire blog post detailing the process of 'building' this website (linked above).

It's staggeringly brazen. The only true sentence in his post is "It makes me look like I'm doing real work".
Would you apply this reasoning to Firefox support?
Hahaha, I also think that ship has sailed.
Older systems like a ThinkPad from 2013 work. Something changed around then for the display tech.
It's too difficult to actually carry out in practice. You increase the mass, it quickly becomes impossible to distinguish the states.
> Uzbekistan is more wealthy than other countries of the region;

Absolutely not. Uzbekistan was the Central Asian version of North Korea.

The poverty was universal, and extreme.

And yes, a change from a braindead Kim Il Sung wannabe who boiled people alive to a plain idiot plutocrat could be considered a "change" to be welcomed.

Kazakhstan is by far the wealthiest Central Asian nation.
The is a false equivalency. Having the government acting as insurer, has nothing to do with your breakfast.
A bit of a tangent, but boson vs. fermion is not a massless/massive split. There are massive bosons. Rather, it's a split on the qualities of the objects' spin, and thus whether they obey the Pauli exclusion principle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boson
I find it interesting that so many responses are trying to dismiss this. I chatted with several programmer friends of mine and they all answered the question wrong (what is the abs(-128) in int8) and then got defensive and tried to play it off.

Be honest, it is not an obvious gotcha. Don't get defensive if you didn't realize the implications of abs(-128) = -128 @int8.
Better learn chinese then.
This article takes the angle that Lambda's profitability efforts may hurt its students:

> the school can still reach profitability by enrolling 2,000 students a month while only placing less than half of its graduates in qualifying jobs.

>Class sizes are like 150 students to one instructor — I've only heard that number going up

I don't see what the problem is here. For students, the only cost associated with Lambda is the opportunity cost. The incentives are still aligned here -- the school wants people to get placed. It can't "scam" students with higher teacher:student ratios or bad curriculums without hurting its bottom line. If it's failing at teaching students, that's incompetence, not a drive for profitability. If only 40% of students get placed -- that's still 40% more than would have been placed without Lambda, right?

>"Those students that are in the bottom 10%, why would they invest resources into helping those students succeed? Just let them fail out after six months"

...exactly? You are going to school for free. The school is not obligated to waste resources on students falling behind, because those students aren't paying anything.

If you think 6 months of wasted time is a bad deal, just wait until I tell you about this other educational program that lasts 4 years, costs over $100,000, and has a much lower placement rate: Your local university's liberal arts degrees.

Still, it's unfortunate to hear that Lambda is playing the same placement-rate games as bootcamps. I'm surprised they have to do this at all; if I was running admissions, I would be extremely selective, only accepting extremely bright students that I feel the university system had "missed," to get placement rates as high as possible. Maybe they try to do this, and this is just a sad sign of the state of non-college education opportunities?
400GB/s is very high for a CPU bandwidth, but is less than of NVidia's GTX 3080 760GB/s bandwidth. Assuming you care about 32-bit of course.

I don't expect the M1 Pro to have very good double-precision GPU-speeds.
> Discord, with similar team size, was able to build something that succeeded in displacing IRC

I think they displaced Skype, mumble and teamspeak too.
So... I'm in Arkansas near a river shipping port. Is there any way for me to take advantage of this situation and acquire a bunch of empty containers?
I can already see it. 20 somethings injecting themselves with toxoplasmosis to hack their entrepreneurial abilities.
Yes, those are typically the people who know what the term negative externality means.
Yes but I think the idea of this new paper is to measure the effect of gravity on time dilation for a system that is also subject to quantum effects.
I’d recommend Leo’s wizardry https://duckduckgo.com/?q=stick+site%3Azenhabits.net
I'm a big fan of really reducing our military in size/budget but I think this is an easy one to pick on but once you start peeling back layers it gets more and more difficult. Personally I'd rather phase out programs like Social Security that I'll never see a dime of yet have to pay for, and/or combine multiple programs into a UBI of sorts. But then once you start talking about these things (like hey let's get rid of the TSA or the military) you start to realize... they are jobs programs and what are you going to do with so many people out of work? Will they start tech companies? Beats me. At least the military enforces the Petrodollar system which benefits you (assuming you're an American) so it's not like it's just all sunk cost or something.

Outside of the general "no" from some people w.r.t universal health care I think that's another reason the federal government has been so unproductive in just making it happen. You going to fire all of those people and completely re-tool the economy? It's not that easy.

But also the military while a large portion of the budget isn't that crazy relative to what we're doing. Should we pull out of Germany, Japan, and South Korea? Only sell weapons? Should we pull forces out of the Pacific and let China conquer Taiwan (or unify depending on your perspective)? I think it starts to get very complicated, very quickly.

-edit-

A quick tangent unrelated to your comment is that we've been trained to assume that all government spending is "waste" which is kind of irritating. Items like the infrastructure bill (or at least components of it at a minimum) can be viewed as investments with ROI instead.
I agree, apple has done great with things like VoiceOver.

There is other stuff they can do, like a toggle to disable temporal dithering. Or actually test their devices with people with binocular vision dysfunction.
To be in the top 1% by income a family has to earn $421,926
(basically povetry level in Bay Area)

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/27/how-much-you-have-to-earn-to...
What's next? Phones that talk to guns in the area that prevent gun owners from accidentally shooting the wrong person? Pardon the snark.
There's no problem with either scipy or numpy running natively on Apple Silicon. The problem is with the 3rd-party package managers, which are all junk, and that's not new: they've always been hot garbage, especially homebrew. Just don't use homebrew, and then after you get used to that, don't use it on x86, either.
I had an office with close to a thousand ports spread over a dozen VLANs waiting on a Juniper "expert" to configure routing / NAT / firewalling. Between hardware that was delivered non-functional, other hardware which wasn't properly licensed, and the lack of experience of this "expert", nothing was working for the first several days.

In a fit of frustration, I asked for all VLANs to be sent to one port, then I set up a Raspberry Pi to do DNS and DHCP using a NetBSD host-based router to actually forward and do NAT. I told them it would stay that way until the Juniper gear was set up 100% and tested.

They're excellent little machines, inexpensive, and wonderful to keep around "in case of emergency". Learn how to root off of a USB drive or to limit writes to the SD card, and they're wonderfully reliable, too.
> There is a significant population of folks who are car-hostile here on HN

And there's a significant population of folks who are bike-hostile here on HN.

In fact, there's probably a significant population of folks who are X-hostile, for any value of X you can conceive of, given the size of the HN userbase.

What's your point?
You probably mean War and Peace. You are right, it is an excellent book.
"At Speed" what kind of speed are we talking, but "At Speed" chances are the type of vehicle make very little difference.

At best the augment can be made for very very very low speed accidents.
Headphones (including earbuds) are illegal to use while riding a bike or an electric scooter in France. Police in my city regularly set up 'warning weeks' where they'll stop and caution people to remind them before fining scores in the weeks after. Situational awareness is essential when your only protection from a collision with a car are the clothes on your back, helmets being optional, of course. I like podcasts as much as the next person but not enough to trade an episode for missing the cars around me.
Obviously I’m a niche case, but I can’t move to a city that doesn’t rely on car usage, as I get severe motion sickness when using public transportation. If I lived somewhere that car use wasn’t an option but I needed to commute, I’m not sure what I’d do, as the motion sickness medications have an effect on me that make me unable to work.

When I visited New York City for a few days some years ago, I could feel the ground shaking the entire time, and it was absolutely miserable. Large buildings were the worst. I was anxious and nauseous the entire time, like a constant earthquake was going on. Elevators are really bad, I break out into a sweat, so a place where I could bike everywhere would likely involve elevators on both sides of the journey. Subways are also awful, bus isn’t much better, but at least I can sit up front, all of it. I’m effectively “allergic” to public transportation. I can barely sit in the front seat when someone else is driving.

It’d be weird if one day restrictive laws are passed limiting the use of personal vehicles, as I feel I’d have to apply for some sort of disability. I’m worried about self driving cars because I wouldn’t be able to do the sync up between my brain and the car without directly controlling the vehicle.
Cats do not do what you want, an owner is a passive partner to the cat. You have to make the cat like you, so it voluntarily comes for pets. Running a business is similar - no one automatically likes you or wants what you are selling, you must give the customer pets and treats to encourage them to reward you back. In this way cat owners have a vision of life more attuned to entrepreneurship.
I wonder whether this will add volatility to the stock market, since now there is less incentive for billionaires to buy-and-hold.
How Do We Know Essences? Sense Knowledge and Abstraction
This has just dropped from #2 to being off the front page, why?
I would love to learn more about details.

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We shrug them off because they are the devil we know: a super well understood risk. Also because safety is improving, so the trend is toward less risk not more.
Regarding treating certain accounts differently:

The Right Thing to do would be to hide the name of the user from the policy team when they consider bans.
Hrmm. So about $8k after all the additional costs and there is nobody to take it to when it breaks. I'd probably just get a side-by-side [1] from a local dealer even though they cost more. I can get one that is street legal, faster, far more power and I can get it serviced.

[1] - https://powersports.honda.com/sxs/recutility
Every Western country on earth aside from the US has public healthcare, none of them monitor or regulate what you have for breakfast.
No kidding. Should we have been taping our ID's too our foreheads when protesting the whole time if that wasn't the case?
Docker uses almost 6gb on my M1 Air. Even with 16GB, I have to be careful to avoid swapping (which trashes your SSD).

I'm looking at buying a machine for higher RAM. 64GB is a pretty good deal (look at desktop DDR5 prices). If I spend 4k on a machine, I plan on using it for at least 3-4 years before I upgrade. 64GB seems to make a lot of sense if you can stomach the price of the M1 Max.
In my Canadian city all traffic related deaths are heavily covered, fwiw
Yes, this year's iPhone chip did get a newer version of the performance core.

>with a score of 7.28 in the integer suite, Apple’s A15 P-core is on equal footing with AMD’s Zen3-based Ryzen 5950X with a score of 7.29, and ahead of M1 with a score of 6.66

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16983/the-apple-a15-soc-perfo...

You'll have to look in the charts, but on single threaded floating point the scores are 10.15 for the A15, 9.58 for the 11900K, and 9.79 for the 5950X.

Having your phone chip match or beat Intel and AMD's desktop variants on single core performance (with a phone's memory bandwidth) is fairly impressive in itself.
Now that Apple has taken the lead in performance/battery life tradeoff, are there any machines which come close to the M1 for software dev? Specifically, compiling Rust, Android development etc. without giving up too much on battery life?

Also, the last time I checked, CPUs were reporting high performance but only under light load. Has the whole throttling situation changed or should I just expect to get 2 hours battery life in exchange for extreme CPU performance?

Edit: I should have specified machines that can run Linux.
Each source of content gets one slot. Display most recent, but allow scrolling left right to see more from same source.

Or better yet - make the scoring algorithm something the user can customize themselves (ex. bestFriendUpvotes * 0.4 + otherFriendUpvotes * 0.2 + friendOfFriend upVotes * 0.2 + allSiteUpvote * 0.2), thus making it out of the site's control.
The SUV/truck reason was first discovered by the government, but received little attention. There was talks of baking in pedestrian survivability into crash tests (like EU and Japan do) but the car lobby pushed back hard on this and to date no regulations have been created. Nice straw man though
Unfortunately it wouldn't remotely begin to scratch the surface of funding our spending issues.

The US is facing perma trillion dollar annual budget deficits, even with tax hikes.

You could reduce our military spending to a reasonable 2% of GDP - ~$450 billion - and the difference wouldn't even cover half of our debt interest per year at this point. The US probably needs to be spending $150-$200 billion on additional annual infrastructure spending at this point, for at least a decade. Entitlements or healthcare? Throwing an extra $100 billion at those per year is a drop in the bucket ($100b = ~2.6% of US healthcare spending per year).

For 20 years spending growth has been far outpacing economic growth, it has been plainly unsustainable for a long time. Now we're putting everything on the global reserve USD credit card.

You can't keep growing spending at 7-8% while your economy grows at half that rate or less - unless you're willing to go the currency debasement route, which is what they've chosen thus far.
Angular: Spinner Interceptor
Be careful with the gear you use on your Pis, just like any system. If you’re using a no-name USB-C power supply and dirt cheap generic SDHC cards, you will likely have problems. By default, the Pi4 doesn’t come with a power supply and while you might be tempted to power it from your PC, spend the money for the official power brick, or, even better, get the official Pi Power over Ethernet hats. For SD, buy from a reputable source and get a brand name (Samsung or Sandisk).

This is anecdata from my part, but I’ve got eight or 10 Pis running (Flightaware/ADSBexchange, PiHole/Influx/Grafana/Wireguard, a couple of Octoprint, Home Assistant - with a relay HAT for triggering dampers, Showmewebcam, and a handful of other things). Once I switched to good power supplies and good SDHC cards, my problems went away. My most heavily loaded machine is the PiHole machine which also has influx running and writing to the SDHC card - it’s probably a ticking time bomb, but it’ll celebrate it’s fourth birthday on the same card in two months.
Ted Kaczynski noted that over time all large organizations trend towards self preservation projects.