skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real cause is that we sell road access for $0.

So the same thing happens as when you sell bread for $0. Supply runs out, you have long lines, and everyone is unhappy.

Road pricing would make driving enormously much better, but it's counterintuitive and radical, so I doubt we'll see it in my lifetime.
The Metaverse sounds like a protocol for VR/AR worlds, but I don’t think I read there is any consortium working on such an open protocol. Unless such a protocol already exists?
This is a dangerous trend, convincing people to drop out of traditional employment with no plan.
Yes, that is very different from what I experienced at Berkeley as well. There were some notable differences between my PhD application and undergrad, in that PhD admissions committees weren't really interested in the undergraduate dog and pony show of "tell me how your volunteer work and experience playing the flute in your high school orchestra shaped you as a person..." My personal statement was about what I intended to get out of a PhD program and a vague direction of possible future research interest. Interestingly, med and law school applications in the US are much more similar to the undergrad essay than PhD programs.

But still, even the PhD statement was nothing like the 5-6 page proposal with a clear research focus that you described. Sounds more like the kind of program I'd be interested in if I were to go back, as I'd be mainly interested in researching something deeply, not taking classes.

Well, good luck, hope it works out for you.
YC Creates the “Orange” DAO
"But another part of me isn't okay with a world in which the vast majority of people do nothing (or do something that doesn't really produce value) while forcing higher-income people (like many of us, myself included) to fund that lifestyle."

But I feel it is the other way around really. Low income people support the lifestyle of all us "highly educated".

I feel the biggest amount of us programmers / managers are really creating little value, but are nonetheless rewarded by a vast institution of governments and corporations.
But that’s another different battle, and has nothing to do with this change. Disks were already soldered down, and that’s a tradeoff.

I get that for some people swappable disks are great, but those people couldn’t really use pre-M1 macs. The only change is that instead of two different interfaces for non volatile storage, now there’s one.
>I really wish others would think in such a seldom-connected model, as the network is becoming increasingly brittle, and working in that model was such a joy.

https://nncp.mirrors.quux.org

Also, the old NNTP and email lists are still alive.

I use SLRN on batch mode on Usenet and tildex (Unix based micronetworks), and it rocks. In batch mode, I pull down all the comments/articles and I push down the answers and written articles. No need to be online 24h/7d.

For email, i use Getmail against an IMAP server.

Thus, I can fetch all the data offline at once with a
'do_the_internet.sh' script in a breeze.

I would love to use HN over NNTP.
Why have you fallen out of love to suckless? I recently switched from dwm back to bspwm and I was also looking for a st replacement, but couldn't find one. Which is ok, but were you able to find something "better" in the terminal emulator or window manager space?
Having rented in Seattle for 6+ years at essentially the lowest non-subsidized price point, these existed before, along with a variety of other problems.
“We didn’t realize that our old archive data was retained. Whoopsie.”
Thank you for test! Must say, I expected such result.
Summary: moratoria are popular because they don’t cost anything (actually they shift unfunded mandate onto landlords who respond to the new market risk) or cost a bit when tenant lawyers were supplied. This increases homelessness.

Market stabilization against short term shocks (i.e. temporary rent subsidy) functions like unemployment insurance, stabilizing the entire market and not increasing homelessness.
Thank you! we will definitely look into it. It looks very promising!
Lack of openness is a feature, not a bug.
I could be wrong, but I doubt the approach you described alone could reduce emissions at the scale required.

What I'm trying to say is that (I think) the root of the problem are the economic incentives for fossil fuel companies. It's easier for them to compromise with governments (who can't strong-arm them) and pay fines (which in turn gets charged to their customers). I don't think this problem has ever been solved.

But what if for some reason consumers, at a large scale, stopped paying for energy produced with fossil fuels? Wouldn't they be forced to adapt?

Consumers may be emotional, but can also be swayed with the right incentives (governments typically play this part). I assume this to be extremely hard of course, but theoretically I feel like it would be the only way to align all parties in the same direction.
> It is especially unlikely to be the underlying cause of unexpected and seemingly premature catastrophic SSD failure.

One of my graduate students experienced this, the hard way: writing up his thesis, his mum plugged in "the wrong USB C" charger. I don't know exactly what happened, but the board was utterly fried. The problem with the soldered-to-the-motherboard, everything-utterly-encrypted approach is that it's almost impossible to do data recovery. On the M1+ models, you literally can't do anything except semi-fix the motherboard as the flash and its controllers are integrated and the keys are cryptographically securely stored. This video [1] shows what data recovery is really like -- I don't often link to YT videos, but it is an hour long, involves an awful lot of BGA de-balling and re-balling and the scouring of spare chips from other donor dead machines, as Apple doesn't let manufacturers sell the chips separately and datasheets are all NDA'd.

We're very much in the part of the curve where you'd need a lab and a lot of serious work to get data off these things without either sacrificial macs or luck (e.g. one blow voltage regulator). Of course, the flip side of this is that your data is really, really secure. You just have to be damn sure that you back it up correctly.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=110x5rMHCIw
> …it will be a shame. We need lot of low-cost headsets for XR to proliferate

I agree, I’m just expecting today’s mid-market to be tomorrow’s low end (and to eventually have working old devices being basically thrown away due to over-supply like is the case for computers and phones).

BTW I don’t have the same reservations about the others with tracked controllers, just Cardboard since (for more interactive content) optimizing for head look only is limiting.

> Are you a designer or a software engineer?

For my current VR project I’m doing both the UI and the programming.
Do you have a source for this? I don't think it played out that way. Google Docs and Sheets both had synchronous editing before Wave launched. At some point Docs was rewritten to use the underlying mechanism from Sheets. I'm not aware of any cross-pollination from Wave. The Docs and Sheets teams were fairly closely connected; Wave was developed in an entirely separate part of the organization, I believe the team was mostly in Australia, and there was never much communication AFAIK.

(Source: I was co-author of the original Google Docs implementation aka Writely; had some visibility into later iterations. I left Google in 2010 but have some idea of what went on subsequently.)
Yeah I just ordered a 16" MBP M1 and my math was that I routinely run with about 1TB of storage with a lot of fussiness, I would have ordered 2TB, but since it isn't upgradeable I ordered 4TB.

That made someone's numbers at apple like $400 better at least.

And it would probably be better for me financially to wait 4-5 years until I really needed 4TB before upgrading (if I ever needed to, which I might not).

Same thing with RAM. 16GB is proving to simply not be quite enough, so I would have gone with 32GB, but instead I went for 64GB for future-proofing.

I'd much rather have bought 32GB now, and then upgraded to 64GB maybe multiple years down the road when I needed it.
Yes, but I think you've been spoilt if every shop you've worked at already knows and uses Terraform. It's a real uphill battle to introduce it to a place where nobody has the mindset of treating computers as cattle, has never played around with declarative tools or config management before.
Curves and Surfaces was my favorite class in college and I’ve tried to apply it where ever possible.

I recommend this video from Freya Holmer on Bézier curves. Really cool: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aVwxzDHniEw
>want to grow old next to their friends and family.

That's exactly what I am gonna do.
> IMHO, Edge is the best chromium based browser out there

Closed source web browser? Not really all that interested tbh.
> Just about any unused animal part was used.

I can't logically see this particular aspect as anything but a pro rather than a con. Shouldn't we make use of every bit of an animal and reduce waste as much as possible? A video essay talking about Jamie Oliver's War on Nuggets [1] makes an argument better than I could about why this specific point against mechanically separated meat might not at least be consistent. Not to say there aren't other valid reasons to be against mechanically separated meat (or meat as a whole).

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-a9VDIbZCU
They want the feature regulated/pariahed so no other social network can leverage it.
Does Minecraft go down for several days like Roblox does?

Does Minecraft ban/cancel people like PewDiePie as Roblox did?

Aren't monthly active users (MAU) around 100M for each?

I think Roblox is eventually doomed to slowly fizzle like Second Life, etc. Internet history is littered with the corpses of dead closed systems. Remember Compuserve, Prodigy, and AOL? Remember Myspace?

Microsoft might eventually, say, install mandatory AI inside Minecraft that forces all players to behaviorally conform to the social and political views of the most vocal group of Microsoft employees. Then some other immersive 3D world builder with more open rules of participation will send Minecraft to its grave.
Sometimes buying makes sense as well. The NY Times has a good calculator for this. In my case, rent is so expensive in my city that buying and building equity was higher EV than keeping my cash in investments.

YMMV.
I'd love to see something that used TCP so I could route it over Tor but offered local prediction like Mosh.
> required fewer rare metals to create

Fuel cells require expensive and exotic catalysts, like platinum. So they don't even win there.

Hydrogen might have aviation uses but I'm just as skeptical we'll get over the safety issues.

> EVs are pretty wasteful if you consider the entire car lifespan

Only until the required recycling infrastructure is in place. We can recycle around 96% of the material used in batteries. There's much less equipment needed for an EV, compared to ICE. There's also a push to use less of rare earth minerals like cobalt. Any advances in battery tech (like solid state batteries) can be easily incorporated, as electric motors don't care where the electricity comes from.

EVs don't have spark plugs(consumable), oil pumps and filters, alternators(the drive motors work as alternators for regen braking), air filters, crankshafts, valves, pistons, exhaust(and catalytic converters with rare metals), starter motor... the list goes on. Even the brake pads last longer. It's at a minimum a battery bank, an electric motor, and some electronics to manage power. An order of magnitude less moving parts (that have to be manufactured, wear out, and have to be replaced).

> the ecologically superior action is just to drive an old ICE.

An old but relatively recent, fuel-injected ICE with the latest emissions standards? Probably much than getting a new one built, yes.

A really old one with a busted engine (or one before we had catalytic converters in the exhaust)? Then I do not know. Might be better to scrap and get a somewhat less old vehicle.

Honestly, the ecological win here would be to convert the existing fleet into EVs, rather than creating entirely new cars. There are some hobbyists doing that successfully. It's not even difficult - the difficult part is adapting the parts to fit the specific vehicle. The economics may be difficult to justify, however.

At some point, when we have a sizable EV fleet, getting recycled batteries into them would be the way to go. They will probably last longer than our current ICE vehicles.
Define proper threading?
Personally, I think that Graphql is overcomplicated and Facebook marketing efforts did a pretty good job for its adoption by developers and companies.

The example you mentioned can be easily implemented in Motor Admin via SQL queries or admin UI configurations with direct connection to the database and the performance would be probably better than it could have been with Graphsql.
I had the impression that this was happening because they had excess cash and nowhere particularly interesting to put it. Why would you borrow if you have cash sitting around and expectations of a good-to-crazy rate of return?
Not that many past threads:

CDE – Common Desktop Environment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16300557 - Feb 2018 (49 comments)

OpenBSD 6.2 and CDE - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15967446 - Dec 2017 (58 comments)

CDE Open Sourced - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4353861 - Aug 2012 (37 comments)
>they will happily rent to you since that is the the plan all along - own all the assets, and every generation after X gets to rent

Maybe if there wasn't the NA obsession with "home ownership" none of this would matter. Part of what is driving home prices are people with FOMO paying any price. Why?
Yes, in my company some of the fastest proposal writing has been done during lockdown as 3-4 people co-author the same document online via Word. It works very well.
> Microsoft is bringing back Google Wave, the doomed real-time messaging and collaboration platform Google launched in 2009 and prematurely shuttered in 2010.

IIRC wasn't it only "doomed" because it was such a resource hog people could barely use it? From what I remember the people who could get it working loved it.

> Loop components, “atomic units of productivity”

OLE! But for the web! Seriously anyone else remember when OLE was a thing and you could drop a print shop pro banner in Word, click it, and print shop pro toolbars would appear? (I think it was print shop pro, if not some similar bit of software, its been 25 years so my memory isn't perfect on this exact point!)

> Google Wave was clearly ahead of its time.

So were the million other attempts to do this over the years, but hopefully the experience will get incrementally better with each go at it our industry tries.

This is how progress happens, one step at a time. Learn from the past and make brand new mistakes that the next team gets to learn from.
A large portion of the Pentateuch boils down to:

> Some people came to the chief with a conflict. He went into a special tent, "communed with the storm-god", and came out with some new rules for how to manage a tribe of herders that has grown beyond Dunbar's number.

Repeat that, mix in an origin story, some king lists, and tribal-unification propaganda and (modulo some path dependency) you'll have a book that people will be treating as the literal truth 2500 years later.
I will try it soon with Docker. Thanks!
I remember reading that article!
I understood fully-featured to mean "intended to have a broad feature set".

There's no list of features that every DAW must have - so if you're going to be this literal I could easily argue that any DAW is not "fully-featured" because it's missing some feature that another DAW has.
Yeah just double down on pretending you know shit you obviously don't really know; that will fix the credibility gap.
> either "they're bad people" or "they're misinformed".

Maybe they vote for (what they perceive to be) a lesser evil. Like, they know that it's not okay. But they think the alternative is even less okay.

I am not agreeing with them here. Just pointing out that when we talk about our support for groups containing bad people, we excuse it like "a few bad apples". But when we see other people supporting groups containing bad people, we are likely to see it as unambiguous support for those bad people.

Our party's glass is half-full and we keep hoping it gets even fuller; their party's glass is half-empty, how could they vote for it?
> So research is not allowed to be respected by scientists if done with underlying business interests?

Not quite. It's more in the line of identifying potential bad actors to not grant them oportunities to poison the well, waste resources, and outright sabotage progress.

> So you should intentionally bias your results if they don't fit the narrative you wanted?

Not quite. It's more in the line of exercise critical thinking when analysing said work, and there are doubts or extraordinary claims or editorialized nuances (i.e., claims that glasses are half full to undermine and attack findings supporting the emptying glasses theory).

> This gets to the core of the problem. It assumes scientists know the truth and the 'correct' studies.

The job of a scientist consists of gathering data, analising results, and help explain and model phenomena so that we learn more about a subject and understand it better.

As part of this job, experiments are made and reproduced, and observations are reported in studies.

Non-"correct" studies are those that include claims and data that are not credible, reliable, and are outright unbelievable. With enough work, some of those are recanted, but they still cause problems as supporters of fringe theories, conspiracies, and outright lunacy have been known to continue using them to support their wild claims.
A new era of productivity tools by Microsoft is needed. All of their current tentpole products are just web versions of their old apps, and most of them are very annoying or slow or just weird. I'm intrigued to see where this leads as they double down on their web-first strategy.

As for the Wave comparisons, it's more of a technical comparison of the Fluid framework and Wave's real-time collaboration data model/editor, right?
Software engineering doesn't require talent any more than learning calculus requires talent. We aren't that special or gifted imo.

Not only that, software engineering isn't the only path to financial success (though it is fairly stable and future-proof).
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>our politicians are just too cowardly to decommodify housing

I'll be 90% or more own multiple houses.
It is a superstructure. There are notes with the times of their events (MIDI note on, note off, polyphonic aftertouch, etc.) and editing operations that ultimately alter those times; calculating the modified times from beat divisions, with beats beginning according to a current BPM rate, is an abstraction that introduces arbitrary entities for the convenience of the composer.
Right -- but work externally is key here. Sure, you often have some stuff you'll do locally, but having external disk arrays is the name of the game if you're doing large volumes of video, not just because you want to be able to have a backup if your internal dies, but because lots of other people often touch your stuff and it just fits a workflow better to use fast networked storage when possible.
Isn't SharePoint a clone of lotus notes (without any of the cool parts)?
> I still cannot understand what is wrong with name "Fedora"?

Nothing whatsoever to 95+% of people, but perhaps 5%, most of whom one might describe as "very online", have decided to strongly associate it with a certain type of annoying guy prone to wearing them (they're more often trilbies, but whatever, the fedora is what's been "meme'd"), to the point that they would choose to be bothered or turned off by an OS named after the hat style.
It is somewhat common to see commits on LO git that says things like: "OOXML specify X, but MSO does Y."

Good compatibility with OOXML is extremely difficult. The specification is enormous, hard to understand and, even if you implement the specification, you have no guarantee that you'll get good compatibility with MSO documents.
> more space

That's hardly the case. Buy a big place, usually costs more than renting one. Or at least that's my experience. If I had to buy the place I rent it will cost me easily $3M to 4M. My rent will only pay for a 2b/1ba.
I am talking about major city. Perhaps is different in suburbs, don't know.

>Dealing with terrible neighbors isn’t nearly as bad.

It is way easier to just rent a different place than having to sell your house because of that noise neighbor that likes to throw party every week end.
The 'dnf update'* part only runs sometimes, depending on your cache expiry setting in dnf.conf. If you run a single-package 'dnf install' a bunch of times in the same hour or two, then only the first one is slow while it runs the 'dnf update'* process.

Actually it just updates the metadata - it won't install new versions of packages. It is like the apt-get update, but if you actually run 'dnf update' that's equivalent to apt's update and* upgrade.
The most comprehensive wifi/router AP site I've found is by a guy named Jerry Jongerius.

https://www.duckware.com/tech/wifi-in-the-us.html

Not just recommendations but incredibly detailed explanations. Recommendations can be found in Appendix B:

https://www.duckware.com/tech/wifi-in-the-us.html#routers