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> You’re basically an non-consenting tester for every piece of innovation that society every has/ever will come up with, in one way or another. It’s an unavoidable feature of living on the same planet as 8 billion other people. Perhaps the safety of this technology does need to improve, or perhaps not. But there’s no level of improvement that would ever be able to satisfy this outrage you’ve expressed at something new existing in the same place as you.

Why do you say it's unavoidable? Regulations could certainly keep these tests off of public roads.
I couldn't agree more. I'm so tired of the hype around cryptocurrencies and NFTs. Everywhere I go to get some news, there's a story about someone like Elon pushing the benefits of crypto coins.

If all these rich guys and crypto-evangelists really want cryptocurrencies to succeed, they need to make it easy to acquire and pay with a cryptocurrency. Unfortunately, this will never happen.
Aka corporate talk that absolutely means nothing.
>What'd be wrong with using something like DBeaver, SqliteStudio, or PG-Admin? Or buying a tool like DataGrip? Microsoft Access

1) Those utilities are not typically included in the workstation image of laptops/desktops unlike MS Excel which is already part of Office 365. Millions are already familiar with the GUI of Excel.

2) The datagrid viewers in those tools are not powerful and feature-rich like Excel. They are often missing features that are taken for granted by Excel users:

- formatting any arbitrary row or column with bold/italics and change the font color or background cell color.

- pivot the data via drag & drop UI (instead of manually writing a SQL cross-tab query)

- hide rows or collapse rows into outlines

- cut rows 37 to 52 and paste them above row 5. That type of behavior is not easy in generic database viewers because most tables -- by typical design of RDBMS table row ids -- do not consider the visible spatial ordering of rows the way the end user wants to see them on the screen unless one adds an extra column to the table such as "gui_view_order_id". Excel has user specified row ordering as default out-of-the-box behavior.

- ... tons of other GUI features like formulas, spell check, etc
Why would you treat a software problem that's specific to the car (and, by extension, specific to all cars running the same software version) differently from a hardware problem that's specific to the car?
I don’t think anyone implied FOSS projects lack obligation— just that it’s more manageable.

Uptime (and the related system management,) large monthly withdrawals from your personal checking account, and soliciting donations to recoup some are are constant, recurring obligations more urgent than anything I’ve experienced maintaining repos. Most people shrug and move on if their issues and feature requests get ignored. Even an ignored CVE isn’t going to stop you from paying your rent. Doing your best to get the word out to users (even breaking your code to do so if you’ve got an oft-included but rarely considered library or something), as far as I’m concerned, satisfies your ethical obligations.
Alright but again, the anecdote of "This one time in Arkansas" can't reasonably be used as a justification for stating "All police are bad and out of control all over the country"
The whole fleet should be grounded until the issue is debugged. Without debugging the issue

* It might be a software issue (maybe the cars self-destruct when they encounter a solar eclipse -- silly example, but if the cars malfunction on events which are rare but wide-spread and correlated this could cause an emergency).

* If it is a hardware issue, it must be understood how a hardware failure can put the device in a dangerous, still semi-functional state. If one car was able to get itself pulled over for driving dangerously, then there'd be an unknown number of cars driving themselves dangerously.

* It is good that the fleet is punished disproportionately to the frequency of errors. We shouldn't accept a linear disincentive for putting dangerous vehicles on the road.
So after my brother passed this was one of the things our family discussed with the palliative care doc and the therapist assigned to our family by the insurance company. The way it was explained do me, and take it or leave it as you will, was that while morphine can certainly end a life, in most end of life scenarios the morphine has two roles: it reduces pain and suffering, and it actually makes breathing easier (even while it depresses respiratory rate). In my brother's case it was her opinion that it actually extended his life.

I'll never know if that was just what I was being fed, but my wife is an NP and has never shot that down, and she's not shy about correcting medical misconceptions.
Crypto is a greater-fool investment, hence the cultfest. You require someone else to come with their money in order for you to exit successfully.

The difference with say stock market is that theoretically you're buying future cashflows. Similarly can never exist for crypto.

The interesting thing is that it's a bad comparison. You should compare crypto not to stocks but rather fiat currency. Fiat currency is a greater fool investment but worse. The central bank goes and prints oodles of new money effectively taking purchasing power from you. Even worse than that. They like to pretend to give you 0.1% in your savings account. You are only losing slightly slower.

Being inflationary is bad for you personally; good for the economy; and great for central banks who can print money to fund deficit spending.

What is crypto even anyone? It's really just minting your own currency with a clear set of rules and letting transactions happen. What is a '99 Mclaren F1? It's also a deflationary currency with unusual set of rules to let transactions happen for the rich. What difference is a Picasso or other painting from crypto? Certainly deflationary.

Fundamentally the rich have been playing the deflationary currency game for a long time using paintings, hypercars, antique coins, stocks, etc.

Pick your poison to avoid the central bank inflation game. Stop paying for the government's deficits by holding fiat currency.
Uh, the bitcoin community has come out unilaterally against the concept of premining and ICOs. Bitcoiners fucking hate that shit and have been heavily criticizing it from when it first started. Which was substantially after bitcoin started, i.e. literally years later.

What you need to realize is that the bitcoin community != the crypto community.

Bitcoin was not premined and did not have an ICO.

It's weird to talk about "Satoshi's net worth." Satoshi may not have been a single person, may be dead, and anyway, it doesn't look like those coins will ever be spent, so if Satoshi is alive, he hasn't profited financially from the coins he mined and is presumably living a poor or middle-class life, unless he happened to be independently wealthy before---but we'll probably never know.
Do you think this is why, perhaps instinctively, dog owners share parts of their meals with their dog? Interesting hypothesis...
I'd really want to have that, but for small companies/services that benefited from avoiding the trends to get some competitive advantage.

Something like "IT Architecture for the Forbes 500-thousand"
> Hmm... wait a minute, a small few holders of coins... can behave like a CENTRAL BANK ... ?!

Before the constitution of the Federal Reserve, J.P. Morgan acted like a central bank by being the lender of last resort.
Already today, cars do not travel at 40mph in those areas with heavy pedestrian traffic--the typical speed limit on a city street is 25mph, and even that is probably above typical speeds. If you want cars to travel more quickly, you need to resort to highways that completely cut off pedestrian access, which has seriously deleterious effects on the neighborhoods it travels through.

If you try to compromise, you end up with stroads... which turn out to be just as bad as highways for pedestrians in practice, thanks in no small part to people like you who believe that all of the compromises of street design and urban planning should be borne not by vehicular drivers but by pedestrians.

(I'll add a side note here: a lot of efficiency depends on what you're trying to make efficient. Many people--including you, apparently--define efficiency as moving cars with as high throughput as possible. If you instead want to move people with high throughput, usually step one is to ditch cars, since single-occupant vehicles occupy vastly more space than any other form of transportation.)
Thank you for your concern in trying to make the HN community a better place. A couple of things I noticed though: editorialization rules, ime, tend to be enforced when the title clearly differs from the content. I don’t think that is the case here and you’ve demonstrated as much. Second, politics are commonly discussed. A brief foray into any of the popular conversations throughout the week will show that there really is no hard and fast rule determining where “politics” begins or ends.
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Only Americans do that: https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/hbpyvk/til_t...

Personally I can't imagine loving an animal and putting it in a cage at the same time.
> An all-in-one db+gui tool like MS Access also isn't really an option since it doesn't have the same powerful GUI data manipulation as Excel.

What's missing from a GUI like MS Access or Libreoffice Base? In your example, you can input your comments/annotations (even something like "highlight these rows as having problems") in a separate table without touching the original data, then use a database query/view to look at both seamlessly. It's only a bit more involved than raw editing on a spreadsheet, and it inherently avoids accidental data loss/corruption.
Having an unsuccessful hardware business does not equate to being "pure" software.

Despite not being successful, they were well known for their hardware.
It seems like an inescapable paradox of free speech, no?
> We'd die if someone else came up with the technical solution

This reasoning does not prevent Google from slowly making itself irrelevant by changing the web to such an extent as to make its search algorithm impossible to get any useful results from.

> For example, on the network level we've pushed for BCP-38 over and over again to deal with spoofing.

That is a point in your favor, I will concede.

> Give me a fucking break.

Cloudflare is a huge company with more and more power over the entire internet, and it is constantly urging people to only use the internet through Cloudflare, in numerous ways. You do not get a “fucking break”.
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Call them and ask
surely a company is absolutely incentivized to share these priorities?

every accident is a hit to their profits and pr.
Speed, yes, but efficiency is questionable. Efficiency depends both on how fast you're traveling, but also on how far you need to travel in order to reach a destination. With minimum parking requirements, the space required for a shop increases drastically. If there's one shop every 50 feet, you can efficiently visit them at low speeds. If there's one shop every quarter mile, walking past a row of shops is impossible. The car traveling 40 mph can go at a faster speed than a pedestrian, but it also requires the shops to be spaced out such that the car can park. Optimizing for speed reduces efficiency.
I wonder honestly how this (the pattern of greater fools) is any different than a startup.

Build it, horde equity, IPO, or merger exit...

The management group exits with massive gains, employees might, investors left holding the bag.
Ignoring the quality of the business, NeXT is quite well known for their hardware.
Ah, great! Thanks for clearing that up.
It's hard to take noise pollution seriously when you so much as read the comments here after reading and agreeing with much of the article. Yes I believe living under an airport to be detrimental to anyone's sanity, but yet it devolves quickly into an agoraphobic hand wringing competition going from city sirens, to cars in general, to the neighbors dog barking sporadically. There are prices to pay for living in city centers, suburbs versus living in the woods away from society entirely. We exchange a tranquil peace of living in a shack in Montana vs living in SF/NYC/etc/etc and making more money and all the conveniences that come with living in these cities. What I gather out of a lot of HN comments about noise pollution is a spectrum of desire to be isolated from humans while living in metropolitan areas all the way to being upset that the neighbors kid drives a shitty car or they hate the sounds of animals fighting and barking.
A hardware failure that puts the vehicle in a semi-functioning, but non-safe condition needs to be investigated, it could be silently lurking in any number of cars.
1. Fair enough, but sources should almost always be provided. I hadn't heard that particular piece of historical trivia and I don't think it's necessarily common knowledge.

As for the later, why is that any better than just sidewalks and crosswalks, which the majority of areas with heavy pedestrian traffic already have? It'd be incredibly eco-unfriendly, expensive, and impractical to have two different types of roads for cars and pedestrians when we already have a solution that works just fine - sidewalks.
Before, one entity could read your mails, and after, two entities can read your mails.
>entirely reductive and provides no real value

Calling alcohol "literal poison" is the same, that was the point.

>because our body literally hates it we have to disguise it going in or else we involuntarily vomit immediately.

Eat pure undiluted Capsaicin and see what happens which is 10 times more deadly than arsenic yet we eat it for enjoyment all the time.

>alcohol is reasonably deadly

More people die from heart disease which sugar and fat is a contributor, same with skin cancer, too much sun, everything in moderation. "reasonably deadly" is your opinion fine, that is not a rigorous definition. We would be at a lot lower risk of health issues if we cut out everything we eat or do only for enjoyment that provides no sustenance that can't be argued.
Ask HN: Linux users, what is your setup to minimise mouse usage
Hi all,

I'm trying my hand at minimising mouse usage as much as possible.

I do all my coding in a terminal (I won't say which I use between vim and emacs but suffice to say my editor of choice frees me from relying on a mouse).

I also use terminal programs for playing music, movies, and chat (cmus, mpv, and irssi respectively).

I'm wondering how far I can push this "no mouse" approach - for example browsing the web, file system navigation, and other common tasks.

What program(s) would you recommend for the above?

I'm hoping to use terminal programs for everything (not sure if that's the correct terminology, but basically I'm looking for terminal-interfaces that will play nicely with my theme's colour and transparency settings).

Thanks in advance for the tips! ^_^

EDIT: I use a ThinkPad style keyboard (shoutout to my fellow SK-8855 gang), so I've already solved for having to lift my hand to use the mouse. I'm now trying to see how far I can push the "no mouse" philosophy ^_^
The more plausible hypothesis there is that dog food is quite the recent invention relative to our symbiosis with wolves.
> mimicking the current meta

Probably "Most Effective Tactic Available. It's basically what works in a game regardless of what you wish would work.", a gaming term.

Imagine a PvP game, there are rock-paper-scissors rules and devs try to balance the game, but inevitably mistakes are made and the game has an imbalance leading to a rock-paper-scissoss-well situation (the well always wins or ties), so people end up mimicking that, gaming the game, otherwise they don't stand a chance, which ruins the game itself. Then devs adjust that by cheesing the weapon or whatever, but may introduce another imbalance. So there's a game atop the game (a meta-game), which is "how to game the game" by finding meta-strategies that are almost guaranteed to work.
Whenever I see "Hilbert space" remarks in a paper that doesn't concern abstract math, I roll my eyes and imagine a chef who starts his youtube video with "Today we are going to cook a salad. For better precision, we are going to use knifes of triangular shape, three dimensional plates of circular shape, and the 100% dihydrogen of oxyde solution." All this only to obfuscate the fact that the entire recipe is just chopping a few carrots.
I love it when excel decides a bunch of digits is a date or decides to remove leading 0000s from a very important number that needs 0000s. Or maybe it wants to make a bunch of digits into scientific notation. I would prefer if excel left my cells alone or just asked what I wanted to do.
There's a lot of room for general python skills in various parts of science, and in my experience quite easy to get a job because there's not a lot of competition (mostly due to wages I guess). Often any libraries/frameworks in use are obscure and you're not expected to know them beforehand. Projects tend to be numerous and small rather than a single huge one.

Universities, large scientific labs/facilities, etc.
> LastPass too has auto fill yet mitigated by requiring a click to populate the match.

Actually, if you login/authenticate to LastPass, it will automatically autofill the forms within all of your open tabs. It's quite irritating--I haven't figured out a way to disable it.
I've made similar decision few years ago, from a big city to a mountain (but well served) area. My usage of crapphones (one of the more meaningful and politically correct name for smartphone, the other less politically correct and more real is macro-spy) drop drastically. I still have a smartphone (moderately new, one of the less crappy I found) but it's at home just in case of specific needs. Normally I go out without any phone, for car travel I tend to have a classic Nokia just in case.

To follow the post smartphones now are like party cards of the nazi-fascist era, in the past they are just a means for those regimes to discriminate citizens, now they are "active" instead of "passive" they are not just a discrimination tool, the original social score, they are active surveillance devices that can monitor much of any human life, but reasons for me to live the city have gone far beyond that tech aspect:

- IMVHO cities now and especially in the near future are not anymore human aggregate for productivity, service and sociability but open internment camps, where very few can materially control and rule many more humans, like an intensive farm, outside cities it's just not equally possible, a dictatorship can disrupt services and life outside but not much surveilling and oppress a spread population.

- seen the public aspects of the Green New Deal it was clear to me that cities will be just receptacle of poverty and pain: we can't evolve a dense city so an already made city is doomed, no well done insulation and appropriate energy saving design, no room for renewables etc while energy costs skyrocketing and that's not just a matter of cost, also a matter of physical availability of a service. Without electricity in a dense city there is no room for individual citizens to backup.

- density issues already surpass the advantages and foreseeable and (fore)seen unrest will naturally be much bigger in cities than outside.

- in any cases being in a served enough area the investment keep it's value reasonably well in almost all cases.

Smartphones and "virtual/surveilled" life vs a less constrained and less artificial one is an important but marginal aspect...
I'm definitely not a supporter of cryptocurrency, but it's fair to defend Satoshi here. They did not pre-mine bitcoin. They released the software and started mining. Anyone else could have joined in at the beginning, Satoshi did not pre-allocate lots of coins, unlike just about every other coin.

Now, the end effect is still similar: the early adopters got the lion's share of the coins and the 'cult of bitcoin' is trying to lure in greater fools so that they can cash out, but I think that Satoshi's motives weren't greed. They had a clever idea (however flawed the economics were) and implemented it. Everything snowballed from there.

Perhaps Satoshi was appalled by what they had created, and that's why they've disappeared?
Producing ammonia through electrochemistry could reduce carbon dioxide emissions
Oh wow, didn't know these were a thing! They look great, now I kinda want one, haha.

Though I wonder, who bought these over similar Dell/HP/etc boxes? Did they have any special features or was it mostly just about them running Solaris first-party?
And how many of those processes come from software outside of your repos/app store? No one, myself included, is saying that megacorp software isn't going to eventually get ported. Even linux might eventually run. But as of right now, as it's been for a year or two, most software doesn't. It's okay for console users because they never download and compile that .tar.gz source tarball off some dude's website. But realistically most software isn't going to run without lots of effort so, yes, it has to be emulated. There's a reason isapplesiliconready.com exists.
Another popular individual who speaks at length about JWT is Greg Bahnsen. I recently listened to a podcast[1] that contained an excerpt of a radio program he did in discussing the topic around 2001. Even if you disagree with Bahnsen, the audio is astounding as it shows an era where informed listeners actually call in to have legitimate discussion with the radio guest. It truly is a blast from the past and worth listening to if only for the brief solace that comes from realizing that true academic conversation existed just 20 years ago.

1. https://all-of-christ-for-all-of-life.castos.com/episodes/ju...
> You said "This kind of violence affects everyone" and this is disingenuous when we look at the ratio of black vs white being murdered by police.

If you want to argue that this kind of violence affects certain races more, that's fine. But why downplay the fact that it affects all races? The percentages are higher for Black Americans, but White Americans still make up the majority of people shot by police[1]. If people actually cared about creating a broad coalition to address this, they would want to highlight both facts, not hide the latter fact.

You actually see the a similar attitude when racists attack social programs. If members of a minority group are more likely to benefit from a program, they treat it as a program for minorities, even if the majority of beneficiaries are non-minorities.

It's also interesting to see how people divide the demographic information. If you look at the breakdown by sex, you'll find that the divide between men and women when when it comes to these shootings is much, much greater than the divide between races. Yet the latter is talked about a lot all over the media, and while I don't think I've ever seen the latter treated as an issue. My guess is that we'd also see another large divide if we divided the numbers by wealth (and this article is a good example of that).

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic...
This article has been posted five times in a row.
No sane private company would do a private railroad in the US. NYC in the 1920 put in laws to ensure private rails cannot compete and by the 1950s forced the private companies to give their system to the city.

Note that I just made a statement about the sanity of Texas Central and Brightline.
Just speculating but I could imagine trained dogs used for hunting or guarding camps might have been too valuable to risk experimenting with food on?