skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that EVs are actually going to face problems. While ICEs are expensive to produce now thanks to chip crisis, it will eventually fade off and prices will cool down, while raw material shortages for EVs (copper, cobalt, lithium, nickel) are predicted for years into future, probably full decade.

Thus in few years people will have choice to either own inexpensive ICE maybe hybrid or much more expensive BEV. Problem for BEV will be even more compounded by their inflexible charging (majority of people can't charge at home, 50% people in EU lives in apartments) and high electricity prices (especially in EU). Thus people will start switching back to ICE, purely from economical and comfort reasons.
I guess you also brush 3 teeth in each of 11 interruptions thoughout your day, and again all night.
Good points though many platforms/languages have similar issues, just C++ has been around longer and has been used the most. C++ has always been a sort of peak language and probably always will be because like C, or machine code directly, everything else is built on it: virtual machines, apps, compilers, platforms etc at the root.

C++ is one of those things that when you grok it and can ship with it, everything else is easier. The years I have spent on C++ I have enjoyed because everything else looks easier and how performant it is. It is fun to code in as well. There are many ways to do things in C++ and that is a feature. I also feel like people use less dependencies and do more custom code in it but that may just be a gamedev thing. I like that style over using thousands of dependencies and less ability to control memory. While maybe it can be unsafe if done incorrectly, it surely has less attack vectors at the dependency level like other software today.

Additionally, it seems like C++ is still a language where programmers/developers control the products over all the middle layers that control modern software, like the hellscape that is project management of software today.
And I believe there is great opportunity for Starlink on the RDOF funds they don't win directly and it might/could come in two forms:

- Others will end up shipping rebranded/white-label versions of Starlink

- Starlink will provide backhaul to others in hard to reach places. Then they'll set up their microwave or 5G based off of that connectivity. (but wouldn't the first option just be easier?)

But is it cheaper to ignore your rural obligations, pocket the money and incur the fines than it is to enter into a contract with your competition?

Somewhat reminiscent of how Tesla took advantage of zero-emissions credits from legacy auto manufacturers that didn't want to (or couldn't) produce their own zero-emissions vehicles.
> A couple of things off the cuff, but economies of scale affect infrastructure costs, so centralized areas take far less money per person to operate. For example, a dozen busses provide much better return on investment in an urban area than suburban or rural because they can each complete a single route quickly and service more people per mile and thus you have service every 10-15 minutes. When you spread those same busses out over a larger, less dense, area you have much longer between stops and far fewer people to use them for the same cost. Water, sewer, electrical, communications all scale better with more dense living as well. Bigger pipes are far cheaper than much longer runs. Suburbia is Subsidized: Here's the Math - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31961508

I can't and won't disagree with what you're saying. If we're talking about how much money it costs to bring services out to rural areas, you're 100% correct. However, I'm not sure what your point is, because rural folks also pay taxes for services, like urban residents. It makes total sense to me that a concentration of people paying taxes for the cost of services to serve the entire city/county/state would of course be paying more than necessary for those services if they excluded rural citizens from those services. The grandparent didn't mention anything like this though, except maying saying "cheaper" (but I took that to mean day-to-day life honestly):

> Cities are cheaper, safer, greener, more social, places to live with higher incomes, better educational and health outcomes. We need to stop subsidising rural under performance.

> Crime and violence rates similarly don't match up with what we might expect, though it's a complex topic. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-07/is-new...

I agree this is super complicated! Anecdotally I felt much safer when I lived rurally. I have experienced unsafe situations more than a handful of times since being back in the city. That's not real data, just a single data point from my experience though.

> I don't have anything for socialization, but access to more diverse population gives you far more options to interact with people of shared interests. For example, if you're the only person in your small town who likes Sci-fi, you aren't going to get to discuss it with anyone. In a more dense/diverse area you'd likely have options of dozens of book groups and meetups. The same holds true for any number of interests.

I don't disagree - rural communities tend to monocultures and some of the social activities are hard to do out there. Other activities are much easier though: bonfires, hunting, fishing, harvesting, etc. The same way some folks might go to a book club to discuss a sci-fi novel they are reading, my neighbors and I went to a fence-building workshop on the weekends to learn about building better fences that involved erecting livestock fence on a pasture. Definitely wouldn't have the interest or ability to do that in a city.
I think, yes, that's what is meant.
And repair. Repairing always uses fewer resources than making new.

While I personally and professionally select use repairable items in lieu of non-repairable ones, I believe that this is not entirely a personal issue. Another r-word to add should be regulation. Without some degree of enforcement, the present set of incentives will continue to worsen the situation.
It is a terrific scene with equally terrific acting by Jeanne Moreau and Marcello Mastroianni.

She tells Mastroianni of having had in her life a man, whom we saw at the beginning of the film to be at the end of his existence in a hospital bed, who loved her, wanted her, but she preferred a man, the novelist played by Mastroianni, who never paid much attention to her. It is the usual story--I loved you but you loved and preferred somebody who did not--but the stillness of the two in the grass field, the broken voice of Jeanne Moreau, and the "lost and guilty look" of Mastroianni, made it so incredibly moving.

Another brilliant scene in "La Notte" is when Mastroianni is leaving the hospital--his wife has already left because she cannot bear to see the man who was in love with her die--and he is caught by another patient, a woman who seems to have some mental problem, and the two kiss.

As someone who has sometimes found himself inexplicably lost in the tourbillon of events--why am I doing this? This makes no sense!-- the scene was able to describe what I felt and saw in those bizarre moments.
Indeed. My point was that "private" has all the strength of a "warranty void if removed" sticker.
> First, you're being conspiratorial

What a dramatic accusation to shut down conversation. That's frankly uncalled for.

I'm expressing fears about a very expensive and time consuming investment.

A positive media spin for NASA means their budget remains unscrutinized and unfettered.

I never said NASA is telling the media to say these things. It may be a general sense of "talk highly about our expensive things so we can keep doing expensive things". How any department, public or private, keeps getting itself funded.

We're seeing a lot of these pieces. It feels as though scientists are telling journalists this byline, because it's everywhere. Nothing wrong with that.

> I'm wondering how well it's going to do as we pass through the Perseid cloud.

I don't think we know yet. We're about to find out.
There are basements here in Houston but they're rare and typically have multiple sumps and pumps.
My humble take here is that we need more academic freedom AND ALSO fewer academics who are obsessed with culture wars or partisan national politics.

We need more scientists who have a small bucket of money to work on what they think is important, without answering to a funding agency every year. More CAREER awards and endowed professorships. THAT is what I always thought was meant by academic freedom! At least the type of freedom I would want to see more of & think society would benefit from. The freedom to do scholarship and talk about their area of expertise as they see fit.

I think 80+% of professors who decry the need for more academic freedom would use that freedom to talk about the most inane and stupid things on Twitter. Or complain in committee meetings and trigger 20 year olds in intro classes. instead of, y'know, doing their job and taking big research risks that are supposed to be enabled by academic freedom.

The political type of academic freedom doesn't seem particularly socially valuable and I can't really bring myself to care about professors having more political speech protections than anyone else. Why are physics or math professors so much more important than Bob from Accounting on culture war BS?

An old mathematician saying women aren't good at math isn't a particularly interesting use of a mathematician's academic freedom. Or whatever word policing is in vogue these days from the other end of the spectrum. Like, how the fuck is that "academic freedom" at all, other than that the complainer is an academic and wants more freedom to say whatever they want? It has nothing to do with their research field. It's not academic freedom. It's just bizarro entitlement.

Anecdotally? It's usually the folks who actually do have tons of real academic freedom to do whatever they want with their research time who find themselves complaining that they can't collect a salary to wage stochastic culture wars in Calc 101 classrooms and committee meetings about course schedules or whatever.

Academic freedom should be about academics -- research and teaching. That doesn't include going on bizarre unrelated culture war rants in math/science classes or saying stupid shit about a politician on twitter.
Unix time is definitely not a fixed monotonic reference; in fact it's defined explicitly to exclude leap seconds in the count since the epoch...
But what benefit are leap seconds to "society, science, or culture"? I've never seen one.

If the current drift would continue then we're talking about a drift of 9 minutes every millennium; less than an hour for all of recorded history (and it mostly likely won't continue as-is; sooner or later we'll get negative leap seconds).
Sure, it’s still the case but my point that it’s not anywhere nearly as bad as it is on Amazon.

I can at least navigate a world of differing advertising budgets. I can’t even begin to navigate an Amazon listing of copy-cat products or even worse, an AliExpress search result.
Sure, but certainly more people would have gotten sick. And if they get sick all at once, the medical system is overwhelmed and those without treatment would die.

The argument is only rhetorical because all governments in every country imposed some sort of lockdown or everyone stayed home willingly.
oh is the shopping mall with a large parking lot and a taco-bell within a 15 minutes driving distance in every suburb formula not working anymore? /s
Not sure about every brand (there's over 2000 caviar farms apparently) but a few I found:

https://www.greatbritishchefs.com/features/ethical-caviar-fa...

https://californiacaviar.com/pages/our-story

https://www.finedininglovers.com/article/meet-frances-no-kil...

Not killing the fish is an obvious way to increase the farm's yield so I imagine most producers are interested in it. Sturgeon meat isn't particularly demanded either...
>> required to pay attention

Not at all. Fork it.
Berlin to Edmonton? Maybe it could work if nightlife doesn't matter at all to you.
> The only variables and functions that should be public are those that cannot put an object into an invalid state.

That's an interesting one. So a reason to use private is to tell programmers that calling this function or changing this variable can leave the object in an invalid state? I guess invalid state then means that you can't call a public function on that object.

It might not be clear what an invalid state is though. I mean, every state has its place. Example, after I decrease the health of the player to 0 but before the death animation is played, is that a valid state? I should not be able to play in that state but it's a state that the player might be in for a frame and it will be visible on the screen.
I wonder if all those years getting a paycheck from Facebook is helping him develop this framework.
+1 for Freya Holmér, I had skimmed through some explanations on shaders in the past and never really sustained much interest until finding her series. It's been a while since watching but I think the contextualization/demos really helped me understand the big picture of video game graphics
I meant slow as in the time it takes for the committees approval.

What exactly does this language solve in Google’s problem domain that can’t be enforced through guidelines?
Not building nukes guarantees a nuclear detonation will occur on earth, because The Other Side (TM) will use theirs on you.
https://jawwad.me/book-summary-designing-your-life-by-dave-e...

Honestly the best thing I think anyone can do in your position is to:

- Work on improving yourself everyday.

- Read about new ways to do just that.

- Find your purpose along the way.

Here's a few blogs I've written that may help you:

https://jondouglas.dev/thoughts-on-struggling-through-finish...

https://jondouglas.dev/how-i-stop-myself-from-giving-up/

https://jondouglas.dev/act-immediately-on-impulses/
I wrote network software in late 90s, including a cfengine replacement.

Probably wrote a few hundred apps. I’m old school. All in C.
Geographical names are political, there's nothing objective about them. Calling them the British Isles implies some kind of ownership, but Ireland is not a British possession. There's lots of other groups where you could apply the same logic, insisting on a name when it offends the people it applies to. Unless you've just bought a large quantity of atlases where Ireland is named as a British Island this would make no difference to you, so why would you argue for it.
Isn't that basically what call-in talk shows on AM radio are all about?
I think the first upgradeable laptop that crossed my awareness was a Zeos.

Sometime in 92 or 93.

The VP of engineering bought Zeos machines because literally “he liked the name.”

About as good a reason as any I guess since everyone’s opinions were mostly based on Computer Shopper ads anyway…and they were all clones.

Over the years I have looked at Nuc’s. They’re never cheaper per cyclebitbox than a laptop or desktop in quantity one.

If reduced size was important then one would make sense.

But I have always found more computer for fewer dollars in laptops.

YMMV.
You: There are good and bad people... [0]

Me: This "fact"... in this thread we see the goofy idea that there are "good people" and "bad people"...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32201608
N-gram "received/recieved" shows a relative ratio of around 3000x, no doubt because it's derived from published books, many of which have gone through a copy editor.

I don't think you've made any other point besides your disdain for the copy editors at The Guardian.

Since it appears many other copy editors agree with The Guardian, I think it's fair to say your inference is unsupported.
> addressing the interlocutor instead of the issue still fails to address the issue.

Logically, you are correct. Realistically, with a lot of people, failing to address the interlocutor will result in a failure to address the issue.

The "Let's keep personalities and egos out of this" methodology works in a rather narrow domain.
i'm not sure you want them to write back https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/pull/3958

time to fork
Their point is that Meta's argument is a straw man.
I think the point being made was that all the identifiably good DNS names got squatted back in the 90s when they were free.
They appear in the Kerr metric, which isn't particularly exotic except for the fact that realistic spinning black holes clearly don't have all the symmetries of a Kerr black hole. I would not be surprised to learn that the question of CTCs in realistic spinning black hole solutions is open, but I am not an expert in General Relativity. We certainly use the Kerr black hole solution to model things in the actual universe.

At the very least, the fact that CTCs appear in solutions to GR but seem physically implausible suggest that the basic physics of time are not fully understood (as do the other more outre theoretical avenues I pointed out). I think its pointless to be glib about the reality of the past, given that fact.
"Reduce" would imply "Do less of" while "reconsider" would imply "Maybe something else fits better". Instead of reducing your usage of plastic bags, reconsider if maybe paper bags works as well?
Supporting Group
Hey guys,

I´m Patrik and I´m finding people who would be keen to joining support group. I would like us to be on the same level so I´m 21 years old, at the beginning of normal startup knowing everything that is required to start alone and I can unfortunatelly only invest each monthly salary of mine/ what is left off of it. If you are on the same level maybe we can do something with it! ;)

Patrik.
I am also leaving Germany. Today I chatted with a Berliner who pointed out how loud and unsafe Berlin has become. Months ago I talked with a lady with kids that moved out cos too much drugs in parks. Not surprised to read your story! I am going to the land of tolerance and innovation: the Netherlands!
Wow, what a repo. I can't even tell if the author is serious or this is some tinderbox-dry satire, bravo either way.

I'm sad that I've worked with plenty of codebases that look exactly like that and I twitched a little bit browsing around. :)
Wouldn't count on it. EVs tend to be heavier, so we can expect more dust from tire wear and brake wear. Not to mention road wear. Roads, by the way, are frequently asphalted with the ash leftover after incinerating waste, which I suspect will contain a carcinogen or two of its own.
At least in your example you still have a lovely CX-5.
Presumably Stripe is equipped for whatever type of auth / verification is required.

The solution outlined was really just intended to fix excessive exchange fees. Bill in USD and deposit the funds directly into Wise which acts like a regular US bank account.
HS is only for TLDs. After that it's a normal hierarchical DNS.
The cost is nothing next to what we spend on war
> Joel Spolsky wrote that the key feature of Napster wasn't that music was free, it was that you could type the name of a song and listen to it right away.

If that paraphrase is true then Joel Spolsky has no idea what he's talking about on this subject.

Without a doubt the key feature of Napster was that students could download-- not stream-- music. For free. Students would consequently fill their harddrives with everything they thought they'd want to listen to in their lifetime, often buying 2nd harddrives to populate with more mp3s. (Well, that and pron.) Keep in mind many dorms were still using dialup connections during this period-- thus there was a pattern of students running to the library computer lab to download a few mp3 albums to zip disk (yes, zip disks) then bring them back to the dorms.

What facilitated immediate listening/viewing was sharing directories in Windows with the rest of the LAN on college campuses.

Quick digression to argue against the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect-- while your paraphrase of Joel Spolsky expresses an idea that is indeed false, I reserve judgement on anything else Spolsky has ever written (and frankly on whatever his verbatim words were on this same topic). I mean what kind of pathetic, impulsive nimrod would I become if I simply through out an entire body of someone's work on a single passing impression?

Edit: Just to cover my bases-- in every case I can remember, students who were playing music in their dorms or a shared space had winamp or some other such player loaded up with a playlist selected from thousands from their own collection. Napster was the place to download songs for your collection, not the place to build an ad-hoc playlist in realtime. Maybe there are cases where people were doing this. But the overwhelming supermajority of Napster users were using it because they could replicate a subset of the whole to build their own lifetime library of music. For free.

2nd edit: I almost forgot-- nearly everyone in the dorms would share a directory when they hooked up to the LAN. The process of finding immediately playable content was to browse the various shared directories in windows, or use Windows search on them which IIRC worked incredibly slow or not at all. This was a common practice because again, most people were still on dial-up and couldn't download anything from Napster nearly as fast as you could on the computer lab networks.

Later, Youtube made both music and video files immediately playable. Around that same time, torrent tech started to improve to the point where you could stream while downloading as well as do keyword searches with vastly improved results. This is all to say that Napster kicked off a pattern of college kids grabbing free content, and this proliferation of content caused the development of realtime playback of discoverable content.

So what you paraphrased above isn't exactly "wet streets caused rain." It's more like "the issue isn't the rain-- it's the wet streets." I'm honestly not sure which is worse. :)
SVG icon for the little ‘Y’ image in the corner. It looks blurred when you zoom in. And I always have HN zoomed in at 150% because the text is tiny on a full HD screen.
Adding the millionth opinion for exercise. All my life I was like no, I'm fine, I'm in good shape and don't need to exercise, that isn't my problem. I was entirely is disbelief it would have any impact. However, it's become super obvious to me that it does make a huge impact for me.

Adderall is also a massive bonus to my well being and ability to do work, but it's not sustainable for me. I have to up the dose every couple months until I'm at the max dose, and at that point my heart feels like it's going to explode every day. And then quitting adderall is awful and takes forever to not feel super tired 24 7 (like half a year).

Ever since I turned 30, my approach to productivity has been this: If I find myself having trouble to encourage myself to do something, it's probably not actually that important to me. So I don't do it. I still keep the house clean, force myself to exercise, and other basic things. But I don't beat myself up over doing nothing, by not studying for some theoretical promotion it may bring me, or drinking or doing drugs (but no in excess). I accept that I will have passing interests in hobbies and then drop them after a month or so. I don't beat myself up over it - it was fun to try. Then I move on to whatever else I feel compelled to do, which often times is nothing.