skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"They would love to work and get city wages, but they can't commute. It's too expensive with the gas prices. And really, the thing that's holding them back is the cost of homes."

>"Some people are contemplating moving closer to a city, moving to the suburbs, or moving to a small community 45 minutes from a city. So yeah, it will probably, if it continues, accelerate rural depopulation in parts of the Midwest and Great Plains."

Once again, the heart of the issue is the American commute.

This is kind of interesting: at the same time as white collar workers from the city are fleeing out towards the suburbs, you have blue collar workers feeling pressure to move towards the city.
you bid on it so someone else can't get it before you do. you then hope that there's going to be a way to make it work, but in the end, you realize it's just not going to happen. so now, you just take the fine and walk away
So, it is back to square one. Why do depression meds work? Hypothesis A failed, move on to B.

But any discussion of depression that fails to deal with it as at least a half-dozen independent illnesses, each with its own biochemical basis, is intrinsically garbage, and any conclusions bankrupt.

This is why we keep seeing spurious reports that "antidepressants don't work". In every case, they take "depression" as a biochemically meaningful diagnosis of one illness, and run a RCT of medication X on a sample with illnesses A, B, C, D, E, and F. If X helps F but makes E worse, and has no effect on A-D, what will the "result" of the trial be? Garbage. "Gold-standard" garbage, if you like. GIGO.

People promoting garbage results should be ashamed. Fired, too. Incompetents in medical research make things worse for us all.
An acquaintance just about had a nervous breakdown recently because they somehow used ˆ (option+i, used for e.g. î) in a regex instead of ^ and couldn't figure out why such a basic thing was failing.
Not a fan of using the average for this metric. Median is far more useful.
Famously, 1990's Mitsubishi and Subaru vehicles can basically rust down to the frame before the drivetrain stops functioning. And they don't wait long to start on the former.
yes please. i have these conversations with people here in LA and they look at me like i'm an alien. but LA is really the perfect city for dense, multi-modal, mixed-use neighborhoods because of the perfect weather (esp. low humidity) and relatively flat terrain.

all we need to do is convert street parking into bike lanes, and build a few parking structures in the oldest neighborhoods that were built before onsite parking was common (this mitigates the biggest legitimate objection for getting rid of street parking).
Anyone interested in data meshes should give the paper itself a read.

The primitives developed for the system are incredibly flexible and potentially worth knowing about.
Strongly disagree. As the article itself points out, people who need it can already use TAI or UT1.
* The per-capita drug use rates are significantly higher in rural areas.

* Cities absolutely are greener, as their total energy consumption per capita is orders lower than rural areas. People drive less in cities, way more public transit is used etc. etc.

I mean these are all obvious points now.
Someone else caught it and pointed that out. I totally missed it.
You might be right. It just feels somehow "off". As I said in another sub thread: I don't really mind the height of the taxes. That would be fine, if infra, public services and the overall outlook were ok. But they are not. At least not in my opinion. And buying a house today meant a loan for roundabout the next 40 years. No option.
I minimize the externally visible names even/especially when I'm the only programmer on the project.

I do that so that "future me" has as little to understand as possible. ("reduce the number of files to search" seems silly in a world with filename wildcards and find. Are "modern" tools less capable?)
It's natural to distinguish between wallclock time and duration time; or, time used to fix events chronologically and time used to figure out how long to do something. The first kind of time is the only plausible use case for leap seconds, because if you insert a leap second into the command "run main motor three seconds" you're going to be in a lot of trouble.
We live in a world where civil time moves by an hour 2x a year for no good reason.

You FAR overstate the impact on civil society of failing to change it by a second every so often.

Ironically even astronomers, who leap seconds were originally for, don't benefit because they need to know the Earth's rotation accurately to subsecond levels.
> Use some vendor blob -> problem. Have some NDA for registers used in some hardware -> problem.

That's the same as GPLv2. If you don't mix the filesystem into your proprietary code, you don't have to reveal any of those things.

> Hardware does not have user firmware flashing -> problem.

GPLv3 only requires you to let the user have the same flashing ability you have. If it can't be flashed, you don't have to do anything.

> Legal compliance requirements for hardware bearing your name -> problem.

That's a 1% of products situation.
Nothing more annoying than having a car slowly depreciate only because of rust and not having any type of other issues
I've never been satisfied with Frontier internet.
> People abstract before an abstraction is necessary.

This one really frustrates me. Write code to the complexity level needed to solve the problem, and nothing more. The only time I'd break from this is if I know for certain that the added complexity is going to be necessary in the near term.

> ... not all refactorings improve the code.

While true, I have a low tolerance for code that requires constant bug fixing, or is so overly complex that the thought of modifying it makes you want to cry. Some projects truly require that level of complexity. But in my experience many do not, and once you've gained a solid understanding of the problems it is trying to solve, incremental refactoring is a fantastic way to improve the code's stability and maintainability. This is especially true in C++.
I was in touch with Janet Traub (I think I got that name right) who was hoping to start a NYC club, but I don't think she ever did.

I have to admit I've never even heard of those two flicks.
How, in your mind, is the legal effect different between those two cases?
Not allowing college professors to choose what readings they want to assign in class is, in fact, stifling free speech.

The essay is advocating against "forced" speech in terms of only allowing consideration of one point of view and refusing to even provide/offer other points of view.
> personally find cities to be disgusting overcrowded places that are harmful to my mental health and I try to stay as far away as I can from them.

That's why the suicide rate is 4 times higher in rural areas then.
Based upon the historical trajectory, it would take around 6,666 years for time to be offset by 1 hour.
That applies to TV and radio because the electromagnetic spectrum is limited. It does not apply to the internet. It may or may not apply to websites that simulcast tv or radio shows.
It is my impression that older Mercedes are pretty good in this department.

I still see so many mid-80's Accords in the US. Yes, there's probably a somewhat smaller share of them that survived than mid-80's BMWs, but there's a lot of factors that go into survival (Honda == cheaper to keep going as a beater; BMW == higher initial value / treated nicer for the earlier parts of its lifespan).
How to send emails on churn with Plunk and Stripe Webhooks
I think you're talking about a merchant of record, like Paddle.

https://www.paddle.com/
It's funny how Carmack realizes that there's so much value that we're just missing, and doesn't realize the WHY of us missing it.

We can't hear about it. There's a cacophony of self interested black hat actors blasting our communication channels with worthless noise. The moment any medium becomes an effective communication channel for valuable things for the wider public, it will be targeted by those self interested black hats for their own gain.

And to be clear, this framing is assuming the best possible motivation of marketers. That they want to inorganically promote their product. When in reality they will lie, manipulate, and insult the general public if it shows statistical gains. They'll play on your fears, or even give you new fears, if it shows statistical gains.

I hated advertisers when I was younger. I'm older now. Still hate them.
So grepping the query logs then.
A standup is not "doubting you" and five minutes once a day is not "real time". It's rather the opposite; everyone is trusting you to raise issues when relevant, and making space to do that, rather than letting anyone interrupt anyone else anytime they think of something.

It can go wrong if you have shitty teammates, a detached PO, a selfish team lead, etc. So will everything else.
It's so common where I live now that I didn't even realize people were modifying their exhausts, I thought it was just stock!
> Any tips on payment providers who abstract all of that away?

Stripe, Mollie. Mollie is kinda awesome and they're affordable and offer a vast array of payment systems, including a whole bunch of local systems like iDeal for NL markets, Przelewy24 for Polish markets, Bancontact for Belgium and a lot more.
My experience with marketing comes most from being a consumer and being lied to by marketing more times than I can count. It's a profession of psychopaths who use deception and worse to move product, using any tactic no matter how immoral. Exploiting a teenager's confidence issues to sell product that will surely make them more popular with their peers? Nothing wrong with that, full speed ahead!

Marketers are mercenaries, and most of them are willing to inflict any atrocity on anybody if there's money in it. Edward Bernays told women around the world that smoking would liberate them, but encouraged his own wife to quit because he knew cigarettes were lethal.
I'm just trying to guess the reason why CC0 was singled out. Why would Fedora not want to expunge all licenses that doesn't mention patents at the same time?

Probably the reasoning is that most licenses that don't mention patents don't
actually have any patents behind them.

Most CC0 probably don't either, but since CC0 explicitly says patents are not waived, that's where Fedora decided to start cleaning house.

As a free software developer, I just want to know whether this is the way the wind is blowing? Do I have to re-license everything with a different BSD license that incorporates a patent waiver?

I see this whole thing as pointless, because even if you don't hold any patents, it's almost impossible to write any significant piece of code without infringing on multiple ridiculous software patents that someone filed somewhere.

Just because I add a sentence saying I won't enforce any patents against the users of my code doesn't mean that some third party in the world will not do that. That's probably one reason licenses are mum about patents; patents are a threat coming from someone else which your own waiver doesn't dispel.
as a parent if i expect my kids to be in a certain location, and say i planned to pick them up from that location, someone removing them from that location has effectively kidnapped them, because when i get there, and the kids are gone, then i can't find them.

trust me, that's not a good feeling. especially if i am alone and i have to decide if i should wait to see if they come back or if i go search them.

if i think young kids are in a dangerous location, then i'd stay there and watch them, and call someone who can notify the parents. or i might tell the kids that it is dangerous here and tell them to go home. (if the kids say they are supposed to wait here, then that is what should happen). i would not just move them somewhere else, even to their home, unless explicitly asked to do so.

i would make an exception to this if i know the parents well, and i know the parents trust me to take care of their kids. but in that case i'd know how to reach the parents and let them know.
I never meant to say that Volvo isn’t Chinese. It’s just odd that people really feel the need to bring it up, despite the fact that operationally little is different.

It’s Chinese in the same way that Jeep/ram/dodge/Chrysler are Dutch now. No one ever seems to bring that up when they are mentioned, though.
Interesting suggestion. I've been to Sofia once in 2006. The city did not make a very good impression back then, but I am sure, the situation changed a lot. Hopefully to the better. I will definitely look into it, since we do not exclude eastern Europe from our list. Thanks for the suggestion.
Tested - Adam Savage's tinkering and Q&A channel;
Primitive Skills - the only person in the genre who settled a plot of land and developed it for years;
Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't - travels the whole world showing wild plants, although he does only do arid regions for some reason - probably to make people see they're not wastelands;
Lock Picking Lawyer - bit self-explanatory;
mymechanics - legend in mechanical restorations;
Rebecca Watson - debunking popular and science myths;
Townsend's - demonstrations of 18th century skills;
Innuendo Studios - pop culture critique, painstakingly researched;
Folding Ideas - pop culture critique;
Chocolate Cacao - patisserie;
Stumpy Nubs - carpentry;
Paul Sellers - carpentry;
Practical Engineering - self-explanatory;
Cody's Lab - home tinker/chemist;
NileRed - best of the home chemists on youtube;
Bernadette Banner - fashion design;
Pasta Grannies - traditional pasta making;
Gaby Melian - chef;
Claire Saffitz - pastry chef;
DIY Japanese Joinery - self-explanatory;
Cocktail Chemistry - self-explanatory;
Vihart - playing with math;
Ready to Die Fighting - resiliency;
Zoe Bee - pop culture critique
808CJK - comparative language learning for Chinese, Korean, and Japanese
Yes, my cliché detector kicked in hard when I wrote it :-)
My suggestion would be to use a Merchant of Record such as Paddle.

They worry about all the complexities of payments, invoicing, taxes, etc.

That stuff is a huge headache and could really blow up in your face if you get it wrong. Paying 5% of top line revenue to take it off your plate seems worth it to me.
Yeah, it's a good car. Until it rusts. Supposedly they've fixed the rust problems in the new Skyactiv models, but I'd be weary of any Mazda before 2018.
On the Value of Wikipedia as a Gateway to the Web
> Cities live on the backs of rural people and it's time to stop subsidizing them and send some of that money to the rural communities.

Cities subsidize rural areas fiscally, look at the tax base in a city, and a rural area. Suburban US by the way is the most subsidized part of the country, BTW. StrongTowns has published an enormous amount of work in this arena.
And France used to be quite bad and has become better which shows it can be done.
I'm not sure that assessment is accurate
Touchscreens.
I didn't understand marketing until I started running a company. It's great when your first product launches and you're riding on the first few years of success. Then you need to grow. And you know what that requires? Marketing.
> not fundamentally more difficult to get correct

The fundamental difference is that we can predict well in advance how many days will be in a given month, and the rules for calculating that number can be implemented with a short lookup table and a few modulo operations.

The lookup table for past leap seconds, however, is already longer than 12 entries, and there is no way of calculating the length of all future minutes.

On the other hand, the problem may be simpler than keeping track of changes to timezone definitions, since there are hundreds of jurisdictions that can unilaterally change those.
> For housing to be a good investment it has to be competitive with other investments, meaning much higher than inflation.

You could make the same argument to say that bonds are a bad investment. It's not true, depending on what the investor expects. Raw performance is not the only criteria by which investments are evaluated.

Another aspect of investment vehicles is the risk:reward ratio. Bonds are low-risk and thus expected to have lower returns than a higher-risk investment like stocks. That does not mean that bonds are a bad investment. It simply means they have a risk:reward ratio suitable for some investment purposes but not others.

Before the current supply crunch, housing was a reasonably safe investment that resulted in a reasonable return over the lifetime of a homeowner -- and it did tend to keep up with inflation. It was not a "bad" investment. It was not growing over 10% a year like it is today, but that's a recent phenomenon caused by shortages.
What motivates me is having a clear large goal (like say, adding a new core functionality to an app), and then break it down into small tasks that can easily be done in regular days of work.

You end up with an ever increasing list of "completed" tasks until you eventually reach a shipping point and you can have a celebration party or whatever.

The hard part is then managing deadlines and expectations from then on with whoever wants the product, where good managers can make progress feel very present and visible, which in turns makes speed feel predictable and everyone can plan with realistic expectations.
Should we allow cigarette ads again? Where's the limit?

Maybe we will decide these types of ads are too poisonous for society to tolerate
Try this:

https://www.westernunion.com/in/en/home.html
I really don't think you're arguing in good faith here. This is a very common tactic for people of your political alignment, at least on HN: to nitpickily demand sources for completely obvious facts, and then if provided, shift the argument to discrediting those sources instead of engaging with the actual philosophical points being made.

I could probably write everything else you're going to say in this thread myself, so, I'm not going to bother continuing to argue with you. If you'd like to respond to the core point, which is why are Democrats justified in complaining about their own ads being refused while they celebrate Republican content being deplatformed, then we can continue.
It might not be so much that the fiber itself is expensive. It might just be the conduit or other delivery mechanism that can be rather costly to run. But in general, fiber is absolutely a viable option for rural communities, usually if the project/roll out is being handled by some local organization (Co-op or municipality or as you sated a smaller cable company). I wrote my thesis on community owned broadband programs in Ohio and did a fair amount of research on the topic.
Really not getting into anything that looks like a flame-war here, the obvious solution is a better balance between everyone not a who is better argument but rural areas often are more heavily subsidized per capita and do not have the same economic generators that cities do. None of that is to say urban is more important or rural is more important. Statements like where do you think all the people who actually make things live undervalues the absolutely essential interdependence between urban and rural areas.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/why-rural-america-needs-c...
Dubar's number suggests that there's a limit to how many deep meaningful friendships/relationships one person can have so living in cities of millions isn't really something anyone needs. As for income it's all abstract. True, rural areas don't provide complex services like software that facilitates the integration of two other softwares to generate paper GDP points, but they make food. Rural areas can exist without cities but cities can't exist without rural areas.
But that sounds like it has nothing to do with splitting assets, which is what this service is about. Your problem was with administrative legal tasks, and you hired someone who wasn't competent at them. You could still make the same mistake even if you were using this service.
> I remember the pre-marketing internet economy of the late 90s

That reminds me of Web-rings [1] and later LinkExchange [2]. It was still marketing or at least advertising, but in retrospect is seems quaint and innocent.

Conversely, many portal pages [3] were still attempts to create a walled-garden.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkExchange
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_portal
Looks like Swift.
It can be incredibly draining. I think it's important to also have boundaries and know how to "pick your battles". Some people are unwilling or unable to open themselves up by being sincere, having a genuine discussion can leave people feeling vulnerable and there's a level of trust and willingness to take a risk necessary to truly have a deep discussion about certain topics.

Sometimes it's just not possible. Some people have impenetrable barriers they will defend with no regard for how they do so and the way it affects others.

That being said I like to think of it like I'm reaching out to someone, and often they don't reach back, in a majority of cases they don't want that contact. Those times when someone does, though, brings me great hope.
it's not the programming languages, it's the programmers.

people can't stop reinventing the wheel. everyone thinks they know better.
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This is true, but then you'll also have to deal with the negative externalities such as traffic, car costs (I think I read here that the median car cost was like $48,000 now?) high gas prices, traffic fatalities, road maintenance (higher taxes), and political unrest since people won't be able to afford to live in homes.

But going back to the pro-density thing. I think what is misunderstood is that most people arguing for more density aren't arguing for everyone to live in Manhattan - that's a big problem too. They're advocating for mixed-use, medium density walkable neighborhoods. These neighborhoods would include single family homes with yards and sidewalks, but also cafes, elementary schools, gyms, grocery stores, bars, and office space too. You wouldn't have to drive a car everywhere but obviously you could own as many as you'd like. This would also help the local economy because you can pay a barista that lives in your neighborhood (maybe in a townhouse or a condo while they attend college) instead of a rubber manufacturer 4 states away.
While supporting all the individual tips here as well, trying to understand the underlying societal dynamics of mental issues can also create new perspectives, new motivation, and relieve.

For starters, I would recommend Mark Fisher's (RIP) work: http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/
Given the scale of investment we are talking about, it's also plausible that EU based manufacturing of solar panels could emerge given the right incentives.
I read that as sarcasm.
Toyotas cost nothing compared to Porches, so 1-0 Japan vs rest of the world.
It's been a decade since I used C# but the corporate design pattern culture of that language back then turned me off of it forever.

Everything looked like this: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...

Maybe it's better now but the Java/C# practice of shoveling largely empty classes around with an IDE isn't something I'd point to as a good example.
Both can easily be placed on same monotonic time. Actually makes a things simple. You don't end up having 31/12/1972:23:59:60 and wondering why is there 60 there...
Check out healthygamergg. He's selling a product and also has a lot of filler. But u should be able to glean enough. Also the excercise as others have mentioned and check out what I've learned on youtube about meditation, mindfulness, porn, dopamine. And eat clean! Maybe pray
they forgot to adjust for inflation. I bet 100k today is roughly 50k in the year 2000.
I'm talking about scales that matter, not a few kilowatts in your basement.