skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gas is not that expensive. Even in CA, it is a few thousand dollars per year at most. And the 4Runner and other cars can get to a few hundred thousand miles easy, so compared to spending a few extra tens of thousands on a new car, gas is a negligible cost. Plus you’ll have a 4Runner.

500 cents per gallon, 15 miles per gallon, that is 33 cents per mile in fuel costs.

A 35mpg car would be 15 cents per mile.

At 20k miles per year (which is a lot), you’re looking at an extra $3,600 per year. But even after 10 years/200k miles, you will have massive resale value due to their reputation as being indestructible (assuming you live in a place that does not salt).
I was in a DSP over the weekend that is ~20 miles from the closest town of 1,000 or more, and after about 15 minutes I was able to see the Milky Way pretty clearly. I could also see the faint glow of 2 cities maybe 40 and 60 miles away on the horizon, so I knew that they were there.
> it's obviously a smear job in how it tries to paint him as a murderer and lowly thief only out to get money.

Even without this document there can be this and worse said about him. So why bother?
> You have a side project but you've figured out the hard parts and so it's just the implementation grind, which is easy.

I found a stupid mind trick for that. If I can't do it, then it isn't easy. I kind of found a satisfaction now in doing boring stuff, feels a bit like a super power. I find it useful at work as well - if there are very boring tasks to do I take them. Team loves me for that and these usually are so "easy" that I have more time to "procrastinate" and e.g. do my own projects as well.

Also about figuring the hard parts - when I start I get hyper focused on these and often I won't stop until I figure something out, that means working even 16 hours a day - which is not healthy! That's why I rather avoid it at work...
It's "percentage change", not the "house price to income ratio". Without knowing the baseline, the numbers are not really comparable.

It's also strange that South Korea is at -40% when the article states:

>In South Korea, President Moon Jae-in’s party took a drubbing in mayoral elections this year after failing to tackle a 90% rise in the average price of an apartment in Seoul since he took office in May 2017
FWIW, for a game controller, I’m absolutely certain that f32 is already overkill and that a half float or even a byte per axis, u16/u8, is sufficient. The only reason to need f32 or f64 is if you’re rounding direction vectors for some other purpose than a game controller. But in graphics we frequently use f16 for direction vectors even when f32 is needed for positions. Normals and unit sphere directions usually require less precision than other operations. Using f64 for a game controller stick input isn’t justifiable, even if it isn’t measurable in code speed, I don’t think it would fly or pass code review in a real game engine. My next concern would be whether using doubles willy-nilly leads to the compiler spilling registers to memory more often. That could easily undo the 40ns optimization, and it would be difficult to measure or blame the direction rounding code, it would diffuse the cost to other parts of the code.
Bitcoin incentivizes cheap energy production. We need more cheap energy.

Bitcoin does nothing to alter or effect other incentives or disincentives on energy production.

Assuming prices are equivalent, it's net neutral on production mix. However, we've been told renewable energy is cheaper! Therefore it accelerates its adoption.
How did you go about achieving that identity goal?
> (We also have it because most people do not know what they want, and do not care to formulate a proper question, and instead want somebody else to tell them what they should desire.)

This +1. Essentially, what we would need is mind reading abilities to be able to put the information in front of people exactly when they needed it. Said system would also need to perfectly analyse the economics so they can be sure that they can afford the information.

The spread of marketing and sales through the digital world isn't going anywhere while new products and services are being created. It can't be automated perfectly, and while it can't be automated then there will always be ways to rig and game the systems that we engineer.
Just took a look on desktop. I'm just inadvertently being sent to edit links with empty content when looking at some of the language features, and edits are recaptcha protected.
I less agree that we would get conquered without a huge military. Hard agree about the social stuff though, in order to satisfy us we require exactly more than whatever we have at that moment, so spending on social well-being is limitless.
If Amtrak were more efficient, why would it need to become a parasite of gas users? It would thrive on its own.
I really feel like the "why" here should not be that hard.

They likely don't want to carry pro gun or anti-abortion ads and they are making the right choice to say they don't want to carry anti-gun or pro-choice either. Especially considering what Disney is currently doing for their employees to have access to proper medical care and abortions.

I am unclear on the laws regarding political advertising but I have to wonder if they allowed one (pro-choice) they would be in hot water if they blocked the other (anti abortion)?

What do the other platforms do for this case? The article is missing a ton of details here. It said they carried this ad, but do they carry anti-abortion ads?
>People usually knows their pain point

Exactly. I know my buggy is slow, I just need a faster horse.
Humanism, non-tankie leftism and the more tolerant/loving religions all have "we are all brothers" ideologies. Internationalism is a key feature of leftist ideology, hâte the sin love the sinner etc.

Ans even then, you can't simply throw things into a pot. Singling out billionaires and aristocrats as the enemies for their wealth and power is a different thing than singling out homosexuals or women. If we started to deprive billionaires of political speech you could very simply and comfortably give up a few hundred million of wealth to regain it. So discrimination against the rich and powerful (which is very easy to opt out of) is different than discriminating against poor people (which from experience is much harder to opt out from).

The problem starts when the discrimination starts being essentialist and stigmatising. If we have people for having a rich father even if they themselves are estranged and poor, it's no better than racism etc
For comparison, lesswrong just introduced two-dimension scoring [0] which separates community behavior standards (karma) from truth/sensibility/belief and could plausibly help identify what you want to take from single comment ratings; whether the average reader agrees or disagrees and the rough spread of belief, but it still allows well-written comments by minority opinions to be highly karma-voted for expressing their opinion well and in line with community guidelines.

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HALKHS4pMbfghxsjD/lesswrong-...
Ha, nice, I'll take a look -- thanks.
> It is just a matter of time until people who purchased their cars during chip shortage are massively underwater on their cars.

It's a depreciating asset. You lose 10 to 15 percent when you drive a new car off the lot. Unless it's a classic car, it's expected that you will be underwater.
What's next for Vue? Evan You explains [video]
Sure but with about 167% as many emissions from production, I'm just saying there's going to be an immediate increase in emissions.

Also one thing missing from this analysis is maintenance. The three factors taken into account are initial production (much higher for EVs), cost of fuel production (also much higher for EVs), and emissions from fuel combustion (0 for EVs). However batteries don't last forever and it still remains to be seen that EVs can reach the maintenance costs of combustion engine vehicles (with Tesla being a notable argument against EVs potential)
> quit ... being lazy

Can be quiet toxic advice for people with ADHD.
IMHO Juicero was a scam. Here's my list.

* Too many remote controls. One for TV, one for AppleTv, one for PS5 if I want to see a movie on bluray, one for the Denon AMP, etc... There should be a standard for that. Something with a touchscreen and an API manufacturers should support.
* Touchscreens in cars (already mentioned). My Toyota is not even capacitive and it's a car from 2017. More generally... Touchscreens where they're not needed, like ATMs or vending machines: with all this covid fear, they're not hygienic.
* Wireless headphones: battery, quality of sound... I fear the day there will be no wired headphones available on consumer market. I don't care about high quality wireless headphones, I don't want to charge my headphones
* Messaging apps. I have to keep iMessage, Telegram, Whatsapp & Signal on my phone because I have different contacts using different apps. It was easier in the SMS era
Chatbots. Cheap excuse to cut customer service or hide it behind a tedious process of convincing the if-else that it can't actually solve your problem.
The only major decline I've seen he's been the proliferation of whiney Ask HN posts the last few months. In all seriousness. I'm flagging this too for the same reason.

I'm very wary of any and all premises that try to "community up" HN. There's a lot of smart people here who weigh in on subject because they're well read in their own communities.

Note: obviously any association can be used to define "community" around, but hopefully my point is clear enough.
> Nobody knew at the time that Hubble was literally a KH-11 class telescope, but one pointed the other way. The mirror size and the ability to be carried in the shuttle was probably to get some synergies out of those two projects.

Along these lines, there's a lot of hearsay that the technology that enabled JWST's mirrors, sun shade, etc. to be folded up for launch and deployed once in space had already been developed for military satellites.
Way more than one hour. Even without taking China into account, A Coruña in Spain and Kosice in Slovakia are in the same time zone but they are 30 degrees (2 hours) apart.
Right. One of my points was that things you do once a year are difficult to make a habit. For a long time now synthetic oils have been good for 10 or 15k miles but people still had 3k or 5k intervals drilled into them so maybe once every few months was on their internal clock but once they actually took the time it ended up being twice or even once a year and that was actually fine.. But let's say the interval is now a year and you do it every 18 months? Is that fine? I don't know..
If you stop thinking about time being wrong from what is officially correct, and instead see this whole exercise as a error minimization framework I think it is far easier to make the case for ending leap seconds as it is for keeping them.

This isn't just about lines of missing code. This is about forcing subterranean or submerged computers to surface. This is about out of sync clocks across information propagation networks across planets. This is about real lives that are ruined because time stamps didn't quite line up, causing delays, deaths, and needless headaches.

It doesn't need to be this way. We could just accept a minute of the clock being off from "true" midnight, which doesn't even make sense to me given that few people are right at the astronomic point where midnight is "true" midnight for their timezone. Heck, China is one big giant timezone so who is this actually for, really? The people that care about sundials? Most people don't even grow their own food.

We're no longer a sun-driven economy. Well coordinated timekeeping across devices that may not always be able to transfer data is far, far more important. If it's sufficiently wrong by the year 3422 then we'll deal with the fifteen minutes of annoyance then. This is a crazy premature optimization.
> And what's the path to home ownership for Mexicans being priced out by Americans?

(I’m mexican from Tijuana)

They’ll either stay in the non-gentrified areas or move to other parts of Mexico

Mexico is a big country, and Tijuana is already one of the most expensive cities in Mexico

There’s expensive condo buildings going up all over the city:

2br, 1 ba, 1,400 sqft - $418,000 USD

https://www.point2homes.com/MX/Condo-For-Sale/Baja-Californi...

I’d rather buy in San Diego than Tijuana

> Laws should be passed in each county to protect the locals from this

Mexico already has laws limiting direct foreign ownership of land.
I mean, DNS also doesn't care at a protocol level about governance, right?

It's just the actual, practical DNS system that everybody actually uses which does.
There’s no need to redefine UTC. If you want a fixed monotonic reference clock you want TAI time (the atomic reference) not UTC.

https://www.nist.gov/pml/time-and-frequency-division/nist-ti...
"Massive industry" is the applicable term. The scale of both the capture, and the middle man loss to a more parochial/regional model is terrifying to 'captains of industry' and their political minions.
Now who could have possibly benefited from you buying into this myth?

I’d say selling mass produced drugs on a subscription basis is a lot easier money than to talk through one patients’ problems, one at a time.

(It’s also the fault of us consumers. We do often prefer the magic pill over doing the work. This is one more story that perhaps will make us wiser.)
> If you’ve been developing software for a while, you know that code has this natural tendency to turn into a mess.

That doesn't apply to everyone and every project. When people leading the project are experienced developers understanding clean architecture the mess is just an oversight which is local and can easily be corrected.
Well of course -- the whole point of the system was to attract people who didn't think they needed protection!
Programming languages! It is ironic because I am a programmer and I write programs and develop software for a living. But proliferation of programming languages has made my life worse. Too many programming languages and every company has their own favorites!

It may be an unpopular opinion on HN but I don't enjoy learning new syntaxes every year for relatively few benefits in new concepts or paradigms.

In my ideal world everyone would be using Lisp (my username checks out!) but so much power. It has a simple syntax (some say it has no syntax but I think that is a little hyperbole). In my ideal world new concepts and paradigms are implemented in Lisp using Lisp. I'd much rather spend time solving real problems that real human beings care about. I'd much rather learning new ways of solving problems with new paradigms. I don't want to waste hours learning new syntaxes and their gotchas and edge-cases!
My therapy is Brazilian jiu-jitsu. It's basically active meditation. When someone is trying to choke you unconscious, you are not thinking about the past or future. It's not just exercise that makes you exhausted, you become an assassin. And it's very social!
Yeah. I think 30 days is a fair threshold because that weeds out the tourists but doesn't punish those with temporary job assignments and interns.
But a marketplace is a classic example of a middle man. They facilitate sales between one group (the farmers) and another group (the buyers). The alternative is every buyer visiting every farm they want to make a purchase from. Farmers markets are a useful example of why middlemen often have a valuable role.
While there was a lot of good work on Covid, I'm waiting for the Covid law suits to start. There were a lot of bad decisions made and a lot of people got hurt.
Can I ask why you went for TW rather than dev? I ask because I almost used that as a cop-out once because I was overwhelmed by the technical interviews, etc. required for being a dev.

For me it was a way to stay comfy and avoid situations that would force me to grow.

Also, the last 2 years have been rough. Are you getting enough social connection?
The housing market is not "broken", it's working exactly the way it's expected to in a relatively unregulated capitalist system. In unregulated capitalism, the wealthiest segments of the population get richer at a faster rate than poorer segments, which means the rate at which they can purchase property increases over time faster than their less wealthy peers. Eventually, a tiny fraction of the population owns everything and rents it out to the rest at higher and higher rates. Building additional housing can provide temporary relief but does not address the underlying mechanism. Only retooling our economic systems to moderate the rich-get-richer feedback loops can ultimately fix the problem.
it's not faster or more straightforward though. you still have to grok and hack it, so might as well grok and hack it cleanly rather than adding superfluous elements (especially considering accessibility, which is a whole espteric can of worms).
99% of tech companies get DevRel wrong
I'm pretty sure no money was initially granted out because these ISPs defaulted before it got to that point. In that context I think these fines are fair.

Now I want to know what process the FCC has for re-bidding those defaulted areas.
A lot of good advice here; I'll throw in my 2c.

What do you actually care about in life? Is it people? Ideas? Circumstances or something you can give yourself? If you can find just a tiny seed of caring about something outside of yourself, bigger than yourself, something that goes beyond basic pleasures, cultivate that, and it can lead to much greater happiness.

Speaking of pleasure and happiness, these two things are not the same. There's a book called The Hacking of the American Mind which really helped me understand this. Essentially, we have been conditioned to confuse pleasure with happiness. Pleasure is fleeting, a feeling we get from good food, or sex, or drugs, or video games; or, confusingly, from realizing that we are happy. Happiness is a deeper and longer-term circumstance. Replace "pleasure" and "happiness" with whatever words work for you.

Others have mentioned the importance of human connection. +1 to that. +1 to therapy as well.

I'll mention about the weed. Others are suggesting you detox / go cold turkey. This could work, or you could enter into a cycle where you stop and start again and just throw your emotions into greater chaos. Most likely, you are using the weed to self-treat depression/anxiety. Unfortunately, it does became habit forming, as much as pro-weed folks want to think it doesn't. So it's probably now causing some depression/anxiety which will get worse if you stop. What I recommend, from experience, is to start to play a game of finding the smallest dose that still works for what you're using it for. Try skipping a whole day once a week, then every few days, etc. and pay attention to how you feel on days you use and days you don't use, as well as the days after. I bet you'll feel great after a week of no using. It may also help to use and don't do anything else, just sit and be high, and perceive what it is about being high that you actually enjoy.

Best fortunes to you on your journey.
Why aren't bridges and ships made out of stainless steel? Is it too expensive, or not as strong as regular steel?
You know what China has been doing. And then they were laughed for doing it and told that it was stupid.

They might have overdone it, but still. They did exactly build entirely new cities.
IMHO, leap seconds belong at the timezone layer. I.e. ignore it internally and for things like "seconds since epoch". Adjust at display time.

Timezones are already backed by a database which needs regular updates, including leap seconds would make sense since those are also updated in an unpredictable manner.
I think your post is sarcastic, given last sentence. But if not, or for readers who ...

> A nukes only military is so cheap and effective.

If it was effective, we'd see them in reality.
Yeah that’s now called undiagnosed ADHD, because that’s what it is.
> and in California when it is discussed it's a worst-case scenario to protect ourselves, not an isolationist fever dream.

I am firm, you are obstinate, he is a pig-headed fool.

I am righteously indignant, you are annoyed, he is making a fuss over nothing.

I have reconsidered the matter, you have changed your mind, he has gone back on his word.
> And yes, people are absolutely buying more garbage than their parents

Source please. 1 in 8 Americans are food insecure, cost of living has been climbing for decades, more than half say they live paycheck-to-paycheck and many say they'll never afford a house. So, which is it, is the economic climate better for millennials and zoomers or worse? Pick one. Because I doubt you would suggest to struggling Americans and Westerners that they are just squandering their money irresponsibly.

> Look at clothes, jewelry, furniture, home appliances, cars - those all used to be more or less lifetime purchases, and have become things people change every 5-7 years top (much less for clothes).

That changed quite awhile ago, with boomers and the ascendance of the middle class, and you just made that number up.

Clothing is not built to last. A suit can with care, but not a t-shirt. Notwithstanding that the waste we're concerned with hasn't to do with cotton material or jewelry, probably not even appliances.

A large amount of waste comes from containers and packaging. That is completely agnostic of the products themselves, there's no reason this can't be improved. There's also nondurable goods, durable goods and food. Check out this fact sheet for municipal solid waste - https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2021-01/documents/20... , and more from the epa.

> Advertising's purpose is to distort the market.

Indeed, and yet it's irrelevant. It doesn't perform miracles.

The most meaningful correction you can make to level of waste clearly has no dependence on advertising. Everything uses too much packaging, and food providers waste an inordinate amount.
Don't forget about tropical diseases when you are closer to the equator than the southern U.S.
it is bad grammar: you cannot use comparative adjectives on uncountable nouns

that said, when I read it I did not notice. my brain automagically converted the phrase to half. the context was not lost but it is murky territory
You can't have an abortion - you had sex deal with the consequences of your choice, even if it means your death from complications in pregnancy.

vs

You can't have your tubes tied - there might be consequences to your choice so you shouldn't have to deal with those.

What's different here? Oh right, nothing if the goal is forcing birth.
Sorry I only have a minute, but: search for the thread a few days ago about personal trainers
> I never really understood why extra 3-4 lbs is such a big deal,

I'm having a very hard time taking you seriously here. Do you really have trouble understanding why most people would prefer not to carry the weight of two laptops when they could carry the weight of one laptop instead?
>The city government on Friday announced it’d buy nearly 15,000 apartments from two large corporate landlords for 2.46 billion euros ($2.9 billion) to expand supply.

How do you expand supply if you buy existing apartments? If they had taken the $2.9 billion and had built 15,000 new apartments, that would have expanded the supply.