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> I wrote a Show HN post, then crossed my fingers... and with luck, the post ended up upvoted, and eventually on the front page of Hacker News.
Well it doesn't help when HN quietly shadow bans your posts. I have been a member of HN since 2013 and have barely submitted like 10 posts over this time. I only comment where I think I can contribute but recently I have realized that HN has shadow bans my posts.
Once I wrote a comment on HN about slippery slope of self hosting apps which I host and people seemed interested. So I decided to write a substack article about it and post it on HN. Guess what, HN shadow banned it because I am not supposed to submit stuff that I wrote but submit things I found on internet interesting.

Then recently I shared a reddit post on an Upwork scam and HN shadow banned it too. smh..
What you said is factually true, but I think there are bigger problems in context.

Most people, having grown up with cars from parents and peers, can't imagine anything other than a car-centric life. The distances are too far, the bus comes once an hour, and biking is too dangerous. So getting an electric car might be the only improvement that they can think of. Especially given the upfront cost of electric cars and their reduced convenience for long road trips, it's easy to feel that they made enough personal sacrifices for the sake of the common good.

While electric cars are a somewhat bitter pill to swallow, the real bitter pills are things like ending exclusive single-family detached house zoning, increasing density, allowing mixed residential-retail-office neighborhoods, converting car lanes to bike or transit lanes, building rail lines (which can easily take a decade), offering decent inter-city train service. I fear that electric cars offer an easy "personal responsibility" band-aid that exhausts people's willpower to demand more substantial collective change.

> Don't hijack the climate emergency for your political agenda.

What's with this accusation?
Maybe add "Function hooker" to your profile and see what happens.
All new pennies since 1983 are 98% zinc.
Climate change is one crisis, but there will also be a crisis in availability of many resources (like copper).
NL is a more modern country with a forward thinking population. Germany and Austria are more backwards and conservative.

If you come to Austrian supermarkets at rush hour, the lines will last several minutes. It not uncommon to hear disgruntled customers (usually old people ironically) yell at supermarket employees to open another till after waiting for ages.
While I would not say there are no benefits from owning a car point-to-point speed is pretty bad for cars in many European cities due to having too find parking. On many trips I would say the fastest mode of travel is electric scooter.
I dislike Modula-2's full upper-case reserved word syntax. I understand the reasoning behind it: to make language constructs consistent and stand out more, but then, upper-case is harder to read.

Make no mistake, I use that syntax when writing SQL, and it's very fitting there because the queries are short and I can't tolerate typos due to lack of a compilation step. But, in case of a compiled language, especially with the advent of syntax highlighting and edit-time analysis capabilities, I find it a nuisance.
Ford catalogues from the same time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32298524
Nim does allow cycles and the new GC is non-atomic RC + cycle collector.

Though I’ve been hacking on a UI framework written in Nim. Its ui nodes form a tree structure that only tracks parent => child. When it needs the parent info it makes a stack of parents during processing.

Essentially it moves the cycle collector / GC work to extra work during processing. But it’s cheaper since you’re already accessing the memory.
Definitely has the "futuristic 80s" look. I think that style lasted into the mid 90s and then started becoming more subdued.
I live in the UK and don't think I've used cash for at least three years if not longer, at least I can't remember the last time I did and I love it.

I understand the concerns about everything being logged digitally, but it is just so much more convenient than carrying a bulky wallet with a coin pouch, and messing around with coins at the till holding everyone up for ages. For some reason people think it's a binary choice between privacy or convenience, but it doesn't have to be that way.

I have started going out without my wallet recently, one less thing to lose, and just paying with my phone everywhere.
I don't think that exists in my country.
I've hand drilled hundreds with a non centering plug cutter. It works fine. You make the plugs long anyway so tear out at the beginning isn't an issue. With a tapered cutter the starting surface is going into the hole so it doesn't have to look good either. The main tedium is when they get dull it becomes a bear to force them into the wood.
To argue that a company's only duty is to its shareholders does open one up to the argument that nobody but the shareholders (and maybe the employees) owes any duty to companies (e.g. respecting their property). Why should anyone pay for their products or services in such a worldview? You have to be a special kind of stupid to feel more sympathy for big cooperations than disadvantaged pupils and their parents.
please, code first cad is not the way to go ! Did you ever use a CAD software for a proper project ? The hard stuff is in the UX/UI… or just put a DSL over CGAL and dall ir a day.

I love Rust, I love code first approach, I like this project, but the average guy trying to put a threaded hole onto an extruded profile will hardly code it…
Could be worse, the contemporaneous up-market option was still HP at the TI-83 time, no? In that case if I recall correctly your only options were reverse polish lisp and assembly...
It's open source, not proprietary at all. Suit yourself, I don't have time to deal with runtime errors when they could easily be caught at compile time. I don't care which company makes something as long as it's a good technology. This is also why I use Copilot without any of the alarm that some people on HN and elsewhere display about it.
Anecdotal but firsthand.
not at prices that people are willing to pay. Suburban-style roads are cheap to build, because developers generally pay the upfront costs and price it into the initial sale price of the development, but taxes in the period that follows aren't nearly high enough to cover the price of resurfacing, repair, and improvements that the city has to cover 20-30 years down the line. Suburbs that have gone through several such cycles are increasingly taking on debt to pay the costs of that maintenance, and older ones are now going bankrupt.
Sheldon Brown’s Bicycle Technical Info
Cause there are houses on both sides.
If someone is smart enough to turn eight broken Nintendo handhelds into five working ones their skills would probably be better put to something more useful.
Looking through your comment history, it's filled with snide remarks and nothing of any real informational value. Maybe looking through peoples comments on isolated threads doesn't do what you think it does? Unless you think snide remarks and vapid posts got you to 26k karma.
It's like plant science stuff for companies like Bayer and Monsanto. Check out UC Davis and all the stuff they do. They have a whole college dedicated to wineaking, grape growing, etc. Same with olives. Basically large Ag companies and their research partnerships with famous universities in the space.
DuckDuckGo still supports all of those developer tools:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=base64+foo

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ascii+table

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=qr+code+foo

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=color+picker

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=json+formatter

Along with the timer from OP:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=6+minute+timer
It's good to highlight these issues but honestly I'm just not worried about that because this is the kind of thing that spurs innovation. That could be recycling more copper, using less copper, findin gnew sources of copper, finding alternatives to copper and so on.

Remember that copper's primary use is as a conductor and there are lots of conductors from aluminium to gold.

I don't expect fuel-based vehicles to go away completely because there are still use cases where fuel is better than electric. Cold conditions are still a problem for EVs. Range is another factor.

What I expect to see more of is using renewables to store energy in the form of fuel instead of in batteries eg producing methanol, methane, ammonia or kerosene. This will at least be carbon neutral. It's not currently economic to do it but the advantage comes in not needing potentially expensive batteries, being relatively easy to store and not requiring power grid infrastructure in remote or unstable regions.
I'm honestly surprised that groups like Pine64 haven't tried making an open source competitor.

edit: just saw a few comments down that NumWorks is basically that?

edit2: based on Phi and Omega[1][2] it looks like they no longer truly are (probably to comply with the regulation nonsense), but they still can be jailbroken.

[0] https://www.numworks.com/

[1] https://phi.getomega.dev/

[2] https://getomega.dev/
False dichotomy. In dense cities it exists to move people efficiently, because roads physically can’t accommodate everyone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_capacity#/media/File%3...
https://archive.ph/KNX2A
I’ll drop you a line :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31358855#31362310

MoCA: run your ethernet over the cable tv coax in your house
Exactly. It's just kind of wild that there was apparently no accounting whatsoever for dropoffs/pickups/retrievals, i.e. all the things you'd have to think about if you did this with cars.

Especially as I recall, they were kind of halfway there with the deal where anyone could pick them up and charge them for the company?
Where I live almost everyone walks their kids to school. Many people having to drive their kids to school or use public transport is a sign of bad urban planning.
Cars are here to stay, whether the collectivists like it or not.
> If the community wanted to reject the culture, women are the ones who can bring forward the change. If they want, of course.

How? If they reject it, they then need to go out and find shelter, and food, and income, in a world where they are negotiating with men, more who are all more physically powerful, as well as cognizant of the woman’s lesser negotiating position.

I do not know about Amish forcing their young to do non Amish things or whatever, but without a financial nest egg, or otherwise ability to afford security, a woman can easily feel more intimidated about striking it out on their own. Men simply do not have to worry about their physical safety in the same manner.
>” There's no ill intent in my comments, you might be choosing to read them as hostile.”

I’m not the person you’re arguing with and I sensed hostility. At the very least contentiousness.
I think this is originally from Business In Vancouver magazine:
https://biv.com/article/2022/07/looming-copper-crunch-and-wh...

(although replacing Mining.com with Vancouver would still be true)
> Redesigning cities so that most people won't require a car to work and live is the real solution.

That is simple to say, but what does that actually mean? I think some cities simply wouldn't exist if being navigable without car was a requirement. People will never move around Phoenix like they move around Amsterdam.
The app tells you if it has battery - you go to the app and it shows you a map of all the nearest scooters with charge rather than wonder up to random scooters.
No, the grand poster was right about this being created in the mid 2000s, and he didn't confuse EasyRPG with RPG Maker. If you had just clicked on the "Blog" link of the official page, you'd seen that the blog was created in 2010.

Searching the web, I found the old forge (same project name, same first developer name) at Google Code Archive. The oldest commit is dated 2006-01-16, so it's at least that old.
No, I meant the EasyRPG project. The 0.1 release is
from 2013, but work on the interpreter started much earlier and I remember watching development threads at least six or seven years before that.

EDIT: I found an interview from 2008 with the project creator (https://comunidad.rpgmaker.es/d/8745-entrevista-a-delapipol-..., in Spanish) where he states that “it was around 2005 that we thought of making a free alternative to Enterbrain’s RPG Maker”.
If it takes 100 years to fill the dam and emptying the dam will generate 2PWh, then the expected average power is 2.3GW. That's closer to 3 nuclear reactors.
> easier to install than Go

Huh?!?!?!

I don't know about Rust (I know they like their install script), but for Go you can download a pre-compiled binary and you're instantly up and running. That option is not exactly hidden[1].

You don't even have to use an OS installer, e.g. for Linux/Mac you can download a .tar.gz file[1] unzip it anywhere and just run "go" based commands to compile stuff immediately (maybe adding it to your $PATH to make life easier).

But really. Go is a million times quicker and smaller than usual bunch of stuff you need to install to get a C thing compiled (and that's just the standard tools, before we start talking about random stuff like Meson or Ninja)

The point I was making is that Ipcalc is a simple CLI utility. It doesn't need all the baggage that comes with C compiling. Its practically made for Rust or Go.

You can also easily cross-platform compile with Go. Try that with C without jumping through hoops !

[1] https://go.dev/dl/
What if we ran that ML on the etherium network?
Man with Loaded Assault Rifle Arrested Outside Iranian Writer’s Home
My Bosch sliding miter saw. I had a crappy Ryobi miter saw for 20 years that never stayed in alignment. For some reason the Bosch's sliding arm just makes me happy each time I use it - its like my little robot arm saw.
We beat you by over 80 years with the Mary Rose, although she at least managed to get into battle before she went over.
I don't see Sweden on this historical tracker of money left by the tooth fairy. The current U.S. average of $5.50 would be 55 SEK!

https://www.deltadental.com/us/en/tooth-fairy/the-original-p...
Parent was trying to be charitable. Apparently your time is quite valuable, so that it is a serious imposition to find oneself ahead of you in a supermarket queue. Since your time is so valuable, we'd all breathe easier if you would avail yourself of more significant time savers like the many grocery delivery services that are now available. Or perhaps you should hire a personal assistant to run your errands?
It is arguable that it is more than a misrepresentation if the author's intent is to fool the reveiwers. If so, it is "fraudulent data".
I think a lot of programmers get stuck in this trap of thinking that making a game is an engineering task. It isn’t. The level to which modern game engines have reached means its really just about your game design, artwork, music, etc. Toy engines like this don’t really have much value, and your time is better spent learning how real engines work.
>We need every possible contribution to fight the dooming climate emergency. Bicycles AND electric cars. Renewables AND nuclear AND carbon capture.

How about less cars, less power use, and return to 1980s or 60s standards of technology?
Prepaid debit cards are now widely used by unbanked people in the US. Some employers will even do direct deposit to those cards.
The guide to George Orwell’s books
In Slovenia it's called "spaček" - a diminutive masculine form of "spaka", i.e. "monstrosity".
This reminds me of an old web comic called Kid Radd (https://www.bgreco.net/kidradd/)

It used a bunch of animation and pixel work to tell a massive story (although it takes a while to get there)
It certainly is a lot of work.

Humble suggestion: please call out the open source software you have used in some sort of credits section.

Forgive me if this exists and I am missing it.
IMO, nothing wrong with offering core functionality for various types of monitors that works for majority cases.
OK when you say "bike" I don't think "electric bike". If you're saying "electric scooters are not better than electric bikes" I don't really disagree.
Someone wants to be our (tech worker’s) friend..? MS as a tech labor hub?
> On the darker side, inefficient scaling (due to uneven daily/yearly traffic distribution), overly complicated deployments (delivering code to many boxes quickly is hard), and fragile service discovery (have you tried running consul or zookeeper at scale?) would lead to higher operational costs.

Obviously, everyone's use-case is different but none of this has been my experience with VMs:

- Both AWS and GCP allow you to define custom scaling policies for an instance group.

- Deploying new code just means updating a template with your new image and pushing that out. Both GCP and AWS would then cycle the existing machines automatically to use this new image.

- At least in our case, there is no need for Service Discovery; you just need to know where the Load Balancer is.

We have moved some things to Kubernetes and now have to deal with inexplicable occasional failures. That and an everyday massive YAML headache.

YMMV
Wikipedia is an amazing wonder of the internet. I could spend ten hours a day reading deep into topics and related topics I only learned because of the initial curiosity I had. But that's beside the point. There is such thorough coverage of all topics of every field so I would indeed expect that judges are using it to look things up because of how convenient it is.
We can redesign them easily but reconstructing them would be monumentally expensive.
That's not far off, actually. Thanks.
When I decide to click on the link then I accept the other side will know I clicked on that URL. What I tried to say was that I am always a bit worried that by clicking on a link there will be a chain of redirects or some click-jacking technique (or anything else) that in result will take over one of my accounts which I'm keeping logged in on my main browser (i.e. google, or LinkedIn)
Agreed, my childhood summers spent on the Egyptian North Coast/Sahel are some of my favorite memories.
IDK, cars are super dangerous, and we did make manufacturers take some responsibility ~70 years ago but I'm not sure "scooters are dangerous sometimes therefor bad" makes sense given "cars are radically worse".
What does that have to do with who’s paying for it? It’s like an insurance, you put money into it and then depending on circumstances get money out. It’s not a handout and not granting it would be theft.
Glad to hear that they are lasting longer. I probably should have prefaced my comment by saying that this was around the first year that these companies really blew up in LA. (Can't remember when that was.) Vandalism was super high and they were just figuring things out.
They should really make a modern retro version of the 2CV, like they did with the MINI and VW Beatle. It's such an iconic car.
I love how your example compared the market cap to Missouri's GDP, somewhat implying there something particularly bad about Missouri.

Also: "Related projects: Mastodon for Android"
Not killing yourself is also terrible for the environment. I'll cut out my eggs, so long as you make the first move.
In my years, I've often learned that only necessity will push people towards solutions. In this case with copper, only once we have used up most of the copper available easily will we truly start to care about extracting it in more efficient ways, whether it be through recycling or other means. If it's too easy to do the naive way, people just won't care about efficiency enough to do it the hard way.

It's the same thing in software with bloat even as hardware gets faster. Rather, it is precisely because hardware gets faster that software engineers have little regard for the speed of their software, since any inefficiences will be overshadowed by the horsepower of the raw silicon. What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away, I've always known, but now I see it everywhere, not just in software.
Is Uber even going to become Uber, ever? Aren’t they in the process of tightening up their belts because the era of acceptable unlimited unprofitability for the sake of blitzscaling is ending? Already the subsidized rides aren’t as cheap anymore. Aren’t they doomed as a success story once SoftBank & the Saudis stop footing the bill? There’s not like some sort of AWS play Uber can pivot to as their breadwinner that underwrites their unprofitable consumer-facing business.
The US mints about 8 billion pennies per year, which at 2.5g each and 2.5% copper, works out to about 500 metric tons of copper. Add in nickels (1.5B x 5g x 75% copper = 5600 metric tons), dimes (3B x 2.2g x 92% copper = 6100 metric tons Cu), and quarters (2.5B x 5.7g x 92% copper = 13000 metric tons copper).

Which works out to just over 25000 metric tons of copper per year used in US coinage.

About 2 million metric tons of copper are used in the US per year. So all coinage represents about 1.25% of US copper consumption, of which quarters are about half.

There are some good reasons to eliminate small coinage, but "it will noticeably help with a copper shortage" isn't really one of them.
I used to dread hills even as an avid bicyclist, but as soon as I had three big ones on my daily route my body just adapted. So yes topography does affect your choices less people will cycle there, but it does not affect time that much.
A cheap, plastic plant. $5 (plus sales tax if applicable).

My workspace was feeling a little gloomy, needed a change. I wasn’t sure what it was lacking. But I was sure that it was lacking something. It just felt dead.

Imitation life to the rescue.

This overpriced piece of plastic made me smile. I don’t want to kill a plant out of negligence, or buy something that turned out to be bad for me, so this is a good compromise for now.

I say cheap, but it looks surprisingly real for what it is. Especially from a distance. It looks alive.

I’m somewhere else now, but was in the same chain where I bought the first. Saw some more, made me smile. Like seeing a mall santa as an adult. I know that’s a stranger in a costume impersonating a fictional character. But it doesn’t matter, because Christmas. I don’t need to believe that’s Santa to smile.

I don’t need a real plant, either. At least for now. I rather need not a real plant at the moment.

Bought one for here as well. It sounds so silly, in part because in some ways it is, but it makes me happy.

I know it is fake. Devoid of life. That leaves just the tinge of sadness. A real one would be even better. (A real Santa would be great too.) But I want to make sure that I’m ready for that responsibility. Soon.

So for now, I look at that hunk of plastic. And I smile.
Comics are a great medium for storytelling. Documentation-as-storytelling veers into sugar-coating, aka condescension, all too quickly.
My point was that framing the problem as an individual pathology that afflicts at random rather than a cultural, communal sickness inevitable under capitalism is absolutely absurd
My work actually does energize me; the problem is that I tend to overspend my energy budget, so, on net, most things end up an energy sink. That was fine(?) 20 years ago but just not sustainable anymore.