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> So do bikes.

The comment that you cite doesn’t actually have any supporting citations…

> Rules are rules, unless someone thinks that bikers are special and aren't subject to the same laws the rest of us have to follow.

I would love for enforcement of cyclists who break the law to increase. But that would require actually providing working infrastructure for bikes.

You can’t write someone a ticket for not riding in a bike lane when literally every single block someone has parked in the bike lane. If there was a place where every single day on every block, someone parked in the only road for cars in a major city and on a major road artery, this would be a national news story. But this is what happens on weekdays at ~8:45am where I am in LA.

Every city also has completely different rules about cycling, which very few people bother to know about. In many cities it’s fine to ride on the sidewalk.
So are you on Elon Musk's side on this case, and what evidence points you on Musk's side?

It's fine to have your own personal bias here. We all do. But at a minimum, discussing why we hold those views is beneficial for both of us.

If you are just anti-twitter then that's good that you are admitting that. It at least gives me something to work with from a discussion point of view. But ideally, you should be discussing why Twitters argument here is wrong and why you think they'd lose this court battle.
Doesn't that mean "brag"? I don't think I'm doing that.
I completed it in 11 moves and assumed that that was the minimum.
City can be planned and for them to be efficient, has to be planned. That's why we have urban planners.

The charm of a city however, certainly comes from the organic and adaptations its inhabitants make over time.

I'm optimistic that a program's city metaphor has the potential to be just as charming, instead of turning into spaghetti.
The article already brings compared those consultants with sensitivity readers.
You’re not crazy. Duck-typing a lazy functional language in a zillion KLOC repo with broken stack traces is crazy.

At my work those “O RLY” meme book covers are in vogue this week, and my last one was “Nix Haskell Overlays for Fun and Murder: Homicidal Ideation for the Working Hacker”.

It was my job to get Clash (the VHDL/Verilog synthesis tool on Haskell) building under Bazel via Tweag’s rules_haskell and playing nice with all our other Haskell shit. That’s 14 hours straight I’m never getting back.

But… because it’s Nix I never have to do that again. Even if I upgrade everything else I can keep nixpkgs at that version in my flake.lock and that will always work forever. So I’m cool with it.
Why China must respond to every Taiwan taunt
I agree with you but consider the following.

There is gluttony and then, there is gluttony with junk foods.

Books and Wikipedia addiction isn't quite like one more fetch of the Instagram feed. Update my story. See such and such latest story.

Both are forms of escapes but one leads to a dangerous generation of waste.
That's impressive work if you only learned English as an adult. There are whole sentences in there where you sound like a native speaker. I'd say your biggest remaining issue is rhoticism with words like Jersey.
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I opined on this is another thread and essentially despaired of ever being able to hold the media to a higher standard, because of the regulating-the-experts problem.

In my thinking, we'll cause more harm than good by trying to adjust the output, so why try?

Instead, we should focus on the economic input and make it more profitable to produce quality news. And notably, that is very much not the economic incentives in place for news now.
You paint a picture in which religion swept everyone up in its "unification", but this has hardly ever been true. Even in the societies that show the most "unification" around a given religion, there have always been alternatives, and there have always been non-believers. Every human religion has fractured into subsets and schisms (even Buddhism! even Catholicism!). The idea that it's a unifier comes mostly from those who benefit from widespread acceptance of that idea.
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Any specific things stuck out to you about it?
Do you have a Twitter account/web site/similar? I would be keen to follow your work.
It's not Adam, there was another player that was linked to Craig that I'd have to look up but he got cancer and died around the time Satoshi exited.

Hence why his keys are lost, if Adam was Satoshi he could prove it quickly, it not him.

Also this doesn't make sense from a timeline and project view.
Is that the list you are looking for? ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaos
Nearby, in windy and desolate Colorado, SunEdison has three big arrays, each with a different mounting technology:

1) fixed-tilt, seasonally-adjustable, flat-panel PV

2) single-axis-tracking, flat-panel PV

3) dual-axis-tracking, concentrator photovoltaics
The problems with Nix have nothing to do with FP per se. The problems with Nix start long before you get to any programming. Take the home page. The first two sentences on the hero image:

1. "Reproducible builds and deployments." OK, this is exactly Docket etc. claim. No differentiation here.

2. "Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration." Uh, why should I care? What problem is this solving? What's the benefit to me?

And it continues throughout Nix. E.g. advice in this thread that the only sane way to use Nix is with Flakes, which are some semi-documented experimental feature of Nix. It's just terrible user experience right from the start. Just read the thread.
The top 10% of taxpayers pay 70% of the tax. That we do not tax the wealthy is simply false. Whether we should tax them more is a separate issue.
I really appreciate the feedback. This is one of the main things I think about, and relates strongly to the part I mentioned about puzzle generation and difficulty variability. I do want this to feel like a consistently great puzzle.

For comparison, the median number of tries it took people to solve yesterday's puzzle (10 moves) was 7. Figure #35's median was 19 tries! Today's puzzle is definitely one of the easier ones, fwiw.

I've vaguely noticed some patterns of tile arrangements that create interesting sequences that are nontrivial but solvable if given some thought. I would love to develop a more formal system where these patterns are used to build up puzzles with more intent than the random boards I'm currently making. If this sort of thing is in anyone's wheelhouse, I'd love to hear from you.
This is partially the point of the recent wave of daily games spurred by wordle. You can only play today’s puzzle, so you’ll have to return to the site every day to try new ones.

In fact I don’t think I’ve seen any that allow you to play past day’s puzzles.
Thank you for showing us the main problem I have with grads from certain schools: arrogant new graduates.

It was just a school, man, relax, you're not actually better than other people.
yeah my 13 year old brother occasionally does that too
There is a crucial difference between IC fabrication and almost everything else: we don’t even have the capability to fabricate at the most advanced nodes. On the other hand, we are capable of manufacturing everything else; we just need a bit of time to set things up and ramp up capacity.

If we don’t gain that capability now, it will take us too long to recover when push actually comes to shove.
The minimum is 11 today. It varies by puzzle but is always the minimum for that arrangement of tiles. Assuming my solver is any good.
Memories of 4th graders preaching the joys of Pen Island
Across all industries? The supply chain is looking, and TSMC isn't the only fab in Taiwan. It would also impact car production, factory machinery production, solar panel production, PC production, medical device production, etc...

And all of this happening across almost all industries simultaneously? That's not a recession event - that's a depression event.
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>or fine people

Only the law fines me (EU), not some randos making up their rules.
As this part of hoa's is part of the horror stories, what happens if you do indeed tell them to shove it, and dont pay?
> much more culturally homogeneous and less diverse (effectively: western European, male, land-owning).

While I'd agree that this is how we would view the composition of the early colonies today, I somehow doubt that they would have agreed. The very existence of the United States has changed the baseline for what cultural diversity looks like, so that you can now say things like "Western European" without blinking.
I am very interested in this use case since I travel frequently and would love a portable multi-monitor setup. The weight does not bother me and I have watched full movies before in comfort.

2 issues hold it back:

1. Typing and mousing require high res color passthrough cameras or high accuracy low latency hand and keyboard tracking. Neither is there yet.

2. The lenses have too much distortion and not a large enough sweet spot. Fine for gaming, they really don’t cut it when trying to work.

I would happily use a VR headset for a few hours of standing desk time a day if it were just a little more refined. The upcoming Quest Pro might have the needed features to make this a real option.
One of our buildings has a space designated as "the library" with (as I recall) mostly standard study carrells that are pretty much as you describe. No fixed desks or reservations. You just find a space to read or work on your laptop. I'm not in that building very often but it's always seemed pretty quiet to me. Though to be honest when I've traveled there I often just worked out of the cafeteria because pre-pandemic I'd often run into people I knew.

ADDED: One practice which probably makes sense is to physically separate a quiet reading room from other areas. That way people aren't wandering by and having conversations.
It’s not stupid to shut off overproduction from flooding the grid just as it’s not stupid to shut off your tap when the bathtub is full. What is stupid is building so much solar that there is no where for the energy to go during peak production hours. Everybody is gung ho to put cheap panels on their roof but no one is footing the bill for adding storage without which all that power production just goes to waste.
> Retail where the stay is typically shorter would focus on rapid chargers. Some would focus on those that are shopping, others would replace the gas station on the edge of the lot.

L2 chargers is what we desperately need. L3 chargers should be reserved to be built at long range locations.

L2 chargers at a grocery store could give you ~40 miles in an hour. Enough to cover your daily commute.

Put a bunch of L1 chargers in an office garage. They'll do around 4 miles in an hour.

The reason to do it this way is because the same L3 connection doing a single 350kW charger can power ~30 L2 chargers. The circuit doing a single L2 chargers can power 10 L1 connections.

We can reasonably put a slow charger pretty much anywhere someone would park. These slow chargers hardly impact the grid and are cheap to add.
> nobody drives a bike for 5 hours straight

Plenty of people do, actually. When I was a bit more overweight and trying to lose it, I used to go for 4-6h long rides around London in the weekends, and 3-4h long rides in the evenings after work.

Lots of non-professional cyclists go on cycle tours where they can ride for 10h or more for several days.

On top of that, 1h-1h30min long rides to and from work and other places were quite common as they are for many cyclists, and I suspect this is about the same for drivers in big cities.
I use SelfControl App for Mac which adds the sites to your host file for a certain amount of hours. I find it to be very helpful now. Its also annoying to override it so while I could easily do it, usually it makes me delay until the "craving" passes.
You might find Jonathan Blow’s talks interesting. This one springs to mind: https://youtu.be/C5FUtrmO7gI

Also this breakdown by Game Maker’s Toolkit: https://youtu.be/2zK8ItePe3Y
We have dedicated bike infrastructure where I am. Paths that only bikes and peds can use, okay, dogs too. Love the paths, love the scenery, hate the ebikes.

It's bad enough when someone comes whizzing from behind on their road bike, but at least I can kinda hear their rear cassette idling and pull kids out of the way. The ebikes are just silent and I can't hear them coming up from behind for nothing. Just, whoom, all of a sudden they are cutting between me and the tykes and my inner momma-bear becomes an outer momma-bear before I even know it happened. I do not know what it is with me, but I just cannot stand it when they come out of nowhere near the rugrats at those speeds.

Yeah, I know, I'm complaining about idiots, big surprise. But where I am, it's gotten pretty bad with the pandemic and seems that only the idiots bought ebikes.

Maybe I'm just jealous and should buy one myself!
This is really neat. I like your thinking that it could create a whole genre of software-art. I see it as being very plausible as I'm sure engineers worth their salt have seen poetic charm or elegance in expression of some of their codes.

It'd be great if a program's city metaphor by virtue of the rules (similar to Python's indentation rules) give rise to efficient/beautiful architectures. For example, for obvious reasons, buildings close to each other enjoy in-memory proximity and thus cache locality induced performance improvements.
I think I remember reading a Reddit post once about a girl whose boyfriend would say things in real life like "can we get some f's in the chat boys". Things that were clearly very niche and would either be completely unintelligible to the audience or at best sound out of place. I think it's a matter of reading the room.
In the case of Edison Electrical Institute, your own utility might pay dues to them —- to lobby against your interests as a consumer. I think utilities are not required to report trade association dues on your bill.
I believe Satoshi is Hal Finney. The 2 damning reasons are

1) Dorian Satoshi Nakomoto (someone Newsweek claimed was Satoshi incorrectly) lived very close to Hal. I believe Hal either knew of him or saw his name somewhere.

2) Satoshi disappeared at the same time when Hal’s ALS made him unable to work anymore. Hal’s death and Satoshi’s silence are at the same time.

Plus Hal was the first person to communicate with Satoshi publicly. All signs point to Hal and only a dead man could keep a secret like this for so long. RIP
“Groomer” and “pedo” are going to lose their weight the way mfs just throw it around.
It might be a bit of "faster horse" desire but I'd love to have a VR library if the fidelity was good enough. I mean virtual 1:1 representations of books, that I can make margin notes in etc.

Then when I move I don't have to get rid of a load of books or back up heavy boxes and when I die it can be easily passed on and not a burden to those I leave it to.

Arkady Martine's Teixcalaan series of sci-fi books have this concept of an imago machine, where a person has an implant that allows a compatible "not-quite-sentient" predecessor to live inside their head and give advice. And that predecessor would also have had an imago machine.

It would be neat to have access to the libraries of my ancestors (or anyone I guess) once they become digital and are almost costless to store and duplicate. All the books they read and wanted to read, the notes they made, when in their life they read them etc.
Mind sharing which dock and monitors you use?
I think the problems with nix-env come down to two things:

- nix-env -i and nix-env -u will almost certainly eventually do the wrong thing for you if you use them enough (nix-env -iA is ok): https://ianthehenry.com/posts/how-to-learn-nix/ambiguous-pac...

- It's not reproducible as it depends on the state of your nix-channel setup at that time. How much of a problem this is depends on your use case. nix-as-homebrew-replacemnt or nix-as-shared-package-list-across-osx-and-linux users are probably fine with this, as what these users care about is more portability than reproducibility, but nix-as-predictable-dev-environment types will be let down by it.

I think the fact that the latter affects different users differently and that the new flake world doesn't offer a "modify your global environment without the tool taking over" option (expecting you to use nixOS or nix-darwin instead) has meant that there's not enough motivation to agree on a replacement that nix-env could tell you to use instead.

I guess the eventual replacement will be "nix profile", but while you'll find at least some documentation on "nix develop" and "nix flake", I had to look in the CLI tool docs for this one, which makes me suspect it's even less final than the other two

So instead the community will tell you to avoid nix-env, but there's no agreement to have the tool or docs tell you that.
Hey, thanks man.

I don't feel like I do a very good job at explaining things for the most part, but maybe that's not a very reliable indicator of whether what I write makes sense. :P
I have a London accent, with a bit of Home Counties[1] thrown in. It's not an 'Eastenders' accent. What I would like is to transition to soft Scottish accent, as someday I expect to be living north of the Border, and the Scots really don't like the English[2] (in the main). It's an odd use case to be sure, but it's something I'd like to do nonetheless.

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[1] The 50-ish miles around Greater London.

[2] I don't really blame them to be honest.
Okay, I need to include this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZorPpz8_EM

It is a comedy, please don't be offended :)
And would have been way cleaner had they just left it as sexprs.
I'm not an expert android programmer, not a beginner either.

In addition to the useful tips that others have posted, here is one. For every API function or class X that you encounter in an example, google for "X deprecated". It is insane how fast the platform has changed in the span of 2 years.
Oh, I forgot that desktop computers don't exist. I'll have to do my work on my phone now.
An article in The Economist was debated in this HN thread in May 2016 [0]. It was already completely obvious at the time (6 years ago!) that Craig Wright wasn't Satoshi, but was indeed a fraud, a liar and a conman.

The only person causing "serious harm to Wright’s reputation" is Craig Wright.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11609611
Personally I love hearing different accents and turns of phrase, makes things more interesting.

Although I do understand the desire to fit in or not be judged differently (especially with the number of mean/bigoted people out there)
It doesn’t matter because it’s a throwaway they’ll never use again.
You could disagree but “people are living paycheck to paycheck by choice” makes everything else you say sound as wrong as your disagreement.
Not replaced, in addition. Like Apple does.
I think most people struggle with this if they recognize this as a problem. I use https://freedom.to to set up times of day when I can access social media. And yes, sometimes I shut this down when I want to cheat.

For me the best life hack to avoid wasting even more time is to rely on my Apple Watch to get phone calls and text messages, and leave my iPhone at home. This is sort of like using an old flip-phone because it takes accessing social media off the table.
I tried it a few times with an Oculus 1 and 2. The lower resolution isn’t terrible. You can zoom to a level where the size of text is quite readable. But that’s the trade off. Nearly infinite screen sizes, but zoomed in to make it legible.
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Feeling silly can definitely hurt you. When I was learning Spanish in school I could never forget how stupid I felt assigning genders to inanimate objects.
yeah kinda, you are then using k8s as very durable storage which goes against the "cluster as cattle" principle. I've tried crossplane and ACK, both of which feel mildly terrifying to treat k8s in that manner. Terraforms way of just using any old object store feels a lot more durable and lighter
For some context, the pilot was Anatoly Kvochur[0], who was, for my understanding, one of the best Russian test pilot.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Kvochur
Maybe better enjoyed when someone reads it to you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1edPxKqiptw
Whether my online activities are less vacuous or not, by the numbers I spend an inordinate amount of time on the computer or other device. Granted mostly for work, but even after I get through evening chores, I tend to want to go straight back.

I think one mistake of perspective we have, when terminally-online and evaluating the alternative, is looking for other sources of passive constant stimulation as a substitute for social media feeds. Not bombarding your senses is part of the point. Daydreaming and thinking doesn't have to be boring, even just enjoying a moment of quiet.

Saying that, I think most people lack social validation in everyday life and try to satisfy it virtually. Having interesting conversation is separate from that, but also a consideration. We seem to be disappointed by our offline social lives but don't do a whole lot to rectify. That would require change (scary) and effort.
Wow that was a mind blowing read. Thank you OP.
I guess for a single user this doesn't do much (other than redundancy)? As being offline for a while with Syncthing will just resync when back at home?
“F’s in the chat” doesn’t strike me as a particularly obscure meme.
A bit off-topic but I don't like how the OP treats atarimae & miryokuteki hinshitsu (typically translated as must-be & attractive qualities) like proper nouns without a translation, while they are just how Dr. Noriaki Kano explained them back in 1984. Those conditions are collectively called the Kano model [1] and treating them as untranslatable proper nouns do not help anyone.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kano_model
Ask HN: Did Google Kill Support of Chromecast Audio?
I know they discontinued selling new versions of Chromecast Audio in 2019, but now I'm unavailable to cast to my Bose speakers or add them to a Speaker Group. Was there an official announcement?
If someone is interested in this subject, https://ivmpodcasts.com/yuddha has long-form audio content while https://www.youtube.com/c/OddCompass covers it briefly and is an excellent introduction to different topics.
I don't see why this is a good feature for the user. I just want to play it.
> We have dedicated bike infrastructure where I am. Paths that only bikes and peds can use, okay, dogs too.

This is contradictory. Dedicated bike infrastructure is for bikes only. Pedestrians and dogs should have their own dedicated, also physically segregated (from the bikes!), paths.

Mixed bike/pedestrian paths is horrible for everyone. The cyclists who cannot ride efficiently and are constantly worried someone or their dog are suddenly going to appear in front of them, and for the pedenstrian (and their dogs) who, as you aptly described, have to be constantly worried about getting run over by a bike.

I do agree pretty much with everything else in your comment though.
Absolutely. This is also true for a lot of American blight like run down strip malls in otherwise economically healthy communities. One partial solution is to switch to a Land Value Tax so that the tax structure incentivizes using land for the best use as soon as possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
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