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Currently using Feedly, but my subscription is ending in January. I'm thinking of taking advantage of an Inoreader offer that is active until December 28 and switching to there.
It is advisable?

I don't usually read my feeds in the RSS service, but I look at the headlines and mark what interests me to send it to Pocket and read it quietly there or on the original website of the site.
Merry Christmas - I agree HN is the best. I don't have a ton of techy friends, and since I and the friends I do have have young kids, I don't get much time to nerd out with them. HN is a great alternative and has managed to keep civil discussion alive. Looking forward to geeking out to lots of nerd news with you all in 2023.
As I mentioned previously, there's not much written about this. Which is probably why existing metaverse projects are so awful. It's mostly taking Unity or Unreal Engine, which are intended for use with carefully pre-built content, and somehow trying to make a large dynamic virtual world from those parts. The duct tape is troublesome.

The primary technical designer of Second Life did a very good job. Then he had a disagreement with management and was fired. So he went to Facebook, developed their mobile client, became a Facebook VP, made lots of money, and was semi-retired for a while.

Scaling to a big world is really hard. Big has two dimensions - area and density. The Second Life architecture scales well in area but not in population density. More than 20-30 users in a region will choke it. More are possible if most users sit down and doesn't move, because sitters are not getting physical simulation. So audience-type events work.

Improbable was working on large crowds, but their solution is really expensive to run.
Which is why they just do demos of Otherside for a few hours at a time every few months.
Also, they use very simple avatars and do not, as yet, support vehicles. Took them over US$500 million to get to that point. They have dynamic regions - more people, divide the world into smaller chunks. That introduces a whole range of new problems. What if I have 20 people on my boat, and a region boundary moves under the boat while I'm crossing it? Stuff like that. Fixed region crossings involving multiple avatars and vehicles are troublesome in Second Life. People do try bus tours, but sometimes an avatar gets Left Behind at a region crossing. Linden Lab's devs have been trying to fix that for at least 8 years, without success. It's a tough problem in real time distributed system design.
Yea this article comes at from completely the wrong point of view. People who have not been convicted and have no clear and obvious reason why they shouldn’t be allowed out of jail deserve to be free until they are convicted. The fact that so many poor people aren’t in a position to make that reality is the real travesty.
The distinction I'm drawing is that we expect software to improve.

My first car had no software, so I didn't expect anything to get better. But the most recent thing I drove frequently had significant amounts of software, especially the touchscreen that did audio and navigation. Even when it first came out it was not very good software, so it was the kind of thing I'd want to get better. And 5 years later, having watched all the rest of the software in my life improve, the flaws were ever more grating.
Permalink: https://github.com/ethereum/pos-evolution/blob/c51c4cee300e6...
I live in place that routinely goes below freezing in winter. I’ve never noticed gas mileage change because of temperature. I would definitely notice a difference of 8 MPG. Where do you get that info? Is it personal experience? If so, where do you live?
I really hope this works. I'm pretty invested in Alexa and use it daily but it's not perfect and doesn't seem to be getting any better. Usually open source projects have a hard time making money or getting traction, but if they offer this for sale I'm 100% going to purchase one (or two, or three!).
It’s almost as if the war on Christmas isn’t really a policy of liberalism ;)

Most people eventually recognise that intent matters. Consider that the people you see who mock Christmas are probably a younger demographic realising for the first time that the date might be a little arbitrary - but that doesn’t mean the spirit of the holiday isn’t real.
Plus you meet your soulmate who is living monk-like because they are still devastated from the mother/father of their children passing away suddenly four years ago. Finally their kids tell them it's time to move on and you get married six months later.
JHC the embodied carbon of just the junk in the driveway behind that guy is more than the lifetime carbon footprint of a typical African.
Just because someone spent a few tens of thousand dollars on an electric car doesn't mean they should be willing to drop $200 a night on hotels for a week straight.

My uncle bought a Tesla 3 (coincidentally, to replace his 20-year-old totalled Jetta) because he needs to drive several hours to the office a few times a month for 2-3 days at a time, and the silent climate control and flat trunk floor means he can cheaply and comfortably spend the night in his car rather than driving 3hr back home or renting a hotel room. It is also much cheaper to operate.
"spices" is the worst. are they worried that someone is going to steal their recipe if they happen to list all the ingredients?
Regular EV user here - plugging it in is something you do every time you park, the way you lock your doors. It takes five seconds. Press the «open charge port» button on the charging cable and stick it in the charging socket. Done.
This.

I love Reddit for different reasons, but there’s something really unique about this community that I really hope it never loses (and it hasn’t yet so I’m optimistic!)

Happy Christmas!
The bastions of elite-school fun are, ironically, in state schools.

University of Virginia, University of Michigan, UNC -- these schools are so large that it's impossible to completely shut out self-organized chaos.

I fully expect the next wave of excellence to come from these schools.
Bitcoin is a money, Ethereum is becoming a Rube Goldberg machine to obfuscate the fact that it was issued as a security - where the issuers were paid WITH MONEY.
>It won because Worse Is Better

I don't think this is why. I think it "won" because it was the best "high-level" language of the time and exploded to fill a huge niche, historically. In other words, historical luck.

I think that's also how JavaScript won.

Since it's always luck, and since the luckiest thing is rarely the "best" thing, it just looks like it's a selection for ironically worse quality from the outside.
Interesting - I did the same on a bitwarden install just to test it, and it was instantaneous. From memory, BW has a single account key (encrypted by password) to facilitate this process, as well as a method to re-key the account (which would need to re-encrypt everything).

Wonder if Lastpass encrypted everything with the password-derived key directly, necessitating a full re-keying.
It is a learned skill. And many norms are not as shared as folks assume they are. As such, I think you are understating how willing folks are to tolerate people getting it "wrong."

I say this as someone that would almost certainly be described as neuro divergent. Fake it till you make it is the norm for social interactions. That and repetition.

Is akin to thinking everyone else is a good dancer. I mean, the more practiced dancers will be better, at large. There are relatively fewer folks that can't dance, compared to those that don't dance.
With the difference that the dryer connections are usually installed when the house is built so there's easy access to run the wires to and from the breaker box. Installing them afterwards is more expensive and complicated to do because of the limited access.

It's also not something you can expect to find anywhere other than at another EV owner's place. Admittedly over time that will become less of an issue but for now it's going to be pretty rare.
I also ran NixOS on my framework for a while. As much as I loved the idea of Nix, it's also incredibly hard - I work with Linux day in and day out for work, and finding my way around Nix, configuring new packages / basic features, etc. just took too long for me. The biggest upside I found was the incredible resilience, it was nearly impossible to break my installation.

I gave up after a short while using Nix and switched to Windows. It's not perfectly tuned like a minimal Linux install might be, but all of the hardware features work as expected and it has a pretty good battery life.

If someone can find a way to do something like Nix, but simple, I'll be interested. Even if it's just a on-rails version of Nix.
This seems like a non-sequitor. It is not clear what you are disagreeing with or what point you are trying to make with that quote, besides that a top UK lawyer is pro-crypto.
The administrators are there as approximately 1:1 hand servants to carry your bags, attend to preparation of meals, and so forth such that you not expend yourself unduly.
RSSLater: Turn your “I want to read this later” items into an RSS feed
Lastpass setting the delete account div to display: none
It's been a while since I've looked into it, but most minimal WMs that I've tried fall over completely on high DPI displays from a lack of a global zoom setting.

Maybe my eyes are just getting bad (I'm ~30) but the lack of that accessibility it makes them unusable for me.
Even more administrators? And we wonder why education keeps getting more expensive.
7 deaths per billion passenger-miles. To put that into perspective, if walking had a death rate on par with passenger vehicles, a small village of 150 people going on a walking trip for 60 years, at 3 mph for 16 hours per day, should have seen one death in that time.

I don't think we really quite appreciate how incredibly safe the modern world is.
I'm pretty ignorant beyond they're software devs who write stuff I like. I understand if you don't want to bring up their politics here and potentially ruin this thread too, but if it can be done tastefully I'd be curious about their politics.
Do you just assume all EVs lose massive amounts of battery state of charge while unplugged? There's a reason Tesla vehicles lose battery while parked and unplugged; they have cameras and other computer systems continuing to run, sapping power.

On the other hand, I have driven a 2018 Bolt EV for 4 years, 48k miles, and never once had an issue with the car being unplugged and returning to a car with less range than I left it.
There’s an entire industry devoted to providing these loans and hunting the people who don’t show up at court and therefore cost the “bank” the loan.
>>Software with a focus on simplicity, clarity, and frugality.

>The developers also pride themselves on catering to advanced and experienced computer users,

But, no. It's a drumbeat of less code and fewer features. Which is only simple in a specific worse is better sense and frequently infrugal because efficiency would require more code.

Advanced and experienced computer users are not catered to, not catering to anyone who might need a feature is their whole schtick.
ChatGPT – Release Notes
The effect is probably more that everyone in your life makes time for it.

There’s no scheduling conflicts for work, there’s nothing to get done…except getting together and appreciating each other.

…which can be its own mission. The holidays can be stressful, but the important thing is the time we spend together.

And yes, depending what you believe there can be a lot of symbology overlaid onto it. Ymmv on the symbology.
That's awesome. Given the effort that went into it, it's kind of a shame to use a cheap $10 board as a base. I think it'd be worthwhile to spend a bit more and get a keyboard running QMK, which also saves the headache of jerry-rigging an Arduino to control the thing and the complications that come with it (USB, custom logic in the firmware, etc).
HN is the best indeed
In farming it seems that co-ops generally offer a little better price to the farmer than the usual list of suspects. Especially if your buyer is far enough away that it begins to affect the quality of your yield.
Here in the Pacific Northwest, driving both last winter in BC and currently in the mix of snow, freezing rain and slush. I'm using the same three peaks rated all season tires as I was using in the summer, and driving the same routes as well.
I paid 7.20usd for a dozen eggs this morning. Massachusetts has a law regarding cage raised chickens but this was way far beyond what I was paying six months ago. 2 years ago it was 3-4 dollars a dozen. I remember being surprised when the local chicken growers started charging 5 dollars a dozen.
I’m wondering if leaving the URLs in plaintext was actually a good idea, here’s my reasoning:

With _random_ passwords which most LastPass users probably generated, the attacker has no way of knowing if a key resulted in a successful decryption unless they login to a particular site.

If the URLs were part of the encrypted payload though, a quick string check for “http” or “www” would tell them if a key was correct or not during their brute-force attempts. Maybe a silver lining?
> In practice, federal judges can't be removed except by impeachment, and such a thing is not an impeachable offense

Conflict of interest is one of the things typically listed as impeachable judicial misconduct; not that there is any concrete boundary to “impeachable offense” since the House is free to decide any conduct is or or is not impeachable.
In case you're homeless and living in your car rejected by everyone you love because you can't stop drinking, but temporarily holed up in a roadside motel over Christmas with a case of vodka... that was me. It gets better. I now have 5 years sobriety, but I'll never forget that despair I felt and how my mind was in a loop thinking about killing myself.

I've put a temp email in my profile in case you want to reach out. I can't tell you how to stop drinking because it's different for everyone, but I know one small step is knowing you are not alone and recovery is possible.
If we are literally talking about a conspiracy though then there are many in the shadows that might get away with it.
Right, but look at it this way:

1. I'm not using a real computer

2. I'm accessing something built for real computers

3. The solution is to morph the thing I'm accessing around the device with horrible physical input/output that I'm using

At 2 of those steps (probably all 3), I think you've made a mistake. And, yeah, most people make all 3. That doesn't make them correct or the thing you're morphing to the lowest common denominator better.

From the creators' perspective, it's not the other way around; you're probably not going to be coding on a phone, for example. You're probably coding things on a real computer. When you're creating something new, whether you should cater that thing to mobile or not is a different matter. (Odds are, though, it's probably going to be a better experience when consumed on a real computer, too, just like for creating it.)
I saw a similar discussion about Gas Mileage. The point was to allow us to compare the differences between different models under similar conditions, not to get real world results.

Maybe EVs need more complex testing ?
And I should add that I suspect there's a technology stage issue here. If you look at a model T dashboard, the controls were by modern standards terrible. All of us are used to cars where they spent decades refining physical controls, all of which were pretty uncomplicated compared to what we routinely expect software to do. So it's reasonable to me that if we count the number and severity of driver experience issues, the graph bottoms out sometime in the mid-1980s (1986 being the first time they put touch-screens in cars).
Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! I hope for an interesting 2023 with lots of cool stuff.

I wish for more Show HN and technical articles. :)
It's more than just framing. It's one set of people telling another set of people what they can and cannot do with the land they own. That seems to be a bit of a tie breaker. The parent you replied to wasn't telling other people what to do with land they owned, he was objecting to people telling him what he could do on land he owned (within reason, like a duplex/triplex, or an accessory dwelling unit).

There's no principal like safety behind how restrictive many of these rules are, unless you count fear of people in different economic demographics to be a reasonable justification. It's a difference of opinion.

People who want more flexible zoning are growing in number, these are people who can't find an affordable place to live or are otherwise not happy with the changes made to zoning in the last 75-100 years, and they are driving changes in more and more localities.
You can get a data-only eSIM in a couple of clicks for 4,50usd for example. I will be doing this in a couple of days. Very useful when traveling to a country where crazy roaming charges apply.
I love the idea of receiving recommendations from an AI that's read every book! Great use-case. I suppose the analogous model would be a vision transformer for movies.

Though, I think the model may need some fine tuning. I can't seem to get the brilliant landmark text in philosophy and human self-understanding: "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" recommended. AI still has a long way to go...
I believe this is often people who ARE in fact contributing via the mailing list -- but want a track record tied to their GH account.
I write poetry to express feelings.

I may share <5% of it to an individual. I never share any one poem with more than one individual.

How many poets simply don't share at all for personal reasons?
Related discussion from 6 days ago:

Winter & Cold Weather EV Range Loss in 7,000 Cars

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34038582

(182 points, 317 comments)
Question; how do you present yourself externally? How are you dressed?

I (a white dude in my 30s) recently went to a high end clothes shop, intending to buy a nice shirt for Christmas. As I asked one of the sales assistants for help, she instantly proclaimed they "have nothing in my size" and that I "must use their online store". This shocked me a bit as, while in a big guy I'm far from huge. I work out a lot, and I'm a tad big, but come on... I asked if I could try the largest shirt they stock in store and she reluctantly agreed, and after putting it on it was about 4 sizes too big.

The thing is, I walked in wearing a dirty fleece jacket, and I hadn't shaved for about 2 weeks as I had been really ill, it was my first day back at work for for a while.

The experience felt alien to be because usually the sales assistants will fight for my attention - presumably because I look like good commission. Except on this one occasion I looked like trouble - maybe a homeless person taking the piss :)

While I've never experienced racism, for obvious reasons, and can't testify to what that feels like, I suspect this is a low level variation of the same effect that black/east Asian people experience daily. The hostess sees you approach and instantly stereotypes you as a certain type of person. Obviously, racial stereotypes will play a part in this classification. But just like I was classified as "scruffy weirdo" by the sales assistant in the clothes store, I might just as well have been turned away by the same restaurant you went to, had I gone there looking like I did.

I could go and tell you "ayo, you need to change your external appearance for people to treat you right" that sounds... incredibly patronizing, racist and wrong. So I'm not going to do that. But at the same time it is a solution to this "problem"... just like the when I went shopping the next day, I had shaved and put on a clean shirt, and suddenly everyone was happy to help and had clothes in my size to sell me :/

Summary; it's more about classifying people based on their external appearance than it is about straight-up racism. I'm sure they had a table for a black guy in a Gucci suit, and they would've been fully booked for a scruffy, homeless-looking white guy.
Before I was gifted a Apple Watch, I bought a cheap Amazfit band (= Xiaomi's band, you can never tell which one is the rebranded one), as they have an API you can get access to, but it doesn't really work that well in practice. I never got approved for the dev API and the reverse engineered API[0] doesn't return all the data either.

In the end I resorted to storing all the data in the Health App and using an app[1] to export the data as a CSV file and push it to my server. The benefit of using this approach is that then the actual device does not matter and you can use whatever fitness tracker you want.

If you are on android, you can use apps like Gadgetbridge[2] and FitoTrack[3] to achieve something similar with some of the Chinese bands. But, I am not sure about how to auto export

[0] https://korniichuk.medium.com/export-xiaomi-data-87f7e284b37...
[1] https://www.healthexportapp.com
[2] https://gadgetbridge.org
[3] https://codeberg.org/jannis/FitoTrack
Happy Christmas, all!
I'm southern hemisphere too - thinking 'seasonal solstice' works for me...
I know someone a few years ago was trying to start a trade in coffee leaves, to help better annualize income from coffee plantations. Apparently you can use them like tea leaves.

Haven't heard much about that since. Anyone know what I'm talking about?
I get a nice road system both in the terms of condition and reach from TX, don't know what else is state supposed to give me. Can't complain about the grid too, though I get the electricity from the city it's pretty reliable and cheap. I did not get state electricity in CA either, but the city's utility in LA was much less reliable and much more expensive. I suppose states have their input here through banning the construction of power plants.
This is a pretty dumb take, it’s like saying programming is easy, I can use chatgpt and bypass the whole computer science gatekeeping crap.

In reality art is about process and spending time just like software. Yes the art world is distorted/snobby and gatekeepimg but in the same sense the software world is like that too because of financial incentives. AI will disrupt everything momentarily after which we will go back and appreciate the craft behind various human endeavours
I WAS raised as a Christian but "my" Christmas is not today, lol. But Merry Christmas anyway!
I raised a little kid and just very recently she was running around my computer with a screwdriver trying to remove a shiny heatsink from the motherboard. A couple of days ago she flew in and was busy applying for PhD in math and passing interviews in Haskell. WTF did I do.
I mostly agree. The way I would face this decision is like this:

1) Do I enjoy the coffee business? Would I have bought that plantation if the opportunity had arisen? If the answer is no, selling is most likely the right answer.

2) That being said, it's not like the plantation is a hot potato that needs to be sold right away. OP has some time to check it out, learn about the business and decide if this is something worth trying for a few years. How long to try for? What's the opportunity cost? They would decide to invest a limited amount of time (e.g. one year of work) and then reevaluate at the end. I would timebox this decision process too. Perhaps learn all you can in a month and decide if you want to give it a shot? Part of this process should involve getting in touch with people in the industry and seeing if you like interacting with them. In the end, most of your job will be about interacting with the different types of players in your industry.